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Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23
Public Distrust of Ballinger and
Wickersham Is Now Overwhelming
(san Francisco CalD
nREs1DENT TAFT would

~ RESIDENT TAFT would save
himself much annoyance ana
Il constantly recurring scandal al
fecting the conduct of his adminlstra-
ton If he would quietly get rld OF
Ballinger and Wickersham. The pun
lie distrust of these men is overwhelm-
ing, and every day they remain in the
cabinet adds to the load that the pres
ident must carry. There is place at
which good nature ceases to be Vlr-
tue
These men know that they are the
heavy load which the administration
is packing, but they are not of the
retiring sort and just as long as the
presidents good nature holds out they
sooner or later they must, it Will not
be with their own consent.
Wickersham drew the railroad bill
now pending before congress, and how
that measure is regarded by the in
dependent press Of the country may
be gathered from the following editor
ia of the Indianapolis News:
AN example of the plain speaking
is the comment on this of the Kansas
City Star, whose editor and owner is
a personal friend of the president,
and, though a low tariff man, was his
cordial supporter. The Star wants to
know if the president does not know
that this bill as drawn by Mr.. Wick
ersham lessons instead of increases
the control of the roads by the gov
ernment; licenses rate agreements
through the mere filing of cnnv with
the commission: thar this feature was
so raw that Aldrich and his followers
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23

changed Il technically as soon as they
saw it: that this change was only
technical and left the way open for
unrestricted rate making, and that
the Insurgents ovcsthrew Aldrich ct
al. on this issue because the bill did
not express the policy whicn had been
advocated by Roosevelt indorsed by
Taft and promised by tho Republican
platform"
Wickarsham was a corporation law
yer before he became q politician. He
Is a corporation lawyer still in spirit.
and his political ventures have not
been conspieuously successful. Indeed
these have been chiefly confined to his
impudent attempt 70 read out of the
Republican party the men in whom
the most enlightened sentiment of the
rarity places its hopes for decent gov
ernment. The Republican party con-
sttuted as Wickersham would have 1t
would consist wholly of Aldrich and
the discredited gang of politicians who
follow him and take orders from the
interests
Mr.. Wickersham wants the Rcpubli-
can party to go into the forthcoming
campaign bound hand and foot and
wholly committed in policy to the AL
drich crowd. Mr. Taft must be blind
indeed to the condition of public SEN
timent did he not know that the
course would amount to party sui
eide. Wickersham cannot read any
body out of the party. He is not en-
dowcd with powers of political excom-
rnunication. and this is fortunate, for
the future of the Republican party
rests with the insurgents.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23
Y. M. c. A. SERVICE

T OURTH world-conference of the
H Young Women's Christian asso-
"A citation at Berlin considered and
discussed the place of the Young
Womens Christian association in the
social and industrial awakening"
An American delegate said: This
association is entering into a social
service in interesting society in the
questions of the workshop life, envir-
onment home life or lack of It, of the
multitude of commercial and industrial
workers. IL is again touching social
service widely when it brings together
the women of leisure ana the women of
labor, whore they naturally learn to
know and appreciate each other and
the unity of life i'm Christ"
The Young Womens Christian asso-
citation can render a wonderful world
service in eliminating false and arti-
fetal distinctions of class or caste.
In taking up the subject Of social
distinctions, the Young Womens Chris
able service to the community. Women
of wealth must recognize their sister
hood with women of poverty. In the
United States a woman with diamonds
and furs and automobiles has no right
to look down on another woman be-
cause she has not diamonds and auto
mobiles.
Glass distinction founded on wealth
is even more odiOus than class distinc-
ton founded on lineage Both are de-
testably un-American.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23
ART

