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Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-22
IACOBITE CELEBRATION

A REMARKABLE incident, signifi-
"a cant at once of the strength of
IA the Celtic revival and of the
worldwide unpopularlty among Celts
of the king who insulted them by TAX
ing an English title, will take place in
Los Angeles this evening when a
Jacobite commemoration will be held
in this city. While this is possessed
of neither political significance nor
value, at the same time it is of con-
siderable social Importance, and if our
local celebration is to be a part of
worldwide plan is certainly ominous
for 1.-THE king business" in the United
Kingdom and British empire. At a
time when royalty is fast losing pres
tige il will accentuate the fact that
after all old Edward Victim is only a
"royalty" by a popular and fictitious
convention which may be exploded at
any time.
If there is anything in 1.-The king
business" at all then ''royal rights"
include the right of succession, and 1t
would be hard to establish beyond
reasonable doubt the hereditary right
of succession of the amiable, rotund,
not-brilliant individual who rejoices in
a great string of royal" titles and
appanages, to not one of which, If the
laws of royal succession and heredlty
are to be strictly applied, mas ne any
legal right
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-22

wide open town man, is in a position to
give better account of this steward
ship than is Mayor Alexander?
Another matter of grave Importance
is the development and progress of
the great public school system of Los
Angeles. Fortunately for this city
some of the best professional educa-
tors in the world are actively inter-
ested in it's schools and are taking Of
ficial part in caring for its educational
system. Mushet has already proved
he does not care a fig what experts
say about education and educational
interests and needs in Los Angeles. He
pretends to know educational condi-
tions better than experts, especially
when he is coached to know better by
the pro-vice newspaper that stood by
him in his ignoble battle against the
school bonds. Or, perhaps, 1t might be
said he stood by that organ In its ig-
noble battle against the school bonds.
Tweedledum, tweedledee. This point is
established, both were enemies, and
being enemies of the bonds were enc
mics of education.
Los Angeles, a city which is telling
the world of its educational facilities
and advantages and is urging parents
to send their children here to be edu-
Gated, would indeed be in a paradoxi-
cal or even disingenuous position IT,
with a plea for education on its tongue,
it beckoned to an enemy of education
to come forward and assume executive
control. MUSHET WON'T DO. He is
mot BUILT IN THE Los ANGELES
WAY"
SMITH WON'T DO. He is MOT
BUILT IN THE LOS ANGELES
WAY" Neither man understands thor
oughly the situation" in Los Angeles,
and neither is in a position to learn.
Even a casual review of the vital
and instant needs of Greater Los An
geles in the near future would indi-
cate the necessity for the elimination
of both Smith and Mushet as possible
factors in the mayoralty and the cleo
ton of Mayor Alexander by one of
the biggest majorities ever given by
an appreciative people to a faithful,
tried and true, Jealous, honorable, hon
est, energetic, prosperity bringing
nuhlic official
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-22
THINKS PROFESSIONAL USE
OF MEDIUMSHlP Is WRONG

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 19.-TEditor
Herald: Although there are fatal
gaps in Val Stones logic. yet 1 heart
lily indorse his sentiment expressed
anent mediums. 1t is a deplorable
fact that no matter how often me-
diums have been exposed as tricksters,
they nevertheless can have social and
professional standing in spiritualistic
centers. 1t is not alone raw investi-
gators that will condone them, but old
time spiritualists. The Psychic Re-
search Society Of America declares
that the physical phenomena of public
mediums are prima facie ledgerdemain,
and this is the belief of many spirit
ualists as well. Yet under our very
noses these phenomena flourish and are
accredited by a gullible class to the
agency of spirits, and elaborately de-
fined as such by glib talking profess
sors of spirltualism.
However, public mediums cheat more
because of the exactions of their call
ing than from any inherent depravity
of mind. There is a gullible class con-
stantly hanging around the parlors of
mediums who solicit evidences of
spirit intercourse which cannot be
legitimately supplied. Hence public
mediums are continually being tempted
to cheat, and unless they cheat are
forced out of business.
This deplorable condition existing
within the spiritualistic movement can
be directly traced to our Illogical and
theoretical definitions of mediumship.
We tentatively assume that mediums
can communicate and supply evidence
from spirits at viii for all callers. But
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-22
THE MAYORALTY

