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Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10
LIQUOR LICENSES

A NEW and surely reasonable aspect
u is put on the liquor business in
"A Los Angeles by the city attorneys
opinion that a license 'begins and ends
with the man who applies for 1t, to
whom 1t is granted. and who surren-
ders it," and that he may not transfer
1t to another. According to this view
of the licensing problem, the license is
vested in the grantee, who holds 1t as
matter of personal concession, involving
personal responsibility for the nature
of the business transacted under the
license.
The new reading of the regulations
will eliminate from the liquor problem
the complication caused by brewery
ownership OF licenses. This kind of
overlordship of the liquor business was
not contemplated by the originators Of
the present license system, who could
not foresee the day of concentration
of the brewing business. OF course, we
do not refer to the originators of the
license system in Los Angeles alone, but
throughout the country.
The licensing of retail premises was
an outgrowth of excise legislation which
sought to control the production of
liquor, not with any idea of restraining
the output, but with view to obtain
ing revenue from 1t. This is the point
of contact between liquor and politics:
and ALL that this simple statement
means is beyond power of description,
but may be imagined-vaguely-b
those who are at all well posted as to
the course of politics in the larger cities
within the last score of years.
AS a rule, this course has been
through berry swamps and over fens
Illuminated by the wildfire of Jersey
lightning. To fasten upon individuals
individual responsibility for non-trans-
ferable licenses will be a long step in
the direction of temperance reform and
real control of the liquor traffic.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10
SOME DISCOVER GRAFT HERE;
oTHERs,PLANETs FAR DISTANT

LOS ANGELES, April 7.-[Editor
Herald: This is an age of great dis
coVeries. The Herald has discovered
the graft and corruption Of the past adj
ministration of our city, thus earning
the praise and patronage of every
honest man, and has also discovered an
honest mayor, who will do his duty
without fear or favor. The good citi-
zens of Los Angeles have had lesson
from the maladministration of the San
Francisco grafters and thieves who
have ruled that city these many years.
The Herald and Express have done
themselves great credit in saving the
good name of our city by their tireless
Investigations, and still the good work
goes on. There is no fear of their back
sliding, or straddling the fence like
some of the would-be prominent news
papers of our city.
There has been another wonderful
discovery in the astronomical line,
which has lately been reported in
Science, weekly journal published in
the interest of the American Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Science.
The astronomer Gaillot announced to
the Academy of Sciences in Paris that
he discovered March % two new
planets situated beyond Neptune. He
estimated that one was Abs, 100000
miles distant from the sun and the
Otner 0,ooO,UOU,UUU distant, anu tIidl NeP-
tune, our farthest planet, was 2,SO0,00O,-
900 miles from the sun.
If this new discovery is corroborated
1t will be hailed by astronomers as the
most wonderful discovery of the TWEEN
tieth century.
When Mount Wilson establishes that
1O0-inch reflector, the glass for which
is on the way from Europe, Southern
California will make new discoveries
which will astonish the world.
C. MAJOR TABER.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10
SERVICE AT PUBLIC LIBRARY
CRITICISED IN PLAIN TERMS

LOS ANGELES, April 6.-lEditor
Heraldl: 1 hope you will next turn
your valuable attention to causing q
change in the miserable service (Whlch
Is really no service) at the public libra
ry. What a shame 1t is to witness
daily men, women and children, All try-
ing to crowd into small space Wnere
two or three lone assistants are NOV
ing Iistlessly up and down a counter.
Men, women and children are making
frantic efforts to attract the attention
of one of these women to ask Tor TINS
or that book, the women for the most
part of the time looking over the heads
of this struggling mass. l myself nave
stood around for more than an hour on
everal occasions and tired and dis
gusted been forced to give up the effort
and leave the library without getting a
book.
Then the lack of light. 1 have seen
men, women and children bent double
trying to read in this semi-daraness.
The distributing room has not much
more light than stable.
understand the library has school,
supposed to be for the assistants In the
library. Well, l think it is the public
that needs to be taught the mysteries
of "class number" as the public Is
told with a lofty wave of the hand
Bring me the class number or book
number whatever that is" as l
heard one old lady say, and the beggar
public must do as it is bio. or go home
without it's book. 1t Is evidently not
the business of 1.-The powers that be"
to care whether the dear public gets its
book or not.
Now, why not get librarian and a
few good assistants who would make
1t their business to see that the public
got what it went after to the library
namely, a book or books-or attempt to
help the library patrons in some way.
If the book asked for is not in, offer
some substitute. Go to the catalogues
and get the "class number" A man
in his store does not send his Gus
toners to hunt for themselves. He is
both willing and able to assist them.
Now, what right has the librarian, who
is a paid servant of the people, to be so
Indifferent to the peoples interests?
Do away with such expense and use
less nonsense as a library school,"
and use that money for the public good
in connection with the library. Hire
women and men of good breeding and
good sense. men and women who love
books, and there will be no trouble.
OF course, If that Is the way Los An
geles wants to do things, have nothing
more to say. GOOD SERVANT.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10
OUR c1TY,s GROWTH

