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WONDER CITY
GREAT prosperity is Indicated by
the building outlook in Oreater
I.os Angeles. It is estimated
more than $20,000,000 will he spent for
buildings this year, and the prevailing
business construction will be of the
eight and ten story type. From all
over Southern California come reports
which indicate the building trades, can
look forward to a year of phenomenal
activity. Los Angeles Is one of the
bast built cities in the United states.
Tie' architectural standard is excellent,
and the buildings erected represent the
types of architecture and con
struction.
Only a few vestiges of old Los An
geles remain, and far spreading in
every direction from the narrow site
of the first little adobe group of build-
Ings called pui bio y cludad de nuestra
senora la Kein.i de Los Angeles radi
ates the metropolis of Southern Cali
fornia, the greatest and most enter
prising city of tin t'.r west. Within a
few years the buildings that were
"new" and 'hat were regarded as ex
amplps of an advanced order of con
struction have given place to the gnat
office structures and skyscrapers
which accommodate the vast and ever-
Increasing commercial and business
Interests of Great, r Los Angeles. A
big city, with big business Interests,
demands !>lr buildings. The upbuild
ing of the central business district
Is accompanied by a phi I out
spread of j.os Angeles In all dl
tions. New streets of lovely homes
ppring into existence as if by magic.
Truly, this is the wonder city of the
western world.
"SIMPLY THE EXECUTIVE"
WIIKRE on earth did the morning
Republican paper published in
Los Angeles get the information
on which to base the following edi
torial utterance?
"President Taft recognizes that he
is SIMPLY THH CHIEF EXECUTIVE
of the nation, that congress must pass
laws and the supreme court construe
laws, and when this Is done that he Is
to see that they are executed." This
would deprive the president of the
United StaT'-s of .ill Inttlatlve, and of
much responslbllitv.
The president Is required to "take
ear* that the laws be faithfully exe
cuted," and Is to commission all the
officers of the United Rtaten, but his
advisory ptnver gives to a president of
individuality far more influence for
good or evil than would be lodged In
the kind of chief executive Innocently
described by our friend.
The president of the United States
"may require the opinion, In writing,
of the principal officer In each of the
executive departments upon any sub
ject relating to the duties of their re
spective offices. He shall from time
to time give to the congress Informa
tion of the state of the Union, and
RECOMMEND TO THEIR CONSID
ERATION SUCH MEASURES AS IIE
SHALL JUDGE NECESSARY AND
EXPEDIENT."
PINCHOT'S PATRIOTISM
On: Tory morning contemporary
writes: "Mr. Plnchot lias a groat
deal to say about Interests ami
the public interests, the phrases that
are used by every loud-mouthed dema
gogue that has offended the ears of
the people during the last dozen years.
They are the watchwords and war
cries of the Populists, of the Socialists,
of nil the discontented, and about all
the criminals in the country."
It is not fair to associate the Popu
lists, Socialists and discontented citi
zens with "the criminals of the coun
try." Discontent is not criminal. The
American nation is the result of a I
series of discontentments with one form j
of privilege, after another. All of
these discontentments have reach* a
crisis when the people have been awak
ened to a sense of their rights. As
a rule a "rude awakening" and a vio
lent one has followed a long course
of argumentation and expostulation.
But to insinuate that George Wash
ington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander
Hamilton. John Brown, Abraham Lin
coln, who in their time were "agita
tors," bore any relation whatever to
"criminals" would be insulting to the
American nation if it were not for the
fact the insinuation Is the result of
lack of thought. There Is nothing in
the position, attitude or utterances of
Mr. Plnchot to suggest, even remotely,
criminality, unless we are to believe
patriotic interference with looting and I
looters Is criminal.
UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE
ttot.AI'UK and Esperanto having
V failed to become universal, Prof.
' Jesperson of the University of
Copenhagen has introduced another
world language which he calls "Ido."
He describes it as follows: "It is not so
rich as English, so eloquent as French,
so powerful as German. Hut it is cer
tainly richer than the Frenchman's
English, more eloquent than the Eng
lishman's French. Ido is easier to learn
than any other universal language."
