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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-29
What Primitive People Did

THE primitive and ancient peoples whose ina gina
ton like that of the child, more fully devel
oped than their and who personifed deified
all the forces of Nature because that the
and simplest way of explaining them. used to thin
Of Love as the supreme God. the Father of all
things and of Hate as the death dealing demon
the great ravisher of human life and destroyer OF
locks and crops. The they worshiped with
song and dance. with many stringed instruments
and sweet scented sacrifices; the other they feared
and ha ted and at all times Waged bitter against
him and his allies.
Lovers of God have always cried " Shall
not hate them. O Lord. that hate Thee and rise
up against them that rise up against Thee Yea,
hate them right sore 5 if they mine enemies
In the fifteenth century. Queen Isabella OF Spain
boasted In the love of Christ and His maid mother
| have caused great misery. and have depopuiated
later in the eighteenth century. Andrew Wildwood,
Who with Jonathan Edwards ushered in the Great
Awakening. shouted eXutng ly:
L am overjoyed in hearing the everlasting howl
ngs of the haters of the Almighty! What pleasant
melody they in mine ears o Eternal halleluiahs
% Jehovah and the Lamb O. sweet sweet Nv
heart is satisfied We committed cause to
Thee that Judgeth righteouslv. and behold Thou
hast fully pleaded cause. and shall make the
smoke of their torment forever and ever to ascend
n sight
To portray with any adequacy the role that hate
has pa we'd in the history of religions would require
{, large volume III itself and would not max par
tIcularly pleasant reading. Suffice 1t to say. that
rs role is hardly second to that of love itself And
this is by no means surprising; tor love and hate
inSepa rable as the two sides of shield The
ne implies the other and intensity is directly
n proportion to that OF the other. One cannot love
God virtue honor truth beauty. and the like
Who does not AZ the same time and with equal in
tenSty hate the devil baSeneSS faSehOOd uglIneSs.
The truly cultured mind Is not Is commonly
thought. which harbOrs no hate against anyone
anything but rather which hates right
tervently those things deserving Of hate The former
5 what ou- President might term rnollycodde
mind
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held inch apart and pressed against the back of
the neck feel as one The ear can respond to air
vibrations of only from eight second to forty
thousand second and the eye. which is the most
highly developed of all organs. respond to
luminiferous vibrations of only from four hundred
million millions to eight hundred million millions
second. Vibrations less or more rapid than these
figures are completely lost to the eye.
There is left then a whole world of vibrations and
specific energies to which dead and an almost
infinite variety of sensations might experience
if had the organs suitable to receive them Imag
inc how much larger and richer the universe would
be to us if we could hear and feel as we'll as some
of the insects if we could smell well the dog.
and with the eyes of an eagle. Verify. we have
eyes: but there is much that do not and
much that but imperfecty. We have ears;
but there is much we do not hear. etc
Ny point is that Nature has determined for
what shall feel, smell. taste, hear, and and
what we shall not. and with true artistic spirit she
has made each of different all these respects
\ and his dog go out for walk; but the
sees, hears. smells and en joys things to which the
dog is dead. The dog cannot enjoy beautiful
landscape or sunset: he is not enraptured by the
song of nightingale; and the odor of is less
pleasing to him than that of a meat bone, On the
other hand the world he in is infinitely
larger and richer than that of the microscopical
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The Causes of Hate

W/HAT now are the causes of hate: They are two ::
w one deep rooted one difficult to explain: the
5ther. superficial and easily understood
As begin to study ourselves we discover
that Very small. imperfect beings capable of
-eactng to but infintesinal fraction of the total
Universe that envelops The skin. for example
which separates each of us from the rest of the
world respond only to a very limited number
Of external forces. and Very imperectly at that If
You tap II more rapidly than ten times second it
Is unable to recognize the individual taps. 1t can
not feel the forehead weight less than two
lciligrams. and the inner surface of the fingers
one less than fifteen nlilllgrars. Two toothpicks
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The Isolation of individuals

