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Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
WHITE SLAVERY

n ECAUSE we are celebrating the tri-
X umph of Good Government in Los
~ Angeles, is our work over? All
Of our readers know better. The work
of uplift has only been begun, and
what has been accomplished in Los
Angeles gives the friends and cham
pions Of Americanism courage to go
FORWARD, ONWARD, UPWARD!
Excelsior!
What a frightful state OF affairs is
revealed by the statement of DR. John
T. Zimmerman, president Of the Ma
tional White Cross league! He re-
ports: "At $500 head, the average
price of negro girls on the auction block
fifty years ago, the 100000 white slaves
in the United States represent an in
vestment Of S540OO0,000 Each year
67,OOO-or $12OOOO,OOO worth-of these
women are sacrificed in the highly
financed districts Of vice throughout
the country, and an equal number of
recruits are procured each year to take
the places of those who have worn
themselves out and died in SIM"
This is SLAVERY. There is no other
word for it,
Moral, social and economical i'm
provement is very urgently needed in a
nation which every year sends $1,000
of it's women, whom it ought to cherish
and protect, to be DAMNED WHILE
YET ON EARTH.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
CHAMP CLARK

~ HAAIP CLARK OF Missouri the
Democratic leader in congress, is
~ man who has been improved by
age and is eXemplifying in the maturity
Of his powers his early promise. Champ
is as distinctly a ccharacter' as is
Theodore Roosevelt Anyone who meets
him or hears him talk knows he is "A
separate man, an individual entity,
differing from the rank and file of our
human brotherhood by the possession
of the initiative energy known as
originality.
His views Of Americanism are robust
and old fashioned. He knows the
thoughtful men of today are not ask
ing for anything radical when they
demand a restoration Of square dealing
by the elimination OF the elements
which interfere with it.
He is one Of the great thinkers and
leaders of whose valuable services the
American public has deprived itself by
its devotion to the party system OF
government instead OF the principle
system.
While the predominant party has
produced many Americans whose serv-
ices to their country have been con-
spicuously good, there can be no doubt
our British" method OF regulating
government has been responsible for
the SUPPRESSION OF many able
American citizens no less than for
The EXPRESSION Of many able
American citizens Champ Clark rep
resents the Old Americanism and the
New South, and it is unfortunate for
the American nation its partisan sys-
TEN of elections and appointments has
prevented him from being eligible for
a more direct, aggressive and powerful
position than that of minority leader"
although we do not mean for a minute
to underrate the Importance of that
position
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
SHOP NOW

TF you have not yet attended TO your
Christmas shopping, do It now.
N This is a prosperous year Every
body wants to give presents. A tide
of merchandise is already coming
across the continent from the east to
the west, and the postofhce authori-
ties at Los Angeles report a tide is
flowing from the west to the east.
But there are a great many people
In this world who are victims Of good
intentions. They are admirable, amia-
BILE people, and they mean well. They
make resolutions to shop early but
when they go down town they cannot
make up their minds as TO their pur-
chases, or they resolve to wait until
nearer Christmas. Then, almost at
Christmas, they all go down town for
the last time, and the Christmas rush
becomes a mad scramble. The shoppers
suffer and from the wear and tear on
their nerves the store attendants are
so overworlled that the close of prep
aration for the festive season finds
them unable TO enjoy the holiday tide
played out, utterly tagged sacrificed to
the procrastinating habit of which
many Of their fellow citizens are heed
lessly guilty.
We hope all the readers Of The Her.
aid are numbered among the shop
early brigade. It is a Christmas-like
net to belong to this brigade. BY
shopping early you Will show that
with you the Christmas spirit IS a
reality and not a myth.
Good will is one Of the Christmas
lessons. The heavenly messengers pro-
claimed peace upon earth among men
of good will. All men and women Of
good will should show they are Christ
knaslike by shopping early.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
ALBERT

