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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-04
SHOWS THE KERN METHOD
AND THE NON-PARTlSAN WAY

LOS ANGELES, Jan 3.-[Editor
Herald: 1 see the InglewOod Water
company presented bill to the city Of
Los Angeles for $1S51.43 which they
claimed is due them for street improve
ment. The corporation was either too
late or a bit early. They should have
presented their bill three years ago,
when Ed Kern was chairman of the
board of public works and chairman Of
the sewer committee. Prior to that
time the city had purchased a right of
way over the Inglewood Land and
Water company's land, but the sewer
committee wished to make a little
change in the line of the outfall while
constructing the sewer, The sewer is
underground, and once in causes no
damage. The Inglewood company de-
manded $4,000 to allow the change in
the line for mile and a half, and Mr.
Kern and his committee approved of
the bill and the council meekly paid it,
Now comes the Inglewood Water
company with a bill for $1S51.43 for
making a road around a brick block
Our non partisan board said no and
allowed $500, and no more.
Citizens, note the difference in the
way these two boards transacted bust
ness! Do you want another reign of
that sort? That is what Mayor Har-
per and 'the gang" is framing up for
you! Will you stand for it?
NJ. 7. COLLINS.
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SEVERELY CRITIcIsEs LATE
ITEMS RELATING TO CRIME

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3-[Editor
Herald: Two items that appear in
your issue of this morning have i'm
pressed me, and most unfavorably.
The first is that dealing with the re-
port of the attorney general, in which
1t is stated that criminal prosecutions
IN TINS county are, in proportion to
population, n per cent greater than in
the city and county Of San Francisco.
Ana District Attorney Fredericks goes
on 10 state that this county has 527
convictions to- San Francisco's 400.
The northern county, however, leads in
the number of acquittals, having rs to
our ~. They are welcome to the hon
orr
L cannot feel other than that this is
p1tlful showing for a city that boasts
so strongly of it's church work. and
also that 1t is most undesirable that a
public official should jubilate over
the excess of convictions. 1t smacks
TOO much of the professional man
hunter.
The second item I wish to notice is
the account Of the forthcoming prison
congress, to be held in Washington.
Inc account tells us how former prison
congresses have been supported by gov
eminent officials and crowned heads in
EUROPE not only venture the opinion
that in the forty years during which
these congresses have been running
they have accomplished less than moth
ing for the mitigation of crime but
that 1t is the supremest height of alb
surdity to expect any ameliorative re-
suits from such sources.
Kings, courts, bureaucracies. with the
tens of thousands of non-productive
men that hang in their train, are them
selves the direct cause of poverty,
which is the primary cause of crime.
We ought to be sufficiently intelli-
gent and frank nowadays to admit this,
and to recognize that to look to crowned
heads for relief from the very evils
they themselves engender is as if we
expected the tiger to help in the de-
struction of the jungle in which he
finds shelter.
H. K. PROSCOMBE.
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MATTER, HAVING POWER TO
SELECT, HAS INTELLIGENCE

LOS ANGELES. Jan. 2.-[Editor
Herald: December % &C. F." denies
that matter is intelligent, citing a
sheet of paper in evidence of proof of
his proposition. January 1 "R. NJ
says that a book, paper sheets COM
bined as matter per sc, is not intelli-
gent. One answer for both.
A sheet of paper is a form of matter
endowed with the combination of all
the forces Of the particles of which it is
composed. Burn it and what happens
It's vibrations being raised to the
proper degree, light, heat and disinteg-
ration follow. The silicon and other
minerals fall back to mother earth.
Each particle of carbon selects two
particles of oxygen, forming carbOnic
acid gas, which mingles with the air.
The only thing destroyed was the form,
which was a sheet of paper, but its par
ticles, with their forces, still live to
enter other forms.
Selection shows intelligence. 1t is
one OF the forces inherent in every ele-
ment of matter. for each element pre-
fers its own. Therefore, as all matter
has the power of selection, it is intelli-
gent. Each particle of carbon knew
enough to select, not one or three, but
only two particles of oxygen.
The beauty of intelligence is every
where manifest in the order and har-
mony of matter through it's obedience
to natural laws, even in a sheet Of
paper ASBURY CECIL.
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HELP FOR ITALY

