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Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22
ADVICE TO YOUNG COUPLES

Editor Herald: I have read all the
letters that were published in your pa
per in regard to the young couple who
wanted to get married. 1 differ from
most of the people who gave their adj
vice to the young folk. I say they
should wait until he Is making more
money. 1 am talking from experience,
as I went through the same thing In
San Francisco two years ago.
I also was a clerk at $40 a week and
wished to get married, but was not
making enough money, SO I asked for
a raise, but the boss said mo-" so I
quit and got job driving one-horse
wagon for SIS a week. But still that
wasn't enough money. so asked for
more, but was refused. quit again
and drove team for SIS week, and
from that on / have made enough to
keep a wife.
If he is "a years old and working for
81 a week, 1t Is all his fault. I guess
he is like the boss said I was, wasn't
worth more" But / quit and so can
he. There are plenty of jobs open for
honest young men, and I am sure he
is honest or his girl wouldn't consider
marriage. Therefore, I say If he has
got his health he can do the same as
I did. Teaming Is no disgrace; be-
sides, 1t would be healthy position.
Pasadena, Cal. J. r. L.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22
FAvoRs WOMAN SUFFRAGE

Editor Herald: When an untried So
cial or political change is talked about
and advocated its discussion pro and
con is a good thing for the purpose
of deciding action; but when such a
change has been made and predicted
evils that would follow it have been
shown to be nothing but baseless fears
il Is an act of folly to keep presenting
such things for eerious consideration.
Woman suffrage is an established
fact in certain states, and has been for
years, and nothing has occurred IN
those states to make the objections TO
woman becoming a voter worth mo-
ment's reflection. There has been no
noticeable disturbance in our political
machinery or methods and "unsexed
women have not increased through the
right to vote and help make the laws
under which both sexes must llVe'
Women are still womanly and attract
i've and have made no effort to restrict
the cherished liberties of men which
some have been so fearful of; and their
attentions to their home duties have
not been seriously diverted. The home
is still woman's ideal place and be-
cause she desires just and impartial
laws to live under and thinks she can
be a factor in getting them,, 1t does
not follow that her nature will become
masculine or her home will lose its
charms and attractions.
Our laws in the past have been very
unjust and partial and woman was
always treated as an inferior, with no
rights that man did not see fit to grant
her, until through public reform move
ments she began to work for her right
full dues and privileges-and to get
them. Man gave her nothing yolun-
tarily and without urging, for that
selfish individual wanted sex slave
and kept her as such for long centu-
ries. But conditions have changed
much and are still changing, and those
reactionaries who stand in the path of
progress and fight the enfranchisement
of women will be swept aside by the
overwhelming power of public opinion.
There is no reason why women should
not vote in California as we'll as in
Colorado, Wyoming or Washington,
and it is only matter of time when
they will.
And now I wish to express surprise
that w. c. owen, who is forever de-
manding more liberty, is booked for an
address in December against woman
suffrage before the Votes for Women
club. What kind of liberty does he
believe in, or any man who seeks TO
prevent perfect equality between the
sexes? Personally claim no right and
never have that I would deny to wom-
an, so I hope for her enfranchisement
and the abolishment of all Injustice,
which includes the double standard of
CLAIMING SEVERANCE.
Los Angeles, Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22
LOWER STEPS PROMISED

Editor Herald: Complaints being
often made concerning the high steps
of the interurban cars, the difficulty
as we'll as danger to invalids, aged
people and children in boarding and
alighting, the writer few days since
wrote Superintendente Akin of the Los
Angeles Railway company asking Wny
the cars were constructed in that man
ner, and seeing there were SO many
complaints could the public expect a
change for the better? He coulteously
replied the following day:
I'm reply to your favor or the 1zt' 1ztn'
Our company has nothing to do with
the Long Beach line (the one the writ
er complained of ] have re-
ferred your letter to Mr. McCaffery,
their general superintendent"
wrote promptly the following:
Dear Sir: Replying to your letter
OF the 18th instant on above subject
(height of steps of cars) addressed to
Mr.. Akin and which has been referred
to me: -.
"As our interurban cars go into
the shops from time to time for a gen
eral overhauling the steps are being
made lower, which will overcome the
difficulty complained Of"
The prompt courteousness OF these
officials is praiseworthy, and as the
subject is of general interest l hope
you will give it place In Letter Box.
PATRON.
Tos Appa1as Cal
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22

