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4 THE TRI WEEKLY JOURANL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoftice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight months SI.OO Six months ... 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail —Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 W-.l Mo. 3Moi. CMOS. 1 Yr. Dailv and Sunday 20c SOc $2.50 $5.0(1 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .90 1.75 3.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors. with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. 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A Timely “Tip” to Georgia On Industrial Prosperity JN one of his highly interesting stories of the Greater Georgia Tech’s industrial tour The Journal’s managing editor, Mr. John Paschall, tells of an Eastern idea that would be quite adaptable and peculiarly worth while to the Empire commonwealth of the South. It is in the Mellon Institute at Pittsburgh that this conception of bringing science and education directly into the ser vice of business, and of bringing business directly into the service of science and edu cation, has been so happily worked out. While this institution has a liberal endowment that takes care of its overhead expenses, the greater part of its operations, we are told, is financed by business interests through the founding of fellowships for the study of their own practical problems and opportuni ties. For instance: “It was a surprise to many of the Georgia men to learn that the largest baking company in this country has been financing a fellowship in Mellon since 1911 to learn everything there is to know about bread and bread-making. It was also surprising that although students, working under the fellowship, have made enough discoveries to save this one company several hundred thou sand dollars a year in yeast and sugar,, the fellowship is still maintained with the evidently confident purpose of find ing out very much more than is now known about the supposedly simple pro cess of bread-making. What has been Hone for this me industry has been done for many others.” Need it be argued that just such a system research is needed for the due develop ed of this State’s industrial resources, and .’at the Georgia School of Technology is ;st the place for its establishment? Far ’ghted, public-spirited men of means could :> the commonwealth no sounder service han to endow a department for this pur pose at the Georgia Tech so that keen minds, equipped with the methods and im plements of science, might be • constantly bont upon discovery, upon invention and up on the practical questions of shop and mill ind mine. Nor could industrial corporations make a sounder investment f 1 themselves, as well as for the State, than to endow at the Tech fellowships similar to those at the famous Pittsburgh institute. If the enter prise has saved Eastern concerns hundreds of thousands of dollars and also enabled them greatly to increase their producing and earn ing power, will it not do as much for those of this region? If it has brought to light new elements of wealth and progress in the in tensively cultivated fields of Pennsylvania in dustry, will it not do even more for the largely latent resources of Georgia and the South? Whoever knows the history of Georgia’s industrial expansion knows that the Tech has been a major force in that wealth creating, wealth-conserving process. To the scientific power and engineering skill which this institution has developed, more perhaps than to any other single factor, must be as cribed the State’s remarkable growth in manufactures and in the prosperity which they bring. No longer, as aforetime, are Georgia products sold almost entirely as raw materials to be wrought into finished goods by far distant hands and machines; but to a*considerable extent (in some instances,, in deed, to a great extent) are converted into fabrics and wares here at home. The result is that millions of profits which formerly went to other regions as the rightful reward of industrial skill are now earned in Geor gia and are retained for the further up building of her material Interests. But the Tech’s constructive work in these matters has just begun. Its serviceableness thus far. great as it is, aas been sorely handicapped by lack of endowment funds. Let the busi ness and industrial leadership of Georgia muster to the enlargement of this institu tion. and there is no calculating the good it "an do, the progress it can inspire, the pros perity it can unfold. The Journal commends ’-.O research idea of the Mellon Institute to he earnest consideration of Georgians, and that appropriate action soon will be 'ken. The Stuff of Prosperity ~~i HE long accepted opinion that times '! cannot be very hard when harvests are bountiful should prove particu- rly