A LII the world Sympathizes with
southern Italy; but the only prac-
IA teal method of expressing SYM
pathy is to contribute money which
may be devoted to the alienation of
suffering. Los Angeles, with charac-
teristic generosity, has responded to the
appeal for help; and the sentiment of
the Greek colony is that of the COM
munity. A spokesman for the colony
said:
This is not a time for anyone of any
race to hold back. We all belong to
the same human family, and we should
all do what we can for the people of
Italy, for, with all that the people of
the whole world may do for them, they
will still suffer greatly"
WE ALL BELONG TO THE SAME
HUMAN FAMILY, but it takes a time
of stress and disaster to bring man
kind to a realizing sense of this fact.
We all belong to the same human
family. So closely and intimately are
the various branches of the family con-
nected and interrelated that if one ma
ton were removed from the family all
the rest would suffer. The world could
not get along without the Russian, the
Turk, the Frenchman, the Irishman,
the Scotchman, the Englishman, the
Abyssinian, the Japanese; and there
is room for all. We won't like the
thought of allowing America to be
Overrun by Cinnamon, but the world
would suffer if the great Chinese ma
ton were suddenly removed. The
economy Of human nations and their
distribution has never yet been studied
by anyone-perhaps because it would
take almost a lifetime to collect the
materials conscientiously, and it is a
work that would be worthless if it were
scamped.
But if a man Of the patience, perse-
verance, industry and genius Of Thomas
Carlyle should make the subject his
special study in course of time he
would add another truly great book TO
the worlds literature; and would do
much toward ending national and
racial hatreds-which at this period of
history, as far as human society is con-
cerned, a constructive and not a de-
SCAUCIANS p6I4Ouy uIlA SdSOudDly TeLaTQ
human progress.
That the civilized nations of the
world should be expending annually
vast sums of money on making prepar-
ations to initiate earthquakes, cata-
clysms, fires, famines, plagues-which
can all make mems most finished and
artistic efforts in murder look mean
and small-shows mankind is still af-
fiicted by a species of stupid, blunder-
ing folly, the chief feature of which is
complete and melancholy absence of
a sense of the ridiculous. The price of
one battleship would be a godsend to
southern Italy at present.
Let us be thankful that, in spite of
the murderous and barbaric govern
ments of earth, there is enough sweet
human sympathy among the civilians
to make it certain the appeal for prac-
teal help for the earthquake sufferers
will be responded to quickly and gener-
ously.
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CORPORATIONISM

NITIZENS of Los Angeles cannot
afford to allow the board of public
- works to come within control of
the various railroad and other corpora
lions which from time to time in the
past have attempted and from time to
time in the future undoubtedly will at
tempt again to use the welfare and
prosperity of Los Angeles for their own
aggrandizement, their own advance
ment, their own selfish purposes. The
mayor should know the proposal to put
Mr.. Kern on the board is opposed not
from any light or whimsical motive,
but out of a sincere desire to keep the
administration of Mr. Harper clear
not only of all scandal but of all sus-
picion of scandal. We were told not
once but over and over again it was to
be business mems administration
Now when business men are opposed to
Mr.. Kern's presence on the board of
public works there probably are good
business reasons for their opposition
The attitude toward corporations of a
public servant who will unhesitatingly
well known to be hostile to the best in
terests of the people of Los Angeles
may we'll arouse suspicion and cause
comment. Councilmen who vote for the
confirmation of Mr.. Harper's nominee
will put themselves on record as op-
posing public veal and public interest
In Los Angeles it is always contrary
to public policy to give appointments
to men who are Endorsed, backed, aided
countenanced or supported in any way
by the corporations. That is a good
safe rule for any mayor to follow in
making appointments, and any mayor
who wishes to keep his administration
free from unpleasantness will observe it
scrupulously. If Mayor Harper is really
anxious his administration should be
remembered as a business mems ad-
ministration let him respect the wishes
of the numerous business men who are
opposed to any appointments which are
tainted or affected directly or indirectly
by corporationism.
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WHICH is MORE IMPORTANT,
MANKIND OR BANK VAULTS?

