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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-28
GOOD ROADS

= OS ANGELES HERALD a pioneer
4, advocate of good roads, is de-
A< lighted to learn in future the
board of county supervisors will recog-
nize the good roads advisory committee,
and work in harmony with it for the
public interest. 1t is believed the MEM
bers of the advisory committee in future
will be recognized i'll all matters for
which they We're appointed.
With public confidence thus restored,
the work of carrying out the good roads
program will proceed. The supervisors
took into consideration the recommen-
dations transmitted by the advisory
committee, and showed a gratifying
desire to meet the public demand for
an absolute, UNREASONABLE, square
deal in the important matter of the
good roads construction and everything
pertaining thereto.
In all great public undertakings har-
mony is of utmost Importance.
And in a democratic republic it is
wishes of the public. After all, the
people are supreme in the United
States, not excepting Los Angeles
county. Since the people consider the
services of an advisory committee indis-
pensable to a thoroughly satisfactory
solution of the good roads problem and
successful accomplishment of this
great undertaking, it is as we'll to allow
the people to have their way.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-28
THE NAVY

n ROBABLY the most remarkable
- part of Admiral Evans lecture
l. was that which is reported as
follows: "You have heard criticisms
of your navy. You have read news
paper articles that questioned the eff
ficiency of your ships. Those ships
have gone round the world without so
much as scratching their paint by
brushing against each other. When
the cruise was through every ship was
in better condition than when it
started. The drilling with the big guns
was such that when we got to where
we could have some target practice
the craftsmanship of the fleet had
been improved 60 per cent over the
preceding year. If that doesn't spell!
efficiency, what in hell does it spell?'
There is some excuse for Fighting
Bob's vehemence. Nothing is so irri-
tating to the professional naval or mill
tarv man or to the professional man
of any type as to be subjected to the
babbling criticisms of the inexpert.
One inexpert person emits a howl of
alarm. Something's wrong" with this
or that or tother part of the national
machinery or equipment. Without
stopping to investigate the authority
of the alarmist or to determine his
status as a competent critic, forthwith
many people and the newspapers read
by them begin to roar Bloody Muir
ther" To cry out before one is hurt
is not mark of courage. 1t is not
surprising the habit is disgusting TO
outspoken Robley d. Evans.
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GREATER LOS ANGELES


~ INCE President Taft will visit Los
Angeles this summer 1t Is for
tuIista the plans for eonsoiiiis1 ttiassi,
are in good shape. We have no doubt
that even If the presidents of grasping
corporations fail to see the value to
California and the nation of a union
between Los Angeles and the seaport
of Los Angeles, the Importance of such
a union will not escape the attention OF
the president of the United States.
The conferences which are being held
between the members of the San Pedro
board of trade committee, Los Angeles
consolidation committee, San Pedro
board of trade committee and commit
tees from the San Pedro chamber of
commerce should smooth away difficult
ties and help to solve the problems
which must be tackled ere consolidation
becomes effective. The meeting last
evening was for the purpose of discuss
ing what San Pedro desires to have
done. It is believed that from the vari-
Gus conferences will result harmonious
action.
The consolidation question shouio De
dealt with in a manner which will re-
fleet the greatest credit on all the part
ners in the Greater Los Angeles plan.
Wisdom and statesmanship should
characterize these discussions and inter-
changes OF views, which will result in
a plan based on the sincere desire to
provide for the greatest good of the
greatest number of citizens of Greater
Los Angeles.
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HOLLYWOOD DAY

