The Lamar register., 1913-03-19


tropical land is as deadly as a dose
of carbolic acid for two-months-
old baby. Instantly the banks clos
ed down like clam shells when the
water is muddied, the sale of land
stopped, and jobs became scarce. 1t
will take year or two to tell how
far reaching the calamity is, but
don't think for a minute that they
sat down to grumbling. You would
not hear anybody mention frost out
here any more. than they do.the word
earthquake. The real estate ex-
change is raising a $4,000 fund
right now to begin a campaign of
publicity that will offset the effect
of frost in the minds of the gem
eraI eastern public.
"Talk about boosters. Honestly
they are self-hypnotized. The news
papers begrudge the space that they
are compelled to use in telling
| worldnews, as it takes away from
Boosting. The story is told as
joke that a man down east died
and the minister failing to arrive
nobody was present to speak. A
stranger finally got up and remark
ked that he did not know the de-
ceased, but If nobody else had any
thing to say he would like to re-
! mark that California has the fin
est climate in the world. Now that
practically happened about a month
ago. The wife of Captain Scott.
the Antarctic explorer, stopped at
Los Angeles a day on her way to
catch a steamer. When the news
came that Scott's party had been
! frozen the Los Angeles papers all
! commented upon the fact that Mrs.
Scott had been there and had de-
clared that California was the most
beautiful spot that she had ever
visited. Can you beat it. hanging
a boost on a calamity?
"But what Is the strongest fac
tor in the upbuilding of southern
| Californian" was asked.
| at is the women. The mon like
northern California when they first
go there. with its strong tinge of
sea breeze, and San Francisco has
a metropolitan air that Los Angeles
will never have. The women drag
the men out there and feed them
out of kitchenettes. How many hun
dreds of them do you know who
have suddenly been stricken and
got the doctor to declare that they
can no longer live in this climate?
Then they abandon husband and
abandon children until hubby gets
rid of his little Colorado business
and hikes to the California home
with kitchenette attachment
When one can fry an egg in the
morning on a gas heater. shove bacl
a bed so that It will look like
bookcase and then be ready to go
down to town and see the bar
gains and get early seats at the 10
cent show who would want to live
i in Colorado? There is many n man
out there living on kitchenette
cooking and cafeteria dinners who
wishes he could feel the grind of
a bit of Colorado snow under his
/ feet. see the. flash of summer heat
lightning out over Austin Bluffs
and hear the cannonade of thnn-
der about old Pixies Peak.
"one lady showed me her home
in a big apartment house. City
steam heat summer or winter and
hot water always ready to boil. ser
vice like a hotel. everything sent
in from below by dumb walters.
No grocery boys ever track up those
spotless hard wood floors. Once a
| week the place Is blown clean
| with compressed air. Excepting to
keep the rooms sweet and shake the
rugs. there was no housekeeping tf
do-and all for ss27.5o a month.
Yes. sir, what Colorado needs is
about 10000 apartment houses with
kitchenettes.