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Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28
IMMopEsrY AT BEACHES

Editor Herald: Reports from oonti-
mental seaside resorts and watering
places describe interesting sights which
may be seen where sensational innova-
tions studiously designed to attract the
sightseeing and travelling public are
presented. But one does not have to
travel abroad to see sights that will
produce thrills and gasps of astonish-
ment, for one does not have to journey
farther than any of our nearby beaches
to witness scenes rivaling in their dar-
ing anything likely to be seen on the
other side of the pond. Burope's latest
sensation-the network bathing trunks,
the directoire bathing suit and one
piece garment for female bathers-are
all outdone, faded to a frazzle, by the
audaciously daring, well nigh wanton'
abandon of Southern Californian wa
ter nymphs who wade in "au naturel."
Protests have been made from various
beaches through press and pulpit so
frequently about display of nudity ana
scantiness of attire Nm public that 1t
was considered worth while by your
correspondent to investigate.
To see If any real grounds existed
for these published complaints that the
bounds of modesty were overstepped
or rules of public decency violated,
trips TO several beaches were made at
different times in the last month and
these visits revealed most astonishing
conditions that call for reform.
NOT A PRUDE.
r.. Anoalas SAINT %
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28
RoosEvELr NO SOCIALIST

Editor Herald: w. c. o. thinks my
plea for particulars Of Roosevelt
achievement should be answered. So
far, so good But 1 fear he goes Gas
usuaD somewhat far aheld for his data
upon which to link up T. r. with So
cialism. Roosevelt is decidedly not q
Socialist. At all times an aristocrat,
he is potentially, and aiming to become
actually, an autocrat; and any at
tempt to identify his NEW national
ism" claptrap with Socialism Will De
spurned and repudlated by every So
cialist worthy of the name.
BY the way, a Mr.. Allison, who
writes me privately through The Her
aid, after saying he enjoys my contr1-
buttons to the Letter Box, asks why
T. r, should score Lorimeri seeing the
latter denies knowledge of any money
being spent to put him in the senate;
while Roosevelt, despite his denials,
is known to have written the letter
which brought $250,000 to his campaign
fund. And Mr.. A. thinks the following
paragraph--one of many similar-from
Roosevelt's own pen is illuminating
"as to character"
''It was not exciting sport. AS the
birds flew in every direction l USED
my pump gun as rapidly as I could
pull the trigger. Right and left
caught them, and at the end OF thirty
minutes I found that sixty-seven OF
the beautiful birds had fallen before
nv aim" VAL STONE.
Los Angeles, Sept. "a.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28
PREFERENTIAL VOTING

Editor Herald: I agree with your
correspondent, DR.. Aisbitt, that the
direct primary with the subsequent
election is expensive. But comparing
the expense to us of the Harper regime
with that of Mayor Alexander, think
the latter is really dirt cheap But
believe the cost can be reduced by
ton in Grand Junction, Colo, or
preferential voting. Under that plan,
say there were five candidates for
mayor, the voter would record IN
columns on the ballot sheet his first,
second and third choices for that or
flee. The candidate receiving an alb
solute majority of all the votes cast
would be elected. If no candidate had
an absolute majority, the candidate re-
ceiving the lowest vote would drop
out. and the first and second choice
votes of the remaining candidates
added together If no candidate re
ceived a majority vote the candidate
receiving the lowest would be lropped,
and the first, second and third choices
for the respective candidates would be
added together, and the candidate re-
ceiving a majority of all votes cast
would be elected. In case of q tie
vote the election would be decided by
the drawing of lots.
In DR.. Aisbitt's plan a mere plurality
vote would elect on the first ballot.
That would enable railroad, booze and
big business to unite on one candidate,
while the decent vote was perhaps
divided among two or more good cam
didates, and thus elect the worst one.
7 would be glad to hear the objections
to this preferential system of voting
w. H. STUART.
Los Angeles, Sept. "a.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28
POLICE AND PRESS

