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Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-07
MISSIONS AUXILIARY TO MEET

The quarterly meeting of the Wo-
mans auxiliary to the Board of Mis-
sions Of the Diocese of Los Angeles will
be held Tuesday, August 9, in Christ
church, Redondo Beach. Addresses will
be delivered by the Rt. Rev. Joseph II.
Johnson, Mrs. Murray Bartlett, wife of
the dean of the cathedral, and a
Chinese woman from Hawaii.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-07
ANeELENos TOURING ORIENT

A cable to the steamship department,
German American Savings bank, an
nounces the safe arrival at HongkOng
August 6 of the following Angelenos,
who are on a tour of the world; Mr..
and Mrs. f. r. Deubell, Mr.. and Mrs.
Valentine Hetzel, Mr.. and Mrs. j. 70.
Cutler. Miss Lila Glasscock, Miss Fl.
GilasscOck, Miss Veda TOlchard, Miss
c. b. Young, Miss j. w. Williamson
Miss Harriet Hanlon, Prof w. w.
Bristol, r.. S. BarroWs.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-07
VETERAN OF CIVIL WAR
LOSES PENSION PAPERS

Stamford A. Karns a veteran Of
the Civil War, lost his pension Ger
tffcate somewhere in Main street be-
tween Second and Third streets yes
terday. Mr. Karns is a resident Of
san Diego. living at 1928 F street. The
certificate number is $685. 155.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-07
WILL OBSERVE MEXIC0'S
DAY OF INDEPENDENCE

The independence day Of Mexico
September 16, will be observed with a
celebration by the recently organized
Hispano- American club.
on the evening previous an enter
tainment and dance will be given in
the former Elks' hall in Spring street,
For For the program on September l6
I,arade of skilled riders headed by the
Vaouero club has been arranged; Ihe
main part of the exercises, including
a barbecue, will take place at Schuet-
zen park. ,. 49,;
The officers of the Hispano-Ameri-
can c1uh are Claude c. Moreno. presi-
dent. Thomas Fernandez and p. p.
estrada, vice presidents; A. B. Lorba.
secretary, and o. A. Valla, treasurer.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-18
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT HAS
NO PLACE IN PRESENT AGE

LOS ANGELES, May 16-[Editor
Herald: Thank you for your COM
ment on the Walla walla crime. If l
were to strangle a human being until
he was dead, l would be executed. l
wish to appeal to you who profess to
believe the Bible, who claim to walk
according to the teachings of Jesus
Christ. 1 declare to you, if you be-
lieved in ahd followed the principles
laid down by him who taught as
never man taught" you would vote
against and do away with this blot on
civilization, capital punishment; and
what Is worse than death, the torture
now practiced on men suspected of
crime, so damnable in its cruelty.
Nothing but Jonathan Edwards de-
scription of hell exceeds il in horror.
After Sager was hanged, Maine voted
no more hanging. and with increase of
population had less crime in the next
twenty years. 1 have been in jail work
for years; have had men come to me
sick. nearly destitute of clothes,
hungry and without money to buy
food, after thirty or sixty days for the
crime of being out of work. and walk
ing to flnd it because they had no
money to ride.
Thank God, the press is waking up.
The pulpit will when the people will
listen to the truth. Am / my brothers S
keeper?" finds a good answer for US
who profess to love God in the words
of Christ: "Inasnuch as We have done
it to the least of these ye have done it
unto me-" Our brother is behind the
bars, our sister is in the brothel. Let
us see to 1t that their blood is not on
our garments. S. ]. BINNS.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-18
OPPOSED FRANCHISES AS MERE
TYRANNY BY THE MAJORITY

