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Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21

books. The books necessary for his
course of study are loaned to each
scholar, and at the end of the year he
returns them. The board of education
keeps a constant and plentiful supply
of books. Those that become out Of
date are supplemented or replaced.
Under the conditions which are still
tolerated by the people Of California,
the temptation to derive extra profits
and revenues by constantly changing
text books is very great. The indig-
nant mother of five school children
speaking for many other perplexed and
angry parents, says in letter to The
Herald: Happy school time is here
again with its customary school-book
graft" 1t Is most unfortunate there
should be any opportunity to associate
the word graft" with the word
school" Let US hope measures will
be taken to furnish free school books
and to curb the impetuous desire Of
the printers political allies to rush out
new books to take the place of others
that, hardly soiled and indeed almost
new, must be thrown away.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
BOOK GRAFT

NY FAR the heaviest school tax
X imposed on the people of this
~ community is the tax collected
in the form of prices paid for school
books. With one child at school the
tax is perceptible. With two it is an
noying. With three it necessitates
economizing. And mothers and fathers
Of big families find it as serious a
problem as rent or clothing-in fact,
not infrequently it interferes with the
rent and clothing fund. School chill
dren complain there is not as great
opportunity as there used to be of buy
ing secondhand books. because school
books become obsolete at the end of a
school year.
Some text books certainly go out of
date, but with a proper regulation of
the school book system inexpensive
supplements would bring the old vol
umes up to the requirements Of the
current school year.
other states have found It greatly
to their advantage to do away with
the system OF merchandising school
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
DESCRIBES BRUTALITY OF
SOME RECENT BULL FIGHTS

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19.-[Editor
Herald: Bull fighting is not allowed
In the United States and SO the edge
of Mexico is the arena. At least once
month during the summer fights are
held at Tia Juana and Juarez. 1t Is a
brutal Mexican sport which is financed
and almost wholly supported by Amer
leans, and nearly every American that
attends declares he goes only because
the Mexican will have the fight any
way and going just this once to see
how bad it really is" is the lame eX
cuse that keeps the fight going. To
begin with it is an unfair sport, for
no matter how well the bull defends
himself he must die, but in the recent
encounter they were much worse be-
cause most of the bulls are weak, poor
and thin and tired from shipment and
did not have the strength or ambition
to fight, and were goaded on by BAN
derillos thrust about two inches into
the shoulders and working on the prin-
cipal of fish hook in the hand If at
tached to the end Of a walking stick.
In this manner they are enticed to
fight by waving red capes in their
faces, and some of them were too
WEAK 10 IOllOW IIl6 udB dilQ dllCI
having six banderilles thrust into them
the matadors proceed to stab the
bull in the back of the neck with
sword with sufficient force to drive 1t
to the heart, and fail in most in
stances but keep on repeating the Jab-
bing attempts until the animal is
punctured in so many places that he
drops from exhaustion or loss of blood.
Some times he has to defend himself
at this stage with sword run clear
through the body.
At one of the fights at Tia Juana,
the matadors were hissed by thous-
and people at the brutality, and out of
every pocket beneath the hiss had
come a good hard dollar for admission,
and before the battle was over nearly
half of the spectators had left. Five
bulls were entered to the arena, only
one of which was able to fight, three
were foully murdered and two that
were too poor and weak to fight were
returned to the bull pen and left there
with banderillos stuck In them. The
attention of the, management was
called to the situation, but 1t did no
good. Att the last fight similar tactics
were engaged in and to add to the
carnal festival an old Bengal tiger was
made to fight one of the poor, starved
bulls that was too weak to fight on
the previous week and had been
turned back in mutilated condition:
Both the old tiger and the bull did
not care to fight and did so only when
prodded with sharp pointed iron rods by
the matadors. Finally after the bull
had had his nose chewed off and the
feline was gored and trampled by the
brute, the bull was taken from the
cage and returned to his pen and the
tiger was removed from the arena in
the cage.
But the saddest part of it all is the
drunkenness and the brutality engen-
dered in the audience, which no eye
can measure and which no brain can
weigh. HUMANE,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
EDUCATION

