anaheim-gazette 1923-09-06

WHICH ONE OF THESE THINGS IS THE JOKE? Henry Ford, in a recent interview, stated that a protective tariff is a "joke;" that the manufacturers of this country do not need the "special privilege" of protection, and that this country should confine itself to the production of those things it is especially adapted to produce. Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Jackson, Webster, Clay, Lincoln, Grant, Garfield, Blaine, McKinley, Roosevelt, Harding and most of the other great men of American history were protectionists. Whether, from an economic standpoint, the protective policy or Henry Ford is a joke, a study of the arguments for protection made by these men would presumably reveal. Henry Ford has been enriched in a bonanza business and pretends not to understand why success in production does not come as easily and as quickly to other men as to himself. He does not hesitate, while arguing that other manufacturers ought to be able to produce at a profit regardless of competitive elements, to avail himself of the protection or special privileges involved in the patent laws which protect his product. If any one doubts that let him set to work making Ford cars or parts, and see how quickly the sage of Dearborn begins to avail himself of his law-made special privilege. The protective policy did not directly make Henry Ford's success possible, but unless that policy had been in effect in this country beginning with Lincoln's administration the widely distributed wealth of the American people would not have been created by the industrial activities protection alone has made possible, and therefore the Ford car would not have had the home market in which 95 per cent of the Ford output is sold. The United States buys nine-tenths of the motor cars made in the world. Henry conditions, sacrifice unceasingly upon its altars." Never was the supreme importance of obedience to law, if we would save our nation, more clearly stated than in this address by Abraham Lincoln. As Lincoln said in this ame address: "If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time or die by suicide." DOLLAR WHEAT Wheat has fallen below the dollar quotation mark o nthe Chicago board of trade, and, in the opinion of those wise to the markets, ther appears to be small chance for wheat to exceed the dollar price during the present season. A serious situation presents itself to the farmers of the great wheat districts in this collapse of prices on the Chicago exchange—so serious, indeed, that Secretary Wallace is holding a conference with experts to canvass the situation in all its aspects. Many farmers claim that, through increased wages for farm help and the advanced prices the farmer now pays for everything he has to buy, wheat that brings 90 cents a bushel on the farm has cost the farmer $1.30 a bushel to raise. Through this slump in price in parts of Minnesota and the Dakotas the farmers are hard up—a farm without a mortgage is rare—some are five years behind on their interest—a large proportion of them can no longer make ends meet. Discontent and demands for radical relief measures are the inevitable consequences of this latest depression. It is evident, of course, that no producer will continue to grow wheat that costs him 40 cents a bushel on the wrong side of the ledger. And if the American farmer were to cease growing wheat the people in the cities A FITTING The act of a plowboldt county in devaluable tract of forest to stand as bollt县 county's plowpropriate. Mrs. herself crossed the given 166 acres on land on the state California, in mem Joseph Russ, a p also as a memorial of Humboldt county be known as the Pioneer Memorial ed to use as a pur These giant trees pervirens; redwood when California's rived. Some of standing in the R were practically a size and girth w covered America, cis Drake sighted fornia. Some of lings at the time The gift of this result of the wo Redwoods League years past has been through state. coe the preservation of our primeval of the unique and sions of California that the example memorial will be re-illment of many CALIFORNIA' California crop cellently. Officiations are quite f some drawbacks But the general is re-assuring There is this productions whi but unless that policy had been in effect in this country beginning with Lincoln's administration the widely distributed wealth of the American people would not have been created by the industrial activities protection alone has made possible, and therefore the Ford car would not have had the home market in which 95 per cent of the Ford output is sold. The United States buys nine-tenths of the motor cars made in the world. Henry Ford ought to be appreciative of the economic policies which have so enriched country as to make this condition possible. Merely because no one can make cars in England, France, Italy or Japan as cheaply as he can, he can't see anything in it for him and therefore for the American people. But in that position Mr. Ford does not look beyond the end of his nose. The American producer does not receive special privilege when a protective tariff handicaps the foreign producer in this market to the extent in which the foreigner has cheapened labor costs by depreciation of the workers' standard