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SAN FRANCISCO THE PLACE
THE New York Evening Post, which is the
exponent of everything that is staid and
stable in the American metropolis, has been
conducting an inquiry into the respective merits
of Is'cw Orleans and San Francisco as to their fit
nebs for holding the Panama-Pacific exposition in
1915. Arguments have been submitted by Gov
ernor Gillett of California and Governor Sanders
of Louisiana. Califomians have reason to he
proud of the showing made by their state, and the
reading between the lines is that the Pacific slope
is gaining ground every day and will have the
backing of the real element in New York that
counts for success.
It appears to be generally conceded that the
Panama canal will make the Pacific coast the new
neighbor of the seaports of the Atlantic, and that
the national celebration that shall mark the join
ing of the world's two greatest highways of com
merce should be held either in New York or in
that city of the Pacific coast which makes the
strongest bid for it. New York stands aside in
deference to her newer neighbors, and while New
Orleans is regarded as an important way station,
it cannot be classed as the big port at the end of
the line.
Therefore New York and the east are coming
to the opinion that the big fair should be held at
the front gate on the Pacific and not in the back
yard on the gulf of Mexico.
Governor Gillett's claims for California made
to the New York Post set forth the claims of San
Francisco for the privelege and the advantages
that would accrue to the nation by holding the
fair there, while Governor Sanders merely put in
the plea that San Francisco was difficult of access
to the dwellers of the cast.
Mr. David Rich, a Californian residing in New
York, made a contribution setting forth why a
trip to the Pacific coast was a liberal education to
any American, and telling of the vast benefits that
would accrue to the nation from pilgrimages from
the east to the San Francisco fair. lie portrayed
the revelation of national resources it would be to
the visitor and told of the many who would linger
to develop the vast natural wealth of the west to
the resultant good of the whole nation. In fact,
Mr. Rich struck the keynote of the claims of the
Pacific coast in this statement:
"California is a part of the earth which every
traveler, the world over, holds the wish to see and
which disappoints no one who has come tinder the
spell of its scenic beauty. It is a land which, once
visited, one must needs linger in, and from which
few depart without a longing to see it once more."
THE SPEAKERSHIP AND POPULARITY
HRHE baptismal name of Congressman Clark,
who hails from the state of mules and malt
•* beverages is Champ, not Chump, li there
had been any doubt about this it was dispelled
yesterday when the definite announcement was
made that the speaker, in the coming session of
congress, will not appoint house committees, that
duty being intrusted to the house itself. Mr.
Clark, of course, expects to occupy the speaker's
chair, and yet, far from objecting to the proposed
change, he is said to have originated the idea him
self.
Fie has, it seems, no desire to sit upon refrac
tory house members until they yell "Uncle."
Neither does he care to be known as "C*ar."
"Uncle" he places in the category of undesirable
citizenship and the title of "Czar" he regards as a
broken reed. Whereas Cannonisrn was an impor
tant issue in the recent election, 1912 will discover
the issue of Clarkism -till born, if the gentleman
from Missouri has his way about it, and he has
been accustomed to having his own way much of
his life.
Mr. Clark has small precedent but ample rea
son for his determination to curtail the power oi
the n« *t speaker, even though he himself be the
man. (neat power entail; great responsibility and
involvi ii( essarily the loss of friends and of po
litical prestige, not to saj popularity. Champ
Clark wants to be popular, lie also wants to be
speaker. His immediate ambition is to combine
the two, something which has not been accom
plished heretofore.
The late Thomas Brackcti Reed, whose habitat
was Maine and who was a presidential poten
tiality until he became sp< :hc house, taught
Mr. ( lark a lesson. >i luing his studies, he
realized, as does everybody else for that matter,
lhai ' is now thoroughly discredited
befon ■ Going bad: to the long-ago
days of a former Democratic . he encoun
tered the ngtin of Crisp—Crisp of Georgia—who,
though be fared better than either of the others,
still found i leakership a stumbling block
rathei than an aid to further political preferment.
