anaheim-gazette 1924-04-10

LOW PRICES PREVAIL FOR FLORIDA FRUIT Though the Florida orange crop is a bumper one, almost equaling that of California, the growers of the Evergreen state in many instances are getting as low as 25 cents a box for the fruit and the average ranges from 50 to 60 cents a box. This observation, made by E. G. Dezell, general manager of the California Fruit Growers' exchange on his return to Los Angeles after a ten-day stay in Florida, roused keen interest today among Orange county citrus men. He attributed the demoralized Florida conditions to lack of marketing facilities similar to those achieved by cooperative California groups. In some cases, he said, growers were shipping by the carload lots into the Middle-western states and selling there for $2 a bushel. A movement endorsed by the state exchange in California to persuade Florida growers to adopt cooperative methods as are employed in this state, for the good of the market in general, should find a receptive ear now in Florida, Dezell predicted. He declared Florida growers have produced one of the biggest crops in years, almost equaling the enormous crop here. But due to lack of distribution facilities and cooperative organization among the growers, the Eastern market is over supplied and some of the growers are realizing less than 25 cents a box for their fruit, he said. He also pointed out that while the California citrus crop is one of the biggest in years, sizes of the oranges will run smaller than last year, which will make for over 50 per cent more oranges in proportion to weight than last year, and will combine to make one of the greatest orange crops ever produced. deliberation by the jury. In connection with the murder of Mrs. King, Means produced a will which would have benefitted him. This will was pronounced a forgery. Means and his attorney, Thomas B.-Felder, are now under indictment in the federal courts charged with a conspiracy to bribe Attorney General Daugherty. Means and his secretary, Emil W. Jarnecka, are also under indictment in New York for conspiracy to remove millions of dollars worth of whiskey from government warehouses and permit it to reach bootleggers. Means, on the witness stand before the Wheeler committee admitted that his principal business was answering criminal indictments. Other witnesses called by Wheeler in the effort to besmirch Attorney General Daugherty admitted on the witness stand that they were boodlers and have been engaged in bribery conspiracies to corrupt public officials and break criminal laws. Some of them are under indictments in the criminal courts. If the innovation of proving honest men and public officials guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors by introducing testimony of convicts and ex-convicts, crooks, forgers, bribe takers, murderers, train robbers and other criminals is to be followed then there is no end in sight of the present investigations until all the inmates of our penitentiaries have been put on the stand. Too bad this method was not thought of years ago! Jesse James and Calamity Jane and all the other cutthroats of a generation since died too soon. Some of them ascended the gallows and met a felon's death, when had they lived in these times, they might have taken a de luxe trip to Washington at the expense of the taxpayers paid out of the Senate's contingent fund. LURE C A treasury tomb of Tufts Jewels, This is a will start ers into the Middle-western states and selling there for $2 a bushel. 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For the last few years the growers there have been getting good prices for their fruit, but this year with the enormous production prices have dropped, he said, causing the growers to agitate for a system similar to the California Fruit Growers' exchange in the effort to obtain better-prices. The glutting of the Eastern market with Florida oranges can only have a tendency to lower prices of the California fruit, he pointed out, and declared he felt little doubt that in another year the Florida market would be more stabilized by better organization among the growers. "While Florida oranges will always be in competition with the California product, we always will be many jumps ahead of them. "All of their fruit is marketed in the winter and spring months, and only competes with our navels which are shipped at the same time. But with our Valencia shipments in the summer, California has the field all to herself." SENATE'S ROGUES GALLERIES The Walsh committee and the Wheeler committee have developed a very jealous rivalry. The Walsh committee held the boards for quite a while, counting that day lost which did not see some new slander broadcasted from its committee room. The Wheeler committee got a late start in the free for all slime slinging contest, but with the very valuable aid of two blackmailers, a couple of self-confessed boodlers and several who have been indicted by the Department of Justice for violation of criminal laws, it spurred ahead of the Walsh committee. No use talking, young Wheeler, of Montana, put it all over his political godfather, Walsh, of Montana, in investigations until all the inmates of our penitentiaries have been put on the stand. Too bad this method was not thought of years ago! Jesse James and Calamity Jane and all the other cutthroats of a generation since died too soon. Some of them ascended the gallows and met a felon's death, when had they lived in these times, they might have taken a de luxe trip to Washington at the expense of the taxpayers paid out of the Senate's contingent fund! Arriving in the nation's capital they would have become the center of attraction shown all deference, photographed in all poses, taken night joy