TLOWER festivals like that which
II will be held at Hollywood are
N characteristic of California. The
floral beauties of California are cele-
brated all over the world. So are the
beauties of the type Of those who Will
grace the big parade Saturday. Fair
women, fine flowers and splendid
scenic setting in a climate unequaled on
earth will provide material for thou
sands of beautiful pictures which Will
be sent back east and distributed there
while Niagara is still icebound.
One of the most rigorous winters of
which there is any record is lingering
in the Atlantic states. In mild and
lovely Los Angeles it is hard to realize
this. 1t is even harder for our FROST
bound, snow-covered fellow citizens in
the east to realize that in California
it is always June; and a flower festival
like that at Hollywood is of great mis-
sionary value. 1t serves to spread
abroad throughout the country the good
news of California sunshine, California
beauties, California attractions.
Lille ID WOtllI l1Nlll6 III tiAio SANAAHe'S'
That is why so many people who come
here from the east to die make up their
minds to live. 1t is absurd to talk of
dying in a land where perpetual sun
shine laughs dull care away; in a land
where both play and work are easier
than in the east; a land where thou
sand recreations and diversions await
the choice of the pleasure seeker, and
where it is possible to accomplish twice
as much in a given time as in similar
time in the east with about half the
exertion. Look about you and see how
many old folks have renewed their
youth in California. Every reader
knows at least one grandpa or grandma
who had been growing old in the east
but is growing young in California.
Long life, health and happiness are the
portion of the happy people of Califor-
MIA; and this is the message to the
world of our flower festivals.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-28
SAYS MEDIUMS ARE FRAUDS,
NOT MERELY COUNTERFEITS

LOS ANGELES, April 24.-[Editor
Herald] Again 1 have occasion to
thank you, Mr.. Editor, and this time
for your two able editorials on Spirit
ualism; they were to the point and at
an opportune time, as these humbugs
are being Investigated and exposed all
over the country.
In today's Herald "Bible Student"
comes through with that old argument,
which is their one stock-in-tra argu-
ment that they use on all occasions,
that because there is a counterfeit
goes to argue that there is a genuine"
Now, this may be good reasoning,
which | doubt, but, if it is, it does not
answer what I said, for l did not say
they were ''counterfeits," but frauds"
and "humbugs," which are quite diff
ferent from "counterfeits."
Now, / do not believe that all the
Spiritualists are frauds, for know
many that are honest, but duped by
these tricksters called mediums. What
do say is this: That every medium
that practices physical phenomena
that is, the pretense to move objects
without physical force--is fraud and
humbug, and have been shown to
be such whenever or wherever they
have been subjected to scientific tests.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-28
LITERARY POISON

A CCORDING to an old saying, the
a people perish for lack of knowl-
IA edge. False information, how
ever, is worse than none. students
are becoming conscience-stricken as
they realize the inaccuracy of many
text books still on library shelves
still in circulation. No misch1et is
done when the reader is warned to re-
gard such books merely as curiositles
or antiquities, but much irreparable
mischief may result from continuing
to accept such works as authoritative.
The Scriptures tell what will happen
when the blind lead the blind.
The poison label which has been pro-
posed for library use is an excellent
idea.
In obsolete text books there will be
placed a label worded to this effect:
There are more reliable works on
this subject Consult, for instance
1t is only logical that if a library Is to
be of benefit to the public 1t must
eliminate anything that might be mis-
chievous. The to-date reference books
in the library should be kept apart
from the others, and as soon as a book
Is no longer entitled to the distinction
of being to-date it should be removed
to the labeled class and administered
to the public with a printed reserva-
ton or warning.
Only in this way can the educa-
tional value of the library be demon
strated beyond cayil. AS the librarian
says in a circular letter: EVERY IL
brary has to contain text books which
are not now approved by the expert.
For instance, every library has to have
Prescott on Peru and Mexico, and
some of the many books which prove
the Pyramids were built with an as
Economical and geometrical knowledge
such as will never again infest (sic)
the world"
There is no pure food law to COM
pei a library TO put skull and cross
bones on poison history. But every
library is supported by the ultimate
faith that it's drugs are safe. Doubt
less every library feels frequent prick
ings of conscience as to many text
books on it's shelves, and gladly warns
its patrons-WHEN they ASK whether
the book is dependable" 1t is right
the public should be guided in its
cbofra of o11idas
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-28
WORTHY CAUSE

