anaheim-gazette 1919-04-17

COLONY PROJECT FOR RETURNED SOLDIERS REVIEW OF GENERAL PLANS FOR PROVIDING BOYS WITH HOMES AND BUSINESS Hundreds of Millions of Acres of Rich Soil Can be Reclaimed and Made Productive.—World Needs Food. The United States Department of the Interior is asking Congress to permit it to prepare farms for the returning soldiers and sailors who wish to settle on the land. The plan of the Department is to hire the ex-service men at a fair wage to build up the farms and farm buildings and then to sell them the land upon such terms as would practically insure the success of the enterprise. The Interior Department would have the Federal Government co-operate with the State in the working out of the project. A model bill has already been sent to the different States which, when enacted into law, will make possible this co-operation as soon as Congress has enacted its legislation. To state the plan in a general way, it is proposed that the States furnish the land out of which the farms for the returning soldiers and sailors are The world stands ready to take from us for the immediate future a practically unlimited quantity of food stuffs. We are admonished that while the war is over for many purposes, it is not over in so far as the saving of food is concerned. Our associates and our late enemies in the war stand in need of our food production in excess of what is required for ourselves. But the demand upon the soil of America for a large food production will not cease when the ugliest of the wounds of war have been healed. As the years go on our own increasing numbers will call for an ever enlarging food supply. In Napoleon's day, Great Britain could have fed her eight millions of people from the products of her own land if an enemy had succeeded in blockading her entire coast line. Today the forty million residents of the island would be at the mercy of a foe that could prevent the importation of foodstuffs. As the nation has grown in industry and great cities have been built up, it has been necessary to supplement home agricultural production by the products of other lands. The United States with her immense industrial development is still an agricultural nation. But as her industrial expansion continues she will be compelled to press harder and harder on her land for subsistence. It is by no means unthinkable that the day will come when the United States will be mainly an importer rather than an exporter of the products of the farm. In the year 1800 there were approximately five million persons in the United States. In 1850 the population was twenty-three million; in 1880, fifty million; in 1900, seventy-six million and in 1918 one hundred and six period no longer re-ment possession to turning soldiers; but reds of millions of rich soil at present may be made into What could be a more cure than to apply upon this unused land needed food? WHAT A GO MEANS TO The hotel is the utility of any town. It is the organized visitors. A town without a private house with for company. As we travel over us remember those hotels just as we friends whose host comfort and pleasure. There is more co-town in encouragin become good, and come better, than i effort. At some time or that wants to grower's committee wha motions of try side capital to tha town the site enterprises. Free land, exempt and even capital outsiders. The trouble with boosting is that it place. The first essent The Interior Department would have the Federal Government co-operate with the State in the working out of the project. A model bill has already been sent to the different States which, when enacted into law, will make possible this co-operation as soon as Congress has enacted its legislation. To state the plan in a general way, it is proposed that the States furnish the land out of which the farms for the returning soldiers and sailors are to be made and that the Federal Government be responsible for the work of making the land into farms and selling it to the settlers. In the working out of the plan the Federal Government will in many cases create the farms out of its own land without State aid; undoubtedly many of the States will develop farm colonies without Federal aid. But the general plan is to one of co-operation. Many varieties of lands are to be used in the enterprise. Secretary Lane of the Department of the Interior has called attention to the important work that has already been done by the Reclamation Service in the matter of irrigating the dry lands of the West and he points out that there is still much of this kind of work that can be done. He would also reclaim extensive areas of swamp lands by draining them and he would also make homes for settlers on the cut-over timber lands by pulling the stumps which interfere with the use of agricultural implements. These three types of reclamation, namely, irrigation, drainage and the pulling of stumps, are especially emphasized by Secretary Lane, but there are many other situations where Government assistance would be extremely desirable in helping the ex-soldiers and sailors to a successful start as farmers. For example, in many parts of the country where the land has been allowed to deteriorate a judicious application of agricultural instruction and financial aid will enable the settler to rebuild the soil and to make farming profitable where otherwise his efforts would be doomed to failure. The various States will