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Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-29
MORE HEARST FAKING

IN HE Hearst papers are giving an
other evidence of the faker spirit
Il which rules in all the journals
controlled by that prince of journal
istic takers, in the pretended crusade
which they are carrying on against
prize fighting in this country. AS long
as prize fighting was tolerated these
papers were content to use 1t for the
purpose of getting what miserable In
come they could out of the disreput-
able business. 1t was the boast of the
Hearst journals that they were repre-
sented at Reno by larger staff of
expert correspondents" than any
other newspaper in the United States.
That no incident of the brutal business
might be lost upon the public that it
serves in this town the local Hearst
organ rugged up ring in front of its
premises so that the brutality of the
ring at Reno might be reproduced for
the edihcation of the crowd that it
collected while the fight was in
progress.
Now that the American people have
all so-called sports and its death kneli
has been sounded, the Hearst papers
are endeavoring to get some advantage
out of that fact.
If the readers of the local Hearst
organ desire to gauge exactly the con-
sideration which that paper has for
the moral and material welfare of it's
readers let them turn to that page of
it's Sunday liner section which carries
the advertisements Of clairvoyants
and other fortune-telling takers. To
the credit of Los Angeles journalism
be it said every other paper in Los
Angeles refuses this kind Of advertis-
ing matter The Herald was besieged
with requests to take it until it be-
came fully understood that 1t would
not be taken at any price.
The Hearst paper, which is posing
as the leader in the opposition to prize
fighting, after it has reached its end
in this country and is a thing of the
past, is the only paper in Los Angeles
that will sell it's space TO a sort of
advertising which it's managers know
means that every cent that it attracts
from the people who read it is just so
much money flched from them under
false pretenses. The men who are re-
sponsible for the Hearst organ are too
intelligent not to know that this is so.
And vet, for the miserable dollars that
are paid them by these takers, they
continue to run advertisements which
have been repudiated and tabooed by
every other journal in the city.
The fortune-telling and fake medical
advertising Of the Hearst papers fur
nish the best possible standard by
which to gauge their real considera-
tion for the moral and material we'll
being of their readers.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-29
Conserving the Children

public school children. AS the state
assumes responsibility for the mental
training of it's boys and girls, it would
seem common sense that it should
guard and train them physically while
they are under its care. In any event
there is no justification for exposing
a healthy boy or girl to infection by
pl lcing a tuberculosis subject to it
day after uay. And why not save the
little one with incipient tuberculosis
In some cities these children are sent
to outdoor schools, where they are
protected by heavy, warm sitting bags
and are served with Good hot, nour-
ishing food at proper intervals. Every
boy or girl saved by such treatment
means saving to the community.
Every one neglected means a loss, a
charge.
A good, careful farmer Will give his
young lambs better care-but why talk
about the care given live stock on q
we'll regulated farm? Live stock has
a market value. Children? They are
almost always a nuisance, unless they
happen to be your own.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-29
WANTS BETTER PRIVILEGES
FOR BOYLE HEIGHTS PEOPLE

Editor Herald: see by The Her
aid that an agreement has been
reached by which the city and Street
car interests are to be mutually BEN
Gifted, .or which many are pleased,
Permit me to suggest a correction of
two unjust determinations. The Tenn
pie street and Angeleno Heights lines
are granted transfers to and from the
Los Angeles lines, but the Boyle
Heights line of the same company
(Brooklyn avenue) is denied this priv
ilege. Those lines were all begun at
about the same time under the same
management and called the BELT" line.
Why are the two lines running west
given this advantage? No good reason
can be given.
A person on any line running from
tn center of Pasadena out to it's linn
its can buy ticket on the car and
be transferred to the main line, but
those dependent on the Brooklyn ave-
nue. line going to Pasadena must pay
5 cents to get to the Pasadena line
and then pay full price to Pasadena.
Why this discrimination against a
part of Los Angeles? Some years ago
we of Boyle Heights could do the
same as Pasadenans; why was the
privilege taken away? If those Boyle
Heights people were not an unusually
peace-loving people they would rise en-
masse against those robberies Allow
me to suggest to the city council that
when the Pacific Electric company
applies for a franchise for the ex-
tension of the Brooklyn avenue line
as contemplated, they make it one of
the conditions that they grant imme-
diately the same privileges to Boyle
l. lights as are given Angeleno Heights,
Temple street and Pasadena. All we
ask is equality of privilege-a square
deal. ]. N. LISCOMB.
Lo Angeles, July 2S
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-29