STUDENT was talking to Fred
IN erick W. Freer about a painting
"A she had seen displayed in a prom
Chicago. 1t represented some cobs of
corn, in front of which was some
actual corn, "and," she said, "the
painting seemed So real that observers
a short distance away could not dis
tinguish between the painted corn and
the natural corn"
A big price was asked for the paint
ing. Mr.. Freer exclaimed: why
should I want to pay $4,000 for paint
ing of a few cobs of corn when I can
buy a whole bushel for -"
"Ah, well, but, professor, said she,
what is art, anyway
you've got me-" said Mr.. Freer.
What is art, anyway? Is it a fac
simile of nature? Is it a ludicrous re-
production of nature on exaggerated
lines. 1t is, for instance, Chanti-
cleer? Is that barnyard nightmare
ART?
Is a realistic novel art? Is a novel
of exaggerated realism art?
Is it not a fact art is ethereal.
spiritual, intangible, evasive, subtle, a
matter of "know-how?
Shall we stand by consenting while
art is murdered by realism? Is it not
time for a return to the first principles
of good taste in writing. painting,
drawing? We have had enough "yel-
low haven't We? Let us cultivate
art in daily life. remembering the
subtle psychism which would have
made it possible for Sir Noel Patton to
a composition with congruity, rele-
vancy and harmony. Let us have more
art and less artifce.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23
Ballinger Makes Not Unusual Error
of Keeping Public Business Private
Oakland Enquirer.)

lations of stenographer to the secre-
tary of the Interior" who is public
servant, is the principal reason Bal
linger gives for sending Kerby to join
CLAWS, Pinchot, Shaw and Price.
Ballinger says that Kerby gave this
information ITO those whom you know
are wrongfully seeking to bring re-
proach upon the administration and in
iure me" As Kerby gave his infor-
nation to his employers, the people or
the country, Ballinger. an employe OF
these same people, evidently is of the
opinion that the people are "wrongfully
seeking to bring reproach upon the
administration and injure me. Bal
Iinger, like all of his kind, looks upon
the people with contempt and desires
to keep them in the dark concerning
what transpires in his office. Why!
There can be but one answer: Because
his acts as a public official VIII not
bear the light of day. but are opposed
to the interests of the people.
Ballinger says Kerby was 'treacher-
ous" to him He would have betrayed
the neople as Ballinger has betrayed
them had he kept to himself his knowl-
,dge of Ballinger's dark lantern acts
against the people.
Rallinger's dismissal of and abuse OF
Kerby is complimentary to Kerby. 1t
shows that he is a different kind OF n
man from Ballinger.
The president, however, continues
BalIinger in office, defends him. eX-
presses confidence in him!
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23

MT r. BALLINGER imagines that
A the business he, as secretary of
A'A the interior, is transacting is his
own private business, not the business
of the people of the United States.
Therefore he is angry at the stenog
rapher, Kerby, because the latter told
the people of the country what Mr.
Ballinger, an employe of the people,
did in a matter i'm which the people.
having a direct interest i'm it, have
a right to know all about. kerby like
Ballinger, receives his salary from the
people of the country. He transacted
the business of the people, not Bal
linger's private business. Therefore it
was his duty to tell the people, his
employers, what happened in Bal
lngers office when the latter was be-
traying and trying to deceive the peo-
pie, his and Ballngers employers. Bal
linger thinks differently. So he dis
missed Kerh,- from the public service
lust as. and for the same reason that
the president dismissed CLAWS, PIN
chot. Price and Shaw. These dismissals
are notice to all government employees
that they are expected to be deaf, ollnd
and dumb 10 their superiors' betrayals
of the public interest.
In his letter of dismissal. Balllnger
tells Kerby that he is dismissed pc.
cause he is unworthy to remain IN
the public service. "Divulging,' to the
nublic. information obtained as
public official, "in the confidential re-
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23
EDUCATION

40 much has been said recently as
to the uselessness of classical
~ education it is refreshing to find
the most successful and the best liked
diplomat and man of affairs in the
world has come to the rescue Of the
classics James Bryce, the British am
bassador, who is one of the foremost
living authorities on Americanlsm ana
the author of the greatest and most ac-
curate textbook ever written on the
subject of the United States and the
American system, said to the students
of the University of Kansas universi-
ties of this country are not paying sut-
fcient attention to Latin, Creek phil
osophy and history.
Latin and Greek should be studied for
the purpose of acquiring a more intl-
mate and reliable knowledge of our bor-
rowed polyglot language, which is
heavily their debtor. Philosophy should
be studied in order that the popular
mind may be trained to take a discern
ing and rational view of events and
circumstances of the day, which ought
to be (but are not measured and
weighed by their derivative relation to
the past and their causative relation
to the future A deep, accurate knowl-
edge of the history OF the United States
would steady the politics of the coun-
try and would produce good govern
ment almost automatically. If the peo-
pie were thoroughly grounded in Amer
icanism, no government but good gov
ernment would be possible or thinkabe.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23

