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Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25
Women in tuberculosis War

thousands have been reached. The
Mothers Congress. the Young Women's
Christian association and many unat-
tached clubs bring the number of wom-
en- united in the tuberculosis war to
we'll over million. There is not a state
in the Union where some active work
has not been done.
Through the activity of women, SAN
atoria and hospitals for the treatment
of tuberculosis have been erected; traV-
cling libraries have been circulated
posters, circulars and other kinds Of
literature have been distributed to the
number of millions of pieces; thousands
of lectures have been given, large sums
of money have been secured, hundreds
of needy cases have been helped; tu-
berculosis work has been started in
many communities where no movement
had existed: and millions of women
have learned the dangers and methods
of prevention of tuberculosis.
The work of the women extends from
the drawing room of the rich to the
homes OF the poor. and embraces all
classes, including the factory girl and
millionaire. During the coming year a
special campaign of lectures to women
will be carried on in all parts of the
United States.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25
URGES CHANGE IN SYSTEM
OF PRISONERS TREATM ENT

Editor Herald: I am glad to see
The Herald agitating reform in the
treatment of prisoners who unhappily
fall into the hands of the police. Had
you noticed that Governor Hadley or
Missouri is going to pardon few
young convicts and get them employ
ment on farms? 1t is a noble under-
taking, and II he can only protect
them from the detectives it will result
in much good. The detective sys-
tenn that has grown up since our Civil
War will not let n convict reform. They
hound him all the time so he cannot
get employment or hold it, 1t is not
to their interest for the convict to re-
form They march them up to the cap
tain's office to make a showing that
they are working. l am an old man
and never was arrested as a criminal
in my life, but have been observing
the detective system for many years,
and a young man that makes a mis-
take and goes to the penitentiary, un-
less he has very influential friends,
had just as we'll try to build a ladder
to the moon as to try to reform. II
Governor Hadley will investigate the
detective system 1 am sure he would
discover the wrongs they are perpe-
trating and find some way to remedy
them. have seen some good clean
men as detectives that would not un-
der and pretext wrong an individual.
REFORM.
IngleWood, Aug. 20.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25

Recent decisions of the interstate
commerce commission, written by
Chairman Martin A. Knapp and Com
missioner Franklin K. Lane, clearly
show the penalty Californians are pay
ing for allowing the Southern Pacific
railroad to run their government.
The average rate from Sacramento to
Reno, 9.16 cents per ton per mile, Is
declared by Commissioner Lane to be
higher than that obtaining on any
other main line in the United States"
1t Is six times greater than the rates
in Iowa, more than three times greater
than Texas rates, six times greater
than the rates in all directions west
from Chicago, two and a half times
greater than the rate from Denver to
Leadville.
This rate from sunny Sacramento is
three times higher than the people of
the Canadian province of Alberta, way
up in the frozen north, close to the
Arctic circle, have to pay the Canadian
Pacifici Traverse the American con-
tinent wherever one may, north, south,
east or west, on every great railroad,
and it will be found that this Califor-
nian rate is from two to six times
what Is charged other peoples.
BY another form of comparison, Com
missioner Lane shows that one may
send freight 1900 miles from New York
to st. Paul, Mimi, for less than the
charge from Sacramento to Reno, 154
miles. After citing numerous exam
pies he says: "In short, the class
rates eastbound out of Sacramento are
practically without precedent or par
allel."
The railroads have established what
Commissioner Lane calls postage
stamp system of rate making in all
the territory from the Atlantic coast
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25
GIVES ENGLISH CREDIT FOR
cIVLIzlNG BARBARoUs SCOTS

