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Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-16
URGES ALL TO INVESTIGATE
HORRORS OF THIRD DEGREE

Los ANGELES, Feb. 14.-[Editor
Herald: In the World Today, mag
azine of large circulation and excel
lent repute, there is running a series
of articles on THE Menace of the
Police" They are by Hugh c. Weir
well known editor, and that which
appears this month is entitled THE
Bully in the Blue Uniform 1t deals
with the administration of the third
degree" and is one of the most awful
revelations l have ever read. l wish
to ask, through the medium of your
Letter Box, whether readers of and
contributors to it have perused that
article.
If they have not 1 can only say, in
all sincerity, that they should do so
without one moments delay, il they
wish to have their eyes opened to what
is going on in almost every large city
in this country. They should ask for
it at the book stores, insist on copies
being procured for them and create
for it the largest possible demand.
Through my own negligence I my
self have only just read this article.
l find it impossible 20 write of it with
calmness, both because Of the fiend-
ish cruelties it reveals and the unpar
donable public apathy to which it
points. For assuredly the fact that
such conditions prevail in this country
and age, and that editors, lawyers and
politicians, as a class, do not venture
to expose them, because Of the intlu-
ence welded by the police, is an in
fanny that will brand us far and wide
as barbarians and make those of us
who have some sense of true patriot
ism left ashamed that we bear the
name of Americans
Everyone who processes to be a re-
former should read This article and
circulate it, if only that The matter
may be promptly investigated ard the
truth revealed. If the police, against
whom these accusations are launched,
have been slandered thereby, let us by
ali means know it.
There are those who have declared
to me that the Prison Reform league
has exaggerated in lis recently pub
lished book If the statements of Mr..
Weir are correct it certainly has un-
derstated the case, which is exactly
what Brand Whitlock wrote the league.
IT X G.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-16

of Crime and Criminals" and reads
as follows:
1T is not going beyond the domain
of exact truth" says former Governor
Johnson, ito assert that no ordinary
citizen without position, political in
fluence or wealth is safe from an in
fringement of hi rights if he unfor-
tunately falls under the suspicion of
the police. In such a case he is lucky
if he escapes alone with q deprivation
of his liberty, and is not subjected to
humiliation, degradation, insult and
assault The principal and individual
rights guaranteed by the constitution
and the laws, both state and national,
are not possessed by the mass of the
people of our city, and the deprivation
is through an Lsurped authority of
the police department, without right
or reason"
There might be added the affidavit
of an Alabama deputy sheriff who
was making from $4,000 to $1,000 per
year and explained it thus: II can
take up anybody on suspicion
Through a misprint, the figures
quoted in round numbers from Gov
ernor Altgeld's report are overstated.
They should read 1000 out of 10000. The
full text of this also can be found on
page 14S.
Like every other prison reform ad
vocate, l am protesting against the
system, not individual officers, many
OF whom do the best they can under
difficulties. In common with many
thousand, I feel profoundly grateful
to The Herald-for it's intelligent hand
ling, its ceaseless and fearless cham
pionship of this and every other hu-
manitarian measure.
ALICE STEBBINS WELLS.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-16
FRANKENSTEIN BABY

n OPULAR interest in q federal
steamship line for the Pacific is
l. being increased with the spread
Of information on the subject. There
is not a chamber of commerce or a
Merchants and Manufacturers asso-
citation or a board of trade in South
California that would not find it to its
advantage and to that of the people to
take an active interest in the steam
ship movement
With genuine competition in rates,
the industrial interests of Southern
California would receive a benefit and
a stimulus that in some cases would
be equal to emancipation. Conditions
of boost instead of conditions of re-
striction would be established and en-
couragement substituted for discour-
agement. No proposition that has
heen advanced for the benefit Of Cali
fornia has had a more direct bearing
on "the meat of the matter" the i'm
provement of conditions for the peo-
pie who make their living here.
In lis testimony in the suit to dis
solve the Union Pacifie-Southern Pacific
merger, John c.. Stubs, general traffic
manager of the Hartman lines, said
1.-THE Southern Pacific is California's
baby 1t pets that baby more than
any one else, ana it spanks it, too,
sometimes" Mr.. Stubs comparison
is amusing, but If symbolical terms
must be used it would be nearer the
truth to say California, like Franllen-
stein, created a special being in the
hope it would be helpful but the min
ute it passes the stage of helpfulness
and turns upon its creator and bene-
factor to exploit and devour it. then it
becomes a monster, to be restrained
and curbed.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-16
FUEL OIL

