anaheim-gazette 1920-09-30

AMERICAN FARMS PROVISIONED THE WORLD ELEVEN BILLION / DOLLARS WORTH OF PRODUCTS EXPORTED DURING THE WAR Farmers Took Upon Themselves The Responsibility of Feeding The World And They Made Good—Senator Harding Says Their Achievements One of The Most Glorious Chapters In American History. In his address at the Minnesota State Fair, Senator Warren G. Harding, dwelling on the ordinary dull statistics, concerning the disparate increase of city with rural population since 1900, paid tribute to the farmers in these words: "The splendid part played by the farmers of the nation during the war probably never will be understood or fully appreciated by our people. They took to themselves the responsibility of feeding not only our own people, but also our allies across the sea. The story of what they did, written by some one who understands it, will furnish one of the most glorious chapters in American history." With a view to presenting a phase of the part played by our agriculturalists during the war the following "ordinary dull statistics" have been delved from the official figures of the U. S. Department of Commerce, showing our exports. The European War broke out system adopted by the Wilson Administration resulted in unheard of wages to labor and in luring large numbers of hands from the farms to the factories. It was utterly impossible for the farmers to compete with the government contractors in wage scales and for every dollar which these 'cost plus' contractors paid in wages they received a profit of ten cents from the Government which raised its funds for discharging these obligations by federal taxation. At the same time a great many thousands of young men were exempted from the draft on the ground that they were employed in essential industries, while the youth employed on the farms and needed by the farmers to husband the soil and reap the harvests, were accorded no such exemption. Of course the exhaustion of soil fertility consequent upon the fearful drafts on our farm lands during the past five years can not be measured in dollars and cents, nor will it be restored by the $116,000,000 spent by the Administration on nitrate plants which have never produced a pound of product. Senator Harding has pointed to the necessity for a definite agricultural policy which will put an end to exploiting our agricultural resources for the benefit of our industrial and commercial life, and he warns us that if we are to build up a self-sustaining agriculture here at home, the farmer must be protected from unfair competition from those countries where agriculture is still being exploited and where the standards of living on the farm are much lower than here. The Republican candidate has correctly sensed the situation which now threatens. In 1913 the last protective year, the value of our imports of foodstuffs aggregated $406,000,000; in 1920 (fiscal year ended June 30) they ag- lands are not safe and can never be. 9. If you "coot" you must also owe and there is no nor idle labor. 10. The effect to exempt from billion, seven hundred,000,000 dollars which now is a few rich. During the parity owners of compelled to de property against the Single Tax unjust law uponnia. Should it effectively ban has put his sa- The Amendment which will be ceder as No. 4, a petition on all be submitted to pertaining to the lection of taxes nearer prevent Single Tax me can suggest. The Amendment People's Anti-California does the Referendum Constitution; no Initiative exceeding to the asses of taxes, in w number of sig- from 8 per cent will not be in any measure o well informed, for such half-b- Tax. The Initiative California, ha With a view to presenting a phase of the part played by our agriculturalists during the war the following "ordinary dull statistics" have been derived from the official figures of the U.S. Department of Commerce, showing our exports. The European War broke out in the latter part of July, 1914, and the Versailles Treaty was signed by the plenipotentiaries June 28, 1919. Practically this period includes five fiscal years of our foreign trade, 1915-1919, inclusive. The figures do not include vast quantities of products supplied to our own armies while overseas, to devastated areas in Europe, and those which, for strategic reasons were not recorded in official statistics as they left our ports. During these five fiscal years the value of our exported breadstuffs was $3,187,000,000. They included 107,000,000 bushels of barley; 58,000,000 pounds of bread and biscuit; 1,300,000 bushels of buckwheat; 209,000,000 bushels of corn; 5,000,000 barrels of cornmeal; 484,000,000 bushels of oats; 808,000,000 pounds of oatmeal; 767,000,000 pounds of rice; 80,000,000 bushels of rye; 2,600,000 barrels