anaheim-gazette 1920-02-05

COL. BRYAN AND THE PLUTES Col. William Jennings Bryan insists that there isn't any split in the Democratic party; that all is peace and harmony under the big tent; that he is in thorough sympathy with the administration, and that he differs with President Wilson only in the means preferred for achieving a common end. At the same time that Colonel Bryan declares his continuing fealty to the party and administration in power, he announces a proposed Democratic platform for 1920, which begins with a declaration in favor of laws to paralyze the plutocrat and the profiteer. For many years Colonel Bryan dined that well sounding program into the ears of the American people. He discussed it at every whistling station and water tank in the United States. He spilled words on the subject in every county of the country where elections represent deliberate decisions of public opinion—which means in every locality outside the Solid South. Then in 1912 Colonel Bryan finally accomplished two things. He nominated the Democratic candidate for President and elected him on a platform loaded down with promises to pulverize the plutocrat and paralyze the profiteer. The Colonel's party and candidate have had seven years to deliver the goods. They have had seven years in which to inaugurate that economy and simplicity befitting a democratic government, to relieve the payrolls of a horde of officeholders who "feed on the substance of the people," to crush monopoly by repealing the wicked tariff which was the mother of trusts. records of profit by the very interests against which the Colonel used to thunder in his campaign keynotes. The resources of the national banks, we are proudly advised by the Treasury Department, have increased more in the past five years than in the preceding fifty. What the Colonel really ought to do is to look up all the spots on the map where he has made speeches against the plutocrats and the profiteers and the money devils in the past, not to mention the places in the railway guide where he told the people in 1916 that Mr. Wilson was going to keep us out of war, and appropriately draped in sack cloth and ashes, utter his abject apologies to the millions he has helped to dupe. The people of this contry have stood for a good deal in the way of political charlatanism in the past, but another campaign against the plutocrats by Colonel Bryan, should it be successful, would put this country on such a basis that the downtrodden populace would have to pay for fresh air at a meter rate and rent daylight by the month. UNUSUAL OFF-BLOOM Citrus growers of the Pomona Valley are much mystified, and up to recently, much worried, over the unprecedented off-bloom in their groves. This unusual blossoming, according to J. B. Vaile, president of the Los Angeles County Farm Bureau, has been quite general throughout the citrus belt, beginning as far back as last November. For a time there was much apprehension that the bloom would set, thus producing an unseasonable crop, but according to Mr. Vaile it has not The Colonel's party and candidate have had seven years to deliver the goods. They have had seven years in which to inaugurate that economy and simplicity befitting a democratic government, to relieve the payrolls of a horde of officeholders who "feed on the substance of the people," to crush monopoly by repealing the wicked tariff which was the mother of trusts, and destroy the unholy profits of the money changers and the powers that prey. Wouldn't it seem that the sum of Democratic accomplishment in these matters might induce Colonel Bryan to preserve a large and eloquent silence, instead of springing on the country his 1920 campaign program of doing all this some more? Since the Democratic platform of 1912 was penned the number of millionaires in the United States, according to official reports, has increased from 7,000 to 23,000. In seven years of Democratic national administration more than twice as many millionaires have been created as in the entire half century of almost uninterrupted Republican control preceding, plus the three quarters of a century of our national existence before the Civil War. During the century and a third preceding the inauguration of President Wilson and the turning on of the new freedom, practically every mile of railway and interurban telegraph and telephone lines was constructed; practically all our mines were discovered and developed; practically all our lands were settled and improved; practically all our factories and homes were built; practically all of our population was acquired, our cities built. In other words, practically the entire productive capacity of the United States had been developed, and our real wealth accumulated, with an incidental development of 7,000 fortunes of a million or more. And in seven years of Democratic administration, accompanied by practically no increase in our productive capacity or development of our national resources twice as many