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CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
Secretary Balllnger Is also a failure
as a resigner.
What doth it profit a tariff law if it
gain revenue and lose votes?
Speaking of aviation, some I-os An
gelea real estate is no slouch at it.
Motto for the aqueduct enterprise:
"Millions for defense, but not one
cent for tribute."
"Why not agitate now for safe and
sane weddings—particularly with re
spect to ccifts to the bride?
Rockefeller wants a universal re
ligion established. Mot much; he
would control It in a few years.
Another referendum, this time against
the girder rail. The corporations are
inviting a new lot of public raillery.
New York may give up her antedi
luvian horse cars, but some of her
Btreet railways are still badly spav
ined.
Richard Watson Gilder, editor of the
Century, left $37,000. Rockefeller may
leave a billion. Which is. the more
"successful" character?
In other words. Germany has r.o in
tention of dispatching General Buttln
sky and a force of men to represent
German interests in Niclragua.
When the price of tobacco gors up,
ask Mr. Smoker how lie like- a tariff
thai enables the tlllst to do what 11
pleases in the matter of pri
A giant firecracker cause,] a $300,
--000 file in Btroudsburg, Pa. And yet
a lot of kindly foil:' say: "Oh, let
the children have their fireworks."
A rich American paid $800,000 for a
drinking cup in Englnnd. Another
proof that the tariff has made tlv
American people wonderfully prospei
ous.
Tlie Boston Herald Is In a receiver's
hands becaui t a debt of ?.'..'
n< Ij I loi ton gives her newi i i -
per men larger credit than some „tli< r
(.ill' :-.
Mr. iiryan ■ to be si nator
in order that !'<"■ may stay in Nebraska
and I'm.l liquor fu;h'. That
is to say, Vlr, B yan declines to "havi
Bom<
Congressman Longworth Bays the
people will like the new tariff when
they understand it better. The more
they understand the men who passed
It the less they like tlu-in.
turning California congressmen
cay they are proud of congress. But
election day will show that la a very
different thing from California being
proud of her representatives.
Esthetic people are pondering wheth
er Governor Hughes' feather duster
whiskers will 100 well in front of th«
black silk background of the supreme
court sown.
The controller of the treasury has
refused to O. K. a bill of S4 for
gloves for Secretary Knox's coach
man. But this noble stroke of economy
hardly wipes out the record of the
recent billion dollar congress.
Now they are trying to oust Edward
F. Oroker, head <if the New Y"i'k (ire
department, who Is said to hi the
"best lire chief," on trumped up
charges. Like Kohler of Cleveland,
Croker is finding out that the Beast
still lias a fond appetite for faithful
official*.
JOHNSON HITS BACK
Thk enormity <>f Mm tactical blun
der made by the Southern Pa
cific mill-mill's faithful HKont, the
secretary of the Republican stati com
mitti-o, when li(^ sent out his letters tn
tim five party aa&tranta for thp k»v
emonhlp is made plain by th<> reply
of Hiram Johnson,
The letter was sent with the mani
fest purpose of letting four of them
reply thai they are "regular" and loyal
to the party, and making Johnson,
either by silence or otherwise, stamp
himself as a proselyte and therefore
unworthy the support of "good" Re
publicans to whom tho party banner,
even when borne by such a man as
William F. Herrin, means much. Mr.
Johnson has not failed to avail him
self of the opportunity to steal all the
thunder In the situation.
Hi? letter reveals tho attempted coup
of the machine olomont ns tho monu
mental politlr.il blundor of :i genera
tion. If Johnson had plannod with
nil his wits for n chance to pain ;i
wider publicity for his proofs of south
rrn Pacific control in California ho
could not have secured so good an op
portunity as Irs enemies placed In his
hands, on a silver salver, ns It were.
