anaheim-gazette 1920-11-11

JAPS WILL LOSE HOLD ON VAST FERTILE AREA Grip On Big Acreage Will Be Released Within Three Years. Within three years from December 14 next, at latest, thousands of American truck gardeners and ranchers will immediately take over and operate the vast area of agricultural land in California from which the Japanese will be ousted under the provisions of the allen land law approved last Tuesday by an overwhelming majority of the voters of the State. In Los Angeles county alone 42,911 acres are now under lease to Japanese. All leases must lapse within three years after the time the law goes into effect, and this provision is resulting in a great rush to renew leases for the maximum period before the law becomes operative. The rush of the Japanese and other orientals to renew their leases is caused by the uncertainty surrounding the date upon which the new law will become a working reality. According to statute the measure will become effective five days after the Secretary of State declares the result of the election, and this date may occur as soon as that official receives all certified returns, but in no event may it be more than forty days after the date of the election. This provision will put the law into effect by December 14 next, at latest, and will terminate by Dec. 14, 1923, all leases held by alien who are not subject to naturalization. Proclamation of the law by the Governor is not necessary. All formalities has installed a new department having to do with California agriculture, especially with a canvass to determine as to the past and present year's output; likewise, so far as possible the future scope of agricultural practices will be looked into. "The question of financing of crop movements in the West, particularly in California, is of supreme importance and it has long been the hope of Western bankers to work out some proper method of equitable commodity financing. In order to obtain the necessary data for the proper consideration of this matter, in so far as California is concerned, we have attempted to make a survey of the actual production of the state during 1920 and to draw comparisons for that production with the years of 1919 and 1918. "Working through the various banks and railroads of the state and due particularly to the kindness of E. E. Kaufman, field agent of the bureau of crop estimates of the United States department of agriculture, there has been compiled a rather complete report of California crop conditions for 1918 and 1919 and also crop estimate for the year ending December 31, 1920, without the value of the crops in the field for the present year, although the total values for 1918 and 1919 are readily obtainable. The latter figures are for the field value." How to get the money to handle this immense production is a problem which concerns farmer, shipper, merchant and banker. The Lindsay National Bank in a recent statement says that but 7.2 per cent of the nation's money is in banks. As individuals we are carrying around $20.75 in our pockets. One dollar deposited in a bank is turned back into the channels of trade and passes through 20 hands during the year: the average dollar... Secretary of State declares the result of the election, and this date may occur as soon as that official receives all certified returns, but in no event may it be more than forty days after the date of the election. This provision will put the law into effect by December 14 next, at latest, and will terminate by Dec. 14, 1923, all leases held by aliens who are not subject to naturalization. Proclamation of the law by the Governor is not necessary. All formalities will have been complied with when the Secretary of State files a certified copy of election returns on the measure in his own office and transmits another copy to the Governor. Existing leases to orientals will not be affected by the measure, nor will leases signed before the law becomes effective be invalidated, but in no case may they run for more than three years. California lands occupied by orientals—Japanese, Chinese and Hindus—now total 623,752 acres, an increase in area of more than 412 per cent within the past ten years. Of this total Japanese occupy 427,029 acres, which is swelled to 458,056 acres by the holdings of corporations controlled by Japanese shareholders. Los Angeles county, with 42,911 acres leased to Japanese, is the third county in the State in the matter of the size of Japanese holdings. San Joaquin county comes first with 11,884 acres held by Japanese, Sacramento county second, with an average of 46,596, and 33,000 acres of Imperial county lands are held by them. By races; the holdings of California land under leases and crop contracts by orientals not eligible for naturalization are as follows: Japanese, 383,-287; Chinese, 65,181; Hindus, 86,340. The total area of arable land in the State is estimated at 22,000,000 acres, of which about half, or 11,000,000 acres is not cultivated because of lack of water. Land under improvement, which will soon be brought to a productive stage, is about 