Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-03-08
BONDS AND A BOOST

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Angeles in the wide world OIL
a finance is proved by the fact tnat
there is a market for Los Angeles bonds
in Europe, and that the city treasurer
has received calls from brokers repre-
senting English and French investors
who wish to take part of the next issue
of Los Angeles aqueduct securities.
The world believes in Los Angeles.
This city has reputation for max
ing good" Only readers who have
rsssed parts of their lives in slower dis
t, lets of the east can realize the fact
that Los Angeles has a great obstacle
TO overcome, that that obstacle was OF
her own making and to her own credit,
ard that it was essentially paradoxical.
Her unprecedented success was, in
some respects, hindrance. Old fash
Toned people. old fogy flnanciers. con-
sentative house architects and house
builders could not appreciate the literal
nature of the reports published con-
corning the achievements of this mar
velous metropolis. Philosophers say
that the human mind can hardly en-
terrain an idea that is completely be-
yond the range of experience, personal,
traditional or inherited. For instance,
although German wiseacres have writ
ten great tones abou. 1.-The fourth d.
nension of space few English speak
ing men and women know any
thing about this subject, realize that
there may be another dimension of
space, or, to tell the truth, care. But
1t was aggravating to loyal Californians
to find that their great state and this
peerless city. Los Angeles, were treated
by certain eastern writers and takers
with no more seriousness than they ap-
piled to discussions of the fourth d.
mension. They acknowledged that
there might be something i'm stories
OF the growth of Los Angeles, but that
Los Angeles should be comparable with
Chicago, New York, Kansas City-why.
70 one but a california press agent"
would ever make such a suggestion!
The eastern publications have
changed their tune, and any frank
tourist who is visiting this city for the
first time or after a few years alb
sence will tell you the reason why.
People "back east" have at last real
lied that this is not merely playground
for eastern millionaires or sanitarium,
but that it is a center of population,
where the productive energy of the
American mind finds scope. where in
many respects there is a wider oppor-
trinity for the free play of this force
than there is in any frost bound-or
hide bound-eastern community. To be
frost bound is bad enough, but to be
hide bound by prejudice is worse. The
bugaboo of the east was the statement
that eastern supremacy was threat
ened by the growth of the Pacific
coast" We have heard that statement
made over and over again. We can
vouch for the fact that eastern papers
have from time to time thrown out
corning California, on the plea of lack
of space, whereas if even minor dis
aster or comparatively petty accident
happened you would find it duly chron-
icled in the papers of the eastern states
and sometimes repeated in British
newspapers. A correspondent on space,
relying on his correspondence for a
livelihood, will still starve if he sends
only boost stories.
A correspondent who was lacking in
loyalty to California could make a
good thing of 1t" by exaggerating
stories concerning murders, robberies,
holdups, land frauds, etc. He would
exaggerate. Human nature likes to
have news that accords with it's pre-
conceived notions regarding conditions.
An eastern editor would read with joy
an article reciting the adventures of a
bear in the streets of this city-until
he came to a statement that 1t was a
tame bear led by a gentleman from
Italy. Then he would throw the
STORY in the waste paper basket.
The news concerning the sale of local
securities shows that we are OUTLYING
all that. Knock, and the world knocks
with you, Boost, and you boost alone.
But let's BOOST, and if our boost is
long enough and strong enough we will
COMPEL the world to boost with us.