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Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
ILLNESS Is TEACHER

Editor Herald: Evolutionist says in
the Public Letter Box of March "a
1909 that sin does not exist. A child
who has not been taught the letters Of
the alphabet cannot read, but cannot
be called rightfully a stupid child. So
is it with man; when he does not
know to obey the laws laid down by
the Creator, and transgresses them,
he has to bear the consequences. A
boy who will walk over ice without
trying if 1t can bear him, and falling
through it, shall be wet, that is his
oWW fault,
Illness is the school of teaching
wherein the sufferer learns how to
overcome the causes of his illness
Without illness man could not make
progress on the ladder of evolution.
Death, the twin brother of life, could
not exist in this material world when
life was not there, and the reverse is
the same. Life, the breath of the Gre
ator, according to Moses, spiritually
speaking, is the force which let the
llfeess matter move, act, so as we see
in plant, animal and man. When life
has developed the matter whereupon 1t
is working to its limits, it retires and
gives it over to death. who through
dissolution annihilates that substantial
piece Of matter to the dust of the
ground, out of which the Creator forms
another material form, plant, animal
or man, which through the influence
of life grows and develops again to the
limits which the Creator has described
for it,
Plants and animals are, so to say,
machines which follow the natural laws
prescribed for them. without bearing
consequences. as one of the contributors
to the Letter Box has explained. Man
can and has to investigate before act
ing to prevent undesirable consequences
illness.
Hurting himself against the natural
laws, not obeying or following Gods
will, is that which men call sin, illness
and DEATH which are the rulers Of our
material world. without these the
world could not be here. They are the
teachers man wants to bring him to
salvation. That promise which the
Lord made, that he would ask the
Father to send the spirit Of truth, is
fulfilled, as well as that saying of the
Master to Nicodemus, that man has to
be reborn before he could see the king
dom of God, is now comprehensive and
can be accepted by those who will be-
lieve in the above lines.
Innumerable incarnatiOns the present
living men have passed, and several
they shall have to pass before they can
enter the kingdom of God, entering
there by the Introduction of his friend,
Death. A SPlRlTlST.
a Pasadena Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
REFORM AND CITY PROSPERITY

Editor Herald: / came out from the
east with a twofold purpose in view
to spend the winter and to make a
business investment if the local con-
ditions We're promising, as l desired to
change my field of manufacturing from
Philadelphia to Los Angeles. After
mature consideration and an inVestiga-
tiOn of your local conditions covering
a period of nearly three months, | think
| shall keep my factory in Philadelphia
and | will, with your kind Indulgence,
tell you why, so that perhaps the pow
crs that be" may eventually get wise.
L find that you change your chief
of police on an average Of once year
and that this important department is
n hotbed Of political corruption and
turmoil, the chief sufferers being the
taxpayers. Their inefficiency, due no
doubt to this cause, is shown by the
nightly list of holdups, assaults and
murders. l am told that three years
ago the city, by q vote of 2 to l, went
wet" yet there is hardly a day that
either the city council or police COM
mission, aided by that ever valiant
body, the Ministerial Union" is not
trying to tinker with the liquor laws,
and / have even read that one police
commissioner, who l think is named
mess of sending boys into saloons to
buy liquor, then boasted of the fact
He ought to be prosecuted for abetting
the offence
| further find that you are now I'm
the midst of q reform" administra-
ton; goodly but misguided gentlemen
whose souls yearn for that purity un
attainable on earth and who intend that
you shall be good whether you will
a.
usually last one term. then it is the
old story-the people prefer the ma
chine, the real thing with some civic
liberty. We have had them in Phila-
delphia time and again. The chief
trouble with your reformers is they
come mainly from the prairie towns of
Iowa and Kansas, never have lived In
a city and are not competent to handle
city like this Too much "vlllage"
Is in the air. Your governing body is
narrow. You need a change and | pre-
sumo you will get it next election.
Your council seems to be license, tax,
ordinance crazy. You have your books
plastered with thousands of fool ordi-
nances, large percentage of which
are jailable offenses. Cut it doWn-eX-
pense-get rid of the 'Ioway idee'' and
your little country village habits. You
have the opportunity to become a great
Wy Dul must cHange your methods.
You also support $50 churches and a
chain gang. Think of 1t! I notice a
constant interference with about every
thing in sight by your preachers. Take
a tip from me and muzzle them. They
create a feeling of unrest that drives
capital away. They are impractical
and inexperienced and l believe the
constitution forbids the domination of
the state by the church. There can be
no real liberty in community where
ono faction resorts to the customs of
the middle ages to bring the balance
into line. You are too good to last
long. and the experiences and obser-
vations of a long life have shown me
that more conservative city is the
best place for business in the long
run. j. w. RITTENHOUSE.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
HuNTINeToN's PUBLIC SPIRIT

