Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-27
REFORM DEMANDED


CONSCIENTIOUS, honest upright
and outspokeh. President Works
aeeusatory address to the council
has the weight of an indictment No
citizen who heard or read the words
of this excellent public servant and
former member of the judiciary can
doubt there is urgent occasion for in
curry, and. if the evils of which he
has been informed should be found to
be in virulent existence, for action.
Judge Works is a good citizen. He is
a man who forms his own opinions, and
he has the courage of his own opinions.
What we have said on a former occa-
sion. we repeat He is by far the best
known nationally of all the citizens of
Los Angeles. His writings and his ut
teranees are quoted and carry weight
in Boston and New York as well as in
Los Angeles.
He is a student of municipal prob
lens and an expert on municipal gov
eminent. He has made a study of the
municipal systems of the United States.
and it is natural he should be unusually
interested in the progress and devel-
opment of municipal government in the
city where he has his home. His judi
cial training and experience make his
opinions especially and extremely val
liable. He is competent to weigh and
determine the merit of evidence. He is
skilled in discriminating between truth
and the half truth which is often more
dangerous than falsehood. He does not
wish the municipal government of Los
Angeles to be so weak in spots it may
be cited ASIAN example of a half truth.
Judge Works wishes to have the truth
fully and completely demonstrated in
Greater Los Angeles. He demands the
truth. the whole truth and nothing but
the truth in every branch of the public
service.
1t is hard to express in words the
measure of the ardent sympathy with
him in his efforts that has been
aroused among the good men and true
who wish to see Greater Los Angeles
also positively. indispt ably and per-
n1anently Better Los Angeles" cost
what it may.
Judge Works charges have been
given in detail in the columns of this
paper and are being pondered carefully
by many citizens, who are anxious that
Los Angeles should have the best that
may be had in men and measures. and
believe it is the undoubted duty of all
who are pledged to the cause of Good
Government to give the city good gov
eminent not only at large, but in jot
and little. article and particle. The
work must be thorough.
The honorable president of the city
council has made the charge political
rottenness exists in the street depart
ment: that the foremen are mere po-
litical henchmen, who hire men be-
cause of their political value and not
because of their efficiency. He has I
made the charge various real estate
firms have been detected engaged in
the nefarious business of procuring
frontage consent for would-be saloon
keepers, charging for this service
which is nothing short OF rank, black
treason to the public ''fee" of $1,000.
He has asserted and charged certain
members of the library board have
neglected their duties shamefully, alb
senting themselves from meetings for
months at time. He has made the
charge city officials and employees il
legally use railway passes; that city
officials and employees violate the pro-
visions of the city charter by accept
ing these passes, and that the railway
franchises are void because the consid-
GRAFTON OF granting passes to certain
officials and employees of the city in
payment of these franchises is a void
consideration under the charter.
And, as final measure in a
campaign for better Los Angeles,
Judge Works proposes that mas
much as the persons RESPONSE
BILE for the billboard horrors COM
planned of by The Herald cannot be in
terfered with or disciplined by ordi-
nary means, they should be excluded
from public patronage if they continue
deaf to remonstrances.