Mr. Johnson reviews the Incident of
Chester Rowell's resolution in tho state
committee meeting pronounoins
against Southern Pacific Influence In
state affairs, and shows that the
promptness and rase with which it was
laid on tho table was absolute proof
of tho charßOS Johnson has boon mak
ing on the stump, namely, that tho
railroad controls tho party machinory.
Therefore, under the old Mosaic law,
which is embodied in the statutes of
California, "no man can serve two
masters," nnd the Republican of prin
ciple who feels us tho Rowell resolu
tion expressed it is forced to choose
a course away from that mapped out
by tho party committee.
This fives Mr. Johnson the chance
to maintain that the state committee
no longer represents the rank and filP
of the party, and is therefore not Re
publican, and that any member who
concurs In the action of tabling the
Unwell resolution is not a Repuhiiean.
Mr. Johnson says on this point:
1 say to you, therefore, that
your committee is not a true Re
publican committee, nor do I rec
ognise it ns such; and I say to each
c.f its Individual* who concurs in
the attitude of the committee to
ward the Rowell resolution, tlint
he Is not a true Republican. Your
committee confessedly represents
not the Republican party, but TVil
liam F. Herrin and the Southern
Paoiflc company. Your communi
cation merits no reply from any
frc<' or Independent Republican In
the state of California.
This is perfectly pood logic. If the
leaders of an army so conduct them
selves that the army no longer will
follow them, they are not leaders any
longer. That Is the exact situation in
California today. The constituted au
thorities of the Republican party are
shorn of their following. More than
that. Glfford Pinchot, fresh from
Oyster Bay Bnd the real national Re
publican leader, is on hit way to de
nounce them as renegades, and Hiram
Johnson as the real leader of the real
party in California. Their credentials
are not Republican, but Southern Pa
cific. How. then, can they assume to
represent the party and read out others
who outnumber them ten thousand to
one?
Both facts and reasoning are with
Johnson. He has utterly confounded
Ills enemies, who emerge from the dis
< ussion discredited us leaders and un
fit, as ludicrously poor politicians, tn
assume to be the head of any move
ment calling for tactical skill. Finally,
Mr. Johnson comes squarely to the
point and gives an explicit answer to
the question asked of him:
1 YVriJ, SUPPORT AND URGE
THK ELECTION OF ANY RE
PUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOX
GOVERNOR WHO HONESTI/?
WILL ENDEAVOR TO KICK OUT
OF THK REPUBLICAN PARTY
AND THK GOVERNMENT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
WILLIAM 1'". HERRIN AND THK
SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY.
There is nothing equivocal about
that. It is somewhat better than the
reply of Alden Anderson, who says, in
effect, that he will support a yellow
dog if it has the party label, ne
he ::■ •■regular" and for the party
every time.
An outsider who does not profess
allegiance to either side must admit
thai Johnson cornea out of the con
troversy stamped by it not merely a
b< tier leader to follow, but an infinite
ly better in than those who
sought by a ludtcn ■ to bring
confusion on him.
ANOTHER REFERENDUM
THE city of l.os Angeles ia threat
ened with the expen< c md nuis
anci of another election to decide
it controversy between the municipal
authorities and prlvata corporations.
The Btreel railways are preparing for a
referendum un the question of whether
t }i■ y shall be led to lay ihe
groove-rail on pave I as the
engineering deparl b, or the
T-rail, which haa been used up to the
present.
The ordinance calls the
groove-rail on streets ' ■
It should be undei ot all over
the railway systems; and tl
la ohlefly twofold: Th< groove rail Is
better for the life of the pavement and
very much hotter for vehicles becaui c
;t docs not stand out bo much . i
ole to wheels as the T-raii. >
consideration! we sn strong elsewhere
i „it few law cities In the
permit the T-rail to be laid within
the busy traffic districts. The expe
. of "i ber and oKi< r cities ■
to be worth something', even If there
were no other light on the subject.
