anaheim-gazette 1919-10-23

Anaheim Gazette ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY ESTABLISHED 1870 Henry Kuchel, Editor and Proprietor SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR ... $1.50 SIX MONTHS ... $1.00 THREE MONTHS ... $ .50 Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE AND CHARITY FOR ALL It has been necessary in the discussion of the dangers of the league of nations covenant as brought home from Europe to call attention to the dangers of American entanglement in European affairs; to cite the enormous territorial acquisitions of other great powers as the result of the treaty of peace; to refer to the tendency of all these nations to keep their own interests first in mind, and to warn the American people that the history and traditions of these European and Asiatic powers does not justify the belief that they are ready to participate in a new world order from which extreme nationalism is, according to the writers of the prospectuses, to be excluded. This does not express hostility to those alien powers on the part of the special champions of American interests. It merely means that the America-first elements in this country do not propose to delude themselves or their countrymen as to the real purposes of these foreign powers. We the fathers, mothers and sweethearts for the brave deeds accomplished by the men who carried the Stars and Stripes to victory on the battle-scarred fields of France. The triumphant parade on that date when "Jack" Pershing and his men marched down Fifth Avenue, New York City, did not mark the finale of American pride. The deeds of these soldiers of America will live on and on through the pages of history to the end of time. What a contrast to this picture was recorded simultaneously by President Wilson at Bismark, North Dakota. Here was a man pleading against all odds for a pact which would send the khaki-clad pride of the nation to the four corners of the globe in defense of foreign aggression against foreign jealousy. While the one man rode at the head of long lines of seasoned troops, the other, oblivious to the problems at home, pleaded on and on for the acceptance of a doctrine which would sooner or later send these same long lines of khaki back across the seas to endure hardships, fight battles and give their lives at the behest of a league in which America will have small voice. WANTON WASTE Speaking on the government's methods of reducing the high cost of living, Judge J. J. Curtis of the 14th Alabama district, says: No such orgy of waste has ever been witnessed, as has been carried on under the cost plus plan. The administration got in high gear without brakes. It has had a joy ride at the expense of taxpayers. Against all this of a single firm abandoned it. It is a matter co-operative spirit appearance in Peking. On of the new packing house centia Mutual is a big comfort women workers and many other A number of growers are also the erection of ment house for ployees. It will affair, by any will undoubtedly the investment, workers with co-ters and will be of the indisputable have not discharges when they out. The conste cheap but comfortable cottages to renters is also under Along a different important will of an employment provide help for to find work for the houses are not only be an assers but will enable a permanent and help. The person department will provide welfare superintendent wants and not Only recently a local houses, since This does not express hostility to those alien powers on the part of the special champions of American interests. It merely means that the America-first elements in this country do not propose to delude themselves or their countrymen as to the real purposes of these foreign powers. We have no right in this country to criticize the disposition of Great Britain, France, Japan and Italy to add to their own wealth, power and economic opportunity. In fact there are many people in this country who only wish that our representatives at Paris had shown the same loyalty to and interest in their own land as the representatives of European and Asiatic powers did in the welfare of the peoples for whom they spoke at the peace conference. The true American nationalist, anxious above all else for the welfare of his country and his countrymen, desires the closest and most friendly relations with foreign nations through which the peace and prosperity of his own country may be ensured. No true American can but feel the highest admiration and the most lively good will toward nations, such as France, Great Britain and Italy, with whom we have recently been fighting shoulder to shoulder for the safety of civilization. Bad feeling or war between this country and these nations is unthinkable. But this does not prevent the level-headed American from recognizing the fact that the tendencies and traditions and impulses and prejudices and rivalries of these countries, rooted in centuries of experience, must be taken into account in any common sense adjustment of the world's affairs. Shutting one's eyes to the conditions which have kept Europe almost constantly at war for the last century and a third while this nation has been nearly all the time free from war and the menace of war, does not change these conditions. Big