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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-05
cIo,m, Roosevelt Made Mistake

London, September 5.-The Daily News discussing today Colonel Roose- velt's demand in a speech at Omaha that the United States fortify the Pan anna canal, says it fears that as a mat ter of strict interpretation the ex-Pres- : ident's view can hardly be sustained and that such fortifcation would vio- late the American British treaty It suggests also that the Panama canal may be made the principal naval base for the American navy, which would make serious difference to China and Japan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-05
Party Back From Hunting Trip

Bristol. R. T., September 4.-Back from a successful hunting trip in the frozen wilderness of Labrador and Greenland, the party headed by Harry Whitney of New Haven, Conn.,, Paul J.. Rainey' of New York and Dr. Johnson of Louisville, Ky, arrived in this har- Dor today on the sealing steamer Beothic. Every one on board was in good health and said they had had great luck, bagging polar bears, wal rus, musk OK and other arctic game. No effort was made to find the records which Dr. Frederick A. Cook is said to have left behind at Etah containing accounts of his alleged dash to the north pole
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-05
CENSUS SHOWS BIG GAINS

Washington, September Alone of the most noteworthy develop ments in the census Is the popula- tion of about 75 cites so far re-. ported on. During the 1S90-1900 period Albany, N. Y.; Lynchburg, Va; Sioux City, Iowa; Lansing, Saginaw and Bay City, Mich. were all shown to have sustained real losses. All of these cities have now joined the gaining classes and some of them have scored heavily.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-05
Cholera Claims Victim

Berlin, September 4.-Death from cholera occurred again today when the husband of the woman who died from the disease last week died. All the per sons who were being held as cholera suspects are doing well and in a majority of cases baclerogcal examinations have proved that cholera does not exist.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-05
DYNAMITERS BLOW UP
 LARGE IRON PLANT

Peoria, H., September 4.-Dynamiters tonight blew up and demolished the Lucas Bridge and Iron company's large plant in this city Night Watchman Robert Gebhardt was seriously injured. Four other buildings were damaged.
 This is the second successful attempt to destroy structural steel works in Peoria within the last few weeks. Dynamiters wrecked the large steel spans to be used in the new Peoria and Pelin railway bridge 10 days ago.
 While labor trouble is said to be the cause in both cases the police have been unable to find clue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-05
programme for Tuesday. wednesday and

programme for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Taft even the postoffice department at Washington has stretched point and issued a special order permitting decor atng of the federal building and the custom house and the chief argument used in breaking a hitherto unbreak- able rule was that the stand from which President Taft will review the Labor Day parade is built out from the front steps of the postoffice building.
 A salute of 21 guns will greet the Pres ident when his train arrives. A platoon of police will lead the way and four troops of cavalry from Fort Smelling and band and five companies of Min nesota National Guard will constitute the military escort to the reviewing stand.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-16
OIL IN THE NAVY

T HE decision of the board of in
quiry which investigated the dis
II astrous oil explosion on the bat
tleship North Dakota that the catas-
trophe was due to faulty design in ap-
paratus and does not constitute an
argument against the use of oil as
fuel in the navy is of much interest
to California, whose greatest single
industry looks to the navy as big
and profitable customer of its wares.
1t is obvious from the evidence at
the inquiry that the findings cannot be
twisted into an objection to petroleum,
any more than a defective boiler would
argue against the use of steam, and
so it is probable that the experiments
with the new fuel will go on. Pro-
ducers in this state have no misgiv-
ings as to the result If the tests are
conducted without prejudice and with
out effective hostile influence of the
anthracite coal trust in the east.
The advantages of oil in economy of
space, cheapness and cleanliness to
say nothing of safety, when the right
appliances are perfected, make lts
adoption as much to be desired by
the navy department as by the Cali
fornia producers. Large quantities of
coal in storage at naval stations or
in the bunkers of warships are liable
to spontaneous combustion. The sup
ply of anthracite is diminishing ana the
price steadily rising. The cost Of ship
ment and storage of coal is greater
than would be In the case of oil.
The successful substitution of the
nould fuel on western railroads, an
assuredly permanent thing, would
seem to leave no doubt of the future
of oil in the navy. But it is a salts
faction to know that it's use on war
ships will not be retarded by the
North Dakota explosion.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-16
LOS AHBeIes, September II.
WHAT TEDDY HAS DONE

