anaheim-gazette 1920-02-19

Anaheim Gazette ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY THE PLUMB PLAN UP TO DATE The Plumb plan of taking over the railroads has much to recommend it if it is looked into carefully. It proposes that the government shall run the roads by a commission of 15 members, at good salaries, five of whom shall be railway workers, five stockholders or bondholders and five appointed by the President of the United States. The commission is to fix the rate of pay for employees and stockholders, and all work is to be on an eight-hour basis. The minimum rate is to be $1.00 per hour for employees with time and a half for overtime and double time for Sundays and holidays. We would like to see the Plumb plan applied to newspavers, the commission to consist of five publishers, five employees and five to be appointed by the President. Following the lines of the Plumb plan for railroads it would work out something like this. All publishers shall be paid at the rate of $25,000 per annum, or $500 a week; the minimum rate for printers, reporters and all other employees shall be $1.00 per hour, with time and a half for overtime and double time for Sundays and holidays. The commission shall fix the prices at which newspapers shall be sold, with the minimum of ten cents for each copy; advertising $1.00 net per column inch, cash with the order. And the prices are not to be reduced until the business permits the dividing up of a 5 per cent dividend to the pub-financing and policing of Europe, thrown into chaos partly by the terms of the treaty of Paris. The impudence of this procedure is astounding. The sympathetic participation of Americans in it would be inexplicable except that we have become familiar with the fact that not a few Americans are little more than foreign agents, and look upon the problems growing out of the war from a European rather than an American standpoint. That alien interests should deliberately set to work to control the United States in the interests of Europe, and that through propaganda and organization the movement should make such progress, would have been inconceivable a few years ago. There are two big camps in this country. One is filled with people who think of America only as an adjunct of Europe; the other of those who keep America first in their thoughts in which camp are you? WE CAN'T ALL BE INDIANS Of course, we can't all be Indians and some of us may not wish to be. But the Indian nowadays must lead a happy life if he is getting in service what the United States government is paying for service that poor Lo is presumed to be getting. Homer Snyder, chairman of the House Committee on Indian Affairs, charges that the Indian Bureau under Commissioner Cato Sells, now has on its payroll 6,000 employees, a number perilously near the full-blood Indian population of the country. Now these 6,000 employees do not act as valets and chambermaids to the Indians, asery promise it ever made policy it ever proposed the mere personal bank-powerful politician. No position of the false clergy baby in King Solomon's ready to have the whole system extirpated because to take the count on its as a political party one. It must be admitted that past few years about e been done that could be the political party systemed States. Laws have deliberately intended b framed them to break o organization, party so authority and party respo object has been to dest political organizations, w radical organizations ass with their close corporate paying and pledge-bound have been able to main organization or party dis old sense. We have outcry against caucuses and representatives in political parties that these things have been recent years only in a know whether this process progress one need only himself and observe his level of public life has it, or to what extent corp have been excluded from The country is in chaos political parties are in. A political party is seen than a transient comi elements hurriedly ass basis of temporary adv The commission shall fix the prices at which newspapers shall be sold, with the minimum of ten cents for each copy; advertising $1.00 net per column inch, cash with the order. And the prices are not to be reduced until the business permits the dividing up of a 5 per cent divident to the publishers. Any profit above 5 per cent to go to the United States. Such a plan would put the newspapers in the same favored class as the railroads. It would relieve the paper shortage and other business anxieties that now bedevil the editors and publishers of country newspapers and put the result of all failures where it belongs—on the public. And the Plumb plan applied to newspapers would give a boost to the original that it could get in no other way. What do you say, Mr. Plumb? THE UNBELIEVABLE IMPUDENCE OF EUROPEAN PROPAGANDA The people of America have never been unresponsive to the appeal of human suffering anywhere in the world. They are willing to "go the limit" in the matter of relieving the distress of people of foreign lands. They have been campaigned so continuously in behalf of foreign relief enterprises, however, that they are inclined to give careful consideration to every proposal of this kind, with a view to knowing just what is behind the request or demand. The people of the United States have been told so often about their duty to Europe that they are growing somewhat weary of the assumption that it is up to them to maintain the financial and industrial stability of Europe or be sued for non-support. There are many proper objects of American consideration and care right here in the United States, some of which are being neglected. Europe has been deceived by our big-talking internationalists until the belief has taken root that Uncle Sam is a big, benevolent "good thing," with unlimited wealth and unlimited gener- Homer Snyder, chairman of