anaheim-gazette 1921-01-13

ORANGE COUNTY MAY HAVE WHOLE SENATOR Proposed Reapportionment Bill Makes This County District By Itself. If a reapportionment bill introduced into the assembly at Sacramento by Assemblyman Boggs, of Stockton, passes, Orange county will be designated as a state senatorial district, including Orange, Riverside and Imperial counties, will be cut in two. Riverside and Imperial making one district. The bill is looked upon as equitable, and is hailed as a compromise measure that Los Angeles and San Francisco will accept. There is no reason on the face of the apportionment, why San Diego, Orange, Imperial, Riverside and San Bernardino assemblymen and senators should not support the measure as it now stands, it is said. The bill does not attempt redistricting into congressional districts. That matter will probably be put through the legislature in a separate bill. Five of the forty senatorial districts and nineteen of the eighty assembly districts would remain unchanged under the bill's provisions. Los Angeles county would gain two senators, Santa Clara and San Francisco counties each losing one. Los Angeles county would gain six assemblymen and San Diego one. To offset these gains San Francisco would lose one assemblyman and through a general readjustment northern California would lose the other six. The suggestion that the representation of a state like Indiana, where a million and a quarter people go to the polls and participate in elections shall suffer either relative or actual reduction in order that mythical constituencies of negroes and poor whites shall continue to be represented by Democratic congressmen holding their seats through force, fraud and legal trickery, is so infamous that it is perfectly astounding to believe that any one calling himself an American and a believer in representative republican government would have the hardihood to defend it. Such an attitude on the part of members of Congress represents not only a deliberate violation of an official oath, but a despicable sacrifice of the rights and interests of the people of the states wherein elections bear a relation to public opinion. This is not a sectional question or a race question, but a question only of law observance and common honesty. In 1900 Congressman Crumpacker, of Illinois, then chairman of the Committee on Census, made an effort to bring about a revision of representation along constitutional lines, and in accordance with the principles of justice and fair play. He was defeated, not by argument on principle, since none could successfully be made, but on the opportunist theory that obedience by congress to the Constitution's mandate would prevent the growth of the Republican party in the South. It was never explained how Republican growth would be promoted by continuing to put the seal of congressional approval on the gross injustices committed against the Republicans by the Southern Democratic oligarchy, or by basing seats, to be THE HETTY GREEN change on the a Rockefeller has Kilondike region over-night and have made Huntington Beach ridge. Though she has summers to her ridge has sudden speculative genius field. Several Brockinridge bedroom house as her principal. With the start in the Huntington Brockinridge savings in land good advantage. With the money Mrs. Breckinridge land turning it sented. Ever propositions and profit, Mrs. Breckinridge 80 years in act the job" every year. Recently Mr. chased a small in the railroad. Two weeks later sold by her to panies for $5000 similar percentage put through who is credited fit of $1000 a estate transaction. Five of the forty senatorial districts and nineteen of the eighty assembly districts would remain unchanged under the bill's provisions. Los Angeles county would gain two senators, Santa Clara and San Francisco counties each losing one. Los Angeles county would gain six assemblymen and San Diego one. To offset these gains San Francisco would lose one assemblyman and through a general readjustment northern California would lose the other six. Bogga, who claims general support for his measure, contends that it not only apportions the districts as nearly equitable as possible without violating the constitutional provisions prohibiting the joining of fractions of counties, but that it proposes a better geographical arrangement as well. SOME SIGNIFICANT ELECTION FIGURES Senator Harding received the highest percentage of the popular vote for President cast for any candidate in the last hundred years of American history; no Presidents excepting James Monroe and George Washington have received more nearly unanimous popular support. Senator Harding's plurality of approximately seven millions is nearly equal to the combined pluralities of all the successful candidates for President since the Civil war. These are some of the outstanding facts revealed by the tabulated official vote at the last general election printed in last week's issue of The National Republican. There are some other facts worthy of comment. Governor Cox received for President only about 2,500 more votes than President Wilson received four years ago, although the total vote cast, due to the enfranchisement of women, was one-half greater in 1920 than in 1916. The expected increase in the Socialist vote did not develop. Mr. Debs received 901,873 votes in 1912 and 910,477 this year. The Prohibition party vote touched its lowest point since 1884. This year it was 177,957, as against the party's record vote of 264,-133 for