anaheim-gazette 1924-05-08

BURTON IS JUST THE MAN The selection of Congressman Theodore Burton of Ohio to serve as temporary chairman of the Republican National Convention and, presumably, to deliver what is commonly known as the keynote speech, is in all important particulars entirely in harmony with the general policy and purpose of the present Adminsitration. The Coolidge regime like that of President Harding, has been emphasizing reduction of expenses and reduction of taxation. Probably no one who has ever served in Congress has a better-known record in that respect than has Mr. Burton. In fact the Ohio legislator's critical inspection of all appropriation bills has often caused his colleagues to think that he is overzealous in that regard. However that may be, he is thoroughly well qualified to sound economy as a keynote for the coming campaign. Like President Coolidge, Representative Burton is not very long on talk. He has never made any pretense of being an orator and yet he has been a very interesting and instructive speaker during discussions in both the House and the Senate. His addresses are always clear, logical, and easily read. Mr. Burton has the unusual distinction of having served first in the House, then in the Senate, and again in the House. His first service was in 1889-1891, but after one term he remained out of Congress four years after which he was returned for eight terms, from the last of which he resigned when elected to the Senate for the term 1909 to 1915. He was out of the Legislative Branch of the Government from 1915 to 1921, in which latter year he returned to the Lower House. Service in the legislative branch of since disproved, is well calculated to discount the sincerity of this present investigation, and to justify the widespread criticism of the Senate for becoming a mere distributor of slander and slinger of mud." And yet some wonder may be expressed that Mr. Palmer waited until his own good name was called into question before he took occasion to denounce the proceedings. He knew from the beginning as well as now the character of Gaston B. Means, and his credibility as a witness. So long as the attack was on Harry Daugherty and other Republicans, as Democratic partisan Mr. Palmer remained silent. He knew the source and nature of the slander, but did not raise his voice. The only conclusion is that the Means stories might serve his party. Of course Mr. Palmer deprecates the fact, as do many other good Democrats, that such despicable methods are resorted to in politics. They are careful, however, to restrain themselves from protesting. Even in the Senate Democrats like Underwood, of Alabama; Simmons, of North Carolina; Overman, of North Carolina; Stanley, of Kentucky, and Ransdell, of Louisiana, sit quietly and by their silence approve the course of their slandering fellow partisans, rather than rise to the defense of good government. President Coolidge sought to arouse the dormant sense of decency and responsibility. Among the Democrats he succeeded only in giving such senators as Reed, of Missouri; Glass of Virginia; Harrison of Mississippi, and Carraway, of Arkansas fresh excuse for further tirades. Honest Democrats all over the land must feel a sense of shame that their leaders should step aside and let the Wheelers, the Walshes and the rest spread the slime from the lowest pits has been shaped ween the Democracy few radicals elec can ticket, but in thwarting the ministration. In the Republican. The lesson woven from these weaken still full publican organ to strengthen it can ignore the Democratic-radi believe the fact. It requires one of the reports discover what investigations much of the lee effectually block actment of the sure and the oak Coolidge's legislation. TEXAS Senator Morrison has a bill before proposition to omit mention of Kansas fields said to qualify sufficient to the United States come, at the prosecution. The best to be in westward is an area run south and west. These be Muscle Shoals Galveston. The 12 Texas wells have been taken Government hard thickness of Texas sample constituting a applied to land... House, then in the Senate, and again in the House. His first service was in 1899-1891, but after one term he remained out of Congress four years after which he was returned for eight terms, from the last of which he resigned when elected to the Senate for the term 1909 to 1915. He was out of the Legislative Branch of the Government from 1915 to 1921, in which latter year he returned to the Lower House. Service in the legislative branch of the Government is only part of Mr. Burton's experience in public life. Under appointment by President Roosevelt he served from 1907 to 1909 as Chairman of the Inland Waterways Commission and from 1909 to 1912 as Chairman of the National Waterways Commission, created by Congress to give a thorough study to the problem of waterway improvement. He served as a member of the National Monetary Commission from 1908 to 1912—the commission which formulated the financial policy the most important features of which were ultimately embodied in the Federal Reserve System. He is known as a deep student of and authority upon important problems of national finance. As a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union for ten years, from 1904 to 1914, during which time he participated in meetings at St. Louis, London, Geneva, Paris, and The Hague, Burton acquired a thorough and practical knowledge of international problems. He is a member of the Debt Funding Commission which has rendered such spendid and successful service in adjusting debts due the United States. Service in three National Conventions, 1904, 1908, and 1912, increased his acquaintance with public leaders throughout the nation and gave him experience of value in presiding over the deliberations of a convention. Mr. Burton's early training was that of a lawyer in which profession he practiced for ten years prior