cheering at this juncture. According to iie latest estimates of the National Depart ment of Agriculture, oats, barley, rye, hay and Irish potatoes are all near their highest record for abundance, while corn has reached the unprecedented total of three billion, one hundred and ninety-nine million bushels. L,ce also exceeds by some twelve million bushels the record crop of 1917. Buckwheat, sweet potatoes, sugar beets and apples are reported plentiful. As for the ‘‘staff of life” itself, there is enough for America to lean heavily upon, and still spare a liberal por tion for less favored lands. That the farmers have difficult problems to thread through, and that business on many lines feels the jolt of a passing read justment is not to be gainsaid. But there is the overreaching and reassuring fact that in fundamentals the country is sound and secure. Transient troubles there may be, but no deep-seated or long-lasting ills when the nation’s barns and garners brim with plenty. THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. TheEditofsDesk For Georgia Boyhood In Saturday's issue of The Tri-Weekly Journal will appear an announcement con cerning the important program about to be put under way in Georgia by the Boy Scouts of America. Not only every boy, but every father and mother in the state, should be interested in this news. It means that the marvelous Boy Scout or ganization —the wonderful brotherhood that is making thousands of young Americans’ bet ter Americans —will no longer be an advan tage possessed only by the city boy. The Boy Scouts are going to spread all over Georgia—throughout the smaller towns, the farms, the mountains, the most remote rural district. The Boy Scout idea lets a boy know prac tically everything he wants to know and ought to know. Woodcraft, sports, hiking, camping, self reliance, of course, generosity, courtesy, un selfishness —everything that goes into mak ing a boy happy, sturdy and clean in mind and body, are in the Boy Scout creed. In the centers of population where the khaki uniforms of the Scouts are familiar sites, these young knights command respect wherever they go. They have earned their universal respect. In time of war, their services were invalu able. In time of peace, their usefulness is constantly needed. Atlanta, or an}' other city, could hardly get along without the Boy Scouts. No matter what the occasion or the emer gency, they have so capably, willingly and consistently filled important posts, the com munity would be sadly handicapped without them. ‘‘Be prepared” is the Scout motto. And “service” is the Scout creed. But totally aside from their contribution to the welfare of the nation, no class of boys on earth have a better time. Any boy who joins a troop of Boy Scouts has a busy, interesting, enjoyable future ahead of him. The Tri-Weekly Journal hopes that every one of its boy readers will watch for the news that will explain how he can become a Boy Scout. —4. The Modern Art of Killing IT is not without cheering significance that when the British war office re cently requested universities to enter upon research work for the development of chemical warfare “to its utmost ex tent,” there was a great deal of adverse comment and sharp interrogations in the House of Commons. That there should be so prompt and outspoken a body of public sentiment against the suggestion of war fare with poison gas is at least interesting. Time was when a hint of that kind would have kindled intense and approving spec ulation amongst the rank and file. So long as there are war departments —and there probably will be war depart ments for some decades if not some cen turies to come —we may expect them to conduct and encourage researches into the ancient yet seemingly inexhaustible art of killing. That is the business of war de partments; and they would be exceedingly remiss if they neglected to learn every thing discoverable about poison gas. One can imagine their experts in that partic ular chamber of horrors—gentlemen as per sonally kind and humane as ever trod upon neat’s leather —explaining somewhat in this wise: “Os course, we hope that OUR country will never be called upon to burn and maim and torture and kill with poison gas, but one never knows what the ENEMY will do; we must be prepared.” And as long as the world is upon its pres ent status, there is really no convincing answer to that argument. Still, there is a modicum of hope in the fact that people everywhere are re coiling from the dread armories of sci ence, rather than glorying in them. It may be that Article One Seventy-One of the Treaty of Versailles, forbidding the use of the horrible agencies of chemical warfare will yet be enforced, if public opinion continues in its present trend. Is it not easier, however, to prevent war than to prevent the use of a particular weapon, once the