anaheim-gazette 1912-05-09

Taft and the California Rivers President Taft has evidenced his friendship for California and Californians in many ways, but there is no more substantial proof of his regard for this state than the splendid progress made during the three years of his administration toward permanent improvement and control of inland waterways. Throughout the vast territory dependent upon or tributary to the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers there is entertained today expectations that President Taft's first term will leave behind a heritage of boundless wealth to be distributed among a quarter of a million people. The energy and influence of President Taft, displayed when San Francisco was on the point of losing the Panama Pacific exposition, was again employed to the advantage of all California when he took up plans and estimates prepared years ago and brought about congressional action that means the early reclamation of millions of acres of land. It is typical of the president that in this matter, as in the fight for the exposition site, and the effort to put lemons on the free list, he laid aside the larger prerogatives of his office and used his personal influence to obtain a great favor for a comparatively small section of the country whose affairs he administers. Northern California now enjoys a very substantial guarantee of President Taft's attitude toward inland waterways. An appropriation of $400,000, made in June, 1910, is being devoted to prevent the overflowing of the Sacramento and Feather rivers. "The proposition is one of joint contribution and in its form is of the highest importance, because I believe the nation and the state in cases of this kind may save money to each other by proceeding pari passu, and making joint contribution in just proportion for such an improvement as this. I should not think of inviting your attention to this matter if I had not given it some personal study and had not become convinced by the local surroundings which I had an opportunity to view, that the proposition would turn out to be a very useful one both for the nation and the state. "There is an additional reason for this public reclamation, because of the fact that it is the misuse of the sources of the stream in hydraulic mining that has led to the shallowing of the stream and to the general condition of the lands in the neighborhoods which are now to be reclaimed. Sincerely yours, "William H. Taft." It is in this spirit—in the spirit of performance rather than that of promise—that President Taft has accomplished something that insures a greater and lasting prosperity for the people who live and gain their living in the basin of the Sacramento river. He has not attempted to avoid responsibility for diverting so great a sum to improvement of waterways in a far western state, but has used his keen judgment and his wonderful acquaintance with localized conditions... Northern California now enjoys a very substantial guarantee of President Taft's attitude toward inland waterways. An appropriation of $400,000, made in June, 1910, is being devoted to prevent the overflowing of the Sacramento and Feather rivers. This, one of the largest amounts ever devoted to this purpose, was obtained after California had pledged a like amount, and was secured very largely through the co-operation of the president. More important, however, in the estimation of friends of river improvement, is the measure now pending before congress, whereby the government is to appropriate $11,000,000, being one-third of the sum estimated to be necessary to straighten the rivers, reclaim lands, remove debris and carry out all other details involved in the final scheme of improvement. It is President Taft's more friendly attitude toward this bill that has brought this desirable consummation within the reach of this generation. It is a well known fact that no river appropriation was ever obtained without the aid of powerful influence at Washington, and with all 'respect for the patient efforts of California citizens who have carried the burden of river improvement, they might still be struggling for recognition at Washington had not President Taft interceded in their behalf. A. L. Shinn, secretary of the committee that visited the capital in the interests of this appropriation, made a report upon his return from which the following is an extract: "On February 13th I called upon President Taft and when he became aware of my mission he at once made an appointment with the committee chairman for the following day and expressed his desire to me that the matter should be adopted at this session. "I left before the conversation between President Taft and Mr. Sparkman occurred, but I read in the dispatches that they had conferred regarding the measure and that Mr. Sparkman had promised the president to recommend that the river and harbor committee should insert our measure in the river and harbor bill at this session of congress." President Taft's activities in this "I left before the conversation between President Taft and Mr. Sparkman occurred, but I read in the dispatches that they had conferred regarding the measure and that Mr. Sparkman had promised the president to recommend that the river and harbor committee should insert our measure in the river and harbor bill at this session of congress." President Taft's activities in this matter recall the interest he manifested in river affairs during his visit to California a few years ago, when he devoted the better part of a day to inspection of the Sacramento river and discussion of the subject. The steadfast character of his support; the extent of his knowledge relating to river needs and general conditions is best expressed in an extract from a letter written by him to Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota, chairman of the senate committee on