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Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-04
Import Duties
Cause High Cost of Living
(Modesto News)

T A FOLLETTE'S WEEKLY con-
tains a striking article giving the
- reasons why prices are soaring,
and makes the statement that any in
vestigation into the increased cost of
living must include the recent revision
upward OF the tariff law. The author
of the article is Clyde Fl. TaVenner,
the News special correspondent in the
city of Washington, and he therein lays
special emphasis upon the facts that
he has been hammering home for the
past several months to the minds of
our readers, that it is not the pro
portionate increase in the output OF
gold" nor yet the fault of the corner
grocer, but 1t is the excessive import
duties that are responsible. He says:
Why is the cost of living increasing
so fast in the United States?
For two months discussion over TINS
question has been raging like blizzard
of words, the zone of discomfort over
the II per cent increase in the cost OF
living during the last year extending
from Maine to Florida and from the
Atlantic to the Pacific.
There have been Investigations galore
But there seems to be a disposition on
the part of some investigators, at least,
to avoid looking into any corners whore
there is the remotest possibility of find
ing the real cause of the agitation.
President Taft declares the increase
in the cost of living is due to the PRO
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-04
SAYS LETTERS LIKE GENTLE
MANS WILL DO THE EDUCATING

EAGLE ROCK, March 1-[Editor
Herald: l wish to commend to read
ers of the Letter Box the letter in
Mondays Herald over the signature
of "A Gentleman" I wish that every
workingman, every toiling woman in
America could read that letter, for 1t
is a gem. 1t is more, it is a master
piece. 1t deserves a place in history
along with the Dred Scott decision and
firing on Fort Sumter, while it totally
outclasses the Burchard letters and
"God knows"
BODY Burns has said "a mans a
man for a that" but there appears to
be several kinds of "a Gentleman"
There are some who style themselves
gentlemen by reason of their ability
to enjoy good things of life without
rendering unto society equitable serv-
ice for what they receive. The au-
thor of the letter is, / take it, of this
class. He owns an automobile, for he
speaks of my chauffeur" According
to his letter, he had no part in pro-
ducing the auto; if he had 1t would
have been "preposterous" for him to
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-04
sLUM CONDITIONS INTEGRAL
FACTOR OF CRIME PROBLEM

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2S.-[Editor
Herald: Is it, 1 wonder, a mere coin
cidence that the article in this morn
ings Herald, wherein a writer for the
Prison Reform league crit, Uses Mrs
Maud Ballington Booth, follows Judge
Works strong plea for the abolition OF
the slum, as published i'm yesterday
Herald? They fit one another as the
glove should fit the hand.
Judge Works warns US that We are
developing slums such as the larger
cities OF this country have. He de-
scrihes them as plague spots, breeders
of immortality disease and crime" and
declares that, from a merely mercenary
point of view, it is good business" to
a )lish them.
The Prison Reform league writer
quotes freely from Charles Edward
Russell, who is writing a series of ar
t.eIes in one of the most conservative
Journals of the country to show that
the slum districts are increasing in all
orr large cities; that they are produc-
ing crime and criminals at pace that
battles all repressive effort, and that
business" has to abolish them, and
the conditions from which they spring,
If it is to survive. 1t seems to me
not a little singular that all these ar
ticles are appearing simultaneously. If
this is not by preconcerted arrange
ment 1t must be because the subject is
in the air. That ould be a most hope
full sign.
Judge Works wants a fund, to be
placed with the playground and hous-
ing commissions. About a year ago l
heard Miss Won Wagner. inspector of
the last named commission, and a
woman of cosmopolitan experience in
that line of work, lecture and answer
questions. Her conclusion was that the
poor in Los Angeles were as badly off
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-04
DENoUNcES ALMS-GlVING AS
GREATEST OF MODERN GRIM Es

