anaheim-gazette 1918-12-05

PLANNING FARMS FOR RETURNED SOLDIERS CONGRESS WILL SPEND $150,000,000 FOR RECLAMATION OF LAND IN CALIFORNIA LARGE PORTION OF IT WILL BE EXPENDED IN IMPERIVAL VALLEY DEVELOPMENT One hundred and fifty million in round figures is the preliminary estimate for United States reclamation projects in California alone, in order to give returning soldiers fully-improved farms at cost on the easiest terms ever given to purchasers by any government. This does not count at least two projects, the estimates of which are not yet completed. The total acreage amounts to more than a million and a half. Secretary Lane went over the preliminary estimates in a tentative fashion. If Congress appropriates the money, and both democrats and republicans seem committed to the policy of giving the reclaimed land to the soldiers under special conditions, first, and if there is any left it may then go to civilians—scores of projects will be included. All of the projects have been more or less carefully examined by the Interior Department, but all plans are tentative, in view of the fact that only the most cursory investigation can be made by the department concerning this subject, it may be well to say that the President can carry the presidency with him to Europe as easily as he can carry it around the United States. Wherever he may happen to be, for the time being there also is the White House. In these days of invention and convenience, the President can be as close to Washington, and perhaps closer, by wire, in Europe than if he were in some parts of America. BOLSHEVISM Col. Theodore Roosevelt has this to say about the bolsheviki: "The internationalist of the red flag or black flag type is an enemy to this nation just exactly as much as Hindenburg or Ludendorff was an enemy only a month ago. He is an even more treacherous enemy and equally brutal. Congress should pass a law without waiting a day prohibiting the use of the red flag or the black flag or any other flag of the kind. Here in America we have universal suffrage. In America the majority of our people can have what they wish in the way of industrial and political change if they seriously desire it. There isn't any excuse in this country for any paltering with revolutionary movements. A riot is riot without reference to what the people rioting claim to be for. When a mob gets started it always acts the same way, no matter what the theoretical cause of the outbreak may have been. A bolshevist mob in New York in all essentials resembles the anti-draft mob of 1863, although the arguments of the parlor bolsheviki of today would be totally different from those of the constitutional copperheads of 55 years ago. When the Romanoffs were overthrown the Russian people lacked self-control, and they permitted the dominion of a bolshevist gang which money spent tha payer; it is the of its spending that can worth while of the war dear and be paid for them would be a poor those results had. Proposition to Lo Meets Gen. The Stanislaus war loans to provide without credit so solving after-the-raising crops on otherwise be unreceived the hearty California develop State Council of C. Moore, of the following to: "Those in the loan that credit no bankable securities elect five true applications for security and proof may be justified present possession. The trustees are for the underwrite successful applicants rates of interest, and to deposit them the instructions to be paid out on time to meet regularly derided by applicant equipment or see." "Arrangements which the Federal discount the notification by the local incurred by unsmall, not to exmost, and if can." If Congress appropriates the money, and both democrats and republicans seem committed to the policy of giving the reclaimed land to the soldiers under special conditions, first, and if there is any left it may then go to civilians—scores of projects will be included. All of the projects have been more or less carefully examined by the Interior Department, but all plans are tentative, in view of the fact that only the most cursory investigation can be made by the department with the funds now available. In the sundry civil appropriation $200,000 was given to make a quick survey and report. Bills pending appropriate various sums, but the real legislation will await the recommendation of Secretary Lane. This will be given to Congress shortly after the opening of the coming session next Monday, and the program will then quickly take shape. Tentative estimates of the California projects, if all farms are fully developed, will be cut about half if some of the improving is left out of the plan, as may be the case. Many, however, advocate the putting of the soldiers only on land that is fully improved and on which they can easily make a living by ordinary application and industry. As they appear in the first draft, the California projects are as follows: Imperial, including reclamation, 300,000 acres on the proposed high-line canal from Laguna dam to the present irrigation district of 500,000 acres, estimated cost $90,000,000; cost of high-line canal alone $40,000,000. If some improvements to farms are cut out this project will cost only $45,000,000. Forty thousand acres near Blythe, also on the Colorado river, estimates not yet completed, but comparatively small. Orland project will cost about $3,500,000. Storage plant for storm waters of Tuolumne river, which now runs dry every fall, to supply Turlock and Modesto districts. This will be one of the big projects in the San Joaquin Valley, and will require about $6,000,000. Iron Canyon project, near Red Bluff, will irriage 300,000 acres, and, if fully improved farms are included, will require about $59,000,000 to complete. In addition, there is still