naturally desire to retain their returning soldiers and sailors within their own borders as far as possible. For this reason it will not be desirable for the Department of the Interior to concentrate its reclamation efforts upon any one type of land. Plenty of arid lands is to be had in the West upon which expansion continues she will be compelled to press harder and harder on her land for subsistence. It is by no means unthinkable that the day will come when the United States will be mainly an importer rather than an exporter of the products of the farm. In the year 1800 there were approximately five million persons in the United States. In 1850 the population was twenty-three million; in 1880, fifty million; in 1900, seventy-six million and in 1918, one hundred and six million. What it will be in 1925 we do not know, but it is reasonable to assume that the food supply sufficient for today will not be sufficient for that not distant date. Our younger soldiers returning from the battle front may even indulge in academic speculation as to our probable source of food supply in 1950. The second of the two problems named above is that of unemployment in industry. At all times there is a certain amount of unemployment in industry. That is, there are always men who are able to work and who are seeking work, but who are out of work. Even during the war when the clamor for labor for war industries was the loudest there were certain trades in which there was a good deal of unemployment. For example, in many parts of the country where there was no Government construction work there was dullness and unemployment in the building trades because of the difficulty or impossibility of getting material. In times of peace there is always a certain amount of unemployment. The amount of it is greater at some times than at other times. Years of industrial expansion are followed by years of business depression when wages fall and employees are discharged in large numbers. These discharged men, demoralized, seek for work which returns to them only with the return of business prosperity. Again, employment in many occupations is of a seasonal nature. There is a part of the year when workers are needed, only to be discharged when the slack season arrives. There are for instance many industries which work feverishly for the Christmas holiday trade and which have their dull season as soon as the holiday is reached. Then, too, there are casual occupations where workers are employed in considerable numbers upon a job last. The trouble with boosting is that it place. The first essential self improvement, as to begin improving with the hotel. Of course, many than their towns, b town ought to pinch age the hotel, and the facilities it off town to grow. In other instances needing improving, this lack of capital. No town can afford capital to enable it clean up, brush up. The cost of mode not a matter for question is: What if we don't. With an up-to-date think of inviting on then its efforts are and one meal in will drive away most vital than the booze dig up in a month. Then, too, every berer that it isn't so say as what outside the best advertisement. A traveling manker does a lot of grouchy because bad hotel he will live. The same man, p because of a good advertisement of it. But it is not a on outsiders that important to a town. Of even greater hotel's influence on The hotel is t ground—the one p creeds and groupes. A good hotel democracy—it is strongholds. The social, public life of any province around its room are held t around the bang to rebuild the soil and to make farming profitable where otherwise his efforts would be doomed to failure. The various States will naturally desire to retain their returning soldiers and sailors within their own borders as far as possible. For this reason it will not be desirable for the Department of the Interior to concentrate its reclamation efforts upon any one type of land. Plenty of arid lands is to be had in the West upon which a great deal of labor could be employed in the immediate future in irrigation projects and out of which many rich farms could be made. But farms must also be built out of the swamp lands of the East and the cut-over lands of the Northwest and North and South. It is estimated that there are between fifteen and twenty million acres of land in the possession of the Government upon which the rainfall is insufficient to produce crops but which may be reclaimed by irrigation. There are said to be between seventy and eighty million acres of swamp and overflowed land of which sixty million acres can be reclaimed and made profitable for agriculture. Of former timber lands but now merely stump-bearing lands there are roughly two hundred million acres in the United States suitable for agricultural development. Add to these vast areas the millions of acres of unused lands that need only intelligent treatment in order to make them crop-bearing and it will be at once evident that there will be no dearth of land upon which to employ those of the returning soldiers and sailors who desire such employment. Two serious problems face the American people. One is the problem of supplying food to a starving world. The other is the problem of unemployment. Again, employment in many occupations is of a seasonal nature. There is a part of the year when workers are needed, only to be discharged when the slack season arrives. There are for instance