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Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
THE MILK PERIL

n UR compliments to Mrs. Charles F.
Edison, together with thanks of
" the community. No more thor
ough job has been done in a long while
than her investigation of the milk sup
ply of Los Angeles, as revealed by her
address to the Friday Morning club,
and no more convincing facts have
been assembled than she has brought
together to show us the dangers lurk-
ing in the neglect of proper inspection
and enforcement of the laws relative
to the supply that exists in this city.
If it be true that fully 20 per cent of
the COWS in Southern California are
tuberculous, there is assuredly some
thing for the mothers of babies to think
of. Mrs. Edson's figures are not ex
aggerated. Various American tests
have shown that in some instances the
proportion of herds infected is as high
as so per cent. And as much of this
class Of beef finds its way into the
meat supply, there is also something
for men as well as women to think of.
Diseased milk is said by some author
tiles to be responsible for the largest
part of the sickness in the world. The
United states department of agricul-
ture is authority for the statement that
it causes a third of all the deaths
among infants under years old. Its
dangers are threefold: First, it causes
diarrhoeal diseases that in the summer
months are the most fruitful source of
infant death, Second, it is the means of
carrying infection from human workers
in dairies; scores Of typhoid epidemics
have been traced to milk supplies.
Third, contamination may come from
diseases of cattle, most common Of
which is tuberculosis.
The board of health of a great city
like Los Angeles ought to have juris-
diction over every dairy whose milk
comes into the city. If it lacks juris-
diction it ought to go to the legislature
and get its powers extended. Then it
ought to have sufficient means to make
it's inspection of milk an absolute guar
antee of purity. 1t ought to have vig-
orous police powers. Parsimony in this
dlrectlOn can result III HedNy penalties
Since it is, as Mrs. Edison says, a
question of peculiar interest to women,
the women might take hold of this
question and agitate it until the re-
forms needed are completely effected,
and we can suggest no better leader
of that movement than Mrs. Edison.
whose expose of the bad conditions here
shows her intelligent grasp both of the
situation and the need of better condi-
tions. The board Of health would be
fortunate if it had her permanent SER
vices.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19

Kinetoscopitis is endemic 1t has in
tested the whole race of mankind. The
public now takes its indulgence in
moving pictures as a dram. The little
theater is the optical grogshop. There
the idle repair to quaff the kind nep-
enthe of mental distraction for brief
half-hour. One finds them at every
corner, supplying the newly manifest
ed public need. The shrine of the NOV
ing film with it's gilded exterior beck
ons the votaries for there all the ills
and distempers of life may be mo-
mentarily forgotten. Some persons
spend the entire day following with
dancing eyes the dizzy film with its
drama of moving accidents by flood
and field" consenting to re-enter the
outside world only after he has ac-
alired a comfortable kinetoscopic jag.
The effect of jag like this is to cause
the street to become a moving picture,
an animated film on pulley, with the
procession of autos and trucks and
pedestrians moving as if across the
screen.
A whole world of comedy is wrapped
up in this new field of amusement.
There side by side in the toy theater
sit the well-groomed business man,
stealing a few moments of distraction
after lunch; the tastefully crowned
woman, tired after shopping, with her
parcels in her lap; the idle youth gap
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
Late Dinners an Enemy of the Drama


pretty pieces in one act, performed by
the best members of the company. by
half past the house was full of
eager spectators. Today the audience
scarcely comes before o'clock and
these little plays have been suppressed
or given over to the understudles. The
works themselves which form the sub
stance of the entertainment do not eX-
ceed three or four acts and take the
place of those ample comedies, those
grand dramas in five acts, wherein the
Dumas, the Anglers and the Barrieres
eXcelled.
you see that the problem is not
so frivolous as it may appear and that,
the dinner hour eXerts a real influence
upon intellectual life and literary pro-
duction. Why is this meal indefinitely
delayed? The phenomenon is ineXpllc-
able. like the law which causes cities
to develop toward the west. One
must become resigned to the change
of customs We can say to ourselves.
however, that the remedy will spring
from the excess of the evil and that
the delay of dinner will abolish it.
1t will change its name and character.
1t will be supper We shall no longer
dine before going to the play; we
shall simply swallow a cup of tea.
Upon our return we shall sup.
And these nocturnal repasts, ami
mated by the sparklngs of wit and
of champagne, will lead us back to
the pleasant customs of the eighteenth
century and will revive a charming
tradition. Everything begins afresh,
indefinitely. Man turns like a squir-
rel in his cage, and returns unceas-
ingly in his old ways"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19


