anaheim-gazette 1922-01-19

HARDING ACTED IN THE SPIRIT OF LINCOLN If there had been imprisonment for sedition during the civil war, most of the leaders of the party of opposition would have been in jail at the close of the struggle. The state and national conventions of the Democratic party passed resolutions in 1862 and 1864 declaring the war a failure, characterizing the struggle for the maintenance of the union as a war of subjugation and denouncing Lincoln as a tyrannical usurper. Lincoln had the good sense to discourage the jailing of opponents of the government's war policies; he believed it was better to "let them blow off." When a military court convicted Vallandigham, of Ohio, of encouraging resistance to the draft, Lincoln refused to approve the sentence of imprisonment, commuted it to one of banishment across the confederate lines; then let Vallandigham, whose speeches were far more incendiary and dangerous than those of Debs, slip home through Canada and get beaten overwhelmingly as a candidate for governor of Ohio. After the civil war no one was put in jail or kept in jail either for sedition or treason. Even the effort to prosecute Jefferson Davis "petered out." There were reasons enough for prosecutions on both accounts, but Lincoln believed and the country believed that when war emergency was over it was time to relax war's rigorous practices. If all those in the country who had been treasonable or sedious during the civil war had been punished in accordance with the terms of the constitution and the laws, the jails would have held about half the civil population. There is as much tolerance and common sense in the country today as there was at the close of the civil war. There are plenty of perfectly good theoretical arguments in favor of hearings. Debs and other violators of won the war and then having to pay a tremendous indemnity. The only practical solution is to fund these debts over a long term of years, thus relieving the immediate burden from the European countries and giving them an opportunity to re-establish themselves economically, in the course of which they must come to us for raw materials and our erports will move forward in a natural and orderlip fashion. There is no reason why this country should pay for the war. Its expenditures, when it did go into the war, were in excess of those of any other country. We are not whimpering about this, but in return for it we have obtained nothing but the satisfaction of having finally put an end to the struggle. We have no accessions to our territory, no share in the reparations from Germany, and got only a temporary hectic prosperity. SHRINERS TO MEET The Orange County Shrine club is planning its next social event for the evening of January 20. President D Eyman Huff of the club, has just issued the following inviting little letter to Nobles of the club, with regard to the coming event: "Dear Noble:— "It has been decreed that the next party for the Nobles and their ladies of the Orange County Shrine club be held at Fullerton at their beautiful new Masonic temple, Friday evening, January 20. "The members of the entertainment committee of that section under the leadership of Nobles Thamer and Vice-President Hartranft, have planned a splendid evening's entertainment for us including the first appearance this season of that excellent musical organization, 'Orange County Symphony Orchestra,' who's personnel is made up of 40 highly trained musicians under the direction of Harold Harden." COST OF HEALTH The recent stormable damage upon as was to be expected of course, will having these highway pected. It developed much of the damage obviated if the roof been constructed by mobile trucking. In some sections of roads are in such impossible to drive them. It is thus that the truck company their business use must either haul more money for road enough to carry them. Certainly there are compelling the guts the count yto build ways for the use stroy the roads. pays adequately... EFFORTS TO FORCE PROSPERITY A southern farmer's organization has made the proposition that the war debt due the American government by the allied nations, amounting to some $10,000,000, be cancelled both as to principal and interest on condition that the sums due this government for loans during the world war be invested by these governments in the purchase of American raw agricultural products over a period of years, which products are vitally needed for food, raiment and the restoration of their manufacturing and commercial industries. This is an ideal solution, but can hardly be worked out from a practical standpoint. In effect, our Liberty bond holders would have to look to the farmers of the country for reimbursement. These loans to foreign countries are represented largely by new Masonic temple, Friday evening, January 20. "The members of the entertainment committee of that section under the leadership of Nobles Thamer and Vice-President Hartranft, have planned a splendid evening's entertainment for us including the first appearance this season of that excellent musical organization, 'Orange County Symphony Orchestra,' who's