anaheim-gazette 1912-05-23

American Sugar Industry Growth Averted by Trust Combinations and by Hostile Tariff Legislation In one of the ancient bucolic poems of the immortal Virgil, which most of us moderns have long forgotten, occurs a sentence of a vine-grower—to a farmer—of prosperous pursuit: "I do not envy you, but I wonder greatly at your work." That covers relatively the mental attitude of all our California sugar planters and the cane growers toward the men who have built the beet sugar factories and the thousands of farmers who have tilled and are still cultivating the beet fields of fifteen of our western and Pacific states. Almost alone in continental American sugar production, Louisiana has seen this combined industry of so many great western states, after half a century of its own progress start and pass it in sugar production in a short human lifetime. In witnessing this advance in production of a sister industry it has felt no envy at its wonderful progress, no regret or humiliation at its achievement of victorious and permanent supremacy, and only admiration and a sentiment of congratulation that the progressive Americans of many combined states have, during three decades of years, exceeded the crop results of her own cane sugar planters gained in one hundred and twenty years of splendid effort. But, with all of these sentiments of wonder, admiration and congratulation, the California sugar planters all have hopefully looked forward to the time, to arrive in the distant future perhaps, when these fifteen beet sundry of our colonies, which give us over one million tons of sugar yearly. It is altogether a sublime spectacle of a nation proposing to throw away a two-million-ton sugar crop, with a fifty-odd million dollars from a revenue tariff, to ruin several million of its agricultural subjects, and to turn to foreign nations one of the greatest agricultural interests which so largely contribute to its national prosperity. RAILWAY RECEIPTS INCREASE Statistics of Business Conditions Indicate Satisfactory Progress Returns of the railways to the Interstate Commerce Commission for the month of February, 1912, which have been compiled by the Bureau of Railway Economics, show increases both in receipts and expenses as compared with February, 1911. The returns, which cover about 90 per cent of the steam railway mileage of the country, average as follows per mile of line for the month: Total operating revenues per mile of line averaged $966, as compared with $891 in February, 1911, the increase resulting almost entirely from freight traffic, passenger revenue having decreased slightly. Operating expenses per mile of line averaged $712, as compared with $668 in February, 1911; net operating revenue $254, as compared with $223 in February, 1911. Taxes amounted to $44 per mile of line, an increase of ten and nineteenth per cent over February of the previous year. As February contained twenty-nine working women in nine they work eleven hours a week in order ter day Saturday. congratulation that the progressive Americans of many combined states have, during three decades of years, exceeded the crop results of her own cane sugar planters gained in one hundred and twenty years of splendid effort. But, with all of these sentiments of wonder, admiration and congratulation, the California sugar planters all have hopefully looked forward to the time, to arrive in the distant future perhaps, when these fifteen beet sugar states, of more northerly latitudes, would each produce the annual average of hte Louisiana cane crop, and make combined three or four million tons of sugar, settle our American tariff question for all time by producing on American soil all of our enormous sugar consumption, and eternally destroy the terrible American sugar refining combination which has bent all its efforts for more than a quarter of a century toward accomplishing the complete destruction of our American home sugar producing industry. But our brethren of the beet sugar industry have suffered as they of the Louisiana cane sugar industry have suffered. In the midst of their most rapid growth they have been arrested by hostile national legislation. They have been compelled for years to struggle for existence against the crushing efforts of the great refining combination to destroy them; and, only because they have been too strong and vital to be conquered and killed, they have, through the drawn battle of compromise and partial consolidation, been permitted to live and still sell thier products at a lower figure than those demanded by the almost all-powerful sugar trust. That partial victory they have achieved while the California sugar industry was still submitting to the exactions of the sugar trust, and was, through the reluctance of capital to support a less important industry, prevented from adopting the policy of other sugar manufacturers to utilize more expensive machinery. The testimony of the beet sugar manufacturers and farmers, given before the Senate Finance Committee, is exactly in line with that given by the sugar planters and cane growers of Louisiana. They have shown how, in faith with the avowed tariff policy of the general government, they have invested hundreds of millions of dollars of capital in their business, have induced hundreds of thousands of American farmers and laborers to devote their toll and their lives to this