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Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28
STRIKE AT THE ROOT

The police commissioners have asked
the city council to pass an ordinance
forbidding the display in any manner
of ANY indecent print or picture or
cut tending to represent the doing of
any crime" This action was taken on
the initiative of Acting Chief Flammer
and is a result Of his personal knowl-
edge. He says: From my personal
observation and experience a great
deal OF harm is done to young persons
minds by such plays and the advertis-
Ing thereof, which display criminals
and denizens of vicious haunts in the
guise of heroic persons"
commendable step. unquestion-
ably. 1t does not go far enough, how
ever, nor does 1t reach the root Of the
moral cancer unless II also cuts out
such vicious portrayal and description
as are haunted in the pages Of yellow
journalism. A passing glance al blll-
board daubed with pictures designed
TO attract attention TO play shows
they are Of trivial consequence COM
pared with the yice-breeding pictures
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28
POTENT PRESS POWER

There is biblical authority for belief
that faith is powerful enough to move
q mountain. but who would have sus-
pected that newspaper criticism is
strong enough to close big meat t
packing house? From Louisville how
ever, we have the report that large
packing plant in that city has been
closed, as explained by it's manager. be-
cause of newspaper criticism and ad-
verse legislation" The order in which
the two blightlng influences are placed
may he taken to mean. of course, that
criticism was the more potent of the
two
II is a. striking evidence of the power
Of the press" that is revealed thus in
the metropolis Of kentucky. The pack
ing house in question is a concern that
employs $50 men when in operation,
10000 sheep, 10000 cattle and 100000
hogs" The most incisive pen in Louis
vile. one that is sharper than a SER
pent's TOOTH" is welded by Hon. Henry
Watterson of the Courier-Journal. II
may be assumed, therefore, that the
closing of the packing plant should be
credited largely to the aroused indig-
nation of the normally amiable colonel.
The power of the press in Los An
geles never has been tested against a
packing house, but it has record of
many important achievements in the
interests of the community. Just now,
for example, The Herald is graphing
with the local railway managers in an
effort to secure owl cars, after the
fashion of other metropolitan cities
1t is harder to move railway corpo-
ration than to move a packing house
firm, evidently, but ultimate success in
the owl car demand is assured
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28
STAGE coAo4's RESURRECTION

THE stage coach. famous in the
works of Dickens. has had it's resurrec-
tion," said an automobileist. "The de-
light of bowling through the country
on top of big. comfortable vehicle,
breathing a sweet, pure, sparkling air,
under a smiling sky, amid green fields
all that delight, which Dickeps and
Hazlitt and many an old-timer sang,
has been brought back to us by the
reincarnated stage coach, namely the
automobile and the motor omnibus.
There is to be a motor or1nibus line
between Philadelphia and Atlantic City
this summer. There is in England a
motor omnibus line between London
and Brighton. Soon. all over the world,
just as it was before the days Of rail-
roads, huge, luxurious vehicles will
carry people swiftly and pleasantly
from one city to another, through beau
tful pastoral scenery, along pleasant
roads, where the blowing airs are laden
with cherry blossoms instead of Gin
ders. and the passenger dismounts at
his journeys end with leaves and flower
petals, instead of coal dust and SCOT
sprinkled over his coat.
The reincarnated horscless stage
coach has already taken its place in
literature w. u. Henley's poem,
Speed is as good as any of Dickens
stage coach ,.-apters. and in Kipling's
'Traffics and Discoveries the joys of
motoring are splendidly escribed."
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28
THE WlEE,s METHOD

The other evening as a muscular per-
son was passing a house a lady who
stood at the gate called out to him:
Sir, I appeal to you for protection!"
Whats the matter?" he asked, as he
stopped short.
There's a man in the house, and he
wouldn't go out of doors when ordered
him to-"
HE wouldn't eh? Wen see about
that" Thereupon the man gave the
woman his coat to hold and rushed into
the house. He found man at the
supper table and took him by the neck,
and remarked, Nice style Of a gentle
man you are, eh? Come out O. this or
I'll break every bone in your body"
The man fought, and 1t was not until
a chair had been broken and the table
upset that he was hauled out by the
legs and given fling through the gates.
Now, then, you brass-faced old
tramp, you move on, or I'll finish YOU"
Tramp! Tramp!" shouted the victim,
as he got up. I'm no tramp / own
this property and live in this house."
You do?"
"Yes, and that's my wife holding your
coat
Thunder" whispered the muscular
man, as he gazed from one to the other.
and realized that it was the wife s
method of finishing a row she had been
having with her husband. And then
he made grab for his coat and disap-
peared into the darkness-Tid Bits.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28
moMnens a. suRoERY

