davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1910-06-11
CLEAR TITLE
TO PROPERTY.
Concord Baptist Church Holds
Reunion and Burns Mortgage.
HISTORY OF THE STRUGGLE.

Congregation Which Started In Little
Frame Dwelling House Forty seven
Years Ago Burns Mortgage on Edi-
flee Valued at 7,0oo-Larss Finan-
eiai Obligation Finally Settled.
The annual reunion of the Concord
Baptist Church of Christ in Brooklyn
was one Of the many highly interest
ing events which occurred during the
week ending May 81. The auditorium
Of the church was crowded far beyond
Its seating capacity.
Aside from the usual features of the
reunion. the great attraction on this
occasion was the burning of the mort
gage. The church was organized in
1S47 with but few members. 1t began
In a little frame dwelling house on
Concord street The Rev. Samson
White. long since deceased, was its
first pastor.
As our people came up from the
south in large numbers the congrega.
ton and membership grew In like pro-
portion. When the congregation grew
too large for the place church build
ing was secured on Canton street.
where the church remained until 1880
By this time the congregation was
quite large, and the church under the
pastorate Of the late Rev. William T.
Dixon was in a fourishing condition.
More room was needed, and the Can
ton street property was sold for $15,-
900 and the present building on Duf-
field street purchased for $4,000
This property is now valued at $4S,-
600. 1t is clear of debt, and the
church has handsome cash balance
and membership Of 1.135 There are
many members still living who united
with the church forty years ago. To
them as well as the younger members
and officials the burning Of the mort
gage was indeed an occasion for great
rejoicing.
The Rev. William T. Dixon, whose
death occurred June 8, 1909, became
the pastor Of Concord in 1863. At the
time Of his death there remained only
5000 Of the $4,000 to be paid, part
Of which was then In hand. Within
the past ten months the remainder has
been contributed by the members and
congregation and paid. Out Of respect
for DR.. Dixon's long and faithful serv-
ices to the church the members voted
to credit the full payment for the prop
erty to bis pastoral record.
Previous to the burning Of the mort
gage at the reunion Rev. James a..
Gordon. superintendent Of the Brook
lyn Howard Colored Orphan asylum,
who IL a member Of Concord, conduct
ed the following program: Organ vol
untary. Professor ]. F. R. Wilson;
coronation hymn. led by the choir;
invocation. Rev. Richmond A. Royster;
vocal solo. Mrs. Sarah F. a. Russell;
Scripture lesson. Mrs. Anna A. Per.
kins; vocal solo. Clarence Boden; brief
historical sketch Of the church, the
Rev. DIR. L. j, Brown; Information
from absent members. Church Clerk
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-10
PROBLEMS THAT FACE
WORKER ARE DISCUSSED

EAGLE ROCK, Jan. S.-[Editor Her
adj: None is so blind as he who will
not see.'' Our friend with the race-re-
striction mania ignores the fact that
immigration alone is the cause of the
increase of population in this country.
He disclaims being an anarchist, by
which I infer he means to insinuate
that some one else is one. He also de-
nies being a Socialist; therefore he
must be an individualist, and an
archy is the acme of individualism. He
should study his dictionary and learn
the difference between those that are in
favor of a better order of society and
those who are opposed to all order. The
Times method of befuddlirg readers
will not answer here. JOHN d. is men
toned because he is a shining example
of anarchistic capitalism. John says
God gave him his great wealth, but
court records in the state of Ohio
showing how the Standard Oil COM
pany crushed some of its competitors
do not read like Gods work. For fur
ther information in regard to this COM
pany read wealth VS.. Common
wealth." by Henry d. Lloyd.
Labor creates all wealth. If one man
receives much that he does not earn 1t
stands to reason that many fail to
receive all that they do earn. 1t has
been shown in these columns that the
worker only receives a fraction of the
value of his product. If he received
the full value of his labor he might be
able to properly care for ALL of his
children.
1t is true that the parents are to
blame for the unhappy condition of
their children. The parents should
study the industrial conditions; the IA
ther should cease blindly voting the
ticket of his fathers father and join
with his fellow workers in electing men
of his own class to make and enforce
the laws. Then we might hope to
have legislatures which, instead of ca
tering to private interests, would
strive to make laws that would result
in the greatest good to the greatest
NUMBER and then we might have
courts that would interpret the laws
in favor of the people instead of acting
as bulwarks of industrial despotism.
PRO BONO PUBLICO.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-10
AMERICANISM

