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Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-24
THANKSGIVING, 1910

MI OST of the people of Los Angeles
wi in many ways the most prosper
Gus American city-can greet the
return Of Thanksgiving with grateful
hearts. To this shining southland,
blessed by Providence beyond any 9TH
err have flown material benefits Law
ishly. The country may be likened to
great cornucopia, with Los Angeles
at the big end, receiving in her capa-
cious lap the best of Americas brain
and energy and capital.
Whether this unstinted bounty shall
prove a blessing or a curse depends
wholly upon its effects upon our civic
and individual characters. Not all
the prosperity in the world would
be worth while If we have gone back
in the finer enduring things.
There is danger in too great physical
well being Vanity, self f-conceit and
forgetfulness of God go hand in hand
with increase Of riches and ease of sub
sistence. Such has been the history
of the human race. With our thanks
should mtngle prayer tAat we may
SoCdpG lIle pGIllS llldl accompany
wealth; that we may not let go the
moral to grasp the material. Grateful
ly should those who appreciate these
dangers confronting America recount
the evidences during the past year of
the awakening of the public conscience,
the return in many places of civic
righteousness, the determination of the
people to make honesty as important
as efficiency in business affairs, the
lessons taught to our rising generation
by recent elections that success" with
loss of character is not success, and
that manhood is mightier and more to
be desired than the dollar.
The nation that has begun to turn
its attention vigorously to the extirpa-
ton of graft in politics and crooked
ness in all high places has reason to
feel that it has not failed to make NOR
al progress, and to rejoice for it, But
the necessity for this awakening and
activity only makes clear the solemn
fact that forces are at work that will
undermine and destroy US as a people
If they are not destroyed.
A new conservation to high ideals, a
new determination to conquer the temp
tations of prosperity will be the resolve
of every thoughtful mind that surveys
the blessings Of the past year in our
city and country.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-24
WRITER FAVoRs DIVORCE

Editor Herald: The test of any
civilization is how it's women are
treated, politically, legally and So
cially. In barbaric ages women We're
held as slaves, chattels and servants,
having no voice in making any or
the tribal laws l often wonder II we
have improved upon those times? L
give a few of the magnanimous man
made laws of today showing the honor,
love and justice meted out to her.
The following is compiled by a New
York attorney:
I'm thirty-seven of these United
States a married mother has no legal
right to her children. In sixteen
states a wife has no right to her earn
ings outside the home. In eight
states she has no right to her own
property after marriage. In seven
states there Is no law compelling a
man to support his own family" No
divorce is granted unless one of the
twain commits a crime in the sight
of the laW-eVen then 1T rests with
the judge.
Now "Civilizationist" in the Let
ter Box of November 19 must have
misunderstood Mr.. j. A. Wilson in his
lecture at Liberal club if he thought
he favored any of the above laws for
women. He stated over and over
again that he pleaded for moderation,
Justice common sense and unbounded
love governing the race, most es-
pecialiy the married. Free love?"
do not recall that the speaker used
the words, but others did, and coupled
them with free lust" 1t might be
we'll to ask who is to decide where,
how and when love ceases to be love
and becomes lust? Can love be pure
and true when bought, stolen, forced
or compelled? Then If not, love must
be free. This is question that needs
the very best and truest knowledge
possible. There is new club organ
lied in New York city for brides-elect,
where some wholesome instruction is
given in the care Of infants and other
maternal accomplishments.
Divorce should be granted to those
who find they have made mistake
and 1 believe Mr.. Wilson was right
when he said "this would not separate
those bound by the bonds of love"
Love blesses and creates health, hap
piness and success, while hate causes
disease, discord and dishonesty and
children born under these conditions
are a menace to the nation.
Fewer children and better, or none
at all, should be the motto Of the
coming race. FLORADENE.
Los Angeles, Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-24
Art Progress in the West
christian Science Monitor)