LOS ANGELES, March 3.--LEditor
Herald: Apropos OF the constant dis
cussion III your columns of the prison
problem, the attitude toward 1t of such
workers as Mrs. Maud Ballington
Booth, and indeed the treatment of
the entire social question, notice that
Blanche Walsh is advertised to appear
at the Mason next week.
/ have no wish to boom Miss Walsh,
but the striking sentences from her
new play, THE Test" as given in the
advance notices have attracted my at
tention. One of them Is as follows:
Charity is the greatest crime of the
age, for it is a begging of the question,
The Right to Live
1t happens that l believe in that sem
timent in its full and literal accept
ance. l believe the giving of aims, sys-
tematized as It is today, does more to
prolong the reign of injustice than any
other institution that can be named.
l believe that whenever a department
of the great social problem gets into
the hands of those who treat it from
the charitable" standpoint immense
mischief is done, progress being de-
layed along that line.
This Is radical thought, for it calls
into question the beneficence of the
very arrangements on which society is
most wont 10 pTlue llSell. Anu 1 lHldS
inc no subject more worthy of dis
cussion in your Letter Box than that
of whether or no such arrangements
are worthy of pride. Such discussion
would open up the consideration of the
true basis of society and let in flood
of light as regards the soundness or
unsoundness of theories held devouUly
by many because they have not been
subjected to the test of criticism.
Just after writing the foregoing l
ran across George II. Broadhurst. the
noted dramatist. whose MAN of the
Hour" is now on at the Belasco.
showed him the passage 1 have quoted
from "The Test" and if you could have
seen the emphasis with which he in
dorsed it as the soundest of philoso-
phies No. we who decry charity
are by no means alone today.
IT K G.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-04

Sidney Fisher. Canadian minister of
agriculture, makes the prediction: "In
the course of the next generation we
shall be doubling and trebling our pop
ulation, which will mean that Amer
lea will be sending her best blood to
Canada" If general social conditions
are changed for the better in the United
States, Mr.. Fishers prediction will not
come true. But If there is not a re-
form and return to the square dealing
principles of Americanism, he will be a
true and an accurate prophet.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-04
INVESTIGATION
IMPERATIVE

HJ HAT the crime problem is up for
settlement Is evidenced by the
n fact many are so graphing with
it from divergent standpoints. For
always the clash of opinions, bear
ing testimony to numerous minds at
work, proves that a given question has
come within the sphere of practical
politics.
Mrs. Maud Balllngton Booth spoke
here recently on the treatment of con-
victs. She has devoted years to work
on that particular line, and she has ex-
pressed it as her opinion that the
methods with which she IS identified
are solving the problem. Immediate
ly she was met by q local writer con-
nected with the Prison Reform league,
who published in The Herald last Mon
day an article the gist of which was
that Mrs. Booth occupied the position
Of the celebrated Mrs. Partington.
1t will be remembered that Sidney
Smith immortalized that figure as
typical of reformers who decline to
face a situation as 1t actually stands.
I16 DlCLQltu Anl6s "a NAAAb AoAA NAaNNGf
oring to sweep up the ocean with
mop; his expression being that, al
though she was good at puddle, the
Atlantic was too much for her. This
was the attitude of the article referred
TO, wherein the author quoted well
known publicists to sustain his posi-
ton that crime was an avalanche
which merely charitable methods are
incapable Of staying.
Singularly enough on the very date
on which this article appeared well
known eastern sociologist, Edwin A.
Brown, addressed the Y. NJ. c. a. and,
in no uncertain terms. voiced a similar
judgment. He recited his own expert
ence among the poor OF New York and
Los Angeles, declared that the police
and Jail methods Of the present day
FOSTER crime. and used the follow
ing language: Il do not believe that
even in the middle ages the abuse Of
our unemployed by those in authority
could have been worse than it now IS"
We are led to consider this subject
still more seriously by the fact that
Seattle papers have been giving atten-
ton to a gruesome report made by
convict recently released from the
Walla Walla pnitentary. That in
stitution has been supposed to have
adopted of late more modern and hu-
name methods, yet the report IN ques-
ton declares that cruel logging, soli-
tary Imprisonment for long terms and
the administration Of the water cure"
are in constant use. Part Of the de-
scription is as follows: THE water
cure is worked at Walla Waua by
playing a hose with 59-pound pres
sure on a mans body while he is ly-
ing on an iron floor so strapped that
he cannot move hand or foot. The
water is played on the heart and the
face, and the cure is supposed to be
effective temporarily when a man
faints."
There are too many Of these reports
in circulation. Where there is so much
smoke there must be certainly a dan
gerous fire, and the alarm notices sent
out deserve all the more heed from the
fact they come from some of the ma
tion's most noted writers. There is too
much evidence that crime and brutal
jty are on the increase to justify us
in resting easy without Investigations
far more thorough than any that have
been made as yet.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-04
THE CAT WENT BACK

