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Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16
AVIATION

T N SPITE of the endeavors of a zeal
Gus constabulary to place restric-
l. tions on the opportunities afforded
correspondents who wished to get ac-
curate information, the aviation meet is
receiving greater and wider publicity
than any great gathering ever has had
in the worlds history. Aviation is a
subject of universal interest There is
not nation on earth that does not
take a keen interest in it, conscious
that its very future may be dependent
upon the intelligent part it may take in
adapting to its own use this great new
power which has been added to the
powers of mankind-the power of air.
sailing.
The historical Los Angeles meeting is
showing mankind that the develop
ments of the next few years are be-
yond the range of what we might call
"guessability" It is impossible to i'm
agine what may be the international
outcome of the conquest Of the air. The
question which every expert on fortifi-
cation and every expert on naval policy
throughout the world is secretly asking
himself today is: viii the conquest of
the air impair the efficiency of fortifi-
cations and make battleships obsolete?
Will airships be principal instruments
and agents in warfare, or will they be
merely deadly auxiliaries like torpe-
does and torpedo boats?
Is there not enough civilization in the
world to bring about an international
agreement which will make the Won
derful new inventions demonstrated
with triumphant success in Los Ange-
les great aviation week agents of peace
and prosperity and of international
amity and brotherhood?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16
UNCHRISTIAN

q EVERAL learned judges and other
authorities have commented on
~ the increase of divorce cases in
California. The number of divorces
granted in our state is a subject of
rebuke or of jest in other parts of the
United States. In this land of sun
shine and of orange blossoms it would
be fitting If the phrase "as happy as
California marriage" could pass into
the language We think probably the
reputation of California is not wholly
deserved. Many couples come here
from other states and "get their di-
vorce." eve believe that is the easy
going phrase) They resemble the
hopeless invalids who come here from
other states and get their DEATH" Civ
ing California a wholly undeserved
reputation for the percentages of its
death rate.
The pulpit and the press should unite
in a protest and a campaign against
the divorce evil in California. 1t is
shocking that the courts of this state
should gain national reputation as di-
vorce mills. 1t is unjust to honorable
judges that their names should be
associated so frequently with divorce
cases. We do not wonder that some
Of the judges have been protesting.
We hope they will go on protesting,
and even when they grant DEGREES will
exercise their prerogative and lecture
the litigants in language without any
vagueness or uncertainty of phrase.
Jesus was opposed to divorce. He
said there was only one cause for
which a wife might be put away, and
he said that any man who married
wife who was put away by her injured
husband for this cause was criminal.
Yet there are many such criminals in
the United States today, and some of
them move in what is called good
society.
1t is time for plain speaking on the
subject of the divorce evil. Jesus said
the law of Moses sanctioned divorce
for various causes, but that from the
beginning it was not so,' and in this
regard as in many others Jesus revised
the law of Moses, allowed only one
cause for divorce and forbade the di-
vorced person to marry again.
The explicit commandment of Jesus
forbidding a person divorced for cause
to marry again is not obeyed faith
fully. Divorce should be made impos-
sible, excepting for the one cause, and
the person divorced for that cause
should not be allowed under any cir
cumstances to marry again. Moreover.
if it We're not so easy to enter into the
marriage contract, the path to the
divorce court would not be so well
trodden.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16
THINKS PLEAS ON BEHALF OF
CRIMINALS OFTEN MAWkISH

