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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14
SHOULD FIND A METHOD TO
ABATE THE HAT NUISANCE

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9-[Editor
Herald: 1t is not very unusual for
women to appear on the street with I'M
covered heads; but the practice, as a
rule, is not to be recommended. For
either women or men when making a
friendly call to allow much time to
pass before removing their hats indi-
Gates an absence of good taste. An at
tempt to introduce the fashion in a
public assembly shows a lack of cui-
ture and is a strong evidence of coarse
ness and poor breeding.
In theater il would not be tolerated
or attempted even for a brief space of
time. What, then, can be considered of
those women who habitually invade the
churches, decked in an unspeakable ar
ray of headgear, enough to occasion
tears in an Audubon society, or frighten
railway train, and install themselves
in the front and most conspicuous seats,
thus making it difficult for those in the
rear to see the speaker? One church
bulletin contains the following: out
of Christian consideration for others,
ladies are requested to remove their
hats during the services"
Complaints having been made, the
speaker finds it necessary every Sun
day before commencing his discourse
to make a verbal request for the re-
moval of the unsightly hats. And to
IIdhe II HlOIe uHpISeSellit' hS has " iS
peat the request before the removal
begins. This indicates defective home
training in childhood. Obedient chill
dren need no repetition of q reason
able request.
But habits formed in childhood cling
to the grown-up child; and here is an
Illustration where all of the requests
prove unaVailing.
Some of the lion-hearted ones sit
erect and "braVe it through" to the
end of the service, without troubling To
remove the feathers.
1t is confidently believed that not
many days hence way will be found
by which the nuisance will be abated.
HOPEFUL.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14
Railway Earnings NoW Make
q More Favorable Showing

cent, or $2,494,579 In October of last
year an increase of per cent over
October, 1906, was scored, and in that
month a gain of 11.2 per cent over Octo-
Der, 1906 was registered. In October
of the current year the movement of
miscellaneous merchandise expanded,
and this, together with shipments of
crops to market, wrought a remarkable
reduction in the number of idle cars.
That a decrease of only 81 per cent
is more welcome than losses of vastly
greater proportions goes without say
ing. In this respect it is of interest to
note that the decrease in March last
amounted to 14.5 per cent; in April it
was 1919 per cent, and by May it had
reached 23.s per cent. June brought
forth a drop of 2O.9 per cent, while
in the succeeding month a decrease of
16 per cent was registered, and in
August a decline of 1913 per cent was
recorded. September made a consid-
cradle better showing, a decrease of
but So per cent being produced. Octo-
Der, as above shown, produced greater
gains, and November is expected to
go far toward restoration of normal
conditions.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14

n AILwAY gross earnings now tend
X to make a more favorable show
~ ing, and ratios of decrease are
becoming smaller. One need hardly
saw that the trend is entirely well
come. and that tffe changes indicate
a gradual but none the less sure move
ment toward better things. II the
Improvement in business continues to
progress, railway earnings are bound
to reflect the advance, and as result
increases in these data will soon be in
order, says the San Francisco Journal
of Commerce. That is just what the
country wants. for it means more work
and an increase in the spending power
of a goodly portion of the social fab
rio. One recent evidence of a change
to a more satisfactory situation is fur
nished in preliminary returns of rail-
way gross earnings for October. The
total for that month-$64, 300, 110-is not
so representative as we would like to
have it, nevertheless, 1t represents the
operations of about $4,000 miles of road,
and therefore it shows which way the
wind is blowing. Moreover, the sum
mentioned indicates that the decrease
from October, 1907, was only 81 per
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14
CALLS ATTENTION TO PHASE
OF A CHARTER AMENDMENT

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11.-[Editor
Herald: At first glance the proposed
city charter amendment No. 2 seems
to be a good proposition. If it car
ries, the nine city councilmen will be
elected at large, and not by wards, as
is the present way. The friends of the
measure say that the ward politicians
are opposed to the amendment because
it would prevent the tricksters from
misrepresenting the people of his ward.
Again they say that the dominant
party would be compelled to put for
ward it's best men. Again they. say
that the councilmen should be elected
at large because they legislate for the
entire city instead of certain dlstrlct.
Some of these arguments sound good,
but a closer investigation shows tnat
they are not what they appear 10 pc.
The proposed amendment is decided
ly a. retrogressive measure. The spirit
Of advanced government is favoring
closer relations between the people and
their governing bodies. This amend
ment is just the opposite. A body to
be- truly representative should repre-
sent the entire people, and not part
For an illustration we will say that
in a city election, out of $4,000 votes
the Republicans poll $4,000, the Demo-
Gratis 10000, Socialists 5000, non-par-
tisan 5000, Prohibition 5000. If the
amendment carries we will see a party
polling 5000 votes less than half of the
whole, electing nine councilmen, while
the other half plus 5000 would not
have a single representative. Or in
other words, $4,000 votes would elect
nine, while $4,000 votes would elect
none. is this fair?
FRED C. WHEELER. /
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14
TARIFF

