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Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31

lethargy in which we little realized
ourselves to exist 1t allows-indeed
we cannot escape it-a greater sphere
of perception.
When our vision is cleared, when
we strive to attain the ever attain
able, we meet with those who would
impede our progress; those who are
ever ready without the least compunc-
ton to command: Remain where
you are!" They demand that we do
them homage, that we bow in humble
submission, or PROSTATE ourselves as
did villeines of old-that we forever
stand as serfs regarding them as
lords paramount" But that man
kind is not prone to do, hence we re-
volt, and thus, by virtue of intellec-
tual emancipation, do we find relief in
fields of broader vision.
Striking instances of this refusal
to be meanly submissive and their re-
suits which are so patent, we may
observe today: revolt against corrupt
politics and it's many ramifications of
debauchery; against our abominable
and crime breeding psychological system;
against the administration of JUS
tice, and against the enslavement of
womankind. And how glaring the
fault that publicity, the most potent
and servicable of all weapons for the
realization of civic betterment is so
hagrantly disregarded.
TWAIN MICHELSEN.
HOLLYWOOD August %
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31
BASEBALL ROWDYISM

| T IS reassuring to all lovers of the
| national game as a healthy sport
- to learn that Judge Graham, the
president of the Pacific coast baseball
| league, has promptly announced that
he has a severe rod in pickle for the
participants in the rowdyism at the
games in this city on Sunday last,
when players engaged in disgraceful
fights with spectators and an umpire
was pelted with bottles and forced to
run for his life.
Baseball is the national game because
its qualities appeal to the alert Amer
! lean mind, and it has been kept cleaner
than any other professional sport. It's
managers have found that it pays to
| be ION the level" It ought to be appar-
ent to them that it pays to keep the
game free from thuggery and inde-
cency. In the big" leagues this les
son has been learned so we'll that the
officials place the widest powers in the
hands of the presidents, and these ex-
ecutives lay heavy penalties for
breaches of decorum with an impair
ldllly tldl Keeps the nelu almost Tree
from disorder.
The chief trouble with the smaller
leagues is that discipline is not prompt
and severe enough in cases like Sun
days. Players are suspended and fines
laid, only to be wholly or partially re-
mitted when the incident has passed
out of popular memory. If a rowdy
player knew that nothing would save
him from stiff fine and long suspen-
sion for his misdeeds; if a manager
knew that he was held accountable for
the conduct of his players, without
consideration as to the standing of his
team in the race, there would be few
disgraceful episodes like that of Sun
day.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31
California Topics

Notwithstanding San Francisco and
San Diego are preparing to hold Pan
anna expositions, New Orleans also
wants one. AS a compromise why not
hold real Panama exposition at Pan
anna? The canal itself would prove
the biggest attraction and give the
world an opportunity to see the big
ditch in which so many American and
French millions have been sunk.-New
York World.
California wants harvest hands.
Here's a chance for Messrs. Jeffries
and Johnson to do something useful.
Denver Republican.
An Oakland applicant citizenship
could not tell who Congressman Know
land was, and was rejected in conse-
uuence. All of which is manifestly
unfair to the alien, who doubtless OBJ
tanned his knowledge of congressman
from reading the Congressional Record
instead of the newspapers.-Wa
Vile Register.
Out on a California ranch loneliness
drives a woman to the murder of her
own children. In New York an OBJ
scure millionaire lives almost to three
score and ten in a self-imposed soli-
tude with thousands of neighbors at
hand! The human equation is a fac
tor that gets past all calculations
New York World.
The Santa Fe railroad has built
town in California which it says must
remain dry forever. Yet the Santa Fe
is supposed to invite immigration and
encourage NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Press.
And now comes Mr.. Jeffries with
the theory that he was doped by an
Oakland man. These Los Angeles peo-
pie never overlook chance to take
slam at our fair city-Oakland En-
quirer.
California is insurgent. Pinchot
campaigned there. Kansas is insur-
gent. Cannon campaigned there. What
a team Pinchot and Cannon would
make to campaign in Ohio!-St. Louis
Post Dispatch.
A private car to take his bulldog pup
to San Francisco is lumber Ling s.
way of advertising that he has money
to waste. 1t helps railroad earnings"
inst as much as would $4,000 more sem
sibly spent.-New York World.
All California is directly and in
tensely interested in seeing San Fran
cisco get governmental SANCTION LOT
holdin-' the only official Panama-Pa-
cific international exposition in 1915.
The whole state will profit immensely
from the exposition If held by the
Golden aate. The proposal to put up
So. OOO, 900 of state funds toward the
support of the exposition doubtless viii
be Overwhelmingly ndorsed.-Pasadena
Star.
Ohsarva that a california hunter
hurting over 600-foot precipice.
saved his life by toe hold to a twig,
hanging this way six hours until res
cued. BY the way, is Stone of Win |
sted, Conn, father OF the tunneling
trout and other freaks. at home just
now or on vacation ?-San Antonio Ex-
press.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31
Story of the Prison Poet