LOS ANGELES, Jan 14-[Editor
Herald: Reading Mrs Hester L. Grlf-
fith's letter in this mornings Herald,
and having in mind Judge Works re-
cent attack on conditions in the county
Jail, together with various communlca-
tions that have appeared in the Letter
Box from time to time, and the de-
mandatory literature put out by the
Prison Reform league, it has occurred
to me that the other side of the ques~
ton needs an airing in your columns,
1t is an open question: to my mind
at-least, whether there is not good
deal of maWkishness in this outcry
against the police wardens and all who
have to do with controlling the dan
gerous elements in society.
l find encourag cement for this point
of view, which doubtless will be un-
popular in 1.-The Outlook of January
/, wherein the police policy of Mayor
Gaynor is discussed editorially. The
writer admits that the New York po-
lice have been guilty from time TO
time of violating fundamental princi-
pies but he adds: I'VE do most strong
ly deny that the way by which the
principles can best be put into prac-
tice is by cultiVating sentimental SYM
pathy with the accused, by allowing
indiscriminate assemblage, and by
creating puDllC uiSll llol anu Sd9EiNiSAi
of the police. ...... The Sentimentalist
sees the individual before him, but he
does not see society; he is concerned
for the comfort of the visible pris-
oner, while he forgets the security of
the invisible but equally real mass of
men and women and children.......I If
sympathy is to be exhibited at all it
should be on behalf of society. The
peril to society today in American cit
les is not from too strong govern
ment; it is from a government not
strong enough to cope with the criminal
and anarchic forces which exist in
every great city on the continent"
This point of view is surely worthy
of consideration, and the more so, 1
think, when I read in the same num-
ber of The outlook an article by a
we'll known liberal New York lawyer
in defense of Judge Gaynor's structures
on the police, which ends with the ad-
mission that the chiefs and commits
sioners of the police force ali declare
that sit is impossible to stamp out
vice and to detect and punish crime
by following the ancient machinery of
the criminal law and by observing the
limitations which it prescribes for the
protection of the rights of the inno-
cent"
The opinions of these men, whose
daily experience brings them into prac-
teal contact with the actual facts in
the case, would seem entitled to
weight. HENRY F. MERTON.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16
PHOTOGRAPHIC FAKERS

nj EW wonders have been added to
the world not only by Aviation
~ week but by the marvellous pho
topraghic feats of contemporary news
papers which have presented to their
amazed readers alleged pictures re-
markable for audacity and originality.
The limit seemed to have been reached
when the Hearst paper printed pho
tograph''. of q monoplane lowering
scarcely three feet over the heads of
the multitude in the grand stand, when
every face was turned in a direction
other than that of the apparition, and
no one seemed to be aware of the pres
ence of the great machine.
This photograph was superb effort
with scissors and paste pot. The man
who put it together executed a triumph
of constructive art. But even more re-
markable was the pictorial achievement
Of our morning Republican contempo-
rary in "photographing" at san Pedro
a. Curtiss biplane which was caught
by the enterprising artist in full
fight" apparently out over Point Fir
min. This photograph created consid-
erable sensation because no Curtiss ma
chine has ever been nearer San PEDRO
than those that are stored at Domin-
guez field. The artist who created this
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16
TIMELY WARNING

Ii friends and supporters of good
n government should heed the
- timely warning issued by Judge
Works. Public welfare demands that
no pledges should be made ats this
early day to any candidate at the COM
ing county and state election. Efforts
to obtain pledges would indicate on
the part of would-b be candidates politi-
cal anxiety rather than patriotism. 1t
is of the utmost Importance the good
government influence should be eXer-
cised in the direction of eliminating
from consideration any men who are
avowedly or secretly supporters OF the
Southern Pacific machine.
Good government must be extended
to the county and state, and doubt
less will be extended if a campaign
marked by broad Americanism is con-
Quoted. Voters should not tie them
selves up to the support of any can
didate. This is an occasion when the
office should seek the man, and es-
pecially does this apply to offices Of
the Importance of that which is in
volved in an attempted canvass for
candidature which is now being con-
Quoted.
No citizen who wishes to be can
didate would think of violating the
ethics of public officeholding by trying
to engineer a movement for his own
selection and election. Moreover,
anxiety on the part Of any man to
become a candidate would naturally
give rise to suspicion he was being
aided and abetted, or, in colloquial
phrase, legged on" by some interest
desirous of securing his nomination.
As Judge Works says in his letter
of warning: 1.-THE Good Government
organization has an active and un-
scrupulous enemy to contend with.
By careful selection Of candidates
and an earnest and fair fight we have
stormed and taken the first stronghold
of the enemy, the city Of Los Angeles.
This is only the beginning of the war.
The county and the state must be
taken and the enemy Of good govern
ment completely routed before the
good work, so well begun, can be
given UP.
I'VE can win the fight II we hold to-
gether and use only the weapons of
civic and political righteousness. The
Good Government organization will
have to lead the coming fight. 1t will
be greatly weakened if the individual
voters who are in sympathy with 1t
make the mistake of pledging them
selves TO support any candidate before
action is taken by that organization"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16
RECENT ELECTION SHOULD
ENCOURAGE TRUE CITIZEN

