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The Washington herald., 1906-11-20
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President Roosevelt took hold Of the
subject in his annual message 10 Con
gress three years ago. The result OF his
suggestion that a commission be appoint
ed for investigation was that five Sena-
tors and five Representatives-six OF
them Republicans and four Democrats
Investigated. Their report nils three i'm
mense volumes. No woman could possibly
wade through them. II would take her as
long to read the books as It does Con
gress 10 act. The committee prepared
a bill TO carry into effect their recon-
mendations. and The Congressional Mer-
chant Marine Commissions Shipping
Bill'-phew. what a mOuthful,-passed the
United States Senate last Valentines Day
OF course the bill has not been acted
upon by the Committee on Merchant Ma
rine and Fisheries Of the House Of Rep
resentatves. but there Is feminine COM
fort in the thought that the very moment
il is enacted, orders will be placed with
American shipbuildeTs for seventy-five
new American steamships, TO cost at least
S4e.00l00o, on the Atlantic Coast alone:
These seveuty-ave new ships will fly the
American flag, and our shipping in the
foreign trade Will be increased 30 per
cent.
The Washington herald., 1906-11-20
THE AMERICAN FLAG
ON THE HIGH SEA

AIlE Oh kilE Ec1A titcN ldNAH ADNA-NN AP0Al
a sea voyage Of any length is the infre-
quency with which the American flag is
met upon the ocean. In a cruise OF two
months. taken last summer by a member
of Congress and his wife, the latter tes-
tilted recently to having seen the Stars
and Stripes but twice. The first time
was on the Fourth Of July. when the
proprietor OF the Hotel STREET.. at Ham
burg, flew the Stars and Stripes from
his fiagpole In compliment 10 his Ameri-
can guests. The second time was in the
harbor Of Antwerp. when an outgoing
steamer Of the Red Star line displayed
the American marine ensign at her stern.
Cruising through the Mediterranean, and
from the West Indies 10 the North Sea,
steamers OF all nations but the United
States fly their flags proudly 10 the
breeze. American women invariably put
the question 10 the captains Of the yes
seis upon which they travel: Why is il
We never see the Stars and Stripes? Pre-
sumably American traffic is going on.
and American travel and commerce;
where then, are the American ships and
fiags?"
The nature Of the captains replies is
obvious: THE United States is practi-
cally without q merchant marine"
American women never fail to frown
upon hearing this statement From the
lips Of a foreigner the fact is driven home
TO them more forcefully than in reading
in the Congressional Record and the
newspapers that at different periods in
the last forty years Presidents Of the
United States have directed attention 10
our shipping in the foreign trade; that
committees and commissions Of Congress
have investigated and reinvestigated the
subject from time TO time, and that in
almost every one Of the last twenty
Congresses the American shipping ques-
ton" has appeared in bulky document
form.
On the face Of it, the subject does not
sound ike an interesting one to women.
yet It becomes absorbing when it touches
the American pride and anybody with
drop Of patriotism in his blood feels
that a slight is put upon the United States
In suppressing the Stars and Stripes upon
the sea.
Most women remember 10 have heard
1t said that one argument against an
American merchant marine is that If we
conducted our commerce by means OF
our own trading vessels. and var should
break out, there would be no means of
continuing the commerce in case the yes
sels were pressed into war service-as
they would be found TO be That always
seemed an adequate argument. especially
If IL came from a husband OF a father
who occupied a seat in Congress. An
other side Of the question IS presented
when, for two months. a woman behoIds
hundreds and hundreds Of flags OF other
nations IN foreign ports and upon the
ocean highways and her own but twice,
II looks as II Uncle sam were careless
Of his dignity abroad: as IL he were either
the least bit timid or a little too depend
ent upon the enterprise Of British and
German trading service.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-20

in the ear? " ''"si"s
Pepper-Answer the phone.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-20
lAL COMPLIMENTS Los ANGELES SCHOOLS
Report by Pbury Attracts Much Favorable
This City n
itorial 4 Sacror, rrptop

