anaheim-gazette 1922-11-09

A Spoonful of Purity One uses so little baking powder in comparison with the other materials used in baking that it always pays to use the best. For making the finest and most wholesome food there is no substitute for ROYAL Baking Powder. It comes from Cream of Tartar derived from grapes and is absolutely pure. Contains No Alum Leaves No Bitter Taste The American people will be gratified by the official announcement from the white house that the United States has no intention of participating in any of the political developments in the near east, and that under no circumstances will American forces aid in the defense of the Dardanelles. The fact that President Harding has found it necessary to reiterate the independence of the United States from European entanglements shows that influential forces are still at work to involve America in old world affairs. Every new disturbance abroad is the signal for fresh outbursts on their part, necessitating renewed declarations from the Republic government at Washington. No situation that has presented itself in the old world since the armistice is less worthy of American interference than the defeat of the Greeks and the threat of the Turks to regain their old capital. If this country had taken a hand in old world settlements, there might be some foundation for the present urge that we aid in restoring order in Asia Minor. If America were responsible for present conditions there, it might be said with such communications from radical individuals and local organizations dominated by radical members. One is inclined to doubt the "flood," for the great majority of organized labor is not radically inclined, would not advise action whose purpose would be to ruin the country. Belief turns to the supposition that leaders who have been telling of the "flood" while at the same time they deprecated talk of a general strike thought they saw an opportunity to take credit to themselves for opposition to and suppression of a strong radical tendency among their followers. But we think that credit for such opposition belongs to the overwhelming majority of the rank and file of organized workers. LIBERIA AND GEORGIA No situation that has presented itself in the old world since the armistice is less worthy of American interference than the defeat of the Greeks and the threat of the Turks to regain their old capital. If this country had taken a hand in old world settlements, there might be some foundation for the present urge that we aid in restoring order in Asia Minor. If America were responsible for present conditions there, it might be said with justice that the United States should take a hand in bringing about a settlement. But the fact is that what we find in the near east today is simply the result of traditional European diplomacy seen at its worst. In their progressive invasion of Turkish territory the Greeks have had the tacit support of Great Britain, while the opposition of Turkey to the Greek inroads has had similar support from France. Various arrangements have been attempted to satisfy both the British and French. There was created the neutral "Zone of the Straits," throwing the Turks back into Asia with the loss of their capital, Constantinople which they had held for about 470 years. Thrace was turned over to the Greeks, with its capital city, Adrianole, which the Turks had occupied practically continuously for 560 years. Greece was encouraged to occupy a large portion of Asia Minor, still further driving back the Turks with the loss of another of their traditional cities, Smyrna, which they had held for about 500 years. The merits of the diplomacy by which Greece, with the approval of Great Britain, extended and increased her pressure against the Turks, and Turkey, with the approval of France increased her resistance to the Greeks, is not for the United States to determine. It is none of our business, but every intelligent observer in this country knew that an explosion in the near east was bound to come if such tactics were adhered to. Probably the leading expert on near eastern affairs is Gen. Townsend, who led the British expedition up the Tirgris in the war and was captured by the Turks at Kut-el-Amara. He says it is foolhardy to hold Constantinople, that it should be returned to the Turks at once and all the other Turkish terms of peace accepted. As regards the near east, Europe has made its bed and now can lie in it. Were the United States to inject it- LIBERIA AND GEORGIA In the course of the debate upon the house resolution authorizing a loan of $5,000,000 to the Republic of Liberia, Senator Watson, of Georgia said that he would rather give the money to the negroes of Georgia or Alabama than to Liberia. The loan would mean $100 for each negro man woman and child in Liberia. Senator Heflin, of Alabama, also opposed the resolution. Neither senator, however explained what would be done with the money if it were voted to the negroes of his state. Liberia is a progressive republic so far as such a small and poor country can be progressive. It is getting upon its feet, and the loan would make it stronger and better able to recover from the effects of the war. But if the money were given the negroes of Georgia or Alabama, it is doubtful if it would do them much good. Neither state has done anything to help the blacks within its borders. Both have made a regular pastime of lynching negroes, with or without proof of guilt of crime. The negro in them has no rights that the whites respect, nor do the governments of the two states compel the whites to respect the rights of the inferior race. If the $5,000,000 were to be given either state for the purpose of relieving the lack of education shown by official figures to exist in it