It." in September C entury)
walk of few yards between the cell
house and the shops, this Is the only
opportunity that the majority of the
prisoners get to breathe fresh air. If
IT rains or SHOWS, even this is denied
them. After drill comes dinner, and
after dinner the key turns again. From
noon on Sunday to 5:45 on Monday,
every man is locked in his cell and
left to his own devices. on holidays.
instead of chapel service and drill,
there are entertainments, followed by
a few hours quasi liberty, during
which talking is allowed
With regard to the meals, 1t Is diff
ficult to remain wholly judicial Mem
ories of many hungry days persist
days in which my plate was pushed
aside untouched. However, am will
ing to admit that the quality of the
food was not so much to blame as
the method of cooking and serving.
AS the years passed. / grew accus-
toned to the diet, or to most of 1t. To
particularize, there were three mod
erately appeti2ing breakfasts: Pork,
sausage, beans and bacon and four
most unappetizing: hash Owice), liver
and bologna sausage. Similarly. there
were three good dinners: roast pork
and roast beef (twice). with good
vegetable; and four bad ones: beef
stew, mutton stew, and boiled pork
and sauerkraut (twice). The suppers
consisted of bread. weak tea without
sugar or milk and diluted canned
fruit of a poor quality But the most
unfortunate feature was that the good
meals came together, leaving an ach-
ing void on the other days. 1t Is only
fair to say. however, that men who
had been in other prisons spoke very
highly of the saltwater cuisine, and
to add that the conditions under which
worked were not conducive to the de-
velopment of healthy appetite.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31

Prison Life as l Found
To attempt to bring the conditions
of life in saltwater prison clearly be-
fore the readers eye, it viii be. ad-
visable to detail a days routine. At
5:45 the gong rings. This sounds like
a very ordinary and necessary pro-
cedure, but the morning gong is the
insistent fact that disturbs ones
dream fancies, the everlasting reminder
of ones status in life. At the sound
of it seven hundred men get out of
bed, wash. dress and tidy their cells.
At els they march to breakfast in the
dining halls. Breakfast over, they re-
turn to their cells for moment, but
shortly march out to the shops, be-
ginning work promptly at o'clock.
Work continues until noon, at which
time a recess is taken for dinner. At
! work begins again. and it continues
until 6, when comes once more the
silent march, and by 6:15 every man is
locked in his CELL During eight months
of the year the night school occupies
$50 men until o'clock. The remain
der may smoke and read-or write
verse-from six to nine at which time
the gong rings and the light goes out.
This is the invariable week day
routine. on Sundays and holidays
comes a welcome change. On Sun
days the gong rings an hour later,
and after breakfast the men return
to their cells for a longer period.
Apropos of the word "cell,' the aris-
tocratic prisoner uses the euphemism
apartment" or "room," lest after his
release he may be unable to break
the habit of referring to his sleeping
room as CELL on Sundays, of course,
comes chapel service, which continues
from an hour to 80 minutes. After ser
vice, attendance at which Is entirely
optional, every man Is turned out for
exercise. With the exception of the
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31
MR.. TAFT'S KEYNOTE