another project to utilize the storm waters of the Kings river and Kings river canyon, and this project, if completed, will irrigate much acreage in Fresno county. No estimates have been completed people raising claim to be for. When a mob gets started it always acts the same way, no matter what the theoretical cause of the outbreak may have been. A bolshevist mob in New York in all essentials resembles the antidraft mob of 1863, although the arguments of the parlor bolshevik of today would be totally different from those of the constitutional copperheads of 55 years ago. When the Romanoffs were overthrown the Russian people lacked self-control, and they permitted the dominion of a bolshevist gang, which has brought wholesale robbery, murder and starvation in its trail. The overthrow of the Hohenzollerns in Germany has been accompanied by bolshevist uprisings in that country also. There is some excuse for excesses in a revolution against a despotism, but in this country there is no more excuse for bolshevism in any form than there is for despotism itself. Any foreignborn man who parades with or backs up a red flag or black flag organization ought to be instantly deported to the country from which he came. Appropriate punishment should be devised for the even more guilty native-born. Our national government should take the most vigorous action and have it understood that America is a bulwark of order no less than of liberty. We must make it evident that we will stamp out bolshevism within our borders just as quickly as Kaiserism." ORIGIN OF THANKSGIVING DAY The first Thanksgiving Day was observed by the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth, Mass., 1621. The settlers and their Indian guests feasted on wild turkeys and deer. During the revolution Thanksgiving was a national institution, annually recommended by Congress; but after the general Thanksgiving for peace in 1784, there was no national appointment until 1789, when Washington, by request of Congress, recommended a day of thanksgiving for the adoption of the constitution. Washington issued a second proclamation of thanksgiving in 1795, on account of the suppression of insurrection. There was thanksgiving for peace in 1815, until which time Thanksgiving had been mainly a New England custom. During the Civil War, 1863-64, Lincoln issued proclamations recommending annual Thanksgivings. Since then a proclamation has been issued annually. DR. BALL INJU Prominent Santers Caught on the bile and dragged for fifty feet T.C.D.Ball is in capital suffering from hip, severe injury and numerous bites. It will be at 11 weeks before he attempts ever his practice. He fortably as counsel the circumstance. The accident about noon, when Ford machine Fred Hutter. Ed out west to passing through of gloves lying of the road. In the machine and get the gloves to the opposite Hutter was dug to Santa Ana, on two cows in physician inter house toward Hutter turned off Dr. Ball suddenly the gloves and his car, stepping the rapidly moving struck him and caught on the dragged fifty f Iron Canyon project, near Red Bluff, will irriage 300,000 acres, and if fully improved farms are included, will require about $59,000,000 to complete. In addition, there is still another project to utilize the storm waters of the Kings river and Kings river canyon, and this project, if completed, will irrigate much acreage in Fresno county. No estimates have been completed for this project. Of all the projects, that in the Imperial Valley will probably be the first one undertaken, and if carried out to its final success will strongly follow the tentative line laid down in the plan of the high-line canal submitted to the Imperial Valley district in the form of a contract, by which the water users of the present district tap the Colorado at Laguna dam. The land to be irrigated includes what is known as the Rose project, between Laguna dam and the present Imperial irrigation district, but is much greater in scope than the Rose project. It is much more interesting to speculate upon whether, when President Wilson departs for France and the peace conference, he will take the presidency with him or leave it in the hands of Vice-President Marshall, in Washington. There is no authority under which the Chief Magistrate may delegate his powers to anybody. So far as the Constitution goes, a man is President of the United States, or he is not. If Vice-President Marshall becomes Acting President in President Wilson's absence, then Woodrow Wilson, during his absence, will not be President, because there cannot be two Presidents at the same time, under the law. But, in order to put at ease anyone who may be anxious con- Washington issued a second proclamation of thanksgiving in 1795, on account of the suppression of insurrection. There was thanksgiving for peace in 1815, until which time Thanksgiving had been mainly a New England custom. During the Civil War, 1863-64, Lincoln issued proclamations recommending annual Thanksgivings. Since then a proclamation has been issued annually. LEOPARD SPOTS In the midst of German peace plans—when the Huns were protesting against being accused of perpetrating atrocities—eye-witnesses made this sworn statement: "When the Germans started to evacuate Roulers they ordered the inhabitants to accompany them. They told the people the French would kill them without pity. Under this lying menace a few persons collected their belongings and left their homes. Others hid in the hope of deliverance by the French. One family of a father, mother and two daughters, were discovered in their cellar. They refused to accompany the German soldiers. Immediately all were shot and killed. The family's name was Van Cootre. They lived in a little village east of Roulers." There