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Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-31
CALIFORNIA
WE HOPE the Los Angeles cham

" E HOPE the Los Angeles cham
wv Der Of commerce and other
western commercial organiza-
tons will be successful in completing
arrangements for school children's
excursion to California According to
the plan which Is being considered the
Chicago Association OF Commerce will
send to the Pacific coast at least one
hundred and fifty boys and girls from
the eighth and ninth grades Of the
public schools. The children will be
accompanied by representatives Of the
Chicago newspapers. When the chill
dren return home each will be asked to
write a paper or make a little speech
to the school describing the trip.
We venture to say many of the
youngsters will get "the taste for Cali
fornia" and will not be happy until they
return, bringing with them their faith
ers and mothers, brothers and sisters.
We think the people Of the east cannot
learn too much about California, and
are certain the westward trek has only
been begun. Californians who looked
at the snow on the mountains and per-
haps made arrangements for sightsee-
ing trips that would take them to the
snow line held a mental attitude
toward the weather, and especially
toward the snow, which. formed q strik-
ing contrast with that of eastern citi-
zens who have suffered from one Of the
worst billiards. Of hard and stormy
winter.
We read that rain, snow, sleet and
a high wind which reached a maximum
Of seventy-two miles at Kansas City
created climatic chaos in the middle
west. Trains were delayed and tele-
graph lines were Frustrated west Of St.
Louis and north Of Chicago.
The demoralized condition of the tele-
graph wires west was attributed TO
sleet. The general offices of the Chi
cago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad
for many hours were unable to learn
the whereabouts Of trains stalled or de-
layed by a blizzard in Iowa"
We believe all our readers and
friends realize how much fiercer,
sharper, harder is the struggle for ex-
istence in blizzard-land than in the
far west, the land of sunshine, flow
ers and happiness.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-31
SAYS FALLEN MEN SHOULD BE
AVOIDED MORE THAN WOMEN

Los ANGELES, Jan. 2e.-TEditor
herald: The question of suffrage for
women IN California suffered the defeat
at the hands Of the members of tbe
assembly that the writer expected. '"T
T. y. mas the answer to the question
ne propounded to the readers Of the
Letter Box, who is most bitter against
the woman who has gone wrong?'' in
the words of one of his sex. George NT
Per1ne OF San Francisco. whose dahata
against the bill contained these words.
women should not have the privilege
oL rupblng elbows at the polls with de-
PRAYED women and dope fiends. It is
Cne DUTY OF all men to protect their
women from such Influences Manly
men will not make it possible for tbaiy
daughters to stand shoulder to shoulder
at the ballot box with fallen women
oor MI. Perlne, he might try locking
ms daughters in a glass case to keen
tnem from contamination in the event
OF a fallen woman passing that wav
BUT the advice Of the writer Is for him
TO protect his daughters from tbn
wolves in sleeps clothing in tbe sbene
u LaIlen men. The kind Of fallen men
tnat have made San Francisco a bv-
Word or shame and are operating in
Los Angeles in the various dens of in
fanny exposed by The Herald that are
turning out fallen women for their in
famous Cfdnc by enttcing innocent
girls into their pitfalls and leaving
them pitiful wrecks Of fallen humanity.
Eugene V. Debs never spoke truer
words than those relative to fallen
women: mot fallen, but knocked
down" Yea; knocked down, never M
rise; for mans tnhumanity saws: "AII-
who enter here leave hope behind
But the male beast comes forth de-
D01lalr ana gentlemanly, to hunt down
other victims.
The saving Of Ben Lindsey as Juvenile
court judge Of Denver by the women. or
colorado when the corrupt political ma
chine had decided to decapitate him be-
cause 1t could not corrupt him, is good
argument for woman's political acumen
When p1tted against corrupt men. And
the saving of a Ben Lindsey is worth
the sacrifice Of many good women rub
bing elbows with fallen women If needs
be, for good women are less injured
by meeting a fallen sister than Mr..
Perfne fears. There is more danger. in
their meeting fallen man who occu-
pies a responsible position in the com
munity wherein they live
MARION MARTIN.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-31
ADVISES THE HERALD TO GO
ON WITH WORK AGAINST VICE

