anaheim-gazette 1919-09-25

INFLATED VALUES MUST REACH AN END. FOOD EXPERT SAYS OVER PRODUCTION WILL SOON BRING A REACTION Present High Prices Due to Activity of Gamblers and Speculators in Foodstuffs.—Law of Supply and Demand Will Soon Reduce Prices. Alfred W. McCann, one of the greatest food experts in this countryp, is of the opinion that the bottom is due to drop out of the glutted markets of America. Overproduction, speculation and profiteering will bring about the reaction, according to this writer. Other writers and investigators are of the same opinion. They point to the tremendous food surplus piling mountain high in the warehouses of the country. That a collapse of inflated values is sure to come within a short time is the prediction of these investigators. The law of "supply and demand" is being held in abeyance by the sheer will of gamblers in foodstuffs, who dare not dump their products on the mar- RAISING FUNDS FOR ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL Joe Burke is Chairman of the Orange County Committee. Attorney Joe C. Burke of Santa Ana has been appointed as Orange county chairman for the Roosevelt Memorial Association. Southern California has been given a quota of $58,000 to be raised to carry out plans for a permanent memorial recognition of the services of Theodore Roosevelt. County quotas have not yet been announced. Burke is to have committee chairmen in various communities of the county, and will head an organization for raising the money asked of the admirors of Roosevelt in this county. It is the earnest wish of those who are carrying forward the movement that it be absolutely non-partisan. Marshall Stimson of Los Angeles, is chairman for Southern California. He has appointed county chairmen as follows: San Diego, Colonel Ed. Fletcher; Riverside, E. P. Clarke; San Bernardino, R. L. Riley; Ventura, F. W. Crow; Santa Barbara, C. F. Blackstock; Imperial, Phil D. Swing; Orange, Joe C. Burke. The purpose of the drive is to get as large a number of persons as possible to make moderate contributions. It was emphasized that it is not proposed to endeavor to get large contributions from a few men of wealth. Stimson, at a meeting of chairmen yesterday, pointed out the value of the memorial in Americanization. In this situation mental cause of highway rerouting in the unions that the railroads show them. Indeed yet seem to be amazing effort of the railroad they propose to spend $20,000 roads, and then on the entire sent the railroad and their properties themselves. Rageous piece robbery was a government attitude and its great that hardly realized the boundlessted it. We cannot mass of railroadsible for such damning to the highway robbery country if it is The large premen are, or a riotic America not for a man what their lef would resent being placed seeking to roway rob every if the railroad demand that Other writers and investigators are of the same opinion. They point to the tremendous food surplus piling mountain high in the warehouses of the country. That a collapse of inflated values is sure to come within a short time is the prediction of these investigators. The law of "supply and demand" is being held in abeyance by the sheer will of gamblers in foodstuffs, who dare not dump their products on the market without sustaining a staggering loss, they declare. The Army and Navy are endeavoring to rid their stores of foodstuffs purchased in anticipation of a prolonged war. The Surplus Property Division at Washington, D.C., has been advertising the sale of millions of pounds of frozen meats. At the same time more than 300,000,000 pounds of meat are going into storage every month in the United States. This great overproduction, resulting from the stimulation, is not being consumed. The great American public learned to economize, in fact, was forced to economize, during our participation in the war—and is still living on a war basis. And not only meats are piling up in unheard of quantities, but dairy products are filling the warehouses, hoping for a tremendous European market, fairly outbid one another in purchasing butter and eggs. Mr. McCann declares that speculators paid 35 cents a dozen for April eggs. Insurance and storage charges have added 10 cents a dozen to the price, so that the storage article now represents an investment of at least 45 cents a dozen. "On the warehouse receipts covering these stored eggs the banks loaned the operators as much as the eggs would stand, running all the way up to 80 per cent of the original cost," says Mr. McCann. "With these loans the operators went out and bought more eggs, and on their warehouse receipts of the second batch secured other loans with which they went out and made other purchases." And this pyramiding was not confined to eggs alone, but was prevalent in most food products that are held in storage. Overproduction in butter and cheese is also said to be enormous. The proficiency of the drive is to get as large a number of persons as possible to make moderates contributions. It was emphasized that it is not proposed to endeavor to get large contributions