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Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18
DRAWS LESSON FROM THE
CONVICTION OF A BIGAMIST

LOS ANGELES, July 14-[Editor
Herald: What better argument could
there be for the freedom of woman
from the serfdom of man than the ex-
ample and spectacle of Christian john
son, professional bigamist?
Such things are only possible so long
as man holds the key to the door that
leads TO wifehood and motherhood and
admission to the social life. Under the
present disgusting custom of forcing
women to get by hook or by crook,
man, a woman will purchase the title
of Mrs" at any cost or any sacrifice.
There is nothing the world so despises
as a woman without this handle to her
name. Is il any wonder that Johnson
and thousands of men like him have it
in their power to say: Women are
fools, and man can get one by spoonirg
over her a while" He told the morti
flying truth, but he said nothing of the
condition that caused women to be so
cheap, namely the GET MARRIED
ORDER"
When it will not be possible for any
Tom, Dick or Harry to purchase a
woman with 81 certidcate-and 1t viii
lie with that woman herself to say who
shall be her owner, or whether she sees
fit to own herself-then it will no longer
be necessary to send man to the peni-
tentiary for seven years because Wom-
en- bit at the plum without asking any
questions as to whether the plum was
his to give. 1t win be a worse dis
grace to make bad matrimonial bar
gain than not to make matrimonial
bargain at all.
Give woman freedom from the COM
pulsory bondage of marriage, and when
she does see fit to marry, give her the
same right to select her partner that Is
now alone the right of man, and save
so many trials for bigamy and trials
of divorce. Woman will not then grab
anything thrown her way.
VIRGINIA DARE.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18
REVOLUTION

VI HAT might be described as a
w woman's rebellion is raging in
" England, and while for the
nonce 1t forms subject for spicy para
graphs and minor wittlcisms, yet it
may lead to a political revolution.
Woman suffragsts, or "suffragettes," ="
as they are called, raised so much dis
turbance in the public streets and
caused so much damage by breaking
expensive windows that the authorities
caused the arrest of militant sisters"
who were picked out as ringleaders.
In jail, they asked to be treated as
political prisoners, and when the re-
quest was refused they rioted in prison,
refusing to wear jail garb or obey or
ders. They resisted attendants who
tried to remove their clothing so they
might don prison uniform; kept up a
lively conversation, then broke the jail
windows and signaled the outside world
by waving feminine articles of apparel
The spirit of Seventy-siX was not
more in earnest than the spirit of
Ought-nine, and the leading woman
rebel Of England, when she used her
patent feathers for ammunition, and
with a high heel caught a prison guard
souarely between the eyes and knocked
him out, doubtless fired a shoe that
will be heard from around the world.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18

who regard the scriptural account Of
the fall of our first parents as a myth
are blind to the truth of the reality of
"sin in the flesh" 1t is not "nonen-
tity," q mere figment Of the brain, but
rather a. real afhiction of the vital or
gans OF our body.
The apostle Paul declares this sin In
the flesh to be a law in his members
warning against the law of his mind.
The Psalmist cries out in the same
strain, thus:
II am troubled I am bowed down
greatly; I go mourning all the day
long,
Thus we see that the man adam"
became a degenerate plant of strange
vine or a corrupt tree, and having
eaten the sour grape set the teeth of
his posterity on edge.
The sin in the flesh is transmitted
from parent to child in greater or
lesser degree, as the law of God is
obeyed or broken.
The knowledge of this great truth
sheds a brilliant light on the follow
ing passages: -,
whence cometh the seed) Is deceitful
above all things and desperately wicked.
"Who can know it?
81, the Lord, search the heart. I try
the reins Cor loins).
Examine me, o Lord, and prove me;
try my reins and my heart"
Finally, the "sin in the flesh" is the
cause. Our sins or transgresslons is
the effects. J. r. KITS.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18
RECKLESS SNESS
MOTORISTS Protective association

