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Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS

Editor Herald: Would you, for the
benefit of many readers, answer in
your Letter Box the following ques-
tions: What is the platform of the
Australian labor party and what do
they propose to accomplish at their
session of the commonwealth parlia-
ment? What is the majority of the
labor party in parliament?
E. d. EDWARDS.
The labor members in the Austral
ian parliament now number Al to 30
Fusionists and Independents. In
the last parliament the labor mem
bers numbered 26, Fusionists 49,
AS to program we have not full par
ticuars; but among the immediate re-
forms proposed are:
A graduated tax on unimproved land
values in excess of $25, 900.
Arbitration or conciliation courts.
A variation in the protection policy,
by which any manufacturer who does
not give his workers a fair wage out
of his protected" profits, shall have
an excise duty placed on his goods
Ed Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
WAR NOT NECESSARY

Editor Herald: The advocates of
war as a noble and necessary human
pursuit urge that without its tonic in
fluence the race would lose the heroic
virtues At our present stage of civil
ization the argument seems about as
reasonable as the conduct of pio-
neering farmer would be if he spent
his time and strength swinging clubs
and dumb bells instead of planting po-
tatoes and grubbing out underbrush.
Mines must be worked in difficulty
and danger; no railroad is built across
mountain barriers save by the pain and
peril of toilers. 1t is very common for
firemen and trainmen, for physicians
and nurses, for men and women in
many callings, to risk their lives, that
others may live in comfort and safe
ty. The sacrifices are so common that
they excite little comment and are re-
warded by no flourish of trumpets and
waving of bunting. But are they any
less bracing to moral sinews, any less
noble than the risking of life that 9TH
ers may suffer and die?
There are heroes among us still, as
many as in other times. Witness the
battling with the flames of the last two
weeks. Remember San Francisco's
superb courage in the face of appalling
disaster.
When nature Is subdued. when there
is no more dread disease to be fought,
the race may, need war as a tonic-it
surely is not required now. E. Q. c.
Los Angeles, Aug. 80.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02

of New York, are looking out "for the
interests of my own pocket all the
time"
One of the main sources of the sta
bllity of the French government is the
large number of middle class and peas
antry who hold investments in the Sc
curities OF the nation. The practice
makes them patriots of the most sub
stantial and useful kind. And it helps
the business of France, which is pro-
verbally one of the most prosperous
nations in the world by drawing into
circulation sums of money that in the
absence of federal stamp of security,
would not be invested in public enter
prises but largely boarded in idleness,
because many will not trust their saw
ings to private investment.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
Ice Water From Sunshine

Tn northern Mexico ola making Is q
very profitable industry to the inhapi~
tants, who carry them over into Arl-
zona on the backs of burros, A good
ola can be purchased from the pro-
prietor of one of these little caravans
for so or rs cents.
The OLA Is made from a crude clay
ish mortar. composed of burro manure
and sand This. with the use OF q
little water is worked into a pliaple
uass nv the Mexican, and when dry
and thick enough nodded into the
desired shape of the vessel. In dry
ing the composition becomes very por-
ous. and 1t is this essential charac-
feristic which contains the secret or the
cooling process.
After having been painted over.
10th inside and out. by solution OF
harmless dye the ola is ready for use.
IT Is then filled with water and hung
nm preferably in some place Which
is exposed to the wind, If there pc any
In a few minutes the exterior OF the
lar grows slightly dark with the mois-
ture which has seeped through the por-
Gus composition. The seeplng process
however. is very slow, and the mois-
ture which exudes evaporates into the
receptive. dry atmosphere In such
eduable proportion that scarcely more
than a drop minutes trickles away
from the bottom of the ola,
II is this continuous, and fairly rap
Id evaporation, which produces the
cold. Immediately the sides of tho
ola become chilled, and the water
within grows gradually cooler.
In less than an hour from the time
+he phenomenon is begun the water is
cold enough for drinking purposes, no
matter how warm 1t might have been
when poured into the receptacle. Two
mr. three hours later 1t Is cold enough
to fiji the ordinary requirements or
refrigeration for bottled milk, butter
and other culinary necessities.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
JUDICIAL PRoLlxITY

