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Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12
FOOLISH OFFICIALS

The heavy rain of Saturday with its
accompanied washing of unpaved
streets, choking of inadequate sewers
and flooding of downtown undrained
thoroughfares, was not really needed
to emphasize again the imperative ne
cessity for that board of public works:
but it is one more argument to be used
in bringing the council and the mayor
to an agreement.
Under the law as now in operation
public Improvements must be made by
the public works board. Thousands of
dollars worth of such improvements
are just as far along as they can go
without action by that body. Were
such action possible today hundreds of
men would be at work on the streets,
walks and sewers of Los Angeles with
in a week, and thousands in money
night.
But through the haggling of the
mayor and the council over peanut
politics, the board has not been named,
though Tor six weeks it should have
been at work. And as the deadlock
seems in no likelihood of breaking, an
other six weeks may pass before the
city can resume it's usual march of
progress.
Had the board been promptly named
work could already have been done
which would have saved the city a
considerable sum from the damages
Saturdays rain effected. The mayor
and the councilmen know this fact.
But they would rather make faces at
one another like SO many children than
do the work for which they were
chosen.
In a financial way the city is in bad
inroads have been made on the re-
ceipts for the next fiscal year. 1t has
no money TO spend repairing storm
damages, when, by ordering the inn
provements property owners desire, the
burden of payment would fall on them.
The season of heavy rains has just
begun; from now on they may be eX-
pected frequently. After each one
more funds will be required to pay for
repairs-patchwor repairs, that the
next rain will wash out again. The
mayor and the councilmen should be
held personally responsible in some
way for condition of expense to the
city which their peanut policy has
e.raatad
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12
NO COERCION

No more important announcement
has been made by the Los Angeles
city and county consolidation COM
mittee than the assertion that no coer-
cion will or can be applied to the va
rious smaller communities it is pro-
posed to embrace in the tentative new
city.
The assertion is made fully and free
Is, with all due emphasis, that Los
Angeles wants as joint members in its
huge new project only such nelghbors
as may desire TO join hands with 1t.
Any one of the surrounding cities that
may wish to remain out of the union
will be urged to do so.
Only perfect freedom Of action and
entire harmony of purpose can make
OF the consolidation the perfect city
that is desired.
OF course, II the plans so far ma :
tured are carried out, the desirable
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12
WHY NOT BUNCH THE EAsr7

As to the proposition of Joint state
hood for Arizona and New Mexico, why
not carry out this idea Of jointure-ii
It be so desirable and imperative that
the east can see nothing else-to its
logical conclusion? If Arizona and New
Mexico are to be denied statehood be-
cause it win increase their representa-
ton i'm congress and because they are
not populous enough to be so repre-
sented why not bring the same argu-
ment to bear on some OF the eastern
states?
There is Rhode Island, for Instance
a mere pocket borough, so small that
IL can only be shown on the average
nap by n dot. Yet Rhode Island has
two senators. Why not attach Rhode
Island to Massachusetts, and make
one of them? True, It might eliminate
Aldrich, and the Standard Oil would
suffer- but wouldn't the country be
the gamer thereby?
And. while about It, why not consol-
idate Connecticut with these two? This
also might cut off Senator Lodge, but
even he could be spared. And if YER
mont and New Hampshire were made
into one, as they once were, again we
would have two fewer senators. And
by their own logic, fasteners admit
that the fewer the better.
But, while we are about it, why not
make one state of the whole of New
England? The entire region is only
fraction Of the area of California,
Montana, Texas or any of the western
states, and there would be only two
senator's where now there are twelve.
Then, carrying the scheme out, there
is Delaware only larger than Rhode
Island by a few square miles; hitch
to Pennsylvania and get rid
of the whole Addicks row at one
stroke. And little New Jersey, the
own peculiar state,
should be thrown IN for good meas
ure. Senator Dryden could then go
back to his insurance duties unham-
pered. What a nice rotten state
Pennsylvania, Delaware and New
Jersey would makei-and only two
instead of six. with Phil
ander Knox sent philandering on his
own corporation way. Really, the
scheme is great,
And what a problem will be solved!
The senate will be properly reduced
in numbers, several villainously bad
will be wiped out and
there will be room in the upper house
for senatorial representatives from the
enormous new states in the west,
while the lower house will still con-
tain one member for each unit of the
This seems the real solu-
ton of this joint statehood question,
and is submitted with the sincere
wishes of the entire west that it will
receive proper and due consideration,
If elimination of senator's be a real
charity, let the crowded east remem-
Der what "begins at home"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12
The BATTLE

