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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-08-27

Debs says that his vote viii surprise
people. II will be surprising II 1t
does
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-25

To those who have not as yet heard
of eliminators it may seem bit anus
ing that this hypercriticism Of where
things should be and where they should
not be numbered among the furnishings
of up-to-date houses Is, indeed, being
seriously studied as profession. For
merly mooted questions in such mat
tiers have been referred to high-cIass
decorators. The new profession. how
ever, is quite distinct, and while deco
rators often employ and send out elm
inators, 1t is usually done after their
own contract is finished.
Eliminating would seem to be an
ideal profession for women-that is. IL
their persuasive powers are great and
they contain abundant tact The field
at present is one of the few not over
crowded 1t is not one. however, to be
entered into lightly. or troubles multi
tudinous might ensue. The elimination
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There has been a big increase in ten
years. Much insanity is caused by
stimulants used by man to push him
on. against the warning Of nature. If
the overworked man would not keep up
on drugs nature would give him the
needed rest in the form of an illness,
but under the whiDlash of stimulants
when he does collapse, having no re-
serve resistance. he often becomes de-
ranged"
THE artificial lives we lead, violating
almost all of natures laws, and the
stress of civilization are the causes of
insanity" said DR.. Podstata. 'Intem-
perance is one of the chief causes
among our patients-about 40 per cent.
Next comes worry. Practical religion
undoubtedly strengthens the resistance
to insanity. The highest aims in life.
the lessened worry. the better habits Of
life. are of great help in resisting.
THE emotional religion, with intense
emotional disturbances. does at times
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WANTED, A MN. THE WORLD WILL PAY HIM HIS PRICE
J. SAWYER

of settling these difficulties is wasting
time and breath. We need the man
whose horizon is wider than his own
door yard and extends to the eternal
hills whence cometh our help So we
repeat our advertisement:
Wanted. in Society. A Man. One
who can be an inspiration to our
youth. Who will present to them an
ambition not OF gold or power, but OF
royal manhood. A man who can
speak and live the truth. Who will be
like the sequoia to our boys in that
they. too, will have to stretch upward
to behold him. Who will be a protest
against the shallow artificiality of our
social life with it's tissue of falsity and
who will stand for absolute righteous
ness in the midst of an unrighteous
age.
Wanted. in Business. A man. He
must be human protest against dis
fraud his associate. but there are
cases in which he is not even TO seek
his own. He is in business as Gods
steward, and while his support is a
part of the contract. yet the profits
belong to God. 1t is not necessary
that he get rich. 1t is not even neces-
sary that he be able to live. But it
is necessary, absolutely necessary. that
he be honest. Not merely legally hon
est, but intrinsically so. A good many
men are legally honest who will find
themselves behind Gods prison bars.
This man, whether as employer or as
an employee. will stoop to no mean
method or low practice, but with a
sterling fidelity to his fellow man will
give evidence of the divine spirit
with.
Wanted. in Politics. A Man. One
who could not = bribed with any
prospect of Dreferment or with
touch of gold. A man who looks
neither to the right nor to the left
from his path of duty. Who. with
justice to all and with malice toward
none. stands as the representative of a
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dwarfs this better one of Napoleon,
and, as matter of fact, it might well
be eliminated"
The bust" answers madam. a bit
nettled, is that of my grandfather.
There is really no other place where it
looks so WELL"
I'm a Napoleon room. madam? No
doubt, of course, the old gentleman
and the Little Corporal may have had
many ideas in common, only since in
headgear they so decidedly diff
fered-"
You think. perhaps. it would go
better in the dining-room
THE dining-room, madam, is Flem-
ish, and your own bedroom is after
Marie Antoinette. Assuredly it would
not go there; its lines are much too
severe. 1 should think, perhaps, 1t
might be eliminated to the smoking
room"
Smoking rooml Ny grandfather
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One or two Librarians have always been
members OF this board, the others have
been men and women of scholarly
tastes and philanthropic disposition.