A LBERT, king OF the Belgians, rep
u resents the newer and truer type
"A OF manhood which will succeed
the utterly selfish type chiefly respon-
sible for the great conquests of the
nineteenth century.
Mankind having asserted his suprem-
acy over nature will again be exampled
in specimens Of the subjective and
sympathetic type and the great poet,
the great philosopher, the great novel
ist, the great theologian, all will be
twentieth century men.
Albert is one of the moderns who
refuse to take things for granted.
He is a reformer and good
government man. In order that
he might understand economic prob
lens from the viewpoint of a worker
he mingled with the workers, frater-
nized with them, wore their clothing,
ate their food. He seems to have
modelled his life somewhat on the lines
OF Peter the Great Of Russia. and with
ell his faults Peter the Great was a
better model than Leopold the Little.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
PRISON REFORM

DRISON reform evidently still holds
the boards, the latest development
being the asking of a blessing"
at meals in the Kansas state peniten-
tiary. The innovation dates, with tact
full appropriateness, from Thanksgiving
Day.
This IS the institution exposed re-
Gently by Miss Kate Barnard, state
commissioner Of charities for Oklaho-
ma, in a report which, to use Charles
Edward Russelrs phrase "rattled the
bones of two states" Miss Barnard,
in the face of strenuous official de-
malls, produced proof Of horrors that
well nigh equaled those of the Alabama
convict camps, and Mr.. Russell, writing
so lately as October last, says:
Unless within a brief time there
has been a change in the controlling
policy at this prison, the water cure
is used here, men are beaten and
strung up by the thumbs, and there
is, or once there was, an Ingenious
ly cruel device called the rack,
which seems to repeat the tortures
of medieval Europe. Some good
people in Kansas will not believe me
about this. / shall be pleased to
exhibit to them a convincing aft
davit on the subject.
We have heard it more than whis-
pered that within modern dimes the
diet at san Quentin was not such as
to evoke peans OF gratitude from the
feasters; that the beans were apt to
be mouldy, the potatoes worm eaten,
and the deep water stew" a mystery
beyond the power of man to fathom.
If So are the taxpayers, who are
charged the highest market prices, ex-
pected to give thanks?
Meanwhile, imagine a line OF some
1000 men blessing such conditions, and
consider that the one in whose name
the blessing is pronounced said, with
infinite pathos: They do but worship
me with their lips, while their hearts
are far from me-"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
GOOD GOVERNMENT

m HE triumph Of the cause of Good
Government in Los Angeles
= formed the theme of a brilliant
oratorical symposium at last nights
banquet The program of speech
making was most comprehensive, COW
ering every phase Of the great reform
movement which, beginning with city
bettermeLt will go ahead to county
betterment, state betterment and ma
tional benefit. In this movement The
Herald has been and Is a most con-
spicuous and energetic factor.
Los Angeles has had the fortune OF
being the pioneer city of the United
States in many governmental mat
ters. 1t is only natural that q city
distinguished for ability and enter
prise in other matters should use its
ability and display enterprise in it's
own methods of government. Its fu-
ture career will be watched closely by
every other city in the Union. We
have elected the officials who are
charged with the duty Of providing
good government. That they will not
disappoint the hopes and expectations
Of their fellow citizens we believe
firmly.
Looking backward, there IS cause
for congratulation and for encourage
ment. Looking forward, the con-
sciousness Of the work yet to be done
inspires new energy, nerves to further
action. for great as is the task that
has been accomplished IN the crafty
ing manner which was celebrated last
evening, greater still is the task that
must yet be performed, and for one
part Of that task, the demonstration Of
good government IN actual practice
and result in the city OF Los Angeles,
the officeholders whose election was
celebrated last evening will be held re-
sponsible by their fellow citizens.
With every official working for the
interests OF the public, with every
fduciary agent Of the people Of Los
Angeles transacting the business of
the people In a thoroughly conscien-
tious and painstaking manner, the con-
tinued prosperity and progress Of Los
Angeles are assured, and the city will
advance from achievement to achieve
ment, from victory to victory, In the
Los Angeles way.
With good government, with square
dealing, with high standards and high
ly efficient men to live up to them,
happy indeed will the new year be for
the city of our homes, our loves, our
hopes, our ambitions, our lives-BET-
TER AND GREATER LOS AN
GELES.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
DISCOVERIES

