Chapter XV--The Substitute for the Saloon. I leave this argument as a
monument, just as it was written, in 1914 and '15. It indicates a certain
power of forecasting on the part of the writer. We drys have certainly
won a great victory. Some of the photoplay people agree with this
temperance sermon, and some of them do not. The wets make one mistake
above all. They do not realize that the drys can still keep on voting
dry, with intense conviction, and great battle cries, and still have a
sense of humor.

Chapter XVI--California and America. This chapter was quoted and
paraphrased almost bodily as the preface to my volume of verses, The
Golden Whales of California. "I Know All This When Gipsy Fiddles Cry," a
song of some length recently published in the New Republic and the London
Nation, further expresses the sentiment of this chapter in what I hope is
a fraternal way, and I hope suggests the day when California will have
power over India, Asia, and all the world, and plant giant redwood trees
of the spirit the world around.

Chapter XVII--Progress and Endowment. I allow this discourse, also, to
stand as written in 1914 and '15. It shows the condition just before the
war, better than any new words of mine could do it. The main change now
is the growing hope of a backing, not only from Universities, but great
Art Museums.

Chapter XVIII--Architects as Crusaders. The sermon in this chapter has
been carried out on a limited scale, and as a result of the suggestion,
or from pure American instinct, we now have handsome gasoline filling
stations from one end of America to the other, and really gorgeous Ford
garages. Our Union depots and our magazine stands in the leading hotels,