talk, musical rhetoric, imaginative oratory, will not of themselves create a new heaven and a new earth, despite the superstitious faith some people have in their ability to make the world ever by their努力. WANTON WASTE Speaking on the government's methods of reducing the high cost of living, Judge J. J. Curtis of the 14th Alabama district, says: No such orgy of waste has ever been witnessed, as has been carried on under the cost plus plan. The administration got in high gear without brakes. It has had a joy ride at the expense of taxpayers. Against all this waste, it does no good to complain. The stereotyped answer always comes, "It will be investigated." The Democratic tomorrow never comes. Men inform me they complained at the wanton burning of a half million feet of lumber and other material at the nitrate plant near Sheffield, and nothing came of it. That they complained of the wanton destruction of a million feet at Camp McClellan, nothing came of it. It now develops that while the President is trying to detract the attention of the country from his league, of nations, and is beating the air for some means to reduce the cost of living, caused by Democratic waste, exravagance and official inattention, we have another example. At Gorgas, Walker county, where the government was building a power plant to give to the Alabama Power Co., the administration had a commissary filled with general merchandise, much sugar, bulk meat, lard, canvass bacon, dry goods, shoes, notions, blankets, and canned vegetables of various kinds. The work was finished. The commission was closed. The people needed the groceries and other goods, and tried to buy them with their money. They had no orders to sell them. One day in July the guard took this stock of merchandise, in first class condition, and amounting to several thousands of dollars, piled it in the street and burned it before the eyes of the people begging to buy it. He stated he had orders to burn the stock on hand. Several of the guards are yet retained on duty and on payroll to guard one pile of scrap iron and one pile of worn out slush scrapers. There is no use to complain at this waste and foolish expense. However, some of us are wondering if Democratic... ting one's eyes to the conditions which have kept Europe almost constantly at war for the last century and a third while this nation has been nearly all the time free from war and the menace of war, does not change these conditions. Big talk, musical rhetoric, imaginative oratory, will not of themselves create a new heaven and a new earth, despite the superstitious faith some people have in their ability to make the world over by the free use of the contents of the dictionary. The policy of the America first people of the United States is the policy of the founders of this republic, as expressed in the words of Washington, good faith toward all nations, entangling alliances with none. This is not an expression of hostility, but of the most intelligent friendship toward the rest of the world. Nothing breeds misunderstanding and war like international relationships based upon imperfect understanding. The Senate of the United States, in making clear the meaning of this country in entering a league of nations, is clearing away multiplied causes of war, and is thus performing the best possible service to this republic and to civilization, despite the stupid, unpatriotic outcry against the course of this coordinate treaty making branch of our government. SHALL OUR KHAKI-CLAD BOYS GO BACK AGAIN September 10, 1919, will long be remembered by General John R. Pershing as the date on which nearly two million of his countrymen paid visible tribute to a service well done. On that date he witnessed the appreciation of sands of dollars, piled it in the street and burned it before the eyes of the people begging to buy it. He stated he had orders to burn the stock on hand. Several of the guards are yet retained on duty and on payroll to guard one pile of scrap iron and one pile of worn out slush scrapers. There is no use to complain at this waste and foolish expense. However, some of us are wondering if Democratic simplicity has a new international prismatic vision of a new way to bring down the cost of living by making bon fires out of necessaries and guarding scrap iron. FALLING INTO LINE (Placentia Courier.) Barker Bros., well-known merchants of Los Angeles, have announced that on January 1 they will put into effect in their store the legislative system of management making of the establishment a miniature democracy. There will be a president, cabinet, senate and house of representatives, the heads of departments making up the senate and the lower branch elected by the employees. The house has been on a profit-sharing basis for several months, the dividends amounting to about ten percent of the wages paid. One of the first steps the owners expect the new management to take is the inauguration of a pension system. This is in line with what the Courier has been urging for years, that labor must be made a partner in industry. The doctrine is spreading rapidly and wherever the profit-sharing system has been put into effect it has proved a satisfactory. We do not recall hearing sunk to that limit leons of old Spain