MOTORISTS Protective association,
MI the Anti-Juggernaut Automobile
AIA club and the chief of police are
Offering rewards for the arrest and con-
viction of the speed maniac who killed
Mrs. Dora Feller. F'renzied automo-
billing must be ended in Los Angeles.
This city is not a speeding ground. 1t
is a metropolis crowded with human
beings, who are entitled to ample and
adequate protection from reckless boys
or irresponsible fools who are allowed
to drive powerful engines on the streets.
Automobiles and auto vehicles of all
kinds are necessities of modern civili-
zation. But they must be used with
discretion, and the danger arising from
their use in populous cities should be
modified by precautions that will help
safeguard the public, and the chief
precaution is common prudence, COM
mon sense. The Motorist Protective
association, the Anti-Juggernaut Auto
mobile club and the chief Of police are
engaged in a most laudable work, one
that will be appreciated both by the
public and by automobile owners and
dealers, when they are united in an
effort to end reckless driving within
the city limits. In view of the latest
automobile tragedies, 1t is painfully
evident fines neither punish nor deter
speed maniacs. A term of Imprisonment
appears to be the only effective pun
ishment for reckless automobile driv-
In
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18
WOMAN REPLIES TO WRITER
OF DISGUSTING COLUMN

LOS ANGELES, July 17.-tEditor
Herald1: 1t is with satisfaction that
we notice that a certain writer, of
disgusting column in one of your sun
day contemporaries reads The Herald
Letter Box" 1t may help to get him
out of that little narrow-minded groove
he has been in so long, since he has
had the floor all to himself, with no.
body to talk back. He calls people
who object to boys going swimming to-
gether without any clothing. nasty
minded prudes." Would he be willing
for his daughters to go swimming to-
gether without any clothing? II not,
he is a "nasty-minded prude," accord
ing to his own theory. The sun and
fresh air would do the girls just as
much good as the boys. What is sauce
for the goose is sauce for the gander.
The saying, ITO the pure all things are
pure" has been used to excuse any
kind of vice, and can be carried to any
extent. Even Mrs. Glyn uses 1t as an
excuse for her disgusting book. She
brands people as "evil-minded" who OBJ
ject to it. AS The Herald dramatic
critic says of the play "Three Weeks"
its aim is to cast a halo around vice.
All immoral writers take refuge be-
hind the quotation, ITO the pure all
things are pure" book which aims
to make vice look attractive is the
most dangerous kind of immoral litera-
ture. The writer in the Letter Box,
who mentioned the fact that parents
allowed their boys to go swimming to-
gether, in a state of nature, while they
refused the same privilege to their
girls, was merely trying to show the
double standard of modesty, which
leads to the double standard of vir-
tue. II anyone thinks 1t nasty minded"
to object to nudity let them be con-
sistent and allow their boys and girls
the same rights.
HELEN STANDISH.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18
COWARD'S WEAPON

n EVOLVER in the hands OF a man
X criminalized by lust for revenge
~ was responsible for a tragedy in
Los Angeles. If it had not been for
the revolver the collision between the
revengeful miner and his victim prob
ably would have taken the form of a
fist fight. But the possession of a
revolver suggested to Ryan that he kill
the man against whom he had a grudge.
The revolver suggested murder Why?
Because a revolver makes murder easy.
The most despicable, loathsome, un-
speakable coward on earth can kill the
bravest hero under the sun if the cow
ard use revolver. The sale of revoly-
ers, excepting to the army, navy and
police, should be prohibited in the
United States, and since only the gov
ernment should have the legal right TO
use firearms the government should
manufacture its own firearms and make
its own powder. 1t is because revolvers
are cheap and common that murders
are common in the United States. Cheap
weapons cheaper human life.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18
DISAPPOINTMENT

NEUCH disappointment has been
Ak caused by the award for the
AiA "best decorated building" dur
ing the Elks' visit. The prize fell to
one of the buildings the ordinary NOR
tai not gifted with the second sight Of
committeeman or judges, would have
declared was decidedly not in it" with
about a dozen buildings that could be
mentioned. That such a choice should
have been made was surprising as well
as saddening. 1t would almost seem
the award had not been made seri-
ously; that those responsible for 1t
had not been in earnest. But if any
subtle jocularity was Intended the
praiseworthy citizens who took pains
to decorate their buildings in an i'm
pressive, artistic, convincing and ex-
pensive manner failed 10 see ii, The
designer of the successful decoration
might have made a hit If the decOra-
tion had been intended for a park
entrance, but by no stretch of the
Imagination could his DECORATIVE
STRUCTURE be mistaken for d
DECORATED BUILDING. The sue
cessful decoration was not only not on
a building. but it showed no flags and
displayed no lights, 1t failed to illum-
mate or decorate the streets. 1t was
(almost literally) a side show. Several
finely decorated buildings, among them
Hamburger's, Robinson's Boston store,
Bullock's, Hale's, the Broadway and
Jaeoby's merited and attracted at
tention and praise. They were really
decorated buildings" and splendidly
decorated they were. Citizens are both
mortified and astounded by the judg-
ment that passed over the finely dec
Grated, representative business build
ings of Los Angeles and gave the
ward to a side show.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18

