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Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-17

A BAPTIST pastor has been indis-
n Greet enough to make public
IA John D. Rockefeller's prayer. He
says it runs as follows:
God, keep me in the same mind.
thought, the same ideals and aspira-
tions."
1t is worded very like an order to
the Almighty. However, well let that
point pass and call attention to one of
the short stories with which Jesus il
lustrated his wonderful addresses:
1.-TWO men went up into the temple
to pray; the one a Pharisee and the
other a publican Ii. E., a man who
didn't pretend to have any especial
virtues). The Pharisee stood and
prayed thus with himself: God,
thank thee that 1 am not as other men
are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers or
even as this publican. 1 fast twice in
the week; l give tithes OF all that
possess
And the publican, standing afar
off, would not so much as lift up his
eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his
breast, saying. God be merciful to me,
a sinner 1 tell you that this man
went down to his house justified, rath-
er than the other, for every one that
eXalteth himself shall be abased, and
he that humbleth himself shall be eX-
allied"
Mr.. Rockefeller is responsible for his
own actions. We have no right TO
criticise them, and we will not at
tempt to do so. But we have a right
to call attention to the peculiar com
placency and the extraordinary and
enviable case of conscience enjoyed by
this remarkable old man. He is not
worrying about the taint on his money.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-17

to taking the municipal light and
found that my light bills had been
more than cut in two. so l realized
that it must have been one of Multi
gan's jokes.
Now, there are two other questions
that PROFOUND themselves to me, which
are these: Is former Mayor Water
house a visionary or not? And the
other question, Is M. M. Slavin
buffer?
Now, in regard to Mr.. Waterhouses
pumping proposition. Is it practical,
and would it pay the city to pump its
water as the former mayor states? The
companies pump most of their water,
so if it pays them, why would 1t not
pay the city then?
Mr.. Waterhouse does not seem so
much of visionary after all.
Now, in regard to Matthew M.
Slayin Is he a buffer? He makes
statement which at least acts like
bombshell in the council chamber and
startles the whole city, and his curt
replv to the councilmen, "None of
their business" at least makes the
community smile.
Mr.. Slavin comes into the midst OF
the arena at one bound. After so
long a retirement it did seem as though
he was set on for life, but he comes to
the front with an awful spasm of
conscience for the dear public, and the
people are astonished.
G. w. WOODHOUSE.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-17
CATALINA

V DWlN GOULD'S good taste in
n selecting Catalina island as a
- place Of residence doubtless will
be emulated by many other members of
the millionaire class. The development
of Catalina was to be expected. 1t
has more possibilities as a great pleas
ure ground and outdoors health resort
than any other geographical area in
the United States. In many respects
it is Incompatible, and to rival il would
be out of the question.
We hope when the millionaires dis
cover Catalina they will act in broad
minded American fashion, and the big,
beautiful island will be a people S
pleasure ground and not a park for a
few. AS years go by, and the popula-
ton of Greater Los Angeles becomes
bigger, the value of all the recI cation
grounds and breathing spaces will be
increased.
We welcome the millionaires to Cata-
lima. We hope they will come there
by the score, build many fine homes
and develop and improve the island
But exclusiveness cannot be thought
of. Los Angeles needs ready access tC
Catalina, and the need will become
more marked every year.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-17

q WINBURNE, who used to love to
~ prowl about shady London, never
~ tired Of telling of q pothouse
orator he once met in the full flush of
his speech. I'm not argyin' with
yer" the fellow said, I'm a tellin'
yer!"
That's the trouble here in America.
We used to be a nation of takers;
now we are one of "tellers." What
we say and the way of 1t makes the
criticism Of DR.. Leslie w. Sprague in
Chicago the other day, that the art
OF conversation is dead in America, "
too largely true to be palatable.
1t all comes because we are too busy
and too wise-and too vain. We know
a lot we wish to get our information
before the Others and We have no
time to waste in doing it.
In the olden time, with plenty of
leisure at his command, the American
dallied with his subject lovingly. Re
spun fine theories and argued about
them He let the others have their
turn. 1t was a duel of wits, the sword
play of the tongue, and men pinked
each other and were pinked in turn,
without any tyranny of the clock.
Now a man sets out and plunges
right along till he is through. He
will have no interruptions. He will
not wander. He keeps at it like a
special train, with unquestioned right
of way. When he stops he doesn't
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-17
WEALTH PRODUCERS NEEDED
TO KEEP COST OF LIVING DOWN

Los ANGELES. March 11.-[Editor
Herald The discussion in the Letter
Box is unusually interesting this week.
So many, of necessity, are seeking
causes of high cost of living.
It seems to me there is difference
between getting and producing wealth,
and the grand rivalry seems to be for
the object, not the method.
If those who are fortunate in the
possession of the acquisitive powers
would direct those powers to the pro-
duction of wealth instead of accumu-
lating wealth that has been produced
by others, it is self evident there would
be ample production, but vain hope!
The idea of creating value forms only
O. small part of the general struggle
for getting possession of it,
Somebody must create wealth, for it
does not spontaneously spring up out
of nothing. 1t is either artificial or
it is created, and everything we own
has value acquired in some way.
All things, with few exceptions. that
are worth possessing are the products
of labor to a greater or less extent.
Now, are we going to blame those
engaged in appropriating the product
of other mems labor? If we are, then
we condemn a biologic law-the law of
self-preservation. We would condemn
ourselves. Then what is the remedy?
Here is where I pause, but I will
suggest that when the dispossessed
become hungry enough and more nu-
merous there will be more sympathy,
and this sympathetic force will exceed
dispossessors will be dispossessed.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-17
WONDERFUL CITY

TROM many esteemed correspon-
dents all over the United States
Il The Herald receives communica-
tions, but it is not often we get a let
ter as delightfully."- frank as that
signed by a tourist or tenderfoot who
complains "land is not taxed in Los
Angeles in proportion to the prices
asked" He seems to think the land
values in Greater Los Angeles are fic-
titious, adding, Tell us the truth, Mr.
Editor. 1t will benefit the city more
than this continual boosting. Many
people here have never seen anything
better, and readily believe what you
write"
The people are not likely to see any
thing better They really believe what
we write because it is really true.
Many of our citizens and many of our
public writer's have had years of ex-
perience in eastern cities, like New
York. Chicago, Boston and Philadel-
phia. The appreciation in Los Ange-
les values will compare favorably with
the appreciation in any of these metro
politan centers.
The great increase in the land val
ues of Los Angeles, which seems to
have stunned our correspondent into
incredulity, is caused by the extraor-
dinary and unparalleled increase in
the population Of Los Angeles, and the
pressure of the demand for accessible
land. If our correspondent will walk
about the business section of the city
and keep his eyes open he cannot help
seeing that many "skyscrapers" are
built or are being built.
Our correspondent will find the sky
scraper invariably indicates high land
values, and in Los Angeles these val
ues have been increased, even as the
size of the buildings has been in
creased from one and two stories to
fourteen and fifteen.
We hope people viii go right on
believing what we write about the
growth and prosperity of Greater Los
Angeles. If they don't believe it, they
will be apt, some fine day, to make
a serious business error
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-17
Art OF Conversation Has
Declined i'm Modern Times
(San Jose IIerald.)


, wait for an answer. He steams away
to his work.
The only way the listener can have
his innings, or at least his one strike
at the bat, is to follow the methods
of the Sidewalk conVersationalists
on the vaudeville stage; those fellows
who come out, one armed with a
paper or a glove. One begins to say
something and the other rudely inter-
rupts and makes his Ioint by swatting
the first man with his paper to en-
phasize his wit. 1t isn't polite to do
this, but the world at large has to
come. to it as a precautionary meas
ure. If it didn't, it would die of it's
bottled up Ideas.
No one wishes the return of the
days when Johnson growled away all
night at the Cheshire Cheese and
Macaulay according to Sydney Smith,
had brilliant flashes of silence;" still,
they would be better than these when
the average man talks with the econ
omy of words he displays in sending
a telegram and with the uninterrupted
flow of a long distance message at a
rate of five dollars for three minutes
The only relief will come from a radi-
cal change in the Whole nature of the
American. When ne gives up being a
machine and finds his pleasure in a
proper distribution of his time be-
tween work and play and study he
will rediscover the gentle art of con-
versation and. will regret that he
didn't start out to lind it long ago.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-17
EMIGRATION

q EVERAL times we have called at
tention to the great emigration
~ from the United States to Canada
which has been replaced by immigra-
tion to the United States from South
ern Europe. In the year 19O7-S Ameri-
can immigrants carried into Canada
$52,000,0o0 in cash and in settlers eff
fects. This was a trife less than a
thousand dollars head, including wo-
men and children. In the last fiscal
year it equaled almost exactly this
amount per capita OF the 299, 6O3 Amer
leans who emigrated TO Canada in the
period beginning with the fiscal year
1904 and ending with and including
the last fiscal year 19824O were farmers
ard farm laborers, 1916 were general
laborers, 12O5S were mechanics, 1926
clerks, traders, etc; 1860 miners and
4O1 domestics.
Canada has been selective in her i'm
migration. She pays bonuses for the
kind of immigrants she desires, and
the railroad companies advertise op-
portunities. In the last twelve years
so per cent of the immigrants from
continental countries, 81 per cent of
those from England and Wales, %
per cent from Scotland, "a per cent
from Ireland and 43 per cent from the
United States made homestead entries
in the western provinces of the Do
minion, and it is jarring to our ma
tional pride to learn that when free
born American citizens take up Cana
dian lands they renounce allegiance to
the Republic and unhesitatingly enroll
themselves under an alien flag.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-17
HAWK AND SPARROWS

A CONTEMPORARY deprecates the
n assault made upon Patten in Eng
IA land and says it would not have
been possible in the United States.
This is not fattering to the United
States. The English democracy is not
as well educated as the Scottish, as
bright as the Irish, or as aggressive as
the American. Yet once in a while the
English democracy comes out Of it's
lethargy and causes considerable eX-
citement. In discussing the Patten
case it should be remembered Patten
went to England from the United States
with the odious reputation for corner
ing necessities of life in order that he
might acquire money.
On the same principle that made the
old timers get up in arms against
raj Ter the minute he showed his face,
the representatives of the 5000 900 peo
pie in the cotton region Of England
showed their resentment against a man
who, they believed, had designs on the
source Of their supply Of bread and
butter. We cannot believe the attack
on Patten demonstrated hostility TO the
United States, because the population
represented by the men who rough
housed" Patten is dependent on the
United States for livelihood. The at
tack was only another instance OF the
fact f-preservation is the first law
Of nature" AS any naturalist will tell
you, it is not the first time hawk has
been attacked at sight by a flock OF
English sparrows.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-17
MlNISTER-EDIToR CHANGES
IDEAS OF NEWSPAPER MEN

PASADENA. March 13.-[ Editor
Herald: A critic should have personal
experience in many Ines, or his criti-
cism loses weight. Among ministers
who have heretofore criticised news
paper men is Rev. Malcolm j. Mac
Leod, who learned the truth of paper
work by grinding out copy and doing
the editorial stunt of a single issue.
He said in part: Never shall | criti-
else newspaper men more. They are the
hardest worked, shortest lived, poorest
paid brain workers on this weary old
world of ours" There's more truth in
this statement than anything else. The
pastor has been there and knows it's
much harder work than preaching.
Rev. A. II. Smith of this city says
ministers are good financiers. Yes, but
for daily editors they are a total fail
ure-the above shows it.
We have known some few preachers
to meet with success in other lines
outside their calling. A minister came
to our neck of the woods many years
ago and started a revival. In those
days they taught in the old style, lit
eral way, as many do now. He was
a fOrceful speaker and story teller.
Beginning a serious story now and
then through the discourse tears would
trickle down his checks, fall off and
bespatter the first chapter of st. John.
At times there was not a dry eye in
the house. The sinful writer sobbed,
being afraid of the furnace depicted
for him in the beyond by this eloquent
speaker.
one night when he was getting away
with sinners who were my best friends
his confederates We're outside getting
away with the best horses in camp.
1t would be too tiresome to relate how
this bunch was dragged through courts
by the vigilance committee TO an un-
timely end. But if we go where the
pastor said we shall meet them over
the river on the other side, in eternal
confinement and muchly fried
G. r. LIMA
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-17

Will property owners please help out
the county assessor? Los Angeles
er it all completely and accurately is
a heroic task. 1t is desirable the as
sessment should be as complete as
possible, and property owners whose
feelings have been outraged by being
overlooked or neglected are cordially
invited to communicate with the as
SCISSOR and have their grievance
redressed.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-17
AT THE THEATERS

AUDITORIUM-The Passion Play.
BELAsCO-"What Happened TO Jones'"
BURBANK-"Sweet Kitty Bellairs."
GRAND-"The Girl from Paris"
Los ANGELES--Vaudevill
MAJEsTIC-"The Right Of way"
MASON-"The Round Up"
OLYMPIc-Muslcal farce.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
PRINCESS-Musical farce.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-17

temples of idols. and it happened in
this way: As the mosquitoes were
very troublesome on the beach. I went
to the higher ground and slept in one
of the temples
Having with me some seven or
eight orange seeds that had brought
from Cuba, 1 planted them alongside
the edihce, and they sprouted and
grew very well. it appearing that the
priests of the temple. on perceiving
that they were different plant from
those Indigenous to the soil. took
means to prevent the ravages of the
ants and watered and weeded them.
l went for my orange shoots
and transplanted them, and they
thrived exceedingly" Sincerely.
CHARLES SAINT CROIX.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-17
DISCUSSES
MUNICIPAL LIGHT PLANT

PASADENA, March S.-[Editor Her
add: l am much interested in this
talk about our Municipal lighting
plant in Pasadena. We have had COM
munications and councilmanic excite
ment, and the public is wondering
what is coming next.
In the first place, we had a letter or
two from Mr.. MulIigan which at that
stage of the game appeared like huge
Joke, and as Englishmen are proverb-
tally slow to see jokes, l could not get
it through my head whether Mulligan
was joking or not, so l looked up my
electric light bills for a year previous
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-17
TELLS OF FIRST PLANTING
OF ORANGES IN AMERICA

LOS ANGELES, March 11.-[Editor
Herald: The following account of
the first planting of oranges on this
continent may be of interest to the
residents of this locality, intimately
related as they are to that industry.
on page II, volume l, of the History
of the Conquest of New spain, by
Capt. Bernal Diaz del Castlllo, printed
i'm Paris in 1887, the doughty old con-
ouistador pauses in his narrative to
state how he became the original cit
rus orchardist OF America. The trans
lation loses the naivete of the orig
inal.
Il would also state how l sowed
some orange seeds near some of the
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-17

Now that a building in Chicago has
infected with tuberculosis and has
killed sixteen people. the necessity of
using the utmost hygienic caution in
dealing with lung plague cases is more
obvious than ever. The case reported
in Chicago is the most definite on rec
ord. No one can now doubt the highly
infectious quality of tuberculosis.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-17

One month from date the census
enumeration will be on" We be-
speak for all the men employed in the
task of census taking the kindly and
considerate treatment to which, as
representatives of our Uncle Sam, they
are entitled.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-17

Mexican tariff makers are bent on
giving Uncle Sam a Roland for an
Oliver. Some of our high tariff en-
thusiasts needed an object lesson in
tariff1tis. Looks as if they would get
one at last.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-17

Secretcry Ballinger says Mr.. Pinchot
is suffering from too much fantasy"
What Mr.. Ballinger calls fantasy
most Americans call "Rooseveltism." 3"
Doubtless there are citizens who wish
'twere only fantasy.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-17

frigeration. In our opinion, great
bulk" means the most. If the language
is capable of any other construction.
we are at a loss to guess what that
quibbling construction may be.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-17
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENT intended
for publication must be accompanied by tho
name and address of the writer. rhe herald
gives the widest latitude TO correspondence
but assumes reSDons;bIlitv for their views
Letters must not exceed 500 words.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-17

Double, double, toll and trouble
Fire burn and caldron bubble" The
political cauldron is beginning to boil
May the spirit of Americanism domi-
nate all political councils!
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-17

This is a better day for Ireland than
she has ever seen, and all the Celts
will join with her in THE Wearin' o.
the Green"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-17

Don't worry over young Knox. He's
all right, "Then let him go, for well we
know he comes of a fighting breed"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-17

Hurrah for Saint Patrick's day in the
morning, afternoon and evening!
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-17
ROCKEFELLER'S PRAYER

A BAPTIST pastor has been indis-
u Greet enough to make public
"A John D. Rockefeller's prayer. He
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-17

REAT interest will be mani
tested in the forthcoming
report to congress of the
commission appointed to in
inquire into the affairs of
the little republic of Liberia.
cituafed IN the west coast
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-31
RIVAL CLAIM OF CoNsULs
Complicated Situation in New Yor
Called to Attention of Stnte Deunr mel

Complicated Situation in New Yorl
Called to Attention of state Depnrtmen nj
Washington, August 30.--The com.
plicated situation in New York result.
ing from the rival claims of Madri,
and Estrada consuls has been called
to the attention of the State Depart.
rnent Commercial interests wanted
to know which one of the consuls
should be recognized by them. and
thought the State Department might
solve the riddle.
The response of the department was
however. that the authority of con-
suls was determined by the domestic
laws OF their country, and not by the
government to which they were az.
credited. The United States. neverthe
less. has recognized the right of Bo-
lanos to certify invoices for shipment.
to the eastern coast Of Nicaragua
under control of the Estrada faction
and of Strauss to shipments to th'
section held until recently by Madriz
on the western coast.
Now that H1adriz Is out, 1t Is be
lieved that the State Department with
in the next few days, will take step!
amounting to the recognition of the
right of Bolanos to certify for thu
whole OF the Central American re-
MI IL
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-31
NO CONTEMPT OF COURT
Lawyers believe Roosevelt Exercised
Right of Free Speech.

Washington, d. c., August 30.-Was
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in contempt
of court when he attacked several de-
cisions of the Supreme Court in his ad-
dress before the Colorado Legislature
at Denver yesterday?
This question has been widely dis
cussed here to-day. The general opin~
ion among Washington lawyers is that
the colonel was within his rights as a
citizen when he made this attack.
though some of them question his good
taste
The right OF free speech guaranteed
Americans by the Constitution permits
general criticism of courts by citizens
without contempt of court, it is said.
However. had Colonel Roosevelt made
| remarks which might have affected
cases pending in the Supreme Court,
going into some particular proceeding
of the court, he might have been In
contempt.
Colonel Roosevelt was not in con-
tempt of court in making his critt-
cisms of the decisions of the Supreme
| Court" said Jackson Fl Ralston, one OF
the attorneys who are defending Sam
uel Gompers. John Mitchell and Frank
Morrison, officials of the American Fed
| Grafton of Labor, who have been SEN
fenced to Jail for contempt OF the
1 Supreme Court of the District of CO.
Iumbia.
Broadly speaking. the only differ
/ ence between the case of Mr.. Gompers
and that of Mr.. Roosevelt" continued
Mr.. Ralston is that Mr.. Gompers crit
llcized the court in his own case. and
/, Roosevelt criticized the court about
cases in which other persons We're con-
cerned Ito true. of course. that the
court has held that Gompers's criticism
published in the oftic;nl organ OF the
American Federation of Labor. tended
to aid the alleged boycott which
i the court had restrained. and In thi:
Gomperss case is different.
But in the final analysis the ques.
Ition of freedom of speech is brough
/ up. Mr.. Gompcrs and Mr.. Roosevelt
We're equally within their rights whe,
they made their criticisms of tn,
Il COURTS
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-31
CLASSIC OF TUR
TO BE RUN TO-DAY
May Mean End of Horse Racing
in Empire
State.

Saratoga, N. Y, August so.-Racina
for the 1910 season in New York will
end tomorrow with the running here
of the Futurity, one of the classics
of the turf. The close of the season
at this unusually early date. 1t now
appears. may mean the final drop OF
the curtain upon the sport in this
State But for this, possibly the last
great turf contest in New York. field
of starters is entered that assures a
fitting climax in the event Of the
closing of the tracks.
on Thursday, September /, the new,
anti-betting laws, passed by the last
Legislature at the behest OF Governor
Hhughes, become effective, making
Jockey Club directors personally re-
| sponsible for anti-betting law vtola-
lions, Backers of the sport have eN-
pressed their unwillingness to continue
racing, at least until the scope and
| meaning of the new laws Is settled
| by the courts, and close of the season
| was set for August 81, to avoid pos
sfble conflict.