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Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-08
SAYS NEITHER CHARITY NOR
HOMES WILL SOLVE PROBLEM

LOS ANGELES, March 5.-lEditor
Herald: Reading the various letters
that have appeared in your paper on
the subject of criminals and the sluhs'
and having been much interested III
the controversy to which Mrs. Maud
Rallington Booths visit gave rise, 1
send YOU a passage from a recent az
ticle by Prof. w. l. Thomas, IN the
American Magazine. 1t Is on the SUI
iect of Eugenics and, atter sNIhs
terrible statistics respecting the con-
dition of the poor in London, he con-
tinues:
''In America, conditions in the coun-
try are comparatively good, but a po-
lice Justice in New York city recently
said: There are thousands OF famliles
i'm this city-I had almost said ma
ioritv-where the rearing of two more
children means a girl for the Drothei
and boy for the penitentlary,
School officials have recently reported
to the board of education that oooV
children. who attend the schools OF
Chicago are habitually hungry, and at
least 10 600 other children attend school
without having sufficient nourishment.
one of the officers also reports that
MANY have no beds to sleep IN; that
the majority of the INDECENT chlldren
live in damp, unclean or oNercroWdeu
homes that lack proper ventilation OF
sanitation, that children often peg
merchants for decayed fruits ana
even for dead fowl in crates. and that
they search for stray crusts.
commenting on the above, Prol.
Thomas writes Nov. 1t is almost as
hopeless to attempt to grow human
life in the slums as to grow gram
auong rank weeds or in cellar
agree with Mrs Booths critics
when they maintain that charity and
conyicts' homes will not solve the
problem, or even make it less acute
A. d. RICHARD.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-08
WOULD WE'D DOG LOVERS TO
MEN WHO SMOKE CIGARETTES

LOS ANGELES, March 5.-[Editor
Herald: Last Sunday | counted sew
enteen dogs riding in womens arms
or sitting complacently in the seat Of
the automobile-and only one baby.
What should be done to a woman
who would neglect her dog by taking
the baby riding? Rather, what of the
degenerate, sexless females who pa
rade their perverted maternal instinct
by Juggling a hideous dog about? 1
used to like to have dog in my
yard, but indignation has arisen to
such a degree against the prurient, un-
womanly creatures who caress dogs in
preference to a babe, | no longer toll
crate a dog. Where it is possible let
us encourage the union of such fe-
males with cigarette users to the end
that, while both are supinely happy
with their fetish. the kind of both
may die out. Mayhap the days of pa
gan Sparta shall return and women
Vie in producing the finest children.
DOCTOR.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-08
DECLARES GENTLEMEN AND
LADIES EASILY MARKED

LOS ANGELES, March Al Edltor
Herald: Noting the letters IN the Ley
ter Rox of "A Gentleman" ana a
Lady" l think c. Halifax answered.
A gentleman or a lady is always
recognized. They never nave anu
never will need q badge or any other
banner. Their acts, words, deeds anu
refined nature are marked on thelr iea-
tures and no amount of menial WORK
can ever erase it. -,
think that no grain is of less Nalue
than coarse grain, and a lady never
tells others she is refined or lady-H
is too obvious.
In this enlightened and progressive
age independence is a universal deslre
and If a few such parasites as the gem
tleman and lady referred to have oeeh
left us from the middle ages we should
care for them: they are relics.
In the eighteenth century people
we're taken at theor word. Now IN the
twentieth century, we look at their
lives which is a reflection OF thelr
hearts. and a ladys heart is free from
vanity, hatred, oppression, anger when
useless, self love or coneelt IN any
80 MRS. ]. EAGAN.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-08
TELE-LETTERs

