Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-24

TO put an end to the sway of crime
now prevailing in Los Angeles.
TO drive ont all suspicious and OBJ
jectionabe characters.
TO stop the operation of dives and
gambling joints which serve as the
rendezvous for criminals OF all KINDS
To see that the laws and city ordt-
nances are enforced, consistent with
the ability of an efficient police de-
partment to enforce them.
To encourage a better esprit de corps
among the force; in other words, TO
make a vigilant, aggressive, efficient
police department which will afford
ample protection to the life and prop
erty OF citizens of Los Angeles.
This is not a small program, but
Sebastian is not a small man and q
look at his ten years of'record on the
Los Angeles police force will serve to
assure dubious persons that he is the
man qualified to carry out just such
program.
Sebastian is the man to clean up Los
Angeles and he says he will do the
hest he can when he takes office to
see that the laws are obeyed and tnat
the policemen do their duty lie VIII
enter on a campaign which will be
cleaning process directed more 10 inc
undesirable element now infesting
Los Angeles than to tho department.
He will take steps to rid the city OF
the holdups, thugs. lead pipe men,
second-story workers, yeggmen, loot
pads highWaymen and all other per-
sons who prey on human life and prop
erty, by whatever name they may be
known.
A BUsINESsLIKE POLICEMAN
This will be the new chief Of policies
first task and he hopes to realize 1t
soon, with the cooperation of the de-
Dartment and the moral support OF the
public.
by a Herald man at University station
late yesterday afternoon.
The office was unlike most police
stations. 1t eXuded an atmosphere or
peace and quiet. The work OF the sta
zion was being carried on in u buSl-
ness-lille, systematic manner; there
were no loud screams or screeches, no
shouting into the telephone; the floor
was not spotted with tobacco juice nor
Uttered with cigarette stubs. 1t was
an office where the business OF the
people respecting the transgressions
of the derelicts of society was being
transacted.
The man in charge of the station sat
in the front office where he could bet
ter carry on that business, leaving the
private office in the rear cold and un-
used There was no hiding behind dig
nified titles or assumption of official
i'm nprtance. Lieutenant Sebastian Is
lust as good a policeman without his
title as with it, and he gives promise
of being just as good an officer after
he becomes chief as he is today. High
office will not spoil him.
STARTED AT THE BOTTOM
Sebastian is So years old. But for
the gray hairs freely intermixed with
the black, he would scarcely appear
more than 30. He is five feet ten inches
tall and weighs IT'S pounds. Every po-
lice officer in Los Angeles, from the
newest patrolman to the oldest clerk,
knows him, for he has seen, all told,
ten wears of service in the department
in this city, and his elevation to the
head OF the service will complete the
climb that he has made from the low
est rung on the ladder to the highest.
He has worked his way up through
sheer merit and although bitterly
fought from time to time by aspiring
men in the department. he held on be-
cause he attended strictly to his duty
and was known to be capable.
Sebastian will enter the office as
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