machine that had Republican name
t. the machine that had n Democratic
name and two of the three Democratic
candidates for railroad commissioners
were elected, constituting a majority
of the board.
PEOPLES COMMISSION TRIES TO RE
DUCE FREIGHT RATES
In August, 1895, seven months after
taking Office, the commissioners
reached Zone would think with suf-
ficient deliberation) the important
matter of freight rates, and on Sep
TEMPER u and IS adopted two resolu-
tions, the first declaring a reduction
in grain rates of not 25 but 8 per cent,
and the other expressing an opinion
that all rates should be reduced, and
at some time the commissioners would
get to work and reduce them-perhaps
when the robins should nest again.
To this lame and impotent conclu-'
sion came the revolt of the grain
growers and the valorous resolve OF
the Democratic state convention.
But you should wait little; the
best is vet to come. This is very
famous case and tested to the utmost
the whole power of the regulatiVe
theory. If there ever were in the
United States railroad rates that
ought to be reduced, they were the
grain rates in California; and If there
ever could be anywhere a force able
by law and constitution to reduce such
rates, it was the California board OF
railroad commissioners.
Whatever rates that board might
decide upon (said the constitution of
the state) should be valid and "in all
controversies. civil or criminal tho
rates of fares and freights estab-
lished by said commission shall be
deemed conclusively just and reason
able.'
Note what happened.
THE REDUCTION Is ENJoNED
The railroad company went straight
way before JuCge Joseph McKenna,
then % the United States circuit court,
now of the United States supreme
court. and on October IA obtained
temporary injunction restraining the
commission from carrying out or en-
forcing the reduction it had declared.
OF course. The United States cir
cult court takes precedence over au-
thorities constituted by the state.
Soon after, the case came up again
on motion to continue the injunc-
tion and the issue was Joined. There
was a grand array of counsel-W. +.
Herrin. successor of "Bill" stowe as
chief solicitor and political manager
for the Southern Pacific former Judge
John CARRIER e. a. Pillsbury and
others for the distressed railroad COM
pany; Attorney General Fitzgerald,
former Judge r. Y. Hayne and others
for more than a year.
The plea of the company was that
1t was too poor to afford any reduc-
tion of rates and that the action of
the commissioners, unless prevented by
the court, would so injure the COM
pany and decrease its revenues that it
would amount 70 the confiscation of
property expressly prohibited by the
constitution of the United States of
America.
(To be concluded tomorrow.)
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-29
SCUTTLING THE SHIP

T HE progressives in Ohio are said
to be satisfied with the conces-
II sions made to them by the regu-
lars in the framing of the Republican
state platform. If that is so it shows
that not even the insurgents appreciate
in anything like full measure the waves
Of feeling that are sweeping over the
country. The regulars, so long out of
touch with tn popular will, of course
do not.
Senator Burton. however, did show
gleam of perception in his opening ad-
dress when he said: Il sometimes
wish that our orators would talk less
about increased bank deposits, reve-
nues and iron and steel products and
more about human welfare. There is
no question but that there is a great
degree of social unrest"
The time has gone by for compro-
misses upon platforms or candidates
No colorless or on-committal leaders
and no platform talk that is fixed up
to harmonic the party and give as
little offense to factions will go down
any more with the people. The dls-
eases of the body polite are real and
call for real medicine. Bread pills
no longer deceive the patient. The
party that straddles and dickers and
compromises is doomed to defeat, and
to extinction if it persist.
The insurgents think they are saw
ing their party. In reality, by COM
promising, they are giving the doomed
regulars a chance to scuttle the ship.
Before they wake up to the situation
they may find that she won't float.
To many wise observers it seems that
the social and economic unrest that
brought death to the aristocratic Wing
party finds parallel in the conditions
today within the Republican party.
Without a complete, not partial, re-
generation 1t is doomed.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-29
THE PEOPLE APPOINT A POWERFUL
RAILROAD COMMISSION

