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Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31
IMPORTANT CONTESTS

M ORE local interest is being
wi shown in the northern part of
4 the state in the congressional
campaigns than in the race for the
nomination for governor, probably for
the reason that more of the spice of
uncertainty enters into the former than
into the latter. On the Democratic side
the nomination of Bell is a foregone
conclusion. On the side Of the opposi-
ton Johnson appears to hold such a
lead. despite the claims of the others,
that the bets are at large odds on
him.
In the second district, where Dun
can McKinlay, the reactionary, and
William Kent, the insurgent, are bat
ting the race is particularly interest
ing McKinlay. a Cannonite to the
hairs end, is on the defensive Kent
is waging a campaign of principle.
McKinlay is pleading tearfully that he
has secured a lot of help out of the
pork barrel for his district, but by
so doing he is only emphasizing one
of the vicious characteristics Of the
Cannon regiments sordid practice of
helping the faithful to make them
selves solid with money from the fed
eral treasury.
In Southern California the congress
sional race, while quiet now, promises
to take on an interest commensurate
with its Importance right after the
primaries. In Professor L. A. Handley
the Democrats have named a man of
ability who is in whole-hearted SYM
pathy with the so-called insurgent
wave, is popular with all classes, and
is a vigorous campaigner. The Repub-
lican incumbent, Mr.. McLachlan, is,
like McKinlay. on the defensive and
by no means sure of denomination. He,
too, is q part of the Cannon phalanx.
Even after Cannon was thoroughly
discredited and disowned Y the bet
| ter element of his party and shorn of
most of his power by an aroused peo
pie through a majority in the house,
McLlachlan remained completely sub
servient to the old czar
Mr. Handley will have the support
OI h IdFB6 SIdIt Ol IIb NTOOu NIONClI IL
ment element, with which he has done
| great work locally. Mr.. stephens has
| been so reticent about where he stands
| on pressing questions that he has
gained no popular confidence. Mr..
Handley will leave no doubt. when the
time comes for threshing out matters.
! as to Just where he stands. and the
| experience Of Foss, who overturned
supposedly impregnable Republican
district in Massachusetts by more than
1000, and of Havens, who swept the
Rochester, N. Y, district in spite of
similar heavy odds. does not offer to
the Democratic candidate any reason
for encouragement over the outlook
in this normally Republican district.
The public feeling on the misrepre-
sentative character of congress is in
the air and in the ground-overhead
and under foot. 1t is not surprising
that McKinlay and McLachlan are
worried.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31
SAN 5ERNARDINo DEMOCRATS
PLACE WOMAN ON TICKET

Editor Herald: Referring to your ed
itorial this morning, "Woman's Day."
l beg to call your attention to the fact
that the Democratic party of San Ber-
nardino county is fully alive to the ne
cessities of the day in forwarding the
cause of woman in her more intimate
relation to the educational measures in
their close association with state and
county politics.
The party in San Bernardino county
has already secured place on the bal
lot for Miss Emma Jackson, principal
of the Mckinley grammar school at
Redlands, as it's candidate for county
superintendent of schools Miss Jack
son has an enviable reputation among
educators of the county and is in eV-
cry way capable of conducting the Of
flee, If elected (as we are quite sure
she will be-, along progressive lines.
Not only in the party OF Jefferson
and Jackson in this county actively
alert this compaign, for it has for the
first time in years a full ticket in the
field but it is fully alive to the i'm
portance of furthering the best inter-
ests of the people along educational
lines by seeking for it's candidates men
and women, too, who are able to carry
out these purposes with fidelity and
ability. C. p. HUEY.
Upland, Cal, July 30.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31
MAKES INQUIRY ABOUT
HIGH FUNERAL CHARGES

