anaheim-gazette 1924-03-27

Men and women of all political parties will surely feel a certain preliminary and indignant resentment at the action of the Senate committee in making public two private telegrams from the President of the United States. They appear to be absolutely irrelevant to the inquiry in hand. The only possible pertinence would lie in an attempt to break down the previous testimony of the President's private secretary, Mr. Slemp. But all this could have been taken care of in the discretion of the members of the Senate committee. They have exercised that discretion in other cases. When the telegrams and letters that passed between Senator Walsh and Mr. Doheny were first laid before the committee, it was decided that they were irrelevant to the matter under consideration and were kept off the record. Later they were forced out by gossip about them. It certainly would seem that the Senate committee might have been as careful to protect the President from malicious rumor as it had shown itself to be with a senator. The committee could have got as well beforehand as afterward the statement from the White House showing exactly the nature of the two telegrams to Mr. upon somebody. This can not be attained by spattering suspicion upon everybody. The day will come when there must be prosecutions, civil or criminal, and then all the masses of hearsay and irrelevance to which the Senate committee has lent a credulous ear will drop away from the case as a mere obstruction to the ends of substantial justice. BUILDING MATERIALS TESTED BY JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE Considerable discussion and no small amount of enlightenment as to what kind of building construction best withstands extraordinary shock, was brought out by the recent earthquake disaster in Japan. Fortunately there is little room for argument on any side, with the unmistakable results of the quake plainly apparent in the devastated area. The facts of the catastrophe are significant enough to require little comment. In the city of Tokyo, seventy-one percent of all buildings were completely destroyed by earthquake or fire. The balance includes many steel frame structures recently erected upon new-found principles, and two reinforced concrete buildings, the only ones of their kind to survive. These latter were the Russo-Asiatic Bank, and the Imperial Hotel. This almost complete failure to reinforce concrete construction was a great surprise to many. The important surviving buildings were of steel frame construction, some with common brick curtain walls and terra cotta trimming, others faced with terra cotta and backed with common brick. These structures suffered little damage beyond a slight falling away, or cracking, of a few feet of brick and terra cotta. Mr. Robert W. Tempest, prominent cided that they were irrelevant to the matter under consideration and were kept off the record. Later they were forced out by gossip about them. It certainly would seem that the Senate committee might have been as careful to protect the President from malicious rumor as it had shown itself to be with a senator. The committee could have got as well beforehand as afterward the statement from the White House showing exactly the nature of the two telegrams to Mr. McLean and establishing the fact that they had nothing whatever to do with the oil scandals. It is humiliating to think that we have come to the point where every idle tale and gratuitous suspicion about the President of the United States must be given resounding publicity. However, there is now no help for it. The net of the Senate committee has been flung far and wide and everything caught in it must be pawed over by the public. Fortunately, no one will be so foolish as to accuse Mr. Coolidge of any complicity in the effort of Mr. McLean and ex-Secretary Fall to deceive the Senate committee and to be foolish the public. The President's immediate and frank explanation of the McLean telegrams is such as to lay every doubt. Until his exposure came, Mr. McLean had been known as a prominent citizen of Washington, who had had the strongest kind of personal, social and political endorsement from President Harding. He was entitled to be consulted, as he had frequently been before, in the matter of selecting a commissioner for the District of Columbia. And if the President of the United States is to be brought into question for every routine telegram he sends acknowledging congratulations on a speech or a public statement, who could escape? The thing is petty beyond words. The dragnet method of investigation is objectionable for other reasons than the personal injustice it often does. It tends to confuse the public mind. People forget what the inquiry is all about. So many bypasses and blind alleys are run into that the main trail is lost. The very investigators themselves are thrown off the track. So long as they think that every fresh batch of evidence, no matter how irrelevant or immaterial, must be bruited abroad, they are in danger of losing sight of the goal which they set out to reach. It is true that senators declare that they are merely "laying the foundations" almost complete failure to reinforced concrete construction was a great surprise to many. The important surviving buildings