THE PEOPLE APPOINT A POWERFUL
RAILROAD COMMISSION
About thirty years ago this idea of
curing evils by regulating them laid
strong hold upon the people of Cali
fornia, and in the brave new consti-
tuition of 1879, to which we have before
referred, they determined to deal once
and for all with the railroad monopoly
question. So in section 20 of article
XII they gave to the board of rail-
road commissioners every conceivable
power ito establish rates of charge
for the transportation of passengers
and freight by railroad and other
transportation companies" to super
wise and control such companies and
to enforce its will upon them. For
Nfailure to obey the commissioners
rulings severe penalties were provided,
the companies to pay heavy fines and
their officers to be punished with fine
and Imprisonment. The section con-
cludes with this explicit statement:
In all controversies, civil and criminal, the
rates of fares and freight established by
said commission shall he deemed conclu-
sivey just and reasonable.
The force of regulation could no
farther go. Even the so-called Roose-
welt policies have not approached this
achievement.
Some years afterwards the state
legislature, finding that for some
reason blessed regulation did not pro-
duce the expected good things, tried
to strengthen the commissions hands
with the majesty of statutes, enacting
that whenever the commission deter
mined upon a rate it should file the
new tariff schedule with the railroad
company affected, and that twenty
days therea ter the new rate should
go into effect and become the law of
the land.
Although it possessed these un-
equaled and ample powers, the COM
mission never did blessed thing but
make reports and draw it's several
salaries; it was armed with thunder
bolts and used only goose quills Mr.
Huntington wrote once to General Col
ton: II notice you are looking after
the state railroad commissioners.
think it is time" Whether this look
ing after" had any relation to the pre-
vailing inertia, the reader can surmise
as we'll as l.
But it appears that in 1894 there
was one of the periodical revolts
against the Southern Pacific which had
so long been the constituted author
ity and government of the state, and
this reasonable and unruly spirit, seiz-
ing upon the Democratic party, found
EXPRESSION in the following resolution
which the Democratic state convention
of that year embodied in its party
platform:
Resolved. That the charges for the trans
portation of freights in California by the
Southern Pacific company of kentucky and
its leased lines should be subjected to al
average reduction of not less than 25 pei
cent and We pledge our nominees for rail
road commissioner TO make this reduction
SO the convention nominated its
candidates on this platform and the
party went into the campaign with at
last the similitude of an issue to fight
for. The state that year was in one
of its moods for a change from the
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-29
WOMAN'S DAY

~ HE may not yet have secured the
full ballot, but this is neverthe-
~ less the heyday of woman. Even a
decade ago it would have been secuted
as absurd that Americas second great
est city should put a woman at the
head of it's school department, yet to-
day Ella Flagg Young is making the
greatest superintendent Of education
Chicago has ever had, and one noted
man who knows her says she is 1.-THE
greatest woman in the world"
Chicago's experience may have a
parallel in this county, where the
Democratic party may nominate Miss
Mary E. Foy for similar position,
and no longer is the suggestion re-
ceived with surprise, for besides the
growth in sentiment for larger
sphere for woman, there is the other
fact that she is peculiarly fitted by
her temperament and her intimate re-
lation with children for school work.
Providence has already ruled on the
fitness of woman to look after the up
bringing of the youth.
In the case of Miss Foy there are
other reasons. Having a knowledge
of school affairs through long expert
ence as a teacher she knows the tech
mic of the profession and its needs.
Being the manager of her own large
private possessions, she has shown
business acumen and administrative
ability that leave no doubt of her fit
ness in those respects. These things
granted, she would be success as
superintendent, for if she should go
into the work she would do so be-
cause of a love of it and the sense Of
duty felt by all conscientious per-
sons to use their talents for the COM
mon good.
A great many Of the parents of this
county would feel entirely safe in Civ
ing the schooling of the children into
Miss Foy's hands.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-29
NOW IT'S HALE

