davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-19
CHRISTMAS CHEER

IL VERY reader of Los Angeles
H. Herald is a progressive, big
~ hearted, patriotic American, or he
would not read The Herald. Our read
ers will join us in providing Merry
Christmas festivity for the children Of
Los Angeles. The Herald has promised
to be steward for Santa Claus, and Is
making arrangements for the biggest
Christmas good cheer celebration that
has ever been held in Los Angeles. In
the first instance, the festival is for the
children, but, broadly speaking, 1t is
for everybody with a young heart;
and as everybody in Los Angeles has
a young heart, especially around and
about Christmas time, it is everybody's
festival, and it's success will be every
body's success.
The Herald will give publicity to
everything and everybody connected
with the Christmas festival. 1t will tell
about gifts and givers, about prepara-
lions that are being made, and about
the good things the children may ex-
pect. And as Christmas is an intel
lectual feast as well as a holiday, The
Herald at its Christmas tree will have
the biggest and jolliest kind of an en-
tertainment that has ever been given
since old Santa first harnessed his
reindeer. Christmas in California, the
land of flowers, fruit, sunshine, hap
piness and prosperity, is merrier than
anywhere else on earth, and The Her
AIDS Merry Christmas will be the best
and merriest in California.
If you would share in the success of
The Herald's Christmas festival, write
to the Christmas editor and tell him
YOU wish to enlist under the benevolent
banner of Santa Claus and help to
make Christmas sunshine in the land
of s1nshine
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-19
DECLARES WE ARE EARNING
WORLDWIDE REFRIGERATION

LON ANGELES Nov. 17.-[Editor
Herald: Referring to your editorial of
Tuesday, Freedom Flouted," in the
case of Magon, Villareal and Rivera
now lying "Incommunicado" in our
city jail, I want to say that not only
is our procedure in thus trucking to
Mexican official tyranny a disgrace to
us as a city, a state and a nation; but
THE DISGRACE is LEAKING OUT.
The case is already beginning
to "go the rounds" in the European
papers. read a brief account
the other day in a London weekly
in which the names of Los An
geles officials of note as well as of
Attorney General Bonaparte and "des-
pot" Diaz were all blazoned forth in
unenviable notoriety. There was even
hint of contingent favors from the
Mexican government in shape of min
ing concessions.
How do we like being held up to
scorn and contempt throughout the
world in this way, and worst of all 20
know it is not undeserved! Those
"Liberationists, those "Garibaldis' OF
Mexico should be freed at once II we
would redeem our national good name.
]. l.. WENSLOWE.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-19
BELIEVES WE COULD LIVE
BETTER AND EDUCATE YOUTH

SAN JACINTO, Nov. 16.-[Editor
Herald: To argue as Mr.. Cook does,
that there must be compulsion under
Socialism because somebody advocated
it in a book, seems foolish to say the
least.
AS we'll reason like this: "Parle Vous.
the great French revolutionist and
democrat, had two wives, therefore we
must become polygamists In order to
have democratic government"
|. Since a cooperative commonwealth
would probably have a medium of ex-
change and a scale of wages why
could not employment be regulated by
raising or lowering the scale In differ
ent lines of work to prevent their be-
coming crowded or the reverse?
Society need not concern itself about
a class which would rather starve than
work, as it would naturally disappear
through starvation.
The people who deserve our sympathy
are the starving millions who are will
ing to work, but are denied the chance.
If IL is true that with modern maehin-
cry we are able to produce six times
as much per capita as we could sixty
than we were then? If we could find
the leak and stop 1t could we not live
better than we do now and keep the
fitted by reading the Conclusion" to
enter upon the study or discussion of
social problems will be greatly bene-
flied by reading the Conclusion" to
Ridpaths History of the World.
A. FARMER. !
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-19
PROSPERITY

