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Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-05
GOOD GOVERNMENT

IN r. GATES talk to the City club
Saturday should have the effect
\ of reviying interest in the broad
subject of good government, not only
as applied to civic and local affairs, but
to state and national. The United
States should have the best govern
ment in the world, because it has the
best system in the world; but, with the
exception of the imperial aspect of
rational government, in which it has
been fortunate, it has had to suffer
from bad administration of its good
system.
1t is mortifying to have traveller after
traveller come from the antipodes with
the message there is better govern
ment. generally speaking, under the
Southern Cross than under the stars
and Stripes DR.. Gates says in the
United States we have suffered from
selfshness. Each of us has been scrap
ping for himself, and the results have
been decidedly disheartening to believ-
ers in the first principles of American
ism, who have actually had to listen
to persons who call themselves ''prac-
ticar' politicians refer to fellow citi-
zens who fain would be as good in
deed as in word, as "faddists," silk
stockings" etc.
Americanism in practice undoubted-
ly would produce conditions as good as
those which DIR. Gates found in Aus
tralasia. We assert in a document
which cannot be revoked unless the re-
public perish, that certain truths are
self-evident: namely "all men are Gre
ated equal, and are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable
rights, among which are life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness"
Our assertion of these self-eVident
truths is belied by the existence of
staring, glaring, startling inequality
among men, and by a contemptuous
disregard of the meaning of life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness. IT
that famous phrase is to continue TO
have any meaning, something must be
done to make the rights of United
States citizens unalienable in every
dav experience as we'll as in the alb
stract, and our government must
awaken to a sense of its duty and re-
sponsibility, and SECURE THESE
RIGHTS for its citizens. Under pres
ent conditions, much governmental
energy is expended in scolding about
the RESULTS of carelessness which
allowed some interests to usurp the
unalienable right of the mass of the
American people.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-05
SAYS ADAMS SIN CAUSED
ELEVATION OF THE RACE

LOS ANGELES, July al Elitor Her
add: "Savonarola" says in his letter
of June 21 Through the atonement
by Christ man may have forgiveness OF
his past sins" When a child [ was
taught at the Sunday school that God
loved his children with the same love;
that he was unalterably good and
righteous" If he forgives one child
his sins and another not, should he
then not be an arbitrary God? Where
is his righteousness then?
Further on he says: WAS man not
surrounded by the highest, even beau
tiful garden, with plenty of wealth and
beauty when he fell?'
Dare "Savonarola" deny the law OF
evolution? Has he ever taken the
trouble to think that if Adam had not
eaten of the forbidden fruit, yea, he
would be sinless, but should live as the
beasts in the field, and act as they! :!
That is, he should be shameless!
That "Savonarola" now is what he
is, he has to be grateful that Adam
has eaten of the forbidden fruit, which
caused not the human fall, but the
human elevation. That eating of the
forbidden fruit was the awakening of
morality. When that is developed to
its highest degree to acquire on this
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-05
ELKS

HROM now until the convention
time Los Angeles will be kept
n busy extending the right hand of
welcome and Fellowship to Elks from
all quarters of the United States. From
now on there will be plenty of evidence
the great trek" of the vast Elk herd
has been begun, and that it is stead
lily in motion toward the hub of the
universe, little old Los Angeles, the
Queen of the South and the Empress
of the West.
Every Elk will be a Los Angeles
boomer as soon as he has taken a few
breaths of the inspiring air of our
glorious city. Every Elk will soon be-
come well posted and we'll Informed
as to the past, present and future of
Los Angeles, and every Elk will re-
turn to his native pasture firmly per-
suaded there is only one Los Angeles,
and that no other city in the world
can hope to rival it,
And then what more natural than
that the Elk should think about MAX
ing arrangements to return to Los An
geles, TO remain here permanently; or,
If his business win not permit him to
leave it, should at any rate tell all
his friends Of the superiority Of our
city and advise them to come here
without delay?
Los Angeles is already one of the
best known cities of the United States.
After the Elks visit it Will be the very
best known. The Elks are the finest
people in the world the salt of the
earth, and they are good boosters and
will boost and boom Los Angeles. t'or
this as well as for many other reasons
the Elks are right heartily welcome.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-05
VETERAN COMPLAINS OF
CONDITIONS IN HOSPITAL

