anaheim-gazette 1922-01-19

WALNUTS IN CALIFORNIA The Persian walnut, or, as it is more commonly known, the English walnut, may be seen growing in nearly every county in the state of California. The commercial production of nuts, however, is centered mainly in southern California in the following four counties, mentioned in the order of importance: Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura and Santa Barbara. Riverside and San Bernardino counties have a considerable area of young groves. At the present writing, there are approximately 85,000 acres of walnut trees of various ages within the state. The annual production for the state during the last ten years may be seen from the following table: 1911, 25,000,000; 1912, 22,500,000; 1913, 22,700,000; 1914, 17,800,000; 1915, 29,650,000; 1916, 29,200,000; 1917, 33,600,000; 1918, 40,231,000; 1919, 56,200,000; 1920, 43,000,000. The present condition of the industry indicates that walnuts may continue to be one of the most staple and at the same time most profitable crops which can be grown on land, and in locations adapted to this crop. The annual consumption of walnuts in the United states has ranged between 60,000,000 and 70,000,000 pounds annually during the past five years, and has increased more than 30 per cent since 1909. Nuts, which were formerly looked upon as a holiday luxury, are becoming more and more a food to be used the pear through in the average household. This increase and wider use of the walnut has been accompanied by an increase in importation exceeding our own average production, and a gradual increase in the prices paid to the California grower. It may thus be inferred that the business of walnut culture in California is not likely to result from the results of expanding credits during the war, when that prediction is being fulfilled. Demagogues with political bees buzzing in their bonnets, are arising to propose all sorts of inflationary panaceas for the evils arising out of the recent process of inflation. John Harvey is writing a series of articles for the Socialist Appeal to Reason. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, who have gained fame in the realms of gasoline and electricity, come to the front with a scheme for the revival of the Assignat experiments of France during the revolution. They would issue currency based on the property owned by the government. This means an unlimited supply of new currency based on the ownership of the national capitol and other government buildings at Washington, the forest reserves, the national parks, the Muscle Shoals dam, and, maybe, our airplane and shipping investments during the war. It is the opinion of Messrs. Ford and Edison that there is no reason why everyone should not have a pocket full of money while there are so many printing presses in the country that could be utilized to grind out bills based upon the credit of the United States. Germany and Russia are trying this plan out at the present time. The German mark is now one-fortieth its former value. An American visitor to Germany tells how the exchange value of her money shrank considerably between the time when she entered a German bank and the time her supply of marks has handed over the counter. In Russia you trade a wagon load of paper money for a basket full of provisions. But, as Mr. Ford and Mr. Edison point out, everybody is at work in Germany under this system. But that is because no one practically can stop working without beginning to starve at once, and the fluctuations of the currency are cheating the producersence Japan would be required her plans for doing China. They know that gains control of the resource power of China no scheme diment will be too valid this rapidly rising militarism alistic nation to attemptize that the chief hope of Pacific is for Japan to add attitude toward China and peoples of the orient that States has adopted towards lics of this hemisphere, sacrifice of sovereignty commercial or political policy this nation. But there are multiplying that Japan is stubbornly cohesive maintenance of her backed by bayonets, over cannot prevent such an we can decline to enter investment which by the removal involves sanction or it. If Japan intends to game through which Germ disaster, let her do so no number of the general society but as an Ishmaelite, in such a program is sure to early disaster for Japan. No hostility to Japan is the desire that the demagogue nese militarists and forSIONists should be resisted these tendencies be curbed Japan within a few years certain as that the kaiser ended. If Japan will put and the brains she has to subjugating other Aslatic commercial development it and progress are assuition will throw no stone her industrial expansion ready to join Japan in peaceful means, other seizing special privileges Japan's proximity to tha 1909. Nuts, which were formerly looked upon as a holiday luxury, are becoming more and more a food to be used the pear through in the average household. This increase and wider use of the walnut has been accompanied by an increase in importation exceeding our own average production, and a gradual increase in the prices paid to the California grower. It may thus be inferred that the business of walnut culture in California is not likely to result from the results of over-production in the near future. It is difficult to forecast future economic conditions