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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-30
RESTRAIN FAKERS

NVERY reader of Los Angeles Her
H aid is we'll aware that we believe
IL in whatsoever things are true
lovely and of good report, that we be-
lieve in an increase of educational ia
cilities and a revival of the custom or
recurring every child to take a COM
pIete course at the public schools
making it as compulsory as vaccina-
ton or any other reform or social ne
cessitv which is enforced by law-and
that we believe in encouraging all re-
ligious bodies and sects. holding that all
are working for one great end IN COM
mon. the elevation, betterment ana
salvation of mankind, and that ali the
Christian soldiers in all the regiments
are marching under one banner. There
fore our position will be understood
and we won't be classed among the
prosecutors" when we say some forms
of enterprise which may be called re-
ligious industries should be suppressed
sternly and ruthlessly, in the interest
of Christianity, morality and good clti-
zenship Los Angeles all over the
United States enjoys" the reputation
of being a paradise of humbugs ana
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TELEGRAPH REFORM

OlITIZENS who realize how far in
the rear of other civilized coun-
~ tries the United States lags in re-
spect of public and common use OF
such public utilities as the telegraph
and telephone will welcome the news
that the senate has instructed the sec
rotary of commerce and labor to con-
duct an investigation into this subject.
1t is believed that by. charging about
ten times less than the tolls eXacted for
long distance messages, the telegraph
companies would still make a good,
big profit" If. as result of the in
vestigation. it should be found that the
difference between merely profitable
operation and the present rates is as
great as is alleged, it is only natural
that the oft deferred movement to
make the telegraph a branch of the
government service, conducted, per-
haps, as in the case of Great Britain,
in connection with the postoffice, or
nerhaps as an independent department,
will at last become effective. In neg
lecting to follow the example of other
great countries by including telegra-
nhy and express in the governmental
service the United States has lost
ground. We must, as a nation, realize
that social progress is at least as i'm
nortant as material progress. If we dc
not, we will invite Socialism.
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WOULD AVOID DISASTER
FROM cLoUDBURsT FLOODS

LOS ANGELES, May 25.-l Editor
Herald: May 1 address through your
columns an open letter to the honorable
mayor and the city council? ! see by
the papers that Mayor Harper Is pc
sieged daily for employment by men
who are out of work. The papers also
state the mayor is unable to give
many of them the desired employment.
/ would like to suggest that, If, my
petition to the city council or April 70,
reon,estine the city council to dredge
the Los angeles river bed from the
northern boundary to the southern
boundary of the city and build con-
crete retaining wall on both sides of
the river from north to south, is ia
vorably acted upon, It woulo provlue
employment to hundreds OF needy men
ali summer, next winter and the sum-
mer Following. This Improvement Is
an absolute necessity to prevent dam
age to property in the city. from Hoods
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But the club is hopeless. 1t has aban-
doned all idea of permanent home. 1t
knows 1t can find no rest from its
wandering. Said the club, speaking
through one of its members. I'VE will
try to find place next time where We
can stay for eight or ten years We
can't hope for more, because If we went
beyond the city limits of Los Angeles
of 1920 we would have to get so far
away that it would take nearly all day
to go and come from the club"
Country clubs live a precarious life
in this part of the world. There is no
objection to clubs, but the descriptive
adjective country" is like a red rag to
bull when waved in the face of city
that doubles its population every five
or six years. Another country club in
Los Angeles, whose members actually
want to play polo and golf. has under
taken the most elaborate precautions to
prevent the city from swallowing 1t
whole. 1t has established itself In a
deep ravine which is protected on the
city side by high mountain. The
trolley line will approach the Holly
wood Country club on the outside of the
mountain wall. But no city-building-
country destroying trolley will be per-
United to invade the sacred precincts.
BY no means. The members of the
club will alight from trolley cars in the
face of a blank and forbidding cliff.
They will glance furtively about to see
If Frank Virgins or any other agent of
the city-extending chamber of COM
merce is about. If the coast is clear.
the club member will dart quickly into
half concealed opening in the cliff.
1t is the tunnel through the mountain
which leads to the Country club. 1t is
private tunnel, to be used by members
only. Even so robust and all-devouring
a CITY as Los Angeles will have to look
alive IL 1t ever succeeds in capturing
this well fortified country club.
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CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
WILLIE'S REAL MAD