SAWTELLE, July 2.-[Editor Her
aldl: The veterans at the home are
more than pleased with the stand OF
The Herald for fair play for the old
men. who are to pass the remainder of
theiF days here. The improvement in
food and other things shows that the
management is taking notice of public
opinion as expressed by The Herald.
Sill, there is much more improvement
needed.
There is trouble in the hospital. The
surgeon in charge is trying to force the
old men to stand an all-night watch
that is, from $3.50 p. m. to $50 a. m.-
and they have rebelled, so there is no
night force at present outside of the
citizen employees. The old men say the
above are too long hours for $3.50 a
month. There is much dissatisfaction
in other departments; also many have
been laid off or their wages cut, both
in the engineering and farm gangs.
ANON,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-05
SAYS WORKERS FURNISH
STATISTICS ON DRINKING

LOS ANGELES, June 3O-[Editor
Herald: / wish to say few words in
leply to Lineman. No; 1 did not get
lost. He misunderstands me; / mean
the workingmen who are down, the
ones who do the hardest work for least
pay, railroad builders, public works la
forers. A goodly majority of them
drink enough to furnish statistics for
the rest of all the working classes at
the rate you quote, and they would run
the statistics higher If they had more
wages or Jobs We're easier had when
they are out of work.
The workingman who gets 81 to So a
day Is not down, but drink will down
him If he follows it. j. r. ALLEN.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-05
LOS ANGELES GROWTH

NROWTH of Los Angeles continues.
a. From month to month there are
" added enough new buildings to
equip separate towns. From December
/. 1908, to June 30, 1909, enough new
buildings We're added to make street
seventeen miles long, In June permits
were issued for 715 buildings, valued
at $1,14S,418. This beat the record for
June 1908, by eighty-nine permits and
$39O,562 valuation. Los Angeles build
ings are models of good construction
and graceful architecture. While there
are some excellent specimens Of
"apartment houses" or flats" which
are to be found in all big cities there
are, thank goodness, no specimens of
the out-and-out tenement house." or
human warren; and it is to be hoped
pride in the civic superiority of Los
Angeles will prevent the city from en-
couraging tenement house districts"
and "slums." In Los Angeles there
should not be a nook or a Granny even
remotely resembling a slum.
In a dry climate, like that of South
ern California, fre-proof construction
is of the utmost Importance, and in this
regard most of the buildings of our
city are distincly modern in type. Los
Angeles is improving it's condition con-
stantly.
Many of the Blks who are expected
have visited Los Angeles in former
years, and we can anticipate their sur
prised exclamation: 1.-THE city has
grown beyond recognition. Never saw
such a change in such a short time"
The METROPOLIS of Southern Cali
fornia is well worthy of it's title.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-05
THINKS MONEY COLLECTED
IN SALOONS IS TAINTED

LOS ANGELES, July 2.-[Editor
Herald; An article appeared in one
of our local papers concerning the So
liciting of money from saloon men for
Salvation Army religious work. 1t
reads that the secretary of an eastern
saloon league comments and protests
against the asking for such money be-
cause the collectors do not appreciate
the saloon-keepers goodness"
Listen to this: A former saloon man
once soid ANY man of intellect and
character cannot continue in the whis-
ky business without a sting of con-
science, and whosoever denies this fact
is not of the higher type of manhood. =
When the saloon man protests
against the collecting Of saloon money
for the uplift of humanity he is de-
cidedly in the right. READER.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-05
SAYS ALPHABET REFORM, NOT
SPELLING REFORM, is NEEDED

LOS ANGELES, July 1.-[Editor
Herald: 1 read your editorial on all
phabet reform. You are certainly right
in the statement that what we need
is alphabet reform and not spelling re-
form. | have been wondering for years
why the leaders in education have not
added to the alphabet enough letters
to represent the sounds we use. We
have only twenty-six letters, but use
something over forty sounds.
The child could learn forty-two let
ters about as easily as twenty-six, and
this would save him years of study
learning how to spell: then we would
not have words spelled alike and pro-
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-05
AT THE THEATERS

