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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-22
SAYS voLUNTARlEs PROPOSE
A RULE OF THE MAJORITY

POMONA. Cal. Dec. 19.-[Editor
Herald: 1t puzzles me how the "Vol-
untaries" can say that the collectivists
want addition of laws.
In the Letter Box H. L. Cuthbertson
says: 1.-Two ways are uggested-addi-
ton of laws and abolition of laws"
AS far as 1 read or heard, Socialists
ton of profit. This would annul almost
all of our present laws. They do not
propose a law to compel cooperation,
but to make it possible to cooperate
cannot see what laws they would
made that would not be equally neceS-
sary under the "Voluntaries."
In cooperation We need system. and
system rule, or 1t would be no sys-
tenn. These rules would not be COM
pulsory in the sense that the ''Volun-
taries" would want 1t to appear, nor
would they be obnoxious to the minor
ity. The side of the minority will be
considered as well as that of the ma
jority. There would be no incentive to
impose on the minority, and there is no
reason for supposing that the majority
will be harsh from pure meanness.
If all the workers should quit work
until they receive full pay, as Mr.
Spreading says the "Voluntaries' pro
pose to get cooperation, that will be
forcing the will of the majority against
the will OF the minority. So where is
the difference?
And Cassius V. Cook speaks of the
'Voluntaries' method which ne
says is stripped of the power to rule
because the minority is not ruled. 1t
can conform or quit.
If the minority can conform or quit,
then the method" equals the com
pulsory' laws of the eo-operativists, as
that permits the minority to conform or
quit. Then where is the difference?
The rebelling minority that secedes
will contain rebels for another split,
and SO on until each stands alone. Then
maybe that they will come to their
senses and join the co-operators.
CHAS. u. WHITE.
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HOPES HIS PROOFS WILL
CONVINCE DR.. HUMANITAs

SANTA MONICA, Dec. 19.-[Editor
Herald: DIR. Humanitas does not be-
lieve in "word spinning" I hope that
my proof of the existence of spirit will
convince any man who earnestly seeks
the truth.
There is a law in the material world
which says: 1.-THE more you give. the
less you have" We all know this law
by sad experience. In the spiritual
world there is another law, which says:
1.-THE more you give, the more you
have" A lecturer writes a lecture he
has it and he gives it to a thousand
listeners; they all get it; and the more
he gives 1t the more have it; still,
everyone knows that it belongs to tho
lecturer.
Millions have enjoyed Shakespeare
thoughts, and though Shakespeare is
no longer on this earth, still these
thoughts belong to him, and nobody
can rob him of them.
When Jesus fed five thousand men
with five loaves of bread, and they
gathered twelve baskets of remnants,
he brought the spiritual law into the
material world. When, later he fed
four thousand men with seven loaves,
only seven baskets of remnants were
gathered. This seemed arbitrary be-
fore the spiritual law was known; now
ii proves that Jesus was able to intro
duce a spiritual law into this material
world, and also that even his greatest
miracles were performed according to
law. 3. w.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-22
CHRISTMAS FEsTIvITY