A S if possessed of the idea that
| u iteration and reiteration would
- make it so, Mr. Taft has made
the burden of his campaign keynote
letter to w. B. Mckinley a repeti-
tion of his now historic phrase, 1.-The best
tariff bill ever passed" OF course,
| in campaign document it was neces-
sary for the president to ignore the
faet that much of the legislation of
the last session he credits to his party
was passed only with the help of DEM
ocratic and insurgent votes, and that
If the measures had been left to the
wing Mr.. Taft regards as the party,
he would have had little to use now
for his keynote.
Mr.. Taft's letter is plea for har-
mony, as usual, but with the insur-
gent wing coming back into the fold
with the old leaders, 1t is a lullaby
which has been cleverly hit off in Har-
per's Weekly by Jefferson Toombs all
most simultaneously:
Hush, my little insurgent child
Cease thy shrieks and thy wailings wild;
Hush, and listen thy slumber song,
Thou who knowest mot right from wrong
Come, my child. to the slumber craft;
Lulled to rest by good Nursey Taft:
Hush thee. hush thee, lul-ullabyl
Close that eye
Which winketh awryl
And this shall allure thee TO slumber serene:
The very best tariff bill we've ever seenr'
Peace, my weanie, do not insurgei
Do not splutter and sprawl and spiurge;
Tut! Don't strike at thy nursey's cheek
List the charm that my voice shall speak.
There now, there! Art thou going daft?
Hark to the Groom Of thy Nursey Taft
Lul-ah Jul ah- -lu-lullabyi
Schedules high?
Fte, fei
Now this shall enchant thee TO sleep at last:
THE very best tariff bill we've ever passed."
All! My laddie, my precious prize,
Let the sandman shut up your eyes
Yes, and let him shut up your mouth
You're soaring people from north to south
Hush, my lambie! One time thou laughed
And cooed with glee at thy Nursey Taft
Lullaby-low Lul-lullaby!
Do not cry.
Me-oh-my!
Listen, and don't be so naughty bad;
THE very best tariff bill we've ever had!'
In the face of the rising prices, of
the Aldrich rubber disclosures, of the
revelations of the Pittsburg survey
and other evidences of the plundering
nature of the Aldrich tariff, Mr.. Taft
jauntily says "it is a step in the right
direction and ought to be accepted as
such. On the whole it was a down.
ward revision
"On the WHOLE" the presidents
blindness on the subject of the tariff
has come to be only a matter for jest
to all but his friends, to whom it
must be genuinely distressing.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31
Women in Congress
indianapolis star,)

(lndianap
1t is not beyond the bounds of possi-
bility that woman may knock at the
doors of congress next January and
demand admittance to all the rights
and privileges that have been accorded
exclusively to men since the foundation
of the government. The women of
Colorado have put forward Mrs.
Katherine Williamson as candidate for
congress. The full right of suffrage is
granted to women in that state. On
learning that the increase in popula-
ton entitled the state to another rep
resentative, the women got busy" and
announced that one of their sex would
be elected to the job. Mrs. Williamson
holds the position at present of state
factory inspector, and has established
reputation for faithful service. She
is about 81 years of age, is said to have
the genius of making new and holding
old friends, and generally TO be very
popular. 1t has been observed that
the women Of Colorado vote pretty
much as a unit when it comes to i'm
portant matters, so Mrs. Williamson's
election is quite possible.
Should she be elected an interesting
point will be raised The constitution
of the United States says: mo per-
son shall be representative who shall
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31
CAUSE FOR THANKS

If tongues were all attached to brains,
How happy We would be-
If hogs were barred from railroad trains,
How happy we would be;
II fads and foibles were tabooed,
II gum was not by ladies chewed,
If death would only steal the dude,
How happy we would be!
Chicago Record Herald.
II cats would only sleep at night,
How happy we would be;
If money would not get so tight,
How happy we would be;
If women would not talk, forsooth,
II ladies' hats were less uncouth,
II weather clerks would tell the TRUTH
How happy we would be!
-Yonkers Statesman.
If payda.- came six times a week,
How happy we would be;
If purses never sprung a leak.
How happy we would be;
If married men might stay out nights.
And there were no more skeeter bites,
If prices did not take such flights,
How happy we would be!
Houston Post.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31

Ills Star.)
not have attained the age of 2b, and
been seven years q citizen of the Uni
ted States, and who shall not, when
elected, be an inhabitant in that state
in which he shall be chosen" 1t Will
be noted that the pronoun 'he" is used
in designating the sex of representa-
tives. OF course, the builders OF the
constitution had no thought that tho
time would ever come that women
might be elected to office of repre-
sentative If Mrs. Williamson should
be elected, how would congress in
terpret the pronoun? Congress has the
right to pass on the credentials OF its
own members. Would technicalities be
waived, as they have been in admit
ting women to the practice of law, or
would the house fall back on legal
ity" and ask for a ruling from the
supreme court? The last would prob
ably be the result. Suffragists the
world over would await the decision
with the keenest solicitude. While
Americans In general, perhaps. would
have more than passing interest In
the outcome, any decision that might
be reached, whether affirmative or
negative, would be accepted with pa-
tional sangfroid, though with a good
deal of hutter In feminine circles.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31
Hollywood, August 20.
ALLEGES THAT MAIL SERVICE
HAS BEEN GREATLY IMPAIRED

