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Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-03

Angeles are largely in excess of $780,
900, 000 A tax of 8 per cent on these
values would, at the above valuation,
give us a revenue of $6000,000 per
year. The above estimate, however,
is low and it does not include the
franchise values of the several cor
porations. AS these franchise values
must be included in land values tax
of per cent on land values would
raise a revenue of not less than ST.
$1,000. AS this is more than sufficient
for all public purposes all other taxes,
including license and poll, could be
abolished.
This system could be inaugurated
at once without waiting for the legis-
lature to act. The city council can,
in their wisdom, apply this tax in the
same manner and under the same au-
thority as it did in the case OF the
innumerable license taxes imposed by
them. This tax would be more easily
collected than any other and would
shift the burden from industry to
privilege.
1t is clear to all that the acqlieduct
will add value to land and to rothing
else and that these values should be
taken to pay for the acqueduct. 1t
should be equally clear that good gov
eminent as well as public improve
ments likewise alone enhances land
values and that all revenue should
be raised by tax on land values.
J. H, g.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-03
TAX ON TEA

~ NE article in common use in the
United States is free from trust
~ influences. Tea is now the ia
vorite household beverage. The con
sumption of the fragrant herb is 100,'
100000 pounds annually. Tea growing
is not a big domestic industry, there
fore the protective tariff arguments
cannot be applied to it. Yet it is pro-
posed to tax it 10 cents per pound
upon the excuse that the tea indus
try of South Carolina must be pro-
tected.'
This is an insult to American intel
Iigence. After more than Twenty-Five
years work, South Carolina produces
on an average only about 10000 pounds
of tea yearly and that with govern
ment assistance. 1t is now proposed
to make of an aided industry a highly
protected industry. Shall S0,oOO,OOC
people be taxed for the benefit of a
few farmers, against the protests to
the senate and house of consumers and
wholesale, jobbing and retail associa-
tions from all over the United States
There are about 100000 retail tea mer-
chants who are unanimous in oppos-
ing the proposed tax on tea.
1t is not true 1.-The poorer classes now
nav so to s. cents cents per pound for
tea" Inquiry at any retail grocery
store will show they pay % cents tc
IS cents per pound. The interests that
are demanding a tax on tea are re-
sponsible for the quotation of the larg-
er figure. These interests are anxio Is
to form a tea trust. A tax of 10 cents
per pound would simply mean the price
to the consumer would be increased by
that much and opportunity would be
given for the successful formation of a
trust.
Under present conditions, competi-
ton is keen and the retailer cannot
ask excessive profits. But if tea is
''protected' it will be taken out OF
reach of all consumers with slim peck
etbooks, competition will be eliminated
and the supply of tea will be ''regulat-
ed" by a new addition to the ranks OF
the trust magnates-the tea barons.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-03
FOOD

HRANK OAKLEY, state pure food
II inspector, is doing his duty with
Il out fear or favor, and his big
roundup" of produce dealers who are
charged with falling short of the re-
quirements of the law will tend to re-
store public confidence in the cleanli-
ness of the food~supply.
That Inspector Oakley without trou-
BILE should have been able to find four
teen alleged violators of the state pure
food law makes us wonder what might
be the result of q dragnet inspection
of the entire city, and we hope all
dealers in all classes Of food supplies
without delay will make themselves
acquainted with the law and respect
and obey every jot and little Of it.
We know If the produce dealers have
erred it has probably been through
lack of information, for most of the
dealers are anxious to maintain the
high reputation of Los Angeles for a
plentiful supply of the best and purest
food in the country.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-03
WEATHER REPORT

