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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-10
That Postal Deficit

Postmaster-General Hitchcock reports
that the Post-Ofice Department loses
$64,ooo,ooo year in the business OF
carrying second-class mail magazines and
periodically.
There is not deficit of $1,000, 900,
as the department alleges, but actually
surplus of more than $1o,ooo,ooo, when
the specific loss on free rural delivery is
taken into consideration, and the de-
partment's figures Of $64,ooo,o 900 loss on
second-class matter are wrong by more
than $6o,ooo,ooo.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-10

The governing committee ~ the Stock
Exchange has appointed Harrison s Mar
Tin heretofore second assistant secretary
70 he assistant secretary. in place OF John
Z Burns. resigned Mr.. Burns who was
appointed assistant secretary In June. 1905
as successor TO Charles l. Burnham. who
retired 10 enter Stock Exchange firm. has
been in III health tor more than two years
and for several months has been on leave
of absence in Colorado, In which state he
piH nov make his permanent home
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-10
FEAR MORGAN DEAL
Continued from first rage.

the afternoon Yesterday because Of the
inability Of William H. Remick. of r. L.
Day & Co. TO appear. He will be called
when the hearings are resumed at 10
O'Clock this morning in the City Invest
ing Building
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-10
OPERATION ON CLARK HOWELL
Atlanta Editor Suddenly Attacked
with Annpndicitis

Atlanta. Feb CLARK Howell editor Of
The Atlanta Constitution" and Georgia
member of the National Democratic Com
n1ittee. was operated unon this afternoon
for appendicitis He rallied well. and IN
less unforeseen complications set in will
recover
Mr. Howell vas stricken this morning.
and suffered so much pain that no atterrt
could be made to get him to q hospital
Dr. FLOYD " McRae performed the orera-
ton 81 the editors home
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-10
ERIE EXPRESS TRAIN DEEAlLED

Buffalo. Feb a-The locomotive and sew
eral passenger cars Of the esstbound Cleve-
land New York express Of the Erie Rail
road left the tracks at Vandalia. ten miles
from Salamanca, at $50 O'Clock last night
No one was injured The train proceeded
slx hours late The cause Of the accident
Is unknown.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-10

Cincinnati. Feb. o.-Reports that j
Pierpont Morgan had extended his re
cent buying of independent telephone
stock into Kentucky were partly con-
ffrmed here to-day
George z. Cox president of the Gin
cinnati Trust Company. acknowledged
that ccnsiderah BILE purchases had been
made by his institution. but he referred
inquirers to Judge John NJ. Leasing. Of
the Kentucky Court of Appeals. who, he
said is directing the work
Mr.. Cox said that several agencies
We're buying the stocks. all reporting TO
Judge Lessing He declared he did not
know how much stock was to be bought
or for what purpose
In local financial circles J. ?. Morga n
& Co of New York. are generally cred
tied with being back Of the buying. It
Is stated that the plans for acquiring
Ohio and Indiana companies. which we're
revealed by proceedings in the state
courts at Cleveland and St Louis. have
been extended and that efforts are to be
made to solidify into practically one con-
Germ all independent telephone compa-
MES in the Ohio Valley
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-15

The city of Los Angeles has great
reason to be proud of the enviable
position she occupies among American
cities in point of high civic ideals.
Those who opposed good government in
Los Angeles, notably the Times of
that city, predicted all kinds of busi-
ness disaster as result of placing the
city government in the hands of the
most reputable citizens and business
men who could be induced to devote
their time and energies to city af-
fairs. The candidate of the Good Gov
ernment forces was derisively denom-
mated Uncle Aleck." Those citizens
who allied themselves on the side of
civic respectability were dubbed GOO
Coos"
The municipal government of Los
Angeles under Uncle Alexis Goo Goo
administration easily takes rank
among the most enlightened, clean and
progressive cities of the country if,
indeed. it does not by common consent
lead them all. Decency pays. Los
Angeles has proved it. In every line
of comparative statistics Los Angeles
is in the forefront among American
municipalities, and at no time in her
history has her progress along various
lines been so marked as under her
present reform administration.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-15
A TALE OF TWO CITIES

