The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 22, 1922, Page 2

By W. H. Porterfield “” Traveling © southwést across Ne- vada recently, I took a poll of my follow passengers and discovered with a shock that more than half of them were headed for a city which was practically unknown a decade ago. These pilgrims were from Towa, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas and oth- er states of the Great Plains, where folks -work hard, save their money md for the most part take their re- «+ ligion and politics‘ pretty straight. They were all joyfully anticipating bathing suits and bungalows in Long “Beach. What has made Long Beach, 20 miles southwest of Los Angeles, on the coast of the Pacific, the fastest growing city in America and one of -; the most remarkable communities in any country? +.,; Lacking a bathing beach as good as any one of half a dozen others I could name within a few hours’ drive, its: climate possesses not the small- est measure of advantage over any :\point. on the coast from Santa Bar- bara to San Diego. Of scenery it has none save that furnished by ‘the bluest of blue oceans, the long majestic sweep of the surf breaking on a low flat, sandy beach. North and south a few miles ‘distant, are picturesque rocks, caves and promon- tories where the spray supplies a million rainbows when mixed with Californa sunshine, but at Long Beach are none of these things. No, candor compels even the most enthusiastic to admit that nature has done less for Long Beach than for almost any other spot along this coast. Why So Fast? Yet for five long years past, Long Beach has been the Mecca of a con-| stantly increasing pilgrimage from all the middle west, and whereas a decade ago it was a straggling beach town of 17,000 people, today it is a modern city of nearly six times that “number, galloping along at the rate of a million dollars the month in building permits and threatening to overtake its big neighbor, Los An- _: RESPECTABILITY MADE LONG BEACH GROW BUST LIKE HOME NLY BETTER" IGHED MOTHER, BOTTERMILIc y AND RESPECTABILITY $600,000, and that’s all it costs to run the city! Whoopee! No more taxes, Whoop! Gosh, how those dear old Iowans do hate taxes, but, steady, Fanny, old girl, steady now—not so fast. “Let’s not cut the taxes,” says the manager, “let’s spend the money to beautify our. city,” and Secretary Ballard of the Chamber of Com- merce tells me that’s what they probably will do. “Not so good,” said the Iowans, but they grinned a bit, for most of "em are rich and can afford to wait for dividends, Then they went back to their horseshoe pitching in the city park, for I forgot to tell you that Long Beach is the official headquarters of the ancient and amalgamated world league for horseshoe pitchers, The geles, in the next decade or two! What is the answer? During the past five years I have asked a hun- dred persons all of whom had theo- ries, They-were all, in my opinion, part- ly right, but chiefly ‘wrong. The. one big, outstanding cause for the remarkable growth of this remarkable city can be given in a word: Prohibition. ._ Venice, San Pedro, Redondo; Santa Monica—all with their admitted great attractions, subsidies’ and in- ducements, have been left gaping at the post, while Long Beach has can- tered home a winner to the music of bands and the flying of pennants and prohibition has done the trick. Twenty-five years ago, when but a straggling village of a few hundred, ‘every other point on the coast had its: toadhouse and “joint” where a pleasant time might be had by all, if one. cared to pay the price and ac- cept the ministrations of old R. E. Morse and his accompanying head- ache, _~ Strong on Respectability Not so Long Beach—not' so. ‘While Los Angeles was drawing upon the ‘world in general and the middle west in particular for recruits to ‘supple- ‘ment the local birth rate, Long Beach + -Srasitelling a waiting world that but- termilk and grape juice’ carried no} .sting, and that there was one bright “spot in southern California where} one could take a dip in the surf or dance the two-step by moonlight and | drink of the cup which adds no sor- row with it. Respectability—that was old Long Beach’s middle name. Churches, chautauquas, Y. M. C. A. conven- tions, singing schools and “The Old Homestead” and “East. Lynne” in the Opera House—that was the dope. “Why this is just‘like home, only ‘a thousand times . better,” sighed Mother as she sat on her bungalow porth and crocheted an antima- cassar (whatever that may be) to the Music of the perfectly respectable sea waves, while Father lighted the <evening pipe, and went over to find "a@ neighbor to talk to.. Both had found what their souls were longing “for—a perfectly respectable vacation place. ! That night Pa and Ma wrote home to Banker Whitcomb in Red Oak and invited him and Ma Whitcomb to “€ome out and see them “and make a long visit.” The Iowa banker was “fnaybe gettin’ a “lettle mite” old an his food didn’t taste so good as it ‘once did and he had plenty of money “to live on “and let’s go, Ma,” was ac- cepted with alacrity. So the letters went by every mail, and soon the trains were loaded with Nisitors who in turn became resi- dénts to engage in writing back to the folks they knew. It was like a Todge where you want everybody to join. , You talk about the hand that rocks the cradle ruling the world. I'll say she doesn’t stop with the cradle. She generally rules the old boy, also. And.Ma soon discovered that there wwa’n't none o’ them dance hall cabarets in Long Beach and so she Sould sleep nights mighty sure that nothin’ was a-goin’ to lead Pa astray. Oil! Oil! “SLaugh if you want to, but there you have the answer. Let Venice hit it up till the wee’ sma hours and San Pedro sailors make Rome howl. Long Beach was headquarters of that ‘respectability which is the hand- ysaiden of righteousness and, just as Honesty is the best policy, so it pays to be good. And so Long Beach grew and grew and grew until today she is so big and powerful that she doesn’t care if all the rest of the ‘world goes dry as a