many industries which work feverishly for the Christmas holiday trade and which have their dull season as soon as the holiday is reached. Then, too, there are casual occupations where workers are employed in considerable numbers upon a job lasting only a day or a few days. When the job is finished the workers become idlers and their time is wasted until a new job turns up. The work of the longshoreman has long served as the type of this kind of unemployment. In the years that are to come, these various forms of unemployment will be with us as they have been in the past unless some serious effort is made to find a remedy for them. In the more immediate future they will be with us in an accentuated form due to the fact that such a large number of soldiers and sailors will be returning to civilian life and such a large number of workers in munitions factories will be seeking employment in peace industries. Moreover, women have gone into industry in large numbers during the war and many of them will no doubt remain in their new found places in the years that are to come. The men who formerly held these positions will now be compelled to look for other work. To sum up the situation: we are confronted by the likelihood of unemployment on a large scale in the years directly ahead of us, and we are urged to produce food for the world for the immediate future and to prepare to produce food for ourselves on a larger scale than hitherto for the years that lie beyond the immediate future. The rich prairies of the Civil War Of even greater hotel's influence on The hotel is the ground—the one predeeds and groupes A good hotel democracy—it is strongholds. The social, political life of any province around its room are held to around the banquet and get to know smoothing out the meeting rooms given opinion gather ideas into action improvement and As people come the true function community life, the better hotels, and comforts of life many times. CONTROL The State of America organically Maxwell, executive Reclamation others to take lands River Reg control of floods water in Arizona other men promote matters in Arizona paign under the together with Aransas was the first mass campaign for great Roosevelt States government ceeded in that that Arizona share of the Newland Amendment to s ANAHEIM GAZETTE period no longer remain in Government possession to be granted to returning soldiers; but we have hundreds of millions of acres of equally rich soil at present unused which, at a cost in labor not at all prohibitive, may be made into productive farms. What could be a more reasonable procedure than to apply the surplus labor upon this unused land and produce the needed food? WHAT A GOOD HOTEL MEANS TO A CITY The hotel is the foremost public utility of any town. It is the organized host to the town's visitors. A town without a good hotel is like a private house without a spare room for company. As we travel over the country all of us remember those cities with good hotels just as we remember those friends whose hospitality affords us comfort and pleasure. There is more certain profit in any town in encouraging a bad hotel to become good, and a good hotel to become better, than in any other line of effort. At some time or other every town that wants to grow organizes a booster's committee which goes through the motions of trying to interest outside capital to the point of making the town the site of new industrial enterprises. Free land, exemption from taxes, and even capital are offered these outsiders. The trouble with this method of boosting is that it starts at the wrong place. The first essential improvement is the control of floods and conservation of flood water. The Tri-Counties Reforestation Committee and others are working along the same line in Southern California to secure federal aid through the Newlands River Regulation Amendment for flood control and conservation of water. REFORMERS NOW FLIRTING WITH OUR CALENDAR Proposed New Year Will Have Thirteen Equal Months. Of course, most people think there are only 12 months in a year, and that some are short and some long. February being the leanest of all. But not so. February has as many days as any other month, and there are thirteen months from January 1 to the last of December. Nearly everybody, excepting the American Equal Month Calendar association o Minneapolis, thinks that March comes right after February. We know better. Liberty comes later February. And Ney Year's day isn't any day at all. It's not even a part of the year. Christmas will always come on Thursday. So will the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving day. There will never be a Friday on the 13th, always coming the 5th, 12th, 19th, and 26th. Those happy souls who draw monthly pay will get 13 pay envelopes instead of 12, and landlords will collect rents 13 times a year. The gas company will slip in an extra gas bill every year. So will the electric lightber 17 became ensigns; 5 entered West Point; 4 entered Annapolis. Those commissioned in the army included one colonel, 11 captains, 43first lieutenants, 137 second lieutenants, 109 sergeants, 89 corporals, or a total of 218 commissioned officers and 198 noncommissioned officers. BOLSHEVISM Bolshevism in the last analysis is the protest of the lower classes of society against what they conceive to be the oppression of those occupying a higher plane. It is the attempt of the peasantry