anaheim-gazette 1926-10-28

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Proprietor ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR $3.00 SIX MONTHS 1.25 THREE MONTHS .75 Entered at the Anaheim, California, Post Office as second class matter. VOTE DOWN THE GAS TAX UNLESS Southern Californians assume their sovereign rights to express themselves at the polls November 2, they will again be out-voted by the northern counties, according to the showing made at the primary election. Although there were 36,317 more registered voters in the 13 southern counties than in the northern 45 counties, the north polled 139,836 more votes than did the south. The total registration in the state for the primary election was 1,854,471, but the total vote case was 1,031,900, or less than 56 per cent of the persons entitled to vote. In Southern California there were 940,394 voters registered, and of these only 446,032 cast their votes, or a few more than 47 per cent of the total. In northern California there were 914,077 registered and of these 585,868 cast their votes, or nearly 64 per cent of the total. As analyzed by the Automobile Club of Southern California, this means that unless Southern California voters go to the polls November 2 and vote to protect themselves, selfish interests of the north will be able to put over the gas tax increase admendment No. 4. This means in dollars and cents that in the next twelve years Southern Californians will be called upon for more than $6,000,000 a year that will be expended on highways in the north, most of which are of merely local importance. This notwithstanding the fact that the taxable wealth of the state is equally divided between the two districts. Thus the north has equal ability with the south to build its own roads. Briefly summed up by the motoring organization, the present situation demands that Southern Californians not only must go to the polls and vote against the gas tax increase, but also must vote for the state highways measure No. 8, which will take the state highway system out of politics, will complete the unfinished road. the north will be able to put over the gas tax increase amendment No. 4. This means in dollars and cents that in the next twelve years Southern Californians will be called upon for more than $6,000,000 a year that will be expended on highways in the north, most of which are of merely local importance. This notwithstanding the fact that the taxable wealth of the state is equally divided between the two districts. Thus the north has equal ability with the south to build its own roads. Briefly summed up by the motoring organization, the present situation demands that Southern Californians not only must go to the polls and vote against the gas tax increase, but also must vote for the state highways measure No. 8, which will will take the state highway system out of politics, will complete the unfinished job of the state and will not increase the taxes on the motorist. Amendment No. 8 (state highways measure) insures an economic, constructive and business-like administration of the state highways, including the completion of the system. It is being fought by politicians because it takes the highways out of politics. Well-wishers of California should vote for No. 8, which insures a square deal for every part of the state. CONFIDENCE IN COOLIDGE BOTH the Republican and Democratic chiefs, at their several headquarters in Washington, New York and Chicago, are frankly admitting they are in a state of worry over the apathy of the voters. It may as well be confessed that no one of them has yet succeeded in working out the magic formula which will bring the voters to the polls. In diagnosing the situation, however, leaders of both political parties have reached one common conclusion; namely, that a considerable part of the apathy among voters is because of the confidence which they have in President Coolidge. The Democrats, with a rather sour grimace, are admitting that they have been frankly obliged to abandon anything which hinted at adverse comments on the President. They say they have tried it out in various instances, but the reaction was so strong that they wisely abandoned that course, and began to deliver their wrath and indignation at the managers of the Republican campaigns and at the individual candidates whom they were opposing. They admit privately among themselves a considerable number of Democrats have so fine an admiration for the President, that while pledging their party allegiance for future contests, they have really determined and decided to remain away from the polls and not even vote for the Democratic candidates in the coming contests. On the Republican side, confidence in the President has really solidified the activities of the most earnest enthusiasts. In brief, satisfaction with and confidence in President Coolidge is so general, that the people have relegated the congressional elections to the side lines, and are refusing to become excited over it. VOTE FOR PROPOSITION NO. 22 PROPOSITION No. 22 on the November ballot was passed unanimously by the Senate at the last session of the legislature for the purpose of promoting reforestation in California. The amendment was carefully drawn, following several conferences at which the suggestions of all forestry interests, federal, state and private were combined to give California forestry legislation that would promote reforestation without injury to the counties in which the reforesting lands were located. Some of the strongest supporters of the amendment were representatives from the mountain counties, who realized that their counties would be handicapped in the future unless the state made private reforestation possible. PROPOSITION No. 22 on the November ballot was passed unanimously by the Senate at the last session of the legislature for the purpose of promoting reforestation in California. The amendment was carefully drawn, following several conferences at which the suggestions of all forestry interests, federal, state and private, were combined to give California forestry legislation that would promote reforestation without injury to the counties in which the reforesting lands were located. Some of the strongest supporters