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Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08
SPEAKS ENCOURAGING WORD
FOR CLEAN JOURNALISM

LOS ANGELES, June 5.-[Editor
Herald] A word of deserved commen-
dation is always welcome. no matter
how obscure the source. / am glad to
note that The Herald seems to be max
ing an honest effort to earn the support
of the discriminating readers or Los
Angeles morning newspapers, who are
as particular in the matter of their
news as they are concerning their 1000
demanding that both be free from
adulteration. The taste for sensation
al news is as artificial and unhealthy
as the appetite for the spiced ana sea-
soned dishes of modern cookery ana
affects the mind in about the same way
the latter does the body. Lack or ols-
elimination on the part of great num-
ber of newspaper readers permits an
other and more pernicious class OF news
mediums to flourish despite the fact
that their news matter Is garbled, dis
torted and doctored in behalf of GER
tain interests whose policies Will not
bear light or to which the public would
object If in possession of the facts. 10
nine-tenths of the reading public the
daily newspaper is the source of the IN
formation upon which opinions con-
cerning current issues and events are
based. What more important, then,
than that this source be kept clean ana
reliable? Good citizenship, intelligent
citizenship, depends upon 1t. The sue
cess or failure OF popular government
depends upon it. That The Herald
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08
SAILOR DEFENDS MEN
OF THE AMERICAN NAVY

L. S. S. MARYLAND, SAN PEDRO.
May 3f.-lEditor Herald: Enclosed is
little truth on subject of which COR
respondents have been making a mess
lately. Life in the United States navy
has been the subject of numerous news
paper articles since the event of the
sailing of the battleship fleet. To the
men of the navy they have often been
laughable. 1t Is surprising how ig-
norant some people in the United States
are in regard to their army and navy.
The bluejacket of today is too often
classed as one of those ancient mariners
such as are the subject of the ordinary
tales of the sea, and which picture the
much abused modern tar as an igno-
rant, appygo-lucky, drink loving fell
low, not to be trusted ashore. Only a
very small percentage of our sailors
are in reality addicted to drink, prob
ably a smaller percentage than civil
ians can boast of, and the majority or
them are a clean-liVed, honest ana IN
telligent class of men, capable of ming
ling with the best society ashore.
Regular ship routine work Is divided
among the crew according to their abil-
ity to perform the different duties re-
quired. In this way seamen do the deck
and boat work, electricians the cleo
trical work, yeomen the duties of a
clerk, etc. The work Is not as arduous
and plentiful as is commonly believed
in fact, the cause of most reinlistments
may be traced to this as reason
Then of course there are the drills,
which take up a large portion of the
sailors time, but even so he has more
time to himself than most men ashore
The food. though not always of the
best, is clean, and 1t Is to the interest
of the navy that it be wholesome. The
average tar" has few worries; in fact
the only one which seems to manifest
itself is the length of time he still has
to serve, and this generally disappears
when he nears the end of his enlistment
and begins to see things in the proper
| light.
It is not necessary for him to put
away any of his pay for a rainy day
as he is sure of his job and sure ol
board and lodging as long as he wishes
to stay-and few men ashore can say
the same.
There is always that class of mer
who, when asked by their friends
ashore as to how they like the navy
will always give a pessimistic view
and they are always of the class VINO
through their own dispositions, have
caused trouble for themselves aboarc
shin C. M. F.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08

happen to Mr.. Bryan than that 1t
should oppose his nomination. Its at
titude and its action will put an end to
the monstrously silly and absurd ru-
mors which some Republican papers,
unconscious of their incongruities. were
trying to put into circulation. We re-
fer to the Bedlamite assertion that Mr..
Bryan was favored by the trusts and
the financial interests" (Wall street,,
and that they would subscribe huge
sum OF money in order to elect him
president and defeat Roosevelt's man,
Taft" The front portico of the door of
a foolish-house will yawn for the
Worlds anti-Bryan editor if in the
face of what has happened he should
attempt to revive such wildly prepos-
terous Republican campaign lie.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08
THE CLUB QUESTION