Mr.. Pillsbury of the state board OF
examiners has done a most marked
service to the state by his persistent
and successful efforts to improve the
scholastic reform and penal institu-
tons OF California. He has been tire
less In his search for the best products
OF modern skill and philanthropy and
while many of his recommendations
must doubtless remain in allegiance for
time. tho fact that they have been
made cannot fail to bear fruit I'm due
season.
Mr. Pillsbury has recently returned
from Los Angeles and he has brought
with him some details of n system of
physical examination that is being in
troduCed into the schools of that city.
This system has its origin i'm a recogn-
tion that a very large percentage of
children are suffering from bodily de-
teCts that are easily Curable and that
vet constitute n most serious bar to
education 1t has therefore been ar
ranged that all children shall undergo
an examination by experts upon their
admission to the schools. If physical
defects are found to exist a notification
to that effect is sent to the parents,
and any aid that can be rendered to-
them either i'm the way of further ad-
vice or even of skilled medical atten-
tiun will he at their service, In addl-
ton to the cure of actual deficiencies
the authorities have determined to un-
dertake n most elaborate study of child
anthropometry in order to secure data
bearing upon every phase of child life,
so that the best physical results may
be secured I'm every instance.
Mr.. Pillsbury points out that remedi-
able defects are far more numerous In
childhood than is usually supposed,
and that they exercise a most perni- !
cious influence both upon mind and
character. Among these defects are
adenoid growths In the throat, enlarged |
tonsils, deficient sight and hearing and
weaknesses of many kinds from over
growth. dietary errors and malnutri |
ton. Many of these are so gradual
and insidious in their appearance that
hey entirely escape the attention of
parents who are themselves aften un- |
aware of their gravity, even if they
knew of their existence. Nearly all
hese defects have a direct influence
lpon the mind, in some cases produc-
ng an appearance of stupidity with its
Inevitable results in discouragement, |
oss of incentive, sullenness, and per-
laps a ruinous sense of injustice and |
If being misunderstood. Nothing Is so
Elastic as the character of a child, and |
so ready to receive impulses
ind tendencies that will be lifelong.
Now it seems impossible to exagger-
tie the Importance of such work as
his. 1t will be underrated only by the
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-20
ART CHAT

Mrs. "Jack" Gardners superb collec-
tion of paintings are not massed In one
room, i'm one gallery, as is the usual
custom. but are hung with wonderful
discretion about the beautiful Gardner
house. A room, in some cases, will be
devoted TO single masterpiece, and
in no instance does a wall boast more
than two, or at most three, pictures.
Pictures are not painted to be hung
side by side, frame touching frame,
along great wall" Mrs. Gardner said
one day. Hung so, they are at a
great disadvantage. and it is very DIM
cult, IL is almost impossible, properly
to appreciate them"
She smiled.
They who hang their pictures so"
she said, "remind me, in their lack OF
all feeling for art, OF a boy and his
father in a picture gallery.
"As the two looked at the picture,
the boy said:
Father why have they all got
frames?"
"The father murmured impatiently:
$50 that the artists can tell where
TO stop. you blockhead.'
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-20
LIQUOR TRAFFIC PROFITS

San Francisco reports a proposition
for control of it's retail liquor traffic that
is similar in one respect to the Gothen-
burg proposition in Los Angeles. The
California Liquor association has for
mally asked the San Francisco board
of Supervisors to advertise for bids
for the exclusive privilege of selling
liquor and conducting saloons in the
city for the next twenty years" The
association offers to form a corporation
willing to pay $1,OOOOOO a year to the
city, or to give per cent of the gross
receipts for the desired franchise.
The offer is not likely to be accepted.
AS financial proposition, in the first
place, 1t is ridiculously low. Perhaps 1t
is true as claimed that the scheme
would yield larger revenue to the city
than was derived from the traffic prior
to the calamity. There is not much
force in that consideration, however. as
the cost of an annual license was only
$S4 a year. but little more than one
tenth the figure ruling in Los Angeles.
~ hOdih b1 a Spod DuolASGH 6pcCuld-
tion, probably, for a corporation to pay
S5,O00,0OO a year for an exclusive fran
chise to retail liquors in San Francisco.
There were about 1000 places in the city
where liquors were retailed. If they
averaged profit Of only $1,000 a year
the total profit would be. at that rate.
$4,OOOOO0 a year; and there is hardly a
doubt that the average profit was far
above $1,000
But there is no further comparison
between the proposition broached in
San Francisco and the one offered by
the sponsors Of the Gothenburg system
for Los Angeles. No details of the San
Francisco proposition have been sub
mitted, but as the scheme emanates
from a liquor association. it may be as
sumed that the purpose is TO work Il
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-20

