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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-07-23

2. May own and operate elevators
| warehouses, tunnels, viaducts and sub
ways, and fix the rates to be charged
by any company for light, heat, re-
frigeration, power, telephone service
and prescribe the character and quail
ty Of the same.
8. May operate quarries, works OF
plants for making or transporting any
materials required in constructing OF
repairing any public building or i'm
provement.
4. May supply the city or its in
habitants with gas, electricity or with
other means Of heat, illumination
power or refrigeration, and may con-
struct and operate works for the sup
ply Of any of these services. 1t may
even sell its surplus production tc
other municipalities or consumers out
side Of the city.
A board of public utilities was Gre
ated to examine into the management
and services rendered by street rail-
ways, gas and other public utility cor
porations, and to fix their charges and
control the services rendered.
| Almost equally remarkable were the
changes made in the election laws
These have been simplifled so that the
people can readily control their off,
Gals. Los Angeles already has the re-
call and has used 1t on two occasions
with an exhilarating effect upon the
community and an equally wholesome
effect upon officials.
In the March election they provided
for change in their election laws by
which every candidate is to be nomi-
mated by petition without any party
designation Of any kind. A primary is
held, which is a sort of election. II
at the primary any candidate receives
a majority of all the votes cast, he is
declared elected without further con-
test. II no candidate receives a ma
Jority OF the votes, the two receiving
the highest number are placed upon
the regular ballot at the second cleo
ton. Thus the people have an oppor-
tunity by a sitting process to eliminate
the weaker candidates and choose
without regard to party from the two
persons who have received the ap-
prevail of most of the people in the
preliminary skirm!sh.
At the same election all buildings
were limited to one hundred and fifty
feet in height, except public buildings
monuments, domes, spires, ct cetera.
There was no confusion in the
voters mind on these questions, for
the amendments adopted were carried
ception of the one relating to the
method of electing officials.
This confidence of the people in
themselves was further demonstrated
by straw vote taken to guide the
officials as to the policy to be en-
ployed in the administration of the
electric light and power plant now in
process of construction. The vote was
on whether the city should organize
a department and distribute electric
light and power itself, or sell it in
bulk to private companies to be dis
tributed by them to consumers. On
this question the people said, by a
vote of ten to one, that the city should
do its own selling and make any profit
to be made for the benefit of the tax
payers, or cheaper the cost to users as
much as possible.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-07-23
B|GDEMANDFOR
BRYCE'S SPEED
BRITISH AMBASSADOR IN ADJ
DRESS SAYS THAT GOVERN
MENT OF AMERICAN CITE HAS
BECOME A BUSINESS.
Special TO The Journal.

New York, July 22.-An unusual de-
mand has developed within the last
week or ten days from all sections
OF the country for copies of the ad-
mirable address of the Hon, James
Bryce, British ambassador to Wash
lngton on THE Government of British
Cltles, issued in pamphlet form by
the city club. The address in question
winch was delivered recently at a
dinner of the club before a distinguish
ca audience Interestingly reflects con-
oltlons here and abroad and is regard
ed as one of the best papers on the
SUBJECT OF city government that has
peen written for some time. Speaking
OF the government of American cities,
ne said: Your administration is be-
coming more and more of a business
administration, certainly in this city,
than ever before, and that is generally
trlue OF cities all over the union.
everywhere men are coming to see
the importance Of fixing responsibility
upon definite persons. That is the
meaning of the tendency to adopt the
commission form. In that respect your
forms of government are far better
over the country at large than they
used to be-"
1T is often said that business enters
too much politics-that is to say, that
the interests, as they are technically
called, the men, and especially the cor
porations of great wealth, are too fire.
quently trying to manipulate politics
for their own purposes and to use
their power over political bodies to
enrich themselves. That may be true,
and, of course in parts of the country
it has been true, where railroads, for
instance, have practically gained the
control of whole states. But it is
also true that if business has too much
encroached upon politics, there is a
sense in which cities have thought
too much of themselves as political
bodies and too little of the business
side of their work.
Advertising to the question Of mu-
nicipal government in England, he adj
ded: "A country lives by its traditions.
In England we are exposed to and
have faced, successfully so far, a great
number of risks and temptations which
have overcome virtue in some other
countries simply because custom has
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-07-23
ARRANGEMENT
A SEVERE ONE
PUBLICATION OF LAST ARTICLE
BY DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS
PRovoKEs TEMPEST IN TEA
POT.
sneclaI TO Tho Journal.


