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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
SCHOOL TEACHERS

TWELVE teachers are being select
ed by readers of Los Angeles Her
n aid to visit the Alaska ukon-
Pacific exposition as guests Of The Her
aid. By the votes of readers of Tho
Herald six teachers are being selected
from Los Angeles county-three from
the city of Los Angeles and three from
the county at large outside the city
one from San Bernarlino county, one
from Orange county, one from Santa
Barbara county, one from Riverside
county one from Kern county and one
from Ventura county. Readers of The
Herald are asked to vote for twelve
school teachers in the territory de-
scribed.
1t is easy to vote. The conditions are
described on the page of The Herald
on which the contest announcement ap-
pears.
These conditions are not difficult to
fulfill, and results already show that
when a teacher has friends who will
organize and conduct a campaign for
her she can easily become one of the
leaders in the contest. The school teach
ers' tour should attract especial atten-
ton at the present time, when many
school teachers are in conference in Los
Angeles. And we must again emphati-
cally call attention to the fact that
teachers are assembled here for consul
tation and for hard work at a season
which is supposed to be vacation time
In how many other professions could
men and women be found who would
turn holiday time into a time of labor
for the public good? Votes for the
teachers contest should reach this Of
flee in big patches while the teachers
are here. This would show the commu-
nifty takes an active interest in the well
fare of these untiring, self-sacrificing
public servants, the school teachers. AS
our announcement says: mo opportu-
nifty has been presented whereby so
much pleasure and benefit may be de-
rived at no cost to these great workers
who are shaping the destiny of the ma
ton. Our whole public should and
doubtless will respond to the opportu-
nifty to pay the debt of gratitude due
our teachers"
The exposition will be well worth Wis
iting. 1t will cost $1O,OOO,OO0 and will
be the greatest enterprise of its nature
the western coast has ever attempted.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
EXPLAINS HIS VIEWS OF
MANIFEST EVOLUTION

LOS ANGELES. Dec. 1S.-EEditor
Herald: l approve the letter of "R.
NJ" all but the last paragraph, where
he puts an extinguisher on all he said
before. He says: God is life eternal,
the same yesterday and forever and is
therefore not manifest in evolution"
Now, evolution is life progressively
active, not stagnant or inactive. Cen
esis is nothing else but the evolution of
Adam earhy into Adam spiritual and
CELESTIAL symbolically described in a
natural way, having 81 spiritual mean
ing, not every man. but the chosen few.
That same evolution is going on now.
"many are called but few are chosen"
The Bible takes notice only of spiritual
man, and those that cannot receive the
spirit are called the natural or dead
man, which explains the paradox; Let
the dead bury their dead" God, the
universal source of life and of all
forces active throughout nature is well
described in the following lines by an
American poet. cannot give his name.
Maybe our editor can:
UNIVERSAL LOVE
1t warns in the sun,
1t refreshes in the breeze;
1t CLOVIS in the stars,
1t blossoms in the trees,
1t lives throughout all life,
1t extends through all extent,
1t spreads undivided
And operates unspent c. F.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
If WE BUT UNDERSTOOD
nv AnnIsON II CIRSON

If we but better understood
Our brother, erring, weak,
A kindlier trend would govern thought,
More guarded we should speak;
Could we but see the uphill road
That he must feebly tread.
Quick would we lend the aiding hand,
And loves bright flowers would spread
II we but better understood
How heavy is his load,
To our own back we'd shift his cares,
For us should be the goad,
And should he stumble, ayel and fall,
we'd gently lift him up
And to his thirsting lips would press
The wine from loves pure cup.
II we but better understood
What led our brother wrong,
We'd be the last to cast a stone,
The first to win by song.
We'd censure less and trim our light
A better way to show,
And warm his shivering, starving soul
In loves celestial glow.
If we but better understood
Our brothers human need,
Swift would we leave our shell OF self
And to him kindly speed.
Wed give him sweet compositions cheer
As taught by One above;
From us no more the careless word,
But Brotherhood OF Love.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
OLD SOLDIER MERELY LIVED
UP TO ETHICS OF CALLING

