anaheim-gazette 1912-04-18

An Old Cry in Politics Influence of the Administration in Selecting Delegates to National Convention (Correspondence of The Gazette) San Francisco, April 15.—Roosevelt managers are having much to say at this time about the alleged unfairness of some of the elections that have been held and some of the conventions that have chosen delegates to the republican national convention to be held at Chicago in June. They claim that the president and his friends have manipulated the conventions held in the south to the president's advantage, yet the Taft managers point out that never in the history of the government has there been less pressure brought to bear on its employees than in this campaign. The Roosevelt cry is an old one in American politics. It was used against Roosevelt four years ago with greater bitterness and emphasis than it is being used today. It was openly charged then that Colonel Roosevelt was using the power and prestige of the presidency to promote the candidacy of the man he wanted to succeed him in the White House. William Dudley Foulke, expresident of the Civil Service Commission, was so exasperated with the stories of federal interference that he wrote a stinging letter to Roosevelt. This aroused the colonel to make the following retort in one of his characteristic letters: "At present various efforts are being made to get up bolting delegations from southern states, and meetings at which these so-called delegates are chosen are usually announced as 'non-office-holders' conventions.' As a rule, this means only, so far as it merely to support the incumbent of the office for renomination, attention is called to the message of President Taft urging that a still larger number of government servants be placed in the civil service category. The message was sent to congress April 4th, and is regarded as one of the most emphatic utterances on civil service reform ever submitted to that body by a president of the United States. Mr. Taft would go to the extreme of placing all first-class and second-class postoffices on the civil service list. On this point he says: "It appears that a very substantial economy would result from putting experienced and trained officers in charge of the first and second class postoffices, instead of selecting postmasters in accordance with the present class. As the annual operating expenses of the first and second-class postoffices aggregate the enormous sum of more than $80,000,000, undoubtedly if the postmasters of these offices were embraced in the classified service the annual saving would eventually represent many millions of dollars. The saving in salary alone, not taking into account any saving due to increased efficiency, would amount to about $4,500,000." The president further urged congress to place the assistance in the various departments, United States marshals and district attorneys in the classified list of public servants. He says this would eliminate a lot of pernicious activity in political campaigns and would bring about greater efficiency in the administration of government affairs. "I have just York, where I live days. While the workingmen as the publican presides attended a large labor and discussed prominent officials am one of the President Taft in and I not only nominated, but no larger majority. "1908 President large labor party lost that order to win this vote back. The man to achieve. "I always claim democratic working the protected indeed to the fact thatocratic ticket was their family and would get their doubt, and the ba army of men, or that is sufficient for u election. "President Taft the laboring men, speech at Cooper a long way toward feel that he will be re-elected, and it inform the few delention who favor nation that he can the support of the KAHN SPEAKS ON TARIFF Free Sugar and Citrus Fruits Would Destroy Great Industries, He Says In regard to the statement that the free sugar bill will reduce the cost to the ultimate consumer, no better presentation of that point has been made than by Congressman Kahn of California recently in opposing the sugar bill in the house. Mr. Kahn said: "I am opposed to the pending bill. I do not believe it will reduce the price of sugar to the ultimate consumer a fraction of a cent per pound. We have had one experience in recent years in reducing the duty on sugar. In the month of December, 1903, the Cuban reciprocity law was passed and the duty on sugar was reduced 20 per cent. If the contention of the gentleman from Alabama, Mr. Underwood, be true, that the reduction of the duty will inure to the benefit of the ultimate consumer, then the consumer of this country should have received the 20 per cent benefit that was given under the Cuban reciprocity law. But what are the real facts in that case. In 1900 the retail price of sugar was 5.97 cents per pound; in 1901 it was 5.86 cents; in 1902 it was 5.47 cents, and in 1903 the retail price was 5.47 cents. "The average retail price for the four years was 5.69 cents and then the Cuban reciprocity law went into effect. In 1904, the very year in which the consumer should have ed the price of sugar two cents a pound on an alleged shortage in the European market. There was no shortage in this country and as soon as the beet sugar crop came upon the market the price immediately fell and the consumer received the benefit. These same sugar trust barons robbed this government of millions of dollars by underweighing. They bribed numerous weighers at the port of New York and pocketed the proceeds of their criminal acts. And now, the gentlemen on the democratic side of this house expects us to believe that men of that ilk will immediately turn public philanthropists and upon the reduction of the duty they will give the consumers the benefit of that reduction. It is absurd to believe such assertions." It is unnecessary to make any comment as to the importance of the