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The San Francisco call., 1910-10-30
THE OPEN LETTER SECTION
WORDS OF THANKS

Puzzle Editor, San Francisco Call: I
received my fountain pen this morning
and 1T is beauty l am writing this
with it,, Thanking you thousand
times, l remain, yours sincerely
GERALD STALEY,
3 64O7 Regent street, Oakland, Cal.
To the Editor: Dear Sir-After my
letter. of thanks was sent in realized
my mistake, for though / meant to /
did not thank you for the pen, but
simply said how well it wrote. So I
am writing now to thank you very,
very much for the beautiful pen. / am,
sincerely yours, KATHERINE ROTH.
2615 Laguna street, San Francisco.
p. S.--Give my love to Alonzo and
tell him not to eat any more alum.
To the Editor of The Call Dear Sir
I received your beautiful fountain pen
which l was awarded last Sunday.
Thanking you many times, / am, yours
faithfully, LEON HECHT.
San Francisco
Sir: 1 want to thank you for the
splendid fountain pen you sent me, as
am very much pleased with it. 1t
writes beautifully. Yours truly,
IMOGENE HAMILTON.
1856 Broadway, Alameda, Cal.
Dear Sir: L want to thank you for
the nice fountain pen you sent me, as
enjoy writing with it very much. Yours,
ERWIN BAXTER.
1857 Regent street, Alameda, Cal.
Dear Editor: / received your very
fine fountain pen awarded me for my
story on Track" 1 am writing with it
now, and am well pleased with it.
Yours gratefully, FRANCIS MURPHY.
San Francisco, Cal.
Dear Sir: received the box of paints
today and thank you many, many times
for them. / am very we'll pleased and
appreciate your kindness in sending
them. Yours respectfully,
FRANCES EIHHORN.
Santa Barbara, Cal.
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-30

Dear Sir: 1 want to thank you for
the nice fountain pen you sent me, as I
enjoy writing with it very much. Yours,
ERWIN BAXTER.
1857 Regent street, Alameda, Cal.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-27
MUCH GONE TO WASTE.

With interest in conservation at its height, ow-
ing to the recent meeting of governors OF western
states to promote the best interests of the west
and to the destructive forest fires of the past
fortnight in the northwest, which indicate a fail
of conservation to conserve, 1t is pertinent to
call attention to the conservation lack of It, in
the New England states, given IN recent re-
port by the Massachusetts, Gas & Electric Light
commission The statement is made by this
mission that within 175 miles of Boston water ca
pabe of developing 100000 horsepower is permitted
to go to waste. And yet the east has the temerity
to come to the west with advice ON how to use and
conserve the natural resources of section that
was a wilderness when the New England states had
been under development of civilization for more
than two centuries With the age. of the civiliza-
ton and the large population around Boston, the
belief would seem justifable that every stream ca
pable of developing power for industrial purposes
would be utilized, and yet it is asserted 100000
horsepower is running to waste in small
about the Hub city.
Some of this wasted power probably could not be
turned to industrial uses, but it does not pos
sible that so much water would run to waste if the
desire to save it were present. With the latest
improvements in electrical transmission it is pos
slbe to use the current many miles from the place
where it is generated and the only difficulty to be
overcome would be the setting of the dynamos
after the streams had been harnessed.
There is no doubt very large proportion of
western streams running to waste, but it is a fact
that the needs of the people of this region have
been pretty we'll supplied in comparison with other
parts of the country, and conservation like charity
should begin at home No objection can be raised
to conservation that conserves whether it is under
state or national control so long as the great big
public is the beneficiary, but it does not seem just
that the west should be seized upon for expoita
ton when in very small area around Boston 3O0,-
900 horsepower has been permitted to run to waste
for many many years.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-27
GOVERNMENT BY COMMISSIONS.

