Los Angeles High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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A SONNET TO CALIFORNIA O golden California of renown! Your fields of golden poppies brightly glow, And on your mountain tops high peaked with snow, Is found a spot where sunshine smiling down Has given all the trees a glorious gown Of gold ; while at their feet the streamlets flow, Winding their way into the vales below; Sweet golden streams among the fields of brown. And guarding all the treasures which you hold, Is the blue sea that laves your shores of gold. The smiling sea that murmuring always speaks Its message to the crested mountain peaks. Still treasure tenderly this home of ours. Sweet California, smiling land of flowers! —ELIZABETH PARK.

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FOREWORD Los Angeles is today the ninth city in the United States in point of population. Climate has made us the Mecca of tourists and the paradise for homeseekers. Los Angeles County is the richest agricul- tural county in the value of farm products in the whole United States, surpassing sixteen states of the Union in population and twenty-two in wealth. No other city in the world has attained the 600,000 mark by fact ors such as these. All other great cities of the world depend on com- merce and industry for their growth and stability. Yet — already — Los Angeles is moreover tenth city of the country in volume of manufactured goods of a very diversified nature, ranging from rubber tires to gopher traps. Cheap water from a great aqueduct — cheap hydro electricity like- wise — a climate where nature helps industry most and free open shop labor conditions are the keystones of the arch on which industrial Los Angeles has been built. But industry must be supplemented by broad markets where the goods from our factories can be sold. Not only will our jobbers and manufacturers distribute their goods as today throughout Southern Cali- fornia, in the great San Joaciuin Valley to the north, in Imperial Valley, the Palo Verde, Arizona, and southern Nevada, but a broader spirit of looking farther atield is now in evidence. The keynote to the new idea of commerce is Los Angeles Harbor ' ' — the home port of the Pacific Fleet and the submarine base. Years ago most people considered the front door of Los Angeles to be the Cajon Pass, or a bit earlier — the Tehachapi — facing the East. Today Los Angeles has about faced and looks towards the West, out through her front door — her great harbor — across five thousand miles of Pacific — the great commercial mart of the future — to China, India, Australia, Japan and the west coast of Mexico, Central and South America. The commercial future of Los Angeles is immense. Her possibili- ties are beyond the wildest dreams of the Utopian. My hope is that the young men and women of the Los Angeles High School will appreciate the potentialities of our wonderful section and join our ranks of Los Angeles Boosters in our common cause. Yours for a great city of commerce, MAYNARD McFIE, Summer Class 1903.