WI LILLIAN r. HEARST in an edi-
w torial resents fiercely the sug-
gestion made by a Virginia
paper that he resign his position as
president of the League of National
Democratic Clubs. The ground of Mr..
Hearst's expressed resentment is that
he twas elected in 1900 president OF the
National Democratic Clubs for a
period of four years and those four
years naturally expired in 1904 He
was not a candidate for reelection ana
was not reelected. land therefore,
he saws, he is mot the president OF
these clubs if these clubs still exist"
Mr.. Hearst intimates that in his opin-
ion Democratic clubs cannot exist
without him. Before the traitor de-
serted the party which had honored
him he had hypnotized himself into
the belief that the Democracy could
not live without him. When the DEM
ocrats did not at Hearst's bidding tell
that great and true Democrat, Wililam
J. Bryan, that his services to the
party "were no longer required,
Hearst determined to break Bryan,
wreck the Democratic party and es-
tablish and finance a new party which
would be loyal to Hearst interests.
Hearst has certainly achieved one
feat which will live in history He
has shown that American financial en-
terprise will stick at nothing When II
has an end to gain; that it will even
create and organize a special party at
it's own expense. But when 1t comes 10
such a radical proposition as breaking
Bryan and wrecking the Democratic
marty Mr.. Hearst is not big enough ana
strong enough and his money power Is
not powerful enough. He cannot do 1t.
However, we urge him to go right ahead
and continue to keep the world in
formed of his amiable intentions. BY
pursuing this course he will win votes
for the Democracy, and if Mr.. Bryan
is nominated for the presidency viii
help elect him. We verify believe 1t
was Hearst who Jonahed Bryan and
the Democracy. With Jonah overheard
the party and it's candidate will have
a prosperous voyage to success. Inc
last passage in the peevish and extraor-
dinarily self-revealing Hearst editorial
which we are discussing reads; Per
haps the Petersburg Progress news
paper) would also demand that Mr..
Hearst resign his seat in congress.
In his suggestion that he be asked to
resign the founder of the Independence
league will find he has large and en-
thusiastic popular following.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-30
NOT AN ENEMY OF RURAL
DISTRICTS, BUT CAN'T HELP
GROWING AND EXPANDING

Pueblo de Nuestra Sonora la Reina de
los Angeles, as this city was called
when 1t was Spanish pueblo, is not an
enemy of the good people who play golf
and tennis. But 1t is the implacable
foe of rural territory. 1t pounces upon
farms and orchards and transforms
them into city wards. In carrying on
this warfare against the rural territory
surrounding Ii, Los Angeles has grown
more rapidly than any other American
city of Importance. Tt has kept its
growth up steadily, and 1t intends to
keep 1t going.
Los Angeles was 100 years old in $780,
1t then boosted of a population of 11,000
people Five years later came the new
railroad which lave it transcontinental
transportation facilities. Apparently
the first thing the railroad brought was
q regiment of real estate agents and a
BOOM Like the other town booms of
the sos, things went too far and too
high. There was a great imitation.
and then the bubble burst. But even
after the boom had collapsed, Los An
geles still had $4,000 people, which
means that it's population was multi
piled by five in five years. The real
estate agents were left here when the
bottom fell out of the boom. 1t was
resolved that the good work that had
been done should not perish.
So 1t came about that on the ruins
of the boom was born the chamber of
commerce. The men who went into
that organization proclaimed the doc
trine of boost. They furthermore de-
clared that he who does not boost is an
enemy of the city. That was twenty
years ago. The chamber of commerce
has an influence greater than any other
single organization of it's kind in any
American city. Boosting is the essence
of the life work of every Angeleno. A
knocker is not permitted to live in the
town. This is not a fanciful charac-
terization, it is a literal fact that a
resident of Los Angeles who begins to
knock" on the town is so completely
ostracized that he must choose between
exile and becoming pariah among his
own people.
In the ten years between 1890 and
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caused by heavy rains or cloudbursts
similar to the one recently reported in
Texas with such great loss of life and
property. With increased cultivation
of the soil we may expect heavier rain
fall. The cost of the improvement
should be assessed to the chief bene-
ficaries, the present steam and street
railroads, and the property owners on
both sides of the river for a mile or so
from the river. The improvement
should be made now, because 1t will
cost less than after a viaduct is built
on the river. 1t can be done now at
the minimum Of cost, because the sand.
the gravel and much of the rock is
now on the ground, free of cost; also
the water. With more rock, all that Is
needed is the cement and the labor
which can now be had cheaply. Many
contractors would he glad to have the
Job at low figures. There would be in
the neighborhood of five million cubic
feet of concrete in the two walls, to
cost possibly % cents per cubic foot
under the conditions present, making
the cost about twelve hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. This phase of
what to do with the river bed" was
not taken up by the City club last
Saturday. Shall we do 1t now or or
ganize more soup houses this coming
winter? JOSEPH BELL.
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HARBOR DAY

