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Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-01
Herald Letter Box is the Peoples F0ru1n

tree in the forest even to the delivery
of it into your own house? And two
thirds of what you paid for that chair
is profit.
How much of that profit are you get
ting for sustaining this private owner
ship system? You collectively build
your school house, and your children
receive their education at the labor
cost of producing 1t with no profit go
ing to any one. l cannot understand
why the men who see the benefit and
think it right to collectively own their
school houses and get their education
at the labor cost of producing it, can
MT see that it would be equally bene-
fetal to them to own their forests,
mills, factories and mines, and have
their furniture at the labor cost of
p.oducing and distributing it. By col
lective ownership could not all the peo-
pie have their coal, sugar, flour and
everything else that they produce and
use at the labor cost of production and
distribution?
Mr.. Reader mean YOU that are pay
ing profit and not receiving anyhow
would collective ownership hurt you?
H. L. WHITE.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-01
SAYS PROFIT CAUSES
ALL EVIL CONDITIONS

Los ANGELES, July 31.-[Editor
Herald: 1t seems strange to me that
none of the many writer's have any
remedies for the ills they complain of
in their letters to the Letter Box.
When we analyze the bad conditions
that exist the cause of all of them is
profit Why do the great mass of peo-
pie vote for the profit system? The
few get the profit, the many pay the
profit
The workers for wages, no matter
whether they work behind the desk in
a big business establishment or in the
factory or the farm, are the real pro-
ducers of the profit. They are also the
largest body of consumers.
They, by their cooperative labor
produce everything Now, l want to
ask them what reason they have for
supporting with their votes profit
system? I honestly want to know how
the man that pays the profit is bene-
fitted. / hope some reader Will enlight-
en- me- The workers first vote away
from themselves the raw undeveloped
wealth that they collectively own, such
as your farming land, coal lands, min
erals and forests-Vote it all into pri-
vate individuals hands
Let us see how it works out. You
give me your coal land; ! mortgage it
for sufficient money to buy machinery
and hire you intelligent workers for
wages to sink a shaft into the bowels
of the earth risking your lives in so
doing, and for a wage of 50 you deliver
me a ton of coal and which I sell you
fer So. Very profitable to me, but
fail to see how it is profitable to you.
Is it not you bright educated working
men that pay off my entire debt, in
Guiding the interest?
And now, haven't l, as private owner,
got the power to tax every working
man in the nation by increasing the
price of coal when / please? Haven't
you voted the same power to make
profit off Of yourselves to the men that
you voted your forests to? Don't you
Nuts cut down the trees, pay for all
the machinery, both in the saw mill
and in the furniture factory? Don't
you workingmen comparatively do all
tie work that is done on the chair
that you are now sitting on from the
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-01
STATISTICS SHOW THAT
WOMEN USE THE BALLOT

LOS ANGELES, July 2S.-[Editor
Herald: 1t seems a waste of time to
argue whether or not the majority or
women will vote when they have OPP
portunity so to do, inasmuch as statls-
tics are available which show Gov =
ernor BuchtePs statement to be abso-
lutely false in respect to equal Suffrage
in Colorado. SeVenty-twO per cent OF
the women who are qualified to vote
in that state do so, according to the
Colorado secretary of state. Governor
elect Shafroth of Colorado says that,
while women constitute AZ per cent OF
the population of his state, As per cent
of the vote is by them; that the vote
of the women has had good effect;
that in Colorado a man and his Vile
go together to the polls and vote as q
matter of course, much as they might
go together to a department store to
shop; that men possessing records that
will not stand the light of publicity
are no longer placed in nomination,
etc. In Denver at the last election only
100 women out of 400 voted in one Of
the most objectionable districts, the
reason being that these women are un-
willing to sign their own names, ana
the law does not permit them to regis
ter under other names. One of the
Denver ward bosses was given term
in Jail for inducing some women to use
assumed names in registering, and tins
mode of coercion is consequently not
so popular as 1t was. In the recent
election at Denver the votes of the
women kept Judge Lindsay, the chill
dren's Judge" in office after both reg
ular parties had scratched his name off
the ticket. l have heard the judge him.
self make this statement from the lee
ture platform.
The Wyoming secretary of state says
that 80 per cent of the women in Wyo-
ming vote, and w. e. Mullen, the at
torney general of Wyoming, says; Il
am now convinced that woman suff-
rage is a rational principle and bene-
fit to the state. The women usually
vote for progressive candidates and for
the correction of abuses in politics, re-
gardless of party affiliations.
The chief justice of Idaho and all the
justices of the state supreme court say
in a signed and published statement
that "the large vote polled by the
women establishes the fact that they
take a lively interest"
Any person who believes" that only
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-01
FIRE BREAKS OUT DURING
FIRE FIGHTING EXHIBITION