to his first election to Congress. During two years of his latest absence from Congress he was president of the Merchants National Bank of New York City. He has written a number of well known and highly esteemed works, among them "Financial Crises and Periods of Industrial and Commercial Depression," "Life of John Sherman," "A Treatise on Corporations and the State," and a discussion of "Some Political Tendencies of the Times and the Effect of the President Coolidge sought to arouse the dormant sense of decency and responsibility. Among the Democrats he succeeded only in giving such senators as Reed, of Missouri; Glass of Virginia; Harrison of Mississippi, and Carraway, of Arkansas fresh excuse for further tirades. Honest Democrats all over the land must feel a sense of shame that their leaders should step aside and let the Wheelers, the Walshes and the rest spread the slime from the lowest pits of infamy over good men's names, not sparing even the dead. By their silence they are parties to the crime of turning loose self-confessed spies, courtesans, dive-keepers, train-robbers drug fiends, discharged employees and the like to retail absurd yarns, parading themselves as confidential advisers and trusted instruments of men in highest office. Only when one of them is touched, as was A. Mitchell Palmer, by the venomous tongue of a slanderer, is protest made. The rest are willing to see reputations besmirched, characters destroyed, usefulness impaired, and even confidence in the institutions of America challenged. For what? That it may bring their party a possible chance of victory. By their silence they join in the slander, tacitly approving a course that should cause them to blush for shame. THE PARADE OF UNDESIRABLES One of the vices of such inquisitions as the Senate has been staging through its numerous committees is that in form they are "investigations and not trials," and therefore rules of evidence do not apply. Anybody can get a hearing who has anything damaging to allege, even if no third-hand bearsay. Necessarily these investigations attract the sort of riff-raff which has been paraded there—thieves, discredited "detectives," discharged employees and what not. Another court of miracles like that in Hugo's tale, is automatically assembled. An administrative department has a multitude of contracts with people and friction is in plenty of them. Persons whether promoters, law-breakers or violent radicals who have felt its heavy hand, welcome the opportunity to strike back which the curiously hospitable attitude of the Senate committees offers them. Men who have vainly sought government cooperation in furtherance of business or personal feuds with their rivals hasten to Washington to tell about it. Govern- DEMOCRATS CONTRIBUTE TO SLANDER BY THEIR SILENCE A. Mitchell Palmer, sometimes called the "Fighting Quaker," has gone into action. Stung by the charges made by Gaston B. Means before the Senate Daugherty inquiry committee, he protests his innocence. "As for my conference with Mr. Daugherty, the version of Means is a lie out of the whole cloth," exclaims Mr. Palmer, who holds: "It is an amazing thing that a committee of the United States Senate would allow itself to become the medium of broadcasting to the world the false and ridiculous charges of a witness of the character of Gaston B. Means, designed to blacken the reputation of honest and conscientious public officials." Addressing himself to the fact that certain allegations had been examined by a grand jury and found to be baseless, Mr. Palmer unloads his righteous indignation on the committee: "In the face of these findings, which must be within the knowledge of the Senate committee, for that committee to allow a witness like Means to repeat his unfounded charge, long administrative department has a multitude of contracts with people and friction in plenty of them. Persons whether promoters, law-breakers or violent radicals who have felt its hivey hand, welcome the opportunity to strike back which the curiously hospitable attitude of the Senate committees offers them. Men who have vainly sought government cooperation in furtherance of business or personal feuds with their rivals hasten to Washington to tell about it. Government employees whose recommendations were ignored as without value, or who were discharged as insubordinate or unfit, salve their injury vanity by "testimony" profoundly affected by their self interest. "Rouge elephants," spotlight seekers, individuals with the "persecution complex," join in the motley chorus, and now and then a Vanderlip, a sui generis, is sucked into the eddy. There has been nothing under the sun like the senatorial side shows as staged at Washington. Our guess is that there never will be again, for the courts are to pass on the privileges arrogated by these committees, and violation of the individual's constitutional rights sticks out all over them. YES, WE HAVE NO MAJORITY The people are disgusted with the present Congress for its disposition to investigate rather than to legislate. Some draw the conclusion that the next Congress, to be elected in November, will not have a Republican majority. There never was a greater mistake than to ascribe the faults of the present Congress to Republicans. That party has a nominal majority. Thus far every congressional policy ANAHEIM GAZETTE has been shaped by the coalition between the Democratic minority and a few radicals elected on the Republican ticket, but now actively engaged in thwarting the program of the administration. In the face of such odds the Republicans are helpless. The lesson which the voters should derive from the situation is not to weaken still further the effective Republican organization in Congress, but to strengthen it to the point where it can ignore the machinations of the Democratic-radical combination. We believe the people appreciate that fact. It requires only a cursory reading of the reports