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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-24
THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

At the recent national conference of
charities at Minneapolis DIR. Kellogg of
Michigan came forward with the cheer
full statement that within 300 years the
United States will be a nation of dis
eased imbeciles. In 1910, which brings
the matter much nearer home, Dr.
Kellogg believes there viii be fifty
times as many deaths from heart dis
ease as there are now, six times as
many cancer cases and five times as
many deaths from Brights disease.
Not a very alluring prospect, is it?
d.. Kellogg says. though, by way of
comfort. that if the physicians and
good health promotion organizations
will study harder and take more in
terest in their work his doleful proph-
ecy will not be fulfilled. But if it is
the mortality total from all diseases
will aggregate $4,000, 900 people a year
And we couldn't possibly last very long
at that rate.
Most Of us viii turn gladly from DIR.
Kellogg's dark picture to the bright
one presented by Sir Frederick Treves,
physician TO King Edward Of England.
Sir Frederick says that all the hospitals
for infectious diseases, such as typhoid,
scarlet fever. diphtheria, cholera and
the like, will be forced out of business
because there will be no need for them.
People ultimately. in the opinion of Sir
Frederick, will quit the extraordinary
habit of taking medicine when sick"
They viii adopt sane methods of liv-
ing, with plenty of fresh air and light,
regular hours of work, recreation and
rest BY these methods. and as the re-
suit of an intelligent warfare waged by
sanitary engineers, physicians and
health boards, typhoid will become as
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-24
WoMEN AND THEIR RIGHTS.

The New York court of appeals, the
highest legal tribunal in the state, has
confirmed the decision of the appellate
declared unconstitutional an act pro-
hibiting the employment of women in
factories at night or between the hours
of o'clock in the evening and O'Clock
in the morning. The court below held
that, while the legislature had the
right to limit the working hours of
women at night in factories and in in
dustrial establishments generally, ii
did not have the right to fix hours dur
ing which they might not be permitted
to work.
For example, under the law, if a wo-
man worked ten minutes after {
o'clock in the evening, her employer
was guilty of a violation of the statute
even though the ten minutes constitut-
ed the woman's entire working day
This was regarded as obviously unfair
and it was. Now the higher court goes
further. II says that the legislature
went outside its. province when ii
sought to prevent an adult female citi-
zen from working at any time of the
day that suits her. We are further in
formed by the honorable court that
women are entitled to all the rights
of citizenship under our laws" and
that they ARE entitled to be placed on
an equality of rights with man."
That certainly is very kind in the
court The inestimable privilege of
working all night belongs to women,
but it seems to us that the court rather
goes outside the facts when it speaks
of women having all the rights of men,
We agree that she is entitled to all the
rights, but does she have them, saving
and excepting the right to work all
day and all night? For example. wo-
men are not permitted to vote in New
York. The men vote and elect public
officers entirely without giving the wo-
men a chance to participate.
The legislators elected by the men
make laws for the government of the
women. 1t will be said that the wo-
men do have a voice. That much is
granted. They do. even in New 1ork,
WELD a tremendous influence in poll
tics And their influence is all for good
1t would be impossible to elect any
man to Office in New York if the wo-
men of the state united against him.
The voting men just couldn't hold out
against them. But the fact remains
that the ballot is withheld from them
and that as long as 1t is withheld the
New York courts and the New York
newspapers have nightly little ground
men all their rights.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-24
WHY BuNDRIck PAID.

