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Be home from your beach outing by
midnight. No owl cars, remember.
instead of giving Clerk -Wilde thirty
days, it should have been twenty-three
for him.
Mathews may evade the machine's
caucus but that. won't free him from
the machine's clutches.
John D. arrives today. The price
of oil goes up tomorrow. Must pay
for that European trip— see?
: , It's a queer city that is too chronically
poor to do anything but raise salaries
all around 1 just before election. '
Bo Governor Pardee stands on hiß
record, eh? What a hard time he must
have, trying, to keep his balance!
Russell . Bage did not bequeath a
penny to charity. Why should he?
Charity never did anything for him.
'After all, 1 Dowie doesn't .own Zlon;
it's a. trust. ; Dowle seems to have been
a falser prophet even than was sup
posed.
Dr. C. J. K. Jones has passed the sec
ond examination for his special posi
tion in the public library without losing
an initial. *
Conditions In South Africa may be
pretty bad, but that hardly justifies
Ruyard Kipling In writing bad verse
about them.
Will Roosevelt kindly send a medal
to that Nashville black mammy who
lived up to his tenets by bringing into
the world six pickaninnies In one litter?
The Texas Democrats will elect every
state officer today. True, it's only a
primary election, but when the Texas
Democrats hold a primary, the jig is up.
That express clerk who bid for IS,-
100,000 Panama bonds on a "shoestring"
J j| and sold out for $37,000 must have been
: taking lessons from T. C. Platt, his
4 boss. ■ .
.. If his "record" is Governor Pardee's
. sole claim for another term as govern
or, he may as well pick out his future
home, and begin moving from Sacra
mento.
"Whether the Republican convention
lasts six or four days' is a matter of
wonder. With the machine In such
perfect control, one hour, one minute
in fact, ought amply to suffice.
The Kussians won't strike Just yet.
Evidently they think the czar Is about
as badly scared right now as any one
.man can be and live, and they'll save
the strike for a fresh Jolt later on.
It is to be hoped none of those tags
on Columbia river salmon will by ac
cident get into a can and cause doubt
to be thrown upon about the only
tinned article of diet left above sus
picion.
■ Even though chocolate creams are
made in unhealthy places and one's
best girl takes a sudden dislike to them,
this isn't going to worry the man who
Is used to keeping up her supply of
the dainties.
> Our old trust Idols are toppling off
their pedestals. It's the American Sugar
I Refining company now, indicted In New
York for rebating on sugar. Slowly
I! but surely the common people are com
ing into a portion of their own. and not
many years will elapse ere the trusts
will all be down to a reasonable trails.
. Deputy Labor Commissioner Eahle
t man of San Franclscq finds that some of
! our restaurant* are unsanitary In the
'.. cooking. and preparation departments.
!; One by. one our chances for enjoying a
.. healthful and an appetizing dinner are
. departing. .It used to be that ( "where
■ Ignorance. was bliss It Were folly to be
wj»e." but science) and sanitation are
■making terrible Inroads on the human
t ■ appetite. •■
CIVIC BUSINESS TRAVESTY
Wouldn't It be a pretty good thing
for Clrr Cl«rk LetAnde and Ma force, as
well as for the municipality at large,
to Invent some sort of system or
method of handling the city purchases
and keeping the city books which
would prevent "mistakes'* like tho»«
now agitating the council?
If a deputy city clerk can. Inadver
tently or carelessly, overpay one firm
100 per cent for oil, and. if tona of saw
dust can b« bought and not delivered,
and only the honesty of the sellers re
veal the situation, 'what's to prevent
Intentional actions of the same sort?
Who Is t» say that hundreds of slmU
Inr Instances have not occurred, where
in the sellers have pocketed the sur
plus and said nothing, while the city
has been out hundreds of dollars? •
What would be thought of a business
house, from a great wholesale concern
down to n peanut stand, whose proprie
tor could go on, month after month,
paying twice his contract price for his
goods, and never be the wiser, unless
his seller Informed him of the fact*
How long would his business last on
that bnsls? • ■ ,
The man In business knows just what
things cost him, and he spends no time
whatever In overpaying, either. Tet
the city of Los Angeles, which does
much more business In the . aggregate
than any concern In It. goes on, month
after month, paying 100 per cent more
for Itn supplies than Hs written con
tracts warrant, when the contracts are
right in Its hands, ready for examina
tion.
Isn't It silly? Isn't it unbusinesslike?
Tet It need never have been. The
same intelligence displayed In keeping
the city's books, In operating the city's
business. In handling the city's finances,
would obviate such fool errors.
