ecial correspondent in
Pasadena, the answer was that they had heard nothing about the
cyclone! And next morning I made a careful, search of their columns.
On the front page I read: "Fourth Blizzard of Season Raging in East";
also: "Another Earthquake in Guatemala". But not a line about the
Pasadena cyclone. That there was plenty of space in that issue, you
may judge from the fact that there were twenty headlines like the
following--many of them representing full page and half page
illustrated "write-ups":

Where Spring is January; Wealth Waits in California; The
Bright Side of Sunshine Land; Come to California:
Southland's Arms Outstretched in Cordial Invitation to the
East; Flower Stands Make Gay City Streets; Southland Climate
Big Manufacturing Factor; Joy of Life Demonstrated in Los
Angeles' Beautiful Homes; Nymphs Knit and Bathe at Ocean's
Sunny Beach; etc.

Now we are in the War and our business is booming, we are making money
hand over fist. It is all the more delightful, because we are putting
our souls into it, we are lending our money to the government and
saving the world for Democracy! Our labor unionists have been driven
to other cities, and our Mexican agitators and I.W.W.'s are in jail;
so, in the gilt ball-room of our palatial six-dollar-a-day hotel the
four hundred masters of our prosperity meet to pat themselves on the
back, and they invite the new Catholic bishop to come and confer the
grace of God upon their eating.

The Bishop comes; and I take up the "Times"--the labor-hating,
labor-baiting, fire-and-slaughter-breathing "Times"--and here is the
episcopal picture on the front page, the arms stretched four columns
wide in oratorical beneficence. How the shepherd of Jesus does love
the Merchants and Manufacturers! How his eloquence is poured out upon
them! "You represent, gentlemen, the largest and the most civilizing
secular body in the country. You are the pioneers of American
civilization.... I am glad to be among you; glad that my lines have
fallen in this glorious land by the sunset sea, and honored to meet in
intimate acquaintance the big men who have raised here in a few years
a city of metropolitan proportions."

And then, bearing in mind his responsibilities as guardian of
Exploitation, the Bishop goes on to tell them about the coming
class-war. "On the one side a statesman preaching patience and respect
for vested rights, strict observance of public fa