n NE of the biggest object lessons of
"a Prosperity Week was yesterdays
~ Industrial parade. It taught peo-
pie who had not been before aware of
it the commercial Importance of Los
Angeles, and was intensely gratifying
to the friends of Los Angeles, who
from the first have contended that only
upon a basis of commercial prosperity
can ''the city magnificent" the Paris
of America, be built enduringly. Art,
literature and music will ever make
their home in Los Angeles.
Wealth, luxury and ease will ever be
found here. 1t will continue to be one
of the SHOW towns" of the tourist,
and will always be an attractive resort
for those who seek ease and amuse-
ment in the finest climate with which
any portion of the earth is blessed.
But the Industrial development of tho
city must go forward uninterruptedly.
Commercially Los Angeles has had a
splendid start, and is pursuing the ad-
vantage gained.
The additional water supply which is
being brought to the city will help It.,
and with San Pedro harbor equipped
merce, the metropolitan commercial
and Industrial development and i'm
portance OF Los Angeles will become
factors not only in our metropolitan
life, but In the life of California and
in the life of the nation.
There is every reason why news of
a parade like that which passed tri-
umphantly through the streets of Los
Angeles yesterday should be read in
every part OF the United States with
appreciation and delight. Here is a
great new seat of industry and COM
merce on the Pacific, still bearing the
old name, but covering territory i'm
mensely larger than that occupied by
the old pueblo and ciudad de nuestra
Sonora Maria Ia Reina de los Angeles.
The name has been clipped until it Is
brief. American and businesslilxe. With
the clipping of the name began the ex-
pansion of the city, which in recent
years has been carried on to an extent
unparalleled in the history of modern
American communities.
1t is possible that a tourist may still
have been sufficiently belated in his
information, or that an eastern paper
may stu have been Jealous enough for
the supremacy of the Atlantic to ask:
Where are the industries behind all
this phenomenal building growth of
Los Angeles?" Yesterdays parade was
part of the answer, and the rest of the
reply is to be found in the robust in
dustrial vigor and enterprise which the
parade represents. The new Los An
geles. the metropolis of the Pacific
coast. has cause to rejoice as 1t looks
ahead, because "all's WELL" and the
watchword not only of the week but of
all the weeks to come is PROSPER
ITY.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-19
CALIFORNIA SUPPRESSION
COMMITTEE

TNACTS multiply which show that
when our esteemed contemporary,
4 the Evening Express, rechristened
the California promotion committee
the California suppression committee,
it gave it the only name which ap-
propriately expresses its function.
Before that organization at its meet
ing in Los Angeles on last Saturday
deliberately refused to put itself on
record as favoring a matter in which
the state of California is most vitality
interested it would have been difficult
to make anyone believe that any as
semblage of people in the state of
California, from a Sunday school to a
prize fight audience, would have re-
fused an expression in favor of a
proposition intended to secure lower
freight rates for the freight tariff
burdened industries of our state. How
ever, when the California suppression
committee refused to indorse the rec
ommendation of Mr.. Bristow that the
government establish line of steam
ers between Pacific coast ports and
the Panama railroad for the purpose
of transporting freights between the
Pacific and the Atlantic coasts, it
showed conclusively that the welfare
of California was not the matter it
was most interested in promoting.
The Herald has recently been IA
vored by a correspondent with some
additional instances OF the exercise of
the committees function of suppress
sion. 1t has lately issued a circular
under the title of "California's Thanks
giving Offering" which is entirely de-
voted to San Francisco and the sur
rounding country, and studiously
avoids any mention of Los Angeles
and Southern California.
Another publication issued by it in
the form of a small booklet entitled
"Tips for Tourists in California" de-
votes barely five out of twenty-four
pages to a necessarily meager and per-
functory catalogue Of the attractions
of Southern California. OF the re-
naming nineteen pages, eight are de-
voted to the city of San Francisco and
eleven to a somewhat elaborate de-
scription of the surrounding attrac-
lions which can be reached from that
city.
1t may be considered a fortunate
thing that this organization by its
action at it's meeting in this city on
last Saturday so plainly defined its
opposition to the real welfare of Cali
fornia where that clashes with the in
terest of the Southern Pacific COM
pany and to everything that relates
to the southern portion of the state,
as to leave our citizens no excuse for
being imposed upon by it in the future.
The Herald congratulates the Los
Angeles chamber Of commerce upon
the perspicaclty evidenced by that Or
ganization's refusal to in any way CO.
operate or affiliate with the misnamed
California promotion committee, and
we venture the prediction that no
other organization of Southern Cali
fornia will hereafter in any way rec
ognize or cooperate with the Cali
fornia suppression committee so long
pas that organization continues in ex-
istence
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-19
MINDS POWER OVER MATTER
WELL KNOWN IN EVERY AGE