And so Mr. Clark, taking counsel with his
ocratic friends, decided that the time had
runic to permil tin lowei house o\ <s to
conduct its own business in its own way, without
dictation from its own presiding officer, As
speaker he will be suave, diplomatic, « tty, per
even politit bui never autocratic; and when
the Democrats in l(>12 begin to cast aroi nd for a
is qtiitr likely thai Missouri
as well as Ohio, New York and New Jersey will
displa htnuig rod, a now and shiii) rod with
all modern improvement • and with its political
wires < stending from Washington westward.
Editorial Page if 'She Henald
THE FRANKING PRIVILEGE
ONE of the reforms urged by President Taft
in his' recent message that will meet with
general public approval is his demand for
supervision of the franking privilege enjoyed by
.senators and congressmen. No president hereto
fore has had the temerity to interfere with this
one iif the emoluments, but then this congress can
hardly be said to be made up of Taft's "personal
friends."
Despite that, it is a reform that long has been
needed and has imposed a burden of many millions
upon the American people. The public in the end
always has had to bear the burden of public ex
travagances, ft aU reverts and results in a deeper
dip into the purse of the taxpayers. There alwa
has been a postal deficit and it always has been
blamed on everything bul the franking privilege
of the national legislators and the other branches
oi government officialdom. Last year the deficit
was cut from $17,000,000 to $7,000,000. In the
years before it was greater than that.
All sorts ox regulations have been devised to
limit the volume of pound rate matter sent as sec
ond class, but this action by the president is the
tn>! blow at the most flagrant abuse in the postal
service.
It has been said that some congressmen even;
had their laundry sent home under an official
frank, and it is a matter of record that one nation
al representative in the middle west actually sent]
a cow as mail matter under his personal frank.
That cow cost the people of the country her
weight in registered letters, but it is not on record
that "Bossy" gave any more or better milk as a
result of that distinction.
That and other abuses have had their effect on
the general public in lack of needed mail carrying
facilities. The district here in the California hills
that needed rural free delivery had to wait because
there were no funds available; the man in the big
city had to wait an hour longer for his mail be
cause the funds intended to give a more perfect
service had been diverted from their purpose.
, The Taft plan includes the substitution of va
rious official stamps in place of the franks and a
general supervision of the class of matter Uiat is
forwarded under them.
The abuse of the franking privilege is not by
any means confined to congressmen sending out
campaign literature and the like. A big part of
'• is perpetrated by the government departments.
It is justly argued that there is likely to be an
abuse of anything for which the user does not
have to pay out his own cash. There is no doubt
that much of the mail matter sent out by;the gov
ernmental departments would be held up as use
less if ready money had to be spent for the send
ing.
~ The field of reform that President Taft has in
vaded should work for the public good, and he
(plight to receive the aid of every citizen, even
though he be an official enjoying the franking
privilege.
The amount of telegraphic matter that is com
ing out of Washington to prove how prosperous is
the nation is gratifying—to the telegraph com
panies. But it somehow fails to convince that
Washington is in any measure responsible for the
prosperity. Tables of statistics cannot produce
prosperity, and that and the tariff wall is the chief
Washington output at present. Crop reports cen
ter at Washington, it is true, but even these don't
make prosperity. As for the bumper crops them
selves, which alone are responsible for the con
fidently prosperous tone of the nation, these are
raised in other localities than Washington, D. C.
Import duties are special privileges. Wages
are regulated by the number of men seeking em
ployment and the number of men seeking employ
ment rests upon the accessibility of free soil to
the centers of population. Tariff has no more re
lation to wages than the flowers that bloom in the
spring. When the producers and consumers of
the land finally discover these elemental truths,
the tariff will drop fast enough. And it isn't like
ly to drop very much until they do.
