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Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17


Notice is hereby given that the Board
of Education of the City of Los Angeles
and completion Of a fiveSroom addition
TO the Boyd street school build
ing at Boyd street. near San
Pedro street. in the City of Los Angeles,
TO be constructed in accordance with
plans and specifications on file in the
office of the Secretary of the Board, AIS
Chamber of Commerce building. All
labor and material to be furnished and
excavations made by the contractor,
All bids, must be accompanied by a
certified check for 10 per cent of the
amount of the bid payable to the order
OF the Board of Education. and must be
sealed and filed with the Secretary, at
his office. on or before Monday. June
25, 1906 at 12 o'clock noon, at which
time the bids will be opened in public
by the Secretary.
The Board reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
N. S. AVERILL Seey.
Los Angeles. Cal, June IA. 1906.
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Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17
Notice for Bid for School BuIIdIns

Notice Is hereby given that the Board
of Education Of the City of Los Angeles
will receive bids for the construction
and completion OF an eight-room addi-
tion TO the Washington street school
long avenue. in the city of Los Angeles,
TO be constructed i'm accordance with
plans and specifications on file in the
office OF the Secretary OF the Board, Ais
Chamber of Commerce building All
labor and material to be furnished and
excavations made by the contractor.
All bids must be accompanied by a
certified check for 10 per cent of the
amount OF the bid, payable TO the order
of the Board OF Education, and must be
his office, on or before Monday, June
25, 1906, at ~ O'clock noon, at which
time, the bids will be opened in public
by the Secretary.
The Board reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
N. s. AVBRILL, secy.
Los Angeles. Cal. June IA, 1906.
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Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17
NotIce Cor RIa for school nuIldInr

Notice is hereby given that the Board
OF Education of the City of Los Angeles
Will receive bids for the construction
and completion of a fiVe-room addition
to the Cornwell street school building,
corner of Cornwell and Sheridan
streets, in the City of Los Angeles,
to be constructed in accordance with
plans and specifications on file In the
office of the Secretary of the Board, AIS
chamber of Commerce building. All
labor and material to be furnished and
excavations made by the contractor
All bids. must be accompanied by a
certified check for 10 per cent OF the
amount of the bid payable TO the order
OF the Board OF Education, and must be
sealed and fled with the Secretary, at
his office. on or before Monday June
25, 1906, at 10 o'clock noon, at which
time the bids will be opened in public
by the Secretary
The Board reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
Los. Angeles. Cal. June IA, 1905.
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Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17

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Notlce Tor BID for schooI BuIIding


Los Angeles. Cal. June IA. 1906.
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The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-08
Colleges and Character.

NIALTER WILLIAMS, a philosopher from the
soil, writes: cit is not scholarship that ls
needed so much as character. The scholar who has
only scholarship is Of account Both United States
senators from New York college men. The senior
senator from Pennsylvania is Princeton graduate.
The biggest thief among the packers is q Phi Beta
The inference Walter williams would have US
draw is that all these are bad despite their
has only given them
for them meant not high breeding, but high finance.
Doing their Latin only furrowed their intelects to 40
their constituents They good despite the fact
That all the history Of and nature was thrown up
to them to teach them that the straight path is the
best.
Is the matter with our education is it with the
training of the youth before he goes to colege9 Are
the ideals of young man unconsciously fixed before
he has come to years Of responsibility and is he then
incapable Of changing mode Of thought which may be
dragging him down in favor Of which will build
him ups It would be severe blow to our boasted
system Of secular education to have to admit that it
does not make men but only strengthens machines.
Is It necessary to admit it, Are the Depews the
Platts and the Armours the ruleq If they are, the
case ls proved But is it tueq There is scarcely any
evidence of it, College education is widespread in
this country. Degrees are awarded every year to a
larger of the population than in any other
country in the world. There must be moral
well as some intellectual failures in the aggregate Of
college men. The colleges Of America sincerely
preaching and teaching the best ideals The young
men Of the country accepting their teachings, too
The best proof of this is that despite all that be
said to the contrary the average public service
was OF SO high a character as it is today. The col
ege men leading in the efforts to wipe out abuses
Wherever they are discovered. The reformers
young college men, fresh from the lessons Of their
alma mater and imbued with ideals untainted by
promise. .... r.. A s# = ~ . "#. p. - - ..-<
These men doing much for America, much
that the occasional lapse of colegebred public
ant is made much more Of than would be the had
the public not been taught to expect great things Of
them and had not that expectation SO often been
realized. =-.<~ '..
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-08
Public Ownership and the Wage
Garner

