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AT THE THEATERS
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BILLBOARDS
IT IS suggested as a measure of
practical relief that the city
Hhould exclude billboards from
rcrtaln districts. It is to be hoped
It will be possible to esablish definite
legislation against the billboard nui
sance, because billboards add another
to numerous Instance* in which moral
100 or remonstrance is unavail
ing. Those responsible for tho im
pious "art" with which billboards are
decorated and neighborhoods are de
graded arc as well aware as you are,
'i<;ir reader, that their monstrosities
are offending you and thousands of
other citizens. Although aware of th 3
unpopularity of billboards, they have
evinced no disposition or desire to
act in accordance with popular wish,
and remove the boardings and the
caricatures from districts they dis
figure.
Councilman Betkouaki present! a
gnoii argument in favor of anti-bill
buard legislation when he says: "The
city has on Its statute books ordi
nances prohibiting: the location or
maintenance of factories In certain dis
tricts which are established as resi
dence districts. There has been no
Question raised as to tho validity of
legislation of this kind. Billboards
are more of a nuisance than factories.
AVhile factories are absolutely neces
sary for the commercial welfare of a
city, they may bo prevented from en
croaching upon homes. Billboards
Bhoul.l be regulated."
RATES OUTRAGE
AMONG all the Injustices the South
ern Pacific corporation has in
flicted on this community, among
all the oppressive acts of which it
lias been guilty, none has been more
unjust or oppressive than the rates the
railroad has been maintaining for
twenty years between Los Angele3 city
run! the harbor of Greater Los An
-1 geles. The petition prepared by the
secretary of the harbor commission and
filed with the state board of railroad
commissioners shows the people of
Los Angeles are paying for hauling
freight between this city and San
Pedro a rate of over 8 cents per ton
mile. It also shows the average freight
rite on railroads in the United States
for hauls of BO miles Is 11-10 cents, or
11 mills per ton mile, about one-eighth
of the Southern Pacific rate between
Los Angeles and San Pedro. The pe
tition al'o shows the Santa Fa rail
road company hauls freight between
Los Angeles ana San Diego, more than
live times the distance between Los
Angeles and San Pedro, for exactly
the rate charged between Los Angeles
and San Pedro, and at the rate charged
between this city and Ban Diego the
Santa Fe obtains a much higher rate
per ton mile than the average rate
paid railroads throughout the United
States for hauls of that length.
, Justice demands that the Interests,
Industries and manufactures of Great
er Los Angeles receive a square deal
iin rates, and the public expects the
members of the state board of railroad
commissioner* to do their duty with
out fear or f—vor, and In a manner that
will be * above reproach..
THE BRITISH ELECTIONS
THE results of the elections recently
held in Great Britain so distinctly
V evidence the right sort of advance
of that country in the applied science of
government as to afford encouragement
th* world over to people who are inter
ested in endeavoring to force those
most able to bear the burdens of gov
ernment to contribute their share.
Before the budget, which was the
ground of contention In the recent Brit
ish elections, was reported by its au
thor, Lloyd-George, his country led ours
by a good deal in a proper regulation
and adjustment of the burden* of gov
ernment on Its citizens. This is Illus- j
trated by the fact that the revenue
from taxation raised by the British
government for the last year was six
hundred and thirty-live millions of dol
lars, or nearly the same us that raised
by tha United States for the same pe
riod. Of this enormous sum two hun
dred and sixty millions, or 4f) per cent
of the total, was produced by taxing
incomes and estates.
The new or Lloyd-George budget, re
fusal of which by tho house of lords
resulted In the elections Just held In
Great Britain, proposed a decidedly
heavier levy upon both Income, and es
tates. In that budget the death duties,
beginning at 4 per cent on estates of
$20,000, riso to 10 per cent on estates of
$750,000 and 15 per cent on $3,000,000 or
abovo. The tax on earned Incomes be
low 116,000 a year is not changed; above
that amount the levy is nearly 6 per
cent. Yet in the United States, where
there are moro millionaires and richer
millionaires than in any other country
in tho world, and where these vast for
tunes, largely on account of govern
ment favoritism in the form of protec
tion to manufacturers, grants to rail
roads, etc., have been made more easily
than In any other country in the world,
not one cent is contributed to the ex
pense of the national government by
either of the two Items, which, under
the law as it has heretofore existed In
Great Britain, have, contributed more
than one-third of the expenses of the
government, and will, under the Lloyd-
Georgo budget just approved by the
result of the recent election, contribute
still more.