of wages and living. American markets are flooded today with merchandise produced more cheaply abroad than it can be producer here, simply and solely because labor costs are so much cheaper abroad than at home. Henry Ford's argument is that if an American manufacturer cannot pay from two to ten times the wages paid by his foreign competitor and still compete successfully, he ought to close up his plant and throw his employees on the street. What Henry overlooks is that a man without a job can't pay for a Ford car. The market for Ford cars among coolies in breech clouts, peons in coffee sacks and European peasants in rags never has been and never will be large. All that Henry Ford has owed to the tremendous prosperity of the American people, made possible by the protective policy. That fact ought to make him take a broader view of the tariff question that that based upon the apparent fact that he does not need tariff protection. We have had three periods of peace time abandonment of the protective policy in this country during the past thirty years. In 1894 there were bread lines, soup houses and more than two million idlemen; in 1914 bread lines, soup houses and three million idle men; in 1920 soup houses, bread lines and more than four million idle men. It is evident, of course, that no producer will continue to grow wheat that costs him 40 cents a bushel on the wrong side of the ledger. And if the American farmer were to cease growing wheat the people in the cities would be spending for bread the sums they are now able to lavish on pleasure and amusements. City dwellers have as personal an interest in the wheat market as the farmer—it is their problem as well as his—they some eventually under its influence on the impact is not so sudden or direct. Dollar wheat is an old rallying cry for agricultural America. At the beginning of the century it was a star to which the farmer, straining upward, hardly hoped some day to hitch his harvesters and reapers. In those days dollar wheat meant prosperity and plenty, a financial reward for the toll and labor spent on middle-west acres and a final home for the lucky possessor among the warm-scented breezes, the flowers and palms in the restful lotus land of southern California. Today dollar wheat is viewed by the wheat growers from Dakota to Illinois with consternation and alarm, it spells foreclosures on mortgages and, instead of eyes turns espectantly toward the Pacific coast, heels ground savagely into the sod of the prairie. It is no longer the ascent to the throne but the drop down to Gehenna. Should wheat remain at this low-water mark it will in time affect the cities and prove a back-wash in the present tide of prosperity. What is the remedy? Farm labor is high and while city wages are so attractive it is liable to remain high. Good times also produce high prices—the farmer cannot look to lowered costs for relief. As for government interference as a panacea for commercial evils, how can a lot of amateur politicians rectify economic conditions that trained experts and business men have been unable to prevent. Nobody will deny that at the present time dollar wheat is a national misfortune. Nobody wants to see the country half rejoicing and half despondent. But so complicated is the web of events that have so adversely affected the wheat market it will re- memorial will be installed of many CALIFORNIA' California crops cellently. Officials are quite few some drawbacks. But the general is re-assuring. There is this production which is some form of month of the year state. Crop provided to certain percent of some kind coe time, the w produces is well out the year. Thy. and keeps mculation at all time economic life in dwelt upon as ma deserves. There of produced assort currents of economi ning steadily. T und persistent p PEANUTS OUT We Californians particularly whe eerner, to empha crops and forget ples. The unique tention, while stai nd keep our run onomic life on a The dairy coe produces more wea forms than do all the raisin grape we take the cow forever talking raisins. J. A. Teagard rector of the C federation, told perience which ange growers They were ther ion for their fr g gentleman elbow tariff protection. The orange r frozen stare an that the orange great financial i southern man r nut crop had sa orange crop tha that an investig REVERENCE FOR THE LAW Lincoln, while president, sounded a warning for reverence for the law that applies today, as well as when it was uttered. He said: "Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well-wisher of his posterity, swear by the blood of the revolution never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country, and never to tolerate their violation by others." "Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap; let it be taught in the schools; in seminaries and in colleges; let it be written in primers, in spelling books and in almanacs; let it be preached frof the pulpits, proclaimed in legislative halls and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation; and let the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the grave and the gay of all sexes and tongue and colors and time abandonment of the protective policy in this country during the past thirty years. In 