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I THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
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(Br Arthur Hayes Sargent.)
In the ifcllosophy which every slra
rilest man of us forms for hlmsolf, a
tow Important questions are sewer
ed. We may hate hair-splitting dis
cussions over words and names and
vague Ideas, and acorn the subjects
over which wars of words are waged,
. yet there are a few deep questions
' which we can never put away with
out some sort of answer In our own
tnlnds. Such l the question as to
how or why evil can exist If the
world Is ruled by a power that has
infinite goodness and wisdom and
might.
Some answer that evil cannot exist
in a world so ruled, and that It doea
not exist; that there Is no evil. This
answer is very comforting to those
who accept it. it Is approved more
by Its results than by satisfying the
ordinary mind with reason.
Borne answer that God doea not do
or cause any evil and has power and
love to end it all, but yet, for reasons
of his own, allows a devil continually
to fight against him, hinder his work
and scatter pain and disease and sor
row and vice and crime.
Others declare that there is no evil,
but do not deny the existence of what
we regard as evil. They grant that
It Is real and terrible, but consider
It a necessary part of a good plan,
and they say that in a complete man
it will appear us good, Just as daubs
of black paint on a white canvas are
beautiful lit last In a complete pic
These answers to the question of
evil are attempts to justify uoa, or
rather, a theory of God, which is so
old and sacred as to he almost Iden
tified with himself.
They who have courage to question
the ancient description of God give
two answers. Some grant that be has
power to remove all evil, and con
clude that ' Its continued existence
hows that he does not love human
ity; whll others hold that he has love
enough to remove all evil and that
its existence shows that he lacks the
pcwor, and is kept from carrying out
ills good purposes.
This Is as far as the question can
lid answered without asking "What
de we mean by evil!" The answers
will be almost as many as the peoplo
who reply, and the answer of the
same person will differ according to
Ills changing experience.
Evil Is not absolute or always the
same. It Is all relative and known
by comparison. If wo look for an ex
ample of absolute evil, a cruel and
unprovoked murdor would soom to be
as noarly such an example as wo cnn
find. Yet oven this Is rotative to the
doer and tho victim of the deed. It
Is not a crime for an Insane person or
a beast. As to tho victim, there are
onsos where death seoms desirable In
comparison with life, and thus good,
relatively. It Is because of our hu
manity and Intelligence that we re
gard curtain acts as evil and crimi
nal. As we advance we shall add to
the Hat of thoso things that wo ahull
rogard as evil. If wo boo evil in every
part of life as It now Is, it Is because
In evry aspect of life w aro rising and
have risen In Ideals above tho actual.
The good that Is ahead becomes
evil to thoso who roach It and loavo
It bohlud for something bettor.. So
long as humunlty advances thoro will
be something to be rogarded as ovll,
and for ovll to cooso by reaching a
limit to progress would, from the
tandpolnt of an aspiring soul, be
the gruteat possible ovll.
We court this ovll when wo seolt to
keep an Idea or custom or condition
lifter U'lius censed to be the boat for
oiiinelyefl mid nil humanity. We shun
this grentoet evil and seek the highest
good when we rise dully above our
past thought and action bo ns con
tinually to find more good of the pust
turning to evil of the present to
put nwuy.
With this view of ovll and with no
Violence to reason, wo may believe
that Uod Is love and that he moves
,th realatleas power from the eter-i
ijiiy of the past Into the nlurully cf!
le riitiire lliroiiKH physical inrco n ml
intter ami growing souls to ever'
higher creation.
Out of every ruined system or ills-!
'appointed Hie something Immortal i
anion to Hold all the good or what
Is left and lost and prepare u brighter
'morrow mid a nobler life.
"Onward rushes tho swift Lord
Through ruined systems still re
stored; House and tenant go to ground,
Jxist In Uod, In godhead found."
SPRINGFIELD
$20,000 SCHOOL
BONDS CARRY
The second school election for the
tmrpoim of voting (30,000 fcontls
with which to purchase a alto and
reel a now puUHo school building
was held at (he school house Wedno
dnr afternoon and aa unusual)? light
vote was polled, tha total vote beiug
(4. The reaull of the balbtt was an
enormous victory for the bonds. Uf.
the i voti cast, 1 favored the sale.