The effort will doubtless be made by
the defenders of wealth and special
privilege in this country to minimize
the result of the recent British elections
by calling attention to the fact that
the Liberal party only elected one more
member of parliament than the Con
servatives, who represent the opposi
tion to the budget. The fact is, how
ever, that thero are two other parties
In Great Britain, the Nationalists and
the Laborites, both of which are as '
much supporters of the budget as are
tho Liberals whose cabinet ministers i
originated It. These parties together i
elected over one hundred members of |
parliament, so that when the new par
liament meets Mr. Lloyd-George will i
find his budget has a majority in the |
house of parliament of more than 100
out, of a membership of something
over 600.
There was also Involved in the recent
elections the question of reforming the
British hereditary legislative chamber,
the house of lords. There seems to be
no doubt that as a result of the elec
tions this reformation will take place,
and when it does occur the result will
certainly be to take away from that
house its power ultimately to obstruct
the legislative program of the house of j
commons, members of which are the ■
direct representative, of the people.
The Lloyd-George budget also In
volved levying heavier taxes upon the
great landed estates of Britain, which
have never to the present time con
tributed anything- like their share In
bearing the burdens of government.
The owners of these landed estates —
principally tho aristocracy—represent,
In their relation to the burdens of gov
ernment heretofore, the millionaire
class of our country. In that they have
managed to prevent their vast accumu
lations of wealth, In the form of lands,
bearing their just share of the burdens
of government, just as our millionaires
manage, through various tricks and
dodges, to escape their just share of the
burdens of our government.
The result In Great Britain furnishes
much encouragement to those reform
ers In this country who are endeavoring
to so change our revenue laws as to im
p,. OS Lest burdens of govern
ment upon the shoulders of those best
able to bear them, and, conversely, to
relieve those least able to bear them,
but who have heretofore borne most of
them.
PROGRESSIVE FRANCE
AS a result of flood distress France
will have an opportunity of put
ting Into practl c various
nomic theories which by all the Eng
lish speaking • countries except New
Zealand are regarded as too "ad
vanced"—l. <- humanitarian— for our
plodding Celto-Saxon civilization.
Judging by the reluctance with which
our government approaches such ques
tions an postal savings bunks, govern
ment employment bureaus, old age
pensions and parcels post one would
think every one of these sensible propo
sitions was dynamically destructive
lv its tendencies and would explode
with great hftvdo an soon as put into
operation.
Our government could not handle
bombs more gingerly than It handles
the propositions mentioned.
Franco baa also given a demonstra
tion of the only effective and business
like method in which to regulate, con
trol or discipline trusts. The method
now being used by France was tried
in Mexico with great success, and al
though Mexico may bo "barbarous," as
alleged, In some respects, there can
be no doubt of the advanced and mas
terly civilisation with which it solved
tho trust problem and prevented a few
exploiters from capturing all the re
■ of the country and pi
them at thair own rates.
While there will be a scarcity of
food supplies in France as a result of
LOS ANGELES HERALD: THURSDAY MOUMM., 11-KIM AKY ... IftlO.
the floods, the government will not
allow any citizen to exploit the peoplo
who must buy tho necessaries of life.
]t will not permit any merchant or
any financier to make or take prollts
from conditions produced by disaster.
In taking this attitude the French
government is carrying out a policy
which was put into effect a few years
ago in Mexico as well as France. When
speculators captured the supply of
grain and bejran raising prices tho
government put grain on the free list
and bc^an to import it in large quan
tities.
The only method of regulating trusts
that has been found to "work like a
charm" not only in France but in
Mexico has been to put ON THE FRE i:
LIST any article made or "controlled"
by a trust.
HORRORS OF WAR
BY far tho most sanguinary, reck
less, atrocious, cruel and deadly
war of modern times was that
waged between the two great civilized
and Christian powers which a few
years ago fought for tho control of
Africa, The newspapers of South
Africa, which t«'lay are being written
by mixed staff" of Boers and Briton.
and are recording marriages, SO per
cent of which »re inter-racial, arc of
course observing a discreet silence with
regard to the war. It is not even re
ferred to «* the la to unpleasantness.
It would hardly do to let a little White
African boy know that his two grand
fathers during several years of their
lives had been Willing and ready to
murder each other at sight.
Tho "great Boor war,"' as Conan
Doyle advisedly calls It with n Cerenco
to its magnitude, which is not cor
rectly appreciated, should have been
tho very lust Of the wars between
civilized peoples. "Enough" should
have been the cry of civilization when
that atrocious chapter In history had
been completed.