the House Committee on Indian Affairs, charges that the Indian Bureau under Commissioner Cato Sells, now has on its payroll 6,000 employees, a number perilously near the full-blood Indian population of the country. Now these 6,000 employees do not act as valets and chambermaids to the Indians, as you might suspect—not at all. They merely hold down nice desk jobs and traveling commissions for the most part, and they keep "all wised up" about Lo and his comings and goings and doings generally and they spend millions of dollars annually in keeping the Indian cheered up and happy and themselves also cheered up and happy. Mr. Snyder says that in 1913 the annual appropriations for the Indian Bureau amounted to $9,470,000, which is quite a sizeable sum for Indians, taking them mine run, but Mr. Sells, the commissioner, seems to have caught step with the extravagance of the age and although there are not now as many Indians in the United States as in 1913, he spent $15,482,000 on his department in 1919 and is asking $17,400,000 for the present year. Mr. Snyder says that Sells has wasted $40,000,000 on Indians in the Indian Bureau. Apparently the only way the taxpayers can catch up even with that kind of extravagance is to turn Indian and get some of the money—but maybe the regular Indians are not even getting the money—who knows? ARE POLITICAL PARTIES DEAD? The Democratic party has died a number of times and the obituary of the Republican party has been written more than once by people who have managed to convince themselves in days gone by that the day of this or that political party, on all political parties, was over. A learned eastern university professor brought out in 1913 a "political history of the United States from the Tilden-Hayes campaign to the dissolution of the Republican party." The Saturday Evening Post in very recent years has wept what the United States government is paying for service that poor Lo is presumed to be getting. A political party is seen than a transient coming elements hurriedly assists basis of temporary advice some function other than ting out a new prospect years, baited like a t enough to fill the party sufficient catch to feel Political parties come from they stand for sometime headed for somewhere, their functions as political roots of their present in the past. The attitude publican party upon national questions at the result of certain tendencies which have been a part Republicanism since their founding. The philosophy is derived from of Lincoln, Grant, Ha Garfield, Blaine, McKinley and a host of others its leaders, and from experience of a half century administration accomplish growth in national power and diffused public good been known in connexion annals of any other history during a similar a party does not have principles anew every has only to broaden policies and apply these conditions. What the country now is a revival parties true to the which are not the "leaders" or "bosses," primarily bodies of people may utilize for in laws and institutionation, of fundamental issued in common by citizens who seek to ties representative ideals. If political pressure up to this Europe has been deceived by our big-talking internationalists until the belief has taken root that Uncle Sam is a big, benevolent "good thing," with unlimited wealth and unlimited generosity. Now that we are not carrying out in full the programs of these big talkers, Europe is actually becoming offended, despite all we have done in Europe's behalf, because so many Americans think some thought should be given to the interests of the American people. Legitimate and praiseworthy proposals for American relief of actual suffering abroad have been brought into discredit by the propaganda for wholesale sacrifice of American in behalf of alien interests. America is the one great power that went into the war for an entirely unselfish purpose and came out of it demanding no financial or territorial compensation. We enrolled an army of four million men, sent half of them to Europe, spent thirty billion dollars on our own account and loaned European ten billions more, and yet are told by the newspapers and politicians of nations we saved from defeat and despoilation, nations which have added vast territory to their dominions, have received Germany's due bills for billions, have eliminated their chief European trade competitor, and have otherwise immensely profited by the war, that we, who have come out of it empty handed, should be condemned because we hesitate to undertake the more than once by people who have managed to convince themselves in days gone by that the day of this or that political party, on of all political parties, was over. A learned eastern university professor brought out in 1913 a "political history of the United States from the Tilden-Hayes campaign to the dissolution of the Republican party." The Saturday Evening Post in very recent years has wept torrents of more or less regretful tears at the bier of the Republican party, is at it again. Yet the Republican party elected a majority in the national House and Senate in 1918, despite its demise. Just now the favorite newspaper and magazine bromide is the impending dissolution of political parties. No longer, we are told, do party shibboleths, party traditions, party policies, appeal to the masses of the people of whom these authors are the self constituted spokesmen. People are getting to be too broad to belong to political parties anyway. The Saturday Evening Post says so, and the non-partisan New York World is sure of it. Curiously enough, and perhaps significantly enough, Democratic National Chairman Homer Cummings joins in the chorus with the statement that "the old party slogans have lost their appeal," meaning perhaps that never-to-be-forgotten 1916 campaign slogan: "He kept us out of war." You can't blame Democratic