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2-[Editor
Herald: I observe a great hue and
cry raised in your columns, and else
where, against the proposed appoint
1nent of Chief of Police Kern to the
board of public works, the main reason
given being apparently that he showed
himself unfaithful to the public in the
matter of his vote on the famous river
he'd franchise. In other words, the
charge is made that Chief Kern cannot
be entrusted safely with the public
property.
1 ask where have we been at all this
time that we have been cOntented to
entrust him with what seems to me,
at least, a far more responsible charge
that is to say, the task of melting out
such justice as may lie within his
power to those unfortunates who come
under the head of criminal class?
Are we to understand that the people
of Los Angeles do not understand that
such a position as that of chief OF
police, welding as it does almost auto
cratic power over a most helpless por-
ton of our cOuntrymen, carries far
graver responsibilities than the hand
ling of mere money can involve?
One pauseS for an answer, for the
answer will give the clew to the real
character OF Los Angeles; will show
which she ranks higher, a man or a
bank vault. S. M. p.
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URGES SELF=DEVELOPMENT
AS OPPOSED TO SACRIFICE

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2.-[Editor
Herald: Mature does not ask the
sacrifice of either sex" is the heading
Of communication signed Helen
StandiSh." Most cordially do L indorse
that sentiment, for of all the internal
doctrines that have converted this nat
urally happy and healthy world of ours
into a hospital and insane asylum L
know of none so largely responsible as
this one of sacrifice.
Why should there be sacrifice? Ma
ture abhors it. Every instinct Of ma
ture calls loudly to men and women to
develop themselves, which is the ex-
act opposite of sacrifice. Push the
doctrine of sacrifice to it's logical con-
clusiOn-Which is the one test of the
soundness of any argument-and you
nave decentralization, an unthinkable
creed. Push the doctrine of self-de
velOpment to it's logical conclusion and
you have a people with endless possi-
bilittes before them, rich in capacity of
character, the only source from which
helpfulness can come, since none can
give more than he or she has.
Under conditions of freedom no one
would be called on to sacrifice, and if
it be true that today women sacrifice
more than do the men it is because
they have less freedom. Therefore, the
necessity for women, even more than
for men, is freedom
Nothing will be accomplished by fan
cied mOralities or by sending up the
cry that amy one who patronizes a
fallen woman is as much responsible
for her fallen state as the one who
started her on the downward path"
Few people of thought will cOndescend
to credit such a statement, and the
common sense of the world knows that,
as long as conditions exist that con-
denim immense armies of men to cell
ibacy, the conditions against which
Helen Standish and others protest will
continue in spite of million homilies
IT, K q
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TEACHERS TOUR

II AVE you taken advantage of the
II ballot that is being printed every
day in The Herald and voted for
your teacher candidate for the free trim
to the Alaska Y ukon-Pacific exposf-
ton? Readers of The Herald are be-
ing asked to vote for twelve young
women who will make the trip as the
guests of this newspaper. The terms
on Which votes may be cast and regis
tered will be found in the advertise,
ment of the contest. in which full and
explicit details are given. The educa-
tIonal advantages of a visit to the ex-
position are great and obvious. Every
teacher who makes the trip will be
better equipped for her work when she
returns. By the votes of readers Of
The Herald six school teachers will he
chosen from Los Angeles county. one
from San Bernardino county. one from
Orange county, one from Santa Bar
bara county, one from Riverside coun-
ty. one from Kern county and one
from Ventura county. Of the six who
will represent Los Angeles county
three will be chosen from the civ Of
Los Angeles and three from the county
at large outside the city. Friends of
the teachers are showing their appre-
citation of the great services rendered
by these hard workers by casting bal
lots for them and by asking their
neighbors and acquaintance to vote.
Some Of the leaders in the contest have
already made good scores, but there is
not the slightest reason why any Of the
others should be discouraged. A great
deal can be done by organized effort,
and friends of any teacher who engage
in methodical campaign will be al
most certain to have the satisfaction of
placing their candidate among the
winners. The Alaska Yukon-Pacific ex-
position will be held at Seattle, Wash,
from June l to October Is, 1909. 1t will
cost So 900, 900, and will be one of the
greatest enterprises of it's nature the
west coast has ever attempted. 1t will
attract visitors from all parts of the
United States and from all parts of
the world, and the Los Angeles teach
ers who will visit it will be like educa-
tional delegates. They will not only
acquire a great deal of useful infor-
nation, but will be a convincing and
effective advertisement of the educa-
tional advantages of California, with it's
excellent school system and its admir-
able army of efficient teachers.
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QUOTES POET TO PROVE HIS
ARGUMENT ABOUT MATERIAL