Thirty-siX towns during the first year
and sixteen in the second year, after
the creation Of the commission, have
availed themselves Of the States gift
Of 500 with which to found their little
Libraries. A smaller number of towns
in following years applied to the COM
mission for this aid, but each year the
work has advanced with larger gener-
al interests and benefits. 1t was re-
served for the year 1903 to witness the
crOwning of the labors of the commits
sion. In this fourteenth report il is
stated that at last every one of the
$50 towns and cities Of Massachusetts
has the right and privilege of a free
public library.
Another effect of the stimulating eff
forts Of the commission is seen in the
wonderful liberality displayed by in
Gividual givers in bestowing books,
library sites, library buildings and en-
dowments upon various towns and
cities in Massachusetts. Many Of the
buildings have been erected as me-
MORALS Of deceased friends Not less
than $4,000, 900 has been donated for
these purposes since 1890. Massa-
chusetts now has $50 public library
buildings which have been constructed
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lishment of a local library to be sup
ported by general tax.
Effective efforts in behalf of library
extension are being made by the LII
brary Association of California, OF
which Joy Lichenstein Of the San Fran
cisco public library is president. The
object of this association is to promote
the welfare of libraries. 1t is ambi-
tious in it's aims, for it intends to do
it's utmost to change California as re-
spects library advantages into a second
Massachusetts,.
There are in this State sixty incor-
porated cities, 100 unincorporated
towns OF Importance and more than
1000 smaller places which have no
libraries of their own. 1t is evident at
a glance that missionaries of the Cos
pei of good reading are certain of un-
failing employment.
The September meeting of the library
association was recently held at Santa
Cruz. 1t was an occasion when the
large hearted hospitality Of the citi-
zens of Santa Cruz and the library Of
ficials was given full play, the thirty
visitors being welcomed with graceful
courtesies and earnest words of encour-
agement in their labors. Papers were
read by several members at the meet
ings. Librarians Ripley of Sacramento.
Graves of Alameda, Russ of Pasadena.
Miss Alice ]. Haines of San Francisco
and Trustee Leask of Santa Cruz con-
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abundant use of diapers, artists and
decorators. Each has had his will.
Perfection apears to have gradually
unfolded. Still, however, there re-
main a few points about which she is
not quite sure. Perplexed by many
doubts, she calls in the eliminator.
This individual, whether man or
woman, is renowned for taste unques-
tionable; cultivated, refined to the
highest peg, which under financial In
ducement is allowed to shine forth
for the saving of arts reputation.
Madam" ne says. on his tour from
room to room over the new house.
your taste is original. delightful, but
with your permission / will eliminate
this Chinese dog Foo from this room
of the First Empire"
1T is here by mistake" says
madam.
And this bust Of an old gentleman,
a rather good head, to be sure, but it
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DR.. James P. Lynch sees the earth
one big lunatic asylum in 700 years
unless conditions change. Insanity
has increased 800 per cent in fifty
years, and it has increased half that in
ten years." said he. Drink. drugs,
speculation, worry. overwork, are
some of the causes of insanity. The
conditions of women must change in
order TO have a healthy race. Either
America will become a childless ma
ton or the list of insane will swell
because of the nervous, weakling off,
spring of the nerve-wrecked mothers.
There are hundreds of causes for
insanity, and for every insane parent
one will find in the family of children
a predisposition TO insanity. AS these
children marry and remarry they carry
the strain of dementia with them
The tendency of the times is toward
brain development at the expense of
physical efficiency. Mans impetuous
haste for the almighty dollar, his per-
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we neglect our spiritual side We do not
offer the Almighty chance to reach
our highest need. Physical power is
good. intellectual power is better. but
spiritual power is supreme. Some men
black shoes. others run street cars,
anthropic work. All are honorable, but
he is most serviceable to humanity who
strives to meet the greatest need. This
lis neither of body nor of intellect, but
of spirit. No man does his whole duty
by his fellow who cannot give a spir-
itual lift. l am not friend If simply
feed the body and instruct the mind
and let a mans soul go into eternity
without warning of his dire condition
apart from God. We honor Columbus,
it is true. but how much greater man
was David Livingstone, who opened the
dark continent to benefcent truth. The
greatest intellect of the nineteenth CEN
fury was w. E. Gladstone, who above
all other things stood for the impreg-
nable rock of Holy Scripture Mer-
chants there are by the myriad, but he
who, like John Wanamaker, stands for
human brotherhood and divine right
eousness is par excellence man. 1t is
to the Incompatible credit of the ma
ton that the men now most prominent
ly before it as the candidates for its
highest Office are men of God. They
are men of physique. of no inferior
mind. but. above all, they possess that
added dignity of spiritual understand
ing. Tens of thousands there are also
in the humber walks of life who are
with similar aim lifting the nation
nearer its possibility for good.
