anaheim-gazette 1924-05-15

WASHINGTON LETTER (From Our Regular Correspondent.) More than a majority of the delegates to the Republican National Convention have been instructed for or pledged to Coolidge: Theodore E. Burton of Ohio, has been selected by the President as temporary chairman, and Wm. M. Butler of Massachusetts, has been chosen for chairman of the Republican National Committee. Interest here naturally turns now to the Democratic convention. At this writing there promises to be a free for all race, but the favorites now are John W. Davis, attorney for J. P. Morgan & Co., and, strange as it may seem, Senator Copeland of New York. Senator Ralston of Indiana, a recent favorite, does not seem to stand the test. It is argued that he won both the governorship and the senatorship practically by default — that is, as the result of splits in the Republican ranks and that, while he has done nothing and made no enemies, he is too old to be elected to the presidency with reasonable hope that he would live out his term. To the outsider the boom of Al Smith, Governor of New York, looks vigorous just now—but not the insider. Gov. Smith is both Roman Catholic and a "wet." Either qualification, it must be recognized, would be a handicap; but the two together would, in the judgment of the wisest Democrats, insure defeat. There are other reasons for the activity of the Smith boom just now, however. One is the anxiety of the New York Democrats to clinch the elimination of McAdoo. The other is the determination of Tammany to exercise sufficient influence in the convention to enable it to dictate to the successful candidate due delay. The charge of "contempt of the Senate" against H. F. Sinclair for refusal to testify will be argued immediately. LOYALTY AND SANITY ARE IN STYLE AGAIN The results of recent state primaries seem to make the nomination of President Coolidge at the Cleveland convention a foregone conclusion. No one can claim that the popular expression in these primaries has not been decisively in favor of Coolidge as the Republican standard bearer in 1924. This expression proves, in connection with the small vote in the Democratic primaries, that the people of this country are fundamentally constructive in their political attitude. President Coolidge represents sanity and stability in national affairs. No political leader of this generation has been freer of all taint of demagogy or opportunism. The national Democratic leadership, which imagined that in the muck-raking drive against the Coolidge administration inaugurated three months ago it had developed a live campaign issue, has now an opportunity to view the results of such tactics. The Coolidge administration has not been seriously harmed, but the Democratic party has been so greatly injured that it bids fair to be swallowed up by radicalism, or else overtopped by a radical third party. The Democratic party has been practically wiped out in the Northwest through the rise of radicalism, and what has happened in these states may be repeated on a national scale in the near future. Six months ago it appeared probable that Mr. McAdoo would be the discard. The pressing fact that they not moved by the actions they so blatantly believe that a holier-than-thou, putation that will personally at the expense No one begrudges them the right to advocate like; the people may they cease being held ble-crossers and get platform and stand office. The next few years hard ones for the and confidence men men and women who or Democrats from than for office, are axes for the windlionists who are very everything and even satisfy their own personal power. Men who get into cans, and then proceed loyalty to the party its program, are he treated as traitors to public men and heretofore endured errations of certain alarms in the vain thing might come if it other than disfruit The regularity of whereby their loyalty subvert the print the power of the principles into practice be taken for granted 1924 the work Aaron Burrs and of Republicanism and the work will be finished. That Senator Borah will play a conspicuous part in the Republican convention seems assured. The best judgment just now is that he will either be chosen permanent chairman in which event he would make the keynote speech, or that he will be selected to nominate Mr. Coolidge. The fact that he is a progressive, albeit a sane one, is pretty certain to make him at least an important factor. Mr. Coolidge is working assiduously on the draft of the platform and there is every reason to expect that he will be nominated very much on his own platform, whether it is entirely pleasing to the other party leaders or not. "It is incredible that a system of taxation which permits a man with an income of $1,000,000 to pay not a cent to the support of his Governmnet should remain unaltered," declared Secretary Mellon in his new book, on taxation, but that is precisely the situation which the Democrats who are fighting the Mellon plan are trying to perpetuate. The Democratic minority declared in their report that "the value of all tax-exempt securities held by these decedents (with gross estates of $2,879,372,168) was not sufficient to pay the funeral and administrative expenses." Mr. Mellon comes back with the official record of the estate tax of the late William Rockefeller. His estate comprised $44,000,000 of tax-exempt securities and only $7,000,000 of Standard Oil stock. While alive he paid taxes on an income of perhaps $426,000 from his Standard Oil stock, but did not pay one penny of taxation on an income of probably $1,760,000 invested in tax-exempt securities. This is what Secretary Mellon would have corrected, but which the Democrats and the insurgents are fighting to perpetuate. After bringing Mrs. Hamon-Rohrer, it must be recognized, would be a handicap; but the two together would, in the judgment of the wisest Democrats, insure defeat. There are other reasons for the activity of the Smith boom just now, however. One is the anxiety of the New York Democrats to clinch the elimination of McAdoo. The other is the determination of Tammany to exercise sufficient influence in the convention to enable it to dictate to the successful candidate. Six months ago it appeared probable that Mr. McAdoo would be the Democratic candidate. He