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Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28
HUNGRY HORDE

TT may be that repOrts-all overdraw1
and highly colored-of the renewal
Il of business activity in the United
States are responsible for the arrival
in one day Of 900 hungry immigrants
eager to share the prosperity of the
American workingman; but we cannot
agree with commentators who say the
inpouring of European economic ref
ugees indicates there is need OF them
1t only indicates continental advertis-
ing bureaus OF the steamship and rail-
roads are "at 1t again." yellow journal
ing Europe with cock and bull stories
of the land where the Job seeks the
man and the man sets his own price.
1t is certain there is a return Of bust
ness activity for the steamships. At a
very low average estimate, they raked
in $270,000 from that one days freight
of come ons" from Europe. And after
the steamships had shaken them down,
the railroads took a turn at them, and
distributed them, not according to
economic demands, but according to
the number of dollars they had in their
purses. The man who had only the
price of a meal ticket naturally re-
mained In New York. But the man who
had the price of transportation to
Chicago was loaded aboard a train and
freighted to Chicago. And so on. 'Tis
a great system.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28
WOMEN WORKERS

Z Attest statistical returns show
there are nearly 100000 women
~ workers in the United States.
Half of them are under 25 years
of age and 22.6 per cent have not
reached the age Of q. OF the 8O3 oc-
cupations in which bread winners of
the country are engaged, women have
pre-empted a place in all but nine. All
kinds of unusual pursuits have been
adopted by women workers. Five
women are pilots, 10 railroad baggage
women, 81 brakewomen, 26 switch
women. yardwomen and hagwomen, 43
carriage and hack drivers and sos
machinists. In the United States there
are 150 women builders and contrac-
tors, 167 women masons, 545 women
carpenters, 45 women plasterers, 1853
women painters, GLACIERS and varnish-
ers, 126 women plumbers, 241 women
paper hangers and 2 women skaters
and roofers.
And they are in all the businesses and
professions that require special skill,
including banking. Some banks are
tions of trust, and the common accu-
sation that this is because women are
cheaper than men is met by the state
ment of a bank president:
"You never heard Of a young woman
running off with her employers S
money, did you? Well. neither did 7,
and I've employed a great many of
them in positions Of great financial re-
sponsibility."
When the wages Of women are put
on an equality with those Of men even
the "cranlliest" male being win be de-
prived of a reasonable objection to
feminine competition. But d lowering
of the wage level in various occupa-
tions is undoubtedly traceable to
women-and children. To reduce So
ciety to a condition in which a father,
mother and child win all work in or
der to earn a wage equal to what used
TO be earned by the father alone is to
reduce it to a condition that is Chi
nese, not American.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28
cRlTICISES EDITORIAL
ON WOMAN'S PROGRESS

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27.-[Editor
Herald: observer" does not seem
able to stick to the point about equal
suffrage in Colorado. He says that
one OF the Denver board of aldermen
introduced the resolution that where
as a great many prominent business
men" were willing to put up funds for
prize fight, Denver ought to get the
advantage of having the slugging
match. The bulk of the money Of Den
yer is in the hands of the men. of
course; and to expect that the women,
even If they constituted half of the
population, could offset the other 90
per cent, with it's financial advantage,
is as absurd as to suppose that the
workingman Of this country meets the
capitalist on an equal footing in the
law court
An article in the July Arena, by Will
liam Macleod Raine, shows that the
women Of Denver do use their vote to
some advantage; but It is preposterouS
to suppose that equal suffrage Will I'M
mediately, or even in the course of six
teen years, bring about the millennium
anywhere. The majority of the suHrag-
lists are making no such claims.
By the way was The Herald exactly
fair the other day in that editorial
about "Woman's Progress? 1t is moth
ing new under Sol for women to sit
out a fight. The Roman matrons used
to turn out at the gladiator shows and
hold down their thumbs with the best
Of them. The Spanish women do 1t to
this day. Women are not the angels
that some men pretend they imagine
them to be- AS George Eliot said, GOD
made 'em to match the men. But
nature did not make it necessary for
them to be quite so pugilistic as the
majority of men. The animal tanner
finds the female more amiable than
her mate. Perhaps when we have
noIicewoman, she will not be quite so
ready to beat us over the head with
her club If we find starvation monot-
onous and turn out to expostulate. Al
anv rate if the women at McKees
Rocks can stand 1t to be, shot in the
hack bv men, what is the reason the
man on foot can't stand the woman on
horsebacll? A "hodcarrieress" does not
present a beautiful spectacle but IN
nv poor opinion she is more edlly-,
inc sight than her perfectly feminine
"sooio+1y" /. d. H.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28
CONDEMNS NO RELIGION
THAT SEES THE ETERNAL