to cast off the yoke of hunger, discouraging taxation, and enforced military service, under which they have been struggling in Europe for years, and to give themselves the privileges they have seen enjoyed by the various strata of society above them. The French Revolution was but an outbreak of Bolshevism, brought about by the excesses o fthe French court of the times. The French Commune of a later date was another popular protest against the conditions under which the common people were forced to live in the Second Empire. The ground has been prepared for years for the outbreak of Bolshevism in Russia. Autocratic rulers, crushing taxation, no attempt to alleviate the condition of the working class—all contributed to a state of social unrest which needed but a spark to start a general uprising among the masses. The war furnished the pretext." Conscription of the men to fight for a cause they knew nothing of; horrible slaughter of soldiers, undertrained, frequently unarmed, and utterly incapable of competing with the German war machine; and taxation, increased even further by the war's demands. that wants to grow organizes a booster's committee which goes through the motions of trying to interest outside capital to the point of making the town the site of new industrial enterprises. Free land, exemption from taxes, and even capital are offered these outsiders. The trouble with this method of boosting is that it starts at the wrong place. The first essential improvement is self improvement, and the proper place to begin improving is right at home—with the hotel. Of course, many hotels are better than their towns, but in that case the town ought to pinch itself and encourage the hotel, and take advantage of the facilities it offers for helping the town to grow. In other instances, where the hotel needs improving, the trouble is usually lack of capital. No town can afford not to advance capital to enable its hotel or hotels to clean up, brush up, and spruce up. The cost of modernizing a hotel is not a matter for consideration. The question is: What will be the cost if we don't. With an up-to-date hotel, a town can think of inviting outside capital. Until then its efforts are wasted. One night and one meal in a backsliding hotel will drive away more prospective capital than the booster's committee can dig up in a month. Then, too, every town should remember that it isn't so much what citizens say as what outsiders say, that makes the best advertisement. A traveling man in a Pullman smoker does a lot of talking, and if he is grouchy because of a bad night in a bad hotel he will leave nothing unsaid. The same man, pleased with a town because of a good hotel, is a walking advertisement of it. Put it is not alone in its influence on outsiders that a good hotel is important to a town. Of even greater concern is a good hotel's influence on those in the town. The hotel is the common meeting ground—the one place where all sects, creeds and groups can get together. A good hotel is the first aid to democracy—it is one of democracy's strongholds. The social, political and business life of any progressive community center around its hotel. In the ballroom are held the social functions; around the banquet table men meet Christmas will always come on Thursday. So will the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving day. There will never be a Friday on the 13th, always coming the 5th, 12th, 19th, and 26th. Those happy souls who draw monthly pay will get 13 pay envelopes instead of 12, and landlords will collect rents 13 times a year. The gas company will slip in an extra gas bill every year. So will the electric light concern, and all the other robbers who hold a fellow up at the first of each month. All this won't happen until 1922, and not then unless the American Equal Month Calendar Association of Minneapolis puts across its 13-month Liberty calendar. Next congress gets the chance to vote on the calendar. There will be seven days a week, same as now, and there'll be four weeks in every month. The first always comes on Monday and the 28th (last day) fa'ils on Sunday. The extra month thus created is named Liberty, coming between February and March. Thirteen months of 28 days each total 364 days. The extra day will be called New Year day and won't be part of any year. It will be a poor little orphan day, coming after the end of one year and just before hte next year starts. Leap Year day (February 29) will be called Correction day, and will be another orphan day, not belonging to any month. It will be inserted between some two months. After congress has adopted this new calendar other countries will be asked to do it, too. ALFALFA GROWERS ORGANIZE The Alfalfa Growers of California Incorporated, is an association of alfalfa growers organized for the purpose of marketing their product cooperatively. They now have a membership of about 1250 growers, representing about 43,000 acres of alfalfa, or an average of about 35 acres of alfalfa to the grower. The membership includes the majority of the growers in practically all the alfalfa growing districts in the State. The association began marketing December 1, 1918, and since that date has marketed 838 cars of hay. The association is going into all the available markets and has recently sold 165 cars for delivery outside of the taxation, no attempt to alleviate the condition of the working class—all contributed to