fighting starts? It is not well nigh unimaginable, after what occurred be tween the red dawn of Luvaine and the red gloaming of the Argonne, that war can be humane? Prevented it may be, but hardly ameliorated. Good Work for Georgia. THE prospect that Georgia’s quota of stock in the Federal International Banking Company will be subscribed well within the time limit is highly encourag ing and significant. No more fertile enter prise has been presented to the State’s com mon business interests than this movement to facilitate and upbuild the marketing of Southern products, notably cotton, in foreign lands. Millions of bales of Dixie's chief money crop would be moving to Continental Europe if the reasonable credit accommoda tions which the Federal International Bank ing Company will afford were now available; and with that channel of demand and sup ply duly functioning, there would be prompt improvement in the general cotton market.’ The South no longer should be left to call for special and outside assistance in matters of this kind. She has the resources, if only they were organized, to finance all such needs; and organized they will be as soon as the foreing sales banking company gets into operation. Rice, sugar, lumber and manufactured articles, as well as cotton, will find more extensive and more active markets through the facilities of that institution; in deed, there is scarcely a field of production in Georgia and the South that will not be enriched thereby. It is exceedingly gratifying, therefore, that the State’s part of the six millions of cap ital stock is being promptly subscribed. PRESS TALK IN GEORGIA By JACK L. PAITEKSON Pitchforking S nbscribers The Savannah Press says: “Toni Edison is working on a machine by which he can talk to the dead.” The only question new is whether to make the connection at the other end to a pitchfork or a harp. In case lorn gets the pitchfork connection, we wish he would ask some of our delinquents how they feel about it. —Commerce News. It is our opinion that they would reply that they felt all “het” up. There’s Always an Excuse Formerly prices went up because people had more business than they could do. Now prices stay up because there is not enough business to do it. economically.— Vigusta Herald. “Where’s there’s a wi.l there’s always a , way.” WATCHING AND WISHING By H. Addington Bruce THERE is a group of educators who, rightly enough, emphasize the im portance of doing a thing for your self if you really would learn to do it well. “Learn by doing” is their slogan, and it is undoubtedly a good slogan. But its helpfulness would be distinctly lessened if it were understood —as it some times seems to be understood—to mean that learning by doing is the only sound way of learning. Whenever possible, indeed, “learn ing by doing” should be preceded by “learn ing by listening,” and, still more, “learn ing by watching.” A man, for example, purposes to learn how to use a typewriter. Will he best learn this by sitting down at the machine and labori ously familiarizing himself with its mechan ism? Will it not be far wiser for him to read a book of instructions, listen to directions given him by some one already familiar with typewriting machines, and watch a good op erator at work before he so much as puts a finger to his machine himself? “Learning by watching,” of course, should soon be followe' by “learning by doing.” And it facilitates the latter in proportion as the learner has a good model to watch. For learning by doing unaided is pretty sure to mean the formation of faulty habits of doing, which have to be painfully un learned if any high degree of skill is ever to be acquired. Whereas the mere attentive watching of a good model tends to give the beginner good working habits from the out set. Observe, however, that I use the word “attentive.” There are ways and ways of watching. There is but one right way of “learning by watching,” and that is through concentration of attention on the model’s movements. And concentration comes only when one wills —that is, intensely wishes —to concen trate. So that ‘learning by wishing” is fun damental to “learning by watching,” just as the latter should be recognized as funda mental to really efficient “learning by do ing.” It is forgetfulness of these facts that ac counts for much of the incompetency and in efficiency so painfully in evidence today. Men have thought that they could make themselves experts simply by doing a thing again and again. Or, appreciating the im portance of watching a mode}, they have been indifferent as to the excellence of the model chosen. Or yet again, choosing a good model, they have watched .00 short a time or with in attentive mind. Faulty working habits are the almost inevitable consequence, and the acquisition of skill is thus lamentably post poned, if not forever