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Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-07
FEDERAL LINE

A P. FLEMING, secretary of the
II harbor commission, will rep
AAs resent maritime Los Angeles
while the congressional committee In
charge of harbor appropriations is at
work, and also will appear before the
committee which has in charge the bill
providing for a federal steamship line
between the isthmus of Panama and
Pacific coast ports.
Such . steamship line, by offering
competition to the lines controlled by
the railroads, will have the effect of
emancipating and boosting the indus
trial interests of this coast.
Under present arrangements the Pa
cific Mail Steamship company, a branch
of the transcontinental transportation
trust, gobbles the lions share of the
through rate on shipments by water
from Atlantic to Pacific ports, only 30
per cent being retained by the govern
ment for the Atlantic haul and the
railroad rate across the isthmus. 1t
should never be forgotten that the rail-
road trust is not anxious to build up
the Panama route. It is useless to look
for relief in the matter of rates or of
trade arrangements to corporations
which see in great public Improvements
only a menace to their private profits.
California and the Pacific coast have a
right to expect the establishment of a
federal steamship line.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-07
THE BRITISH ELECTIONS

nHE condition in which parties are
left in Great Britain by the out
II come of the elections is not easily
grasped by an outsider. Practically
the magnificent majority that belonged
to the Liberals during the late parlia-
ment has melted away, and they face
a solid body of Conservatives only one
less in strength than themselves. The
balance of power is thus in the hands
OF the two smaller parties-the Labor
ties and the Irish Nationalists. That
these two parties will work together
harmoniously in order Ito strengthen
the hands of the Liberals in promot-
ing a clear and consistent popular pol
icy is hardly to be expected. In the
first place, the strength of the Labor
ties is in the cities and industrial CEN
ters, while the Nationalist Irishmen
are mostly farmers and people of the
country.
There were not fewer than four
clear issues before the country in the
late election, and ordinary people
found themselves at a loss to deter
mine which party antagonized them
least. Many sworn anti-home rulers
remained free traders, and many who
disliked the upper chamber had little
use for a budget that taxed land
heavily. The cry, Back to the land"
happens to be very popular in the
islands at present. We hear of high
ly educated young women, able to ap-
preciate art and music, who have be-
come market gardeners because Of
their love of a Ruskin-like life. In
deed the economies of that great art
critic, as given in such books as his
Unto This Last" have never been
so popular as today
Certainly the Nationalists will listen
to this battle cry, for it has been the
dream of the Irish tenant farmer to
become a proprietor, and his ideals
are quite out of harmony with the
Socialistic theories of extreme Labor
Unionfsts. The cry against the house
of lords has failed to give the Liberals
much help at the polls, and yet the
lofty arrogance of certain peers, like
1IOfUS .CuEZOIl etIlI NllhNtlClolls lielo eA4ISll
ated many voters who were otherwise
inclined to call a halt on Liberal ex-
periments in taxation. On the whole,
the country shows it wants breath
ing time to consider policies and issues
more at leisure. Legislation for a
period will be timid and opportunist,
for no party can boast it has the full
confidence of the nation. Protection
has not been indorsed, and yet free
trade has received a languld support;
only very mild change is possible in
dealing with reform in the house of
lords, Asquith will have to walk warily
if he attempts to force a home rule
bin; and the Back to the landers"
must be reckoned with in any drastic
land tax legislation.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-07
ADVERTISING

IN nROSPERITY in every department
of business activity is indicated
Il and reported. Prosperity is aided
by publicity, and the publicity offered
by the advertising columns of Los An
geles Herald is a constant source of
profit and of prosperity to all who take
advantage of it. Los Angeles has been
made by the industry and enterprise of
its citizens, but without publicity
neither industry nor enterprise could
have accomplished the magnificent re-
suits that have been achieved. The
chamber of commerce began a cam
paign of prosperity when it began q
campaign of publicity.
The history of advertising in Los
Angeles is hardly less wonderful than
the history of the city itself. All en-
terprises to a considerable extent are
dependent upon advertising enterprise.
Los Angeles Herald realizes its adVer-
tisers are among the most progressive,
efficient, capable and reliable of our
worthy citizens, and the additional sue
cess and new business brought to them
by the advertising columns of The
Herald offer convincing proof of the
merit and value of advertising in A
MEDIUM OF PUBLICITY WHICH
THE PUBLIC BELIEVES IN AND
TRUSTS,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-07
POVERTY