~ INCE now the fashion seems to be
to write in prose that's poetree,
~ let us review the heated term
which makes us sizzle from the verm-
form appendix to the crown and back
again the whole way down. The heav-
ems glare. The earth is baked. We're
roast beef rare. Our thirst unslaked
consumes us with a burning drought
We hardly know what we're about. We
dodder when we try to walk and STAN
mer when we try to talk. We think
with brain at fever-heat and say
(while counting off the "feet'D, We'll
well. well, well. well, well. well well!
it's hotter than the hottest-spelll"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-03
THE WIND OF Already

warm sweet breath is on my face
And, redolent with scents of spring,
1t seems to follow every place
And sets the throat a-caroling.
While on it, borSe across the leas,
The sound of music comes to me,
Faint, fragrant fairy melodies
1t is the wind of Arcadyl
1t blows, and all the grit and CRIME
OF toll and town, of fight and fray
Vanish completely for the time.
BY wanton breezes swept away.
Until, in all the world about,
Laughter and love are all 1 see.
It banishes despair and doubt
The wind, the wind OF Already!
Open your heart and let 1t in,
This wind OF wonderland and youth,
Where fairy folk and men are kin
And rich romance is simple truth.
We age so fast. we die so soon,
Let us be young while that may be.
And youth trips in with magic shoon
Upon the wind Of Already!
Puck
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-03
AT THE THEATERs

AUDITORIUM-Dark.
MAsON-Erhel Barrymore in Lady Fred
erick."
MAJEsTIC-KoIb and Dill in ''weiner an,
sehBitzel."
BELASCO-"Merely Mary Ann"
BURBANK-"Under Two Flags"
GRAND-Murray and Mack, Tn Har
Fard.o
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
LOS ANGELES-Vaudeville
UNTQUE-ExtravaganEa
EMPIRE-Vaudeville
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-03
SAYS CRIMINALS FEAR
SENTENCE MORE THAN DEATH

LOS ANGELES, June 1.-[Editor
Herald: I would like to answer H. D.
Guilford, and all those who think that
the question to ask, when we are in
jured, is, what do we feel like doing
under the circumstances"
Probably any parent would, at first,
feel like killing a man for killing his
child; but it doesn't follow that this
would be the best or highest thing to
do. Any right minded parent would
grieve deeply later on to know that he
had allowed his passion and longing for
revenge to carry him away to the ex-
tent of committing murder, when 1t
could not restore the loved one or bet
ter conditions in any way
That it is life Imprisonment muir
derers fear, and not death, is evidenced
by the fact that jailers must ever be
on the alert to prevent suicide among
those so sentenced. Nor does this SUI
pervision keep this from often being
carried out.
ures among us unworthy the name of
men" Yes, we have among us animal
creatures immoral, unevolved to a
good type of manhood as yet. To them
we who are higher up stand as teach
ers and helpers; nor can we ever get
away from this responsibility.
In any case we have no power to ex-
tinguish the life. AT most we can only
change the form in which it functions.
The life persists and 1t is said by some
of the worlds greatest scientists in a
far more powerful way when the cum
bering body is destroyed.
The death penalty has not lessened
crime anywhere. Since the world be-
gan we have tried the way of violence
no wonder we are reaping ever more
and more violence. Let us reverse it,
If only as an experiment, Let us try
the way of education and reformation,
and when we begin to reap that crop
we shall be ready to admit that it has
paid, even If some of our taxes have
been used to promote It,
ELIZABETH BAKER BOHAN.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-03
DESTINY OR DOOM

TN obedience to the inexorable eco
nonic law the bona fide popula
l. ton of the United States is fast
disappearing. Sometimes we see a
mournful essay on the extinction of
the noble red man (who, by the way,
is very far from being EXTINCT, but we
do not often see any reference to the
disappearance of the "family-tree
American" the citizen who can look
back at two or more generations of
American ancestors.
one of the most remarkable and
startling revelations of the census
shows the falling off in the birth rate
and discloses the extent to which
America is destined-shall we say
doomed?-to depend on immigration if
its population is not to begin gradually
to dwindle. DESTINED" is the right
word if the hardy Celtic Britannia
Germanic- Scandinavian north Europe
an stock continues to repopulate this
nation. If however. the northern
Europeans forsake our country for
Canada. South Africa and Australia
and the southern Europeans are
dumped on our shores to take the
place of the vanishing Celto-SaXon-
Teuton. DOOMED" is the correct
word.
Whether we are to be destined or to
be doomed depends on our willingness
to live up to destiny or down to doom.
depends on our acceptance or rejection
of the vital rules for the guidance of
life and the conduct of affairs in the
American republic, THE FIRST
PRINCIPLES OF AMERICANISM.
In the past decade the birth rate OF
the United States fell off by
TWENTY-FIVE MILLION.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-03

