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THE campaign of perfidy and dishonor inspired by a greedy appetite for spoils, of which Meyer Lissner is the noisiest exponent, does riot commend itself to a plain, straightforward man like Editor Clarke of the Riverside Press, who knows right from wrong and never hesi tates to speak his mind. Mr. Clarke has been, with consistent record, a vigorous and able supporter of the cause of reform in California Editor Clarke's Reply to the Job ! Chaser and has delivered some telling and effective blows in that purpose. he who last summer was approached on behalf of Alden n with a proposition to sell out the support # of his news y per and desert Hiram Johnson, then running for the republican nomination for governor. At that time Mr. Clarke indignantly ted the proposition and printed facts. Now the proposal or demand that he abandon his principles • Mr. Clarke from Meyer Lissner's chief journalistic lieuten- Los Angeles. In reply to that demand Mr. Clarke wrote: «I Replying to your telegram urging me to come out strong for \\ orks for senator, will say that I can not see my way clear to do so and ' or, a> a "progressive" republican 1 am not in sympathy with what - to me to*be an effort to force the election of Judge Works regard of the primary law and the sentiment of the people of the state. luring the primary campaign the Press supported Judge Works --- he was the only "progressive" candidate before the voters of the knd we advised the republicans of this county to vote for him. While the county gave a very fine plurality for Johnson the advisory vote senator showed a large plurality for Spalding. f Thj» vote demonstrated very clearly that the/ supporters of John- Riverside county were not generally for Works. Under those cir ■nces I should not feel like advising our senator and assemblymen < tor Works, and I certainly should not presume to hand out to legislators advice that I would not urge on-the members from this unty. V <J I fear that the election of Judge Works, under existing conditions. I would injure rather than benefit the cause of progressive republicanism V^nd handicap the state administration which, in a measure at least, would V Id responsible for it. In the first place.Works did not win the ad visory vote under the lavy, for we have to deal with the law as it is and not wish it was; and, in the second place, his views are so extreme that his course in the senate would liable to bring discredit on the progressive ment in this state. Under the provisions of the primary law, which received the votes of all the reform members of the legislature two years Spakling certainly won the indorsement of the advisory vote. " This is the plain, unvarnished statement of an honest man who can not be blinded by the cheap Pecksniffian sophistry of pretended rmers like Rowell and Lissner. It is the* statement of a man who will not be turned from the straight road and the honest course by the bullying of politicians seeking a dishonest advantage for the. sake of spoils. He understands that the policy demanded by Rowell and Lissner has already done the cause of reform more injury than they can ever repair. The strength of that cause lies in its sincerity, and when that virtue is once for all decisively abandoned it puts the reformers of commerce like Rowell and Lissner in the category of professional gHWliticians who can see nothing in politics but job chasing. A PART from the fact that the funds provided to finance the ZJLproposed world's fair at New Orleans are quite inadequate *"ior an undertaking of this magnitude, it should be noted that the money has a string to it. It is not a bona fide appropriation, as it is based on a contingency that involves substantial aid from the national treasury. A statement of the facts of record in this relation follows: The Case for San Francisco Briefly Stated Under the Louisiana constitutional amendments, the special tax to cover $6,500,000 of bonds with interest can not be used for exposition purposes "until the congrc^ of the United States shall designate the city of New Orleans as the location for an exposition commemorating the opening of the Panama canal." This means that congress must initiate or create the exposition at New Orleans. The Estopinal bill, now pending before congress, provides that the federal government shall create the New Orleans exposition and shall appropriate $1,000,000 in aid thereof, and unless this bill passes the state appropriation of $6,500,000 will not be available t > finance the exposition. On the other hand. San Francisco asks not a penny from the federal treasury, and with the aid of the state of California there