Arizona state miner., 1927-02-05
SUPP0SING WE WOULD HOLLER, TOO!

act. Study and thought are the fOundatlonS upon
which all great projects are builded Long, long
ago. many years before Arizona began to awaken
from her meaningless dreams, there was formed on
the present site of the city of Los Angeles small
settlement. A trading post, few huts of log and
adobe huddled in a group. At that time there was
nothing distinctive about this particular spot on
Gods green, and any one of hundred other places
and spots would have served just as we'll for the
building site of great city. But there were the
makin's," and there was the spirit of determina-
tion, and-there is the city. The great metropolis
of the Southwest began just any other city has
begun, with handful of huts and handful OF men
and women. The only difference between those men
and many millions of others was the fact that they
would think and they would act. Today we see
great city where those stood, and we never
sotp to think just why this great city is where it is
instead Of being hundred miles way or another.
Is it because that particular spot was the only
spot where great city could stand? Was it because
there was no room for it anywhere but where it is?
We venture to say that there are at least an even
hundred other localities within a radius OF fifty
miles around where the building Of city would have
been much smaller task To the south there is San
Pedro and the harbor. Certainly great city like
Los Angeles would want harbor. But they did not
seem to consider this fact
To the north there are miles upon miles Of fer
tile level lands, where Mother Nature would have
made city building very easy. They could have gone
west and founded their city on Santa Monica Bay,
but they did not They built the city where it is,
and it grew it became magnet for commerce and
industry until today it ranks high among the lead
ing cities OF the world Billions have been made in
real estate turnover, Los Angeles and the State Of
California have become World-renoWned, people who
have not been there and have studied the coorful
literature sent out by the Chamber Of Commerce con-
slider it the Mecca Of the West where sorrows are
unknown and dollars grow on little bushes with
year-around harvest season. Thousands have floced
there with expectations Of the highest, and many
have not been so badly disappointed Roads and
highways have been lined for years with traffic all
bound for the Golden West where they had been told
they would find the nearest thing to Heaven that
was available on this earth California had this
wonder, and that wonder and no place on earth was
such veritabe paradise as California
And still the throng keeps milling ever onward.
There is no thought in their minds but that they
bound for the best the land affords And this move
nent is mostly caused by reading and thinking and
acting. First the colorfu stories of the California
Chambers of Commerce. then comes thought and
later comes action. No barriers have been erected
along the road to turn the drift and the line rushes
headlong past scenic wonders, health happiness and
prosperity such as never existed in California. If
our Grand Canyon, or our fertile Valleys Won
derful forests, mountains and streams were to re-
ceive oneha the publicity and camouflage that the
meager beauties of California are receiving many
would stop to look But to we who live here never
comes the thought that perhaps we should tell our
nelghbor OF what we have. We have basked in the
healthful sunshine and viewed the splendor of our
mountains and Valleys have enjoyed the wonderful
steady climate with its almost perpetual sunshine,
until we have become SO engrossed in our own en-
Joyment that fail to consider that millions are
less fortunate and seeking for what we have in
abundance. And so they go on to city where even
the water they drink must be either bought or pill
tered from the paradise they have blindy passed
through. 4sg~-a~ssz z-4.sas.e.ea..~-~s .-~-s~~
fs~ Il we had percentage Of the optimism, per-
centage Of the aggressveness and power Of thought
if we were able to band ourselves together in com
mon purposes as our neighbors, we would not have
to face this situation but would be able to sit back
and see Arizona come into her own If our natural
beauties were presented to the world in the same
light as is Californias we would reverse positions
with her easily. California has climbed tree and
hollered, nothing much, perhaps but neverthe-
less she has had her holler and has proven to the
world the power of publicity Arizona has been more