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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-09

These rates differ from those pro
posed by Chairman Lee chiefly in thar
they start cents per hundred pounds
higher for the same mileage and end
IS cents higher. the graduation being
made in shorter jumps. Mr.. Lees
schedule ran from As cents to $1.45.
Immediately after Mr. Lee lost his
proposition and it became certain that
Mr.. SCOTS schedule was the nearest
thing to it he could get, he decided
to vote for that, and ordered that a
citation be issued at once to all rail
roads to answer at the first October
meeting on new proposition to re-
duce rates on compressed cotton,
since the new schedule applies only
to the uncompressed bales.
In his new schedule for compressed
cotton Mr. Lee says he will use the
same maximum and minimum figures
he had in his uncompressed schedule
but that he will make some changes
in the intermediate figures.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-09
NO LIMIT TO HIGH FLYING
Only Obstacle to Aeroplanee Getting
Beyond Gun Range Is Lack of
Perfect Motor.

New York.-Glenn II. Curtiss, the
aeroplanist, declares that the objec-
ton of military authorities to flying
machines on the theory that they can
not ascend sufficiently high to be out
of range of guns is without founda-
ton,
There are only two things at pres
ent which are retarding long-continued
high flights by aeroplanes," Mr.. Cur
tiss said. THE first thing is the nerve
of the operator and the second the
fear that the motor will suddenly stop
or develop other troubles that might
make quick descent from a high
elevation dangerous. AS soon as the
motor trouble can be overcome the
nerve Of the operator will be found.
THE aeroplane motor is still in it's
experimental stage. 1t is not the fear
of meeting troublesome cross currents
of air in the highest regions that re-
tards high flying. The trouble is with
the motor. 1t has been lightened and
simplified to the last degree possible
by the elimination of as many parts
as possible from the heavier and more
reliable motor as used in automobiles
and yet we expect it to show an
equally high degree of efficiency"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-09
First to Serve Notice.

General Attorney S. R. Prince, of
the Mobile & Ohio, was the first to
serve notice that his road would not
accept the old service as being legal
in connection with the new schedule,
because no legal notice was given.
Several other representative then
made it clear that they thought it
both Illegal and unfair to spring an
entirely new schedule, and upon what
they considered a new basis, since
they had not understood that the
former plan contemplated that the
rates would apply where shipments
were carried over two or more lines.
The new schedule, which goes into
effect in thirty days, is as follows:
20 miles and under, so cents; 25 to
so miles, 60 cents; 80 to So miles, so
cents; 35 to 40 miles, 90 cents; 45 to
90 miles, 90 cents; 80 to So miles,
$1.00; SO to 65 miles, s1.05; 65 to Is
miles, $1.10; rs to So miles, $1.15
SIS to 50 miles, $1.20; 95 to 100 min
S125; 100 to 10 miles, $3.50: 10 to
100 miles $1.35; 120 to 1870 miles,
S1.40; 1870 to $40 miles. $t45; 140 to
$50 miles, $3.50; 100 to 40 miles,
$155; 40 to 1870 miles, SLIGO; $50 to
1870 miles, $1.G5; 100 to 200 miles.
31.70; 200 to 21O miles Its; 21O 70
22o miles, $50; 22o TO 23O miles
$185; 230 to 2lO miles $3.50; 240 tc
25o miles, $1.95; ESD to 27O miles
$500; 27O to 900 mi os, sos; 200 tc
500 miles $40; over 300 miles, S2.15
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-09
NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS

No:'cl is hereby given that the
Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the
city of Hattiesburg, Miss, will be in
session at the city hall at 8 o'clock
p. M, September 20, 1909, and from
day to day thereafter as long as is
necessary, for the purpose of hearing
objections by the tax payers to their
assessments; also for the purpose of
increasing or diminishing the valua
tons of property assessed for taxation
and for the purpose of approving the
assessment rolls if found correct. and
taking such other actions pertaining
to such assessment rolls as may be
necessary and proper.
The tax payers of the city of Hat
tiesburg and others interested must
have their objections on file with the
city clerk before tho rolls are. ap.
proved.
Witness my signature this the 9Th
day of September, 1909.
A. FARLEY,
s-S-1ot City Clerk.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-09
We Can WIN CHINA
Former Consul DENLY Says Field
Is Lin,iiless for America.
For the Conquest of the Chinese
Trade Field United States Must
Cease to Regard Empire Mere
Iy as Market Place.