NY substituting oil fuel for coal the
* British navy has introduced a
~ change that may well be described
as revolutionary, and as it is intended
to use American as well as European
oil in filling and keeping replenished
the 100000 tons storage tanks provided
there will be a big new demand. The
first order placed by the admiralty was
for $4,000 tons of oil, equal to II, 900 900
gallons.
If the experiment should be success
full oil as fuel will be used by all the
armed navies of the world, and then by
all the mercantile navies. The COM
plant of a possible scarcity of coal
will lose its force. Coaling stations will
be replaced by oil tank stations, and
in the highly improbable event of a
war the enemy's enterprise will lead
him to attempt to shell his opponents
oil tanks and reservoirs as the easiest
way of ending the trouble.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-16
HUMORIST ED

II ING EDWARD is certainly a very
Ia busy man. His life is one blamed
IA thing after another. His intel
lect is taxed by more different kinds
of demands than have engaged the in
tellect of imperial statesmen since the
old Frenchman who said Il am the
government" Miss Shonts asked his
most gracious majesty to draw a pic
ture of himself in her torture book" j"
A torture book is the latest fad,
y'llnow. The tortured is blindfolded,
then is compelled to draw a picture of
himself.
His most gracious majesty pondered
Miss Shonts' request, then rendered
this imperial decision:
II could not draw straight line
to save my life"
"Your most gracious majesty said
Miss shonts, that has nothing to do
with the matter"
We wonder if his most gracious ma
jesty saw the joke. What made the ex-
alted chieftain of the ancient Teutonic
house of Victim & co. think there are
any straight lines in his rotund fig
ure?
Or is he really a humorist?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-16
LOS ANGELES BONDS

H H. ROLLINS &s SONS report a
H good demand for Los Angeles
A' water bonds in the east. This
is only one of numerous practical evil
dences of the interest taken by the east
in the development of Los Angeles.
The story of the growth of our city is
constant Inspiration to eastern
boomers, They are saying: Look
what Los Angeles did. Cannot we do
as well?"
Los Angeles believes the first pre-
requisite of success is the establish
ment of a condition that will command
it. There is eommon-sense in this.
Success is not accidental; although
from time to time you may read the
success of this or that man or this or
that enterprise has been ."accidental''
or phenomenal" No success can be
accidental, and, strictly speaking, none
can be phenomenal, because success is
a logical condition resulting from cor
ditions precedent. Success is the sum
and the fruition of intelligent endeavor.
This accounts for the great prosperity
Of Los Angeles and the marvellous sue
cess of the Los Angeles way.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-16
NEW WOMEN

i STRONG argument for separation
"a of boys and girls in high schools
"A is offered by Job Wood, statisti-
clan in the office of State Superintend-
ent of Public instruction Hyatt. He
says boys are handicapped by the girls,
who for their age are smarter than
boys and more advanced in their
studies.
Many boys are disgusted to find that
in competition with girls the girls in
variably get higher marks. The boys
dislike the situation and become anx-
ious to leave school.
All this is very interesting because
of the possibilities it suggests of what
may happen under female suffrage and
with the women competing with men
on terms of wage equality in every pur-
suit.
viii the men, outshone by the wom-
en-, quit in disgust? If SO, what will
become of them? VIII the women
consent to support an ever growing
idle class of men, forced out Of COM
petition by the women? VIII the old
joke become a business reality, and
will papa stay home and tend the baby
while mamma goes out and hustles?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-16
GREATER LOS ANGELES

N REATER LOS ANGELES will be
eT enriched by the addition of East
W Hollywood. and East Hollywood
will be a gamer by becoming a part
of our great metropolitan city. East
Hollywood will bring to Los Angeles
fine streets. excellent buildings, good
public schools, and park area unsur-
passed anywhere in the world Los
Angeles will bring to East Hollywood
good government. square dealing, effi-
cient police protection and a prosperity
which is more marvellous than that of
any other city in civilization. East
Hollywood, as part of Greater Los An
geles, will help the enlarged city to
continue to demonstrate to the world
the efficiency, enterprise, progress and
achievement which constitute the Los
Angeles way.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-16

