AN INVITATION OUT OF DOORS — TRIP TO PORTLAND 



rounded by well-tilled fields, by orchard and grove, a man of taste may rear 

 his family in the enjoyment of those few great tokens of world civilization — 

 a shelf of noble books, some photographs of the master painters, and such 

 bits of handicraft as he may require. Thus fortified, he may scorn the arti- 

 ficial pleasures and excitements of the city, knowing full well that the rich- 

 est joys of life are within hail. 



I would that the various local Promotion Committees of California 

 might pay some attention to the making of attractive rural homes, for no 

 inducement could be more persuasive in attracting the right sort of settlers 

 to this land than the vision of a quiet, unostentatious, yet beautiful country 

 home. If some of our best architects could be interested in designing mod- 

 est farmhouses, and in laying out farm land as a landscape gardener lays 

 out a park, it would take hold of the imagination of numberless people and 

 persuade them more irresistibly than any array of facts concerning the yield 

 of an orchard, the size of the pumpkins or the productivity of a beet sugar 

 field. 



Man cannot live by bread alone. In California we are coming more 

 and more to appreciate the importance of beauty as a factor in a well- 

 rounded life, and to realize that the truest types of beauty created by man 

 have their inspiration in the life of the great earth mother — in the everlast- 

 ing hills, the eternal blue of heaven with its ever-charging pageant of 

 clouds, in the forest with the myriads of wild creatures finding shelter there- 

 in, in the green fields, and the flowing streams. The child schooled in the 

 craft of the open will have a grip on life, a poise, a primal understanding 

 which is seldom attained by one who has only the cunning of the city 

 streets, the polish of metropolitan convention, and the polite breeding of the 

 town. If, then, we would have a sane and hardy manhood in our civiliza- 

 tion, let us preach the gospel of the simple life, the joy of the hills, the 

 power of nature when made to yield its store of beauty and strength to the 

 compelling imagination of man. 



THE FIFTH EXCURSION OF THE CALIFORNIA PROMOTION COMMITTEE 



The excursions given under the auspices of the California Promotion 

 Committee are made for the purpose of inducing a greater spirit of co- 

 operation and stimulating good sound practical hustling 



They are the most unique excursions in the world. None have ever 

 been given just like them anywhere, at any time. The members of these 

 excursions do not go for the purpose of having a junketing trip, even 

 though they do have a good time. They pay their own way. They have 

 nothing to buy and nothing to sell. 



A number of excursions have been given under the auspices of the 

 California Promotion Committee. 



A notable event will be the trip to Portland, which will be made 

 up of men prominent in development work throughout the whole State of 

 California. A special train of up-to-date equipment, gaily decorated, will 

 leave San Francisco on the evening of June 10th, arriving in Portland on 

 the morning of June 12th, which has been designated by the management 

 of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition as California Promotion Com- 

 mittee Day. The California men will take part in a number of events which 

 have been planned. A feature will be a trip up the Columbia River on a 

 chartered steamboat, in which the visitors will have as their guests officials 

 of the Exposition, the Portland Commercial Club and leading men of 

 Oregon. 



The Portland trip will be in the nature of a friendly call of the men of 

 California on the people of their great northern sister State. The whole 

 Pacific Coast is united and California will show her regard for the great 

 northern commonwealth. 



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