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Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14

siderable correspondence, and this
morning brings me a letter, part of
which may interest your readers.
know the man as an orderly and good
citizen, but, coming to this country
without a trade, he had for a long
time a desperate struggle in the search
for work. He writes me the follow
ing, and I believe you will see that his
language is that of an educated man:
"Time after time, all over the land,
have / been arrested for the crime of
being broke (vagrancy being the legal
term), and as often have I watched
the faces of clean-minded young fell
lose their clean-cut appearance and
take on the hardest OF the semblance
of things with which John Law sur
rounded them. often has my own
thought paralleled the statement that
well might the guardians of the law
change places with those they guard.
"Grim humor is often found in the
proximity of our schools to the city
jails. Often the songs of liberty and
patriotism taught to the innocent,
trusting children float out to the MEM
bers of the chain gang, or to impris-
oned derelicts whose liberty is being
taken away from them, whose time Is
being stolen, and surely whose patri-
otto citizenship is receiving a shock
from which it can never fully recover.
know"
The letter struck me as suggestive
and perhaps worthy of reproduction
in your paper H. X. SEXTON.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14
LAND SWINDLES

n NE of the most cruel land swindles
of modern times has been sue
" cessfully accomplished in Nevada.
Fifty German-American farmers were
induced to invest their savings in a
treeless desert, which had been de-
scribed to them as a paradise by
swindling colonization agents in San
injured legitimate business, and have
sometimes made it difficult or even i'm
possible for bona flde companies to
transact business in the east.
For this reason, as we'll as others, it
is greatly to the interest of all citizens
of western states to bring about con-
ditions which will make it impossible
for the land grafters to fleece any more
victims.
There are many obvious ways of do
ing away with the risk TO which blind
buyers" are subjected
The country at large should be
warned not 10 trust any sale which
has not been 20 K'd" by a responsible
governmental agent or official. A little
foresight and supervision exercised in
order TO make all kinds and varieties
and methods Of land swindling abso-
lutely impossible would be Of the
business men and good citizens who,
fortunately, are in the overwhelming
majority in our western country
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14
FOOD REFORM

MI ANUFACTURERS and jobbers
WI are now advertising goods that
-A'A are warranted not to contain
benzoate of soda, and big advertisers
are beginning to make a specially of
notices guaranteeing the purity OF
food. Within recent years a great food
reform in the United States has been
well begun, and if people in many
instances are not as well paid as they
used to he, they are at any rate get
ting more nearly their moneys worth.
The elimination OF cheap limitations of
food products and Of substitutes is
one Of the most laudable features of
modern civilization.
The pure-food law is being enforced
and we believe the good effects Of it's
enforcement are i'm evidence. The
national health will be improved
greatly and the national efficiency will
be increased by the use of pure food
AS nation, we may thank our lucky
stars that some of the fragrant evils
that were menacing the vitality of the
Republic are being amended The food
reform was OF the highest Importance
If it can be supplemented by a re-
form of the conditions that produce
disease, especially those responsible for
tuberculosis, the nation literally will
take a new lease of life,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14

gentlemen" born in the purple, loses
his wealth, as often happens, on
what, then, will he maintain his stand
ing as gentleman. Fate is full Of
queer freaks, and 1t will not always do
to Judge d man by the clothes he
wears; they may not be his. Some of
these gentlemen" counterfeit million
aires and others of their ilk, live on the
installment plan, and sifted to the bot
tom are in a similar situation to a
young man who was sitting at table
with some ladies and ordering some
champagne, when his tailor, whom he
owed for the clothes he had on, came
in and saluted him with the query:
WHAT drinking champagne when
your clothes are not paid for?" The
young man, who was beyond the
reach of shame. replied, Don't you
worry, this champagne won't be paid
for, either" If this "lady" and "gen-
tleman" are not satisfied to live where
they are burdened with the sight Of
the '1ow, vulgar class who actually
have to labor for the necessities with
out which none of us, regardless of
station, can exist, and where all men
are said to be created free and
equal" no one can prevent them from
going across the big pond. and purr
chasing their badges" in the mart of
titles (of the Boni de Castellane or De
Sagan or Marlborough type). They
might find a Crusoes island some
where and live to themselves and go
out in their yachts and ride gai.y
over the sunlit pillows" away from the
maddening throng.
READER.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14

