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Los Angeles Herald
THOMAS B. GIBBON,
President and Editor.
Entered m second claw matter at the
eostofflce In Los An*eles.
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Population of Los Angeles 327,685
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
ML retrorsum Jj
The question before the house is the
conservation of law and order.
Also, it Is -well to remember, Brother
"David Patterson" was nicely taken
care of by Fredericks.
There was likewise a considerable
explosion of popular wrath in this
town yesterday—and then some.
One thing that people Bee more
clearly today than yesterday is that
this city is inadequately policed.
Now is a good time to discuss the
o.uestion of surrounding the sale of all
explosives with greater restrictions.
What satisfaction can it bo to any
human being to reflect that the blood
of a score of his fellows is on his
head?
"Is there a crime beneath the roof
of heaven that stains the soul of man
with more infernal hue than damn'd
assassination?"
Newspaper poets will have no
trouble in finding rhymes for John A.
Dix, the Democratic nominee for gov
ernor of New York.
While discussing our future water
supply, don't fail to use some of the
present supply to scrub out the dis
trict attorney's office.
Los Angeles is not the only city in
the country that has been disgraced by
acts of violence. Not many can in
fairness throw stones.
Charley Murphy of New York has as
many lives as Mrs. Murphy's cat, or
as King Menelik, who has been dead
several times and still survives.
One of the interesting incidents of
the New York Democratic convention
•was its revelation that David Bennett
Hill Is still in the land of the living.
The king of Portugal, needing the
money, has created another bunch of
peers. After a while, It will bo a dis
tinction in Portugal not to be <: pi < r
Nevertheless and notwithstanding,
John D. Fredericks has got to answer
the charges made by Thomas Lee
"Woolwine in his remarkable speech of
Friday evening.
The statement is made, that hundreds
of millions are tied up In automobiles.
Hardly tied up, to judgo by the speed
that some of them approach us whi n
•we are trying to cross the street.
Two hundred and ten people
divorced in Los Angeles county in Sep
tember, but 506 were married. ]f this
proportion Is maintained there will be
material for the divorce court right
along.
Don't ict the excitement of disasters
cause you to overlook the Fredericks
scandal expose. It was not the least
sensational incident of a very sensa
tional day. If you missed it, turn
back to yesterday's Herald,
Ella Wheeler Wllcox claims that she
v,as a reigning beautj in the time of
Louis XV and has been reincarnated
In this life. It has long been tsusi eet
ed that Ella 19 older than the charm
ing young thing pictured with her
gush in the Hearst pap
Mr. Harding, the Republican candi
date for governor of Ohio, has found
what he calls the "greedy consumer."
As the consumer is kept In a tate of
chronic hunger by trust prices, his
greedy condition is a physical falling
tliat he is hardly to bo blamed for.
A Word of Sympathy
TO say that we sympathize with our morning contemporary, the
Times, in the frightful calamity that it has suffered at the
hands of some lawless criminals is a very inadequate way of
expressing the feeling to which our neighbor's misfortune gives rise.
But as terrible as the calamity is, it will not be without its use if it
shall result in cleansing our city of the kind of human devils incar
nate who could imagine or carry out such a thing. And it has an
other use in showing the world that notwithstanding the fact that
newspapers differ radically with each other sometimes, and those
differences lead to janglings that are not always pleasant to contem
plate, they are, after all, dominated by a common humanity which
forgets all differences in the face of such a calamity as our neighbor
has suffered, and has only words of sympathy and helpful acts to
extend to the sufferer.
It was the greatest possible pleasure to The Herald to be able
to be of some assistance to our neighbor in accomplishing the won
derful journalistic feat of getting out a number of its paper on time
notwithstanding its whole plant and building had been destroyed.
It is also a fine thing to know that our contemporary, the Ex
press, tendered to the Times the full use of its complete plant for
getting out its paper, until it could re-establish its own plant, if
necessary. That such assistance will not be necessary is owing to
the good fortune of our neighbor in having an auxiliary plant con
sisting of seven linotype machines and two presses, which will en
able it with possibly some assistance from its journalistic associates,
to continue the publishing of its paper until it has completely re
habilitated itself.