A California— has taken the trouble
to collect in a booklet entitled "Real
■War," a number of anecdotes and in
cidents of the civil strife In Africa,
culled from private correspondence of
soldiers In the field or from dispatches
that escaped the eorernment censor
ship.
Every taxpayer in the English speak
ing world should have a copy of "Real
War," which may be obtained f:om W.
C. Allen of Redlancls. Mr, Allen's mo
tive In preparing the booklet is evi
dently patriotic and Christian. Quot
ing the Philadelphia North American,
Mr. Allen writes: "War is a brutal
tragedy <>f shooting and stabbing and
burning of homes, and hideous human
misery and hatreds that survive for
generations."
He add*: "Real war Is a wretchedly
nasty and abhorrent business. It 1?
ever the same, whether practiced by
ourselves or other people. As a sys
tem among civilized peoples It will be
relegated to the past just as soon as
civilization decides to abolish it. Does
not an International court of arbitra
tion offer a far more rational and
Christ-like method of settling differ
ences? Will it not more perfectly pro
mote true honor, morality and peace?
THEN AID SUCH A HUMANE
MOVEMENT, In public or in private,
decry the atrocities, the man-made suf
fering- and dishonor of unholy war."
GEOGRAPHY
NOTHING Is more entertaining,
properly pursued, than Is till
study of geography, it is well to
take a look at the map once In a while,
especially, before committing a geo
graphical opinion to print. Our Re
publican morning contemporary s.iys.
"The term British Isles can properly
Ference only to Scotland, Eng
land and Wales. And yet those coun
tries form hut a single island. It's a
funny term to use." We think the
term Britannic isles was first applied
by the Romans to Hibernla as well as
Britannia. The inscription on the coins
says "Britt." which menus "Brltan
niarum."
There is nothing very romantic about
the term "British isles," or the more
correct term "Britannic islands." The
Britannic islands, Great Britain anJ
Ireland, were co named beeausi m
Romans found tin mines on them.
They were named "the Brltanniae."
At first they consisted o,f Magna
Britannia and Scotia, When the Bcotl
or Scotians emigrated from Ireland to
Scotland the name Scotia was trans
ferred to Scotland. British geography
is nearly as much of a mixed up
puzzle as British politics; so we cor
dially advise all friends who are not
well posted to refrain from expressing
irt" opinions.
In the Brltannlae are not only
Magnat Hi" great or main Island, but
the Orkneys, the Bhetlands, the He
brides, the Isle of Man, the Isle of
Wight, Bute, Arrati. the Cumhraes and
the Channel islands.
We .believe the total number of isl
ands in the Britannic group is upward
of 200, the principal members of which
are Britannia and Hibernia, formerly
called Scotia. So. you see. the term
applied to a large and
thriving family of Islands and it is
not at all a "funny" term to use. On
n trary, it is correct.
To anyone familiar with the fact tha
group of Brlilsh Islands numbers about
200, In which several nationalities, half
a dozen languages and many charac
teristic local customs und costumes
may be found by the interested tourist,
It Is much "bunnier" to see the word
"England," which refers to the south
ern and eastern portion of the island of
Great Britain, applied sometimes to
the United Kingdom, sometimes to the
200 islands and sometimes to the
British empire.
Groundhog day Is out of date In
Lovely i/is Angeles, v.-hero the climate
keeps on the even tenor of its beauti
ful and fascinating way, and doesn't
care a fig for a groundhog or his
shadow. . .
UNEARNED SALARY
ANNA GOULD'S debts in IMI, |6,
--B*o,ooo,
Paid at time of MCond marriage,
13 886,143.60.
Unpaid then $3,114,868,60.
Yearly expenditures now, $_00,000.
Surplus, 1276,8-9.88.
Very few hardworking Americans en
gaged In active business can gain as
much clear profit each year as the
amount of Anna's "surplus." Every
penny of this surplus represents earn
ings. In s>)ite of tonic popular opin
ions which are rather whimsical, money
docs not make money. However, It
earns money. A large sum of money
works for more money.
But the work behind all the work ot
money, and the true value behind all
values, la tho H~JMAN value. T
is no value that is not either created
or brought about by human energy and
human Intellect
■\Vliosp human energy is b< :'.nz use
to produce Anna Gould's vast year
ly surplus? Whose human Intellect
i n aics. for this spendthrift daughter of
a miserly sire tho yearly surplus." value
she calls HERS and scatters?
