anaheim-gazette 1918-10-31

IT'S A BOOMERANG President Wilson's Appeal to the people of the United States, made public Saturday, in which he asks them to elect a democratic senate and house of representatives on the 5th of November in order that his war policies may be sustained and his administration endorsed, is an unfortunate step that will be resented by every republican in the country who can only regard it as an insult. Coming at a time when political divisions are forgotten and all Americans are standing shoulder to shoulder behind the president, it is most unfortunate as it creates a division between them and again revives party lines. When the paper was made public the following statement was immediately issued by the republican senatorial and congressional committees. It was signed by Henry Cabot Lodge and Reed Smoot for the senate, and Frederick H. Gillett and Simeon D. Fess for the House: Some time ago the President said "politics is adjourned." Now, in the closing days of the campaign—delayed by the united efforts of all parties of the Liberty Loan—now, when all public meetings have been given up owing to the influenza epidemic, the President sends out a di- It is not the war of the Democratic or the Republican party. It is the war of the American people. It is more. It is the war of the United States, of the Allied powers, of the civilized world against the barbarism of Germany. In this great burden and responsibility the Republican party representing more than half the citizenship of the country demands its rightful share. If the Republican party is entrusted with power in either or both houses they will do everything possible to drive forward the war and hasten the day of victory. The President speaks of the necessity of telling the plain truth. That the Republican party lift control of Congress would do, for they have not friends to shield. And they will do more. They will give all the money to the last dollar necessary to sustain our armies and our fleets, but they will check the waste now going on of the money given by the most generous people on the face of the earth. The President speaks of the effect of the election abroad. He says there they understand the meaning of elections. They do, and they will know that if the Republicans have a majority in Congress, the war will be pressed with greater vigor than ever before. They are quite aware that the power of the Senate is equal to that of the President in the consummation of peace by treaty. They will know that the Republican party stands for a victory peace and the overthrow of Prussian militarism. That knowledge will not depress the spirit of our Allies or encourage the government of Germany. The Republican party believes that the question of surrender should be left to Marshall Foch, to the generals and to the armies in the field. When they report Germany has laid down her arms the United States and the Allies should then impose their terms. Will that knowledge cause de- REPUBLICANS WILSON'S Will H. Hays, publican National New York Sunday in which he replies party to President the nation to return greet. Mr. Hays: "President Wilson motives and presentatives in thereby impugned denied their path lenge is to your representatives. To the honor of you to your selfrespect lenge sparely, n Illinois, but as An chairman, call up. "Mr. Wilsonicans no credit supported the posed by his though they have er unanimity th his own party. accuses them of his proper function. "At no time, I tried to take control of his hands. That. The county know it. A more unjust, more wcious accusation on the most reckless much less by United States, fo It is an insult, loyal Republicans to every loyal land. It fully m which rightfully y expression at th "Mr. Wilson gives the Republicans Then why does he feat. Because th Hardly that. No the republican senatorial and congressional committees. It was signed by Henry Cabot Lodge and Reed Smoot for the senate, and Frederick H. Gillett and Simeon D. Fess for the House: Some time ago the President said "politics is adjourned." Now, in the closing days of the campaign—delayed by the united efforts of all parties of the Liberty Loan—now, when all public meetings have been given up owing to the influenza epidemic, the President sends out a direct party appeal calling upon his countrymen to vote for Democrats. Because they are Democrats, without any reference to whether such Democrats have been, or are in favor of war measures, and have a war record which deserves support. The voters of Michigan, to take a single example, are called upon to support Mr. Henry Ford—notorious for his advocacy of peace at any price, for his contemptuous allusions to the flag, for the exemption of his son from military service—on the sole ground that he will blindly support the President. The President is quite ready to admit that Republicans are loyal enough to fight and die, as they are doing but the thousands; loyal enough to take up great loans and pay enormous taxes; loyal enough to furnish important men at no salary on some of the great war boards in Washington. But they are not loyal enough in the President's opinion, to be trusted with any share in the government of the country or legislation for it. If the Republican party