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Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26
PUBLIC HEALTH

~ ENATOR GALLINGER opposes
the establishment of a department.
~ of health, because he thinks the
contention the period of human life
and usefulness can be heightened is a
dream. Mr.. Gallinger represents the
obstructionist spirit which jeers at
every new scientific discovery and in
vention and in bygone ages sent Co
lumbus to the poorhouse and burned
Calico at the stake.
A national department of health is
needed. So is a national department Of
education. The statement the local de-
partments of health and education
cover the field and perform all the
work necessary is incorrect. The pres
ent arrangement fails to give the ma
ton the full benefit of the work of
the states and of the communities in
the states. Departments OF health and
of education at Washington would be
great national clearing houses for the
voluminous literature of two subjects
most important to the national well
fare.
These departments, acting in har-
mony with local departments and di-
costing and using the material sup
piled by them, would be of great bene-
fit TO this nation and to civilization
The establishment Of national bureaus.
to work independently would be stupid.
But the establishment of national bu-
reaus TO act in harmony with the local
bureaus would be advisable.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26
SAYS ORANGE PEEL FlEND AS
DANGEROUS AS MAD DOG

LOS ANGELES, March 24.-[E Editor
Herald: OF the making of ordinances
(as of books there is no end, and since
the liberty of the citizen, so much
hampered thereby, still claims some
rush into print to advocate any addi-
tion to our city bylaws, already num-
bered in thousands. But
While our city council, at the behest
of fatuous or nefariOus influences, is
using its powers to harness the amiable
and harmless canine and the owners
thereof on account of some rabies
yarns of very doubtful authority, they,
on the other hand, shut their eyes to
the dOings of a pestilential creature
who menaces the unwary pedestrian on
every street in the city. l allude to
the orange peel and umbrella fiends,
often combined in one and the same
person. AS long as twenty-five years
ago we used to consider the person
who would pcel an orange along the
sidewalk, dropping the peel at his feet,
as a fool of the very first class, and
the man who would tuck an umbrella
under his arm, with the ferule end
directed toward the eye of the person
following, was regarded about as in
diligently as one would regard a drink
crazed Asiatic running amuck. But to-
day, in this city, we seem to have
gone back on the wisdom of experience,
and | think if we could gather statistics
of the falls and injuries attributable
to these causes alone, we should be-
come conscious of an evil that would
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26
COOPERATION

x ECRETARY KNOWS address on
- international Unity" in some re-
~ spects is the most important ever
delivered 1t derives this Importance
from the fact that while many able
and convincing addresses on this sub
ject have been made, none has ema-
mated from citizen holding high pub
lie Office Until recently it would have
been considered impolltic for a nation
al public official-and especially for a
secretary of state-to have committed
himself to utterances recommendatory
of a policy of universal national inter-
dependence rather than of absolute
independence.
Undoubtedly the change in tone and
view point is partly attributable to
ethics and to the progress Of modern
enlightened opinion. Undoubtedly also
a part of it is due to airships.
Between ethics and airships, the
greatest of all reforms in the history of
social humanity is being effected.
Secretary Knox naturally talks more
about ethics than airships. He at
tributes the increase in human brother
illness to marvellous modern develop
ment in the means of communications.
He says; Each nation instantane-
ously feels the compulsion of the public
opinion of all nations. Compare, for
example modern exchanges of views
between governments, swiftly reaching
a common basis of action and resulting
increasingly in ends beneficent to the
whole world, with former ignorance
and mutual suspicious largely due to
ignorance, resulting in no common ac-
ton, and permitting aggressions and
abuses by single nations or small
groups which today the concert Of all
nations protests against more and more
loudly and less and less tolerates.'
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26
GREATER LOS ANGELES
:" ITH the biggest and best harbor
w in the United States and with