U. S. NOBILITY
AMERICAN "nobility" is a distinct
ly and decidedly established tact,
and any one who denies this is
making a sad mistake. The Countess
Cornelia Vandarbllt Szeehenyl intro
duces the gilded edge of an old Amer
ican financial and railroad name into
the blue books of Europe, whilo
America receives the honor of another
titlo In one of its first families.
Let the good work go on. Countess
Cornelia Vanderbllt has a high and
mighty sound and a lovely, freo and
independent resonance that somehow
is marred by the proximity of the Bu
ropean name which to the Imaginative
suggests a sneeze spelled phonetically
and embalmed in type.
The count brought his countess wifo
and countess daughter to the United
States to visit their humble American
relatives, the obscure but dollar
marked Vanderbllts, and reporters on
board ship tried to interview tho count
as to Ills plans, but wo arc tjld he
only scowled. The scowl of a Sze
chenyi must indeed have a withering
effect on the Jocund optimism of a New
Tork newspaper man.
The Journalist Jumped overboai-
Wlth horrid, haunting howl.
Another victim ta_ been scored
Ey that S-echenyl scowl. •
Dr. Horace Fletuier finds his doc
trines vindicated oy (alleged) im
provement In th«. health of citizens
who have been .otally abstaining
from meat during: me high-price war.
He has/ been emboldened to say:
"Meat will cense to be eaten In Amer
ica in the next ten years. By contin
ued meat-eating tnfre Is produced a
condition known as auto-intoxication,
which Is akin to alcoholic poisoning
and as fatal in its effects." Remem
ber that, nest time you are making
preparations to auto-Intoxicate your
self with a steak.
President Goode says America has a
right to brag, because in every de
partment of human activity this coun
try excels. According to the profes
sor, the slums of the big cities of the
United States are worse than those of
London or Paris, and Chicago has the
worst slums in America. The slum is
a consequence of a disregard for hu
man lifo and human rights that is
unhappily prevalent in the United
States. A return to the first princi
ples of Americanism will reform the
slums.
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A Pasadena minister has made ar
rangements to edit a newspaper for
one day, in order to show the public
and the newspaper editors What a
newspaper should be. We know sev
eral newspaper editors who would be
willing to occupy the pulpit for one
day, in order to show the ministers
and the people what a Sunday service
and a sermon should be. Why is that
which is sauce for the goose-bird not
also sauce for the gander-bird?
• No citizen who obtains goods on
false pretenses can hope to retain the
respect of his neighbors. What aro
people with normal moral standards
to think of the corporation that by
making unredeemed promises obtained
control of a valuable mercantile site,
and that to every inquiry as to when
the public may expect the promised
station jvhtcb is to supersede the Ar
cade antiquity replies "Manana"'?
A New York instructor in aeronaut
ics proposes the use of aeroplane!
ill rural delivery. The aerial mail
carrten would go from farmhouse ta
farxnhouMi collecting and delivering
mall in all sorts of weather. Eastern
scientists look on the suggestion with
great favor, but the conservative ten
dencies of the government will have
to be overcome before Washington
adopts It.
John Hall, veteran sailor, says he
has been all over the world, but ho
has never seen such beautiful sights
as there arc around IjOS Angeles. Do
you realize this is the most plctur
■ly situated ns well as the most
progressive metropolis in the world?
You do? Then help us to abolish the
billboard nuisance.
There is hardly a modern accident or
disaster for which some human being
is not individually and criminally re
sponsible. This applies to mine disas
ters as well ds railroad accidents. Uv
ary year, many human beings in the
United States ore sacrificed to parsi
mony and greed.
Now that persons who defy the anti
street car smoking ordinance are bo
ms fined, perhaps offenders will begin
to take the ordinance seriously and to
obey It. Hitherto many of them have
behaved as if it were a Joke. What
peculiar Ideas of humor some people
ha,ve. ,
Public Letter Box
TO CORIIESPONDENTK—_»tt«r» Intended
for publication must be accompanied by the
iimm mi- ___reM of the u«i.- »'U- li Aid
give* tuo widest Intltr V to correspondents,
but asaunirs nn responsibility for their view*.