business; have established line averaged $966, as compared with $891 in February, 1911, the increase resulting almost entirely from freight traffic, passenger revenue having decreased slightly. Operating expenses per mile of line averaged $712, as compared with $668 in F ebruary, 1911 net operating revenue $254, as compared with $223 in February, 1911. Taxes amounted to $44 per mile of line, an increase of ten and nineteenth per cent over February of the previous year. As February contained twenty-nine days in 1912 and twenty-eight days in 1911, the returns for this month of the current year, other things equal, would be one twenty-eighth, or nearly four per cent, greater than for February, 1911. A comparison that eliminates the effect of the extra day is of the returns per mile of line for each day. The net operating revenue thus averaged $8.76 per mile of line per day in February, 1912, $7.95 in 1911, and approximately $9.20 in 1910. Therefore $8.76 is the average amount that accrued to each mile of line for each day of February for the payment of taxes, rentals, interest on bonds, appropriations for betterments and dividends; and this on a net average capitalization stated by the Interstate Commerce Commission in its volume of statistics for the fiscal year 1910 to be $62,657 per mile of line. The total net capitalization of all of the railways of the United States as shown by that report is $14.338,575,940. TO PERPETUATE OUR FORESTS What New York is Doing to Aid the Lumber Interests Directors of the American Forestry Association have returned to Washington from their spring meeting at Lake Clear and Saranac Lake, where with a large number of guests, they viewed the New York state tree nurseries and plantations. Among the guests were lumbermen representing many millions of dollars of lumberholdings, and these men were particularly impressed with the work that New York state is doing, and that the American forestry association is encouraging among the states and individual owners of lands throughout the country. A few years ago most lumbermen opposed forest conservation because they did not understand that it was for their ultimate good. Now they are heartily in favor of it, and the American forestry association, which is entirely a public service organization, is receiving installations. Hours being from thirteen a.m. to four months in the winter day Saturday. Very well paid by the planners run from six to ten hours to make even a fair portion of the mills as ventilated and dirty. Four hundred and one in candy and chewing Overtime so bad that es work thirteen hours day for weeks and may have to remain sitting standing all day. Cannot that some factories are employes daily. One thousand six women in thirty-six sies customary before curday nights, before sales and other times paid for except by Wages are extremely high. Four hundred and receive $4 and less; $6 and less. Five hundred and ten men in twelve telephones and wages start as soon as month, while the house and long. When a girl as $15 a month she take night work at p.m. to 6 a.m. In contrast with tions some factories found where the cones were both good, thick and the employers made its. There is now no prevent women who themselves from being dangerously long hous conditions by indifference. There is, however, state legislature to which women may be compel stores to furnish sist upon sanitary sundries. POINTERS FOR THE Just now when road paired motorists free drive over stretches are from many small care is taken to drive "coast" over the re The testimony of the beet sugar manufacturers and farmers, given before the Senate Finance Committee, is exactly in line with that given by the sugar planters and cane growers of Louisiana. They have shown how, in faith with the avowed tariff policy of the general government, they have invested hundreds of millions of dollars of capital in their business, have induced hundreds of thousands of American farmers and laborers to devote their toll and their lives to this business; have established a great and certain American agricultural industry which helps to add a hundred million dollars a year to the wealth of the nation and to save that amount of national wealth from being annually paid out for the product of foreign nations; how they have promoted the manufacturing interests of American cities, and invested the value of the larger part of their crops in the promotion of other industries and trades, and what a national loss would be sustained through the annihilation of their great industry. It is the same story told over again, as has been as well told by the sugar planters of California, and by the less-concerned planters and representatives of our colonial possessions of Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Sandwich Islands. They all reach the same conclusion: free sugar or a fifty per cent reduced tariff would virtually destroy half a billion dollars worth of sugar property in our own states, stop their production of a crop worth one hundred million dollars a year, necessitate the expenditure of one hundred million for foreign sugar, deprive the national government of its annual fifty-four million dollars of net revenue, and virtually destroy the sugar industry impressively impressed with the work that New York state is doing, and that the American forestry association is encouraging among the states and