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Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-22
SAYS JOAN OF ARC WAS
PART OF DIVINE ESSENCE

LOS ANGELES, May 19.-[Editor
Herald: What things are infinite?
Everything. All things are endless.
Man never made anything; man can
not destroy anything. From this 1
know my soul is a small part of the
universal whole of the God spirit; as
eternal as God himself. am confident
i'm my mind-which is not my own
that heaven is the natural abode of the
gods; as truly real in substance as the
earth itself. Christ was the very es-
sence of God in flesh. Joan of Arc was
a large part of this essence.
Christs work on earth was only a
short rehearsal of what is to come.
He is just what he said-the way, the
truth, the life He filled his mission
to save humanity, Joan of Arc, when
on trial. said; MY hope for salvation
is i'm holding fast to my oath to keep
my body and soul pure" She COM
muned with the gods in flesh and knew
that in the adult the home of pure
soul must be q pure body
The Master said: Suffer little chill
dren to come unto me for such is the
kingdom" 1 know from his words the
kingdom is pure throughout. Christ as
cended to the haven of rest in soul
and body. Both were pureNall one, the
same; therefore inseparable. When
humanity stamps out the low, selfish,
terrestrial spirit it will ascend to the
immortal home of the blessed; or in
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-22
BUSINESS

CONSULTATIONS of banks to form
financial institutions of a size and
~ efficiency suitable to the metro
politan size and Importance of this
city are among the signs of local
progress. Monthly reports of the clear
ing house show a marvellous financial
gain, and this indicates the healthy
condition of the money market and of
every phase of industrial and CONNER
cial life in this thriving city.
Expansion of local interests calls for
constant expansion of banking and
other interests connected with indus
trialism and business. A vast amount
of business is transacted in Los An
geles daily. This business is not of
the kind for which certain financial
centers are famed. In Los Angeles
BUSINESS MEANS I JSINESS, NOT
SPECULATION. OUR TRANSAC-
TIONS HERE ARE TRANSACTIONS,
NOT CANDLES.
No city in the Union is built upon
such a solid business foundation as
Los Angeles. In the first place, the
great real estate market has had an
excellent moral influence on this COM
munity. 1t has taught our people to
deal in REALITIES AS, WELL AS
REALTY; and there is neither room nor
opportunity in our solid metropolis for
a Napoleon of Finance who will jug
gle with airy nothings and by exchang-
ing fictitious values" for other peo-
Pile dollars will force his way into the
charmed circle which uses seven figures
in stating the amount of its wealth.
Business and manufacturing indus
tries succeed here in proportion to the
elimination of the gambling feature
from commercial life-that is to say,
they thrive by the absence of specu-
lation and by the great increase of mu-
tual confidence produced by that alb
sence. That is one of the reasons why
there are never any bank suspensions
and seldom any commercial failures in
Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-22
GREAT SOCIAL REFORM

n ARLIAMENT is applying itself
seriously to the problem Of
Il employment. Winston Spencer
Churchill, president of the Board
of trade has introduced in par
lament a bill providing for a ma
tional system of labor exchanges
The existence of numerous employ
ment agencies in the United King
dom and the United States shows
that in a rudimentary and primitive
way, which makes the hired man pay
the piper"-a rank and manifest in
justice-the necessity for a definite
market place for labor is recognized.
When the British government
adopts the Churchill plan-and un-
doubtedly it Will, for he is merely
making public and obtaining parlia-
mentary formal sanction for a well
studied governmental program, devised
by experts-then the man who needs
work, and to whom the state, which
asks him to pay his way and support
his family. assuredly owes an OPP
portunity, will register, and his skill
or strength will not have to go
a-begging.
So thoroughly have the British So
cial reformers done their duty that
even the man who does not obtain
employment Immediately but is forced
to wait for job will be taken care of.
The British government has at last
become so civilized it realizes and
recognizes the fact that when a man
is out Of work it is not necessarily
his fault; that lack of employment Is
not a crime, and that a man and his
wife and family should not be PUN
IsHED because capital refuses to hire
the breadwinner.
Along with the governmental en-
ployment bureau will be associated an
unemployment insurance plan. EN-
ployed workmen, all employers, and
the state will unite in providing in
surance for unemployed men, so that
even in hard times the children will
never have to be taken out of school
and sent to the factories: nor will
the wife ever have to go hungry.
The United Kingdom having provid-
ed pensions for the aged and inflrm,
now proposes to stop the massacre of
the innocents. Praise God from whom
all blessings flow, for all the world
will follow her example, and the dawn
Of new and happier era is breaking.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-22
MR.. FOLK

