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The Call
"AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER—THE
NEWSPAPER OF AUTHORITY"
FOUNDED DECEMBER 1. 1856.
W. W. CHAPIN, Publisher.
FELIX DIAZ IS MASTER
Mexico's law, we read in the dis
patches, makes it necessary for the
resignation of a president to be sub
mitted to congress—and Mexico is so
scrupulously and effectively enforcing
its laws these'days that this detail
of administration must be followed
out in detail, or the abdication of Ma
dero, should it come, will be illegal!
However, the submission of his
resignation to the Mexican congress
by the president may be either vol
untary or compulsory. President Ma
dero has caused the latter method to
be invoked in his case. The Mexican
senate has, according to late news
from the troubled city, demanded of
Madero that he quit his post. That
means the end of Madero.
However honorable might have
been his government, however right
eous his aim, Madero has failed to
give his nation safety and peace, and
his own right to rule is as nothing
compared with the higher rights of
his people to their lives.
Senor Francisco de la Barra, who
has been suggested as the provisional
successor of Madero, has in the past
been Mexico's safety valve. He served
as provisional president between the
periods of Porfirio Diaz and Madero.
Felix Diaz, however, will have some
thing to say in regard to de la Barra
and the presidency. In the military
sense he is the master of Mexico to
day.
The younger Diaz has the loudest
voice in Mexico today, speaking as he
does in tones of shell and bullets.
He is directly responsible for the hu
miliation of Madero and for the fear
ful conditions that obtain in the beau
tiful capital. If he does not favor de
la Barra he probably wtfl go on fight
ing until he himself is established as
president, or dictator, or the United
States intervenes. The United States
may be cynical of the pretensions of
the Mexican "patriots" until they
show themselves to be clean. If Felix
Diaz has the good of Mexico at heart,
and wants to save his nation the hu
miliation of armed intervention by the
United States, he will agree to the
appointment of a provisional presi
dent, such as Francisco de la Barra,
and let the country calm itself before,
an effort is made to elect another
president.
WALL STREET GAMBLING
Having rui. the business profitably
for many years, the New York stock
exchange announces that it will not
, permit its gambling game to be in
terfered with by the government and
advises the state not to meddle about
its affairs. Ninety per cent of its
transactions have been fictitious, it
tacitly admits, but it argues that fic
tion is good for business, and while
"the faro box and the roulette wheel
may require a little tinkering to pro
tect the outsider, on the whole the
short card decks and the marked aces
will be left in the game.
The arrogant attitude of the New
York stock exchange in view of the
exposure of its workings by the Pujo
committee is but fuss and bluster. It
contends that the government has no
right to regulate its business, although
its business is almost entirely inter
state, dealing with stocks of corpora
tions whose homes are in New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Illinois , an delsewhere.
It declares that it can not be forced
to incorporate or put itself in any po
sition that will make it amenable to
the law; yet it exploits the public,
deals in commodities, stocks, con
trolled outside its walls, and trades on
the money of state banks with reck
less disregard of the needs of the
commnnities whence its money
comes.
The exchange promises to make
what reforms are needed. So might
the keeper of a faro game promise,
if no law is passed to curb his in
dustry, to turn his place into a shoe
store. Wall street and the stock ex
change will sneer at the appellation
of "gambling resort." Yet the in
vestigation of the Pujo committee
showed that not 10 per cent of the
"sales" made on the floor of the New
York stock exchange within a certain
period were bona fide. Maybe the
stock exchange, really wants to re
form, but a good stiff set of-statutes
will accelerate that work.
LITERACY TEST UNFAIR
In vetoing the Dillingham-Burnett
bill which provided that no immi
grant be admitted to this country
who can not read and write in a rec
ognized language or dialect, President
Taft acted wisely and humanely. To
close the doors of opportunity to any
body on the crude test of primary
education would bar from America
many who in every other way are
qualified to become desirable citizens.
It is not to be denied that, roughly,
literacy is a measure of intelligence
and ability to make one's way, but the
test is too fallible to make it trust
worthy. In America the right to learn
to read and write is inherent to every
child. In most of the states compul
sory education is provided. But that
is not the rule in Europe. There edu
cation is a privilege, cruelly denied to
many solely for political or racial
reasons. Some of our best citizens
have come from the ranks of those
denied learning by their native gov
ernments.