personnel is made up of 40 highly trained musicians under the direction of Harold E. Wahlberg, of that city. Other classic features will be presented. Dancing and cards will be provided following the musical part of the program. Noble Greely, of Balboa, will bring along his excellent orchestra that you have all so much enjoyed in tripping the fantastic toe." "A report will be made covering the charity party at Santa Ana and the activities of the club's Christmas charity work on the part of 'Santa Claus.' Noble R. L. Bisby. "Wear your 'fez,' a pleasing smile and informal attire as you prefer. "The hour for the musical program is 8:15 o'clock. The Fullerton Nobles expect you, please come and accept of their hospitality because they have prepared much for your evening's enjoyment." NO "IMMEDIATE PAYMENT" DEMANDED We some times wonder whether the unfairness of the debt cancellations is due to stupidity or plain mendacity. Here is one advocate of cancellation who introduces an argument with the remark, "If America insists upon immediate payment of that debt, etc." No one on earth, either in the United States or elsewhere, has ever suggested or thought of suggesting immediate payment. All that anyone has asked is that there be not an immediate but an early agreement upon a definite plan of payment so that the United States may know just what it can count upon in the way of future payments. Most people who have studied the subject believe that it will take from 25 to 50 years to collect the debt. What the United States wants is a funding of the debt into negotiable bonds bearing a reasonable rate of interest so that the United States government can use its own discretion in keeping such bonds in its own vaults or disposing of them to the public as it may see fit. Any talk about this country insisting upon "immediate payment" is misrepresented. Certainly there is compelling the goat the count yto build ways for the use stroy the roads. pays adequately for roads; but the time no more, although and profit from the afforded. The truck commission with the advantage that, while repair all damage pense, the truck repairs without selfes. It would seem unbution, therefore foreors that they are loss of interrupt great measure to persisted in carr and contributed keep of the roads. REFUSED S. M. Stern, co-embezzlement, ran the court, was Monday to serve ten years, when nomanced by Super West on Friday. Stern, who was brother, J. H. Storm moving a $5000 rattle of whiting for the Ameri Ana, pressed his ground that ing his brother subsequent remo and that he had with the transac. Financial matters the raffle, he ate entirely by his fendant professed matters, saying led his brother fell Lake in the car his "wages" a would continue he was in Santa Ana. The court in Stern was domiciled by his brother, by a physical w This is an ideal solution, but can hardly be worked out from a practical standpoint. In effect, our Liberty bond holders would have to look to the farmers of the country for reimbursement. These loans to foreign countries are represented largely by Liberty bonds and our government must redeem those bonds at maturity. It will mean taxation sufficient to raise $10,000,000,000 besides the intermediate taxation to pay the interest. Therefore, the people of this country must be taxed to buy the crops of the agricultural community so that we can make a present of them to these foreign debtors of ours. This money has been loaned to the government of the United States in the first instance by the purchasers of Liberty bonds. There are onl ytwo ways that the money can be returned to the lenders: One by the payment of principal and interest by the foreign borrowers and the other by taxation of our people. If this scheme is to be carried out, why should it be limited only to agritourical products? Why not lumber, steel and copper? It is a mistaken theory to think that prosperity can be restored by artificial means. It is all well enough to talk of cancelling foreign debts, but that cannot be done without the consent of the original lenders, who happen to be the people of the United States who bought Liberty bonds. If these bondholders are willing to cancel their bonds, then the scheme will work out. Otherwise the burden will fall upon the people of this country. It will put us in a position of having payments. Most people who have studied the subject believe that it will take from 25 to 50 years to collect the debt. What the United States wants is a funding of the debt into negotiable bonds bearing a reasonable rate of interest so that the United States government can use its own discretion in keeping such bonds in its own vaults or disposing of them to the public as it may see fit. Any talk about this country insisting upon "immediate payment" is misrepresenting pure and simple, and there is no honest motive back of it. BETTERING OF CONDITIONS The New Year begins with many strong evidences of gradual, but sure, betterment in world conditions. This is true as to prospects for the fostering of peace; this true as to economic outlook; and it is true as to political and social