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Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
EMPHASIZES ADVANTAGES OF
HARBoR FOR LOS ANGELES

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 6.-[Editor
Herald: The article on "Harbors" in
today's columns of The Herald is most
oppOrtune and should be kept before
the people of Southern California con-
tlnuouSly 1t is, as you say, mo har-
Dor on the coast is of more Importance
to California and the nation than is
San Pedro"
The possibilities of this harbor sur
pass any other on the coast. By dredg-
ing the sloughs at East San Pedro a
deep canal can be constructed almost
to the city gates, providing from fifty
to 100 miles of docks, accommodating
shipping of deepest draughts. The open
seaway at the entrance of San Pedro
admits the docking of ships at any
season or tide.
The opening of the Panama canal will
bring to this port such a tonnage that
will tax any accommodation we can
possibly provide by that time. The time
for action, interest and effort is at
hand; it behooves our chamber of COM
merce and other industrial OrganiZa-
tions to "get busy or our port will not
be ready to meet the commercial de-
mands that the opening of the Panama
canal will force on us. By that tire
the production of Southern California
will be doubled nearly and must find a
market through the harbor of San
Pedro and the Panama canal. All this
means large accommodation in wharf
age and warehouse facilities.
The city by its vote on the amend
ments can now push these very neces-
sary public improvements that a
Greater Los Angeles must have, and
will, with its taxable growth, provide
the money needed. The board of public
works could have department OF
docks or new department be estab-
lished which will facilitate the growth
and immense Importance Of the port OF
Greater Los Angeles.
HENRY FLEETWOOD.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
CLAIMS VETERANS HAVE BEEN
WRONGLY DROPPED FROM ROLL

LOMPOC, Feb. 2.-[Editor Herald:
Eighty soldiers of the Mountaineer bat
talon, organized in 1863 to uueu an
Indian outbreak in Northern California.
are reported as having been dropped
from the pension rolls, as they were
not in active service against the south
ern Confederacy. To continue them on
the pension rolls might leave, it was
thought, an opening for all the ma
tlonal guards to get pensions.
Ihls is fallacy, a strained construc-
tlon and an unjust ruling. I have no
personal interest in the matter, but like
to see fair play. Only few newliving
know as well as I do the hard service
those soldiers had to perform. Stay-at-
home national guards and soldiers
hunting and fighting Indians in the
mountains are not on the same footing.
About $4,000 California volunteers, in
Guiding myself, except five companies
attached. to the Second Massachusetts
cavalry, were not in active service
against the southern Confederacy; but
we had long, hard marches, as every
Indian tribe from the Missouri river to
the Pacific ocean was on the warpath,
aided and abetted by Mormons and
secessionists.
AS one of company A, Third Califor-
MIA volunteers, I marched on foot in
five years nearly 10000 miles in Cali
fornia, Nevada, Utah, idaho, Colorado
and Wyoming
Company A, Third California volun-s
teers, hunted Indians in Northern CALI
fornia' in 1862, killed or captured over
500, and on being ordered to march to
Utah to aid in curbing the refractory
disloyal and rebellious spirit of the
Mormons the citizens Of Eel River
valley presented company A with d
satin flag that cost 5000.
| The flag is now in the Agricultural
hall in Stockton Cal.
DANIEL MALONEY.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
DEMAGOGISM

II ENOWNED for the common sense
n, which it has displayed at all
crises in its wonderful history,
it cannot be imagined the Japanese ma
ton will now mistake for the voice Of
the American people the shrieks of the
cheap demagogues who have tried in
vain to make political capital by at
tempting to arouse the animosity OF
Americans against the great ''little
brown men" and by endeavoring to
enact un-American, unjust, insulting
legislation.
President Roosevelt's wishes with re-
gard to obnoxious measures proposed
by small-minded nincompoops who can
not see beyond the ends of their short
noses should be respected. The govern
ment of the United States objects to
the irritating anti-Japanese measures
proposed by some of our politicians
either in stupid ignorance, of treaty
rights and international obligations
and understandings or in contempt o1
them.
We believe the statesmen of Japan
are too well posted on the true in
wardness' of American political life
to take umbrage at the mistakes of
California politicians. The wishes of
President Roosevelt are those of the
vast majority of self-respecting Ameri-
can citizens and the school bill must
be TURNED DOWN. The honor of
the United States demands that it
shall be defeated beyond hope of re-
vival, and the honor of California de-
mands that, having defeated it, we for
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