Editor Herald: While inquiry is go
might be as well to give a little at
tention to the cost of dying. Dying is
even more expensive than living, in
every sense of the word, and some
body has to pay the cost in either case
The cost of living is under control
ana can be reduced to a minimum 1t
may be large or 1t may be small. de-
pending on the habits or taste of the
individual. Not so with the cost in
CURED by dying. The expense in that
case Is arbitrary and has to be met
whether or no. Take, for example, the
{ item of the grave. That costs a
dozen times as much as it ought to
and there is no help for 1t.
All interments of the dead have to
be made In regularly authorized bury
ia grounds. To bury anywhere else
subjects one to punishment by heavy
fine and Imprisonment. That is the
law of this state. But all the ceme-
teries are owned by private parties
who charge as much as they please for
g lves. For the ground alone their
usual price Is at the rate Of more than
$4,000 an acre and is often at the rate
of more than 100000 an acre Their
demand, whatever it is, must be paid,
even though a home has to be sacri-
feed to raise the money Such now is
the law and as cemeteries are all in
the hands of corporations there Is no
relief except through legislation.
Is 1t not high time our lawmakers
gave attention to this subject? Gem
eteries are, or should be, in secluded
places where the land is unsuited for
other purposes and cheap.
A proper thing would be a public
burying ground, provided by the city,
in some appropriate locality where
citizens would need to be burdened
only with its care.
OBSERVER
Los Angeles, July so.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31
Character of American Buildings

ond, S12,257, ,6SS; Seattle was third, $3.-
SAB, sos Reading was the only city that
reported no wooden buildings erected.
New York reported the construction of
fire resisting buildings at a cost of
S1S1, ,91S, ,337; Chicago was second with
a cost of $79.105,500; Brooklyn, third,
S54, ,65S, ,721; philadelphia, fourth, $42,-
570,7 40; ST. Louis, fifth $22, ,422,929, and
San Francisco, sixth. S1S,1249S7. The
average cost of new fire-resisting
buildings In the fifteen cities reporting
the greatest cost for this class ranged
from $3151 in Philadelphia to $65,SS4 in
New York. In new brick buildings
New York was the leading city, Brook
lyn. second; Chicago, third, and Phila-
delphia, fourth. Chicago took the lead
In stone buildings, New York being
second and San Francisco, third. Chi
cago was also in the lead in concrete
buildings, with Seattle, second. and
Philadelphia, third. Out OF the l2S
cities considered, seventy-nine erected
new concrete building, 1871 In num-
ber, which shows the widespread use
of this material.
In addition to these 12S cities, nine
others reported only totals for per-
mits and for cost of buildings, which
brought the total number of permits up
to 273,SS3, and the total cost up TO
1886, ,520,713. OF this total cost, the
fifty-one cities already referred to fur-
nished S296 per cent.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31
RESPONSIBILITY

TIME responsibility of parents for the
acts of their children is in no
l. small degree limited by the degree
of responsibility, in comparison, that
the Creator takes upon himself for the
acts of his creations in humanity. God
does not blame himself for the sins of
the world. He gives to its beings free
will, turns them loose, and his respon-
sibility ceases. Their deeds be upon
their heads" And they are,
With human parents there is much
reason for accepting a similar dictum.
When all that can be done for children
is done by parents, when they have
been reared in affection, given good
home. and a well-ordered education,
and then go wrong, the parental re-
sponsibility ceases. The human then
ceases under all laws of logic or pre-
cedence, to have any more responsible
ity than the Divine Creator.
Parents have wrung their hands and
cried since and before Absalom, whose
moor old father cried out so piufully in
self reproach, 80, Absalom, my son, my
son, would God l had dled Tor Illee'
The tendency seems to be to let par
ents blame themselves for what their
children do, and it is not wise. When
God himself does not seek to control
entirely the actions or put upon hlm-
self the responsibility for his created
beings, why should a weak human be-
ing put such upon himself?
The world has been shocked by the
actions of violence and Wickedness oI
young men and women, and has turned
with something of scorn upon the par
ents and relatives of these: as for eX-
ample, the Thaws, or the Charltons,
even upon those unknown to the pages
of criminal history. in private acquaint-
ance: for there are many such; but
for the injustice of this, or even for the
matter of these parents themselves
feeling one iota of responsibility. for
the untoward acts of their children,
there is not the shadow Of reason or
justice.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31

