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Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
ABOUT JOHN D.

Any feeling of nervousness that
comes over the average person when
about to come into the presence of
John D. Rockefeller is quickly dis
PEELED. Those who know him well say
he is a giant in intellect. woman in
sentiment and tenderness and a child
in simplicity. If any one comes into
his presence with any trepidation it
is quickly dspelled by the courtesy he
shows to the stranger, the warmth of
his hand grasp and the geniality of
his smile.
In his home Mr.. Rockefeller keeps
himself secluded and sees only those
callers whom he cares to talk to-, but
on the golf field, in the street car, or in
the church he meets everybody and
holds out his arms to man, woman and
child. 1t is interesting to watch him
when he comes to services in the Fifth
Avenue Baptist church at West For
ty-sixth street AS soon as he enters
the church he grasps the hand of the
first person he meets. Whether he ever
met him or saw him before makes no
difference.
'How are you this morning? So glad
to see you Isn't the weather beauti-
full? Sorry to hear you have not been
we'll"
And so for fifteen minutes until the
usher leads him to his pew he con-
tinues to talk to every one. He is
very fond of children, and If there is
child there he will take 1t up in his
arms, fondle 1t and caress 1t. and COM
pliment its father and mother on its
beauty.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
UNION DECLARED OF GREAT
BENEFIT TO CORPORATION

Editor. Herald One of the incom-
prehensibe things about the fight
against the labor unions Is that the
futility and uselessness would not have
impressed itself on a management
which must be credited with more than
ordinary acumen. If our present gi-
gantic combinations of business in
terests are the legitimate and reason
able evolution of century of progress,
and are made necessary and impera-
tive by changed conditions, why is not
the same true of the trades union?
Surely no one will deny that labor
conditions have changed, and that they
needed to change, and that the change
has been brought about mainly by the
labor union.
If business methods of combinations
are changing for the better has 1t not
been due more to the insstent demand
of public opinion and legislation than
from any change of heart? And while
public opinion has been a factor in the
improving of the condition of labor
no one will deny that the labor union
as q whole has had a good deal more
to do with It, and If the interests dare
to tell the truth, and some of them,
notably the railroads, do admit it, the
union has been of inestimable benefit
to the country at large and to the in
terests on whose payrolls its members
are carried. e. F.
Los Angeles, July 1.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
SAYS NEW ORDINANCE WILL
PUT MILK IN TRUSTS HANDS

Editor Herald: l notice that new
milk ordinance containing several pro-
gressiVe features, the principal pro-
vision being one requiring milk to be
l.reduced to a temperature of go degrees
Immediately after being taken from the
COW and maintained at that tempera-
ture until delivered to the consumer,
will be presented to the council TO pc
acted on tomorrow. This ordinance
enacted into law means ice at once. 1t
means that the small producers, VINO
have from half a dozen to twenty-five
or thirty cows but not enough TO pay
them for the extra expense necessary
to provide n constant supply of ice on
their ranches, can't send their milk to
Los Angeles at all. II means great
reduction in the available supply OF
milk for the city and a big increase IN
the price to the consumers. 1t means
that the city's supply of milk must all
come from big dairies. 1t will put that
branch of business in the hands of q
merCiless milk trust backed by the ice
trust OF course IL that is what our
| board of health Is for, and If the people
want that kind of thing, why that Is
what we should have, but let us not
deceive ourselves with the idea that we
will get any better milk than we are
getting now, or that the ordinance will
be a good thing for the people. 1t will
be bad for them, but it will be great"
for the big producers. the ice trust and
the milk trust. 1t occurs to me that
the council should make haste very
! slowly" in the adoption of the proposed
| ordinance. 5. ID. RANNELLS.
! Los Angeles, June 30.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
A NEW TRIBUTARY