Editor Herald: Mr.. Kellerman
writes on the method in which Post
master General Hitchcock is econo-
mizing and asks if anyone has noticed
falling off in the quality of the SER
vice being rendered by the postoffice.
1t would be strange if no one had.
My attention having been called to the
matter, 1 made some inquiries re-
Gently and found that at one sta
tion fully six districts, one Saturday
afternoon, had failed to receive
complete delivery of first class mail,
the time limit of the regular cerriers
having been reached. L learned that
at another station three or more dis
tricts that same afternoon failed to
get any delivery.
Furthermore, where the delivery of
a single piece of first class mail
would involve a journey of block
or more carriers have been instructed,
as 1 am credibly informed, to return
the piece to the office to await there
the following delivery.
Saturday, August 13, as I am in
formed, at one station nine or more
districts failed to receive any mail
delivery, and at another station the
same applied to several districts,
though exactly how many l cannot
say If these conditions prevailed
throughout the city many thousands
of pieces of first class mail matter
must have been held over from Satur-
day noon until Monday. Now nom
delivery of mail may cause tragedies
of the most serious character.
Mr.. Hitchcock has been notoriously
lenient in the matter of assessing
fines against the railroads. 1t seems
to me infamous that he should econo-
mze at the expense of the lowest,
most hardworked and poorly paid
branches of the service-the office
clerks, the carriers and the train
clerks-for the last named have a most
serious grievance that 1 have no
space to explain. SMITH
Los Angeles, August 25.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31
Only Four Years
(paoine outlook

whose letters to my dear Walter"
asking for railway passes had been
made public was refused admission to
the Republican caucus by this same
railway agent. and was treated to
every possible form of insult and In
dignity. This year Charlie Bell Is NOM
mated on the Republican ticket with
no OPPOSITION whatever. He will be ad-
mitted to the Republican caucus-and
Mr.. Parker will not.
Much can happen in four years-but
the changes of the last four will be as
nothing compared with the four just
ahead of us
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31

It was only four years ago that
Walter Parker held one of his county
conventions down at Venice. He
named many OF the delegates and con-
trolled majority of them. He had a
special room where his people" re-
ported to him and were told what they
should do. No one could be nominated
without his consent. and his consent
represented the interest of the South
ern Pacific railway.
1t was q little less than four years
ago that Charlie Bell. elected TO the
legislature as an Independent Republic
can from Pasadena against a man
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31
SHE WAS WRONG

There was an oppressive silence in
the parlor. At last the desperate
young lady broke out.
George" asked she, why don't you
propose?"
"Somehow-somehow I can't bring
myself to do it, Myrtle!" blurted the
young man.
IT'S only a short sentence, George"
"It's a sentence for lifel"-Judge
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31
REVOLUTION AWAKENs WORLD
FROM INTELLECTUAL LETHARGY

Editor Herald: Revolution, what
ever be it's form, guides the world al
ways along certain we'll defined paths
reform, enducation, enlightenment
It awakens you, it awakens me from
that state of moral and intellectual
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31

Taking the screen doors down will
make saloons more dusty inside, and
that may make necessary more throat
irrigation. Still, the proprietors would
rather have the doors.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31
FATHERS LITTLE JOKE

A Baltimore man recently called at
a friends house where the stork had
recently arrived.
Hello, Tom,' was the effusive greet
ing of the caller. What is IL? Boy
or girl?"
Guess" said the father.
Boy" ventured the caller.
With a sad smile the new parent
added, "Old man. you're only half
right. Magazine.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31

The Moroccan ministry is filed by
Carpenter, but hasn't Mr.. Taft some
other responsible foreign post that
could be acceptably taken by Mr.. Bal
linger?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31

The new football rules make the
game quite safe, thinks Walter Camp
This may reassure a few, but there is
a suspicion that the real football fans
don't want the game too safe.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31

