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CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
(iMestlGlA ;huli,a fj
H^ ,RETRORSIIM w fU
Hail to free California!
And the Hon. Breakfast Bacon is
elected.
Do we, or do we not, have a ratifi
cation?
A little crow and a little turkey for
everybody.
A considerable number of people re
nlembered the Maine.
There were several good kicks left
in the old donftey, after all.
Mr. Dix was successful; how about
Mr. Hix, who ran for congress?
Now we're ready to consider Presi
dent Taft's Thanksgiving proclama
tion.
New York state voters went to the
polls in sleighs. It was a cold day for
the g. o. p. '
'Tis getting so that a campaign
without a roorback is a rather com
mon thing.
TJtiea, Jim Sherman's home city, went
8768 Democratic. Utica is normally Re
publican. Verbum sap.
We felt certain that the successful
candidate in Ohio would be Mr.
jj ar , and so it proved.
The large amount of money spent to
promote amendment No. 1 made people
suspicious. Where did it come from?
An exchange says we shall soon
have a chance to look Gaby Deslys
over. Let's see—what offlice did he
run for?
"Pop" Dillon ought to have appre
ciated the political excitement that
let his Angels slip from under with
out much comment.
The Democratic party should lose no
time in putting Lodge, Liorimer, Fora
k< r, Cannon, Ballinger, Penrose, .Smoot
and Aldrlch on its payroll.
The learned, professors of ''
hagen university refuse to becom
cited over the claim that the north
pole was discovoted by an Oxford
xriar in 1. ■
The Cornell professor who called |
Teddy an unmitigated liar from the j
Btttmp would have i ped :
criticism if he had expressed hi'
in Latin or Gn
Orville \\ right won't let his |
fly over New i'ork buildings.
ably thinks it is jiot necessary I
claim th< ■ or the aero
from the housetops.
Cleveland boasts a moi rof 1
pairs of t ■ ins wid thi ■ ti Ip
lets. Always glad to 1
land's luck, Lu
be California colonists sooner or later.
One of the young- (i
about to be married and thanks to
the generous tariff en Guggenheim
products, »c shall all i
something to set the cou]
in housekeeping
The failling off in Missouri's |
latiou is denounced by Cha:np Clark
as political jugglery. 1
plot will not BUi
cha np'.s team of Missouri mule oil
Pennsylvania avenue.
King George lias been elected an
honorary member of the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery company of Jios
ton. He- lias accepted, generously
forgetting that his ancestral luirae
take was made a dishonoraiy inum
ber of the original troop.
FREE CALIFORNIA
AT TIIK time this is written the re
sult in California and the county
is far less certain than in other
parts of the country, because of the dif
fersact in time between this and east
ern points and the large amount of
cutting that was done, but it appears
likely that Johnson has been elected
governor and that for the most part
the Republican county ticket has won.
At the time of Hiram Johnson's nom
intaion, which this paper, performing
what it deemed a duty to the com
monwealth, assisted in bringing about,
The Herald rejoiced in the elimination
of the Southern Pacific machine from
toth parties and declared that the par
amount thing was that all good citi
zens could rejoice in the assurance that
Whatever California ruled as between
(lie i.ini.ieates shoiwas assured of free
dom from thraldom to the selfish and
corrupt machine politicians.
The Herald held Mr. Bell in great
esteem as the pioneer leader against
the S. I. political bureau. It believed
lie deserved, in return for his splendid
services, the highest honors the state
could eivo. It thinks California still
will be glad to pay him tribute in some
way. But if Johnson has won, never
theless the state is to be congratulat
ed. He promised much in his cam
paign and much Is expected of htm.
He must not disappoint his loyal fol
lowing.
It was too much to expect that In this
county anything- could happen, as a
general result, but the election of the
Republican ticket. With a registration
of 71,661 Republican and 15,890 Demo
cratic—a majority of 55,771 —nothing
short of a landslide could have enrried
the Democratic ticket into office. The
habit of party voting is yet too strong
upon the average voter to expect such
a majority to be overturned except
by miracle.
