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Population of Los Angeles 319,198
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
We ftETRORSUM^JJ
1
Let us hope the engineers will not
strike; it would throttle business.
Edison says the human soul is made
of cells. Also human life Is made of
sells.
The pharmacies are notv fully stocked
with a large supply of pepsin and mint
for Thanksgiving day.
The "Billie Burke" bonnet, one of the
latest, is particularly ugly—which is
probably its chief merit.
An Indiana mule that kicked a mo
torcycle across the street may be called
a public spirited animal.
A new article of feminine headgear
is called the aviation cap. It will be
worn chiefly by flighty women.
More than 319,000 persons for Santa
Claus to visit this year, but unhap
pily some of them won't get a call.
The striking messenger boys have
formed a labor organization. But be
fore that they were Western Unionites.
rxne mail who established the first
Turkish bath in America has just died.
Death should have had no terrors
for him.
Jack Johnson, who has been speaking
disparagingly of Teddy Roosevelt, had
best look out. Teddy is a better man
than Jim Jeffries.
A health expert advises people to
wear their summer garments in winter.
Mr. Aldrich end Mr. Payne of Wash
ington beat him to that suggestion.
Speaking of census counts, the 17fi
per cent added to the population of
El Paso, Texas, shouldn't bo forgotten
when making up the blue ribbon list.
A Pennsylvania man claims to make
paint out of smoke. He. cannot hope
to excel the beautiful chrome shade put
on the fingers of a cigarette en
however.
Uncle Joo Cannon got his re-election
by a "slightly reduced 1' majority. Ills
position and influence in the next house
can't be denominated by any such eu
phemistic term.
After reading a "poem" written by
the spook of Tennyson to a Kansas
City medium we arc moved :
who wrote Tennyson's poeraa tor him
when ho was alive.
The announcement that turkeya are
scarce and dear is as pi I the
yearly declaration tint the G
peach crop has failed, rut it also
seems to be becoming perennially true.
Hero Hobson now foresees battles in
the air. referring to the aeroplane.
There is grave danger that while Hob
son has his gaze directed upward, Jap
an will take advantage of it and do
something.
Paiagraphers who intimate that
Peary is afraid of work m -M read
over the account of the noithoin hard
ships that have made an old man of
him at middle ago, and feel aslmrned of
themsolves.
Newport grocers say th pwolls of the
Four Hundred leave there without pay
ing their bills. Probably an oversight.
Newport swelldom is so busy thinking
of nothing that It can't think of any
thing.
If it is true that John W. Gates In
tends to compete with the Sandard Oil
company, a "gates ajar" will be an ap
propriate emblem to place on his box
when Mr. Rockefeller has him laid out
and embalmed.
SOCIALISM'S CAUSES
SOCIALISM'S wonderful showing in
the election of last week, when it
cant about 1,000,000 votes, lins set
the country to thinking and talking.
Millions that have heretofore consid
ered Socialism as the product of a
few dreamy minds and not deemed it
worthy of serious study are now read
ing up. The ablest of the Socialists,
Victor Berger, has heen elected to con
press, from Wb«r« ho will have the ear
of the entiro country, and its eye,
through the Congressional Record and
the Americ.m press.
Almost at a bound Socialism has be
come a vital, imminent problem, com
pelling attention, and very thoughtful
attention: and of none more thought
ful attention than men of the class of
William H. Herrin of the Southern Pa
cific, who the other day dismissed it
with a lordly wave of tho hand. The
only tiling to which such an attitude
Is comparable Is the folly of the ostrich
that buries Its head in the sand when
danger approaches.
In another column of this page we
publish a letter from a reader in San
Bernardino, a professional man, that
strikes us as containing the essence of
mse of Socialism. He shows that
it is not propaganda, but an economic
situation that is spreading the doc
trine; stern conditions, growing stead
ily worse, are making multitudes be
lieve, evidently, that in collectivism lies
more hope of relief than in the Indi
vidualism that produces institutions
like J. FJerpont Morgan (for he Is more
of an institution now than a man) who
can by issuing an order raise or lower
prices for the entire country, and could
even throw its business into hopeless
wreck and anarchy.