We hope the professor is not too san
guine. We cannot imagine where he
finds support for his statement the
latest panaca for Babel is easier to
learn than any other universal lan
guage. And our logic halts dum
founded before the proposition that in
a multiplicity of specially Invented lan
guages there Is a solution of the pan
humanity-speech problem. Volapuk will
be used by thousands of devoted Yola
pukists; Esperanto by thousands of
zealous Esperanters. and Ido perhaps
by thousands of eager Idoers.
By the time the three universal
languages are being spoken by dif
ferent groups of men, somebody will
come along with another new language.
"v\V may yet have the Jabberwock, the
Burblish, the Whoolwhool and the
Huckahlgh universal languages, to say
nothing of the various tongues which
'live become well-nigh universal
through the witchery of skilled writers,
tin' Kallyarde, the Bowery, the Yan
kee, the Dlxian and the Cockney.
But we cannot deny there is a uni
versal language which everybody can
understand. This was demonstrated
the other day to a skeptic by a bright
high school boy.
"Do you want to hear that kid talk
lh.' real universal language?" he sak!
to an inquisitive stranger.
"Why, to be sure," said the stranger,
incredulously.
The boy stepped softly over to his
companion and pinched him.
"OUCH!" shrieked the pinched one.
"There!" cried the demonstrator tri
umphantly, "that's some of the univer
sal language."
NATURAL RESOURCES
G[FFORD PINCHOT fays the con
servation of natural resources
and the conservation of popular
government are both at stake. The
one needs conservation no less than
the other. Although out of office, Mr.
Pinchot will Ftay in the fight for
conservation, and will undoubtedly
broaden his range r,f combat. He
finds himself in line with an ever
itng army of Americans who
are asking why America is not ad
ministered from the viewpoint of
Americanism, with the object of the
production of the greatest good for the
greatest number.
Some time ago The Herald pointed
out the most important natural re-
Bources this country could conserve
were the children. At that time there
was only a hint of trouble In the
tment. Now the trouble
has ejected Mr. Pinchot, ami he finds
himself in a position to review con
ditions as th md must as
suredly reach the conclusion bis place
is in the army of Americans who ask,
not for radicalism, but for .reform and
tutlon. The pillage has gone far
enough. It is high time to call a halt.
SETTING THE PACE
LOP ANGELES has set the pace for
the United States. Several big
cities are trying to arrange avia
tion meetings. In this case, imitation
not only is the sincerest flattery, but
is greatly to be desired. It will have
the effect of giving Los Angeles the
credit of being the city that made
aviation popular throughout the Union,
and that Is one of the effects thn big
meet was Intended to produce.
Los Angeles aviation meeting has set
a pace for success, and has stand
ardized it. Phenomenal activity and
prosperity will characterize Los An
geles this year. In many respects
thin will be the champion year. The
record will beat any previously scored;
and reports from nil over Southern
California Indicate the boom will be
general.
Prosperity naturally result* from the
growth of the moat enterprising sec
tion of the United Station. All under
taking* ere crowned with success,
Therefor* there Is a constant Incen
tive to enter upon new undertakings,
to begin now enterprises.
LOS ANGELES HERALD: MONDAY MQIiMMi, JAM AHY 17, I!HQ.
PROGRESS
PROGRESSING along expected linos,
the Radical party In the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland promises state employment In
surance, :md the brilliant nnii fearless
Winston Churchill, president of the
board of trade, says that fur from
causing social disturbance, the proposed
measure will for the first lime In the
history <if civilization reduce to a sci
ence the exchange and Interplay and
interrelation of labor and capital.
lie says it is disgraceful that in the
aviation age Of the world nations
should still be confessing their inability
to solve the problem that is nearest
home—the problem of providing condi
tions under which the people may < 11
--joy life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness.
When Charles Rann Kennedy, author
of "The Servant in the House." was in
Los Angeles he foretold with great ac
curacy the political conditions which
exist in the united Kingdom today,
and prophesied that unless Americans
tackled the social problem by putting
into effect their first principles they
would waken up some, fine mornng to
find themselves the conservative nation
of the English-speaking group, while
the venerable land where our language
was "invented" would be the most ad
vanced.