Editor Herald: Plainly speaking,
long. They are simply tiresome. The
law is supposed to be based on COM
mon sense and to be within the com
prehension of ordinary intelligence.
Why then should 1t be so often mud
died with long winded and intricate
essays on all sorts of topics? This state
once had on its supreme bench man
named Heydenfeldt who was able to
give his opinion, and his reasons, too,
in a very few sentences, and even the
lawyers knew more about a case de-
cided by him than they usually find
out about a case after it has been Ia
bored through pages by one of our
learned latter day judges. Really, why
should a court cite and discuss in ex-
tenso numerous decisions of courts of
other states? If in such quoted case a
point was decided it is sufficient to
state that fact and stop. The judge
does not add to the strength of his
conclusions by repeating all the rea-
sons the other court had for its con-
clusion.
The supreme court of the United
States is apt to be concise in decid-
ing a point. AS a general thing there
is only a solitary point involved in an
appeal. A Judge is under no necessity
to write long opinion to prove to the
bar or to the people his learning or
ability, and usually fails in the at
tempt. Some thoughtful person once
apologized for having written long
letter by saying he had not time to
write a short one. Surely some of our
Judges lack the time to write a short
opinion and some, perhaps, may lack
the ability. o. B. s.
Co1eproVe SeDtember /
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
CLAIMS INVEcTlVE is JUSTIFIED

Editor Herald: Having read your
editorial headed "Too Strong" in this
mornings issue, 1 ask myself why you
should be so condemnatory of violence
of speech; unless you believe, with Os-
car Wilde, that big words mean so
little" in which case 1 agree with you.
Yet if ever conditions justified the use
of heated language surely they are
with US now.
Only a few days ago you printed a
letter calling attention to the awful in
crease of abject poverty in New York,
despite ell the efforts of the charity or
ganizations, and the appalling growth
of suicide due to want. Never in the
history of any country, I venture to
say, has there been a parallel to the
exposures of political corruption made
in almost every one of our leading
magazines and periodicals. Never have
the methods by which wealth has rob-
bed and murdered the masses been
so rernorselessly laid bare. Consider
also the light that has been turned on
our treatment of crime and criminals;
the unceasing fire that has been di-
rected against the nan-hunting and
man-shooting-see recent events in
Chicago-proclivitie of the police. Note
how Diaz has been brought under the
microscope, ana ref1ect now the pup
lie must feel over the extent to which
he has used our government to foster
his own ends.
All this, and much else one could
add make an indictment so terrific
that it actually bewilders us by it's
Yastness, and goes far to justifying the
most virulent invective the tongue can
frame. Roosevelt is a virile speaker,
not afraid of calling a spade spade.
I invite you to compare his utterances
with those of Wendell Phillips or Gar
rison during the Abolitionist period.
You will find Roosevelt tame and in
sipld beside those great moulders of
public indignation. Yet 1t is public in
dignation that must be aroused, for
never were giant wrongs righted until
the public conscience revolted to the
point of nausea.
Reformers of all shades have one
universal enemy-general apathy. That
they must conquer at all hazards If
they are to come within shouting dis
tance of success.
r. L. STOKES
Los Angeles, Aug. 81.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
THE WOES OF THE
STANDPATTERS