The engagement is announced of Miss Vivian
Gould, second daughter of George J. Gould of New
York, to John Graham Hope Horsley Beresford,
fifth Baron Decies, who is said in the dispatches
to be a crack polo player and keenly interested in
hunting and racing. Surely this should be a firm
foundation on which to build marital happiness.
The federal supreme court's definition of a trust
a- :i "continuing offense" is deserving of thought
ful consideration, no doubt, but old fashioned folk
will cling to the more graphic definition that a
trust is "a bunch of stock surrounded by water."
Census returns show agriculture in Indiana to
be languishing, which moves the San Antonio
Daily Express to the observation that the state
will soon be the biggest thing in the world in the
way of a library.
Jason Bonner and "his wife of Newcastle, Tnd.,
arc the parents of twenty-eight children, twenty
one of whom are living. If this thing keeps up
the rabbit will have to scurry around and get a
reputation.
Down in New Orleans they are still talking
about holding a Panama exposition. Up-state a
little ways, in the interior, there are said to be in
dividuals who don't know yet that the war is over.
Biloxi, Miss., has elected a Socialist to a seat
in (he city council. It seems the Milwaukee brew
is becoming popular in the south.
Taft's 40.000-word message to congress misses
by only a few words breaking all recent records
for presidential loquacity.
Tn 'consonance" with his name, Zbvszsko, the
Polish wrestler, threw his opponent in New York-
Tuesday night.
Many a boy„lured by city lights, writes "back
to the farm" for the price of coffee and sinkers.
Y<>?, this is the Christmas season, even if our
visitors from the east can't believe it.
\ liulc leu imposed government would make
room for more self-L'Overnment.
Andrew Carnegie Gives $10,000,000 to the Peace Fund
1 v ; t^K^yj^
Secretary of War Dickinson Issues an Alarming Statement Urging Reorganization of Army
and Naval Forces
THE HERALD'S PUBLIC LETTER BOX
OFFER TO MR, BLANCO
Editor Herald: If E. P. Blanco, who
wrote to the Letter Box concerning his ]
effort to get Esperanto literature, ■will
send his address to me at 719 Tale
street I will be glad to send him free,
for the good of the cause, a little book
on the subject that may be helpful to
him. VAL STONE.
Los Angeles, Cal. (
OBJECTS TO NEW PARK RULE
Editor Herald: So now we can ac
count for the paucity of seats in Cen
tral park. It is from a laudable but
misguided desire on the part of the
i park commission to prevent the good
citizens of our city from Inflicting upon
themselves bodily harm by Jaw-break
ing- and rib-squeezing.
It is too late, gentlemen. The com
mission should have been In the only
original park— garden—and have
squelched the thing at the beginning.
You cannot dam a river at its mouth.
Try something easy, judge. K.
Los Angeles, Cal.
COMMENT ON TAFT'S ACTIONS
Editor Herald: In promoting Asso
ciate Justice White to the exalted po
sition of chief Justice of the supreme
court of the United States, President |
Taft has administered a well merited ,
rebuke to the Socialist party, as they
are bitterly opposed to the Catholic
church, though it is the best friend of i
the working man. Before the election I
of Taft the Socialist paper, the Appeal
to Reason, davoted an entire edition to
abuse of him for his course in the
Philippine islands, but of course could
not defeat him, and all he had done
there was to stand up for the rights of
the church and see that It had Justice.
All honor to Justice White and Presi
dent Taft! • THOS. O'GKADY.
Monrovia, Cal. v
INCOMPETENCY IS BLAMED
Editor Herald: The Letter BOX
seems to be devoted ever since its in
ception to voicing the discontent of
the incompetent. The world has ever
had its quota of Incompetents. Many
of them would have made good if not
encouraged in voicing and dwelling on
their incompeteney. In our society if
the failures instead of trying to ape
' the successful in dress, manners and
mode of living would realize their po
sition and live accordingly they might
some day be In the ranks of the much
maligned successful. Today's Herald
contains the confession of one of those
Incompetents, which is a confession of
double incompetence. Unable to so
regulate her domestic affairs to (it her
income, she rails against a firm which
is nut accountable for her troubles.
