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Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02
PLENTY OF MONEY

WITH assurance of plenty of
w money to meet all expenses,
preparations for the ElKs' reunion
are going forward apace. The reunion
committee announces there is on hand
in available cash subscriptions a sum
aggregating $4,000, and before the first
trainload of visitors starts from the
eastern coast 100000 will be in hand.
Never at any time has there been any
danger Of a lack Of funds for the en-
tertainment of visitors at Los Angeles
during the Elks' reunion, which in its
entirety will be the greatest and grand
est ever held on the Pacific coast, and
will bring to this city at least 10000
visitors.
The Los Angeles way is to announce a
program, and then to carry into exc
cution every detail. Never in it's his
tory has Los Angeles fallen down" In
attempting to make its forewords good
in afterfacts.
First announcement-then ACCOM-
PLIsHMENT. That's the Los Angeles
way
The word-and then the deed. That's
the Los Angeles way.
Elks' week program will be carried
out with the precision of clockwork,
and there will be plenty of money both
for current expenses and for emergen-
cies.
The Elks' reunion will lie an unquali-
fed success. For that's the Los An
geles way.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02
GIVES HIS LAST VIEWS ON
BIBLICAL LIQUOR QUESTION

POMONA, Cal, June 29.-tEditor
Herald: This is my last on wine and
the Bible. Mrs. Marshall Flansburg
saws: "If men and conditions were
studied more and books less there
would be no further attempt to place
the sin of the liquor traffic on Moan
or Jesus"
There is no fairness in that argu--
ment for two reasons. First, we must
study books touching present ana past
conditions or we would be poor Judges.
We have not the means for travelling
the world over and study men anu
conditions.
Second, / have not tried to trace the
liquor traffic to the Bible, but l nave
proved that the Bible is not the ref
erence to go to for proof that we must
not touch liquor. have said that the
scientific and the hygienic arguments
should be used to prove that liquor
Is death. Look not at wine when 1t
'ferraents'," is no Bible saying.
Nowhere does the Bible say 1t is sin
to touch liquor, but it warns against
il only because an excessive use Will
bring poverty. Therefore the warning
is only to those who cannot afford 1t.
If Mrs. Flansburg will read the New
Testament through she will find what
is called the root of all evil" 1t is
not the liquor traffic. But does she
want the root of all evil dug out? If
she does she would have mentioned II.
The LIQUOR traffic is only one branch
from the root of all evil.
Why speak bad of Judas for doing
what was expected from him? II 1t
was necessary that Jesus should die
to save us, Judas would have betrayed
the whole salvation plan had he not
done as he did. c. u. WHITE.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02
NIOBE

HI EARS were woman's privilege long
ere she dreamed of suffrage rights,
"A and Niobe was dissolved in them
long before Susan B. Anthony took the
platform. Therefore it was only nat
ural that when squad of bluecoats
entered the storm-swept convention
hall of the Washington Woman Suf-
frage association, the men found the
convention in tears.
The pathos of the picture would
melt a heart of stone. Think of not
one lachrymose Niobe, but a hall-full
Of them. Think Of the thrilling effect
of the united sobs, the hysterical weep
ing, the screaming. Before the rain be-
gan to fall the thunder beloved Del
egates called each other thieves, liars
and scoundrels. 1t sure was awful,
Mabel.
When women sit in congress, and in
the excitement of debate get spells of
shriekfuluess followed by sobs, what
will the congressman do? VIII they
call the sergeant at arms-or will they
use their own, wound tenderly and
comfortingly around fair congressional
waists?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02
PRESIDENTS PROPHECY

n RESIDENT TAFT prophesies the
defeat of the Republican party if
Il it does not keep its promises to
the American people. He realizes he is
president of the American people and
not of the Republican party; and as
chief executive it is undoubtedly his
right as well as his duty to call to
account the predominant political pow
er when it fails to live up to the pre-
lenses upon which it secured votes.
But. along with his prediction that the
nation would tire of the Republican
party if that party did not reform, he
asked: what is a Democrat?"
The motive behind this queer ques-
tion is hard to understand, unless it be
the Interrogation was intended as n
kind of apology to the Republican ma
chine leaders for the fact that a Dem
ocrat is the incumbent of one of the
most important cabinet positions.
The question itself is easy to answer.
In fact, Mr.. Taft himself answered it
when he acknowledged in a most en-
phatic and striking way a Democrat
was essential to the success of his ad-
ministration. Democrat is a man
who believes in the first principles of
Americanism; who holds neither jot
nor title of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence has been expunged and that
the constitution and amendments are
still in full force-the law behind the
lawn every nook and Granny Of the
United States
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02
WRITER WOULD CRUSADE
AGAINST INTEMPERANcE

