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Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-06
OFFERS A SOLUTION AS TO
DISAPPEARANCE OF GREEK

LOS ANGELES, May 31.-[Editor
Herald1: AS many theories are being
advanced about the mysterious d---.p-
pearance of --nton Crist, otherwise
called "Tony the Creek" none of which
appear entirely satisfactory, allow me
to suggest another theory of the man.
ner of his disappearance.
First. 1t must be granted the skiff
was found without oars.
Second. 1t appears there were peb-
bles or rocks in the bottom of the skiff
when found.
Third. The skiff's painter or fasten-
inp rope was found in its proper place
in it's bow.
Now, any theory w ich accounts for
thu disappearance of Tony must recog-
nize these facts. Then the painter be-
ing in it's place shows Tony was in and
using the skiff. If using 1t the oars
were there also, and of course more
than probable were passed through the
rowlocks. The pebbles or rocks being
found in the skiff shows it was not cap
81: 3D. so when Tony left the skiff 1t
was voluntary action on his part and
is explained in this way: Tony pre-
pared everything for the start from
Silver canyon, Catalina island. His en-
gine was put in working. order, the
clutch put into gear, but the propeller
would not work because a lot of kelp
had fastened itself in 1t.
This was the crucial moment. He
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-06
AMERICAN GRIT

A REGRETTABLE disaster has
n shown that GOODNESS, calmness,
"A bravery and grit characterize the
officers and men Of the American ma
val service at critical times, and If
any consolation at all may be sug-
gested for the death dealing accident
on the U. S. S. Tennessee it is in the
fact that officers and men manifested
the cool-headed, hero-hearted bravery
which results from combination or
resolution, daring, good judgment and
common sense, and warrants the be-
lief that our navy, first in peace, Is
also invincible in war. Admiral Sc
bree, Captain Howard and Lieutenant
Commander Robertson, chief engineer,
had left the fire room of the Tennes-
see a few minutes before the eXplo-
sion. and thus by narrow margin of
time their lives were saved. Officers
and men in the American navy fare on
the "share and share alike" plan as
far as exposure to danger is concerned.
AS nearly as can be determined in
advance of careful expert inquiry, un-
der the conditions which govern naval
architecture and equipment, accidents
like that which cost the lives of sew
eral of the gallant men Of the U. s. S.
Tennessee and injured others cannot be
foreseen or prevented. We should be
thankful they do not happen oftener
and when they come they must be put
down as "all in the days work." and
as part of the cost of the naval serv-
ice. So singularly and gratifyingly
free from serious accident or disaster
is the United States navy when COM
pared with foreign services, and espe-
cially with the much lauded British
navy, that trouble, when it does come,
creates a deeper impression than 1t
otherwise would. While we deplore the
accident on the Tennessee, let us re-
member that the new American navy
when compared with other navies Is
the safest for its officers and men, and
that this is one of the points of ad-
vantage which make 1t, for its size, the
best navy in the world.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-06
U. S. GRANT
n RESIDENT GRANTS reputat

