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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19
GOOD ROADS

NoNsTANT vigilance will be the
price of the success of the good
roads bonds issue. Overconfidence
is the only enemy that may be feared
by the advocates of good roads. Every
intelligent member Of the community
realizes the value of good roads, knows
that the future history of California
will be affected favorably by good
roads, unfavorably by the lack of
them, and is so thoroughly impressed
by the merits of the cause that per-
haps he will take it for granted public
sentiment is unanimous, and there will
be plenty of votes without his" 1t is
the brother who says plenty of votes
without mine who must be proddeo
up, reminded of his duty, and if neces-
sary escorted to the polls. Let every
citizen vote, then let him make it his
business to see to 1t that all his friends
and neighbors vote also. Every reader
who believes that the future of Cali
fornia will not be great by haphazard,
and that plans must be made if results
are TO be accomplished, must realize
the importance of being bond booster
and a vote worker and vote getter.
Only eleven clear working days re-
main. Work for the bonds on every
one of the remaining working days.
Are you sure all your friends and ac-
quaintances and fellow churchmen are
appreciative of the subject OF good
roads and the bond issue? If not, make
sure. Begin now.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19
DEMOCRACY
Professional
ny W. ST. CLAIR CREIGHTON

BY w ST. CLAIR CREIGHTON
n hearts of men with purpose hight
NJ We hands Of men with will to do!
Come, hold and feel the deathless tie
And bind 1t round our soul anewi
Come, sing the hope, the prophecy
OF undefled Democracy
Where heart and brain, an hundred years
Have helped the Truth, or killed the liei
Wherever Faith with conquered fears.
Or struggling Right made heroes die
There. there. o fair Democracy,
Thy sons fulfilled thy prophecy
In senates where our countrys need
Invoked the patriots purity.
On tribunes, whence the people heed
The statesman's wise sincerity,
Thy sons fair Democracy.
FULFILLED thy hope and prophecy
Deep in the scholars happy, calm
Perusal of the worlds best lore:
Clear ON the open. generous palm.
Whose touch still makes the world less
sore,
Behold thy hope and prophecy
Fulfilled, o fair Democracy
Inc udWn pTOpHtllt ph Stut hiVNt
Ye men an hundred years ago,
Is MONDAY light around us now;
Our noon fulhlls your mornings glow
Fulflls your hope and prophecy.
In undefiled Democracy
But MONDAY suns make mornings where
The newer skies in darkness lie.
Our hundred zenithed years prepare
Another dawn, Democracy,
A large hope and prophecy
For all the coming years to see.
Hail. Newer Age, come grasp our hand,
And take the grip of truth today!
Ye hearts of coming man expand
To love Democracy Away!
Hark! All the years to come reply:
We're thine. o fair Democracy!
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19

LOS ANGELES, July Editor
Herald: The letters of Mr.. Cumming
way, "A Tourist" and the Gentle
man." as we'll as the answers have peen
spicy workers. The former seem TO nolu
the view that the workers, employed OF
unemployed, who think industrial con-
ditions could be bettered are RESPONSE
HE for all the unrest in the country.
No. Mr. Gentleman. 1t is Gods laws
working out the advancement or the
human race. 1t is one of the stages OF
development that man should be dis
satisfied when he suffers. The writer
at the age of IL was earning her living
making paper sacks in factory with
many other children for 60 cents per
thousand. Her hands could make a
profit for her employer that would not
have been possible with the employ
ment of adult workmen. Had she been
mangled by machinery she would have
belonged to Mr.. Cummingway's Grip
pied, crooked, lazy or incompetent"
class and perhaps have received some
of the charity "A Gentleman" thinks
the unemployed fear to seek lest their
record be Investigated.
No, again, Mr.. Gentleman, there is
another reason that possibly you do
not even understand. Charity is Bit
ter dose to swallow, and 1t is the spirit
of American independence that Will
cause women to faint on our streets
from hunger and not let their condition
be known. For that reason the writer,
although but child, regarded her en-
ployer as a benefactor, because the few
dollars she earned kept her from the
charity ward of an orphan asylum.
Personally she was gratified, but as a
factor in our industrial problem it is
to be deplored that the greed for money
can cause men to make use of children
for profit. There is something wrong
with an industrial system that makes
such conditions possible. No wonder
Tourist says there is danger when
neople begin to think"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19
CHURCH AND RELIGION