VENICE, July 31.-While putting out
a made-tO-order blaze al this place to-
day the Ocean Park fire department
was called on 10 eXtinguish blaze in
a building contiguous to the lot on
which the test fire had been made
For the purpose Of demonstrating to
visiting insurance men and members of
fire departments of neighborng cities a
small frame building was constructed
at the corner of Speedway and Zephyr
avenue and set on fire. The fire de-
partment was summoned, and, cutting
in on the salt water fire system, had
the blaze extinguished in short order.
After giving an exhibition of the force
of the salt water system and throwing
a number of streams simultaneously,
the department was In the act of put
ting away the hose when a blaze was
discovered on the roof Of the Zephyr
building and the boys turned their at
tention TO the real fire and had that out
before any amount of damage was
done. 1t is thought that crossed wires
were the cause Of the latter blaze.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-01
PREDICTS GREAT THINGS
IN NEXT HUNDRED YEARS

LOS ANGELES, July 31.-[Editor
Herald: There are many who can look
back three quarters of a century, and
when we note the wonderful discov-
cries since then, what may we not eX-
pect in a hundred years to come?
Less than one hundred years ago
Robert Fulton ran the first boat by
steam, and now steam ploWs the
oceans and covers the world in manu-
facture and travel Now we have our
wireless telegraph and telephones, and
are successfully navigating the air
Where we then used candles we now
have electricity for light, heat and
power. If that much has been accom-
plished in less than one hundred years,
what may we not look for in hun
dred years to come? Even the poet
may not be far out of the way in his
prophecy:
The world will be a better place
In hundred years.
Well have a brighter, happier race
In hundred years.
The isms of old, the wornout lies the ancient
wrongs,
VIII melt in a new sunrise
In a hundred years.
The laws will aim at common good,
Religion will be for brotherhood
And toll will be ho1ored as it should
In a hundred years.
Our courts and rulers will be just.
In q hundred years.
Our Lawmakers honest-or so we trust
In a hundred years.
The power Of Mammon will pass away with
the power Of gold,
While the world moves on to a grander day,
In a hundred years.
There will be less misery and less wrong,
In a hundred years.
Have we painted the worlds face overnight,
In a hundred years?
Well better so than to picture blight,
In hundred years
AS the poet has given us a bright fu
ture in a hundred years to come, let
us consult those who dwell in the
"Temple of Wisdom" and learn what
we may look for in one hundred years.
They tell us that electricity is yet in
its infancy, that steam power will then
be abandoned. AS we have passed
through the wooden age, the stone age,
the iron will also pass, and the glass
age will be the coming age. Glass, by
a new process made from sand, viii
compose our dwellings, and smelters
will line our sea coasts wherever SAND
can be found Flexible glass will be
discovered, and fabrics as soft as silk
will clothe our females and furnish
their hats with beautiful flowers.
Washing clothing and the laundry
business will be done away with, as
our soft pressed underclothing will be
burned instead of being washed, when
soiled. Our diet will be neither beast,
fish nor foul, as fruits and vegetables
will supply all of the necessities of life.
Just imagine living in a beautiful col
ored glass house, lighted and heated b.
electricity. Carpets will be out of
fashion, as our floors Will be laid IN
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-01

