anaheim-gazette 1926-09-23

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Proprietor Entered at the Anaheim, California, Post Office as second class matter. KNOCKING THE PRESIDENT CONGRESSMAN SWING, in his address at the Boulder dam meeting at Santa Ana on Saturday, referred to the President's "conversion" to the enterprise, giving out the intimation that the President had at some time or other expressed opposition to it. The trouble with Judge Swing is that he and his associates are making a political football out of a great national undertaking. By its employment they compassed the defeat of a good man for governor of this state, proclaiming him to be in opposition to the work, and nominating instead a man who had never expressed one single sentiment on the Colorado river situation, and had never been in these southern counties in his life until announcement of his candidacy for governor, some months ago. It is a powerful weapon and, placed in the hands of skilful politicians, may spell the defeat of any man up for public office. In fine, it holds Swing and his associates to be the only simon pure advocates of the Boulder dam, and whomever they may seek to defeat, as being against it. Yet, as Secretary Hoover said, early in the month, and as we have many times said in these columns, there is not a man, woman or child in Southern California who is not whole-heartedly in favor of conserving the waters of this great river. The Boulder canyon bill has laid in the House committee for six long and weary years. Swing has been utterly unable to get it reported out. Senator Shortridge was appealed to by Senator Johnson to get the bill reported out of the Senate committee, and, as State Highway Commissioner Edwards, addressing himself to Swing at the Young Men's Republican meeting last month emphatically declared, if Johnson wished to elect a friend of the Boulder canyon dam, he would be campaigning this state for Shortridge, instead of opposing his re-election. As Edwards further said, continuing his remarks to Swing, if Swing and Johnson had showed more friendliness to the President and his administration, instead of insidiously intriguing against him and assailing him, they would have been further along in getting the Boulder canyon bill enacted into law, that is true as Gospel writ. Swing observes that he will probably be able to get the bill reported out of committee in the coming short session, and Johnson has made the statement that the bill will be probably enacted into law; but this is going to prove to be a herculean undertaking, for there is much very important legislation to be considered, including all the great appropriation bills, and these Boulder canyon dam, he would be campaigning this state for Shortridge, instead of opposing his re-election. As Edwards further said, continuing his remarks to Swing, if Swing and Johnson had showed more friendliness to the President and his administration, instead of insidiously intriguing against him and assailing him, they would have been further along in getting the Boulder canyon bill enacted into law, that is true as Gospel writ. Swing observes that he will probably be able to get the bill reported out of committee in the coming short session, and Johnson has made the statement that the bill will be probably enacted into law; but this is going to prove to be a herculean undertaking, for there is much very important legislation to be considered, including all the great appropriation bills, and these will, to be sure, be given precedence over any measure not yet out of committee. Swing suggests a letter writing campaign, with everyone writing letters to members of congress, asking them to speed up action on the bill. But this practice has been found to be of doubtful value in the past, and it may be of little value in the future. We wish to assure Judge Swing that there is not a man of our acquaintance in this county who is not out and out in favor of the Boulder canyon dam, in favor of bringing water hitherward for domestic and irrigation purposes, in favor of developing the tremendous potential hydraulic power in the river, in favor of protecting the lands and properties of our neighbors in the Imperial valley from the danger of overflow and destruction. That has been their position from the inception of this discussion. We believe Swing knows this well, and we also believe that down deep inside of him he knows that the governor of this state is and always has been a consistent and ardent supporter of the Boulder canyon dam, the all-American canal and everything else connected with the enterprise. Neither Swing nor Johnson are more ardent supporters of these measures than is the governor of this state, but the political football was brought into play in an off-tackle buck and it succeeded in compassing his defeat, not for the specious and untenable reasons suggested in the campaign against him, but simply because they considered him a political enemy and wished to get him out of the way. It is a powerful weapon, and in their hands it may bring about defeat for any many seeking public office. This is not the first time Swing has insidiously made a sly thrust at the President. Of course, we know that three years ago a senatorial oligarchy existed at Washington, composed of Lodge, Moses, Johnson, Borah, La Follette, Frazer and others, determined to "get" the President, and this sentiment was reflected down into the House. Being a meek and lowly follower of Senator Johnson, Swing became imbued with this spirit, and it seems he has not yet got the virus out of his system. He will have nothing but words of commendation in his efforts to get his bill reported out from people hereabout who are just as heartily in favor of the bill as he is himself, but we suggest to him that he profit by Highway Commissioner Edwards' advice and show a little more