" ERE ia the tariff question in a
nutshell: Producers wish duties
- advanced on the articles they
produce. Consumers wish duties re-
duced on the articles they consume.
Neither the farmer nor the man who
works for daily wages is benefited in
the slightest degree by what is called
high protective tariff. If greed and
self defense were not the two main
elements in tariff making or unmaking
the matter would not be polemical. 1t
would be regulated by the American
golden rule, that the greatest good for
the greatest number and for all, If pos
sible, should be the aim of all gov
eminent.
There is no reasonable excuse for
considering tariff from the position of
amount of profits. The question is:
What USE do the protected persons
make of the gilt-edged profits which
thus come to them unearned? Do they
administer them economically, for the
benefit of the nation, or, let us be bru-
tally frank. do they hog them?
All SS9 CuoCS OAb VI LNNN my AACo
them and look upon them as THEIRS,
like the hair on their heads; theirs"
they will tell you, "to do what they
like with; to save or waste, to spend
or throw away, to invest or hoard, to
use or destroy"
This is the sum of the whole matter.
If the protected magnates were really
popular benefactors, If they were really
stewards of their wealth, If they were
really divinelyS appointed administra-
tors and dispensers of the resources Of
the nation, If their ownership of the
country were BENEVOLENT assimila-
ton, the lawmaking bodies could not
do too much to protect them in their
assiduous endeavors to improve the
condition of the people of the United
States of America by the grace of God
free and independent. But we all
know they assimiIate without regard
to benevolence, that In their bright
lexicon of business there is no such
word as altruism, that their motives,
to begin with, whatever they may be
when repentance overtakes them and
they found libraries and commit other
economical vagaries and eccentricities,
are sordid to the last degree. There
fore why must we encourage the mis-
chievous fallacy that certain industrial
barons must be protected from that
competition which alone would induce
them to walk in the way they should
go and distribute the deal that is
square?
We have acted from time to time as
if there were two kinds Of people in
this Countrywide people who should
be protected while they acquired for
tunes. and the people who should be
pen-lashed and tongue-whipped if they
dared to ask, AND WHERE DO WE
COME IMP" What about the great
unprotected? What about a system
which robs competent and highly
trained men of a chance to make a
living and support and educate their
families and hurls their immature boys
and girls into the deadly mines and
the youth blighting factories? What
about the TRUTH of the matter,
Messrs. Tariff "Revisionists"? Are you
going to give us a genuine reform of the
tariff, looking to the production of
more good for more people, or are you
going to fake us again?
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14
TEACHERS TOUR

H WELVE TEACHERS selected by
the people will visit the Alaska
Il Yukon-Pacific exposition as guests
Of Los Angeles Herald. Six teachers
will be chosen from Los Angeles
county, three from the city and three
from the county at large outside the
city; one from San Bernardino county.
one from Orange county one from
Santa Barbara county, one from River
side county, one from Kern county and
one from Ventura county. Readers of
The Herald will ballot for the twelve.
Regular ballots for single votes enti-
Ting candidate to one vote will appear
in each issue of The Herald. Advance
subscriptions entitle contestants to
blocks of votes. For instance, a years
subscription gives a contestant 1000
votes.
We think it will be easy for our
friends who have the interests of any
particular teacher at heart to run up a
big score for her. In a contest of this
kind genera1ship and organization are
more effective than scattering endeavor.
1t would be good idea to organize
contest clubs, the members of which
could assemble regularly to report
progress and make plans Of campaign.
The Alaska Y ukon-Pacific exposition
will be held at Seattle, Wash, June 1
to October Is. 1909. 1t will cost s10,o00,-
900, and will be the biggest and greatest
enterprise of its nature which the west
ern coast has ever attempted. 1t will
possess many educational features, and
no teacher can visit it without bring
ing back much that will be valuable
and helpful in school work. 1t will be
memorable trip for all the teachers
who take part in it. Teachers are
members of the most Woodworking
class in the community, and if the COM
munity of the future will be better
than the community of today the i'm
provement will be due in great measure
to the teachers of today.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14
SAYS WORD SPINNING DOES
NOT REPLY TO v. S. QUESTIONS