for all the money obtainable. What
that would mean. IN the municipal
environment Of San Francisco may be
readily imagined.
The main purpose Of the Los Angeles
Cothenburg promoters would not be in
evidence In tho San Francisco plan.
That is 20 say. the moral and social
aspect-the fundamental object OF rig
orous reform i'm the liquor trafHc-would
be eliminated. In Los Angeles the
Gothenburgers aim to make radical
reform In the liquor business the pri-
mary consideration. entirely eiimi-
mating that of profit. The only flnan-
cial return to the promoters would be
interest on their investment, at a rate
per cent below the standard legal rate
In California.
Rehabilitation of the liquor traffic in
San francisco will afford an interesting
subject for study in Los Angeles and
other California cities.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-20
"MYKYsTE, LYDY"

Joseph Choate, at dinner in New
York, described the pronunciation of
the London cockney in an amusing
manner.
Mr.. Choate told how, in the past ten
years, the long 'i' sound has taken
precedence over all others in cockney
speech, and in illustration he repeated
a dialogue between an American tourist
and the cockney conductor of one of
the new motor omnibuses.
"The tourist, a young woman" said
Mr. Choate, "opens her poe etbook as
the conductor approaches her, and says:
"A ticket, please
"'Wot sly, lydy?
"I want a ticket
WARE fur?'
Why, to get up town.
THE conductor looks annoyed
But ware to hup town? he asks.
Then, appealingly: 'Urry up, lydy.
Don't tike all dye
Noting HILL
Noting i'll or Noting ill Gyte sta
tion?'
"Gyte station
"The conductor scowls at the young
woman. for, unconsclously, she has
mimicked his cockney pronunciation
of the word gate. Then he gives her
her ticket and says:
ERE you hare. And 'ere's you
chynge. Mykyste.'
THE young woman, smiling, replies,
as she pockets her huge English cop
pers:
Thank you. I am a-myking 'yste.
"And the conductor, scowling as black
as thunder scloud withdraws."
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-20
CONFISCATE THE SAUSAGE
Health Inspectors Seize Contents of
Newark Butchers Establish
ment With Preservatives
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
NEWARK, N. j., June 19-City
health inspectors today confiscated the
contents of Harry Rosenthals bologna
sausage establishment.
They claim to have found the uten-
slls, machinery and the room in general
reeking with filth and vermin.
Four baskets of meat, said to have
the appearance of scraps picked up
from the floors of butcher shops. dirt
and sawdust being present in abun-
dance, were seized by the inspectors,
together with other scraps of meat
which were said to be decaying in the
sausage making machines.
Preservative solutions and coloring
matter also were taken by the authori-
ties.
Rosenthal declared that for five
months he had worked under arrange
ments with number of butchers for
whom he had furnished the materials to
be ground into sausage. He said he
received 81 for every 100 pounds turned
out. The butchers sold the product,
he said, for 12 cents a pound.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-20

