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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-12-30
oood Wnl.

Have coed will to all that lives, let
ting unkindness die and greed and
wrath; so that your lives be made
like soft airs passing by Edwin Ar
mold, Light Of ASIA
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-12-30

Opportunity knocks occasionally
at every mans door," said Uncle
Eben; but if you sits aroun' in de
rockin' chair Waitin' for it you's pref
ty sure to fall asleep an miss it."
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-12-30

f, When a man boasts much about his
high instep it is a sign that he doesn't
worry much about the height of his
forehead.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-12-30

When women are bad they are
worse than men; but for one bad wo-
man do not like to say how many
bad men can be found Geo. Elliott,
x C..
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-12-30
The Ace of Poesv.

According to recent lecturer one
must be 40 to read poetry After
which. it is assumed, he may read it
like sixty
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-12-30
Love and LAUGHTER,

The people who laugh are the people
who love, and those who laugh most
love intensely.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-12-30

love children and their society and
| would stand on my head for them
II it would do them any good. Bishop
Of Chichester.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-07
Big Firm Pension Employees
After Long Term OF Service

AZ ERMANY has had a comprehen-
1T sive workingmen's pension sys-
W tenn since 1899. 1t is compulsory
on all workingmen and all CONNER
cial clerks, teachers and tutors whose
salaries do not exceed $500 a year. The
total number now insured is consider
ably in excess of 13,000,00 Great
Britain, influenced by German exam
pie, has made provision for old age
pensions, but in a different way. In
Germany employers and employees con-
tribute equal amounts. In Great Brit
ain neither contributes anything, the
entire expense being assumed by the
state. AS is usual with experimental
legislation, difficulties present them
slves, now that the system is being
put in operation. Time and experience
will overcome them.
In the United States, says the Chi
cago Tribune, there has been no leg
islation on the subject, and practically
no demand for any. The matter has
been left, and not altogether in vain,
to individual initiative. One great en-
ployer of labor after another, now a
railroad and now an industrial cor
poration, has established pension
system for it's employees. The last to
do SO is the packing firm Of Morris
& Co. Its 10000 employees will now
have better opportunity to make pro-
vision for old age.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-07
GAMBLING

MT OF ONLY the state of California,
but every state in the Union,
~ knows race track gambling will
be one Of the subjects considered at
Sacramento, and the prestige of Cali
fornla will be added unto greatly if
the legislature should adopt and the
governor sign an anti-race track gam
bling measure. FreqTenters of race
tracks make the assertion racing is a
real sport. Persons who are not fire.
quenters of race tracks are sensible,
and not bigoted, and are willing to
admit there are few sights more ex-
citing and exhilarating than the spec
tacle of a neck and neck line of fine
horses coming laundering down the
home stretch. But under present con-
ditions the horses and the riders are
second in interest to artificial and de-
moralizing gambling on the results of
the races.
The bookies are persons of more i'm
portance than the jockeys, and the odds
quoted distract attention from that
noble creature, the thoroughbred race
horse. An anti-race track gambling
measure will not kill genuine racing"
If there is merit in the plea of fire.
quenters of the tracks, that they go to
the races for the sake of contests of
speed and endurance, and not for the
purpose of gambling, anti-race track
gambling legislation will not affect the
sport Of kings as it is called, and
will not interfere with the breeding
or sale of race horses.
If those who attend race tracks do
so for the sake of the horses and of
the races, the crowds who "go to see
the ponies run" will be as great as
ever. There cannot be any doubt that
many people attend horse races
through love of the horse. For such
the prospect of an an anti-race track
gambling law has no terrors. And
since gambling is a prolific parent of
evils which afflict and disturb So
ciety, no right-minded person can OBJ
ject to a policy of dealing with race
track gambling with rigor and vigor
in the manner indicated by the old
woodman's injunction: "Hew to the
line, let the chips fall where they may"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-07
THE MAN WITH THE HAT