Los Angeles county school census
Over last years number of children be-
tween the ages of and II there is an
increase of 1880. And still we grow!
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-03

Ql1IlculJ 10 ans Wei
The proclaimed de-
sire of the Nation
alist party is to re-
store the ruling
power of the khe-
dive. The khedive
is not an Egyptian,
He is a Turk and
his dynasty is that
of q usurper. The
khedive has smiled
upon the Nation
a Ii s ! movement
more than once, yet
well-informed Eu-
rop e a n s a n d
A m e ri c a n S in
Egypt declare that
when the English
go the khedive will
follow at once, bag
and baggage. All
the financial woes
of Egypt are the
result of the mis-
rule of the Turkish
grandfather of the
reigning Turkish
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-03

New York has been invaded by a
thousand Greeks who intend to start
candy stores. Great Poluphlosboiotha-
lasses! The descendants of heroes have
degenerated into a race of candy-pull-
ers We wonder what will be the fate
and occupation of the American of the
flu But hold on! The birth rate re-
turns show there won't be any Amer
lean of the future.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-03

Judge Lands expressed a succinct
opinion of Hartman, Harrimanism and
Harrimaniac utteranees when he said:
I'm not concerned about what any
body says in opposition to the enforce
ment of the criminal law"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-03
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENCE intended
for publication must be accompanied by tie
name and address of the writer. The Her
aid gives the widest latitude TO correspond
ents, but assumes responsibility for their
views. Letters must not exceed 800 words
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-03

Rev. Malcolm Mcleod discussed the
modern newspaper before the Mems
club of Pasadena Presbyterian church.
Well, turn about is fair play. News
papers never have the slightest hesita-
ton over discussing the modern church
or. the modern minister before any
body.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-03

A German American who, rather than
report for military service in the ty-
rannical army of the kaiser and have
his American girl wait until the kaiser
releases him, forfeits his estate in Ger
many and gets an American marriage
license, is more of an American than a
German. He will make a citizen "of
the right sort"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-03
THE TITLED MUSE

like the names that poets choose
For little books OF song
"star-Glow and Dream, "-"Dawn Light and
Dews"
''Daisies and Dusk"-"Morn Mist and
Muse"
Are beautifully strong
Bur when I "ope" the covers pink
1t sometimes seems to
''I.ove- Gush and sh."-''Drivel and Ink"
"Pretzels and Beer,"-"coks Dreams and
Drink"
Would bsttsr titles bs.-Puok.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-03

In order to help the Young Mems
Christian association in its admirable
work among the aqueduct construction
army, citizens are invited to send mag
azines, graphophone records, music
boxes or stereopticon> views to the Y.
M. c. A.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-03

United States land office in Los An.
geles is doing a land office business
Mays receipts broke all records FOL
any month since a branch of the de.
partment was established here.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-03

CAIRO, Egypt.-The war cry Of the
Nationalist party in the valley Of
" the Nile is Egypt for the
Egyptians" No one can deny the
worthiness of the patriotic sentiment
expressed, but the English masters Of
the country meet the slogan with the
quiet question: "Who are the Egyp-
tians?" And that question Is very
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-03
URGES TRIAL OF SINGLE
TAX IDEA IN LOS ANGELES

LOS ANGELES, June 1.-[Editor
Herald1 The land values Of Los An
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-03

TOmOrrOw-The Dimmins Crescent Of
Islam.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-22
Mother Nature Takes Oath
Being Duly Tefes About herediy.
Argument