P. w. Lamona, the we'll known Cali
fornia capitalist, recently entertained
some friends with a few stories about
his earlier days. you know" said
Lamona, II used to own cattle ranch
near Spokane few years back, before
my mining days in Nevada. l had
neighbor up there who was considered
the biggest eater in the west. He stood
about feet 6 inches tall and weighed
in the neighborhood of 290 pounds.
lone day several of us boys went
quail hunting, and during the course OF
the day we bagged about 80 quail AT
supper time we cooked up lot of
these quail, and while we were engaged
in broiling them who should come
along but our friend, the big eating
man." butting in on us, as 1t were, and'
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31

cause the difference of the level be-
tween the station of Poschiavo to the
height of the pass amounts to 5000 feet
within a horizontal distance of six
miles. When we leave Poschiavo we
are 1000 meters above the sea level, and
when we arrive at the Bernina hos
pital the mark shows 2300 meters.
Another great advantage of this line
is the electric traction resorted to. No
coal dust and no shaking of the car
riages are to be complained of, despite
the short curves, 1t is, by the way,
the highest electric railway in the
world. Splendid exploration cars add
to the comfort of this new line.
AS a connecting link between exist
ing lines, the new railway is of great
Importance. UP to the present the fa-
nous Albula railway ended abruptly.
Now it has connection to the south,
as from Tirano a good electric railway
carries us along the banks of the Co
mo lake directly to Milan. 1t is not
the shortest route, and therefore will
not be used much for rapid traffic. But
who wishes to enjoy splendid bit of
nature while travelling comfortably will
not fail to use the Bernina railway.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31

'ening PosO
November that it had been in March;
but in the ownership of the stock
vastly greater amount of the COM
munity's cash capital was employed.
AS the situation then stood, 1t was sub
stantially the case of the farmer ana
the automobile magnified a hundred
thousand-fold
In the fall of 1907 loans of the ma
tional banks in New York amounted
to Is per cent of the loans of all the
national banks of the United states.
In the fall of 1908 New York's propor-
tion had risen to 10 per cent. This in
crease of 5000 200, 900 at New York oc-
Cured wholly in loans on collateral
that is, loans to carry stocks and
bonds. Broadly speaking they were
just the same stocks-that is, just the
same old $1,000 worth of cows-that they
had been the year before. The produc-
tive power of the industries which they
represented was substantially the same,
but their market price had been marked
up so that it took 100000 900 more Of the
country's cash capital to carry them.
Obviously it would have been much
better for the country to have invested
that 5000, 900 in more cows.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31

ter, and they were practically negligi-
BILE quantities. If Stanton is to have
any chance in the race, on this show
ing, he will have to get an overwhelm-
ing support down this way. which
seems very improbable.
The standing of the state press is
equally significant and seems to bear
out the Bulletins test. A supporter of
Stanton in this city is said to have
written the editors for their first and
second choices, and received the fol-
1ov.iprr In form, q tiOO.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31
New Fuel Oil Property
tsan Francisco CallD


5000 gallons, which is sufficient for
round trip between Tacoma and
Portland.
In order to put an end to the fires
which annually sweep over the Adir-
ondack forest preserves, the railroads
which penetrate the territory might
Well be compelle., to adopt oil as fuel
The supply of this fuel is as con-
venient of access as coal, and there
remains only the changing of the
engines to accommodate them to the
new conditions. The waste of the
natural resources of the state could be
stopped in this manner, and it ought
to be so ordered"
Fuel oil does not throw off sparks
and cinders from the smokestack of
the locomotive and therefore it's use
on the railroads of the west should be
prescribed for all forest regions or
where the roads pass through fields of
growing grain. The supply of oil
from the California fields appears to
be practically unlimited and assured.
It's economy as fuel has long ago been
demonstrated.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31


The uses of crude oil are already
multifarious and seem likely to in
crease. AS a help to the road builder
for soidifying surfaces the crude pc
troleum has proved its efficiency. Its
use as fuel for making steam is being
extended from day to day and It's
many and varied properties in this re-
lation receive fresh illustration in
practice The Rochester Herald draws
attention to one quality OF fuel oil
that supplies another reason TO: its
u, in locomotives for making steam.
We quote:
"TwentN locomotives have been
turned out of the Northern Pacif1c
shops at South Tacoma converted from
coal to oil burners. In the course OF
a short time all the Northern Pacific
engines in operation between Portland
and Puget sound will use oil for fuel.
The road passes through heavily
wooded section, and the object OF the.
change in fuel is to reduce to min
imum the danger of forest fires. The
crude oil is received from the Cali
fornia field, and each tank will hold
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31