ALEXANDRIA, Dec. S.-[Editor Her
add: The extreme arguments put
forth by Christian Scientists and meta
physicians to prove their tenets are
highly amusing, and when they run
out of wind for argument they stoop
to word twisting of questions put TO
them for answer. ITO deny the truth
fulness of all that we perceive mate
rally is the first step in our phllos-
ophy" A fine qualification for a sclen-
fist or philosopher!
In one breath they deny what we DO
know about matter because we do not
know all about matter, and in the next
breath begin to spin their theories
about mind" by using the knowledge
we have of matter. For, behold, r. N.
saws that certain phases of the
X-ray' and 1.-The elimination of wires
in telegraphy prove the nonessenhality
of matter!" 1 suppose by that ne
thinks Hertz waves and current OF
electricity passing through a partial
vacuum (X-ray tube) are no longer
matter, but spirit. Matter, then, is
"nonessential," "does not exist" but
has power to develop spirit. People or
that mentality must have learned their
physics in a correspondence school Tor
nature takers.
"V. S." propounded pertinent ques-
lions that will require considerable
WORD spinning" to be satisfactorily
answered by our Christian Scientist
friends. No, their twaddle never was
"really explained" it must be be-
lieved like any other fetish. They as
sumo that God spirit mind is a sep
arate entity and subject to Divine law,
which eliminates the necessity for nat
ural law. But natural law eliminates
the necessity for divine law. There is
not one bit of scientific evidence or
data to show that such thing as
spirit exists or ever has existed.
Yours to an atom.
DIR HTTMANITAS,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14
QUOTES ROBERT 5LATcHFoRD
AS SETTLING THE QUESTION

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12.-[Editor
Herald: 1 desire simply to quote as
perhaps the most generally acl1nowl-
edged modern authority, Robert
Blatchford, who expresses the program
of his party in the following terms;
make the land and all the instru-
ments of production state property;
put all farms, mills, railways and
shops under state control, as you have
already put the postal and telegraphic
services under state control, and prac-
teal Socialism is accomplished"
Again he says: Socialists demand
that the state shall manage the rail-
ways and the mines and the mills, just
as 1t now manages the postoffices."
Now, If this is not state Socialism
what kind is It? c. T. SPREADING.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14
AT THE THEATERs

AUDTTORIUM-'The House of Thousand
Candles"
BELASCO-"DTice and Men"
MASON-'Ben-Hur."
Music"
BURBANK-"The stubbOmness of GeraI
dine"
GRAND-'TWang."
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Los MISUNDERSTANDING.
PEOPLE'S-''Too Proud to Beg"
FISCHER's-''The Promoters"
EMPIRE-Vaudeville.
UNIQUE-"Brown's Vacation"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14

People who think the United States
is not in danger of becoming military
nation will please put on their think
ing caps and consider the estimates of
the war department for the next fiscal
year, which show an increase of $751;
100000 over appropriations for the pres
emit fiscal year. And this is not all for
river and harbor work"-oh. dear. no.
The purely military expenditures will
be increased by nearly $3O.OO0,0OO, and
more than 800 officers viii be added to
the army. But, of course, this is not
militarism'
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14
Far and Wide
New York's Loan Sharks

The loan sharks in New York are
fourishing under the new law relative
to the garnishee process. 1t has started
hundreds OF persons in the business of
lending money on salaries and caused
an infinite amount of bother for en-
ployers and especially for the city it
tenn of money lending and in some
cases borrowers have paid interest at
the rate of 1000 per cent or more. Such
eXtortion should mot be possible under
any circumstances and the lawmakers
ought to take the first opportunity to
stop it.-Lowell Courier Citizen.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14

display of fruit than there is in the
local markets. If people who are
trudging and toiling through slush and
snow in the blizzard-swept streets of
eastern cities could be transported
presto-to our lovely and ladylike Los
Angeles, they would look back at the
shiverers in the frozen area and say
with profound pity, not with con-
tempt), what fools THESE mertals
be-"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14
Prophet Season

This is the open season for weather
prophets. The seer who reads the signs
OF the sky flourishes in Southern Cali
fornia during the late fall and early
winter months. Just now he is at the
height of his glory. Ten days ago he
was busy figuring out dry year.
Since then 1t has rained, and there is
still more rain in sight. Now he is de-
voting his attention to the probabilities
for a cold winter.-Santa Barbara
Press,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14
Criticism Is Useful

We feel sure that the spirit which
prompts some citizens to point out
needed Improvements is not actuated
by unworthy motives. We can't shut
our eyes to the fact that there are
things which ought to be done for the
betterment of this community. Just
criticism is resented by no sensible
person or official, but should be well
coined If it is proffered in the right
Observation-Disclosures Advocate.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14
The State Press
Newport Beach

In the distance, Catalina,
Blue and hay, dim of outline,
Far across the restless pillows
In the background lie the mountains,
Also blue and dim and hazy.
Balmy blow the gentle breezes;
Never comes the stealthy frost king,
And the flowers bloom the year
round.-Newport News.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14

