anaheim-gazette 1919-12-25

JAPS SUSPECTED OF MEXICAN AIMS ACTIVITIES OF LITTLE BROWN BROTHERS REGARDED AS A MENACE. Secret Treaty Negotiations with Carranza May Mean Trouble—Panama Canal Threatened by the Orientals. Government investigators are now interested in a sequence of events centering around the American west coast and the apparent concentric lines of Mexican and Japanese activities. For several weeks American intelligence operatives have known or have received reports of negotiations between Mexico and Japan to consummate a treaty between the two countries. Whether this treaty carries with it a military obligation on the part of Japan in case of a clash between this country and Mexico; whether it grants Japan points of military vantage in Mexico, and the degree of completion of the reported treaty are matters that the government operatives have not been able to exactly ascertain. Certain points are made, however, southern frontier, Japan would become a real menace. "I do not want to be put in the position of being an alarmist," the naval officer declared, "but it is only fair to the American people that facts as they exist and possibilities as they may develop be shown to them." BUILDING PERMITS At the last meeting of the trustees building permits were granted, as follows: B. Dauser, Chestnut street, between Palm street and the school grounds, altering building $300. Harry D. Riley, center of block on Los Angeles street, between Center and Chestnut, altering front, $350. N. B. Tedford, rear Adele, between Philadelphia and Olive, garage, $100. L. N. Wisser, West Center, between Los Angeles and Lemon, altering front, $250. N. B. Tedford, So. Los Angeles, between Center and Broadway, brick building, $3500. F. W.Waite, No. Olive, between Sycamore and North, garage, $250. Mrs. Alice Muller, No. Claudina, between Chartress and Cypress, dwelling, $3700. L. Strain, near Stuckle avenue, between Los Angeles and Lemon, garage, $150. B. A. Meinecke, West Center, between Cherry and Thalia, dwelling, $2500. Maria Weinberg, North Palm, between Center and Chartress, dwelling, $6200. E. M. Schlotter, North Olive between Superintendent of King who has general scholarships calls fact that most of the students will Miller of San Francisco instructor. THE ROD AND "As I came past J this morning," said he saw him applying a fifteen-year-old boy w of a better cause. should be arrested such an offense." There are many against corporal punishment the village patriarch arguments have been forth for something last years, and the question being settled; at the press, as it was when crossed the Rubicon. "I believe that even his own judge about his family Jimuelson an excellent citizen, a successful parent. Essary to wear out at his heir. I have no doubt vocation is sufficient. wrong he is pretty sure before long and change meantime, outsiders h butt in, and the idea of lice is perfectly ridiculed." My father was a man and believed that birch was better than Certain points are made, however, by these operatives to show the danger of a Japanese-Mexican coalition and to indicate that such a coalition is now in a nebular state. Several weeks ago American military intelligence operators learned that a Japanese commission officially recognized by the Carranza government had been invited to make a topographical survey of a projected right of way of a railroad across the southern part of the Isthmus of Tehauntepec to be built, maintained and operated by Japanese capital under supervision of Japanese. Still later it was learned that plans had been completed for a Japanese cable connecting the Mexican port of Salina Cruz with a number of South American ports. Additional information showed that the Limon ranch, a 2,000,000-acre property in Tamaulipas, had been sold to a Japanese company for colonization purposes. In the oil region between the Tames River and the city of Tupan there has recently been sold to Japanese interests another large tract. The most recently official information is that a $2,000,000 concession has even granted to Japanese interests in Lower California that Japanese are landed in large numbers on this grant, that Japanese ships are making the port-of-Salina Cruz a port of call, and that large numbers of Japanese are landing there at ten days' intervals and that finally there is now a colony of 40,000 Japanese in Guatemala along the Mantgua River, within striking distance of the Panama Canal. In connection with all the Japanese concessions and concentrations in Mexico and Central America, it is noticeable that the immigrants are always unattached men of military age. WELL-KNOWN CHARACTER SUMMONED BY DEATH Captain Jimmie Innerarity Found Dead in His Bed Wednesday. Captain James Innerarity, one of the best known characters in the county, is dead. He was found dead in his bed at Anaheim Landing by Tim Carroll Wednesday morning, having succumbed to heart disease during the night. He had been complaining of ill health the previous day, and when Carroll went to his cottage Wednesday morning to prepare breakfast for him he found him dead. The body was brought to this