anaheim-gazette 1924-03-27

MUD-GUNNERS OF THE SENATE There will come a day when Washington will recover its now lost sanity. When that day comes, the Senate of the United States will wish it might blot from its records all traces of Thursday, March 6, 1924. On that day it sank to a new low level in its history. For weeks its mud guns have belched and splashed. What once was a great deliberative body has been sounding to the partison yelpings of little men and the snaps and snarls of character assassins. They have made charges under the protection of the Senate they would not dare utter as man to man. They have made the oil investigation the excuse for an orgy of partisan denunciation the like of which had never been seen in the Senate and hardly anywhere else in America. The country has looked on in a growing amazement. The public has been shocked and finally disgusted by this brazen exhibition of poison-tongued partisanship, pure malice and twittering hysteria. Thursday capped the climax. That day two private telegrams from the President of the United States were read into the record of one of many senatorial inquiries. This was done in the hearing of the same Senator Walsh, chief inquisitor of that committee, who had taken exceedingly great pains to see that certain telegrams and letters exchanged between himself and E. L. Doheny were "explained" before they were spread upon the records. Walsh and his committee took no such pains with the White House messages. It would have been easy for the investigators to establish the irrelevancy of these messages before they were made public with a round flourish. They chose Let there be an end to the savage, unfair and partisan tactics that are disgracing a once great body. The country is weary of it. It is beginning to be weary of you. You rant and pose and talk too much. Get back to your original investigations and hold to them. Quit trying to make political capital of everything you touch. Your attempts to smear the White House with oil will react upon you. Nobody is going to believe on the word of a cross-road politician that President Coolidge got any oil money, is protecting anybody who did or that he is tainted by this black thing that stalks in Washington. Gentlemen of the Senate, be good enough, for your own sake, to put your political mountebanks, your partisan clowns and your God-forsakers back in their places! You are gambling with your own reputations and dicing with the good repute of the Senate. WHY CALIFORNIA GROWS The wealth of California has almost doubled in eleven years. That of Los Angeles county has more than doubled in that space of time, and if an accurate count of population could be made for purposes of comparison it would be shown, undoubtedly, that in number of inhabitants there had also been a doubling process between 1812 and 1923. California grows because it attracts every desirable class of residents. It is the favorite playground of tourists. Its agricultural products are diversified beyond description, with new crops every year. Its mineral output is prodigious. It produces more gold than in the days of 49, and the value of its soil is greater than its gold of a dozen years. The state is still in its infancy as a manufacturing center; yet in 1923 it had nearly a half-generally admitted of the United States 84 years since its have been no other it. But unless this its holding and government of Wilkes to find itself involved over its control, British are fitting south seas explorers visit the territory and ing claims. Great Britian is key potential value of that part of the world as July of last year order of the King in ing the Ross Sea sea arctic Continent a B under the jurisdiction land on the east, and is based on discover British Captain Ross same year as the V It is reported that tor yielded $4,000,000 venues to New Zealand $9,000,000. In 1917 tended ther dominating the Falkland Isl which now governs tween 20 and 50 deg latitude. Both of these extend all the way ther Let us act before ferers the same fate other discoveries plorers. In 1813 Carer of the United States ered and claimed ther lands. The discovery perly followed up. French took over ther have remained in since. In 1821 Capt mer, an American to Palmer Land, but ther was again negligent tory now is included Walsh, chief inquisitor of that committee, who had taken exceedingly great pains to see that certain telegrams and letters exchanged between himself and E. L. Doheny were "explained" before they were spread upon the records. Walsh and his committee took no such pains with the White House messages. It would have been easy for the investigators to establish the irrelevance of these messages before they were made public with a round flourish. They chose to do nothing of the kind. Did these White House messages relate in any way to the oil scandal? They did not. Was there anything overt in them? If so, it does not appear. They were, in fact, such messages as are sent as a matter of official routine and ordinary courtesy by any man in public life. The White House explanations of both were adequate and clear. But they did not convince the narrow and hate-filled minds of some Senators. Hardly were they in the record before the fifth-batteries of the Senate manned by the Three Mad Gunners—Harrison, of Mississippi; Caraway, of