politicians and publicity agents for claiming that the day of political parties is over. For the day of their particular political party is probably over, principally because it has ceased to be a political party, and, abandoning every principle for which it ever stood, ev- parties true to the truth which are not the truth "leaders" or "bosses," primarily bodies of people may utilize for laws and institutionalization of fundamental issues if political measure up to this festly the fault of them to make them up, and political party system it holds out the hope of government in a repressed Politics as a mere office or power for a clan or clique is the petitions; as the mean principles are championed and the city and happiness of moted, it is the citizen of service in a government opinion like our own. The Republican party more of a vital, militaristic politics than it is a difficult, perplexing most impossible task order out of the chaotic affairs have been through the party system of its abandonment in local personal dictators fundamental principle Americanism and a lack even contempt in politics and The defenders of the situation of that so-party politics as it can be should not be ery promise it ever made, and every policy it ever proposed, has become the mere personal baggage of one powerful politician. Now it is in the position of the false claimant to the baby in King Solomon's court, quite ready to have the whole political party system extirpated because it is about to take the count on its own collapse as a political party organization. It must be admitted that during the past few years about everything has been done that could be done to kill the political party system in the United States. Laws have been passed deliberately intended by those who framed them to break down party organization, party solidarity, party authority and party responsibility. The object has been to destroy the major political organizations, while only such radical organizations as the socialists, with their close corporation, dues-paying and pledge-bound membership, have been able to maintain party organization or party discipline in the old sense. We have had so much outcry against caucuses and conventions and representative government in political parties that the names of these things have been mentioned in recent years only in a whisper. To know whether this process represents progress one need only look around himself and observe how much the level of public life has been lifted by it, or to what extent corrupt influences have been excluded from political life. The country is in chaos partly because political parties are in chaos. A political party is something more than a transient coming together of elements hurriedly assembled on the basis of temporary advantage. It has run over by a disillusioned and disgusted people. SOME OBJECT LESSONS The need of a national budget system grows constantly more clear as the financial situation of the country is unfolded. An official estimate has just been made of the amount of money that will be required to run the government for the next fiscal year. This is placed at over five billion dollars, and even then this amount does not include anything for the Railroad Administration, and it is certain that financial assistance will be required along this line. Nor does it include any new venture that may be undertaken, nor any new necessity that may arise. Without the consideration at all of these things, the amount required will be the equivalent of a tax of forty-seven dollars upon each and every person in the United States. Chairman Good, of the Appropriations Committee of the House, does well at this time to point out how vital is the need for a system of appropriating government funds that will be based on sound judgment and clear perspective. He points out that at the very moment when the Secretary of Labor asks for fourteen million dollars to establish employment agencies throughout the country to help the unemployed to find work, he indoses a plan to bring one hundred thousand laborers into the country from Porto Rico and Mexico to relieve a labor shortage. Both propositions cannot be right for they are diametrically opposed. Yet they come to Congress from NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS OF ANAHEIM SUGAR COMPANY Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of stockholders in the Anaheim Sugar Company will be held at the office of the corporation at its factory adjacent to the City of Anaheim, California, on Monday, March 1st, 1920, at the hour of 2 o'clock, P.M., for the purpose of electing a Board of Directors for the ensuing year, and for the transaction of any business that may be legally brought before it. Dated at Anaheim, Calif., February 12th, 1920. L. H. MULTER, Secretary Anaheim Sugar Co. 2-12-20-3t NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Rosie S. Dickel, also known as Rosie Schmidt de Dickel, deceased. Notice is hereby given, by the undersigned, H. A. Dickel, administrator of the estate of Rosie S. Dickel, also known as Rosie Schmidt de Dickel, deceased, to the creditors of and all persons having claims against the said deceased to file them with the necessary vouchers in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of California, or to exhibit the same with the necessary vouchers to the said administrator, at his place of business, 309 North Lemon Street, Anaheim, California, in the County of Orange, within ten (10) months after the first publication of this notice. know whether this process represents progress one need only look around himself and observe how much the level of public life has been lifted by it, or to what extent corrupt influences have been excluded from political life. The country is in chaos partly because political parties are in chaos. A political party is something more than