Editor Herald: I see that you have
stepped real hard on somebody's corns
because you have claimed a person
called Roxburghe an English duke.
With the exception of few people
of doubtful citizenship the American
people don't care a snap whether he
Is a North or South Briton, and why
any sane person desires to draw the
line l cannot understand.
In ancient times there was land
designated Scotland inhabited by
half naked. barbarous people, who
lived mostly by ralding the country to
the south and plundering Its civilized
people.
In time this became intolerable and
those southern neighbors arose in their
might, invaded that savage land on
several occasions, administering de-
served chastisement to the savage
aborigines, and finally occupied the
country.
Contact with the English had its eff
feet So much so that when permitted
they gladly sold their legislature, with
all that remained of a distinct or sep
arate people-just as they sold their
king some time previously-and be-
came a province of England, or, as
they call themselves, North Britons.
BY such acts they forfeited the titles
of Scots, and I for one congratulate
them on their hard-headed business
sense, for the English made them pros
porous, If not respectable.
The powerful arm of England has
sustained and educated them. and 1t Is
to the same noble protector they must
look for future protection. unless their
we'll known cupidity should induce
them to desert this generous friend in
some dreadful crisis that may arise.
ALBION.
Los Angeles. Aug. %, 1910.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25
Railroad Robbery

for 1000 miles westward. From any
point within this district the rate is
the same to Pacific coast terminals.
II a carload of freight originates in
Denver the charge to San Francisco Is
exactly the same as If 1t were sent
from Boston, 2200 miles farther east!
The injustice of this rate is further
shown by the fact that the Reno part
of the rate collected by the Southern
Pacific is five times higher than the
portion Of this rate collected by the
eastern railroads.
These decisions further show that
during the past two years the operat-
ing revenue of the Southern Pacific
has increased $s,O00,000, while it's ex-
pense has decreased $5,00o,000! Its
profit of operation has increased over
$12,OoO,OoO, or $4,000 per mile of road!
In ten years the freight of Pacific
coast railroads has increased from 49,
100000 to 35,000,000 tons, or about 100
per cent. At the same time rates have
been raised 20 per cent. The earnings
of the Southern Pacific on the Central
Pacific branch are the highest of any
Pacific coast railroadh IS per cent
greater than the average of the United
States, and 100 per cent greater than
the average of the railroads west of
Chicago!
Practically all of San Francisco's
beef and mutton comes from Nevada.
If the Southern Pacific rates were the
same as in Iowa, or on the roads west
of Chicago, it would mean the pur-
chase of beef and mutton from retail
butchers in this city for nearly cents
per pound less than is now paid. In a
greater or less proportion the same
fact will apply to everything consumed
by the people of this city. Such is the
way freight rates affect the cost of
living.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25
NEW REGULATION ADVISED
AGAINST SMOKING ON CARS

Editor Herald: While the smoking
ordinance on the street cars, chang
ing from the rear to the front, was
good one, and in the main is fairly
we'll observed yet it may be improved.
There are no notices posted forbid
ding smoking in the rear end. OF
course this would cost cash, and the
car companies are not apt to spend
money to enforce city ordinances of
that kind, since it matter little to
them where their patrons smoke, front
or rear, as long as the dividends come.
But to those who desire the nuisance
of the cigarette smokers abated, If
not abolished on the car, it is certain
ly discouraging to have the foul smoke
of one of the things blown in your
face and when the attention of the
conductor is drawn to the offender, to
have him give you in return scorn-
full laugh, or "mind your own busi-
ness" grin. Also you get sardonic
look from the smoker, as much as to
say, ''What are you going to do
about it?" and l would answer, for
bid smoking entirely on the street
cars within the corporate limits of
Los Angeles. j. r.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25
DECLARES ICE CREAM CONES
ARE NOT SOURCE OF INJURY