New York is excited over a six-day
bicycle race. At latest accounts some
of the men were almost "all in," and
the eager audience was all agog to see
them drop out or keel over" There
are no gladiatorial contests in Gotham,
but there are others Gust as good.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14

Building in Los Angeles is brisk
Los Angeles is still growing fast It's
a habit she has. All citizens engaged
in any branch of the building indus.
try report great prosperity.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14

Earl of Warwick, an English big
game hunter, spent an evening with
President Roosevelt and told him many,
stories of his experiences in Africa.
We presume the noble earl is now
duly initiated member of the Ananias
club
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14
Taft on Waqon

Taft's first message to congress will
be looked forward to with eagerness,
but the assertion is made that it will
be of no more lasting benefit than his
first message to the people, which was
the turning down of his glass at the
banquet board, when he said: mo more
drink for me."-Ventura Free Press.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14

National Civil Service Reform league
is still doing business at the old stand,
and claims it has made great i'm
provement in the general efficiency of
the public service of the United States.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14

Governor of Illinois will become
student at the agricultural school of
the University of Illinois. 1t would do
some governors we wot of good to go
to a school where they could study
Americanism.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14

Women of Los Angeles are invited
by Mr. Murphy to take part in tenn
perance reform. Not even the most
prejudiced man could say that in work
of that kind woman was "out of her
sphere"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14

Shop early. Buy your Christmas
presents now. Don't wait for the rush.
Early shopping is not as exciting as
the other kind, but it is much more
satisfactory. =.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14
seIf-sacrihce

We sorrowfully give up the editorial
space this week on account of the
rush of advertising that came in.-
Calexico Chronicle.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14
Suns Fall

The New York Sun says a muskrat
has bushy tail and head like coon.
Another one of Roosevelt's nature
fakers.-Sacramento Union.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14
Always Wants More

Enough is as good as a feast, but the
average man wants a surplus.-San
Luis Obispo Tribune.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14
The Public Letter" Box

intended for publication must be accompanied By
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14

The Merriest Christmas will be a
Christian Christmas. The world has
never yet been able to celebrate a
Christian Christmas,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14

This is the night Of the matrons' ora
torical contest in Dieles hall. 1t will
be a quiet evening for hubby, poor man.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14
Would Be Here

A law is to be passed in France ex-
empting wives from obeying their hus-
bands. Isn't this a work of super
erogation ?-Pittsburg Gazette Times.
-
Explained
Nero had just burned Rome. The
common people had him down and
were sitting on his head while the in
sanity experts tickled his toes.
'Why did you do it?' they asked
him.
zone OF the moving picture concerns
made me a flattering Offer" he an
ID
The Slip
First Policeman-That burglar gave
the detective the slip.
Second Policeman-HoW?
First Policeman-Threw banana peel
ings on the sidewalk. Brooklyn Eagle
Financial
1.-THE love of money" quoted the
moralizer, SIS the root of all evil"
THAT being the case" rejoined the
demoralizer, "the want of money must
be the full-grown tree."-Chicago News
The Right Ring
The Musical Critic-Your leading os-
prano's voice sounds metallic to me.
operate Manager-I know; there's
money in it.-Philadelphia Bulletin.
-
Explained
"Ah, I see you are married." ex-
claimed the merchant
mo. sir" replied the applicant for q
position. II got this scar In a railroad
accident."-The Bohemian.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14

A law is to be passed in France ex-
empting wives from obeying their hus-
bands. Isn't this a work of super
erogation ?-Pittsburg Gazette Times.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14
The slip
Financial
The Right Ring

The Musical Critic-Your leading os-
prano's voice sounds metallic to me.
operate Manager-I know; there's
money In it.-Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-04-03
Charged with Killing His Mother.

Grover G. Blake and Orsel Reyn-
olds of Anderson, Indiana were ar
rested at Fort Wayne last week on
the charge of numbering Blake's
mother at Anderson. Young Blake
made a confession after his arrest,
duplicating Reynolds. He said he
had been drinking with Reynolds and
they both needed money. He went
home and entered the kitchen where
his mother was cooking dinner. Ac-
cording to the confession, Reynolds
stood guard outside while Blake went
inside. Blake says his mother ac-
cused him of having been drinking
and he went to another room and got
a hammer. He returned noiselessly,
crept up behind her and struck her
on the back of the head. She fell
insensible. He says he then opened
her dress and grabbed bag she had
fastened around her neck which con-
tanned money and jewelry. While
he was upstairs changing his clothes
he heard scream. He returned to
the kitchen and found Reynolds
standing over his mothers body ham
mer in hand He says Reynolds ad-
mitted having struck her when she
moved The two young men came to
Fort Wayne, spent the night in ca
rousing and were arrested just as
they were about to board train for
Michigan City. Blake says he secur-
ed $3.50 in money and some diamond
rings.