was a time when the American people were staggered by the phrase, "A Billion Dollar Congress." It was made a political campaign cry by the opposition in one eventful struggle. The Sixty-fifth Congress, which is not yet through with its business, and will not be through until March 3 next, has already voted away $45,000,000,000, and there is barely a ripple on the surface of public content. Really, it is not the amount of ANAHEIM QAZETTE STANISLAUS PLAN GETS INDORSEMENT OF STATE Proposition to Loan Money to Farmers Meets General Approval The Stanislaus plan of emergency in war loans to provide funds to farmers without credit so that they may aid in solving after-the-war food problems by raising crops on land that they would otherwise be unable to farm, has received the hearty endorsement of the California development board and the State Council of Defense. Director C. C. Moore, of the defense council, has followed to say about the plan: "Those in the country having credit, loan that credit to the farmer having no bankable security. The underwriters elect five trustees to pass upon all applications for loans, obtaining such security and protection as reasonably may be justified by the applicant's present possession of crop prospects. The trustees are authorized to accept for the underwriters the notes of the successful applicants at reasonable rates of interest, to endorse the notes and to deposit them in local banks with the instructions to the bank that sum be paid out on the notes as necessary to meet regularly approved bills rendered by applicant for work performed, equipment or seeds purchased. Arrangements have been made by which the Federal Reserve bank will discount the notes upon their presentation by the local banks. The hazard incurred by underwriters should be small, not to exceed five per cent at most, and if carefully handled there money spent that matters to the taxpayer; it is the purpose and manner of its spending that count. No American worth while will think the results of the war dear at the price paid, or to be paid for them, since the world would be a poor place to live in if those results had not been achieved." City Council Hold Important Meeting (Continued from page 1) for the new hand signals to be used by drivers. The matter was referred to the attorney. People are using the new signals which it is expected will come into general use. It is said the new rules are simple and are calculated to prevent accidents if all would observe them. Hand extended upward means turn to the left. Hand straight out turn to right, and hand pointed downward slow down or stop. The board discussed the joint meeting to be held at Fulleton December 10, which is to be attended by representatives from all governing bodies in several towns in the county, when the outfall sewerage system is to be discussed. The ocean outfall is meeting with favor throughout the county and it is confidently expected that the venture will be brought to a successful termination. A committee consisting of Messrs. McFadden and Backs have already met with a similar committee from Santa Ann, having in view the preliminary steps necessary to be taken relative to the venture and good progress is reported. With the cooperation of the other towns it is reasonable to suppose that the outfall can be accomplished, its feasibility being above question. Of course a bond issue will be necessary, but since the venture from a health viewpoint is essential people generally are expected to look upon the undertaking with favor. While the project is now in the embryonic state things in the near future will no doubt so shape themselves as to allow the trustees to present the matter to the people in concrete form. WIRELESS TELEPHONE LATEST GREAT INVENTION Col. Culver, Inventor, Well Known in Southern California Especial interest has been aroused in Los Angeles over the government's announcement of the success of the wireless telephone, declared to be America's biggest war secret, because of the facts its inventor, Colonel Clarence C. Culver, is well known here. In fact, Colonel Culver was said to have perfected his invention by which flights of aeroplanes are directed miles away while stationed at the aviation station on North Island in San Diego bay. Colonel Culver is a brother of Harry H. Culver, of Los Angeles, founder of Culver City, and during the three years he was at North Island he made many visits here. Latest public tests of the radio telephone were made at Wahington by President Wilson, who directed the maneuvers of half a dozen army aeroplanes flying over the Potomac. Mrs. Wilson was among those who heard the President direct the flyers. An even more severe test previously had been made by Major William L. Kenby, chief of the division of military aeronautics at Mineola, Long Island. Colonel Culver said he first became interested in the invention in August, 1910. His experiments were so successful that in August, 1916, he was enabled to send a rario-telegraph message from a plane over Chatsworth, 32 miles north of Los Angeles, to San Diego, a distance of 140 miles. The first vocal message from the ground to an aeroplane was transmitted in October, 1917. GASOLINE SUBSTITUTE A gasoline substitute which can be manufactured to sell at two-fifths the present cost of gasoline will be on the market by the first of the year, it was learned, following an announcement by the War Department that such a substitute had been produced by the research and development division of the department. According to the present plan, the formula will be released to manufacturers, probably under some agreement with the War Department, as to the margin of profit that will be allowed. The product, which has kerosene for a base, is odorless, colorless