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CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
AT THE THEATERS
BELASCO— Dollar Mark."
MASON—Bark.
AUDITORIUM —Dark.
BI'BBANK — New Minister."
MAJESTIC—KoIk and Dill In "The Poli
ticians."
OBPHEI'M —Vaudeville.
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Broadway."
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VNIQIE —"Dirk's Trouble*."
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FAKE GOODS
SINCE the Model License league is
living evidence it is in earnest '.n
its campaign to reform the liquor
business, we call its attention to a
phase of the saloon business which Is
almost as ban as the law-breaking to
which the league is opposed. c refer
to the practice of "faking" goods.
Charges have- been lodged with Los
Angeles county pure-food authorities
that high-class saloons of Los Angeles
are selling inferior liquors in bottles
bearing the labels of standard and
high-grade brands. Now, under the
state pure-food law, this mislabeling
is an oSenie which subjects the of
fender to prosecution.
Captain D. M. Smith of Louisville,
Ky., general counsel for the Model Li
cense league, who Is on a missionary
visit tr> California, has made a highly
favorable impression in this city by his
obviously sincere and earnest efforts to
eliminate law-breaking and the law
breaking clement from the liquor traf
fic. With all the eloquence at his com
mand -and he has plenty of it—he
should insist that POISON SHOULD
ALSO BE ELIMINATED FROM THE
LIQUOR TRAFFIC. The National
Jlodel License league seeks to take the
saloonkeeper out of politics and the
lawbreaker out of the saloon bus:-
Let It include the label faker among
the subjects of its activity and it will
have effected a reform which will be
beneficial to the public health. It
seems to us the offense complained of
which is being Investigated by the i
pure-food authorities is equivalent to
obtaining money under false pretenses.
MAKING CRIMINALS
ARTHUR WARNER writes: "The
idea that Black Handera are bred
exclusively in Italy and slip into
this c-ountry through lax immigration
precautions is a myth fostered by police
officers anxious to shift responsibility.
For every one imported from the other
side there is another brought up in
this country. The young Italian grow
ing up in New York and absorbing
the American passion for easy money
on one hand anil (in the other conscious
of the defenseless position of his peo
ple, drifts only too readily into crime.
Every 'caffe' ami 'ristorante' has its
quota of potential Black Handers—
young men who understand pool or
cards so much better than the average
patron thut they make a business of
playing for stakes."
Is it Impossible for the United States
to stop the manufacture of criminals?
Or in that, tuo. a protected industry?
Surely the terrible accusation of a re
sponsible citizen that the American
-y money makes and at
tracts new criminals and builds up a
criminal population should result in
some remedial action. We cannot sit
down quietly with folded hands and
think of the "land of the brave and
the bone ot the fres" as 8 crime fac
tory and a nursery and training school
for the mo3t desperate criminals In the
world.
feE VIGILANT
WITH frequent conferences In
tween the consolidation commit
t«M of Los Angeles, San Pedro
and Wilmington, it Is certain the con
solidation plans will be perfected -with
care and caution and that no oppor
tunity will be given for litigation fol
lowing the union of the cities.
Greater Los Angeles Is fortunate In
possessing many citizens of experience
and sagacity; and as long as citizens
of this type are willing to devote part
of their time and ability to public af
fairs it is certain tho city will prosper.
"While the "best citizens" are active
in public affairs the professional poli
tician and professional office seeker and
political hanger-on keep themselves at
a discreet distance from the scene of
activity. But when reputable citizens
begin t o tire of holding public office,
or refuse to run for office, an oppor
tunity is presented of which the
incompetent pretender and political
grafter may avail himself. And we
wish to assert the proposition that any
man who accepts a political office for
which he Is absolutely unfit and for
which he knows he is unfit is a grafter.
Greater Los Angeles, cared for by
office holders of the good citizen type,
will have nothing to fear from graft
or from grafters; but the good citizen
must keep on guard. He must not be
weary in well doing. He must remem
ber public office is a public trust, and
only a trustworthy person should hold
public office.
CULTURE FOR U. S.