N CARCE a day fails to produce
some new evidence of the grow
~ ing prosperity of Los Angeles or
assurance of its greater importance.
A sign of both is the new line of the
Santa Fe direct to Phoenix, Ariz., that
was put into full operation for the
first time yesterday. The character of
the structural work and the running
equipment is up to the Santa Fe stand
ard, which is equivalent to saying that
it is up to the Los Angeles standard.
One proof of this is a million-doll
bridge, said to be the finest thing of
the kind in the far west.
The road taps a country heretofore
largely inaccessible, rich with minerals
in some parts and in others with land
that when watered will compare favor
ably with other soil in the Pacific
slope That it will eventually be peo-
pied by eastern humanity well forti-
fed with eastern capital seems certain
The promising little city of Parker is
already one of the healthy progeny of
the new line.
Los Angeles enterprise will not be
slow to take advantage of the new
trade opportunities opened up by the
road, and in time there is no doubt
that it will become one of the most
fruitful sources of commerce for the
city.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
TEACHERS PAY

T HERE will be practically no dis
sent, it is safe to say, from the
h decision of the Los Angeles board
of education to bring the salaries of
public school teachers up to a stan
dard more nearly beftting the work
and responsibilities they bear The pol
icy of California authorities has never
been to pay their teachers the beggar-
ly wage allowed in some states. 1t is
satisfact ction to say that only one
state in the Union has a higher average
New York, with $S6.72, California
coming second with $75.3O and in the
pay of women teachers, who are in the
large majority, California leads all cx-
cept Nevada, the figures for the two
states being $6737 and $6796 respect
lively.
In the New England states, to which
one looks for educational leadership we
find Maine paying only an average of
S3O.S6 and New Hampshire $500, which
bad eminence is only beaten by states
like Mississippi and Georgia that are
notoriously behind in all educational
matters. Even these compare with
foreign figures to our advantage.
France pays as low as 1920 a year,
Sweden $780, Spain 800, Italy $3.50;
while in the great city of Berlin $3.50
is the largest salary paid. In the Unit
ed Kingdom male teachers get an
average of $3.50 and women 5000.
These figures largely explain why
America leads the world in education.
You cannot get good service and keep
it without paying a fair price for it.
Teachers who are given less than that
will make their profession a stop-gap,
leaving it at the first opportunity for
a more remunerative vocation. Hence
the California policy is a wise and
beneficial one.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
EUROPE is ASKED TO SEND
SURPLUS POPULATION HERE

Editor Herald: If the writer of a
novel should unfold and develop in his
work a plan similar to that being de-
yeloped by our immigration commits
sioner, the book would be called an
extravaganza. and he planted in some
insane asylum. Here is this whole Inn
migration business in nuNshell:
We tax the taxpayers to raise large
sums of money to send commissioners
and handbills over to Europe to say to
those people over there, You are
cursed with overpopulation In your
country: you scarcely have standing
room, and poverty. want and immor-
aIity are the natural consequences.
Now send over your surplus millions
to our country and curse us in the
same way, and we'll help you all we
can" N. o.
Long Beach, June 25..
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
PATRIOT HERRIN
\" LILLIAN F. HERRIN of the
wv Southern Pacific railroad COM
KI.hn ha shan nod the q ffa ire

" LILLIAN F. HERRIN of the
wv Southern Pacific railroad COM
W pany, who has shaped the affairs
of the Republican party and of Cali
fornia for many years, went up to Ore
gon the other day and made an ad-
dress before a college graduating class.
1t was a speech full of the loftiest
thoughts on government and tributes
to such patriots as George Washing
ton and Abraham Lincoln.
Some hardened souls may be inclined
to ribaldry or sneer when Mr.. Herrin
delivers himself of beautiful platitudes
on good citizenship but that is be-
cause they do not understand his point
of outlook. He views with alarm the
ill-considered acts of the plebeian
rabble in disturbing the status of
things for the ignus fatuus of reform,
and his spirit trembles for the stabil-
ity of representative government.
Listen:
Observation has convinced me
that those who lightly propose
notifications in the fundamental
structures of our government have
no true comprehension of the force
and meaning of their proposals.
Those who so ardently urge these
revolutionary notifications do not
understand that they would surely
nullify and destroy representative
government. They DO NOT STOP
TO CONSIDER-IN THE LIMITA-
TIONS OF THEIR KNOWLEDGE
THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND
that the principle of pure democ-
racy which they would substitute
for the representative principle. is
a thing filched from the scrapheap
of past times and discredited sys-
TENS, g device many times used
and as often discarded as wanting
in the elements essential to a per-
manent or stable government.
So it is not given to the masses to
possess the wisdom to govern them
selves, and they prove it by their in
gratitude to those few enlightened
minds who, as true patriots, give of
their time and substance to organize
and guide the state. Thus constrained
by the philosophy of the old Roman
patricians, of Louis XIV who said, Il
am the state" and of George F. Baer.
who said the anthracite coal trust
was ordained of God to mine the
Pennsylvania deposits, it is made clear
why William F. Herrin has been so
active in public affairs. Unselfshly
he was saving the people from them
selves by preserving to them, with the
aid of the Southern Pacific company,
the blessing of representative, stable
government"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
THE PRIZE FIGHT