Mr. Woolwine may or may not be
elected, but the above figures show
that if he came near it he did remark
ably well. In any event, the workers
for clean government are deeply In his
debt for the stirring he gave the pub
lic conscience. All his friends hoped
for may not be accomplished, but it is
positive that all to whom are given
the trust of public office will hereafter
regard it more seriously because of the
shaking up he gave one who has been
so grossly recreant. And if complete
returns show Mr. Woolwine has been
elected the voters of the county are to
be heartily congratulated.
IN NEW YORK
THE sweeping Democratic victory
which has carried John A. Dix in
to the governor's chair in New
York is no more than was expected by
shrewd observers of all parties. The
proundswell of discontent among the
i innon people—those above the Har
lem river upon whom the Republi
cans count to overcome the usual
Democratic plurality in New York
city—was too powerful for even the
E:eat popularity of Roosevelt to stem.
It seems unmistakable from the "in
terior' vote, with its heavy Republi
can losses, that n large number of pen
pie were resolved to rebuke the party
that foisted the tariff and other forms
of special privilege on the country.
Republicans of independent and pro
gressive tendencies in that state must
be sick at heart of the leadership of
the Shermans, Paynes, Wadsworths,
Littauers, Barneses and Roots. Evi
dently they determined to pitch the
whole lot on the dump and begin with
a fresh deal.
Hearst, the treacherous, arrayed his
followers against Dlx, upon whom his
papers poured vile abuse which had
two effects—it actually made votes for
Dix and it drew away support that
would have gone to Stimson. What
Hearst hoped' to do was probably t«
stab the Democracy in revenge for the
time he was beaten for governor. If so,
he is beautifully left and is eliminated
from politics In New York except as
he can. with his papers, carry on a
guerrilla warfare.
There seems to be no doubt that the
"old guard 1' passed the word along the
line and had its votaries knife the
ticket. They hate Roosevelt worse,
than any Democrat and scuttled the
ship with the hope of drowning him
and somehow saving themselves. The
outcome probably will be to make
Rooßevelt stronger and in the end to
hasten the day of reckoning for the
gamblers of Wall street, big and lit
tle.
AN EARTHQUAKE
ONE of the most significant results
in the entire country yesterday
was that which made Eugene
Foss, Democrat, governor of Massa
chusetts by a large plurality over Klj>n
8. Draper, and probably wrote "finis"
on the career of Henry Cabot Lodge,
nator who, to get the sacred cod
fish bl his st Lte properly protected, was
willing to barter away his lnde] en
dence to Boas Aldrich to plunder the
: of the country.
How crushing the defeat is to the
Btandpat element that has controlled
the Republican party may be seen In
t lie fact that in 1!tO7 Draper had a
Plurality of 103,689, while Taft had in
1908 a plurality of 310,423. One year
later Draper's Immense plurality was
cut down to 793-1, and now he is buried
deep under a landslide.
This cannot be called a change of
sentiment; it is an earthquake, and its
causes are as plain as day. Two years
ago Foss was a Kepublican. Ho split
with his party on the tariff and made
it his Issue in the election In which he
overturned a Boston congressional dis
trict Republican majority of morn than
10,000. This year he again made the
Aldrich-Payne iniquity his battle cry.
No prominent candidate In the coun
try was more truly the personification
1.1 the uprising against the high tariff
than was Foss. No blow it has re
ceived has been more crushing than
that from I tts. Th<
„ a vote of condi nanatlon for
[dent Taft from the state thai wan
ins host the greater part of tho j ear.
LOS ANGELES TIER ALP: WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 9, 1010.
y/y/fIM/ f//A sc/zzz-z-z . n.
CONGRESS
rWANNONISM received its death blow
I in yesterday's elections. The in-
surgent victories of the past
summer only scotched it, but yester
day it w:»s sent to its long sleep by
the overturning of congress and the
conversion of a Republican margin of
forty-seven in the present. house into
a comfortable working Democratic
majority.