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2S.-[Editor
Herald: The writer can truly say that
your excellent paper is a welcome VS.
itor- to our home. Its columns TEEN
with news. It's editorials are inspiring
and make for patriotism and right
eousness. l love to read them, also its
Letter Box, with it's various themes,
some amusing, others serious. but all
instructive in some form, leading men
TO think and broadening the vision. l
emphasize the last, for in my criticism
of "Lineman's" statement that "he
who knows only one religion knows
none," I would not be understood as
condemning any religion that sees the
eternal by faith and walks toward
him by the light given them. Each
and all will receive life in due time.
For Jesus gave himself a ransom for
all to be testified in due time Il Tim.
u:6).
All religions, Judaism included, that
believe in the Eternal Spirit view him
from different standpoints, and, al
though they may have been placed in
the cleft of the rock and been covered
with the hand of God (as shown in
type by Moses), yet have never been
permitted to see his face. Not until
the blood of the new covenant had
been shed and the light of the glorious
gospel of Christ who is the image of
God, shone upon men, could man see
God face to face in the living word
through the ministration of the Spirit.
Blessed, indeed, are such, fulfilling the
words of the Psalmist: blessed are
they that know the joyful sound; they
shall walk, o Lord, in the light of thy
countenance." j. r. KITS.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28
THINKS PHONETIC SYSTEM
OF TEACHING is PHoNEY

PASADENA, Aug. 22.-[Editor Her
add: In the editorial column of The
Herald August IS the following is
found: How many public schools
have classes in Americanism % This
question should be printed in large
type and placed in all churches and
schoolrooms in the country. 1t would
at least cause parents to think, as well
as some teachers, on whom most of the
blame is thrown for children's stupidity
and backwardness in learning. Teach
ers are not at fault in most cases.
In old times teaching pupils were
taught letters, both singly and by
sound, and were advanced in the diff
ferent branches as soon as competent.
Up to 1887 the common public school
was preparatory, high school and
academy combined. Civics, algebra,
physics, higher mathematics, grammar
and other studies were taught, much to
the advantage of poor children who
were striving to master the course, and
many stood examinations and were
awarded diplomas from the common
school.
In 1SS5-S6 in an eastern town there
were some pupils as low as years old
in United States history ciVics, etc
Quackenboss' history and Kellogg s
grammar were studied at the time. The
next year red tapery began in school
dom. Barnes milk-watered history
was installed Harvey's and Kellogg
works were laid on the shelf; children
were not taught letters, but phonetical
sound, thus, cah-ah-tee, cat. Now
some soon learn by this phoney system
while it is impossible for others; sc
the letters should not be abolished.
The pupil of today must drag along
in infantile slush in the lower grades
in order to reach books in high school
which should be taught in any COM
mon public school. BY this time he is
old enough to vote. and it means from
$500 to $500 to finish a professional
course. Then to get before an audi
ence and tell how easy it is for the
poor to get an education, start In the
old way with modest job, peanut
stand, modern grocery and wind up as
financial king of some trust. Why, it's
as amusing to the citizen of average in
telligence as looking over the report oi
great tariff revision Downward.
G. r. LUNA.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28
IUNKETINGs VS.. BUSINESS