w ITH the biggest and best harbor
w in the United States and with
prospect of vast increase in
manufacturing with the completion of
the aqueduct and with the opening of
the Panama canal, Greater Los An
geles looks forward with confidence to
the day of her supremacy of the Pa
cific coast. This supremacy will be
reached without the sacrifice of any
natural beauty or climatic advantage.
Greater Los Angeles still will be the
peerless city of beauty and of health.
The combination of advantages will
make 1t unrivaled. If
GOOD GOVERNMENT is made the
perpetual policy of our progressive
metropolis. There must be no moro
politics" in this municipality. Ma
chine politics especially must be dis
countenanced and suppressed. Any
man who tries to organize his fellow
citizens on machine lines and for
spells purposes is a traitor and u pub
lie enemy.
ANY CORPORATION THAT OR
GANIZES AND MAINTAINS A MA
CHINE FOR THE PURPOSE OF
AFFECTING, EXPECTING Or COR
RUPTING LEGISLATION is A
TRAITOR AND \ PUBLIC ENEMY.
The line of separation must be
drawn between consultations and as
sociations for the purpose of promot-
ing the public welfare (Which are both
allowable and desirabe) and organiza-
tons for the purpose Of filing public
offices with grafters, crooks, owned
men or any other representatives of
the classes from which the ranks of
undesirable citizens and Indicators
of small wealth are recruited to be-
tray the community. state and nation
and do the dirty work OF malefactors
of great wealth.
our wonderful commercial, R,ercan-
tile, maritime. manufacturing, educa-
tional and social metropolis must
eliminate every trace of machine poll
tics from its life. Good government
must be made as permanent a con-
stituent part of the Institutions Of this
city, state and nation as any one of
the foundational principles on which
the entire national structure rests.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26
INDUSTRY AND RATES

=" ANDICAPPED by charges enor-
III mously disproportionate to the
H value of services rendered it, the
fruit industry of Southern California
has continued to grow and to pros
per because of the indomitable spirit
and high business courage of the citi-
zens who have made this industry
world famous.
The ire of every patriot who sees in
the genuine industrial development OF
Southern California the basis on which
all prosperity must rest will be ex-
cited by the testimony given before
the interstate commerce commission
ers as to the greedy parasitism of the
railroads. No greater service can pos
sbly be rendered to an industrial and
producing community than the service
of freight carrying, but when that
service is manipulated" into an in
strument for the enrichment of a few
individuals at the expense of COM
munity gouged without mercy indig-
nation and a sense Of betrayal will
move a self-respecting and high
minded public to action in defense OF
its interests and industries, Railroad
refrigeration charges not only are ex-
orbitant, but are twice as much as
they ought to be The railroads charge
$50 so for refrigeration of car to Chi
cago and SO to New York, Testimony
shows the citrus growers can do the
same service, and do it better, for
S3270.
Modern refrigeration is tn result of
the invention of preceding. The basis
of the tax by the railroads is the old
price charged under the old and eX-
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Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26
ANALYzEs COMMUNICATIONS
FROM CYNICAL STANDPOINT

Los ANGELES, March 25.-[Editor
Herald: l often wonder if those who
write for your Letter Box are fair sam
pies of the public. Ii one could but
ascertain that, how invaluable it would
be; for it would show how the educa-
ton Of the public must be conducted!
This morning | have been going
through a long series of the letters,
making notes on their general trend.
These notes l have sifted down, and L
hnd myself forced to the following con-
clusions
First-The range of subjects consid-
cred IS enormous, which disposes once
and for all, of those who wish to con-
fine the discussion to a single issue.
Second-Nine out of ten writer's show
themselves masters of the issue they
discuss and ignorant of general princi-
pies. This shows they themselves are
single issue folks, and therefore hope
lessly divided
Third-There is much clamor for indi-
Vidual rights and compulsory legisla-
ton, such as prohibition, etc Evident
ly the correspondents do not consider
that compulsion is the foe of individual
rights, or that the modern plan is for
the stronger to enforce their rule on
the weaker by law, instead of by the
sword.
Fourth-All agree that they want not
charity but justice, which brings us
down to a study of what justice actu-
ally requires. This most of your corre-
spondents seem never to have consid-
cred. For instance, San Jacinto writ
er sneers at the anti-tariff agitation,
the injustice of comforting privileges
on some and forcing a helpless minor
ity to do its trading where the majority
dictates not appealing to his intellect.
out of the mess you see, l get one
solid result-the people want not char
ity but justice. That is much, but,
alas, they seek apparently to get it by
mere shouting of the word without
knowing what it means. Evidently
textbooks on elementary principles are
still in order. Pardon my cynicism.
T. *. G..
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26

ing. This, 1t seems to us. is about as
exact and indisputable an example of
a gouge as can be found. The mer-
cenary tactics it illustrates are dishon-
orable to the science of business dis
graceful to the corporations practicing
them and to every individual member
of the guiltily responsible corporations.
Very frequently quoted is the old
saying, "a public office is a public
trust"
We beg to formulate a new saying,
OF equal verify and significance: "A
PUBLIC SERVICE IS A PUBLIC
TRUST"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26
DEFINITION OF A LADY" is
GIVEN BY A CORRESPONDENT