with apologies to Edwin Markham
Puffed with the pride of rectitude he struts
Beneath his hat and humbles all the street.
The glossy tile Of London his head
And on his back the coat deemed worthiest.
Who reads the secret of the high silk hat?
Whence comes its power to give it's wearer
peace
And make him like brother to the cock
Whose conscious glory fills him, top to toe g?
Is this the Thing deliberate thought has
planned
To be the sign Of aristocracy-
This cylinder of shiny black that tops
The vacuous heads of fashions chosen few,
And makes each owner walk as one aware
He is no common humdrum citizen?
In all the records Of conventional man
Since garb began to count for more than brain,
There is no Shape more terrible than this
More agonizing to the subject skull,
More hideous of outline, sure
A prey to rain and wind and accident!
Yet this tall hat is a talisman,
A thing to conjure with, a badge of pridei
o masters of the hat trade of the world.
Is this the best your genius could devise?
Since hats must be- is this your masterpiece?
o arbiters of fashion, in that day
When all must~answer for their earthly Deeds
How will IL be with you when Man shall rise
And point to this dumb Horror on his head
And camor vengeance for his sufferings?
Puck.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-07
EXPLAINS HIS CONTENTION
REGARDING POWER OF MIND

SATICOY, Jan. 4.-EEditor Herald:
That all those physical forces 1 have
named in previous letters are phe-
nomenon producing cause must, in the
very necessities of true science and of
the relations of cause and effect, be a
substantial entity.
We have seen what matter is, that
In and of itself has no life. no power
OF action, dependent wholly on some
other force; how about this mind mat
ter we read about? The human mind,
the invisible substance, is the only force
IN nature that can examine ITSELF
watch its own action, study it's own
power, look at it's source, its purpose
and its destiny and ascribe for itself
a course of action for its own i'm
proVement and for the attainment of
definite effects and results.
1t is the only force that has origin
atlng, designing, eXerting, directing and
controlling pOWer-all the other forces
are mere agencies without any power
or control over their own actions Life
ana mind are active operating ener-
Sles, the real; not mere effects.
MIND is able to ascertain and know
that 1T has certain faculties and powers
not found in anything else in nature
and that all reasoning, theorizing and
speculation about itself is it's own ex-
elusive work. Mind or spiritual en-
ergy IS the only. source and power in
man that can originate, create and
develop. AS the immateriaI is the real
substance in the universe and the ma
terlal is but the effect of the real 50
also thought, mind, life and soul the
real in man. s II T,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-07
RACE TRACK GAMBLING ONLY
MINOR FORM OF SPECULATION

LOS ANGELES, jan 4.-TEditor
Herald: Although some Of Us may
doubt the possibility of putting an end
to gambling by legislation 1 think it
will be accepted generally by thought-
full men and women that it is vice
Wmch should be discouraged. SYM
patny with the crusade against race
track betting. therefore, may be felt bv
those who, like myself, detest every
thlng that smackS of Puritanism
But, II 1t is to have our support the
crusade must go much farther than the
gentlemen who have started it seem
to propose.
I for one have no taste for cunning
Tor the small sinner and letting the big
rascal go unScathed. | will not de-
nOunce the poor department clerk. who
sees no chance of making a stake save
by some fortunate bet, and at the same
time enthuse over the virtuous pose of
his employer, who, while denouncing
the race track, has himself set that
clerk an example by making his own
fortune in speculation.
Los Angeles huns with these men
men who have made big stakes mainly
through a speculation that is ten thou
sand times more mischieVous than that
OF the race track. I allude to the spec
ulatiOn in land, and | say it is ten
thousand times more mischievous. for
it results in placing the great inheri-
lance of the race out of the reach of
all save the wealthy few. It's gains are
unearned, every dollar Of them.
The clerk CANDLES at the race track,
and rObs himself alone. The real estate
gambler rObs US all, and builds up that
monopoly with which California in par
ticular is cursed.
If stone throwing is in order pro-
pose that we begin with those whose
house is of most ubiquitous and blood
stained glass. ECONOMIST.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-07
JUVENILE CRIME