/ N CONTRAST with encouraging re-
ports of the growth and influence
of the Young Mems Christian
association. the Christian Endeavor
movement and national and inter
national interest in religion exempli-
fed by the Pan-Presbyterian con-
crosses and the Episcopal confer
ence, the statement of Rev. Charles F.
Aked that churches are decaying''
sounds like a jeremiad. DIR. Aked
breaches to a wealthy and fashionable
congregation in New York. The best
known member of that congregation is
John d. Rockefeller. One would think
the presence of a man who could help
church work with the money power
would be an inspiration to DR.. Aked,
but his gloomy view of the future of
churches justifies the complaints of
workingmen who wrote letters to The
Herald, in which they said they had
been deprived of church life by social
conditions.
The Rev. DR.. Aked is much more
radical in his views and much more
outspoken in his expression of them
than were any of the correspondents
whose frank letters to The Herald
of the city pastors. This is what DR.,
Aked says: 1.-THE man on the cars has
got it into his head that Christianity
is played out; that churches are in his
own language a back number The
negative attack of the atheist on Chris
tianity has spent its force, but the vast
majority of persons have come to fee,
that religion can be ignored. In a fashion
they think 1t ought to be ignored. This
is a time for plain speaking. If the
churches are not to lose the remnant of
the influence and respect which they
once commanded they must get into
closer touch with the practical and
vital affairs of life. To attempt to
conceal the decay in the CHURCHES
is ruinous policy that has been fol-
lowed long enough. There is no rea-
son for believers in RELIGION to
fall into a panic, but there is urgent
necessity for an overhauling of out
! grown formulas that are out or toucn
with the new ideas that dominate the
world today. Evangelicalism has lasted
through one hundred and fifty years
one hundred years of triumph and
fifty years of gradually approaching
weakness and decay. The world will
not go backward. The churches must
go forward or perish" 1t should be
noted carefully by readers that DR..
Aked does not say religion is falling
into decay. We do not believe it can
be denied successfully that practical
religion was never as active as it is
today. But pure religion and undefiled
imposes upon its followers far more
duties than church attendance. 1t COM
mands the Christian to take an active
interest in the affairs Of the unfortu-
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19
WOMAN CALLS ATTENTION TO CONDITIONS
IN THE CITY JAIL OF LOS ANGELES

be innocent, are detained pending trial.
The jail or city authorities are clearly
exceeding all discretion vested In them
when they inflict punishment on such
persons. To be sure the jail is also
place where persons convicted OF petty
crimes are sent for sentences. Again
the purpose of the sentence.is to pro
tect society from further offenses ana
to reform the Individual, not to take
revenge on him. This city Jail tends
to make criminals rather than to re-
form them. It is a menace alike to
the physical and moral health OF the
community. Indirectly, of course, the
public is itself to blame, but heavily
must the censure fall on officials sworn
to protect the public good and who have
kept silent about these shocking con-
ditions. But now that the facts are
known let every good citizen protest
against such atrocities in the name OF
Justice and first of all demand the re
peal of an ordinance which detains IN
such vile places the women and mothers
whose fortitude and courage have MADE
these facts known.
MRS. AGNES H. DOWNING.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19
WRITER HAS MOST DECIDED OPINIONS
REGARDING CASES OF HYDROPHoBIA

