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Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-12
CONVENTION SEEKING

7 OS ANGELES is not the only city
that has awakened to the ad-
II vantages of conventions, and the
number that are bidding for visitors is
large. But few of them have the in
centive to seek them that Los Angeles
has. The immediate profit is worth
while, but that is not all, in this region.
The conventioner to Denver, to st.
Paul to Chicago, to New Orleans, to
Kansas City gets a pleasant impression
of hospitality and enterprise, but finds
conditions only slightly differing from
those at home. If he lives in a large
eastern ciey he has all they have to
offer him.
But in Southern California he finds
not only all the urban comforts but an
irrepressible desire to add the joys of
summers that don't enerYate and win
ters that don't penetrate to the mar
row. He goes back, if not to yield to
the desire, at least to tell somebody
else who can and will. 1t is only trlte
to say that thousands Of the best citi-
zens of Los Angeles are those who
came here without any intention of
living here. So that while other cities
get the immediate profit of money
spent, plus advertising, Los Angeles
gets that and more out of a convention,
But the competition is sharp, because
outher towns are working along the
same lines, and the handicap is great
because of the greater fare to the
Pacific. In some places cities are dip
ping into their public pocket. St. Paul,
for example, has this year set aside an
advertising fund of $4,000 and d
mayors contingent fund" of $4,000.
The former is employed for the pur-
pose of advertising the city in the
regular way; the latter is drawn upon
to assist in financing conventions which
it is desirable shall be held in the city.
The municipality has appropriated this
year $4,000 for the convention of the
National League of Americal NUM-
cipalities, $1,000 for the convention of
locomotive engineers and fremcn, and
sums ranging from 500 to $3.50 for con-
ventions of less important organza-
tions.
This is only one instance Of what we
are "up against" but it should not dis
courage the local workers for 50 well
has all California been advertised by
our chambers of commerce, the rail-
roads and enterprises like our aqueduct
that curiosity and interest throughout
the east in Los Angeles are so great
that we have only to meet the COM
petition to get the people. And, if we
do, we keep a lot of them, and this ul-
innate profit few other cities reap out
Of their convention sojourners.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-12
CENSORS NEEDED

TT is inconsistent, says the Sacra-
mento Bee, for the mayors and
Il councils of American cities to talk
of putting a ban on moving pictures
of prize fights when they are paying
so little attention to the immoralities
of other kinds in this line, and the
point seems to be a good one. Many of
the pictures displayed right along in
the theaters for the purpose that have
sprung up all over the land are unfit
for youthful eyes to look upon. They
depict crime, violence, bloodshed, and
in some cases are actually immoral.
They cannot but. do incalculable harm
to the youthful portions of the audi
ences to which they cater.
Realizing this, a private civic asso-
citation has been formed in New York
city for the purpose of censoring pic
lures proposed to be shown. The NOV
ing picture trust, so called, has Volun-
tarily agreed to submit its films, prov
ING its title to be known as one of those
rare things, a good trust; but other
film makers have refused, evidently for
good reasons-or, rather, perhaps, bad
reasons.
1t is therefore evident that the only
kind Of censorship that can be made
effective is an official one. There ought
to be such supervision, Censors of
good sense would do no harm to leglti-
mate interests, and they could put an
end to an illegitimate branch of an in
dustry whose suppression would be
good thing for the public morals.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-12
TAKES ISSUE WITH JOHN D.
ROCKEFELLER OVER RELIGION

Editor Herald: Apropos of ]. D.
Rockefellers assertion that a closer
union of all religious denominations is
at hand, let me say that ST. Johns
Revelation, chapter xvi, verse 13, has
this to say: And saw three unclean
spirits like frogs come out of the mouth
of the dragon, and out of the mouth of
the beast, and out of the mouth of the
false prophets QD to gather them to
the battle of that great day of God
Almighty"
Now after three days of this great
battle, when ST. John is shown the
great river of piife now revealed to
all the world, he prophesies thus, xiii:2:
He that is unjust, let him be unjust
STILL and he that is filthy, let him be
filthy still" and verse II: Let him
take the water of life freely"
l fail to see in these - and free
will' prophecies in regard TO mans
moral conduct any allusions to a po-
liceman's club to ram down peoples
throats morality OF a kind for which
a union of churches is proposed.
Now, who is this dragon, beast and
false prophet? What unclean spirits
in form of speech are going through
the land to gather the nation to Gods
last battle6 J. MYER.
Los Angeles, July II, 1910.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-12

