anaheim-gazette 1920-09-16

TO GET MORE WORK OUT OF THE SOIL Vaccination of The Earth A Newly Discovered Stunt. A discovery by means of which two blades of grass can be made to grow where but one grew before appears to have been made by a Chicago bacteriologist. Applied to grass alone the discovery would be of minor importance. It is only when two ears of corn are produced, instead of one, or the yield of wheat, peas, beans, or tomato is doubled, that its possibilities are seen. All this Dr. Frank M. Wood, inventor of the new process of fertilization, claims for it. It will revolutionize agriculture, he says, reduce the high cost of living and make farm work a pleasure rather than a burden. What Dr. Wood has done, he says, is to isolate the nitrifying organisms found in the root nudules of leguminous plants, such as clover, alfalfa and cow peas, keep them alive in a liquid emulsion and preserve them so they can be used in the soil around growing plants. Seeds soaked in this emulsion, he has found, grow much more rapidly than ordinary seeds, and have the power of changing all decaying vegetable matter in the soil into nitrates of soda and potash. Plants fed on this food, it is asserted, develop a luxuriant green foliage and bear twice as much as plants left to their own resources. "What the process amounts to," he said, "is virtually a vaccination of the soil." The benevolent germs used in his experiments are known as the nitroso cocci and the nitroso monas. The Department of Agriculture at Washington has been experimenting agree that it is mainly a problem of proper housing, and that with pleasant and comfortable homes instead of shacks and tents the labor they can get they can keep. In almost every citrus belt community groups of model cottages are being perfected for Americanization work, night schools, community entertainments, and so on. For in the main the bulk of the orange pickers will be Mexican, and the big idea back of all these efforts is to make them so comfortable and contented that they will stay on in the model cottages through the season and through the year. Agriculture in its most intensive and highly scientific phase, that is to say, citriculture has discovered it to be to its advantage to join hands with the social workers. The club women and teachers, long used to struggling on with their philanthropic efforts with scanty funds, have suddenly found a great industry eager to cooperate with them. The white laborer is not being overlooked. Some of the associations and ranches are building five room cottages for them, and as fast as it is able to attract them into the groves and the packing houses by liberal wages and economical, comfortable living, they will find jobs open to them. But in most of these communities it is conceded that they must depend for the present at least mostly upon Mexican pickers. One orange grower said: "Few white men and women can be induced to pick oranges if there is other work for them to do, and of course there is plenty of other work now. A Japanese will pick oranges till he has saved up $100, and then he goes into business for himself. So we have to depend upon the Mexicans." The trouble has been that with not enough labor for this class available, Plants fed on this food, it is asserted, develop a luxuriant green foliage and bear twice as much as plants left to their own resources. "What the process amounts to," he said, "is virtually a vaccination of the soil." The benevolent germs used in his experiments are known as the nitroso cocci and the nitroso monas. The Department of Agriculture at Washington has been experimenting with these germs for several years, and in dry form has sent them out to the farmers. But it was found that many of the organisms died in transit. The results were only 75 per cent efficient. Dr. Wood, in preserving them in liquid form, believes he has solved the problem. The emulsion can be shipped in small bottles and its strength remains even when diluted. From one barrel of the concentrated emulsion 120 barrels of the mixture can be made. For more than twenty years Dr. Wood has been studying all kinds of germ life. He became interested in the bacterization of the soil on learning of the government experiments. But, as he expresses it, he has beaten the government to it. He has discovered the secret of keeping the germs alive by the same method as nature uses. He distributed some of the emulsion among his neighbors, who were interested in gardening. It was found that a geranium slip soaked in the mixture grew more than twice as fast as slips untreated by the solution, but planted in the same kind of soil and receiving an equal amount of moisture Cucumbers, cantaloupes and tomatoes thus treated developed like hothouse plants. Golden Bantam corn shot up like magic. Farmers relying on nature's method wondered at the success which had attended their neighbor's efforts, and learned that the secret lay in this germ fertilizer. "The amazing thing about it," says the discoverer, "is that this fertilizer can be produced at such low cost. Through the new method the farmer can obtain practically the same amount of nitrates for 25 cents an acre that would have cost $30. The prices of soda and