is nmvided a liberal fund of $17,5^0,000 to finance the exposition in this city. The one and ftnly request is that congress shall authorize the president to issue an invitation to foreign nations on behalf of this country to participate in the San Vrancisco world's fair. In view of the prevailing sentiment against spending public money taken from the national treasury in aid of expositions, it does not seem possible that congress can hesitate about the decision of this controversy. AMONG the curiosities of freak legislation is a bill to be proposed for enactment which is intended to incorporate the whole body of statutes to be enacted during the present session in the constitution of California. The method by which this strange object is proposed to be effected is to submit the statutes of the session as a whole in the shape of a constitu- Strange Example of Freak Legislation . ; ; —' tional amendment for ratification or rejection by the popular vote. This would be a fine thing; for the newspapers which would be designated to pr.nt the volume of statutes as an advertisement with arguments for and against them. Presumably, and incidentally, it would he expected of voters to read the statutes of the session from end to end and form an independent judgment thereon. The obliga EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE CALL Works, the Repudiator WORKS won't do—he wobbles. When he thought the people would be for him he was for the direct primary law. The people repudiated Works, and Works repudiates the law and the people—tags himself traitor and records himself a renegade. He wants the job—wants it at any price, even the price of self-respect and the public's respect. The public could afford to pay almost any price to keep him out of the job, out of any job. You can't trust a trimmer. Works is a typical trimmer, setting his sails for any breeze that may blow him toward the harbor of public office. Once in such a port the trimmer usually "trims" his public. That may be sltfng, but it fits Works as if it had been built for him. It gives an accurate line on the kind of senator he would be—a repu diator of the law and of his pledges, a quibbler and wobbler. Maybe Works is personally and privately honest; the influences behind him are not. Works is putty to those influences; wax in the hands of the schemers; clay under the thumb of Lissner, the potter; Lissner, the plotter. The schemers—Rowell, who has gone wrong, and Lissner, who never was right—whisper in Works'' ear and he goes blind to the law and deaf to public opinion. A little while ago Works was proclaiming his faith in the pri mary law as it stands on the statute books. He did not want the indorsement unless he could get it under the letter of that law. He wrote to every republican candidate for legislative nomination, asking if that man would stand by the direct primary law as to the senator ship. Here is what he said under his signature to every republican candidate: "I say to you now, that as between me and any candidate before the people, I neither expect nor desire a vote from you not authorized by the votes of the people under that (the direct primary) law. In other words, I desire to stand or fall upon the advisory vote of the people at the primary election as against any other candidate that has submitted Ms candidacy to the people." Listen to Works now: "The law is no law. It is not legally or morally binding on the legislators. If a majority of the districts that elected republican legislators had declared for me, then things would be different. But they actually declared for Spalding, so I de mand that you legislators repudiate the law and elect me" tions of the contemporary elector are growing in an alarming way. The object which it is intended to accomplish by this strange freak of the legislative brain is to foreclose the courts of their right to review the statutes and determine whether a given act of the legislature is or is not unconstitutional. It is assumed that once an act is made part of the constitution by popular ratification it will thereby become impregnable to attack in the courts. It should be obvious that no act of the legislature, whether madd part of the constitution or not, can foreclose the courts of their right and power to review and construe the same in the light of other constitutional provisions of the state or nation, and the courts will continue to exercise that power. The single way to accom plish the object sought would be to abolish the courts altogether. The whole proposition proceeds on an essential misconception of the nature, purposes and functions of an organic law which should be concerned only with the declaration