Wy the National Geographical So
X ciety's recognition Of Peary as
~ the pole discoverer, the Cook
Peary controversy viii be settled Of
iicially, but as has often happened be-
fore. a great portion of the public will
cling tenaciously 10 the belief DR..
Cook found the pole, although as he
Is a man Of peculiar temperament the
erratic way In which he is alleged to
have tried to bolster up his claim may
have prejudiced the public against
him.
In these days of plan and orSaniza-
tion the man Of haphazard genius can
not compete with tile strategist Of
method. Cooks visit 10 the pole is
not recognized as a scientific event.
The Esllimos have been at the pole
over and over again, but the claims
of Peary will never be dtscred,tod by
those of an Esquimo chief
Between Columbus and Amerigo
Vespucci there is a somewhat similar
rivalry, but the merits of both discov-
erers are recognized by the people Of
the land who sing "Hau, Columbia" a"
but call themselves Americans Let us
be thankful that one of the gentle
mems names was comparatively easy
and graceful. What If We had had to
call ourselves Nespuccians?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
Far and Wide
The Mastera

This Is the line Of march IN America: The
people everywhere are going TO make and
unmake their own laws when they are not
satisfied with the work Of their represen-
tatlyes. The amazing advance of this idea
in a single decade recalls the words of MAJ
zlnis prophecy: "And there Is that on
earth which no tyranny can long suppress
tho people-the power and future of the peo-
pie Their destiny Will be accomplished
Samson of humanity-will raise their eyes
to heaven, and with one blow OF the arm BY
which thrones are shattered. burst every
bond, break every chain. overthrow every
barrier and arise in freedom. masters of
themselves. Cincinnati Post
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
SNOW AND ICE

A LONG the line of the aqueduct Los
n Angeles owns all kinds Of snow
"a and fee, and Brother Mulholland
reports one of the canals on which a
hydraulic dredger was working is fro
zen over with fee of a uniform thick
ness Of a foot. Now, a foot Of ice
means skating, and snow on the hills
and mountains around means tobog-
gaming and bobsledding and sleigh
riding.
Jingle bells, Jingle bells, Jingle all
the way" Who says We have snow
less Christmas?
Citizens who wish to take a little
trip to the city's territory can snow
ball and sleigh and skate and sled and
toboggan. Then, refreshed by their
strenuous outing, they may return TO
the sunshine. the flowers, the balmi-
ness, the coziness, the cheeriness, the
homeyness Of Greater Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
Opportunity

Every now and then something happens
to remind Americans that the freest gov
ernment, the most liberal laws. can do no
more than provide opportunity, in public
schools or elsewhere. The final choice be-
tween use and neglect OF the advantages
placed within reach must always rest with
the Individual. or with those who are re-
sponsible for the well-b being of minors. The
fountains may be built and the waterways
how but who can make those drink who
are not thirsty ?-San Jose Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18

Washington will provide more light
for California coast navigators. The
measures taken to make the coast
safer than It has been will help mari
time prosperity. San Pedro harbor
is the safest as we'll as one Of the most
commodious in the United States. But
every hartor and every part Of the
long coast line should be made as safe
as science and skill can make it.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
The State Press
New York Hustlinq

Meanwhile the project to create the metro
polten district OF New York by uniting nine
teen cities and towns along the shores Of
Newark bay, the Hudson river and New York
bay shows that the metropolis IS by no
means willing TO permit encroachment of
other cities upon her position as the leading
American. port without putting forth at least
the necessary effort to maintain this position.
San Jose Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
Mexican Profits

One L. S. Smith Of Tippecanoe City. Ohio,
has caused to be sent out a pamphlet called
THE Truth About Mexico" Needless TO
say, It Is a glorious defense Of Daz against
the charges brought by John Kenneth irur-
uer in the American Magazine. Mr.. Smith is
vitality interested in Mexico-and more In the
profits he is able TO make there by reason
OF the system OF slavery that prevails there.
-Klngsburg Recorder.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
AT THE THEATERS

AUDTTORIUM--"The Bachelor"
kIAsON-"Three Twins"
BURBANK Elmo"
BELASCO-'TThe Master Key"
NfAJESTIC-"The Spoilers"
RPHEUM-Vaudeyil
GRAND-"The Belle OF New York"
Los NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
ONIQUE-Melodram
Musical burlesoue.
OLYMPIC-Musical burlesque.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18

