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Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06
COMMENTATOR

TIME HERALD has at various
times, in discharging what it con-
Il ceived to be the duty of pub
lie journal, criticised various pubic
officials for what it deemed to be
shortcomings in the discharge of their
duties. Just the same, it is a much
more agreeable occupation for The Her
aid to be able to commend, rather than
to condemn, public officials.
And The Herald takes more than
usual pleasure in commencing the work
of the delegation in the legislature from
Los Angeles city and county which has
resulted in the passages of the Dill
permitting the city of Los Angeles and
the harbor cities to consolidate.
We venture the prediction that Mr..
Leeds of the house and Mr.. Mccartney
of the senate, by introducing this meas
ure in their respective bodies and as
sisting in putting it through, have done
more to secure the approval and graft
tude of their constituency and place
in the history of their state than by
every other legislative act which they
have performed or will perform in their
legislative careers.
The city and county also feel that
they are particularly indebted to
Speaker Stanton OF the assembly and
Senators Hurd and Bell of the senate
for the very honest, earnest and effi-
cient services which they have rem
dered in this great cause. We do not
mean to detract from the credit of all
of the assemblymen and senators from
the city and county by particularly
naming these gentlemen. OF course, the
commentator of The Herald cannot
extend to Senator Savage, but he has
proved such a cipher in the situation
that it hardly appears necessary to
mention his name at all.
Gentlemen of the senate and assem-
bly, from Los Angeles city and county,
you have done a patriotic service for
your community and when the history
of the great metropolis for which you
have paved the way is written, your
names will not be forgotten.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06
THE RECALL

~ ONE of the campaigners who are
- working for Harper are using as q
NJ stock argument the assertion that
the recall is Unconstitutional, and tnat
the people have no right to elect MI.
Alexander or anyone else mayor until
Harper's term is ended. They are try
ing to keep intelligent and patriotic
citizens from voting for Mr.. Alexander
by telling them that even il they vote
it won't do any good, because they
have no right to vote for him at this
time. If the recall were unconstitu-
tional we think the fact would have
been discovered ere now by some of
the many eminent legal authorities and
practitioners who are supporting the
candidature of Honest George Alexan-
der
The United States would indeed be
in sorry case if the system of popular
elections which was designed to give us
the best men available for public office
should be Mexicanized, and If the peo-
pie should be deprived of all power or
authority over the officials they elect
ed! All officials, both great and small,
derive their power from the people.
So careful is the constitution in
guarding the source of power that it
contains the following sweeping and
far-reaching article: "The enumera-
ton in the constitution of certain
rights shall not be construed to deny
or disparage others retained by the
people" This prevents any possibility
of a despotism or dictatorship; and any
office holder who infringes on the
rights of the people may be dismissed
from office.
There cannot be the slightest ques-
ton of this. If it were not the case,
our government-municipal, state and
national-might consist of series of
tyrannies, each new office holder say
ing as his predecessor stepped aside:
Now it's my turn to do the people"
Citizens who object to the recall OBJ
iect to Americanism; and the politi-
clans who are busily engaged in trying
to spread abroad the impression that
Los Angeles had no right to recall
Mayor Harper, and therefore he must
be reelected, are making gross misrep-
reservations.
OF course the recall election is a nov
city in municipal government, but 1t is
only a new, pertinent and necessary
application of an old, old rule which
has contributed to the general eff1cien-
cy and morality of the American public
service in all its branches, and which
would sanction the impeachment and
removal of a president if the United
States were ever unfortunate enough
to find public interests menaced by a
chief executive of the type of Mayor
Harper of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06
SUNDAY OBSERVANCE DATES
FAR BACK IN ANTIQUITY