and enactment of the general scheme of government, leaving details to be dealt with by the legis lature in the form of statutes. On the whole the proposition to include all the petty details of statutory law in the constitution is chiefly remarkable as an example of the freak legislation that some times commends itself to half baked members of deliberative bodies. THE city of Providence, R. 1., is troubled about its streetcar service in much the same way as San Francisco. Although the population has increased remarkably the streetcar service has not kept pace with the demands of travel, and by consequence an urban journey is not unlike engaging in a football game under the old rules. The Hartford Times makes this note: The Trouble With the Streetcar Service The Providence Journal is conducting a vigorous warfare on the management of the local street railway system which, it affirms has added 16,388,147 to the total number of its passengers within three years, and has only bought four new cars; San Francisco has fewer cars in service today than before the fire. The travel has increased enormously in the last three years and is still increasing. We learn from official announcements that the United Railroads has bought some new cars for future delivery, but unless the policy of that corporation is to undergo a radical change we need not expect any improvement of service. The new cars are bought because their design will make the collection of fares more certain, and not because of any desire to increase the accommodations offered the traveling public. ANSWERS TO QUERIES ECLIPSES*—O. O. Y. R.. Oakland. " When will there ;be total eclipses of the sun in the next 10 or 12 years? Calculations have • been made up ■ to 1923, as follows: • April 28, 1911. Total eclipse in the Pacific ocean. ; October 10,1912. The moon's shadow will cross South America from Peru to Brazil. August 21, 1914. The shadow will pass across Norway and' Sweden, through Russia and Persia and . con tinue its course nearly to India.'" ., •■■'• February 3, 1916. The shadow will pass, near the Isthmus of Panama, into the Atlantic ocean and cross it nearly to England. . • j. •.: June 8, 191?. The shadow will be In I the' north Pacific ocean and strike the coast of 7 America i near Vancouver, is land and pass in a, southeasterly direc tion over' the whole .United States, reaching to Florida, when it will enter the Atlantic and terminate. " September 10, 1923. The shadow will enter upon the Pacific ocean and cross the southern part of California and Texas, where it will enter the gulf of Mexico. • • • EMERALDS—F. H.. City. Prom where Id the balk of emerald* obtained? Most of them are "obtained from the. mines in Muzo,'. province > of, Bayaca, Colombia, South America. These mines are on the .eastern* slope of the Andes, nearly j7O miles 1; in a, north-northwest-■ erly direction from Santa Fe de Bogota,' Emeralds are also ' obtained '.: from an other mine at Lasquez, about two days'; Journey frf>m the one at Muzo. i .... ; CARB OF GOLDFISH—V.. H.. City. How should RoMflKh be cared for? How much cold' will tbe fish stand?, '/■ Goldfish: wfl! not' hear a temperature below the: freezing! point. , A dealer; In; animals, on the t subject; of feeding- and ■ caring for fish, says:, "Never give the \ fish ; food:-_ that contains yeast. *. Use ' prepared * fish " food,"; a piece : three-quar ters of an inch square being i sufficient * y. ■• ■ '. ■ ■:'■'. ■■',' .-:> '::■■* ■ ■ •,. • for one day's feeding for a medium sized fish. The flsh should be fed every morning, and In cold weather | the po tion should be reduced half.\ Give them » flies. . The water should be •■hanged morning and night, and In the changing the fish s should not be handled. There should be growing plants in the water In which the flsh are kept. . * • • ■■; »/■■ PRESSURE—a.. OttJ What Is the prensure or friction aon a -ft. Inch pipe, and is the pres sure four times ax great on a 1% Inch pipe? As you do not mention the length of the pipe, what it is to be used for, nor its fall, it is Impossible to answer the question:. Suggest' that you go to the reference room iof the free f library; in Hayes street i and,"consult i "Kent" t and "Haswell," which contain- tables show ing pressure and friction under various conditions. ;■'.>; .".