What are tlie objections of the com
to the groove-rail? It
them morej-e rather selfish view if the
. | 1., tter for the public at
large, and especially bo from the highly
rous and wealthy corporations of
i. Angeli Second, it wears uut the
imi what sooner, and also wears
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out the flanges of the wheels, which is
again a matter of unwilling expense
for the companies. Third, the groove
may get clogged with something; but
even in cities that have much snow
and ice this is not considered a valid
objection, and here that would be elim
inated. Fourth, that obstructions may
cause cars to leave the track, and this,
like the former reason, is much exag
gerated. Cars sometimes leave the>
track from T-ralls.
M'>st street railways fight the groove
rail, but chiefly because of its gTeater
cost. That is far from a public-spirited
attitude. Nothing else is expected in
some cities, but in Los Angeles, where
the city has been generous with the
companies, and exceptionally pleasant
relations exist between them .and the
authorities, it is surprising. It can
only succeed in dispelling a large part
of the good will, or, worse than that,
create a mutual hostility.
The Impression Is being created by
the misguided actions of corporation
managers that they will not submit to
proper restrictions or regulations by
the municipal authorities without mak
ing it cost the taxpayers dearly to en
force the ordinance. An election on
this matter will only succeed In edu
cating citizens on the subject of rails
and the reasons why the companies
don't want them, and the public should
insist on them. The cost In the end is
likely to he greater to the companies
in money and lost good ttill than if
they submitted gracefully.
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
UP In San Francisco they are hav
ing trouble with a situation that
is similar and vet dissimilar to
the situation In Los Angeles with re
lation to the aqueduct. Partly im
pelled by a desire to get in line with
the times in municipal enterprise and
partly driven to It by the arrogance of
the Calhoun roads, San Francisco has
decided to build a .street railway— the
Geary street line, so called. It is hav
ing trouble finding purchasers for the
bonds.
Tho banks of the city have taken an
attitude that leads the Call to believe
that the public utility corporations
have persuaded them not to support
the enterprise, and it reads them a'
fatherly lecture on the folly of listen
ing- to such influences. It would, the
Call points out, be a very bad thins
for them to let tin- impression get out
that they are trying to binder a pop
ular movement merely to support cap
italized privilege.
The incident has a bearing .1 re as
showing strikingly the unselfish
patriotism of the banks of Lou An
geles in its present emergency. They
have, at considerable loss to them
selves, placed large sums at the dis
posal of the city, sacrificing a ' rate
of interest that is profitable for one
that, is, under local conditions, not to
their advantage. No finer display of
genuine civic spirit was ever made
than that of the Los Angeles institu
tions, and it Is particularly pleasing to
see it in contrast with the situation in
the state metropolis.
It only goes to show that the Los
Angeles spirit Is a thing th.'it is in
digenous here; that few other towns
have V': ar|d th'" BP'rit is tllo l<ey
that explains why Los Angeles is out
stripping other cities in rate of growth.
People like to cast anchor in a town
of the kind.
A billion dollar congress means that
the United States spends (300, ,000
every working duy in the year, a
portion of it in the bailiwicks of sen
ators and representatives to Btrength-
Ir fences, Put that in your pipe
and smoke It.
The spy who rllmbed in a. garret
and mussed himself all up to get a peek
at Commli loner Wellborn wen I to a
lot of usi less trouble. Mr. Wellborn
is on exhibition almost any day from
a to 5 without charge to the public.
His Answer
California Topics
Conservation la a fine noun ling word, but
when the aims of those who ate urging it most
loudly are closely scrutinized, the fact is dis
closed that their chief purpose ie to save at
the expense of California for those people of
the cast, who have long since grabbed up all
the timber in light In that region and now
hold It In private ownership. California Is
ready and willing to conserve her timber re
sources, but she Insists that fairness demands
that the conservation should be for the benefit
of Califomlans. — Ban Francisco Chronicle.