The selfish special interests de-
nounced by Roosevelt as ''malefactors
of great wealth. were by Lincoln called
"tyrants." No president of the United
States who mistakes American rebellion
against tyrannical malefacters for
"hysteria'' is correctly reading or in
terpreting present-day public opinion.
Our honest but mistaken executive
view before the man of the people re
turns from Elba," because Rooseveltism
(by Taft renamed hysteria) is more
popular than ever it was.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-16
THE COMET
BY MARY E. KENNISTON

should the comet bolt with awful jolt
Against our little planet,
We would go with a dash and mighty crash
Too far for thought to span 1t.
II its tail should switch, headlong pitch
Would be our lively portion;
We would change our lot for who knows what
With Just one swift contortion.
What a check complete to the price of meat,
And all industrial hurryl
What final blow TO pomp and show,
What an end to the poor mans worry!
This sudden move God might approve,
For then he could take the pieces
And start us anew. all straight and true.
Without any kinks or creases;
With never a trust to make unjust
Ine cost OF beef or bacon;
with brotherhood we'll understood.
| And greed and graft forssken
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-16
CRIMINAL LAWYER SAYS
POLICE UsURP THEIR POWERS

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 1S.-[Editor
Herald: AS it is my intention always
to adhere strictly to proven facts and
the brevity of an address does not per-
nit much detail, perhaps you will par
& n my taking this medium to pub
licly submit the complete statements.
NV declaration that mo man Is safe
without money or influence is an
abbreviated quotation from an arraign.
ment by f, rmer Governor Johnson or
Missouri g. noted criminal lawyer. Ine
fuIl text c: be found ION page l54
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-16
BARD OF RAGPlCkERS
DWELLS ON FOOD PRICES

They're sending up the price of wheat.
we pay a lot for a little meat:
The greens we get cost more and more,
Life never came so high before.
They lie in wait at every turn
To get, somehow, everything we earn.
But God still lets us have the right
To breathe free air with all our might.
BARD OF THE ORDER OF RAGPICKERs
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-16
AT The THEATERS

AUDIToRIUM-Dar
BELASCO-"TheM Man OF the Hour"
BURBANK-"Cameo Kirby"
TSCHER'S-Musical farce,
GRAND-"Florodora
LOS ANGELES-Vaudevi
hIAJESTIC-"Mary James Pa"
MASON-"The Boys and Betty
ORPHEUM-yaudev
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-16

A federal steamship line on the Pa
cific would be profitable. Not only
would 1t help the west by emancipat-
ing it's industrialism from railroad rate
expenses
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-16

January normal building record for
Los Angeles would have been a boom
record for any other city. In the first
month of 1910. Los Angeles erected 75s
buildings, at cost of $1,76e,431. The in
crease over January. 1909, was 17S pei
cent.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-16

Farewell, loan sharks! Goodbye,
billboardst All the undesirables will
please move on. There is no room in
lovely Los Angeles for any but good
people and good institutions.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-16

Los Angeles bank clearings February
Is, 1870 $9,49777612; increase over to-
tai February Is, 1909. $1,31S,6 ,616.03. This
is an excellent illustration of the Los
Angeles way of doing business under
an Uncle Aleck administration.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-16

Probably the white slave bill will
become a law. and a victory for the
cause of public morality will have been
gained. Yes. The nation is growing
better as we'll as greater.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-16

New land has been found in the
south Pacific near the Antarctic zone,
but it will be long time before there
will be a real estate boom down there.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-16
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENCE Intended
for publication must bo accompanied by tho
gives tie widest latitude TO cOrresp pondents.
but assumes no responsibility for their views
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-16

Soon Greater Los Angeles will be bill
boardless. Public sentiment is most
potent and benefcent factor in the life
of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-16