a transient coming together of elements hurriedly assembled on the basis of temporary advantage. It has some function other than that of getting out a new prospectus every four years, baited like a trout-line, with enough to fill the party net with a sufficient catch to feed the faithful. Political parties come from somewhere they stand for something, and are headed for somewhere, if they fulfill their functions as political parties. The roots of their present lie deep buried in the past. The attitude of the Republican party upon fundamental national questions at this time is the result of certain tendencies and beliefs which have been a part of the life of Republicanism since the days of the founding. The philosophy of Republicanism is derived from the teachings of Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Harrison, Garfield, Blaine, McKinley, Roosevelt and a host of others who have been its leaders, and from the practical experience of a half century in national administration accompanied by such growth in national power and prestige and diffused public good as has not been known in connection with the annals of any other government in history during a similar period. Such a party does not have to invent its principles anew every four years; it has only to broaden its fundamental policies and apply them to changing conditions. What the country needs most of all right now is a revival of political parties true to the name; parties which are not the tools of either "leaders" or "bosses," but which are primarily bodies of political faith the people may utilize for the embodiment, in laws and institutions and administration, of fundamental beliefs cherished in common by great groups of citizens who seek to make these parties representative of their ideas and ideals. If political parties fail to measure up to this ideal it is mani-perspective. He points out that at the very moment when the Secretary of Labor asks for fourteen million dollars to establish employment agencies throughout the country to help the unemployed to find work, he indoses a plan to bring one hundred thousand laborers into the country from Porto Rico and Mexico to relieve a labor shortage. Both propositions cannot be right for they are diametrically opposed. Yet they come to Congress from the same source and are urged by the head of the great departments of the government. On the very day that the Attorney General starts a crusade against buying anything except the actual necessities of immediate need, the Secretary of Agriculture urges the State Highway Commissions to buy and store for future use all kinds of materials and machinery for road construction. The Treasury Department urges Congress to accept a generous donation of several thousand acres of land from the citizens of a Southern city for the building of a hospital. Then, when Congress makes the desired appropriation, the department gives a contract for building the hospital to some of the generous-minded people who gave the land, and at double the amount which it had been estimated the work would cost. These are typical instances of how the matter of appropriations cannot be left to the judgment of department recommendations and government officials. A FEW WHOLESOME TRUTHS At a recent annual banquet of the Indiana State Republican Editorial Association in Indianapolis, Congressman Simeon D. Fess of Ohio told some wholesome truths which it is well to review. Mr. Fess said that "our country is suffering because it is not acquainted with what is going on in Washington, and does not fully know of the valuable work done by a Republican Congress in efforts to correct the expensive mistakes of the Democrats when they had full control." He added that "there never has been a time since the civil war that the country should be so aroused as now." Notice is suance of a Board of Digest Savings Bank unanimously holding office and posing said corpse him, County fornia, on the 1919, all men present a spool holders held at the door directors at Bank in town of Orange, same being business of being the Director's meet, on the 1920, at and to increase corporation into 250 shares $100.00 each 500 shares each. Dated ther A.D. 1919. By order Secretary Bank. (Corporate) ceiling of t o f o f e s c r e e t h y i e l s l i e n g l e r t u n i n g i n t h e a n d sweep there out o f all is eternal parties true to the name; parties which are not the tools of either "leaders" or "bosses," but which are primarily bodies of political faith the people may utilize for the embodiment, in laws and institutions and administration, of fundamental beliefs cherished in common by great groups of citizens who seek to make these parties representative of their ideas and ideals. If political parties fail to measure up to this ideal it is manifestly the fault of the people who go to make them up, and not of the political party system itself, which alone holds out the hope of responsible government in a representative republic. Politics as a mere means of getting office or power for any individual or clan or clique is the meanest of occupations; as the means through which principles are championed, policies established and the security, prosperity and happiness of the people promoted, it is the citizen's noblest field of service in a government of public opinion like our own. The Republican party was never more of a vital, militant force in American politics than it is today. It faces a difficult, perplexing and indeed almost impossible task—that of bringing order out of the chaos into which national affairs have been plunged, not through the party system, but because of its abandonment in favor of whimsical personal dictatorship, rejection of fundamental principles of historic Americanism and a general disregard and even contempt for American traditions in politics and public affairs. The