and noncorrosive, according to the War Department's statement, and tests have proven it to develop a thermal effici- operation of the other towns it is reasonable to suppose that the outfall can be accomplished, its feasibility being above question. Of course a bond issue will be necessary, but since the venture from a health viewpoint is essential people generally are expected to look upon the undertaking with favor. While the project is now in the embryonic state things in the near future will no doubt so shape themselves as to allow the trustees to present the matter to the people in concrete form. This city owns 100 acres of land that could be disposed of and the proceeds applied to financing the venture, thereby reducing the bond issue considerably. Every town in the county is confronted by conditions similar to those here and by a concerted move there is not a particle of doubt but what the ocean outfall can be inaugurated. To say the least it is absolutely essential. The Ganahl Lumber Company were granted permission to move a building from Orange street to their yard premises on East Center street. It was ordered that $11 be refunded to Messrs. Pepper & Adams, the same having been paid the city for a building permit, which had been cancelled. The communication from the league of municipalities relative to reconstruction work, now that the war is over, was referred to the committee on public improvements and the engineer. Clendenon Bros., real estate brokers of Los Angeles, representing Y. Shroki and K. Aklyoma, Japanese, appeared in behalf of the Japs who are desirous of purchasing the lease of the Stanton 83-acre ranch from the present owner. An order was made directing the city attorney to draft a new lease, the same however to contain a clause making the instrument revokable at any time, in view of the fact that the city may sell the land, which it is not at all unlikely will be done within the next two years. The new lease will be for a term of two years, but it was stipulated that should any damage accrue to the lessees, by a sale, that damages be awarded them, the same to be amicably agreed upon, or if not to be left to arbitration, each party to name an arbitrator and the two to choose a third. This is simply a formality to insure the new lessees from loss, as the Japs claim it will take them two years to get the land in a productive state. The ranch is rented for $700 per year. Before the new lease can be made, the old one must be released, which has not as yet been done. The new Hutter was driving east, coming into Santa Ana, dragging a trailer with two cows in it. Believing that the physician intended going into the house toward which he was walking, Hutter turned out to the left to pass. Dr. Ball suddenly stooped to pick up the gloves and then started back to his car, stepping directly in front of the rapidly moving Ford. The fender struck him and his clothes evidently caught on the machine for he was dragged fifty feet and when the car stopped he was lying under the rear part of the car. The ambulance at the county hospital was sent for and he was removed to the Santa Ana hospital, where his injuries were attended to by two physicians. He was suffering such pain that he requested that he be not moved from the pavement where the car stopped and he laid there for a half an hour waiting for the ambulance. The injuries are not considered serious, no bones were broken and it is believed that he escaped internal injuries. WHY DO THEY REJOICE? Chicago Socialists on Sunday celebrated the downfall of the German emperor, the list of speakers including Victor Berger. What did the Socialists have to do with the downfall of the Kaiser? They had thirty-five per cent of the vote and fully half the population of Germany when the war was started and they stuck to the Kaiser in Germany and every other country until the armies they tried to keep from being raised in the United States and the allied nations put in the knockout punch. The Socialists pulled Russia out of war, sold completely out to Germany and paid the Kaiser a big in-search and development division of the department. According to the present plan, the formula will be released to manufacturers, probably under some agreement with the War Department, as to the margin of profit that will be allowed. The product, which has kerosene for a base, is odorless, colorless and non-corrosive, according to the War Department's statement, and tests have proven it to develop a thermal efficiency greater than the best gasoline. MAYBE SHE'S RIGHT A doughboy in France in a letter home, tells how he and several companions visited a school in Paris. It seems that the teacher was very anxious to show off her little pupils and especially to show the Sammies that America was not forgotten in her teaching. So she asked one little girl: "What is the national anthem of your country?" "Les Marsailles," answered the tot, promptly. "And of England?" "God Save the King." "And America, where these brave soldiers came from?" "Hall, Hall, the Gang's all Here!" You'll have just 51 drinks of beer coming to you after December 1. On that date—when brewing lapses to a lost art—there will be a national visible supply of 10,000,000 barrels of the amber. That means that the honest beer drinker has slightly less than a drink per week for a year, unless mother, sister and the preacher waive their per capita. The ten million barrels, estimated by H. A. Koester, St. Louis, president of the Independent Brewery Association, means only 5,100,000,000 drinks will be available. BEAWARE OF NEW $35,000 BEAWARE OF NEW $35,000 Fil Hold Joint Meeting (from page 1) signals to be used matter was referred people are using the it is expected will use. It is said the table and are