Friday Morning club, one of the best
known, most representative and inf1u-
entail Of Los Angeles organizations,
is taking an active interest in the move
ment for the redemption of the city
from the reign of officially counte-
nanced vice. With the sympathies of
the noble women who compose the
membership of the Friday Morning
club enlisted in behalf Of civic right
eousness, the campaign for cleanliness
will be conducted vigorously until a
mayor who will represent the BEST in
terests of this great city is elected.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
REPUBLICS FOUNDERS COULD
NOT FORECAST MODERN LIFE

POMONA, Feb. 6.-[Editor Herald:
w. H. Steel errs when he says that
the Socialist party has crumbled and
fallen of it's own weight. He speaks
of Bible plan of government which,
he says, differs from the one l men,
toned, namely, the abolition Of profit,
which proves the Bible to be a miser-
ably poor reference book The Bible
contains writings of men whose ideas
conflict, and its history is traditional
and therefore contradictory.
Inc founders of our government may
nave been, as Mr.. Steel says, wise and
good men," but they were so ONLY 10
their own class-that is. to the wealthy
Ihey did not prohibit slavery chattel
or wage They had not in mind the
man IN tolls for any other purpose than
exploitation. Nor have any of today's
WVorld-to-an-end prophets or Coming Of
the Lordists.
1t is very foolish to talk about a
perfect government that will stay so
tnougn conditions change. Conditions
VIII always keep changing. The condi-
tion and the stage of todays civiliza-
Iloh differ from that which existed
When our government was founded IT
is asking too much of it's founders to
make laws to fit conditions of which.
lhey knew nothing, or laws to prevent
something they could not dream of
Ihere can be no everlasting rule in hu-
man government.
Mr.. Steel cannot see the machine
huge though it be. He thinks that it
Is land monopoly alone that causes
poverty and misery. I wish I cou1d
noId up the machine and it's owners. to
MI SteePs view so he could see them.
IL every unemployed were given land
and tools to work the land, would that
40 away with poverty and misery? No.
1t could not under capitalism. This as,
sertlon may be too strong for a weak
| stomach, but prove it wrong he who
cdh' CHAS. U. WHITE.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
DIRECT PRIMARIES

A RIDERS have been issued from the
~ Southern Pacific political bureau
to defeat the direct primaries bill
not restricted in it's operations. If it
is good to make local nominations of
local Importance by direct primaries, it
is equally good to make nominations
or more than local Importance by di-
rect primaries. If the direct primary
is good nominating method in one
case, it is a good nominating method
in other cases and in all cases. Every
Improvement in systems Of communi-
cation and of transit is a new argu-
ment in favor of restoring government
to the direct control of the people, be-
cause it is indisputable that the mod
ern convention system was the result
of obstacles which made more demo
cratic and direct methods of nominal
ing candidates for office difficult, i'm
practicable or impossible.
The present system of nominating
and electing a president is relic OF
stage coach days, when the people OF
IIlS OHIlCQ OldlCS, hAtOIIAS ~ hAiPioO
ticablc to vote directly for the chief
executive, sent delegates to the elec-
toral college. American visitors to
Great Britain think it is odd or funny
to see a meaningless kings mace laid
on the great table in parliament, but
perhaps a visitor from a younger coun-
try than ours-a New Zealander, fol
instance-might smile at some Of oul
archaic methods, to which we cling ir
defiance of telephone, telegraph, mo-
tor car and "thunderbolt" express
trains.
The people Of the United States are
realizing at last that existing condi-
tions are in many respects the result
of circumstances which are as obso-
lete as the steering gear of Noah's ark
But out of these obsolete conditions
arose machine government, and it is
only natural that machines and corpo-
rations which dread the people should
fight against the restoration of the first
principles of Americanism, among
which is the popular control of gov
ernment
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

Resolutions were adopted by the City
club urging the amendment of the state
ative provision, similar to that in Los
Angeles city charter. The reform leav-
en- of Los Angeles is not little leavep,
but big leaven, and it will Heaven The
whole lump" The state and the nation
will both be Influenced in the right di-
rection by the progressive spirit shown
by Los Angeles, and by the courage
with which our citizens, after they are
sure they. are RIGHT, always GO
AHEAD.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
DON'T PATRoNIZE MEN OR
THINGS THAT YOU DISLIKE