Editor Herald: I was interested in
reading in a recent issue an article in
reference to '1ce cream cones" being
condemned by pure food officials on
account of them containing so-called
injurious substances, such as Sacchar-
in and borax.
The cones in question were made
with flour, eggs, sugar, saccharin ana
borax. The quantity of saccharin used
was one to 1000 parts. (The detni-
ton of saccharin shows it to be
white crystalline compound derived
from toluene, a constituent of coal tar.
1t is 300 times sweeter than cane sug-
ar, and finds use as sWeetening
agent, especially for persons who can
not eat sugar owing to disease, as
diabetes.) This clearly demonstrates
the fact that saccharin is less injuri-
GUS to the human system than sugar.
The quantity of borax used to prevent
the sugar and eggs from fermenting
while exposed to moist atmosphere
was one to 1000 parts; one pound of
saccharin and one pound of borax
to 1000 pounds of flour, eggs and sugar.
There is not scientist in the coun-
try who could prove that such in
finitesimal amounts of saccharin and
borax could produce the slightest in
Jury to the human system. Ice cream
eaten from cones preserved with an
infinitesimal amount of borax or boric
acid is far more healthful than ice
cream served in small glasses and
licked out by the consumer or Ice
cream served on plates and eaten with
a spoon. The small glasses and dish
es were never thoroughly cleansed.
and many of them were cracked and
shipped, thus creating conditions suit
able for the propagation of disease
germs. H. II. HAMPION'
Los Angeles, Aug. %.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25

The month of August lends itself well
to the eradication of cattle fever ticks
where a pasture rotation plan is used.
BY vacating a pasture during this
month and keeping it vacant until July
l of next year it may be freed of ticks,
and If no tick-infested animals are al
lowed to enter after July l the pasture
will remain free. The United states
department of agriculture advises
farmers in the tick region to take ad-
vantage of this favorable time so far
as practicable.
Pastures from which live stock is re-
moved for a sufficient time become
free of ticks by a process of starvation,
as the ticks cannot live to maturity II
they are unable to get upon animals.
The time required for all ticks to die
after the stock has been removed from
infested fields and pastures varies con-
siderably, depending on climate, season
and weather conditions. Experience
has shown, however, that the period
from September to July is sufficient,
and this appears to be the most con-
venient time.
The advantage of vacating pasture
for the period named is tWofold. Not
only is the pasture freed from ticks,
but it's disuse during that time VIII
probably cause less Inconvenience and
expense than at any other season, and
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25
FIGHT AGAINST FREDERIcKs
WILL RAISE GREAT ISSUES

Editor Herald: Noticing your edi-
torial of this morning headed "A Clean
cut ISSUE" permit me to say that l
have heard the opinion expressed In
we'll informed quarters that the contest
between Fredericks and Woolwine Is
likely to be more important than all
the rest of the state campaign. My in
formants based their opinion on the
fact that the entire administration of
justice in this county will be brought
under investigation, and nothing COM
pares In Importance with that.
There Is we'll defined sentiment in
this community that the old Republi
can machine has ruled things with the
highest hand'for so many years that 1t
has become hopelessly corrupt, and
that this corruption permeates every
department of the law. I can name, as
any old resident can name, judges who
owe their appointment entirely to the
railroads, and corporation influence Is
plainly visible all along the line, down
to the humbest jail employe. The
natural trend of all this is to make the
dollar everything and the man moth
ing, for money is in power. BY ma
tural sequence come nasty tales of the
poor being treated with gross inhuman-
ity, of men railroaded to prison, of the
ambition of officials, including the dis
trict attorney himself, to make records
by swelling the number of arrests and
convictions, in all of which, of course,
the poor are the sufferers.
Until these conditions are overthrown
It will be impossible to make the
cause of good government" popular
with the workers. -
H. B. MALLOCK.
Pasadena Aug 81
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25

What women have done in the last
four years in the campaign against tu-
berculosis is discussed in an interesting
issued August IS by the National Asso-
citation for the Study and Prevention of
tuberculosis.
Four years ago the only active Wom-
en- workers in the anti-tuberculosls
movement were a little group of about
thirty womens clubs. Today 100000
women under the health department of
the general Federation of Women's
Clubs in every state and territory of the
United States are banded together
against the disease, and more than 2OO0
clubs are taking a special interest in
the crusade Not less than 100000 is
raised annually by them for tuhcrcu-
losis work. besides millions that are
secured through their efforts in state
and municipal appropriations Mrs.
Rufus p. williams is the chairman of
the department that directs this work.
In addition to the work of the general
Federation of Women's Clubs, the pub
lie health education committee of the
American Medical association, com
posed largely of woman physicians, has
carried on an educational campaign of
lectures during the past year in which
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25
OVERABUNDANCE OF LAWS
AIDS POLITICAL GRAFTERs