~ NONDITIONS in the public schools
4 will be discussed at a mass meet
~ ing held in Simpson auditorium
this evening under the auspices of the
City club. 1t is hoped a method may
be devised of overcoming the educa-
tional financial stringency caused by
the extraordinary action of the enemies
of education who held up" the school
bonds. School enrolment is greater
than ever before In the history of Los
Angeles and there is more urgent need
than at any time in the history of our
city for money with which to furnish
the educational facilities which this
American community is under obliga-
ton to provide for all the children.
The City club has made the PROPOSE
tion the city use part of it's aqueduct
interest and sinking fund for the pur-
chase of a block of the bonds, and this
suggestion, which has met with much
approval, will be one of the plans sub
mitted to the meeting. We have no
doubt the wisdom of our citizens as
sembled for counsel will evolve a means
Of solving the educational problem and
relieving the congestion which is inter-
fering with the work of the schools.
But 1t is the fact that any human
being who calls himself good cit
izen' could have had the heart or the
power to plunge into even temporary
confusion the great public interest
which is nearest and dearest to the
hearts of the American people that
gives pause and cause for astonished
speculation. What motive for which a
reasonable excuse could be offered
could exist behind the most diabolical
attack on one of the greatest American
liberties, FREEDOM OF EDUCA-
TION, that has been made In modern
times or IN any times?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
COY. JOHNSON

! ~ OYERNOR JOHN A. JOHNSoN'S
lgT name was synonymous with
N pluck, grit. ability, honesty.
He was a man of the people, and con-
sequently for the people, and the peo-
pie stood by him steadfastly. Hence
there was presented the spectacle of a
! Democratic governor triumphing at
the polls in a Republican country in
Republican year. 1t was more than
Scandinavian support which accom-
plished this result. because there were
many other men OF Scandinavian
blood In Minnesota. but only one Gov
ernor Johnson. It was his sterling
| character. 1t was his Amertcanism.
He had studied American principles
! and believed they should be put into
practice. Therefore, in public life. as
in private. he tried to live in the spirit
of regard for the rights of his fellow
men, of reciprocity with his fellow
men. of brotherly friendship with his
fellow men.
1t was thorough. unshakable belief
in him that won him votes. It was
not "skillful electioneering." It was the
life he lived.
His sincerity and forthrightness
were no less marked than his amia-
hility. He was what Roosevelt would
call Square deal man." Indeed. he
was a type of American directly op-
posed to a type denounced by Roose-
welt. He was a sterling and most de-
sirable citizen, of unquestioned in
tegrlty. a political Puritan in an age
of Cavalier politics, he represented all
that Is best and noblest in our national
life and traditions.
BY his death the nation is deprived
of one of its foremost presidential
possibilities" In all probability, he
would have received the next Demo-
cratic nomination, and many Repub-
hcans and Democrats believe he would
have been elected. He possessed
personal magnetism" to an extra
ordinary degree, and his integrity was
as great as his ability.
Governor Johnson was man whose |
place in the national life will be hard
to fill. And the fact the principles Of |
the Democratic party appealed to and |
enlisted the ardent sympathy and sup
port Of such a staunch and true
American showed he believed Democ-
racy was more nearly akin to Ameri- |
canism than was any other political
1aith. Governor Johnson will be |
mn efv
was a man Of the people. and. elected |
to his high office by the people, he
worked for the people constantly and
conscientiously. He leaves for the in
spiration and encouragement of the
people the record OF a career of blame
less political purity and the highest |
integrity and patriotism.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21

pure enough to balance up with its
natural, God-given advantages of eli
mate, tree, flower and mountain.
We noticed somewhere In connection
with the question: of the smoking or
dinance the phrase personal liberty"
1t is a fossil, out of date in this age
and country. Everywhere through our
Declaration of Independence and con-
stitution it is stated that our govern
ment was instituted to protect the
rights of the people in the peaceful
pursuits of life, liberty and happi-
ness" The rights of the people, not
of certain individuals or certain
classes; the rights Of the many as
against the rights of the one. Entire
personal" liberty is to be found only
in a Robinson Crusoe existence. In
all public places and public affairs 1t
is the duty of the government to pro-
tect the many at the expense of the
personal liberty of the Individual
When smoking was the common habit
1t was all right in public places. Now
that it is not the common habit and
is offensive to the majority it should
cease along with profane or indecent
language in such places. E. e.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
PRISON REFORM