What the ablest minds and levelest
heads of the world must do, and do at
once, is to dismiss the fancy that So
cialism is a passing "ism" like Popu
lism, Greenbackism and tho rest, but
that they were its unconscious forerun
ners—protests against the increasing
pressure en the poor, intensified a hun
dred folAn Socialism. The danger now
Is that Socialism will run away with
its idealists and go too fast; trill seek
to accomplish impossible reforms in a
•lay, when all history shows that real
mid enduring reforms have been tha
products of processes both slow and
painful.
The ablest minds of the country have
got to meet Socialism with entire can
dor and reason with it; have got to
apply to it the best wisdom humanity
is capable of showing its adherents
the unwisdom of percipitate haste, sift
ing out the practical from the imprac
tical mid adopting whatever of it is
w i.se— not as a concession, not to mol
lify or divert, but to give and take, for
the true reforms lie not in extremes
but in compromises.
We do not mean by compromises
anything like concessions to the carni-
val of greed and rapine that lias been
going on in the money centers under
the popular term of "frenzied finance,"
or the other carnival of special privi
lege that has been exploiting the
mouses, corrupting our governments
and endangering- the very life of the
republic. There can be no compromise
with them. The country understands
them and is bent on destroying them,
root and branch. They are at the bot
tom of the economic crisis we are now
facing.
But them are great numbers who are
neither seekers of privilege nor militant
Boi lallßta, and upon these will rest the
solution of the social and economic
problem, and especially the duty to
keep reform under whatever name—So
cialism or any other—within bounds.
As for intelligent Socialism, it would
be the worst thing that could happen
to it to fall into control of extreme
radicalism, and we believe the most
thoughtful Socialists so conceive.
Meantime, not to be informed on
•what the movemsnt aims at and how it
proposes to go about it is unwise in
anybody, and those who have much at
stake -would be the unwisest of all to
form a priori opinions and close the
mind to investigation. Of one thing
we are convinced: Socialism does not
mean what some absurdly believe, the
torch and the bomb; it docs not mean
the equal division of all property. Its
be t leaders claim for it that it menus
peace instead of war, if met peaceably,
and that its aim is solely to create a
condition of equal opportunity by es
tablishing a system that is the anti
thesis of anarchy and will indeed, as
tl.cy claim, save the world from a ■ in
ditlon <>f anarchy with its dreadful pos
sibilities.
EXIT ENGLEBRIGHT
\ *" IIT the least of the big '
V galnetl by California in the eloc
■*-' lion of last week was the d
of Congressman Englebright, who Joins
his Illustrious s1 coworker, Dun
can Mi Klnlay, as a member of the
Down and < > 111 club. Judge John E.
Raker—"Fighting Judge" Raker, as he
la better known—takes Englebrlght's
place as re] rei ntatlve of the district,
though he mot hope to take Ills
as mlsrepresentatlve of the peo
ple at large.
What manner of man Judge Raker is
is indicated by the San Francisco Star,
which says that on one occasion, when
ho was threatened in giving a decision
by a room full of armed men, he drew
two revolvers from his pockets, placed
them on the table and ruled adversely
to the wishes of the crowd. Ha 'has
battled in the state Democracy with
equal fearlessness, as the enemy of
privilege and the itandpat Interests,
and is a figure of state-wide promi
nence, Jii* political activities have
been a thorn In the side of the state
machine, and he has always been allied
with the enemies of tho gang;.
Thus the "fighting judge" takes tho
place of the "fighting congressman"—
Englebrlght—an appellation we give
him, for he •fit" on every available
and conceivable occasion for everything
Joe Cannon wanted, which was every
thing the privilege seekers .wanted.
LOS ANGELES HERALD: WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 16, 3910.
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ill fey CmENTCOTTAGES /| I^o^
THE MEXICAN RIOTS
WHILE the assaults mado upon
American citizens in Mexico is
of no especial international im
portance because of the certainty that
the United States and Mexico will
mutually make prompt amends for the
discreditable incidents on each side,
they have an importance because of
the ill feelings that are certain to be
fostered between the natives of the two
sldei in the southwest and possibly of
more seriom outbreaks in the future.
Amerlcans having given the provo
cation by burning at the stake a Mex
ican at Rock Springs, Texas, who had
confessed to the murder of an Amer
ican woman, it is not to be wondered
at that the denial of the forms of jus
tice should create bitter feeling in Mex
ico apart from any question of sym
pathy for the murderer. We can imag
ine what an indignant protest would
have gone up if the lynching had been
done on the other side.
