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Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-20
TIMBER WASTE
III ELL may F. Harrer of the Ger
w man forestry service, who is /
now visiting Los Angeles, be |

III ELL may F. Harrer of the Ger
~ man forestry service, who is
now visiting Los Angeles, be
astonished at the wholesale cutting of
timber in this country. 1t is to be
hoped his reported words will carry
weight. He said he had seen much to
make him marvel at the haste of the
American people to make money, RE-
CARELESS OF THE FUTURE.
Aye: there's the rub: and it applies
to much more than the question of for
estry, although that in it's own field Is
of vital Importance.
Mr.. Harrer went into the matter in
detail, showing he is keen, close OBJ
server. He said: You often cut for
ty, fifty or sixty acres in day, right
in one spot, while in Germany we
never think of cutting more than
strip a hundred feet wide or so. l
spent some time in the forests Of Flor
ida, Mississippi and Louisiana, where
they cut pine and cypress. Everywhere
the idea seems to be to make money
quickly. The forest is cut down
as fast as possible. Some of the tim
Der men argue the pine forests will
renew themselves in thirty or thirty
five years. 1t is true the forests will
renew themselves, BUT THEY WILL
NOT PRODUCE LOGS LARGE
ENOUGH TO CUT IN THE SAW
MILLS WITHOUT TOO MUCH
WASTE, and in order to get logs big
enough for that practical purpose will
take FIFTY OR SIXTY YEARS"
And in the meantime? ?
Mr.. Harrer added that without the
government to check waste, the west
would already be in "A BAD Way
Evidently the timber barons did their
best to help along the work of the de-
struction of the republic by the waste
of its natural resources. If a con-
quering army had devastated huge
sections of the United States, pillaging
and burning, it could not have done
more damage than has been inflicted
on many parts of our country by the
plundering, laundering, rapacious Grim
inal. irresponsible trusts.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-20
MARS

nROF. DAVID E. TODD of Amherst
college will make a serious at
Il tempt to communicate with Mars.
Prof. Todd says if there are human be-
ings in Mars he is sure they have been
sending messages for years and won
dering at the stupidity of the earth
folk in not replying. Prof Todd should
take the earliest possible opportunity of
setting the earth right with Mars. He
should tell the Martians the blunt
truth. which is that the people of this
world have been living in such narrow
circles and taking such limited views
of life and its opportunities that they
have not given themselves a fair
chance.
Human beings seem to take as much
delight in suppressing each other as in
helping one another. and where there is
a great repressive force, the kind of
force that is used in individual cases
when Patten gets a corner on wheat, or
when some man prevents another from
being developed and instead exploits
him, to his own vast detriment and in
jury, if he only knew 1t, that force. al
though 1t may be only exercised In in
dividual cases, is injurious to all man
kind.
We are all such babbling infants it is
no wonder Todd thinks the Martians
are wondering at our stupidity. After
we have succeeded in communicating
with them and in explaining our
methods of managing mundane affairs
they will go right on, wondering. They
may try to ship a few missionaries to
us TO teach US how to live.
However, the world has had mission
aries of that kind from time to Tins
already, and has generally killed them
1t is cheerful old world, and We
should all be humble and contenteC
with our lot, and make the best of 1t
lest worse befal rs
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-20
SAYS BOSTON HAS IDEAL
SYSTEM OF lighthouses

HOLLYWOOD, May 15.-[Editor Her
add: Wasn't it awful about the poor
Englishman when he saw the American
beauty on the seashore clad in a real
nice pink dress? Poor chap! How he
must have blushedl
In Boston, where the city owns the
lighthouses and where every boy and
girl who cares to can have a cool salt
water swim each day, saw sights that
brought a thrill of joy to my heart.
The poorest urehin in the north end
go into the water at the public beaches.
great l. street bathouse in South Bos-
ton there are facilities for 10000 men,
women and children. The men battle
or swim between high walls that ex-
tend out into Dorchester bay, and the
swimmers can, and often do, take a
long swim far out into the open bay.
The men wear no other clothing than
that given them by nature. There is
no police supervision and never a dis
orderly act /or utterance. Never an
oath or obscene word is heard there.
Five thousand men swim and enjoy
sun baths on the broad, sandy beach
or the immense raft anchored close to
the shore. Some day Los Angeles will
have free municipal lighthouses for its
boys and girls. But for the present /
suppose we will have to sit idly by and
see the council appropriate money for
a thousand and one things which they
consider more important than mere
boys and girls.
GEORGE w. HAMILTON.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-20
TASTE OF MEN RESPONSIBLE
FOR VANITY OF YOUNG WOMEN

