Your react has fist fe-aaa SO Bast after a sojourn turned esrce gears on te Paciie ces etlopment nie Cane east ae sere Daring that pene, Gin ce revere, economic cond espe any alking Nemerous Hn, ort hae bees made inthe teer tesonaingy, ad many tang Maman has aap far ae eonsraction hat not Been active, there are a good many seem ti, ae Bons, and numer" sew partes here been aeid"be replaced The ety rote tine gear is very isto, hemccoming traveller dens eve a thee est fey alit geegers restate hed erp from British celunibhtis @sebec by Toundabout Cata te doers along the Pacife Cee Se ethos Angeles before turning eastward. Due to the pressure of time the entire journey was made by train; stops in San Francisco, Los Angeles, the Grand Tan-lyon, 'Chicago and''Toronto relieved the' monotony of travel, and made ithe entire trip one of two weeks' duration, The opportunity of travel-ting through the United States just Jat this time, when the President Jand his associates are pushing forward. the adoption of the various jeodes of the National Recovery Act, fas a fine one: T heard many in-{teresting comments on the new polic-some of the propaganda used to awaken the public to the value of the URA.
San Pranciseo To-Day The city of San Francisco pres-lents roarly attractions to the tourist. Chief among them, I thought, was the fact that the summer weather there la so temperate. While the rest of southern California swelters in tomperature not far below the hundred mark, San Francisco usually sees the mercury varying between 70 Jdegrees and 85 degrees in the hot test part of the day. The evenings fare invariably cool, 30 cool that one fis glad of a top-coat in midsummer. Apart from the pleasant climate, ings, erected earthquake and fire of 1906, and the well-paved. streets winding up to the several hills all were worth N renty years: In a State th known for ite fine Toads automobile, sis not sur the residential districts of the city fare spread out in a wide circle. In Panadena, Westwood, Beverly Hills, Eta "Nonca, "Covey and oliywood are' many beautiful residence. with spacious rounds and fine gardens, Although Hollywood. fiways: known_as the centre of the Imoving picture industry, many of the start have moved io" Beverly Hills and some even further aay
th Fox Film Studios and [he the priiege ok wating the the outdoor sere; under the new sound system much more of the work jot taking. the pletares is done. forge buildings" filed with highly technical apparatus. The camera men are perched high xp in the Faftfers; while the microphones are con-conied in strategic parts of the sel.
Chicago' was of more. than or. mary interest thie year on account of the Century of Progress Ex:
ition that Being held on the shore. of Lake Michigan. It i, 31 some ways, 2 marvelous pageant of the intest in science and invention: fud yet I felt that the whole Fair hed been fa too much commercials:
Frwtclane exhibits from, far Shd their place was taken by goods countries were noticeably. lacking,
played by enterprising merchants {Even the United States Government, fand the governments of the several States, old not shine out as did the British Government at the Wembley Exhibition of 1024, period of political stress, change Jand economic distress.
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