Now what was in the battle,
The sword, the bayonet
The bugle- waking morning,
And after sun was set
Still throbbing out the surges
OF foot and cavalry
All, what was in the battle
That men had right to die?
Now what was in the battle
That brothers eye TO eye
Flashed fiercer, deadier lightnings
Than swept the darkened sky?
And who stood on a mountain
And saw the battles light,
And read the lannon's thunder
And solved the bloody fight?
And was one banner guilty,
And one Gods minister,
Was one of hell the emblem,
One heavens interpreter?
Did justice win the laurel,
Did right fall in the scale
What meant it TO be victor,
What did it mean to fail?
over the million sleepers
That breast to bullet fell;
Over the darkened hearthstones
OF North and South, as well,
Who stands upon mountain
And looks with certain eye,
And reads the sleepers riddle:
which had the right to die?
Nor yea nor nay forever!-
The mountain voice is dumb!
But aye the crimson river
That was the battles sum;
And ever the battles shadow
That piled against the sky.
Appeals to Voiceless heaven;
"Why did the brothers die?"
"A. A. b. Cavaness in National Maya
Inc.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12
BUREAU OF BABY TRAINING
New Light on Senator Cranes Scheme
for Government Supervision
of Children


Special to The Herald.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11-Members Of
congress are still discussing Senator
Cranes remarkable bill for the estab-
lishment of u government bureau to be
known as the children's bureau"
Letters and resolutions are pouring
in from mothers clubs and from
women in all parts of the country APP
proving or criticising the measure or
Offering suggestions for its amend
ment.
The bureau it is proposed, shall in
vestigate all facts that "haVe bear
ing on the health, efficiency, character
and training of children" Its report
presumably would be followed by
remedial legislation.
Senator Cranes proposition is in fact
a movement for government oversight
of the babies of the nation, with the
object of making and executing laws
for their bringing up. 1t is step
decidedly in the direction of paternal-
ism in government beyond anything be-
fore attempted in the world.
"All matters pertaining TO the well
fare of children and child life" in the
words of Senator Cranes resolution,
would be studied by the bureau and re-
ported upon, the questions of infant
mortality, the birth rate, physical de-
generacy, orphanages, juvenile delln-
quency chldren's courts, desertion
etc, included
Some strange systems of child train
ing based ON modern strenuous
theories, will be brought to the atten-
ton OF the children's bureau il con-
gress DEGREES its establishment, and
some strange practices in intellectual
training and health culture.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12

general boundaries will embrace the
region from the mountains to the sea
Natural limitations are fixed for the
greater city by the conformations OF
the land, and these should be recog-
nized as the citys new limits. They
embrace within their scope some zoo
square miles, compact homogeneous,
cut off from the surrounding region,
one in climate, needs aspirations and
general character That this territory
should also be one in government,
name and purpose is equally necessary
to its prosperity and its fame.
Within this natural subdivision, how
ever are certain well defined and defin-
itely known cities, which have certain
reasons for wishing to retain a large
measure of individuality. Places such
as Pasadena, with its reputation for
beauty. hotels and fine homes;
Long Beach and San Pedro, the harbor
towns: Venice and Santa Monica, the
resorts; Hollywood, the home city-all
these and more will wish their names
and Identities preserved. This the plan
contemplates in the fullest measures not
only names but self government are
provid ed-local option, individual Off
GERS, separate tax rates and the like.
Only i'm affairs of general interest such
as police and fire protection, tax col
lection, administration of municipal
entities. is urited action required and
this action it is expected, will be taken
in a united assembly of the officers of
the individual sections.
Under the borough or pueblo system,
this is all possible without the loss of
any towns name or characteristics,
but merely with a large saving of ex-
pense to everyone concerned. Truly,
"a consummation devoutly to be
wished"
That Los Angeles desires. plans for
and expects the support and co-opera-
ton of every community embraced in its
general outline, goes without saying
it makes for more perfect whole.
But the acquiescence of any one or
parts is neither necessary to the
schemes success nor desirable except
on voluntary and even selfishly APP
parent grounds. If a city cannot see
that it is to its own advantage to unite
with Los Angeles, it is Los Angeles
wish that it simply stay out.
The first work Los Angeles has to do
is to acquaint it's surrounding cities
with the details of it's consolidation
plan. These cities now merely know
of it in the most general way, and any
opinions expressed are simply ex
cathedra. let a campaign of education
be inaugurated, that the people may
learn what it is expected to do, and
then ask for their views. Any ex-
pressions prior thereto are wholly out
of order.
But let no one fear any coercion.
That is the last thing Los Angeles con-
templates.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12
CAT SAVES EIGHT LIVES
Arouses Family in Danger of Death
From Fumes That Killed One
Boarder