A CONTEMPORARY says the reason
"a for looting in Paris in time of
"A trouble is poverty, adding: Paris
is great city of $500, 900 people, where
it is impossible for many to make a
living. For thousands more the earn
ings are so small that gripping want is
present all days of the year. Out of
these conditions spring the crimes that
fill the papers.
This comment could be made, with
out change of a single word, of nearly
all the big cities of civilization-Lon-
don, New York, Chicago, etc. So it is
plain the people who constitute the
desperately poor class (or mass, as the
case may be- are not responsible for
their poverty. They are the victims
Of circumstances-of conditions.
AS long as society is contented to
muddle along with an organization linn
tied to executives, representatives and
other officials, the evils complained of
will exist in every big city.
A slum is the place where idle
ness. caused by some preventable or
remediable economic outrage, may
drift into criminality. AS long as the
question is asked, Am l my brother's
keeper" the conditions will exist which
provoke crime and make criminals. "Do
not concern yourselves only with your
own affairs and well being. Concern
yourselves also with the affairs and
the well being of others" is one of the
Christian commandments.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-07
CALIFORNIA HEROINE

A MONG the daring and noble deeds
IA of great-hearted women who have
AA taken part in the development of
California there is none recorded that
is pluckier than Mrs. Stanford's when
to save the university founded by her
husband she pawned the Stanford jew
els. During the last month of Senator
Stanfords life the institution was
plunged into financial difficulties
which lasted for nearly ten years. The
funds of the original bequest We're tied
up with lawsuits. 1t was necessary to
secure ready money for the expenses
of the university
Mrs. Stanford pawned the family
jewels in London for 100000. Later the
Jewels were redeemed and sold for
100000, which amount was turned over
to the university as library fund.
Any woman who will pledge her fam
lily jewels for a loan representing an
inconsiderable part Of their worth and
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-07
IMMIGRANTS

n RESIDENT BAER of Occidental
college says it is none too soon
"A to prepare for the tremendous
task of caring for immigrants who
will come directly to Southern Cali
fornia via the Panama canal. Robert
Watchorn, formerly United states in
spector of immigration at Ellis Island,
remarks there are a lot of people howl
ing about distribution who would not
permit themselves to be distributed at
all. He declares nothing can shake
the purpose of immigrants to go TO the
places decided on by them before
leaving home.
But, look here, Mr.. Watehorn, Amer
lea is not ruled either by immigrants
or by immigration, lesson we of the
Pacific coast have had to teach John
Chinaman. There is nothing whatever
that is in the slightest degree pleasing
Excepting to professional exploiters) in
the prospect the cholo labor of Cali
fornia may be augmented by horde
of poems from Southern Europe.
The men we want, and the men we
need, are the good Americans who
are emigrating to Canada to escape
conditions which at least in part are
attributable to the constant underbid-
ding of foreign competitors in the
labor market. The women of New
York used actually TO so to Ellis
Island to hire their cheap help, because
they said American girls asked too
much for domestic work! That was
ONE of the reasons why American
girls were driven to the factories.
When American kitchens are conducted
on peonage principles the factory is
invariably preferred by the liberty low
ing American lass. Why not attract
the New Englanders to California in
stead of allowing them to wander off
to Canada? Why so much bother,
pother, powwow and fuss over the
Southern European immigrant? We
need Americans in Southern California.
Why not send the Southern Europeans
to Canada and bring the Americans
here?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-07
CALIFORNIA PLUMS

