anaheim-gazette 1919-09-25

DANGER THREATENING THE NEWLANDS BILL Senate Committee Votes to Repeal the Important Amendment. Word has just been received by the Tri-Counties Reforestation Committee from the Clerk of the Committee on Commerce of the Senate of the United States that H. R. 3184 known as the Power Bill has been amended by adding a section repealing the Newlands River Regulation Amendment. In a communication it is stated that this act repealing the Newlands River Regulation Amendment is now pending before the Committee and will probably be reported favorably to the Senate. In August word was received to the effect that there was a possibility of an attempt being made to repeal the Newlands Amendment. Strong representation was made to Senators Phelan and Johnson urging them to use their best endeavors to prevent such action and their attention was called to the fact that the present season in California demonstrated the necessity of the protection of the irrigation interests of California, as provided in the Newlands Amendment, for the preservation of watershed cover, to the end that the present water supply should at least be maintained if not increased. In answer to this Senator Phelan replied that he would give the matter his most careful attention. No reply was received from Senator Johnson. No further communication has been received on the matter until the and contains about 1,200 tons to the acre. Still another is on Stepovak Bay, on the south shore of Alaska Peninsula. A report on these deposits, by A. G. Maddren, has just been published by the United States Geological Survey. Mr. Maddren examined also the deposits of placer gold in the beach sands on Kodlak Islands, where mining has been carried on for 30 years, and where the value of the annual output of gold has ranged from $3,000 to $10,000. He sketches the geology of the island and describes the beach deposits that contain the gold and their mode of origin, as well as the methods used in mining. Here the sea has done for the gold miner the work that is done inland by streams—it has assorted and concentrated particles of gold, which were derived from the bluffs that border the beach for miles along the island. The storm surf along this coast is powerful enough to move boulders that weigh tons, and the play of the waves concentrates the fine gold in patches that yield good returns to the miner. Mr. Maddren's reports can be obtained free of charge on application to the iDirector of the Geological Survey at Washington, D.C. THAT DEFICIT The Federal treasury faces a deficit of $3,591,273,345.26 for the present fiscal year, Representative Good, Iowa, chairman of the house appropriations committee declared in a speech to the house. of the protection of the irrigation interests of California, as provided in the Newlands Amendment, for the preservation of watershed cover, to the end that the present water supply should at least be maintained if not increased. In answer to this Senator Phelan replied that he would give the matter his most careful attention. No reply was received from Senator Johnson. No further communication has been received on the matter until the letter above referred to from the Secretary of the Committee on Commerce was received in answer to a request for information concerning the present status of the Newlands River Regulation Amendment. The Water Power Bill referred to above gives no protection whatever to the irrigation interests excepting what comfort they may get out of Section 27 which provides: "That nothing herein contained shall be construed as affecting or intending to affect or interfere with the laws of the respective states relating to the control, appropriation, use or distribution of water used in irrigation, or for municipal or other uses of any vested right acquired therein." There is provision in this Water Power Bill safeguarding the interests of navigation and setting forth specifically how water may be used for power purposes but none of the money received for rental from licenses granted for the use of water for power purposes is to be used for reforestation or afforestation or for the prevention of forest fires or on water-shed cover, excepting that 50% of the charges arising from licenses for the occupancy and use of national forests is reserved and appropriated as a special fund in the treasury to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture in the survey, construction and maintenance of roads and trails within such national forests. The interests of the irrigationists seem to be almost entirely ignored. The Newlands River Regulation Amendment itself represents 10 or 12 years of conscientious and untiring effort on the part of the late Senator Newlands, backed by the irrigation interests of the West and the matter of securing the appointment of the commission, after the amendment was adopted, has been urged upon our representatives in Congress in season and THAT DEFICIT The Federal treasury faces a deficit of $3,591,273,345.26 for the present fiscal year, Representative Good, Iowa, chairman of the house appropriations committee declared in a speech to the house. Good sounded a warning that "actual condition confronting the treasury is so alarming that we may well pause and calmly consider obligations already existing and that must be met before entering