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Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-18
BILLBOARDS

A RTISTS and art students are in
~ terested in the emancipation of
"a Los Angeles from the billboard
nuisance. The eligibility of Los Ange-
les for the position of art center of the
North American continent is generally
recognized. Art schools and artists
flourish here; and it is an ideal place
for art education. But what shall be
said of such a constant violation of the
canons of good taste as is presented by
the billboards which disfigure our art
educational center?
The movement against billboard adj
vertising is not founded upon prejudice
1t IS not the result of anyone's spite
against anyone else. We don't believe
that in any instance any personal con-
sideration has entered into the ques-
tion.
The demand for the reform is a
spontaneous expression Of the keen in
terest taken in Greater Los Angeles by
its public-spirited citizens, an inter-
est that, Of course. extends to the
general appearance of our beautiful
metropolis. in which all of us take
pride.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-18
SHOULD PAY TRIBUTE TO
THE HERALD FOR ITS NERVE

PASADENA, Feb. 15.--EEditor Her
add: How can things be finite when
they are but parts of the infinite?
Dormant brain cells are but unde
veloped germs Of wisdom.
Man receives the BOBBY degree at 20
and the doctors degree at 10. The
first is obtained from the college of ex-
perience and the second from the uni
Versity of understanding.
When man becomes too large or vain
to enjoy greatness in others then he
is too small to enjoy greatness of self.
Spiritual man and natural man are one
and the same thing. When immortal
ity is attained both viii be pure; in
other words, Father and Son will
unite.
To understand the law or Christ's
teachings, we must find out who or
what Christ represented and be able
to read between the lines, otherwise
his message is q puzzle and we grope
on through life in darkness.
Thomas wrote a paragraph for my
benefit, so stated, but not being on the
kindergarten along this line 1t fails to
benefit.
Some eastern writer's must love good
literature by the way they rehash
gems from The Herald. They should
at least use quotation marks-lt would
save time in changing a sentence. One
says truth is appearing here and there
in crude form. Now there's nothing
crude in The Herald columns. Most
Letter Boxers can testify as to the
ability of the proof reader. It's good
to scatter light. but when they get 1t
from any part Of this paper they
should give The Herald-the best paper
on this coast-credit for 1t.
G. r, LUNA.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-18
POPULATION

/ CONGESTION of population is the
most serious danger to which any
~ city is subject. Our western
cities are not exceptions to the gen.
eral rule. They are not immune from
peril; and one of the principal advan-
tages connected with an expansion pro-
gram like that of Greater Los Angeles
is that it lessons the risk of huddling.
A committee on congestion of popula-
tion in New York has made discoveries
which are of great interest, as they
prove conelusiveIy overcrowding is due
to remediable conditions. and not to
the age or the situation of a city.
London, which has a greater popula-
ton than New York, is not nearly as
crowded as the American metropolis.
This seems paradoxical; and certainly
is contrary to reasonable expectation.
But the explanation is London has been
developed by a series of normal growths
or centers, while New York has tried
to combine and concentrate into a
ridiculously small area practically all
the financial interests of the entire
city, and this has been done without
regard to the welfare Of the community.
The average number of inhabitants in
a small central part of London is only
g. In Manhattan in 1905 1t was 100. |
In most of London the density does
not exceed over twenty per acre, while !
New York is building up, not through
out the city as a whole, but with an
unhealthy density of 800 or 400 to the
acre; and, in many blocks, Of GOO to
700 per acre.
Greater Los Angeles. by adhering to
a generous policy of land spaces and
breathing places, and by firmly op-
posing tendencies TO pile up human be-
ings on small parcels of ground, will
avoid future trouble. and will grow to
the dimensions of New York without |
creating the conditions which give our
American metropolis its unenvied po-
sition of being the most unhealthy |
crowded in the world. Now is the time
to take care of the breathing spaces.
The consolidation of East Hollywood |
with Los Angeles will help to give as
surance the Los Angeles program will
be carried out as it has been begun,
and will result In increasing greatness
without menace to health and to COM
fort.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-18
PROTECTION INCREASES
PRICES BUT NOT WAGES

