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way."
BURBANK—"The Man on the Box."
—Musical extravaganza.
GRAND—"By night of Sword."
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HASOX —Dark.
JLYMPIC—Musical farce.
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THE COST COUNTED
ANOTHER new battleship has been
launched. It is not only the
biggest and best ship in the
American navy, but a credit to
the naval construction of the United
.States. That the skill of American
men should be able to build ,a battle
ship as big as a city block with a
speed of -t' 34 knots per hour, is a sig
nal testimony to the brains, enterprise
and wealth of the people of the United
States.
The bread line is still waiting for a
daily pittance in New York. In the
bread line are always new faces. Every
night there are new chums. Every
night new citizens are driven by des
peration to the ranks of the army of
poverty and humiliation. Many of the
men in the bread line are able-bodied,
skilled workmen.
But neither physical strength nor
their skill avails '.hem In the pursuit
of life, liberty and happiness in the
United States.
The great new warship is named
the Florida. Its estimated cost is $6,
--000,000. That is a good deal of money.
Estimating the average yeariy earn
ings of an American citizen at $IJOO (a
flguTe which is over rather than under
the average— we believe the correct
figure is about $300) it would take the
earnings of a working man during
12,000 continuous years of toil to pay
for the Florida; or, if it would be too
tedious to await one man's accumula
tion of such a stupendous Himalaya of
wealth, 11 would take the total earn
ings of 12,000 men for one year to
build the ship. And the government
could afford to pay living wages to
12,000 of thr unemployed for a year
without spending a dollar more than
has been disbursed for the warship.
There is a curious flaw in the argu
ment of all civilized governments.
They will tell you it is important to
devote the national wealth to the
maintenance of armies and navii
the protection of impoverished citizens,
dying of starvation and worry. Why
wouldn't il )u a good idea to provide
tl.e greatest amount of happiness for
the greatest number of the people be
fore spending millions of dollars on
warships?
PEACEMAKER
THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S visit to
Germany lias been productive of
much good, because with strenu
ous Insistence he has ignored the exist
ence of even a possibility of o clash be
tween the British and the German em
pires, ami, u» the representative of all
tiio English-speaking peoples, ha
assured of the general goodwill of the
Germans.
Prof. Brant, president oi the German
Shakespeare society, gave CoL Roose
i document creating him an honor
ary in> mber of the bo< lety ami making
the statement the society constitutes
••a, close tii- between Germany am the
Enh'iish-Hju-iikiiii,' world."
After that, llngolsm, whether in L«on
dur. or Berlin, "ill have do excuse for
howling for military appropriations.
HIDE AND SEEK
IN HIS article published In the North
American Review entitled "Bide
nnd Seek Politic*," Wooirow Wil
son, president Of Princeton university,
STlves nn analytical review of the gen
eral national political situation and
prospects, leading to the conclusion,
familiar to reader* of The Herald, that
the time is ripe for a return to first
principles, and that nothing less will
satisfy men Who are genuine lovers of
their country and see naught patriotic
or boastworthy In a state of affairs
under which remarkable Inequalities
in prosperity hnve been developed.
Dr. Wilson finds modern political
methods have Interfered with popular
or American government and have sub
stituted an elaborate system of ma
chinery for a simple system of choice
of measure? in accordance With the
foundation doctrine of the frreatest
pood for the greatest number.
He writes: "It is a very interesting
and very vital thing to have come back
to our original problem, to bo obliged
thus to become onoe more thoughtful
partisans of GENUINE! DEMOCRACY.
THE ISSUE IS NOTHING LESS.
■What we need la a radical reform of
our electoral system, and the proper
reform will be a return to democracy.
It Is the high duty of every lover of
puiiliuat iiueiiy iv become a partisan
of such a reform If once he becomes
convinced of It. Another great age
of American politics will have dawned
when men seek once more the means
to establish the rights of the people
and forget parties and private inter
ests to serve a nation."
Dr. Wilson finds publicity Insepar
able from good government. He char
acterizes as outrageous and deteatable
and dangerous the habit which some
city councils and other public bodies
have fallen into of shutting the door
and excluding the public in the persona
of newspaper reporters whenever it
peemeth good in their own eyes.