A local writer who "funnygraphed"
the name of Casa Verdugo into "Vasa
Cadugo" had a rival in the unconscious
humorist from Birmingham, Ala, who
gravely wrote of the renowned head
quarters of Joy-feasts as Santa Ber-
dugo. Twas a neat mixture of Casa
Verdugo and San Bernardino, and the
hybrid certainly spoke eloquently Of
the verdugo'd condition of its coiner's
thinker on the morning after.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18
DIRECT ELECTION

NITY CLUB of Los Angeles put IT.
1 self on record yesterday as favor
y ing the proposal by congress to
the state legislatures, concurrently
with the proposal of the income tax
amendment, of an amendment to the
federal constitution providing for the
election of the two United States SEN
ators from each state by direct vote
of the people, and resolved to ask the
senators and representatives from this
state to urge and work for the pro-
posal OF such amendment for the cleo
ton of United States senators by direct
vote.
Copies Of the resolutions will be
mailed to the president and to every
senator and representative from the
state of California. Direct election Of
senators is in accordance with the first
principles of Americanism. The pres
ent method is a makeshift, and every
lover of the republic has known that
for years the senate has been an un-
representative body in a representative
government.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18
AU REVOIR

NLORIOUSLY successful from every
tK point of view has been the visit
W of the Elks. AS we welcomed our
coming. so we speed our parting guests.
We wish them we'll. In homely Irish
phrase, THE height o. good luck to
them" and may they return to Greater
Los Angeles to meet and greet the
proud citizens of CALIFORNIA; maritime
metropolis with their old familiar
strain
We're here because we're here because
We're here because we're here.
The Elks' convention has been one OF
the most remarkable ever held in the
United States. Harmony. good fellow
ship and good behavior have been its
distinguishing characteristics. Oh, you
Bill! You're all right. Come again.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18
AT THE THEATERS

AUDITORIUM-Dark.
MASON-"The Servant In the House"
BELAsCO-"A Day and a Night in New
York"
BURBANK-"The Hypocrites."
GRAND-Princess company In "The
Umpire"
MAJESTIC--"A Runaway Girl"
ORPHEUM-Vaudeville.
Los ANGELES-Vaudevile
WALKER--Yaudeviue
EMPIRE---NelsOn-H Hyland Fight Pictures.
UNIQUE-VaudevilIe and musical comedy.
FISCHERS-Vaudeyille.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18
SAYS CHIEF ERROR OF THE
DAY is DENIAL OF SIN

LOS ANGELES, July 17.-[Edltor
Herald: Perhaps one of the greatest
errors today from a spiritual standpoint
is the denial of the reality of "sin" and
its wages, death"
The scriptures, which is given by in
spiration and is profitable for doctrine,
declares that by one mans transgres-
sion sin entered into the world and
death by sin. AS the apostle James
says: when lust hath conceived it
bringeth forth sin; and sin, when 1t is
finished, bringeth forth DEATH" Those
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18

Senator Estudillo. in his excellent
address on the peoples lobby, expressed
plain truth in a straightforward man
ner when he said the people turn
against their representatives upon the
representation of some hypocritical
mountebank, but the special interests
back up their men TO the very last and
provide for them in the future.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18

The strategy by which Officer
Richards got possession of Murderer
Ryans gun and captured him was al
excellent example of police work
Richards used his brains to good effect
and outwitted his man. Richards has
proved he is an officer who could be
trusted in any emergency.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18
HOW POEMS ARE WRITTEN

About a nook beside brook
The poet writes,
Amid the gloom of hall room
Up seven flights.
He sings to you about the view
From woodland spots
When all that he can really see
Is chimney pots.
He gllbly tells Of fragrant dells
And balmy breeze,
Amid the scent of onions blent
With musty cheese.
Between four walls, as it befalls,
He pounds away
Up seven flights he gaily writes
His rustic lay.
kansas City Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18