from a few men of wealth. Stimson, at a meeting of chairmen yesterday, pointed out the value of the memorial in Americanization. "It will lead to good citizenship," he said, "for many persons will take a patriotic pride in it and it will thus tend to stabilize sentiment and conditions." NEW SUPERINTENDENT W. H. Powley, who has been appointed to succeed C. F. Mason as Division Commercial Superintendent of The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company, in charge of the company's corporations south of the Tehachapi mountains, arrived in Los Angeles Monday morning September 15th to assume his new duties. Mr. Powley comes to the South fairly conversant with the company’s operations, as his past work as rate engineer for the Pacific company has given him an excellent opportunity to know the operations of the company in the territory over which he now has jurisdiction. It has already been the aim of and policy of the company, says Mr. Powley, to render prompt and efficient telephone service and it is my desire to lend every effort to carry on this policy in a manner fair and reasonable in every respect to the satisfaction of the community and individual user. I am delighted, says Mr. Powley, to find an organization that is striving so efficiently toward the public and I believe that the public is very receptive in appreciation of the efforts on the part of all employees to render satisfaction to all of our patrons. 20th CENTURY "JAMES BOYS" When the Federal Government said to the nation that it drafted its soldiers and sent them to death based on $30 a month pay, but that it called into industrial activities men, young and old, efficient and inefficient, active or lazy, it mattered not, and paid them Mr. McCann. "With these loans the operators went out and bought more eggs, and on their warehouse receipts of the second batch secured other loans with which they went out and made other purchases." And this pyramiding was not confined to eggs alone, but was prevalent in most food products that are held in storage. Overproduction in butter and cheese is also said to be enormous. The profiteer or operator failed to reckon with the production of Australia, New Zealand and South America. As a result, meat, dairy products and breadstuffs can be purchased in Europe 35 per cent lower than our artificially made prices. Today America has 1,500,000 dozen eggs in storage in excess of the quantity held last year. Butter purchased at inflated prices crams the warehouses, while England and Europe generally are purchasing in other markets. Beef cattle are increasing on an everwidening scale and today, according to the report of the United States Department of Agriculture, we have in sight between five and six billion pounds more dressed beef than we did in 1914. With bumper crops of sugar all over the world and the largest grain production in history, how, ask the economic writers, can the speculator long defy the age old law of supply and demand? With England and Europe refusing to accept the great glut of food products and with a constantly increasing overproduction, students of economic conditions are vredicting fall in prices that will be as appalling as the terrific rise during the war period. When the Federal Government said to the nation that it drafted its soldiers and sent them to death based on $30 a month pay, but that it called into industrial activities men, young and old, efficient and inefficient, active or lazy, it mattered not, and paid them $8 and $10 and $15 a day and permitted them to bring on thousands of strikes that their pay might be still further increased; when it permitted men to take a week off at their own convenience in order to get pay and a half or double pay on Sunday, it encouraged a spirit of dishonesty in thinking and acting, a spirit of graft and grab, a spirit which made men believe that they could keep on robbing the nation, and, being successful in that, could develop a campaign for robbing each other. More than four million American boys and young men, the very flower of the nation's life in health and strength, were called away from business and compelled to become soldiers at $30 a month; compelled to work while in camp anywhere from twelve to fourteen hours a day, and often much longer; compelled on the battlefield to offer their lives as a sacrifice, to be torn by shot and shell. But at the same time the same government pampered the union laboring man, paid him ten times as much as was paid to the soldiers, permitted union labor leaders to bulldoze the government and threaten to cut short the supply of ships and munitions and thus leave to certain death the soldiers on the battlefield. All army men been directed to open their vice for the supplies, blank needed for fire has been taken Secretary of War relieved that he the difficulty experienced in local sources meet the pro mand. The movement is the new was received prising - Californi- ANAHEIM GAZETTE In this situation we find the fundamental cause for the spirit of unrest, of highway robbery, which found expression in the demand of the railroad