N ERTAINLY our standpat Republi-
can friends have fallen upon evil
" times. In our own county they
failed to control their convention by the
very conclusive majority of more than
100. and all the machinery of the Re
publican party of the county is now
completely under the control of the In
surgent element
There appears also to be no doubt
that the result of the primaries
throughout the state, as definitely
ascertained. will place the next Repub
lican state convention as fully in con-
troll OF the insurgents as was the con-
vention that recently assembled in this
county. That of course means that the
insurgents will obtain control of the
party machinery of the state, and the
standpatters and their boss, Mr.. Herrin
of the Southern Pacific machine, VIII,
for the first time in many years, be out
in the cold
The news from Kansas that the Re-
publican convention of that state has
refused to indorse Mr. Taft's admin
1STrdLlOn III Iully anu CoiltOii1SNA 'NH0--
with praising it for having assisted in
the passage of certain measures which
were really enacted by the Democratic
and insurgent votes in congress, is an
other sad blow to our standpat friends.
The overwhelming reception which
Mr.. Roosevelt is receiving at the hands
of his countrymen throughout the west,
tells the same story. In fact, it be-
gins to look like such reactionaries as
Messrs. Barnes and WadsWorth of New
York, who so gayly and gallantly
picked a quarrel with the wielder of
the big stick few days ago, had bet
ter be hunting their holes, and when
they find them, prudence would appear
to dictate that they pull the holes in
after them.
Verify, this year of our Lord 1910
is not a standpat year.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
BOND SALES AT HOME

m HE new harbor and power bonds
are issued in denominations of
Il 500 and are therefore within the
reach of small local investors. With
out considering other aspects of the
question it would be a good thing for
the morale of the community if large
number of those bonds could be dis
posed Of among the citizens of Los
Angeles
Nothing so much as personal invest
ment in municipal enterprises would
be so sure to interest the people in the
management of the clty's affairs and
make them intelligent, alert voters. He
who has a direct stake in the outcome
Of an election viii not go fishing on
election day. He will not have to be
drummed UP to his civic duty by the
press and campaign committees. And
he won't be likely to elect to office poll
tlclans who, like the candid Mr.. Croker
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
Growth of United States Population
New York World

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now have many more inhabitants than
were then to be found in the whole
country The population OF these
states added to that of the other three
Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin--is
now greater than that Of the United
States at the census of 1910. Yet there
were men calling themselves far
sighted who only a hundred years ago
predicted that the northwest territory
was destined for all time to be the
home only of wild beasts and wilder
men. Since 1860 the center OF popula-
ton has been moving westward In
what was once the northwest terri
tory.
Even more doleful prophecies. were
made as to the fate of the Louisiana
territory, out of which have been
formed states that now have a popu-
lation nearly three times as large as
that of all the states in 1910. Missouri
alone has more people than were enuf1i-
Grated at the first national census III
1890. As many people now live west
of the Mississippi river as were found
In the entire country by the census
takers of 1850, and Oklahoma, figuring
now for the third time only in CEN
sus. has more inhabitants than all New
England possessed in 1920. while Texas
has at least three times as many.
To come nearer home, New York city,
embracing but 326 square miles, now
has almost as many inhabitants as
were returned by the national census
of 1900 and great as are many of the
states of the union only two of them,
Pennsylvania and Illinois, have more
people than are to be found in this one
splendid municipality.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02

Manufacturing a drink of ice water
with nothing cooler than the sun rays
and dry, tropical AIR would probapiy
seem under the province of the ma
gician to an easterner who had never
Travelled farther southwest over ms
native land than the plains of Colo
RADIO. It is nevertheless a fact says
the New York Times, that by these
ever available agencies the greater
part of the population of Texas, Ari-
IONA and New Mexico manufacture
their ice water. This not only serves
for drinking purposes. but also pro-
vides an efficient medium for the or
binary requirements of refrigeration
for In the cruder sections of the great
southwest the artificial production of
Ice is still trine too costly to be
feasible.
Picture a cattle ranch squatted in
the center of hundreds of miles of
dry. un-baked, semi-desert land
There is just enough growth of wild
grass about to satisfy the far-wander-
ing herds. which drink from the thick,
warm waters of some artificial oasis.
A cowboy returns to the ranch af-
ter an all-days exposure to the DIS
tering heat With parched lips ne
rides quickly UP to a little RED, oval
shaped earthen Jar suspended by
rope behind the house.
He takes off the cover. which Is
merely there to keep out the blowing
sand and dips forth a cup of ice wa
ter which has never come in contact
with anything but the sun exposed
sides of the earthen receptacle which
incloses it. The water is always there,
and 1t is practically effortless and cost
less in the making of 1t.
The secret lies wholly in the con-
str1ction of the little red receptacles,
This is a simple Mexican creation, and
in that language is called an ola, the
two rs being silent according to the
Spanish pronunciation of the word.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
DANGER IN TURKISH BATH