TYP in San Francisco they are hav-
ing trouble with a situation that
- is similar and vet dissimilar to
the situation in Los Angeles with re-
lation to the aqueduct. Partly i'm
PEELED by a desire to get in line with
the times in municipal enterprise and
partly driven to it by the arrogance of
the Calhoun roads, San Francisco has
decided TO build street railway-the
Geary street line, so called. 1t is hav-
ing trouble finding purchasers for the
bonds.
The banks of the city have taken an
attitude that leads the Call to believe
that the public utility corporations
have persuaded them not TO support
the enterprise. and it reads them a
fatherly lecture on the folly of listen
ing to such influences. 1t would, the
Call points out, be a very bad thing
for them to let the impression get out
that they are trying to hinder a pop
ular movement merely TO support cap
italized privilege.
The incident has a bearing lere as
showing SlflkluSIS lne ullSeIlSl
patriotism of the banks of Los An
geles in it's present emergency. They
have, at considerable loss to them
selves, placed large sums at the dis
posal of the city, sacrificing rate
of interest that is profitable for one
that. is, under local conditions, not to
their advantage. No finer display of
genuine civic spirit was ever made
than that of the Los Angeles institG-
tions and it is particularly pleasing to
see it in contrast with the situation in
the state metropolis.
1t only goes to show that the Los
Angeles spirit is a thing that is in
digenous here; that few other towns
have vt; and this spirit is the key
that explains why Los Angeles is out
stripping other cities in rate Of growth.
People like to cast anchor in a town
of the kind.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-15

out the f1anges of the wheels, which is
for the companies. Third, the groove
may get clogged with something; but
even in cities that have much snow
and ice this is not considered a valid
objection, and here that would be elm
mated. Fourth, that distractions may
like the former reason, is much exag-
gerated. Cars sometimes leave the
track from Trails.
Most street railways fight the groove
rail, but chiefly because of its greater
cost. That is far from public-spirited
attitude. Nothing else is expected in
some cities, but in Los Angeles, where
the city has been generous with the
companies, and exceptionally pleasant
relations exist between them and the
authorities, it is surprising. 1t can
only succeed in dispelling a large part
of the good will, or, worse than that,
create mutual hostility.
The impression is being created by
the misguided actions of corporation
managers that they will not submit to
proper restrictions or regulations by
the municipal authorities without max
ing it cost the taxpayers dearly to en-
force the ordinance. An election on
this matter will only succeed in edu
eating citizens on the subject of rails
and the reasons why the companies
don't want them, and the public should
insist on them. The cost in the end is
likely to be greater to the companies
in money and lost good will than if
they submitted gracefully.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-15
Make Up Your Mind to Live
CGraham Hood, in New York Globe)

n New York Globe)
any one of us may get mixed up in
such an enterprise is extremely remote.
/ The trouble with most of us, however,
/ is that we do not want things badly
/ enough. Thus, to want" something
and to "desire" something are two very
different things.
! Possibly at some time in your life
! you have been exceedingly hungry; SO
hungry that you would deem no price
too high to be paid for food. You prob
ably remember with what keen desire
your appetite urged you to find some
thing to eat with the briefest possible
delay and you may be able to Imagine
with what intense yearning you would
have looked at food If 1t had been
placed before you and you had been
prevented from eating it.
A man who has passed through such
an experience has some idea of the
meaning of the term desire" 1t is not
mere hankering for an obJect-it Is
not simply wish to attain purpose
that makes the result possible. 1t Is
| only when the desire becomes so raw
enous that 1t can scarcely be restrained
that it is a sufficient incentive to ac-
! tion.
When such a desire as this is formed
In the mind, and back of 1t there is
perfectly clear idea of the result to
be attained failure becomes practical
ly impossible. The factor that has made
1t impossible is the intensity of the
desire to s6cceed-the desire for life
that burns in every heart, and that has
made the continuance of more than
one life possible. With such a desire
back of a thing, or an enterprise, "it
can't be put out of the game"
Of course, it is not everybody who
has developed such capacity for de-
sire, but this result can be attained by
all who wish to possess it. 1t means,
however. that one must be able to con-
centrate so intently that, once the nee
| essary plan has been formed, the mind
can picture its completion so graphical
ly that the desire for its attainment
will inevitably follow, and follow 1t will
when you have learned to master this
art of concentration which alone will
set the mental law of attraction in ope-
ration.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-15

