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Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-06
SCHOOLS

4 Ii, the schools of California are
~ now at the height of their season
"a of activity. An educational CEN
sus which would include not only the
public schools and institutions Like
the University of Southern California
but private schools and business col
leges would show that one of the great
est of California industries is educa-
tion. The Herald has made this state
ment repeatedly, and will continue to
make it from time to time, for the
public ought to become familiar with
the fact and to appreciate it. In our
university. our colleges and our schools
every state in the Union is represented.
Some of the universities brag they
are cosmopolitan, but the educational
establishments of California may brag
they are, distinctively and peculiarly
American. Within our school rooms
and lecture halls may be found repre-
sented not only some of the best
blood in the United States, but 1.-The
best blood of the United States" The
same rule that made New England
and the eastern states great will make
California. and the western states
greater.
While within recent years the east
has suffered because of a marked and
striking falling off in the quality of
European immigration, owing to the
competition of Southern European
steamship lines with American and
British, and also owing to the special
inducements offered to attract immi-
grants to the British colonies, the far
west, for obvious reasons closely con-
nected with pocketbook statistics, has
been receiving only higher grade immi-
grants.
As Australians seldom and New Zea-
landers never forsake their birth land
for q new home, our only immigrants
bv water are Chinese and Japanese,
who have long ago worn out their well
come and are generally acknowledged
to be undesirable elements In the pop
ulation. But across country by rail
come settlers drawn from the middle
west and all the states of the Attain
tic seaboard. 1t is a remarkable fact
that there are more Sons of the Revo-
luton" and representatives of old
American families in Los Angeles and
Southern California than can be found
in some far more populous districts OF
the middle west and east. In Califor-
MIA we are NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and
our schools show it.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-06
DEMOCRATIC WORKERS

LII the workers for the Democ-
N raoy in the campaign deserve the
"a highest credit. They labored for
a good cause, and their efforts were
marked by enthusiasm, efficiency and
loyalty. Locally, much of the burden
of active campaigning was borne by
the county central committee the mem
bers of which have earned the graft
tude of the Democratic party for what
we may truly call their heroic en-
deavor. The central committeeman
have good reason to be proud of their
record in a memorable fight, for the
campaign was truly strenuous"
The members of the county central
committee worked as if they were GER
tain of victory, and certainly deserved
victory, for although 1t is not in NOR
tails to command success they can do
more-they can deserve it. Zeal. earn
estness, honesty, steadfastness and
ability marked the Democratic cam
paign in every part of the country,
but nowhere was it more marked by
these sterling characteristics than in
Los Angeles county, thanks to our
brave, loyal, devoted, self-sacrifcing,
central committee.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-06
COMPULSORY COOPERATION
BETTER THAN STARVATION

POMONA, Nov. 4.-[Editor Herald: l
find in the Letter Box of today's Her
aid two letters, one from Cassins
Cook, the other from Frank w. Wilder.
Mr.. Cook refers to my saying that
Spencer is as clear as mud to me"
He says: "Under our present semi
capitalistic system the workers still
have liberty to work where they will,
or leave" And Mr.. Wilder, in his let
tel, says: "a cablegram from London
informs us that hun dreds of thousands
are on the verge of starvation through
lack Of work; some of the factories have
shut down and others run with only
still have liberty to work where, they
will, according to Mr.. Cook, it follows
that these workers rather starve than
choose to work in these factories.
MI Cook may be right when he says:
probably, too, the Spencerian princi-
pie of equal freedom as a solution of
the social problem is as clear as mud
to unphilosophic thinkers" providing,
however, that a philosopher is one who
ignores facts.
such a one can see that a worker
still has liberty to work, though the
owners have shut down these factories.
1t may be that a system of compul-
sorry cooperation will be worse than
starvation. But it remains for Mr..
Cook to prove that anyone today, out
side of capitalism, advocates any such
system. The only lace you can find
anything alluding to compulsory is in
capitalistic criticisms.
CHARLES U. WHITE.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-06
PROBATION