Special to The Herald
NEW YORK, Feb. 11-Joseph Ascher,
a eapmaker, was killed; his roommate,
Ioblas Napath, was seriously overcome,
and the seven members Of the family of
Abraham Wagners with whom the two
boarded in 1856 Rivlngton street, We're
made i'll early yesterday morning by
some unidentified poison taken by
Ascher. Ascher drank the drug and the
fumes affected the others. He died in
Gouyerneur hospital
WaSners was awakened by a cat
mewing, and got up to kick it outdoors
His Oldest son, Samuel, got up for the
same purpose. Both found themselves
weak and dizzy and the rest of the
family breathing uneasily.
Napath was revived In the hospital
He denied he had tried to commit sui
eide or that he knew Ascher wished to
oie A letter FROM Aschers mother, in
Ackcrmann, Russia, indicated a pos
sible motive. she said she had had to
hide IN a bake oven for more than
day TO escape a mob and that her house
aud all her property had been burned
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12

That the wild act of Buck in shoot
ing Mrs. Garfield, his former employer,
would find imitators was to be ex-
pected, especially as Buck, on his in
sanity dodge, seems likely to escape
unhanged. All the more reason why
swift and sure punishment should be
melted out to all criminals of the Buck
kind.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12

Again yesterday, as it has almost
every day since the Barbour case be-
gave the only authentic news on the
subject afforded the people of Los An
geles and its vicinity. who stand to
lose 100000 by his business failure.
This is the policy of The Herald-to
GIVE THE NEWS. without frills or
favor-and to let the yellow nastiness
and personal praise stunts be for other
less we'll informed sheets.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12

The Herald is glad to be able to
congratulate itself as well as its many
fun-loving readers, old and young,
upon the appearance of its new comic
supplement, which made its debut
yesterday. This comic section has
been in preparation some months, and
all plans were made to issue it two
weeks ago. But delays were inevitable
and unavoidable, and for patience in
bearing with these The Herald thanks
its readers sincerely. 1t can be ex-
pected from now on that the Innocent
antics and frolics of Die Fineheimer
twins, Brer Wolf. Strenuous Thomas.
Flirty George, Jimmy, Willie, Madge
and Nudge, with all their companions,
will be on view every week, in ever
varying moods, and The Herald invites
all its readers, old and young, TO join
in the hearty laughter which they Will
undoubtedly inspire.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12
Next

Willie tied the baby's ear
Firmly to the chandelier;
Baby chuckled, full of glee-
Twas his ear of corn, you see.
Princeton Tiger.
Willie pulled him by his tongue;
Round and round the room they swung;
Baby seemed to like it though
Twas his wagon tongue, you know.
Chicago Tribune.
Willie having done these two,
Looked to find what else to do;
Cut his head up half an hour
Twas his head of cauliflower.
New York Mail.
Willie then, for a surprise,
Dug out both of baby's eyes;
Eaby laughed, gave Will a hug
Twas his 'tater's eyes he dug,
Milwaukee Sentinel.
Willie took him by the leg
Quickly, he was shy a peg!
Baby cooed with happy air
Twas the leg of his high CHART
w. ii. @.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12
Omissions of History

Young Benjamin Franklin was walk
ing along the street, munching loaf
of bread and carrying another loaf un-
der his arm.
s'Why should be ashamed of it?' he
said. Il came by this bread honestly.
There isn't an ounce Of graft in it
even if 1 do live here"
Thus contented-but not corrupt
mark you Mr.. Lincoln Steffens-this
young Philadelphia of an earlier pc
rod went blithely on his way.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12