of rye flour; 795,000,000 bushels of wheat; 90,000,000 barrels of wheat flour; and 176,000 tons of bran and middlings, mill feed, and malt sprout. Vegetables totaled $134,000,000 in value and included 11,000,000 bushels of dried peas and beans; 17,000,000 bushels of potatoes; 63,000,000 pounds of peanuts. Seeds totaled a value of $25,000,000, including 127,000,000 pounds of clover, timothy, etc. Hay, 428,000 tons; hops, 54,000,000 pounds; malt, 17,000,000 bushels. The meat and dairy products export bill was $2,761,000,000. It included over 1,300,000,000 pounds of fresh beef, 158,000,000 of fresh pork; 17,000,000 of mutton; 5,500,000,ooo of bacon, ham and shoulders; 3,442,ooo,ooo of oleo margarine, lard, etc.; 95O,OOO,OOO of prepared meats. The value of animals exported was $299,OOO,OOO including 1OO.OOO cattle; 78.OOO hogs; over 1.OOO.OOO horses; 356.OOO mules; 182.OOO sheep. Uncured hides and skins, 79.OOO.OOO pounds. Of dairy products we exported 1O2.OOO.OOO pounds of butter; 229.OOO.OOO of cheese; 1,TI3.OOO.OOO pounds of milk; 119.SOOO.OOO dozen eggs. Fruits came to $2O9.OOO.OOO which we are to build up a self-sustaining agriculture here at home. The farmer must be protected from unfair competition from those countries where agriculture is still being exploited and where the standards of living on the farm are much lower than here. The Republican candidate has correctly sensed the situation which now threatens. In 1913 the last protective year, the value of our imports of foodstuffs aggregated $4O6.OOO.OOO; in 192O (fiscal year ended June 3O) they aggregated $1,SI4.OOO.OOO or an increase of 273 per cent while population was increasing 5 per cent. This was under the Democratic policy of free trade in farm products, to which policy the party of Mr. Cox has once more acknowledged fealty in the San Francisco platform. To this policy Mr. Harding registers his unqualified opposition saying: 'So long as America can produce the foods we need I am in favor of buying from America first It is this very preference which impels development and improvement. I commend American preference to American productive activities because material good fortune is essential to our high attainment,and linked indissolubly are farm and factory in the great economic fabric of American life.' Reviewing the part he has played in defeating War's hideous daughter,Famine,and the treatment he has received at the hands of the autocrat who got us into war and kept us out of peace,and bearing in mind that the Democratic nominee is 'absolutely at one' with Mr.Wilson,the American farmer has undoubtedly already decided how he shall vote in November,and no dementia pro-Cox will characterize the farmer's ballot. VOTE AGAINST THE SINGLE TAX Here are ten reasons why you should vote against amendment No.2O, the single tax measure. If this amendment should carry: 1. It would destroy the loan value of real estate.All bonds and mortgages based on land security would be valueless. 2. It would shift one hundred million dollars taxes now collected in this State from corporations,personal property of all kinds,and the class best able to pay,tothe land owner and the poor man. 3. The farmer and the lot owner would pay all the tax while the rich man's wealth in money,buildings, In a speech Tuesday Senate part as follow: "Have you that we one interest.War by a mereeral Constitution. Of the seven Initiative Law tana,South D.C Kansas and Othe Initiative matters pertains and collection. Amendment far; it simply signatures to be measures pertains from $ per cent." CONSTITUTION In a speech Tuesday Senate part as follow: "Have you that we one interest.War by a mereural Constitution. Of the seven Initiative Law tana,South D.C Kansas and Othe Initiative matters pertains and collection. Amendment far; it simply signatures to be measures pertains from $ per cent." of mutton; 5,500,000,000 of bacon, ham and shoulders; 3,442,000,000 of oleo, margarine, lard, etc.; 950,000,000 of prepared meats. The value of animals exported was $299,000,000 including 100,000 cattle; 78,000 hogs; over 1,000,-000 horses; 356,000 mules; 182,000 sheep. Uncured hides and skins, 79,-000,000 pounds. Of dairy products we exported 102,000,000 pounds of butter; 229,000,000 of cheese; 1,713,000,000 pounds of milk; 119,500,000 dozen eggs. Fruits came to $209,000,000 which included 22,000,000 pounds of dried apples, apricots, and peaches; 253,-000,000 of prunes; 29,000,000 of raisins. Also, 7,770,000 barrels of apples; 915,000 boxes of lemons; 7,828,000 boxes of oranges; $3,867,000 worth of berries; and $48,000,000 worth of canned fruits. Of sweets exported 5,120,000,000 pounds refined sugar; 68,500,000 gallons sirup and molasses; 794,000,000 pounds glucose and grape sugar; 4O,-OOO,OOO