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Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03
UNCLE SANS 'MoNoPoLlEs'

Editor Heraldi | notice complaints in
The Herald that Postmaster General
Hitchcock is effecting his economies at
the expense of postal clerks and carri-
ers. 1t might have been added that the
men employed In the railway mail SER
vice are also suffering, and that many
of the safeguards have been removed
from registered letters. although tho.
registration fee has been raised 25 per
cent. Furthermore, 1t is proposed,
understand, to do away with the pres
ent rural free delivery force and let the
delivery out on the contract plan.
But what is the use of complaining
about abuses there Is no chance of
remedyng, and what chance is there
for postal suboFdinates to get justieeg
These men have the privilege of serv-
ing an absolute monopoly and if they
do not like the terms that monopoly
offers they can get out and starve. In
this respect they are perhaps more un-
fortunate than those enrolled in anoth-
er branch of that same monopoly's ae-
tiVities-the army. There those who
quit-there were more than 5000 last
year-are treated as criminals. and the
federal prisons are full of disgruntled
employees serving sentences as DESERT
ers.
Nevertheless, there are millions of
people who think that the millennium
will have arrived when we get the in
dustrial army, with the government as
sole employer,
Government employment is always
and everywhere the same-fine times
for the officers and those at the top,
more kicks than hapenee for those at
the bottom. Moreover, these latter
dare not even grumhle. In the post
office they have what is known as the
gag law, which prohibits a subordinate
from complaining of q superior.
Probably no trust in the country is as
rotten as our politcs-ridden postal
system, but what is to be done about
it? When government has laid its
hands on an industry 1t owns it for
eternity, nothing short of a revolution
being able to relax it's grip. I. K. G.
Los Angeles, September l.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03
ExToLs ESPERANTO

Editor Herald: The colossal incom-
petence of P. A. to discuss the pros
and cons of Esperanto sticks out all
over his letter. Because he thinks
highly of his own language, English.
he thinks that warrants him in speak
ing of Esperanto as something use
less"
Now, passing over the fact that
Esperanto does not propose to sup
plant any other language, but only
to be an auxiliary, easily learnt, by
means of which one of any nationality,
knowing no other national language,
may be enabled to hold speech with
all the world, does not p. A. suppose
that every F'renchman, Spaniard, Ger
man, Russian and what not Is equally
stuck on his own language and would
insist, If 1t were proposed to use one
of the national languages as a uni
Versal medium of speech that his par
ticular national tongue should be the
one?
With the other national languages it
is the same as with the English Their
irregularity makes them unavoidable.
Why, l know a good deal of the vo-
cabulary and some of the grammar of
several languages, yet 1 never dare
attempt to use any but my own. be-
cause their complicated exceptions to
rules lay snares at every turn.
Contrast this with Esperanto. Just
sixteen simple rules, and not a single
exception to any one of these rules.
No such thing as an irregular verb
and only one invariable sound for
each letter, whether vowel or con-
sonant. Contrast" l say, for you
cannot compare them. English can
never become a universal language
unless, in many centuries it should
peranto, on the other hand, is ready
now-so simple and regular and easy
to acquire is ito become the auxil-
iary tongue to bring all the world into
direct Intercourse. 1t assails no other
language, arouses no Jealousy, and it
is, above all, so easily and eheaply
learned. A. L. SAMM.
Los Angeles, Septmber 1.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03