would have been, except for the revelations during the Walsh committee hearings, a formidable contender for the Presidency in November. He was effecting a combination of radicals and the speculators who flourished at Washington during the Wilson era, which would have been a real menace. Such a campaign would have been heavily financed, and had the support of the professional labor politicians with all their vast agencies of publicity and organization. The revelation that Mr. McAdoo made huge fees by putting over things for big business under the Wilson administration, through the capitalization of his former cabinet post, blew up the false pretense that Mr. McAdoo was the unselfish apostle of the proletariat. The Democratic politicians who joined with the radicals and launched the scandal campaign were hanged on their own gallows. Here was a striking case of retributive justice. The radical politicians do not seem to have yet awakened to the fact that the people are tired of their stuff. Demagogism is periodically popular, but the disease, like the "flu", while it rages violently for a while, soon runs its course. The American people do not long lose hold of common sense. Those who rely on ignorance prejudice and inability to detect hypocrisy as a means of getting on soon find that periods of hypocrisy and hysteria do not last long in American politics. The people sent quite a number of radicals to Congress in 1922 in the belief that they would at least try to do something to remedy the evils, real and imaginary, these politicians bellowed about in the last campaign. These radicals have had control of both branches of Congress, in combination with the Democratic membership of Congress, for more than a year, and the whole result is the development of a noisy but empty outburst of campaign thunder. No effort whatever has been made by these radicals to do anything for the good thing might come it other than disarray. The regularity of whereby their loyalty to subvert the print power of the principles into practice be taken for granted grace 1924 the work Aaron Burr and of Republicanism and the work will finished. There is time left politicians who have an advanced stage mend their ways in good graces of President Coold ought to teach some portunists. Old-fashioned faithfulness horse sense are cozy. The lesson is obvious even to those who questions only in t GRADE CROSS 1. Grade separa 30, 1912, 136. 2. Grade separa 30, 1912, 275. 3. Grade crossin last eight years, m 4. Estimated c California's grade 000. 5. Estimated co crossings with wig 6. Automobiles 1907, 10,020. 7. Automobiles 1914, 123,516. 8. Automobiles 1924, more than 1, 9. One person at grade crossings. 10. One person and one-half days. The foregoing f in a comprehensio grade crossing situ read at a national crossings, held at Lester S. Ready, the Railroad Com So important ha ing problem beco United States tha sociation of Railw missioners called the purpose of att amelioration, and protection of grad their elimination. Chief Engineer formula commission After bringing Mrs. Hamon-Rohrer, widow of the late Jake Hamon, all the way to Washington at the expense of the tax-payers, to testify in his oil "investigations," Senator Walsh declined to question her and she was allowed to return to Oklahoma (expenses again paid by tax-payers) unquestioned. The committee had listened to all sorts of hearsaay evidence as to what the late Jake Hamon had said, as to what someone heard that Hamon had said, etc., but when his widow, who probably knew something absolutely first hand about Hamon's financial affairs, came to testify the Montana statesman sent her away unquestioned. She probably would have exploded his beautiful fairy stories about Jake Hamon's alleged buying of the Harding's nomination. She might—and probably would—have told Senator Walsh that it was all bunk—as it was. The federal grand jury is sitting on the oil cases in Washington and Senator Pomerene and Owen Roberts, the special Government counsel, are presenting the facts on which they will ask indictments. Technically, the case is now known as "The United States gainst Albert B. Fall." Considering the intricacies of the case and the ramifications of the evidence, competent judges declare there is no basis for criticism on the President's special counsel on the ground of un- ANAHEIM GAZETTE the discard. The people are recognizing the fact that these renegades are not moved by the anxiety to serve the people they so blatantly profess, but merely believe that it will give them a holier-than-thou, I love-the-people reputation that will advance them personally at the expense of their party. No one begrudges these plous pretenders the right to advocate anything they like; the people merely demand that they cease being hypocrites and double-crossers and get out on their own platform and stand independently for office. The next few years are going to be hard ones for the political charlatans and confidence men. The millions of men and women who are Republicans or Democrats from conviction, rather than for office, are sharpening their axes for the wind-jamming destructionists who are willing to sacrifice everything and everybody in order to satisfy their own insatiable lust for personal power. Men who get into office as Republicans, and then proceed to practice disloyalty to the party, its principles and its program, are hereafter going to be treated as traitors by millions of Republican men and women who have heretofore endured the egotistical aberrations of certain political falsealarms in the vain belief that something might come to the party from it other than disruption and defeat. The regularity of such Republicans, whereby their loyalty to party is used to subvert the principles and destroy the power of the party to put these principles into practice, can no longer be taken for granted. In this year of grace 1924 the work of cleaning out the Aaron Burrs and Benedict Arnolds of Republicanism is going to begin, and the work will continue until it is finished. control over laying out subdivisions so that streets or highways should be planned to reduce public crossings to a minimum. Use of red lights on highways should be limited as a stop signal at crossings. Tail lights of automobiles, lights for road