potash for fertilizing purposes are almost prohibitive. "Large crop production will mean not only cheaper bread, canned goods and vegetables, but will bring down meat prices by enabling the farmers to ceded that they must depend for the present at least mostly upon Mexican pickers. One orange grower said: "Few white men and women can be induced to pick oranges if there is other work for them to do, and of course there is plenty of other work now. A Japanese will pick oranges till he has saved up $100, and then he goes into business for himself. So we have to depend upon the Mexicans." The trouble has been that with not enough labor for this class available, the effective supply has been further shortened by the tendency of the Mexicans to work a little while at one place and then, disatisfied, to wander on to another district, or to shift into Los Angeles and be lost to the citrus industry for some weeks or months. But if the Mexican and his family can be anchored to a community by means of a better home than they have ever had, with steady employment throughout the year, this loss of time will be eliminated and the available labor used to its fullest capacity. In San Dimas is to be seen one of the most striking evidences of this summer's efforts of the citrus people to prepare for the desperate problem of the winter which is forecasted by the little green oranges that cluster so thickly on their trees. The La Habra Citrus Association has built 60 cottages and will build 30 more before the picking season commences. CITRUS CROPS Congratulations spontaneously spring to the California Fruit Growers' exchange, the co-operative association of citrus orchardists, which has just wound up the most successful year's business in its history. Its report for the fiscal year just closed reveals that the oranges, lemons and grapefruit which were marketed during the twelfemonth amount to an output of 46,757 carloads, and bring into the state the prodigious sum of $81,200,000, an increase of $5,600,000 over the previous year. Of this entire crop the exchange handled nearly 75 per cent through its non-profiting marketing system. Returns to the growers who are members of the exchange were net. The cost of handling this immense crop is demonstrated to be the lowest marketing cost of any perishable food product in America. Looking back over a period of 17 years, the exchange contemplates with pride the growth of business, the advancement in profits and increase of production. The council of nations would have no necessary, the memorial advancing more easily than nations of Europa. As this would be the scheme of world was formulated and President, speaking States, the fact of its ability, resting upon manifestly would have Undoubtedly I advise upon the new obligations to Pola filled, as provided would have so hold conscience of America opinion of the worldtained that judgment. The conclusion might now be confirmed, if the Sense League covenant, of the imagination... "The amazing thing about it," says the discoverer, "is that this fertilizer can be produced at such low cost. Through the new method the farmer can obtain practically the same amount of nitrates for 25 cents an acre that would have cost $30. The prices of soda and potash for fertilizing purposes are almost prohibitive. "Large crop production will mean not only cheaper bread, canned goods and vegetables, but will bring down meat prices by enabling the farmers to feed cattle, hogs and sheep at less expense. This means also cheaper wool. And when the price of food comes down other prices will follow. Dr. Wood served overseas during the war as captain in the Medical Corps. He has done much of his work at the government agricultural experiment station in Texas." BUILD HOUSES FOR EMPLOYES With excellent prospects for an orange crop 50 per cent heavier than that of last year, orange growers are confronted with the grave problem of finding an adequate supply of labor to pick and pack it. Driven by the stern necessities of the case, for it was with great difficulty that last year's short crop was taken care of, citrus ranchers are building hundreds of cottages of concrete, hollow tile and wood, with intention to be prepared with housing facilities for their labor, says the La Habra Star. Some of the associations are planning to go into the other sections of the state and into adjoining states and find laborers to work in the groves and the packing houses. Others expect that enough laborers can be gathered together locally. But all of them year. Of this entire crop the exchange handled nearly 75 per cent through its non-profit marketing system. Returns to the growers who are members of the exchange were net. The cost of handling this immense crop is demonstrated to be the lowest marketing cost of any perishable food product in America. Looking back over a period of 17 years, the exchange contemplates with pride the growth of business, the advancement in profits and increase of production. Southern California absorbs 97 per cent of the lemon and 87 per cent of the orange receipts, so about $75,000-000 is added to the year's revenue of this region from its citrus crops alone. When one remembers what enthusiasm was manifest at the figures of the orange industry in recent years $30,000,000 and $50,000,000 return from and what rapid strides of progress are being made in bringing new orchards into productivity, it is evident that we shall soon arrive at the stage of a $100,000,000 crop of the golden fruit, which will make the highest record of gold mining in this state look small by contrast. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE First Church of Christ, Scientist, corner of Philadelphia and Chartres streets. Sunday service at 11 a.m. Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. A meeting Wednesday at 7:45 p.m., at which testimonials of healing are given. Free reading room in the First National Bank building, rooms 304 and 305; open daily from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., except Sundays and legal holidays, where the Bible and authorized Christian Science literature may be read, borrowed or purchased if desired. The public is cordially welcome. HARDING GLAD AMERICANS ARE A FREE PEOPLE In Speech to Indiana Delegation Republican Nominee Declares for Security at Home EUROPE HAS EVEN NOW QUIT WILSON'S LEAGUE Yet Democratic Party Leaders Would Have Us Bound by Original Pact with No American Safeguards. "STEADY AMERICA!" "Mindful of our splendid example and renewing every obligation of association in war, I want America to be the rock of security at home, resolute in righteousness and unalterable in security and supremacy of the law." "Let us be done with wiggling and wobbling." "Steady America! Let us assure good fortune to all."—Senator Warren G. Harding in address before the Indiana delegation at Marlon. Marlon, Ohio (Special) — Senator Warren G. Harding, Republican nominee for President, in a speech delivered to a delegation from Indiana which called on him here to pledge the support of Indiana Republicans, declared that twice President Wilson had an opportunity to obtain ratification of the League of Nations covenant, and that he put ratification aside because he would not accept reservations designed solely to safeguard American rights. Senator Harding said: "I greet you in a spirit of rejoicing; not a rejoicing in the narrow personal incorporating the assumption that the case provided for and prescribed had arisen, and that the extraneous attack did exist precisely as it does exist today in Poland, the President admitted specifically that we would be untrue if we did not keep our word. "Replying further to a question which perhaps I ought not to have considered necessary, the President pronounced a moral obligation of course, superior to a legal obligation, and of a greater binding force. “What then becomes of the argument that Congress, not the President, in this instance at any rate, might ‘keep us out of war?’ Technically, of course, it could do so. Morally, with equal certainty, it could not do so, nor would it ever do so. The American people would never permit a repudiation of a debt of honor. “Am I not right, my countrymen, in saying that we needed only the outbreak of war between Poland and Russia to make us realize at least one of the things which, in the words of Secretary Lansing, we would have been ‘let in for,’ but for the restraining hand of the Senate; and to fetch home to us the danger of committing our country in advance to causes that we know not of? “One can have no quarrel with those who have convinced themselves that our underlying purpose in entering the great conflict was to create a League of Nations. The fact remains, however, that no such intent was officially acclaimed, no allusion, nor even a suggestion to that effect appeared in the joint resolution of Congress, which declared the existence of a state of war between this country and Germany. For myself I left no room for doubt of the motives which led me to cast my vote in favor of that resolution. It so happened that I made the concluding speech upon the war resolution, from my place in the Senate, on the night of April 4, 1917. These were my own words at that time: 'I want it known to the people of my state and to the nation that I am voting for war tonight for the maintenance of just American rights, which is the first essential to the preservation of the soul guarded people. "It was with that feeling of sympathy and desire to serve, that most reluctantly and with grave misgiving, as I announced at the time, I will reservations designed to preserve our essential liberty of action. The record is made and under the same conditions, confronted by the same alternative, I should vote now as I voted them. "But the conditions have changed. Experience has brought enlightenment. We know now that the League constituted at Versailles is utterly impudent as a preventative of wars. It is so obviously impotent that it has not even been tried. The original League mistakenly conceived and unreasonably insisted upon, has undoubtedly passed beyond the possibility of restoration. The maturer judgment of the world will be that it deserved to pay for the very simple reason that contrary to all of the tendencies developed by the civilizing processes of the world, it rested upon the power of might, not of right. "The assertion is made frequently that through the surrender