LOS ANGELES. March 22.-[Editor
Herald: A correspondent wants a
definition of lady" Many persons OBJ
ject to the use OF the word at all, but
if it is used in the United States it
should mean a woman with the fol-
lowing qualities: Good character, clean
Illness, industry, kindness and consid-
Grafton for the feelings of others. And
the same qualities go to make up a
gentleman. HELEN STANDISH.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26
Mr.. Patfen Is Not Reformed
BY Lesson Of Manchester
San francisco journal Of Commerce.


M ORE than any other man who
MI has amassed a vast fortune in
AL1 the United States without caring
for consequences to others, Patten is
naive. He is the finest example there
is of the complaisant money maker I'M
conscious Of any reason why he should
not get all the money in the world and
let the rest of mankind starve. When
bread was higher than it had ever
been. and the poor We're raising their
voices in distress, Patten bought up all
the wheat he could get, harped upon
poor crop, sent wheat soaring, and
reaped millions of unneeded money.
Criticised for this he said: 1T is simply
the law of supply and demand. l know
the crop is short and that wheat will
go higher Therefore l buy. Why
nOt?"
Why not, indeed! ISM. that the
game in America? Isn't money a
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26

weapon with which to beat down those
who are weaponless? 1t has never oc-
CURED to Patten that, armed, he should
not engage in an unequal war with the
unarmed. That rich, he should not
make himself richer and the poor
poorer. Such thoughts are so remote
from him that he is coming home on
the first steamer to sail after the dis
agreeable stock exchange episode, Won
dering why the British brokers would
have none of him. He thinks they
must either have conceived him their
undoer or feared he would corner the
wheat or cotton market. But he has
never guessed that. perchance there
are men in the world who do not wish
to associate with him because of his
acts in their relation to common de-
cency. The lesson of the Manchester
exchange has been wholly lost on King
Patten.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26
THE EGYPTIAN ORACLE

Said T. Roosevelt to the Sphinx
In the hour Of cooling drinks
with winks).
will the future have In store
Any more? Any more?"
Said the Sphinx to Mister Roosevelt
Il must say I've like the deuce felt
(Or a goose felt)
Since Taft has traitor turned
And your policies has spurned."
Said T. Roosevelt TO the Sphinx,
'Tll go home, and then, methnks,
HIGH JINKS!"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26
The State Press
Horrible Habit

Now that the coming rose carnival is
engaging the attention OF San jose and her
citizens are beginning active "clean city
crusade" in the matter OF removing I'M
slightly weeds, grass and the general accu-
mutation OF winter accretlon. another and
even more unslghty and disgusting blot
on the beauty of our intended cleanliness
is brought before us constantly--the naus-
eating habit of eXpectorating upon the
sidewalks and in public, which is INDUCED
in by so many men-San Jose Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26

Startling statistics are presented by
reports of the census bureau and de-
partment of agriculture, showing in
the past ten years an increase of H.
100000 in population of the United
States and a decrease Of 100000 in the
number of available food animals. Be-
fore we begin to eat koo DOCS and
things let us supplement the food policy
of Cain with that of Abel. OF the two
characters, Abel was the more re-
spectacle Yet it is Cain who in
huences "civillzation."
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26
AT THE THEATERS

AUDITORIUM-Dark
BELASCO-"TheE fastener"
BURBANK-"Merely Mary Ann"
GRAND-"The Office Boy"
LOS ANGELES
MAJESTIC-"The Gingerbread Man"
MASON-McIntyre and Heath
OLYMPIC-Musical farce.
EXPERIMENTATION
PRINCESS--Musical farce
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26
Progressive Policy