Millionaire Bradbury Mcmi to be in earnest
In the scheme to help discharged men from
; state prison to get a new start. He deserves
i credit for this philanthropy. A homeless man
wearing a familiar state suit of clothes, with
only $5 In hid pocket and liked to prison ways,
stands little show of getting anything to do.
Mr. Bradbury proposes to dress him decently,
give htm a rest and a loan and help him to a
job. He could make no better use of his ample
means.— San Francisco Chronicle.
Pome Interesting figures are given In Pun's
Review showing the extent of San' Francisco's
trade with Alaska. In less than three months,
from March 23 to June. 17. cargoes valued at
$2,057.6<X) were shipped from this port to Alas
«.: During this Interval forty-six ships were
pressed into this service, the cargoes Including
tin and other materials for curing and packing
flsh, and food and other supplies for the can
ner?.—Pan Francisco Post.
I The citizens of Palo Alto nre complaining
that there are too many college men among
the officials of the municipality. To rub it in,
they add that there should be a "bigger repre
sentation of the claps of people who do the
most for the progress of the community."
This seems rather hard en the collegians. —
San Francisco Post.
The views on college football of President
David Ptarr Jordan nf Stanford university
hay*» been again declared. President Benja
min Ide Wheeler of ib" University of Califor
nia Is In full agreement with them. The Cal
ifornia universities manage to thrive with a
safe and sane game.—Providence. Journal.
Tom Watson, twice Populist candidate for
president, has announced that he ha* returned
to the Democratic party. Hi* probably heard
that Bryan was likely to run for president
on the Prohibition ticket and hoped to step
into his shoes.— Riverside Press.
Announcement come? that the prt™e of cigar
ettes will go up because of an advance In the
price of tobacco. But why should the advance
In the price nf tobacco anVet the price of
cigarettes?— Crass Valley Union,
As Jim Jeffries claims that h<» does not
know what happened, or how it happened, his
papa and mamma might take him around to
the moving pictures and let him see for him
sHf.— Plttsburg Times.
A New York father planned to name his new
baby "Jeffries," but chnnn'-'d his mind after
the Reno fight. That baby will never know
how much he owes to Mr. Johnson.—Philadel
phia North American.
It will be a wnste of effort and whitewash
for the committee to attempt to exonerate Bal«
linger. The people have already arrived at a
verdict nnd they are not likely to reverse it.—
Woodland Democrat.
California will not quite be in noftltion to
promulgate a declaration of Independence until
such time as It raises enough hens to lay
enough eggs to supply Its own tables.—
dena Star. ,
Wives are brronilner moro and morn sensitive,
An rvnkland woman actually wants a divorce
because her hi band ■'■■ pped hot cigarette
aahf-s down her back. San Francfsco Chron
icle.
1 Tn Kansas there Is a jiHro who givea hoboes
■entencea of from five «■!.'!> a to six months'
labor on the farms. Such a eytorn In Cali
fornia micht en » long way toward solving the
orchard labor problem.— Sacramento Roe.
Wizard Burbank nan Invented st seed)*
prune, Q, A. MoHenry nay* rturbank would
make n lift if he'd Invent a cubical pea that
wouldn't roll off a knife Dayton Journal,
One bl-plam has fallen top or another
:n Oak)and, Cat., nmi they came neai making
a nuui sandwich Bavannali !':■
THOSE MOVING PICTURES
(Efforts are heinjr mnde to bap th« Jef
fries Johnson fight pictures from the mov-
Ing 'lire ■howl.)
"Oh, mother, may I go out to see,
The moving picture show?"
"No, no, my lad;
They are awfully I mi.
Anil I cannot let you go!
"They're, showing. I'm told, a brand new film
Of ii"- North Pole, bare and bleak.
And you might catch cold
At the light unrolled,
Ami keep In bed for a week.
"There are pictures of Roosevelt .shooting
bears
And elephant!, too, with vim.
Which might Influence you
The lame to do
And strive to bo Just Ilka him.