Editor Herald: May I ask what are
the thoughts and temper of the silent
voters today? May l answer according
to what l have seen and heard high
and low among men in widely separated
portions of the country?
The people are distrustful and cyni-
cal There is too much law and too
little enforcement of it. We want more
honesty, less American smartness.
Your business man prefers to pay
higher taxes than to take the time out
to protest. And it is not uncommon
for him to pay political graft for pro-
lection.
We need a higher type of citizenship,
more honesty and patriotism, even
when it gives your citizen a cramp In
mis- pocketbook.
We want department heads who are
directly responsible to us for results
and who can be fired with reasonable
notice AS it stands now we are almost
smothered with legislation, buncoed by
"jokers" adroitly hidden in bills and
governed by irresponsible officials.
We want less talk about liberty and
our rights and more of the real article
Bakersfield, Aug. %. GOBBO.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25
California Topics


What would you have done at Pasadena II
you had been an election clerk when Mrs
Robert Burdette came along and said she
wanted to vote? Probably you would have
done as the election clerks on the spot really
did. You would have let her.-Chicago
Record Herald.
That Los Angeles physician who recon-
mends laughter as a cure for indigestion can
not have had personal experience with the
aiment The man who the joke in
an attack Of dyspepsia has yet to be found
San Francisco Chronicle.
A man in San Francisco is growing at the
rate of four inches year. II he only keeps
It up he can get steady employment as
reporter to cover airshp meets-Atanta
Journal.
The Californian who started to drive from
San Diego TO Washington in a goat cart was
not much of high fer as some other
folks. but he got there.-St. Louis Post-Dis-
patch.
Still. that California professors prediction
that the negro race will be extinct in 300
years will hardly be consolation for JEFF
fries.-Albany Journal.
Reports show that California is caring FOR
SO25 insane persons. not including the base
ball bugs, who are self supporting. Pasadena
News.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25
DECLARES LAW is TOO LAX
AGAINST SALE OF WEAPONS

Editor Herald: I was considerably
amused at the plans suggested by two
writer's for the Letter Box in Sundays
issue for putting check to numbering
or attempts at numbering, of public
officers. Their idea is to have more
stringent laws dealing with those VINO
murder or attempt to murder an oHlcer.
This puts me to wondering what they
would have done with the gun inVarl-
ably used by these murderers.
Since the attempted murder of Mayor
Gaynor of New York there has been
strong agitation for law prohioltlng
the manufacture and sale of reVolVers,
and the reasoning is that the auto
matte revolver has become a serious
menace to the human race and should
be eXterminated."
What a sane proposition this seems
to be to the writer; and it ought to SO
seem to any sensible person, in my
opinion. What cares an insane man for
the stringent law" when he takes a
notion to kill and has the gun to do 1t
with? Three of our presidents have been
murdered, and the revolver was the IN
strument of death. No less than So
per cent of all the murders and sui
cides are the result of the HANDY
gun" The man that buys a gun
today has murder in his heart.
What use do we hear of the revolver
being put to today other than the
shooting of human being? We sell
dom hear of a dog being shot. Their
lives are too valuable to be butchered
in such a manner. Go to a drug store
and call for "carbolic acid'' or any other
poison and you couldn't get enough
to kill an ant or a typhoid germ. But
go to a second hand junk shop and
you can buy "gun" for 80 cents, and
go out and kill your whole family or
all your friends, for all the junk dealer
cares.
Is it not time that we unite in the
destruction of this wholesale MUIR
derer? w. S. BURROUGHS.
Ontario. Aug, o.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25
LESSONS IN ETIQUETTE