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 3.-[Editor Her.
add: I noticed in The Herald's Letter
Box a good article by "Senex" and
also one by DR.. Omeus, and am pleased
to add something in that same line.
If you don't like the bull fights, don't
patronize them. If a newspaper does
not advocate honor, truth and justice,
don't patronize it. If you don't believe
saloons are a good thing, stay away
from them. If you don't think our
unjust banking system is a good thing,
don't use it, and if trust is unjust in
its demands, don't use it's products. but
try and find something to use instead.
If we would all individually adopt
this mode of action we would soon reg
ulate all trusts and unjust combina
tions ,and if you don't think all those
animals lived in that ark forty days
and forty nights with only one window
sixteen inches square for ventilation,
please have the honesty to say so.
w. H. H. WRIGHT.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

Thank heaven, there will be no sec
ticnalism in the celebration Of Lin
coins hundredth birthday anniversary.
1t will be observed not only in every
part of the United States, but in every
part of the world where the language
Of Lincoln is spoken. After all, hero
worship, as Carlyle called it, is more a
matter of race than of national bound
aries. Old political bitternesses are
forgotten, and the great men of Amer
lea are the great men of every country
On the face of the globe where the old
songs are sung and the old Bible is
read.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
AT THE THEATERS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Red Riding Hood
MASON-'eThe Red Mill"
BELASCO-"A Stranger in New York.
MAJESTIC-"Babes in TOyland."
BURBANK-"Faust."
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
GRAND-''The Girl from Paris.'
Los ANGELES-Vaudeyille.
FISCHER'S-VaudeviIIe.
EMPIRE-VaudevilIe.
UNIQUE-"The Land of Tar and Tartar"
WALKER-Vaudeville.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

Prince Ito announces Japan will an
mex Korea. Now that Japan has gone
into the annexing business, Bobbie
Give and the other Britishers who
planned an Asiatic empire must suffer
more tortures than usual. They re-
alize they should have begun their
work by grabbing Japan, instead of
seizing big, unwieldy India. They
missed a trick when they overlooked
little old Japan.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
The State Press
Panama Canal

AS a result of Mr., Tafts trip to the isthmus
there will be only optimism as to the canal.
The waterway win be built, and it will be
open to the commerce of the world within
very few years. Efforts to dscredit the
dertaking and to cause the American people
to lose confidence in it may not be aban-
doned for while yet. The opposition to the
canal will die hard. However, the project
is too far advanced to be damaged by
interested critics at home or abroad-San
Diego Union.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

So they accuse the reformers of
wearing pink socks! How dreadful!
But it is suspected some of the most
vehement accusers don't wear any.
They are envious.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

And right along, through political
storm as through political sunshine.
Los Angeles continues her magnificent
progress and her prosperity is greater
and greater The zeal of Los Angeles
for good, clean, responsible govern
ment has added to the prestige of our
metropolis in every part Of the United
States. 1t pays to be a pink-socks city.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
On a Pass

1t was during a tedious ride on a
western railway and the passengers,
tired, dirty and thirsty, all berated the
company, with the exception of one
single man. His fellow passengers COM
mented on this, and asked him why ne
did not denounce the company, too.
'It would be hardly fair he replied,
''as am travelling on a free pass; but,
if they don't do better pretty soon,
blamed if 1 don't go out and buy
ticket and join youH'-Harper's Maga-
zine.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
Suspicious

Corona may be the exact historical loca-
ton of the original Garden of Eden, as proud
ly proclaimed in a little pamphlet circulated
by local real estate man, but all the same
it has it's Devils canyon Hell Gate and
Hell divers well as more civilized types
of descendants of the Darwinian theory-Ar-
lington Times
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

Judge Albert NJ. Stephens, in address
ing the Friday Morning club .on the
subject of the recall, mentioned the
fact that the movement for reform is
general throughout the nation. Every
where he said, people are aroused
and are demanding better things thar
have been doled out to them by. their
masters in politics.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
Excellent WaY