PUBLISHERS of Los Angeles city
directory have completed their an
n nual census, which shows the
S07, 1922. We say permanent popula-
ton: because If transients and tourists
were to be counted, the actual number
of people in Los Angeles would fire.
quently go far beyond the 100000 mark
There are special times and seasons
when the actual number of people in
the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the
greater city and suburbs, must be not
less than half million. The growth
Of population, permanent and tram
silent, is keenly appreciated by the post
office, on which it imposes exacting
conditions.
Admiration of the splendid postal IA
cilities enjoyed by Los Angeles has
led New York visitor to write a
letter to Postmaster Flint, in which he
said: 1.-THE citizens of Los Angeles
have great cause for congratulation,
that their every want is supplied, even
to a late mail delivered at the princi-
pal hotels. 1t is a great pleasure to
have such admirable facilities"
Not only is Los Angeles we'll equipped
with postoffice facilities. but with
every other kind of facility or con-
venience that makes life worth living.
Population is increasing at such a
rate that its progress is like that of
the tide upon the beach. 1t seems to
grow by constant waves, each of which
goes a little farther than that which
preceded 1t. This progress, however,
differs from the tide in one important
respect. There is no ebb. The gain
is constant, and may be depended on.
The city is being expanded by natural
or building growth, and the entire
area of Greater Los Angeles will be
well built over ere many years have
come and gone. 1t was the certainty
OF this metropolitan growth and of a
big, solid population, which with COM
munity of interests and with co-opera-
ton could work wonders, that made
consolidation an absolute and undenia-
BILE economic necessity in the history
OF the city.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10
DISEASE SHOULD HAVE NO
PLACE IN LIFE'S HARMONY

LOS ANGELES. April 5.-EEditor
Heraldl In yesterdays Herald Asbury
Cecil says: Having waited long enough
for 'R. NJ to answer my letter of
March 20 have the right to imply from
his silence he consents to my interpre-
tation of his letter of February 90"
He may have that right and still be
mistaken. The Herald had my reply,
but 1t was not inserted, so l will not
presume to repeat 1t.
Mr.. Cecil shows total lack of grasp
of the law / have been trying to eluci-
date. If harmony is the law of God
and God is everywhere then harmony
exists everywhere. So denial of the
existence of disease ossany other dis
cordant element is affirmation of the
presence of harmony.
If we deny that and 2 are 8 we do
not deny the presence of the figures.
but we deny the truth of any such
statement and affirm that and 2 are 4.
So a denial of disease is not denial
of the body, Mr.. Cecil, but of condi-
ton that is contrary to the true idea
about the body.
Disease has no more right to mani
festation in the body than discords
have O place in the Interpretation of
music. Both ideas are governed in
truth by an unvarying principle and
there is no manifestation of error of
any kind where thought and action con-
form to the rule laid down therein.
Truth Is one, and mental healing Is
not of several differing kinds or ideas,
but must be conformed to truth. 1t is
a lie to believe a man consumptive and
then tell him he is not to expect this
suggestion to heal him. Neither is 1t
scientific or right to deprive the sick
and oppressed (the poor in spirit) of
their mentality personal initiative) as
in hypnotism. Away with all such de-
vices.
IF the light that is within thee Is
darkness how great is that darkness"
r. N.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10
HETTY GREEN