of our nationality we might have saved the life of the covariant—that is to say, that although twenty-eight nations could not make it function, one added to the twenty-eight would have achieved a glowing success, provided always that the one were America. “This pays to America the tribute of exceptional influence, but I suggest that if the world is dependent upon our action to bring about the supreme realization, then we ought to have the say about our own freedom in participation therein. But let us consider what is meant by this reliance upon America. What can it signify if not that it is to the United States, and to the United States alone, that the other twenty-eight nations look for the bone and sinew, the money, the munitions and the men to sustain the entire organization, not as an agency of peace, but as an armed force? "A few days ago a delegation of an organization which calls itself a society for the prevention of war appealed to the Premier of Great Britain to unite and use the powers of the world in..." Marlon, Ohio (Special) — Senator Warren G. Harding, Republican nominee for President, in a speech delivered to a delegation from Indiana which called on him here to pledge the support of Indiana Republicans, declared that twice President Wilson had an opportunity to obtain ratification of the League of Nations covenant, and that he put ratification aside because he would not accept reservations designed solely to safeguard American rights. Senator Harding said: "I greet you in a spirit of rejoicing; not a rejoicing in the narrow personal or partisan sense, not in the gratifying prospects of party triumph; not in the contemplation of abundance in the harvest fields and ripening corn fields and maturing orchards; not in the reassuring approach of stability after a period of wiggling and wobbling which magnified our uncertainty—though all of these are ample for our wide rejoicing—but I rejoice that America is still free and independent and in a position of self reliance and holds to the right of self determination, which are priceless possessions in the present turbulence of the world. "Let us suppose the Senate had ratified the peace treaty containing the League covenant as submitted to it by the President in July of last year, what would be the situation confronting our common country today? To my mind there is but one answer. Before this day we would have been called upon to fulfill the obligations which we had assumed under Article 10 of the League covenant to preserve the territorial integrity of Poland as against external aggression. "I shall not now attempt to measure the boundless sympathy for the just aspirations and restored independence of Poland. Our present concern is the international situation which Poland has brought to our attention. "The Council of the League of Nations would have reasoned, and reasoned correctly, that the United States could furnish the munitions, if necessary, the men to withstand the hordes advancing from Russia far more easily than could the exhausted nations of Europe. Moreover, insamuch as this would be the first test of the scheme of world government which was formulated and demanded by the President, speaking for the United States, the fact of a special responsibility, resting upon our shoulders, manifestly would have been undeniable. Undoubtedly the League Council, in advising upon the means by which the obligations to Poland should be fulfilled, as provided in the covenant, would have so held, and probably the conscience of America, certainly the opinion of the world, would have sustained that judgment. "The conclusion that our country might now be confronted by such a situation, if the Senate had ratified the League covenant, requires no stretch of the imagination. None can deny clarified the existence of a state of war between this country and Germany. For myself I left no room for doubt of the motives which led me to cast my vote in favor of that resolution. It so happened that I made the concluding speech upon the war resolution, from my place in the Senate, on the night of April 4, 1917. These were my own words at that time: 'I want it known to the people of my state and to the nation that I am voting for war tonight for the maintenance of just American rights, which is the first essential to the preservation of the soul of this republic. I vote for this joint resolution to make war, not a war thrust upon us, if I could choose the language of the resolution, but a war declared in response to affronts, a war that will at least put a soul into our American life, a war not for France, beautiful as the sentiment may be in reviving at least our gratitude to the French people; not precisely a war for civilization, worthy and inspiring as that would be, but a war that speaks for the majesty of the people properly governed, who finally are brought to the crucial test where they are resolved to get together and wage a conflict for the maintenance of their rights and the preservation of their covenant inherited from their fathers. "We have given to the world the spectacle of a great nation that could make war without selfish intent. We unsheathed the sword some eighteen years ago for the first time in