anaheim-gazette 1920-01-08

DECREASE IN PASTURE MENACE TO DAIRIES More Alfalfa Should be Grown in Southern California. Decrease of pasture areas in the Southwest is becoming a serious handicap to the production of low-priced milk and meats, and an effort is being made by the State University aided by the Secretary of Agriculture to induce the farmers of Southern California, Lower California and Arizona to plant more alfalfa and forage grasses. Annual crops which yield the grower high return are decreasing the alfalfa area in the southern half of California. Chief of these is cotton, which, in the valleys of the Colorado and Salt Rivers in California and Arizona is paying the growers such a price that thousands of acres of old alfalfa land, rented for as high as $60 per acre per year, is being plowed up every year for the production of the high class fiber for which the Southwest is noted. This alfalfa area is not being replaced. There are small, isolated plantings being made, but the area of pasture is constantly growing less in proportion to the area given over to other crops. In the Salt River Valley, 85 cent cotton has decreased the alfalfa area to such a small patch that two large condensed milk plants in the valley have closed down because of the lack of milk, and the price of this commodity in Phoenix has risen to 18 cents a quart. There will be 100,000 acres in cotton in this valley next year, roads made on pasture lands and hay lands by cotton and canteloupes. There were 55,000 dairy cows in the Imperial area five years ago, but only 25,000 now. SEEK TO DEBAR ALL ORIENTAL IMMIGRANTS California Exclusion League Active Against Asiatics. The activities of the California Oriental Exclusion League are not confined to the Japanese, but extends to the Koreans, Chinese, Hindus and all other Asiatic races, declares Senator J. M. Inman, president of the league. "They are, one and all, non-assimilable," said Senator Inman. "The negro problem furnishes all the race problem America wants, and the addition of an Oriental race problem must not be permitted." An indication of the rapid penetration of California by the Japanese is found at Loomis, Placer county, where twenty-seven of the primary pupils in one school are Japanese and twenty-two are whites. In many districts in the county, said Inman, even a larger majority of pupils are Japanese. At Rock Springs, Placer county, there are twenty Japanese pupils and no whites. A couple of American children live in the district but their parents send them to an adjoining district because of the large number of Japanese who attend the school in the district where the children live. Inman declares that the league is planning on launching on educational grounds. "We have as they at the end of the year and of estimates carried in the Book of further estimates which seem almost stupendous sum of the amount of corn and estimated excalled upon to refinancial operations which begins the 1st "Subtracting the receipts, as estimative of the Treasury of estimated liabilities, we have a bliabilities over est $3.050,508,574.62." Official estimate notable in that they of receipts on acc our loans of nearly foreign government paid would increase lighten our burden nearly $500,000,000. "I am sorry the partments of the par follow the good retary of the Treas estimates within the gests, but our duty not only cut the cost of a billion but w In the Salt River Valley, 85 cent cotton has decreased the alfalfa area to such a small patch that two large condensed milk plants in the valley have closed down because of the lack of milk, and the price of this commodity in Phoenix has risen to 18 cents a quart. There will be 100,000 acres in cotton in this valley next year, probably, and most of it will be planted on old alfalfa land, while few farmers are planting the forage. In the Imperial Valley fully 9000 acres of alfalfa were plowed up last spring for the planting of cotton, and not half this total was planted to alfalfa. Cante-loupes will be planted this year on many hundred acres of land that a year ago were in alfalfa. In the Palo Verde Valley, too, cotton is crowding the pastures to such an extent that hundreds of dairy cows are being sold because of a lack of feed. War needs caused the plowing up of many pastures that, under peace time conditions are worth more in the economy of the farm in pasture and hay than in cereal or tilled crops. Some of these, but very few, are back in alfalfa and grass now. There are others that should go back into forage. It will be the purpose and duty of the county farm agent during 1920 at urge the return to forage of the thousands of acres of pasture plowed up for the planting of cotton, cantaloupes and war crops. Owing to the planting of thousands of acres of fruit and beans during the past few years in the San Fernando Valley, the alfalfa area, which was at one time in excess of 10,000 acres, is now but 5200 acres. This is typical of other districts near Los Angeles. One dairy company is planting out 2000 acres of alfalfa to provide feed for cows needed for the growing demand for milk, but this is an isolated case. The Japanese gardener is plowing up many pastures for the planting of vegetables in Los Angeles county. In the Perris Valley a syndicate has been formed which is urging the farmers to plant cotton, promising the erection of a gin. This will mean the plowing up of thousands of acres of alfalfa there. In Riverside county, out of a majority of pupils are Japanese. At Rock Springs, Placer county, there are twenty Japanese pupils and no whites. A couple of American children live