Ihey never hunt the wrong kind. They
never catch too few nor too many.
ana they never sting a hairs breadth
out or the way They never lay their
eggs until the right number OF spiders
have been stored up. They never eat
meat lwasps) after they break out
OF their paper cradle"
And you say" asks the bespec.
tacled scientist at the trial table. level
ing MS miscroscope at the witness.
That these wasps never see their
mother or father and so cannot learn
from them nor do they live To see their
children SO they can't tell them the
secret"
Exactly So" said Mother Nature.
Then exclaims the attorney for
Heredity. I'VE have proved our case.
Here evidently Is proof positive of in
herited Intelligence. or at least In.
stinct"
Up jumps the scientist-attorney ON
the other side of the table. Walt \
minute" he cries. II want To cross
examine the witness"
Mother Nature settles back In her
chair and smiling cheerfully mods for
him To 20 ahead
Now. madam. whom do you consid.
or the best organized OF all your chill
dren--except, perhaps (modestly).
mankind?"
The bee.' is the prompt reply.
"Why?"
because the bees live In a perfect
~ governed community. When they
overcrowd one place they do not fight,
but part OF them migrate in an order
ly way. Because they do their work
in series OF specialized divisions OF
labor Because they never waste time
nor labor in useless effort. Because
they plan unerringly in seasons OF
plenty for the winter OF want which
they know is To come. Because they
are the most peaceable. contented and
industrious of my children"
Was there ever honey.making
bee whose father ever made a bit OF
comb or brought in drop Of honey?"
NO. the father is drone: he new
er did and never can do a tap OF
work"
Was there ever mother bee who
did stroke OF work."
NO, never; queen bees do not
work.
80. then. the complex social, polit.
ical and Industrial life Of the bee Is
not inherited from either father or
mother?"
THAT must be true" replies Mother
Nature. and while the attorneys broke
into terrible wrangle she slipped out
Of court.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-22
From Another Point of View


AS to whether
mat a pinion.
enoug o
Rockefeller Wisely
HIM sit In
possibly
With the Yankees to Cleveland kid" Ebed
possible Cleveland.
City
be
he has met the Committee
while a
must have been reminded Of The "Dea Maria incident
Latham failure &c
English channel he
Ohio suffering making money
faster than he spends It. He might
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-22

One of the most interesting suits on
trial In the general court OF scientlnc
research is the one that has been
waged over the principle of heredity
Mother Nature has been called
sworn. examined. cross-examined. ex
cused and recalled. and she has prov
en- the most battling OF witnesses.
Fer example. take her testimony in
the matter OF certain wasps She was
called by the attorneys for the theory
OF heredity and on direct examination
she testified as follows
Yes, your honor. | have made q
species OF wasp called the eumenes
which never sees its father or its
mother. and which never lives TO see
its children. and yet IL exhibits a most
complex scheme of life which never
varies by jot.
This wasp-I speak of the female
as soon as she reaches maturity,
makes haste TO build a paper capsule.
She then hunts far and wide for spid-
ers. She doesn't want any Kind OF a
spider but just one. rather uncommon.
species Having found one OF these,
she carefully stings him in nerve
center. injecting some of the venom
from her poison sac. Now she has
never studied natural history, but she
never picks out the wrong spider she
has never been to medical college,
but no surgeon could be SO exact as tn
the spot 10 insert the sting and the
depth 10 which 10 drive IL.
Her poison would kill any other
spider The poison in any other part
OF this particular spider would kill 1t.
But the job properly done simply par
alyzes without killing the spider. and
the wasp then carries the helpless
prey 10 the paper capsule and depos-
it's II therein. This process is repeat
ed an exact number OF times until an
exact number Of helpless spiders are
In the paper prison. Then. and then
only, the mother wasp lays certain
number of eggs in the capsule and
seals up the end. Her work being
done she dies.
After time the eggs hatch out
and the baby wasps find at hand a
store OF fresh meat. They attack the
living but paralyzed spiders one at q
time and eat them up. There is just
enough OF this food TO sustain the
young wasps until they are grown
enough TO break down the wall of their
paper nursery. and they at once he
gin q repetition OF the elaborate pro-
cess wrich brought them into life.
"They never see their mother and
they never live TO see their children
They never fail to hunt spiders and
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-22

o thou that rollest above, round as
the shield Of my fathers. Whence are
thy beams, o sun, thy everlasting
light? Thou contest forth in thy aw-
full beauty. and the stars hide Them
selves in the sky: the moon, cold and
pale, sinks In the western wave. But
thou myself movest alone; who can be
a companion of thy course? The oaks
OF the mountains fall; the mountains
themselves decay with years; the
ocean shrinks and grows again; the
moon herself is lost In heaven; but
thou are forever the same. rejoicing
in the brightness OF thy course. When
the world is dark with tempests, when
thunder rolls. and lightning flies. thou
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-22