Boost Aviation Week. Write your
friends about 1t, Talk to them about
it. To your friends in other cities
throughout the United States send
marked copies Of The Herald. Help
the good work. Aviation Week must
be the biggest success in the history
Of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
Kiplingual

Many Americans chafe at the cost of con-
quest and dominion they think with Lin
coin that mo man is good enough to govern
another man without that other mans con-
sent; they are averse TO mountang milf
tarlsln; they are irritated by silly maga-
zine stories in Kiplingese about young
anglo Saxon" demigods seven feet tall who
rule "our island wards" with supernal Yalor
and wisdom.-New York World,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
Cruelty

Any physician who sends a person to the
southwest without sufficient funds. or in
an advanced dying stage of the Illness
is guilty OF cruelty to his patient. Renewed
efforts are being made to stop this practice
and to encourage the building of small local
hospitals in every city and town of the
country Attempts are also being made in
Southern California and in Texas to exclude
INDECENT consumptives Or to send them back
to the east.-Pacifc Medical Journal
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
Careful Chinaman

Bill: 1t is said that a Chinaman res
cued from drowning is compelled to
support his rescuer for the rest of hrs
life"
Jill: "That's the reason, ] suppose, q
Chinese laundryman is so careful, when
sprinkling clothes with water projected
from the mouth, not to have it hit one
of his fellow workmen ?"-Yonkers
Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
Edltor,s checkered Life

The editor Of a local paper Is often un-
Justly censured for his mistakes. The Won
der IS that he does not make more Of them.
on the average paper he must deal with all
Kinds OF subjects. give the names, dates.
etc one hour he may be engaged In re-
porting a religious meeting and the next
drawing the F.cture Of a fight -spreckels
Courier.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
Labor Union philanthropy

The labor unions are finding = new field OF
effort and one which Is enlisting popular
sympathy, IN their campaign for better san
itary conditions for the workers and also Tor
the abatement Of the evils OF tuberculosis.
The Brooklyn Central Labor union has just
obtained a permit TO erect a hospital for tu-
berculosis patients near Medford, Long Island.
Oakland ENQUIRER.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
Poultryocracy

Two million dollars are distributed among
the poultry rasers OF Petaluma each year.
This is a neat little sum TO come into
community from such source. And yet
there are hundreds of communities where
the poultry business would do as well If
the ranchers would turn their attention in
that direction Morgan Hill Times
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18

We are glad to see the Republican
papers of the American and Good Gov
ernment type share our views as to
President Taft's Bowery speech, which,
by the way has had the excellent ef-
feet of calling the attention of the
nation to the conditions which made
It a somewhat bizarre specimen Of
oratory.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
Church Mission

Surely for the church there can be no
nobler mission than that of leadership in
this great effort to eliminate tuberculosis
A great part of the life OF Jesus, the
Nazarene was spent in healing the sick
The church has too greatly neglected this
phase of his work, And now. through the
anti tuberculosis fight, the opportunity is
offered OF healing the sick, not a man
here. woman there. but literally every
where.--Palo Alto Tribune,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
a Christmas Carol

Christmas shopping time is at hand. Mer7
chants polishing up their blandest
smiles and their heartiest handshakes Other
troubles may come and other troubles may
go, but Christmas is sure to nail us every
year 1t is the happy harvest time OF the
merchant. Why should he not give at least
a smile for our money y2-San jose Mercury,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
Farming

What proper methods OF farming mean. now
that there is complaint from one end of the
land 10 the other over the increasing cost
OF living. may be judged frora the fact that
we have now. according to Professor Hays,
So 100000 of farm people 6,000OO0 farms.
with a farm property worth nearly $50 00O.
0OO, 900 and yearly product worth upward Of
50, 900, 600 000'-San Jose Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18

Last school day Of 1903 was yester-
day and the happy children devoted
1t to celebration of the Merry Yuie
Tide. Los Angeles is the finest school
city in the United Stttes. Our chill
dren are the best in the world.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
pemocracX in Spain

Even reactionary Spain must bend TO the
onward march Of democracy, and a radical
measure has been proposed by Premier Moret
for the reform OF municipal administration
which aims at the decentralization of power
palities Oakland Enquirer.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
Games That Pay