Editor Herald; 1t iSnow noon, Sat
urday. My business takes me up and
down Main street and this morning L
have made five trips between Thirty
third and Fourth streets. Only once
have ! been able to get a seat. ON
the first trip | counted tWehty-seVeil
persons standing. 1t was pretty much
the same on all the other trips.
There was nothing unusual going ON;
the traffic was the ordinary everyday
traffic, which the car company can
reckon on absolutely and for which 1t
should be able to provide the seats FOR
which the public pays, but does not get.
Anyone can verify these statements
by watching the ears as they pass on
Main street, one of the citys leading
arteries.
have some acquaintance with Eu-
rope and do not believe there is city
there in which such conditions would
be tolerated.
We are always Grating and writing
of the crimes against the common veal
committed by iniquitous trusts, resi-
dent in New Jersey or other points at
a safe distance. Apparently we lack
the courage to grapple with our home
pirates.
Why should Mr. Huntington, or any
other man, be allowed to rake in hun
dreds of dollars daily without deliver
ing the goods 1Or Wnlcn ne Is pau
There is no answer possible except that
we lack the pluck to rebel
No wonder americans are cinched,
and cinched and cinched, so that their
country has become synonymous the
world over with what we euphemsti
cally call graft" being afraid to use
the good d-fashioned word, theft"
Thanks to our medieval land sys-
TEN, which enables the fellow with ad-
vance information. and the money, to
corner everything in sight, Mr.. Hunt
ington has made untold millions out
of Los Angeles real estate. The condi-
tlons I have described represent his
sense of gratitude and public spirit.
WILLIAM c. OWEN.
P. S. Coming UP town at 1870 to de-
liver this letter, and getting on atI
Twenty-second street, I found the car
again jammed fore and aft, fully thirty
standing.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
voLuNTARlAN is SARCASTIC

Editor Herald: Since all rights come
to the individual by gift, and since no
person has any natural rights in a re-
public; therefore be is resolved that we
pray the coming legislature to decree
that henceforth it shall be a crime for
any person, whether examined by a
physician or not, to engage or to COM
nit the crime of matrimony, or to live
in a condition equivalent thereto. And
we base this prayer and demand upon a
statement made by the eminent DR..
Sarah MacNutt of New York as fol-
lows: q believe that especially the un-
married women Of this generation Will
and do live longer than their married
sisters" And since no doctor can err
in matters Of faith; therefore, be it
resolved, that a good boy physician he
appointed as TIL sole governor of the
state of California And in case that
it be impossible to find a suitable boy
physician, that girl physician be APP
pointed for life. or during good be
havior, which is the same thing.
VOLUNTARIAN.
Riverside Cal
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
.sAur-lN, WANTS LETTERS

Editor Herald: Someone has been
suggesting through your columns the
writing of cheer-up letters to Shut-lns,
and having been in that class myself
for over thirty-siX years, 1t occurs to
me that I might say a word about IT,
Now IL seems to me that such letters
should not run too much to what may
be called religiosty. Doubtless we all
have Bibles. and time to read them. To
fire a string of texts at us merely finds
us text proof.
Speaking of myself, If l may be al
lowed, I will say that l should be dee
lighted to receive letters from any one,
leaving them quite free, not even ta-
booing the subject of theology, though
1 would have it minimized Let them
write as they will-that will be the in
teresting part Of it, shall, when
addresses are given, at least acknowl-
edge the receipt of any letters that |
may be blessed with. Especially /
should like to hear from those who
teach religion, Catholic, Protestant,
priests, anyone interested. And, too, 1
should like to hear from any working
man or woman who is interested
enough to write me. What have you
in your heart? That is what interests
me. Especially and particularly L
should 'just love" to have letter or
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
HOT SHOT FOR SMOKERS