n ELYING on the adage that IAN
X ounce of mothers wit is worth
IL pound of doctors learn
ing" the Chicago health department
has undertaken crusade of more mod
ern invention. In a circular recently
issued by the department, the people
of Chicago are warned that there is no
merit in the ancient theory that one
must "eat a peck of dirt" in life-
time, and that it is not necessary TO
follow such a diet even in Chicago. The
claim is denied that people were
healthier in the good old day." nor
will the department admit that tine
stout child is healthy" Such homely
doctrines as "a goat keeps a stable
healthful" and "gas works are goou
for consumption" are denounced as
dangerous heresies.
But the custodians of Chicago
health do not shatter old-tlme nos
trums without Venturing valuable SUD
stitutes, and these are compiled IN al
most as pithy and asily-assimullateu
form as the discarded epigrams. In
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23
GOOD TIMES

I OS ANGELES total bank clear
ings for last week amounted to
IA $17.195, ,322 which exceeded by So
70.166 total for corresponding period
of last year and beat the 1908 total by
$6.9S6,515. Daily gain of clearings dur
ing the week averaged nearly $65O,OOO.
Great business activity and prosper
itv are also indicated by building Valu-
ations.
Los Angeles record for the first
twenty days of May shows gain OF
1886, ,26O as compared with correspond
ing period of last year and an increase
of 221 in number of permits. Total
valuation for twenty days is S1,44o,o45;
total number of permits is 664.
In Greater Los Angeles Prosperity
is a Condition and not a Theory.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23
BRITAIN'S KING NOT KING OF
ENGLAND, SAYS WELSHMAN

LOS ANGELES. May 21.-GEditor
Herald: For many years KING
Edward was Prince of Wales,
but he nver was king of Eng
land He was king of the United
Kingdom and emperor of India. |
went to the service the other night
and listened to a great deal of talk
about the king of England. The Eng
lish are as prone as ever they were to
ignore their Welsh, Scotch and Irish
comrades, without whose good will
there would be neither United Kingdom
nor British empire. What's the mat
ter with the English, anyway? Yours
for fair play. .
OWEN G.. PRITCHARD.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23
ANEW STAMP VENDOR

Mr.. Clark Herrold met with very
serious accident while on,his mail route
Tuesday His horse took fright While
stopping sell to stamps, and before it
could be stopped Mr.. Herrold was
thrown out and his head struck tree
cutting a severe cash just above the,
eye and was badly bruised otherwise.
He was brought home and DR.. Opre was
called and dressed his wounds, remark
ing that he came very near making his
last trip with the mail At this writing
he is reported as doing nicely, and it is
expected he will soon be making his
regular trips again.-Victoria corre-
spondence of Galesburg Qll) Repub-
lican- Register.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23
Unrelenting War Should Be Waged
on the Disease-Breeding House Fly
(san Francisco Post)

lieu of the gasworks as a remedy for
tuberculosis the Chicago "healthgram"
reads: "Open windows close the door
to consumption" while another ad-
vises: your lungs can't be washed
out, but they can be aired.
War is declared on the house-fly, and
the timely season for the campaign Is
urged In the counsel. zone fly waited
in May is equal to 100000 swatted in
July" The careful housewife Is warned
that "Floods of sunshine in the home
may fade the carpets, but they put the
bloom of health on your cheeks"
While it is impossible to predict that
Chicago's healthgrams will endure as
long as their heretical ancestors. it is
certain that some of them at least de-
serve more lasting fame The atten-
tion of the ignorant and careless may
often be caught by homely phrase
that sums up the wisdom of many
leaned treatses. IT is safe to say that
one Chicago healthgram will do more
good than a dozen of the scientific and
statistical bulletins in which the ex-
perience wisdom and recommendation
of most health departments are usually
concealed.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23
State Press Echoes
LIVER A LUXURY

Among the arguments advanced to
show the reason why meat is higher
is one which relates that everyone
wants the very best cuts. To read and
listen, one might be led to imagine that
butchers sell the loins and other good
portions of a beef and throw the rest
away AS a matter of fact there. is just
as much of Il demand for the so-called
inferior cuts as ever, and so greatly
has this demand increased that the
humble soup bone, which the butcher
used to give away, now brings a right
smart price, while liver, formerly
classed among the by-products, has
actually become a luxury.-San Benito
Advance.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23

