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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-12

''You see." said the professor, 1.-The sci
ence of chemistry depends on the discov-
cry of certain affinities-" ''Parden me, .
Miss Prym. ''I trust the con-
versation can proceed without drifting in
to scandaL.'-Washingto Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-12

ST have had a good meal for a nickel
declared the poet. 80 have l." respond
ed the promoter. 'Fbut I've had a better
one for ss."-Washington Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-12
WHAT LIVING Is

Thou hast not lived! No aim of earth
Thy body serves-nor home nor birth;
No children'S eyes look up to thee
To solace thy mortality.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-12

MAN will eventually 20 by rail from the
Atlantic to the Pacific in two days" II
once did it in five hours and then kicked
about the slow time" Where, pray, did
this happen?" I'm Panama. LOUISVILLE
Courier ournal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-12

Tommy-Ma. met the minister on my
way to Sunday school, and he asked me
If ever went fishing on Sunday. Mater
And what did you say. darling2 Tommy
said. Get thee behind me. Satan" and
ran right away from him.-Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-12

Woman with the Sun Bonnet-If any
bodys asks me what I know about you 1
shall tell 'em the exact truth. Woman
With the Bingham Apron-If you do.
Mag Parkins. as sure as I'm standin' here
I'll sue you for slanderi-Chicago Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23
ASKS WHY KERN WAS NOT
CENSURED LONG YEARS AGO

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18.-[Editor
Herald: I have been very interested
reader in the series of articles published
by your paper Of recent dates-''Is Vice
Protected in Los Angeles ?"
From The Heralds articles there is
no doubt it is true, at least from a
moral standpoint. But with the facts
as published by The Herald, admitting
all are true, why did not The Herald
censure Chief of Police Ed Kern for
the three years last past?
What qualifications for chief of po-
lice did I'd Kern ever possess? What
case that Chief Kern handled ever re-
suited in conviction, where said Kern
testified as a witness at the trial of the
case, or where the chief apprehended
the culprit?
Why was Broadhead made chief of
police? Was he ever accused of per-
forming any meritorious police service
as a patrolman? Do not his sporting
inclinations run to dog and cock fight
ing? Does he not at present, and has
he not for some years back, stabbed and
fed his horse and buggy at the police
station headquarters on West First
street at the expense of the taxpayers
Is it fact that a man, to join the po-
lice department of the city Of Los An
geles, must not be more that Sc years
of age and of a certain height and
weight?
If the last question is true, what
counts in the Los Angeles police de-
partment-youth, shape and Drawn, or
brains? G.. S. L. MAYER.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23
WHAT DO THE ORGANIZATIONS
PROPOSE TO DO ABOUT 1T?

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17.-[Editor
Herald: The Herald has not only
made out case but proved that Mayor
Harper did wrong in appointing a
wholly unfit man to the board of public
works, over the solemn protests Of
many reliable citizens. Also many
other things that the mayor and his
bosom friend. Ed Kern. have been con-
cerned in. The question now is, "What
are the people going to do about it?"
The mayor, the day before he ap-
pointed Ed Kern, in an interview re-
ported in the Examiner, said he would
do so, and that those who did not
like it could go to the grand jury or
have recourse to the recall.
We have in this city three OrganiZa-
tions, the Municipal league, the Voters
league and the City club, all proclaim
ing that they are looking after the wei
fare and good name Of the city, and
spending time and money holding day
light banquets to attract attention to
what they are doing, and stand ready
to do, for the taxpayers of this city.
Now The Herald has given them the
facts and they are up against the real
thing. What are they going to do
about it?
Gentlemen, the eyes Of the public are
on you. Either go to the bat or ad-
journ your organizations sine die and
stop fooling with the people.
M T. COLLINS,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23

recites: THAT the natural result of
these improper appointments (by Mayor
Harper) and the business relationship
above referred to has been a failure
on his part to enforce impartially the
laws and ordinances of the CITY,"
In good sooth, a very natural result.
What other result could be looked for
in a world in which two and two in
variably add up to four? No human
being, not even the mayor of Los An
geles, can serve God and Mammon.
Why Harper should have attempted
this most impossible feat of divided
duty is inexplicable.
The continuance in office of A. C.
Harper as mayor Of the city is a
menace to morality, a menace to
private business and a menace to the
great business enterprises upon which
the city is engaged.
RECALL HIM.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23
PREPOSTEROUS