In the meanwhile, knowing as we do, the temperament of the
people of Los Angeles, we have no doubt that the financial loss will
ultimately be more than made up by Los Angeles business men as
an expression of their sympathy for the victim of the most dastardly,
cowardly and inhuman outrage that was ever perpetrated within
our city.
THE "SUNSET" TRAIL
THE census department is reported
as intending to send to Los An
geles and other California cities
that have shown phenomenal gains
agents to investigate the enumeration.
It is not to be wondered that the de
partment Is astonished to see the fig
ures laid before it, particularly those
for Los Angeles, but it is very doubt
ful If any considerable errors, much
less any padding, will be found here.
Of all the' cities In the country this
has had least incentive to inflate its
showing, for the natural increase has
been equal to a good-sized city every
year.
The evidence is on every side. It is
in the postal receipts, the building
data, the growth in bank clearings, the
■weed-like growth of new home tracts, j
the growth of the trolley system to \
more than seventy car lines. There!
was much greater probability of new j
residents not being counted, indeed,
than that any padding should be.
done, for with colonists pouring in by
hundreds monthly it If probable, that
many were not .located by the enu
merators.
There is collateral evidence of the
wonderful growth of the southwest.
It Is found particularly in Texas. If
one draws a line over the "Sunset"
route of the Southern Pacific from
Washington to Los Angeles he will
find its course marked with the most
remarkable growth, showing a defi
nite trail of population from the con
gested north toward the land of many
crops and equable climate.
Atlanta shows a growth of 72.3 per
cent, Birmingham 215.4, Mobile after
standing still for years reports a gain
of 33.9; Jackson, Miss., has trebled,
and when Texas is reached there are
astonishing gains—Dallas with 116 per
cent, Houston with 76, San Antonio 81,
Fort Worth 147, ana even Galveston,
which by the record appears to have
lost 2.1 per cent, has in reality gained,
fnr since the 1890 census a quarter of
the population were killed by a tidal
wave, and other panic-stricken resi
dents fled the city, so that it is evi
dent Galveston made up her great loss
.if at least 30 per cont.
The growth Of Arizona towns has
been no less remarkable. In this state
Sacramento—the only important city
yet to be announced —the gain is
shown to he f.2.6 per cent. Nothing is
plainer, even t<^ a casual visitor to
any of the places along this Imaginary
thall from Washington, than that they
are undergoing a great growth. In
this section, at least, the small towns
have grown quite as remarkably.
The census department agent will be
imed, He can see it all for
himself.
DRIVING THEM IN
CHARLES F. MURPHY, the boss
and mogul of Tammany Hall, was
the deciding voice in the selec
tion of the Democratic ticket in the
:onvontion of the party. "Never,"
suid the New York Times, a Demo
;i party convention
npletely dominated than
the gathering ut Rochester." It is ap
t that the people of the. Kmpiro
state will have a poor choice in the
coming campaign between the tickets
of the two great parties,
The Republii n party named for
governor Henry L>. Btlmson, for whom
i [aimed that he prosecuted sue
.ills ,n behalf of the government
two or three cases against trusts. Ha
was well paid for it, of con::.-. But
Stimson has been during most of his
active llfi a member of a law firm
that organized several trusts, and
his clrcum i i and environments
naturally make him sympathetic to
ward the money power that dominates
,\c» fork.
The gain made by the progressive!
In both party conventions waa mighty
small— only bo mvi I neces
sary to keep them In line. Truth to
tell, Charlei Edward Uussell, the
noted publicist and magazlm writer,
who has accepted the Socialist nomi
nation for governor In New York,
more nearly represents the spirit <>t
thousands there who want a curb put
on organised greed, on the lawless
power of money, and it need Furprise
nobody who Is familiar With the tem
per of the public to see a great mc
c In the Socialist vote in New
York this fall.
The credit for driving people Into thi
.ust part) to leaders like
James S. Sherman, William Barnes,
Charles F. Murphy and some others
equally well known.
LOS ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOHKR 2, 1910.
j REFERENDUM'S PROGRESS
NO MOVEMENT has ever boon more
remarkable in American politics
than the adoption of the princi
' pies embodied in the initiative and ref
, erendum, which has been going on qui
j etly, since 1897, through the sheer force
| of their inherent worth and the need of
I them in our government, perverted as it
j was becoming under corrupt Influences,
; Los Angeles was the 1 first large city in
I America to apply the innovation in lo
cal affairs, and it has been of inestlma
| bio worth to the community; yet,
i strange to say. it is still the mark of
futile ridicule and opposition.