PASADENA, Jan. 24.-[Editor Her
add: Friend of honest government.
may all lovers Of virtue and honesty
bless you, and Immediately subscribe
for the Los Angeles Herald, the pro-
tector Of our homes. You are giving
the rascals solar plexus blows. 1 see
you are both right and left handed,
hitting them on the plexus. snoozer,
eating basin and thinkshop alternately.
Through the columns Of The Herald
(the only intrepid newspaper in this
county,, you are cutting the umbilical
cord that attaches the grafters to high
positions in office, where the influence
of such officials on good morals is what
the city sewer would be if its terminus
was into and through the city drink
fountains. But as Aaron and Hur held
UP the hands of old Moses, so will all
honest people stay your hands until
every last one Of the sons of Amalich
has been given an Irishman's hoist
out of office in Los Angeles, the hub of
the state of California. So, lay on, lay
on, MacDuff editor of Herald is Mac
Duff and damned is he who first cries
HOLD, ENOUGH. DIR. OMEN.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-31
RECALL MAYOR HARPER

I" ITH irresistible force there is
wv borne in upon every responsible
citizen the conviction that it is
absolutely necessary for the best and
most vital interests Of Los Angeles that
the recall movement should be success
full
The case of the people Of Los Angeles
against their mayor is clear and con-
vincing. He is on the defensive, but
nothing that he has said can swerve
thinking citizens from the belief that
duty demands Los Angeles should show
the world it is a city which will protect
its inhabitants from its officials, when
such officials become unworthy of the
trust reposed in them.
The sentiment in favor of the recall
of Mayor Harper is growing daily
nay, hourly. 1t is felt that the business
reputation Of the city demands that
this drastic step be taken. If Los An
geles should now fail to assert its po-
sition as city which will defend its
rights against any corruptionist or ma
chine or machine man that may assail
them, the consequences would be griev-
Gus. If, on the contrary, and as we
expect, the citizens right of recall
should be put into effect, the example
would be salutary and the city for the
future would be safe from the plots
and plans Of designing Office holders or
corporation tools. The effect Of the re-
call will be to give Los Angeles a good.
clean, sound, healthy. trustworthy and
responsible government for many a
year to come.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-31
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

nY PREPARING a handy leafiet
n containing valuable information
~ which will be Of great assistance
to the voters, the charter amendment
campaign committee Of the City club
has rendered a great service to the
public. In urging earnestly every cit-
gen to work and vote for charter
amendments Nos. and the COM
nittee points out that councilmen elect
ed at large and direct primaries will
do more than anything else to encour-
age true civic spirit and to induce the
citizen to vote, as he will have an
assurance his vote will count for what
it really stands for. The reforms pro-
posed will give the people better Off
Gals, and will go far toward correcting
existing evils Of municipal government.
Election Of councilmen at large, from
the city instead Of by wards, will give
the people better and ADLER officials, on
whom 1t won't be necessary to use the
recall. The public in search of capable
and efficient servants will have the
whole city to choose from, and bosses,
rings and machines will find 1t so diff
cult to control nominations and cleo
tons that 1t will be hardly worth their
while to make the attempt.
There is abundant proof of the unsat-
isfactory nature of the ward system.
It has been tried and found wanting.
Election at large, on the contrary, has
proved eminently satisfactory, and dis
interested experts in municipal affairs
favor the election Of councilmen at
large. Less than 20 per cent Of munich
pal legislation is local as applied to
wards. The remaining so per cent ap-
plies to the whole city; so, by main
tanning an old fogey system, we run
the risk Of getting a bad administra-
ton Of four-f1fths Of the city's interests
in order to specialize for one-flfth.
1t is aptly pointed out by the able
City club compaigners that Healy Of
the Eighth ward, a councilman who
legislates for the whole city, received
only 49S votes out Of a total city vote
Of 10000. This is not popular repre-
sentation. And to emphasize the truth
that the ward system makes 1t easier
lOT CORRUPT 6ISIu6ntS 10 interfere WIN
or dominate municipal affairs it is
pointed out that most Of the opposition
to proposed charter amendments and
4, providing for the election of council
men at large and for direct primary
elections, comes from FIVE MACHINE
COUNCILMEN.
At the last general city election the
total vote by wards was 30,268. The
five councilmen constituting the ma
jority of the council received only 429S
votes. The minority Of four councilmen
received 1902 votes, nearly twice as
many. Verify, here was an instance of
"the tail wagging the dog" In the
wards which elected the five majority
councilmen 1884 votes were cast. In
the wards electing the four minority
councilmen 1924 votes were cast
Among the other anomalies which dis
figure Los Angeles municipal conditions
under the present system is the fact
that the voting power of a voter in the
Eighth ward is six times greater than
that of a voter in the Sixth ward!
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-31
DOES NOT BELIEVE RAYS OF
SUN TRANSMITTED TO EARTH