1t has been announced from the nina-
rooted palace on stilts above the mud of
Maiban that his "polygamous high
ness" Hadji Mohammed Jamabul XII
ram, Keeper of the Key of Heaven,
Americas Great and Good Friend,
and, incidentally, sultan of Sulu, Will
visit America. There's a chance that
New York may be interested If the
comic opera ruler does lead his chorus
retinue up out of the weeds and sail
over to see Americas city of wonders.
Kiram never sees an American but he
asks about New York and announces
that he intends to go there some day.
Kiram has preserved a unique person
ality in his reeking island jungles. He
has a tendency to do unexpected things,
as when he wanted to make Alice
Roosevelt sultana of Sulu.
The reason given for Kiram's threat
ened visit out into the world is his de-
sire to superintend personally the sale
of his several casks of pearls which his
divers have brought up from the blue
depths of the Celebes sea.
The sultan of Sulu is a young man,
but he gives the impression of know
ing what he is about and just what he
wants. His head is rather large and
we'll shaped His skin is the color of
old copper that has been polished. His
eyes are well apart, but he has a trick
of dropping the lids that makes him
look sleepy and Indifferent He has
good firm jaw and chin, with medium
sized straight nose.
To keep him out of mischief Kiram
has been permitted to continue believ-
ing himself immensely powerful. When
America took over the Philippines there
was an agreement with the ruler of the
Sulus. 1t was modelled on the old
Spanish treaty and guaranteed the
Moros all the usual rites and religious
freedom. 1t provided that the Ameri-
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-12
Oddities in the Days News

snlrit that needed it, Mrs. Whitaker
made ample preparation before begin
ming the suit, even to having her pic
ture taken for the newspapers
Ciyde Pool of Muskogee, OKLA, was
dragged from his bed the other night
hound hand and foot and taken 10
tbe cemetery. where he was tied TO
tombstone and left for an hour. Then
the mob returned, carried him to jan
and thrust him in a cell 1t was not
until next morning that ne learhsu
that his tormentors were GOOD trlehus
who were playing a Prank on MN 10
Celebrate his Wedding They were
Cut-ups, that's all.
Birmingham, Me-. fell over to the
floor when steve Mavic appeared on
the streets absolutely nude. lie was
arrested and taken to the station III
barrel Mavic has a good excuse, put
the authorities won't listen. 1t is that
he was warm and wanted to cool OH
Heroines of the telegraph are not al
ways giddy young things. Miss jean
cite Hoover of Altoona, Pa, splnster
of 36, was engaged to marry Marion
Steele She had an elaborate trousseau
twelve of everything) made, the DAY
set and the preacher engaged TO per-
form the ceremony, and then two days
before the wedding the elderly spinster
eloped with one of her fathers farm
hands. who is said to be married
man with four children.
The women of Walsenburg, Colo,
must be funny. A delegation of the
women have gone to Denver to see II
the Law and order league can make
a certain man in that town (giving his
name) behave. The delegation of
women is headed by the wife of bank
cashier. This is the charge they bring
against the man mentioning his
name): A school teacher boarded with
a woman who had ten children. This
terrible man was a frequent visitor at
the house and the school teacher was
forced to witness things that shocked
her. one would think woman with
ten children could take care or nersell'
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-12
His Polygamous Highness"

can flag be flown over the islands; that
America might occupy any place II
chose for military purposes; that Amer
lea would continue the sultans pay Tor
ruling his people.
Kiram is reverenced by the Moham-
medan Moros. not only because ne y
the heir of royal line of sultans, put
also because he has made pilgrimage
to Mecca and is supposed to nave his
Mohammedanism lirect from the foun-
tain source. He is the ruler in the Sulu
islands alone of about 10000 Moros and
is also the head of the Moros OF North
Borneo. He has some kind of authority
over the Moros of Mindanao, but II Is
more nominal than real and such Dat
tos as Mandi and others hardly ae-
knowledge him.
II was in August, 1905, that President
Taft. then secretary of war, was tour
ing the Philippines, and with party or
Americans including Alice Roosevelt,
visited the Sulus. Kiram entertained
the party lavishly, showered them Win
gifts. and as a climax of his hospltallty
offered to make President Roosevelts
daughter sultana.
The sultan has had at one time as
many as a dozen wives. His first wife
left him on account of a multiplicity of
his loves. She did not object to tho
four wives provided for by the Koran,
but when his majesty demanded
score she began to get jealous and got
a divorce. She now lives on the OPP
posite side of the island in big white
house at Mabu, Moro village, some
distance east of Jolo. The divorced sui
tana is said to be a very bright woman
and she is the only wife that his ma
jesty has had who is of royal blood.
No details have come from Maiban,
Kiram's capital as to how much of his
court will be included in the party to
visit America.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-12