If the government could exert a
wider influence over immigration after
its arrival in this country, could pre
vent its congestion in cities and slums
and provide for its distribution to dis
tricts where labor is absolutely need
ed, then the most serious immigration
problem which confronts us would be
disposed of.
WHAT CALIFORNIA HAS
Californians with the boosting spirit
should secure a copy of the latest
monthly bulletin of the California
Development board (ferry building,
San Francisco). It is crammed with
facts which the booster can use in his
business.
Here are a few excerpts:
The cutting up of large ranches,
which caused such an impetus in land
movement in 1912, has started the year
with ari(Jed vigor. Some of the projects
are options on 90,000 acre? in southern
Solano, involving: $10,000,000, of which
the company will farm 30,000 acres;
the Muzzy ranch of 5,000 acres near
Elmira, price $325,000: the Chandler-
Hastings tratct. also In Polano, com
prising 4,500 acres, price approximately
$450,000 *
The Natomas Consolidated of Califor
nia has entered the opening of a 60,000
acre reclamation project along the
banks of the Sacramento. Feather and
Bear rivers, and a 30,000 acre project
seven miles east of Sacramento. Nearly
$3,000,000 has been spent on develop
ment work.
Forty-two hundred acres in Glenn to
Los Angeles capitalists for more than
for citrus fruit. The sale of
66.000 acres of Chowchilla ranch in the
San Joaquiri valley for the reported
price of $2,500,000. Six thousand acres
near Corning, Tehama county, for
$300,000.
Fifty-four subdivisions were made in
Contra Costa county in 1912. Much
activity in Kern county.
The products of the soil of California
for 1912 were more in value than any
country in the world in proportion to
the number of people.
There are other facts in the report.
They require no comment. It is a
bulletin to slip into the eastbound
mail; let the easterner know what we
have out here and what we are going
to have.
Everything that wears blue or khaki
is listening intently for a general alarm
from across the border.
In keeping with the eternal fitness of
things we suppose Private Secretary
to-be Tumulty speaks In whispers and
wears rubber heels.
It begins to be suspected that the
"terrible slaughter" among the com
batants in the city of Mexico is slaugh
ter, Mex.
The wise hoodlum will pretend to be
something quite different when he hears
the honk of the mayor's motor car.
Stoutly and wordily the money trust
denies that there is any such thing.
The British public is so fond of the
true romance well glided that the Fin
ley Shepards have had to migrate to
the continent.
The "Society of Americans of Royal
Descent" is among the organizations
that will convention here In 1915. Any
way there are encrugh local descendants
of Isabella de Vermandols to serve as
a reception committee.
If the Balkan allies want any pub
licity for their executive session war
while Mexico is on stage they can send
somebody around to the business office.
TRUE HAPPINESS
—
By THE POET PHILOSOPHER
When torrents are pouring: or tem
pests , are roaring how pleasant and
cheerful Is home! To sit by the winder
all drier than tinder and watch the un
fortunates roam? With slad eyes to
follow the fellows who wallow around
in the rain or the sleet, to watch them
a-slippinpr and sliding and tripping, and
falling all over the street! There's
nothing ?o soothing , , so apt to be
smootrnng- the furrows of grief from
your brow, as sitting and grazing at
folks who are raising out there in the
mud smell a row! To watch a mad
neighbor through hurricane labor, while
ymi are all snug by the fire, to see
him cavorting and pawing and snort
ing— what mor» could a mortal desire?
I love storm and blizzard from A clear
to Izzard, I'm fond of the sleet and the
let winter get busy and whoop
til! lip's dizzy, and I'll be the last to
complain. For there is a casement Just
over the bnsement where I in all com
fort may sit, and watch, people wading
through mud or parading through snow
till they fall in a fit.
WALT MASON.
SHEAR NONSENSE
A : IMB EXCUSE
"You told me you were on the water
wagon."
"I know I did."
"Well?"
"But I stei>p*<l off to give an elderly
gentleman my seat."—Kansas City
Journal.
w> BSD EI> QUALITY
"Do you think that we should have a
more elastic currency?" asked the Old
Fogy.