Washington.-"The American dollar
with the American man behind It.
That" said Charles DENLY, recently
consul general at Shanghai, who is in
Washington en- route to new post
of duty at Vienna, should be the
motto for the conquest of the Chinese
trade field. To achieve success we
must cease to gard China merely as
market and begin to consider it a
region for permanent investment We
cannot hope to sell our goods by
standing at the doors of our ware
houses. We must get closer to the
Chinese people. They are unusually
friendly toward Americans as a result
of our generous policy in Chinese af-
fairs during recent years. The gov
eminent is likewise cordial, and in
vestment of American capital is de-
sired.
1.-THE time must come when our f.
nanciers and business men to promote
American trade in China will regard
seven per cent. in that empire as
seven per cent. here. It is futile to
hope for orders for American mate
rails to be used in the construction
works financed by foreign capital. In all
government loans made for the con-
struction of railroads, etc., it is now
purchased from the nation providing
the funds. l have known Germans
constructing a railroad in Shantung
to refuse to consider American ten
ders for material and equipment sole.
go to Germany, even at a higher price,
because the enterprise was being f.
nanced by German banks.
"One feature of the Chinese indus.
trial situation has escaped attention
here. 1t is that the empire is at the
threshold of what, believe, will be an
era Of remarkable manufacturing &C.
tivity. The American Tobacco com.
pany, which operates in the east as
the British-American Tobacco COM
pany, manufactures, from American
tobacco largely, vast quantities of CT
garettes. The cheap labor available
at their factories in Shanghai, Tan
kow and Mukden, together with their
employment of the most modern ma
chinery, enables them to prove the
wisdom of production close to the
consumer. 1t is my opinion that the
manufacture of ready-to-wear clothing
in large quantities would be a most
profitable pursuit. The Standard OIL
company has made vast profits by get
ting close to the consumer. It's oil
boats deliver petroleum to the most
remote sections OF the empire without
recourse to the mi1dleman."
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-09
PICKEL & HAND
The People Who Treat You Right.
JEFFERSON MILITARY ACADFNgY

1s2o-Washnaton Mssisspp-t9o9.
One of the
Gates admits to leading Colleges and Universities
discipline Moral
year begins September 15 Write for
Caaouge j. S. RAYMOND, LID. supt
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-09
100 WATCHES FREE.

The Weekly Commercial gives 4
small. regular 12-sire, thin model. nick
Ell nnisb watch for club Of only
twenty. three month"; new trial snb
scriptions at 10 cents each, $500, the
amount to be RENTED with the 20
names. Each trial subscription must
be new, not now taking the Weekly,
and only one to family. The watch
Is fully guaranteed, nice enough for
any one to wear, a good time-keeper,
and cannot be purchased from any
1eweler for less than two dollars
Drop us a postal card for sample
copies and blanks.
THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL.
Memphis. Tenn
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-09
BEGINS ElGHTY-THIRD TERM
IN THE PENTENTIARY

NEW YORK, September AL.
though he is 70 years oi, William
Morton will begin his eighty-third
term in prison in few days. In spe-
cial sessions court he was sentenced
to imprisonment in the penitentiary
for one year, having been convicted of
stealing several pairs of women's
stockings from a Sixth avenue depart
ment store. For years he has been a
law breaker. Lately he has confined
his operations to shoplifting and in the
last three years he has been in the
penitentiary four times.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-09

