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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-25
SAYS THEORY OF EVOLUTION
MAKES CRIMINALS OF BOYS

WHITTIER, April 21.-[Editor Her
add: In seeking the cause of the ex-
traordinary increase of youthful Grim
inals, the criminologist can ill afford
to neglect the new teaching of many Of
our religious colleges as to the origin
and destiny of man. When a boy is
convinced that his early teachers, his
father and mother, were either gross
ly ignorant or willfully misleading
when they taught him that God was
his Father, that he was created In
the image of the Highest, and, al
though somewhat in ruins, 1t was his
life work to rebuild the divine temple
after the great original, and that God
stood ever ready to help him"-when
he is led to believe this all delusion
and that not God, but baboon, was
his remote father, and not to be like
God, but to somewhat improve on his
monkey ancestor is the highest life
offers, is 1t to be wondered that after
such jar to his whole belief and
with the grand and illimitable removed
he should relapse into something little
removed from his supposed progenitor?
Will such teachings make Gladstones,
Washingtons, Lincolns, Garfields, Nc
Kinleys? No, you have removed what
appeals so strongly to the vivid imagi-
nation of the youthful man, and he
evolutes downward.
Would 1t not be more in harmony
with honorable conduct If these teach
ers. who cannot teach the faith of the
self-sacrificing founders of these Chris
tan colleges, would refuse longer to
receive pay for defeating the pur-
poses of the institutions?
SAVANAROLA.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-25
GREATER LOS ANGELES

N REATER LOS ANGELES with
VT San Pedro harbor will add greatly
W to the number of Californian in
dustries, because when the harbor sup
plies an obvious outlet for manufac-
tured commodities there will be an in
centive to the establishment of plants.
A great export and import business
will be built up at San Pedro within
few years. The tonnage of shipping in
the harbor soon will represent world
commerce. Many steamship lines will
be established both for freight and pas
senger service between Los Angeles,
Australasia and the Orient.
The completion of the Panama canal
will make Los Angeles a bi-oceanic
city; that is to say, her interests will
be developed in Atlantic as well as Pa
cific marts. No city on the North
American continent enjoys advantages
of commercial situation superior to
those of Greater Los Angeles. This will
become one of the greatest industrial
centers of the new world. Consolida-
ton is necessary in order that the ma
tural harbor OF Los Angeles, which is
San Pedro, may be used for the people,
and by consolidation the prosperity of
San Pedro as the consolidated seaport
of Los Angeles will be increased
greatly. We believe the citizens of San
Pedro understand thoroughly the i'm
portance of establishing close relations
and business partnership with Los
Angeles.
Consolidation will bring about the
greatest good for the greatest number
of the citizens of Greater Los Angeles;
and the hypocrisy of the corporation
interests has been exposed by the tide
lands suits in such q fashion that it
will be impossible for interests inimical
to Greater Los Angeles to befool the
public.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-25
BE AN OPTIMIST

w HEN disposed to fall into a spirit
w of the times and ask despair
" ingly whats the use?" read
this anti-pessimist soul stimulant sup
piled by worthy Presbyterian minis
ter of Glasgow, Scotland: THAT man
in his measure is great man whose
word has the effect of reassuring us,
just as that writer is a bad writer who
disposes his readers to succumb. Any
thing Is bad which disheartens us on
our predestinel journey. Anything Is
bad which raises a suspicion as to the
value of existence. Anything is bad
which would lead us to disparage hui
man enterprise. Anything is bad
which would make us let our hands fall
and our knees shake, face to face with
our elementary duties and responsible
ties, and face to face with our own
ignorance and the darkness that lies
about u.s. Anything is bad which makes
us regret life. All laughter at man is
hollow and of the devil The account
of man which is thrust upon us by
hasty and dogmatic materialism is,
from the point of view of mans in
stincts and from the point of view of
the highest words he has ever obeyed,
form of laughter at man. AS such it
is bad. thing it may even be to be put
down one day, as witchcraft was put
down, and for the same reason, that 1t
is seducing man from his true and
normal and natural life"
Our reading leads us to believe witch
craft (Which by our learned and rev.
erend Scottish friend seems to be
taken seriously was put down in
more than usually strenuous fashion
We wouldn't like to see even the most
pessimistic cynic or the most cynical
pessimist burned at the stake; and yet
with our Scottish friend we believe the
gloomy sneerer is the modern mischief
maker, and really and truly "hoodoos"
(to the extent of his power) those who
may come within his influence. AIS
for the best, so let's whistle and sing
while we walk in even the loneliest and
most unpleasant places of our pre-
destined" road.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-25
LINEMAN DEFENDS DEVIL
FROM UTTER DESTRUCTION