on enlarged programs which call for additional expenditures." The demands on the treasury during the present fiscal year are staggering, Good said. While the average peace time expenditure of the government is slightly more than $1,000,000,000 Good declared that the total requirements of the government outside of the present urgent deficiency bill and appropriations that will be asked for by June 30, 1920 will be $10,831,201,586.26. The revenues for the fiscal year, he said will be $7,239,928,240. Good strongly recommended the appointment by President Wilson of a national finance office to have complete oversight of all government expenditures, so that economy may be practiced to the limit by the government, adding that the high cost of living probably can not be materially reduced while the government continues its orgy of spending. Good enumerated the revenues of the country as follows: Internal revenue, income, excess profits and estate taxes, $4,940,000,000; customs $260,000,000; public lands $5,000,000; war salvage $600,000,000; Victory Loan installments $1,032,000,000; postal service $404,928,240. Of the expenditures, Good said $7,345,617,283.58 is for direct appropriations; while the balance will be expanded this year under appropriations previously made. Good called upon the president to use his authority to produce the strictest governmental economy. "He has the authority under the law and should exercise it to the end that estimates for appropriations may be greatly reduced and that the treasury Yesterday was on the Constitution day Gladstone said his institution that it will ever struck off at hand and brain on Beside the author document some today who seem to and who would call junk are indeed Think of George Madison, Alexander min Franklin, Rut Gerry, Edmund Neys and the other great convocation compare them with clans of today who to write a charter that will better liberty, safety and American people Despite the fact institution the Am become free frees tions there are pogues seeking that when the follicle formulating an enment which ad pressions of autho mobocracy save ple from the chion and set it national greatness piece of work wich chitects of the mi upon and not ha Yet not one ol litalic patent m thing constructive that he is compre form of governm down to us fro forefathers. American repu creation. It wa best features o experiments in MINERAL EXPLORATIONS IN ALASKA Sulphur Deposits on the Aleutian Islands and Alaska Peninsula. Many of the Aleutian Islands, that cresentic line of volcanic isles and islets that stretches westward from Alaska Peninsula toward Asia, bear deposits of sulphur of the type called solfataras. Sulphur claims have been located at three places on these islands and on the peninsula, one of them in the crater of Makushin Volcano, on Unalaska Island. This peak, which is about 6,000 feet high, is capped by perennial snow and ice and bears glaciers on its slopes down to points about 2,500 feet above the sea. The sulphur deposit is the only part of the crater that is permanently free from snow and ice, being kept so by subterranean heat and by the discharge of hot sulphurous vapor, which issues from vents in the rocks with a loud roar. In this crater 10,000 to 15,000 tons of sulphur may be available for mining. Another deposit of sulphur is on Akun Island. It covers 15 to 20 acres Of the expenditures, Good said $7,345,617,283.58 is for direct appropriations; while the balance will be expended this year under appropriations previously made. Good called upon the president to use his authority to produce the strictest governmental economy. "He has the authority under the law and should exercise it to the end that estimates for appropriations may be greatly reduced and that the treasury which is the first line of defense against public extravagance, may reestablish its lines on a policy of efficiency and economy," the chairman declared, in explaining the big reductions made in the estimates embodied in the deficiency bill which he called up. The committee cut estimates down to one-third the amounts asked. Regarding the high cost of living, Good said it was due to the following causes: "An increase in the circulating medium, the amount being doubled. And increased prices are made necessary to meet increased cost of production, due in turn to increased wages, decrease in labor efficiency and increase in taxes. The increase in the wage scale in many industries is as much as 100 per cent and yet labor is only from 50 to 60 per cent as efficient as before, according to testimony before the committee. A tax of almost $5,000,000,000 a year has been passed on in the long run to the consumer. Large increases in exports, amounting, in the case of foodstuffs, to six times the amount in 1914. The tremendous losses in man power and property, with its effect on world production, the great world shortage affecting prices in this country." American republic creation. It was best features of experiments in the dangers elimination features added. To be pure demolished the Compure democracy Greece, and knew limited and high tion of Hellas, u mass could be as subversive or personal autocritics. They created ment of checks erative democracy the ultimate just people, but passions and p when played up and the doctrine that any rightment of universality triumph