Great Northern, Mobile. Jackson &
Kansas City and the Mississippi Cent
raj to sell and accept the ~" form
interchangeable mileage. The first
named road will resist the order; the
others may. Neither the roads nor
the commercial interests are satisfied
with the cotton rate.
In accordance with the program as
mapped out Monday night, after re-
jecting the cotton schedule proposed
by Chairman Lee, the railroad commits
sion adopted the substituted schedule
which was offered by Commits
sioner Scott, making it apply as a
continuous mileage schedule where the
shipment is handled by one line.
1t was this feature of the PROPOSE
ton which caused the first protest
from the railroad representatives pres
ent, who seized upon the technical
ground that, SINCE the entire plan of
revision was thereby changed, it
would be illegal to force the new
schedule upon the railroads without
the ten days notice required
by law. The commission holds, how
ever, that there is no change except
as to the rates themselves, as the
former schedule, although not so
specified in the former summons,
contemplated that the rates be fixed
on continuous mileage basis, and
that therefore there is no change in
the plan.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-09
CONTINUOUS Mileage
SCHEDULE PASSED

JACKSON, Miss, September O.
The railroad commission determined
yesterday to leave the Scott schedule
applying to one line shipments, de-
Quoting the usual 10 per cent from the
local charges on each road, on two
line shipments.
They ordered the New Orleans
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-12
DECENCY

TN The Herald's always entertaining
public letter box an interesting
Il controversy is being conducted on
the subject of seaside dress, particu-
larly bathing dress. One of our cor
respdhdents remarks. This dress bust
ness is all a matter of taste. of opin-
ion"
Exactly All human life is a matter
of taste and of opinion, but it has been
agreed that for the greatest good of
the greatest number the opinion and
taste of the majority should prevail
Therefore the fashions, even although
at first arbitrary or dictatorial, soon
represent the will of the majority, and
a man or woman is conspicuous when
not fashionably dressed for the simple
reason he or she is not conforming to
the custom of the majority.
Taste and opinion. however are
united in a modern demand for de-
cency. 1t is demanded in literature,
in art and in everyday life. To for
bid indecent art and tolerate indecent
life would be nonsensicaL To forbid
indecent literature and tolerate indie
cent life would be nonsensical. Why
there should have been laxity in sea-
side morals. customs or manners as
compared with those of the street has
always been more or less of a mys-
terry, and If any seaside costume or
lack of costume causes prurient talk,
then the costume or the lack of it be-
comes offensive.
On the preservation of the decencles
depends the preservation of society.
The reason need not be stated elabor-
ately here, but the conclusion is gen.
orally accepted.
Society depends upon convention to
far greater extent than the unso-
phisticated student dreams. That is
why an amateur dabbler in cults
or extreme philosophers or new sys-
TENS Is apt to make an ass of him
self. To the pure all things are pure,
but there is no reason why society
should make purity cater to impurity.
When Lady Godiva rode naked through
the streets Of Coventry all the inhabi-
tants hid excepting one-a miserable
wretch whose nickname is synonymous
with prurient and stupid, brainless
curiosity. AS a rule it pays to be de-
cent, and society is more imperiled by
a relaxation of moral standards than
by any other one cause.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-12
SUGGESTS PLAN FOR A NEW
UNION STATION AND SUBWAY

LOS ANGELES, May 11.-[Editor
Herald: Permit me to add a word to
the discussion in your valuable paper
regarding the selection of site for
the much needed and inevitable union
depot.
We need a great cross-town street
north of the Plaza, as valuable and as
necessary to the growth and welfare
of the city as Seventh street. And
such street can be had by improving
and connecting Sunset boulevard with
Also street
Then abandon all the streets and
condemn and purchase all the prop
erty north Of Also street and east of
Main street to the Los Angeles river
for railroad purposes and build a great
union depot with many tracks, side
by side, north of the Plaza, at the
northeast corner of Main street and
Sunset boulevard, thus extended, wild
ened and improved
This will give to Los Angeles an up
to-date, first-class, best location ever
given a railroad depot in a great city.
And it is the only safe, adequate and
convenient place in this city now avail
able
Then construct a great subway from
san Fernando street under Main street
to the south line of the old city limits,
with stations at the union depot and
Sixth and Washington and Jefferson
streets to accommodate and expedite
the travel from the mountains to the
sea.
| have seen the population of this
city double five times and it Is safe
to say that it will soon double again.
The great northwest and northeast
and north part of this city have just
70 a W. Ixnnp6 nv nIIiNy and
cheap transportation by the best cleo
tric street railroad system in the
world. And when the population of
this city shall have doubled once or
twice more the Plaza will be restored
to it's former glory-the center of the
City of the Angels.
Build the union depot north of the
Plaza and build the great subway
under Main street. The Greater Los
Angeles is building, but we are still
in the pioneer stage.
WILL, D. GOULD.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-12
SAYS MODEL LICENSE SALOON
WILL RUIN BOYS AND GIRLS