TT is not an encouraging sign of the
times to see such men as'Governor
Il Hughes of New York insisting
that the claims of their private in
terests compel retirement to private
life.
In these days when it is difficult to
induce a man of the Hughes type TO
go into public life because of the
financial sacrifice involved, it is all
the more necessary to hold on to such
men. once they do consent to take up
the cares and hardships of public office.
There is, moreover, something de-
fective or lacking in a social and po-
litical system that makes such con-
dition not only possible, but quite
likely.
Undoubtedly the American propen-
sity for making our talents count for
our own advantage first is at the
foundation of the condition we note
with regret and with some alarm.
This very habit of looking out be-
yond our environment to something
larger and more profitable usually is
doubtless the cause at once of our
wonderful progress and of our lack of
continuity which has become well nigh
a national characteristic.
Often the man who happens to get
into office sees that, no matter how
he strives to perform loyalty and to
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14
EDUCATION

TN his book on 1.-THE Privileged
Glasses" Barrett Wendell wrote:
Il "Of all educational superstitions
we may freely admit none is more in
stantly apparent than that which wor-
ships the classics and mathematics as
idols. And yet the newer educational
superstition which bows the knee to
pedagogics is beginning to seem more
mischievously idolatrous still. For be-
hind the dethroned idols there was an
orthodox truth, not yet discernible be-
hind the new; and the education which
resulted from the elder system had
virtue which must somehow be re-
vived, if the new is to justify the mag
nificent and generous faith of still
youthful America. No education can
serve much purpose in preparation for
the perplexing diversities of practical
life unless throughout the years of
youthful flexibility it deliberately and
persistently train that faculty of vol
untary attention which only in ma
turity should be suffered to range
among the matters of its choice or of
its incidental duty. Any education, on
the other hand, which does this work
is a priceless boon, not only to those
who have won it, but to the country
Of which they are citizens. The in
stinct of our people is right after all.
To check the growth Of privilege, high
and low, and to avert the danger of
revolution, popular education, properly
directed, probably can help us more
than anything else"
Yes. especially if in that popular ed
ucation should be included a thorough
training in democratic Americanism,
the first principles of which declare
the truths that all men are created
equal that thew are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable
rights, that among these are life, lib
erty and the pursuit Of happiness.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14
Heroine WIZ Be HOnOred
BY Monument at Bismarck
Chicago Record HeraldD

m HE women of North Dakota are
about TO erect n monument in
II front of the capitol building at
Bismarck in honor Of SacaJawea CBlru-
woman), the Shoshone guide of Lewis
and Clark across the Rocky mountains
in 1904. There is already a beautiful
statue of this heroine in the park at
Portland, Ore, made by Chicago
woman artist, with funds raised
through the efforts of Mrs. Eva Emery
Dye and others at the time of the
Portland exposition. But SacajaWea is
entitled to all the honors that can be
paid her.
The new statue for Bismarck was
designed by Leonard Crunelle, and the
CLAW model is now in the studio or
Frederick c. Hibbard, 1923 East SiXtieth
street, Chicago, 1t is Of heroic size,
nine feet tall, and depicts an Indian
woman mufhed in blanket, with a
papoose upon her back, and her right
arm extended as if pointing out the
way.
The money to pay for the statue was
raised by the Federation of Women'5
clubs in North Dakota and by the
school children of that state. The
reasons why the women and children
should erect a statue to Sacajawea are
given in laconic terms in a little cir
cular published by the Women's feder-
alton:
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14
Country Suffers Because
Men of Ability Don t SERGE
(san Francisco News)

the very best of his ability the work of
his office, there is always an active
watchful interest in opposition seek
ing to profit by mistakes, which may
not be avoided, to confound and de-
feat the administration.
Thus is the struggle endless and
hard, and often improbable, from any
personal point of view apart from the
satisfaction derived from the conscious
ness of duty performed to the best of
ones ability.
What is worse, the political ma
chine. and we know it, in city, state
and nation, is we'll organized and is
usually prepared to force the fighting.
In this respect it has a decisive adj
vantage over the forces of good gov
eminent, which are rarely cohesive and
often quite the contrary.
The independence and the individual
initiative that make for political in
tegrty and for civic order and decency
often aid in the defeat of their aim
because of the uncompromising nature
of these qualities.
1t has been the experience of every
one who has ever undertaken to live
up to the trying demands of a reform
office that the support which should be
given ungrudgingly by those who
elected him is often withheld, or if
given at all, given negatively or
weighted down with reservations.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14
OBJECTS TO COUNTY PAYING
PREMIUMS ON INSURANCE