defenders of the permanent substitution of that sort of politics for party politics as it ought to be and can be should not be argued with, but wholesome truths which it is well to review. Mr. Fess said that "our country is suffering because it is not acquainted with what is going on in Washington, and does not fully know of the valuable work done by a Republican Congress in efforts to correct the expensive mistakes of the Democrats when they had full control." He added that "there never has been a time since the civil war that the country should be so aroused as now." Among the indictments made by Congressman Fess are these: "An orgy of extravagance; viciously wicked waste; open and bold profiteering; criminal practices in the name of patriotism; indefensible inefficiency; partisan efforts to gain support in the name of "winning the war." Yet the most serious indictment Mr. Fess brought is that "the Wilson administration collected a motley aggregation of Socialists and fadists who exploited their theories" in the name of liberalism and internationalism. "The names of Creel, Post, Howe, Densmore, Walsh, Steffins, Bullitt, Herron and dozens of others of similar character indicate the play for the radical Socialist and labor vote," concluded Mr. Fess. There is one program which will rescue the country from its present deplorable condition and again place the republic on safe ground. That is—pursue the policy of Republican economy, retrenchment, sound economic and financial activity, a solution of the labor, railroad and high cost of living problems, by the application of business rules. The Republicans have saved the country from the perils of foreign entanglements; they will save A from the evils of domestic strife. WHY Everybody Eats at the Dew Drop Inn Cafe Excellent Service and Good Eating A. KLUEWER, Prop. Notice of Meeting of Stockholders of the American Savings Bank of Anaheim, a corporation, to consider a proposition to increase the capital stock of said corporation. Notice is hereby given that, in pursuance of a resolution and order of the Board of Directors of the American Savings Bank of Anaheim, a corporation unanimously adopted at a meeting of said board duly held at the office and principal place of business of said corporation in the city of Anaheim, County of Orange, State of California on the 31st day of December. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE COUNTY OF ORANGE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA Ada B. Hamilton, Plaintiff, vs. William Hamilton, Defendant. Action brought in the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of California, and the Complaint filed in the office of the Clerk of said County of Orange. H. G. AMES, Attorney for Plaintiff. Notice of Meeting of Stockholders of the American Savings Bank of Anaheim, a corporation, to consider a proposition to increase the capital stock of said corporation. Notice is hereby given that, in pursuance of a resolution and order of the Board of Directors of the American Savings Bank of Anaheim, a corporation unanimously adopted at a meeting of said board duly held at the office and principal place of business of said corporation in the city of Anaheim, County of Orange, State of California, on the 31st day of December, 1919, all members of said board being present a special meeting of the stock holders of said corporation will be held at the office of the corporation in the directors room of the First National Bank in the city of Anaheim, county of Orange, State of California, the same being the principal place of business of the said corporation and being the place where the Board of Directors of said corporation usually meet, on the 12th day of March A.D., 1920, at and acting upon a proposition to increase the capital stock of said corporation from $25,000.00 divided into 250 shares of the par value of $100.00 each, to $50,000.00 divided into 500 shares of the par value of $100.00 each. Dated the 31st day of December, A.D. 1919. By order of the Board of Directors. E. ZITZMANN Secretary of The American Savings Bank. (Corporate Seal) In the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of Californiia Ada B. Hamilton, Plaintiff, vs. William Hamilton, Defendant. Action brought in the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of California, and the Complaint filed in the office of the Clerk of said County of Orange. H. G. AMES, Attorney for Plaintiff. The People of the State of California Send Greeting to William Hamilton, Defendant. You Are Hereby Directed to Appear and answer the Complaint in an action entitled as above, brought against you in the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of California, within ten days after the service on you of this summons, if served within this County, or within thirty days if served elsewhere. And you are hereby notified that unless you appear and answer as above required, the said plaintiff will take judgment for any money or damages demanded in the complaint, as arising upon contract, or plaintiff will apply to the Court for any other relief demanded in the complaint. Given under my hand and the seal of the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of California this 21st day of January, A.D. 1920. (Seal Superior Court) J. M. BACKS, Clerk. next war will be fought, says Columbus Dispatch. But let us believe that the generation now anchored to the ground will have passed away, and its immediate successors succumbed to old age, before the "ceiling of the earth." is splattered up with human wreckage. LUCKY STRIKE MIGARETTE ET a package today. Notice the flavor—the wholee taste of Kentucky Burley cco. Why do so many "regular" buy Lucky Strike rettes? They buy them the special flavor of the ted Burley tobacco. here's the big reason—it's ted, and real Burley. 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