honey. Also 681,OOO,OOO pounds of table and other starch. Of cotton we exported 3O,216,9OO bales worth $2,832,OOO; oil cake and oil cake meal. 6,3O5,OOO,OOO pounds two-thirds of which was cottonseed oil cake; and vegetable oils valued at $163,526,OOO included 1,O23,353,OOO lbs. of cotton seed oil. The value of tobacco exports was $5O3,OOO,OOO in which were included 2,122,OOO,OOO pound of manufactured tobacco; 43,5OO,OOO of smoking and plug; 54,OOO,OOO cigars; and 34,OOO,-OOO,OOO cigarettes. These figures aggregating roughly $11,OOO,OOO,OOO in value of officially recorded agricultural exports testify to the tremendous contribution to the great cause which came from American farmers. In the course of these operations the farmers labored under severe handicaps. The 'cost plus' ANAHEIM GAZETTE Eva Lyons Smith TEACHER OF PIANO Popular Original Christensen Method Classical Thilo Becker Method. 505 W. Commonwealth Avenue FULLERTON, CALIFORNIA PHONES: Studio, 403 W.; Res. 452 M. ly pledged moral obligation. A choice in words between the American Constitution and dishonor. "I wonder, men and women, if your sons and grandsons helped to win the World War for such purposes as this? Is any pacifist in America so deluded as to believe that a new era of international friendliness is ushered in upon the heels of so stupendous an array. "Once upon a time when Congress sought to allow American ships to pass through the Panama Canal, built by American genius, with American money, to further American commerce and to add to American defense and when we built that canal with the understanding that American ships were to pass through free of tolls, pursuant to Democratic contract with the people, as well as Republican covenant, the same President who brought us the League begged Congress and his own partisans to ignore their pledges because he alleged that such action would violate the purport of an obsolete Clayton-Bulwer treaty. "He pleaded that the treaty's moral obligation flung absolute compulsion upon us to ignore our constitutional rights to rule our own destiny and do as we chose with our own ships in our own canal. And the moral obligation won." "Who cares to say that this same sort of logic will not some day be used to plague an unwilling America into foreign war if we unreservedly subscribe to Article X, the Constitution to the contrary notwithstanding." CONSTITUTION VS MORAL OBLIGATION In a speech to civil war veterans Tuesday Senator Harding spoke in part as follows: "Have you ever stopped to think that we, one people, with naturally one interest, were led into the Civil War by a more ambiguity in the Federal Constitution? In the beginning we divided our ideas that one was of necessity uncertainty the compact that was made required the Civil War to wipe out. And that was a very great number of my countrymen, I want to ask you knowing the cost of wiping out the ambiguity in the Constitution of our own republic, how can we ever consent to enter into a new world contact with a dozen ambiguities in it. 'Let me call your particular attention to one. There is much dispute that which is known as 'the heart of the League.' No American can be simultaneously for Article X and for the Constitution of our republic any more than an American in Lincoln's time could be simultaneously for emancipation and for slavery." He pleaded that the treaty's moral obligation flung absolute compulsion upon us to ignore our constitutional rights to rule our own destiny and do as we chose with our own ships in our own canal. And the moral obligation won. "Who cares to say that this same sort of logic will not some day be used to plague an unwilling America into foreign way if we unreservedly subscribe to Article X, the Constitution to the contrary notwithstanding. 'What I like to say to you who know so much of sacrifice and hardship, we do not need any council of foreign powers to tell us how to play our part.'" TELLS WILD-DUCK FANCIERS HOW TO RAISE YOUNG BIRDS Uncle Sam is the best friend the wild ducks have, and it follows that he has a warm spot in his heart for the wild-fowler, too. In the interests of both he has prepared a leaflet on the propagation of wild ducks which may be had from the Bureau of Logical Survey United States Department of Agriculture, by anyone who asks for it. Mallards are the easiest to handle, with wood duck coming next. Black ducks need more space than either of these because they are more sensitive—a bit "wilder". Widgeon and teal need winter shelter, if grown in the North, to a greater extent than their cousins, but the provisions for shelter need not be elaborate. For most ducks and most climates a simple, three-sided shack is sufficient, though extreme cold weather should find the ducks housed in a