The progress of the reform brought
! about through this agency has been
I lately reviewed by C. F. Taylor, and
the historical resume he has prepared
I will, it is safe to say, astonish both its
[ friends and enemies. He presents this
summary:
1597. lowa applied referendum to all
franchise grants.
1897. Nebraska made initiative and
referendum optional in cities.
189 S. South Dakota adopted Initiative
and referendum amendments.
1900. Utah adopted amendment, for
which legislature has never passed en
abling act.
1901. Illinois passed public policy law
providing for advisory referendum.
1902. Oregon, by constitutional amend
ment, secureed an effective form of the
initiative and referendum.
1903. Los Angeles, Cal., applied initl
ntive and referendum to municipal af
fairs.
ISOS. Nevada, by constitutional
amendment, adopted the referendum.
1905. Grand Rapids, Mich., applied
initiative and referendum to municipal
affairs.
1906. Montana adopted initiative and
referendum amendment.
1906. Delaware, by popular vote, in
structed legislature to provide for the
initiative and referendum.
1906. Nebraska gives to cities power
to adopt initiative and referendum,
which has been quite generally ac
cepted.
1906. Dcs Moines, la., adopted initi
ative, referendum and recall in connec
tion with commission plan of govern
ment.
1907. Cedar Rapids, la., adopts initi
ative, referendum and recall.
1907. (1) Oklahoma placed initiative
nnd referendum in the constitution to
be sumbitted to the people; (2) Maine
legislature voted to submit an initiative
and referendum amendment; (3) Mis
souri legislature voted to submit an in
itiative and referendum amendment;
(41 North Dakota legislature voted to
submit an initiative and referendum
amendment; this must be passed upon
by another legislature before it can be
submitted to the people; (5) Delaware
legislature placed the initiative and ref
erendum in the charter of Wilmington.
1008, (1) June 1 the people of Oregon
demonstrated the people's ability to leg
islate more clearly than was ever done
before by voting very discriminatingly
upon nineteen measures, four being
amendments to the constitution, four
measures referred to the people by pe
tition find eleven measures initiated by
petition; (2) September 15 the people of
Malno adopted a direct legislation
amendment to their constitution: (3)
November 3, Missouri adopted a direct
leglsltalon amendment to the constitu
tion by a majority of 35.8(18. though it
was disadvantageous^- placed on the
ballot. Four years ago this same
amendment was defeated in Missouri
by a majority of qver 53.000; (4) Ohio
adopts referendum in regard to fran
chises In cities; ('<) numerous minor
Victories for direct legislation, and dem
onstrations of the efficiency of direct
legislation resulting from the November
;i elections; (6) movement started in
Ontario and other provinces In Canada
for initiative and referendum; (7>
movement started in England for Initi
ative and referendum, headed, by com
mlttee of most influential citizens.
In 1909 a full score of states, among
them California, took action to extend
the system, most of them giving the
right to cities to adopt it In local af
fairs, although not using it in state
wide elections. The Initiative and ref
erendum are wakng the people up to
their responsibilities. If they had come
sooner billions of dollars in franchise
values would have been saved that have
been voted away, largely through cor
ruption, to corporations by legislatures
and city councils.
It is hard to be calm and fair and
judicial in exciting times like these.
Physician writing In a Seattlo paper
s-iys that alcohol will inte.slfy weak
conditions "by Its temporary narcot
ism and suspension of nerve activities,
■ lug the metabolism and the ar
! circulation." Grab that man
quick. Ho will be able to answer the
nmental conundrum, "What la
whisky?"— New York Telegram.
* — * - ~ lj
Merely in Jest
NO WONDER HE GOT THIN
Ascum—l saw your wire at the dance last
night. She certainly did look magnificent. By
the way, old man, you're rather thin, aren't
you?
Muttley—l guess I am. You see, we wont
to housekeeping recently, and 1 arrangcM with
my wife to give her a certain allowance each
week to provide for the table an.i buy clothes
for herself.-Catholic Standard and limes.