controls the House we can point out some of the things they will do. They will replace Mr. Dent of Alabama at the head of the Military Affairs Committee with Mr. Julius Kahn, to whom the administration was obliged to turn for assistance to take charge of and carry the first draft bill against Mr. Dent's opposition. They will put a Republican at the head of the Ways and Means Committee, as leader of the House, instead of Mr. Kitchin of North Carolina, who voted against the war. They will give the country a Speaker who did not oppose and would never oppose a draft bill and would never say, as Speaker Clark did, that "there is precious little difference between a conscript and a convict." Although the Republican of the House are now in the minority, they cast more actual votes on seven great war measures than the Democratic majority was able to do. What is much less by the United States, for it is an insult, loyal Republicans to every loyal land. It fully mute which rightfully express at the "Mr. Wilson greeks." Then why does he feat. Because the Hardly that. No are for peace the victory; because lasting peace can negotiations; because that 'U. S.' star surrender as well States and Uncleocratic Congressmen does not. That as the noonday s decide. "Mr. Wilson stamps, his rubbess. He says better than Dem men. He calls war Republicans anti-war Democratie, is no longer one branch of this vided by the Congressmen mu Democratic Conpto to his will, must evidently his autocrat calling but bidding for great free people. "Republicans seemed to him they assented, with highest times against their proposals. have seemed for send fully a mill battle, to furnish money for win they are not conto have a voice the war. "But Mr. Willy nothing to do the war. He has beginning, has dreams of intertrol. He wants is full power to sicely as he and unappointed u advisers may o is full power spokesman in an actually demand." stead of Mr. Kitchin of North Carolina, who voted against the war. They will give the country a Speaker who did not oppose and would never oppose a draft bill and would never say, as Speaker Clark did, that "there is precious little difference between a conscript and a convict." Although the Republican of the House are now in the minority, they cast more actual votes on seven great war measures than the Democratic majority was able to do. What is the record of the Senate? On fifty-one roll calls on war measures between April 6, 1917, and the 29th of May, 1918, the votes cast by Republicans in favor of such measures were 72 per cent, while only 67 per cent of the votes cast on the Democratic side were in favor of such measures. Those were the President's own measures. Does that record look as if we had hampered him? The Republican party in Congress has supported the administration policies since the war with a unanimity and an absence of criticism unprecedented in party history. There are some domestic questions where we should undoubtedly differ from the course pursued by the administration. We should not, for example, fix a price on the farmers' wheat and leave the planters' cotton untouched. Another domestic question in which the Republican party believes thoroughly is economic preparation for the coming of peace and they are clearly of the opinion that the Congress of the United States should not be excluded from the great task. This it not the President's personal war. This is not a war of Congress. Ernest L. Davis, Anaheim. Harry H. Curtiss, Westminster. Reginald Crespin, Anaheim. Byron B. Corbitt, Placentia. George E. Cole, Buena Park. George E. Cole, Anaheim. Percy D. Coffman, Fullerton. James H. Cockerham, Anaheim. Willbur W. Cobb, Fullerton. Edward Cline, Fullerton. Jacob P. Classon, Fullerton. Ralph W. Christensen, Anaheim. Verne J. Barnes, Santa Ana. Percival L. Bradford, Placeilla. Delbert Bobst, Brea. Clarence W. Blumberg, Brea. John R. Blanchard, Fullerton. Alvin C. Berry, Anaheim. Hugh S. Berkey, La Habra. Hezner C. Belshe, Brea. Ben Baxter, Anaheim. Frederick Bastady, Buena Park. Murray E. Baird, Brea. William E. Annin, Fullerton. Walter L. Amstutz, Anaheim. Herman Allgeyer, Anaheim. Wayne H. Adams, Fullerton. Earl A. Abbott, Fullerton. Allen R. Abbott, Buena Park. John C. Maxwell, La Habra. Albert L. Johnston, Fullerton. Bernardo Herrigoyen, Fullerton. George R. Hetebrink, Fullerton. Gustaaf Balyrus, Los Alamitos. Frank Castillo, Brea. Andrea Curti, Yorba Linda. Homer M. Dailey, Fullerton. A. B. Hawkins, Fullerton. Edward A. Gomez, Anaheim. James E. Haskins, Fullerton. William F. Wiederhold, Fullerton。 William M. Silva, Fullerton。 Harrison M. Reynolds, La Habra。 Chas. W. Ogroske, Huntington Beach。 Frederick H. Nelson, Santa Ana。 "But Mr. Wilson nothing to do the war. He has beginning, has dreams of interest control. He wants is full power to sicely as he and unappointed advisers may do is full power to spokesman in an actually demanded to reconstruct great industrialism in the same way formity with doctrine, what government owner ever hazy which possess him at and above all went to free trade thus giving to the fruits of victory could win by fight A Republican Convention to that. Do that will? Germany." "Mr. Wilson is party to lie down Answer with you." "Mr. Wilson surrender—yes, surrender to his can party, of the Allies—all to his and master of world. Do you send with your votes." Elli Winenberg is visiting Mr. and old time Montana." REPUBLICANS MUST ANSWER WILSON'S CHALLENGE Will H. Hays, chairman of the Republican National Committee, made in New York Sunday night a statement in which he replied in behalf of his party to President Wilson's appeal to the nation to return a Democratic Congress. Mr. Hays said: "President Wilson has questioned the motives and fidelity of your representatives in Congress. He has thereby impugned their loyalty and denied their patriotism. His challenge is to you who elected those representatives. You owe it to them, to the honor of your great party and to your selfrespect to meet that challenge sparely, not only as Republicans, but as Americans. I, as your chairman, call upon you to do it. Mr. Wilson accords the Republicans no credit whatever for having supported the 'war measures' proposed by his administration, although they have done so with greater unanimity than the members of his own party. Despite that fact he accuses them of having tried to usurp his proper functions. At no time, in no way, have they tried to take control of the war out of his hands. The President knows that. The country knows it. You know it. A more ungracious, more unjust, more wanton, more mendacious accusation was never made by the most reckless stump orator, much less by a President of the United States, for partisan purposes. It is an insult, not only to every loyal Republican in Congress, but to every loyal Republican in the land. It fully merits the resentment which rightfully and surely will find expression at the polls. Mr. Wilson grudgingly admits that the Republicans have been 'pro war.' Then why does he demand their defeat. Because they are still pro-war? Hardly that. No. It is because they NEW SYSTEM FOR PREVENTION OF FLOODS HOLLYWOOD MAN INVENTS A METHOD THAT IS ECONOMICAL AND EFFECTIVE BUILDS SERIES OF FENCES OF HOG WIRE WHICH CATCH DRIFT AND FORM DAMS In some sections of the country the farmer suffers greater losses from storm water than from thieves, pests, and all his other enemies combined. Especially is this true in Southern California, where unless his property is all "high and dry," this winter menace is always staring him in the face. It is not an unusual sight to see the lower acres of a piece of farming land in this section practically eradicated during a single storm. Nothing is so treacherous as a storm water torrent, unless it is efficiently harnessed, and even when apparently controlled, there is no telling when it is going to kick over the traces and tear things up generally. The ranchers of the section have tried everything from the concrete wall to the piling-and-wire systems, and from the levee method to the use of rip-rap. Nevertheless, storm water torrents continue to play havoc. The one great reason for this storm water damage probably lies in the fact that there is absolutely no way of telling beforehand just what volume of water to prepare for. A system may be installed that will handle the water how permanently the farmer seeking relief wants or can afford to build. The soles or openings in this porous construction may be run vertical or horizontal, or at any angle between the two. Hog wire has been used in all of the experiments. One of the principal points about the system is that the elevation of the top of each dam must be approximately the same as the bottom of the dam immediately above it. The theory upon which the system works is that the sand, boulders and floating debris; as they come down the river or wash, will naturally build up behind the lower dam until this basin is filled to the height of the top of the dam, when the debris will begin catching the lower end of the second dam, which is at a height of the top of the first dam. The second dam will then fill up, after the filling up process has taken place, resembles a series of steps, each one of which, according to Mr. Pratt, is anchored within itself and cannot be washed out. Another point is that, in cross section, the stream bed is lower in the center than it is at the sides, dams having been run parallel with the stream as well as right angles to it. When the basins are filled with debris the stream bed will be "stepped up" from the center toward the sides just as it is built in a series of rises from any given point upstream. This "side step" construction induces a greater velocity in the center than at the sides, the nearer to the sides the water comes, the less being the velocity or cutting power. With the stream bed thus bound in Mr. Pratt declares, it is impossible for it to move, this fixed stream bed being the first requirement of successful flood control. The Hollywood man believes that in addition to saving the land from further damage, the system will result in building up those sections which have much less by a President of the United States, for partisan purposes. It is an insult, not only to every loyal Republican in Congress, but to every loyal Republican in the land. It fully merits the resentment which rightfully and surely will find expression at the polls. "Mr. Wilson grudgingly admits that the Republicans have been 'pro war.' Then why does he