Mr.. Penn-They say the streets in Boston
are frightfully crooked?
Mr. Hubb--They Why do you know,
when first went there could naroy ma my
way around.
''That must be embarrassing? z?
at Is The first week / was there 1 wanted
to get rid of an old cat we had. and my wife
cot me 10 take II to the river a mile away"
''And you lost the cat all rightT
Lost nothing! 1 never would have found
my way home IL hadn't followed the cat!'
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-04

as they are in such cities as New York
and Chicago. / remember she granted
that the climate made life easier, but
she insisted that this had been dis
counted in higher rents and lower
wages-leading to intense overcrowd-
ing. These, in her judgment, made
the balance between us and the east
ern cities about even.
1t is more than suggested that these
conditions, which prevail alike in Los
Angeles and San Francisco, account
for the large percentage of crime and
convictions in California. And if Judge
Works, Miss Won Wagner and the
Prison Reform league are correctly
coupling cause and effect they are per-
forming an educational function for
which even business" should thank
them.
Conditions will become. of course,
far more aggravated with the rush of
immigration that will follow the open
ing of the Panama canal.
RADICAL.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-04
AT THE THEATERS

AUDITORIUNI-Dark.
BELASCO-''rhe Man OF the Hour"
BURBANK-"Sweet Kitty Bellairs."
MISREPRESENTATION farce.
GRAND-"The Ameer."
Los Notwithstanding
nLAJESTIC-'@wine. Woman and Song"
ALASON--Robert Manteli.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-04

more office buildings than New York.
And the office buildings mean BUSI-
NESS. Destiny is making Los Angeles
the metropolis of the west. From
achievement to achievement our city
advances triumphantly. 1t is the Los
Angeles way.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-04

After making thorough inquiry, Sec
retary of War Dickinson is now con-
vinced the Pacific 1Gil Steamship COM
pany is an ally OF the Southern Pa
cific railroad. The only relief from ex-
orbitant rates and holdup methods on
is that offered by a federal steamship
line and a free harbor at Los An
geles,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-04

Government now being convinced the
people of Los Angeles and Southern
California have a genuine cause for
grievance in the rates gouge. the fight
for complete emancipation from cor
poration domination of our popular in
dustries may be carried on with enthu-
siasm to fnish-the finish of the
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-04

And now a mine explosion is report
ed in Alaska. Again there has been
great loss of life. These great indus
trial human sacrifices are too COM
mon! 1t is high time for the govern
ment to undertake the/task of protect
ing the miners.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-04
Public Letter Box

TO CORN EsPONDENTS-Letters intended
for publication must be accompanied by tbs
name and address of the writer. The herald
gives the widest latitude TO correspondents,
but assumes no resp0ns ibIlIty for their vieah
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-04

Greater Los Angeles is the most
prosperous community in the world.
But that is no reason why the Southern
Pacific should put special rate tax
on prosperity.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-04

Judge Charles Silent's plan for the
restoration and preservation of the
Plaza park will meet the most enthu-
siastic appreciation of all good citizens
Of Greater Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-04
TO MAKE IT GO UP

Redd--What's become Of your mtorboat?
Greene-Oh. did something to the engine
and the whole thing went up In the air.
Tell me what il was you did, can't you?
might be able to use 1t on my aeroplane."
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-04

Don't fail to register. Unless your
name has been placed on the great
register opened January 1, 1910, you
are not a qualified voter.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-04

February valuation of new buildings
for Los Angeles was greater than that
of San Francisco. Our booming, big,
beautiful city is at present erecting
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-04

Nicaraguan rebellion is crushed. If
it was SO soon to be done for, what on
earth was it begun for?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-04

On all matters pertaining to advertising
ager.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-04
CLEAR, CRISP AND CT FAN

Population of Los Angeles 327, 7,6s5
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-04

IE cure of mental derange-
ment by the sudden pro-
nunclation of a single word
is the achievement of DIR.
Shepherd Ivory Franz, who is
In charoe of the psychOlOgical
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-05