New York, July 22.-Both among the
rich and idle and those who would
like to be, the publication last week
of the pesthumous arrangement of
American women, written by David
Graham Phillips, the author shortly
before he was shot and killed by q
crazy youth from Washington, D. c.,
several months ago, as the former was
emerging from the Princeton club, In
this city, has provoked a feminine
tempest in a tea pot. AS the writer
most caustic and incesive shafts were
directed against the leisure loving
married woman, 1t is that class which
is protesting most vehemently against
the picture (Which they say is an eX-
travagant caricature) that Phillips
drew Of them. The criticism they say
is grossly unfair and colored by the
morbid Imagination of the author, who
being a confirmed bachelor they valve
" suggest depended upon the most
superficial of observations instead OF
actual experience for his material.
The article begins by stating that
we have to face in America a much
more serious domestic problem than
is presented by divorce. This prob
lem, says the Phillips article, 'is the
rapidly widening gap between the
American man and the American
woman in sympathies, tastes, ideals.
Every foreigner who comes to Inspect
us is struck by it, is amazed that the
beautiful, graceful utility abhorrlng
American woman. aristocratic in all
her ideas, should be able to get along
at all with the hardworking, common
American man.
He sees a woman who is marrying
into the foreign aristocracies; who is
striving to create in the great toll
some American cities an aristocracy
of idle playing about; who abhors the
American gospel of work; who at the
first faint opportunity abandons all
the sordid cares of American worka-
day life and devotes herself to fine
raiment and visiting, to building coy
corners or places, to improving her
mind by absorbing the cozings OF aris-
tocratic culture"
Our parasite class" Mr.. Phillips de-
fined as the new American woman,
living in utter idleness upon her fam
fly, waiting for some man to come
along and be beguiled by his passions
and her pretenses into undertaking her
support for life.
who is responsible for this rare and
gorgeous visitation, this Vatican upon
the kitchen wall? The loving Amer
lean father" Mr.. Phillips answered,
adding: THE American father wanted
an exotic in the house, and 10! we have
the new American woman. She de-
serves no credit for being what she is,
she got the chance to shirk and she
has shirked!"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-07-23
Los Angeles, Where the
People Rule.
Hampton's Magazine.

What burst Of sunshine the Pacific
slope is shedding upon the gloomy
politics of our cities and statesl
In the April Hampton's we publish
ed an article by Frederic G. Howe on
"Oregon; the Most Complete Democ-
racy in the World" 1t told the story
of a great commonwealth, in which
the people had cleaned out bribery
and corruption and substituted all the
people for the boss and the ma
chine.
The shame of our cities has become
proverbial. They have been owned
by the street railroads, the gas, cleo
trio light and telephone companies in
league with the vice trust" Now
comes the Pacific coast with another
story of democracy, of peoples rule, Of
q city where the people own the gov
eminent and themselves rule. To our
dependency, the ease, simplicity and
completeness of the change is like a
revelation-a revelation made possible
by the simple expedient Of peoples
rule.
In Los Angeles they have the
initiative, referendum and recall. The
people also have the power Of franz
ing their own city charter by means
of a council of citizens, who draw up
q plan of city government and then
submit the plan to the people for ap-
prevail or rejection.
Los Angeles has home rule; II can
govern itself as IT wills, 1t can own
anything that the people desire, hold
elections when and as they wish, sub
ject only to approval by the people.
This Is very different from other
stats where the charter OF the city,
the things II can do, the kind Of bal
lot II must have, the framework of it's
government, are determined by the
state legislature without considering
the city or its interests at all. When
the people have voted upon their char
ter In Los Angeles the legislature
formally approves Of what has been
done.
In March last the people adopted at
that time some of the most amazing
and revolutionary changes ever made
by any city in this or any other land.
The people at the ballot box estab-
Iished a little city republic. And they
decided that the city must own GER
tain things and operate certain things
for the benefit Of all the people rather
than for the benefit of bankers, specu-
lators and franchise grabbers. They
decided that regulation through public
utility commissions was inadequate,
and that the people themselves could
own and operate easier than they could
regulate an control
Here are some Of the things the
people Of Los Angeles decided that
their city should have the power to
do. They did not decide to do them
but they made 1t possible to do them
at any time when a majority of the
people decided that the time was ripe
for such action:
l., The city may acquire, build and
operate within the city or outside of
its limits, from points within to points
without the state Of California, steam
railroads, street railways, steamships
and other boats, or other means Of
conveyance by land or water for the
purpose Of transporting passengers
and freight, and telephone and tele-
graph lines.
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AM9 1THElRS.
InuTY.