NJ o citizen who has cut his political
wisdom teeth can believe the
Pinchot incident is the end of
chapter in history. On the contrary.
1t is the beginning of a new chapter,
which may have far-reaching conse-
quences of the utmost moment to the
American republic. The Herald insists
upon measuring America by Ameri-
canism. Now it is obvious to any con-
scientious student that the political
party which for years has been pre-
dominant in this country has drifted
far away from the first principles of
Americanism, and dangerously near a
condition protested against when the
country was still in its colonial chrys-
ahs-that condition which concentrates
wealth and power and leaves the over
whelming majority of the people in
state of marked and undeniable in
feriority to the possessors of wealth
| and power, who become the masters of
| the others, directing and manipulating
their lives, abridging their liberty, and
interfering very, very seriously with
their pursuit~ef happiness. Indeed,
there are thousands of citizens of the
United States to whom and in respect
of whom the phrase pursuit of happi-
ness has all the insulting force of
leering mockery.
Pinchot has had to suffer because
he has been the staunch upholder of
the Roosevelt conservation policy.
which truly and accurately represented
an American principle, "the greatest
good of the greatest number" This
principle forbids the exploitation either
Of forests or of men; the waste either
| of natural resources or of human
beings. Pinchot took his cue from
Roosevelt, and if it is 'insubordina-
ton that has really been punished in
his case, then it is Rooseveltian insub-
ordination, and he has had to pay the
price of fidelity to a program which
was begun by the greatest and most
American chief executive of modern
times.
| Theodore Roosevelt can always find
| his following, and when ho speaks or
writes or strikes a master stroke for
a right cause, his following will al
ways be the majority of the American
people.
We believe the mass of the Demo-
cratic party and the Republican wing
which protests against robber tariff
and trust-treason stand on common
ground and have a cause in common,
and why they should not stand shoul-
der to shoulder, why, as members Of q
united American party, they should
not proceed with the greatest recon-
structionist program ever set before
the country, the reconstruction of the
American nation on American lines.
are questions difficult to answer. There
is ground for hope the necessity for
answering them will be removed by a
great American revival, which will end
trucking to trusts, the political habit
of recognizing the rights of interests
! and combinations and corporations as
superior to the rights of men, end the
fictitious and misleading appraisal of
a citizens worth or influence by the
size of his bank account, and will re-
store justice. honor, truth, liberty,
equality, brotherhood
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-10
CALLS ATTENTION TO LAWS
BETTERING WOMEN'S LOT

PALO ALTO, Cal, Jan 7.-LEditor
Herald: There are three laws which
all readers of the Letter Box should
know about, and should know that
they they failed of enactment by the
last legislature. These are the joint
guardianship laws making mothers
Joint custodians with fathers over
minor children; the bill raising the age
of minority of girls from IS to 21, the
age at which boys come of age, and
the age of consent bill, raising the age
of consent from 16 to IS.
The defeat of these bills is significant.
1t means that voteless women petition
in vain for legal protection. 1t means
that man legislators are most reluctant
to pass laws that take anything from
men and give anything to women.
The reasons given by senators and
assemblymen for their objection to the
Joint guardianship. or joint custodian
bill, showed that they hold masculine
rights supreme. They mentioned the
wages children earn, and said that
such a bill would make mothers and
fathers quarrel over the division OF
the childrens wages.
Please note that the mother OF an
illegitimate child has all legal rights
over such child. Several people have
commented on this as putting pre-
MUM on the bearing of illesitimate
children. one mother who has suf-
fered greatly from the present injustice
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-10
The State Press
PRAISE FOR HERALD

The Los Angeles Herald is one of the
cleanest and most enterprising daily
newspapers published in Southern Cal
ifornia. The forethought and enter
prise displayed by The Herald in the
Los Nietos valley disaster is commend
able. The merchants Of Venice, recog
nizing the enterprise of The Herald in
this NATTER last evening passed a
hearty vote of thanks to that paper
for its efforts in assisting the Venice
life savers in their heroic work. The
Herald's grand work is not only appre-
ciated by the people of Los Nietos
valley, but by the people of the world
at large The Venice Daily Vanguard
eongratuIates The Herald management
in this matter, in which they displayed
newspaper enterprise that is rarely
equaled on the Pacific coast.-Venice
Vanguard.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-10
WORLDS GREAT FLYERS