Secret sessions are the chief causes
of corruption, debauchery and betrayal
of public trust. They give oppor
tunity to the devil—nay, they suggest
opportunity to the go-betweens and
agents of the interests which find it
profitable to Influence legislation by an
argument addressed to the pocketbonks
of weaklings,
At secret sessions, says Dr. Wilson
land he speaks for the American peo
ple) "the public is not present either
in fact or In thought. Committeemen
get into the hahlt of being reticent
and silent about what occurred in the
committee room. AND SOON FIND
THEMSELVES UNDER THE IM
PRESSION THAT IT IS THEIR
OWN PRIVATE AFFAIR, ANYWAY.
The habit spreads to the deliberative
bodies themselves. Boards of alder
men (in Los Angeles the city council)
will often refuse to open their de
bates to reporters or to publish the
names of those who voted nye or no in
the division when the debit.- was
ended. And so wherever we turn,
we find the intimate business of gov
ernment sealed up In confidences of
every kind—CONFIDENCES AGAINST
THE PEOPLE WITH REGARD TO
THEIR OWN AFFATRS: confidences
with regard to the way in which their
interests are to be served and safe
guarded. Public discussions are the
mere formal dress parade of politics."
A general awakening to appreciation
of the rlshts and privileges guaran
teed by Americanism will end the "se
cret meeting" nonsense. A secret ses
sion of a public body is a paradoxical
and preposterous proceeding.
REVOLUTIONARY RELICS
ONE of Washington's swords is the
subject of litigation In Baltimore
courts. A strange fate seems to
dog the relics of the first president.
'< Another of his swords—one which
Lafayette presented to him—was part
of the loot of the Jobn Brown raider?;
when they stormed and s;:cked the
house and released the slaves of Col.
Lewis Washington, whose testimony at
the subsequent investigation was In
some measure responsible for the con
viction and death sentence of poor old
Brown.
All the revolutionary relics should
he gathered in one safe, central na
tional depository. There are many
such relics in the p ibsi BSion of private
families or individuals in Los Angeles.
What is probably the most complete
and valuable collection of pre-revolu
tlonary and revolutionary letters in
existence is in this city in private own
ership.
Unless better care i taken of the
revolutionary letters and relics scat
tered throughout the United States, In
the course of time they are certain to
be lost or destroyed. For instance, the
Ollectlon is only a small
remnant of a Imk trunkful of docu
ments, mo.st nf which v ere burned hy
an Indiffereni and contemptuous
cleaner, who reffarded them as
rubbish.
SAN BERNARDINO
SAN BERNARDINO Ontennlal cel
ebration is a bit; xuccess, and its
climax "f glory and triumph will
come today, which i- I, - ■ day.
(in I. is Angeles daj Greater Los Anse
les will help San Bernardino to
irate In the Los Angeles way. A
patriotic or commemorative celebration
in any community of this me.it slate,
i.s worthy of the heartiest Bupport and
encourage nent of all tin: other com
munlt
In tii- success of a ' elcbratlon like
that -a San Bernardino all California
a vital Interest, for tin
Ban Bernardino Is Californiun history,
and is typically Illustrative of the most
sweeping and impressive social change
of modern times tl < change from
sleepy, delightful ( allforn i of the pad
m to the wlde>awake and still delight
ful (more delightful than ever) Califor
nia of the progressivlstß. Good luck to
San Bernardino, and may it celebrate
many centennials.
LOS ANGELES HERALD: FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 20, 1010.
'<*■>/ / <&$"R.Ntz TT I
F. J. WHIFFEN
THE good citizens of Los Angeles
who value decent government
higher than municipal politics,
will find additional reason for confi
dence in and gratitude to the good
government organization in the char
acter of the candidates whom that or
ganizatlon has induced to offer them
selves to fill two vacancies now in the
city council. One of these candidate?,
Jlr. F. J. Whiffen, for whoso can
didacy the good government Influences
are responsible, represents In his suc
cessful business career in Los Angeles,
and In his character as a citizen de
voted heart and soul to the welfare of
the community in whi h he lives, the
right kind of material with which mu
nlclpal offices should be filled.