REDLANDS, Feb. 12-[Editor Her
add: Mr.. Barnett's cartoon in Tues
days issue of The Herald, "Has the
Tariff Anything to Do with High
Prices?" depicts the situation more
clearly than columns of word painting.
Permit me to add to his pertinent in
quiry, "Also Highway Robbery"
With the trusts securely perched on
a stone wall inaccessible to the COM
mon people, what obstacle can be
placed in their way that can possibly
prevent the fastening of welded fet
ters on the limb of permanent plu-
tocratic aristocracy?
Any man with a brain no larger than
an ostrich's can clearly discern the
trend of arbitrary laws that make pets
of aggregated wealth and paupers of
the sweat dropping wage earners.
1t has long been an exploded fallacy
among consumers that a high wall
tariff can either give greater opportu
nifty for employment or an increase of
wages. If any other argument were
needed to convince even an idiot that
a high wall tariff benefits labor to the
value of a half penny, let him look in
Bradstreet's report of the rating of
business firms and manufacturers with
protection" and the skyscrapers being
erected everywhere from the earnings
of men, women and children whose
contributions" furnish the means to
do so.
When all the people who are opposed
to the fleeing of labor practiced by
plutocracy stand as one man in oppo-
sition to this sort of oppression and
secure a revision of the tariff to q rev.
enue basis, the gulf between the higher
ups and the lower downs will be mate
rally lessened, and an empty pocket
may not be considered a crime.
ROBERT A. MILLS.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-18

except among a few foreigners. DO
know. also, that the crowds that
throng the bargain store spend more
money on waste and extravaganza
than the men who earn the money are
able to deposit in banks. en-,
/ assert that except in a Few MINIS
and factories the productiVeness OF
American women has almost vanished
T invite everybody to make compar-
ison of the cost\for women's wear with
mems wear; to make a comparison,
based on statistics or otherwise, OIL
their nroductiVeneSs, either mentai OF
material, in matters of invenuon'
thought or progress generally.
I invite a careful inspection of the
causes of divorce as shown by the rec,
ords of our courts; and / invite all
critics who desire to answer my first
letter in this matter to take up the
subject logically, and not in mock SEN
timent or heroics, and to say Whether
or not Woman's extravaganza ana Wo-
mans failure to perform her part in
the economy of the household mas not
produced, more than any other thlng,
the hard times under which the nation
now suffers.
Are there not thousands of work
ing men in this city who are striving
to earn homes and to equip, them like
small palaces for women who do ab-
solutely nothing but squander money
Do women not insist by thousands that
every inch of land purchased by the
husbands hard earnings be put in the
name of the women? DO they not, as
I have said before, refuse to bear their
part of the family burden? How. many
children have they? DO hotels and
flats and lodging houses and homes
without gardens and the constant use
of automobiles and street cars on use
less errands add to the comfort and
the happiness of mankind? Please
answer. ,-,-r,e.1>>,
EDWARD L. HUTCHINSON.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-18
The MiSer'S Kindred KnOz0
Him Only When He Is Dead
st. Louis Times

w HEN Jerry Moynihan OF St.
w Louis took to his bed for the
' last time the other day 1t was
not known that he had q single rela-
tive in the world.
But when he died, and the public
administrator discovered that he
owned a big sum of money, when the
mans habits of life were considered,
Moynihans who claimed kinship with
the dead man were heard from in large
numbers. They arose on two conti-
nents and claimed the $4,000 which
Jerry Moynihan had amassed.
We do not know that every one OF
the claimants to his fortune is not
bona flde relative, but that is not the
point we wish to make.
The fact is that here was man
who lived to be so years old. He was
not married. He lived the life of a
reclGse, and it appears that no friends
ever came to bring counsel or to re-
ceive it. No one knew that he had
money stored away. He lived alone,
and ne died apparently unregretted-
until his fortune came to light.
Movnihan seems to have been or
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-18

that type Of a man who holds nothing
worth while save money. Those who
knew him have said that he spent lit
tie for food, and that he shared no
mans amusements with him.
And we wonder how it can seem
worth while to any man TO live unto
himself. If he loved any one in the
world he could scarcely have lived so
lonely life-and what did his money
do for him?
1t viii be scrambled for now by those
who, in all probability, would not have
given him a pleasant word if they had
seen him the day before he died.
But he labored through a long life
and denied himself the things by
which the soul and the body thrive.
And he left 100000 which cannot avail
him now, and which may awaken only
strife and bitterness in the hearts Of
those who come after him.
There is a perfectly plain moral to
be drawn from the fate OF Jerry Moy-
nihan; yet the thousands of men in
the land who are following the course
pursued by him will continue to go on
unheeding and unchanged
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-18
MARINE DEVELOPMENT

