Imperial Valley press., 1925-02-02
ENFIOUS FILINGS

California is just now suffering as perhaps it
never did before, from envious filings that being
made in many places
The public spirited citizens of this state have be-
come past masters in the art of publicity They have
acquired this to degree atainable by those only who
convinced beyond the shadow of doubt of the su
perority of their environment, of the unsurpassed
advantages offered in everything that goes to make
life worth living. When the average California des
cans upon the gories of his state he takes and holds
the right OF way 1t is a subject about which he IS
not different half-hearted. He goes into con-
dton of ecsacy whenever he thinks of the tremendous
magnitude of his state of its majestic mountains Of
its dashing mpetuouS torrents that represent irresls
ible power being harneSsed colossal scale as the
the servant of mankind, and of their fascinating
beauty; of the fertile valleys dropping fatness; of all
the stores of minerals known to geologist and
chemist; of the infinite variety of products from vine
yard and orchard of its climate aluring and COM
peling to bring hither health pleasure and home
seekers from all parts of the world in a vast and
ending stream; of its thousand miles of seashore
where the ocean thunders and where men go down to
the sea in great ships.
The Californian is moved to speak of these things
with utmost pride 1t is his habit to do for he
not resist And thus has been carried the attractions of
California to all in all climes, the story of no
state has been sung. So 1t has come that what
amounts conspiracy has been set foot to detame
California Newspapers in many corners OF the coun-
try have belitte themselves by proclaiming untruth
ful things about this great Golden State They have
been and deliberately fasifying. They making
naliciousy wicked statements, without shred OF
truth One wonders how this orgy OF talsehood could
ever be.
1t is all begotten by envy. California is not ira
ducng the other great states of the Union. It is only
setting forth in feeble way of the things that
gorfy and magnify itself Facts thus broadcasted nave
spread an epidemic of California fever everywhere.
People are looking toward and longing to Cali
fornia. And they coming in such numbers as to
excite universal jealousy. Newspapers seeking to pro-
tect their respective communities against the exodus
of good citizens the Golden State hard put to It,
They resist the sappng and the draining OF ther
communities. This is why they publish appalling
ISLANDERS about California They evidently feel that
telling the truth about their communities IS not
sufficient to couneract the allurements of California
What they doing in the matter OF 1Ictlon VICIOUS
fiction concerning California, would put Baron Nun
chausen to shame.
The situation has aroused the propagandsts of
this state and the world is likely to be saturated with
new flood of truth that will rebound to the states
good California has been prodded into taking hitch
in its belt and to getting down to business. Some day
il will learn how to tell the whole truth about itself.
When that day comes these envious rivals will have
good cause to wish California wouldn't speak so loudly
and so convincingly.