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Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-29
FOREIGN STUDENTS GO IN
FOR CLUB LIFE AND LIVE
IN LUXURIOUS HOME

While a certain number may spend
their time In idling, in political agi-
tation and in dissipation. it may be
said that, generally speaking, this
great body of students is dominated
by serious purposes. They have been
best classes of China. Many of them
have had good training in the Chinese
literature and not a few of them are
degree men. A census taken under
the direction of the Chinese govern
ment shows that the average age of
the students is 23 years. AS a rule
they cut off their cues and adopt
European dress. That the percentage
of female students is small Is shown
by the fact that there are less than
a hundred girls in all.
The Chinese students in Toxic go
in for club life. The representatives
of each of the eighteen provinces have
a club of their own convenient to the
schools which they attend. Each of
these provincial clubs chooses direc-
tor and the eighteen men thus selected
are the board of managers of the gem
eral Chinese Students club. This club
is quartered in handsome building
and is equipped and appointed in a
style which seems luxurious to the
average Oriental who knows little of
creature comforts. For their amuse-
Thespian club and leased a theater
which will seat 1000 persons. Most of
the plays produced are borrowed from
the American stage.
Japan was not prepared for any such
influx of Celestial students, nor were
the Chinese sufficiently well advanced
in western educational methods to
make the best use of the advantages
afforded by the Japanese system. Only
comparatively small number have
been found eligible to enter the higher
Japanese institutions of learning. 1t
became necessary either to establish
schools expressly for the Chinese or
to add Chinese departments to existing
institutions. Probably half OF all the
Chinese students in Toxic are now at
tached to less than a dozen schools.
The others are scattered through some
forty other institutions or are study
ing privately. So much dissatisfaction
resulted from the presence. of the So
called rapid finish students that
both the Chinese and Japanese authori-
ties have taken action to discourage
their coming here in future.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-29
A CLEAN SWEEP
w HILE the directors of the Demo-
wv cratic club are to be commended
for their action in taking steps

H HILE the directors of the Demo-
wv cratic club are to be commended
for their action in taking steps
to eradicate gambling, we hope they
will not stop short of doing their full
duty by making a clean sweep of
everybody connected with the practice
of gaming in the club. Only in this
way can they expect to retain the re-
spect of the people of Los Angeles.
They must be thorough. In a reform of
this kind halfway measures will not
do. The directors probably have been
reluctant to believe the stories they
heard concerning gambling at the
club, but when they finally became
convinced of the accuracy of even the
ugliest rumors they did not hesitate
to take measures to eXterminate the
evil AS far as they have gone the
directors deserve the approval of all
decent citizens. But the members gull
ty of infractions of existing rules are
in good standing today. The directors
must know who they are. AS long as
these men retain membership the club
management may expect a revival or
recurrence of obnoxious practices. The
directors must know who committed
these offenses and must be aware they
are in the club for the purpose of COM
mitting them again should the oppor-
tunity present itself. 1t will not do
for the directors to clamor about their
righteousness while they allow men to
remain in the club who will take ad
vantage of the earliest convenient op-
portunity of repeating the offenses
which caused scandal The club has
a hi; field of usefulness and it is high
ly regrettable that it's efficiency should
be impaired or menaced by the mis-
conduct of a few men who should be
dropped from the membership list
without delay. The club has promised
that in future there will be no repeti-
tion of the misconduct which dis
graced it. But the only way in which
positive assurance on this point can
be given the public is to eject the Of
tenders. Have a moral house clean
ing" and make it thorough.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-29
SAN PEDRO DEFENSES

