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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-15
PROTECT YOUTH

IN ILLS regulating the sale Of LIQUOR
n and tobacco have been introduced
- in the legislature. The object of
the measure is the protection Of youth.
1t is proposed to raise the age of per-
sons to whom tobacco may be sold
from 16 to IS years, and the age of
persons to whom liquor may be sold
from Is to 21. This legislation may be
described as limited prohibition. Bows
under the ages mentioned are at a.
susceptible age, when habits are ae-
quired and formed. Moreover. the
body is in a condition of physical
transition which makes it extremely
important it should not be poisoned
with alcohol or nicotine. Many of the
troubles which overtake men in middle
life are by the doctors ascribed to
early smoking or drinking. A boy who
smokes or drinks even moderately be-
fore he has attained his full growth
will do himself more harm in the years
of his youth and tenderness by using
tobacco and alcohol than he will by
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during all the years Of his later life.
Smoking and drinking after maturity
are not nearly as harmful as smoking
and drinking INDUCED in before the
growth of the body and the mental de-
velopment are complete. No duty with
which the state is charged is more i'm
portant than the protection Of it's young
men. Society certainly owes one duty to
itself which it cannot safely shirk-
that duty is the complete education of
the youth of the nation, and education
can neither be thorough nor complete
when it is interfered with by premature
drinking or. cigar smoking.
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THRILLING DAY

IND you observe anything peculiar
ID in the atmosphere yesterday :?
Didn't you experience a strange
thrill; an unwonted glow? The air was
filled with sheer, unadulterated joy
over another international wedding.
Miss Beatrice Mills was married to
the earl Of Granard Another large
bunch of D. o. Mills money will cross
the briny ocean and help to make the
court of King Edward the most truly
and augustly royal in all the world
Over in Germany Wilhelm is biting his
finger nails to the quick with envy as
he sees the 'aughty Englishman scoop
in big American fortune and q, lovely
American lass. An old Scotch song,
with rtotous shamelessness, proclaims:
It's hey for the lass WI a tocher,
The lass WI the sller for me.
Blawsted British baronialism has
adopted this for motto. "Tocher," we
should explain, means "dowry." Now
isn't it all plain? What g. charmingly
frank acknowledgement! And even
although on the foggy island they sing
songs about the tocher-hunt in the
United States, the huntable brides are
still right willing to be hunted, and
from time to time we hear Of an Amer
lean girl who evidently does not take
much stock in the famous lines:
Kind hearts are more than coronets
And simple faith than Norman blood
Howe'er it be, it seems to me, IT'S
ONLY NOBLE TO BE GOOD, sings
Tennyson, and thank heaven, the vast
majority of our American women share
his opinion, and members of nobility
as far above the gilded vulgarities Of
Burke and Debrett as the heaven is
high above the earth are to be found
by the thousand thousand, ROCKING
THE CRADLE AND RULING THE
WORLD.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-15

authorities or of officers Of the ministry
OF agriculture, industry and commerce.
Article 4. Whenever it is desired to
nave proof of the genuineness of olive
OIL intended for export, such proof is
furnished, except in the cases otherwise
provided for by international treaties.
by means of a certificate of the analy-
sis of the sample taken, in the manner
to be prescribed in the regulations
Article 5. All violations Of the provis-
ions of article shall be punishable by
fine Of not less than 500 lire, and all
violations of the provisions contained
in articles and 4 shall be subject to a
penalty Of not less than 200 lire
In case Of a repetition Of the offense
the minimum fine is to be doubled, and
imprisonment for terms up to three
months and one month, respectively,
are to be added, coupled with a suspen-
sion of business for a period of from
ten days to six months.
The application Of the penalties men
toned above is not to preclude the APP
plication of higher penalties to which
the offenders may be subjected as a re-
suit Of the provisions Of the penal code
or other special laws.
Article 6. The sentence shall be pub
1shed, at the expense Of the offenders
in the local newspapers and affixed to
the billboards Of the local chamber Of
commerce and the agricultural boards
of the province in which the offenders
reside.
Article z. Refusal to furnish samples
in accordance with the provisions Of
article is to be punished by a, fine Of
100 lire, and the operation of taking the
samples shall be performed by the au-
thorities.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-15
Italy Has NeW Law as to the
Manufacture of Olive oil