HARMED by the increase of prohi-
N hibitiOn sentiment in the United
- States, the National Model License
league will make an effort to conduct
a national campaign which will have for
its object the reform of the retail trade.
The friends of the liquor interests be-
lieve that by improving the saloon they
will deprive the temperance advocates
of one of their principal arguments.
The secretary of the Pennsylvania
Wholesale Liquor Dealers league, il
his zeal for his clients, has made
statements which the friends of tenn
perance will not allow to go unchal-
lenged. He said the prohibition cam
paign was being conducted with taint-
ed money. He also limited broadly
that temperance reformers will use
tainted money in a tainted manner il
order to procure favorable legislation
There is only one comment which fits
this wild accusation. "It is too thin
That grave and reverend churchmen
leading lawyers, officers of the Youne
Mems Christian association, the
Woman's Christian Temperance ,unior
and the entire body of the Methodists
should be united in a national effort
TO use money for the purpose of pur-
chasing legislation favorable to the
cause of temperance is more like &
Gargantuan joke than the result ol
a sane, we'll balanced reasoning pro
cess. 1t won't do.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23
DESIRES SCIENTIFIC PROOF
TO SHOW HIM HE is WRONG

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2O-rEdito,
Herald: Mr.. Irwin in an effort to ans
Wer my letter, resorts to sarcasm and
quotations from the Bible. These a.
not answer my proposition, ,aat ..Tbera
IS no intelligent purpose in the rni-
verse except man." Am open to anv
conviction based on scientific investi-
cation, but not on quotations from the
Bible that are susceptible Of So MANY
interpretations, as the whole RibIo is
"rItten IN aIegory, parable and poetry.
Inc story of the creation. occurrino.
less than 5000 years ago, is refuted nv
Sclence-Wh1ch has proved that tha
earth's age is one .hundred million
years, or more.
Mr. irwin accuses me of dogma
tism." If there is any book that i
dogmatism itself then it is the booi5
Mr. irwin quotes from. "Thus saith
the Lord" know There is therefore ),
etc science is not dogmatic, it is omen
q al times to correction, but I nra
sumo from Mr.. Irwin's quotation tbat
ne ho!os the Bible infallible and as T
90 not, need scientific Deductions +o
my proposition that shall prove NV ~
Tor, ana establish Mr.. IrWin's right to
aeny my claims that ''There is no in
telllgent purpose in the universe excent
man. and as | am not looking for
hohor out only truth, will still sign
myself VEDTT 81
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23
VIOLATES LIFE'S ZEAL LAW
TOR SAKE OF EASIER LIFE

LOS Los ANGELES, Jan. 18.-TEditor
herald: When a salary of $6 a week
IS PAID TO a young woman, a real law
IS being violated, but the EMPLOYER il
the Violator Of that law, and not the
girl who receives it.
When they will pay a Girl onlv se
a week she can cook her own meals
IN a w a week room, Iaunder her own
shirt waists, and with good health
manage to be very happy, if she has
a mind and soul. Books alone are
enough to make life interesting.
But, If she f1irts with the EMPLOYER
or some one else, and wears better
clothes, etc, she would not be happy
Qf she possessed a mind and souD. for
she would be offending her ''real'' self
for the sake of the comfort and adorn-
ment Of her physical self.
When she launders her own shirt
waists she is happy, for both the
physical self and "reaP' self are then
immaculate. When she firts with the
employer and wears better clothes.
and has a better room, she is break
ing a 'real'' law, and the girl who mar
ries without love for the sake Of an
easier place in life is breaking the
very same real" law. She may not be
breaking the law Of CUSTOM" but Gus
tom cannot make it moral.
A YOUNG GIRL,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23