AN OLD song says, How happy
~ could I be with either, were
"A t'other dear charmer away" This
seems to be the attitude of many de-
voted machine men with regard to
Smith and Mushet the rival "anti-
progress" candidates for mayor. One
citizen in this complacent frame Of
mind was heard to say the only "ad-
vantage" he and his kind would re-
ceive by the success of Mushet was
that whereas Smith stands merely for
machine town, Musl-et would have
a wide open town; continuous per-
formance, night and day; on with the
dance, let joy be unconfined; Sunday
bacchanalia rolling over the walls of a
beer garden and mingling with the SOL
emn sounds of services in the sacred
edifces.
No good citizen is at all puzzled as
to his choice of the right candidate to
support. There is only one logical
candidate for mayor of Los Angeles.
He is George Alexander With Mayor
Alexander in office Los Angeles de-
velopment will be without interrupt
ton; great undertakings will be pros
ecuted with confidence; finance will re-
gard Los Angeles as pre-eminently
safe and trustworthy city; the owens
river water project will be carried out
economically and satisfactorily, and
Los Angeles, with a plentiful supply
of water for power as we'll as for gen.
eral purposes, will be advanced to the
very front rank of great industrial and
manufacturing cities, while the devel-
opment Of San Pedro, the harbor of
Greater Los Angeles, will make our
metropolis the headquarters of great
trade and maritime commerce that will
have reached big proportions by the
time the completion of the Panama
canal confirms the supremacy of Los
Angeles on the Pacific coast.
The best interests of Los Angeles
make good government an imperative
necessity. This is an absolutely unde-
batabe question. Politics has nothing
to do with it. The prosperity of the
city and the financial, business and
moral safety of the citizens are the
ends and aims of good government.
Mayor Alexander has given an ideal
administration in conformity with
these aims. Any candidate who wishes
to displace and succeed Mayor Alex
ander must present overwhelming
proof he knows better than Mayor
Alexander how to preserve and en-
hance the prosperity of the city and
the financial, business and moral safe
ty of the citizens
Where is the proof that Smith, the
machine man, is in a position to give
a better account of this stewardship
than is Mayor Alexander?
! Where is the proof that Mushet, the
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-22
GOOD MEN

~ ONE excellent citizens invite the
votes and support of their fellow
~ citizens to assure their election to
offices for which they are we'll fitted.
Good government can be secured to
Los Angeles only by a choice of good
men for office. Mayor Alexander is
reasonably certain of recollection, and
he must be helped to carry out his
plans for the betterment OF Los An
geles by the election of men who will
work with him for the best interests
of the community.
Clarence NJ Taggart's candidature
for city tax and license collector is one
that commends itself to citizens who
wish to see that office administered
In a businesslike way, instead of with a
view to provide more jobs for the
boys" The best interests of the people
will be consulted and guarded If Mr..
Taggart is supported by them for the
office of city tax and license collector.
For city auditor John S. Myers is a
candidate who is thoroughly acceptable
to the business interests of Los Angeles.
The important position Of city auditor
can safely be intrusted to him.
Councilmen who deserve the support
of good citizens and who If elected will
help our good government mayor to
make Los Angeles a good government
city through and through are Josias J.
Andrews, Martin F. Betkouski, Miles
S. Gregory, Robert NJ. Lusk, T. L.
o'Brien, Richmond Plant, w. ]. Wash
burn, George Williams and John D.
Works.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-22

of the newspaper men and a few hui
name and sympathetic citizens, the
distress of the poor souls from the
ship would have been greatly ac-
centuated, and lives which had been
delivered from fire and sea might have
been sacrificed to the carelessness, the
indifference or the penuriousness of
the shipping company.
By that slothful or Indifferent COM
pany no transportation was provided
ashore, and no relief vessel was sent
to stand by and care for the people.
The rescued spent hour after hour OF
unnecessary suspense. discomfort and
misery waiting for the relief that had
been promised by the officers of the
ST. Croix, who apparently were toe
common Christianity Of the company.
Hungry, thirsty, cold, wet. miser-
able, the poor shipwrecked creatures
were kept vainly waiting for the re-
lief that had been promised in the
form of a vessel that would be sent
from San Pedro. If such a vessel had
been sent promptly, most of the suffer
ing to which the passengers from the
st. Croix were exposed could have
been avoided. From a convenient
wharf a transfer aboard ship could
have been made with utmost ease.
But as far as making adequate,
prompt, timely provision for the sue
cor and comfort of the st. Croix pas
| sengers was concerned, the owning
company FAILED MISERABLY, q
fact which it grieves The Herald as
much and as sincerely to record as
1t delights The Herald to be able tc
chronicle the BRAVERY of officers
crew and others who were on the
scene, and were not embarrassed b.
supervising official restrictions, red
tape, carelessness, indifference and
| c1Ofh
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-22
Observation-Disclosures