Directors of the Art Institute of Chi
cago intend, so w. NJ. r. French an
nounced recently as one of their num-
ber, to extend their present building
over the tracks of the Illinois Central
railroad to provide for three new gal
leries of proportions comparable with
the largest in the world. In one Of
these are to be housed from time to
time exhibits of all the leading painters
and sculptors of America. In other
words, although Mr.. French did not
go quite so far as to say so, it seems to
be the ambition of Chicago to be the
home of what may come to be recog-
nized as the National Art Gallery. A
New York newspaper commenting upon
this announcement a few days ago
was compelled to acknowledge that the
west is making wonderful progress in
art.
John w. Alexander recently paid
handsome tribute to Pittsburg as an
art center. This is followed by an
article in the current Century maga-
zine which contains interesting infor-
nation for those who may be under
the erroneous impression that the
vests advancement is almost wholly
material The author gives at second
hand the story that, of Americans
studying art in Paris, nine-tenths come
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-24
HOW TO VALUE FARM LAND

Editor Herald: This is my second
letter on this subject. Farmers come
two thousand miles or more to the
southwest, and by force of habit grow
in our lower valleys the same crops
they have always grown where they
came from, thus throwing away the
greatest business advantage the SOUTH
west has over every other part of the
United States, namely, climate They
leave much greater shipping facilities
and much greater population far pc
hind to grow crops which they must
send back long DISTANCES to sell, thus
senselessly paying two thousand miles
or more of freight The wise thlng TO
do is to grow hero in our lower val
leys such crops as can not be grown
as perfectly, if at all, in any other part
of the United States, for only such
crops can afford to pay the cost or
shipment long distances by rail to
where there is a crying demand Tor
them, Those northern farmers who are
too cautious to try to grow our semi
tropic crops, can grow everything mere
they have always heen used to, by se>
lecting our valleys and hill-tops ele-
waited from two Thousand to four
thousand feet above sea level, and
there grow northern vegetables and
fruits, especially apples to sell local
lv as proftably as oranges, lemons,
olives and dates grown in our lower
valleys. They can here sell southwest
apples at eastern prices with the freight
added to the eastern prices, instead OF
selling semi-tropic crops at eastern
prices with the long distance rail
freight deducted from the eastern
prices. The difference in freight is OF
itself a large profit Thus managed
our foothills and elevated valleys are
as valuable per acre of tillable land as
our orange and lemon valley land. The
only difference is different crops for
different elevations. 5. M. 5.
Tos ApoaIaC Cal
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-24
ART IN LOS ANGELES

ETI HAT Los Angeles has assembled in
its great. population growth an
II unusually high order of citizen
ship, the cream of the many communi-
ties Of the country that have contrib
uted to its upbuilding, people who are
as cultured and devoted to the finer
things of life as they are filled with
energy is becoming more and more evil
dent. But to many parts of the
land the term far west" does not
convey that idea. The east has not
yet shaken off the idea that while
energy may be migrating westward,
culture remains east of the Rockies
\ complete disproof of this is had
in the success Of the Bevani grand
opera company, which is now in the
fourth week Of an engagement at the
Auditorium. remarkable for the en-
thusiasm and sustained interest of it's
patrons. The faith of Manager L. e.
titled, and Mr. Francini. the conduc-
tor, win testify that in no city, east
or west, have his efforts and those Of
mis- singers met with a more intelli-
gent comprehension.
Few cities outside of the very largest
in the country are able to maintain
for a solid month a season of grand
opera with the same unfagging and
even increasing interest that has at
tended the Bevani performances, and
Los Angeles is to be congratulated on
the evidence it affords that it is show
ing such a strong trend toward music
and art Of the highest class.
The experience of several of the
larger cities with grand opera, and
with the best the world affords at that,
has been disappointing and humiliat-
ing. In more than one the effort to
interest a sufficient number to make it
self-sustaining has been a failure. So
that both in itself and by comparison
the instant and sustained interest and
financial outcome here are matters in
which Los Angeles has a right to take
pride
The success of the Beyani company
ought to make it the forerunner of a
visit from the Metropolitan opera
house artists, to whom a welcome
seems assured beyond doubt by the
present engagement.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-24
THE FORTUNATE WIDOW