of Francis Drake that cleft virgin sea East Indian packed adventuring old ship obsolete, every tar and romance, none has seen stronger than the scarred once manned came in her old rovers' craft in "Treasure Island" port Harbor. Shift to a Spanish gallant poses, and then ashore, last Tuesday another motion pledious for her, and all the stirring younger days. The Fremont, Philadelphia in 1850, who builders of America at their best, is even men of those trimm which American trade of the world sail circles around flew another flag. At first the Fremont slave trade, tracing West Indian and print cloth to negroes on their unfortunate blacks United States and the cotton plantation. Then it was a new other run to Guinea of human beings. Her beams and many a tale of sank to that limb leons of old Spain of Francis Drake that cleft virgin sea East Indian packed adventuring old ship obsolete, every tar and romance, none has seen stronger than the scarred once manned came in her old rovers' craft in "Treasure Island" port Harbor. Shift to a Spanish gallant poses, and then ashore, last Tuesday another motion pledious for her, and all the stirring younger days. The Fremont, Philadelphia in 1850, who builders of America at their best, is even men of those trimm which American trade of the world sail circles around flew another flag. At first the Fremont slave trade, tracing West Indian and print cloth to negroes on their unfortunate blacks United States and the cotton plantation. Then it was a new other run to Guinea of human beings. Her beams and s ANAHEIM GAZETTE weethearts finished by cars and re-carred mant par Pershing Fifth Av mark the deeds will live of his nature was Presidentota-Here all odds the khaki the four of foreign jealous at the troops, problems at the ac would come long the seas tles and of a will have its meth-of living, Alabama ever been on unadminis- without at the this of a single firm that has tried it and abandoned it. It is a matter of regret that the co-operative spirit has not made its appearance in Placentia, but it is coming. On of the best features of the new packing house for which the Placentia Mutual is having plans made is a big comfortable rest room for the women workers, with separate lockers and many other modern conveniences. A number of the prominent orange growers are also seriously considering the erection of an up to date apartment house for the use of their employees. It will not be a charitable affair, by any means, as the rentals will undoubtedly pay a fair return on the investment, but it will provide the workers with comfortable living quarters and will be a practical admission of the indisputable fact that employers have not discharged all their obligations when the pay check is handed out. The construction of a group of cheap but comfortable and sanitary cottages to rent to the Mexican pickers is also under consideration. Along a different line but equally important will be the establishment of an employment bureau, partly to provide help for the growers but also to find work for the employees when the houses are shut down. This will not only be an advantage to the workers but will enable the growers to keep a permanent and responsible class of help. The person in charge of the department will probably act also as a welfare superintendent, looking after the wants and needs of employees. Only recently a packer in one of the local houses, sick and without means how many negroes died under her decks, how many cruelties blackened her history, what crimes were committed aboard her during those slave-trade days. Then she was a blockade runner for a time in the Civil War, it is related. But after a while the black flag was hauled to her mizzen peak and she was sailed by pirates. There is no reliable record of her career as a robber craft; no one to tell how many helpless mechanmen she overhauled, looted and sank. But along her decks, bulwarks and rails are many old scars that mutely tell of battle, of boarding parties with cut-lasses in their teeth, of desperate hand-to-hand struggles, of round shot and canister, plunder, terror and death. She carried on this business of piracy till one day there came a vessel that did not run away at sight of the "Jolly Roger." The stranger flew the Stars and Stripes and her guns were manned by Yankee blue-jackets. They seized the Fremont and turned her crew over to justice. The barkentine became a cargo-carrier and went about the sober affairs of peaceful trade till a few years ago, when government inspectors condemned her and she was sold for use in making motion pictures. She was lately taken to Newport Harbor and became a mere "prop" for the film producers till she made new history last Tuesday, when she went aground with forty-five persons aboard. Their lives were in peril all night, while waves broke over her and boat-men refused to attempt a rescue. Next day the people were taken off with a YOU AUTO WE number all best business ing men of all lines customers because our dealings, cons with our service. to find work for the employees when the houses are shut down. This will not only be an advantage to the workers but will enable the growers to keep a permanent and responsible class of help. The person in charge of the department