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Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-28
WITH A FINE TOOTH COMB

This city must be rakcd fore and aft to locate
| the desperadOes who are responsible tor the
dynamiting outrages OF recent occurrence.
There is no use in harboring the hope that some
thing of the kind will not happen again, these
wretches who plumber and murder in the dark,
probably already feel a sense of security as re-
suit OF there being so far apprehension OF those
responsible for the Times outrage. Those response
bic for the safety of the citizens OF Los Angeles,
we'll the property OF this fair city, cannot al
ford to be idle moment, but must put forth
superhuman efforts to rid the city OF this element.
1t must be done all costs and at all hazards. IT
the present body of police is not sufficient 1t must
be augmented If the present police officials are
not competent. others must take hold of the sit
uation and meet it, 1t is fair to say however that
The Herald believes the new chief OF police is COM
petent with the proper kind OF support and back
ING to meet the situation squarely, and 1t is the
duty OF every citizen and every man connected
with the police department to give the new chlet
every possible support and extend to him every
cooperation.
The police OF Los Angeles must be placed upon
a basis of military discipline, something that Is
sadly lacking at the present time. No one but a
trained policeman can bring about this happy con-
dition and we are optimistic enough to believe 1t
will be done under the new regime. The police
have already been given pretty fair opportunity
to cope with these criminals, and they will be given
further chance but the commissioners may as
we'll understand now as any time that the citizens
Of Los Angeles do not intend to have the wonder
ful growth and prosperity OF this community re-
tarded by inefficiency-if not something worse
in the police department. The communities OF the
world are watching Los Angeles at this juncture.
One or more such outrages as we lhve recently
had would be a blot Upon the fair name OF this city
that would take years to etace
1t would be pity for the citizens to have to take
the matter in their own hands and we hope it will
not be necessary to resort to this.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-28
MARY MANNERING
PUBLIC LETTER BOX
is DEATH FINAL?

Editor Herald: I understand the am
guish of the mans mind who in vain
looks for proof of the existence of
God and the immortality of the soul !
have been there myself, and no Bible
and no creed did give me any light
until I read "Cyclones and Sanctifica-
tom in the Iconoclast
The strongest evidence we can ad-
duce that the world is governed by
sentient being is the absolute necessity
for his existence. OF what avail is the
mighty universe without him? Why
should matter resolve itself into being,
become blazing suns and symmetrical
planets and roll through space forever?
If it did so in conformity to plan,
in fulfllment of a purpose, then the
framer of that plan. the originator OF
that purpose is what we call God. II
without plan or purpose, it is rs ridicu-
lous as an acephalous rooster running
about in a circle. If there be no reason
in the universe, how comes it that there
is sentence in the ridiculous little mites
that cling to the shell of one relatively
insignificant planet, like microbes TO
mammoth cheese? If we are generated
by the laws of blind force, we have
achieved the impossible-the creature
has not become greater than its Gre
ator IF the universe is but a SOUL
less machine, of what use are We to it?
We can see no reason for the existence
of the earth except the nourishment of
life Oncluding Mr.. O'Brien's incompe-
tents), and that presupposcs purpose;
vet life that ends in universal death
is n mistake--and the materialists tell
us that Nature never errs, What boots
il to be born if a few years of toll and
travail, sorrow and suffering is to end
il all? Why should women bring forth
children in pain unspeakable only 70
glut the demon Death? Why should
love burgeon and bloom only to be
forever blasted? Why not adopt
hedonism as the law of our lives in
stead of restraining the passions and
sacrificing our ease, sometimes our for
tunes and our lives for others sake :
"Result of social cation"-Senerated
how? "By the laws of Nature" How
came Nature to have laws? Isn't 1t
lucky, to say the least, that all matter
consents to obey the law of gravita-
ton: that the collision of two bodies
generates heat instead of cold? Sup
posing that self generated force oper-
ating on nothing created something
matter and mind. Is the greater of the
two generations ephemeral and the
lesser only eternal? pure reason" is
the cry of the materialists, who then
assume that the slightest speck of
dust swimming in the sunbeam is
eternal while the mind that conceived
the Novum Organum has perished ut
terly: that the intellect of Caesar and
Socrates has been destroyed, but the
parings of Hams toe nails are still
| here! ARTH X HOFtMAN.
| Redondo Beach, Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-28
DANISH OLD MR.. CROUCH