commerce. The letter, written on March 13, 1912, in part is as follows: "My Dear Senator: There are two matters in connection with the river and harbor bill that I should be glad to call to your attention with a view to its amendment. "The second is a matter to which I have given some personal attention, having visited this river myself some years ago. That is the proposition by which the government is to co-operate with the state of California in the improvement of the Sacramento river with a view to the drainage and reclamation of as productive a tract of land as there is in the world, in the valley of that river. This work contains the results of riverflow measurements made during the year 1910. In view of the fact that the division of the waters along the Canadian boundary is becoming a more important international question, making necessary by recent legislation the organization of the joint international commission, under whose jurisdiction these matters were placed, this volume is of unusual importance. The westernmost river covered by the report is St. Mary river, which rises in Montana, crosses the Canadian boundary, and empties into the Saskatchewan. The other rivers are largely those of North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, although considerable information is contained concerning the rivers of Illinois and Iowa, which empty into the Mississippi. The information concerning the flow of rivers in Minnesota is unusually complete by reason of the fact that the state, through its drainage commission, has cooperated with the geological survey in the maintenance of the stream flow stations. HAD CLOSE CALL Ralph Carhart had a close call on Saturday last while at work in the pit of his pumping plant. Something went wrong with the machinery and he descended into the well while the pump was in action, and in some manner his clothing became caught in the shafting, stripping him of his overalls and pants, and bruising his person considerably. But for his clothing giving way as it did, he might have lost his life in the pit, as there was no one near to shut off the power at the top. He does not care to repeat the experiment." EDUCATING THE FARMER New Agricultural Building at Berkeley Nears Completion (Correspondence of the Gazette) Agriculture hall, just built by the University of California at a cost of $200,000 to house some portion of its teaching and investigating in agriculture, will be completed by commencement—May 15, 1912. This new white granite building, roofed in red Mission tile, and picturesquely set on an eminence looking south toward the Dana street (or Stiles hall) entrance to the Berkeley campus, is one of the permanent buildings of the Phoebe Hearst plan. It is fireproof, solid, and staunch in construction, with steel frame and concrete floors and roof. After a thousand years it ought to be as good a building as it is today. Special merits of the building are that the long north wall is mostly windows, to admit to the full the north light prized for laboratory work, and that the university's supervising architect, Professor John Gallen Howard, has so planned the interior that every square foot of space is well lighted and thoroughly available. Entering the building, the visitor will find himself in a curving corridor, walled with museum cases. In here will be exhibits showing the plant in health and in disease. In glass cases and jars will be choice specimens of the typical California fruits and vegetables, grains and field crops. In other cases will be exhibits showing the insect pests, and bacterial and physiological plant diseases which the university is now teaching the farmers how to control or prevent. From the museum corridor the visitor may enter the main lecture room of the building a semicircular the pure food laboratory of the state board of health, and agricultural education—the division which is training teachers of agriculture for college and high school positions, and which in the next summer session, from June 24 to August 3, will give a special six weeks training course for teachers, Professor Maurice A. Bigelow of Columbia university coming from New York for the summer to aid in this work. A course in entomology, for teachers of nature study, and a course on the carrying of disease by insects and parasites, planned for students of public health, veterinary science, and animal industry, will also be given in the summer term. MAGDALENA BAY When Senator Lodge, speaking in the Senate on the peace treaties, gave warning that Japan had been and was still active in efforts to secure the incomparable Magdalena bay as a naval base of some kind, he sounded a note of warning that was not unheeded by the American State Department, and that was well understood both at Tokio and the City of Mexico. The United States could not afford to have Japan in a preferred relation to the coveted Pacific harbor, the only purpose of which would be to afford the Oriental power a position of strategic advantage in any contet with the Americans. The United States will not permit any form of concession of this harbor to the country whose hold upon it could be open to but one construc-tion. The United States, in fact, could not consent to see Magdalena harbor given over to any foreign power. Nor could the other republics to the south afford to have this point of war strategy in the hands of any country ambitious for con- From the museum corridor the visitor may enter the main lecture room of the building, a semi-circular room with seats so planned that the 400 auditors may all be brought into favorable position to see the lecturer's specimens, experiments, charts, or stereopticon pictures. This room will be in constant use for the large classes and for the frequent evening lectures on scientific subjects given at the university for the students and the general public. How to spray