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Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
uNcoNeENIAL FLOWERS

The florist frowned as he took up an
order for a table decoration. That
will never do" he muttered. After
calling up the customer and suggesting
a change, he told his new clerk a few
things.
You must never take an order that
calls for a. mixture of mignonette and
roses" he said. "A centerpiece of those
two flowers wouldn't last half through
the luncheon They simply wilt one an
other. l don't know why, but they can t
get along together.
TT is true of many flowers. Pansies,
for instance last twice as long if they
are not combined with any other
flower and the same may be said
of violets. Jonquils and daffodils on
the other hand. seem to get a new lease
of life if you combine considerable green
with them. Carnations will go all TO
pieces If you combine them with roses,
although the roses do not seem TO be
affected.
TT is more striking in combinations
of green with flowers. If you try to use
an entirely different type of foliage from
what the flower is used to, ii won
last so long. So 1 never put feathery
foliage with lilies of the valley, for
you know its natural foliage is a thick
leaf. | never use thick leaves with car
nations. for their foliage is of the
feathery type. 1t isn't as though the
flowers fought, but they seem to grieVe
at being misunderstood. New York
Press.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
Esperanto: the Worlds LANGUAGE

pounded to himself in his quest for the
truly auxiliary language was this:
ITO render its study so easy as to
make acquisition mere pastime to the
learner"
He, has succeeded so admirably in
this that-to make another quotation
from DR.. Clark:
Clubs for its study are springing
up everywhere; and it has a faculty
of inspiring its lovers with tremen
dous enthusiasm-people not only
speak, but sing and shout, in Esper-
anto, and some are almost ready to
fall upon one another's necks in joy"
And grave delegates from most
parts of the world were hilarious in
happiness over the new-found treas
ure."
And this means not the canaille, but
dignified scholars, the worlds great
est, such as Professor Wilhelm Ost-
valid of Munich, perhaps the greatest
living physicist, who has just finished
a six months course of scientific lee
lures at Harvard and who little more
than one year ago regarded Esperanto
with scholarly conservatism as a Uto-
plan dream; Sir William Ramsey of
England, who from a scientific point
Of view, estimates that any average
child could learn it thoroughly in six
months; the highest educational dig
nitaries of France, indeed of every
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
Uncle Outdo His British Cousins Better Developed Public Service

constitute one-sixth Of the total voting
population, and n united and aided hv
their friends and relatives. such a
combination would be invincible
IF, and so far as, the municipal own
ership and operation of public service
utilities of Great Britain have been
successful" Mr. Burdett declares s1t
has been because of the character Of
the local civil service I'm that country.
The rigid limitation of the voting fran
chise, with other causes, has operated
to put into city and town councils and
other local legislative bodies men of
q superior type, who regard public
service as an honor and whose SER
vices are retained by the public prac-
tically as long as they are willing to
serve.
But as excellent as is their general
character, think It is beginning to be
understood and generally admitted that
the local governing powers of the
larger British towns and cities are be-
coming less, rather than more, eff
cient. This result naturally accompan-
les the multiplication of the duties
imposed upon those bodies, While
willing to give much of their time
gratuitous to the public service, busi-
ness men are beginning to find that the
draft upon 1t Is more than they can
meet without absolute disregard of
their private affairs.
Whatever may be the national poll
tics of the members of city and town
councils, politics finds no place what
ever in the administration of local af-
fairs, particularly in the choice and re-
tention of public administrative SER.
wants and officials. Not only is the
municipal civil service in Great Britain
totally different from that in America,
and dependent for its character and
tenure upon wholly different system
of laws and administration but the
public sentiment and education of the
people of the two countries upon the
subject is so opposed that the condi-
tions in either country could not be
reproduced, by legislation or otherwise,
in the other"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03