"It is elastic enough," replied the
Grouch. "Why don't they make it more
adhesive."—Cincinnati Enquirer.
THE JO A' RIDER
Pater had burned the midnight oil.
Mind toimproveand wits make keen
His wealthy heir, with scorn of toll.
Now burns the midnight gasoline.'
—Boston Transcript.
DWGEROIS COMBINATION
"You seem to talk quite freely for
publication, without actually saying
anything."
"That's the art <# it," replied Sena
tor Sorghum. "A man should always
avoid letting his views get mixed into
his interviews."—Washington Star.
AS A BRACER
"How do you feel this morning?"
"My tongue feels like an old rug."
"Mine, too. Well, the best thing , for
that fuzzy feeling is a camphor cock
tail with a mothball in it."—Louisville
Currier Journal.
—.*.—
MAN AM> PRICE
Every man has his price, but it Is
usually so much more than he is worth
that most men never sell out.—Puck.
COMPREHENSIVE
"What are her reasons for refusing
you?" "Well, it sounded like an essay
on eugenics, genealoiiy and finance"'—
Judsfe.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 17, 1913.
HOTEL NEWS
Archdeacon Pentreath of the Church of Eng
land of Columbia, B. C, who is at the Stewevt
with his family and members of his Immediate
household, says he ha* come to California to re
gain his health. The ckarcbS«B, who' is the
pioneer representative of the Ctatet of Eng
land in British Columbia, having been there Mr
more than 16 year*, nnd who ts si close friend
of the primate of Rupert* T.and, said:
"I am comlpf: to California In tl/p hope of
regaining my health. My pood friend, Father
Clinton, who died bore a yenr ago. told me of
the wonderfnl climate of California. I am going
to Pa=o Robles and I hope I will benefit by the
excellent weather conditions thero. With me
are Mrs. Pentreath. Sister Frances of St. Luke's
home, F. Burd, manager of the province office
of Vancouver, ami Mrs. Bnrd. I have received
visits today from several clergymen of Oakland,
Berkeley and >«in Kranr-lsco, and I am greatly
pleased with the attention that has been
showered upon roe."
S. T,. Harrington, a Innd expert of Fresno,
who has been working <>nan Irrigation project
In that district for about two rears. Is a suest
at the Suiter. In speaking of the Irrigation
proiecf, Mr. Harrington said:
"Water is the WMt valuable thing a farmer
can hare. I have been at work on a plan to
cive water t'> a lanre area of land in Fresno
county that is now arid. Larye sums have been
spent in canrinET on the work, and my asso
ciates and myself feel sure that we .ire jroing to
succeed. The farmers in the district are co
operatlnsr with us. too. California, to my way
of thinking. Is and will always continue to be
the greatest agricultural state in the union."
V.iisnr F. T.urlienback, president of the Lurh
enhack Steamship company, siwvessors to the
Bates & Chespbroush company, is at tlie St.
Others who registered fit the. St.
Francis j-p«terd;iy were Romayn Rlmmnns. man
p.ircr of Madame Rordfea, the noted, prima dor
ms; Alexander H. 1.0-vy of 1.0-= Anceie?:, 11. F.
Thomas and I<\ A. Wilson of New York.
* ■•'-•
William Rilii of Philadelphia, E. A. TortPr of
Boston, C. W. Willettc ami Mr. and Mrs. Theo
dora Brewster of Spattlc, F. ht. Ewutg of S«n
Tom :in<i E. G. Kick of Rochester are at the
Sutter.
* * -5f
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. One* of Medicine Hat,
Albortn; Mr. Bad Mrs. fIIMIIM Smith of Npw
York, who are tourincr Ibe world: V. X. Withey,
theatrical man of Spokane, and W. H. Porrer
fleld. editor Iα chief of the Scrlpps-Meßne
sprvlep, and Mr. and Mrs. Porterfield are at the
Manx.
•if * *
F. L. Brneh, rpnl estate opprator of Ran Jose,
John P. T'eck, «n orchard Ist of Redlnnds, and
Mr. and Km. 11. T. Lee of Victoria are at the
Stewart.