One of the provisions Of the law is
that no one ''who has habitually re-
fused to work shall receive a pension"
How this provision is to be enforced
is one of the puzzles confronting the
officers in charge Of administering the
law Nor are those to be entitled to
receive anything "who have been
brought into a position to apply for
the pension through his or her wilful
acts of misbehavior.'' To keep such
persons from getting any benefit from
the act, it is obvious that the British
government will have to establish i
bureau to pry into the lives of the poor.
Premier Asquith, author Of the
measure, estimates that more than half
million people are eligible for it's
benefits, and that it will take $30,000-
600 annually to provide for them.
The operation of this experiment in
government, the ultra act of paternai-
ism will be watched with interest
everywhere. There are many who
doubt its expediency, fearing that IL
will encourage idleness and lack of
thrift, but this remains to be seen.
Other governments are perfectly will
ling that Great Britain should try it
first and it is dependent upon the out
come whether it shall become a univer-
sal practice
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23
ANGELES HERAID SATURDAY MORNING. JANUARY 23 1909
CiviliZed World Is Watching
Britain S Pension Experiment

0LD-AGE pensions, discussion of
which has torn and rent the Brit.
ish parliament for years. becama
an accomplished fact with the begin
nlng OF this month. Probably no law
OF recent years in Great Britain has
attracted the attention that this has
received. Home rule for Ireland and
the license bill, both of which were
less fortunate at the hands Of the law
makers. were in many ways relegated
to subordinate place in public inter
est
The law is singular in the fact that
although it is the most radical legis-
lation that has been attempted in anv
country, it has been approved by what
is regarded as the most conservative Of
monarchies.
The law provides that every person
in Great Britain, beginning on January
l, 1909, who is over 20 years of age and
is not lunatic or has not been con-
victed of crime, and whose income
does not exceed $130 a year, shall be
entitled to receive from the government
a dollar and quarter a week. Should
it be discovered that several members
of the same family are entitled to re-
ceive the allowance, the distributing
officers will reduce the pro rata among
them
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23
Pure Food Law Is Kinder
to French Than Americans

T MAY seem a bit strange, but the
way this pure food law is being
managed we are showing ourselves
really kinder to Frenchmen than we
are to ourselves, says the Humboldt
Standard. French peas are freely ad-
mitted into the American market, al
though their price and quality, as is
well known, are dependent on their be-
ing artifcially colored with sulphate Of
copper. Yet the law has been so man
aged that California fruits which are
preserved with dash of sulphur fumes
are excluded from France 1t might be
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23
WOMAN CONTRIBUTES HER
IDEA AND UNDERSTANDING

LONG BEACH, Jan. 19.-[Editor
Herald: While this discussion has
been going on among the ''male
brothers. some of the female sisters
have been wondering in their finite
minds what it was all about anyway.
The following I think we can all un-
derstand if we will:
"God is a spirit; and they that wor-
ship him must worship him in spirit
and in truth" John 4:24. "And we
know that the Son of God is come
and hath given us an understanding,
that we may know him that is true;
and we are in him that is true, even
in his Son, Jesus Christ. This is the
true God and eternal life" I John 500.
And the peace of God, which pass
eth all understanding, shall keep your
hearts and minds through Christ
Jesus Phil. Al.
1t is not our wonderful faith that
saves us, but it is our faith in a Won
derful Savior.
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,
But trust him for his grace:
Behind a frowning providence
He hides a smiling face.
Blind unbelief is sure to err
And scan his work in vain;
God is his own interpreter,
And he will make it plain.
MRS. d. j. H.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23
What Others Say
Herald Will Wxn

The Los Angeles Herald is grind
ing out some mighty interesting read
ing In its manner of handling the
problem of protected vice in that city.
When stranger can go into a city
and in few hours locate all sorts of
places of vice, is it reasonable to sup
pose that even a semi-intelIigent police
force is ignorant of the situation &?
That vice has been and is protected
in Los Angeles and in probably
every other city Of Southern Cali
fornia to a greater or less degree, is
openly apparent. The Herald is to be
congratulated on it's nerve, and should
have the moral support Of the good
citlzens of its city. But protected
vice" has many arms and they encircle
in their subtitle embrace some good
citizens of its city, But protected
Herald many hard jolt before it wins
its fght.-Coachella Valley News.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23
FAVORS ELECTION AT LARGE,
BUT Is PERHAPS SARCASTIC

LOS ANGELES, JAN 18.-[Editor
Herald: A Voter in The Herald of
this date asks why it is a logical pro-
ceeding to elect our councilmen at
large.
1t Is the easiest thing in the world
to answer that question. Doesn't your
correspondent know that this city al
ways has elected it's executive officers
at large, and doesn't everybody know
that our mayors always have been
above reproach?
Just recall the names of these officers
and you will recognize the fact that
only the election on a general ticket,
and nothing else. could have given us
such chief magistrates as those who
have filed the mayors chair for years
past.
How else could we have acquired an
A. c. Harper? ANOTHER VOTER.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23
HeraId's Articles Convincing