son he will be seen at the Garrick
theater as the star III the new Shu-
bert production OF THE Paradise of
Mahomet." During the engagement
OF Mr.. Herr this week he will present
at least three character studies. an old
actor, an old dandy. and his much.
talked about character OF the lawyer.
which was the great card In The
White Hen" The Blonde Typewrit.
ers. musical comedy in miniature,
with many pretty blonde typewriters
pounding the keys. and comedy and
singing interspersed, is the special
feature of the bill. This act was
given to vaudeville by Gus Edwards.
Inc well-known song composer. and IL
as sail To be one OF the jolliest girl
acts on the stage. Mr.. Edwards com.
posed all the songs for the act Of
which there are half a dozen or more.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-22

lookest in thy beauty from the clouds.
and laughest at the storm. But TO
Ossian, thou lookest in vain; for he be-
holds thy beams no more. whether
thy yellow hair flows on the eastern
clouds. or thou tremblest at the gates
of the west. But thou art, perhaps,
like me, for a season and thy years
will have an end. But thou shalt 81 aep
in thy clouds. careless OF the voice
of the morning. Exult then, o sun, In
the strength OF thy youth, Age IS
dark and unlovely: it is like the glim-
mering light of the moon, when II
shines through broken clouds, and the
mist is on the hills; the blast OF the
north is on the plain, the traveller
shrinks in the midst of his journey.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-22
THE STAGE

The Temple theater management
will offer its large clientele next week,
beginning Monday afternoon. varied
bill OF legitimate vaudeville, at the
head OF which Is Ralph c. Herr. one
OF the most accomplished comedians
Of the day. Mr.. Herr has appeared
Ia Detroit as principal support to his
wife. Lulu CHASER; has been Leading
support 10 Maxine Elliott and Mrs.
Patrick Campbell; has been featured
IN Miss Dolly Dollars" Lola of Ber-
IIn.~ and has been principal comedian
~ The White Hen" The coming sea-
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-22
MOST ANYTHING

for once. It's his birthday. SIR
Fiegende Blaetter
1t lust goes to show that walking
isn't the frolic it's cracked up TO be.
Weston VIII ride back
Old Rooster: What do you think
you are going TO hatch out OF that
doorknob and that piece OF brick?
Old Hen (fiercely): I'll hatch u
skyscraper If | want to. You go and
attend to your own affairs. I'm run.
ning this branch of the business.-Chi-
cago News.
Funny thing about that British sub
marine Ia was half way to the bot
tom when sent there.
Fun moonlight is estimated to be OF
1-6lS000th intensity OF sunlight.
Roosevelt says; The multimillion-
aire is not per Sc a healthy develop
ment ia this country. True No
multimilionaire was ever caught In
business merely for his health.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-22
RETURNS SO TRUE BILLS
IN WAR ON GAMBLING
Grand Jury Strikes Hard Blow at
Gambling, Disordcriy Resorts, Slos
Machines, and Sale of Liquors.

CHICAGO. July 22.-Gambling, dis
orderly resorts, slot machines and the
illegal sale Of liquor in dry territory
surrounding Chicago was struck a
hard blow yesterday when the grand
Jury returned Indictments affecting
more than 500 persons. Fifty true
bills were returned against proprie-
tors of Chinese gambling houses and
a like number against persons operat-
ing slot machines.
Frank Moy, who IS said TO have
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-22

been collecting money from gambling
houses for providing them with pro
lection" and Ii King his agent, were
indicted as accessories lii the 90 IN
dictments against the Chinese gamb-
lers. Moy, who is mayor OF China
town" denied he was levying tribute
from gamblers, declaring he was
merely collecting fund TO celebrate
the feast of the war god
The grand jury after reporting the
true bills, reconvened and started an
In an effort TO discover
the persons who furnished the alleged
protection The states attorney 10
SAID to be preparing TO prosecute POI
lice officials.
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