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Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19
DICK FERRIS SERVICE

Editor Herald: 1t seems to me that
Dick Ferris has done the public a gen
uine service; far greater probably than
any he could have performed as lieu
tenant governor. In a most graphic
manner he has called attention to the
corruption that accompanies all our
political campaigns, I care not What
party is concerned. The bunch of al
legged voters hanging around saloons,
and "I do not know whether this
money was spent or not. 1t is my
opinion it was not-$1396." THESE and
similar expressions in his sworn state
ment of campaign expenses bring be-
fore US most vividly conditions with
which we should be familiar but ha-
bitually ignore.
To me nothing is more remarkable
than the fact that everywhere l ind
the opinion expressed that politics is
rotten to the core. In so small city
as this hundreds of names are sub
mitted to the voters. Inevitably the
merits or demerits of 80 per cent are
quite unknown. Naturally, the candi-
dates try to rectify this by extensive
advertising, and every loafer is utilized
in the effort to obtain publicity. In
fact, elections are their harvest, and
you may hear such men repeatedly ex-
pressing the wish that the reformers
would become active. Yet when all is
done we are offered nothing better
than a series of blind guesses, on the
strength of which we place in office
men who smother us with legislation
and bleed us at every pore.
No private business could be con-
Quoted on such ridiculous lines, and
public business throughout the coun-
try is breaking down under the strain.
H. P. NEVILLE.
Los Angeles. September Is.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19
Educating the People
Golfers weekly


editorial columns. It's editorial opposi-
things in the state. Goaded by the
Milwaukee Journal for several weeks
to show some reason for its opposition,
it at last came forward with a double
column loaded editorial, in which it
eulogized Lincoln as the foundation OF
the Republican party. 1t did not, how
ever remind it's readers that Lincoln
used the Republican party to emanci-
pate men rather than to enrich a group
of men. Nor did 1t recall the fact that
the heroes of the Stalwart faction voted
the entire Wisconsin delegation against
Lincoln in the Chicago convention In
1904 vote that ever since Wisconsin
Republicans have been trying to for,
get 1t did reeite a long list of moro
or less colorless politicians and office
holders-a party roll call-concluding
with the name of a distinguished par
liamentary debater, John c. SpooneRs
and insisting that Robert M. LaFollette
he retired from public life because his
going to the senate had so bewildered
senator Spooner that Senator Spooner
had resigned. -
From his farm home porch, LaFol-
lette looks across the playful waters or
Lake Mendoza to the campus that now
supports at least twenty great build
inps that were unknown to him when
he ran the University Press" Here
he finds his rest in playing with his
children, in hardening UP his muscles
bv blowing corn and pitching hay. He
looks young and acts young; yet many
are dead and eulogized after they have
performed half his labors.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19

In 1905. when the Hepburn rate bill
was before the senate, LaFollette felt
that the / esident had not gone far
enough in his recommendations
the presidents bill was a good bill for
possibly five years. When urged by
well-meaning and considerate friends.
on the ground of political expediency,
not to go beyond the presidents de-
mands, he replied: IT want to do my
part to make a bill that my boys can
be proud Of" He offered nineteen
amendments upon equitable railway
valuation and, while none of these went
through, he educated the people of the
nation as he had those of his state on
the justice of railroad valuation and
taxation.
1t is not easy to campaign against
this worker for Gods patient poor.
A venerable lawyer at Hudson, Wis,
a one time partner of Senator Spooner,
recently complained that you could not
get the people away from LaFollette.
Nov, there is Einar Halverson,b he
said; "Einar is a good man. He Is a
good Norwegian man. told him La
Folette was no good He said he didn't
believe it, 1 told him something that
LaFollette had done that was wrong.
He said he didn't believe 1t, that he
didn't think LaFollette would do such
a thing. I proved it; and when
proved 1t to him, he rubbed his head
and Just said I don no, but if La
Toilette did dot, 1t must ban right;
dots all.''
There is an afternoon newspaper in
Madison that prints its humor In the
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19
The FREELY Puzzle
(coilier's Weekly