IT will be surprising if a storm of
comment is not aroused by the
Milwaukee address of Count yon
Bernsdorff, ambassador of Germany to
the United States. The speech was de
livered in German, but was translated
into English. The count tolrt the Ger
man citizens of the United States:
"We hope you will uphold the wonder
ful old German culture to help make it
permeate American life like the leaven
in the measures of meal in the para
ble." No one dispute! the fact that
the German clement is an element of
strength in American life, but even
the frowsy Bow»ry tough in his pride
of race has considered himself to be at
least the equal of "the Dutch," as the
unmannerly cub called them. Proba
bly his very rudeness proved the truth
of the ambassador's assertions, the
general purport of all of which seems
to have been that the Celto-Saxon
stock which forms the foundational
part of the population of the United
States and gives the nation Its lan
guage, laws, literature and theology is
lacking in culture and needs to be
leavened by Teutonism.
The German culture is old. The Ger
man culture is excellent. But what
would the German nation think if our
ambassador "up and told" it that it
must be flavored with American ideas
before it could hope to be considered
among the elect of the earth? My, what
a howl there would be from the united
German press!
The Germans in America, said Yon
Bernsdorff, have a purely cultural
mission. And, mind you, he said
"purely cultural." The words are his.
That is what our friends the Teutons
are here for—to soften our asperities,
tone down our barbarisms, teach us
manner?, ethics, morals, art, literature,
the science of government!
; That Coghlan incident evidently still
is rankling in the German heart. Any
nation that could be guilty of such
frightful lese-majesty is certainly bar
barous. We admit it. Hoch der
kaiser!
UNREST
"nUROPEAN news is of unusual in
h, terest these days. The old con
■*-* tinent is filled with unrest, and
apparently one of Its periodical social
volcanic upheavals is at hand. Stu
dents of history know the signs that In
days gone by have pointed to strenuous
times. The crisis in Turkey was only
one of Europe's symptoms —perhaps its
most significant, and then again per
haps only its most novel, for there are
those who believe events In the Chris
tian countries of Europe are as signifi
cant as those in Europe's Mohamme
dan power.
Stolypin's cabinet has united in op
posing the czar, who seems to be ques
tioning the right of parliament to es
tablish a naval staff. The conflict be
tween czar and parliament may widen
into one between czar and people. The
prestige of the "little father" has boon
I injured beyond repair. Now the people
are warning him he must dissociate
himself from the hostile campaign of
the reactionaries and the courtiers
close to him. In Prance a spirit of
revolution is in the air. The Postal,
Telegraph and Telephone Employes'
association is In revolt against the
government. It has formed Itself Into
a union, and Is asserting the right to
strike.
The leaders of the association are
working in harmony with the leaders
of the general federation, which, say
the dispatches, is now recognized as a
revolutionary organization.
In Germany the Socialist movement
is constantly gaining strength. In
every country there is a growth of
fraternaltsm among wage earners and
workingmen. The wage earners of the
world are making common cause, and
It is only natural capitalism should be
taking on the aspect of an interna
tional union. One of the results of the
ral unrest among European wage
earners is a softening of international
animosities among the common people.
If these animosities should finally dis
appear it will be impossible for one
European nation to make war on an
other, for no worklngman, whether a
volunteer for the army or a drafted
recruit, would be willing to shoot his
fellow worklngman without any cause
or provocation whatever. All signs
show the day is approaching when the
united workingmen of Europe will end
war and insist on perpetual peace, har
mony and industrialism.
LOS ANGELES HERALD: MONDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1000.
SYRUP — i Hi) iiV^^rrTl "^Vlll ! JP
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THE SPOILDEST BOY
OVER in Russia lives a most pam
pered and spoiled little boy—ln
deed, the most pampered and
spoiled child in all the world. The edu
cation of an autocrat described in an in
teresting letter from St. Petersburg
begins with the earliest dawn of his in
telligence. Prom his first solf-conscious
moment he Is drilled and trained to
take the mental attitude ascribed to
the kaiser in the well known lines, ' .My
self and God." This is shocking; ana
in the days to come, when a self-willed
tyrant rules Russia, he will not be to
blame, yet he will receive all the blame.
From the description of the education
of Grand Duke Aloxis Nlkolaovitch it
is evident a tyrant, even when op
pressing a nation, may be more sinned
against than sinning.