She fan feed, clothe and shelter her
family In respectability on $55 a month
if she feeds and shelters them in a
way which is in keeping with her sta
tion In life, which will be respectable,
as respectability does not mean having
all those things which are the prerog
atives of the successful.
J. F. O'BRIEN.
Los Angeles, CaV.
COMMENDS OPEN FORUM
Editor Herald: I am delighted with
the editorial In the Sunday morning
edition entitled "Edited by the Peo
ple." The stand you have taken in
supplying the people an open forum
in the Public Letter Box is highly
commendable. It is indeed refreshing
in these days of cant and hypocrisy,
plutocracy and mammonism to have
one large dally newspaper in the An
gel City run for the people and not for
the plunderers and grafters of the pub
lic weal. The one great fact that tran
scends all others in its supreme power
for good is the dissemination of knowl
edge throughout the length and breadth
of the race. And the people the world
over are looking to a free and untram
ineled press for this knowledge.
The democracy of the truth is all
powerful in the domain of the soul that
Is in revolt. And where are the think
ing souls that are not In revolt? Not
many, certainly, can lie found in Cali
fornia. , ■
Therefore it is with much satisfac
tion that 1 express my appreciation to
the liberal Los Angeles Herald. And
In the near future I shall avail myself
of your liberal offer and express some
of the thought* that are uppermost in
my mind. FREMONT TOWERS.
Pasadena. Cal.
PARK MORALS
Editor Herald: Your editorial in
Tuesday's Herald on park morals
was timely. I hereby ask the mayor
and city council of Los Angeles to
publicly state whether or not the
license Issued to so-called disreputable
women does or does not by the terms
of the contract prohibit these women
from entering the public parks. Los
Angeles recognizes these women by
putting the legal stamp of approval
on their vocation, stamped, sealed and
signed by the "Honorable Mayor" and
"Respectable Board of Aldermen.'
A licensed female prostitute has as
much rignt in Central park as an un
licensed male prostitute or a licensed
saloon keeper.
I commend the following lines of
Walt Whitman to our protectors of
morals of the people of Los Angeles:
"I think I could live with the birds
and beasts; they are so placid and
contented."
"Not one is respectable or unhappy
on the whole earth."
OLGA B. CAREY.
Pasadena, Cal.
ADVICE ON MATRIMONY
Editor Herald: Some one wrote:
i "Advice is unnecessary. A wise man
don't need it and a fool won't take it."
But those who give advice should be
' experienced or well grounded on the
I subject advoaated or the argument
1 produced proves valueless. Any farmer
j can tell a man how to plow, but to
! learn the art the student must take
the handles and hike across the field.
Now what does the advice of an old
bachelor or whatever that means
—amount to to those on the verge of
matrimony? Having never married or
raised children what do they know
about it? Huh! Their advice is most
ly alloy.
When we hear from a father who
has bounced a baby boy on his knee;
while the little tot clung on his be
whiskered face with its candy, sticky
lingers and lisped da-da between
yanks; then we are getting advice of
worth from the threshold of ex
perience.
When God (love) tolls the couple to
follow life's path together then It's
for the proper papers and preacher.
The money question should cause no
fear or hesitation. We know one
couple who had not the means to pay
lor a preacher when they made the
start. Now they are able to hire two
or three preachers.
Pasadena, Cal. G. R. LUNA.
SEGREGATING THE SEXES
Editor Herald: How badly people
must want prohibition in this city
nowadays! In regard to segregating
the Hexes in Central park, I submit the
following to Secretary Herbert of our
local park commission:
Why not compel wives to wear their
hair a certain way when with hubby or
other male relatives, another way when ■
with a male friend or alone; have a
special style of hair dressing for wid- i
ows and another for maidens. Let the
men be tagged with badges. On one
we'll put "I. A. 8.," meaning "I'm a
bachelor"; on another "1. W. M. W.,"
or "I'm with my wife"; and still an- j
other might be "I. A. W.," or "I'm a
widower."