yellow, etc. Spectroscopic analyses
of the common f1refly's flashes showed
IAN unsymmetrical structureless. band
in the red, yellow and green. a
f1uorescent substance may be extract
ed from the common FREELY. When
some of it's luminous tissue is carefully
dried. it may be made to glow again
by moistening it with water. 1t re-
tains this. power for considerable per-
iods If kept dry.
It is practically certain that oxygen
is necessary to the production of ply
siologic light, SO that it may be con-
sidered as due to some mysterious pro-
cess of oxidation. The structure of the
light organs of all phosphorescent or
ganisms Is quite similar. They appear
to be masses of cells of some special
kind" penetrated by network of pas
sages. What these tubules contain
during life is not known.
1t is evident enough from the above
summary that all we are really sure
of at present regarding physiolog1c
light is that we do not know anything
at all about it, at least anything of
scientific value in explaining its mys-
terious characteristics. The field is an
extremely fascinating one, and real
solution of the problem might have
important and far-reaching economic
results, because the present artificial
lighting methods are highly inefficient
and wastetul. OF course the puzzle
will be unraveled some time or other,
and a second Standard Oil fortune
may be awaiting the lucky man.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19
ADVICE TO DEMOCRATS

Editor Herald: To anyone studying
the platforms of the Republican and
Democratic parties fairly, indepen-
IDENTIFY and unbiased it must appear
that there is scarcely any difference in
principle but that they differ merely in
secondary matters. They both uphold
the present system of protection which
has been pushed to extremes, helping
to cause famine prices in food for the
benefit Of the few. To many it must
be evident that the present state of
high prices cannot further be boosted
nor even be maintained long for the
rumbling of discomfort among the
masses is plainly discernible. AS the
Republican party is welded to high
tariff with such disastrous results it
behooves the Democratic party, as the
party of the plain people, to initiate
new issues, and that in harmony with
the drift of plainly discernible coming
events. Let them strike out for un-
qualified free trade, which is something
worth fighting for and that will draw
the masses like honey bees.
Universal free trade must eventually
come anyhow, and not until then fair
and equitable relations can be estab-
lished throughout the world.
Los Angeles, Sept. Is. c. FISHER.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19
Los Angeles. September is.
SAYS THERE ARE OTHERS

Editor Herald: The Herald being the
most Just and liberal morning paper in
Los Angeles, receives the subscriptions
of all persons who sympathize with the
PEOPLES cause-no matter what politi-
cal party they follow. We do not feel
at all offended when our letters are
omitted from the Letter Box, as they
are often intended more for the eyes of
the editor than for publication. Some
of our letters are, no doubt, intem-
perate, as are the expressions of GER
tain political leader against a political
party in a magazine called the Out
look. JAMES JORDAN.
Los Angeles, Sept. 16.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19


According to bleacher law, there are
three particularly justifiable motives
for doing away with umpires. An UNI
pire may be killed, first, if he sees fit
to adhere to the rules and makes
decision against the home team at
close point in the game. secondly,
an umpire may be killed if he sends
a member of the home team to the
bench when the player in question has
done absolutely nothing but call the
umpire names and attempt to bite his
ear off-an umpire has no business to
be touchy. Thirdly (and this is per.
feet defense against the charge OF
nurder). an umpire may be killed If
he calls any batter on the home team
out on strikes when the player has
not even struck at the balls pitched.
That the balls go straight over the
plate has nothing to do with the case.
There is ample proof. at hand TO
show that killing the umpire is ols-
tinctiyely American sport. Other
countries have tried baseball, but they
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19
Killing the Umpire
(Harper's S Weekly

weekly
have not tried killing the umpire.
That is probably the reason why they
have not waxed enthusiastic over base
ball. For baseball without umpire
killing is like football without girls
in the grandstand. It simply can't be
done. That foreign countries know
nothing about our king of outdoor
sports was indicated forcibly when, in
the fall of 1909, the Detroit team made
a trip to Cuba under the management
of Outfielder Mcintyre. In the entire
series of twelve games with the Ha-
vana and Almendares mines, not one
single objection was made by either
the Cuban players or the silent Cuban
spectators to a decision of the umpires.
The Americans did not know what to
think of it--until they counted up the
gate receipts at the end of the series.
Then they realized that, in their own
country, it is the delight in killing
the umpire rather than the pleasure in
watching the game that draws the tre-
mendous crowds through the turn
stiles.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19
COL. MOSBY'S CASE