Editor Herald: Your editorial un-
der caption as above hardly does JUS
tice, think, to my position, which was
NOT, as stated, criticism OF the
publication of Belk's picture. but OF
"its publication BEFORE HIS IDhN-
LITIGATION" The whole point Is in
the last three words
Also, q by no means negligible part
of my letter was its challenge OF the
reprehensible practice so common IN
this city of allowing police officers TO
''usurp the judicial function" by ar
ing their views as to the guilt oil
UNTRIED prisoners.
The London papers recently report
ed a case where a woman having
identified prisoner, the latter
lawyer told the court that detective
had assisted the Identification by
affordlng the witness a preliminary
peep at the prisoner through q half
open door Now, on your principle
the magistrate should have pro-
nounced this call right" but he did
not. He said such thing was most
improper" and If 1t could be proved
the court would declare the identinca-
ton invalid and discharge the prls-
oner. I think that magistrate was
right and that that preliminary peep
was on all fOurs with the too pre-
vious" publication Of q prisoners pic
tire "FAIR PLAY"
Los Angeles, September 26.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28

Editor Herald: Under above head
ing in The Herald of 18th. inst. some
views were advanced, the proponent
being the president of the state bar
association, SO remarkable as to re-
quire comment: First, Where a man
is charged with crime he should be
interrogated by a magistrate. He may
decline to answer if 1t so pleases him.
But the state should be permitted to
comment on such refusal before a
jury"
Our constitution regarding criminal
prosecutions says, mo person shall be
compelled to be witness against him
self" This declaration is tantamount
to a prohibition of anything to the
contrary of such declaration; DEMO,
c. ]. says: "But the affirmative pre-
scriptions of the constitution are far
more fruitful of restraints upon the
legislature Every positive direction
containing an implication against any
thing contrary to it, or which would
Illustrate or disappoint the purpose of
tat provision" People VS.. Draper, 15
n. Y, 532.
The proponent says his proposal IS
"INHUMAN," but this designation is
needless. When the constitution for
bids compulsion of defendant to tes-
tify against himself it necessarily in
cludes everything that would Illustrate
or disappoint the purpose of that pro-
vision. If the interrogatories of the
magistrate Illustrate OF disappoint the
purpose of the constitution then they
are illegal. They are specially de-
si7ned, however. to entrap defendant
into some damaging admission, right
in the teeth of the constitutional pro-
hibition.
Under the prohibition defendant may
stand mute and no authority exists
to compel him to speak word. The
proponent proposes, however, to
MAKE HIM SPEAK, and on his re-
fusal, to use the fact of his CONSTI-
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28
A LETTER FROM TIM

n NE of the newspapers that are
supporting Timothy Spellacy for
~ lieutenant governor is the San
Francisco Star. In it's Saturday issue
the Star gives one reason, and those
who read it will not be disposed to
find any fault with 1t. The reason is
contained in a private letter which the
Star now reprints from its files of July
q, 1906, after the San Francisco cata-
clysm. 1t seems that among the let
ters received by the Star was one from
Tim Spellacy, reading as follows:
How is your bank account? Or
are your countless thousands
locked in some Frisco vault? l
have never yet paid In advance for
the Star. 1 wish to do SO now;
therefore, with best wishes for
your health, happiness and pros
perity. 1 send you one hundred
dollars.
The Star recalls that at that time
Tim Spellacy was not himself walk
ing on velvet; in fact, was in need Of
what resources he had for his own
use; neither was he a candidate for
office or a prospective one. 1t was the
act Of a heart fun Of sympathy forget
ting its own troubles, and the prof
fered aid to a PROSTATE friend was so
delicately extended that the Star
doesn't propose to forget it, and does
propose to say now and many times
again that Timothy Spcllacy will be a
credit to California as lieutenant
governor
Can you blame it2
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28
FOR STATE RAILROADS

