anaheim-gazette 1920-07-08

DISCREDIT UPON WILSON, NOT NATION From the beginning of his administration, Woodrow Wilson has been unable to distinguish between himself and the United States government. In his public utterances from time to time he has assumed that he and the government are identical—that he is the government. He has lost sight of the fact that the government is composed of three coordinate branches, the legislative, the executive, and the judicial, the legislative being first and vested with the greatest powers. At best the executive is only a part of the government and a minor part at that. In one of his most recent utterances President Wilson declared that the United State stands discredited before the world because of its failure to ratify the peace treaty with the league of nations covenant incorporated therein. A delay which will ultimately extend over a period of two years, in the ratification of a peace treaty, must bring discredit somewhere, and it is pertinent, therefore, to examine the truthfulness of President Wilson's statement, that the United States stands discredited. The United States entered the war to defend its own rights by joining in the defeat of Germany and its associates. Our purpose was intensely practical and we were not actuated by any visionary idealism such as that which Woodrow Wilson afterwards expressed. When the purposes for which we entered the war had been accomplished the war should have been terminated by negotiation of a plain treaty of peace imposing upon the offending nations such obligations as the events justified. There would have been no delay in securing ratification of such a treaty. turn-off, and the meadow district is twelve miles from there. Spots of camping will be found throughout the San Jacinto mountains which are new to a large majority of car owners. If you have never thought of those mountains, ask the club about them. To the south, in the vicinity of San Diego and Imperial counties are the Palomar Mountain and Cuyamaca Lake regions which are virgin territory to many campers. Look these up and get maps of the roads there. Skipping to the north, consider seriously the beautiful camping places in and around the Moro Beach district. Also, there is Paradise Valley just north of the San Marcus on Santa Inez Creek. Have you ever investigated these spots? These ideas will take you out of the hackneyed run of camping grounds. Again motorists are forgetting that Fido cannot go on his vacation into the national parks, says the automobile club. Motoring parties taking the family pet along with them on the good old summer vacation will find that they are refused admittance to the General Grant and Sequoia reserves as well as the Yosemite unless they leave Fido behind. The quarantine is "still on" in all of Fresno county and no dogs are allowed in or out of that section. No other counties to date have reported any quarantine on animals, and they will not unless an epidemic of rabies becomes general. Motorists will welcome the news that Camp Kearny has set aside two visiting days each month for their special benefit. Through the Automobile Club of Southern California an invitation to all auto owners to visit the camp has been extended by Major General Jos. strongest cabinet Washington. And precedent for se dates for cabin was the leading o publican nomination field finally won "plumed knight" Maine his premiere And as the R good campaign p San Bernardino s TOO MAY A warrant for Hegele, was issued tice of the Peace o W. E. Adkins games commission ty. Hegele is cha his possession m of muscles on o Back of Hegele of a fight among Beach as to just lhe law. Adkinson Beach by Hegele activities of a num ers who, Hegele ing the law. Upon his arrival kinson went to Hess. Hegele wa waiting for Hegele son happened to o and saw a big He investigated a had in his possess sels than an Oran allows. When Hegele questioned him Hegele is said to that he did not th e Orange county was protected by game commission ence with District and we were not actuated by any visionary idealism such as that which Woodrow Wilson afterwards expressed. When the purposes for which we entered the war had been accomplished the war should have been terminated by negotiation of a plain treaty of peace imposing upon the offending nations such obligations as the events justified. There would have been no delay in securing ratification of such a treaty. On March 4, 1919, thirty-nine members of the senate notified President Wilson that they were opposed to the incorporation of extraneous matter in the peace treaty, and that they were desirous of an immediate negotiation of peace. This was extending to President Wilson the "advice of the senate" which the Constitution requires him to receive and consider. Assuming that he alone constituted the government, Woodrow Wilson rejected the advice of the senate, forced the league covenant into the treaty, and by that act caused the delay which has since ensued. The United States government would stand discredited indeed if one of its coordinate branches should deliberately surrender or evade its constitutional duty of passing judgment upon treaties which bind this nation in its relation with the other nations of the earth. Fortunately the members of the senate neither evaded their responsibility nor surrendered their power. When President Wilson proposed to surrender American sovereignty to a super-state they defeated that effort by an overwhelming vote, members of his own party joining in the refusal to bind the United States to the league covenant in the form which President Wilson proposed. The sum and substance of the whole matter is that President Wilson