Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-13
<EYTN HE Penalties of Progress" was
the theme of an address given
II yesterday before the Bbell club

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the theme of an address giver
Il yesterday before the Ebell cluf
bv Rev. Matthew S. Hughes, d. D., OF
Pasadena.
Giving credit to the present genera
ton for advance along the lines which
make for material and commercial
prosperity DR.. Hughes sounded cry
of warning that we are paying far toe
dearly for them.
S"Progress should not mean only ac-
quisition and possession" said he, "bui
also a better and still better brand oil
manhood and womanhood to keep pace
with the progress. The problem OF the
present day Is what has become of oul
crop Of George Washingtons.
The speaker used the word penalty
in It's secondary meaning, and instanceo
certain conditions of discomfort thai
we all pay as the price of some phase ol
progress.
The loss of the.bud in the delight OF
watching the perfect blossom develop
vanished boyhood and youth giving
place to strength and vigor Of the men
were not among the losses deplored, but
rather those that come after and OTTER
as a result of acquisition.
type of twentieth century progress, anc
growing after the fashion of mush-
room and with the swiftness of magic
1t is, said the speaker, the breeding
place of every great evil in modern life
This great furnace, fed from tributary
country every three or four years, soon
mas the country lad taught to carry en-
ormous burdens and driving with a frnl
and skilled hand the chariot of prog
MI a fA q
of the bone and Drawn and brain bred
in country sun and air and quiet, and
because they have behind them genera
lions of simple living ancestry.
But soon they in turn are paying the
penalty for the sin of overwork, and
their wrong doing in this line Is visited
on their children to the third and
fourth generation in imbeciles, dwarfs
etc. y
The housewife is owned by her house,
the business man by his business
even the wide scope of the daily
newspapers making tremendous drain
upon our affections, emotions and de-
sires. -
The speaker claimed that insanity
is on the increase, and this he thought
is due to the burdens imposed by civil
lization, which press unbearably upon
the brain.
The individual and his rights, he
said, are already submerged in the
corporation, and he even questioned IL
in the near future the corporation
would not prove greater than the very
state which gave 1t birth.
1--WE talk said he, "of the prob
lens of labor, the problem of capital,
the evil of divorce, fof crime ana pau
perism-there is no solution of any or
these problems but by way of the in
dividual. The answer to all great
questions of the day is to be found
in the individual. and the revival of the
spirit of individualism is one of the
needs of the day."
At is last meeting the Saturday Aft
ernoon club of Monrovia elected Off
GERS for the coming year as follows:
President, Mrs. Bertram C. Davies;
first vice president, Mrs. s. e. Sails
bury; second vice president, Mrs. Alice
CASTILLO; corresponding secretary, Miss
Gertrude Henry; recording secretary,
Mrs M. H. Graham; treasurer, Mrs.
George o. Monroe.
s.
Arrangements have been made by
the press and hospital committees of
the Cosmos club for luncheon to be
given Friday at Hotel Hayward in
honor of Mrs. r. p. Howell, president;
Mrs. j. b. Solomon, corresponding
secretary, and Mrs. Hunter. chair
man of the hospitality committee. At
Wednesdays meeting officers will be
nominated for the ensuing year and
will be seated at the meeting next
week.