George w Bundrick was hanged at
COrdele, Ga, Friday for a murder COM
mitted more than a year ago. He gave
himself up TO an officer of the law,
knowing when he did so that death
would be his portion. But life was not
very sweet to Bundrick. Every wax
ing moment he was haunted by fear of
the law: he never saw a man approach
him without considering the possibility
that the stranger might be an officer
with a warrant of arrest in his pocket.
After Bundrick had murdered a
neighbor he fed to South America.
There he was located several months
be tried. He was tried twice. Both
times he was convicted and sentenced
to die. After the second sentence he
escaped from jail. This was last No.
vember, and no trace of him was found
until he walked into the sheriff's office
and gave himself up. He announced
that he knew what the penalty would
be and that he was ready to pay it.
"Oh, wretched man that l am. who
shall deliver me from the body of this
reference was to an ancient and very
cruel form of punishment. To the form
of the murderer the body of his victim
was attached and he was compelled to
wander with the corpse until death
overlook him. There is a mental as
well as a physical body of death.
Bundrick could have told what it
means to walk daily with a figurative
corpse
The wonder is that he was not will
ing, after those months in South Amer
lea, 10 pay the price of his crime. Per-
haps he thought he could forget it. The
sequel shows that he couldn't. Day
and night, every hour, every moment,
the recollection was with him. He could
not get away from it any more than he
could get away from the air. His only
avenue of escape was the avenue of
death. And at last he realized the
fact. He is resting quietly now for the
first time since he slew his neighbor
resting quietly in the grave.
The abnormal criminal will say that
Bundrick was not a strong man. Harry
Orchard, for example, the man who
swore that he was a hired assassin.
does not seem to have suffered single
pang over the fate of his victims. But
Bundrick was a normal man. And no
normal man can ever take a step into
crime without suffering for it, regard
less of the processes of the law.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-24
RAILROADS IN ENGLAND.

1t seems strange that, while in the
United States strenuous efforts to pre-
vent the consolidation of the railroad
interests are under way. in England a
movement for consolidation has been
started, and it is meeting with great
favor. This not only among the rail-
road men, but among shippers and the
general public. The president of the
London board of trade, Lloyd George,
has the matter in hand Mr.. George
goes on record as believing that there
can be no really comprehensive cheap
cning of railroad traffic unless the
management of all our railways are
united" Commenting on this, the Iron
and Coal Trades Review SAYS:
Half the expenses of working mer-
chandise traffic on our lines arise from
the divided management, divided inter-
ests, divided accounts and all the diff
ferent sets of directors, share and
stockholders, added to the actual work
necessitated by making up trains and
doing everything several times over in
stead of once
With English railroads capitalized
at an average of over 100000 a mile,
against an average of s67 900 a mile for
all American roads, and with freight
rates on their roads which would not
be tolerated i'm this country, so exor-
bitant are they as compared with
American roads, there is no wonder the
English people are anxious for some
improvement through which they may
secure lower rates, hence the agitation
of consolidation and combination in or
der that they may come somewhat
nearer getting the advantages which
the people of this country enjoy in the
way of low freight rates"
Great Britain has a population of
more than AZ, 600, 900 and only 121, 900
square miles of area. This is less than
half the area of the state of Texas
Thus in Great Britain the transporta-
ton interests are all within a limited
area. The population is dense and the
traffic heavy. 1t would seem that
cheaper rates for the transportation of
freight and passengers should be Sc
cured.
The wages paid are not, on the aver
age. anything like as high as the
American scale for similar services.
The trouble seems to lie in the divided
arrangements, the lack of traffic agree
ments and entente cOrdiale between
the companies. The average cost of
transporting freight in the United
States is O.7S cents per ton. In Eng
land the average cost is $50 cents per
ton. There certainly is something
wrong somewhere about the English
that they are doing business with the
public at as low rates as they can and
leave a small margin of profit
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-24

rare as IAN attack by a wolf in city
streets" and all the other diseases now
so much dreaded will be notable only
for their absence.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-24
THE NEvER-DIE KIND.
Cst. Joseph CMo9, News-Press

(St. Joseph (Mo), News-Press)
Mrs Wise-Mme. Seven told me yester-
day that she had to go to the dentists to
have a nerve killed.
Mr.. Wise-According to the bill she's
just rendered for your new spring dress.
he evidently didn't succeed in killing her
nerve.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-24

The After the BALI man will be
jealous now. For the author OF Oar
ling Nellie Gray a tablet was recently
unveiled in Ohio. Sometimes we al
most think the song writer is better
advertised than the man for whom a
cigar is named
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-24