stability. In the promotion of peace, the arms conference has accomplished the truly remarkable and the epochal. Its naval holiday; its four-power agreement as to Pacific problems; its humanitarian limitations on submarine warfare and its abolishment of the use of poison gas in war, constitute a series of advanced achievements for the conservation of peace and humanity without parallel in human history. Contemporaneously, comes the settlement of the long-standing controversies between England and Ireland which ultimately should bind them more closely than ever, in peaceful cooperation. From the meeting of the allied supreme council at Cannes probably will come tangible action bringing Great Britain and France into better understanding and preparing the way for economic restoration in Europe, and the international economic conference, to assemble in Genoa early in March, is expected to devise ways and means to put Europe on its economic feet. On this western hemisphere peace reigns. Mexico's pacification, under the administration of President Obregon, seems to be complete. The little revolutionary flurry in Central America soon was over. And South America, while emitting an occasional snarl, is maintaining peace. Here in the United States economic readjustment is proceeding and no basis is being approached. The people are cheerful and confident and on all hands a better year in business and industry is expected. Old Mother Earth is assuming a more cheerful aspect, and her face is lighted anew with the sunshine of hope and confidence. Optimism is coming into its harvest everywhere. COST OF HEAVY TRAFFIC The recent storm inflicted considerable damage upon the county roads as was to be expected. The taxpayers, of course, will have to pay for repairing these highways. That is also expected. It develops, however, that much of the damage could have been obviated if the roads originally had been constructed to carry heavy automobile trucking. At the present time in some sections of the country the roads are in such condition that it is impossible to drive the trucks over them. It is thus demonstrated that if the truck companies desire to conduct their business uninterruptedly they must either haul lighter loads or pay more money for road construction firm enough to carry the loads. Certainly there is no justification in compelling the general taxpayers of the count yto build and maintain highways for the use of vehicles that destroy the roads. The general public pays adequately for its use of these and fifteen cents on unshelled and shelled almonds respectively is the minimum tariff stimulus so necessary if California almond growing is to thrive. We will have to fight for markets under that schedule, but we are willing to compete. As it is now we haven't the chance to compete. We are strangled before we start by differences in cost of production as high as seventy-five per cent between our almonds and those grown by European peasants." THE WORLD OWES YOU NOTHING In the present-day structure of industrial society, we must work. We have no right to be consumers unless we are also producers. Three hundred years ago, in Colonial Virginia, old Captain John Smith promulgated the doctrine that the man who did not work should not eat. Such philosophy made the early colonists successful conquerors of a new continent. We need an application of just such gospel as this at the opening of the third decade of the twentieth century. We must be worth our salt. We must glorify the dignity of human labor. If we do not toll with either or brawn, we have no right to food, clothes and shelter. We somehow have the notion that the world owes us a living. That idea is wrong. The world does not owe us anything. On the contrary we owe the world something. We were born and reared at tremendous costs. We are under obligation to repay such costs. We were endowed with life, not to loaf, but to till the soil, develop nature's resources, build cities, erect manufacturing plants, and multiply and replenish the earth. If we fail to do this, we have been untrue to the Power which gave us being. PE OPTIMISTIC impossible to drive the trucks over them. It is thus demonstrated that if the truck companies desire to conduct their business uninterrupted they must either haul lighter loads or pay more money for road construction firm enough to carry the loads. Certainly there is no justification in compelling the general taxpayers of the count yto build and maintain highways for the use of vehicles that destroy the roads. The general public pays adequately for its use of these roads; but the truck companies pay no more, although they get more use and profit from the convenience thus afforded. The truck companies are in competition with the railroads, with the advantage that, while the railroads must repair all damage at their own expense, the truck companies get their repairs without expense to themselves. It would seem to be a sort of retribution, therefore, on the truck owners that they are now suffering the loss of inferrupted traffic owing in great measure to the fact that they persisted in carrying too