anaheim-gazette 1923-08-02

UNCLE SAM'S ROYALTIES FROM GAS AND OIL The federal government, through the department of the interior, is receiving royalties from the production of oil, gas and natural gas gasoline on leased public lands in Wyoming, California, Montana and Colorado at the rate of more than $1,000,000 a month. Under the provisions of the general leasing act of 1920 these royalties have to date amounted to more than $24,000,000. Of this sum, approximately $10,000,000 is the result of "back royalties" accruing from production obtained on lands affected by the leasing act prior to its passage, while more than $14,000,000 has been received from royalties earned subsequent to the passage of the act. Royalties reported to the bureau of mines during the month of May, 1923, totaled $1,353,300. Of this sum, $1,131,497 is credited to Wyoming; $188,351 to California, and $33,446 to Montana. Under the terms of the general leasing act the federal government retains title to its oil lands, and at the same time develops them by granting permits to prospect for oil and gas or leases to operate in proved territory. Thus, by retaining ownership of the property, the government is enabled to exact a royalty interest of one-eighth to one-third of the oil and gas produced. Revenue from the naval petroleum reserves is paid either in "cash" or in "kind," and is credited for the use of the navy department. Ten per cent revenue from leased public lands outside the naval reserves goes into the United States treasury and more than covers the cost of enforcing the act. Twenty per cent of "back royalties" and 37-1-2 per cent of subsequent earning from these lands are paid to the women and children for the most part and the rest of the world does not blame the French people for a desire for vengeance. The question now is how far shall this vengeance be allowed to jeopardize the financial status and safety of the rest of the allied nations? RULINGS ON TAX LEVIES Capital stock tax levied by the revenue acts of 1916 and 1918 was upheld by the United States court in a decision received from Washington. The ruling holds that the capital stock tax is an exoise tax on the privilege of doing business as a corporation, measured by the fair average value of the capital stock of the corporation for the preceding year. According to other decisions the capital stock tax imposed by the 1916-1918 acts is not unconstitutional as applied to corporations, the business of which is confined to the exportation of goods from the United States and their sale in foreign countries and to the sale of goods to export commission merchants in this country with the intent and purpose that they shall be exported and with the result that such goods are in fact exported. Such a tax is not "a tax or duty on articles exported from any state" and hence not violative of the constitution of the United States. In another important decision of the United States court received at the same time, it was held that an income tax levied under the revenue act of 1918 upon not income from the business of exporting goods from the United States and selling the goods in foreign countries is not a tax laid on articles exported from any state in violation of the constitution of the United States. The ruling declares that an income tax levied under the revenue act of Revenue from the naval petroleum reserves is paid either in "cash" or in "kind," and is credited for the use of the navy department. Ten per cent revenue from leased public lands outside the naval reserves goes into the United States treasury and more than covers the cost of enforcing the act. Twenty per cent of "back royalties" and 37 1-2 per cent of subsequent earning from these lands are paid to the particular states within whose boundaries the leased lands are situated, to be used for the maintenance of public roads or for the building of public institutions, as the legislature of the state may direct. The United States reclamation service receives 70 per cent of "back royalties" and 52 1-2 per cent of subsequent earnings to be used for the construction of irrigation projects irrespective of state limits. ANOTHER WAR Anatole France, member of the French Academy of Forty Immortals, in a recent address said that another war is threatening the world. God forbid another conflict such as tore at the heart strings of the world for four soul-searing years shall again threaten. Just the thought of another four years of harrowing conflict turns the soul sick. The world has not yet recovered from its last conflict of greed and hate. It has not recovered physically or financially even in five years after the last shot was fired. Mothers of men have not forgotten the anguish of scanning the causality lists each day, expecting to find their loved ones listed among the dead or missing. The men who formed the armies of the world have not forgotten the blazing hell they faced for the upholding of an ideal. The four years of actual warfare wrought havoc. They laid the ground work of suffering that it will require years to overcome. Hospitals today are filled with men who are still paying the debt of war. Men who went across the sea in the name of chivalry came back wrecks, forced to sit and wait for the day when they will join their "buddles" who "went west" on the battlefield. They are the unhonored, unsung heroes of the war who, ravaged by disease, contracted in the line of duty or