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Gilpin observer., 1910-12-22

Mrs. winslow's Soothing Syrup.
For children tcething. sofens the gums, reduces n
nammation ailays palm. cures wind collie sc bottle
Gilpin observer., 1910-12-22

Calvin-The doctor forbids me to
drink champagne.
Ruth-Forbids you to drink cham
pagne?
Calvin-Well. until after his bill is
paid.
Gilpin observer., 1910-12-22

It's as easy to pick up experience
as 1t is to drop money.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-24
POOR SAN FRANCISCO

door old San Francisco. It's last
state seems to be even worse
than its first. The best citizens
of San Francisco must fight the good
fight all over again, and must keeE
everlastingly at it until the city is
taken out of the SHADY" class and
placed on a high plane of morality,
honor and honesty.
Good government is worth fighting
for and worth keeping. Good govern
ment should be guarded jealousy The
standards established should be main
tanned. 1t is high time for the climin-
alton of partisan politics from NUM-
cipal life. Lesson after lesson has
taught the American people profess
sional politics will lead to the forma-
ton of political machines, and the
machines viii i'll public offices with
their creatures.
Let us keep machine politics out of
Greater Los Angeles and eliminate it
from Los Angeles county. Any politi-
cal machine is dangerous, and a rail-
road machine produces conditions which
are subversiye Of everything for which
the republic exists.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-24
LAUDS JOHN D. WORKS FOR
INTEGRITY AND FIDELITY

WHITTIER, March 17.-[Editor Her
add: I have often been accused of
being censoriOus. but never to my
knowledge of being syCophantic ] do
like. however, to speak words in praise
of "A new or old system that has made
good. To my mind the new primary
law has demonstrated its incalculable
value. To mention only one particu-
lar: How long under the old system of
caucus manipulatOrs would it have
taken to secure the services Of so dis
tinguished. able and conscientious a
member of your city council as Hon.
John d. Works? First they want a
man who will do their bidding, jump
when and just as far as they pull the
string. Second, they cannot work any
crooked game by, through, over, or
about him. This is an insurmountable
objection to the choice Of an honest
man. Then. again, the judge is pos
sessed of another very Objectionable
characteristic in that he has opinions
of his own.
But the chief objection to the Judge
for a municipal office is: He is unfor-
tunately in possession of moral conVic-
tions, unswervable integrity and fear
lessness in standing for the right as
God gives him to see the right: and in
this old world. up to recent date. this
would not do for one little minute. for
would it not wreck all plans, sink the
whole machine, take away the sinews
of war, destroy all well laid schemes
to rob the city and leave the whole
thing stranded on the rocks?
in reply to those who advocate the
old system / have but one reply:
John D. Works. NJ. G. McCASLIN.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-24
MILITARISM

n ITIZENS who have protested
against militarsm have urged
y that, if all other and ethical con-
siderations are to be disregarded, the
instinct Of self preservation should pre-
vent the Caucasian races from rushing
headlong into mad extravaganza and
Gripping themselves in order to equip
huge armies and great navies 1t was
TO be expected some of the nOn-Clu-
casian nations would initiate the
whites, and their imitation would be
most vigorous along the lines that APP
peal most to human nature. But when
the imitation became so enthusiastic
it outdid the original, there was some
s ,und for uneasiness.
Anti-militarists viii find their posi-
ton of obstinate autagonism to mill
tary invention, development and expen-
diture justified by the following As
sociated Press despatch from Berlin:
a genuine military awakening in
china was foreshadoWcd i'm an inter
view given by Chinese Minister Yin
Tchang, who said: 7 intend to intro
duce universal military service i'm
China. 1t we make all the available
men join the militia, we have such an
enormous population-some 4o000o,Q00
that we shall overshadow all other
armed nations.
If modern civilization had been the
Christian civilization it sometimes
claims to be, it would have taught
both by prccept and example peace
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-24
RATE GOUGE