by medical societies to investigate TINS
matter. He has done this with, great
thoroughness, and his reports declare
that the word hydrophobia should DC
used as the word CONFUSION is used 70
indicate a condition, not disease. he
shows that many causes give rise to
this condition, fear being one OF the
most prominent. He believes the Pas-
teur institutes are productive OF noth-
ing but harm, except commentary.
DR.. Mathew Woods had a standing
reward for years for single authentic
case of hydrphobia, >but was unable TO
secure it. The New York s. Z. G. a.
in a report states that In the past
fourteen years it's employees have been
bitten $1,000 times in their work OF
handling diseased and homeless dogs,
vet no case OF hydrophobia has ever
developed among them. They take the
bites as a matter of course and H never s1oi
go to a Pasteur institute to have pol
sonous disease products pumped into
them Let us be prepared to tight
against this form of graft should II
rear its head in this graft-ridden state.
M. B. T.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19
WOMAN DECLARES AMERICAS GREATEST
NEED IS WELL HOUSED. WELL FED PEOPLE

What free America most needs is a
well fed, well housed, we'll satisfied
common people, rather than that the
wealth of few of its citizens is suffi-
Client to buy several foreign countries
with their degenerate nobility. What
the American workman needs is not
charity or sympathy, but work at a
living wage. The charity he needs Is
to be placed in a position to help him
self by being given in return for his
labor, a fair share Of the wealth he is
largely instrumental in creating, which
under existing conditions goes for profit
and dividends, and in its logical Sc
quence into the pockets of a few, thus
becoming a menace to good govern
ment because 1t becomes q great corr
Euption fund to prevent needed legisla-
ton by buying the peoples representa-
tives in civic, state and national gov
eminent. =
The writer recommends that "a Cen
tank in Edward Bellamy's book Equal
ity." He may then understand that
God created the heavens and the earth
and placed man high in the scale Of
his creation, but he did not give a
deed in fee simple of the earth and all
it contains to few individuals. 1t was
for the use of the human race. A few
have cornered the natural resources be-
longing equally to the many and claim
superior ability because of their sue
cess. And when they hear the muir
muring of discomfort from the many
that have been robbed of their birth
right they call them ''riffraff' and tell
them If they don't like 1t they can
move to some other planet or accept the
conditions as they are, even including
the infinititesimal drops of charity they
are willing to give the bottom dog, thus
destroying the self-respecting manhood
that might climb to a higher plane
under fair conditions.
MARION MARTIN.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19

LOS ANGELES, July 1S.-LEditor
Herald: While we have an industrial
system that inevitably drives a certain
number of women into the demi monde
7 do NOT see that any great good is
done by "chiyylng" these these d poor cr rer-
tsinlv do not understand why certain
housss lin Alameda street, to witt are
attached and others equally notorious
ignored. .4o,,, o,oss
streets near the plaza there are houses
whose character is proclaimed aloud.
Among squaildd os sulru tiousiy brassed
and carpeted entrances and stairways
cr r- aloud for notice; and past these
nlsces our wives and daughters and our
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19
CLEAN UP

NITIZENS should assist the health
Office in its efforts to clean UP the
~ city. All refuse should be removed
from back yards, vacant lots and cell
lars. Cleanliness is next to godliness,
and to preserve the health of the city
by insisting on cleanliness is an act of
piety. AS a preventive of disease,
cleanliness is unrivaled. In fact, with
absolute, ideal cleanliness of body and
mind. disease would be impossible. A
great deal of the trash which is now
stored in cellars or heaped in back
yards should be burned. 1t would be
a good rule to make bonfires of all
refuse that can be burned without en-
dangering property, and to have the
rest carried away to dumps beyond the
city limits, or, better still, buried. And
may we suggest that good citizens
should not wait until prodded up by
the health officer? If you are harbor-
ing germs on your premises, evict
them, or they may evict you or some
member of your family. BY entering
with zeal into the cleanup campaign
you will help to improve sanitary con-
ditions in Los Angeles. A wise old
scientist in the east once made a re-
mark which it is not easy to forget.
He said: IF germs were as big as lions
and bears, or IL they were even as big
as snakes or horned toads, you would
see communities spending huge sums
OF money in getting rid of them, and
every man would go armed until they
were exterminated." Some germs are
as ugly as wild beasts, and as fero-
cious. 1t is easy to go armed with
cleanliness, and to attack them with
that weapon, which is as deadly to
germs as germs are deadly to human
life and health.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19
FAILS TO SEE WHY A FEW RESORTS ARE
CLOSED WHILE SCORES REMAIN OPEN