Editor Herald: The Herald for De-
cember 10 says the following:
From the way women crowd the
smoking compartments Of street cars il
looks possible that If the burning of
tobacco was permitted only on the roof
some of them would carry steplad-
ders."
VIII some one please explain what
the smoking compartments of the cars
are and since when they were reserved
Tor men only? My poor reason has
been under the impression that men
nave been granted the privilege only
OF smoking on one end of cars, ana
that it is distinctly privilege, and not
that the front end of the car has been
reserved for them to smoke upon. Is
there any reason why a man IS obliged
to smoke on the cars? Any woman, If
she so desires, has just as much priVl-
lege to smoke on the front end of u
car as man has, and no more privi-
lege to smoke at the rear end or a car
than a man has. Since when was the
smoking privilege restricted to men,
and since when have they had the
right to a compartment of car for
their smoking? The manner in which
men with cigars in their faces glare
at n woman who dares to sit on the
front end of a car is little short of In
sulting. BY what right a woman from
looks or words to drive a woman from
the privilege of riding in the open arr
even If she must stand it tainted WIN
tobacco smoke? There are decent cities
where men are not allowed the priVi-
lege of smoking even on the front end
of car. When Los Angeles gets INTO
that class 1t will be living up to its
name of a city of the angels and not
of the other thing.
As for the man who thinks woman
should be able to live within SOB
month. let him under AXE it for one
month. Just let him undertake the eX-
pense of one active boy in school, let
alone half a dozen children. Has he
any idea what a child's school books
and papers cost? Or how fast enid
wears out shoes and clothes? And
how much butter or-milk or meat can
a family of only three have out OF 500
n month. after rent and living expenses
are paid? Talk about woman being
inefficient or incapable! Just how much
can a woman do with dollar today
Ten years ago the same dollar bought
from one-third to one-half more thah
1t does now. The same woman has
got to feed her family just exactly one
third or one-half less on $50 "A month
than she did ten years ago, and her eff
ficiency or capabilities have nothing
whatever to do with it. If on $55 a
N nth they lived in comfort ten years
so and did not go hungry, they nave
got to live uncomfortable and go nun
CRY today on the same wages. a
woman cannot make something out OF
nothing. Why if everything we eat
and wear and use has gone up 80 to
100 per cent, has not the wage of the
Workingman gone up accordingly?
That is what those who are not work
ing people but who have plenty to live
on comfortably would like to know. !
ONE WHO THINKS.
T.oc AnpeIps cal
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
LOTS HIGH; BUILDINGS CHEAP

Editor Herald: contractor made
the remark the other day that build
ing was at a standstill in his town"
not far from Los Angeles, and that the
manager of one of the lumber yards
said the situation was more quiet than
he had seen it since he came to the
place.; that he knew of several who
would build If they could get the
money; that the building and loan
associations had no money.
I told him the reason there was no
money on hand in these institutions
to build with was because the surplus
had been invested in high priced lots;
lots that had been bought at five times
their actual value.
1t is not an uncommon thing to see
men pay extrava CANT prices for lots,
then put up shacks for a home. This,
to say the least, is very Impractical
for any town or city. And every one
interested in seeing substantial build
ings go up-buildings that will be an
ornament to the place-should do eV-
erything in their power to discourage
the purchase of lots held by people who
care nothing about what kind Of
building is put on them after they get
four prices for the ground.
The more money put into buildings,
the more labor there is employed. We
may trace it back to the cutting OF the
logs in the forest, to the molding Of the
bricks in the yard, to the grinding OF
the paint in the paint mills, to the
squeezing of the oil in the oil mills:
and it only ends when the last coat oil
paint is dabbed on the roof. All this
means value received for the invest
ment, and puts money back into circu-
latfon through men who work to live
and to help others live. These men
who lay fortunes by lot speculation
hire very little labor, and when they do
hire they want to make as much off
it as they do off their lot speculation:
that is, invest one dollar in labor and
make the fellow doing it earn four.
W. S. BURROUGHS.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25

