The Detroit times., 1915-04-20
SEEING AMERICA FIRST.
From Diary:
~ FRED c. KELLY
Copyright. 1915. By Fred c. Kellyl

From Diary:
would not have had the heart to write in
my diary today except for one thing ! saw
In the papers yesterday that Washington
young woman has recovered the So 900 cigarette
case she left IN her wheel chair AT Palm Beach
II she had not recovered that $4,000 cigarette
case II would have spoiled the entire spring
snd summer for me. reckon I would have
cried myself 70 sleep every night for a month
That she can smoke once again from her $4,000
gemstudded case IL the best news / have heard
since l read while ago that q fancier had
finally developed a perfect cat. Nov. II could
just get some positive assurance that Mabel
Gilman Corey will never write any more maya
zine articles and that Eleanor Sears will soon be
back safe and sound on the first page I be
lieve could go to work with q light heart
The San Diego Exposition must be the best
exposition. considering the size OF the town IN
which IL Is located. that has ever been put on
San Diego was town OF only 5000 when their
fair was started five years ago. Now they claim
100000 That may be trifle high, but anyway
the town has enjoyed big boom. And IL should
Any town Of 10000 population. containing people
that have the nerve 10 undertake a show like
that Al San Diego ought to have anything Il
wants.
am not going to do much describing OF ex-
positions, for that has been done rather ex-
haustiveiy in folders and booklets that may be
had for the asking. but the San Diego fair r.
characterized by a clean-cut exquisiteness that
makes IL cameo OF expositions II must be
borne In mind that IL IL primarily horticul-
tural fair, showing the products Of southern
California Hence the out-ofdoors part with Its
flowers and landscape effects In Just as i'm
portant a. the inside. The San Diego fair IL
worth going TO see even II one didn't go inside
a building.
The most noteworthy exhibit at San DieSo 20
my mind, Is the fiyeacre model farm, with its
model bungalow and model gardeners cottage
II has at least one sample Of every kind OF fruit
flower. vegetable or shrub that win grow In
southern California, and nothing on IL was
fWD a. ST.
lie over, the city OF San Diego plans TO keep the
model farm for a permanent exhibit II should
be kept up, not by the city, but by the state for
IL VIII bring scores OF people TO California 4
cannot imagine anyone Of human impulses look.
| Ing AT the model farm without feeling a desire
TO live In California on fiveacre farm some
what similar
San Diego claims 70 have climate tia, show.
less variation In the course OF the entire year
than any place in the United states-or any
place in the world. I forget NOW which Any.
way, they insist that IL is n great climate
warmer In winter and cooler In summer than
any place else you can think OF. II you are too
hot, just move across the street into the shade
and all Is lovely. IL you are trif1e cool re-
verse the process. I tried the scheme 70 see ~
II would work, and Il did
Then San Diego has other attractions n IL
| on a beautiful bay within sight OF snow capped
mountains. and its people are real genuine folks
| II were picking q town for the offhand hos.
pitality OF its people-people that would like TO
have for neighbors-I believe I would select San
Diego
Down In the Imperial valley. stretch OF fer.
tile irrigated country south OF San Diego over
tapping Into old Mexico. they take peculiar at
titude toward the weather They have less than
one inch OF rainfall year and everybody IL mad
because they have that much The people there
look NJ II this WAY
I'VE can't hope To get enough rain TO do any
thing any good. We must depend entirely on
water from the Colorado river for our crops. 80
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