So long as Americans indulge them
selves in lawless and barbarous prac
tices they have a poor moral claim
on any other people, and to assume a
pose of superiority to Mexico now
would be to play the bully. Some of
tin- Indignation might better be saved
for the real grievances inoffensive Am
ericans are subjected to in Mexico un
der the despotism of Dinz.
The antipathy of the races is a cur
ious ethnological thing. The white
man always has and probably always
will seek to dominate by fair or foul
means any other race. It is at the bot
tom of the negro problem, of the sus
picion of Japan, the lack of sympathy
with all Orientals, and the friction
with the Mexicans, who are only part
white. Where the races of any color
come into rerious rivalry with our own
thj white man brooks nothing and In
the case of a crisis stopa at nothing.
But his superiority in physical and
mental equipment is so great that if
he behaves himself he can never bo
seriously rivaled by any other race.
If he does not behave and undermines
his own strength he will be down be
tore the others.
A DREAM SHATTERED
PEOPLE who have boon following
the proceedings of the city plan
ning convention, now in session
here, noticed With, interest that one of
the interesting exhibits is a model
concrete house which Thomas Fellowi
has designed and erected as for use in
the model village which it is planned
to i egln in Los Angeles this winter.
This house, which is made of solid
pieces, with door frames, window ease
ments and all east in one solid piece,
I four rooms— a living room, two
■ jins, bathroom and pantry. It
be built fur $750 on level ground
and i rited for $12 a month and make
onable profit.
The above, it will bo observed, is
written In the present ten.se. The
; i tense, it is declared by an Aseo-
I Press dispatch, will be taken
of by other hands. Negotiations
j by interests dominated
b .i. Pierpont Morgan to assemble the
it plants of the country into a
Ination to bo run after the manner
cn 1 the ateel trust—presumably a triiht
with plentj i f millions of water pound
Into the stock, as was the case with
'hi te i '■ mblne,
If the worklngmen are counting on
owning any $760 houses or on renting
thi m fir 912 each it will behoove them
I mt it. It is highly desir
able from a civic standpoint that
leap homes o>v worktngmen
.-ih.jiilil be built, but from another stand
point It Is hli i'iy desirable that the
Morgan group should make dividen Is;
and what Mr. Morgan thinks usually
In . ountry.
Under m cement hns gone
down steadily In price and wonderfully
promoted construction. In 18SU Port
land ■ $3 a barrel. Recently
it dropped to SO cents. With a Morgan
trust formed, and liberal water made
the basis of dividends', the WOTklngrni n
and the fooli h Idealists who want to
help tli ■ ■ men with neat $750
: ni her think coming.
A:; soon ment trust is nloel)
launched Mr. Morgan will look about
and see What la tho next promising
bouice of tribute from the pof f ■
As Usual
PUBLIC LETTER BOX
TEDDY'S POLICY
Editor Herald: The two Insurance
agents were talking- shop, as usual,
when Tom Sharp broke in with an I
astounding piece of news.
"Do you know, 1' he exclaimed, "that
the Equitable Life has ottered $10,000
policies for half rates to all noted men
except Theodore Roosevelt?"
"Oh," replied one of the agents,
"drawing card that! But why do they
except Roosevelt? Do they think hav
ing 'nothing to say" is going to bring
on an attack of lockjaw and he will
check it?"
"Well, it isn't that exactly," replied
Sharp. "But, you see, they haven't
an agent clever enough to make out
Mr. Roosevelt's policy!"
SMITHEN JONES.
Los Angeles.
S. P. MACHINE NOT SMASHED
Editor Herald: I read the letter from
C. C. H., a Democrat of Pasadena,
which appealed in this morning's
paper, with great interest. I agree
with all he says. I don't feel at all
"sore" over the election in this state,
though, of course, I would have liked
it otherwise. Democrats have learned
to be good losers. Then, too, the great
victory in the east would hardly tend
to make any Democrat blue. But I
do believe that Democrats^ especially
Democratic newspapers and Democrats
that appear upon the public platform,
should continually hammer Demo
cratic doctrine all along the line. I
don't -see why any man. Republican or
Democrat, should wish to praise
Roosevelt, that man who plays both
sides and the middle, who campaigned
standpatters, and who advised Cali
fornia voters to support the whole Re
publican ticket, the bad as well as the
good. Much less do I see why any
Democratic newspaper should devote
editorial space to his praise or to
salve his recent wounds, when that
spado could be used much better in
other ways, to my way of thinking.