A gentleman has been exploring
Palestine in an agricultural and botan-
ical way. His name is Aaronshons. He
says Palestine is more like California
than any other state in our Union. In
the first place, it is longer north and
south than it is wide east and west.
1t has both high mountains and deep
depressions. The Dead sea Is 1896 feet
below sea level. Like the Death valley
of California 1t is situated in the
southern extremity of the country.
Such formations give a great diversity
of soil and vegetation. Where ancient
civilization exists, such as in Pales-
tine, such formations likewise favor
the development of many varieties of
cultivated plants and give rise to diff
ferent methods of cultivation In
Palestine there is a coast line extend
ing along the Mediterranean, Then
comes the backbone of the country as
there is in Judea and Gallilee. Further
east Is the valley of the Jordan, the
diversified valleys Of which are similar
to the Imperial and Death valleys.
Finally, still further east, are the
pIateaus of the trans-Jordan, with their
fertile soil of volcanic origin, devoted
from time immemorial to pasture and
the cultivation of cereals. In Pales-
tine, Just as In California, there is a
wet and a dry season. The rainy sea-
sons extend from October to May and
the dry seasons extend from May to
October. The rainfall varies according
to locality from less than six inches
in the extreme south near the Egyp-
tian border to more than forty inches
in the north of the country
They are alike in other respects. we
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03
GREATER NEW YORK

IN HE official census report just made
shows Greater New York's popu-
l. lation to be 4,766,8S3, an increase
of 1926, 6s1, or 3S.7 per cent in the last
ten years. This makes New York the
second largest city in the world, and
larger than any two other cities, ex-
cept London, the population of which
is 7,429,74O.
The comparison with London, how
ever, would be more accurate if the
real metropolitan area" as it is called
by Londoners, We're included in the
New York figures. Separated only by
river, but made up largely of pop
ulation that "commutes" to and from
its business in Manhattan, is a densely
settled territory of about a million. in
Guiding Newark, Jersey City, Paterson,
Hoboken and other cities.
These are as truly part of Greater
New York as sections of Long Island
and Staten Island that are technically
so. Therefore the American metropolis
is nearer six millions than the number
given by the census.
The first impulse on realizing this is
one Of pride, but community grown
SO big is so obviously cancer on the
body polite that it is not a matter
for congratulation. Vice, poverty and
the gap between the classes reach their
worst degree, inevitably, in tie vast
centers Of population. Political corrup-
tion finds its worst exemplitication
there 1t is a constant fight of the
better element in New York to keep
it at g minimum.
The French economist M. Thery, has
been investigating the growth of Eu-
ropes six largest cities, and from the
fact that with one exception their
growth has been much less in the last
twenty-five years than in the previous
twenty-five he concludes that there is
a point at which the growth of the vast
cities is retarded, and perhaps a point
at which it will cease. His figures are
as follows:
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03
IN TOUGH WITH ALL OUTDOORS
Whatever Thought to me may find

Whatever thought to me may find
Its way In house or hall,
And take possession of my mind,
And charm me with its call;
The thoughts TO which my being yields,
With which my spirit scars,
Come to me when I'm in the fields
In touch with all outdoors.
Great thoughts in cioister or in cell
May come TO sons Of earth,
But my experience proves full well
That those Of largest worth
Rise up and make their way to me
When wildly the wind roars,
And I'm on mountain or on sea,
In touch with all outdoors.
The quiet of some eozy room
May some to thought invite,
But, when inhalng sweet perfume
OF flowers that deck the height,
The fullness of the larger thought
For me its splendor pours,
AS l within the clouds am caught
In touch with all outdoors
stand upon the oceans hem
And watch great ships go by
My thoughts go journeying with them
Meath many an alien sky;
The salt seas breath comes from afar
And joy of life restores;
see to the horizon bar,
In touch with all outdoors.
Thomas f. Porter, in Boston Globe.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03
NEW PARTY EMBLEM

Editor. Herald; SO. they are crying
for an emblem for the party that is to
be, the elephant and donkey having
outlived their usefulness and the Pro-
hibitionlsts having roped the camel in
to their own peculiar service. What
is the matter with that vociferous, gall
liant and eminently useful animal, the
rooster He can fight he can awake
the slumberers and he is always onto
his jpb, all Of which is Indispensable.
Moreover, he is truly symbolieal of the
coming dawn. AS Shakespeare says,
f'The cock that is the trumpet of the
morn, doth with his lofty and shrill-
sounding throat awake the god of
day"
He is essentially the emblem of VIC
tory, and every newspaper in the coun-
try has cuts Of him galore.
GALLICUS.
HollvWood August n
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03
LOOKING AHEAD