(Granam ttOod,
1 found a text for a sermon in an
advertising booklet the other day. 1t
was moral to a little tale that had
been devised to attract trade to a jew
erly store, but 1t told such vital
truth so simply that it seemed to me
there were people who might mover see
the booklet who could i'll afford to do
without the moral" which pictur-
esquely stated that anything that has
made up its mind to live can't be put
out of the game"
1t would be difficult to frame SEN
tence that would contain greater truths
and it is true in fact. The secret back
of the survival of the fittest is simply
desire. 1t was the desire to live that
kept some species from eXtinction-the
desire to live that bred ability to live.
There are some philosophers who tell
us that it is the desire to live that
keeps the world in existence. Hoffman
preached that should this desire for
life weaken and wane the end of things
would soon come,
How far this is true we who are not
great philosophers are not called upon
to determine, but we know, and from
our own experience, that there is no
stronger factor in the universe than
this desire for the continuance of life.
we nave seen IL IN lue case OI lloS6
who are ill--in our own case, perhaps
but more conspicuously in those who
have been seriously injured. Ask any
physician, and. if he will admit the
fact he will tell you that he could
never make so many cures if ii were
not for the aid that he derives from this
desire for existence on the part of the
patient.
1t is not in a physical sense alone
that this is true, however. The mental
effect of the desire to life is just as
great, and it applies to our business
affairs as much as it does to the life
in our bodies; for there is practically
nothing that will make an enterprise
so certain of success as the firm desire
for the continuance of its existence.
1 suppose it is possible that there may
be some cases so helpless that no de-
gree of desire and determination will
make them go, but the probability that
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-15

Have you ever read the story about
Diogenes-how one day, walking
through a country fair, he saw the
ribbons and the looking glasses and
all the other things that the people
were so eager to purchase. Like all
men in search of information, he eX-
amined these objects with considerable
curiosity, only to return to friend
with the remark:
Lord, how many things there are
in this world of which Diogenes has
no need!"
Whether authentic or not, the story
has q moral that many of us might
take to ourselves, for though CEN
turies have passed since Diogenes
walked the earth, many of us are still
working ourselves to death that we
may become the possessors of things
that we really do not need, even after
we have secured them.
AS many philosophers have shown,
it is not the things we need that keep
us poor or that make us feel that we
must do the work of two men. Thoreau
proved, by his Walden Pond expert
ment. that man could live successfully
and happily and still be of considerable
use to the world at comparatively
slight costa cost quite within his own
earning capacity-if he was willing to
devote an hour or two a day to the
labor of making a living.
While few of us would care to carry
this experiment to such an extent,
there is probably no one of us who
could not absorb little of Thoreau's
philosophy without injury to himself
or to his station in life 1t is not
necessary that we should build our
selves a hut far from the beaten paths
of civilization. 1t is not necessary that
we should be content with the simple
fare that Thoreau found so sufficient
for his needs. To many of us life In
shack. with rice and beans as a
steady diet, would prove stultifying.
but that is no reason why we should
not learn the lesson that the Concord
recluse took so much pains to teach
us: that we are wasting our lives
robbing ourselves of happiness-in the
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-15

