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AT THE THEATERS
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GIIAXD—"The Office Boy."
UM A M.I -Vaudeville.
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NEWSPAPERS
THERE Is much export "informa
tion" about the newspapers go
ing the rounds these days. Some
times tin is a little truth In it—for
instance, the magazine writer vho m
•Olalns certain subjects, named by him
"Sacred Cows," are tabooed in some
newspaper offices, undoubtedly Is cor
rect. But a clvii organization of the
authority end importance of the New
York Bureau of Municipal Research
ought to know better than to print such
Muff as this: "Between two news
Items entailing no outlay, newspapers
frequently print (hi less Interesting
item because It comes to them in a |
more attractive fori or requires less
rewriting." The writer goes on to ac- \
cuse some newspapers of boing news- j
grafters, and of printing unimportant
matter they ian got for nothing and
rejecting important matter for which a
price is charged. He says: "Any news
paper that would rather pay for news
than got the same news for nothing
Will be so badly damaged and edited
It will end by paying for news thnt is
enod for nothing."
in spue or the posltiveness of this
statement, we are certain all well
edited newspapers In the selective pro
cess aro guided by the news value of
an item, and we have nover known
und never have heard of any news
paper that would reject a good news
utory "because it cost money," and
would accept rubbish because It filled
the paper. There are many other points
to I" considered besides tho cost of
news service.
For instance, , v *. v should time, com
position, head writing, proof rending]
■stereotyping, press work, etc., be
wasted on valueless rubbish when te
llable news may he obtained for a rea
sonable outlay? The Bureau's reporter
•would have „ s believe a newspaper
is like n public cook who fits up a
most elaborate kitchen, filled with ex
pensive utensils nnd appliances, and
then sallies forth to th" rubbish heaps
nnd refuse cans for bookable material,
because it doesn't cost anything.
We are certain if the. New Yorkers
had given tills matte,- a Ji11!,- thought
the pamphlc! would have boon re
vised.
The Now Y,,ri- Bureau of Political |
Research does not give New York news'- j
paper men credit for much Intelli
gence when it says "n newspaper that
would father pay f, M - ,„ us than got
it for nothing 1., badly managed,"
And, we would lis-- to ask] What's the
mailer with some n f theso theorists,
anyway? They seem to be laboring
under tlio delusion newspaper men arc
glad to have the opportunity of work
ing for nothing, and newspapers arc
overjoyed when they have a chance to
put a public enterprise or a business
undertaking on their publicity charity
list.
Colombian cowards mobbed and heal
two English girls whom they mistook
for Americans. After all, the mistake
is one that may easily be made by
foreigners. In order to keep up tho
national distinctions that divide i he dif
ferent branches of I lie English-speak
ing peoples It may become advisable
for individuals to wear lilt!, Hags or
other marks of national Identification.
PQOR SAN FRANCISCO
POOR old San Francisco. Its la
state seems to be even WO«
than its flrst. The best citizen
of San Francisco must fight the poo
flght all over again, anil must kee
everlastingly at it until the city i
taken out of the "shady" class an
placed on a high piano of moral it >
honor and honesty.
Good government is worth flghtlm
for and worth keeping. Good govern
ment should be guarded jealousy. Th
standards established should be main
tallied. It is high time for the climb.
ation of partisan politics from muni
Clpal life. Lesson after lesson ha:
taught the American people profes
alonal politics will lead to th( forma
tion of political machines, and thi
machines will (111 public office., wltl
their creatures.
Let us keep machine politics out o
Greater Los Angeles and eliminate i
from Los Angeles county. Any politi
cal machine is dangerous, and a rail
road mat bine produces conditions whicl
are subversive of everything for whicl
'he republic exists.
GROGGY CALAVERAS
EDWARD HYATT, auperlntenden
I, of public Instruction, is a gentle
-* man whose good taste .-is a rule
la to lie depended on, His pamphlet
"A Calaveras Evening'," is ,-i creditable
effort to show how the study of litera
ture may be made pleasant to children
But would it not be better if In a latei
edition of the pamphlet Mr. Hyatt
omitted the following passages?