NALIFORNIA plums have invaded
and conquered Europe. and there
~ is opportunity for development of
a very great industry, because the mar
ket has been rushed, and its complete
and permanent capture will now de-
pend on the plum growers and pack
ers. Norway is almost convinced of
the superiority of the California plum
and a little enterprise will convince
that thrifty country completely. A
few years ago the Bergen market
was dependent entirely on France and
Servia for dried plums. Now Califor-
Mia is in the market with specimens
which are as good as any, with the
possible exception of a few bottled
French plums. The French were in
the habit of dumping all kinds of
grades on the market, but now Cali
fornia competition has compelled them
to send only the best.
In continental countries where large
quantities of plums are produced, Cal
iforn ms may sell successfully against
home grown varieties, and this not
withstanding the disadvantage of hav-
ing to pay an import duty.
In the general market for plums
and prunes the preference is given to
those of California and France, and un-
disputed Californ-a supremacy will be
the result of California industry and OF
a fair railroad rate.
At every turn we are confronted with
California industries which are -four
ishing and would reach unchallenged
orld-supremacy, but are subjected to
the menace of railroad rate which at
times has the effect of a VETO on
healthy commercialism and indus
trialism.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-07

the places with the regulars by their
side. The college men are given
charge of the fire control and other
positions of like Importance, and IL is
said to be marvellous how quickly the
militiamen become expert Certain
paraphernalia is supplied to each mill
tia organization so that it's members
can practice the important duties IN
their own armories during the otnei
fifty weeks of the year.
The coast defenses of the United
States proper are now about three
fourths completed and about ONE
third of the work has been done III
the insular possessions. When those
of the United States proper are I'm.
ished the chances of an invasion OF
the country. unless it be through Can
ada or Mexico. will be decidedly re-
mote. When they are completed Bos-
ton and New York will be about as
safe from the shells of an enemy as
st. Louis or Atlanta.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-07
AT THE THEATERs

AUDITORIUM-Dar
BELASCO--"TheM Man OF the Hour
BURBANK-"The Ringmaster,
sCHER'S-Musical farce.
"F1orodora."
LOS ELES-Vaudeville
MAJEsTIC-"Babes in Toyland."
MASON--Dark.
OLYMPIC-Burlesq
ORPHEUM-VaudeN
UNIQUE--Melodram
NVALKER-Dark.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-07

DR.. David Starr Jordan advises the
nation to get politics" out of politics.
Success of good government move
ments indicates that the time will come
when the country will recognize that
honesty is the best politics as well as
the best policy, and the willy ''profes-
sionaP' who makes a living out of
"doing politics" will be eliminated
from the governmental problem.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-07

Clifford Pinchot will tell the story of
the Alaska coal land cases and water
power sites. AS long as there is to be
an investigation the dauntless Clifford
intends to make sure it shall investi-
gate. Bully for him!
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-07

Los Angeles has a new regular
minister" Rev. DR.. Brougher, who
some time ago was visitor to our
city, has returned as a Los Angeles
booster and the pastor of Temple
Baptist church. where big congrega-
tions yesterday heard him preach the
opening sermons of his Los Angeles
ministry. We wish DR.. Brougher great
success and prosperity.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-07

Los Angeles citizens who have set
forth upon trips around the world are
glad to think the earth is an oblate
spheroid. and that after they have
iourneyed for while they will find
themselves headed for lovely Los
Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-07
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENT intended
for publication must be accompanied by the
gives tIie widest latitude to correspondents,
but assumes responsibility for their yisws.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-07

Greater Los Angeles is growing up
ward as well as horizontally. The
metropolitan district down town al
ready has more sRyscrapers than New
York had few years ago.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-07

Already announcement has been
made that buildings valued at $10,500,-
900 have been planned and soon will
be erected in Los Angeles. The build
ing industry of Los Angeles is keeping
pace with the greatest industrial de-
velopment ever recorded in the history
cf any city. The supremacy of Greater
Los Angeles on the Pacific coast is as
surP6
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-07

"Irishmen would be the best friends
of Englishmen if the fools would only
let them" writes an enthusiastic Celt,
Whatever be the political complexion
of the home rule question, there's the
common sense of it in a nutshell.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-07

We look for the formation of an
anti-billboard league of mercantile
advertisers. If the public spirited
MERCHANTS of greater Los Angeles
will undertake to deal with the bill
board nuisance disfiguring billboards
soon will disappear.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-07