~ ONE time ago The Herald called
"a attention to the phenomenal case
~ of Hetty Green, who with all her
money complained she was lonesome.
In order to be near her married daugh-
ter, Mrs. Green moved to new, fashion
able and expensive quarters. This re-
moval has been followed by a phe-
nomenon we will call the Termination
of Hetty Green; which proves there is
much truth in the theory of environ
ment While Mrs. Green was sur
rounded by influences which were sor-
old, she led a sordid life. She dressed
''like a fright" ate the plainest food
and eschewed all kinds of luxury. Peo-
pie said she was misery, but that did
not bother her.
Since she has gone to live among the
fashionables the old Hetty has dis
appeared. A new woman has taken her
place. This new woman is not of the
advanced new-woman type.
On the contrary, she is essentially
feminine" At first she startled guests
at her hotel by appearing in costumes
that did not suggest the plain gowns
of the thrifty Hetty of yore. But now
the guests are accustomed to beholding
the richest woman in the world arrayed
in gowns which betoken a keen interest
in the fashions. She is no longer the
dowdy of the public room, but the
leader. The question of the day is
"What is Hetty Green wearing?" And
il is obvious the wonderful old woman
has determined to invade the exclusive
circles of New York society, and by
the power of purse to compel the
Naughty and the Mighty to do obeis-
ance unto her and hers.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10

was made chairman of ways and means.
He and his committee took four months
to report a new tariff bill. The meas
ure was in reality only partial reyis-
ion of the tariff. 1t extended the free
list, substituted many ad valorem du-
ties in the stead of specific duties. and
reduced most of the high tariff sched-
ules. Wool was added to the free list,
most lumber and lumber products were
put there Woolens were given duty
of 40 per cent Cotton gods came in for
a like duty. Mr.. Mills got figrues from
the bureau of statistics going to show
that the total remission of duties I'M
der the Mills bill would amount to $50
100000, of which $30000,00 would result
from reductions in duty; the remainder
from additions to the free list.
The house debated the bill for more
than a month. The Republicans at
tackled 1t on many grounds, for the
tariff had now become a full-fiedged
party issue. First they asserted that
it had been framed by farmers, and
that the manufacturing states had next
to no representation on the committee
that drew the bill. They claimed, fur
thermore, that it had been concocted
secretly by the majority and that the
minority had been ignored until the
time of reporting the measure. They
got together a list of the articles af-
1eCIeQ Dy the DILL ana lIOHl tildl
showed that the cotton states pro-
duced them to the value of $s1. 000,-
600, while the other states produced
them to the value of 81, 715. 0o0 900, near
ly twenty times as much. Then they
charged that free trade pamphleteers
had written the measure and that
clerks were detailed from the treasury
department to assist in making 1t as
harmful to manufacturers as possible.
Most of the debate was in opposition
to the bill. There never has been a
tariff bill considered in the house
where the majority was more lenient
with the minority than the Democrats
were with the Republicans in the con-
sideration of the Mills bill. More than
a hundred times the committee of the
whole took the parliamentary journey
to the house and back in order to linn
it the debate on a particular amend
ment, but then only after that debate
had gone on for reasonable time. The
Republicans tried their best to amend
the bill, but Mills held his forces to-
gether as a seasoned general upon the
field, and not once could the opposition
get an amendment past him.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10
Discomfort

nROF. ALBION w. SMALL of the
University of Chicago wrote to
Il the Chicago Woman's club: I'VE
modern Americans are the most I'M
happy people that have ever lived on
the face of the earth. Why? 1. Because
we are the most prosperous people. 2.
Because we are the freest people. 3.
Because we are the most highly edu-
Gated. Freedom and education make
for unhappiness. They bring serious
responsibilities. They make the indi-
vidual see and feel the actual Unequal
ity of men. They flood society with
problems that food the mind and scar
the heart. But let us not despair. The
talent for misery is the fountain of
progress. 1t is only when men can pic
ture to themselves what they lack and
what they want and can work up
enough genuine dissatisfaction to get
themselves into action that they accom-
plish anything worth while"
The professor would have us believe
the worlds progress is dependent on
discomfort and misery. But the most
miserable and disconnected nations are
not the most progressive. 1t cannot be
denied, however, that intelligent dis
content is of value in the ethical and
political development of a community
or a nation. Intelligent discomfort is
the kind that knows exactly what it
wants, and in the words of a well
known advertisement, Wont be happy
till it gets it" Contentment without
progress is stagnation. and stagnation
soon leads inevitably to decay and dis
solution. Blessed is the nation which
can brag of its intelligently and reason
ably disconnected people. There is hope
for it and there is life before it.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10
PoKES FUN AT TOM8SToNES
AS HISTORICAL EVIDENCE