N RESIDENT GRANTS reputation
is secure. Nothing that can be
Il said by bilious babblers or pea
nut Republican prigs can affect 1t.
He saved the republic from breaking
in two and perhaps from going to
pieces. His conduct while he was
saving it was strenuous. His opera
tions were heroic, but it was case
for heroic operations. He hit hard
blows, and when he had persuaded the
erring brethren that they were in the
wrong he shook hands with them and
said, Let us have peace"
1t has remained for Republican to
revive a libel which was first put into
circulation when General Grant be-
came Republican candidate for presi-
dent. That a man who aspires to the
position once held by Grant should
have gone out of his way to defame a
predecessor candidate for presidential
honors is passing strange, but human
nature constantly illustrates the truth
of the saying, at is the unexpected that
always happens" and after we have
cut our wisdom teeth we should not
allow ourselves to be taken by sur
prise. If Secretary Taft's allegations
regarding General Grant In his Me-
mortal day speech were founded on
fact they could be criticised on the
ground of bad judgment. They were
in shockingly poor taste, were utterly
uncalled for and show that Mr.. Taft's
mental proportions DO not correspond
with his physical and that intellectu-
ally he is far from being a heavy
weight.
But If Taft's aspersions on Grant
were incorrect and unfounded as well
as In bad taste, in what language
must they be characterized and con-
demned? 1t is not surprising that
Grand Army posts are taking action to
express their official disapprobation of
Taft's libel on Grant, and adopting
measures to prevent the memory of
the dead hero from being maligned by
the gentleman whose chief claim to
fame, until he made the Grant error.
was his remarkable unpopularity in the
Philippines. We are sorry about "the
Taft business" from first to last We
believe many Americans, Democratic
as we'll as Republican, had soft side"
for big BILL" as they had begun to
call him. 1t is not pleasant to know
that a possible presidential candidate
has apparently an infinite capacity for
making blunderS. Unlike poor Blaine,
Mr.. Taft won't need the able assist
ance of a Burchard to defeat him if
nominated. He is showing that he is
we'll qualified to be his own Burchard.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-06
INTEREST
When America Is Grown-Agriculture
BY FREDERIC J. HAskIN

pie process of grinding the rocks to a
powder to be sold at one and a half
cents a pound. Granite grown tobacco
is commercial success In Virginia
fields today, as 1t was a scientific sue
cess In the department of Agriculture
experiment station two years ago
Nitrogen Is everywhere present in the
air, but until lately It was necessary
to employ nitrate of soda as a means
of getting 1t into the soil IL there wasn't
time to devote year to growing clover
to be plowed under. The nitrate came
from South America and was expensive.
Now the waters OF Niagara movs the
wheels of the machinery which cap
lures the nitrogen from the air and i'm
prisons it in cotton sacks to be sent out
to the farmer who needs 1t.
The ninety years are certain to re-
veal other great economies of which
the average farmer Of today does not
dream. There are probably 25,000,00O
horses and mules in this country for
which there will be no need in the
good year 1000. The cheaper an6
stronger machine will drive the horsl
and the mule from the fields. This
movement is already beginning. The
millions of animals whose usefulness
will have ceased before 1000 now con-
sumo each year the products of 75,-
100000 acres of land. If devoted to
potatoes this land would yield three
times the present total world crop.
Under the most advanced of modern
condition these acres could be made to
support 50,000,000 cows--enough to give
quart of milk day to every one of
the $50, 1000, 900 people we will have when
America is grown.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-06
REPUBLICAN HOPE

TT is Republican and not Demo-
cratic paper which expresses the
II hope that Mr.. Taft, IF elected,
will have Democratic and not Re-
publican house to deal with. This
yearn gives some approximate idea of
the present extraordinary state of
national sentiment and national poll
tics. The better sort of Republicans
realize the G. o. P. has not made
good; in fact, has made dismal fail
ure. But rather than be entirely fair
and acknowledge that the Democrats
should have trick at the Wheel OF
the national ship, they are signing for
a Democratic house and Taft! We
think there should be Democratic
house, but. disliking paradoxes in poll
tics, hope it will be a Democratic
house with a Democratic president
named William Jennings Bryan.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-06