nj OST distressing feature in all of
N the distressing features Of the
49, MITCHELL hayer case is the
youth Of all concerned. Look for the
woman in the case," says a cynical
French proverb, but in this case there
is not a woman. There is only a slip
Of girl-a 16-year-old missile. The
gallant in this tragedy Of immaturity
was q boy, who when pleading for his
life with his assassin Familiarity ad-
dressed him as BILLY"
What right have we, members Of
society, to allow children to obtain pos
session Of murderous weapons? Where
did the boy assassin get the revolver he
used? How many boys Of Los Angeles
go armed? Will the average pawn
shop salesman sell a revolver to boy?
We take it for granted the regular"
dealers would not.
Nothing more woeful than this slay-
ing of Thayer has happened in Los
Angeles in modern times. In any east
ern city such a crime would be the
sensation Of the day. How CHASTITY IT
is to reflect that all concerned in the
case are young! From time to time
pedagogues, sociologists and statisti-
clans who have been delving among the
court and prison reports utter warn
ings as to the increase Of juvenile crime
in the United States.
1t is a result of lack Of school train
ing; lack of discipline. Every life in
volved in the pitiful and painful story
on which we are commenting was dis
orderly and undisciplined, and the COM
munity is to blame. We must turn
over new leaf in the United States,
and during the next ten years care for
and look after and train the boys and
girls of the nation better than they
have been cared for and looked after
and trained during the ten years of the
reign of Greed and Gradgrind.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-07
VICTORY FOR EDUCATION
:" ITH their customary care for the
w best interests Of the city and
with unfailiner annreciati ton of

:" ITH their customary care for the
w best interests Of the city and
with unfailing appreciation of
the value Of education in the life of
community, the citizens of Los An
geles voted the school bonds. The adj
ditional schools and educational equip
ment needed in our city will now be
provided, and we rejoice to be able to
say "children's rights will be safe
guarded by adequate provision for boys
and girls who wish to fit themselves
for the battle of life. The slogan of
those who advocated the school bonds
was: 1--WE need the schools and must
have them, If the children Of Los An
geles are to have a square deal and
undeniable necessity is a forceful and
undeniable argument, and it carried
persuasion to the voters, who showed
their appreciation of what constitutes
prosperity for a community.
We believe the news that Los An
printed in practically all the leading
newspapers of the United States, and
without doubt will make a deep and
favorable impression on the people of
this country
That the bonds should be defeated
was unthinkable. We congratulate the
citizens of this great, progressive, met
ropolitan city on their public spirit,
their courage and their unfailing devo-
ton to the tried and true principles of
Arnericanism. Prosperous, indeed, will
be the new year, which has been begun
SO happily and SO auspiciously by an
example of courageous, responsible and
conscientious citizenship which will
win for Los Angeles the warm good
will of every thinking man and woman
in all the land. AS for those who don't
think-well, we don't care what they
say. We guess we can worry along
without their good will, and we GER
tainly bear them no i'll will. Nelson's
motto might have been that of Los
Angeles yesterday-'Los Angeles ex-
poets every man this day to do his
duty" And willingly and nobly and
enthusiastically did our citizens re-
spond to Duty's call.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-07
ANGELES HERALD: THURSDAY MORNING. JANUARY 1909
GILLETT'S DISCOVERY