LOS ANGELES, May 15.-[Editor
Herald: OF course, as Willoughby
Smart says, the press did not get
Emma Goldman's argument in her de-
bate on woman suffrage with Mr..
Cantrell straight She simply took
Herbert Spencer's attitude that the
franchise is not a right but a device
for enabling the majority to bludgeon
the minority. She gave Auberon Her
bert's argument in his Herbert Spencer
lecture at oxford, June Z, 1906, and pre-
sented the views so ably summarized
by Ouida in her essay on Woman
Suffrage"
In unmistakable terms she declared
that women were entitled to every
right enjoyed by men, but maintained
that the franchise was not right but
a political arrangement, working most
awkwardly and productive of no bene-
fit to the poor.
Literature on this subject has not yet
been written. as 1t seems to me. When
some judicial mind applies itself to
the task of ascertaining just how much
legislation of the last hundred years
has been in the interests of freedom
and the abolition of poverty we shall,
I anticipate, be startled at the minus
result.
Meanwhile, I, for my part, have not
the slightest doubt that one of the
most marked phenomena of today Is
the growing contempt of everything
connected with politics, which is more
and more distrusted as a possible
remedy. l. IA W.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-18
Lonely Children and Orphans Should
Get a Chance to Succeed in Life
tsacramento UniOn)

HROM Texas comes the report that
10000 mothers of that state have
\ petitioned the governor not to al
low children from the orphan asylulhs
and founding homes in New York to be
sent to the Lone Star commonwealth.
The excuse for this remarkable re-
quest is not that the mothers think
that II given time they will be able to
populate the state without any as
sistance from New York. but because
some of the children have been placed
in proper homes. The managers OF the
various asylums that have sent children
to Texas say that great care has been
taken in finding homes, but they have
suspended sending any more children to
that state, and have asked the governor
for particulars concerning the homes
which are supposed TO be objectionable,
alleging that they have never had ad-
verse reports. and that they employ
persons to look after the children after
they are located.
OF course, If children are not placed
in proper homes the matter should be
remedied at once, whether they are
placed in Texas or Rhode Island, but
the singular feature of this mothers
petition is that the women signing it
should not have tried to remedy the
evils of which they complain, rather
than endeavor to deprive innocent and
helpless children of a chance to get
homes. That certainly does not seem
very motherly, and leads to a strong
suspicion that like a petition-also said
to have been signed by several hundred
InutieTS-tiieit 0II1o was presented &c :
governor of this state, 1t was surprise
to everyone who knew the signers and
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-18
WHAT'S THE USE?

" ERE is another example of the
folly of overwork. Webster Sam
- uels Of the Carnegie group of
bright young men killed himself be-
cause he found he had lost health in
gaining his ambition to be secretary
of a steel company!
What is the use Of the over strenu-
Gus life, which rushes young Ameri-
cans into business prematurely and
bids them work, work, work, work,
early and late?
Under the economic system at present
favored by civilization, the hard work
er's energy and health may be counted
with the unearned increment of the
corporation or the individual employer
responsible for the wreckage Of the
workers life, In this nervous age
brainy, ambitious men Go not need to
be driven, but TO be restrained.
1t is high time writer's and preachers
began to teach the Importance Of the
conservation OF the natural energies
Of human beings as well as Of the natu-
raj resources of the nation. Hardly a
day dawns that does not bring a new
lesson to remind US rank, wealth, place,
power, circumstance, achievement are
but the guinea stamp. THE MANS
THE GOLD FOR A THAT."
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-18

saw the petition to learn that many of
them had not the slightest claim to
maternity.
Abandoned children and orphans must
be given some chance to success in life.
They are terribly handicapped at best,
and they cannot remain forever in the
institutions that take care of them in
babyhood No wiser plan, 1t would
seem, could be suggested than to find
homes for the little waits among kind
and decent people who will bring them
up properly. and in many cases, no
doubt, adopt them. The mothers of
Texas. or the mothers of anywhere else
for that matter could do nothing bet
ter, or more noble from every point OF
view than to assist such a good work.
Instead of being so inhuman and in
hospitable as the signers of the Texas
petition appear to be, they would have
done better to have written to the
authorities of the asylums calling at
tention to the cases which were proper
subjects of criticism, and then have
offered to assist in obtaining proper
homes for the little oes
Any true mothers heart should go out
in great sympathy to the little one de-
prived of the love that she gives her
own offspring. Any mothers heart
should reach out to shelter the father
less and motherless babes; and from
any mothers heart it would seem that
prayer would go up for the little un-
fortunate adrift upon life's ocean. 1t
is not to the credit of Texas that such
a petition was sent its governor, nor
that there ore % mn women in Texas
whether mothers or not, who would
sign such a paper.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-18