incapacitated through wounds or gas or mental strain are still paying for the war. They are waiting death as a result of their sacrifice to end all wars. In another important decision of the United States court received at the same time, it was held that an income tax levied under the revenue act of 1918 upon net income from the business of exporting goods from the United States and selling them in foreign countries does not deprive the taxpayer of his property without due process of law in violation of the fifth amendment to the constitution of the United States, even though the act be construed as exempting from the tax the income of foreign corporations from like sources; nor does such a tax violate the rule of uniformity. CALIFORNIA ACTIVITIES The files of the research and information department of the California Development association, the state chamber of commerce, show that California has the greatest variety of economic interests of any place in the world, and they are the most unusual significant and broadest group as well, according to Norman H. Sloane, manager. "California is a great agricultural state. It is a great commercial state and a great industrial state." Mr. Sloan declared. "That is true greatness in itself and alone stamps her as being among the unusual communities of the world. But when these broad divisions of economic activity are subdivided and analyzed, as I have had the opportunity of doing from the files of our department of research and information, this empire of the west becomes the most unusual and greatest of all countries on the face of the earth. "Of all states, California is the most varied agriculturally. Her crops embrace nearly the whole catalogue—the products of New England, of Florida, of the middle west and the northwest, of much of the south and, in addition, the romantic, high-priced crops of Italy, Spain, Persia, Greece and Sicily. These crops are not grown as curiosities or an experiment, but habitually, commercially and profitably." BOK'S GOLDEN APPLE Today the United States about 93.5 per cent usually consumed. It were nearly 90 per cent sumption. The annuity and other synthetic for the calendar year press by the United mission, is one month the benefits derive. The protection in largely war protected when Germanaded from the trade even while the Decongress they were some measure of pr industry, reluctant to the exigencies o According to them domestic production 1922 by 87 firms was an increase of 66 pts 1921. The sales for 000,000 pounds vanished. The size of the sharp contrast with commission says, firms manufactured pounds valued at industry in that sense a self-contained produced were made if intermixed in Germany." The introduction during 1922 an increase in geo-activity. Beginning tile and other duties became more business depression maining months o mand for dyes store. An investigation shows that the average domestic dyes cents per pound ceats in 1921 and 1917.. The 1922 fl per cent decline There were prices for bulk colors and smaller quantities average price of l cents per pound cents in 1922. One of the comments of 1922 wasduction of vat andvat dyes are usedand printing forshadesofremarke ing the debt of war. Men who went across the sea in the name of chivalry came back wrecks, forced to sit and wait for the day when they will join their "buddles" who "went west" on the battlefield. They are the unhonored, unsung heroes of the war who, ravaged by disease, contracted in the line of duty or incapacitated through wounds or gas or mental strain are still paying for the war. They are waiting death as a result of their sacrifice to end all wars and now comes the forecast that the world faces another conflict as great if not greater than the world war. Monsieur France, in his article, says that his nation has not labored for peace. He says, "I tell you the bourgeois cannot, will not, does not know how to make peace." He is correct in his statement the French nation has not tried to make a lasting peace. The seizure of the Ruhr demonstrates this. Germany, domineering as a nation and entirely to blame for the world war, has not been granted a fair opportunity at reparation. What has been gained by the Ruhr occupation? France, through this occupation, is in a state of economic chaos. Every day the nation is increasing its financial tangle. Germany has made an offer of settlement that has been rejected. This offer might not be the one on which the nations can base a lasting peace, but it was fair enough as a beginning on which to open negotiations. The occupation of the Ruhr closes one door to reparations. As long as Germany cannot resume industry it will not be in a position to make a settlement. The French people have suffered at the hands of the German invaders. German troops hooped innumerable insignities and brutalities on a suffering nation. These brutalities were heaped upon Mr. Bok's prize for a war antidote has not yet been awarded. It is possible that whatever plan may be given the highest award, there will be violent criticisms against it by others whose ideas lie along different lines. Henry Ford's peace ship was filled with people desirous of bringing the war to an end, but the selfish ambitions of most of them blinded their eyes to the general object, and the expedition met with disaster even before the ship reached Europe. There is an irreconcilable difference in the methods by which our peace advocates