Mr. Whiffen lias achieved a suffi
cient success in business to demon
atrate that he is a man to whom the
business affairs of the city may be
safely entrusted, With the full confi
dence that they will be oared for In
a most businesslike and efficient man
ner. Having succeeded in at quiring
a competency which makes it unneces
sary for him t<-> devote nil <>f hlB time
to his private business, he Is in a posi
tion, If elected, to civo to the fullest
extent the time required fur discharg
ing hif duties to the city. He has also
for years past devoted sufficient of
his time, ability and money to the
cause of good government in the city
to demonstrate his loyalty to that
cause, and t" show his fellow citizens
that they may expect at his hands, if
<i. the same sort of government
for which lie lias usorl his personal
influence, his intelligence and his
s as a citizen in the past.
With Mr. Whiffen a member of the
council the rule adopted by our citi
zens at the last election of placing
only mi n of i and ability in
that body will remain unljroken.
According to the year booh of the
department of agriculture it will be
come more and more difficult to effect
successful "corners" in wheat. Many
citizens tin<l it profitable to follow
farming as a profession and occupa
tion und the cry "Back to the land"
ire than it ever meant. Sci
entific farming is Increasing the pro
ductivity of the soil and scientific
fanners will keep up the food supply.
Young Women's Christian associa
tion this week "ill bring the year's
educational work to a dose with an
exhibition and a spi cial program of
great Interest The young Women's
('lirist iaii in 1« "i f the most
practically useful of the helpful or
ganizations f"i' which Greater Los An
geles is famous.
Good luck t l' San Bernardino in it
centennial iel brai ion. Thi historical
Interests of Ban Bernardino are i:, ;;r ■ it
measure those of Southern California.
Los Angeles "ill do all in its power to
make the Han Bernardino celebration a
sue, ess in the Los Angeles way.
Any person caught chopping up or
otherwise maltreating the name or San
Bernardino during the centennial cele
-1,- ition will forfi it his reputation
among ti Itlzens of the busy and su<
cessful contennlal celebrant to which
we send pood luck wishes.
When we read of the commit
of an old school teacher to .'in institu
tion where lie will have to associate
with feeble-minded paupers the neces
sity for an old age pension plan be
. omeg overwhelmingly apparent
-pi,,. of Qood Government
speaks for itself, and is the "in I
(luent testimony to the efficiency of
the Los Angeles Good Government
way.
The Lios .Angeles way is to insist on
a square deal from everybody—includ
ing bodiless and soulless bodies called
corporations.
Railway Method of Paving Streets
State Press Echoes
SANE FOURTH
The supervisors arc still inclined to
coquet with the Idea of removing the
sane useful prohibition of fireworks
on the Fourth of July.
The fire of 1908 and its consequent
array of shacks made it compulsory
with us to put an embargo on the
thitherto barbarouV frenzied fashion of
racking nerves and endangering lives
and property as an evidence of appre
ciation of the glories of the nation's
birthday.—San Francisco News.
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TYPOGRAPHICAL BOGIE
A typographical error, the h.is;ie of
tli- newspaper office, in a heading in
Thursday's Searchlight gave wrong
the date of the Pn ibyterian concert,
hut as the date glvi v has passed It is
not likely that there was any misun
derstanding, as the text iif the story
was correct The positive date of the
concert is- Wednesday. May 18.—Bed
ding Searchlight.
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THE INSANE FOURTH
"The bloody, brutal, foolish Fourth."
as one exchange terms it: the silly.
senseless, ear-splitting Fourth, is now
being attacked hip and thigh by the
newspaper writers. Borne .;eclare the
celebration which depends for Its suc
on the noisi- produced is idiotic. —
Humboldt Standard.
ON THE DUMP
The Tnggart machine in Indiana Is,
to use it» operator own language,
"on the dump." It will he the glad
dest, happiest funeral ever held in the
middle west.—Humboldt Standard.