Editor Herald. Thanks for your cd
itorial whitening the park commissions
ers. No longer need the trembling lover
whisper to his dulciua.
ON, dear Louise, we must not spark,
silent as tamb5 must De this park.
IN regard to the "drapcry exhibit at
the Auditorium, l declare that city
Prosecutor Eddie lacLed thoroughness
in his order compelling the girls 10 add
pajamas to their makeup. 1T he had
also prescribed heavy wells and long
arm gloves it would have been more
effective from the standpoint OF censor.
ship.
Could Her Majesty Of the Moulin
Rouge with her entourdge, tarry fol
another week in the Angelic burg it
would be interesting To know whether
the Auditorium would have crowded
houses of goody-bodies, if the fairies
We're clothed la Eddie, supplemented
by apparel as suggested above.
A young blood asks me to request
The Herald to PROFOUND this question
If the goddess of Truth, in purio ma
turalibus. should encounter Prosecutor
Eddie, which style Of apparel would he
suggest for her, classic or decadent?
GEORGE BAUER, JR.
Auobairo Ta1
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
FORUM DISCUSSION VALUABLE

Editor Herald: I take pleasure in
indorsing the Public Letter Box, as it
embraces a wide range Of thought
creditable to human nature and to the
age in which we live. Ii discusses in
a brief, practical way a large number
of important ,o4 les. I find the letters
very interesting with valuable sugges-
tions that elevate and strengthen the
finer feelings Of our nature.
What multitude of deep and varied
emotions are called forth from the soul
by the true and beautiful sentiments
expressed in the letters OF the past
week! Can any intelligent person read
the beautiful letter Of Emma Harrison
and not learn to cherish a solemn and
tender interest in the dear humanity
around us and not feel the arteries of
sympathy which connect it with our
own hearts?
A. S. POTTER.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
SEATS IN CENTRAL PARK

Editor Herald And now we get a
wireless message from the powers that
be that there are really and truly going
to be seats in the square-park or park
square, whichever it is to be called.
Some of us had begun to think that
when it was to be opened to the suf-
fering public-someWher about 1916
this expensive piece of hand-painted
landscape gardening was to be inclosed
by sixfoQt poultry wire to keep the
pigeons in and the public off the grass.
But the dctum has gone forth that
there are going to be seats, therefore
the rark-square is to be an open shop
proposition.
Glory be! The cold storage furnished
rooms will fill tie seats with their
semi-frozen tenants, who will as usual
camp down in the square from sun to
sun. with ancient pipes and penny
cigars and pass the sunshiny hours in
argumentative dissertations on evolu-
tlon, Bible study, Socialism and spirit
uallsm, irrespective of any knowledge
they : .ay possess on these subjects.
The rest of the people, who are busy,
but who would like to drop into a seat
under the outrageous trees for half
an hours rest may so hang, for there
are 10 vacant seats for them-men or
women-unless they are willing to
squeeze in between a stale pipe or
rank cigarette and lnhale nicotine in
stead of pure California air.
Therefore, Mr.. Editor, / arise to a
question of privilege. 1 have a sug-
gestion to make. | notice a foundation
built around the sidewalks evidently
to support a retaining wall, to keep
the grass from running out into the
walks. Now let's save that much ex-
pense anyway, and put seats all
around these walks facing the street,
put sawdust spittoons on the walk
a-plenty, and make the chronic camp
ers the tobacco smoke makers and the
economic argufiers occupy those seats,
leaving the interior for transents and
women and children to enjoy pure air.
This will also solve the sex question
of the sittings. as there will be plenty
of vacant ones to accommodate both
sexes if the chronics and smudge
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
MISUSE OF THE MAILS

Editor Herald: 1 imagine that many
a parent like myself, is weary and
indignant All the impunity with which
loan sharks attack year in and year
out the peace and well-being Of fam
lily life, by pursuing our sons and
daughters through the mail with in
sidious invitations to borrow money.
your friends and EN-. loyers need
never know" is the inslnuating bait.
My son, Just 20, has been bombarded
with this kind of sinister invitation
for nearly three years past because
he is engaged in good business
house This thing is a standing dam
ger and should be made penal Of
fense. PARENT
Los Angeles, Cal
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
Los Angeles, Cal.
CRITICISM FOR OFFICIALS