It Is the duty OF every expectant
mother to prepare her system for the
coming of her little one; to avoid as
far as possible the suffering of such
occasions, and endeavor to pass
through the crisis with her health
and strength unimpaired. This she
may do through the use Of Mothers
Friend, a remedy that has been so
long In use, and accomplished so
much good, that It is in no sense an
experiment, but a preparation which
always produces the best results. 1t
is for exernal application and so pen
etrating in its nature as to thoroughly
lubricate every muscle, nerve and ten
don involved during the period before
baby comes. 1t aids nature by ex-
banding the skin and tissues, relieves
tenderness and soreness, and perfectly
prepares the system for natural and
safe motherhood. Mothers Friend
has been used and endorsed by thou
sands of mothers, and Its use will
prove comfort and a benefit to any
woman In need of such a remedy.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-07-23

Los Angeles is a city of nearly half
a million inhabitants; it is neither
more or less intelligent than most of
our cities; it has had the same ex-
periences, the same disappointments,
the same struggles. Los Angeles
tried to elect good men to Office and
secure a business mems administra-
ton. But Los Angeles, like other
cities, was baffled, defeated and be-
trayed until the people themselves got
control of their government. Then
they built with the courage, resource
fulness and hope of a free people who
believed in themselves.
They did what no other city has
been able to do under so-called repre-
sentative government. They went d.
rectiy to the heart Of things. They
cut with the courage of a surgeon and
built with the intelligence of an archi-
tect. Evidences are accommodating that
all the people are wiser than a few
people, and that privilege has acquired
it's strange hold through control Of the
agents and representatives of the peo-
pie rather than by reason of the igno-
rance and Incidence Of the people
themselves.
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sire is to give efficient and reliable
service. But even a service that
has a high average of speed and
accuracy will appear slow to a
man or a woman who is In hur-
ry. We simply ask that our sub
scribers bear these things in mind
when they use the telephone. We
are willing for any one to hold a
stop-watch and record the time of
any number of calls. The average
will show quick service, and it's
the average that counts.
We want every subscriber to re-
ceive efficient service. That is
what we are in business for. If
the service you are receiving does
not appear to you to be efficient,
we want you to report it promptly
to Complaint. We will see that
the fault is corrected.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-07-23
S.S.S. BLOOD 51f DISEASES US

Contagious Blood Poison responsible for great many blood
troubles such as scrououS Affections skin erupdon catarrhal
troubles Rheumatism ucerang Soes There such thing
as Kidding the system of these effects by killing the poisonous germs
Any medicine powerful enough accomplish this would destroy
many OF the delicate Innings and tissues and the constitution
The only old blood troubles REMOVE cause from
the circulation and for this nothing equal SSS
goes into the blood and drives out faint and poison and
this vital fluid pure rich and nouShng has known
as the greatest OF all blood purifiers and many thousands rid
themselves OF old blood diseases by its ALWAYS removes the
puy from the blood and these old disorders whether
ed or acquired Book the blood and any medical advice
to ALL SIS s. is sold at drug stores
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC co, ATLANTA Ga
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-07-23

Mothers Friend
is sold at drug
stores. Write for
free book for
expectanI moth
ers, which con-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-07-23
a Contented Woman

is always found in the same house
with Billiards. Snow Liniment. 1t
keeps every member of the family
free from aches and pains, it heals
cuts, burns and scalds and cures rheu-
matism, neuralgia, lumbago and all
muscular soreness and stiffness.
Csc, soc and S1.o0 a bottle.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-07-23

tains much valuable information.
BRADfELD REGULATOR co., Atlanta, Ga
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-07-23
DANDRUFF AND cANKERED SCALP
SUCCESSFULLY CURED BY
TETTEPINE

causes an early bald head. TETTERINE
will get rid of any skin or scalp disease
in a very short time. 1t is the one I'M
ter, Infants Sores, etc. Try a soc box to-
day II your druggist can't supply you
write to The Shuptrine Co.. Savannah,
Ga
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Bell Telephone
Bulletins i
4-HASTE AND IMPATIENcE

The majority of people who use
the telephone are in hurry. They
want to communicate quickly with
some one and the slightest delay
is likely to cause impotence and
irritation. If a busy man waits a
few seconds for a response from
the operator when he is using the
telephone in haste, these seconds
seem like minutes. If he is told
that the line is busy it is likely to
exasperate him. If telephone
users could see the operators at
work while they are calling, or if
they could see how many others
are to be served at the same time,
as in the case of a bank or In q
store, the seconds that seem so
long would pass unnoticed.
Understand, however, our de-
The Delta independent., 1911-09-22
Alfalfa Hay.

