anaheim-gazette 1922-09-28

OUR OLD WORLD DEBTORS, AND THEIR HONEST DEBTS A pamphlet lamenting that the United States should expect payment of money lent during the war is being circulated. The writer is the president of a Canadian insurance company, he is a trained hand at the pen, and he comes to the conclusion that "the United States cannot reasonably ask for the payment of one dollar or this so-called debt." It is odd that the name of this foe of honest payment of an honest debt should be T. B. Macaulay, for the author of the history and of the essays, comes to mind. The Macaulay who died, it may be before the Canadian was born, wrote in another strain. One of the strongest passages in his writings is that in which he condemns the deception of Lord Clive practiced upon the Bengalee, Omichund. Macaulay, the Macaulay whose name went round the world, says: "That honesty is the best policy is a maxim which we firmly believe to be generally correct, even with respect to the temporal interests of individuals but with respect to societies, the rule is subject to still fewer exceptions, and that for this reason, that the life of societies is longer than the life of individuals. It is possible to mention men who have owed great worldly prosperity to breaches of private faith; but we doubt whether it be possible to mention a state which has on the whole been a gainer by a breach of public faith. The entire history of British India is an illustration of the great truth, that it is not pro-dent to oppose perfidy to perfidy, and that the most efficient weapon with which men can encounter falsehood is truth. During a long course of years, the English rulers in India, surrounded by allies and enemies whom no engagement could bind, have generally acted with sincerity and uprightness; street from that in which Mr. Gompers has his office. The funds of these organizations have been used in huge quantities to promote this publication. From the day of President Harding's inauguration the columns of this paper, presided over by rank partisan Democrats and socialists, have reeked with abuse of President Harding and attacks upon the Republican administration and congress. The statements made in this periodical were entirely in line in every respect with the expressions contained in the letter to which President Harding replied. The rank and file of organized labor is beginning to wake up to the fact that their cause has been betrayed by autocratic leaders vastly more interested in the attainment of personal and partisan ends than in the promotion of the economic interests of labor. The taxing of hundreds of thousands of wage earners to provide huge campaign funds for the promotion of socialistic propaganda and the furtherance of the purposes of certain ambitious politicians is a gross perversion of the legitimate functions of labor organizations. A huge majority of the members of organized labor, left free to decide for themselves, without propaganda or coercion, would utterly repudiate such sentiments as those their money is being spent to circulate by the demagogue politicians who have gained control of their organizations and are utilizing them for personal purposes in a way quite unprecedented in the previous history of the American labor movement. If President Harding has knocked down a "straw man" it is one close political associates of Mr. Gompers have been busily engaged in erecting ever since the defeat of the Democratic party in 1920. And maybe it is, after all, just a "straw man," for the vast majority of American workers are something more than pawns to be used by ambitious leaders in selfishly United States government enforcement of was formerly less municipalities. Trade commission attempting to government has in a co-operative improvement, the states in a proper medical... be possible to mention a state which has on the whole been a gainer by a breach of public faith. The entire history of British India is an illustration of the great truth, that it is not pro-dent to oppose perfidy to perfidy, and that the most efficient weapon with which men can encounter falsehood is truth. During a long course of years, the English rulers in India, surrounded by allies and enemies whom no engagement could bind, have generally acted with sincerity and uprightness; and the event has proved that sincerity and uprightness are wisdom. English valor and English intelligence have done less to extend and to preserve our oriental empire than English veracity. All that we could have gained by initiating the doublings, the evasions, the fictions, the perjuries which have been employed against us is as nothing, when compared with what we have gained by being the one power in India on whose word reliance can be placed." Old world nations owe us large sums, and no one disputes that the debts are due. This country is, however, now told that it ought not to expect that pledged payment will be made; now that it would be gracious to cancel the obligations; now that it is acting like Shylock not to do so; now that the present age would approve remission of payment; now that in the next everybody will say that the allies were justified in borrowing by the million and paying in minus quantities. We are informed that Americans in Europe are welcome because they spend freely, but unpopular because they believed that a promise to pay meant something. T. B. Macaulay, of Canada, mournfully says that if our government considers that the money should be paid, "the British government will pay to the last dollar." What else can a respectable government do? But when he seeks a climax in his assertion that the British government would be "proudly silent," what does he mean? English pride did not insist on meeting all the burdens of the