frustrated (Copyright, 1920, by the Associated Newspa pers.) THEDEMOCRACY OF CUSSEDNESS By Dr. Frank Crane Tyranny, grating, bulldozing, and swind ling are not inherent in any scheme, nor the exclusive possession of any class, they are in- ■ herent in human nature. Any absolute power contains within itself the seed of abuse. The more hqnest a man is the more pleas ed he is to hav his accounts audited and his doings watched. The wicked it is that continue to love dark ness rather than light. A good deal of the railings of one-class at another are in substance no more than accusa tion against that evil nature that is common to all classes. For instance, there has been a deal of talk against capitalists a d employers gen erally, that they are tyrannous, selfish, profi teering, cruel, unjust, and altogether naughty. Doubtless many of the charges aro tjue. There are domineering foremen. There are coldblooded and utterly selfish millionaires. There are mine owners who permit condi tions of criminal brutality. There are pluto crats who rob 'he poor. But all this is not because they have money. It is because they are vicious. There has recently been uncovered a verit able cesspool of scandal in New York in which there is evidence pointing to bulldozing, graft ing, double cross and hold-up on the part of labor leaders and the officials of labor or ganizations. All of which goes to show that a labor apostle, placed in a position of power, can be as crooked as any Croesus that owns a bank cr any duke that wears a coronet. When the proletariat shall reign we are going to need common honesty quite as much as we need it under our present capitalistic system. When Lenin and Trotzky replaced the czar, about all that resulted was that the people had changed masters. And to be pillaged by a Bolsheviki or shot by a red guard is no pleasanter than to be robbed by a grand duke or killed by a policeman. There is still a large part of the race that thinks what’s wrong with the world is its systems, schemes, institutions, and govern ments. It is a mistake. The trouble is with folks. Cussedness is just as cussed when a walk ing delegate holds a contractor up for a bribe before he will let him go on with his build ing, as it is when some Wa’l street wolf loots a railroad. If capitalism is overthrown and the work ers have things all their own way, if Gary is ousted and Gompers put in his place, if all the present big business men are deported and officers of the Trade Union are substi ted, will we then have any insurance against domineering and crookedness? Nay. nay. Discourtesy, intolerance, vicious exploitation, egotism, and all the black list of human hyena traits, are no rich man’s luxury. All class' 1 can share them. And do. The rich have no monopoly of crookedness. (Copyright, 1 920, by Frank Crane) The Potato of Paradise IT is interesting to learn front the Farm Bureau of the Atlanta Chamber of Com merce that something like a million bushels of sweet potatoes will be stored in Georgia this year in houses which will insure their preservation. Heretofore immense quantities have spoiled or lost their flavor for lack of proper care through the winter months. Thanks to storage rooms con structed and heated according to plans which experiment has proved most satisfactory, it is no longer necessary for growers to dump their potatoes on an oversupplied and under priced market. This of itself will do much to promote the fortunes of the delectable and nutritious tuber, but this is by no means all. The secretary of the Chamber of Com merce Farm Bureau. Mr. M. C. Gay, re cently spent a fortnight in South Georgia co-operating with specialists of the National Department, of Agriculture in getting mo tion pirtures of the sweet potato industry. “This film.” he writes in the current num ber of the City Builder, “will portray seed selection, propagation, preparation of soil, planting, cultivating, harvesting, storing and marketing, and will be shown throughout the country.” For those who are native to the sweet potato paradise it is hard to imagine poor exiles that dwell in ignorance of its joys. But such there are, and the Chamber of Commerce could do no more thankworthy ' or profitable work than to enlighten them. j Around the World Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over the Earth. Toni Watson’s Trip Thomas E. Watson, senator-elect from Georgia, will leave this week for a motor trip through Florida and will also make a tour of Cuba. In his party will be O. S. Lee, Miss Georgia Lee, Grovel 1 Ed mondson, Justin Reese and Mrs. Thomas E. Watson. Mrs. Watson is now in Flor ida and will join the party on its way down. Danced Anyhow Young men of Cherbourg, France, who did not receive invitations to a dance given by the commander of the 1 American destroyer, Broome, banded together to attempt to induce