in the district but their parents send them to an adjoining district because of the large number of Japanese who attend the school in the district where the children live. Inman declares that the league is planning on launching on educational campaign in the East, where, he says the people are not alive to the menace to the Japanese and other Orientals to the Pacific Coast and even the nation. In many of the large eastern cities, Inman states, the belief is entertained that the agitation against the Japanese is due to race prejudice entirely. "They haven't the slightest idea of the alarming encroachments that are being made upon the most valuable agricultural lands in California." Inman again appeals to the people of the State to join the league in its fight against the plan to import Chinese coolie labor. "The only Americans in favor of the plan for the limited importation of Chinese farmers are the owners of large acreages who desire cheap coolie labor. These large tracts should be subdivided and the Caucasiaans encouraged to settle on them," Inman states. MONDELL ON FINANCES Economy to the point of parsimony is urged upon the Republican Congress by Representative Frank W. Mondell of Wyoming, majority leader, in a statement in which he reveals that this will be necessary in order to offset the extravagant proposals of the administration. He says: "The Secretary of the Treasury, in his annual report issued a few days ago, sounded a note of warning, "in view of the innumerable requests that are constantly being pressed upon Congress,' against a 'riot of public expenditure after the war, the consequence of which could only be disastrous.' The Secretary advises us that his 'optimistic outlook of the future of the government's finances **** is based upon the practice of the most rigid economy, and any other..." acres of alfalfa to provide feed for cows needed for the growing demand for milk, but this is an isolated case. The Japanese gardener is plowing many pastures for the planting of vegetables in Los Angeles county. In the Perris Valley a syndicate has been formed which is urging the farmers to plant cotton, promising the erection of a gin. This will mean the plowing up of thousands of acres of alfalfa there. In Riverside county, out of a total acreage of 239,627 in crop, there are only 32,016 bearing alfalfa, while at one time there were 50,000 acres in alfalfa. In the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Ventura and San Bernardino there are but 68,000 acres in pasture. California does not produce 75 per cent of the meat consumed, and large quantities of condensed milk from outside the State are consumer. It is urged by the College of Agriculture that the State cannot supply its own meat and milk if the area of pasture is not enlarged. Introduction of forage grasses from Africa and Australia will help greatly in the extension of the pastures, which, if not extended, may cause a serious shortage of milk in 1920, and will force the people of the State to pay a higher price for meats. Napier Rhodes, Sudan and other grasses, having been found adapted to the soils of the warm irrigated regions, will greatly help in providing feed for livestock during the summer and fall months if planted this spring. Even Bermuda grass pasture, in certain sections of the Coachella Valley commands a high price from dairymen of that section. It is asserted that the dairy industry in Southern California and Arizona is declining because of the annual report issued a few days ago, sounded a note of warning, "in view of the innumerable requests that are constantly being pressed upon Congress," against a 'riot of public expenditure after the war, the consequence of which could only be disastrous." The Secretary advises us that his 'optimistic outlook of the future of the government's finances' is based upon the practice of the most rigid economy, and any other policy means a calamitous upsetting of the entire program." "The Secretary is entirely sound in his view of the matter, and it is to be regretted that in the absence of legislation which makes the Secretay responsible for the estimates presented to him for transmittal he had presented to him by the heads of the various departments and agencies of the government and transmitted to Congress estimates of appropriations of the stupendous total of nearly $5,000,000,000. "Enormous as these figures are they do not include certain sums totaling hundreds of millions to cover appropriations heretofore made; for necessary operations in connection with the public debt; to pay bonces and added compensation carried in current appropriation bills and likely to be continued; and to provide for certain additional expenditures arising out of existing obligations or pending legislation." "The railways have cost the national treasury on an average more than $50,000,000 per month since they were taken under federal control, a total of expenditures and appropriations of $1,250,000,000. "With the return of the roads to private management we shall see the beginning of the end of that burden..." ANAHEIM GAZETTE and hay groups, in the net only on the treasury and the taxpayer, and eventually the return of a part of our expenditure; but manifestly that relief can not come at once." "We have as the total of the deficit at the end of the present fiscal year and of estimates of appropriations carried in the Book of Estimates, and of further estimates of expenditures which seem almost inevitable, the stupendous sum of $9,086,354,574.62 as the amount of continuing obligations and estimated expenditures we are called upon