Editor Herald: One of the most in
teresting articles in your paper was
that about the increasing scarcity OF
meat.
1t is almost within the last year only
that science is prepared to show that
the nitrogen or proteid which Is the
chief composition of meat is so al
loyed with toxic waste products tnat
we are far better off without meat tnan
with it. It is scarcely the introduction
of moribund flesh in the stomach OF the
emigrant who comes here that culck-
ems his intellect, but the contact with
that live, effervescing progress be-
uueathed to us from our rather mool-
fed vegetarian colonial ancestors, IN
whose wake the flesh-eating RED man
declined, you know.
Proteid is contained in the Vegeta-
bles. but it is of a purely wholesome
kind. The former Volt standard OF llS
grains of proteid a day, which We're
considered necessary for the mamie.
nance of our "nitrogenous equilibrium
is now conceded by dietitians to be
only half that. Some people require a
little more and some a little less than
sixty grams of proteid a day. The ad-
ditional food, required by the average
working man, more than by the brain
worker, needs to come from the
starches and sugars, that is all.
ARTHUR FOOTE.
South Pasadena, Cal
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22

After the supper dishes are washed
and put away and you get sttled COM
fortabIy in your easy chair, your wife
brings out her sewing kit, for there
is usually lots of sewing and mending
to be done. From the little wicker
stand, which your wife thinks is SO
tasty, and upon which you have paid
a tariff of 40 per cent, she takes the
little spool case-one of those straw
and silk affairs-tariff- taxed 80 per
cent, and chooses the thread very care
fully.
Maybe cotton thread will do. That
is taxed only one-half penny on each
small spool; If it is one of the larger
spools the tax is double. If she thinks
that linen thread is necessary, she
picks out a small spool, tariff taxed
three-Quarters of a cent an ounce. But
sometimes she finds 1t best to use the
silk thread. tariff-taxed 9 7-S cents an
ounce. Having decided upon the thread,
she will put on her finger thimble,
a hard rubber one. perhaps, tariff-taxed
35 per cent Or If it is a metal thin
BILE the tariff is 10 per cent higher.
Now she takes up her scissors, on
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22
California Topics

THERE'S nothing like that fertile soil of Cali
fornia, Look at the growth of Los Angeesl-
cleveland Plain Dealer.
Mighty Los Angeles has $4,000 people and
10 900 Socialists, being in something of class
bv itsef-St Louis Globe-Democrat.
Glorious climate of California again. Los
Angeles has good banking capital in that,
with 200 per cent in ten years-St Louis Globe
Democrat
An example of sisterly regard that is worth
noting and initiating is Los Angeles boosting
FOR the worlds fair at San Francisco.-St.
Louis Globe- Democrat.
II Los Angeles continues to gain in popua-
tion as she has in the last ten years, New
York may be the second city by, say 1850.
THAT is IL New York agrees to stop growing
meanwhile Christian Science Monitor.
William Kent was elected to congress from
California Evidently the voters in the district
where Kent ran have Idea that 1t is worth
while to send good men to congress.-Chicago
Record-H Herald
Los Angeles with q population by the new
censtis of 319 198 an increase of 211.5 per cent
shows in a striking manner the growth OF the
Pacific coast Small places make more. but
this is the largest percentage of gain ever re-
corded by an American city. The nearest APP
nroach to 1t was that of Chicago between 1860
and 1870 when that city rose from 10000 to
299 New York World
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22
WHAT IT COSTS YOU

T N another column of this page The
Herald prints today the first of q
n series of short and popularity
were prepared for the New York
World by Charles Johnson Post. They
are interesting and informing and deal
ing with everyday experiences Of al
most every man, woman or child, they
are as entertaining as a story.
For many years the highbinders who
have been fiching from the people
through protection" have been assid-
uoAsly cultivating the popular idea
that the tariff is a dreadfully abstruse
and profound subject that only an ex-
pert can understand. 1t isn't SO. In
its fundamentals the tariff is one of
the simplest of problems. 1t is the
levying of tax on almost everything
that we use in order to keep out COM
petition, with the result that the COM
bines which have secured control Of
various commodities charge what they
please.
The high cost of living is due to
variety of causes, but to none SO much
as the protective tariff. These short
articles that will appear on this page
from day to day make it clear why this
is so. Whoever thinks because some
stump speaker has told him so that the
tariff keeps things running along nice
ly for him ought to read these and see
how he is bled at hundred pores
while being fed spoonful Of "protec-
tion."
Read Mr.. Posts recital of the tariff
taxes and cut them out for reference
next time a tariff windjammer gets
va, ,,D5ay. bis small
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22
What the Tariff Costs You
MOTHERS SEWING BASKET
CHARLES johnson Post, in New York wori

