The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 15, 1907, Page 6

FRIDAY EDITO R;I AL P A G E resruary 15, 1907, The San Francisco Call JOHN D. SPRECKELS...........ces......Proprietor CHARLES W. HORNICK..................General Manager ERNEST S. SIMPSON Managing Editor Address All Communications to THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL Telephone, “Temporary S6"—Ask for The Call. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. Market and Third Streets, San Francisco Open Until 11 O'clock Every Night in the Year. EDITORIAL ROOMS . Market and Third Streets MAIN CITY BRANCH .1651 Fillmore Street, Near Post OAKLAND OFFICE—1016 Broadwa Telephone Oakland 1083 ALAM Telephone Alameda 559 BERK CHICAGO NEW YORK OFFICE—30 Tribune Bldg...Stephen B. Smith, Representative Telephone Berkeley 77 69 Shattu OFFICE—Marquette Bldg George Krogness, Representative WASHIN 'ON CORRESPONDENT Ira E. Bennett SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by Carrier, 20 Cents Per Week. 75 Cents Per Month. Single || o 5 Cents. | Terms by Mail, Incly Postage (Cash With Order): ! 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This, in the first sed on the present status, or supposed status, | It assumes that the Emperor will continue | ects who desire to come directly to| inuing the issue of such permits for| If we were assured that this prac-| the primary objection to the amendment would fact, ave no such assurance and no con- force to the arrangement. | f objection to the amendment is that it is entirel_\"‘ of government. It is, indeed, a flat reversal| i and tendency in our national life. The| t the ppwers of Congress, nited in this regard only by A law framed on the lines of ¢ probability, would be very quickly found 1al, but if we continue to hold in respect the consti- separation etion. al in | | | | is that h we are q 1ent. uit It was on discretion. mer. his In a word, he wanted to be both judge and| aws regulating immigration. Mr. Roosevelt’s good intentions and realizing his her hot-headed character, the country is by no means at in all matters and at all times he is infallibly wise. And Mr. Roosevelt as President is not| suspicions entertained in the gloomy After him may come one less wise—there | such—and less ardently opposed to the coolie | the coolie from gentlemanly Japan. Thinkablyi Mr. Roosevelt might be one constructed on ‘the nd plan and ardently favor of pulling down all bars nd barriers set up against the pressing throng of Oriental laborers. | the Pacific Coast wants is exclusion that will exclude— th yeen severail hina and essor of New Engl exclusion by law and not by treaty; exclusion clothed with the | force of a Federal statute and not a mere regulation dependent | n the gment of any man, wise or unwise, President or plain | Mayor Schmitz would better not bring home any other | bargain POLITICS AND PkaA’i‘I(sN OFFICERS ENATOR NELSON'S bill relative to the appointment of pro- bation officers for the juvenile courts has incurred the opposi- tion of Senator Leavitt and Senator Wolfe, apparently without consultation betwegn these eminent legislative anthorities, be- | cause their reasons are contradictory and mutually destructive. Senator Leavitt wants the present system changed because there is no politics in the method of appointment. He proposes that the Superior Court judges shall appoint. Senator Wolfe, on the other hand, desires the plan changed for the reason that in his mind’s eye he foresees that politics will raise its horrid head in the probation imittee that now appoints. Wolfe is prophet as well as lawgiver, but it would be more encouraging to the spectators and might pro- mote the illusion did not the prophet engage in killing off the reasons of his brother lawgiver. The appointments of the probation committee have not been political and are not likely to become so. On the other hand, there is the gravest objection to putting any kind of patronage in the hands of the judiciary. Already the judges have too much discre- tion in this field of appointments, and the more patronage is heaped upon them the more subject is the bench to political attack and influences. Senator’ Nelson’s bill is well designed from every point of view. It is in the interest of honest administration of juvenile probation work and it helps to preserve the judiciary from political pressure