THE doctrine Of public ownership looks largely to
= wage earners for its support It is claimed that
public ownership means higher wages and shorter
hours and generally better conditions of employment.
This theory has generally gone unchallenged but at
the recent meeting Of the American Association for the
Advancement Of Science held at Ithaca, N. Y,
H. T. Newcomb of the bar of the District Of Columbia
combatted this idea called attention to some inter
esting facts which may we'll raise doubt to
whether wage have much to gain by public
ownership as has been generally assumed.
He calls attention to the fact that from 1896 to
1904 the average retail cost of the ordinary articles
Of food in this country advanced II per cent That
is to say the purchaser could get more in 1904 for
SLY than he could buy for dollar in 1896. When
prices rise wages ought to- and, matter of fact,
they have in private employment The federal bureau
of statistics and labor declares that the average wages
per hour are 1736 per cent higher than in 1904 and
the average weekly earnings-which people
on regular salaries-1276 per cent higher.
He claims that with respect to government en-.
ployees, however, the increase has been slight as
to be scarcely appreciable Thruout the postal service
he Declares among the $4,000 clerical employees at
Washington among the employees Of the customs and
internal revenue service and in other lines of govern
ment service there have been advances in pay to
meet the advanced cost of living. The pay of letter
carriers, for example, remains where it fixed
nearly twenty years ago. Il ..
1t cannot be assumed, either, that government en-
ployees even with the increased number involved in
public ownership Of railroads the street railways
or the lighting plants would be able force advances
in their wages as readily do those working for pr
vate employers. It is that political pressure
sometimes brought to bear successfully in raising the
pay of wage earners and compensation of salaried
employees, but the fact remains that such employees
are, as rule, today at a disadvantage compared
with the employees of private institutions Organized
effort the part Of employees of the government to
secure advances in wages in some not only
prohibited by law but discouraged and resisted when
ever attempted and in countries including New
Zealand, conditions imposed which compel en-
Poyees to submit to compulsory arbitration of their
claims =
The question is interesting one, and if it be
true that public ownership would be less likely to
mean good wages wages advancing in unison with
advancing prices, the public ownership proposition is
heretofore expected among the people who work for
wages.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-08
THE STATISTICS FlEND.

