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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-11-26

ZEBULON, Ga, Nov. 2S.-The adjourn
ed term of superior court convenes at
this place this morning for the purpose
Of trying the case of B. F. Perdue.
charged with the murder of Marshal Ben
Porch, of GAINESVILLE. last fall.
The case has been tried twice already,
the court of appeals granting a new triaf
the first time and the jury making a
mistrial the last time. The case will
probably occupy most of the weeks ses-
sion.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-11-26

wRIGHTSVILE Ca. Nov. 23.-The municipal
executive committee has named November 80
as the date on which the city primary Will be
held for the election of mayor and council for
the years 1910 and 1911
The primary promises to be very interest
ing one T. L. Martin and w. P. Norris have
already announced their candidacy for nomina-
ton and others are expected to enter the race
for the same honor.
The present board consists of ]. NJ. High
tower, mayor. with T. V. Kent, ]: o. Kennedy;
n T. Martin W. c. Chester and b. H. Lord
as councilmen None Of the present encum
bents will stand for reelection except L. l..
Martin. who has entered the race tor mayoralV
honors.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-11-26

HARTWELL, Ga, Nov. 23,-In an al
tercation today Stoddard Ashworth was
shot and killed by John Elrod.
Both are well-known white men.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-11-26
Condensed Neqs Items Gathered From ill parts of the State

SAVANNAH. Ca. Nov. 22.-Guilty Of murder
with a recommendation to mercy which means
life Imprisonment, was the verdict Of the jury
late today in the case Of Samuel b. Theoault
former quartermaster CT the steamer Frederick
plying between Savannah and Baltimore, for the
killing of George W. Foster, a pantryman Oh
the steamer.
The killing. occurred on the vessel July 10
last. Thebault stated that be was very drunk
al the time Of the trouble and remembered moth
ing about Il.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-11-26

Miss Ethel E. MCGOWAN, aged 49, died
Tuesday night at a private sanitarium.
she had been i'll for some time. The
body was removed to Greenberg, Bond
& Bloomfield's and prepared for burial.
The funeral will be held in their private
chapel Thursday afternoon at o'clock,
and the interment will be in West View.
She is survived by one sister, Mrs. e. P.
Jones, of 222 billiard street.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18
VOTE THE BONDS

w EDNESDAY, January 26, is the
w day appointed for an election
when SIS, 100000 of bonds for the
harbor and $350O,O0O of bonds for the
development of Owens river power will
be voted on. Citizens of Los Angeles
should have their minds made up NOW
to vote the bonds, and thereby make
certain the unbroken continuation of
Los Angeles history Of achievement and
triumph.
Los Angeles has been reminded by
the mayor the honor of the city is in
volved in the development of the har-
bor. To this development it is pledged,
In connection with this development
it is necessary to expend S3,00000O for
constructing public wharves and docks
and building warehouses. These will
be an important and rich source Of in
come, and the harbor bonds will be a
highly lucrative and profitable invest
ment They should be voted without
hesitation, as a matter of business pru-
dence, economy and good management.
In connection with the development
of the seaport of Greater Los Angeles
and it's highest usefulness to the COM
munity and the nation, there should
be power for transportation and for
manufacturing purposes, and this pow
er should be available at the time of
the completion of the harbor. The har-
bor project and the power project are
closely allied and Complementary.
At the banquet in this city President
Taft said: "There is another ground
upon which I base my prophecy that
you will get ALL THAT YOU NEED
FOR YOUR HARBOR. In making ap-
propriations for harbors, the rivers and
harbors committee goes a good deal on
the old proverb that Providence helps
those who help themselves, and they
are very much more inclined to give
an appropriation for improving the
harbor if the city to which it belongs
is putting it's own money into the en-
terprise."
A word to the wise is sufficient, and
President Taft has given the wise peo-
pie of Los Angeles a broad hnt. Com
fuential source, the hint should certain
ly be acted upon.
If any other argument or incentive is
needed to induce our citizens to vote
these highly important bonds, it may
be found in the fact it is believed
and with good reason-that the appli-
cation to be made by Los Angeles to
the next congress for an appropriation
sufficient to dredge the whole harbor to
a depth of thirty feet will be granted
all the more readily should there be
demonstration of the readiness and
willingness of Los Angeles to invest its
own money in the improvement of the
harbor.
We think there can be no doubt the
harbor bonds and power bonds will be
voted, and the progress and prosperity
of Los Angeles thereby will be greater
than ever before.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18
WOULD HAVE LIQUOR MEN
PAY OLD AGE PENSIONS