and attack. JAPANESE AS COMPETITORS | con EPRESENTATIVE KAHN in his address before the Middle- sex Club in Boston gave illustrations to prove that the Japanese were quite as ready and willing to meet capital as labor in competition, and that the same weapon proves ef- fective in each case. Mr. Kahn told how the Colt’s Firearms Manu- facturing Company was driven out of Japan. Mr, Kahn had taken pains to verify the facts by inquiry from the president of that company, Mr. L. C. Grover, from whom he received a letter, out of which we quote: The paragraph in the clipping referring to the market for the product of the Coit's Patent Firearms )Ianufacturmg Company in the Far East as having been practically destroyed is true, also the report of the British army officer, although he did not make the investigation at the request of this company: He reported that he found in Southern China a Chinese arms factory, under the superintendence of Japanese, which was manufacturing the Colt antomatic s, It was also reported to us that the Japanese, previous to their war with ia, manufactured a large number of Colt automatic and Gatling guns at armories in Japan, and this we have every reason to believe is true, as El'uring the past eighteen months we have received no inquiry for machine guns from the Far East. It is well known that with very little teaching the Japanese make very | o + 4 Nothing Left for the Ruth in Politics ~—WASHINGTON POST. skillful mechanics and the low rate of labor in China and Japan makes it im- possible for the American manufacturer to compete with them. That is original testimony to industry and enterprise, endowed with the tremendous economic| What they are doing in Japan and all over the Orient in the way of driving out American capital they are| | beginning to do right here in California, on an ever-increasing scale. advantage of cheap labor. the competitive force of Japanese They are taking away the cut-flower industry from the Italians and Portuguese, and they are making a beginning on fruit drying. iIn fact, they have taken complete possession of certain important | fruit-growing districts in this State, with the result that American| families have left those neighborhoods. SCIENCE WHILE YOU WAIT ENRY LAURENS CALL, author of “The Coming Revolu-| tion” and other works, is writing letters to the press declaring that he expects—and, perhaps, hopes—to be “bitterly assailed” because of a recent lecture, in which he proved, or thinks he 1 e 00 |proved, that “one per cent of the population of the United States of legislative and executive functions it should |now own practically 90 per cent of the entire wealth of the nation.” We have no disposition to assail, bitterly or otherwise, Mr. after Jack London. tion—H. G. Wells.” t Mr. Roosevelt, confident of his own good in-|all and his mountain of ridiculous figures, and as for the coming e prepared to concede—wants to be the | revolution, we agree on that point with Mr. H. G. Wells, the dis- the other day that he asked Con- | tinguished novelist and sociologist, now visiting America. It hap- T power to dismiss officers of the navy without trial and |pened that Mr. Wells was introduced at a Boston club immediately London wrote in the visitors’ book, according | auartermaster sergeant of D Troop. T'o that judicial function he would now add the power |to his custom, “Yours for the revolution—Jack London.” On the line | |below came Mr. Wells with, “There ain’t agoing to be no revolu- Who owns the wealth of the country >—that is not the important question ; but, What is the standard of life and comfort among the | luted his old commander. people as a whole? Of almost equal importance is the question, Ts the career open to talent> We believe that both these questions can be answered in a more satisfactory wzay in this country than in any other, and that is why “there ain’t agoingto be no revolution.” We observe with some amusement that Mr. Call’'s monstrous | regiment of half-baked figures was marshaled in presence of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. It may be degrading to confess ignorance of the standing of this body, but from the internal evidence of Mr. Call’s pronouncements it has many of the symptoms of a get-science-quick association. The Smart Set - — & Gossip of the Doings | of Railroad Men | H. W. Ellicott, who has been the as- sistant