the history of the world, in the name of humanity, and we gave proof to the world at that time of an unselfish nation. Now, whether it is fate, or fortune, or travail of destiny, it has come to us to unsheath the sword again, not alone for humanity's sake—though that splendid inspiration will be involved—but to unsheathe the sword against a great power in the maintenance of the rights of the republic, in the maintenance which will give to us a new guaranty of nationality. That's great thing, and I want it known, Mr. President, and senators, that this is the impelling thought for me, for one, in casting my vote." "It is for that same 'guaranty of nationality' that I stand today and shall continue to stand inflexibly, so long as I shall be permitted to live. The independence of our great republic is to me a priceless and sacred inheritance. Time was when an American did not hesitate to proclaim himself a patriot. To do so now, I am well aware, is sometimes to invite the sneers of cynicism. But why should any true American not be free to say 'I am a patriot, wholly devoted to my country, which I hold to be God's best inspiration to man for higher attainment and the promotion of the world's best civilization'? But I have a special reason for making this reference today. I chal- pation therein. But let us consider what is meant by this reliance upon America. What can it signify if not that it is to the United States, and to the twenty-eight nations look for the bone and sinew, the money, the munitions and the men to sustain the entire organization, not as an agency of peace. but as an armed force? "A few days ago a delegation of an organization which calls itself a society for the prevention of war appealed to the Premier of Great Britain to unite and use the powers of the world in defense of Poland, Armania and Dardenelles. The British Premier replied according to his remarks quoted by the newspapers, to the effect that while the formation of an 'international army' would be 'an ideal solution', it could not be accomplished because the European nations could not furnish the troops and the United States had 'withdrawn from co-operation'—a polite and diplomatic phrase and more exactly meaning, of course, that the Senate of the United States had not completed the partial obligation assumed by the President to do that very thing—that is, to 'furnish the troops.' Could a clearer indication of what would have been expected of this country as a member of the League of Nations be desired? Hardly. Some too, think, or say they think, that this extraordinary service should be rendered. I do not agree with them, but assuming that they are right, I venture to note that nothing stands in the way of performance. The President has only to call upon Congress to declare war and to confer upon him specific authority to raise armies for the protection of the powers which, though recently associated with, are still foreign to our own republic. "It is reasonably safe to assume however, that the President will not pursue this course. Fortunately he is under no 'compelling moral obligation' under the League to do so. His recent unhappy experience, moreover, in asking Congress to send American boys to police Armenia, would hardly encourage repetition of a request already courteously but quite firmly declined by the Congress. What then in like circumstances would be the answer of the British Premier himself? In his own words, addressing a meeting of the Coalition Liberals on August 12 last, according to press reports, he said: 'When the terrible question of peace or war has to be decided, our first duty as a government is tothe people who trust us not to commit their treasure to any unjustifiable adventure. Nothing but the most imperative call of national honor, national safety and national freedom can justify war. Before this country is committed to it, even inthe most limited form, we must be satisfied that these are in peril.'" "I quote these telling words, my countrymen, with the utmost satisfac- The conclusion that our country might now be confronted by such a situation, if the Senate had ratified the League covenant, requires no stretch of the imagination. None can deny that it is possible. To many candid minds, as to my own, such a distressing situation will seem highly probable. Let us assume that the ratification had taken place. Let us assume further; that the performance of the allotted task required the waging of war upon the Russian people, as, of course, it would, what would result; what would of necessity have to result? Nothing necessarily, we are gilbly informed, since only the Congress can declare war, and the Congress might reject the appeal of the executive, but would the Congress do that? Could the Congress do that without staining indelibly the honor of the nation? "I answer No," and I say it not on my own authority alone. Back of my judgment stands the President of the United States. Upon that point there is first hand information. In the course of the discussion which took place at the meeting of the President and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations I raised the question by stating a hypothetical case precisely analogous to that which I