Now that the big fight is to take
place in Reno, those congressman who
were going to San Francisco to study
the worlds fair boom at close range
may change their routes.-Buffalo Ex-
press.
If Reno gets the fight she'll be so
stuck up she'll be bidding for the Pana-
ma position.-Memphis Commercial
Appeal.
big muscles are vulgar" says a
writer in the New York Times. That
a mighty unpopular doctrine to eX-
pound until after next months joint
debate at Reno.-Pittsburg Gazette
Times.
Prof. Jeffries is at Reno. AS his wife
accompanies him, the inference is that
his visit is not of the usual nature -
Newark News.
Perhaps the governor of California
may reconsider his decision now that
the leading exponent of the manly
art" is again in our midst.-Council
Bluffs Nonpareil.
1t is barely possible that the Califor-
MIA authorities will make Jeffries and
Johnson so peevish that they will al
most come to blows in earnest-Provi-
dence Tribune.
Governor Gillett should be very
popular man--in Reno.-Newark Star
Speaking of the shades of blackness
among pots and kettles, did you notice
that a Reno pastor made reference to
California's "crude civilization? ?"-Den-
yer Republican.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
THE VACATION

Now work Is DER. Wen loaf while
And then wen quick decide
lust where we shall the time beguile-
Where whence and how apide
lust get the paper and we'll scan
The advertisements Ger
All. here's the place The very piah!
Wen daily go a-bathing III the SAT- heAith
giving brine.
And we'll swim and splash and ioat'
And when the sunset summers make the
water look like wine,
Go sailing in boat!
And the days will quickly pass
For you, the pilot. lass
And me. the skipper,
For the sad sea waves
Are the glad sea waves
To the tripper.
But come to think of it, the crowd
is enormous, they say
The folks you meet are rude and loud.
Unreasonably gay.
| long for quietness, do not your
calm rest doth have its charm.
My dear, I'll tell you what we'll do
Wen settle on a farm!
There is something quite alluring in life
spent on farm,
Where the bird is making music and the
cook is making pies
And the is making butter and the
watchdog makes alarm,
And the boy is making fshhooks and the
girl is making eyes,
And the chicken makes high prices ana the
skeeter's making free,
And the pig is making bacon, and the bee
is making honey,
And the man is making burrows, and the
maid is making tea,
And the boarder's making merry and the
farmers making money
The shores all right, but gee!
The farm for me!
HIM! After all, I hate TO think
or bed at half-oast nine
/ know | wouldn't sleep a wink,
No country life for mine
The railroad cars are dusty, hot,
Wherever we may roam,
The prospect-wel ! like II mott
guess wen stay at home.
'Home home. sweet sweet home" etc.
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
State Press Echoes

The machine again taking over the
control of the party in the event of the
Democratic state ticket being elected.
1t is a despicable, cowardly, traitorous
scheme. The Record thinks it will fail.
We think Hiram Johnson will be nomi-
mated and elected in spite of the or
ganization S" = APPARENT treachery.-
Stockton Record.
Phil Stanton is candid enough to ad-
nit that, to use his own language,
this is no triumphant march and the
people are not fiocking to me by the
thousands" He says that they are
listening to what little he has to say
and adds, Il think they are thinking
deeply" Which causes the Riverside
Press to ask. what are they think
ing ?'-Escondido Advance.
The report of Meserve's candidacy Is
looked on as a good bit of a Joke and
considerable inquiry regarding it failed
to reveal anything definite or to evoke
anything but smiles at the suggestion.
Santa Monica Outlook
The tainted press of San Francisco
claims that Hiram w. Johnson is
hurting business" because he declares
that politics in California is boss-rid- =
den and corrupt. Isn't it? And If it
is, should not the fact be made public
in order that the evil may be reformed?
Sacramento Bee.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES

Former Governor Pennypacker of
Pennsylvania, discussing in Harrisburg
the divorce evil said with a smile:
why, even the children are taking
a flippant view of divorce. A Reno
lady, / have been informed, was call
ing on a friend when beautiful child
entered the room.
"The lady drew the child to her.
land whose little girl are your
81 don't know the urchin an
swered with a laugh. The decree isn't
expected till next month"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
Another Word to the Electric Companies

% % that @ @ S S. mother the sss.s Ss @st q ] cleared @
the
the
the between those companies and the city
invoking the referendum not
accepted
in take the matter out
u ns" % % me- m s G Su % by d tt " t % f tha osnoi in ab
rate determined
the fight they take this into court and can probably make
Ultimately however the city vii VIM and when does wn % tine os
the op EXISTING between & 'h[ ne @ @ % t p anu electric @ panies which
which be decided here within the next
taking their distributing systems by the
city when ready undertake supply electric light for public and private
At the time
the electric companies ought to appreciate the fact that @ this % % @ be %
against the public service corporations as compared with thousand
] g % opopotns PpPf naTG % sGa'TSa tb ns from UNJUST
the rate is unjust the electric that we do not con-
% @ ] ao $50 sorry I o Il" ] ANU W H tea m os soon as possible But
that any injustice that can be shown Is eoeG1eu as soon % as m ,ing
council cannot take up and go thor
the electric companies the matter has
the council will have another opportunity
In the meantime companies fully
showing the injustice of the Gen rate TINS
proofs this rate effect
majority of citizens are honest-W favor the
IT, fight then they will take
those whose only wish to see absolute 1usu
will close upon themselves the door OF compromise ana "
and nothing to lose by the policy OF
this election must show them
the matter and that they VIII sustain
the ion of
public utilities commission
believe that these gentlemen would
actions show their mis-
approaching the matter in spirit
of
city in the courts
which the companies probably IN the
certain portions OF the
public
Herald has been able to gather indicates
the prevailing rate for hs makes
companies nave COM
dollars The difference
the income of which the n rate should be
offered to the city difference in the gross income of
which more than one
half
T. not conceivable that with their
s 600 could seriously ability the public in the
in the companies was TO lose
would not seriously impair w
public However, the abhy
the city Whch my
electric companies in this city OF the
municipality to proceed beyond the
to such hght with the Zoo
the
Pasadena situation
smoothed mere hao the spirit
" aau +ho 1dison company tha appeared
had and will pursued make impossible any ad
of Oe'"''' "'0'' ~
and
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
ROuND TO HAPPEN

IT knew that young doctor wanted
to marry my daughter, but l was
sucker to forbid him to call at my
home socially"
"Why SOP"
"Then he called professionally. I'll
bet he got enough fees out of me this
winter to furnish the flat"-Louisville
Courier journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02

Percy Andreas of Cincinnati, in an
address on the effects Of prohibition
before the fftieth convention of the
United States Brewers association,
said that while 100000 people had
been put under prohibition laws in the
last fifteen years, the consumption of
whisky in that period had increased
80 per cent and the per capita con-
sumption OF beer more than 46 per
cent.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
AN uNwELcoME THEORY

do you believe in transmigration
said the mystically inclined woman.
mo" replied Miss Cayenne; this
fashionable high-collar habit might
compel too many of us to come back
a pira ffeS "
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENCE intended
name and address OF the writer. The Herald
gives the widest latitude to correspondents
but assumes no responsibility for their viewss
/ atters must not succeed 200 words.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
NOT INCLUDED.

