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The daily sentinel., 1909-05-29

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The daily sentinel., 1909-05-29

M ORE LOCAL, STATE
III AND TELEGRAPHIC
NEWS PUBLISHED EV-
ERY DAY THAN ALL
OTHER PAPERS IN THE
CITY OF GRANDJUNc-
TON COMBINED.
The daily sentinel., 1909-05-29

X FAD NATIONAL AND
AMERICAN LEAGUE
BALL SCORES THE DAY
GAMES ARE PLAYED.
EITHER ON SENTINEL
BULLETIN OR IN THE
PAPER.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-01
COMPARES BIBLICAL NAMES TO
GODS OF SWEDISH MYTHOLOGY

POMONA, May 29.-[Editor Herald:
In the Letter Box c. r. has given us a
pretty rational explanation of Noah
and his nakedness. But whether he
cites from Swedenborg he does not tell.
If Swedenborg had been brought up In
the faith of the gods OF Sweden he
could have said "Noah is our Njord,
the god of navigation, of which the ark
is a symbol He dwells in Noa-Tun.
Noah's son Shem is Scanning, the first
liking of Norway. Ham was once the
unruly god of the fierce winds. Njord
also symbolizes the country of the
north. In Sweden we say Nord.)
Noah's drunkenness symbolizes stored
crops, and his sleep winter. Ham
blows off the cover of snow and leaves
him naked, but Shem cor Semming),
symbolzing the husbandman, and his
brother Japhet, whom We call Frej,
god of vegetation, cover him again
with u mantle of green.
Ham was subjugated and is now
serving navigation with haven
(Swede hamn). Hamburg means a
burg at the haven, and Copenhagen
(the Danes say Kopenhavn, the SWedes
say Kopenhamn) means trading
place at the bosom of Ham.
c. u. WHITE.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-01
GIVES EXPRESSION TO HER
IDEAS OF A TRUE HOME

LOS ANGELES, May 25.-l Editor
Herald: A true home is where ones
environment is i'm correlation with the
demands of ones nature. For every
grade Of life, be it only blade of
grass or a shrub; for every animal,
from the worm up to the man; and for
every man, from the necessities of his
body up to the heights of his possible
mental and spiritual life, there must be
somewhere in Gods universe such a
home. The ideal home for a human be-
ing is where all the wants of the sew
eral grades of his complicated life are
duly administered to. 1t is where the
body is supplied with all its needs;
where one is housed, fed and clothed
according to the requirements of ones
special tastes and needs, and where
one is supplied with companionship in
which mutual love and forbearance
prevail, and where there is supply to
the hungers and thirsts of ones higher
life In this life one has to work for
such a home, but when found here one
will be at home in the other world,
where the environment fits the de-
mands of ones higher nature, and
where the demand for such home
brings its own supply.
CLAUSINE r. MANN.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-01

all history, but surely Mr.. Z. does not
fancy God approved of this drunken
ness!
. [ agree with Mr. T. that ats abuse
produces loss" Alcohol is a deadly
poison to man; it's use is it's abuse, ex-
cept when incidentally prescribed.
More than 100000 annually are wrecked
body, mind and soul by rum; nine
tenths of all the crime, poverty, in
sanity and idiocy are directly or indi-
rectly traceable to this pernicious
source; much of the tuberculosis and
many of the railroad accidents are
traceable to it. Let us license spread
ers of the white plague? Let us stop
accidents by licensing certain corpor-
atoms to commit them? The baker
sells the father bread to keep alive his
children, the saloonkeeper, rum to pre-
pare him to murder them. If he spend
a dollar for flour everyone is benefited,
if for rum, it were better thrown into
oceans depths. ! would advise my
boy to become a grocer never a liquor
dealer. Would you, Mr.. T.?
Is the man who poisons wells to be
reprobated? In twenty-five years the
man who poisons society will be SINH
larly regarded. 1t is not surprising
that men who accuse Jesus of Nazar-
eth of making men drunk should seek
to blacken the fair fame of Lincoln
by claiming him as rumseller.
SAVANAROIA
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-01
BELIEVES PERFECTION is
ATTAINABLE BY ALL MANKIND