As a typical instance of the care
fully cultivated, unreasonable and un
reasoning tyranny of the future ruler
of Russia it is related that when on a
cruise with his parents in the Gulf of
Finland one night the imperial boy
awoke and said to his nurse: "Nyanya,
I want the band to play." She pro
tested, telling- him the musicians wcro
tired and asleep. This made no dif
ference to the young autocrat. "I must
have them play," he said. "Go and tell
them to come at once."
So the unhappy musicians had to get
out of bed. Neither the unfortunato
rhlld'.s nurse nor his father knows th.it
to bring him up as a tyrant may cost
him dearly some day. It is hard for
well trained men to realize what must
be the mental condition of a person
who Is taught from his cradlehood to
believe he is the personification of
power upon earth, and can do no wrong.
HEALTH OFFICER
MAYOR ALEXANDER says the
question of displacing Health
Officer Powers has never been
remotely suggested or discussed by the
toard of health. On the contrary, the
board of health is trying to make it
easier for him to administer the affairs
of the health department and to help
him make the department more effi
cient. One of the penalties of public
office holding is that as soon as there
is a change of administration even the
most efficient public servant, a man
who has honestly given of his best
to the people, may be compelled to
listen to clatter and chatter regard
ing the possibility or probability of his
removal. In this instance the chatter
comes from the Hearst pro-vice organ,
that is constantly and insidiously at
tacking Mayor Alexander and trying to
hamper his administration. This is one
of the drawbacks that make the public
service distasteful to many men who
would doubtless make excellent public
servants. It is of vital importance to
the city the efficiency of the health
department should be kept up to the
highest standard. Dr. Powers, out of
his high and abundant practical exper
ience, can make suggestions as to the
administration and the work of the
department which will no doubt be
helpful to the board of health.
Vice Consul General Puller of Hong
Kong has not increased his popularity
among the women of the United States
by "giving away" the secret of some
of the enormous heads of hair that
have been annoying theatergoers and
exciting the wonder of all beholders.
The cruel consul says many of our
American beauties are wearing Chi
nese tresses. He asserts hair pur
chased from Its original owners,
Chinese women, is being shipped to
New York in large quantities and
manufactured Into fashionable Amer
ican head styles.
Senator Guggenheim of Colorado
threatens to have all the smelting con
cerns of the west closed in three
months if the tax on lead is not Im
posed in full measure. Senator Gus-
The English Nightmare
genheim's arguments as reported in
the newspapers read like intimida
tion, but perhaps they are only bluff.
Whether mere bluff or genuine intim
idation, they are unworthy the senate
of the United States, and prompt the
unparliamentary, question, What the
n:is lii.f is Smelter Guggenheim of
Colorado doing In that august deliber
ative body, the United States senate,
anyway?
If, as is proposed, airships navi
gating over cities dump water in
stead of sand when lightening, the
lowly earthbound pedestrian may have
to use an umbrella constantly. This
will lead to the Invention of an um
brella-stand, which can be fastened to
the pedestrian's back. The handle of
the protecting umbrella will be set in
the stand, and the pedestrian will have
the use of both arms while he Is
dodging motor cycles and automobiles.
An American woman has been di
vorced by her baronial German hus
band because, she says, he in so good
she could not live with him and had
to desert him. "If he had one small
Vice, like smoking. I could almost tol
erate him," she adds. And yet the
baron is the very kind of husband
other matrons say they would prefer
to the smoking variety. There's no
accounting for tastes matrimonial.
Today the question of rock supply
for the good roads will be considered
and probably decided by the board of
supervisors. We will not be so cruel
to our supervisors as Sydney Smith
was to those of London when he sug
gested that if they wished to solve
satisfactorily the problem of providing
suitable wooden blocks with which to
pave the streets they should without
delay put their heads together.
In the first week of May building
permits for 159 buildings representing
a valuation of $209,300 were issued in
Los Angeles. This wns an Increase of
twenty-four in the number of permits
and $409 in valuation over the record
of the corresponding -period of last
year. The steady growth of the popu
lation of Los Angeles makes the build
ing business brisk all the year round.