Editor Herald The advice given
through the Letter Box by Just
Mere Woman" sounded to me as
though it came from one possessed
of kind heart While it might do
for women to offer their service in
relieving other women who need rest
from their labors in laundries, store
or factory, it might not do for man
to offer his.
The writer being interested in the
welfare of a widow who had three
small boys and who worked in fac
tory, offered his service in relieving
her few days, so she could rest up
and also do some much-needed work
at home. She said, "Mr. L (giv-
ing the name of her foreman) would
rather have her working with him
than any man." When 1 insisted on
giving her a chance to rest she con-
tended that her work was not so
hard; that at times when she ran
out of work and would ask Mr.. l.
what she should do he would say,
"Oh, do the company"
Now if all women who work in fac
tories. laundries or department stores
were possessed of q pretty face and
blue eyes and could get into the good
graces of the foreman, floor walker
or manager as this one seems to have
done their task would not be so hard
after all.
And this case is not the only one
of the kind.
of course the company hires this
woman for enough less than it
would have to pay a man, so that
it can afford the favors shown her
by her foreman and still come out
ahead.
My heart goes out in sympathy for
the thousands who have no charms
for their foremen and who have to
toll for a mere scanty existence day
after day and year after year.
HELPING HAND.
Tos Anoe1es Cal
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-24
INFORMATION WANTED

Editor Herald: An article on "The
Cooperative Commonwealth says
that the dividing up of all wealth is
not advocated by Socialists and that
this is one of the ridiculous lies told
to scare the laborer who has little
money in the savings bank, or who
has a few hundred dollars equity in
a mortgaged home. He goes on to say,
however, that Socialism would stop
the paying of rent. interest and div
idends to capitalists. Now, 1 would
like some Socialist to inform us in
this column how the paying of rents
is to be stopped without the govern
ment buying the houses or building
new ones. TRUTH SEEKER
Long Beach, Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-24
GETTING BUSY

H\ HE arrival of two attorneys rep
resenting the federal government
u to set under way the legal action
against the Southern Pacific to deter
mine the validity of its title to patented
oil lands gives new hope that an admin
istration which has not possessed great
popular confidence is in earnest in
prosecuting the claim of the people
against this piratical corporation.
The amount of wealth involved in the
case is comparatively small, as the suit
includes only a small patent still
within the statutC3of limitations, but
the case will have an important bear
ing on the main effort to make the
company disgorge much of the wealth
that it secured largely by corruption
and has held by direct violation of
faith with the government. The South
ern Pacihcs hand win be forced; it
will have to reveal the grounds on
which it claims title, and if they are
thrown out Of court the way will be
paved for the further and bigger
action.
Meantime it might be well for the
conservation leaders and the indepen-
dent oil interests to maintain at Wash
ington some agency to watch the cor
poratioas activities in the capital and
see that no more land is patented to ii
without the most vigorous protest. 1t
may have a literal right to grab more
Of the public wealth not withdrawn
under President Taft's two recent or
fos nd
gard of all the mOralities in the case
Of it's present holdings have been such
that the interior department, if it is
disposed to see fair play in the matter,
may find some way to head off the
pillage.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-24
WHO PAYS THE TAXES?

Editor Herald: Some away behind
times correspondent, signing HIM
self Citizen" criticises County Treas
urer Welch because he employs clerks
who do not pay taxes. How any one
in this age of intelligence can Write
such ideas is beyond belief. Don't
Citizen know that every time he
rents house, buys suit of clothes,
eats u meal in a restaurant, buys IL
pound of sugar, rice, tea or coffee or
other necessary of life he pays the tax?
| was in the mercantile business for
years and when 1 marked the selling
price on my goods, what was my basis
in making the price? 1 added to the
cost price the freight, insurance, rent,
interest on investment, clerk hire, ad-
vertising, delivery, profit and taxes.
When Mr.. Welchs clerk came into my
store to buy my groceries or dry goods,
or rent my house, he paid my taxes,
insurance, profit and interest on my in
vestment Was not this clerk, a tax
payer? Probably Citizen" is ione of
those who lives off his income by rent
ing property, loanirg money and has q
funny notion that he Is the taxpayer
instead of the tenant to whom he rents
or the borrower to whom he loans.
Were Los Angeles to drive out all the
people who do not own property,
against which tax is charged, one
half and more of the population would
go. If half were to leave, Mr.. "Citi-
zen" would have to go to work and dig
out living, for his money and houses
would not be in demand for interest
and rent and would not produce the
taxes, let alone a living. Vacant
houses and idle capital will produce
nothing and unless there is a prop
ertyless class to work and produce,
Mr. Capitalist, Citizen" would starve
or have to go to work. 1t is this kind
of "Citizen" that IS causing the great
Socialist vote to roll higher and high
er each succeeding election.
w. G. HOBBS.
Los Angeles. Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-24
What the Tariff Costs You
,harles Johnson Post. in New York wOrlD