Tally has a new law concerning the
manufacture and sale Of edible oils
which will be of interest to Amer
lean importers and consumers, says the
Santa Ana Blade. 1t was put into ope-
ration April 8, 1908, and contains the
following provisions:
Article l. 1t is prohibited to place on
the market under the name of olive oil
any product which differs entirely or
partly from oil called by that name.
Article 2. Whoever manufactures,
ships, keeps in stock, sells or puts on
sale edible oils in merchanta BILE quanti-
ties different from olive oil, or resulting
from the mixture Of olive oil with seed
oil or with that derived from other
oleaginous substances, is required:
(a) To report it to the mayor Of the
municipality within a month from the
publication of this. law on the opening
OF the factory, warehouse or business.
CD To indicate by conspicuous char
acters displayed outside the place of
manufacture, warehouse or sale. as
we'll as on the receptacles, the charac-
ter of the oil, and whether it is genuine
olive Oil or mixed with seed oils
In the absence Of such Indication
whenever mixed oils or those derived
from oleaginous substances or seeds
alimentary substances, or in cellars or
adjoining warehouses, the presumption
will be that the oil was intended for
human consumption.
Article 8. Manufacturers of and deal
ers in edible oils are obliged to furnish,
in return for payment, samples Of their
wares upon request of the municipal
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-15
ANTI-GAMBLING LAW

A LII the gambling interests are act
IN lively enlisted in a most strenuous
- effort to prevent the success of
any really effective anti-gambling leg
islation in California. That is the plain
blunt truth, and might as well be re-
allied and faced. While Arthur Let's
and his friends have really worked
wonders in making any kind Of an i'm
preston on Governor Gillett, yet the
only anti-gambling measure which will
be worth while, which will be worth
working for, and which will be a real
moral and reforming force in the COM
munity, should it be adopted and receive
the governors signature, is legislation
Of that drastic, thorough kind which
allows no possibility Of lodging the is
sue, which provides no possible means
Of evasion of the intent Of the people
of California, which, as voiced by the
law-abiding, respectable and solid ele-
ment in the community, is to Danish
race track gambling from the state as
efdcaciously as the last snake was ban
ished from Ireland by Saint Patrick.
Thorough is the word. Slipshod anti
gambling legislation would be worse
than none at all. Some Of the anti-vice
laws which from time to time were
adopted in New York as an alleged
Concession to reformers were as a
matter Of fact merely slipshod or med
dIesome measures, skillfully and craft
lily designed to disgust the public with
the word reform, which, by reason Of
craftily contrived measures, became
synonymous with governmental ineffi-
cheney. With the examples of other
states before California, there is no
reason why we should not and every
reason why we SHOULD. compel the
enactment of effective and practicable,
thorough and real anti-gambling legis-
lation.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-15
MIND CAN DO BUT ONE THING;
THAT is, KEEP HANDS OFF

ALEXANDRA, Jan. 1L-LEditor Herald; In
the last letter 1 pointed out the existence Of
the two nervous systems-the cerebro-spinal
and sympathetics-and stated that the latter
controlled the vital functions and was largely
independent of the higher centers-will etc
The higher centers do exert an inhibiting in
fuence on the sympathetics indirectly but
have no power to increase vital activity direct
ly. Thus, fear, worry and all the emotions
disturb the nervous system to the extent that
some of these vital functions are stopped and
much harm results from long continuance
All passions when uncontrolled are deIeteri
Gus to health; and love which is normal and
health giving, as Mr.. Cecil says, NAV result
in disease and insanity when uncontrolled
The secret of the power Of the mind over tha
body, therefore, lies in controlling the mind
and emotions, that they may not disturb the
vital functions.
Healing power all resides in the individual
cells, and all mind can do and does, is to keen
its hands off and allow the sympathetics Is
do their work they want to- Nor Is Il
necessary to call in the Power OF Heav4sn. =
Divine Mind or drink something out Of
bottle. Hence we see the limits Of mental
healing. 1t can remove it's own obstacles N
no obstruction exists, much as religion Gre
ates its hells and removes them with promise
of heaven.
Fear or worry is the greatest Of all mental
marauders, and suggestion and knowledge win
d1spel 1t. DIR. HUMANIT.AS.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-15
rs VICE PROTECTED?

