anaheim-gazette 1919-11-20

R. R. LEGISLATION IS PRACTICALLY ASSURED Prospect For Enactment By Next January First Are Improving Rapidly. The prospects for the enactment of comprehensive railroad legislation by January 1st, the date when the President has said he will turn the roads back to their owners, continue to improve. Practically no question is now entertained that the House will pass the railroad bill before the extra session closes and the Senate may be able to do so. The House Interstate Commerce Committee has received the bill from the hands of the sub-committee which has been working upon it for some weeks and Chairman Esch is expected soon to report it. Speaker Gillett, Leader Mondell and other influential members of the House are taking the position that the extra session must not end until the bill has gone through the House and members now take it for granted that it will pass in spite of the fact that some of them have advocated that it lie over until December. In the Senate Senator Cummins, chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee, adheres to his position that the Senate should pass the bill in the extra session, taking it up just as quickly as the treaty is out of the way and making it the unfinished business. It is recognized that it will be difficult in November to keep a quorum in Washington in the closing days of a trying and arduous war. GEORGE CREEL'S FUNDS WERE LEFT IN MUDDLE Uncashed Checks Discovered on Floor of His Office in Public Information Committee. Maintained during the war as the dispenser of official thoughts and explanations of the Administration at a time when criticisms of it were not permitted to be printed, the Committee on Public Information, headed by George Creel and afterwards disbanded, is now again notorious because of chaos in its accounts. E. K. Ellsworth, an investigator who was appointed in August as Liquidation Officer, has reported to the Senate Appropriations Committee that uncashed checks for many thousands of dollars were filed away or were thrown on the floor when Creel's bureau went out of business. Grosvenor B. Clarkson, director of the Council of National Defense, has prepared a statement dealing with Ellsworth's discoveries, in which Clarkson declares that $300,000 of the Creel Committee funds have been recovered and that $100,000 of an unexpended balance has been turned into the treasury. Ellsworth says: "When the affairs of the committee were transferred to the council, there was still employed there E. H. Hobbs, formerly disbursing clerk and chief of the division of business management. Upon my demand Mr. Hobbs turned over to me some $76,000 in checks, money orders, etc., which had been received as reimbursements by the Committee on Public Information. All of these checks were dated in February." In the Senate Senator Cummins, chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee, adheres to his position that the Senate should pass the bill in the extra session, taking it up just as quickly as the treaty is out of the way and making it the unfinished business. It is recognized that it will be difficult in November to keep a quorum in Washington in the closing days of a trying and arduous session. Senator Cummins as well as other members of the Interstate Commerce Committee are hopeful however that the bill can be beput through and go to conference and the conference report be finally disposed of in the month of December. BURGLARY AT KATELLA Moving from a country home near Katella substation on the road to Santa Ana Tuesday, Mrs. F. F. Morning returned to the residence Wednesday morning to find that it had been entered by a burglar and a high-priced mandolin and a tan leather traveling bag stolen. These are only articles that she is certain are missing. The family moved the major portion of its household goods Tuesday and returned with the balance Wednesday morning. The burglar used a brand new railroad spike to jimmy one of the windows. That the burglar made effort to find other valuables was evidenced by the way in which things were scattered about the house. A spectacle case from Detmer's Optical Co., 354 Broadway, Los Angeles, was found on the floor by Mrs. Smith, the property of the burglar. CRAP SHOOTERS ON PAY ROLL Astounded by the mass of evidence tending to show that the government had been defrauded of thousands, if not several millions of dollars, in the construction of Camp Sherman, Representative Lewis C. McKenzie, Illinois chairman of the sub-congressional committee which is investigating the camp construction, declared at Columbus that he will introduce a bill into the treasury. Ellsworth says: "When the affairs of the committee were transferred to the council, there was still employed there E. H. Hobbs, formerly disbursing clerk and chief of the division of business management. Upon my demand Mr. Hobbs turned over to me some $76,000 in checks, money orders, etc., which had been received as reimbursements by the Committee on Public Information. All of these checks were dated in February, March, April, May and June of this year and had been permitted to accumulate in a safe without any effort whatever for collection. He also turned over to me his check for $48,881.54, the same being a balance in the Riggs Bank in this city from the sale of pictures; checks for $3,610.82, being balance of an account in the Union Trust Company of receipts from the Division of Films, and $33,517.15, balance on account of the American Security and Trust Company of funds received for the Official Bulletin. Later in going through the files I found several thousand dollars worth of checks which had been turned into the committee in connection with final accounting of various persons to whom advances of funds had been made and which had been thrown in various file cases without any effort to realize on the checks. I also found several thousand dollars worth of checks and negotiable papers in the desk trays on the desk and on the floor of his room. The amount recovered by me from all sources to date totals $300,000. In addition, I find money had been left in some banks in Russia which were taken over by the Bolsheviks. I found $10,000 in the hands of an auctioneer in New York, the result of a sale of office furniture because no one would answer his letters." SAVING THE TREES Frequent petitions are presented to the Highway Commission for permission to cut down the trees on the state highway, where property owners alleged the said trees shade their land, or cut off their view, etc. The commission's policy, in such matters, is to consider the larger interests of the farmers in th Astounded by the mass of evidence tending to show that the government had been defrauded of thousands, it not several millions of dollars, in the construction of Camp Sherman, Representative Lewis C. McKenzie, Illinois chairman of the sub-congressional committee which is investigating the camp construction, declared at Columbus that he will introduce a bill in Congress making it treason to defraud the government in time of war. That 50 Chicago professional crap shooters obtained positions as plumbers at Camp Sherman and were paid regular plumbers' wages of $8.25 per