will probably act also as a welfare superintendent, looking after the wants and needs of employees. Only recently a packer in one of the local houses, sick and without means had to be sent to a relative in another town, and her fellow workers looked after her and provided her with funds. They did it willingly and would do it again, but the employers should share in work of that kind, and would be glad to if they knew when such opportunities occur. Many of them probably are unaware of the existence of the case referred to. It is not unlikely that a percentage of returns will be set aside for work of this kind. The matter of profit sharing is still in the misty future. It is a difficult problem to work out a system that will apply to a mutual concern such as a citrus association, but a number of people who believe that a new and better era is dawning are working on it and it will come in due time. OLD WRECK A FAMED SHIP Slaver and Pirate was the Fremont, Film Buccaneers' Craft that Hit Reef. When the old barkentine Fremont, former slaver and pirate craft, went aground at Newport Beach last Tuesday, a closing chapter was written in the history of one of the most picturesque and storied vessels left on the Seven Seas. In these days of the workaday tramp steamer and the palatial ocean greyhound, most of the romance of the bounding main has sunk to that limbo where lie the galleons of old Spain and the daring barks of Francis Drake, the fleets of Cook that cleft virgin seas and the bones of East Indian packets. But a few of the adventuring old ships are left, decrepit, obsolete, every timber recking with tar and romance, and among them none has seen stranger sights, perhaps than the scarred old Fremont. Once manned by real pirates, she condemned her and she was sold for use in making motion pictures. She was lately taken to Newport Harbor and became a more "prop" for the film producers till she made new history last Tuesday, when she went aground with forty-five persons aboard. Their lives were in peril all night, while waves broke over her and boatmen refused to attempt a rescue. Next day the people were taken off with a breeches buoy. At the time, she was commanded by Capt. Peter Blinberg. BELGIAN SOLDIER GIVEN HEARTY WELCOME HOME Irvine Ranchmen Stage Barbecue in Honor of Gus Callens. Three hundred friends of Gus Callens gathered on the Irvine ranch Monday to greet him on his return from Belgium, where he fought through the war, and to welcome the bride he brought with him. It was a barbecue event, arranged by the fighter's brothers, Joe and Adolph, well-known farmers on the Irvine ranch. Two big steers were killed for the occasion and John Cook of Anaheim, known far and wid for his expertness in barbecuing meat, was in charge of the eat end of the program of the day. Friends of the brothers were present from many parts of Orange and Los Angeles counties. There was plenty to eat, all the fine side dishes adjunct to a first class barbecue being set before the merrymakers. After partaking of the spread, W. C. Jerome, county auditor, and "Bill" Werdin, well-known paving contractor, did the honors in public remarks expressing the pleasure of the friends in again being able to greet Gus, and congratulating him upon his marriage. Impromptu sports featured the afternoon. Gus Callens left, five years and four months ago, for his native heath in Belgium. He went over to claim the maiden who had won his heart, the winning being accomplished before he left his home to come to California, and to visit his aged parents. He was just ready to enter upon the responsi- sunk to that limbo where lie the gallons of old Spain and the daring barks of Francis Drake, the fleets of Cook that cleft virgin seas and the bones of East Indian packets. But a few of the adventuring old ships are left, decrepit, obsolete, every timber reeking with tar and romance, and among them none has seen stranger sights, perhaps than the scarred old Fremont. Once manned by real pirates, she came in her old age to be the sea-rovers' craft in a film production of "Treasure Islands" staged off Newport Harbor. She was made over into a Spanish galleon, for camera purposes, and then her old frame went ashore, last Tuesday, as the climax of another motion picture episode; more serious for her, as fate willed it, than all the stirring adventures of her younger days. The Fremont, launched at Philadelphia in 1850, when the master shipbuilders of America's clipper era, were at their best, is even yet a good specimen of those trim, swift vessels with which American sailors captured the trade of the world, because they could sail circles around everything that flew another flag. At first the Fremont was used in the slave trade, taking aboard cargoes of West Indian rum, trade muskets and print cloth that were exchanged for negroes on the Guinea coast. These unfortunate blacks were brought to the United States and sold for work on the cotton plantations of the South. Then it was a new load of rum, another run to Guinea and another cargo of human beings. Beyond a doubt, her beams and stanchions could tell many a tale of sufferings they saw in her hold before 1861. Nobody knows Gus Callens left, five years and four months ago, for his native heath in Belgium. He