LOS ANGELES, March 4.-Editor
Herald: "A Layman" might have said
with truth "the fundamental reason for
Sunday observance is shrouded in the
mists of prehistoric antiquity, since
the Encyclopedia Britannica calls 1t
"the wild solar holiday Of all pagan
times"
True, it did not begin in 321 A. D..
But a pagan ruler, two years before
his professed conversion to Christian
ity, did at that date proclaim the first
recorded law regarding it's observance.
and that law applied to his own pagan
subjects.
When law is made to supersede one
already on the books, the fact that IL
is intended to do so is plainly stated
by the law making powers. He who
arose on that resurrection morning
had found on the books a law regard
ing Sabbath rest, and he left it just
as it was. averring that not letter
or point of letter Got and tittle)
should fail from 1t till all (the
prophets) be fulfilled. His words are
yet in process of fulfillment (see Math.
24). and as the church historian, DR..
Heylan, has said that mans power
hath elevated the Sunday to where 1t
now standeth, it behooves us to do as
the disciples said" we ought to obey
God rather than man.
e. A. STOCKTON.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06
DEFENDS COOPERATION AND
woMAN,s SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

LOS ANGELES, March 3.-lEditor
Herald: II. Il. Wilson or SANTA
Monica explains why the Soclallst ana
woman's suffrage movements make no
appreciable Roadway" admitting tnat
they .have right on their side. Like
many other writer's on these two much
discussed subjects, Mr.. Wilson knows
a lot of things that are not So anu
makes deductions accordingly.
Both the Socialist and suffrage move
ments are dependent on Industrial eVo-
| luton. Anyone who knows tho a Q
of Socialism knows 1t could not nave
| existed generations ago., tnat IL
could never succeed without the de-
velopment of modern machinery.
| JJtopians religionists and well-meaning
people generally might preach right
and brotherhood until the crack OF
doom and there could be no protner-
hood under competition. only When
machine production has forced men ana
women to combine and cooperate ior
the preservation of self and the race
will we have OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Socialism. 1t is coming along very
nicely, Mr.. Wilson, put your ear 10 tne
ground. -
AS to woman's suffrage, it is so IN
l grained in the masculine nature 10
| love to boss something - anything
from a satrapy to a street CROSSING
an empire to ward politics-or Wo-
man, that so long as q man can nave
little kingdom within four walls over
which to rule he hardly will give up
his power voluntarily. But along
comes industrial evolution again ana
it don't say please" even to man,
and 1t gives his job to a machine ana
a woman. And this petty lord of crea-
ton finds in ever-increasing numbers
that he cannot afford a four-walied
kingdom. When he goes forth Jop
hunting away goes his franchise, too,
and he learns how it is himself and
"a fellow-feeling makes US wondrous
kind" don't you know. He finds that
he has TO make terms with this woman
who has usurped him at lower wage,
that the only economic salvation TOT
either of them is to work together on
the industrial and political field TO
gain possession of that machine.
This brings me to Mr.. Wilson'S fuhny
little argument about power and rule
being the object of Socialists and SUI
fragists. He is excusable. People are
so used to turning the rascals out
and turning another set of rascals IN
that it Is difficult for them to grasp
the Socialist position. GEORGIA K.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06
GREATER LOS ANGELES

q AVAGE and the powers and in
fluences behind him fought A
~ losing fight from the start, but
that is why they fought SO reck-
iessly and so desperately. Not
often in the history of the states and
communities that compose it has the
American nation been treated to the
spectacle OF one little, spiteful war
rior, grim and determined in his UNI
reasonable antagonism to the popular
need, devoting all his energies to a de-
termined attempt to thwart the VIII of
the people and bring their cherished
plans to neeght. Mr.. Savage may be
profoundly tha@1ful we are living In
the twentieth CENTURY. and not in the
days of auld lang syne, because in less
tolerant times such conduct as that
of Savage would have caused him to
be branded as a traitor, and he would
have been lucky if he had merely been
driven furth the country"
Mr.. Savage's conduct has attracted
the attention of nearly all of the citi-
zens of Greater Los Angeles, and If
he could have heard some of the COM
ments made by members of congrega-
lions who exchanged friendly greetings
at the close of church services last
Sunday he might have been edited.
Savage is an "old timer" and it is the
old timers with long memories who are
beginning to remember incidents in his
career which, they say, serve to il
illuminate his present performance. 1t
is only too painfully evident Mr.. Saw
ages retirement from public life would
be greatly to the advantage of the
public. He is an anachronism. His
methods of campaigning are out of
date, and so is he.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06
TENEMENTS