Iltlon of the pamphlet Mr. llyati
: Itted the follow in^ pasaa
"I even had to decline several press
ing proffers of a drink ... At last
the hotel man Jumped up, went iiit.
the bar room and returned with 11
dusty copy of in.i Harte."
Here is stamped an impression on the
student';, mind thai during the rest ol
his life will assooia;e some of Call
fornia's most Important literature with
bur rooms and drinks. It must aston
ish smart young American boys and
girls to be taught the dangers of the
liquor traffic, and then to learn that the
copy of Hret Harte from which the
extracts were taken that are to Im
provo their minds and familiarize tliem
with the literature of the state was
borrowed from a bar room.
Wo can assure the teachers and stu
dents of California that Hret llarko's
works are kept ln the public libraries
nnd nre for sale at many book stores.
The bar room association established
by Superintendent Hyatt is unjust to
the literature of California, unjust to
poor to ;..• Harte, ami dangers to the
ior traffic, and then to learn that the
iy of Bret Harte from which the
racta were taken that are I
Ir minds and familiarize them
h the literature of the state waa
rowed from a bar room,
.'c can assure the teachers and slu
ts of i i thai Br I I
-ks are kepi In the publ
- many book ■■
ro. im asso I il lon i
Intendenl 17*. ntl is unj i.-t to
I ure of California, unjust to
I Harte, and unjusl to thi
children. If Mr. Hyatt Is at n loss for
a classification of Hart. '_ works nd
Mark Twain's California stories. let us
suggest that they represent the literary
folk lore of California.
Mr. Hyatt prints "The Society on the
Stanislaus" to represent Harte, ancl
"The Jumping Prog" to represent
Twain. The superintendent is careful
to tell the youth of California that the
jumping frog story "did take place* in
a bar room." Mark Twain mentions
the fact, but not in an obtrusive way.
We are not adopting a snobbish view
of the matter. If Mr. Hyatt hail
handled his material In a different man
ner all would have.been well. Hut lie
has succeeded In producing a most un
fortunate Impression, and in reeking
California literature with the fumes of
stale rum. (
CAN'T FOOL PEOPLE
I <{T\UZZL INO politics." says a Be-
I publican contemporary, with.
-*- reference to the election "i' Eu- 1
gene T. Foss of Boston to congress,
i and tlie transformation of a Republican
| plurality of 14.250 Into a Democratic
plurality of ."Sin. Why "puzzling?"
The result of the election Indicates the
people of the United States aro ln tam
est in tlie demand for genuine tariff
revision, and for reciprocity with
Canada.
This election Is the first square tost
of the popular temper that has been
had since Mr. Taft became president.
The result shows the people of this
country are going to insist on tariff
reform, am will send to congress tar
iff reformers who will be trie to the
nation and wil] not attempt to fool
the people,
Never before has tho constituency
that elected Mr. Foss sent a Demo
crat tn conccrcss. The change is sig
nificant. Tbe Republican party's de
votion to policies which havo pro
duced the trusts and caused more so
cial discontent than has over before
existed in tho United States may cost
it the power which made its policies
possible.
RATE GOUGE
0 INTENSE interest to Califor
nia is tlio Los Angeles hearing
before the interstate commerce
commissioners in the case brought by
the citrus growers against the rail
roads to keep he lemon freight rate
from being advanced, and to obtain
a reduction in the orange rate and
I refrigeration charges.
Tho rate gouge Is particularly flag
rant In view of the fact congress tried
to help the citrus fruit industry by
' a tariff increase which the railroads
by rate manipulation promptly di
verted to their own pockets.
The citrus fruit industry is associated
with the modern history and pros)
; Ity of California, it lias helped ad-
I vertlse the state in every other state
I of the I'liion and iv every country of
the world. Willi the rise of the citrus
Industry there has been a general in
crease in the prosperity of the state,
and an impetus has boon given to en
terprise and industrialism.