3,000,000 acres. Agricultural land in the State actually owned by Japanese and other orientals comprises only a small area. In Los Angeles county, for instance, the Japanese own only 1616 acres in comparison to the 42,911 acres they hold under lease. In the opinion of former Judge E.W. Britt and other attorneys who have studied the new law the latter will not disturb these holdings. The law makes provision to have land escaped to the State under certain How to get the money to handle this immense production is a problem which concerns farmer, shipper, merchant and banker. The Lindsey National Bank in a recent statement says that but 7.2 per cent of the nation's money is in banks. As individuals we are carrying around $20.75 in our pockets. One dollar deposited in a bank is turned back into the channels of trade and passes through 20 hands during the year; the average dollar in the pocket of the public has infinitely smaller circulation. If this ready cash could be jarred loose from the pockets of the people one long step would be taken in the problem of moving California's great food crop. FIGHTING PEACH-TREE PEST WITH GAS SAVES MILLIONS The results of what is known as the para-dichlorobenzene treatment for the eradication of the peach-tree borer lead experts of the United States Department of Agriculture to believe that a practical means has finally been found of ridding orchards of this disastrously destructive pest. Previously the only effective method of fighting the borer was by removing the soil around the base of the tree and digging the grubs out of their galleries with a knife. It is estimated that the borers have done $6,000,000 damage a year and that $2,000,000 a year has been spent in fighting them. The para-dichlorobenzene method was first used extensively by orchardists in 1919. It consists in sprinkling fine crystals of the insecticide on the soil around the base of the infected tree and covering with earth to hold the gas. The substance is highly volatile and forms gas when the soil is between 74 degrees and 80 degrees F. This gas is five times heavier than air and sinks down through the soil. It is highly effective against the borer; and a pound of the insecticide, costing not more than 25 cents, is sufficient for 8 or 10 trees. The labor is scarcely one-third of that formerly required. The saving therefore is great. This year the para-dichlorobenzene process has been used extensively in the Georgia peach belt, some localities buying as high as 50,000 pounds and large individual growers as high as 2 tons each. Growers declare that it is one of the greatest accomplishments in the history of the department, comparable to the self-boiled lime-sulphur treatment for control of brown rot and scab of the peach. Admitting that is "in the air" nation, Powell co-operates with the membership efficiency and favorable organization. Admitting that is "in the air" nation, Powell co-operates with the membership efficiency and favorable organization. A co-operative in which the meat through which the business for their vantage. To be co-operated with products managed by them must be returned to the patric capital necessary and its facilities by the members use which each capital control should be kept portional to their or purchases of agency, as nearly. A co-operative growsers for important factors of living as well as growers a fair price it is to play a social and economic entitlement to a product demand warranted through utilization to improve consumer health and demand justice. With the raising last few productions and even more vital as to the public for perishable terminated by demand and wholesale prices production exert fluence. "The co-operative accomplishes excellent production and duly reda marketing costs benefit upon boomer." Agricultural land in the State actually owned by Japanese and other orientals comprises only a small area. In Los Angeles county, for instance, the Japanese own only 1616 acres in comparison to the 42,911 acres they hold under lease. In the opinion of former Judge R. W. Britt and other attorneys who have studied the new law the latter will not disturb these holdings. The law makes provision to have land escaped to the State under certain conditions, but the present act contains no clause making it retroactive. It is possible that the State might endeavor to carry through escheat proceedings to take land already owned by Japanese, but as a rule laws which do not contain specific clauses making them retroactive are not interpreted as covering cases concluded before they become effective. IMPRESSIVE FIGURES AS TO FOOD PRODUCTION Bankers are giving more sympathetic consideration to the problems of the farmer. This is perhaps not because of any philanthropic motive but purely as a business proposition. More crops, more money; more money, more business for bankers. For instance, the recent cotton situation in California called for relief in face of a flat market and insufficient funds in the hands of the producers to harvest and gin the crop. The policy which the federal reserve