LOS ANGELES, May 2S.-[Editor
Herald: Perfection is attainable by
all. else Jesus would not have said:
BE We, therefore, perfect even as your
Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Perfection is the reflection of God'
idea There is the right idea OF man as
of money We don't call drunkard d
man. but we advise manliness as an
antidote for drunkenness. In order to
attain this the person must have IN
mind what man is, and this enables
him to reflect manhood. A counterfeit
is never money. The government coin
age represent the lawful idea the I'M
lawful when detected is destroyed. A
mortal is not a man but a counterfeit
hence his end also is destruction.
God made man the expressed image
ar idea of his mind. and in our ability
TO consciously reflect this idea have we
mower TO become the sons of God; but
ignorance is manifest i'm impertectlon.
Al present mortals are believing this
ignorance to represent man.
&C. F." must admit that ideas de-
velop the conception humanity mas OF
itself This is the scope of evolution,
hut when 1--WE come in the unity OF
faith and of the knowledge of God
into a perfect man. We shall be VIII
ing rather to be absent from the BODY
and be present with the Lord To be
thus willing we must first recognize
its n-essentiality or manlessness ana
begin the demonstration OF It's lhldisl-
bility, as Isaiah says. lease ye IroiIi
man whose breath is i'm his noslllis' Tor
wherein is he to be accounted OFF,
will saw to &C. f." Eye have need
that one teach you again which be the
first principles of the oracles or God
and are become such as nave nee9 OIL
milk and not strong meat. H. N
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-01
DECLARES RUMsELLER GIVES
POISON TO HIS PATRONS

WHITTIER, May 22.-[Editor Her.
add: Let MI Taber answer the in
terrogatories | propounded to Captain
Smith. Take them up categorically
before he introduces new matter.
The ablest biblical scholars hold the
Bible uses the word wine to describe
both intoxicating and Misunderstanding
drink. When the first is mentioned it
is always prohibited, when the latter
is spoken of, it is praised. The quo
tations used by Mr.. r. from their con
nections, clearly show that unintoXi-
eating wine is meant. Zech. 9-17,
Corn shall make the young men
cheerful and (neW) wine the maids. !"
Both the corn and wine were foods.
AS to Timothy, Paul had just got
through telling him mot given to
wine" Timothy was so abstemious
that, although the water was bad and
his stomach in horrible condition, he
refused to take a little for medicine.
If Friend Taber will follow Timothys
example and take only little" when
enjoined to do so by the apostle, few
will object. True. Noah got drunk and
exposed his nakedness and cursed his
SON Equally true is it, as 7. says.
Lot "was made drunk" and thereby
the race poisoned at its very fountain
head by one of the foulest crimes in
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-01
THINKS Library SHOULD
HAVE MORE SERIOUS BOOKS

LOS ANGELES, May 2S.-[Editor
Herald: 1t is most gratifying to see a
daily Letter Box attack on the inef-
ficiency of the city library, believing
that we may thus effect reform before
we all lose our eyesight with age. The
apathy of the attendants have become
accustomed to; L can await their snail
pace service, but the indifference of the
chiefs to our demands for new books
is intolera Bile.
The fiction readers can obtain all
they desire to induce mental debility,
but a man whose life work requires
the latest writings in science in Amer
lean, German and French, on chemis-
try, physics, photography, commercial
geography, biography and the world S
travel will not find them here.
The numerous and superb volumes,
illustrated with prototypes, Of mans
travel and research in all lands we
hunger for. Here we find out of date
books, many times rebound, with plates
and maps gone, and so insanitary that
we hesitate to handle them.
Look along the shelves in our two
chief book stores and see the vast num-
pers of comprehensive volumes, just off
the press, giving the very latest re-
searches in science, both important and
attractive in their typography; then
you will realize how we are suffering
and starving for intellectual food. And
those volumes you see in these book
stores represent only a small part of
the titles to be found in. the biblio-
graphic monthlies, making it still more
evident how far we are from possessing
a working library necessary to supply
the urgent daily requirements of 100000
inha bitants, residents and tourists, in
this climate that stimulates the mind S
activity as no other place in America
does H. T. M.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-01
ASKS FOR INVESTIGATION OF
PUBLIC LIBRARY MANAGEMENT