and to enlighten the whites upon their duties as American citizens, many of us here in the north would favor it. And the expenditure of the major part of such an appropriation upon the education of Watson and Heflin in citizenship would not provoke a single objection from this part of the country. FOREST SERVICE SELLS TIMBER IN CALIFORNIA One hundred and sixty-seven million feet of timber has recently been tactics were adhered to. Probably the leading expert on near eastern affairs is Gen. Townsend, who led the British expedition up the Tirgris in the war and was captured by the Turks at Kut-el-Amara. He says it is foolhardy to hold Constantinople, that it should be returned to the Turks at once and all the other Turkish terms of peace accepted. As regards the near east, Europe has made its bed and now can lie in it. Were the United States to inject itself into the mess it would mean not only the expenditure of much money and probably many lives, but it would incur also the certain enmity of either Great Britain or France, not to mention Greece and Turkey, depending upon which side the Americans espoused. We are at peace with the world just now, and every intelligent American wants to remain so. Fortunately we have a president and secretary of state at Washington who keep their heads level at such times. Their acts are guided by ya concern for American welfare rather than inspired by the emotional appeals of internationalist fanatics. NAMES NOT GIVEN Since Samuel Gompers broached the subject of the possibility of a general strike, which other leaders of organized labor promptly deprecated, there has been much in the news about a flood of letters and telegrams from local unions or leaders advocating such a strike or even demanding that it be called. But there hasn't been a word to tell which unions and what leaders sent such letters and telegrams. Publication of names would prove the assertion of the "flood." Doubtless there have been some One hundred and sixty-seven million feet of timber has recently been sold on the Plumas national forest, California, according to an announcement just made by the forest service. United States department of agriculture. The timber covers about 14,000 acres in what is known as the sugar pine-yellow pine belt in the heart of the Sierra mountains of California. It is estimated that this amount of timber, together with the inter-mixed privately owned timber, will require eight years to cut and convert into lumber. Twenty-one miles of railroad will be built to connect with an existing logging railroad 40 miles in length. As usual in this type of forest the logging will be done by donkey engines, but forest service men will carefully supervise the cutting so that all young and thrifty trees will be left for future growth. Only marked trees will be cut and brush and debris resulting from logging will be piled and burned. This large body of timber was sold to the Swayne Lumber company, an established concern in the locality which is now logging on private lands in the same watershed. The United States treasury will be enriched approximately $360,000, at the rate of about $45,000 a year. Prices received were $3.50 per thousand feet for sugar pine, $3 for yellow pine, and $1 for other species. FOREST SERVICE SELLS TIMBER IN CALIFORNIA LET THEM Our Democracy great time denies revenue law. In year as a subsisted by the Domestic Especially do there has been paid, it has been noticed it." If that is true 500,000 heads whom benefited of a $20 bill by tion on the income. Maybe the law persistently mills in the case, but that most of the other eye when law passed bends only the re was made in poor. A LOOK An echo of old in the reduction can coal by six months of imported from 130 and 359,855 tively, of coal months of 1922. ANAHEIM GAZETTE 103,000 tons. But that is not all. In the 1920 half-year Brazil imported from England 125,600 tons of coal while for the first six months of 1921 imports of British coal dropped to 33,000 tons. We were getting the market. For the 1922 period imports from Great Britain totaled 381,000 tons. We lost the market, and it is a mighty sight harder to regain a lost market than to enlarie one we already possess. A MATTER OF GOOD FAITH Whn the chairman of the committee on the location of the farm school admits as he did in the hearing in Riverside that he thought the 300 acres purchased by the state in its city was for an addition to the citrus experiment station, it is evident that there is still need for education on this farm school matter, says the Riverside press. The legislature of 1919 definitely located the farm school for southern California in Riverside county and made the initial appropriation for the purchase of the land. Acting under the provisions of that bill, the regents of the university entered into a contract for the purchase of the Gage tract for a farm school, after approving the title to the property, investigating the soil carefully, and securing water rights that are more than satisfactory in legality, quality and adequacy. The legislature of 1921 appropriated the money to complete the purchase of this tract for the farm school, the bill was signed by ythe governor and the land has been paid for and is the property of the state today. The purchase, be it understood, was specifically for farm purposes and for nothing else. It is true that the same legislature under pressure from Los Angeles, did health and safety exposition. The exposition is sponsored by the Oakland Chamber of Commerce. A living, moving panorama will unfold the thousand and one agencies which make for health of the individual and the community. The exposition will not be a dry statistical show made up of charts and lengthy figures of deaths by disease and