GREATLY to the qualification of all
~ who are in favor of reform In
" the system of dealing with Of
tenders against the laws which would
have for its aim the cure of the crime
habit rather than the vindictive punish
ment of the offender, the probation law
in California has yielded most satisfac-
tory results.
According to a report, within the
last three years, or since the probation
law went into effect in California, the
courts of Los Angeles county have ad-
nitted to probation about 200 males
over 1e years of age who pleaded guilty
to offenses punishable by terms in the
penitentiary," and the success of the
parole system is shown by the fact that
less than a. dozen of the offenders have
been rearrested.
Judge Wilbur, an expert criminologlst
as well as an able jurist and humane
Judge, said In an interview: L expect
the applicant for probation to either
say nothing or tell the truth. When
man pleads guilty he always takes the
chance of getting a sitter sentence
than he might have got had he been
convicted by Jury, for his entire life
is opened up on an application for
leniency. Many crimes are committed
because of intemperance. man gets
drunk and steals something he never
would have taken otherwise, or over
draws his bank account, or falls in
with bad company, or in some other
way is led to the commission Of an act
out of keeping with the rest OF his
life. In some such cases leniency may
be highly desirable. The primary OBJ
iect of the inquiry is to get at the
causes of the crime"
The force of suggestion might also
be considered. This subject in its rela-
ton to crime is only beginning to be
family appreciated. AS a matter OF
fact. the human mind until now has not
reached a point Of training at which 1t
could appreciate It. Much in modern
life is the result of modern mental evo-
luton. which is as steady and as sure
as physical. Mental evolution is suf-
dcient and satisfactory answer to the
often asked question: why had we to
wait until this late date for this or that
useful invention or good thoughts"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-06
PROSPERITY WEEK

II ROSPERITY WEEK should be
made memorable in the annals Of
IL California. 1t is more difficult to
have really memorable weeks In this
than in other states. because here all
our celebrations, great and small, are
decidedly different from those in any
other state, and are all and always
good. They are always characterized
bv plenty of what the critics call local
color"
A celebration that is truly Californian
is worth going miles to see, and many
thousands OF our fellow citizens travel
many thousands Of miles to see such
celebrations.
Preparations that are being made for
Prosperity Week indicate 1t will take
its place among the great and charac-
-teristic celebrations Of California. Ger
tainly nothing could be more "charac-
teristic" than local products. and
resolution to patronize home industries.
II carefully lived up to, will prove to
be a certain recipe for general pros
perity.
Local manufactures can best be en-
eouraged by local patronage. On local
patronage must be founded the trade
expansion which win provide domestic
markets and foreign markets across
sea.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-06
ELECTION ECHO

N AVS Henry Watterson: 1.-THE result
of the election shows we diversified
~ the spiritual and undersiZed the
material in the hearts and minds of
the people. They were deaf alike to
precedent, to reason and to eloquence;
for nothing could surpass, as nothing
has ever equaled, the personal canvass
OF Mr.. Bryan; it's wondrous lucidity
and power of statement; its splendid
intellectual and physical endurance;
its unanswerable argument. Nor did
Ignatius of Loyola speed through a
world of incarnate evil bearing the
cross of Jesus to triumph with greater
inspiration and truth than did the
heroic son OF Nebraska traverse land
gaming with curiosity but too busy
over its work and play to consider any
danger to the immortal soul of its
constitutional fabric.
"There is something yet better than
being president of the United States
and that is the real sense of duty done.
Tflden will i've in history when Hayes
ia forgotten or execrated. History will
saw of Bryan that in three great popu-
lar movements, clouded sometimes by
errors of Judgment and obstrueted al
ways by corruption-as we now know
bv insurmountable corruption-he LED
sublimely; that he set before his coun-
trymen the standards alike of God and
truth; and that he went down beaten
with clean hands and high reputei
carrying with him the homage Of patri-
otic men,"
To this let us add; Mr. Bryan stands
today as the modern apostle OF the
Americanism which made this country
great. But perhaps it is the sad and
somber truth that the Puritan is out Of
! place in Vanity Fair.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-06
OUR HARBOR

