The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-29
How Southern California Cahes In
Sunshine Stock at q Premium

at q Premium
sol! is religiously watered, cultivated
an. fertilized, and the value il set at
IS 900 an acre-and it produces rev.
enue on that sum. An offer Of ST.
800 an acre cash was refused. This
is right in the heart OF the city of
Hollywood, and there are many 9TH
ers in the vicinity, both orange and
lemon. For this section was but a
Few years & a fruit belt, n / un.
de1stood that my old friend and phil.
%osophical Democrat, Ed. Cole of Far.
60 herded sheep in this valley when
he was a boy thirty or thirty.five
years ago.
The walnut belt is not large and is
near h sea shore where the fog rests.
The walnut trees will not thrive out
side h belt Of this fog. and hence
the limited walnut area. The walnut
is a profitable crop. and the sale Of it
association. which is the Society Of
Equity on a reduced scale. n does
for walnuts what the ardent members
of the society would like to do for
wheat-it fixes absolutely the price
for which walnuts shall be sold. and
the members do not deviate from the
price. This year the association said
walnuts should be sold for fifteen
cents a pound by the growers and tho
growers sold them for that. The COM.
mission men n middlemen do not
relish the fixing Of prices for the prod
uct by the growers, hut this is q tight
little organization n it has so far
pretty staple crop, and when the
goods are delivered the grower gets
his check, just as the grower of wheat
gets his at the elevator.
The spell that this whole country
wraps about the visitor from north
ern ATTITUDES is the climate. Take
would he a desert. But oncc you put
In a winter here and the country has
you for all future time. SO the visitors
say who nave put in successive VIM
ters here. They come here a few
winters and then they nov here and
join the grand army of California
boosters. / was talking the other
evening TO a Michigan man. who is
interested here in sugar beets and tho
making Of sugar. He came out a few
years G to spend Il winter. The
following winter he spent in Michi-
gan. 1t was cold. raw. windy and dis
agreeable. His mind constantly re-
verified to balnny days. blooming flow
"rs, summer in midwinter. 1t got
him. lie came II and went into bus
mess here.
And the moving OF thousands Of
people from all parts Of the Omitted
States into the spell of this climate
has produced here every variety of
thought. philosophy. religion and be-
lief that you can find in all parts of
Tho y-nrll Tl1ovA - S-s I
cntists by the thousands and scores
OF thousands. They have six church
organizations here and their second
church out on West Adams street is
one of the handsomest church edi-
fees l have ever seen. There are in
addition New Thought people and Ad-
vanccd Thought followers. and mental
and religious philosophy here has
reached its greatest Towering. And
there is a psychological reason for
that. too Put a man into this de-
lightful and restful climate. and he
is inevitably uuieted. soothed. soften.
ed and becomes a voyager upon the
smooth sea Of quiet and content. 1t
is a climate in which worry does not
thrive. Care is lightened. Nerves
are let down. The whole mental at
titude is changed. Thousands Of peo-
nile come here bereaved. grieved. men
tally disturbed. They come for change
and rest. They get it. Many Of them
ascribe the change to some new phil
osophy of thought.f. The change 4
ascribe to the natural n p%hvsiologi-
cal effect of the clinlat lie. 1 think I am
right. But then 7 an, coldly philo-
optical, material and am prone to
ascribe things to a natural cause
rather than a hidden mental or relig-
ious one. But after all. it doesn't
matter what brings about the result
nr Lows ~- - s- 80, M. 4
sands OF people need comfort and rest
and if they get it through a philos-
ophy that does not harm anybody
else or society why not let them have
1t and not cavil about the truth or
the error of the philosophy?
And in the same way I might ex-
plain naturally the. reason for the
spread Of Socialism, out here. 1t is
a dreamy climate and Socialists are
dreamers who see the millennium
when all men shall be brothers, all
effort shall be for the common good,
all greed and selfishness shall be done
away with. These are dreamers who
do not take into account the prime
selfishness and self-preservation.
Eliminate the love of self from man
and we have him d fit subject for So. |
cialisn. When that element is elm
mated ! shall no doubt be willing
to accept the Socialistic doctrines as
feasible means OF conducting a gov
eminent. A man with the dreamer's
instinct comes out into this balmy
and delightful land and he wonders
inevitably why all the world should
not be a delightful place, in which
love shall take the place, in which
strife for place shall be eliminated. |
Then. if his dreamings are not tenn
pered with a sound and sane appre-
citation of the nature of this fghtineI
creature, man, he becomes a Social
list.
] am going down to the Alembic
club. which is an organization Of So
clalists, a%ltruists. single takers and
others of the same philosophy, and
shall make them a little talk Thurs
day night on some phases Of human
philosophy. I am going down by in
vitation of the leaders who dig down
into every public issue, debate it, and
conduct an open forum where all
men may be heard. It is an interest
Ing membership they have, and full
OF ginger and spirit in debate. A man
learns by getting at the other fellows
point OF view and understa nding II.
So I hope to learn something from
this meeting. And they may learn
something too. For knowledge is the
fruit of h best thought Of intelli-
gent men.