calculat-idents if all would extended upward left. Hand straight and hand pointed down or stop. used the joint meet-Fulleton December attended by repre-nal governing bodies in the county, average system is to all is meeting with the county and it is said that the venture a successful termin-ette consisting of and Backs have al- similar committee having in view the necessary to be tak-venture and good noted. With the co-other towns it is rea-nee that the outfall, its feasibility be- Of course a bond necessary, but since the health viewpoint is eser-ally are expected undertaking with project is now in the things in the near fu-oso shape themselves steees to present the tale in concrete form. packing-house and the spur track is a necessary adjunct. A deed from Mr. and Mrs. Mucken-thaler for sidewalk purposes along a short street extension strip on Resh street was received and filed. A communication was received from the railroad commission, strongly urging the city to have all pole-line extension work now under construction finished by June 30 next. Some of the electrical work is classed as hazardous. The superintendent of powerhouse who is now engaged upon these extensions was given instructions to have the work cleaned up as ordered by the state commission. Engineer Steward was given power to grade and oil South and West streets, and also place storm drains where necessary at street intersections on Santa Ana, Palm and West. Electric lights were ordered placed on West street. The finance committee reported auditing bills in the amount of $1203.08, for which warrants were ordered drawn. FOOD AND FARMING The wheat field of the United States in 1918 was four-fifths the size of the Kingdom of Austria and more than eight times the size of Belgium. One fifth of the world's crop of wheat was exported during the five years before the war, 7 per cent of the corn, 34 per cent of the tobacco, 12 per cent of the rice, 65 per cent of the cotton, and 40 per cent of the sugar. When the Indians taught the white settlers of this country how to raise corn, no flight of the imagination could have foreseen the crop of 1918, covering nearly 178,000 square miles, or nearly as much land as there is in eils in Italy, 6.17 bushels in the United Kingdom, 4.60 bushels in Austria-Hungary, 4.29 bushels in the Netherlands, 3.38 bushels in Germany (rye consumption being high), 0.85 bushel in British Idia, and 0.52 bushel in Japan, rice consumption being high in the last two countries. The large amount of low-grade cotton in the crop of 1917 is explained by the estimate that nearly a million bales were damaged by the frost. Of this amount about 550,000 bales were bolles, the remainder being either "snapped" or picked. Some of the cotton where there was no machinery for ginning bollies was beaten out with flails and afterwards ginned. The Bureau of Crop Estimates has recently estimated that there were 250,000 running bales of bolly cotton in Texas, 170,000 bales in Oklahoma, 40,000 bales each in Arkansas and Tennessee, and 50,000 bales in other states. A TUNGSTEN TALE At a recent conference of the Tariff Reform League, in London, special effort was made to show the importance of home control of certain "key" industries—industries that are small in themselves but absolutely essential to the success of larger industries. Among these were dyes, copper, manganese, and tungsten. Tungsten made a particularly impressive illustration of the seirousness of industrial dependence, for, as was shown, the wolfram ore from which tungsten is made is produced chiefly in the British domain. Yet when the war broke out Great Britain realized that she had become dependent upon Germany for the tungsten so necessary in the manufacture of munitions, and cutting tools. Germany had been buying the wolfram ore from British territory, refining it, and selling the tungsten back to Britain. One fifth of the world's crop of wheat was exported during the five years before the war, 7 per cent of the corn, 34 per cent of the tobacco, 12 per cent of the rice, 66 per cent of the cotton, and 40 per cent of the sugar. When the Indians taught the white settlers of this country how to raise corn, no flight of the imagination could have foreseen the crop of 1918, covering nearly 178,000 square miles, or nearly as much land as there is in Germany. Mean wheat production per acre in the 15 years, 1899-1913, was 42.5 bushels in Denmark, 35.4 bushels in Ireland, 35.1 bushels in Belgium, 31.5 bushels in Great Britain, 29.7 bushels in Germany, 20.2 bushels in France, 19.1 bushels in Austria, 18.1 bushels in Hungary, 16.7 bushels in Roumania, and 14.1 bushels in the United States. Bushels of measure are taken for Denmark, France, Great Britain, Ireland, and Roumania; of 60 pounds for the other countries. Per capita consumption of wheat for all purposes during the 10 years, 1902-1911, averaged 8.80 bushels per year in France, 8.20 bushels in Belgium, 6.31 bushels in the United States, 6.21 bush- Christmas Shopping! Started early this year in obedience to the recommendations of government officials, and the wise buyer is the one who makes his purchases now. Buying Is Already Brisk And there is a disposition on the part of the Christmas shopper to buy useful articles. Nothing is more useful than shoes, and we have a stock for your selection that is complete. SHOES FOR MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN SHOES FOR MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN Of the best makes and latest styles. A pair of Slippers is a most acceptable Christmas present. We can suit you in either FELT OR LEATHER SLIPPERS Dont delay in making your purchases but come in and make your selections now. JOE LAUTENBACH Cor. 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