QUARTZ, April 7-[Editor Herald:
~. L. s." of Long Beach has not given
historical proof but has quoted
claims" to me. He hasn't proved
anything so far, and the ancient his
torians he used as references don't
prove his claims"
1t is strange, indeed, that anyone
should call the inscription on a ladys
tombstone" historical proof a. L.
s. seems to think we should learn
much ancient history were we to study
the inscriptions on all the ladies'
tombstones."
If the gentleman would like really
good, authentic history on this sub
ject, I would refer him to Edward
Gibbons Decline and Fall Of the Ro-
man Empire" A STUDENT.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10
ANCIENT CITY

n ONDVILLE, the prehistoric Cali
Il fornia city. has been mapped and
~ marked for Identification. Dis
coverer Bond intended to keep the site
OF the city secret until properly con-
stituted and equipped archaeological
expedition could visit it, but the ribald
levity and incredulity with which his
story was received made him change
his mind. In order to save his reputa-
ton for veracity he has turned over
the city to the tender mercies of the
tourist and the relic hunter. Govern
ment should reserve and guard the
ruins before irreparable mischief is
done.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10
CHILDISH JOURNALISM

An explanation of certain modern
n social phenomena has been offered
IA by the New York Post, which
says yellow journalism is childish.
Says the Post, take the yellow PRESS,
with its different colored type, with
its pictures, with its rudimentary hu-
NOR, commonplace sentiment and ele-
1nentary morals, it appeals no more
strongly to the ordinary laborer than
it does to his 12-year-old daughter If
anything, she is much more up on the
details of the latest nauseating Grim
inal trial than is her father, who
reads the sporting page chiefly. The
moving picture show was primarily IN
tended to draw the children; its audi
ences are, for the most part, men and
women. And naturally the diet upon
which the audiences are fed grows cor
respondingly higher spiced.
In a metropolis like New York there
will always be thousands of ADULTS
who have the mental ange and educa-
tional equipment of children.
Puerility, juvenility and incomplete
ness of training, imperfection # ethics
caused by rudimentarism of character,
are discernible in modern society, and
make many problems hard to deal
with. When a trained thinker has pre-
scented the just and ethical aspect of
any question to an audience with ap-
parently sluggish cerebral functioning
his first thought is one of disgust. But
this emotion on his part, while natu-
raj, is unreasonable. 1t is succeeded by
one marked by sounder judgment,
which is sincere ity for the conditions
which have produced such an effect.
and a resolution to be active in every
educational measure and work which
will remedy those conditions.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10

Ethan Allen Hitchcock, formerly Sec
rotary of the interior and one of Ameri-
cas- most useful because one of its
most independent and fearless public
servants, is dead. He will be remem-
bered in history as the man who at the
sacrifice of personal friendship and Of
the lenient inclinations of his heart
listened to the voice of duty and put
an end to land frauds in the west.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10
The State Press
How About Ourselves?

The outbreak in Oklahoma of Crazy
Snake and his adherents, as have also
the many Indian wars in the past,
gives food for thought to the eau
casian, and he may we'll ask: rs the
civilizing of the redskin a success?" Is
not civilization after all merely a state
of mind incident to our point of view?
Had we been stepped for many ages
in the traditions of the Indian, or the
Chinaman, or the willy Jap, could we
adapt ourselves on the instant, so far
as time in the larger sense computes.
to the habits, customs, aspect of life
and mental poise of an alien racer
San Jose Mercury
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10

precedent breaking
annual message. Its
every word was de-
voted to the tariff,
which he sought to
have made the is
sue of the presi-
Dental campaign,
then only some sew
en- months away.
The effect of the
m e s S a 6 e on the
Democrats in con-
gress was remark
able, and brought
down to five the
number of those OPP
posing the pollCy OF
their own party.
Under these condi-
ditions it was easy
to see that the third
effort to drive a low
tariff m e a S u r e
through a Demo-
cratic house would
succeed. Roger Q.
Mills of Texas, a
dyed = in the wool
Low foriff a Ixynno 10
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10
Naval Names