Editor Herald From information
given last night by the distinguished
lawyer-Mr. Works-at the Votes for
Women club we are more firmly con-
vinced that a useless expense is In
CURED in trying to legislate against
corporations so well entrenched that
the people are dependent on the final
decisions of the courts as to the con-
stItutionality Of the laws their legis-
lators may make. We were told that
the rights of a corporation must be
protected, that fixing of rates should
be left to the judiciary and that the
citv council had no jurisdiction in fix
ing the electric light rates. If this be
true, why do candidates for office
waste so much energy in, attacking the
Southern Pacific? We have suggested
a way out of the difficulty and trust
The Herald will kindly bring 1t before
the voters.
The legislature, having power OF
making appropriations of the state
money for various purposes, such as
expositions, etc, should appropriate q
sum to build necessary lines of trans
portation, to be owned by the state
and operated for the benefit of the
public. This VIII not conflict with the
wording of the constitution, for it will
promote the general welfare of all
Jne people diINl Will OpNieNSS NHS
sity of railway supervision and other
useless expenditures. 1t will help to
solve the problem of unemployed men,
lower the cost of living, to say nothing
of other advantages to the state.
We are surprised that reform fac
tions of all parties are not united in
protecting the few rights still remain
ing from corporate control. 1t is a
well known axiom that the man who
controls the means by which you live
controls you The Standard Oil COM
pany and the Southern Pacific own
large proportion of the land of this
state. In the conservation district
their lands are not withdrawn. Well
founded rumor says they will soon be-
gin developing their oil lands. We
trust that no man aspiring to office
is so obtuse mentally as to be unable
to foresee the result. We have only
to recall the tactics of the Standard
Oil company elsewhere to see how help-
less the small oil men will be with no
means of transportation at reasonable
rates. with both of these corporations
allied against them. Remember the
fine imposed by Judge Lands has not
been paid, and other judges are ready
to reverse decisions. SO IL there is 70
be a real insurgency against wrong, let
there be consistency in progressiyeness'
and with the heralded new national
ism, let us have a little rationallsm.
EMMA G. SCHAFER.
Los Angalee SAINT pa
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28

Editor Herald: Not so very long
ago a youth of ia high school lad
rose in a suffrage meeting and asked
the speaker If there we're any states
in the Union where women now vote.
He was earnestly seeking Information
upon the subject for his text DOCKS
were silent in regard to the whole
nroblem of woman as a citizen of the
United States.
Plenty of information about the DO
ings of Queen Isabella, who made II
possible for Columbus to discover
America, and whole pages Of English
and German history devoted to the
queens of England and other countries,
but Americas sovereigns have always
been men, and her women have never
done anything that our historians have
thought worth while to write about.
And so our children have come to the
very natural conclusion that the wom-
en- of America do not amount to much
and aren't worth minding.
I examined a history of recent man
ufacture--a history of the United
States used in the model schooI OF a
state normal institution. From cover
to cover it was full of the wonderful
exnloits Of our forefathers-adVen-
tnres discoveries, settlements, fights
and battles galore; inventions, and all
the other things which go to the
founding of a nation-and all the work
of men. Three females alone were
mentioned in the entire volume. Inc
first notice was the fact that Virginia
Dare was the first white child born
in the colonies, from which statement
one may infer that there were fore-
mothers as well as foretathers.
Sandwiched in between Wnole pages
of brilliant descriptions of battle
scenes of the civil war with biog-
raphies of all the generals and men
of prominence, there occurred this one
sentence: .. ,,a..
the able leadership of Miss Clara Bar
ton did noble service on the battle
field and in the army hospital
One would think it were as nnpor-
tant for the children of this nation TO
know how, why and when the Red
Cross came into being and of its
noble work of life saving as to mem
or,ize the dates of bloody battles and
the number of killed and wounded
therein.
nears mon the pages of this history
was Miss Frances Willard, in connec-
tion with the work Of the w. 9. I. U.
T,wo sentences sufficed to cover the
whole life work of this magnificent
citizen and her grand coworkers.
This authentic chronicle OF events
gave the dates Of admission of terri
tories to statehood and told of the
emancipation of the negro, but not
one word of woman's emancipation in
the four free states, Colorado, Utah,
Idaho and Wyoming. Is this fair to
Americas women, than whom no
other country boasts any worthier?
CAROLINE WHARTON.
Los Angeles, September 20.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28
LIKES HERALD MAGAZINE

Editor Herald: Sometimes we are in
clined and do criticise what we fancy
the shortcomings of our preferred pa
per and too seldom offer a word Of
commendation But today 1t is great
pleasure to make honorable mention of
the magazine section of your Sunday
issue 1t is a veritable gem from
cover to cover. II should be in every
home in Los Angeles and would prove
a pleasure as we'll as profitable to
every household Moments with the
Camera" Amateurs" The Home"
Health and Scientific Sanitation" and
other departments are all gems of the
first order. The simple suggestions
which are given weekly in the little
paper regarding the matter of eating,
when, how and what to eat, II fol-
lowed would soon solve the question OF
high living and worry on that score
would soon cease. Wife and l have
decided we cannot afford to throw
away the magazine section of The Her
and, but will keep them for reference
when needed. repeat that today's
issue is a veritable gem throughout
and should be in every home in the
city; better still, in every home IN
the county. j. K. IL
Los Angeles, Sept. 20.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28
Reform in Court Procedure