Editor Herald: Some people want to
know that Teddy" has ever done that
he should be so highly honored? He
has done quite few things that are
much to his credit, in my way of
thinking. L shall not forget how he
brought the anthracite coal men to
time In 1901 and put the miners to
work. And he certainly did start the
probing of the big interests, and the
probing has been going on ever since.
Through him we now have pure food
law that Is far reaching and of great
benefit to the human race. He has
declared in favor of an income tax;
a graduated one, that would prev ent
a few men from becoming sole owners
of America, which is bound to be the
case under present conditions. While
Teddy" has made some mistakes =
something we all do-let us give him
credit for the good things he has done.
then strike a balance and hand him
bouquets accordingly. 1t is proper and
right to crlticise man for the mis-
takes he makes, and thus sh1v him
that we are not blind or dumb, but it
is enough to discourage the devil and
make him go wrong to forever critlcise
and never give credit for that he is
worthy of and justly entitled 10. B.
Ontario September 13.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-16
THE MARTIAL SPIRIT

Editor Herald: Have just read
news item from Chicago; "As the re-
suit Of two 10-year-old boys playing
cowboy with a revolver, Howard
Simpson is reported dying at the RAJ
venswood hospital from a shot fired by
Thomas Shirley"
This case, like hundreds Of others,
is the result of the drilling into the
minds of our boys from babyhood the
martial spirit. If "war is hell as
a great general has declared, then this
spirit is akin to 1t. There cannot be
any denial of this fact.
Only yesterday a lad CT years
came into my shop. l noticed one OF
his optics blackened. "Oh, 1 was only
fighting with another kid" he said,
and the BARN seemed greatly com
forted that he had sent the other KID
home bowling with two black eyes.
and the pity of 1t was that the father
of this little boy encouraged him to
this act, telling him he must learn to
fight his own battles. and all that
kind of counsel which engenders strife
and hatred rather than love and peace.
The indiscriminate sale of and use
of firearms is in line with the spirit
of the age manifested in our Boys
Brigades," "Boy Scouts" and the like.
Ultimately 1t will prove Ill to the
individual or nation that encourages
the spirit herein condemned.
]. r. K.
Los Angeles. September 13.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-16
THE HOT WEATHER BARD

What should a topical poem for tropical
Days of the summer be written about?
What's the palayer most people will favor
most?
What is II best to cut carefully out
Subjects political serious critical
(HeaVy discussion are certain TO irk)f
Stul. there's barrel Of subjects to carol off,
Carolng though, is wearisome work.
There are vocational couples flirtational
Friyolous folk who are found near the sea;
shows-frothy, dizzy ones; drinks-iced and
fzzy ones;
Baseball and tennis and afternoon teal
Motor-car journeytngs, prize-nghters' tourney
ings,
Yes, there are slews Of 'em, plenty to choose
OF em,
Which shall be sung to you? Ruoyantly hung
Tossed through tho shlmmering rays of the
SUM-
While YOU are cozy loafng, or prosily
rolling in town till your business is done
Choose, all together nowl--well it's hot wealth
er now,
No one's selection seems ready to call
That is the deuce of 1t, so what's the use OF
it.
Sing? Yes I'll sing you-just nothing at all!
-Berton Braley, in Puck.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-16
TAFT sURRENDERs