LONG BEACH, Nov. 17-[Editor
Herald: 1t may be ungracious to
criticise those who with good inten-
tions are pushing this Emmanuel
movement" into public prominence,
shouting that they have opened a new
field of philanthropic endeavor, and
discovered to the world an original way
of treating the ills-or some of them
that flesh is heir to- But there are
facts that these Bostonese and their
followers have ignored in this preach
ing of mind mastery of the body" One
is that the power of mind over mat
ter has been known and practiced as
far back as history reaches. 1t has
been a cult in every age and among
every people that has left records
Moreover. this power has brought its
mystery along with its years, and the
man of the stone age was as much and
as little bewildered by the power he
had as is the man of today. The
longer man lives in a house the more
truck he gathers in his attic. Hence
We have more of the phenomena of
this mind work than had our forbears,
but we can't explain it any better. 1t
is not a thing that comes of scholar
ship, or one that can be mastered by
culture. It is a gift. Jesus had it, but
he was no scholar, or scientist. He
never studied psychology, or auto-sug
gestion, but went right on and did
things to the confusion of the learned
and theologues of his day.
Another mistake we moderns make
in this matter is that the church is
the one to run this cult. 1t is a gross
mistake. In all ages the expressions
of this power of spirit over matter
have been wholly and solely the work
of individuals ito the manner born" To
organize such a movement will not
kill the force itself, but will make a
laughing stock of the movers in such
an attempt. SENEX.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-19
CULVER BEATEN

nR. FRANK DERBY PIERCE OF
West Roxbury. Mass, says den
~ tistry is practiced by the apes OF
Africa. According to the doctor,
monkeys have discovered a blue clay
much the same in color as that which
covers the diamond fields. In this clay
there is a large percentage of creosote.
When the animals have the toothache
they plaster this clay into the cavity
as q remedy. The creosote will often
kill the offending nerve"
This is the most interesting report of
the doings of peoples and lands beyond
the pale Of civilization which has been
published since CULVER returned from
his voyages. The apes seem to be
smarter than men. When the average
man has a toothache he howls, groans
or swears according to his nature) and
when he has driven all his relatives,
friends and neighbors to desperation
he hunts up a dentist. After the dem
fist has heard what the sufferer has to
say he unmaslxs his batteries and pre-
pares for action. By this time the
patient realizes he has been hallu-
cinated and that he never had a tooth
ache in his life. He wants to tell the
dentist he thinks he will go home, but
hasn't the moral courage. He sinks
reluctantly into a chair. The dentist
does the rest.
Then there's the bill to pay.
In mid Africa every ape is his owr
dentist.
When one of these sagacious animals
is afflicted with toothache he seeks {
diamond clay bed. He has no use fol-
the diamonds. They won't cure tooth
ache. But with the clay he gives him
self a hundred dollars worth o.
''fixin'," and it doesn't cost hin
a nickel. The superiority of tht
Caucasian human over the African
ape is often asserted. Yet the similar
people not only treat their own teeth
but, according to DR.. Pierce, they fill
each others teeth with consummatt
skill and often kill an aching nerve
This is the biggest nature story OF
modern times. DR.. Pierce must be g
courageous man.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-19
During the Last Ten Years
Russian Wages Have Risen

It is seen that the prices have risen
from 46 to 20 kopecks, or by Is per cent,
except the Samara, Seratov, Simblrsk,
Kazan, Ufa, Orensburg. Penza and
Tambov provinces, where prices have
fallen on an average from to 10 per
cent.
Wages are lowest in the east, where
a laborer receives from 45 to 50 ko-
pecks a day. The highest pay received
is in the steppe region, where it is
from 20 kopecks to IL rubles a day.
fiuctuating in the other Russian. pro-
vinces. This amount covers a mans
labor and board, the latter being cal
culated at 10 to 20 kopecks a day The
net income of a laborer in European
Russia amounts on the average to 60
kopecks a day.
The amount Of wages paid to women
fluctuates from 35 to So kopecks a day.
or from three-fifths to two-thirds of
the amount paid to men. In Asiatic
Russia the highest wage is paid In the
maritime provinces, where a laborer
gets from 81 to rubles q day.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-19

