anaheim-gazette 1922-05-25

COMPERS UNFAIR ATTACK ON NAVY DEPARTMENT The Washington cabal in control of the national affairs of the American Federation of Labor, composed of an inner circle of Democrats headed by Samuel Gomvers, has issued a program for a political campaign in connection with avroaching congressional primaries and elections. Among other of the issues which the American Federation of Labor will emphasize in the coming campaign in an effort to promote the Democratic cause, according to Mr. Gomvers, who made the announcement, is the following: "Ten thousand navy yard workers have been thrown out of work in heartless and unnecessary manner on an assumption that certain contingencies would develop, with no effort to make the readjustment gradual, and with a careless disregard on the part of the government of the moral obligation which rests upon it and which no honorable employer would seek to disregard." This plank, which characterizes the United States government as dishonorable, was elaborated upon recently at a conference at which President Gompers and his associates held with Secretary of Navy Denby. This conference was sought by Mr. Gompers and his associates only after they had inaugurated a publicity campaign denouncing the suspension of naval work following the adjournment of the conference for limitation of armament. The suspension was ordered by Secretary Denby at the direction of the president and affected all projects which, under terms of the naval limitation treaty, would be abandoned and eventually scrapped. The suspension of work upon these projects made an immediate saving to the taxpayers of the country of $5,000,000 a month. Although Mr. Gompers had been very prolific in his lien service to the month's delay in substituting protection for free trade as the policy of the United States government is, of course, immensely valuable to the importers and foreign financial and industrial interests which are flooding the American market with commodities which ought to be produced at home in the factories made idle by the Underwood tariff bill. England, France and Italy have slapped on heavy customs duties, protective of their own industries, at a time when their agents and apostles in the United States ar etrying to stave off the resumption of the protective policy by the American government. Knowing that the present congress is in vower to pass a protective tariff law, the free trade press has two objects in advocating delay in tariff legislation; first, delay will continue the present disastrous industrial conditions, satisfactory to free traders because ruinous to American industry and also because the free traders believe that if the present congress should fail to pass a protective tariff law protectionists may not in years be given another opportunity to control American tariff legislation. The purpose of the freetrade press in urging further delay in tariff legislation is clear enough. What is not so clear is why any protectionists should "stall around" on the job of carrying out the platform pledge of the Republican party in respect to protection. The nation needs and emands a tariff law which will establish protective rates equal to the cost of production at home and abroad on every article that can be grown or raised in quantity in the United States. WHAT IRRIGATION MEANS The San Joaquin valley is a picture of the allegor yof the desert being made to blossom as the rose. That blossoming is the result of the river DEMOCRATICS Those critics find fault with the war department that no incoming history of their heir to such a lie ties as that included." The success scores of which led the year that they been in control, the "mopping up" tary Weeks has set off the retiring Dation of his department. One such sale New York, as re typical of the other dication of the l stocks left by th can be accounted for irresponsible with unlimited ad er secretary of things sold at S 197 new feed bag 417,488 pack can drawers, 15,412 205 duck haversa 1,037,934 knives, spoons, 33,238 gat 64,802 mule co 64,280 pounds sa les, 140,136 elk and equally huge ticles. No more credit of the war devo than that of Sec he has accomplice face of his朋 following the adjournment of the conference for limitation of armament. The suspension was ordered by Secretary Denby at the direction of the president and affected all projects which, under terms of the naval limitation treaty, would be abandoned and eventually scrapped. The suspension of work upon these projects made an immediate saving to the taxpayers of the country of $5,000,000 a month. Although Mr. Gompers had been very prolific in his lip service to the cause of disarmament, as soon as it was seen that the conference was a success and limitation of naval armament was about to become a reality, the Gompers clique faced about an opened a newspaper campaign of abuse of the government for suspending naval armament work. This public denunciation characterized the government as "heartless and inhuman," with exhibiting "a callous lack of interest," and a "lamentable interference to the welfare of working men employed in the government navy yards." This publicity campaign was launched by Mr. Gompers and his coterie before they had a conference with Secretary Denby and were in possession of his viewpoint, or in possession of fundamental facts in the case. At this conference Mr. Gompers submitted to Secretary Denby a memorandum stating forth certain alleged facts and demanding certain things be done. Secretary Denby replied to this memorandum, item by item. His reply clearly shows that many of the allegations so forth by Mr. Gompers are not facts nor do they even approximate the truth. The answer to the memorandum also shows that many of the demands made upon the secretary of the navy and the government by Mr. Gomers are impossible of compliance by the secretary of the navy because to comply with them requires an act of congress. This illustrates the loose and unwarranted methods employed by Mr. Gompers and his associates when they enter a political campaign as Democratic politicians. They denounce in advance the United States government upon assumption of certain things which are not true, merely because it serves their publicity purposes to arouse the working men of the country against an administration with which they are out of sympathy politically. To relieve the unemployment brought about by the susversion of work in government navy yards, Mr. WHY THE FREE TRADE