The trouble Is that the city's business
Is not run on business principles, along
business lines or by business men. It
Is run by a lot of politicians, for the
benefit of themselves, their frlenda and
their owners. It Is operated, not In
the interests of Its stockholders— the
people generally— but for the private
profit of "the machine." There are
some honorable exceptions to the rule,
but they are scarce.
In ordinary business, when men
make such fool blunders as those herein
enumerated, be they office boys or di
rectors, they are ousted, and clean,
bright, clever and honest men are in
stalled by ( the stockholders. That is
what Los Angeles should do. It has
Its chance tBIs coming election. The
non-partisan municipal movement is
an action by a body of the stockhold
ers in Los Angeles to "clean house": to
eliminate the machine and all its hire
lings and to restore the business gov
ernment of Los Angeles Into the hands
of the stockholders — the people at
large.
The need for this is plainly shown;
the way to secure It is equally plain.
The stockholders have ample power to
act and to achieve the results bo much
desired. It is "up to" the stockholders
—the people of Los Angeles. Will they
take action and through the Independ
ent movement smash and throw out the
machine? Or will they bow to the usual
hocus-pocus and again install the same
old gang?
FORESIGHT AND SHORTSIGHT
The park commissioners seem averse
to accepting gifts of land to the city
for park purposes. The reason, as ex
pressed by one of them, is this: "We
are asked to accept 'waste lands which,
when improved by the city,- would more
than double the value of the remainder
of the tract." The specific proposition
to which this objection Is made comes
from the Ninth ward, which is notice
ably deficient In park equipment.
The objection quoted above, concern
ing; the acceptance of lands for park
purposes, Is illogical. The girt of it is
the idea that the city should not be
adorned with more parks because park
making enhances the value of pon
tlguous property. Such enhancement of
property value certainly does result
from park making, but is not the city
a large gainer by the consequent In
crease In tax assessments?
A case In point precisely similar to
the one which called forth the quoted
opinion was presented about a dozen
years ago. A proposition was made by
certain public spirited citizens to give
the city the land which is now the site
of beautiful Hollenbeck park. The short
sighted objection was raised by some In
dividuals that the park project would
only enhance the value of other property
owned, by the donors. Today the city's
assessments on property within a half
mile radius of Hollenbeck park aver
age, probably, not less than ten times
the figures assessed when the park site
was given to the city.
In the efforts recently made toward
rectifying mistakes In laying out Los
Angeles, nothing more regretful has
been encountered than the early omis
sion to provide small parks— breathing
places— at suitable points in relatively
close-in districts. "What a pity that
land wan not secured for such purposes
whf« It could have been 'bought for a
song!' " is the sal reflection now. But
the opportunity was allowed to pass,
and visitors from progressive cities
abroad wonder at the oversight.
The oversight that we sadly look
backward to now is recrudeseent in the
short-sight of refusing to accept prop
erty for park purposes that will be
needed in the near future. The park
commissioners are under no obligation
to Improve nuch property until flnan.
clal conditions warrant the expense.
It requires no special foresight to see
that it will be a mistake not to accept
the proffer now pending, which would
pave the way for a needful breathing
place in a section that soon will be
covered with homes.
Luther Brown Is developing qualities
as a humorist ! which even his c.losest
friends did not suspect. He has offered
to see that all the friends of Mr. Math
ews get to the polls on election day, If
Mr. Mathewa will furnish him a lint of
them.', ifeii't he kind? Nice Mr. Brown!
But of such arm the smooth and -oily
cogs of the Republican machine.
LOS ANGELE3 HERALD? SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 28, 1906.
LOS ANGELES* ONE NEED
Th« return of Mr. Ituntlngton from
the east Is particularly welcomed at
this time, not only because of his an
nouncement that he expects to spend a
million dollars a month for the n«xt
twelve months in the extension and
Improvement of the Loa Angeles street
rajlway lines, but because he can be
a galn r addressed on the subject of owl
cars.
The entire city Is clamoring for a
system of lAte cars, such at Is In profit
able operation In every city laying any
sort of claim to being metropolitan.
Los Angeles rightfully boasts that It
has the finest electric street car system
In the world— the most universal, far
reaching, rapid and best managed. Bift
It lacks theone feature of late car ser
vice that would make- Los Angeles a
great city, and we cannot Impress
upon visitors that Los Angoles is a
great city until we get the late car
system.