1t has often been charged that mod
ern plays have deteriorated because
the audience goes to the theater to
digest it's dinner Under such con-
ditions any unusual demands upon the
minds of the theatergoers are resent
ed and. consequently, the inferior play
is more apt to flourish There are
signs that at last the theater has got
it's back up" against the dinner table,
especially in France, where the in
congruity of the situation is gravely
discussed both by theatrical managers
and by authors. The other day Maur-
ice Donnay, the Academician, deliv-
cred himself of the subject and after
ward Pierre Maetier gave public lee
ture on the theme. In the pages of
Les Annales Politiques ct Litteraires
(Paris) Maetier's words are sumnlar-
lied in this form:
Il do not know whether ii is as in
teresting to those in the country as
il is to our Partisan readers. l pre-
sumo that, in the great centers which
gladly follow the example of the cap
ital, they do not begin to dine until
s o'clock, but In the little cities, the
towns and the villages the old GUS
toms have not entirely passed away,
and half past for family dinners and
Z for formal occasions are considered
very proper hours
Here the abuse increases every day
l remember that, 30 and 35 years ago.
the hours which l have named were
never exceeded My childish men,
cries recall certain performances at
the Opera Comique which began at
quarter to o'clock. The Theater
Francois played as curtain raisers
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

ITO THE thoughtful person who re-
calls the comparatively quiet con-
II ditions under which Theodore
Roosevelt left our shores over year
ago, the contrast with his wonderful
reception of yesterday means some
thing more than an effusive welcome to
an ex-president.
When he left America his political
legatee, Judge Taft, had but recently
been swept into Office on a tidal wave
that unquestionably indicated the over
whelming desire of the country for a
continuation of the Roosevelt policies
Nothing seemed more certain than that
this desire both of the departing hunts
man and his following would be carried
out to the letter. In a large measure
the ardor of the people was transferred
to the new president, and the former
chief magistrate departed quietly under
what was in a sense partial eclipse.
one short year has brought to the
people a rude disappointment and
awakening. Possessed Of charming
personal qualities, of great intellectual
ability and rare equipment of wide
experience in affairs of state, Judge
Taft has nevertheless grievously failed
to hold the confidence of the masses.
Despite an excellent program in many
respects he has alienated most of his
following by his adoption of advisers
and espousal of leaders who have been
thoroughly discredited. Aldrich and
Cannon were cordially disliked and dis
trusted by Roosevelt, but Taft has
chosen to work with and through them
and their kind, to indorse them in pub
lie, and to denounce and rebuke in
speeches himself and through his cab
met officers the faithful band of in
surgents who refused to surrender to
The restored leaders.
The disappointment and resentment
of the people are largely concentrated
in that wonderful welcome yesterday,
and the popular interest it has aroused.
The leader in whom they placed their
confidence has failed them, and they
turn again to the old one, and with
redoubled enthusiasm because of their
disappointment. And so it is generally
felt that he alone of all Americans has
the influence to stem the tide that
threatens to engulf his party, or is
fitted to represent the aspirations of
the millions who have been exploited
for the benefit of the few. To him the
people turn in the hope that through
him lost ground may be recovered when
he turns his powers to public problems.
That is the meaning in large part of
the contrast between Roosevelt depart
ing and Roosevelt returning.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
The Pay of the Preachers
Cchlcago Record.Hcraid,)


