The Eclipse was kinder overrated but I tell you Mexico ain’t.
IT’S TIME SOMEBODY SAID A WORD FOR CALIFORNIA
(A speech delivered impromptu at a Dinner to the Old Settlers of California. Mr. Rogers had another speech prepared but when he found everybody boosting California he changed his speech.)
I JUST HAPPENED TO REMEMBER THAT NO ONE HAD SAID A WORD FOR CALIFORNIA.
IT’S TIME SOMEBODY SAID A WORD FOR CALIFORNIA
I attended a dinner the other morning given for the Old Settlers of California. No one was allowed to attend unless he had been in the State 2 and one-half years.
I was the last speaker on the Menu. They put me last, figuring everybody would either be asleep or gone by the time I began.
Well sir, do you know, by the time it got to me there was nothing left to talk on! But I just happened to notice that in all the other speeches no one had mentioned California, so as that was all I had left I just had to go ahead and do the best I could with California.
Now, it ain’t much of a speech but it is at least a novelty, because in all my time out here I had never heard the subject used before at any Dinners or Luncheons.