The extent to which coal tar de-
rivatives entered into the composition
of foods is shown by a number OF
cases selected at random from the Of
ficial records of the state dairy and
food commission.
Here are a few of the cases in which
convictions were obtained in the
courts:
Fruit syrup (strawberry)-Color
with coal tar color.
Old port-Coal tar and salicylic acid.
Pure cherry red fruit syrup"-Coal
tar color.
Cinnamon candy-Coal tar present in
excessive amount.
Wedding ring pound cake-"The cake
contains coal tar color in such amount
that it can be detected by the direct
application of hydrochloric acid to the
cake itself"
Cup cake-Colored with coal tar col
or, which can be detected by the di-
rect application of hydrochlorlc acld
to the cake.
Gelatine (raspberry flaVor)-SWeet-
ened and favored and highly colored
with coal tar color.
Chocolate layer cake-Body of cake
is colOred with coal tar color; choco-
late layer not made from chocolate.
Cake-Colored yellow by the addition
of a coal tar color. Icing contains fer
ruginous (iron) earthly matter.
Chocolate cake-The body of this
cake is colored with coal tar dye.
There is mineral matter, but no choco-
late, in the chocolate layer.
Chocolate layer cake-The cake is
colored yellow by the addition of a
coal tar color. The chocolate icing con-
tains ferruginous dron) earthly matter:
The jelly is colored with red coal
tar color.
Pure strawberry extract-Coal tar
color present. Flavor artificial. Con-
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-12
State Press Echoes

Once more is the agitation renewed
for sign posts on the deserts of South
ern California. The powers that be"
move with the slowness of a geologic
process in this life conserving matter
1t seems as if there will be no con-
certed. effective action until the desert
shall have been wiped out by settle
ment and development. Then, Of
course, the sign posts will not be
needed.-Pasadena Star.
San Francisco and New Orleans are
fighting fiercely for a worlds eXposi-
tion in 1915, yet one is too far to reach
easily and the other is too hot to en-
ure.-Springfield (Mass.) Republican
1t would be worth while if Luther
Burbank could propagate some of the
large old-fashioned heads of cabbage
that could be bought two for cents.
Washington Star.
Green things are commencing to
show above ground" says poetic con-
temporary That is all right so long
as the bunco man doesn't see them
Grass Valley Union.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-12
SMOKING EN- OUT
I'M IMp was when One had to respe.

m IMB was when one had to respect
the Southern Pacific political
n machine for its cunning if one
didn't admire its methods or results.
It managed the political parties and
the state Of California with all the skill
and finesse of such master hands as
Platts or Quay's or Croker's. But
disaster seems to have so ratified it
that its wits have gone.
A short time ago it earned prize for
stupid technical blundering when it
smothered Chester Rowell's resolution
in the Republican state central COM
mittee declaring the party opposed to
Southern Pacific domination, when by
clever treatment Rowells gun might
have been spiked to the chagrin of the
Lincoln Roosevelt leaguers. Now it
has clumsily laid itself open to a new
attack by having the secretary of the
Republican state committee, whom it
controls along with a majority of the
committee, send out letter asking the
several candidates for governor wheth-
er they purpose to support the plat
form and nominee of the party for that
office.
OF course the S. P. still has a linger-
ing hope that in some way it can bring
about the nomination of Anderson or
Curry, and its manifest purpose in this
letter was to put Johnson in a hole.
Either he would answer no and thus
put himself outside the party, lending
70 oh iC
a good Republican" or he would an
swer yes and thus pledge himself and
in effect give his tacit approval to the
men whom the S. P. is backing. An
derson sent in a prompt reply, all right.
He says yes; he is Republican from
principle" and so forth.
So did johnson. Not a formal reply
as yet, but very definite and not the
kind desired. This is it,
Let the Republican state central
committee send me a pledge in
writing from its master Herrin, be
fore 1t has the effrontery to demand
anything of me. l presume the let
ter will be forwarded to me, and
then [ will answer it as I see fit. In
the meantime let the secretary or
the state central committee crawl
to the railroad Office and obtain
pledge from William F. Herrin.
So the blundering committee was
guilty of it's second faux pas in fort
night, putting for the second time
calcium light in the hands of its arch
enemy to turn on itself. Its attempted
strategy was a laughable failure, for
the only thing it did was to again eX-
pose the subseryiency of the party
committee to Herrin.
Johnson was shown. on the other
hand. in the light of a ourageous, in
dependent, consistent battler for
principle. He was smoked out, to be
sure, but not exactly in the way count
ed on. Anderson wrote himself down
as of easy political conscience. willing
to run on any platform and to support
Satan himself, for he makes no reser-
walton whatever in his blanket pledge.
Anyway, the whole thing was utterly
foolish, because nobody is going to
nav any attention this year to what is
written down in party platforms. The
candidates are making their own plat
forms and the people are going to pass
on them in the primaries long before
the state convention.
August 16 will decide what the party
platform will be.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-12
Coal Tar Poison in Foods
philadelphia North American.)