citrus fruit industry in California. No one in the state underrates its importance and surely no one can misunderstand the effect which the placing of lemons or oranges on the free list would have. Last year a democratic house placed lemons on the free list. The provision was defeated in the senate and the free-list bill itself was vetoed by President Taft. In the east imported lemons have stamped across the boxes this legend: "If we did not have to pay the American tariff, you could buy this box for $1.20 less." No one believes that taking into account any saving due to increased efficiency, would amount to about $4,500,000." The president further urged congress to place the assistance in various departments, United States marshals and district attorneys in the classified list of public servants. He says this would eliminate a lot of pernicious activity in political campaigns and would bring about greater efficiency in the administration of government affairs. If President Taft were the selfish, scheming political manipulator the Roosevelt people accuse him of being it is not likely that he would make such sweeping recommendation: as those contained in his message on civil service reform. He would do as Roosevelt and other predecessors have done since political parties have been organized in this country—use all the influence of his great position for the promotion of his own political fortunes. His message is the best refutation obtainable of unfounded charges of his enemies. HOW OLD IS THE What is the age answer to this question? baffled human in beginning of thought in a lecture given by Paris astronomical Jean Bosler, one of guished scientists on running over the old tacking the problem deposit of sediment on the saltiness of the ing that the resultthe origin of the glacier 100,000,000 years ago statements of the great importance based on radio-activity in rock. He pointed out that instance, gives out how which can be determined of these two eras same rock gives them soon as the relative is measured. Invest these lines, it has but that a specimen of rock examined in theories originated as if 000,000 years ago. Another series of which has been utilized the problem is connected microscopic-colored bedded in primitive geer rocks. These, while long while received prove to be the efflorescence "alpha" rays from mezirconium, and it is olympes of centuries having rays have been surrounding rock lecturer declared, we tirely wrong in regard as less than a thousand old. In conclusion, M. B. light which these are the origin of the sun heat is only due, as has for the last twenty ye country should have received the 20 per cent benefit that was given under the Cuban reciprocity law. But what are the real facts in that case. In 1900 the retail price of sugar was 5.97 cents per pound; in 1901 it was 5.86 cents; in 1902 it was 5.47 cents, and in 1903 the retail price was 5.47 cents. "The average retail price for the four years was 5.69 cents and then the Cuban reciprocity law went into effect. In 1904, the very year in which the consumer should have gained the benefit of the 20 per cent reduction, the price of sugar to the consumer went up to 5.80 cents per pound. In 1905 it went still further and reached 5.92 cents per pound. In 1906 it was 5.59 cents and in 1907 it was 5.67 cents per pound. So that one can see conclusively that the retail price of sugar to the consumer instead of coming down on a reduction of the duty, actually goes up. That is the contention of the domestic sugar producers. "Whenever the local product goes upon the market the sugar trust barons invariably reduce the price. As soon as the local crop has been marketed they put up the price. But what happened to sugar stock in connection with Cuban reciprocity. "In 1902 it was worth a maximum of $135 1-8 per share; in 1903 the maximum value per share was $134 3-4; in 1904, the year when Cuban reciprocity went into effect, it jumped to $153 per share, a gain of almost $20. On the other hand the consumer did not get the benefit of the reduction in the tariff to the extent of a fraction of a cent. Again, during the months of July, August, September and October, the last year these same sugar trust barons raised importance and surely no one can misunderstand the effect which the placing of lemons and oranges on the free list would have. Last year a democratic house placed lemons on the free list. The provision was defeated in the senate and the free-list bill itself was vetoed by President Taft. In the east imported lemons have stamped across the boxes this legend: "If we did not have to pay the American tariff, you could buy this box for $1.20 less." No one believes for a minute that you could buy it for a cent less if the California product were driven out of the market by free trade. FRIEND OF UNION LABOR President Taft Favors Cause of Working Man "William Howard Taft, friend of organized labor." That is the legend that is being inscribed over the temples where union men gather in the east and middle west. It is the slogan that is being adopted by those workingmen who desire to have justice done their cause and the present period of prosperity continued throughout the United States. It is the most popular slogan of the day with members of labor unions and it is liable to become universal prior to the meeting of the republican national convention in June. There is ample evidence to show that Colonel Roosevelt and his supporters are chagrined because there has not been the anticipated stampede of workingmen to his candidacy. The colonel was led to believe that he would receive the support of organized labor, but the opposite is the case. Sincere, earnest, conscientious, de- ANAHEIM GAZETTE voted unionists are supporting the candidacy of President Taft for renomination. There are many reasons why they should and none why they should not. To show the trend of intelligent, consistent