the young ladies of Cherbourg not to attend the affair. The girls, however, objected, and, guarded by their fathers and moth ers, nearly 100 appeared at the party. Didn’t Explode Through a hail of bullets and the violent overturning of the automobile which bore it, and its alleged bandit custodians, potential destruction of a city block or more, in the form of a quart of nitrogyeerin passed safely through the battle between police and rob ber suspects at Roanoke, Va., recently. In Havana About the only persons seen on the streets of Havana who show symptoms of over-in dulgence in intoxicants are Americans, say Havana dispatches. This does not mean, however, that all the Americans who come here drink to excess. Beer and light wines are so much a part of the Latin life that it has no intoxicating effect. They drink moderately. But some visitors from the dry land seem to drink con stantly, once they find a bar. Rice in Georgia That rice can be successfully raised in Monroe county has been demonstrated by William Jones, negro farmer, near Ju liette, who claims that he will make from ten to fifteen bushels on a small ar«a he planted in rise this year. For several years past he had been annually raising a small quantity of rice, either on upland of bottom land. He is the first farmer in the county to ever attempt rice culti vation. Because of his success it is be lieved that other farmers of the county will plant rice to help reduce the high cost of living. Smallpox Epidemic A smallpox epidemic has broken out in Port au Prince and is spreading rap idly, with 314 cases, all natives, in the general hospital. The occupation forces and American colony have not been af fected. It is estimated that more than a thousand cases which have not yet been reported exist around the city. A request has been sent to Washing ton that 300,000 vaccine points be ship ped here at once by a destroyer, as the need is urgent. Champion Bull The Aberdeen” Angus bull, Enry, owned by Sanford & Rich, of Mocksville, N. C., that won the grand championship at the state fair of South Carolina this year, also won the grand championship at the Tri-State ex position at Savannah, Ga., last week. This bull also was made grand champion at the Greensboro, N. C., fair. Want Titles Cultivators of the garden plot allotments on government land near Vienna, Austria, are agitating to obtain title to their holdings. There are about 60,000 of these plots, each of about 500 square feet on the slopes of the great Vienna forest, and the cultivators have organized to get title and permission to build huts. While expressing its sympathy with them the government officials replied to a great demonstration held the other day that they were opening up the whole question of land appropriation, a delicate issue between the two dominant parties, and one on which the demonstrators themselves are divided when it comes to applying it to private estates. More Bolshevism The Turkish Nationalists have de manded that the Armenians establish a soviet government under Turkish pro tection, and the situation in Armenia is considered most grave. Bolshevism is said to be spreading rapidly through out Armenia. The Turkish Nationalists’ demand on the Armenians is said also to inclue the delivery of large quantities of war ma terial. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR GIRL By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syn dicate, Inc. first love affair is a miracle, the sec ond au adventure, the third an event x —and all the rest merely episodes. A woman’s whole life is spent on an altar. She is always worshiping something—an ideal, a fetich, an art, a fad, a prophet, a pet dog, a man—or herself. We used to speak of the “fall from grace;” but the modern debutante doesn’t wait to fall; she dives head-foremost, and merrily floats out on the sea of experience. That irresistible impulse, which a woman always has to cuddle up a fluffy kitten and coo to it, is the same emotion that a man feels at the sight of a pretty woman—and mistakes for love. “Americans are now spending $80,000,000 a year for candy”—and every married woman wonders who got her share. No woman can resist the man whose gaze of adoration is as fixed and perpetual as his teeth, and who wears his “devoted” manner as naturally and constantly as. he does his collar. It takes just about a year of marriage for a man to become accustomed to going home regularly and staying there, evenings—and just about another year for him to begin to wonder why he does it. When a man declares that a woman “un derstands” him, you may safely conclude that she knows just enough about him to serve him his favorite dishes, overlook his favorite weaknesses, laugh at his favorite stories, and applaud his favorite illusions about himself. In love-making as in complexions and jew els, the real thing, dearie, never appears quite as brilliant and dazzling as the imitation. In love, a man on his knees is worth two on a pedestal—but, alas, a man seldom goes down on his knees to anything but an auto mobile, nowadays. THURSDAY, NOVEMBw 1920. THE CITY OF ANGELS By Frederic J. Haskin LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. 