ton to the avowed views of the paper,
often cause great perplexity to its
readers, and embarrassment to the
management of the paper. Such views
may, be logical, timely and in all re-
spects proper enough to communicate.
But a newspaper is not necessarily a
moral treatise, police court, nor a
vent for all the shortcomings or
wrongs that transpire in a community
much less q medium for the pent-up
literary energy of its readers. A news
paper is simply medium for the cir
culation of daily events, both local
and universal, and what is proper to
appear in 1t as news, the editor of each
paper will and must determine. In OPP
position it may be stated, however,
that some newspapers affiliated with
politics, trusts and corporations are
partisans and they oVerstep the legit-
innate function of newspaper.
This age is especially prolific in the
dissemination of new ideas The public
is constantly absorbing these ideas,
which germinate, grow, and when ma
tured, seek expression in some way.
But it is something Of a puzzle to
know how the literary faculty of the
public is to express itself in the future.
The market is already gutted with lit
erary productions of all kinds, and
authorship on an average is paid less
than ordinary labor. And lecturers on
the. public platform, possessing the
best education that can be had, often
fail to get enough money for their
work to pay hall rent.
p. A. JENSEN.
Los Angeles, July IA.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-15
ANOTHER REFERENDUM

! m HE city of Los Angeles is threat
ened with the expense and nuis-
Il ance Of another election to decide
a controversy between the municipal
authorities and private corporations.
The street railways are preparing for a
referendum on the question Of whether
they shall be compelled to lay the
groove-rail on paved streets. as the
engineering department says, or the
Trail, which has been used up TO the
present.
The ordinance calls only for the
groove-rail on streets with pavements,
1t should be understood; not an over
the railway systems; and the reason
is chiefly twofold: The groove-raiI is
better for the life of the pavement and
very much better for vehicles because
it does not stand out so much as an
obstacle to wheels as the Trail. These
considerations are so strong elsewhere
that few large cities I'm the country
permit the Trail to be laid within
the busy traffic districts. The expe-
rience of other and older cities ought
to be worth something, even if there
were no other light on the subject.
What are the objections Of the com
panies to the groove-rail? 1t costs
them more-a rather selfish view if the
adoption is better for the public at
large, and especially SO from the highly
prosperous and wealthy corporations of
Los Angeles. Second, it wears out the
rail somewhat sooner, and also wears
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-15
The Things We Do Not Need
New York Globel

rk Globe)
pursuit of things that we could just as
well do without
1t is here, in fact, that we find the
basis of true economy. 1t is here that
we find the solution of the ever increas-
ing problem of the cost of living, for
no matter to what strata of society
we turn, from the lowest to the high
est, we see that the troubles of life
are largely due to extravaganza.
1t may seem, at first thought, alb
surd to speak of extravaganza in con-
nection with those who live in the
congested districts of our cities-the
districts that we are pleased to term
'the slums," yet as any student of
sociology will tell you, the extrava-
gance there, in proportion to the
amount of money to be spent, is
greater than that which prevails in
the higher social stratas.
As matter of fact, a story of this
subject shows that it makes practically
little difference where we turn, the
general tendency today is to spend
money for the things of life that, by
the widest stretch of the imagination,
could not be termed necessities.
Take your own case, for example.
Look back over the past week, or
month. and make note of the various
! objects for which you have expended
| money. If you can do this-if you can
| recall the nature of the expenditures
you will be amazed to see how many
of these things might just as well have
| been dispensed with.
BY this do not mean that It is our
| duty to deprive ourselves Of every
thing but the bare necessities of life
that we should live in undesirable
apartments, eating nothing but sim
| plest fare, and clothing ourselves in
| the cheapest articles of apparel that
| the markets afford. To do this would
not be a good thing, either for us or
| for anybody else. At the same time
| there is a sane boundary at which
actual extravaganza begins, and. as in
| vestigations show. the majority of us
have overstepped this mark. We shall
never master the art of right living
until. as individuals as we'll as col
! lectively, we get back to it.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-15
CLAIMS COUNTY HOSPITAL
ADJUNCT TO 2 COLLEGES

Editor Herald l note that in your
issue of July you give some publicity
to conditions in the county hospital.
| wish to call attention to rule /:
mo physician will be permitted to
rcnder any professional service in the
hospital until he has been regularly
appointed by the dean of the medical
department of the University of Cali
fornia or the dean of the College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Los An
geles, and such appointment approved
by the hospital committee of the board
of supervisors and by the superin-
tendent of the hospital"
Why did the board of supervisors
pick out two schools and delegate the
fun authority of the management of
the county hospital to them? There
are five medical colleges in California,
All graduates of these schools are re-
quired to pass precisely the same ex-
animation before the state board of
medical examiners and presumably
the graduates of one school are as fit
to engage in the practice of medicine
as are the graduates of any Of the
others, and yet for some inscrutable
reason our supervisors have, without
having instituted an examination into
their respective merits, picked out two
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-15
Los Angeles as an Example
Pasadena News,