The Los Angeles Herald, in series
OF we'll written articles, shows con-
clusively that Mayor Harper is under
the dominion of the Espee, which has
obtained absolute control of the muni-
cipal affairs of the City of fallen An
gels. With old Safes prime minister,
the Espee, in full charge we may reas-
onably expect a repetition of the scan
dals of San Francisco, Pitsburg and
st. Louis. The articles published SO
far give Mayor Harper the appear
ance of singed cat. We regret this,
as we did believe that Arthur G. Har-
per would never suffer himself to wear
an Espee collar and take orders from
the associated villainies.-San Ber-
nardino Free Press
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23

Captain Fries is in favor of the re-
port of the general staff of the army
recommending an appropriation Of $3,-
655,269 for the fortification of San Pedro
harbor. The report says: when one
thinks of the great extent Of the Los
Angeles country, its immense wealth,
and takes into consideration it's cli-
mate, making it one Of the most at
tractive dwelling places in the world,
no effort of the imagination is needed
to realize the temptation it offers those
oriental powers whose population is
pressing hard on means of subsist-
ence."
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23
POE

REVIVAL of interest in Edgar
~ Allan Poe will follow his centenary.
Today Poe'S stories are as great
and as grim and as artistic and as
impossible as ever, and we use the
word impossible" in the French as
well as the English sense. 1t cannot
be denied that there lived among US,
within the recollection of many. q
writer who could have rivaled Poe in
Poe's particular field if he had chosen
to sup full with horrors and pass along
to his readers those horrors he could
not assimilate.
1t is not possible to doubt that the
author of "Dr. Jekyn and Mr.. HYDE
could have provided for the world
many morbid tales of mystery, but he
preferred the healthy uplands to the
swamps, morasses and haunted holIows
of literature. For this reason he never
liked "Dr. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde" al
though the book brought him both fama
and money, and he has been heard to
refer to the story irreverently as "a
bad dream, the result of eating hear
tily late supper of underdone meat.
washed down with foggy London por-
ter" In view Of Stevenson's character
istically whimsical explanation of q
story which set the whole world a.
thinking, it may be noted that many
of Poe's best tales read like bad
dreams written in good English. In
spite of his horrifying imagination, Poe
believed in beauty of diction and in
using language which sounded like
music. 1t is this unusual, unexpected
and extraordinary conjunction which
makes Poe one of the most remarkable,
writers of modern times.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23
WASTEFUL NATION

RESIDENT ROOSEVELTS special
message to congress transmitting
the report of the national conser-
walton commission is a.document which
is timely and important. The president
points out that the nation must be eco
nomical. The problem to which the
national attention must be directed
purposefully is roughly outlined in the
statement that in the middle of the
present century perhaps 10000, 900
Americans and by its end very many
millions more must be fed and clothed
from the products of the SOIL 1t is
high time the people of=the United
States should realize nationally their
responsibility to the coming millions is
that of parents to their children, and
that in wasting resources they are
grievously wronging their descendants.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23
is NOT SOMETHING BETTER
THAN PROTEST POSSIBLE?

ALHAMBRA, Jan. 18.-[Editor Her
add: 1 want to congratulate the best
paper in Los Angeles, The Herald, for
it's clever exposure of protected vice in
Los Angeles, and / indorse the atti-
tude of various correspondents of the
Letter Box in regard to the Mexican
patriots and Col. Griffith's work in bet
tering prison conditions.
In fact, 1 signed petition of pro-
test against the outrageous action OF
your authorities in the Mexican patriot
case, some three months ago, and have
lent my moral support to such protests
ever since. Can't we do something
more than protest?
DIR. HUMANITAS.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23

A cousin of President Brown of the
New York Central road has been ming
ling with the unemployed of Denver for
several weeks. Impressed by the awful
conditions of poverty with which he
became familiar, he is about to build a
municipal lodging house to shelter the
homeless during the winter months
This is good philanthropic work. AT
the same time it is disappointing. 1t is
merely another concession to poverty,
and is not a remedy.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23

added that DR.. Wiley, who is said to be
partially responsible for this anomalous
condition of affairs, is reported to be
slated for removal from his position in
the agricultural department for alleged
disregard of the presidents orders fors
bidding him to attack the use of ben
zoate of soda as a preservative until q
commission appointed to investigate
the subject had brought in its final re-
port and findings. Wiley is charged
with having refused to withhold active
warfare until a report could be made
by scientists holding an Investigation.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23

