anaheim-gazette 1921-09-01

YACHT RACING AT ORANGE COUNTY HARBOR September 3, 4 and 5 Will Be Gala Days at Newport Yachting sportsmen from the entire California coastline as far north as San Francisco will have their vision centered on Newport harbor over the week-end of September 3, 4 and 5, and the Orange county port will see a gathering of pleasure craft second only to the big coast regatta held at Santa Barbara, according to announcement of officers of the Newport Harbor Yacht club. The festivities are to start Saturday, September 3, with a race of South Coast and Los Angeles Motorboat club members to Balboa from San Pedro, with a genuine yacht club dance at night, limited to members and visiting yachtmen. This party will be held at the Newport Harbor Yacht club house, which will be the center of activities during the three days, Monday, Labor Day, will see same fast speed-boat and sailing races on the outside course,and Monday evening there will be an informal dance for members and their guests, limited to six. "We are going to show our visitors a royal good time and need every member, particularly the boat owners, to lend every assistance in being the genial hosts that the club is noted for," reads the Newport club's announcement. "Those members who have small runabout bay boats or small cruisers can help materially in acting as pilot boats for the visiting ships. Let's put the party on right and show our visitors we know how it should be done." Some of the local yachtmen expect as many boats at Balboa over the Labor Day regatta as were present at Santa Barbara, and assurance is given that all the clubs from San Diego to San Francisco, will be represented. AFFAIRS OF ALASKA TO BE CONSIDERED Congress ls going to give a thought to Alaska, which has too long been the Cinderella of the United States. Acquired 53 years ago for a paltry price, Alaska has experienced a career either of too much government or no government at all. For 17 years after its purchase by the United States it was without any civil government. It was 39 years before it was permitted to have a delegate in congress and 45 years before it was permitted to have a territorial government. Equal in area to one-fifth the size of continental United States, its natural resources are the most valuable of any section of the United States. Despite this, Alaska has either been exploited by private individuals or had its development arrested by a system of strangling red-tape. At the present, it is said that there are 30 odd federal government agencies which have to do, in some way or another, with governing Alaska. The result is hopeless confusion, interminable delay, conflict and overlapping of authority and division of responsibility, all of which have operated, on the whole to defeat the development of that territory. Senator New, of Indiana, chairman of the senate committee on territories, has introduced a bill which it is understood has the endorsement of the administration, that will go a long way toward correcting these governmental evils. It will be taken up after the congressional recess. Briefly, the bill provides for a transfer of the duties, powers and functions, relating to Alaska, now vested in the department of agriculture, the department of commerce, the federal power commission, the department of treasury and the department of war, to the jurisdiction and control of the department of the interior, which already has considar- consumer; was to the hands of business over to public pay that time freight were not a great what they are to gone through and government operation portation. These country not much they were at the on governmental Europe. The prize this agitation was war would today nanza to the co-being told by the ticians that it damnable oppressed by "the coal barr. After a little cal operation of payroll alone his figures than those ing the total cost ways, including mentions, terminal overhead include and interest on increased pay increase in efficient railways today, hundred of millions the taxpayers o and passenger n prohibitive, andized condition o the direct result operation, begin of the Adamsons off for it—not ployes, for several of them are jobs still on the pay chasing power greater than it cause the same branches of india same results. They have contributed about the d REUNION OF NINETY-FIRST Orange county veterans of the world war who were members of the Ninety-First (Wild West) division will be present in large numbers at the division's reunion to be held at Los Angeles, September 24 and 25. Besides others, there are about 150 members of the 364th supply company in Orange county, Bob Collin stated. Each regiment is making reservations for its members at Los Angeles hotels in order to keep the unit intact. Mayor James Rolph, "Father of the Regiment," is going to travel to the reunion with the men of the 363rd infantry, who live in the north. The San Francisco contingent is to travel by water, leaving the Bay city Friday, September 23, at 4 p.m., on the SS Yale and arriving at San Pedro, the port of Lo$_8$ Angeles, at 9:30 the next morning. With bookings already made nearly sufficient to fill the big passenger steamer preparations are being made to charter a second. It is expected that nearly a thousand men from San Francisco will make the trip. In OD uniforms and overseas caps, with tin hats strapped over one shoulder ready for the monster parade to be staged by the division, the men from the north are planning to make the city of Los Angeles sit up and take notice. Though most of the crowd will be from the 363rd, there will be several toward correcting these governmental evils. It will be taken up after the congressional