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Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

the knights is to agitate and educate
the toiling masses in a way that Will
enable them to exercise the right OF
suffrage in an intelligent manner AT
least thirty minutes in each meeting
must be occupied in discussing the
question of intelligent voting. In the
trade unions politics were tabooed
until lately, when the confederated
trades unions resolved to vote for the
party through which they would be
most likely to secure legislation more
favorable to the working classes. The
last election was the first opportunity
they had to exercise their judgment
according to the decisions of their or
ders. The workingmen have learned
by experience that the leaders Of the
Republican party are their enemies,
and all of the judges of the courts are
their enemies, and all of the women
of the churches except the Catholic
are their enemies, and all of the Young
Mems Christian associations are their
enemies consequently the labor or
ganizations have resolved to either
form a new party or join the party
they think will be most favorable to
them AS Bryan was the first cham
pion of the rights of the toiling masses
the last election has recorded large
gains for his party, and any editor that
can't understand the situation and
realize the principal factor for the
voters deserting the Republican ranks
can't be thoroughly posted.
CHARLES w. PRATT.
Westgate, Cal
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17
Offending the Eye
tspringfield Republican,


as destructive to nerve tissue as the
shrek of locomotive whistles. 1t was
bad enough before the use of illumi-
mated signs began; now the once peace
full night is worse than the day. A
blight flashing light automatically at
tracts the eye, and the contrast with
darkness. makes it's effect the more in
tense. Moreover, we are all creatures
of a reading habit-to see print any
where, at any time, is to try to spell 1t
out. The advertiser Is turning to his
own private profit not only the forces
that bring vast multitudes together,
but the enormous expenditures on pro-
longed education which make the aver
age man an easy victim to anything
put into print. 1t is not surprising that
the question should already be raised
whether he has any natural right thus
to lombard the already overstrained
visual nerves of urban society. To be
sure. he keeps on his own land, but
he generates and protects rays Of light
which are none the less real for being
merely undulations of ether. The log
ical thing would be to let him make
all the light he wants, provided he does
not let it escape from his own prem
ises, and If the evil grows past endur-
ance, some such radical measure may
be necessary.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17
CONSOLIDATION

n HE movement for consolidation of
city and county governments has
II been given a gratifying forward
push by the appointment of a special
commission by Mayor Alexander, whose
selections could hardly have been made
with more wisdom. There is abundant
legal and lay ability, as well as proven
aggressive public spirit, in this body
that inspires confidence that it will
work out a feasible plan to bring
about an important reform, and will
perform It's duties without unnecessary
delay.
The arguments for the union are so
many that the commission will be al
most relieved of any work in that di-
rection. The economy of a single gov
ernment, the need of our aqueduct wa
ter and power in the growing COM
munities around us, either now or in
the future, the sentiment involved in
the increased prestige that will come
to them by merger, and the material
benefits that go with our broader city
charter ought to overbalance any paro-
chial objections that can be raised.
The matter of pride will cut some fig
ure Pasadena and other cities of
growing Importance may hesitate to
give up entity and identity. and fear
to surrender self-government to a dis
tant central authority. But the Pasa-
dena Civic association has already de-
clared for the union If some satisfac-
tory form OF autonomy can be pre-
served to them, and there ought not to
be much difficulty in arranging for this.
New York worked out this problem
to the satisfaction of the boroughs COM
posing the greater city, and 1t should
be possible to do the same here, either
along the same lines or after some orig
inal plan which the able commission is
well fitted to think out. If Brooklyn has
lost none Of its identity by union with
Manhattan, Pasadena and Long Beach
can see in it an example of great bene-
fits with no considerable disadvantage
in consolidation.
If the plan can be worked out, with
all the gain to every town concerned
tnaI seems 10 lDner6 IN II, II ITODdDly
will be the crowning achievement of
the Good Government administration.
Under no other would there be a seri-
Gus chance for it. Under machine poll
tics more offices and not fewer are
wanted In order to take care of the
party workers out Of the tax money.
And it may also be said with confidence
that under the old regime the towns
it is now proposed to invite into our
fold would not consider for many mo-
ments a scheme to give UP good for
bad government and to be exploited by
professional politicians and office hold
ers.
The initiative. referendum and recall
are the guarantee to these other COM
munities. and from the more local
standpoint it is to be hoped the plan
will go through, because it would be
apt to help insure the continuance of
a non-partisan, business administration
Of the city and county.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