Corruption and indecency in munich
pal affairs are not necessary con-
comitants of material progress. The
idea that city must be wide open
in it's ideas of morality, that its days
must be given up to graft and politi-
cal corruption and its nights to wild
orgies, is the silliest and most shall
low of delusions. Los Angeles is reap
ing the benefits of her civic uplift.
No other city in the United States has
earned a finer reputation for progress
sive, clean common sense in dealing
with municipal problems.
Mayor Alexander was put in office
in protest against the kind of munich
pal government which has constituted
a reproach on the American people.
With q hostile council inherited from
a former administration he proved his
ability to block the schemes of munic-
ipal corruption, proved it so well that
he was recommissioned by the people
and given a sympathetic council COM
posed of some of the very best repre-
sentative citizens.
The whole country owes a. debt of
gratitude for this splendid demonstra-
tion of a clean and thoroughly pro-
gressive municipal government in
which the people have employed some
of the most modern methods for carry
ing into effect the public will.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-15
Los Angeles, July
SAYS AUTHORS GET LESS
THAN ORDINARY LABoRERS

Editor Herald: Recently a cores
pondent to the Letter Box complained
that some of his letters had been
"squeched" by the editor-letters on
which he had bestowed the most care
and from which he expected the best
result No doubt there are many other
correspondents who are disappointed
over the nonappearance of their letters
and who feel considerable perplexity as
to the cause.
Newspapers nowadays are becom-
h.g more and more impersonal; that
is, the individual opinions of writer's
are kept subordinate to the policy and
principle that regulate the paper
Forceful and extreme views of cor
respondents, when wholly in opposi-
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-15

schools and have allowed and are al
lowing them to use the county hospital
as an adjunct to The colleges.
For Dr. Whitman, the superlnten-
dent of the institution, / have the ut
most respect and the highest regard
but the doctor says that if this class
(osteopaths) as practitioners are ad-
mitted when called upon by patients
eventually they undoubtedly also VIII
desire to hold clinics" [ should like
to ask DR.. Whitman why osteopaths
have not the same right to hold clinics
in the county hospital that physicians
of other schools of practice have2
C. A. WHITING.
Los Angeles, July Ia.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-15

"Oh, mother, may I go out to
The moving picture show"
mo, no. my lad;
They awfully bad.
And l cannot let you go!
They're showing, I'm told, brand new film
OF the North Pole, bare and bleak
And you might catch cold
At the sight unrolled,
And keep in bed for week.
There are pictures of Roosevelt shooting
bears
And elephants too. with vim.
Which might influence you
The same to do
And strive to be just like him.
There's another film of a jail escape
Where a prisoner quits his cell,
And you. no doubt.
Might also break out
Though with what I cannot tell.
There are pictures Of aeropanes, they say,
To get you up In the air.
SO from shows so gay
You must keep away
And never he tempted there!
Paul West In New York World
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-15

Returning California congressman
say they are proud Of congress. But
election day win show that is a very
different thing from California being
proud of her representatives.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-15

Congressman Longworth says the
people viii like the new tariff when
they understand it better. The more
they understand the men who passed
it the less they like them.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-15

The spy who climbed in a garret
and mussed himself all up to get peek
at Commissioner Wellborn went to
lot of useless trouble. Mr.. Wellborn
is on exhibition almost any day from
to without charge to the public.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-15

A billion dollar congress means that
the United States spends $3OO,OOO,0O0
every working day in the year good
portion Of It in the bailiwicks of SEN
ators and representative to strength
en- their fences. Put that in your pipe
and smoke it.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-15

The controller Of the treasury has
refused to 0. K. a bin of S4 for
gloves for Secretary Knox's coach
man. But this noble stroke of economy
hardly wipes out the record Of the
recent billion dollar congress.