TN order that advantage may be
taken of an offer of a five-acre site
l. at Colegrove for Los Angeles
Orphans home, the sum of s43,SS2 must
be raised within five days. This money
will complete the amount of the build
ing fund, $4,000, which must be assured
If the site Is to be secured. While the
amount already subscribed gives reason
for hope the remainder may be sup
piled, we urge all friends of Los An
geles Orphans home to unite IN an
effort to make the success of the fund
beyond doubt.
An orphans home is public respon-
sibility. 1t is conducted for the bene-
fit Of all the public, as we'll as of the
orphans for whom it provides.
Not only as matter of duty, but for
self-protection and in order to further
its own best interests the community
should see to it that the wants of the
Orphans home are provided for album
dainty. The sum needed must be
raised by May l, and we ask all our
readers who are intending to give to
this worthy cause to send their contri-
buttons without delay. Subscriptions
for any amount will be received gladly.
No matter how small the sum that is
given by any individual it will be ap-
preciated. No one who wishes TO help
this excellent cause should hang back
because he thinks his mite is not worth
offering. Many little makes
muckle. The Herald hopes the orphans
will not be disappointed and that plans
for the new home will be carried out
without hitch or delay.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-28
BELIEVES SOLUTION LIES
IN TAXATION ON THE LAND

LONG BEACH, April 24.-[Editor
Herald: 1t has come to be habit
for men who are not millionaires, nor
likely to be, to rail at the promoters,
and cornerers, and monopolists who
get a grip on the necessities of life,
and make the rest of us pay toll to
their rapacity.
There is no doubt about the evil
effects of 1t. There is no question
about the cruelty of 1t, or the rapa-
ciousness of it all, and there is no doubt
that ninety-nine out OF nun
dred of the GROWERS would do the
Rockefeller, or the Hartman, OF the
Patten act, If they only had the wit,
the audacity and the cash to accom-
plish it.
There is no doubt about the infamy
of speculation on the distresses of one
fellows. There is no doubt about the
virtue of bread riots, when some cor
morant has got his grip on the bulk OF
human provender, and "withholds his
bread from the hungry" There is no
doubt about the fact that this selfish
greed is the impelling force in all COM
merce and trade as it is at present
conducted. This spirit crops out like
a "blotch and letter" all over our body
commercial. 1t is the "buy cheap and
sell dear" of the business world"
These big fellows with longer arms
than the balance are only taking a
legitimate advantage of our absurd and
monstrous statutes, customs, time hon.
ored and worshiped by the vast ma
jority of usa
From whence come the food, the
clothes, the tools, the luxuries of life?
From the earth Who made the earth
The same power that made the air and
water! What were these elements
made for? For human use and enjoy
ment! Why are these gifts of God to
his children not within the reach of
all? Because human greed, sanctified
by theology, Endorsed by custom. built
into our civilization by statute, has
robbed the race of its heritage, its birth
right, and filled the earth with crimi-
nal wealth, despairing poverty and
whole armies of men who are seeking
work but cannot find it,
The crime of this era of history, a
crime that has come down to us with
the cholera and the plague from the
past, is the monopoly of natural OPP
portunities that blots our civilization.
The withholding of the land from the
landless people. A more magnificent
patrimony never fell to a race than was
ours. We have flung it away with a
criminal recklessness that has no par
allel in history. Now we are trying to
beg, buy or steal part of it back. The
only hope for us now is in taxation.
Clap the assessors grip upon the hold
ers of our heritage, and make it, safest
for them to let go their hold.N The
value of inhabi lands belongs to the
community which surrounds it, and
whose toll has enriched 1t. Tax this
value out for the good of the public.
Vacant land will cease to be. Prices of
land will fall to what it is worth for
use, and not for speculation. God
speed the day. SENEX.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-28
WIRELESS PROTECTION