sun-dried bone. She has won with a mighty handi- cap. < But prohibition didn’t do it all. They. tell you that oil and water ‘won’t mix. Never believe it. When- ever I get to cogitating over the case of: Long Beach, I think of that old classic, “Them as has gits.” ~ Just as she had everything coming - her way, along comes an engineer chap and discovers oil on the—city fands—oceans of it, regular Texas gushers, and the other day their $7500-a-year city manager gave out an official statement which says that the net revenue from leases on city Tands this coming year will be same old boys who used to pitch horseshoes behind the city livery stable at Foxville, have transferred their activities to Long Beach. Daddies Win Well, the coming generation didn’t like this any too much. One day several Marys and Johns sidled up to several fathers and tried to get ‘em to quit. “Pa,” they said, “horseshoe pitch- ing is such plebeian sport. Now, if you would not take up tennis or golf or polo or something fashion- able. You’d look so sweet, Pa, in golf stockings and sweater.” Gosha’mighty, Pa just tightened ‘the garters on his shirt-sleeves, hitched his. galluses and took hold of another just-right horseshoe. Then the city council went at it and passed an ordinance and then the horseshoe league got mad and noti- fied the banks that they’d withdraw their deposits if they couldn’t pitch horseshoes in the park, and the or- dinance was -killed in committee. ° Pitching horseshoes may lack the ‘excitement of stud-poker and_ the. patrician finish of golf or tennis, but ‘it happens to_be the real, character- istie original _middle west sport, born out of the need for relaxation at a time when there was no money to blow in on monkey-doodle pas- times. And as'such, the transplant- ed Long’ Beacher, whose worst vice is tracking sand onto Ma’s clean kitchen floor, just naturally loves it. Prohibition, oil and horseshoes— there you have the formula which has‘ made Long Beach the most re- markable city of ‘its time. (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service) MANDAN NEWS | A meeting of the Mandan Park Board will be held Thursday, Aug. 24, at which time bids for the Heart River dam will be opened. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Sullivan and family and Mr, and Mrs. A, H. Peterson enjoyed a visit Sunday to the Christenson farm on the Heart —., ‘River, 16 miles southwest of Man- LONG BEACH IS FOUNDED ON A King ‘in Galluses ¥ o tok so «you! SWEET PALIN GOLF Tos S- GRAPE JUICE. dan. At 6 o’clock & picnic lunch was enjoyed by the party. Jacob Miller, age 75, formerly of the Sweet Briar Gtudrict, died Satur-’ day afternoon as the result of a gen- eral breakdown which was due to ad- canved age. The* funeral services were held at St. Vincent Catholic church yesterday morning. | ‘Charles’ Milter of “Sixth Ave. N. E. who was arrested yesterday by Fed- eral prohibition agents when they discovered 124 quarts of beer and eight ‘quarts of moonshine’ hard’ 4i- quor in a raid at his home will be turned over to the ‘Federal govern- ment for a hearing. - aed DAIRY COW IS | WORLD QUEEN Fargo, N. D,, Aug. 21.—The dairy cow is queen of the world and a true friend of mankind according to @ letter which Max Morgan dairy spe- cialist at the agricultural college to- | day sent out to bankers of the state. | “Every morning, the world wakes up hungry,” Mr. Morgan salutes his banker friends, “It has been doing this-since the first woman first spoke to man, The morning of every day sees the world rub its eyes, stretch itself, push up the curtains and ask for milk. 2 “We have to learn ‘to like the taste of oysters or olives and some other things better or wrose but we don’t have to learn to like the taste of milk. “A report from John Ross states that his rye went 40. bushels, Adam Brown says his wheat went 39 bush- gis. Yes, probably itidid but who is reporting the fields'that went ten or fifteen bushels? In other words because of this one year’s grain har- vest has the dairy cow been shelved? “We have mistakenly called cotton king. It is not. Milk is king for it contains all the fifteen essential éle- ments of nutrition and food is more important than clothes. 5 ~ “What was it that brought us through the ‘financial depression; that. kept the wolf from the homes of the poor and made it possible to keep the American dollar worth 100 cents and to keep this state in ‘an ever prosperous condition? The dairy cow? “Have you noticed the high prices paid this summer for butterfat? What does it mean? I am not a mar- ket reporter but it looks like good prices for fall and' winter. ‘ “Sometimes we are so close to ‘a thing that we do not see it and again | we hear a thing so often that we do not hear it at all. This is one of the reasons perhaps why men through the ages did ‘not. hear the- cry for milk or.if they; heard: it their minds |! were not on their ‘stomachs, ‘so they pulled’ ‘up their ‘belts another hole, | nanees | butterfat ‘ts, high. We gained: four. Bitte Frying phi tablets of tine: ; “Sufficient feed is: at hand. Fi- ‘6: straightening out. Dairy cow prices;pre reasonable now and | phy oy the per~cent ‘im ‘dairy, cows in 1921, or 1800, ‘Let's make’ it 100,000 by 1925. DICKINSON MEN _ ARE EXAMINED Dickinson, N. D.,:Physical examina- tlon of’ Dickinson ‘young. men wh. have signed the rester of Company K begins Thursday night and will ne completed before the end of the Week wecording to Capt.\L. R. Baird who has-the organization work of the comipatty in charge. ‘While more’ than 60 men, the num- bér’ required’:as mininium. strength, have signed the company roster many of them are out of town at the pre- dent time. For that reason. several more wembé¥s must be secured be- fore the company. can be sworn in and-paised for muster, Although there are many details yet to‘be arranged Captain Baird and A. ‘L. Requette, who has been assist- ing him, hopé to have the company in shape ‘te be mustered in before September 15, MINER INJURED, _ | IN EXPLOSION Dickinson, N. 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