city by Backs & Terry during the day, funeral being held at the chapel at 10 o'clock Saturday morning. Some years ago he purchased a crypt in the Anaheim mausoleum, and the body was laid to rest there. Captain Jimmie was owner of the power launch, "J. L," carrying passengers to Catalina and on excursion trips. A few days before his death he paid a visit to this office, and made the statement that he intended moving his headquarters to Balboa. He was 86 years of age, he said, but was still hale and hearty. He left a will in which he bequeathed his power launch to Carroll, his cottage to Tom Stevens and a lot in Anaheim to Bob Mills. His poses a successful parent. It is necessary to wear out all his heir, I have no doubt vocation is sufficient. Wrong he is pretty sure before long and change meantime, outsiders have butt in, and the idea oflice is perfectly ridiculous. "My father was a man and believed that birch was better than tree. He kept a small kitchen door and person whenever I violated governing our happy life; he probably carried his tremes, whipping me by dissipation with him. Being to admit that his tilt good, and I can't imagine have become of me by." "My mother believed vision, and used to plead me, but I can't remember eloquence ever present breaking into a melon in forbidden waters. He ably would have been many cases. There are responsive to such app headstrong as a governor when I wanted to do so more than gentle countryside off. "I had a profound sapling behind the door seemed to be quivering since it got at me and girded it with loving gaze to mystify me how he thing I did. There thing as concealing a demeanor from him. "I'd swipe a few apper's orchard, for instance be willing to make an apple body had seen me. Ying, when I got home, would meet me at the So you have been robbed funny's orchard, hey? aware that robbing orience of the peace and state, and is contrary to of the revised statutes fore, receive the prescribed by Solomon and givers." Japanese are landing there at ten days' intervals and that finally there is now a colony of 40,000 Japanese in Guatemala along the Mantgua River, within striking distance of the Panama Canal. In connection with all the Japanese concessions and concentrations in Mexico and Central America, it is noticeable that the immigrants are always unattached men of military age, unaccompanied by women or their families. During the recent mobilization of the Pacific fleet a high American naval official discussed unofficially the American-Japanese question. He pointed out that the U. S. Navy, as constituted at present, is more than 40 per cent stronger than that of Japan. He quoted naval strategy and tactics to prove that a nation making warfare overseas from its home loses approximately 50 per cent of its fighting effectiveness and that further the recently constructed American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaiian Islands, still further reduced Japanese naval effectiveness in event of hostilities so that the actual fighting ratio would be approximately four to one in favor of the United States. If, however, as this naval official pointed out, Japan were to acquire a strategic base of operations on he American continent within striking distance of the Panama Canal, Japan would, in event of war with this country be able to destroy the canal, thus dissecting the American navy by cutting off the Pacific fleet from the support of the squadrons on the Atlantic seaboard. With American land forces occupied in addition by operations along its ers to Catalina and on excursion trips. A few days before his death he paid a visit to this office, and made the statement that he intended moving his headquarters to Balboa. He was 86 years of age, he said, but was still hale and hearty. He left a will in which he bequeathed his power launch to Carroll, his cottage to Tom Stevens and a lot in Anaheim to Bob Mills. His possessions were chiefly represented by the launch, cabin, lot, and $140 in currency, the latter being found in a wallet hidden away in an old Bible, and believed to have been accumulated and held against the time when it might be needed to defray his funeral expenses. MAKING RAILROAD MEN Have you a boy who wants to be a railroad president? If so, here's his chance. Sixty railroad scholarships a year will be awarded by the Southern Pacific according to a plan announced by the railroad recently. Appointments will be made by division superintendents and the heads of the various departments of the railroad, who are charged with the responsibility of not alone securing appointmentees but watching their progress carefully, and placing them upon graduation. Business men in the barious towns along the lines of the Southern Pacific will be asked to recommend young men between the ages of 18 and 23 who will be sent to the agency school in San Francisco and there prepared for positions in the freight and passenger departments and the general offices. They will be paid a nominal sum while being instructed. "I don't know to think found out everything I did some quiet sleuthing whiskers and a dark lily did discover when I fully realized it decided to reform and be young man. I was so sure that my father couldn't cause for chastising me melancholy fell upon him away until he died. I had reproachful glances upon me, as asking what ered my course honorary I got the habit of being never been able from it."