An excellent way for Californians to deal
with this Japanese and Chinese question
would be to give every preference to the
American people. Employ own people in
stead of these foreigners and patronize our
own people instead of patronizing them, and
California will not have the attraction
for the Asiatics it now has.-Tulare Advance.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

The skies were not weeping. They
were shedding prosperity over South
ern California, which presently will
respond with sunshine and joyous
laughter
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

Our friends the Japanese demand lib
ertys equality and fraternity. We be-
lieve they will get square DEAL" A
man with a Big Stick is on their side.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
Amende Honorable

A week ago the Orange Post inadvertently
credited a quotation about not daring to
write as funny as we to Oliver Gold
smith, which should have been credited to
oliver Wendell Holmes.-Orange Post.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
DEMOCRATIC Senators

The Democratic members of the senate will
be entitled to all the honor that will come
from this railroad legislation. if any acts in
relation thereto are ever passed. because
they have already borne the brunt of the
hght.-Visalia Times
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

woodrow Wilson says New York can
not produce men Of the type of Lin
coin. But then the president of
Princeton university is a New Jersey
man.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
Nature Fake

The San Francisco papers have an enter
tanning little story of how visitors formerly
petted seals beneath the Cliff House site
probably concocted by the same man who dis
covered the maltese seal few years
back.-San Bernardino Index.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
Piern,s Lobsters

1t is said that j. Pierpont Morgan has a
man especially engaged to catch Holsters for
him. Huh! Nav, not the kind you skin, the
kind you boil.-Long Beach Telegram.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
Nothinn More Certain

Andrew Carnegie says that ultimately the
laborer will become one with the capitalist
but whether by assimilation or absorption he
does not make clear. Certain it is that no
laborer will live long enough to become as
rich as Carnegie.-Fresno Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

Pink socks don't match the com
plexion of machine politicians. These
worthless are at present very blue.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

At the rate at which it is growing,
Uncle Sans navy soon will be not
only "the strongest and most efficient
ir the world for its size" but absolute
Iy and Internationally ''the strongest
and most efficient in the world"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

There won't be a Japanese scrap
Full well does the Jap realize that the
anti-Jap yap is only claptrap.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

portant week in the history Of Los
Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
Got Poor Quick

Philadelphia man who inherited $3.50 900
ten years ago has died penniless. He moved
to New York after getting the money.-Ra-
mona Sentinel.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
Waterways

The little yacht Tonopah has sailed
from Quebec to New Orleans over our
inland waterways. Well be having the
Lusitania on the same route before she
knows it.-Chicago Post.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
Trying Ordeal

First Farmer-H'Io, Hiram! Where
be you goin?
Second Farmer-Goin' to taown to git
drunk, an gawsh haow 1 dread it'll
Boston Transcript.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
Reward of Merit

Professor Ito his aged cook-You have
now Teen twenty-five years in my serv-
ice, Regina. AS a reward for your
faithfulness l have decided to name
the bug recently discovered after you.
-Meggendorfer Blatter.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
Knows the Game

Mark Twain's Incorporation Of him
self was managed in a way that proves
the new firm knows how to advertise
Washington Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

Hurrah for Pink Socks! Have yol
got 'em on?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

Judge Wilbur is the most practica
pedagogue in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
Correct Theoretically

The weather prophet is always right
theoretically. Only he sometimes gets
mixed in his dates.-Washing Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

Harper's harp will be hung on ;
willow tree.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
Not Worryinu

Mr.. Roosevelt is not studying stage
effects. He doesn't seem to care
whether he gets a complimentary re-
call or not when the curtain goes down
Chicago Tribune
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
Lazy Plants

Are plants lazy? From my standpoint
of observation for sixty years, they are.
They will seek the nearest food, re-
gardless of consequences.-Loui
Planter.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
Optimist Now

The boy who got a sled for Christ
mas has quit being a pessimist.-Chi-
cago Record-Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
Germs Rejoice

If it be true that Dr. Harvey w.
Wiley, the pure food expert, is going
to resign, we fancy there is soon to be
great rejoicing in germ circles.-Hous-
| ton Post.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
Germ Roay
Gutter Spout