boys have to pass to and from their
homes in the neighborhood.
Now. these places cater to thigh
class OF trade" as witness the swell
autos one sees waiting at their doors.
perrnitted to pollute the poorer dis
tricts with their swinish debauchery,
and TO fiaunt their degrading riots in
the eyes of the youth of the working
classes.
l don't believe in marrying poor UNI
fortunate women, but do think IL
there is a pretense to regulate this
evil, action in the matter should be
uniform, and the rich should not be
allowed to set up their temples of i'll
fame among the dwellings of the hon
est working population.
A NORTHERN RESIDENT.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19

nate, the weak, the downtrodden, and
the example commended by the Mas
ter to the world for imitation is a So
cial and not ritual or doctrinal ex-
ample, that of a churchless hereto,
the Good Samaritan who rescued a per-
ishing fellow human being who had
fallen among thieves. Modern social
civilization has fallen among thieves.
Will the church follow the example of
the Good Samaritan?
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19

Republicans are advertising the fact
that ]. A. Tawney, who will succeed
j. S. Sherman as chairman of the Re-
publican congressional committee, be-
gan life as a blacksmith. Under the
spreading chestnut tree the wild press
agent stands.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19

Toxic viii build a fine capital. The
name of the architect is Hayashida,
which sounds like the Japanese for
sneeze. L is probable, however. that
Hayashidas work is not to be
sneezed at.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19

John MacVicar of Des Moines, Iowa,
in an address before the City club yes
terday, said Los Angeles should not
amend the charter, but get a new one.
He believes the charter should be re-
vised as the gun of his Highland ances-
tor was mended, lock, stock and bar
reIt''
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19

Miners day is the LATEST planned adj
dition to the characteristic festal an
niversaries of Los Angeles. The first
celebration of Miners day will be held
next month.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19

Last congress in it's appropriations
exceeded the billion dollar mark. Uncle
Sam is becoming accustomed to that
kind of thing.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19
A BID Man
Parker and Hill

Judge Parker has discreetly climbed
into the band wagon. Hon. David B.
Hill now denies that he said the Demo-
cratic party was dead. So that the
spirit of the Denver convention must
have. reached out afar.-Salt Lake
Tribune.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19

Los Angeles custom house will show
a smaller falling off in receipts for the
fiscal year ended June 80 than any
other district in the United States.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19

Independence leagues boss says it is
the bossless party. He is an uncon-
scious humorist.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19
FOR PRESIDENT
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
JOHN w. KERN

Herald subscribers intending to leave the
city for the summer months kindly notify
the circulation department, and we VIII
send The Herald to your new address and
change the address as often as desired.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19

Bravo, dainty Lady Lurline of Los
Angeles, winner OF the transpacific
yacht race!
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19
The Public Letter Box


of The to
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19
Political Points
Cheering

Mr.. Bryan, listening to the noise
over the telephone, found the conven-
ton very cheering.-St. Louis Times.
q
A Big Man
No small man could do such big
things. Mr.. Bryans ability and power
must be conceded. He has u large,
sincere following. He has augmented
this following this year,-Kansas City
Star
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19
Victory Assured

The past three conventions were
held under circumstances that did not
admit of victory for the Democracy.
This is now too clear to every student
of politics to be controverted That
the present convention met under no
such discouragemcnt is what we take
to be the great difference between 1t
and it's three predecessors
Citizen.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19
State Press Echoes
Oversight