Mr. Huntlngton Is quoted ns having
said that the power cost of owl cars
would be somewhere near the power
cost of the regular cars. It seems Im
probable that Mr. Huntlngton ever said
anything of the kind, for the merest
tyro In electrical knowledge knows that
two cars will "cat up" twice the power
of one car. The boiler cost may bo the
same, but there would be a large dif
ference In the amount of power neces
sary to be generated.
But suppose Mr. Huntlngton will not
make •' a cent on the proposition. In
time he will not lose, and he owes to
the people of Los Angeles such a ser
vice as the owl car system would give.
As a matter of fact, In a short tlmi
following the regular running of owl
cars every beach town and city would
have an Increased patronage, people
would buy property farther out and
travel would Increase on all the lines.
Will Mr. Huntlngton add to his many
evidences of faith in Los Angeles by
proceeding to put this city on the map
as a real city?
Democrats are amused, and likewise
edified, at the coolness and audacity
with which the Republican machine of
Los Angeles county is proceeding to
renomlnate Congressman McLachlan.
The rank and file of the party hasn't
a ghost of a show to express its real
sentiments. The machine turns its own
crank and all the cogs fit together like
paper on the wall.
The fact that the Republican conven
tion, sitting In Venice, will require only
four instead of the usual six days,
moves one to wish that the next one
may be held in Catallna, when one
day might be enough.
City Attorney Mathews should b«
fully prepared for everything that the
"grand old party of Lincoln and Grant"
will do to him. The Republican ma
chine is in good working order, as
usual.
The nephews and nieces of Russell
Sage ought to gratefully receive their
$25,000 each and let It go at that. It's
more money than most of them ever
saw in their lives.
Why doesn't City Attorney Mathews
submit his name to the non-partisan
movement? He might stand some show
of nomination from that quarter.
PROCLAMATION EDITION
Tomorrow (Sunday) The Herald
will print and publish its "PROCLA
MATION EDITION," for which special
articles and advertisements havn been
in process of accumulation for several
weeks. It Is designated "Proclamation
Edition" because Its leading feature
will be a certificate by well known citi
zens, -over their facsimile signatures,
that the great disaster at San Fran
cisco has had no injurious effect upon
Los Angeles and that this city is de
veloping and Is more prosperous than
ever before. The edition will contain
a vast fund of entertaining facts and
figures showing the city's tremendous
growth and the splendid enterprises in
hand that make substantial and per
manent this great metropolis.
Tomorrow's Herald, therefore. In
addition to Its regular features of news
and special articles, will have several
sections devoted particularly to Los
Angeles and Southern California, and
will be one of the finest and most
valuable documents published on be
h-lf of the city.
Orders have "been received for many
thousands of copied of the Herald's
"Proclamation Edition," and advertls
ments have crowded closo upon the
limit. Hence the necessity lof this
public notice to all who are interested
that If they desire extra copies they
should file their orders at once. Those
who wish to insert adevrtlsements
must present their applications 'without
delay, as only a few more can be re
ceived. ;
GYPSY WOMAN PROSECUTES
Two Men Alleged to Have Assaulted
Her Near Eastlake
Park
Saying that two men, Steve and Joe
Adams, had attempted to rob her of $500
and then after they had failed struck
her husband with an ax. Mrs. Marie
Thompson, a gypsy who has been living
near Eastlake piirk. went to the central
pollee station yesterday afternoon and
tried to' get out a warrant for the ar
rest of the two alleged assaulters.
After listening to the gypsy explana*
tlon of the affair, City Prosecutor Beebe
told the gypsy woman to leave town
and to take with her If possible the en
tire contingent of gypsy settlers at
KiiHtlako park.
According to the story told by one of
the friends of the gypsy woman the
Adam* brothers had been disappointed
In a love affair and vowed vengeance.
Other friends. of i the Thompson wo
man corroborate the story about the ut
tempted hold up.
Exhlbt Rebels' Heads
By A»»oclat«d Press.
LONDON- July 27.— A dispatch to a
news agency from Tangier, Morocco,
says that a *erlou» all day long engage,
ment his occurred near Muluya, and
that the pretender's forces were com
plttely routed with heavy loss by the
sultan's troops, who afterward paraded
the district with rebeli 1 heads stuck on
their bayonets as trophies. of the vic
tory.*' •■. .. , • ■ ,*,.■ .