Arkansas, and Heflin, of Alabama—went into action. Senate rifle pits spat venom. The drum-fire of Senate innuendo was laid down upon the White House. Not a man of them all had a scrap of evidence. No matter, they made hearsay, rumor and suspicion serve, and for hours they mouthed venomous insinuations and bespattered the name of the President of the United States with sinister implications. In all the Senate only one man had the courage to stand against them. Senator Lodge has known the Senate in its greater days. When he rose and made dignified protest against these savage innuendoes and fleering vilification, the rabid pack turned on him as wolves wheel and snap. They would not be cheated of their daily hour of hate. As they turned to a new victim, whatever is left of the decoy, political fairness and honor of the Senate sat mute as so many dumb, cowed and driven cattle. When the Senate was the Senate, there were men who would have risen and read these whirling derivishes from Dixie a lesson in elementary decency. Where are they now, those oldr Democrats and Republicans? Where were the saner, fairer Demo-older Democrats and Republicans? Bruce Simmons and Ralston? Do they condone such exhibitions? Where was the courage of those Republicans who sat silent and shiver-tween 1812 and 1923. California grows because it attracts every desirable class of residents. It is the favorite playground of tourists. Its agricultural products are diversified beyond description, with new crops every year. Its mineral output is prodigious. It produces more gold than in the days of 49, and the value of its soil is greater than its gold of a dozen years. The state is still in its infancy as a manufacturing center; yet in 1923 it had nearly a half-billion dollars invested in such plants, a gain of 99 per cent in the eleven year period. On January 1, 1923, the estimated wealth of the state was more than $15,000,000,000. The figures are from the federal Department of Commerce. People and money are pouring into California at the present time in larger volume than ever before. Eastern capital is being invested here, not only in public bond issues, but in private enterprises, in industrial ventures, in buildings, in many other channels of activity and security. California's one problem is to find work for eastern people and eastern funds. Both are ready to come; are coming, in fact. Each city and each county should have a definite program of development, that it may lay before the inquiry a dependable and complete statement of conditions and opportunities; nor should this detail be left to irresponsible and designing persons. Chambers of commerce, newspapers, boards of supervisors, common councils, and other recognized civic agencies have duties and privileges in these various particulars. Worth enterprises, such as Boulder dam, should be furthered. Unworthy enterprises, such as selling questionable stocks and land of doubtful value, should be frowned upon. The westwaord migration of resourceless families should also be discouraged. The state can care for a certain increase in number of workers each year, but there must be a nice balancing of supply and demand, or hardship will result. Both state and people will profit most if caution is exercised in this particular. Legitimate development is quite good enough for California, and will cause the state to grow, healthfully and consistently, and yet with continued rapidity. FOR WILKES LAND: EFFECTIVE POSSESSION The man who is revered tomorrow at Bell and his telegraph his electric light, and his crazy flying macbrothers were derided of X-Rays were rife "radio delusion" broad amusement. But not now. It is as impossible now what the road to be, as it was imminent say, five years ago broadcast of today we. An inventor wants tal in making a road will cost, if built, no several hundreds of lars per mile. Road The public laughs. Why pay three hundrs a mile for road get them for a few Twenty years aging twenty-five thousand miles for road was true. This steel idea mottens it hasn't been tried. erical in the extro- know. But we do k at it because its di- to prove it idiotic people laughed at tional highways. When the Senate was the Senate, there were men who would have risen and read these whirling derivishes from Dixie a lesson in elementary decency. Where are they now, those oldr Democrats and Republicans? Where were the saner, fairer Demo-older Democrats and Republicans? Bruce Simmons and Ralston? Do they condone such exhibitions? Where was the courage of those Republicans who sat silent and shivering, leaving the white-haired Lodge to stand alone and fight alone? Where, for instance, were Curtis, Watson, David Reed, Moses, Pepper and Willis? Where was Pepper, paladin of fair play, and Borah, the pure of heart? The situation in the Senate has come to be impossible. The upper house has worked itself into a frenzy. It has made itself the home of arsenic squads who poison reputations and of well-polisoners who destroy character. Weeks ago it wandered afar from the main and principal aims of its investigations. It is now the haunt of political gun-men. If these are the breed of Senators that popular vote sends to Washington, then it was an evil day for the Nation when it approved the Seventeenth Amendment. Disgust with Senate tactics