Oversight
A report from Fresno states that the
continued hot wave has decreased the
raisin crop 1000 tons. 1t is strange
that some enterprising Republican
newspaper has not attributed that de-
crease to the nomination of Bryan
Grass Valley Union
s.
Air Line
Americans who have done Europe
to their hearts content will have
new reason for going thither when the
proposed airship line connecting Ber-
lin. London, Paris, Vienna, st. Peters,
burg, Copenhagen and Stockholm is es-
tablished.-Long Beach Telegram.
s.
Modified Widow
For The benefit of our local milliners
we will impart the information THAT
the very best way to trim a Merry
Widow hat is to cut off about foot all
around. This is not original with us,
but is the suggestion of an eastern
newspaper man who evidently knows
thing or two himself Luckily for
him his identity is Uncomfortable
Times.
Proven
BY a process known to every school,
boy we come to the following conclu-
sion: This country needs economy;
good roads are an economy; therefore,
this county needs good roads. Which
Is proposition proven.-Santa Barbara
Press.
-
Or Peanut
The breaking off of relations between
the United States and Venezuela is
creating about as much comment in
the Tide world as the cracking of a
hazelnut-San Diego Tribune.
q
Up His Sleeve
An exchange asks: Can a China
man laugh?" Did you ever hear one?
What do you suppose those big sleeves
are for anyway 2--Humboldt Standard
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19
Taft's Wicked Partner

OF course Secretary Taft did not
order khaki from English manufac-
turers. He is running for president
and could not have committed such
a defiance of an American industry.
It was the assistant secretary of war,
who is not running for office on the
Republican ticket, who ordered the
British khaki.-Philadelphi Record.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19
Pulitzer In Camp

The Post-D Dispatch nevertheless per-
ceives in existing conditions a great
opportunity for Mr.. Bryan to make a
creditable showing as a candidate and
to render his party a real service.
Enjoying the confidence of the Demo-
cratic masses to a remarkable degree,
it is in his power so to direct the issues
of the campaign as to fix public at
tention upon real reforms for the
wrongs inflicted ON the country by
RooseYeltism and for the prevailing
depression in commerce and industry.
st. Louis Post. Dispatch.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19
Proven
Or Peanut
Up His Sleeve

An exchange asks: Can a China
man laugh?'' Did you ever hear one?
What do you suppose those big sleeves
are for anyway Humboldt Standard
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19
Kind Word from Texas

Secretary Taft will resign from the
cabinet, thus closing forever his con-
nection with the federal government
Houston Post.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19
Tomb Hunting

Hearst's agent is in Texas in the
interest OF the Independence league.
That is as good place as any to bury
the pesky thing.-Nashville American.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-07-10

r
NEW ELECTRIC ROAD.
Charter for Railway From Asheville,
N. c.. !, to South Carolina Line.

Cndrter Tor halfway TFOH ASHSNiliSJ
N. c., to South Carolina Line.
Asheville, N. c., July 1.-The Asne-
vile and Carolina Railway company j,
with principal Offices in this city, has
been chartered with a capital stock
of $780, 900, and authority to construct
an electric railway from Asheville to
the South Carolina line, distance of
thirty-five miles.
The company will take over the fran
cnise of the Asheyille and Henderson
vile Railway company. Work on the
construction Of, the road will begin
about the middle OF, August. The
same company has been granted a
charter with capital stock Of $780,
900, in the state of South Carolina,
with authority to construct an electric
Railway from Greenville, SC, to the
North Carolina boundary, distance
of forty miles.
The South Carolina section of the
road will be known as the Greenville
and Carolina railway. !; Z. The two
roads will come together at the border
line and form one continuous line OF
electric railway from GreenvilIe, S.
c., to Asheville, N. c. The power
plant for the road will be located in
the Blue Ridge mountains, 20 miles
from Asheville. The line will run
through most picturesque section,
and it is estimated that it will be
80 miles shorter than the present
railway route from Asheville to the
city of GIeenville, S. c..