"There's another film of a Jail escape
\Vhrr« a prisoner quit* his cell,
And you, no doubt.
Might also break out —■
Though with what I cannot tell.
"There are pictures of aeroplanes, they nay,
To got you up In the air.
So from shows bo gay *
You must keep away
And never he tein'pted there.!"
—rail! West 111 New York World.
Public Letter Box
ADVOCATES GOVERNMENT
OWNERSHIP OF RAILROADS
Editor Herald: Boingr In I.os An
geles the last three weeks, reading all
the city papers, I have noticed that
they are all antl-rallroad rule and
for good government, except one, that
is always antl-everythlng hut boss
mie and bad government. Yet none
of thorn suggests any measure to rid
us of railroad government that was in
augurated during our Civil War under
the then very popular plea that a
transcontinental railroad was a neces
sity as a war measure. Under that
plea special privilege seekers found
very little difficulty in establishing the
precedent of government building rail
roads* for them to own.
It was the beginning of our degra
dation to the slavery of railroad gov
ernment instead of free government
"of, by and for the people." From
then utnil now railroads have been
mainly built by subsidy of cither the
government or the people, while tlio
latter have been .spasmodically fighting
for government control of railroads,
only resulting in firmer railroad con
trol of government.
It Is not too much to say that the
government could build all our rail
rn.ids for three-fifths of what It cost.
A few years ago Ryan, one of tlv;
greater railroad magnates, testified
that "90 per cent of all railroads are
built with bonds." Had he said 39
per cent are built with the proceeds of
stock and bonds sold by their promot
ers he would doubtless have testified
equally truthfully. What constitutes
the value of their stock and bonds be
fore they are invested in railroad con
struction? It can't be the coot of Is
suing them, because that Is merely
nominal. It is the fact that our laws
virtually guarantee to all promoters
of public utilities the right to charge
such rates for their services as will
pay a reasonable Inteerst on their In
vestment! over and above all running
expenses, and our courts hold that D
per cent is reasonable.
People must continue to pay this 5
per cut, or more, until they own the.
railroads. And is it not equally ap
parent that it is the credit and ability
of the masses to pay it that actually
builds our railroads, while they don't
own a mile of them? This Is surely
the greatest special privilege gver
granted to any class of men, for it
has produced multimillionaires like
mushrooms.
Government 3 per cent bonds always
have sold at or slightly above par, .al
though not made receivable lor all
government dura. That provlson
Mould make them a circulating me
dium equal in value to any of our
lawful money and probably even more
desirable, because they would be a .in
per cent better savings bank in the.
hands of anyone able to hold them
than will be President Taft'S postal
bavings bank, if It is to pay only 2
per cent to depositors as reported,
With such bonds we could build all
needed railroads and purchase any ex
isting desirable roads by merely pay-
Ing them out directly for such pur
loses, thus saving all expense of ad
vertising and selling them. Then tin;
people would have only to pay .'t per
iilit nil the actual cost of the l<i;uls
in linih nun and control them, instead
of r. per cent on any value railroad
magnates claim their roads have cost.
W. I). HOBSON.
Nordhoff, Cftl., July 12, 1010.
CLAIMS COUNTY HOSPITAL
ADJUNCT TO 2 COLLEGES
Editor Herald: I note that in your
■ r .inly 9 you ifive some publicity
t.i condition! in tlu- county hospital.