Every student of music knows wlio
Carl Lanzer Is. For many years this
masterly musician and great .violinist
lived in New York, but he is now a
citizen of Los Angeles. He will help
to make this city the musical metrop
olis of the United Ptates. Los Ange
les is an ideal home for the arts. We
should not be surprised if the Nine
Muses immigrated here in a body.
President Sbarboro at the counties
committee meeting of the California
Promotion Committee, predicted next
generation would see California with
a population of 20,000,000. New oppor
tunities for manufacturers and com
merce provided by the Panama canal
and San Pedro harbor will help pro
vide the means of support for the big
population of Greater California.
About the second week in June
diplomas will be given to the largest
graduating class Occidental college has
ever known. The student population
of Los Angeles is steadily being in
creaied, and already, in numbers as
well as efficiency, nur city is one of
the foremost educational centers of
the United States.
Florida orange growers are on their
way home. They have had a good
time, und are convinced that, while
of course the California orange is the
superior fruit, there is room in the >big
United States for all the oranges of
Florida and California if they are
marketed and distributed properly.
How about that depot, Mr. Harrl
raan? Los Angeles has done its part.
It Is "up to you."
—The Boston Travel6f.
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SAYS RESURRECTION
WAS AUTHENTICATED
POMONA, May 7.—[Editor Herald]:
It was shown quite recently in your
columns, both editorially and in the
Letter Box, that no contemporary event
whs better authenticated than the res
urrection of Christ. This proves that
he was in harmony with God, who
alone could raise him from the dead.
Jesus had said he would be 'killed,
and raised from the dead the third
day" (Matt. 16:21). His coming again
was frequently foretold by himself, and
is a necessity in order to make his
word good. Your correspondent, C. U.
White, expects his return, but scon's
at those who look for the fulfillment of
ills -words. He said to the apostles,
"Ye which have followed me in the re
generation when the Son of Man shall
sit in the throne of his glory, ye ulso
shall sit on twelve thrones, judging the
twelve tribes of Israel (Matt. 19:28).
The character of his ruling is abun
dantly foretold. In Psalm 2:9 it is
said, "Thou Shalt break them with'a
rod of iron." In Psalm 110, which Je
sus applies to himself, in Matt. 22:44,
it is said, "The Lord at thy right hand
shall strike through kings in the day
of his wrath. He shall Judge among
the heathen; he—shall fill the places
with the dead bodies; he shall wound
the heads over many countries" (verses
5, 6). Mr. White is horrified, but there
is the testimony. We must remember
that Jesus is "the Lion of the tribe of
Judah" (Rev. 5:5), as well as the
"Lamb of God" (John 1:29).
your correspondent compliments
himself when he speaks of "the good,
noble human." Jesus (who is love, ac
cording to C. U. W.) held a different
estimate of the race. He said, 'From
within, out of the heart of men, pro
ceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornica
tions, murders," etc. (Mark 7:21-23);
and Paul says, "I know that in me
(that is in my fiesh) dwelleth no good
thing" (Horn. 7:18).
Mr. White hopes "the good people
will begin to read better books than the
Bible." His hopes are not likely to ba
realized while ten million new Bibles
are published each year.
JAMES T. IUWIN.
BELIEVES IN SEX SEGREGATION
AT SEASIDE BATHING RESORTS
HOLLYWOOD, May 9.—[Editor Her
ald]: Now that the question of pro
priety in bathing dress has been
brought up 1 would like to make a
suggestion. Let each seacoast city
an ordinance making it a misde
meanor for men and women to bathe
| on the same beach at the same time.
i Mixed bathing is immoral and should
not be allowed. As to bathing suits, I
long ago came to the conclusion that
the newspaper bathing suit Joke was
| not a joke, but a grim tragedy. When
I I first came to America, five years ago,
I I went to pass a quiet day at a New
I Jersey seaside resort. I was no sooner
comfortably seated on the sand to en
joy my book than there appeared a girl
of probably 20. Her attire of salmon
coloured satin was so scanty I inconti
! nently fled. I have not since dared
approach an American beach during
the bathing season. ENGLISHMAN.