Tlie average man no longer Is im
pressed by one "great person's" im
mense wealth, and by another's formid
able string of titles. This is a domes
tic age, and what chiefly icerns the
average man is the care of his family.
If in return for his work he is al
low cl t" care properly fur ami educate
his family he is getting a square deal,
and is receiving all any human being
has any right to ask or to expect. Hut
if lie accumulate wealth at the expense
of his neighbor, and in a manner that
Involves the .deprivation or even "the
least of the little ones," the founder
of Christianity said it would be good
for him and for the world if a weight
wen tied to his neck and he were
drowned.
PATRIOTISM
Fp.i ).\t a pamphlet published recently
we take the following extract:
"La Follette and Bryan and
evelt, •■! trio of present day patriots
whose names will adorn history as
gloriously as the names of Washington.
Jefferson and Lincoln, have been ma
ligned and Blandered as demagogues
by ;i trust-bought and trust-owned
Governor Folk of Missouri,
who started civic reformation in
■m city government,' has been
slandered villainously in St. Louis.
Heney, in San Francisco, is charged
with being everything slander can
think of or buy, ami bis attempted as-
BBBslnatlon while trying to bring crimi
nals to Justice, simply shows how
far unbridled power will go In thwart
any interference with its lust, greed
or power. Judge Lindsay in Denver
has been menaced, a teas strong man
than Pinchot would have bi en driven
from public life for doing his duty."
Plnchot's strength did not save him.
His patriotism did not prevent the
president of the United States fr.im
branding him as "insubordinate." It
has been established clearly his in
subordination'consisted in his defense
of the rights and of the property of the
people of'the United States. Privilege
In any form is a public foe. The man
who in bold enough to denounce inter
ests which seek to spoil the public is
worthy of public reward and public
promotion, find doubtless the time is
coming when the worth of tho work of
(ilfford Pinchot will be recognized
by the patriotic, law abiding and hon
est oitilMlS of our republic.
A big fight to a finish Is scheduled
liPtween lncly-bugß and the woolly
n.phl». Tho wolly one U a mlßChlef
maker, and It U hoped the lady-bugs
will "do him up."
Down !
PEACEFUL REVOLUTION
JOHN rsrRXS. a well known Rad
ical, who is president of the
British local government board,
says the next revolution in the United
states will be the result- of class an
tagonism, due to the protectionist sys
tem. The revolution, however, will
be as peaceful as the present Brit
ish revolution. Many words will be
shi I. hut not a drop of gore. Privilege
will lie broken, but beads will not.
The weapon chiefly used will he edu
cation. The American revolution pre
dicted by Mr. Burns will come when
the people are better educated on the
subject of Americanism than they are
today; when they have been taught
that to demand constitutional rights is
reasonable; when they realize the
phrases of the Declaration of Inde
pendence were not chosen for their
sonorous volume on the Fourth of July,
but for their expected influence on the
national life all the year round. That
Influence has been waning until we
(inrl the president of the United States
speaking apologetically of un-Ameri
can grabbers, and a man of the
people asserting Americanism at the
i \p' nse of his active connection with
government service:
The British are boasting their navy
can sink the German navy without
much trouble. Oh, well. what al
though? This i.s the flying machine
ape, and soon one navy more or li I
won't make much difference. Per
haps (awful thought) they may all
have to be "junked." That's the
worst of great naval and military
programs. As soon as the nations
have gone daft ov< r new ships and
guns, along comes some little man
nie with a fiendish Invention that
makes all their expenditure foolish ex
travagance: "hate's labor lost," we
might call it, adapting a thought from
Shakespeare,
People have become so well accus
tomed to seeing aeroplanes in motion
they are losing the nervousness or
fear of air travel. The professional
aviators are 1 being besieged by appli
cations for "seats for the trip." TCvpry
thing indicates this, may lie (he last
"try-out" at which professional ex
perts only will compete. Next aviation
mccl In Los Angeles will probably
bring together hundred:- of private
owners, and the final contests will
come as the result of a long proce st'
■>t' gradual elimination.