or INTENSE interest TO Califor-
mia is the Los Angeles hearing
~ before the interstate commerce
commissioners i'm the case brought by
the citrus growers against the rail
roads to keep the lemon freight rate
from being advanced, and to obtain
a reduction in the orange rate and
refrigeration charges.
Tho rate eouge is particularly flag
rant i'm view of the fact congress tried
To help the citrus fruit industry by
a tariff increase which the railroads
by rate manipulation promptly di-
vertad t. thoir own pockets
The citrus fruit industry is associated
with the modern history and prosper
itv of california. 1t has helped ad-
yertise the state in every other state
of the Union and i'm every country of
the world With the rise of the citrus
industry There has been a general in
crease i'm the prosperity of the state
and an impetus has been given to en-
terprise and mdustrialism.
I'm indusUialism the rate gougers see
only opportunity for themselves. Their
motto is that of one of the original
ratc-makcrs, the Vanderbilt who said:
THE public be damned"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-24
GROGGY CALAVERAS

| BDWARD HYATT superintendent
! III Of public instruction, is gentle
man whose good taste a. n rule
is TO be depended on. His pamphlet,
"A Calaveras Evening" is a creditable
effort to show how the study of litera-
ture may be made pleasant to children.
But would it not be better if in a later
edition Of the pamphlet Mr. Hyatt
omitted the following passages?
Il even had to decline several press
ing proffers of a drink. . At last
the hotel man jumped up, went into
the bar room and returned with a
dusty copy of Bret Harte."
Here is stamped an impression on the
students mind that during the rest Of
his life will associate some Of Cali
fornia's most important literature with
bar rooms and drinks. 1t must aston
ish smart young American boys and
girls to be taught the dangers Of the
liquor traffic, and then to learn that the
copy of Bret Harte from which the
extracts were taken that are to inn
prove their minds and familiarize them
with the literature Of the state was
borrowed from a bar room.
We can assure the teachers and stu
dents of california that Bret Har.o's
works are kept in the public libraries
and are for sale at many book stores
The bar room association established
by Superintendent Hyatt is unjust to
the literature of California. unjust to
poor Bret Harte, and unjust to the
children. If Mr.. Hyatt is at loss for
a classification Of Harte's works and
Mark Twain's California stories. let us
suggest that they represent the literary
folk lore Of California.
Mr. Hyatt prints 1.-THE Society on the
Stanislaus' to represent Harte. and
THE Jumping Frog to represent
Twain The superintendent is careful
to tell the youth Of california that the
jumping frog story did take place in
a bar ROOM Mark Twain mentions
the fact, but not i'm an Obtrusive way.
We are not adopting a snobbish view
of the matter. If Mr. Hyatt had /
handled his material in a different man /
ner all would have been well. But ho .
has succeeded in producing a most UNI /
fortunate impression, and I'm reollirg /
California literature with the fumes of .
stale rum.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-24
Co.. WatferSOn Shows
Where the Fault Lies


For convenience the discussion
out OF which the Investigation al
Washington has been called the Bal
linger-Pinchot controversy Mr.. PIN
chot has been called as a witness. Mr..
Ballinger declares that he will. in due
form and time, answer what he calls
the "mendacious aspersions' Of MIR.
Pinchot. The public will, for the mo-
ment, accept Mr.. Pinchot's statement
as the truth. In the opinion of the
COurer-Journal and in the opinion of
a very large majority of the disinter-
ested observers of the nVestigation.
Mr. Pmchot's assertions will be quite
mistaken by Mr.. Ballinger. But
granting, for the sake of argument,
that Mr. Ballinger may be able to con-
vince his audience that he did not de
liberately deceive the president by ma
licious Misrepresentation of facts,
enough has been shown TO settle very
definitely the question of Mr. Balm
gers fitness for his position The fault
lies with President Taft, who made the
appointment.
The special interests have ordered
the affairs of the Taft administration
from the beginning, and in every es-
sential They passed the Payne-Al-
drich tariff bill and President Taft
first apOlogized for il, next defended
it as being a measure to insure party
solidarity. and now parades a mass of
wholly misleading figures from the
ways and means committee and de-
clares the most infamous bit of class
legislation that modern times and
republican government have witnessed
to be downward revision"
Mr.. Garfield was removed, apparent
ly at the suggestion of the special in
terests, to make room for Mr.. Bal
linger, who seems to have been pretty
definitely proved to have entered upon
his duties as a friend and attorney for
the opponents of private enterprise"
and with q serene disregard of his du-
ties to the public which pays his sal
airy. 1t is incOnCeiVable that President
Taft, who is mentally sound, although
not brilliant, did not know enough
about Mr.. Garfield and enough about
Mr.. Ballinger to realize perfectly that
the ousting of the former and ensconc-
ing of the latter in the Office of SeCrc-
tary of the interior was not q move
calculated to improve the efficiency of
that branch of the government. He
must have known that as a guardian
of the interests of the public Mr. Bal
lnger with his record as an attorney
and with his leanings, could not be eX-
pected to discharge his duties with the
vigor and impartiality that could have
been expected of Mr.. Garfield, or of
any one not entaugled with land pi-
rates ana power-site grabbers and
multi-millionaire mine-eXploiters.
No matter whether Mr.. Ballinger lied
to the president as Mr., PinChot as
serts, or deceived him unWittingly, or
didn't deceive him at all. the essential
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-24
FAVORS TELLING CHILDREN
FACTS AS THEY EXIST