AUDITORIUM-Dark.
MAsON-Princess company in "The Um-
pire."
BELAsCO-"A Day and a Night in New
York"
BURBANK-"SherlOck Holmes"
GRANDPA Girl of the Streets"
MAJESTIC-"Sergeant Kitty"
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
LOS MISUNDERSTANDING
WALKER-Vnudevill
EMPIRE-VaudeVille
UNIQUE-Vaudeville and musical comedy
FTsCHER'S-MusicaI comedy and vaudeville
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-05

nounced differently or spelled differ
emily and pronounced alike. 1t would
simplify spelling and pronouncing. Then
you could read properly without hav-
ing to learn from a teacher how to pro-
nounce every word in the language;
same as to spelling. BY increasing the
alphabet to forty-two letters would be
so simple, and the benefit so immense,
l do not understand why it has not
been done years ago. If you can fur
nish a reason why it should not be done
/ would like to read it in your paper.
Yours truly, S. w. NORM.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-05

Scots in Los Angeles will celebrate
American independence by the fifth
annual picnic and games of the Gale
DOMAIN club, which will be held at the
Indian Crafts Exhibition park. Need
less to say, the Scots are thoroughly
AmericaniZed.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-05

Apropos of the death of Sir Arthur
Cowen- -Stepney, the Americanized
baronet, it is a mistake to talk of
whiskers of a peculiar "cut" as side
burns" end it is an error as comical
as it is common. Whiskers of the style
referred to were first worn by General
Burnside, whose picture at one time
was well known. Some would-be funny
fellow reversed the word and called the
Whiskers "sideburns."
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-05

We hope nothing will happen to dis
turb the harmony of the bands at the
Elks' convention. Organized civilian
musicians are refusing to allow en-
listed military bands to- play Well
some of the enlisted bands do discourse
most excellent music, and with all due
respect to the organized musicians il
hardly seems fair that the public should
be arbitrarily deprived of the pleasure
of hearing the military musicians.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-05

Independence day resolutions: Let us
work for a restoration of the first prin-
ciples of Americansm, and do every
thing in our power to discourage greed
arouse public spirit and establish con
ditions which will bring about the
greatest happiness of the greatest num-
Der of the people.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-05

Los Angeles League of Justice has
it's organization and will
undertake an active campaign for
membership. In Haines Reed the league
has an excellent secretary. Martin
Bekins enters on his duties as treasurer
with the assurance that the league has
sufficient financial backing to carry on
its work. Success to it,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-05

Bank statements show the prosperity
of Los Angeles. In six months deposits
were increased by $70OO,00O, and the
total is about $96,OOOOOO. The Elks will
have the pleasure of visiting the most
prosperous and progressive city in the
United States. To be sure she is right
and then to go ahead and win, and
prosper-that's the Los Angeles way.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-05

Star spangled banner in triumph
still waves over a territory much
vaster and more populous than was
dreamed of by the fathers Of the Revo-
luton.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-05
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENTS intended
for publication rluss be accompanied by the
name and address of the writer. The Her
aid gives the widest latitude to correspond
ents, but assumes no responsibility for their
views.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-05

Hurrah for Greater Los Angeles and
a square deal for the people!
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-05

on all matters pertaining to advertising
address Charles r. Gates advertising man
ager.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-05

earth man can pass over to higher
life, JULIUS SCHELTEMA.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-05

HELLO, BILL!
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-05

TomOrrow--The Empire of India. II.
Anarchy and Assassination.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-07-02