which she has paid straight tariff at
the rate of four cents pair, and In
.dition to that 15 per cent on It's
wholesale price. Pins are very nee
essary in sewing, so she gathers some
of them, Which, If of the ordinary
kind, are tariff-t,xed 35 per cent.
Those with glass heads are tariff-taxed
40 per cent; safety pins, ever needed,
35 per cent.
The beads to ornament little Lucy's
dress are tariff taxed 30 per cent; the
common buttons, three-fourths a cent
a line and 15 per cent: the pearl or
shell buttons, 11s cents and 10 per
cent added. Them she has to sew
Lucys dress on the machine, tariff
taxed 80 per cent, with needles taxed
25 per cent And late in the evening
after all of Willie's buttons are in
their right places and the rents in
Lucys school dress mended your wife
may find time to crochet a dainty
scarf with crochet needles, taxed %
per cent, using wooden yarn tariff
taxed 1-3 cents an ounce and 40 per
cent of its wholesale value added.
Thus enters the high tariff tax law
into the precincts Of the home.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22
HE WANTS TO KNOW

Editor Herald: I take The Herald In
preference to any state or county news
paper because of its brave stand for
truth, morality and clean government
and its liberality in the Letter Box.
l wish to ask through the Letter Box
two pert questions, and ask any
minister or follower of Christ to an
swer them. wish to know why so
MANY church members and temperance
societies supported Fredericks against
Woolwine for district attorney. / also
wish to know why Rev. Robert Bur
dette could be induced to go upon the
rostrum with and in behalf of Fred
ericks as prosecuting attorney, when
such honest, pure men as Mayor Alex
ander positively refused to be seen on
fhe rostr1Im in company with the said
Fredericks. Decipimur specie recti.
DIR. II. H. DOW.
go dana Gal
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22
WHAT SOCIALISM, Ie

Editor Herald: Your editorial, $50
cialism's Causes Is certainly deserv-
ing of grateful memory from those who
believe the movement to be the deepest
and most majestic ever known In the
annals of the human race. But to make
the betterment of the worker the sole
preachment of Socialism is to endanger
its grandeur. 1t is something more.
1t is a remodeling of all human life,
intellectual and moral. as well as eco
nomic and political.
The English writer, Wells, tells us
Socialism is an awakening in the hu-
man race of collective consciousness.
out of a collective mind, collective
will, arises a new individualism that
will realize that only through collect
i've endeavor we can reach a greater
knowledge of freedom and real great
ness. Il. +.
Los Angeles cal
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22

1t is q curious commercial experiment
that is to be attempted with the
steamer Texan, owned by the Ameri-
can-H Hawaiian line, vessel of 1900
tons which has been chartered by Bar
ber & Co, and will inaugurate a
freight service between New York city
and the River Plata ports, Buenos
Ayres, Montevideo and Rosario. She
sailed on her first trip November y
from the South Central piers, Atlantic
docks. She will be the first CONNER
cial steamer flying the American flag
that ever carried freight to any point
south of Venezuela. Yet from Brook
lyn ports alone sometimes six vessels
a week flying the British flag leave Tor
the Plata and for ports of call between
Brooklyn and Buenos Ayres.
The Texan Is an oil burner and the
expense of stokers' wages is eliminated.
otherwise she would have little chance
in commercial competition, because our
navigation laws in making the life OF
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22
DIR. HAYNES TALK