accident, but a spectacular demonstration of those activities which mean longer, healthier lives. Into the exposition will come the United States coast guard life saving crews presenting the methods of saving life at sea. The firemen and the policemen will have their parts to play. The school children will be represented in a wide array of activities that have come to mean so much to the modern municipality and to have such splendid effect on future generations. Sanitation, recreation, food values correct applied psychology, the care of babies, the scientific care and treatment of criminals—all have their part in the big exposition. Men of science, internationally known, will give stirring talks. The whole idea, the motif behind the exposition, is summed up in the slogan, "Learn to Live." THE COTTON MARKET The year's cotton crop is a small one—larger than last year's by barely 2,000,000 bales, and the yield of 1921 was the smallest in a dozen years. But the cotton is being ginned and finding its way to market at a rate almost unprecedented. Although they might reasonably look for a stronger market some months hence, in view of increasing domestic consumption and European demand, the farmers are selling for cash as fast as they can, because they need the money and already the south is feeling the business improvement which this practice has made possible. Cotton is the big money crop to which 20,000,000 people look, and when they get their money the effect is felt throughout the nation. The cotton growers might have profited more by holding out for higher prices perhaps, but as it is the whole nation is profiting in a business way because of them. LET THEM STICK TO FACTS The legislature of 1921 appropriated the money yto complete the purchase of this tract for the farm school, the bill was signed by ythe governor and rhe land has been paid for and is the property of the state today. The purchase, be it understood, was specifically for farm purposes and for nothing else. It is true that the same legislature under pressure from Los Angeles, did the astounding and utterly inconsistent thing of authorizing a committee to recommend the location of the farm school in southern California, after having located the school and acquired the land for it. In all fairness, however, this committee ought to take into account the history outlined above. With the complete and cordial ap-proval of the people of southern California, the legislature by definite act located the farm school in Riverside county; and the regents of the university proceeding under the legislative act bought the 360 acres of the Gage tract. The good faith of the state and the university is therefore pledged to the location in this city. After all this had been done with Los Angeles consenting, certain interests there conceived the idea of reversing the action of the legislature and the university and locating the farm school in the San Fernando valley, within the city limits of Los nALES. To all intents and purposes the proposal is to "lift" an institution already located in Riverside and put it in Los Angeles. That is what certain Los Angeles hoisters think they are going to persuade this committee of five to do; but the Press expresses the hope and belief that their sense of fairness so high and their recognition of the obligations of the state is so clear that they will not yield to this pressure. Certainly they understand the situa-tion better than they did before the Riverside hearing; and the interests of southern California outside of Los Angeles (and that is the correct way to put it) have an able champion on the committee in Mayor Evans. DRIVER EXONERATED The jury which held an inquest over the body of Mabel Gardner, six-year-old daughter of a rancher of the Wintersberg district, brought in a verdict of accidental death, exonerating the office with information leading to the arrest and conviction of the death car driver. Determined that the driver of the machine, which ran over the child,and who fled, should be called upon to pay for the life which was snuffed out, the sheriff's attaches had conducted a seven-day search for the fugitive mo-torist. Yet not one of the witnesses of the accident had come forward with any information which would lead to the arrest of the death car driver. "The responsibility for the death of this innocent child should haunt this man, who, all witnesses declare, fled in a corwardly manner," one official declared. "If he has a spark of manhood in him, he will give himself up and face the charges." VICTORY NOTE REDEMPTION There are Victory notes outstanding to the extent of $1,838,000,000. Of that total $906,000,000 have been cal-ed for redemption on December 15 1922, and the remaining $932,000,000 reach maturity on May 20, 1923, when funds must be at hand for their payment. This is but an example of the huge refunding problems constantly confronting the treasury department Outside the financial columns of the press, little appears to acquaint the country with what Secretary Mellon is doing, yet probably no officer of the government is called upon to make more momentous decisions than he His management of the national debt of $22,000,000,000 is of vital concern to the taxpayers, and it is safe to say that he has already saved them hundreds of millions of dollars in interest charges alone. When Republicans took charge of the government treasury certificates of indebtedness bore interest of around 6 per cent. Sound Republican economic policies and ex- Cotton is the big money crop to which 20,000,000 people look, and when they get their money the effect is felt throughout the nation. The cotton growers might have profited more by holding out for higher prices perhaps, but as it is the whole nation is