»SJ»WBll»k O»., 'I'Mlgfal
■ The Consolidated <innK of j<n* An
geUs. 124 Houih liro.i'jwuy. in "the
Chamber of Comment bullcUnar, will ba
open tonight. a» usual, to accommodate
the public in (general and lta eld nai
run*, four -per cent Interval ptld on
invtngl deposits. -
COUNCILMEN ARE
READY TO FIGHT
KERN AND HOUGHTON ENGAGE
IN HOT DEBATE
Trouble Arises Over Question of Pur.
chasing Lot In Vernon District
to Ba Used for Engine
. i House
At a dpeclnl meeting of the city coun
cil yesterday afternoon It was decided
to advertise for the purchase of a lot
on Fifty-second street between Hooper
and Central avenuos, as a site for the
new engine house for the Vernon dis
trict ns was decided ot the city coun
cil last Monday afternoon.
Through the efforts of Councilman
Houghton yesterday morning the ques
tion of approval of a site for. the pro
posed engine house was brought before
the board of fire, commissioners.
At the meeting of the fire commis
sioners Councilman Hoiighton stated
that Chief Lips had expressed his satis
faction with the site that had been se
lected by several Vernon residents and
which was considered the most cen
trnlly located In tho Vernon district.
Mayor McAleeY Immediately turned
to Chief Lips who was Beated beside
him and asked If he had personally
seen the lot proposed' by Councilman
Houghton.
Chief Llpa replied that he had not.
Before 'the meeting had reached a
close Chief Lips was Instructed to ac
company Councilman Houghton to the
proposed lot and the two left tho city
hall together.
Action Delayed
At the special mooting of the city
council yesterday afternoon Council
man Kern opposed the motion on the
part of C6uncllman Houghton and for
several minutes the, action of the city
council was delayed.
Councilmen Healy and' Kern voted to
not ndvm-tlse for bids for purchase ot
property on Fifty-second street as a
suitable site for the proposed engine
house.
As Chief L,lps had been Instructed in
the earlier part of the day to make a
report to the council on his opinion of
the site for the engine house, the ab
sence of this report caused still fur
ther delay. Councilman Healy wanted
to Bee the report of the chief before he
would vote in favor of the acceptance
of the plans suggested by Councilman
Houghton.
Chief Lips was sent for but failed to
appear and after several minutes of
petitioning on the part of residents
from Vernon Councilman Healy
changed his vote, making it 6 to 1 in
favor of carrying out the plans sug
gested by Councilman Houghton In his
motion.
Have Wordy War
During the agitation of the question
before the council Councilmen Kern
and Houghton passed several stinging
remarks to each other. -
"Any man that will deliberately stand
In the way of protection to life and
property of residents In Vernon Is not
worthy of the respect of a decent citi
zen," said Councilman Houghton,- "and
I'll go down Into his ward and defeat
I him." ._ - „ .
Councilman Kern was immediately
upon his feet -and Invited Councilman
Houghton to. visit him In his ward.
! "I'll be glad to meet Councilman
Houghton in my ward any time he has
time to come around. I nearly ihad to
go to jail a short time ago for him and
I am willing to do so again."
"Keep ' your . temper, gentlemen,"
called President Bummerland of the
city council. /
For a while it was believed that a
vote of five to two would carry Coun
cilman Houghton's motion. But It won
disputed and the city attorney was
called in to settle the question. The
latter decided that it would require a
vote of six in favor to carry the motion,
whereupon Councilman Healy changed
his vote.
PAVEMENT SINKS
ON BBOADWAY
Seepage of the Water Company's
Mains, Which Are Quite Old, la
Thought to Be the Cause
of the Trouble
Street department officials are trou
bled over a number of sinkings of the
pavement on Broadway In the heart
of the business district. '
Since last Saturday afternoon there
have been two serious sinkings of the
pavement over an area of several
square feet. In one Instance which
came to the notice of the street depart
ment yesterday afternoon serious re
sults were narrowly averted. The cause
of the cracking and falling 1 of the pave
ment Is attributed to the, seepage of the
water company's mains. V-t",
Lawt Saturday night the patrolman
on tin; beat which Includes the corners
at the Intersection nf South Uroadway
and West Third street came Into the
ofTlee of the street department and re
ported that several square feet of the
pavement at the corner of West Third
street and Broadway had sunk much
below the the level of Lob Angeles'
main thoroughfare.
On Investigation by one of the depu
ties from the street department It was
found that for several feet from the
center of the sink the pavement had
been cracked and that the undar por
tion of the street was watersoaked by
the lea kings from one of the water
company's mains.