AS The Herald has frequently
stated, none of the smaller cities here
abouts need have any fears about be-
ing "forced" into greater Los Angeles.
This city will not coerce anyone or
any community into joining hands
with it. It's growth now is more rapid
than it can keep up with, and other
places desiring to join with it in its
great prosperity must come in will
ingly and do their share-or stay out.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12

The spectacle of the misrepresenta-
tive, anarchistic. generally "agin-it,"
vociferous "Doc" Houghton singing
star Spangled Banner at that Repub-
lioan leg-pulling Saturday night must
have made every spangled star blink
with unshed tears Of rage.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12

The desperate row over first prize in
the Pasadena chariot races of last New
Years day, with the seeming impossi-
bility Of proper and peaceful settle
ment, argues for the one amicable way
to come to a conclusion-run it over.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12

A Kentucky society has been formed in
Los Angeles and it is presumed that
now all the available colonies not
adopted by the previously organized
Missouri society have found home.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12
WHERE HISTORY REPEATS
Got the Wronu Answer

The sluggard having gone to the
ant. pursuant to instructions, had re-
turned and was ma King his report.
Watching the blamed things con
tinually fussing over something or
other. and never stopping to rest" he
said, made me more tired than ever"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12
Todav's ADJUSTMENTS

iBELASCO-"L Little Prime ess.'
1TOTCHKISS-"fh Founders
BUR BANK-"Ma from Mexico
ORPHEUM-Vau
GRAND-"Princess Of Patches
NENICE-Ellery Band.
NOVELETTE, Mysterious Mr.. Raj
les"
FIS HER'S-Burlesdue
+ CHUT .Chiaffarelli's Band.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12

Count Boni prates of "chivalry' in
connection with his divorce troubles.
But ''chivalry" didn't hamper him
when he pawned his future success as
a fortune hunter to wine agent, to
obtain funds to prosecute his quest
Bah! What nasty mess it all is!
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12

The Owens river water project is
legally in the hands of the board of
public works. But as a great novelist
once said, There amt no SIGH pusson"
II we lose the owens river because of
the peanut politics of the mayor and
the council what punishment can be
devised to fit the crime?
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12
Logical Result

Franklin had invented the lightning
rod.
'Of course" he said, this makes this
lightning rod agent ndispen sable"
Herein we see II beautiful illustration
of the truth that invention is sometimes
the mother of necessity
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12

SPANS dowager queen does not ap-
Alfonso. 1t is to be feared that Ena
is up against a bad case of mother-in-
law, with all her other troubles.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12

The performances of 1.-THE Toy
Shop" last week were all too few and
inadequate to accommodate the many
who wished to see them, and it is sim
cerely hoped that repetition will be
arranged. And the very worthy OBJ
ject for which 1.-The Toy Shop" was
given makes all the more for re-
newal of the delightful operetta.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12

With solemn step and downcast eyes,
nearly a score of residents of the neigh
borhood of 900 West Eighth street bore
the remains of poor old "Mephisto,"
the neighborhood cat, to its last rest
ing place yesterday morning, and
while the small coffin was planted be
meath the soft ground in the back YARD,
of shoe store willing hands placed
little headboard OH the grave with
the above epitaph.
1t was a great tribute to an honorable
foe and many were the signs of relief
when the last kind act had been per-
formed and the small party withdrew
TO their homes to talk over the tragic
death of the feline.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12

The inevitable tinkering with the
Hepburn railroad bill has begun in the
senate and soon it won't be recogniz-
able even by its sponsor. But our rail-
road senators must repay the influences
that bought them their seats
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12

Even a blizzard. blowing at the rate
of sixty miles an hour. may be bless
ing in disguise. And here's a story that
proves II:
THE blizzard blowed him clean from
the valley to the top OF the highest
hill, where he landed with such force
that he made hole in the ground, and,
In scrambling out, he kicked up, and
picked up three gold nuggets, and the
very next day he sold the hill to a
mining syndicate for comforta BILE
ortmer'-Atlanta Constitution.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12
A Back Number