H FFORTS of Prosecuting Attorney
II, woolwine to find how other cities
IA deal with the question Of selling
liquor in clubs has brought him from
Chicago a letter, part of which we re-
produce:
"our city (Chicago) is divided into
several districts, known as local option
districts, in which the sale of liquor is
excluded absolutely; other parts of the
city are under the careful inspection
of license officers, who require organic
cations or clubs wherein liquor is dis
pensed over bars to have city license.
Several high-toned clubs carried on
in local districts have furnished some
annoyance, the standing and character
of its members increasing the difficult
ties in enforcing the strict compliance
with the laws in these cases. How
ever, the members have been required
to resort to the method of each man
which he has sole and exclusive con-
troll: when he finds his stock of liquors
which he dispenses to himself and his
own guests at his dinner or refresh
ment table is getting low he makes an
order Immediately to the head waiter,
who in turn sends the order in to some
wholesale house, which supplies the
locker.
I'm such clubs no liquor is sold or
dispensed over a bar or in any other
way than strictly under the aforesaid
rule"
From this at appears Chicago people
are humorists.. Instead of having a
bar each member may keep cache
in which he may store for the use of
himself and friends a supply of liquor
limited only by the capacity of the
locker. This is Chicago's idea of obey
ing an anti-liquor law or of encourage
ing drinking clubs to dispense with
the formality of a license. While we
admire the ingenuity of the law
beating performance we do not admire
its spirit. We cannot believe Los An
geles clubmen would stoop to such
trickery, and think in a great majority
of instances they will be willing to
give their support, honestly and openly
and without lodging or evasion, to a
public-spirited official who has not
the slightest desire to punish. disci-
pline or impose irksome restraints upon
genuine clubs, but asks the high-class
clubs not to punish or discipline him
or impose an irksome restraint upon
him, in tho perfornance of his duties
by misconstruing his action and atti-
tude with regard to clubs and liquor
selling.
We hope they will see this question
in it's true light and will do their part
in the social improvement of Los An
geles by helping the officials to drive
out the fake clubs" which use an
honored social title for the purpose
of Disgusting an Illicit traffic in forty
rod whisky, poisonous rum and cheap
beer.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08
HIS PLEA

"Yasseh. 'knowledges dat steals.
yo' honah--now and agin." confessed
Brother Bunkum. who had been
dragged up before the bar of justice on
the charge of embezzling sundry fowls.
II steals, sab, but on'y dess part o. de
tjme-not all de time. De rest o. de
time I sawtuh projects around amongst
de diffunt 'ligious 'nomernations, eatin'
dinner wild 'em and uh-makin' out like
/ was mighty nigh on de keen edge o.
j'inin' deir church; and 'umblesomely
axes yo', sab, to lemme down easy, If
yo' please, uh-kaze I does muh heeny-
usness dess some o. de time, as l says
befo', and not all de time. like desc yuh
trust gentlemen dat we-al1 yeahs tell so
much about now-uh-days, And, sides
all dat, yo' honah, what'd desc yuh
good folks. dots allus tryin to 'suade
me over to deir way o. thinkin', do wild
out me? If 1 was to go to Jail dey
wouldn't have nobody to practice on:
and yo' organizes you'se'f, sab, dat dey
KANT keep well less'n dey has some
ripperbate to be everlastin'ly uh-pickin
at."-Smart Set.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08
MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE

TIL ERE is a sample of the kind of
reading we do not like to find
- in California, where. unhappily
it is not uncommon; "a story Of mar
ital troubles became public today
which will cause sorrow to the many
friends of the popular young couple
involved. The disagreement between
the two is said to have reached that
point where separation becomes neces-
sary and this will be accomplished
with as little publicity as possible. The
case is said to present a feature of in
compatibility. Just couldn't agree
that's ALL" 1t will always be a mys-
terry to us that people who just couldn't
agree did not find out before they were
married that they couldn't agree. 1t
seems to us (but perhaps we are hard
hearted) that there must be a good
deal of hypocrisy on the part of Mas
ter Engaged and Miss Engaged If they
don't discover during the progress
of the engagement that they Just
couldn't agree" California has an eX-
cellent reputation for happy mar
riages. But why should this be offset
by a reputation for unhappy divorces?
Perhaps this is a subject on which
"least said soonest mended" But a
place with a reputation like Gretna
Green is all right. Gretna Green has
become famous for its runaway mar
riages. On the other hand, we are
willing to defend the statement that if
Gretna Green had only been a divorce
shop and not a marrying mill, its fame
would not have been as gratifying to
the inhabitants and would not have
brought so many shekels to their
pockets. The moral is obvious.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08
BELIEVES SOLDIER RECEIVED
A WELL DESERVED SENTENCE