to be hoped that the protest which is
now being made will bear fruit and
that this cruel method will be banished
from this coast. This question of pro-
lection OF animals from unnecessary
cruelty should be of more than passing
interest to any community. It is no
trlte and commonplace subject as many
think, but is far reaching and many
sided. There are many phases to the
question, but l think the one funda-
mental principle Is one of justice, and
until men are willing to concede this
and to admit that animals have
rights" which should be respected
there will not be much progress made
toward reform in the treatment of
animals. Vague sympathy with ami
mails is one thing, and definite recog-
milton of their rights is another" as
a recent writer has wisely said. The
plea for the rights OF animals is not
only for. their sake but for the sake
of mankind itself.
This is high ground, but almost the
same that was taken by Jeremy Ben
than, a noted English jurist of the
nineteenth century, to whom belongs
the high honor of first asserting the
rights of animals with any degree of
authority. 1.-THE legislator" he wrote,
ought to interdict everything which
may serve to lead to cruelty. Why
should the law refuse it's protection to
any sensitive being? The time will
come when humanity will extend its
mantle over everything which breathes.
We have begun by attending to the
condition of slaves; we shall finish by
softening that Of all animals which
assist our labors or supply our wants"
God speed the day when this condi-
tion of things shall prevail--when
mans inhumanity to animals shall be
looked upon as relic of the dark
ages. SOPHIA HILDRETH.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-06
coMMENDs THE HERALD FOR
FIGHT AGAINST CRUELTY

SAN PEDRO, June 3.--[Editor Her
add: I noticed in your paper of Sun
day, May "a, an article giving an ac-
count of the manner of shipping and
unloading cattle at San Pedro. Also
in your paper of last Saturday, May
80, report of the trial of the men en-
gagged In this work, who were arrested
on the testimony of eyewitnesses who
declared their method of conducting 1t
was the most revolving sight they had
ever beheld. 1 wish to thank you in
the name of all defenseless animals
who cannot speak for themseles, for
the stand your paper has taken in the
matter and for giving the details or
this case to the public. 1t is said this
manner of unloading cattle has been
going on for the last fifteen years and
that no one has ever before made any
protest. If this be true 1t is sincerely
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-06

ship should be applied to corporations
as we'll as individuals. and if corpora
tions would always remember individ-
ual responsibility does not end with
Incorporation, they would never pro-
woke comment. If from time to time
there is an anti-corporation howl
which sometimes threatens to be an
agitation, good, -principled, law
abiding corporations know they have
to thank for it not NOISY agitators."
but corporations which evade RESPONSE
bilities and dodge their taxes, there
by exposing themselves to just rebuke
and the entire corporation system.
good and bad, to adverse criticism.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-06
DOES NOT THINK SOCIALISM
MEANS "OVER"-GOvERNM EN1

LOS ANGELES, June 5.-[Editor
Herald: I will not here say yea or nay
to Socialism as a whole, but certainly
on the question of Government Au-
thority," increase of which, under So
cialism, Mr.. Thomasson so much fears,
or tries to make others fear, it does
seem to me that under a socialistic
state of society that would be almost a
thing of the past. Governmental au-
thority would give place to "the will Of
the people"
1 have a suspicion that Mr.. Thomas
son, though a good Democrat, has a
sneaking kindness for Socialism, if he
could only be sure he would not be
"over" governed, and that his bit Of
property would not be endangered dur
ing the "transitionary" period, in case
Socialism should miscarry. I picture
Mr.. T. trying to sit both sides of the
fence-seeing he keeps so close to So
cialistic journalism, though Jefferson
ian Democrat. P. J. WISKOFF.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-06

Francis Wilson. the funniest funny
man" and the cleanest and best come
dian of his day, writes a friend he
would like to live in Los Angeles. He
has had taste of the joys of our city,
with its beautiful surroundings and
serene climate, and if he could tear
himself away from New Rochelle would
come to Los Angeles. We hope some
day to enroll him in the musical, ar
tistic and literary colony for which Los
Angeles is famous. San Francisco
papers, especially the Call, please copy.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-06

From the City of Churches will come
Bishop McIntyre's successor. Rev. DR..
Charles Edward Locke will be trans
ferred from the Hanson Place M. e.
church, Brooklyn, to the First Metho-
dist church, Los Angeles. DR.. Locke
will not be a "new chum." He is well
known on the Pacific coast. He was
pastor of Central church, San Fran
cisco, and preached the sermon at the
laying of the corner stone of the Los
Angeles church of which he will become
pastor.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-06
REPUBLICAN QUARRELS