relating to the production and sale of any particular crop. Nevertheless, many of the older walnut growers, who have known this industry from its early days, believe that the planting of a walnut grove at present is as safe an investment as it has been at any time during the development of the industry. The limit of the profitable length of life of a walnut grove cannot be told from experiences in California. Provided the soil, climatic and water conditions are well suited to this crop, the trees may continue to thrive and produce satisfactory crops for a long period, which is difficult to limit. Some observers have expressed opinions that walnut groves, under favorable conditions, may continue to be a satisfactory source of revenue until the trees are from 50 to 200 years old. Some of the oldest walnut groves in Ventura county are the most profitable and productive in the state. The young walnut grove may be expected to bear profitable crops by the time the trees are 6 to 10 years old, depending upon the variety, the number of trees planted per acre, and the natural conditions surrounding the grove. A grove of almost 50 acres of the Placentia variety in Orange county produced an average of 44 pounds of ungraded nuts per tree in its ninth year. As the trees are 60 feet apart this represents 528 pounds per acre. During the first 10 or 12 years this might well have been double planted and thus produced approximately 1056 pounds per acre the ninth year. FIAT FINANCE IS IN AIR AGAIN During every era of deflation, following a period of inflation and speculation, comes a movement for currency inflation. The remedy is like that of getting drunk again to cure the headache and general physical demoralization after a debauch. Apostles of NO TOLERANCE FOR ASIATIC MILITARISM This nationa cannot afford to enter into any compact with Japan, involving protection of the territory of that nation, while Japan continues to insist upon maintaining a strangle-hold on China, with an obvious purpose to maintain perpetual suzerainty over the Chinese republic and with gradual development of the policy of despoliation of her money shrank considerably between the time when she entered a German bank and the time her supply of marks has handed over the counter. In Russia you trade a wagon load of paper money for a basket full of provisions. But, as Mr. Ford and Mr. Edison point out, everybody is at work in Germany under this system. But that is because no one practically can stop working without beginning to starve at once, and the fluctuations of the currency are cheating the producers for the benefit of exploiting capitalists and aliens. However, Mr. Ford is a candidate for president and is interested in the workings of his financial scheme only in so far as it will promote his political prospects, otherwise being boosted in the outcry of publications and politicians attached to his entourage about the wrong that was done the nation's honor when he was prevented from coming to the senate in place of Mr. Newberry. He is ready to advocate the free and unlimited mintage of potato peelings if it will help him become the candidate of any old party for the senate, the presidency or any other old place. It will be the part of wisdom for people who believe in sound principles of government rather than in disastrous revolutionary experimentation, to take note of the multiplying symptoms of the near approach of another inflationary movement, and if the conditions which make possible the rapid spread of sentiment in favor of quack economic nostrums for national illis. The conditions in the country are not dissimilar to those of 1894, which led up to the historic campaign of 1896. Two things are necessary to ward off the possibility of the success of the forces of inflation and repudiation: the fulfillment, in so far as this is possible, of the expectations of the people in restoration of industrial and agricultural prosperity; second, the education of the people in the fundamentals of sound national finance. RAISE FARMER EARNINGS IS ONLY REAL Why has the price dropped below the 1913 most everything else in States is still 25 to 75 percent? And what is the great disparity in prices? America never has cost output of its farms. Agricultural output, ranging cent for cotton, must be always the smaller price porped, yet the price that the total brings on them largely determines their most two years ago. European production heavily; European compared even more, the man can wheat, for instance, home market. And a key factor for agricultural profits thoroughly and only by Russia's cold prices are based in large ropean demand and prices when both declined. Farmer was dragged down. No notice was given, ed., no arbitration board. At one fell swoop the farmer's hours were increased of his endurance and reduced to the subsisted. When the farmer quick autos, new clothes, imp stocks, when he reduces of necessities to the minimum and asked... FIAT FINANCE IS IN AIR AGAIN During every era of deflation, following a period of inflation and speculation, comes a movement for currency inflation. The remedy is like that of getting drunk again to cure the headache and general physical demoralization after a debauch. Apostles of the people, at such times, arise to remind the debtor that while he contracted his obligations when money was easy he is having to pay when money is tight. Campaigns