erick C. Ward and Alexander g. Car
Isle.
The board has accepted the resignation
of Miss Maud Ashton as teacher al
Cedar Grove.
Miss Bessie Hilda 10y of Paw Paw,
w. Va, and Harry Stephens Whitacre OF
Frederick county, Va, were married In
Rockville Tuesday evening by Rev. s.
r. White Of the Baptist Church, at the
home of the minister.
Miss Beulah Addell Davis and Reamer
Chester Rearick, both of Washington.
were married i'm Rockville Tuesday,
the officiating minister being Rev. w. ID.
Keene, pastor of the Southern Methodist
Church.
The county commissioners have COM
pleted the list of assessors by the appoint
ment of s. d. Warfield. for Damascus
district, and Frank ID. Stubbs, for
Wheaton district. They have also ap-
pointed Robert Saunders a constable for
Potomac district, in the place Of Thomas
z. Jackson. resigned.
Mrs. Celia G. Pierce, aged seventy-four
years. died Tuesday morning at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Richard P. Covert.
at North Chevy Chase. this county. She
had been i'll a long while and about three
weeks ago underwent an operation. Inc
interment will be at Milwaukee. Wis,
where Mrs. Pierce resided.
The new Baptist Church at Beane, TINS
county, will be dedicated next Sunday.
Morning. afternoon and evening services
will be held and we'll known ministers
from Washington, Baltimore and the
county are expected to participate. The
dedicatory sermon will be delivered by
Rev. DR.. II. NJ. Wharton of Baltimore.
The new edif1ce Is a pebbledaSh Struc-
ture and cost about $i,J00. The church
has been without a regular pastor since
the resignation OF Rev. Thomas II. Camp
bell eighteen months ago.
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RUNAWAY BOY AND GIRL
EXCHANGE THEIR CLOTHES
In This Disguise They Start Out to
Become Cattle Punchers, But
Father Arrives on Scene.

DES MONIES, May 5.-The arrest of
Bernice Armstrong, seventeen. clad in
boys clothes. yesterday disclosed a re-
markable runaway romance of girl
and her twin brother, Edwin Armstrong.
who is hiding in this city, clad in his
sisters gown.
The pair are children of a wealthy
Baxter, Iowa. stock buyer. Edwin had
just returned from the west. He fired
his sisters imagination with ideas Of
going west and becoming a cowgirl while
he became a cow puncher. To avoid
recognition by friends and to deceive
their father the twins switched clothing.
City Detective Bracket ran upon the
case while making his rounds of the
pawnshops, where he found small dia-
mond ring pawned Tuesday night by the
GIRL The pawnbroker supposed she was
a young man, but remarked upon her
effeminate appearance to his clerk. The
girl took the ring from her finger when
she gave 1t in exchange for $lO
Shortly afterward i telegram from
the father of the pair reached head
quarters The ring bore the initials "B.
A." l.. G. Armstrong. the father OF the
twins, reached Des Moines at 1880
o'clock. He was taken directly to the
matron's room, where the penitent maid
fell into his arms and poured forth her
story of adventure.
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keep AFTER FRAUDS
Attorney General Asks for
Special Appropriation.
RECOVERY OF LARGE SUMS
Sugar Importers Have Been Chief
Offenders Against the Gus
toms Houses.

AS result Of the representations OF
Attorney General Wickersham to the
House committee on appropriations. the
sundry civil appropriation bill, to be re-
ported tomorrow. contains an item OF
$4,000 to enable the Department OF Jus
tice to continue the investigation and
prosecution OF the sugar customs frauds
The purpose OF this appropriation. -
said Attorney General Wickersham to the
appropriations committee, 'fs to make the
inquiry continuous, and, OF course. that
involves very considerable expense"
In connection with the discussion OF the
sugar scandal which followed, Repre-
sentative Sheriey OF Kentucky asked the
Attorney General IL 1t were true that
when the Treasury Department some
years ago was about to adopt device
which would weigh imports as they were
.unioaded from a vessel. One of the
big scale manufacturing companies in
terfered and prevented the acceptance Of
the apparatus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-05
Baldheaded Row
Early Piety Not Always
the Cause of Badness.

