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Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-05
THE NEOPHYTE'S VIGIL
AIARoHEsA FLORENCE ALLI-MAocARAN

ALARCHESA FLORENCE ALLI-AIACCARANl
Prone on the ground before the temple
gates
Those awful gates where life or death await.
The earnest seeker of the unknown light
Yelled by the darkness-lay the neophyte.
He rocked not of the burning eastern sun,
Who sought for mystic light by daring won
And piteousy there echoed forth his cry,
Give me the truth, the truth" Then sud
denly
On desert breath a voice was borne, arise
The gates not closed, the pathway open lies
IL thou but knock-the darkness shall take
wing,
And thou shalt see the light thyself shalt
bring;
Who art myself that light thou canst not see
TIL to the inner darkness thou shalt feel"
Straight he uprose, he crost the portals low,
And his bright aura light in roseate glow
Streamed from him those gloomy temple
walls,
So that he saw within the vauted halls
The roofs of gold, the brazen traceries.
The arching columns, the fine prophries,
The chiseled silver lamps, the marbles fair,
The incense rising in its mystic prayer,
The velvet carpets. the rich curtains where
Lay hid the jeweled shrines mid perfumes
rare.
These were revealed to bis rapt wondering
gaze,
Who saw the mirrored light of his own rays,
And in the music OF the silence heard
The echo of his own unspoken word
And then outbrake his paean of victory:
"Lo L have closed in passing, even l,
The mouths of all the lions in the way;
Those raYening lions that await their prey
Behind the temple gates-myself l am that
strong,
Great dweller on the threshold I SO long
Have feared to meet and / who trembling
passed
The gates of death, the gates of life have
casped.
At last / know the initiates ecstasy,
shall not die--behOldI-I shall not die"
The Nautilus.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-05
SCHOOL TEACHERS

WE HEAR so much that Is said ana
| ~ read So much that is written
| w about the poor chances of pro-
fessional men in the United states o"-
ing to the overcrowding Of the protes-
sions that it is with a certain sense OIL
relief we learn the demand for male
school teachers in California exceeds
the supply, and we believe similar
condition exists in other parts of the
United States.
The profession of teaching is NOI
oyercrowded, but undermanned.
Prof. Miller of the Los Angeles
state normal school says there are few
men in the state training school for
teachers because there are more IN
ducements for male teachers to take
high school positions, when qualihed
to teach. The graduates from the state
normal are eligible for the common
school and grammar grades only
Grammar grade work (below the high
schooD attracts more women than men.
Normal school graduates are sought for
principalships, and the supply of prin-
eipals does not begin to equal the de-
mand. Moreover, young women gradu-
ates have no difficulty in obtaining po-
sitions. THE TEACHING PROFESS
SION Is NEVER OVERCROWDED.
If the population of the United States
continues to be increased as 1t has been
Increased in the past, the general pub
lie will become more and more con-
WINGED of the great truth that of all the
professions in the United States that of
school teaching is UNNECESSARILY and
overwhelmingly the most important
The nation must realize that it is vital
ly concerned with the maintenance and
improvement of the school system
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-05
WELCOMED!

n UR hospitable city welcomes the
tourists who are flocking hithel
~ from all points of the compass
The annual visitor will be more sur
prised than ever by the growth and de-
yelopment of Los Angeles. The tourist
who comes here for the first time will
not be able to enjoy California thor
oughly until he gets over his first sur
prise at Los Angeles.
He has heard there was something
doing in these parts" but has not been
able to realize our great, big, busy
beautiful metropolis, and now the real
ization somewhat overwhelms him.
The tourist who has been here before
looks In vain for rural retreats which
have been lost by the growth of the
city. Mr.. Laggard has had In mind for
years a nice little lot on the outskirts
of Los Angeles which he would buy
some day." and upon which some
other day he would build a nice little
home. But the city wouldn't wait for
Mr.. Laggard, and his nice little lot is
now a city block. A cousin of Mr.. Lag
gard. who always mingles lamentations
with his EXPLANATIONS of surprise
when he finds what has happened to
his lot, is Mr.. Missedit, the man who
tells you that few years ago, when
he was here before he had a chance to
buy some prodigiously valuable prop
erty for an old song. 'Tt was q
meadow then, sir-only meadow-and
look at 1t nova solid city square, If
had bought think how rich 1 would
have BEEN"
You would naturally suppose Missedit
would spend all his time and money in
buying the corner lots which may still
be obtained, but he doesn't. He is as
wise as ever. He will look at this
years meadow on the outskirts, and re-
turn to find 1t a business block, and
will entertain his friends with the same
old story. You have all met Mr..
Missedit. But no matter whether the
tourist Is Mr.. Missedit or Mr.. Johnnie
on the Spot or plain Mr.. American Citi-
zen looking for recreation, he is always
wecome to Los Angeles. We hope he
will have a GOOD TIME ALL THE
TIME.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-05
SUCCESSFUL FESTIVAL