4 Walton meet preparations have
/ ~ been made with the thorough
ness and enthusiasm character
istic - all Los Angeles great achieve
ments. Beyond reasonable doubt, the
week will be the greatest and by far
the most remarkable in the history of
aviation, and to Los Angeles will be-
long the honor and the credit of having
shown the world how to assemble con-
testants from remote distances, how
to bring together the principal avia-
tors from all over the world, how to
congregate and take care of the big
gest and most representative crowd
that ever watched aviation demonstra-
tions, and how to conduct a meeting
with that due regard for the comfort
and welfare of visiting guests that
will send our friends to their homes
prepared to talk during the rest of
their lives of the goodness and the
hospitality of loyal Los Angeles, and
Of the merit of the Los Angeles way.
The aviators assembled in Los An
geles represent an entirely new type
of human being, a type which will be-
come more familiar as time passes.
This type has been christened aptly
''the man bird"
1t has been found that flying de-
velops what future scientists may call
an extra sense-a sense of aerial equi-
librium. 1t also increases perceptive-
ness. Other things being equal the
man bird" type now being developed
will be sharper-witted than ordi-
nary fellow mortals. In fact, endless
speculation may be indulged in as to
the future of the world when the es-
tablished order has been disestabiished,
boundary lines have been wiped out,
and geography has given place to aero
graphy.
1t is reasonably certain there will
be good weather throughout the Los
Angeles meeting. The probabilities are
all in favor of clear skies, temperate
sunshine, and gentle breezes. With |
such conditions, the work of the avia-
tors viii astonish the nations, and 1t
is confidently expected America will
take her place in the leadership of the
aviatorial world. American airships
and air navigators will be pitted
against the best air ships and the best
men of Europe. and the contest will
be intensely interesting to the United
States and all the world. Los An
geles is one of the best known cities
in the United States, yet never in it's
marvellous history has it been be
fore the watching eye of all the
world" as it will be during Aviation
week. The Herald, which in its news
columns has followed closely and ac-
curately the progressive history of
airship making and air navigating, ex-
poets to have the pleasure of chron-
icling in great detail the events of
week that will make Los Angeles more
famous than ever, and with all due
respect and regard for the "man birds"
from distant lands, it hopes the good
old eagle-bird will have the joy of
screaming Justify over the record
breaking, orld-beating triumphs of
the man birds" of the United States.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-10

urgency of which is indicated. A great
deal of the leakage which has drained
the postoffice treasury is attributable
to the two causes we have instanced-
the franking abuse and the railroad
gouge. An estimate of the value of the
loss of revenue through franking may
be gained by considering the statement
that during congressional campaigns
many MILLIONS OF DOLLARS worth
of mailed matter has been used. Some
place the total loss to the postoffice at
not less than $40,0O0,00O! Instead of at
tacking the peoples supply of maga-
zines, why not stop the gigantic leak
age caused by franking?
In addition to personal franking, the
postoffice has to stand the cost of mail
ing all the matter distributed by every
other department.
This is decidedly unfair. Each de-
partment should bear it's own burden
and should not be allowed to make a
convenience of the postoffice.
The president will find his plan to
puillSll iildBdZlll6Ss 6lCsy lOT lIlG SlIlS Ol
the frankers and the grating railroad
weighers extremely unpopular. Re-
duced to it's true meaning, the presi-
dents proposal is that magazines and
periodicals shall be assessed an increase
of postal revenues, which deficit arises
from neglect to charge all of the service
rendered by the postoff1ce to the re-
cipients of that service.
Moreover, as we have indicated, an
extra charge upon magazines, trade
papers, periodicals or newspapers would
be tax upon knowledge. 1t is time
publishers who are disseminators of
information and instructors in knoWl-
edge should insist the service they are
doing the United States through their
business building advertising shall be
recognized and acknowledged to be a
sound and just reason for a low rate
of postage. The wisdom of fostering
rather than impairing or destroying the
greatest business agency in the world
is apparent.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-10
RUBBING 1T IN