n RESIDENT TAFT has surrendered
to the insurgents in his party by
a writing a letter, through Secre-
tary Norton. virtually announcing
that he has been wrong in withhold
ing patronage from the members of
congress who gave allegiance to the
cause led in the senate by LaFollette
and in the house by Norris. He felt
1t his duty, he says, to withhold the
patronage to those "who seemed to
be in opposition to the administra-
tion," but now that the primaries have
been held there's a different aspect
to things.
Yes, there is a different aspect to
things, and the presidents admission
in this abject way is enough to move
the heart of his stoniest opponent to
pity for him, for it is a confession
of his past narrowness of vision and
humiliating admission that he has been
whipped into line with the advanced
sentiment of the country.
But in explaining why he would not
let an insurgent congressman have
voice in naming even postmaster IN
a second class town 1t comes with bad
grace to repeat that the insurgents op-
posed his policies. In truth they were
the best friends in congress OF the
measures he professed to want passed.
It is true they radically changed some
of his bills, but it is generally ad-
mitted now that had they not done so
the administration would be in sor-
rier position before the country than
1t is.
The railroad bill as drawn by Wick
ersham, It is now seen. would have
been q pro-railroad measure pure and
simple If it had not been so sharply
attacked by Democrats and insurgents
and the changes for the benefit of the
public and the shippers forced from
the reluctant reactionaries. And we
can imagine what an orgy of plunder
the Aldrich tariff would have been II
there had been no Dollivers and Bev-
eridges to compel such concessions as
were obtained from the presidents
good friend, the manager of the SEN
ate.
The presidents present stand, as 1t
has been forced upon him, ought TO
show him and the rest of the country
that the new practice of a chief mag
istrate taking legislative prerogatives
to himself, framing up measures to
his own liking, and lashing them
through congress with the patronage
at his disposal as whip, is foreign
to our system of government and IN
herently wrong. The idea that an ex-
ecutive, with the aid of a self-seeking
boss like Aldrich, can force his will
on congress virtually plans to substi-
tute the will of a few for the wisdom
of the many, and 1t is largely that
perversion OF the government that has
brought about the rebellion of the peo-
pie and, as a result, Mr.. Tafts hu-
initiating back-down.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-16
AN ARBITRARY LANGUAGE

Wen begin with box. and the plural is boxes.
But the plural Of OK should be oxen, not oxes,
The one fowl is goose. but two are called
geese,
Yet t.e plural of moose should never be meese,
You may fine lone mouse or a whole nest Of
MICE
But the plural of house is houses. not hice.
If the plural OF man is always called men,
Why shouldn't the plural OF pan be called
pen?
kline,
Rut n bow T. repeated is never called bine,
And the plural OF vow is vows never vine.
If / speak of foot and you show me your
feet,
beet?
II one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth
Why shouldn't the plural OF booth be called
beeth2
70 the singu. RS this anu the plural is these,
should the plural of kiss ever be keese?
Then one may be that and two may be those
Yet hat in the plural can never be hose,
And the plural : cat is cats, not cose.
We speak Of brother and also OF brethren,
And though we may say mother we never say
metheren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his, him.
But imagine the feminine she. shis shim
So the English, think you all will agree,
Is the greatest language you ever did see.
Author Unknown.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-16
cALLoUsNEss on SMOKERS

Editor Herald: While 1 was away
read letter in your paper from a
lady about smoking on the cars and
the scant protection the car company
gives its women passengers. 1 wish
to add my hope that you may use your
efforts in behalf of at least four-ffths
OF the passengers who do not smoke
nor do they like to have to breathe
the foul air of the smokers. 1 entered
car few weeks ago and found on
ly one front Eeat vacant. Soon after
man (?) entered and sat beside me.
He began to put tobacco into the VIII
est smelling pipe ever met. l either
had to breathe that in or stand up,
and that 1 was obliged to do when I
found l was getting sick.
The cars have been regulated" as
to splitting, but why the greatest nuis-
ance to the greatest number of pas
sengers is permitted is hard to under
stand. The comparatively few smokers
should be made to respect the right of
most of the passengers, and the duty
of the car company managers is plain:
That smoking. or even lighting a ci-
gar, pipe or cigarette upon the cars
should not be permitted. Mr.. Editor,
won't you start the ball, mo smoking
on the cars" MRS. C.
Los Angeles, September IA
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-16
SAYS VETERANS FORGOTTEN

Editor Herald: This is the first ad-
mnistration sincs the close of the
Civil War that did not have one word
of praise for the old soldier. No en-
couragement for the future in regard
to more pension, so that the old man
could have more comfort in this life.
Now we are all turning 70 and over,
and our days our getting short What
a shame for this great government to
let her patriots pass away lamenting
the country's lack of appreciation OF
what they did for IT, Bills were intro
duced in the last congress that would
give the old soldier good help; but they
were all turned down by the bosses of
the senate and house. The old veteran
was well aware that pension legislation
would not be put through that con-
gress. Col. Roosevelt is the old SOL
dier's friend. What would we do now
If II was not for the age pension? The
old veterans would pass away still
faster They would die with weakness,
for who could live on $6, $S or $40 sl
month? This administration has for
gotten the old soldier.
Sawtelle, Sept IA. A VETERAN.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-16
AN INTERVIEW