Mayor MacVicar of DesMoines. iowa
says twenty years experience has con-
WINGED him Of the superiority of what
Is known as the DesMoines system OF
government. Actual experience has
made him firm believer in non-parti-
san nominations and elections, the Sc
lection of the council bv the citv al
large. He thinks also the mayor and
council in return for their salaries
should give all their time to the city's
business.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23
The State Press
Innocent Must Suffer

Don't ask us to print the names of
prize winners at card parties hereafter
Uncle Sam, in his wisdom, has cut this
sort of thing out. Papers printing this
kind of matter are not allowed to go
through the mails. This appears like
an extreme step, but we suppose the
government had to make it's ruling so
sweeping that it would head off the
takers and get-rich- -quicksters who
make a vehicle of the mails for their
crooked Work.-Ventura Free Press.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23
Rather Inconsistent

San Francisco newspapers are howl
ing about the harm caused by the
race tracks, and yet every paper is
proud of its dope" page In addition,
a number print the advertisements OF
the touters, who claim that they can
pick the winning horses each day, at
so much per pick. If the selling of
pools on horse racing is prohibited in
this state, it will be through the eff
forts of the country press. Angels
Camp Record.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23

An interesting operation at the county
hospital has made an honest man of a
citizen whose character had been af-
fected for the worse by blow on the
skull. Surely this is one of the most
remarkable as well as one of the most
suggestive feats of modern surgery.
After all, we are not only the victims
of circumstances, but of our skulls.
Truly, charity toward all should be the
greatest of the three Christian graces.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23
AT THE THEATERS

AUDITORIU1I-"Cind
BELASCO-"Charley's Aunt"
MASON-"The Wolf"
HAMBURGER'S MAJESTIC-'LoIa from
Berlin"
BURBANK-"The Heart of a Geisha."
ORPHEUM-VaudevilIe road show.
GRAND-"The TenderfOOt."
Los ANGELES-VaudeyiIle
FISCHER'S-"Ski-Hi"
EMPIRE-YaudegiIle.
UNIQUE-''The Servant Lady"
WALKER-Vaudeville
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23
Buy at Home

What is the matter with a buy at
home" campaign for Riverside? This
community enjoys prosperity quite as
much as any other section and GER
tainly Riverside merchants are quite
as deserving Of the patronage Of their
own people as are the San Bernardino
or the Los Angeles merchants of the
support of the people of their commune
ities.-Riverside Press.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23

The champion optimist of the created
universe lives in Los Angeles. He is
the citizen who said: "At the mass
meeting 1 voted for the recall in order
that Mayor Harper might be vindicat-
ed" But he didn't say it until the day
afterwards. Orders from headquarters
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23

A bill passed by the state senate cre-
ates new holiday. Discovery Day. Oc-
tober IL. Well, it cannot be denied that
the men who found California did a
good days work.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23

A generous downfall of rain has
added greatly to the prosperity of
Southern California. Good times are
here, and good times are ahead, more
and more to follow"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23
Absent-Minded

''See that speckled hen?" said the
farmer; "she is absent-minded.
"How do you know?" asked the vis-
itor.
to lay an egg and then forget to
cackle. .'-Yonkers Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23
WiIIett Will Wit

We recall that many years ago a
man by the name of Willett ran for
office and the inscription on one Of the
transparencies in parade during the
campaign read ''Willett Will Wilt
Perhaps the legend will be applicable in
the present instance before Mr.. Will
lett gets a good chance to let go Of
the Observation-Disclosures Echo.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23
Cleaning Un paX

According to the Los Angeles Express
and Herald, that city Is coming to be
a very rotten borough with the city
administration standing in with the
Whitechapel element for revenue only.
There will have to be a great cleaning
up day in the southern metropolis if
reports are true.-Hanford Sentinel.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23

Since the mayor has recommended
the use of a mantle of charity he has
been requested to become an honorary
member of the cloakmakers' union.