A HIbE the public is waiting Tor
wv an investigation of the Lori
mer scandal, the Gore charges
of bribery, and the Aldrich rubber
trust revelations, Mr.. Hale, the sena-
tor from Maine in the body sometimes
known as the Millionaire's club. might
step forward, if his dignity will per-
init, and explain. The charges against
Aldrich by one of his fellow senators
involves a larger amount of money
but is more serious only in degree
than those now made against the
Maine statesman, who has long been
Mr.. Aldrich's ablest lieutenant.
The Indianapolis News lays bare
case in which the chief dramatis per-
sonae are Senator Hale and Richard
Parr, the young man who uncovered
the sugar trust thefts from the gov
ernment. 1t is related that Parr was
on duty in the Passamaquoddy Gus
toms district in Maine in 1906. The
district collector was George A. Cur
ran, who is described as a Republican
leader. Parr got wind OF smuggling
of wool from Canada. Mark in pass
ing that wool is highly protected for
the benefit of the woolen manufaetur-
ers and sheep ranchers.
On July "a, 1905, Parr seized sixty
| bales of smuggled wool and 5000 bun
dies of hides on which no duties had
been paid. The story says that the
persons implicated were among the
strongest in the state, politically and
financially" Senator Hale intervened.
as the narrative proceeds. He tele-
| graphed to washington asking the
government to proceed very slowly.
in this matter He Is said also to have
| guaranteed the honesty of the people
| interested and declared Parr an over
| jealous and injudicious person, evil
IDENTIFY quite meddlesome, in fact.
| Collector Curran was a stockholder
in tanning company to which part of
| the hides were said to be consigned.
The United States district attorney
was a young man who owed his posi-
| ton to Senator Hale. He was so "em-
| barrassed by the situation" that an
other attorney was given charge Of
the prosecution. This was United
| States District Attorney Martin, of
Vermont He reported, it is said that
the government had a case which
could not fail. But it did.
The case was tried by Judge Hale,
brother OF the senator, who threw out,
it is said, what the government con-
sidered its strongest evidence. The ac-
cused were acquitted, Richard Parr,
the meddler, was transferred, by re-
quest of Senator Hale, it is said, to
Boston, where he seized twenty bales
Of wool before he was passed on to
| New York At this time Assistant Sec
retary of the Treasury James B. Rey-
nolds, now a member of the presidents
tariff board, is said to have observed
to Parr, ITS no use; they have the
cards stacked against you"
Mr. Parr has been promised $780,
900 by the treasury department for his
excellent work in exposing the sugar
thieves. In order to get the money 1t
will be necessary for congress to vote
an appropriation. It is said that SEN
ator Hale has declared that he will
never vote for 1t. VIII the senator
state whether it is So and if so, wheth-
er there is any connection between his
stand and the story Of the wool?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-29
Story of the Pension Rolls
Oregon Daily Journall

total of 676, 100 pensioners, the dis
bursements being $11S,54S, $50. In 1893
the number was close to 100000, and
they cost over 15S,00O 900. This was
the largest sum disbursed until last
year, forty-four years after the war
closed, when it was $16I, ,973,704. The
| -gest number of pensioners ever on
tn list was 999,446 in 1903, since
when the number was gradually de-
creased, but owing to further laws the
disbursements have decreased but
slightly If at all. The total disburse-
ments for pensions since July /, 1864,
amount to $3,S4S;6 ,721.06.
For the past four years the death
rate has been about 10000 a year, but
it must be much greater from this on
fo~ few years. Most of the veterans
arr past 20, and even the widows and
the orphans are no longer young wom-
en- and children, except in few cases.
Conqueror Death will get the last one
o. them after While, and by that
time perhaps the civilized nations of
t-e world viii have declared that
there shall be no more war;"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-29

According to writer in Hampton's
Magazine, 12,Cc0,000 children are in
need of medical and surgical atten-
tion. OF these large majority may
overcome the defects, but thousands
are doomed to invalidism. The New
York board of health examined 323,344
school children last year; of these two
thirds were "in need of treatment for
defective vision, hearing, breathing;
for serious nervous diseases and de-
fective teeth" In Boston examination
showed 5000 school children afflicted
with tuberculosis.
The medical care of children in the
public schools is a matter, that has
hardly received attention, although 1T
seems as important as the school in
struction itself Sick, defective chill
Cren may mean sick, defective men
and women. Children may acquire an
education without school facilities, but
they are not likely to acquire health
when they are suffering from an ail-,
ment that hey may accept as normal
1t is amazing that so little attention
has been given to health conditions of
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-29
California Topics