Such. and such only. is the wanted
man. To add men merely of body and
intellect only increases the problem
They have no solution to offer that
is worthy of consi -eration. Various
questions, like those of anarchy. pow
erty, social inequality, labor and cap
ital, have no possible solution outside
an adequate undertaking of the will
of God. He who argues other means
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sonal greed at the expense Of the
race. the inclination to always hurry
and never rest are making of the peo-
pie nervous wrecks.
Men, like plants, die first at the
top" continued DR.. Lynch. IF this
increasing insanity be not stopped the
time will come when the sane will be
at the mercy of the demented.
According to the statistics of 1903
Great Britain comes first on the list
OF confined insane. the United States
second, France third and Germany
fourth, while many scientists claim
that almost the entire population OIL
Norway is insane, though not con-
fined.
THE tendency Of our higher educa-
tion, so called, and our improved
methods of living is to enrich and
eventually enfeeble the mind, which at
the same time impoverishes the body.
Deprive the brain of it's proper susten-
ance-rich, red blood-and insanity
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went on DR.. King, that 20 per cent of
the present insanity is from predisposi-
ton and that 80 per cent is due to in
heritance. There are more men insane
in the United States than women, per-
baps due to their harder mental work
and exposure. The use of alcohol by a
man may not drive him insane, but will
often give predisposition toward in
sanity to his offspring
Il believe that insanity to-day begins
in the schoolroom,'' said Judge Orrin
Carter. Children are rushed through
their studies too fast, given studies that
used to belong to the colleges, and
many Of them graduated from the high
schools at the age of only Is years. In
many cases this wrecks the nerves Of
children, and many of them carry the
nervousness with them through life
But the result is a nervous, fidgety
army of girls and boys. many of them
unfit for business life before they be-
gin.
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through individual gifts, exclusive of
the thirteen donations from Andrew
Carnegie.
The influence of this special work
Of the Massachusetts commission for
public library extension which. though
begun as an effort to promote higher
standards of thought and action in
rural communities in their own State.
could not be confined to its limits and
has spread over the country till now
in a score of States such commissions
are established by law.
And it may be. noted as crafty
ing feature of the times that when
ever a State adopts as its special care
any form of popular instruction for
the uplifting of the masses. public
confidence is immeasurably strength
ened and the gifts Of the wealthy free
ly flow to its aid.
Illustrative of the value of the pub
lie library to the people may be quoted
the words of Senator George F. Hoar.
III speaking of his early contem-
pcraries-Bryant, Longfellow, Whit
tier, Lowell. Holmes, Emerson, Sparks,
Bancroft, Prescott, Parkman, Motley,
Webster, Choate. Everett and Wendell
Phillips-he claimed that the magnifi-
cent leadership of these men, who
were mainly from Eastern Massa-
chusetts, resulted from the early
establishment at Boston and Cam
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tributed articles bearing upon the
special topic for discussion. Essentials
and Non Essentials in Library Work"
Miss Haines' paper treated of classify
ing and cataloging a library. 1t was
stated that a catalogue is essential in
a progressive library, that a well-class-
flied library is more than half cata-
logued, and referred to the cOmbina-
tions of the Dewey and Cutter systems
Of classification, which are extensively
used. IL was further urged that the GER
tain growth Of a library should be pro-
vided for. and as printed catalogues are
not only expensive but are quickly out
of date, that the card catalogue proves
most satisfactory.