the lowest class of women vote grossly
libels the good women of these west
ern states. Last year the LONDON daily
Express took a STRAW vote on the
equal voting proposition. The total
vote was against the extension TO
women of the full franchise, but an
analysis of the vote showed that the
unfavorable majority came from the
men, the women voting in the af1rma-
tive by a majority OF more than lIOOO
According to Governor Buchtefs the
ory, the Daily Express must have a
particularly undesirable class of feml-
nine readers.
In New Zealand at the last general
election Q905) the number of women
voting was SO per cent of those whose
names appeared on the electoral rolls
The vote of the men was "a per cent
of those on the rolls, and Sir Joseph
Ward, prime minister of New Zealand,
says that when one considers now dlf-
ficult it is for women to vote in the
rural districts of that country the dlt-
ficulty of getting substitutes to look
after children, etc, this electoral re-
turn shows that the possession of the
franchise was appreciated at a high
value" He also says, Il have always
supported it (the extension of the
franchise to women) in parliament,
and, while closely watching its erect,
have never seen any genuine cause for
believing that it has not worked for
the good of our dominion" G. W.
Russell, chairman of the board of gov
ernors of New Zealand, says: THE
womans view Qn voting) is not pounds
and pence, but her home, her family.
In order to win her sympathy-and her
vote--the politicians had to look at
public matters from her point of view.
When they did so they saw that her
ham
by homes, and a fair chance in life for
her husband. her intended husband and
her present or prospective family.
trace nearly the whole of the progress
sve legislation of the country during
the last fifteen years to this source
If only the Lowest class" of women
may be expected to vote, why did the
Wholesale liquor dealers in Oregon go
down into their pockets before the
question was referred to the people of
that state the last time and send out
signed letters to the retailers instruct
ing each of hem to obtain a certain
number of votes against the measure?
Why does Governor Buchtel of Colo
RADIO make public statements whose
falsity can he learned by any one who
cares to look up the facts? Has mis-
attitude and his Endorsement by
newspaper not particularly noted as the
workers friend anything to do with
the fact that there are 100000 women
wage earners in this country accord
ing to the United States census for
1900, and that their average wage is
less than $270 a year? There are
number of facts to support the opin-
ion of former Commissioner of Labor
Carroll d. Wright, that the power to
vote will give working women the
greatest opportunity to improve their
condition in the industrial world. I'm
der these circumstances l don't imag-
inc that though the suffragists We're to
speak with the tongues of men and
of angels and to produce hard facts
enough to crafty any Mr.. Gradgrind,
they could convince some employers
and employers politicians that equal
suffrage would be a good thing for
anybody in the United States.
LOUISA D. HARDING.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-01
THOUSANDS ARE
AT IOWA PICNIC
BIG CROWD FROM HAWKEYE
STATE VISITS SEASH0RE
SPEECHES MADE TO VISITORS BY
FAVokITE SONS
Mayors of Los Angeles and Long
Beach Among the speakers-Next
Gathering and Election Set
for February %
Especial TO The Herald

LONG BEACH, July 31.-This city
was the Mecca today of Southern Cal
ifornians who formerly lived in Iowa
The number who enjoyed the mldsum-
mer outing is estimated at 5000. They
came from all over this section OF the
state to bathe in the Pacific. dine ana
gambol on it's shore and feast intellectS
upon ferVidly patriotic oratory dellV-
cred by a few of the Hawkeye state
silver-tongued sons.
Mayor Alexander of Los Angeles took
his first "day off" and came to the
beach. He was "nabbed" promptly by
the committee and importuned to
speak He reluctantly consented ana
was called upon first this afternoon at
the auditorium after Mayor Windham
of this city had given an address or
welcome. Mayor Alexander received a
tremendous ovation. He recalled in a
general way IoWas chietest virtues ana
greatest men,
The Los Angeles mayor lived in Iowa
thirty years, in Tama county.
"What little politics l ever learned,
he said this afternoon, "I cleaned from
the Hon. James Wilson, the present
secretary of agriculture"
r. b. Shepherd of Pomona was one
of the speakers. The more we think
about the dear old hills and dales of
old Iowa." he said, "the more we wish
our friends back there had sense
enough to come out to California"
He prophesied that IOwa's influence
on the political future of the whole
United States will be great. eve be
lieve in d square deal" he said, "and
in letting the corporations get along
with no special favOrs and no laWless-
ness"
State Senator II, w. Dodge spoke
elouuently also. He said 40 600 former
Iowans live in Southern California. He
complimented the daughters of the
HaWkeye state in such a manner as to
bring a tremendous cheer from the
women present, the men acqutescing
and cheering, too.
ITO have been born in the state of
Iowa is to have been born great, "
said Senator Dodge in his speech. "To
become an adopted son of glorious
beautiful California is to achieve
greatness.
ut has come to us through the open
windows of legendary lore that the In
dians had two definitions for the
meaning of Iowa; one was The beau
tiful land" and the other This is the
place Every true Iowan heartily ap-
proves of these typically appropriate
definitions of this imperial common
wealth, this emerald empire of the
great northwest.
"I believe it to be the sacred duty of
the sons and daughters of the present
generation with loving hand to wipe
the dust from history's urn and write
thereon the name, virtues and noble
deeds of the brave, patriotic, self-sac .
rificing pioneer fathers and mothers OF
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-01
AGED MAN IN BUGGY Is
KILLED BY RED0ND0 CAR
Resident of California for Sixty-fve
Years Meets Death at
Crossing