is rising to a danger mark. The people of this country are fair-minded and believe in fair play. They are now realizing that the Senate's actions are the very pith and essence of pettiness. There is actual danger of a backfire of national disgust that will discredit all investigations and all investigators. A wearied and resentful people is about ready to cry out to both parties, "A plague on both your houses!" Gentlemen of the Senate, you will do well to get back to your work! FOR WILKES LAND: EFFECTIVE POSSESSION Although the flight of the Shenandoah to the North Pole in search of new territory has been abandoned for the year, the intervening period may be profitably employed by organizing a more effective administration of lands, title to which the United States acquired by reason of the enterprise of other American explorers. Such a territory is Wilkes Land, discovered and charted by Commander Charles Wilkes of the United States Navy in the course of a tour of the South Seas in 1840. The bold coast line of that continent extends for no less than 1,500 miles approximately along the Antarctic Circle from the 100th to the 160th meridians east of Greenwich. Its eastern end is about 1,600 miles south of New Zealand. Thence westerly there is a long stretch of highlands and bluffs interspersed with towering mountains. It is believed that Wilkes Land is continuous to the South Pole, and in all probability contains vast deposits of oil, valuable metals and other minerals. In area it is almost equal to half of continental United States. The explorations of Commander Wilkes are set forth in detail on charts of the United States Navy and of the British Admiralty. The title ers each year, but there must be a nice balancing of supply and demand, or hardship will result. Both state and people will profit most if caution is exercised in this particular. Legitimate development is quite good enough for California, and will cause the state to grow, healthfully and consistently, and yet with continued rapidity. This steel idea makes it hasn't been tried. Erical in the extreme know. But we do know at it because its due to prove it idiotic. People laughed at its local highways. Any more. More are coming to think as much a parish business as waterwheel battleships, an amalgamation. The new idea is a laughter doesn't prevent the "stand-pull" laughter. Maybe steered hundred thousand dime practical. But while thing else to bear on side laughter? Noble national highways any Congress! The joke of yesteryear of today. Maybe we national highways are laughed at steel rail too. They laughed at metal highways. And laugh at De Lessema Canal! He laughs best w President Coolidge plain that there will ship or political contacting the people's lands and leases. The investigation in linquencies or viola have the fullest public responsible must making. ANAHEIM GAZETTE is generally admitted, for in all the of the United States to the territory 84 years since its discovery there have been no other claims filed upon it. But unless this country perfects its holding and provides for the government of Wilkes Land, it is likely to find itself involved in a controversy over its control. Even now the British are fitting out a ship for south seas exploration which may visit the territory and set up conflicting claims. Great Britian is keenly alive to the potential value of land holdings in that part of the world. As recently as July of last year there was an order of the King in Council constituting the Ross Sea sector of the Antarctic Continent a British dependency under the jurisdiction of New Zealand on the east, and the British title is based on discoveries by the British Captain Ross in 1840, the same year as the Wilkes expedition. It is reported that in 1922 Ross sector yielded $4,000,000 of whaling revenues to New Zealand, and in 1923 $9,000,000. In 1917 the British extended their dominion by constituting the Falkland Islands Dependency which now governs the sector between 20 and 50 degrees of west longitude. Both of these British sectors extend all the way to the South Pole. Let us act before Wilkes Land suffers the same fate as has befallen other discoveries of American explorers. In 1813 Captain David Porter of the United States Navy discovered and claimed the Marquesas Islands. The discovery was not properly followed up, and in 1842 the French took over the islands and have remained in possession ever since. In 1821 Captain Nathaniel Palmer, an American sealer, discovered Palmer Land, but the United States was again negligent and that territory now is included in the British Mr. Johnson always fights outside the Republican breastworks. He always attacks them. He never defends them. The lesson of Teapot Dome to the people of the United States is that we must put on the brakes less madness for money make the train of progress jump the track of prosperity. The Mixed war claims commission has awarded 287 claims against Germany, totaling $13,175,000. Five years have elapsed since the armistice and the shadow of the great war has not yet disappeared. To some of the opposition seanators and representatives who are responsible for much of the gossip and wild rumors about public officials, we recommend the saying of Henry W. Shaw (Josh Billings): "A lie will travel a hundred leagues while the