GINA, Cal, Oct. 15.-[Editor Herald:
1 see some writer for the BOX" ad-
vocates an old mans pension. This
strikes me as a splendid move, provid-
ing the saloon keepers, brewers and dis
tillers are taxed to pay the pension of
all those who have become dependents
because of their business. Too many old
men are penniless today because they
have spent so much of their earnings
for "booze," and am opposed to tax
ing those who have accumulated a lit
tie something, by steering clear of that
needless curse, to pension those VINO
have spent the best part of their life
in building up fortunes for brewers,
distillers and saloon keepers. We are
already spending millions of dollars in
prosecuting criminals and in taking
care of prisoners, and the helpless fam
lilies of said criminals and prisoners,
who hay been made such by "boozing."
No man on earth has greater SYM
rathy for the old man who has be-
come dependent because of his age and
infiruities. than the writer has; and
none would be more pleased to see all
such men pensioned, than [ would.
And I even say we should pension
these men who have spent their hard
earnings for "booze" and are now
turned out upon the cold charities of
the world, because OF IHelF dBS-lOl VIC
are responsible for their chances Of get
ting the "booze." But, as have al
ready said, 1 am in favor of making
those who make and sell the stuff. pay
back at least part of what they nave
taken from these men.
And I am in favor of making condi-
tions such that our coming generations
shall not have the chance of becom-
ing dependents from this same cause.
1t is bad enough for the laboring man
to toll year in and year out for just
enough to keep soul and body together,
even if spent for the real things neces-
sarv to life, while others grow fat in
wealth, let alone his spending part
of what he makes for that which brings
misery and want, and which causes
people to lose sympathy for him in his
old age; when he has been turned out,
by the man who got the lions share
of his toll, to shift as best he can
Shame on us, the American people, for
such conditions!
w, S. BURROUGHS.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18
WATERWAYS

MT EXICO appreciates the Importance
Vs of waterways and desires de-
ALA velopment of its natural re-
sources and a general opening up
which will provide new fields for
American enterprise and American
goods. Americans should look with
sympathy on the new industrial de-
velopment of the southland. 1t is
shrewdly pointed out by one business
expert that the cultivation of Mexican
commercial friendship is Of far more
Importance to the United States than
might at first thought seem to be the
case
To gain the business friendship of
Mexico was one of the lessons which
our famous panic impressed on the
least of our leading merchants and
manufacturers.
There is a growing demand for ac-
curate information about Mexico, and
American statesmen should keep their
eyes open to possibilities there and in
the South American republics.
When our manufacturers have a
foreign outlet on which they may de-
pend, the small panics and the local
flurries which. owing to our unsettled
economic and sociological conditions,
are constantly interfering, now here,
now there, with production and dis
tribution, win not be mischievous.
Mexico has few rivers of Importance.
Its coast line of 5000 miles has few
inlets or lagoons. Therefore, the water
ways of Mexico must be made. Canals
will be dug wherever practicable. One
intended to connect Tampico and Tux
pam on the gulf coast is already under
way. 1t will be 12O miles long, five
feet deep and forty feet wide, and will
cost $2,OOO,O0O. 1t will be finished within
two years.
OF course the waterways will not be
'slowpoke" canals of the old-fashioned
type, with a horse or a mule walking
on towpath and dragging a Noahs
ark. The canal boats of the future
will be motor boats.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18