e. J. Booth of Los Angeles has writ
ten a poem entitled "Hooser Wealth
err" He sent it back to his old home
town of Logansport, where the editor
of the Tribune was game enough to
print it. The lines follow:
oh, the poor benghted people living where
mad zephyrs blow,
In the rigors of climate where tbs forty-two
below!
How they huddle round the furnace when
there comes bowling storm,
And bemoan the life they're living as they re
trying to keep warm.
How they shiver in their houses while the
flaky substance Sits
Through the easements and the windows
forming tiny little drifts.
How they waddle through the snowbanks
where the brindle hefer bawls,
And the horses prance and WINNER in their
frost encrusted stalls.
oh, the poor benlghted people living in that
eastern cline,
Where the water pipes are frozen in the win
ter al the thine
How they long to quit that country when they
hear the blizzard roar
And pack up their druds and hustle for the
California shore.
How they toll with freezing fingers the
beautiful" floats down.
So that they may make a passage through
the snowbanks of the town.
And at night pile on the blankets filled with
heartfelt rapture, If
They awaken in the morning without being
frozen stiff.
Oh the poor benighted people in the far off
eastern states,
Where the blizzard keeps blizzing and the
ice accumulates
How our hearts go out in pity to the sufferers
back there,
Where no perfumed, dewy blossoms watt sweet
incense on the air
Where they live on buckwheat pancakes and
spend all their cash for coal
And their bills for light and fuel keep them
always in the hole.
How we bless the day we "mosied'' from that
frosty atmosphere
And are living in country where lis SUM
mer all the year
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-10
FOR THE PEOPLE

GOVERNMENT FOR THE PEO-
eE PIE is the keynote of the patri-
" otic American resolutions adopted
by the Democratic state conference
Recognizing the importance of a res
toration of the first principles of
Americanism, the Democrats of the
state of California are pledged to
GOOD GOVERNMENT IN CALIFOR-
MA. This viii bring with it retrench-
ment in public expenditures, equal and
uniform taxation, the initiative, refer
endum and recall in municipalities,
counties and the state, the popular
election of United States senators, and
a more effective control of transporta-
ton companies, looking to the preven-
ton of excessive rates and discrimina-
tions.
The subject of rates, which is of
great and vital Importance to the pub
lie, was embodied by the most busi-
ness-like political conference of mod
ern times in resolutions dealing with
the incompetent or somnolent attitude
of the state railroad commissioners,
who seem to be asleep on the job"
while fragrant abuses have been COM
mitted and the rights of the people
trampled upon contemptuously by the
Southern Pacific ring.
These resolutions allege gross negli-
gence on the part of the state board of
railroad commissioners, and show that
while no complaint has been filed with
the interstate commerce commission by
the stupid or incompetent members of
the state board, their slothfulness is
outra geously expensive to the people,
from whom vast sums of money are
being extorted by the Southern Pacific
and its allies in the national railway
plunderbund.
The general increase in freight rates
effected by the transcontinental lines
amounts to $1OO0O,0O0 a year, and it
is a known fact--a matter of we'll
founded common belief and notoriety,
and easily susceptible of convincing
proof-that illegal combinations of car
riers exist.
AS Joseph II. Cali said, the Demo-
cratic party must Immediately set
aDOub bllc WOIk VI DIluBluB ABOUT I6-
forms which will really REFORM.
This is the mission of the Democratic
party today.
The task before it, in Republican
machine and corporation-ridden Cali
fornia, as well as in the nation, is to
take up the fight for the people, for
the restitution of the peoples rights,
flched from them by the most adroit
and cunning looters who ever wore
Republican masks and corporation col
lars.
The PATRIOTISM which inspired
the Democratic conference was a re-
freshing contrast to the artful lodging
and slyboots Vaccinations which char
acterize the methods of the dsgraced
and discredited organization which de-
pends on Low Cunning and High FL
nance to put into execution it's deep
laid plots. In plain American Ian
guage, the object of these plots is a
plundering denudation of the people of
California not less reprehensible than
the Villainous deforestration robbery
which cost gallant Clifford Pinchot his
place in the government but won him
permanent place, from which neither
machine cunning nor corporation trick
cry can oust him, in the hearts of the
American people
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-10
SAYS FRUIT COULD NOT
HAVE CONTAINED PTOMAlNE