recess. Briefly, the bill provides for a transfer of duties, powers and functions, relating to Alaska, now vested in the department of agriculture, the department of commerce, the federal power commission, the department of treasury and the department of war, to the jurisdiction and control of the department of the interior, which already has considerable power and authority pertaining to the government of Alaska. The powers transferred from the war and treasury departments, by Senator New's bill, are purely administrative, dealing with construction and maintenance of roads in Alaska. The purpose of the bill is to consolidate and centralize the authority for government in Alaska in one department and under one head, thus eliminating duplication of expense and effort, as well as fixing responsibility for affairs in Alaska. A very important section of the bill provides that the United States shipping board shall transfer to the department of the interior such ships, as may be designated by the president, of suitable capacity for handling the maritime passenger and freight carrying trade between the United States and Alaska, including all military forces, U.S. malls and other government property. These ships, together with the government railroad in Alaska shall be operated in conjunction, under the management of the secretary of the Interior, subject to the same jurisdiction of the interstate commerce commission as that commission has over the transportation lines in the United States. This is of vital importance to the development of Alaska. The United States government has expended over $50,000,000 in building a railroad in Alaska, the main line of which is to run from Seward to Fairbanks. This railroad, however, cannot perform its intended function of the development of the interior of the territory touched by it and its tributaries, unless it has a free and profitable communication with the United States. At present, it is at the mercy of private shipping concerns. Under Senator New's bill, it would be operated by the government in conjunction with shipping lines, also owned by the federal government, which would guarantee it adequate and unobstructed access to the Pacific coast ports of the United Evidence recount committee throughgence and sincemand for moremines as a remainBefore the warthe mine's mount$1 per ton.Inthe era of politicsof mine produceThe direct wageramounted to$1costs incidenttcreasing thiscreases in salarychinery duringenormous.Thea ton of coal fraserumer rose froper ton.TheCoal that couldwar at in act$3.50 per ton,$7.50 per ton,countthe retarddoing businessare assailed asgreed or consorthe state socialepeople arethat is necessactrl in ordertocosts of producowal砍 downt nothing at allconsiderable价arethe outcomcontrol of induwhose dominaternerm wasaof criminal exincident inflactionwhich therought to pophandling of lnthat the consumof it is a contrhe neck. The people ofor the time be made nearly sufficient to fill the big passenger steamer preparations are being made to charter a second. It is expected that nearly a thousand men from San Francisco will make the trip. In OD uniforms and overseas caps, with tin hats strapped over one shoulder ready for the monster parade to be staged by the division, the men from the north are planning to make the city of Los Angeles sit up and take notice. Though most of the crowd will be from the 363rd, there will be several hundred from other units of the division. Veterans of the 363rd in Los Angeles have formed a committee of sixty to welcome their comrades from the north and plan to meet them at the boat with a band and a special train. Arriving in Los Angeles they will march four blocks to reunion headquarters in the club rooms of Los Angeles post of the American Legion and there disband. Saturday night there will be a 363rd banquet, at which Mayor Rolph will be the principal speaker and Sunday ceremonies in Exposition park, which 25,000 or 30,000 people are expected to attend. Colors and standards of the 362nd infantry and the 348th field artillery will be sent to the reunion of the Ninety-first division to be held at Los Angeles September 24 and 25, according to word received by reunion headquarters from Charles L. Sheridan, adjunct general of Montana. Six hundred men from Orange county fought overseas with the Ninety-fifth division. Most of these men were with the 363rd and the 364th regiments. When a man gets to the point where women's fashion: no longer interest him, he's old even if he is only twenty. THEY THINK PEOPLE HAVE VERY SHORT MEMORIES The state socialists of all brands and breeds are again clamoring for government, or political, ownership and operation of industry. Evidently these agitators suppose that the people of the United States have forgotten their experiences under the era of government operation and control inaugurated in the name of war necessity by the Wilson administration. They are assuming that the people have forgotten that this political operation was attended by lowered efficiency and increased costs, by a public-be-damned attitude on the part of those in control of the seized instrumentalities of service. They are assuming, also, that the people do not know that the abuses and excessive cost of service with which the public is now struggling are a heritage of this era of political control, with all its attendant demoralization of industry. It will be recalled that before the world war there was a well organized propaganda in behalf of government, or political ownership. We were told that all that was necessary to reduce weight and passenger rates and the price of the necessities of life to the intended function of the development of