unions that the entire control of the railroads should be turned over to them. Indeed, the country does not yet seem to have fully realized the amazing effrontery of the proposition of the railroad brotherhoods. In effect they propose that the government shall spend $20,000,000,000 to buy the railroads, and then, with this debt saddled on the entire country, practically present the railroads, their management and their profits to the railroad men themselves. Probably a more outrageous piece of proposed highway robbery was never submitted to any government on earth. Its very magnitude and its brazen effrontery are so great that the people at large have hardly realized its full meaning nor the boundless selfishness which prompted it. We cannot believe that the great mass of railroad men are at all responsible for such a damning proposition, damning to the men who propose to be highway robbers, and damming to this country if it should ever yield to them. The large proportion of the railroad men are, or at least were, honest, patriotic Americans. Certainly they cannot for a moment have understood what their leaders were doing or they would resent to the utmost extreme being placed in a position of thus seeking to rob the nation and in that way rob every individual in the nation. If the railroad men have a right to demand that the government shall buy and give the roads to them then the profit by it, hoyever. All told, more than 4,000 men are engaged at present in fighting fires, the drought in the Northwest this season being one of the worst in many years. Many of these men are assigned to fighting groups of 100 or more each, often located at points far from centers of civilization, and the use of the Army posts promises to relieve a situation that was rapidly becoming serious. WELL WATER FOR IRRIGATION Report on San Jacinto and Temecula Basins, California. In Southern California hundreds of thousands of acres of land, including many of the most valuable orange orchards, are irrigated with water obtained from wells. Some of these wells have artesian flows, but most of them are pumped, chiefly with large centrifugal pumps driven by gasoline engines or electric motors. Many of the wells furnish several hundred gallons of water a minute during long periods of pumping. A single well may deliver enough water to irrigate a few hundred acres of orchard that produces annually many thousands of dollars worth of fruit. In the eastern part of the United States water is seldom pumped out of the earth in quantities so great. This heavy pumping throughout the irrigation season must necessarily deplete the supplies of ground water, and the depletion is indicated by a gradual lowering of the ground-water level as the summer advances, so that the water in the wells may stand many The large proportion of the railroad men are, or at least were, honest, patriotic Americans. Certainly they cannot for a moment have understood what their leaders were doing or they would resent to the utmost extreme being placed in a position of thus seeking to rob the nation and in that way rob every individual in the nation. If the railroad men have a right to demand that the government shall buy and give the roads to them, then the workers in every shop in the country have a right to demand that the government shall buy the shop and give it to them, every farm laborer and every tenant farmer would have the right to demand that the government should buy the property they work and give it to them, every clerk in every store would have the right to demand that the government buy the store and give it to him, and so on ad infinitum. As the government is responsible for having created this spirit of profiteering and highway robbery, the responsibility rests upon this administration, with a tremendous force, to stem the tide and stand four-square to every wind that blows against this Bolshevistic, anarchistic spirit which, if permitted to continue, would utterly destroy this country and leave not a vestige of American civilization. DOBBIN WEARIN' O' THE GREEN Dobbin, in his lifetime, may have worn black or white or tan, or even red, but when he passes over the meat block and presents himself to the housewife in the form of steak or roast or anything like that, he will be decked in green. The meat-inspection service of the United States Department of Agriculture, in order to comply with the provision of the law that horse meat shall be conspicuously marked, has decided to stamp the meat with a harmless green ink. The Bureau of Animal Industry stamp is distinctively six-sided and bears the words "Horse Meat." Horse meat is likely to be on the market in appreciable quantities shortly. A report has been received at the Department of Agriculture from Billings, Mont., that the initial shipment of a lot of about 2,000 range horses has been received for slaughter. A produces annually many thousands of dollars worth of fruit. In the eastern part of the United States water is seldom pumped out of the earth in quantities so great. This heavy pumping throughout the irrigation season must