had been following for the past few weeks offered little encouragement. Finally however, the local banks, together with the larger financial institutions of Los Angeles, took the matter up, and now funds are being advanced as rapidly as the cotton growers may need them. This brings to light the fact that one of California's larger institutions, the First National Bank of Los Angeles, ANAHEIM GAZETTE CO-OPERATIVE MARKETING SUBJECT OF BULLETIN G. Harold Powell Explains Methods And Advantages. As a lighthouse of "co-operative marketing" aimed to guide struggling groups of farmers throughout the nation to a haven of industrial success the University of California has just issued a bulletin on "Fundamental Principles of Co-operation in Agriculture." The treatise was prepared at the request of the College of Agriculture of the University of California by G. Harold Powell, general manager of the California Fruit Growers Exchange and former chief of the Perishable Food Division of the United States Food Administration. "The future of co-operation rests not only upon the ability with which growers handle their business problems," declares Powell, "but upon how well they meet the present vital questions which are leading to world wide social and economic unrest. "A co-operative organization can not live for itself alone. It must scrupulously fulfill its public or social relationship as well as its relationship to its own members." Powell discusses the difference between a co-operative association and a profit making corporation; the financing of a co-operative organization; the membership, origins, management, efficiency and future of the co-operative organization. Admitting that the co-operative idea is "in the air" in all parts of the nation, Powell continues in his outline of the principles by which successful co-operative movements have been operated; as follows: "A co-operative associations is one any $1,626,000 of bonds to finance general construction expenses. Midway Gas Company, $500,000 serial notes to pay in part for 60 miles of natural gas transmission line extending from the Midway oil fields towards Los Angeles. Pacific Gas and Electric Company, $10,000,000 convertible gold notes to finance construction of hydro-electric plants on the Pit River and its tributaries. San Joaquin Light and Power Corporation, $4,498,800 of bonds and $3,500,000 of preferred stock to complete 45,000 horse power Kerckhoff hydroelectric power plant and install a 17,500 horse power unit in its steam plant at Bakersfield. San Diego Gas and Electric Company $555,880 of stock to finance new construction. Southern California Edison Company, $12,500,000 of bonds and $7,700,000 of common stock to carry forward the construction of its hydro-electric power plant on the Kern River (Kern River No. 3), enlarge one of its Big Creek power plants, and other improvements. Southern Sierra Power Company, $1,095,538.20 of bonds to pay for new properties and indebtedness incurred because of the acquisition and construction of new properties. Snow Mountain Water and Power Company, $1,500,000 of preferred stock to pay the cost of constructing Gravelly Valley dam and other improvements. Southern Counties Gas Company of California, $500,000 of serial gold notes to pay indebtedness representing moneys borrowed through the issue of short term notes and extension of credit to install extensions, additions and betterments. Western States Gas and Electric Company $622,000 of preferred stock." JAP PETITION DENIED Judge K. S. Mahon denied the petition of Juskukie Shingu and Hayes Yano, Japanese, which requested that the Superior Court name them as guardians for their children to whom property was recently deeded, on the ground such action would be contrary to the laws of the State. Shingu asked that he be named guardian of two children, one 19 months old and the other 3 years old. Yano asked that he be appointed guardian of one child, 2 years old. G. L. and Mary Douglass recently deeded twenty acres in Sutter county to two of the Japanese children, and William Freeman, J. H. Lee and C. A. Wetmore recently deeded fifteen acres to the others. Judge Mahon ruled that the property would revert back to the State. Judge Mahon said that as the fathers had purchased the land for their minor children, the minors had no title to the property, but held it merely as trustees for the fathers. On this assumption, he said, it followed the children had no property and guardians were unnecessary. "The matter is one that should be taken cognizance of by the Attorney-General of the State," said Judge Mahon. Tonight Judge Mahon said a year ago he had handed down a similar decision, but nothing had been done by State authorities concerning the suggestion of escheat proceedings. AN INTERESTING ISSUE The November issue of the University of California Journal of Agriculture in addition to agricultural news of general interest contains articles that will particularly concern the poultry man and fruit grower as well as sulphate. The service who consults is handled problem-merion Nation