You should be kind to all dumb
animals" said the humane young man.
Yes" replied his roommate. who was
shying things at the back fence But
this cat isn't dumb. He's merely deaf
to entreaty Washington Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02

The Washington Times says that
Cannon is still defiant. But nobody
cares any more. He is now looked up
on by most people as what Artemas
Ward called IAN amOosin' cuss."
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
Merely in Jest
MATRIMONIAL FELICITY

Mrs. Quackenness-Am you daugh-
tab happily mar'd, Sistah Sagg?
Mrs. Sagg-Shee sho is! Bless good
ness, she's done got a husband dat's
skeered to death of her!-Woman's
Home Companion.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02

The tobacco trust, which is going
to cut down the size of the cigarette
packages, would earn the gratitude Of
many people if it would make fur
ther cut to none in a packag
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02

Will the California college profess
sor who figures it out that this is
the year 1914 please tell us who won
the fight in Reno four years ago on
July 4, 1910?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
A PROsAIC FELLOW

"You can get an armful of daisies
for dine" pointed out the optimist,
land just look at their bright, merry
little faces"
what 10 I want with an armful of
daisies?" growled the pessimist I'D
rather have a cheese sandwich"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
Rapid IMPROVEMENTS.

There can be no doubt that the sub
marine, as an engine of destruction, has
long since passed out of the expert
mental stage.-NeW York Evening Post.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02

The Union Hollywood Water COM
pany has got out an injunction against
a reduction in rates. But speak it
softly; they might think of the ref
erendum.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
WITH OR WITHOUT?

ITS hard for a man to get along
without a woman"
There's only one, thing harder"
"What?'
"To get along with one."-Cleveland
Leader.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
COuLDN,T RISK IT

Husband-Did you hunt up the new
cooks references?
Wif-No, John, | didn't. was afraid
they might prove ejudicial.-Harper
Bazar.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02

Roosevelt Defeated by the New
York legislature newspaper head
line Yes, just as the insurgents were
beaten in the California Republican
state central committee. The machine
crowd was in the saddle and strong
enough to do it, but they will lose by
it in the end.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02

It is now fashionable to shake hands
at the waist line, and you no longer are
called upon to greet a friend in sas-
siety as if you We're going to pull his
nose.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02

The local internal revenue receipts
show a phenomenal gain, but that
may not entirely be a cause for con-
gratulation; it may mean that we are
drinking and smoking too much.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
NATURAL DIFFERENCE.

The railroad presidents show a ma
tural Difference toward Mr., Taft. He is
a valuable customer of theirs.-Boston
Transcript.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
A KINGS OPPORTUNITY.

If George V wishes to follow up his
revision of the coronation oath with
another good hit he will depose the poet
laureate.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
He CAN

Seems like a man would fly from
New York to st. Louis or Little Rock,
if he could, without any $5O,OO0 bonus.
Little Rock (Ark.) Democrat.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02

Elbert Hubbard says in a yellow
newspaper that we eat food to feed
our bodies. A wonderfully wise man
is the long-haired philosopher of Au-
rora.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
FIREWORKS AND FIREwATER

1t might he good plan to turn from
local option as to liquor to local option
to fireworks, and have an election at
nce.-From the Chicago Post.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02

How many people pronounce correct
ly the name of the most talked of
American? Two out of three rob him
of a syllable by saving Roo2e-velt in
stead of Roze-e-Velt
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
Far and Wide

IMPRESARIOS DISAPPOINTED.
Hammerstein landed in Russia about
the same time Burton Harrison landed
in the White House and in much the
same way.-Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02

Congressman McLachlan is home with
what he claims is a good record in
congress; but he is very silent about
his affiliations with Cannonism.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02

How would it do for the chamber of
commerce to put Thursdays election
returns under a glass case as an ef-
fective exhibit?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
is THIs CONSOLATION !?

Anyway, if will be long time before
another secretary of the interior is as
well known as Mr.. Ballinger.- Wash
ington Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
swEII.LITERATuRE

This is a very swagger novel, l
hear"
"Oh, very. The hero puts on dress
suit to sit alone and think about the
heroine"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02

What other great American city can
say with truth of its governing body
that every man Jack of them is
citizen Of real worth?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02

The explanation of the fellows who
lost appears to be that the people did
not know what was good for them.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02

If the city and county were consoli-
dated there wouldn't be so many cleo
tions. And that's not the least of the
argument for it.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02

No, the Jack London who is to write
up the fight for a string of yellow
journals is not the author of the Lon
don prize ring rules.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02
WOULD LIKE HIM TO KNOW.

Before starting out for Morocco Pri-
vate Secretary Carpenter would like
to know if Raisuli's latest death was
News.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02

In a very short time the census
bureau promises to tell us about sthe
count of noses.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-02

tuousness to call it her safe and sane
Fourth.