q ATURDAY night. at a time that
tried mems souls, when the world
had received the first vague ru-
mors of what might have been-and
indeed only by a narrow, providential
margin missed being-one of the trag-
edies of the sea, all minds turned ex-
pectantly toward the wireless system
of telegraphy for news that would be
truthful and tidings that would be re-
liable For authentic information the
wireless was looked to; so quickly
have we come to be dependent upon
the services Of this mysterious, potent,
new factor in civilization; so confi-
IDENTIFY and eXpectantly do people lean
upon it for information in times of
disaster During that important and
critical hour, when women prayed and
men waited in the tensest nervous
anxiety, that very folly The Herald
has condemned was being perpetrated.
that very danger to civilization against
which The Herald has warned official
authorities. was being eXemplified.
The alarm from the st. Croix was
received by a group of brainless
youths in this community who took
occasion to make a jest, a joke, a jolli-
fication out Of the urgent need of the
wrecked ship and imperiled passengers.
Idle babbling through the ether him
dered, and but for other sources of
succor might have nullified all efforts
that might have been made to save
the men, women and children who
were in serious peril and might have
been perishing.
The Herald has appealed repeatedly
to the city council Of Los Angeles to
restrain the mischievous activities Of
the youths who on Saturday by their
persistent and devilish interference
prevented wireless communication from
being established between ship and
shore,
The Herald urges earnestly the city
council to realize and act upon the
fact that the relief of this intolerable
and misunderstanding condition is with
in their hands; that the members Of
the council have the power to restrain
or end this misunderstanding and
should use that power,
We have urged that a wireless"
commission be appointed and that all
stations above a certain voltage be
placed under the supervision of eX-
perienced men. 1t has been shown
that this precautionary measure would
prevent such interference as that which
disgraced the community Saturday,
If the ST. Croix had been attempt
ing to appeal for aid from shore and
had been depending for aid on the
success of its wireless communication
it's efforts would have been thwarted
and it's purpose frustrated by the Vapid
and idiotic vaporngs and silly Tex
periments" of the brainless youths
whose amateur wireless stations, main
tanned for the purpose of tapping this
new form of communication and in
tercepting or stealing messages as we'll
as for the purpose of silly and aimless
experimentation" are constant and
a grave menace to this community,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-22
AT THE THEATERs

AUDITORIUM-"The Gay Musician"
MASON-"The Yankee Prince"
BURBANK-"The Dairy Farm
BELASCO-"In the Bishops Carriage
MAJEsTIC-"In Old Kentucky"
Observation-Disclosures
GRAND-"A Chinese Honeymoon"
LOS ANGELES-Vaudevill
OLYMPIC-MusicHl burlesque.
UNIQUE-Vaudeville and comedy.
FIsCHER'S-Mu burlesque.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-22
WE ALL THINK WE AND OURS
ARE NOT AS OTHER MEN

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2O.-LI1ditor
Herald: I am glad to see that T. K.
G.. and others are pegging away at the
matter of prison brutality, whether
under the law or in violation of law.
The great difficulty in the way of
reformers along this line Is public
apathy, the proneness of the average
man or woman to regard this question
as one not within the pale of their in
terests, so long as they or their i'm
mediate relatives are not involved. So
many never realize until too late how
near we all are to the danger.
]. W. McKINNON.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-22
ASKS BIBLE SCHOLARS TO
EXPLAIN BIBLICAL ERROR