Since the change in postal regula-
tions which now permits the use of
stamps to the value of 10 cents in
place of the special delivery stamp
the amount of such mail has greatly
increased. 1t is due to this increase
that peculiar features of the service
were brought to the attention of the
postoffice department officials.
So frequently has complaint been
made recently that an investigation re-
suited, which brought to light the fact
that a large percentage of special de-
livery letters contain valuables. An
official stated that fully four out OF
five persons believe a special delivery
stamp on a letter means security.
He points out that the practice OF
sending money or valuable papers In
special delivery letters has been in
dulged in so much recently as to make
the letter less safe than one with only
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31
THE KNOCKER

She had a little hammer.
She used 1t with a Will,
She knocked a. everybody
They couldn't keep her still;
She knocked about her neighbors
If they We're friends or foes,
She knocked about the table
And knocked about her clothes.
She knocked at hubby's smoking,
About his snoring, too;
She knocked about his whlstling,
And so. perhaps. would you;
At last the Reaper claimed her
Her course on earth was run;
Her husband then considered
Her knocking days were done.
But hubby went one evening
To see a spirit show.
Where always, in the cleaning,
The spirits come and go.
He heard a spirit knocking
MY wife" he said. 'I'll bet!
Now isn't she a wonder?
Hear that! She's knocking yeti"
--Yonkers Statesman
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31
Eating a Turkey a Day
{ San Francisco Call.)

isco Call)
big man could not be refused, as we
had plenty of birds and the fellow was
prince Well, he got away with 35
OF them without much effort.
"In the course of conversation some
one of our crowd asked the man with
the shark appetite If he ever heard of
the person who offered to pay any one
$500 if he could eat a quail a day for
30 days. Go on remarked our friend,
that must be a josh. Thirty quail,
eaten one at a time every day, would
only fill my hollow teeth. Trot out that
80 day quail man, and I'll show him
some eating I'll bet him 500 to $1,000
that I can eat 30 turkeys in 80 days,
stuffed with quail At this our fire
went out and the horses ran away"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31
State Press Echoes

Good may yet come out Of this miserable
grizzly gorilla fight business. The conscience
of this nation and other nations seems to
be aroused to the baneful results certain
to flow from pampering the british in
stincts of men. If there are no ordinances
in cities prohibiting such exhibitions it will
take long time to get city councils to-
gcther and have ordinances passed. Fight
ing the fight pictures is important as
fighting more suchS fghts.-Californ!a
Weekly
Patrick Calhoun is asking the supreme
court to order the indictments against him
dismissed. Judge Lawlor stubbornly de-
clines to permit the district attorney, whom
Hcneys enemies put in office, to drop this
prosecution. Judge Lawlor has the fool
and old. fashioned notion that where men
are bribed somebody's money bribes them.
Pasadena News.
Colorado Burbank has perfected a
brand of wheat that requires no cultivation.
All that the farmer has to do after plant
ing is 20 make it grow. If this seed is
spread out extensively there will be a uni
vcrsal exodus back to the soil 1t is the
most attractive inducement for move of
this sort that has ever been offered.-San
Francisco Post.
with modern ideas OF good dressing. Sur
mounted by one of those saucy bonnets the
auto girls delight in. 1t makes her chic and
saucy. And a clustered man with a raklsh
cap catches the approving eye feminine
whenever It lights upon him-san Jose
Herald.
A lot OF good-intentioned women have
essayed the task of inducing Alice Roose-
welt Longworth to give UP smoking cigar
cites She has already sworn off playing
the races and jumping into swimming
tanks in her travelling elothes.-Pasadena
star
Designs for a $4,000 church. the work
of a Young woman architect, have been ac-
cepted by the St Johns Presbyterians in
san Francisco Womans sphere Of activity
is enlarging all the time Sacramento
Bee
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31
POLITICAL STRAWS