ZACH creature lives in a universe all its own and
II naturally thinks its own the best To cat a
mouse is as much delicacy as bonbons to her
mistress. and among humans the individual differ
ences in this and other respects almost great
Some hate apples. peaches. bananas. oranges. mel
ons. tomatoes. and other fruits and vegetables
generally liked some cannot bear the smell of soup
ducks meat. even the odor of rose: some
faint at the sight of milk cheese have the
horrors when they touch velvet soft cotton others
enjoy it: like ragtirne music and hate CLASH
cal stuff. and with others the is true
prefer Gibson sketches to Raphaes Madon-
mas: and the list of differences might be multi
piled almost indefinitely A thousand men are on
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national. and fanilistrv hates and prejudices
education all the moral religious esthetic schoa site
and professional hates and prejudices and to
vironment the geographical political. and econonli
cal hates and preiudices Let us treat the more
important of these somewhat in detail
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eduCatlOn all the moral rel1gOu> eStnetC SchOld ste
and professional hates and preJud1ces; and To en-
vironment. the geographical political. and econon-
cal hates and preludices. Let treat the more
important OF these somewhat IN detail.
Deepest Rooted of All Hates
D ACIAL-The age long hatred OF the white race
~ for the black. yellow and other Colored races Is
BY sided. 1t Is fully mutual. Years
something in the appearance of white men fright
fully repulsive to the unsophlSticated natives OF
Africa for on entering villages previously unvlSited
by Europeans. If we met child coming quietly
and unsuSpectingly toward the moment he raised
his eyes and saw the men in bags he would take
to his heels in agony of terror. such might
feel if live Egyptian mummy at the door
of the British Museum Alarmed by the child
wild outcries. the mother rushes out of the hut
but darts back again at the first glimpse OF the
fearful apparition Dogs tail and o.
dismay. and hens, abandoning their chickens. fly
screaming to the tops of the houses. The Is
true though perhaps in lesser degree. OF the other
CoOred races
On the other hand the wholesale determination
of primitive peoples. in which pastime the English.
French, Germans. Spaniards. and Belgans have
proved themselves especially proficient is sufficient
evidence of the existence of this hate among white
races. How remarkable admission Tommy At
kins makes when he confesses that the 'squidgy
nosed Lazarushian leather Gunga Din. whom he
has frequently belted and fayed. is a better man
than he is. be appreciated only by those who
are acquainted with the fanatic fury and intensity
of race hatred. Much more natural the Senti-
ments which able Southern writer expresses in
his book on the negro problem.
Il have had to guard myself he writes. es-
peciallv against the emotion OF sympathy, OF pity.
for the unfortunate race. the man of yesterday.
which the unfeeing process of Nature demands in
sacrifice the altar of the evolution of humanity.
And again. What then is the real point at issue.
and what does the South stand for in this contention
stand alone. friendess. despised, with the head
and heart the brain and Drawn, the wealth and Gull
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board the same ship; but in
reality a thousand men sail IN
a thousand different ships.
Observe this fact the mex.
time YOU travel by land or
sea, and You will realize that
each one of us is a little island
IN the great ocean OF life
We can communicate with
each other by signs. gestures,
and language; but it IS i'm
possible for Us thoroughly u
understand each other, for
we are different.
Now. it is this isolation, and
the innate. natural differences
among us that are the source
of hate We hate the different.
1t should be remembered,
however. that there are re-
semblances amid these differ
ences.-deep seated re5enl-
blances that make for love
and kin ship. and bind together
the members of q species. Or.
as we ordinarily say. make
birds OF a feather flock To-
gether " Hate which springs
from fundamental differences.
such as exist between the cat
and the dog, for example. IS
perfectly natural.
\ and it would be idle
~ and absurd to rail
against it; but there
- is very much hate,
, found only in man,
J = which springs FROM
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perfectly ndturc
and it would be ID
and absurd to r
against it; but the
is very much hat
found only in ma
which springs fro
more or less supe
fetal difference
and such hate Is a
suredly superabu'
dant and reprehe
sible.
These superhci
differences are d.
to conditions
birth. education, ar
environment. I
birth ma \ be attri'
uted all the racis
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-09
OPERATION ON NECK
PROVES BOOMERANG
Jury Lops Off sos From Fee
After Much Expert Tes-
timGny