Somekips-De Vine is doing all he
can to make his prospective married
life inexpensive.
Lymans-What is he doing espe-
cially?
Som Encouraging his fiancee to
buy all the clothes she can coax her
father to pay for.-Chicago News.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03
TO DRY BELT

Minnie Brown, an Indian maiden of
the Prohibition state of Oklahoma has
gone to her long sleep as a result of
drinking a quart of whisky. Persons
who are incorporate drinkers of Pro-
hibition whisky often die with shock
ing suddenness.-Louisvile Courier
Journal
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03
FRUITLEss STRUGGLING

"I understand that after waiting
twenty years she married a struggling
young man?'
Yes, poor chap. He struggled the
best he knew how, but she landed
him. brooklyn Life.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03

We shudder to think what might
happen if perchance the speaking
tours of Roosevelt and Sherman should
bring them together in the same town.
We are not, however, alarmed for the
colonel
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03

The growth OF New York does not
bear out NJ. Thery, for it has gained
at the rate of 1877 in a single decade,
and Brooklyn, one of the integral parts,
increased 40.l.
Such a growth in the gap between the
fed and the feeders, which is without
doubt one Of the prime causes Of the
Increase in the cost of living, is not
healthy economically or socially and is
not a cause for congratulation.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03

A woman's college has made Helen
Gould a doctor Of laws, probably be-
cause she has shown more capacity
to obey the laws than some of the
other member Of her illustrious fam
flV
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03

Colonel Livingston, the Georgia
congressman who was turned down
for his friendship with Cannon, says
it is the district and not he that is the
loser. Apparently the district has
lost the most modest statesman in
the country anyway
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03

An electric company is now supply
ing Pasagena with electric light at
cents, and calls the cent rate in
Los Angeles confscation. We've a sus-
picion this will made even the grave
and reverend courts crack a smile.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03
ARMORED

I'm days of old, were knights really
so bold?"
"They could well afford to be. A
man in sheet iron could hug a girl
without getting laceTated by the pins
in her waist."-Louisville Courier
Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03
Far and Wide

NO WIDE CONSERVATION
1t is sad to think that the big stick
has lost it's terror so soon, and that
the foreign nations, big and little,
weak and strong, should show such
daring, nay impudent, inclination to
manage their own affairs in their own
way, just as if they did not realize
that the Outlook has its eagle eye on
them.-New York Evening Sun.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03
A SUPERIOR ARTICLD

Up to date the mucilage manufacture
ers have overlooked the opportunity of
naming any of their stickers after Mr..
Ballinger.-St. Paul Dispatch.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03
HOLLYWOOD, August 81.

A FFenchman was teaching In large school
for making some queer mistakes.
One hot day he taking a class which
was rather dsorderly. What with the heat
and the troublesome boys he very snap
pish.
Having punished several boys and sent one
to the bottom Of the form, he at last shouted
ont In passion
re whole class go to ze bottomw-TIt- Bits.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03
NOT AN AUTHORITY

Senator Elkins denies the report of
his daughters engagement to the Duke
of the Abruzzi, but what does he know
about it?-Kansas City Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENTS tntended
for publication must be accompanied by the
name and address OF tho writer. The Herald
gives tho widest latitude to correspondents.
but assumes no responsibility for their views
Intters must not exceed 400 words.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03
Merely in Jest
HARD TO CONVINCE

Little Tommy eldest of the family,
at dinner)-Mamma, why don't you
help me before Ethel?
Mamma-Ladies must always come
first.
Tommy (triumphantly)-Th why
was born before Ethel?-Tit-Bits.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03

slippery Jim Sherman says "all Re
publicans are progressive" Jim is the
last man in the country we expected
to see read the reactionaries out of
the party.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03
IGNORING THE LANDLORD