LOS ANGELES, April 24-[Editor
Herald: AS 1 am willing to be fair
and give the devil his dues, 1 think In
measure he needs defending from
utter destruction. He has been trotted
out to brighten those who could not be
persuaded to join in the current he
liefs all along the line.
A few days ago l gave two instances
of the two Christian godheads actual
ly talking with the devil, showing very
plainly that it was meant to convey the
idea that he was personal devil.
/ know the Bible is full of devils, and
let them be red or black, it does not
alter the story that God and Jesus
actually talked with the devil. The
rank and file of the Christians actually
believe in a personal devil, because
these two stories convey no other idea
than that there is a personal God, a
personal Christ and personal devil.
Whether 1t is true that there is or is
not a personal God or devil does not
enter into the discussion, but does the
Bible teach or convey the personal
devil idea?
OF course the people who believe in a
personal devil may be of unsound mind
as one of the correspondents asserts,
but, be this as it may, if they believe
the Bible and have been brought up
for centuries to believe these stories
they are doing no more than following
what they have been taught to be true.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-25
URGES EXPOSURE OF MEN
CAUGHT IN POLICE RAIDS

LOS ANGELES, April 21.-[Editor
Herald: From our daily papers of
several Gays ago we learn that one of
our prominent business and society
men protests against the raiding of
certain disreputable houses, as 1t
would expose too many prominent
business men,"
If these prominent business men are
guilty then they should be exposed.
They are guilty of not only impurity
themselves, but are helping to keep
these miserable women down in shame
and making their degraded life pos
sible. Yes, let these men be exposed
and not fined and turned loose, as these
miserable women are, but lodged in
Jail; they are even worse than their
women partners, for these men are
hypocrites. The women are outcasts,
ruined, while these very men are "hon-
orable gentlemen" prominent in our
business and society world; some of
them so-called Christians, members of
our churches, and all consider them
selves worthy to marry the purest and
most innocent young girls.
If they are not guilty. why are they
fearful? And If they are let them
be exposed and punished.
w d. HARTEY
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-25
TREASON PUNISHED

n ERNICIOUS activity in politics is
Mayor Alexander's reason for ask
a ing the council to confirm the re-
moval of DIR. D. w. Edelman and Mil
ton Kelley Young from the civil service
commission. What can be more ridicu-
lous and at the same time melancholy
than the spectacle presented by civil
service commissioners who violate one
Of the rules of the civil service COM
mission?
In the case of the commissioners
asked by the mayor to resign the vio-
lation of both the spirit and the letter
of the civil service regulations was so
fragrant that the offenders could not
have hoped to escape censure unless
the political cause in which they were
perniciously active had triumphed at
the polls.
Edelman and Young not only sup
ported Harper during the recall cam
paign, but signed a letter in which.
among other remarkably unfair and
untruthful passages, there was the fol-
lowing:
Alexander stands for a proceeding
that involves the good name of the
city. He is backed by clique and
class, and not by popular will He
must be condemned as unworthy and
unfit by reason of the methods and the
cause he represents"
The civil service commissioners who
Endorsed this remarkable passage are
hoist by their own petard-"condemned
as unworthy and unfit by reason of the
methods and the cause they repre-
sented."
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-25
HOPE FOR PRISONERS