the interior of the territory touched by it and its tributaries, unless it has a free and profitable communication with the United States. At present, it is at the mercy of private shipping concerns. Under Senator New's bill, it would be operated by the government in conjunction with shipping lines, also owned by the federal government, which would guarantee it adequate and unobstructed access to the Pacific coast ports of the United States. THE OUTSTANDING FOR MORE ORAL OWNERSHIP PRIED ON BY APPLIED AND HATRED, AS JUSTLY MENACINATED OF THE REPUBLIC OF CONGRESS, NO PROPAGANIST, REPUBLICAN LANGUAGE IS CIRCULATING OVER PORTAWS CONGRATULATION IN CATERING TO DISHONESTLY AND INGING THE MASSES LEICA. Such deli- ANAHEIM GAZETTE DERED thought between the times. Accuracy price, or either governer its it was It was attended to and 45 have a in area continental sources are a nation of consumer; was to take business out of the hands of business men and turn over to public pay roll politicians. At that time freight and passenger rates were not a great deal more than half what they are today after we have gone through an experience with government operation and control of transportation. These rates were in this country not much more than half what they were at the time for equal service on governmentally owned railways in Europe. The price of coal at the time this agitation was going on before the war would today be considered a bonanza to the consumer, yet we were being told by the state socialist politicists that it represented the most damnable oppression of the consumer by the "coal barons." After a little experience with politeical operation of railways the operative payroll alone had mounted to bigger figures than those formerly representing the total cost of running the railways, including fuel, repairs, replacements, terminals, right of way and overhead including dividends on stock and interest on bonds. Along with this increased pay roll cost came a decrease in efficiency. The plight of the railways today, including a burden of hundred of millions of dollars upon the taxpayers of the country, freight and passenger rates that are almost prohibitive, and a generally demoralized condition of rail transportation, is the direct result of politics in railway operation, beginning with the passage of the Adamsson law. No one is better off for it—not even the railway employes, for several hundred thousand of them are jobless and those who are still on the payroll find that the purchasing power of their wage is no greater than it was before the war, because the same sort of thing in other branches of industry has brought the same results. The higher freight rates have contributed materially to bring-ing about the depressed conditions in GENERAL WOOD IN PHILIPPINES If Major General Leonard Wood is appointed governor general of the Philippines, as seems probable in the light of Secretary Weeks' announcement, the administration will deserve high praise for the making of an admirable appointment. One of the ablest of living colonial administrators, General Wood's public career has fitted him to fill with distinction the governor generalship of the Philippines; and the knowledge and information which he has added as a member of the special mission sent to the islands by President Harding has given him and understanding of the problems and needs of the Philippines unsurpassed by any other American. Known and respected as "strong man," General Wood nevertheless sympathize with the aspirations of the Philippine people for ultimate independence, and he will be able to guide those aspirations along logical lines. But he knows—as does every clear-thinking inhabitant of the islands—that the breaking off by the Philippines tomorrow of the ties which bind the islands to the United States would involve grave perils, if it would not invite disaster. As governor general of the Philippines, he would gain the instant confidence of the people whose political destinies he was called to direct; he would help to harmonize the differences of whatever local factions might exist, and under his direction there is every reason to believe that a new and brighter day would dawn for the Filipino people. General Wood, moreover, has a firm grasp of the threads of world policy. He is familiar with the bearings of present international issues upon American interests. The problems of the Pacific are steadily looming larger on the international horizon, and these problems are sure to take a leading place in the discussions of the powers at the Washington conference of this Evidence recently taken by a senate committee throws light on the intelligence and sincerity back of the demand for more political control of coal mines as a remedy for high fuel costs. Before the war coal was produced at the mine's mouth at $1.50 per ton. In the fall of 1920, after the era of political regulation the cost of mine production had been trebled. The direct wage increase of the miners amounted to $1.12 per ton, with other costs incident to the wage advance in creasing this to $1.70 per ton. Increases in salaries, materials and machinery during the same period were enormous. The average freight rate on a ton of coal from the mine to the consumer rose from $1.50 per ton to $7 per ton. The cost of cartage doubled. Coal that could be delivered before the war at an actual cost of from $3 to $3.50 per ton, now costs from $7 to $7.50 per ton, without taking into account the retailer's increased cost of doing business. Yet these increases are assailed as mere evidence of the greed of conscienceless profiteers by the state socialism demagogues, and the people are told by them that all that is necessary