The new surgery becomes more as
tonishlng every day. People who are
doddering into their second century
are afraid that III processes and discov-
cries are not stopped before long there
will be no way in which they can uie,
at least peacefully. only a day or two
ago 1t was discovered that you could
make all sorts OF incisions In the sur
face of n fellow creature and leave
no trace Of that benefit because by
cutting the skin at an angle, instead
of vertically, the edges could therefore
be Joined without n scar. People can
now run to the beauty doctor and have
noses readjusted and their chins cor
rected without fear of the consequence,
unless they use those blstering salves
that have got SO many OF the beauty
doctors into lawsuits. A woman does
not mind paying n good price to be
made lovely, but IL is asking too much
indeed to pay for being made over
into fright.
And today another achievement Is
reported, the successful grating Of
blood vessels In this scheme veins
can be attached to arteries at new
points, so that tumors or congested
or injured parts can be starved out;
or, If an organ is suffering for an ade-
auate supply It can be regenerated
Not only this, but displaced organs can
be restored to position, or can be
shifted about-a startling device, SINE
a man might come out Of his ether
sleep to discover his kidneys where his
stomach used to be- organs from other
animals can be fastened to the human
subject. Even softening Of the brain
can be arrested by turning strong
arterial current into the weakened
structure Eagle
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28
FOOD AND NERVES

In far too many homes there is no
appreciation of the fact that food is a
factor in nervous breakdowns in school.
The boy or girl starts out for school
with a scanty breakfast. There is
plenty of food but 1T is not appetizing;
1t is too heavy; and long habit of not
eating much at this meal has become
crystallized. Then follows the luncheon.
which, if bought at a restaurant, either
in the school building or otherwise, is
too often made up Of cakes and sweets.
If, on the contrary, it is taken from
home. there is little attention paid to it,
and it rarely has in it that amount of
nutrition which a pupil needs.
We recognize quickly that working
man needs solid food. The pupil is a
worker, too, and requires food adapted
to his conditions.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28
PORTRAIT OF A LADY, BY GIBSON

Il d1ned with CharleS Dana Gibson at
Princes restaurant In London during
the season." said a Chicagoan.
1.-THE lofty, spacious dining room was
filled with women in rale gowns. their
hair uncovered and their arms and
necks bare, and though these women
were very fashionable, very aristocra-
tic, they smoked cigarettes with their
coffee as they watched the bioscope pic
lures that went on at one end of the
big room and as they listened to the
singing that went on at the other.
Amid all this feminine smoking we
Americans began to discuss and to de-
fine the word lady Was it ladylike to
smoke? we asked. Would {. lady ever
smoke? What was a lady?
81 think Mr.. Gibson's definition of
lady was the best that was given.
=" "A lady, he said, ignoring the smoke
question altogether, is a woman who
always remembers others and never
forgets herself
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28
Absence
HINTS TO NERVOUS WOMEN

There are many things neurastte-
nlc woman can do which will mitigate
the severity of her symptoms and per-
haps, If the disease is slight, she may
recover without the Intervention Of her
physician. In the first place the orig
inal trouble, worry or anxiety which
was responsible for her nervous break
down must be done away with, or, if
this is impossible, she must school her
self not to care or else remove herself
to new scenes and surroundings where
her mind will not be harassed. Peace
of mind will do more to restore shat
tered nerves than almost anything
else. The next thing is to make the
bodily health as good as it can be made
under the existing circumstances and
surroundings. Sleep and rest are abb
solutely essential to recovery, and the
sufferer should do all she can to secure
both. Narcotics to produce sleep are
not to be thought of. They do not cure
anything and their continual use can
only be productive of harm. TRANQUIL
ize the mind, Danish by force of will
unpleasant thoughts, and sleep alone
rather than with some one else whose
restlessness or deep breathing, to say
sleep from the eyes of even Morpheus
himself. Sometimes warm foot bath
before bed or eating a piece of bread
and butter or drinking a glass of milk
will bring sleep to the tired eyes. If,
however, these means are inadequate
1t is better to consult "a physician.
Normal sleep, and plenty of it, must
be secured before recovery is possible.
|-Harper's BaZar.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28
REMINDERS