Bidwell in 1892. The Farmer-Labor party cast less than a quarter of a million votes, more than half of which were rolled up in the states of Washington, South Dakota and Montana. The inequalities of representation, existing in violation of the Constitution, revealed in this table are glaring, and point the plain duty of Congress in the matter of reapportionment. The Republicanism cannot be built up in the South or elsewhere by consenting to violations of law and contemptuous disregard of justice. It cannot be built up by taking one-tenth of the voting power of states like Indiana or Iowa in order to provide seats for Southern Democrats based upon votes which have only a theoretical existence, in violation of the plain provisions of the Constitution. The time has come in this country when political leaders need to realize that the confidence of hipelepottnetDh the confidence of the people can be won only by doing the straight, fair and honest thing in harmony with the principles of the national Constitution. NOT YET ELECTED While Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge were chosen for President and Vice-President respectively, not by argument on principle, since none could successfully be made, but on the opportunist theory that obedience by congress to the Constitution's mandate would prevent the growth of the Republican party in the South. It was never explained how Republican growth would be promoted by continuing to put the seal of congressional approval on the gross injustices committed against the Republicans by the Southern Democratic oligarchy, or by basing seats, to be occupied by Democratic politicians, on mythical constituencies composed of millions of negroes and poor whites never permitted to approach the polls. The result was that the Republican party, which mustered nearly a million votes in the south in 1896, shrank to invisible proportions in the next few years. The voting strength attained by the Republican party in 1920, as in 1896, was due to a popular uprising which under an American system of conducting elections, would have carried the whole Solid South into the Republican column along with the rest of the states of the Union. The rejection of the Crumpacker plan of reapportionment cost the Republican party the national election of 1916, because President Wilson won by votes which were based upon negro and poor white population not permitted to participate in elections and all that has happened to the country since is the result of yielding to the specious pleas of expediency in favor of continued violation of the provisions of the Constitution. Republicanism cannot be built up in the South or elsewhere by consenting to violations of law and contemptuous disregard of justice. It cannot be built up by taking one-tenth of the voting power of states like Indiana or Iowa in order to provide seats for Southern Democrats based upon votes which have only a theoretical existence, in violation of the plain provisions of the Constitution. The time has come in this country when political leaders need to realize that the confidence of hipelepottnetDh the confidence of the people can be won only by doing the straight, fair and honest thing in harmony with the principles of the national Constitution. REALIZING THE OF THIS UNIQUE Biological Survey department of A well-equipped mary purpose is industry by assiduir their herds which have in damage heretofore better utilization regulating tha ing herds encouraged tha sites and has l food supply. Re department indi tion is already o les. It is expecte tha reindeer in a few months. 1884. This year it was 177,957, as against the party's record vote of 264-133 for Bidwell in 1892. The Farmer-Labor party cast less than a quarter of a million votes, more than half of which were rolled up in the states of Washington, South Dakota and Montana. The inequalities of representation, existing in violation of the Constitution, revealed in this table are glaring, and point the plain duty of Congress in the matter of reapportionment. The time has come when members of Congress should not violate their oaths to support the Constitution by deliberately ignoring its mandatory provisions through an apportionment which robs certain states to provide other states with members of Congress and the electoral college based on mythical constituencies. Mississippi elected ten members of the electoral college, and eight congressmen, with 82,472 votes; Minnesota elected 12 members of the electoral college and 10 congressmen, with 730,004 votes. South Carolina elected 9 members of the electoral college and 7 members of the national House of Representatives with 66,400 votes, while Indiana elected 15 members of the electoral college and 13 members of the House of Representatives with 1,262,401 votes. One vote in Mississippi or South Carolina, under the existing rotten borough system, maintained in direct violation of the Constitution through the connivance of the Congress of the United States, counts for as much as ten votes in states where free elections exist. No honest, patriotic American will defend usch a system, and unless Congress deliberately violates its plighted obligation it cannot continue it. Honesty is just as much in place in politics as in business, and square elections, despite the denials of Southern fire eaters and Northern doughfaces, are just as important in Mississippi as in Michigan. NOT YET ELECTED While Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge were chosen for