When a lady gives you her seat in
street car, thank her, but in such
manner that she will not be embold-
ened to open a conversation with you
Going down the aisle of theater
allow the lady to precede you, unless
you are attending the play alone. In
that case you go first.
When some one calls you by phone
and says: DO you know who is talk
ing?" and you answer that you do not,
and the person continues to ask II you
don't or can't guess, utter a joyous
peal of laughter and say you know 1t
is the sanitarium. Then hang up the
receiver.
If you are walking along the street,
carrying packages in both hands, and
meet a lady who speaks to YOU hold
the packages in your teeth while you
lift your hat to her.
If you know a fat girl with slim
sister, always mistake the fat one FOR
the slim one, and vice versa.
When waltzing with lady VINO steps
upon your toes, it is nice, II you have
a wooden leg, to keep the foot OF that
leg where she will step upon 1t often
est. You can do this unobtrusively
with a little practice.-The Delineator
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25

Since the Standard Oil company has
asked that it's assessment in Chicago
be raised we expect to hear of the Ok
Iahoma land graft lawyers insisting
that their 10 per cent commission be
given to the Injuns.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25

A car repair company is found to
have soaked the Illinois Central rail-
road with quadruple charges, and the
officials seem to be sore about it. Some
railroad companies have come to re-
gard as solely their own the right to
make quadruple charges.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25
BITTER MEMORIES

l remember. l remember.
The house | left forlorn,
The people who came to the door
And spoke with words of scorn
They had invited me to play
] thought twas just for fun:
How sad a thing It is to pay
What other fools have won.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25

President Ban Johnson of the Ameri-
can league has suspended Manager
Jennings of the Detroit baseball team.
Does this suggest to President Taft
who is a baseball fan, any similar ac-
ton he ought to take with respect to
his cabinet?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25

The workingman must pay today 81
for what he could have bought twenty
years ago for so cents. In other words,
the purchasing power of his dollar has
deprecated just one-haIf. This occurred
under high protection.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25

Uhlans feat Of trotting a mile in
1854 is of course wonderful, but for
speed it doesn't so much eclipse the
records made by some of the standpat
congressman in running after the in
surgent band wagon.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25

Our eager vigilance has failed to dis
Germ in the news columns any informa-
tion that Alice Longworth has given
up her cigarettes and taken to a corn
cob pipe to please her critics.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25

A Pennsylvania woman has sued her
she asked him for money to buy hob
BILE skirt. She may get the same from
the jury-she may be non-suited.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25

There is reason to suspect that Post
way to California, but hearing the cleo
ton returns, feared for his safety and
got off the train in New Mexico.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25

Not only has San Francisco's birth
rate fallen off greatly, but its suicide
rate is found to be the highest in the
country The Bay City has reason to
fear Los Angeles progress toward the
position Of western metropolis.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25

Because its assessment has been
raised the Pullman Palace Car COM
pany threatens to close its Denver
shops. The Pullman company, being
benevolent and philanthroplc institu-
ton, doubtless wonders why it is taxed
at all.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25

The probability Is that in the trial
of Gallagher, who shot Mayor Gaynor,
the country will have a specimen of
prompt Jersey justice" that will put
the New York courts to the blush.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25

Two cruisers will take President Taft
to Panama this fall, says a dispatch.
1t is apparent from his latest pictures
that he might be too much Of load
for one, but the dispatch does not en-
tighten us as to how the burden is to
he divided,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25

Salt Lake city is to have a Peach
Day, whatever that is. In Los Angeles
every day is peach day, and the OBJ
servance takes place chiefly in the vi
cinity of the department stores between
the hours of 8 a. m. and p. m.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25

Indications multiply that the rumb-
lings of the direct primary election in
California disturbed the seismograph at
Beverly.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25

Only thirty generals who served in
the Confederacy are now living, but the
supply Of colonels in Kentucky is be-
lieved to be inexhaustible.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25

There seems to be practical unanim-
ity that Senator Hepburn has richly
earned the right to be considered a
blooming awss.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25

Some people think Marshall of In
diana and Gaynor of New York would
make a noise like winners in 1912.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25
WOULD LIKE A CHANCE

l. Ogden Armour says the people will not
see $40 hogs again. Some people have not seen
as much ON them OF late as they really would
have enjoyed.-Omaha Bee
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25
PUBLIC LETTER BOX

TO publication must be sG%prnisd
sand adore Of
responibn Their views
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25

Pasadena, Aug. 21.