—Walt Mason Superintendent of Telegraph E. L. King who has general charge of the scholarships, calls attention to the fact that most of the railroad presidents of today began in positions such as the students will qualify for. J. J. Miller of San Francisco will be the instructor. THE ROD AND THE CHILD "As I came past Jimuelson's house this morning," said the assessor, "I saw him applying a buggy whip to his fifteen-year-old boy with a zeal worthy of a better cause. I think a man should be arrested and punished for such an offense." "There are many arguments for and against corporal punishment," observed the village patriarch, "and those arguments have been handed back and forth for something like two thousand years, and the question is as far from being settled; at the hour of going to press, as it was when Caesar double-crossed the Rubicon. "I believe that every man must be his own judge about management of his family. Jimuelson strikes me as an excellent citizen, and he should be a successful parent. If he finds it necessary to wear out a buggy whip on his heir, I have no doubt that the provocation is sufficient. If his policy is wrong he is pretty sure to realize it before long and change his tactics; meantime, outsiders have no reason to butt in, and the idea of calling the police is perfectly ridiculous. "My father was an old-fashioned man and believed that an ounce of Control are literally tearing their hair because of the need of additional revenue to meet the soaring expenses, and the legislative committee on Taxation and Revenue is working overtime trying to discover some new source of revenue, State Treasurer Richardson comes forward with the suggestion to reduce expenses and forget revenue. "There is need of retrenchment and economy in practically every department o f the State government," says Richardson. "Instead of worrying and fretting about getting more money to spend, the committee should try to devise a program for spending less money." Richardson says that the last legislature appropriated $4,000,000 in excess of the estimated revenue for the next two years, and in order to meet the appropriations a considerable sum will have to be taken from the surplus or emergency fund. Due to the mounting expenses and the inability of the State to dispose of highway, building and other bonds, Richardson is forced almost weekly to withdraw State deposits in banks. In the past few months $5,000,000 has been withdrawn from the banks where it was drawing as high as 3½ per cent interest for the State. CAMPAIGN PLATFORM FOR REPUBLICAN PARTY Committee of Sixty Men and Women Will Construct the Document. Announcement by National Chairman Hays, following the meeting of a successful parent. If he finds it necessary to wear out a buggy whip on his heir, I have no doubt that the provocation is sufficient. If his policy is wrong he is pretty sure to realize it before long and change his tactics; meantime, outsiders have no reason to butt in, and the idea of calling the police is perfectly ridiculous. "My father was an old-fashioned man and believed that an ounce of birch was better than a ton of elocution. He kept a small sapling behind the kitchen door and applied it to my person whenever I violated the by-laws governing our happy home. I think he probably carried his theory to extremes, whipping me became a sort of dissipation with him. But I am willing to admit that his treatment did me good, and I can't imagine what would have become of me but for it. "My mother believed in moral suasion, and used to plead and argue with me, but I can't remember that her tender eloquence ever prevented me from breaking into a melon patch or fishing in forbidden waters. Her method probably would have been successful in many cases. There are boys who are responsive to such appeals, but I was headstrong as a government mule and when I wanted to do something it took more than gentle counsel to head me off. "I had a profound respect for that sapling behind the door. It always seemed to be quivering with impatience to get at me and my father regarded it with loving glances. It used to mystify me how he heard of everything I did. There was no such thing as concealing a crime or misdemeanor from him. "I'd swipe a few apples from a farmer's orchard, for instance, and would be willing to make an affidavit that nobody had seen me. Yet in the evening, when I got home, my stern parent would meet me at the door, and say 'So you have been robbing Farmer Do funny's orchard, hey? You are fully aware that robbing orchards does violence of the peace and dignity of the state, and is contrary to the provisions of the revised statutes. Come, therefore, and receive the punishment prescribed by Solomon and other law-givers.'" CAMPAIGN PLATFORM FOR REPUBLICAN PARTY Committee of Sixty Men and Women Will