Under Good Government, police work
in Greater Los Angeles is improved so
vastly there is little room for criti-
cism; and carping hypercriticism can
not affect the record. Public morality
has been aided by the conditions at
tending Good Government, and the day
of protected vice" is only faraway
memory. Under the new regime, and
with new standards of official eff1cien-
cy. Los Angeles can look forward to
it's future with serene confidence in
its success.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23
Cranes Bias Is Made to Masquerade
AS Truth Derived from Investigation
fHumbold t Times)


justification and support of a theory
to the effect that college education was
detrimental to business and success,
and going further, and as special
department of the work he had IN
hand. he sought to show that, to use
his own language, "all technical ana
special education is likewise a snare
and a delusion." The work that he
submits is interesting reading, If for
nothing more than it's ingenious
revelations as to the biased methods
of collecting data, and the rather
clever self-assurance with which the
biased conclusion is set out as the
truth of impartial investigation. The
work, it is needless to say, will never
be an authority, but it will be
curiosity to an intelligent reader
1t is not the work itself that is so
remarkable. The more remarkable
fact is that a man who has been sue
cessful as a manufacturer of million
aire activities should be so out of touch
with all other departments of the world
save his own.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23
Harvester Trust Partially Responsible
for the High Prices Of Necessarles
Csan Francisco Jou rnal of commerce)


eral agents who were anxious to sell
me their particular kind. After [
bought one they sent out an expert
to set it up and to see that it worked
all right They also provided some ex-
tras for use in case any parts broke
unexpectedly. The expert would stay
all day to see that the machine worked
all right.
Nov I go into Fargo, and there is
only one place to buy. have to pay
their price. When | ask for an expert
they tell me l ought to know enough
about binder to set it up myself, and
that they have no expert available.
There are no provisions for extras.
When | break a blade or other small
part | have to drive several miles, and
the machine will be idle for day or a
day and a half while the local agent is
getting the part from the head office.
That's where the trouble is-there
is no competition"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23
WOMAN POLICE

w OMAN police in Chicago have a
w years record to present to the
public. These women are known
as protective officers; but they are
police in everything but name. Each
has beat to patrol, and the nature
of the work done may be gathered from
the following report: Complaints of
selling liquor TO minors investigated,
295: complaints of selling tobacco to
minors investigated 50: complaints of
selling immoral post cards investi
gated, 40; complaints of pool rooms
investigated. 203: complaints of dance
halls investigated, 92 e e and ten cent
theaters visited, 1913; penny arcades
visited, CT: saloons visited 7S5: relief
visits, 174: cases referred to relief or
ganizations, 374: legal aid cases re-
ferred, 105 referred to Visiting Nurses
association, Z; housing cases referred,
81 applications referred, 264; placed in
hospitals, 1903; sent to dispensaries,
1872: children placed in homes, 240; slot
machines removed. 223; work found for
men, 81: work found for women, 81;
work found for boys S4; work found
for girls, 90; visits to ice cream par
lors, 1885, visits to candy stores sO5.'
1t is obvious there are "lines" Of po-
lice work much more efficiently
handled by women than by men 1t
took our civilization a long time to find
out the advantage and desirability of
police matrons at the stations. Per-
haps we are approaching a general ma
tional appreciation of the fact eve
believe it is a facD there is an ele-
ment of uncivilization in detailing po-
lcemen to arrest female prisoners
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23
AT MEMORIAL
MAKES SCOT ASK QUESTIONS

LOS ANGELES, May 21.-[Editor
Heraldl: When | was asked to go to a
King Edward memorial service 1
thought the proceedings would be like
those of Empire day. and would apply
to the British empire. But, to my as
constituent. 1 heard nothing but Eng
land. England, England, and lot of
stuff about the English king. Am L
not correct in believing that Henry
VIII was the last English king? And
that the present royal family reigns
because it has a wee drappie of Scotch
Stuart blood concealed somewhere in
it's veins? DONALD MACDONALD
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23
BOXING AND sLUGGlNG