a state of social unrest which needed but a spark to start a general uprising among the masses. The war furnished the pretext. Conscription of the men to fight for a cause they knew nothing of; horrible slaughter of soldiers, undertrained, frequently unarmed, and utterly incapable of competing with the German war machine; and taxation, increased even further by the war's demands, furnished a fertile field for the insidious German propaganda cunningly designed to encourage the plain people of Russia to revolt against existing conditions. Once they had tasted power and realized that no government could exist without their support the people were quick to take control, turn out their former rulers and set up a system of their own. Progress from that state of affairs to the present chaos in Russia has been but a natural evolution. In Hungary people likewise have felt the oppression of unreasoning monarchies. Their situation has been similar to that of the Russians, although perhaps less severe. With them too, the war has furnished the flame to kindle the smouldering revolt of the lower classes. The same may be said of Germany, although in that country another government succeeded that of the kaiser so quickly that it was able, by stern repressive measures, to keep down the fires of Bolshevism, at least for the time being. But what of our own country? We hear of headquarters of the Bolshevik in the United States, of hundreds of agencies they have established among our people, and that our mails are being flooded with their propaganda. Largely in the proportion that our institutions oppress the American people, as the governmental systems of the Old World bear upon its peoples, will the dangerous seed take root among us and flourish. It cannot succeed among a contented, well-fed busy population. It will become implanted and grow where discontent is the rule, where decent food is beyond the reach of the poor, and where unemployment exists to any extent. To prevent Bolshevism in America we must resort to introspection. If any of those conditions are present at any point then danger threatens at that place. The cause for discontent whether from governmental autocracy or otherwise, must be ascertained and Of even greater concern is a good hotel's influence on those in the town. The hotel is the common meeting ground—the one place where all sects, creeds and groups can get together. A good hotel is the first aid to democracy—it is one of democracy's strongholds. The social, political and business life of any progressive community center around its hotel. In the ballroom are held the social functions; around the banquet table men meet and get to know each other better, smoothing out their differences; in the meeting rooms groups of all shades of opinion gather and crystallize their ideas into action—all for the town's improvement and advancement. As people come better to understand the true function of the hotel in the community life, there will be more and better hotels, and the pleasures and comforts of life will be multiplied many times. CONTROL OF FLOODS The State of Arizona is being thoroughly organized by Mr. George H. Maxwell, executive officer of the National Reclamation Association, and others to take advantage of the Newlands River Regulation plan for the control of floods and conservation of water in Arizona. Mr. Maxwell and other men prominent in irrigation matters in Arizona are making a campaign under the slogan of "Everybody together with Arizona." Mr. Maxwell was the first man to take the field in the campaign for the building of the great Roosevelt Dam by the United States government and having succeeded in that he is now determined that Arizona shall also take advantage of the Newlands River Regulation Amendment to secure federal aid for HIGH SCHOOL CADETS California High School Cadets have an enviable war record, according to figures released here. The report issued from the adjutant-general's office shows from September, 1911—the date of the foundation of the corps—to September, 1917, there were 1655 students who completed the course of training. Up to September 20, 1918, 7,045 had started the training. The report shows that 1,900 cadets entered the service of the United States, divided as follows: One thousand four hundred and sixty-five entered the army; 371, the navy; and 61, the marine corps. Of this num- LIBERTY BOND EXEMPTIONS Assistant Secretary of Treasury R. C. Leffingwell, has issued an official statement giving a summary of the possible exemptions from surtaxes, excess-profits and war-profits taxes of the Liberty Loan Bonds now outstanding, leaving out of consideration the 3½% bonds of the First Liberty Loan. Mr. Leffingwell says: "Until the enactment of the Victory Liberty Loan Act the total possible holdings of Liberty Bonds exempt from surtaxes and excess-profits and war-profits taxes were as follows: $5,000 in the aggregate of First 4s, First 4¼s (issues of May 9, 1918 and October 24, 1918), Second 4s and 4¼s, Third 4¼s, Fourth 4¼s, Treasury Certificates, and War Savings Certificates. $30,000 of First 4¼s (issue of Oct- HOTEL VALENCIA Modern in Every Respect Finest Hotel in Orange County Accommodations Unsurpassed By any hotel in the Southland and prices reasonable. Corner Lemon and Center Sts Anaheim, California Rates, $1.00 per night, up. Special Rates by the week or month. 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