with glass heads 45 per cent, and safe
ty pins 35 per cent.
Then there is a tape needle with which
to run through a pucker string or
weave the little ribbons that simulate
shyness beneath a perfectly transpar-
ent or translucent shirtwaist, and the
tape needle is tariff-taxed % per cent
The whole darning and mending and
button sewing outfit is very likely
slowed in one of those wicker sewing
stands, and that is tariff-taxed 45 per
cent.
The little mother has bought a sew
ing machine out of the savings from
the housekeeping allowance, and that
is tariff-taxed 80 per cent. The needles
she uses in it are taxed % per cent.
Ethelinda is saving for one of those
little sewing machines-almost prac-
tical-and some one Of these days the
little girl will be tariff-taxed on that
80 per cent.
Her grandmother knits with knit
ting needles tariff-taxed % per cent,
or crochets with crochet needles taxed
20 per cent, while the woollen yarn
she is working with is tariff taxed
2 1-3 cents on ounce and in addition to
that 40 per cent. The Payne tariff tax
law is a tax on the thrifty home work
basket.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-24
A HEARTY LAUGH
Being the days best joke from the news
exchanges.

"Maryl"
Fathers voice rolled down the stairs
and into the dim and silent parlor.
"Yes, papa. dear"
"Ask that young man if he has the
time"
A moment Of silence.
"Yes, George has his watch with
him.
Then ask him what is the time"
He says it is 11:48, papa"
"Then ask him If he doesn't think it
about bedtime"
Another moment of silence.
He says, papa" the silvery voice
announced, impersonally-"he says that
he rarely goes to bed before /, but it
seems to him that it is a matter of
personal preference merely, and that If
he were in your place he would go now
il he felt sleepy. y."-Harper's Bazaar.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-24

from points west of the Mississippi.
He mentions the fact that 1900 pupils
were enrolled in the Art Inustitute of
Chicago last term and that the total
attendance was 2637. He refers also to
an exhibition recently held by the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in
which over 30 per cent of the artists
represented came from the west or the
south. In Chicago, he tells us, q So
ciety called the Sons of Art has been
organized with 142 members, each Of
whom is pledged to subscribe $3.50 a
year for five years for the purchase of
the works of American artists for the
Chicago Art Institute collection
Where this enthusiasm for art, this
love of art for it's own sake, is bound
to lead, it is unnecessary to say. Many
of the large western cities now have
flourishing art schools and splendid ant
collections. 1t Is not necessary to in
clude Cincinnati and st. Louis in this
statement, for by reason of their rank
in art matters, like Chicago, they de-
serve to be treated separately. But the
younger cities of the west, like Kansas
City, Omaha and Denver, not to go as
far away as the Pacific coast, which is
also far advanced in this line, are all
making splendid headway as regards
both their public and private collec-
tiOnS,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-24

Twenty years ago the beet sugar out
put of the United States was about
100000 pounds a year. The depart
ment of agriculture reports the produc-
tion of 1909 as amounting to 1,O240OO,OOO
pounds. A bulletin recently issued by
the department says: 1.-THE sugar IN
dustry is rapidly assuming great i'm
portance in this country. No manu-
featuring industry SO intimately asso-
ciated with and dependent upon agri-
culture has ever shown such wonderful
development, such far reaching intiu-
ence in the stimulation and upbuilding
of the whole system of agriculture
In 1901 there were in operation thir-
ty-six factories, converting into sugar
t beet product of 175,083 planted acres.
In 1909 sixty-ffve factories handled the
Weld Of 420,262 acres. California had
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-24
COMMISSION GOVERNMENT

Editor Herald: Having a vague idea
of the commission form of government
solicit the aid of all well informed
persons on the subject. / have con-
suited quite a number of your pat
rons, and they have almost assured
me that you would gladly open your
columns to the discussion of this i'm
portant question. Hoping that the
present would receive a favorable con-
sideration, | remain, yours for progress,
JAMES CIARBONNEAU
An excellent book on the commission
form of government, by John j. Ham
ilton, entitled "The Dethronement of
the City Boss" is to be found in most
libraries.-Edtor Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-24