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3.-[Editor
Herald: In the Letter Box of The
Herald various opinions are given
concerning Christian Science and [
would like to add mine to the list.
Nearly every Christian Scientist has
a different definition for his or her re-
ligiOn, but take the meaning Of the
name, scientific Christianity, is clear
and appeals to a persons reason. Any
thing or any philosophy that is scien-
tffic is true and the shrine that stands
for that is the place where l worship.
The law of suggestion is the most
powerful law that man knows any
thing about and this law the Chris
tian Scientists use and it is their
stronghold, but without it their phil
osophy would amount to but little.
To say that material does not exist
is foolish (here material should be de-
fined but space will not allow it,. To
make my point I'll quote from Robert
Browning's poem, "Rabbi Ben Ezra:
FOOL All that is, at all,
Lasts ever, past recall
Earth changes, but thy soul and God
stand sure:
Who entered into thee.
That was, is and shall be:
Times wheel runs back stops: Potter
and clay endure.
He fixed thee mid this dance
OF plastic circumstance;
This Present, thou. forsooth, would fain
arrest:
Machinery justment
To give thy soul it's bent
Try thee and turn thee forth sufficiently
impressed.
Notice that this Present begins with
a capital letter. Also notice that it
must be something or it could not
turn the man forth sufficiently inn
pressed.
Now to finish my argument I will
quote three lines more from the poem:
AS the bird wings and sings
Let us cry: ''All good things
Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now,
than flesh helps sCull
A YOUNG MAN.
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Alarming Is the Latest Folly
of PIutOCratic -AriStOcratS

disposition practically certain to dis
qualify the victims from full human
activity or sympathy, and to that ex-
tent to hamper them with their own
inculcated snobbishness-the greatest
possible handicap of modern existence,
says the Philadelphia Times.
The action of these families is obvi-
ously the result Of generous parental
solicitude. Nevertheless, it is evidently
i'll advised in that it fails to take ac-
count of the fact that little side rivu-
let's of humanity, temporarily separated
from the main body, sooner or later are
bound again to merge in the great
common stream. A person educated
into a detachment from his fellows is
sadly crippled in the great struggle of
life.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-04

Tariff revision is being conducted
with little regard for home industries
which have not powerful pull What
grudge have the Republicans against
California? They are proposing to put
foreign olives on the free list in order
that they may compete successfully
with California olives. Any citizen who
can see in this move the slightest trace
of protection to American industries is
entitled to a medal.
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AN UNsELFIsH HERMIT

IT'S sometimes good to be alone
Deep thinkers frequently affirm it
To seek some spot afar, unknown,
And dwell there as a very hermit.
For me- I'm not at all inclined
To frown on folks who go in hiding
There to restore a tired mind.
Or to escape a world too Gliding
Indeed, I think that loneliness
Instead Of, as some say, distressing,
Is often truly more less
A source Of comfort and a blessing.
But I'm no selfish wight and so
When I'm alone so prepare il,
I have a brown-eyed lass l know
Along with me-to share, il.
-Blakeney Gray in Ainslee' $
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-04