TT OW is it going with our friends,
III the Republican aspirants for a
A1 shy at the governorship? Down
this way it looks to a man up tree
as if Johnson stood first with the
masses of his party by a liberal mar
gin, with a chance for stanton to make
a good showing because of home pride
and friendships. The other three-An-
derson, Ellery and Curry-so far as can
be seen on the surface of things are
playing the clowns in the fve-ring cir
Gus. if the election were left to South
ern California they would be left at
the post.
There has been a disposition, how
ever, to concede to Anderson a consid-
erable strength in the northern part of
the state. He is well known up that
way and has the earnest support of
the San Franc 'co Chronicle. But the
signs may be .ailing. The San Fran
cisco Bulletin has been taking straw
ballots in the big office buildings of
that city, in the street cars, in Oak
land, in the Union Iron works, on the
ferryboats and in the suburbs. In
every case Johnson leads.
In one he had SO to Curry's 10, in an
other it was "a to II, in another r to a.
in another % to 20, another 25 to Is,
another 20 to 8. In only one case did
Anderson do better than to trail along
with a quarter to tenth of Johnson's
vote and that was a ferryboat vote in
which he got II to Johnsons 20 and
Currys Q. Anderson is not the mixer
that Curry Is. and that will be his
weakness in the popular vote.
In the Bulletins test stanton got only
six all told. Ellery was not much bet
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31
Special Delivery Letters

on Herald)
the 2-cent stamp affixed. Since there
are dishonest men among the three
quarter million employees of the postal
service who handle mail, just as there
are dishonest men in all walks of life,
the thief has learned to look for val
uables in the special delivery enve-
lope.
The special delivery letter is han
died as is the other first-class mail.
1t is only when it reaches the office Of
delivery that the additional stamp
means anything t. the postal employee.
This explains why such large per-
centage of special delivery letters go
astray, as compared with the amazing
ly small percentage of other mail. The
only remedy is publicity, and a change
in the habits of those persons who use
the special delivery instead of the reg
istry system when sending money or
other valuables.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31
Merely in Jest
WHEN SHE WANTED TO GO.

E. d. Whitley. who is local ticket agent for
several steamship lines, was at work at his
desk the other day when c Swede girl came in
the office. She had been in this country only
a few months and was tired Of It,
AYE want tay get ticket tay Sweden she
said. AYE want tay go tay Gothenburg."
when do you want to go?" asked the polite
Mr. Whitley.
AYE want tay go when boat starts" she re-
plied-Denver Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31
CONDITION PRECEDENT

THE religion of some people is too lenient,"
said Bishop Heslin in a recent address in
Nantucket.
Some people suggest to me. in their view OF
religion, a little girl whose teacher said to
her:
g Mary. what must We do first before we
can expect forgiveness for our s1ns?'
" We must sin first the little girl an
swered. Nashville Banner.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31

The boarding around the new federal
building has been taken down, and
now you can call the attention Of Wis
itors to a city that grows so fast that
such a big building is already too small
before it can be completed.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31

1t looks as if principles rather than
personalities will carry the primaries
johnson against Bell. In that event
California is assured a governor who
will nut the Southern Pacific out of
politics.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31

Pennsylvanians wanted Pinchot to run
for governor of that state, and now he
is wanted for the same purpose in New
York. AS Mr.. Pinchot is only about a
foot wide and weighs 100 there is not
enough to spread into two big states.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31
FAsc1NATIoNs oF COLE

1--WE card Of Nero a-playin' is fiddle,
sir, when is 'ome a-burning," said the
landlady, putting down the local paper but
Lis ere game of golf must be the most fas-
kinating obby in the world. I've been reading
about the fire up at the golf ground last Fri
day, and 1t says The first brigades promptly
responded to the call, and when darkness
closed in they were still playing upon the ruins
of the clubhouse Golf Illustrated.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31

California is getting along nicely
without a bank examiner state ell
gineer and secretary of state while An
derson. Ellery and Curry are chasing
a forlorn political hope. Why not COM
bine the offices and save money.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31
sQUARING THE CIRCLE

Mayor Mabool of Baltimore, apropos of
Fourth Of July expenditure that seemed
travagant, said one day:
Even TO celebrate glorious Fourth
man should keep within his means. He should
remember that the Fourth, not less than
on the third or fifth, it is far easier to COM
plete a round of pleasure than to make things
square afterMard. ,,-Mashington Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31

War with Japan is not a possibility,
says Secretary of War Dickinson, who
has just returned from the fowery
kingdom, but the secretary Is evidently
poor student of Hearst and Nc
Lachlan.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31

1t appears that Mr.. Harding, Repub-
lican candidate for governor Of Ohio, is
the editor Of the Marion Star. What he
most desires at present however, is
subscribers to his platform.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31

The ice cream cone has been banned
say the drug is needed to make the
cone keep its shape. But will it make
the stomach hold its shape?