A DDRESSES like that of DR.. J. r.
IA Haynes before the City club on
"A Saturday will make the mad world
pause and think a little more than it
has been doing. It will be better if
it pauses and acts before a great hu-
man cataclysm breaks upon it with de-
vastation. However tightly we may
shut our eyes, the world is in a fer
ment, and from causes that are almost
as clear as monday,
No Thoughtful person could listen to
DR.. Haynes talk without being made
reflective. His recital of the condition
of the children Of worl1ingmen in York,
England, where the average wage per
week is two shillings less than is neces-
sary to preserve the health and
strength, was ominous. Eight out Of
ten children were found puny, weak
and diseased from malnutrition. Dr.
Haynes hinted at the causes:
Every year 100000 adults die in
England Five-siXths of these, $780,
600, leave absolutely no property,
although 81, 100000, 900 a year passes
at death and $3.50, 000,O 900 of this ST.
500 900, 600 is bequeathed by 1000
people each year.
Did the 350,00O who died in penury
lead lives of indulgence, dissipation,
thriftlessness and extravaganza?
Did the 1000 who left $780, 900
lead lives OF arduous toll. frugality
and industry? No!-a thousand
times no!
But York. England, is 5000 miles from
Los Angeles. Well, to show that York
is typical and not exceptional let us
halt and gaze far this side-at Chi
cago. The school board of that city
has found that so many children come
to school hungry and underfed that the
board Of education has decided to fur
nish for one cent at noon bowl OF
rich soup, a piece of meat and all tie
bread and butter they want Glanclng
a little farther along the line, the SUI
perintendent Of schools at waterbury,
Conn, a supposedly prosperous manu-
featuring city, has reported that so
many children stagger to school under p
fed that he advises municipal feeding
at noon.
DIR. Haynes is one Of those thoughtful
persons who win welcome some means
of betterment In the social and eco
nomic conditions, no matter under
what the name. His address ought to
show those 1t reached through its de-
livery and the press that there is a
work for the worlds leaders to do,
and that work is to prepare to meet
conditions. growing steadily worse, that
are rapidly moving forward TO a
climax full of big and dangerous posi-
bilities.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22
EXAMPLE OF NEW SOUTH WALES

Editor Herald: wish to call the
public's and particularly the laboring
mans, attention to the fact that New
South Wales, probably the most pro-
gressive state in the world, is about to
put in operation the single tax. A
late telegram from Sidney to the Lon
don Times, speaking of the present
government, states that "the aim of
the ministry is to secure the unearned
increment for the state, either by a
land tax on freeholds or by periodical
reappraisements of leasehold rents"
What a pity that the laboring people
of this country, instead of wasting
their time advocating the twin follies,
unionism and socialism, and following
their present incompetent leaders, do
not throw the whole outfit overheard
and import from New South Wales
leaders who possess plain, everyday
common horse sense. +.
Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22
Growing Use of Oil
Brooklyn Eagle)

Eagle)
the seamen tolerable increase seriously
the expense OF the shipowner
America sends to the Plata country
mowers, reapers, binders and binding
twine, rosln, lubricating oil, sewing
machines and manufactures of leather
outside of boots and shoes Practi-
cally no hats and caps and no tex
tiles go down there, Great Britain hold
Ing the market in these things. 1t is
a curious fact that while the South
Americans generally are taking their
boots and shoes from England, Aus
tralia and New Zealand. both great
British colonies insist on having Amer
lean shoes, even though the latter sell
at a higher price.
Patriotic Americans will be glad to
have the flag seen on the Plata. The
Texan may be only an advance agent
of prosperity for our mercantile ma
rine, If the next session of congress
passes an intelligent subsidy bill aimed
at the encouragement of our shipping.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22
nENouNoEs SOCIALISM

Editor Herald: Just small space,
please. Oh, no, Mr.. Jeffersonian. De-
mocracy is not Socialism. Democracy
stands for all that goes to the bet
terment and ennobling of the family
and the home, while Socialism aims at
the destruction of the family and the
home. A few evenings ago the Social
istic teaching, given by female So
cialiss to a large audience mostly COM
posed of females, proves 1t is time for
us mothers to arise In the strength OF
our motherhood and denounce Social
ism everywhere as a horrible pest.
Zion arise; be not afraid, the time has
come. MOTHER.
Los Angeles, Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22
EXPECTING TOO MUCH

1t was a cold, raw day, but the
Neversweats and the Fearnoughts We're
playing a game Of ball on the prairie,
just the same.
The pitcher of the Neversweats, his
fingers half frozen, failed dismally in
getting the balls over the plate.
'Aw," said the captain, Il fought
we was one o. desc cold weather
pitchers!
II am" said the slab artist, blowing
on his benumbed digits to warm them;
"but amt ice pitcher, blame ye!'-
Chicago Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22
ONE STAR LOST