TN letter to a Boston friend ex-
planning why he is no longer con-
Il nected with the department of
justice at Washington, Colonel John
S. Mosby, whose free-lance cavalry
was one of the most picturesque and
thrilling incidents of the Confederate
side in the civil war. says:
"The real reason was to punish me
for having three scoundrels indicted
for robbing the Indians, my opposing
their application, which was finally
successful. to get their prosecution dis
missed. They had arranged for another
So 900 steal and wanted me out Of
the department"
Colonel Mosby says that his only
complaint is that he was dismissed
as superannuated without a hearing,
on the word of an assistant attorney
general no longer in the department,
who had to justify himself in giving
Colonel Mosby no work, and this he
did by representing the Virginian as
superannuated.
There is abundant reason to be
found in recent revelations in Okla
homa for believing that the lawyers
who were gouging the Indians had
strong influence in Washington. There
is therefore that much circumstantial
probability that the story told by
Colonel Mosby is partly if not wholly
true. It is a case, anyway that calls
for the attention of President Taft
and for reparation If it is found true
that the old soldiers dismissal was
due to the fact that he opposed the
Indian graft.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19
THE NEeRo's FAITH

Editor Herald: Please read this be-
fore consigning it to the basket. You
shut out Socialism and religion, but
this morning you have published the
third letter by William G. owen, in
which he abuses Roosevelt, Bellamy
and Socialism, lauding anarchy. Now
that he finds leading men are giving
their might to the cause Bellamy pre-
dicted would "need assistance" why
not let us say a word? Then T. j..
Wilson: "I am a convert to the doc
trine that neither minister nor con-
gregation can be children of God until
they are vegetarians." / would not
like to live near him. I am reminded
of the negro who believed in prayer.
He had prayed for chicken. None
came. He read Pauls faith without
works is dead" The next day he had
chicken. Get on to the text?
S. j. BINNS.
T.os AnoaIes Senteunher Is
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19
Merely in Jest
FOILED

He was very bashful and she tried to
make il easy for him. They were driV-
ing along the seashore and she became
silent for a time.
whats the matter?" he asked
30, I feel blue" she replled. mo-
body loves me and my hahos are
you should not say that" was his
word of consolation, "for God loves
YOU, and your mother loves you, and
YOU can sit on your hands. success
Magazine.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19
A SUGGESTION

"Oh. my!" exclaimed the excited wo-
man who had mislaid her husband.
oI'm looking for a small man with one
eye" ,.4o
shopwaIker. "if les a very small man,
maybe you'd better use both eyes, -
Tit-Bits.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19

DIR. Parkhurst writes that "silence
is a life preserver," and there is some
reason for believing that the Hon
orable" William Lorimer of Illinois had
this golden thought occur to him some
time prior to the moment the preacher
% slim
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19

Senator La Toilette is reported to
be sick, but if misery loves company
he has some consolation in the fact
that he has made some OF his adver-
saries feel pretty much the same Way
recently.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19

Hoke Smiths campaign for the
nomination in Georgia
cost him SIT, ,596, but California, being
q very small state, was canVassed for
a fraction of that sum, If we are to
believe the sworl statements Of the
candidates.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19
LOST HIS BAIT

"Yes. sir, the fish was so big it
pulled him in the river"
"And he was drowned?"
mo, but he nights well have been,
for he lost his grip on his gallon jug,
and it floated downstream, and he lives
in dry county, ty,"-Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19
Far and Wide
CLEAN SWEEP