~ HRISTMAS week. In a. few days
the people of Los Angeles will
" wish each other and all the
world a merry Christmas. We believe
in the doctrine of optimism. "A merry
heart doeth good. like medicine" says
the Best Book Optimism is shown by
optimistic deeds. Optimism believes in
helpfulness, and demonstrates 1t as
we'll. Optimism "hopes on, hopes
ever" and always looks on the bright
side of life. Christmas is the season
of optimism. In the Christmas season
we celebrate peace among men. We
try to forget the social war which sep
arates mankind into jangling, Earring
classes. In the United States the class
question sometimes threatens to be-
come acute-not because some people
are rich.
A man who is rich without injury to
his nelghbor can be as rich as Croesus,
and he will never be called to account
for it in this world or the next 1t is
the man who is rich as a result of in
jury to his neighbor who has cause to
be uneasy. The creation or accumula-
ton of wealth will not make the So
cial question an acute one. But the
prevalence and increase of poverty
may. Christmas puts emphasis on the
FACT that in a country where Chris
tianity is the prevailing religion there
should be no poverty, because, if the
Golden Rule were observed, poverty
would be impossible. No one is will
ing to be starved to death. Every
body ought to be equally unwilling to
see his neighbor suffer from starvation.
1t is only too true that many people
in the United States assent to the pow
erty or starvation of their neighbors
and think, because they do not actual
ly see the neighbors being starved,
somehow they have no responsibility.
Jesus settled that question for Chris
tendon for all time by telling story
called olives and Lazarus" which put
great emphasis on the conclusion that
even if rich Dives did not actually see
poor Lazarus hungry and sick at his
gate, it did not excuse Dives indiffer-
ence and neglect.
The Herald has given the people of
Los Angeles an opportunity of show
ing their appreciation of the blessings
they enjoy by uniting with it in pro-
viding a bountiful Christmas festivity
for boys and girls for whom Christ
mas without this Intervention might
be a dull and not a ''merrie" season.
We thank all our friends who are
helping us in this work. The more the
workers, the merrier the Christmas.
And we need actual workers-people
who will take an active part in the
Christmas day festivities. You cannot
spend Christmas more profitably and
pleasantly than In helping The Herald
entertain it's big Christmas party of
boys and girls.
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TREASON

m HERE has been appearing recently
on the first pages of Scottish
n newspapers the following strange
advertisement. which may we'll com
mand attention during these times of
Republican prosperity and patriotism
LACE WORKERS DISPUTE AT
PATCHOGUE, AMERICA"
Lace workers contemplating going
to America might kindly make in
quiries at Union offices, 70 Main street,
Newmilns."
1t is evident eastern capitalists who
call themselves Americans are at their
old tricks, and are importing foreign
workers to take the places Of Ameri-
cans who, believing they do not receive
enough for their services, have taken
the only method of protest of which
they may avail themselves. Rather
than grant the requests of American
employees who want living wages
some American" employers, despicable
traitors to their country, go to the
trouble and expense of advertising in
foreign newspapers and of engaging
foreign agents to hire foreign workers
whose expenses they are willing to pay
if they will cross the Atlantic and I'M
derbid the American workers in the
labor market.
TREASON!
This is a republic, and an industrial
republic at that. The offense of the
advertising lace manufacturers is trea-
son. There is no doubt about 1t at all
and the attorney general of the United
States without delay should make an
investigation of the conditions al
Patchogue and take proceedings against
the lace makers; while the department
of commerce and labor should conduct
an investigation into the practice OF
lodging the spirit of the contract labor
law by inviting skilled laborers tc
cross the Atlantic, and giving them a
guarantee that everything will be al
right; which guarantee is equivalent t.
a contract. The advertisement has un-
doubtedly been printed in many Scot
fish newspapers, especially in those
published in the lace making district OF
Ayrshire. The newspaper from which
we have quoted it is the Ardrossan
and Saltcoats Herald and West Coast
Advertiser for Friday, October 80, 1908
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WOMAN ESCAPES BONDAGE
THROUGH BUSINESS OFFICE

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1S.-lEdltor
Herald: The foolish ones nave oe-
cided that woman is a mere adjunct
to man, created to supply man Win
help necessary for his happiness.
Our social evolution having pro-
crossed to the point where machinery
takes the place of human hands, these
foolish ones believe that woman will
now become extinct along with the
scaphognathus-c rassirostris and other
ancient species.
Nay, nay, gentlemen, not so. The
Guild of the Foolish Ones made their
fatal mistake when, centuries ago,
thew decided that women were human
beings: having once admitted that
truth, they have been compelled to
deny Justice to human beings when
ever they have denied woman the right
OF MISREPRESENTATION. (The demand for
the ballot is but such desire)
"The weakest goes to the walr' is
Natures law, and from that law she
never deviates.
Read again your ancient histories,
gentlemen, and you will find that those
classes which became extinct did not
leave a vacuum; their places were
taken by more capable class.
Woman will not become extinct
though the old woman die, for the new
woman is coming-yea, she has come
She proclaims that she is here when
she rebels at the bonds that bind and
when wives refuse longer TO be the
kept mistresses of their husbands. The
new woman will he wiser than the old,
for she will have the wisdom to avoid
her mistakes. She will not overpro-
duce her kind, her sons will not be
compelled to choose between starva-
ton and legalized murder at $13 per
month, nor her daughters between sui
eide and prostitution, legalized or
otherwise.
In the era of the new woman idiots
and Iunatics will be unknown, because
the new woman will be the owner of
her own body and there will be no
unloved children. 1t is the dependent
wife who bears the unwanted child. :
The business Office, the factory and
the shop have been the avenues
through which have come woman S
emancipation from dependency.
ELIZABETH QUIGLEY.
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EDUCATION