The City club expressed the sentiment
of all the city when it commended
Chief of Police Dishman and the police
department for the magnificent manner
in which the crowds were handled dur
ing the week of the Elks' reunion, and
congratulated them on the freedom of
the city from any and all unusual law
lessness and crime.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18
Far and Wide
Advertising Campaign

Advertisements denounclng the house
fy are being published in the New
York papers. They go to show what
wide uses can be made of newspaper
publicity. No more effective method
of inaugurating a campaign of exter-
mination could have been DEVISED
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18
rhen What Would Lodae Dor

If every ultimate consumer"-the
group whose existence is denied by
Senator Lodge-were to be carried off
by a pestilence tomorrow, the state OF
Massachusetts would be in receivers
hands the day after.-Richmond Times
Dispatch.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18

IF they had only had pair Of
oars aboard the becalmed Los Angeles
yachtsmen would not have suffered as
they did. We should think all small
yachts would carry oars, so as to he
ready for an emergency caused by pro-
longed calm
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18

President Taft. The G. O. p. is at a
most critical stage of it's existence.
Looks as if the tariff would split it In
two
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18

Glenn Curtiss broke the aeroplane
record. One of these days there will be
a big aeroplane meet" at Los Angeles.
Our climate is ideally suitable for all
the year round aeroplaning.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18

Now, then. What kind of an enter
tainment can Los Angeles arrange for
President Taft? Why not have one
gala day, "the presidents fiesta" with
a floral parade?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENT Intended
for publication mist be accompanied by the
name and address of the writer. The Her
aid gives the widest latitude to correspond
ents, but assumes no responsibility for their
riaNa
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18

No Elks' night at the Mason, although
Manager Wyatt is an Elk of the Elks-
an Elk of that Elk, so to speak! 1t is
not surprising some of Mr.. Wyatts
friends are asking the reason for what
looks something like discrimination
against one Of the early members Of the
local lodge.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18

Au revoir, Bill. Not good by. People
don't say good by to Los Angeles.
They always come back.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18
Lies Are Ptomalnes

An Alabama professor announces
that men always wiggle their big toes
when telling lies. 1t would be interest
ing to have a few amputations and see
If personal morals are improved
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18
ARMY of unempIoyed

One of the immediate tasks before 1t
is to look after the unemployed of New
York, the number in that city alone
being estimated at O,OOO.-Louisville
Courier-J Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18

On all matters pertaining to advertising
ager.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18
Now for Greater Los Angeles.
The Graduates

He who takes a job in town,
There to keep a desk held down,
Should maintain the college vim.
Here a little yell for him:
Rahl Rah! Rah!
Ledger!
lie who goes back to the farm
Needn't lose the college charm.
For the dweller in the dell
Here's another little yell;
sissl Boom! All!
Woodpilel
kansas City Journal
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN

Population of Los Angeles 315,o85
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18
Power of Press

No agency in these days, not even ex-
cepting the church itself, wields such
deterrent power against wrongdoing
as the press.--Kansas City Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18
Unhappy Hen PeckI

We have noticed that when a man Is
henpecked everybody knows it but the
man himself.-Topeka Capital
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18
Strlngency Imminent

There are indications that from now
on it is going to be increasingly diff
ficult to raise funds for the conversion
of the Chinese.-Washingto Post
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-03-04
YALE MAN WOULD ADD THIRD TO
SPAN OF lIrE.
Or. Fisher Urges Insurance Companies
to Educate People in Hygienic
Conditions for This
Purpose.
Photograph by cIlnedInst. washLngton D. Q