tight building with plenty of litter on the floor. Fresh infusions of wild blood must be introduced from time to time if the birds are to keep their wild conformation. Wild-duck eggs are usually hatched under hens, though they may be hatched in an incubator. Breeding stock of whatever species should be obtained in the fall so as to be settled in its quarters before the breeding season, which comes rather early in spring. The leaflet describes the care and feeding of the young birds at every stage in their development from the yellow fuzz of the duckling to the gleaming iridescent feathers of the mature bird. It is a leaflet that should interest sportsmen as well as the game farmer. All Orange county Lodges Knights of Pythias, including Santa Ana, Orange, Anaheim, Fullerton, Brea, Tustin and Norwalk lodges, are to have a big time at their first annual picnic to be held at the Orange county park on Sunday, October 3. The lodges are working to make the affair a big success and have a live and hard working committee in charge of all details. A good program is being arranged which will include various races, games and dancing. The picnic will include a basket lunch. The committee will furnish coffee, milk and sugar, but everyone is requested to furnish his own cup. The athletic committee has announced that there will be races for the children and women as well as for the men and that valuable prizes will be awarded for each event. All Pythians are looking forward to a big day and a large crowd is expected. PHELAN AGAINST LEMON PROTECTION California farmers were told they can expect no relief in the way of a tariff on products of the soil if Senator Phelan is elected, according to the Senator's own speech last week at San Jose. converting a farm. All lands require the land from fifty acres to deacre cannot be of these money to proclaim least a name, to buy wagons and does not If his land lend him proposal of unimproved have them of severalenty million, privately cultivated, free-fourths uncultivated There is nothing elastic about absolute compulsion. Yet the Constitution makes Congress absolutely sovereign over America's decision as to war. Therefore, what is the result? The covenant and the Constitution clash. Confronted with this unescapable fact, American citizens are told by the League apologists and by the Democratic nominee for P resident, that legally, no treaty can subvert the Constitution and that, therefore, by resort to legal compulsion of a solemn stock of whatever species should be obtained in the fall so as to be settled in its quarters before the breeding season, which comes rather early in spring. The leaflet describes the care and feeding of the young birds at every stage in their development from the yellow fuzz of the duckling to the gleaming iridescent feathers of the mature bird. It is a leaflet that should interest sportsmen as well as the game farmer. MONEY FOR DIRT ROADS That the Third Supervisorial district of Orange county is better equipped financially to care for its unpaved roads than any of the other three rural districts of the county, is the information contained in a report made to the Board of Supervisors by County Engineer J. L. McBride. The Second district, with more miles of unpaved roads than any district in the county, has less money for dirt road maintenance than any other districts, according to the report. William Schumacher, of Buena Park, supervisor of the Third district, has 140 miles of unpaved roads to look after, according to McBride's figures, and the funds at Schumacher's disposal allow for $720 for each mile of dirt thoroughfare. Supervisor Talbert, supervisor of the second district, has 165 miles of unpaved road in his territory, but his funds allow for but $160 per mile. McBride reports the finances of the Fourth district, represented by Supervisor N. T. Edwards of Orange, and the Fifth district, represented by Supervisor Howard Wassum, of Tustin, to be in fair condition. Edwards has but sixty miles of unpaved roads in his district and has $460 per mile PHELAN AGAINST LEMON PROTECTION California farmers were told they can expect no relief in the way of a tariff on products of the soil if Senator Phelan is elected, according to the Senator's own speech last week at San Jose. After making a long address on the Japanese question concerning which there is no difference of opinion in California, Senator Phelan devoted a moment to the Wilson League of Nations and scarcely as much to the tariff. He said: "What I am not in favor of is the levying of tariff laws which, by excluding foreign product, will, for example, make possible a profit of $1000 per acre on lemons at the expense of the American public." This utterance is at variance with the Republican