tains butyrlc, acetic and similar ethers.
Contains no fruit.
Strawberry compound-Sample of
solution of artificial ethers, colored with
coal tar colors Not made from straw
berries and contain" no extract or
Strawberries
Gelatine eparation-MaterialN con-
si1ts of gelatine sweetened and Favored
and highly colored with coal tar color.
Molasses-Contains sodium sulphite
and coal tar color.
IJnfermented grape juice-Contains
5.S5 per cent alcohol, coal tar color,
saccharin, salicylic ocid, but no grape
juice.
Orange syrup-Colored with coal tar
dye.
Jelly-Sample contains coal tar color.
Oyster cocktail catsup-Sample con-
tains coal tar color and salicylic acid
Catsup-Sample is misbranded in not
declaring the presence of sodium ben
zoate and coal tar color.
Strawberry jam-Sample contains
benzoic acid and coal tar color.
Raspberry syrup-SWeetened with
saecharin, colored with coal tar color
and favored with compound ethers.
Not made from raspberries.
Butter-The sample is oleomargarlne
colored with coal tars dye
-Oleomargarine colored with
a coal tar color to resemble butter.
Strawberry soda-Sweetened with
saccharin, colored with coal tar dye.
Extract of bitter almonds-Sample
Is AZ per cent alcohol and colored with
coal tar dye.
Butter-Sample is oleomargarine col
ored yellow with coal tar color.
Orange soda-Sample artiicially col
ored with coal tar color.
Jelly roll--The jelly contains red coal
tar color. The cake is colored yellow
with coal tar coor ir sufficient amount
to be detected by the direct applica-
ton of hydrochloric acid.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-12

A street railway company has lot
of trouble. The Metropolitan of Kan
sas City has been sued for $4,000 by
young mother The woman's baby
is In an incubator. and she claims the
fault lies with the street railway COM
pany. She was riding and the cars
jolted her.
Indiana farmers are finding the.
blades in their oat fields bearing a
letter b as clearly defined as II made
with a die. Before the Civil War the
blades of oats bore a plain w, fore
telling that great conflict, but what
does b mean? 1t is a prophecy, tho
telegraph says, that none of us can in
terpret
Mrs. Suzanne Dean of Chicago
brought suit against her step-daughters
to recover her share of her husbands
estate, and they made private settle
ment with her, giving her $685. 730, the
only stipulation being that she destroy
her diary, and she agreed. 1t must
have been interesting reading, that
diary, to be worth $193,730.
Everyone, men, women and children,
and the dog behind, formed long pro-
cessions yesterday into the town of
Star City, Ark, word having been sent
broadcast of the biggest event in
many years. And the sight paid them,
for thirty minutes later when the pro-
cession turned homeward, those who
formed it were talking in pleased ex-
element They had just seen negro
lynched.
The good state of Maine has a spasm
every time anyone sells beer in that
state but it permits man named San
munity that is dsgraceful. Mrs. Alfred
Whitaker has filed suit against Eli
jah" Sanford for $4,000 damages. He
had induced her husband and self to
join him and they had gone with him
to Jerusalem to found a new Mecca.
There one of the Whitaker children
died of starvation. Sanford refused it
food, saying it was only the carnal
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-12
THE FOUNDER