Or still again, let every man and
wife get their pictures "took" with a
special license from the police or park
commission, and every man or woman
caught Bitting with any other of the
opposite »ex than the lawful marital
partner, fine him or her a dollar a min
ute by heck! Fine more if without
badges; and a pretty female more than
an ugly one.
Or lot every married man and woman
be numbered, convict style, and "W262"
would mean "wife 262," and signify
she belonged to "H262," or "husband
262," while the widows and widowers,
maidens and single men might go un
numbered, simply have the letter "W"
for widow or widower, "M" for maiden
and "B" for bachelor.
Or, if card index system seems too
cumbersome, hire a special public tat
tooer who will letter us according to
character. I'm willing to be branded
"B" for the public good.
These are only a few suggestions,
Mr Park Commissioner, of a great
number that might bo gJven. iELoR
Los Aneelca. Cal.
AID FOR JOHN FOSTER
Editor Herald: Just a word to help,
If possible, our neighbor, John Foster.
If Book authority 1 cannot give assur
ance. I am doubtful If he can be
helped now (during this present life).
Information I have (Book authority) Is
very satisfactory to the writer. When
reason begins to return we naturally
inquire, how came we In this condi
tion? Sickness, sorrow, pain and death
shared alike by all.
The Book says, "By one man sin
and death entered into the world, and
death the result."—Rom. 5, 12.
Here Is the satisfaction, or the word
to pierce the dark, "As through Adam
all die, even so through Christ all shall
live."—l Cor.: 15, 22. If any one has
anything better to offer, please let us
have it. W. P. TEMPLE.
Los Angeles, Cal.
NON-EXISTENCE NOT FEARFUL
Editor Herald: Answering Mr. Fos
ter's letter in your Letter Box of Sun
day, December 11, if he cares to have
the opinion of one in the same condi
tion as himself he may have it for
what it is worth.
As Mr. Edison says, the probabilities
point strongly against the idea of im
mortality rather than toward it. So
be it. Each one of us has had his
share of what this world has to offer
of joy or sorrow, work or pleasure,
and should be able to say, at the last,
"It is enough."
Although we as individuals pass
away, the species will survive, the race
will not perish.
To whomsoever asks what good will
that do me as an individual, the reply
may be made: "Is not the craving for
immortality by the individual an ex
aggeration of the importance of his
personality?" Is It Impossible, then, to
reconcile oneself to non-existence after
death? Is the idea of non-existence af
ter death any more terrifying than the
i<lea of non-existence before birth? Is
it possible to imagine an immortality
into which we would take our person
alities, without which we would not be
we, and our memories, without which
we could not remember what we had
been ?
Non-axlltenoe after death need not
really concern us, because where we
are it is not, and where It is we are not.
PENREUR.
Sierra Madre. Cal.
A POEM WORTH WHILE
OLD ST. DAVID'S AT RADNOR
HENRY W. LONGFELLOW
What an imase of peace and rest
Is thlH little church among Its graves!
All is so quiot; the troubled breast,
The wounded spirit, the heart oppressed.
Here may find the repose it craves.
> See how tho ivy climbs and expands
Over this humble hermitage.
And seems to caress with "a little hands
The rough, gray stones, as a child that stands
Caressing the wrinkled cheeks of age!
Tou cross the threshold; and dim and «naU
Is the space that serves for the Shepherd s Fold.
The narrow aisle, the bare, white wall;
The pews, and the pulpit quaint apd tall.
Whisper and cay: "Alus, we are old.
Herbert's chapel at Bemerton
Hardly more spacious i» than Him,
But Poet and Pastor, blent In one,
Clothed with a splendor, as of the sun,
That lowly and holy edlnce.
It ia not the wall of stone without
That makes the building small or great,
But the soul's light shining round about,
And the faith that overromoth doubt.