While but 11 wore opposed.
The alio chosen by a vote of the
peoplo ht a previous election was a
two-acre tract owned by Mrs. lllcli
ardson and J. I.. Clark, which Is lo
cated on hVovcntb alrevt, north of t).
'I ho bond Isauo, which has (or so
long a time ba In question. Is now
settled and It behoof the school ,
board to get busy and erect the new ;
building iu time far the fall term of
school. iowa.
RUTH
NUMBER.
3
The Stock of the California National Crude
Oil Company Advances to 50 Cents
per Share on May 28
THOSE stockholders who have purchased stock and those who are
about to purchase at 40c per share, are about to realize 5 per cent
on, their investment' already, as the stock goes to 50 cents this com
ing week. And this isn't the first advance either. There is no doubt in
our minds that you will see this stock soaring way up in dollars soon, and
when you do, we know you will wish that you had a larger block, We
would advise all who can possibly do so to purchase before the end of the
week and take advantage of the rise. ;
For Making big money there is
nothiif im the investment world to
day that will bear comparison for a
moment with the opportunities af
forded by California oil stocks.
Doiens and scores of these stocks
are selling today for many times the
prices at which they were originally.
In the advance or the past year
many of them have yielded profits of
several hundred per cent to in
vestors. '
In production and earnings the oil
wells have distanced the gold mines.
Thousands of people enjoying a
competence tocay owe tneir good
fortune to moderate investments im
California oi!.
By still other thousands the suc
cesses of the past will be duplicated
during the present year.
Now, don't be a pessimist and say
that this is impossible. Facts are
facts, and if you only take the
trouble to look into same, you will
find that this is true.
The writer came across a beauti
ful article sometime ago entitled
"The Optimist versus the Pessimist."
Road it. It won't hurt you.
The Optimist Versus
The Pessimist.
"Tho optimist lives under a clear sky,
tho pessimist lives In a fog. The possl
mlst is confused; ho hardly knows where
to go, what to do or how to act; the opti
mist Is in tune with the harmonics of na
ture and discerns distinctly tho onward
path that lies before him. The pessimist
hesitates, and loses both time and oppor
tunity; the optimist makes the best nne
of everything now, and builds himself up,
steadily said surely', until adversity Is
overcome and tho object in vtew realised.
The nslwitl curbs his cnergfos and noa
rentratea his whole attention upon fnlV
use; Us aptrmtst gives all his thought and
power t the attainment of aueeosa, aad
aromwsi its faculties and forces to the
hlRhoat point of efficiency. Tho pcmlmhrt
waits for letter times, and expects to Veep
on walttac: the optimist ecus to work win
the beat tkat la at hand sow, and proooeak
to si letter times.
The optimist is an inspiration to every
body; the pessimist is a wet blanket. The
pessimist pours cold water on the fires of'
his own ability; the optimist adds fuel to
those fires. The pessimist links his mind
to everything that is losing ground; the
optimist lives, thinks and works with
everything that is determined to press on.
Tho pessimist places a damper on every
thing; the optimist attracts everything.
The pessimist fights the wrong; the opti
mist works to increase the power of the
right. The optimist is a building force;
the pessimist ia always an obstacle in the
way of progress. The pessimist Uvea In
a dark, soggy, unproductive world, tho
optimist lives In that mental sunshine that
makes all things grow."
Do you realize how true all this
is7 Don't you appreciate that the
optimist is the successful man?
The optimist is the man who invests,
for he believes some good will come
from such an investment, and as
every real fortune that ever was
made resulted from investment, it is
optimism that makes success.
The pessimist is the man who
looks with suspicion upon all invest
ment opportunities, and while he is
hemming and hawing and failing to
act, an optimist grasps the opportu
nity, makes his investment, and gets
his start in life.
It required a generous supply of
optimism for men to go ahead and
develop what is today the greatest
wealth producer in the world Cali
fornia Oil Lands but ileir op
timism has been repaid.