DOUBTS ACCURACY OF
STATEMENTS IN BIBLE
LOS ANGELES, May 7.—[Editor
Herald]: As a few are interested in
the discussion of the scriptures and as
Christians since our present era up to
■ the present tinio have been wrangling:,
, arguing, propounding the theories and
discovering the key to the scriptures,
expending vast stores of energy,
time and money, after passing 1900
, years in arguing what this verse means
or that part of the Bible means and
having come to no definite conclusion,
i although lighting over it and as history.
i proves, burning one another at the
. stake (as if this would settle the argu
; ment), after all these years there is
one question they have avoided,
i The question is, "Is the Bible story
■ true story of the past?"
Let 111 do as Paul said, "Prove all
tilings and hold fast to that which is
good."
All through the scriptures almost all
the great personalities (if the story be
THE PRODUCTION OF POTASH
Frederic J. Haskin
THE production of potash is one In
dustry in which the United States
does not excel or even equal Its
■ i commercial rival, Germany, in
[act, Germany stands alone in that
particular Held. America and practi
cally ail the rest of the world has to
depend upon the "Fatherland" for their
supply of potash
for use in chemis
try and industry,
agriculture a n <1
horticulture. This
doea not mean that
there is no potash
in the world outside
of Germany, for
the soils and rocks
of all countries
contain more or
less potash, hut It
docs mean that ex
extensive potash
deposits, so far as
known, are con
fined to Germany.
Potash has
known to man and
recognized as such
for many gi I
tions, but it v L*
not until the
century that r
slum was dll
ered to be an ele
ment of whir!
ash is the common
est form. The pro
duct ion of potash on a large scale date:
back only to 1861, when mining 01
tlons were begun in the German POtaan
deposits. These are Unat.nl near Btass
furt. Their discovery is alleged to
resulted from somebody's theory that
numerous saline springs in the neign
borhood must flow from a. subterra
nean deposit of salt, Borings were
made and the richest known deposits
of potash, besides salt and gypsum,
were found.
Further Investigations have shown
that the bed of'potash at Stassfurt s
from 60 to ISO feet thick and extends
over a very large area. There are dt^
Dosits of salt and gypsum overlying
the potash to a depth of many feet.
■ deposits of mineral wealth have
an Interesting natural history. Scien
tists say that in some prehistorii
the region about the present site of
Stassfurt was covered by the. sea. lheii
a volcanic convulsion occurred and
mountain ranges were heaved up on
either side, thus inclosing a vast la
goon or arm of the sea.
The water IS supposed to have beet)
boillnp at that time, as the tempera
ture of the earth was very high. Evap
oration was most rapid, and as the
water in the lagoon turned to vapor It
was replaced by more water from the
Sea, After a time the lagoon became so
intensely saline In character that the
potash, salt and pypsum were deposit
ed on its bed. Later the sea. receded
and the lagoon completely (Tried up,
leaving the existing beds Of potash, etc.,
to be covered by the vegetation and
other formations of succeeding ages.
Nobody has explained how or why the
sea was so full of potash in prehistoric
times. It certainly is not now so.
• • •
Ever since the enormous value of the
German potash deposits became known
to the world people in America and
other countries have been sec-king sim
ilar deposits in every likely place.
Geologists say there is no reason they
know of why potash should not exist in
large quantities elsewhere than In
Germany, but they have not yet found
it, although Canada and one or two
other countries produce small quanti
ties of the mineral. There are few
things which are not found in the
United States, and a large deposit o
potash is one of them. Some years age
a number of deep wells were sunk ii
the Louisiana salt district in the hope
of finding a potash mine there, but the
search proved unsuccessful.
It may seem natural that the Ger
man monopoly in potash should lead
to the creation of what is perhaps the
greatest trust in the world, so far as
absolute control over a single product
and absence of competition are con
cerned. The potash trust is known as
the Kail syndicate. Organized in 1879,
it controls practically every concern
that produces potash. Last year nine
new mining companies were added to
its membership, and this year thir
teen more new works will go into op
eration. The capital of this combina
tion is less than $200,000,000, which is
small in comparison with the capital
of some great American corporations.
It har 28,000 miners and other em
ployes on its pay roll.