--■■ • • « . ■ ■*& m*£ FRANCIS TRAIN C. : S.; Oitj-. '"""* dirt G*orge Francis Train • make big r»mon» trip around the world." when did he land on the Pacific coast ana did he make better time thin Nellie Ely? . ' , i He reached Tacotna, Wash., at 6:45 p. m. May-24,' 1890, completing his tour in 67 days and 13 hours, beating the time of Nelly Biy by five and a half days. • • » EASTERN QUESTION—Smith, Bwkeler. vvb*n wtf. the "eautern question" flr»t , agitated in £Qn>peY r " ■ / :" It dates back as far as European his tory goes and tis said to have 'begun with:the clash of the first Greek colon ists upon the Asiatic mainland: about 700 B. C. • • • „ *DJ£.T ANT OENEBAIi— V. M., XouatTllle. Cal. >ho ™ adjutant - general of. the United State* army on ' December 8," HMO? • Major General Fred C. Alnsworth. *' V '■ * • •'_ ".'."' ONIA' A STEP—D. P., - city, v Who 1* the author of ■•Only a Step,". a poem, an.l where is it to be found? t ; ■■ • . _ . ■ -'„.. Can any reader give the information? Works, the "progressive"! Yes, He progresses —sidewise, like a crab, or backward, like the tail pinched crawfish. # If Works had won under the law you would now witness sup porting Works not only Spalding, but every influence that now calls upon the legislature to regard the law and elect him, the choice of the party. If Spalding had carried every district you would now witness Works and the schemers behind him, demanding that the legislature repudiate the law. That is a difference^—one of many differences —between Works and Spalding. Now, The Call does not demand that Spalding be elected because he is Spalding, but because he won under the.law. If Works had won under the law The Call would be found today demanding that the law be carried out —and that would be the case even if Works' were as evil and dangerous man as Lissner, wha runs him. The election of Works, or of anybody but Spalding, is notice to the country that California is the same kind of "progressive" as Works — "progressive" sidewise or backward. The plot to beat Spalding out- Parkers Walter Parker and makes Jere Burke marvel at his own mod eration. Its success would make California the first state in the union to repudiate a vital part of a direct primary law. It would put this state lower in the scale of morals and decency than those few commu nities that have repudiated their just public debts for money borrowed on bonds. Success for the Works-Lissner-Rowell plotters would mean a shameful stain upon the good name of California. For years the state has been struggling toward political freedom. If its first act after emancipation were such a political crime as the execution of the anti- Spalding infamy the world might fairly question the wisdom of emancipation. It would not be very different from the freed bondman celebrating his liberty by going out to rob, rape and murder. Earnestly and with no thought nor purpose except to preserve the law and to save the reputation of the state, The Call urges upon the legislators—demands of them—that they fulfill the law. Persons in the News FRANK W. CARPENTER, executive secretary of .tlie Philippine islands, will leave this ■ morning on the Mongolia for the islands. He went,to Washington to testify. in the friar lands rase*. •. • • MR. AND MRS. EDWARD HUTCHINSON of] I Lodt,' Major Archibald Campbell. U. S. - A.. and Frnnk M. Evans, a mining man of Nevada ■ City, make up a group of recent arrivals*at the Manx. - ' • • - -. * ■ WILLIAM F. WOODWARD, a wholesale drug gist of / Portland, Is at the Palace with Mm. Woodward. He is en route to Arizona and New Mexico on a pleasure trip. • • .' • GRANT CONARD, manager of the Spaldlng fight | for United States senator, came <lown from ; , Sacramento yesterday to meet A. G. Spalding. j Conard is may^r of San Diego. • •.• • - GEORGE H. BORBT. an architect of Chicago. .Is at the Palace. He is here to attend the an nual convention of the American institute of architects. -.■.-■.. ■ ■ '■'• *. • ■lii"' • C. H. DICKIE, a lumberman of Vancouver, is at the Palace. He will leave on the Mongolia this morning for the orient. E. A. WARNER of Ixis Angeles and Cole I*. Harword of Reno are among the recent ar, rival* at the Fairmont. FLORENCE ROBERTS, the actress, and Thnr low Bergen, her leading man, are guests at the ; St. Francis. '' , ' • • • A. H. HEPPNER, a planing mill contractor of Reno, is among the recent arrivals at the Argonaut. • ' HENRY OHLMEYER. who la In charge of the ] tent city at Coronado, is registered at the St. Francis.. • * • WILLIAM TRIMBLE, a capitalist of Seattle, is at the. St. Francis with his family. ( H. R. O'BRYAN, a real estate operator of Mon terey, is registered at the Stewart. • • • DR. AND MRS. L. E. HOLT of New York have apartments at the Fairmont.' • D. M. HERRIN, a fruit packer of Concord, is registered at the Argonaut. C. NEITFEXD. a merchant of Warsaw, is at the ' Stewart for a week's stay. • • • DR. JARVIS W. BARLOW of Los Angeles is at the St. Francis. • Lucretia Borgia V "I think," said Lucretia Borgia, calm ly, as she administered a dose of Ja maica ginger