n OSTAL TELEGRAPH AND CA
BILE COMPANY last evening
- met the Western Unions rate
and put into effect night letter ser
vice. Messages of the class that will
be known as night letter kilograms
were accepted at telegraph offices over
the counter or telephone. The public
can now send fifty words night mes
sage for the price of ten words day
message A desire to make the tele-
graph a PUBLIC utility, to make it
serviceable to the people, is shown
by the new management. The Western
Union company recently has been alb
sorbed by the American Telegraph and
Telephone company (the Bell tele-
phone.) The result of the change was
the elimination Of some of the fossils,
the brushing aside of old fogies. An era
of progress has at last dawned for
telegraphy. Some of the old tradi-
tions of the telegraph trust are dis
carded and for the first time telegraph
tolls have reached a figure at which
they will be serviceable to the people.
A big step has been taken toward
breaking down the high rates which
have prevented the true popularization
of the telegraph, and incidentally have
helped bring about the conditions
which made possible a postoff1ce deficit.
Between midnight and a. m. millions
of dollars worth of wires are lying
idle which with popular rates might be
carrying the messages Of the people.
All indications now point to a forward
movement in correspondence, and the
mailed business letter or postal card
to a certain extent will be replaced
by the wired letter.
Correspondence by telegraph has not
been encouraged, because the tolls
have been prohibitive. The populari-
zation of the telegraph is in the nature
of a step toward the time when gov
ernment will take over and mana ge
the telegraph. Now that night tolls
are nearer within the reach of the
people, there is no doubt of the sue
cess of the night letter system; which,
by the way, could and might have
been brought into successful opera
tion any time within the last twenty
five years, but the trust forbade.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-08
Everybody Is Getting Ready
10 Welcome Home Our Teddy
lHouston Post)

n NE Cignift1 and promin mt Re
publican member of the house
" hurried rat of the chamber the
other morning shortly after that body
convened, with a sheaf of kilograms in
his hands and a worried look on his
face.
rs everybody going erazy?' he de-
manded. -,
"What in the world is the trouble?"
inquired a colleague and friend.
why" returned the member with
a despairing sigh, "listen to this tele-
gram Here it is: In view of the
fact that, following your trouble with
Roosevelt, your majority was cut to
the bone, would suggest that you get
on the band wagon and line up for
the Roosevelt homecoming. Think
this over. ="
"That." the worried member contin-
ned. lis only one of a dozen of the
same sort that l received this morn
ing. I mention this one in particular
because it comes from an old political
friend of mine, a man whose advice
and Judgment I value highly. The
others are of the same sort, most of
them from people I have never heard
off,
1t developed on inquiry that this
particular member was not the only
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-08
MANS sELFlsHNEsS CAUSE
OF HIGH LIVING PRICES

LOS ANGELES, March 6.--[Editor
Herald: Would state Il. l.. Hutchison
makes a very erroneous assertion in
regard to the extravaganza of women
being the cause of high cost of living.
One may observe among nations that
women ornament themselves more
than men, and moreover women are
more kind and humane than men.
Selfshness is the cause of the condi-
tions today. Man, as rule, has
enough for himself only, nothing for
the other fellow.
AS to reforming women, they are all
right as they are; they were made to
please you men, and what you got is
all you are going to get"
MRS. CHAPMAN.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-08
MRS. coRMAN DECLARES SHE
HAS BEEN MIsREPREsENTEo

LOS ANGELES, March 7s-[Editor
Herald1 In justice to me ana my
renutation, / ask for space IN your
naner TO correct an article somewhat
eva aegerated and with tendency 10
misreprsent me, published In Satur-
davis issue of The Herald, especially
mat norton of it relating to Judge
Bordwelrs uncalled for repuke aS Wiz VIE
as the testimony given by EVAN lewis
and w. H. Carlson. My letter OF Iues-
day. March /, and my note OF Thurs-
dav' March 3. deserved neither repuke
nor reproach, as Tuesdays letter was
a business statement intended to con-
vev the reason for the sadly compll-
Gated state of my legal affalrs, nrst'
because of Illness, and later through
an unexpected change of counsel, potn
letter and note being wholly ueNolu
of any language that might offend one
in a much more exalted position than
that occupied by judge of the su-
nerior court. Thursdays note was but
n pathetic appeal that my long-con-
tinued case be not put off again, the
clerk or bailiff having hinted to my
counsel that my case stood q poor
show of being tried on FRIDAY, March
A the day set by Judge BordWell MIN
self four months previously. Ihe
charges that | made threats against
the life of Evan Lewis or the disfig-
uring of that gentleman's beauty are
too absurd and vicious in their nature
for denial l stood Carlson's friend
through all the horrors of his court
trials because i pitied rather than
blamed him; but l never dreamed or
treachery until l saw his motives re-
veaied on the witness stand. never
called at Carlsons home but twice.
and then only on business, in fact for
explanations of unfultilled or broken
promises. / never created a disturb
ance at Carlsons home. l never gave
him or anybody l have ever known
cause to send for an officer of the law
to take me into custody for any Of
fense or for conduct unbecoming q
lady. MARGARET GORMAN.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-08