went over to claim the maiden who had won his heart, the winning being accomplished before he left his home to come to California, and to visit his aged parents. He was just ready to enter upon the responsibilities of a married man and return to the States, when the war broke out. He is a loyal Belgian, and when his country became threatened he took up arms in defense of his homeland. He fought all through the war and was in the big battles when the German hordes first overran Belgium. He escaped injury of any character. His mother was killed by the Huns and, it is said her death was accomplished in a most brutal manner. It's a queer thing that an administration which says it has ninety per cent of the people with it and acts as if it believed it is unable to get the voters to act that way in any of the elections that have been held since this unanimity is supposed to have set in. The Seventh Alabama is the last district to record the tremors of an approaching political earthquake. It is to be hoped that the Industrial Relations department of the Interchurch World Movement, which has recently been in session at New York discussing labor problems, will be able to bring it about that the average minister of the Gospel shall receive at least half the average pay of a union hod carrier, which recent official reports indicate they are not now doing. YOU AND YOUR AUTOMOBILE WE number amongst our customers many of the best business men, professional men and leadmen of all lines in this vicinity. They are our customers because they have long found us fair in our dealings, conscientious in our work and prompt with our service. When you leave your auto with us to be repaired you may rest assured that the work will be done by a competent mechanic. That no particulars will be neglected; no detail overlooked and that when the car is returned to you that all repairs have been made in a workmanlike manner and that costs have been held right down to a minimum. We are the local agents for DODGE BROS., Motor Cars—a car with the reputation of being a leader in its price class. Dodge car owners will do well to entrust their work to us as our shop has a complete Dodge equipment. When you leave your auto with us to be repaired you may rest assured that the work will be done by a competent mechanic. That no particulars will be neglected; no detail overlooked and that when the car is returned to you that all repairs have been made in a workmanlike manner and that costs have been held right down to a minimum. We are the local agents for DODGE BROS., Motor Cars—a car with the reputation of being a leader in its price class. Dodge car owners will do well to entrust their work to us as our shop has a complete Dodge equipment. Chas. H. Mann "Men May Come and Men May Go, But Mann Stays on Forever." 138 South Los Angeles St. Phone 43 SHINES IS THE EXPEDITE THE FOR FLOOD CONTROL through with entered guests, kings, senators and others, officials of our city departments may well be the problems of comment and development pressing considera- l is one of them. In the next month expect heavy rains and with consequential damage to exposed areas, such as we have experienced occasionally in past winters. Administrative endeavors to exert flood control so far have been largely expressed in plans on paper and arguments in conference. The concentration of efforts in the field is most imperative at this time. It would be a lamentable commentary upon our lack of preparedness were floods to descend which would create havoc by washouts of cultivated tracts, by deposits of rubbish and silt altering the course of rivers and shallowing the navigable waters of the harbor. Preliminary work may be wasted unless promptly followed up, and temporary makeshifts may become an utter loss unless they can be converted into permanent structures. In good weather dams, dykes and retaining walls can be swiftly constructed, while bad weather will necessarily interrupt work. The ounce of prevention is surely worth the pound of cure, and the censure of the public will certainly fall upon those who delay the work of flood control by indifference or neglect to expedite every reasonable measure of relief.—Editorial in L. A. Herald. Two Banks Under One Roof! The Anaheim National Bank handles both commercial and savings accounts. The business man, the grove owner and theacher have the complete facilities of a well The Anaheim National Bank handles both commercial and savings accounts. The business man, the grove owner and the banker have the complete facilities of a well equipped financial institution, strong and fully able to give good service. This is the commercial side of the Bank. When there is the savings department in which you can keep your surplus or reserve funds at per cent interest; and, as these funds are savings, there are no state, county or city taxes applied against them. The books and business of the two departments are kept separate just the same as if there were two separate banks, and yet the officers and board of directors look after the welfare of both. 4 per cent Interest Paid on Savings Anaheim National Bank Commercial and Savings WM. A. DOLAN, President; J. W. DUCKWORTH, Vice-President; A. B. McCORD, Cashier; ROSS PHEGLEY, Assistant Cashier.