LOS ANGELES, May 17.-[Editor
Heraldl SeneX thinks that the vanity
of girls is due to neglect OF mothers
That may be true to a certain extent,
but it is due more than anything else
to the taste of the men. The aver
age man admres a stylishly dressed
up doll, and that is the kind he leads
to the altar. / prefer a sensible GIRL
but a man-an average man-would not
be seen on the street with plainly
dressed girl and he wants his friends
to say, What a stylish girl Brown
married.! / will warrant that When
SeneX was a young man he LETT the
sensible, plainly dressed girls at home
and took the stylish girls to places OF
amusement
1t is Numbered into the ears of girls
from the pulpit and elsewhere that
"matrimony is woman's sphere, and
the modest place a woman can I'LL
is that of wife and mother" Man ,does
not especially attract her. but she
sets out religiously to do her duty ana
keep in her sphere by getting married.
BY a little observation she learns that
the stylish, silly girls are the ones who
are usually led to the altar, and OF
course she comes to the conclusion that
if she wishes to do right and follow
the advice given her by becoming a
wife and mother she must be pretty
and stylish, for she sees that the hard
working, sensible, plainly dressed girls
are left in the shade. Perhaps young
girl hears a young man burst into Il
tirade-such as Senex has-and de-
nounce the vain, shallow fashion
plate. at the same time praising the
sensible, plainly dressed girl, and inno-
Gently she takes him at his word,
dresses plainly, acts like a rational hui
man being and spends less time fiuting
her hair, To her surprise she finds
that that same young man avoids her
and takes out Miss Soandso, who is
dressed like a fashion plate and APP
pears to have very little sense. AS
a woman writer has said, "A man likes
girl who is about two removes from
an idiot" A girl learns that if she
is not an idiot by nature she must pre-
tend to be one if she wants to get mar
ried-and she has been taught that 1T
is her religious duty to get married.
What is poor girl to do? If you want
to do away with the vain, silly girl,
change the taste of the men.
VERA FIDELIA.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-20
coNTEMPTIBLE FARCE

III HAT Is to be the outcome OF the
" sugar fraud cases? Are the
swindlers who cheated the gov
eminent to be protected because they
are millionaire capitalists, and are their
helpless employees to be punished for
the sins of their superiors? These ques-
lions are causing great anxiety In the
east. where some of the newspapers
profess to believe the struggle between
right and wrong may reach a climax
in the sugar cases, and the future of
the republic may be Influenced If not
determined.
Therefore it behooves the people Of
Los Angeles and the Pacific coast to
take an active interest in this matter.
It may have far reaching consequences.
The Outlook and the New York Even
ing Post have published the details OF
the transactions which led up to the
present situation. The Havemeyer and
Elder rehneries of the American Suga
Refining company. highly important
factors in the notorious sugar trust
are situated on the water front OF
Brooklyn, Greater New York I'M
ported cargoes of raw sugar are
dumped on docks at the refineries. For
the protection of the trust there is a
heavy duty on sugar. But the trust
itself is the heaviest national importer
of raw sugar. Seventeen huge scales
stand on the docks at the Brooklyn
refinerles. Many of our readers when
they have been crossing the East river
by bridge or ferry have doubtless seeh
these scales.
EVERY ONE OF THESE SCALES,
WHICH STAND OUT CONSPICU-
oUSLY AND ATTRACT THE AT
TENTION AND COMMENT OF
THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS
OF CITIZENS EVERY DAY, HAS
BEEN FOUND TO BE A FRAUD
AND A THIEF.
Each was rugged up with an in
genious device for the purpose of
swindling the government-that is to
say, for the purpose of stealing from
the people of the United States. We
are told agents of the governments
secret service discovered that in each
of the seventeen scales there was in
a dark corner under the little desk of
the company's checker a hole. and that
by inserting a string in the hole the
company's checker by a light pressure
at a certain point in the machinery
could make the scales register about
80 900 pounds when the true weight Of
the sugar on the platform was 100000
pounds"
These frauds have been going on
for six years, and between 1901 and
1907 the company smuggled into the
United States, duty free, 100000
pounds of sugar on which the unpaid
duties amounted to s1,250,000. The gov
eminent has recovered $2,0O0,OOO plus
s1s4. 900 recovered in the test case. But
now comes the crucial point.
When a common thief or petty swim
dler makes restitution of his loot it is
not customary to consider the surren-
der of the property as equivalent to
absolution. Who among the sugar
thieves is to be punished?
The entire proceeding against tho
sugar trust has been reduced to a rank,
execrable, contemplate and outrag-
eous farce by the indictment of-un-
derpaid checkers, cheap clerks and
other weighing machine attendants.
Further comment would be superflu-
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-20
HARRIMAN'S PROMISE