the United States have retired mayors
from office in disgrace and have sent
various officials to the penitentiary
and states prison. In the United
States we cannot claim freedom from
graft-far from it-but we can at least
claim we have not reached that lower
deep at which the successful CRATER
receives the approval of the president
and the plaudits of an emulous people.
Perhaps our sister republic thinks the
gulf between Americanism and the
actualities of life in the United States
is so great we cannot afford to be cap
tious when we view the franker meth
DDS of the Mexican boodlers.
So-shake hands, Sister Mexico! The
lash on the convict's back. the clank-
ing chain at the heel of the political
felon." the firing squad and the short
shrift for the radical, the capricious
taxation which asks How much will
he give up without fighting?" the in
sanitary conditions of the homes of
the poor, the lifelong drudgery of the
peon, the continual preying of "class"
upon mass" are all part of your
system" Sweet Sister! But, then, we
have a system" of our own, and are
far more clamorous on the subject of
human rights and liberties and justice
and equality and fraternity than ever
you dreamed of being. So-shake
hands, Sister Mexicol There is, at any
rate, a virtue in sincerity.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18
SHAKE, MEXICOp

VIZ HILE the magazines and news
wv papers of the United States are
" fairly teeming with revelations
of conditions in Mexico and are prom
Using their readers additional horrors,
and while citizens who receive private
letters from Mexico know freedom of
the press is a farce and freedom of
speech unknown, President, Taft and
Dictator Diaz have met and have
clasped hands and exchanged pretty
speeches.
In the country through which the
dictator Travelled in royal state to meet
the president human slavery bends the
back of the peon beneath the burden
and bares it to the lash. Degradation
devours the manhood and womanhood
of the underlings. The classes are pol
ished, suave, educated, plausible. The
masses grovel in dirt and disease, and
their intellectual level is even lower
than that of the tenement dwellers in
the slums Of the United States.
Our sister republic is prey to po-
litical corruption. Ask any citizen who
has lived and transacted business on
large scale In Mexico to tell you
what his privileges" have cost him,
and ask him to name the man into
whose capacious pocket have gone the
revenues derived by methods which in
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18
REGRETS THAT WINE WAS
SERVED AT TAFT BANQUET

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 15.-[Editor
Herald; President Taft in his address
at the banquet made it plain that he
clearly comprehended the city's neces-
stiles and the practicability of the
plans for the development of the harbor
set forth by Mr.. Scott in his address.
The financial pathway of Los Angeles
for unlimited progress being now clear.
another question of overshadowing i'm
portance can but challenge the atten
tion of its thoughtful and loyal citizens.
viz. will the representatives of the edu-
cational and religious interests of the
city, upon which all abiding prosperity
must rest, with equal zeal and success
promote and safeguard those higher
interests? The recall of Mayor Harper
and the election of Mayor Alexander
gives ground for hope that these higher
interests will be duly promoted But
the one disCordant note that prevented
the banquet being all that the friends
of civic betterment could desire gives
cause for anxious thought.
1t is not a pleasant task for me to
speak disapprovingly of any act of a
that I have thus far spoken of. But
the highest, the abiding interests OF
the city impose upon me the necessity
of saying that the serving of wine at
banquet given in honor OF the nation S
chief magistrate who was everywhere
known as a total abstainer was sadly
out of harmony with the occasion and
has caused deep regret with thousands
who cherish the highest regard for the
city's welfare, and the serving of to-
bacco was in equally bad taste, as it
deprived the banqueters of an admir-
able opportunity to show due respect
for and appreciation of the hundreds of
fair women that graced the occasion
with their presence. On learning that
many of the ladies were made sick by
the poisonous fumes of the cigars and
cigarettes 1 felt thankful that as one
of the banqueters 1 was not involved
in responsibility for that infelicitious
condition.
conclude by giving a part Of the
toast which President Taft composed
for San Francisco and which is to be
drank on the 10Th of this month by all
her friends throughout the world, put
ting Los Angeles for San Francisco:
May Los Angeles future growth be as
remarkable as her past, and her civic
righteousness and the individual hap
piness of her citizens keep pace with
It," STEPHEN H. TAFT.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18
CANDIDATES