I INDIVIDUAL reform is the latest
proposal concerning the best rem
Il edy for our archaic, stupid, cum
brous, non-phonetic and very expen-
sive English spelling. A writer in the
Atlantic suggests it in this wise:
We may find an illustration of the
plebeian anchylosis of advancing civil
lization in the minor matter of spell
ing. The laws of spelling, properly
speaking, are few or none, and in the
great ages men have understood this
and boldly acted accordingly. They
exercised a fine personal discretion in
the matter and permitted without
question a wide range of variation.
Shakespeare, as we know, even spelled
his own name in several different
ways, all equally correct. When that
great old Elizabethan mariner. Sir
Martin Frobisher, entered on one of
his rare and hazardous adventures
with the pen he created spelling alb
solutely afresh, in the spirit of simple
heroism with which he was always
ready to sail out into strange seas.
His epistolary adventures are certain
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-19
Spelling Must Be Uniform
Even If 1t Is Uniformly Bad

w more interesting than admiratple,
but we have no reason to suppose tIiat
the distinguished persons to Whoh,
these letters were addressed NleWeu
them with disdain.
More anaemic ages cannot endure
creative vitality even in spelling, ana
so it comes about that in periods Wheh
everything beautiful and hand-made
gives place to manufactured articles
made wholesale, uniform and cheap the
same principles are applied to words
and spelling becomes a mechanic trade.
We must have our pelling uniform,
even if uniformly bad. Just as the man
who, having out of sheer ignorance
eaten the wrong end of his asparagus,
was thenceforth compelled to declare
that he preferred that end, SO it is with
our race in the matter of spelling. Our
ancestors by chance or by ignorance
tended to adopt certain forms OF spell spell
ing: and we, their children, are torced
to declare that we prefer those forms.
Thus we have not only lost all tnd1Vld-
ualfty in spelling, but we pride our
selves on our loss and magnify our an
chVlOSis
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-19
WELCOME, ADMIRAL

TN KEEPING with the spirit of
Prosperity Week is the announce
n ment that Admiral Robley d. Evans
is coming to Los Angeles to take
charge of an important harbor enter
prise. Citizens recognize with graft
tude the valuable services of General
Chaffee in connection with the aque-
duct.
In public enterprises the trained
minds and the practical experience of
men versed in the art of command and
of orderly direction of affairs are of
more than ordinary value, and citizens
are glad to hear that the talent and
experience of one of our greatest and
most popular naval officers viii be used
for the harbor development Of Los An
geles. This city will welcome Admiral
Evans with enthusiasm,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-19
ROYAL BACK NUMBER

w E ARE not surprised to learn the
w imperial back number who rules
W Germany was tmpudent enough
to tell our American ambassador that
the United States would pass through
great dangers, owing to constant IN
crease in the power of the people, be-
cause ignorance and impudence always
go together and in spite of his ad-
mirers who may be found here and
there we cannot believe William has
said or done anything to warrant the
belief he is a man of more than ordi-
nary intelligence, while from time to
time he is guilty of such astonishing
reactionary missteps that a student of
his mentality would be compelled to adj
nit his intelligence in some respects
is less than average. He seems to be
unable to grasp the idea that he Is
living in the twentieth century, that
the days of monarchica1 or political abb
solutism are over. and Germany, in
spite of imperialist restrictions, has
produced some of the foremost econo-
mic and social thinkers of this or any
age. These great Germans apparently
have been writing for all the world ex-
cepting the kaiser, who strides along in
his military boots with his royal nose
in the air dreaming Of Caesar and
Charlemagne.
If the emperor would make a closer
study of American conditions he would
find the only possible danger which
may menace this republic may come
from loss or contraction of popular
power. The complexities of our civili-
cation are interfering between the
popular will and its expression. With
the revival of Americanism there will
be restoration Of the rule of the
people
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-19