millionaires, with two thousand more to boot, were made. In other words, through speculative activity more tahn twice as many mil- SUGAR IS PLENTIFUL Senator Capper, of Kansas, points out that just when the American people appear to be forgetting the costly error of omission committed by the government in failing to make provision for an adequate sugar supply, the profiteers clap another cent or two on the retail price and the whole miserable flasco is again brought before the public attention. The government's refusal to purchase the Cuban crop when it was available at a reasonable price and thus provide against a sugar shortage and exhorbitant prices in the United States will cost the people of this country about $1,000,000,000, in the opinion of Senator Capper. But that is not all of Senator Capper's complaint. He insists that there is plenty of sugar to be had at high prices, which is prima facie evidence that the hoarders have the situation in hand for their own especial benefit. He says: "Although our exports of sugar to Great Britain alone have jumped 200 per cent and we have in recent months shipped more than 300,000,000 pounds of it to the United Kingdom, there are fairly well authenticated reports of vast hoards of sugar in New York and New Jersey. * * Sugar at 11 cents, the war price, is tremendously scarce in these localities. But sugar at 22 and 23 cents is as plentiful as ever." CITRUS SHIPMENTS FOR THE PRESENT SEASON States had been developed, and our real wealth accumulated, with an incidental development of 7,000 fortunes of a million or more. And in seven years of Democratic administration, accompanied by practically no increase in our productive capacity or development of our national resources twice as many millionaires, with two thousand more to boot, were made. In other words, through speculative activity more tahn twice as many millionaires were created in less than seven years than through all our marvelous growth in productive power the American people had developed through all our preceding national history. As for profiteering, the profiteer of the good old days when the Colonel was promising to have him destroyed by putting the Democratic party in power, would acquire a reputation as a philanthropist by practicing his modest 1912 methods. Do you recall Colonel Bryan's frenzied cries against the issuance of government bonds and our alliance with the money devils of Lombard street? More bonds have been issued and sold during those seven years than had ever been dreamed of in the most disordered financial nightmares of the previous century and a third of national history, while the Colonel is now running over the country arguing in favor of linking the destiny of the American people with that of the British empire against which he used to launch so many of his Colin Harvey philippics in days gone by. Incidentally we have the information from official sources that last year the banks of the country earned a cool billion, thus laying in the shade all previous recent months slipped more than 300,000,000 pounds of it to the United Kingdom, there are fairly well authenticated reports of vast hoards of sugar in New York and New Jersey. * * Sugar at 11 cents, the war price, is tremendously scarce in these localities. But sugar at 22 and 23 cents is as plentiful as ever." CITRUS SHIPMENTS FOR THE PRESENT SEASON Anaheim Expected to Handle 1620 Cars of Fruit. The Riverside Daily Press publishes its annual estimate of the orange and lemon crop of the state, and the figures for the season of 1919-1920 are given in carloads as follows: Oranges Lemons Southern Cal. .....29,000 9,000 Northern Cal. .....275 None Central Cal. .....3,500 150 Grand total, oranges and lemons, 41,925. Reports by localities in Southern California follow: Oranges. Lemons. Orange District .....3000 1000 Pomona .....3000 200 Riverside .....2800 375 Redlands .....2400 ... Ontario .....2200 650 Azusa, Glendora .....2200 250 Anaheim .....1600 20 Whittler .....1200 1000 Placentia .....1200 50 Highlands .....1045 85 San Dimas .....1000 800 La Verne .....1000 150 Rialto-Bloomington .....1004 100 Fullerton .....700 ... Alhambra-San Gabriel..680 ... ANAHEIM GAZETTE every interests panel used to keynotes. The real banks, we the Treasury based more in the precedally ought to spots on the ade speeches and the profitin the past, as in the railroad the people was going to appropriately ashes, utter the millions. The people of a good deal charlatanism over campaign Colonel Bryul, would put basis that the would have to teter rate and th. COVETOUS EYES ON THE IMPERIAL VALLEY Japs Wanted All Whites Ousted and Land Given Over to Them. Imperial Valley has been aroused to the seriousness of the Japanese question as never before, by a statement of Senator James Phelan that he was approached with the offer to settle the Japanese question by giving the Japanese the Imperial Valley, allowing them to colonize this valley exclusively and drive out the Americans. Senator