HITIZENS will have an opportunity
OF choosing at the primaries men
worthy to represent them in Of
flee. With good candidates to vote for,
there will be good officials The pri-
maries system of nomination gives
freedom of choice of candidates, and
reduces to an absurdity any attempt
on the part of a rump convention to
put candidates in the field"
BY studiously neglecting to give them
an opportunity to run for office, the
people should eliminate all machinists
and jumpers"
While the qualifications of various
citizens who are talked Of in connec-
tion with important offices are being
discussed, there can be no doubt of
the great popularity of Mayor George
Alexander. Most of the citizens of Los
Angeles are heartily in favor OF his
denomination and re-election-a fact
that will be made manifest at the pri-
maries.
Good citizens are glad to hear Leslie
Hewitt is willing to run for city
attorney, if he should be chosen as a
candidate. We think beyond reason
able doubt he will be selected. He is
acceptable to all citizens who have at
heart the best interests of Los An
geles.
Harry J. Lelande for city clerk, Cap
tain Hance for treasurer, Walter NAL
lard for assessor, Clarence NJ. Taggart
for tax collector and John S. Myers for
city auditor would be candidates who
at the election would be certain to re-
ceive the support of all good citizens.
Los Angeles is fortunate in the fact
some of the most representative men
of the community are willing to ac-
cept nominations for the council.
This city is distinctly the gamer by
a system of nominating candidates
which gives voters an opportunity to
approve such an admirable list for the
council as Judge John D. Works, w.
]. Washburn, Miles Gregory, ]. ]. An
drews, Martin Betkouski, George Will
liams and Richmond Plant.
So we'll qualified for their highly i'm
portant work are the present members
of the school board that we believe the
best interests of Los Angeles will be
best served by their denomination fol-
lowed by their reelection.
They are Joseph Scott, Fielding J.
Stilson, ]. NJ. Quinn, Roger S. Page
H. w. Frank, Melville Dozier and F.
w. Steddom. With excellent candi-
dates in the field, the prospects OF
good, efficient, economical and progress
( sive government in Los Angeles will
| be equally excellent.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18
GOOD GOVERNMENT

7 N choosing Meyer Lissner for presi-
dent and Marshall Stimson for
n first vice president of the execu-
tive committee Of the Good Government
organization, the committeeman took
occasion to say the promoters and
supporters of the Good Government or
ganization are engaged in the effort
to give an honest and Efficient govern
ment to the city of Los Angeles.
They added: "The present crisis in
our city's affairs is one calling for the
best efforts of all good citizens in it's
behalf" Good government does not
consist of a squirt and a rest. Eternal
vigilance is the price of liberty. Los
Angeles is determined to gain ami
hold the reputation of being the best
governed city in the United States. If
good citizens keep the gangsters out
and dissolve ''solid" combinations as
soon as they are discovered, and take
an active interest in the affairs of the
city, ali Los Angeles soon will be a big
Good Government organization"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18

In consequence Of the increase Of the price
OF meat in Germany, the Berlin restaurant
keepers have indemnified themselves by serv-
ing a smaller quantity of flesh to each diner.
This aroused the phlegmatic German patrons
to action, and they made joint protest and
banded them selves together to prosecute Il
necessary. The restaurateurs have fn the
time satisfied their clients by getting the
carver recognized officially, and he now dis
charges the double functions Of carver and
sworn weigher. According to a Paris contem-
porary these "trancheurs jures' to be
seen in the kitchens with carving knife in one
hand and scales in the other. Weighing out
with mathematical precision the portions OF
meat.-London Globe.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18
OBJECTS TO MILITARY
TRAINING FOR YOUTHS