assumed a power he did not possess. The whole world knew that President Wilson had been notified by a sufficient number of senator to defeat the league covenant, that they were opposed to its incorporation in the treaty. The world knew, therefore, that the United States could not be bound by any agreement he personally might make with that purpose in view. If promises have been made or moral obligations assumed, they were assumed by Woodrow Wilson acting in defiance of the plain terms of the Constitution which he was sworn to uphold. Wood- PICKING A CABINET By way of making things easy for Senator Harding, the Bache Review, a financial journal, proposes that the republican nominee announce in advance his cabinet, and certainly picks out a bunch of notables for the places to be occupied by the president's official advisers. The publication says: We suggest to Senator Harding that he at once select his cabinet tentatively, procure acceptances from those selected, and announce now the cabinet which will work with him if he is elected. Many of the men placed in nomination would make ideal cabinet members; other high-class names are also probably available. For instance: For secretary of war—General Leonard Wood. For secretary of state—Herbert C. Hoover. For secretary of the treasury—John W. Weeks. For attorney general—Charles E. Hughes. For postmaster general—Miles Poindexter. Representative thus expresses that "It is argued Britain that she us to susperede and to these I can land is now com-cruiser of the He-displacement wi carrying eight 15 no direction ther-type of super-donts and 23-k twelve 16-inch the past 12 mo-destroyed the fo-at least one sis-type in the inter-maintain that urest on her boo-least to her f-would not be ju-with a costly program, and po-us, when she h-have no design-may have. AUTO CLUB NOTES Auto trips of from 100 to 50 miles for a holiday outing are nothing in the life of a Southern California motorist, and requests for information in this regard are swamping the touring bureau of the Automobile Club of Southern California. "Where can we go that we have never been before?" is the general plaint of the local automobile owner. Here are some suggestion made by the auto club for those who are planning to spend a short vacation in the mountains or by the sea, taking their own kits with them: It will be noted that each place indicated is available for motorists in any county of the southern part of the state, and a general "swapping" of localities is made possible by the suggestions. Take the Barton Flats and Big Meadows areas. These are reached from the Mill sreek Road at a point one mile south of the upper Bear Valley control. A club sign marks the For secretary of war—General Leonard Wood. For secretary of state—Herbert C. Hoover. For secretary of the treasury—John W. Weeks. For attorney general—Charles E. Hughes. For postmaster general—Miles Poindexter. For secretary of labor—Frank O. Lowden. For secretary of the navy—Admiral Sims. For secretary of agriculture—George E. Vincent. For secretary of the interior—Myron T. Herrick. If this is done, these various prospective cabinet members should arrange a speaking tour of the United States and tell the people what to expect from the republican party for the next four years. We can conceive of no better campaign plan, and though this course has not been taken heretofore, the country has grown to such an extent that today no one man is safely entitled to dictate the nation's policies or to mark out the difficult pathway of its future footsteps. Consequently, the public is entitled to know who will be the advisers of a prospective president. With the single exception of the name mentioned for the department of agriculture, it is certainly an all-star aggregation. And perchance Mr. Vincent is quite as celebrated in his line as are Gen. Wood, Judge Hughes and the others. If such a list of men as this could be summoned to the public service, it would mark one of the While the prince hurt by her slay among the navies she certainly can fully compete in really determining we are entitled to world's foremost American comm protection it fails entrance into the "The phrase 'will mean just and our supremely justify the commerce on cause we have England has done our disappointment." "If the naval Pacific coast prize but adequate for ers and gunboots now thoroughly the wants of theican navy while base on the Protection of America diplomacy, and plain just why San Francisco course of const..." ANAHEIM GAZETTE TOO MANY CLAMS A warrant for the arrest of Frank Hegele, was issued Wednesday by Justice of the Peace Cox upon complaint of W. E. Adkinson, deputy fish and games commissioner of Orange county. Hegele is charged with having in his possession more than 25 pounds of muscles on one day. Back of Hegele's arrest is a story of a fight among fishermen at Seal Beach as to just who was violating the law. Adkinson was called to Seal Beach by Hegele to investigate the activities of a number of cockel hunters who, Hegele claimed, were violating the law. Upon his arrival at Seal Beach, Adkinson went to Hegele's place of business. Hegele was out of town. While waiting for Hegele to return Adkinson happened to look about the place and saw a big box full of mussels. He investigated and found that Hegele had in his possession more of the mussels than an Orange county ordinance allows. When Hegele returned Adkinson questioned him about the mussels. Hegele is said to have told Adkinson that he did not care anything about the Orange county ordinance; that he was protected by the state fish and game commission. After a conference with District Attorney L. A. West, Helm commission was