from Washington to discover what party has guided the investigations which have taken up so much of the legislators' time and has effectually blocked thus far the enactment of the Mellon tax relief measure and the other bills on President Coolidge's legislative program. TEXAS POTASH Senator Morris Shoppard, of Texas, has a bill before Congress for an appropriation to pay for the exploration of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas fields said to contain potash in quantity sufficient to supply the needs of the United States for centuries to come, at the present rate of consumption. The best prospect is reported to be in western Texas where there is an area running 220 miles north and south and 125 miles east and west. These beds are 900 miles from Muscle Shoals and 475 miles from Galveston. The presence of potash in 12 Texas wells from which samples have been taken is positive, but the Government has no knowledge of the thickness of the beds. The best Texas sample tested 15.2 per cent, constituting a product that could be applied to land as it came from the event. Kenneth Grumbes and Otto Anderson hope to score in the low hurdles, while Leighton Dye, who has defeated all comers in the West this year including Becker of California, Leistner of Stanford and Maxwell of Pomona, hopes to place high in the high hurdles. He ran 15 1-10 seconds. Earl Wilson, a 23-foot broad jumper and Otto Anderson, who leaps 22 feet 11 inches, hope to add points in this event. while both Alden Ross and Baynard Ryder are at times good for 6 feet in the high jump. Howard White has cleared 12 feet 3 inches in the pole vault and is steadily improving. Percy Nierback, who runs the 880 in 1:59 is a hard fighter and has never failed to place in any race which he has entered. Mike Elwood, who defeated the best millers at California and who upset the dope by placing second in the Stanford meet, has visions of a place in this event at Cambridge. DEMOCRATS AT SEA Interest this week in Washington has turned to the Democratic situation. Politicians are agreed that the sudden death of Charles F. Murphy, boss of Tammany Hall, has completely changed the political map. The absence of Murphy from the counsel table of the democratic convention makes for a new deal all around, but the Tammany influence will be as strong as ever. It is known that had Murphy lived he would have had the support of Brennan and Taggart for his candidate, for while the question of religion, had come up they felt sure enough of Al Smith's ability as a vote getter to disregard the matter of church relations. With only Brennan and Taggart remaining and the Solid South in practically a state of NOTICE Pursuant to the written consent of the holders of more than two thirds of the issued capital stock of the Anaheim Sugar Company, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of California, which consent has been duly filed in the office of said corporation in the county of Orange in said State, on the 3rd day of March, 1924, and pursuant to a resolution of the board of directors of said corporation, which resolution was duly passed at a special meeting of said board of directors duly called and held at the said office of said corporation on the 17th day of April, 1924, at which meeting more than a quorum of the directors of said corporation was present: Notice is hereby given that the principal place of business of said corporation will, on the 15th day of May, 1924, be changed and removed from the County of Orange, State of California, to the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles in said State, after which date the principal place of business of said corporation will be in the said City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles. This notice is published by order of the board of directors of said Anaheim Sugar Company. Dated, Anaheim, California, April 19th, 1924. EDWARD STARK, Secretary of the Anaheim Sugar Company. (Corporate Seal.) 4-24t3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS ESTATE OF ANNA HILBERS, Deceased Notice is hereby given by the undersigned, Otto Hilbers, Executor of to be in western Texas where there is an area running 220 miles north and south and 125 miles east and west. These beds are 900 miles from Muscle Shoals and 475 miles from Galveston. The presence of potash in 12 Texas wells from which samples have been taken is positive, but the Government has no knowledge of the thickness of the beds. The best Texas sample tested 15.2 per cent, constituting a product that could be applied to land as it came from the well. In the hearing on the subject before the Senate Agricultural Committee, J. W. Terrentine, of the Bureau of Soils of the Department of Agriculture, in charge of potash research, advocated a protective tariff to encourage the production of domestic potash. It was placed on the free list in the present law. Senator Sheppard voted against the Fordney-McCumber tariff law as a whole, after he had voted for protection to several commodities raised in Texas. How would he vote on potash, in view of his present bill? BELL SYSTEM EXTENDS ITS AERIAL CABLE FACILITIES The rapidly increasing number of long distance telephone messages transmitted daily is taxing the capacity of the existing open wire lines and is making necessary the extension of the aerial cable system of the Bell System. These toll cables are a means of eliminating the interruption of service due to sleet and wind storms and, in additions, they have proved an economical method of providing a large number of circuits. In cases where aerial toll cable has already been placed, it would be impracticable to provide an equivalent number of circuits in open wire construction. To provide this number of circuits in open wire construction would require forty-eight crossarms which, if installed according to standard practices, would require six or eight separate pole lines carrying respectively