Construct the Document. Announcement by National Chairman Hays, following the meeting of the republican national committee in Washington, of the plans for a committee on policies and platform has made a profound impression throughout the country. The committee is to consist of twelve members of the national committee and a large number of other republicans, men and women, representing all groups of interest, such as business, labor, agriculture and so on. The men and women who will be on the committee will include the foremost brains of the republican party in all walks of American life and affairs. The total membership of the committee is likely to reach to 50 or 60 and at least will be 40. As the magnitude of the proposition has come to be more and more realized, however, the tendency has been to enlarge the size of the committee. John Callan O'Laughlin is executive secretary of the committee. The purpose of the formation of this committee is to obtain platform suggestions for the consideration of the resolutions committee at the convention and to obtain them from all representative elements of the republican party which means all representative elements of American good citizenship. The committee is intended to be a working body whose members will give serious and continued thought and attention to the question of the platform for the next six months. It is not a perfunctory organization. The various suggestions as to the platform will be taken up and co-ordinated by a smaller body in the nature of a subcommittee made up by the committee itself. Underlying the whole proposition is the great fact, which the national committee, four of whom are women. This council will make recommendations on party welfare for the consideration of the national committee. Here, again, the purpose is to bring the best thought of all elements of the party into employment for the welfare of the party and, through the party, of the public. POLITICALIZED INDUSTRY Curious indeed it is after the experience the people have had in political operation of railways, that even delegates to a convention called for the purpose of forming a new party can be induced to propose seriously the fastening upon its country permanently of the policy of politicalized industry. For the first nine months of 1918 the people of the United States had to pay $600,000,000 in freight charges and passenger fares than in the corresponding months of 1917—with a substantial decrease in traffic. During the first nine months of this fear the people had to pay $800,000,000 more for less service than in the same period of 1917 under private ownership. The increased cost of transportation is more than a billion dollars so little acquisition at Millions of dollars opposed to understand that wit hthe t WHY In the far more than pounds of s 000,000, went ten months of Comment shows. Exports, dom and by 339 per cent of the countr last year. Fred Howson at the seems to M bolsheviki Emma Gold other collec when I got home, my stern parent would meet me at the door, and say 'So you have been robbing Farmer Do funny's orchard, hey? You are fully aware that robbing orchards does violence of the peace and dignity of the state, and is contrary to the provisions of the revised statutes. Come, therefore, and receive the punishment prescribed by Solomon and other law-givers.' "He always explained that it caused him the most poignant sorrow to pour the birch into me, but I couldn't believe in his sincerity, for his eyes sparkled with unseemly joy at such times, and if he had used the same enthusiasm when sawing the wood, he'd have whacked up two or three cords an hour. "I don't know to this day how he found out everything I did, unless he did some quiet sleuthing with false whiskers and a dark lantern, but he always did discover everything, and when I fully realized that fact I decided to reform and became a model young man. I was so extremely good that my father couldn't dig up an excuse for chastising me, and a settled melancholy fell upon him, and he pined away until he died. I'll never forget the reproachful glances he used to cast upon me, as asking whether I considered my course honorable or generous. I got the habit of being good, and have never been able to break away from it."—Walt Mason. REDUCE EXPENSES DEMANDS RICHARDSON State Treasurer Thinks Too Much Money Being Spent. While members of the State Board give serious and continued thought and attention to the question of the platform for the next six months. It is not a perfunctory organization. The various suggestions as to the platform will be taken up and co-ordinated by a smaller body in the nature of a subcommittee made up by the committee itself. Underlying the whole proposition is the great fact, which the national committee recognizes, that there rests on the republican party the tremendous responsibility of lifting America out of the slough of things into which this administration has sunk it and putting into force in a legislative and administrative way the most comprehensive program of wise constructive measures ever attempted in this republic. It is