Mr.. Willett's use of the word gar
goyle in his speech calls attention to
the famous wit who, being challenged
to give good definition of the term,
replied: "A grotesque gutter-spOut. "
All of which is referred to Mr.. Willett
with suggestion as to introspection.-
PHILADELPHIA Inquirer
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
The Public Letter Box

CORREsFoND intended
but
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
Far and Wide
Noises for Africa


We have now captured the African
cheap watch trade by turning out a
good dollar watch that ticks like a
boiler factory. You could hear this tick
through feather mattress. In fact,
natives wearing our watches tick aud
IDLY. AS they Swagger along, their
American shoes squeaking and their
American watches ticking, they give
out as much noise as brass band
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Germ Bogy
Such fears are discreditable to the
public intelligence. Milk may carry
disease, but to look on every glassful
with suspicion is folly Popular doubt
being what it is, some obligation would
rest on the agencies, scientific and Of
hclal, which have raised the germ
bogy to do something to counterfeit it's
demoralizing infiuence.-New York
World.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
Caution Necessary

Those in authority should place q
guard around the German language
George AIDE is in Berlin.-ChicagC
News.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
AostiIities Resumed

The heavy firing has been resumed in
Washington, d. C.-Milwaukee Senti-
mel.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
Let Her Decide

But it is practical, and it is for that
reason that we suggest that the ques-
tion of woman suffrage should not in
any event be finally passed upon until
every woman has the opportunity to
officially register her wishes in the
natter.-San Francisco Commercial
News.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-06-11
Silver Ware

We have just secured at a big
reduction in price 800 pieces of
good silver plated hollow ware,
which we shall turn over to our
patrons Saturday at a price which
should make the whole lot disap-
pear before closing time. A
sample line consisting of from
two to six pieces of a kind.
Casters, bakers, cake baskets,
fruit dishes, bread trays, butter
dishes, chocolate pots, tea pots,
sugars, creamers, spooners, nut
bowls, fern dishes, cracker jars,
walters, reflectors, bonbon
dishes, pickle dishes, ~candleSticks,
etc. None of these pieces are
worth less than f.25, IN
while the values range He
upward TO 200 and even 0e
more. On sale Saturday w
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-06-11
SOME NEW TECHNICAL
BOOKS FOR THE PUBLIC.
Interesting Volumes in the
Library.

A number Of new books were placed
in circulation in the scientific and tech
meal department of the Public Library
today. The following notes describe
some Of the more interesting of these
additions:
tuberculosis. Its Origin and Extinction"
by. w. Pickett Turner. An attempt to deal
with tuberculosis as a whole, to trace it's
origin to its primary source and to attempt
It's complete ~extirpation in man and ami
mails.
Practical Guide to the Wild Flowers
and Fruits by George Lincoln Walton.
The latest addition to a class of books in
tended to help the lover of nature in identi-
Tying flowers found in vacation rambles.
-"Clays: Their Occurrence, Properties and
Uses, with Especial Reference to Those of
the United States" by Heinrich Ries. Writ
ten to meet the demand for a. work on the
subject of clay which will present In one
volume the matter already in print, but
in scattered places.
Hand Saws, Their Use, Care and
Abuse" by F. T. Hodgson. A complete
guide for selecting, using and filing all
Kinds of hand-saws, back-saws, ETC., show
ing the shapes, forms, angles, pitches and
sizes of saw-teeth.
Science and Practise of. Cheesemaking,'
by Lucius l.. Van Slyke. A treatise on the
"Dress-cutting, Drafting and French
Pattern Modelling by NJ. Prince Browne.
The author Of the system claims that If
followed in its entirety 1t will enable a
pupil to cut out various shaped bodices and
skirts.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-06-11
HEPTASOPHS' SUPREME OFFICERS.

SARATOGA, N. Y, June 1.-THE
supreme conclave, Improved Order
Haptasophs, today rejected the new
equalization plan to increase the sur
plus fund. The principal supreme off,
GERS elected for the two years: Arcon,
Morris G.. Cohen, Pittsburg, Pa; pro-
vost, Thomas B.. Hicks, Richmond, Va;
secretary, Samuel H. Tattersall, Balti-
more; treasurer, Charles II. Ramsay,
Boston; medical director, DIR. Charles
H. Bubert, Baltimore; organizer, John
w. Cruett, Baltimore; counsel, DIN
Bryan, Philadelphia.