Imperial Valley press., 1911-10-06
DAILY STANDARD FOUNDED AUGUST 1905
!. Observation-Disclosures
. LOS ANGELES, WHAT ARE
you GOING TO DO
WITH THEM?

!. From some persons of high .
y. authority in Los Angeles the .
y. Valley Press was recently given .
!. to understand that the people .
!. of that city were to adopt a new .
!. policy in their dealings with I'm .
!. perial valley, and that the peo- .
!. pie of this valley could expect .
"a the metropolis of the Southwest .
I. to assist in diverting here that .
!. throng of home seekers which d.
!. annually pours into that city. .
+ But we have waited in vain .
!. thus far for any voice to be .
!. raised in the metropolis to Sc q.
!. cure this result. .
!. on. The thoroughfares of the .
\. metropolis are thrOnged with 4.
!. tens of thousands of persons q.
!. eager to learn something of .
!. Southern California that will aid L.
!. them in their quest for homes. L.
\. But not newspaper in Los .
y. Angeles offers a word of guild /.
=. ance. There are scores of COL /.
y. umns of slush about automobiles .
y. and other scores of columns of /.
!. slush about the subdivision of d.
!. tracts into city lots. There are /.
4 pages of chronicles of social /.
i functions of some imaginary i'm =.
!. portance. .
Il But not one newspaper in Los :
=. Angeles is making any effort or /.
!. giving any thought to the plac- I.
7. ing of this new mass of human I.
y ity into the great industrial /.
I. structure of the Southwest. /.
=. We are building empire. We !.
4. are cOnquerors of nature. We d.
i are factors in the greatest in I.
!. dustrial achievements ever I.
!. wrought by man, and the near i.
!. es, the Los Angeles newspapers q.
!. come to recording the tremend- .:
!. GUS achievements Of the day is ..
I. in chronicling the fact that Jack I.
+ Wilson has brought out from the .,
!. East a new-fangled tooter for !
!. automobiles (see his ad in an ..
!. other column.) .!
!. Tens of thousands of strangers L.
!. today are walking the streets of .:
+ Los Angeles eagerly searching I.
!. for information that will guide I.
I. them to the spot where they can .!
!. find an opportunity to make an I.
!. honest living. They are grab ..
!. bing up the newspapers with .!
!. eagerness in the hope that they ]
!. can find enlightenment there, !
I. and they read that Mrs. Will J
I. Smith of Spadra was the guest !
!. of honor last evening at !
!. Shanghai tea given by her friend !
!. Mrs. Henry Wadsworth Sqeers ..
I. at her lovely home on Ninety !
!. seventh street bought on the in .,
!. stallment plan. .;
!. Thousands of these strangers I.
!. wish farm homes. but they can't .
!. keep cows on Vermont avenue i.
4. The pasturage in Westlake and .
!. Eastlake parks is all preempted. ..
!. The farmers don't belong in the /.
!. city. They don't want to re- L.
!. main there. They want to get D..
!. into the country and raise q.
!. things. But they are strangers I.
!. in strange land, and they do L.
\. not know where to turn. .
!. The city of Los Angeles now .
!. is being built on the foundation .
!. of Imperial valley 1t does not .
!. know it. but this is the truth. .
!. Remove Imperial valley, and Los .
!. Angeles must crumble to half .
!. it's size. Make of Imperial val .
!. ley what it can become. and Los .
!. Angeles is a city of one or two .
!. millions of people. .
!. And yet the newspapers of Los .
!. Angeles, which ought to be .
!. broad gauge enough to see these .
!. facts and to be governed by .
y. them, are as blind as bats, as .
!. deaf as moles and as silent as .
!. clans. .
!. What is Los Angeles going to .
\. do with these strangers? Can .
y. not the city be aroused to a .
4. sense of its responsibility and .
!. of it's opportunity? Can it not .
!. be made to see that the develop .
y. ment of this valley, with room .
!. for hundreds of thousands of .
\. new people, means a bigger Los .
.5' Angeles and a more prosperous .
!. period for all it's people? Can
y. not the city of provincialism be .
!. brought for once to look beyond .
!. the municipal boundaries and .
!. made to realize that there is .
!. something grander in life and in .
\. human achiev ement than in .
!. footing an auto horn or giving .
y. hospitality at Shanghai tea?