SAN PAFAEL April s.-The polite
practice of medicine with its opulent
demands on wealthy patients received
rude and discourteous treatment at the
hands of Il thrifty jurors sitting in
Justice Of the Peace w. f. Magee's
court today, when a demand of $3.50
made by Dr.. Grant Selfridge upon r j.
Davis for performing an operation on
the fair neck of his pretty daughter.
Miss Constance Davis, was cut TO a
plebeian SIS.
The contest over this ounce of flesh
has been waging for nearly two years.
Davis is the president of the Marin
county anti-pooiroom league and is
heavily interested in the Standard
He not only declared that the demand
was exorbitant. but supplemented his
rejoinder with the charge that the op-
Grafton was wholly unnecessary.
Judge Magee's courtroom during the
hearing closely resembled the operating
room of we'll equipped hospital. The
hearing was medical rather than legal
Ponderous verbosities relating TO all the
ologies of the profession We're hurled
into the wearied brains of jury that
cared nothing about the inside of scien-
During it all Miss Constance Davis
around whose figure all the hulabaloc
was whirIing, sat quietly and smiled
DIR. Selfridge had treated her for Z
minor affection of the eyes. Later hel
tonsiIs needed the physicians attention
and DIR. Selfridge claimed that an oper-
alton was absolutely necessary for per.
manent relief. In his train DIR. Sci
fridge brought other professional aiC
and a trained nurse.
Then came the presentment of the bill
for $3.50. There was no reply from
Davis Selfridge limited that he migh
have to ask the aid of his attorneys
Davis said if $3.50 was TO be paid from
his income he thought he should have
been taken into consultation. HI
brought his brother in law, Dr. Johr
C. Spencer. into court to testify that th'
amount asked was exorbitant. Spence
also averred that the operation wa!
wholly unnecessary.
1t developed in the trial that Davis
had paid Selfridge $50 for his serv
ices The jury was in quandary, bu
finally allowed DIR. Selfridge S35 mor'
wherewith to pay the assistant he ha'
hired in performing the operation.
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-09
INJURIES FATAL TO
BANKER SPAULDING
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL


SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL
SANTA BARBARA, April 8.-Edward
Z. Spaulding, the millionaire banker.
died at his home here at O'Clock
this evening from injuries sustained
last Saturday while driving. He was
unconscious to the end. The family,
excepting two sons, were at the bed
side. One son, Harry T., is expected
here tomorrow night from Buffalo, an
other. Albert E., Will remain at Yale
No arrangements have been made for
the funeral, which probably will be
held Friday afternoon or Saturday
morning. Interment is to be at Buff
falo
Spaulding was born in Buffalo No
vember Z. 1876, and graduated from
Andover. He was a banker all his
business life. As president of the
Farmers and Mechanics bank of Buff
falo, he was started by his father and
was president of that institution when
it closed in 1897, when he came &c
Santa Barbara and bought a mansion
at Chapala and Sola streets.
Surviving him are his widow ano
six children-Bertha, Harry B., Samuel
s., Albert T., Ruth T.. and Edward Sell
den. His brother. Samuel S. Spauld-
ing, and his sister. Mrs. Franklin Sid
ney, reside in Buffalo. He was vice
president of the Santa Barbara County
national bank but had retired from
all active work. He lived quietly here
but suffered much.
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-09
THREATEN REVOLT
AGAINST LEADERS
Merchants Claim That Coterie
of Oligarchs Rules Organiza=
tions of Businessmen
They Demand Reference of lm-
portant Questions to Refer
endum Vote of Members

san Franeisco's commercial oil
garchv is the term applied to a num-
Der of local merchants to the men who
dominate their organizations. A small
rebellion has appeared in the member
ship of the chamber of commerce and
the merchants association. The men
at the head of the revolt are those who
favor the harbor improvements at Islais
creek which the two organizations
siasts charge that the affairs of the
commercial organizations are controlled
by little coterie led by R H Swayne,
James McNab r. C. Friedlander and
Frank J. Symmes.
Letters have been addressed 10 the
directorates of the two associations by
members of the 1slais creek inlan.l har-
Dor association objecting that all mat
ters are determined by the trustees and
that the members at large are given no
voice on topics OF vital Importance. The
opposition is led by such men as Frank
Marvin and Samuel w. Backus. What
they desire is q referendum vote among
the members on all vital subjects.
THE trustees of the chamber of COM
nerce and the merchants association" "
said one of the revolving members, .'get
together and do what they wish with
out consulting the rest of us. They put
the associations on record against
movements which I venture the major
ity Of the members favor. They have
formed themselves into a sort of COM
mercial oligarchy. We have addressed
letters TO both associations asking that
in future they hold referendum vote
on all matters of vital Importance"
The revolt was prompted by the re
port that an organization was to be
formed by r.. II. Swayne, James McNat
and others to oppose the projected har-
bor improvements.
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-09
OPPOSES OCEAN DUMPING
Health Board Fears Evil From
Transbay Garbage