demand their defeat. Because they are still pro-war? Hardly that. No. It is because they are for peace through, not without, victory; because they do not believe lasting peace can be obtained through negotiations; because they consider that 'U. S.' stands for unconditional surrender as well as for the United States and Uncle Sam. The Democratic Congress does not. Mr. Wilson does not. There is the issue clear as the noonday sun. The country will decide. "Mr. Wilson wants only rubber stamps, his rubber stamps in Congress. He says so. No one knows it better than Democratic Congressmen. He calls for the defeat of pro-war Republicans and the election of anti-war Democrats. He, as the Executive, is no longer satisfied to be one branch of the government, as provided by the Constitution. Republican Congressmen must be defeated and Democratic Congressmen, subservient to his will, must be elected. That is evidently his idea—the idea of an autocrat calling himself the servant, but bidding for the mastery of this great free people. "Republicans in Congress have seemed to him good enough when they assented, as they did assent with highest patriotism and sometimes against their best judgment, to his proposals. Republicans at home have seemed to him good enough to send fully a million of their sons into battle, to furnish at least half of the money for winning of the war, but they are not considered good enough to have a voice in the settlement of the war. "But Mr. Wilson's real purpose has nothing to do with the conduct of the war. He has had that from the beginning, has is now and nobody dreams of interfering with his control. He wants just two things. One is full power to settle the war precisely as he and his sole, unelected, unappointed unconfirmed personal advisers may determine. The other is full power as the 'unembarassed spokesman in affairs at home,' as he actually demands in his statement, tear things up generally. The ranchers of the section have tried everything from the concrete wall to the piling-and-wire systems, and from the levee method to the use of rip-rap. Nevertheless, storm water torrents continue to play havoc. The one great reason for this storm water damage probably lies in the fact that there is absolutely no way of telling beforehand just what volume of water to prepare for. A system may be installed that will handle the water of five or six rainy seasons, but when the seventh flood comes, it may be so large as to override everything and to crumble the systems that have been made to take care of. Considering all this, it is not to be wonderer at that: the ranchers of the Southland have their "ears continually to the ground" in an effort to pick up something that will help them out of their trouble. Just now much interest is being taken in a new flood control system announced by Alvaro A. Pratt, a large property owner of Hollywood. During the last few years Mr. Pratt has suffered, according to his own estimates, around $20,000 in damage to his land holdings through storm floods alone, and it was in an effort to ward off further loss that he conducted an extensive series of experiments in storm water control. Every system that is in general use today to accomplish this result was tried and discarded. Mr. Pratt was almost ready to throw up the job himself when he happened to notice the peculiar action of a piece of wire netting placed in a certain position to a storm water stream. The development of his present ideas followed. Like many another valuable discovery, the very simplicity of this system is its outstanding feature. Solid constructions is done away with in the Hollywood man's plan and porous construction in the form of check dams, side elevations and the like, substituted. Mr. Pratt uses something through which the water may pass rather than something by which it will be held and impounded. The materials recommended are wire netting (hog wire,) concrete slabs, steel bars or wooden strips, depending upon step construction induces a greater velocity in the center than at the sides, the nearer to the sides the water comes, the less being the velocity or cutting power. With the stream bed thus bound in, Mr. Pratt declares, it is impossible for it to move, this fixed stream bed being the first requirement of successful flood control. The Hollywood man believes that in addition to saving the land from further damage, the system will result in building up those sections which have during previous storms been practically eradicated. "We will suppose, for example," he says, "that the flood water is cutting directly through the center of the farm. As each succeeding storm comes, this stream bed widens, the currents shift from side to side, tearing away the banks from this side and then that as it races along. After a few years the wash is several hundred yards in width—and getting wider. I believe that with my system the side levels or basins will eventually become fields suitable for cultivation, these being 'stepped up' toward the sides as well as from the lower edge of the property upstream." "The first dam, if I were protecting a farm, would be anchored along the lower line of the property, being four feet exposed. The second dam would be installed upstream sufficiently far to make