President and Vice-President respectively, in November, they will not be officially elected until February, 9th. Still another important step remains to complete their election; the meeting of the electoral college took place Monday, but the final step will take place February 9, at a joint meeting of the Senate and House, when certificates of vote of each of the states are counted. After the ceremony Bice President Marshall will officially declare them elected. The people, as is well known, did not vote directly for Mr. Harding or Mr. Cox in November, but for electors. They are required to meet in their state capitols on the second Monday in January to cast their votes. The electoral college was in session in the forty-eight State capitols on Monday. Each elector votes for the candidate for whom he was elected to vote. When ballots are counted three certificates are prepared and signed in each state. One is sent to the judge of the United States District Court of the electors' State, one is sent by mail, and another by messenger, usually one of the electors, to the president of the Senate. Then these certificates will be opened by the Vice President, acting as President of the senate, in the presence of Congress. This ceremony will take place in the House February, 9. A joker in the horticultural associations has been through the assessee of the California at Fresno. The ing clause in it es and is now ferences for final bill can be ammended farmers' and fizations built elsewhere will businesses because away the immuition 6 act and under wganizations wee All of the character are v clause of tha their very exist say, of Fresno raisein growers lead the fight As the bill contained the empting the faera' organization "Proviled tha in this section organization or thereof, describ act entitled "A eristing laws e THE HETTY GREEN OF HUNTINGTON BEACH Aged Woman Making Good In Speculation Hetty Green kept the stock exchange on the anxious seat, John D. Rockefeller has the Standard Oil, the Klondike region produced millions over-night and the Texas oil fields have made many millionaires—but Huntington Beach has Mrs. Breckinridge. Though she has more than eighty summers to her credit, Mrs. Breckinridge has suddenly become one of the speculative geniuses of the beach oil field. Several years ago Mrs. Breckinridge became a widow, with a rooming house in Huntington Beach as her principal means of livelihood. With the start of the oil boom in the Huntington Beach field, Mrs. Breckinridge invested her few small savings in land. This she turned to good advantage a short time later. With the money made in these deals Mrs. Breckinridge purchased more land turning it as opportunity presented. Ever on the alert for new propositions and a chance to make a profit, Mrs. Breckinridge despite her 80 years in active service and "on the job" every minute. Recently Mrs. Breckinridge purchased a small shack on a large lot in the railroad district for $3000. Two weeks later this property was sold by her to one of the oil companies for $5000. Other deals with a similar percentage of profit have been put through by Mrs. Breckinridge who is credited with an average profit of $1000 a week from her real estate transactions. straints and monopolies and for other imposes' approved Oct. 15, 1914, and known as the Clayton Act. In the Senate this language was very definitely eliminated and the following very different substituted. "Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the creation or to attempt to create a monoply or to exempt any association organized hereunder from any proceedings instituted under the act entitled, 'An act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies and for other purposes approved October 15, 1914, on action in commerce. Should this bill become a law as it is now framed, all of the co-operative farmer and fruit grower organizations would be liable to prosecution under the Clayton Act, without any benefit of exemption as heretofore and the work of years would go for nothing. WAR TO THE LAST BURROW IS DECLARED AGAINST RODENTS How effective rodent-extermination work can be is shown by the results obtained by operations on the range area in Sulphur Springs Valley Arizona. In Cochise county, the Bureau of Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture, demonstrated effective procedure to a rancher, who completely cleared a tract of land comprising 30,700 acres. Neighboring ranchers were so impressed with the efficiency of the Government's operations that they asked the workers to come over into their country and help them. This was done, and all the infested areas in Cochise and Graham Counties will back to Oklahoma to complete his term there, instead of being sent to San Quentin, but his request was refused. There is no statute of limitations on a man who has committed a jail-break, and Harville can be arrested at any time that he leaves San Quentin during the next fifty years and taken back to Oklahoma to serve out his term there. United States army authorities also hold two charges against Harville. When arrested Harville was wearing a soldier's uniform, and he continued to wear this throughout the trial. The Federal authorities, to whom his fingerprints were sent have failed to find any record that he was ever in the army, and consequently will arrest him, should he be released from San Quentin, on charges of draft dodging and of wearing a uniform under false pretenses and without right and authority. UNCLE SAM'S PROFIT