And the lovo that stronger is than hate.
Were I a pilgrim in search of peace.
Were I a pastor of Holy Church,
More than a bishop's dioceso
Should I prize this place of rest, and release
From farther longing and farther search.
H*re would I stay, and let the world
With its distant thunder roar and roil,
Storms do not rend tho rhII that la furled;
Nor like a dead leal, towed and whirled
In an ■■ildy «t wln.l. M the anrlmrod B»ul.
DECEMBER 16. 1910.
WITH THE PLAYERS
Mine. Surah Bernhardt, in New York
last night, gave the first American
performance of "La Heffii." an Italian
drama, In four acts by Ram Benelll,
I translated Into French verso by Jean
I Rlqhepln, and which whs originally
| produced in ' Mine. Bernhardt's own
theater in Paris last March. The sceno
In Florence In the fifteenth century.
In Illumination of the title it is ex
plained that "la beffa" was a practi
cal Joko or "dirty trick" which tho
victim had tho right to remember and
revenge. The perpetration of such
Jokes was a favorite pastime In Flor
ence during' the period depleted by
the drama. In Paris "La Bcffa" was a
triumph, and a brilliant New York au
dience last night applauded Mmo. Bern-,
hardt and her supporting players lib
erally.
• ' *. '*
Ruth St. Denis is again dancing in
New York, this time the dances of
, Kgypt, which are given In three parta
' under the title* "Prayer to the Nilo
' Gods," "The Tnmboura" and "Tho
Mystery of Isls." A largo dancing cho
rus appears In her support.
• • •
Henri Bernstein's new play. Into
which correspondents nay ho has "dis
tilled a delicate sensuality," is in re
hearsal at the Comedle Francalse, With
M. Le Bargy and Mme. Bartet in tho
dominant roles.
• • •
Harry Lauder Is reported to have
lost $25,000 of his earnings In this coun
try through Investments in American
mining stocks. Rather careless for a
Scot, is It not?
... r
K. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowo
have annnounced that their annual
Shakespearean revival next season will
be "King Lear."
♦ »♦
WHAT OTHERS SAY
ESCAPED FUTURE TERRORS
A Chicago fan died in a fit of anger
because he could not witness one of
the championship gam<>B. A man who
is that much of a fan ought to havo
been spared to enjoy the inspiring win
ter "dope" which the sporting editors
will soon begin turning out.—Jollet
Herald.
WILLIAM WORKED ROTH WATB
"There Is plenty of proof that'
Shakespeare did not write the works
credited to him," Bays a late Investi
gator. To be sure, and plenty of proof
that he did.—Louisville Courier-Journal.
NOW CHAMPING HIS BITS
A St. Louis man has just cut his
third set of teeth. Must be mighty dis
couraging after having learned to en-
Joy cereals.— Philadelphia Inquirer.
COMPARISON IN CRAZES
The St. Louis man who Is going to
drink ten quarts of beer a day for
thirty days makes the qual-a-day man
look like a sane citizen.—Denver Re
publican.
AN ALL-AROUND WINNER
Jacob Rlls says Roosevelt will win
in the end. The colonel also is likely
to win in the middle, on the bottom,
the top and both sides.
QUITE A DELUOE
St. Louis went "wet" by 121,126. It
was a veritable souse.—Springfield
State Register.
A HEARTY LAUGH
Beln« th« day's best Jok« from th» n»wi
exchange!.
A St. Louis prelate is credited with
this story, told by him at a recent
dinner:
The head of one of the big trusts
arrived at the gate of heaven, and, as
usual, found St. Peter on watch there.
Rather pompously, the trust magnate
said:
"Pardon, is this heaven?"
"It is," said St. Peter, "step right
into the elevator."
After waiting for what seemed a long
time the trust president said:
"I beg your pardon, but when does
this elevator go up?"
"It doesn't go up," said the saint.
"It goes down as soon as I get a load."