would accomplish their ends. One party would attain peace through force, while the other recommends discussion and arbitration. Former President Wilson and his league of nations covenants are the principal exponents of the former view, while the Carnegie peace foundation and the eminent men connected with it are behind the latter view. Those two schools of thought are bound to clash in any scheme for peace, and whichever wins the Bok prize is likely to incur the jealousy of the other. Every time one gets the notion that perhaps something ought to be done to save Europe some European nation or another does something to create doubt whether Europe is worth saving. One of the comments of 1922 wasduction of vat andvat dyes are usedand printing forshades of remarkaare not destroyeddry treatment.Tofgreat value inaddition to thisfineincreasedpridesis a significalopment of aselftry.Many impoonded for the firstclinical scale in 1922stages of the doe declares the conde outbreak oftheour dyes were lackstrength and quo however, no longdye, with relative domestic producethe pre-war Germen Preliminary survey indicate total tar and byproduct of the year 1922,whistory of theproducing about Who has forgeread we had makeEngland for a dsufficient Germanpostage stampwe had neglectedIt is a situationagain thanks toicles. ANAHEIM GAZETTE FARMERS PAY DEBT The farmers of Minnesota and the two Dakotas, it appears, have in nineteen months paid off almost two-fifths of the forty-five million dollars loaned to them by the government through the war finance corporation. This is an astonishing achievement, in view of the depressed condition of the farming industry. It is true that these loans were made to the country banks, but they were made "for agricultural purposes," and the repayments have been made possible by the thawing out of frozen credits—which means that the farmers have been taking up their paper and paying off their obligations. Payments are now coming in at the rate of fifty thousand dollars a day. So it is plain that, if this pace is maintained, the whole amount will be wiped out in a little over two years, though the corporation has four years in which to complete its operations. It appears, too, that the payments are evenly divided between the three states, and that the money is coming partly from livestock and partly from grain. This indicates that better conditions pervade the whole territory. Agriculture has some distance to go, in order to reach a normally prosperous condition—farther, no doubt, than industry or commerce, which have practically arrived. But it is well on the way. OUR GROWING DYE INDUSTRY Today the United States produces about 93.5 per cent of the dyes actually consumed. In 1914 the imports were nearly 90 per cent of our consumption. The annual "census of dyes and other synthetic organic chemicals" for the calendar year 1922, just sent to Congressional Library "BEST IN THE WORLD" Along with its other superior accomplishments, the United States can properly boast that in the library of congress it has given the people the best library in the world. While it is true that London and Paris have libraries with a larger number of volumes, in point of library service to the people the congressional library in Washington excels. Service is, of course, the measure of greatness. The home of the congressional library is by far the most magnificent and best equipped library building in the world. The British and French libraries are, of course, superior to that of the United States in the possession of our own congressional library. Some of the rarest volumes we may never possess, but the addition of most of the older books which we do not now have is largely a matter of expenditure of the necessary money. There are three important respects in which the United States has led all other nations in giving library service to its people. One of these is the preparation, printing and distribution of catalogue cards which are sold to libraries throughout the country at actual cost of printing, the congressional library bearing the cost of preparation of the material. This uniform system of card indexes is now supplied to more than three thousand libraries throughout the United States. No other country has such a system. Another exclusive feature of the congressional library is its publication of bibliographies, presenting lists of references on topics of current interest, particularly subjects pending in congress. This feature of our library work is of particular value to students, college libraries, state legislatures, debating societies, etc. GOOD BACKS FOR BAD Anaheim Residents Are Learning How to Exchange the Old Back for a Stronger One. Does your back ache, feel weak and painful? Do you suffer headaches, languor and depression? Is the urine discolored, passages irregular? The kidneys may be calling for help. Weak widneys cannot do their work. Give them the help they need. To cure a kidney backache you must cure the kidneys. Use a tested and proven kidney remedy. Doan's Kidney Pills have stood the test. Convincing proof of merit in Anaheim endorsement: Mrs. H. L. Burns, 610 Helena St., Anaheim, says: "I suffered a lot with kidney and bladder trouble. I became run down and had a lame and aching back that made me miserable. Infammation of the bladder caused me to suffer severely. My kidneys didn't act right, either. I used Doan's Kidney Pills and they helped me wonderfully, stopping the backache and relieving a legion of bladder trouble." Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy—get doan's Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs. Burns had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N.Y. WHEN W. J. B. GOT OUT William J. Bryan is beginning to talk about foreign policies, about his first reference to that subject since he confided to the Austrian ambassador that the president didn't mean a thing by his war talk. OUR GROWING DYE INDUSTRY Today the United States produces about 93.5 per cent of the dyes actually consumed. In 1914 the imports were nearly 90 per cent of our consumption. The annual "census of dyes and other synthetic organic chemicals" for the calendar year 1922, just sent to press by the United States tariff commission, is one more great tribute to the benefits derived from protection. The protection in this instance was largely war protection during the period when German dyes were blocked from the trade of the world, but even while the Democrats controlled congress they were induced to grant some measure of protection to the dye industry, reluctantly as they yielded to the exigencies of the case. According to the tariff commission the domestic production of dyes in 1922 by 87 firms was 64,600,000 pounds, an increase of 66 per cent over that of 1921. The sales for 1922 totaled 63,000,000 pounds valued at $41,464,000. "The size of the industry in 1922 is in sharp contrast with that of 1914," the commission says, "when only seven firms manufactured a total of 6,620,000 pounds valued at $2,470,000. The dye industry in that period was in no sense a self-contained one, as the dyes produced were made almost entirely if intermediates imported chiefly from Germany." The increase in dye production during 1922 was largely due to an increase in general business activity. Beginning about June the textile and other dye-consuming industries became more active after the business depression and during the remaining months of the year the demand for dyes steadily increased. An investigation of price reductions shows that the average sales price of all domestic dyes for 1922 was 60 cents per pound compared with 83 cents in 1921 and $1.26 per pound in 1917. The 1922 figures represent a 28 per cent decline from that of 1921. There were price reductions for both the bulk colors and dyes consumed in smaller quantities. For example, the average price of indigo in 1921 was 45 cents per pound compared with 24 cents in 1922. One of the conspicuous developments of 1922 was the increased production of vat and alizarin dyes. The vat dyes are used in cotton dyeing and printing for the production of remarkable fastness which of card indexes is now supplied to more than three thousand libraries throughout the United States. No other country has such a system. Another exclusive feature of the congressional library is its publication of bibliographies, presenting lists of references on topics of current interest, particularly subjects pending in congress. This feature of our library work is of particular value to students, college libraries, state legislatures, debating societies, etc. The third exclusive feature in library service rendered by the library of congress is the lending of books for use outside of the city of Washington. Research workers living anywhere in the United States may secure, through the agency of their local library, any book which is not otherwise accessible to the applicant. This system of lending books from the congressional library rests on the theory of a special service to scholarship which it is not within the power of the local library to render. This service does not cover ordinary books that can easily be procured by purchase or from local or state libraries, but supplies "the unusual need with the unusual book." Genealogies, local histories and newspapers are not available for this interlibrary loan service. In addition to supplying these three distinctive services our congressional library equals all other libraries in supplying to research students convenience for their work. Any responsible person engaged in serious work may have a desk set aside for his exclusive use for several months at a time, in an alcove where he has the advantage of privacy. He may keep books on that desk for many days, instead of returning them to the shelves as required in most libraries. The congressional library, more than any other in the world, permits research readers to go personally to the stacks instead of waiting for each book to be brought to them. In brief, the supremacy of our national library lies in its facilitating the use of books, rather than in collecting and safely keeping them. APPROVING THE WORLD COURT A correspondent travelling with President Harding reports that the most popular note he has struck on his speaking tour has been his appeal for the world court. All the way across the country, says the correspondent, the president found doan's Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs. Burns had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N.Y. WHEN W. J. B. GOT OUT William J. Bryan is beginning to talk about foreign policies, about his first reference to that subject since he confided to the Austrian ambassador that the president didn't mean a thing by his war talk. J. E. SCHUMACHER CO. Opp. S. P. Depot, W. Anaheim. Phone 794. HAY AND GRAIN. From Farm to Consumer DR. CHAS