individual owners of lands throughout the country. A few years ago most lumbermen opposed forest conservation because they did not understand that it was for their ultimate good. Now they are heartily in favor of it, and the American forestry association, which is entirely a public service organization, is receiving support from lumbermen in every state in the union. Unless there is replanting of our forests, and unless reforestation is encouraged, there will at the present rate of cutting, be no standing timber in this country in fifty years time. WATERED MILK COST $25 William E. Gleason, a dairyman who has a ranch and ten dairy cows on the Pacific Electric, northwest of Garden Grove, paid a fine of $25 to Justice Cox at Santa Ana on Thursday. Gleason was charged with the adulteration of milk. In short, he was charged with "watering" the milk. The complaint was sworn to on May 6th by Ray Hasson, a state deputy pure food inspector. Hasson bought some milk from Gleason. SAVING HIS OWN Have you a spare cigar about you, old chap? Certainly. But I thought you were going to stop smoking. So I am, but not too abruptly, old chap. I've already quit smoking my own cigars. Conkey's Poultry Book means dollars to anyone. Free if you bring this ad to H. H. Gardner Co., 114 N. Los Angeles street. WORKING WOMEN OF KENTUCKY Hours Are Long and Their Pay Is Small There are about 30,000 women in factories, mills, workshops, and stores in the state of Kentucky. In 1911 an investigation of 186 of the factories was made, covering 11,048 of these women, in Louisville, Covington, Paducah, Henderson, Lexington and Owensboro. Their hours of work were found to be long and their wages low in comparison to the cost of living in these cities—$6.50 being the lowest amount on which a girl can support herself Louisville. Following are a few facts and figures: Some girls stand all day long tending several complicated machines running at top speed. Some do over and over one small, monotonous task. Some sit at sewing machines and have a forelady constantly urging greater and greater hurry until the nervous strain becomes unbearable. Many are worked to the point of exhaustion in badly ventilated factories amid unsanitary surroundings, and become physical wrecks for the paltry wages of $2 or $3 a week. Two thousand six hundred women in garment trades in forty-eight establishments. Hours irregular, varying from thirteen a day in busy times to no work at all for three or four months in the year. Three thousand women in twenty-seven tobacco factories, where the danger of contracting tuberculosis is very great. One thousand one hundred and ninety-five women in nine mills, where they work eleven hours a day, five days a week, in order to have a shorter day Saturday. Wages are gener- Hours irregular, varying from thirteen a day in busy times to no work at all for three or four months in the year. Three thousand women in twenty-seven tobacco factories, where the danger of contracting tuberculosis is very great. One thousand one hundred and ninety-five women in nine mills, where they work eleven hours a day, five days a week, in order to have a shorter day Saturday. Wages are generally paid by the piece, so the girls run from six to ten looms in order to make even a fair wage. The majority of the mills are dark, poorly ventilated and dirty. Four hundred and thirty-eight girls in candy and chewing gum factories. Overtime so bad that girls sometimes work thirteen hours a day every day for weeks and months. They all have to remain sitting all day or standing all day. Conditions so bad that some factories are changing employees daily. One thousand six hundred and one woman in thirty-six stores. Overtime is customary before Christmas. Saturday nights, before all big bargain sales and other times, but is never paid for except by a supper ticket. Wages are extremely low. Four hundred and eighty-five girls receive $4 and less; 992 girls receive $6 and less. Five hundred and ninety-seven women in twelve telephone exchanges, and wages start as low as $12 per month, while the hours are irregular and long. When a girl gets as much as $15 a month she must be ready to take night work and work from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. In contrast with these bad conditions some factories and stores were found where the conditions and wages were both good, the girls satisfied and the employers making good profits. There is now no legislation to prevent women who must support themselves from being worked these dangerously long hours in unsanitary conditions by indifferent employers. There is, however, a bill before the state legislature to regulate hours which women may be employed, to compel stores to furnish seats, to insist upon sanitary surroundings. POINTERS FOR THE MOTORIST Just now when roads are being repaired motorists frequently have to drive over stretches of crushed stone and tire treads are likely to suffer from many small cuts unless great care is taken to drive slowly or to "coast" over the repaired parts of so-called land resting process. Of course, the rotation of crops must be studied carefully, and upon the careful carrying out of this principle depends largely the success of the intensive farmer. "After my father's death, I having been instructed in his business more or less, superintended the farm for my mother until she became an invalid. Two years before