r ONG BEACH has every reason Il
be pleased with the success OF it:
~ Festival of the Sea, while Call.
fornia appreciates the fact that an
other has been added to the attractions
which make this state unique. "There
is only one California" Here. in spite
of the constant tendency to revert to
certain eastern and unnecessary con-
ditions, we are beginning to learn the
lesson which will do more to assure
the health and / ppiness OF our popu-
lation than anything, excepting the eli
mate. We are learning how to take
advantage of the climate and use it
Alright, learning that too much work
and too little recreation makes Jack
not only "dull boy" but units him for
the competitive struggle for existence,
The record of many individuals in the
east is one of acknowledgement col
lapse. There is not q reader of this
paper who does not know or is not
aware of at least one instance where
some bright man, stimulated by early
success, drove his body and brain to a
breakdown and had to spend the rest
of his miserable life in repenting the
folly Of oyerwork, the one form of ex-
cess, the one form Of intemperance, the
one form of violation of natural laws,
which is hardly ever rebuked by pulpit
or in the columns of the newspapers.
The cultivation of the art of play is
a national necessity. Some men are
splendid managers OF everything in the
world but themselves, and somehow
their personal mismanagement creates
little comment. In the days to come,
when the solidarity of the community
is better recognized, when we realize
that there is a potent meaning in the
phrase greatest good for the greatest
number" the community won't apply
the adjectives heroic" noble" and
"self-sacrificing' to the man who re-
fuses to play and says recreation of
any kind is waste of time.
At present California is the only
state in the Union where recreation is
officially recognized and practiced, and,
like our school playground instruction,
is becoming part of the life of the
people. Let us rejoice in the success of
Long Beach Festival of the Sea, and
in every popular, patriotic effort to
attract the attention of the American
nation to the necessity for national
play.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-05
DECLARES MEN HAVE NOT USED FRANCHISE
FOR FREEDOM, BUT SUNK TO SLAVERY WITH 1T

T OS ANGELES, Sept. 3.-[Editor
IL Herald; Since patience is Jewel
I must try again with Val Stone, al
though 1 regard the invitation, to be
frank, as undeserved and bordering on
the impolite. 1t seems to me that j
have been the soul Of frankness, for
said early in this discussion that
stood with Garrison, wfre declared that
he would rule over mons and allow
none to rule over him; and in my last
letter l emphasized my belief that the
alleged right to rule was not a right at
all, but a might masquerading as a
right.
In Los Angeles at the present time
is a well known writer who sums up
his religion thus: my creed is short.
Instead OF thirty-nine articles it has
but three: / believe in freedom-the
negation of all slaveries. believe in
love-the negation of all hate. l be-
Iieve in wisdom, utilized knowledge
the negation of all ignorance" / do
not know whether this man calls him
self an anarchist. What does 1t mat
ter? Tags are only for those who,
having a weak case, wish to buttress
1t with appeals to prejudice.
In this discussion | have endeaVofed
to show that women who claim the
ballot, at the same time avowing that
they intend to use it, take away the
right of personal liberty and are not
claiming right but an opportunity to
exercise despotic might.
Personally l have a poor opinion OF
the ballot, for in the last thirty years
/ have slowly learned the lesson that
women, by their superior intelligence,
and without the ballot, have risen from
the serfdom of the mere housewife
consider the old German "hausfrau. as
q type-that position Of real tnfiu-
encs that they enjoy today; while,
contrariwise, in these thirty years l
have seen the workingman. armed Wild
this same ballot, sink from compar-
alive heights of free Independence to
most groveling slavery.
Slowly there is being ground into as
the renorseless truth that the ballot
In the hands OF ignorance. means the
most unmerciful bludgeoning OF man
kind, and warned by this experience.
abstract right or no right-men WIN
not place this weapon, which they
now recognize as holding infinite capa-
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-05
]. DE ROCQUEFEUILLET