GONGRESSMAN BARCHFIELD'S
address before the Gulf States
American Merchant Marine league
consisted in great part of a recogni-
ton OF the maritime activity OF Great
er Los Angeles. Most Of the American
people have seafaring blood in their
veins, and a city that seeks the sea
and devotes its energies to the mari
time development to which its geo.
graphical site entities it wins popular
appreciation.
Congressman Barchfield said: "Los
Angeles deserves ship line, and will
get it. Los Angeles has spent $4,000
600 in creating a deep-water harbor at
San Pedro Los Angeles has done
things. The people are alive. They
are up and doing, and with the passage
of the Humphreys ship subsidy
bin Los Angeles is to be given a
steamship line from San Pedro to
Hawaii, China, Japan and the Orient.
San Pedro is the nearest of all the
new ports of the south Pacific region,
and has a future because there is a
CITY Ddch Oh II lll|I VIII push IT,
OF Importance in the maritime de-
velopment Of the seaport of Greater
Los Angeles will be the establishment
Of federal line of steamships TO Pan
anna. A federal line, operated in con-
nection with the federal line ON the
Atlantic, will be conducive to a solu-
tion of the rates problem by helping
to emancipate the industries Of South
ern California from corporation over
lordship and rates tyranny.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-18
GET BUSY-ORp

A HARMED, and with good reason,
over the imperiled prospects of
IA Republican party supremacy in
the nation, the president in an almost
Rooseveltian outburst of energy, has
lost HIS temper with senate leaders and
has said to them: "Why don't you
push measures to redeem party pledges
while the house is dealing with appro-
priation bills?" 1t IS reported he ex-
hibited extreme impatience, and we
think probably he did.
Not only will the people ask what has
become of the Republican promises of
popular. progressive legislation, but
Mr.. Roosevelt will want to know"
and the attitude he may take with ref
erence to the position Of leadership
he enjoys among the American people
no doubt will be determined to a great
extent by the report of what the Re-
publican politicians have accomplished
when his inspiration was gone and
his compelling presence was far, far
away.
1t is of the utmost Importance the
American people should REALIZE the
Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt.
A relapse to routine Republican politics
was perhaps necessary in order to
bring out with new distinctness the
true political picture Of Mr.. Roosevelt,
who is not routine Republican poll
tician. He has no sympathy with rou-
tine Republican politics or with the
Vaccinations of men whose antipathies
to Roosevelt policies only needed the
absence of the former chief executive
in order to be developed to an extent
that has aroused popular disapproval
and replaced with wild alarm the for
mer stolidity OF Theodore Roosevelt's
successor.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-18
MAKES APPEAL FOR EXISTENCE
OF A REAL "ciTY BEAUTIFUL

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11.-lEditor
Herald: Demosthenes in ms cele-
hrated address to Philip of Macedon
said concerning the ancient Macedo-
mans: "It is to them we owe that
great number of public edifices, SO
many stately temples, so richly en-
bellished, by which the city OF Athens
exceeds all the rest of the world III
beauty and magnifcence."
How fortunate, indeed, were those
old Athenians! No billboard fiends
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-18
AT THE THEATERs

AUDIToRIUM-Darlz
BELASCO-"The Man OF the Hour"
BURBANK-"Cameo Kirby"
FIsCHER'S-Musica farce.
GRAND-'Florodor
LOS ANGELES-vaudevfl
MAJESTIC--"Mary James Pa"
MASON-"The Boys ana Betty
ORPHEUM-Vaudev
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-18

had as yet appeared on the scene to
desecrate, to mar the grandeur of her
exquisite ornate temples of architec-
tural beauty-the Parthenon and other
fomous buildings which had been
constructed. And her pleasing land
scape effect. No doubt those old Gre
clans had troubles of their own; but
were spared the curse of the diabolical.
reprehensible billboard specter.
Cannot the "city beautiful of sun
kissed Southern California shake off
this incubus, and with the old Athe-
nian say, Los Angeles exceeds all the
rest of the world in beauty and mag
nificence?" w. S. EBERMAN.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-18