necessarily deplete the supplies of ground water, and the depletion is indicated by a gradual lowering of the ground-water level as the summer advances, so that the water in the wells may stand many feet lower in the fall than in the spring. In the winter, when most of the pumping is stopped and the rains replenish the subterranean supplies, the water level creeps slowly upward again toward the high mark of the previous spring. The irrigators of the region, however, understand that the valuable water supplies tapped by their wells are not inexhaustible, and it is with no idle curiosity that they ask how the water level of the last spring compares with the water level of ten years ago, what have been the effects of very wet or very dry winters on the water level, how many thousands of acre-feet of water are pumped in a given valley in a year, how many thousands of acre-feet seep into the earth to recharge the subterranean reservoirs each winter, and what can be done to prevent waste of ground water and to spread the flood waters so as to increase the seepage into the earth. To answer these and other practical questions relating to ground water comprehensive surveys must be made and detailed observations and measurements must be continued for a long period. For many years the problems relating to ground water in California have been under investigation by the United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, in co-operation with the Department of Engineering of the State of California, and a number of water-supply papers have been published, which give the data obtained, discuss the significance of the data, and give practical advice with respect to the full and efficient utilization of the ground water. The latest report on the ground waters of Southern California, just issued, was prepared by Gerald A. Waring and covers the San Jacinto and Temecula basins. It contains a general description of the geology and with a harmless green ink. The Bureau of Animal Industry stamp is distinctively six-sided and bears the words "Horse Meat." Horse meat is likely to be on the market in appreciable quantities shortly. A report has been received at the Department of Agriculture from Billings, Mont., that the initial shipment of a lot of about 2,000 range horses has been received for slaughter. A report from New Mexico says that 50,000 range horses in that State should be slaughtered. An agricultural journal, recently commenting on the slaughter of horses for meat, said that the elimination of undesirable horses not only will save feed for more worthy cattle and sheep, but will add hides to the leather supply and increase meat stocks. Department of Agriculture experts say that hides from range horses that have lived in the open should be of excellent quality. ARMY POSTS AID FIRE FIGHTERS All army posts in the West have been directed by the Secretary of War to open their stores to the Forest Service for the purchase in bulk of food supplies, blankets, work clothes, etc., needed for fire fighters. This action has been taken at the request of the Secretary of Agriculture and it is believed that it will largely overcome the difficulty which Forest officers have experienced in obtaining supplies from local sources of sufficient quantity to meet the present extraordinary demand. The new co-operative arrangement is the result of a request which was received from the district comprising California. All districts will EXPENSIVE EDUCATION The taxpayers of America have appropriated $14,000,000 to maintain a Federal Vocational Education Bureau and will probably be called upon to put up $14,000,000 more for the same purpose. The bureau has 1,653 employees, and, according to the New Family Washing SAVE your wife the drudgery of the washtub by sending us your family washing. It costs you very little when compared to the pleasure it will bring to your wife—put the burden on us Send us your shirts and collars Immaculate linen is the mark of a gentleman. You get the best work here. 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On the other hand, Superintendent of County Schools Mitchell has granted two such permits. Mitchell states that in cases where children are fourteen years of age and have completed their elementary school course, permits may be granted. Commissioner Gregg, is faced with the problem of deciding whether or not, in cases where families are in need of financial aid, such aid is to come from the county or from the school districts in which the children are attending school. He is in favor of the latter course. In the San Juan Capistrano district school does not open until about November 1, this giving children the opportunity there to help their parents in harvesting walnuts and still not remain out of school. If government railroading keeps on keeping on, and the employees were to divide the losses, they soon wouldn't have any wages left. HOTEL VALENCIA Modern in Every Respect Finest Hotel in Orange County Accommodations Unsurpassed By any hotel in the Southland and prices reasonable. 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