The reference to Christ and the car
penter is not a slur at the carpenters,
hut il does contain n hint as TO lhe
provision for the preachers. Ihey are
not mendicants, and the need OF thelr
work is proof enough of its usefulness
What Christ himself received ls not W
the point. These men are parts vi an
institution in a modern industrlal su
ciety, have families to bring up ana
must listen To the calls of charity upon
their purses as we'll as upon their tllhe'
AS a fair and honest business propo-
sition many of them deserve mueh
more than they arc paid. III.
The trouble appears to be that Whlie
conscience demands the church II sat
isfies itself with bargain counter
arrangement in which 1t does tne
marking down itself. 1t is beating the
church and the preacher season a1ter
season and finding excuses for selt-
indulgence In most churches there
are a very few pillars and many weak
reeds Sufficient definite regular sup
port is lacking. A contribution Oh
small coins is supposed to be enough
for preacher choir and general mann
tenancc, and the pillars are forceu "
make up the deficit.
We have purposelv refrained from
disquistion on the sacred character OF
the preachers work and the noble mis-
sion that he is called upon to perform.
This is a talk on business, and we
wish to intimate only that the preach-
er Is entitled to a square deal. If every
individual who expresses the opinion
that the church is a good thing were
TO back up his words with his pocket
book we should come much nearer 10
that kind of a deal But the words
alone do not help, they are so very
cheap.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
The Moving Picture Craze
Detroit New


ing and ogling; the bullet-headed, un-
washed roustabout; the rich and poor.
the old and the young, the dumb Chi
nese, the laborer, the ignorant, the cul-
tured, the deaf, the INDECENT, the dumb
all the world but the blind. What
tremendous leveler is this remarkable
new factor In life! The whole universe
is made to pass before the eyes of all
who can see. Dramas with French set
tings, showing the rich Louis Quatorze
furnishings, the staircase the low WIN
dows, the Paris streets the gendarme,
even the signs in the foreign lang
uage are reeled off to audiences, not
one-half of whom know but it was
manufactured on the next street for
their particular delectation. And this
same picture, so elaborately conceived,
so admirably acted, and so wonderfully
reproduced on the merry film, will be
viewed by the Russian on the Caspian
sea, by the Kaffr at Cape Town, by
the Detroit dock loafer, by the Har-
ward professor, by the fashionable lady
of the Lake Shore drive in Chicago
and by the Chinese in the interior town.
Guttenburg invented printing and
created q new civilization that vastly
excels the Greco Roman, but the man
who invented the moving picture has
discovered a language that will bind
together all peoples that have optic
nerves In such lands as the sun shines.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
ATTACKS POLICE FOR FAILURE
TO ENFORCE 'sPITTlNG' LAWS

Editor Herald: The law against
splitting on the sidewalk is along right
lines, if properly administered. But
what shall be said when a law of this
kind, after being enacted, is allowed TO
lie dormant until even well Informed
persons forget that such law exists?
Then all of a sudden, without word
of notice or warning, an arrest is made
and a stiff fine imposed. And whom
does the law choose for it's example?
Does it select some well-to-do citizen,
some we'll posted individual who reads
the newspapers and ought to know bet
ter than to spit on the sidewalk, but
who expectorates at large notWith-
standing?
No, poor Mexican at the Plaza
of all places-some poor, unlettered
alien who hardly knows what it all
means, is pounced upon and run in,
without any caution and is robbed q
use the word advisedly in the circum-
stances) of $500, besides being kept
from a days work, with the risk of
losing his job if he has a regular one.
Even granting the necessity of making
a beginning to enforce the law, why
could not the unfortunate man be dis
charged with a caution, the publicity
of the arrest and trial being deemed
sufficient for the purpose in view?
The officer who made the arrest in
this case is Pautz, the same man who,
in testifying to having arrested De
Lara for street speaking, declared he
knew nothing about any warrant" he
only knew that Talamantes told him
to 'arrest that man"
We fear and reprobate anarchism,
vet we act as if our deliberate inten-
ton were to set the poor and unfortu-
nate in anita gonism to the law.
WILLOUGHBY SMART.
Los Angeles, June II.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19

