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Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09
old seroeant.at.Arms Dead.

New York City.--Felix McClos-
key, who was sergeant-atarms in the
house Of representatives in Washing
ton for 40 years, is dead at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. Louis Bramm, at
1926 Bathgate avenue, the Bronx.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

A woman in New York has obtained
a divorce from her husband who has
been missing for IS years. She prob.
ably intends to simplify any Enoch
Arden temperance tangle at the
start.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

Castro is said to be losing his mon.
ey, invested in Venezuelan securities.
A navigation company in which he
had investments steered his holdings
away from him, and a cigarette com
pany smoked him out. The dictator
business yields a big profit, but has
the invariable accompaniment to that
advantage of big risks.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09
HANDY Thlno 10 Have.

When President Taft meets Presi-
dent Diaz he viii be foolish to come
away without getting the Mexican die
tator's recipe for perpetual MAORI
ties.-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09
OR. F. A. COOK OF BROOKLYN,
REPORTS HE HAS FOUND Elk.
IRENE NORTHERN POINT.
DASH IS MADE ALMOST ALONE
Daring Adventurer With a Few EskI-
mos and Dog Teams Achieves
Work That Has Aroused In
terest for Centuries.

openhagen-Doctor Frederick 4.
Cook, the Brooklyn explorer, has
reached the north pole and has re-
turned safely across the ice foes to
Lervik.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

With one squirt of the president
eye we foresee people giving their
friends sure cures for airsickness
within a year.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09
Reminiscent sklnnlnns.

"Our old schoolmaster was tough
as leather"
mo wonder. His principal occupa-
ton, If you remember, was tanning
hides"
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

Only little bit more and the aero
plane will be useful for blowing up
the enemy's fleet or pilfering q hen
roost, as you please.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

Judging from the way irrigation
projects are being snapped up the
people of this country are still land
hungry.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

er symptoms Of kid
ney disease. There 10
a way to end these
troubles quickly. Mrs.
John II. Wright, COG
East First st., Mitch
ell, s. d., says: II
suffered ten years
with Kidney complaint
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

Henry Otis was run down and fatal
~ injured by q powerful racing auto
mobile, driFen by Joe Matson at
Lowell, Mass who was making a
practice run for the races which start
on Monday.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

Victims of the weekend habit do
not desire TO be cured while the
grand and lovely weather hangs
around
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

However, the English channel puz-
Sled Julius Caesar a lot and Napoleon
never could manage to cross it.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

Since II was not able to keep the
Wright brothers France is satisfied
with Bleriot.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

According TO the woman's page a
little cold cream will be good for the
Eunburn.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

One Of the signs Of the times
straw hats marked down.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

Aeroplaning over the English chan
mel is safer Job than soaring above
stnmpy Virginia farms.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

May we look forward and upward
TO a strike Of hying.machine opera
tors?
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09
PATIENT SUFFERING.
Many Women Think They Are Doomed
TO Baokacho.

1t is not right for women to be al
ways ailing with backacbe, urinary
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

steal action. Thus, day after day,
our weary legs spread over big dis
tances; incidents and positions were
recorded, but adventure was promptly
forgotten in the next days efforts.
The night of April Z was made notable
by the swinging of the. sun over the
northern ice. Sunbuins and frost
bites we're now recorded on the same
day; but the double days glitter in
fused quite an incentive into ones life
of shiyers.
"Our observation on April G placed
the camp in latitude SG.3G; longitude
943.
Circular Twists Made.
an spite OF what seemed long
marches, we advanced but little over
a hundred miles. Much Of our work
was lost in circuitous twists around
obstructing pressure lines, and high
irregular felds. A very old ice drift,
too, was driving eastward with suf-
ficient force to give some anxiety.
Although still equal to about fifteen
miles daily the extended marches and
the long hours for travelling with
which fortune favored use earlier were
no longer possible. We were now
about 200 miles from the pole, and
sledge loads were reduced One dog
after another went into stomacbs Of
the hungry survivors until the teams
were considerably diminished in num-
Der, but there seemed to remain a
sufficient balance for men and brute
to push along into the heart Of the
mystery to which we had set our
selves"
The Pole 10 Reached.
ION April 81 we had reached 80 de-
grees 50 minutes 4G seconds. The pole
was in sight. We covered the remain
ing fourteen seconds and made few
final observations. l told Etukishook
and Ahwelsh (the accompanying
Eskimos) that we had reached the
great nail,' Everywhere we turned
was south. With single step we
could pass from one side of the earth
to the other; from midday to midnight
At last the flag floated to the breezes
at the pole. 1t was April 81, 1908. The
temperature was minus 3S centigrade,
barometer 1888; latitude 80; as for
the longitude 1t was nothing, as 1t
was but a word.
although crazy with Joy, our spirits
began to undergo a feeling Of wear
mess. Next day, after taking all our
observations, a sentiment of intense
solitude penetrated us while we look
ed at the horizon. Was it possible that
this desolate region, without a patch
of earth had aroused the ambition of
SO many men for so many centuries?
There was no ground-only an i'm
mensity of dazzling white snow, no
living being, no point to break the
frightful monotony.
"On April 20 we started on our re-
turn"
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