Big games certainly pay well from a hnan-
cial standpoint. Stanford's share of the re-
ceipts of the Stanford California game amount
ed to Sl3,57350. California's share must have
been nearly as much. and the railroads must
have raked off enough more to have made
the grand total on account of the big game
rot less than S5O,000-Pao Alto Citizen.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18

Shop early. The earlier you do your
shopping the better you will be satis-
fed; and you will make Christmas
conditions much easier for the en-
ployes Of the big stores.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18

Good government success means
hard work ahead for the elected Off
cials. But they are equal to the task,
and we predict for them brilliant and
naWless success.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
Only Four

A Bakersfield woman became very indig-
suits against her husbands She denies the
charge, and says 1t was only four. If it
was four divorces instead of Ave we don't
vance.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
CoaIinua,s Invocation

When Coalinga made her bid Of 100000
for the Jenries-J ohnson hght she made 1t in
good faith and has the money to back up
her bid, So disabuse your mind, Willie
Wake Up Sneeze and get the dust off Of
your brains. Come out Of that trance and
begin to realize what is going on about you.
-Coalinga Times
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
Concentration

According to Senator La Toilette the
business of the United States is rapidly
concentI ating into the control OF less than
a hundred men. all but fourteen of whom
are dummies, and oven these fourteen are
dominated BY two. who are now acting as
one. in ether words. the control of Ameri-
can Industries Is rapidly concentrating into
what amounts to a single hand.--Fresno
Eepublican.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
pannernus Exneriment

Texas twins have been named Cook and
Peary. Trust those fond parents have not
unwittingly perpetuated the Cain and Abel
feud.-San Diego Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
All After Ed

"Dr. MT Sun-Wm you do a bunch OF
girls u favor? VIII you please find out for
us IL Conductor Ed Reinhart of the Cuya-
maca road is married. We did not the
license in the paper. Please oblge bunch
Of girls."-La Mesa Eagle.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
RIaht Face

SheAIt is said that seven out of ten
recruits in Russia are illiterates.
He-I suppose If an officer said to
one of these recruits. Right face"
the recruit couldn't write it-Yonkers
Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
Followed 1t, Perhaps

IL can't understand why Brown
should have failed"
Nor can 1. 1 always thought he was
doing nicely. He often came to me for
advice. e."-Detroit Free Press.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18

Los Angeles has many superb ora
tors. This was shown by the addresses
at the Good Government banquet We
have battery of public speakers Of
higher average excellence than can he
produced and put into action by any
other city in the world
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
Haute EcoIe Eauestrianism

The man who never rode a pet hobby
does not know the Joys of the equestrian
art.-Humboldt Standard.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
Still Considerable

Thers was a time when a hundred thou
sand collars seemed like a good deal of
money. Come think of it. is seems SO
yGt.-Escond,de Times Advocate.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18

Good government is the Yule Tide
guest of Greater Los Angeles. And
he has come to stay.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18

We guess the world realizes by this
time what THE LOS ANGELES
WAY" means.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
Hearing the TRUMP

Agnes-L don't like to play bridge
with Mrs. Blank. She's so deaf that
she never hears the declaration.
Gladys-Of course she doesn't. She'll
never even hear Gabriers trump
Puck
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
How to Find Out

once more Germany denounces that Mon
roe doctrine as useless If It Will only start
something It may find out differently
Philadelphia Inquirer
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
Mug Work

Yeast-In Greece, outside of Athens,
the barber performs the functions OF
the dentist to the extent of pulling
teeth.
Crimsonbeak--Oh | see They do
all kinds of mug" work!--Yonkers
Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
Rnsv Pension AGENTS

The pension rolls lost 51,5S names during
the last fiscal year. but the next congress
win see that these vacancies are flled.-
Houston Post.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
Before the Shower

shem-You'd better get ready for tho
flood. brother!
Iaphet-Did father say this way the day
for the beginning of the rain?
Shem-Not in 30 many words, but he
went out minus his umbrella Puck.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18
The HumOriStS
Sounds Strange

oouhuS strange
Bacon-What's the matter with your
friend? Has he failed?
Egbert-Sure; gone up!
What was the trouble?
Building too many airships that
wouldn't fly.-Yonkers Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18

Population Los Angeles 327,685
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-18

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