policy of "Preserve the American market for the American product", and at variance to what the California farmer can expect of Samuel M. Shortridge who is pledged to a protective tariff policy. Senator Harding has given his word to the California farmer that he will see to it that a protective tariff is provided for the products of the soil as well as for products of industry. The attitude of the Democratic administration toward the farmer according to Republican leaders, can be determined by its prosecution now under way of the farmers of Fresno county and the entire San Joaquin valley for forming a cooperative selling agency for raising. PHONES SUNSET 341-J. Bidway, Cor. Claudina DE PHONES HOME 753-2 XAW. M.D. AND SURGEON 1-12; 2-4; 7-8 TE BANK BLDG. Los Angeles St. CIM, CAL. D.D.S., M.D. AND SURGEON E AND THROAT— ERY—GLASSES TED NTRAL BLDG. SUNSET 337 It With WERS E. Gates ORIST phone 121 enter and Illinois coffee Store Center St. 35c lb 40c lb 30c lb 60c lb 25c lb Family Washing SAVE your wife the drudgery of the washtub by sending us your family washing. It costs you very little when compared to the pleasure it will bring to your wife—put the burden on us Send us your shirts and collars Immaculate linen is the mark of a gentleman. You get the best work here. Patronize a home concern. Anaheim Laundry Company Phone 18 WE KNOW MEATS “Every man to his own business” is a well-known saying—and we believe that this applies to us. Our business is buying meats as well as selling meats—upon the buying depends the success of the business. That’s why we buy only the best meats—and we know the best meats. Any piece of meat that you buy in this shop has been selected by us because we know that it is a good piece of meat, meat that you can eat with satisfaction. Upon this basis we ask your patronage. Anaheim Cash Market 109-11 N. Los Angeles St., Anaheim J. E. STROUP, Proprietor WE KNOW MEATS —“Every man to his own business” is a well-known saying—and we believe that this applies to us. Our business is buying meats as well as selling meats—upon the buying depends the success of the business. That’s why we buy only the best meats—and we know the best meats. Any piece of meat that you buy in this shop has been selected by us because we know that it is a good piece of meat, meat that you can eat with satisfaction. Upon this basis we ask your patronage. Anaheim Cash Market 109-11 N. Los Angeles St., Anaheim J. E. STROUP, Proprietor Are You Going to Build If you contemplate building new or repairing an old building, let us figure on your material. We handle everything you need, and our prices are right. Griffith Lumber Company South Los Angeles St. H. M. ADAMS, Mgr. ANAHEIM FEED and FUEL CO. DEALERS IN Wood, Coal, Hay, Grain Seeds and Flour PUBLIC WEIGHING SCALES Phones: Pacific 317, Home 294 A. V. Vail, W. D. Grafton, Props. Good Place to Buy— G-O-O-D L-U-M-B-E-R C. GANAHL LUMBER COMPANY Anaheim: : : : Cal MEATS G-O-O-D L-U-M-B-E-R C. GANAHL LUMBER COMPANY Anahiem. Cal MEATS OF HIGHEST QUALITY —That’s what this market prides itself upon. None but the very best quality steer beef is ever sold over our counters. We are here to prove this statement. Let us supply your every want in quality meats. Schneider’s City Cash Market Phone 20 117 West Center St. ALASKA TO THE RESCUE That the shortage of newsprint will be overcome by new paper mills in Alaska was predicted today by Colonel W. B. Greeley, chief of the forest service, who has just returned from a month’s inspection of timber and water power on the Tongass national forest. “The national forests of Alaska,” said Colonel Greeley, “contain resources sufficient to produce 1,500,000 tons of paper annually in perpetuity, and a paper industry in the territory is now assured.” Colonel Greeley believes that the administration of Alaska’s great resources should be put in the hands of men on the ground, but is opposed to the transfer of all federal interests to a local commission. A sale of 100,000,000 feet of pulp timber has been made, and a second sale of 1,500,000,000 feet, which will supply a large paper plant for thirty years, is now being arranged. “The national forests of Alaska,” said Colonel Greeley, “offer paper manufacturers an ample supply of pulp timber, available under long-term contracts at low prices and subject to very simple and reasonable cutting requirements. The forest service is doing its utmost to develop this resource of the territory. We will not make only Alaska one of the great sources of paper for the United States; but we will make the industry permanent, as it is in Norway, by keeping the cut of timber within what our forests are growing. Paper manufacturers who go to Alaska can count upon an assured supply of raw material indefinitely.”