| ~ NHIEF OF POLICE GALLOWAY'S S
suggestion to establish a city farm
| ~ upon which FOUNDERS" may be
placed while it is necessary to keep
them in durance and perhaps give them
medical treatment is in line with the
conclusions of the closest students of
penology, which are arrived at from a
radically different viewpoint than the
one of former generations.
The old ideas on this subject are
hard to shake off. They looked upon
the incarceration of persons as having
for its main purpose a reformation by
punishment. The new penology aims
to punish only in so far as it is neces-
sary to protect society by its example,
but more to reform the individual,
change his viewpoint, build up his
moral and physical nature, give him
back to the world as useful member
and thus in many cases affect for good
generations yet unborn.
The "rounder" who comes up repeat
edly in the police court for intoxication
and for the things an intoxicated man
will do is not usually vicious, but is the
victim of an appetite he cannot con-
troll Drunkenness, it is now recog-
nized. is due to a definite pathologlc
condition, often from insufficient or
improper nutrition. The victims will
to resist temptation has been weak
ened by his physical condition. Often
he can be set on his feet by proper
I, hND h II
work If so, the effort is worth while.
But it also pays the community. 1t
would not cost a quarter what it does
to degrade petty offenders by idleness
in a Jail, only to release them for the
next debauch, to treat them as Chief
Galloway suggests, by putting them TO
work on a farm where their infirmities
can be medically treated, their bodies
built up by exercise, their self-respect
and confidence restored and healthful
industry made a part of their habits.
Such farm, properly managed,
ought to be made self-supporting, what
is now a drain on the public treasury
being thus turned into profit. 1t
would pay moral dividends. 1t would be
the golden rule applied to penology.
1t is not utopian, but has been proved
practical.
Los Angeles, which leads the world
in several other respects, can add to
her enviable reputation by putting into
practice the plan of Chief Galloway,
which in its way is as beneficent and
necessarv as Judge IindSeyS method
of handling boy offenders in Denver.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-12
Development Of the Telephone

employees in 1907 works out at about
S762, as against approximately $500 in
1902, the ratio of gain in 1907 being
per cent. The average of wages paid
to wage earners in 1907 was little
in excess of Sap, whereas in 1902 the
rate was $4O7.S9, on which basis the
increase per employe in the five year
period was only IL per cent The in
dustry is largely concentrated in the
populous north Atlantic and north
central states. Between 1902 and 1907
the wire of the mutual systems and
the farmer or rural lines increased
by 46O,4 ,447 miles, or SS09 per cent,
while the number of telephones ad-
vanced by 546,542. or 376.S per cent. II
may be of interest to note that in 1902
there were 1,31S,350 miles of wire de-
voted to the use of telegraph systems
whereas the telephone systems had
4,900,541 miles; in 1907 the telegraph
systems employed 1,570,773 miles of
wire, which compared with 1899, 1853
miles used by the telephone com-
panies.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-12

For me the jasmine buds unfold
And silver daisies star the lea,
The crocus boards the sunset gold,
And the wild rose breathes for me-
| feel thl sap through the bough returning
| share the skylarks transport fine
| know the fountains wayward yearning;
l love, and the world is mine!
l love. and thoughts that some time grieved,
Still well remembered, grieve not me-
From all that darkened and deceived
Upsoars my spirit free,
For soft the hours repeat one story,
Sings the sea one strain divine
My clouds arise all flushed with glory;
l love, and the world is mine.
Florence Earle Coates.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-12
SEES HIDDEN REASON FOR THE
ANTl-FlGHT PICTURE CRUSADE

Editor Herald: This great hue and
cry in regard of the Jeffries- johnson
fight pictures in face of the fact that
moving pictures of lynching, bank rob-
berries, stabbings and murders in gen.
eral can run right on without protest
from anyone seems to show that some
deeper reason than their supposed bru-
talizing effect is at the bottom of it
all.
After 2000 years of preaching and
teaching of false conceptions about the
book of life" can it possibly be that
the powers that be are discovering
that the white race is losing her hold
on the pure river of life" hence this
howl. Mountains fall on us and hide
our hame."
The prophecies of the Bible are slow
ly but surely fulfilling themselves
AMI soon Babylon will come in re-
membrance of God. j. NJ.
Los Angeles, July II.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-12
IN HIS DAILY WALK

what makes Pitherting take such
mincing steps," asked the man with
the excess of side whiskers. He trips
along with such short PAGES that he
looks positively funny"
1T just another If his theories ex-
plains the man with the glittering eyes.
'He cured himself of dyspepsia by f1et
cherizing his food and now he's trying
to cure his rheumatism by fletcher
izing his steps. Life,