F ALL the human beings and animals that have ex-
listed the earth since 5432 B. c. alive today
Pnckneyville ILL.,, would have population of 324747
If dishonest person were steal all the books
in the library of Princeton university and sell them to
secondhand book dealer in Boston, it would require
two years, four months and twenty-five days for the
students of Princeton to carry them back walking
16 miles and 434 yards a day. -,
If, as Darwin says, the human caudal appendage
has been destroyed by process of evolution and it,
stead Of destroying the TAIL nature had improved and
developed it, the oversupply of structural steel workers
would reduce the wages of that craft to 60 cents
day. and the mortality rate would be decreased 24O
per cent. -44 3j..E"@
If all the villains killed by all the Indiana novel
lists in 1895 had been killed in reality, the death
of Indiana would have been increased 214 thousand
of population and the cemetery association at Lafay-
cite would be forced either to erect crematory
cost of $2e5424 or purchase two acres and three
The 1893 Ill pounds Of butter produced by the
12,656,239 of the United States last year would
have buttered 69,62s,577 217A slices of bread it
cooks insist in frying steak in butter instead of bro
ing it. Calculating that 27,7s3 of the s11
rants in the country used cottoene buttered toast
and that Henry j. Spalding Of Muskegon, Mich, still
refuses butter his bread the number of slices
of bread consumed is found to be 1874, 7,55e,2e2.
If the letters and figures in the Declaration of In
dependence including the signatures, all roned
out straight, they would form straight line 1 mile,
323 yards, 2 feet and ~ inches long
It calculated that if all the bluing used by all
the washerwomen and aundres of the world on Mon
perior at the time, whitefsh would be worth
$1.32 pound and buefsh 31a cents each
If farm hand the farm Of Noah Patton, three
miles from Holton, Kan, should start to walk to To
peka on his hands, it would take him five and two
thirds times long it would take elevenpound
catfish to swim from st. Croix Falls, MINI, Carta
gena, Colombia, with twenty eight minute stop at
Cape Gracias-a -Dios, Honduras
The sugar crop of Cuba for 1905 would sweeten
4s646,14o,297 cups of Coffee besides supplying the
chief ingredient 537 pounds Of fudge Allowing
that person in twenty does not take any sugar
in his coffee, and that in nineteen takes three
lumps the surplus would allow the Theta Theta
oty of the University of Illinois 247 pounds of fudge
y extra per member
If al the power generated from swinging golf clubs
all the links in the United States including On
taro and Manitoba, the afternoon Of June 1906
were to be concentrated in driver and directed
golf ball teed at point two and one-third miles
due west Of Garnett, Kan it would drive that ball
four times around the earth and land on the putting
green Of the third hole Of the Kekionga Golf club at
Fort Wayne, Ind-provided the player did not slice
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-08
Prevention of Accidents.

THE horror Of the Salisbury wreck has been
Il seized upon by some newspapers to show that
the boasted safety of British railroads and their
superior care in operation do not really exist. This
exception, however only to prove the rule and
emphasizes the infrequency Of train accidents in
England and on the continent. 9=y u
The relative safety of old world railways is due,
of course to the natural conservatism Of the people,
They not willing to take such chances in their
everyday travel as are in America The English
are not SO anxious to get there quickly to get there
with whole skim. High speed is attained on some
lines but only under conditions Of roadbed and oper
atlve vigilance that seldom realized in America
The natural caution Of the British railroad
ployee is enhanced by the knowledge that the man
to blame for any mishap will be held rigidly ac-
Engineers are required to make time, and to do
must break the railroad rules If accident results
from breaking the rule the engineer may in for
blame but not in hundred times is any official
or employee punished by law. The rule in England
calls for rigid Investigations and the government has
already started an inquiry the Salisbury catas
trophe, which from past history all know will be
thoro. If the blame can be located, punishment will
follow ; ~ Sz"* ~ 1sz%<& .E:s# &
Government inquiry into accidents here is gen
orally for the purpose of preventing their recurrence
It is very seldom, tho, that any effective steps
taken. Lives endangered by the thousands be-
cause safety devices of various kinds cost money The
history OF the law requiring automatic coupers is one
sample Of the loose and happy go-ucky way of en-
forcing measures when passed. e.
Minnesota has law bearing on the question
It is chapter 22 Of the laws of the 1905 session. The
act requires railroad companies to report all accidents
within sixty days to the state railroad commission
Where any person has been killed or injured. Such
particulars are to be supplied the commission calls
for and the commission is then to make inquiry into
the causes and circumstances of the accident. The
commission may then make orders on the railroad
company for the purpose Of preventing the
of such accident. It must also make biennial re-
port Of accidents to the legislature. This law was
passed with all good intent but its possibilities are
small The actual fixing of blame is left to the anti
quated coroners jury The commission has no general
power to enforce the use Of safety devices. It must
wait until q road has had accident Of some Sort
with its toll Of life limb, before making rules to
prevent another accident Of the same sort It may
not lock the stable till the horse is lost Railroad
officials do not want accidents themselves and they
are usually quick to learn the lesson of any catas-
trophe without waiting to be taught by state officials
unskiled in the science Of railway operation. That
is not the sort of legislation that will reduce the
number and gravity of accidents. We need to take
a leaf out of the Engshman' s book.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-08
La Toilette in the Senate.