says formation's usual we our pocknams a bank panels of hands dollar. Admitting that the co-operative idea is "in the air" in all parts of the nation, Powell continues in his outline of the principles by which successful co-operative movements have been operated; as follows: "A co-operative associations is one in which the members form an agency through which they conduct their own business for their greatest mutual advantage. "To be co-operative, it must be formed of producers exclusively and managed by them, and the benefits must be returned to them in proportion to the patronage of each. The capital necessary to create the agency and its facilities should be contributed by the members in proportion to the use which each makes of it. Also the capital contribution of each member should be kept progressively proportional to the individual shipments or purchases of other uses made of the agency, as nearly as this can be done. "A co-operative organization of fruit growers, for example, should be an important factor in reducing the cost of living, as well as in insuring the growers a fair price for their fruit, if it is to play a vital part in the future social and economic life. The producer is entitled to a fair return on the cost of production. If the law of supply and demand warrants it, but he is not privileged through the power of organization, to impose a higher price on the consumer than the law of supply and demand justifies. "With the rapid rise in costs during the last few years, efficiency in production and marketing has become even more vital to the farmer as well as to the public. The prices received for perishable farm products are determined by the conditions of supply and demand, and the impact of world wholesale prices, while the costs of production exert only a remote influence. "The co-operative association that accomplishes economies and reforms in production and development of industry, is reducing production and marketing costs and conferring a direct benefit upon both producer and consumer." RAILROAD IMPROVEMENT A true index of the growth of California. Snow Mountain Water and Power Company, $1,500,000 of preferred stock to pay indebtedness representing moneys borrowed through the issue of short term notes and extension of credit to install extensions, additions and betterments. Western States Gas and Electric Company, $603,000 of preferred stock to finance new construction. East Bay Water Company, $1,662,339 of bonds and $406,221 of preferred stock to complete San Pablo reservoir, dam and appurtenances. Wilmington Transportation Company, $202,600 of stock and $600,000 of notes to acquire the steamer "Avalon" from William Wrigley, Jr. RECORD YEAR FOR FOREIGN MISSIONARIES The largest number of new missionaries ever sent to foreign fields in any one year in the history of the Methodist Episcopal church were sent during the fiscal year ending November 1, 1920, according to an announcement by Bishop A. W. Leonard from the Methodist Episcopal Headquarters, 3 City Hall Avenue, San Francisco. The largest previous year was 1917, when 96 recruits were appointed and sent out by the Methodists. During the fiscal year just concluded, 275 new missionaries were appointed, of which 80 were assigned to South America, 69 to China, 50 to India and Burma, 30 to Africa, 30 to Malaysia, 6 to Mexico, 5 to Japan, 2 to Korea and 2 to Europe. The list does not include relief workers in European war areas. A majority of the new appointees have already reached their stations. According to activity they are classified as follows: 103 evangelical, 99 educational, 41 medical, and 86 industrial. The 1920 increase marks the first year of the five year Centennary program of the Methodists which includes the expenditure of $115,000,000 in war reconstruction and general expansion of church activities. DEAD MAN'S CLUB Agitation continues for the formation of a "Dead Men's Club," to be composed of ex-service men, who were reported dead by the war department and who have risen from the "dead" into the walks of every-day life. AN INTERESTING ISSUE The November issue of the University of California Journal of Agriculture in addition to agricultural news of general interest contains articles that will particularly concern the poultry man and fruit grower as well as that ill-fated farmer who has to contend with alkali. Poultry articles are featured in this issue. J. E. Dougherty, head of the poultry division of the State College of Agriculture, explains in a very comprehensive survey of the poultry industry in California, why that branch of farming has attained such proportions, what its future possibilities are and how the College of Agriculture is seeking to give practical aid to the California Poultry Farmer. Writing on the California Farm Bureau Egg Laying Contest, W. J. Gocher assistant farm advisor of Santa Cruz County, gives a history of the Egg Laying Contest, how it is carried out and its value to the state industry, as well as to the individual poultry-man. A new department headed "Poultry Notes" offers the chicken raiser