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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18
SMOKE INSPECTORS

A N Irishman smiles when he hears
IN the phrase, Dear, dirty Dublin"
IA and a Pennsylvania Dutchman will
''set 'em up to the man who speaks
of Dear, dirty Pittsburg." The love
of old associations actuates both.
What earned notice for Dublin and
Pittsburg has ever been plenty and
sickening in the form of the smoke
nuisance in all its devilish guises. Suf-
fering humanity wheezed and choked
and snorted and swore, and went on its
way, the hope of relief being eternal,
till at last the limit of even Los An
geles patience is reached and the smoke
ordinance is fact.
The health department is to be highly
commended for its gallant fight for the
people: and if the police and other exec
utive forces will be as well to the fore
in making effective this just and sadly
needed law, the populace must call
them blessed.
Inventive genius begat, years ago,
"dinglebobber" warranted to consume
smoke, even from slack coal, and also
to reduce expense in consumption OF
coal; but Los Angeles business men,
who are wont to rise at club tables and
in gatherings in other cities and extol
the beauties of "our glorious climate
and health giving ocean breezes," con-
tinued to vent their hot and raucous
air on eager ears, but refused to give
I'D" a dollar to make the necessary
changes in furnaces.
The dear and deferential people
looked on and swore and hoped for
better day That day is here and VIII
open for business on the ed instant
and every man, woman and child who
has suffered from this gratuitous and
aggravating cause is hereby and herein
constituted a special constable to rub
Der" all the smokestacks in town on
and after that fateful day and promptly
report any owner Of a smokestack out
of which dense smoke pours for more
than ten consecutive minutes.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18
BEET CULTURE

~ UGAR BEETS have played and
are playing a prominent part in the
~ commercial arena of Southern Cal
ifornia, and wise investment is paving
the way to a much greater growth of
this industry. Some 1000 acres of land
around Oxnard are in beets for that
factory, and the several plants of this
section of the state all report an
increased acreage this year.
The sugar beet factory means an
added pay roll to the communal wealth,
and all such pay rolls in the southern
counties stay the Los Angeles markets.
Kansas City is city of pay rolls, hence
a marvellous object lesson in municipal
growth, and as beet sugar and other
factories multiply in and around this
city permanent extension will follow
both in people and property.
If there is (and there should be-
praise for the man who makes two
blades of grass to grow where but one
grew before, surely the keys of the city
should be surrendered to the man who
makes two wheels to turn where but
one turned before.
The man and money used to propa-
gate sugar beets are the factors for the
turning of many wheels, and as wheels
mean wealth, it is the privilege and
duty of all the people to say and do all
in their power to encourage beet Gull
ture and cognate industries
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Reviews Achievement
fin Navigation of the Air

wing machine and the helicoptor or di-
rect life machine The aeroplane OBJ
tains its lifting capacity by being forced
against the air by vertical propellers at
a speed so great that the pressure on
the under side, properly inclined, Wa
cause it to rise and maintain its course
through the air, either parallel with the
earth or at varying angles. The orthop-
ter is a close imitation Of the bird, with
Tapping wings, but in merely soaring or
gliding 1t would have the attributes OF
tho aeroplane. The helicopter, or hell
ish-copter as its friends jokingly call 1t,
depends upon driving efficient horizontal
screws or propellers at a speed great
enough to pull the machine vertically or
obliquely into the air
The French war dirigible La Patrie is
a true type of the lighter than air. The
Santos Dumont No. 16 Is a heavier than
air apparatus, using gas as means of
lifting the greater part of the weight.
Horizontal planes were expected to lift
the small balance, but an accident In the
trial of this machine, or balloon, pre-
vented an actual test of it's possibilities.
A later invention of the same type, the
Malecot, achieved a short fight, but also
came to grief. Both accidents were due
to other causes than to the application of
this idea itself.
There is no machine of the gasless type
which combines all three classes. To IL
lustrate the aeroplane we would take as
the best example that of Wilbur and Or
Vile Wright of Dayton. They have
adopted the two-plane glider introduced
by Chanute and Herring. The Gammeter
orthopter would be a true specimen of
that class; and the Kimball model an ex-
ample of the helicopter.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18
wEBB'S AWAKENING