her death I assumed full control. Since then, from my attachment to the old home and my desire for occupation as a definite outlet to my latent energy, I have continued to farm. I raise corn, wheat and hay, rotating my crops according to the demands of the soil. I employ men and personally conduct the work or rent on shares, always being on the scene of action when planting time or harvesting arrives. Between times I travel or visit, but when farm business calls, I respond. I have cattle and hogs and now am trying sheep raising on a small scale. I find that corn and hogs pay me best. When I travel I arrange to have crops that will not mature before the date of my return. "All this is not said boastingly, but merely to show what one lone woman may do on a farm if she so desires." It is quite evident that this woman's method of farming has been a success, if the remunerative profits of the farm count for anyhting. Since Miss Mitchell has taken over the management of her farm the average net profits from it have been more than $19,000 per year. In addition to managing the farm, Miss Mitchell is connected with several state organizations which have as their aim the betterment of conditions in the state. She is president of the Women's Farm and Home Management Society of Missouri. She is also chairman of the Woman's committee of the Farmers Union of Missouri. In the State Immigration Society, Miss Mitchell is chairman of the Women's committee, whose mission it is to urge educational and social development among the women on the farm in Missouri. "It is the lack of education and society in the rural districts that is causing the discontent on the farm," continued Miss Mitchell. "Social life is absolutely essential to the youth and women on the farm. If they do not get it at home they will leave the farm for the city in search of amusement. "In my travels over the state I culture can be constructed, for the reason that it will provide competent teachers for the preparatory schools. The present plan of secondary education involves a tremendous waste of effort, because it provides little preparation for the work of life. That is to say, it is not of much help in earning a living. It may fit a boy to be a bookkeeper or a clerk or may prepare him to enter the university for professional training, but it leaves him without any sort of knowledge to assist him in running a farm. If he lives in the country he must learn how to farm by brute force and awkwardness. Los Angeles county is far in advance of other parts of California in this field of preparatory education. Nearly all the high schools of that county give courses in agriculture, and Prof. D. J. Crosby describes one of these: "The Gardena agricultural high school has a farm of 14 acres—a pretty large farm for a city high school. Two and a half acres of this land is in trial gardens, used, as their name indicates, to try out all sorts of semitropical and tropical vegetables and fruits, just far enough to bring them to maturity and see whether they will do well in that vicinity. To a certain extent it is an experiment station for this school and for this region. Many of the things they are growing there the boys have never seen before. It is an education for them. There is also a trial vineyard where they are trying out various grapevines, to ascertain which are the best in quality and which the most profitable. They also have a trial orchard for tree fruits and plats of alfalfa." This is an example of practical and profitable work in a hitherto neglected field that might with advantage be followed in every agricultural county in California. As a matter of fact, training of this nature is more needed in California than in other regions, because the agricultural problems that arise here are for the most part new to the American farmer. POINTED PARAGRAPHS The world is a treadmill for all—excepting the drivers. Happy is the man who doesn't want what he can get. A boy can earn a living if his father refuses to do it for him. Old people have lived in vain if they haven't learned patience. If a girl really objects to being kissed—well, onions are cheap. Every married man is boss in his POINTERS FOR THE MOTORIST Just now when roads are being repaired motorists frequently have to drive over stretches of crushed stone and tire treads are likely to suffer from many small cuts unless great care is taken to drive slowly or to "coast" over the repaired parts of the road. These cuts, unless properly cared for, will prove injurious. Dirt will work into and under the tread, raising blisters and separating the rubber from the carcass of the tire while moisture will attack and rot the fabric. Once the fabric is affected, says the Michelin expert, disintegration follows rapidly. The best protection is the proper and timely use of Mastic. Immediately upon discovery cuts should be cleaned to their full depth with gasoline, the edges being kept apart by a match. All dirt or other foreign matter should be removed with a stiff brush or splinter of wood covered with waste. After the gasoline has evaporated and the cut is absolutely clean, its interior should be coated with liquid cement. After this has dried, a second coat must be applied and while the cement is still "tacky" a sufficient quantity of Mastic should be forced into the cut until it is completely filled. A little excess Mastic is best as it