LOS ANGELES, June 3.-tEditor
Herald: / cannot forbear calling the
attention of "An Admirer of Riddle
to the fact that when United states
soldier shakes the hand of an anarchist
and applauds her utterances he is in
an exactly similar position toward the
government (the organization to Whicn
he belongs) that Riddle was toward
the Socialist party to which he be-
longed. Again, l cannot forDear call
ing attention to the fact that both the
government and the Socialist party
acted in exactly the same way toward
this same offense (O, both eXacting
penalties proportionate to their re-
spective powers.
Now, as to anarchisnl. The average
Socialist is as ignorant of anarchism
as the average Republican or Democrat
is of Socialism, and he is as profuse III
his denunciation and misrepresentation
of anarchism as the most pronounced
Republican.
When YOU hear a Socialist denounce
anarchism with considerable venom
and declare that "anarchism and So
cialism are as far apart as the two
poles" Just ask him to name a single
book on anarchism written by an an
archist that he ever read, and watch
him run to cover.
AS for the soldier who "got three
years" for shaking hands with Emma,
/ would say that since the army is
principally used to suppress workers
when they strike for decent living
any man who has no more sense than
TO stay fifteen years in such service"
should be sent to the penitentiary
whenever caught shaking hands with
decent people.
A REBELLIOUS HEATHEN.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
LIFE-SAVING SERVICE

TROM time to time we are forced to
II print stories of disaster to ship
Il ping on the Atlantic or Pacific
coast. Like the disaster on the Ten
nessee, they bring home the fact that
heroes are not uncommon, and there is
a great deal of heroism latent in hu-
man nature. This is gratifying ref1ec-
ton. There is good in nearly all-and
perhaps all-human beings, and some
of that good takes the form of heroism,
which is to say, willingness to sacrifice
ones self for the sake of fellow NOR
tails. When you realize that heroism Is
self sacrifice, you also become aware
that therefore every form of self
sacrifice and every act of unselfish-
ness or renunciation for the sake of
others is a form of heroism. But there
is another fact brought home by stories
of disaster. 1t is less agreeable to dis
cuss 1t is the absence from the Pacific
coast of adequate life-saving stations
and ADEQUATE life-saving service. Please
note we use the word adequate"
which means equal to necessities;
commensurate; fully sufficient" The
life-saving service is not equal to pos
sible demands upon it. 1t is not what
it should be. and, with the growing
commerce of the Pacific, must be. The
coast of Southern California is less dan
gerous than the northern coast. AT
the same time there is marked neces-
sity for such stations on our southern
coast. We hope the coast of Southern
California will soon be protected, not
only by our noble navy, but by an
efficient and complete life-saving SER
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08
CLEAN GOVERNMENT

TT WAS a Los Angeles minister of
the gospel and not captious critic
Il who said "Clean government
alone can protect the rights of the citi-
zens. How significant that where our
Christianity ought to be strongest it is
weakest. The greatest moral and spir-
itual destitution prevails in cities. I'm
churched masses and unwashed throngs
of humanity live AMI die in the shadow
of our churches and yet they live as if
there were no God and no future.
lone true test of church life is the
ability to touch and to save the masses.
Our first Watchword should be unity.
Our divisions must be healed, our ranks
filled and tremendous emphasis put
upon the things about which we are
agreed are of vital interest to the city
The parlor, the pulpit, the press and
the police must unite in patient and
persistent efforts to destroy the army
of aliens"
DR.. Henry did not mean the lit
eral destruction of literal aliens, but
he certainly meant that the American
citizen should be standardized as much
as possible. The quickest way by which
to establish high level is to revive the
spirit and study of Americanism. How
can any man be true and consistent
American who does not know why he
ia an American, or who, when he is
asked as to the ways and means by
which he reached his full grown stat
ure in American liberty, can give an
answer no better than that of Topsy' in
Uncle Toms Cabin" specs
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Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08
CAMPAIGN LIES

