anaheim-gazette 1919-06-26

INVESTIGATIONS INTO WAR COST ASSURED MAJORITY PARTY BELIEVES THE PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW HOW THEIR MONEY WAS SPENT Staggering Sums Appropriated and Used by Departments Without Rendering Account to Congress. A sweeping investigation of the vast expenditures for the war is assured. The House, following a number of brief but forceful speeches from prominent members of the majority, adopted the Graham resolution for an investigation by a special committee of fifteen into the expenditures of the War Department. The investigation will be made by the original committee on expenditures in the War Department enlarged to fifteen. Representative Graham of Illinois, one of the younger members of the House, an able and vigorous individual, a lawyer by profession, will head the committee. The plans of the committee will be formulated as speedily as practicable. Apprehending the consequences of opposition, the minority members did not argue against the resolution. CALIFORNIA PLAN OF LAND SETTLEMENT Senator King Tells of the Colony in Butte County. Senator Lyman M. King has the following to say in the Redlands Facts relative to the state land settlement project: Not everyone knows it, but Caalifornia has the one land settlement scheme in the United States in successful operation. It is at Durham, Butte county, a part of the old Stanford ranch holdings. The editor of the Facts had the privilege of visiting it a few weeks ago. Now the state is about to enlarge the proposition and anyone holding a large tract of land suitable for colonization purposes might well get in touch with the management, for the state buys the land and finances the general operations. During the last six months the state land settlement board has been receiving, at its Berkeley and Durham office, from 20 to 40 letters a day, asking for information about the State Land Settlement Act, to know what progress has been made in the colony at Durham and when and where settlers, and especially soldier-settlers, can obtain farms. The interest in the act has been increased by the agitation for similar legislation by Congress and in other states. State officials from ten other states and from several foreign countries have visited Durham and, without a single exception, have made favorable reports on both the settlement policy which this act embodies, and in the development which has taken place under it. The correspondence has now become so heavy that the praises them carefully lets them in gems. It almost play of children with colored glass, writes. To the ruby bazaar the mines of Burmese est rubies in the west Burmese cities and from important first barter for gems with the precious red, quickly rejecting of an almost imperfect keeping covetous stone. There is no hurry timepieces, or even sun. Foreigners are interested of the game display their usual sense. Ouside the city miners are leisure gems. The "get rich never gained a strives of this eastern With measured laborers dig up to which the stones laborers separate clay, or clean the At the easy pace draws upon its six mountains will lose enormous wealth. DELAYED One indefensible has been partially passage by the efficiency appropriate $45,000,000 to more allowance claims. The investigation will be made by the original committee on expenditures in the War Department enlarged to fifteen. Representative Graham of Illinois, one of the younger members of the House, an able and vigorous individual, a lawyer by profession, will head the committee. The plans of the committee will be formulated as speedily as practicable. Apprehending the consequences of opposition, the minority members did not vote against the resolution. That the inquiry will take a wide scope is fully anticipated. While it relates primarily to how the public money in vast sums was expended this of course, involves practically an inquiry into the conduct of the war. As far as possible, duplications of inquiry as between House and Senate will be avoided. Plans for investigating the Bureau of War Risk Insurance are being matured. As was indicated by Leader Mondell before the House rules committee, in cases where the Senate is going deep into a particular subject, the House will steer clear of it. The determination of the Republicans in Congress to make thorough inquiry into the manner in which the public's money was expended during the war simply means that the time has come when Congress and the people are to know, at last, what has become of the vast 'lump sum' appropriations which were asked for so insistently by the Democratic administration, and were provided so liberally and uncomplainingly by Republicans and Democrats alike. "During the progress of the war," said Representative Graham of Illinois, "the heads of the various departments came before Congress and requested billions of dollars be appropriated—not, as in ordinary time for definite and limited purposes, but in lump sums—leaving entirely to their discretion and personal efficiency the manner in which it was to be expended. The country was at war, and we gave them practically everything they demanded, and in the exact manner in which it had been requested. But that did not mean that the public should never know what became of these great appropriations. The war is over and the time has come for this convenient phrase—'lump sum appropriations'—to be dissected and the public informed as to whether we have been wise or foolish to make appropriations in this farms. The interest in the act has been increased by the agitation for similar legislation by Congress and in other states. State officials from ten other states and from several foreign countries have visited Durham and, without a single exception, have made favorable reports on both the settlement policy which this act embodies, and in the development which has taken place under it. The correspondence has now become so heavy that the board has prepared a statement which gives the history of the board's operations and the progress of settlers up to date and outlines the plans for the future. It is accompanied by a map showing the