w ILLIAM C. OWEN, an expert
w criminologlst and penologist,
with the admirable foundation
OF an excellent, practical newspaper
training which taught him how to OBJ
serve and report accurately, has de-
voted much time and attention to the
prison question, and his articles on the
subject in Los Angeles Herald and
other publications have attracted no
tice, aroused conscience and stimulat-
ed thought.
Like all refornlers, he has sometimes
been misunderstood. and apparently
some critics have taken great pains to
misunderstood him. For instance, Sin
gleton Walter Davis In the Humanita-
manitarian article with regard to Mr..
Owens criticism OF the backwardness
Of America in the matter of prison re-
form and criminology. By way of re-
ply to Mr.. owens array of facts and
figures bearing on the subject, Mr..
Davis called him 1.-The bloody English
man who hates America but is so self
sacrificing as to stay In It," Really to
read Mr.. Davis savage enthusiasm in
the cause of Humanitarian prison
unreforn one would think he owned
private penitentiary or was president
OF a state prison trust.
Mr.. owen, whose home for thirty
years has been the United States, was
born in England, we believe. Let US
remind Mr.. Davis that no human being
knows where he was born. The man
who tells you 81 was born in Soandso"
means he has been informed his birth
took place in the geographical locality
mentioned, and to the best of his
knowledge and belief he was born
there. But, for the sake of pleasing
the splenetic Davis (who asserts he
was born in the United States, but how
does he know positively?. let us grant
Mr. owen was born in England, and
let US ask what in the name of the
great horned toad has that to do with
his lecture on the American prison
system?
Prison reform is needed in the United
States. Practical penology should be a
profession and not a political graft.
Mr.. Davis says Mr.. Owen made tex
travagant assertions backed by the
egotistic authority of himself"
Mr.. Owen has many friends in news
paper as well as in social reform cir
cles. They know that like all men who
have devoted their lives to a cause and
have allowed it (as 1t were) to absorb
their identity, he is very far from
being "egotistic."
Everything considered, we think Mr..
Owen is telling the truth about the
treatment of criminals, and that for a
correct description of Mr.. Davis at
tack we should borrow and transplant
Mr.. Davis language. 1t consists of
"extravagant assertions backed by the
egotistic authority of himself"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
FEDERATION

A PROPOS Of the Beresford speech,
~ a contemporary is anx ous to ret
A the other nations" into the fedora
tinn. BY al means. But just at pres
end the English-speakIng nations,
who have a greater community of
interest than any other nations, are
the only peoples who are speaking of
federation. If Germany, Franco, Japan,
Russia, Spain and Italy want to come
in, SO much the better. But up to
date they have not said word about
a desire to federate. On the other hand,
the plain citizens of the six English
speaking, or, If you like il better, Enk-
lish writing and reading nations, have
expressed desire to see the question
brought into practical nolitIcs If for
no other purpose than to add to public
safety and reduce public expenses.
Lord Beresford presented the plan
merely as an economical measure. and
II is merely as an economical measure
1t must be considered. It's efficacy
from that point is already beirg dem
onstrated. Our contemporary viii per-
haps acknowledge the vast saw p TO
the Canadian and American govern
ments which results from the absence
of armed garrisons and forts along the
border and great navies aon the lakes.
OF course, the European nations will
ultimately enter into a peace pact. We
think this is as reasonably and logic
ally certain as any event that may be
predicted.
But the United States, the United
Kingdom and the United Colonies
would form a natural and solid foun.
dation on which the structure of a
humanitarian goveTnmsnt for the pro-
motion of international peace and
prosperity and the greatest good of the
greatest number of human beings
might be erected.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
AFFINITY AVENUE