I wish to call attention to ru'o l:
"No physician will he permitted to
render any professional service In the
hospital until lie has been regularly
appointed by tli i clean of the medical
department of the University of Cali
fornia or the dean of the College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Los An-'
f;eles, and such appointment approved
by the hospital committee of the board'
of supervisors and by the superin
tendent of the hospital.*;
Why 'liil the hoard of supervisors
pick out two schools and delegate the
full authority of the management of
tii>- county hospital to them? There
are live mod leal colleges in California.
ah graduates of these schools are n -
quired to pnss precisely the same ex
amination before thi Btate board of
llcal examiners and presumably
tlic Rnidii;it. ■ of tmi Si hool arc' as fit
to engage in the practice of medicine
as i!i» ■ the graduates of any of tin 1
others, and yet (or some Inscrutable
reason oui supervlßcn have, without
having Instituted an examination into
tii.'h respective merits, picked out t.\o
Make Up Your Mind to Live
(CruhHin BOSd, In X.•«• Fortj OIOB«)
I found n text for a sermon in an
advertising booklet the other day. it
was a moral to ■ little tale that had
been devised to attract trade to a jew
crly store, but It told such a vital
truth so simply that it seemed to me
there wore people who might never see
the booklet who oould ill afford to do
without thp "moral," which pictur
esquely stated tint "anything that has
made up Its mind to livo can't be put j
out of the game."
it would be difficult, to frame n sen-1
fence that would contain greater truths,
in fewer words. It Is true theoretically, j
and it is true in fact. The secret back
of the survival of the fittest is simply
desire, it was the desire to live that
kept some species from extinction— the
desire to live that bred ability to live.
There are some philosophers who tell
us that it is the desire to live thai
keeps the world in existence. Hoffman
preached that should this desire for
life weaken and wane the end of things
would soon come.
How far this Is true we who are not
great philosophers are not oalled upon
to determine, but we know, and from
our own experience, that there is ho
stronger factor in the universe than
this desire for the continuance of life.
We have seen it in tho case of those
who are ill —in our own case, perhaps
but more conspicuously in those Who
have been seriously injured.- Ask any
physician, and. if he will admit the
fact, he will toll you that he could
never make so many cures if it were
not for the aid that he derives from this
desire for existence on the part of the
patient.
It Is not in a physical sense alone
that this is true, however. The mental
effect of the desire to life is just as
great, and it applies to our business
affairs as much as it does to the life
in our bodies; for there is practical 1}
nothing that will make an enterprise
so certain Of success as the firm desire
for the continuance Of Its existence.
1 suppose it is possible that there may
tie some cases so helpless that no de
(Tee of desire and determination will
make them go, but the probability that
The Things We Do Not Need
Have you ever read the story about
Diogenes—how one day, walking
through a country fair, he saw the
ribbons and the looking glasses and
all the other things that the people
were so eager to purchase. Like nil
mon In search of information, he ex
amined these objects with considerable
curiosity, only to return to a friend
with the remark:
"Lord, how Vnany things them af>
in this world of which Diogenes has
no need;"
Whether authentic or not. the story
has a moral that many of us might
take to ourselves, for though cen
turies have passed sine.' Diogenes
walked the earth, many Of us are still
working ourselves to death fhat w«
may become the possessors of things
that we really do not need, even nfter
we have secured them.
As many philosophers have shown,
it is not the things we need that keep
us poor or that make us feel that we
must do the work of two men. TttOreaU
proved, by his Waldcn Pond experi
ment, thai man could live successfully
and happily and still he of considerable
mi to the world at comparatively
slight cost — a cost quite within his own
earning capacity—if he wai willing to
devote an hour or two a day to the
labor of,making a living.
While few of us would care to carry
this experiment to such an extent,
there is probably no one of us who
could not absorb a little of Thoreau's
philosophy without injury to himself
or to his station 'in life. It is not
necessary that we should build our
selves a hut far from the beaten paths
of civilization. It is not necessary that
we should be content with the simple
fare that Thoreau found so sufficient
for his needs. To many of us life In
a shack, with rice and beans as a
steady diet, would prove stultifying,
but that Is no reason why we should
not learn the lesson that the Concord
recluse took so much pans to tench
us: that we are wasting our lives —
robbing ourselves of happiness—in the
Los Angeles as an Example
The city of Los Angeles has great
reason to bo proud of the enviable
position she occupies among American
cities in point of high civic Ideals.
