Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1910 — CALIFORNIA MAKES GOOD. [ARTICLE]

CALIFORNIA MAKES GOOD.

Euttrnera Sit Up and Take Notlea When They Visit the Coast. The gi*eat thing: about California is that she make good. Both in our literature and by our speech when we are away from home Californians are thought to be a somewhat boastful people. “Oh, no doubt you have a beautiful country and a fine climate, out you are not yet a finished product in other respects,” is what the outlander says to us with an amiable and patient smile. But it has now come to pass that when we get an easterner here we make him sit up and take notice from every possible point of view he may care to take. We have not only the scenery and the climate, but we have everything that anybody else has and a whole lot of things that nobody else has. If yre boast, we can make the boast good. Let us take, for instance, the blase man—the man,-above all others, who is hard to please. He is a man whq must have luxuries —elegant hotels, clubs and all that sort of thing. Well, what do we do to h'm-when he comeg to California? Why, we can lodge ..him in as fine a hotel as there is on earth. We can put him up at a club equal to any he has ever known. Suppose he were to spend his winter in this immediate neighborhood, can he find anything better in the hotel line than he will find between Santa Barbara and San Diego? Has' he ever seen in all his life and in all his wanderings country clubs to discount the Ananadaie Club and the other California country clubs? Then take the financier, the banker and the business man who come here from the east or from any other part of the world. They come as skeptics and go away true believers. They are staggered by the immensity and the solidity of our financial institutions. They are astounded at our present commerce and are soon willing to admit that it is a commerce destined to become Jhe greatest the world has ever known. They can hardly realize that we are carrying out projects of the stupendous bigness of the Owens River aqueduct and things of that character. They see what we are doing in the way of building highways equal to the highways of France, and that we are digging harbors to accommodate the fleets of all the. oceans. The stranger comes patronizingly, but he goes away dofiing his chapeau respectfully. The day is past when we could be considered raw and unfinic The possibilities of the most frui!*!ll and advantageous section of the globe have been taken full advantage of. California makes good.— Los Angeles Times. _l _