one by long shot who was lombard
ed with kilograms from his district.
Practically all of them were of the
some sort-intimations, gentle and
otherwise, to the recipient that he
would better come out strong for a
grand hurrah Homecoming and recep-
tion of Theodore Roosevelt.
But kilograms to members of the
house were not the only indication
furnished that the country, particu-
larly the middle west, is taking the
most violent sort of interest the
proposed reception to the strenuous
former president upon his return.
Members of the press gallery, par
ticularly those who represent news
papers in the section referred to, al
Il ough there were some l. ON other
points, received queries concerning
the attitude of Republican members of
the house with respect to the home
coming of Roosevelt and the possibl-
ity of their active participation in it..
One correspondent received a tele-
gram instructing ,him to poll his dele
cation carefully, obtaining interviews,
If possible, indol sing the triumphal
reception idea.
But send us the names at once"
the instructions read $50 that we may
use them this afternoon in an honor
list "
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-08
Warns Investors to Beware
of hcreSpOnsib1eS i'm Oil
Clos Angeles Express)

A LTHOUGH Los Angeles sees little
a of the tremendous activity in oil
"A in Southern California, because
the scenes and places of development
are not in close proximity to the city,
If is coming to be understood that the
industry is being enlarged at an un-
precedented rate.
california has experienced a great
many "fevers" of one kind and an
other, principally gold, copper and oil,
hut the new oil fever bids fair to sur
mass them all. Wells are developing,
oil lands are going up, machinery is
being shipped out Of Los Angeles by
every train, and the extent of the ac-
tivity in dollars and cents is well de-
fined in the bulgng bank clearings OF
~ this time. however. it Is well that
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-08
IGNORANCE

A GREAT comet which on previous
N visit to the earth created
AA tremendous sensation is once
more headed for little old Terra. Man
kinds knowledge of comets is mostly
of the negative kind. That is to say
people now believe they are not signs,
or wonders, or apparitions, or mys-
terles, in the uncanny sense of the
term, but are-what?
Whatever they may be, they are
not supernatural. At any rate, that
is the current cant of materialism.
oh. no. Nothing is supernatural now
adays. There is a materialistic,
scientific, explanation of everything.
For instance, how well we know that
water is merely H2O. Mix two parts
of hydrogen with one part of oxygen
and you have as a product-water
Sounds easy and natural, doesn't it?
Nothing uncanny about that. BUT,
what is hydrogen? What is oxygen?
Why is hydrogen hydrogen? Why is
oxygen oxygen? Why should two in
tangible, invisible, spirtlike gases
make a fluid which has mass, weight
volume and other material quantities?
why is water water? Why are two
gases mixed in the proportion Of two
parts to one necessary to animal and
vegetable life? We know just this
much accurately about water: Abso-
lutely nothing.
Then how can we be expected to
oh ba Of .
Columns, yards, volumes, will be writ
ten and read on the subject. And
what will be the use of it? Won't
the task Of the numerous writer's,
raclzing their presumed brains. be
the equivalent Of spinning the wind?
And the comet-whateve it may
be-may have some effect on the
earth. But what is the earth? What
IS a particle of dirt? A grain Of sand?
A speck that dances with ten thousand
other specks in the sunbeams? We
cannot explain a particle of dirt no
bigger than a pinhead. And our minds
cannot imagine the minutest subdivi-
sion of that particle of dirt, because
we have no mental capacity for the
infinite when 1t goes inward and be-
comes infinitesimal We think we
have some idea of 1t when 1t expands
outward, and talk knowingly OF the
spacious heavens. But isn't the know
ingness mostly bluff? What 40 VIC
know? We don't know what makes a
grain Of dirt grain Of dirt. We don't
know what makes oxygen oxygen or
hydrogen hydrogen. We don't know why
when one part of oxygen is mingled
with one part of hydrogen the oxygen
remains oxygen and the hydrogen
hydrogen. But we do know that Wlen
two parts Of hydrogen are commingled
with one of oxygen a fluid comes
into existerce-the commonest fluid in
the world-water.
Knowing as much as we know
about earth and as much as we know
about water, isn't it plain that the
more we realize how much we don't
know the more nearly we approach a
state Of knowledge of anything at
all, for we will be in condition of
partial knowledge Of our own ignor-
ance? But it will be only partial
knowledge, even of that, for our ig-
norance is as great as the universe is
vast and with infinity, macrocosmical-
ly and microcosmically it extends
out and out and out, and in and in
and in. Hurrah for mans only definite
and real possession-his superb
colossal, infinite, icmeasurable i'm
plicit. explicit, implicate, complicate
celestial, terrestrial, universal ignor-
ancel
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-08