Los ANGELES, Jan. 19.-[Editor
Herald: In The Herald's Letter Box
notlce some Of your correspondents
are qu1bbl1ng over that old and oft
repeated question of the chasm between
science and scriptural creation.
ReIlglon is truth; truth is science;
and 1t matters not how much the So
called scientists and theologians may
dlHer IN opinions, religion and science
are one and inseparable. And were T to
promulgate great worlds scientific
religion I would begin:
In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth,'' and carry it
on down to the fourth day:
And God said, let there be light in
the armament Of the heavens to divide
the day from the night; and let them
be for signs, and for seasons, and for
days and for years And let them he
for lights in the armament of the heay-
en- to give light upon the earth: and if
was so. And God made two great
lights; the greater light to rule the
day, and the lesser light to rule the
night; and he made the stars also.
Now, in making this quotation. T
challenge the world to show where. in
scripture, it says that the sun was ever
created! For I believe that the light
rays are not transmitted from the sun
to the earth, but that a molecule me-
uIum or matter is rad1ated, in which is
locked the storage energy of the sun.
and is metamorphosed in our own at
mospheric cycle into light rays, gro
give light upon the earth, to rule over
the day and over the night, and to d.
vide the light from the darkness. And
God saw that it was good. And the
evening and the morning were the
fourth day"
And l believe that this hypothesis
from a scientific deduction, carried ~
its logical conclusion, will solve the
problems Of the chasm between science
and religion. w. H. COOLIDGE.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-31
DIRECT PRIMARIES

PROPOSED charter amendment No.
4 provides for direct primary cleo
u lions, an electoral reform which is
not novelty or a radical experiment.
Direct primaries have been held in
nearly half the states Of the Union and
the system is growing more and more
in popular favor.
Direct primaries are especially useful
in municipalities where legislation most
directly affects local and popular in
terests. The direct primary will give
the people a direct voice in the man
agement OF their municipal affairs. It
will place the responsibility for good or
bad government with the people-the
source Of power. Candidates no longer
will have to seek nominations from
political bosses - those extraordinary
usurpers Of the powers, privileges ard
rights Of the sovereign American peo-
pie, who have been tolerated by the
sovereign people Of the United States
to the dumfounded amazement of
other peoples of the earth who do not
call themselves sovereign" peoples.
The march Of the Unlocking peoples to-
ward liberty is hindered and hampered
by political conditions in the free
United States to which European ad-
vocates of reactionary Capitalization Of
power can and do point as reasons for
opposing the democracy of Europe in
its struggle for self-government. Under
the direct primary system each candi-
date will have an equal opportunity to
go before the people. In order to get
nomination candidates must state and
show clearly where they stand.
Other advantages Of direct primaries
are summarized in a most useful and
workmanlike manner by the charter
amendment committee of the CITY club
as follows:
Parties will be kept out Of ruts and
forced to reckon with independent
voters and candidates. They will be
forced to put UP better candidates.
Corporations cannot control nomina-
tions without the direct approval Of the
voters. Candidates will be elected on
merit and not for party reason or be-
cause some boss wants them. There
can be no gag law in making nomina-
lions. Any citizen who can get 100
names on his petition may run for of
flee. The direct primary will bring out
a direct expression Of popular opinion
when it is most needed-when the nom
nations are made. Only the two
highest candidates for each office will
be placed on the final ballot. If the
people do their duty there must be q
survival of the fittest, and the candi-
date elected is bound to be the choice
of majority of all the voters. Every
man may express his opinion and wish
at the polls. Under the present system
he most often expresses the wish of a
boss or a machine. The direct primary
will encourage independence in both in
dividuals and newspapers. The direct
primary is not misunderstanding is a
vindication of Americanism. The direct
primary promotes non-partisanship in
municipal affairs and on-partisanship
promotes good government. If we had
had direct primaries at the last NUM-
cipal election the present administration
would not have been elected, inasmuch
as it received less than one-third of the
total vote cast
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-31
SAYS ALL CULTS COMPOSED
OF PERSONS OF ONE IDEA

