Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-27

Imagine . town In central Iowa p1ptno
water from Minneapolis and One AnM
realise what the Los Angeles peopl4
have done. Tho bonds, OF COURSE Weeo
sold down east ana other psop1S0
money came west to pipe water to Loo
Angeles ana the bonds are only pAr4
TALLY duo ~ yet while the populations
Of Los Angeles and the value Of III
assessable property have both doubles
since the water project was planned
Imagine, too. q vote Of ten to one for
the 30.000.000 bond issue and compare
IL with some Of the neighborhood rows
that $4,000 consolidated school pros
ject will stir up In Iowa and we have
the measure Of difference between the
Iowan at homo upon his land and the
sams lowan transplanted In Califor-
mia, where he lives upon the rents Of
his Iowa land. Turnout southern Cali
ifornia the union school II far more
pretent1ous In appearance than the
federal government buildings IN lows
and the farmers children nearly all 90
to the union graded schools in the VII
lagos. making the Journey with ease
on bicycles over the asphalt pavements
and the bicycle sheds at tho union
around Quaker church,
An island Ssaper1.
Los Angeles was not O natural
growth at some junction point in the
channels Of primitive commerce. Its
location was tho result Of a forced put,
as 1t were. for It was founded under
orders from some Spanish king to
found colony at which grain and
provisions could bo grown for the army
posts. A dozen negroes and half breed
Mexican Indian farmers from Old
Mexico were bribed with grants OF
land, livestock and machinery to found
the city Of Los Angeles. They selected
a site In good farming land as near
as they could get to the largest mis-
sion population Of San Gabriel where
they could get plenty Of cheap labor
from the converted Indians. SPANS
idea OF colonization was to exclude all
white men except Spaniards. hence
none Of her colonies ever grew very
large and visions Of great commerce
were unknown to her plans Thus Los
Angeles came to be located twenty
miles inland from the sea. It was not
much of q place when the railroads
came 90 they let it stay there and ie
grew to be the metropolis Of southern
California, city almost as large az
st. Louis. but twenty miles away from
wharf. Tho railroads SHOULD have
relocated the town but they did not
and now 1t IL too late
This, however, has not dAunted the
Californian. The people of Los Angeles
simply annexed all the farm land for
twenty miles to the sea and now the
Los Angeles Commercial Club is hav-
ing an awful time to prove to the In
terstate commerce commission that Los
Angeles Il not an inland town but
should take seaboard freight rate.
The nearest sea point called San
Pedro, had no natural harbor such as
exists at San Diego and San Francisco
but this slight oversight Of nature is
being rapidly corrected. Three millions
OF dollars worth Of rock and ptling
made q breakwater two miles long out
to sea and 100000 more are being
spent In scooping harbor out Of the
land and letting the sea into 1t. Tho
San Diego boosters will sheer at the
Los Angeles harbor at San Pedro by
telling the tourist that 1t Is hno
harbor all right but needs irrigating.
Whatever. 1t needs 1t will get for Los
Angeles is large enough now to make
Tor itself whatever nature has negs
lected to place at It's disposal.
4 Magnificent Dntsrurhan Services,
have mentioned the fact that the
people OF San Diego, a town about the
size OF Dies Moines, have Constructed
out Of their own pockets $4,000, 900
exposition in a little more than q year
while 1t has taken lifetime to obtain
a million dollar state fair grounds
from the legislature Of our whole state.
have referred to the handiwork Of the
miutonaires which has made southern
California a land OF big things. I think
have failed to mention the work Of
the Huntingtons in extending their in.
terurban rails to almost every hamlet
in Los Angeles county and It is ono
OF the finest interurban systems in tho
world but nowhere has the jitney had
a more sudden rise nor reached such
stupendous proportions. The attor-
ney for the interurban interests tests
fed before legislative committee that
the jitney had reduced rail earnings 25
per cent and wherever paved roads go
the auto bus from Ford to an ark
carrying fifty passengers was plying
between towns at passenger farea
averaging less than two cents per mile.
The people OF California are divided
into two classes, those who have gone
out there to spend their days ana their
fortunes and those who believe that
great haste must be made to get ready
for myriads of others whom nation
Of 100, 100000 Of people Is going to send
out to California to spend more for
tunes, hence they do things on broad
lines and with largeness OF purpose
which commands admiration. Tho
same people and the things they hays
done would make any climate famous.