LOS ANGELES, May 1O.-[Editor
Herald: Would you permit me
through your columns to answer some
of Mr.. Smiths arguments in favor or
a model license league?
Mr.. Smith takes for his text Take
the saloon keeper out of politics and
the law breaker out of the saloon bust
ness" Let me say right here, when you
do that we will have no saloons nor
saloon keepers, for there are bad sa-
looms and worse; bad saloon keepers
and worse; no good ones. l admit
some saloon keepers are better than
others, but when a man goes into tho
saloon business he does it for the
money, no matter whose nome is
wrecked, nor whose boy or girl is sac
rificed.
The young man who takes his first
drink in a model high license saloon
will go down to a drunkard's grave just
as easily as if he had started in a low
dive, and the model saloon Mr.. Smith
talks of exists only In his imagination
There never was a place where 1ntoXi-
eating liquors were sold but there arc
laws broken, both human and divine.
The sale of liquor as beverage is
crime against good government and
good citizenship; wherever 1t Is sold
you have broken heads and broken
hearts. NO, no, Mr.. smith; you can
1901 the people all IHe IlilS, AhS P.o
pie have been paying too high a price
irving to keep up with building aims
houses and jails to hold and take care
Of the product of the American sa-
loon. Your modern saloon has had its
day. The people have walked up;
they have the saloon and its gang OF
law breakers on the run, and they Will
keep them on the run until every IL
censed saloon will be wiped off the
American soil. Not until then can we
be free of the liquor curse.
G, L. ROBERTSON.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-12
MORE POLICE

wy HEN Los Angeles has a chief of
wv police who is showing zeal and
efficiency and performing his
duties in a businesslike manner, it
should listen with extreme respect toany
plan he may have to propose for the
increase of the efficiency of the police
force, because to increase the efficiency
of the police force will be to make Los
Angeles a better city to live in, and
viii actually increase its value.
The chief is anxious the police force
should be so large that patrol routes
or beats" may be established wher-
ever necessary, and that we may no
longer have to listen to the Mortified
EXPLANATIONS of good people who have
had to stay out late some nights and
have found they could travel for
"blocks and blocks without seeing a
single. solitary policeman" That
phrase has a familiar ring, hasn't 1t?
A we'll and thoroughly policed city
inspires confidence not only on the part
of its resident population, but among
visitors A good police service in many
WAYS enhances the reputation of a city
and makes it's standing among cities OF
the country better.
When honest officials complain they
are hanpered in their work by INSULT
Gent funds, or by insufficient help
or by any kind of insufficiency, they
are making their complaint and ask
ing for relief not for selfish. Dut fol
unselfish reasons, not for private, but
for public reasons. They are asking
the public by helping them to help It,
self
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-12
METROPOLITAN CITY

7" nth the consolidation of Los An
w geIes and San Pedro the greatest
w maritime city of the west will
be on the map. This statement is nor
an exaggeration. Rome was not built
in q day, but when the early settlers
began to appreciate the possibilities or
the beautiful and impregnable site on
the seven hills they knew their metrop-
oils would be in a predominant posi-
ton, and one of the chief reasons why
Rome became great and ruled the
world was that 1t was impregnable.
Not until our barbarous northern
European forefathers, who had no
reverence for tradition, stormed the
ancient city had foreign foeman ever
marched through the streets. Not only
was it unassailable, but aggressive.
In modern times aggressiveness takes
a different form from that which dis
tineuished Rome. Modern aggressive
ness that marks business enterprise Will
make a country or city great, and there
must be another kind of aggressiveness
that of moral purpose.
Greater Los Angeles will possess
everything which contributes to sue
cess. 1t will have a more American
population than any eastern city, and
this population will bend all its ener-
giles to realizing in Los Angeles all
that there is in Americanism, and MAX
ing 1t the typical American city of the
west.
OF metropolitan area, with big in
telligent population and a magnificent
harbor prepared to accommodate the
shipping which will come here in con-
stantly increasing tonnage, even before
the completion of the Panama canal,
Greater Los Angeles will be one of the
most important and best known cities
in the Union. But for it's metropolitan
development, for the fruition of all the
promise of the future, the consolidation
of Los Angeles and it's seaport, San
Pedro, is absolutely necessary. Col
umns might be devoted to stating the
grounds on which this statement Is
based, but they may all be epitomized
in the good, old fashioned, blunt and
honest expression, COMMON SENSE.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-12
LOVELY Los ANGELES