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19.-TEditor
Herald: Nature revealed her wis
dom by not giving that inconstant
autocrat, mind, absolute power over
the body. The body is democracy
and cells as units have inalienabIe
rights that are supreme. and thew re-
sent the ''big stick welding as do we.
Intelligence originated in the cells and
nerves (result of specialization.
evolved that the cells might work in
unison and collectively, much as all
government evolved.
The mind is a great thing, but it has
it's limitations, and being so easily in
fluenced by environment, would place
the body in jeopardy too often to be
in supreme control.
The mind, through mental methods
or drugs, will bulldoze the body for A
while, but nature surely has a reckon
ing. All cults are composed Of one
idea persons. Religion holds the fetish
paramount and morality secondary.
Humanity drifts along the line OF least
resistance, for it is easier to take
the fetish than to face the music and
live right. DIR. HUMANITAS.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-31
DECLARES NEWSPAPER is
THE BIBLE OF THE PEOPLE

LONG BEACH, Jan. 27.-[Editor
Herald: All praise to The Herald for
its brave and wise work in the inter-
est of reform in politics. The people
Of Southern California who know the
difference between the noble work Of
The Herald and that of the sinister
bloat who, fat with ill-gotten wealth,
has nothing but sneers for men who
are fighting the battle Of justice and
honesty in municipal government are
in honor bound to countenance and
back The Herald in it's work 1t was
the fatal and bitter fact in the late
political contest in the nation that the
vile press was everywhere spewing its
venom into the heart of every home in
the land. The whole Republican cam
paign was a shrewd, heartless lie,
CARRIED most always IN the livery of
truth. The peoples cause had its
champions, but the newspaper is the
peoples Bible. It's influence is I'M
rivaled. 1t 1s public opinion. Today
corporation and congested wealth, the
twin dragons of our national life, own
the press; not all, but the controlling
bulk Of it, and these dragons are the
pledged enemies of popular govern
ment.
The future historian will have a
strange story to tell Of how a COM
pactly organized and we'll drilled army
of a few thousand men armed with
money, corporate power and a list Of
evil minded public journals, defeated
the popular will time after time be-
cause the people would not unite for
self defense, while their enemies did.
The only way to bring about a revo-
luton in public opinion and a resulting
reform in politics is then to purify our
nI;hlic educatOr-the press Cease
supporting those newspapers that
Thoreau describes thru whose coll
umns you can hear the wash Of the
sewer and read those that have con-
science, ability and courage.
CFNFX
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-31
South Still Shy
THE OLD BROKEN RECORD

How dear to this heart is the monographs
singing!
What fond recollections my memory stir!
Sweet Jane does the winding and turns on
the music
While I sit and tell her the tunes I prefer
But oh, how it tears my nerve. system to
tatters,
Oh, how it deranges my comfort and bliss
When Jane idly slips an old broken record
Which reels off a song that sounds some
thing like this:
1.-THE old oaka-ka- ka-bucka-buck -bucka-
Ir-r-r-r-r-r bou-wow-wow (crfck uckeD
"-,,,-'" (crick, crick, crick-ooooo)
Tha-hunk-k-k-k OBJ WE'LL
My stock of canned music I hail as
treasure;
For often when callers appear on the scene
And topics scarce, it is truly a pleasure
To bring out our dear little talking machine
The time passes quickly and everyone's happy;
The monograph pleases till Jane, remiss
Forgets about winding the works of the
treasure
Which drawls out tune that goes some
thing like this:
''B-eee i-i-i-t eeeeeeeee-ver
Ha-ha-hum-b-b-b-b-bl
T-h-e-rererere-s 10
Pl-pl-place like 10
Puck.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-31
At PRESIDENT Roosevelt's SUGGESTION

At President Roosevelt's suggestion
a child and home conference will be
held in Washington. Child labor is a
curse and it interferes with the home
Lack Of employment for the bread
winner" is also a curse and interferes
with the home. Such a reasonable
guarantee Of work for all who wish to
work as America is able to give when
times are prosperous should remove the
last vestige of an excuse for child
labor. We hope the child and home
conference will have satisfactory and
far-reaching results.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-31