N EACH succeeding insta1lment of
The Herald's remarkable series of
articles published under the head
line, rs Vice Protected in Los An
geles?" cumulative evidence is fur
nished which indicates clearly the only
answer which can be made to the
inquiry. Protected vice is privileged
vice, and privileged vice insults COM
munity. We do not wish readers to
infer we include all holders of liquor
licenses under the word ''vice" 1t is
not our intention to convey any mean
ing which would be obviously unjust
Reputable purchasers of stock In
Mayor Harper's Oil company have
asserted that they received the impress
sion it would be good policy on their
part to purchase the shares offered
them.
What shall be said Of the law break
ing element, composed Of men who saw
in the man with the shares nothing
more nor less than a PANTATA WITH
PROTECTION? The pantata, it will
be remembered, is the patron saint"
of vice district in cities in which
vice is districted for the purpose of
making supervision and collection easy.
Representatives Of that class Of
habitual offenders who think 1t is
impossible to conduct business profit
ably without breaking the laws re-
joiced to see the man with the shares,
because they knew from the practices
prevalent in other cities where protec-
tion of vice became fine art that an
anxiety to sell stock indicated, IN all
probability, an anxiety also to see that
purchasers Of shares were well
treated"
The lists OF names obtained and pub
lished by The Herald show the thor
oughness with which the stock selling
idea was carried out IN Los Angeles.
Shares were sold to the big men" Of
the traffic, and to the little men" as
well. Some Of the latter class, who
felt they could hardly afford to go into
business with the mayor of Los Angeles
and his high official associates, were
they who with rude bluntness charac-
terized the stock-selling enterprise as
"a holdup." Whatever it was, the
fact remains it was discreditable to
Los Angeles. Men who should have
been most anxious for the preservation
of the good name and fair fame Of this
city apparently were the least con-
cerned over the possible outcome Of
their fantastic business operations"
They were not merely avaricious, but
disloyal. Their offense is rank; a stencil
in the nostrils of all good citizens of
Los Angeles, and Of all good and decent
people everywhere.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-15
SAN PEDRO

I is believed the passage of a
fortification bill for San Pedro
n is assured. Nothing more strik-
ingly betrays the provincialism Of
certain eastern statesmen than the fact
that the expediency of terrifying thor
oughly such an important harbor as
San Pedro should ever have been in
doubt for minute. 1t may be true
that westward the course Of empire
takes it's way, but the course Of I'M
derstanding which will make our
friends of the Atlantic seaboard and
midland states, realize conditions on
the Pacific slope and coast is slow in
making its way eastward. Perhaps
the tide of the course of empire is SO
strong that it is difficult to supplement
it by tide Of understanding of west
ern conditions.
1t is and always has been passing
strange that our eastern friends should
always have been willing to accept the
aphorism regarding the course Of en-
pire, and should have had any hest
tation in accepting all the RESPONSE
bilities that must come to the nation
with the thorough settlement and so to
speak the solidifcation of our vast
country.
The citizens national understanding
still sometimes conflicts with his state
understanding, and from time to time
some Washington law maker, who
oI1pht To know hatfer shows c;orne ~
being under the domination Of that
outworn superstition called sectional
ism. We don't want sectionaIism of
east and west any more than we
wanted a sectionalism of north and
south. We have no use for section
alism. Fortunately the 'fsm' which
is powerful enough to drive out sec
tionalism is gaining in strength every
day. 1t is AMERICANISM.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-15
CALLS AMERICANS TO TASK
FOR NEGLECT OF PRISONERS