LOS ANGELES, May -[Editor
Herald: In view of the most unjusti-
fable proceedings of the library board
in abolishing the position of superin-
tendent of branches in order to get rid
of Miss Blandy, a word from one who is
familiar with the facts may not he
amiss.
The trial before the civil service COM
mission showed conclusiVely Irregular
tiles and mismanagemen Ito use no
harsher word) in the public library,
and Miss Blandy's justification, in APP
pealing to that commission after hay
ing waited four months in vain for a
hearing by the board.
That the board did not prefer charges
shows clearly they could find no flaw
in Miss Blandy's work and had no
grounds against her. On the contrary,
the librarians reports, adopted and re-
ported by the board to the city council,
praised her in unusual terms, her eff
ticiency and zeal.
We would now like to ask about some
of the inner workings of that public
library that came to light during that
hearing before the commission.
Why is it no books can be bought be
fore July owing to lack of funds
Where is the money? Taxpayers have
a right to know items of expenditure,
and whether employees are attending to
business and giving to the work the
hours paid for.
There is a great and growing dissat-
isfaction among the people as to the
management and personnel of this de
partment and a call on the mayor and
city council to investigate.
A READER
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-01
WOULD UTILIZE RIVER BED
FOR SITE FOR UNION DEPOT

LOS ANGELES. May 27.-[Editor
Herald: Apropos of the agitation and
discussion by the commercial bodies
and press of this city of and for a
union railroad station site would re
spectfully offer the following solution
of this vital problem for the consider
alton of the railways interested and
the general public, viz. Utilization OF
the channel and bed of the Los An~
geles river from First to Ninth streets
Cor so much of 1t as would be neeceal
by bridging or arching and building
depot directly over channel, which
would unite the yards and grounds OF
the Santa Fe and Salt Lake railroads,
making the holdings of these two COM
panies practically one yard. And r
would be the easiest thing in the world
to bring the Southern Pacific into this
site, both from up and down the river.
Then again. if more land were neec~
ed, it could be had at a more reason
able figure in this locality than at any
other location in the city that would
be available as a union depot site.
This, of course, would be contingent
on whether the provisions of the recent
ordinance voted by the people OF the
city, applying to the river bed, would
not preclude the carrying out Of this
plan f. M. D.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-01
DENIES STATEMENT BIBLE
APPROVES OF STRONG DRINK

BOYLE HEIGHTS, May 25.-[Editor
Herald: G. NJ Taber, like many other
advocates of the liquor traffic, is not
afraid to misconstrue truths nor to at
tack the hottest and purest characters
in defense of the saloon, of which
scripture has no cognizance, unless
where it says in Isaiah: "Ye have made
a covenant with death and with hell
are at an agreement The passages
to which he refers have no reference to
the saloon. nor do they encourage the
use of alcohol. Perhaps he does not
know that fermentation is another
name for poison and that the scripture
Gorov. 232935) commands us not to
look at wine when it ferments.
st. Paul never dreamed that G. NJ
Taber would try to induce men to reg
ulate the saloon" through his advice
to Timothy to take a little wine," for
in the same book he counsels Timothy
to continue in the scriptures and de-
clares that they are able to make him
wise unto salvation through faith in
our Lord Jesus Christ and that scrip
ture says plainly "Wine is a mocker,
strong drink is raging, and whosoeVsr
is deceived thereby is not wise" and
as we have already seen commanded
not to even look at it when 1t ferments.
Then what are we to conclude? Sim
ply that of the unfermented wine we
may take a little, and this Is the only
kind to make glad the heart of man.
Jesus himself gave the recipe for this
kind of wine" Put new wine into new
bottles and both will be preserved"
BY this process our housewives keep
fruit from four to six years.
The prophets who are quoted so free
ly admonish Eye have made no diff
ference between the clean and the UNI
clean. the profane and the holy, and
my name is profaned among you.
The Levitical priesthood were not al
lowed to use wine nor strong drink
when going into the temple of the Lord
under penalty of death; and the same
penalty is reiterated to those eating
fermented bread because it contains
alcohol during the seven days of tie
Passover.
Taber forgets the woe pronounced on
those who put the bottle to his neigr-
boris lips and on men mighty to drink
strong drink,
As for Noah, who in his joy drank
too much new Wine, he was likely ig-
norant Of it's effects; and if Abraham
Lincoln ever sold liquor he did not
drink it in Washington, and two days
before his assassination said THE next
live issue before the public is prohibit
ton" which would have prevented in
nocent victims and lynching of the
men many died to free And st. Paul
declared he would not drink wine
While the world stands il it causes a
brother to offend" c.. NJ, Taber must
have "erred through wine and strong
drink" or he would know hundreds of
saloons do not mean even the moderate
use Of alcohol.
MRS. MARSHALL FLANSBURG.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-01
SAYS PROSPECTIVE FATHERS
SHOULD TAKE EXAMINATIONS