Dear jim" the auto driver wrote from
Uncle Hiram s farm,
This rural life enraptnes mel find IL
full of charm.
The fresh air watts familiar sounds. the
busy bees convene
And hum Just like the motor in my new
De Whlzz machine.
THE, crlckets with their click, click click
at night my ears accOst-
The noise is similar, dear jim, to motor
bike exhaust;
And when my good aunt shooes the hens
back into their abode,
Methinks hear a runabout choo- -chOoing
down the road.
"The geese that dabble in the pond cry
out at early morn,
In voices that remind me Of the honkins
auto horn;
And uneles racking windmlll--it is music
in my ears
l close my eyes and II becomes the clasn
OF changing gears.
''rhe dust blows from the turnpike road
wheneer team goes past.
n hlls my eyes Just as II does when one
IS driving fast
And best OF all, the smell IL here for this
III slady Vouch--
For amt on Tprinkles gasoline about my
doWny couch
Puck.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28
NOW THE FEDERAL BUILDING

At least one act of congress, in the
session now closing, meets with uni
versal approval by the citizens of Los
Angeles. That is the provision for
adding the sale value of the old post
office site to the fund for the new
federal building to be erected at North
Main and Temple streets. BY this pro-
vision the available sum for the new
building will be considerably more than
million dollars, thus assuring the
most costly public structure in the
city.
This action of congress. which was
delayed evidently until peri.ously near
the end of the session, will enable the
government superintendent of buildings
to follow the design outlined several
months ago for the federal building.
He found, however, that the appropria-
tion would not admit of fully carrying
out his purpose. 1t would have been
necessary to cheaper the building to
some extent by the use Of brick instead
of stone in certain portions, without a
substantial addition to the means at
hand.
1t remains to be seen what price the
old postoffice site will bring, but there
is no question that it will yield all the
additional money needful for the plans
of the new building, as desired by
the federal superintendent. Property
values have increased amazingly on
South Main street within tie last two
or three years, and from that viewpoint
it is well that the sale has been so long
delayed. Another example of "bless-
ing in disguise"
There is nothing now to prevent the
immediate beginning of work on the
splendid government building that has
been so long promised The expression
attributed to President Roosevelt on
hearing that the senate had voted for
a lock canal on the Ic.hmus should fit
the local case: Now let the dirt fly"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28
GIRL PAVING CONTRACTOR

Miss Elizabeth Thielman of New
York city has been coming money. She
earned $4,000 in two years from con-
tracts for grading and paving streets
in Harlem.
When her father died, leaving several
unfinished contracts, Miss Thieln1an
knew nothing Of the work. She deter
mined to carry on his business, how
ever.
She hired Italian laborers. superin-
tended the work and finished all the
contracts. Sometimes she would go
personally to saloons in order to find
employees who we're putting in their
time there.
AS her object was simply to clear all
outstanding accounts from her fathers
estate. she retired from the business
when she had done this.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28
A GOOD SMILE

Ellison Capers. bishop of South Caro-
lima, described at dinner in Columbia
a graceful incident that had befallen
him.
81 preached one day. years ago, in
Burgaw," he said. "I liked my SER
mon rather WELL An old colored cook
at the house where I was staying told
me. after the service, that she had
liked the sermon, too. Sh, said she had
found it very improving.
"'What was it about?' said I.
Indeed, sir said the old woman, Il
can't remember
eff you remember nothing of the
Sermon said /, how can it have i'm
proved your
"She pointed towards a great array
of clean white linen spread on the lawn
to dry.
"'Do you see that linen 1 have been
washing and drying, sir?' she said.
I" " es,' said 1.
"'That linen is all the better for it's
washing, isn't III?
Yes, of course
" But not drop of the soap and
water is left in it, is there? Well, sir.
it is the same with me. Not word of
your good sermon stays in me, but am
all the better and cleaner for 1t, for all
that
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28
HADN'T THE TIME