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ACIDIFIED MILK
Secretary Balllnger Iris been a very
til humored witness in Ills own behalf.
His milk of human kindness may have
been acidified by his white house
whitewash.—Oakland Enquirer.
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RACY POST CARDS
The local postoffli <• officials have
received orders from Washington cau
tioning them to exercise the utmost
care in admitting racy post cards to
tin- mails. — Madera Tribune.
Far and Wide
COMET POETRY
Among the Ktari which now prevail.
i nli h it wears II ■ rich
1,-., ,| | HOI p of lit!)! V. ■ call 0 tail,
We don't know which Is switch.
The wlrcleai telrernph is son I,
The horseless carriage, plover,
nut would we !■■ i us. If wo could,
A tailless comet? Never!
—Christian S^lonre Monitor,
YOUNG CARNEGIE HEROINE
T.ittlc Violet Allen, aged 3 years, is
probably the youngest Individual for
whom application for a Carnegie medal
has ever boon mado.
This little brown eyed, golden' >■
baby's qui'i< wit iind rapid toddling
were the means of Bavlng "Joey" Mc-
C'ann, hair year her senior, from
drowning.—Milwaukee Free Press.
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BETTER THAN MONEY
Governor Hughes nan consented tp
adopt the same view of life as that
held by Mr. Carnegie—that there are
things better than money. Mr. Hughes,
however, will put the matter to a more
practical test than Mr. Carnegie has
yet managed to secure.—"Washington
Star.
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WHAT'S THE USE?
The absent minded professor My
tailor- has i>m on,' button to., many on
,i. i must rut It off. That's
funny; now there'll ;i buttonhole too
many. What's the use of arithmetic?
—Paris (France) Bourlre.
ATMOSPHERIC EFFECT
Plans for Insurance graft eve made
.-it meetings held in Sing Sing prison.
Nothing like getting the proper atmos
phere.—Wall Street Journal.
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BUT HE WONT
ir Mr. Carnegie is determined i" die
poor hfl liiis only i" go i" tli" res ua
of Jjberla. Nevt Orleans Tlmen-Demo
crat.
COOK'S WEALTH
ic giiem 6 i i reallj Bolden, in-. I 'ooh
j w „,,,. Florida Timo.--
Union.
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Elves the widest latitude to correspondent*,
but assume! no responsibility for their view*.
Letters must not exceed 300 words.
WOMEN WILL AID REFORM
IF GIVEN THE BALLOT
LOB. ANGKLKS. May 17.—[Editor
Herald]: A few days ago some ques
tions were submitted in your columns
on woman's suffrage, which no one
seems to have answered. The first
states woman are more conservative
than men, use the heart more than the
head, love and affection more than In
tellect and reason as men (In, and
asks if their Interference In politics
would not tend to stagnation Instead
of progress.
Is it true they are more conservative?
Are they not in the lead in reform
which means change, very radical,
often? Men cling to party organiza
tion, and will let an old moil-grown
evil decay in the very center of civil
ization, poisoning all around, for fear
Its removal might cause the equally
! moss-covered and decaying political
structure to topple. Rut women use
their ballots where they have them to
pry away, bit by bit, the vile monster.
That they would not use their intel
lect or reason seems passing strange,
when we consider the hundreds of
thoroughly trained, intelligent college
women in our land, with the equally
competent business and literary wo
men.
Some years ago in one of our largest
cities there was a large wholesale
hardware house of, let us .say, John
Smith & Daughter. A woman in a
business like that might have a modi
cum of intellect and a wee grain of
reason. Alice Freeman Palmer, presi
dent of Wellesley college, and a dozen
others like her—Frances Willard, or
ganizing one of the great and most
useful bodies of women; Harriet
Beecher Btowe, writing a book -that
created a revolution in our govern
ment; Helen Hunt Jackson, doing the
same for our Indian policy; Helen
Gould, managing her millions for the
good of humanity; Mrs. Wesley, caring
for her nineteen children, one of whom
founded the great Methodist church;
Queen Victoria, ruling in the fear of
God and with great care and tact, her
million* of subjects— these and hun
dreds of thousands of others in all
walks of life show that women know
intellect and reason. "As men do."