TUTIONAL SILENCE, as evidence
against MIN on his trial!
Is this the twentieth century, or have
we harlked back to the dark ages? II
we have harked back, why not em-
ploy "PEINE, FORTE, EFT DURE?"
But the proponent says by way OF
excuse, that under the existing sys-
tenn" the poor devil is subjected to
the sweat box and the third degree,
until he confesses or furnishes clews
which enable the prosecutor to OBJ
tain evidence to secure q conVict1on.
What is here termed System is
only an imitation of the Spanish In
QUESTION, and an outrage which should
be made felony and punished by law.
And without such law, the prosecu-
tor who resorts to such sudorific
treatment, could be indicted for mall
feasance in office, and the policemen
dismissed from the service on charges
preferred. In every court of the last
resort, such methods as the sweat box
and the third degree have been de-
nounced and testimony thus obtained,
rejected as Illegal.
This was the course at common law;
it always denounced inquisitorial meth
ods of obtaining evidence and recog-
nized fully the dangerous and utterly
untrustworthy character of extorted
confessions, and was never subject to
the reproach that it gave judgment
upon them. Cooley, Const. Linn. 442.
All the works on evidence inform us
that confessions and admissions must
be voluntary in order to be admis-
sibIe: and where obtained by the fat
terry of hope or the torture of fear,
they are rejected. Our statute which
permits person to testify in his own
behalf, follows the constitution, by re-
fusing permission to cross-examine him
as to any facts not testified to by him
on his examination in chief. People
VS.. O'Brien. Sc Cal, 602 Cooley, Const.
Lin. 447-8-9. N. o.
Long Beach, September %.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28
ANTI-vAcclNATloN MOVEMENT

Editor Herald: In answer to letter
asking for anti-compulsory vaccination
petitions would say in behalf of the
State Vaccination league recent
ly organized in Los Angeles, that we
welcome the cooperation of all those
opposing the compulsory vaccination
law. The league was organized be-
cause we feel that compulsory vaccin-
alton is undermining the health of the
youth of our land. We know that vac
cination virus, which is composed or
living disease germs and putrid matter
from decayed animal tissue. is poison
Gus to the blood; that the varieties OF
vaccine virus are a product of human
smallpox matter inoculated into the
calf. We have indisputable evidence
that vaccination never has prevented
the spread of smallpox, but that, on
the contrary, the greatest epidemics
recorded in history have ragged among
the vacclnated. The liberation of vac
cniation by the people is secured by the
deliberate distortion of facts, and by
the continued publication in medical
journals of statistics apparently favor
able to vaccination that have repeat
edly been proved to be false.
We are anxious for leagues to be or
ganized all over the state. For further
anti-compulsory vaccination petitions,
please address Mrs. John Sobieskii 2SO7
Brighton avenue. Los Angeles.
MRS. JOHN SOBIESK1,
President Anti-Vaccination League.
Los Angeles, Sept. 26.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28
TIE PERFEcr POEM

Into the perfect poem three things go
Tho poets heart, the love Of woman, God;
4 csc with their light and might and fiery
glow
Transform to singing what were else a elod.
See how she runs across the grass, yon girl!
swaying and swinging. lily-tall and sweet!
What joyful cadence in the wnd-bloWn curi
Tho balanced arms are strophes, and the knees
Bend like a supple couplet smooth ana
strong
The whole a lifting lyric who looks sees
My perfect daughter. hears my perfect song
Pail Mall Gazette
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28
CAUSES OF THINGS

Reverend Gentleman-Do you know, my
friend, that half the cases Of cancer are caused
by people smoking ahose FOUL dirty, short
black clay pipes?
Son of Toi-And you you know, GuY'nor
that 'alf of the black eyes are caused by folks
not mindln' their own business ?-Ladies' Home
Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28
Far and Wide
MEANING OF "cLUBMAN"

In the far spread New York of today the
public takes less interest in the private affairs
of the children of Vanity Fair than it used to
do. And so 1t is elsewhere You may see the
splash in a pond; It is lost in the ocean which
is modern metropolis. Today the term CLUB
man. means nothing In ths days that are no
more 1t was a definition that stood for some
thing-New York Evening Sun.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28
STATISTICAL OVERSIGHT