The growth of the commission system of con
Quoting city governments has been one of the de-
velopments of the past ten years which augur well
for the future. City governments have been no
toriously inefficient and extravagant. But that the
cities of the country have not been more inefficient
or extravagant than the national government was
indicated by statement of Senator Aldrich sew
eral months ago. when he said he could save $780,
100000 a year In the expenditures if he could
direct them himself, and at the same time guar
antee depreciation in the quality of the service
rendered. Aside from the quips of the para
Rhode Island had been directing the government
expenditures for a good many years, the statement
was received by the country a conservative esti-
mate of government waste by a man in position to
know the truth. Colonel Roosevelt in the Outlook
advocates the appointment of commissions to in
quire into such complex questions as the govern
ment receipts and expenditures, making the COM
missions advisory to Congress, with no power be-
yond that of recommendation.
In the appointment of commission to study
the tariff no doubt much information could be
gained for the use of the ways and means commit
tee, information that would not be furnished by
the industries most vitality interested in the tariff
rates on imports The difference in the cost of
production at home and abroad, which is now held
to furnish just basis for the tariff could be ascer-
tanned exactly, and the commission could take
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-27
A VALUABLE EXPERIENCE.

A story was sent out from st. Louis last week
of minister who had lived in that thriving city
for eighteen months on the munifcent salary OF
S34, which is at the rate of $22.66 per annum, or
aobut 43 cents week, 6 cents a day for six days
a week, and cents for his three meals on the
seventh He has done this in preference to get
ting job in which he could exercise his talents to
better advantage to himself out of pure desire to
serve mankind and make the world and st. Louis
q better place in which to live. With all due re-
spect to the devotion of the minister, and without
entering upon any discussion to the ingratitude
of his flock, it must be said that the minister has
had an experience which, if he will tell it, ought
to make him rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
For be it known that in these piping times of
peace and prosperity, these days when the man on
ten thousand year is hardly less interested in the
high cost of living than is the man on a dollar
day, man who can keep soul and body together
eighteen months on $34 has learned lesson in
economy for which an anxious world is waiting.
Let him get upon the housetops-no, let him pub
lish book-and tell gaping world the luxuries
he enjoyed during his eighteen months on 6 cents
a day, and how he managed to hold out enough to
supply himself with clothing in the meantime
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-27

note of the effect prices of commodities at
fected both here and abroad The consumer would
thus become as vitality interested the producer;
the laborer as the capitalist
The success of the commission system OF gov
ernnient in cities has predisposed the people to
look favorably upon any proposition to enlarge
upon that idea. Then, too, the interstate commerce
commission has proved its value not only to the
general public but in notable instances, to
the railroads No doubt a commission could look
after the expenditures for river and harbor Inn
provements, too, and eliminate the pork barrel
feature, and in the administration of all the de-
partments at Washington, perhaps a commission
could furnish facts and figures which would make
for economical expenditures.
That the commission system could be easily
overdone, however does not seem to enter into the
question at ALL It is apparent that powers dele
gated to commissions would with the lapse of time,
be broadened, or at least that efforts to broaden
those powers would be made, and the admlnIstra-
ton of the government would eventually be dele
gated to commissions. That would be calamity
indeed if the commissions should become contain
mated with the graft that is supposed to tester IN
Washington charges of which have kept lnvestl-
eating committees constantly at work for several
years. But if by the workings of several commits
sions the administration of the government would
be bettered it would be an advance, for the gov
eminent that is best administered, according to the
poet, is best.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-27