continued, and by ultimate sub-divi-
vision, which was nothing more or
less than the assertion of Natures
eternal authority.
But that same segregation instead
of working destruction to the church.
as predicted by the fathers, has, with
the flight of the centuries, proved to
be the one efficient means most
needed for a wider spread of the
Gospel. Luther, Henry VIII of Eng
land, Malancthon, Calvin and John
Wesley. did nothing more than to in
fuse renewed life into the old church
of the Apostles. They wrought bet
WlNle attacking abuses in the church,
they We're merely cleaning house, but
it was still the old house of the Mas
ter.
But it is suggested tkat they only
created a lot of seets that have done
little else than quarrel among them
selves and with the mother church
for three hundred years, and are still
engaged in that apparently c|ongenial
occupation. Well, what of it? Did
they quarrel before? Certainly
they did, for otherwise they would
not have been human beings, and
there would have been no need of the
Gospel. 1t was to meet just that pc
culiarity of the race that the Master.
when he was about to go down to
commandment that they love one
another as he had loved them The
reformation of the world is not yet
complete, nor will it be till that new
commandment is more generally OBJ
served than it has been.
In the course of my W life | have
seen much of this pickering going on,
but | record with pleasure that there
is less of it in these opening years
of a new century, than there was in
the first half of the last ne. In that
time | have seen a nation %recreated,
a new republic erected on the
the ruins of the old. and have seer
a religious and patriotic people build
n of the states of that new repub-
lie in the wilds of what was once
known as the Great American Desert.
Something came into the world
nineteen hundred years ago, hat has
never gone out of it; something that
has been slowly making people bet
ter than they We're before, and is still
doing it.
Nothing fingers in my memory
with greater clearness, than the fact.
that the society of this state, its av-
erage man and womanhood is of a
higher cast, is on a higher plane of
moral excellence, than when ! came
The Falls City tribune., 1909-07-02

to the country.
Why is that? One answer is. be
cause it is so all over the nation; all.
and ali over the world. That some
thing referred to awakened in the peo-
PIE themselves a latent force that is
raising them up as time goes by
more rapidly than before, but nobody
has a monopoly of that force.
Another answer is, that the church
which had long mistaken itself for
religion, instead of an association of
people Ieligiously inclined, for the
teaching and dissemination of religi
Gus principles and sentiments among
the people who troop into and out of
this world on al unknown journey,
for their betterment ON the way, has
come to be more reasonable on that
point, and a modicum of good com
mon sense has found its way into
the minds of the people ON that sub
ject, and they are none the worse for
it.
1t is pleasant as well as profitable
to trace the historic march OF that
incomprchensible influence from its
origin in the far east, westward over
broad continents and stormy seas till
now with its mighty Briarian arms it
girdles the earth. Owls boot in the
palaces of the Caesars, but close to
the crumbling walls of the coliseum
in which in another age Christians
We're torn by wild beasts for the edi-
f~ication of a besotted heather ruler,
stands a house of power-a power
that controls without force, and yet
is more potent in shaping human
destiny than all the military and
naval establishments of the world
combined. Its great age may have
rendeT/d it dogmatic and exclusive
and all that; it may and probably
does, deny to the segregated parts
that have set up their own separate
religious households, to preach the
Gospel of the Master, nevertheless
it is still only a part of the universal
christian polity that reaches back to
the apostolic age, and SO are all the
others; for whoever gives to another
a cup of cold water in His name. is
His brother, and the brother of all
His followers, whether he uses the
same ceremonial in giving the cup or
not.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-07-02

When the stomach fails to perform
its functions. the bowels become de-
ranged. the liver and the kidneys con-
gesteG causing numerous diseases.
The stomach and liver must be re-
stored to a healthy condition and
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver tab
lets can be depended upon to do it
Easy to rake and most effective Sold
by all druggists.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-07-02
"reminiscences of q Wayfarer

Some of the important Events of the Pioneer Days
of Richardson County and Southeast Nebraska, as
mt by the writer. who has spent fifty
one years here.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-05-20
pene Holes.

These curious well.like excavations,
found in Kent and Sussex, are popu-
larly supposed to belong to the time
of the Danish rule in England. They
are invariably about three feet in d.
ameter and seldom less than. sixty
feet deep. Ingress and egress were
provided for by means'o rude ladders
or hide ropes, Various explanations
have been offered to account for their
existence-some surprising them to
have been places Of refuge, others that
they we're connected with secret forms
of worship, still others that they were
dug for the extraction Of chalk and
flint. A. J. Philip, In a recent study
of the subject.' ADVOCATES the view
that the holes we're made to, serve as
silos, or granaries. They are found
close together in groups. correspond
ing with the habits Of various tribes
of clustering in, restgicted areas
Youths Companion.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-05-20
TRANSPORTATION.