nLOOD will tell. The Rockefeller
II family, tired of being only bill
n lionaires, hired a genealogist to
trace their descent. After much per-
severing work the worthy genealogtst,
DR.. Aaron Lewis, has gratified the
fondest ambition of John D. by max
ing the important discovery he is a
scion of a noble race.
This no doubt accounts for the
aloofness of the Rockefellers. There
was another great fastener who dealt
extensively in oil. His front name
also was John, but he was known only
as Coal Oil Johnnie. Nobody ever
thought of giving him his last name.
But who would think of calling John
ID. anything but John D., or, at the
very worst. Jawn d.?
Now we all know why he has been
so naughty. Now we know why any
one who dared to call him Coal Oil
Johnnie would have met with ter
rible fate.
The knowledge he was a disguised
aristocrat affected his entire career.
1t contributed greatly to his business
success. He knew he was not merely
John d. of America, but the Baron de
Rocquefeuillet of the south OF France.
1t is only natural Jawn d. should be
an Oil baron and a trust magnate.
Henceforward he will sign his name
no longer in the plebeian style to
which the world is accustomed. Hence
forward he will be John de ROGUE
1euillet.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-05
REVIEWER OF BOOK DECLARES BLATcHFoRD
THEORY WELLSPRING OF ENDEAvoR

OS ANGELES. Sept. a.-[Editor
IL Herald: The opening lines of IN
e. G.'s" letter gave me hope. Here, al
last, was a man who would really have
point to raise. He had abstinently
watched the controversy till he was
ready to spe2&, instead of rushing in
air unprepared.
But alack and alas! 1t is the old
piffie.
AS Blatchford has quite clearly stip-
ulated, and as l have repeated more
than once in this discussion, it is es-
sential (now mark I said ESSENTIAL,
not merely desirable or optionaD that
heredity AND environment be always
considered TOGETHER.
Yet IN. e. G." like the rest-and
with even less excuse, since he has
been witness to the corrections and
reminders administered to others
pumps down his bit of argument on
ENVIRONMENT tLONE and then
says, in effect: Now, watch me. while
produce or 'set free" from nowhere
in particular a "superman" who will
'sert a "divine prerogative" and
"revolutionize q mans life," and thus
"knock your environment theory higher
than a kite"
No. IN. e. o." such juggling will
not do. When you called us to witness
tnere was nothing more IN the (enVi-
ronment) box, you had already slipped
the heredity box out of sight; and when
you said, now produce a 'super-
man" from nowhere, or from divine"
source. we saw you wiggle your hand
l. % the heredity box to find him.
And when you said: Now watch my
superman whip (future) environment
into line, we noticed-those of us who
UNDERSTOOD-that the whip he
welded had for thong the twisted
strands of heredity and lpast) enyi-
ronment. And this is the very core of
the Blatchfordian argument-its proof,
not its refutation.
Out of nothing comes nothing, and
out of anything you can only take that
which was in it. Now, man is the
SUM OF HIS HEREDITY AND EN-
VIRONMENT. What else? NOTHING.
At least have challenged all Corners
to cite anything else, and no one has
met the challenge. They all hint"
and assume that there is something
else, but none of them names or de-
fines it-and now for the lesson:
People talk as though the heredity
and environment theory were some
thing hopeless" "negative"-a Grip
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-05
which has made it greatest among the

which has made it greatest among the
peoples of the earth.
We cannot, we must not, stand idly
by while men by the hundred thou
sand are thrown out of work, and
make their unemployed condition the
excuse for sending their children to
work, while the same factories, etc.,
which discharged or laid off, the men
put the children in their places, and call
it ECONOMY" The factory superin-
tendent who brags las we have heard
some of them bragg of the superiority
of children as employees, of their prompt
obedience, of their freedom from bad
habits, ETC., is the enemy of the school
superintendent and of the American ma
ton.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-05
POPULAR PLAN