the public which uses the streets, but at
the same time damaging the pavement
laid by the city. Then when the street
railway companies did pave their tracks
the work was done in so poor manner
that it usually gave way very shortly,
and the result was a street a large por-
ton of which could not be comfortably
or safely used for traffic.
Examples Of this condition are to be
found all over the city. One notorious
example is at the corner of First and
Broadway, where the street is occupied
by the converging and crossing tracks
to an extent that should require par
ticular pains in it's maintenance. The
pavement here has given away so that
the street is full of chuck holes, which
make it not only disagreeable, but
positively dangerous for use by or
binary street traffic.
The dangerous condition of the street
railway tracks on Main street is an
other instance These tracks in some
portions of South Main street are in
such condition as to make that part of
the street occupied by them practically
unusable by vehicles.
The matter has been taken up by the
city engineers department. and he has
drawn & set Of specifications for the
paving of the streets by the railroad
companies, which in the future will
eliminate all this trouble The adoption
of these specifications by the council
was bitterly opposed by the representa-
tives of the street railroad companies.
Under the order that used to prevail in
the city of Los Angeles before the Good
Government forces secured control of
the city government, no such specifica-
tions would ever have been drawn IN
the first place, and in the second place,
had they been drawn, they would have
no chance of being adopted. The fact
that they have been adopted by the
committee having the matter in charge
and will shortly be adopted by the city
council is but another evidence of the
great fact that the city of Los Angeles is
now being governed for the benefit of
all the citizens and not for the benefit
of private interests.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-18
THE NEW ORDER.

n UR readers who have followed with
any degree of care the reports re-
~ Gently published in the daily
papers of the discussion between the
officials Of the city on one hand and
the representatives of the street rail
way companies on the other, Of the
character of pavement and track main
tenance to be required Of the street
railroad companies by the city, and
have noted the results Of this discus
sion, have had a very good practical
illustration Of the difference between a
city government conducted for the ben
eft Of public service corporations, and
a city government conducted for the
benefit of it's citizens.
The entire indifference to the comfort
and safety Of the public which has in
the past been shown by the street rail-
road companies Of the city in paving
and maintaining their tracks had been
so much a matter of course that our
citizens had almost come to despair of
ever having any relief. For years it
has been the custom of the street rail
road companies to pave their tracks
and those portions Of the street on each
side thereof which the law requires
them to pave at their own good
pleasure and convenience. After the
city had put down expensive and high
class pavements on streets the street
railway companies have frequently per-
mitted their portion of the streets to
go unpaved for months, thus not only
causing inconvenience and danger to
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-18

CAPITA That has caused some increase
in values, but not nearly as much as
there has been because thS uses for
money per capita have also increased.
High tariff has undoubtedly in
creased values of many articles, but
we have had high tariff many years,
while the rapid increase in the cost of
living has been mainly within a few
years; therefore we cannot justly at
tribute it to high tariff alone. In my
opinion the main cause is that the
amount of stocks and bonds based
upon public utilities has during a few
wears increased many billions of dol
lars and their value being guaranteed
by laws providing that the rates the
owners of said utilities may charge for
their services shall not be less than
will pay a reasonable interest on their
investment over and above running
expenses has made said stocks and
bonds an immense circulating medium,
probably two or three times as much
as all our gold, silver and national
bank notes. -
If you doubt that said stocks and
bonds are a circulating medium you
have only to notice that in nearly all
the great deals involving many mill
lions nearly all their payments are
made in stocks and bonds; and when
we read of the valuations of large es-
tates of the deceased we find a large
portion of their estates consists of
stocks and bonds. And the great rail-
road magnate, Ryan, testified that 80
per cent of all railroads are built with
bonds" Now l ask. wherein lies the
political economy, justice or common
sense of running our government under
such laws as make a few multi
millionaires at the expense of the
masses? 1t is certainly the latter who
pay nearly all the high tariff and also
the high rates that maintain the value
OF the billions of stocks and bonds
with which our so-called public utilt-
ties are constructed. VOX POPULI.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-18
California Should Be Protected by
Adequate Public Accountancy Law
Sacramento Bee.)