In industrialism ihe rate gougers sco
only opportunity for themselves. Their
motto is that of one of tho original
rate-makers, the Vanderbilt who said:
"The public in* damned."
President Taft declared he had at
tempted to carry out the Roosevelt
policies. He failed in add "feet fore
most."
LOS ANGELES HERALD: THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 21, 1910.
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MILITARISM
(\ ITIZENS who have protested
against militarism have urged
' that, if all other and ethical con
siderations nre to be disregarded, the
■ instinct of self preservation should pre
vent the Caucasian races from rushing
; headlong Into mad extravagance and
crippling themselves in order tn equip
huge armies and grout navies, li was
to be expected sonic of the non-Cau
casian nations wouid imitate 'li
whites, and their imitation would be
most .vigorous along the lines that ap
peal most to human nature. Bui when
the imitation became so enthusiastic
ii outdid the original, there was some
- und for uneasiness. ,
Anti-militarists will find their posi
tion of obstinate antagonism to mili
tary invention, development and expen
diture Justified by the following As
sociated Press despatch from Berlin:
"A genuine military awakening in
China was foreshadowed in an Inter
view given by Chinese Minister Via
Tchang, who said: 'I intend to intro
duce universal military service In
China. It iti* make all the available
men join tho militia, wo have such an
enormous population—sonic 400,000,000
—that we shall overshadow all other
armed nations.' "
If modi civilization had been the
christian civilization it sometimes
claims to be. It would have taught
both by precept and example peace
Col. Watterson Shows
Where the Fault Lies
For convenience the tllscusslo
out of which the investigation II
Washington has been called the Bal*
llnger-Plnchot controversy. Mr. Bin
chot has been called as a witness. Mr
Ballinger declares that la- will, ill dm
form ami time, answer what hi call,
the "mendacious aspersions" of Mr
Pinchot. Tic public will, for tho mom
. Nt, accept .Mr. Pinchot's statement
as the truth. In tho opinion of tin
Courier-Journal, nd In the pinion 01
a very large majority of the disinter
ested observers of the Investigation,
Mr. Pinchot's assertions will be qulti
unshaken by Mr, Balllngi r. Bui
granting, for the sake of argument
that Mr. Bellinger may be able to con
vince his audience that be did not de
liberately deceive the president by ma
licious misrepresentation of facts.
enough has been shown to settle very
definitely the question of Mr. Ballln
ger's fitness for his position. The fault
lies with President Taft, who made Hit
appointment,
Th. special Interests have ordered
tin- affairs of the Taft administration
from the beginning, and In every es
sential. They passed thi Paync-Al
drlch tariff bill and President Tuft
first apologised for it, next di ton li 1
il as being a measure to insure party
solidarity, and now parades .1 mass of
-.. oily lading figures from the
ways and means committee and de
dares the most Infamous bit of class
legislation that modern times and a
republican government have witnessed
0 be "downward revision."
Mr. Garfield was removed, apparent
y at Ihe suggestion of the special In
terests, to make room for -Mr. l'.al
inger, who seems to have been pretty
leflnitely proved to have entered upon
lis duties as a friend and attorney for
he exponents of "private enterprise,"
md with a serene disregard of his du
les to the public which pays his sal
iry. 11 is Inconceivable that President
I'aft, who is mentally sound, although
tot brilliant, did not know- enough
tbout Mr, Garfield and enough about
.Ir. Ballinger to realize perfectly that
he ousting of the former and ensconc
ng of the latter in the office of secro
ary Of the Interior was not a move
lalculated to improve the efficiency of
hat branch of the government. He
oust have known that as a guardian
if tlie interests of the public Mr. Bal
inger, with hi-* record as an attorney
nd with bis leanings, could not be ex
-11 ,1 d to discharge his duties with the
Igor and impartiality that could have
teen expected of Mr. Garfield, or of
ny one not entangled With land pl
ates and power-site grabbers and
It i-millionaire mine-exploiters.