some remedies for poultry parasites and lice and tells him how to install a practical system of leg banding. Mr. G. H. Hecke, director of the State Board of Agriculture, in an article on California's New Shipping Point Fruit Inspection Service, explains the benefits this fruit inspection service holds for both grower and buyer and the possibilities it offers for young men trained along the proper lines. In a sketch entitled "An afternoon in East Anglia," Dean Thomas F. Hunt describes a visit to the English farms of Chivers "The Jam Man of England." Dean Hunt gives many interesting details concerning the management of these farms that are worth consideration. In the first of a series of practical articles on the alkali problem, Chas F. Shaw explains conditions that promote the "Rise of Alkali", and how through proper irrigation and drainage, they may be overcome. RETIREMENT PAY OF BRITISH CONSULS There are 198 consular officers on the British retired list of whom 68 RAILROAD IMPROVEMENT A true index of the growth of California is to be found in the annual report of the Railroad Commission for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920. The report, which has just been forwarded to Governor Wm. D. Stephens, shows that in the period covered the Commission authorized the issuance of securities totaling $91,038,485.12. The previous year the securities authorized amounted to $84,572,599.44. Of that amount authorized $59,413,772.56 was for "additions and betterments" to the state's utilities, $1,621,903.20 more than was authorized in 1919. This enormous sum, according to the orders of the Commission, is to be spent as follows: Southern Pacific Company, $1,903,214 of equipment trust certificates to acquire equipment for its subsidiaries, the Pacific Electric Company, Freno Traction Company, Stockton Electric Railroad Company and the San Jose Railroads. Northwestern Pacific, $1,008,000 of bonds and $293,240 of equipment trust certificates for additional equipment. San Diego and Arizona Railway, $1,-710,911 of bonds to complete its line from San Diego to El Centro, Imperial county. Great Western Power Company, $1,-500,000 of 7 per cent preferred stock to continue the construction of a new hydro-electric plant on the north fork of the Feather River. Los Angeles Gas and Electric Company. DEAD MAN'S CLUB Agitation continues for the formation of a "Dead Man's Club," to be composed of ex-servicemen who were reported dead by the war department and who have risen from the "dead" into the walks of every-day life. The following letter of inquiry was received recently at Legion national headquarters Indianapolis, from Geo. D. Dickson of New cork: "I beg to state the following facts which I think will prove to you that I am eligible to be a member, and for further proof, I think that my own death certificate from Washington would end any doubt. I have two telegrams from Washington to my mother confirming my death. A cablegram states that I was wounded September 29, 1918, which was the case, but when they followed it up with another one saying that I had died from my wounds October 9, which I can assure you is not true. The insurance papers were forwarded to my mother for signature, but she failed to sign, believing me alive. Two telegrams from Washington then came confirming my death." Dickson is holding a very "alive" job with a Manhattan printing company. California had 9399 producing oil wells during the past month. Production reached 9,126,438 barrels, a gain of 141,089 over the preceding month. Stocks on hand have decreased 7,215-174 since Jan. 1. There were 53 new wells completed with daily output of 200,000 barrels, and 73 new drilling rigs erected. RETIREMENT PAY OF BRITISH CONSULS There are 108 consular officers on the British retired list, of whom 68 were retired for ill health as a result of foreign service at tropical and Oriental posts, and 40 were retired on account of age. The average retirement age of the invalid officers was 50 years and four months; their average service at retirement being 25 years and nine months. The salaries paid these 68 officers at the time of their retirement aggregated $328,000 annually, or an average for each officer of $4,820. Their yearly allowance by way of retirement pay aggregates $176,000, or an average per officer of $2,600. The average retirement age of 40 placed on the retired list on account of age was 62 years and eight months; their average service was 30 years and one month. The salaries paid them before retirement aggregated $183,000, or an average for each officer of $4-575. Their yearly allowance by way of retirement pay aggregates $102,000, or an average per officer of $2,550. Great Britain has a consular service of which its members are justly proud and glad they are to remain in it, foster its esprit de corps, and be ever on the alert to improve it. The average pay of British consuls is about equal in point of salaries to our own, but in addition to their salaries the British consuls have certain justifiable allowances which enable them to maintain a position