the bottom of the second dam come on a level with the top of the first and so on upstream. The distance between the dams both upstream and from the center to the sides would depend entirely upon the gradient of the surfaces. If the grade of the channel were six inches to the hundred feet and the side slope one foot in the same distance, then each field'of the check dam system, excepting the center channel, would be 800 feet long and 400 feet wide, providing the five-foot wire were used. In time the side dams could be raised higher and higher, until the surface of ground had reached its original elevation. The idea is that as the water is backed up from the dams, earth and silt, valued as fertilizer at about $2 per yard, will be deposited within the basins until these are filled to the height of the dams. This will "But Mr. Wilson's real purpose has nothing to do with the conduct of the war. He has had that from the beginning, has is now and nobody dreams of interfering with his control. He wants just two things. One is full power to settle the war precisely as he and his sole, unelected, unappointed unconfirmed personal advisers may determine. The other is full power as the 'unembarassed spokesman in affairs at home,' as he actually demands in his statement, to reconstruct in peace times the great industrial affairs of the nation in the same way, in unimpeded conformity with whatever socialistic doctrine, whatever unlimited government ownership notions, whatever hazy whims may happen to possess him at the time, but first and above all with absolute commitment to free trade with all the world, thus giving to Germany out of hand the fruits of victory greater than she could win by fighting a hundred years. A Republican Congress will never assent to that. Do you want a Congress that will? Germany does. "Mr. Wilson forced the Republican party to lie down or fight. I say fight! Answer with your votes! "Mr. Wilson is for unconditional surrender—yes, for the unconditional surrender to himself of the Republican party, of the country, of the Allies—all to him, as the sole arbiter and master of the destinies of the world. Do you stand for that? Answer with your votes!" Ell Winenberg of Park City, Mont., is visiting Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Herman, old time Montana friends of his. Army Pigeons Going To Front Carrier pigeons are a valuable factor in the operation of all the allies, never falling to carry a message safely and quickly from the front unless actually killed by shell fire. They are used at the most critical stages of battles, when all wire communication has been stopped and the barrage is too thick for runners. Here is shown a motor-transport formerly a London bus, loading up with carriers to go to the British front. The casualties among the birds average 2 per cent. They are wounded by enemy shells, attacked by hawks, and suffer from gas. They live in gas-proof baskets and when gassed are treated at a hospital. There is also a prison cote for captured enemy birds." Tractor Demonstration We will demonstrate the Moline Universal Tractor, plowing and cultivating, on J. O. Strodthoff ranch, on boulevard one mile west of Anaheim, FRIDAY, Nov. 1, 1918. Wickersheim Implement Co. continue from the lower to the upper part of the property. To the casual passer-by this construction would appear as an ordinary boundary fence, and it would, until the flood arrives, serve this purpose." FARMERS KILL HUN STARVATION PLAN WITH BIG CROPS Pinched by Own Hunger, Germans Watch American Wheat Flow in Plenty to the Allies The soil, the two-fisted fighting men that spring from the soil, and the unconquerable determination of the Americans who till it, are beating the Germans. Thrown back from his first rush across the Marne and held at Verdun by the valiant French, the Huns cast all the restraints of humanity and civilization to the winds and ushered in unrestricted submarine warfare with the boast that England would be starved in six months. How nearly they approached success will form one of the most gloomy chapters in the world war history; how self in such amiable terms as these: "The greatest ruthlessness is in reality the greatest humanity. If it should be possible to destroy the whole of London, that would be more humane than to allow one of our fellow-country-men to bleed to death on the battlefield, because a radical cure would lead most speedily to peace." Herr Erzberger is simply tamed for the present, or, rather, cowed. SCHLESWIG RESTLESS The claim of Denmark for the restoration of Danish Schleswig to the old connection with the mother country is supported heartily by Norway and, to a less degree, in Sweden. Schleswig's desire to break away from German domination is intensified just now because of the prospective adjustment of the just claims of subject peoples in the final settlement of the war. Schleswig forms the territorial connecting link between Denmark and Prussia. Some 68 years ago, after a most heroic resistance, the people of this little Danish duchy were forced into the Prussian trap, but their real allegiance is still to the mother country and not to the German empire. It is altogether possible that before this tangle of Prussian imposition on weak peoples has been