have depleted, and then inquired whether we might not rightfully be regarded as a peridulous people if we should fail to contribute an armed force if called upon to do so. The President first replied, as I thought, somewhat evasively, that we would be our own judges as to whether we were obliged in those circumstances to act in that way or not. Pressed further, however, in response to a query The independence of our great republic is to me a priceless and sacred inheritance. Time was when an American did not hesitate to proclaim himself a patriot. To do so now, I am well aware, is sometimes to invite the sneers of cynicism. But why should any true American not be free to say "I am a patriot, wholly devoted to my country, which I hold to be God's best inspiration to man for higher attainment and the promotion of the world's best civilization? "But I have a special reason for making this reference today. I challenge the statement that the patriotism which holds America first comprehends either narrowness or selfishness, or as implying tacit suspicion and jealousy of other peoples. "To assert, as some have asserted, heedlessly, that those of us who honestly believe that America can best serve all mankind as America, free and unrammeled, rather than as one of a pitiful minority among many states in merged world government, lack of consciousness of the rightful demands of humanity, is to utter a gross and unpardonable libel. To attribute meanness to those of us who, in the performance of our public duty, refused to participate in what we sincerely regarded as a betrayal of our own country in the interest of others, is to discredit the intelligence and discrimination of the great mass of American people who directly, by their votes, put us in our positions of trust. For myself, I yield to no man in willingness, aye, in eagerness, to render the greatest conceivable assistance to the stricken peoples of Europe. I include all of them and speak with a genuinely sympathetic heart, whether it is to mention devastated France, or sorely tried Italy, or nobly struggling Poland, or distracted and misguided Russia, or gallant little Belgium, or pitilably deceived Austria, or the ruthless invader, Germany, which came to the supreme tragedy through a leadership which brought disaster to her mis- Long Life, Much Pep, No Goat Glands. 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It is not only comfortable, but really cozy, and above all, economical in operation and maintenance, and has all the Ford merits of strength and durability. let us consider reliance upon signify if not States, and to that the other book for the bone the munitions in the entire or-agency of peace. delegation of an itself a society war appealed to Britain to unite of the world in Hermania and the British Premier remarks quoted the effect that, of an 'interna-' an ideal solu-accomplished be-ations could not and the United from co-opera-diplomatic phraseanning, of course, the United States partial obliga-President to do, to furnish the herer indication of expected of this of the League of Hardly. Some think, that this should be ren-with them, but, right, I venture stands in the way President hasgress to declare upon him specific for the pro-which, though with, are still for-public. safe to assume, president will not Fortunately he is moral obligation' do so. His recent moreover, in ask-American boys to hardly encour-request already firmly declined What then in like be the answer of himself? In his a meeting of the August 12 last reports, he said: question of peace ded, our first duty to the people, who mit their treasure adventure. Nothing live call of nationalety and national war. Before this to it, even in the we must be satis- on peril." The dull blue finish prevents tired eyes THIS semester—let's do every thing we can to get the best "marks"! You can do better work on Blue Bond—and there's a bluish tinge in it, too, that saves your eyes from tiring. You will find Blue Bond made for you in composition books, spelling blanks, filler tablets, blank books, memo pads and note books. FERTILE IMAGINATION Frederick George Xavier Walthosemann Gathsamen Schank, heir to the throne of Denmark, former chief of police of St. Louis, Missouri, and commander of an American fleet of sixteen vessels which sank 1526 German vessels in an engagement in the North Sea—so he says, was in the court of Justice of Peace Cox Saturday on a vagrancy charge and is now being held under observation at the county hospital while pyhsicians passed on his sanity. During his travels in California, Frederick George, etc., has assumed the name of George Sailor. He was arrested at Orange by Motor officer H. S. Warner. Sailor told Judge Cox he was stolen from his royal parents at the age of two years and brought to this country. He said he grew up at Alton, Illinois, and that the index fingers of both hands were severed and his right eye taken out when he was 10 years of age in order to hide his identity. Sailor also told the court that he had been crucified ten times but that he foiled those who sought his death by changing his spirit to another body. Sailor also said he had an order from President Wilson excusing him from further work.