appointed by act of congress to make a thorough study of conditions on the Pacific coast and to report its finding to congress. "Among other things, the commission said that in order to be as effectively operated in the Pacific as in the Atlantic the size of the fleet now existing and authorized makes desirable immediate provision for a marked extension in berthing, docking, and repair facilities on the Pacific coast. "For strategic reasons it was found necessary and desirable that there should be at least two navy yards of the first class on the Pacific coast of the United States; that the strategic location, physical characteristics, industrial advantages, and defensibility of the navyyard at Puget Sound are of such character as to make its development as one of these yards not only necessary and desirable but imperative, in view of the requirements of that region for national defense; that the extension of the present navyyard at Mare Island adjacent to San Francisco bay to meet the requirements of one of two main navyyards on the Pacific coast is impracticable, due to physical limitations, but that its development within certain restrictions is desirable, practicable, and recommended." THE HIGHWAY SITUATION The next two weeks, up to July 14, are the most critical in the history of state highway work in California. Within that time 75,000 signatures must be obtained to place upon the ballot an initiative petition to change the interest rate on remaining state highway bonds to a rate, which will make them salable, and also at the same time to relieve the counties of all highway bond interest after July 1, 1921. Under the initiative a board, composed of the governor and other on the administration payroll and having been the beneficiary of all sorts of political and personal favors at the hands of the administration being be AMERICAN NAVY ALONE CAN SAVE SEA FREEDOM Britton of Illinois, Gives Facts to Controvert President's Pet Expression Reliance upon the upbuilding of the American navy as the only means of maintaining "freedom of the seas" is the republican answer to the British league of nations pact. Representative Britton of Illinois thus expresses the republican idea: "It is argued by friends of Great Britain that she simply will not allow us to suspense her on the high seas, and to these I can only reply that England is now completing but one battle cruiser of the Hood type of 41,200 tons displacement with a 31-knot speed, carrying eight 15-inch guns, which is in no direction the equal of our Indiana type of superdreadnought of 43,000 tons and 23-knot speed, carrying twelve 16-inch guns, and that during the past 12 months Great Britain has destroyed the form works and keel of at least one sister ship of the Hood type in the interest of economy, and I maintain that until she can pay interest on her bonded indebtedness, at least to her foreign creditors, she would not be justified in going ahead with a costly competitive battleship program, and particularly so not with us, when she realizes fully that we have no designs upon anything she may have. The next two weeks, up to July 14, are the most critical in the history of state highway work in California. Within that time 75,000 signatures must be obtained to place upon the ballot an initiative petition to change the interest rate on remaining state highway bonds to a rate, which will make them salable, and also at the same time to relieve the counties of all highway bond interest after July 1, 1921. Under the initiative a board, composed of the governor and other state officers and serving without compensation, is created that fixes the interest to be paid from time to time to meet market conditions, but never to exceed six per cent. This initiative is necessary if highway work is not to stop for an indefinite period, resulting for all practical purposes to writing the word "canceled" across the face of the bonds. This initiative is necessary if counties are to be relieved of state highway interest burden for all time to come. This burden for Orange county in 1919 amounts to $20,413.94. The committee of twenty-one, representing the state-wide conference, which on June 19 unanimously proposed to back these proposals for relieving the highway situation, met in San Francisco June 29 and appointed a committee to direct the campaign for signatures. On this committee are Senator Johnson, chairman; Burton A. Towne, secretary; James O'Brien of Marysville, A. S. Dudley of Los Angeles and Supervisor Richard Welsh of San Francisco. The committee, accepting the draft of the initiative as prepared by Attorney General Webb, will call upon all chambers of commerce, boards of supervisors, farm bureaus and citizens interested in the continuation of state highway construction in California, to circulate the petition and secure the signatures necessary to the initiative measure upon the ballot at the November election. Local committees are urged to take a lively interest in this activity, which has a direct interest to every user of state highways, and to every taxpayer in California. QUICKSILVER PRODUCTION Between January 1 and March 31, 1920, inclusive, 4,899 flasks of quicksilver, each of 75 pounds net, was produced in the United States, according on the administration payroll and having been the beneficiary of all sorts of political and personal favors at the hands of the administration, being besides, an alien-born advocate of the un-Americanized covenant of the league of nations, it is not surprising to note that Mr. Gompers is rather more enthusiastic than usual this year in his efforts to hand over the "labor vote" to his fellow democratic politicians. Doubtless there is