The San Francisco call., 1910-09-04

in this field of art not much of an improvement
on out of doors.
Wanted-A drama warranted not to catch cold.
TIME TO TALK OF cABBAGES
Colonel Robert J. Gibson u. S. A., retired writes
to the New York Tribune giving the glorious eli
mate of California grand sendof apropos of Lieu-
tenant Fletcher's extraordinary growth OF four
inches in height during one year spent the Pre-
sido, and he says
The increase in height, etc, is not at all sur
prising, but is due altogether to the glorious
climate of California. There is better place
earth to live than California, and happier
better people live elsewhere. Every one Is
happy, and the chronic invalids smile all day
long. | have known geraniums to grow so large
in California that the chickens mstook them for
and roost in their branches. Lemon
verbenas grow to height of twelve or fifteen feet,
and fuchsias as high as two story house One
fuchsa that alongside of
chaplain's house, so there can be no doubt
corning it.
This seems to recall John Phoenix (Lieutenant
Derby, the first of our humorists and himself
armyman, who volunteered some boom literature
which testified to the fact that
In California the cabbages grow to be big trees
with heads at the end OF every branch
GUMSHOE EGGS
The visit of Bill Stone from Missouri, who came
out here to do up Roosevelt and Bob Devlin recalls
the saving of Colonel Phelps, who was Missouris
most famous lobbyist: THE difference between
Bill Stone (reerring to the Missouri senator) and
myself is this We both suck eggs, but he hides
the shells
SAME OLD GHOST
In Oregon, as in California they are having an
awful fuss ''the spirit of the direct primary,
with this difference, that the mental disturbance
over this queer spooS is far acute up north
than here Thus the Oregonan:
Now it that the entire Lincoln Roosevelt
ticket has been victorious 1t is to be observed
that the ticket selected by organization
created under the direct primary law. but
entirely self-appointed. In other words it
assembly. The regular republicans had
bly, On that account there four candidates
in the field for governor, and naturally they
beaten.
The application of the California situation to
the Oregon situation is obvious. Yet suppose
we shall hear that an assembly in California is law
Oregon 1t not. Why not?
1t should be obvious that organization is more
necessary and effective under the direct pri-
mary than before. The trouble with the regular
organization, called in California was that it
beaten before the game began and so badly
discredted that candidate willing to be found
dead in its company. 1t purely organization
constructed to work conventions from the back
ground and operating wholly in secret
This oligarchy painfully buttressed with
coin, and its song sung by Mr. Herrn in
his address to the students of Oregon college
two months ago. when he amented the prevailing
HARVESTING THE DOGS
Down in the heart of the San Joaquin valley an
ingenious farmer has invented machine that picks
the bugs off the vines by suction and delivers them
to the slaughter in sacks. 1t if there might
be infinite potentiates to this invention. Just con-
slider the uses of machine that would harvest the
heas off dogs back and the acute mental disturb
ance OF the dog subjected to the process. By all
means let us try it on the dog.
The dog in quantity is municipal puzzle. San
Francisco is afflicted with plague of dogs and they
appear to pay no taxes. They are more thrifty ir
the Los Angeles beach towns Santa Monica and
Ocean Park neighboring towns and both have
active dog catchers that Santa Monica dog ven
turing over the line is at caught and held for
the town tax and vice versa, so that anybody with
vagrant dog must pay taxes to both municipalities
But Santa Monica has further confused the situa-
ton by enactng dog muzzlng ordinance which is
cause OF perpiexity to the dog catcher when
he captures an Ocean Park vagrant within the con-
fines of his bailiwick.
Altogether this confusion of dogs looks like gross
example of double taxation which nothing less than
onrea1 +c the mysterious Of