straightened AMERICA SENDS FIGHTERS FOOD True, British and American sea-dogs hunted the submarine; American shipbuilders launched fleets whose sheer numbers made it impossible for the Hun sub-sea terrors to sink all of them; British land conscription turned hundreds of thousands of acres of parks and hunting preserves into crop-producing areas; Hoover and American food economy saved millions of bushels of wheat and shiploads of meat for fighting men and civilians in France and England. But in the last analysis it was the farm and the farmer of America that kept all hosts on every Western front in plenty and added despair of victory to the pinch of hunger behind the Hun lines. His bumper crops jolted hopes at Potsdam and Vienna as severely as his fighting sons jolted Teuton generals at Cantigny and along the Marne, since expectations of American crop failure were based with Germanic complacency on carefully plotted campaigns of propaganda and sabotage in the United States. HUN AGENTS BURN CROPS The general public is too little aware of the bitter battles the crop grower has had to fight to bring his wheat to harvest. Burned barns, standing crops, harvesters and threshing machines were only a part of the widespread ruin planned by these fellows of Boy-Ed, Von Papen and von Bernstorff, and in too many instances their plots were successful. That more were not was due only to untiring vigilance which can never be relaxed while the war lasts. New goals, not easy of attainment, are placed before the farmer through the plan for raising an army of five million Americans to crush Germany next year. He will be further handicapped by the loss of hands to the army, and he must raise greater crops. Plans of the Department of Agriculture call for the increase of wheat acreage in the West by as much as 80 per cent. NEW EFFORTS Schleswig forms the territorial connecting link between Denmark and Prussia. Some 68 years ago, after a most heroic resistance, the people of this little Danish duchy were forced into the Prussian trap, but their real allegiance is still to the mother country and not to the German empire. It is altogether possible that before this tangle of Prussian imposition on weak peoples has been straightened out, the Kiel canal may become something more than a German ditch. If Germany proposes to ignore international law and defy civilization under the obsession that she has something superior of her own, then the nations opposed to her pretensions will have to act accordingly. Among other things it may be thought necessary to insure the free use of the Baltic and North seas for the commerce of the world in fact as in theory. This Schleswig agitation may develop a burning issue. The recession of Schleswig to Denmark would tremendously add to the strength and prosperity of that virile country, would be a matter of long-deferred justice, and prove of great assistance in holding German political and territorial ambition within safe and reasonable limits. While Sweden, because of her fear of Russian aggression, has leaned politically toward Germany, a large portion of her people are anti-German in their sympathies. The sentiment for a closer mutual understanding and cooperation among all Scandinavian leaning toward Germany. NEW EFFORTS CALLED FOR No one doubts that he will rise to the opportunity for service placed before him, any more than any one doubts that he will play his other parts in the perfectly co-ordinated fighting machine revealed when America turned as a nation to win the war. Not the least of these parts was his participation in the financing of the battle, though previous history had written down much effort to finance the farmer. Herr Erzberger, the Reichstag Center deputy, who has become Secretary of State in the so-called new German government, now declares himself in favor of a League of Nations formed with power to settle everything relating to the war, but he does not say that the league of nations should be formed, as all the nations likely to be in such a league agree, with Germany left out, an important omission, and one that Herr Erzberger should hasten to correct, if he is as certain of Germany's complete collapse and as desirous of peace as he pretends to be. This ardent advocate of a tranquil Europe, it might be recalled, is the same Herr Erzberger who, in February 1915, expressed him- The hands of the nation's clocks were retarded one hour at 2 A.M. Sunday, October 27. The Fuel Administration estimates that approximately 1,250,000 tons of coal in the United States have been saved during the past seven months as the direct results of the daylight-saving plan that has been in effect since the last Sunday in March. Unless the law under which this plan was put in operation is repealed before the last of March, 1919, the hands of the clocks of the country will again be advanced one hour at 2 A.M. on the last Sunday in March, 1919. Word has been just received from Dr. Webber, of the Riverside Citrus Experiment Station at Riverside, that owing to a new outbreak of Influenza at Riverside the head authorities deem it advisable to postpone the Orange County excursion, which was to have been held next Saturday, November 2. Notice will be given in the press later when a new day is set.