organized labor, the following letter from James L. Feeney, who was president of the bookbinders' union at the time Colonel Roosevelt was in the White House is made public: "I have just returned from New York, where I have been for several days. While there I sounded many workingmen as to their choice for republican presidential nomination. I attended a large meeting of union labor and discussed the situation with prominent officials and unionists. I am one of the countless friends of President Taft in the ranks of labor, and I not only want to see him nominated, but re-elected by a much larger majority. "1908 President Taft received a very large labor vote. The republican party lost that vote in 1910, and in order to win this year it must get that vote back. President Taft is the man to achieve the task. "I always claimed that if the democratic workingman employed in the protected industries were educated to the fact that a vote for a democratic ticket was a vote against their family and their craft, we would get their support, without a doubt, and the backing of that great army of men, or the better part of it, is sufficient for us to win at every election. "President Taft stands high with the laboring men, and his great speech at Cooper union in 1908 went a long way toward his election. I feel that he will be renominated and re-elected, and it would be well to inform the few delegates in the convention who favor Roosevelt's nomination that he cannot hope to gain the support of the workingmen." GOOD BRIDGES Preparing for State Highway—Permanent Work Should Be Done—Old Bridges Good for Only 10 or 15 Years—Plans for Betterment By A. A. MILLS The State Highway Commission has asked the Board of Supervisors if Orange county would build the bridges were the state highway to be built through the county. A favorable reply has been given and it is reported that the supervisors have a plan on foot to call for bonds for bridges all over the county. Anaheim-Fullerton Bridge Orders have already been given to tear out the bridge between Anaheim and Fullerton and to replace this with two five-foot corrugated iron culverts. This bridge was built about 1888 but has been in a more or less wrecked condition for nearly ten years, and for the past five years has been in a dangerous condition. Its removal is a pressing necessity at once. To replace it with two five-foot culverts is not to solve the question, but only to establish a make-shift. At every freshet there would be a washout and with it would go part of the permanent state highway. What is probably needed at this place is a good concrete bridge that shall be as permanent as the state highway. Lack of Funds The supervisors have not the money on hand to build such permanent structures, as every dollar now in the road fund and all that should be spared from the general fund is needed for road repair work. Is it well to go ahead then with more of this make-shift work? Every dollar of new work should be of the best permanent character. County Bridges Press reports have it that the sun... HOW OLD IS THE EARTH? What is the age of the earth? An answer to this question, which has baffled human intellect since the beginning of thought, was attempted in a lecture given recently before the Paris astronomical society by M. Jean Bosler, one of the most distinguished scientists of Europe. After running over the older methods of attacking the problem, based on the deposit of sediment in river beds and the saltiness of the sea, showing that the results of these dated the origin of the globe not less than 100,000,000 years ago, M. Bosler mad statements of the greatest scientific importance based on the evidence of radio-activity in rocks. He pointed out that if uranium, for instance, gives out helium at a speed which can be determined, the presence of these two elements in the same rock gives the latter's age as soon as the relative quantity of each is measured. Investigating along all these lines, it has been calculated that a specimen of primary igneous rock examined in the Paris laboratories originated as far back as 710,000,000 years ago. Another series of investigations which has been utilized in attacking the problem is connected with the microscopic-colored circles found imbedded in primitive granites and other rocks. These, which have for a long while received no explanation, prove to be the efflorescence of the "alpha" rays from minute specks of zirconium, and it is certain that millions of centuries have elapsed while the rays have been penetrating the surrounding rock. Altogether, the lecturer declared, we should be entirely wrong in regarding the world as less than a thousand million years old. In conclusion, M. Bosler dwelt on the light which these facts threw on the origin of the sun. If the solar heat is only due, as has been thought for the last twenty years, to the conLack of Funds The supervisors have not the money on hand to build such permanent structures, as every dollar now in the road fund and all that should be spared from the general fund is needed for road repair work. Is it well to go ahead then with more of this make-shift work? Every dollar of new work should be of the best permanent character. County Bridges Press reports have it that the supervisors intend to ask for $150,000 to $200,000 in bonds to replace all of the main bridges of the county and several lesser ones along the route of the proposed state highway. Over the Santa Ana river there are needed five bridges, viz., at Yorba, Olive, Orange, Santa Ana and Talbert. Good Steel Bridges All of these bridges should be of the best type of steel bridge with concrete piers. These cannot be built with the amount of money suggested above. Only temporary wooden structures such as we have now could be built with this amount. Makeshift The Olive bridge was built a little over twenty years ago and has been in bad condition for