TTHE sailing of the last members
Of the committee appointed by the
Civic Federation to study munich
pal ownership abroad marks the first
stage in an Investigation which will be
watched with great interest all over the
country. No report is expected for
several months. since the committee
plans TO spend the summer completing
its work in England and on the con-
tinent. But meanwhile widespread at
tention is being attracted by the pub
Iication, in the May number of the
journal of Political Economy, Of the
studies made last summer by Everett
w. Burdett of Boston of the methods
and results of municipal ownership in
Great Britain.
There is a special interest in what
Mr.. Burdett says about the telephone
because that has come to be recognized
as perhaps the most characteristically
American of all public utilities. Moth
ing could sum up the matter more
pointedly than his statement that out
side of London the competition Of the
National Telephone company-the pri-
vately owned system corresponding, in
its limited way. to the Bell system in
this country--has practically put gov
ernment local telephones out of busi-
ness, Notwithstanding the fact that the
postoffice department has the mono
poly of long distance transmissions.
1t will not surprise the American
business man when he is told that in
the five important cities in Great Brit
ain where private and municipal COM
petition exists-Gla sgow, Hull, Brigh-
ton. Portsmouth and Swansea-the Ma
tional company has more subscribers
by 81 per cent than its municipal COM
petitors, and is adding to them from
two and a half to six times as fast as
the publicly owned system and more
over, that a majority of the telephone
plants the taxpayers run are of types
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
HOW STORIES ARE "DocToREDD

| interviewed young woman as she
lay in bed one morning about her hus-
bands trying to take away her baby
She said her husband was hanging
around, but she had not seen him. She
spoke lazily from her tumbled couch
Her mother, who was pulling on her
stockings in the next room, abused
the husband loudly. She refused me
her daughters photograph, but, out of
spite, gave me the husbands, and. as
l pleaded, that all babies looked alike,
added the baby's.
The "rewrite" man touched up the
story.
Mrs. Janzen is today staying in
doors in deadly fear of her husband
whom she expects to come at any mo-
ment to steal her babe" He made an
attempt to steal the child Sunday,
and after being outwitted by the
mother who fired several shots at her
% One OF the bullets just grazed the
woman's head"
"'Who's there?' came the response
to knock at the door Of the little jan
zen home today.
Mrs. Griffin, mother of Mrs. jan
zen, finally opened the door. Mrs,
Janzen, trembling and frightened.
stood by with her baby held tight TO
her breast"G) The woman never
stirred out OF her bed, was never shot
at, was never trembling and fright
ened. The Reader.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03

connection with. and has risen sim
ultaneously with, the recent enlarge
ment Of the old-time notion of the
proper limitations of municipal, gov-
ernmental functions Is indisputable.
investigation shows that the highest
rates are levied in the towns and cities
having the largest outstanding debts
incurred In municipal trading" and
that such cities and towns are those
In which the population Is increasing at
the slowest rate.
The responsible officials naturally
make their reports as hopeful as may
be. The Glasgow municipal telephone
undertaking Is a sample of other cases
The accountants who have audited the
books have repeatedly said that i'm their
opinion, "the sum provided out of the
revenue for depreciation is insuffi-
cient' but this somewhat damaging
statement does not appear i'm the de-
partments public reports If five per
cent were allowed for depreciation, to
take the lowest figure allowed by any
company i'm this country, and the pre-
lminary and general expenses of the
system, which have never been charged
off, were added the two items deducted
from the balance on hand in the sink
ing and depreciation funds would leave
a total deficit in FIVE years of opera
tion of about 100000, instead of the
apparent prosperity to which the sup
porters of municipal ownership point
with pride.
The creation of tremendous political
machine by office holding voters is an
other very serious result of municipal
ownership in Great Britain, in Mr..
Burdett's opinion. 1t is easy to guess
what its effect would be in this coun-
try, where the public services are
so much more elaborately developed
than in England In New York for
example, there are about $4,000 EN-
ployes of public service corporations,
exclusive of those in the telephone SER
vice, and there are already fully $4,000
municipal employees on the city pay
rolls. If the former should be added
to the latter. the combined force would
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
YELLOW WAY OF MAKING NEWS