WANTS LEWIS TO COME DOWN
TO THE CONCRETE FACTS
E_SIN( IRE, Pi b, 1. I Editor H< r
aiil|: ay. Scott Lewis in his article of
Januarj 24 seems determined not to
be convinced that United States Steel
, mployi. are not exploited. I will an
swi r his questions.*
First—ls not cevry corporation In
tho world In business primarily for
profit? y
Second Is not this profit prod
by it:; employes? Only partially, as
without the necessary capital the i m
ploye would be valui
Third—Would there be any profit
and could Hi corporation remain in
business if Its employes received full
value of their labor? Yes. There
would be a profit If the laborer re
-1 full value of his work. .This
profit would represent the interest on
the Investod capital In the producing
plant, raw material In sto< h and fin
ished product on hand and unsold.
Without capital labor would be i
tlcally valui li ss, as producing plants
could not be erected without capital,
therefore it must receive recognition
in the profits of the corporation.
Does Mr. Lewis realize that a. large
portion of the i apltal he objei I
pay dividends on lfl money Indirectly
advanced for labor in the manufacture
of machinery, tools and equipment by
■ other corporation with which to
pquip ti!c:<i> mills, the capital on which
Mr, Lewis objects to sec dividends
paid? Labor is a commodity which
has no tixed value and is worth what
ever «it will bring In the market, and
unless capital purchases a man's labor
It would have no value. Capital alone
Is the employer and when it cannot
r ivo a dividend will not be invested.
And I again deny that government
atatistlca are sufficient proof on which
to calculate whether a man is receiv
ing his Just dues or not, as they do
not deduct nor make any allowance
for appropriations for renewals or ad
ditions which are necessary to be
made,
Mr. Lewis is so sure that United
States Steel employes are being ex
ploited, would it not be more to tho
point if he would tell us what these
employes receive weekly or monthly in
Wages, and what. In his estimation,
they should receive to obtain full
value of their labor, and what divi
dend should Invested capital receive.
Let him come down to facts. T. H.
ANOTHER EPISTLE ADDED
IN BIBLICAL DISCUSSION
LOS ANGELES, J~n. 28.—[Editor
Herald]: In explaining Matt, xxiv In
yesterday's Letter Box James T. Irwin
does not attempt to juggle with the
meaning of "this generation," but
claims that the "end of the world"
simply meant the end of the "Mosaic
age," marked by the destruction of
.I* rusalem.
He says the destruction of the earth
i* nowhere considered in the Bible.
How about verse SI: "Heaven and
earth Khali puss away." Als,i see
11 Peter, 111:10, etc., ad lib. He refers
to "Heb. 1x:26, where it is said the
sacrifice of (.'hrist occurred "In the
end of the world" —surely not meaning
when tho earth was being destroyed."
Whether Paul meant the literal de
struction of tho earth or not is imma
terial, but he certainly did mean the
end in the sense of the final Judgment,
for he believed that he himself was
living "in the end of the world." No
one can deny that Paul and tho other
apostles and disciples believed "the
time was short" till "the end of all
things." (I Cor. \ii:23; I Pet. iy:T; 1
John ii:ls. etc.) How the Christian
world can continue to regard them as
divinely inspired when time has proved
them to have been bo radically wrong
on almost the only Important point
susceptible of proof l cannot under
stand. Read I Thesa lv:16-17: "For the
i.urd himself shall descend from
heaven, and the dead in Christ shall
rise first; then we who are alive shall
be caught up with them in the clouds
to meet the Lord in the air." Does
that sound like the end of the Mosaic
age? Did anything like that (literal
ly or figuratively) happen at the de
struction of Jerusalem?
Returning to Matthew, read verse "0:
", • • • And then shall all the
tribes ol the earth mourn." Did they,
at the end of the Mosaic age or de
struction of Jerusalem Pshaw) Not
one man In a million living then knew
Whether Jerusalem was a. city or a
breakfast food, or cared a rap whether
it was destroyed or not. Verse 31:
"And he Shall' send his angels, and
*Jiey shall gather his elect from the
lour winds, from one end of heaven
to the other." Does that sound like
anything that happened at the "con
sutnmation Of the -Mosaic age?"
These various explanations offered
by J. H. Kitts, James T. Irwin et al.
are simply makeshifts, it seems to me,
which never occurred to any one un
til something of the kind became im
perative by reason or the passing of
the then present generation. The rea
son they disagree among themselves
about verse 34 is that they are all un
consciously trying to dodge the obvious
meaning. Bach one can see the falla
cies cif the other's explanations, but
not hi' Ins own. If Mr. Irwin had
turned up in Jerusalem along about
A. 1). Till with a. copy of the "revised
version" under each arm and had
button-holed Mci Bra, Poter, James and
John et al., and attempted to point out
to them What they really meant in
this chapter according to the margin
Of said version, they would have fallen
upon him as i.ji ■ man, smitten him
hip ami thigh, and left him in a dazed
condition on the doorstep of the An
anias club's Jerusalem headquarters.