If the Radicals win the British elec
tion, the established church as well
as the house of lords will be In dan
ger. But this is exactly what the
peers have been banking on. They
have believed that Johnnie Bull
might denounce "their lordships,"
and then, iii the lust minute, he would
think <>f the established church, and
rush to the polls and vote against his
politic:..! convictions In order (as he
believes) to save the church.
If that Hollywood consolidation
elei tion had only been held sooner,
the proud citizens of Hollywood would
have been able to talk of "our avia
tion meet." Never mind. There are
many triumphs in store for Greater
Los Angeles, and the superb section
that will always bo known as Beauti
ful Hollywood will be a sharer In all
of them.
Paulhan'a soaring record is better
than Latham's by 721 feet. Greater
Los Angeles aviation records are the
greatest ever made on the planet. In
the air or .\the ground, they cunt
beat us.
Orange crop Is good. The recent cold
Knap did not do much damage. Cali
fornia's orange Industry 1b a convinc
ing testimony to the enterprise and
ability of the citizens of this great
state.
— Philadelphia North American.
Public Letter Box
TO CORRESPONDENTS—Letters Intended
for publication must be accompanied by the
nun)'* Bad uddreu of the writer. The Herald
gives the widest latitude to correspondents,
bat assumes no responsibility for their view*.
WRITER DECLARES HE HAS
PLAN TO ABOLISH POVERTY
Los ANGELES, Jan. 12.—[Editor
Herald]: Mr. Butterfleld asks it J can
propose (i plan for improving the eon
ditlon of the workers that is better
than the one he advocates. 1 think I
can, and I ;im -willing- to let the i.au
the Letter Box judge as to which
they would prefer to adopt. Mr. But
terfleld says that if the workers would
refrain from having so many children
they would have, fewer expenses and
find it easier to save money.' There
would also be less competition for jobs,
and therefore higher wages. The plan
that l advocate is to so administer so
ciety that the workers will receive the
full value of their labor instead of di
viding up with Idlers and parasites. I
have several times shown by govern
ment statistics that the yearly wages
ri ceived by the average worker are
from $10n» to $1600 less than the net
value of whal he produces. I'ut the
plan which I advocate into practice
ami his yearly income will at oil»
increased threefold and poverty ;,vill
he abolished. Honestly, now, Isn't tiiat
a far more satisfactory way of bet
tering our condition than, it would I"'
to remain childless all our lives so as
to save up enough to settle with the
coffin trust when we die?
.Mr. Bufterfleld says I bring no ar
guments to combat his theory. Cer
tainly not, for his theory is correct.
When the workers stop having chil
dren wages will rise, for there will be
less competition for jobs, l do not
deny the truth of the theory, but I
certainly do deny that it is the best
solution of the problem, lie says that
if tlie workers could save they could
"approach their employers and demand
an interest In the concern." of (nurse,
the employer could do as he pleased
about granting the request. Now,
"profll sharing" is all right, if the
worker likes that sort ol thing. The
phrasi has a nice sound, but what does
it mean I.' Simply that the laborer is
being exploited slightly less, or per
haps in a little different way. Person
ally, I do not approve of profit shar
ing. We the workers produce these
profits by our toil, and I object to shar
ing them with men who never did any
really useful labor in their lives.
I challenge any one to present a
valid argument against my claim that
these who by their labor have produced
the wealth of the world are by every
principle of right and justice entitled
to that wealth, an.] that poverty will
be forever abolished only when that
claim is. recognized and granted,
W. 8C( ITT LEWIS.,
WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS ARE
TRUE PATRIOTS, IS STATEMENT
ELSINORE, i'al., Jan. 16.—[Editor
Herald,]: Brother Observado says in
his letter nr recent date I gave him
credit for statements he did not make.
My quotations were taken from his
letter of Novembor 4, where he says
"women suffragists are losing their
womanliness by entering politics and
destroying the peace of their homes,
He rails them "ranting suffragists"
and "their actions unwomanly con
dud."
In the second line of his letter he
remarks on the unwomanly conduct
of the Buffraglstß in England ami
states "I feel If woman must lose her
womanliness by entering politics she
had better stay out," and then, ■with
out destroying the peace or comfort
of their homes by being j ranting
suffragist."