* * *
George Birkel. a piano manufacturer of I.os
Aageles, nnd Mr?. BirkPl; George W. Boachke,
assistant manager of the Oregon-Washlncton
Railroad ami Nnvisation company; W. W. Cot
ton, general counsel of the game company, and
.Tnmps A. Mettle, manaper of a belting company
of Portland are at the Palace.
* * * •
TT. Thorpe, president of a large rtepartmpnt
store in Sacramento, and Mr*. Tborpp; E. W.
Eldridge, quartermaster of the volunteer sol
iltn? home <>f Was'iincton, D. C. and Dr. Kd
wanl S. Barber of riiico. who i.; hrpp to atten<l
the annual convention of the dentists' associa
tion of the United States, are registered at the
Palace.
* * »
Mr. and Mrs. N. K. Sdiwabe of Charleston,
W. Va., and Flcrbert Flashant of CoefeM, Ger
many, a banker, are at the Fairmont.
* * #
M. P. StPln and A. F. StPin of Stockton nre at
the Bellevue, accompanied by Q. S. Marks of
Lodl.
* * *
J. I. McKntz. a real estate operator of Mer
ced; O. S. Coats of Raymond, Wash., J. L. Sut
ton of Seattle and Charles E. Miller, Interested
in the manufacturing of watches in South Bend,
Ind., are recent arrivals at the Bellevue.
* * * .
W. Houjsh Perry, newly appointed chief of
the department of the bureau of exhibitions of
the Panama-Pacific exposition, arrived at the
Bellevne from New York yesterday. Bβ wlB be
joined later bf hi* family nntl will make this
city his permanent residence.
* -X- ■«■
Franz Weprmann, of Arn
holil, Karberg & Co.. Imnorters and exporters,
with agencies in China, Berlin. New York and
London, who is a puest at the St. Fran<-:>. U:i>
Just rcturiud from a holiday trip to Europe
lasting AM la*t March atul is on hin way to
(iiiii;i. Spnaking of Use future of China Mr.
Weumann said:
"The dtm of "China depends on the amount
of money the republic is able to raise immediate
ly fruiu tardea money lenders. The crcat ques
tion confrontinjr the leaders of China todaj is
tlit- B*u*3T siti'aliou. It is not penerallr kinnvn,
but it is a fac:. however, that a lurgt; f^.
Hands Off, but—
Proposed Legislation
BILLS NOW UNDER CONSIDERATION IMPARTIALLY ANALYZED BY
THE CAL L FOR THE PEOPLE'S BENEFIT
Adoption by the people of tfle free
textbook amendment to the constitu
tion, involving, as it did. abolition of
the state board of education, developed
one of the most complicated problems
to he solved by the legislature of 1913.
The problem appears to grow out of
the necessity for providing for a new!
state board of education rather than
out of differences of opinion as to the
methods of providing and distributing
free textbooks to the school children of
California.
Many schemes are proposed by pend
ing measures. The ultimate solution
probably will he the result of agree
ment between the committees on edu
cation in the two houses. Here are the
provisions of ' several characteristic
pending , measures:
APPOINTIVE AND ELECTIVE BOARD
OP EDUCATION: ASSEMBLY BILL
836.
This hill provides that the state
board of education shall consist-of the
state superintendent of education,
elected, as now, by the people, and two
members be appointed by the gov
ernor. The terms of the appointive
members are fixed at four years. Sal
aries of $5,000 a year are provided for
all the members.
The proposed board is given not only
control of the common or elementary
schools and the high schools, but also
of the state normal schools.
The work of the board is to be
divided under three general heads,
each division to be under the Immediate
direction of a member of the board.
The department of supervision is to be
assigned to the superintendent of pub
lic instruction, the division of business
and finance to one of the appointive
members, and the department of school
books to the other appointive member.
The members are to be designated com
missioners. The superintendent of pub
lic instruction—otherwise the com
missioner of supervision—is to be pres
ident of the board.
The commissioner of business and
finance Is to have supervisory guar
dianship or control of all state prop
erty devoted to educational purposes,
including the normal schools, poly
technic school and reformatory institu
tions. His supervision is not to be
confined to apparatus and educational
material, but Is to include buildings
and grounds. He is also to assist the
officers of school districts throughout
the state in the matter of planning
buildings.