Nothing could be further from the
truth than the assertion that the recent
Republican victory In this state
smashed the S. P. machine.
E. H. JOHNSON.
Los Angeles.
SMALL DAIRYMAN'S COMPLAINT
Editor Herald: Thousands of dol
lars are spent daily in advertising this
beautiful country of ours. Nowhere
sir., the Inducements greater for the
man with a little capital. • The rich
ness of our soil, and the ever ready
market, pay good dividends on money
invested In our email, as well as largo
farms. The city of r*>s Angeles is sup
plied by the small producer. The
great ranches are almost a thing of
the past; there may be a few, but
every year the number diminishes.
With our limited territory we should
foster and protect our industries, be
they large or small.
Under ordinary conditions, the small
dairymen receive good returns, but
the small dairies like the large ranches,
are decreasing year by year. Strange
to Bay, in place of protecting the email
dairies, Los Angeles is putting them
out of business. The board of health
has passed laws and regulations that
the small dairyman cannot comply
with and realise returns sufficient for
the amount Invested.
It is very necesaary that the milk be
in a sanitary condition when received
in I.os Angelei, but the small dairy
should not have to suffer for the evlta
of the large. Ask tho creamery mnn
which is the most »anltary—the large
or small dairy—and nine times out of
ten he wjll reply, "the small."
There .should he a competent board
of Inspectors allowed the freedom of
their own judßment, as to whether a
dairy Is in a sanitary condition or not:
not bind them by 'ironclad rules and
; ittons. The lar»?e dairies can af
ford to ice their milk, put up furnaces,
etc., but the small dairy cannot. Ow
in to the small ; mount of milk han
dled the small dairy can put out purer
milk and not comply with all tho preg
ent regulations, than the large dairy
that compile! with all the regulations.
I. os Angelas receives hundreds of
pound* Of supposed sweet cream from
Tulare and other outlying districts that
does not have to stand Inspection. Why
should this be «o? Does it appear rea
gonable to cultivate outsldo trade and
iy home industry? Milk In ioma
of the outlying districts is produced
in many ll under tho most un
i r-y condition*, and yet that milk
is allowed to compete with the home
producer who has to stand rigorous
Inspection, that In many cases works
hardships and unnecessary expense.
It is admitted by some of the inspec
tors that they are trying to run the
small dairyman out of business. They
claim it will be easier ti handle a few
large dairies than a number of small
ones. Be that as it may, it will take
avay one inducement to the home
builder.
Los Angeles should investigate her
milk supply. W. MILLER.
Anaheim, Cal.
SOCIALISM OR ANARCHY
Editor Herald: I have read the edit
orial in today's issue, "Socialism's
Gain, in which it is stated the logical
check for the Socialist growth is the
national awakening of the public con
science as in the 80-called progressive
movement in both the present political
parties. From my viewpoint the growth
of Socialism is due entirely to the ever
increasing economic condition, and it
seems but probable to me it will con
tinue to grow and to a point where, as
a matter of necessity the private own
ership of the means of production must
give way to that of collective owner
ship. Otherwise,, what Is to become of
the Immense surplus created every
year over and above the amount that
can be purchased back by the wages
of the producer? Let us suppose all
nations as economically productive as
the United States and that the prod
ucts amount to, say, $17,000,000 In value
for a given period of one year, while
the wages for a same period amount
to $2,000,000. Now if there be no for
eign markets evidently we have
reached the stage of perpetual panic
and a condition where no policy save
that of collective cr co-operative own
ership can avert nr.archy. To those
who understand tht. conditions exist
ing in the world today there is no doubt
wo are entering now this period of
panic or depression and It is for the
humane purpose of averting the conse
quences that Socialists everywhere are
organizing the, working classes in the
en-operative commonwealth movement.