LOS ANGELES, May 24-[Editor'
Herald; The reform being advocated
i'm Tacoma. Wash, to require women
who apply for marriage certificate TO
take a civil service examination is al
right as far as it goes but it does not
go far enough. l am tired of nearing
the whole moral responsibility in the
rearing and training of children placed
ON the mother. Where does the father
come in with his moral influence and
the physical inheritance he bequeaths
to his offspring?
Society seems to regard him as
cinher instead of the great moral force
he ought to be in the home and with
the children maturing.
Suppose a mother wants to teach her
bovs The evil effects of tobacco, which
she knows full well from her expert
ence in close proximity with user of
if all her married life. How is she go
ing TO succeed with a perpetual object
lesson before the eyes of the boy in his
father?
heard of an instance few Gays
ago where the father insisted that
LIQUOR should be kept on the sideboard
and served at dinner. VIII 1t not be
hard for that mother to instill the prin-
ciple of total abstinence into the mind
of her boy? Boys always insist on do
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-01
BIG PRODUCE COMPANIES
HAVE GENERAL SHAKEUP

W. f. Cronemiller president OF the
company, has purchased the entire m
terest of Il. A. Curtis in both the CALI
fornia Vegetable Union and the Golden
West Celery and Produce company,
and Mr.. Curtis retires from the man
agement today Mr.. Curtis concurred
in this statement and says that he viii
always feel a kindly interest in the
California Vegetable Union in the
building up of which he has taken so
prominent a part.
He will devote his time to private
interests, he being interested in num-
Der of orange groves and other prop
critics.
The California Vegetable Union VIII
continue its aggressive f, o. b. policy
in the development of markets. by
which it has accomplished such splen-
did results for the vegetable growers
of California.
The new officers of the California
Vegetable Union are as follows;
w. f. Cronemiller, president; f. p.
FAY. vice president and treasurer;
Thomas O,Neill, general manager: FL.
S. Hazeltine, secretary and assistant
general manager
ID. H. Thomas, a retired capitalist.
formerly an official in the First Ma
tional bank of Santa Ana, has been
elected a director in the company.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-01
department and ask it to render an
account of its stewardship.
JULIA w. BLANDY.
PRISON OFFICER ALLEGES
POLITICS CAUSE ABUSES

LOS ANGELES, May 27.-[Editor
Herald: Col. G. j. Griffith, secretary
of the Prison Reform league, and 9TH
ers are interested in this humanitarian
question. which ought to interest every
good citizen. 1t is necessary, first, to
inquire into the cause of the inhuman
! treatment of our criminals. After
years spent as a prominent officer in
two state prisons | think my testimony
| is worth the consideration of the Re-
| form league. My observation is pred
| icated on the actual experience of
! years and with careful study and OBJ
| servation. Let us first inquire, what
| is the nature of the appointments Of
the officers of the state prisons? 1t is
! a notorious fact that politics controls
! the appointments to all the offices OF
| the state prisons, from the warden
down. The governor appoints the war
! den who has the strongest political
| pull and the warden appoints those
| who are the most influential workers
in the party. Fitness for the office is
not considered and political buns are
rewarded with the offices.
What is the result? A little office is
apt to make them tyrannical, and the
| poor convict is often treated worse
! than he would think of treating dog.
! Hundreds of bright and intelligent men
! have been sent to prison who were IN
nocent of crime-sent there by false
! testimony | have personally known
such cases where they have been sent
| for life. Judges are not always just
in their sentences, as an evidence of
! that fact was published in our biennial
report. In every business fitness for
the position is absolutely required, but
not so in the appointment of the Of
fees of state prison.
| In all of my years experience in
! I,1rf fdx2r ~
! ficers who were disposed to treat men
under them as they should be treated.
/ AS a rule a large majority of our crim-
| inals are unmarried men, and [ find
| this cOrrOborated by Prof. Earl Barnes
| of Philadelphia. He says statistics
prove that the criminals of the world
are generally those who are not mar
ried," and Prof. carp tells his classes
"That when society prolongs celibacy
it increases immortality"
Out of 800 men in the last prison I
| was connected with not / per cent were
married men. That fact alone Is suf-
/ ficient to show the necessity of kind
| and proper treatment of the young and
| inexperienced men. ] know from per-
sonal experience that nine out of ten
of our worst criminals can be made
| good citizens when discharged by
proper treatment. AS an experiment [
| took two of our worst inmates in the
| prison that were pronounced incorrigi-
BILE, and in less than six months they
were the best and most orderly men
| in the prison. and l have ample evil
dence to prove my assertion. Before
reforms can be accomplished in our
penal institutions there must be a
change in the appointment of its Off
GERS, and I would call the attention of
the Reform league to this fact.
c.. MAJOR TABFR.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-01
OPPOSES ESTABLISHME EMIT
OF REDLIGHT DISTRICT