The annual sales of potash aggre
gate nearly $25,000,000 in value and the
potash trust has agents all over the
world exploiting its product with a
view to Increasing sales. At this rate
It Is estimated that even in case no
other potash deposits are discovered,
the German mines will be able to sup
ply the world for several centuries.
Following the approved habit of
trusts, the I'ali syndicate practices dis
crimination in its business. It extends
favors to the German trade, with the
result that Germany consumes nearly
half of the potash produced. America
and other countries take what is left
and on the terms of the German syn
dicate. It is not surprising that the
IBP*' I*fe. ■ .iftJffMa
F. J. Haskin
true) were not averse to committing
almost any crime to the stranger and
the enemy. Placed beside a history of
their contemporaries we find the He
brew story (Bible) and history conflict
very sharply. And ns the Hebrews
were comparatively few In numbers
and came into contact with several na
tions, these "different stories should
agree if the integrity of the Bible Is to
be maintained.
The most important events in the
Bible cannot be proved, and the proper
place for stories of this character is on
the shelves with other ancient mytho
logy . LINEMAN.
MUST BE CHRISTIAN
TO UNDERSTAND BIBLE
BAKERSFIELD, April 7.-Wisdom
is not acquired without experience and
knowledge is generally the result of
belief. Wo must ftrst believe in the
possibility of that which we wish to
demonst^^ before we can redu.-p
theory to practice.
Unbelief is responsible for more fail
ures than credulity. It is better to be
a sponge imbibing all things than an
oy:;ter rejecting all things. The recep
tive mind may occasionally imbibe
error, but it is sure also to get some
truth, while the unbeliever is like the
ostrich hiding his head in the sand,
shutting out the light and thus making
himself an easy prey to evil influences
and desires. The Bible is the Chris
tian's text book and has no moaning
to those who have not yet accepted the
Christian code any more than the Ger
man text is comprehended by one
totally ignorant of the language.
The Bible Is the message of God to
all people, but is only loved by those
who love its divine author; its truth Is
like gold which must be sought with
the whole heart and profoundly loved
that it may be appreciated. When
reason and good judgment are brought
to bear on its pages, together with a
desire to believe rather than to de-
■took of potash producing companies
is popular unions German speculators.
Potash has ninny and varied uses;
however, II li used principally for fer
tilizing purpoßea' 'The theory of its
offoct upon vegetation is not exactly
understood) but it is a fact that innd
which la poor in potash produce* bad
crops, while the same land if thorough
ly fertilised with potash will grow ex
cellent crops of many things. It is said
that the presence of much potash in
sol] in some mysterious way protects
plants growing therein from the rav
ages of trost. It also affords drainage
in wet weather, retains moisture in
dry seasons, besides serving us a sort
Of Insecticide and fungicide.
Perhaps the explanation of tho fer
tilizing eftei i i>f potash is found in tho
fad thai it has recently boon dli
< oversd to be radio-active. It is said to
throw out the peculiar "Beta" raya
with considerable velocity, which says,
it Is believed, act us an anti-toxin on
the .-oil. However that may be, potash
lias .1 wonderfully vitalizing effect upon
fruit, trees, flowers anil many crops.
Tobac o needs potash, perhaps, more
than any other crop. Dry tobacco con
tains forty parts of potash in every
thousand, parts. An acre crop of to
< takes seventy pounds of potash
from the soil it grows in.
• • •
Although the resources of American
soils have seemed inexhaustible, enor
mous quantities of potash are imported
Into this country, chiefly for use in the
manufacture of commercial fertilizers.
The annual Imports are little short of
3,500.000 pounds, worth nearly half a
million dollars.
Scientists' have calculated that fertile
soil contains about 2 per cent of potash.
An acre of arable soil one foot deep
win weigh nearly 3,500,000 pounds. At
that rate there are nearly 70.000 pounds
of potash in an acre of good land.
Vegetation absorbs the potash. The
oretlcally, therefore, a crop using fifty
pounds of potash per acre could be
grown upon the same land for 1400 con
secutive years without exhausting tho
potash. Compared with these figures,
on one hand is the known fact that
some land in the Old World has be^n
under cultivation for 4000 years or
more, apparently without exhausting
the potasli in that soil; while on th>'
other hand there is evidence that after
a certain point is reached some crops
cannot be «nm'n indefinitely on the
same land, although it may contain
considerable potash.