This is East Hollywood day. Vote
for consolidation. Citizens will con-
suit their best interests and the best
interests of Greater Los Angeles by
taking active part in the proceedings
necessary to extend Greater Los An
geles by the addition of East Holly
wood.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-18

Perhaps it was not good politics, but
it was good sentiment to send old Joe
Chamberlain back to parliament. JOS
eph Chamberlain is a tottering wreck
of humanity, but he was reelected and
allowed to append his mark to a roll
of members he is physically unable to
sign. For the sake of the brilliant
Chamberlain of long ago, the faded and
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-18

Y. NJ. c. A. membership campaign is
booming. Help 1t to boom. Let the
good work go on. Greater Los Angeles
Y. NJ. C. A. has an excellent chance
Of becoming the biggest and best or
ganization of it's kind in the world.
Membership in the Y. NJ. c. A. is a
certificate of character. Make it 10000
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-18

Expert inquiry into the question of
the consolidation of city and county
government will be public service of
the greatest magnitude and impor-
tance. Consolidation is coming into the
area of practical politics. 1t is one of
the great problems our intelligent peo-
pie must solve, sooner or later.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-18

president Lincoln had deuce of q
time" says President Taft. And thus
with stately dignity doth the august
successor of the Immortals proclaim
in the multimemoried White House the
strenuousness of the nations heroic
days.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-18
There is an eastern gentleman.

There is an eastern gentleman,
His name is Mister Crane
He says our education plan
Is all, is all in vain.
The old red school house now must go,
For commerce is the rule,
And he who modern ways would know
Must Join the fact'ry school.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-18

Some of the high class banks are
beginning to announce they will collect
legitimate accounts. This will be
sad blow to the Safeguarding indus
try but the sooner it is struck the bet
ter it will be for the reputation of
Greater Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-18

In the charter revision commission,
Los Angeles has highly efficient and
trustworthy body. Los Angeles has a
high. standard of official efficiency, and
good officials will produce Good Gov
ernment and illustrate the Los Angeles
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-18

The rash young person we write a
verse on sought the Atlantic shore.
But an eastern blizzard raised hob
with his gizzard, and he'll never come
back any more.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-18
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENT intended
for publication must be accompanied By tho
gives the widest lafiirHe to correspondents,
but assumes no responsibility for their vieWs-
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-18

withered Chamberlain today sits a
silent member OF one of the worlds
greatest deliberative assemblages.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-18

Welcome East Hollywood by. giving
q big vote.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-18

on all matters pertaining to advertising
address Charles r. Gates advertising man
ager.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-18
CLEAR. CRISP AND CT Fam

Population of Los Angeles 327,685
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-18

Tonorrow-Making of viollns.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1910-09-16
WHERE PEARLS GROW
ON COC0ANUT TREES

Washington, Sept. IA. = Pearls
are growing on cocoanu t trees
in Malayan Peninsula and the
novel discovery has been made
abe subject for report from Con-
sui General Dubois to the depart
ment of commerce and labor.
The pearls are said to be not un-
like those of the oyster contain
ing calcium carbonate and a lit
tie organic matter. Certain Sc
cretions from just beneath the
shell of the cocoanut and the re-
suit is a perfect white pearl
which brings a high price. The
pearl is supposed by the Malaps
to posses some kind of charm.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1910-09-16
COMMITTEE Will.
PROTECT VISITORS

Little Rock, Sept. Ia. The
visitors to Little Rock during
the United Confederate Vete-
rams Reunion next May will be
protected from the unscrupulous
lodging house keeper, whose ilk
has done so much to make other
great gatherings of a like nature
unpopular.
At a meeting of the Executive
Committee of the reunion, held
at the office of Chairman W. M.
Kayanaugh yesterday afternoon,
steps towards devising means to
thus make a good name for
Little Rock were taken, and
other such steps were taken at
the meeting of the General Com
mittee, which was held in the
New Capitol hotel last night.
Durand Whipple, chairman of
the Committee on Entertainment
other than in hotels, submitted
to the Executive Committee a
plan which looked good. and it
twas looked upon with favor by
the General Committee last
night. The plan is a card sys-
TEN, and each card will be a
signed contract with the lodg-
ing house keeper to charge a
stipulated amount and will con-
tain valuable information to the
visitor besides.
The need of some such system
to protect the visitors was en-
phasized last night by Charles
B. Sioat. who, at the General
Committee meeting stated that
! in Mobile during the last Con-
federate reunion. citizens Of that
place, after agreeing to take
roomers at 25 to so cents a
night, charged their guests 81
a night.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1910-09-16
LICENSE WINS IN
COUNTY BY 80 1

