The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-06-23
JOBS HARD TO
FIND! ON GOLD
COAST OF WEST
Los Angeles Applying Brakes
to Speculation, With Times
Tightening Up
CONDITIONS PICTURED
One of Real Hard Problems
at This Time Is Combating
water Shortage" There
by GEORGE u. MANN

Los Angeles, Cal, June lS-This
city is applying the brakes upon ex-
cessive speculation in real estate and
enterprises that have attracted thou
sands to this section from the intet-
Tor among whom are several thous-
ands who wished they had never
come and would have been far better
off if they had remained in their own
green pastures of opportunity. e.
Banks, level-headed business men,
Chambers of Commerce in the var
ious sections that make up this great
overgrown city of far flung boundar-
les have decided that the saturation
point has been reached. Little money
Is available to open up new land
tracts or to engage in strictly specu-
lative ventures.
Legitimate business is not suffer-
ing except that the days of easy
money and active Business which re-
suited from abnormal expansion Of
real estate divisions, additions and
independent tracts have gone. Some
businesses have folded up their tents
and evaporated-especially the curb
stone realtor who had as easy prey
thousands lured here under the inn
preston that this city is the Ell
Dorado of the Twentieth Century.
Los Angeles is finding that the ex-
cess population without excess CAPT
tai is becoming somewhat of a
liability until these individuals can
be absorbed economically. Supply
and demand are helping in the pro-
cess Of ASSERTION for thousands have
left wiser but sadder persons. Still
the great rush of people to this sec
tion where as one San Francisco resi-
dent told me, "everything IS overdone
but the climate" has imposed real
burden on the taxpayers.
Lack Policemen
Hundreds of traffic cho street
corners are without police and occas-
ionally Boy Scout or a public spirit
ed citizen dismouuts from his car
and helps to straighten out the
tangle.
Chief Vollmer of this city, one of
the great criminOlogists of America,
has asked for 500 more patrolmen
Immediately. ABSORPTION of suburbs
in rapid succession has put terrific
burden upon the Los Angeles police
department and millions are needed
at once to properly police this great
city where crime was too frequent
until Vollmer curbed it materially,
but even this great police expert ad-
mits failure in his battle against
crime unless millions are placed at
his disposal for more police and sub.
stations.
This is merely one problem or evil
dence of the growing pains of this
city where people have rushed in
greater numbers than Los Angeles
is prepared to care for them, espec-
tally before they secure jobs and be-
come direct contributors to the sup
port of the city in the form of taxes.
Banks Curb Loans
Banks and other financial agencies
refuse to finance any new tract open
ings until those now under sewer,
water and other public utility service
are settled. While the Chamber of
Commerce of this city and the city
fficials are preparing "on paper" at
least for ten million people, there is
a decided trend toward sanity in how
progress toward this goal should be
made. There are great open spaces
still untitled and Los Angeles hopes
20 promote the building up Of these
tracts before new ones are thrown
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