1894 there were bread lines, soup houses and more than two million idlemen; in 1914 bread lines, soup houses and three million idle men; in 1920 soup houses, bread lines and more than four million idle men. There is something the matter with the patriotism and the humanitarianism of the man who wants to bring that sort of thing on the country again merely because he cannot see any direct benefit to himself in the protective policy. Nobody will deny that at the present time dollar wheat is a national millefortune. Nobody wants to see the country half rejoicing and half despondent. But so complicated is the web of events that have so adversely affected the wheat market it will require patience and co-operation and cool business sense to put in on its feet again. Perhaps the country may learn one lesson from the fall in wheat. One thing it shows clearly is that America cannot isolate herself from the rest of the world, that disturbances in the Ruhr valley and storm clouds over the Balkans, that debased currency in foreign countries and inability of the people in Europe to purchase supplies abroad are felt in the middle west states of America and on the grain exchange of Chicago. Had conditions in Europe been normal today our grain farmers would have had a foreign market for their surplus wheat, which being thrust back no home market, depressed it for the time to a figure that looks bad to the grower of bumper crops. Yet isolationists and radicals and bitter-enders have been telling the farmers that what happens in Europe is of no concern to them and that only the "international" bankers are interested in world courts of justice or schemes to bring peace to that essential part of the trade and commerce of the civilized world. The less you know about a car the more you will know about the expenses of a car. As for government interference as a panacea for commercial evils, how can a lot of amateur politicians rectify economic conditions that trained experts and business men have been unable to prevent. Nobody will deny that at the present time dollar wheat is a national millefortune. Nobody wants to see the country half rejoicing and half despondent. But so complicated is the web of events that have so adversely affected the wheat market it will require patience and co-operation and cool business sense to put in on its feet again. Perhaps the country may learn one lesson from the fall in wheat. One thing it shows clearly is that America cannot isolate herself from the rest of the world, that disturbances in the Ruhr valley and storm clouds over the Balkans, that debased currency in foreign countries and inability of the people in Europe to purchase supplies abroad are felt in the middle west states of America and on the grain exchange of Chicago. Had conditions in Europe been normal today our grain farmers would have had a foreign market for their surplus wheat, which being thrust back no home market, depressed it for the time to a figure that looks bad to the grower of bumper crops. Yet isolationists and radicals and bitter-enders have been telling the farmers that what happens in Europe is of no concern to them and that only the "international" bankers are interested in world courts of justice or schemes to bring peace to that essential part of the trade and commerce of the civilized world. The less you know about a car the more you will know about the expenses of a car. As for government interference as a panacea for commercial evils, how can a lot of amateur politicians rectify economic conditions that trained experts and business men have been unable to prevent. Nobody will deny that at the present time dollar wheat is a national millefortune. Nobody wants to see the country half rejoicing and half despondent. But so complicated is the web of events that have so adversely affected the wheat market it will require patience and co-operation and cool business sense to put in on its feet again. Perhaps the country may learn one lesson from the fall in wheat. One thing it shows clearly is that America cannot isolate herself from the rest of the world, that disturbances in the Ruhr valley and storm clouds over the Balkans, that debased currency in foreign countries and inability of the people in Europe to purchase supplies abroad are felt in the middle west states of America and on the grain exchange of Chicago. Had conditions in Europe been normal today our grain farmers would have had a foreign market for their surplus wheat, which being thrust back no home market, depressed it for the time to a figure that looks bad to the grower of bumper crops. Yet isolationists and radicals and bitter-enders have been telling the farmers that what happens in Europe is of no concern to them and that only the "international" bankers are interested in world courts of justice or schemes to bring peace to that essential part of the trade and commerce of the civilized world. The less you know about a car the more you will know about the expenses of a car. As for government interference as a panacea for commercial evils, how can a lot of amateur politicians rectify economic conditions that trained experts and business men have been unable to prevent. Nobody will deny that at the present time dollar wheat is a