MIR. BRYAN'S plan for government
wi guaranty of national bank de-
-hA- posits is part of the Democratic
platform and program. In the plat
form the Democracy says:
1--WE pledge ourselves to legislation
under which national banks shall be
required to establish guaranty fund
for the prompt payment Of the de-
posits of any insolvent national bank
under an equitable system which shall
be available to all state banking in
stitutions wishing to use it," The plan
is meeting with ever increasing favor
from it's keenest critics, the practical
financial men of the country.
Not only have many Republican
bankers expressed themselves in favor
of it, but the Republican state con-
vention in Kansas Endorsed it. Never
before in the history of the nation has
any division or local division of po-
litical party, without stultifying itself
or its party, adopted part of the pro-
gram OF an opposing political party. In
Oklahoma, a state guaranty plan has
yielded gratifying results, and all
classes of depcsitors throughout the
Union are in favor of it. Like other
parts of the Democratic program 1t is
regarded enviously by the Republicans,
and Republican papers are forced to
admit It's excellence.
The platform Of the Democratic
party represents craftsmanship. The
Republican platform reads as if 1t had
been devised by members of an Arts
and Crafts association; amateurs at
that.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-05

There is a great deal of talk about
the productivity and earnings of mod
ern novelists, but in both respects Sir
Walter Scott holds the record. He
wrote all his copy with a quill pen
when millionaires were not as plentiful
as they are today and when the pur-
chasing power of money was much
greater than 1T is. He has made for
tunes for hundreds of booksellers, has
added to the earnings of thousands, and
his works are still in brisk demand.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-05

their wisdom deemed one
vote per man to be
enough at one time. MIR,
Hoist has under consider
alton a plan for the extern
sion OF the franchise so
that votes may be cast on
a graduated scale of elas-
tlcity and multiplication.
Quiet Lady-We don't
know.
Subscriber-We are glad
to hear you are pleased
with the paper, You say
you have used 1t prinQl-
pally for mural decoration
and that 1t Is most effect
i've, Be careful to paste 1t
on upside down. We don't
want people In your
neighhorhnod to get into
the habit OF reading your
wall paper. They might
cease to subscribe, and
even II they don't SUBJ
scribe we do not believe
In giving anything away,
excepting ourselves.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-05

Much interest has been aroused py
the announcement of the long distance
Marathon race from Los Angeles to
Venice, which will be run on Admls-
sion day, under the auspices OF the Los
Angeles Athletic club. We congratu-
late the club on it's enterprise in ar
ranging the race, and we have no
doubt the young men who Will take
part in this severe test of endurance
will acquit themselves with credit. AS
an endurance test a MARI tflon race is
strenuous enough to suit President
Roosevelt or any other apostle OF the
strenuous. The race will establish
local record, and in all probability Will
also establish & local precedent in attn
letics.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-05

cities for tyranny, in the hands of
those who announce that they intend
to tyrannize.
If the women will turn from restric-
ton to emancipation they will find the
world full today of men who are true
champions OF liberty, and, In the des-
perate struggle that liberty is waging,
will welcome them as comrades who
neither wish to rule or be ruled. I per-
sonally know many many women of
that stamp, and I have some insight
into the rapidity with which their
ranks are growing.
For myself, SO numerous are the sub
jects that the Letter Box raises for dis
cussion that / should like to change
this one. In all debate the most that
one can do is to suggest different
points of view In the hope that some
may open their eyes to new lights
IT. X a.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-05
SAYS r. G. AND OTHER WRITERS
ARE MOSTLY ARGUMENT BLIND

LOS ANGELES. Sept 4,-[Editor
Herald: Some folks are PARTIALLY
color blind, they can see some colorz:
others they cannot see at all. Some
folks, too are argument-blind; they
see some arguments, others they see
not at all, though never SO clearly and
never SO often repeated. do not
mean merely that they do not agree
I mean that they do not seem con-
scious that the arument has ever been
advanced.
watching this Bottom Dog discus
sion, 1 have found the opponents of
Blatchfords theory time after time
pretending to be quite unaware that
Blatchford's book Is a call to ACTION:
Improve environment or we perishl
See to the DRAINSi Don't stand
tawdling about your soul and your
"free will' while the diphtheria de-
stroys the familyi
am sure heredity AND environment
has been insisted on ell through from
Mr.. Stones review onward, yet "R,
NJ" is now asking: why is heredity
brought INF" This is tiresome to a
serious student. AS Mr.. Stone has
said, he should equip himself. But
yesterday he was boggling over the
meaning of environment.
"A PATIENT PLODDER"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-05
RACE TRACK GAMBLING