tenn of inspection and supervision py
state officials.
California has nothing of the kind,
and no public accountancy law. The
state board of examiners does not per
form such functions, its duties being
limited to claims against the state and
inspection of the books of the state
treasurer and state controller.
Each city and county in the state
does as it pleases in the matter of pub
lie accounts, and there is no sort of
supervision by the state. Nor are there
any reports to the state from which
comparisons of cost of local govern
ment can be made.
But with a uniform system of ac-
counting, under state inspection and
with city and county outlays properly
returned to a state department of &C
countancy, regular annual reports could
he issued which would be very valuable
in securing greater economy in the ex-
penditure of public money, and also in
placing a wholesome check on various
forms of grating in public offices.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-18
TELEGRAPH FACILITIES.

T OS ANGELES business men and
others who patronize the tele-
h graph companies read with inter
est that representatives of the larger
branch Of the great monopoly are Wis
iting Los Angeles This part of the
coast needs and long has needed more
and better telegraph facilities, and a
squarer deal on the rate proposition
than it has been getting. The night
letter service has been generally recog-
nized as a great convenience to the
public and a measure of economy
which could not fail to make it's eco
nomic advantage felt In the business
and social life Of the United States.
Now that new blood has been infused
into the veins Of the larger twin mo-
nopoly by the fact that the telephone
company has taken over the telegraph
stock the service can and doubtless will
be vastly improved; and the improve
ment will be extended to service and
equipment as we'll as rates.
It is to be hoped also that the gen
eral efficiency of the telegraph service
OF the larger wing of the trust will be
vastly improved, and that the person
mel Of their operating rooms will be
changed so that they will resemble
departments for transmission of tele-
grams and public intelligence rather
than look like refugees for senile and
debilitated men and women.
The Pacific coast entertains the
highest anticipations of benefit to re-
suit from the visit of inspection, and
it is to be hoped Los Angeles and the
Pacific division will not be disap-
pointed
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-18
With Party Government the Party in
Power Must Accept It's Responsibility
(The Pathnnder)

must redeem It's promises. must de
liver the goods" and do it without
equivocatioin or illegal shifts"
The time has come, therefore, to put
the question plainly to the Sixty-first
congress, with a Republican majority
of nearly thirty in the senate ano
nearly fifty in the house whether it in
tends to fulfill the plain and express
promises of the Republican platform
on which it was elected. For the
benefit of those legislators who may
have forgotten what those promises
were, we will here review the principal
ones, namely: Safer currency legisla-
tion; more stringent antitrust laws;
more effective control of railway rates;
simplified court procedure; means for
making rural life more attractive;
equal justice for the negro and for all,
regardless of race or color; a subsi-
eized merchant marine; closer federal
supervision of public health; bureau
of mines and mining; citizenship for
Porto Ricans, and immediate admis-
sion" for Arizona and New Mexico.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-18

space with great luminosity the same
as the rays of the sun passing througn
a magnifying glass show a luminous
spot on any object toward which they
are directed.
When you see a searchlight directing
it's rays through the air on dark
night you see a good Illustration or
what is termed the tail OF comet And
in the stream of light produced there
is as much substance as there is IN the
tail of any comet.
And the only harm which could result
by passing through this reflection from
the comet would be from possible
overheating of the earth's atmosphere
But any disastrous effects from this
cause are very doubtful, as the speed
at which the comet travels would only
leave the earth in it's reflection few
noonents II. II.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-18
CLAIMS COMET is CRYSTAL
AND TAIL is REFLECTION

