Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-11


patronage. 1t is a blessing to Sonora
town, as we'll as to the city; an inspira-
ton and a model to those which have
followed.
A most interesting report of the "Dis-
trict Nursery work. from March, 1898,
to December, 1907, is just issued, and
shows by map and by text the wards
which are nominally covered by it regu-
larly, but the benefits extend through
every ward of the city. The nurses are
public servants, paid $75 per month by
the city; their hours are from $3.50 a. m.
to p. M, with halliday holiday BIZ
monthly. They cooperate with all So
cial agencies for the betterment of the
community, and will respond to calls
from physicians and others in need,
but no one society or M. D. has any
special claim on them. The work is
absolutely non-sectarian and the nurses
are prohibited from interfering in any
way with the religious views of pa
TENTS
The reference to the crowding of
families into filthy tenement houses,
many of which are scarcely fit for sta
bles and kennels, with no water ex-
cept in the patio for general supply,
and sometimes no light except by the
door, makes one righteously indignant
that such inhumanity and scorn of
needed human conditions should be al
lowed in the heartless landlords. One
blesses anew the work of the settle
ment and it's nurses in the defrauded
families, which was established to
promote Justice and insure to all citi-
zens life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness"
Mention should also be made of the
numberless other organizations on the
same lines: The Brownson and Good
Shepherd homes, the many Hebrew
philanthropies, and the Hollenbeck
home which crowns a slightly height,
greeting the tourists as a banner of
welcome and an emblem of the thought
full activities of Los Angeles One longs
for the day when this private charity
will be supplanted by the justice of
the state and nation toward all its citi-
zens.
Blessings be on all those helpful souls
who now bear witness to the truth that
God hath made of one blood all the
nations of the EARTH" and they have,
in this belief, their present high reward.
Another item of much import comes
to hand this morning-the slaughter of
thousands of rioters in the streets of
Portugal If the rioting has behind 1t
real grievances, these should be con-
sidered officially and redressed IL posi-
ble in the interest of public safety, and
by wise preventive, as in all such cases
here and elsewhere. But If this be not
done, and matters reach a crisis in rash
effort to right the wrongs which long
and patient effort by pen and appeal
have made at last uncomfortable, why
resort to the fatal. gun and powder,
when water and the hose will scatter q
crowd Immediately? and the drenching
be neither the taking of life" nor nee
essarily harmful. We might even hope
that 1t would prove a valuable SUCCESS
ton to many of the otherwise "un-
washed" ignorant of the amazing hy-
gienic value of this universal fluid.
Many of us have found, or are finding,
it complete ''materia medica'!
This substitute for the present brutal
practice of the gun has proven effectual
in the few cases where it has been
tried. One would think that the mere
suggestion of this better way would
bring instant recognition and use by
our humane-hearted officials and men
of s'good business sense! But If 1t be
objected that the substitute would
prove more expensive than the gun, we
must reply that nothing in coin can be
nut in the balance against human life;
that no emergency can justify the TAX
ing of it, where other means remain;
and that the commandments of our
scriptures prohibit 1t explicitly, with
no exception whatever.
II some local objector, to this better
way claims that it is impracticable un-
der the present conditions of our water
supply, 1t must be said that II our sup
nIv were conserved by the use of our
abundant home product of oil on all
our streets, that would go far to make
our water supply sufficient. AS would
a careful supervision of the small hold
ings. without meters. on which and
their curbs the city water is now reck-
Iessly souandered. When may we have
the immense benefit of these better
ways?