to reckon with in our financial operations for the fiscal year which begins the 1st of next July. "Subtracting the grand total of receipts, as estimated by the Secretary of the Treasury, from the total of estimated liabilities and appropriations, we have a balance of estimated liabilities over estimated receipts of $3,050,508,574.62." "Official estimates of receipts are notable in that they carry no estimate of receipts on account of interest on our loans of nearly $10,000,000,000 to foreign governments. This interest, if paid, would increase our receipts and lighten our burdens for the year by nearly $500,000,000." "I am sorry that the various departments of the government did not follow the good advice of the Secretary of the Treasury and keep their estimates within the bounds he suggests, but our duty is plain, we must not only cut the estimates in excess of a billion, but we must turn a deaf until she recovered. Must have feared a brain convulsion. Strange to relate, while almost everything has come up, city licenses remain the same, and the outgo has increased considerably over the monthly income. Spilling the beans. IS REMEDY WORSE THAN THE EVIL? It is a notable and significant circumstance that the country has failed to enthuse over the success of Attorney General Palmer in securing adoption of his plan for dismemberment of packing companies handling meat and other food products. The country knows that no good will be accomplished and that in all likelihood the only material effect will be an increase in cost of handling goods, with consequent increase in prices. Whatever evils may be incident to their magnitude, the packing concerns have been an economic evolution and their present organization contains more potentiality for good than for ill. That every effort should be made to cure the ilis, no one will gainsay. But neither will any reasonaable man question the assertion that every effort should be made to retain the advantages of superior methods attained by large operations under the best of management. Let any man go into a small slacghter house and observe the filth, waste of material and waste of labor, as compared with cleanliness and economy in the abattoirs of packing houses in Chicago or Kansas City, and he same economic situation. It furnishes in the same structure room for three audiences, which was the purpose of the three-ring circus, presenting practically the same kind of performance in each ring simultaneously, and thus providing for meeting a popular interest that had outgrown the one-ring tent. Like the three-ring circus, the three-screen motion picture theater may appeal to many people's admiration for bigness, even if the included theatres are out of sight of each other. REGISTRATION CLERKS ARE NOW BUSY Necessary to Give Your Party Affiliation this Year. The registration of voters for 1920 commenced Friday morning. Many of County Clerk J. M. Backs' registration deputies in various parts of the county received registration books Friday. The statement of party affiliation is of considerable consequence this year, so rthe reason that only those giving a party affiliation can atake part in the presidential primaries in May. Any person who is registered as a Republican can have a vote in the selection of delegates to the Republican National convention. Those registered as Democrats can vote upon delegates to the Democratic National convention. The importance of voting at the May primaries will be apparent if two or more sets of delegates each set standing committed to some certain candidate, appear on the ballot once assistsitor with mitted ket, then crease lobe becomes to sell information assurance is a slow down assurance home price that includes as a whaler eomen, large material investment wider fills. Proesscess for impressi try the to the piling Arng though interest to the foot have an access of just as a interesting who grw range. "united Prosperity perity c ber of p er wil tion." "I am sorry that the various departments of the government did not follow the good advice of the Secretary of the Treasury and keep their estimates within the bounds he suggests, but our duty is plain, we must not only cut the estimates in excess of a billion, but we must turn a deaf ear to every new demand or request which is not imperative. "In no other way can we perform our duty to our country. The duty of restoring public expenditure to a sound and safe basis—of reducing as soon as possible the burden of taxation and of moving forward on sound constructive lines of public policy." Say! Listen! A well-known tonsorial artist on Carmina Los Angeles says a while back another barber came to him, saying: "Frank, let’s you and I start a shop and run all the rest out of business. We can do it." Frank threw his lamps upon the ambitious gent and hands him this: "Say, I've been in the barber business now for some time, and I have heard something before about this running the other fellow out of business. You amble along your way and I'll try to do the best I can. Merry Christmas." Big crowds of movie fans, among whom are many local admirers of the manly art of self-defense, line up the first two days in the week at the Grand to see the serial wherein Jim Cobbett appears as the hero. The former world’s champion is now 54, is handy with his mitts and is still there with the sleep producer. When he reaches 60 Jim says he would like to box the champion who ever he might be. A well-known restaurant man on Los Angeles street had $3500 worth of stock in an oil company and needing some loose change went over on West Any person who is registered