friendliness to the President, instead of taking a crack at him every chance he gets. Our word for it, Judge Swing will never get very far traveling along that thoroughfare. Let him not forget it. CONFIDENCE IN PRESIDENT DEMOCRATIC predictions and forecasts that the Quiet Man at the White House would suffer at the senatorial primaries have been discounted by the voters themselves at the polls. With that fine sense of the responsibility and obligations of his office, for which the President is noted, holding to the belief that in the election of co-ordinate officers of the government the people of the country are entitled to make their choice free of any direction or interference, he abstained from interference in th contests. CONFIDENCE IN PRESIDENT DEMOCRATIC predictions and forecasts that the Quiet Man at the White House would suffer at the senatorial primaries have been discounted by the voters themselves at the polls. With that fine sense of the responsibility and obligations of his office, for which the President is noted, holding to the belief that in the election of co-ordinate officers of the government the people of the country are entitled to make their choice free of any direction or interference, he abstained from interference in th contests. It was natural for the senatorial candidates, and they were within their rights, to urge their allegiance to the President as one of the primary reasons for their return, and this had its effect at the polls. In attempting, however, as has been done, to construe the nomination of certain candidates as victories or defeats for certain legislative measures which the President has endorsed, the political diagnosticians have gone a bit afield. The truth is the renominations were made by the people because wholly apart from the attitude of the senators on the World Court, the feeling was current they were one with the President in sympathetically supporting his general conduct of the affairs of the nation. In short, only one conclusion can honestly be reached, that the people in their renominations have once again made evident their confidence in the President and the character of the administration. PAYING THE PUBLIC DEBT SENATOR SIMMONS of North Carolina, who recently issued a curious brief arguing that we were paying off the national debt with too great a speed, and that we should leave something for future generations to meet, has been answered directly by the President. The President reaffirms the position he has maintained from the beginning that next to keeping his business going, the first charge on a good businessman is to clear up his debts. There is no profit in paying interest on a public debt, and the President believes that the sooner the debt is disposed of the better it will be for the people who will be able to keep in their pockets the money which they are now obliged to pay to the government in taxes. When it is appreciated that even at 3 per cent the interest on $1,000,000 of public debt is $30,000 a year, not many words are required to convince the average citizen and taxpayer that a great public debt is not a thing to cherish and keep in the household. The sooner it is put out of doors, the better. ANAHEIM GAZETTE The Purdy's by Paul Robinson PUBLISHERS ADTOCASTER SERVICE HIG. U.S. PUBLIC OFFICE MY RELATIONS ARE JUST AS GOOD AS YOURS EVER THERE BEAUTY! YOU CAN'T RUN THEM DOWN AND GET AWAY WITH IT EITHER. THEY MAKE ME SICK! DO YOU MEAN TO SAY MY FOLKS MAKE YOU SICK? SMACK! BANG BOOM BIFF SMACK I'M SORRY—LET'S STOP RIGHT NOW BEFORE WE GET IN AN ARGUMENT! SUITS ME POWER DEMANDS SHOW EXPANSION operation early in 1928. A huge distributing station is being planned to serve the rapidly growing industrial district southeast of the city, and another large new substation will be erected in the neighborhood of Plan for Planting Avocado Orchards POWER DEMANDS SHOW EXPANSION Southern California Edison Co. Figures Prove Rapid Growth That Southern California continues to be the white spot is demonstrated by a report just compiled showing the output of electric plants for the entire state. This analysis shows that electricity generated and consumed in the southern portion of the state increased 12.33 per cent for the first six months of 1926, while the increase in the state as a whole was 11.99 per cent, says R. H. Ballard, manager of the Southern California Edison Company. Further examination of this report shows that the southern section, in the same period, has generated 8 per cent more electricity than the northern portion and that the southern district, in the month of June, shows a gain of 18.27 per cent, while the northern part shows a gain of 11.62 per cent. In the past 12 months, 238,488 horsepower of new business has been added to the system of the Southern California Edison Company. This is an increase of 58 per cent over the general average since 1923, while the use of electricity among all its consumers is 8 per cent higher than the average for the past four years. This latter figure is the true index of commercial and industrial activity, as it shows that manufacturing plants in the Southland are busy. To keep pace with this continued demand for electricity in Southern and central California, the Edison company is now engaged in making several major additions to its generating and distributing systems. Among these is a third high voltage transmission line from the company's Big Creek-San Joquin river development to Southern California. This line, costing $5,000,000, is 250 miles long and will have capacity to transmit 200,000 horsepower. The first section, extending from Bakersfield to Los Angeles, is nearly finished, and the entire line will be ready for operation early in 1928. A huge distributing station is being planned to serve the rapidly growing industrial district southeast of the city, and another large new substation will be