Prime quality, first and second
cutting hay for sale in stack or de-
livered. Half-mile from town. Colo
RADIO phone, Garnet 1921.
The Delta independent., 1911-09-22
BUSINESS LOCALS

For Rent-Three furnished rooms
with good piano, 119 Meeker street.
If you are short on fishing tackle
The Howe Furniture Co., are sell
ing their splendid lines at cost to
close out.
For Sale-Good Old Hallet &
Davis Piano. Full size, upright and
in excellent condition, s195. Terms
il desired. Cost $500 new. Denver
Music Co., 336 Main street. If.
Nice dwelling for sale in Delta
part time. Will supply good ten
nant if desired. Inquire of Inde-
pendent.
The school year is near at hand.
If you want a nice little town res
idence, inquire of the Independent.
Model residence, good location,
fine neighborhood, for sale. For
price and terms, apply to this office.
Wanted-1OOO dozen eggs at
20 cents per dozen. Also, We will
give free with each SO cent purchas
or more one collapsable drinking
cup, during the month of August
25 % discount on all underwear for
the remainder of this month. Yours
for the lowest prices, The Delta
Racket Store.
Wanted-Horses to pasture. Ad-
/ dress Haley Ranch. Delta. Colo.
For Rent-Leon Lake or CRANKY
water in large or small amounts
WEIGH a. Merrill.
w. w. Sankey, general contractor
and builder, Delta. Colorado-Colo-
RADIO phone black 400.
Wanted-Horses for pasture.
Good oats and alfalfa meadows. ].
l.. Sprung. Telephone Colorado,
Delta 19l.
Private Family Home board. mod
ern. regular prices. 22l Grand
Money to loan at lowest rates oil
farm and city property. Stephan &
Obert.
Protect your home against fire
by insuring with Stephan & Obert
The Delta independent., 1911-09-22
Inhcritances Net Good Sums
For State of Colorado.

More than SAT, 900 has poured in
to the Golfers of the state treasury
during the past week from the
state inheritance tax. making to-
tai of about $4,000 for the month
of September. to date; 100000 for
this year of which 100000 has bee
cash.
The revenue collected from the
estate of the late friedrich ID. Wight
the Trinidad coal baron who died
in Denver some months ago, assist
ed largely in swelling the amount
collected. The total amount of the
estate is S2,074.670.52. and it is di-
vided between the widow and seven
children. OF this amount. Sl,6Sl, =
319.45 worth of property is locat-
ed in Colorado. With exemptions
the amount of taxable property in
Colorado amounts to 1851, 319 3 4
and the state collects SSl. 0S6.1S.
Wight had holdings of S46.S2l .S5
in New Mexico and So, $50 in the
state of Texas.
The estate of Washington Nc
Clintock. appraised at SSS7,s27,-
65, of which s265,S15.So was tax
able. netted the treasury S5.51l ,62.
The estate is left to three daughtes.
Mrs. Grace Graham, Miss Anna c.
McClintock and Mrs. Norman Brown
e. Tooker.
From the estate of Peter j, Fried
rich, which is estimated Mt more
than s2S0.0 900. the state will receive
about $4,000; from the Eva l..
Gould estate. S2.91+.52' from the
VIM. Deutsh, S3.572.94. and from
The Delta independent., 1911-09-22
IARIATED.

to address labor meeting in one of
the towns of eastern PENNSYLVANIA,
The Delta independent., 1911-09-22
>: THE RAMSAY DRY GOODS CO. e:4.
Right Times to Dig Potatoes.

