The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-29
TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
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THE CITY or ANGELS.


geles has just passed thru the proudest
moment of its very proud life. This
was when the late United States CEN
sas estimated the city's population at
$4,000, thereby proving it to have
about 10000 more people than San
Francisco.
For there is a painful and prodi-
gious rivalry between these two cities
of the Pacific coast, which is most be-
wildering to the visitor. 1t is surpris-
ing enough to find California self
appointed Eden, far removed by cli-i
mate and other superior attractions
from the rest of a pitiful and benight-
ed world. but to find one-half of Cali
fornia claiming superiority over the
other half is really too amazing. AT
erner, unacquainted with the glorious
wonders of the state, and permitted
only a brief respite from his hapless
, home in which to find them.
ooh, you won't like the northern
part of the state" you are informed In
mentioning that your travels are not
to end here in the City of Angels. TITS
windy, and it rains most of the time,
and the people are more like eastern
ers. No, if you want to see the best
of California, you'd better make Los
Angeles your headquarters and take
various trips to the south where you
can enjoy the true California climate"
But upon the same day that eyou
receive this advice. you are apt to
meet a north Californian, unaccounta-
bly, strayed south, who cherishes an
entirely different opinion.
1.-THE real California is in the north
of the state" he will tell you scorn-
fully, inferring that only a misguided
Fastener would need to be corrected
on this point. 1.-THE climate here is
too warm and enervating-it needs a
little wind to stir things up. And all
of the scenery is in the north--the
Yosemite. Del Monte, Lake Tahoe.
Mt. Shasta. and San Francisco. Why,
this isn't a city; it's only country
town. And the country is so dry that
they have to water it constantly TO
keep it from drying up and blowing
away. They even have to irrigate
their harbor here"
The Harbor.
But the subject of the Los Angeles
Harbor is sufficient to keep north
Californian talking in scathing &C
cents for an hour. Its not really
! theirs he will tell you, but belongs
to San Pedro. San Pedro is an inde-
pendent town. but they made it join
their township by refusing to. supply
| 1t with water if it didn't. That's how
they got their population. too-nak-
ing all the little towns about here join
but now that they've got the harbor,
what will they do with it? It's not
even ornamental"
Yes, Los Angeles has to stand an
enormous amount of chatting about
its new harbor from other harbors OF
California, but it is exceedingly good
natured in defending itself. 1t is true
that Nature, which has been so gener-
Gus in bestowing gifts on this section,
did not give it a harbor, and that,
therefore, one had to be made at great
expense to the city, but Los Angeles
believes that this enterprise was nee
essary to it's development, and that
even now it is beginning to pay dlV17
dends.
you see, the city is entering an era
! of tremendous development ex-
planned one of its prominent citizens,
who conducted the reporter about the
| city. I'm 1880 we were only a sleepy
Mexican pueblo, with a few American
perquisites and a population OFT only
! IL 900. Now there are nearly 100000
| of us, and we're attracting the largest
industries, in the country because of
\ our splendid resources and facilities.
within few miles of the city,
nearly one-fourth of the entire oil sup
ply of the United States is produced
| The shipment of lubricants and by
| products from this port is the great
est of any in the United States. In
turn. the port receives more lumber
| for distribution turnout the Southwest
than any other of the nations har-
| bors.
| From sea to mountains are vast
| orchards, grain fields, cattle ranches,
| orange groves and truck gardens,
! which furnish material for the great
| est canning industry in the world.
Large ship-building interests are To-
| Gated here: there is a large garment
industry, tire factories and chemical
| plants, as we'll as the motion picture
| industry"
Movies Accessory Industries.
In connection with the last, the
prominent citizen explained that
nearly everything required by the in
dustry, with the exception of the
Angeles. The lumber. paint, electric
power, clothing, properties and art
| work needed in movie productions are
all furnished here. Many small in
| dustries have grown up in the wake OF
this big one. some of which are unique.
There is one shoe store, for instance.
where footwear of every nationality
and period of history is made to order.
Another shop supplies crockery ware
| of a light porous material that breaks
easily and harmlessly over the come
dams head. Still another shop pro-
! duces artificial food of Ill varieties for
the screen.
Eyes, you can find lots of interest
ing local color like that here" con-
cluded the citizen, breathless with
| ana we re SOlQk 10 No
a lot more in a few years. The har-
/ Dor will"
''You are a native, them" inter-
rupted the reporter, quickly, having
/ heard almost enough about the har-
/ Dor.
i NO" replied the citizen, I'm from
| Illinois-the southern part of Illinois
but I've lived here eight years"
One of the curious things about Los
! Angeles is this fact that most of her
citizens have come from Illinois or
Milwaukee or Massachusetts or Iowa.
| Iowa, especially. seems to have fuf-
/ nished the largest percentage of the
| population. During the entire time
that we have been here, calling on
banks, chambers of commerce, NOV
4 ing picture concerns and such, we
have met only one native Californian,
and he was not a native of Los An
/ Seles.
1 But inasmuch as many of the mid
! die westerners who come here are ex-
L. 1,a a