national millefortune. Nobody wants to see the country half rejoicing and half despondent. But so complicated is the web of events that have so adversely affected the wheat market it will require patience and co-operation and cool business sense to put in on its feet again. Perhaps the country may learn one lesson from the fall in wheat. One thing it shows clearly is that America cannot isolate herself from the rest of the world, that disturbances in the Ruhr valley and storm clouds over the Balkans, that debased currency in foreign countries and inability of the people in Europe to purchase supplies abroad are felt in the middle west states of America and on the grain exchange of Chicago. Had conditions in Europe been normal today our grain farmers would have had a foreign market for their surplus wheat, which being thrust back no home market, depressed it for the time to a figure that looks bad to the grower of bumper crops. Yet isolationists and radicals and bitter-enders have been telling the farmers that what happens in Europe is of no concern to them and that only the "international" bankers are interested in world courts of justice or schemes to bring peace to that essential part of the trade and commerce of the civilized world. The less you know about a car the more you will know about the expenses of a car. As for government interference as a panacea for commercial evils, how can a lot of amateur politicians rectify economic conditions that trained experts and business men have been unable to prevent. Nobody will deny that at the present time dollar wheat is a national millefortune. Nobody wants to see the country half rejoicing and half despondent. But so complicated is the web of events that have so adversely affected the wheat market it will require patience and co-operation and cool business sense to put in on its feet again. Perhaps the country may learn one lesson from the fall in wheat. One thing it shows clearly is that America cannot isolate herself from the rest of the world, that disturbances in the Ruhr valley and storm clouds over the Balkans, that debased currency in foreign countries and inability of the people in Europe to purchase supplies abroad are felt in the middle west states of America and on the grain exchange of Chicago. Had conditions in Europe been normal today our grain farmers would have had a foreign market for their surplus wheat, which being thrust back no home market, depressed it for the time to a figure that looks bad to the grower of bumper crops. Yet isolationists and radicals and bitter-enders have been telling the farmers that what happens in Europe is of no concern to them and that only the "international" bankers are interested in world courts of justice or schemes to bring peace to that essential part of the trade and commerce of the civilized world. The less you know about a car the more you will know about the expenses of a car. As for government interference as a panacea for commercial evils, how can a lot of amateur politicians rectify economic conditions that trained experts and business men have been unable to prevent. Nobody will deny that at the present time dollar wheat is a national millefortune. Nobody wants to see the country half rejoicing and half despondent. But so complicated is the web of events that have so adversely affected the wheat market it will require patience and co-operation and cool business sense to put in on its feet again. Perhaps the country may learn one lesson from the fall in wheat. One thing it shows clearly is that America cannot isolate herself from the rest of the world, that disturbances in the Ruhr valley and storm clouds over the Balkans, that debased currency in foreign countries and inability of the people in Europe to purchase supplies abroad are felt in the middle west states of America and on the grain exchange of Chicago. Had conditions in Europe been normal today our grain farmers would have had a foreign market for their surplus wheat, which being thrust back no home market, depressed it for the time to a figure that looks bad to the grower of bumper crops. Yet isolationists and radicals and bitter-enders have been tellingthe farmers that what happens in Europe is of no concern to them and that onlythe "international" bankers are interested in world courts of justice or schemes to bring peace tothat essential partofthetradeandcommerceofthecivilizedworld. The less you know about a carthe moreyouwillknowabouttheexpensesofacar. A FITTING MEMORIAL The act of a pioneer family of Humboldt county in deeding to the state a valuable tract of primeval redwood forest to stand as a memorial to Humbolt it county's ploneers is indeed appropriate. Mrs. Zipporah Russ, who herself crossed the plains in 1853, was given 166 acres of wonderful timber land on the state highway near Orick, California, in memory of her husband, Joseph Russ, a ploneer of 1852, and also as a memorial to all the ploneers of Humboldt county. The grove will be known as the Humboldt County Ploneer Memorial and will be dedicated to use as a public park. These giant trees, the Sequoia sempervirens, redwoods, were ages old when California's first ploneers arrived. Some of the very trees now standing in the Russ Memorial Grova were practically