20.—Los An geles has just passed through the proudest moment of its very proud life. This was when the lated United States census esti mated the city’s population at 575,000, thereby proving it to have 70,000 more peo ple than San Franeisco. For there is a painful and prodigious rivalry between these two cities of the Pa cific coast, which is most bewildering to the visitor. It is surprising enough to find California a self-appointed Eden, far re moved by climate and other superior attrac tions from the rest of a pitiful and benighted world, but to find one-half of California claiming superiority over the other half is really too amazing. At least, it is for a mere humble easterner, unacquainted with the glorious wonders of the state, and per mitted only a brief respite from his hapless home in which to find them. “Oh, you won’t like the northern part of the state,” you are informed in mentioning that your travels are not to end here in the City of Angels. “It’s windy, and it rains most of the time, and the people are more like easterners. No, if you want to see the best of California you’d better make Los An geles your headquarters and take various trips to the south, where you can enjoy the true California climate.” But upon the same day that you receive this advice, you are apt to meet a north Californian, unaccountably strayed south, who cherishes an entirely different opinion. “The real California is in the north of the state,” he will tell you scornfully, in ferring that only a misguided easterner would need to be corrected on this point. “The climate here is too warm and ener vating—it needs a little wind to stir things up. And all of the scenery is in the north— the Yosemite, Del Monte, Lake Tahoe, Mount Shasta and San Francisco. Why, this isn’t a city; it’s only a country town. And the country is so dry that they have to water it constantly to keep it from drying up and blowing away. They even have to irrigate their harbor here.” Te Harbor But the subject of the Los Angeles har bor if sufficient to keep a north Californian talking in scathing accents for an hour. “It’s not really theirs,” he will tell you, “but belongs to San Pedro. San Pedro is an in dependent town, but they made it join their township by refusing to supply it with water if it didn’t. That’s how they got their pop ulation, too—making all the little towns about here join—but now that they’ve got the harbor, what will they do with it? It’s not even ornamental.” Yes, Los Angeles has to stand an enor mous amount of chaffing about its new har bor from other harbors of. California, but it is exceedingly good-natured in defending itself. It is true that nature, which has been so generous in bestowing gifts on this section, did not give it a harbor, and that, therefore, one had to be made at great ex pense to the city, but Los Angeles believes that this enterprise was necessary to its de velopment, and that even now it is beginning to pay dividends. “You see, the city is entering an era of tremendous development,” explained one of its prominent citizens, who conducted the reporter about the city. “In 1880 we were only a sleepy Mexican pueblo, wit i a few American perquisites and a population of only 12,000. Now there are nearly 600,000 of us, and we're attracting the largest in dustries in the country because of our splen did resources and facilities. “Within a few miles of the city, nearly one fourth of the entire oil supply of the United States is produced. The shipment of lubri cants and by-products from this port is the greatest of any in the United States. In turn, the port receives more lumber for dis tribution throughout the southwest than any other of the nation’s harbors. “From sea to mountains are vast or chards, grain fields, cattle ranches, orange groves and truck gardens, which furnish material for the greatest canning industry in the world. Large shipbuilding interests are located here; there is a large garment industry, tire factories and chemical plants, as well as the motion picture industry.” Movies’ Accessory Industries In connection with the last, the prominent citizen explained that nearly everything re quired by the industry, with the exception of the celluloid films, is aso lade in Los An geles. The lumber, paint, electric power, clothing, properties and art work needed in movie productions are all furnished here. Many small industries have grown up in the wake of this big one, some of which are unique. There is one shoe store, for instance, where