QUEST OF QUIETUDE
"It's c, long way to look forward," said
Mr. Cumrox. "but I constantly find myself
wishing the Fourth cf July would come
'round again."
•la life too Blow for you?"
"I should say not. Mother and the ulrls
are getting ul» lawn parties and^<ternuim
teas and sailing trips and motor excursions
and a lot of other things. It's cettlnit so
that the Fourth of July seems Ilka the only
safe and sane day In the year."—Washing
ton Btar.
COULDN'T DEPEND ON IT
Uncle Geehaw —I'm asroln 1 ter take that
pesky thermometer back th" fust time I go
tew teown.
Auntie Geehaw —What «ir yew agoln' tew
take It back for. Hiram?
Uncle Geehaw —'Cause yew can't depend
on it. One day It eez one thins an' th'
next day It sex sumthin' dlffrent.— Chicago
News.
WHAT'S THE TTSBT
Weep and you're called a baby.
Laugh and you're called a fool,
Yield and you're called a coward.
Stand and you're called a mule.
Smile and they'll call you Billy.
Frown and they'll call you gruff.
Put on a front like a millionaire —
And some guy calls your bluff!
—Puck.
HER HAUNTING FEAR
Bridget—Time brings many changes, Nora.
Nora —Indeed It doon.
Bridget—Whin I was little I used to cry
for fear the uollceman would Ket me. and
now I cry for fear I won't get the police
man.—Harper's Bazar.
SEE CONCORDANCE
Minnlck —I don't find any passage In
Scripture that forbids a man to have more
than one wife.
Plnntck —Must have overlooked this on*
then: "No man can serve, two masters." —
Browning's Magazine.
ON HIS GUARD
Teacher (to new p'upll)—Why did Hanni
bal cross the Alps, my litle man?
My Little Man —For the same reason as
the 'en crossed tho roatl. Yer don't catch
mo with no puzzles.—Sydney Bulletin.
KNEW FROM EXPERIENCE
Maud —Jack la one of the nicest boys un
der the sun.
Ethel —Yes, but he's ever bo much nicer
under the moon.—Boston Transcript.
GOINO THE PACE
Mother — But what did you do with tho
ponny I gave you yesterday?
Tommy—l spent It, mother. A feller has
tn hold up his end with tho lost of tho boys.
— Brooklyn I.lfe.
Far and Wide
L'NTAXED TRADE
Under free trade with tho Philippines ex
ports tn the Island! have lncrcuse.l about 70
pur cent within the first year of the new pol
icy ami Import." therefrom have Increased about
100 p*"-r c'.-nt. This tells us how to obtain v
larger foreign trade If we want It. To tax
trade Is not the way to promote trade.—
Sjnlngtleld P.epublican.
RENOMINATED, MIND!
Most of tho legislative boodlers In Illinois
appear to have tm'-n rt-nominated at this
week's primaries. Renominateri, mind you—
not re-elected. -Kansas City Star.
NO STRAWBERRIES THEN.
There Is no word for "strawberry" In an
cient Greek, the people of those times ami
thnt country having had no acquaintance with
tho luxury.—Chicago Journal.
ITS INGREDIENTS
Tho sugar trust must contain a lot of glu
cose and sand. Judging from tho length of
time it takes to dissolve It.—Philadelphia In
quirer.
POLITICS IN THE OI'TXOOK OFFICE
Editor HowUnd of the Outlook mined his
nomination for congress. Jußt as well, Soma
body must get out tha magailne.—Hoston Her
ald. •
THE PLiACE TO SETTLE IT
In heaven you will live forever and havo
nothing to do; there's tho placa to settle tho
tiuiir question— Atchlson Globe.
A JOKE
Here's a Joke—Colonul Koosevelt announces
that be la against the boases—Atchlson Ulubo.
Time for Action
California's Healing Waters
(San Francisco Chronicle)
In the mass of descriptive literature
by which California tries to serve the
curlOaity of health-sokers, little is saiJ
about curative springs. As is natural,
the emphasis is laid on the climate
which so many have to sell as com
pared with the number of those who
coin mineralized waters, and upon the
bathing and boating and out-of-door
life. People who have faith in healing
fountains—and they are many enough
to have made Homburg and Ems, Bad
Nauheim, Vichy, Carlsbad and many
otherKuropean spas the favorite resorts
they are—have no thought of looking
to the resources of California. A host
of our own people ignore the claims of
the vicinage for the prescribed virtues
of medicinal springs beyond the sea.