Yea, verily. EMMA H.
TITLES TO BLYTHE RANCH
LAND GOOD, IS OPINION
LOS ANGELES, May 18.—[Editor
Herald.]: In yesterday* Herald, on
flip first page, whs an article on the
Palo Verde land which may Rive a
wrong Impression a* to the settlement
ol the land and the settlers' wrong«.
By looking up the files <>f the daily pa
peri one year ago this coming June
you will find that.the settlers all fled
to the mesa to nave themselves and
live stock, and the owners of the
Blythe ranch worked day and night to
protect their levees, and their ditches
were all washed level by the high
water, in fact, at the town of Ran
nriis tho water stood up to the founda
tion of Hotol Rannells, which was de
serted by all.
The stage lino did not run for weeks
after. Because they took money from
i rogpectlve settlers to show thorn where
the locations wrrr. If the state wins
they will have to refund the money so
tak< ii.
Hence the roar hy the Rannells band
company. 1 was there (luring the. high
water and there is IR> question hut that
obtaim d by the Blythe ranch are
good because it certainly is over
flowed land. J. V. MURPHY.
COMET BRINCS ELECTRICITY
FROM SUN TO US, SAYS J. R. K.
LOS ANGELES, May l».—[Editor
Herald]: I would like to enter a pro
test against the calling of the present
cornel a "vagabond." The name is a
misnomer, for our celestial visitor is
not. a vagrant. with no settled purpose,
but is one of the greatest blessings
the Creator has vouchsafed to mankind,
Its function being the ny>dlum whereby
the planet is charged by or with elec
tricity from the sun, which is an elec
tric orb. Ail vegetation an well as
animal life requires this vitalising en
ergy. This moment, while I write this,
the comet is directly overhead, as well
,-is the. sun. both of them symbolical of
the eternal -spirit—light, love, mercy
and benevolence. 1. R. K.
1 ■■ - . fc >" tis. Li-
Perhaps Comet Will Cause New
Thought Leading to Parcels
«T IFE" says! "When John Wana-
I i' maker was postmaster general
•*-* he explained why wo could
not have a parcels post. 'Then' are
four Insuperable obstacles.' he said,
when asked why wo could not have
what England and Gorman" has. The
first is the Adams Express company,
the second is the American Express
company, the third is the Wells-Fargo
Express company and the fourth \M
the United States Express company." "
Wannmaker might have added with
out prejudice to the truth that these
four 'Insuperable obstacles" might
easily be contemplated In one greater
and more insuperable obstacle. If that
may bo; namely, the lack of stamina
and desire to deal a legislative blow
that would bust the express trust In
the Carrying of parcel*, thereby really
doing something for the general wel
tare of the public.
When shining examples of welfare,
In public affairs In other nations me
pointed to, the clamor Is made that
"conditions ore different In this coun
try." They are different only in so
far as we choose to make them dlf-
Creamery Butter Combine Illustrates
Trust Methods of Raising the Prices
Athanpoutft of the testimony
of the president of the Hlgin, Ill
hoard of trade before the
l.odere food committee might he placed
in the hands of the proper federal au
thorities as a basis for an Investiga
tion under the law against conspiracy
to fix prices. The creamery butter
combine, if we accept the frank admis
sions of President John Newman M
to it* mode of operation. Is about the
most oppressive combination in re
straint of trade yet brought to li^'ht
by any of the agencies employed to
fathom the cause of the high cost of
living-
There fere no creameries at Klein, yet
what is known as the quotation hoard,
comprised of five members of the board
of trade, arbitrarily fixes the price of
creamery butter for producers of that
article as far nway us lowa, and prac
tically for consumers everywhere. \\ <■
say "practically," because if a butter
dealer should cut the prices fixed by
the little coterie of all powerfuls at
Elgin he would he expelled from the
organisation of farmers, creamery men
Is Manufacture of Millionaires
of Real Benefit to the Human Race?