is more political control in order to eliminate the increased costs of production and bring the cost of coal down to a point slightly above nothing at all. The truth is that in considerable part these holsted prices are the outcome of an era of political control of industry by payroll patriot whose domination of the national government was accomplished by an orgy of criminal extravagance, waste and incident inflation, graft and speculation which the politicians in power sought to popularize by demagogical handling of industrial problems. All that the consuming public has got out of it is a continuous series of jolts in the neck. The people of the United States have for the time being, at least, learned the everybody was working. I had believed I would find suffering and scarce or supplies, but found, instead, stores well filled with goods and no unparent dearth of any of the necessities. "I found not only plenty of food wherever I went, but it was good food, well cooked. In fact, neither in France nor in England did I obtain such good meals as in Germany." "The Germans frankly admit that the United States was the deciding factor in the war." Hell while in Europe attended the International Rotary convention at Edinburg, Scotland. He has returned much improved in health, and has resumed his duties with the Excelsior Creamery company. BELIEVE OIL WORKERS WILL NOT WALK OUT The present of a big strike in the oil fields of California seems to have gone glimmering, according to reports received daily, the latest news being that the Edens Syndicate, the Miller Syndicate and the Orange County Drilling company have signed a contract to recognize the workers collectively. It is believed that many of the smaller companies who are in favor of government mediation are arranging to pool their interests and market their product the same as the citrus association and similar bodies, thus enabling them to cut loose from the so-called oil trust upon whom they have had to depend to sell their oil, or to deal with their men. The signing of the three companies mentioned above, along with three companies announced earlier, is taken to mean that there will not be a general strike at any rate. Local oil workers and officers decline to be interviewed concerning the situation further than to say that "things are looking good," and that there is no fear of violence on their part. The Brea localATS regular meeting Thursday night was visited by R. H. Stickel, president of the International Oil Well, Gas Field and Refinery Workers, but local officers report nothing for publication. MAKING A BED PROPERLY IS ESSENTIAL IN HOUSEKEEPING Not every woman knows how to whose domination of the national government was accomplished by an orgy of criminal extravagance, waste and incident inflation, graft and speculation which the politicians in power sought to popularize by demagogical handling of industrial problems. All that the consuming public has got out of it is a continuous series of jolts in the neck. The people of the United States have for the time being, at least, learned the lesson that political control of industry blights every activity it touches. That anyone, after the experience of the past few years would want more of politics in industry except for the legal prohibition of abuses in private ownership which have been permitted to run riot while the government was neglecting its proper business to engage in things it ought not and cannot do—that anyone, we say, having passed through this experience, should be demanding seriously that as a cure for our present ailments we try more of the thing that brought them on, only proves that demagogy and fanaticism are accustomed to underestimate the people's power of observation and reasoning. The outstanding feature of this agitation for more government or political ownership is that it is being carried on by appeals to class prejudice and hatred, as well as ignorance, seriously menacing to the peace and safety of the republic. A former member of congress, now a political ownership propagandist, who went down in the Republican landslide of last November, is circulating cartoons in which he portrays congress as a body engaged in catering to special privilege while dishonestly and unpatriotically betraying the masses of the people of America. Such deliberate misrepresentation part. The Brea local arts regular meeting Thursday night was visited by R. H. Stickel, president of the International Oil Well, Gas Field and Refinery Workers, but local officers report nothing for publication. MAKING A BED PROPERLY IS ESSENTIAL IN HOUSEKEEPING Not every woman knows how to make a bed properly, although her linen closet may be enviably well filled with all the necessary sheets, pillow cases, and coverings. The home demonstration agents of the United States department of agriculture and the state agricultural colleges are encouraging clubs of girls to furnish and care for their own rooms, and these are the directions they give for correct bed making. First, straighten the mattress pad so that it lies smooth and without wrinkles. Over this spread the under sheet, right side up, with the wide hem at the head and the center of the sheet to the center of the bed. The comfort of a bed depends in a large measure on tucking in the under sheet so securely that it remains smooth and straight. Making mitered corners is one of the best ways of doing this, and any person who has had nurses' training can quickly show you how to make them. Next, put on the upper sheet, right side down, and allowing for a generous turnover at the head tuck it in at the foot, using mitered corners. 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