truth is putting on its boots." Every I. W. W., Communist, Bolshevist, left-wing socialist, roter and profiteering war contractor the world over is in full sympathy and accord with the assault on the U.S. Department of Justice. "No rogue e'er felt the halter draw, with good opinion of the law." Republicans of California, in state conference at San Francisco, had a slogan, "A Californian as the running mate of Coolidge". We trust that the man of their choice is a fast runner and has plenty of endurance, because he will have to "go some" to keep up with Calvin. Men and women of all political parties will surely feel a certain preliminary and indignant resentment at the action of the Senate committee in other discoveries of American explorers. In 1813 Captain David Porter of the United States Navy discovered and claimed the Marquesas Islands. The discovery was not properly followed up, and in 1842 the French took over the islands and have remained in possession ever since. In 1821 Captain Nathaniel Palmer, an American sealer, discovered Palmer Land, but the United States was again negligent and that territory now is included in the British Falkland Islands Dependency. In 1881 Wrangell Island, destined to become an important station in the air route across the North Pole, was discovered by an American, but is now occupied by a British expedition. The immense natural wealth of Wilkes Land will slip from our grasp if negligence such as followed other discoveries is to be continued. Future inventive genius will surely find a way to make that wealth available.Pending that time all danger of loss of sovereignty over the country should be removed. INDESTRUCTIBLE ROADS The man who is laughed at today is revered tomorrow. They laughed at Bell and his telephone, Edison and his electric light, and Langley with his crazy flying machine. The Wright brothers were derided, the discoverer of X-Rays were ridiculed, and the "radio delusion" brought smiles and amusement. But not now. It is as impossible for us to say, now what the road of the future is to be, as it was impossible for us to say, five years ago, what the radio broadcast of today would be. An inventor wants to interest capital in making a roadway of steel. It will cost, if built, not thousands, but several hundreds of thousands of dollars per mile. Road builders laugh. The public laughs. We all laugh. Why pay three hundred thousand dollars a mile for roads when we can get them for a few thousands? Twenty years ago the idea of paying twenty-five thousand dollars a mile for road was laughed at! This steel idea may be all wrong. It hasn't been tried. It may be chimical in the extreme. We don't know. But we do know that laughing at it because its different is no way to prove it idiotic. Ten years ago people laughed at the idea of national highways. They don't laugh Republicans of California, in state conference at San Francisco, had a slogan, "A Californian as the running mate of Coolidge". We trust that the man of their choice is a fast runner and has plenty of endurance, because he will have to "go some" to keep up with Calvin. 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 President has not promised the farmers $2 wheat and the city dwellers a 3 cent loaf of bread. He has not promised the taxpayers a reduction in rates and the undisabled war veterans a bonus. He has not left the business of the government to shift for itself while he toured the country making campaign speeches. He is the type of public official who always on the job, who pays as much attention to public affairs as though they were his own private business. YOU NEED NOT Your Backbone will tell Me What and Where Your Troopers And Thieves Will Go HEA QUE And Th QUESTION AND THREAT Twenty years ago the idea of paying twenty-five thousand dollars a mile for road was laughed at! This steel idea may be all wrong. It hasn't been tried. It may be chimical in the extreme. We don't know. But we do know that laughing at it because its different is no way to prove it idiotic. Ten years ago people laughed at the idea of national highways. They don't laugh any more. More and more people are coming to think that highways are as much a part of the Nation's business as waterways, Panama Canal battleships, an army. The new idea is always laughed at. Laughter doesn't prove anything except the "stand-pat mind" of the laugher. Maybe steel roads at three hundred thousand dollars a mile are impractical. But why not bring something else to bear on the question beside laughter? Nobody laughs at national highways any more; not even Congress! The joke of yesterday is the fact of today. Maybe we will yet ride on national highways of steel! They laughed at steel rails for locomotives, too. They laughed at transcontinental highways. And how they did laugh at De Lesseps and his Panama Canal! He laughs best who laughs last. President Coolidge has made it plain that there will be no partisan or political consideration in protecting the people's interests in oil lands and leases. No matter where the investigation leads, official delinquencies or violations of duty will have the fullest publicity. Those responsible must make a full accounting. NO OPERATIONS! NO MEDICINE WHY CHIROPRACTIC? BECAUSE—It is founded on facts. 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