footwear of every nationality and pe riod of history is made to order. Another shop supplies crockery ware of a light porous ma terial that breaks easily and harmlessly over the comedian’s head. Still another shop pro duces artificial food of all varieties for the screen. “Yes, you can find lots of interesting local color like that here,” concluded the citizen, breathless with enthusiasm. “And we’re go ing to have a lot more in a few years. The harbor will —” “You are a native, then?” interrupted the reporter quickly, having heard almost enough about the harbor. “No,” replied the citizen, “I’m from Illi nois—the southern part of Illinois —but I’ve lived here eight years.” One of the curious things about Los An geles is this fact, that most of her citizens have come from Illinois or Milwaukee or Mas sachusetts or lowa. lowa, especially, seems to have furnished the largest percentage of the population. During the entire time that we have been here, calling on banks, chambers of commerce, moving picture concerns and such, we have met only one native Californian, and he was not a native of Los Angeles. But inasmuch as many of the middle west erners who come here are extremely wealthy, having had the good taste to make their money before seeking a more salubrious cli mate, Los Angeles is rather partial to the sons of that section. If often proves profitable. For the citizen of Illinois or lowa, who re tires in his goodl} age to California, remem bers the few good points of his home state and is alxious for California to x assess them, too. So, having plenty of time on his still mildly energetic hands, he proceeds to start a movement for the building of some public institution, such as they had at home, and himself contributes generously to its cause. Beneficent Millionaires To retired millionaires from the east, also, the city owes many of its beautiful homes. Some sections contain whole colonies of soap, bread, toilet powder and chewing gum kings, who have organized in the cause of exclusive ness by building their Italian, Dutch and Jap anese residences all on one wide, palm-plant ed street, shut off from the public by pic turesque iron gates. On a less exclusive plane, but even more beautiful in some instances, are the numerous bungalow colonies of the city and the sur rounding suburbs. The bungalow is said to have originated in California, which has greatly contributed to the convenience of I ths world. Tn the California bungalow have been developed the most novel devices for economizing on space. There are built-in re frigerators and wall-concealed cupboards, dainty closet-dressing rooms, and basement garages. The bungalow of the southern part of the state, where the winters are mild, also have the most attractive styles of windows, some of them forming wide French doors, and others extending in an unbroken series of DOROTHY DIX TALKS BY DOROTHY DIX Everybody Must Have a Play Time Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndi cate, Inc. AMAN of thirty-five is engaged to a girl of twenty, and he wishes her to marry him at once, but she puts off the wedding and tells him that she is having such a good time that she wants to play around a little while longer. This makes the man feel that the girl is of a frivolous character, and doubt whether she will make him a desirable wife. I sould take exactly the opposite view. My opinion is that the girl is remarkably level headed, and that she shows an amazing amount of common sense in having her lit tle fling before she is married, instead of waiting to do it afterwards, when there would be ten times more trouble with a jeal ous husband than there is even with a jeal ous sweetheart. Doubtless this young woman has been shrewd enough to observe tow things: the first is that the only play time the average woman ever has is ir the few years that lie between her school days and her marriage day. In that brief space of time only has she any liberty, or is she care-free. It is the one picnic in her whole life, the one green oasis in the arid desert of the years that many a woman ever knows. If a girl marries a poor man, her mar riage brings her life sentence at hard labor, and such pinching economies as wear the very soul to tatters. If she marries a man who is tyrannical, and grouchy, and cold, and hard, then she kisses happiness good by at the altar, and her life is one long martyrdom. Even when she makes a fortunate mar riage, when she marries a man who can make a comfortable living, and who Is ten der, and kind to her, she still is done with the light-hearted enjoyment of girlhood, be cause marriage brings responsibilities, and burdens, and the wife who has a husband to care for, and little children to look after, must think of her duties before her pleas ures. Our observing young friend has doubtless taken note of these things, and