profiting in a business way because of them. LET THEM STICK TO FACTS Our Democratic brethren had a great time denouncing the Republican revenue law, passed by congress last year as a substitute for the one enacted by the Democrats during the war. Especially do they charge that "if there has been any decrease in taxes paid, it has been only the rich who noticed it." If that is true, what about the 500,000 heads of families, each of whom benefited at least to the extent of a $20 bill by the increase of exemption on the income tax? Maybe the Democrats can win by persistently misrepresenting the facts in the case, but it is fair to presume that most of the voters will wink their other eye when told that the revenue law passed by the congress in 1921 adds only the rich. The big reduction was made in the schedules of the poor. A LOST MARKET An echo of our coal strike is sounded in the reduced imports of American coal by Brazil. During the first six months of 1920 and of 1921 Brazil imported from the United States 240,130 And 359,850 metric tons, respectively, of coal. For the first six months of 1922 her imports fell to DRIVER EXONERATED The jury which held an inquest over the body of Mabel Gardner, six-year-old daughter of a rancher of the Wintersburg district, brought in a verdict of accidental death, exonerating the driver of the machine which struck her. Gardner Brown conducted the inquest at the Smith and Tuthill chapel at Santa Ana Friday afternoon. David Gardner, father of the child, Phillip Cook, driver of the machine which struck her, and Wesley Vandruff an eyewitness to the accident, testified. Gardner said that he brought his two children to the Oceanside school house in his automobile. His daughter Mabel had just stepped out of his car and was crossing the road when hit, he said. Cook said that he was passing a truck loaded with alfalfa and that he did not see the child nor did she see his car until it was directly upon her. Vandruff said that he picked the little girl up and took her to the Garden Drive hospital where she died. REWARD FOR MOTORIST With a week past, and no plausible else discovered as to the identity of the motorists who last Saturday night ran down and killed Ralph Lacey,6 son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Lacey, of Santa Ana, and who fled following the accident, Sheriff C. E. Jackson caused a renewal of interest in the search Monday when he offered a reward of $100 to any one who will furnish his doing, yet probably no officer of the government is called upon to make more momentous decisions than he. His management of the national debt of $22,000,000,000 is of vital concern to the taxpayers, and it is safe to say that he has already saved them hundreds of millions of dollars in interest charges alone. When Republicans took charge of the government treasury certificates of indebtedness bore interest of around 6 per cent. Sound Republican economic policies and expert handling of finances by Mr. Melon have brought the rate down to 3-3-4 per cent, the taxpayers saving the difference. LEADERS, NOT OXEN The statement of a Democratic writer that the Republicans repudiate dthe idea that the United States should aspire to the moral leadership of the world; is untrue. The Republicans repudiated the idea that the United States should become the burden bearer, that it should meddle in purely European problems, that it should become the paymaster and military force of the world. For more than a century and a quarter, we have been the moral leaders. More than that, we have rendered practical help to every nation in any reasonable way in any time of need. But we are not surrendering our right to determine for ourselves what help we shall render and whe nand how we shall render it. NOT SWIVEL_CHAIR CROWD Nobody is surprised at the announcement that several swivel chairs are for sale in Washington. This is not a swivel-chair administration, but you didn't hear of any bargain sales of this kind between 1912 and 1920. For the convenience of our customers and visitors we have established an elaborate Ladies' Writing Room At our establishment, 111 N. Lemon. Stationery and writing material are furnished free of cost. Every convenience installed for the comfort of our guests. T. L. DeCEW Lexington MOTOR CARS California Theatre Thursday, Nov. 9 WANDA HAWLEY in "The Truthful Liar" Vaudeville Friday, November 10 PRISCILLA DEAN in "Under Two Flags" International News Good Comedy Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 12 and 13 Richard Barthelmes in "The Bond Boy" Kinograms Aesops Fables Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 14 and 15 JACK HOLT in "On the High Seas" Movie Chats Topics of the Day FROM "On the High Seas" Movie Chats Topics of the Day FROM KITCHENS' TO THE KITCHEN No. 1 Store, 161 W. Center. Phone 284 No. 2 Store, 308 W. Center. Phone 790 Meats, Groceries, Canned Goods, All of High Grade. ANYWAY, WE'RE FED UP Former Premier Clemenceau says he is ready to make a lecture tour of America to explain our duties in regard to the European situation, but we are afraid James Middleton Cox will regard such a venture as usurpation of his constitutional rights. HERE AND THERE Russian reds in the United States are bound to stir up labor unrest, and the government is to be commended for deporting them. Henry Ford denouncing profiteers is unconsciously making himself funny. Who in the United States has made half as much money as Ford in the past 17 years? THRICE A MILLSTONE A Washington paper says the appearance of Bryan on the stump this year "was regarded at the capitol as highly significant." And so it was. It was significant of the fact that the Democratic hopes were so low that the members of that party will grab a millstone to float themselves.