eight or six crossarms each. The majority of the cables already placed are of maximum size equivalent to about 320 pairs of 19-gauge conductors, but since they usually contain some pairs of larger gauge and some pairs for use as four wire circuits, each cable might be estimated as equivalent to about 240 open wire circuits. GOING AFTER THE RACON table of the democratic convention makes for a new deal all around, but the Tammany influence will be as strong as ever. It is known that had Murphy lived he would have had the support of Brennan and Taggart for his candidate, for while the question of religion, had come up they felt sure enough of Al Smith's ability as a vote getter to disregard the matter of church relations. With only Brennan and Taggart remaining and the Solid South in practically a state of revolt it is problematical whether or not the political bosses of Illinois and Indiana will be able to put over Smith or any other candidate who bears their trade mark; it may mark the end of the bosses as factors in dictating the nomination of the Democratic standard bearer. If Smith does not receive the nomination his friends in New York, Illinois and other sections of the country will have anything but a kindly feeling for the section of the country that brought about his defeat; if on the other hand Smith does get the necessary twelfth vote, then the South will cut him. Some political prophets even going as far as saying that it will give many voters in the South the chance they have long been looking for, namely, to quit the Democratic party, more especially those who desire the benefits of a protective tariff. Whatever the outcome may be it is conceded by all that the Democrats are not in a happy frame of mind and this is augmented by reports that leaders have been getting, that many Democrats will vote for Coolidge because they believe that with him in the White House for the next four years the country will continue to prosper. The President is looked upon as the candidate of the people, not the choice of the politicians. ESSAY CONTEST The American Legion has announced a national essay contest for American school children with scholarship prizes amounting to $1,500 together with medals for the best papers on the subject "Why Communism is a Menace to Americanism," according to information received by Morgan Keaton, state adjutant of the organization. State Superintendent of schools Will C. Wood will be asked to name three judges to pass upon the essays from California students. The county school superintendents in each county of the state are to pick GOING AFTER THE BACON Although Stanford is conceded an edge in the I. C. A. A. A. championships in Cambridge on May 29 and 30, members of the University of Southern California team are training daily for this great meet and hope to upset the dope sufficiently to win the championship. Led by Bud Houser and Norman Anderson, two of the leading weight men of this country, the Trojans hope to place at least second and if possible, first. Coach Dean Cromwell believes that his two weight men will offset whatever advantage Glenn Hartranft may give Stanford inasmuch as a second and third in both the shot put and discus, even in face of the competition that may be expected from Newfeldt of California and Hills of Princeton. Houser, who was ill with tonsillitis during the California and Stanford meets, is fast recovering his health and should be able to put the shot close to 48 feet at Cambridge. Anderson ought to make 47 feet. In the discus Houser should repeat his best mark of the year, 146 feet, while Anderson ought to improve on his best heave—143 feet. With Yale Marty returned to the 440, which he ran last year in 48 4-5 the Trojans look for more points in prizes amounting to $1,500 together with medals for the best papers on the subject "Why Communism is a Menace to Americanism," according to information received by Morgan Keaton, state adjutant of the organization. State Superintendent of schools Will C. Wood will be asked to name three judges to pass upon the essays from California students. The county school superintendents in each county of the state are to pick out the three judges to decide upon the best essays to be entered in the state contest and in turn in the national competition. The scholarship prizes in colleges to be designated by the winners are: first prize, $750; second prize, $500; third prize $250. First prize in each state will be a silver medal; second prize, a bronze medal; third prize, a certificate of merit issued by national American Legion headquarters. The contest is limited to boys and girls between the ages of 12 and 18, inclusive. The county essay contest will close June 15 next and the state winners will be forwarded to Indianapolis, the Legion headquarters, by August 10th. State Adjutant Keaton will issue further information on the contest within the next week. INTERESTING FACTS REVEALED Many interesting facts about motor traffic in California were revealed by the 1922 count. It showed old Dobbin almost eliminated from the highways. On the state system, horse drawn vehicles were but 1.2 per cent of the total traffic, a drop from 2.3% per cent, the 1920 figure. A count on country roads showed 57.7 per cent of the traffic to be motor vehicles. California Theatre ANAHEIM Thursday, May 7 VAUDEVILLE And EARL WILLIAMS in "JEALOUS HUSBANDS" On the Screen Comeo Comedy—"OH, GIRLS" Pathe Review Friday and Saturday, May 8-9 BARBARA LaMARR In— "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" Telephone Series No. 2.—"WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WAS IN TOWER" California News Flashes Sunday, Monday, May 11-12 A DOUBLE FEATURED BILL Helen Chadwick and Lewis Stone in WHY MEN LEAVE HOME The Inimitable Comedian, Will Rogers, in Tuesday, Wednesday May 13-14 Agnes Ayres in "BLUFFS" Ben Turpin in "Asleep at the Switch." 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