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7.-[Editor
Herald: 1 have just read your edito-
rial on the death of those twelve un-
fortunates at Sawtelle. Now, editors
ought to know Gf some doctors do
possibly come from canned fruits or
vegetables. "Ptoma gen ptomatus" is
Greek, and means cadaVer, and
ptoraine poisoning can only come from
spoiled animal product of some kind,
and there is sure to be vomiting, pain
and purging, natures effort to get rid
of it. From the meager report of
symptoms atrapine must have gotten
mixed in the fruit. Did they eat moth
ing but fruit? M. ID.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-10

said that she would choose deliberately
to have illegitimate children rather
than legitimate until the laws are
changed.
All three bills were promoted by
women for women. The bill to sub
NIT the question Of votes for women to
the voters of the state was also de-
feated. The legislators for several ses-
sions have voted this bill down, though
all know that it will never be settled
until women have votes
Would men give up their votes?
Would men allow anything to take
away their votes? Then why do women
go voteless? Because they haven't
learned what votes are worth. So pass
the word along. ALICI L. PARK.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-10
AT THE THEATERs

AUDITORIUM-Dark
MAsoN-"The Shepherd King"
BURBANK-'T-- Heart of Maryland -
BELASCO-"The Genius"
MAJESDC-"King Dodo."
ORPHEUM-Vaudevil
GRAND-"The Idols Eye"
LOS ANGELES-Vaudevi
UNIQUE-Comedy
FISCHER'S-Musical burlesque.
WALKER-"Out of the Fold"
OLYMPIC-Musical burlesque.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-10
PLAYeRoUNDs

Within the last few years play
grounds for children have become rec
ognized factors in the moral improve
ment of all cities. Indeed, it can be
said that there is no Improvement on
which money can be spent so ungrudg-
ingIy as on these ygrounds.-Fresno
Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-10
FORESTRY SCHOOL

The opening of school of forestry
at Seattle, with sixty government for
esters from the Pacific northwest and
California enrolled, shows the thor
oughness with which the forestry de-
partment is pursuing its work for the
conservation of national resources
Oakland Enquirer.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-10
PRESIDENTS EAvoRlTEs

Seemingly, every devoted slave. OF
privilege and monopoly is in political
favor with the president, and only
those Republicans, such as La Toilette
and Curnmins, who continue to fight
tariff robbery, need fear loss of pat
nage.-Sacramento Bee.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-10
FEAR OVERCOME E

The year 1910 promises even greater
advances, for the fear of flying has
largely been overcome. Nothing now
remains but to still further perfect the
engines which are used for propulsive
uIposes.-Humboldt Standard.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-10

Joseph Calls paper on RAILROAD
Rates and the Customs Tariff read
before the state Democratic conference
contained some language that was di-
rect and to the point. For instance:
'The country is tired OF the device of
giving the carrier power to fix and ad
vance rates and then starting an i'm
potent and endless scheme of litigation
to undo the wrong"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-10

Pasadena outdoor sports day, a hold
over from the New Years tournament.
was celebrated with great enthusiasm
and success. Los Angeles admires the
Pasadena spirit. Pasadena carries out
its plans with Pasadena pluck, which
bears a close relationship to the Los
Angeles way.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-10

Heavy advance in the retail price of
meat is accompanied by marked de-
cline in the price of hay. The price of
living for human beings has gone up.
That for horses has gone down. Yet
most people would rather be men than
horses. Being human has its COM
pensations, in spite of the price of the
price of food.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-10

During the week the good people of
Los Angeles will remodel some old
established ideas as to the relations of
human beings and the planet they
live on. Friends. you have watched
the flight of the bees? Human beings
are about to swarm
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-10

Aviation week deserves your practi-
cal support If you have not yet for
warded your contribution to strengthen
''the financial end" do it now. BY the
way, how much has the Southern Pa
cific railroad contributed to the good
pausao
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-10

At any rate. no one ever accused
Uncle Joe Cannon of being the Safest
o. the Family. He neither looks
nor acts the part. Far from it: or, as
the French say, Eau contraire, mon
sieur; au contraire"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-10
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENT intended
for publication must be accompanied by tho
name and address of the writer. The Herald
gives the widest latitude to correspondents,
but assumes responsibility for their views,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-10

Was Tennyson's "airy. fairy Lillian
the first lady to go UP in a balloon?.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-10

Looks as if Brother Taft were just
triae "skeered," doesn't it2