recognized that the republican party and no other has this vast task to perform. If it is to be performed, then the platform must be one befitting the occasion and the need. It is to be expected that the resolutions committee, which will be working 36 to 48 hours continuously, day and night, at the convention, can do fuller justice to the need for a wise and broad platform if it has a body of material to work upon. The platform will deal with the great fundamentals of questions before the country and, once it is adopted, it is purposed, as Chairman Hays said, to be in the nature of a sacred contractual document whose pledges and promises are to be kept. The idea of having the best brains of the party work for six months in the evolution of a platform is in harmony with the idea of the action of the national committee in selecting a council of 12 of the national committee and 12 not of the national com- 1918 the people of the United States had to pay $600,000,000 more in freight charges and passenger fares than in the corresponding months of 1917—with a substantial decrease in traffic. During the first nine months of this fear the people had to pay $800,000,000 more for less service than in the same period of 1917 under private ownership. The increased cost of transportation is more than a billion dollars a year, exclusive of losses in operation charged up to the U.S. Treasury. In the first nine months of 1919, it cost $361,000,000 more to operate the railways than during the corresponding period under private management and the railways handled 29,000,000,000 fewer ton miles of traffic. Operating revenues under political management have increased. $1,180,000,000 a year since private ownership was abandoned, while operating costs have jumped at the rate of a billion and a half a year. Wage increases now being considered will add a quarter of a billion dollars more to the payrolls of the railways, which are already a heavy charge on the Treasury. This means, of course, increased deficits or increased rates. To meet fixed charges and operating costs it would be necessary of increase freight and passenger rates one-third, and that would probably destroy traffic sufficiently to make the increased tariffs unprofitable, besides doing vast injury to the business of the country. The people have been paying a heavy toll for their experiment in state socialism. Why should anyone suppose that they are ready for more of what they are already sick of? There never has been a time in the history of this country since the matter was first proposed that there was A Merry Christmas To All At the close of a year marked by actual progress, in full recognition of art played in that progress by our ans and friends, the directors, officers employes join in extending to you Season's Most Cordial Greetings Southern County Bank Season's Most Cordial Greetings The Southern County Bank Anaheim--El Modena--Buena Park California WHY SUGAR IS SCARCE In the face of a growing scarcity, more than a billion and a quarter pounds of sugar, valued at nearly $97,000,000, were exported during the first ten months of this year, a Department of Commerce report issued Monday shows. Exports, largely to the United Kingdom and France, exceed in quantity by 339 per cent the amount sent out of the country during the same period last year. Fred Howe, immigration commission at the port of New York, who seems to have kept open house for bolsheviks and was addressed by Emma Goldman as "Dear Fred" is another college professor in politics. Ought we not proclaim an extra day of prayer for colleges this year? Indictments have been returned by a federal grand jury against managers of a senatorial campaign for "using the mails to defraud all the people of Michigan." Doesn't this put the authors of the Democratic national committee's 1916 literature, declaring that the re-election of Wilson would keep us out of war, in some danger? A British subject who was seized by Mexican bandits was rescued promptly by the Carranza government on demand of the British consul. You'll have to give old whiskers credit for knowing whose dog he can prudently kick around. One of the great problems concerning which the people of the country refuse to become agitated is that of whether or not a coolness has sprung up between President Wilson and Colonel House, of Texas. Fred Howe, immigration commission at the port of New York, who seems to have kept open house for bolsheviki and was addressed by Emma Goldman as "Dear Fred" is another college professor in politics. One of the great problems concerning which the people of the country refuse to become agitated is that of whether or not a coolness has sprung up between President Wilson and Colonel House, of Texas. Ford THE UNIVERSAL CAR WHETHER COTTER PIN OR COMPLETE OVERHAUL— You can get it in our Authorized Ford Sales and Service Station. In our stockroom, we carry every part that goes into a Ford car or Ford truck. They're Genuine Ford parts, too—each made of the same tough, durable Vanadium steel as its counterpart in the Ford car. 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