Los ANGELES, March 15.-tEditor
Herald: Last week an evening paper
was Offering prizes for cute sayings of
children, and the following might have
won one had ii gone there. But to
my mind The Herald Letter Box is a
more fitting place, as it is food FOR
thought, and might catch the eyes of
some one who thought as little Ray
mOnd's mother did. ana gives us a
chance to express our views regarding
what a child should and should not
be taught.
Little Raymond. aged years. had
said his prayers, kissed mamma good
night. and put to bed; and while
mamma was tucking the covers
around him, he suddenly sprang up
ana cried; "Oh, mamma, look. there
is Jesus hanging on a wire His eyes
were SO intently fixed toward One cor
ner of the room that his mother
walked over with eyes turned toward
the ceiling and there suspended from
above she found two long cobWebs.
Now. to be sure, ] asked what did
you tell him? Nothing, she said. but
90 hush and go to sleep. You know
she said he is too young to try to
tell him what il was, so I just let
him think it was Jesus. Now, my
point of attack is this: If. as she said,
she had told him all about Jesus up
in heaven and how he watched over
him while he was asleep and saw all
the naughty things he did and said;
if his little mind was capable of de-
Vouring all these things, then, why
could he not understand the work of
spider. a thing which the child could
see. and not let the little one think
it something supernatural? Why cloud
his little brain? Why allow him to fall
asleep thinking he had geen Jesus
hanging on a wire? Why not teach our
children facts and truths as they eX-
list? NJ. T. JONES
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-24
BELIEVES GOOD LICENSE LAW
is BETTER THAN PROHIBITION

LOS ANGELES. March 14.-[Editor
Herald: 1t is a surprise to see min
listers of the church combining to fight
the proposed increase in saloon licenses.
a good, legitimate way of restricting
the traffic which. as 1 take it, the city
council has in view. and not the few
dollars more accruing therefrom; the
more so because, by advocating COM
plete prohibition of all alcoholic liquor,
they argue against the tradition of the
church, even against Christianity it
self, for they would have to dispense
with the administration of the most
holy sacrament, which cannot be done
without wine.
They should have more regard for
the inner man by reforming mans
character from within, for by cleansing
the cup and platter within you have
the outside clean also. C. f.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-24
MODERN BUSINESS STRUGGLE
AS EVIL AS PRIZE FIGHTING

LONG BEACH, March 21.-[Editor
Herald: In his sermon last evening
the Rev. DIR. Locke found occasion to
assail and denounce prize fighting in
no uncertain language. His thrust at
the LangfOrd- Flynn fight was pointed
and bitter. This brutal practice
must cease" he declared. Well said,
doctor. /, too, long for the time when
lighting for prizes, for spoil, profit and
gain shall be at an end. But why at
tack Jim Flynn for entering the ring
and carrying away a disfigured face
and some $4,000, while a ruthless strug
gle goes on from day to day under
the name of modern business?" Why
protest against the pugilistic encoun-
tiers that are measured by minutes
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-24
WOULD LIKE TO SEE BETTER
CAR ACCOMMODATION