Painful indeed are the emotions of
the reader who endeavors in the
columns of a contemporary morning
newspaper to follow somewhat pratt
cal adaptation of the well known, orig
inal style of Myra Kelly to the weak
preposterous, picayune purpose of polit-
zeal piffling. Myra's citizens" will
doubtless hold an Indignation meeting
and resolve unanimously to make a
snoot on the trespasser at.-the first
convenient opportunity.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-31
YELLOWEST YET

m ENDER yellow solicitude for the
welfare Of the police force Of Los
Angeles inspires a document be-
fore us, which, in considerable
space between the first heading, "IIos
Angeles Examiner William Randolph
Hearst" and the final signature,
VERY Truly Yours, The Examiner"
offers to supply our gallant officers
with their professional outfit and
equipment in return for services rem
dered, said services to consist Of
using their influence to persuade citi-
zens to subscribe for Mr.. Hearsts
paper. We do not know the name of
the author of the document before US.
1t may have been Mr.. Hearst himself.
1t may have been one of his innumer-
able heutenants.
At times it suggests the brilliance Of
Brisbane; at others the imagination Of
Ihmsen, and here and there flashes
something resembling the Celtic fire Of
Farrelly.
1t begins: knowing that all police
men are constantly in need of new
uniforms" (note the sagacity), "dress
suits, fatigue suits, revolvers, billies,
handouts and other equipment" (please
appreciate the mastery knowledge Of
detaiD land being DESTROYS Of showing
you how to secure these necessities
without their costing you anything
(never mind the grammar, but think
Of the philanthropy 1--WE want you TO
read this letter carefully"
The patience of the careful reader is
rewarded by the discovery that Mr..
Hearst, in return for services rem
dered to him by the policemen of Los
Angeles as special agents and canvas
sers, is willing to give, in premiums
for subscriptions, billies, handouts,
flash lamps, uniform trousers, revolv-
ers, fatigue suits and dress coats.
That is "going some" Mr.. Hearst
will equip the police force of Los An
geles, but first the police force of Los
Angeles must canvass the city for sub
scriptions to the Hearst paper and turn
them in:
The pleading, yearning tone of the
Hearst letter is pathetic. 1t would
melt the heart Of an obelisk.
you NEED A BILLIE. NO
DOUBT. We will furnish you with
anyone you may select If you or your
friends will secure for US two one
year subscriptions, or four six-months
subscriptions, or eight three-months
s. descriptions.
"HANDCUFFS ARE WHAT YOU
NEED. We will furnish you with the
very best that can be bought for five
one-year subscriptions, or eight six
months subscriptions or twelve three
months subscriptions.
"PERHAPS YOU NEED A FLASH
LAMP. We will furnish you with
the very best flash lamp for two
one-year subscriptions, or four six
months subscriptions or eight three
months subscriptions.
you ARE CONSTANTLY WEAR
ING OUT YOUR TROUSERS"
At this point we stop. Our type
writer chokes with indignation (thc
machine, not the LADY,. Was ever in
situation as base and as baseless as
this, that the ever vigilant and active
policemen of Los Angeles are "con-
stantly wearing out their trousers?"
from this anyone would infer the po-
licemen of Los Angeles are always sit
ting down. We hurl the insinuation
back in the teeth of the defamer.
The Examiner adds: "There is no
other newspaper in Southern Califor-
MIA that has ever made like offer to
the policemen here" We should say
not. What do you take us for, any
way?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-31
AT THE THEATERS
AUDTTORIUM-Dark.

AUDTTORIUM-Dark
HLAsON-Dark.
BELASCO-"The Girl Of the Golden West
DTAJESTTC-"The House of Bondage"
BURBANK-''The Spoilers"
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE-"Tar and Tartar
Los ANGELES-VaudevilIe.
FISCHER'S-"The King Of Patagonia"
ENIPIRE-Vaudeville
UNIQUE-"Paquita Down to Date"
WALKER-VaudeviIle.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-31
Far and Wide
Pennsylvania Bears

Killing bears continues q principal
winter industry in Monroe county.
Charles Seese Of Canadensis several
days ago killed black bear near that
village that weighed 311 pounds. Will
liam KEEPER of Pocono lake on Wednes-
day of last week killed a black bear in
that neighborhood that weighed over
200 pounds. A few days later Jesse
KEEPER also killed one nearly the Same
size. 1t is stated that there have been
about twenty bears killed in that vicin-
ity so far this season, and that there
are more of them about.-Philadelphi
Record.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-31

Monday, February 1, at Blanchard
hall will be held the meeting at which
the candidate will be nominated who
will run for mayor of Los Angeles in
opposition to Harper. Results already
obtained make it certain the requisite
number of names to call an election
will be signed.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-31
Can Il Be?

Can it be that there are still I'M
employed people in this land? A dis
patch says that there are thousands Of
worthy men out of employment in
every considerable city in the country
and that the national government may
be called upon to find employment for
them.-Bakersf1eld Californian.