There was once a time in the golden days,
When 1t went by the name of Lovers Lane
Then. the sky was clear, and the air was
pure
The men were true, all the maids demure-
The moonlight fell with never stain
On the fiower-bordered ways.
But now, it's e grotesque poster rout
That crowds on Affinity Avenue
The men are true-to other mems wires
A maid demure-n a breath gown-striyes.
To give the fullest effect that's due,
And an arc-light helps her out
There's a band that plays in the sarish
maze.
Old age Is flirting with sweet sixteen
A lady whose hair is silver white
Is bidding schoolboy a fond good night
The crowds mad laughter comes In between~
And it's muddy along the ways.
We may laugh and rail at the motley crew,
But we sigh for the golden days again
When girls were good-and men, were, too,-
And their hearts were the truest kind Of
When no one who wandered in Lovers Lano
Had heard Of the Avenue
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
RUMP OUTLAWS

NJ HAT status in law will the can
w dIdates of the rump convention
possess? None whatever. They
will be outlaws. The rump convention
will be an unlawful conspiracy, and the
men 1t nominates for public office will
have as much legal standing as so
many pirates.
The city charter recently adopted by
a large majority vote of the people
provides that there shall be nothing on
the ballot to indicate the party affilia-
tion or source of candidacy or support
of any candidate. Don Quixote Nc
Garyin and his merrie men proposes to
violate the intention of the city charter
Delegates to the Parker McGarvin
convention who have been reading The
Herald are eagerly rspudiating all asso-
citation with the rump. Don Quixote
must be startled to find his fellow citl-
gems are as wide awake as he. They
don't propose to give the machine a
chance of making fools Of them. The
rump convention won't be a convan-
tion at all.
What will it be? Or what may 1t be-?
Well, it may be a tea party or mass
meeting, or a picnic, or a barbecue, or
a revival, or a singing school, or an
academy for the feeble-minded, or
sewing circle, or living pictures. or
charades (acted out. y'know), or an
amateur minstrel show, but it cannot
lawfully be a convention.
Now why should any decent, self, re-
specting citizen butcher his reputation
for common sense to make an S. P.
holiday?
The entire proceeding from A to 2
is a mere piece of banal and idle buf-
foonery, as Quixotic as the Don him
self; and a McGarvinlzed candidate
will have as much chance before the
law and the electorate as a galvanized
frog.
The very method of his nomination
will make him ineligible for election,
while IL the convention should be ad-
vised of the preposterous nature of its
program, and should save It's face by
merely resolving itself into a suggest
ing committee, 1t will find It can't
svengali the public with any machine
hypnotism.
The people win treat all machine
made candidates, whether nominated
by the rump convention or merely sug-
gested by it, by the same method which
is used on drums and other noisy dis
turbances. The friendly son Of St.
Patrick gave the drum good sound
batin', and the friendly sons of Los
Angeles win give the rump a good hard
kickin'.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
EAsTERNER COMMENTS ON
SMOKING IN STREET CARS

COVINA. Cal, Sept. 19.-[Editor
Herald: We have gladly noticed the
ordinance against smoking on street
cars, now before the city council, and
hope it will pass.
Coming as strangers from the east.
we were struck with the shabbiness of
our first reception in Los Angeles.
However beautiful the suburbs of the
city, however fine the climate, the
greeting to a tired traveller is not equal
to that of eastern cities. The shabby
little stations, remote from the center
of business, are in striking contrast to
the impressive, comfortable, commo-
dious, centrally located union stations
of so many other cities.
Then the rather shabby cars and
blowing tobacco smoke struck the
writer very forcibly on coming from
the Twin cities of the north with their
bright, scrupulously clean electric cars
with conspicuous signs mo Smoking"
and mo Splitting" All hail the day
when Los Angeles shall have union sta
tions, streets, car service and all pub
lie buildings clean. commodious and
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
sUFFRAeETTE OBJECTS TO
DOG CATcHERs' SALARIES