the flttest. The two best men and
26 dogs were picked for the final eff
fort
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-08
CALLS ATTENTION TO WRONG
STATEMENT IN NEWS ITEM

Los ANGELES, Nov. 5.-[Editor
Herald: There are some inaccuracies
in The Herald's report of my state
ment with reference to the charge of
perjury brought by c. w. Slocomb,
z. j. Kelley and myself against Special
Park Officer Shibbley which, as they
are at variance with my sworn testi-
mony at the trial of Mr.. Slocomb, I
should like to Immediately correct.
did not state that the only persons
listening to my conversation with Mr.
Slocomb were those occupying benches.
There were a number scattered along
the walk for a distance of forty or
fifty feet. 1 only denied that there
was such a group gathered around us
as to lead any intelligent, disinterested
person to conclude that we were hold
ing a public discussion and debate, or
that L was delivering a public speech;
also that Mr.. Kelley was present at tina
time of my arrest, as the officer testi-
fed under oath. / added, as l stated
before the police commission Monday
evening, that 1t was of very little i'm
portance that one or all of us should
be found guilty of a technical viola
ton Of the park ordinance and fined
nominal sum, but that it was of great
Importance that respectable citizens
should be arrested by irresponsible
police officers on frivolous preteXts,
held at an exorbitant bail, and an at
tempt made to convict them through
barefaced falsehoOd. j. d. STEEL.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-08
AS TO "PHOBES"

H HE Britishers have a new word,
with which they are having lots
II of fun. it is "Teutophobe.' This
kind of "phobe" is a person who is con-
tinually discovering German plans for
the invasion Of the United Kingdom
TO date the only invasion made has
been that of amiable citizens of Ger
many, anxious to see London, spend
their money and have good time. Los
Angeles is about to have a japanese
Invasion" of a character which ought
to end forever all silly talk about
Japan's intentions, other than her
honorable intentions of being one OF
Americas best friends.
one at least of the japanese commits
sioners who will visit Los Angeles has
a local tie.'' Baron Naibu Kaida
(Which is approximately the spelling Of
his name in Latin letters was a col
league of Prof. James Main Dixon at
the Imperial university, Toxic Prof.
Dixon is now one of the best known
members of the faculty of the Univer-
sity of Southern California.
Another member of the party has a
claim to fame which may appeal to
some good people who may not be at
tracted by scholarship. Baron Shi-
busawe is one of the richest men in
the world. He is known as "the Roths-
child of Japan" After our distin-
guished visitors have come and gone,
and our people understand that Japan
is intent on preserving the peace of
the Pacific, there will be no Japan
ophobeS" in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-08
STEEL TRUST CITY