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12.-[Editor
Herald1 Much is being said in the
papers now about patriotism, the need
for more soldiers, bigger navy fortifica-
tions, and one of our former statesmen
and a retired admiral are engaged in
a newspaper debate as to the tweedle-
dees and tweedledums of naval eff
ficiency. But then this is nothing new;
it is only a little spasm of the military
mania that is being preached from
press and pulpit all over the world.
Great Britain is just emerging from
little nightmare, and we had ours last
fall. But one significant fact should
not be lost sight of, and that is the in
creased tendency toward miltarism. 1t
seems most incredulous the number of
military shools that are f1ourishing. [
am sorry 7 have not the statistics, but
all one has to do is to pick up the
national magazines and see the prepon-
derance of military school advertise
ments. 1t certainly is gloomy spec
tacle to see so many of our young
Americas" trained to be professional
man killers" and imbued with that
hellish doctrine of militarism and vio-
lence while their tender minds are in
a formative condition. Surely this is
crime that liberty must pay dearly Tor.
But while all this bluster is going on
another significant fact has occurred
over in England. During the conVen-
tion of the Workingmen of England and
Germany a sensation was started when
the workingmen of the two countries
agreed that in the event of war be-
tween said countries the workingmen
of one country would refuse to en-
masse to fight their working brethern
of other countries.
This believe is a significant fact for
IT indicates the beginning of the sense
of solidarity of workingmen of the
world. for when the workers refuse to
fight each other there can be no more
war, For war is always "the rich mans
fight and the poor mans battle" At
last the workingmen are learning that
war is only an excuse for their own ex-
nloitation and enslavement for the pro-
lection of monopoly.
DIR. HUMANITAS,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18

1t is said the attorneys Of a public
service corporation revised the Drom-
gold public utilities ordinance. If that
be the case, it looks as if the solid six
members of the council had been con-
spring with the corporations to do
up" Los Angeles. This may sound
harsh, but is warranted by the circum-
stances. The conduct of the solid six
needs a heap of explaining.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18

The Associated Press reporter ingenu-
ously called President Diaz "the al
most hereditary ruler of Mexico" We
hope he meant almost perpetual" al
we cannot guess. We would hate, how
ever, to have to believe he was correct
in the use of the word hereditary" "
Surely he does not mean to insinuate
the perpetual Porfirio is founding a
Diaz dynasty?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18

OF course citizens still may register
for the election, and if they have post
the primaries they should see to it
that they get their vote at the election.
1t is the DUTY of every citizen to vote,
and since he can't vote without regis
tration it is the DUTY of every citizen
to register.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18

Mr.. Mushet referred to educational
purposes as a bottomless hole into
which money was poured. Right now
Brother Mushet is wishing fervently he
could find bottom in the hole he has
got into by his extraordinary opposition
to the school bond issue and his rash
assertions concerning it.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18

Who was so obliging as to give the
enemies of education opinions and sta
tistics to help them in their miserable,
unpatriotic fight against educational
facilities in Los Angeles? w. C.
MUSHET!
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18
AT THE THEATERS

AUDIToRIUM-"Mlle. Mischief"
MAsON-"A Gentleman from Mississippi
BURBANK-"My Wife"
BELAsCO-"OId Heidelberg"
MAJESTIC-"In Dreamland,"
ORPHEUM-Vaudevill
GRAND-"The Yankee Consul"
LOS ANGELES-vaudeville
UNIQUE-Vaudevile and comedy.
FIsCHER'S-Musical travesty.
WALKFR-Musical burlesque.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENT intended
for publication must be accompanied by the
name and address OF the writer. The Herald
gives the widest latitude to correspondents,
but assumes responsibility for their views
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18

Mr.. Mushet is on the defensive.
That's a poor way to begin a campaign.
Still, it's the only way that's open to a
man with a political past"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18

Why on earth does w. C. Mushet
want to be Mayor of Los Angeles? In
the classic language of the blissful
Bowery, "Wot's eatin' him?"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18

Who supplied the ammunition for the
campaign against the school bonds?
w. c. MUSHET!
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18

Vote the bonds, and hasten the day
when Greater Los Angeles will be the
biggest city in the west.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18

promgold and his public futilitiei
ordinance should be sent packing.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18

BE sure you are registered for the
election.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18
The Purple Shows

never saw the purple SHOWS
Described by Cook,
But illustrations will, s'posa-
Be in the book.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18

VOTE THE BONDS.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18

HE American Public Account
ants association meets in an
nual convention in Denver to-
day. The accountants will
come from every state in the
Union, and the great work be-
fnrn tnnr,n ic To nlnNatn fhair
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18

On all matters pertaining to advertising
address Charles r. Gates, advertising man
eger.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18
Weighing Meat Portions

Tomorrow-NIakers of Farm Machinery