The commissioner of school books is
to direct the manufacture, distribu
tion, return, sanitation and handling
of all free text books. He is to visit
various localities and advise with local
authorities upon the care of text
books, their adoption and the neces
sity for changes.
Expenditures by the commission are
subject to audit by the state board of
control. The acts of any commissioner
must be agreed to by the commission
or a majority thereof. It is empowered
to appoint designated subordinates.
The powers expressly cortferred on
the proposed board are the govern
ment of the elementary schools, the
high schools, the normal s-chools and
the California polytechnic school; to
adopt uniform rules for entrance to
high schools, normal schools, the poly
technic school and the state univers
ity; to prescribe rules and regulations
for the educational interests in all re
form schools, penitentiaries and
schools for delinquents, defectives and
dependents suDported by and under the
control and direction of the state.
In addition to these powers the board
is given all the powers of the preced
ing board of education as to certifi
cates to teach in the public schools of
this state.
centage of the army of the revolutionists whleli
successfully battled against the Manchu dynasty.
was made up of pirates from tbe coast of
China.
•Those soldiers have not yet received their
pay. or all of It, and it is feared that there
may lie an internal revolution on account of the
nonpayment of these fighting uien.
'■China needs money, but It Is the bo-t in
vestment in the world today. I have been there
for years. China will develop much faster tlian
Japan when it receives the money it needs."
W. A. Oalnea, for to years a wholesale drug
gist in Houston, who is staying at the Manx,
says Uiat he thinks tue west is greatly increaa
GEORGE A. VAN SMITH
APPOINTIVE NONSALARIED BOARD:
SENATE BILL 65.
This bill provides? for a board of
five to be appointed by the govprnor
and for the ex offlcio membership of
the state superintendent. At least one
ft the appointive members must be a
woman. The members first appointed
must classify themselves by lot so
that two will hold for terms of two
> ears and three fr>r four years. There
after appointments shall be for terms
Compensation for the appointive mem
bers is limited to actual expenses In
curred in attending meetings. The
board is to meet at the call of the
chairman and must meet not less than
twice in each year. The chairman is
to be elected by the board from its
appointive membership.
The business of the board is to be
administered through commissioners of
education and the superintendent of
public instruction. The commissioners
of education are to be chosen by the
board and their salaries fixed by the
same authority. The board is em
powered to appoint additional commis
sioners and other subordinates in its
Subject to the single condition that
no expense for distribution shall fall
upon those entitled to use them, the
proposed board is given general and
complete control of the free textbook
system. —
It is given all the powers of the for
mer board touching the granting of
certificates and diplomas to teachers
and the revocation of such certificates
and diplomas.
Through the commissioners of educa
tion, the board is to exercise direction
and supervision of the day and evening
elementary and secondary schools, vo
cational and industrial schools, trade
schools, professional and normal
schools.
Subject to the ratification of the
state board, the commissioners of edu
cation shall make plans for the direc
tion of education interests in all re
form schools, penitentiaries and insti
tutions for delinquents, defectives and
dependents supported by and under the
direction and control o* the state.
The board shall compile and adopt
a uniform system of textbooks for the
day and evening elementary schools
and . rovide a list available for adop
tion by high schools.
APPOINTIVE NONSALARIED BOARD
SENATE BILL 645.
This bill provides for the appoint
ment by the governor of a board of
seven members. No person actively
engaged in educational work shall bo
a member. The compensation of the
members is fixed at $10 a day for at
tending meetings and their actual trav
eling expenses. The board Is to meet
at the call of the chairman and must
meet at least twice in each year
The superintendent of public In
struction is made the executive officer
of the board. The board is empowered
to appoint not more than three assist
ant state superintendents of public in
struction at salaries of not more than
$4,000 a year.
It is empowered to adopt all need
ful rules and measures for carrying
out the constitutional provisions cov
ering the furnishing and distribution
of uniform free textbooks for the day
and evening elementary schools.