NM ITH considerable emotion we OBJ
w serve and comment on an ever
increasing spirit of rancorous
animosity among the Republicans of
this land of sunshine. The Republican
party all over the United States is in
a Quarrelsome mood. If it's vindictive
ire were directed against an enemy
we might take its sputters of temper
as indications of spunk and spirit, but
alas its aniposities are directed chief
ly against those of it's own household,
and house divided against itself can
not stand. When we seek epithets with
which to characterize the Republicans
we may not find them in the restrained
and decorous columns of Democratic
dailies. We must look for them in the
columns of Republican newspapers,
and there We are sure to find them.
1t is not a Democratic but a Republi-
can newspaper which thus character
ICES a gathering of the best Republi-
cans of California, staunch supporters
of President Roosevelt and the Roose-
welt policies: when the convention
AiiSI a. G"Si eA''SlIO CJo AIsuIIeCtlOulSlS
were the whole show, roofing in two
big tents, likewise the side shows, in
cluding the litter Of educated pigs, the
old ladies with long boards and the
band of jass-axes with their heads
where their tails ought to have been"
President Roosevelt is a fine descrip-
tive writer, thoroughly versed in the
possibilities of the American language,
yet we venture to say his Republican
friends in Los Angeles can write him
into fits when they are writing about
other Republicans.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-06

took the skiff to removr the kelp, but
forgot 70 throw the clutch out of gear.
AS soon as be removed the kelp, every
thing being in order, the launch moved
off at once. In an instant he tried to
board her, and in the effort he hurt
himself badly-so badly that when he
fell into the water he was unable to
swim and drowned right there. The
skiff was tossed about in the chop of
the sea, with the oars still in the row.
locks. The sea chop worked the oars
out of the rowlocks during the unaided
drift of the skiff, an they are now
part of the fotsaln of the ocean. OF
course this theory neither helps his
friends nor his grief-stricken wife, but
it points to where the body might be
found. w. j. S.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-06
COMMENCEMENT

THIS is commencement month. A
curious name, you say, for the
II ending of a school or collegiate
experience. Yes; but the first users
of it, back in old New England, re-
garded the day of oratory and exer-
cises and laughter and tears as that
which marked the commencement of
real life, with it's independence, its re-
sponsibilities, its joys and its griefs.
On commencement day bright young
men and fair girl graduates stand with
impatient feet at the meeting of Life
and Preparation. Happy youngsters,
with all their illusions, all their great
pations of wonders to be seen and ex-
perienced and glories to be won! In
many respects the commencement day
graduates have a harder row to hoe
than working boys and girls, who have
been battling with the world ever
since they were in the first year of
their teens.
For 100000 boys and girls of school
age in the United States in this year Of
Republican alleged prosperity there is
no commencement day. Their com
mencement day. has been sacrificed to
department store drudgery, to office
toll, to errand running, to working at
the breakers at the coal mines, to
crawling along narrow shafts and gas
laden tunnels far underground, to
watching the whirling factory wheels
and hearing their eldritch hum, with its
uncanny suggestion of nothing to live
for, better dead! Is THIS Republican
prosperity? Answer, Mr.. Taft.
Taft (over the very long distance
telephone)-GOD KNOWS!
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-06

Owing to the efforts and personal in
fuence of Chief Kern the 1909 con-
vention of the international Associa-
ton of Police Chiefs will be held in
Los Angeles. We hope all good citizens
will assist in preparing bouquets for
Colonel Kern" He deserves them.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-06

Instead of "going out of use" high
roads are coming in" In the days of
automobiles and bicycles, traffic is
again seeking the highways and good
roads in every part of the state are of
the utmost Importance to every city
and county in California. The State
Good Roads association deserves the
support of every one interested in the
prosperity of California.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-06

John D. Rockefeller's orangery at
Pocantico hills may cost him mint
to compete with the big open-air
orangery of California. Come west.
Jawn D., come west and grow UP with
our orange groves.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-06

