anaheim-gazette 1924-05-15

Anaheim Gazette ESTABLISHED 1870 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY Henry Kuehel, Editor and Proprietor SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR ... $1.50 SIX MONTHS ... $1.09 THREE MONTHS ... $ .50 Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter A GOOD SELECTION President Coolidge's announcement that he will recommend to the incoming National Committee the selection of William M. Butler for the chairmanship of the Committee has met with universal approval among Republicans. The manner in which Mr. Butler has conducted the primary campaign in behalf of Mr. Coolidge is an assurance in itself that his management of the Presidential Campaign in the fall will be equally successful. This early move was not only logical but necessary. Chairman Adams, as set forth in the statement issued by President Coolidge, having after conferences indicated that after the organization of the incoming National Committee he did not wish to continue as chairman, the immediate problem was to avoid any possible hiatus in the actual planning of the campaign. This has been accomplished by the selection of Mr. Butler. As now arranged, the Republican Party is thus profiting by the services of Chairman Adams who will continue at his post till after the convention, and also of Mr. Butler, who will have the responsibility of conducting the new campaign. Both gentlemen have already had lengthy conferences which will be continued to a complete ad- of platinum in the United States purchased in 1923 29 ounces of crude platinum from Alaska, 707 ounces from California, 63 ounces from Oregon, and 1 ounce from Washington, a total of 800 troy ounces, as compared with 1,058 ounces purchased in 1922. They also purchased 54,741 ounces of crude platinum mined in foreign countries, of which 48,727 ounces was shipped from Colombia and 4,997 ounces from Russia. The platinum metals recovered from crude platinum from ore, and from gold, copper, and nickel refined amounted to 49,797 ounces, as compared with 57,718 ounces in 1922. Of the metals recovered in 1923 about 6,472 ounces was obtained from domestic material. AMERICA FIRST According to a well-informed European correspondent, the immigrants we get from several nations are officially picked by the governments of the various countries. They are not from the social register or a blue-ribbon list, by a long shot. Rather they are from the roster of undesirables and lawbreakers. Instead of housing their Bolsheviks in prison the authorities ship them to America. The real farmers and industrial workers are neither encouraged nor permitted to leave their country. Under the existing law, for instance, the quota admissible from Hungary would be 5700 pilgrims. It is asserted by the correspondent that list of this full number has already been compiled under the knowledge of the Minister of the Interior and the police and that passports will be provided unless the law is changed. They are said to be a mass of agitators, Socialists, economic misfits and petty criminals. It is the admission of Hungarian police officials that their sewers empty in America. As now arranged, the Republican Party is thus profiting by the services of Chairman Adams who will continue at his post till after the convention, and also of Mr. Butler, who will have the responsibility of conducting the new campaign. Both gentlemen have already had lengthy conferences which will be continued to a complete adjustment of conditions and perfection of plans. It is of interest that the more substantial Democratic newspapers have already confessed that the Republicans have by this move won a tactical advantage. One or two months' additional time has been secured for the careful planning of the campaign which the Democratic organs sadly admit cannot but work for a more efficient scheme of campaign management and a better prospect for Republican success. It is characteristic of President Coolidge that although precedent has long established the right of the Presidential candidate to designate his national chairman by reason of the close personal relations existing between the candidate and the chairman yet in the wording of his announcement the President was punctilious to make it plain that he was merely suggesting the consideration of this name to the members of the incoming committee who will legally have the task of the actual election of the chairman. Mr. Adams came to the chairmanship of the National Committee under very difficult circumstances. For more than three years he has sacrificed his own personal interests in order that he might give his whole time to the work of the Committee. By reason of his hibh standing among Republicans throughout the country and by tactfulness in his dealings with his associates, he has been able to develop thorough harmony in the party organization. He has stood vigorously for traditional Republican policies. Like President Coolidge, Mr. Butler is not given to sensational methods nor to personal exploitation. He organized the pre-convention campaign so quietly and yet so effectively that his work attracted little attention except as one State after another elected delegates instructed or pledged to the support of Mr. Coolidge in the Convention. He is the type of man the country would expect President Coolidge to select. Our sales tao Guatemala, Central America, are slipping, while our imports from that country are increasing. Great Britain is digging in. A report based on official statistics of Guatemala and the United States, shows that the imports of that country for 1923 showed a slight decrease compared with the previous year. The total in 1922 was $10,752,000, and for 1923 it was $10,450,000. Imports from the United States were valued at $6,314,000—about $330,000 less than for 1922, but we are still holding something like 60 per cent of the Guatemala market. "The heaviest import articles," says the report, "continue to be cotton textiles, iron and steel manufactures, and foodstuffs. It is probable that import from Great Britain for 1923 will show a considerable increase over 1922 figures judging from the fact that Central America purchases from Great Britain for the first nine months of 1923 amounted to $1,194,369, or approximately 25 peas proximately 25 per cent more than for the corresponding period in 1922." Exports from Guatemala to the Like President Coolidge, Mr. Butler is not given to sensational methods nor to personal exploitation. He organized the pre-convention campaign so quietly and yet so effectively that his work attracted little attention except as one State after another elected delegates instructed or pledged to