w AS the recent American Prison
w associations congress in Seattle
merely a junketing, as so many
of such congresses are wont to be? We
hardly think so, and Col. Griffith J.
Griffith is far too polite even to hint
at such a thing, but we confess to hav-
ing our doubts after reading the inter-
view we published on the subject.
The matter is serious, since that is the
leading association devoting itself in
this country to prison matters, and re-
cent revelations by writer's of estab-
lished reputation have spread broad
cast the conviction that conditions in
our jails and penitentiaries are of the
most serious character.
1t is well enough to learn from Col.
Griffith that the modern and moro hui
name school Of eriminology is rapidly
gaining the ascendant, and it is we'll
enough to find thoughtful and intel
lectual men reading papers on proba-
ton, the care of discharged prisoners
and similar humanitarian measures.
That this much is being done gives
assurance that thought is stirring and
that the future will make for reform.
But # is by no means so well that at
the very moment when the reading
world Is shuddering at such disclosures
as those made by Charles Edward Rus
sell in this months Hampton's Maga-
zine, the main organized body that
makes a speciality of everything relat-
ing 20 crime and the treatment of Grim
inals should be silent on this very
question of torture.
Brand Whitlock, Russell, and many
other writer's whose reliability has been
hitherto unquestioned, have come out
boldly and told us that the horrors Of
the inquisition are being reproduced to-
day in the secrecy of the prison dun
geon. They either lie or tell the truth,
and the matter is not one that Ameri-
cans will sidestep. unless we much mis-
take the manhood of our fellow coun-
| trymen. The tales told are far too ugly
to be ignored, and, as Col. Griffith says,
they are not to be discussed in secret
or by wardens only.
! One hundred and fifty years ago John
| Howard, the great prison pllldu-
thropist, stood aghast to find that tor
ture, abolished in England, was rife in
continental prisons. 1t called his soul
to arms and started him on career
that history is not likely to forget.
We have read in the dispatches
accounts of the American Prison Asso-
| citation congress that have pleased us
greatly; but we are far from being
satisfied with the silence that ap-
parently brooded over the one all-im-
portant topic. For we have local
Prison Reform league that has not hesi-
tated to say that public opinion ban
ished public torture only to drive 1t to
the far more fearful secrecy of dun
geons, whose walls have no ears and
where irresponsible officials are the
| only witnesses.
Sooner or later this situation must
be met, and face to face. The sooner
the better, not only for the unfortunae
victims but for our credit as nation.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28
FORTIFY SAN PEDRO

NOMPLETE and satisfactory forti-
fcation Of the harbor is necessary
~ if it Is to be developed to its full
usefulness, and it is fortunate and right
in line with Los Angeles luck that the
president of the United States should
have decided to visit this city. The
president will inspect the harbor, and
there can be only one result.
Mr.. Taft, let it ever be remem-
bered, is one Of the believers in
"Greater America" He realizes the
Importance of guarding by the occu-
patton Of the Philippines American in
terests in the Pacific, and he is well
posted on what we may call the PA
cifc coast question"
Indeed, he is much better acquainted
with the various aspects Of the prob
lens presented by the growth Of popu-
lation on the Pacific coast and by the
great increase of American interests
in the Pacific than probably any mem
ber of his cabinet. The proposal that
the consolidation celebration should be
so timed that the president win take
part in it as the guest of honor is
marked by great sagacity and common
sense, and no doubt will be carried out
In 1.-THE Los Angeles way.'
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28

out. You certainly make good com
nanion for one who unwisely styles
herself MARY Magdalene." I challenge
Won each with this question: If you
were blessed with a sister of an eX-
ceptionally attractive personality Il
make this exception" as having no
merit other than a danger by lurking
demons), one whose purity of character
was unimpeachable, whose virtue was
reflected in the sweet innocense OF her
facial charm, and whose healthy pull
sating heart throbs and beatific bear
ing were so pronounced as to cause
admiration from all who CHANGED 10
behold her Q'm portraying genuine
easel. would you consent to withhold
vour knowledge of the great outside
world where dwell the Belials and con-
nive at the inveiglers of her virtue
saying for your own defense and later
for hers, "you can repent and live 1t
down." One who talks thus wildly,
though a woman, has little or no con-
ception of an eXquisitely constructed
sensitiveness that is innate in true
womanhood. And you, sir, Beau Brum-
mel, would be one to heap anathema
upon the man in the case. Why? Be
cause tits mans innate selfishness and
pugnacity of temperament (ungoVerned
mani to want to fly at the other fell
lows throat, even though he were so
destitute of brotherly love and self
respect as not to care a whistle for
the other fellows victim-your own
sister-but in most cases man, such
as yourself will plot to corrupt woman
hood holding your own as exceptions
in your narrowly and meanly defined
rules.
But answer, Beau Brummel quite
a high sounding name, you choose,
though it does not give the correct
clew to the mani, to tell us why they of
your self-approved stamp, they of your
detestable motives, are not as brazen
and defiant when the searching eyes
of one of your adversaries in your
diabolical reasonings gazes at you?
Why, then, does your boastful attitude
cover and your face become diffused
with shame and guilt that proves q
torment to you? Why are you SO
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28
EMBALMING APPROVED