n AIRY is in the United States and
II not in Russia, but no one would
W ever guess its geographical To-
cation from the published accounts Of
the election "doings" at the Steel
Trusts model town" And there's the
point. 1t is the Steel Trusts MODEL
TOWN" Now let us borrow from a
Republican dispatch published in a Re
publican paper the following informa-
ton concerning the manner In which
an important election was conducted
in a model Steel Trust town, one of the
fruits of industrialism under the sys-
TEN Of protection, graft, spoliation and
low wages, strikes, lockouts, riots,
plunderings, chickering's, tumult and
disorder.
Read! by actual count there was
one armed officer at the polls for every
six voters. The Knott Democrats with
Chief Of Police Joseph Martin on their
side, swore in 200 deputy marshals. The
Republicans called Sheriff Grant of
Crown Point to their aid and armed
200 citizens as deputy sL-rlits, while
the Crolius Democrats, a third faction,
created a like number of deputy con
stables.
And finally, as the result of the cit
liens appeal to Gov. Marshall, COM
pany of state troops was kept at South
Bend all day ready to respond at any
time
1t sounds like passage from an ac-
count of civil war in the back kitch-
en- Of Europe" But it is part of the
story of an American election under
an un-American, hate breeding system
which provokes jealousy strife, heart
burnings' and hatreds; and at any time
may break loose from artificial re-
straints and create conditions of riot
and bloodshed.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-08

the just measure OF reward for his
contribution to the general fund of
created wealth. The omnisapient and
all seeing state will regulate the kinds
and amounts of wealth to be created
so as to just balance supply with de-
mand, that there may be no surplus
to be wasted like the boarding house
keeper, who, when the table was
cleared of all eatables by the boarders,
exclaimed, Just enough, and nothing
overt" 1t is all a very delightful,
puerilstic dream of paternalism, cheer
ing enough to inspire every servile soul
with hope and with loyal devotion to
The thought of Independent, individual
action does not arise. 1t does not seem
possible that with the ambition of
privilege jobs would fall . like ripe
apples at the feet of every idler: that
capital owners would be imploring
operators to use their capital on the
latters' terms, lest when it decayed
they would have nothing in its place
Owing to the warping of their minds
by the conditions of the lives they
have lived, the wage workers .underrate
the abilities and capacities of the COM
mon man. The great function of the
state is to prevent torts and trespasses
on the personal and equal rights of
others, not to furnish jobs for men,
Let us be practical, and when we use
the ballot. use it where it is likely to
be Immediately successful in effecting
some abriGgment of privilege while we
school the people to push for its ex-
tinction. JOHN ], JEWETT.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-08
LOS ANGELES

NRANCIS MARSHALL ELLIOTT
in an article on Los Angeles
"A water works, published in the
Twentieth Century Magazine, brings
home with great force the fact, which
should always be remembered and re-
spected by every citizen of Los An
geles, that the country is intently
watching the progress of this munich
pality. We are not Giving unto our
selves alone" Every transaction in
which Los Angeles engages Is recorded
and commented on. Mr.. Elliott finds
in the history of our water system an
argument in favor Of municipal owner
ship Of public utilities, saying: when
you mention to an Angeleno the old
stock arguments against municipal
ownership, of the city going bankrupt
in a business venture of this character,
he points triumphantly 10 the facts.
Should you persist and insist that pub
lie officials would make political foot
balls of public utilities entrusted to
their administrator, he points signif-
cantly to those sections of the city
charter which provide for the initia-
tive, referendum and recall, and point
eddy but politely informs you that in
Los Angeles the voter and not the Of
fetal is master of the situation. =.
He will tell you that, had It not been
for the public education and agitation
incident to the conduct of the municipal
water plant, Los Angeles, of which he
is so justly proud, would not today be
CHALLENGING THE ADMIRATION
OF THE WESTERN WORLD in her
municipal accomplishments He will
tell you that without this education in
the management of public affairs Los
Angeles would never have launched
upon the gigantic enterprise known as
the owens river project an enterprise
which for sheer audacity and financial
magnitude outshines any municipal
undertaking in the history of American
municipalities"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-08
THE CROWNER

4 RECENT case in which the cor
n oner's office "held OUT a report
"A containing information which the
newspapers had a right to print and
the public a right to read would almost
lead a casual inquirer to believe the
coroner's office was a secret society, in
connection with which is maintained Z
bureau for the suppression of news.
This policy, of course, would be
strictly in line with the archaic char
acter of the GROWERS" office.
1t can hardly be expected a mon
archical institution can respond freely
to republican conditions, and it must
always remain an anomaly. Therefore,
why maintain it? Why cherish a
paradox? There isn't any crown in the
United States, Why is there a crowner?
Even in Scotland. which is still Il
kingdom, or part Of one, the "cor-
oners" office was abolished long, long
ago. To be sure, the Norman and
Saxon English hang on to it like the
grim death with which it deals. But
why should California pattern after the
most conservative and privilege ridden
part of the United Kingdom and the
British Empire? The prosecuting at
torney and a competent medical ex-
aminer should have charge of the work
that is now entrusted to an obsolete
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-08
GOOD INTENTIONS