TN THE merry month of May the
people of the east begin to look
Il forward to the summer season.
with them 1t is not a pleasant time.
After a blizzard tortured winter comes
a chilly, weeping spring. About this
time of the year the sickly sunshine
of early eastern May begins to warn
citizens of the approach of the dog
days. AS soon as the swelter OF the
dog days is over the frosts and gales
of autumn bring coughs. colds, pneu-
monia and general discomfort; and
the season of wet winds and early
frosts deepens into that OF hard black
freezes and billiards.
Thus the round of the eastern year
is a constant fight for existence. Many
human beings survive, but many sue
cumb. There is not a season that does
not claim Its victims. 1t is risky to
attempt to live in a treacherous ell
mate of sudden changes and great eX-
tremes, and the thermometrical ranges
which make some eastern summer days
distressing drain the human system
of its vitality. 1t is not so much the
heat that kills, it is not so much the
cold that kills, as 1t is the range of
temperature.
In California we enjoy an even cli-
mate. We have sunshine all the year
round and it is never excessively hot
and never excessively cold.
The chances of long life are far
greater here than they are in the east,
and it is much easier to be healthy In
California than it is in states where
life is a constant fight with climatic
conditions, and as the old eastern jingle
says pathetically-
Whether it's cold or whether it's hot
They've got to weather it. whether or not.
Let us be grateful for our cool, pleas
ant, heaith-giving summers. Califor-
MIA is the best and greatest summer
resort in the Union In fact, 1t is the
only state where summer is as attract
i've as winter, and where winter is as
charming as summer. Some states are
pleasant at one season, some at an
other California is equally charming
all the year round.
No wonder the lure of its unrivaled
climate and its lovely scenery is at
tracing people not only from all parts
of the United States, but from all parts
of the world There's only one Cali
fornia, and the best of its cities is Los
Fortunate indeed are the cit
liens who call it HOME.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-12
The methods employed in the Ameri-

the prize. Could anything be more
shocking than the experience of Eng
lishmalf' when he saw his first real
live American girl on a New Jersey
beach? Where was nursie? Why was
such tender birding allowed to stray
so far from the guarding wing of its
mamma?
1 suppose since Puritan" ct al. adj
vocate laws and legislation L should
give my ideas. 1 suggest 1t be made
a felony for a man and woman to
swim in the same ocean at the same
time. The prescribed bathing suits
should be for men: No garment to be
composed of less than ten yards of
burlap. Every adult male to wear
overshoes or rubber boots while in the
surf In going to and returning from
the beach a runner should be sent
ahead with a red flag and an arm
load of eye shields to protect the pub
lie from the horrific spectacle of a live
man in a bathing costume.
The costume for women should be-
no, you don't. Not for mine. Let them
wear what they will. I'm taking NO
chances with the women's dress reform
buzzsaw. j. H. BURKING.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-12
POPULAR MUSIC

NITIZENS will be gratifed to learn
the council adopted the report of
~ the finance committee urging the
creation of temporary music COM
mission, which will take up the ques-
ton of organizing municipal band.
In every city where there is municipal
music the public is the gamer. The
municipal band not only does duty at
parades and on state occasions but
gives concerts in public parks and
squares.
Los Angeles, the musical center and
capital of the United States, should
have the best municipal band in North
America, and it should give concerts
at times and places which would as
sure to the people the benefit and ad-
vantage of public music. Our city will
be enriched by the possession of a
municipal band. 1t will be a splendid
investment; one worthy of the hopes
ambitions and prospects OF Greater
Los Angeles.