PASADENA, Jan. 13-[Editor Herald: 1t il
a matter Of constant and growing wonder to
me that the contributors to the Letter Boy
DO not give more attention to the vital affairs
OF life and less TO philosophical speculation ana
discussion. AS human beings, our right rela-
lions TO one another should be our first con-
Germ. Whether mind exists in matter or apart
theretrom Is of slight interest to me; but the
knowledge that three Mexican emancipat tors
Ricardo Flores Magon, Antonio l. ViIlarreai
and L1brado Rivera, have been held incomuni
cado sixteen months, in vile captivity in our
county Jail fills with Indignation What
are the people of this country made Of that
they can go on ignoring the black Injustice
perpetrated against these men We must be
insensate stones indeed to remain 50 indiffar-
emit to their fate. 1t is a disgrace to the
nation. Woe to when it become noised
abroad, and the European press begins 10
probe our iniquity. The day is coming. peo-
pie Of America, when our guilty country will
be held up to universal contumely and scorn
for this outrage against human rights.
Think of this shameful affair, writer's to the
Letter Box; the nearest duty is the first After
you have helped restore the Mexicans to lib
erty, the least reparation that can be made
for the wrong done them, it will be time
enough to turn your attention to philosophiz-
ing. JOHN M, HAYES
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-15
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CRITICS
CONFUSED AS TO ITS TERMS

LOS ANGELES, Jan. n.-IEditor HERALD ::
1t is evident that the critics of Christian Sci
ence who find fault with it's teachings regard
ing matter have been misinformed as to its
view point
The statement ''There is no matter" is
not meant to convey the impression that man
has no body, that the objects around Us
do not exist, but is equivalent to saying that
these are not material, as they appear to the
senses, but are, in the last analysis, mental
ideas. On this subject, Paul says to the Cor
inthians, For the things which are seen are
temporal; but the things which are not seen
are eternal
This doctrine of the non-existence of matter
as an entity or power apart from mind is
not only taught by Christian Scientists, but is
also held by many eminent physical scientists
Such authorities as Professors Huxley and
Fiske have said, in substance, that we live in
thought world, there being so such thing
as matter.
When Christian Science heals severe organic
disease through mental action alone it proves
that what we have been calling matter has
no existence apart from mind. The scriptures
bear witness to this fact in John 6:63: 1T is
the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profteth
nothing: the words that I speak unto you,
they are spirit, and they are life"
Christian Science has discovered that all
causation resides in mind, and this explains
why it makes cures after all material sys-
TENS of healing have failed
WILLIAM E. BROWN
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GREAT ENTERPRISE

A T LAST the yellow paper has been
IA recognized in Los Angeles. At
"a last its mission is manifest At
last it's purpose is plain. 1.-THE Exam
iner does things" 1t says so itself
On January 10 it received an order for
one dozen copies Of part II of the paper.
This so elated it that it published the
order, with the headline stating it does
things. We congratulate our contem-
porary on it's magnificent and splendid
enterprise in getting an order for a
dozen copies of q, fragment of the
paper. Apparently the customer, who
specified part II, did not wish to sub
ject the Examiner folk to the shock
of having to make cash sale of a
dozen complete copies at a time. If our
friend will only be patient with good
luck we have no doubt in the course
of time the Examiner may sell a dozen
complete copies without danger Of
nervous prostration.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-15
Intensive Method of Fruit
CuItiU1tiOr Is Profitable

INTENSIVE cultivation of the soil
is almost unknown in the United
- States. Land in America has been
so cheap and new land so readily OBJ
tainable that we have been content to
exhaust the soil and then move the
bulk Of our farming operations to new
localities which the far west Cor, to us,
the middle eas) has afforded, trusting
to time and Providence to recuperate
the spent soil of the Atlantic states.
But the day of such wasteful folly is
passing. Increase Of population in
this country is going to be such that
inside twenty-five years it will be
necessary to double the agricultural
output in order that none may go hun
cry. This can easily lie done, and
without such intensive cultivation as
the pressure of poverty makes abso-
lutely essential in overpopulated coun-
tries like Japan and China. But while
it may be admitted that necessity does
not lay its hand so heavily upon us as
in less fortunate regions the advantages
Of making the best use of our natural
opportunities should not be over
looked.
Right in this same connection the
work which is being undertaken in
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-15
VIRTUE RESTS WITH PERSONS,
NEVER WITH INSTITUTIONS