The Republican insurgents in the house
tilted President Taft they would soldly sup
port his program proposed legislation
railroads, conservation, postal savings banks
and antl-njunction. That program is along
the line that the insurgents have worked all
the tlme-the progressive policy.--Stockton
Record
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26

Mount Aetna has desolated inhabited
districts. Why do people huddle at
the bases of death-dealing volcanoes?
Surely the world is wide. Can it be
the sense of danger is fascinating?
Human beings who live around vol
canoes are as sensible as moths that
hutter around a flame.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26

Visitors to Los Angeles are impressed
by something that is in the air more
than they are by scenery, surroundings
and climate, and that something is
SUCCESS. The Los Angeles way is
the way of success.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26
Santa Clara's Needs

Santa Clara has wanted three things to
make it abreast of the times and ahead
OF any small town in the county. sewer
extension, free mail delivery and up to
date town hall and fire houses. The first
two are assured. the new town hall and fire
houses simply up to the people-Santa
Clara Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26
Citrus Fair

| The citrus fair at Cloverdale is a great piece
of advertising, and which our citizens
should take pride in supporting. The fact
| that north Sonoma county grows and ripens
to perfection the golden orange does a great
deal toward interesting the tourist from the
east Headsburg Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26

put the dog danger quite in the shade.
We need some ordinance or penalty
that would fix the orange peel and
umbrella fiend. He is a subject for the
Letter Box that is practical and right
on the earth. VAL STONE.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENT intended
for publication must DO accompanied By the
uame and address of the M.I.s.. Ine sIefIld
gives the widest latitude TO correspondent,
but assumes no responsibility for their VieuA
Letters must not exceed 800 words.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26
Far and Wide
HenuIish HarchaeoIoay

The helix and the heephant hentered the bark,
When the helephant hopened the ball;
The helix hasked the helephant, whats to
heat?"
Said the helephant, Gay is hall"
The helix and the helephant hate the 'ay;
Said the helix. with holOquent sigh,
III 'ope you Apply this 'orribe day"
And the helephsnt Unanswered, 'Haye."
London Tit-Bits.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26
Gar Walpole

Speakers Cannon should feel lattered to be
compared with Robert Walpole the car Of
the British parliament 200 years ago. Anyhow,
1t will be a relief to him, perhaps, to be COM
pared to some one besides Nicholas of Russia
or Tamerlane berkeley Independent,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26

When a fire is reported from any of
the great industrial centers many of
the employees who are killed or badly
burned are women. This is significant.
An ever-increasing proportion of the
work of the country is being performed
by women who are laboring for an
ever decreasing wage. At this rate it
won't be possible much longer to call
the United States a gallant nation"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26

public welfare depends on the char
acter OF the people," says DR.. Mills
paugh, president of the state normal
school. Yes, and it is the duty and
privilege of educators to form charac-
ter. Theirs is by far the most impor-
tant professional class in the COM
munity.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26

Bank clearings of Greater Los An
Eeles continue to be record breaking.
"Village or city?" The reply is:
"AIetropolis Of the west"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26

Andrew Carnegie has departed east
"Wnl we no come back again." There
is only one California. 1t gives length
of days and adds happiness TO life.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26
TeleqraphY

The fierce competition that is waged by the
Postal Telegraph company is another thing
that doesn't occupy the attention of the peo-
pie as much as Clarence II. Mackay thinks 1t
ought. indianapolis News.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26
Can't save on Nothing

1t is human nature to want more money,
even If more has to be spent. There is al
ways a hope of saving, even under high prices,
which does not exist where and when wages
are very low. No man possibly save what
he never gets.-San Jose Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26
Roosevelt Leuends

The homecoming of Theodore the First
and the impending marriage of Theodore
the Second viii help to perpetuate the
Roosevelt egends.--Redwood City Demo-
crat.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26
An Authority

Gen. Leonard Wood is reported to favor
rapid promotions in the army" General
Wood should be considered approximately final
authority on rapid promotion in the army"
moreover. Washington Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26
Mr.. Knox

Japan and Russia want Mr.. Knox to under
stand that they regard him a very fine gen
teman, whom they would not have troubled
over the complex affairs of Manchuria.-Phila-
delphia Ledger.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26
Relief Wanted

We do not care particularly about Tight be-
| ing thrown on the cost Of living" We see 1t
too clearly as it IS. What Is needed is a relief
! expedition Charleston News and Courier.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26
Winters FIiqht