Of course this preference has its rela
tion to the delights of Old World travel
and the chance of contact with Old
World celebrities who annually take
their own "cures," but there are people
here in need of nature's solvents who
cannot afford to go abroad for them
and who ought to know more about
this state's medicated waters than they
do or can learn except from the ad
vertising leaflets of interested parties
which rarely rouse them to more than
a languid Interrogation.
Both those who know the therapeutic
value of California springs wonder at
the want of enterprise which makes so
little of them. Even a California doc
tor will send patients to Carlsbad; in
fact Califomians have been there this
year, under direction of their home
physicians, ever since the season be
gan. Yet waters, Identical In their
curative values with those of Carls
bad, may be had at mountain place 3
in this state. In one locality there are
six springs, volcanic of origin, differ
ing vitally In character, which are as
useful in rheumatic disorders, inclua-
Oddities from the Court
A Fence Could Leak— Michigan si-]
loonkeeper tried to close his bar on:
Sundays by placing a picket fence be-.
tween it and the restaurant portion;
of his establishment. Court held that (
this dHn't close the saloon.
Speed Up Those Wires—Telegraph
company, sued for damages be au.se
of delay in message, set up defense
that there was nothing about the mes- i
sage or instructions that especial dis
patch was desired. The court said the |
very fact that the wire was employed
showed that the plaintiff was in a
hurry, and the company had to pay.
Snapshoot the Speeders—Down in
Massachusetts the auto coppers to .k
a photograph of a speeding auto from
behind and snapped It again a second
later. Then they introduced the two
photographs as evidence that the ma
chine had gone farther than It should
in a given time. There was strenuous
objection, but the pictures were ad
mitted as proper evidence.
Ticket Is a Contract—A woman had
bought her ticket at a bath house and
was standing in line waiting for a
bathing suit when a brassy youth
butted in ahead of her. She protested,
whereupon an employe threw her out
of line, called her names and shook
her. She sued for breach of contract,
an she had paid for a ticket entitling
her to a bath that she never had. The
bath house company claimed that her
action should be for assault, but she
got a money verdict.
Gypsies Are Credible—Defense in a
criminal suit attacked a.gypsy Wit.
n. sa by Introducing an article from
Can a Dealer Cut Prices?
Several times since tho people began
to voice their protest against the con
stunt increase in the cost of living the
retail grocers of this and other com
munities have asserted that the blame
ii>r boosting prices should not be laid
at their door. Local evidence of the
truth of this assertion Is furnished bj
B legal action against a grocer In which
the plaintiff contends that a packer of
foodstuffs has the right to fix the sell
ing price of goods packed under a
standard brand and sold to retailers
under an agreement to maintain fixed
prices. Alleging that the defendant cut
the price agreed upon, the plaintiff, In
thiH case a packer of sardines, asks fur
both damages and a permanent re
straining order.
ing gout and in diseases of the blood,
as any European waters. Ltthia, mag
nesia, iron and sulphur distillations are
common here. Hut beyond a com
paratively few people, who .knows their
value? Bottled waters from Germany,
France, Austria, Japan and Wisconsin
are better advertised here analytically
than our own waters are. Is It not a
material disadvantage to the state that
this should be so? If we had economic
common sense should we take occasion
to import so much water when in the
matter of mineralized beverages, we
ought to be local consumers and ex
porters? Is there any more reason why
■we should send away for table waters
than table grapes or prunes or oranges?
Ought we not to give at least as much
preference to California waters ns to
California wines, quality and flavor be
ing equal and the price in our favor?
Are we not, as a state, putting our
selves to an economic loss? Surely,
California, as a national sanatoria,
should .make the utmost use of Its
water cures and add their drawing
power, upon the weak and ailing, to
that of the climate and the al fresco
life.