IS THE making of millionaires a
benefit to the human race? An
drew Carnegie seems to think so.
Speaking to the National Press club at
Washington he boasted of having made
forty-two millionaires in plttsburg.
lie even advised the newspaper men
that only chance prevented him from
going into their business, in which case
he might have made millionaires of ail
of them. This is unlikely, because
the business does not lend Itself to
that exploitation of monopoly which is
Mr. Carnegie's method of making mil
lionaires. It is more than likely thai
h man cf so little Imagination and
Bense of humor would have remained
poor himself in the. newspaper busi
ness.
To return to the initial question, the
millionaire per so is rather a poor
creature. Mr. Carnegie himself Is
neither amusing nor profitable, and
many of the Plttsburg blacksmiths he
made millionaires are disgusting. Yet
money is a vast power for good, and
rich men have been blessings to sod-
Rockefeller's Bible Class Members
Stung by Reason of the High Prices
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR..
was re-elected vlce-presldnt of
Young Men's Bible class of the
Fifth avenue Baptist church yesterday
evening, receiving seventy-six votes
and his opponent, M. A. Nicholas,
eleven votes. George F. Tafel was re
elected president, receiving seventy
votes, and his opponent, A. C. Thomas,
sixty-eight votes.
The occasion was a class dinner, the
price of which was 60 cents. The
charge heretofore had been 50 cents a
plate, but owing to the prevailing high
prices, 10 cents was added. The menu
follows:
Clams ,
Rice Soup.
Hoßßt Beef.
Mashed Potatoes. Beans. Peas.
Asparattia.
Lettuce Kalad. Krult .Salad.
Strawberry Shortcake.
Cheese. Crackers. Coffee.
Buffalo Health Commissioner Condemns
Kissing as Menace to National Health
(Fresno Herald)
DR. FKANCIS E. FRONCZAK
health commissioner of Buffalo,
has turned lii« scientific batteries
on the noxious habit of kissing, and de
livered a lecture recently in his home
town which ihould have made every
nearer vow never to kiss again. Noth
ing, howeVer, is recorded tin to the Im
pression* the learned man made on his
audience; though if any faith IS to be
pinned i" what he says, one-half the
ills to which human flesh la heir is from
the awful practice of kissing on the
lips. There Is then only one tiling to
do, If any one wlshoa the prai tlce of
kissing on the lips to .survive, and that
is to be careful a* to who one kisses.
It would lie as well for parties indulg
ing in this pleasant excreise to go
about provided with a health certifi
cate, proving that his or her lungs are
not the homes of countless microbes,
Los Angeles Way of Eliminating
Loan Shark from Pay Roll Commended
LOS ANGELES hoe begun a practice
, in regard to her street laborers
* that la an economy for all con
cerned. No hardship falls on anybody,
nobody loses his Job, and the work goes
on uninterruptedly. The only loner is
the loan shark already fat with usu
rious profits. , , .
All iiiis is trained by the simple de
vice of paying the men directly out or
the city treasury Instead of by war
rant "A weekly evening pay line It
la called On Saturday nighta the men
call and collect their wages In cash,
| and that Is the end of It ,
(Pun Jodc Mw<*ury. 1
fcront. That they are hotter In the
difference Is not always . apparent—
notably In the Incongruity of the rea
soning' that It Is a good thing for the
government *to carry letters for the
people at nominal cost i^hd a bad thing
to carry parcels for the same people
In the same way. Consistency, how
over, takes no part of prominence In
the legislative mind.
In America, our self-sufficiency for
bids our profiting by the. precept, ex
ample or experience of nations, which
have lived longer and Buffered more.
1,1k,' the unruly child, we prefer to
linker and experiment wlttl etch new
bubble thai blows from tho wind-bng
of our gaMOUS, dominant, lawmaking
organisations.
Perhaps tin 1 swoop of the comet's
(.in within a few days win fulfill h.
(5. Wells' imaginative prediction and
Infuse into our inconsistent anfl stormy
bralm some really "now thought"
that will sober us Into tho sonHlblllty
of a possible and prnetleable millen
nium. Then congress may cpflso. to bo
for wnnt of business, anil, amonp oth
er delights of common sense, we will
have a parcels post.