TT pom receiving a telegram from
Senator Perkins, in which he said
~ he was firmly in favor of San
Pedro Notifications and that the house
conferees might agree to the sum ap-
propriated by the senate If they were
informed public sentiment in Los An
geles was practically unanimous on the
subject, The Herald sent the follow
ing telegram to Congressman McLach-
Ian and Needham: Overwhelming
majority of citizens favor San Pedro
fortification and expect confidently
house conferees will agree to sum ap-
propriated by senate. Appropriation
must not be defeated. Los Angeles
and Southern California believe it is
of vital Importance. This fact should
be impressed on house conferees with
urgency and insistence."
The recent visit of the fleet gave
many citizens an opportunity of ap-
preciating the Importance of San Pc
dro harbor, and also demonstrated to
the government its manifest strategic
advantages. In order that proper use
may be made of its situation and
strategic advantages, the harbor should
be fortified without delay. 1t should be
made as impregnable as Gibraltar, and
should command the sea so that no
menacing fleet under any circumstances
could live through it's aggressive, de-
fensive fire. The harbor commercially
is at a vital spot. 1t is bound to in
crease in commercial importance, and
the necessity for adequate protection
of this commerce is manifest. In addi-
tien to patrolling, guardian fleet for
tifications are needed, and work on the
fortifica tions should be begun while the
naval prestige of the fleets visit is
still appreciated reverently by would
be hostile powers. Following the visit
of the fleet, an announcement that ap-
propriations had been made and that
work on the construction of defenses,
which will make San Pedro Gibraltar
of the Pacific, had been begun, to
speak colloquially would be a
"clincheh" The importance of i'm
pressing on the house conferees the
fact that the APPROPRIATION
MUST BE MADE, that it MUST NOT
BE DEFEATED, is so great that we
advise citizens TO send to Washington
kilograms of the same purport as that
wired by The Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-29

g7EzzEAOKIO-.-The most extraordinary
MIAA student migration In history
~ Ml is the influx of Chinese pupils
to the capital of Japan. AS
q N these young men come from
every province in China their
exodus may well be called a
national movement.
Among them are hundreds from the
westernmost province, Szechwan, which
stands before the gates of Tibet. To
journey from the interior of this prov
ince to Toxic is a greater undertake
ing, IN point of time, than to travel
around the world. A more striking fact
that illustrates the extent to which
China is waking up is that the largest
number of students from any one prov
ince have come from Human, which
was the last part of China to admit
missionaries, and which less than ten
years ago was resisting the introduction
of the telegraph.
The surprising thing about this move
ment is the rapidity with which 1t has
come about. The first officially COM
missioned students from China to
Japan were two boys sent here ten
years ago. Six years ago the number
was less than score. The movement
continued to increase for a few years
until the end of the Russo-Japanese
Wdts WhCti IL NtNSiOpCu liihO IL iuohs ~
is said that more than thousand stu
dents came to Japan on a single vessel.
The height of the movement was
reached last year when the number was
about 10000. From that time until now
there has been a rapid decline, and the
total is now less than 1000.
There are two reasons which have
been advanced in explanation of this
great decrease. One is that the Chinese
have become suspicious of Japan's IN
tentions regarding their country, ana
are inclined to shun their neighbors on
this account. The other cause assigned
is the general misunderstanding among
the Chinese about the length of time
required to secure an education ana the
expenses attached thereto. In two OF
the central provinces of China the re-
port was started that learning was en-
tirely free in Toxic, and that .gradu-
ates were turned out of universities In
six months. As 6 consequence or TINS
absurd story over 1000 ambitious young
Celestials hastened to the land OF
promise, with the result that most OF
them had to be sent home at govern
ment expense. Among the short-term
students, father and son would olten
be found in the same class. NO matter
how poorly equipped these disappointed
seekers after learning might be, tney
invariably tried to pose as finisneo euu-
Gators after returning home. rms was
shown by a sign which appeared IN d
village street in one Chinese city,
"English taught from A to T"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-29
THE MESSAGE