rides in senatorial automobiles and brought their career to a climax by ascending the witness chair before some committee to spill their venom and their slander to the profit and glory of the Democratic party, and the personal gratification of the political blackguards who have made the United States Senate a cesspool of political flith over which floats the scum of their own putrid motives. LEGION NEWS Six state-wide conferences of the 2,400 workers engaged in the Citizenship campaign now being conducted throughout California by the American Legion are to be held during April, State Commander James F. Collins of Long Beach has announced. Coordination of the work already begun in the citizenship educational drive by the Legion posts of the various communities of the state in cooperation with local organizations is to be the main business of the conferences. Meetings have been scheduled for Dunsmuir, Sacaramento, San Francisco, Fresno, Los Angeles, and San Diego. Officers of every American Legion post in the neighboring territory of the cities in which the meetings have been scheduled will be in attendance. The present campaign of the Legion, said Morgan Keaton, state adjutant, is the most intensive citizenship, or, for that matter, the most ambitious drive of is kind ever attempted in this state. "We will continue to strive for a greater registration of the voters and for a better understanding of the obligations of citizenship," Keaton declared. Every American Legion post in the state is to be urged to adopt at least one or more Boy Scout Troops. The Wheeler committee got a late start in the free for all slime slinging contest, but with the very valuable aid of two blackmailers, a couple of self-confessed boodlers, and several who have been indicted by the Department of Justice for violation of criminal laws, it spurted ahead of the Walsh committee. No use talking, young Wheeler, of Montana, put it all over his political godfather, Walsh, of Montana, in grabbing the first page of the newspapers. But as soon as the tactics of the Wheeler committee were evident the Walsh committee came right back, and at this writing it is one train robber ahead in the contest. Al Jennings' contribution is supposed to be political gossip which he obtained from a politician who was killed in a drunken quarrel with his paramour. The admission as evidence of alleged conversations with persons now dead is not permitted even in police court proceedings. To allow such testimony to be dignified as evidence would open wide the doors to unrestrained perjury. That is what has taken place in the Wheeler committee investigation. It has taken place because Wheeler and the majority of his committee tdeiliberately desire that sort of "evidence." It is so easy to prove things by conversations with dead people! One is not embarrassed by the truth! The star witness of the Wheeler committee was Gaston B. Means, who first came into notoriety as German spy "E-13" in the employ of Count von Bernstorff and Captain Boy-Ed during the war. His next bid for first page position was in connection with the murder in North Carolina of his associate, Mrs. Maude A. King. Means was acquitted of the charge after long Providing for the drafting of industry in time of war as well as manpower, the American Legion officials have presented two bills before Congress which would supplement and enlarge the scope of the National Defense Act, according to word received by Morgan Keaton, state adjutant, from National Commander John R. Quinn, a fellow Californian. The purpose of the legislation is to take the profit out of war and make all elements of the nation participate equally in the event of another conflict. The bills, fathered by the American Legion, would give the President power, in tim of emergency, to draft into the service the necessary number of militia, with no exemptions allowed to young men for industrial reasons; to name what industries are necessary to carry on war, and to control them. Power would also be given to the President to stabilize prices, for the benefit of the civil population as well as of the government and to mobilize the resources of the entire nation. Some men run cars and others allow cars to "run" them. ANAHEIM GAZETTE LURE OF BURIED TREASURE A treasure-laden city older than the tomb of Tutankhamen— Jewels, gold, relics, in countless mass— This is a dream which next month will start a band of world-adventurers into the treacherous jungles of Mexico on their quest of Bacis, fabricated city of the ancient Aztec. Leading them is General Melville Boynton, engineer by profession and soldier of fortune by inclination. Men with whom and against whom he has fought; men who speak as familiarly of outlandish; unheard of places as others do of New York or Philadelphia; men who have made and unmake pessidents and emperors; these are the recruits flocking to the general's standard. Sure, there will be difficulties, Boynton says. But where's the fun if there aren't difficulties? "We have our plans pretty well mapped out, and all we will have to do is stick to them." "Many people think Bacis is only a legend. But I know differently." "The Indians, many of them half-barbarous, have guarded the secret faithfully. Even the Spaniards, with all their power to make conquered people disgorge, couldn't get the secret of the Aztec city." "Yet a few white men have seen it. Not many, for it's a rocky and often hostile, country you have to pass through to get there." "The one who have, described it as a city on a high cliff up in the fastnesses of the Sierra Madras mountains." "A little stream runs through it, and down into the Indian settlements below. Nicaragua—all have seen him at the head of troops. In the interim