ern states is fast passing from Americans to Irish
men, French Canadians and Germans. Fifty years
ago father not ashamed to put his children
to the pillow or to a mechanical trade; but now,
since colleges and high schools have unreasonably
multiplied and universities are cheapened and have
become common, the young boys are 'too feeble
for bodily labor; one has pain in his side, an
other slight cough, another "a very delicate con-
stitution," another is nervous, and so poor Lyman
or Brigham or Homer is sent off to the city to
measure tape, weigh sugar. draw molasses brief
or a tooth.
1t seems never to occur to their foolish parents
that moderate manual labor in the pure and bracing
air of the country is just what these narrow
chested, puny and wasp-waisted lads need and that
to send them to the crowded and unhealthy city is
to send them to their graves. Let them follow the
pillow, swing the sledge or shove the carpenters
plane, and their pinched chests will be enlarged,
their sunken cheeks pumped out, and their lungs,
now "cabined, cribbed and confined" will have
room to expand. Their nerves will be invigorated
with their muscles; and when they shall have
reached the age of manhood instead Of being thin
pale, yapid coxcombs, they shall have expanded to
the size and CONFORMATION of healthy men.
A lawyers Office, bank or a grocery is about
the last place to which sicky youth should be
sent The ruin of a feeble constitution is as sure
in these places in the lead mnies of Hertz.
Even of those men in the city who have constitu-
tions of iron, only ten per cent sue
ceed and that tenth only in Giving
as hermits and working like horses" the
rest after years of toll and anxiety, become bank
rupt or disappear; and having meanwhile acquired
a thorough disgust and unftness for manual labor,
bitterly bemoan the day when they forsook the
peaceful pursuits of the country for the excite
ment, worry and sharp competition of city life
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-27
JUST TO CALL ATTENTION TO 1T.

We notice in the London Tablet and in some of
our esteemed Catholic exchanges, the term mig
ueletes" applied by way of contempt te certain
class of Spanish radicals, servants of the Madrid
government The term is not unlike what, during
the civil in the United States, were called the
provost Marshals guard"
If we are not greatly misinformed, this word
"miguelete" was devised by those Spanish infdels
and their name is legion, who as "Cristinists,"
and "Isabellists," seventy years ago. robbed
vents, and confscated Church property, to desig
nate the gallant Catholics of the Basque Provinces,
who defed their tyranny and held their sacrileges
in horror. Since those days, the word has been
applied, in the North of Spain, to a disreputable
class of government spies
But, whenever and wherever the epithet was first
used in Spain, it is very evident that it originated
with the servants of Lucifer. The term is a spawn
of Satan, who has a most intense desire to befoul
the name of the glorious Archangel, ST. Michael,
the Prince that guards the people of God, and,
therefore, venture to insist, ought never to be
used by Catholics as a term of contempt.
The servants of the devil in the British Islands
and in the United States do not find paddy" or
"Biddy" q sufficiently bitter epithet to apply to
an Irish Catholic They call him mick" So
with infdels and antiCatholics in Germany. A
'Deutsche Michael" is their favorite term of
proach for Catholic. This may seem matter of
mere sentiment, but it should be point of honor
for faithful Catholics, not to as title of in
tended contempt any such term-frst suggested by
the devil-as "Miguelete" or "lIiquelet." Let us,
rather, give the poor devils that deserve it, as
hounds of radicalism and of infdety in Spain, the
name of 'Luciferites,"
Next to the Immaculate Mother of God, to the
Queen of Angels stands, in honor and dignity,
Saint Michael, Prince of the Heavenly Host, our
protector against the snares and wicedness of our
enemy, the devil With his Angels he guards us in
life stands by us when we are dying, and pleads for
us before "The Great White Throne" when we APP
pear for judgment
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-27
HOW TO KEEP COOL.

The hot weather of each recurring summer al
ways brings out lot of strange advice as to how
to keep COOL Notwithstanding everything else is
hot except the interior of icehouses and refrig
orators. Cooling drinks are advertised, and guar
anteed to reduce the temperature of the body while
other advice from equally credible sources insists
that we shall beware of cold drinks. Diet is reg
uated in widely variant ways by advocates of this
method of keeping cool The blood vessels the
vasomotor nerves and the sweat glands of the body
furnish somewhat complicated but nevertheless
very effective system of refrigeration and heating
which system automatically adjusts itself to
wide range of temperatures. The warming appara-
tus can be wonderfully assisted in cold weather by
adding clothing to the body and by making fires
in houses but yet no practicable refrigerat-
ing plant which man may carry around in hot
weather has been invented. The strain of hot
weather. therefore, comes mostly upon the bodily
refrigerating system and long spell of hot wealth
naturally causes heavy drain upon the system
The human body is very comparable to a deli
cately constructed machine If a man had a ma
chine upon which he expected to put some extraor-
binary strain, his first impulse would be to clean
the machine up and get it in. the best of repair
before starting on the big job. Then when every
thing was in frstzclass running order, he would
send his machine off on slow and steady gait, not
running at any time past its limit, and giving it
time to rest up during the night. In pulling our
bodies through the long strain of the summer we
should first of all clean ourselves up, and keep our
selves decently clean Then to keep our bodily ma
chinery in a high state of efficiency we should
avoid excuses of every kind. Probably we should
eat what we crave, but in moderation. In fact,
moderation in everything should be the rule-in
eating, drinking, working or playing. To lay aside
the rule of summer conduct and the
various instructions given by the medical profess
sion may be summed up in the homely phrase
"Take good care of yourselves"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-27
COST OF PUBLIC PRINTING.