This holiday season OF half rest is a splendid
time for all of us to study the philosophy OF
cheerfulness and at least promise ourselves
to make a New Years resolution to abandon the
CROUCH Most of you will declare on the instant
put it into practice you will begin to realize what
slave you are to the habit. Giving up tobacco
or coffee or cuss words is easy when compared tc
the task of simply being pleasant, In fact "cuss
words are only part of the evidence Of having the
crouch.
There is no reason why any sane man or Wom-
an should reflect the unpleasant occurrences III
thcir lives upon those OF their friends and assO-
ciacs and lust continuous recollection OF this
fact would make this dear old world lot jollier
and help to make everybody forget the things that
nag at YOU and put you out of sorts.
lust because something happened at home tC
dispcase YOU it is bad policy to carry it with you
to Your business and thereby dctract that much
from your convincing power. Ii something hap
pens i'll your business to annoy you, there IS no
excuse for you carrying the crouch to your home
and inAictng upon your family, thereby destroy
ING the rcstfuncss that the home is supposed to
give.
Grouchcs usually are caused by the trivial and
the little things and should be quickly showed out
of the way like anything else that otfends.
As a matter OF fact the philosophy Of cheerful
ness is just another way of expressing the golden
rule when it comes to dealing with the feelings OF
your felloWman.
Everyone will admit there is no JOY in being
grouchy, but all will just as readily admit there is
Joy in being pleasing.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-28
ANTI-sUFFRAolsT's RECORD

Editor Herald: The statement that
the Anti suffrage association is "aftili-
ated with the liquor interests and is
"mothered" by Miss Brunson, "a paid
agent of the liquor interests" we deny
absolutely from beginning to end. 1t
would be as reasonable to say that
the suffragist chickens are cherished
by the widest of anarchist fowls, be-
ing on the same side of the proverbial
fence.
As a matter of fact and in spite of
dark suspicious, Miss Brunson was IN
troduced to Los Angeles anti-suffrag g
lists by anti-suffragists in the east
such women as Mrs Elihu Root Mrs
Richard Watson Glider and Mrs.
FRITZ Achelis of New York; Mrs.
Charles Eliot Guild. Mrs. Henry NJ,
whitney and Mrs. James M Goldman
of Boston, and scores of others. l sup
pose nobody will suggest that Mrs
Flfhu Roots name, for instance, or
Mrs Guilds, Mrs. elders, Is lent 10
the liuuOr interests or that it is but
she doesn't know it," Here is Miss
Brunson's record. Like her introduc-
tions. it needs neither apology nor eX-
planatiOn.
1t
University of Iowa, she taught mathe-
matics for several years in the high
school o. st. Paul. Mimi. In 1899 she
was attached to the United States
commissioner generals staff, in the
educational department, at the Paris
exposition. At the close of the Paris
exposition she brought the educational
exhibit to Buffalo and superlntended
that department at the Pan -Amerl-
can exposition in 1901; was superinten-
dent of the elementary and secondary
educational exhibits at the st. Louis
exposition and, later, assistant secre-
tary of the int national jury Of awards
at this exposition; was sent by the
United States bureau of education to
Belgium to report the great education
al congresses held at Brussels, Liege
and Mons upon her return to this
country became chief of the depart
ment of social economy at the James
town eXposition through a civil ser
vice examination became special
agent of the United States bureau OF
la bor in the investigation of the con-
dition of women and children in in
dustries; did special work at the Seat
tie exposition for the department Of
the interior then the United StateS
bureau Of labor sent her to report on
the shirtwast strike. After this-as
was telegraphed by the bureau of Ia
Dor at Washington to anxious inquir-
ers here-she voluntarily resigned her
position, in June last and is at liberty
to speak when and where she chooses
without pernicious activity.
We have invited Miss Brunson to re-
turn to California this winter to assist
us as anti-suffragists.
MARY S. CAsWELL.
Los Angeles. Cal
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-28
GO TO THE AVIATION MEET

THE aviation meet at Dominique is such a
pronounced success, so ably managed and OF
such value from educational standpoint
that The Herald again urges the people of South
California to go, at least once, and preferably
often possible, to the worlds most ia
nous birdmen i'll action This is an exhibition that
is marking an epoch in the history OF mans fight
for supremacy in the air, and these world stirring
events taking place almost in own door
yards, vet many, we fear, have thus far failed to
take advantage OF the opportunity to see the avi-
ators. Women and children should be particularly
interested in these flights because OF their educa-
tional value. \ day at Aviation park will teach
YOU more about the science OF flying than YOU will
gain from volume of printed matter.
The aviation committee deserves the congrat-
ulations OF all citizens for its excellent work in ar
ranging and carrying out successfully such a mag
nifcent exhibition. And now it is TIP to the people
to take advantage of this opportunity and witness
these flights, the news of which is being flashed
daily to the four corners of the earth.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-28
WITH THE PLAYERS

