The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-02-24
ALL LIT UP WITH
SCENIC GRANDEUR
The Doctor Yields Nimble Pen in
Flights Of Fancy.

Flights OF Fancy.
Editors of The Commercial, Union
City, Tenn.-Dear Sirs: / am writing
this letter to-day to give you little
histery of my travels in the West
We left Memphis on January Is
for Dallas, Texas. Arrived in Dallas
on the 10Th, and found it very cold
and disagreeable We remained
there for ten days. From there we
went to Ell Paso, Texas, and remained
one day From Ell Paso to Los An
geles. | remained there for two weeks.
That is a wonderful city and to my
great surprise find in Dallas and Ell
Paso, as well as in Los Angeles, great
This l do not understand. Business
seems to be good out here. They
don't seem to know, from appear
ance, that they have had a great
world war. This is great country.
The valleys in Southern California
and mountains on each side, covered
with snow at the present time, are
wonderful to look upon. l don't un-
derstand their prosperity here unless
it is caused by the tourists coming in
to this sunshine, and their diversified
crops of fruits, vegetables, poultry,
and, as you know, great alfalfa
country. I drove PIG miles on last
Sunday and found on many ranches,
as they call them out here, tractors
running, hay being cut, and all kinds
of work going on. Was very much
surprised that the people of Califor-
MIA do not regard the Sabbath. How
ever, the following Sunday attended
services in Los Angeles at the Tenn
pie Baptist Church, with a cCngrega-
tion of eight or ten thousand people.
That looks Il little like there are
church-gcing people here after all.
| will remain in this beautiful little
city of Santa Ana for two or three
weeks. From here l go to Fresno.
From there to San Francisco From
San Francisco to Ogden. From Ogden
to Denver, and from Denver to Kan
sas City. That is my route, as I have
a return ticket, good for nine months.
l hope however, to land back in good
old Tennessee by the middle of April
at least.
am looking out Of windows, high
above the street. Hundreds of win
dows spot the city buildings as far
as l can see. Behind all of these win
dows people sit, work and dream,
laugh and weep. see moving figures
shadows-before me on
these windows. The drama of life
is being enacted. Some of these peo-
pie are at meals. Some in conversa-
ton. l see a girl at a piano. The
mother is rocking her baby in her
arms. The man sits at the window
his pipe. Two children at
another window are looking out. l |
wonder what they are thinking about |
Never do pass building or home
with windows but I wonder what is
going on behind them.
To-day 1 rode for miles on the
train. I came to the edge of great
cities where little homes are crowded
ike the bricks in the wall. Roofs
md windows for miles and miles, and
Zach roof and every window repre-
'ented all the home in the world
% those who lived beneath and be-
,ind them. Windows are for light,
lad yet, how small light gets into
he lives of many of the workmen of
he world. l look into peoples eyes
md I say "What wonderful win
lows"
My bedroom window faces the
'ast. Great trees tower outside.
Branches reach along the very sill.
1li 10 COluS carly W SluS IHGlE u1OIu-
ng songs, and sunrises of gorgeous
lues greet me at the break of day.
lean against the sill and nature fill
ers my thoughts. The world is out
ide of every window. Yet there isn't
window in the world that God does
It come up to and look into. He is
lways interested in knowing how
Olks are getting on.
This is a wonderful world, inhab-
ted by wonderful people, and this is
wonderful age in which we now
We. The beautiful roads and high
,ays that are scattered throughout
MS beautiful land; the advance in
rogress and science is wonderful;
nd yet with all this the world is alb
ormal, and we have unrest, crime,
lurder, tragedies of all kinds hap
ening almost every hour in the day.
ct we can only look on with wonder
nd amazement at what life is and
le thing life should be.
AhoR 7 -na., 1