New York.-The span of human life
may be increased one-third by the APP
plication of reforms now known to
modern hygiene.
The statement was made the other
day by DR.. Irving Fisher. professor of
political. economy at Yale and presi-
dent of the committee of one hundred
on national health.
DR.. Fisher proposed the expenditure
of money by life insurance companies
in campaign of education to I'M
prove hygienic conditions throughout
the United States. He gave as his
justification for this suggestion the
fact that practical application of all
the reforms now known to modern
hygiene would increase the average
length of life in America more than
15 years-or over one-third.
This decreased mortality, he said,
would so lessen the cost of insurance
that the returns to policyholders
would be many times more than the
original expenditure. Then, too. there
would be vast economic gain to the
country in general by reason of the
prolongation of the lives of trained
efficient men.
DR.. Fisher made these statements to
a meeting of the Association of Life
Insurance Presidents which was at
tended by company executives. medi-
cal directors and actuaries, as well IS
physicians and others prominent in the
present anti-tuberculosis crusade.
1.-THE insurance men whom | have
consulted as to whether it would pay
life insurance companies. to engage in
the saving of lives have been unani-
nous in their belief that the step
would be a profitable one" said DR..
Fisher.
"A fall of the death rate always
promptly follows sanitation. Col
Goergas cut the death rate in Havana
in two. bringing 1t down to between
20 and "a. The New York death rate
responded at once to Col. Waring
clean streets and that of Rochester tc
DIR. Goler's milk crusade. And now Al
is announced that the death rate OF
New York Is 1876, the loves. on rec
ord
Tuberculosis is known to be pre-
ventable. In my table, 1t is entered as
rs per cent. preventable; pneumonia
as As per cent. preventable, typhoid
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-03-04
DOCTOR GIVES HIM NEW NOSE.
Ironworker's Forehead Covering is
used to Make Nasal Organ.

Philadelphia disfigured by
the absence of a nose and often ham,
pered in obtaining employment by his
misfortune. Arthur Meyer, an iron
worker, underwent an operation at the
Samaritan hospital as result of
which he will in two weeks be dis
charged with real flesh and blood
nose made from his own skin and
bone,
DR.. Wayne laid back from each side
of the face the skin covering the spot
where the old nose had been and
pulled down the remaining portion of
the old nasal bone to form bridge.
Two missions were made In the
forehead, there being space of about
three-quarters of an inch between the
cuts. The outer surface of skin was
"denuded," so that when pulled down
over the artificially formed bridge
what had been the outer surface OF
the forehead presented a surface that
will adhere and grow to the bridge
formation.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-03-04
FAMOUS ENGINE IS RETIRED.
Old 1899" Now Doing Hall Service
Hauling MIX Train.

New York.-What was probably the
has been retired on half service. The
engine In question is the famous 900.
which Is years ago hauled the Empire
State Express and established a speed
record at the rate of l12 miles an hour
Among the exhibits In the Transporta.
ton building at the worlds fair In Chi
cago it probably attracted the greatest
attention. not only because of the
speed records which it had established
but because of its size, its 6ls-foot
driving wheels being AT that time the
largest ever used After a year OF
service ii was sent TO the Chicago ex-
position. with its original gold, silver
and nickel trimmings and mahogany
woodwork
To-day all this glory has departed.
The once famous. but now almost for
gotten locomotive is still in service,
but without its fancy trimmings II Is
hauling combination milk and pas
seuger train in the northern part OF
the state on short run. Even its
der because of their size. have been
supplanted with smaller ones. and the
former speed king is merely railroad
plug. few years more probably will
see it forgotten. doing service on u
branch line.
Although this best known of the
worlds locomotives has refrigerated
its former driver. Charlie" Hogan
! has advanced. From locomotive en-
gineer in 1892. whose driving of the
engine brought his work TO the notice
of officials, he has been promoted tc
the position of division superintendent
of motive power. So far as old 1888
is concerned, however, T. is doubtful II
she could to-day make half the speed
which nearly two decades ago estab
lished a new worlds record and made
her famous throughout the country.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-03-04
oNE.LEGeED ROLLER SKATER.
Aided by Clutches, Lad Excels Com
panlons In Spite of Handicap.

Reading, Pain spite of the fact
that he has but one leg. 12-year-old Ell
mer IL. Sterling is one of the most
skillful roller skaters in town. With
the aid of his crutches he propels him
self on one skate in a manner that as
tonishes all who witness his odd per-
Torrance. His dexterity extends TO
Ice skating also. and he can speed
along on a runner just as haadily as
on wheels.
Elmer lost his leg while indulgiDg in
the usual foolhardy boys pastime of
hopping freights." Recently he met
with another accident which nA1rly
cost him his life, While coasting down
hill on tiller with number of com
panions, he sped across the tracks and
under a car. He was badly lacerated
about the face. but was not dangerous
ly injured.
Although a cripple, he is intensely
interested in all forms of sport. In
summer he attends the ball games, and
even plays ball lie is fair catcher
and a good batter. His only trouble
comes In when he wishes 10 run the
bases,