LOS ANGELES, June 3d. Editor
Herald: There are no words to ably
express the evils of a traffic which
breaks every law of the decalogue, but
an attempt will be made at Korbel hall,
First and State streets, Boyle Heights,
July 26, at $3.50 p. m. to mention a few.
The liquor traffic is ever itself, by
the covetousness, theft, falsehood, idol
airy, disrespect to parents and murder
1t engenders in the limelight, and not
the newspapers which must of neces-
sity mention its hellish results. No
saloon keeper can remain good man
or a gentleman in degrading business
which counts money of more value than
the lives and interests of his patrons;
but a worse man, IL anything, Is ne
who pretends to serve his Maker YET
gives his vote and influence to crime
for the revenue, although he is only
using the saloon keeper as the monkey
did the cats paw, to pull out his cnest-
nuts from the fire; and, worse yet, the
man who to soothe his conscience tries
to make the Savior party to his wick
edness.
A long-whiskered man who displayed
a chart on the streets of Los Angeles
exclaimed: "You can drink too much
water too" But water was made 10
drink, and alcohol not. There are no
huge water tanks at which men are
guzzling until they cannot stand, or
until they assault ana murder the IN
nocent. Some Letter Box writers seem
to think that men crave salt too, and
when athirst crave more, indefinitely:
and that they haunt huge mounds OF
refined sugar like a bevy of ants, with
the difference that they are thinking
only of the present and gorging them-
selves to no purpose. Is this the caseY
If il were so, there would be less loss
of life than there is from the liquor
traffic, which is more illogical and IN
excusable. Christian (?) nations have
imnosed tobacco and opium upon the
heathen for the revenue in their mad
worship of Mammon; not because they
loved their neighbors as themselves, as
Christ commanded, but because they
are greedy and have sent alcohol every
wheTe-even to their own. let us
therefore keep the feast not with the
leaven OF malice and wickedness, but
with the unleaven OF sincerity ana
''U'' MRS. NJ. F.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02
ANOTHER TAKES EXCEPTION
TO sAVANARoLA's STATEMENTS

LOS ANGELES, June 2S.-LEditor
HeraldJ In your issue of this morning
"Savonarola" quotes, wines made in
Christ's time were intoxicating" and
follows with this statement, "the kind
Jesus made were not" then goes on
to say mo one was drunk at Cana"
there is no intimation when properly
read that any were drunk" Allow me
to ask for some proof of these asser-
tions. They are not to be found in any
Bible. Take the words of Jesus as
found in Luke 5:39, mo man also hav-
ing drunk old wine straightway de-
sireth new, for he saith the old Is
better" If a man make such an as
sertion today, we suppose at least he
knows what he is talking about. Again,
Jesus said at the last supper mark
9:25), "Verily / say unto you, l viii
drink no more of the fruit of the vino
until that day that I drink 1t new in
the kingdom of God" plainly showing
the wine was old, and that where he
was going to prepare a place." fer
mentation and decay We're unknown.
John 2:10, every man at the beginning
doth set forth good wine, and when
men have we'll drunk, then that which
is worse; but thou hast kept the good
wine until now" Why should not sober
men know the good from the bad!
Use little common sense, please
There were six water pots of stone
containing three ferlSins apiece. l find
nothing to prove these people were
sober or that the wine made by Jesus
was not good, so I ask for proof. One
other point, he says few churches use
Intoxicating wine" I have not the
figures. L know this fact: The Epis-
copal church Is known all over the
world, and it is law of the church that
old wine such as Jesus drank at the
Passover, such as all Jews drank then
and drink today, shall be used at the
affairs. / think the Catholic uses the
same. All these people claim TO wor-
ship God, and they count it more of a
sin to rob a brother of his birthright
than to drink glass Of wine. They
understand and teach it is not that
which goeth in defileth This Is why
they teach to fear God and keep Lis
commandments, for this is the whole
duty Of man. SARAH J. BINNS.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02
BRIBERY