II IUHEoDORE ROOSEVELT may
still be nominally a Republican
h president, but he is preaching
Democratic doctrine and the senate
shows its appreciation Of his attitude
by censuring his naval program ana
defeating his pet measure. This ac-
ton and several of the more strenuous
nassages in his message indicate he
is leaving office Democrat. If he is
not a Democrat, what is he? His
| PARTY refuses to support him. His
doctrines are Democratic. This
strained relationship between the chief
executive and the legislative Ameri-
can 'rhouse of lords"-house of money
lor6s-marks a crisis in national his
tory. Roosevelt represents American
ism. He has returned to his first
principles and is no longer partisan,
but a spokesman for reform, even as
he was long ago when he was civil
service commissioner and insisted on
playing the game according to the
rules and not according to political
precedents. 1t is impossible for a
good American to be a Republican,
although some Republicans. who act
by instinct and political heredity
rather than upon judgment and initia-
tive, may be good respectable Ameri-
cans. To anyone at all familiar with
human nature an explanation of this
paradox is unnecessary. There are
thousands of good souls to whom Re-
pubicanism is a kind of superstition,
a form of religious bigotry
All such citizens must be shocked if
not stupefied by some of President
Roosevelts trenchant utterances. ex-
pressed in his virile, muscular Eng
lish.
Seeing the hopelessness of the sit
uation, realizing it is utterly impos-
sible for a man who believes in the
first principles of Americanism to be-
lieve also in the conditions which have
emptied the schools of scholars and
filed the factories with children. the
president does exactly what an in
dependent American citizen who reads, |
who is an historical student, keen |
observer and an accurate thinker and
observer and therefore a good reasoner
of future probabilities might be eX-
pected to do. He speaks his mind
and his expressions are patriotic and
not political. He realizes the danger
to the future of the American republic
in the great idle class, or rather class
of idlers. Parasites are the bane of
any community. 1t is better for a
country to be poor without parasites
than to be rich and have to suffer |
from them. The clean poor country |
has a far better chance for existence |
than the parasite infested rich coun-
try.
I'll fares the land, to hast'ning ills
a prey.
Where wealth accumulates and men
decay"
This is not merely a rhymed coup
let. 1t is a truth as important as the
theory of gravitation. Since Roose-
welt in plain, blunt rough rider lam
guage warns the country of the evil
which threatens it, must we sit by
with folded hands and silent tongues,
like the onlookers at the death of the
first Christian martyr, Stephen, per-
haps CONSERVING TO THE MAR
TYRDOM AND DEATH OF THE
AMERICAN REPUBLIC? Democrat
ic success is essential for the preserv-
alton of the liberties of the United
States and Democratic success must
begin at the primaries.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-29

OS ANGELES HERALD yesterday main
tained leading position among local
1 newspapers. In twelve pages it pub
lished 17S headed items of news. The
Times in sixteen pages published only 100.
The Examiner had 201, but it had twenty
page issue and printed inconsequential east
ern items. The Herald pursued its usual
policy of giving its readers the best in the
best possible style. Many readers have writ
ten letters to The Herald expressing appre-
citation Of the manner in which the news is
presented, and at the chamber of commerce
reception to the up stahe newspaper men
well known citizen gavt the opinion that
The Herald twas pre-eminently the business
mans paper"
Others present expressed similar sentl-
ments, adding that a well edited, well writ
ten, well arranged newspaper in which news
items were compact and not prolix would be
more and more appreciated In Los Angeles
its merits became more and more widely
known. One friend said The Herald is such
a paper. "You will find it easy to create n
taste for The Herald" he continued. "After
reading its clean, crisp and clear articles
people simply hate to go back to the old,
Jong-winded blanket sheets. In fact they
won't do it. Life is too short.
Although The Herald wastes no space on
unnecessary rhetoric or superfiuous details,
it tells every news story worth telling, and
every incident in every news story which is
worth relating is related Nothing of inn
portance is omitted. On the other hand
nothing is added for purposes of embellish-
ment. We aim to tell plain, unvarnished
truthful tale. In addition to a complete
local news service, supplied by a corps of
reporters of whom Dana would have been
proud, The Herald has special correspondents
at all points of interest, and their work is
supplemented by the complete news service
of the Associated Press, the greatest and
most reliable news gathering organization in
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-29
OBSTRUCTIONISTS

HV HAT unrepresentative body, the
senate of the United States, is
u shown in it's true colors by its
opposition to the presidents naval
program. The atmosphere of the sem
ate is that of little Americanism. The
needs of the nation have outgrown the
horizon of the senate. Therefore the
nation has outgrown the senate. This
is a deplorable state of affairs. Every
archaic and obsolete person should be
cleaned out of the upper house, Thus
purged, the reiuvenated body might
be able to take a new view of it's re-
sponsibilities. At present it is merely
obstructionist, and of such a narrow
and provincial mentality that it can
not appreciate the fact that President
Roosevelts naval program is not in
the nature of jingoism but of national
insurance.
To thwart or hinder the presidents
plans at this juncture shows excep-
tionally poor judgment on the part of
the senate and calls public attention
to the personality of many of the men
who make up that un-American body.
AS it is a present constituted the sem
ate is an anomaly. 1t should be re-
formed. Under certain conditions it
is harmless. But under other condi-
tions it may become mischief maker,
and it is in that capacity it has now
excelled itself and invited the indigna-
tion of every citizen who approves the
naval program-that is to
say, of practically every patriotic
American.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-29
MS PA r M S%>l
MN FROr1 A <Nl
~ NIDVE WIRE =
CAN you EXPLAIN THIS?
Fish and Diamonds

