Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-01-15
JUST DON'T COME;
THAT'S THE ADVICE
FROM THE COAST
Colonel George A. Dodds Sends Word
Not to Head for the Great
Western Coast
MAN WITHOUT MONEY Is
UP AGAINST MUCH GRIEF
Don't Go to the Coast UnIess You
Have Money Enough TO Keep
You You Without Labor.

You You Without Aabof.
Colonel George A. Dodds, a former
well known business man Of this city,
favors this paper with copy Of the
Pasadena california; Daily News,
published by Samuel T. Glover, well
known by many South Dnkota people,
which deals with the booster" efforts
on the part of SO many coast cities
during the very hour when thousands
upon thousands of men and women
are walking the streets of the large
towns in California looking for some
thing to do by which they may earn a!
dollar. We reproduce in full the
editorial, whose caption is, Homely
Truths via Long Beach" This is what
the paper says:
Conditions ii, Southern California
From her home in Long Beach a
woman writes to the newspaper in the
town back east" from which she
came answering for the benefit of
numerous inquirers certain questions
Z propounded to her concerning condi-5
tions in Southern California That a
good deal Of truth is contained in her
Indictments is to be admitted by the!
fairsniiaded We particularly com
mend her animadyersions to the no
fice of the 7oo80o6oO0 Booster Club
! of Los Angeles whose sole ebjest in
& life is to SVEN the census Hess
L OF wiiat happens to those ii,red hiitheT-
1t is an object with which we are not
remotefy in sympathy.
initiate Land Values
Our Long Beach critic assures her
former neig ighbors that a big populatioR
is wanted SO that land values may be
inflated. she writes and this gives
the Booster Club a smart rap They
don't care how the people VII live
when 1Iey get here that dbesn t
bother them at all, They want the
peoples money What do they care
if the army Of workingnen headed
for this section of the country will
have to 3oin the unemployed and stay
there. That isn't their business They
are only concerned that he. has lots OF
land, that this is country rf sun and
flowers, tkat it's nice to rive here.
The workers who come he1e find 1T
pleasant enough, but mighty hard to
get living and to be able TO enjoy
living here They find to s&eir sor-
row that they cannot live On asli mate.
- y The army of unemployed lis al
ready too large to enable the new.
corners ito get work, savings are soon
exhausted ana lheartrending ssonti
tions ensue. 5
Just "nan,t Come"
In another direction homelg hrzlths
are thrust upon US. The oranges sold
on the streets are classed with the
wor1ny, windfall apples, the good ones
being almost prohibnive. Oranges at
to eat are almost as high III price as
& the ones sold back east and lemona
are in the same category SnlaA fruit
is cheap enough. but this houseiseep-
er does not find IL to pay to put it up,
because of the dif11culty Of keeping
it fresh. She sums up If you have
money to live on without work and
want to live in the fresh air and sun
\ shine the year around. this is the land
to come to. But if your living DE.
pends ON yon days work. or if q farm. IN
I'll er, and have not enough to keep yoii
while you learn to farm. don't come I
1t is no use trying to conceal the
truth the Long Beach woman is right
This is glorious country for the man
with means enough to take care of
3 himself after he gets here. but for the
multitude. without resources. It is 9
dangerous experiment and it is be
cause Of these undeniable facts that
we deprecate the formation OF such
ali organization bearing the repug
nant title. the Booster Club.
The Foto Pla condf dfectionery has
been purchased by John Gunning cham
who has already taken possession.