In an important presentation of the
"children's room" Miss Russ laid
stress upon the first essential, which is
excepting the first shelf OF care
fully chosen books-a thoroughly
trained children's librarian. Her pro-
fession should be chosen through
dwelt among other things in his pa
per upon a library trustees need Of
fair and open mind and a spirit of
cooperation.
The generosity of Californians to
public libraries is morally certain to
be hereafter displayed on a larger
scale. In a collective manner this ap-
probation is being shown by various
cities through ampler appropriations.
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higher power than that of man. Who
will retrieve the political situation
from the morass where every man is
for himself and for what he can get
out OF it. This mans life in politics.
as elsewhere. will be for what he can
put into IT.
Wanted, A Man who brings things
to pass for good; who is endued and
endowed with a divine purpose to lift
men; who can be a brother to every
other man and see in every one a
neighbOr. He will not simply count
one in the census, for he will count at
least a hundred in the community. He
will be worth a thousand when the
eternal time sheet is made out. He
has forgotten himself and has lived
for his fellow men, The poor and
the needy have been his friends. He
shall not leave the earth with the pitt
full accompaniment of costly flowers
and formal tears. But his shall be
the richer heritage of sincere love and
honor.
Where shall we find our Man:
Where. indeed. if not in the reader
himself? An obligation is laid upon
us all to be such a man. 1t is a re-
sponsibiHty not TO be evaded. We
have no right to be faithless or even
mediocre. We owe it to ourself to be
the best man possible. and that word
possible has no boundaries. We owe
it to our fellow men who stand in de-
plorabIe need of just such testimony
as we have suggested. Above all. we
owe it to God, who promises every
equipment for regal manhood and to
whom we render final account. Let
every reader lift his face and heart to
the Almighty md pledge a loyal faith
fitness to his will.
Wanted. A Man. He may name his
own salary. The world Will pay any
price. and gladly. Perpetual employ
ment is guaranteed. Apply at once.
for we sadly need help and the place
has waited long. Come thou, o man.
Whatsoever thou hast been. come now
and be A Man
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valueless if they are not to be polished
so that their excellence may be re-
vealed.
He has taken a long stride toward
manhood who realizes that his body is
but the dwelling place of his nobler
nature. 1t is to be made the perfect
habitation of a perfect man. 1t is to
be duly kept in order and repair. Let
it be swept and adorned as fitting the
palace of royal character, but let it
always be subordinate to its tenant. If
intellect is that which distinguishes
man from brute, is not he who ne
elects his mind akin to the brute?
Thought makes a man, yet few men
think. To these few men, however,
the world owes its progress. Explor-
ers. who like Columbus, have first
thought and then executed; scientists
like Edison, statesmen like Hay, and
hosts of lesser men have been the
civilizers of the earth. They are men
who have solved problems. Oxcarts,
omibuses, team and electric railways.
automobiles and airships are progress
sive stages in the solution of the prob
lem of transportation but not even
the oxcart came without intellect.
Yet oxen and men dwelt together long
before some man made his cart and
attached his oxen thereto. Men are
needed who can bring things to pass.
Comparatively few men do. Difficult
ties need to be overcome. San Fran
cisco would be uninhabitable if some
man, of intellect had not solved the
problem of water supply and over
come the difficulties of topography.
Men who have developed this second
capacity of mind are not rare. Our
modern education gives excellent OPP
portunity for our youth to learn to
think. We need to guard carefully
against the tendency of youth to pre-
fer avenues of manual rather than
those of mental exertion. Well trained
bodies are frequently met. Well
trained intellects are comparatively
few.
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Long Beach, Los Angeles County. OBJ.
tains $4,000 for the coming year
more than double any previous
amount; Santa Monica. the seaside
resort of Los Angeles, has opened a
branch library; Santa Rosa expects a
tax of I cents on four and half mill
lions valuation. which will yield $3.50.
and Berkeley secures an increase OF
tax rate from cents to 10 cents per
hundred.