Those who opposed good government in
I,os Angeles, notably the Times of
that city, predicted all kinds of busi
ness disaster as a result of placing the
city government in the hands of the
most reputable citizens and business
nun who could be induced to devote
their time and energies to city af
fairs. The candidate of the Good Gov
ernment forces whs derisively denom
inated -Uncle. Aleck." Thus,- citizens
who allied themselves on the .side of
civic respectability were dubbed "Goo
lidoa,"
The municipal government of Los
Angeles under Uncle Aleck's Goo Goo
administration easily takes rank
among the most enlightened, clean and
progressive cities of tlic country if,
Indeed, it (Joe» not by common consent
1.m.1 them all. Decency pays. Los
Angela* has proved it. In every line
of comparative statistics Los Angeles
is in the forefront among American
municipalities, and at no time in her
history has her progress along various
lines been BO marked as under her
present reform administration.
schools and have allowed and are al
lowing them to use the county hospital
as an adjunct to tha colleges.
For Dr. Whitman, the superinten
dent of the Institution, I have the ut
most respect and the highest regard,
but the doctor says "that if this class
(osteopaths) as practitioner* are ad
mitted when called upon by patients,
eventually they undoubtedly al&o will
desire to hold clinics." I should like
to ask Dr. Whitman*why osteopaths
have not the name right to hold clinics
in the county hospital that physicians
of other schools of practice have?.
C. A. WHITING.
Los Angeles, July 14.-
SAYS AUTHORS GET LESS
THAN ORDINARY LABORERS
Editor Herald: Recently a corres
pondent to the Letter Box complained
that some of his letters had been
"squelched"' by the editor—letters on
which he had bestowed the most care
and from which he expected the best
result. No doubt there are many other
correspondents who are disappointed
over the nonappcarance of their letters
and who tee] considerable perplexity as
to the cause,
Newspapers nowadays are becom
-1..;," more and more impersonal; that
is. «he individual opinions of writers
are kept subordinate to the policy and
principle that regulate the. paper.
Forceful unil extreme views of cor
respondents, when wholly, in oppoai-
nny one of us may got mlxori up in
such an enterprise is extremely remote.
The tTOUblt with, n\ost of us, however.
is that we do not want things hadly
enough, 'rims, to "want" something
and to "desire" something aro two very
different things.
Possibly nt some time in your llfo
you have been exceedingly hungry; s<>
hungry that you would deem do price
■ too high to be paid for food. You prob-
I niiiy remember with what keen desire,
your appetite urged you to iind some
: thing to i-iit with tim briefest poMtble
i delay, and you may be able to imagine
1 with what intense yearning you would
have looked ai food if it had i n
placed before you and you had been
prevented from eating it.
, a man who has pueed through such
an experience has Mine idea of tho
meaning of the term "desire." It is not
a mere hankering for nn object—lt Is
no) simply a wish to attain a purpose -
thai makes the result possible, it is
only when the desire becomes so rav
enous that it ran scarcely be rrHtrnlned
that it la a sufficient incentive to uc
tlon.
When such n deslro as this is formed
In the mind, SJSd hark Of it them is a
perfeotly clear idea of tho result to
be attained, (allure becomes practical
ly Impossible, The factor thu,t has made
it impossible Is the Intensity of tho
desire to succeed—tho desire for life
that burins I" every heart, and that has
made the continuance of more than
one life possible. With such a desire
hack of a thing) or an enterprise, "it
(ant be put "lit of the game."
Of course, it Is not everybody who
has developed such a capacity for do-
Slre, but this result can be attained by
all who wish to possess It. It means,
however, that one mupt.be able to con
centrate SO intently that, once the nec
essary plan lias been formed, the mind
can picture its- completion so graphical
ly that the desire for its attainment
will Inevitably follow, and follow it will
—When you have learned to master this
art Of concentration which alone will
: si the mental law of attraction in ope
ration.