purchasing agent of the South- ern Pacific, has been appointed pur- chasing agent for the Northwestern Pacific and will assume his new duties today. The position {s an important one, as he will have the buying of all the material for the completion of the road to Eureka. The executive com- mittee of the Pacific Northwestern will include E. E. Calvin, Captain A. H. Payson and Thomas Mellersh. . . . L. M. Allen, general passenger agent of the Rock Island system, and who has been spending a few days in the city, left last night for Portland. It had been three years since Allen's former visit. to the coast, and he re- marked that, judging from the energy of the people in rebuilding, they would have a fine city within three years. “It seems to me,” he observed, “that there is a change in San Francisco every fifteen minutes. I do not be- lieve that there is another city which could show such recuperative powers.” . . . Forty years ago T. J. Cantwell, who is now the Southern Pacific agent at Tulare, was & dashing soldier and was Second Cavalry, when General D. S. | Gordon was its captain. The General | was calling upon his son Phil at his | offices in the Flood building recently | when Cantwell walked in. The two | old soldiers stared at each other, and | then Cawntwell drew himself up and sa- “Why, bless you,” exclaimed the General as he took Cantwell’s hand, “it is.over forty years since we saw | each other, I tell you, Cantwell, it takes the men of our generation to show these youngsters how to grow old. T understand that B. F. Whitmer, Sen Luis Obispo, and who was also & sergeant in our company, is as young and as good looking as ourselves.” e e F. W. Thompson, general agent of the Rock Island-Frisco lines, left last night for a business trip through the ! northern part of the State. gy | The Insider Discusses probabilities of Metcalf’s leaving Cab- | inet post and tells of Sam Davis’ rebuke to| | women who attended Tonopah prize fight SO B A ' Secretary’s Post T!o accept a place on the Federal bench a Difficult One in California serves to bear out what a Washington friend wrote me after the Oakland man had been made Secre tary of the Navy. “Poor Metcalf has reached the jumping-off place,” he wrote. or later he is bound to go the way of his four predecessors in the Roose- velt Cabinet—Long, Moody, Paul Morton and Bonaparte. There can only be one Secretary of the Navy in the Roosevelt Cabinet, and that is Roose- velt himself.” The President, it seems, insists upon being the whole naval department, as Long, Moody, Morton and Bonaparte has each discovered in turn. They found it convenient to resign to accept other berths, and now the Cali- fornian has fallen into line. But T am informed that Metcalf is still in high faver with Rnr\seveh1 He is a very amiable gentleman and plays a good game of tennis. HE report that Secretary Metcalf is “Seooner . During these February days, when the minds President Honored of all Americans turn in patriotic reverence by the Japanese ., ihe two great presidents of the nation, ! little postcards may be seen in the city shops bearing the portraits of Washington and Lincoln. A particularly popular card bears the likenesses of both heroes. I have also noticed in the bazaars, particularly in the Japanese stores, a card on which the photograph of President Roosevelt appears with the other two. Ubpon inquiry I learned that this design had met with a large sale among the Oriental people of the city. Properly stamped and addressed, hundreds of them have been mailed to points across the Pacific. Some of the best humor that Mark Twain has given to the public is contained in the at Fistic Arena fragments of his autobiography now appear- ing in one of the magazines. The installments so far published dwell | largely on the days that he spent in Nevada, and no one, T am told, reads them with greater interest than Sam Davis, the Mark Twain of Carson. 