Said Abraham Lincoln: 1.-THE Decla-
ration Of Independence will forever re-
main a. stumbling in the pathway
of tyrants." How frequently is special
instruction in the Declaration of Inde-
pendence given in the public schools?
And by whom is 1t expounded? How
often is 1t read in class?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-16
NOT EVEN FOR A PLACE

Redd--Do you think your friend will
ever get place in history
Greere-I wouldn't like to bet ON him
for a place.--Yonlxers Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-16

On all matters pertaining TO advertising
address Charles r. Gates. advertising man
ager.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-16
CLEAR, CRISP AND CT Fam

Population Of Los Angeles 327. .6s5
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-16

Tomorrow-The Panama Lottery.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-16

HESE are busy times around
the Smithsonian institution
and the National museum.
The more than 5000 verte-
brates collected by the
Roosnye1t- Smithsonian A fri
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-01

Editor Times Republican:| send
inclosed to you for publication with nv
name signed to 1t so that all respons-
ibility rests on me. Everybody seems
afraid TO say anything and I am tired
Of it. P. c. WAIiRAy-F,S.
The approval of the Taft admins
tration by the Iowa state convention
on Aug. 9. 1870
Why should this convention approve
OF the Taft administration? What is
there in the Taft administration which
should be approved of by the people ?
Let US analyze and see. The Taft ad-
ministration, that is the Taft part of
it, broke the pledge of the republican
them for that? No.
Shall we approve Of his effort thru
Ballinger to turn over to the Morgan
helm syndicate thru the Cunningham
claims, coal lands III Alaska Shall We
approve OF his effort to deceive the
people by ante-dating his letter? Was
he honest with the people. Shall we
approve of his effort TO deceive the
people by getting out an injunction
against the railroads, enjoining them
from raising the rates and then having
1t appear in the press every few days
The railroads has postponed the rails
ing Of rates?" My dear progressiyes,
the railroads have already raised the
rates on over 5000 articles by changing
the classification and yet the admins
tration asks US to approve of these at
tennpts to deceive and wrong US. My
progressive friends If you have any
nerve il you have the sand to protect
Your rights and to protest upon any in
fringement thereon then refuse to be
tied and battered, be men and stand
up like men, have the courage of your
convictions, remember the Boston tea
party. Be worthy of your forefathers.
Il say again refuse to endorse. Again
ask are there any reasons why we
should endorse the administration that
refuses to recognize that We exist?
They say we are democrats (while call
ing upon the democrats for help) How
can they ask the endorsement Of those
whom they claim are democrats? BE
honest with the people, be honest with
yourselves. Do not go home with lot
of fimsy excuses for your want of
manhood, for your want Of courage.
Stand up and be counted for the right.
stand up and be counted for humanity.
"P. C. WALRAvEN.
Lyons. Iowa July 80, 1870"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-01
WHY NOT CHANGE The fleuREs7

At the convention Of the National
Good Roads Association. B. T. Toakurn
quoted these figures:
We have ZOO, 900 miles Of public
roads. From the best Information OBJ
tainable here are about $4,000 miles,
or TWO miles out Of each 100 under a
highs tandard % Improvement. There
are not more than $4,000 miles. or
eight miles out OF each 100 under any
kind q Improvement. In other words,
We have 1.925.000 miles Of public roads
which are in as poor condition now as
they were when they were laid out by
our early settlers and pioneers
Stop and think on the figures given
above only one mile of every twenty
five over which practically every pound
OF foodstuffs is hauled or wagons one
way and q larger part Of all other pro-
duction hauled back 10 the farms: and
OF the 100 mile stretch but two miles
OF road is good in all kinds of weather,
under al conditions at all times Of the
year.
Two miles of actually good road
isn't enough for 100 mile haul or
drive. Eight miles Of road which has
seen a grader or a road drag is too
small a proportion when measured
against 100.
Figures astonish. 50 far that is
about al they have accom- pltshed Isn't
it about time establishment gave way
to activity and something were done
on the highways?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-01
WHAT CT TOMORROW?