Cudahy's revenge no doubt was un-
lawful. But many citizens believe
drastic measures for the protection
of the American home and the preser-
walton of the sanctity of the marriage
vow are warranted. The divorce courts
are always busy. Some men who are
morally straight on all questions of
business are dlabolical. conscienceless
and cowardly villains in other matters.
A home looter is far worse than a
burglar.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-08

James Eads How, the tramp million
aire, says he will put the strike
breaker out of business. If he could
produce concord and sanity he would
be doing a greater work. There is
no more serious reelection on our civ
ilization than the fact that working
men go on strike Chat is, rebel
against economic conditions). These
rebellions, like all others, are sup
pressed by armed force. But when did
might begin to make right in the free
republic7
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-08

the purchasing public exercise extreme
care and caution in their investments
in oil stock wildcat" companies are
reported to be in the field. Inquiry
into the character and standing of the
men behind the stock is essential If
these are all right, there Is likely to
be small danger in the investment In
fact, there viii be money in it," There
are plenty of substantial business men
engaged in this form of enterprise and
they know how to make money hon
estly. Just beware of irresponsibles.
who may have leased a patch of
ground with no intention of doing any
thing more than selling stock to the
public
The oil industry is of great conse-
quence Just now, and the south will
realize millions from 1t.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-08

would rather zee their children in the
factory, earning a pittance, than in the
school room. receiving the training
which will give the American republic
citizens who will enable 1t to re-
tain the position. of leader among the
nations of the earth.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-08

Mr. Carnegie shows his good sense
by saying an endowed newspaper
would be useless. The more accurately
a newspaper represents and speaks for
the public. the better it is. and an
endowed newspaper would not be
free AGENT.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-08

Railroad tariff rates, governmental
tariff rates and the trusts are three
formidable factors in the problem of
high prices. What should be the cas-
lest to get at and to adjust is the gov
elnmental tariff. because railroad tar
ifs to a great extent depend on govern
mental tariff.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-08
AT THE THEATERS

AUDITORICM-Dark
BELASCO-''The Man OF the Hour"
BURBANK-"Swee Kitty Bellairs."
GRAND-"The Geisha."
LOS ANGELES-Vaudevil
AIAJESTIC-"The Red Mil"
OLYMPIC-Musical theater.
MASON-Blanche Walsh.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-08

Every modern woman is not neees-
sarily a new woman; yet no woman
has any patience with the man who
calls her an old woman.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-08

owens river aqueduct power will
make Greater Los Angeles easily the
foremost city on the Pacific coast
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-08

Platt's life leaves a moral. 1t is:
1.-The best laid schemes O. mice and
men gang aft agley."
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-08
THE PUBLIC LETTER BOX


the enddd of
nts.bu onsIlnty
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-08

On all matters pertaining TO advertising 6
address Charles R. Gates, advertising man
eger.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-16

writes lie has real literary ability and
can sketch character with as rare
SKIN as any living writer. Huckle-
berry Finn, for instance which is per-
haps Twains greatest work, is a novel
of delicious humor and unusual inter-
est, but 1t is a character study from
beginning to end and Is rich in figures
which have become pant OF the lit
ctary inheritance of the day.
we shall have still finer things to
say about twain IL he should die; but
we think the American people WIZ
sorrow with him in his illness and
viii regret the old age which l.as
stopped his cunning pen. The World
of humor is less pungent when he '9es
not write
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-16
PRINCESS COMES TO
BELGIAN LEGATION