.OAN PEDRO has made the sugges-
gestion that Los Angeles should
~ unite with it in great Harbor
Day Celebration on the Fourth of July.
An elaborate program is proposed,
which will include the start of the
yacht race to Honolulu, night sham
naval battle in the inner harbor an
attack on Dead Mans island by a
hostile" fleet, day sham battle of
militia forces on the hills, all kinds OF
boat races and aquatic sports ana
patriotic exercises. The harbor COM
mission and chamber of commerce are
backing the yacht race and favor the
harbor day method of celebrating the
glorious Fourth. The occasion would
helm advertise to the United States and
the world that Los Angeles is not land
locked, but has fine maritime outlet
and a magnificent harbor at San PEDRO.
1t will also emphasize the position OF
the citizens and of the commerc1al
bodies of Los Angeles and Southern
California with regard to the harbor
question at San Pedro. A free harbor
will add to the prosperity of California.
A harbor encountered by any unnec-
essary restrictions or subject in any
wav. directly or indirectly to corpora
ton control, will fall short OF the
expectations and wishes of the citizens
and will not suffice for the needs OF
this populous and prosperous section
of the United States. Los Angeles
with a. safe, commodious and free har-
bor at San Pedro, will soon become
the sovereign city of the Paclnc coast
not only Queen of the South. but Queen
! +Lo XUact
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-30
IN EN- ORiAM
ny AID KING

Low taps have sounded requiems for countless
soldiers sleeping,
The troops have passed beyond the line and
but few keeping
Lone watch throughout the weary night
With hearts that wait the dawning light.
Their uniforms are worn with years the nass
are torn and faded,
The old love songs which cnce they sang while
barriers were raided
Are hushed, and cen the martial strains
Are sad with memory's refrains
But on that morn when reveile shall summon
all the nation
At one Commanders voice to yield allegiance
and oblation,
Ali what host shall meet that day.
Uniting ranks of blue and gray
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-30
LONDON MEDICAL MEN FORM
ANTI-vIvIsEcTIoN SOCIETY

LOS ANGELES, May I'll Editor
Herald: Whatever else may be said
about our dog catching institution
has not been proved; London, with its
six millions Of population. does with.
out it, think every one VIII agree It
should not be used as an auxiliary to
the torture chambers OF medical schools
or private vivisection laboratories.
You speak Of many eminent 9,in,sn men Zen
he gained by carving living animals.
Have we a right to torture animals In
this hellish manner. anyway?
see that London has just started a
,,e,y anti-viyisection society, composed
entirely Of medical men pledged to
vrove ii unjustihable and useless both.
ie1v medico, Miss Lind ap Hageby,
whose expose Of the infamous brown
sdoe,, scandal created such stir and
famous martyr dog. -
w. WARBURTON.
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WORLD APOLOGIES