Two years ago Mrs. Adelaide Han
Gus of Somerville, Mass, who was on
her bridal trip to Santa Catalina
island, lost a diamond brooch while
leaning over the side of glass bot
tom boat at Avalon. She saw the
beautiful stones flash in the sunlight
as it went down, down. down into the
crystal waters of the bay. A big rock
bass flashed from the kelp and the
woman saw the fish swallow the
brooch. Since that time the Hancus
family has removed to California.
They are living at Redondo. Mrs.
Hancus has a great liking for rock
bass She stood in her kitchen yes
terday watching the Japanese cook
dressing a bass. When the boy cut
open the fish Mrs. Hancus saw some-
thing bright. She leaned over the pan
and picked up a piece of abalone shell.
That was all.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-29
OUTRAGEOUS

King Arthur in the poem he is about
to betake himself to a quiet nook in
some MINDLESS, sheltered isle, where
he may rest and heal him of his
grievous wounds. The isle is up Salt
creek. There will the wounded ele-
plant seek seclusion, and as he re-
tires on the Ides of November he will
Groom gently through his trunk:
There is rest for the weary,
There is res. for the weary,
There is rest for the weary,
There is rest for me-"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-29
REST FOR WEARY

VIZ HEN the battered, bruised, jad-
w ed, buffeted, weary old Repub-
w lcan elephant gazed at Presi-
dent Roosevelt's message he said,
This is the most unkindest cut OF
ALL" but he was mistaken. for one
even more unkind is the cut pub
lished in todays Herald, made from
a drawing by Barnett, who is the
ablest cartoonist on the coast. The
elephant may be a pachyderm, but
he is not invulnerable, and his scars
and patches represent grievous
wounds. For many years he has had
everything his own way. and if it had
not been for the checking and chiding
of Mahout Roosevelt, would have run
amok AS it is he has done more
damage than can ever be repaired.
No one will have much pity for his
sorry condition, because many of his
wounds represent also wounds infiict-
ed on the United States. The poor
brute has been hard hit but so has
the country. There is not much joy
ahead for the old elephant Until the
election in November he will lead a
checkered career. He will be chased
and harried and worried and his skin
will soon brlstle with daggers and
darts There will be more Of that
kind of hardware in it than there are
pins in an fashioned housekeeper's
cushion. Unhappy elephant!
Don't you feel sorry for him as you
look at - tragically haggard and
woe -begone expression with which he
scans the presidents message? His
own mahout, in whom he trusted, has
speared him to the marrow. Like
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-29
THE BUNGLER
BY ELSA BARKE

made man out OF my own great need.
/ took the body of one ready-tormed
In Natures workshop, but its blood
warmed
with my own fire. Half of my soul freed
To animate the form; the dream. the deed
That makes man god-like, these from the
great void
1 conjured, and my temple veil destroyed
That he might see the Image burn and
bleed.
But when / questioned this created thing,
There was no voice to answer for the
breath
Divine / had not given-could not give!
COMPOUNDED before God, only bring
Into creations hall this masque OF death
That wears the mold of life. but does
not live
Smart Set.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-29