Whether this work should be done in
a general way by the promotion bu
reau, leaving the owners of the hun
dreds of medicinal springs to supply
specific advertising, the state to certify
to the analyses of the waters, or
whether the task is one for syndicates,
controlling many springs and providing
large hotels In connection with them,
or whether the state should park the
finer spas and operate them as it used
to the Yosemlte, we shall not presume
to say. But the argonaut feels that the
healing springs of California are prac
tically unemployed assets capable of
being marketed on a great scale; that
they are now a sequestrated benefit to
the public health and an undeveloped
source of revenue.
the Encyclopedia Brltannica showing
that the race are nomads with no
home or country. This was used as
a basis of argument that a gypsy's
reputation for truth and veracity
should be proved by different methods
than those employed with ordinary
persons. It didn't go with the court.
Neat Scheme Blocked—Down In
Kansas the liquor sellers had been
paying a virtual licenses by being
"pulled" regularly every month and
paying a stipulated fine each time.
This plan was knocked out in court.
Then the town authorities abolished
taxes for supporting the police and
tire departments and the police Judge
and let the liquor sellers contribute a
fund each month for that purpose.
The accommodating authorities were
fined for contempt of court. •
Promise to Wife Annulled—A Prot
estant who married a Catholic wife
made a formal agreement with her
before marriage that any children of
the union should be baptized in the
Catholic faith, even if the wife should
die. After her death, her relatives
brought suit, but the judge wquld not
enforce the agreement, as It dra not
affect property rights,
"Cussed" OH Hi.s Deathbed —An ante
inortem sttaement was attacked on
the ground that the man making it
had employed swear words, showing
that he did not appreciate.the solem
nity of his condition or his oath. Court
ruled that persons may be so in the
habit of using profanity that they
would unconsciously drop into it, a/id
that the circumstance in this case did
not Invalidate the statement.
(San Francisco Itulletln)
There Is a law in California that for
bids combinations in restraint of trade,
but somehow it has not protected gro
cers from the humiliation of becoming
mere clerks for corporations that are
either trusts or near-trusts. The pack
ers and the manufacturers fix the Bell
ins price, allowing tho grocer a small
commlailon, and will not deliver their
goods to any firm that declines to agree
to their torms. Thfi result Is that the
grocer cannot lower prices, even when
it would be to his advantage to do so.
There are big profits on certain lines of
goods that he handles, but the lion's
•bare alwayi goes to the men from
whom he has to buy. Through "a gen
tlemen'! agreement" he tl made an in
strument of exploitation, and only the
consumer is iv a more helpless position.
Public Letter Box
TO CORRESPONDENTS —Utttn tntaadad
for puhlloation malt be aooompanlad by tha
name Knil uririren of th« writer Tha Harald
klvm tha wlilant latltuda to eorra»pon4ant».
but a»»nin«« no re»iion»lbl!lty for their vlewa.
L.-iifi-. must not aaoMd >00 worda.
SKEPTICAL ABOUT CANAL
Editor Herald: In view of tho en
tliußliiHin over "A Panama Canal Ex
poßltton in 1915" at Sun Francisco, I
would like to ask a few questions that
■•em to me to be pertinent at this
juncture; and. If they meet the eye
of any pqnrson who knows of his, or
her, own knowledge, I would be pleased
to have Honest and candid reply:
First Is it not a fact that the site
of the OatUD dam, and a considerablo
stretch of the Una of tho canal lying
to the south <if it, are In the bed ot the
Chagrea river?
' Beoond—lt it not a fact that the un
derlying formation. In this section of
th.; bed of said stream. Is a bed qf silt,
practically bottomless?
Third—lt Is not a fact that, on ac
count of tho said formation, them have
twen several serious "slumps" already
in the embankment work on and about
the dam?
Fourth—What is the extrnt of the
watershed drained by the Chagres rlv
or?
Fifth—What la the annual rainfall on
said watershed, and how distributed
through the months.
Sixth -Docs not the immense body of
water flowlhf; In said river make it
really impossible to maintain a canal
on the proposed line, without first
tunneling the mountains at some point
a long distance east of the lino be
ing worked on, then damming tho riv
er, thus diverting the flow through the
said tunnel?
If the foregoing are answered In the
affirmative Is It not more likely to bo
lflL'n than 1915 when the "Expo" cel
ebrating the "completion" is to be held?
WARREN H. EDDY.
Los Angeles, September 26.
WOMEN AND CORSETS
Editor Herald: E. R. Johnson, In
criticising Miss Kellerttian, makes tho
following statement: "Ifer hips, in com
mon with 09 per cent of American worn
anhooil, are abnormally and repulsively
large."