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 17-[Editor
Herald: I would like some of your
writer's for the Letter Box to help
solve a perplexing question for me.
Touching the genealogy of Jesus
Christ, in the first chapter of the gos-
pel by Matthew it Is stated that there
are forty-two generations from Abra-
ham to christ, divided into three groups
of fourteen. You can find fourteen in
the first and second groups, but only
thirteen in the last. Can any of your
Bible scholars solve this error, If err
ror it be? G. A. LANE.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-22

their failure to supply such evidence
is complete. Mediumship has become
an interchangeable term for char
iantry in the minds Of the public.
Mediumship is not generally a normal,
mental condition and cannot be COM
manded at will. Spiritualists should,
therefore, discourage all professional
use of such powers; for the alleged
spirit communications of public me-
diums are most unreliable and cause
much confusion and harm to simple
but honest investigators.
p A. JENSEN.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-22

Aviation week is one of the big dates
ahead, Aviation week in Greater Los
Angeles will attract the attention of
all the world and will show that in
aviation, as in everything else, Los
Angeles is abreast of the times.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-22

Railroad freight tariffs are higher
than they were thirty-seven years ago.
The railroads use California as a happy
hunting ground. Out of California IN
dustries they retrieve losses incurred
in other parts OF the country. No
matter where there may be adversely
there is always prosperity for the rail
.road corporations in California. How
muc~, longer does this great. state in
tend to > an easy mark?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-22

Real estate sales in Los Angeles are
reported to be four times as heavy as
they were twelve months ago. This
city is booming and prospering, and
with good government will boom and
prosper more and more.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-22
RONDEAU
BY oDELL SHEPARD

BY oDELL SHEPARD
zuHEN Love is gone and quiet comes again
EFrom 10y and yearnng, sweet and bitter pain,
We sit among the shadows silently
81 And dimly down the backward years we see
The loss is small when set against the gain.
But ofttimes when it has forgotten lain
For long, Loves old time sweetness comes again
Like far heard bells across the evening sea-
When Love is gone.
And, hearing once again that old, sweet strain,
Our sad, world-weary hearts again would tain
Lie down with Love-we've found none dear as he
And learn of him a-cluster round his knee
Were we not all so wise and wisely vain
When Love is gone,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-22

Thanksgiving turkeys in the market
warn us of the near approach of the
season of thanks, which is the fore
runner of the season of Christmas
cheer and feasting Civilization and
savagery meet on common ground in
accepting a big feed as the highest
expression of rejoicing.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-22

Cost of a line of ten steamships OF
the Pacific coast. $10.0O0,0O0. Cost o
one Dreadnaught. about $1O,OO0,000. II
asking for a steamship line that vii
enable the Pacific coast to derive full
benefit from the Panama canal ha'
Congressman McLachlan asked too
much? We trow not
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-22
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENT Intended
for publication must be accompanied by the
name and address of the writer. The Herald
gives the widest latitude to correspondents,
but assumes responsibility for their views
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-22

In a few years every novel viii be
out of date. 1t is impossible for q
descriptive narrative writer to keep up
with the quickly moving procession of
modern improvements.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-22

Celebrate the Thanksgiving season
IN Los Angeles by working for the re-
turn to Office of Good Government
Mayor George Alexander and the en-
lire good government ticket.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-22

WO HUNDRED years ago the
good people of London awoke
to flnd themselves the pos
SCISSORS of what no people
ever before had possessed
"a daily newspaper. "Thc
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-22
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN

Population OIL Angeles 327, ,6S5
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-22

TOmorrow--The American Congress:
1.-The Congress Today.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-01-08
65th ANNUAL MEETING.
Addison County Agricultural Society Meets
on Wednesday and Makes Notable
Changes. Much Improvement
in Affairs of the Society.

in the communities wherever their lot
has been cast, many OF them holding
high positions of trust, both secular and
ecclesiastical
As early as the year 1870 accounts are
given of John Wyck. or Wykes, in the
southeastern part of,Devonshire, Eng
land, who was the head of long line of
knights, which continued till 1913. The
name was written in variety of forms
in the old days, eventually taking the
form of Week es. or Weeks, as we find it
today.
John E. Weeks was born in Salisbury
June H. 1854. the son of the Hon.
Ebenezer Ii. Weeks. one of the most
prominent men of his town and county
In 1888 John E. Weeks represented Sal
isbury in the general assembly. In 1892
he was elected assistant judge of the
Addison County court, and in 1896 he
was elected to the Senate. During the
residence of Mr. Weeks in Salisbury he
was repeatedly chosen as selectman and
lister. In 1898 he removed TO Middle
bury. which has sine" been his home.
In 1857 he was appointed trustee of
the Vermont Industrial school, to sue
ceed c. w Reade, deceased, and held
the office by successive appointment
until 1906, when the Board Of Penal in
stltutlons was created by the legislature
and Gov. f. ID. Proctor, recognizing his
eminent fitness, appointed him the
chairman of that board; and his services
as snch have been of inestImable value
to the state of Vermont. When the
several state institutions were investi-
gated by special committee three
years ago. the Vermont Industrial school
I q 4. -.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-01-08