contracts somewhat in hardening. If the edges of the cut are now held down a few moments while the Mastic sets, the repair is complete. The tire should not be used, however, for five or six hours, so that the Mastic may harden properly. NERVE I told him there were a dozen of people right here in town who had never heard of him. I guess that took him down a peg or two... I guess it didn't. He started right out to find them and borrow money. POINTED PARAGRAPHS The world is a treadmill for all—excepting the drivers. Happy is the man who doesn't want what he can get. A boy can earn a living if his father refuses to do it for him. Old people have lived in vain if they haven't learned patience. If a girl really objects to being kissed—well, onions are cheap. Every married man is boss in his own home when his wife's away. Business is improving. The clockmakers are putting on more hands. Lots of men follow the races—probably because they can't get ahead of them. The oftener a baseball player goes on a bat the lower his batting average will be. Even if a woman has no use for a man she can be flattered if he pretends to be jealous of her. Every time a married man loses money he has a chance to regret that his wife didn't spend it foolishly. It sometimes happens that a man doesn't need to hide his light under a bushel, because it can't even be seen in the open. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Notice is hereby given to contractors that the plans and specifications for plumbing, painting and wiring, for the new Convent School may be obtained at the residence of Father Dubbel, on West Center street, on May 16, 1912. When seeking the best table wines, sweet wines, and champagne, seek no further than the Anaheim Winery, opposite West Anaheim S. P. depot. Thursday, May 23 Talk About Making Money Can You Beat This? Of course, you can make it if you work hard enough, and save long enough. You don't have to do either in the fertile San Jacinto Valley. The following is only a few of the recorded instances and happenings of the past week. Mr. Douglass of Los Angeles closes a deal one morning, starts home to get his wife and kids, barely reaching there before he received a telephone message offering $1500.00 for his bargain, which he accepts with a smile, and buys another place for the fifteen hundred. Mr. Holland of Redlands bought a place on the advice of a friend, without even seeing it, gets a raise of $800.00 more than he paid, which he pockets and buys again. Mr. Robinson, an old orange grower of Pasadena, is making extensive purchases. He is going to sell all of his citrus holdings, and buy the choice apricot, pear and other fruit lands around San Jacinto (these lands are conceded the best in the whole country for the purpose). He is delighted with his purchases, and with the valley in general. Mr. Gates, of Streator, Illinois, purchases forty acres, and says he would not sell for three times what it cost him. He is already at work improving and beautifying it for a permanent home. Mr. Gates says he made a detailed trip by auto all over Southern California, seeking a desirable location, and that San Jacinto is the only place where he found every condition absolutely satisfactory. Mr. Sturgess, our Riverside neighbor, buys three ranches, and says he is going to invest every cent he has in San Jacinto lands, just as fast as he can dispose of holdings elsewhere. There are hundreds doing the same thing, getting rid of their high-priced ranches, already too high to go higher, and investing in and around San Jacinto, where big profits and big advances are assured. Every acre and town lot in this beautiful valley is a great bargain at twice the present price, but with the Santa Fe loaded to the guards almost every trip to the valley, especially Saturdays and Sundays, it won't be long until you will have a Pasadena and Riverside proposition confronting you. The thing to do is to get here before that happens. Come over and see for yourself. We will guarantee you a good time, and the prettiest sight you ever saw.—San Jacinto Board of Trade. PLACENTIA GIBBS LUMBER FULLERTON ANAHEIM GROCERIES We carry a complete stock of Staple Groceries and Canned goods; also fresh vegetables and fruit. Always fresh and first class H. A. DICKEL Buy Lots in Zeyn Tract NOW More than a fourth of these fine residence lots have been sold. Sidewalks and curbs will be completed and the streets graded and oiled in about one more month, when prices of remaining lots will be advanced. Best building restrictions in the city. To cash purchasers we will loan money to build if desired. Secure a lot for your home before prices are raised. SEE P. H. KRICK AT been sold. Sidewalks and curbs will be completed and the streets graded and oiled in about one more month, when prices of remaining lots will be advanced. Best building restrictions in the city. To cash purchasers we will loan money to build if desired. Secure a lot for your home before prices are raised. SEE P. H. KRICK AT Office: 113 East Center St. Residence, 315 North Los Angeles Street, ANAHEIM - CALIFORNIA THE Union Brewing Co, OF ANAHEIM Brewers and Bottlers of the celebrated Anaheim Beer & German Brew Our Beer is made and sold strictly on its merits in kegs and bottles. A trial order will convince you of the Truth. Our Deliveries are Very Prompt. 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