NHARGES of bribery made against
public officials are always dis
~ quieting, and, for the sake of Of
ficials accused as well as OF the pub
lie, deserve the most thorough, search
ing, exhaustive investigation. Bribery
produces conditions akin to those pop
ularly associated with the word IAN
archy." The unscrupulous money pow
er is the greatest and most formidable
foe this country has, and the unscru-
pulous money power can be used in as
deadly a fashion with ten dollar bribes
and hundred dollar bribes as with
large sums of money. Nay, we verify
believe sometimes it is easier to bribe
with a small amount than with large.
The quibbling conscience of a weak
and tempted official may tell him a
small sum is neither here nor there
a bagatelle," and may ask, "Why,
what's wrong in accepting that?"
The same petty conscience, staggered
by an offer of thousands of dollars or
of scores Of thousands, might compel
its victim to earn a spurious reputation
for indignant honesty by making him
reject with "scorn" the big bribe. The
real cause of the rejection, mark you,
would be cowardice; fear of the conse-
quences of taking a large sum. Be
cause of this curious Inconsistency of
conscience, it is of the utmost impor-
tance to the community that the enor-
nifty of the offense of accepting small
bribes should be realized.
A man purehas sable by a small sum
is not one whit less guilty than man
who values his soul at a price that
will make him wealthy. Accepters of
small bribes should be disciplined with
the utmost rigor and vigor, and the
scoundrel who tempts official integrity
by proffering tips" should not be
punished less severely than the cor
poration "magnate" who attempts to
buy councils and other public bodies.
The difference between wholesale brib-
cry and retail bribery is the difference
twixt tweedledum and tweedledee.
Bribery is a cowardly, disgusting,
loathsome offense; an insult to Amer
icanism, an aspersion on liberty, a
slur on the work of the founders of the
republic, a. menace to the United
States. Tar and feathers for a first
offense, the noosed rope for the second,
should be the reward of bribery. And
briber and bribed are equally guilty,
equally un-American, equally deserving
of punishment.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02
FLIES

I OS ANGELES health authorities
renew urgently their request that
IA every householder and shopkeeper
should consider the common fly dan
gorous nuisance and a disease carrier,
and should help exterminate the fly
tribe If the city were cleaned up
thoroughly and then kept clean, it
would have the effect of Iessening the
number Of flies,
Besides the Elks' visit, there are
many reasons why Los Angeles should
clean up. Care for public health de-
mands II. The streets should be kept
free from litter and refuse. Any kind
of refuse will attract flies, and flies
thrive best where there is the most
dirt. Therefore the fact flies are being
complained of in various sections in
Los Angeles shows there must be more
or less removable dirt in those sections
Let us all help abate the fly nuisance
by cleaning up"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02

WE highly superior modern human
w beings read with thrills of SYM
pathy the story of martyrs
"butchered to make Roman holiday"
But posterity will read with thrills of
disgust the story Of thousands upon
thousands of martyrs butchered to
make an American holiday.
The Romans thought the sacrifice Of
human life gave spice and zest to mer-
rymaking. They called themselves civ
ilized and considered Roman citizenship
an honor which protected human beings
from slavery at home and insult abroad.
But their civilization was maintained
by force at home and by conquest
abroad and human life was lightly
esteemed. One man or one boy more or
less did not make much difference.
When gladiators fought in the arena
the spectators turned thumbs down and
called Kill, kill" They were seldom
moved by mercy There was no heart
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02
Il FOURTH OF JULY STORY-Chapter II.

in their civilization. While the race
that produced Bismarck and Won
Moltke was still a race of hairy saw
ages lurking in the forests of Europe,
the Romans talked of blood and iron,
and beheld the manning or the slaugh-
ter of their children in trials of strength
or skill with as much indifference as
they viewed the mangling by ferocious
lions of the white bodies of yellow
haired captives from Britannia and
Hiberna.
Our civilization pretends to be found
ed upon love and law. 1t has prated
much of kindness, brotherhood and hap
piness. Yet our civilization celebrates
by noise and slaughter the day upon
which it's high and altruistic ideals
were adopted formally and independ-
emily. For years each succeeding TN
dependence day. has been more homi-
cidal than those tFat have preceded
1t. The roll of the injured and the
dead has grown even out of proportion
to the wonderful growth of the popu-
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02
DANGER OF FIRE