In the place of many regular Repub
licans there are returned insurgents of
advanced views who will in many
things work in harmony with the new
dominant party, so that progressive
legislation of some value to the people
seems assured. Heretofore when the
Democrats controlled there was a wide
variance between their views on the
tariff and financial matters and the
views of the Republicans, who were
a cohesive and effective minority.
Circumstances have, however,
changed the alignment since the Dem
ocratic congress of 1893. The Repub
licans are no longer united against
tariff reform; many of them are rad
ically for it. If the Democrats are
wise and want to make the most of
their opportunity they will not repeat
the blunders of the Wilson bill, but
will cast their solid strength for a
tariff commission with large powers
to take the subject in hand.
It is impossible to frame a just tariff
on the floor of congress. Trading and
log-rolling are inevitably a part of any
political handling of the subject. The
tariff is a business matter, and as
such ought to be removed entirely
from the realm of politics, as in Ger
many. What the country's policy is
to be can be fought out at the polls,
but the details will never be satis
factorily worked out by the old
methods.
The Democrats have a great oppor
tunity to serve the country and earn
a long lease of power. Let us hope
they will make the most of it.
A noteworthy incident of the day
was the election of Victor Corger of
Milwaukee, the first Socialist member
of congress. Berger is an intelligent
man, a deep student of economics, and
appears to have a level head. It will
be interesting to see what impression
he makes on the body and the country.
WILSON—A LEADER
ONE of the states in which the Re
publican party refused contemp
tuously to have anything to do
with insurgency is New Jersey The
old gang that has for decades boon
running things renominated Louden
elager, the wheelhorse for Cannon and
whisky barrel statesman, and turned
down Fowler, a really able man and
the only simon pure insurgent from
that state in congress.
Its punishment has been as swift
and painful as It is merited. For the
first time in eighteen years the home
of the mosquito has stung the party
that betrayed its interests, and elected
Woodrow 'Wilson governor by a com
plete upset of something like 130,000
votes —Taft having carried it two years
ago by the fine plurality of 82,759.
The former president of Princeton
thereby becomes a formidable possibil
ity for the national presidency. In his
campaign he has shown a sagacity and
grasp of the problems that are close
to the hearts of the people, and a
progressive spirit balanced by a level
that won general confidence. He
Is sound ■ n i 1 tarili ami is splendid
material for national leadership.
The Louisville Courier-Journal says
"St. Petersburg, like Los Angeles, is a
place i" be avoided if possible." I'rob
iil.ly what Inspired the jealous remark
was tin 1 (act that so many thousands
are Russian out tl/i. way.
As Mr. Taft propose* to raise the
c ill "i! the Outlook tho rup
ture between tin pri Ident and the ex*
president niay now be said to be com
plete.
The Country Is Saved
IN TAFT'S STATE
IF the Republicans deserved a pood
licking anywhere, it was in Ohio,
and they got it "good and plenty.''
Political imbecility never reached
quite so high a level as it did this
year in the Buckeye state, where Gar
tield was rebuffed, Boss Cox was
exalted, Foraker was stumped, discred
ited cabinet members were imported
to srout the old fustian, and a plat
form was adopted that was a direct
slap at the progressive sentiment of
the state.
The result in Chio is a blistering re
pudiation of President Taft and his
spine of hemp rope. To have hia
home people, his neighbors (for Ham
ilton county, where he voted, over
turned a Republican majority and
gave its support to Harmon) turn their
backs on him just about fills his cup
of bitterness to the brim.
It is to be hoped that the Pemo
cratie victory has been extensive
enough to retire Senator Dick, the pup
pet of Aldrich, whose most notable
service in the senate was to graft In
his own behalf by means of a pneu
matic tube concern, in which he was
interested, on the postofflce depart
ment,
CONNECTICUT, TOO
CONNECTICUT, the "land of
steady habits," has enrolled itself
in the Democratic column for
the first time since, 1892, when it gave
Orover Cleveland a plurality of H365.