One by one the coast defense vessels
that were named for states have to
assume more modest titles and yield
their old names to the new battleships.
Thelatest change of this sort occurred
a few days ago, when the navy de-
partment announced that the names of
the monitors Arkansas and Nevada will
be changed to the Ozarl. and the Tono-
pah, respectively.-San Diego Union.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10
AT THE THEATERS

MAsoN-Lillian Russell in "Wildfire."
BELAsCO-"The Dollar Mark"
BURBANK-"Tn Gay New York"
MAJESTIC-''Friends."
GRAND OPERA HOUSE-"'The sultan Of
Sulu."
ORPHEUM-Vaudeville.
Los Notwithstanding.
ETSCHER'S-"Poppyla
EMPIRE-Vaudeville.
UNIQUE-"The Generals Dilemma"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10

Here is a new name for the Hall of
Fame. 1t is that of Patrick Mulligan,
who has been told by the pension bu-
reau he may draw more than forty
years back pension at the rate of SIT
a month, and says he doesn't want to.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10

Los Angeles Herald's policy of hon
esty and public service has resulted in
great gains in circulation and adver-
Using. Citizens of Los Angeles are APP
preciative. They are not afraid to rec
ognize and support journalistic merit.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10

Today she will try it on. Tomorrow
she will wear it. We wish we could
conscientiously confess admiration for
the new style of feminine Easter head
gear. Please observe we call it head
gear. We obstinately refuse to be-
lieve it is a hat.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10
TeIepathy Still Better

1t is to be hoped that the Anti-race
Track Gambling Association of Cali
fornia will continue it's good work, es-
pecially along the lines of Furnishing
the electric wire companies If they
transmit messages to poolrooms in this
state. That would at least compel the
pool men to take to wireless.-Fresno
Republican,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10

San Francisco has found man who
had never heard of the graft prosecu~
ton. How any human being could
successfully evade knowledge of the
San Francisco scandals passes under
standing.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10
Plenty of Nerve

The San Francisco chamber of COM
merce has asked congress to appro-
pirate 100000 to be given to that Or
ganization so that 1t can invite a num-
Der of Japanese business men to come
to San Francisco and be the guests of
the city. So that it might be remarked
in passing that the San Francisco
chamber of commerce has plenty Of
nerVe.-Visalia Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10

NAILURE on the part of the Forty
eighth and Forty-ninth congresses
= to pass the two Morrison tariff
bills did not deter the Democrats in
the house in the Fiftieth congress from
repeating their former efforts in the
direction of a low tariff The Demo-
cratic majority had been dwindling, and
was now down to less than one-fourth
of what it had been when Morrison
tried to pass his horizontal bill" Pres
ident Cleveland came forward with u
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10
First Aid to Nemesis

Nemesis may pursue Jap who mar
ries a white girl If he is compelled to
live in the house with the mother-in-
law who consents to the union.-Oak-
land ENQUIRER
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10

We congratulate both A. I. McCor-
mick and the government on his APP
pointment as United States attorney
for the southern district of California.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10

Good weather is promised for Easter
Sunday. Most of the big cities in the
east are wishing earnestly they could
borrow some weather from Los Angeles,
If only for one day.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10
Boosted and Paid

An eastern magazine boasts of the
master oratory and mellow stories"
Chauncey Depew will write for it's
readers. New York once boosted of the
same thing, but now it wishes it had
not.-Sacramento Union.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10
Hoke's Enterprise

1t IS said that Governor Hoke Smith
of Georgia is going extensively into
chicken raising. We do not blame him.
A great state like Georgia ought to pay
it's governors more than $4,000 a year.
Long Beach Telegram.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10
The Amateur Pc Itrxman

The pesky hens won't lay.
Well, Welt
Now shall I feed chopped hay
Or she'll?
Some recommend boiled lime as feed,
And some on sponge cake are agreed
1t takes, upon the whole,
Much charm
To suit guests on poul-
Try farm.
What shall we do to please the hen
And coax eggs from her now ana them
kansas City Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10

Thank goodness. the hideous practice
of giving children live Easter chickens
to tease to death has been abolished.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10
oldest MAN on RECORD

19O7-Galusha A. Grow, war speaker
of the house, died at Glenwood, Pa.
August 81, 1872. San Luis Obispo
Breeze.