,,o,, Mostaver formerly mempet
of the Burbank stock coulpanS' ,'' :.
imnortant role in 1.-THE Great Nanie'
n new comedy by James Clarence no
vey from the German OF Nlo'o'
and Leo Field. which was given i's
erst American performance In hart
ford Conn. the old rellap'e "e
town." Monday evening. inc pay 10
based on incidents in the life OF fral'"
Lehar, the Viennese composer OIL ine
Merry Widow" Henry Kolker 10 'ne
featured player and the cast seems 10
be strong one.
Henry Arthur Jones and Charles
Klein have agreed to collaborate on
a play which will have scenes III
America and England, Mr.. Klein VIII
ing the dialogue of the American char-
acters and Mr.. Jones that of the Eng
lish
"The Foolish Virgin" adapted from
NJ. Henri Battaile's La Verge Folle,
and which Mrs. Patrick Campbell pro-
duced in New YORK laSI "eSh' nos
been roundly scored by the critics ana
seems to be an unequivocal failure.
David Warfeld will present David
Belascos latest play, "The Return OF
Peter Grimm" in Boston, January 2.
It's central character to be played, OF
course, by Mr. Warfeld, dies and re-
turns to earth again.
William Gillette's New York engage
ment has again been extended and
Held bv the Enemy has been added
to his repertoire of revivals Probably
Bee .use She Loved Him So" will be
offered later.
Henry w. Savage announces for early
production a new American light COM
edy entitled Excuse Me- by Rupert
Hughes, author of "The Bridge" and
1.-TWO Women"
Ethel Barrymore will revive "Trelaw-
ney of the Wells in New York city,
the opening performance being an
nounced for next Monday night.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-28
THE SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS

Editor Herald: Show me so-calle1
religious (spirituaD element upholding
the wanton slaughter of animals and
I'll show you an element devoid of the
very first principle of God reflection.
I will also prove that pain and death
are not ina aginary to the poor helpless
creature which man has dominion
over, and [ will indelibly impress that
evil and sin are an absolute reallty
and predominant in the most advanced
carnivorous Christian Scientist, despite
the late lamented leaders teachings
and her colossal following.
| intend dwelling on the meat-eatlng
question so long as life remains Wlthn
this body of mine until l find other
conscientious and influential souls to
assist me in the spreading of the truth
that any so-called religious institution
upholding the killing of animals is a
farce and a pharisaical monument to
a manmade deity. e. Il. hUSEL'
Los Angeles, Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-28
ROOM FOR HIM!
|, o infant Christ.

o Son OF God, o infant Christ
No room for thee in stately halls;
At banquet board where wealth is Lord,
No room, no room the landlord calls.
But wrap'd within thy swaddling clothes,
Safe sheltered in thy mothers arms.
The wise men" find thee. lovely one,
And bring thee gifts to suit thy charms
But gifts of gold arc not thy care,
Nor frankincense. nor yet the myrrh;
Though flesh recoils at bitter cup.
To wish Of God thou wilt concur.
The days OF youth soon slip away,
Thy manhoods prime brings triumph rare
Flow'rs strew thy path, hosannas ring
Thy garment fine both rich and fair.
But worldly honors have no lure,
Thy mission grand is not forgot:
To teach all men the way of life,
Though gates of death should be thy lot.
All honor to thy precious name
This Christmas day-two thousand years
Eternity shall ring thy praise
For drying human natures tears.
Christmas. 1910. .-. IDA +. TRASk-
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-28
OF COURSE WE ARE AMERICAN