It is probably going to take from
10 to 25 per cent more money to
finance crops this year than for any
recent year, if not for any previous
wear. Nearly every kind of crop is
going to cover a large acreage. Even
though there be some exceptions there
will be little or no reduction in the
cost of doing the work Every ele-
ment of expense essential to farming
is pretty sure to be higher under exist
ing conditions To put the crops INTO
the ground will take more of the far
mer's working capital, more of the
merchants advanced credit, and more
of the banks funds in the form of
loans, until returns begin to come IN
by the sale of yields. Several million
acres of abandoned wheat have gone
into corn. This has entailed a double
cost. Seeding of wheat and planting
of corn has made two plowings neces-
sary, as well as double seed costs, over
an acreage of not much less than D.
600 900. Then there has been an enor-
NOUS replaEting of cotton at an un-
usually high cost for seed. Besides this
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
Cost of Financing Years Crop
(wall street JournaD

et JoufnaD
throughout the cotton belt there has
been a large outlay this year for farm
animals, for fertilizers, and most likely
for implements at higher rather than
lower prices Furthermore, the rates
of interest on agricultural lands for
which funds have been borrowed have
been higher than those of last year,
when money was cheaper. Wages,
from present indications, will be high
err in farming operations than they
were in 1909. This years crops are
not only grown on higher capitaliza-
tion of land, but also on higher rate
of working capital, on higher cost
for most of the expenses of improve
ment, with the possible exception of
lumber, and a much more extensive
area over which to employ farm capi-
tai with higher money rates, the cost
of moving crops to market and of car
rying them through the winter has also
to he considered. In fact 1t is hard to
see what elements of expense will not
be added to, unless existing conditions
undergo a radical and highly inprob-
able change.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
Far and Wide
TELEPHONE SWEETNESS

The Los Angeles telephone company
has ordered its exchange girls to speak
gently and sWeetly to its customers. In
order to make this rule effective it has
provided courses in vocal culture for
the girls. They are compelled to learn
how to talk sweetly, and, once having
learned, they will be expected to put
their knowledge to good use. Cleve-
landers, as rule. have no cause to
complain against the courtesy of the
exchange girls, or against the quality
of their voices. The telephone girls are
an Industrious, likable, praiseworthy
lot of young women. They deserve
every consideration. and their work
should not be made harder by ineonsid-
crate telephoners. At the same time,
1t is well to cultivate a pleasing and
soothing voice. for general purposes, or,
is necessary, to turn away wrath. The
Los Angeles company has taken an
important step in the right direction
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19


Champ Clark, the minority leader in
the House of Representatives, says ne
hopes to write some day book about
what a margin of one vote has caused
to happen in the history Of this coun-
try one of the instances of what
one vote will do he describes as fol-
lows
The war between this country and
England in 1912 was caused by one
vote, and. stranger still, the small
margin came from a pigs getting his
head stuck in a rail fence. 1t was a
Rhode Island fence at that, but pullt
much like a Virginia worm fence.
They were having an election OF
members of the legislature in Rhode
Island. one federalist put off going
to the election and left himself just
time enough to get there before the
polls closed Just as he got on his
horse and started for town he heard
a pig squeal. He looked around into
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
Piq Caused the War of 1912
popular Magazine)


that old rail fence. and anybody who
knows anything about hogs knows
that the hogs would have eaten that
pig up if it hadn't been rescued. The
farmer stopped long enough to lib
crate that pig, and when he got to
the polls they were closed. He was
too late
The result was that a Democratic
member of the legislature was elected
from that district by one vote, and he
would not have been elected If that
federal had gotten there on time. In
the legislature a Democratic United
States senator was elected by one
vote and that Democratic legislator
who had been elected by one vote
voted for him.
In the United States senate they
voted for the war of 1912 by one vote,
and that Rhode Island Democratic
senator who had been elected because
that pig got caught in the fence voted
for the war of 1872.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
EDITORIAL WORK.

Former employer-And so you are
newspaper man now, Thompson?
Thompson-Yes. sir; I'm the editor
of the job department.
Former employer-Editor of the job
department?
Thompson-Yes, sir; I carries in
coal, and scrubs the floor, and cleans
the windows and all such editin' as
that, sir.-London Graphic.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
Merely in Jest
MuruAL CoMPLIMENTs.

At a certain church 1t is the pleas
ing custom at a marriage for the cler-
gyman to kiss the bride after the GER
emony. A young lady who was about
to be married in the church did not
relish the prospect and instructed her
prospective husband when making ar
rangements to tell the clergyman that
she did not want him to kiss her The
bridegroom did as directed.
"Well. George" said the young lady
when he appeared, "did you tell the
clergyman that did not wish him to
kiss me?"
ooh. IS"
And what did he say?"
He said that in that case he would
charge only hah the usual fee. Tit
bits.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
TOO READY RELIEF.