Hone Is Thrown Down '
A portion of the pavement at the cor
ner of South Broadway and West Sec
ond street sunk below the level of the
street yesterday afternoon. A horse
hitched to a wagon standing on the
pavement at tli« time fell Down and a
runaway, at a time of the day when
life us well as property would have
been Jeopardised wiis narrowly averted,
ThA sink lit the corner of South
Broadway and West Third street lust
Saturday nlgbt was discovered about
10 o'clock by a patrolman who'll de
tailed In that vicinity. The . officer
promptly notltied the street department
and men were at onpe, put to work re*
pairing the damage,
A deputy. In the office of the street
department stated yesterday that tho
leaking of the water company's mains
was responsible for the stoking of the
pavement. No blsme Is attached to the
water company, as the muliw In th«
mentioned portions are quite old and
are naturally not as -water . tight as
they should be. • ;
To the. credit of • the^- water company
the street department ottuiula say that
immediately upon notice of the damuge
to the Htreets they, have sent out men
to attend to the leaking pipe*. Tim
dltcoverlea of the past few days may
result In a general repair of the water
mains In the downtown district. .
LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS
SHOW GREAT GROWTH
County Superintendent Keppel in His Annual
lieport Makes Recommendations Looking -to
Retention of Present High Standard
Murk Keppet, county superintendent
of schools, has completed his Annual
report ami yesterday he forwarded the
document to State Superintendent Kirk.
Mr. Kcppol and his associates have
been at work on this report for sev
eral days, and they have i prepared
an exhaustive showing of publlo school
conditions In Los Angeles county.
The statistics Include the usual school
census figures, recefpts and expendi
tures for the lust year-, trie valuation
of school property, and much other de
tailed Information of a similar nature.
In. commenting on existing; conditions
In thin county, Superintendent Ker>pel
calls attention to the rapid growth of
the public school system and points out
several needs which he declares nro
Imperative nnd must be realized If the
present high school standard of effi
ciency In to be maintained.
Recommends Free Textbooks
Among: other things ho. urges that
frre textbooks be provided, nnd he
taken tho position that education can
not really be free so long as 'the pa
trons of the schools are compelled to
stand this expense. .
Ho also recommends that the course
of Instruction In tho normal schools
be widened so that a graduate may
be entitled to a certificate to teach his
particular line of "work in any school
In the state. The report is ns fol
lows: . .
"Los Angeles county comprises 145
Independent common school districts,
and shares with Ventrua county one
Joint district. Fifty-eight districts em
ploy only ■ three teachers, and thirty
nine employ four or more.
"The county contains twenty-five
high schools,' taught by 226 teachers.
"There are 317 school houses, 62,685
pupils were enrolled, and tho average
dally attendance was 47,779 for the
year. Of this average dally attendance,
sixteen units belong to the deaf schools.
11l to the boys' evening .schools, 1855
to the kindergarten, 4537 to the high
schools and 41,260 to the common
schools. - ■ ,
"Of the 1616 teachers employed, two
are In the deaf schools, 100 In the kin
dergarten, 226- In the. high, and 1279 in
the common Bchoolg. There were 183
men teachers and 1433 women teachers.
Growth Is Rapid
"During the school . year 1905-6 Lob
Angeles county gained five common
school districts, nine school houses, 185
teachers, 8049 census children and 5355
units of average dally attendance.
"The tremendous growth In all lines
'continues to tax the resources of every
district to the very limit. The appar
ently small Increase In the number of
school houses is due to the erection of
commodious school houses, each of
which takes the place of two or more
temporary structures.
Makes Recommendations
"That our schools may realize the
purpose for which they were Instituted
and are maintained, and that they may
keep abreast of the progress of thft
world, certain Imperative needs must
be realized and satisfied. , "■ V > *.-
"Schools can do their best only when
the teacher .has not more than 'two
classes, and the work Is supervised. by
capableprlnclpals and special teachers.
In several states pupils are transported
at public expense and in this way larger
schools are - maintained, fewer, teach
ers employed, longer terms are taught,
better salaries are paid and', the most
satisfactory results are obtained, ,'■
"We need a law which will authorize
any district to transport its pupils to
a central school, or schools; un« I the
present law which provides for. the or
ganization of union common school dis
tricts, and the transportation ofj^helr
pupils, should be revised and Improved
ro that it may become an opefatty*
success. •..."• '>'■•
"So long as this county has fifty-eight
districts employing one teacher,•thirty
three districts employing two teachers,
arid fifteen districts employing ; three
teachers, close and adequate super
vision will be Impossible, unless Cali
fornia adopts a plan similar to that
employed v ln Massachusetts, where the
teachers aro grouped and a supervisor
Is chosen for each group.'