No matter whether Mr. Ballinger lied
o tlie president, as Mr. Pinchot as
crts, or deceived him unwittingly, or
lidn't deceive hint at all, the essential
Another Bite
upon earth and good will among men.
Instead, It has sent "first the mis
sionary, then the warship, then the
soldier."
It lias Bbwn dragon's teeth.
Unless your name has been placed
upon tin- new great register opened
January I, 1910, you are not a qualified
elector. The duty of registration is im
perative and should not be procras
tinated. No good citizen ian afford to
lo.'e his vote.
Rain has gladdened the agricultural
interests. Tourists who complain the
wet weather has Interfered with their
plans always take h. new point of view
when they bear the .-bowers moan
prosperity to Southern California.
President Tafl says these are ticklish
times, politically. Yes. undoubtedly a
great many people are tickled by what
happened to Cannon. They believe In
Americanism, not i 'annonism,
This year's strawberry crop will be
one of the largest on record. Califor
nia Is the greatest benefactor of lover..
of tl: ■ most luscious and delicious of
the berry family.
Tin* British don't cotton to Patton
worth a i < at.
Pittsburg's black sheep are bleating
pltcously,
BANISH TUP. BILLBOARDS.
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(I.nu I Mil if Courier-Journal, i
i.ici i- mat I-.. Biiieni ian , nose mt.
| Ballinger ;:s Mr. Garfield's successor,
I and cavalierly dismissed from the serv.
i ice the first honest public servant who
attempted to prevent him from re
versing the conservation policy estab
lished by the preceding administration,
I upheld by the people and labor.-, for
,by the chief forester, Whether or not
the president was deceived In this or
' that after he appointed Mr. tllingi r,
j and when Mr. Ulavia had lie-run to
make it hot for the successor of Mr.
Garfield, Is a detail.
The Balllngerlzation of the depart
mi nt if ihe Interior is of a piece with
j the general policy of the present ad
. ministration. It is, In tho final ana -
sis, merely tho orthodox Republican
| policy of trading anything and overy-
I thing for political prosperity. During
the IP ,■-..-. administration there waa
a departure from the establish .1 rules.
While he was as great a "standpat
ter" us President Taft or as Mr. Can-
I non, or Mr, A Idrlch, or any nne else
whoso name, with an "ism" attached,
la employ) to define what la nothing
I more or less than Republicanism
was politician enough to understand
that the time had come when pillaging
i he public all along the line and from
every direction was an error. lie was
tactician enough to know that to bal
ance his position upon the tariff he
must make a .lean record in other par
ticulars. And he was- it is reasonable
to belle; and just to admit hon
est and earnest advocate of the con
servation of natural resources, just as
Cleveland was,
President Roosevelt was a brilliant
maneuvered President Taft is a blun
derer. I lis administration proceeds
with even consistency. Thi Guggc-n
--helms in Alaska; the grabbers of pub
lic property In the west; the light
fingered gentlemen who write the tar
iff schedules In the committee rooms
under the capitol; the piratical ad
venturers who have been hanging
about tho lobbies at Washington for
years attempting to secure the enact
mint of a ship subsidy bill to rank to
enlist even the warm support of Jo
seph G. Cannon -these and others
have a friend In an administration that
is nothing more and nothing less than
a good old-fashioned Republican ad
ministration sans Rooseveltlan varia
tions.
President Taft is a plain, blunt man.
lie does not know how to run the gov
ernment for the gang and court popu
larity by whooping it up for reform ln
public speeches. He docs not know
hOW to hypnotize the multitude by
preaching virtue and slugging sin on
the front porch, and dealing with
"practical men" in tin private office.
What, he does he indorses. 11. ap
pointed Mr. Ballinger, and, in due
time, he exonerated him.