1t is doubly pleasant TO chronicle
more frequent individual gifts to Ii
braries. In Santa Clara the widow Of
the late H. c. Mumford. City Treas
urer, has just donated nearly $500 Of
undrawn salary of her husband to the
public library.
jacksonville has invited competitive
plans for the new Carnegie library at
a cost not exceeding $4,000.
Palo Altos new library building is
nearly ready for use.
The St. Helena library has no build
ing of its own and occupies rooms in
the City Hall. A number of improve
ments have lately been made in the
appointments of the library.
At the laying OF the cornerstone Of
the Spokane. Wash, $4,000 Carnegie
building addresses were made BIZ the
Mayor, Rev. Father Verhagen Of the
Catholic church, and School Superin-
tendent Tormey. The eligible site was
a donation from A. B. Campbell.
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bridge of libraries to which the people
could have access.
With fitting words the Massachusetts,
commission closes its admirable re-
port: THE only treasure house open
to all is a library; the only wealth
which will not decay is knowledge. 1t
is the birthright of every citizen of
this commonwealth to share these
treasures and possess this wealth. The
virtue and happiness of the individual,
the civic and material prosperity of the
people are all strengthened by the wise
administration of the public library"
What is being done to further library
extensions in California? Much, when
compared with the inactivity of a few
gent wants of the State. The twenty
nine buildings completed or in process
Of erection by the Carnegie gifts al
ready dot the State from Redding to
San Diego. Not only in their respec-
tive localities are they library homes,
but they are becoming centers of So
cial influence and intellectual power.
From the State library at Sacramento
several score of travelling libraries have
been sent to hamlets. villages and
many towns not possessing a library
These are awakening interest in good
literature and in a number of places
are preparing the way for the estab-
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must speak with the authority which
comes from an exact knowledge Of pc
RODS. dates and values. To recommend
a Chippendale sideboard when such an.
article Of furniture was never made by
that worthy would indeed be shocking
In an expert eliminator.
Eliminators are paid by the hour,
and Of them quick. forceful decisions
are expected. Besides the direct re-
Enumeration they receive there are COM
missions to be made from selling the
articles eliminated. Often a piece OF
furniture, excellent in itself. yet map
propriate TO its surroundings, may be
rejected from one house by an elimin-
ator who has in his minds eye place
in some other establishment where IL
will fit to a nicely. He therefore does
the memorable mistress Of art a double
service in selling it for one patron and
buying it for another. turning for him
self in the meantime an honest nAnn--
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The tendency of modern life is to
glorify the body, the first and lowest
Of human elements. Our houses are
built and furnished with especial ref
erence to physical comfort and con-
venience. The comparatively poor
now possess conveniences which the
rich could not compass in former
times And there seems no end TO the
possibilities of science for furnishing
luxuries which soon become necessi-
ties. We spend enormous sums upon
our tables for viands with which to
crafty our appetite. Agriculture and
commerce make IL now possible for
even the very poor to enjoy table lux
uries far above any positive necessity.
ilization is moved by our desire to
adorn our bodies with fine raiment.
1t is not a matter of health or need.
frequently the opposite. There must
be beauty for the eye. Music for the
ear must be provided and every sense
must have its fill of qualification. Sew
eral hundred thousands of dollars
have been spent in our city within a
month for the chief purpose of phys
ical qualification. We adore bodily
prowess and development. Far more
consideration is given thereto by the
popular mind and press than is be-
slowed upon intellectual achievement
or spiritual conquest. Emphasis of
the body brings at its lower extreme
the drunkard, the prize fighter, the
harlot, all just one degree removed
from the brute. If the other extreme
differs it is in choice of appetites in
dulged and these set in more esthetic
surroundings. No man is worthy of
the name who does not care for his
body, but he is less than a man who
finds his highest aim in bringing
forth physical possibilities. Such are,
nevertheless, common. both in guam
tity and in quality. The herd of hui
mainly struggles for physical gratif-
cation. Such human beings are dia-
monds, to be sure. but diamonds are