n ETTER late than never is Governor
n Gillett's discovery that the ques-
= ton of transportation is a most
important one in this state; that
common carrier, possessing certain
franchises and privileges granted by
the sovereign power Of a state, which
others do not enjoy, is A PUBLIC
SERVANT whose duty it is to serve
every member of the public alike; and
that no favors or benefits should be
extended to one which others are not
to receive, as this will give the favored
one an undue advantage over his COM
petitors in business which he ought not
to enjoy
In order that his message may not
be mistaken for public censure Of the
railroad commissioners, the governor
finds some excuse for their ineff1ciency,
saying there should be more liberal
appropriation for their uses than has
been made in the past. There must
not be a lack of funds if the commits
sioners are EXPECTED to vigorously
enforce the law" Now, why shouldn't
they be EXPECTED to vigorously en-
force the law? LAS to the amount re-
quired," adds the governor, 1.-The COM
mtssioners and attorney general can
give the necessary information, but it
should be sufficient to enable the Of
f1cers Of the law to properly enforce it."
Surely. No one will dissent from this,
and we find ourselves also agreeing
most cordially with the governors
statement: THE penalties fixed for the
violation of the law should be suf-
ficiently large to insure it's observance,
and to Justly punish those who
break it,
Readers Of The Herald have found in
its editorial columns articles in which
almost the same words repeated by the
governor were used. But what is puz-
cling, is the apparent sluggishness of
the conscience of of1cialdom. If high
official anxiety with regard to discip-
lining unruly railroad public servants"
and making them walk In the path of
Righteousness had been manifested
earlier, perhaps the sleeping sickness
might never have overtaken the COM
missioners. Perhaps they might never
have reminded the public of the person
in the song who lay dreaming, dreaming
the happy hours away. We would not be
surprised if the official conscience had
been stimulated into activity by the
news Of the railroad freight rates gouge.
An increase in rates would cause
sharp revival of public interest in the
art and science Of rebating; and no
doubt the governor Is wise enough to
foresee an impending renewal of the
railroad controversy and to make the
businesslike suggestion: IF our present
laws do not meet the conditions exist
ing, that is, if they are not broad
enough and far-reaching enough to pre-
vent rebates and Determinations, then
under the constitution the legislature
has the power to enact laws that will
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-07

If the packing plant were, in Ger
many every employe, no matter how
small his pay, would have to be taken
in. The Chicago firm bars out all who
get less than $40 a week-the unskilled,
casual laborers. In Germany $40 q
week is made the maximum as to
clerks. Under the German law a man
must have worked continuously for
thirty years and have reached the age
Of 20 to claim a pension for incapacity
arising from old age. Morris & Co.
make the years of service twenty and
the age for retiring So. The maximum
pension in Germany is about $50 year.
The Chicago minimum will be about
ten times that. The men who come
within the scope of one of these
American old age pension plans fare
much better than the German workers.
They are but a small percentage of
the wOrkingmen of the country. While
other great employers Of labor will
one by one make provision for old age
pensions, a host of workers will have
to provide them for themselves. The
savings bank insurance and pension
plan now in successful operation in
Massachusetts holds out to them op-
portunities of which they should avail
themselves wherever possible. Neither
the compulsory legislation of Germany
nor the state aid legislation Of Great
Britain is likely to be copied in this
country.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-07
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CRITICS
IGNORANT OF TEACHINGS

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5.-[Editor Her
add: It is an exceedingly difficult
matter to discuss Christian Science
with those who haye been misinformed
in regard to it's teachings
Under such conditions argument is
of course, improbable, but in several
communications to your paper criti-
cisms are made which are so very in
correct and unjust as to require cor
rectiOn,
One critic objects to the Christian
Science Interpretation Of the Scriptures,
yet it is this that enables those who
disease after all other methods have
failed,
BY means of this Interpretation men
and women are being constantly re-
deemed from the ravages of disease
and sin, freed from the appetite of al
cohol, drugs and tobacco, made better
fathers, mothers and citizens, and, bet
ter still, sincere and practical Chris
tians.
Theories and criticisms do not count
I'VE shall know them by their fruits"
Another critic makes the positive
statement that Christian Science ac-
complishes its results through sugges-
ton. This is just the reverse Of the
fact. Christian Science does not use
suggestion in any way. On the con-
trary, its practice destroys the power
of suggestion.
Christian Science heals through a
spiritual understanding of God and
His laws and their intelligent, applica-
ton. This perception of Truth which
dispels error is the very opposite Of the
modus operandi of suggestion.
w. E. BROWN,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-07
PACIFIC AND PANAMA