NA AN PEDRO HARBOR has g special
meaning for the citizens of Los
~ Angeles It means that the me
tropolis of Southern California must
ere long become the metropolis Of the
Pacific coast and Of the world. With
fine, safe, well fortified harbor at San
Pedro the commercial life of this city
will receive new impetus.
Oriental commerce will become
feature of business. Great, new ware
houses and storehouses will be neces-
sary, and an elaborate human business
machinery must be built up to take
care of all the many branches of Orien-
tai trade.
In addition to the Oriental markets
Los Angeles will be in communication
with those of Australasia, much Of
which is under the British flag, and
inhabited by people who look like us,
talk like us and have names like ours.
Merchants engaged in commercial
transactions with great Australia and
progressive, fearless New Zealand viii
have no need of interpreters or diction-
aries. 1t W III AlOl NC AAluAAS 9CeAAo ~
fore ocean liners will begin to ply be-
tween San Pedro and Australasian
ports as regularly as the liners of the
Atlantic ply between New York and
Liverpool, Southampton or Glasgow.
On the completion of the Panama
canal a great mass of American and
British shipping from the Atlantic will
make a direct route voyage by way of
the canal to Australasia and thence to
the Orient or to the Orient direct and
on account of it's proximity TO great
and populous Los Angeles the Pacific
port of call preferred by these big
bi-oceanic freighters and passenger
carriers will be San Pedro With a
fine harbor completed and fortified, Los
Angeles will achieve prosperity and
greatness little dreamed OF in the days
when Dana watched a cargo of hides
being hurled downhill at San Pedro in
order to save the labor of hauling.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-06

II URING the last thirty years there
has been a great reaction In the
~ United States against the former
educational system which emphasized
Latin, Greek and the classics in gen.
eral. and minimized the study of
science. Today much more attention
is paid to practical and commercial
subjects than in any previous era IN
American history, says the Fresno
Herald.
School Director Roncovieri of san
Francisco recently visited Europe for
the purpose of investigating the school
systems in vogue in the various coun-
tries of the old world. After thor
ough comparison of our methods with
those with which he became familiar,
he decided that Callfornia's schools are
ahead of those abroad except in the
teaching of technical and mechanical
arts. BY his statement he meant that
our pupils are more thoroughly ground
ed in the rudiments, including such
studies as history, political economy,
and civil government.
One of the marked improvements in
university education within the last
few decades is seen in the increased at
tention that is given to the study of
the English language and literature. A
few decades ago Professor Sherman
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-06
FRUITLEss TO COMPLAIN OF
EFFECT AND NOT SHOW CAUSE

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 4.-lEditor
Herald; Your correspondent r. N:
touches the subject of prostitution and
leaves it right where he finds it, with
out any remedy or prevention. He
could not have found a harder subject
to wrestle with If he had run through
the whole category of vice and crime,
for prostitution is as old as human
history and as persistent in continua-
ton as life itself.
1t is not a crime, though, like steal
ing, as his comparison would make 1t,
for prostitution can merit no severer
name than that of vice. 1t is an inn
moral condition that exists in society,
and has no more relation to real crime
than has gormandizing, or any species
of intemperance.
There Is a cause for the vice of pros
titution, and causes always produce re-
suits. Unless r. n. can reach ana
remove the cause he is wasting time
in trying to destroy the evil with pen
and ink.
He has nothing new to offer on the
subject, and why he took the trouble
to write what he did is hard to see.
If he can suggest anything better than
a restricted territory for this vice to
flourish in, considering that its extlr,
patton is impossible, let him rise ana
proclaim it with loud voice; for the
general public Is waiting and listening
for some one to do so.
r. N. tells us there are no houses OF
prostitution in New York or Londol'
but. as the vice permeates bothfcities,
how does he propose to work his motto
-''no compromise with eviI'-in those
cities? CLAIMING SEVERANCE.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-06
WORKERS
CONTEMPORARY propounds the

