San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-26
COME TO TEXASw

Weather such as Iowa and other states
in that section OF The country have re-
Gently been experiencing will doubtless
bring responses to the standing invita-
ton. Come to Texas 1t is repre-
hensblc for anybody to seek advantages
at the expense OF the unfortunate. but
no srch charge can lodge against people
who stand ready TO profit by sharing
with the less favorably situated the nat
ural benefits which they themselves en-
JOY.
Many of the inhabitants OF the Mis-
souri, River Valley south of Sioux City,
threatened with the loss OF their prop
erty and even their lives, probably never
before had such an occasion Tor con-
tcmplating a move TO region OF more
eQuable climate than that forced upon
them by the great ice jams that have
damned the waters of that stream. On
the other hand, few natives of Texas
have any conception of such terrors as
the dwelcrs in that flood-threatened re-
gion have just undergone.
To gain some idea of the unpleasant
ness-to say the least-of life in the
below-zcro states. Texans have only to
get into weather conversation" with
middle-aged and or elderly men who
have recently settled" in San Antonio
or roundabout, after many years of resi-
dence in Northern states. The number
of newcomers of this description is much
larger than would probably be imagined
1
quired into the matter.
A few days ago a midde-aged man
told a representative of THE LIGHT that
he had never known the real JOY OF life
until he discovered" San Antonio. He
had spent the best part of his life, he
said. in a state where it was bitterly
cold in winter and boiling hot in
summer, with no markedly pleasant sea-
sons between. He had come to San
Antonio, he explained, to get few
weeks relief from ice and billiards,
and shortly after arriving had decided
to establish himself in business here.
He made the change about year ago.
and now he has a prosperous business
at which he works as though he were
vi d uNNSl-CHullO NdCdllOll.
Nor am the only one who has had
this experience" he went on Scores
of others have come over the same
route. What 1 say may sound like
a patent-medicine testimonial, but what
do l care!'
In earlier times it was largely young
men who went Wcst"-or South. Now.
though to a lesser degree, the general
movement OF the country's center OF
population is still in those directions
a sort OF compromise, as it were. be-
tween the two. But apparently dificr-
ent kind of movement has set in. In
stead of young men almost exclusively,
the middle-aged and the elderly arc
coming South" This means, among
other things, that this section OF the
country is getting more capital. The
middle-aged and the elderly are more
likely to be well-to-do. Their money,
like that of the man who discovered"
San Antonio, is being invested in COM
me,cial and industrial enterprises.
So, although Texans cannot but de-
plore the hardships suffered by those
of their fcllow-countrymcn who have
recently suffered from billiards. and ice
jams and the like, in regions like those
south of Sioux City, they need not be
ashamed of the qualification they nat
urally feel at being able to extend. anew
to jewellers in the frozen states the. old
and erstwhile facetiously bantering in
vitation:
Come to Texas -