ignorant and the Indifferent. II has
been said that the dawn of civillza.
tion is always marked by the improved
status of women. If that is so, it is
no less true that the perfection of civ-
lliza tion is heralded by increased in
teligence i'm the care of the young
This is essentially the day Of the chill
dren. Never before have education and
child study received so much sympa-
thetic attention as they do now, but
the attention has been mainly to the
mind and the morals rather than TO
the body. If the education of the mind
is a fit subject for government control
to the extent that 1t has been made
compulsory, why should 1t not be n
duty equally great to see to 1t that
there are no physical deficiencies that
cloud the mind and directly initiate
against every educational effort?
The example of Los Angeles ought
to he followed wherever the instruction
of children Is undertaken. 1t need not
necessarily be done upon so large a
scale or with so many appliances.
There are some half dozen common de-
fects that disclose themselves in a mo-
ment to the trained eye and that can
easily be remedied. To leave them un-
remedied is to insure a fourth-rate cit
izen. That is neither good sense nor
good economy. IL u child, through a
physical defect loses half the educa-
tional advantages that it might have
gained, then half the cost incurred on
behalf of that child has been wasted.
Among the Los Angeles children 1t has
been found that 25 per cent are affect
ed. That means that henceforth one
quarter of the children of Los Angeles
will be better men and women than
they would otherwise have been but
for the enlightened policy of the
authorities. These children will be
brighter and happier because they will
be healthier. They will be better edu-
Gated and they Will therefore be better
citizens. Instead of being forced into
the back ranks of life by q trivial de-
feet they will be in the front ranks.
This is result that justifies any labor
and any expense.
AS a matter of fact the cost would
be very light. A medical examination
IF a few minutes would be enough for
the main purpose. Such an examina-
ton would disclose the chief enemies
to healthy growth and the parents
could then be informed that some little
operative aid was needed, that the food
Of the child should be changed, or
that candy as an almost exclusive deit
leaves much to be desired. Such a
system is so obviously recommended
BY common sense that it's adoption
ought to be universal. 1t would GER
tainly have a marked tendency to
lessen the flood of degeneracy that
seems to be constantly increasing
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-20
DUST CLOUDS ON EUCLID AVE.
Citizens Demand That Street Railroad
Company OIL Its Part of
the Street

| LOS ANGELES, June 49,. (Editor
HERALD: 1 beg to call your attention to
the fact that the street railroad COM
pany running cars upon Euclid avenue
has never oiled it's portion of the street
which it uses for it's own purposes.
The tracks have been down about two
years. and though the residents on
Euclid avenue have made an effort
through the city authorities, to have
the road finish its work, nothing as yet
has been done by the railroad company
toward oiling :ts portion of the street.
1 personally have had 'everal inter-
views with Mr.. Hanley upon this sub
ject, also have written him, and have
had several huge anG promising
promises from our affable, honest, hard
working street superintendent, but
nothing has come of it.
Cannot the citizens living on Euclid
avenue and adjacent streets club to-
gether and hire an attorney to COM
mence action against the railroad COM
pany to compel it to finish its work,
and If it refuses to do it cannot the
residents commence action agGinst the
company for damages?
To the citizens on Euclid avenue this
dust nuisance has become intolerable
and an everlasting chamo and disgrace
upOll Tic Jill Odu COIlpdlly"
The travel by horses or automobiles
on the street amounts to but little. 1t
is the railroad company who is the Of
fender against the law, society, lawns,
gardens, houses, furnishings. and in
fact against all personal effects of the
owners who live on Euclid avenue.
There seems no method or no way to
protect oneself against the clouds of
dust which follow in the wake of each
car from early dawn 10 midnight. One
cannot sit upon ones own porch,
neither upon ones own lawn without
being engulfed in cloud of dust night
and day as the cars whirl by on the
street.
1 know that we have valuable fur
niture, delicate draperies, expensive
rugs, etc, which are getting ruined by
this accursed dust, that the house,
keepers are steadily drifting toward an
open revolution against the railroad
company and that some f the women
will be in the mad house in a few
months time unless something is done
soon toward abating this outrage daily
committed by the railroad company.
S. A. SPRAGUE,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-20

President S. A. Buffers reply to
Governor Pardee is a simple reiteration
of the fact, now fully understood, that
the governor promised to put the con-
solidation matter in his call and then
went back on his promise. Mr.. Butler
proves the correctness of his state
ment by Postmaster flint and Walter
Haas. two competent witnesses. The
subject has been threshed out to a
point where the gelatinous backbone Of
the governor is once more exposed, and
all that the situation leeds now is Par
give Southern California to express its
opinion of him will be promptly seized
and acted upon.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-20
NORWAY GREETS
KING AND QUEEN
ROYALTY RESTS IN CAPITAL
OF hAAK0N THE GOOD
Danish Guns Boom sslute--Ruer
Tells Kalsers Representative
That He ls Delighted With
Wllhelm's Visit
lY Assnclated Presa.

