Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-03-21
Peoples Column


Maryland.
Dear Mr.. Editor:
Since the home papers have pub-
lished so many of my letters descrip
tive of California, am sending an
other.
Tbs is March 1st in Los Angeles.
The skies are blue. The world is
flooded with sunshine. I am sitting
in the porch swing, surrounded by
green, terraced lawns, palm and "a
-bordered streets, with birds
singing sweetly to the accompaniment
of breezes rustling gently through the
trees. Off in the distance loom the
towering ridges of Hollywoodland,
and the atmosphere was so clear this
morning, l could see the beautiful
homes vieing with each other in
climbing the hills.
When l left the East, some friends
gave me six months to stay away,
some year, while others said, two
years. have been here over six
years. have a lovely room in pri-
vate home for 500 a month, and or
ange juice and fresh vegetables all
the year round. Why go back to the
rain, and snow, and sleet, the icy,
slippery pavements, expensive coal
bills, and the bread and meat and can
ned vegetable diet?
If l want to skate, or throw snow
balls, or sled in the beautiful snow, I
can take a car to the mountains, and
revel in mid-winter sports to my
hearts content. When l am tired of
that, can come back to the glorious
sunshine, the blooming flowers, the
fine roads, and the gayly thronged
beaches.
We have the advantages of winter
without the disadvantages, and at the
same time, the pleasures Of summer
without the intense heat or other dis
comforts.
AS to Florida. The other day, I
was talking with a lady who said her
friends decided to go there this Win
ter instead of coming to Los Angeles.
They shipped their big touring car
for extended motor trips. But alas!
They wrote it had rained nearly all
the time, and when they did have a
few motor trips the scenery did not
begin to compare with that of Cali
fornia. And, worst of all, they had
tc pay about three times as much for
an apartment there as in Los Ange-
les.
A lady friend became homesck for
the East, and went back last spring.
This winter, she wrote me that she
had slipped and fallen on an icy pave
ment and was just getting out after
being housed for two weeks, and adj
ded, mo more winters back East for
me-"
That's usually the way. Few people
who have once lived in California can
ever be contented anywhere else.
AS to New York. Los Angeles will
soon be the New York of the West,
but it viii always be city set in a
garden. You can have New York in
the East, but you cannot have the
garden. We can have both. And who
wouldn't prefer home with a garden
to one with only door step and an
elevator?
l have been experiencing series
o Thrills ever since I came here. The
first year, l could hardly believe my
eyes when l saw the same kind of
palms that l used to have as house
plants, bordering streets and orna-
menting lawns and parks as tall,
beautiful trees.
Next, were the derricks, which
seemed to grow here like everything
else, and while they were growing
the oil was flowing.
Then, came more thrills as l mot
ored over fine roads alongside of or
ange groves fragrant with a perfume
that fills with ecstacy the very soul
of ones being. And, there was, and
IS, always, an ever-shifting panorama
of beauty of mountains, of sky, of
sea, of flowers and trees, and parks,
and beautiful homes, until sometimes,
l think, when God saw that man had
forfeited Eden, He said to the angels,
"Let us make California" And they
did, and the angels took such delight
III lavishing beauty, and wealth, and
splendor on one particular spot that
they sent mental radio to the
jewellers there to name this place in
their honor-Los Angeles.
So, Los Angeles, with it's poppies,
and oranges, and sunshine became the
Golden Garden City of the world.
And, if the tabernacle of God is