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FAVORS TELLING CHILDREN
FACTS AS THEY EXIST
LOS ANGELES, March 15.—[Editor
Herald]: Last week an evening paper
was offering prizes for i ute sayings of
children, and the following might have
won one had it gone there. But to
my mind The Herald Letter Box la a
more fitting place, as it is i. od [or
thought, and might catch the eyes of
i some one who thought ns little Ray
mond's mother did, md gives us a
I ■li.in. to express our views regarding
what a child should and should not
I be ltl , I _._, Ill*
Little Raymond, aged 4 years, had
said his prayers, kissed mamma good
night, and put to bed; and while
mamma was tucking he 1 overs
around him, ho suddenly sprang up
and cried: "Oh, mamma, look, I here
is Jesus hanging on a wire," His eyes
win* so intently fixed toward one coi
ner of the room that bis mother
walked over with eyes turned toward
tho ceiling and there suspended from
above she found two long cobwebs.
Now. to be sine, 1 asked what did
you tell him? Nothing, sin- said, but
to hush and go to sloop. You know
she said he is too young to try p.
tell him what it was, go I just let
him think it was Jesus, Now, my
point of attack is this: If, as sue said,
she had told him all about Jesus up
in heaven and how lie watched over
him while he was asleep and saw all
the naughty things he did and said;
If bis little mind was capable of de
vouring all those things, then, why
ould ho not understand the work of
,i spider, a thing which ihe child could
see, md not lei the little one think
It something supernatural? Why cloud
ids little brain? Why allow him to fall
asleep thinking he had coon Jesus
hanging on a wire? Why not teach our
children facts and truths as they ex
ist? M. E. JUNKS. I
LAUDS JOHN D. WORKS FOR
INTEGRITY AND FIDELITY
WHITTIER, March IT.—[Editor Her
aid |: I have often been accused of
being censorious, but never to my
knowledge of being sycophantic, l do
ilk*", however, to speak words In praise
of a now or old system that has made
good. To my mind the now primary
law has demonstrated its incalculable
I value. To mention only one particu
lar: How long under the old system of
.aliens manipulators would it have
taken to secure the services of so dis
tinguished, able and conscientious a
member of your city council as Hon.
John D, Works? First, they want a
man who will do their bidding, Jump
when and just as far as they pull the
string. Second, they cannot work any
crooked game by, through, over, or
about him. Tills is an Insurmountable
objection to the choice of an honest
man. Then, again, the judge i- pos
sessed of another very objectionable
characteristic In that he has opinions
of his own.
But the chief objection to the judge
for a municipal office Is; fie is unfor
tunately in possession of moral convic
tions, unswervable integrity and fear
lessness in standing for the right as
Hod gives him to see the right; and In
this old world, up to recent dale, this
would not do for one little minute, for
would it not wreck all plans, sink the
whole machine, take away 'he sinews
of war, destroy all well laid schemes
to rob the city and leave the whole
thing stranded on the rocks?
in reply to those who advocate the
old system I have but one reply:
John D. Works. ,m. G. McCASLIN.
MODERN BUSINESS STRUGGLE
AS EVIL AS PRIZE FIGHTING
LONG BEACH, March 21.—[Editor
Herald!: In his sermon last evening
the Rev. Dr. I...eke found occasion to
assail and denounce prize fighting in
no uncertain language, His thrust at
the Langford-Flynn fight was pointed
and bitter. "This brutal practice
must cease," he declared. Well said,
doctor, I, too, long for the time when
fighting for prizes, for spoil, profit and
wain shall he at an end. But why at
tack Jim Flynn for entering the ring
and carrying away a disfigured face
.md some 16000, while a ruthless strug
gle goes on from day to day under
the name of "modern business?" Why
protest against tin- pugilistic encoun
ters that aro measured by minutes I
ELECTRICITY
Frederic J. Haskin
Ili .J-WTTI" 1^ forthcoming meeting of
{jLT/jfl tbe American Institute of
Electrical Engineers nt Char
tin* American Institute of
Electrical Engineers nt Char
1 !_§_«•■ 1",,', ' x. c- will bring out
?V7«sfl many Interesting discussions
g^Egg) of the problems that confront
the electrical' world. This
body of men constitute a sort of court
of Inst resort in affaire electrical, not
so much In the way of Invention as In
devising ways and means toward mak-
Ing all electrical progress available for
the us., of the race. They ara mainly
men who are connected with the bio,
electric establishments of the country,
and they discuss kilowatts, amperes,
ohms, armatures and such things In an
Intimate way that Is quite confusing
to the layman.