Coffroth reports all the continental
countries of Europe have gone daffy
about fighting, and that new boxing
clubs are being opened every day in
France. Then we would better have
a care. Boxing expertness and the
encouragement of the gentle art of
prize fighting had not a little to do
with Celto-Saxon world leadership.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-07

Chicago city officials are being in
dicted in patches of four. While all
the magazines were publishing anti
graft and exposure articles, and when
the nation was congratulating itself
on the dawn of a day of decency, the
Chicago grafters were buster than
ever When will civic righteousness
be established?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-07

Bernard Corrigan Of Kansas City
says consumption regulates prices.
True for him. and when the trusts
regulate consumption It's high time to
regulate the trusts.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-07

take all the worry and risk attending
such a transaction is entitled to
place in the Hall of Fame with the
worlds heroines.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-07

A $120O0,O0O failure is a mystery to
the citizens who find it difficult to
raise $40 in an emergency.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-07

Up went the aviation wight,
with speed beyond belief.
Cried he: II purpose in my hlght
TO reach the price of beef.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-07

On all matters pertaining to advertising
address Charles r. Gates. advertising man
ager.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-07

The question of manning the coast
defenses has been a serious one. Con-
gress will not allow even half of war
footing for them. So the military au-
thorities have provided for the situa-
tion by inducing the seacoast states
to convert some of their militia into
coast defenders. These militia or
ganizations meet for two weeks in the
year with the regulars and watch
them during the first half of the time.
During the other half the militia man
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-07
AMERICAN COAST DEFENSE
Bv Frederic J. HaSkin

TIL the completion of forti-
fications now in course of
construction the American
people will be able to sit
back with a feeling of Sc
curity from danger of for
pirr,, i,,,yaci01 A I Tho tiI11a
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-12-29
TO WASH HAIR BRUSHES.

Hair brushes need to be washed fire.
quently, because Of the perspiration of
the head, which readily retains the
dust in the air. The best brushes may
be ruined by careless washing, andif
the bristles are allowed to become soft,
q hair brush becomes practically use
less for its intended purpose. Many
persons cleanse hair brushes by cover
ing them with wheaton flour and simp-
ly rubbing the bristles together. This
method, however, is not thoroughly
satisfactory.
To keep our brushes in good condi-
ton proceed in the following manner
Have two dishes Of cold-not hot
water. To the first dish, which con-
tains, say, a quart of water, add a des-
sert spoonful of ammonia. Now take
you brushes one by one and keep dip
ping the bristles up and down in the
water, being careful not to wet the
backs, and in a minute or two the dirt
and dust will come out of them as IL
by magic, leaving them beautifully
white. Now dip up ard down several
times in the second dish, containing
the clean water, to rinse them. Shake
well and place to drain across a rack
or Towel horse.
no soap is needed and no rubbing
with the hands. If you adopt this
method of cleaning your brushes, you
will find that they will last three times
as long as if cleansed with hot water
and soap and that the bristles will pre-
serve their stiffness.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-12-29

HOUSEHOLD NOTES. \
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AMP GIVE ARTISTIC
EFFEGTS IN HnMEs

Lamps form a conspicuous part In
artistic household furnishings now
adays, for they appear in all rooms and
where candles once reigned lamps, u.s.
ually fitted with electricity, shine.
The proper finish for dressing tables
now is small colonial lamps. with glass
bases. If they are old one SO much the
better, but reproductions answer every
purpose. Nor are they expensive, and
they can be made to burn oil or need
not burn. But they must be in evil
dence, the shades bell shaped white
glass on which a Powered pattern Is
engraved.
The two designs most often seen In
glass lamps are those with one big
stem. having the Colonial" cut. and
another which is surrounded by pend
ants. The latter model is particularly
pretty, as the drops catch and reflect
the light. For his reason one sees
them on Inner tables. Under no cir
cumstances are silk shades used,
pierced metal, either silver or brass,
being employed when glass is not de-
sired.
A country house which is artistieal-
ly furnished has tiny old lanterns in the
bedrooms and large ship lanterns sus-
pended from the ceiling in the upper
and lower halls. In the two latter
places 16 candle bulbs have been in
troduced, so the light is excellent. In
the bedrooms, that the glare may not
be disproportionate to the size of the
lantern, eight candle bulbs are in each.
the rooms having four lanterns in each.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-12-29
The Aviatress.