It is given sweeping general powers
over examinations and the prescription
of qualifications for teachers. it is
authorized to approve courses of study
for primary, grammar, high and tech
nical schools and to grant permission
ing In favor as a place to spend the winters
Hβ said: '
'•You would be surprised to learn of the
great number of easterners who come to the
gulf every winter. I know California attracts
thousands every winter and that the number
is increasing every year. The gulf ls a , so a
winter re-ort ana easterners are going there
by the thousands every year. I have been in
San Francisco several months each year since
the Hre tad I think you will have a wonderful
business future. The entire world know* of
San Francisco. There is nothing like advertls
iujj a city and Sau Francisco Is well adver
tised."
Sunday Sermons
Pertinent to the period of Lent, a time devoted to meditation and religious
thought as well as mere church going, sermons on faith and works, the
divinity of Christ, and other kindred topics, were preached in San Francisco
yesterday. The basic reasons for piety and morality, and their aspect in
the light of modern conditions received the attention of pastor?.
Bishop Edwin EC Hughes, resident
bishop of the Methodist church in this
city, spoke at the Central Methodist
Episcopal church. His text was John
3:8: "The wind bloweth where it llsteth
and thou hearest the sound thereof, but
canst not tell whence it cometh or
whither it goeth. So is every one that
is born of the spirit." He said:
"The point that Jesus urged was that
it was no more possible to explain the
breeze than it was to explain spiritual
processes. Men usually assume that
the intellectual difficulties are simply
religious, whereas they are universal.
The mystery of eternity belongs to the
unbeliever fully as much as to the be
liever. Something always was, and
something always will be.
"No man can escape the staggering
conception of endlessness, whether fu
ture or past. It is even so with the
problem of the universal presence and
power. Something is everywhere and
at work. Many of the mysteries which
are supposed to belong to the believer
alone really belong to all men. The
only way to evade them is to run from
them.
"Hence Jesus urged that men should
trust their normal faculties. Believe in
the action of spiritual force for the
same reason that you believe in the
action of the breeze, because you feel it
playing upon your life. The only way
to get on at al] is to trust your normal
faculties. The man who does not trust
the normal demands of his heart is ;ust
as untrue to himself as is the man who
will pay no heed to his intellect.
"The question then is: "What is your
experience? "What will be your experi
ence if you really follow Christ? Ex
perience will in due season show
whether the doctrine is of God. The
breath of the spirit of God becomes at
length as real as the cooling breeze
upon the face of man."
REV. FATHER HUGHES
TALKS ON DIVINITY
Rev. Father William Hughes of the
Church of the Nativity preached on
the divinity of Jesus and spoke of th 4
visions of Peter, James and John. He
said:
"In today's gospel we see Peter,
James and John, awe stricken in the
presence of the supernatural, for they
behold a transient ray of this divinity
of Jesus on Mount Thabor. Brethren,
the gospels read during the year taken
merely as historical documents repeat
edly asserted his divinity. His own
testimony is a clear vindication of his
God head. He claims to be God with
his disciples, with the Jews and with
the high priest."
The speaker then enumerated the In
stances of Nathaniel's exclamation of
"Rabbi thou art the Son of God." of
Peter's op n n confession of h?« divinity
in the town of Caesarea Phillippi, of
Nicodemaa. of Phillip on the eve of
' his passion and death, of Jiide another
apostle; and concluded that Jesus did
not mislead them, they on their part
ftid not misunderstand him, for he
spoke in words fitted to th«-ir intel
ligence.
DOMINION" OVER LIFE
"Jepus claims dominion over life: for
as the Father hath life <so hath lie
given to his Son to have life in Him
self. Could his assertion o f his di
vinity be more explicit? If he lie not
God in what light must we take these
claims?
"As we consider the claims of Jesus
Christ, we know that they were true;
we know that he was not the victim of
any monstrous self-delusion. The doc
trine which he taught, the religion he
founded, the work he accomplished, are
convincing proofs that Jesus Christ
was not deluded.
SUPERIOR DOCTRINE
"He taught a doctrine superior in
every detail to what the world had
known before, a doctrine which falsi
fied the tenets of paganism and con
fused the rotaries of idolatry, a doc
trino that blossomed forth like a
beautiful bed of sweet scented roses
, amid the thorns and thistles of ema
ciated philosophies and schools.