1 began my first Saturday by going
to see a little girl who had lost a dog.
A very ingenious letter asking us to
help her find "Trixy' came to the Of
flee. written by the baby's aunt. The
baby, though two years old, could not
speak, but we printed the simple little
letter as her message" and pictured
a tot" as Lonesome and inConsolable."
Later L was sent to find out what l
could about an imitation leg stuck in
the mud in the Twenty second ward and
labeled with the name of the alderman
of the district 1t seemed that the label
had read, Mud Lake-No Fishing AL
lowed. Ladies, take airship. Men-
swim.' a facetious scarecrow. This par
ticular alderman opposed municipal
ownership. My report, to my surprise,
was entirely changed. Put Aldermans S
Effigy in Mud" it was printed, and it
declared "the event was the climax
of a series of demonstrations on the
part of his dhe alderman's) con-
stituents evidencing their disapproval
of his course on the traction question"
The Reader.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03

considered from ten to twenty years
out Of date I'm this country. Mr.. Burd EFT
indicates how far behind the times our
transatlantic cousins are by repro
ducing the notice posted In the gov
ernmeut telephone booths In Ports
mouth. Here It is:
First Apply telephone to ear and
press red button with right hand until
you hear operators voice. Then re-
move hand from button and give num-
ber of subscriber wanted.
Second. Replace telephone and
turn crank brislxly. This Will ring
bell Of subscriber wanted.
Third. When finished hang up tel
ephone and (very importantly press the
red button for two seconds
Imagine an American spending two
seconds I'm ringing Off after a tele-
phone talk With our highly perfected
apparatus 1t does not take much long
er than that to give Central the num-
Der to be called and get started ON ths
conversation.
"These elaborate directions" Mr..
Burdett explains. ARE deemed necas-
sary for the successful use of what is
called the ring through system, which,
while antiquated. is in use I'm three
of the five municipal plants mentioned.
The most curious thing about 1t, per-
haps, Is the opinion expressed by the
officials in charge of 1t, that 1t is well
to have the subscriber do as much of
the necessary work as possible, in order
that he may better appreciate the labor
and trouble involved in furnishing him
with the service"
on this side of the water. on the
other hand. saving the telephone user
time and effort is the constant study of
the engineers.
The telephone was, however, only
one of the subjects of Mr.. Burdett's in-l
quiry into the workings of municipal
ownership i'm Great Britain. His sx-
animation extended also to the gas,
electric light and street railway utili-
ties. SO far as municipal gas and electric
light plants go Mr.. Burdett says that
their success has been confined to a
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03

money invested. AS late as August. to
cite specific case, Tottenham, a part
of metropolitan London with a popu-
lation of more than 100000 had no
electric light supply, and Rhondda, q
Welsh city Of more than 100000 people,
had neither electric light nor street
railway.
The reason for this lack Of progress
iveness is. Mr.. Burdett says, that the
English law allows municipalities es-
pecial privileges In entering commercial
business competition, the laws govern
ing the electric lighting and traction
industries, particularly, being framed
for the express purpose of encouraging
municipal and discouraging private en-
terprise in those industries Private
capital is lotn, in view of the handicaps.
to undertake to furnish such public
service as I'm this country is considered
not only a convenience but neCes-
sity. on the other hand, municipalities
frequently exclude private enterprise
from undertaking a public service they
will not themselves attempt by reserv-
ing to the city the privilege of carry
ing on the industry
The municipal trans" of Great
Britain are often pointed to as eX-
amples of the splendid success of civic
ownership. According to Mr. Burdett,
1t all depends upon what people are
willing to consider success. Municipal
street car fares are low for short dis
tances, he says, but the fares for long
distances, and the average fare per
mile Travelled, are higher in England
than in the United States. There are
many instances i'm the United States
of rides of five miles or more for five
cents but few, If any. in Great Britain,
while free transfers are unknown
there
Financially, municipalization has not
shown good results, : r. Burdett points
out. Whether or not the increase in
local debts and taxes of English cities
is to be wholly or chiefly attributed to
the extraordinary extent of so-called
municipal trading" he does not un-
dertake to say. But that T. exists in
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03