heroic Venice life saver has just been
awarded medal six times as large as a
twenty dollar gold piece" Since the size of
the medal has nothing TO do with the size of
the act why not give the man something
that he could wear around with him In the
water without drowning him.-Pasadena
News.
A California man Is suing a railroad for
S25 900 for giving him a nine-months head
ache. He must have bought the stuff from
a Pullman porter.--Savannah Press.
Persian grapes are grown in California,
according TO a dispatch 1t Will not be long
before there will be more stir made over the
fact that California grapes are grown In
Persia.-San Francisco Post
The Maryland congressman was sound
when he said that everybody wants to go to
California. And 1t is just as true that mo-
body wants TO go to Louisiana. The tourist
travel in the east Is due west, except for
the comparative few who go to Florida or
take the southern route to this state.-san
Francisco Chronicle.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-29

Ninety names a day are being
dropped from the pension rolls of the
Grand Army of the Republic. Nearly
fur of the veterans every hour are
conquered by King Death. Each month
27O0 of them are laid in their last
bed.
At the end of the fiscal year in 1865,
just after the war closed. there were
IS, ,906 pensioners, but 5Od06 of these
were widows and orphans. The
amount paid out was sS,525,153. The
next year 65, ,256 names were added and
the disbursements rose to $13,459,969.
That was the largest number of ap-
plications until 1880, when under a
more liberal law 144,466 applications
were. made, OIL which 1855 were al
lowed, making a pension roll of ESQ.,
S02; the cost that year was S57, ,240,540.
The increases were comparatively
small after that until 1890, when under
new legislation another great leap for
ward was made, the applications that
year being over 100000, and in 1891
696,941 applications were filed, of which
1-3,4S6 were allowed. This made a
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-29
Broadening British Census Work
(London Daily Mall.)

The taking of the census next year
was the subject of discussion later in
the sitting. Two bills are necessary
for the purpose. one for Great Britain
ono for Ireland. In moving the former
measure, Mr.. Burns made the interest
ing announcement that the govern
ment was i'm communication with the
colonies and British dominions across
the seas with a view to securing
c; nsus of the empire. There were other
innovations.
For the first time provision would be
made for the obtaining of Information
from married couples as to the dura-
tion of their marriage as we'll as the
number of their children. This would
make Z available valuable data In re-
gard to the problem Of comparative
fertility in marriage among the va
rious classes in society and those en-
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-29

gaze in various occupations, and also
with regard to infantile mortality.
The justification for this provision was
to be found in the fact that since 1851
the birth rate had dropped from thlr-
ty-four to twenty-six. There was an
offset to this, he explained, in the fact
that the death rate had been reduced
from twenty-three to fifteen, while the
marriage rate had only declined from
seventeen to fifteen.
Inquiry would be made in the census
q to the number of persons living in
houses of ten rooms or lessA Some
of the worst overcrowding occurred in
tenements of six, eight or ten rooms,
and hitherto inquiry had only been
made in connection with houses Of
five rooms or less
The second readings of the bills for
Great Britain and ireland We're both
agreed to after some discussion.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-29
Merely in Jest
CHANCE FOR A THIRD

The editor had been unusually patient
but 1t was the third visit he had re-
ceived within week from the longhaired
young man.
gestions about the two principal poems,
Dying Love, and Autumn Fires If you
cannot accept them in their present form,
insisted the visitor.
THE only suggestion that occurs to me-
said the editor, wearily, lis that you might
throw the first one into the second. and
let me know what happens. youths Com
panion.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-29
A BRIGHT OUTLOOK

do you-er-do you think, Miss Dob
bleigh that you will be-er-engaged next
Thursday EVENING"" asked Tompy, very
bashfully.
well, really Mr.. Tompy." replied Ethel.
"I don't know; but If you can get up
spunk enough between now and then to
do your share-I think there's q fair pros
pect that / shall be-
And Tompy did.-Harper's Weekly.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-29

BY turning their state convention at
Pasadena into a megaphone for South
ern Pacific candidates the Afro-Amer-
leans are only confirming what the
enemies of their race say about their
inability to think and act independent
ly and unselfishly in politics.