4 TTORNEY GENERAL wEBB'S
u awakening after his long slumber
- has once more aroused the hope
in the hearts of the people that the rail-
road officials who have openly confessed
to giving rebates in California may be
punished. What CONSERVATION there
must be in the camp of the railroad
machine politicians if the rumor that
Loveland has brought about this awak-
Francisco that the new member of the
railway commission took the initiative
in asking Attorney General Webb for
instructions as to the proper method of
procedure in cases where rebating had
been exposed.
Several months ago The Herald
brought to the personal attention of the
railway commissioners and Attorney
General Webb the section of the state
constitution which reads:
ANY railroad corporation or trans
portation company which shall fail or
refuse to conform to such rates as shall
be established by such commissioners,
or shall charge rates in excess thereof,
or shall fail to keep their accounts in
accordance with the system prescribed
by the commission, shall be fined not
exceeding $4,000 for each offense, and
every officer, agent or employee of any
such corporation or company who shall
demand or receive rates in excess
thereof, or who shall in any manner
violate the provisions of this section,
shall be fined not exceeding $4,000, or
be imprisoned in the county jail not
exceeding one year"
The Herald also called the attention
of these officials to the fact that cer-
tain railway officials had admitted to
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Franklin K. Lane that they had given
rebates. Some weeks later a Herald
tried to get from Governor Gillett the
assurance that his appointee to the
vacancy on the railway commission
caused by the forced resignation of An
drew Wilson, the self-confessed boodler,
would be a man who would prosecute
bAC 6dAily ACOdbCl At bAAC oN95N
of prosecution Governor Gillett flew
into rage and denounced The Herald
for its action in the rebating case. He
declared The Herald should not force
his hand. Since then H. d. Loveland
has been appointed to the railway COM
mission. No one expected him to act.
His past record and his first public
utterances seemed to assure the rebat-
ers of their immunity from prosecution.
Now comes the astounding, but none
the less welcome, action from this unex-
pected source. Only lack of unanimity
on the railway board can prevent the
rebaters from being quickly brought to
account. Attorney General Webbs
assurance that he Will give the COM
missioners his support is comforting.
Shippers and consumers are watching
this action with deep interest.
The Herald has no inclination to criti-
cize any official who shows desire to
do his duty. our full and enthusiastic
support is pledged to any action that
may be taken to enforce the laws of
the state.
Get together, Messrs. Commissioners.
Your duty is plain.
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RAILROAD NEWS

Local passenger traffic men are indig-
nant over the action of the Chicago MEM
bers in attempting to have the meeting
of the Transcontinental Passenger asso-
citation, which is scheduled for San Diego
next month, held In Chicago instead. 1t
is claimed that twice before events have
occurred to take the meeting away from
Southern California.
Foreigners of many nationalities, who
are out of employment and unable to
secure work, are leaving for the old
country al the rate OF about fifty or sixty
each week, according to statements of
those in charge of the local steamship
agencies which book most of this class of
travel.
The steamship men claim that in most
cases these people expect to return to
this country again as soon as the financial
situation improves.
1t is reported that the Pacific Fruit
express has begun work rebuilding the
ice plant at Las Vegas, New. The old
plant was burned about a year ago and
the desert region about Las Vegas was
without Ice all last summer. The new
plant will have double the capacity of the
old one.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18
HEARD AROUND
HOTEL CORRIDORS

Fl. A. Hicks and wife of indianapolis
are at the Lankershim after several
weeks absence. Mr. Hicks Is prominent
hotel man of the Hoosier state and Is said
to be casting about in Southern California
with a view of buying or leasing some
high class resort hotel :
]. r. Hankla, we'll known here in hotel
circles, having been at one time one of
the proprietors of the Broadway hotel
and who removed to Topeka, Kas., last
July, has returned to Los Angeles with
his family and expects to locate here per-
mdnently. He is now staying at the
Broadway, but is unable to say at pres
ent just what his future course in bust
ness way will be.
Col Charles F. Hunt, prominent cat
tleman of Ell Paso, Tex, is registered at
the Hollenbeck.
B. f. Miller a stage owner and mer-
chant of Carson, New, is a guest at the
Hollenbeck.
Frank Salmon, a San Diego business
man and mine owner, is staying at the
Hollenbeck.
William L. Price of Oakland, connected
with the Tribune OF that city, is at the
Hollenbeck.
William Corbin, well known politician
of San Francisco, is registered at the
Westminster.
Sam II. Nicloes and ]. II. Schively of
OLYMPIA. Wash, the former being secre-
tary of state of Washington, are guests
at the Angelus.
Frank L. Brown and Gen. v. Engineer,
both of San Francisco and both connected
with the San Juan Portland Cement com
pany of that city, are registered at the
Alexander.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18
CRISP AND CLEAN
LOCAL BUCKET SHOPS