In Paris there lived great physiciaan of
world wide renown who proved to the world
that falling hair Is caused by microbes.
DR.. Sagerbund proved that badness Is Directly
due TO these perncious and persistent microbes
He proved TO every physician on earth that
these invisible yet yociferous little devils dug
and burrowed into the hair root and finally de-
voured the hair bulb. This Of course est-oyed
the vitality of the hair. which fell out ana
caused thinning OF the hair and finally badness.
Inasmuch as il is an accepted fact that bald.
ness, falling hair and dandruff are caused by a
germ, doesn't it stand TO reason that the cnly
way to prevent such calamities is to kin the
germs?
And doesn't ii stand to reason that the only
way to Kill these germs is to use Partisan Sace
which Henry Evans has much faith In that he
guarantees il TO cure dandrun. falling hair ana
itching scalp I'm two weeks. money back:
Partisan Sage is delightful Eair tonic and IA
pleasant to use. 1t Is not sticky or greasy and
contains only those ingredients that will surely
benefit
1t is now sold by druggists all over America
and by Henry Evans, l006 + ST. NV. for 20
cents large bottle. 1t is used extensively By
women who desire luxuriant hair with a radIant
luster. The girl with the Auburn hair Is q
ever, package.
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came recently from the secretary OF a
well known local club. 1t seems that the
club desired to have the poet address the
organization at an annual affair at which
an elaborate program had been prepared.
The secretary addressed a letter to Joa-
quin. telling him of the purpose of the
jinks and requesting his cooperation. He
was scheduled for recitation.
In due time there came an answer from
the poet. 1t was in his own hand and
covered four pages. In vain the secretary
pored over the manuscript. He turned it
over to the president. the board of direc-
tors and the members in turn but all
failed to decipher the scrawls. The ques-
tion before the club was: HAS Miller ac-
copied or has he declined?"
The secretary finally took the matter
into his own hands. and addressed the
following note to Miller:
My Dear Miller: Your letter received,
but have been unable to determine
whether you have accepted or declined
our invitation. If You will be present on
the date mentioned. will you kindly make
cross on the bottom of this letter? II
it will be impossible for you to appear,
will you kindly draw a circle?'
In due time the letter came back. but
the secretary could not decide whether 1t
was cross Or circle.
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the front row I'm the auditorium. which
i'm his absence was placed at the dis
posai of Ambassador Reid. who had as
his immediate neighbors Mrs. Peary. her
daughter and her little son, Hooert,
junior. who wore white salior sun anu
y-as the only Juvenile in the hall. Other
American officials present included Com,
mander simpson, the naval attache. ana
William Phillips. the secretary OF the EN-
bassy. :. ,,...a,o
;,~ tho ouests OF the evening. making II
Main from the outset that the Royal Geo
rrranbical society welcomed Comma noer
Peary not merely as renowned arctic
EXPLORER, but as the indisputaote discoV-
erer of the north pole.
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An Old Woman.

A sorrowful face AZ the window
Peers out through the vista OF yesrs'
Behold;ns the ghosts Of her lost ones
through the mIsts of her trembling tears;
Yet visions Of hope never vanish
Fer those who have gone far above .
To Ijucer with beauty eternal
In land of celestial love.
She dreams OF the days OF her eniidhoou'
Where the flowers and green grass aoolnd'
And birds that sang sweet In the wiid"oou'
With the clustering squirrels around
While Tripping away to the schooinonse
That stood OH the crest OF the nii''
with laughter and love SO enhancing
That rushed through her soul In sood Will
R,t now far away from the meadows
Th,t b,oomed with the roses OF spring
sb,. signs in tine gray mists OF evening.
while Time with his nuttering wing
s,sads over the world. with darkness
oh.curiny the love and the light
THAT once reisned in blissfui emotion
with colors OF hope. brave and bright.
JOHN A. JOYCE.
washington. ID. c.
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Some Freak Newspapers.

From the Printing Trade News.
newspaper which can be eaten after
the information it contains is absorbed.
thus affording nourishment for the body
as we'll as the mind. is being published in
Paris. and is called the Regal. 1t is
printed with an ink guaranteed nom
poisonous, on thin sheets of dough.
Another freak newspaper. the Lumi-
maria, is published in Madrid. The INK
with which it is printed contains a small
of phosphorus, SO that the
letters are visible in the dark, and the
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ROCKVILLE.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
ROCKVILLE. Nd, May ), 1910.
The county public school commissioners
for Montgomery county have reelected
George II. Lamar president; Earle w.
Wood. secretary. treasurer and county
superintendent of schools. and Edwin w.
Broome. clerk. The board Is now COM
posed of Messrs. Lamar, Zadoc NJ. Cooke,
Claggett G. Hilton and Milford Onutt.
democrats, and Roger B. Farquhar and
Dewald J. Willard, republicans.
The appointment of the following trus-
tees for the various high schools of the
county have been announced: Brookville,
DR.. II. Howard. j. Clinton Dorsey and
Josiah J. Hutton: Sandy Spring. John c.
Bentley. Francis w. Downey and Mrs.
Florence Wetherald Rockville. Wash
ington Hicks and Joseph Reading:
Jamestown, DIR. Charles II. Nourse.
James S. Windsor and Willard Rice;
Gaithersburg, Thomas I. Puiks. Fred