Another Arctic explorer. Capt. Mix
kelson, asserts the north pole is not
stationary. When one explorer after
another returns from the north with the
statement that modern scientific in
struments show the pole is not fixed
point but rover, the mystery attend
ing the failure to reach it is dispelled.
The task of finding the pole has been
a game of hide-and d-go-seek.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-29

place on the county ticket-San Luis
Obispo Tribune.
3
The Dynamiters
Whether the dynamiting of the Gal
lagher home was the work of individ-
uals bent upon wreaking vengeance
for some alleged personal injury or
whether the criminals were the hired
thugs of some of the wealthy rascals
implicated In the graft prosecution are
matters that can only be determined
after a thorough Investigation
Luis Obispo Breeze.
d
And 1t Will
California has an Anti-Race Track
league whose mission it is to put out
of business, through state legislation.
all race track ambling.-Bakersfiel
Californian.
-x.-
Breakdown Feared
The platform will be a patched one, each
plank worn and thin.
But twill be carefully repaired by those
who put up the "tin."
But Teddy is insisting 1t must be made to
bear the weight
OF the that he has chosen to be the
candidate.
Grass Valley Union.
Sensible Idea
What a pity that fleet could not
have been placed upon wheels and
taken inland for the inspection of the
people who live the simple life upon
the various ranches.-Venice Van
guard.
-
High Old!
For the past week the officers and
men of the great battleship fleet have
been having the time of their lives
Norwalk Call.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-29

We do not envy the London novelist
Who lived among criminals for a year
and, one may infer, led a criminal life,
in order to get local color for story
We don't admire that kind of local
color. We don't know what they call it
in England, but over here we say it is
yellow" The yellow novelist is worse
than the yellow journalist because his
denominations have more or less per-
manency. May their shadow ever
grow less.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-29

Another British war craft has been
sunk in collision. At this rate Britain
MIA will soon rule" the place below
the waves" Lest any one should ac-
cuse us of making insinuations regard
ing the ultimate destiny of wave rulers,
we hasten to explain we mean the
sands. 1t is too bad that human lives
should be sacrificed to the needs of the
British or any other navy in times of
naape
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-29
Woman,s Nav

Out in Boyle Heights last night a
woman signaled a conductor to stop
the car so she could alight The func-
tionary failed to see her. as he was
counting his fares, so the company
would not be cheated. The woman
stepped off backward while the car
was moving at a rapid rate. She
alighted gracefully on her feet and
smiled sweetly at the passengers and
went to her home.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-29

From time to time a burglar is ar
rested in Los Angeles equipped with a
complete outfit of burglars tools"
Where do the burglars buy the tools?
Who manufactures them? Are they
imported? If so, what Is the rate of
high protective tariff on burglars tools?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-29

There is now a New England society
in Los Angeles. We hail it With hearty
appreciation of it's mission and hope
it will have long life and uninterrupted
prosperity. Every American has a
warm corner in his heart for old New
England, and the real. original yankee
Doodle Dandy"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-29
Poultry Gardening

A Colegrove man took home six
packages of garden seeds. He spaded
up the back yard. planted nasturtiums,
sweet peas and other varieties of seeds.
His neighbors on all sides of him keep
chickens. At daylight sixty fowl of
assorted breed flew on the fences and
took long look at the soft loam be-
low They then flew down into their
own pens. The garden is thriving.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-29

All the saloons in Russia are owned
by the czar. 1t is easy to imagine the
fate of a Prohibitionist in his imperial
majestys dominions. All the teeto-
talers are in Siberia. Russia is the only
country on earth where temperance is
treason. Holy Russia!
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-29

Habit and parental sponsbiities"
formed the subject of an address by
Judge Curtis D. Wilbur. The easy
going American is sometimes inclined
to look on the bringing up of his children
as go-as-you-please race. Then he
wonders why his young hopefuls go as
they please-to old Nick. Many bad
boys" are punished for the sins of their
rna rnnto
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-29
Fatally Facile

rs she jealous of her husband?"
wildly; and the worst of it is she
doesn't know who is the cause of it,"
Il am no good at enigmas. You'll
have to explain"
"Well, she says he knows how to
make love so gracefully she just knows
there was someone in his past"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-29
Pushmataha Tragedy

An Oklahoma editor confronted on
the street by large irate woman with
a new four-bit buggywhip threw dig
nifty to the winds and burned the at
mosphere in headlong fight. Asked
why he ran he said it was because he
couldn't fly and he never was very
good at trotting or pacing.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-29
BY FREDERIC J. HAsKfN

with Tolstoi and ended by banding to-
gether in radical, revolutionary So
cieties.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-29
S. p. Protege

This man never ought to have been
selected for public office. He was
a drunken roysterer, without any de-
cent standing either as man or
physician. But in a convention COM
pletely controlled by the Southern Pa
cifc machine he was named for a