despair in the way of they believed their essential to the of the individual state. So they create three distinct es; the legislis differently cons upon the other executive, to tate) the laws RUNNING AMUCK Uncle Sam—"I don't know where we're going but we're surely on the way" THE CONSTITUTION Yesterday was the 132d birthday of object all laws to the test of the constitution itself. Three classes of powers were creat- THE CONSTITUTION Yesterday was the 132d birthday of the Constitution of the United States: Gladstone said of the American Constitution that it was the greatest work ever struck off at a given time by the hand and brain of man. Beside the authors of that immortal document some of the statesmen of today who seem to consider it archaic, and who would cast it aside as so much junk, are, indeed, intellectual pygmies. Think of George Washington, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, Rufus King, Elbridge Gerry, Edmund Randolph, the Pinckneys and the other members of that great convocation of 1787, and then compare them with some of the politicians of today who profess their ability to write a charter of republicanism that will better serve to promote liberty, safety and prosperity of the American people! Despite the fact that under this constitution the American republic has become the freest and mightiest of nations there are pedagogues and demagogues seeking to establish the belief that when the founders of this republic, formulating a scheme of free government which avoided at once the oppressions of autocracy and the perils of mobocracy, saved the American people from the chaos of the Confederation and set it on the highway to national greatness, they did an amateur piece of work which these modern architects of the millennium could improve upon and not half try. Yet not one of these vendors of political patent medicine ever did anything constructive to justify the belief that he is competent to devise a better form of government than has come down to us from our Revolutionary forefathers. American republicanism was a new creation. It was a composite of the best features of all historical recorded experiments in free government, with object all laws to the test of the constitution itself. Three classes of powers were created; those conferred upon the general government; those reserved to the states; those retained by the people, involving personal rights which even a majority might not override—the right of free speech, and of a free press, of peaceful assemblage, of the right of petition, and to bear arms and like. Those rights would of course be worthless in the absence of a judiciary to stand between the people and the constituted powers of the executive and legislative branches of government; hence the importance of the courts in our scheme of government; hence, too, the anxiety of incipient autocrats to destroy the authority of the courts. There are, of course, men bearing the name of Americans who are fundamentally not American. They have the European ideas and ideals of government: of class rule, either of monarch or mob, with no protection to the individual's life or property from the flat absolutism. Lacking respect for and comprehension of the fundamentals of our government, deluded by European political and economic theories, or ambitious for European admiration, they are ready to surrender the dearly bought sovereignty of America, give up the safeguards of the constitution, and merge this country with a worldwide combination of governments into one super-government in which America is to play a minor part. While foes assail it, and critics denounce it, let true Americans, strong in the faith of their fathers and in their belief in the destiny of the republic, rally to the defense of the Constitution and render blow for blow. The Constitution is the bulwark which stands between the American people and the chaos which today engulfs the old world our father left behind that they might found here a government "conceived in liberty and dedi- Yet not one of these vendors of political patent medicine ever did anything constructive to justify the belief that he is competent to devise a better form of government than has come down to us from our Revolutionary forefathers. American republicanism was a new creation. It was a composite of the best features of all historical recorded experiments in free government, with the dangers eliminated and some new features added. It was not intended to be pure democracy. The men who framed the Constitution had studied pure democracy as it flourished in Greece, and knew that even with the limited and highly intelligent population of Hellas, unrestrained rule by the mass could be just as tyrannical, just as subversive of public welfare, as personal autocracy. They created, therefore, a government of checks and balances—a deliberative democracy. They had faith in the ultimate judgment and justice of the people, but they justly feared the passions and prejudices of the crowd when played upon by the demagogue and the doctrinaire. They believed that any righteous cause in a government of universal suffrage, would finally triumph despite the obstacles placed in the way of impulsive action, and they believed that these barriers were essential to the protection of the rights of the individual and the safety of the