This language is figurative.
THOMA 5.
ABRUPT CHANGE FROM MEAT
TCT VEGETABLES INJURIOUS
LOS ANGELES, Jan. Sl.— [Editor
Herald]: The Herald's editorial in a
recent Issue, "Anti-Trust Movement 1,"
is highly, edifying and commendable
to all readers In these days, inviting
at the same time practical suggestions
on how to do without meat. There
can bo no doubt that a lasting bene
lit will be achieved by the people In
restricting at least the use of meat,
whether that be done merely to spite
the trusts or to save one's own money
for better purposes. The three square
meals a day Is a gluttlnous habit of
the times when meat was cheaper
than any other food and easier and
more quickly prepared in the strenu
ous times of frontier life. The human
stomach is an unfathomable sink be
cause of Us waste, and It is the dev
il's agent for causing nearly all tho
troubles that beset mankind.
At the present day. the conditions
having changed, the people must
change with them; but sudden and
violent change from the one to the
other extreme may prove abortive of
Its intent, and therefore should be
gradually effected.
A vegetable diet can safely be com-
The Smithsonian Institution
Frederic J. Haskin
(jßi»mJ»Milli:.V JAMES SMITHSON
■>"»AT£l El wrote his will making a
||g I bequest ,1' a half-million
1 H \A Bj| dollars for the founding of
gy/skjLfS| an institution for "the in-
BS««E»g>«31 crease and diffusion lot
know li among men," he
builded better than he knew. He had
become disgusted with his titles, which
profited him nothing, and declared thai
he would make his name remembered
when all his relatives were forgotten.
Perhaps never in history has a half
mllllon dollars yielded such splendid
returns as that with whlcn Smlthson
endowed the Institution thai bears his
name. Prom the time that it was es
tablished this organization lias led the
scientific thought of the new world. It
has been America's lookout upon the
watch towers Of science,
When American science was in Its
swaddling clothes the Smithsonian In
stitution was. its wet nurse. In the
early days of the country men were so
intent upon forest conquering and em
pire building that they bad little in
clination and less opportunity for
scientific thought or original research.
But the Smithsonian toon the neg
lected infant. Into its care and nour
ished it until today American science
Is respected throughout the world. The
institution also assisted materially in
the advancement of the arts, Its first
secretary, Joseph Henry, constructed
tin' earliest electro-magnetic telegraph
and laid the foundations of the art of
electrical transmission through which
Morse gave to civilization the telegraph
and Bell the telephone.
• • •
- The science of meteorology, had Its
beginnings at the institution and the
world's first weather map was pub
lished there. Its second secretary,
Spencer I. Baird, practieully estab
lished the science of fish culture and
organized the United States fish com
mission, Its third secretary, Professor
Langley, gathered the data upon which
is based the budding science of aero
nautics. These are only examples of
the many things the Institution has
done In carrying out its founder's pur
pose—"the Increase and diffusion of
knowledge among men."
The work of the astrophyslcal ob
servatory constitutes one of the most
Interesting phases of the activities of
the institution. While its labors are
highly technical and the world may
wonder how such a thing as the stud}
of "solar constants" can affect its
everyday life, it Is likely that discov
eries affecting the welfare of every
human being may yet grow out of its
researches. While science has been
able to predict eclipses, moon changes
and other celestial phenomena, with
minute accuracy, it has never been
able to forecast the weather for more
than a few days, and it cannot tell
whether the sky will be cloudless or
overcast even a feu- hours in advance.
• • •
It was a favorite theory of'the late
Professor Langley that tin- sun does
not throw out a uniform heat and that
the variations in its production of heat
have an intimate relation to changes
in the weather. He believed that he
could prove his theory that the sun
sometimes loafs on its job. Having
proved his inference that there are
fluctuations in the heat of the sun, he
set about to determine the laws of this
variation, believing that with theses
causes discovered he could make a long
range forecast of the weather as ac
curately as the astronomer forecasts
the changes of the moon. Professor
Langley died in the midst of this work,
but it 'has been taken up by his as
sistant, Director Abbot. Through his
bolometers and pyrheliometers. meas
uring the hundredth-millionth of a de
gree of temperature and doing other
things no less remarkable, Mr. Abbot
has obtained a fair understanding or
the habits of Old Sol and hopes to
reach the point where he can establish
the laws of these changes.