as they are today in size and girth when Columbus discovered America, and when Sir Francis Drake sighted the shores of California. Some of these trees were saplings at the time of the birth of Christ. The gift of this grove comes as the result of the work of the Save the Redwoods League, which for several years past has been active in securing through state, county and private aid the preservation of an adequate tract of our primeval redwood forest, one of the unique and priceless possessions of California. It is to be hoped that the example set by this pioneer memorial will be followed in the establishment of many such public groves. CALIFORNIA'S CROPS THRIVE California crops are coming on excellently. Official reports of conditions are quite favorable. There are some drawbacks in some productions. But the general aspect of the reports is re-assuring. There is this about California soil productions which is notable. There ing numbers of big papers falling into group ownership. The country press and the small city dallies still reach over 60 per cent of the population of our country and its strength is in being read in the homes of the people. DETERRENTS TO CRIME Possibly no subject is of more vital popular interest in American cities at this time than that of the prevention and punishment of crime. There is a firm, popular conviction, largely supported by statistics, that since the world war there has been a decided increase in certain classes of crime and especially in the number of murders committed. This drift or trend of criminality strangely enough has occurred despite the increased enactment of prohibition law in the various states of the union, culminating finally in nation-wide prohibition. Statistics bear out the assertion that certain classes of petty crimes over which our police departments have jurisdiction show a decided decrease. No convincing evidence has been produced showing that increase in murder has any logical relation to the progress of prohibition. Rather do the facts point to murders' increase, notwithstanding the outlawry of the liquor traffic, and from causes quite independent thereof, although it cannot be denied that in no inconsiderable number of cases murder has resulted from drinking of the miserable poison substitutes for whiskey which have at times dethroned reason and robbed otherwise sane men of the last vestige of moral and mental responsibility. In a recent number of the Outlook of New York is a very striking interview with Major Lawes, for more than three years warden of Sing Sing prison. Incidentally it may be remarked that the average tenure of office of Sing Sing's wardens has been a little ONE THING HE WILL DO There has been considerable conjecture as to what Calvin Coolidge will do in the presidency. He has been described as a man with a mind open to careful deliberation and not inclined to impulsiveness on forming a decision, but, once the decision is made, he pursues his course with a grim determination. This was notably demonstrated by Mr. Coolidge's course in the Boston police strike when he was governor of Massachusetts. At that time he made the following utterance: "Where the law goes, there civilization goes and stays. When the law fails barbarism flourishes. Whoever scouts the law, who ever brings it into disrespect, whoever connives at its evasion is an enemy to civilization. Change it if you will—that is, to abide by it—but observe it always. That is government. And government is no less government because it is self-imposed." So, while fears are expressed in some quarters that President Coolidge will do this thing or that, there need be no fear or speculation as to his obeying, enforcing the laws and incultating a salutary respect for them. A president, of course, is obliged to do that. But Calvin Coolidge can be depended upon to do it thoroughly. Lawbreakers and near-law-breakers will do well to keep in mind the famous utterance here quoted. FERTILIZER FROM COKE One of the incidental results of using an increasing amount of mechanical power on the farm in place of the draft animals has been a reduction in the amount of natural fertilizer which has been available from stables and barnyards. It is interesting, therefore, to find that one of the largest manufacturers of motor cars and farm tractors has discovered a way to make CALIFORNIA'S CROPS THRIVE California crops are coming on excellently. Official reports of conditions are quite favorable. There are some drawbacks in some productions. But the general aspect of the reports is re-assuring. There is this about California soil productions which is notable. There is some form of crop yield in every month of the year, in some part of the state. Crop productions are not limited to certain periods. With products of some kind coming into market all the time, the wealth which the soil produces is well distributed throughout the year. This equalizes prosperity and keeps money in healthful circulation at all times. This feature of economic life in California is not dwelt upon as much as its importance deserves. There is a constant turn of produced assets here, so that the currents of economic activity are running steadily. This promotes general and persistent prosperity. PEANUTS OUTVALUE ORANGES