(Springfeld
The drift of civilization is toward
suppressing useless city noises, and as
with odors the reform is rational even
though based on an instructive repug-
nance. And no less reasonable VIII be
the movement for giving relief to the
optic nerve which has already begun
and which will sooner or later decisive
ly win the day. Now that the part
played by eye strain in nervous de-
generation Is understood, there is
sound basis for reform measures; 1t Is
probable that the excessive demand
upon vision is more injurious to city
dwellers than even the most pande-
moniac noise. Man was made for out
of-door life among the woods and
fields, and while his organs have Won
derful powers of accommodation, there
are limits. The worker who strains MS
ewes all day at a desk, perhaps with
Inadequate daylight or with an equally
harmful glare from too intense elec-
trict light, needs repose and soothing
Influences when he leaves his work
Much of the familiar restfulness OF
country retreat is due simply TO the IN
slant release from eye strain.
In a modern city, on the otner mana;
the optic nerve is incessantly bothered
with appeals which, though silent, are
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17
HARM IN LAND SPECULATION

Editor Herald: L see where another
small patch of earth has been watered
to the tune of $12,500 in your city with
out any real improvement having been
added to it.
This means that the chances of the
common man getting a home is getting
farther away. 1t means that the con-
suming public is to be taxed a little
more in order that some one may be
able to do business on that lot, but it
means that Socialism is coming that
much nearer.
was talking with a man on Main
street, near First, some time ago about
his chances of business in that loca-
ton He said the rent he had to pay
was such that he could not make a
decent living from his store. In con-
Versation with men who had come to
Los Angeles with the expectation of
going into business, 1 was told that
the prices asked them for business
rooms was out of reach, and that they
would have to give up their prospects
there and seek other fields.
Fictitious prices on ground privileges
were never intended by God Almighty,
and those who bring it about are guilty
of SHINING, not only against their fell
low man, but against their Creator as
well.
In our city there are many vacant
lots, right In the heart or the town,
and with rubbish and weeds on them
to spoil the looks of the place, that are
being held for a fictitious valuation;
and the same is true in Los Angeles
as well.
My claim is, and I see the plan has
been adopted in some foreign country,
to tax such lots just as If they had
buildings on them, and by this means
force their owner either to build on
them or sell them to some one who
would ONTARIO.
IN taI
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17
A RASH CHAMPION
w E find the following extract Of
w sublimated wisdom in the es-
teemed Ventura Democrat.

w E find the following extract Of
w sublimated wisdom in the es-
teemed Ventura Democrat.
BY dint of the mastery efforts
of the Los Angeles Herald and Los
Angeles Express to defeat Fred
ericks and elect Woolwine district
attorney of Los Angeles county, the
former was elected by a rousing
majority
The district attorneys Ventura
champion is more valiant than dis
Greet. At a time when the attorney
for John Gales is trying to forget it"
and promises to turn over a new leaf
if left to his own meditauons, the
champion forces us to say that the
revelations made by The Herald and
other papers did have tremendous ef-
feet in the campaign.
The Herald has already shown that
as near as it can be figured the normal
Republican plurality in Los Angeles
county was 24,263. While some of the
candidates were getting that indorse-
ment, Fredericks was receiving the
"rousing majority" of a scant 2000-or
about $4,000 behind the normal Mr..
Hartwell, the coroner, who is probably
also a subject for the Ventura papers
commiseration, was about 2O,5OO behind
what he should have been.
Nothing saved these candidates but
the large Socialist vote and the diff
cult matter of cutting the ticket. The
Independent, thinking, reading vote,
which The Herald is pleased to believe
makes up the greater part of its Glen
tele, was overwhelmingly against them.
Bad officials will have even a harder
row to how when the party circle is
abolished and the ballot shortened as
they will be by the next legislature;
and the Ventura Democrat and other
thick-and-th party organs will be
unhappier than ever.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

The California development board Is
a very valuable aid to immiLration TO
this state. During October it has had
display advertisements OF the aoVan-
tages of this favored land in forty-one
eastern rural papers, has had advertls-
ing matter at an exhibition in Cincin-
natl and will have ap exhibit Of prod
ucts and lectures on California re-
sources at the Land and Irrigation ex-
position in Chicago during the last half
of the present month. At both these
places men are placed to answer in
ouiries about this state and they are
so we'll informed as to be able TO an
swer fully and readily all questions.
These exhibits and the advertising
literature accompanying them are the
most effective form of advertising. A
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17
CHANCE FOR A WIDOW

Editor Herald: l have read with
amusement the letters in which the SIS
young lady and the 81 young man are
the stars. I loaned young man once
the money to buy the license and
bought the young lady a pair of white
slippers and hose to wear at her we'd
ding. 1t turned out all right, and
today they are worth, 1 guess, ten
or twelve thousand dollars. The old
SAYING, Love will find a way" is true
enough if the parties start out with
the right intentions. I am widower,
A years of age, been through the mill
and willing to try it again If some
comey maiden or good Christian
widow will come to the rescue, for
I'm bashful and stranger. My ad-
vice to young people is marry early
in life and raise a nice Iamily. There
will always be enough bread in the
world to feed them. Good luck to the
young couple. ]. 0. ARTHUR.
Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17
TRADES uNloNIsT's VIEWS