PASADENA, Dec. 21.-[Editor Her
add: Certainly steps should be taken
at once for the Communication of the
sentence passed on the old soldier. And
this should be done not merely for his
sake, but our own. For one of the
things that we must face sooner or
later, is that the outside world has not
nearly the good opinion of us that we,
in our eXclusiveness, find it pleasant
to hold.
I am in a position to meet many
cosmopolitans, who have travelled the
globe, as 1 myself have, and there is
one criticism that is universal among
them-nameiy the hardness" of man
and his institutions out west. There
is no country, they say, where wealth
can sin with such immunity and pow
erty is so harshly treated.
The conditions of western develop
ment, conducted as it has been on q
colossal scale, always have been excep-
tionally hard on the worker. He finds
himself enlisted in a huge industrial
army, engaged for the moment on
some colossal job. The job over he is
flung aside like a broken shovel. He
is homeless and the rapacious world
that clothes, feeds and amuses him
soon cleans him out of his scanty saw
ings.
This old soldier was in want His
country had used him for a lifetime in
an occupation the fundamental ethics
of which is that might makes right -
What more natural than that he should
help himself? VETERAN.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
TAKES EXCEPTION TO VIEWS
ON PURITY STATED BY sENEN

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 22.-lEditor
Herald: senex, Judging from his let
ter in The Herald of Dec. 10, can see
little good in anything; he should sign
his letter "Cynic.'
He admits there is good in indlVlduai
men and women, then declares we do
not know what purity is. How can
one recognize good il he doesn't know
purity? He says it is an unknown
quantity except in some shriveled ana
dissipated old maids.
Senex must be one of them, for II
purity is confined to them and the
rest of us know it not he could not
know it otherwise He suggests the
inference that purity is undesirable
because manifest in contraction and
disappointment.
[ advise you to speak for yourself,
Senex, and don't presume to judge
your neighbors-you who condemn IN
discriminatory every effort to oIer
help.
Byron. who lived a VIGOROUSLY i'm
moral life, is a poor authority to be
quoted in this connection, and il the
world relied on such ill-informed
teachers as yourself it would stand a
poor chance of learning ethics
Purity has been discovered and most
of us learned it at our mothers knee,
but some have need of a red1scoVery.
Righteousness cannot be forced into
our lives. as you suggest; such a
method would corrupt; but blessed
are those that hunger and thirst after
ii, for they shall be filed
ITO the pure all things are pure,
and it is well to be reminded that
CHARITY suffereth long and is kind;
vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
thinketh no evil"
in hi
heaven; alrs we'll with the world.
r. N.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
LAW
II RESIDENT GoMPERs, Vice Presi-
y l...A nI.A.l..l1 "a ss..o..nt LII AI.nr.-

II RESIDENT GOMPERS, Vice Presi-
dent Mitchell and Secretary Nor
Il rison of the American Federation
of Labor have found it is impossible to
run counter to the constituted order
of things" when that order is enforced
by law. Disobedience to an injunction
brought the labor leaders to their pres
ent plight. From time to time reforms
or attempted reforms are stultified by
the fact that their agitators, in de-
fiance of advice. pass the danger mark
and come within influence of a law or
Of a court order. Strict obedience to
law is one Of the essential requirements
of good citizenship. if for no other rea-
son than this. if Mr.. Gompers is
allowed to defy a court injunction, Mr.
Somebody Else might follow his ex-
ample in a case where the matter at
issue had nothing to do with public or
social policy. In the United States.
when law Is manifestly unjust in its
operation, 1t may be amended or re-
pealed. Our laws are not like those Of
the ''Medes and Persians-unalterab
When President Gompers made known
his intention not to obey an injunction
he was merely inviting the proceedings
which resulted in his sentence to i'm
prisonment. The first principle of good
citizenship is to be lawabiding.
When reformers obey law they
place themselves in a position to fight
it later If it can be proved it is unjust.
1t may be good policy TO protest when
existing conditions are opposed to the
constitution of the United States; but
when constitutional rights are inter
preted judicially it becomes the duty of
the citizen to defer to the judicial in
depreciation; and defiance of it, or re-
fusal to obey a court order or injunc-
ton, puts the professor in the wrong.
This is the hard common sense of
the Gompers- Mitchell Morrison Incl
dent. Americanism allows of no other
comment.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24