James e. Wood, district superin-
tendent of street cleaning In Washing
ton, says that 453,397,S56 square yards
of streets in Washington are swept
clean by machines every year. But
compared with the clean sweep made
by the machine each year in Philadel-
phia that is nothing. louisville
Courier-Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19

A Republican elephant named Stand
pat, which escaped from the Maine
ZOO the other day, is supposed to be
wandering around in the Canadian
woods, as it cannot be found in New
Hampshire or Massachusetts.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19
No DIFFERENCT

"City people don't buy gold bricks,
you know" said the summer young
man.
mo" replied Farmer Corntossel.
"they jes' keep pilxin along, buyln'
melons an such that look good on the
outside. "-W Washington Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19

The standpat Republican machines
in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Massa-
chusetts are so scared by the course
of events that all you can get out
of them now is a claim that they have
a f1ghting chance to win.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19

It is said that the only picture in
Count Tolstoy's bedroom is one of Will
liam Jennings Bryan. If his august
sovereign, Nicholas, dotes on Ameri-
cans, his choice is probably his proto-
tvpe. Gar Cannon.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19

Caleb Powers, nominated for con-
gress in Kentucky, and pretty certain
of election, was for years in prison
and was once sentenced to hang for
Governor Goebel's murder. unjustly, as
his constituents believe. The main
difference between him and some other
congressman is that they have been
more successful in keeping out Of
prison.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19

President Estrada of Nicaragua
wants to postpone the election for a
year, until affairs get more settled.
Some Of the standpat congressman in
this country wish the same thing
might be brought about.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19
HIS OPINION

Topkins-Do you think the average
girl will accept a man as soon as he
proposes?
Hopkins-As soon as he proposes
Great Scott. man, she'll accept him as
soon as he begins to propose.-Chicago
News
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19

We boost our climate as a healthy
one, but should have no hesitancy in
making it very unhealthy for the Dick
Turpins who are trying to ply their
trade in this city.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19

A Baltimore man aged 90 has just
taken unto himself a young wife,
After all, when a man doesn't learn
sense in such matters in a life of nearly
a century, how can we blame young
Chanler for his little fling?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19

When you sit right down and think
of it, it is a sort of fool thing to
maintain two expensive governments
in the area covered by Los Angeles
and environs, when one would do,
isn't it?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19
MIR. TAFTs SIZE

An enthusiastic Republican declares
that Mr. Taft is a bigger man than he
was year ago. Why does he not try
running again? That might help him.
Charleston News and Courier.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19
PERFECT HUMAN BLISS

Our idea of perfect human bliss is
to be able to answer an attack like
and get dollar a word for the an
swer-Washington Post.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19

A Pennsylvania man sues Mrs. Ting
ley of San Diego, charging her with
conspiracy in getting 100000 from a
relative. If Mrs. Tingley should win
out, Madame Cdvalicri will have
reason to regard herself as a mere
piker as d female inancier.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19
HIS DEFINITION

Nov, children. what is this?'' asked
the teacher, holding up the picture OF
a zebra.
"It looks to me like a horse in
bathing SUIT" answered a little boy
our Dumb Animals.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19
SHE WANTED THE SECRET

SHE WANTED I1E toLNINHI
Miss Drux-That was Mrs. ReaYer we
lust passed. Her hair turned white IN
a single night. o w.,
Miss Hydro-In a single night? Why
didn't you introduce me? I'd give any
thing to learn where she bought hef
peroxide.-Chicago News.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19

The name Of the man who ran
against Speaker Cannon is Downs.
The name of the man who ran against
Downs is Down-and-out.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19
DROPPING DISTANCES

After reading all the expert descrip-
tions of how it feels to fall six or seven
thousand feet we have concluded it
feels just the same as falling S962.-St.
Louis Dispatch.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19

How does it happen that no one has
thought of advancing the braInstorm
as a defense for Mr.. Chanler of New
York?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19
UNPROFITABLE

Probably there is no more unproflt-
able employment on earth than that
Of counting the buttons down a wo-
mans back.-Galveston News.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19