HALL STREETS organ the New
w York World has been engaged
In a misguided effort to vilify,
libel and defame William j. Bryan. It's
stupid and preposterous accusations
and insinuat tions befool no one who has
a knowledge of the political complica-
tions of New York, and especially Of
the borough of Manhattan. But for the
sake of the mass of the people of the
never imagine this to be the case from
reading the World and other New York
papers, are not New Workers, it is as
we'll that Mr.. Bryans explicit denial of
charges made against him in the chief
center of political and financial cor
ruption in the United States should be
published in all square-deal news
papers. Mr.. Bryan denies explicitly
the Worlds charge that his support of
Judge Parker was purchased. Although
Mr.. Bryan was not in favor of the NOM
ination of Judge Parker, yet the candi-
date had mo more loyal supporter dur
ing the campaign" Mr.. Bryan was in
correspondence with Judge Parker, and
both on the stump and with his pen
rendered all the assistance he could.
Mr.. Bryan adds: while the World
was selling its columns to the Republi-
can committee to be used in caricatur-
ing Judge Parker, my paper was urging
his election"
Here is the truth about the New York
World 1t is as bitterly opposed to Mr.
Bryan, Democrat, as it is to President
Roosevelt, Republican. AS it is Wall
street organ, a representative of the
money market, nothing better could
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08

gives the A. p. dispatches under heads
which depict the gist of the following
text, and does not require each of it's
reporters to qualify as an editorial writ
er capable of Transforming a news item
into an editorial expression of the pa
per's opinion for publication in the
news columns, withholding editorial ex-
preston for the editorial page, where 1t
belongs and can be found by those de-
sirous of knowing the editors opinion
on the subject. appeals strongly to me,
and. 1 hope, to enough more people to
enable you to continue in the path Of
clean journalism to first place among
Los Angeles newspapers In circulation,
prosperity to which the quality and
quantity of your news matter already
entities you FRED G. CORWIN.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08
GOOD READING

n My two cities in the United
States have a bigger reading
" nublic than Los Angeles. The
library records show it is third with
reference to circulation per volume
This does not indicate that people have
more time for reading, but that they
read more. The reading habit is one
which is easy to acquire. AT the same
time we must admit 1t is an acquired
habit. When it has Leen acquired and
formed it is easier to crafty 1t in Los
Angeles than anywhere else. Let us
say a word for ourselves, for instance.
Over and over again we have heard
eastern visitors say, well, when We
left New York we thought we would
have to put up with an inferior class
of papers, but we have had to change
our minds. The average of newspaper
excellence out here is higher than in
New York, and it is when we go back
east we will be apt to feel as if we had
been let down. The Herald especially
is a good paper. 1t can be compared
favorably with. any eastern paper, and
in some respects it eXcels all the east
ern papers" This is a fact. and it is
forced on our attention when from
time TO time we receive a bundle of
New York newspapers and begin to
hunt through them for the marks of
superior intellect which are ground
lessly supposed to characterize met
ropolitan existence. But there is no
paper published in New York that is
in any respect better than The Herald,
published in Los Angeles. while there
are a many which, in one respect or an
other, are decidedly inferior to Los
Angeles Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08
EISTEDDFOD

Mt UGH interest has been aroused
WI by the suggestion of Professor
A'A Vincent Morgan and other Welsh
citizens that an eisteddfod should be
held here. Los Angeles is the art and
musical center OF the far west. This
fact would be emphasized by a great
eisteddfod, which would attract visit
ors and competitors from all parts of
the United States and perhaps even
from Wales. The Celtic Cymri, like
their cousins in Scotland and Ireland,
have preserved their nationality, and
although they are British are by no
means English.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08
SCHOOL ATHLETICS