TOSEPH w. FOLK, the honored
guest of Los Angeles, says the
- problem of good government can
be summed up in one sentence
to make patriotism as aggressive as
rottenness. According to this eminent
statesman and typical American it is
nonsensical to claim a graft exposure
hurts a city. The Herald has had oc-
casion to say this frequently. and is
delighted to find its sentiments on the
subject are identical with those of
Mr.. Folk.
If there's anything wrong, out with
it and then away with it, don't make
believe alIs we'll when the rats are
gnawing holes in the ship of state
Don't cry peace, peace" when there is
no peace. Mr.. Folk says corruption
cannot be cured by hiding it, and that
instead of hurting a city to have cor
ruption exposed and punished 1t helps
a city, especially when the city is of
the character of Los Angeles, which
extends a constant invitation to the
people of the eastern and other states
to come to it and establish their homes.
AS Mr.. Folk most truly says, these peo-
pie, especially when they have children
who must grow up among the sur
roundings amid which their parents
place them, are not attracted to a city
where corruption reigns and the peo-
pie do not rule. They naturally pre-
fer a city where corruptionists are
not tolerated and where corruption
when it springs up is fought by an ag-
gressive citizenship.
Excellent indeed is Mr.. Folks advice
to Los Angeles not to rest on the lau-
rels of its achievements for good gov
eminent, but to be eternally vigilant.
We believe our city will act in ac-
cordance with this advice (Which, by
the way, has already been extended to
it by Los Angeles Herald over and
over again and will show constant
and unremitting zeal for good govern
ment.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-22

m HE department of agriculture has
recently decided to abandon the
n experiments it has been conduct
ing in silk culture and make no fur
Their efforts to establish it as an Amer
lean industry. 1t cannot be made a
paying industry it is stated, even II
it be put in the hands of school chill
dren and no pay be given for their
services. The federal government mas
spent several hundred thousand dol
lars experimenting. 1t not only raised
the worms and distributed eggs ana
literature free. but imported European
exnerts. established mill, bought the
cocoons and. without charge, taught
people to reel the silk. 1t having, be-
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-22
COSTLY CANARIES

TT costs $7,5O0,0OO year to feed the
Gagged canaries of the United
Il States. This is one of the numer-
GUS so-called petty details of our
civilization which startle economists.
People are not in the habit of consider
ing canaries among the extravagances
or Injuries of the nation. but can it be
denied the sum spent on them could be
better applied to taking care of the I'M
employed and the poor children of the
country?
There is not much consistency be-
tween talk of the extravaganza of the
old age and unemployment pension
programs of the British, and acquies-
cence in the annual expenditure Of
81 500, 600 for the board bill of the ma
tion's canaries. Farmers would not
lose the money which might be diverted
from the sale of bird seed 1t would
still go to them for the purchase of
foodstuffs for human beings
An old Hebrew proverb, quoted by
Jesus, said 1T is not meet to take the
childrens bread, and to cast it to the
dogs"
Neither is it right to spend millions
of dollars for canary seed as long as
there is a bread line in any city of the
United States, and there is still big
bread line in New York, where thou
sands of citizens-good citizens too;
high grade, respectable citizens-are
dependent on the daily dole of charity
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-22
ADVOCATES INVESTIGATION
IN LIBRARY CONTROVERSY