WITH good grace the New York
wv World makes what Hashimura
W Togo would call the honorable
amendment to Los Angeles for it's in
advertent publication of some libelous
balderdash with regard to Los Angeles
entertainment of the sailors OF the
United States navy. The World ac-
knowledges it mixed up Los Angeles
with another city, calls its blunder
Typographical" says the head devil'
who presides over such plumbers was
responsible for it and adds that the
treatment of the sailors by Los An
geles was princely in it's generosity On
behalf of Los Angeles, we acknowledge
and accept the apology of the World
but would correct it in one point more.
The generosity of Los Angeles was
more than merely princely. That word
lis overworked. 1t was queenly.
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McCOMAS TRIAL

TT ia unfortunate that the jury IN
the McComas case disagreed II -
l. not possible for mere human beings
OF ordinary intelligence who were not
on the Jury to understand how or why
tho iurymen could not reach verdict
Cr,t,cs of the Jury system have often
made the remark that 1t is liable 10
break down on occasions when consid-
erations of public welfare should Tor
bid a f1asco. The Scottish jury system
IL superior to the English ana 'he
American. A disagreement of an Amer
lean Jury Is almost equivalent 10
scotch verdict Of mot proven" But
when the majority in favor of par
ticular finding is as great as 1t Is SAID
~ have been In the McComas case
Scotch Jury renders a verdict IN ac-
cordance with the vote of the majority
which is logically supposed to represent
the weight of evidence. We deplore the
mishap of Justice in the McComas case
THE man will be tried again promptly
hut it is aggravating to think that CIV
ilization is often victimized ana De-
fooled by one of its own pet devices the
i,rv system, and instances like the
NrcConas trial indicate that citizens
who are asking for reform OF the
system can present some forcerul t~rSu-
ments backed by startling and undeni-
able facts,
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streets and city
homes grew up all
around it, and 1t was
a country club in
name only. SO the
clr'h cut up its
grounds into city
lots, sold them for a
fortune and went
miles away out into
the country. But the
city of Los Angeles
pursued 1t. The
Country club is sur
rounded by paved
streets and houses
regularly planted on
100-foot lots. 1t is no
more in the country
than the Madison
square of Manhat-
tan. 1t is preparing
to sell out again, for
a greater fortune this
time, and 1t will
pitch its tents some
where five or six
miles away from the
aitxy
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-30

Race track gambling and every other
kind of gambling should be highly I'M
popular in Los Angeles for long time
to come. Want, woe, wretchedness,
misery, grief, dishonesty. murder and
suicide are some of the results of gam
bling. Prohibit gambling of all kinds
and prohibit the sale of liquid poisons,
and poor struggling humanity will
have a chance to improve itself.
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coast of Sweden, where the fish is put
up in immense quantities.
At Lysekil and Marstrand, just across
from the German coast, are large cam
neries, and a chief article of export
from the city of Gothenborg is the an
nual catch of Holsters.
The lobster of the North sea is not
SO sweet as that of America. and for
that reason IL may be well to plant the
breed, but not for the reason that they
are not native.
Anchovies and Holsters form two of
the chief articles of export from
Sweden. HELGE THENBERG.
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Captain Bartlett. who was an eye
witness, says the battle Of Wounded
Knee was not fair fight. but mas
sacre of Indians. Captain Bartlett
evidently believes in square deal for
the noble red man. In this respect he
is so rare that he must beware or be
picked up by collector of curios.
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CONFIRMS SUSPICIOUS THAT
THERE ARE LOBSTERS ABROAD

LOS ANGELES. May ISL Editor
Herald: A dispatch in today's paper
tells of the shipment of American lob
sters TO Germany, and alleges that this
crustacean is not known there. This is
all wrong, as 1 am aware of several
lobster canning factories on the west
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-30

1t is not improbable that the thief
who stole DR.. Powers smallpox clothes
may meet a fate not less tragical than
that of the radium thief whose calami-
Herald recently.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-30