INTERFERENCE with wireless mes
sages is not merely a cause of
Il ANNOYANCE but a source of positive
danger to shipping interests. 1t is only
too easy to imagine circumstances
under which a ship in distress off the
Southern California coast, sending out
c. O. D. signals and anxiously await
ing answering relief would have to
wait in vain, because of a complication
caused by some guileless amateur i'll
Los Angeles who was artlessly Eek
perimenting' in utter ignorance of the
fact (among other things) that he was
experimenting at the hazard of hui
man life.
OF course there is no objection to ex-
pertinent on the part of companies or
individuals following wireless" as a
legitimate vocation, but such respcn-
sible companies or individuals can be
trusted to avoid all experiments which
will involve the slightest risk to Wire
less messages which are being trans
mitted by other senders. Both in the
case of the Republic and in that of the
vessel recently sunk in Magdalena bay
the wireless telegraph was of the ut
most efficacy in saving human life.
The objections to the indiscriminate,
reckless or irresponsible use of wireless
do not apply to receiving stations. They
catch but do not transmit Hertzian
waves. But reckless or ignorant users
of the sending sparks are not only mis-
chief makers, but public menace. We
believe steps should be taken officially
by a carefully regulated, strict license
system to keep the wireless experiment.
tiers within bounds.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-28
THE STAGE LIBELED

WE have never seen anything more
w stupidity small and contemplate
than the statement of a morn
ing Republican newspaper that lit is
true, and sadly so, that the average
of actors are not overburdened with
brains" What is the sense of publish
ing such wholesale and reckless libel
on the members of a profession to
which our strenuous, modern civiliza-
ton is under obligation not any less
real, not any less great because some
piffing parroquet fails to appreciate
its Importance to our high-tension So
cial system?
The stage today, more than any
other profession, is caring for the
brains of the nation by providing
special mental treatment the high
therapeutic qualities of which are rec
ognized by every intelligent man who
knows how to think. We put 1t mildly
when we say the average actor is at
least as brainy as the average person
engaged in other pursuits; and from
time to time stage training evolves
a genius of the magnificence of Will
liam Shakespeare, who was member
of a stock company, or the artistic
quality of Henry Irving, one of the no.
blest human beings who ever lived; or
the sterling goodness and worth of our
lamented Modjeska; or business
manager and man of affairs of the
shrewdness of Francis Wilson, whose
excellent use of his busy life ought to
make impossible the publication of
such immature balderdash as that with
which the public of Los Angeles was
yesterday affronted.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-28

o: that size would use about 1900 bar
rels of oil per day.
Now. that sounds good to the citizens
of Bakersfield and to all other people
where oil is their stock in trade
I suppose when the admiral visits
Fresno and Hanford he assures the
pc ople there that IL the government
would build and maintain twenty-four
battleships all of the navy would eat
raisins, so that would sound GOOD to
them. He also said that with twenty
four battleships on the Pacific coast,
peace would be assured
There is a country over across the
Pacific which is on the map and is
known by the name of Japan. They
also have a retired admiral who is
going over that country making
speeches and charging SO cents a seat
in the theaters to hear the words of
wisdom from man who has been
there and knows all about 1t. This
great Japanese orator and fighter tells
the little brown men who pay SO cents
to hear him that If Japan will build
and maintain twenty-four battleships
peace will be assured He also tells
them that as they have an overpro-
duction of rice, in order to keep
these twenty-four battleships in com
mission 1t will take several thousand
pounds of rice per day and then every
thing in the kingdom will run smooth
ly.
What is wrong with things when the
more rice, raisins and oil we waste
in the army or navy the better off we
are? Q. ]. BUNDYs
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-28

There have only been two or three
mediums of any note that have escaped
exposure, and they would not submit
to tests that would eliminate fraud.
On the other hand, thousands of
mediums of the first rank have been
exposed repeatedly, and these mediums
produced the phenomena that Spirit
ualism rests on.
Bishop Garrison knows all their
tricks, having practiced as medium
for years, and he, understand, will
undertake to duplicate any mediums
work in this city. Now, this is the
opportunity for the Spiritualists to con-
vince a lot of skeptics. Stop abusing
Garrison and show us something that
he can't duplicate. He put the shadow
of the cross" humbug out of business,
so keep him at IT, as there is plenty
of work here to do.
Don't neglect to get and read the
list of books gave in Sundays Herald,
April Is; II dh outt snirif,aIism ism " n.y. V
C. T. SPREADING.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-28