the support of Mr. Coolidge in the Convention. He is the type of man the country would expect President Coolidge to select. PLATINUM IN 1923. The quantity of crude platinum produced in the United States in 1923 was 609 troy ounces, of which Alaska produced 7 ounces, California 578 ounces, and Oregon 24 ounces, according to a statement issued by the Department of the Interior, prepared from mine reports by James M. Hill, of the Geological Survey. This is a considerable decrease from the 1,058 ounces in 1922. The platinum produced in Alaska was largely a by-product from gold mined in placers in the Chisna district, in the Cooper River region. A little more than 53 per cent of the output in California was mined by dredges in Butte, Calaveras, Sacramento, Stanislaus, and Yuba counties; the greater part of the remainder was mined by dredges in Shasta, County; and less than one per cent was mined from small placers on tributaries of Trinity River in Trinity County. The platinum produced in Oregon was practically all recovered by the beach miners in the vicinity of Bullards, Coos County, and Sixes, Josephine County. None of the placer operators on Rogue and Illinois rivers recovered platinum in 1923. The statistics show that refiners the report, "continue to be cotton textiles, iron and steel manufactures, and foodstuffs. It is probable that import from Great Britain for 1923 will show a considerable increase over 1922 figures judging from the fact that Central America purchases from Great Britain for the first nine months of 1923 amounted to $1,194,369, or approximately 25 peps proximately 25 per cent more than for the corresponding period in 1922." Exports from Guatemala to the United States increased from nearly $10,000,000 in 1922 to nearly $14,000,000 in 1923, or about 40 per cent. Exports from Guatemala for consumption in the United States totaled $8,784,000 in 1922 and $11,267,000 in 1923. This means that from two to three millions of Guatemalan exports to the United States are shipments in transit, being recorded in December as entering U.S. ports. Our largest item of import from Guatemala was coffee — $7,816,000 worth in 1922, and $11,200,000 worth in 1923. Next came bananas, about $1,468,000 for both years. Sugar was third, $352,000 in 1922 and $1,030,500 in 1923. Other items of import from that country were cabinet woods, hides, honey, mica, gold silver, lead, pineapples, broomroot, and a little rubber. We take about 60 per cent of Guatemala's exports. Among the imports of Guatemala, other than those cited above, a market has been created for linen, hemp, and jute manufacturers, silk goods, wood products, glass china, and earthenware, leather, paper and stationery, drugs, flour, railroad supplies ($515,-000) and refined petroleum. Guatemala is about the size of Louisiana, and nearly as large as New York State. It has a population of over 2,000,000 or about 43 per square ANAHEIM GAZETTE mile, and 270 miles of coast line, touching both seas. Projects are now afoot calling for the investment of considerable American capital in this country for railroads, industrials, etc. as they are also for other portions of Central America. Public interest in these countries should be aroused for they offer large opportunities and they welcome American cooperation in developing their resources. AN EARLY RISER A visitor in a mountain village noticed that one citizen was always up very early but never did any work. So he questioned the man's wife. "Why does your husband arise so early?" "Oh, he wants an early breakfast." "But he doesn't do anything. Why must he have such an early breakfast?" "To smoke after." THE FARCE WANES The Senate investigators are running short of material, and it is hinted that they may soon close up shop. Sinclair says he won't testify, and it will take months for the courts to decide whether he must. Mal Daugherty says he won't even come to Washshington, and the courts are hard at work on his case, too. Now the unsophisticated Gaston Means has been the victim of a skin game and his precious diaries have been stolen. The stuff of which scandal is made is about exhausted, so why continue? Nothing makes a man madder than to have somebody tell him his troubles don't amount to much. Getting your house in order implies that it may have been in disorder. THE ULTIMATE SNIFF The Senate oil committee, having failed to prove that the leases of Naval Oil Reserves Nos. 1 and 3 were either illegal or against the best interests of the Navy will now turn its attention to Naval Reserve No. 2 and the leases therein granted to the Honolulu Oil Company. The Democrats must have an issue, even if they have to ransack every transaction of the Government for the last three years to discover one. WHAT'S WRONG? The communist party in Russia appears to have suffered a setback. It is reported that private capital has retrieved more than $3 per cent of the country's retail stores, in spite of the competition of cooperative and government stores, and that capitalism as a whole has made a big comeback. But the communists are fully aware of the situation, and at a meeting in May will adopt means for combating the decline of their influence. Apparently this forecasts a new drive against property interests in Soviet Russia, and a still further postponement of the day when Russia can be recognized as the equal of other nations. THE STRONGER BIRD "Look, dear," said Tommy's mother, while they were at the zoo, "there's an eagle. Just think, egles are so strong they have been known to carry off a little child." "That's nothing," said Tommy. "The stork sometimes carries three or four at a time." The man or woman who says, "Here's my check," speaks with a feeling of pride that comes from having money in the bank. The person receiving the check accepts it with a feeling of confidence in the drawer's financial responsibility. Raise your financial standing in the community through paying your bills by cheek. Open a checking account here. FIRST NATIONAL BANK AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK of Anaheim Savings Commercial Safe Deposit Vaults Combined Resources, $4,272,189 ALPHA BETA STORE THE BEST FOR LESS Big Celebration Sale Opens 8 a.m. Saturday, May 17 The Greatest Cooperative Anniversary Sale Ever held in Anaheim or vicinity Our Complete Market Saving Specials in all Departments. Groceries, Bakery, Meats, Fruits and Vegetables. Big Celebration Sale Opens 8 a.m. Saturday, May 17 The Greatest Cooperative Anniversary Sale Ever held in Anaheim or vicinity Our Complete Market Saving Specials in all Departments. Groceries, Bakery, Meats, Fruits and Vegetables. 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