I do not agree with the critic in this
statement, considering the average
woman well built; believing also that
as a result of just such statements
women adopt the long hip corset as a
remedy. In consequence 1 wish to state:
Nature intended that woman's htpa
should be round and well developed,
broad In proportion with the individu
al's shoulders.
One might think that women dress
for the admiration they receive as a
consequence from men. but few men
admire the hlpless woman.
Toung women of the rising genera
tion will doubtless not learn until too
late that five years of a long-hipped,
hipless corset prevents the growing
girl's organs from developing to such
an extent that she is incapable of per
forming her main duty, namely, to re
produce her species.
Any scientitlc authority on maternity
will give information to that effect,
any girl who down deep In her heart
the desire one Say to enjoy the great
privilege and honor of becoming a
mother should by all means shun the
long-hipped corset as she would a rep
tile, to the end that her organism may
not remain infantile, and her hips be
allowed to grow large and well rounded,
even though a few E. R. Johnsons
think thorn repulsive.
A YOUNG MOTHER.
Los Angeles, Cal.
PROPERTY OWNERS TO FIGHT
Editor Herald: The paving and other
improvements contemplated for Main
street, in and out of the city, to tho
ocean will bo a grand thing for the
city as a whole, for Main Btreet, for
San Pedro and Wilmington, and some
of the outside subdivisions. When
completed it Is expected the boulevard
will hum with freight autos from the
harbor, to the great advantage of our
merchants. I may say, however, that
the owpers of property on the Bido
streets running into Main do not pro
pose to submit to an assessment dis
trict in which their lots are to be as
sessed for from $50 to $250 each for
this improvement without a long and
vigorous fight. These small home
owners number several thousand and
will probably form an organization to
protect themselves from such an un
just assessment. It is said an enor
mous sum must be raised to pay the
(often) absurd "damages" claimed by
come property owners. If such dam
ages must be paid let the people really
benefited pay this share. I suppose
owners of property on side streets con
necting with Main whose lota aro
worth from $800 to $1500 would not
fight an assessment of from $15 to $30
per lot, but more than that will be.
likely to cause a long delay for thia
much-needed Improvement. Thoso
who make up assessment districts have
shown In the past a disposition to
throw as much as possible of the ex
pense on the small property owners.
In this case It is intended to make a
fair, open prolonged and organized
struggle against the injustice of this
procedure. •■ C. H.
Los Angeles.
SCORES LEGAL REFORMERS
Editor Herald: Under the heading
"Reform in Criminal Procedure" a
Long Beach correspondent roundly de
nounces the president of the State Bar
association for urging that prisoners
be no longer protected by constitution
al provision from being- compelled to
testify against themselves. Surely he
is right. The administration of our
criminal law being admittedly a na
tional disgrace, lawyers (at whose door
the blame must lie) have th,e temerity
to push to the front with what they
are pleased to label remedies. When I
find tigers favoring the destruction of
the Jungle that shelters them I shall
believe in these professional reformers.
The Commonwealth club of Califor
nia and Judge W. P. Lawlor. in his
recent address before the City club,
are Instances in point. Both are ter
ribly agitated— however, for the
poor wretches railroaded to prison, but
because an occasional fish escapes the
legal net. Thus Judge Lawlor favored
the abolition of the rule that requires
a unanimous verdict lor conviction and
commented severely on the provision
of the constitution alluded to above—
Criticising it, he said: "This became a
law when duress was resorted to."
Dare Judge Lawlor assert that duress
is not constantly resorted to still, for
the purpose of forcing prisoners to
confess their guilt?
Lawyers as a class are the last per
sons in the world mtitled to a hearing
on this matter, 'or they are deeply
Interested and therefore incompetent
witnesses. To them — of course,
some honorable exceptions—prisoners
are mere "cases," and I do not hesi
tate to say that they are the world's
great manufacturer* of crime. For
social Injustice Is crime's true mother,
and social Injustice owes Its existence
mainly to the fortifications lawyers
have erected for It. Show mo a mo
nopoly or piratic! trust that is not
sheltering Itself behind the machina
tions of the lawyer! T. K. Q.
Los Angeles, Sept. 27. A,
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