Not relshing the proposed action of
Oakland and other transbay cities to
dump their garbage in the ocean, the
board of health yesterday afternoon
entered a formal protest against the
proposition and decided that if it
should become necessary more effective
steps should be taken to prevent the
carrying out of the plan.
That there could really be no OBJ
lection to dumping garbage in the
ocean. provided the garbage was car
ried far enough out, was agreed by
the board, but ia their opinion the
temptation of garbage carriers to turn
about before well outside the Golden
gate would prove to strong to be re-
sisted and. as a result, most of Oak
lands garbage would be washed up
under the wharves and piers of this
city. While there may be no legal
redress in case the protest of the board
should be. disregarded, the committee
on sanitation will be intrusted with
the duty of doing all in it's power to
prevent what to the board appears to
be the establishing of nuisance
At the meeting of the health board
yesterday the application of emergency
hospital stewards for a raise In paw
making their salary the same as i,
was before a recent cut from 800 to
SIS, came up for informal discussion
No official action was taken
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-09
EVANS IN HARDEST
FIGHT OF HIS LIFE
Admiral viii Be Unable to Re-
join Fleet at San Diego
Despite Improvement
DR.. Mcdonald Declares Fighter
Must Rest Until Warslips
Reach Monterey

PASO ROBLES. April S.-Rear Ad-
miral Robley D. Evans spent very
quiet day lie appeared TO be rather
feeble this morning Later in the day,
however he recovered his spirits. re-
gained his cheerfulness and apparently
felt very much better. Surgeon ?. E.
Mcdonald stated tonight that the ad-
miral had had very good day
In the absence of his son. Lieutenant
Evans. who left for Los Angeles this
morning TO accompany his mother and
sister to tho springs. Admiral Evans
Was wheeled about by Lieutenant c.
Russell Train. his aag lieutenant.
Despite the assertions OF DR. McDon-
aid that Admiral Evans is gaining
strength rapidly the impression is gain
ing ground around the hotel that
Fighting Bob" is lighting the hardest
battle of his life. 1t is apparent that
he is still in q very weak condition and
that recovery viii be g. matter of many
weeks, perhaps months.
That il is utterly out of the question
for Admiral Evans to join in the cele-
brations and festivities in southern
California ports. however, was admitted
by the surgeon, and he believes that
Fighting Bob" is beginning TO realize
this.
Asked II Admiral Evans was suffer
ing from any organic disease which
was tending TO make his recovery slow
Dr. Mcdonald was noncommittal and
declared that he thought the admiral
had done very well since his arrival
here.
Admiral Evans is 100 per cent better
than when he arrived here a week ago,
said DR.. Mcdonald, but TO permit him
to undertake the tedious trip TO Sar
Diego and back here and subject him
TO the strain and excitement of the va
rious functions in the southern Califor-
MIA ports would undo ali the benefit he
has derived here and perhaps invite 9
complete collapse. He needs rest and
quiet more than anything else. That
with the dry air, sunshine and baths
here. is doing much for him.
The change in his plans will give
him three weeks longer at the springs
and we hope to have him in good shape
TO resume command at Monterey anC
take the fleet into San Francisco
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-09
RFSCUES CREW OF
HELIOS IN ATLANTIC