Irish families—American money was quite welcome then. American money is asked to erect memorials in British edifices. American money is welcomed from London to Land's End. But it is in proud silence that a loan to this country is to be paid. Macaulay the greater contrasted the flower of Englishmen in India with the petty chieftains who would lie for a rupee and recant the lie for another. If President Harding has knocked down a "straw man" it is one close political associates of Mr. Gompers have busily engaged in erecting ever since the defeat of the Democratic party in 1920. And maybe it is, after all, just a "straw man," for the vast majority of American workers are something more than pawns to be used by ambitious leaders in selfishly playing the game of politics. WORKERS AND WORKERS OF THE WORKERS The Washington, D.C., News, one of the Scripps-McRae chain of radical newspapers, in commenting on President Harding's ringing letter declaring the rights of the American people in the strike situation, seeks to discredit the president's attitude by alleging that he has no representative of the "working classes" in his cabinet. Of Secretary Davis the News says: "Mr. Harding's secretary of labor is a fine, honest chap. But he isn't a laboring man. Nor does he come from nor represent labor." This is a fair sample of the sort of misrepresentation whereby politicians and propaganda organs anxious for the restoration of Wilsonism at Washington seek to prejudice the workers of the country against the national administration. Evidently these propagandists proceed upon the insulting presumption that those to whom they appeal are so ignorant that they do not know facts familiar to all those who read and think. Secretary Davis was a worker at his trade of tin making, and an active member and officer of a labor organization, more recently than either Samuel Gompers or the former Secretary of Labor Wm.-B. Wilson. He has been a working men all his life, and has never lost touch with or interest in his fellow tollers. Mr. Davis has not been a high salaried official of a labor union or a politician or editor engaged in exploiting workingmen; but that does not make him less representative of labor by any means. Labor is getting too much advice these days from professional "labor" leaders who do not work and never have worked so very much, except on the job of working the workers. Labor needs fewer leaders of the demagogue type, engaged in coining their professed devotion to labor into dol- assistance in care form of human States government enforcement of laws was formerly less municipalities. Trade commission attempting to govern has in a co-operative improvement. The states in an proper medical cases. It has government share in construction that the governors protection of sissippi; that it expend more Shoals. These are only which call for them from the federal of them have met the reason whyatures continue to take theory that something from government with Payment must be or other and fed often the most paying. LESSONS LEARN ARGOS Speaking of loss from the Argonauts the United States has authorized ment: Having had someSIONs which led of the California commission, the code and initiative ice. I am sure tha-ments set up for fully as stringent- THE "STRAW MAN" THE PRESIDENT KNOCKED DOWN Samuel Gompers says that in making reply to a local railway organization publicity chairman relative to the railway and coal strikes, President Harding knocked down "a straw man." He declares that he is unable to find that the man who wrote the letter quoted by President Harding, was authorized to express the views of his fellow unionists or of organized labor in general. Mr. Gompers ought to make a little closer investigation of the attitude of the leaders of the railway organizations. He will find that they are fully as representative of the rank and file of labor, as the man to whom President Harding addressed his reply. The several national and international railway unions have been committed by their leaders to partnership in the publication of a political paper which is edited in a building just across the STATE RAIDS ON FEDERALFUNDS It is undoubtedly true as remarked by a well known senator that almost every important measure pending before congress calls for the appropriation of large sums of money from the ANAHEIM GAZETTE NOTICE In the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of California. Max Nebelung and Maria C. Schulte, formerly Maria C. Shanley, Plaintiffs, vs. William H. Dimond, John Doe, Jane Doe, John Doe corporation, and all other persons unknown, claiming any right, title, estate, lien or interest in the real property described in the complaint adverse to the plaintiffs' ownership or any cloud upon plaintiffs' title thereto. Defendants. Action brought in the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of California, and the complaint filed in the office of the Clerk of said County of Orange. Tipton & Callor, Attorneys for Plaintiffs. The People of the State of California Send Greeting to: William H. Dimond, John Doe, Jane Doe, John Doe Corporation and all other persons unknown, claiming any right, title, estate, lien or interest in the real property described in this complaint adverse to the plaintiffs' ownership or any cloud upon plaintiffs' title thereto. Defendants. YOU ARE HEREBY DIRECTED TO APPEAR and answer the Complaint in an action entitled as above, brought against you in the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of California, within ten days after the service on you of this Summons, if served within this county, or within thirty days if served elsewhere. And you are hereby notified that unless you appear and answer as above required the said plaintiffs will take