of the amendment were representatives from the mountain counties, who realized that their counties would be handicapped in the future unless the state made private reforestation possible. Most of the timbered states in the Union now have forestry taxation measures, or are voting upon them this year, all measures designed to keep forest lands productive. On the ballot, the amendment is headed "Exemption of Forest Trees from Taxation," a title that is entirely misleading, as there is nothing in the amendment that would exempt existing commercial forest trees from taxation. The amendment strictly limits the exemption to immature trees. VOTE FOR PROPOSITION NO. 28 Orange county voters should support proposition No. 28, the last on the ballot, which provides a just and fair apportionment of the state of California. They should reject proposition No. 20, the so-called "constitutional" apportionment bill, which would give Los Angeles and San Francisco control of the legislature. Proposition No. 28 is fair to all. Proposition No. 20 is drawn in the interest of Los Angeles and San Francisco. Vote for proposition No. 28; defeat proposition No. 20. KILL THIS PROPOSITION VOTE "no" on Proposition No. 18, which seeks to saddle the state with a bonded indebtedness of $500,000,000 for a lot of socialistic nonsense. This nefarious proposition has been twice defeated by the voters of the state and, by a cardinal defect in the primary law, is now again submitted to the voters. It has been twice decisively defeated. It should be buried deep in its grave at next Tuesday's election. Vote "no" on proposition No. 18, and get your neighbors and friends to vote against it solidly. Kill it! THE QUESTION AT ISSUE The question before the American voters at next Tuesday's election is, do they favor a continuation of the policies of President Coolidge, or are they opposed to these policies? All other questions are merely side issues. Are the people with the President, or are they opposed to the President. We are for the President first, last and all the time. Amendment No. 22 Guards Young Trees Its Adoption Will Be Great Aid to Reforestation Work By a redwood tree nursery at Fort Bragg is a sign which says in substance that unless those young trees grow there'll be no Fort Bragg in the future. When the present ripe timber is exhausted, if there has been no replacement by replanting, the mills that make the town, the logging camps that bring income into that region, will shut down and go. The pine timber counties in California have already seen this thing happen in many places. Eagerly they encouraged the cutting of their splendid yellow pine and sugar pine because that meant a great air of business. But in time the pine was cut, the mill crews and the logging gangs moved on, the thimbleberry took the mill towns, the manzanita took the stump lands, and there was no business left, for the logged-off lands were worthless beyond a little sheep feed. These lands, in most cases useless for anything else, could raise sugar pine again, though they will not unassisted. But if you plant them to sugar and tend the plantation through the necessary years, the rising taxes as your pine orchards increase in value will eat them up several times over before the trees are big enough to cut. Taxation is the stumbling block to reforestation, but, except in special cases like our fast-growing redwood, there will be no reforestation so long as taxes have to be paid on the growing ree. There will be a constitutional amendment on the ballot in November, designed to remove this hindrance to reforestation without doing any damage in any direction. The measure has been carefully drawn and is approved by the federal and state forestry bureaus and the landowners' associations. Close nothing in the measure relieves land of taxes. No one can escape anything except taxes on growing trees, and trees that will not be growing unless encouraged by such a measure as this. If we want to see our timber lands restored and the lumber industry of California built eventually into a permanent one, we must exempt growing timber trees from taxation. That is the nub of the problem of reforestation. Proposition No. 22 would give to imature forest trees the same exemption now given to non-bearing fruit and nut bearing trees and to grape vines. The period of immaturity is set at forty years after planting, after which time it is subject to revision by a properly constituted board of appraisal. The question of the reforestation of our timber lands is one of the most vital and important questions before the American people today and is of particular importance in the state of California and in other western states. The time required to raise a crop of timber is from sixty to eighty years, and it is apparent that private capital could not expect to profitably carry out such an enterprise if it were required to pay taxes thereon over the long period of years. According to information received, this amendment practically writes into the state constitution the custom which is now in vogue in the various timber growing countries; that is, the taxation of the land and the exemption from taxation of the growing trees. In other words, it acts as a guaranty that money so invested will be tax free during the growing period. It is recognized that immediate and effective steps toward the reforestation of timber lands is necessary, and the only question involved in this case is whether or not this amendment provides for the carrying out of that purpose in the best way possible. Several objections have been made to this amendment, one of which was that it continues the policy of increasing tax exemptions. The members of your section, however, felt that this is not so much a question of tax exemption, but rather of encouraging the investment of properties which do not now and especially was he active in every dry movement. He was one of our dependable church men, and a man who never failed to see that justice prevailed. Mr. Allen helped the police in every way possible by coming into court and helping to convict the law breakers, in the absence of the City Attorney, making no charge whatever—just that the law might be enforced. I most sincerely recommend Attorney