~ OvERNOR GILLETT mas signed
a. senate bill No. 49, which author
VI ICES the state board of prison dl-
rectors to assist discharged prisoners III
procuring employment. The bill, which
now becomes law, carries with 1t an
appropriation of $4,000 for the purpose OF
enabling the board to accomplish It's
purpose.
The appropriation is sufficiently mod
est. for it would be hard to conceive
of a measure that could appeal more
directly both to common sense ana
humanitarian instincts. Surely if there
is living creature that needs help
ing hand it is the man who comes out
into the world once more from the
morally, mentally and physically en-
ervating experience of perhaps long
term in JAIL to take up once more the
struggle for existence in contest IN
which the odds are all desperately
against him. Hitherto the state has
packed him off with IS in his pocket
and a $295 suit of clothes that every
detective from Siskiyou to San Diego
can recognize a block away.
Colonel Griffith ]. Griffith is to be
congratulated on the fight, against ap-
parently overwhelming odds, he has
made for this and the other measures
that now stand largely, if not ex-
clusively, to his credit.
Overcoming the former opposition OF
the governor and bitter antagonism on
the part of the state board of prison
directors he procured the passage of an
act providing for the creation of
board of pardons, paroles and refers,
which was followed by the enactment
last month of a law extending to re-
cidivists-those who had served pre-
vious term or terms in state prison
the privilege of parole hitherto granted
to first term prisoners alone.
According to the San Quentin census
for February there were confined there
at that date 1853 prisoners, of whom
1888 were recidivists. The Folsom state
prison census of a similar date showed
1913 inmates, of which number S45
were recldivists.
This large body of men, 729 in all,
had been shut out from hope, all slim
illus to good conduct being lacking
since the most exemplary behavior
could bring no mitigation of their lot.
That senseless condition of affairs no
longer exists, and those who may be
released hereafter by the authority of
the specially created board will have
the inestin1able advantage of finding
employment secured. For proof of the
urgent necessity for this last provision
one need only point to the figures
showing the alarming proportion of
those who hitherto have been released
from Jail only to find themselves once
more in the custody of the state,
housed, fed and clothed at the expense
of the taxpayer
Colonel Griffith also has received the
assurance of the authorities that when
the new buildings now in course of
erection are completed, which is ex-
pected to be early next year, segrega-
tion of prisoners. q step imperatively
necessary in the interest of the most
elementary morality will be in order.
At present, with a combined population
of 1882 the two state prisons have only
900 cells, condition that is nothing
less than tragieal in its results.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-25
CAESAR AND GOD

esD ENDER therefore unto Caesar
II the things which are Caesars,
and unto God the things that
are Gods said Jesus. In modern times
great stress is always laid on the first
part of the injunction. We have seldom
heard sermon on the subject which
did not emphasize the necessity of do
ing ones duty by the government. pay
ing taxes cheerfully. obeying the laws
and respecting persons in authority.
Jesus, we are told by most speakers
respecting law and order and con-
forming to the customs of the time, es-
pecially those by law established.
We would like to hear sermon
which would lay emphasis on the Sec
ond part of the injunction and bring
out fully the meaning of it:
Render unto God the things that are
Gods"
Now what are the things that are
God's?" Did Jesus mean church at
tendance only? Payment of church
dues only? He does not leave us in
which we have quoted should always
be supplemented with the explanation
or application supplied by Jesus.
Soon after he had said, Render unto
Caesar the things which are Caesars,
and unto God the things that are
PLANTATION of the things that are
Gods" and surely it is the very es-
sence of Christianity:
THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD
THY GOD WITH ALL THY HEART,
AND WITH ALL THY SOUL, AND
WITH ALL THY MIND. THIS is
THE FIRST AND GREAT COM
MANDMENT. AND THE SECOND IS
LIKE UNTO 1T: THOU SHALT LOVE
THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF. ON
THESE TWO COMMANDMENTS
HANG ALL THE LAW AND THE
PROPHETS"
Is the second of these great Chris
tian commandments uttered by the
Master Himself being obeyed in the
United States today? Obeyed? What?
Is it even being respected? Is there any
thing at all in present conditions to
indicate that everybody in this country
is loving his neighbor as himself and
is giving his neighbor a square deal?
We are justified in wondering what
would happen if the protesting Chris
tians of the United States would stop
PLAYING AT CHRISTIANITY and
--.o,,1s T I'VE rTNrYu1 II TrrII &c TIJETT1
MASTER COMMANDED THEM.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-25
LEADERSHIP
TT has been established beyond cavil