n ECAUSE Clifford Pinchot would
X not unloosen and give its re-
~ porter the kind Of an interview
late at night that it wanted, the Los
Angeles Examiner faxed an interview
In which 1t twisted the replies Of the
forestry expert in a way 1t hoped would
ridicule him. The thing was overdone
to such an extent that the animus of
the reporter and paper was apparent,
and their object was defeated. But it
did afford a striking illustration of the
way yellow journalism Furnishes those
who do not "come across" in It's way.
We are rather surprised at the poor
Job that was done in this case, for we
are somewhat familiar with the record
of the Hearst papers as takers of news
and interviews. 1t is a cardinal sin in
a Hearst reporter not to produce an
interview If one has been assigned to
him. If the object of his search won't
talk, the reporter is supposed to write
as an interview what the object might
say or what he is wanted to say. The
ability to do this being q requisite to
Hearst employment, the men in his
employ, by the process Of selection,
are usually clever in making up such
stuff.
So much cannot be said OF the work
in the present case. But it afforded an
interesting lesson as to the sort Of well
come to Los Angeles any distinguished
visitor may receive If he disapproyes
Of Hearst methods sufficiently to de-
cline the doubtful honor Of an inter-
view,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-16


The International Typographical
Union Of North America, its official
title, is the Oldest national trade un-
ion in the United States. 1t is COM
posed of printers and those engaged in
kindred trades. 1t was organized in
1850 at a national convention OF jour
neymen printers. Two years later 1t
assumed the name of National Typo
graphical union, and in 1869 it changed
it's name again to the present form.
The union is a typical industrial or
ganization. It regulates the maximum
hours of labor of all it's members, the
number of days for work, the method
of obtaining work and the discharge
of employees and the fixing of prices
for composition. 1t has its regular
dues, of course-all organizations have
and of these dues cents is appor-
toned to the general fund, 75a cents
to the general defense fund, III cents
to the burial fund, and 15 cents to the
endowment fund OF the Union Print
ers' home at Colorado Springs.
In addition. the international union
has created an old age pension fund
to which the members contribute one
half per cent of the earnings, and this
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-16
VOX POPULI

" OW deep and wide an interest
III the public has felt in thu re-
IL cent tour of Roosevelt ana his
utterances during the remarkable jour
ner is attested strikingly by the large
number of expressions from readers
of The Herald through the Letter Box
on this page. Also, they show va
rance in opinion concerning the former
president and the motives that under
lie his new plunge into public actiV-
tiles.
The Herald does not agree with many
of his critics, while admitting the JUS
tice of some of the criticisms. 1t be-
lieves that, whatever his faults, he
has done the country inestimable serv-
ice in awaking the public conscience to
civic evils, and is now doing a good
service in keeping it awake. The
times have needed just such q dyna-
mic personality, and long after people
have stopped quarreling over his mo-
tives and quit the foolish talk about
Caesarism and the like the country
will reap the benefit of his forcefuI
but sane agitation.
But readers of The Herald are given
a good deal of latitude in the Letter
Box, because the discussion of public
measures and men, if temperately car
ried on, is the best way to arrive at
wise, settled public opinion, and pro-
notes a healthy democracy. Some Of
the letters received have not been
printed because they have not been
temperate. Readers are invited to
use the Letter Box on any current
topic, and they will be pretty sure to
have a hearing if they meet the re-
quirements of brevity and temperate ut
terance, and don't run to disputations.
Herald readers are invited to ex-
press their views on timely topics, to
kick when they think the public good
will be served by protest, or to praise
what or whom they believe to deserve
encouragement. If you derive pleas
ure or edification from the Letter Box,
contribute a share toward others en-
joyment. But be brief.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-16
The Printers Of America
lRichmnnd Tlmes-plsnatchl


fund is distributed among the mem
bers who have reached 60 years of age
and are incapacitated for further SER
vice. This fund now amounts to $780,
900, or these are the figures given in
the last number Of the Typographical
Journal, the official organ of the
union.
In the fiscal year ending May 81,
19O6-the latest figures we have at
hand-the receipts of the union
amounted to $1,03S, 1884 and the ex-
penses to $984,744.54. The average
number upon which a per capita tax
was collected in 1906 was 1880.
Eight years ago the union conclud-
ed an "aribtration agreement" with
the American Newspaper Publishers
association, to last until 1907. by which
all trade differences with members of
the publishers association were to be
settled by arbitration. An agreement
of a similar character has been re-
newed by both organizations which
will hold until May /, 1912. About so
per cent of the publishers have con-
cluded contracts with the union for
the submission of all differences to
arbitration.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-16
LEE o.NEIL BROWNE