HyHAT the bucket shop" is a real
menace to the homes of Los Angeles
II is proved by what has happened in
other populous centers where the detest-
able game has been harbored. God
fearing men, leaving their daily tasks
to pray with and for the wayfarer OF
the streets, on one hand, and the
shrewd trickster manipulating the
weak impulses of our young men to
lead them into criminal practices on
the other, are two notable features of
city life in the eyes of the tourist.
If these tourists return to their homes
and tell these things in plain language.
scores of "goody-goody'' men and wo-
men will arise among us and voice dis
pleasure, but who among them all arises
to stay the hands of the overworked
officials who are sorely pressed to keep
up even resemblance to the suprem-
acy of the law? Where is that commit
tee which should be formed of dele
gates from the Y. M. c. A, Y. w. C. A.,
W. C. T. u, Salvation Army, Volun-
teers of America, Ministers union, Citi-
zens' league and from sundry and
many heads of homes to aid and abet
the herculean labor of the district
attorneys office?
As union is known to contain strength,
why is not some modicum of all this
organized and interested strength given
to auxiliary methods that would help
official plans?
The bucket shop is far more deadly
than "booze" in that it catches young
men who cannot be caught by drink,
and begets in them a desire to get
something for nothing, which leads
them to acts so low and mean that no
respectable "boozer" would be guilty of
hem.
Give Mr.. Fleming your support, or
assurance of your backing, and
tch him clean out these robber nests.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18
of Lawyers
TO the Presidency

important public Offices newspaper men,
by reason of training, temperament and
opportunity, would be the natural ones to
fill them now. But they do not, and there
is not hte slightest likelihood that they
will The newspaper man has had to
take sides on too many questions, tread
on too many toes and express too many
opinions which would be embarrassing
when quoted against him by demagogic
opponent, So whatever he might be as
an official, If he could get elected, he is
a dangerous candidate to try to elect. {.
Teachers are rarely in a position to
accept office, though Mayor Taylor of
San Francisco is a teacher, as well as
a LAWYER. a physician and poet. And
the few teachers temperamentally fit for
public life generally leave their profess
sion for some other more public one long
before thew are in line for official pre-
ferment.
business men? The very objection to
LAWYERS is that they are the servants or
business. The objection to the masters
of business is still stronger.
Farmers? The big farmer Is business
man: the small farmer is laboring man.
Besides, neither is brought by his work
itself into that contact with public az
fairs which formerly gave lawyers the
preference.
Worbnen? The 1aborer is as we'll fitted
for the subordinate jobs as any other
man filling the smaller private places
but the public has a right to demand,
before giving him big public job, that
he show his capacity to get and I'LL
big private job And when he mas zone
that he has already ceased to be a
laborer.
Professional politicians? These, IN fact
do fill our most important public offices.
Practically all our presidents since Grant,
and most of the distinguished senators
and representatives, have, strictly speak
ing, been professional politicians. Roose-
welt is a politician, and has no other
So lawyers, editors, professional men,
business men, farmers, laboring men and
politicians all are under disability, all
are taboo. And there is nobody left.
Whom shall we Select, and whence
shall we seek him Fresno Republican.
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mock molasses, hastily donned his ear"
muffs. struggled through half mile OF
Faltbush snowdrifts, hung on strap
in a frgid L car, fought with other
lowbrows on suffocating bridge train,
wallowed in chocolate colored slush to
his overheated crib in a fuol smelling
office building.
Marvellous, forsooth! The marvel is
that human beings can exist in such a
climate. Or can they?
s.
If the veracity of the good old Sun
may be trusted woman on the witness
stand in Brooklyn recently got full
Nelson on Attorney Edward M. shep-
ard.
Mr.. Shepard was trying a case and
the first witness was a frail looking
woman from whom the lawyer expected
no trouble.
"And when did this happen?" asked
Mr.. Shepard.
st think she began, when Mr.
Shepard stopped her.
''It isn't what you think, but what
you know that we want" he said.
Don't you want to know what
think?" asked the frail looking woman
mildly,
81 do not"
''Well, them" retorted the witness 81
might as well leave the witness stand.
can't talk without thinking; I'm not g
lawyer
3
An English newspaper has 1t John
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18

seen, and what challenges the respect
and admiration of the masses of the
people begat only pointless buffoonery
from the Republican majority.
These are some of the straws which
show the drift of congressional action
on popular legislation, and, bad and
almost criminal as they are, they will
direct the average voter to the solemn
truth that only in sending men of the
people to the next congress may he
hope for political redemption.
The occasional break made for indi-
vidual liberty by Republican member,
and his instant and effective squelching
by the chair show the power of the
machine, and reads the determinate
sentence of continued political, finan-
cial and business strife to men who
deliberately vote party above reason
and connmonsense, and return machine
men to congress.
The great body of Republican voters
who have been sufferers by current
outrageous tariff and other financial
| laws, and who looked to the present
congress for relief, must admit that
machine power dominates their party,
and that relief can come only through
political revolution, which alone can
leffectually overpower 1t. The shadow
of a continuation of present unsettled
financial conditions is over the work of
the Republican machine. as evidenced
in it's daily grind. and the intelligent
voter who will not see this truth is
Icomplacently blind. Step by step the
machine is setting its trap for the party
voter, paving the way to the national
convention with good intentions, with
the same result as the average erring
mortal helps to pave the way to hell,
and just as effectively.
The signs of the times portend a
political revolution, the most earnest
proof of which lies in the daily cabal
of the machine press, directed to the
support of it's exacting master. If the
people can know these things, the rem
edy, and the power to use it, are in
their hands.
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REPU BLICAN MACHINE

