The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-05-20
Fiends That Make Them Classed
With Lunatics
FOR so SAYS HUTCHINSON
And of Course Under the Condition II
Goes
The Kicker a. an misunderstanding Brass
and Chinking Symbols-Snivei Service
Reform and Such Things

The newspaper composite picture
craze has passed the confines of reason
and should now be put within the con
| fines of the 1unatic asylum. The COM
/ poSite fiend who perpetrateS such md
eousy graphic Nightmares should be
composed, compounded and compressed
till he is utterly confounded with othei
| lunaticS of the rabid species.
| The composite chap gets only sucr
| prominent features as are protrudlng
and nauseating and altogether obnoX-
| ious. He is an enemy to beauty anu
symmetry and personality and individ-
| uality.
Let him be suspended in some conspic-
uous place where his own insufterable
qualities will shine with dim, ghoulish,
and warning light
The continued ill-success that attends
some of the very greatest of singers.
| such as Emma Juch, leads me to exploit
an old hobby of mine for the benefit of
some such singer.
1t is my opinion that such a singer
as Juch could tour America alone year
after year singing nothing but great
popular favorites like Home, Sweet
Home, The Last Rose of Summer, Ben
Bolt. Suwanee River, Old Kentucky
Home, Carry Me Back to Old Virginia.
and a hundred other such delightful
| heaven to all the weak mortals that
love them so much and hear them SO
very seldom.
A dozen or more of these songs could
be given in a single evening by two great
singers, who would attract vast audi
ences of lovers of music. and would in
spire more people than two voices could
ever touch in any other way.
Besides, the profit in money would be
immense, and two singers and one bus
mess manager would have it all as a
reward for their enterprise and re-
minder of our gratitude.
An evening paper breaks out with
long article in the way of criticism of
other local papers that have reports"
of social affairs.
If there is a daily paper in this city
that cannot afford to make unkind re-
marks concerning the quality of the
matter concerning society, that paper is
the evening paper referred to. That al
legged journal makes a business of copy
ing such reports from the morning pa
pers, and it has not even the modesty
to credit them therefor. 1t has not even
the valid excuse of necessary haste in
getting reports of midnight affairs for
o'clock papers, and lacks the industry
to correct even palpable errors that
creep into the other papers because of
their necessary haste.
Perhaps 1t takes such means of re-
questing the other papers to abstain
from errors for its own special clippers
benefit
The same Journals boast that it has
just secured s3,00O.O00 for San Pedro
Santa Monica-Los Angeles is one of our
evidences of the presence of sounding
brass" and "chinking symbols
There is such a thing as too much
SWIVEL service reform, also such thing
as too much hampering of competent
postmasters who might eXtinguish in
competent clerks.
My name and address have been in
the city directory for the last ten years:
they have figured somewhat in the pub
lie prints: they have been handed to the
general delivery clerk at the postoffice
with uncommon frequency: they have
appeared there on half dozen letters
day for three years; yet few days
ago letter carrier handed me an i'm
portant letter of mine that had been
fumbled over by the incompetent gen
eral delivery clerk for the previous two
weeks. And such cases are not uncom-
mon. Yours truly
EDWARD T. HTTTCHJSON