Editor Herald: Just a few words in
your paper, the best in the city. l am
a Good Government voter and am for
good government first, last and all the
time; but I am thoroughly disgusted
with the doings of the men who have
been voted into power in this city by
vote and the others of the Good Gov
ernment party. Why does not Mayor
Alexander take some action in regard
TO the Galloway charges? Why do not
the police commissioners act? 1t seems
hard for them TO do their duty when
it comes to dealing with some of their
own appointments. Their actions in
this matter are giving the opposing side
for the next campaign
which they will most certainly use to
good advantage. l am Democrat and
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25

t-yo from children. Nearly all my cor
respondents are learned men, with an
occasional learned woman, but l have
received letters from children that l
would not exchange for any that l
ever got from learned men, not even
were it the greatest man In Germany
today.
No one is to send me Christmas pres
onts of any kind whatever. 1t is for
me to give to others.
Naturally 1 cannot give my address
in so public a way, but the fact that
this Is printed will show that the edi-
tor is willing to forward letters to me,
If sent in care of his office.
JOHN WILSON FAIRFAX.
Los Angeles, Cal
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
FAMOUS POEMS AUTHOR

Editor Herald: [ see by this morn
ing's Herald Saturday December 10,
that Rock Me to sleep, Mother was
not written by Flor nee Percy, but by
Elizabeth Akers Allen.
Florence Percy was the pen name of
Mrs All4n. The lady was a cousin Of
my mother, so | happen to know. In
later years she often wrote under her
own name. L.
Los Angeles, Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
oLDTlME YULETlDs CAROLS

Editor Herald: II is my hearts de-
sire that you Mr.. Editor, as well as the
contributors TO aud readers Of the Lett
ter BOX, may have peaceful, joyful
Yuletide. For more than fifty years it
has been the custom of the writer to
sing over again the carols he sang
when a chorister in the little parish
church at Antony. Cornwall, England.
They are as sweet and fresh to my
memory now as then
once IN royal Davjd's city
Stood l1vy cattle shed
Whore o. mother laid her baby,
In q wauLer for ats bed.
Mary was chat mother mild,
Jesus curI-t her only child.
GOOD King Wenceslaus.
Earthly friends may change and falters
Earthly hearts viii vary;
He Is born that cannot alter,
OF the Virgin Mary.
Christian, awake, salute the happy norO.
sleep ye, or wake ye Christians all,
This ,s our glorious festival.
These and many others will remain
as long as the Christ spirit lives
Los Angeles, cal J. r. K.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25

makers are weeded out. The writer is
a gentleman who does not sit in the
park but would like to real well, and
who does not object to a lady sitting
on the same seat with him if she does
not smoke or argue PURITAS.
Los Angeles, Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
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Aims AND THE MAN

The Nadam--What is 1t, Kate?
The Maid-There's a beggar at the door
without any arms, ma am
well, tell him We have no aims for him,
Katie. ."-Yonkers Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
The Peoples Forum

voted n non bipartisan ticket at the city
election but never again
The cry vote non-partisan in city
election is bosh. See what we have by
d9ing it, THOS. WHEELER,
Los Angeles, Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
HERALD GIVEN THANKS

Mr.. Wheeler viii note that action al
ready has been taken.-[ Editor Herald.l
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-10-20

John Stafford arrived from Reg
ina, b. G. Saturday to visit his
father, Abel Stafford, Sr. whose
health has been quite poor for
several weeks.
The return of Rev. C. E. Wilcox
AS pastor of the M. E. church here
for another year is gratifying, to
the church, social and business
circles of Scotland.
The opera house was crowded
Friday evening to hear "The Cast
Aside" The acting was good, but
the play was not the most pop
ular. The popular fancy would
appreciate a more pleasant ending,
but the disasters resulting from
common vices as shown by the
play, were doubtless more true to
life than they would have been if
the parties had "lived happily ever
after"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-10-20

Mr.. and Mrs. Colwell and Mrs.
Alfred Brown went to Mitchell
Friday TO attend the NJ. E. con-
ference.
Dean Tomlinson, who is running
the Fullerton lumber yard at Dante
spent Sunday at the home of his
parents id Scotland.
The Auto & Electric Supply Co.
has employed an expert electrician
and is now doing house wiring.
See the electrician or the manager
at r.. .. Wanek's.
DR.. Jordan, who was billed for a
speech on county option here
Thursday evening, was unable to
make the address on account Of
sickness. He was some better the
next morning but gave up the rest
of his appointments for the week
and left for Pierre Friday.