Editor Herald The act of Roose-
welt in refusing SIT at the table with
Lorimer suited the writer to 1T"
1t sets an example that should be fol-
lowed out in dealing with such scoun-
drals. A little more of that kind OF
snubs is just what such fellows need.
Now let Lie O'Neil Browne receive a
few of the same kind.
know Lee O'Neil Browne by his
acts. During the meeting of the Hill
nois legislature in 1907, he introduced
a substitute bill for our local option
bill wher it was brought out for third
reading and made a speech of great
length, that was full of deception from
beginning to end, in behalf of his sub
stitute. After he found that the mem
bers of the legislature had branded
his bill as a fraud, he tried to recall it
with the pretense that he wanted to
amend 1t, but it had to take it's medi-
cine, go down to defeat. I didn't get
the chance to refuse to eat with him,
but 1 did a better thing, gave him
and his pet bill an airing through the
Springfield News the next evening;
and that wasn't the only airing 1 gave
him, either. w. S. BURROUGHS.
Ontario, Cal, September 1S.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-16
IN RE cuMMINs

Editor Herald: / notice that Mr.
McCray in yesterdays article headed
'Roosevelt's Tour" puts such men as
Cummins ahead OF Theodore Roose-
velt, and styles the former a true
progressiye"-Pm afraid Mr.. McCray
is not we'll informed In regard to our
Iowa senator. for II there ever was
"demagogue" that man is A. B. Cum
minis. "Anything for prominence"
is his slogan. He is shrewd, smooth,
gifted with the oily tongue, and is the
politician" pure and simple and will
not let up on his Great ambition till
he is president. If 1t is possible for
him to fool the people that we'll AT
the last rally I attended In Iowa, !
heard Senator Dolliver roast this same
Cummins TO a brown. Later Cum
minis hoodwinked the people, secured
control of the Republican party in
Iowa, and Dolliver, to save his politl-
cal existence, swung around to Cum
minis. A. j. BARNES.
Pasadena, September IA.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-16

Use of cement by the engineer and
the architect has spread from one side
of the United States to the other at
rate quite unparalleled. Employed nrst
by the engineer in railroad work, ana
for structural purposes needing
strength more than beauty, the archi-
tect hesitated to adopt It. He was
governed probably by the belief that
a material that must be nodded and
that suggested duplication of the same
forms without end was for the work
of the mechanic rather than the art
list. But experience has changed all
that. Most cities can show examples
of beauty as we'll as of strength and
durability in their public structures.
The widest use of concrete as a ma
terial for the complete building is
probably found in Cleveland, o., with
San Francisco as close second. The
largest concrete arch of which par
ticulars are at hand is that spanning
the Rock river gorge, on the west of
the city of Cleveland. The clear span
is $50 feet. This material is there used
In the ornamentation of it's parks--in
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-16
Cement and Concrete Building
cortland orosonian

OfeBoniaD
bridges, benches, swimming pools,
walls and roadways. The United
States government expert, r. L. Hum
phrey, lives in Cleveland, and now
foretells that in ten years time the
city will be both beautiful and un-
burnable. Homes will last forever.
Rents will be lower from reduction in
repairs, upkeep and insurance. And
Clevelands experience is duplicated
everywhere. Re-enforced concrete
contests the field with iron, steel and
natural stone.
1t is interesting to note that most
OF the Roman structures, such as
walls, aqueducts, arches and domes
which have stood for 1900 to 1000 yeasr,
owe their stability and durability to
the cement which bound the stones
together and has the same chemical
product in sllicate of lime which gives
strength to the cement we use. Who
ever has examined one of those an
Client structures recognizes at once
the crystalline material which turns
the edge of the hardest tool and is
reproduced today