sub-divisional plan, soil map, and is illustrated by a number of views of houses and works on the settlement. It appears that the appropriation of one million dollars for continuing settlement work does not become available until August and the board can not until then officially invite offers of land, but it is examining all lands offered informally and will be glad to do this so that it can proceed with the purchase and development of a new area as soon as possible. Among the offers thus far received, the most important is from the Northern California Counties Association, which offers from 10,000 to 40,000 acres in Lassen county, 20,000 to 40,000 acres in Modoc county, 10,000 acres in Shasta county and 20,000 acres in Siskiyou county. Offers of three areas have also been received from the San Joaquin Valley. In a statement made before the committee considering this act in the assembly, Professor Mead outlined the board's views with respect to the location of the next settlement. He said that, other things being equal or approximately equal, the board would like to have the next settlement located in a different section of the state and where it would be close to markets and accessible to visitors. It has already been made apparent that the settlement had a distinct educational value, both in influencing the methods of colonization in California and on legislation elsewhere, and that for this reason, a settlement in another important district would be better than another settlement in the Sacramento Valley. He said, however, that this must not be the controlling consideration, that the settlers had to pay for this prop- DELAYED One indefensible has been partially passage by the efficiency appropriate $45,000,000 to meet allowance claims; the whole matter of soldiers' and allotments that delays and handles; the attitude of the army and its navy; Bureau itself—act timony of Colonel just quit in disgrace personified; thank red tape and pay. But even if they been functioning would still have failure on the pay its honor-bill three months, that the last Congress passing the necessary bill and thanks to new Congress had an unnecessary in calling it into action. On the first order lowrance checks were involved were held up for Since the first order checks—amounting more—have been same reason. N 000 Civil War pennilied an overdue same reason. A condition of able. It has affixed one-half million their dependent nation who are in the nation's sense and fair play the necessary app passed the Congregation will not be able can speed to Fru signature. A condition of occur again. Its legitimate reservation petuated would of much of its might easily t be expended. The country was at war, and we gave them practically everything they demanded, and in the exact manner in which it had been requested. But that did not mean that the public should never know what became of these great appropriations. The war is over and the time has come for this convenient phrase—'lump sum appropriations'—to be dissected and the public informed as to whether we have been wise or foolish to make appropriations in this manner." The Republican leader in the House, Representative Mondell, speaking before the Rules Committee in favor of the Graham resolution, pointed out that the creation of this special committee would not now be necessary if the standing committees of the House possessing exactly similar powers had properly performed their duties during the period that the Democrats had control of Congress. "The investigation into war expenditures proposed by Mr. Graham," said Mr. Mondell, "no different from what should have been done each session by the regular committees on expenditures in the various departments. "The country will not be compelled to witness useless and duplicated investigations by the Republicans. Our entire program for investigation has been methodically arranged. There will not be independent investigations of the same subjects by both the House and Senate. If the Senate wants to make the investigation into the colossal expenditures for aircraft production, and ordinance, we will give our attention to the other divisions of the subject, or vice versa. In this way we will save time and money, and keep the public informed without overwhelming it with overlapping inquiries seeking the same end." praises them carelessly, and then as carelessly lets them go to some dealer in gems. It almost seems like the play of children with bits of bright colored glass, writes Niksah. To the ruby bazaar of Mogok, from the mines of Burma, are sent the finest rubies in the world. Buyers from Burmese cities and also foreigners from important firms come here to barter for gems. Languidly they toy with the precious drops of pink and red, quickly rejecting a stone because of an almost imperceptible flaw, and keeping covetous eyes on a perfect stone. There is no hurry, no pulling out of timepieces, or even looking up at the sun. Foreigners affect the careless interest of the gambler, and natives display their usual inherent indifference. Ouside the city for miles around, miners are leisurely unearthing more gems. The "get rich quick" idea has never gained a strong hold on the natives of this eastern treasure district. With measured swing the Burmese laborers dig up the grayish clay in which the stones are embedded. Other laborers separate stones from sand clay, or clean the dirt from the gems. At the easy pace with which Burma draws upon its store of treasure, its mountains will long be a source of enormous wealth. DELAYED ALLOTMENTS One indefensible national scandal has been partially met by the speedy passage by the Congress of the deficiency appropriation bill carrying $45,000,000 to meet the pension and allowance claims of the army. In investigations here and in Florida have been conducted. "What is the nematode?" asked he in opening his address. The answer to his own question was that the nematode is a worm, belonging to the same family as the trichina and the hookworm. It lives in the soil and occurs along the Atlantic coast, and is particularly plentiful in Florida. It is