In a word, nature seems to have
sonic unknown process of conserving
the potHsii resources of the soil, if she
does not renew them. And well she
may, because tho removal of potash
from the soil is very extensive. The
most complete removal occurs in the
ease of such crops as sugar beets, of
which botii the roots and tops are har
vested. A sugar beet rrop is said to re
move !>"> pounds of potash from ana i ■
of bind. Cereal crops remove twenty
eight pounds per aero, hay thirty-six
pounds, potatoes fifty pounds and to
bacco seventy pounds.
• • •
As potash Is soluble in water, the
rain washes It from the soil. At the
sairfp time, however, rain and the other
elements promote the decay of certain
rocks, the principal constituent of
which Is potash, thus restoring vitality
to the soil. Ijßnds reclaimer! from
marshes and sandy soils need potash
badly. Besides the pure German pot
ash fertilizer land may be enriched by
the addition <x! tobacco stems, cotton
i hulls, wood ashes, the straw of
cereal and leguminous crops, the resi
dues of beet sugar factories and winer
ies and other vegetable and animal
substances.
• ■ •
Besides its value as a fertilizing
agency potash Is used to a conslderablo
extent In the manufacture of soap. It
forms the basis of common lye. Used
medicinally it is important and is ex
pected to become more so when its
radio-active properties are better un
derstood. In the form of potassium
nitrate, or saltpeter. It goes to make
up many explosives. As potassium
cyanide it is used to extract gold from
one in the so-called cyanide process,
Potassium bromide, cream of tartar
and tartar emetic are some of the com
mon forms of potash with which we
come in contact.
Potash is related in some measure
to nitrate, of which nearly 2,000,000
tons are exported every year from
Chile and Peru. The nitrate beds of
South America located in a bleak des
ert have been the cause of at least one
war, and they constitute perhaps the
most Important source of revenue for
the Chilean government. Authorities
say that those nitrate deposits will last
for 200 or 300 years. Nitrates have
been produced artificially to some ex
tent by the use of electricity.
The principal associates of potash In
the manufacture of commercial fer
tilizers are nitrate and phosphate,
and they are good only in some cases.
America has rich phosphate landa in
the west. Germany, while holding the
world's supply of potash, is taking
other fertilizing materials from the
United States, although her economists
many years ago decried against a sim
ilar practice on the part of England,
which was at that time digging up the
Napoleonic battlefields of the continent
to get human bones for fertilizer.
(Copyright, 1008. hy Frederic J. Ha'kin.)
atroy, it displays its treasures of wis
dom and truth, and reveals the benevo
lent purpose of God for the eventual
deliverance and happiness of His creat
ures. It It the effect of unbelief to
make the Bible an Impossible book full
of puzzles and riddles to the philoso
pher, but easily read and understood
by the, simple minded believer. C. H.
SAYS TALE OF FORBIDDEN
FRUIT CAUSED THEOCRACY
LOS ANGELES, May 9.—[Editor
Herald]: I can see no cruelty In the
prohibition to the Adamlc race to eat
of the fruit of knowledge of good and
evil. On the contrary, It was meant
for their good to save them from tha
tyranny of such as assumed temporal
power on the pretense that was God
who had invested them with authority.
In religious matters we speak of good
and evil; in temporal or political we
speak of right and wrong. C. U. Whit!
cannot see the difference. "Give to
Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to
God what belongs to God."
Theocracy was the result of eating
the forbidden fruit, for worldly power
assumed divine authority falsely. That
that authority was assumed by tem
poral governments in former ages wns
allowed because of the low state of
humanity, and wherever It does still
exist this day It is evidence of seml
barbarlsm.
For religion there should be no com
pulsion which was also recognized by
the frnmeri of our constitution who
enacted that "Every man shaty be al
lowed to worship God according to the
dictates of his own conscience." This
wisdom Is now generally recognize!
and confirmed In the separation of
church and state. There is a natural
evolution of man which is within the
domain of science, and there Is a
spiritual evolution of man historically
recorded In the Bible, working simul
taneously one within the other con
formally to the dual state of man.
C. F.