ample warrant for the statement of the New York World, democratic organ, that no matter what happens at San Francisco Mr. Gompers and his coterie will be against the republican ticket in this campaign as they have been in all previous campaigns. destroyed the form works and keel of at least one sister ship of the Hood type in the interest of economy, and I maintain that until she can pay interest on her bonded indebtedness, at least to her foreign creditors, she would not be justified in going ahead with a costly competitive battleship program, and particularly so not with us, when she realizes fully that we have no designs upon anything she may have. "While the pride of England may be hurt by her slide into second place among the naval powers of the world, she certainly cannot hope to successfully compete against us if we are really determined to take the place we are entitled to on the seas as the world's foremost nation and where American commerce can receive the protection it failed to get prior to our entrance into the World war. "The phrase 'the freedom of the sea' will mean just exactly what is says, and our supremacy thereon will never justify the control and regulation of the commerce of all nations merely because we have the power to do so, as England has done in the past, much to our disappointment and, at times, humiliation. "If the naval establishments on the Pacific coast prior to the last year were but adequate for a few obsolete cruisers and gunboats, they certainly are now thoroughly inadequate to supply the wants of that portion of the American navy which must in the future base on the Pacific coast for the protection of American commerce and diplomacy, and it is quite hard to explain just why a great naval base in San Francisco bay is not now in course of construction. "Mr. Speaker, some years ago the QUICKSILVER PRODUCTION Between January 1 and March 31, 1920, inclusive, 4,899 flasks of quicksilver, each of 75 pounds net, was produced in the United States, according to F. L. Ransome of the United States geological survey, department of the interior, who obtained the figures from the producers. This is 852 flasks less than the output in the fourth quarter of 1919 and 1,226 flasks less than that in the first quarter of 1919. California produced 3,994 flasks, and Texas, Oregon and yevada together produced 905 flasks. There were 10 productive mines in California and 1 in each of the three other producing states. Less than 100 flasks was produced by mines outside of California and Texas. The quicksilver on hand at the mines or in transit to market at the end of the quarter amounted to 4,160 flasks. The average monthly prices of quicksilver per flask in San Francisco in the first three months of 1920, as quoted in the mining and Scientific press, were $89 in January, $81 in February, and $87 in March. ON THE JOB AGAIN "Delivering labor" to the democratic party is the regular biennial job of Samuel Gompers and the coterie of fellow democrats who have managed to get control of the machinery of the American Federation of Labor. Being a strong partisan democrat, with a son Your Pleasure Trip Will It Be An Enjoyable One? Question these days—how to spend that well-earned vacation. Planning an auto tour, be sure of your car. Is the engine running all right, else needed to put your car in first class running order so that you will not or delayed upon the road? Play Safe! Car in to us before you start, Let us give it a complete overhauling, if necmake any needed repairs. Let us put it in shape so that you can start on that assurance and confidence that your car will get you there and back. Need anything in the line of camping necessities or auto accessories came to fill your wants. DODGE BROTHERS MOTOR CAR Charles H. Mann Exclusive Distributors for Anaheim 138 South Los Angeles St. Phone 43 DECREASE IN PUBLIC DEBT The public debt decreased by more than a million dollars the fiscal year on payroll and havdiary of all sorts personal favors at the distruction, being, ben advocate of the covenant of the it is not surprising Gompers is rather man usual this year and over the "labor democratic politihere is ample warment of the New York organ, that no matSan Francisco Mr. Jersey will be against in this campaign in all previous campaligns, no matter what the candidates or the issues. But it is pretty clear that when Mr. Gompers has made his usual partisan fight for the democratic ticket, and has been licked along with all the rest of the administration shouters, he will be of about as much value to labor as a Washington lobbyist as a last year's bird's nest. It is high time that republican labor unionists, of whom there are a vast number, should begin to make trouble for Mr. Gompers in his attempt to use the power and influence committed to him for another purpose for the furtherance of his own partisan and personal ends. DECREASE IN PUBLIC DEBT The public debt decreased by more than a million dollars the fiscal year of 1919, just ended, and by more than $2,000,000,000 since last August 31, when the war debt was at its peak, according to the quarterly debt statement issued Friday night by the treasury. On June 30 the public debt was $24,295,467.07, a drop of $1,185,184, 692.98 from the June 30 1919, total of $25,484,506,160.05 and a decline of $2295,380,180.94 from the peak figure of $26,596,701,648.01 on August 31. The decrease for the period from May 31 to June 30 was $675,641,559.72. OHN H. COOK OF ANAHEIM announces himself as a candidate for Supervisor of Third Supervisorial candidate for Supervisor of Third Supervisorial district of Orange county, ject to the decision of ers at the Primary Elecn August 31, 1920.