Ware this statement not true there
would bo no place and no growth for
the Socialist party. Therefore the only
logical check to thf> immediate growth
of Socialism would seem to be high
wages and short hours in order to con
sume the product pnd employ the idle
and to permit women and children to
remain non-producers. When the pub
lic conscience awakens to the. fact that
to the producer belongs the product of
his toil and that oil men shall earn
their bread by the sweat of their brow
the growth of Socialism will not trou
ble us. H. L. STELLAVAGEN.
San Bernardino. Cal.
CIVILIZATION AND CLOTHES
Editor Herald: Reading the various
arguments for and against the wear-
Ing of clothes one would think man
came into this world a clothed animal
and not a naked bit of human flesh.
Garments wore originaly used for
ornament and not as now for protec
tion against the weather. Like the
polar bear in the Arctic circle did wo
not wear manufactured clothing hair
would grow upon our bodies in suffi
cient abundance to keep our skins
warm.
Am to morality and nudity, it is large
ly a matter of education, mind habit
iind climate. In Persia it is regarded
immodest for the harem beauties to ex
pose thir faces to public view, while in
Japan the young girl wa.s neither im
modest nor ashamed to bathe in public.
She did not exhibit herself in the "al
together" for hire as almost do som;
of our civilized women in our civilized
dance halls, but feeling the need of a
bath she simply took one, spectator
or no spectator.
I use the past tense because our
occidental civilization may, in the last
few years, have made the Japanese
maid suffer from "civilized" modesty,
and changed her bathing habits.
Artists complain that it Is almost
Impossible to find a perfect human
body to pose in the nude for them, and
when we think of the wasp-waisted,
corset-wearing feminine portion of
civilized humanity we don't wonder at
the impossibility.
But if humanity went back to naked
ness, what would become of those oc
cupations directly dependent upon
clothes, viz., the milliner, ihe tailor,
the dressmaker, the shoemaker, tho
seamstress, the corsetmaker un.l the
dry goods fuunisher? Where would
they get off at? .
Civilization, as now constituted, is
largely dependent upon clotheg.
CIVILIZATIONIST.
Los Angeles, Cal.
Denver and Los Angeles
In ten years the population of Los
Angeles has increased by over two
hundred thousand, which Is to the
credit of tho progressive men and good
women of that city. This notable in
crease should spur to action the citi
zens of Denver. The population mark
for this city should bo set at three hun
dred thousand. )
That which has given Los Angeles its
strength Is the "stand together" spirit
of the community. It may have its
family quarrels and Its local scandals,
but woe betide the individual from out
side or inside who would take advan
tage of these differences to run down
the city as a whole. Toleration is n
predominant characteristic of its lead
ers. The same spirit ought to prevail
in Denver, for its population springs
from the same class of progressive, go
ahead Americans.
Courage, faith In tho future of the
city, giant undertakings, have brought
the California city Its present standing.
It is not afraid to take chances. It has
created a great many of its opportuni
ties; and it has had its ups and downs.
Donvrr's opportunity is equal to that
of the other city. This city has an im
mense and varied territory to draw
upon; but first of all It must continue
to prove its pro-eminence as the metro
politan city of tho Rocky Mountain re
gion It must b« in harmony with the
people to which It looks for support.
Booming Los Angeles
(PlttaburK Gazette-Times)
How did Los Angeles come to In
crease her population more than 211 per
cent In ten years, Jumping from the
Albany and Atlanta class to that of
New Orleans and Washington, V. <-._.
Unlike Topsy, cities don't "just grow,
and when such phenomenal increases in
population as those in Detroit, Bir
mingham, Ala., and Los Angeles are
recorded it is instructive to sister cities
to examine into the causes. Ten years
ago Los Angeles had 102,479 people; to
day she has 319,198. There has been no
wholesale annexation of suburbs.