M r. HARTMAN will do well to
WI heed the demand Of Los Angeles
A'A that his promise to build a depot
that win be a credit to the city be
kept without procrastination. No eiti-
zen can point with pride TO the Arcade
depot. We question whether the mag
nate himself would dare display a pic
ture of it to his eastern friends as
sample of what the enterprise of his
road has accomplished in the far west.
Los Angeles is a city of metropolitan
dimensions, aspirations and plans and
should have metropolitan station.
1t is not fair to Los Angeles that Mr.
Hartman should attempt to take adj
vantage of its need for a new station
and instead Of doing his duty to this
community should use our necessities
as means of coereing the government
into paying the Southern Pacihc's
claim for S1.6OO,OOO That claim has
nothing to do with the fact that Har-
riman owes Los Angeles a depot that
by promising he would build the depot
"soon" he persuaded a city council to
grant him a valuable concession of city
property.
Mr.. Harriman's promise should be
kept. If that promise is to be neglect
ed or if demands for the erection Of a
depot are to be met with apologies or
excuses or other time -making devices
the people must take measures to re-
mind Mr.. Hartman that no magnate
is big enough to break his word. sol
EMMY pledged to the people, to per-
form certain duty to the community
In return for abundant value received
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-20
SAYS HE WAS DISAPPOINTED
IN SERMON ABOUT FATHER

RIVERSIDE, May 1S.-[Editor Her
add: 1 was preparing to write a letter
on this subject when The Herald
reached me this morning, and in it 1
saw Mr.. Hills communication re-
garding DIR. Burdette's sermon about
"Father." / journeyed to Los Angeles
to hear that sermon and was well re-
paid, but /, too, noticed his reference to
the man who shaved all day that his
family might live. But what man did
the preacher select? He chose stock
gambler Anything about the sub
merged millions who toll with brain and
hand? No, not to speak Of 1t was "at
the office" Anything looking toward
the amelioration of conditions that
grind down the worker and put the
"tigerish lines in his face?" Any word
about the modern system of competi-
ton that makes men more tiger than
human? No. Any remedy offered?
No, nothing of the sort. Only be good
to father. He's a good old work horse
for the system. 1t was Disappointing
phase of an excellent sermon.
JOSEPH @. FARNSWORTH,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-20

grave.
When the tests were made it was a
condition that the tenders and wheel
guards should pick up the victims at
varying speeds and save them from
the wheels with a minimum amount OF
injury in doing so. One type of fender
corresponded to the well-knoWn cow
catcher of a locomotive. 1t was IN
tended to strike the victim a glanclnS
blow and throw him out of line OF the
wheels. But tenders of this type were
discarded because 1t was found that
the fall that followed was apt to re-
suit as fatally as being run over by the
car itself Another type of fender had
a network in front of the car for the
victim to fall into, but at high speed
he would fall against the platform
with so much force that it might OFTEN
result fatally. Some tenders had au-
tomato trips to them, so that they
would touch the track the minute
victim touched the release trip. One
had little wheels that ran along on
the track to support it. In the case
of tenders it was practically decided
that the proper ones to use where
those which had a net to prevent the
victim striking the platform as we'll as
to keep him from under the wheels.
There were many designs of wheel
guards submitted. Some Of these were
AUTOMATIC III lH6lT OptldbllOll lichNiiiS h
trip bar two or three feet in advance
of the wheel guard. When the victim
of an accident touched this bar 1t re-
leased the guard from its elevated po-
sition, allowing it to drop to the track,
where it would scoop the passenger
into it much as the farmer scoops
wheat off a barn floor. Other guards
were made to be operated by the mo-
torman, with a pressure of the foot. In
o,tI
fender are used and many street car
companies, preferring expense in equip
ment to greater expense in damages and
litigation, have equipped their cars with
both, rendering the chances of getting
under the wheels practically negligible.
Perhaps in no single year in street
car history was there ever such prog
ress in the prevention of accidents as
last year. A more general use of fend-
ers and wheel guards was partly re-
sponsible for this, while the advent of
the s-you-enter car has reduced
all classes of accidents materially, and
has wiped out nearly the entire list of
accidents nj boarding cars and alight-
ing from them. But even at the best
there is much to be desired in the way
of improvement, since the annual acct
dent toll of electric railways is about
1000 killed and perhaps forty times as
many wounded
The expense to the street railway
companies incident to accidents is enor-
nous. 1t is estimated that in New York
city alone the annual expense of the
companies on this account amounts to
nearly $4,000,000. In one big company
change was made in the legal depart
ment, with the result that damage
awards We're crowded down from 81, $780,
600 to $750,0Oo year. The public often
concludes that the street railways are
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-20
SUGGESTS TEST FOR OFFICERS
OF LOS ANGELES POLICE FORCE