LOS ANGELES, Jan. IA Editor
Herald: 1t is with such great delight
that l have read your editorial in this
mornings Herald entitled "Good Cow
ernment' | am prompted to add my
voice in hearty approval of the senti-
ment it contains. You say 1.-THE same
combination of determination, fearless
ness and patriotism that gave Good
Government to Los Angeles can extend
It," The members of the Democratic
party and of the Republican party who
believe in the defense of the rights of
the people from the aggressions of
privilege form an American party.
This is the keynote to the solution of
the critical situation confronting this
mighty republic of ours. We have
wise and profound statesmen, laboring
for years in vain to solve the trouble,
but always within party lines, while the
interests (Which by the way, are
graphically illustrated in your cartoon
of this date) smiling, stand by prepared
to gobble up the victor.
Now, how simple the solution seems
by the people in combination with fear
less and determined patriotism so
grandly illustrated bys our recent mu-
nicipal election!
If actuated and moved by the same
sentiments and determination to have
good government In this county and
state, that election has fully demon
strated the power of the people to
get it.
Should that contamination result in
wiping out the lines of bitter PARTISAN
ship and erect in it's stead an American
party, by and of the people, each MEM
ber Of which, marching in elbow touch
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16
PURE FOOD

N agitation for uniformity of pure
NJ food laws seems to be reason
IA able and sensible. There is an
old proverb which says one man S
meat is another mans poison, and
under present conditions one state s
food is another states refuse. The
campaigners for a general pure-food
law present a strong case. They point
out that uniformity between state and
national pure-food laws can be secured
only if the states enact the federal
statutes, in identical terms, without
addition, except to give it force within
state boundaries. Uniformity of law
seems to be as imperative for sound
articles of food as is the necessity for
establishing uniformity of standards
for weights, measures, money, etc.
Diversity of law with regard to
weights, measures, and money would
produce chaos throughout the states.
rhe states can best guard the public
welfare and can aid the enforcement
of the national pure-food law by re-
enacting it in identical terms, without
additions except to give it force within
state boundaries, so that the food
producers of every state may find their
markets freely.
To harmonic state and national
laws by identical legislation would
necessitate some changes, but the
compromises would be few and advan-
tages would outweigh disadvantages.
Pure food is one of the strongest
possible factors in the building of a
nation. The quality of food has had
a great deal to do with the hardihood
and the tirelessness Of some nations
and of some individuals. The United
States for years has enjoyed the repu-
tation of being the best fed country in
the world. That there should now be
an urgent necessity for a pure-food
law is deplorable, but since the neces-
sity has arisen and since unscrupulous
dollar coiners would not hesitate to
poison the people or undermine the
strength of the nation in order to
get into the millionaire class" it is
well legislation should be uniform
With uniformity there won't be a
chance for artful dodgers to break
through weaknesses in the case for the
prosecution and dodge out of the reach
of punishment.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16
Y. M. C. A.

N RESIDENT LETS of the Young
Mems Christian association in
Il his inaugural address said great
things had been accomplished during
the past year. and this was "only a
beginning" Mr.. Let's, a typical citi-
zen of Los Angeles, a man who eXem-
plifes intelligent enterprise and plans
that are successful because they are
carefully thought out, believes in and
illustrates the Los Angeles way, and
has applied it to the Y. NJ, C. A.
Our local association is today the
foremost in the United States. 1t is
a veritable university in it's resources
and facilities, and to the university
aspect it adds a social feature of in
calculable value to young men who are
away from home and relatives.
The Y. M. C. A. is a young mems
training school, a young mems club,
a young mems entertainment society.
1t deserves the hearty support of all
citizens of Greater Los Angeles, and,
like Mr.. Let's, we believe its great
achievements of the past are only an
earnest of what may be expected in
the future. For that is "the Los AM
geles way"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16
WEATHER