We Californians are a little inclined, particularly when talking to an easterner, to emphasize our spectacular crops and forget the less pompous staples. The unique is given special attention, while staple industries plod on and keep our rural and community economic life on a solid foundation. The dairy cow, for instance, produces more wealth in a year in California than do all the orange trees and the raisin grape vines combined. Yet we take the cow for granted and are forever talking about the oranges and raisins. J. A. Teagarden, of Auburn, a director of the California farm bureau federation, told me of an amusing experience which certain California orange growers had at Washington. They were there to see tariff protection for their fruit. A meek southern gentleman elbowed in and asked for tariff protection for peanuts. The orange growers gave him the frozen stare and pointedly remarked that the orange industry was one of great financial importance. The meek southern man responded that the peanut crop had sold for more than the orange crop that year. Teagarden says that an investigation proved the south-ber of cases murder has resulted from drinking of the miserable poison substitutes for whiskey which have at times dethroned reason and robbed otherwise sane men of the last vestige of moral and mental responsibility. In a recent number of the Outlook of New York is a very striking interview with Major Lawes, for more than three years warden of Sing Sing prison. Incidentally it may be remarked that the average tenure of office of Sing Sing's wardens has been a little less than 11 months. Warden Lawes' fundamental conclusion is that 'crime is a social disease with roots deeper than such as could be cured or prevented by punishment.' It is interesting to note that the Sing Sing warden vigorously favors the abolition of the death penalty as a demonstrated failure as a corrective or preventive, yet he directs more executions per annum than any single individual in the country. He bases his conclusions on statistics in a grouping of states, showing that the homicide rate in death penalty states is greater than in states where it does not exist, and shows that in Oregon, Washington and other states where the death penalty has been revived after a period sufficiently long to fairly test the efficacy of the two systems the loigc ofthe figures is apparently against the death penalty. The increased number of murders in both Washington and Oregon since the revival of the death penalty, as compared with the six-year period in each state when executions were wholly suspended by law, tends to shake the faith of those who restored the death penalty in the hope of preventing murder in those states. It would seem that there never has been a time when the logic of statistics was so confusing in a thousand directions as it is today. This appears to be no exception. The currents and cross currents of human motive and action lead the investigator into a maze of tangled conclusions. It is more and more the conviction of students of crime that the lowering of the standards in the practice of law resulting in the near break-down of the machinery of our criminal jurisprudence has more to do with the prevalence of crime than our courts like to admit or our bar associations concede. Perhaps the warden of Sing Sing does right in pointing students of criminology to the slow process, but creates offenses without regard to spiritual conditions. FERTILIZER FROM COKE One of the incidental results of using an increasing amount of mechanical power on the farm in place of the draft animals has been a reduction in the amount of natural fertilizer which has been available from stables and barnyards. It is interesting, therefore, to find that one of the largest manufacturers of motor cars and farm tractors, has discovered a way to make fertilizer as a by-product of his plants. The fertilizer is sulphate of ammonia and is a by-product of the Ford coke ovens on the River Rouge in Detroit. Ammonium sulphate is a white crystalline substance and is a source of valuable nitrogen for stimulating plant growth. HAS MORE SOLDIERS Europe has 607,786 more fighting men under arms now than in 1913, the year before the world war, despite a reduction of 696,135 men in the standing armies of Germany, Hungary and Bulgaria. The standing armies of Europe in 1913 totaled 3,747,179 men. Now the number is 4,354,965. Standing armies of the three great European powers, Great Britain, France and Italy, today number 1,039,047 men, and those of the remaining states of Europe 3 255,918. The increase is in the small countries which have adopted the policy of maintaining large bodies of armed men. Consequently the burden of taxation falls mare heavily upon the people of these new states since they have obtained their freedom, than it did when they were under the rule of the czar, the kaiser, and the Austrian emperor. An automobile speeder leads a fast life. They were there to see tariff protection for their fruit. A meek southern gentleman elbowed in and asked for tariff protection for peanuts. The orange growers gave him the frozen stare and pointedly remarked that the orange industry was one of great financial importance. The meek southern man responded that