Boxing is all right, slugging is all
wrong. The art of self-defense with
the weapons nature gave us cannot be
taught too soon or too thoroughly But
making a business out of long distance
fights, putting men in ring to battle
with each other for money or prizes
until one or both are physically eX-
hausted, are simply exhibitions that
brutalize all conscience and disgrace
the community-San Francisco Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23

n T. Crane of Chicago has written
X a book on the subject of educa-
1US ton. The title of it is "Utillty
of All Kinds of Higher Schooling; An
Investigation" The purpose of 1t Is
to show that nothing but the rudl-
mentary training of the mind is Oh
anv use whatever. If the mind to be
trained is to devote its energies TO
the solution of business problems;
Mr.. Crane himself is a successtul
manufacturer, AS such he may speak
with authority upon the requisites OF
money making; and knowing those he
seeks to square all of the aim and
nurnose of education with just that
one supreme aim. He determines that
the education which viii bring the
most money is the successful educa-
tion and that all other education Is
useless and of no avail.
Mr.. Crane made his investigation py
means of letters addressed to college
presidents, alumni and business en-
ployers. He sought in those letters
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23

nHE International Harvester COM
pany, better known to the taf-
Il mers and politicians as the mar
vester trust" was credited with
share cf the responsibility for high
prices by ]. B. Power q wealthy
farmer of Power, N. d. at the hearing
on high prices before the senate COM
mittee. .,
The trust not only has advanced
nrires hut has become arbitrary and
exclusive. Mr.. Power declared that
harvester agents in the halcyon days
before competition was stihed pursued
the farmers and the price of a good
harvesting machine was sos. Now
farmer pays $3.50 and has to look Tor
the trusts representative "hen ne
would purchase ,,
Before the trust was formed he
said. Il used to go to Fargo and look
around for binders. There were sew
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23
CORONATION ODE

Hail! George V Victim!
We're not forgettin'
You always were one OF the gang.
On sea legs rolling,
Like Poor Tom Bowling,
In the days of auld, auld lang
syne, and your MATES
Around the praties,
Sumgulion and weak tea
Say you always ate hearty,
Like one of the party.
So. here's your health, George V
Victim, and may you
Neer rue the day you
Began to rule the main"
And, sir. I'm yours truly,
And wish you duly
A kindly, Victim reign.
D. @. ]
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23
Why GLORlFY ENGLAND ALONE
IN HoNORING DEAD MONARCH

PASADENA, May 21-[Editor Her
add: l don't want to be cranky about
a solemnity; but I want to ask what
became of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland and of the
British empire at the King Edward
services? Those who attended it heard
a great deal about England and about
the English king, but nothing what
ever about the Scotch king or the
Irish king, the Welsh king or the Co
Ionial king. From your editorial page
I believe you try to give the Celts a
square deal. Why were they ignored at
the Edward meeting? A. STIRLING.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23
A nls1INouIsHEp INDIAN

Chief Bacon Rind of the Osages is so
wears of age, has fallen out of a third
story window without injury to any
body or anything except the window,
and incidentally. is the wealthiest
Indian in the world.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23

Dear! dear! So man who read the
forecasts and predictions as to where
the comet would be seen, and then
went out and saw it in the appointed
place, was merely imaginative. Ac-
cording to latest reports, the only peo-
pie who saw the comet were those who
weren't officially posted as to it's
whereabouts.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23
IGNORE IRISH AT MEMORIAL
OF KING THEY FOUGHT FOR

LOS ANGELTs, Eay 21.-[Editor
Herald: I was persuaded to go
to the King Edward memorial serV-
ice because | was told it would not
he English. but general. But from the
way the speakers talked you would
have thought England was the only
country on the map. The Irish troops
in King Edwards regiments fought for
him as hard as any. Why were the
irish ignored at the Los Angeles serv-
iceso w. V. O'BRIEN.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23

All these different stories about the
comet can't be true. Such discor-
dant medley of alleged scientific facts
was never before perpetrated on a
puzzled public. Surely somebody's s
(here whistle loudly, and think of
Col. Roosevelt's strenuous diction).
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23

Many citizens of Scotch, Irish, Welsh
and Colonial birth are wondering
where they "came in" on the King
Edward celebration. They should not
be nettIed. The king deliberately chose
an English title No wonder the Eng
lish claim him.