"The county superintendent of schools
ought to be authorized to group , the
school* of the county \so that there
would- be a supervising principal for
each group of not less than ten nor
more than twenty-five teachers. The
choice of the supervisor should' be
made by the school authorities gov
erning each particular group. If thla
forward step were taken, our rural
schools would have as> close and aa efr
flclent supervision as Is enjoyed by
districts that now employ supervising
principals or city superintendents, and.
the Increased expense would be vastly
exceeded by the Increased efficiency
of the schools.
Free Education Urged
"If poor tools make a poor workman,
poor end cc-atly textbooks make, a
poor school, Our schools ought to have
free textbooks and the best textbooks
that the educational genius of the
twentieth century can produce. | We
boast of our free education, but it can
not be really free aa long as textbooks
muHt be provided by patrons.. It
Is generally true that the targest fami
lies are the ones least able to buy text
books.
Beyond the fourth grade the boys
leave school much more rapidly than
do the girl". The fact that all boyi
must be wage earners, while only a
portion of the girls must W, possibly
accounts for a purt of this condition,
but It l» due more likely, to the fact
that our Bchools do not meet the needs
of the boys after the fourth year. Our
education must be more practical.
Manual training, including woodwork*,
cooking, sewing and Instruction In agri
culture, must be given a much larger
place than It now occupies. '
| "Longer terms for the majority of
our schools ara a necessity.. For the
year Just closed each school, with the
exception of one. maintained ' at - least
a nine montha' term,.. Ten months Is
not too much for any school. .
Larger Salaries Necessary
"The presence of only isa men In a
teaching. body of 1610 teacher* la dis
tinctly a menace to the be«t Interests
of the boys and girls In the grammar
grade* and In the high school. It Is
not best for any child to be taught «x.
cluslvely by a inn n or a woman. ■ We
cun get more men Into the. profession
only by raising the salaries paid to the
entire teaohlng > body. The average
salary for the year Just closed la {83.73
for a term of nine months, or only $745
a, year. The preparation required, to (It
one for teaohlng will enable every rnttn
In the profession to. earn at least $100
a . month, twelve months In the year/
Such | being . the caw* It la no . wonder
that men will not stay In the ' prof.»?S"
•ion.'i ' . • • V • ,'
- "The high schoola of our county are
doing a great 'wprk, but they are not
doing the work that they . could -< and
ought to do. Their work Is shaped to
meet the requirements dt the state uni
versity, notwithstanding the fact that
less than one-fourth of these who at
tend the high schools can ever reach
the university.
"If all the boy» nnd girls attending
the high schools of Los Angeles county
were to attend the state university. It
could not receive a pupil from any
other county in the state.- Tho high
school ought to fit people for life. This
ought to be the aim of the high school,
and fitting for the university ought to
be a result of this, and not the begin
ning and end of It. If the high schools
nre to do their duty to the children,
they mustyglve an Increasingly large
share of their time to commercial, In
dustrial and technical training.
As to Normal Schools
"The state Is maintaining five normal
schools at an enormous i expense for
the training of teachers, and those
schools ought to widen their course of
Instruction so that a gruduato from a
stßte normnl school, If the graduate
take* the proper course In that school,
should be entitled to a certificate to
teach his particular line of work in any
school In the state. As matters now
stand the normal schools do not preparo
teachers for Industrial or commercial or
technical or high school teaching.
"The supreme .court of the state In
the case of Los Angeles county vs.
Stain Superintendent Thomas J. Kirk,
rendered a decision, which places the
deaf schools, the night schools and the
kindergarten schools outside of the com
mon school system of the state, and
makes these . schools a charge ' solely
upon the district that maintains them.
The decision of the court was In ac
cordance with the law, but the law
■works a great wrong and ought to be
changed."
Shown by Figures
The statistical part of the report Is
as follows}
Number of families 53,393
Number of white children over
' five, but not over seventeen
years of age— boys, 87,023;
girls, 86,835; total 74,458
Number of negro children over ■
five, . but not over seventeen
years of age — boys, B03; girls,
830; total ?..... ■ 1,233
Number of Indian children over '
. five, but not over seventeen
years of age, whose parents or
I guardians do not live in the
• tribal relations— boys, 64; girls, '
45; .total JO
Native born Mongolians over
live, but not over 'seventeen >
years of age— boys, 81; girls,
54; total *.... . 133
Total number of census chil
dren, those over five, but not
over seventeen years of age.. 75,921
Total number of teachers to '
which each district Is entitled
under provisions of section 1858
Pol. C 1140.35
Number of census children that
attended public school during
the year 61,827
Number of census children that -
attended private school during
the year 4,397
Number of census children that -
attended no school during the if
year ■ V^ 9/700
Number of children under, five
years of age— white, 22,951; ,
negro, 365; Indian, -60; Mojit. "
gollon, 89; t0ta1........,.:.-....., 23.453
Nativity of all children-Native .•
born, 96,961;, f0reign born, 2248;
otal ...........'. , 23 455
Number of children over five,
but not over seventeen years
of age that are deaf,....". 81
Number of children over five,
■ but not over seventeen years .
of age that have not been
vaccinated • 8,313
Grade of school:
.Grammar 8611
Primary 525
Number of regular and special
teachers. Including principals .