PLYMOUTH, April s.-The steamer
Majestic, which is due here from New
York today, reported by wireless teleg-
raphy the rescue on April in mid
Atlantic of the crew of the Norwegian
tank steamer Helios, from Philadelphia
March % for Blaye.
The Helios was abandoned in north
latitude "a, west longitude 81. She had
encountered a terrific storm that lasted
three days. Her bunkers were broken
and she listed badly. Her cargo of oil
invaded the stokehold and its over
powering fumes compelled the crew 10
abandon the vessel.
PHILADELPHIA, April s.-The Nor
wegian steamer Helios, which was
abandoned at sea on April 5. the crew
being rescued by the steamer Majestic,
cleared from this port for Blaye March
23 with a cargo of S31,764 gallons of
petroleum. The cargo was valued at
$4,000 and was owned by the Standard
oil company The Helios, which was
formerly the British steamer Orange
Prince, carried crew of about % men.
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-09
CHILDREN MAY AID
IN CLEANING CITY
DIR. Rueker Makes a Valuable
Suggestion Concerning
Weeks Vacation
California Club to Take Steps
to Enforce ANTI Smoking
Ordinance

TO spend the approaching weeks Of
vacation in helping 10 clean up the city
streets win probably strike the city's
children as an outrageous idea. but it
was suggested Yesterday morning at
and Dr. Fuckers word in sanitation
committees work is law. DIR. Rucker's
idea is that the children can collect
flying papers. clean up vacant lots. at
least as far as rakes and fires will
clean them. and help to get the city
ready for the fieefs visit. The sugges
tion was approved by the committee.
Other interesting suggestions We're
made at the meeting yesterday. Miss
Alice Griffith. representing the Tele-
graph hin settlement, read a letter sent
by the board of health through the eff
forts of the sanitation committee to
the principalr of public schools. urging
them to put the schools in the proper
sanitary condition. Miss Griffith said
that although the board of health was
most polite 1t implied very definitely
that very little help would be possible
from it. The work in which Miss Grif-
fifth IS especially interested is that of
establishing medical inspection in the
public schools.
DR. Rucker, when asked as to the
proper steps TO be taken in enforcing
the anti-smoking ordinance, advised the
clubwomen to ask Chief Biggy for
plain clothes men, and TO spend a whole
day in going about making arrests for
the violation of the ordinance
Reports were read from the different
sections regarding the war on rats
showing an enormous amount of work
accomplished. In the ninth district
alone 3S.2S2 rat traps have been estab-
lished and BIS rats killed.
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-09
PROGRAM FOR FLEET
Warships VIII Sail for Puget
Sound Ports on May Is

WASHINGTON. April S.-A program
for the movements of the Atlantic fleet
after the review by Secretary Metcalf
in San Francisco bay. May s. was made
public at the navy department today.
The feet VIII leave San Francisco
May IS and, on arriving at Puget
sound May 21. four ships VIII visit
Port Angeles. eight will visit Belling-
ham bay and three VIII go TO Port
Townsend. One ship will proceed at
once TO Bremerton to be docked.
On Saturday, May %. all the ships
OF the fleet. with the exception of the
one in dock at Bremerton, will proceed
to Seattle. On Tuesday, May &c, y
ships will go to. Tacoma. Thence.
without anchoring, eight ships will sail
for San Francisco. leaving four ships
at anchor near Tacoma for visit of
three days. when those vessels win
60 to Bremerton for docking.
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-09
.LACkAYE IN RAGE
LEAVES The STAGE
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO. THE CALL

SAN JOSE, April S.-A disagreement
over finances between Wilton Lackaye,
the actor, and the management of the
Victory theater brought the perform
ance of THE Bondman to a sudden
termination in the middle of the third
act tonight. after q sensational scene
not included in the original produc-
tion.
Lackaye announced from the stage
that the play would not be completed,
and Judge e. M. Rosenthal, represent
ing Manager Robert Barton of the
theater, arose from his seat in the
audience and replied that the fault lay
entirely with Lackaye. In burst of
anger Lackaye. who had just stepped
into the wings. rushed out upon the
stage again and shouted:
Ladies and gentlemen, / wish to
state that what has just been said is
unqualifiedly false.
For moment 1t looked as though an
encounter would follow. but calmer
heads interviewed. the curtain was rung
down and the audience passed out
Money was refunded at the box office.
The disagreement involved only S32.
Lackaye claimed that this amount had
been withheld from his company. while
the mana cement asserted that 1t was
ready to adjust all differences, but