LOS ANGELES. Sept. 1S.-[Editor
Herald: To those who are satisfied
with unjust conditions the actions Of
those who want a square deal appear
absurd. The Tories considered George
Washington and his followers not only
absurd, but hysterical and had not the
Revolutionary fathers won out they
would not receive the high praise for
their belligerency which is bestowed on
them.
taxation without representation, the
woman Tories, being satisfied with q
position of subjectivity, cast their in
fiuence with the governing class and
heap opprobrium on the woman revolu-
tionists who do not kiss the hand that
smites. But when once liberty has
been attained. they, like the Tories OF
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21

old, will fall over themselves in their
efforts to secure the benefits which al
ways come to a class which has be-
come free.
In America the first demand for
political justice for women was made
by a Catholic woman in 1747, 100 years
ago, yet there are women who believe
that merely requesting men to deal
Justly by women is all that is needed
to secure their political enfranchise-
ment. The Tory women of long ago
thought Margaret Brent hystertcal, bel
ligerent and absurd, and in South
California today is proved the truth
of the old adage, History repeats
Itself"
Every taxpaying woman in Los An
geles who can calmly contemplate the
fact that 1915 is paid monthly so that
eleven "dog catchers" may receive
their reward for services rendered ward
politicians should move to Ocean Park,
where everything except the ocean is
calm. ELIZABETH QUIGLEY.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
President Tnft in one Of his addresses

President Taft in one of his addresses
announced he is considering a recon-
mendation to congress in compliance
with the Republican platform promise
OF additional legislation in aid of en-
forcing the interstate commerce laws.
He says the rate bill has not furnished
the relief against unduly discriminatory
rates with the exactness and effective
ness which were expected. The fine art
Of rate gouging is still practiced, as
the people of California know only too
we'll The president favors the creation
Of an interstate commerce court
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21

A conference Of civic bodies has been
called for October In the assembly hall,
Chamber of Commerce, to consider the
advisability of Immediately taking the
necessary steps to consummate the for
nation of the state of South California.
The northern brethren at last realize
the citizens of the south are in earnest.
Well, our fine state will be a good
neighbor of theirs. But South Cali
fornia won't have a rival anywhere.
There will be only one South Cali
fornia.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
AT THE THEATERs

AUDIToRIUM-"The Witching
Hour"
MASON-"The Fighting Hope"
BuRBANK-"The Three of Us"
RELAScO-"Classmates."
MAJESTlc-"The Politicians"
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
GRAN D. Across the Divide"
LOS Notwithstanding.
UNlQUE-Vaudeville and Comedy.
FISCHER'S-Burlesque.
EMPIRE-Musical comedy.
ARROW-Variety.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
A MOOT QUESTION

Where is Mabels waistine?
Is what ! want TO know;
It used to be just half way up,
But now II seems as though
She's shifted 1t. and, If you please,
It's somewhere round about her knees.
Where is Mabefs waistlineY
few short years ago
Twas just beneath her dimpled arms,
But now it's way below
The site Dame Fashion formerly 2
Declared 1t a la mode to be.
Where Is Mabels waistlne7
The modes may come and go;
But while the public has to guess,
In confidence / know:
A good right arm reveals to me
--PueI
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21

Billy Arkell says there's a big boom
coming. Business viii be brisk during
the next two years. In token of good
faith, he proposes to place" $4,000, 900
in Los Angeles for eastern capitalists
Money talks.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21

Colonists are arriving in Los Angeles
in plenty of time TO see the triumph
of virtue by the "swattIng" Of vice IN
the Los Angeles way When the now
chums see the best citizens Of Los An
geles and South California are In favor
of good government they fall into line
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
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for publication must be accompanied by the
name and address of the writer. The Herald
gives the widest latitude to correspondents,
but assumes NO responsibility for their vieMs
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21

Five elephants we're stampeded and
A sixth, that is branded S. P. on the
rump, is about to bust loose and do
likewise in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21

Said 'Rump' McGarvin unto Walter:
II must confess l sometimes falter."
Unto McGarvin said "Rump" Parker:
II wish we'd kept it somewhat darker,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21

Hurrah for the approaching visit of
President Taft to South California!
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21

We hope President Taft will christen
South California when he makes that
speech.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21

South California will be the most at
tractive state in the Union.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21

Colonists are coming in, rejoicing in
the weather.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21

on ali matters pertaining TO advertising
address Charles R. Gates. advertising man
Rger.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21

Tomorrow--The Fate Of Korea-Iv; King
om-Empire-VassaL
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
THE FATE OF KOREA
ITT-Murder and Diplomacy
By Frederic j. Haskin

Korea.-The resignation
OF Prince Ito as resident
general of Korea recalls the
dramatic chapter of Korean
history which followed the
coming of Viscount Miura to