curvature warnings, etc., should be orange. Use of advertising signs representing semaphore signals, wigwag signals, crossing signs, or other danger signals should be prohibited on highways. SUPERVISOR'S PROCEEDINGS The applications for State Aid of Fera L. Zerkel and Fay Tussey were granted. Chas. D. Brown, Public Administrator and Coroner, was granted a thirty days leave of absence, from the State. The County Auditor was ordered and directed to draw a warrant for Registration Clerks as set forth in certified list presented by the County Clerk. Map of Tract No. 667 was ordered received by the Board and the same referred to the City Engineer of the City of Huntington Beach. It was ordered that the assessment against Felipa Y. Dominguez, et al, found in Volume 11. Page 295, of the 1923-24 assessment rolls, be cancelled. Spraying licenses were ordered issued to P. C. Hilyard. Resolution in the matter of Road District Improvement No. 24 was adopted by the Board. pared to the record of March a year ago, when 729 companies with a total capital of $500,819,000 were incorporated. The latest United States foreign trade figures available, covering eight months prior to March, show an increase of exports of manufactured goods of more than $100,000,000 over the same eight months of the preceding year, while imports of manufactured goods for the same periods showed an increase of $63,000,000. Both the balance and the improvement are strongly in our favor. A local item, of especial interest to Chicago, but also of interest to the country as illustrating sound business conditions, is in the report of building plans. Permits issued last March total $30,371,447, as against $26,712,900 for March a year ago, and against $18,694,400 for February of this year. Not so bad. Evidently the country isn't going to the dogs immediately. Almost everywhere the death rate would have been too high, even with out the assistance of the motorcar speeders. The money you are supposed to get easily you never get—hardly. Change now to the brand that never changes and you'll never change again. GRADE CROSSING FACTS 1. Grade separations since March 30, 1912, 136. 2. Grade separations prior to Mar. 30, 1912, 275. 3. Grade crossings installed during last eight years, more than 120. 4. Estimated cost of eliminating California's grade crossings, $500,000,-000. 5. Estimated cost of protecting all crossings with wig-wags, $8,500,000. 6. Automobiles in California in 1907, 10,020. 7. Automobiles in California in 1914, 123,516. 8. Automobiles in California in 1924, more than 1,200,000. 9. One person injured every day at grade crossings. 10. One person killed every two and one-half days at grade crossings. The foregoing facts are contained in a comprehensive report on the grade crossing situation in California read at a national conference on grade crossings, held at Chicago, by Mr. Lester S. Ready, Chief Engineer of the Railroad Commission. So important has the grade crossing problem become throughout the United States that the National Association of Railway and Utility Commissioners called this conference for the purpose of studying plans for its amelioration, and of methods for the protection of grade crossings, and of their elimination. Chief Engineer Ready of the California Commission points out that due it was ordered that the assessment against Felipa Y. Dominguez, et al., found in Volume 11. Page 295, of the 1923-24 assessment rolls, be cancelled. Spraying licenses were ordered issued to P. C. Hillyard. Resolution in the matter of Road District Improvement No. 24 was adopted by the Board. It was ordered to reconsider rejection of Pool Room License for S. Ybarra and it was ordered that a pool room license be issued. A resolution was adopted in the matter of the Greater Los Angeles Association. The County Auditor was directed to draw a warrant in favor of the Greater Los Angeles Industrial Association, for $250.00, on the advertising fund to be used for advertising Orange County. The Chairman was authorized to send a telegram to Dr. U. G. Houck to direct quarantine regulations in this county. The County Auditor was directed to draw a warrant for $1500.00 in favor of Antolnette Hall, for the purchase of certain real property. A resolution was adopted for the Closing of Trabuco, San Juan Hot Springs, and Santiago Canyon Roads. Order appointing Engineer of Work and Resolution ordering Work in the matter of Road District Improvement No. 24 was adopted by the Board. NOT SO BAD Business nervousness, due in part to scandal mongering in Washington in part to uncertainty in the tax outlook, and in part to the political uneasiness, of a presidential campaign year is undoubtedly making itself felt throughout the country. In such circumstances it seems proper topoint out a few more optimistic items of news and evidence of a sound basis of American prosperity. In the month of March 717 new companies in various lines of business, with a total capital of $808,923,700, were incorporated. That may be com- So important has the grade crossing problem become throughout the United States that the National Association of Railway and Utility Commissioners called this conference for the purpose of studying plans for its amelioration, and of methods for the protection of grade crossings, and of their elimination. Chief Engineer Ready of the California Commission points out that due to the tremendous increase in automobile traffic, and the number of grade crossings caused by the development of the states, and lack of funds to finance separation of grades at grade crossings, the fight for the elimination of grade crossings is a losing one on the Pacific slope. Mr. Ready made the following recommendations: Separation of grades where justified, as speedily as possible. Installation of wig-wags where necessary. Placing wig-wags properly illuminated, in center of street where possible. Ideal advance warning from 25 to 30 seconds. Installation of human flagmen at hazardous crossings, all locations where automatic flagmen are not practical. Removal of all obstructions to clear view of crossings. Elimination of sudden changes in grade at crossings. Reduction of grades in excess of six per cent at crossings to not more than four per cent. 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