California may have a presidential
candidate in the field. 1t Is believed
Fred f. Wheeler of Los Angeles has
an excellent chance of being nominated
by the Prohibition national convention.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-30

On this, the most solemn day of all
the year, from the depth of many an
aching heart comes the cry. "If man
die, shall he live again." If! if! if!
and it is a scriptural. Biblical 'if' at
that. But from thousands of Christian
pulpits rings cheerily the answering
message of the resurrection and the
Iifa
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-30

And now they say the marriage of
Miss Ell1ins to the duke Of Abruzzi will
take place at Washington. Not in the
White House, surely? That would be
Francis Wilson'S celebrated last
straw which gave the camel the
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Slow

"Can any one tell me where snails are
fcund?" asked the New York school teacher.
II cant replied a blackeyed little girl
'Weil Bessie where do we find snals?'
I'm Philadelphia, ma am. "-Yonkers States
man.
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The ubic Letter Box

Letters intended for publication must be
accompanied by the name and address of
the writer. The Herald gives the widest
latitude to correspondents. but assumes no
responsibility for their views. Letters
should not exceed 500 words.
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has to move to keep in the country.
Lears ago when the club was first or
gcnized 1t went away out into the rural
districts and established itself. BY ana
nv the Citv of Los Angeles followed II,
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WORLDWIDE INTEREST
| THE CITY OF THE ANGELS
sy FREDERIC J. HAsKIN

hos ANGELES, Cal.--The Los
II Angeles Country club is get
/ ting ready to move. 1t is the
Il only country club In America
/ which is migratory by habit.
u 1t has moved before, and 1t
x,-;It ,,,nx,a q Oain haCanSa lit
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-03-21

Mrs. J. M. Hanes was called to
Cordele yesterday by the illness of
her sister.
Get Busy at Something Useful.
Lost:-One pair Rimless eye
glasses. Return to 81 s. Main.
Hap
Get Busy at Something Useful.
Mrs. w. G. Davis, of Dublin, and
baby Hattie, took their departure
for home yesterday.
Pull for Fitzgerald or Pull Out.
An advertisement in the Enter
prise is read by over two Thousand
people three times a week.
Get Busy at Something Useful.
Mrs. Fannie Troup, ofAbbv, was
among the out of town shoppers,
yesterday.
Get Busy at Something Useful.
We want the humbleSt person to
start an account with us as well as
the wealthiest, for it helps us to
become more useful institution to
the public and at the same time
helps us and the one who starts a
bank account. Fist National Bank,
mar26
Get Busy at Something Useful.
These days remind us that cold
ocean" is not a great ways off and
we sniff the salt sea air.
Get Busy at Something Useful.
First class Board and Rooms for
gentlemen, by day, week or month.
Reasonable. Mrs. Jones, 217 Mag
noiia. 42-tf-oc.
Get Busy at Something Useful.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. s. Stipe stopp-
ed over yesterday, on their way
from Ocilla to Triton, where they
are going to visit their daug hter,
Mrs. W. Z. G eothe.
lie. Busy at Something Useful.
"The Grand" appreciates the
interest displayed by the ladies OF
Fitzgerald and the country in the
spring opening of millinery yester-
day. The sales of spring hats sur
passed our expectations.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-03-21
Notice toDebtors and Creditors
Georgia, Ben Hill County:

Georgia, Ben Hill County:
Notice is hereby given to all
creditors of the estate of Henry
Ingles late of said county, deceas-
ed, to render in an account of their
demands to me within the time
prescribed by law, properly made
out. All persons indebted to
said deceased are hereby requested
to make immediate payment to the
undersigned.
e. M. HOOKER,
Administrator.
This, March, II, 1908.
S11- 40 lew 4.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-03-21
Tailoring

Gents Clothes u
order. Cleaning, pl
ing and dying neatly
us a trial. Phone 297
Fitzgerald Tailoring
Club. 76.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-03-21
NOTICEi l!

A good gentle farm Horse and
fine Berkshire Male Hog for sale
at bargain. See S. M. McEachem
or III. G. Powell. 821.l.W