Over in England there has been considerable
complaint over a report that four of the chief
commissions of the government had paid out some
$4,000 in publishing maps and reports, the re-
turns from the sales OF which reached only about
one-sixth of the cost of production The econom-
ical Englishman thinks that is pretty expensive
And it is. But the value of the reports to those
who bought them may be very many times greater
than the cost of production and the benefits accr-
ing indirectly to the United Kingdom may far
eclipse the cost of printing. There would not be
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-27
THE BOY AND HIS FUTURE.

The practice of educating boys for the profess
sions which already overstocked, or for mer-
camille business in which statistics show that ninety
per cent fail of success, is fearfuy the increase
in this country. Americans annually becoming
more and more averse to manual labor. To get a
living by ones wits, at the cost of independ-
ence and self-respect and fearful wear and tear
of conscience, is the ambition of large proportion
of young As result the mechanical
professions are becoming monopoly of foreigners,
and the ownership of the finest farms in the east
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-27
CARD FROM BISHOP scA-rAN

feel It my duty to protect Catholics and the pub
nc generally from fraud and imposition By notifying
them from time 70 time that person bearing the
name and Garb of priest sister, or anyone else is
sutnorizeo or permitted 10 solicit collect in this
diocese for any purpose whatever connected with tbs
CRshonc Church without having from me permission
IN writing, bearing my seal and signature Should
anyone be found engaged in doing this unlawful
work or collecting without such q document he or
ehe as the case may be- should be regarded by all az
AEauo ana an iTnposter. L SCANIAAN
Bishop OF Salt Lake,
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-27

much complaint in prodigal country if tt.
turns from sales of public documents reached
sixth of the cost of production.
1t has been asserted that whole trainIo.d.
public documents, duly printed and bound b..
been ca rted direct from the binderies to th. No
mills 70 be made into white paper again. W5o.l
that be true not, it is certain that Inany Il
sands of copies of public documents of all ,,.g
are annually printed from which absoh-.r.
returns received by the government. In a..
it is not the policy of the government to san -.
public documents. Most of them are for FREQ j.
tribution to those who will ask for them. 3rTL
great big public has so little time or irrars..
the public documents that it saves the expeoso. -
transportation and distribution by not as5iro
them. However, the newspapers generally di.r,r,.
when document of interest is issued and H..
give the public pretty good idea of the cortar..
in a short resume 1t probably Is not all vast.l
effort, but the English government has n7tiir.,
be ashamed of in reporting loss from the public,
ton of the reports of Its royal commissions
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-27
THE NFERMoUNTAIN CATHOLIC, AUGUST IT, 1910