Allen O. Nichols, editor of the
"Oil Industry," gives a few perti
nent facts iu a recent issue of one of
the leading daily papers, and he
writes regarding this wonderful Oil
Industry:
"Oaly a half-century old, the oil iadns
trjr la the United Statet has already re
ported more than 13,000, 000,000 w firth t
tho refined material. Ia other words, la
fifty years the total amount reeetvad for
refined oil on pert rd haa bee greater
thaa the value of the entire prednntlea
of gold la the United State since Colum
bia discovered America. Since Hit. the
rear la which slity small casks were seat
U hYance as aa experimental shlnmeat,
tha amount eaported haa beea greater la
value than the production of gold in the
entire world for the same period. Within
the memory of living man the Infant has.
grown to a giant Industry that gives em
ployment to 70,000 men in the fields and'
refineries alone, and whose annual pay
roll amounts to millions of dollars.
The spring pole rig used along Oil creek
has given place to moaern machinery, op
erated by carefully trained men. The ox
roads unworthy of the name have been
succeeded by thousands or miles of steel
pipe line, great trains of oil tanks and the
modern oil-carrying ships, whose capacity
In some cases la orer 80,000 barrels.
Everything that coal haa done for the
east, crude oil Is doing for California, and
since its general use, lee than ten years
ago, ways ana means Bav -oeen devised
to use crude oil In California, the same
as coal is used in other parts of the United
States, and the public at large have shows
their appreciation of lta value by the adop
tion of crude oil wherever fuel Is needed.
As a result of this a stream of gold is dis
tributed in California to holders of Cali
fornia Oil Company stocks, which amounts
to many millions of dollar per year.
W. W. Orchutt, one of the most
prominent consulted engineers and
geologists in this country, in a recent
report on a California Oil Company,
had the following to say about Cali
fornia oil lands :
"There is no place In the world where
the oil measures are so amply and thor
oughly saturated as In California. This
makes California oil wells big producers
and long-lived." He then goes on and cites
Incidents where even on large acreages,
such ns 120 acres, the production today has
been ns high as 90,000 barrels per acre
and the land still producing heavily.
The Investor with sufficient Judgment to
see these great possibilities, and the opti
mist, which generates nerve to back this
Judgment, will be literally swept to for
tune on this great flood of oil which flows
through the proven fields of California,
the optimism and courage of the pioneer
oil men of California have made them mil
lionaires. They learned the truth of that
great saying: "Qno good investment ia
worth a --lifetime of labor." What oij
tlmlsm and oil have done for others they
will do for you, for really only the sur
face of the possibilities of California oil
have been scraped. There are today nu
merous new companies rjust starting to de
velop their land, in which stock can be
bought at extremely low figures. Within
two years we will Undoubtedly find the
stock of the great majority of these com
panies listed on the stock exchanges, anil
paying the same kind of generous dividends
that so many of the other companies are
now paying after perhaps only two yean
of operation.
All this is possibly Interesting' reading,
and we trust that truths given here wll
sink deeply into the hearts of onr read
ers, and that they will start on tha com
paratively easy road to making money br
having the optimism and cotirage to nuka
investments in some good California oil
stock."
We have shown that you should
be an ' optimist, at least as far as
California oil is concerned. Now,
you being an optimist, we will tell
about one of the companies that will
soon start, if not at the head, at
least very near the head of the Cali
fornia Oil Producing companies,
and that is the California National
Crude Oil Company. This Company
has purchased thousands of acres of
land in the Coalinga Oil District,
which is recognized as the largest
producing oil district in California.
It is selling stock for the develop
ment of the same. The par value of
this stock is one dollar, and the
' present purchase price is 40 cents.
It is only a question of a short time
until the stock will be selling at par.
We advise the early purchase at 40
cents. Remember this stock goes to
50 cents on the 28th of May and not
a share can be bought for less after
that date. Now, .don't hesitate.
Buy now, and do so quick.
Cj;lVi,t1Crude0ilCo- SUBSCRIPTION BLANK
" HtLLMAN BLDG, Lc Aa Calif, !
Gcntlcrrei: Enclosed find j-y
tor which please issue n:
of the Treasury .Stock cf tteVl'cttau" "
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California National Crude
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