Editor Herald; Some time ago I
went to a Turkish bath. While there
in the hot room 1 noticed party
alongside of me and one opposite who
it would not require an expert to see
were victims of tuberculosis in ad-
vanced stages. AS everybody knows.
the ventilation in a Turkish bath can
not be thorough owing to the neces-
sity Of maintaining the hot tempera-
ture.
Now, if there Is danger of infection
from tuberculosis in riding in the street
cars, where there is always some cir
culation of cool air, is there not a
thousand times more danger under
conditions mentioned in a Turkish
bath?
think information on this point
from medical men would be of general
interest. CALIFORNIAN.
Los Angeles, August 81.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02

one of the worst iniquites of the present
tariff is the cotton schedule whose evil fea-
lures are fully and strikingly exposed in the
Worlds Work for August.
The increase Of duties cotton goods by
the Payne-Aldrieh measure was particularly
odlous because during the winter preceding
the passage of the bill representatives OF
the New England cotton goods makers went
before the ways and means committee at
washington and said the interests for which
they spoke were satisfied with the duties
then existing and desired no increase. And
those duties were very high. Nevertheless.
when congress got to work on the tariff
these same interests became greedy for still
more protection" and got 1t.
Pie results OF the new tariff cotton
goods are higher prices FOR many articles Of
common consumption Mercerzed goods of
all sorts are largely increased in retail price,
even to the extent OF 80 1-3 per cent. Although
the cost OF rnercerizins, chemical process,
is very small, it called for high ''protec-
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
MINISTERIAL INCONSISTENCY

Editor Herald. Is 1T not a strange
thing to hear a minister of the gospel
stand up in his pulpit on Sunday and
announce the graft, bribery and gen.
eral dishonesty that have come to char
acterize our municipal, state, and even
national political affairs, and then on
week days hear the same man speak
ing for and trying to keep in power the
same gang who locally and in states
stands for exactly the worst things in
American politics, and working hand
in glove with newspaper which repre-
serts and defends all that sort Of
thing, corporation rule and corrup
ton, which the people are trying to
throw off. how are we to account for
this inconsistency? w. B. @.
Los Angeles, Aug. 30.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02

Thus in 120 years the population has
been multiplied almost by twenty
three and in fifty years almost by
three. We now have an average Of
about twenty-nine inhabitants to the
square mile, although there are many
states and territories In which there is
a square mile of room for every two
or three persons. Ten years ago Rhode
Island had 407 people to the square mile
and Massachusetts 34S. AS showing
that even these old and comparatively
small states are not too crowded for
comfort, it may be said that, based
upon the estimated population of
Greater New York, there are now
about $4,000 people to the square mile
in this city.
In 1890 the northwest territory had
lust been organized. Both Illinois and
Ohio, states created in that region,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
ON THE HEIGHT

"I dreamed last night, my darling, that you
stood on a height
Arrayed in shifnmerng garments and glor-
ious to the sight.
And men who saw you envied me and
paused while 10 gaze,
And then at last reluctantly they passed
upon their ways
"And in the dream you had my dear, where
was the splendid height?
And did no ladies pass or pause, expressing
their delight?
why did the men who saw me there feel
envious of your
What reason had they dear. to care? :?
Twas naughty Of them TO.
"Nay they were justified my dear; you
stood upon the height
Arraved in lovely garments that were gauzy
and were white.
And every man who paused TO look learned
how to envy me;
Your waist was made SO It would hook up
the front, you see"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
Cotton Tariff Plunder
tsacramento Bee.)