The hours are few when the good-by Is saios
MY world shall empty seem;
Distance a thief of hearts and hands,
may forget in dream.
I dread the time when lone will be the nights
For me the sky no star
win hold-when you. my light, is gone
And faith will be afar.
Until your sweet return. misty the days will
pass,
Until your sweet return;
Nothing but dreary tasks, and then-oh, when
VIII my star, my star, burnt
FLORIDA Times Union.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22

If the Annapolis midshipmen who,
disobeying orders, are hazing again,
should get Secretary Meyer down there
and haze him, he might think out
some effective way to stop the
practice.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22
THE DESPERATE IN ART

A young woman will undertake to
improve convict morals at the Weth-
ersfield penitentiary by painting upon
the interior walls of the institution
pictures of an elevating kind, but
we've seen pictorial efforts by Well
meaning people that would drive the
most virtuous to crime.-Boston Her
aid.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22

The American board Of foreign mis-
sions says 1t is no lor r good form to
speak the Chinese as heather"
AS we are foreign devils" to them,
it i'll behooves us to assume spiritual
superiority.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22

A man who was at work near tank
containing 10000 barrels of kerosene
which exploded in New Jersey cannot
be found. The trouble probably Is that
they looked for him in New Jersey in
stead of Ohio.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22

Since it is found that Norman u.
Mack voted the Republican ticket by
mistake, it is possible to hold the
theory that the same kind of blunder
by about 10000 Republicans caused
thA unset in New York.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22

An appropriate, If not palatable, ma
terial to use for stutfing the Thanks
giving turkey would be some Of the
tariff speeches and editorials used by
the standpatters in the last campaign
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22

Senator Lodge, who said the "ulti-
mate consumer is a myth" is short
of votes to re-elect him. He would
appreciate it If few more of the
myths in the Legislature would help
him out a bit.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22

Good government is government for
the people-au of en-. This being the
case, Mayor Alexander's town meeting
idea appears to be another progressive
step for which his administration is
becoming noted.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22
QUALITY COuNTS

ST. Louis boasts that its preachers
are the best paid in the country. An
other argument against the all-impor-
tance of population comparisons
Omaha Bee.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22

Tolstoi left home because there were
so many visitors. Wives, do you see
what dire results may come from
throwing out the latchstring to so
many of your relations?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22
THE LATEST IN PICKLES

The president alone knows whether
the rejection by Germany of the COM
promise on potash expectation is to be
made an economic casus belli. And
that's no lye.-Boston Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22

Senator Aldrich says there will be
no politics in his monetary bill. We
should like to buy large crayon por-
trait of N. w. Aldrieh doing anything
non-partisan.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22
WORTH TRYING FOR

st. Louis society women have taken
up the fad of buttermilk churning.
They are making themselves popular
with the remnants of the Fairbanks
yote.-Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22
ANY PORT IN A STORM

A highwayman in st. Louis at
tempted to hold up the driver of an
auto, but the chauffeur put on speed
and got away. He explained after
ward that he thought the robber was
policeman.-St. Paul Dispatch
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22

On Sunday the temperature at Dew
IFS Lake was 16, which is somewhat
lower than we have been taught to
expect of the DEVILS lake.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22

The court has dismissed the $30o00,-
900 suit against the Standard Oil trust,
and Johndee should now lend his rab-
bits foot to the beef trust magnates.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22
IN SOME INSTANCES

Little Bobby-E|hat are "sins of
onission?"
Uncle Bob-Those we have forgotten
to commit, but which we promptly at
tend to as soon as we are reminded OF
the oYersight.-Life.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22

An eastern paper says the enumer-
ators in "those western towns must
have included live stock" They did,
they did. We are all very live stock
out this way.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22
CURIOSITY PARTLY CT

CURIOSITY PARTLY GRAT1FlED
"Uncle," said the traveller who had
stopped at the farmhouse to water his
horse. my wife out there in the buggy
wants to know what that curious look
ing structure is.
"That's a silo," answered the farmer
81 keep ensilage in it"
"IIe says" reported the traveller to
his wife a few moments later, its an
asylum and he keeps a fellow named
N. C. Lage in it. / think he's lying,
but 1 hope you're satisfied.
Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22

A former Chicago newspaper re-
porter has been made an Episcopal
bishop, leaving the editors at their
desks to look after the preaching
duties