as a Republican can have a vote in the selection of delegates to the Republican National convention. Those registered as Democrats can vote upon delegates to the Democratic National convention. The importance of voting at the May primaries will be apparent if two or more sets of delegates, each set standing committed to some certain candidate, appear on the ballot of either party. Nominations for assemblyman and state senator at the August primaries will also be party nominations. The registration now being made stands good for all general elections to be held this year, and for all other elections after March. For school elections now the registrations of 1918 and 1919 stnad. Registrations for the Santa Ana high school bond election to be held on January 13 closed on December 13. House-to-house canvasses will be made by many of the registration deputies. ADVANTAGES OF QUANTITY PRODUCTION The tremendous advantages incident to quantity production is illustrated in American ship-building. The unprecedented impetus given to shipbuilding by the war has established the industry on such a firm basis that students of the merchant marine problem confidently predict that American yards can compete successfully with foreign builders even if the competitors have some advantages through lower yages. Many reasons are apparent why this effect should be realized. There are few exceptions to the rule that quantity production means lower unit cost of production. Particularly is this true where production necessitates immense capital investment. The cost of one automobile, one watch, or one needle, would be great, but when large quantities are made, special machinery, skilled workmen and systematic methods make possible a large out put at relatively small cost. During the half century of decline of American ship-building, this coun- Cobbett appears as the hero. The former world's champion is now 54, is handy with his mitts and is still there with the sleep producer. When he reaches 60 Jim says he would like to box the champion whoever he might be. A well-known restaurant man on Los Angeles street had $3500 worth of stock in an oil company and needing some loose change went over on West Center and after telling another cafe man of its worth, the latter took the rubber off his roll and annexed the stock. These restauranteurs are embryo millionaires. Some people fly high on mighty slim bank accounts. How do they do it? From all accounts there's going to be a bit of gun play one of these days if a certain gent persists in joy-riding with another man's wife. Better be safe than sorry! A motorist was stumped the other day when his car went cuckoo and essayed to climb a nearby tree. He took it in good humor and called to a friend to come pull the derned thing down on the ground again. Just kinder acting up. A young man on Friday received an engagement ring through the mall, coming from a young lady in a city in the Middle West. The recipient is in a receptive mood and is wondering whether or not to step out. The chase is on. A country editor says a lady who became so ill she could not read, asked that his paper be laid away for her of 75 cents work that previously cost a dollar, under primitive methods, they are entitled to a considerable part of that saving of 25 per cent. This is not saying that they are entitled to all of the saving, or that they should be free to use in wrongful ways the power that goes with concentration of business in the hands of a few. If their power has been misused either to force producers to sell at too low a price, or to force consumers to pay too high a price, this is an evil for which a remedy should be found. It may be reasonably doubted, however, that the producer will get more or the consumer buy for less as a result of dismemberment of packing concerns. So far as inordinate profits are involved, this evil, if it exists, can be substantially met through the graduated income tax. If there are excessive profits in the handling of foodstuffs, those profits re contributed by all the people, and the excess will be returned to the people through payment of the income tax to the federl treasury. But there is little reason to expect that any good will come to either producer or consumer through destruction of large business concerns in which efficiency and economy have been the secret of success. History seems to be repeating itself in popular entertainment; at any rate, the plans of a new motion picture enterprise, in Boston, which will cover three separate motion picture exhibitions under a single roof, recalls the growth of the circus from one ring to three. The three motion picture performances, to be sure, may not all be visible at once, but the enterprise seems plausibly enough based on the unit cost of production. Particularly is this true where production necessitates immense capital investment. The cost of one automobile, one watch, or one needle, would be great, but when large quantities are made, special machinery, skilled workmen and systematic methods make possible a large out put at relatively small cost. During the half century of decline of American ship-building, this country became practically barren of skilled ship-builders. Shipyards were fey facilities for producing ship equipment were small, and the world had ceased to look to this country for ships. Extraordinary demand created by war changed all this. We now have ship-building plants more than adequate for peace time needs, and the most efficient can be retained for permanent use. Many thousands of men have served a... apprenticeship in the yards, and those