PRESS WANTS DELAY Free trade papers throughout the country are now urging that the passage of a tariff law be put off until the next session of congress. Every took toward it before it came. Irrigation has made the landowner rich. It has created triving cities out of starvelling villages. It has made the future secure. Yet before it came many of those who needed it most fought it the hardest. Such farmers borrowed money to help fight the irrigation proposals. They could not see the possibilities that would change their parched cow pastures into thriving orchards producing tenfold more income. MEMORIAL DAY SACRED Memorial Day soon will be here. It should be observed reverently and with an air of sacredness. It should not be given over to boisterous sports or to unseemly festivities. There is nothing about the day to make it festive. Its purpose is to commemorate the heroic dead. One does not go forth, in riotous sports, to show respect and reverence for the dead. Surely, for one day in the year it should be possible to restrain the cravings for frolicking pastimes. Surely, one day in the year can be and should be dedicated exclusively, quietly, decorously, to the honoring of the valiant men who offered life freely in the service of their country. No better compliment could be paid, no better showing of profound respect for gallant veterans, living and dead, than to observe Memorial Day with every possible manifestation of grateful appreciation of the services and sacrifices of the nation's heroes. Join in the memorial services. Go to the memeries and witness the decoration of graves. Be thoughtful on that day. Think of what the gallant men of the '60's and '98, and of 1917 and 1918 offered and of what they suffered, and of the eponymous motives of patriotism which prompted them. DEMOCRATIC HEIRLOOMS Those critics who are disposed to find fault with the administration of the war department should realize that no incoming secretary of war in the history of the country ever fell heir to such a legacy of responsibilities as that inherited by Secretary Weeks. Every department of the government suffered severely from the disastrous effects of Democratic mismanagement, but nowhere were they more pronounced than in the war department. As one observer puts it, "Secretary of War Weeks had more liabilities left him to discharge than any four other cabinet members combined." The surplus property sales scores of which have been held during the year that the Republicans have been in control, are an indication of the "mopping up" process that Secretary Weeks has conducted in the wake of the retiring Democratic administration of his department. One such sale held at Schenectady, New York, as recently as April 25, is typical of the others, and gives an indication of the huge accumulation of stocks left by the Democrats, which can be accounted for only by the zeal of irresponsible buying agents clothed with unlimited authority by the former secretary of war. Some of the things sold at Schenectady were 402,197 new feed bags, 101,080 vistol belts, 417,488 pack carrier, 296,578 pairs of drawers, 15,412 shovel carriers, 330,-205 duck haversacks, 311,763 pounches, 1,037,934 knives, 2857 safes, 795,015 spoons, 33,238 gallons Neat's foot oil, 64,802 mule covers, 124,707 lariats, 64,280 pounds saddle soap, 55,000 saddles, 140,136 elkskin canteen covers, and equally huge stocks of other articles. No more creditable administration of the war department is recorded than that of Secretary Weeks. What he has accomplished has been in the face of the necessity of retrieving the handicap of a lack of education in the battle with the world. Since having left school these ladies have followed various lines of endeavor. Some of them went overseas during the world war. One of them has become a journeyman machinist. Another found work in a lumber yard. Still another started out to learn shipbuilding. Many of them have drifted from one job to another. No pressure was brought to bear to induce these young men to give up their independence in the world and to return to school for further instruction. They came back because practical experience taught them the world was too big to tackle without and education. In some instances they discovered that their own ambitions were too big for what they could hope to accomplish without the aid of proper training. Some of them have been away from school for six years. It is inevitable that the influence of these older men upon the younger members of the student body should prove beneficial. They are sure of themselves and of their aims. Their earnestness amounts almost to a religion. The whole school is benefitted by their presence. The Grandfathers' club is unique. The example set by its members should prove a real inspiration. Those boys have proved the handicap of a lack of education. THE EXAMPLE OF H. P. DAVISON "Looking for work," was the announcement with which Henry P. Davison entered New York City at the age of 10. The announcement met no satisfactory response in that center of American industry and finance, leaving Davison with a choice between two No more creditable administration of the war department is recorded than that of Secretary Weeks. What he has accomplished has been in the face of the necessity of retrieving the huge losses piled up by his predecessor. And this at a time when the most drastic economy was imperative in every branch of the government. The former secretary spent money without stint, but Mr. Weeks is held down to the barest necessities by the budget director and by congress. The fact that he has been able to keep the army and the war department at a high state of efficiency is testimony to the marked ability of the secretary of war. THE KING AND THE PRESS AGENT King George, of England, had an opportunity the other day to "cement the Anglo-Saxon alliance" with a few strokes of the pen and at the small cost of a cablegram from London to Sacramento. When the whiskers committee of the Forty-Nine club wired him their congratulations on his election to honorary membership in this hirsute fraternity, the king might have ingratiated himself for all time with the American public by telegraphing a message of acceptance and a receipt. This simple feature would have done more, at a total cost of a dollar or two, to consolidate friendly relations between the two great branches of the English-speaking race, than many years of costly and portentous diplomatic delegations. The fame of the