of this kind are always characterized by a great deal of lurid rhetoric about the money barons, the plutocrats, the bloated bond holders and the big interests. The United States has passed through several such periods, the most recent being the campaign of 1896, featuring Coin Harvey, free silver, William J. Bryan, his cross of gold and crown of thorns. Now, with deflation following the inflation and speculation of the war period, with the day of settlement succeeding the day of financial joy riding, demagogues are springing up on every hand with schemes for making everybody rich and happy once more through the free and unlimited issue of fiat money. When the federal reserve law was passed eight years ago, one of the leading bankers of the middle west declared that while the immediate effect of the measure would be good, it represented a dangerous venture of the government into the banking business and held possibilities of inflation which would ultimately bring reaction and the renewal of agitation against banks and in favor of more radical inflationary measures. The time has come, much hastened by the necessity NO TOLERANCE FOR ASIATIC MILITARISM This nationa cannot afford to enter into any compact with Japan, involving protection of the territory of that nation, while Japan continues to insist upon maintaining a strangle-hold on China, with an obvious purpose to maintain perpetual suzerainty over the Chinese republic and with gradual development of the policy of despoliation and exploitation which the Japanese empire has for a number of years been following on the Asiatic mainland. To enter into a treaty with Japan and leave in their present status the real fundamental and menacing Pacific questions would be, in effect, to enter into partnership with the wrongs committed and in contemplation against a sister republic. It was the world-wide unpopularity of the course of Japan which led to the desire of Great Britain to renounce the Anglo-Japanese treaty. The odium of that treaty will extend to any new compact under which Japan is permitted to continue her policy of aggression against Asiatic neighbors. This republic cannot afford to enter a partnership protective in behalf of Japan, which is not equally protective of China as against Japan or any other power seeking undue advantage. If Japan is to be permitted to follow the seizure of Korea, in violation of a solemn agreement, and the domination of Manchuria, by such overlordship of China's domestic affairs as is contemplated in the 21 demands, then we must either turn our backs on the Pacific for good or live in the shadow of conflict with a power bent upon far more ambitious aims in the Pacific basin than the kaiser ever dreamed of in the western world. The American people have assumed that during the Washington confer- When the farmer quits autos, new clothes, import stocks, when he reduces of necessities to the minimum and asked off these, the city factories reduced their output, they charged by the hundred their diminished purchase gave business another chance. But the earnings of their jobs continued hitherto gasping farmer to nose for everything he domestic market even away his products on key level. When the farmer's er is fully restored, prosperity. Cutting to the bone is merely liative. The constructive bring the farmer's ease. NOTHING An old physician oition was noted for himner and old-fashioned one occasion a woman to treat her baby, wailing. The doctor oil. "But, doctor," proclaimed mother, "castor oil fashioned remedy." "Madam," replied bles are old-fashioned. An ex-king died that got just six lines in ance Japan would be required to re-ounce her plans for domination of China. They know that when Japan gains control of the resources and man power of China no scheme of aggranulization will be too valiglorious for this rapidly rising militaristic and navalistic nation to attempt. They realize that the chief hope of peace in the Pacific is for Japan to adopt the same attitude toward China and other peoples of the orient that the United States has adopted toward the republics of this hemisphere, involving no sacrifice of sovereignity or exclusive commercial or political privileges for this nation. But there are multiplying evidences that Japan is stubbornly contending for the maintenance of her domination, backed by bayonets, over China. We cannot prevent such an attitude, but we can decline to enter into any agreement which by the remotest implication, involves sanction or tolerance of it. If Japan intends to continue the game through which Germany came to disaster, let her do so not as a member of the general society of nations, but as an Ishmaelite, in which case such a program is sure to culminate in early disaster for Japan. No hostility to Japan is involved in the desire that the demands of Japanese militarists and forcible expansionists should be resisted. Unless these tendencies be curbed the ruin of Japan within a few years is just as certain as that the kaiser’s dreams are ended. If Japan will put the money and the brains she has been using in subjugating other Asiatic peoples into commercial development her prosperity and progress are assured. This nation will throw no stone in the way of her industrial expansion and stands ready to join Japan in preventing, by peaceful means, other nations from seizing special privileges in the orient. Japan’s