EN VIDENCES Of discrimination
H. against the Pacific coast in the
- matter of proposals for material
and supplies for the Panama canal are
too plain to leave any room for doubt.
Il is the disagreeable truth that efforts
have been made and are being made
to give to the eastern states the money
which will be expended for incidentals
in connection with canal construction
and this is a case where 'incidentals"
represent very large sum.
A news paragraph says: ION Deem
Der Il the general purchasing agent of
the Isthmian canal commission re-
ceived proposals from 169 different bid
ders for furnishing material and sup
plies for the Panama canal. Each and
all were from firms located in the
eastern states. Evidently the time has
not arrived for the Pacific coast to be
recognized in the matter" When will
the time arrive? Never, unless the
Pacific coast takes action Of a kind
that will bring about recognition. Here
is a new task for our ever-faithful and
Jealous chambers of commerce.
Here also is an opportunity for our
senators and representatives to exhibit
their loyal devotion to the interests of
the west. Of all the vagaries of which
any portion of a great nation has ever
been guilty the studious effort of the
eastern section of the United States
to ignore, belittle and entreat despite
fully the Pacific coast has surely been
the smallest and the most absurd. To
attempt to make a stepchild of Cali
fornia-as important a state in the
west as New York is in the east
shows a weakness somewhere in the
domestic management Of Uncle Sans
household.
California and the Pacific coast
should be encouraged in every way
possible to take part actively in the
work of the canal. If the canal is not
California enterprise, at any rate it
is one that has been more boosted.
talked about, advertised and advocat-
ed in California than in any other
state. AS for the Atlantic states, they
simply sat and sulked when the canal
was mentioned until someone whis-
PSlSu IudI mere WOulQ De a Cnanco to
beat the railroad rates. Then they
began to display interest in the project
and evidently ceased to regard it from
the exasperatingly narrow point of
view which saw in the canal only an
attempt on the part of the Pacific
coast to secure some of the traffic
which at present benefits the Atlantic
seaboard and the transcontinentaI rail-
roads.
Some sad experiences with railroad
magnates, combines and rates have
taught them that if Pacific coast COM
petition is to be regarded as an evil,
railroad rapacity is worse evil, and
of two evils they prefer the less. But
how fantastic and un-American it is
to talk Of the growth of new section
of the United States as an evil" We
are glad breadth of mind has sue
ceeded narrowness, that Americanism
has replaced provincialism. But this
change for the better does not excuse
concomitant business greed which
would gobble up all the earnings and
distribution of money resulting from
canal work. Brethren, let's have a
square deal
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-07
SAYS WORKERS ARE NOT
GIVEN RIGHT OF FRANCHISE

SAN PEDRO, Jan. 3.-[Editor Her
add: How can an international po-
liticaI party of the working class abol-
ish capitalism and operate industries
without sacrificing the lives of its
members in their determined attempt
to succeed, realizing the fact that some
nations have no political franchise, full
or limited? Such is true of Russia,
China and other Asiatic countries. The
political franchise in European cOun-
tries is limited. The men wage workers
of single nation cannot all vote,
owing to technical causes. Take this
country, for example. Voters are dis
Moving from one state to another, one
from three to six months; one ward
to another, sixty days or more;
one precinct to another, thirty days.
To cap the climax, during election year
men are continually discharged in all
industries, driven from pillar to post
without any hope of ever being en-
franchised? One class owns and con-
trolls the ballot box. How many CEN
turtles will it take to emancipate the
working class by being counted out
every election?
And finally, Mr.. Editor, I thank you
for your former favor and consider The
Herald the coming champion that
is not afraid to voice the sentiment Of
all your able editorials. May your
Letter Box be a grand educator of
the masses, showing them the true
cause of their suffering and the true
Way out as the correct remedy.
R. MACDONALD.