The Man in the Iron Mask .pouted.
Il don't attract any attention since
that football fellow got on his toys"
he wept.
Herewith he regretted he hadn't pat
ented the scheme in the beginning
New York Sun.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12

May sutton, the womeh's champion
tennis player, has invented a new
racket If generally adopted this ought
TO make our California project more in
Nineble than ever.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12

Ghosts; How They Are Raised"
was the subject of a lecture in Los
Angeles last night GLOW to make 'em
walk would have been of vastly more
importance to the great majority.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12

A Spokane man blames the Chinese
boycott On Mr.. Bryan. 1t is surprising
that he should admit that Mr. Bryan
held that much power in the world at
large
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12

Gas explosions in New York city
Saturday injured twelve persons. New
York's hot air has to have vent now
and then, even if few of the populace
does suffer.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12

Los Angeles capitalists have bought
Portland's chamber of commerce
building and her street railways and
propose to give the Rose city a system
worth while. Portland is to be con-
graduated. Could not San Francisco
induce Los Angeles capitalists to do
as much for her? She needs a street
railway system badly.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12

A printer has been made mayor OF
Dublin. 1t is to be hoped he will stick
to his eases" not get out of "sorts,
nor ''pi' his forms, but~that he will go
to press promptly and do clean job
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12

Ohio's w. C. r. U. is in Mysteries be-
cause its congressional delegation pro-
poses to give Alice Roosevelt punch
only what's put in it is injurious and
then only sometimes. And even then,
it doesn't cause Mysteries. The good
w. c. IT. U. needs something to brace
up its nerves.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12
Nerve of him

Adam--Adam." repeated st. Peter,
meditatively; "the name seems familiar,
but"
a." explained the applicant. II come
from Eden. 1 am the progenitor Of the
whole human race"
And youi" Numbered st. Peter, you
have the nerve to apply for admission
here? Front. Show the gentleman be-
low"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12
BALLADE OF MIDNIGHT LAMPS

Lights that shine on the duslSy stone
Bright through the towns unwholesome
air,
Some from the top of towers lone
Some from the iron columns glare,
And others out from the windows flare
To rise and follow and fade again,
Or wander and waVer here and there,
Like will-o-t wisps to the sons of men.
Shadows down from the buildings thrown
Bask on the. sallow pavements bare,
Winds from the soaring spaces blown,
Dip and pass over street and square,
And midnight ruffians homeward fare
AS panthers stink to a distant den,
While twinkllng lamps through the
darkness stare
Like will-o-the wisps to the sons of men.
outlaws here that the creeds disown
These who the half-world's tumult share,
Those in the cutters lying prone
Rough of feature and gray of hair,
And white the moon as the ghost of care,
While pale as CLEANS from a painless fen
The lamps go reckoning far and fair
Like will-o-the wisps to the sons Of men,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12
Operate

Wagner had just finished "Goetter-
daemcrung."
wonderful" we exclaimed, ecstat
ically.
Pretty fair" he said, but have you
heard what Hartman has TO say about
Ryan,"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12

Missouri has refused to buy oil of
the Standard, even at lower prices
than independent concerns charge.
Missouri is. going to 'show" the
STANDARD, if it loses money in the at
temDt
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12

Scientists say that in 100 years the
worlds iron supply Will be exhausted
But let none worry; none of us will
feel that shortage.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12

Now" said the professor, describ-
ing the work OF his class to Miss Ell
derberry, I'VE are engaged"
"Oh, are we? How student" was
her reply as she snuggled up,-Hous-
ton Post.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12

Capt Mikkelson is going to take
ship to the frozen north to search
for a new continent What he should
take is an ice pick.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12
MEPHISTO DIES
HEROIC DEATH
PARIAH CAT RESCUES LITTLE
GIRLS CANARY
Humane Society Officer Puts Anima
Out of Misery After 1t Had Sac
rificed Its Life to Favor
the Child

There lies Mephisto, a king of cats,
Full IN; ny time we've kicked his
Stats.
But now he's passed to another cline
May he show old Nick a h--ll of
time"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-12
Chilly

Napoleon marched from Moscow.
Its too cold there" he said.
you ought to see Vice President
Fairbanks shouted the shiveriug
leglons.