Los ANGELES, March 21.-[Editor
HeraldI The street car company has,
however, but few more cars running
than was the case five years ago. The
city now has a public utility commits
sion which has the power to remedy
this evil. The shortage of car seats
has been mitigated in several eastern
cities. The Vernon Improvement as
ISOLATION and other like bodies should
demand immediate action The local
traction trust operates on the theory
that a strapholders nickel will buy
just as much as the nickel of the pas
senger who secures a seat
]. b. WILLIAMS.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-24
NEWSPAPERS

IN HERE is much expert "informa-
tion" about the newspapers GO
n ing the rounds these days. Some
times there is a little truth in it-foI
instance. the magazine writer who COM
plains certain subjects. named by him
sacred Cows" are tabooed in some
newspaper offices. undoubtedly is cor
rect. But n civic organization of the
authority and Importance Of tho New
York Bureau Of Municipal Research
ought to know better than to print such
stuff as this: Between two news
stems entailing no outlay. newspapers
frequently print the less interesting
item because it comes to them in n
more attractive form or requires less
rewriting" The writer goes on to ac-
cuse some newspapers Of being news
grafters, and of printing unimportant
matter they can get for nothing and
rejecting important matter for which a
price is charged He says ANY news
paper that would rather pay for news
than get the same news for nothing
Will be so badly damaged and edited
it will end by paying for news that is
good for nothing"
I'm spite Of the positivenoss Of this
statement. we are certain an well
edited newspapers i'm the seIoctive pro
cess are guided by the news value Of
an item, and we have never known
and never have heard Of any news
paper that would reject good news
rIHF
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-24
INVITES GENTLEMAN" TO
GIVE CAUSE OR REMEDY

LOS ANGELES, March 16.-[ Editor
Gentleman some time ago now comes
to the front Cor l might say comes
to the print again, under date of the
18th, throwing slurs at the working
class for not doing so and so, and
criticising others for not answering his
communication to suit him. If it is
true that A Gentleman knows what is
wrong, and thinks that he knows the
remedy, why does he not out with it?
He has not, to my knowledge, told us
either the cause or the remedy Of this
unjust economic system.
POGO LOCO.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-24

fact is that President Tart chose Mr..
| Ballinger ass Mr.. Garfelds successor,
and cavalicrly dismissed from the serV-
. ice the first honest public servant who
] attempted to prevent him from Ic'
J Vcrsing the conservation policy estab-
/ lishcd by the preceding administration,
upheld by the people and labored for
| by the chief forester. Whether or not
/ the president was deceived in this or
/ that after he appointed Mr.. Ballinger,
and when Mr. CLAWS had begun to
make it hot for the successor Of Mr..
/ Garfield, is a detail.
The BallingerizatiOn of the depart
mCnt Of the interior Is Of piece with
the general policy of the present ad-
ministration. 1t is, in the final analy-
sis, merely the orthodox Republican
policy of trading anything and every
thing for political prosperity. During
the Roosevelt administration there was
a departure from the established rules
While he was as great a "standpat-
! ter as President Taft-Or as Mr.. Can
non, or Mir. Aldrich, or any one else
whose name, with an ism attached
is employed to define what is nothing
more or less than Republicanism-he
was politician enough to understand
that the time had come when pillagine
the public all along the line and from
y
tactician enough to know that to bal
ance his position upon the tariff he
must make clean record in other par
ticulars. And he vast is reasonable
to believe and just to admit-an hon
est and earnest advocate of the con-
servation of natural resources, just as
Cleveland was.
President Roosevelt was a brilliant
maneuverer President Taft is a blum
derer His administration proceeds
with even consistency. The Guggen-
helms in Alaska; the grabbcrs of pub
lie property in the west; the light
fingered gentlemen who write the tar
iff schedules in the committee rooms
under the capitol; the piratical adj
venturers who have been hanging
about the Hobbies at Washington for
years attempting to secure the enact
ment of a ship subsidy bill to rank to
enlist even the warm support Of 10
seph G. CannOn-theso and others
have a friend in an administration that
is nothing more and nothing less than
a good old-fashiOned Republican adj
ministratiOn sans RooseVeltian Varia-
tons.
President Taft is plain, blunt man.
He does not know how to run the gov
eminent for the gang and court popu-
larity by whooping it up for reform in
public speeches. He does not know
how to hypnotic the multitude by
preaching virtue and smuggling sin on
the front porch, and dealing with
practical men" in the private office.
What he does he indorses. He APP
pointed Mr.. Ballinger, and, in due
time, he exOnerated him.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-24