Mayor Alexander and the members
of the new board of health are econo-
MIXING. There is something so surpris-
ingly novel and strange about an adj
ministration which makes a study of
how to spend the peoples money to the
best advantage when it should be spent,
and how to save it when it should be
saved, that it is hard to become accus-
toned to it. The Herald congratulates
the public servants who are showing
bilities.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-28

Orangemen of Florida who are visit
ing Los Angeles state they are on a
working expedition, and not pleasure
trip. But even working expedition in
Southern California is a pleasure trip,
as our good friends probably are realiz-
ing. 1t is gratifying to have the SUI
premacy of the California fruit indus
try acknowledged. The only rather
regrettable popularity of the Califor-
MIA orange is it won't rhyme; otherwise
it would be as celebrated in song as it
is in business. AS the Hollanders say,
"Oranje bowen"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-28
1T HAS ARRIVED

See the crocus in the park?
Spring
Hear the dogwoods distant bark?
Spring.
Hear the shad mans plaintive cry?
Smell the new-made rhubarb pie?
See the Easter hat go by?
Spring.
Notice shortcake on the bill?
Spring.
Feel in need of some good pill?
Spring.
Smell fresh paint across the way?
See the baseball teams at play?
Want to go a-fshing, hey?
Spring.
Kansas City Journ
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-28
A CITY BEAUTIFUL


EoUR events transpiring within the
81 month in the national capital
= mark to the American public the
growing strength of the nationwide
movement for better and more beau
tiful cities. Today the body of Major
L'Enfant, that genius who planned the
city of Washington, lies-on the way
to refinement In Arlington cemetery
a short while In the rotunda of the
capitol, whose site he had selected. On
May will be unveiled the statue to
Alexander Shepherd, sometime pres-
dent of the board of public works in
Washington, and under whom the city
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-28
AT THE THEATERS

BELASCO-"The Dollar Mark
MASON-Nat Goodwin and Edna Goodrit
AUDITORIUM-Dark
BURBANK-"AreY You a MasonT"
MAJESTIC-Kolb & Dill.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
GRAND-Tt Happened in Nordland."
MISREPRESENTATION
LOS ANGELES-Vaudeville
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
UNIQUE-"A Pair of Schemers.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-28
EVANS REMARKS
ABOUT USE OF OIL IN NAVY

BAKERSFIELD, Cal. April "a
TFditor Herald: Admiral Evans was
in this city and made speech in
which he told his auditors that If this
govel ninent would build twenty-four
more battleships they would burn so
rruch oil that 1t would consume all the
surLlus oil In this country; that fleet
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-28
THE NEW EFFENDI
NFEHEMMED RESCUED EF'FEND1

III III EdEM MED hESC6bD ISr L E1AND "a
VI is the name of the new Turkish
sultan. 1t is not as easy to jug
gle with as was that of Mr. Abdul
Hamid, deposed. AS soon as Abdul
began to give evidences of his char
acter the smart London photographers
dubbed him abdul the Damned" and
the nickname did not help his cause In
Christendom.
Turkey is now in fair way Of be-
coming a civilized or, rather, European
lied nation. If the new sultan and his
Young Turks succeed in restoring order
and in saving the lives of American
and other missionaries menaced by
Moslems, they will earn the good will
of Christendom.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-28

Our Japanese visitors may or may not
be proud of the enterprise of their fell
low countryman, Shima, who has made
himself the potato king of California,
and is said to be responsible for present
eccentricities in the price of spuds.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-28

Japanese sailors on shore leave
bought picture postal cards instead of
drinks. The Mikados jackies have not
yet reached that stage of civilization"
in which men keep their spirits up by
pouring spirits down"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-28

Dishman discipline in the police force
stances; but there can be no doubt the
force is being nightly improved by the
new chiefs policy of rigor and vigor.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-28

Associated Charities will offer prizes
for the student selling most tags on tag
day. We humbly suggest the Charities
should also offer prizes to the citizen
buying the most tags.