Phelan's statement is vouchered for by W. I. Treager, president of the Anti-Asiatic Association, with headquarters in Los Angeles, who says the senator told the story substantially as follows: "Just before I left Washington, an American, representing powerful Japanese organizations, and said to be backed by the Japanese government, proposed as a solution of the Japanese question, that Americans be ousted COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO FINANCE CAMPAIGN J. H. Whitaker Anaheim's Member of Ways and Means Committee. N.T. Edwards of Orange has been appointed chairman of the Republican Ways and Means Committee for Orange county. He has selected the following community chairmen: T. B. Talbert for Huntington Beach; Lew H. Wallace for Newport Beach; Charles C. Chapman for Fullerton; Kellar E. Watson for Orange; W. B. Williams for Santa Ana; A. S. Bradford for Placentia; J. H. Whitaker for Anaheim. The National Republican Ways and Means Committee launched their drive for funds all over the United States Friday, January 30th. Never before has there been a systematic solicitation for funds and so the Republican National Committee, through Will H. Hays, national chairman, felt that a plan should be devised whereby funds could be raised prior to the time of organization for the campaign. In pursuance of this end some of the best known financiers of this country were called into conference and asked to decide upon some plan whereby funds could be raised in a systematic way. The National Republican Committee adopted a plan of establishing Republican ways and means committees in every state. A chairman for each state was appointed, who in turn appoints a chairman for each county. It is the duty of the county chairman to appoint a chairman for each city, town or community in his county, who will work in co-operation with the county and state chairman. parently is sufficient to force the valuable liquid through slight crevices, and it is this evidence that the workmen were trying to cover up, when Newport's amateur "sleuth" happened to interrupt the oil well employees at night. ELEVEN WOMEN CALLED AS JUORRS Judge West Draws Talesmen for First Six Months of Court. Eleven women are among the forty talesmen drawn for jury service in the superior court during the first six months of the trial jury year. Saturday morning the names were drawn in Judge Z. B. West's court, and the summons will be issued directing the appearance of the eleven women and twenty-nine men to appear in Judge West's courtroom at ten o'clock on the morning of Feb. 9. On that date a trial by jury is set in Judge West's court. The case is that of David Warfield, charged with non-support. The forty talesmen are James H. Birch, L. H. Talbert, Mrs. Helen N. Deimling, Mrs. A. J. Lawton, Alfred Leech, Mrs. Nina C. Hargrave, L. P. Hendrickson, T. R. Canady, G. R. Smith, J. H. Cochren, J. Boyd, Ned N. Brown, J. A. Buckmaster, P. E.Newman, Mrs. Jean Grubb, Mrs. Anna B. Bosey, A. F. Swift, Samuel Conkle, C. S. Hubbard, Caroline Harding, Charles W. Almes, Ernest Beardsley, Mrs. Flora M. Pyle, Mrs. Flossie Hemphill, Edward Jones, Fred Gunther, M.E.Livingston, Mrs. Edna E.Jaynes, M.H.Jordes,Mrs.Ruth G.Hasking,H.C.DawesJohn Schmidt,Mrs.Martha C.Goodale Senator Phelan's statement is vouchered for by W. I. Treager, president of the Anti-Asiatic Association, with headquarters in Los Angeles, who says the senator told the story substantially as follows: "Just before I left Washington, an American, representing powerful Japanese organizations, and said to be backed by the Japanese government, proposed as a solution of the Japanese question, that Americans be ousted from the Imperial Valley, all Japanese in California and along the coast be segregated and shipped to the valley and allowed to own and till its fertile fields. He said the Japanese, being accustomed to hot weather, would thrive in the valley where it is too warm for white men; that if I would give my approval to the plan he would be glad to take it up with the interests he represented and that this scheme appealed to him as being practical and sensible. "Just exactly how he planned to dispossess the large and small farm owners and depopulate the cities of the magnificent valley he did not make clear. In fact it was a feeler, as I see it, to determine the attitude of the people of the valley through me. "My attitude on this subject is so well known that I was amazed to think he would approach me on the subject. Naturally, I told him emphatically that such a plan was absurd on the face of it and that this offered not the slightest way out of the Japanese problem. However, I think it is interesting in view of the present agitation on the coast against the Japanese as a land holder and business man." REINSTATEMENT OF WAR RISK INSURANCE Order Extending Time to 18 Months Still Holds Good. To relieve any confusion that may exist in the minds of former service men on account of the special provision of lapsed