1T wonder who originated the ex-
preston 'reckoned without his host" T"
probably it was some deluded sum
mer hotel guest who tried to figure
out for himself what his bill was going
to be."-Catholic STANDARD and Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03

Anaheim man wrote his deserted
spouse in this city that he had found
a former wife living AS he wrote
from Salt Lake City it is fair to sus-
pect that there are others"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03
HE ALWAYS WAS

81 once saw a couple married in a
den of lions"
"Did the groom seem scared?"
mot any more than is usually the
ase."-Kansas City Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03

OF course, as postal savings banks
are trivial matter they can wait
Until Frank Hitchcock gets through
his personal electioneering in Arizona
for a senatorship.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03
FATE OF A sPEEDER

Gunner-Blgwood the millionaire,
started off for a banquet and was
arrested for speeding.
Cuyer-Then he wasn't wined and
dined?
Gunner-No; instead he was fined
and roasted.-Chicago News.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03
BELATED INFORMATION

1t would have been more to the
credit Of congress if a little of this
evidence that is now coming out about
the purchase of Indian lands had been
discovered by the committee which
was considering the bill.-BuffaIo Ex-
press.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03

Pat Calhoun's paper in San Fran
cisco wants an Independent Republi-
can candidate for governor. There
are some people who think that Hi
ram Johnson exhibited sufficient inde-
pendence in the recent campaign to
satisfy even the corporation papers.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03

We have listened in vain for any
chorus of encomiums for Nick Long
worth for deserting old Uncle Joe
after the speaker was down and out.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03
ANYTHING TO PREVENT THIS

Besides, it is feared that unless DR..
Crippen Is taken to London and found
guilty he will take to the Chautauqua
circuit.-Kansas City Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03

Professor Garner, who says he has
learned to converse with monkeys in
their language, might tell us what
their views are on the Darwinian
theory.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03

Col S. P. Colt, head of the rubber
trust, who is slated to succeed Aid
rich as senator, is understood to be
a 45-caliber plutocrat.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03
CHBER UP. CHICAGO

"a hearty laugh is good thing for
Indigestion" says one of the doctors.
In these days the trouble is to find the
thing that will provoke a hearty laugh.
-Record- Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03

The summer temperature of San
Francisco is around 60 and of New
Orleans around 80. Where would you
rather attend a summer exposition?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03

Either the telegraph wires are down
or they have now had peace in Mic
aragua for fully twenty-five minutes.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03

Troops have been on duty so long
in Columbus, because of the trolley
strike, that people there must now
talk of before the war"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03
HE KNEW

my daughter, Gladys Mae, has be-
come quite an elocutionistr
Yes" peeyishly replied the next
door neighbor. 80 l bearP-Puck.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03

Some of the presiding officers are
introducing Teddy as the ex-president
and the other half as the next presi-
dent. Take your choice.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03
TAKING EARLY EFFEcT

John ID. Rockefeller has been arrest
ed for fast driving. Those whisky
baths seem to be getting in their work.
Detroit Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03
HAD NO KICK

"Catch any fish"
Nope"
"Better luck next time.'
"Im satisfied. / don't care to have
cheap fish biting these expensive flies"
Kansas City Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03
NEEDLEss INFORMATION

In France the telephone girls say Il
listen" 1t isn't necessary here we
know they do, anyWay.-Cleyeland
Leader,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03

When DR.. Wiley was reminded in
Washington the other day that some
of his pure food rulings We're COM
mercially harsh he said: Il don't
give a hang for the business world.
I'm concerned for the health Of the
people," Insurgency in Uncle VIII
sons department tool,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03

History repeats itself; we shall have
another Shermans march to the sea-
that Is, the sea of oblivion.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03
WOULD LIKE 10 KNOW SECRET