befitting the status they occupy. Great Britain owns her own con- Ford THE UNIVERSAL CAR The Ford Sedan, with electric self-starting and lighting system and demountable rims with 3½-inch tires front and rear, is a family car of class and comfort, both in summer and in winter. For touring it is a most comfortable car. The large plate glass windows make it an open car when desired, while in case of rain and all inclement weather, it can be made a most delightful closed car in a few minutes. Rain-proof, dust-proof, fine upholstering, broad, roomy seats. Simple in operation. Anybody can safely drive it. While it has all the distinctive and economical merits of the Ford car in operation and maintenance. Won't you come in and look it over? GEORGE DUNTON Ford and Fordson Sales and Services Anaheim Phone 263-J sulates. The United States pays its consular service nothing on retirement. A man who has served this Government as consul for 25 or thirty years abroad, is cast off like an old garment when foreign policies has a vital effect on our foreign trade declared Senator Harding recently. We can not afford to be without an efficient consular service because of a false economy in our treatment of these splendid public issue of the Univertion Journal of Agrito agricultural news that contains articles only concern the poultry grower as well as other who has to consultate in this herty, head of the State College alains in a very company of the poultry ina, why that branch mained such proporture possibilities are age of Agriculture is practical aid to the Farmer. California Farm Butontest, W. J. Gocher visor of Santa Cruz history of the Egg how it is carried out the state industry, individual poultryment headed "Poultry chicken raiser some very parasites and lice to install a practing banding. like, director of the agriculture, in an arbia's New Shipping action Service, exposes this fruit inspector both grower and possibilities it offers formed along the proper litited "An afternoon mean-Thomas F. Hunt to the English farms man Man of England." many interesting dethe management of are worth consid- The United States pays its consular service nothing on retirement. A man who has served this Government as consul for 25 or thirty years abroad, is cast off like an old garment when he is no longer fit to carry on his duties in a proper manner. His salary in some instances does not meet the expenditures required of him. He is required to return to his native land at stated periods in order to acquaint himself with the progress and development made here, and to fortify himself with the American spirit, in order that he may not become de-Americanized by foreign influences. But the cost of returning is greater than the allowance granted him for the trip. We rent our consulates, and take any old thing we can get. It has not been wondered at, therefore, that our consuls avail themselves of the frequent opportunities arising in this era of commercial expansion, to enter private service at far higher salaries, which will enable them to lay up something for old age—positions which often assure them of retirement pay. Self-preservation is the first law, and it operates on consuls just as it does on other men. It will be one of the tasks of the Republican Administration to make the consular service more attractive to our young men. Much has been done by the Republican party in that respect. Much has been undone by the Democratic party during the eight years of Wilsonism. Much still remains to be done to insure permanent officers well equipped for the duties imposed on them. Our diplomacy as expressed in our foreign policies has a vital effect on our foreign trade declared Senator Harding recently. We can not afford to be without an efficient consular service because of a false economy in our treatment of these splendid public servants. INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION VS WAR The governors of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona are urging peaceful relations with old Mexico and recognition of the present government. Mexican officials state that their country desires the friendship and aid of the United States in the program of reconstruction already under way there. The rulers of the border states of Mexico say it is their desire to build up the co-operative contracts necessary to expansion and development that will mean much to both countries. The new government of Mexico advocates a change of ideals, a desire to enter upon an era of peace and quiet, based on understanding, liberty and justice. General Obregon, the new president, stands for established constitutional government, offers friendship with respect to the United States and all other countries. The jingoes who can see nothing but war with Mexico must correct their vision to the new lense of industrial progress which means more than hostilities to both countries. FOR SALE—Siloed Beet Pulp, $5.00 per ton f.o.b. silo. $1.00 per ton less to our own Beet Growers. Los Alamitos Sugar Co. 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