California can afford to view with
equanimity the wine growers tumult
in France, because it cannot fail to
have the effect of increasing the de-
mand for American wine
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-24

From London comes the report that
the hotels there are full of Americans.
Here's hoping all of them have seen
America FIRST.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-17
NOT PLAYING POLITICS

In the selection of DIR. Edward Robe
son Taylor to be mayor of San Fran
cisco Mr.. Rudolph spreckels and his
confreres, Messrs .Heney and Lang
don, have abundantly demonstrated
that they are not playing politics"
DR.. Taylor is an old and well known
citizen of California, dean of the Hast
ings law college and repeatedly presi-
dent of the San Francisco Bar ,associ-
alton. He is distinguished in the courts
of the state as lawyer and also as a
writer on medical Jurisprudence.
1t is not likely that DR.. Taylor will
have any other interest in the mayor
atty of San Francisco than that of
serving all the people of that city
fearlessly, efficiently and to the resur-
rection of his municipality from it's
burial in the dust and ashes of fire,
earthquake and graft.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-17
DRUMMER KISSES HER
Soubrette's Song Proves Irresistible
to an Ardent Admirer

Local theatrical managers are finding
that it is dangerous-though not fatal-to
introduce a kissing song among their
stunts. Pretty little Kate Carlson, the
dancing soubrette at Fischer's First
street theater, found that out last night
when from both sides of the house she
was assailed by amorous young men who
wished to take her at her word and
Kiss her, kiss her, kiss her." One of
them finally succeeded-but there's the
story.
The company was playing the farce
"School Days" in the course of which
Miss Carlson sang KISS Me-" She came
far out to the foot1ights, and on bended
knees assured the front row that she
would not refuse them" Monte Good
man, a local cigar man, took her at her
word and started for the stage. She re-
treated, laughing, and went to the other
side. But the audience liked 1t, and she
was recalled four times. Each time he
made a try to take her at her word, but
the last time she appeared he refused>to
let her turn him down and shook his
head. The school master shouted out:
IT dare you"
Never took a dare yet" said young
Goodman, and he climbed the stage. The
smack could be heard above the music,
as we'll as the envious murmurings from
about hundred less fortunate men.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-17
LITTLE RECORDS IDEA d.
OF THE NEW HERALD

The final decree has not been entered'
nor is 1t likely to be made for some time
to come, in the announced divorce of the
Los Angeles Herald from the Times, is
the opinion of most persons who read in
the Sunday issues of these two papers
that The Herald has been sold to Thomas
e. Gibbon, late chief counsel for the Salt
Lake railroad Mrs. M. G. Lobdell and her
young son, w. r. Burke, d. K. Trask,
former superior court judge, and others
The fear is that the old Herald has not
wandered far from the generals f1reside
When The Herald was purchased by
Gen. Otis and Harry Chandler. in the
name of S. A. Perkins, who acted for
them, the Times made denial of its in
terest in the heretofore rival newspaper.
Mr.. Gbbon is a southern Democrat,
strong and successful man. A few years
ago he was very active in state and local
politics and became q recognized leader.
Mr.. Burke and Max Loewenthal, also Of
the new board of directors, a1ave been very
successful in business and always take an
active interest in politics in the interest
of good and clean government.
TThe Record need not entertain any mis-
givings as to the entire independence of
The Herald. It's present owners are the
owners in fact, and have no connection
with any other newspaper or PERSONS
Editor Herald.1
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-17
TASTE FOR LITERATURE