The Illinois Central idea that the more
workman is paid the less efficient he becomes
must also mean that the less he is paid the
more efficient he becomes, Thus to have men
work without any wage at all would not only
give the best service but would also provide
the fattest dividends. It is surprising that
somebody did not think of this long ago.
Indianapolis Qnd.) News.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28

John D. Rockefeller is said to be try
ing to get list Of his relatives, and
1t is probable that they will give him
plenty Of assistance, but Of course only
in the hope that they can do something
to add a little cheer to the old mans
declining years.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28
Merely in Jest
HIS IDEA OF FIGURE

John, dear" querled the young wife, ganc-
ing up from the physical culture magazine she
was perusing, "what is your idea of perfect
agure?"
WELL" replied her husband, 100000 may
not be perfection, but it's near enough to sat
isfy a man of my simple tastes. "-Chicago
Daily News.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28

If you want to see what convention
of alert, clean, successful American
business men looks like, drop into one
of the sessions of the American Mining
congress at the Mason this week.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28
NEW STANDARDS

THE county fair management used to take
pride in shown the finest pumpkins an sweet
potatoes an such that could be raised
ives >, renlied Farmer Corntossel. "But
we've got way past that What we're after
now is the smartest aviators an the most sur
prising orators. Washington Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28

Let us hope, in the name Of human
ity, that the cabinet members to whom
BaIlinger has submitted his case are
spreading a lot OF soft pillows about
on the floor to break his fall.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28
WOULD BRIGHTEN IT UP

Prize essays the question Of what to do
with our ex-president are now in order, though
the competition will be lifeless unless Chan
cellor Day enters it--Syracuse Post-Standard.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28
ROTH DoLEFUL

''yvho is that man at the next table with
that downcast, sad, resigned expression
asked the guest at the club.
II don't recall his name" replied the host
s.but he is either Republican or married to a
sifffagette; one can hardly tell them apart
PUCK.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28
A HEALTHFUL TOWN

'If this town is as healthful as you say it
is. why do there happen to be so many doc
tors signs in evldence?"
They are nearly all the signs Of eye doc
tors. The people arc so healthy here that they
stay up nights enjong the climate and in
lure their ees."-Chicago Record-Herald
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28

WORLDS RECOMMENDATION RECORD
By putting on all the brakes William De Nor
gan has held his latest novel down to 425
pages Such self-repression has something
heroic about it.-Dsnver Republican.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28

Gen. Funston has ordered that there
shall be mo further dogs on TIE Leav-
enworth reservation" and the st. Louis
Times wonders what kind of canine
animal further dog is.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28

The New York woman of so who mar
ried the millionaire of 95 ardently
hopes that he will be spared to her for
at least a quarter Of a century more
OF course.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28
ONLY A rEW

Il understand the Frasers are having trou-
BILE" remarked the spinster Some people
take her part, and others side with him"
"And. I suppose" growled the bachelor
"there are a few excenuic people who mind
their own business ?"-Stray Stories
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28

Margaret Ellington comes next week,
and her female admirers will be par
doned for letting the darning of the
socks go over a week to see the new
play.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28
TILT 10Y OF cnMRAT

What did you think of the performance Of
"IIanlet?' asked the theater manager
Pretty good" said the patron "only that
fight with Laertes seems a little tame after
tho show given by the moving pictures last
week kg'-Washington Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28

The big increase in our Philippine
trade is pointed to as a feather for the
Payne-Aldrich tariff. AS the Philip
nine goods are exempted from the high
duties on goods coming from other
countries it is proof Of the exact
onposite-the benefits of untrammeled
traaa ialgEA
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28

Some of these nights that street
bandit may have the luck to tackle a
member of our female police force, and
what then?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28

Aviator Chavez gets $4,000 for cross,
ing the Alps, which sum, at the rate
Mayor Gaynor had to pay will just
about satisfy the doctors for patching
up his broken bones.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28

James S. Sherman can share with
Richard A. Ballinger the distinction of
having been repudlated by the people
of his own state.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-28

A newcomer noticed that Los Angeles
pedestrians do not all turn to the right,
so he naturally and properly turned to
the write and tells The Herald about it.