heavy loads and contributed nothing to the upkeep of the roads for such use. REFUSED PROBATION S. M. Stern, convicted by a jury of embezzlement, refused probation by the court, was sent to San Quentin Monday to serve a term of from one to ten years, which sentence was pronounced by Superior Judge Z. B. West on Friday. Stern, who was accused with his brother, J. H. Stern, of unlawfully removing a $5000 Premier automobile, the raffle of which they were conducting for the American Legion of Santa Ana, pressed his plea for probation on the ground that he was merely assigning his brother in the raffle and the subsequent removal of the automobile and that he had no real connection with the transaction. Financial matters connected with the raffle, he asserted, were handled entirely by his brother, and the defendant professed ignorance of these matters, saying that he had accompanied his brother from Santa Ana to Salt Lake in the car on the promise that his "wages" and expense money would continue as they had while he was in Santa Ana. The court indicated doubt that Stern was dominated in the adventure by his brother, J. H. Stern, supposedly a physical weakling, and refused On the contrary we owe the world something. We were born and reared at tremendous costs. We are under obligation to repay such costs. We were endowed with life, not to loaf, but to till the soil, develop nature's resources, build cities, erect manufacturing plants, and multiply and replenish the earth. If we fail to do this, we have been untrue to the Power which gave us being. PE OPTIMISTIC Here's Good News for Anaheim Residents Have you a pain in the small of the back? Headaches,dizziness,nervous spells? Are you languid, irritable and weak? Annoyed by urinary disorders? Don't despair—profit by Anaheim experiences. Anaheim people know Doan's Kidney Pills—have used them—recommend them. Here's an Anaheim resident's statement: S. C. Marburger, carpenter, 121 S. Ohio St., says: "I can endorse Doan's Kidney Pills as a good remedy. My kidneys got out of order and I had severe backache and pains over my kidneys. When I stooped, I had sharp catches in my back. My kidneys acted irregularly and I used Doan's Kidney Pills. They were just what I needed. Doan's soon fixed me up in good shape. The backache left and our kidneys acted naturally." Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan's Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Marburger had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. UNAVAILABLE MONEY It is estimated by the comptroller of the currency that there is now around seven hundred million dollars of money in this country which should be in the banks but is not. The money is hoarded in various ways by its owners and so robbed of its usefulness to them and to others. Banks have the responsibility of caring for it and the duty of keeping it at work in sound enterprises. Idle, it tends to make idle industries and idle men. The amount of money in the banks of the country is an important influence on agricultural and other products. The comptroller of the currency also says: "Under present conditions the level of prices depends very largely on the amount of bank deposits available for carrying on the business of the country." Those who keep their money in the bank, where it is safe and useful, help themselves and their neighbors, too. At a London wedding the other day the bride was given away by her son-in-law. Happy man! In times of peace, recover from war. Furnish Your Home at Our Expense Furnish Your Home at Our Expense Big reduction in prices of Furniture, Household Goods and Hardware, from now until February 1st, enables everybody to supply the needs of the home at an astonishing saving of money. The More You Buy the More You Save J. L. Gates Furniture Store 259 E. Center St. Anaheim The Telephone Instrument The telephone is a highly sensitive, delicately adjusted instrument. Think of it—without regard to distance, instantaneously reproducing every tone of the human voice. The quality of its service, in great measure, depends upon careful use. As with your watch, automobile or piano—the more care, better results. Among the "out of order" reports received by the company, many result from the carelessness of the subscriber. A telephone may fall from desk or stand, breaking the mouthpiece or throwing the apparatus out of adjustment. The cord may become twisted; meaning a "noisy" line. A damp cloth laid on the cord or the moisture from an open window may cause the "short cir- Among the "out of order" reports received by the company, many result from the carelessness of the subscriber. A telephone may fall from desk or stand, breaking the mouthpiece or throwing the apparatus out of adjustment. The cord may become twisted; meaning a "noisy" line. A damp cloth laid on the cord or the moisture from an open window may cause the "short circuit" and an entire interruption of service. All of these things are avoidable with the exercise of slight care. In protecting the telephone equipment you are protecting your own service. 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