PALMS, July 31.-Begnio Valenzuella,
73 years old. was struck and killed in
stantly by a west bound Redondo Beach
car at the First street crossing this
morning at about o'clock.
Valenzuelia was crossing the track in
a buggy, going north, and it is thought
that he did not hear the car whistle,
which the motorman blew several times
on approaching the crossing. He is an
old resident of hs part of the country,
having arrived here siXty-five years
ago. Many relatives survive him. The
body was taken to the Sawtelle under"
taking parlors, where the inquest will
be held.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-01
WOMEN WILL LEARN TO
USE BALLOT PROPERLY

LOS ANGELES, July 27.-[Editor
Herald: The letter from Anti in to-
days paper brings to the front the
dark side of the coming liberty for
women, yet it will not dishearten any
genuine thinker, of which Anti is one.
Good men, many of them, have a
lame excuse (short- -sightedness) for
not going to vote, which has probably
brought about the present agitation
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-01

TO CORRESPONDENT Intended
for publication -1usI be accompanied by tie
name and address of the writer. The Her
aid gives the widest latitude to correspond
ents, but assumes responsibility for their
views
VIRGINIA DARE-The Herald does not
publish anonymous letters. No publication
In America could print your cOmmunica-
tion in the form you send it.
If the revolving story you tell Is true send
in your name and address come to The
Herald office and we will take the ease to
the prosecutor. If 1t is n question of braV-
cry, you are the one to show it.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-01
A sootoh Llfe Saver

Yeast: "A Scotchman has invented
a new life-saving apparatus which is
capable of throwing a line half
mile"
Crimsonbeak: "And what did you
say was on the end of the line?"-
Yonkers Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-01
Mo chanoe

The Judge-Your age, please?
The Fair Witness-Why, judge,
gave you my age once when 1 was a
witness before
"But that was a number of years
ago."
-"WeIIl'-Yonkers Statesman.
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Richard Hoe, inventor Of the perfectinI
newspaper press, died last week.
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VICTOR A. GRANTS SUCCESS.

Victor A. Grant, the enterprising drug
gist, rather than await the ordinary
methods OF introduction, urged the DR..
Howard Co. to secure a quick sale for
their celebrated specific for the cure OF
constipation and dyspepsia by Offering
the regular soc. bottle at half price.
In addition to selling q SOC bottle of
DR.. Towards specific for 25c. Victor A.
Grant has so much faith in the remedy
that he will refund the money to any one
whom it does not cure.
When your head aches, your stomach
does not digest food easily and naturally,
" hen there is constipation, specks before
the eyes, tired feeling, giddiness, bad
taste in the mouth, coated tongue, heart
burn, sour stomach, roaring or ringing in
the ears, melancholy aud liver troubles
DR.. Towards specific will cure you. II
it does not, it will not cost you q cent.
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coRINTh

r. II. Childs has sold his black mare to
DR.. Locke of Bradford.
Munroe Cohurn Of Chelsea visited his
sisters, Mrs. P. II. Darling and Mrs. A.
p. Cooke, over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. B. Scribner, Mr.. and
Mrs. Linus Edison attended the state fair
and Frank Winch the st. Johnsbury fair.
Little Bertha Belle worthen Of Lisbon,
n. H., is staying at her Grandpa Will
sons until the scarlet fever scare is abat-
ed at Lisbon.
Ed. Church visited his aunt in Pier
mont, N. H., last Friday and Saturday.
he was accompanied by his sister, Mrs.
Ethel Lewis OF Barton.
Aaron Eastman went to West FairIee to
the fire Saturday. Great sympathy is ex-
tended to them in this their second great
fire in little less than year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Underhin OF Cen
ter Barnstable, n. H., are visiting her
cousin, Mrs. L. d. Heath, and other dis
tant relatives. They are accompanied by
Mrs. Murphy and Miss Burns Of Boston,
who are boarding with them when they
are at their home.
Tuesday, Sept. 21, was the 64th ami
versary of Austin Huntington's birthday,
and was observed by the gathering OF his
brother, Henry Huntington, and wife
and their son, Dana, aud wife and three
children. They brought him . nice
chair. His brsther, Georges widow
from Holland, N. Y, gave him a useful
present. Mr.. and Mrs. George Hunting
ton, Charles Huntington, Dan Smith and
wife Julia Huntingdon OF Washington,
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Curtis of Waits
River were also there. The combined age
of the fourteen adults present was $50
years. an average Of 81 yrs. mos. Sew
eral other presents were LETT IS a memo
rial of the occasion. A bounteous dinner
and supper were served by Mrs. Hunting
ton. Quantities of flowers decorated
every room. The afternoon was spent in
relating incidents OF their young days
and night came altogether too soon to re-
late them all, when they had TO depart
/ for their homes.
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RoYALToN

