Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-05

ne Ousnt 10 ENJOY lAe IN IA oFCu0GO
country.
Business 10 osprssssd.
Business is depressed in the Pacific
coast towns more acutely than In any
other part Of the country for the reason
that reaction has set IN following the
flush time Of their recent booms. Re-
tail business Is 30 slow that Il 10 pain
full but 1t will revive. The professions
are overloaded because 10 many have
conceived the idea Of pursuing their
profession in q climate which million
aires must buy but which they hope to
enjoy without paying the price which
the rich man from the east must pay.
The real estate business has been
the dominant industry but 1t IL awful
quiet just now. A general depression
in business and farm land sales in the
region Of California's source Of sup
plies, the middle west. combined with
tight money has reduced the flow OF
buyers with the proceeds Of prosperity
from the mississippi valley and its ef-
feet has been ~ blighting as tho the
flow Of water in an irrigating ditch had
become so diminished a. to starve the
crops. but that industry will revive.
We Are Back Of California.
I spent all winter trying to find out
what was back of southern California
to make it grow in population SO fast
and every time I heard Of an agricul-
tural or horticultural region motored
out to see it always to be disappointed
In its size or its area. Study tho stats
tics Of production as did could not
account for its growth in population.
California is three times the size Of
Iowa with scarcely half as much arabic
land as there is in Iowa and already
harbors larger population than Iowa.
The rest Of its land is in mountains.
have finally come to the conclusion
that California has the whole Mssis-
sippi valley back Of 1t in that when
ever the successive periods Of agricul-
tural and Industrial prosperity make
men rich enough to retire the wander
lust which has permeated our people
for centuries causes certain proper
ton Of them to move on to a play
ground or out OF doors home for the
aged; hence southern California will
always throb with life when prosperity
throbs in the middle west. always
say the middle west or mississippi
valley when referring to the source Of
supplies for southern California be-
cause noticed very few people pro-
portionately coming from states east
Of Ohio. / assume that Florida and
Europe draw more strongly from our
Atlantic coast,
Wage Worker Stay Away.
For wage workers, however. southern
California is a poor country just now.
have never before seen a place in
| which workers had to advertise for
| employment at domestic service az
they are doing out there I have never
In my life seen laborers walking the
highways with packs on their backs
and sleeping out of doors searching fol
work. The tramp can be seen along the
railroads but have passed men by the
hundreds and perhaps all told during
the winter by the thousands. walking
the highways miles away, even nifty
miles away from q railroad. wal
told that they were fruit pickers who
| moved about always but saw then
| Just the Same months before frui
packing and saw them In mountain
regions where there was no fruit ant
I was told by . Marshalltown friend II
San Diego Of seventy-seven men ap
i plying in one day there for job clerk
ing in town, which had been advertise,
! to pay $40 per month. can not speal
authoritatively but IT seemed to me tina
the cities and public charities wer
much more severely pressed with fhei
problem Of the unemployed than \
any city had ever seen. This,
course, will right itself for the surplu
labor will have to leave but 1t is q poo
place for a wage worker Just NOW.
ii Dairy FarNains pron,ising.
[ The most promising soppoftunity
saw was the dairy business for ( tn
a growth Of the cities has been sOFapi
! as to outdistance the develoDment {
{ COW farn,s but out In California It q