Clyde Fitch was discussing a play
wright whose head has been turned by
success.
There's a little story about him."
said Mr.. Fitch. Probably it's untrue.
However, I'll tell it.
"In this mans first piece the come
dian, a gentleman from Newark, tried
to brighten up his part with the intro
duction of few jokes of his own-a
few gags, as they are called.
"But the author was Mortified at the
idea of any such tampering with his
work, and in a gentle but firm way he
told the Newark comedian he must de-
sist.
"'My dear boy he said, be good
enough not to gag, please. Speak my
lines, and wait for the laugh
"'All right said the comedian; only
my last train goes at 1890.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28

the White House trade means to his
cash register.
There is much rivalry among the
White House Kitchen force to stand I'm
the highest favor with the Roosevelts.
Mrs. O'Rourke, the femme de cook.
who has been with the family for
many years. believes she has the
warmest place In their hearts.
Quentin Popular With the Help
The President and FRS. Roosevelt
breakfast with the children every
morning. They usually lunch and dine
in the state dining room, on account
of guests. and leave the children to
care for the laden private table. Miss
Ethel is Quentin's guardian angel
when the state dining room is the scene
Of dinners that leave the family with
out father and mother to preside
Every morning when Quentin comes
down from his toy room he is greeted
with many pleasantries by the dining
room attendants. He is only years
old, and is very proud because he is
permitted to have as much sugar In
his demitasse as he wants. He Is very
to fault. Sliced peaches and cream
cause him to smack with delightful
expectancy when he climbs into his
chair. When the children have the
family dining room to themselves
Quentin. who is regarded as "a perfect
little man" by the help" Is not re-
strained so far as his department is
concerned He never got into the habit,
however, of throwing biscuits at his
sister Ethel, because Mrs. Roosevelt
has been as careful I'm training him as
she was with the exemplary Alice
Teddy, ir., Kermit and Archie. They
all know how TO use their knives and
forks, bow their heads while grace is
said and keep their elbows off the
table
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28
AM oppIrY

"If you want to see an oddity." eD
undertaken said. ''go to cemetery and
note how, In the erection OF old-fash-
toned tombs, they lower into place the
marble slabs.
"These marble slabs are not lowered
by means OF a derrick. They are low
cred by hand. The work ia SO delicate.
you see, and II Is so necessary not to
chip the edges of the stones, that only
hand work answers.
"You wonder. suppose. how the men
avoid pinching or crushing their fingers
as they lower a great slab Of marble on
to it's marble base. They accomplish
this by lowering the stone upon Jumps
then they gradually dissolve the sugar
by squirting water over 1t.
can the huge, fiat stones OF old-eash-
ioned tombs, or vaults are lowered by
hand on to Jumps of sugar.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28
CAKES ARE ALL RIGHT

do you know why griddle cakes
hurt you?" demands the high apostle
of Fletching. Because the syrup is
allowed to pass into the stomach with
out being properly mixed with the
saliva which makes 1t properly digesti-
BILE.
LAS soon as it enters the stomach 1t
becomes acid and interferes with every
thing it meets. Had the cakes been
properly masticated and mixed with
the saliva the cane sugar would have
become grape sugar and in this form
it is easily digested.
"Why is it that stout people are adj
vised to avoid starchy foods? Pota-
toes eaten too hastily, when not craved
by the appetite, supply the system
with a superabundance of fat inducing
starch.
Potatoes are supposed to produce
fat, but if your appetite Graves potato
and you properly masticate it. eating
only as much of II as satisfies your APP
petite. the system absorbs 1t all. leav-
ing nothing to produce fat"-New York
Sun.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28

Pennsylvania and Wisconsin Demo-
Gratis, in state conventions assembled,
yesterday paid high tributes to Will
liam j. Bryan and declared them
selves in favor of his nomination for
the presidency in 1908. These two
states have heretofore been singularly
active and virulent in their opposition
to Bryan, and their action in declar-
ing for him two years before the ma
tional convention is proof Of the popu-
larity Of the man. 1t is also evidence
Of tho fact that the people everywhere
have at last come around to the DEM
ocratic principles for which Bryan has
steadfastly contended The year 1905
viii be a Democratic year throughout
the country. unless all signs fail.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28
SOME ERRTNG SISTERS