erected in the neighborhood of Visalia, to provide added service for Kings, Tulare and Kern counties in the San Joquin valley. For local distribution throughout the territory supplied by the Edison company some 25 important substations are now in process of erection. That everyone in this part of the state benefits from the construction activities of our utilities is indicated by another report just compiled, which shows that in 1925 the Edison company alone bought materials and supplies fro mover 15,000 separate concerns for a total of $15,000,000. Some of these items are unbelievably large, until one stops to think of the thousands of workmen in the mountains who live in the company camps or purchase their supplies through the company's commissary department. This explains what happened to $34,642 of clothing $171,522 of meats; $230,738 in groceries and $52,243 of tobacco and candy. New Stunt Planned For Auto Drivers Every operator of a motor vehicle will be master of his own driving destinles if the plan of E. S. Thayer of Los Angeles becomes effective in California. Thayer, while in Sacramento, submitted to Will H. Marsh, chief of the division of motor vehicles, a design of tri-colored operator's license card made in three sections which contemplates the surrender of one section of the card to the peace officer upon each violation by the operator. If convicted, the court forwards the card to the division-of-motor vehicles. Two sections remain with the operator until such time as he is again apprehended when the second section is taken up and the process is followed as in the case of the first violation, leaving but one card with the operator. Upon a third conviction the operator finds himself without a card and without authority to drive upon the highways. Plan for Planting Avocado Orchards Agricultural Department Gives Results of Studies A new plan for planting avocado orchards is suggested by the United States department of agriculture as a result of studies of the flowering habits of the avocado. The investigations which were carried on in co-operation with the New York botanical gardens brought out the fact that self-fertilization occurs to only a limited extent, except under favorable conditions of weather and insect abundance. Moreover, the avocado has two sets of flowers which open and close at definite periods. These periods vary in different varieties. One group of varieties opens its flowers in the morning, during which opening the stigma is capable of being pollinated, but as there is no pollen shed until the second opening in the afternoon, fertilization does not take place. The other group reverses the process. Hence it is suggested that solid plantings of one variety be abandoned and a new plan of planting to mixed compatible varieties be adopted. Pollen from the morning pollen-shedding varieties would be carried to the receptive, stigmas of the other group by insect pollinators, and the process would be reversed in the afternoon. More than 100 avocado varieties have been studied in California and Florida and classified as to their flower periods. It is worthy of note, says the department, that approximately 50 per cent fall into each of the two classes, thus affording a large number of varieties from which to select for mixed plantings. Little is known as yet concerning the best combinations of varieties but further studies will be made to secure this information. In the light of recent data secured, it is decidedly unwise to make solid plantings of a single variety or of varieties all of one class. TROUBLE IN THE DRESSING ROOM By A. B. CHAPIN WELL —!! BRING ON YOUR SCRAPPER YANKS AMERICAN LEAGUE WORLD SERIES OBSERVATIONS BY A CONTRIBUTOR WON'T HOLLER DOWN HIS RAIN-BARREL IN PERAMBULATING up and down the highways and byways, a fellow does not need a spy-glass, or does not necessarily have to be a seer, to learn that the recent primary election created a number of queer bedfellows and, now that the bed is made, refuse to lie in it. There are many Republicans who stand pat on national policies, but these same men choose to range out when it comes to naming county or state officials. There are many who vouchsafe the assertion that there is a bad split in the ranks, although the short-enders cannot be classed as bad losers, and thereby hangs a tale. You do not have to scratch very deep under the surface to find out that a certain choice at the top of a ticket does not set well with a whale of a lot of fellows who have no axe to grind, but who get into the game to get a kick out of it. And now that the fireworks have started, it looks like the name of a man at the head of the opposition forces is going to be handed around quite frequently by those who think he will knock the coveted persimmon, and these fellows want to climb up in his apple tree. TAKE 'EM UNDER YOUR WING To a disinterested observer there are many taxpayers in the northern end of the county who are dead set against voting any more bonds for Newport harbor. A well-known citizen of the county—a resident of one of the coastal towns—advances an interesting and a logical solution to this much discussed question. The gentleman suggests that Santa Ana annex Newport Beach and all intervening territory, and then vote the necessary bonds to build the harbor. At the recent bond election the county seat town and the sections nearby rolled up a majority for the harbor bonds. That prosperous and wealthy area could easily take care of a two or three million dollar bond issue for the creation of the harbor. It would be money well spent, and the increment to their assessed valuation would in time indirectly pay for the improvement. To ask the whole county to take care of the bond issue is too wieldy, and it is doubtful if the proposition could ever receive the necessary two-thirds vote. Should Santa Ana be able to engineer this problem