In the primary and grammar
schools , U79
Sex of teachers:
■Men 1 . U5
Women j. • 1,164
Grame of teacher's certificate:
High school ;; 74
Grammar ' | jgi
Primary 21
Special 5j
Average number belonging to
' grammar and primary schools,
kindergarten classes 43,643
Average doily attendance In
grammar and primary schools,
including kindergarten classes 41,260
Percentage of attendance on
average number belonging • 94
Boys. Girls.
Primary ....17,807 .16,773
Grammar 9,873 10,349
Total ...:... 27iiw 2M23
Grand total ■. 63.803
Number of days school was
maintained during the year.. ■ ■ ' ', 180
Whole number of days attend
ance 7,262,803
Number of months the teachers
In charge at close of the year,
have taught In the city or dls- * '
trlct ....?. ■ ' 61.425
Amount paid monthly to teacher !
or teachers, including prin
cipals ;. 1100,643.57
Number of school visits made
by county superintendent...... 5,903
Numh«r of visits m«de ■ by ■
school trustees 1,299
Number of . school visits made
by other persons 63,514
Number of volumes remaining
I In school library at the closo ■
of the school year 124.81S
Number of teachers who attend
county or city institute ..' 1,2 a
Prescribed sorles of text books
used 140
itKCEiPTsr - ;
Balance on hand at beginning
of school year 1400,613,05
Amount received from stats <
apportionments 625.945.70
Amount received from county
apportionments ..'...,.;... 601,275.05
Amount recolveit 'from city or - '
district taxos ..'. 60,73133
Amount received from sale, of
bond* '■< 883.885.a
Amount reoelved from miscel
laneous sources , „ 63,944.00
Total receipts from all sources,
Including balance carried over
from previous school year. ...13,616,890.14
KXPHNBEB.
Amount paid for teachers' sal
aries ; t 8iH.5»3.5l
Amount paid for contingent ax- ,r,
perttes, supplies, repairs, rent,
ftp 3oe.epo.oi
Amount paid for sltea, buildings • >
and furniture ' 393,626.24
Amount pa.ld for library books •
and apparatus „. 7,146.62
Total expenditures ..... ■.,,.,... '.5U96,023.28
Balance on hand at close, of
school year H,<m,3i>«.Bß
Valuation or lota, sohool houaes
and furniture $4,65«.mn0
Viiluiitlon of school libraries ...A 62,m00
Valuation of school apparatus, .4 , 26,231.00
Total valuation of school prop
•rty ■ „ ...94.T18.018.00
School tax i voted, rale on lioo.. 13
Uun<l«d-nr other Indebtedness of -
the district , .11,(85.920.00
HICK SCHOOLS.
Actudl number of days taught., lIWI4
Average number belonging. . 4,76s
Average dally attendance ...... ,' 4,537
Teachers employed; .
Keg. full time. Irreg.
Men .............. M 63
Women' .....US ' Hi
Total , ;.,. ....•' '.-V.KB
(liaiim*tcß — Number during '
ymiwßoyg, 177; «|rl»| »J; total 433
State enrollment of hlslh school*.
■ l>y year's work awl mx: <, •'
„.*!, B»y». airl«
First year .: uij' 1%
Second year „630 719 ■
Thlra v*ar „ ,wr*,<M '■
Fourth jr#«r ..,,..,,,,, til * Kit •
Totdl aw JTk
C»r»nd total !.!!!.„?'... ". 5,53,5
„ , nBCKIPTH. "* * '
Rfllnnc* on Imn.l st beKlnlns; of
Amount rorriwrt from slutVniih '""■*""
Aonool Rppnrtlnnmtnt " M 124 M>
uonntlons, «>tc.. ,••••••.,..., 1 WIST
Total recelptyrom |j M^«oiiMe«.|"''Mß,o2.i»
For te«rh<>rn' sulnrkn.. ' I2U 701 41
For ourrena expenses, supplies, '■'..