(New York Glnb.-l
pursuit of things that we could Just as
well do without.
It is here, in fact, that wo find the
basis of true economy. It is here that
ue find tlm solution of the ever Increas
ing problem of the cost of living, for
no matter to what strata of society
we turn, from the lowest to the high
est, we see that the troubles of life
are largely due to extravagance.
It may seem, at first thought, ab-
BUrd to speak of extravagance In con
nection with those who live in the
congested district* of our cities—the
districts that we are pleased to term
"the slums," yet as any student of
sociology will tell you, the extrava
gance there, In proportion to the
amount of money to be spent, is
greater than that which provatfs In
the higher social stratns.
As a matter of fact, 8 story of this
subject shows that It makes practically
little difference where we turn, the
general tendency today Is to spend
money for the things of life that, by
the widest stretch of the imagination,
could not he termed necessities.
Take your own case, for example.
I»ok back over the past week, or
month, and make a note of the various
objects for which you have expended
money. If you can do this —if you can
recall the nature of the expenditures
—you will be amazed (o see how many
of these things might just as well have
been dispensed with.
Ry this I do not mean that It is our
duty to deprive ourselves of every
thing but the hare necessities of life
— that we should live in undesirable
apartments, eating nothing but sim
plest fare, and clothing ourselves in
the cheapest articles of afiparel that
the markets afford. To do this would
not be a good thing, either for us or
for anybody •!«•. At the same time
there is a sane boundary at which
actual extravagance begins, and, as In
vestigations show, the majority of us
have overstepped this mark. We shall
never master the art of right living
until, ns individuals as welt as col
lectively, we got back to it.
(Pasadena News)
Corruption a.nd Indecency in munici
pal affairs are not necessary con
comitants of material progress. The
idea that a city must bo wide open
in its ideas of morality, that its days
must he given up to graft and politi
cal corruption and Its nights to wild
orgies, is the silliest and most shal
low of delusions. Los Angeles Is reap
ing the benefits of her civic uplift.
No other city in the United States has
earned a finer reputation for progres
sive, clean common sense In dealing
with municipal problems.
Mayor Alexander was put in office
in protest against the kind of munici
pal government which hns constituted
a reproach on tho American people.
With a hostile council Inherited from
a former administration he proved his
ability to block the schemes of munic
ipal corruption, proved it so well that
he wa.s recommlssloned by the people
and given a sympathetic council com
posed of snaio of the very beat repre
sentative citizens.
3>he whole country owes a debt of
gratitude for this splendid demonstra
tion of a clean and thoroughly pro
gressive municipal government In
which the people have employed some
of the most modern methods for carry-
Ing into effect the public will.
tion to the avowed views of the paper,
often cause? groat perplexity to Ha
readers, mid embarrassment to the
management of the paper. Such views
may lie logical, timely and In all re
spects proper enough to communicate.
But a newspaper la not necessarily a
moral treatise, a police oourt, nor a
vent for all the shortcomings or
wrong! that transpire in a community
much less a medium for the. pent-up
literary energy of Ha readers. A news
paper is simply a medium for the cir
culation of dally events, both local
and universal, and what is proper to
appear In It a« news, the editor of each
paper will and must determine. In op
position It may be Rtated, however,
that some newspnpers affiliated with
politics, trusts and corporations are
partisans nnd they overstep the legit
imate function of a newspaper.
This age is especially prolific in the
dissemination of new ideas. The public
is 'constantly absorbing these ideas,
which germinate, grow, and when ma
tured, seek expression in some way.
But it is something of a puzzle to
know how the literary faculty of the
public is to express itself in the future.
The market is already gutted with lit
erary productions of all kinds, and
authorship on an average is paid leas
than ordinary labor. And lecturers on
the public platform, possessing the
best education that can.be had, often
fail to get enough money for their
work to pay hall rent.
,P.- A. JENSEN.
Los Angeles, July 14, , *