Think what benellts would result if
Director Abbot should be able -to estab
lish the Langley theory! The farmer
could know in advance what the season
was going to be. If a wet season were
assured ha could plant a crop requir
ing plenty of moisture, and if a dry
season were Indicated he could plant
a crop unaffected by dry weather. The
ocean voyager could time his comings
and goings so as to escape the storms
of the sea. The big fairs and other
open-air meetings could plan the r pro
grams so as to escape inclement
weather A thousand advantages
would come to man through accurate
long range weather forecasting. Of
course Director Abbot is making no
positive promise that he will, be abe
to accomplish these things, but he a
assured that there will be results im
portant only in^a less g degree.
Various other original investigations
are being made under the direct super
vision of the Smithsonian institution.
Tie researches of the bureau of ethnol-
menced with some fat, oil or fish un
til the system gets used to it. you
cannot fry potatoes without fat. Many
.sioloßißts hold that fat Is indta
mmniible to the human body—that
Sfuct meat is Injurious is well known
and is especially noticeable In the
'Tnofhe 0/ ftfifobservable In ani
mal" Tho herbivorous develop mus
"e and enormous, strength, and are
therefore good for work, for human
food and great uses, whilst the car
nivorous are not muscle builders* nor
are they tit for work or human Rood.
There is a lesson to workers. Will
they heed It? Another comparison may
be n»de likening the trusts to the
caiUvorous that are feeding on the
muscles of the workers. >-• * •
VACCINATION TERMED
RESULT OF FANATIC FAITH
LOS ANGELES, .Jan. »^J««t«
Herald]: Public opinion la hard to
educate-yet still harder to uneducate,
for, as Moore said:
Faith, faniasr ■ faith, once wedded fast
To -,„.• dear taliehood, hugs It to tin last.
I for one, heartily thank The Herald
for opening its columns to the agita
tion of all these vital questions,
though some of the articles may be of
questionable ' value religiously. Good
and truthful are the letters from Mrs.
Bobleski and J. W. McKlnnon. relat
in" to vaccination in England. Com
pulsory vaccination Jim also been
abolished In Norway, Sweden, Holland.
Switzerland, Australia and New Zea
land-wish I might add these en
lightened (?) United States!
Let the people but thoroughly In
vestigate this "vaccine virus" oper
andt and wo will abolish the whole
beastly business. '
What is vaccine virus? Webster
defines it as "contagious matter of an
ulcer poison." Dungllson's Medical
Dictionary says: "Smallpox occurs at
times as an epidemic after vaccina
tion." I should think it would] To
think of putting a virus poison into
the pure blood of a healthy child or
person is certainly very dangerous; to
put the added septic poisons gener
ated by the vaccine virus cultures of
the animal—either brute or ,human,
through which II passes, Is terrible!
Can any test be applied by which a
ogy have done a great work In pre
serving for the future the BOngs, cus
toms and traditions of the first true
American—the Indian. This bureau
has collected lata concerning sixty
ilstlc stocks and upward of 'MO
tTlbes of Indians, it is publishing a
handbook on the Indian, treating the
Subjects d' all With only in broad out
line, other handbooks, dealing with
his mere Important activities, are In
course <.f preparation. The first is the
handbook of languages, In two vol
umes. The arts and Industries are also
being treated In separate volumes, and
handbooks concerning religion, folk
lore, government, pathology and medi
cine are in pros] ect.
The Roosevelt expedition to Africa
bears a peculiar relation to the Smlth
.l. while officially the expedition
la under the auspices of the institution,
not a dollar of Its expenses is being
i i by that organization. The financ
ing "f the expedition is being paid by
"friends of the Institution." That it
lias been successful In gathering much
new zoological Information Is vouched
tor by Secretary Walcott, and the force
of taxldi rmists and otho r experts at
tin- institution will bo kept busy for
months to come In mounting the spec
imens that liuvo been arriving from
Mombassa.
It would make a long story to relate
the details of all the investigations be
in.: mud.' direct' - or indirectly through
the Smithsonian IfisMtution. They
covei nearly every lield of human
knowledge, Uiough in many cases tho
funda at its disposal, limit the rango
of the work. Two years ago it offered
a prise of $1600, for the best ossay on
tin relation or atmospheric air to tu
. and eighty-one papers on
■ subject were entered in tho con
test. These papers represent the best
thought of the day on tuberculosis and
form, a valuable contribution to medi
cal literature. < -her Investigations and
studies are stimulated by the offering
of prizes.