country, including Leo Tolstoi, the late
Max Muller and literal hundreds of
others.
Upon no other subject may the ele-
gance and the utilities of leisure be
more fittingly and more satisfactorily
bestowed-a subject having all the
newness and the freshness of a just
blossoming flower. Only in the Kara
linguo itself can the enhancing delights
of its study be told. 1t Is one of my
purposes to foster this sentiment of
genuine love for Esperanto in the CEN
ters of culture and refinement in Los
Angeles.
But immeasurably beyond all other
considerations, from the mere stand
point of local pride and local interest
is the one we would insistently dwell
upon.
Los Angeles at least for the. present
is the metropolis queen of the occident.
Our next door neighbors in the west
are India, China, Japan, Russia. Es-
peranto in each and all of these is to-
day spoken by more people than in all
the United States. What does this
mean? That all the other great ma
tions of the earth are catching on to
the fact that Esperanto is the incoming
commercial language of the world and
that our own country is simply wait
ing for Los Angeles to grasp the
worlds extended commercial hand and
lead.
Language precedes business, always
and everywhere. The man, the COM
munity, the nation that is the quick
est to make itself understood, gets the
business. 1t is because Esperanto Of
fers precisely this means that other
nations are taking it up with such
avidity.
This is why the commercial houses
of England are instituting the Esper-
anto telegraph code and establishing
Esperanto commercial offices in every
foreign center of trade. This is why
her commercial colleges. her technical
institutes are establishing Esperanto
courses for her rising young men: why
England is introducing 1t into her pub
lie schools why, as the cable recently
announced, the London chamber of
commerce and the London county
council adopted it officially; why her
teachers are taking 1t up in a body so
as to make themselves proficient in
structors. but all this is only a faint
outline of what is actually going on.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
Will Save Money by Consolidation


cumbrous and more simplified. The
greatest force of machinery is attained
through simplicity and directness of ap-
plication. So it is in government.
The example of wise and economical
system of government is a great in
fluence upon the ideals and habits of a
people. If the government is extrava-
giant and profligate 1t may be expected
that the same spirit will be developed
in the people. Graft is apt to begin in
public affairs ard when it has gained
a foothold it may be expected that It
will be extended to business enter
prises. To many minds it is not deemed
immoral to do what is tolerated in the
management of public affairs. Rigid
economy in government will go far
towards overturning bosses and ma
chimes.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
TO STOP COUGHING IN CHURCH

Coughing is one of the nuisances that
no one has been able to abolish in
churches or in theaters. A physician,
however, claims that the coughing
nuisance is mere question Of acous-
ties.
'"There is a subtle connection between
the ear and the throat" he said. when
the ear is strained the throat Is at
fected and a cough is the result.
when we can hear perfectly in
church or theater it never occurs TO us
to cough. But when we bend forward.
straining every nerve TO catch the
actors or preachers muifled syllables
then we find ourselves coughing every
little while.
Build auditoriums with perfect
acoustic properties and l warrant that
the thunderous choruses of coughs. so
common among us, will be no more
heard
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
PROPHECY OF WASHINGTON

A bill recently introduced in congress
provides for the drainage of the great
"Dismal Swamp" of Virginia, thus full
filling the prophecy made hundred
years ago by General Washington that
some day this swamp land would be
converted into farm lands. This same
movement ultimately looks to the re-
clamation for farming of the hundred
million acres of swamp lands I'm the
United States under a national drain
age fund" which will be similar I'm its
purpose but directly opposite In it's
methods to the national irrigation law
-June Farming.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03

