The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-28
Interesting Article on the SUBJ
ject of Needle Work
HORTICULTURE DISCUSSED
The Many Industries Of the State Of
California
Walnut Culture, Seeds, SILK Culture, Archl.
lecture, Industrial Notes From the
Lower Part Of the State
fConductsd bv Mira H. W. r. strong)

Conducted by Mrs. II. W, X. Strong)
industrial pursuits seem to be under
stood to refer alone to handioraft IS op.
posed to brain work. Webster defines in
dustry: "Habitual diligence in any en-
ploy mont, either bodily or mental"
While W. NJ. Hunt, the celebrated painter.
says: "You talk about practice of the
hand.' 1t has less to do with drawing
than you think. You draw with your
brain. with your eyes"
Our consideration will refer broadly to
the reproducing CLASSES and the bur-
dens imposed BY non-producsrs, with
practical suggestions for the relief Of
both, together with definite plans for Or
ganization IN several departments that
will supply needed assistance in all
branches Of industry. We will indulge in
few arguments. permitting facts to speak
for themselves; pointing to the wisdom
Of giving closer attention to these mat.
tiers. A Frsnchman has said that pa
tune 10 the surest danger" Have we
not already been too long patient? Let
US consider.
This question of industry begins with
the children and in infancy. 1t is, al ii
were. o moving about these two in an
elliptical track with each q focal point.
What we need is concentration to one
point as a central sun, with the industrial
world swinging about this center in a
completed circle. Beginning with the
childre !, the right step is taken in that
direction in the kindergarten. The child's
grade becomes a mother school, where
the bent of the cihld's mind is discover
ed, and his future in life determined
upon before 10 years of age. Tho mater
ial in the child being known, his highest
good should follow through complete
system OF educating and not examining.
Following this line, the children of
the government are further divided into
two classes, known as representatives of
'labor and capital" (Strange as it may
seem OF the first named, many are not
laborers.) 1t has been laid down in the
books that com petition is the life or soul
OF business and industries. This COM
petition was once an evidence of health,
as one branch individually competing
with others in the same line; now 1T has
become competitive war between labor
and capital, each contending for the
whole, with determination to make it
a war of determination to the other.
Neither competition nor com bination will
ever settle this disturbed question.
Tho present tension is felt throughout
the business world, hindering and de-
stroyiug industries that should be foster
cd AMI maintained. There is but one
remedy--co.operation When the central
sun shines IN the industrial system its
power in force of gravity will pe coop
Grafton. All desire and contend tor
rrizes; many expect them bestowed by
smiling fortune, while in truth LIES
prizes are few and are won by the prepared.
They are learned by the hard work-few
win them, because few are willing to take
the trouble TO prepare; the genius for
work Is fast becoming the highest genius.
maintained. The necessities of life even
tramps req1irs-iood, clothing, shelter !;
while another Sc! are preying upon the
more fortunate, to bsg they are ashamed,
they will not work, and so they live by
their wits, ms of old, and are menace to
good order and coed government.
asyiums and bones. The honest. INDUS
trious plodder is too busy keeping the
wbesls turning and pots boiling TO have
time to attract much notice or be
counted.
In no country on earth are prisoners
kept iu such aristocratic "desuetude"
doing nothing" for a living)-she for
eiRn badge of aristocracy--with tramps
counted by the millions, with palaces for
asylums and almshouses; and with
homes, the central idea OF our civiliza-
tion, containing another cherished idle
class (the wives and daughters of rich
mem. 1t thus is positive necessity
that We are commercial nation, that
We are the richest nation on earth, and
that We place In the front rank our home
industries, with such burden of dollars.
THE INDECENT GLASS
Is supplied through three avenues. First,
foreign immigration; second, crime;
third, misfortune.
Foreign immigration became corner
stone of our republic, all nations were
invited to join us to swell the ranks, to
till the soil, to become an integral part
of this arandest country and nation of
modern times. This call drew from thu
flower OF the best European classes. Re-
ligious liberty, love of freedom, determi-
nation to develop, seli-government; men
subdued the earth. they were OF the best.
Their industry made firm foundation;
our lands are now AL occupied cities con.
gested with population. Ten millions q
wear are spent upon charities in New
York city alone. Still the stream pou-s
in but not the original class-paupers and
non producers largely. except skilled ar
tsans from those great training schools,
the workshops OF Europe; whence our
places for skilled wvrkmen are more east.
ly filled than through our own apprentice
system, limited to ridiculously few of
our own boys. Our tillable land being oc-
cupied, having purchased from our wards,
the Indians, as much OF their land as
practicable and opening it to settlers,
now comes proposition for congress to
devise ways and means to irriRate the
arid lands. This you'd be well If for the
beneht OF the homeless in the large cities,
and for the stranger already within our
gates. But the proposition to spend
money irrigatng lands to he occupied by
European paupers should ba bitterly OPP
posed.
TOO MUCH REFORM.
There lie too much said and written
about reforms. We seem to sit upon our
conoeit, thankful that we are better than
previous generations. We bemoan the
past as if we could have made 1t better.
Let us Suppose that the world has been
handed on to us about as good world as
We could expect 1t to be under the cir
cumstances; then let us try not 10 much
to reform. as to improve the present.,
we are responsible for; AS Phillips
Books said "all we have 10 do with the
past Is to make our future out of it. To-
day. then, its the time of making. Let
Us be industrious for there IL much to
do. In this amiable state of mind let M