1 hear that Davis is to figure somewhat prominently in the completed volume. His last exhibition of Twainism occurred at the recent prize fight in Tonopah. Davis was there, and he noticed among the spect: of the good ladies of his own Carson. Now Davis didn’t appre and he thought it his duty to administer a gentle rebuke. He walked over to the section where the ladies from Carson were sitting. #Ladies,” he said with grave face and finger upraised, “ladies, I beg of you not to let my wife know that I was here.” Humorist Scores Beware of rubbering. I saw a fashionably : dressed woman get a bad fall the other day Crossings Are Dry Tt was on the last day but one before the sun came back. Down in the real estate district of lower Market street a | beautifully gowned young woman was crossing, with her | high above the mud. I cannot deny that a well-shaped leg showed qv to the knee. i but in another direc As the latter stepped lightly over the mud-bespattered It Is Well That Another woman was also cros g pat: boards that apolo- gized for the lack of stone crossing the other woman turned to get a better look at the hosiery. She looked her fill, and evidently had the hose priced and labeled, also its wearer, when, presto, down she went in the mud. It was a pretty hard penalty for dumb back-gazing, but then remember what ‘happened to peeping Tom. e A A A A A At Madame Pilar-Morin, who is to dance © Madame Morin Is Dance of the Seven Veils” on thd vaudeville Well Known Here circuit since New York won't have “Salome,” is very well known in this city, where she sojourned for some time at the old Hotel Savoy with her then husband, Aimee Lachaume, ti The piquant little Frenchwoman came out here with Ed Belknap and the com- pany that gave high-class artistic pantomime at the Baldwin in connection with concerts by Girardy, Lachaume and Ysaye. The pantomimes did not capture our uncultured public and met with financial distress, but Madame | Morin made many friends out here. he pianist. | wrote a monologue for her in which who is the Southern Pacific agent at| matinee benefit and afterward gave at the Orpheum. | inventions. RS. E. WALTON HEDGLS the hostess at a very enjoyable bridge party last night, which was one of the few evening bridge affairs of the winter of any size. Mrs. Hedges is one of the hostesses who has done much to make the season a success from a social standpoint, as she has entertained extensively and delightfully. Her attractive home on Broderick street was prettily decorated with a profusion of daffodils, vellow acacla blossoms, violets and anemones, The dining room and supper table were entirely in red, carnations and brilliant candle shades being used. There were ten tables and dainty and beautiful prizes were awarded the successful ones. Those-present were Mrs. Eleanor Martin, Mrs. ¥Ynez Shorb White, Mrs. Alfred Hunter Voorhies, Captain and surs. James H. Bull, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clarence Breeden, Mrs. .mma Butler, Mr, and Mrs. R. P. Schwerin, Mr. and Mrs. Le Roy Nickel, Mr. and Mrs. Deer- ing, Dr, and Mrs. McEnery, Mr. and Mrs. M. H. de Young, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Freeman, Mr. and Mrs. Wake- field Baker, Captain and Mrs, Arthur Marix, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Foster Dut- ton, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Chenery, Mr. and Mrs. James Tucker, Mrs. Rich- ard Derby, Mrs. Katherine Shirley, Mrs, Malcolm Henry, Mrs. Marguerite Han- ford, Mrs. Darragh, Miss McEnery, Philip Paschal, Dr. Pressley, Gustav Sutro, Edward Carpenter; Lieutenant Commander Halsted, U. N.; Count Kosakevitch; Dr. Riggs, U, S, N.; Lieu- tenant Barnes, U. S. N.; Harry Pendle- ton, Dr. Arnold Genthe, Percy Towne and Dwight C. Leeper. e was Lieutenant Clarence Kempff, U, 8. N., and Mrs. Kempff, the latter formerly Miss Alice Bfigham, arrived Wednes- day from Manila and are guests here of Mrs, Kempff's mother at the beautiful Brigham home on Broadway. Lieuten- ant and Mrs. Kempff have been in the Orient for the last two years, he hav- ing been ordered to the Asiatic station just after theilr marriage. They are here now awaiting orders and there is great rejoicing in the fact among their many friends. - Mrs. Philip Van Horne Lansdale ent the week end at Del Monte as the uest of Mrs. Thomas Breeze and Miss Louisa Breeze, who are spending the winter there. . . . O Mrs. Charles H. Poore of Washing- ton, D. C, who is visiting her son-in- law and m“.;m. Colonel Marion Maus, U. 8. A, Maus, - sidio of uonw’:." is qugd extensively at the attractive post and also in Motnerey and at Del Monte. Miss Ella Morgan gave a charming luncheon for Mrs. Poore recently and Mrs. Thomas Breeze also gave one in her honor at which the Buests were Mrs. Poore, Mrs. Maus, Mrs. Low, Mrs. Henry