and make the harbor a certainty, the city would be acclaimed as one of the best cities in the universe, and many old-timers believe it would really put the town on the map in great big letters. SITTING PRETTY planting avocado department Gives of Studies that prosperous and wealthy area could easily take care of a two or three million dollar bond issue for the creation of the harbor. It would be money well spent, and the increment to their assessed valuation would in time indirectly pay for the improvement. To ask the whole county to take care of the bond issue is too wieldy, and it is doubtful if the proposition could ever receive the necessary two-thirds vote. Should Santa Ana be able to engineer this problem and make the harbor a certainty, the city would be acclaimed as one of the best cities in the universe, and many old-timers believe it would really put the town on the map in great big letters. SITTING PRETTY A DAILY paper in a big town up the boulevard the other day printed a piece about a fellow who, it is said, operates a fleet of trucks, but you seldom see his name among those present in the police courts. Maybe it is because he is hard to find—a parable somewhat like a queen bee in the middle of a bunch of hive dwellers. Sometimes those on the outer edge kill each other off, but the hoarding of the honey going on forever. And again, lots of humans get stung, too, if they come in contact with the business end of a bee, and it also happens that they have mental suffering when they even look upon the sweet nectar. And, as the legend runs, it is of record that bees, when disturbed, will assemble and follow the leader to parts unknown; but in this particular instance it is unlikely that there will be any ocular demonstration of any swarming among the insects, while the honeysuckle vine around the cabin door does twine, and the customers are waiting for their pints. OPENED BY MISTAKE ENFORCEMENT of the curfew law in an eastern city has its drawbacks. Recently over-zealous policemen picked up a bevy of little flappers in short skirts, rolled stockings, bobbed hair and carmined lips. Later the same children offered to smack the sassy faces of the cops and informed them they were mothers and grandmothers, and knew their way out. HIDE AND SEEK A WELL-KNOWN society woman, in a big town up the boulevard, reports the loss of $30,000 worth of diamonds, which she says were carried around in her handbag. There is an air of mystery about the loss, she says. Now, anyone who has $30,-000 laying around the house should be more careful. Some ladies hide their "joolry" in their stockings, others dump the gems in the flour barrel, while others put them in an old shoe under the bed. Uncle Reuben never could just quite understand why any woman should have $30,000 worth of diamonds, anyway. NOBODY HOME MAN was arrested recently who was declared to be tipsy with love.. It is related that early one morning the fellow was discovered in front of a show window making "gestures of love" at a wax figure. Finding that the sheik's adorable advances were not reciprocal, and as the mutual admiration was totally one-sided, the guy was goose-stepped to the hoosgow. FEARS UNITED STATES EFFICIENCY ADDRESSING the Williamstown Institute of Politics, Professor Moritz J. Bonn, noted German financial authority and expert international advisor, asserted that European nations are alarmed at the economic growth of the United States, and are instinctively drifting towards it. FEARS UNITED STATES EFFICIENCY ADDRESSING the Williamstown Institute of Politics, Professor Moritz J. Bonn, noted German financial authority and expert international advisor, asserted that European nations are alarmed at the economic growth of the United States, and are instinctively drifting toward an economic federation that may be directed against America. He expressed the opinion that this will be a federation of fear, not of genuine constructive cohesion and may result in a revolt of the debtor nations against the United States. Professor Bonn went on to say that the only remedy against this growing tendency in the international situation is economic disarmament; that is, the United States must take the lead in financial co-operation which will restore the economic balance of the world by re-establishing equality of opportunity for all the peoples. He emphasized the need to stop the hoarding of material resources as a part of preparedness for war. Professor Bonn asserted that the chief cause of this European envy is caused by the fact that the United States is actually in a fair way of solving the age-long problem of wealth and poverty—and the natural desire on the part of the United States, as expressed in American foreign and national economic policy, to protect this prosperity from the vicissitudes of the future. It will be recalled that President Wilson once asserted that "the danger of Germany to the world was not its militarism, but its remarkable efficiency." From Professor Bonn's viewpoint, Germany and the United States have simply changed positions. Sonoma Republican Body Not for Young The Republican central committee of Sonoma county, on Thursday, went on record as withholding its endorsement from the candidacy of C. C. Young for governor. The committee, in session at Santa Rosa, refused to adopt a resolution giving its endorsement to the lieutenant governor's candidacy. "The reason is that Young is not a Republican," said Walter F. Price, committee chairman "and the reason for that is that Hiram Johnson campaigned for him. This places Young in the category of an independent." The committee unofficially expressed a desire that James Quinn, Los Angeles former national commander of the American Legion, enter the gubernatorial face as an independent. I WANT FARMS for cash buyers. Will deal with owners only. R. Randolph Pepper Ridge. St Louis Mo. 4-3tp