Since then it has been overwhelming-
ly Republican, and increasingly so,
for its g. o. p. margins have gradually
increased until in 1908 it rolled up
more than 44,000 for Taft.
To upset such a plurality In Con
necticut, and elect Democratic con
gressmen as it has . done to re
place some of the solid Repub
lican delegation that have been
buttressing Joe Cannon's throne for
almost a generation, means something
in Connecticut, where they rather
pride themselves on being a commu
nity of manufacturers and artisans
who thrive on high tariffs and don't
care whether the rest of the country
likes it or lumps it.
Those who think Insurgency is in
digenous to the western soil are in
vited to look at the returns from Mas
sachusetts and Connecticut.
"J. S. Sherman, Utica, N. V.—l also
was turned down in .my own precinct.
Neighbors are a great affliction, aren't
they?—J. D. Fredericks."
Grahame-White, the aviator, is to
marry Pauline Chase, the pink pnjama
girl. It is said that Pauline can fly
pretty high herself.
If they still lack a name for the new
mountain in Alaska, higher than Mc-
Kinley, how would it do to call it
Aldrich-Cannon?
It makes a Los Angolan feel su
perior to sit on the porch in his shirt
sleeves arid road about snowbound
eastern cities.
A physician claims drunkenness can
be cured by a surgical operation. May
be he cuts off the supply.
"Why, that I cannot tell," said he,
"But 'twas a famous victory."
Nothing is ever settled until it is
settled right.
We never quarrel with election re
turns.
T i —
Now Mr. Taft may start for Panama.
SURELY NOT
Teast—An attachment for moving picture
cameras that will permit them to be carried
ami lued by an operator on horseback has
been perfected. .
Crimsonbeak—What's th« use? No fighter
Is going to try to get away when a moving
picture machine Is In Yunkers States
man. ;
Merely in Jest
IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN OTHER
WISE
An old Pennsylvania German living
in the mountains had a hard three
hours' dusty walk to accomplish one
morning and he rose very early to
make his start. He had gone but a
little way when he was overtaken by
an automobile, which was probably the
first that hu<\ passed along that way.
The driver picked up the old man and
they were at his destination in about
twenty minutes.
"Danks so much awtfullv mit de ride.
If I had known myself to be here al
ready two hours i'l front of de clock
yet I vud be at home fast asleep al
ready to start unless I knew you vud
not have picked me up since."—House
keeper.
IN THE SOUTH
The class was h;ivlng a lesson in
geography, and wore learning the
points of the compass.
"Now, Tommy Jones," said the
teacher, "you have in front of you the
north, on your right the east, on your
left the west. What have you behind
you?"
After a moment's reflection Tommy
explained:
"A patch on my trousers."
And to make the information more
binding Tommy continued in a shame
faced manner:
"I knew you'd see it; I told mother
you would!"
EARTHQUAKES AND TIDAL,
WAVES
Wife fnt breakfast)—l want to do
some shopping today, dear, If the
weather is favorable. What does the
paper say?
Husband —Rain, hail, thunder and
lightning.—Boston Transcript.
RACING RESULTS
"You don't seem to print the results
of the races."
"Yes, we do," said the editor of the
Plunkville Palladium. "We have all
the bankruptcy news." —Louisville
Courier-Johnnal.
Far and Wide
THE TABLES TURNED
It seems that the wild and woolly
past just can't behave itself. Here
is an organized crusade against "pis
tol toting" in New York, bandits ter
rorizing parts of Massachusetts, and
the Democratic convention of that
state breaking up in a riot. What if
it all occurred in the west?—Omaha
Bee.
A LATE, BUT NEEDLESS, HONOR
Edgar Allan Poe is at last in the
Hall of Fame of New York university.
No American man of letters needed
the honor less. He had been in the
Hall of Fame of the American people
for more than threescore years—New
York Times.