ten years past. The Orange bridge was built where it now is about 1895 and has had to be patched up several times, and was partly rebuilt some two years ago, and is an exceedingly poor bridge today. Shall we vote bonds to build such gigantic failures again? Most assuredly not. Other Counties Ventura county with a much less assessed valuation than Orange county has built in the last eight or ten years three large modern steel bridges over the Santa Clara river, viz., at Bardsdale, Saticoy and Montalvo. Let us do the same. How? Let the supervisors have a general plan of bridge made with close estimates of costs and then call a bond election to cover the amount. For good permanent bridges there would surely be an overwhelming vote favorable to the issue of the bonds. This would be a simple solution of the question. MUST LAY DOWN ARMS American boy scouts in Los Angeles must give up rifles to join boy scouts of America. More than 1300 boys, who are members of the brigades of American boy scouts, in that city have made petition through C. de Vidal Hundt, secretary, to join the boy scouts. The boys are reported zirconium, and it is certain that millions of centuries have elapsed while the rays have been penetrating the surrounding rock. Altogether, the lecturer declared, we should be entirely wrong in regarding the world as less than a thousand million years old. In conclusion, M. Bosler dwelt on the light which these facts threw on the origin of the sun. If the solar heat is only due, as has been thought for the last twenty years, to the concentration of its mass, the sun can not be more than 20,000,000 million years old. But since this would make it an infant compared with the earth, its energy must have some other origin. But what? Whether radium, or the interior force of atoms, or some other source now undreamed of, remains, said the lecturer, one of the great mysteries of science which it may be reserved for our descendants to unveil. The address has caused considerable discussion in scientific circles. TWENTY-FIVE YEAR SENTENCE Schoolmaster Faces Long Term of Imprisonment Charles R. Peabody, formerly principal of Magnolia school, was on Friday sentenced to twenty-five years in San Quentin for feloniously assaulting Lorena Levereau, a fifteen-year-old pupil. Peabody was found guilty of the crime last week. His lecherous acts toward the girl are said to have continued over a period of several months. He kept her after school, when his illicit attentions were forced upon her. Peabody has an estimable wife and two small children. He is 31 years of age. MUST LAY DOWN ARMS American boy scouts in Los Angeles must give up rifles to join boy scouts of America. More than 1300 boys, who are members of the brigades of American boy scouts, in that city have made petition through C. de Vidal Hundt, secretary, to join the boy scouts. The boys are reported to be well trained and many are ready to pass the examination for first-class scouts. The application is now pending before the executive body, but as the scouts have been accustomed to carrying fire arms, the first important condition on which they can be admitted to the order is that they dispense with rifles and firearms entirely. James E. West, chief scout, has written that the boy scouts are absolutely opposed to the carrying of arms and of the training of the boys for war or of giving them military drills. Don’t Know They Have Appendicitis Many Anaheim people have chronic appendicitis (which is not very painful) and think it is just bowel or stomach trouble. Some have doctored for years for gas on the stomach, sour stomach or constipation and O.A. Mullinix states that if they will try simple buckthorn bark, glycerine, etc., as compounded in Adler-i-ka, the German appendicitis remedy, they will be surprised at the QUICK benefit. A SINGLE DOSE stops these troubles INSTANTLY. A lady clerk wanted at Weber's Music and Book Store. 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He was the rankest kind of a dark horse before the race, but after the tape was broken he was counted one of the boys for fair. The fact that he ran Dodd and Tletsworth off their respective pegs in the race adds another large-sized plume to the bunch in his hat. "Later in the day this youngster came out and cleared up the field in the half-mile, winning by a city block. His form is great and owing to the fact that he is at present but a second-year man in the high school, we can look for some fast time from Anaheim in the next two seasons. There is only one man in the south today who could beat him and that is Bill Annin of the Occidental academy, and Bill is the best half-miler in the south, in the writer's mind, right now." Anaheim high was fourth on the score board, being credited with 10-2 points. The Citrus union high of Azusa was first with 32 points, Los Angeles high 25, and Redlands 14. PANAMA BARRACKS Washington, April 14.—Out of all the buildings the French canal company had on the isthmus of Panama the United States army has found suitable quarters for only one regiment of infantry. As this is only a fraction of the military force which is to constitute the permanent garrison after the canal is opened for business, the war department is strongly urging congress to make an immediate appropriation of $3,500,000 for the erection of permanent barracks and officers quarters. There must be buildings to house three regiments of infantry, one squadron of cavalry, one battalion of mountain artillery and 12 companies of coast artillery. GUARDIANSHIP MATTER A. H. Heying has petitioned to be appointed guardian of the estates of Edward J. and Bert J. Conliff, aged 20 and 18, in place of J. W. Wallop of this city. The court is asked to instruct Wallop to render a final account as guardian. Weisel & Dutton are attorneys for Heying. The estates consist of over $2000. 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