day, though they spent all their time "rolling the bones," was testified to recently by Ben M. Clark, Chillicothe, timekeeper for contractors building the Camp Sherman cantonment. These crap shooters made as much as $100 a day at their profession, Clark said. He said to his knowledge they never worked at plumbing a day. HOW OUR MILK IS USED Estimates made by the United States Department of Agriculture show how the 87,905,000,000 pounds of milk produced in the United States annually are utilized. Forty-four and one-half per cent is used as fresh milk for human food purposes, while 36 per cent of the gross supply is converted into butter, and 4.5 per cent is made into cheese; another 4.5 per cent is transformed into canned milk, 4 per cent is used in making ice-cream, 4 per cent is used in feeding calves and hogs on the farms of origin, and 2.5 per cent is lost in shrinkage and other waste of the dairying industry. SAVING THE TREES Frequent petitions are presented to the Highway Commission for permission to cut down the trees on the state highway, where property owners alleged the said trees shade their land, or cut off their view, etc. The commission's policy, in such matters, is to consider the larger interests of the public and to preserve, not only the trees, but all other landmarks that make the highways attractive and traveling a pleasure. Mr. Henry Pankey of Irvine, Orange county, has recently been advised by the commission that his petition to chop down certain eucalyptus trees in front of his property on the state highway is denied, for the reason that such trees are considered an enhancement of the beauty of the state highway and their removal is contrary to the policy of the commission to preserve shade and ornamental trees along the state highway. THANKS THE PRESS Dear Sir: Permit me to thank you at this time for your valuable assistance in the Red Cross drive for membership. You devoted considerable space on the front page of your publication for this noble cause which, to a large proportion, was responsible for the success of our campaign. Without publicity it would have been impossible to reach the people and enthuse them in this noble work. Again thanking you for your kind co-operation, I remain, Very respectfully yours, J. FREDERICK AHLBORN, Chairman of Publicity. ANAHEIM GAZETTE DISCUSSES COVER CROP AT FARM MEETING County Farm Advisor Wahlberg Lectures at El Modena. About forty persons interested along agricultural lines were present at the meeting of the Farm Center in El Modena Monday night to profit by another interesting talk by H. E. Wahlberg, county farm advisor, dealing with the importance of "cover crops." This lecture was even more instructive than the one given by him a month ago at which time he introduced this subject, in that it was illustrated by pictures, stereopticon views, charts and diagrams of the plant in different stages of development. These were furnished by the United States government to promote interest in this important branch of farming. At the meeting, it was demonstrated that sixteen tons of cover crop are equal to twenty tons of barn yard fertilizer. This brings out the fact that cover crop is both cheaper and better than the old fertilizing methods. Melilotus, the plant that most of the farmers in this section are planting for cover crop, was conceded by Mr. Wahlberg to be almost equal to alfalfa in fertilizing properties and also in the power of penetrating the hard subsoil and making it easier for tree roots to go deeper than it would be possible for them to go without the aid of the cover crop. The alfalfa plant, it was demonstrated, grows 53 per cent above ground and 47 per cent below the surface so it is particularly valuable sent at the meeting. Thirty states in the United States have also organized state organizations. It is the purpose of those leading this movement that these organizations shall become a great help to the farmers throughout the country. The merchants have an organization. Labor is represented by the unions, and the farmers have come to the conclusion that it is about time that they get together and discuss different methods to improve their farm lands. A meeting of representatives of state organizations will be held in Chicago next week and California is to send three delegates to this meeting. This fact is brought out to assure the people that this movement has made great strides in the past few months and is rapidly becoming a power for the good of the farmer. The next local meeting will be held the second Monday in December. "Cultivation" will be the subject discussed. Pictures to demonstrate this lecture will also be furnished by the government. It is to be hoped that many more local farmers will take an interest in these lectures, as those who have attended the last meetings are very pleased with the information gained. RECENT STATE ELECTIONS With the passing of the recent state election, which resulted so successfully for the Republicans, political thought and effort are now turned enthusiastically toward the goal of 1920, which seems unmistakably to promise the of Democrats who appreciated the grave national issue at stake. "The Republican party, as usual, was on the right side of the question in Massachusetts," said Representative Mondell, Republican leader of the House; "and of course there were a number of patriotic Democrats who saw the wisdom of assisting us." 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It is suggested by Senator Curtis, of Kansas, as a means of keeping off corporation representation in the United States of the citizens of any other nation in which our citizens are discriminated against. He urges that no citizen or subject of any country which requires by law any stipulation in any agreement relating to mines or minerals, including petroeum, which prevents American citizens, because of their nationality, from becoming shareholders, or which limits the number of shares which may be held by American citizens in such undertakings shall be permitted to hold any right, title or interest in any mine or mineral deposit, including petroeum, in the United States or any of its dependencies so long as the restrictions before mentioned shall remain in force in any law to which the government of the foreign country or any of its officials or representatives is a party." It is the feeling of the Republicans that only the greatest fundamental causes could bring about such a victory as their party has gained in Kentucky. There had not been any marked dissatisfaction with the Democratic state administration. But every preliminary report received in Washington from Kentucky was to the effect that a state-wide wave of dissatisfaction with the Democratic national administration had set in, and that Republican success, upon purely party issues, was assured. The correctness of these reports was shown in the election returns which changed the prior Democratic victory of 400 votes into a Republican landslide with a majority of 30,000. Senator Edge, of New Jersey, points out that Kentucky was not the only Democratic state in which the trend toward Republicanism was made clear. 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