that it is only girls who laugh much. Married women smile. The second thing that she has noted is that if a woman a man to take her about to places of amusement, she’d better get it done before they are married. For the man who can dance all night with his sweetheart won’t two-step around the room with his wife, and he who has a never-fail ing supply of theater tickets as a beau, has to be chloroformed before he will part with, the price of the movies, as a husband. Therefore, on all counts, the girl who likes to play is wise to have her play time before she is married, and when she has a play fellow. Somehow men have an idea that their sex has a monopoly on good times. They realize that a man. jnust have his fling, but it never occurs to them that a woman must have hers. And anyway, the general mas culine idea is that there is something so peculiarly thrilling to a woman in just be ing married, and having a home of her own, no matter how dull both are, that all the fun she wants is just sitting up and gloating over her wedding ring. Which is some mistake, I’ll say. Therefore, a man who has danced, and : frolicked, and who has done all there was to do, and seen all there was to see, and who is sick and tired of it all, will marry a little young girl and expect her never to want to go anywhere, or to have any amuse ment. He doesn’t even realize how selfish he is in denying her the pleasure that ho has had. If I were a man, I would want to marry a girl who had been greatly admired by men and who had had many men make love to her. And I should wish to marry a girl who had had lots of pretty clothes, and who had had her fill of theaters, and parties and restaurants. Then I would know that I was getting a wife whose head would not be turned by the first glib-tongued palaverer who came along and asked her if she didn’t believe in love at. first sight, and told her that the minute he saw her he had a strange feel ing, as if is he had just met his fate —aas! too late. And I would know that I was getting a wife whose idea of heaven was just the shut-in solitude of two, in their own homes, instead of thinking paradise is a clattering restaurant with a jazz band braying in your ear, and lunatics cavorting around among f the tables. It’s the things that we haven’t had that we are all mad about. It’s the apple we haven’t tasted that we risk heaven to set our teeth into. Familiarity rubs the gilt off the gingerbread of pleasure. Plenty in evitably brings satiety. And so, if I were a man, I should wish my wife to have cut her wisdom teeth at her father’s expense, and for her to have had her picnic before I had to pay the piper, or even to go on the excursion with her. Then I should know that when she came to me she had worked all the flirtatiousnesa out of her system, and that she had danced holes in her slippers, and had had enough of folly, and wanted to settle down to the real business of life. For I’d have sense enough to know that every woman must have her play time, and * if she dosen’t get it in her youth she takes it later on, and generally with disastrous re sults. casements about the walls, which are thus almost wholly composed of glass. Sometimes ten or twenty separate bungalows are built . about a flower-trimmed court, and run on the apartment house principle, with hot wa ter and heat supplied from a central plant in charge of the superintendent. With the exception of the servant problem, which is particularly acute in California, the upkeep of a home here is a comparatively simple matter. It is, in most cases, small and compact, requires little fuel, owing to the gentle nature of the climate, and its table can be supplied at surprisingly little expense. Food, especially fruits and fresh vegetables, are cheap compared to prices in the east, while the outdoor groceries in which they are sold make marketing almost an agree able experience. Then, there is always the cafeteria to fall back upon when housekeeping loses its z<*«x. These institutions are gradually springing up < throughout the entire country, but the true cafeteria, with orchestra and comfortable leather-chaired lobby, is still produced ex clusively on the Pacific coast. In such a one it is actually difficult to spend more than 90 cents for a meal, and any check over a dol lar brings a grunt of surprise from the cash girl- Thus, those who are v/eary and heavy-la den with long, co’ 1 winters and nerve-racking activity, find a peace and comfort in Loa Angeles, which change heir very facial ex pressions. The whole atmosphere is easy going. Business does not interfere with pleas ure, but it gets transacted just the same. And it is these adopted sons who outrival even the natives in shouting the praises of Cali- t fornia. To hem, California is, as so many can tell you, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.