LOS ANGELES, May 19.-[Editor
Herald: This morning one of your
correspondents, opposing the request
for 100 more policemen, suggested that
there be a cleaning out of the 1ncom-
petents on the force.
suggest that all members of the
force be given a test something like
this:
Detail policemen to walk on dark
streets at hours when and where hold
lips are most likely to be made. Let
them assume the appearance and dress
of belated and drunken wayfarers. IL
a highwayman attempts to hold up the
policeman, let the best man win. The
game will be for the cop to get his
man; failing in that, to lose his star.
This city pays $500 a month for a
highly ornamental detective force.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-20
GREATER LOS ANGELES

III HEN Greater Los Angeles is
w definitely on the map and
W maritime metropolis is estab-
iished in Southern California the effect
on trade, commerce and industry will
be immediate and pereeptible. 1t would
be stupid to seek to disguise the fact
that in a great many eastern centers
the belief is held that Los Angeles has
still to accomplish much work of the
nature that may be grouped under the
heading unfinished business"
Consolidation will enable Los Angeles
to take up much of its work with in
creased facilities.
This will be one of the greatest CEN
ters of population in the United States.
Anyone who doubts this is urged to
take a trip around the suburbs. 1t will
be worth while. He will see for himself
the city is being extended in every
direction and will be convinced of the
necessity for consolidation, which will
give Los Angeles and its seaport COM
mon interest in the maritime as well as
the landward development of the finest
metropolitan area in North America.
A trip around and about Los Angeles
is a. liberal education, even for old resi-
dents. The growth of the city is amaz-
ing. Merely to state facts and quote
figures does not give an adequate idea
of it This huge and wonderful growth
represents population.
1t is evident to anybody with OBJ
servant eyes in his head that the Los
Angeles metropolitan area will be the
center of population as well as the
most populous center on the Pacific
coast. This will come to pass, not in
the far away future, but within a few
years. The completion of the Panama
canal viii give a big impetus to COM
mercial growth and prosperity, but long
before the completion of the canal the
demands of the city of Los Angeles fol
sea room and a harbor will be urgent
and imperative. Every interest that
may be summed up in the phrase ''the
greatest good for the greatest number
demands the consolidation of Los An
geles and the seaport of Los Angeles
Greater Los Angeles is a necessity, an6
corporation plotters will affect the ell
and flow of the tide as readily as they
will affect the successful accomplish.
ment of consolidation plans and the
establishment of Greater Los Angeles
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-20
QUOTES AUTHORITIES IN
SUPPORT OF SPIRITUALISM

LOS ANGELES. May 19-[Editor
Herald: The reason for not quoting
authorities in support of spiritualism
in my reply to Spreading is | wanted the
space allotted for other statements
The facts under discussion are also now
so we'll known that quotations might
very we'll be omitted. However, in re-
Spouse to invitation, l quote from the
authors whom Spreading declares are
against spiritualism.
Hereward Darlington: 81 frankly
admit there are physical phenomena
that cannot be explained by any pro-
cess of trickery known to me-"
F. w. H. Meyers 1--WE hope that
the intercourse, now at last consciously
established-between discarnate and in
carnate souls-may through long eff
fort clarity into director commu-
nion."
Camille Flammarion: Mediums do
not cheat at all times; and they possess
real, undeniable. psychic powers.
It would be folly to suppose that all
spirit phenomena are the result of
fraud some of them are as we'll and
even better attested than any other
facts in science"
Alfred Russell Wallace: "The facts
of spiritualism become more and more
assured, more and more removed from
anything that modern science teaches
or modern philosophy speculates on. .
Prof. Richard Hodgson, who, accord
ing to Sprading's statements, exposed
more mediums than any half dozen
other men, finally became converted to
spiriutalism through Mrs. Piper and
other mediums. Particulars can be
found in the American Journal for Psy-
chical Research. Also particulars about
the conversion of Prof. Hyslop to spir-
ituaHsm. Address him at $40 West One
Hundred and Forty-ninth street. New
York.
Mrs. Piper has been before the Amer
lean and English Psychic Research so
cieties for more than twenty years al
an expense amounting to more than
$4,000. F. w. H. Meyers, Sir Oliver
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-20