LOS ANGELES, March 1O.-[Editor
Herald: l arise to a point of business
judgment. Why does our board of
supervisors insure county property?
From a news item in The Herald of
yesterday / noticed that a burden of
insurance premiums IN a half millions
valuation of county property is to be
put on the taxpayers of this county.
If Los Angeles county, with its hun
dreds of millions of assets, is not able
to insure its property, l would like to
know how an insurance company, or
several of them, with only fraction of
the security represented by the coun-
ty of Los Angeles can? The United
States does not. Why? Because 1t
builds carefully, does away with a
large percentage of risk, and saves
millions thereby. Suppose govern
ment, state, a county or city build
ing should be dstroyed by fire, each
could replace it better and quicker
than any insurance company in ex-
istence.
The writer believes in insurance by
private parties, who may not be able
to rebuild in the event of loss by fire,
without the aid extended to them by
solvent insurance companies. Resi-
dences, stores, machinery, private
goods in transit, should be insured. A
city, a county, a state, a nation can
replace property for the premiums paid
to insurance companies and have a
surplus left for a sinking fund to meet
bonded Indebtedness as it comes due.
Insurance companies are in the bust
ness for profit, but taxpayers should
not be called upon to pay toll, simply
to swell the dividends of the insurance
companies, which will be the case if
the board of supervisors persists in
taking out insurance on county prop
erty.. A REGISTERED VOTER.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14
INCONSISTENT RATES

A CCORDING to a well known Los
IN Angeles merchant, who has been
IA making a close study of economic
questions, the Standard Oil trust is re-
sponsble for more than Its own short
comings, inasmuch as its methods have
produced a swarm of lmltators. In
combination with business concerns of
the inscriptions type, railroads work
TO extract from the public greater re-
turns than they have a right 10 exact
or expect.
The railroads are making n rate of
so cents a hundred on the sugar trusts
sugar from California points to the
Missouri river Published testimony
shows it costs the railroads from SO to
GS cents per 100 pounds to haul that
freight, while they are hauling it for
the trust for so cents. Why should
the railroad company transport tho
trusts sugar for far less than what
ought to be charged. ana charge Cali
fornia producers Of citrus fruits twice
what they can afford to haul fruit for?
The trusts and the railroads between
them are doing their best to squeeze
the industrial life-blood out of the
United States. Nothing is more ur-
gently demanded than Che development
of waterways and the completion of
good roads over which motor cars may
haul freight. With waterways and
roadways shippers may become indie
pendent of railways
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14

/. Sacajawea was the first North
Dakotan whose name was enrolled on
the pages of history.
3 1t is proper that we mark historic
spots in our young and rising common
wealth.
8. Sacajawea was tho only woman
to accompany the Lewis and Clark
expedition.
A. She was their guide and inter-
prefer.
S. She protected them when threat
ened by hostile Indians.
6. She procured for them food and
horses when they were destitute Of
both
7. She saved their journals and val
liable papers at the risk of her own
life.
8. she was the only one of the party
who received no pecuniary compensa-
ton for her services.
9. While enduring hardships and
suffering she administered to the ne
cessities of others.
10. She welcomed with intelligent
appreciation the civilization of the
white race, and was the first Indian
west of the Missouri river known to
embrace Christianity.
II. She was the first pioneer mother
to cross the Rocky mountains and
carry her baby into the oregon coun-
try
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14
coLoNIsTs