Joseph H. Call characterizes, or
rather, denounces the circulation of a
petition asking the Southern Pacific to
grant terminal rates to San Pedro as
an illegal proceeding, based upon the
false hypothesis that the Southern Pa
cifc is law unto itself and may grant
or refuse terminal rates regardless of
the provisions of the interstate COM
merce act. 1t is important that the
public should become accurately in
formed as to its rights with regard to
harbor traffic. otherwise it is liable to
be worsted by the cunning of an astutc
corporation.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
WOULD EXTEND GREETINGS TO
ENGINEERS AND MoToRNEERs

Los ANGELES, Dec. 20.-[Editor
Herald: At this happy time of the
year, when everybody is wishing every
body q Merry Christmas, why not ex-
tend the hand of fellowship to our en-
gineers and motorneers.
They stand at their posts all day and
all through the cold, dark nights, some
of them; and it is by their strong arms
that we are saved from peril oftenef
than we know and brought safely to
our homes.
We hear trains passing in the night,
and perhaps are awakened or annoyed
by them, and exclaim, "Oh, that old
train again!"
Yes, that "old train" again, blowing
it's way up the valleys and over the
hills or through them skirting the
mountain side. where danger turks, the
engineer standing with his eyes
strained on the distance in front of
him, mis- hand on the throttle, ready to
slow up or go faster as his judgment
dictates.
Often the storm beats in his face.
or his fingers are numbed by cold, his
body shivering, but he must be steady
and not lose his nerve" for then all
might be lost.
He thinks of all those passengers
back there sleeping comfortably, with
no care or anxiety, knowing they are
in good hands, and so he carries them
to their destination.
While they are shaking hands and
greeting dear friends, do their minds
ever go back to the sooty engineers
and firemen who have brought them
safe home again?'
They are a class set apart from us;
no one is allowed to talk to them for
fear of distracting their attention from
their duty. And this is right, but when
the car or train stops then you can
speak to them and let them know you
thought of them; you can even hand
them q bag of goodies" for Christ
mas gift" B. w. WYMAN.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
PROTECTION" EXPOSED

CCORDING to Andrew Carnegie,
an annual statement of the steel
"A trust shows it has made the
amazing profit of 5S,000,000; equal to
profit of $3.50 a ton on all steel pro-
duced. These amazing figures, quoted
primarily to show how ridiculous it Is
to continue to talk of steel manufac-
ture as an infant industry which must
be protected, should make every in
telligent citizen of the United States
realize exactly what he has done by
giving assent to a system for which
his support was asked on the plea it
would be of value to the wage earners
and would bring prosperity to the
American workingman. Every intellt-
gent citizen who voted for Republican
political candidates must now realize
he was also (albeit unconsciously) vot-
ing for the steel trust and all the other
trusts, and putting money by the mill
lion dollars into the pockets of afflu-
ent and ungrateful gentlemen who did
not even recognize the fact of his ex-
fstence and would have thought and
aCIcu as IL lllEy WGlG DCGhON4iAE d
cial favor on him by deigning to re-
ceive him and talk to him if at any
time he had sought audience with them.
These gigantic infant industries were
protected-by whom? BY the people.
They were protected by the man who
east a ballot In turn did they protect
the people? What reward have they
given to the man who cast the ballot?
Disguised with their hypocritical greed
one of their own chief benef1ciaries has
turned informer against them.
The revelations of Andrew Carnegie
will deprive Republican spellbinders of
all their stock arguments in any future
campaign at which the tariff issue may
be revived, or in which the Republican
party may seek favors on the ground
it has protected American Industries.
The bottom has fallen completely out
Of all the high tariff pleas. Protection
is on trial for its life. 1t looks as if it
were about to be condemned on the
ground it is a special privilege of a
particularly offensive and un-American
nature inasmuch as it does not pro-
vide the greatest good for the greatest
number. but the greatest good for the
few at the expense Of the greatest
nurober. 1t cannot even be said that
high tariff results in high wages, for
Mr.. Carnegie admits the cost of labor
used in producing steel in this country
is less than in other countries. He
might have added the labor cost of
other protected Industries is less than
in other countries. When cost of liv-
ing is taken into account, wages in
Great Britain, France and Germany
can no longer be used by pro-tarih
orators in an endeavor to show the
superiority OF the American wage scale
Protection to American trusts may be
q highly satisfactory exhibition OF
statesnanship for the trusts, but pro
lection" for the American Industrial
wage earners and for the public at
large has been proved beyond reason
able doubt to be a delusion and a
snare.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
ONE HUNDRED ADDITIONAL
CARRIERS FOR CHRISTMAS
Postmaster Will Try to Have All Holi-
day Parcels DeIievered-other
Arrangements Made for
YuIetide