Little Rock. Sept, IA. Com
plete returns from every precinct
in Pulaski county except Pyeatte
township, where but 80 votes
were cast, show that the county
went wet" by 901 majority.
The vote is: For licer Sc, 3, 1879;
against license, 2,238.
With returns On the two
amendments complete from
every precinct in the county ex-
cept the Second ward, where
the count was notE finished last
night, the vote on the amend
ments is as follows:
For No. 10, 2,844; against
No. 10. 1,616. For No. II g.
426; az a!nst No. II, 1850.
Governor Donaghey's pluarlity
over Andrew l. Roland in Pu-
laski county is 1922. The vote
on governor was as follows.
DonaghepA3, 2SO. Hogan 295.
Roland 1898.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1910-09-16
BRYAN SEES
SIGNIFICANCE

Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 13. Re
garding the result of the Maine
election. William J. Bayan said
today.
1 am very much pleased to
learn of the Democratic victory
in Maine. The fact that we
elected two out of four congress.
man. as well as governor and
legislature. gives it a nationa
significance which it would no,
have if it were merely a victory
for state Offices.
Taken with the returns from
Vermont, it indicates that the
revolt against the Republican
party is as pronounced in the
East as in the West and would
seem to make it certain that
there will be a Democratic ma
jority in the next Congress-"
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1910-09-16

1t is learned with much regret
that Rev. J. Il. Barkwell has re-
signed the pastorage of the
Presbyterian Church. Mr.. Bark.
we'll has been with this church
several years and is very niue h
beloved by its members. He
has made many substantial
friends during his stay here who
will regret to give him up. 1t
is learned that this move on his
part was on account of his
health, and h will go to Arizona
for the benefit of same. Time S
Journal, Malvern.
Miss Jennie Lewis Tuesday
evening for Fayetteville, where
she goes to reente- the Universi.
ty of Arkansas.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1910-09-16
D0NACHEY TO
ATTEND CONVENTION

Guthrie, Okla. Sept. 13. Coy
ernors from seven States and
more than 1000 delegates from
all over the country will be in at
tendance at the convention Of
the National Good Roads Asso :
ciation in Oklahoma City, Octo-
ber 16.
Among the principal speakers
will be Governors C. N. Haskell
Oklahoma; J. Y. Sanders, Louisi-
ana; T. M. Campbell, Texas;
George w. Donaghey. Arkansas
w. R. Stubs, Kansas; H. S.
Hadley, Missouri, and John
Shaftrother, Colorado.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1910-09-16

Colen Wylie left yesterday for
Fayetteville, where he goes to
enter the University of Arkan-
sas for another term.
Earnest Stanton is spending a
few days in Hot Springs.
Mrs. Lee Mccain is visiting
friends in Hope.
Mr.. and Mrs. Garrett White
side are visiting in Little Rock.
J. M. Henry. of Bluff City,
spent Tuesday in Prescott.
Misses Tennie Barber, Rosa
bell Smith and Zola Nelson, of
Emmet. visited in Prescott, We'd
nesday.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1910-09-16
DEMOCRATS SWEEP
STARE Of ARIZONA

Phoe nix, Ariz., Sept. 13. -
Complete returns from yester-
days elections of delegates to
the Arizona Constitutional Con-
vention confirms rep,rts of the
overwhelming victory of the
Democrats. They have elected
a total of &c delegates out of 52,-
the Republicans have elected II,
and the five delegates out Of
Gila county are still in doubt.
Republicans, Democrats and
leaders of the Labor party are
claiming the Gila County delega-
ton.
The result makes certain the
incorporation of the principles
of direct legislation-the initia-
tive, referendum and recall in
the new state constitution and
forecasts it's probable adoption.
by the voters of the state.