One of the most Important problems
In tbe 11,-1,1 of electricity is thai of the
commercial practicability of the new
storage battery street car. Trials have
been made which prove thai It Is a
mechanical success, and if It works as
well commercially urban transportation
problems will undergo as great a
change as marked tin* passing of the
horse oar and the coming of the trolley.
For years the central power plant has
been considered tin- last word In the
economical operation of street car
systems, although Its Installation has
meant the expenditure of millions for
plant equipment, underground trolleys
and overhead wire* Now comes the
storage battery car with claims for
preference, which the New York trials
under actual transportation conditions
soom to vindicate, The cost of opera
tion is very much loss, and the cost of
Installation amounts to even still loss.
Moving'lndependent of every other oni
on th.. line, so far ns motive power Is
concerned, there ian be no tleup on
account of the "Juice" giving out, There
are no plows to get stuck In a slot or
overhead wires to be broken in case
of elect or storms.
Tho storage battery street oar will
prove a boon to the ambitious but em
bryo metropolis thai nourishes In al
most every county, The prohibitive cost
of Installation has prevented many
small places from having street car
systems, With the storage battery car
all that needs to be done Is to lay a
track, buy the cars and a street car
system Is ready for the gala day of
formal opening. Thus the horse car
ims come back, with the exception that
Instead of a horse of skin and bone and
spavin, dragging the car along nt a
snail's pace, the passenger has a horse
of metal and chemical riding beneath
his feet and carrying him »a it goes—
a horse which Is never liable to con
demnation by a local Society for the
l'revcntlon of Cruelty to Animals.
. . •
In those days when wonder follows
wonder with lightning-like rapidity in
the field of electrical invention, the
latest announcement of a television
telephone does not tax the credulity
as much as the telegraph Instrument
did two or three generations ago. This
groat ideas no longer exists '•>■ rely In
the fevered Imagination of soma Jules
Verne—it If now in actual process of
accomplishment. Think of it! Going
to your telephone and seeing the per
son at the other end of the wire.
though miles and mount lie be
tween. The id. is said to be as well
developed as was wireless telegraphy
a decade ago. it all Is to come about
through the discovery that one if the
elements know a- i 'lonium will con
duct electricity when subjected to
light, ami is a non-Conductor when In
the lark. The degree of Its conduc
tivity depends upon tii ■ Intensenesa
of light and shade.
In [he transmitter there Is a frame
filled with selenium * ella like honey-
Climb in the little pound boxes found
In the grocery store. By means of a
11 en.; light, a mirror nd a lens the
Image of an object Is projected onto
the cells, and those on which the light
falls end < urvonts of varying Intensity
out upon a revolving wheel called the
collector. This collector turns very
rapidly and transmits th<* electrical
Impulses to the receiving station. At
the receiving end the Impulses sent out
by the transmitter in gathered and
transformed Into light "Vays again
through a peculiar chemical-mechani
cal process. Thus is th exact dupli
cate of the Image at the transmitting
end re prod in ed at tie- receiving end.
The apparatus li the invention of two
foreign scientists, Messrs. Rlgnoux and
Fournler,
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For many years the quarter-ln-the
slot gaa meter has been in successful
usi, hut the application of the same
principle to ihe sab* of electrical cur
rent is a comparatively now thing.
When the consumer wants _ quarter's
worth of electricity be has merely to
Irop bis money In he meter slot, the I
and rewarded by a fat purse, while
' the heartless, merciless fight between
1 children of one brotherhood, Including
the members of your own church, goes
on from rhildhod to old age, unheed
ed an.l unhindered? in this struggle
the stronger are pitted against the
weak, the old against the young, man
against woman, black against white,
child against child; and no protest la
beard.