The goat learned soul is he!
He takes a tome upon his knee,
And be 1t ever so profound.
In rarest lore though II abound,
Expounded by some ancient sage,-
Yet he'll devour 1t page by page
With careless mien and free.
Were goat 'twould make me gloat
In glee!
For as the matter stands with me,
1 delve in books INCREASINGLY;
Yet some I read of vast portent
And never know just what they meant
fear with sorrow be 1t said)
My stomach's stronger than my head
A dreadful way to be-!
That's why I'd gloat, were ! a goat,
You see.
The goat a cultured taste has he,
And catholic as 1t can be.
Through libraries he'll browse with zest
And find no works he can't digest.
Though nowadays there's stuff that's writ
Would give a goat a coughing flt,
Or so 1t seems TO me,
But, ah! the goat a husky throat
Has he.
with clever perspicacity
I've learned thing that startled me.
Since l myself have writ a book
l scan reviews with anxious look
And all the papers that read
Have hired goat to do the deed
IT'S true as true can be,
And much I've wrote has smote goal
Or stuck, 1 fear, within his throat.
All me!
Burgess Johnson in Harpers
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-17
A VICTORY

The board of equalization decided
last night to make no reductions in the
valuations made by County Assessor
Ben Ward upon any of the public
service corporations doing business in
Los Angeles county.
This is distinct victory for the peo-
pie, who were satisfied that Mr.. Ward
had exercised fairness in his estimates
and were determined that his decisions
should be maintained.
1t rs also a personal victory for
Robert G.. Loucks, who, as the repre-
sentative of many taxpayers, had ap-
peared before the board and voiced the
sentiments of the community.
A few more victories such as these
and we shall have reasonably fair as
sessments in Los Angeles county.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-17
NAVAL BASES

The coming of our battleships to Pa
ciflc ports opens the question of naval
bases. and cognate needs, for their
equipment.
For coast defense we have we'll nigh
impregnable harbors, from Puget sound
to San Diego, and Honolulu can rapidly
be made so. Our Philippine possessions
cannot be so readily depended upon,
however, and principally because of
difficulty of carrying and storing coal
there in large quantities
First and last, the greatest need of
our naval fopces is a competent coal
supply and. aside from that to be had
in our own ports, we must depend on
fleet of colliers, in and out Of the
service, and that is never a fixed in
teger in naval war. Admiral Schley
went back to Key West for coal all the
way from eastern Cuba, and not only
lost opportunities thereby but narrow
ly missed thelobjective aim of his COM
mand. 1t did not change this fact
that he afterward destroyed the en-
emy; he might not have had the
chance, and all because the coal sup
ply was so far away.
Coaling at sea from Golfers is very
effective on paper, but does not work
only in smooth water and under the
most favorable conditions, and there is
always the chance of the capture of
the colliers by the enemy's scouts
Manila bay, then, seems to be the
point of greatest interest, and the
placing of great guns on Corrigedor
island and the chartering of many
coal ships to land coal at Cavite, for
possible needs, are steps in the right
direction. With an ample and pro-
tected supply of coal at Cavite and
Honolulu 4. will be an easy matter to
meet all contingencies that may arise
If the Pacific is the theater of naval
war
Japan dare not weaken her forces at
home by detaching an army Of occupa-
ton for Hawaii or Alaska, and the
militant features of war with that
nation would be resolved into deep
water fighting.
Our battleships carry coal sufficient
to cross and recross from Honolulu to
Manila, and so must be masters of the
situation; for time, towing to her fin
ancial troubles, will be the deciding
force in our favor.
If the coming of the fleet results in
nothing else than the development of
naval possibilities on this coast and
ocean, it will not have been in vain.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-17
CLEAN GOVERNMENT