I would advise Brother Observado
and others when they attempt to deny
their opponents' statements to be sure
they are right, /is it is dangerous for
those living in glass houses to throw
stones.
About l.'iS years ago a company of
representative citizens at Maaaa
chusetls ami other Coloniel made a
demand on that august body, the
British parliament, fur cessation of
taxes, as they were without represen
tation. It was the principle they were
fighting i'or. not tiie dollars, They
committed violence on persons ami
property, ami destroyed valuable
cargoes. Hut they were not called
ranters nor their conduct deemed un
se.ndy, but were lauded as patriots
and their memory honored by you, no
doubt, Observado,
Bui when s few women attempt to
present a petition to this name body.
you K;iy they .show unwomanly conduct
World's Sunday School Conversion
Frederic J. Haskin
RKSSpiIUNDAY, Jan. Thirty mil.lion
llpr^ai Sunday school teachers !„ ■.m
ff^H a new year of Bible study.
RBV ■ They all studied the same
KT^^ lesson, no matter what lan-
IJNlttFill guage they spoke or to what
denomination they belonged.
The story of how the whole Protestant
world has become united through its
efforts to teach the Bible to the chil
dren of the nations constitutes one o.f
the most Interesting chapters of re-
Ugloua history and reminds one of the.
saying that "a little child shall lead
them." Here the lion of religious con
troversy does indeed li" down with the
lamb of unity and sectarian strife is
forgotten In Interdenominational co
operation. .
The Interest in this year's Bible
study will be heightened by the fact
that before the year lias run half Its
course there will be held In the city
of Washington a great triennial con
clave of all the Sunday school inter
ests of the world. From the ends of
the earth will come those, who have
reports to make of things accomplished
and of things to be undertaken, More
than 2000 delegates, representing the
Sunday school workers of the whole
world, will transact the business of
the meeting and carry back to the
countries from whence they come the
Inspirations they gather and the les
sons they learn. The occasion will be
the 1 meeting of the sixth triennial
meeting of the World's Sunday School
association. It will be the second time
that this great convention or conse
crated Christian workers has met on
American soil, the other occasion being
the meeting at St. Louis In 1883. In
ISfIS it met at London. Us next meet-
Ing was at Jerusalem and its last one
at Home Mi 1907.
What feelings the delegates must
have had when they stood in the Coli
seum and praised God by permission
of Roman authorities—in the very
place where once these who believed
as they believe were thrown Into the
arena to be devoured by wild beasts!
When they meet in Washington in
May there will bo no calvary. Mount
of Transfiguration or holy sepulcher
to which to make pilgrimages; nor will
there be a Coliseum or Catacombs or
tomb of the apostle of the Gentiles,
but there will be a welcome from a
nation which has more Christian peo
ple than any other country on earth.
Already the preparations for this
great gathering of workers are well
under way. The start was made by
the world's Sunday school visitation, a
great missionary tour of the world by
devout workers, who paid their own
expenses and traveled to the remoter
nations to strengthen those there en
gaged In the work and to lead them
to press on to greater and better
achievements. Each member paid his
own expenses. Practically aH of those
who went on this great world tour
will attend the Washington convention
In May.
* * •
One of the most interesting features
of the convention will be an exposi
tion devoted to Sunday school work.
There will ho thousands of Interesting
exhibits of the ways that are used to
cultivate the spirit of giving and to
stimulate tho spirit of self-denial and
all the other tilings which help to lead
the child into a fuller understanding
of the fundamentals of true piety and
Christian living. It will be an expo
sition absolutely devoid of commer
cialism, a mere labor of love on tho
part of those who devise and maintain
At tho Home convention all kinds
of Sunday school literature and music
were shown. There were no less than
sixteen different classes of exhibits,
one of the most interesting of all the
exhibits was a little "do without it"
bag. Intended for the pocket of man,
woman or child. It appealed in it-
Silent way only for the money its
owner was about to spend fur some
thing lie could BS veil do without.
Maybe it was only a cigar or a cup
of chocolate. This "do without it" bag,
with the spirit of self-denial it Incul
cates, lias been a great support of
tne work in England.