Allen to you for your endorsement and vote. I wish we had the opportunity to have this help here. He is a bone-dry man. Yours in His Service, (Signed) Mrs. C. Angle Miller. "Another measure which will come up at the coming election will be the act to legalize racetrack gambling, being No. 6 of the amendments. I am absolutely opposed to the passage of this act and can see no reason why it is necessary to permit gambling in the State for the purpose of raising funds to assist our disabled soldiers or agricultural interests. I believe that the people of the State of California are perfectly able to take care of the ex-soldiers and our agricultural interests without resorting to such methods." "Yery truly yours," (JAMES L. ALLEN.) (Authorized publicity) BRIDGE CONTRACTS LET The headquarters of the California highway commission Saturday announced the award of two maintenance contracts for the repair of bridges in Orange and Sonoma counties as follows: Orange County—Painting the Santa Ana river bridge on the Coast highway; awarded to the National Sand Blast Corporation of Los Angeles; bid $2070; engineer's estimate, $3960. Sonoma County—Repair of the Peta-luma, Creek bridge on the Black Point cutoff by erection of protecting dolphins, etc.; awarded to Healy Tibbitts Company of San Francisco; bid $10,-540; engineer's estimate, $13,930. The awards were made at a special meeting of the commission in San Francisco. The next regular meeting of the high- Taxation is the stumbling block to reforestation, but, except in special cases like our fast-growing redwood, there will be no reforestation so long as taxes have to be paid on the growing ree. There will be a constitutional amendment on the ballot in November, designed to remove this hindrance to reforestation without doing any damage in any direction. The measure has been carefully drawn and is approved by the federal and state forestry bureaus and the lumbermen's associations. Close scrutiny has found no joker in it. In brief, the measure proposes to exempt from taxation for a minimum period of forty years all immature forest trees either planted on lands not before forested or planted or of natural growth on forest lands from which at least 70 per cent of the merchantable timber has been cut. After the trees are forty years old, their maturity is subject to determination by a board consisting of a representative of the state board of forestry, one from the state board of equalization, and the assessor of the county involved. After they are pronounced mature the trees become taxable. This measure had to be designed to do several things in addition to promoting reforestation. A chief item was to remove the fears of certain counties containing large areas of cut-over lands that too great a proportion of their present taxable property would be taken out of taxation. This is achieved completely. You will notice that only the growing trees are relieved of taxation. The land itself goes on paying taxes as before planting. Thus the counties involved lose nothing in taxes that they have now, and in the end should gain a great deal. The measure also had to take care that the reforester shall not be able, for speculative purposes, to hold his trees out of taxation indefinitely after they are mature. This seems to be abundantly safeguarded in the composition of the board, which can declare the trees mature after forty years. No possibility can be seen in the amendment that a landowner can take advantage of it to escape taxation. STATEMENT FROM J. L. ALLEN "Santa Ana, California, October 22, 1926 "Anaheim Gazette: "Being one of the nominees for the long term of Superior Judge of Orange County, I deem it perfectly proper to advise the readers of your paper just how I stand on certain measures now before the public to be voted on at the coming election. One of the measures to be voted on is, 'Shall the Wright Act be repealed?' I desire to place myself on record as being absolutely opposed to the repeal of the Wright Act or the passage of any law which would lessen the enforcement of the Volstead Act as now a part of the Constitution of the United States. Further, I desire to say that I have always been on the side of temperance and shall so continue to be. I am taking the liberty of quoting herewith a letter from Mrs. C. Angle Miller, Chairman of the Board of County Presidents of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Southern California: Mrs. Effie Nicholson. Local President. Santa Ana Union Dear White Ribbon Sister: I understand Mr. James L. Allen is one of your candidates for election November 2nd. Mr. Allen lived in Brawley a few years ago and was always found on our side of every moral question;" Orange County—Painting the Santa Ana river bridge on the Coast highway; awarded to the National Sand Blast Corporation of Los Angeles? bid, $2070; engineer's estimate, $3950. Sonoma County—Repair of the Petaluma, Creek bridge on the Black Point cutoff by erection of protecting dolphins, etc.; awarded to Healy Tibbitts Company of San Francisco; bid, $10,-540; engineer's estimate, $13,930. The awards were made at a special meeting of the commission in San Francisco. The next regular meeting of the highway commission will be held in San Francisco on October 29. Although most of the 1,600,000 motorists in this state have all they can do to pay the 2-cent gasoline tax, the license tax and property tax, the contractors and cement dealers of the state are trying to foist another $10,000,000 a year on them in the additional gas tax. This is known as proposition No. 4 on the ballot November 2, the gas tax increase. Vote against it. In the long run— there's no better and safer investment than a savings account in a strong financial institution like Bank of America. Property can depreciate in value—bonds and mortgages have their ups and downs—stocks fluctuate in value and involve various risks—but a savings account is thoroughly safe, does not decrease in value, is always available and its yield is certain, definite and steady. This bank pays 4% on savings accounts, compounded twice yearly. BANK OF AMERICA COMMERCIAL—SAVINGS—TRUST Head Office, 76a South Broadway ANAHEIM BRANCH E. E. 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