A CENTRAL ILLIONIS newspaper
reports the weather there is a
IA little warmer. 1t is "only 7 de-
grees below zero" We congratulate
our fellow citizens back east on this
Joyous sign of an early spring. The
good people of Illinois are beginning
to get out their summer duds, and the
ladies are airing their parasols The
beautiful, warm sun is cleaning on
the sparkling snow, the genial ice is
glittering to the mellow, gray sky. The
benehcent black clouds Of winter are
lowering pleasantly over the frozen
landscape. The streams are all taking
a rest, and the poor, tired fish are
neatly packed in ice.
Imitation polar exploration can be
conducted in the back yard. The heed
less passer-by, who carelessly exposes
his nose, has the same rubbed violently
with beautiful snow by benevolent
Samaritan, who yells "Frost bite!' and
warns himself by exercising on the
endangered proboscis. Oh, it's great
weather in Illinois. Only z below zerol
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16

Members of the state board of rail-
road commissioners do not realize their
responsibility to the people. That is
all that's the matter with them-and 1t
is matter enough. Considering one thing
with another perhaps it is natural the
commissioners should mistake them
selves for representatives of the South
ern Pacific railroad. They are willfully
oblivious of the fact they hold public
offices, and conveniently forget public
office is a public trust. A good govern
ment program must include state
board of railroad commissioners that
will be representative Of the interests
Of the state, and not Of corporation
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16

Returns from the British elections
show the race will be close. The first
reports collected yesterday indicated
the Unionists held Il seats, the Liberals
80, the Laborites and the Nationalists
5. The Unionists gained sixteen seats,
the Liberals three and the Laborites
one. II there should be a Radical coal
ition the opening polling showed the
progressivists will be in the lead, there
being fifty progressive members to
forty -one Tories.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16

Good government in the county and
in the state will increase the pros
perity of California and establish its
governmental leadership among the
states. 1t is of great Importance that
every good citizen should enter with
heart and soul into the fight for the ex-
tension of good government. For the
public well-being the work of reform
should be carried on until the initiative
and referendum and recall are secured
in the municipalities, counties and state
of California.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16

remarkable photograph made the mis-
take of pasting an American instead of
a French machine in the sky of the
stock photograph he used. otherwise
the picture was a very good-fake and
as the substitution may have been made
from patriotic motives, perhaps we
should deal gently with the erring who
fake not wisely but too we'll.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16

Police department investigation will
be begun next week. If it is true the
police have arrested citizens without
cause and have held them incommuni-
cado it is high time for such a thorough
reform of the police system that Amer
lean practices may prevail in Greater
Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16

OF course the airships of the future
will be built for stormy as well as fair
weather. The fearless navigators of
the air will be out and about in all
kinds of climate and all kinds of
weather, like the fearless navigators of
the ocean.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16
The State Press
VULGAR AGITAToR

Now, what has brought about. this
conflict in the United States congress?
simply this: a vulgar man, the repre-
sentative of certain powerful interests
(such as, for example,. the southern
Pacific Railway company in this state)
which expect favorable legislation,
whether right or wrong, who happens
to be in a position of power, and who
because of that power has ingratiated
himself with other officials of power
this man, Joseph Cannon, is at the
bottom of this whole trouble.-San
Jose Mercury.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16
Far and Wide
Price of Leather

Sometimes we are permitted to get
LITTLE inside information concerning the
shoe trade. For instance, people not ia
r,iIior with the shoe and leather trade
are apt to think that a cent or two III
the price of leather does not MAKE SUI W.
= diffarenoe. But a rise of cent in the
,1,Sca of sole leather adds S2,OOO,OOO TO
he sole leather bills of shoe manu-
facturers, and rise of L cent foot IN
the price of upper leather adds more more
than $4,000 coo to the bills of the snoe
manufacturer for upper leather.-NeW-
buryport News.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16

Hollywood will make one of the most
desirable residential districts of Greater
Los Angeles. The citizens of Hollywood
are so thrifty, progressive, enterprising
and successful the citizens of Los An
geles will be glad to greet them and
metropolitanism.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16
Golden Hod

