Arizona republican., 1921-11-20

EPUBLICAN, PHOENIX, transportation problem. A paved road from Ingleside to Phoenix ill mean that you can live in Ingleside and be only 20 minutes from your business in Phoenix.
 And by the way, the Bankhu uad highway, and 300 miles of paved roads in Maricopa county will ere ate demand for this place beyond my power to forecast.
 Always An Optimist
 l was told the other day on the street that l was too optimistic that our bubble had busted: that we had our signs too high, and that we would never see land sell again for the prices it sold for last year. My reply was You go into any # the older settled sections; into Illinois, Ohio, Indiana. or New York, for in- stance, and you will find that land sells on the market for a price on which the invester can realize three to five per cent on his investment. History will repeat itself here. And when we get people enough to use all the land in the way it should be, land will sell here also on a three or four per cent basis. We have never yet seen a piece of land sell in this valley for what it will sell for when that time comes."
 Now. I must confess that at times I have felt diseourag ged, and thought that perhaps had been too optimistic, | but I have always come back to this proposition;-tha the prosperity of this community, or any other agri- 1 cultural community, rests on four l clements: Soil. water. climate and 1 the personnel of it's citzenIy. The most important element on | which the prosperity of any place rests is the kind of people who live l there. You Say put the right kind l of people on dried up desert, or l barren rocky shore, and they will win prosperity; while you might put l some people in the Garden of Eden, | and they would make a failure. But the kind of people who will come to this country depends very 1 largely on the climate, and this is an | extremely important point for us to consider just at this stage of our de-, velopment. We have here a winter climate which is the most wonderful 1 climate on the face of this globe. It 1 is remarkable for two things. First as scientists tell us, human brain and muscle are stimulated to the great l est amount of activity when the 1 mean temperature is between 50 and | 50 degrees, and when there is fre- | quent change of temperature accom- l panied by moderate storms. Now, | our winter climate furnishes these conditions, with its great change in | temperature from night to day, and l it's occasional rain. Second, because of our winters alluring appeal to peo- | pie no matter from what part of the world they come
 Delights Sir Gilbert Parker
 T am sending you this line to say that in my opinion-and I have trav- eled far and wide-Ingleside is unique in its character, and very for tunate in its surroundings.
 For those who want such health ful pleasures as golf. riding, tennis. shooting and motoring, pleasure seekers will travel far before they will find them more happily com bined in a climate so joyously good. with days so bracing and sunny, and nights so beautiful and serene.
 "In the olive and orange groves with which your homelike hostel is surrounded. one forgets that the world is a place of care and believes that peace is the lot of man. I had good days at Ingleside, and I look back upon my stay there with pleas ure.
 "Your very truly,
 II "(SIR) GILBERT PARKER"
 We are making too little of our winter climate. The tourist will l spend money with us, and many of them will remain to make valued citizens, and we have it within our power to gather together here the best citizens of the world by uring our winter climate to attract the class of people we wish. I will ven- ure to say that 80 per cent of you came here because of the appeal made to you by our winter climate, and the majority of you came here first as tourists.
 It is the summer sunshine that puts the sugar in the orange; that makes the date possible; that puts the silk in the cotton, and makes the l alfalfa grow. and here is where you 1 expect me to stop; but here is where I begin. Now, I might confine my 1 self to statistics, and tell you that you are dining in the midst of an l S0-acre orange grove. or how the pigs I grow, or how many melons may be raised on an acre of land; or I might tell you about the purity of this wa | ter; but think that you would be more entertained, and 1t would be more in keeping with my mood if were to give freedom to my imagin- l ation longer, and tell you about what see in the picture of the future
 Another reason why this valley shall see a wonderful future is be- cause we are in the path of world progress. We have a marvellous op- portunity to ride on the very crest of the wave of civilizations progress swelling higher and higher as it rolls 1 westward.
 Predicts Great Future
 Once the center of civilization and l of world power was in Phoenicia, and then Athens was the great city oi the great people; later, Rome and Paris, in their turn; yesterday, Lon don was the great city, and the cen ter of world power and influence; today, 1t is New York, and tomor- row, some city on this Pacific coast will be the great world center: and