THE digging and delving and prop
ping and buttressing that are now
going on around Boston's historic
Old South meeting house in order that
right under it an entrance to the Wash
ington street subway now in process
of construction, may be built and still
leave the venerable structure uninjured
exemplifies the new spirit of the
makers of commercial Improvements
toward famous buildings.
Less than twenty years ago, when the
same building, which because of it's
traditions had come to be regarded as
a national institution, was threatened
with destruction, only the efforts of a
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03

than counterbalance this single fav-
orable feature"
The most serious of these i'll effects
Mr.. Burdett considers to be the ham,
pering and restricting of the industry
In this connection he has compiled
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03

stalled for furnishing electric light and
power. sixteen times as much for
electric traction, twenty-three times as
many miles of electric traction, twen
ty-six times as many motor cars, and
five and a half times times as much
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03

slight difference in rates, which, how
ever, has resulted solely to the benefit
Of comparatively few consumers and
not to that Of the general public ltl
has likewise been accompanied by fail
ures in either directions, which more
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03

some interesting statistics. From one
Of his tables II appears that In 1901 the
United states with less than double the
population of Great Britain, but with
out municipal ownership, already had
six times the amount of apparatus In
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
4 language so natural and so sim

A language so natural and so sim
~ pie that any person of ordinary
intelligence may use it at once to
communicate with any other, natur-
ally makes everyone want to know
more about it.
In the Christian Endeavor World Of
April 8, the Rev. Francis f. Clark
says
REV. Horace Dutton, who has fos-
tered Christian Endeavor in so many
countries in Europe, has now gone to
London to perfect himself in Esper-
anto, that he may preside over the
Esperanto meeting at the worlds
Christian Endeavor Convention at
Geneva CSwitzerland), next August"
There viii be representatives. at this
great meeting from at least thirty diff
ferent nationalities, speaking not fewer
than twenty-five different languages,
no one familiar with less than two or
three at the farthest. Esperanto will
bring order out of this babel and en-
able all to understand and be under
stood. Through Esperanto The Her
aid will keep in touch and through The
Herald the hundreds of Christian En-
deavorers in Los Angeles, if they act
at once, may be brought in direct
contact.
Right in this connection ii is well to
up and making itself heard from every
quarter of the globe, for this most
potent of instrumentalities for spread.
ing literature and intercourse in all
lands. From three widely divergent
sources the matter of translating the
Bible is already being agitated. A call
is made for Roman Catholic trans
lation-the European Christian En-
deavor Gazette takes up the subject
and the british CT continues
1t i'm manner interesting and import
ant for everyone to understand.
Every church-goer in Los Angeles
need | confine 1t to churchgoers?
ought to be deeply interested and in
terested before the undertaking rather
than after.
In very brief conversation Super
intendent Il. C. Moore of the Los An
geles city schools nstanced the inn
mense advantage Of an acquaintance
with Esperanto for all the older stu
dents, in that it affords access to the
scientific works of other peoples and
languages. 1t will soon be vacation. II
is practically possible during that
period for every high school student
to become so far familiar with this
easily acquired language as to make It
available in this way through all sub
sequent life, beginning Immediately.
Already the University of Southern
California is arranging TO give instruc-
tion in Esperanto in its summer
school. II is suggested TO all our lead
ing institutions Of learning the pro-
priety of aligning themselves at the
earliest possible moment with this new
element OF world progress and by all
odds the greatest single element for
centuries. This department. is in posi-
ton to aid such Institutions materially
in any such advances they may wish
to make.
The first problem DR.. Zamenhof pro-
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
Written for The Herald by M. c..
Simkins

Esperanto is an attempt at a new world
language-one adapted to all countries-a
combination of the best and simplest in
all existing tongues.
The name Esperanto has a meaning
and history. DR.. Louis Zamenhof be-
gan the formation of an auxiliary
language when a mere lad. In stating
his wishes and his most sanguine hopes
in letter to a near and dear friend he
requested a name for his discovery and
signed himself Esperanto. ."-"One who
hopes" That friend replied: why not
call the new language Esperanto? And
thus the root Esper-Gatin spero-to
hope) with the present active participial
ending ant. with the noun termination O.
Esperanto, became the name.