Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-07

ed. 1t might even be made to indorse
that vilest menace to personal health
and spiritual we'll being, to marriage
and the home-the house of prostitu-
tion-which is the blighting fruit of the
saloon, and exhibited, 1t is said, by the
police to the young or older tourist
and suburban as one of "the sights of
our "City of the Angels"-forsooth!
In harmony with the researches of
other eminent scientists, psychologists
and psychologists, Dr. Hugo Munster
berg of Harvard. professor on these
lines and still a faithful student. is an
nouncing his belief based on the facts
of his long and patient laboratory
work. that mo man is born criminal"
that he becomes one through a failure
of vital stamina to resist the tempta-
tions of his environment; poverty, loss
of employment, ignorance, etc. Should
| then the state or city place these weak
lings, for whom 1t should have pro-
vided self-supporting education. op-
portunities for proper human develop
ment and helpful ambition; place them
under the strain of licensed tempta-
tions on all corners? The question
surely answers itself with all fair
| minded persons
The public seems not yet aware Of the
scientific definition of alcohol, as an
| irritating, narcotic, infiammatory poi
son, and still rivals the primitive peo-
pies in their use of exciting and dan
gerous drinks.
| A writer in the April Review of Re-
views gives a striking summary of the
late prohibition legislation at the south
and earlier in the north, with it's
blessed results in the former, where
gray-haired and wrinkled parents and
grandparents fell upon each others
necks in the binding joy of release
l1 acfn axrfI md Nxyhn af
once jails and accounts of murders be-
came largely thing of the past. Why,
why may not this release come to
our beloved city and state?
Apropos of the discussion of "The
Problem of Noise,' it is a pleasing coin
cidence, corroborative of my statement
of it's coming to the front just now,
that Rev. e. E. Hale in his department
of the Christian Register, the Unitarian
journal of Boston, sets down in his
| inimitable way in the last issue some
very spicy and emphatic sentences upon
this theme. Beginning with the state
ment that because people do not see
noises with their eyes these are dis
missed from the consideration which
they deserve" he describes, in outline,
and evidently of his own delightful
home on Boston Highlands, its delights
of rare shrubs and shade and delicious
perfumes and proceeds to ask If any
one would say that his enjoyment OF
these might be hindered by neighbors,
who should make on four sides what
they call smokes of sulphur, of to-
bacco, of assafoetida, of ammoniacal
| gas?
1.-THE law, the ready servant of Jove,
would interfere" he says, but let a
neighbor determine to shingle his house
between and 10 in the evening, or even
all night, and no board of health. no
constable and no journal ! ut this in
| terferes." DR.. Hale enumerates the
jargon days, Fourth of July, Bunker
Hill. Arbor and Labor days, and their
various explosives, and an. experience
with the calliope at midnight, and de-
clares that by two sem-centennial
courts noise" is proved as great a
nuisance" as it's etymology suggests,
and that courts can suppress a
nuisance" affecting the noise as well
as one which affects the ear, or can
check man who lights fire in the
highway in front of his houseP (This
is i'm Boston, not hereD
He declares that at is only a super
lstitition which allows citizen to keep