of the Brandon National Ba' k and was
formerly of the Brandon Milling G. =. in
Salisbury, where he is - cattle buyer. in
Middleburv, where I've Is a member of
the firm Thomas & Weeks whuare large
dealera IN hay. straw and grain, and in
Nergennes, where the Industrial School.
engages his attention on Frid US Dur
ing his three years pr sidency Of the
Addison County Agricultural Society.
which has just terminated, The surplus of
the Society has increased over $4,000
During the administration of Mr..
Weeks as president of the Addison Coun-
ty Agricultural society the affairs of the
society have improved immensely.
From pulling, decadent affair the fair
held each year has grown to have AN
enviable reputation all over New Eng
land. sOver $40 600 has been spent on
the fair grounds and the result is u
transformation. These changes are due
in "A considerable measure to the wise
and careful administration of the presi-
dent, who takes the utmost personal
concern in every detail of the arrange
ments.
Both Mr. and Mrs Weeks take an es-
pecial interest in the training of children,
as is evinced by the frequent visits of
them both to the Vermont Industrial
school which institution has their es-
pecial solicitude. In his home town he
has been the efficient Sunday school SUI
perintendent in the Congregational
church since coming here. In the pre-
MUM list of the Addison County fair
will each year be found special cash pre-
mums given by Mr.. and Mrs. Weeks,
and these are always for the young peo-
pie.
In spite of many duties, Mr.. Weeks
finds time to take part in some of the
fraternlties, chief among which are the
Knights Tempar and the Knights of
Pythias.
In a retrospective sketch, President j.
E. Weeks said in part as follows:
/ Judge Weeks SAID: "What had made
our society what it is today. taking back
for the past seven years, or since the CON
nection of Col. 5 A. Iisley, is the CO.
operation of the official board, the unan-
unity with which they have worked, by
the host of exhibitors, and back of all
this the patronage of the public. We also
owe part Of our success to the fact that
we have always done as we have
advertised.
"Of ALL the important improvements
made, none is more so than has been
accomplished at mechanics hall One
CONTINUED On Page 81
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-01-08

Promptly at one o'clock, after selec-
tions by the Mddlebury band, Secretary
F. G. Dyer read the call of the meeting
The report of the secretary was next in
order; which was an original and com
prehensive exposition of the general
affairs of the society and was much
appreciated. Mr.. Dyer took the arduous
task of completing the work of the late
secretary, Frederick L. Hamilton, and
carried out the work with his character
istic thoroughness, though his business
relations necessitate his resignation from
further duty in that capacity.
The next in order was the reading of
the full rep, rt of Treasurer c. l. Button,
as below:
The report of Treasurer G. l. Button
for the fiscal year from Jan. /, 1908, and
ending Jan. l, 1909, is as follows;
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-01-08

RECEIPTS
Receipts, $13,7O6 Is
Receipts and income for 1908
after deducting double en-
tries and deposit of S604, 1902 10
EXPENDITURES.
Expense, SlO,2S5 ga
Deducting deposits and
double entries, makes, 9,9S5 64
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-12-24
PRODUCTION OF
SILVER in WORLD.
IS INCREASING
Bv Associated Press

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-The
worlds production of gold and sill
yer for the calendar year 1908, as
estimated by the bureau OF the
mint, based upon both official and
unofficial information, was: Gold,
21,37S,480 fine ounces, valued at
S441,932,200; silver, 203, ,186,970
fine ounces, Of a commercial value
of S10S, 6S4,400. As compared to
1907, there was an increase in the
gold product Of $31,376,900, and in
silver an increase of 18,992,300 fine
ounces. Africa showed the greatest
increase in gold production, with al
increase of S14,S30,900 in 1905
over 1907. The largest increase II
the production of silver was II
Mexico, and amounted to 12,517,00'
fine ounces. A decrease in the sill
yer production by 4,074,000 nm
ounces in the United States is not
ed, as compared to 1907.