During the Merry Christmas and
Happy New Year celebration in Los
Angeles three men who are not Grimm
ais, but political suspects wanted by
the Mexican government, lay i'll and
prison worn in a Los Angeles Jail,
WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN CON
FINED FOR SIXTEEN MONTHS, AS
IF THEY WERE CRIMINAL CON-
VICTS, AND NOT PATRIOTS. They
will soon be sent to Arizona for trial.
Whatever happens, they must not be
returned to Mexico. When we talk OF
the glories Of the free United States
let us remember Toryism is not yet
extinct. Sixteen months Imprisonment
for patriotism! Shades of Washington,
Hamilton and Paul Jones!
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AT THE THEATERS

BELASCO-''The Heir to the Hoorah.''
MASON-Lambardi opera company.
HA9IBURGER'S MAJESTIC-"Sis Hop.
kns."
3URBANK-"Nancy & Co."
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE-'Tt Happened In
NOrdland."
LOS NGELES-VaudevilIe.
PEOPLE'S-"We Are King"
FISCHER's-'The Pagoda."
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
UNIQUE-"The Toreador."
MISUNDERSTANDING.
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Red Is Rowdy

A red room is not so common now
as in former days, when it's value for
promoting jollity-at dinner in especial
was well understood. Liquor flies to
ones head with disconcerting swift
ness in a red room. Our forefathers
were acquainted with this scientific
fact and took advantage of it.-PalI
Mall Gazette.
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Far and Wide
Immigrants Wanted

AS the Australian commonwealth
needs new blood, a judicious selection
from the packed ranks of the British
unemployed for immigration purposes
might do good to both countries. If
the British middle class want to be
rid of the burden of the poor, let them
work on some scheme of emigration,
hand-in-hand with the commonwealth.
Melbourne (Australia) Table Talk.
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Among the good resolutions for Los

Among the good resolutions for Los
Angeles suggested by Councilman
Wallace are many that are familiar to
the readers of The Herald, because
they represent improvements or re-
forms steadily championed by this pa
per. One of them is ito do our part
to overthrow race track gambling in
the city" This is a resolution to which
thousands of our readers will heartily
say Amen!
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-04

A big attendance is expected for the
Southern California Baptist convention,
which will be opened next Saturday
in the First Baptist church. Conven-
lions, religious, political and social, are
always successful in Los Angeles. Any
reasonably sure to be successful in
point Of attendance as we'll as in other
respects.
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Carve Dat Postum

The Houston Post was the recipient
last week of one of Liberty countys
choice yearling 'possums. The pos
sum dressed eighty pounds and it re-
quired half a bushel of potatoes to
make the proper setting. The shipper
said he could have gotten a bigger one,
but, then, some fellow would doubt it
being a 'possum.-Conroe Courier.
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He Was

The profits of the oil trust for the
past ten years have been eighty mil
lion dollars annually. John d. should
have been able to save enough to tide
him over the time of financial strin-
gency If he was economical.-San Jose
Times
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Republicans Discounted

The selection of Philander C. Knox
to be secretary of state in the next cab
met will not occasion enthusiasm in the
rank and file of President-elect Taft's
followers. To most Republicans the
announcement is a surprise, and to
many it is very unpleasant SURPRISE
San Diego Union.
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N ESTABLISHING a playground

N ESTABLISHING a playground
for their children exclusively, sun
dry wealthy Baltimoreans are i'll
danger of causing their offspring to
develop into snobs, and to reach matur-
ity sadly disqualified for association
with their fellows. Such a playground
has been established there, and only
the children Of twenty families, all of
whom are rich, are to have entrance.
A shelter, it is added. has been pro-
vided for the nurses, in which they
may remain while their charges are at
play.
The association of rich children only
with rich children, or of any other sin
gle class with others of it's own class
exclusively, is bound to beget a mar
rowness of vision and intolerance OF
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-04

Much prosperity and constant prog
ress are reported from our good neigh
bors the beach cities and towns. Los
Angeles has many thriving commune
ties within easy hail, and is the center
of the most prosperous population in
the world
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-04

Both in imports and exports the past
year was a record maker for San Pc
dro.. The oil export was increased 500
per cent. The future of San Pedro
harbor will furnish long list of rec
ords made and records broken.