NY PRACTICAL experience taxpay-
* ers are realizing the effects of
~ the arbitrary outrageous. unjust,
unfair robber assessment placed on
South California property by equalizers
who acted as If they had qualified for
office by taking course of instruction
from some member Of a successor of
the famous band of Forty immortalized
by the story of Ali Bahia.
Mayor White of Sacramento. while
he deprecated the existence of the
South California division sentiment
which followed the first announcement
of the holdup assessment, acknowl-
edged the justice of the resentment of
South Californians, and in a letter to
Chairman Brown, who wanted to know
If the mayors criticism had been re-
ported correctly he said:
'I cannot recall with absolute GER
tainty the exact. words made use of
by me Gin a speech at Stockton to the
Elks' White Squadron of Los Angeles),
but my recollection is that appealed to
the Los Angeles people and the people of
the southern part of the state to aban-
don their attempt to divide the state
and become a separate state because in
their judgment an injustice had been
done them by three officials. am I'M
der the impression that 1 also gave as
my personal opinion that the three Of
fclals had done them an injustice.
Such has always been my opinion. I
have not questioned the honesty of the
intention Of the majority of the board,
nor do / do so now, but 1t has been
my belief all the time that the major
ity did not act with judgment and dis
erection in making the extraordinary
increase which was made"
Neither do we question the good in
tentions of the majority of the board.
At the same time it is popularity be-
lieved the high road to Gehenna Is
paved with intentions similar to those
of the state board.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-08
ASKS EXAMINER TO EXPLAIN
ITS ATTITUDE TOWARD MusHET

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 7.-[Editor
Herald: The following letter was sent
to the Los Angeles Examiner Novem-
Der 8. 1t has not been printed in that
paper. Will you please see that 1t is
given proper publicity? u. ID.
Los Angeles, Nov. 5.--Editor Los An
geles Examiner,
/ have been a reader of your paper
since it was established in Los Angeles.
and in all that time nothing that you
have done has commended itself so
fully to me as your coming to the res
cue of the schools of Los Angeles and
securing purchasers for the school
bonds after the sale of these bonds
had been interfered with by parties
who were opposing the school depart
ment of the city. and therefore the
cause of education.
Approving most heartily as / do of
this action upon your part, l have
been very much surprised to note dur
ing the last two or three days what
appears to me to be a distinct effort
on the part of your paper to support
the candidacy of Mr.. Mushet for mayor.
The record which Mr.. Mushet has
made In the city during the past year
as an opponent and critic of it's school
department and the assistance which
he has rendered to others who are as
sailing that department to serve their
own selfish ends appear to me to be
too plain to admit of doubt. How, then,
can your paper, after it has interviewed
to save the public schools of the city
from further injury on account of the
actions of the city auditor and the
other enemies of the school depart
ment, give any support or encourage
ment to Mr.. Mushet's candidacy? Your
action in this matter appears to be
inconsistent. Sincerely yours,
DANIEL DANIELS
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-08
MAKES STRONG, LOGICAL PLEA
FOR CONFIDENCE IN INDIVIDUAL

SAN BERNARDINO, Nov. 4.-[Ed-
itor Herald; Too many men conceive
economic freedom only as bossed free
dom. Having labored under bossed in
dustrial conditions all their lives, they
feel instinctively dependent on some
supervisorial power to direct their
efforts in wealth production. Present
conditions are not satisfactory. They
feel that they get for their own use a
meager pittance of the wealth they
bring into existence--an inadequate
and negotiable portion. Still, the
directory system by which they have
been governed has stamped the idea
of being cared for as the dominant
and characterized feature of realized
freedom. Their confidence in individ-
ual capacity is abased; they look to
some higher power for aid and guild
ance, which they think is to be found
in the state. The state is to give" or
provide" jobs, tools, etc. The state
will regulate their hours of labor and
rest. 1t will apportion to each worker
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-08