NHAT Speaker Cannon's "stand pat"
policy is meant to rule the present
n congress- not only on tariff revision
and other pressing questions, but on any
and all things tending to disquiet the
voter before the coming fall elections,
was clearly proved in the work of that
body on Thursday. The bill to codify and
revise the penal laws was under con-
sideration and Williams and HardwiclS
(Democrats) offered amendments by
which payments made to any person
for his Endorsement of the payer would
constitute a crime, and on conviction
thereof the accused would be forever
disqualified for holding public office.
Payne and Dalzell (Republicans), the
mouthpieces of the speaker, ridiculed
the efforts of the minority to bring
about these importunate needs Of the
people, and the Republican machine was
quickly in action.
In vain endeavor of the minority to
check the crying sin of Lobbying. the
trail of the ''stand-pat" serpent was
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18

A young woman was recently intro
duced to Philadelphia society by her
fond parents with an entertainment Of
such magnificence that guests of a
commercial turn of mind estimated 1t
to have cost not less than 100000. A
feature of the affair was the turning
loose in the ballroom of large num-
Der of brilliant BRAZILIAN butterflies.
Another debut party has just been
given in that city at which the out
lay is "conservatively figured" to have
been $150,O00. No butterflies were set
loose at this festivity, but fountains
flowed, canaries warbled among the
foliage of wonderful plants and rare
gold fish" swan in the miniature ponds
and streams Twelve hundred guests
Welcomed the "bud' of the occasion
into society and then went home and
discussed the cost of the display. Let's
see, hasn't history something to say
about feast that approached the
splendor of these?
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18
CHEAP LABOR

official of the Associated Chari-
es is reported in our local col
aaf INNS as saying:
ora have any number of men on our
'ho are not of the tramp or hobo
pig y. These we will send free of
sd charge to any fruit packer or
owner in Southern California.
men need work and will be quick
H. N and willing to work at as low
as Japanese. But it is said the
ms are using the brown men
ad. Thus the Americans willing
the same work at the same prices
in a much better way are discrim-
ed against unjustly
We have only furnished from ten to
v men the last four days"
ome recent announcements of fruit
1wers and ranchers on the subject of
sen labor led the public to believe
at Japanese and Chinese and other
bngolian peoples were to be cut off
am labor among them. The reasons
wen were the general untrustworthi-
ess and laziness of the orientals, and
he fact two white men could and
gould do the work of three Chinese.
1t looks, judged by the foregoing
statement, as if practice differs widely
from precept. 1t would be excellent
work If some men who are widely and
well known and trusted would call for
a showing of hands among the ranch
ers Of Southern California on this press
ing question. If there is tenable
excuse for the presence of oriental
laborers among us, 1t must be, first
and last. that they are better workers
and cheaper than the native article.
No man can decide this crucial point
50 well as he who pays the wages, and
IL the ranchers prefer such cheap labor
the people should know it.
The foregoing official expression of
the charitable organizations puts the
question squarely up to the ranchers
and fruit growers and packers, and the
general public earnestly awaits some
opinion from them.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-18
SUCCESSFUL CONCERT
s GIVEN BY WOMEN
Officers and Members of Episcopal
Church Give Entertainment, Fol-
lowed by Reception-Musical
Selections Rendered

Women of Christ Episcopal church
gave a highly successful concert last
night in Cumnock hall. The event was
a success in every way and was followed
by reception and dancing.
Vocal selections were given by Miss
Madge Stephens and Mrs Baker P. Lee
Miss Gladys Edmonds gave a reading and
Matthew and John Meiklejohn danced the
Highland fling with Dan Finlayson as
piper.
The Christ church quartet gave the song
cycle, 1.-The Little Sunbonnet," as fol
lows: Little Print Bonnet" soprano
solo; where the Violets Grow duet
contraIto and tenor; Little Mollie Mary,
baritone solo; "A Lady Came to Our
Town" quartet; Somewhere Town,
tenor solo and quartet; "The .ose and
the Nightingale" duet, soprano and bari
tone; "If I Had Dolly" contralto solo
80 Glad of Heart" quartet The pro-
gram concluded with Aud Lang Syne.
Officers and prominent women of the
church assisted Mrs. Lee in receiving.