The lovely weather during the past two
days has been conclusive evidence that the
winter of 1909-10 has flown and that spring,
beautiful spring, is with us.-NalleJo
Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26

There will be enormous trade de-
velopments along the Pacific coast
within the next few years. predicts Ii.
P. Wood, secretary and treasurer of
the Honolulu chamber of commerce
and the Hawaiian promotion commit
tee. Right he is! Many of them will
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26
Poor Mans Dollar
A Parallel Rail

How far that little dollar has to go. So
oils a poor in a high-prlced world
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26

Riding on a monorail must be some thing
like sliding down the banister.-Toledo Blade.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26

HE experiments and observa-
tions upon a colony of mon
keys, conducted recently by
the faculty members of an
eastern college to determine
the quality of reasoning
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1910-08-05

pen1nsular state, TO facilitate fnvidious compare
son. and the comparison, when made, showed that
Cuba can produce citrus fruit of frst-class quail
atty, and. moreover. that she is doing so.
Citrus-fruit culture is the principal interest
of American and Canadian settlers throughout
Cuba. Cubans and Spaniards are growers of no
citrus fruits save pineapples-the grape fruit and
orange groves belong to the English-speaking
colonists. Orange and grape fruit culture is the
business which has been doomed mercilessly by
land companies advertising largely and some
times unscrupulously all through the United
States and in Canada during the past ten years.
Their customers, arriving in Cuba, have insisted
upon growing nothing but grape fruit and or.
anges. even in regions where other crops would
assuredly have proven more Immediately profit
able If not the better investment in the long run.
For instance, there are Americans and Cana,
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1910-08-05
ALLEGED MURDERER AND
TYPIST in QUEBEC JAIL
Miss Leneve Collapsed After Her Male Costume Was Replaced
by Female Attire; Both Deny Murder Charge.

~ Want YOU" Says English Detective
to Suspected Man ~Promenading the
Deck-Ethei Leneve Sobs Hysterl-
cally When Taken Into Custody and
Restored to Woman's Dress-Fugl-
tive Asserts He's Glad lt's All over.
London, Eng.-Mrs. Leneve has ca.
bled her daughter Ethel as follows:
MY Darling Daughter-I implore
you to tell the police everything you
know and let nothing count more than
the establishing Of your innocence.
However great may be your affection
for your husband, do not, dear, let 1t
be more to you than the duty to your
self, your mother and your brothers.
BE brave, little girl, and have no fear.
We are confident of your innocence.
"LOTTIE LENEVE."
Miss Leneve's parents still cling to
the assumption that until the police
informed her their daughter would
have been W of the circum-
stances which led up to the hurried
departure and fight across the Allan
tic.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1910-08-05
WIDER WANTED TO KILL
D~efaulttng Cashier Would Shoot Wife,
Baby and SeIf-Physicai Break
down Is Imminent.

New York City.-Erwin Wider.
the cashier of the Russo-C Chinese Bank
Agency, who was arrested and hello In
$4,000 bail after confessing to defal-
cations aggregating more than $780,
900, has not tasted food since he raj
locked up in the Tombs prison. Ac-
cording to the keepers, he appeared
on the verge Of q physical collapse.
After writing out his confession OF
the theft Of nearly 100000 worth of
securities, 1t was learned, Wider bran
dished a revolver around his home.
threatening to kill both his wife and
baby. as well as himself.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1910-08-05
Glad Tension Is Relieved.

81 am glad that it Is all over" ex.
claimed DR.. Crippen, to Inspector Dew
after his arrest.
All Crippen had in his possession
when arrested was one $40 bill, a
small watch, a few trinkets, a vial be.
lieved to contain poison and a paper
packet containing a yellowish powder.
His nerves were strung to a high
tension throughout the voyage, but his
name Is now that of one relieved of
great trouble. He will remain hand
cuffed until locked up at Quebec.
The boys clothing was removed
from Miss Leneve by the stewardess.
She was taken ashore in feminine
garb, lent her by fellow-passengers.
Crippen was attired in a suit of blue
serge and tweed overcoat. Gold eye
glasses rested OIL his nose, and from
behind them his eyes looked out duly.
His face was pale and drawn.