National Affairs: Plain Tourists

In Los Angeles last week, a red-headed sharp-nosed man and his wife got off a Southern Pacific train from Texas. He explained: "We're just a couple of plain tourists seeking modest accommodations and a chance to look around Southern California quietly."

But Southern California refused to per mit itself to be looked around quietly by these particular tourists. It seized them up in its capacious hospitality and whirled them about in a lavish circuit of inspection. Tremendous crowds bellowed "hurrahs!" at them. Newsmen dogged their heels. Flowers and fruit...

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