TINE New York Evening Post editorialy takes
the Asatic Exclusion league OF San Fran
cisco to task for substituting the word
"American' for the time honored "Anglo-SaXon
and says:
Its motives are not exactly those OF schol-
arship. 1t is not question OF substituting
Old English" The point in this case is that
the large numbers OF Germans and Irish and,
we suppose, Slavs who, with the league, are
determined to keep the pure native stock OF
this country from being contaminated by
Asiatic immigration, object to having our civ
ilization described any longer as Anglo-SaXon
Hereafter it is to be known as "American =
though if anybody tell what that word
means. racially, he will be wiser than seven
men that can render reason.
Possibly to a man who always lives III New
York the meaning of an American" is a mystery.
He lives in that great hopper where are dumped
the misery and the discomfort OF Europe and pos
siblv does not know what the human product IS
like after the races have passed through that melt
ing pot and out into the rest OF the country to be-
come good citizens. 1t is matter OF 800 years
since the first permanent settlements were started
in America and to them and their successors have
come the men and women of every nation the
world has known. The strain of every race has
been woven into the fabric Of the race that lives
and thrves under the shadow OF Old Glory, and
we are proud OF it.
Uncle Sam has proved himself the real al
chemist of all ages for from out of the dross OF all
tho nations of the world he has evolved the ster-
ling metal OF our race. The family tree Of the
average American household will show branches
that reach into hall dozen natonalities; where
the suaveness OF the Frank is blended with the
energy of the Irish, the stolidity OF the English,
the sturdiness OF the Hollander, perhaps with a
dash OF the Magyar fearlessness. Then why con-
tinue to cling alone to the Anglo-SaXOn branches
Surely 800 years is long enough to make ma
tonal type and every nation but ourselves recog-
nizes us as distinct
OF course the nation is still in the making and
America is more and more becoming peryaded
with the spirit that recognizes as American every
immigrant that lands in this country and an
jnounces his intention Of becoming a citizen. Most
Of them are good ones and the people of this land
long since have awakened to the fact the May
flower did not bring over all the best people from
the other side Of the sea in that one shipload
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-28
BUTLER'S LAND BUGABOO
WYE are led to wonder whether eastern col
wv Iese presidents are not turning personal
nrcss aocnts when we read eNerv daN the

W. % 5d@ @a do %@"aS ao @ %s'555 61s Ss'S5" oo @@
press agents when we read every day the
vagaries that are paraded as facts by men with Il
great lot of tail letters to indicate their degrees
of sayantrv. The actress who wants to break into
print has to lose her diamonds or smash her auto
mobile but all the college president has TO do is
father new notion.
Nicholas Murray Butler, president OF Columbia
university, has the whole country talking about
him and his school because he SAYS We are mcnaccd
by too many people who are overcroWding the
land available for tilIage. lie could get a colonst
ticket cheap at this time of the year and find room
ior everybody out here.
Now let President Butler stop worrying and take
his slate The population OF France is 3S96l,945;
lis area is 2O105+ square miles At that price we
could tuck away the entire population of France
in the state ot Texas. which has 265TSO square
miles and about five millions Of population. Again
the population oi Germany is 63,SS6OOO and its
area is only about a thousand square miles larger
Than that OF Jraucc. vt that rate we could accom-
modatc i'm the United States the trifc OF 1lOO-
100000 souls. which rs very nearly the entire
present population oi Inc globe. Aiter this it is
hardly necessary -o point out that Great Britain
and ireland, which have Il population OF +l9z6821
on 1851 square miles Gould be neatly tucked
away either i'm California, Montana or New Mex
leo, without croWdln% the present population OF
those states.
It Is really too bad that President Butler should
worry SO. when little figuring would show him
that, far from being in the same class with India
and China, we are also far from being in the same
class as coneested Germany and England. The
his slate. The population 0t France is 3806l 045
its area is 2O7O54 square miles, At that rate VIC
day of big bonanza farms and of unlimited free
grazing lands may be past but there is no famine
of land as yet nor soon likely to come.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-28
A HEARTY LAUGH
Being the days best toks from the news
exchanges.

A member of an eminent st. Louis
law firm went to Chicago to consult
client. When he arrived he found that
he had unaccountably forgotten the
clients name. He telegraphed his part
ner: whats our clients name?" The
answer read, "Brown, Walter E. Yours
is Allen. William B."-San Francisco
Argonaut
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-28

Jersey women want o.tag their husbands by
compelling them to wear wedding rings on their
thumbs. Most married men in Jersey can be
picked out by their tired and haunted look with
out the aid OF any further identification.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-28

Southern California is to get ST 100000 out Of
the government reclamation fund, and we are will
ing to wager that is one OF the best investments
Uncle Sam ever made.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-28

When one reads a list OF guests at a Russian
dinner party he wonders if they can call each other
bv their real names after the second bottle
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-28