LONG BEACH, Jan. 12.-tEditor Her
add: What does your correspondent
Young Man. mean by real law? Does
he mean the universal and God-given law
that was, is and eternally will be, or the
man-made statute law that varies with
the whim of legislatures, or that other
tyrant of civilization called custom" ?
L would like to direct the attention Of
this young man" to a few facts while
the metal Of his thought is soft to impress
sions, and not hardened into prejudice and
Journalism.
All the good there is in this human
world ell the virtue, all the right thinking
and living, all the sense Of justice and fair
dealing, all the noble impulses toward
high ideals all the moral sense, are found,
and found alone in individual men and
women. Therefore, the Judgment seat to
which all actions, as we'll all thinkings,
must be hailed and tried is the consensus
Of private judgment
Institutions know nothing Of abstract
right and wrong, but they are, always were
and always must be, per Sc things of pol
icy, Of habit, of the shifting wind of Gus
tom 1 say this Of all institutions that
attempt to encroach on the field Of morals
There is not a crime known to any deca-
logue that these creations of the ages and
vices of humanity have not committed, and
they are at it yet, only held in check by
the enlightened common sense Of our time
The browning madness Of our age Is our
loyalty to these wooden idols, set before
US by ambitious power seekers, and our
appalling servility in knee-crooking to
them. If the poor old race depended on
its organizations for it's betterment, the
reform spirit would die of dry rot, human
experience would get daily worse instead
of better and the hopes and prayers and
enthusiasms of the great and good would
come to naught.
But there is no danger. The voice Of
the faithful has rung all down the cen
turtles and it still rings. Their battle for
the right is always on. The reformer is
as much a part of the science Of things as
is gravitation the procession OF the
euuinoxes" While evil lasts good will be
there to counteract it, Have faith in hui
man nature, but put trust in ''institu-
tions" They are masters Of human en-
ergy, of human time and human providence.
SENEX
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Hungary affords a suggestion worthy
of consideration. A traveller who lately
passed through southeastern Europe
says he was astonished at the progress
that is being made by Hungary as a
fruit country. Although Hungary is
a great fruit producing country, a few
years ago the ministry discovered that
two-thirds of the nations consump-
ton was being imported. The minis
try at once set to work to encourage
the planting of orchard trees along the
Hungarian highways. Surveys were
made; the trees were. supplied at half
rates so that over $50, 900 fruit trees
have been set out already and the
number is rapidly increasing. They
not only add immensely to the beauty
Of the country but are beginning to
furnish a valuable crop. Adequate
laws have been passed for the pro
lection Of the trees and the young peo-
pie are being taught to respect the
rights of the property owners.
Altogether the progress made in this
work has been highly. satisfactory.
Those who have passed through the
Santa Clara valley in this state will re-
call how a similar effort has been made
in many localities there to carry out
the same idea,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-15

as men In department stores. laundries, or
Wherever women are employed
ENFORCE better conditions in saw mills log
glng camps, mines, machine shops, or any
bers of our class.
enforce the rights of free speech, free press.
ana peaceable assembly, everywhere when
gatherings are greater than halls can accom-
IL certainly appeals to women, owing to their
low standard Of living, to think this matter
over owe. ana help set strong movement in opera
ton in Los Angeles.
IteLuse TO be the slaves of starvation wages
You nave noble womanhood, and to protect 81
Is your highest duty, which is Impossible ~
accomplish as individuals, but unionized as
collective body victory is yours.
Presldent-elect Taft says wage workers
nave right to organize Let us take him
at his word and proceed to organize on cor
rect lines. -
Inc working class stands ready to prove a.
every city council in this nation that bv re-
duclng the hours of labor, holdup men pettv
thlevlng and hobos would pass into historv
You foster them by building iails Lack ~
employment and poverty are highway lead
ing into every avenue Of crime
r. MACDONALD
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Exhibits for Alaska Yukon Pacific
exposition will be sent from Los An
geles April /. Apart from the exhibits
for citizens of Los Angeles the most
interesting feature Of the exposition
will be the teachers tour, conducted
under the auspices Of Los Angeles
Herald. Readers of The Herald are
invited to vote for the teachers whom
they wish to see among 1.-THE chosen"
who will visit the fair. If you have
not voted before, do it now. If you