A CONVENTION more important
II than any ordinary political con-
- vention is being held in Los An
geles this week. 1t is the sixteenth an
nual convention of the Southern Cali
fornia Teachers association. This week
is chosen for the sessions in order that
the schoolroom work may not be inter
fered with. This is vacation time for
the pupils, but institute and conven-
ton time for the teachers. We COM
mend this fact to the careful attention
of all who think teachers are more
fortunate than other professional
people because they have more "vaca~
tions.' Does a teacher ever really take
a vacation? We doubt it. The mind of a
teacher is engaged in a constant pro-
cess of benevolent assimilation" of
knowledge; the scholars who come I'M
der the influence and guidance of that
teacher will get the benefit of all this
benevolent assimilation.
That is an instructors relation to the
community. The teacher acquires as
we'll as imparts knowledge. Teachers
Institutes are a practical proof that
this view is that Of the leading edu-
Gators of California, and California, ed
additionally, is the leading state in
the American Union, EASILY FIRST.
and bound to have its position gener-
ally recognized sooner or later. 1t owes
it's position to several causes, among
them, Of course, being the climate.
Owing to the climate OF California
many an intellectually and physically
superior community is being built up.
Southern California will become the
educational headquarters Of the United
States. All that is needed is little
more educational organization and a
little more Advertising of the bill
poster or patent medicine kind, but OF
the kind supplied by the association
which is now in session in Los Angeles.
the educational capital Of the west.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-22

A VOWED purpose of protection has
u heretofore been, whatever it may
- be henceforth, to hold the domes-
tic market for home industries by ex-
Guiding foreign competition from 1t.
This is on the plea that high prices
and high wages are a necessity here
and the domestic products cannot COM
pete with those of cheap labor"
abroad. Now if this is a valid plea,
and the higher cost of production is a
necessity and there must be barrier
against foreign competition in order
that American industries may have the
benefit of the home market, how are
their products by the same token to
have an increased sale in foreign mar
kets where they must compete with
foreign labor and foreign capital after
bearing the cost of transportation as
we'll as of production? Those protec-
tionists were consistent in a way one
Of whose champions asked derisively
in congress, What have we to do with
abroad?" His theory was that we were
to be self sacrificing, keeping our mar
kets exclusively to ourselves and being
satisfied with them, and letting
abroad take care of itself, says the
New York Journal of Commerce.
We shall have to act hereafter upon
one consistent principle or another. If
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-22
PARENTS MAY CHECK
CHILDREN, THEN SHOP
National Mothers Congress Opens
Novel Establishment to Give Peo-
pie Having Babies Chance
to Buy Gifts