A mammoth cave has been discoV-
cred in German East Africa i'll Mount
Nangoma, about an hour to the south
of Nandembo. Though discovered in
August, 1909, it was not explored TIL
FEBRUARY, 1910, when the police officer,
Weckauf, and a missionary named
Ambros Mayer made a partial investi-
cation of it.
The entrance is forty-three meters
wide by twenty-one meters high and
the whole cave has a length OF 1923
meters 1t is of pipelike shape and has
q funnel shaped opening, caused by
cave-in. 1t is in a chalk mountain and
caused by water erosion. The natives
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-24
Progress of Beet Sugar Industry
(New York Sun

rk SUM
ten factories in operation, Colorado
sixteen, Idaho three, Michigan sixteen,
Utah five, Wisconsin four. while eleven
states, including New York and Ohio,
had one each. The total sugar con-
sumption of the country in 1909 is re-
ported as amounting to 3,648,579 net
tons, obtained from the following
sources: Domestic beets, 1882 per cent;
domestic cane, 1888 per cent; maple
sugar "a per cent; Philippine cane LA
per cent; Cuban cane, 1882 per cent;
all other, SAB per cent.
In 1895 about so per cent Of our sup
ply of sugar was imported. The in
crease in the cane and beet output of
the United States proper and the
acquisition of Hawaii. Porto Rico and
the Philippines have now reduced that
percentage to about so.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-24
THE WORLD BEATER

A FULLER appreciation of the mar
u velous growth of Los Angeles in
"A the last decade comes from
study Of the enumeration of the va
rious states thus far announced by the
census department. The states re-
ported are scattered through all sec
tions. The following table Classics
these states in groups and shows their
in 1900 and 1910:
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-24
A Mammoth African Cave
(sclentific Amerlcan)

AInbTICdHJ
had long known of it, but concealed it's
existence from the whites. During the
uprising of 19O5-06 they used it for a
hiding place for thousands, completely
battling the enemy. 1t contains a
spring of fresh water, which gives 1t
additional value as a refuge.
It's entrance lies in the primeval
forest. Evidence is strong that it has
been the habitat of thousands of bats
through untold years. 1t is hoped that
funds will be forthcoming to provide
for thorough exploration, since this
can hardly fail to yield prehistoric re-
mains and antiquities of great interest
and value.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-24

A comparison of these increases
makes Los Angeles loom bigger than
ever in the population contest. Thus
it is seen that our gain Of 216,719 in
the decade exceeded by about $4,000
the growth of the entire New England
states of New Hampshire, Maine, Yer
mont and Rhode Island. 1t was larger
by nearly 11,000 than that of Connecti-
cut, a great manufacturing state. 1t
was more than twelve times the gain
Of Delaware and $4,000 in excess of the
present total of the state.
Los Angeles increase was within
6OOO Of the increase for the state of
Florida, and you could put the increase
for Alabama into one city and still
lack by 10000 enough people to make
up a Los Angeles. Indiana, with the
great city of Indianapolis and numer-
Gus other prosperous towns included,
was more than $4,000 behind our addi-
tion for the decade.
Take Iowa with her numerous cities
and great farming territory, and you
find the total for all of them about
quarter OIL d HlllllOIl DSillllu Jul S"iii'
for Iowa lost about 1000, and very many
of them had the wisdom to come to
Southern California. The gain for Mis-
souri,, including her great st. Louis
was nearly $4,000 behind the number
we added in this wonder city. Arizona
and New Mexico are considered worthy
Of four United States senators, yet the
combined growth of the two embryo
states lacked by 5000 that of Los An
geles, and their growth was not to be
sneezed at, for it was 10000 bigger than
that Of four New England states.
More people added to the city of Los
Angeles than to six of the states listed
above, and about 10000 to spare! Can
you beat it?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-24
sTAMMERER WANTS ADVICE

Editor Herald: Will some reader
advise young man, a stammerer, as
to what vocation to pursue? There
are many young men thus afflicted
who would be very grateful, indeed,
were such information given.
GEORGE GORDON.
South Pasadena, Cal
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-24

Madame Cavalier will agree to stay
on the other side if the Chanler family
will pay her $4,000. If the Chanlers
are short of cash a lot of people stand
ready to chip in.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-24

Senator Bailey's new Washington
home has seven bathrooms. He had
an immunity bath from the Texas
legislature and rather came to like
such things,