More than so tickets were sold to the
state fair last week Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hanks and child
we're guests at AIvah Hanks last week.
Miss Ellen Nichols, who has been
spending the summer here, returned to
her home in Salem, Mass. Friday.
Harold H. Fisk and William ]. Graves
of Waitsfield were guests at Imwer from
Thursday until Saturday of last week.
Miss Katharine z. Dewey, Royalton
academy, '0S, has begun her college
course at the University OF Vermont this
week.
Mrs. George Emery and Mrs. Fish of
Nebraska. who had been visiting at Amos
Emery's, went to Boston the first Of last
week.
Miss Mary E. Winslow, Randolph high
school, 'O9, went the first of the week to
begin her studies at the University Of
Vermont.
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vERsnlRE
Stephen B. Darling is not so we'll.
Mr. Rillings has a sist.- ,....;

Stephen B. Darling is not so we'll.
Mr.. Billings has sister visiting him.
Mrs. Edwin Parker has a sister visiting
her.
UIdene Carlton remains about TIE
same.
Mabel J. speare visited friends in
STAFFORD recently.
Mrs. Walter Lewis (nee Ethel Church)
visited her parents last week.
The W. c. 7. U. meets with Miss Clara
Fuller next Saturday, Oct. 2.
A. d. McIver went to Canada last Mon
day morning to visit bis parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. ]. Bunce and family
visited relatives in West Fairlee Sunday.
Fred E. Snyder had the misfortune to
lose his best horse last Monday morning.
Miss Alice @. Speare and Joseph NJ.
Sleeper visited relatives in Norwich last
week.
L. d. Carr of Gardner, Mass, is the
guest Of his brother-in-law, L. S. speare,
and family.
The recent repairs on the brick school
house at the Lower village are a great i'm
provement.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. s. Speare visited their
cousins, Albert Thurber and family, in
Norwich last week.
Miss Carrie Darling, who has been
spending the summer in town, is teach
ing the village school in West Thornton,
n. II.
Many from here attended the fire at
West Fairlee village last Sunday morning.
The families who we're burned out have
the sympathy of the community.
letter from Erie B. Skies. former
pastor here, was read from the pulpit last
Sunday. He is now at oberlin college,
Oberlin, o. He also has a pastorate and
breaches Sundays.
The entertainment on epitaphs given
by Mr. Thompson at the Village hall was
very interesting and much enjoyed by
those who attended. Owing to the bad
weather and the state fair there was not
a very large audience.
During the absence OF Mr.. Looloian
the next two weeks, the Sunday msrning
services ill be conducted by the w. C.
I. U. Sunday school and the prayer
meetings will be held as usual, but there
will be no Sunday evening services.
Tom Williams, who has been residing
on the Moses Spear place the past sum
mer, died Saturday, Sept. 25. The tuner
al was held Tuesday, Rev. Mr.. Looloisn
officiating. Interment was made in the
village cemetery. Mr.. Williams had
been i'll for a long time. He leaves a
widow, formerly Miss Lucy Spear of this
place. She has the heartfelt sympathy
of her many relatives and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. S. Speare narrowly es-
capped serious injury last week Wednes-
day while on their way to the state fair
About three-quarters of mile the other
side OF North Thetford the horses, fright
ened by an automobile, became unman-
ageable. Mr.. and Mrs. SpeBre were
thrown ont and the horses ran back to
North Thetford, where they piled them
selves up in the hotel barn. Mr.. and
Mrs. Speare escaped with a few bruises
and the horses with few scratches, but
the wagon and harnesses were considera-
bly, demolished.