~ .,tber SIDE l1,t fcrlress walls
~ {ns igranite blcoi.s re sheer and steep
,tH q nluftF NaroI craWls
Ay22etoxy tn c|fcufT list-clouds sweep.
~ fi1ft arin4 1|nt hlmmeriag tree
Ny0n ali Is drtal iCHrih Is seen,
~ Nv amefltfs 1art nonotony
Forbids IA single patch Of green.
rven IN the sblehdld glow Of June
Al midday here the shadows meet;
Rnt the last hour OF afternoon
Brings glory to the stern old street.
The western sun with level beams
sets the dust columns all ablaze,
And the TRANSPORTED distance CLEANS
a vista through an amber haze.
Ellen
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-05-20

AZ from a magic loom OF lIght
Inc smOke-Wrea this overEead ora rouoa
INTO a canopy. made bright
Dtm,, ~ warp OF bronze and wool Of gold.
In loom the walls, austerely grand,
IN me strange hues Of after-day
Like palaces Of wonderland
That border some enchanted wav
men zen opal mlsts come trailing through,
~ portals which no eye can mark,
HTu Pianloin shadows pale and blue,
AL common things withdraw from sight,
me purple dome Of heaven lifts higher.
ana lo-a thoroughfare Of light
Leaps out In lines Of silver hie!
iamlin Butler, In Youths Companion,
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-05-20
Some HaIr.pulHnu In Prospect.

ION my husbands birthdays" re.
marked the, t.ubwomaR, Lalways stay
at home and make him a cake, And
he appreciates them" g. =
I'm sure he does" said the home
woman, "I've heard him say to my hus-
band that he regards your birthday
cakes as milestones aIohg his married
{. life. "-Boston Transcript.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-05-20

Stockholm, Christiana, Berlin and
London in the order named have the
lowest death rates Of all the cities Of
Eufote
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-05-20

There Is a growing demand for
American pearls. Those taken from
the western waters last season We're
valued at 100000.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-05-20
NCN[AJITCIDCCClOOTl
ole Whirlwind Of Death
By Edward Cecil

1Qn2n919f
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-05-20

On the next night, the night Of the
First of June. The Whirlwind OF
Death" began its short career Of i'm
mense success. 1t lasted three nights.
One of those girls who are always
to be found in the Garden Of the
Palais de Paris was induced to take
Marcelle's place. The price tempted
her, and she had lost any fondness
for life.
On the second night she tainted in
the car. On the third night It was
said that she had tainted before the
car had started. If so. her death was
merciful. Past all doubt it. was In
Simultaneous, for, the somersault not
being quite complete, her back was
broken.
But she had probably died thou
sand times in her thoughts, so hor-
rible was the downward rush of the
car.
Half Paris followed her broken body
to Pere-la-Chalse,
The people 5f'Paris must Of course,
anuse WORCESTERSHIRE Sketch. 90
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-05-20

Ellen Hamln Butler Youths Companion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-27
MOOR WAR NEARS END.
Spanish War Office Announces Com
plete Success in Morocco.

Madrid, Sept 27-The war office
today announces the complete success
of the maneuvers in Morocco against
the Moors.
Both Nador and Zeluan have been
occupied. At the latter town there
was bloody fighting with large bodies
of Moors. The ring around Mount
Guruga is now considered almost
closed, and the position of the Moors
is desperate.
Kaid Amas appeared before Gen
eral Marina, the commander of the
Spanish forces, yesterday and asked
terms of surrender for the tribes en-
trenched on Mount Guruga. The re-
suits of this conference are not known,
but it is believed the Moors are ready
to submit without conditions. The i'm
mediate successful termination OF
Spain's war against the MoorS. which
has been going on since July, would
be of inestimable advantage to the
government of Premier Maura against
whom the campaign in Spain is daily
becoming more intense among the low
er classes. A large section of the up
per classes, however, are man1teSt1ng
warm support of the government.
The minister of the interior is being
deluged with letters begging him to
continue the work of maintaining pub
lie order.
Burning the Villages.
Alhucemas, Morocco, Sept. 27.-The
with the fires of the burning Moorish
villages. After the Spanish batteries
in the fighting of yesterday had 81
fenced the native artillery, the infantry
advanced and drove the Moors from
their positions.