in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California and in Orange county. Through it, there is a loss of $200,000 among canaloupe growers in the Imperial valley this year. "Of its own accord, the nematode travels only five or six inches in a year. But it can be carried by water and by tools." "There are two main nematodes in this section. One is the garden nematode and the other is the sugar beet. The garden nematode forms knots on the roots of the garden crop. "On pulling up an infested sugar beet you will find little white bodies like pearls on the roots. The head of the female nematode has been inserted in the root and it sucks its food from the beet. Each female lays from 350 to 450 eggs. "The problem of the nematode is more serious because the eggs in a cyst can remain for five years and still become active. "The garden or root knot nematode, however, will live only three or four years if it gets no crop on which to feed. "In Europe control by the use of chemicals has been tried. That is too expensive. There is one chemical that has been used. That costs $250 an acre for application, and it must be applied three months before planting." Large quantities of fresh manure Anaheim Cash Market A Good Place To Trade J. E. STROUP, Prop. Home 282 Pacific 300 109-111 N. Los Angeles St. Shaw being absent, and District Attorney L. A. West. West advised the supervisors and commissioners of the legal steps necessary in carrying out the harbor improvements as authorized by the voters on June 10, but no official action was taken at this time. The supervisors are particularly anxious to have the bonds sold and the money on hand so that diversion of the Santa Ana river may be completed before winter. This first project under the bond issue will be undertaken as soon as possible in order to guard against any further deposits of silt in the bay. THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA A schoolboy in London turned this in as a composition on Christopher Columbus: DELAYED ALLOTMENTS One indefensible national scandal has been partially met by the speedy passage by the Congress of the deficiency appropriation bill carrying $45,000,000 to meet the pension and allowance claims of the army. In the whole matter of the payment of soldiers' and sailors' allowances and allotments there have been gross delays and handicaps ill reflecting the attitude of the nation toward its army and its navy. The War Risk Bureau itself—according to the testimony of Colonel Lindsley, who has just quit in disgust—has been chaos personified, thanks to insufferable red tape and political interference. But even if the Bureau itself had been functioning legitimately, there would still have been an abstract failure on the part of the nation to pay its honor-bills during the past three months, thanks to the fact that the last Congress adjourned without passing the necessary appropriation bill and thanks to the fact that the new Congress has been locked out by an unnecessary three months' delay in calling it into special session. On the first of May, 700,000 allowance checks to soldiers' dependents—involving about $13,000,000—were held up for want of funds. Since the first of May, 600,000 more checks—amounting to $11,500,000 more—have been withheld for the same reason. Meanwhile, about 25,000 Civil War pensioners have been denied an overdue $3,000,000 for the same reason. A condition of this sort is intolerable. It has affected nearly one and one-half million fighting men and their dependents—the wards of the nation who are a first charge upon the nation's sense of gratitude, justice and fair play. Even now that the necessary appropriation bill has passed the Congress, the funds still will not be available until the bill can speed to France for presidential signature. A condition of this sort must never occur again. It is an invitation to legitimate resentment which, if perpetuated, would not only rob victory of much of its sweetness, but which might easily turn love to gall in draws upon its store of treasure, its mountains will long be a source of enormous wealth. "The garden or root knot nematode, however, will live only three or four years if it gets no crop on which to feed. "In Europe control by the use of chemicals has been tried. That is too expensive. There is one chemical that has been used. That costs $250 an acre for application, and it must be applied three months before planting. "Large quantities of fresh manure is effective. The nematode can't stand ammonia, which we get with fresh manure. But that, too, is a method that is too expensive to be practical. "The nematode can't stand extreme heat, and the drying out of the soil is a method that reduces the nematode. The soil can be turned up to the sun, and baked by the sun. "Another way of reducing the nematode is by flooding. That is a good way to get rid of the nematode on a small acreage, but it is no solution for a large acreage for flooding over a period long enough to drown out the nematode probably is not practical. "Another thing that can be done is to plant your land to resistant crops. Among those resistant to the root knot nematode are some types of alfalfa, three tyes of cowpeas, some soy beans, barley, what, rye and peanuts. Among those resistant to the sugar beet nematode are sweet clover, which is shunned by farmers in this country, millet, buckwheat, three types of cowpeas, soy beans, rye and the resistant types of alfalfa. "Peppers are susceptible to the knot nematodes, not to the sugar beet nematodes. Corn has some resistance. The sugar beet nematode is not active on citrus stock. The lima and black-eye beans are susceptible to nematode." Farm Advisor Wahlberg and Prof. Milbrath are completing arrangements for an acre in the lowlands where nematodes are known to exist, and there various crops will be planted and experiments of various kinds will be conducted. APRIL IMPORT FIGURES If there should be no delay in the current fiscal year totaled $2,474,000,000, on which duties were collected in the sum of $142,181,000, or an average rate of duty on all imports of 5.7 per cent. Imports for the ten months of the fiscal year ended April 