the peanut crop had sold for more than the orange crop that year. Teagarden says that an investigation proved the southern's statement was correct. SUBSTITUTE FOR GOLD The Swedish cheap jewelry alloy called "Dizigold" is claimed to combine to color and luster of gold with the hardiness and durability of steel, also to have great resistance to the actions of acids and alklies. It seems to be an aluminum bronze with copper in varying proportions up to 90 per cent. It is stated to be a good substitute for German silver, which contains considerable nickel as well as copper, with small amounts of aluminium and zinc. MENACE OF CHAIN JOURNALISM The people should not be blinded to the menace of multiple ownership of newspapers, or what might be called chain-store journalism. This is fraught with evil to the nation, when taken into consideration with the trend to consolidation or absorption of weaker big city dailies. It makes the independently owned newspapers of the utmost importance in maintaining sound policies for state and nation. A democracy dependent upon sound and unbiased information of its members may look with disfay upon growth. It is more and more the conviction of students of crime that the lowering of the standards in the practice of law resulting in the near break-down of the machinery of our criminal jurisprudence has more to do with the prevalence of crime than our courts like to admit or our bar associations concede. Perhaps the warden of Sing Sing does right in pointing students of criminology to the slow process, but greater efficacy of spiritual conditions, not only as applied to possible murders, but all the rest of us as well. SUIT TO TEST ACT That the question of the right of the state to take private property into a state game refuge will be tested in a court action, in this county, within the next two or three weeks seems likely. At the last legislature an effort was made to put through a bill changing the lines of the state refuge in the Trabuco division of the Cleveland national forest. The private property that would have been concerned in the change is that belonging to County Treasurer J. C. Joplin. The bill was fought by the Orange County Game Protective association, which objected to any reduction of the area of the refuge. A measure that was put through the legislature failed to get the boundaries of the governor's signature, and the boundaries of the refuge remain today the same as they did before the legislature met. County Treasurer Joplin, however, feels that his property ought not be retained in the refuge, and he proposes to have the matter settled. It was stated that Joplin expects to institute a court action in relation to the case. THE WILL DO considerable concern Calvin Coolidge agency. He has been with a mind open and not inclined on forming a decision is made, despite with a grim demonstration by the in the Boston powas governor of that time he made sense: does, there civilizasies. When the law arrives. Whoever ever brings it into its army to civilization—that is, to abide it always. That is government is no cause it is self-impressed in President Coolidge for that, there need consultation as to his laws and incul­sion for them. A law-breakers will do all the famous utterFROM COKE mental results of us-amount of mechani­farm in place of the seen a reduction in mineral fertilizer which from stables and interesting, therefore, the largest manu­cars and farm trac­d a way to make CARELESSNESS EXACTS HEAVc FOREST FIRE TOLL Over 7 per cent of the 610 fires that that have occurred up to August 20, this year in the national forests of California were man-caused, according to the United States forest service. These fires burned over 72,000 acres of government land, and 34,000 acres of private property within and adjacent to the federal forest. Out of a total of 124 fires in the Angeles, Santa Barbara and Cleveland national forests of southern California, all but six were due to human carelessness, largely that of smokers, campers and sportsmen. Fires on the Santa Barbara national forest, set by the carelessness of campers not by incendiaries, have burned over 60,000 acres of chaparral and timber covered mountain slopes, which were of inestimable value for watershed protection purposes. Seventy-four convictions for carelessness with fire in the woods have been secured by the forest service to date; the fines ranging from $50 to $500, jail sentences in some of the more flagrant cases. WORLD'S TIMBER SUPPLY IS STEADILY DWINDLING The growth of timber in the world is only two-thirds of the amount consumed. The United States uses half of the timber cut, yet has less than one-tenth of the forest land area of the globe. Soft woods, such as pines, firs and spruces comprise three-fourths of all the timber used. Tropical forests, although vast in extent, contribute very little as yet to the world's needs. World cofmerce lntime, the bulk of which comes from northern Europe and North America, amounts annually to $650,000,000 on the basis of pre-war values. The timber supply of the world is steadily dwindling, while the demand is constantly increasing. These factors about A DESERTED HOUSE Where is the joy, the laughter and the mirth That once these walls, now crumbling