For ■btViidinis":::::::::::::::::;;:: 2 «2si ! n
For books and »ppar«tus ....... n,m'-M
_Totnl *>xpen»« for yenr... 1 Me, 143. 60
BRlaneo on hand M close of - 0"'0 "'" 00 '
Vaj»fl o'f'lots.'buildinw'a.nd' f.ir: 1 mMv >
nit tifn , j-i ft iQfl Rt'A run
Valuation tfllKrl^Jtt^S™*
Valuation of ilhrnrlos 21,5!)1M
Total .valuation of all property.sl,2S«,«»2.o()
Number of high school teachers
nttnndlriß county or city In
stitute „,, »J8
Number r>r volumes In library of
high school , . i«Mj
Total monthly salary of nil <
trmchrrH In nlith nchool I 2S 001 08
BTATIBTICS Op PHIVATH i SCHOOLB.
Number of teachers employed:
Male ano
Female jm
Number of pupils enrolled:
Male. Female.
Primary tirade* .... 7N 350
Grammar wades .. 394 270
irifth school grades W> 1037
College 'students... 1616 1232
Total , 6,'iSJ
BROWN OFFERS
AID TO MATHEWS
M'LACHLAN'S LIEUTENANT IS
KEEPING ENEMY GUESSING
Outburst of Generosity Not Appre
ciated^ by City Attorney's Friends,
Who Regard Letter as
A "Josh"
Luther Brown, secretary of the con
gressional committee and manager of
Congressman McLachlan's campaign,
yesterday made an attempt to relieve
the committee from the charge of sharp
practice in the Interest of Mr. McLach
lan by sending the following letter to
Ed North, secretary of W. B. Mathews'
campaign committee: ■
"Mr. Ed North, Secretary Campaign
Committee for Mr. Mathews: Dear Sir
—It has_come to my ears that complaint
has been made by your people because
of the shortness of the time In which
to prepare for the primaries in the
country precincts.
"I wrltei this to state that, havln'g
had some experience In matters of this
kind, .If you will kindly send me a
list of the names ot Mr. Mathews'
friends in the country precincts, I will
Bee , that they are notified of the pri
maries August 2, in order \hat they
may be fully advised, to the end that
all of Mr. Mathews' frlenda may be on
hand to cast their votes at said pri
maries according to ■ the dictates of
their own consciences, 'h vv ■ '•>
- "If I Mr. Mathews will kindly send me
hl9 tickets, in each .assembly district
In the country, I will undertake to
place these tickets In the hands of his
friends, as specified in the foregoing
paragraph.
' "Assuring you that 'lt la the desire
of Mr. McLachlan and his friends that!
every voter In the district shall have J
ample opportunity to express his wishes
on that day, I remain, sincerely yours, ' i
"LUTHER G. BROWN."
*'Not a Josh" — McLachlan
Congressman McLachlan, who vvas at j
headquarters during the greater • part>i
of the day, said In reference to the . ,
foregoing letter:
."Don't run away with the Idea that
this 1b a 'Josh.' If the Mathews people
flre willing to comply with the request
made In the letter, w» certainly will
do all we have promised." .
At the Mathews headquarters, how
ever, this outburst of generosity, on
the ' part of Messrs. McLachlan and
Brown did not seem to be fully ap
preciated. At any rate, Mr. North
said the. only response made to the
offer, was an Immediate acknowledge
ment of Its receipt and nn expression
of thanks for the \ courtesy extended.
Notwithstanding Congressman McLach
lan's disclaimer, the evident disposi
tion was not only to regard the lette*>
as a "josh," but a decidedly poor nn«. '.
The Mathews forces are making the
most of the limited time at their dls- .
posaland are planningva vigorous cam- ■
palgn In the country districts, aa well
as those In Los Angeles and Pasadena.
At the primaries to be, held next Thurs
day, Mathews tickets will be In every
precinct and the voters will be given
an opportunity to 'express their . choice ■
of delegates to tho convention. A, hard "
fight will he made all nlnng the •line
and as a result of the activity shown
by- both sides It is probable that a,'
large vote will be brought out.
The douma members drew 15 a day.
Maybe tho war dismissed It. because
he needs the money. - • .
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lwt > la tIM Mouto. Coated
; Tongue, Fata la tho BWa,
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regulate U>« Bowels. Purely VogeUWo.
SMALL PILL SMALL DOSE. SHALL PRICE.
Ipadtcd'cl i Genuina Must Bear
LAKItno Fao-Simlla Signature.' ;■■;,
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