to her suffering spouse-— "I think I shall devote the most of my time this summer to writing by mem oirs." "Good!" groaned the" sufferer between spasms. "I was afraid, my, dear, that you were contemplating the prepara tion of a cook book." — Harper's Weekly. . ' - Abe Martin Peace has her victories but no monu ment* f unveil. Lafe Bud, who's been braggln' 'bout a new 10 pound baby, wuz arrested this mnrnin 1 by the weights and measures inspector. Uncle Walt The Poet Philosopher I have a large Buff Cochin hen. I keep her in a gaudy pen, and there she fosses all the day, and never takes the time to lay. In summer time, when eggs were cheap, that hen would lay eggs in her sleep she laid enough to feed a troop; she piled them up oil -^..~A .!„ T .. 1 . THE IDLE HEN an lutiuu me coop, i usea to take those eggs of hers and throw them at the passing curs; for all the world was daubed with eggs; they fetched three cents per dozen kegs. But now that winter raves and groans, } and * eggs are scarce as precious stones, that silly hen just loafs all day, and doesn't earn her corn and hay. Some day, when wearied by the strife that-marks this journey we call life; when with a deep conviction fraught that cHicken pie would hit the spot 11l kill that old hen, I'm afraid, and then she'll"wish that she had laid. There's,nothing worse, you'll all agree, than misdirected energy. The hen that lays when eggs are cheap, and when thev'r dear lies down to sleep; the dog that barks when nothing's wrong and sleeps when burglars come along; the man who tills on Sabbath day and loafs the whole long week away—these from one's eyes the tears would draw ; there ■ * surely ought to be a law. «2EESrU2L (Jkj&fTlco*^ The Morning Chit-Chat I WANT to talk today, firstly, to my young girl friends, and, secondly, to any one else who cares to listen, about using slang. But, in the first place,-I want to safeguard myself against the logical person who insists that I live up to what I preach, by admitting that I always do and always shall use some slang. - You see, I don't think there is any harm in a little picturesque slang. As a spice, it's ' all right. ,It's when you come to putting it into the cake in the same quanti ties as you do the sugar and,flour that the harm is done But the especial indictment that; 1 want to bring against slang today is this— with many of us it is a sort of crutch which, used too often, results in atrophy ing the muscles of the limb whose place it takes. ' Tsuspect that isn't so clear as it might be. Let me Illustrate with an example. . .' . I have a young girl friend who has recently become A~ki* iii v a * the slang expression "Good " night"—with : the accent on the "good •• M to This expression I will explain for .the benefit of those who W met it-seems to be nearly equivalent to a shrug of the shoulder,ave T , or yet something like "Oh, very well.'; shoulders, it means Now the young person in question is a very bright youns „«=«„ c ho has a good command of English and I usually, expreSes he?fel? wen" !?,? when she gets hod of an expression like this she uses it on all occSons ' v] forces it to explain what she ought to pot into her own words In thu w». you see. she ; weakens her vocabulary, and • her command of English In the.same way "Some class to that," "What do you know about that*" and all the similar expressions that have "had their day andTc?a Se d 'to II" have the same effect of atrophying natural powers of expression Slang is the lazy man's language. \-- - .. '. It is - the - speech .of the man who is, so indolent that he prefers to « RP some ; one else's : long coined expression to new minting his ■ own In itself slang isn't so bad. (With 1 the;exception, of course "of vni M r slang) Some slang expressions are. very bright and amusing when you first hear them. le It is : the mental laziness which they encourage which is so objectionable. " s wnu-n «» so me If you think this is all far fetched nonsense please try an expression for The next time you open your mouth to say your favorite slang exnres sion close it and make yourself explain the thought or feeling you were about to make to cover, in your own language. # I f/? l\, flnd thls the least blt dimcult you can't say that my thesis is all far retched nonsense, can you? ■ . Homesick AU Fixed . '•Gee, PI. but I wuz homesick when Said the artist, "Though prices may I went to th" city!" soar "Gosh! AVas yer? How homesick?" For each turkpy aH duck in the store, "Wen. I stood on th- corner t,n , seen a car marked 'To the Barn.' and, I can still keep the/wolf from the door" by gum, I took it."—Exchange. i Weekly. JANUARY 9, 1911 WALT MASON I ■•-— _.«. I aUTK CAMEROK | ♦ — —,— «.