They are putting a muzzling ordi-
nance in force in the District of Co
lNnbia. Perhaps Uncle Joe will hur-
ry back from Danville to see how it
is done.-Cleveiand Leader.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03

On all matters pertaining to advertising
address Charles r. Gates. advertising man
ager
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-03

Population of Los Angeles 327,6
Fergus County Democrat., 1910-06-28
MEXICAN REVOLUTION
Southern Republic Is Scene of Manv
Dangerous Disturbances

FL Paso, Tex, June 21-Althouoh
the expected attack on the Mexican
custom house at Naco, Sonora, has
been frustrated by the arrivol of
soldiers from Cananea, the entire
Mexican border from Cananea to
Ciudad Por6rio Diaz, opposite Lare-
do, Tex, is in state of revolutionary
terment and outbreaks are feared at
a dozen places.
All available Mexican troops have
been detaelid along the border with
orders to suppress all disturbances
with an iron hand. Principal reliance
is being placed on the rurales organ
lzed by President Diaz hms self and
recognized as his ardent supporters
and the most efficient troops in the
Mexican army
Many citizens have been pressed in
to service and armed to protect gov
ernment funds at the custom houses
along the border.
At Naco, Sonora, the government
funds, removed to United States ter
rltory last night for protection. have
been taken back to Mexico and the
Mexican officers and women and chill
dren who fled to Arizona sod have
returned to their homes. The trooDs
sent from Cananea are quartered in
the warehouse OF the Cananea Copper
company and are making preparations
Tor an extended stay. Two hundre, i
additional troops are held in readi-
ness at Cananea to march to Naco at
moments notice. Commissario
Cubillas has purchased all available
arms at Naco, Ariz, and has armed
body OF citizens to protect the town
requirements have been received
by Colonel kosterlitzky in command
at Cananea. This has enabled him to
spread details of troops along the
Dorder to intercept smuggled arms
lie has ordered a house-to- house
search for arms continued in all the
Northern Sonora villages.
Three burros were seized b,
masked men on the United States
side of the boruer Sunday night ant
loaded with ammunition, which was
carried across the border into the Sar
Jose mountains. A squad of rurale:
is in pursuit of thep arty.
Serious disturbances are repotref
to have taken place at Ciudad Porfre
Diez, Coahuila. The revolutionar,
leaders have fled to Eagle Pass, Tex.
to escape arrest
1t is claimed by Mexican officials
that newspapers printed in Spanish
on the American side of the bord.
have been large factor in stirrin,
up the discomfort now finding expires
sion. The movement has been singu
larily free from expressions O
animosity to Americans, in marked
contrast to the election riots of fou
Fergus County Democrat., 1910-06-28
ITO the Members of the Montana
Woolgrowers Association and All
WoolproWers in General:

TO the Members of the Montana
Woolgrowers' Association and Ali
Woolgrowers in General:
1T is deemed advisable, owing to
the perplexing and uncertain condi-
ton Of the wool market, to acquaint
sheep owners throughout the state
with the condition of affairs and
prospects for the future. Several of
the members Of Our association have
recently visited eastern market cen
ters and report that there is apparent
ly no adequate reason for the present
low prices being offered for wool in
this state. The clothing mills are
running full time and some overtime,
and the worsted mills appear to be
running nearly or quite full time and
some reports say overtime. Notwith-
standing this condition, the mills are
apparently buying little wool from
the dealers. The London market
quotations are nearly 3 cents per
pound higher than at this time last
year. There is apparently no eco
nomic reason why wool should be at
this time commanding higher price
than that of year ago.
Many rumors have reached this
association of combine among the
buyers for the mills and wool buyers
them mselves This condition seems
borne out by the exceedingly low
prices being offered in this state at
present We do not wish to state
positively that such condition exists
and the wool buyers now in the state
are emphatic in their denials of such
combine. From information gath