War Term Insurance which authorized reinstatement up to December 31, 1919, regardless of date of discharge, announcement is made. The National Republican Committee adopted a plan of establishing Republican ways and means committees in every state. A chairman for each state was appointed, who in turn appoints a chairman for each county. It is the duty of the county chairman to appoint a chairman for each city, town or community in his county, who will work in co-operation with the county and state chairman. For the first time in any political campaign the maximum contribution any individual may make is limited to one thousand dollars. This will prevent the party from assuming any obligation which large contributors in both parties in times past have felt were due them. This fund is for the national and state campaigns for 1920, and while it is for the National Republican Committee, one half of the amounts collected in Southern California will be turned back here for local party uses. The Republican committee for Southern California includes the following counties: Orange county, Los Angeles county, San Bernardino county, San Diego county, Riverside county, San Luis Obispo county, Inyo county, Imperial county, Santa Barbara county and Ventura county. The officers of the committee are as follows: Joe Crail, chairman; Mrs. Berthold Baruch, vice chairman; Herbert Selig, campaign director and Fred K. Dyar, chairman for Los Angeles city, all of Los Angeles. Headquarters are established at 301-302 H. W. Hellman Building, Los Angeles. Committees are in the process of organization whose duties will be the collection of the quota assigned to the different communities. The various counties and communities have responded splendidly in their willingness and desire to co-operate and make this drive a successful one for the furthering of the Republican party. DECLARE MYSTERY WELL IS FLOWING OIL Newport People Believe It, but Oil Company Denies It. With the residents of the Newport Mesa using every possible subterfuge N. Brown, J. A. Buckmaster, P. E. Newman, Mrs. Jean Grubb, Mrs. Anna B. Bosey, A. F. Swift, Samuel Conkle, C. S. Hubbard, Caroline Harding, Charles W. Almes, Ernest Beardsley, Mrs. Flora M. Pyle, Mrs. Flossie Hemphill, Edward Jones, Fred Gunther, M. E. Livingston, Mrs. Edna E. Jaynes, H. J. Cordes, Mrs. Ruth G. Hasking, H. C. Dawes, John Schmidt, Mrs. Martha C. Goodale, August Block, W. H. Redfern, W. H. McDonald, E. W. Camfield and Mrs. Calla M. Hayward: SUPERVISORS' MEETING The board of supervisors at the last regular meeting transacted business as follows: Bids for the construction of a garage on Scyamore street in the city of Santa Ana, were opened and considered in manner required by law. All bids were rejected, being considered too high by the board. It was ordered that bids for the performance of the work covered by the plans and specifications prepared by W. W. Kays, in regard to Orange county garage, be advertised and February 24, 1920, at 10 a.m. was fixed as the day for receipt of said bids. The application of A. D. Pyatt to place a pipe line under the paved road on Newport road between Irvine boulevard and 17th street, was granted provided said work will not interfere with county road work, and to be done under the supervision of N. H. Neff, superintendent of maintenance department. The application of A. D. Moodle to move a building 24x24 feet over county roads from Brea Canyon about one mile, was granted provided he use sufficient width of wheels or rollers to conform with the law. Orangethorpe school district bonds were ordered to be sold on February 17th, 1920, at 11 a.m. and notice of sale to be published. Santa Ana high school district bonds were ordered to be sold on February 17th, 1920, at 11 a.m., and notice of sale to be published. FIVE SUNDAYS THIS MONTH WAR RISK INSURANCE Order Extending Time to 18 Months Still Holds Good. To relieve any confusion that may exist in the minds of former service men on account of the special provision of lapsed War Term Insurance which authorized reinstatement up to December 31, 1919, regardless of date of discharge, announcement is made by Director R. G. Cholmeley-Jones of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance that the provisions for reinstatement of lapsed or cancelled insurance, within 18 months from date of discharge, upon payment of only two months' premiums on the amount of insurance to be reinstated, provided the insured is in as good health as at the date of discharge or expiration of the grace period which ever is the later date, and so states in his application, still hold good. The provision that discharged service men are permitted to reinstate at any time within three calendar months following the month of discharge by merely paying the two months' premiums, without making a formal application or a statement as to health is also still in force. The provisions for reinstatement do not protect a man until he actually reinstates. If he waits