Check your babies while you shop.
is a commercially appearing sign that
extends it's mute invitation to pedes-
trians passing by GIG South Broadway,
where the officers of the National
Mothers Congress of Los Angeles have
established a day nursery to meet the
exigencies of holiday time. And, as
proof the innovation is proving popular,
no less than score of tots, from
babies is arms to prattling children.
may be found at the nursery any hour
of the day, under the watchful care of
motherly women, who attend the little
ones while mothers attend to their
Christmas shopping.
The nursery was begun as an expert
ment, the intention being to conduct it
but two days. So popular did 1t be-
come, however, 1t has been decided to
continue it up to Christmas day. Any
child from l month to IA years of age
may be left at the nursery at any hour
from $3.50 in the morning until 10
O'Clock in the evening, and the best of
care viii be given 1t. An experienced
kindergarten teacher is in attendance
and children who are old enough to APP
preciate 1t are entertained by her in
making fancy paper flowers and other
useful or ornamental articles.
A nominal charge of 10 cents is made
by the officers of the congress, which.
goes into a national fund to be devoted
to the work Of. the organization.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-22
America Must Make Choice
of Sound Commercial Policy

we are to confess ourselves incapable
of competing in industry and trade
with other countries and DESTROYS of
combining our domestic markets to our
selves, providing for our own wants
and living upon each other, only sell
ing a surplus of cheaply-produced
things which this country cannot pro-
duce, why, then, we must maintain
the protective tariff in all its integrity
and grow into a state which China is
just beginning to grow out Of If, on
the other hand, we are to have com
merce with the world and expand, If we
are to increase the sale of American
products abroad, we shall have to re-
move the barriers, put forth the claim
that we are ables to compete with for
eigners on equal terms, buy from
them in order that we may sell to
them, reduce cost and increase pro-
ductive capacity and face the world as
a nation that acknowledges no in
feriority If we are to run the race
of commerce we must remove all
bands and ligatures and lay aside
every weight that hampers, binders
and obstructs our efforts and exert
our strength. The athlete who ban
dages and hampers himself and guards
against measuring strength and skill
with others will win no victories.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-22
ASKS WHY CHRISTIANS THINK
CONSTANTLY OF FIGHTING

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20.-[Editor
Herald: Much ado was made over the
fact that an airship was able to soar
over the city hall recently and to drop
thereon an imitation bomb that would,
had it been genuine, have disintegrated
that structure muy pronto. But there
was one thing not taken into consid-
Grafton, and that is this: What would
have happened to the airship about
that time? No man living, unless he
courts instant death from an exploded
gas bag, will be anxious to engage in
that business. 1t will be quick and
painless form of suicide when tried;
and therefore such thing as destroy
ing cities in the night time by that
means is not likely to be introduced
Immediately. But what in the name
of reason and common sense is the use
of so-called Christian nations talking,
planning and preparing for war day
after day and year after year?
If thought is the greatest force in
the world, why not direct it toward
peace among all mankind. instead of
fondling and fostering the idea that
war is necessary and inevitable at
times? Christian nations have been
the most warlke on the globe and are
today, for they have greater standing
armies, more warships and terrific i'm
plements of destruction for life and
property than any others; and they
seem to be more afraid of their fellow
Christians than any other people, Has
the Prince of Peace really any influ-
ence over the war spirit of Christians
and do they really believe what they
profess to, that peace on earth and
good will to man are really desirable?
1t doesn't look so.
CLAIMING SEVERANCE.
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GREAT CITIES

+" e WE'RE Of course glad to see
Nv our friends from the north, but
think 1t is somewhat NONSENSE
cal on the part of any newspaper, even
though it has large interests in San
Francisco to which it must constantly
cater, to come out with a fulsome ap-
preciation of the fact that the men
from San Francisco had ordinary COM
mon sense. Among them, we are told,
1.-THE general impression was that we
had long ago outgrown our swaddling
clothes as a city and were standing in
the front rank of great American me-
tropolises.'
That general impression, as our con-
temporary calls it, was no doubt due
to generally prevalent facts. But, for
goodness sake, dear contemporary,
why did you leave US undressed in the
presence of San Franciscans? We had
s.outgrown our swaddling clothes, and
were standing in the front rank"
had forgotten to get into our grown
M clothes. The chief merit of the
growth of Los Angeles is its thorough
ness, it's completeness. We did not
outgrow our swaddling clothes until
our breechaloons were ready for us to
step into, and we were careful not to
shed our breechaloons until the tailor
had the other toys ready. C'Togs'' is
all right. 1t is classic-short for "toga
virilis," don't We know.) The other
togs-let's see; trowsles, do you call
'em?-are of an adult build, but have
constantly had to be expanded at the
waist.
There is something truly preposterous
in the idea that anyone should have
felt it his duty to write at this late
day, There is plenty of room on the
coast for two great cities like San
Francisco and Los Angeles" Plenty of
room? Why not? Look at the map of
the Atlantic coast and see how Boston,
New York, Philadelphia. Baltimore and
washington are huddled together.
ssPlenty of room" We should say so.
Many long day viii have to come and
go before Los Angeles has to take into
consideration the annexation of San
Francisco.
But San Franciseans must not be
nettled by this "jollying." If they read
in our contemporary San Francisco
edition the CUFF and stuff which at
tracted our attention. they were as
much amused and edited as we. san
Francisco is all right. 1t is one OF the
finest, most progressive and most mar
velous cities in the world. And so is
Los Angeles.
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SAYS CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS
AGAINST HARMONIOUS ORDER