XIV. created him Copte dc Serrant.
The Washes continued TO own the
Chateau of Serrant until some fifteen
years ago when at the death OF Count
Ludovic Walsh de Serrant last Of his
line. he bequeithed IL, along with his
large fortune, to his first cousin, the
present Duo dc la Trcmoille. whose
mother. the third wife OF the late duke.
had been prior to her marriage Salen-
tine Walsh de Serrant.
1t would take columns to describe the
historically interesting and artistically
remarkable features of this grand old
French chateau, whore both the old
and young stuart pretenders were Of
well-uigh priceless tapestries, old mas
ters. wonderful old furniture and pam
elings. where the grand staircase in
the main building Is finer than that
OF many monarch's palace. The cha
teau is surrounded by The largest pri-
Yate park in the West OF France. full
OF century old trees. In fact. the os-
tate and its present owner are in every
!sensc OF the word worthy of one an
other, and when one has said this. 1t
is difficult to add anything more. The
Due dc la Tremoiile is not particularly
friendly TO the present royal pretend
the legitimist cause represented by the
| late Conte de Chambord. he inherited
| a good deal OF the prejudice always
entertained by the Royalists of the
old school towards the house of Or
| leans. In fact, neither the duke nor
his son take any part in French poltti-
cal life.
| Copyright. 1910. by the Brentwood
CompanY.)
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-16

VIII meet the situation and viii pro-
Vide ifeans for carrying through the
VIII of the Commons without excite
ment or bloodsfed. The Premier fol-
lowing ancient prccedents, Will ask the
King to appoint new Liberal Lords to
overcome the majority Of the unionists
in the Upper House. Tie King, under
the Constitution, will be forced to ac-
cede TO the Premier's request and Will
appoint new peers. 1t will then be only
a question of a few days before the
Lords Will yield and the Constitution OF
the Empire will be Transformed
The success OF the whole revolution
will depend upon one thing only--the
ability of the Premier to maintain his
majority in the Commons. AS long as
his fusion OF Liberals, Nationalists and
Laborites remains true TO his call, moth
ing can defeat his purpose. The King
Is impotent, the Lords are helpless.
There can be no appeal to the country.
The moment he loses his majority, how.
ever, the people of the Empire will
L nave an opportunity TO pass on ms
measures and to approve or to disap-
prove the action of the men who re-
fuse to follow the Government leader
In this way the will of the people can
always be accurately registered and
the Constitution can always be changed
as 1t shows the need of amendment
| within the course of few months.
| our American Constitution is an adj
mirabe one and is worthy of much OF
the praise bestowed upon it; but 1t is
not as nearly perfect as England S
Congress cannot represent the popular
Will as accurately or as promptly as
the English Parliament can, and the
people cannot make necessary changes
( III the organic law without long
? struggle. 1t may not be desirable tc
change the foundation upon which the
government rests with every passing
| administration, but it is desirable tc
| have a Constitution which can register
| the approved will of the people from
! generation to generation without TIL,
I subterfuse of judicial decisions o.
eXtra-legal executive orders.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-16
The Marshall House.

To the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
sir,-There appears in The Times
Dispatch of this morning All editorial
under he caption, How to Save the
Marshall House. T" In this editorial
the following language is used: There
has been some talk about the Virginia
Bar Association becoming custodian of
this historic home, but 1t has invaria-
bly, ended in talk In Justice to the
Virginia State Bar Association. permit
me 10 say that the association has Of
fered to buy the Marshall house from
the city. and, when that was declined.
offered to preserve and maintain II as
a lawyers club if the city would con-
sent thereto. This latter proposition
was reported favorably by the Finance
Committee of the Council. but was re-
iected by the Council.
The implied charge. therefore. con-
tanned in said editorial that the Vir
ginia Bar Association had taken no
active steps toward the preservation
of the Marshall house is a mistake.
and I trust that the impression created
by said editorial will be corrected.
JNO. B. MINOR.
Secretary Of the Virginia State Bar
Association.
April 15,t 1910