he founght with the Japanese against the Russians and became military adviser to Madero in the revolt against President Dlaz of Mexico. BIG EVANGELISTIC CAMPAIGN SLATED FOR ANAHEIM All arrangement are now completed for the opening services at the Nazarene Tabernacle, corner of North and Claudina streets, Sunday April 6th at 2:30. Evangelist and Rev. C. E. Roberts of international reputation will open the campaign, assisted by District Superintendent, Rev. E. J. Bates of Pasadena. The Aolian Quartet from Chicago and Rev. Mrs. C. E. Roberts and others. The committee send special vote of thanks to the various labor unions for donating their services in erection of the tabernacle, and recognize the fact that never for the Nozarena Demonination has such loyal cooperation been rendered from labor unions. Big delegations are expected from different Nazarene churches on the Southern California district as these are about 50 churches around this Southern California district. An added feature for Sunday afternoon will be the orchestra from the Long Beach church. Everybody is invited. PUZZLING Judge—You say that you are innocent. How do you explain the fact that you were found near the scene of the robbery with the stolen property in your hand. Prisoner—That's what's puzzlin' me too, yer honor. Pioneer Resident of Anaheim J.E. Schumacher Candidate for J.E. Schumacher Candidate for CITY TRUSTEE SHORT 1ERM Elcction Monday, April 14, 1924 WILLIAM STARK INCUMBENT Candidate for CITY TRUSTEE Election Monday, April 14, 1924 GENUINE "BULL" DURHAM GENUINE "BULL" DURHAM 2 bags for 15¢ 8¢ A BAG You can roll 100 Cigarettes for 15 Cents RE-ELECT Howard E. Gates City Trustee Short Term Says what he thinks. Does what he believes CITY TRUSTEE Election Monday, April 14, 1924 Elect Herbert H. Oelke CANDIDATE FOR ELECTION TO THE OFFICE OF CITY TREASURER An Ex-Service Man Qualified to Make Good City Election April 14 E. B. MERRITT CANDIDATE FOR RE-ELECTION CITY CLERK Election Monday, Apr. 14, 1924 NO MATTER How small your requirements may be, it is a pleasure for us to figure NO MATTER How small your requirements may be, it is a pleasure for us to figure them. Visit our Free Plan service department. Smith Lumber Co. 1133 Lincoln Ave. Phone 39 Is Five Cents on the Dollar of Valuation too Much to Earn? If a business worth $10,000 earned $500 net income in a year (or $41 a month), would it be considered an unreasonable profit and proof that its prices were too high? The railroads are in that situation today. The 1923 net return for the whole country was less than 5 per cent. As of December 31, 1919, the Interstate Commerce Commission gave to the railroads a tentative valuation of $18,900,000,000. With actual figures for 1920, 1921, 1922, and with 1923 conservatively estimated as $1,100,000,000, there has been invested in the railways since this tentative valuation a net amount of $2,371,583,000, making the value as of December 31, 1923, $21,271,583,000. On this amount the Railways in 1923 earned an aggregate net operating income of approximately $997,610,000, or 4.69 per cent. The Government guarantee of earnings expired August 31, 1920. If this guarantee had been continued—as repeatedly but erroneously claimed—the Government would owe the railroads more than a billion dollars. As of December 31, 1919, the Interstate Commerce Commission gave to the railroads a tentative valuation of $18,900,000,000. With actual figures for 1920, 1921, 1922, and with 1923 conservatively estimated as $1,100,000,000, there has been invested in the railways since this tentative valuation a net amount of $2,371,583,000, making the value as of December 31, 1923, $21,271,583,000. On this amount the Railways in 1923 earned an aggregate net operating income of approximately $997,610,000, or 4.69 per cent. The Government guarantee of earnings expired August 31, 1920. If this guarantee had been continued—as repeatedly but erroneously claimed—the Government would owe the railroads more than a billion dollars. Last year the roads handled a record volume of business but could not earn the fair return of 5% per cent to which the Interstate Commerce Commission, under the Transportation Act, has found they are entitled. If the roads cannot earn 5% per cent in a big year, what will they do in a small year? The Transportation Act provides that if a road in any year earns more than 6 per cent it shall pay one-half of the excess to the Government. The Act is therefore, a limitation rather than a guarantee. GIVE TRANSPORTATION ACT FAIR TRIAL The Transportation Act should be given a fair test and its merits judged by the results of a normal period of reasonable length. The year 1923 was the first since the war under conditions approaching stabilization. What the railroad situation demands just now is not more law but more confidence. The railroads have emerged from the welter of the war, restored their morale, made enormous investments of new money, and in 1923 handled a peak business with universal satisfaction. The Transportation Act is the only really constructive railroad legislation of a generation. Previous acts were almost solely repressive. In framing the Act the public interest was paramount. The Act directs the Interstate Commerce Commission to "give due consideration to the transportation needs of the country and the necessity of enlarging railway facilities in order to provide the people of the United States with adequate transportation." Give the Act a chance. Don't amend it. If the roads are let alone they should make as good a record for efficiency this year as last. Constructive suggestions are always welcome. C. R. GRAY President. Omaha, Nebraska, April 1, 1924. UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM