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UNIQUE on the Santa Rosa."
GULLIVER BEATEN
DR. FRANK DERBY PIERCE of
West Roxbury, Mass., says den
tistry is practiced by the apes of
Africa. According to the doctor,
"monkeys have discovered a blue clay
much the same in color as that which
covers the diamond fields. In this clay
there is a' large percentage of creosote.
When the animals have the toothache
they plaster this clay Into the cavity
as a remedy. The creosote will often
kill the offending nerve."
This is the most interesting report of
the doings of peoples and lands beyond
the pale of civilization which has been
published since Gulliver returned from
his voyages. The apes seem to be
smarter than men. When the average
man has a toothache he howls, groans
or swears (according to his nature) and
when he has driven all his relatives.
friends and neighbors to desperation
he hunts up a dentist. After the den
tist has heard what the sufferer has to
say he unmasks his batteries and pre
pares ' for action. By this time the
patient realizes he has been hallu
cinated and that he never had a tooth
ache in his life. He wants to tell the
dentist he thinks he will go home, but
hasn't the moral courage. He sinks
reluctantly into a chair. The dentist
does the rest.
Then there's the bill to pay.
r. In mid Africa every ape is his own
dentist.
When one of these sagacious animals
is afflicted with toothache he seeks a
diamond clay bed. He has no use for
the diamonds. They won't cure tooth
ache. But with the clay he gives him
self a hundred dollars worth of
"flxln'," and it doesn't cost him
a nickel. The superiority of the
Caucasian human over the African
ape is often asserted. Yet the simian
people not only treat their own teeth,
but, according to Dr. Pierce, "they fill
each other's teeth with consummate
skill and often kill an aching nerve."
This is the biggest nature story of
modern times. Dr. Pierce must be a
courageous man.
V Los Angeles educators laugh at the
suggestion there has been extravagance
in the administration of the public
schools. Nothing is more deplorable
than interference with the educational
work of a big city caused by any kind
of. trouble, financial or otherwise, be
tween various branches of the city gov
s' ernment. We believe it will be shown
; the school funds of Los Angeles have
been expended in a manner called for
by the extraordinary "perpetual situa
tion" in educational matters In Los
Angeles, which is a city where school
population is continually overtaking
facilities and accommodations.
I Lydia Thompson is dead. Long age
her name was as well known in the
I United States as that of her contem
porary ln fame, Charles Dickens, whom
she has outlived by many years. Lydia
was the most famous burlesque actress
'of her time, and "Lydla' Thompson's
blondes" not only made great reputa
tions but many of them married Ameri
«cans," picked up their "it's" and settled
down to housekeeping . under ,| the Stars
and Stripe*.
PROSPERITY
' T\ NE of the biggest object lessons of
I I. Prosperity Week yesterday's
Prosperity Week was yesterday's
V/ industrial parade. It taught peo
ple who had not been before aware of
it the commercial importance of Los
Angeles, and was Intensely gratifying
to the friends of Los Angeles, who
from the first have contended that only
upon a basis of commercial prosperity
can "the city magnificent," the Paris
of America, be built endurlngly. Art.
literature and music will ever make
their home In Los Angeles.
Wealth, luxury and ease will ever be
found here. It will continue to be one
of the "show towns" of the tourist,
and will always be an attractive resort
for those who seek -ease and amuse
ment in the finest climate with which
any portion of the earth is blessed.
But the industrial development of the
city must go forward uninterruptedly.
Commercially Los Angeles has had a
splendid start, and is pursuing the ad
vantage gained.
The additional water supply which is
being brought to the city will help it,
and with San Pedro harbor equipped
and ready to receive the world's com
merce, the metropolitan commercial
and Industrial development and im
portance of Los Angeles will become
factors not only ln our metropolitan
life, but ln the life of California and
ln the life of the nation.
There ls every reason why news of
a parade like that which passed tri
umphantly through the streets of Los
Angeles yesterday should be read In
every part of the United States with
appreciation and delight. Here Is a
great new seat of Industry and com
merce on the Pacific, still bearing the
old name, but covering a territory Im
mensely larger than that occupied by
the old pueblo and ciudad de nuestra
Senora Maria la Reina de los Angeles.
The name has been clipped until it is
brief, American and businesslike. With
the clipping of the name began the ex
pansion of the city, which in recent
years has been carried on to an extent
unparalleled In the history of modern
American communities.
It is possible that a tourist may still
have been sufficiently belated in his
Information, or that an eastern paper
may still have been jealous enough for
the supremacy of the Atlantic to ask:
"Where are the industries behind all
this phenomenal building growth of
Los Angeles?" Yesterday's parade was
part of the answer, and the rest of the
reply is to be found in the robust In
dustrial vigor and enterprise which the
parade represents. The new Los An
geles, the metropolis of the Pacific
coast, has cause to rejoice as it looks
ahead, because "all's well," and the
watchword not only of the week but of
all the weeks to come ls PROSPER
ITY.
CHRISTMAS CHEER
EVERY reader of Los Angeles
Herald Is a progressive, big
hearted, patriotic American, or he
would not read The Herald. Our read
ers will join us ln providing a Merry
Christmas festivity for the children of
Los Angeles. The Herald has promised
to be steward for Santa Claus, and is
making arrangements for the biggest
Christmas good cheer celebration that
has ever been held in Los Angeles. In
the first instance, the festival is for the
children, but, broadly speaking, lt is
for everybody with a young heart;
and as everybody in Los Angeles has
a young heart, especially around and
about Christmas time. It is everybody's
festival, and its success will be every
body's success.
The Herald will give publicity to
everything and everybody connected
with the Christmas festival. It will tell
about gifts and givers, about prepara
tions that are being made, and about
the good things the children may ex
pect. And as Christmas is an intel
lectual feast as well as a holiday, The
Herald at its Christmas tree will have
the biggest and jolliest kind of an en-
tertainment that has ever been given
since old Santa first harnessed his
reindeer. Christmas in California, the
land of flowers, fruit, sunshine, hap
piness and prosperity, is merrier than
anywhere else on earth, and The Her
ald's Merry Christmas will be the best
and merriest in California.
If you would share in the success of
The Herald's Christmas festival, write
to the Christmas editor and tell him
you wish to enlist under the benevolent
banner of Santa Claus and help tf>
make Christmas sunshine in the land
of sunshine.
ROYAL BACK NUMBER
WE ARE not surprised to learn the
*!* Imperial back number who rules
Germany was impudent enough
to tell our American ambassador that
the United States would pass through
great dangers, owing to constant In
crease in the power of the people, be
cause ignorance and impudence always
go together, and in spite of his ad
mirers who may be found here and
there we cannot believe William has
said or done anything to warrant the
belief he is a man of more than ordi
nary Intelligence, while from time to
time he is guilty of such astonishing
reactionary missteps that a student of
his mentality would be compelled to ad
mit his intelligence in some respects
is less than average. He seems to be
unable to grasp the idea that he ls
living in the twentieth century, that
the days of monarchical or political ab
solutism are over, and Germany, in
spite of imperialist restrictions, has
produced some of the foremost econo
mic and social thinkers of this or any
age. These great Germans apparently
have been writing for all the world ex
cepting the kaiser, who strides along in
his military/boots with his royal nose
In the air dreaming of Caesar and
Charlemagne.
If the emperor would make a closer
study of American conditions he would
find the only, possible danger whlcn
may menace this republic may coma
from loss or contraction of < popular
power. The complexities of our civili
zation are interfering between the
popular will and Its expression. With
the revival of Americanism there win
be ' a restoration of, the . rule of . the
people, ',
LOS ANGELES HERALD: THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 19, 1908.
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CALIFORNIA SUPPRESSION
COMMITTEE
FACTS multiply which show that
when our esteemed contemporary,
the Evening Express, rechristened
the California promotion committee
the California suppression committee,
it gave lt the only name which ap
propriately expresses its function.
Before that organization at its meet
ing In Los Angeles on last Saturday
deliberately refused to put itself on
record ao favoring a matter In which
the state of California ls most vitally
Interested it would have been difficult
to make anyone believe that any as
semblage of people In the state of
California, from a Sunday school to a
prize fight audience, would have re
fused an expression in favor of a
proposition intended to secure lower
freight rates for the freight ' tariff
burdened Industries of our state. How
ever, when the California suppression
committee refused to indorse the rec
ommendation of Mr. Brlstow that the
government establish a lino of steam
ers between Pacific > coast ports and
the Panama railroad for the purpose
of transporting freights between the
Pacific and the Atlantic coasts, It
showed conclusively that the welfare
of California was not the matter it
was most interested in promoting.
The Herald has recently been fa
vored by a correspondent with some
additional instances of the exercise of
the committee's function of suppres
sion. It has lately issued a circular
under the title of "California's Thanks
giving Offering," which is entirely de
voted to San Francisco and the sur
rounding country, and studiously
avoids any mention of Los Angeles
and Southern California.
Another publication issued by it in
the -form of a small booklet entitled
"Tips for Tourists in California," de
votes barely five out of twenty-four
pages to a necessarily meager and per
functory catalogue of the attractions
of Southern California. Of the re
maining nineteen pages, eight are de
voted to the city of San Francisco and
eleven to a somewhat elaborate de
scription of, the surrounding attrac
tions which can be reached from that
city.
It may be considered a fortunate
thing that this organization by its
action at its meeting in this city. on
last Saturday so plainly defined Its
opposition to the real welfare of Cali
fornia where that clashes with the in
terest of the Southern Pacific com
pany, and to everything that relates
to the southern portion of the state,
as to leave our citizens no excuse for
being Imposed upon by it in the future.
The Herald congratulates the Los
Angeles chamber of commerce upon
the perspicacity evidenced by that or
ganization's refusal to in any way co
operate or affiliate with the misnamed
California promotion committee, and
we venture the prediction that no
other organization of Southern Cali
fornia will hereafter in any way rec
ognize or co-operate with the Cali
fornia suppression committee so long
■as that organization continues in ex
istence.
WELCOME, ADMIRAL
IN KEEPING with the spirit of
Prosperity Week is the announce
ment that Admiral Robley D. Evans
is coming to Los Angeles to take
charge of an Important harbor enter
prise. Citizens recognize with grati
tude the valuable services of General
Chaffee in connection with the aque
duct.
In public enterprises the trained
minds and the practical experience of
men versed In the art of command and
of orderly direction of affairs are of
more than ordinary value, and citizens
are glad to hear that the talent and
experience of one of our greatest and
most popular naval officers will be used
for the harbor development of Los An
geles. This city will welcome Admiral
Evans with enthuslasm.'J'^teSiga
William the Turbulent Tamed
CONGRATULATIONS TO
SAN PEDRO
THE HERALD desires to congratu
late the good people of San Pedro
upon the Initial steps which they
have taken looking to consolidation of
the Harbor City with the city of Los
Angeles. And The Herald feels sure
that it expresses the Individual and col
lective sentiment of the citizens of Los
Angeles and their city, when it
promises to use every effort in its
power to advance the welfare of tho
Harbor City when lt shall have become
a part of the city of Los Angeles by
promoting in every way and at all
necessary costs the development of Its
harbor facilities to the fullest possible
extent.
The possibilities of development of
San Pedro harbor are bo great that no
agency other than that of a great city
with all Its power of Issuing bonds and
raising money can properly respond to
them. We know that the city of Los
Angeles, whose civic energy and liber
ality in the development of public util
ity schemes have already challenged the
admiration of the world, can be safely
trusted with the future development
of San Pedro harbor, and that ln the
hands of the city and under its foster
ing care that port will soon achieve Its
potential destiny of being % the seat of
the greatest commerce upon the Pacific
coast.
Th,e Herald believes that it is not in
dulging in extravagant expression
when it says that the moment San
Pedro or any considerable portion of
that city becomes a part of the city of
Los Angeles, that moment will wit
ness the appreciation of every foot of
property within the portion so joined
to Los Angeles by at least 100 per cent.
An unusually interesting and timely
official document Is the annual report of
the county statistician, filed with the
board of supervisors yesterday. It
shows in detail the great growth and
prosperity of Los Angeles county, and
ln a' most convincing manner, stripped
of all rhetoric, gives the exact, hard
facts concerning the phenomenal
growth of the most wonderful county
in the United States.
John D. Rockefeller was on the wit
ness stand yesterday. He was engaged
In telling the history of his life. If
the government should actually go ln
for "trust busting" to an extent that
would gratify the more sanguine of the
spectators of the big national show the
most interesting chapter ln J&wn D.'s
oleaginous life has yet to be written.
"Playing the ponies" plays the dick
ens with many a man who but for the
lure of race track gambling'would never
stray from the narrow path of honesty.
When we pray, Lead us not into tempta
tion, we should realize that those who
aßsent to the perpetuation of race track
gambling are leading Into temptation
many of their brethren.
When Dr. Pierces story about Afri
can apes filling each other's teeth with
clay reaches Washington there will be
something doing. The decentralized
fragments of the reputation of a' cer
tain West Roxbury scientist will cloud
the air in the vicinity of the White
House. Another well Intentloned citi
zen for the In Bad club.
We extend our condolences to Red
lands, which, by the death of Sciplo
Craig, loses not only an estimable and
useful citizen, but ls also deprived of
the Cltrograph. This was one of the
best known of the ranch and • rural
newspapers of California. Publication
ceased with the death of Its editor.
A Pittsburg mlllionalce who eloped
with a beauty showed riches had not
corrupted his good judgment. For the
sake of the romance we hope the elop
ing young woman didn't know her
"feller" was a Croesus.
;, Buy and boost Los Angeles products
during '' Prosperity Week and every
other week. ...
The State Press
Fight for Justice
Because this alliance of wealth and
Crime ls so unnatural and so Insane
people are loath to believe in Its exist
ence, but if its existence is admitted
there is but one thing to do, and that
is for the great body of the people who
are neither rich nor criminal to fight
unitedly for order and justice and the
stability of government in . all Its
branches.— Bakersfield Echo. '
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Boost Home Industry
Just an Item of what the country
spends elsewhere for what might be
produced at home Is the statement that
$2,892,474 was sent abroad last year to
pay for walnuts, and yet there are
thousands of acres of land in California
which will produce walnuts to be had
for comparatively little money.Oak
land Enquirer.
Citizen's Peril
Who Is the man who said the Out
look, which has employed President
Roosevelt to be "contributing editor"
at 25,000 plunks per annum, ls owned
by Standard Oil Interests? We bet that
Mr. Roosevelt will get out his club
roll again, also his Bakersfield
California!*!.
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The Metropolis
Los Angeles seems destined to be the
metropolis of the Pacific coast. A com
parison of the recent vote at the presi
dential election shows that the south
ern city very nearly approached San
Francisco. And the growth of Los An
geles has just commenced. — Santa Bar
bara Press.
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London's Forte
Jack London may not be able to write
the "best seller,"" but he can get more
free advertising out of the common
things of life than any author dead or
alive.—Fresno Herald.
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< All In
It is said that the ex-ice king and
bank wrecker, Morse, Is now broke.
That probably accounts for his getting
fifteen years in the penitentiary.—Oak
land Enquirer.
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Chronic Osculation
The papers say the Aleutian Islanders
are kissing themselves to death. One
more addition to the "methods of easy
death."—Sacramento Union.
Sweatshop Work
It is said that the sultan of Turkey
wears 75 cent shirts. They must have
a cheap method of making armor plate.
—San Bernardino Index.
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Far and Wide
Militarism
One effect of the visit of the Ameri
can fleet to Australia is apparent ln a
new "conscription" law, making all
men between 18 and 25 subject to mill
*tary service; and boys between 12 and
38 subject to cadet service. The Aus
tralians are good fighters, as was dem
onstrated by their soldiers in the Boer
war. There Ib no question that the
new militia would do Its part in case
of trouble.-Seattle Times. .-.
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Demand for Revision
Equally true is it that equitable re
adjustment of the existing tariff sched
ules is a general and not a partisan
demand. This was the utterance of the
Chicago platform: "The Republican
party declares unequivocally for a re
vision of the tariff by a special session
of congress Immediately after the in
auguration of the next president."—
Philadelphia North American.
Cuban Nation
We have learned that the Cubans
have a real national sentiment, not to
be ignored either now or in our future
relations with the island. They have
no desire to be anything but a nation.
They do not want to be a dependency,
and annexation is viewed with abhor
rence by the masses.—Boston Tran
script.
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Who Got It?
Now that President Roosevelt is un
bosoming himself respecting matters
that could not expediently be discussed
before the election, will he not tell the
country what he knows of who got the
$40,000,000 paid by the United States
government for the old Panama canal?
—Philadelphia Record.
Antiquities ;
A Chicago professor says that base
ball was played In the ancient days of
the mound builders, and after glancing
over the present list of players we are
willing to agree with the professor.—
Philadelphia Telegraph.
Spelling Must Be Uniform
Even If It Is Uniformly Bad
INDIVIDUAL reform is lie latest
proposal concerting the best rem
edy for our archaic, stupid, cum
brous, non-phonetic and very expen
sive English spelling, A writer in the
■Atlantic suggests It in this wise:
Wo may find an illustration of the
plebeian anchylosis of advancing civi
lization in tho minor matter of spell
ing. Tho laws of spelling, properly
■peaking, are few or none, and in the
great ages men have understood this
and boldly acted accordingly. They
exercised a fine personal discretion In
the matter and permitted without
question a wide range of variation.
Shakespeare, as we know, even spelled
his own name in several different
ways, all equally correct. When that
great old Elizabethan mariner. Sir
Martin Froblsher, entered on one of
his rare and hazardous adventures
with ' the pen he created spelling ab
solutely afresh, In the spirit of simple
heroism with which he was always
ready to sail out into strange seas.
His epistolary adventures are certain-
During the Last Ten Years
Russian Wages Have Risen
CONSUL JAMES W. RAGSDALE
writes from St. Petersburg that as
Russia is an agricultural country
it is Interesting to trace the fluctua
tion in prices of labor, which, like
everything there during the last ten
years, shows a progressive tendency to
increase. The consul presents the fol
lowing comparative statistics:
Thus, in 1904, the daily pay of a la
borer during the period of housing
crops increased, as compared with the
average pay from 1882 to 1891, through
out European Russia, from 59 to 69 ko
pecks—loo kopecks— ruble—sl.s cents),
or by 17 per cent, except in the follow
ing eight provinces, in which the prices
have fallen: Pakov, 3 per cent; Kiev,
i per cent; Don region, 7 per cent;
Olontzk, 10 per cent; Podolsk, 22 per
cent; Kherson, 38 per cent, and Bessa
rabia, 40 per cent.
Comparing the figures of 1906 (the
data for 1907 not yet being published).
Outsiders Never Can Win
from Professional Gamblers
SEVEN PER CENT Is only a frac
tion of the real odds against the
outsider. He runs the hazards of
crooked Jockeys, crooked trainers and
crooked owners. He runs the hazard
of false odds put up by the bookmak
ers. In short, he plays another man's
game, and a crooked game at that.
The Emeryville gambling hell ls not
kept up for the profit of outsiders. It
is kept up for the purpose of plucking
the producer who carries his earnings
to the track and feeds them Into the
capacious maw of the betting booths,
says the San Francisco Bulletin.
Professional gamblers make no great
secret of the fact that the outsider can
not win at the race track. They Jeer
ln the faces of the fools who thrust
their earnings and their stealings into
the bookmaker's till. They are not
afraid of driving the Infatuated pro-
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SAYS CONSTITUTION DOESN'T
INSIST UPON RELfGION
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 16.—[Editor
Herald]: In your issue of Monday is a
criticism of President Roosevelt's re
ligious views, and the writer seems to
harbor the delusion that our national
government is connected with the
Christian religion and the Bible is its
basis. The gentleman is mistaken,
and should read the constitution and
learn that this is a secular govern
ment and recognizes no religion and
has nothing to do with the Bible. Con
sequently Roosevelt is right when he
says a man's religious belief is a pri
vate matter that concerns not the pub
lic. ', ' a A ,
When this government was founded
our statesmen knew what* they were
doing, for they were familiar with his
tory and knew the evils that a union of
church and state never failed to pro
duce, so they took a new departure in
constructing this government and made
it purely secular and no religious quali
fication is essential or mandatory for
an office holder.
He can believe or disbelieve in the
Christian religion and it matters not,
for his duties do not connect him with
religion In any way; and when a man
gets to thinking otherwise and talk
ing about how ungodly men should not
rule over a Christian people, as does
Roosevelt's critic, he should read the
constitution and clarify his mind. This
government has had four non-Christian
presidents, and their records loom up
in history as well as any four presi
dents who professed Christianity. I re
fer to Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln
and Grant, and would advise this gen
tleman not to be unduly worried be
cause the next president rejects the
Trinity. As long as the constitution
guides him the people must and should
be satisfied.
CHANNING SEVERANCE.
DECLARES WE ARE EARNING
WORLD-WIDE REPROBATION
.
LON ANGELES, Nov. 17.—[Editor
Herald]: Referring to your editorial of
Tuesday, "Freedom Flouted," in the
case of Magon, Villareal and Rivera
now lying "Incommunicado" In our
city jail, I.want to say that not only
is our procedure in thus truckling to
Mexican official tyranny a disgrace to
us as a city, a state and a nation; but
THE DISGRACE IS LEAKING OUT.
The case ls already beginning
to "go the rounds" in the European
papers. I read a brief account
the other day in a London weekly
ln which the names of Los An
geles officials of note as well as of
Attorney General Bonaparte and "des
pot" Diaz were all blazoned forth In
unenviable notoriety. There was even
a hint of contingent favors from the
Mexican government In shape of mln-
lng concessions.
How do we like being held up to
acorn and contempt throughout • the
world in this way, and worst of all to
know It Is m ot undeserved! Those
"Llberatlonlsts," those "Garibaldis", of
Mexico should be freed at once if we
would redeem our national good name,
■ 3. It. WENSLOWE. .
ly more interesting than admirable,
but we have no reason to suppose that
the distinguished sons to Whom
these letters were addressed viewed
them with disdain. •
Moro anaemic ages cannot endure
creative vitality even in spelling, and
tore anaemlo ages cannot endure
ative vitality even in spelling, and
so it comes about that in periods when
everything beautiful and hand-made
gives place to manufactured articles
made wholesale, uniform and cheap, the
same principles are applied to words,
and spelling becomes a mechanic trade,
We must have our pelting uniform,
even if uniformly bad. Just as the man
who, having out of sheer Ignorance
eaten the wrong end of his asparagus,
was thenceforth compelled to declare
that he preferred that end, so it is with
our race ln the matter of spelling. Our
ancestors, by chance or by Ignorance,
tended to adopt certain forms of spell
ing; and we, their children, are forced
to declare that we prefer those forms.
Thus we have not only lost all Individ- >
uallty in spelling, but we pride our
selves on our loss and magnify our an
chylosis. "-' "' - • '' -•*'■".
it is seen that the prices have risen
from 46 to 70 kopecks, or by 18 per cent,
except the Samara, Seratov, Simbirsk,
Kazan, Ufa, Orensburg, Penza and
Tambov provinces, where prices have
fallen on an average from 5 to 10 per
cent.
Wages are lowest in the cast, where
a laborer receives from 45 to 55 ko
pecks a day. The highest pay received
is in the steppe region, where it is
from 70 kopecks to 1% rubles a day,
fluctuating In the other Russian pro
vinces. This amount covers a man's
labor, and board, the latter being cal
culated at 10 to 20 kopecks a day. The
net income of a laborer In European
Russia amounts on the average to 60
kopecks a day. •"■'
The amount of wages paid to women
fluctuates from 35 to 55 kopecks a day,
or from three-fifths to two-thirds of
the amount paid to men. In Asiatic
Russia the highest wage is paid in the
maritime provinces, where a laborer
gets from 3*4 to 4 rubles a. day.
ducer away from' the betting ring for
ever, for they know that he is the
slave of a vice which neither reason
nor ridicule will cure.
•'Why don't you go to work for a
living?" a well-known lawyer who fre
quents the track said Jocularly to ono
of the bookmakers.
."I don't have to work so long as
there are plenty of 'suckers' like you
to support me," the bookmaker replied
with a grin.
"Some day I'll quit the game and
you'll starve to death," the lawyer re
torted.
"You can't quit," said the book
maker seriously. "The game owns
you. But if you should quit there aro
plenty of others who can't or won't."
And that, precisely, Is why the Em
eryville gambling hell flourishes and
why the law must shut It down.
MIND'S POWER OVER MATTER
WELL KNOWN IN EVERY AGE
LONG BEACH, Nov. 17.— [Editor
Herald]: It may. be ungracious to
criticise those who with good Inten
tions are pushing this "Immanuel
movement" into public prominence,
shouting that they have opened a new
field of philanthropic endeavor, and
discovered to the world an original way
of treating the ills—or some of them—
that flesh is heir to. But there are
facts that these Bostonese and their
followers have Ignored in this preach
ing of "mind mastery of the body." One
Is that the power of mind over mat
ter has been known and practiced as
far back as history reaches. It has
been a cult in every age and among
every people that has left records.
Moreover, this power has brought its
mystery along with its years, and the
man of the stone age was as much and
as little bewildered by the power he
had M is the man of today. The
longer a man lives in a house the more
truck he gathers In his attic. Hence
we have more of the phenomena of
this mind work than had our forbears,
but we can't explain it any better. It
Is not a thing that comes of scholar
ship, or one that can be mastered by
culture. It is a gift. Jesus had it, but
he was no scholar, or scientist. He
never studied psychology, or auto-sug
gestion, but went right on and did
things to the confusion of the learned
and theologuea of his day. •
Another mistake- we moderns mako
In this matter is that the church is
the one to run this cult. It Is a gross
mistake. In all ages the expressions
of this power of spirit over matter
have been' wholly and solely the work
of individuals "to the manner born." To
organize such a movement will not
kill the force itself, but will make a.
laughing stock of the movers ln such
an attempt. V. --, . ,-;.'• • '-* SENEX.
BELIEVES WE COULD LIVE
BETTER AND EDUCATE YOUTH
SAN JACINTO, Nov. [Editor
Herald]: To argue as Mr. Cook does,
that there must be compulsion under
Socialism because somebody advocated
lt In a book, seems foolish to say the
least. ■ " -
As well reason like this: "Parle Vous.
the great French revolutionist ami
democrat, had two wives, therefore we
must become polygamists in order to
havo a democratic government."
. Since a co-operative commonwealth
would probably have a medium of ex
change and a scale of wages, why
could not employment be regulated by
raising or lowering the scale In differ
ent lines of work to prevent their be
coming crowded or the reverse? •
Society need not concern Itself about
a class which would rather starve than
work, as lt would naturally disappear
through starvation. '-.' • _
The people who deserve our sympathy
are the starving millions who are will
ing to work, but are denied the chance.
If it IS true that with modern machin
ery we are able to produce six times
M much per capita as we could sixty
years ago, why are we no better off
than we were then? If we cdtild find
the leak and stop it could We not live
better-than we do now and keep the
flted by reading the "Conclusion" . t.i
enter upon the study or discussion of
social-problems will be greatly bene
fited by reading the "Conclusion" to
Rldpath's History of the World.
A. FARMER..;