Editor Herald: I notice that editors
in this country and in Europe are Civ
ing reasons for the Republicans in the
last election changing their votes to
some other party, but none of them
have discovered the principal reasons
for the increase in the Democratic
ranks. AS I have been a member OF
the knights of Labor and also of the
Carpenters and Joiners' Union of the
United States and Canada for the last
SO years, am well informed in regard
to the change of voting. The funda-
mental principle of the preamble of
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17
Merely in Jest
WHY HE DECEIVED

"How far is 1t to Gloompville?" we
ask of the native who is leaning over
the gate.
Ten mile straight ahead" he an
swers.
But we met a man a little way
back, and he said 1t was only two
miles"
"short, fat man, driving a flea-bitten
sorrel hoss?"
That's the man."
did you meet him or pass him?"
1--WE passed him."
Thought so. He's drivin' baker 1
traded him, and he didn't want his boss
to know how much furder he had to
Evening Post.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17
Advertising California
(stockton independently

Hubbard squash weighing nearly 100
pounds is certain to provoke questions
and the answers nre repeated a dozen
or a score of times by the hundreds
who hear them and thus the fame of
California spreads. California figs,
raisins, prunes, dried fruits and, in
short, every other fruit, vegetable or
product provokes like questions and
elicits information that Is spread
abroad by those who hear 1t. Prices of
land, cost of living and what crops can
be grown and the yield per acre are
fully gone into and the gospel of life in
California and it's many delights are
thus widely disseminated. Some OF
these exhibits and advertisings are
slow to bear fruit, but they bear it in
the most surprising ways, and San
Joaquin is getting share of it.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17
Los Angeles Wins and Deserves 1t
(San Francisco Call)

ISan tIdH
Los Angeles must be congratulated
on the astonishing growth Of popula-
tion within it's boundaries as recorded
by the federal census. All California
has known of the remarkable advances
made in that city during the decade,
but the estimates were in fact so
startling and so unprecedented that
some people were inclined to regard
them as more or less inspired by local
enthusiasm. Now comes the cold
blooded enumeration of the federal
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17
FAYORITE FICTION

"Yis, sor, Miss Jones will be down in
a minute"
"And now, my friends, a few words
about the tariff"
II wish I didn't have to make a
speech at the banquet tonight"
, "Araminta, darling, you're the first
girl l ever kissed"
"Whatl You owe me $500. Why,
Thompson, I'd forgotten it entirely"
"Glad you liked that little poem; I
wrote 1t in a great hurry"
1.-THE baby is your very image, Mrs.
Newmoml"
81 beg your pardon, madam; didn't
notice that you were standing up"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

est and most conclusive manner the
figures made at home.
With a population Of 3f9, 1913, show
ing a gain OF 211.5 per cent for the
decade, Los Angeles easily leads the
procession for growth and takes its
place among cities of the first rank.
They are a great people down there.
They not only command success but
deserve it. San Francisco extends to
Los Angeles her assurances of the
highest regard.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17
DYING WIT

A British newspaper, the Clapham
Observer, commenting on our state
ment that humor had no part in the
two great mortal acts of coming into
the world and departing from it, tells
a certain number of stories in limita-
ton Of this principle, the best Of which
concerns Tom Robertson and Artemus
Ward. The playwright was endeavor-
ing to persuade the dying humorist to
take his medicine, and assuring him
meantime that he would do anything
for him.
would you really, Tom7" said Ward.
"I would" was the reply.
"Then take the stuff yourself dear
fellow" said Ward.-Collier's
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

A Republican candidate for congress
having nearly been elected in Texas,
nothing would surprise us now; not
even if san Francisco should vote
unanimously for a respectable gov
ernment.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17
Far and Wide

SOMETHING OF A REDUCTION
1t isn't so much that The Hague tri-
bunal has scaled down the American
claims on Venezuela from 81, 400, 900 to
less than $4,000 that is important, as
that the trouble between the North and
a South American country has been
amicably adjusted without the firing of
a ashot.-Philadelphia Bulletin.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

Americans want nothing chear.
this is not a cheap country" Jim sher-
man told the South Carollnians. jim
is consistent. The patrons Of his
Utica ice trust are no. getting their
ice cheap,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

A San Bernardino man brought the
telephone company to time by threat
ening to shoot a lineman. Many peo-
pie are tempted at times to put
bullet into the telephone as a punitive
measure.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

son-in-law Nick Lcngworth, having
sent cook books to his constituentesses,
should now follow them up with some
suggestions as to how to bring the
recipes within reach of the ordinary
family.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS

In case We entertain man,
4 stranger of renown,
We've nothing more to offer than
The freedom of the town.
But when woman comes our way
And in upon us drops.
We hand her on a silver tray
The freedom OF the sha
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

Lillian Russell would not only give
the ballot to women, but take 1t away
from the men. If Lillian should take
it away from all her husbands she
would accomplish much toward her
reform,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

Texas has a Statewide Corn club
which was active in the recent cam
paign. Texas has claimed much for
her crops. but this is the first we've
heard of the corn that is a thousand
miles or so in width.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17
COMING AND GOrNa

While putting the lawn mower away
in the cellar you may as we'll bring up
the snow shovel, thus killing two birds
with one stone.-SiouX City Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17
AUTOS FOR ELECTION

Autos at So per hour make political
campaigning come high. The party is
in luck which has many members who
will loan their machines and so save
the party treasury.-Ftchburg Senti-
mel
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

If our English cousins were not re-
puted as not overmueh given to humor
we should suspect design i'll the choice
Of 23 as the date for Crippcns farewell.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

Another election in December. Los
Angeles is the only large city to hold
FIVE reform elections in year and
get away with them all
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

Congressman Bennet of New York
was licked, but he will retire with the
fame Of having been the man who
made San Francisco play pious to get
an exposition.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

No wonder so many men seek to be
aviators. The new aviation costumes
of the women would make any man
want to fly.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

Nothing appears to stand in the way,
the fruit canning and election being
over, of the women doing their Christ
mas shopping early.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

The charter amendment election next
month is trivial matter. The i'm
portant question is. who will manage
the Angels next year?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

Missouri voted down a prohibition
amendment by 100000 majority. This
should be sufficient to "show" it's ad-
VOcateS.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

Turkeys have gone down cents a
pound in New York, but there is hardly
time now to have one shipped from
the metropolis.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17
AND SENS ATIoNAL

Mary Garden says she is cerebral
purely and simly cerebral. We had
harbored the thought that Mary was
vocal.-Baltimore Sun.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17
HOPE sPR1NGs ETERNAL

While posing as 1.-The white mans
hope" Barney Oldfeld helped to turn
out some films that are now the hope
Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

If, as Philadelphia man says, Belle
Gilmore is in Chicago, her punishment
is almost as severe as that of her dis
tinguished husband.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

Lafayette Young, the new Iowa sem
ator, is a reactionary. In history he
will be known as the man who made
Dolliver more famous by comparison.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

The attention Of Mr.. Ballinger Is
called to the fact that the British cab
met talks of resiguing and asking the
voters for a vindication.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

New York's fashionable women have
taken to carrying dolls as a fad. 1t is
decidedly de trop. bas and so forth
in New York swelldom to touch a baby.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

1t would seem that a decent regard
for the amenities would impeI Mr.. Bal
Iinger to congratulate Mr. Pinchot for
his excellent campaign work in Cali
fornia.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

Democratic congressman are com
bining against Champ Clark as speak
er. Evidently Clark's name is not an
abbreviatlon for champion.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17
THE CONTEST

"All men," said the earnest citizen,
"are born equal"
"They are that" replied Mr. Raf-
ferty. "But they don't stay equal after
they're big enough to get together in
the school yard. d."-Washington STAR
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

The population Of Cincinnati, 364 463,
can be read backward as well as for
ward. But don't get the impression
that "Cincy" is in any way backward.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

Our advice is to watch the S. P. and
see that 1t does not absorb the aque-
duct and the federal building, too.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

Mr.. Taft arrived at Panama in good
health. After that election not even
a rough voyage could make him sea-
sick.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

Tacoma and other cities that padded
did it, like some of the women are
SAID to have done-to improve the
figure.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17
PUBLIC LETTER BOX


assumes bliy for
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

At last accounts King Diaz I had
issued no royal proclamation concern
ing the troubles on his side.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17
THAT MAxILLARY MovEMENr

Those woh inveigh against chewing
gum are informed thta the consump-
tion Of it is only 100000 pounds
year.-Knoxville Journal-Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17
COMPARING THE INvIsIR1

A biplane 5000 feet in the air simply
looks like two slices Of 40 cent bacon.
Denver Republican.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17
WHERE THE RI1LRs GROW

It Is estimated that electric illumina-
tion is used by about 100000 out of a
total of about. S,5OOO0O households in
the United States.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17
NOR INCoNvENIENT FOR HE

Sarah Bernhardt has triumphantly
shown that 1t is not a disgrace to be
60 years old.-Chicago Record Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

LANGUAGE NEEDS REVISION
Our idea of a misnomer is the pilot
Of a balloon.-Ohio State Journal
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN

Population of Los Angeles 319,198
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

On all matters pertaining to advertising
address Charles r. Gates advertising man
ager.