were of steel frame construction, some with common brick curtain walls and terra cotta trimming, others faced with terra cotta and backed with common brick. These structures suffered little damage beyond a slight falling away, or cracking, of a few feet of brick and terra cotta. Mr. Robert W. Tempest, prominent consulting engineer of San Francisco, after an exhaustive study of the earthquake results in Japan, has lectured and shown his photographs and motion picture films of the quake zone in many cities on the Coast. In an article on the subject in the Pacific Coast Architect for February, 1924, Mr. Tempest writes: "It would seem that more genuine unprejudiced thought should be exercised by architects and engineers in developing details of design which would overcome to a large extent the mistakes of the past. The great wrong that is being committed in building operations is the tendency on the part of the engineers and architects to allow themselves to be led into competition to evolve the cheapest and largest structure possible for the least amount of money. "This policy has developed into a pronounced trend of thought upon the part of the building public toward cheapness, and is in marked contrast to the fixed policy of our largest corporations and our own Government, who invest millions in buildings with the idea uppermost that the structure must be so designed that its recoverable value is greatest in disaster of any kind." "Examples of this may be found in San Francisco. The Southern Pacific Railroads Company's office building has steel frame and brick curtain walls. The Standard Oil Building is another example of an investment made secure by proper construction. "Living in an earthquake belt, as we do, bankers, insurance companies, and owners will sooner or later arise at the conviction that steel frame construction properly engineered has been demonstrated to be the most permanent investment, as against the so-called monolithic types that, to some extent, are in a stage of experimentation." The Japanese earthquake proved to be the most severe test of building materials that has ever been made by the forces of Nature. Throughout the entire zone razed by temblor and fire. The Congress surplus war construction of several states worked out to more than trucks, tractors, machine guns other instruments; construction, area in the several policy of Commerce building by this nation as well as Proponents present Federal Government states to make for road build runner of the Government wander forever most item of national cooperation but an intention to take action to take over 100,000 to 200 south and east. It is contention idea in Congress give valuable build roads, and to the states there is neither or political reason can not give trunk line system nationally blind in a closer broth unity and prebody politic. COORDINATE The high cost american ships like reason why we bring a merchant terests in some nations, parts and Germany, for many years for their ships of the transportation have been new. One of the up trade for public mind. People forget what the inquiry is all about. So many by-paths and blind alleys are run into that the main trail is lost. The very investigators themselves are thrown off the track. So long as they think that every fresh batch of evidence, no matter how irrelevant or immaterial, must be brushed abroad, they are in danger of losing sight of the goal which they set out to reach. It is true that senators declare that they are merely "laying the foundations" for an orderly and pertinent taking of testimony later, but in the meantime they get their own minds so clogged up with matter that is allen that they are in peril of losing the power to think straight. We can but hope that there will soon be an end to all these diversions from the main points at issue. There are trained lawyers on the Senate committee. The fact that they are also politicians ought not to be permitted indefinitely to get the better of their legal instinct. They know what it is worth in a trial to have a clear issue joined and to rule out every form of evidence, no matter how pliant or salacious in itself, that does not strictly bear upon the case. A certain amount of laxity of procedure is inevitable in any hearing before a congressional committee. The rules of evidence have to bend more or less to the rules of party politics. But there must be an end to this sort of thing some time. The senators may have to go back and read the resolution by which their investigation was authorized. That might be a wholesome reminder to them how far afield they have wandered. If they are ever to get definite results, they will have to make their search into the facts definite and percise. The original aim was to fasten guilt and owners will sooner or later arrive at the conviction that steel frame construction properly engineered has been demonstrated to be the most permanent investment, as against the so-called monolithic types that, to some extent, are in a stage of experimentation." The Japanese earthquake proved to be the most severe test of building materials that has ever been made by the forces of Nature. Throughout the entire zone razed by temblor and fire, brick proved the outstanding building material success, both in steel