| In gracefully worded note of con-
graduation to the new Herald, Mr..
Stephen Innes, a we'll known and es-
teemed citizen, says:
Under its present ownership The
Herald will occupy unique position,
and 1 sincerely hope it may be used as
mighty weapon, straight arrow, in
furtherance of clean government"
/ Mr.. Innes has struck the keynote of
the usefulness and serviceability to the
people Of courageous, honest daily
newspaper.
"Clean government can only be
achieved by eternal vigilance. and such
vigilance can only be maintained by
the argus eyes of a newspaper edi-
torially devoted to the business of rep
resenting the people-at least until such
time as the people shall become awak-
ened from their oNh lethargy and in
difference to the nee ,ssity of attending
personally to their own public affairs.
Municipal government in th.5 coun-
try has not only not attained proper
has not had a fair opportunity to dem
onstrate the correctness of it's basic
principles. The "town meetin'," with
which we began all our forms of city
government, was fairly successful, and
although this theory of personal rep
resentation was deftly employed to con-
stitute a system, we have. been entirely
carried out of sight from it, until our
present-day efforts at municipal gov
ernment are beclouded with the mys-
teries and corruptions of partisan poll
tics, the Indifference of the people to
the details of government and the care
lessness or rascality of public officials.
We must get back toward the town
meetin'." We must arouse the people
to sense of their own responsibility,
and punish all those who fail to ap-
preciate the honesty and efficiency that
must be required of those who aspire
to serve the public.
In the conduct of it's municipal af-
fairs Los Angeles has reason to be-
lieve that she is little more faithful
and efficient than most cities. Still, it
is the testimony of City Auditor Mush-
ct, recently given, that even in Los
Angeles we have permitted un- Sc and
wasteful practices to become fairly es-
tablished, andi that we must immedi-
ately institute a series of sweeping and
drastic reforms.
"Clean government" therefore, is not
only honest government, but should in
clude efficiency and economy, as well.
And to accomplish such condition
so greatly to be desired-there is no
agency so helpful and so t. as that
of the honest newspaper, which has no
axes to grind, no friends to reward and
no enemies to punish, save and alone
the enemies Of the people.
To this end The Herald pledges its
best efforts, believeing that in contrib
uting to the accomplishment of "clean
government" it is doing the public the
greatest service which a newspaper in
stitution can render to its constituency.
It is determined, therefore, TO be all
that Mr.. Innes so gracefully expresses
the hope that it will be-"a mighty
weapon, straight arrow"-in the
service of the people of Los Angeles
and of California.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-17
A WISE PROPOSITION

At last the business interests of San
Francisco are awakening to the folly
of allowing a trivial matter to endan-
ger trade relations between them and
the orient. The merchants of that city
and the resident japanese business
men are getting together"
In face of serious loss of trade be-
tween San Francisco and the ports of
Japan, leading business men of both
classes are moving to establish an en-
tente cordiale. The purpose is to curb
the influence of the hoodlum class in
San Francisco and of the jingo class
in Japan.
The movement is creditable to the
good sense of the men, both Americans
and Japanese, who have adopted the
get together" policy. 1t IS strange
that the Importance Of the movement
did not lead to earlier action. The
commerce of San Francisco depends
largely on the continuance of friendly
relations with Japan, and a rupture
of those relations would, If course,
mean ruin to Japanese business inter-
ests in California.
Not only San Francisco but every
other community In California is in
terested in the continuance of amicable
relations between this country and
Japan. Los Angeles, next to San
Francisco, is concerned the most, be-
cause of the prospective commerce Of
this city with the orient after COM
pletion of San Pedro harbor
Friendly cooperation between the
San Francisco merchants and represen-
tatives of the resident Japanese would
lay the foundation for future peace.
If the business interests of San Fran
cisco will take energetic measures to
restrain the hoodlums and other mis-
chief-makers who are bent on foment-
ing trouble, the root of danger will be
eliminated. The sane Japanese will be
able to disarmt their jingoes at home if
the San Francisco yawpers are muzzled
by the decent citizenship
Sound business judgment demands
that the two commercial cities of Cali
fornia bend their efforts toward ex-
pansion of commerce in every possible
direction. The chief commercial mark
cts for the trade of California always
must be the countries of vast popula-
tion lying on the other side of the Pa
cific. Japan is sure to be a mighty
factor in these markets and hence the
vital necessity of maintaining friendly
relations with the Japanece people.
All the friction between the United
States ind Japan was generated by the
disorderly element in San Francisco's
population. 1t is obviously proper,
therefore, that the orderly element in
that city, and particularly the business
element, should now strive to undo the
injury by bringing about the proposed
cordial relations with the local Japan
ese business men.
An exhibition of such common sense
Judgment at this time at the storm
center of all the trouble will be more eff,
fective than diplomacy in restoring the
former amity between the two coun
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