NNE of the last acts of the senate to agree
~ that on Jan. 10 next there shall be a vote upon
the bill limiting to sixteen the hours railroad
ployees may be compelled to labor consecutivey.
This brought in by Mr.. La Toilette of
Wisconsin and back Of the agreement to vote upon
it is concise history Of the treatment of La Fol-
lette by the present senate. He demanded vote
upon it in the dying hours Of the session and the
cabal Of republican senators who have undertaken
the discipline of La Toilette put up Carter to talk
it to death La Toilette responded that be it, he
could do some talking himself, and if there was to
be no vote on his BILL which merely concerned the
health and lives of men, there would be the
public building bill, which seemed to the
majority of the senate CONSERVATION reigned
for time and finally compromise arranged
whereby the senate will vote the employees bill
early in the next session.
Mr.. La Toilette has had hard treatment in the
senate Hazed by his party associates he lost nearly
every proposition he advocated by republican votes
He able to accomplish only some negative VIC
tories His principal in preventing the sale
of the coal lands of the Indians in the territory
which the corporations stood ready to swallow soon
legislative permission given -,s%.-'
The political effect of the treatment of La Toilette
is something he afford to view with equanmity.
He has the record of having been the only member
point of the policy of legislation His three days
speech is today recognized mastery performance
and which puts him in the front rank Of con-
structve statesmen this great question which few
believe is yet settled.
Loving opposition and breathing the very spirit of
contention, the Wisconsin senator cannot but be
pleased that the Aldriches and Keans and Forakers
have shown the country conspcuously~ that he is
not their kind.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-08
A lob for the Peacemakers.

I'D EPUBLICAN forces in Iowa facing crisis
IN Hotheads on both sides of the factional
rapidly forcing the situation Unless cool heads in
Governor Cunmins and his supporters to abandon the
convention Aug. is likely to result in party
schsm. There may be either nomination by unfair
MEANS resulting in a revolt like that in Minnesota
two years ago. or there may be bolt and two state
tickets, there in Wisconsin.
They have never done things in Iowa that way,
however, and those who following the contest
confidently waiting the coming of the peacemakers.
Wilson, the ''Tama JIM Of Hawkeye politics, are
expected to avert disaster by their wise counsel.
Their sympathies known to be against Cummins,
but they have not been in the fight and consequently
have not lost their heads. Allison lost his head
got carried off his feet in the whole of his long life,
qualification which has been his chief title to be
called statesman He is great compromiser, and
all his influence will be brought to bear for harmony
AS long there cool heads in high places, dis
aster is likely to be averted in Iowa. The trouble in
Wisconsin in 1904 that the senators and all the
party leaders were in the fight They lost their heads
and so lost the game 1I4s5% : > s%slEE% ~
There is suspicion that the anti Cummins leaders
in Iowa have been making their fight for the last
month two merely to have the "goods' with
which to effect good trade. They have threatened
ing delegates thru the state committee and as price
for abandoning their suicidal course, will demand
troll Of the railroad commission and the executive
council, leaving Cummins the governorship Probably
such compromise will satisfy the anti Cummins or
"stawart' leaders, and will be urged by the sena-
torial balancewheels. Their task will be to induce
Governor Cummins and his supporters to abandon the
fruits Of what they consider complete victory for
the sake of truce which only be temporary.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-08
The Dourna's President.