Aviator Hoxsey's feat is simply further proof
of the general belief that one can get closer to
heaven in Los Angeles than from any other spot
on earth.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-28
A KINGLY STRIKE

And now the king of Greece is 60
ing to abdlcate the throne. A raise in
wages all along the line seems to be
necessary-Detroit News.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-28

Burbank, has created new strawberry with a
pineapple flavor. Why didn't ne make pineapple
with a strawberry coating before he finished the
lob?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-28

Lots of men are beginning to realize it was a
mistake to give purses to their wives and
daughters on Christmas. 1t creates hallucination
among womanbind that they ought to have money.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-28

Thanks to mail trains bcatcd by eastern biz
yards the letter carrier is likely to bring Christmas
cheer to homes here every day for week to come.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-28

MISUNDERSTANDING SAVED
Collector Loeb might make a fiat
rate of $4,000 as the entrance fee.-Wall
Street Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-28
CAN'T LOSE HIM

Secretary Ballinger was slightly
shaken up in a railroad wreck the
other day, but managed to cling to his
seat, possibly from force of habit
Ohio State Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-28
HIS ADHESIVE DIGITs

In st. Louis there is a robber who Is
known as 1.-The candy kid" He prob
ably got the name owing to his possess
sion of sticky fngers.-Pratt (kas.) Re-
publican.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-28

ONE REDEEMING FEATURE
Let it be said to the credit of the
dethroned young king of Portugal that
he saved his ndmother.-Pittsburg
Chronicle Telegraph.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-28

After all. there was one unusual feature about
the Christmas just passed All the amateur Kris
Nringcs escaped the lighted candles.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-28
WHAT OTHERS SAY

BUT THINK WHAT HE MUST
SUFFER
The continued silence of Chancellor
Day, under extreme provocation, can
perhaps best be accounted for on the
theory that he finds no words adequate
to express his opinion of the present
stuation-New Orleans Times Demo-
crat
BERTILLONING BULLETS
Hereafter every bullet in every po-
liceman's pistol in Chicago will be
marked. We presume it is hoped thus
to discover which officers are holding
up citizens on tho different thorough
fares of the town.-Charleston Is. Co
News and Courier.
TRACING THE SOURCES
DR.. David Starr Jordan says the high
cost of living is due to the late war be-
tween Russia and Japan. and the Sa-
vannah News wants to know why he
didn't lay it on Noah and the flood, or
upon Adam and the serpent.-Lincoln
(Neb.), Star.
WHY LONDON MUST GROW
Complaint is made in London that on
Sunday the ladies big hats block the
narrow aisles of the oldfashioned
churches. OF course there is no way TO
remedy the trouble except to widen thS
aisles.-Rochester On. V Democrat.
INCREASED INDUSTRY IN MAINE
Hoiro ra0orfa tba
use of oxen for plowing has been re-
vived in that state. Somebody will be
mean enough to intimate this is one of
the blighting effects of the recent
Democratic victory.-St. Paul Dispatch.
BROTHERS,, BE DIVERTING
Called upon to explain why she shot
her husband, a ST. Louis woman said
she did it for fun. Married men who
neglectto provide their wives with en-
tertainment should find warning here.
-Leavenworth (Kas) Times.
FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
Campaign speakers who have been
explaining how the high cost of living
may be reduced will now have time
to work out the problem for them
selves.-Wall Street Journal.
CAN'T LOSE HIM
Secretary Ballinger was slightly
shaken up in railroad wreck the
other day, but managed to cling to his
seat, possibly from force of habit
Ohio State Journal.
HIS ADHESIVE DIGITS
In st. Louis there is robber who Is
known as "the candy kid" He prob
ably got the name owing to his possess
sion of sticky fingers.-Pratt (Kas.) Re-
publican.
ONE REDEEMING FEATURE
Let it be said to the credit of the
dethroned young king of Portugal that
he saved his grandmother.-Pitts
Chronicle Telegraph.
A KINGLY STRIKE
And now the king of Greece is 60
ing to abdicate the throne. A raise in
wages all along the line seems to be
ecessary-Detroit News.
MJSITNnEPSTAND SAWED
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-28
Tracing THE SOURCES

TRACING THE SOURCES
DIR. David Starr Jordan says the high
cost of living is due to the late war be-
tween Russia and Japan. and the Sa-
vannah News wants to know why he
didn't lay it on Noah and the flood. or
upon Adam and the serpent.-Lincoln
(NebO, Star