ITO beeJ
ton" which gave the cotton trust q monop-
oily of the American market.
Much of the general advance in duties on
cotton goods does not show on the face of
the new law. 1t was accomplished by
changes in classification, as from specific
duties to those on value, or the reverse
In some instances the increase of duty in
this way ran up to $50 per cent. Another
such change had the effect OF doubling the
duties on certain cheap cotton fabrics. BY
still another shift. cloth costing but cents
a yard was placed under the head Of lux
uries."
The duties on woolens have been subjected
to like treatment. and are In general enorin-
ousy and outrageously high. Even Taft was
Obliged to confess he could not approve them;
Between the high duties on whoolens and
those on cotton goods of all kinds, the man
ufacturing trusts have effectually shut out
foreign competition, terms to suit
themselves. and have forced up prices to
such an extent that the cost Of living IS
increased.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
Merely in Jest
THE SECRET

A certain washington family is con-
vinced that it's eightyear-old hopeful
is destined to become a great scientist
He has already begun to see the con-
nection between cause and effect
Not so long ago this youngster was
looking at a drop of water through
microscope. Here, there and every
where were darting animalculae.
Nov / know" announced the child
to the family, what sings when the
kettle boils. It's those little bugs. =
Lippineott's.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
GooD rEAM WORK. TH1s

The preachers evening discourse was
dry and long, and the congregation
gradually melted away. The sexton
tiptoed UP to the pulpit and slipped q
note under the corner of the Bible. 1t
read:
"When you are through, will you
please turn off the lights, lock the
door and put the key under the matf"
--Everybody's Magazine.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
HE SAVED THE TRAIN

A brakeman who had not been long
employed was going up very steep
grade on his first run. With unusual
difficulty the engineer succeeded in
reaching the top. At the station, look
ing out of his cab. the engineer saw
the new brakeman and said with a sigh
had a lob to get up here, didn't we?"
eve certainly did," said the brake
man, "and if / hadn't have put on the
brakes we'd have slipped back Lip
nincOtt's
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
cA11sns nn11Rr

Senator Guggenheim's expressed will.
lngness to leave the matter of re-eiec-
tion to the senate to a primary vote In
Colorado naturally arouses some sus7
picion of the Colorado method of con-
Quoting primaries.--Kansas City Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
TAuNTON,s FAMT

Rev. joel Metcaif's comet shines
brated Halley's will temper wild Curl
osity and enthusiasm.-Bos Record.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
WE'VE ALL TRIED IT

A physician advises the wearing In
summer of black underclothfng and
white outer clothing. During our
wife's absence we wore the former for
nearly ten days without noticing that
1t added anything to our comfort
Detroit Free Press.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
LAMP POSTS UsEFUL AGAIN

The old lamp post gave way to the
arc at the street corner: now we are
putting the lamp post back again But
it is lamp designed for looks as we'll
as light, an ornament as well as O.
light giyer.-Syr4-cus PostStandard.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
LAW AND ORDER MOVEMENT

A man descended from an excursion
train and was wearily making his way
to the street car, followe. by his wife
and fourteen children, when a police
man touched him on the shoulder and
said:
"Come along wild me-"
what for?"
"Blamed If / know but when ye're
locked up I'll go back and find out why
that crowd was following ye. -
FvervbOdy's
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02

Exact figures of. the population Of
the United States as ascertained by the
census of 1910 will not be given out
until autumn The unofficial estimate,
which is in fact a close official proxi-
nation lends interest to the following
table showing the eountry's growth
since the first enumeration:
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
1NnIcATIoNs

Nellie-Hasn't Mr.. F'elewalley pro-
posed yet?
Nora--No; but he has gone as far as
To ask what time we have breakfast
and whether mother is a good cook
Chicago News.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02

Commenting on Detroits SO per cent
growth in the last decade, an eastern
exchange says the automobile city will
probably lead the showing among the
large communities. There is a surprise
in store for a lot Of people when the
returns for Los Angeles come in.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02

Hamer of Idaho Cannon congress-
man, is the latest to fall by the way
side. In the name of hopeful jim
Sherman, when is insurgency going 10
start its waning?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
THIS MAY BE BALL1NGER

It would please some of the most en-
thusiastic of our forest conservation
lists if the Tall Sycamore of the Sierras
would kindly go back to the woods
Pittsburg Gazette-Times.