OLONISTS are being brought to
Los Angeles in trainloads. The
~ pioneers who Travelled to Califor-
MIA overland, enduring terrific hard
ships, or made the weary voyage
around the Horn. encountering buffet
ing seas, would not have believed a
prophet if he had told them the day
would come when citizens would he
brought across the continent speedily
and comfortably. Still less would he
have believed the prophet had he an
nouncced the coming of day when
the transcontinental trip would be
brought within reach of poor mans
purse.
Colonists are ambitious, energetic,
thrifty and enterprising. As a rule
they get and give a square deal. BY
benevolent assimilation they become
Californians in a remarkably short
time, and talk California" with all
the ease and enthusiasm of old settlers
or native sons.
Industrial and economic conditions
are such that we may expect another
great westward movement. In the older
states the quarrel between labor and
capital is reaching an acute stage. 1t
does not seem possible any longer to
guarantee industrial peace for more
than year at time.
Many honest, Woodworking men
of old American stock are Disguised
with conditions produced by the
practice of hiring southern Euro
pean workmen in competition with
them. Most of them would gladly
exchange a life of sordid toll and
deprivation for one of healthy
outdoor activity and opportunity.
California is still in an early stage of
development. Good men are needed.
Many eastern workmen are making up
their minds they have had enough in
dustrial trouble. They are willing to
journey westward and leave the sui
phurous and smok,- regions to the
Czechs and the Huns. These Americans
are beginning to come to California in
greater and greater numbers. They
should be welcomed and everything
possible should be done to help them
take up good land and settle comfort
ably in desirable neighborhoods. Uni
versities and schools should extend
their great work of teaching agricul-
ture. our eolonists should be taught
how to use intensive methods of cult
walton.
The correct solution of the problem
of competition with oriental farming
is to teach our farmers to outfarm the
orientals. White mems farming, both
in the United Kingdom and in the
United States, is remarkable for ex-
travagant waste. For generations the
white farmer has neglected the fact
that small values in the aggregate
make up large values. In a thousand
acre farm a certain generous mar
gin may be allowable. but the
prosperity of the white mans Cali
fornia will depend far more on
the white mans ability to farm
ten acres than his ambition to farm a
thousand. With irrigation and inten-
sive cultivation, Southern California
Cdu SuppOil d pppuldlioli So vast llldl
our present population does not by
comparison amount numerically to a
corporals guard alongside of 1t. South
ern California is as far from being
overcrowded as from being over
cultivated. There is plenty of room for
more workers, and the productivity of
our southern part of the finest state
in the Union can be increased many
times over.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14
SUGGESTS LIFE ON AN ISLAND
FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

SANTA ANA, March 4.-LEditor
Herald; With your permission 1 will
endeavor to reply to the parties who,
when writing on the cause of the high
cost of living, proceed to draw such
fine determinations between a gen
tleman" and a workingman, and sign
their articles with the titles of "A
Gentleman" and "a Lady" Now, !
expect the same party wrote both
those letters, as the aforesaid "lady''
comes SO promptly to the defense of
the aforesaid gentleman" and both
letters classify the human beings who
inhabit this country as the aristocracy,
and the people of "coarser material"
in a way which savors of toadyism to
the monarchies of the old world.
The lady seems to think it very
presumptuous that a producer of the
necessaries and luxuries both should
dare to think of partaking of the
products of their own hands. l should
like for these aristocrats to explain
why the Creator of the universe en-
dowed us all with two paws" If not
to each do our share of the work nee
essary to provide for His creatures
Indeed, does not the Bible say, III any
man will not work. neither shall he
eat?
Did this 'lady" or gentleman" ever
read of the queen who on being told
that her people were crying for bread,
replied, "Why don't they eat cake?"
If so, they must know who produce
cake or bread either are apt to eat
some of both, whether the aristocracy
approve. of it or not. "Who labors for
his bread its sweetness knows" but
such ladies' as Anna Gould, and such
gentlemen" as Harry K. Thaw may
not be satisfied with both bread and
cake If not, that need not keep us
who do work from knowing the sweet
ness of our bread.
Again, let me quote from the poet:
''Whom shall we call our heroes?
To whom our praises sing?
The pampered child of fortune,
The titled lord king?
They live by others labor,
Take all, and nothing give;
The noblest types OF manhood
Are those who work to live.
'NVho spans the earth with iron?
Who rears the palace dome?
who fashions for the rich man
The comforts of his hmoe?
It is the patient toiler.
All honor to him. thenl
The true wealth Of nation
Is in her wor<ingmen."
One of the noblest men that United
States ever produced said Labor is
prior to, and independent of capital"
BY this aristocratic form of reason
ing, followed to its logical conclusion,
this man / speak of might have split
rails during the term of his natural
life and should have never aspired to
anything higher. But fate had or
dained it otherwise. If one of these
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14