PASADENA. Dec. 20.-[Editor Her
add; Recognizing in the open forum
of the Letter Box a splendid oppor-
tunity for economic, sociological and
ethical advancement, I have followed
with intense interest all published COM
munications. None have interested me
more than those of the Socialists and
the Christian Scientists. Both seem in
tent upon a solution of the problems
which confront humanity, but I have
yet to meet with or hear from a Chris
tian Science Socialist. Without excep-
ton, SO far as my personal observa-
ton and acquaintance goes, Christian
Scientists are supporters of the existing
industrial and social system which is
the very antithesis of a harmonious
social order. VIII some Christian
Scientist please offer brief and lucid
explanation of this apparent inconsis-
tency between theory and practice for
the benefit of readers of the Letter
Box? J. MALCOMB JONES.
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CONQUEST OF AIR
PEOPLE all over the United States
are intensely interested in expert

nEOPLE all over the United States
are intensely interested in expert
4 ments in aerial navigation. The
results of Los Angeles experiments will
be chronicled in the history of aeronaut-
les. and the fact will be recorded that In
this city the pioneers of the conquest
of the air received more attention than
in any other city. The people of Los
Angeles are aware the country is in
terested in the progress Of aerial nayi-
CATION in this city, and they should
also be aware that the ease with which
experiments are made in this region
at a period of the year known in the
east as "the dead of winter is as big
an advertisement as the climate and
enterprise of Los Angeles have ever
had
We cannot imagine anyone who Is
not intensely interested in the conquest
of the air, but If there "breathes
man with soul so dead" perhaps we
can arouse him by reminding him
aerial navigation is calling the atten-
ton of the world not only to the re-
markable climate of Los Angeles, but
to it's equally remarkable spirit of en-
terprise.
The possibilities of aerial navigation
illustrated by the Los Angeles expert
ments will set the nation a-thinl1ing-
and thinking hard. 1t is evident man
kind is on the eve of another of the
revolutionary changes which mark the
progress and development Of the race.
The present status of nations, with
regard to the proportion of influence
each exercises over the destinies of
others, will be changed completely.
The powers of the air, and not the
powers Of the sea. will dominate the
world. But so terrifying will be the
new form of domination and so awful
are the possibilities of havoc, desola-
ton and woe, should the conquest of
the air be turned to an evil use. that
1t is probable common sense as well
as the instinct of preservation will
compel the nations to enter into q per-
petual peace pact,
Hang their trumpets the wall,
And study war no more.
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RATE GoUGE

nEcEBIBER 30 viii be "rate day.
Mass meetings will be held In
~ many cities and resolutions adopt
ed protesting against the proposed adj
avnce in transcontinental freight rates.
No more staggering blow than the
freight rate outrage has ever been
aimed at the industries of California.
rbe increase on east-hound and vest
bound traffic viii cost the people Of
the Pacific coast $1O,O0O,OOO a year.
EVERY citizen of the state, whether in
active business or in the retired class.
n alike interested in lighting the pro-
posed railroad raid on California.