Whiskerino club has spread broadcast over the length and breadth of America. King George's reply would have had the same widespread publicity. It would have negatived in a moment all the propaganda that has been circulated to prove Great Britain a haughty and monarchial nation lacking in the good humor that betokens democracy. The king needs a press agent. He should have an American one by preference, and best of all, perhaps, the anonymous publicity genius in charge of the Forty-Nine club. If recent reports are true that the royal exchequer is running low, the gentleman above should prove a real inspiration. Those boys have vroved the handicap of a lack of education. THE EXAMPLE OF H. P. DAVISON "Looking for work," was the announcement with which Henry P. Davison entered New York City at the age of 10. The announcement met no satisfactory response in that center of American industry and finance, leaving Davison with a choice between two courses of action—he could either get a soap box and go out on the street corner and denounce the selfishness and venality of Wall Street or he could go on looking for a job. He chose the latter and found work as a bank messenger in Bridgeport, Conn. From the time he first went to New York, in 1886, Davison was looking for work until the day of his fatal illness. He was always able to find it and he always did the work so well that he had more and more offered to him do. The record of Mr. Davison affords a lesson for all American youth. Davison was honest, but integrity alone will not win success. He was ambitious, but ambition alone will not lead to achievement. He may have had friends who could have helped him get an unusually good start, but if he had, he evidently made no call upon their generosity. He began at the bottom of the banking business and by demonstrating his ability and willingness and dependability advanced from one position to another until the city which refused his services in any capacity in 1886 was glad to accept his counsel on any subject of finance before he had passed his fiftieth year. It would be manifest insincerity to assert that every youth can attain the same high place in national affairs, for undoubtedly Davison had natural talents for finance that many young men do not possess. Others have different talents of no less value to the world and fitting their possessors for places no less useful and honorable in the great world of affairs. The one lesson of every man's success is that to integrity and ability there must be added industry and thrift—expenditure of energy and economy of time—if one hopes to attain unusual heights in this busy world. SPAIN SOAKS SUGAR Humph! Those importers of sugar who are kicking at the rate on sugar laid by the Republican congress in the The king needs a press agent. He should have an American one by preference, and best of all, perhaps, the anonymous publicity genius in charge of the Forty-Nine club. If recent reports are true that the royal exchequer is running low, the gentleman above mentioned could procure him woorid wide and profitable advertisement at a minimum cost. Such a suggestion is hostile, or course, to the dignified traditions of royalty. But the uses of advertisement have been recognized as indispensable by many professions hardly less hedged about with divinity than that of a kind. When generals and bishops find the newspaper and the press agent essential to the accomplishment of their worthy aims, the scruples of kings in this respect seem rather unwise. Exchanged visits between the intellectual leaders of the various countries are al lto the good. But the man in the street, the sport fan, the common citizens who rarely attends a lecture or reads a book, can be effectively reached by the press alone. THE GRANDFATHERS' CLUB Up at Oakland a bunch of high school boys have formed an organization probably without parallel in the country. They call it the Grandfathers' club. The membership is made up of youth who have voluntarily returned to school after having demonstrated to their own satisfaction the distinct of every man's success is that to integrity and ability there must be added industry and thrift—expenditure of energy and economy of time—if one hopes to attain unusual heights in this busy world. SPAIN SOAKS SUGAR Humph! Those importers of sugar who are kicking at the rate on sugar laid by the Republican congress in the pending tariff bill, ought to go to Spain. The Spanish congress, by a vote of 217 to 10 recently raised the duty on foreign sugar from 60 pesetas per hundred kilograms to 85 pesetas. In addition the domestic tax was raised to 45 pesets. A peset equals 19.3 cents; a kilogram equals 2.2 pounds. So the Spanish rate is $16.40 per 220 pounds according to our method of reckoning. Most of our sugar imports come from Cuba, which has a 20 percent preferential, so that the duty on about 95 per cent of our sugar imports under the pending bill would be $1.60 a hundred, about one-fifth the Spanish rate. FUTILE PROPAGANDA It is altogether likely that foreign propaganda in the United States has not been as extensive as sometimes reported but it has certainly been many, many times greater than it should be. The American people have become so thoroughly aroused on the subject, however, that there is little likelihood that future propaganda of foreign origin will have the effect intended for it. The man or organization giving chief attention to foreign interests will be set down as an anti-American, whatever sort of a "Pro-" he may have affixed to his name. DON'T put off needed repairs because you fear the cost. Beaver Board is very inexpensive—and easy to use. Nail it over old plaster or directly to studding and beams. We have it in stock. Ask us for estimate. 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FULLERTON HONOR ENOUGH FOR ALL An epochal chapter in the annals of our international relationships, and in world history, was concluded with the final action on the conference agreements. Congratulations to President Harding, his chosen representatives at the conference, the statesmen of the associated nations who came to Washington on the high mission of peace and good will, and the senate. WEST BROADWAY M. E. CHURCH Sunday school, 9:45 a.m. Preaching, 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Epworth League, 6:45 p.m. Prayer meeting, Wednesday evening Bible study, Friday eaening. Sunday evening and Friday evening services are in the English language. H. C. JACOBY, Pastor.