q TEPS have been taken by Los An
- geles County High School league
~ TO place the athletics of the prep"
schools on a better basis. Lest anyone
should underrate the athletic ability
and standing of the schools we hasten
to state some big city schools have ath-
letic teams equal to those of some uni
versities and better than those of
others. Perhaps, in emulation of the
university spirit, there has come into
existence a strong school spirit. The
modern schoolboy is proud of his school
and he does not like to change schools.
When he attends school long enough to
be identified with it he considers it a
hardship TO be transferred to another.
letics. There was time when it was
believed a boy could NOT have too much
mental training, while physical train
ing was merely incidental" We think
that day is over. Schools and school
men have returned to a belief in the
old proverb which states the desira-
hility of sound mind in a sound body,
and If the sound mind must be culti-
waited and exercised at school so must
the sound body. For a while it looked
as if the American nation would forget
one Of the habits that made it great
the habit of mixing play with work.
We believe the nation is indebted to
the influence of President Roosevelt
for the great revival in interset in ath-
letic sports. physical culture and out
door exercise. AS long as a nation
knows how to play as we'll as how to
work the future is secure. When it for
gets how to play, or when it forgets
how to work, there is trouble in store
for it.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08
ADVOCATES THE CLOSING OF
SALOONS AND POOL ROOMS

GLENDORA, June 5.-[Editor Her
add: In the public letter box of The
Herald this morning see an article
from ]. A. Cook pointing out a solution
of the soup house problem by giving
the city work to the taxpayers. L do
not understand how this would settle
1t, as the taxpayers are never found
in the soup line. Perhaps he would
come nearer the mark if he would say
give the work to those who do not pay
taxes.
Now permit me to offer remedy
that will not fail Close UP all the
saloons and pool halls. Nine out Of
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08

Judge Wilbur put on probation a
man accused of forging
a check because he had been drunk
when he committed the forgery. He
promised to stay out of saloons and
said he would never drink again. 1t
would be much easier for the poor fell
low TO keep his promise If he were not
surrounded by legally sanctioned
saloons. Since the law allows the trap
to be baited why should it deal harshly
with the entrapped victim?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08
Personal Scheme

The whole scheme of the Hearst league
is so nanifestly a personal one, designed to
nropote the ridiculous ambitions of Hearst
himself, that no man OF character or any
real political effectiveness is likely to be
drawn into it.--San Diego Union.
s
Quentin Roosevelts Team Defeats Their
Rivals.
The shock of such grammatical break
in so fussily correct a journel cannot but be
tremendous 1t recalls the remark OF an
Irish reporter, who, seeing a somewhat
similar bobble in the Sun, cast up his eyes
and said:
'If Charles A. Dana were alive and could
see that. he'd turn in his grave.'-Sacra-
mento Bee.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08

ways De tn6 Iouiiub-
tions of learning, but
the educational work
is breaking a W a y
from the tyranny of
the a C a d e m Y. To
teach the children of
men how to do, as
we'll as how to know,
is the duty of the
teacher of the future.
That sturdy o ! d
Scot, James Wilson,
who is secretary of
agriculture and ono
of the greatest of
living educators, said
that he could get all
the Yale and Har-
ward graduates he
wanted for $1,000 a
year, but It took
twice that much to
hire a really expert
cattle feeder.
Mr.. Wilson did not
disparage university
education. He was
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08

In 1908, after more than a decade
of uninterrupted Republican rule,
America finds itself in condition
which might be described as one OF
organized anarchy, with ample and
elaborate provision for the greatest loot
of the greatest number.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08

When he hears of floods in Montana
and tornadoes in Nebraska the citizen
of Los Angeles is sympathetic, but with
the sympathetic wave there is a little
human and natural feeling of exulta-
ton at the thought he is immune from
death-dealing gale and flood.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08

A local art critic who says some very
plain things about Du Mond's pictures,
now on exhibition at the Blanchard
studios, bids fair to break into the
ranks of the nature takers. He de-
scribes the life or death struggle be-
tween a hippopotamus and tigers. AL
most everybody who has seen the pic
ture believed the great horned animal
to be rhinocerus.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08

Chinatown, with its tongs and secret
societies and assassination plots and
hatchet men, is truly difficult prob
lem for the police. Some of the stories
of ways that are dark which come
from the queue section of our city sug-
gest conditions like those of the middle
ages of Christendom.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08

King Ned has gone to Russia for a
vacation. The king of yellow journal
ism is headed in the same direction
Should the monarchs meet. civilization
will suspend it's multifarious activities
and look on in awe while they exchange
the kiss of peace.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08
Credo

II believe in the devil" was the some
what startling statement made by the Rev.
Dr. T. c. Horton, teacher of the Fishermen's
club Bible class, at its regular meeting at
the Bible institute, 2e0 South Main street,
Los Angeles. last night.-Santa Monica
Outlook.