CONTEMPORARY propounds the
IN following question:
IA eff each worker should receive
the full product of his toll. who will
support the vast horde of non-produc-
tive workers."
Non-productive workers! Now, who
on earth or what on earth are nom
productive workers? How can a
human being work without being a
producer? Even when man INDUCES
In such a mild form of energy as whis-
ting he produces a noise, and if there
Is photograph recorder handy he
may have this noise canned and sold.
Our contemporary "a Republican, of
course) answers his own puzzling and
paradoxical question by asking another;
"Then how about the non-productive
workers-the strictly government Of
ficials?"
So the non-producers are the "strict-
ly- government officials" and, says our
friend, there is a vast horde of them. y
Strictly government officials of various
kinds have been called non-producers,
but we did not think Republican pa
per would accuse the extras" on the
Republican payrolls Of being there IN
vain.
An overwhelming majority of work
ers must be classed as productive.
The sum of the worlds production rep
resents the worlds prosperity. and the
worlds prosperity is produced by men,
women and children who work for
wages in some countries, and for bare
food and shelter in others. Conditions
which guarantee food and shelter to
workers deprive them of liberty. They
are not allowed to come and go as
they please. They are property" But
conditions which guarantee liberty do
not guarantee food and shelter. In
some parts of the world the work is
done by well-fed slaves. In others the
work is done by underfed freedmen. In
all parts of the world the autocratic
non-producing "boss' enjoys the prohts
Of toll. refers to himself loftily as a
capitalist" and acts as if he believed
heaven had given him the right to
rule his fellow men!
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-06
REFUSES TO VOTE WHERE HE
KNOWS NOTHING OF MERITS

RANDsBURG, Cal, Nov Al Ed
itor Herald: We have accomplished
SO much through organizations that in
SividnaI effort is much, If not alto
gether, discredited. There is no need,
however, of organizing to put a stop
to inficting on voters what should be
done at the state capital by those who
are sent there to do it.
In reading those proposed amend
ynents 10 the state constitution" had
to admit that could not vote on them
intelligently, and felt that this must
he true to the voters as a whole.
Hnowing nothing of "sea walls" or
"basins" in a distant part of the state.
for which there were to be millions
in bonds issued, why should l vote
for. or against those measures?
In not doing either. concluded that
from this time on l would always ig-
more such measures when submitted to
me in the future, and II others would
do the same we might see the time
when there would be an end to this
whole senseless business.
CITIZEN.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-06
POPULAR ORDER

TN HERE is no more popular organi-
cation on earth than that of the
Il Elks, and, like all people Of excel
lent taste and judgment, the Elks like
to hold special festivities, high days
and holidays in California. This is the
best city of the best state for all
friendly celebrations and social gath
erings. That magical symbol, the Elk
pin, is better known on the streets of
Los Angeles than Of any other city. We
hope the day may come when the Elks
will consider Los Angeles their perma-
nent national headquarters. At pres
ent it is their headquarters from time
to time.
Like all benevolent orders, the Elks'
organization is better understood by
the public than it used to be.
In the old days some good people
frowned on what they called secret
societies. They did not realize that the
community of interest which may be
established by means of associations
which, like every mans home, have
ways of their own, differentiating them
from all others, is closer and more ef-
fective than any other.
Man, when socialized and in an or
ganization in which each works for all
and all for each, invariably gives a
good account Of himself. He takes to
social organization as naturally as a
duck to water 1t brings out all the
best in him. The discipline which must
of necessity be part of the experience
has a wholesome influence. 1t is a
good thing on occasion to realize there
are rules to obey. and to obey them
with organization, community Of in
terest. brotherliness, discipline and in.
centive to live up to the teaching OF
the Golden Rule, the order Of Elks is g
power for good in the community anC
J the nation.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-06
is OUR CIVIC PATRIOTISM
REAL, OR ONLY PARADE WORD