state. So they created this government of three distinct and co-ordinate branches; the legislative, with two houses, differently constituted, each as a check upon the other, to pass the laws; the executive, to administer (not to dictate) the laws; the judicial, to sub- While does assail it, and critics denounce it, let true Americans, strong in the faith of their fathers and in their belief in the destiny of the republic, rally to the defense of the Constitution and render blow for blow. The Constitution is the bulwark which stands between the American people and the chaos which today engulfs the old world our father left behind that they might found here a government "conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." Now, as in Lincoln's day, we are in the midst of a great struggle to determine whether a nation so conceived and so dedicated shall endure to the fulfillment of its mission among men. CONGRESS SCANS SUMS SPENT BY PRESIDENT Gets Details of Hundred and Fifty Millions Given for War Purposes and Doled Out. Forced to do so by the Republican Congress, in response to its resolution President Wilson has submitted detailed accounts of the expenditure of the $150,000,000 given him at his own request for war purposes. These are deemed unsatisfactory by Chairman Good, of the House Appropriations Committee and other members of Congress, because they are in many instances vague and general, and because they reveal the cost to the people of unchecked authority and the tendency toward participation by the United States in the government of all nations. For instance, members are shocked to find that the Presiden has out of his fund given $5,000,000 to relieve the WHY Everybody Eats at the Exchange Grill Excellent Service and Good Eating A. KLUEWER, Prop. SECTION TWO WATER COMPANY, A Corporation, Location of Principal Place of Business, Anaheim, California. Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the directors of said Section Two Water Company, a corporation, held on the 3rd day if March, 1919, an assessment of two and one- NOTICE OF DELINQUENT SALE Name in full: Anaheim Products Company, formerly Union Brewing Company of Anaheim. Location of principal place of business: Anaheim, California. NOTICE. There is delinquent upon the following described stock on account of assessment levied on the 12th day of August, 1919, the several amounts set opposite the names of the respective shareholders, as fol- SECTION TWO WATER COMPANY, A Corporation, Location of Principal Place of Business, Anaheim, California. Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the directors of said Section Two Water Company, a corporation, held on the 3rd day if March, 1919, an assessment of two and one-half dollars ($2.50) per share was levied upon the capital stock of the corporation, payable immediately, in United States gold coin, to the secretary, at the office of the company, Anaheim, California, R. F. D. 3, Box 108. Any stock upon which this assessment shall remain unpaid on the 15th day of October, 1919, will be delinquent and advertised for sale, at public auction, and unless payment is made before, will be sold on Saturday, the 1st day of November, 1919, to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs of advertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board of Directors. BELLA J. WALKER, Secretary. Office at Anaheim, California, R. F. D. 3, Box 108. from November 2 to November 11. The opening day will be known as Red Cross Sunday and fittingly observed in all churches throughout the United States. The closing day of the campaign will be Armistice Day and the anniversary of the famous event. The campaign slogan is Americanism. Upon this basis an effort will be made to secure universal membership. NOTICE OF DELINQUENT SALE Name in full: Anaheim Products Company, formerly Union Brewing Company of Anaheim. Location of principal place of business: Anaheim, California. NOTICE. There is delinquent upon the following described stock on account of assessment levied on the 12th day of August, 1919, the several amounts set opposite the names of the respective shareholders, as follows: Name No. of No. of Amount Certifi-Shares cate W. F. Laird 112 50 $500.00 W. F. Laird 113 50 $500.00 W. F. Laird 118 100 $1000.00 W. F. Laird 119 50 $500.00 W. F. Laird 141 10 $100.00 W. F. Laird 143 10 $100.00 W. F. Laird 158 80 $800.00 J. B. McFarland 101 100 $1000.00 Alois Dauser 124 28 $280.00 Francis Dauser 125 28 $280.00 Clara R. Garden 80 2 $20.00 And in accordance with law and an order of the Board of Directors made on the 12th day of August, 1919, so many shares of each parcel of such stock as may be necessary, will be sold at public auction, at the office of the Company at No. 1030 West Broadway, Anaheim, Orange county, California, on Friday the 3rd day of October, 1919, at the hour of eleven o'clock a.m. of said day, to pay said delinquent assessment thereon, together with costs of advertising and expenses of the sale. WM. J. HEGER Office: No. 1030 West Broadway, Anaheim, Orange County, California. The American Red Cross will solicit such funds in be drive as it will need to fulfill its war obligations at home and abroad. LUCKY STRIKE "IT'S TOASTED" CIGARETTES GET some today! You're going to call Lucky Strikes just right. 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