And as for the senator at the head
of the Ballinger whitewash committee,
everybody Knute 'twould turn out as
it has.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19

II YOU will turn the printed standing
of the Pacific coast baseball league
upside down, Los Angeles and Vernon
are occupying a very satisfactory po-
sItion in the penndnt race.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19
PUBLIC LETTER BOX

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Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19
THEY'RE WHERE SHERMAN WAS

1t was in the Ozarks that they
nominated Vice President Sherman for
the presidency. but where In time are
the Ozarks ?-Washington Post.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19

The automobile trade is said to be
tagging but it will probably pick up
when mortgage loan money eases up
a bit.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19
MAKING THINGS HoMELIKE

"I4iar!" shouts a stronglunged west
erner to the ex-president. Nothing like
trying to make the colonel feel at
home-CIeveland Plain Dealer.
Western man has offered to marry
Carrie Nation. The Nobel peace prize
for 1910 is thus early disposed OF, pro-
vided she takes him.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Some day a genius will arise and
make a fortune by harnessing the en-
ergy now wasted on the average salt
shaker.-Atchison Globe.
"Chickens may be kept nine months,
says DIR. Wiley. Much depends on the
character of the neighborhood.-Toledo
Blade.
The cause of the high price of living
appears to depend wholly upon ones
political convictions.-Chicag Record
Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19

. On all matters pertaining to advertising
address Charles r. Gates, advertising man.
ager. S
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-11-20
MARSHALL COMING
FOR CHESS MATCHES
Champion of America viii
Be in Washington to
Meet Players.

Frank J. Marshall. chess champion OF
America, all come TO Washington next
Sunday and remain for three days. dur
ing which he Will meet ire members Of
the Chess AMI Whist Club, and the Dc
partTental Chess League
The coming Of Marshall viii be the
biggest event OF the year IN chess cir
clss here Already a number OF the
leading players OF this city have an
nOunced their intention OF playing
against the master. and IN addition
there viii be many other members OF
The two organizations who viii be on
hand to watch the style OF play Of the
champion
The United Statets champion viii have
as travelling companion 2. Nicholson,
the Danish expert, who in 1893 won the
Western championship, and has also
been champion Of Chicago and Kansas
city. The players OF washington thus
vii have an opportunity OF meeting an
other players OF the fIrst rank. although
Marshall viii give al of the exhibitions
Of simultaneous play.
Prizes viii be awarded to al having
sufficient courage to take {. board
against the master.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-11-20
A Good Selection.

The selection Of MOriaTity OF the De-
trOit team as the leading claimant for
third base honors In the American
League is all to the good Washington
fans recall how he has taken the hot
smashes from kid" EIberfeld, Unglaub
and Others almost hot OF the bat,
turned base hits into outs and played
the position on hard hit grounders as
did no other third sacker in the Ameri-
can League Barry Of the White EIe-
pha2ts." who gained much in the
worlds series. did not show IN MOri-
3r1tyS class during the season and
when the battle for the royal hOnors
With the "CCbs'' was about to begin,
the friends of the American League
shiye-ed with fear for the weak spot, -
as the termed Barry And they were
agTee1bly disappointed
o. c0arse you have noticed how these
weak spots develop into towers OF
strength In times Of great emergency.
It was none other than Claude Ross
man. the first baseman of the De-
troits, who was expected to fall all
over himself in the game with the
this same ROSsman who blossOmed out
in the full statue Of manhood and play
erhood, and came through that disas-
trOus series with all the honors, while
the giants. Cobb and Crawford were
made TO look like selling platers.
So, too, when Detroit and PittSourg
clasiCd. Wagner outhft Cobb by a large
majority, but Jim Delehanty, ''Pop-up
jim" as the local fans tantalizingly
called him, made the record Of the
heaviest hitter Of the two teams
And in the last series the great King
was eclipsed, not partially but fully
bv Archer, while Lapp, the Athletics
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-11-20

At the baseball meeting in Chicago
last week, St Louis offered GriEgs to
Cleveland for an outfielder-
T K.