DEMOCRACY has performed the
public duty which Republicanism
~ shirked, and has placed itself on
record squarely in opposition to race
track gambling. The Democratic state
convention in its platform adopted a
plank which says:
Recognizing the fact that race track
gambling, whether conducted at the
race tracks or at other places where
bookmaking is carried on or where pools
are sold, is a menace to the morals and
the business integrity of the men and
women of the state Of California, we
pledge our legislative candidates to use
their best endeavors to secure the adop-
ton Of legislation prohibiting book
making and pool selling on the results
of horse races"
The Democratic party in the state
of California, as well as in the nation.
Is the protector of the American home.
It's attitude toward the gambling evil
should win it the hearty support of
every citizen who realizes that this is
the day of moral issues, and that the
chief task which advocates of Ameri-
canism must perform is to bring back
the country to an appreciation of the
moral as well as the other standards of
Americanism.
The action of the Democratic conven-
ton should be Endorsed by the voters,
who at the polls should support Demo-
cratic candidates locally as we'll as
nationally. For the sake of all that is
best in human life, for the sake of the
peace and prosperity of the United
States, for the sake of the school chill
dren and for the sake of the home,
Democracy must be returned to power.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-05
PERSONAL

Mr.. Hoist is preparing
a lecture on the subject.
Where / Got It." He
feels 1t Is his duty to an
swer the oft asked guess
ton, "Where Did You Get
It?" In an off-had way
he might say the question
Is answered easily enough.
He got 1t in the neck.
Mr.. Hoist Is accumulat-
ing material for a book to
be entitled 1.-THE Memoirs
of Judas, Bryan Admir-
err" 1t will be published
anonymously and the pro-
eeeds of the sale will be
applied to the Doodle Dee
campaign fund.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-05
ULTIMA THULE

Love. grown weary Of my house,
Learned to spread his wings
Where, beyond the teeming town,
Lay uncharted things.
And masked from him my grief
Blithely babe him go
Over all the world to find
What his heart would know,
Then, within the silent room.
Fragrant Of his grace,
YEARLY / spent the hours
BY Loves vacant place.
Counting DER the gifts he gave
For my memory
Since dared not hope his way
Might lead back TO me.
But the smile upon his lips
Joys restored confer.
Home again at twilight stole
Love. the wandererl
Charlotte Becker In Broadway Magazin
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-05

Increased activities in a number of
the industries Of the country are
shown in the July report of the bureau
of statistics, department Of commerce
and labor. For the sake Of thousands
of the unemployed and of their fam
lilies we hope the Republicans will get
together a prosperity fund big enough
to put wages in the pockets of many
of the unemployed until election day
If the unemployed wish to continue to
earn wages they must vote the Dem
ocratic ticket so that the industrial
life of the country may be sanely,
normally and permanently resumed.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-05
DEMOCRATIC YEAR

FTER having visited Oregon,
II Washington and Montana, as
IN well as California, former Judge
Alton B. Parker reports Everywhere
surprising growth of sentiment for
the Democratic ticket" But we
should stop calling the growth Sur
prising." 1t is natural, and what is
natural should not surprise us. Moth
ing better illustrates the awakening
of Democracy in the United States
than the great and constan: increase
in the number of newspapers and peri
odicals which are advocating the cleo
ton of Bryan and Kern. No honest
man who applies thought to the Sit
uation can fail to be convinced that
this is a Democratic year, because the
country needs Democracy.
To restore to power party which
was continually plundering and blum
dering while the irate and disguised
American president was laundering
and all the world was wondering
would be to invite confusion worse
COMPOUNDED in our national aftalrs'
with possibility of developments Whlcn
might result in a contamination most
devoutly NOT to be wished.
Democratic sentiment has still TWO
months in which to grow, and with
the assistance of Democratic and He-
publican spellbinders sentiment VIII
grow to such an extent that practl-
cally the American nation Will vote
for Bryan and Kern, while a lie"
stragglers and most of the bllionaires'
millionaires, protected manufacturers
and officeholders will vote for Taft ana
sherman. The defeat of the Repuoii-
can party will be a record-breaker and
will he the vote of censure of the out
ragged and pillaged American nation.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-05

Simeon Boggles, the
leader of the Cantaloupe
County Doodle Dee
Stuffed club, dropped in
to see us at our office.
He said the sentiment
in Cantaloupe county was
indescribable. very
night there was a Doodle
Dee mass meeting. He
delivers an address,
which he applauds fran
tically. Then he reports
1t for the papers. Some-
times the mass meeting
experiences d certain
amount of inconvenience
from being both speaker
and audience, but, every
thing considered, the plan
works wonderfully well.
Mr.. Boggles said the
campaign expenses up to
date would amount to