Los ANGELES, May 27.-[Editor
Herald: In your issue of May % Citi-
zen asks that a redlight district be es-
tablished in this city. Unquestionably
the worst feature of the social evil is
the ensnaring and forcing of young
innocent girls into places of vice and
OBTAINING them there against their
wills,
If any one doubts that this is done
look at the international agreements
made by the nations of the world to
suppress this infamy, Look at the
court records of various cities of this
country, most conspicuously Chicago
where many men and women have
pleaded guilty to this crime. For that
matter, one does not need to go outside
of Los Angeles-just ascertain some OF
the things coming before our juvenile
court, or many of the things that in
Vestigators here know. Now it is the
unanimous conclusion of all who have
made effort to combat this enslaVenlent
of girls that the segregated district
fosters il; makes it easy of commission
and hard to detect. Indeed, at the in
ternational congress held at Geneva
last year to consider the work of pro-
tecting girls it was the opinion of the
assembly that little could be done in 4
city where there was an established
district The first request of the dele
gates TO tnclF governments - tilib IllS
segregation cease. AS this is the case,
is it necessary to ask that every good
citizen be unalterably opposed to the
established district?
For a city to make provision for o
redlight district would be to advertise
it, to give it official sanction, and by
so doing increase the volume of its de-
structive effects. 1t is no answer to
this to cry impractical moralist or any
kind of y mOralist 1t needs not a NOR
alist. only the very reasonable demand
that the personal freedom of girls be
protected, and that the plague spots
which serve to make their kidnapping
safe and profitable be prohibited.
AS to the degenerates mentioned in
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-01
BELIEVES DETENTION HOME
SHOULD BE MADE ATTRACTIVE

PALM SPRINGS. May 2S.-[Editor
Herald: In a letter from my daugh-
ter Mrs. Strobel, which came last
evening, she mentions the fact that
the detention home board has decided
to purchase a new home for the semi
bad children and that they are con-
sidering the old French hospital. l dc
not know the dimensions of the
grounds, but l know it is a horrible old
place, beside being built the year
was married, which was forty sum
mers ago.
I am somewhat informed on the dan
gers of a probably dirty old place, es-
pecially an old hospital. 1t has struck
me forceably that to take them, live,
I.forceful, even if naughty children, to
such a home would be poor kindness.
Then the grounds are undesirable. and
the location as we'll. Children take on
conditions very readily and the gloom
of that old place would certainly not
be uplifting.
Children will be men and women in
time and the board sould spend their
money well from all points of view
but always considering the social wei
fare of the children in the foreground.
Make those people seek for some
high ground, a cheerful honey place
with grounds large enough that they
can put the boys and girls to work in
their own little plots, to raise any
thing they choose, or try to; have it
pretty enough so they will wish to
keep it so, and to keep themselves self
respecting and manly. 1 know of such
place; to me it seems ideal for the
purpose, a place of thirty-three rooms,
with a basement where they could
wash their own clothes under super
vision; a kitchen where the strongest
boys could enjoy washing the dishes
do not know that you could get this
place, or that it is for SALE or that the
board would be able to see it with my
eyes. The place is at the end of the
Temple street line, and just above the
proposed park running from Sunset
boulevard through to Hoover street,
MRS. STELLA A. MERRITN.