proximity to the Asiatic main DYEING FRESHENS OLD AND FADED GARMENTS Many Color Combinations Easily Made From Primary Colors—Salt Improves the Dye Dyeing can be done at home so easily that the process has been made part of the club work for boys and girls conducted by the United States department of agriculture, co-operating with the state agricultural colleges. To get good results it is necessary to consider the kind of material and its original color as well as the color to which it is/to be dyed. Dyes intended for use with wool or silk materials do not produce satisfactory results with cotton. Dyes intended for cotton materials may be used in dyeing silk, wool, or linen. For materials which are mixtures of cotton and any of the other materials, or materials stitched with cotton, a cotton dye should be used. It is easy to dye white material any color or red-dye any material the same shade, a darker shade, or black. More skill is required to dye the material an entirely different color. It is impossible to dye any material a brighter color than it was originally unless the darker shade can be bleached out before dyeing. This seldom pays for the labor involved. Good shades and colors may often be obtained by combining different colors. In dyeing this can be done in two ways: The original color may be combined with a dye of different color, as when blue material is dipped in a yellow dye to get green; or, the material may be dyed first one color and then another, as when it is first dyed blue, dried, and then dipped in yellow dye to get green. Red, blue and yellow are the primary colors. Combining these primary colors in different proportions will produce many different colors and co-operative organizations and tell it why these matters were formed how they operate and how they work to the benefit of the consumers and the business man as well as for the growers. The campaign will consist of a series of speaking tours to be made throughout the state by Dr. F. M. Coleman, formerly a grower himself and an experienced public speaker, who was appointed lecturer for the association by the board of directors. Dr. Coleman will address such organizations as chambers of commerce, commercial clubs and such semi-public societies as Rotary clubs, Hundred Per Cent clubs, Progressive Business Men's clubs and Lion clubs. He will also be available as a speaker before conventions and trade associations and will make special addresses before the economic classes in the leading colleges and universities of the Pacific coast. H. G. Coykendall, general manager of the California Prune and Apricot Growers, Inc., in explaining the educational work undertaken by the association said: “Co-operative marketing in California has been more successful than any other place in the world and has brought millions upon millions of dollars in prosperity to the state. “The public in general is in sympathy with the work being done by the great California co-operative organizations of growers, but it is woefully ignorant as to how these co-operative associations are formed and how they operate. We are constantly receiving requests from business organizations, colleges and schools, and private individuals asking us to explain our organization. “Such wide-spread interest on the part of the public deserves special attention. The present plan of education means we are going to take our story directly to the public instead of Japan within a few years is just as certain as that the kaiser’s dreams are ended. If Japan will put the money and the brains she has been using in subjugating other Asiatic peoples into commercial development her prosperity and progress are assured. This nation will throw no stone in the way of her industrial expansion and stands ready to join Japan in preventing, by peaceful means, other nations from seizing special privileges in the orient. Japan’s proximity to the Asiatic mainland insures her tremendous opportunities in trade without the resort to that policy of theft and oppression in which European nations set the example for many years. Through intelligence, enterprise and good will the Japanese can be first in the trade of the east, but the plan of clearing a way for business with cannon is one that will lead Japan into humiliation, bankruptcy and defeat. RAISE FARMER EARNINGS IS ONLY REAL REMEDY Why has the price of farm products dropped below the 1913 level while almost everything else in the United States is still 25 to 75 per cent higher? And what is the effect of this great disparity in prices and earnings? America never has consumed all the output of its farms. A part of the agricultural output, ranging from 15 per cent in the case of wheat to 40 per cent for cotton, must be exported. It is always the smaller part that is exported, yet the price this fraction of the total brings on the world market largely determines the price level of most two years ago. European production costs dropped heavily; European consumption dropped even more, the market for American wheat, for instance, being saved the home market. And the world market for agricultural products went to pieces thoroughly and completely at only by Russia’s collapse. World prices are based in large part on European demand and production costs; when both declined, the American farmer was dragged down with them. No notice was given, no consent asked, no arbitration board was