Should the new oil refining process
invented by Los Angeles chemist
prove successful it may revolutionize
the oil industry and it is said will
add greatly to the wealth Of Los An
geles and Southern California.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-06

In consequence of the growth and
prosperity of the Democratic league the
directors will submit to the members
an amendment to the bylaws provid-
ing for monthly meetings. That there
should be great and constantly in
creasing interest in Democratic organi-
cations is a cheerful sign of the times.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-06

Los Angeles has produced the most
polite horse thief in the world. He
said "Thank you" when q judge seq
regated him from society for seven
years. Perhaps this hippophile is a
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-06

sentative of Ameri-
can life. L h e
achievements of the
American farmer
have already revolu-
tionized the life of
the human race, and
he Is but upon the
threshold of his ca
reer. When adam
delved and Eve
span" they used
practically the same
tools AMI methods
which are still en-
ployed by the great
er number of the
farm ers of the
world. Artificial ir-
rigation was discov-
cred ages ago. But
for four thousand
years the art of agri-
culture, most impor-
tant of all arts, was
at a standstill.
Then came the
American farmer.
He owned his own
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-06

A procession of wagonloads of gold
seven and half miles long would rep
resent the expenditure of the Republi-
can congress, which has been more ex-
travagant and less efficient than any
in the history of the United States.
We pity Uncle Sam If he does not soon
cure himself of Republicanitis.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-06
UNUM e DUO

Three youths who were in different cities
born.
Did Boston, Newport and New York adorn.
The first in mincing manners far surpassed,
The next in garnish dress; in both the last.
The force of Nature could no further go.
To make dude she Joined the former two!
Bohemian
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-06
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latitude to correspondents. but assumes no
responsibility for their Views. Letters
should not exceed 500 words.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-06

I6EzzzzEEN HEN the United States
lNHkEA reaches the full measure
III "a 81 of it's growth as a nation 1t
III q II NJ will depend for Its life upon
lA2A the farm and the farmer.
lR3Az2AMS9l. The farm is the great
laboratory where sun, rain,
soil, seed and labor are compounded in
the proper proportions to make the food
which is necessary to life and the
which is necessary to civiliza--
tion. In the remaining nine decades or
the century the farmer will progress
more rapidly than any other repre-
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-06

TomorrOw-When America Is Grown
Manufactures.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-25
COMMITTEE To
CANVASS WARD
Electors in Second OF Fourth
Take Steps to Secure
Good Ticket.

Seven Republican votecs IF the sec
ond precinct, fourth district, which in
eludes Manoa, Punaa5u, Pablo ard
Waialae, were appointed at caucus
meeting held last night at the corner OF
Alexander and Young streets, TO can
vass the entire precinct before next
Friday, and at 7:30 that night present
their recommendations for nominees to
the territorial and county conventions.
The action was similar to that adopted
by the seventh precinct, fourth district,
last week The committee has large
district to cover, but the precinct boasts
of good convention material, and 1t is
understood that only good material, and
yet representative of the people at
large, will be suggested at the regular
nominating meeting.
That an already prepared slate
will be presented at the meeting is GER
tain, and some attempt may be made
to shove this through in spite of what
ever the committee may recommend. AS
there is but half hour in which to
present the report Of the committee,
which will probably be presented with
out motion, and as this will take con.
siderable time, even if there is no
wrangling over the names, it is said
that a motion to nominate will be made
and the "slate'' thereupdn worked
through or over the committee report.
OF course, the report of the committee
is not binding, but the well ll-meaning
members of the precinct trust that
recognition of the committee will OBJ
tain without opposition.
Last nights meeting was held in the
open Rapid Transit store shed amid old
rails and ties. The meeting was pre-
sided over by F. Buffandeau, with Mr..
Kaanoi AS secretary. There was large
delegation from Manoa and College
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