Fruit growing and general farming in
t c region of which Los Angeles is the
metropolis have had a wonderful de
velopment during the last ten years
and the city has shared in their pros
perity. The climate of Los Angeles, her
cleanliness and beauty, her compara
tive freedom from disease, are all fac
tors contributing to her desirability as
a place of residence. Then Los AnKcles
haa Rained a reputation as tho home
of many persons of wealth and this
has Induced merchants from other
cities to engage in business there and
has attracted capital for Investment In
hotels, office buildings and other costly
Reformatories Decrease Crime
The Handbook of the New Tork state
reformatory says:
"In the state of New York complete
statistics of crime have been tabulated
since the creation of rho present State
commission of prisons. From the re
ports of this commission it appears
that in 1896, when the first correct
statistics were prepared, there were
committed to the state prisons, 986; to
the New York reformatory. 580; to the
penitentiaries, 19,045; to the house of
refuge for women, 124; to the county
Jails, the New York city prisons and
the New York county workhouse, 109,
--516; making a total ->f 130,243 for all
offenses. In 1904 ther3 were committed
to tl.e state prisons, 112:; t.i the Nej\
York state reformatory at Elnura, in,
to the penitentiaries, 12,713; to the
house of refuge for women, 226; to the
county jails, the New York city prisons
and the New York coanty workhouse,
86,616; making a tofil of 101.:.54, and
showing a decreass of 22 p<?r cent;
while the population for the period in
creased approximately 21 per cent.
Los Angeles' Wonderful Growth
Sacramento Bee: Los Angeles is
now a city of «9,1 M people, by the of
ficial announcement of the census bu
reau at Washington. That ll a gain
of no 719 or 211.5 per cent, since 1900.
The' figures are really staggering.
A city that will treble its size in ten
years is one of the wonders of the
world. Certainly it is Babylonic!
Los Angeles is entitled to it all. She
is one (f the most progressive cities
in the world today. Her people are all
engines of progress, so many units or
horsepower working toyether like any
other well-oiled piece of machinery.
No trick in city building is unknown
to the average Los Angeleno. If there
is no precedent to go by he estab
lishes one by some original act. Some
of these expedients, like annexing a
harbor twenty miles distant, by a nar
row strip of land, and including all
the outlying farms within the city
limits may be questionable, but all
Is fair In population-gaining, as in love
nnrt war, and so the southern enthu
siasts may be excused.
Pnsadena Star: No ordinary influ
ences could have brought about this
Merely in Jest
'TWOULD BE SPIRITLESS
The singing of "Brown October Ale"
nearly broke up a temperance meeting
in Indiana the other night. In view
of the epidemic of colds that is sweep
ing the country, it would seem that
somebody might write a good popular
song on "October's Hot Lemonade,
or a similar abstemious topic—l ltts
burg (Pa.) Gazette-Times.
"WOULD" HAVE HELPED?
There is in Maine a woman who
claims that she knows 40,000 prayers
"by heart." She might have been gen
erous enough to have repeated a few
of them in favor of the Cubs when
prayers would have helped.—Chicago
Kecord-Herald.
OUR WONTED INTERNAL FIRES
Furs are to bo more costly than ever
before- woolen stuffs are already bo,
and coal Is at top figures; but we still
have the inalienable privilege of keep-
Ing comfortable by means of the
warmth of our Indignation.—lndianap
olis News.
BRITISH EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
Mother—Aint you goln 1 to wash up
them tea things, Marianne, before you
go out?
Daughter—No, I ain't; I'm late
enough for "mother's 'elp class" as It
is.—London Opinion.
BLOCK SIGNALS SET
Earth Is rushing toward the star
Vega. But there is no cause for alarm,
U the collision will not take place for
400,000 years yet.—Milwaukee (Wls.)
Bontinel.
(Denver Republican)
It must take broad ground. It eannoi
afford to stand still. Not only must It
take advantage of Its opportunities; it
must create opportunities.
It must continue to bo the ideal resi
dence city. It must bo good to live in.
It must afford reasonable attraction to
those who would come this way.
Through it all there mußt be a spirit or
co-oporatlon. There must be no bluck-tv
.listing. There must bo a "Denver
spirit ' Its educational facilities must
bo of the highest Krade; its hotels and
theaters must stand in the forefront.
Its olaanUnesa, Us streets and road
ways must bo kept at a high Brade.
The civic center ought to be pushed to
completion. It Is part of Greater Den-
V°Denver oupht to bo brought Into clos
er relationship with the outside, m
terurban lines ought to be encouraged.