epoch in the Catholic history of the Dominion of
Canada. We are living, not in an era, but in a
day, of wonderful Catholic enthusiasm; in a time
Of great meetings organized to proclaim Catholic
belief in the Divinity of Jesus Christ, the Son of
God; in the actually of His dwelling among us in
every Catholic Church and oratory in the world,
and in the saving efficacy of the doctrines He
taught and the examples He left us.
Last September two years ago, England wit
messed the most wonderful meeting of Catholic
prelates, of Catholic nobemen and people, ever
assembled since pre-Reformation times 1t was
congress of believers recalling the days of faith
when bishops, dukes, barons, priests and people
ended their deliberations with professions of faith
and "Te Deums." Then look at New YorB's
centennial celebration, when 10000 Catholics
marched up Fifth avenue; Chicago's memorable and
wonderful turnout" on behalf of Catholic Total
Abstinence, Boston's extraordinary demonstration
in honor of the Holy Name of Jesus and the
parades of the Holy Name Societies in Newark,
New Orleans and other cities of the union.
But the coming Montreal Eueharistie Con-
gress will, in numbers in distinguished names, in
religious pomp and ceremony, and a great and,
in America unique ecclesiastical spectacle outclass
any religious demonstration witnessed the
North American continent.
And Montreal knows how, fttingly and becom-
ingly, to stage great ceremonies She is accus-
toned to entertain lavishly and to surroud reli-
gious occasions with all the pomp, dignity and
ceremonial rite of Rome itself Here, for gen
erations the wonderful professions and alterations
of Corpus Christi have been held and practiced,
the national feasts of the Holy Family and st.
John, the Baptist, annually celebrated and St. Pat
rick's day duly and enthusiastically honored by
Irish and French
1t is Of supreme Importance to remember that
the motives of the first Eucharistic Congress- as,
sembed in the city of Lille, France, in 1881, was
to deepen love for our Lord Jesus Christ, present
in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar to as
sert His Kingship and His sovereign rights by
public proclamation, and, by solemn manifestation,
to draw attention to the antiquity of the faith of
Christians bearing on the reality of the presence
among men of the incarnate Son of God. These
are the reasons why the Congress will meet in Mon
trea early in September, and it was for this that
all Eucharistic Assemblies have been convened for
the past thirty years.
1t will be of interest to our readers to learn
hat, beginning with that of Lille, in 1881, these
splendid Catholic demonstrations have been wit
lessed at Avignon (1862), Liege( 1889, Friburg
1880, Toulouse (1S86), Paris G888), Antwerp
1890, Jerusalem, 1899, Rheims (1894), Paray
1890, Brussels GS9S), Lourdes $500, Anglers
1900 Namur (19O2), Angouleme (19O4), Rome
1905) Journal $1,000, Metz 5000, London
1909, Cologne (1909).
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-27
"PRocLAIMING THE FAITH.

An imposing event destined to shed luster and
glory on great city and great Dominion merits
much more elaborate treatment than may
be accorded it in the editoriol col
umns OF weekly newspaper The sol
emn and universal profession of faith in
the Hol u stery of Christs Most Adorable Body
and Bic n, 10 he made in the metropolitan city of
Montreal Car. A, the closing of the Eucharis-
tic Congress sunday, September II, will mark an
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-27
TO DIR SUBSCRIBERS

me InterTnountain Catholic goes into nearly every
Catholic home In this diocese It's Circulation IN Mon
sana. Idaho Colorado. Wyoming. Nevada and many
SneT states Is very large. Only reliable firms and
3 men advertise in the paper All subscribers
VIII nno 1t to their advantage when about to invest
purchase or consult business matters 10 read over
She list or our advertisers We not only recommend
em ask for them the patronage of all our readerr
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-27

Since it has been declared to be illegal 10 sell
for Rocky Ford cantaloupes any that were mt
raised in the Colorado district, it has been disoov
cred that homegrown products are just as good az
they were last year under another name
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-27

The fact that Philadelphia worked himself
to death is only another reason why the President
should be backed up in his contention that sixty
days vacation is necessary to everybody-wives
and mothers included
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-27

Commissioner General Keefe of the immigr,t;.
bureau reports that the last fiscal year shows
decrease of 289, 40 immigrants admitted into The
United States from last year. We do not know vb,,
effect this has on the cost of living
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-27

1t may be that if the Indians who dealt with ons
William Penn had employed an attorney, they
would have come out away ahead by paying him
ten per cent
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-27

Birmingham Ala, shows 81 inches rainfall last
year, the greatest in the country. And yet Ala
bama is reputed to be dry state.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-27

Uncle Sans completion of two large battleships
emphasizes his contention that he will have peace
even if he has to fight for it.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-27

The high cost of living is shown in that a New
York murderer paid 100000 attorneys fees to es
cape going to the electric chair