and rewarded by a fat purse, while
the heartless, merciless fight between
children of one brotherhood, including
the members of your own church, goes
on from childhood to old age, unheed-
ed ana unhindered? In this struggle
the stronger are pitted against the
weak, the old against the young, man
against woman. black against white
child against child; and no protest is
heard.
If you would end prize lighting, and
the horrors of vice and crime that
blacken the world. why not preach CO.
operation? For so long as competi-
ton lasts, so long as men must fight
for a chance to labor, and for access
to the material resources whence
come their bread and their life just
so long will this greatest of all prize
fights grow more brutal and more
mcrciless. A. w. HAYNES.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-24
SOME SERVANTS ARE
MISTAKEN FOR MISTRESS

Los ANGELES, March 23-[Editor
Herald: l must say l am surprised
when | read the letters answering "A
Lady" or "a GentlemfA" in your Let
ter Box at the sudden Indignation and
amazement of the writer's.
One would suppose they were not
aware Of the fact that a great many
men and women entertain such senti-
ments and act them out in their every
day life. OF course most of them are
English.
| wonder myself at "A Ladys'' pre-
sumption when she speaks of free
born Americans with so much con-
tempt But / think she is afraid the
common herd" may become insubor-
dinate (as "A Gentleman" once said),
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-24

if the "better class" does not assert
itself more.
She was probably encouraged, too,
by the attitude of the Smartsetter In
New York, about two weeks ago, who
opposed woman suffrage on the ground
that her cook would be allowed to vote
by her side, which would be too hui
initiating to endure. Then her badge
or tag idea is an old one, except the
servants were obliged to wear them
like the livery or cap and apron.
They do that because the servant
was so often superior i'm intelligence
and refinement that they might be
taken for the mistress or master.
Well, let them writhe 1t may not be
for long. RED BLOOD.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-24
AT THE THEATERS
A UDITORIINI-Dark

AUDITORIUM-Dark
BELASCO-"TheE asterner."
BURBANK-"Merely Mary Ann"
GRAND-"The Office Boy"
LOS ANGELES-Vaudevill
MAJESTIC-"Ths Gingerbread Man"
MASON-McIntyre and Heath.
OLYMPIC-Musical farce.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
PRINCESS-Musical farce
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-24
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENT Intended
for publication must DO accompanied by ths
name and address of the Mriipr. Inc II"f AID
gives me widest iHiitnde TO correspond u Ia,
hut ssAuTpeS no rcsn1nSlhilltv for thelr views
Letters must not exceed 800 words.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-24

President Taft declared he had at
tempted to carry ont the Roosevelt
policies. lie failed to add feet fore
most
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-24

Unless your name has been placed
upon the new great register opened
January ]. 1910, you are not a qualified
elcctor. The duty of registration is i'm
perative and should not be procras-
tinated. No good citizen can afford to
lose his vote.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-24

upon earth and good will among men.
Instead, it has sent first the mis-
sionary then the warship, then the
soldier"
1t has soWn dragons teeth.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-24

Rain has gladdened the agricultural
interests. Tourists who complain the
wet weather has interfered with their
plans always take i now point of view
when they hear the showers mean
prosperity to Southern California.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-24
ELECTRICITY


HE forthcoming meeting of
the American Institute of
Electrical Engineers at Char
lotte, N. c., will bring out
many interesting discussions
of the problems that confront
Al, oIootriooI' world This
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-24

President Taft says these are ticklish
times. politically. Yes. undoubtedly Il
great many people are tickled by what
happened to Cannon. They believe in
Americanism, not Cannonism.
This years strawberry crop will be
one OF the largest on record. Califor-
mia is the greatest benefactor of lovers
of the most luscious and delicious of
the berry family.
The British don't cotton to Patton
worth a cent.
Pittsburg's black sheep are bleating
piteOusly.
DANISH THE BIILBOARDS
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-24

DANISH THE BILLBOARDs.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-24

Population of Los Angeles 327,685