NJ OF even the rural regions will be a
refuge for the fireworks fiend.
~ Everybody is determined to have
a sane Independence Day celebration.
Hospital surgeons and nurses are in re-
bellion against the overwork and dis
tress of a Chinese Fourth. The forest
rangers have strict instructions to for
bid the discharge Of fireworks in the
reservations. Even paper balloons are
prohibited, because they may set fire
to the forests. If the regulations and
the authorities are respected we will
have q fireless Fourth.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02

to danger of being blinded, manned,
disfigured or perhaps killed? Is it
patriotism that makes you so foolishly
careless of your hearts dearest that
you are willing to run the risk of hav-
ing your son or your daughter butch
cred to make an American holiday?
If patriotism anmates you, then your
patriotism is misdirected. Vent your
enthusiasm in sane channels. Take
your children to see parades, to listen
to patriotic music and orations.
Try to make Americans of them.
Don't Orientalize them on Independ-
ence day.
Teach them why they are Americans.
Gunpowder and fireworks have moth
ing to do with our citizenship and fail
to convey the slightest hint of the
meaning of the day.
Let us have sane Fourth, a safe
Fourth, a happy Fourth. a glorious
Fourth. Let the younger folks leave
fireworks and the older folks leave fire.
water severely alone
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02

lation of the nation. The percentage
has become greater and greater, until
Independence day might well be re-
named hospital day, and the day after
it "coroners' day"
The careless responsibility of parents
who allow their children to "set off,
dangerous explosives leads to grief and
anguish in many an American home.
Agony of mind is the portion of the
foolish father who has encompassed his
sons physical injury or destruction by
telling him he must be patriotic and
discharge fireworks"
And Independence day is a day Of
fear for manysmothers, who protest in
vain against the barbaric celebration
which may break their hearts. What's
the Use of risking the life or the body of
your child in order to crafty that
peculiarly silly worshiping saw
agery, the same old savagery that made
Nero fiddle in gratified glee while Rome
was burning?
What's the use of exposing your child
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02
LATE HONORS

VULIA WARD HOWE Of Boston, at
the age of 80, has received from
- Brown university the degree Of
doctor of letters. This is a tardy
recognition of literary merit that was
demonstrated long, long ago when
Mrs. Howe wrote "The Battle Hymn
Of the Republic"
Isn't it about time some university
woke up and gave degree to Mrs.
Rebecca Spring, the heroine Of the
John Brown raid? or do our con-
servatlve educational institutions in
tend to wait until the good lady is
celebrating her centenary7
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02
AT THE THEATERS
AUDITORIUM-Dark. A

AUDITORIUM-Dark.
MASON-Princess company in Peggy from
Paris"
BELASCo-Richard Bennett in "The Lion
and the Mouse"
BURBANK-"When knights Were Bold"
GRANDPA Mans Broken Promise"
NIAJFSTIC-"Three Weeks"
ORPHEUAI-Vaudeville.
LOS MISUNDERSTANDING.
WALKER-Vaudeyile.
EIPIRE-Vaudeville.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and hiusical comedy
FIsCHERS-NIusical comedy and vaudeville
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02

Los Angeles needs Captain Fries. and
by recognizing the need the government
will earn the gratitude Of all the citi-
zens of our great metropolitan area. A
good old proverb condemns the practice
OF swapping horses when crossing a
stream. We don't want to swap Capt
Fries for anybody just at present.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02

California postmasters will meet in
Los Angeles. The amount of mail
handled in California is far out of pro-
portion to the population. Propor-
tionately, California has the heaviest
and most exacting mail service in the
United States. Our worthy postmast-
ers, clerks, and mail carriers certainly
earn their salaries.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02

Like the Irish doctor who said his
patient died for want of breath, the
Wright brothers say their aeroplane
would not fly for lack of power. The
statement of self-evident proposition
is not an explanation of an event gov
erned by definable circumstances.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02

Compared with the figures for the
same period of last year, Los Angeles
bank clearings for the six months end
ing yesterday showed an increase of
$50, 100000, more than enough to pay
the national deficit that is worrying
President Taft. That's going some.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02