During the first twenty years the United States owned the Pribilofs the seal business was leased to a private corporation known as the Alaska Commercial Company, producing for the government a rental of $550,000 annually, a royalty of three dollars per skin, and also an import duty on the finished skins when reshipped to this country from London, where they were prepared for the trade. During the 20 years this income aggregated $13,-000,000 or about twice the total cost of Alaska. The private company however, made far more money out of the deal than the government. In 1890 a more advantageous deal was with the North American Commercial Company for 20 years, under which the government was to receive $1 GOVERNMENT AIDS REINDEER INDUSTRY OF FAR ALASKA When Alaska becomes so cold that an ordinary Jersey cow would freeze solid without a struggle, the reindeer blows a cloud of steam over his shoulder and wonders when there'll be an end to the muggy weather. Nor is the reindeer dependent upon corn-filled silos and cottonseed meal for his winter ration. He asks only a chance to get out on the frosty barren, where he can scrape the snow from the frozen moss and he'll obtain his own ration for the long eight months of cold weather. These are the attributes which make the reindeer the domestic animal of the natives of Alaska, to whom some form of animal industry is essential. Realizing the economic importance of this unique animal, the Bureau of Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture, has established an experimental station at Unalakleet, Alaska. The new station has a grazing expert and a veterinarian in its personnel and it is supplied with a well-equipped laboratory. Its primary purpose is to serve the reindeer industry by assisting the owners to rid their herds of parasitic pests which have inflicted considerable damage heretofore, and to obtain better utilization of the pasturage by regulating the grazing lands. Crowding the herds into limited areas has encouraged the development of parasites and has lessened the reindeer's food supply. Reports received by the department indicate that the new station is already correcting these troubles. It is expected that a bulletin on the reindeer industry will be issued in a few months. Recently Mrs. Breckinridge purchased a small shack on a large lot in the railroad district for $3000. Two weeks later this property was sold by her to one of the oil companies for $5000. Other deals with a similar percentage of profit have been put through by Mrs. Breckinridge who is credited with an average profit of $1000 a week from her real estate transactions. The business instinct shown by Mrs. Breckinridge is declared by her many friends to be almost uncanny. The invariable success which is declared to have attended her various ventures has earned her the title of "the Hetty Green of Huntington Beach." Prairie dogs and ground squirrels may seem to be innocent, inoffensive creatures, but actually they are very undesirable citizens. Of all the mischievous rodents which affect cultivated crops and range grasses west of the Mississippi River, these two families are the most widespread and the most destructive, says the Department of Agriculture. Previous to 1917 these rodents, added by the jack rabbit, pocket gopher, and field mouse, destroyed crops and forage to the tune of $300,000,000 a year in the United States. In 1917 Uncle Sam declared war on the villages of Dogtown and Squirrelville, and has carried it out at large since that year. The Bureau of Biological Survey, cooperating with the State governments, the extension services and the ranchmen, has cleaned up large areas of country formerly infested with these animals. In the last year it is estimated that the extermination of rodents has saved the ranchmen and farmers about $10,000,-000. During the year, in all states affected, 19,117,737 acres of land was given the poison treatment under the direction of the Department of Agriculture, and 15,172,709 acres were treated with the follow-up process, which makes extermination even more certain. Normally, the first poisoning kills from 85 to 98 per cent of the rodents; the follow up is regulated to exterminate the survivors. In carrying out the work 1,619 tons of poisoned grain were used. The reports show clearly that the rodents cannot resist organized efforts to drive them out, but they also show that neglect on the part of the farmers and ranchmen may encourage a second invasion. In Kansas, after years of effort, the extermination of prairie dogs was accomplished with the exception of a few of the scattering towns. Through neglect by the landowners the rodents which have inflicted considerable damage heretofore, and to obtain better utilization of the pasturage by regulating the grazing lands. Crowding the herds into limited areas has encouraged the development of parasites and has lessened the reindeer's food supply. Reports received by the department indicate that the new station is already correcting these troubles. It is expected that a bulletin on the reindeer industry will be issued in a few months. JOKER IN THE BILL A joker in the Capper bill affecting horticultural and agricultural associations has been discovered, largely through the astuteness and vigilance of the California Raisin association at Fresno. The bill with this blighting clause in it has passed both houses and is now in the hands of confeeers for final action. Unless the bill can be amended the co-operative farmers' and