LOS ANGELES, May H.-[Editor
Herald The people of this community
are much exercised by the serious
charges made against the workings or
our public library
Many charges and accusations are
made, pro and con, without apparently
any attempt to inquire into the merits
of the case.
Being a matter which the public is
called on to support by liberal tax,
should not the case be taken up and
a searching inquiry be made by those
they are getting quid pro quo for their
monev9 TAXPAYER.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-22
WAR SCARE MAKERS

TT cannot escape the attention of the
observant that only professional
L military men are talking of the de-
fenseless condition of the United King
dom. The chief discoveries of the Ger
man war DOGGY are a military gentle
man who wishes to have parliament
make huge appropriation for stand
ing army; and naval gentleman who
would like to surround the islands with
Dreadnaughts, built with the national
resources and manned with the nations
workers, regardless of consequences.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-22

Nitrate beds have been found near
Needles. Thus is a new industry Gre
ated in territory tributary to Los An
geles. Was ever city as favored by
fortune as is Los Angeles? A new
proverbial expression comes trippingly
from the tongue, Los Angeles luck"
But this city does not leave everything
to luck. 1t knows how to use luck to
the best advantage That is why solid
prosperity has followed constant luck.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-22

come evident tnaJ
Americans C o u | d
not compete with
Italians working
for 10 to 80 cents a
day and with Chi
nese receiving 4 to
8 cents a day, con-
gress stopped APP
propriations f o r
silk culture a year
ago and the agri-
cultural d e p a + t
ment's plant has
been shipped to the
Philippines. in the
hope of establish
ing an industry
there.
r G w industries
have such a ro-
mantle history as
silk culture. Spas
m o die attempts
have been made to
grow the silk worm
and produce raw
silk in the United
states ever since
H. nor11- J1Ue Of
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-22
ARE NATIONS BARBARIC7

4 T the Mohonk Lake conference on
~ international arbitration Justice
II MacLaren of the court of appeals
of the province of Ontario said indi-
viduals in a measure have become
Christianized, but as nations and col
lectively we still remain barbarians and
heathens. Here is something to think
about: In the United States we are
spending for past and prospective war
&C cents out of every dollar Of the ma
tional revenue.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-22

From Florida is waited, like incense
on the breeze, praise of Los Angeles.
Orange growers from Florida who re-
Queen City of Southern California.
They might have left off the word
Southern without sacrificing even a
shade of the TRUTH. Los Angeles is
the Queen City of California, and her
citizens realize it and are proud of the
fact.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-22
AT THE THEATERs

AfASON-Darl.
AUDITORIUM-Dark.
MAJEsTIC-KoIb and Dill in playing the
Ponies"
BEIASCO-"AIiss Hobbs"
GRAND-ATurray and Mack in Shooting the
Chutes."
BURBANK-'sThe Circus Girl"
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Los NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
EMPIRE-Yaudeville.
UNIQUE-"Stage Struck"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-22

other words, humanity will rise in pur-
ity and the Master will come in all
his glory to claim his own. The old
heaven shall pass away. disintegrate;
there will be a new heaven and new
earth.
We shall gain a pure body by obey
ing ntaure's laws; we shall gain a
pure soul by obeying the divine law.
Disobedience of the laws is sin; the
wages of sin is death. The law says
Death is our last enemy to overcome"
When these changes come about the
true adage will be repeated in one
united harmonious voice, 20 death,
where is thy sting; o grave. where
is thy victory?" G. r. LUNA.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-22

France will build more battleships.
That was to be expected. When all the
capital of the world is invested in bat
tleships, and the ship builders have all
the money on earth, what will be the
next international folly?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-22

During the directory year, which end
ed May Is, the population of Los An
geles was increased at the rate of 1900
month. During this year there will
be an increase of at least 1000 a month.
Watch us grow.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-22

Sir Thomas Liptons third Shamrock
has been sold for junk Although
Tommy is a game loser, he had not the
heart to remove her from New York.
After her defeat he never clapped eyes
on her again.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-22

Death has claimed the man who orig
mated ragtime music. Perhaps he was
not a genius, but no one will dispute
the assertion he was more than a
musical rebel-he was a musical revolu-
ZIONIST.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-22