A CONTINUOUS record of progress
u and prosperity is the history of
"A Greater Los Angeles. 1t is en-
couragng to optimism.
Absolute confidence in the ability to
achieve is one of the causes of the sue
cess of the Los Angeles way This
confidence inspires action, and pract-
cally makes Los Angeles undertakings
successful from the very minute Of
their inception.
In the two weeks ending Saturday
the banks reported clearings amount
ing to S34,755 1872. This was the high
est two weeks record in the history
of Los Angeles. The total for the
corresponding period of last year was
exceeded by s4,S15O92. Each days
gain but one as compared with the
corresponding date of last year ex-
ceeded 100000. On one day, however,
the gain was nearly $1,500,000.
Prosperity is reflected in building ac-
tivity. In the first eleven days Of
March, compared with the correspond
ing period of last year, the gain in
building valuations amounted to 1884,
557: and in the number Of permits, 1888.
The progress of Los Angeles is
steady and is absolutely normal and
dependable. There are no eccentric
"neighborhood booms.' The great city
Is being expanded in every direction,
and its destiny as the metropolis Of
the west, the New York OF the Pacific,
is indicated by many unmistakable
signs.
Los Angeles way is illustrated con-
stantly by a vast population of happy
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14
AT THE THEATERS

AUDTT0RIUM-The Passion Play.
BELASCO-'What Happened 10 Jones"
BURBANK-"Sweet Kitty Bellairs."
GRAND-"The Girl from Paris"
Los ANGELES-Vaudevill
MAJESTIC-"The Right of Way"
OLYMPIC-Musical farce.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
PRINCESS-Musical farce.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14
CHARITABLE

1t is said OF the author of a volume
of biography that his verict on the
great OF his chosen period is much that
of the New Hampshire parson at the
highly approved funeral of parish
Toner: Brethren, we must agree that
our deceased friend was mean in some
things, but let us in Christian charity
allow that he was meaner in Others"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14
loyal. enthusiastic citizens-the finest
people in the world.

In spite of esteemed contemporaries
the Paget boys who are working in
tine freight offices of an American rail-
road are not "scions of nobility" They
are the sons of Sir Arthur and Lady
Paget. A "sir" is not a "nobleman."
(Not that it matters; but we might
as we'll be correctly
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14

Another grand old man will cele-
brate his one hundredth birthday an
niversary at the soldiers home. Peo-
rle of seventy and eighty are sprightly
youths in Southern California. They
cannot be regarded as aged" until
they have passed the ninetieth birth
L..
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14

Golf is gaining such a hold on the
affections of the people of Southern
California that they may yet be in
duced, for friendships sake, to give
the word it's correct pronunciation,
which is "GOWFF."
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14

Russian minister of Justice refuses
to allow woman lawyers to practice
in the cars dominions. One of these
days the Russian cars dominions
will be the Russian peoples domin-
ions and then everything will be diff
ferent."
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14
COMMENTS ON PROXIMITY OF
JAILS TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

PASADENA, March 7.--GEditor Her
add: The discussion of crime and its
causes which has been going on in
your columns has involved me in con-
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENT intended
for publication must be accompanied By the
name aud address of the writer. The Herald
gives the widest latitude to correspondents,
but assumes no responsibility for their StsWA
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14

Many new business enterprises are
being started in Greater Los Angeles
Many new interpretations bear witness
to the prevalent healthy business ac-
tivftV
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14

on all matters pertaining TO advertising
address Charles r. Gates, advertising man.
ager.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14

Population of Los Angeles 327, 685
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14
LOS ANGELES WAY

CONTINUOUS record of progress
and prosperity is the history of
\ Greater Los Angeles. 1t is en-