I'm SPITE of the remonstrances of
various specialists who denounced
Il the proposal to embalm human be-
ings while they were still alive, the
convention of the association of ma
tional food and dairy departments ap-
proved the use of benzoate Of soda in
the manufacture Of food products. DR..
Charles L. Reed of Cincinnati said the
use of benzoate OF soda as a food pre-
seryatiye was a menace to public well
fare.
Such a positive statement by an ex-
pert win make many people regard
benzoate with suspicion even after
professional approval The benzoate
manufacturers have been conducting
a campaign in which expense has not
been spared. They have flooded the
country with literature, most of which
aroused the suspicion that like the lady
they did protest TOO much.
No matter what other parts Of the
country may do our right trusty and
well beloved California should insist
on the purest kind Of purity in all the
excellent food products with which it's
name and fame are associated. Any
way. with our plentiful all the year
round supply of fresh fruit and fresh
vegetables, we don't need TO run the
risk Of artificial preserVatives. Cali
fornia products can be preserved in a
natural way, without the use of arti-
fetal chemicals to disguise inferiOrity.
Our foodstuffs need no DISCUSSES. Let
other states benzoate themselves if
they will, California does not need
benzoate of soda. Literally 1--WE have
no use for it."
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28

easily disturbed If you consider your
choeen career so praiseworthy?
AS for so-styled MARY Magdalene,"
wish to say there are different de-
grees of repentance as there are ull-
ferent degrees of sensitiveness-and
had not the writer not known OF cases
where the blights of gloom and re-
morse found no balm in this cold world,
where the exquisite suffertngs or What
M M. would say" could be lived down
"eat daily like a cankerous worm into
the soul"-and not from a fallen" ma
tIlre-not from willful surrender OF vir-
tine and a preference of wrongdo1ng-
hut from an acceptance and rellance
upon mans projections promise OF fu-
ture bliss, this writer would not choose
to cross swords with these truly uah-
gerous beings of society.
To view immortality and loss of self
honor as do IN. M" and "B. B." is to
drop from q low pedestal, suffering
thereby no real injury or mortificatlon
of heart. but to fall from heights or
loved and we'll preserved and Jealously
guarded chastity is to scar the soul
and wholly obliterate the ascending
pathway-and could such unfortunates
adequately express themselves in
burning words akin to their mental
sufferings, they would reveal tortures
of mind that would cause even
"Nfarv Magdalena" or "Beau Brum-
mel'' to smite themselves for the en-
couragement Of their own writings and
lives give--for such as they are cul-
pable!
will enclose "a thank you" to
"Economist," who adds my name TO
the "picnic'' list. 1 think my reply
must be a quotation of Thomas Camp
bell:
,rIs distance lends enchantment to the View
And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
CARLOTTA
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28
OCCULTISM

MIME. ANNE EDITHA LOLITA
jNs DISS DEBAR has turned up
III again in New York, and she is to
be arrested and taken to police head
quarters for the crime of being Nine.
Anne Editha Lolita Diss Debar. Nine.
Diss Debar is now known as Adiva
Veedya. She says she can teach people
how to live forever and if one may
judge by her own tenacious hold upon
life there may be some foundation for
her claim.
There are persons who will think
Nine. Diss Debar is being prosecuted
by the police. If there is any founda-
ton for this belief, it exists in the dis
elimination made against the "seeress."
There is all the difference in the world
between genuine inquirers into the mys-
teries of life and death, and the numer-
Gus fakes who are to be found in every
city. When Professor Christison or
Professor Mann of the University of
Chicago acknowledges there is an "X,''
an unknown quantity in the universe,
which sometimes startles expermenters
and investigators, and always battles
science and defes reasonable eXplana-
tion, a plausible excuse is provided for
exploration Of the unknown "territory''
that may contain some of the key
secrets of the universe. But the inva-
sion of this realm by a horde of charla-
tans should be severely discounte-
nanced. Society is to blame for the
predaceous takers that may be found
in almost every populous community
star readers, crystal gazers, dead-rais-
ers, ghost summoners, ct hoe genus
omne. Ii nobody patronized these peo-
pie they would soon seek other and per-
haps more legitimate methods of bread
Mlnning
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28
COMPLAINS OF PLUMBING
AT sAWTELLE BARRACKS