WHY HE WAS OVERLOOKED
The friar of Oxford who found the
north pole in 1360 was probably for
gotten because there were no lecture
platforms in those days.—Pittsburg
Dispatch.
EASY EXPLORATION
Speaking of Explorer-Aeronaut
Wellman, however, he seems to have
discovered another way not to go to
Europe.—Chicago Tribune.
PHILADELPHIA'S SUPREMACY
Philadelphia Is nothing much in the
the way of government, but it knows
a thing or two about baseball. —New
York World.
TAMMANY SHOU" O TIP HIM OFF
Alfonso seems to be proving himself
somewhat of a standpatter.—Philadel
phia Inquirer.
JOE FORAKER'S REVENGE.
Mr. Foraker of Ohio has ceased to
be a fire alarm.—Boston Herald.
NEW CHASE OF THE GROWLER
'Rah for Miss Frances Beauehamp
of Lexington, Ky! Think of a woman
running for congress in Kentucky on
an anti-whisky platform! For nerve
she's got old Mollle Pitcher skinned a
mile.—Shreveport (La.) Times.
PANTING AND BANTING
Those naughty western cities that
padded their censuses will now be
made to take a little of Uncle Samuel's
Anti-Fat.—Cincinnati Times-Star.
The Growing Uses of Cement
The rapid Increase In the use of con
crete in certain connections was once
viewed with alarm In the Iron and steel
trade, as superficially it appeared that
concrete was tending to displace iron
and steel along certain lines. Those
fears were dispelled when It became
apparent that the availability of con
crete was encouraging industrial op
erations and by broadening such op
erations was indirectly encouraging
the consumption of iron and steel along
various lines. While directly the use of
concrete created a demand for steel, as
for reinforcing material and steel
sheet piling.
With cement and iron so closely al
lied, a statistical comparison of pro
duction is naturally of interest. In the
table below there is given for each of
the past four decades the production of
pig iron In gross tons and production
of cement in barrels. In a measure,
Portland cement supplanted natural
cement and the figures therefor in
clude both Portland and natural ce
ment, together with the small amount
of puzzolnn cement. In recent years
Early Retirement of Aviators
History has been making so rapidly
in aviation as to almost bewilder. In
no other mechanical art has there ever
been as great progerss made in the
same length of time. The steam en
gine, the locomotive, steamship, tele
graph, telephone, electric light and au
tomobile each went through a period
of considerable length of time between
their point of reasonable perfection
and that of practical utility. Aviation,
like the aeroplane itself, has leaped
into significance with startling sud
denness.
Perhaps no other one feature as well
emphasizes this as the fact that al
ready men who were prominently in
the limelight only a few months ago,
as the representative airmen, are
already falling out of the line of vision
of the public eye. Some devote them
selves exclusively to constructional
Weeds Have a Market Value
Most of our weeds are our best farm
ers. They are busy working their roots
down deep into the soil to bring up
unclaimed elements, at the same time
making the soil porous. Most of them
have other uses, and it is doubtful if a
single plant is in existence that illua
lustrates "pure cussedness."
The story of beggarweed is a good
illustration. It got its bad name when
it was supposed to be a weed and noth
ing more—the veriest plague of the cot
ton fields. A little while ago this same
beggarweed was found to be the best
forage and hay plant in the southern
states. Horses, cows, pigs, hens, every
thing devours it with greediness. The
leaves are even being ground up to
PUBLIC LETTER BOX
TO COKRKSrOJJIJKNXS Letters Intended for publication moat bo accompanied by tn«
name and address of the writer. Th» Herald give, the wld«»t latitude to correspondent*,
but assumes no responsibility for their views. '.
KICKS ON A NUISANCE
TCditnr Herald: There are some things
that freemen should make a vigorous
kick about. For some time past the
mudhoies at the corner of Vernon and
Moneta caused by teams coming to the
troughs to drink has caused such a
stench that it sickened the merchants
in the vicinity-
Today the street department put a
few loads of stuff there, but not enough
as it has only driven the filthy, stink
> ing liquid a tow feet farther south in
j front of the writer's, store.