S. O'TOOLE PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Rooms 200-207 First National Bank Building Anaheim, California Hours: 10-11; 14-7:8 Office 388-J Residence 388-M Orange County Business College 626 North Main Street, Santa Ana, California. Enroll now for our summer term Day School Secretarial, Accountancy, Business Administration, Bookkeeping Posting Machine and Shorthand courses. Every graduate placed in a good position. You can enter any school day or school evening. Call or write for our free catalogue explaining ev- APPROVING THE WORLD COURT A correspondent travelling with President Harding reports that the most popular note he has struck on his speaking tour has been his appeal for the world court. All the way across the country, says the correspondent, the president found his audiences in favor of the court "without knowing or caring much about details." So evident was this attitude that the president, observing it quickly and turning it to his purpose with the skill of a veteran campaigner, "put in a good word for the international court whenever he had the chance." The politicians, the correspondent finds, are more critical. They want specifications and reservations of various kinds. But the average citizen, without much regard to details and technicalities, simply wants an international tribunal to which all nations may resort, and which will lay down the law for them in any controversy that threatens to disturb the peace of the world. Here is a situation which the politicians themselves, whatever their bias, will have to take into account sooner or later. The public will have a way of getting itself expressed in the long run. HAVE A HEART The most unkind thing any president can do to the party that opposed him is to take office when the country's in a slump, and then have it stage an economic and business come-back while he is in office. Business College 626 North Main Street, Santa Ana, California Enroll now for our summer term Day School Secretarial, Accountancy, Business Administration, Bookkeeping Posting Machine and Shorthand courses. Every graduate placed in a good position. You can enter any school day or school evening. Call or write for our free catalogue explaining everything. J. W. McCORMAC, Pres. PUBLIC SALES We have purchased 122,000 pair U. S. Army Munson last shoes, sizes 5 1/2 to 12 which was the entire surplus stock of one of the largest U. S. Government shoe contractors. This shoe is guaranteed one hundred per cent solid leather, color dark tan, bellows tongue, dirt and water proof. The actual value of this shoe is $6.00. Owing to this tremendous buy we can offer same to the public at $2.95. Send correct size. Pay postman on delivery or send money order. If shoes are not as represented we will cheerfully refund your money promptly upon request. NationalBay State Shoe Company 296 Broadway, New York JOHNSTON - WICKETT CLINIC ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA HOURS $:00 A.M. 6:00 P.M. DODGE BROTHERS TOURING CARS In the cool of a Summer morning, it is gratifying to take your seat at the wheel, conscious that the Touring Car will do your bidding faithfully the long day through. It is that time-tried dependability—so vital to the pleasure and economy of motoring—which, more than any single factor, has endear-ed Dodge Brothers Touring Car to so many hundreds of thousands of owners. One-eighth of the total weight of the car consists of chrome vanadium steel. Many more pieces of alloy steel are used in vital parts than normal wear requires. CHAS. H. MANN Dodge Brothers Motor Cars 210 S. Los Angeles St. Anaheim, Cal' Stroup’s Market 115 North Los Angeles St. We guarantee every article sold to be absolutely first class. Money back if not satisfactory. You can find anything in the meat line that you want at our market, and our low prices will surprise you. Call and ask us about it. First Class Job Work at Gazette OFFICE PHONES HOME 783-1 SUNSET 341-J. Residence, 837 S. Los Angeles St. RESIDENCE PHONES PACIFIC 341-M HOME 753-2 J. W. TRUXAW, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON HOURS 11-12; 2-4; 7-8 GOLDEN STATE BANK BLDG. Cor. Center and Los Angeles Sta. ANAHEIM, CAL. 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 evening. Sunday evening and Friday evening M. Eugene Durfee ARCHITECT Room 5, Cassou Bldg. Phone 692 Anaheim J. H. COLE, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Diseases of the Eye and Fitting of Glasses a Specialty 312-313 First National Bank Bldg. Tel. Office Home Phone 644-J 644-M Anaheim, California BUILDING AND LOAN Fire and Compensation Insurance 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 evening. Sunday evening and Friday evening services are in the English language. Pastor. H. C. JACOBY, Dr. W. W. Adams Pure Osteopathy Office: No. 220 N. Olive St. Telephone 731-W. J. E. SCHUMACHER CO.. Opp. S. P. Depot, W. Anaheim. Phone 794. HAY AND GRAIN From Farm to Consumer BUILDING AND LOAN Fire and Compensation Insurance FRANK TAUSCH 111 N. Los Angeles St. Office Phone 46 Res. 342-W J.C. Osher, D.D.S., M.D PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT—ORAL SURGERY—GLASSES FITTED SUITE 1 CENTRAL BLDG PHONE SUNSET 337 SCHNEIDER'S MARKET 131 West Center Street We buy and sell only A-No. 1 Steer Beef, Milk Lamb, Milk Veal, Young Pork. All No. 1 meats have ono-third more food value than cheaper grades. Watch for our Saturday Specials. Phone 20 We Deliver