LOS ANGELES, May 15.-[Editor
Herald]: 1 notice in Los Angeles
paper of today two pages devoted to
Halley's comet, claiming the tail is
composed of atoms so minute the
pressure of the suns light overcomes
the force of gravitation, and that this
is the reason the tail always points
away from the sun.
They also claim the comets tail is
composed of hydro carbon gases and
assume that the tail is continuously
formed anew, not only every day but
every instant.
Now, the facts are the tail is not
formed of hydro carbon gas or minute
particles of any substance, for the
comet has no tail at all only in the eye
of the observer.
The head of the comet is a crystal
formation. and the rays of the sun
piercing the crystal travel on into
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-18

N ALIFORNIA needs state depart
ment of accountancy, such as has
~ been established in Ohio, New
York, Massachusetts,, Indiana. Rhode
Island, Colorado West Virginia, Wy
oming and a dozen other states.
Such departments have proved OF
great benefit whenever they exist, and
have been strongly recommended for
every state in the Union by the Ma
tional Civic Federation, the National
Municipal league. the League of Ameri-
can municipalities. the Accountants,
the American Economic association, the
American Statistical association, the
Association of Municipal Comptrollers
and Accounting officers. the Govern
ment Accountants association and va
rious other national and state bodies.
The object of such a department is
to establish a uniform system of ac-
counting in all public offices. not only
of the state itself but also of each po-
litical subdivision thereof, such as cities
and counties, and to provide for a sys-
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-18

n URS is a government by parties.
Government by parties is not an
~ ideal government, because it has
to be administered for political expe-
diency---for 1.-The party good''-instead
of for the benefit of all. Since we have
party government, however, the people
are justified in holding whatever party
is in power accountable for legislation.
party promises in its platform to do
certain things the voters, in consid-
Grafton of those promises, cast their
ballots for that party and that pro-
gram. In morals and in law-ln every
thing but politics-that party. If 1t
gets into control, is bound to carry out.
its contract.
That is a general proposition, good IN
the case of all parties, under all con-
ditions. 1t applies, say. to the Repuo-
lican party in New York state the
Democratic party in Ohio, the Social
ist party in Milwaukee. Any party
which hopes to secure and retain the
confidence and support of the people
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-18
State Press Echoes
ENFORCING RESPONSIBILITY

An ordinance has been adopted by
the town of Morrison that could well
be imported to this coast. The scheme
is this If any saloonkeeper, after
selling liquor to a man until he is
drunk, expels the customer from his
saloon, he loses his license. The sa-
loonkeeper or his barkeeper must take
care of the drunkard until he be per-
fectly sober and shall pay all costs Of
caring for him until he has complete
control Of his senses. The idea is an
excellent one.-Saoramento Union.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-18

n NE of the most rapidly increasing
ii religious bodies in the world To-
~ day is based on the belief that
all calamity and evil and suffering is
to be finally eliminated through an
improved and uplifted thought about
God and his relation TO man, and a
more perfect understanding and abid-
ing faith in the principle underlying
and operating through that relation;
We hold no brief for these people.
Whatever may be thought of their
belief or practice, there is more OF
abiding faith in good and less OF en-
slavement to evil and fear of calamity
in the world because of the fact that
they are asking mon to turn away from
fear and worry and evil as unworthy
Of a place In the creation ana mousse
hold where Love is believed to be ON
nipotent 49,
If such a belief in the test of the
daily life of it's adherents can and does
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-18
Ecclesiasticism Cannot Complain of
Demand for a Religion of the Truth
pasadena News)

eliminate fear and suffering, mental
and physical, and supplant dread of
calamity with mental peace and an
ever-abiding faith in the omnipresence
and omnipotence of good, it is worthy
of just treatment, not only, but fair
trial in every individual experience.
Truth is what men have been look
ing for, and no man is justified in any
narrow or bigoted treatment of what
is offered as truth asking to be tried
out in the crucible of daily living.
The great founder of Christianity
said, "Ye shall know the truth, and
the truth shall make you free" Any
thing short of a realization of this
full promise must lack something of
being the truth to which he referred.
He also said to a suffering humanity.
my peace l give unto you" Ecclesias-
ticism cannot justly complain at
popular demand for religion which
shall in daily application work out this
freedom and this promised peace.