Los Angeles is to be congratulated
on the fact Madam Caroline M. Sever
ance, who was injured recently in an
accident, is now entirely out of danger.
Los Angeles has need of all her best
and most useful citizens, and Madam
Severance is one of them
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02

crease in the prices of meat. AS long
as the shortage cannot be traced to the
inventive typewriter of the press
agent of the Beef Trust, we suppose
the explanation must be accepted.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02

haps another horror is to be added to
the modern magnate business. Per-
haps the dollar-bosses will consider
themselves above the rules of grammar
which govern the speech of the poor
but honest citizen.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02
"A BRIEF EFFORT

The poet MARBLES Of the strand.
The sandy dune.
There are not many rhymes at hand
For June.
He can't produce a wordy lay
or lengthy rune
There are not many rhymes today
For June. T
And SO the poet curbs betimes
His little tune.
Alas. there are not many rhymes
For June.
Kansas City JournA
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENCE intended
for publication -uuss be accompanied by the
name and address of the writer. The Herr
aid gives the widest latitude to correspond
ents, but assumes no responsibility for their
Viewa.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02

If Mr. Hartman is quoted exactly
he said, "Ain't 1 the California Develop
ment company" Wouldn't that jar
you? Amt he the Candy Kid? Per-
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02
An Innovation

"At recent commencement a
naughty girl graduate swept off the
stage"
"Well, that was practical thesis
Did any graduate demonstrate the
cooking of a steak ?"--Kansas City
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02

Clean the city, Everybody should
help in this work. Clean the city for
the visiting Elks-and then keep it
clean for the permanent Angelenos.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02

Local butchers say there is short
age of cattle which will cause an in
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02

On all matters pertaining to advertising
address Charles r. Gates. advertising man
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN

Population of Los Angeles 315,985
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-20

losing your suit because there's MOTH
ing wrong about me when you get
down to bedrock"
That is the keynote OF Miss Ryan's
MRS. MiIler) Interpretation OF the
role Of Paulette. the Blue Mouse.
I asked her about that speech. II
was not in the German from which
Fitch made his translation and adap-
tation. but was put in out of Difference
to American sense OF propriety.
The original Blue Mouse" said Mrs
Miller, "is quite different. She would
not be tolerated here in this country.
Properly enough we would resent her
on the stage.
When read that line at rehearsal
Mr. Emerson. .Fitch's stage director.
objected to the emphasis I laid on the
speech. He pointed out the truth that
this play is a farce and that my line
injected serious note into the action.
L urged that as it was the very fohn-
dation OF my conception OF the role 1
should be permitted TO bring it forth
plainly and not do like Miss Mabel
Barrison does-mrmur it up stage.
We put the matter up to Mr.. Fitch.
and he fully sustained my contention.
I placed that line in just for that
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-20

the matter of their personal behavior
Their profession keeps them up until
unseemly hours and their indepen-
dence is attested in the freedom Of
their lives. The observance of those
proprieties of conduct which make
polite department. in ordinary mortals
may be, by them, to a certain extent
at least. neglected; but there should
be limit, I thought surveying the
pair cautiously, even to the unconven-
tionality of blue mouse off the stage.
Eowever. they invited me to chair
and we all sat down while recovered
from the first shock. AT least" said
1 to myself, though the Blue Mouse
has disappointed a few by her lack of
startling misbehavior on the stage. she
is certainly unconventional enough
here. That was shock number one.
But to this was added another.
There is a child.
This discovery was forced upon me.
Stretched from the brackets of the
chandeliers was a string from which
were suspended the darling. damaging
evidence-baby's stockings. drying and
darned. other tiny garments hung
limp and damp, mute witnesses to the
presence of the little mouse.
There is a child" I gasped
yes" she said. and a wistfuI ten
derness passed over her face like the
light which bursts through clouds and
spreads warm and passing glow on
autumn meadows.
Too bad" F thought. But 1 said
nothing; only held her hand in sym
pathetic silence while the man gazed
modify at the carpet.
How oldg' I asked, still holding
her hand.
oh" she said. the boy is 3 years
old. He's in the other room fast
asleep"
The fact that an actress with the
proclivities such as the Blue Mouse ex-
hibits-on the stage-should pack a
baby around with her was the other
and the last of the shocks.
But please don't call me Miss Ryan"
she was saying. I'm Mrs. Miller off
the stage. This is Mr.. Miller, and the
boy is named after him-Ambrose Mar
shall Miller Jr. He's the very image of
my husband, but you shall see for
yourself"
Crash! Away went all preconceivedl
notions. about the personality of the-l