Persons expecting holiday gifts from
today need not entirely despair, special
arrangements having been made by
Postmaster Flint whereby one hun
dred auxiliary carriers will be added
to the regular delivery force to deliver
parcels Christmas day. These auxiliary
carriers will work the entire day, hut
the regular carriers will only make one
delivery.
The general delivery department also
will be open all day and the stamp win
dow will also remain open. Unless the
demands of the public require the reg
istry division will be closed at noon for
the remainder of the day. although If
necessary this division will remain open
longer. The money order division Will
not open at all tomorrow for the trans
action of business.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
MORAL INSTRUCTION OF
BOYS HAS BEEN NEGLECTED

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21.-[EditoI
Herald: Answering the question OF
"Young Man" in The Herald of Sun
day, December 20: My reason fol-
dwelling on the moral instruction OF
boys is, not that I think 1t more I'M
portant than that of girls, but because
II has been in the past, more neglect
ed. but happily this is changing as VIC
become more enlightened.
VERA FIDELIA.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
AT THE THEATERs

AUDTrORIUM-"on the Quiet"
BELASCO-Darks .
tufe."
MASON-sBrewster's Millions"
BURBANK-''Janice Meredith"
GRAND-eTbe TOymaker."
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Los NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
PEOPLE'S-"Shamus O'Brien.
FTSCHER'S-"The Arch Schemer."
EMPIRE-"COllege Days"
UNIQUE-"A Trip to Coney Island"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
Why "Extraordinary?''

At a church meeting in behalf of
labor iD Philadelphia, Rev. Charles
Stelzle made this extraordinary state
ment: Some day." he said, war will
cease, but it will not be because Of
peace conferences, but when organized
workmen declare they will no longer
shoot down their fellow workers in or
der to satisfy the avarice of their rul-
ers.''-Fresno Republican.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
lawn D in Society

They do say that John d. Rockefeller
has purchased a large estate in the
fashionable portion of London and Is
preparing to build thereon great
marble palace. No doubt that John is
going in for society in the shady parts
of his life and it would not be at all
surprising TO see the old man going
about with spats on his shoes and his
pantaloons turned up at least four
Enthusiastically Reporter
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
The State Press
enc and prIed

Champ Clark of the ways and means
committee, where the tariff hearing is
now going on in Washington, says the
only object of the hearing is to let
everybody have his say. That's just
what we thought. A western judge
growing tired of the arguments Of
opposing counsel finally said to them,
Gentlemen, this is a fine day. 1 am
not feeling very we'll and l think I'll
go fishing. When you are through
with your arguments you will find my
written decision here in the left-hand
drawer of this desk. woodland Dem
oCrat.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
Far and Wide
Gentle Language