trees and plants so as to prevent or cure disease or pest will be taught and experimented with in a laboratory on the ground floor. Here also will be laboratories for work in irrigation and in bee raising and a room for mailing the bulletins on improved agricultural methods of which the university publishes and distributes hundreds of thousands of copies every year. Horticulture and viticulture are the subjects to be housed on the first floor of the building. Here also will be the office of E. J. Wickson, professor of agriculture and director of the United States experiment station, and the business office of his department, where the affairs are looked after of the 378 students in the full four-year course in the college of agriculture and the 900 other students who are receiving more or less of agricultural instruction. Here also will be the agricultural library and the quarters of Professor Warren T. Clarke, superintendent of university extension in agriculture, who has had charge of the work of the agricultural demonstration train, sent out by the University of California, through the generous co-operation of the Southern Pacific Company. This train, with its eight cars of agricultural exhibits, has been visited this year by over 100,000 persons, while the 105 farmers' institutes, in 105 California towns and villages, have brought together total audiences of over 34,000 people. Entomology and plant pathology are the departments which will occupy the third and fourth floors of the new agriculture hall. Here research would be to afford the Oriental power a position of strategic advantage in any contet with the Americans. The United States will not permit any form of concession of this harbor to the country whose hold upon it could be open to but one construction. The United States, in fact, could not consent to see Magdalena harbor given over to any foreign power. Nor could the other republics to the south afford to have this point of war strategy in the hands of any country ambitious for conquests or acquisitions among the Latin-American group of countries. The state department having given out the facts of the situation with regard to Magdalena harbor, the government is justified in making representations in suitable form to both Mexico and Japan that no compact, either official or under the guise of a private concession, can be allowed to go unchallenged. Months prior to the Pacific coast speech of Secretary Metcalf of the American navy, in which he announced the intention of the government to send the Atlantic fleet to the Pacific and thence around the world, the American pointed out the absolute importance to this country of possession or control of Magdalena harbor, and urged that, in view of the uncertain state of affairs with respect to Japan, the American ships of war upon the Atlantic coast be transferred to the Pacific and that a strong, permanent fleet be maintained there. Thus was anticipated the action of the American navy department. It will be recalled that the notable voyage of the American ships completely dispelled the war cloud and brought Japan into a much more conciliatory frame of mind than that country had previously manifested. The excellent relations that have existed between the two nations were revived. The acquisition of Magdalena bay, however, was not any further advanced. Mexico, in fact, served notice to this country that it would have to withdraw the privilege enjoyed by this country of using the bay for its annual maneuvers, alleging the sensibilities of the Mexicans aroused over the floating of a foreign flag upon their territory. This fact is now used by the United States government in its protest against the grant to Japan of any rights whatever over the harbor. The absolute ceding of any Mexican territory is prohibited by the constitution of that country; but this could be gotten around if Mexico so desired. Japan entomology and plant pathology are the departments which will occupy the third and fourth floors of the new agriculture hall. Here research work will be carried on, and students trained so that in their work hereafter as fruit growers, farm-managers, vineyardists, horticultural inspectors, state or United States agricultural experts, or experiment station or college teachers, they can apply scientific methods of studying the life-history of destructive insects, the cause and progress of plant diseases, and preventive and curative methods. Agriculture hall will house only a small portion of the work of the college of agriculture. It is hoped in future years to build at least three other permanent buildings of equal or larger size, forming a quadrangle of which this building is the first member. In these additional buildings will be accommodated some day departments of the agricultural work of the university which must now remain in their present cramped quarters. Among the subjects so remaining in their present quarters are animal industry, including dairying, livestock breeding and feeding, veterinary science, and poultry raising; parasitology, the physics, chemistry, geology, and bacteriology of soils; agronomy, the inspection of insecticides and of commercial fertilizers, nutrition, and the important work of LIKE THE DEW, HE WOULD SETTLE "How kind of you," said the girl, "to bring me these lovely flowers. They are so beautiful and fresh. I think there is some dew on them yet." "Yes," said the young man in very great embarrassment, "there is, but I'm going to pay it off tomorrow." THURSDAY, MAY 9 FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ANAHEIM States Depository for the Postal Savings System 200. Surplus and Undivided Profits, $52,000 Resources over $700,000.00 Directors: G, Pres. LEY, V. P. RD, V. P. RTUNG, Asst. Cashier FRANK SHANLEY A. S. BRADFORD JOHN HARTUNG SAMUEL KRAEMER EDGAR. J. 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