t has been established beyond cavil
that Los Angeles leads the far
II west In postal business. From time
to time Portland and Seattle issue lit
erature which might beguile the inno-
cent easterner into believing their pros
perity Gin which we heartily rejoice)
is much more solidly founded than that
of Los Angeles. Postal business af-
fords probably the best means of OBJ
tanning a fair idea of the activities Of
a city. If the postal business is big 1t
indicates that the amount of activity
behind the postal business must be cor
respondingly great.
Postmaster Flint has compiled sta
tistics for the year ended March 81, 1909.
which prove conclusively the leader
ship of Los Angeles. Our thriving city
transacts nearly so per cent more bus
mess than Seattle and so per cent more
than Portland.
Portland's total sales of postage
stamps for the year amounted to $685.
040. This is a handsome sum, and in
dicates healthy conditions in Portland.
munity on its business prosperity. The
total for Seattle is s787.167 Seattle is
undoubtedly in fine fettle. But when
we come to Los Angeles the figure
skips over the million dollar boundary
and makes a considerable run on the
yonder side of it. In Los Angeles the
total postage stamp business for a
year amounted to $1,130,521.5S. This
shows Los Angeles does nearly 80 per
cent more business than Seattle and go
per cent more than Portland. Los An
geles is steadily progressing toward the
indisputable leadership of the Pacific
coast. 1t is the destiny of this city to
be the metropolis of the far west. There
will be many great cities in the United
States, but there will be three which
will always be surprisingly great and
will always defy local rivalry-New
York in the east, Chicago in the middle
west and Los Angeles in the far west
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-25
AERONAUTICS

NJ EXT Saturday the show of the
" Aero Club of California will be
~ opened, and national attention
will be directed to the fact that this
city is the center of the aeronautic in
dustry. The development of aeronaut-
les in Southern California can be ac-
complished with more advantages than
in any eastern center. Air sailing, to a
great extent, depends on climate, ana
the climate of Southern California is
more equable and favorable than that
of any other section of the United
States.
BY the aero show, public attention
will be directed to an industry which
is peculiarly suitable to Southern Cali
fornia, and is bound to thrive here
There is an industrial aspect to bal
looming and aeronautics. The day may
come when every man who has the
price may own his dirigible. From the
enterprise and experiments of the Aero
club will be evolved the conditions
which will make private ownership of
safe, practicable, navigable airships as
general as the ownership Of automo-
biles.
The show of the Aero club will also
effect good purpose of advertising
Los Angeles. 1t should become general
ly known that aerial navigation may
be practiced here all the year round.
OF course, it is possible rash aero
nauts may find themselves wrecked in
the highlands. But ordinary prudence
will restrict air navigation to limits
within which absolute safety and the
best of weather may be enjoyed at all
seasons of the year.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-25
HAS WARMEST PRAISE FOR
MAYOR ALExANDER'S ACTION

RIVERSIDE, April 22.-[Editor Her
add: Grandiose paresis has been given
a staggering blow by Mayor Alexander
where he publicly asks suggestions
from everybody for the Improvement of
When, in Illinois, it was charged that
a boy in the Pontiac reform school had
been logged into insensibility upon a
cement floor the hose turned on him
and he left to freeze solidly in the ice,
the governor of the state became vio-
tack on the administration. Preposter-
Gus nonsense!
If the managers of the different state
despotisms called state institutions
would emulate Mayor Alexander, they
would find hundreds of thousands OF
warm friends instead of virtually or
eanized sulleu revolt The people will
be free. Yours for progress,
LIBERTY.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-25
OPENING INDIAN LANDS
Ry Frederic j. Haskin