A speaker at the Friday Morning
club meeting said the average woman's
hat is no longer dream, but a night
mare. The bill that follows the hat is
neither a dream nor nightmare, but
grotesque, gargoylish, wretched re-
a litV
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-22

Owing to the big cut in the appor~
tionment for school expenses made by
the city council, it Will be necessary to
practice strict economy in order to
avoid shortening the school year.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-22
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENTS intended
for publication must be accompanied by the
name and address OF the writer. The Her
aid gives the widest latitude to correspond
ents, but assumes responsibility for their
views Letters must not exceed 500 words
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-22
GIVES ANOTHER ARGUMENT IN
FAVOR OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE

LOS ANGELES, May 19.-[Editor
Herald1 Query? If the mayors mes
senger did not belong to a class al
ready in possession of the ballot
which on election day can be used both
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-22
BOARDING HOUSE REFLECTIONS

I think could stand the stored eggs and raw
bacon,
And 1 wouldn't object to the soft pewter
spoons
I could hope. though the platter so seldom has
steak on,
And I'd even be cheerful in spite Of the
prunes,
If the fellow who sits at the head Of our table
Did not think himself the most palpably able
And suayely delectable Joker extant.
think could stand without ever complaining
The frayed and soiled linen, the cracked
plates and cups,
The mustache that the next to me uses
for straining
The tentative soup he suspiciously sups
If the bride and the groom could be bravely
contented
To baby" each other when they were alone;
If they'd cease to perform as If each were de-
mented
The scorn 1 exhibit should never be shown.
think could stand the detestable cooking
And | wouldn't object to the damsel who
sings
In spite Of her voice she is rather good looking
Which makes up for many regrettable things
I could worry along, l believe, without carping
II the landladyd give up her kittenish ways
And cease now ami then to come plaintiyey
harping
on the fact that she once had seen much bet
ter days.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-22

Are your weights and measures all
right? The new weight ordinance be-
came effective yesterday.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-22

as a weapon of offense as we'll as de-
fense-would the city council hesitate
about his dismissal as they now are
doing?
The best argument for the ballot in
the hands of workingwomen is that
backed by the power which the ballot
gives they would be treated with as
much consideration as are men voters,
who are intelligent enough to discrim-
mate between their friends and their
enemies on election day.
ELIZABETH QUIGLEY.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-04
PARIs MYTHS EXPLODED.
An American ElbOwed Into Gutter
0T,olltest People ON Earth.n

An American, E1bowed Into Gutter by
0PolItest People ON Earth."
Tradition declares the French TO be
the most polite peoples in the world.
They are not writes Samuel Hopkins
Adams in Golfers. Individually the
Erenchnan NAV be courteous. Col
Iectiyely he lacks the essential ele-
ments of. courtesy, regard for the feel
SSharminr in private. in public he is
an jndividTaiist to the verge of saw
aEery In the theater he Is a nuis-
ance, on the street he is bore. trav-
cling he is--there Is no other word
ADEQUATE to the occaston--a hog. You
discover this on the occasion Of your
first promenade in Paris.
NY first days on the boulevards OF
Paris was spent mainly In the gutter.
INV second In apologizng to people who
were urging me thither. MY third
devoted to doing some buttinR myself.
MY fourth. NTH and sixth I nursed
Now have a hardened spot In my
soul. and two more on the front OF my
coiiarbone, and / can look straight and
unuuavering into the eyes OF an elder
~ French lady with long gray whiB-
kers and convince her that she does
not want more than two-thirda OF the
sidewalk, and that II she does want Il
she does not get 1t. This sounds UNI
gentiemanly, but II Is necessary. For
II YOU Let yourself get situated into the
street often enough Il Is only a guess
ton Of time when watchful taxi auto
y--fft vet Won.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-04
Wonderful EnEineerinw Feat.