who demonstrated the best adaptability to that kind of work will find permanent employment in the new industry. Builders have learned where and from whom they can obtain at best advantage supplies needed in ship construction and equipment. Establishments that can produce these supplies the cheapest will remain permanently in the business. Keen competition among American builders will insure the lowest practicable cost of completed ships. This same principle of large production and low unit cost is a considerable factor in the protective tariff policy. So long as the American producer, of dyestuffs, for example, is menaced by danger of destructive competition from some other country, in his home market, he cannot venture the large and permanent investment necessary for highest efficiency. But It furnishes the room for three the purpose of representing practices of performance reviously, and thus giving a popular inown the one-ring circus, the picture theater people's admiration if the included right of each other. Voters for 1920 morning. Many of bucks' registration parts of the county books Friday. party affiliation consequence this that only those voting can atake special primaries in registered as a vote in the debate to the Repubvention. Those candidates can vote upDemocratic Naof voting at the be apparent if delegates, each used to some cercar on the ballot once assured that a foreign competitor with cheap labor will not be permitted free access to the home market, the American producer can increase his output until the unit cost becomes low enough to enable him to sell in foreign markets in competition with the rest of the world. Assurance of continued quantity production is a very material factor in keeping down cost of production. That assurance encourages development of home competition, with resultant lower prices to consumers. And out of that increased production the nation as a whole realizes the advantage of larger employment for American workmen, larger markets for American raw materials, larger opportunity for investment of American capital, and wider fields for American enterprise in the commerce of the world. Present promise of permanent success for American ship-building should impress upon the people of the country the importance of always adhering to the policy of promoting and guarding American industry first, even though the industry be of direct interest to only one section. Farmers in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains have an indirect interest in the success of the American merchant marine, just as the ship builder has an indirect interest in the prosperity of the man who grazes sheep on the Western range. In industry, as in nationality, "united we stand, divided we fail." Prosperity for one promotes the prosperity of all, and the greater the number of prosperous industries, the greater will be the prosperity of the nation. Cynical in its disregard of the wishes and feelings of the residents of the third district that a wave of protest swept the northern endof the county and the result of the expose of the plot which came primarily through the Fullerton News left the instigators of the project in such an undesirable light that they hastened to drop it for the present, at least, saying that it had been put off for a year. Although the project was dropped until a more favorable time, residents of this section have not forgotten it. One result of agitation has been a demand for an organization which can discuss and pass upon matters which affect this part o f the county. The remark is often heard that the south half of the county knows what it wants and when county meetings of any sort are held, the representatives from the southern communities act as a unit while the northern part of the county is unrecognized and its representatives frequently work at cross purposes. It is hoped that every community in teh norther n part o fthe copuity will be well represented at the meeting Thursday night and that come plan will be worked out which will provide a neighborhood organization which will devote its energies and attention solely to this portion of the county. Notice of intention to become citizens were on file Monday on behalf of the following, all sisters in St. Catherine's school, Anaheim: Maria Helm, Camden Talent Academy. NEW ORGANIZATION FOR NORTHERN END Plans Preparing for an Associated Chambers of Commerce. The suggestion recently made that northern Orange county should have an associated chambers of commerce or some similar organization to consider matters which primarily affect this district has crystalized into a result. The directors of the Fullerton Board of Trade have taken the first steps and at the regular meeting Saturday noon Secretary Harry Lee Wilbur was instructed to issue invitations to each commercial organization in northern Orange county to attend a meeting to be held at the city hall in Fullerton next Thursday evening, January 8, so ra discussion of plans for such a permanent body. Invitations will be sent to Anaheim Placentia, La Habra, Brea, Yorba Linda, Buena Park and in addition an effort will be made to have representatives from Orangethorpe, both east and west and from Olinda. The Ipan for this new organization comes primarily from the recent project of some of the supervisors from the southern part of the county to slice up the third supervisorial district in such a manner that the Huntington Beach and Orange districts could get a share of the taxes which comes from the oil wells in the north end of the county. 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