Los Angeles people have noted with
surprise the antagonistic attitude Of
certain sister cities on the Owens river
water question in congress. The cities
alluded TO are entirely outside of the
Los Angeles water proposition Chief
among them are Santa Ana, Riverside,
San Bernardino and Redlands. The
business organizations of those cities
have been inclined to lend their aid to
Los Angeles in the issue before con-
gress, but the press and large ele-
ment Of the population In each of them
have shown uuaccountable hostility to
this city.
The feeling thus evlnced is shown,
for example, I'm this paragraph from
the Redlands Review. 1T seems prob
able. even IL our own board of trade
did indorse that knock against Con-
gressman Smith on the owens river
proposition, that the matter will fail.
Santa Ana got wise and refused to be
drawn into the game, and Riverside
has also learned that Congressman
Smith knows what he Is about in the
matter and action has been taken
there to nullify the hasty action of the
chamber of commerce of that place"
Practically this knocking of Los
Angeles in sister communities has had
no effect. Congress and the president
recognize the Justice Of this city's re-
quirement concerning a right OF way
for the owens river water conduit
Representative Smith has declared
himself. finally. IN favor OF granting
what Los Angeles wants. He has '1et
himself down easy" however, by in
sisting on some unimportant conces-
sions which the Los Angeles represent
tatives were quite willing to allow him.
But why should these urban sisters
Of Los Angeles "go back on their
metropolitan sister at juncture when
their loyalty was deserved and when it
was expected to be manifested? The
matter was one in which those cities
had no direct interest whatever. Other
cities near the metropolis, which may
be concerned in the general consolida-
tion plan, might with propriety assert
their views on the water question,
affirmatively or negatively as they in
terpret their interests. But the cities
named are entirely outside of the Los
Angeles water range, having their own
water sources in the mountain ranges
comparatively near.
Los Angeles always has stood by its
city and town neighbors and expects to
do so in the future. The fact is recog-
nized by all our citizens that the
central sun and the satellites are inter-
dependent and that whatever affects
one, for good or evil, in some measure
affects all. 1t is a question of the
most monentous Importance to Los
Angeles that the Owens river water
proposition be consummated, and 1t is
incidentally important to every tribu-
tary city, town and country district in
Southern California.
Los Angeles expects knocking"
from remote cities and sections that
think they are in competition with it.
but from it's southern neighbors and
friends it has a right to expect SYM
pathy and encouragement.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28

Forgery and embezzlement have be-
come too common forms of crime in
Los Angeles. and it behooves the
courts to make exemplary and prompt
punishments. 1t also behooves the
business men of this city to exercise
more care in their dealings with
strangers
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28

In the senate yesterday Senator
Bailey rightly characterized the whole
system Of Hearst yellow magazines
and yellow newspapers as slanderous
impositions on the American public
They exist only for the glorlheation of
Willie Hearst and even in this they are
dismal failures.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28

Now it's the turn of our Welsh
friends in Cardiff to experience the
sensations of a real temblor. It's a
far cry from California to Wales, but
there have been continuous reports of
seismic disturbances all around the
world And Southern California is still
the blessedest land of all.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28

Their violations of the safety appli-
ance law is the newest cause for the
government to make trouble for the
railroads. Some ground for action can
always be found, it seems
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28

The Express says: "Orange county
indorses Pardee Next? But there is
no next. Moreover, it was not Orange
county but Orange county machine
Republicans, who indorsed Pardee.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28

Mr.. ]. Ogden Armour, who thinks the
attacks on the packing houses are ma
licious, is the head of the beef trust.
That shows where he stands.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28

Brace upl The Los Angeles baseball
team will return home Monday to open
a schedule of eight weeks playing. All
is not lost
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28

The house having passed the Owens
river conduit bill, Congressman Smith
now knows why he left home-to get it
in the neck.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28

The further one gets into the Thaw-
White case the better it looks for
Thaw. Which isn't the rule in murder
cases, either.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28

Having now cinched the Owens river
deal without the aid of Congressman
Smith, why not carry out consolida tion
without Pardee?
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28

The Oakland Herald wants that town
to have recall in it's charter. What
Oakland really needs is not recall,
but push!forward.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28

The Republicans will hold their os-
tensible convention in Santa Cruz, but
the real one will be under Abe Ruef's 5
hat