EEyHE president will issue a proclanna-
ton before long announcing that
"A 100000 acres of land In the Fiat
head Indian reservation, Montana, Will
be opened to eiltry and settlement prob
ably next fall. This will be done under
a special act of congress. A commission
appointed by the president Is now en-
gagged In inspecting, classifying and APP
praising all OF the lands to be disposed
of. There viii be five classes OF land
liable for distribution, including ag-
ricultural, timber, mineral and grazing.
These lands may be obtained under the
provisions of the homestead, mineral
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-25

Charles Farwell Edison, president of
the Gamut club, told the City club yes
terday Politics is life," and I'm order
to make civilization worth while we
must stop in our rush for wealth and
devote some of our time and money to
the cultivation of artistic ideals" In
other words, we should live an all
around life, and we would soon realize
the accountability of politics, ethics
and art
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-25

and town site laws
of the u n | I e d
States. Most of the
land is agricultural
and can be obtained
ip tracts of 100
acres by the pay
ment of an almost
nominal price.
AS there are over
s0,00O,000 people in
this country who
would like to get
something for moth
ing, a big demand
for the Flathead
lands is expected.
The method of dis
tribution is to be
prescribed by the
president. 1t will be
In the nature of u
lottery d r a W i n &.
Uncle Sam does not
tolerate private lot
teries, but period
ically he operates
one himself, as will
be the case at the
= I -
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-25
AT THE THEATERS

BELASCO-"The Dollar Mark"
MASON-Dark.
AUDITORIUM-Ben Greet ringers
Shakespeare Repertoire.
BURRANK-"Saomy Jane"
MAJESTIC-"The Lightning Conductor
GRAND OPERA HOUSE-"The Mayor
Toxic"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Los ANGELES-Vaudeville
Observation-Disclosures
TMPIRE-Vaudeville.
IJNIQUE-"Billie Kin"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-25

Japanese cruisers are due today.
Most of JUS have forgotten all the Jap
anese we ever knew. But many of the
Japanese can speak our language, so
the entente cordiale will be accom-
plished without any linguistic bitches.
Mikado Nippon Yokohama Yeddo Hak-
odate Jiu Jitsu. Banzai!
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-25

I know that the scholarship of today
is of the opinion that the whole genetic
story in the Bible was copied from the
Babylonians. Any one who will read
extensively the history of the human
race must bow to the facts, and his
prejudice and superstition will disap-
pear and leave his brain clear to do
the work of the here and now.
LINEMAN.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-25

Chief Dishmans school for officers
is an illustration of his accurate and
down to date knowledge of police work.
When the chief has been in authority
little while longer people will begin
to have some realization of the defects
and obsolete methods tolerated on our
police force simply because the right
man was not in the right place.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-25

The Young Turks are strenuous. If
they modernize Turkey they will have
wrought something approaching mir
acle. The awakening of Turkey may
mean as much to Europe as the awak-
ening of Japan did to Asia.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-25
GETTING in Good

at saw him on the street with his
wife yesterday and he was being just
terrible polite to her."
Eyes, he was accompanying her to
the station to meet her mother"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-25

Fifty Florida orange growers will
arrive in Los Angeles tomorrow even
ing. They hope to pick up few use
full suggestions in citro-culture. Cali
fornia oranges are the best in the
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-25

Mayor Alexander announces city en-
ployes who are obeying the spirit of the
principle of civil service and are giving
the city due service need have no fear
of being removed. Mayor Alexander's
policy is to give everybody square
deal.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-25

John L. Sullivan says he was once
the champion of the world. He GER
tainly was the most popular prize fight
err in the annals of the American ring.
He came from the home of culture, yet
nobody ever dared call him Johnnie
Bostonbeans.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-25
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENTS intended
for publication aust 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 800 words
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-25

Don't forget Tag day; and if you
have not sent your contribution to Los
Angeles Orphans home for new build
ings on the Colegrove site, do it now.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-25
We Au bid

"The north pole is surrounded by
fields of ice"
II thought it was surrounded by lee
ture fields"