consulted. At one fell swoop the American farmer’s hours were increased to the limit of his endurance and his income was reduced to the subsistence level. When the farmer quit buying pianos, autos, new clothes, implements and oil stocks, when he reduced his purchases of necessities to the lowest possible minimum and asked credit even for peaceful means, other nations from seizing special privileges in the orient. Japan’s proximity to the Asiatic mainland insures her tremendous opportunities in trade without the resort to that policy of theft and oppression in which European nations set the example for many years. Through intelligence, enterprise and good will the Japanese can be first in the trade of the east, but the plan of clearing a way for business with cannon is one that will lead Japan into humiliation, bankruptcy and defeat. RAISE FARMER EARNINGS IS ONLY REAL REMEDY Why has the price of farm products dropped below the 1913 level while almost everything else in the United States is still 25 to 75 per cent higher? And what is the effect of this great disparity in prices and earnings? America never has consumed all the output of its farms. A part of the agricultural output, ranging from 15 per cent in the case of wheat to 40 per cent for cotton, must be exported. It is always the smaller part that is exported, yet the price this fraction of the total brings on the world market largely determines the price level of most two years ago. European production costs dropped heavily; European consumption dropped even more, the market for American wheat, for instance, being saved the home market. And the world market for agricultural products went to pieces thoroughly and completely at only by Russia’s collapse. World prices are based in large part on European demand and production costs; when both declined, the American farmer was dragged down with them. No notice was given, no consent asked, no arbitration board was consulted. At one fell swoop the American farmer’s hours were increased to the limit of his endurance and his income was reduced to the subsistence level. When the farmer quit buying pianos, autos, new clothes, implements and oil stocks, when he reduced his purchases of necessities to the lowest possible minimum and asked credit even for peaceful means, other nations from seizing special privileges in the orient. Japan’s proximity to the Asiatic mainland insures her tremendous opportunities in trade without the resort to that policy of theft and oppression in which European nations set the example for many years. Through intelligence, enterprise and good will the Japanese can be first in the trade of the east, but the plan of clearing a way for business with cannon is one that will lead Japan into humiliation, bankruptcy and defeat. PROPHETS SANS HONOR Seventy-five years ago, when Great Britain adopted the free trade policy, the leader in that movement, Cobden, said the world would follow England’s example. It did not. In October of last year Great Britain returned to the protective policy with a “safe-guarding of industries act,” levying a 33 per cent duty on imports, and a certain American free trader who spends the better part of his time in England is reported to have said that the world would never follow England’s example. But it is doing so. These tariff prophets are without honor in any country. F.O.B. Detroit, Excerpts of tell Due to persistent rumors relating following reduction when both declined, the American farmer was dragged down with them. No notice was given, no consent asked. no arbitration board was consulted. At one fell swoop the American farmer's hours were increased to the limit of his endurance and his income was reduced to the subsistence level. When the farmer quit buying pianos, autos, new clothes, implements and oil stocks, when he reduced his purchases of necessities to the lowest possible minimum and asked credit even for these, the city factories naturally reduced their output, men were discharged by the hundred thousand and their diminished purchasing power gave business another push dowdward. But the earnings of those who kept their jobs continued high, thus forcing the gasping farmer to pay through the nose for everything he bought on the domestic market even when he gave away his products on the world market level. When the farmer's purchasing power is fully restored, we'll have ample prosperity. Cutting industrial wages to the bone is merely a negative palliative. The constructive remedy is to bring the farmer's earnings up. NOTHING NEW An old physician of the last generation was noted for his brusque manner and old-fashioned methods. On one occasion a woman called him in to treat her baby, who was slightly alling. The doctor prescribed castor oil. "But, doctor," protested the young mother, "castor oil is such an old-fashioned remedy." "Madam," replied the doctor, "babies are old-fashioned things." An ex-king died the other day, and got just six lines in the daily papers. EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN A state-wide educational campaign aimed to give the general public, and particularly the business men of the Pacific coast, information about the great California co-operative marketing associations of growers, was launched by the board of directors of the California Prune and Apricot Growers, Inc., recently. 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