by Associated Press.
TRONDHJEM, June licking Haak-
on VII, his queen and his son, rest to-
night in the ancient capital of Haakon
the Good, where Norway was first cre-
ated a nation.
They came at $3.50 O'Clock this even
ing in the gunboat Heimdal, amid
scenes of picturesqueness befitting the
occasion.
The elaborate preparations for their
reception had hardly been completed
before crowds began to congregate
along the route of the procession from
the pier to the palace, on the break
water and bluffs marking the entrance
on the hills trimming the harbor.
At five minutes after o'clock the
guns of the Danish warship Hecla
doomed the fbyal salute, giving the
crowds the announcement that the
kings yacht was approaching.
The members of the royal family
speedily landed and shook hands with
the assembled members of the diplo-
matte corps, the municipal officials and
army and navy officers. The king con-
versed briefly with several of the dip
lomats and told the German minister,
DIR. Steubel, that he was delighted with
the prospective visit of Emperor Will
liam.
The municipality presented an ad-
dress of welcome for which King
Haakon returned his thanks. Then,
taking Crown Prince Olaf in his arms.
the king, accompanied by Queen Maud,
entered carriage and escorted by a
troop of cavalry drove to the palace
through cheering crowds. Throngs of
people surrounded the palace for hours
and cheered the king and queen when
they appeared at window.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-20
COUNT WITTE is RESTING
With Wife and Grandson He Forgets
Cares of State
BY Associated Press.


VICHY, France, June 19.-Count Wit
tie, the former premier of Russia, who
came here for a rest, his health being
somewhat impaired by the hard work
and worry of the premiership, refuses
to be quoted in connection with Rus
sian politics, taking the ground that it,
would be not only against his PERSONAL
interests, but also against the interests
of his country.
On this condition he was pleased to
receive a correspondent of the Asso-
ciated Press, who had known him at
the Portsmouth peace conference, and
have a long and interesting conve~sa-
ton. The Russian statesman has the
companionship of his wife and his
grandson, 16 months old, to whom the
count is devotedly attached.
Whites colossal figure now bears a
more melancholy air than when in
America, as though many of his il
lusions had vanished. In one thing
he is entirely Interchangeable still con-
stantly smokes cigarettes which ne
puffs from his customary exaggeratedly
long holder.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-20
OPPOSE RECoINAGE PLAN
Westerners See IN 1t Plan
for Contraction of
Silver
BY Associated Press.


WASHINGTON, June 19.-Decided
opposition sprang up in the house over
the bill providing for the recoinage of
abraded and uncurrent dollars and sub
sidiary coin, representatives from the
southern and western states insisting
that the bill meant the contraction of
the silver in circulation.
Mr.. Clark of Missouri led the fight
against the bill on the ground that it
was scheme to contract the currency.
The bill provides that not more than
five dollars of abraded and uncurrent
silver dollars may be coined into dimes,
quarters and halves. This Mr.. Clark
said meant eventually the complete re-
tirement of the silver dollar.
Mr.. Clark said If he was secretary of
the treasury he would have all the sill
yer dollars piled up in the treasury
vaults in circulation, statement which
the Democrats loudly applauded.
Two-third not having voted for the
bill it failed Of passage.
The vote stood lis to 90.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-20
BRINGS INDIANS AS GUARDS
Pacific Coast Steamship Company
Puts ChlIkats on Duty
In Strike
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 19.-There is
no change in the situation on the water
front and the strike among the coasting
sailors is still maintained.
The Umatilla, arriving from Seattle,
ceeded in getting some men to take
the places of the union sailors who left
and the vessel sailed for Mendocno.
The Umatilla arriving from Seattle
was manned by a non-union crew, and
if the men remain on board it is prob
able they will be shifted to the steamer
Queen, thus allowing that steamer to
sail for the north on her scheduled
date.
1t is reported that the Pacific Coast
Steamship company is bringing from
Alaska about 100 Chilkat Indians to
take the place of the union sailors.
They will also be used as guards on
the docks of the company.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-20

Many Southern California cities have
come promptly to the support Of Los
Angeles in it's effort to get a bill
through congress providing for right of
way proceedings across government
lands for the owens river water supply.
The people of Los Angeles appreciate
this help-all the more because some OF
IL comes from cities that can have no
material interest, other than neighbor-
liness and the general prosperity OF this
section. in the enterprise. Congress
man Smith OF Bakersfield has evidently
been impressed by the demonstration,
as he Is now making an effort 10 get
back on the right track.