Yesterday the vast pine forests
stretched over the northwest where to-
day its recaying stunlps stand IN the
midst OF tangle OF second growth and
wild berry bushes. And upon this we
aret old by competent and scientific
foresters that these forests by proper
conservation might have blessed
hundred generations. Their annihila-
ton made many miliionalres; made
lumber comparatively cheap TO The pio-
neer who bulk his modest house and
fenced his acres with clear pine lumber
but today is collecting the bills run by
yesterday Today there are neither
forests nor pioneers.
Replying 10 the question Shall the
nation take thought for the morrow %
Francis P. Elliott IN an article publish
ed in an eastern magazine offers some
interesting facts and figures. He says:
Since the United States Went into
the land business, more than two bill
lion acres on this continent have been
acquired for sale and disposal AL
thai we have left IS as mali remnant
reserved for free homes Tor the settler
We have 16S.oG0 900 acres in national
forests and exclusive Of Alaska. an IN
appropriated domain OF 36s.S.3,!sl
acres. This is the last Of the nations
public lands. The public lands have
ever been q shining target for some ad-
venturous game. Many are the schemes,
OBVIOUSLY and adroiily disguised as en-
terprises for the public veal. which the
congress has had 10 resolutely con-
front and Inwart il recent years. We
have grown wise from sad experience
In the past. The west need have no
apprehension OF the east in the mat
ter OF the conservation Of our national
apprehension that the west i not anx-
ious and capable in conserving condi-
ftions for its citizens Of today as we'll
as posterity. Western people are the
only ones directly in touch with our
national forests They, more than all
others in the land. are interested in
preserving these forests for the pur-
poses originally corten plated by tns
public and the congress-namely, con-
servation OF tiInbe growth and the
protection of watersheds. 1t IS my OBJ
servation in the west that this original
purpose is universally popular among
all classes: therefore II would seem
that the real esponsibility for success
% the institution of national forests
rests mainly in wise administration.
Shall the nation take thought for the
morrow?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-01
NOR AERAlp Of AUTOS.

Editor TlrDeS-Repuplcan: AZ one OF
my farmer patrons intended buying an
automobile and he had the money with
which to make the purchase. or, II be
was we'll able to borrow the money, he
would meet with no opposition from
me. In fact 1t is matter of some pride
to me to see our Iowa farmers riding
in their autonobi AS rule no
other farmers are so we'll able to ride
in them. When the farmers first began
investing in autos the terms We're cash
and few if any sales were made on
any other terms. Last year the sales
We're made on part cash and time. A
large number OF farmers gave their
notes for five to eight hundred dollars
as part payment This year no cash
payment is required. Any Iowa farm
er's note will be taken for the full
purchase price.
This puts an entirely different phase
to the situation as many farmers who
have heavy mortgages on their farms
seeing their more prosperous neighbors
riding In their autos do not hesitate
to make the purchase deferring the
payment to another year. Even this
situation might not be SO bad if the
mortgage on the farm was the only
obligation owing but in many instances
heavy line Of credit Is being extended
these farmers by the banks and the
business men and no matter how ur-
gent the demand is for money for local
use payments are delayed.
AS an exaggerated example Of the ex-
tremes 10 which a farmer will go VIII en-
he has the automobile fever 1 might
cite you TO one case in which he gave
his note for the full purchase price of
an s1,1oo machine after having Dor
rowed the money to pay the interest
on the mortgage on his farm.
1t stands TO reason that the inter-
ests Of the Iowa farmer and the Iowa
banker are too closely related to allow
Of any breach and no one Is more vital
ly interested in the welfare and ulti-
mate success of the Iowa farmer than
that same banker. If a farmer is hon
est and Industrious 1t is a well de-
fined plan to extend him credit; to
encourage him to buy farm and go
in debt for it, to go in debt for hogs
and cattle with which TO stock it and to
stand by him in any honest emergency
and by this method hundreds of farm
ers who might still be day laborers or
renters are owners of their farms In
this process 1t is absolutely necessary
for the banker 10 take lively inter-
est in what the farmer is doing and
buying. II when his credit is strained
to the limit he buys a threshing ma
chine outfit, a stallion or an automobile
Or such things become a common prac-
tice 1t is only good business to sound
the alarm; but if he has the money
or the credit let him buy automo biles,
aeroplanes or what not, or take his
family to California or Europe and I
am sure that his Iowa banker will en-
ter no objection but will bid him God
speed.
WILL G. PERSON.
Cashier.