30, 1913, the money on hand so that diversion of the Santa Ana river may be completed before winter. This first project under the bond issue will be undertaken as soon as possible in order to guard against any further deposits of silt in the bay. THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA A schoolboy in London turned this in as a composition on Christopher Columbus: Columbus was a man who could make an egg stand on end without crushing it. The King of Spain sent for him and asked him: "Can you discover America?" "Yes," Columbus answered, "if you will give me a boat." He got his boat and sailed in the direction that he believed America was. The sailors mutinied and insisted there was no such place as America, but presently the pilot came to him and said: "Columbus, land is in sight." "Well, it's America," Columbus said. When the boat neared the shore Columbus saw a group of natives. "Is this America?" he asked them. "Yes," they replied. "I suppose you are Indians?" Columbus went on. "Yes," the chief answered, "and are you Christopher Columbus?" "I am." The Indian chief turned then to his companions and said: "The jig is up. We are discovered at last." the nation's sense of gratitude, justice and fair play. Even now that the necessary appropriation bill has passed the Congress, the funds still will not be available until the bill can speed to France for presidential signature. A condition of this sort must never occur again. It is an invitation to legitimate resentment which, if perpetuated, would not only rob victory of much of its sweetness, but which might easily turn love to gall in thousands upon thousands of devoted souls which have laid their all upon the altars of their country. Whatever the charms and the lure of "international justice," it cannot rise higher than its source; and its "source," so far as America is concerned, is "national justice." We are not yet relieved of the necessity to preserve the national good faith of American honor and responsibility. Pray God that we may never be—and that we may never want to be. SEEKING REMEDY FOR THE SUGAR BEET PEST Expert from Department of Agriculture Discusses Plans. With a large acreage of sugar beet land in Orange county infested with the damaging sugar beet nematode, an address concerning that pest by Prof. D. G. Milbrath of the U. S. Department of Agriculture as given by him to the Wintersberg and Buena Park farm centers last Saturday is of widespread interest. The nematode was discussed at the meeting of the Wintersberg and Buena Park farm centers at Huntington Beach last Saturday, and in his address Prof. Milbrath reviewed briefly some of the principal things that the federal authorities are ready to say concerning the nematode. APRIL IMPORT FIGURES If there should be no delay in the current fiscal year totaled $2,474,000,000, on which duties were collected in the sum of $142,181,000, or an average rate of duty on all imports of 5.7 per cent. Imports for the ten months of the fiscal year ended April 30, 1913, under the protective policy, totaled $1,548,000,000, and they paid into the Federal Treasury, in duties, $274,039,000, or an average rate of duty on all imports at that time of 17.7 per cent. This protective rate, had it applied to the imports up to April 30, 1919, would have realized nearly $440,000,000, almost $300,000,000, more than was actually realized. That would pay the interest on over $7,000,000,000 in 4½ per cent bonds, it would not come out of productive enterprises and it would protect those enterprises from harmful foreign competition, whereby they would wax more prosperous and be better able to meet income taxes and multiply the opportunities for labor Pretty sensible proposition, after all, the protective tariff policy. WILL EXPEDITE HARBOR WORK If there should be no delay in the necessary legal proceedings, the $500,000 Orange county harbor bonds may be sold by July 1 to 15, and the money from their sale may be in the treasury by the last of July, ready for use of the harbor commissioners in starting county improvement and protection of Newport harbor. This fact was disclosed at an informal conference between the board of supervisors, four members of the harbor commission, Chairman Linn L. Twenty-three thousand tons of apricots will bring the county growers between $1,150,000 and $1,200,000 this season. The fruit has been contracted by the canners at at least $50 a ton and some growers have contracted to sell at even $60 a ton. The horticultural commissioner finds that the apricots of 1918 brought the county less than $700,000. Hemet and San Jacinto will harvest 16,000 tons, so the Hemet Chamber of Commerce reckons. The Elsinore Press finds that the Banning-Beaumont district will have 4000 tons more. The only problem that remains now to be solved will be how to pick and deliver all this quantity of fruit to the canners without loss by rotting, as was the case in the hot weather of 1917. Three years from now, when over 800 more acres of apricot orchards come into full bearing in this county, a normal yield will be upwards of 35,000 tons. The pretty eighteen year old Mexican girl, Iabel Pera, who mysteriously disappeared from the home of her sister in Garden Grove last week was finally located by a local Mexican youth, wandering about the streets of Los Angeles. She appeared to be in a dazed condition and was turned over to the proper authorities and placed in a hospital. She had not had anything to eat for three days and had walked practically the entire distance to Los Angeles. She said she was in search of work, but those who know her claim her mind is affected at times, and are of the opinion that she was mentally deranged when she left home, as there is plenty of work in this locality. 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. If, as some of the pulpiteers claim, we are living in a world that has been regenerated by the war, then the warriors and the politicians have accomplished in four years what the Christian religion and its preachers and teachers have failed to accomplish in nineteen centuries. 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