If you would en*l prize fH,htimr, and
the horrors of vice and crime hat
Ida. ken the world, why not preach co
operation? For so long as competi
tion lasts, so long as men must light
for a chance P. labor, and lor access
to the material resources whence
, Mm,. their bread and their life, just
so long will this greatest of all prize
fights grow more brutal and more
merciless. A. W. HAYNEB.
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INVITES "GENTLEMAN" TO
GIVE CAUSE OR REMEDY
LOS ANGELES, March 16.— [Editor
Herald]: A person signing himself A
Gentleman some time ago now comes
to the front (or I might say comes
to the print) again, under date of the
I Ith. throwing slurs at the working
class lor not doing so and so, and
criticising others for not answering his
communication to suit him. If it is
true that A Gentleman knows what la
wrong, and thinks that he know the
remedy, why docs he not out with it.
lie lias not, to my knowledge, told us
either tin- cause or the remedy of this
unjust economic system. ■ 1
POCO LOCO.
SOME SERVANTS ARE
MISTAKEN FOR MISTRESS
LOS ANGELES, March 23.—[Editor
Herald]: I must say I am surprised
when I read the letters answering "A
Lady" or "A Gentleraafl" In your Let
pr Box, at the sudden Indignation and
amazement of the writers.
One would suppose they were not
aware of tin- fact thai a great many
men and women entertain such senti
ments and act them out In their every
day life. Of course most of them lire
too cunning to express them In plain
English.
I wonder myself at "A Lady's" pre
sumption when she speaks of free
born Americans with so much con
tempt. But I think she is afraid tho
"common herd" may become Insubor
dinate (.as "A Gentleman" once aald),
coin releasing the mechanism which
permits hi m to turn on tha ■witch,
When the paid tor supply is exhausted,
ii warning nicker announces the ap
proach of darkness and tin* machine
thus virtually demands "your money
or your life." Biol machines for the
sale of llliiinlnnnts are not great suc
cesses from the standpoint of the sell
er, because they Incline to teach
economy to the consumer, The major
ity of people never take time to look
at the ordinary meter and many of
them have never learned to read one
anyway, but when the money la called
for constantly the householder Is found
to he more careful In seeing that
"holes are not burned In the daylight"
or current otherwise wasted. As tin*
sellers of pas and electricity are in
terested In having good sized bills,
they do not rush i., adopt tho eco
nomical slot-meters.
in figuring out what a cent's worth
of electricity will do, the statistician
haa found that II will drive a twelve-
Inch fan for ninety minutes, heat a
pound smoothing Iron for fifteen
minutes, make four cups of coffee in
.-in electrical percolator, cook .i good
sized steak, heal a luminous radiator
elfthl minutes, bring to a boll two
quarts of water, drive a dentist's drill
four hours and run ■ pianola one
hour.
m • .
One of the big manufacturers of elec
trical machinery Is making some tur
bine driven electrical units of 14,000
--kilowatt capacity, To appreciate what
power these great engines will generate
one must have It expressed In com
prehensible terms. What is technically
known as the fifth stage element Is it
big wheel twelve feel eight Inches In
diameter Inch, when going at full
speed, rotates at the rate of 750 revo
lutions it minute. If it were running
on a railroad track it would travel . 80
miles a minute, or from New York to
San Francisco In nine and a half hours.
The rotating mechanism weighs ninety
tons, yet so perfectly is it mounted that
It can be turned with one finger. One
of those units would light 350,000 Six
teen candle power electric lights,
enough to illuminate 600 miles of hall
way ten feet wide or supply an arc
light for every 150 feet between New
York and Chicago.
A new thing in electricity is an elec
trically-heated garment, a sort of bath
robe having 7000 feet of wire woven
between the lining and the outer cloth.
It la so constructed that It is perfectly
pliable and the wire adds an additional
weight of only twenty ounce.; to It. A
110-VOlt current, either alternating or
direct, produces gradual warming. con
tact may be established with the elec
tric light system of any ordinary house.