frame structures and in residences and other buildings. In every case it verified its claims as a superior building material for practically all construction purposes. HEAVY IRRIGATION IS A DETRIMENT Farm Advisor Wahlberg Gives Some Pertinent Figures One of the most important findings disclosed by the recent citrus survey conducted by the Citrus Experiment Station and the Agricultural Extension Service, represented in this county by the Farm Advisor, is that of the irrigation practices which resulted in the highest yields. According to this survey it is revealed that under coastal influences; found in Orange County that the highest yields of oranges and lemons were brought about by the use of 14 to 18 acre inches of water applied at intervals varying from 34 to 41 days. The survey divided the groves which were visited into five different groups, according to the amount of water used during the season, as follows: 1. Light, under 14 acre inches. 2. Moderate, 14 to 17.9 acre inches. One of the things new business steamship plans under United States automobile lump sum with portation of troops duties, all the tours auto to the dock on this piece of American tour and most of line. In this concluding highways and national park the drift of reason why we ing a merchant terests in some nations, parts and Germany, for many years for their ships of the transportation have been new. One of the up trade for a term of persistence under which his sum for his of the expenses him free fromibility in coef of hotels, guides, etc. not developed as have British consequence, business they. ANAHEIM GAZETTE 3. Average, 18 to 21.9 acre inches. 4. Heavy, 22 to 25.9 acre inches. 5. Very heavy, 26 and over. The yields for oranges and lemons for these various groups are: Oranges Lemons Light ...18,900 lbs. 23,900 lbs. Moderate ...20,500 lbs. 26,600 lbs. Average ...20,100 lbs. 25,600 lbs. Heavy ...19,900 lbs. 25,500 lbs. Very heavy ...19,500 lbs. 24,700 lbs. It will be seen by referring back to these figures that the moderate user of water obtained the highest yields, both in oranges and lemons. In other words, the grower who used less than the average amount of water used by the average grower during the past five years, which was the period covered by the survey, was the grower who produced the highest yields in Orange county. It must be borne in mind that these results represent average practice and will not necessarily constitute the best practice for all types of soil. Analysis of the data accumulated in the survey furnishes much food for thought, as it concerns particularly the grower on the heavier soils. A detailed summary of the findings of this survey is being published as a bulletin of the California experiment station and is on the way to the press at the present time. Copies of this bulletin will be available through the farm advisor's office in about two months. SURPLUS WAR MATERIAL NOW BUILDING ROADS The Congressional enactment that surplus war material, useful in the construction of roads, be given to the several states for that purpose, has worked out to such good effect that more than $300,000,000 worth of trucks, tractors, shovels, graders, dig- From the exhibition of foreign enterprise America must learn a lesson. We must find means of coordinating all of our shipping, producing and trading enterprises so that they will work to gether for the upbuilding of each and all. We must proceed vigorously with our plan of highway improvement so that tourists will have the least possible incentive to leave the United States in order to find the recreation and amusement they seek. CHARLES A.BOEGE INCUMBENT Candidate for City Treasurer Election Monday, Apr. 24, 1924 SURPLUS WAR MATERIAL NOW BUILDING ROADS The Congressional enactment that surplus war material, useful in the construction of roads, be given to the several states for that purpose, has worked out to such good effect that more than $300,000,000 worth of trucks, tractors, shevels, graders, digging machinery, concrete mixers, and other instruments useful in road construction, are now actively at work in the several states carrying out the policy of Congress to further road building by the resources of the Nation as well as those of the states. Proponents of the idea that the present Federal Aid plan, by which the Government gives money to the states to match their appropriations for road building, is but the forerunner of the day when the National Government will build, own, control and forever maintain a back-bone system of national highways, find in this cooperation of the National Government but another reason for the Nation to take another ramitre 2koo tion to take over the building of from 100,000 to 200,000 main north and south and east and west highways. It is contended by friends of this idea in Congress that if the Nation can give valuable property to the states to build roads, and give national money to the states to help them build roads, there is neither moral, legal, economic or political reason why the Nation can not give the whole cost of a main trunk line system to the states, thus nationally binding the states together in a closer brotherhood for the better unity and preservation of the whole body politic. 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