"Jesus founded a religious which
called forth the world from darkness, a
religion which for 20 centuries has sur
vived the wreck of empires, withstood
the malice of demons and the on
slaughts of men, and still continues
even for all time on its mission of
peace, of love and of truth.
"Humanity is the seal of his whole
public career. Humble In birth, humble
in life and even humble in death, he
said, 'Learn of me, for I am meek and
humble of heart.' He did not falter in
the face of death, but maintained his
claims to the end."
SCIENCE IS FALSE,
SAYS FR. SEARLE
Taking for his text "Without faith it
is impossible to please God," Father
George M. Searle of St. Mary's Catholic
church, California and Dupltnt streets,
spoke yesterday on prayer and morti
fication.
"Don't imagine," he said, "that sci-
PLAYGROUNDS CONGRESS
SOON TO CONVENE HERE
Prominent Social Workers Will Address
First Pacific (oast Convention
In Interest of Children
Th* first Pacific coast playgrounds
and recreation congress will be held]
in San Francisco from February 2~> to
28. Well known speakers will address
the convention, which will be held un- i
der the auspices of the Playground and \
Recreation association of America, the j
playground commissions of San Fran- j
Cisco, Los Angeles. Oakland and Berke- j
ley, the Recreation league of San Fran- j
Cisco and the local board of education. |
Seumas MacManus, the noted Irish j
writer; E. B. de Groot, secretary of \
the Chicago Playgrounds and Recrea
tion league; Edward W. Stitt, district ;
superintendent of schools of New York
city, and Miss Elizabeth Burchenal, ex
pert in physical training for girls and
folk dancing in the New York public
schools, will deliver addresses. Dem
onstrations of organized play will be
given by San Francisco and Oakland
school children.
The joint committee in ciiarge of the
congress is composed of James Edward
Rogers (chairman); Dr. A. A. d'Ancona.,
president of the San Francisco board
of education; R«T. A. W. Palmer, chair
man of the Oakland playgrounds com
mission committee; C. B. Raitt, chair
man of the Los Angeles committee;
James Preston, chairman of the Berke
ley committee, and W. H. de Bell, chair
man of the Recreation league of San
Francisco.
NEW SCHOOL OF JOIRMI.IS'I
CLEVELAND, 0., Feb. 16.—Western
Reserve university is to have a school
of journalism endowed by Dan R.
Hanna. proprietor of the Cleveland
Leader and News, to the etxent of ?10,
--000 a year. The announcement was
made here today by President Thwing
01 Western Reserve.
snoe requires you to be a little shaky,
to say the least, about Catholic doc
trines; to believe, for instance, that it
has been proved that man descended,
or, as it might be more properly sairt.
ascended from a monkey. You see this
continually asserted, or taken for
granted. In the newspapers, but there
is no real science in it.
"A good many men of sonic scientific
ability no doubt want or hope to prove
it, but really the proof seems even to
them much farther off than it was SO
years agro, when Darwinism was at its
best. The real inner ring , of scientists
have no real expectations that any fur
ther advance will be made in it.
'"Some scientists who are opposed to
religion are trying to find some sub
stitute for Darwinism, such as the pro
duction of life by artificial means. They
seem to fancy that if they could suc
ceed in this the whole idea of creation
would be effectually disposed of.
"In point of fact, it would not be
touched at all. The fact is that what
Is called the science of today is abso
lutely powerless against religion. It
can only proceed by assuming the
whole point at issue—that is, by loudly
asserting that nothing can ever happen
except according to the laws which they
choose to lay down.
"There is absolutely nothing In any
real science for religion to Have the
slightest trouble about So we can e;o
on calmly asserting its dogmas without
paying the slightest attention to the
clamors of so called science against it.
It is the objectors, not ourselves, who
are not up to date. They will catch
up after awhile.
"Let us, meanwhile, keep our faith in
tact, and above all live up to it. No one
ever abandons the faith when he once
Ins it, except hv not living un to it, by
not practicing the virtues which It re
quires.