• * *
The development of the world Sun
day school is a remarkable story of
religious activity. First an organisa
tion of B few schools, then state-wide,
then national, then international and
then world-wide, until now thirty
seven countries and fifty-three denom
ination* are united by the great tie
of common Bible study. Tin- move
ment toward this world-wide co-opera
tion lias proved successful because of
the desire for a definite program of
study in which all could unite. The
American Sunflnv School Union was
the first important expression of the
larger desire tor co-operation. The
New York Sunday School Union first
expressed the desire for national co
operation in n-20. The American
Union bas in m one of the greatest of
all the forces at work for the upbuild-
and are ranters. They are only ask
ing for their rights—representation
and justice. If the former were
patriots, so are the latter.
Will you who enjoy the freedom of
this fine country with power of elective
franchise place these women on a
level with a low politician, because
she asks t<> have her equality with
man recognized? In the first part of
'your letter answering Marian .Martin
you demand a woman who does not
shout her opinions from the house
tops or attack the lawmakers with
her tongue, and you harp about that
dearest little place—the home.
Should she say "we demand," in
niaee of "please give us" in a pleading
tone or attempt to elbow her way
through a bunch of lobbyists in our
congressional halls, she would be a
patriot, like the forefathers of the
American republic. She Is no un
womanly ranter, as you erroneously
state. J- H-
SUFFRAGE FOR WOMEN WILL
ELIMINATE PRESENT SYSTEM
LOS ANOBLBB, Jan. 16.—[Editor
Herald]: I" Thursday's Herald there
is an editorial on the very peculiar
dealings of the sugar trust kins* with
the common paople, under the heading
"Vicarious Punishment" which tolls
that Charles Kehoe, Edward A, Boyle,
Patrick J. Hennessy and John M.
Coyle were sent to prison for short
weighing sugar In obedience to their
musters' orders, their masters being
those same "honorable and law-abid
ing" sugar kings.
This reminds one of the day when
there was kept a substitute In the
king's household, who received all the
spanks and whippings that should
have been administered to the king's
own sims. Because an ancient cus
tom derived that a future king must
not be whipped, the guilty young
prince stood by and watched the suf
fering nf his substitute, sometimes
even tying his hands, thus learning an
other must bear his punishment, be
iau.se his royal person was ton sacred
to be touched, no matter how villain
ous his actions were.
Ditto: your sugar kings are standing
Watching the punishment of then
substitutes, and snowing the Ameri
can nation their own persons are too,
■acred to bo sent to Jail or even
ing of the Sunday school in the United
States. The tirst national .Sunday
school convention was held in New
York iji 1882, although there had been
several Interstate conventions before
that time.
In IX7l' the national convention
broaden.,| into an international meet
ing, with Canada participating, ami
in re was begun the work of preparing
tiie worlds Bible study in the shape
or the International Sunday school les
sons. The convention which adopted
the international lesson Idea was held
at Indianapolis, and it is said that
much feeling entered li.to the debuto
on the übject.
The (list international lessons were
prepared by a committee of twelve, five
ministers aiyi five laymen from the
United States and one minister and one
layman from Canada, it was to formu
late a seven-year Bible study course.
sine, then there have been some.
changes in the formation of the <-om
mittec, and some in its work, but on the
whole its task todaj is not essentially
different from what it was thirty-seven
year.- ago,
1 9 m
The lessons which are to be studied
this year were not produced in haste.
teven now, while the Sunday school
*cholar is studying the first lesson for
1910, those for 1912 are being prepared,
and those for subsequent years are be
ing mapped out by the great commit
tees upon whose shoulders falls Hie
duly of guiding the world's thought in
Bible study. Even as far back as 1907,
at the meeting of the British and the
American sections of the international
committee, it was decided that the
British committee should, prepare a
cycle of lessons from 1912 to 1917, with
the 1912 lessons worked out in. detail
and the ones from 1913 to 1917 inclusive
in broad outline. The course tor the
1910 lessons was approved before ■ that
date, and the American committee was
asked to work out the details o£. the
1911 lessons.