Schmiedell. Mrs. J. Colquhoun, Mrs. J. W. Coffin, Miss Flora Low, Miss Ella Morgan and Miss Loujsa Breeze. Mrs. Henry Schmiedell gave an informal little tea for Mrs. Poore, as did also Mrs. Coffin, and on Tuesday Mrs. Low gave a tea for her. . . . Preparations are being made already by the members of that worthy charity, the San Francisco Maternity, for the play and vaudeville performance it is to give on Tuesday of Easter week, April 2, at the Central Theater, and which promises to be one of the big events of the Easter season. ' Mrs. I Lowenberg, who is one of the prom- inent members of the organization, has written a stery which Mrs, Ella M. Sexton has cleverly dramatized, enti- tled, “The Reformers’ League,” which is said to be very entertaining. This will be presented by a company of amateurs—well-known society folk— among them Mrs. Philip Bancroft. The vaudeville show to follow will have some of the cleverest of “stunts.” There are forty boxes and of these ten are already sold. . . Mrs. Austin Sperry left the city re- cently for Chicago, where she went to attend the national convention of the Equal Suffrage League. . . . Mrs. Willilam Kohl and Mrs. Evans S. Pillsbury left a few days since for Santa Barbara, where they will spend some little time. - - . ’ Judge William H. Hunt - and his daughter, Miss Helen Hunt, are visit- ing the Randall Hunts at the home of the latter on Pacific avenue, and are being entertained quite a bit in an in- formal way. Judge Hunt is here for an important session of the Circuit Court. v e Miss Edita Berry has returned from a visit to Santa Barbara, where she was the guest of Miss Eligabeth Liv- ermore, who is spending the winter there. . 8RS /Mrs. Linda Bryan and Miss Mabelle Toy left yesterday for the East, visit- ing Denver and St. Louis en route, and expect to be absent for JSeveral wesks. Miss J. & ;| Edn: Hamilton ang. Miss. Byeisn Norwood, who have been in Santa Barbara for %3 father, John Hooper, returned to the city on Monday afternoon after a very delightful stay in the South. During their visit Miss Hooper was the guest of honor at a tea given by Mrs. James M. Spalding (formerly Miss Georgie Lacy) and Miss Mildred Lacy, which was one of the events of last week in| Santa Barbara. . . . The announcement of the engage- ment of Miss Hazel Charlotte Marston to Frederick Winslow Read comes as a pleasant surprise to their many friends. Miss Marston is the daugh- ter of C. A. Marston. She is a great favorite in Alameda, where she lives, and a native of this State, as is her father. She is a very handsome girl and has given much time to outdoor sports, having achieved success at ten- nis and golf. She is also an expert horsewoman. The groom is well known in Stockton, where he has lived for many years. He! is the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Read, a brother of Mrs. H. H. Hewlett and| a nephew of James B. Haggin. The wedding date has been set for April 3, and the ceremony will be sol- emnized at Grace Church, Alameda, at 9 p. m. The bridesmaids will be Miss Isabella O'Connor of Oakland and Miss Florence Connell of this city. Fol- lowing the ceremony at the church a wedding supper will be served at the bride's home, to which only the rela- tives and intimate friends will be in- vited. The groom ig building a beautiful lit- tle bungalow just on the outside of the city of Stockton In one of the most ‘attfactive districts there. TR . Miss Florence Dunham, who has been traveling in Burope for some months past, was, . when last heard from, in Paris, where she was having a very enjoyable time. CRbrEnT Mrs. A. C. Bassett and Miss Amy Bassett went down from their home at Menlo Park last week to Carmel-by- the-Sea, where they are spending a fortnight. Miss Eleanor Terry, the daughter of Rear Admiral Terry, U. S. N., retired, is spending the winter in Washington, D. C, with her parents and is one of the popular girls of the season in so- cial circles of the capital. There are many reports of Miss Terry's popular- ity, which are v friends here. ST ABELIRE G het # . . . Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Green and Mrs, Wellington Gregg Jr., who l‘m 7 e FoE | 7y DITOR Call, Sir: I am one of those | H who aislike newspaper controversy on delicate matters, but the er- roneous and misleading remarks, doubtless unintended, in a sermon of Rev. M. S. Levy of Temple Beth Israel, |san Francisco, published in a recent issue of this paper, demand some ex- planation and contradiction. I will, | however, attempt to be brief and to | the point. There is no intention of enforcing a Sunday law, compulsory or otherwise, as & religious enactment |of any church or sectarian character | whatsoéver. Such a stand is the refuge 1 of those who would legallze seven davs work in seven, contrary to natural hu- man law. 2 The sole.intention is to have a civil rest-day regulation for one day in | seven, a regulation which has a natural basis in the constitution of man, a | physical and moral necessity for all | men and women. The first day of the week s specified and specialized mere- {1y because it has become customary | for the majority of men and women to utilize that day for rest and rec- | reation. Exemption, however, is af- | forded those who observe the seventh |day and who refrain from business on that day. | The civil rest day does not imply | church affiliation nor entail church at- tendance. It is merely to afford our already overworked and overtaxed men and women a one day's rest in seven— {to rest and re-create themselves and | so fit themselves for the six days’ work. It furnishes oppertunity for recreation for family reunfon and recuperation, Personal S. A. Mills of Cleveland is registered at the Dorchester. { M. E. Hammer of Cleveland, Ohlo, is at the St. Franecis. C. H. Goddard of New York is at the Majestic Annex. C. B. Shaver, a lumberman of Fresno, is at the St. Francis. H. G. Cook of Kansas City is regis- tered at the Majestic. O. W, Dunn and Mrs. Dunn of Stan- ford are at the Palace. John N. Napp and Mre. Napp of New York are at the Jefferson. John Salsberry, a mining man of Francis. mmm'z::;'mu p to New |Tonopah, is at the St. York, start home about Fri-| I L. Skeith, a business man of Mil- day or of this week. ‘Wwaukee, is at the St Fraacis. : | Hubert Henry Davies, the Englishman who later a | London and New York as the playwright of “Cynthia” and Sacramefito Rabbi Says Not Urged on Ground of Religion | fame Cousin Kate,” she made her debut at a -Press Club eved in As a monologist, however, Madame Pilar-Morin did not make the great hit her admirers prophesied. She is probably one of the best pantomimists before the public and can dance all the historic terpsichorean creations as well as modern Rest Day Is and amusement of a worthy nature. It is valuable In that it acts as a moral emetic for rapacious greed and pre- vents racial degeneracy. I would love to see all Jews ob- serve their traditional Sabbath, but it is impossible. Many mitizate Sab h breaking by an hour or so at synagogue on Saturday meorning: many do not even do this much, and surely are not to be blamed therefor. Economio diffi- culties cannot be surmounted. But this is no reason why a rest should not be taken once a week, when the majority among whom we live refrain from busi- ness. The rest day Is religious only in the sense that It is intensely meral. Sectarian and church influences enter not into this question at all. Were not ex:mption made for those who do observe Saturday it would then be a pernicious Sunday law. But such is not the case. Macaulay wisaly urged: “We are not Lecause we have ges rested from “labor That day is not lost, While industry is suspended, while the exchange is silent, while no smoke as- cends from the fattory, a process is going on quite as important to the wealth of the nation as any process which is performed on more busy days. Man—the machine of machines— * « & is repairing and winding up, so that he returns to his labors with clearer in- tellect, with liveller spirits, with re- newed corporal vigor.” The Sabbath was indeed made for men. Men and women should not brutalize themselves by seven days’ work in seven. Work six days. but rest one. RABBI MONTAGUE N. A. COHEN. Sacramento, Cal. Mention E. G. Furben and Mrs. Furben are at the Jefferson from Cloverdale, M. Blum, a merchant of Willow, and Mrs. Blum are at the Majestic. C. D. Hazzam and Mrs. Hazzam of Quincy, Cal, are at the Jefferson. S. M. Newmark, a merchant of Los é\l:nles. is registered at the St. Fran- H. W. Child and Mrs. Child are at tpl:'hlt. from Yellowstone EWR:) !u:‘l". 'l'h,c-n. Beattle an. ugo 8s Winn . Canada, at the Majestic. 9 " E. H..Weatherby, Mrs. Weatherby, Gnu'nu-u. mw.t.m':: Mendoeine are guests at the Dore