A TENEMENT house law is earn
n estly recommended by the state
IA board of charities and corrections.
Attention was called to the matter
year ago, but proposed law failed OF
enactment. Since then the city of San
Francisco has passed an ordinance en-
bodying about the same restrictions as
were proposed in the state law. The
members of the state board point out
that the evils Of tenement house con-
struction in California are not confined
to San Francisco, and it is desirable
there should be a law which will pro-
tect tenement jewellers from evils re-
sulting from unsanitary or dangerous
construction. 1t is much better to pre-
vent these evils in the beginning than
to try to cure them after they are
firmly established.
It is greatly to the interest Of all who
have anything to do with California
real estate that good and far-reach-
ing tenement house law should be on
the statute books. Persons who adver-
tise California in the east and in
Europe should be able to say; "A land
of sunshine and of sanitary dwellings,.
No health destroying tenement condi-
lions are permitted" OVercrowding
breeds disease, and tenements result in
overcrowding. Just as surely as man
kind neglects 1.-THE law of the breathing
spaces" mankind pays the penalty.
Surely there is plenty of fresh air in
California for everybody. Surely there
is plenty of sunshine for everybody.
Why be niggardly with Gods free and
lavish gifts to California?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06

NEW YORK city superintendent of
schools has filed report that is
~ at once startling and humiliating.
He asserts that one-third of the school
children attending that city's schools
are underfed and suffering from NAL
nutrition, says the Humboldt Standard.
The wealth of New York city Is
enormous. Every once in while we
read of some new hospital founded by
a philanthropist, of some rich donation
to our college endowments, of gifts to
foreign missions and what not. No
criticism is. passed on these. Doubtless
the givers think they are best serving
humanity by their giving, and besides
there is an old rule which declares we
must not look a gift horse in the
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06
Hunger Affects One Third
NeW York School Children

mouth. Nevertheless we make bold 10
question the Judgment of great deal
of this charity if--and who can doubt
the superintendent word-school chill
dren are actually starving. We object
to endowing Chicago universities with
further millions-to single out ROCK
efeller who is no worse an offender
than other philanthropists-if city chill
dren are going to school lacking bread.
DR.. Maxwell In his annual report says:
What commentary 1t Is upon our
boasted civilization that in the largest
and richest city in America $1,000 chill
dren should be suffering from bad rood
and lack of food. And how ridiculous
it is to compel children to attend school
when their hungry stomachs Will not
permit them to learn"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06
FIRE AT SAN QUENTIN GIVES
RISE TO PREGNANT THOUGHT

BAKERSFIELD, March Al editor
Herald: This mornings Herald, which
brings me another fine plea by Col.
Griffith j. Griffith for less barbarous
treatment of criminals, also brings me
an account of heroic courage exhibited
by the inmates of San Quentin in the
eXtinguishing of a fire that broke out
there. Should not the juxtaposition Of
these items suggest to thoughtful minds
the infamous wrong that is done to
humanity by those who consider that
when a man has come under the dis
pleasure OF the law he is beyond the
pale of mercy?
And yet, what subject for the pen
of a Zola Here were men sentenced
to life imprisonment; unfortunates
against whom we bar absolutely the
door of hope, struggling to save the
property of the state that already has
virtually killed them. And one reads
of one poor wretch, whose leg was
fractured and whose life was saved
with difficulty while he was engaged
in the truly gruesome task of rescuing
a gatling gun, one of those instruments
of Wholesale destruction that frown day
and night above the walls of San
Quentin!
Could life present greater irony
than this? Is it not time that the
thoughtful and the humane should meet
together and insist that the first step
toward the solution of the grievous
troubles that today wreck the happi-
ness of the American people is the de-
termination that human beings no
matter what their past, must be treat
ed as human beings, and that our state,
our country and our entire civilization
are degraded beyond the power of
words by the stories that come from
San Quentin and similar hells on
earth? VICTOR H. TELFORD.
Another letter awaits Senex. Full name
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06
ASKS FOR HISTORIC PROOF
OF "LAYMAN'S" STATEMENT