A man went into a druggists shop
and asked for something to cure a
headache. The druggist held a bottle
of hartshorn to his nose and he was
nearly overpowered by its pungency.
AS soon as he recovered he began to
rail at the druggist and threatened to
punch his head.
But didn't it ease your headache? p
asked the apothecary.
Ease my headache" gasped the
man. Il haven't any headache. It's
my wife that's got the headache. -
Tit-Bits
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
PALMY DAY REGRET.

Baseball isn't what it used to be
out in my old town., said the boy vino
was selling soft drinks. cigars, chew
ing gum and candy
"What makes you think so?'
people didn't wait till they got
thirsty to buy lemon soda and sar-
saparilla. What they were after were
bottles to throw at the umpires. -
Washington Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
sOrNDs PROPHETIC

Mayor Frederick w. Plaisted of Au-
gusta declares that whoever is nom
mated by the Democratic state con-
vention will be the next governor of
Maine. In ordinary times such dec
Iaration would attract no attention,
hut coming this year everybody Won
ders whether it may not be prophecy.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
HIS HAND COVERED BOTH.

Daubs-Why didn't you cry for help
when you saw the burglar?
Dabs-I couldn't; he held his hand
over my heart.
Daubs-But that didn't prevent your
from hollering.
Dabs-Yes, it did, my heart was in
my mouth.-Chicago News
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19

Mayor Alexander does not mean it
is certain, that the police department
is to favor either disputant in the
present unfortunate labor conflict. He
is sworn to see that every man on
both sides is assured of his lawful
that.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
BLOOD TELLS.

James A. Garfield was a congress-
man. senator elect and president-elect
all in the same year. His famous son
is talked of for governor, for senator
and administration bugaboo simulta-
neously. Blood tells.-CleVeland Plain
Dealer,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
A SERIOUS 'BLUNDER,

YES" said the drug clerk, "I am
called up occasionally to compound pre-
scriptions at night"
isn't a man apt to make mistakes
working in semi-darkness? ?"
You bet he is I took in plugged
quarter once. kansas City Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19

The lighting companies have already
stirred up Pasadena to the mass meet
ing stage and Los Angeles to the cleo
ton pitch. If they keep on they will
succeed in convincing the public that
they are "agin' the guver'ment.'
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENTS-L intended
for publication must be accompanied by the
name and address OF the writer. The Herald
gives the widest latitude to correspondents
hut assumes no responsibility for their Views
Letters must not succeed 200 words.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19

The Illinois Press association has
asked Senator Lorimer to resign his
membership in that organization. This
is wrong. If his guilt can't be proved
he ought not to be asked to get out,
and if he is proved guilty he shouldn't
be allowed to resign; he should be
bounced.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
VARIETY.

New maid-Please, mum, there's a
man at the door come to collect on
something yez bought on the INSTALL
ment plan.
Mistress-Ask him whether it's the
encyclopedia, the phonograph, the
brass bed, the piano. or the sewing
machine.-Harpers Bazaar.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19

Most of the husky young chaps that
are stampeding into the new Iditarod
gold fields in Alaska and expecting to
come back wealthy will be sending
home to the old man for transporta-
tion money in a few weeks.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
PEACE AT LAST

A Chicago woman who had taught
school for fifty years is dead. If the
good woman does not go to heaven,
She will hardly notice the change
Louisville Courier-oJurnal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19

Under no circumstances would l
consent to go into the gubernatorial
race" says Son-in-law Longworth.
Can't somebody persuade Nick not to
inf1ict this calamity on Ohio?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19

We take pleasure in announcing to
theatergoers that Madame Bernhardt
is soon to make another of her popular
farewell tours of America.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19

1t is now several days since Chan
cellor Day has turned his crouch loose
on anything, but yesterdays happen
ings in New York may stir up his bile.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19

Bradstreet's, pretty good authority
says. the business outlook is good in
the west; but the railroad presidents
are very sorry to say that they can
see nothing but dark clouds.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19

Joe Cannon was too busy to go to
New York and welcome Roosevelt. In
dications are that Uncle Joe will short
ly be relieved of his arduous duties.