For more than a third OF a century
the United States government has been
striving to provide channel in the
lower Detroit river that would prove
equal TO the constantly Increasing de-
mands of marine interests on the Great
Lakes The conquest of'the Lime Kiln
Crossing, some fourteen miles below
Detroit. and the most troublesome spot
on the inland seas, has kept govern
ment engineers busy for years. made
contractors wealthy, and annually fur.
nished employment for hundreds of
skilled drill and dredge men.
Were all the collisions, groundings
and other accidents that have taken
place in the vicinity OF the Lime Kiln
Crossing to be enumerated the show
Ing would be impressive.
Now this most perplexing problem of
removing this hindrance to further ma
rine development Is well along toward
a solution that will. 1t is confidently
predicted. eliminate trouble for all
time. Using Stony Island a marshy
tract some few acres In extent, as a
starting point. the contractors began
construction OF the largest cofferdam
ever undertaken. Dredges were used
In casting up the walls Of rock and
clay, taken from the river bed at vart-
Gus points in the new channel where
excavation in the old way was COM
paratively easy. An area $500 feet In
length and with an average width OF
1000 feet was enclosed by a wall some
forty feet through at the base, reach
ing ten feet above the surface of the
river, and at the top being wide enough
to permit the laying OF narrow-gauge
railroad track IL desired.
Two twelve-inch centrifugal pumps,
each with q capacity OF 100000 gall
Ions Of water every twenty -four hours,
and a battery OF Atty air lifts with a
combined capacity Of 100000 gall
Ions daily. were started. and the flood
inside the cofferdam began to recede.
In spite of the magnitude OF the job,
so thorough had been the work Of
building the dam that no leaks Of con-
sequence developed, and within ten
days after the nrst water found It's way
through the pumps one hundred and
thirty acres OF the river bed was ex-
posed so completely that 1t was possi-
BILE to walk dryshod over the entire
area.
With the water out OF the cofferdam,
excavating was undertaken.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-04
rhe Metropoli. on nm Island.

New orleans Ptcayum0.
on a small island ovefcrowded with
population and business, and driven 10
build its houses story upon story hun-
room for the necessities Of its people
and trade. does not exist anywhere
else in the world except upon Man
It's own people have gone on crowd
ing their vast interests and operations
on their narrow tongue OF land APP
parently without thinking of the con-
sesTie to renire az somes ides what
they have got to face. The Brooklyn
NJ Y, Eagle, in Its issue OF March %.
Engineer Joseph Caccavato predicts
Of those now living there viii be prae-
tically. no residential population IN
o q i business as' baildings He adds That
1t does not take a prophet to foretell
what will happen In Brooklyn. where
there will be the most phenomenal
estate valuation that this or any other
country has ever known"
The Eagle repeats the complaint
that bs HUDSON tss RIVER ana ma.
haitian Island with the New Jersey
shore were not dug. under the East
River. SO that Brooklyn would have hay
ton instead of creating facilities that
sent ii by choice into Jersey instead of
keeping It in New York State. The en-.
gineer mentioned declares that It
should be the policy of the city Adj
ministration of New York to keep the
people of Greater New York within tho
limits of Greater New York. Also. he
protests that thanks to the construc-
ton of the McAdoo tunnels, New
York city will have million people
less next year than 1t would have had
III Mr.. McAdoo had constructed his
tunnels under the East River, instead
Of under the North River"
The conditions thus set forth are
going to prove a serious mater for the
american metropolis. All the attrac-
zion of the excitements of business
ana amusements centered in Manhat-
tan The vast numbers of visitors to
the great city only recognize what ts
on the island II q great body OF its
nonuIatfon should be driven to the
nefehboring shores by the urgent de-
mailds of room for business and visi-
tors shall be unable to find quarters
in the hotels there. and by reason of
the moving away of millions OF the
incubation, the numerous theatres and
niaces of amusement shall be driven to
follow the people, the city on the is
land will be deserted and lonesome at
night from the Battery up to Fifty
ninth Street, and will have lost the at
fractions of excitement that now draw
Constantly vast influxes of strangers.
Not even It's numerous skyward-climb-
ing houses will be able to maintain
i'm reputation as the metropolis OF
the western Hemisphere.