judgment for any money or damages in the Complaint, as arising upon contract, or they will apply to the Court for any other relief demanded in the complaint. The property affected by this action is that certain real property situate lying and being in the City of Anaheim, County of Orange, State of California, described as follows: to-wit: Commencing at the Southeast corner of the intersection of Lemon street and Santa Ana street, running thence Southerly along the Easterly line assistance in controlling almost every form of human disease. The United States government now controls the enforcement of the liquor laws which was formerly left to the states and municipalities. Through the federal trade commission the government is attempting to diminish fraud. The government has joined with the states in a co-operative system of highway improvement. It has also joined with the states in a co-operative plan for proper medical attention in maternity cases. It is proposed that the government shall extend its work in the construction of internal canals; that the government shall undertake the protection of the banks of the Mississippi; that the government shall expend more millions on Muscle Shoals. These are only a few of the projects which call for new or larger sums from the federal treasury, and many of them have merit. But they indicate the reason why government expenditures continue to grow. In the ultimate analysis, responsibility for large appropriations rests not with congress, but with the citizenship of the country. It is useless to write to members of congress in opposition to large appropriations in general, but at the same time write to them in favor of particular appropriations. The two positions are inconsistent and irreconcilable. Federal appropriations will become materially less or the increase will be checked only when individual citizens in large numbers write to their senators and congressmen protesting against, instead of favoring, the specific schemes advanced upon the mistaken theory that the public can get something from the United States government without paying for it. Payment must be made in some form or other and federal taxation is quite often the most expensive means of paying. LESSONS LEARNED FROM ARGONAUT MINE FIRE Speaking of lessons to be learned from the Argonaut re the director of the United States bureau of mines has authorized the following statement: Having had some part in the discussions which led to the establishment of the California industrial accident commission, the framing of the safety code and initiation of inspection service, I am sure that the safety requirements set up for California mines are fully stringent and comprehensive. with the plans, profiles, and specifications therefor, which said plans and profiles adopted by the Board of Trustees of the City of Anaheim, by resolution on the 27th day of April, 1922, and are marked and designated "Plans for paving intersections on Clementine Street," and are on file in the office of the City Engineer of said City, and which said specifications were adopted by the Board of Trustees of the City of Anaheim, by resolution on the 28th day of July, 1921, and are marked and designated "Specifications No. 26" for the construction of street paving with hydraulic concrete base and asphaltic wearing surface in the City of Anaheim, California," and which are on file in the office of the City Clerk of the City of Anaheim. All proposals or bids must be accompanied by a check payable to the City of Anaheim certified by a responsible bank, for an amount which shall not be less than ten per cent of the aggregate amount of the proposal, or a bond for the said amount so payable, signed by the bidder and two sureties, who shall justify before any officer competent to administer an oath, in double the said amount, over and above all statutory exemptions, or by a corporate surety, as provided by law, said check or bond to become forfeited to the City of Anaheim in the event that the successful bidder shall fail to enter into a contract for the doing of said work and furnish the bonds required within ten days after the contract is awarded to him. The successful bidder shall within ten days after the contract is awarded to him, file with the Board of Trustees of the City of Anaheim a bond for an amount which shall not be less than fifty per cent of the aggregate amount of the contract price, for the furnishing of said materials and the doing of said work, payable to the City of Anaheim and signed by the bidder and at least two sureties who shall justify before any officer competent to administer an oath in double the said amount, over and above all statutory exemptions, or by a corporate surety, as provided by law, which said bond shall be subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees of the City of Anaheim and shall be Speaking of lessons to be learned from the Argonaut re the director of the United States bureau of mines has authorized the following statement: Having had some part in the discussions which led to the establishment of the California industrial accident commission, the framing of the safety code and initiation of inspection service, I am sure that the safety requirements set up for California mines are fully as stringent and comprehensive as for metal mines in any other state. Not as much attention has been paid to such matters in metal mining as in coal mining and the safety codes now prescribed by law are inadequate in not requiring for deep metal mines that there should be hoisting equipment in more than one exit, mechanical control and proper plitting of air currents, and provision for their reversal in emergencies. As a result many metal mine sin America are worming with fully as great fire hazards as at the Argonaut where forty-seven men were trapped. It is true that no feasible state regulation can cover all conditions of hazard at every mine. Some cannot be eliminated save at prohibitive cost. No cost, however, which will still permit the financing and operating of necessary mines, is too great if it affords real protection to life and property. Mine operators and miners must both realize the risk and more time and more thought must be put into the application to individual mines of the safety recommendations of state officials and of the bureau of mines. After each has done everything possible there will remain an unescapable life and property loss in mining as in other industries, but until we do all that is possible we may not solve our consciences. Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the Board of Directors of said corporation held on the 24th day of August, 1922, an assessment (No. 1) of Five Dollars per share was levied on the subscribed capital stock of the corporation, payable at once to J. S. Ward, Treasurer, at the office of the said Geo. C. Wents Oil Syndicate in the City of Anaheim, State of California. Any stock upon which this assessment shall remain unpaid upon the 23rd day of October, 1922, will be delinquent and advertised for sale at public auction, and unless payment is made before, will be sold on Friday, the 24th day of November, 1922, at 10 o'clock a.m., to pay the delinquent assessment together with the cost of advertising and expenses of sale. Make all remittances payable to the order of Geo. C. Wents Oil Syndicate. By order of the Board of Directors. J. H. WENTS, Secretary. Anaheim, California. 8-21-47 NOTICE INVITING SEALED PROPOSALS OR BIDS Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals or bids will be received by the Board of Trustees of the City of Anaheim, at the office of the City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, up to Thursday, the 12th day of October, 1922, at the hour of eight o'clock P.M., for the furnishing of all labor and materials, and for the doing of the following described street work in the City of Anaheim, to-wit: That the following described street intersections be graded to the official grade, and paved with hydraulic concrete base with asphaltic wearing surface. That those certain intersections of said public streets which are herein referred to are described as follows, to-wit: The intersection of South Clementine Street and West Oak Street in said City; the intersection of South Clementine Street and West Chestnut Street, in said City; the intersection of South Clementine and Third Street South in said City, as shown on the plans and profiles hereinafter referred to. Said work to be done in accordance for an amount which shall not be less than fifty per cent of the aggregate amount of the contract price, for the furnishing of said materials and the doing of said work, payable to the City of Anaheim and signed by the bidder and at least two sureties who shall justify before any officer competent to administer an oath in double the said amount, over and above all statutory exemptions, or by a corporate surety, as provided by law, which said bond shall be subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees of the City of Anaheim and shall be conditioned upon the faithful performance of said contract. The successful bidder shall likewise within ten days after the contract is awarded him and before entering upon the performance of said work, file with the City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, a good and sufficient bond, to be approved by the Board of Trustees of the City of Anaheim, in a sum of not less than one-half of the total amount payable by the terms of said contract, which said bond shall be executed by the contractor, and either at least two sureties, or by a corporate surety as provided by law, in an amount not less than the sum specified in the bond and must provide that if the contractor, person, company, or corporation, or his or its sub-contractor falls to pay for any materials, provisions, provender, or other supplies or teams used in, upon, for, or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or for any work or labor done thereon, of any kind, that the surety or sureties will pay the same in an amount not exceeding the sum specified in the bond, and also in case suit is brought upon such bond, a reasonable attorney's fee to be fixed by the court. The Board of Trustees of the City of Anaheim reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Trustees of the City of Anaheim. Dated this 14th day of September, 1922 EDWARD B. MERRITT. City Clerk of the City of Anaheim. Fall and Winter Millinery Opening Friday and Saturday Sept. 29 and 30. Eeterprise Millinery Center Street . . . Opposite Valencia Hotel USED CAR CLEARANBE SALE On account of wrecking our front for our new building, our floor space has been reduced 8000 square feet. We are therefore offering exceptional bargains to make necessary room. Nearly all these cars are in overhauled condition--some practically new. 1921 Ford Tourings $325 and up 1922 Ford Touring 400 1920 Ford Tourings 295 and up Older Model Ford Touring 125 and up 1921 Ford Sedans 500 and up 1921 Dodge Roadster with delivery body, two new cords, fine motor 575 Two 1916 Dodge Tourings 1919 Oakland Touring 400 1918 Oakland Touring 375 1916 Oakland Touring 150 A Maxwell Touring, Ride to work 125 1918 Paige, 1919 Oldsmobile and a 1916 Hudson USED CAR DEPARTMENT WICKERSHEIM IMPLEMENT CO. FULLERTON, CAL. GOOD USED CARS 1—1919 Dodge Touring 1—1917 Dodge Touring 1—1920 Ford Touring 1—1920 Ford Sedan These cars are in first class mechanical condition. Ready to go. Chas. H. Mann 210 South Los Angeles St. Phone 43 Anaheim