(San Jose HnraM)
and sellers, who, President Newman
admits, control the market. The ex
pelled dealer can buy no more cream
ery butter. Is this not equivalent to
n iming the price, the. consumer pays?
If this Is not a plain case of con
spiracy in restraint of trade, then It
would be hard for a monopoly to com
mit an offense of that nature suf
ficiently oppressive to be actionable.
The butter combine would seem to
he on all fours with the manufacturers
of highly specialized goods who fix tho
price at which tho Jobber must sell to
the retailer and what the' hitter shall
charge the ultimate consumer. A sys
tem of penalties ranging from fine to
11 boycotting process is enforced against
those-who rebel Against these, exac
tions I^ast winter New York jobbers
who had been subjected to this sort of
discipline, lodged complaints with the
district attorney, who warned the of
fending manufacturers that they were
violating the law and that if they did
not cease they would bo proceeded
against. Why should not steps be
taken to determine the legal status of
the Elgin creamery combine?
(Danville Cnmrn'rclal-Ncwfi.)
ety from tho beginning; most a bless
ing indeed wht-n they sought their own
selfish ends by means not degrading to
the moral sense or corrupting to the
reason.
The value of the millionaire when
made depends upon the method of the
manufacture. The best product Is that
Which is longest in the making, like,
the most ilnished gentleman. The mil
lionaire machine made while you wait
Amelia of the shop aim is sticky to cul
tivated tastes, like, fresh paint. That
is because, in the nature of things, you
cannot rob and remain a pleasant per
son.
The forty-odd millionaires Mr. Car
negie made out of his iron-mongers in
Plttsburg, by admitting them to share
in the loot of his monopoly, have made
it stink like an exploded cess pool, be
. iiuse they had no conception of money
except a* a servant of the appetites
mi.l lusts, and no appreciation of a
higher right to the enjoyment of any
good from a dinner to a wife than thnt
conferred by its possession.
i NVw Virk Hera!rt>
The feature of the dinner was one
tninute speeches by all members pres
ent, in which they told how the class
work had benefited them. When Mr.
Rockefeller was called upon he said:
• 'This roll call makes me feel as if
I was serving on the grand Jury all
night as well as all day. v7B have tO
answer to our names every morning
that wo get there so a* to be sure
that we are there and that we do not
overpaid,,"
Mr. Rockefeller suggested that the
class will be under difficulties while the
new church ll building and that it is
i then when the loyalty of the members
will show Itself.
■I do not know where we will meet,"
he added. "It would hf a shame to
have any man stay away just because
our meeting place will be a little harder
to find. We shall meet some place,
*yen if we have to wait to meet in
heaven."
for It would be highly Inconvenient to
be denied a kiss on the ground that the
doctor's certificate could not be shown
proving that the person was a per
fectly klssable creature. •?.'.•*•
Dr. Fronezak avers that he does not
wish to rob the world of one of Its
most Innocent pleasures, but urges that
the public weal Is far above the kiss,
and if the kiss Is dangerous to the
public weal, then kissing must stop.
But how to stop this the learned man
docs not advise an anxious community.
Now listen to what he has to say, and
ponder over these words:
"Robbed of Its romance," continued
Dr Fronczak, "there is no more per
nicious influence which modern phy
sicians and health officials generally
have to fight than klslng. Is there no
other way In which .affection can bo
expressed than In such a dangerous
manner?" .. ,
'Sacramento Bee)
The first pay nlffht aaved 4UI men
$100.25 in 25-cent pieces. The 25-cent
pieces represent what they would have
paid to a loan shark to discount their
warrant!.
The city itself aaved $-'B0 on the tlmo
of the men, which heretofore has been
ii i through their having to leav* work
In time to ro after the warrants
which thry suhHC(|uently discounteil.
The saving by t|ii* sllsht Improve
ment in flnacM Will amount to $23,700
I year. It Ih so oaally done that the
wonder \b that It was not accomplished
lung ago.