Recent stories of the presidents mar
row escapes from accidents of various
sorts are branded by the White House
as pure inventions" That is not
nearly as warm language as the presi-
dent would use if he found a grizzly
bear or a wildcat being lied about
Syracuse Herald.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24

Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans has
published a magazine article in which
he describes his visit to Los Angeles
with the fleet. Fighting Bob is enthu-
siastic over this city and it's inhabl.
tants. And Los Angeles is still enthu-
siastic over Fighting Bob and will well
come him heartily if he should mako
UP his mind to return here without fleet
or bands or fuss and feathers. Merry
Christmas, Bob!
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24

Ng Poon Chew says the only trouble
with China is it is behind the times.
AS soon as China has a powerful and
efficient navy. a huge army, few
thousand dynamite factories and a vast
fleet of flying machines the world will
agree that China has overtaken 1t and
is down to date.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24

There is every prospect that Los An
geles chamber of commerce will take
an active part in fighting the railroad
freight rates gouge. The report Of the
chambers committee will be awaited
with great interest.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
charIeston Rrunettes

Some knowitall writes to a Boston
paper that the people of Charleston are
three -fourths blonde. Accordlno to the
enumerators who took the last census,
more than so per cent of the people Of
Charleston were ultra brunette and
their dominating characteristics were
large feet, fiat noses and kinky hair
Houston Post.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24

Members Of the board Of education
are certain the school bonds will carry
by a large majority. This forecast is
gratifying to all who believe 1--WE
WANT more schools"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24

Horace White will investigate Wall
street by request of Governor Hughes.
We suspect the governors request
merely licenses Horace to unburden
himself, without fear of libel, of what
he already knows concerning Wall
street. Mr.. White is the foremost living
authority on the subject.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
-
Eh?

Such power as the speaker has is
necessary, but 1t is also necessary that
it be used more wisely. The real argu-
ment is not for better rules, but for a
better speaker.-New York Post.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
Political Parties

Political parties are a growth and
they do not become powerful at the
behest of any one man. He who would
advance a reform movement must do
so through one or the other of the eX-
listing parties. Bakersfield Californian.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
Good Business

John D. Atchbold is said to be a
good business man, but it is astonish-
ing how little he knows of his own
business, according to his own adnis-
sions on the stand.-St. Louis POST
Dispatch.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
We Could

An exchange advises all men to live
within their income as Mr.. Rockefeller
does. If we had Mr.. Rockefeller's in
come, by jing, we believe we could do
it.-Pasadena News.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
Erae and independent

Mr. Roosevelt is not studying stage
effects. He doesn't seem to care
whether he gets a complimentary re-
call or not when the curtain goes
tn.-Long Beach Telegram.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
Evils of Smoking

The death of Mrs. O'Brien of Phila-
delphia at the age of 104 shows that
the life of the inveterate smoker ulti-
mately ends in death.-Louisville Cour-
Ter Journal
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
Airy Heiresses

But as long as there is an American
heiress with more money in her purse
than brains in her head, there will be
mentO Union
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
Original and Merry

The Boston Globe mentions the
Original Merry Widow" That's it ex-
actly. The originality of the critters is
what catches.-Houston Post.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24

If gambling in stoclss is ended in
New York it won't linger long in other
parts Of the country.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
Caution Necessary

The kaiser is now expected to be as
cautious in his utterances as if entirely
surrounded by press Wash
ington Star.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
The Public Letter BOx

intended for publication accompanied
wOrds
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
Virtue of Sleep

Philadelphia is celebrating her 225th
birthday. Sleep Is a wonderful pre-
sentative as well as restorative.-De-
.troit Journal.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
Pin-Stioking

in the royal chair of each of the Euro
pean Observation-Disclosures Journal.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
Conundrum

When is a treaty not a treaty? When
one of the signatories feels like tearing
it up.-ProYidence Journal.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-24
Always seasonahle

You can put your New Year resolu-
tons in force at any time.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.