The 1907 conference of tho British and
American sections of the international
lesson writers will result in the lessons
of the next few years being graded. On
both sides of the Atlantic it was found
that there was a demand for graded
lessons, and resolutions were adopted
looking to that end, but it is probable
that these will be introduced before
1912. The American section is elected
by the International association, and
consists of fiften members, who hold
their positions for six years, or for one
of the cycles of Sunday school Biblo
Study. Three of them are from Canada
and twelve from the United States.
Twelve arc ministers and three are
laymen, and they are proportionately
divided among the leading Protestant
churches which use the international
lessons.
Tho Tiihlc must bo. covered in six
years, with 288 li ssons. There must bo
a temperance lesson c.very quarter and
a numbi r of other spi eial lessons. After
the committee has gone over the lesions
for a given year they arc sent to the
publishers and lesson writers of the
world, who are asked for suggestions
and criticisms looking to a revision.
When tin- committee moots the ensuing
year these suggestions and criticisms
are examined carefully. In the prepa
ration of tho lessons [or 1909 there were
about 126 suggestions, and they result
ed in tho change or modification of
thirty-one themes, thirty-three Qolden
Texts, twenty-two lesson assignments,
nine committal verses, and tho sub
stitution of six lessons for six that were
eliminated.
The homo department of Sunday
school work Is of American origin, tho
creation of I>r. \v. A. Duncan of New
York state, who established il in 1881.
As only 80 per cent of church members
attend the regular Sunday school ser
vices, the home department lias a great
Held. This phase of Sunday school
work lias grown with great rapidity.
Atlanta has a. pnlioe homo department
and Louisville one for trolley employes.
With .ill the great good that is done
through ii" agency of the Sunday
school, which is really the recruiting
station "f the church, it seems strange
that eccleslasts could have failed to
gauge its possibilities to such an ex
tent as to try to kill the znovemont.
even after it had numbered a half mil
lion followers, under its banners, yet It
is less than a hundred years since no
loss a religious authority than the
archbishop of Canterbury convoked a
council of bishops to consider ways
and means to put an end to Sunday
schools.
Tho first Sunday school, under Robert
Ralkes, had paid teachers who received
n shilling a day for their services. But
it was not many years before the idea
of pair! teachers was eliminated, and
with it tho general objection that .the
Sunday school tended t.o secularise tin:
Sabbath. It was long after the begin
ning of the Sunday school that any
comprehensive system of Bible study
was outlined.
whipped, so long as their poor substi
tutes will suffer in silence.
It seems to be the only thinff the
workingman ran do under our present
unjust system.
Gradually light Will be Riven to our
brother workers, and they will learn
thHt they need the votes of women
to change economic, conditions.
When that time comes such coward
ly cruelty will no longer be tolerated,
and no mighty sugar kins? can mako
his employe fill the place of a "whip-
I ins" substitute.
ELIZA REETZ.
HAS MILD CONTEMPT FOR
CHURCHES AND MEMBERS
T.OS ANGELES, Jan. ll.— [Editor
Herald]: In reading the remark* of
those who take the theological side of
the argument I note a frequent refer
ence to a supposed feeling of hatred
on the part of freethinkers toward
I think I can state with some author
ity that the majority of us entertain
nothing but the utmost Bood--.'ill to
ward religious people as individuals.
Even for the church as an Institution
we do not exert ourselves to tho point
of hatred. As nearly as it would ba
possible to describe our mental atti
tude it would be that of a mild con
tempt.
Wo have the same opinion about a
body that adheres to the primitive ideas
of the first century as we would have
about a body which would inaugurate
a stage coach line to compete with the
Southern Pacific railroad-one who
would prefer tallow dips to electric
lights, or one who would rather live in
a rat-infested hovel than a modern
sanitary, dwelling. Some people will
gulp down without chewing statements
of events which happened 2000 years
agt>, who would reject instantly the
same explanation^ moder^event.^
A Quietus
Church—l see a New York magazine
announces that it has contracted to
pay Peary t1.3» a word for the story
of his trip to 4be north pole.
Gnthnm— WcTT, let him write the
three words "I done it." and Send lor
his $3.6o.—Yonkers Statesma