ruins, held? Fled, long since fled down scattered ways or earth; One with the dust by vagrant winds dispelled. Where are the feet that trod so lightly here, The careless spoken words, the dreams unsaid? Naught, naught remains of that forgotten cheer; Silence, the halls re-echo to no tread; What tales of love, of romance, might unfold If walls had lips, or windows were not dumb. We may not know; they jealously withhold All that has been from those who go and come— Save where we find among the rubbish cast A child's broken toy, to link us with the past. OVERORGANIZED Still another organization has been formed to combat the Ku Klux Klan. This using one league to fight another is becoming a national sport, but results in a lot of waste and lost motion. There are at least three official groups now after the Klan and it shouldn't be necessary to have any. When the Klan takes the law into its own hands call in the police. If that is not enough ring in the United States army. To organize a brigade of pajamas to fight a battalion of nightshirts seems foolish. As a nation we are overorganized. That is, we have organizations that overlap and duplicate. Theer are too many persons making a living out of the organization industry. It would FROM COKE mountal' results of usmount of mechaniform in place of the seen a reduction in mental fertilizer which from stables and interesting, therefore, the largest manucars and farm tracd a way to make product of his plants. alphate of ammonia of the Ford coke Rouge in Detroit. He is a white crysand is a source of for stimulating SOLDIERS 86 more fighting now than in 1913, world war, despite 135 men in the Germany, Hungary the standing armies totaled 3,747,179 number is 4,354,965. In the three great Euest Britain, France number 1,039,047 men, remaining states of The increase is in which have adoptmaintaining large boConsequently the falls mare heavily of these new states obtained their freewhen they were unname czar, the kaiser, emperor. speeder leads a fast globe. Soft woods, such as pines, firs and spruces comprise three-fourths of all the timber used. Tropical forests, although vast in extent, contribute very little as yet to the world's needs. World cofmerce lntime, the bulk of which comes from northern Europe and North America, amounts annually to $650,000,000 on the basis of pre-war values. The timber supply of the world is steadily dwindling, while the demand is constantly increasing. These any man yother interesting facts about forests and timber requirements are set forth in a new book on the "Forest Resources of the World," by Raphael Zon and William N. Sparhawk, of the United States forest service. The work, which is in two volumes, contains 1000 pages with 16 colored maps; and is published by a leading New York book company. JULY CUSTOMS DUTIES Customs receipts for the month of July totaled about $43,000,000, as compared with $50,000,000 in June and $37,500,000 in July, 1922. July, however, is not a good month for customs duties, sugar imports, for one thing falling off during this month. It is a seasonal commodity. It is stated that the duty collections on sugar during the second half of July dropped $2,000,000 compared with the first half, while at some of the border ports where no sugar is entered collections showed an increase over June. Wool imports also declined. The foreign price of wool is for the time being on the climb, so much so that stocks held in bonded warehouses in this country have been withdrawn and shipped abroad seeking the higher-priced markets. The proponents of free wool will have a hard time trying to blame this to the tariff. There are at least three official groups now after the Klan and it shouldn't be necessary to have any. When the Klan takes the law into its own hands call in the police. If that is not enough ring in the United States army. To organize a brigade of pajamas to fight a battalion of nightshirts seems foolish. As a nation we are overorganized. That is. we have organizations that overlap and duplicate. Thee are too many persons making a living out of the organization industry. It would be better for the country if they were laying brick. FREEDOM INVIOLATE "America first" had no stronger appeal for Mr. Harding than it has for President Coolidge. Like his predecessor, the president wants his country to contribute as effectively as may be toward a better world understanding, but not at the sacrifice of any of our American spirit, influence, or freedom. A few days before the Armistice Mr. Coolidge clearly set forth his views on that matter in a public address at Boston. "We are discussing a league of nations," he said. "Such a league, if formed, is not for the purpose, must not be for the purpose, of diminishing the spirit or influence of our nation, but to make that spirit and influence more real and more effective. Believing in our nation thoroughly and unreservedly, confident that the evidence of the past and present justifies that belief, it is our one desire to make America more American. There is no greater service that we can render than to maintain inviolate the freedom of our own citizens." There is a time and a place for everything—except grouchiness and a grouch. 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