he may not be in as good health as he was at the time of discharge and consequently may not be able to secure reinstatement. Don't put off reinstatement. Do it now! Anaheim Gazette per year, $1.50, payable in advance. DECLARE MYSTERY WELL IS FLOWING OIL Newport People Believe It, but Oil Company Denies It. With the residents of the Newport Mesa using every possible subterfuge to get at the facts as to whether the Interstate Oil Company has found a gusher in its first well and the company apparently determined that information shall not be given out to the general public, a battle royal is going on in that vicinity between the residents and the company. The battle royal is not of the loud character. It is quiet, very quiet. Residents are quietly trying to "sneak in" the information and the company is fighting the intrusion at every point it is reported from Newport. Mystery as to what the company really has deepens as the struggle between the opposing factions continues. According to reports from Newport, whatever work is done around the well at this time is done at night. Figuratively speaking, the oil company has posted signs "keep off the grass," and watchmen are present to enforce the regulation. A "sleuth" from the beach city is declaring that the oil company has brought in a flowing well. He based his statement upon an observation made one evening this week when he surprised workmen and found them "smothering" with sand oil oozing over the top of the casing. The well had been capped. In spite of this the pressure applied for furthering of the Republican party. Orangethorpe school district bonds were ordered to be sold on February 17th, 1920, at 11 a.m. and notice of sale to be published. Santa Ana high school district bonds were ordered to be sold on February 17th, 1920, at 11 a.m., and notice of sale to be published. FIVE SUNDAYS THIS MONTH Folks, here's something interesting: Sunday inaugurated the most remarkable February that old Father Time has handed us in 40 years—since 1880, to be exact. Moreover, there will not be another one like it until 1948—and that's a long time to wait. Although February is the shortest month of the year, it will have five Sundays this time. It started on a Sunday and will end on a Sunday. This will be a hard month, therefore, on the boys who don't like to go to Sunday school, and a pleasant one for those who do. Bankers and others will get seven holidays out of the month, but there will be many more less fortunately situated who will have only five. The bankers and professional men will get the five Sundays off, and the two customary February holidays—Lincoln's birthday on Feb. 12, and that of Washington on Feb. 22. There will be the usual four pay days for those who collect weekly, of course, and there will be another one, thank goodness, two days after the month ends and the bills commence to pour in, for all those who receive their salaries Tuesday of each week. Leap year is responsible for several AT NOON AND AT NIGHT Bill Smith works at a man's job, where dirty face and hands are the end of a perfect day. See him after 6, he is as neat as wax and as slick as a whistle. HE IS A CUSTOMER OF OURS. We sell Bill his working clothes—his overalls and gloves. We also sell him his dress clothes—Our Michaels Stern clothes, and to meet him at night he looks the height of fashion. We sell work clothes and dress clothes, and do each so well that we please them all. Always at your service. JACKSON'S MEN'S WEAR SHOP. YOUR MONEY'S WORTH ALWAYS ANAHEIM National Orange Show! California's Greatest Midwinter Event National Orange Show! California's Greatest Midwinter Event At San Bernardino Feb. 13 to 23 Gorgeous Spectacle Portraying the Splendor and Riches of the Citrus Fruit Industry A Million Oranges in a Beautiful Wonderland Garden of Fruits and Flowers Continuous Entertainments—Bands, Vaudeville and Midway INDUSTRIAL and AUTOMOBILE SHOW Citrus Institute for California Growers February 20-21 Set Among the Gardens of the Great Playground of the Orange Belt at Urbita Springs Admission Fifty Cents Job Printing ANAHEIM GAZETTE of February's peculiarities this time, as it will be 28 years hence. The extra day added to Febrcary once in each four years makes them possible, although they occur only at rare intervals. So—don't miss this February. You may never see another one like it. Samuel G. Blythe is in favor of starting a new party and having a new deal all around politically. Speaking as one who helped knock the Republican party out of power and put the Democratic party in, you can't blame Samuel for wanting to start over in view of the mess his friends have made of things. Sam feels just like the fellow in the poker game who sees the whole jackpot about to be swept in by the other fellow and feels that it might be a good thinf to call the wicked old game off and start a new and nice one. J. Ham Lewis says both the old parties are dead. Ham is half right. The confession part of his statement goes.