fruit growers' organizations built up in California and elsewhere will have to go out of business because the new law takes away the immunity granted under section 6 of the Clayton antitrust act and under which most of these organizations were formed. All of the organizations of this character are rallying to defeat the clause of the new bill, which means their very existence and Carl E. Linsay, of Fresno, of counsel for the raisin growers, is on his way East to lead the fight on the measure. As the bill passed the House it contained the following language exempting the farmers' and fruit growers' organizations. "Proviled that nothing contained in this section shall apply to the organization or individual members thereof, described in Section 6 of the act entitled 'An act to supplement existing laws against unlawful carrying out the work 1,619 tons of poisoned grain were used." The report's show clearly that the rodents cannot resist organized efforts to drive them out, but they also show that neglect on the part of the farmers and ranchmen may encourage a second invasion. In Kansas, after years of effort, the extermination of prairie dogs was accomplished with the exception of a few of the scattering towns. Through neglect by the landowners the rodents are again spreading their colonies into areas from which they have once been riven. Effort is now being concentrated upon these remaining small towns to complete eradication and thus prevent reinfestation of the State. AN UNSAVORY RECORD After having sprung a last minute surprise in court by admitting, just prior to being given a sentence of not more than fifty years in the state prison, that he was an escaped convict, Harry Harville, 28, recently found guilty of a statutory offense against a 13-year-old Santa Ana girl was taken to San Quentin. Harville was found guilty by a jury in the court of Superior Judge R. Y. Williams, who pronounced sentence. The surprise sprung by the defendant came when the court asked him if he knew of any reason why judgment should not be pronounced upon him. Harville got up and admitted that he had escaped from the Oklahoma state penitentiary where he was sent in January, 1920, for a term of three years on a bad check charge. He also admitted that Harville was not his true name, although he refused to tell his correct name. He said that he had effected his escape in August, 1920 and came to California. Harville asked that he be sent to complete his trial of being sent to trials request was re-posed statute of limit on has committed a harville can be released that he leaves the next fifty back to Oklahoma term there. my authorities also against Harville. Harville was wearing and he continued throughout the trial. The to whom his finite have failed to find was ever in the recently will arrest released from San of draft dodging a uniform under without right and M'B PROFIT twenty years the Pribilofs released to a private company the Alaska Com-producing for the total of $550,000 amount three dollars per import duty on the reshipped to this nation, where they were trade. During the time aggregated $13,000 the total cost private company how-more money out of government. advantageous deal American Commerce 100 years, under which we receive $10,000 bureau of fisheries of the United States Department or Commerce, none of the animal is killed except the surplus bachelors and very old bulls. Since their discovery in 1796 approximately 6,000,000 seals have been killed on the Pribilofs. THE FLAW IN THE LEAGUE Words once uttered cannot be wiped from memory by the mere process of eliminating them from the official record. Accordingly the protest of N. W. Rowell, Canadian representative in the Assembly of the League of Nations, against the tendency, which seems apparent to him, to establish Europe in control of the operation of the League, must be taken as further evidence of the conflict between the ideals of the Old World and the New. Fifty thousand Canadian soldiers under the sod in France and Flanders is the price Canada has paid for the European Statesmanship, he declared to the astonished assembly at Geneva. It was to eliminate the possibility of a recurrence of another such a war that the proposal for the world federation was approved by the people of the New World and of the Old alike. Domination of international affairs by secret alliances, by selfish motives, or for the particular benefit of all nations was to be eliminated from it as the cause of the conflict. The people of the United States solemnly came to the conclusion that the covenant did not offer this relief as it was drawn; Argentina has withdrawn its representative at Geneva: a Canadian, a British subject who least of all on this continent might be thought to object to a situation that gave his empire a position of advantage calls attention to the dangers of control of world af- Large hens kept in close confinement are likely to get too fat to lay well. Small nervous hens are apt to develop such vices as egg eating and feather eating. The bad tendencies mentioned do not prohibit the keeping of large breeds in small back yards, but make it necessary for the keeper to use extraordinary care to keep them in good condition and productive. The White and light colored varieties are not desirable for small back yard flocks, because their plumage soils too easily. As a rule is most satisfactory to buy hens of a local poultry keeper or dealer in live poultry. 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