los ANGELES, Nov. 4.-LEdltor
IIaroid1. walking, last Saturday, past
the chamber of commerce, In 1rohI oA
witch floats that imposing banner IN
scrihed "Buy and Boost Home Pfou-
nets: and proceeding thence alons 70
the court house, where l had business
to transact, I saw something tna. PC
verely shocked my sense Oh tIle uti1.io9, 90,
NV mind was running pleasantly on
that brave enunciation OF CIVIC loyalty
the banner exhorting us with dldactlc
definiteness to favor home products.
And on the court house front saw
men i'm the act of placing on IT'S peo-
estal the stephen White statue. What
was IT then that like douche OF coiu
water or the rude jolt OF passing eI-
bow. disturbed the agreeable cuIlel'
of my thought, giving me an uilpie0's
ant-though at first Yague-SenSe OF
Things out of joint? 1t was not the
crndeness or artistic demerits OF the
scI,lptured image, for though the
hronze was temporarily uncovered
was not vet near enough to criticlse.
Suddenly / grasped what was wrong.
It was the flashing into my suD-con-
scious mind of a feeling OF connlct De
tween that banners laudaple eXorululii
to civic patriotism, Buy home .abnn1o a[oao
ucts" and the story OF how nome
product" had Jared in the case OF the
monument before me.
Why should not BUY and Boost
Home Products" apply in the case OF
civic art as we'll as in other things
Even more so, seeing that ordinary
business here has it's good times, any.
way; while our artists, even those OF
international standing and reputation
are starved and neglected IN this CITY
ali the time. When once in a long while.
we do rise to the height of commemora-
ting a statesman or other in bronze OF
marble, surely the occasion should be
turned to the encouragement OF local
skill Let us cultivate consistency,
that our civic patriotism may be "a
thing of reality and not mere parade
word, while our acts jump this way
or that with the cat OF pohtical ol
nr,vate "pull." A pretty showing IN
deed (and false one at that that Los
Angeles cannot produce It's own pup
lie monumentsl 1t is gross hoei Oh
PAo'0N f. H. WARE.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-06
1t Is Easier to Convict
Than Punish Guilty BOOdIerS

to be sent to the penitentiary for brib-
ing a juryman in the trial of Ruef.
Here is the legal evidence that the
bribery was committed by Ruefs at
torneys, with Ruefs money. And Dis
trict Attorney Langdon announces that
this is only one of many cases in which
the prosecution has evidence amount
ing to moral certainty, but not yet in
shape to make a case for legal conVic-
tion.
Here, then, is the reason why, when
the prosecution long ago proved the
San Francisco grafters guilty, it has
not yet got any of them into the peni-
tentiary. In the matter of uncoyerlng
the truth, this graft prosecution has
been the most brilliant success in the
history of American inquisitions. In
the mater of getting the guilty men
actually into the penitentiary, 1t has
SO far shared the difficulties of all other
graft prosecutions, chief of which is
the criminal bribery of jurors.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-06

TT IS TAI days since the prosecution
began, and no one is in the peni-
"A tentiary yet" says the Examiner
blatantly, in big type, at the bottom OF
its editorial page. And on the front
page of the Examiner, and Of every
other paper in California, the same
day, is the sufficient explanation why
that statement is true. e. A. s. Blake,
convicted of an attempt to bribe
prospective juror in the present trial OF
Ruef. confessed his guilt, confessed
that he had received the money for the
bribery from Ruefs attorney, Frank
]. Murphy, and that he had since been
offered by Ruef's other attorney A; D.
Newbureh. $4,000, in promissory notes,
signed by Ruef and indorsed by the
relatives who now hold Ruef's. prop
erty, as well as $10O a month for the
support of his wife during his incar-
ceration. If he would keep still about
their completely in the crime.
Here is one man convicted and ready