Useful ;ia the Smithsonian has been
in the ] aat its officials are anxious to
Increase its value in the future. Sec
retary Walcoti declares that the insti
tution is peculiarly well fitted to or
ganize and supervise investigations and
explorations on which the income of
$20,000,000 • -Id be expended wisely and
i it. . tlvely. He .says that the activ
ities of the Institution are not limited
to investigations in the fields of science
and art, !m t that historical and ethnol
ogical researches, and statistical in-
QUlriei with reference to physical,
moral and political subeets are also
within its province.
Tin; secretary sees great need for a
fearless, thorough, scientific study of
the elements entering into the race
problems of the Americas. He feels
that until '*c fundamental tendencies
of the differing races are intelligently
understood, not only by the few but.
by the many, a practical understand
ing of threatening social conditions is
impossible. Ethnology, anthropology.
psychology, preventive medieino and
education are pome of the tools that
must be used in shaping the national,
community and individual life of th"
future. The national gallery t." art,
which is under the control of the
Smithsonian, is expected to form the
nucleus of what may become Amer
ica's foremost art collection.
• « a
In the diffusion of knowledge the in
stitution has been no less successful
than in the increase thereof. It was
recognized by Smithson that there
should bo a sort of international clear
ing house of knowledge, where the
progress of each individual and of
eiu-h nation could lie given to the
world. Therefore his bequest was as
much for the "diffusion of knowledge"
as it was for investigation. Through
the Smithsonian international exchange
service wonderful publicity has been
given to the researches and investiga
tions that have proved of value to the
race. Through this service the United
States exchanges sets of all govern
ment documents with the other princi
pal countries of the world, and partial
gets with other countries. This In
cludes all of the scientific papers pub
lished. In addition it serves as a med
ium of exchange between all of the
colleges, universities, learned societies
and institutions of the United States
and those of foreign countries. The
Smithsonian contributions to knowl
edge are monographs dealing with pos
itive lessons learned from original re
search, and hundreds of these pamph
lets go out in every mail to people in
terested in scientific subsets. Last year
it handled nearly a quarter million
packages, weighing approximately a
half million pounds. The service has
more than sixty thousand correspond
ents.
Tomorrow—The I.fatlier Industry.
"vaccine point" may be harmless or
harmful? Prof. E. M. Crookshank, M.
B M. R. C. S., Kings college, London,
England, .says there is not. Dr. F. W.
Newman, emeritus professor, also of
I.Oulon, sent this message to the New
York legislature, pending compulsory
vaccination: "To attack a healthy
child under pretense of public health
is tyrannical usurpation which no
medical theory can defend." In view
of-the voluminous facts giving dam
aging evidence against compulsory
'nation, Is it not time a fanatic
faith In its practice wai abolished?
Why not give as urgent attention to
perfect sanitation, good fooda, pure
air and the comforts of life to our
. nildren, making thorn immune to all
diseases, for good health is a protec
pi>n that the poison pus of vaccine
virus destroys.
Yours for health for all.
F. W. FOX.
says fault lies with
law, not With judges
PASADENA, Jan. 29.—[Editor Her
ald |: There are always two Rides to a
question, We often hear it said: "Well,
if we put a gooil judge in office he will
■oon lie bought over by the trusts."
Now, I do not believe that is so. If a
ami linds the law is just in opposition
will be true to the law in every case.
If a judge, comes up against a case
and finds the low is just in opposition
to his convlcUOM of right, he has n<>
light to change the law or go against
the law. He must stick to tho law
and go against his own convictions.
So, if wo want judges to decide In
favor of the people, we must have laws
to protect the people. It will da no
uood to elect new judges; the only
remedy is to make sew laws.
A. E, W.
ONLY AN INCIDENT
"How about your cook? When I «aw yaw
last month you were quito dlssatlsllcd with
'"■■Wan It" responded the hostess wearily.
•Tva been dissatisfied with flvo or aix cooks
since then."— Loulsvillo Courier-Journal.
NO USE
"This popular fiction Is all both. In rial lift
tin, firl'l father seldom objects to the roan of
her choice."
••you 1™ wrong there. Ho "Men übject*. but
he's usually too wise to say anything."—
vllle Courier-Journal.
