The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1920-04-15
BY Guy U, Hardy

the folks who come back from Cali
fornia and tell OF what they saw do
not know what they are talking about.
Maybe they don't. But we are glad
that when they come back they are
happy and contented to stay in Col
orado sunshine.
lie says i've seen more sunshine
In my four years in California than
saw in my eight years desidence in
Colorado
Wen, it just happens that l have
report of the chief of the United
States weather bureau on my desk,
so l looked that item up, and find
that so far as the sunshine record
goes, Canon City has 70 per cent of
possible sunshine in year and that
Los Angeles has the same, while San
Diego has 70 per cent and San Fran
cisco only 20 per cent SO we see
Mr.. Mas was just so per cent wrong
on that guess. as most people are
weather statistics.
Having this book before me looked
up another phase of climate, The
relative humidity is the measure of
dampness in the atmosphere which
makes the weather feel hot when it is
warm and cold when the thermometer
stands at the cool points. The low
figures indicate dryness and the high
figures dampness. find the average
relative humidity for a year at Canon
City is 52is, at Los Angeles, 6S: Chi
cago, SO; Washington. D.. c.. So
The record Days OF Dense Fogs'' In
year shows Canon City with only
ONE, Chicago .. Washington 16. San
Fransclsco 25. Los Angeles 80 and
San Diego 81
The average individual can recog-
nize the heavy humidity in the atmos.
phere ana the dense fogs without
studying the instruments or literature.
and ] rather fancy that most of the
people who come back 10 Colorado
from California and talk about dis
agreeable days. have seen something
that make them think they know what
they are talking about
There is one fine thing about the
adopted sons of California they are
all great boosters for their adopted
land. Canon City has furnished
several of these. There is Harry
Maddox for instance. one or the best
paid California boosters in the state
He is a professional. But he has
never made an unfavorable compari-
sou with Colorado He knows too
much about the facts and figures. And
he knows that California has enough
to brag about without trying to make
anybody believe that It has a better
climate than Colorado.
This tendency to boost California
on all conceivable occasions re-
minds me OF story heard the other
day. A Missouri Pacific train com.
ing east WAS held up by washout.
All day the travellers were held at
little station out In Missouri, Time
grew heavy on their hands. as time
has way Of doing when you are on
n delayed train. In the afternoon a
bunch OF buggies and cars gathered
around little farm house. Several
travelling men concluded that In order
to relieve the monotony OF the day
they would investigate. The gathering
proved to be funeral II was an old
fashioned funeral whore the neighbors
and friends got up and told the good
qualities they knew OF the dead man.
After while there was a iuii In the
proceedings a nervy publicity man
from California got up and saiu.
Ladies and gentlemen. any nobody
else wants to say any thinE more
about the deceased wonld like to
take this opportunity OF saying few
kind words about Los Angeles, Cal"
Keep up the little local items In
them you mud the real STORY. They
ten what the people are doing and are
thinking about They tell what the
city people are planting and selling
building and operating, whore they
visit and what they think OF other
sections OF the country. You can put
more dependence IN the local items in
a couutrg newspaper than you can Ia
Chamber OF Commerce literature
MRS. YEAMAh
nnEC TO CAGpEP