How many of them would expose their
persons and permanency of their jobs
to such a risk as outlined above?
Auditor Mushet is such hand for
fggerin. Do you suppose he has sta
tistics as to the division of the time of
the detective force between looking for
eastern criminals here for whom a re-
ward is offered and criminals who COM
NIT crimes here for whom no reward
is offered, except the satisfaction of
duty we'll done?
Relative to Patrolman Sanders re-
lease in the raid on the Manhattan
hotel officers of the law may come to
think the machinery of the law is for
their special protection. For instance,
when Captain Auble was shot 400 or 500
city and county officials Immediately
took up the search for the murderer,
where if it had been a common citizen
shot by the same man perhaps one or
two detectives would in due course have
been assigned to the case. B. Fl. w.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-20

TIME work now being carried out oy
the public utilities commission Oh
n New York in investigating the
question of preventing accidents on
street railroads will probably pear
fruit in many cities. Its experiments
have been especially exhaustive IN
seeking how to prevent people from
being run over and killed by the street
cars AS a result of carefully con-
Quoted campaign of publicity Iully
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-20

a. iAdAiNAA tNA
and wheel guards
of different de-
signs were submit
ted for eXamina-
ton and test. OF
these, siXty-seve
filed the specifi-
cations necessary
to a practical op-
Grating test. The
experiments were
conducted at Sche-
nectady and Pitts
burg with an as
tonishing array of
dummies. T h e + G
were dummies to
represent babies,
dummies to repre-
sent old people,
dummies to repre-
Sent thin men.
dummies to repre-
sent fat men-in
fact, dummies to
represent e V e + y
age and condition
of life from the
era die to t h e
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-20
AT THE THEATERs

MASON-DarlS.
AUDITORIUM--Dark.
MAJEsTIC-Kolb and Dill in playing the
Ponies"
BEIASCO-eMiss Hobbs"
GRANDNMurray and Mack in Shooting the
Chutes."
BURBANK-"The Circus Girl"
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Los NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
FISCHERS-Vaudeville.
EAfPIRE-Vaudeyille.
UNIQUE-"Stage Struck"
WALKER'S-Vaudeyille.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-20

Lodge, Prof. Hyslop, Prof. w. James
and many other scientific men are be-
levers in her mediumship. Even Frank
Podmore, whom Spreading takes great
pride in quoting against spiritualism,
says:
lies in the high proportion of success
full sittings and in the extraordinarily
high proportion of correct statements
proportions so high as to render the
hypothesis of fraud very difficult to
sustain
But if Mr.. Spreading can tell us how
these men have been hoodwinked for
more than twenty years by Mrs. Piper
let US have the facts.
2 A JENSEN.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-20
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENT intended
for publication rrust be accompanied by tie
name and address of the writer. The Her
Md gives the widest latitude TO correspond
ents, but assumes responsibility for their
views Letters must not exceed 300 words
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-20

A new sect has achieved popularity
in Chicago. It's adherents are called
Bahaists. They have selected the Beef
Trust metropolis as the mecca and
world center of their religion.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-20

Chicago has forbidden the practice OF
hypnotizing persons and putting them
in show windows In some respects
civilization is further advanced in
Chicago than in any other city.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-20

Drug store proprietors are not spe-
cially privileged to sell morphine and
liquor, as several of them have found
out to their cost. Nothing can take the
place of obedience to law, and the best
excuse for lawbreaking is poor. To ex-
cuse lawbreaking is in itself inexcus-
IL
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-20

An international postal agreement
will facilitate the money order BUSH
ness between the United States aud
Mexico. Relations of the United States
with Mexico are constantly becoming
closer