The potato harvest this fall is
OF unusual Importance on account
OF the injury which the crop has
sustained from blight and drouth
and which will tend to material
ly reduce the yield in many OF our
principal producing sections. A
frequent source of loss in the spud
crop comes from harvesting the tu-
'bers at an immature stage. Those
intended for storage should not
be dug until the vines have been
perfectly dry and dead for a week
or ten days. The tubers should
part readily from the roots and the
skins should be firm and solid.
Spuds harvested before they are
fully ripened will not usually keep
well, because the skin easily slips in
handling, exposing the interior to
the action of the sun and subse-
quently to bacteria which causes de
cay.
Potatoes dug at this stage will
have an unattractiye appear
auce. even if offered for sale i'm
mediately and will not command
| the prices that may be received for
perfectly ripened tubers. 1t
sometimes happens that the vines
are killed by frost instead of rip
ening and drying up naturally.
In this case, perfectly ripened tu-
beers ,sill not be obtained, but the
damage will be materially lessened
if the crop is left in the ground
for a considerable period after the
frost
In our sandy soil, the growers
seldom have any difficulty about
digging the potatoes even if heavy
rains have fallen just previously.
but in the heavy adobe a good
deal of trouble is experienced If
count of the dirt adhering to the
potatoes. This trouble may also
! be experienced in the irrigated sec
lions if the field has been wat
cred too late in the season. 1t is
customary for the best farmer in
our irrigated districts to allow
twenty or thirty days between the
| last irrigation and harvest SO that
the soil will be thoroughly dry and
this difficulty is thus avoided.
When trouble OF this kind can
not be avoided, and the season has
come when the spuds must be dug
in spite of wet soil. the only rem
edy is to let them lie on the sur
face until the sun has thoroughly
dried all the dirt adhering to them
A large part of this will shatter OFF
during the various landings which
will take place between the field
and the ultimate market. The type
of machine which gives the most
uniform satisfactory results is the
one having digging part of one
solid piece. which scoops the po-
tatoes and the soil together upon
an endless chain elevator. This
elevator Sits out all the dirt and
leaves the potatoes in an even row
behind the machine. When work
ing its full capacity it will dig po-
tatoes enough to keep from tit'
teen to eighteen men busy pick
ing them up.
The Delta independent., 1911-09-22
THE GRAND MESA LUMBER co.

and Casey was called on to intro
duce the speaker. He prefaced his
remarks as follows:
Ladies and gentlemen" said
Casey, I'VE have with us this ev-
ening very distinguished gintlemin.
SO much so that the great state OF
Pennsylvania has named three of
its cities after him, namely, Potts
WILLIE Pottsdam and Chambersburg."
The Delta independent., 1911-09-22
Homeseekers Excursion Rates to
Texas and New Points for 1911.

On the first and third Tuesdays
of each month during the entire
year the COLORADO & SOUTHERN
Ry. Will sell round trip homeseekers
excursion tickets to great many
points in Texas and New Mexico
at greatly reduced rates. Final linz
II twenty-five days allowing liberal
stop-over privileges. For detailed
information, rates, etc. call on
your nearest Colorado & Southern
agent or address, T. f. Fisher. Gen
eral Passenger Agent, Denver, Colo.
The Delta independent., 1911-09-22
Cider for Sale.

l am now ready to make cider
VIII do custom work or supply CT
der at 20 cents n gallon. Phone Co
OPP II l.. Colorado Delta 1863. j.
G.. NEFF. st
The Delta independent., 1911-09-22
"Automobile Tourinr Car"

Almost new, completely equipped
and guaranteed o. X. For sale at
half price. Owner leaving must sell
Address Box 156, Montrose. Colo.
The Delta independent., 1911-09-22
For Sale.

Building Tracts with bearing
fruit trees. Twenty-Five foot front
and one hundred in depth. En-
trance from county road on Garnet
mesa, near 10th street. Apply to
Mrs. B. ID. Hummer. Delta, Colo
RADIO. If
The Delta independent., 1911-09-22
Land For Sale.

Eighty acres, 40 improved-S0
acres fruit trees and ten in alfalfa.
On California mesa, l II mile west
of Delta. Call at Perkins Hotel
or 227 Palmer street, Delta. Sw
The Delta independent., 1911-09-22
House for Rent.

from post office. Address p. o
box 2O7, or Colo. phone Garnet 621.
The Delta independent., 1911-09-22
For SalC-Bull.

Deep red. daisy Shorthorn. Fine
individual. Two and a half years
old.
A. F. MAID. Cedar Creek, Colo.