sAWTELLE, Aug. 27.-[Editor Her
ald1. The government contends that
there is no graft. What about the
water piping? Or call it as 1T ought 10
he called, plain stealing. Water IS
breaking through in all parts of, the
grounds, causing a lack of water dally
in the barracks. 1t is a well known
fact that every article contracted lor py
the government is specified to be NO: L,
and the piping used on this reservation
is not even second class. Hence the
continual loss through piping much
thinner than called for by speclhca-
tions and an altogether inferior quality.
So If is with everything, and yet there
Is no chance for graft. Since The Her
aid exposures the food has improved,
although the ruling powers had put
$4,000 of the subsistence fund some DAYS
ago. .
The men in this home are not chronic
erunblers or brawlers, and have waited
natfently and suffered, hoping that
those conditions would be improved
when possible, but instead of lmproV-
ing they became worse, until they are
unbearable. Now that The Herald has
taken up our cause we know there Is
bound to be a hauling over the Goals
for the persons responsible for present
conditions
We have an ice plant, but never do
we get a drink of ice water The Of
ficials have plenty, though. They use
screened coal in their homes paid for
by the United States, while the bar
r. ks of the wards in cold and foggV
weather are so cold the men are
obliged to go to bed to be comfortable.
There is no provision for keeping the
men warm. They can get along with
out heat as we'll as meat. 1t is use
less to equivocate in regard to the man
agement OF these homes.
MORE ANON.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28
DOUBTS IF FALLEN MEN
AND WOMEN CAN REPENT

PASADENA HEIGHTS, Aug. 21.-
IEditor Herald: With this communica-
tion for and in behalf of my sex, L will
withdraw from the Letter Box.
But here's to you, Beau Brummel-the
place you occupy in this evolving crea-
tion, wherever that may be, would be
decidedly benefited by your passing
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28

Southern Pacifc's rump convention
Of the Republican party was sum-
rnoned by the Southern Pacific political
bureau last evening. The doughty Nc
Garvin presided, and the fuglemen of
the old brigade were all in line.
Comrades. comrades, ever since they were
boys,
Sharing each others sorrows, sharing each
others joys.
But they won't be allowed to annul
the direct primaries law.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28
AT THE THEATERS

AUDIToRIUM-Dnrk.
BFLASCO-oPierre Of the Plains"
BURBANK-"The Morals Of Marcus"
GRAND-"Ths King OF Tramps."
MASON--'The Climax"
ORPHEUM-Vaudeville
Los ANGELES--Vaudeville.
UNIQUE-VaudeviNe and musical coined
EISCHER'S-Burlesque.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28

Greater Los Angeles today will begin
it's official existence. May it ever be
the finest, fairest, squarest and most
prosperous city of the farthest west of
the western world.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28

William Meek Of Los Angeles has
been elected president of the National
Association Of Master Bakers, now in
session in Minneapolis. AS usual Los
Angeles is at top O. the heap. It's the
Los Angeles way
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28

The Solid Three have found the sled
din is not as smooth as it might have
been. The way Of the transgressor is
full Of bumpy thank-ye-ma'ams
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28

Annexation plans calling for the COM
pletion of Greater Los Angeles by the
inclusion Of the suburban districts
omitted from the harbor city consolida-
ton are meeting with popular favor
Greater Los Angeles should finish the
work it has so well begun, and thus
obviate the necessity of having to do
it at some future time when there
might be more difficulties in the way.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28

Frenzied Financier Morse is again
laying plans by which he hopes to make
a fortune. 1t is curious that such fel-
lows always can find hackers, while
owners Of legitimate business PROPOSE
tions may have to hunt in vain for
capital. Poor human nature always
will follow after a man in band
wagon who keeps dining he knows
how to get Mch quick"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28
Retired

I really think our language has
OF late sustained loss
We never hear the boys shout out'
"Oh, mister, get a horsev
-Yonkers Statesman
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28
The Public Letter Box

for publication
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snts buta assnmes NO respon helr
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28

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