Senator Roots speech at The Hague
lasted six days. And yet they used
to poke fun at Senator PETER of Kan
sas because he talked through his
whiskers two or three days at time
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31

A dirigible balloon is being made
for wealthy San Francisco family.
Strange that this means of climbing
the hills of Frisco has never been
thought Of before.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31

Not one active insurgent from the
last congress has failed OF renomina-
tion in the entire country, and many
new ones have been named for the
next session.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31

Three local arrests for shoplifting in
one day. Some women have taking
ways about them.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31

Kansas university is teaching stu
dents how to live on one dollar a week.
A correspondence course in the new
"science" ought to be popular
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31

A new $6,OOO,OOO melon has been cut
by the Standard Oil company. And
yet some cranks say they can't see
any signs of "our'' prosperity.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31

Hurrah for economy in government
expenditures! The federal printing of
flee turned out 100000 copies Of con-
gressmen's speeches last year.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31

It's safe wager the G. o. P. cam
paign committee won't use Mr.. Taft's
Winona speech denouncing insurgency.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31
Poughkeepsie man who went t

A Poughkeepsie man who went to
California to accumulate a fortune
rapidity has just returned after an alb
sence of fffty-one years. The old gem
tleman will probably put in the rest of
his days reading all the get-rich-quick
Iiteratue he can find and giving it the
1a-ha, says the Dallas News.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31

The birds still have one great su-
periority over the aviators. They keep
their machinery in good order.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31

We feel like apologizing to the ass
for mentioning that worthy animal in
connection with Senator Hepburn.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31

"I'll die fighting" says Uncle Joe,
but nobody wants him to die; only
to get out of politics and stay out
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31

he seems to always agree with the
last man he has talked to.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31

1t is now recalled that Japan said
a good many Pickwickian things in
the last few years about not intend
ing to annex Korea.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31

meant when he said he appreciated
Hiram Johnson's position.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31

President Diaz is going to muzzle
the press. We thought he had already
done that but perhaps it was only
gagged.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31
Merely in Jest
TOO SUNNY

James H. Scarr of the New York
weather bureau said on a hot and
blazing day:
Il overheard a timely dialogue this
morning between two women.
Your husband said the first, has
such a sunny disposition, hasn't hep
Yes, regular July sunny was the
reply. You've really no idea how hot
he makes it for me. New York
Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31

AS Mayor Gaynor is out of danger.
the New York Republican ticket is in
more danger
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31
PUBLIC LETTER BOX

TO m;snded for pubnaon
assume Orsponsib for views
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31
AS INDICATED

Professor-To what class Of maladies
does insomnia belong?
Bright Student = Why-er-insomnia
is contagious disease.
Professor--Whered did you learn that?
Bright Student From experience.
When my nelghbor's dog can't sleep at
night l can't either-Chicago News.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31
GOOD SHOW

Purchaser-These seats are in the
back row. Is there any chance of ex-
changing them after / get inside?
Theater Ticket-Seller-Sure! After
the show begins you'll be able to get
any seat in the housel--Puck
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31
THOSE BUNGALOWS

"Smrt man, that Zeke Howe"
"How so?"
Hadn't you heard? Since he's gone
out of the chicken business he white
washet all the hencoops, put windows
in 'em and is renting them out for
summer cottages. Judge.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31
EARLY IN THE GAME

Neighbor-Is any one sick over at
your house, Johnny?
Johnny-Dad's ailin' some.
Neighbor-Is he very sick?
Johnny-Not yet. TIL doctor only
started t. come this mornin.-Chicago
News.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31
AN EARNEST INVOCATION

The president has done his best
To put his measures thru.
TO give us confidence again
And clear the outlook blue;
Now, hurry. Mr.. Cotton Crop,
It's
Up
You.
The hnanciers have done their best
To tell us what to do,
If we should have prosperity
And good old times anew;
So Mr Corn Crop, hump yourself,
It's
Up
You.
Tho congressman have all gone home,
A billion dollar crew.
But how to make two ends meet,
They never gave clew,
So, Mr.. Wheat Crop, grow apace.
It's
To
You.
New York sun
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31
ON THE TRAM

my wife is a poor one to get her
moneys worth"
''How SOP"
Pays extra to take a scenic route,
and then spends the entire trip look
ing at a bride and groom. kansas
CITY Journal
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31

New York sun.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31

Population of Los Angeles 327, ,685