This slipshod way of doing the work
! is a disgrace to our street department,
and I now draw the attention of the
health department to this shifted
nuisance. Two loads of gravel would
have completed the job. Why was it
not placed? J. R- KITTS.
Los Angeles, Cal.
CHANTICLEER'S VICTIM
Editor Herald:
The Chanticleer play, with its hats
and its gowns,
Ts all right upon the stage;
But the Chanticleer crow, about
four a. m.,
Puts every one In a rage.
The direst of threats from the suf
ferers' lodge
Are at this early bird hurled,
As the sleepless ones wish that all
crowing cocks
Were all banished from the world.
Now here is a way you can cure these
ills,
And give the neighbors a rest:
Off with that fowl head! Do the deed
right today!
Cook him when, properly dressed!
A VICIIM.
Los Angeles, Cal.
WATER DEPT. CRITICISED
Editor Herald: A correspondent sign
ing himself "Dad," and another writer.
"Consumer," have complained that our
municipal water department has the
nerve to charge a "minimum" equal to
the price of 1050 cubic feet of water,
whether you owe that amount or only
one-tenth of it, or even none at all.
But "Consumer" hasn't told the
whole of the water department story.
The cream of the joke is that if, hav
ing been away all the month, you chal
lenge the bill for 75 cents by saying:
"I have used no water at all. My house
has been shut up," the water depart
mept replies: "You should have noti
fied us to turn it off; we charge as long
as it is on." Mr. Easy Mark Citizen
only catches the full flavor of this joke
when he remembers that the charge to
turn the water on again is $1. Seri
ously, though, is It not a pity that mu
nicipal ownership should be discredited
by graft method such as private
profit gas companies do not resort to?
• ANOTHER CONSUMER.
Los Angeles, Cal.
PROHIBITION IN OKLAHOMA
Editor Herald: Some days ago I saw
an item In your valuable paper in
which it was claimed that Oklahoma
was full of "bootleggers" and that the
prohibition law was to be reckoned
as a failure. The Item went on to
Hay that the "Joint keepers" would
have men called "lookouts" stationed
in tiers, whose business it was to
watch for the officers and give warn
ing when one was seen approaching.
The claim was also set up that this
was cheaper for them than if they
wore paying license. The last claim
sounded so ridiculous to me—to think
that several men, whose services would
bo easily worth from $1.50 to $2.00 per
(From Trades Journal)
the great bulk of the output has been
Port Tana.
Production by rin Iron, Cement,
decadei —■ Rrosi ton«. barrel*.
1870-79 21,885.286 22,000,000
1880-89 61,534,529 46,000,000
.1, 93,688,216 98.000,000
!,,;,,, ;,;, 197,80T,609 854,000,000
The table illustrates In a general
way the tendency of pigr Iron produc
tion to double In ten years. Production
has, however, been seriously affected
by the great Industrial depressions,
1873-8 anil 1593-8, lost ground being
made up meanwhile. Thus In the sec
ond (if the four decades covered above,
production was much morn than double
that of the first decade, while the
third decade failed to double the second
and the fourth much more than doubled
the third. Comparing tho first and
third, there was a trllle more than a
quadrupling, while comparing tho sec
ond and fourth there Is almost precise
ly a quadAipllng.
With s j rapid an increase in the con
sumption of cement, the consumption
of iron and steel would already have
given clear evidence of losing to ce
ment were the tendency in that direc
tion. The promise Is rather that, if the
use of cement continues to grow rap
idly, tho activities Involved will carry
along an increased demand for iron
and steel. ________
(ropular Mechanics)
work; others fly only to try new ma
chines of their own design; still others
have retired after falls which have
either crippled them or taken their
nerve. Among these well-known names
are Bleriot, Faulhan, Parman, the
Wright brothers, Duray, Gibbs, Rou
gter, Sommer, Singer and Rawlinson.