From the Chicago Record Herald.
This is a new word, but there is a mean
ing behind it.
At Paris Mile. Marvingt, flying for the
Coupe Femina." has kept in the air for
30 minutes. II no woman beats that before
the end of the year the coupe will be
!.ersa
How is ~madanoiselie, aloft In an An
toinette, regarded by her male rivals?
One may mot know, but one may guess.
One has but to recall the case of he
10-year-old boy who climbed up to the
ridgepole Of his home toaperform antics
for the entertainment and surprise Of two
little girls on the ground. Hearing a noise
behind him, he turned to find that one OF
his admirers had come up to Initiate and
emulate him Ignoring her, he descended
to reap the plaudits Of the second little
girl below.
So true is itthat what man asks of wom-
an is not emulation nut appreciation.
The satisfactory woman is she who re-
mains In the grand stand with her gaze
on high. Then when the airman comes
down she is there to comfort and applaud.
The girl on the ridgepole was .unwoman-
ly,", and the boy felt 1t.
Mile. Marvinot herself is not quite sure
that aviation is just the thing for woman.
Flying she says, requires qualities OF
sang-froid. initiative and prompt decision
that not one In four of the fair seq pos
sesses. None but those who have been ac-
tive In sports all their lives IAN hope to
fly an aeroplane."
Yet who will find a way to. confine the
ladies to the grand stand?
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-12-29
HAS CONGRESS NO ORATORS?
Hon. Champ Clark Points Out CHANCES
In National Legislature.
Champ Clark in the Century.

CHAMP Clark IN the Century.
If not wholly lost, the art of oratory
is rapidly falling into disuse, particu-
larly in congress.
William Bourke Cochran, of New
York, was the last great orator TO grace
the House of Representatives. Cock
ran IS the highest type of Irishmen,
and was educated ~throughly in France.
He is a profound student, q man OF
large erudition, with an emotional tenn
permanent end 3 thorough mastery not
only of English, but OF French, Latin
and Greek. He has a superb voice, &
vivid Imagination and a commanding
presence. His sentences are polished
as thoroughly as those of Edward
Everett or John James ingalls,. The
greatest achievement OF an orator Is to
force applause from a hostile audience.
Time and time again / have seen men
who dissented toto caelo from what he
was saying applaud Cochran until their
hands were blistered. He won them,
temporarily at least. by his magnif-
cent oratory. his wonderful sentences
and his personal ira gletism Man lis
tened TO him with delirous delight. The
day he left the HOUSE he was more
popular there than he had ever been.
ana men OF all shades Of political
opinion sincerely regretted his depar-
ture.
I do not mean that there are not still
great speakers and great debaters in
both houses OF congress, for there are
plenty of them. But there is a vast
difference between an orator and a de-
batter. \ man may be both, but he is
lucky If he is either. There are a few
orators left in the country outside of
congress. Undoubtedly the greatest of
these-one Of the greatest that ever
liTed-is William Jennings Bryan. 9th
er men have made speeches as great as
his, but the oratorical power OF no other
mas been put to so severe a test. Since
the fourth of March, 1895, when he left
congress, excepting his six months of
army service, he has spoken constantly
and in every quarter of the globe.
Every important speech has been sent
broadcast by the news associations, and
one might naturally conclude that he
would have worn out his welcome
as a public speaker long ago. Not SO,
however, for today he can draw a
bigger audience than any other man In
America, except President Taft, who
draws by reaso of his position, and
Colonel Roosevelt, who draws by his
wonderful n unique personality.
There are plenty of men in the
United States who could deliver old
time orations, but they have 0
cluded that in this age of highest in
telligence that the palmer style Of
speaking is the better. The principal
causes OF the decadence of oratory are
the telegraph, the printing press, the
telephone, the steam engines and the
electric car.