"Now, in this holy season of Lent, is
the best possible time to practice these
virtues, particularly those of prayer and
mortification. Let us then, in this time,
fortify these outworks, that inner cit-
adel of faith, without which, as the text
tells us, it is impossible to please God,
may remain undisturbed and secure."
DON'T MERELY GIVE
UP; DO SOMETHING
''God so loved the world that lie
Save his only begotten son," was th«
text that Rev. Arch Perrin. pastor of
the church of St. Mary the Virgin, took
for his discourse yesterday morning:.
He said:
"When some people want to COtntat
a Christian they refer at once to the
Garden of Eden and the old fnak°.
'Dβ you believe such a story as that , "
they ask you with a flourish. And the
faith is supposed to crumble.
"If any writer of today can tell as
fine n story as we havr ; in the hook of
Genesis to embody a fundamental truth
of human life let him step forth. There
la eiven us, not history, but a story, a
primitive Jewish leg-end. Inclosed
within it is this fact:-God created man
and endowed him with free will. Man
need his free will and yielded to the
temptation to do wrong. He fell away
from God.
"God's wrath is dircted against pin.
not against the sinner. There must be
a punishment for sin. and so God came
from Heaven and was incarnate.
"We are inseparably united to Christ
by our faith. Are you ready to act ac
cordingly? Wl!l you look at things
about you in that spirit? Do you want.
San Francisco to be a better place? Do
you want men. women and children to
lead better lives and get a better
chance in life? If you don't, you are
not a real Christian.
"During Lent, are you merely giving
up smoking or rlpssert or bridge? "Why
not try to do a Httle more? Add some
thing to your duties and don't spend all
your time giving up,
"You are on the winning side In the
battle of life. Why not act as If you
were? Let us expfWfl the joy of our
religion more and show people that
long faces aren't essential to the Chrls
tion religion.
"Don't think too much about that
question, 'What think ye of Christ?"
without answering it by your lives.
And ask occasionally, '"What does
Christ think of me? .
"You are the hands of God stretched
out into the darkness of the world. Hβ
works through you. Let the hands
reach out and do the work. There Is
much to be done. We hear the white
slave traffic denounced in burning
words at meetings. But why is there
such a thing? The chief reason It ex
ists in Its present condition is because
of the rottenness of public opinion, be
cause of the things said in clubs, In
cafes or at the universities. There are
othT reasons, but this is the chief one.
'•Can't you <lo something to better
the tone of things? It may not be
much, but do something
"The right sort of a Christian Is the
most human of men. He isn't a prig
or a hypocrite, but an honest, earnest,
manly worker. Let God use you In
his service. There's work to be done,
and to each one of us is given some
special piece of work. Are you doing
it. Pr are you missing your glorious
opportunity?"
PRESS CLUB SHOW TO BE
REPEATED AT MIDNIGHT
Son** and Skits fo r "Seven Years
After" In Preparation—Hermann
Heller Working on Music
Midnight an( j midnight shows
are the rule at the Press club, and the
"Seven Years After" show, to l»e held
April 18, will be no exception. Al
though the first performance Will bt a
matinee, the early hours o< the morn
ing also will gee an exhibition of the
tal«nt of the newspaper man trans
ferred to the stage.
Songs and skits are. in preparation
and Hermann Heller la working on the
music, which he declares will be a
unique feature of the performance.
The show co,nmitt*>e, of which Al C
Joy is chairman, sent out a notice
to the members of the dub announcing
a meeting for 2 o'clock next Sunday
afternoon, at which time Heller will
try out voices for the bi~ chorus.
HOME STUDY TO HALT
STAYING OUT NIGHTS
Illinois Normal llen<] Mothers to
Cultivate Love of I'iretiide in
Children
r-HICAGO, Feb. 16.—John W. Cook,
president of the northern Illinois state
normal school, tolrl members of th«
Illinois congress of mothers today to
keep their children at home and to
make them study. Children should
form habits tending to keep them
around the family fireside, he saia.
Doctor Cook urged a closer alliance
of the mother and teacher. He gave
an example of the "relation of com
munication" in the following letter
which, he said, was received by one of
his former students at the normal
school:
"Dear teacher: Don't hit our Johnnie
again. We never hit him except in
eelf-defensQ." - _