Not long ago an enterprising the
atrical man staged l.at he called an
electrical ballet. There were dozens of
chorus girls wealing costumes which
could be lighted with myriads of tiny
electric bulbs. The dresses wore wired
and the little bulbs hidden away. Con
tact was mad,- i,*, their escorts holding
the wires In their hands and pressing
them against a metal plate at the back
of the girls' waists. The suit Is said
to have afforded a beautiful and unique
spectacle, and by a well-organised sys
tem of handling the wires It completely
mystifies the audience as to the source
of tlie electricity.
ttt
"While discussing the electric elevator
problem a speaker before the electrical
engineering society of Columbia uni
versity stated that th.* 8000 passenger
elevators on Manhattan Island carry
more than 6.000,000 passengers a day.
Roughly speaking, this la twice as
many people us are carried i.v all the
elevated, underground and surface ears
of the city. If each person rides only
fifty feet the aggregate distance trav
eled in this way would be nearly 00,000
miles a day. The Engineering society
of New York recently kept an account
of the expense of elevator service in Its
building, It found thai under condi
tions existing there, which nre said to
approximate the average, it costs about
one cent a round trip to carry passen
gers. At this rate the burough of Man
hattan alone spends $35,000 a day ln
free elevator rides.
In an address delivered In Winnipeg
a few day- ago Professor J. J. Thomp
son estimated that under a high sun
and clear sky the power generated by
the sun amounts to about 7000 horse
power per a.re. He figures that when
the natural resources of America give
out, its people will have mastered the
problem of.using solar energy, and that
the world's business centers may then
... moved to regions like the desert of
Sahara, where sunshine can bo stored
day m and day out throughout the
year. It will then he distributed by big
lectrlcal transmission lines to loss fa
vorable spots for use in industrial ac
tivity.
if the "better class" does not assert
itself more.
She was probably encouraged, too,
by the attitude of the Smartaetter In
Now York, about two weeks ago, who
opposed woman suffrage on the ground
that her cook would he allowed to vote
by her side, which would be too hu
miliating to endure. Then her badge
or tag Idea Is an old one, except tho
servants were obliged to wear them
like the livery or cap ami apron.
They do that because the servant
was so often superior in intelligence
and refinement thai thej might bo
taken for the mistress or master.
Well, let them writhe It may not he
for long. red BLOOD.
BELIEVES GOOD LICENSE LAW
IS BETTER THAN PROHIBITION
■ ' " *"■
LOS ANOELES, March 14.—[Editor
Herald]: It Is a surprise to sco min
isters of the church combining lo fight
the proposed increase In saloon licenses,
fIEVES GOOD LICENSE LAW
! BETTER THAN PROHIBITION
S ANGELES, .Math 1..--[Kdltor
hi]: lt is a surprise to see mm
I of the church combining lo fight
roposed increase ip saloon ho a
od. legitimate way of restricting
the traffic Which, as I take it, the city
council lias In view, and not tho few
dollars more accruing therefrom; the
more BO because, by advocating com
plete prohibition of all alcoholic liquor,
they argue against the tradition of the
church, even against Christianity it
self, for they would have to dispense
with the administration of the most
holy sacrament, which cannot be done
without wine.
They should have more regard for
tho inner man by reforming man's J
« Inner man reforming man's I
ra. ter fr..in within, for by cleansing
.the cup and platter within you have t
the outside clean also. C. F. f
WOULD LIKE TO SEE BETTER
CAR ACCOMMODATIONS I
.LOS ANGELES, March 21.—[Editor I
HeraldJ: Tho street car company has, f?j
however, but more cars running H
aid |: The street car company has,
ever, but few more cars running
than was tin- case live years ago. Tho I
city now has a public utility commls- M
sion which has the power to remedy R.
this evil. The shortage of car seats X
has been mitigated in several eastern S
cities. Tin- Vernon Improvement as- jj
soclation and other like bodies should
demand Immediate action. The local
traction trust operates on the theory J
that a strapholder's nickel will buy 8
just as much as tin* nickel of the pas- 1
senger who secures a seat. _.
J. B. WILLIAMS, j W