Without its wonderful facilities InUIJ
direction Los Angeles could not boast
a population of over three hundred
thousand people. Kvery commercial en
terprise and every individual should
work together to secure more generous
treatment from the groat trunk rall
r°Toa'the tirades from chronic kicker
and muekraker and tho iul<?.. Dcn n v°^
lte tho answer comes from the mag
nificent series of buildings which are
a new sky-line to the city. They were
undertaken at a time when a narrow
element was viewing disaster.
structures. The city possesses numer
ous natural advantages, but something
more was required to enable her to
treble the population in a decf^ t e-. a{£
that was advertising, supplemented by
genuine enthusiastic hospitality.
Los Angeles has one of the most ef
ficient booming organizations in the
country. The stranger realizes this be
fore he has been in the city half a day.
Every person registered at a local hotel
receives a polite invitation to call at
the headquarters of the boomers. He is
assured that there will bo something
there to interest him and so he goes.
Ho is shown photographs of the beau
tiful city and informed of the commer
cial opportunities awaiting new citizens
of enterprise. If he la not looking for
Chances to invest his money or energy
he is told what a fine residence city
Los Angeles is for persons of leisure.
He is made to feel at home and If he
doesn't decide to stay he is pretty cer
tain to raturn for other visits. Los An
geles is not only ono of the best adver
tised cities in the United States, but.
better still, can "deliver the goods. 1
There are other cities nearer home with
equal advantages which might profit
by imitating her methods.
"It Is clearly evident, from a thorough
study of the criminal statistics of
states where the reformatory methods
have been adopted, that the average
length i>f sentences has Increased and
nut diminished, and that crime has not
Increased in a ratio to the population.
"The reformatory system appeals to
its advocates as being a reasonable,
scientific, practical and Christian way
of dealing with criminals. Its methoiis
should tee extended and their Hpplicn
tlon made general. No longor should
Justice be represented by tho figure of
a woman with bandaged eyes, holding
In her hands scales weighing out Jus
tice and punishing tho guilty: but
the figure should represent universal
motherhood, with eyes wide open to
the possibilities of humanity and a
heart throbbing with companion, and
mercy toward her unfortunate chil
dren."
The Los Angeles Triion Reform
league alms to make clear these and
other facts to legislators at Sacramento
next January.
astoundlngly rapid development. Fine
climate and sublime scenery will not
account for it. Superior natural ad
vantages do not tell the whole story.
There Is something essential above and
beyond these that has supplied the
promotlve power.
It's the Los Angeles spirit—that
comprehends it all. The work-to-geth
er impulse, the splendid audaclttes of
boosting, the backing Of unlimited
faith in the city by progressive works,
the extension and perfection of a great
lnterurban trolley system, the expan
sion of jobbing business, the estab
lishment of manufactories, the cease
less Frank Wigginsizing of all crea
tion—these are some of the many ele
ments making up that virile compound
which is called "the Los Angeles spir
it."
Just In proportion as Los Angeles
and Pasadena presorvo intact that uni
fied promotlve impulse, this concen
trated essence of pet-there-more
iHiickly-than-any-place-nlse, just to
this degree will the gain in population
as will be shown by tho 1920 census.
approximate the magnificent percont
ago shown this year.
Far and Wide
REALLY NOT IN DEMAND
Woodrow Wilson's objection to di
rect primaries is that they are not di
rect and they are not primaries. There
are other objections, very serious ones,
but this one will answer. —Kansas City
Journal.
NO USE DELAYING
The husband of Mrs. Snowden, the
British suffragette, says women will
reduce the cost of living after they
get the ballot. What an awfully long
time to wait!— Z'lttsburg Gazette-
Times.
TO MOVE IN HIS CIRCLE
A St. Louis man who weighs 425
pounds says he is going to walk
n*>und the world, but it is believed ha
moans to roll around.—St. Joseph
(Mo.) Gezette.
STILL OBDURATE
All steam shovel records have been
broken by the big machines at Pana
ma. But you could never get Poult
ney Blglow to believe it —Pittsburgh
Gazette-Times.
NICE DISTINCTION
The Globe-Democrat declares that
St. Louis is "the ballooning center of
the world." But Chicago is .still the'
windiest city.—PHtsburgr Gazette-
Tlmcs.
ALSO TDA AND YMOOENE.
M.iKcagni'M new opera, "Ysobel," will
have its premier production In New
York. Glaydg and Yrene will have front
seats. —Cleveland Leader.