QUARTZ. March al Editor Herald:
"a Layman" says the resurrection of
the Lord can be historically proven.
He has admitted that without this
proof the whole Christian religion
would fall fiat" Now, ask is he
prepared to present this historical
proof?" I would like to have him name
the authentic history of that age that
gives any account of Jesus Christ or of
his resurrection.
/ have read and studied ancient his
tory, and in all my readings have failed
to find anything that mentions the life
of Christ, his death or resurrection.
A STUDENT,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06
The State Press
Social Conditions

Timely weather bulletins reduce the
loss through the elements. War Is
growing unpopular and in this way un-
told treasure is saved by cutting on
the wastes and devasta ton of military
operations. Strong men are now able
to control the financial situation and
to prevent panics with the resultant
loss and decentralization of the prices
for the products which the poor pro-
duce more secure, and the people who
are receiving the most benefit are the
ones of whom there are the most, the
poor" like you and me.-Riverside En-
terprise.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06
Beef

There is an unpleasant lack of har-
mony in Mr.. Armour's two statements
first, that meat will cost more; Sec
ond, that there need be no starvation
for lack of meat and no recourse TO a
diet of plain vegetables. For meat of
all kinds is so costly now that the poor
man finds 1t difficult to supply his
table without skimping on that Item
Santa Rosa Press-Democrat.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06

Money is needed for the endowment
of a wood yard camp and barracks for
the unemployed. The Associated Char
tiles asks for $4,000. This will be
enough to establish the wood yard and
make it helpful to the unemployed and
useful to the city in more ways
than one.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06

japanese are pleased with Taft's in
augural speech. Good for them. But
everybody else is pleased with it, so 1t
would have been odd if our island
friends had not approved it. Banzal!
The peace of the Pacific is assured and
the prosperity of the Pacific coast dur
ing the Taft administration will be
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06
LeuisIatlon Suggested

Wonder if the city trustees could not
pass an ordinance making it not only
lawful but highly commendable for
mothers to souse scalding water over
the fellow who throws medicine SAM
pies into the yard where children may
pick them up and eat them?-Tulare
Register
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06

OF course consolidation is still to be
voted on. But vox populi will approve
1t. No one should worry over the popu-
lar vote. 1t will be all right. The peo-
pie of Los Angeles and the people OF
San Pedro want consolidation. Greater
Los Angeles will be an accomplished
fact; and San Pedro, the seaport OF
Greater Los Angeles, will be one of the
greatest seaports in the United States
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06
AT THE THEATERS

BELAsCO-'"rheT Three Of Us"
MAJESTIC-"Who's Your Friend?"
BURBANK--"Peter Pan"
AIDfTORIUM-"Bab in the Wood"
GRAND-"El CAPTAIN"
ORPHEUM-Vaudevil
Los Notwithstanding
FTSCHERS-"H. NJ. S. Pinafore."
UNIQUE-"Wanted- Indian"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06
Popular Picture

A Washington dispatch states that
photographers of the capital city have
sold more than ten thousand pictures
of President Roosevelt since last NO.
yember. And none of them will ever
be turned to the wall.-San Diego Tri-
bune.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06

Vote, vote, vote, vote, vote. 1t is a
worthy custom established by the
founders OF this nation that after de-
bate a public question is submitted to
the people. Citizens of Los Angeles will
be called upon to vote on the election of
a mayor and on consolidation. Both are
of most vital public interest. Make up
your mind now to do your duty by
VOTING.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06

With briskness. vigor, energy and
ability the fight for consolidation was
conducted from it's start to it's success
full finish. And Mayor Harper wanted
to chang up" the proceedings and
compromise"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06
Long and Short

Western legislators are agitating a
reform to decrease the length of hat
pins, but for us, let them wear the hat
pins as long as they like it-they will
but shorten the hat bills-Redwood
City Democrat.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06

Two big "dates." ahead of Los An
geles-election of Mayor George Alex
ander and the consolidation election.
On both occasions Los Angeles expects
every man to do his patriotic duty.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06
Keep Mum

AS that distract expression your wife
wears nowadays probably has to do
with the plans and specifications of an
Easter hat you'd probably only make
matters worse by venturing any COM
ments.-Long Beach Telegram.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06