It has been said that this retirement
is largely due to the Intense nerve
strain of flying, which in a short time
so wrecks the strongest nerves as to
render a man unfit to go aloft under
conditions requiring an absolute con
trol of himself and instantaneous ac
tion in emergencies. Perhaps this has
been more true in the past than it will
be in the near future, as the mechan
ism of the aeroplane becomes perfect
ed, and possibly some automatic de
vice fs secured, leaving much less to
the decision and skill of the airman.
(B. E. Powell, in Outlns)
make flour out of which bread of a
high quality is made. The velvet bean
was a vine used only for ornament, but
it has turned out to be a producer of
tho largest quantity of valuable hay
and fodder known in the world.
Many of our weeds are valuable
also as soil binders, while others, if
handled rightly, lose all their trouble
some qualities and can be added to our
compost piles. There are a few weeds,
mainly those that run under ground or
those that go to seed with great rapid
ity, which get in the way so badly as
to deserve their evil reputation. Among
these the Canada thistle, the wild
morning glory and quack grass are
supreme for meanness.
day each, would' bo cheaper than pay
ing license.
From relatives I learn that prohibi
tion in Oklahoma is gaining friends ev
ery day; that the claims being herald
ed throughout the country that "boose"
is being dispensed freely in Oklahoma
conies from those who make or want
to sell it there and can't get the chance.
They say that men who were onco
"booze fighters" are now becoming
their best and most thriving citizens;
that those who would not give it up
have left, and in their place havo
come a more desirable class of people;
and that business men, in particular,
realize the blessings of ■ prohibition
more than they had ever thought of
prior to its adoption. B. S. W.
Ontario, Cal.
A DEFENSE OF NUDITY
Editor Herald: A dispatch pays the
Washington W. C. T. U. has con
demned all nudo statues. At Battle
Creek the Federation of Women's
Clubs Indorsed the nude In art. Which
is right? I claim that the Bible au
thority Is with the latter women.
The enlig-htened nations all agree
that the Christian Bible teaches the
highest Ideal of living; and when
rightly understood it nowhere con
demns nakedness of the human body
to public view, as the following texts
abundantly proVe:
And they were both naked, th»
man and his wife, and were not
ashamed. —Genesis II :25.
Neither shalt thou go up by steps
unto mine altar, that thy naked
ness (because of th^ir thigh skirts)
be not discovered thereon.—Exodus
xx:26.
And thou shalt make them linen
breeches to cover the flesh of their
nakedness; from the loins even
unto the thighs they shall reach.—
Exodus xxviii:42.
Thus It Is seen that sexual purity
and the Holy Bible alike teach us that
breeches reaching from our loins to
our thighs cover all the nakedness
which is shameful.
It is nowhere recorded that the
Christ ever censured exposure of all
or any part of "the flesh of their na
kedness" when he was addressing his
followers, although partial and total
nudity were more or less common in
the multitudes sourrounding him in
his public ministry. Neither did any
of his apostles condemn nudity in
public. In I Peter, iii:3. the apostle
condemns the aristocratic pride of
costly dress, but not personal naked
ness. (I use the revised version).
Christ himself taught us "the purity
of the human form divine" when he
pave his disciples and all his other
followers for all time to come an ob
ject lesson in humility during- the Last
Supper by stripping himself entirely
naked (St. John xili:4) as a bond ser
vant and washing the feet of his dis
ciples. In those days all persons pub
licly executed were first stripped en
tirely naked.
Whatever we become used to ceases
to have its first effect upon us. For
this reason, and for none other, naked
savages are said to be more virtuous
sexually than civilized peoples, who
dress to excess. St. Paul says:
To the pure all things are pure.—
Titus 1:15.
Tn all things action and reactilon
are equal. Sexual purity will probably
be regained by commencing with
making nil children go naked in pleas
ant weather until they are about 8
years old, to improve their health and
mnkn them more robust. Then in tho
privacy of the home adult nudity will
gradually become common until It
reaches the street. S. M. 8.
Los Angeles, Cal.