denotes already possessed toward this
or that kind of influence, how can we
talk of FREE will?
Mr.. Jensen cites the one boy in the
family who was different" and he
quotes his case as though 1t exem-
pliied something of free win or vari-
alton from heredity, because he was not
the same as his brothers. The truth
is he showed a variation IN heredity,
not FROM 1T, and that is what made
the drawing class environment draw
HIM. Now perpend:
In the baronial halls OF Great Britain,
where the family records and the
family portraits are preserved through
successive generations, the visitor who
is being shown round the picture gall
lery may stop before one of the por-
traits and say: We've seen one pie
ture of this man already" "Oh, no."
says the guide, 'this is the eleventh
earl The picture you have in mind is
that of the fifth earl at the other end
of the gallery In facial lineaments
(and in character too, as the family
records show the eleventh earl seems
to have 'harked back to his early
ancestor, the fifth earl" His own
father or mother, as you see by their
pictures here, he resembled but little,
while his brother resembled them
strongly"
Now, what does all this show? That
THE eleventh earl, by force Of will
in some degree free, elected to be diff
ferent from his brother? No, but that
from among his multitudinous ances
tors he inherited more from some one
away back" than from his more inn
mediate forbears. But it was INHERI-
TANCE all the same, and In no way
an act Of free volition.
Even so with the drawing class boy
who was different" He and his
brothers inherited in VARIED PRO
PORTIONS from their numerous an
cestors. True, he willed to attend the
drawing class and to study, but the will
was not FREE-it was INHERITED,
and he could no more help seeking the
drawing class than his brothers could
hnln dni1n.r othar1uisa Il z s.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-08
MAN FEATURES HEREDlTY AND
ENVIRoNMENT-WHAT ELSE?

LOS ANGELES. Nov. 5.-[Editor
Herald: If Mr.. Jensen would kindly
tell us what there is in the human
makeup that is not to be laid either TO
heredity or environment he will do us
a service. What CAN inhere in a man
that was not either born with him or
else acquired after birth? And If
acquired after birth, from what, pray,
but environment?
And since man did not make his
own will, but received it at birth, good
Or bad, strong or weak, with this or
that tendencies; and since the impress
sion or direction for better or for worse
which 1T will receive from environment
will be largely decided by the ten
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-08

Los Angeles is gifted with a great
deal of common sense, wisdom, pru-
dence and sagacity. That is why
Smith and the S. P. machine are not as
formidable as they would be if op
posed by less patriotic, jealous. well
Informed and wideawake community.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-08

In the opinion of experts whose
views should meet with consideration
from the public, it is advisable, in
connection with Aviation week. by
which the attention of the world will
be directed to the air-shipping possi-
bilities of the Los Angeles region, to
consider the establishment here of
what would undoubtedly be eventually
hte worlds greatest aeronautical prov
ing station, where aviatory expert
ments of all kinds could be carried
out satisfactorily during twelve months
of the year.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-08
AT THE THEATERs

AUDITOH8UM-Dark.
MASON-Dark
BURBANK--"Charley' Aunt"
BELASCO-"The Little Grey Lady
MAJESTIC-"TheL Land OF Nod"
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
GRAND-"The Mayor Of Toxic"
Los ANGELES--Vaudevlll
WALKER--Vaudeville
MISREPRESENTATION burietta.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and musical coined!
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-08

Good government meetings have
been highly successful. All the gem
tlemen responsible for making prepar-
ations for such meetings are entitled
to congratulations
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-08

A good reason why Mayor Alex
ander should be reelected is that he
is 1.-THE best mayor Los Angeles ever
had and the city has need of his
valuable services. Tt cannot afford to
lose him at this iuncture.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-08

Board of education deserves the sup
Alexander, the members of the board
have made good" That is the best
possible eulogy that can be applied to
public officials and the best argument
that can be advanced for approving
their course Of conduct and showing
them the public, by reason of their
good records, believes in them.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-08

Nearly S250,0OO GAIN in valuation of
Los Angeles building permits for the
first week of November, when COM
pared with the record for the CORE
spending period of last year! Big fig
ures! Big gain! But this is a big
city-one Of the biggest in the land.
1t is of utmost Importance officehold-
ers should be men big enough for their
places. Los Angeles is fortunate in
having a mayor of the type and cal
iber of George Alexander