N ONSUL JAMES w. RAGSDALE
writes from st. Petersburg that as
" Russia is an agricultural country
It is interesting to trace the fluctua-
ton in prices Of labor, which, like
everything there during the last ten
years, shows a progressive tendency to
increase. The consul presents the Iol-
lowing comparative statistics:
Thus, in 1904, the daily pay of Ia
borer during the period of housing
crops increased, as compared with the
average pay from 1882 to 1891, through
out European Russia, from SO to SO ko-
pecks-10O kopecks-1 ruble-51.5 cents),
or by II per cent. except in the follow
ing eight provinces, in which the prices
have fallen: Pakov, 3 per cent; Kiev,
per cent; Don region, per cent;
Olontzk, 10 per cent; Podolsk, % per
cent; Kherson, SO per cent, and Bessa-
rabia, 40 per cent
Comparing the figures of 1905 (the
data for 1907 not yet being published),
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-19
SAYS CONSTITUTION DOESN'T
INSIST UPON RELIGION

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 16.-[Editor
Herald: In your issue of Monday Is a
criticism of President Roosevelts re-
ligious views, and the writer seems to
harbor the delusion that our national
government is connected with the
Christian religion and the Bible is its
basis. The gentleman is mistaken.
and should read the constitution and
learn that this is a secular govern
ment and recognizes no religion and
has nothing to do with the Bible. Con-
seauently Roosevelt is right when he
says a mans religious belief is a pri-
vate matter that concerns not the pub
lie.
When this government was founded
our statesmen knew what they were
doing, for they were familiar with his
tory and knew the evils that union OF
church and state never failed TO pro-
duce, so they took a new departure in
constructing this government and made
1t purely secular and no religious quail
fication is essential or mandatory for
an office holder.
He can believe or disbelieye in the
Christian religion and it matters not,
for his duties do not connect him with
religion in any way; and when a man
gets to thinking otherwise and talk
ing about how ungodly men should not
rule over a Christian people, as does
RooseVelts critic, he should read the
constitution and clarity his mind. This
government has had four non-Christian
presidents, and their records loom up
in history as we'll as any four presi-
dents who professed Christianity. l re-
fer to Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln
and Grant, and would advise this gem
tleman not to be unduly worried be-
cause the next president rejects the
Trinity AS long as the constitution
guides him the people must and should
be satisfied.
CHARMING SEVERANCE,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-19

Los Angeles educators laugh at the
suggestion there has been extravaganza
in the administration of the public
schools. Nothing is more deplorable
than interference with the educational
work of big city caused by any kind
of trouble. financial or otherwise, be-
tween various branches of the city gov
eminent. We believe it will be shown
the school funds of Los Angeles have
been expended in a manner called for
by the extraordinary perpetual situa-
ton" in educational matters in Los
Angeles, which is a city where school
population is continually overtaking
facilities and accommodations.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-19
CONGRATULATIONS TO
SAN PEDRO

TN HE HERALD desires to oongratu-
late the good people of San Pedro
Il upon the initial steps which they
have taken looking to consolidation of
the Harbor City with the city of Los
Angeles. And The Herald feels sure
that 1t expresses the individual and COL
lective sentiment Of the citizens of Los
Angeles and their city, when it
promises to use every effort in its
power to advance the welfare of the
Harbor City when 1t shall have become
a part of the city of Los Angeles by
promoting in every way and at all
necessary costs the development of its
harbor facilities TO the fullest possible
extent.
The possibilities Of development of
San Pedro harbor are so great that no
agency other than that of great city
with all it's power of issuing bonds and
raising money can properly respond to
them. We know that the city of Los
Angeles, whose civic energy and liber-
atty in the development of public util-
ity schemes have already challenged the
admiration of the world, can be safely
trusted with the future development
of San Pedro harbor, and that in the
hands of the city and under its foster
ing care that port will soon achieve its
potential destiny of being the seat of
the greatest commerce upon the Pacific
coast.
The Herald believes that it is not in
dulging in extravagant expression
when it says that the moment San
Pedro or any considerable portion of
that city becomes a. part of the city of
Los Angeles, that moment will wit
ness the appreciation of every foot of
property within the portion so Joined
to Los Angeles by at least 100 per cent.