"San Francisco" remarks the Chron-
icle of that city, "made a fair in 1898
out of the leftovers from Chicago, and
San Diego should be able to make a
good one from the bequests of San
Francisco Which is only another
way of saying that San Diego is well
come to the trough after the golden
hog has emptied it of its contents.
How truly generous and CONSIDERABLE
San Diego Union.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16
Foolish

The neon1e of this country want the
cuban republic to be as peaceful, as
orderly and as firmly established as the
government of the Uniterd States. any
Cuban who believes that there exists
in the United States any public sentlS
ment in favor of the annexation Oh
cuba. must be a victim of his own
fears and suspicions-Boston AdVer-
tiGpr
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16
AT THE THEATERS

AUDITORIUM-Dark.
MASON-Dark
BURBANK--"Men and Women"
BELASCO-''The Genius"
MAJESTIC-"The Alaskan"
ORPHEUAI-Vaude
GRAND-''Woodlan
Los ANGELES-Vaud
OLYMPIC-Musical burlesque.
FISCHER R'S-Musical burlesQue.
WAIKER-Comed
UNIQUE--Comed
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16
Ethics of Peary

Whatever the merits of the Peary and
Cool, claims in the north, there is no
question that Peary has acted in doupt-
ful fashion in disposing of the run re-
ports of his latest trip for newspape.
pIuhIication in a restricted manner
while drawing full pay OF $45OO a year
from the federal government.-Boston
Advertiser
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16
Limit of CreduIity

The president believes that the Payne
tariff is the best tariff ever enacted;
which recalls the old story of the man man
who approached sydney Smith WI Win !,
the remark: Mr.. Robinson, peheVe.
"Sir," was the reply, IF you peIleve
that you will believe anything "-ProVi-
dence Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16

with his neighbor in support of good
government in nation as well as state,
who shall shed a tear for the depart
ed" or sigh for the flesh pots the
grafters have so long enjoyed, save the
scattered crew of the shattered ma
chine? j. ID. BEIHUNE
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16

Alameda street storm drain will be
one of the biggest storm drain enter
prises ever attempted in Los Angeles.
The march of improvement is never
halted in our enterprising, progressive
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16

Since the fortifcation of San Pedro
harbor is on the governmental pro-
gram, so that Greater Los Angeles will
be impregnable by sea, the government
should extend its operations and make
arrangements for permanent aviation
station here. Citizens would like to feel
secure from danger aloft as well as
alOW.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16

Motor wagons kept the traffic of New
York from being tied up by a big snow
storm. They defied drifts and gales
and delivered the goods. Great are
motor wagons.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16

Fertilization of San Pedro will give
Los Angeles the most secure as we'll as
the safest harbor on the coast. Pro-
tected from wind and wave and from
assault of foreign foe, the harbor of
Greater Los Angeles will take care of
a worlds commerce and will be fac
tor of incalculable value in the devel-
opment and upbuilding of Southern
q lifOrnia
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16

Says a Christian Endeavor writer:
christians are Christ's advertise
ments." We presume he means Christ
like Christians.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENT Intended
for publication must be accompanied by tho
name and address of the writer. The herald
gives the widest latitude to correspondents,
but assumes no responsibility for their views.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16
Russian Mendaclty

Russian ethnologfst concludes that
"the highest type Of humanity III the
America" No consolation in this for
New England.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16
Very Likely

Will the discovery of the north pole
Just prior to the opening of school ne
cessitate the purchasing of new geog-
raphies ?-Tulare Advance.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16
New m Market

President Diaz of Mexico will lift the
tariff duty on oil imported into that
country when the article is used as
locomotive fuel, making new market
for California oil on the west coast Of
Mexico OF about 5000 barrels a day.
San Luis Obispo Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16

There are "fies" on Greater Los An
geIes, and we are proud of them.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16
Express Trust

The most arrogant and burdensome
trust in the United States is the trust
of the express companies.-Chico Rec
ord.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16

On all matters pertaining to advertising
ager.