co MUCH mystery surrounds Russian politics that
~ familiar view of of the actors in the great
struggle going in that empire between the forces
of freedom and those of autocracy comes like beam
of light in the dark. Such view George Kennan
has given of NIuromtsef, president of the douma.
Muromtsef, according to Kennan, has long tbeen
leader in the liberal movement in Russia. By pro-
fession he is lawyer, by disposition publicist,
much like Godwn Smith, perhaps. In 1879 he
undertook the editorshp of the JurCical Messenger
He always obnoxious to the government, how
ever, and in 1899 the Juridical Messenger sup
pressed by Grand Duke Sergius and the Jurdical
society forbidden to hold any more meetings. The
suppression appealed to the governing senate
and in 1908 sergius wrote letter justfying his act
This letter throws light Russian politics. In 1t
he described the members of the society as being as
hostile to the government the extremists, but Of
keeping themselves within the law. They actually,
according to the grand duke favored the freedom
of the press and organized to obtain by all
lawful the inviolabity of personal rights
The letter indicates the limitations under which the
most enlightened worked in Russia as late as
three years ago
Russia has progressed distance since then
Count Wte himself has declared that ''the first duty
of the government is to lay the foundations of just
governmental structure, with freedom OF conscience
freedom of public meeting, and inviolability of per-
sonal rights" These the very things for which
Muromtsef contended when Grand Duke sergius sup
pressed his propaganda "dangerous to the gov
ernment.'
The president of the douma belongs to the con-
sttutional democrats whose platform may be summed
up in his words quoted by Kennan: ''Our task
is to constitutional form Of government for
Russia and to defend that form of government when
shall have secured it,
1t is a pity that such Muromtsef and Witte
could not work together for the salvation of Russia
The president of the douma, notwithstanding the de-
fecton of Witte, keeps at his accepted task with
vigor and persistence. He has brought matters to
a standst with his insistent demand for respon-
sble ministry. The has all but yielded to the
representatives of the people.
One cannot but admire the solid qualities of
craftsmanship that have been displayed in this
sembly hastily brought together without national
precedents to guide it's action, omit express
the hope that it's efforts will be crowned with that
of which will insure the gradual modi-
fcation of the empire into limited monarchy with
out bloodshed or revolution.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-08
Editorial Section.
Secretary's Roots Voyage.

T>HE departure Of Secretary. Of State Root upon
trip which involves the circulnnavigation OF the
of the sessions of the South American congress
at Rio Janeiro is event Of worldwide significance
This is the first time in history that American
secretary of state has gone abroad in an official
capacity to visit other capitals and confer with the
chiefs of other 1t another the
extension of our diplomacy which has number
of remarkable developments Of recent years.
The Monroe doctrine which has protected and de-
Tended the South American republics for decades has
never been quite understood by them That doctrine
originally defensive on the part OF
government While European nations were
leagued together in socalled holy alliance, whose
benefcent aim to curtai the self expression Of
peoples this country declared that it would receive
an unfrendly act any attempt to spread the system
of monarchy to this hemisphere We were not strong
enough in those days to withstand the encroachmens
of imperial governments planted side Of
the Atlantic. Hence anxiety to prevent king
doms from being set UP. In this we have been phe-
nomenally successful G@%
Fortunately the Napoleonic wars left the powers
very little appetite for adventures far from home It
period Of recuperation. Meanwhile the spirit
which the holy alliance set itself to suppress
making progress in Europe. Russia and Austria were
the strong members of the alliance and they today
in the throes of enargng liberty for the people,
Democracy has made distinct advances in the very
citadels of autocracy tt# ~..@yE j., +. .,@*s
The South American republics had chance to get
their feet They have in the main done well
But in doing well they have to some extent forgotten
that it the protecting wing the Monroe doctrine
which gave them their opportunity. Notwithstanding
altruistc attitude toward the South American
republics they have permitted themselves to lose sight
of the valuable character Of friendship at times. It
will be Secretary Roots task to clear away some
misapprehensions and unworthy jealouses which
in the road of complete accord in the ssterhood Of
republics. There is nothing which the United States
wants of them except their prosperity and progress