Pro-vicious interests are evidently
getting cold feet. Decent interests are
all aglow. with feet snugly encased in
pink socks.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06
Nothing Doing

SO far the legislature has a unique
and enviable record. The session Is
half over and it has done nothing
Seattle Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06

Our esteemed contemporary, the Out
look, has hung out the shingle Of our
friend and fellow editor, Theodore
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06
The Public Letter Box

intended publication be
800 words
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06
You Bet It VIII

The Highland Park Alexander club
has a president whose name is Philip
w. Holler That club ought to be able
10 whoop 'em up.-Pasadena News.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06
Cockney Mistakes

London people made a mistake that
they did not take Carrie Nation
curiously instead of seriously Port
land Telegram.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06

Who sent Harper to Sacramento to
interfere with and to try to spoil the
consolidation program
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06
FIinq at Nevada

Nevada, which wants to dictate the
nations foreign policy, cast 20, 313 votes
at the last election.-Chicago News.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06
Theolous Puzzled

Theologians are having about as
much trouble as the scientists in ex-
planning the earthquake.-St. Louis
Post Dispatch.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06
Far and Wide
Like Maqlc

William T.. Stewart, young man en-
gagged in business in New York city,
has performed the seemingly impossi-
BILE feat of engraving the entire Lords
prayer on the head of an ordinary
pin, to which he has added his name,
making it altogether 276 letters and
figures.-St. Nicholas.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06
Congressional Feat

Congress has officially decided to call
the Panama canal 1.-THE Panama
Canal" How it must have made con-
gress' head ache to think of such an
appropriate name.-Toledo Blade.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06
Not an Improvement

Biologists say that italy is one of
the newest portions of the earth's sur
face. That may be, but it's certainly
no improvement.-Detr Free Press.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-06

Another letter awaits Senex. Full name
and addresses OF correspondents should ac-
company each letter to the Letter Box.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-01-20

properly safeguard the health and
lives of their employees. 1t is the
duty of the state-to compel mine op-
orators to observe such rules in the
working of their mines as will insure
the fullest protection possible to the
health and lives of the workingmen
in their employ, and l earnestly rec
ommend that the legislature enact a
law providing for the appointment of
a state mine inspector, comforting
upon that official sufficient power to
properly enforce his orders.
CONCLUSION.
In conclusion, I desire to express
the hope that the legislature will
proceed with as much dispatch as
possible to the consideration of the
measures coming before it and will
not defer action, as too often is the
case, to the latter end of the session.
There is no good reason to be adj
vanced for frittering away the first
three or four weeks of the session
and then working overtime the re-
mainder of the session. 1t is no.
torious fact that in the closing hours
of every session the Legislature is
deluged with bills, good, bad and in
different, and it is impossible for it
to give these measures the considera-
ton required, or for the executive to
examine them with the tf1oroughness
the best interests of the state de-
mands.
| wish to state to the legislature
that | have every confidence in your
loyalty to the people of Nevada and
your ability to work successfully for
their welfare, and to express the
hope that the executive and legisla-
tive branches will act in frank and
harmonious accord during this SEES
sion; both in striving to build up the
imperial domain of our splendid COM
monwealth, and to confer real, last
ing benefits on its citizens.
Respectfully submitted,
DENVER s. DICKERSON.
Acting and Lieutenant. Governor.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-01-20
CARD PARTY
LAST EVENING

Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Alderman en-
tertained few friends at a card
party at their home last evening on
Arizona street. The evening was
spent in cards and music. The
lady's first prize was won by Mrs.
ladies' first prize was won by Mrs.
George Strosnider; the ladies' BOBBY
prize by Mrs. Hudson, and the gents
by Vic Smith. After cards dainty re-.
freshments were served. The guests
present were: Mr. and Mrs. George
Swasey, George Strosnider, Leo Mer-
ten, M. Devine, j. Ballet; Mesdames
Hudson, Brann, Uren; Misses Abbie
Strosnider, d. Nebendahl, Alice
Walsh of Gold Hill; Messrs. Quick,
V. Smith, Jukum, P. Hertell, C. Her.
tell