anaheim-gazette 1926-12-02

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Proprietor ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR $2.00 SIX MONTHS 1.25 THREE MONTHS .75 Entered at the Anaheim, California, Post Office as second class matter. OUR RUSSIAN TRADE THE assertions of the friends of soviet Russia in the United States that our refusing officially to recognize the soviets is injurious to American trade with Russia, have been pretty well refuted by the figures. According to officials of the department of commerce who have given the matter careful study, the growth of our trade with soviet Russia is not dependent on our recognition of the communistic government. There is no relation between the two problems, department officials say, and there is no danger that by refusing to recognize the present Russian government and refusing to permit the new soviet minister to Mexico to come to the Unjted States, our trade with Russia will suffer. There is an old saying that the proof of the pudding is in the eating. The proof of the assertion by officials of the department of commerce is in the trade figures, and these figures show that American trade with Russia is now four times as great as it was in the years immediately preceding the World war. To be more exact, American trade with European and Asiatic Russia for the five pre-war years from 1910 to 1914 inclusive, averaged in round numbers, $23,600,000 in the way of imports from and $23,000,000 in exports to Russia from the United States. During the last fiscal year we sent to Russia the sizeable sum of $93,000,000 worth of goods and bought back from the Russians $24,000,000 worth. Now the United States is the one important nation which has not given some sort of official recognition to soviet Russia, and yet we sell her four times as much as we did in the last years of the czar. In addition it may be said that we are supplying Russia with 28.1 per cent of all of her imports. Our nearest competitors in this way are Great Britain, who supplies her with 15.6 per cent of her imports, and Germany, who sends her 14.5 per cent of the things Russia buys abroad. Both of these latter countries, it is to be remembered, have accorded official recognition to soviet Russia. But granting, for the sake of the argument, an argument refuted by the above figures, that the recognition of the soviets $93,000,000 worth of goods and bought back from the Russians $24,000,000 worth. Now the United States is the one important nation which has not given some sort of official recognition to soviet Russia, and yet we sell her four times as much as we did in the last years of the czar. In addition it may be said that we are supplying Russia with 28.1 per cent of all of her imports. Our nearest competitors in this way are Great Britain, who supplies her with 15.6 per cent of her imports, and Germany, who sends her 14.5 per cent of the things Russia buys abroad. Both of these latter countries, it is to be remembered, have accorded official recognition to soviet Russia. But granting, for the sake of the argument, an argument refuted by the above figures, that the recognition of the soviets would mean a little more export business for the United States. Along with recognition would come a feverishly increased activity on the part of the bolshevists in the United States. Our own communists would hail the recognition as a great victory for Russia and a weakening of the morale of the nationalists in the United States. The boring from within would continue with increased fervor, and the resulting unrest might easily do us a great deal more harm financially, as well as morally, than the increased export business would do us good. It is not in the least convincing to say that the communists have given up their program for a world-wide revolution. Recent developments in Great Britain refute the assertion. And we can look much nearer home than Great Britain. To the south, our sister republic, Mexico, is beginning to show visible evidences of what the communistic propaganda can do. Mexico seems to be traveling the right road to ultimate communism. And among the first effects of this is the falling off of business and a decline of industry. The United States, of course, would not be as easy to subvert to communistic documents as Mexico, but the trend of affairs in Mexico at least, shows that the bolsheviks have not given up their cherished world-wide program, and we want to keep the door closed against it. MORE LAWS COMING Now that the election is over and the issues and the fortunes of the various candidates have been settled for the next two years, there is about to come to us again the season of lawmaking. Soon Congress will be in session, and then will come the meetings of the various state legislatures, all anxious to get the old legislative hopper ready to grind out laws by the hundred, laws for the regulation of the people and their business, and laws which a great many of us unfortunately will prepare to dodge whenever possible. For the season of lawmaking always follows the election. Some of the experts on the subject are now predicting that at least 15,000 new laws will be made for the American people within the next few months. cmfwypcmfwypm the next few months—15,000 new laws to be added to the statutes which we now seem to be unable to enforce. This number may seem to be tremendous, but it may turn out that it is a conservative guess. In addition to our Congress there will be about forty legislatures in session. These law-making bodies turned out in the neighborhood of 14,000 laws two years ago and there seems to be no reason why they will not exceed this record in the coming year. Just why we have to have so many new laws nobody seems to know. It would seem that legislators have a sort of mania for turning out new laws. They make the best sort of resolutions about fighting all unnecessary legislation, but when the boys get together down at the same capital a veritable epidemic of law-making always breaks loose. Sometimes perhaps the realization will come to us generally... This number may seem to be tremendous, but it may turn out that it is a conservative guess. In addition to our Congress there will be about forty legislatures in session. These law-making bodies turned out in the neighborhood of 14,000 laws two years ago and there seems to be no reason why they will not exceed this record in the coming year. Just why we have to have so many new laws nobody seems to know. It would seem that legislators have a sort of mania for turning out new laws. They make the best sort of resolutions about fighting all unnecessary legislation, but when the boys get together down at the same capital a veritable epidemic of law-making always breaks loose. Sometimes perhaps the realization will come to us generally that what we need is not new laws but a better enforcement of the laws already on the statute books with the repeal of those which are found obnoxious in the enforcement. True, the editorial writers in the newspapers point out these facts occasionally even now, but nobody seems to be able to do anything about it. So until there is a change, doubtless we will continue to pile up new laws, with the result that we shall increase the number of law-breakers and throw the law as a general proposition still further into public contempt. EUROPE IGNORES THE Old World's reactions to the debt-cancellation plea of ex-Secretary of War Newton D. Baker were neither marked nor significant. The British newspapers paid little attention to it. The politicians of Great Britain took the same position that Mr. Baker's utterances as a private citizen had no special importance. In France it was ignored or mentioned briefly, if at all. The Germans were not specially impressed, nor were the Italians. The Baker debt plea thus far has hardly stirred a ripple in London, Paris, Berlin and Rome, the four capitals most concerned with debts and reparations. Evidently Europe realizes the cancellationists in America are lonely and far-separated voices. Its statesmen understand that they must deal with the American congress and the debt commission and not with ex-officials and unofficial individuals. They have been misled so many times they are in no humor to be fooled again. Before pinning their hopes on the utterances of Americans not officially responsible they want definite proofs that the cancellationist is speaking for somebody other than himself or his own little group. Prospectors in northern Mexico have found a mineral that explodes. Sounds like they'd come across a case of petrified home brew. Forest Fire Burns Nearly 13,000 Acres Most Disastrous Blaze of Kind in History of County Official figures, as shown on the reports of the United States forest service, give the total acres burned over in what is designated as the Hathaway fire, in the Santa Ana mountains, as 12,280 acres. The cost of fighting the fire was about $20,000. "Of that 12,820 acres," said Forest Ranger J. B. Stephenson, of Corona, in charge of the Santa Ana mountains, "about 5000 acres was on private property, most of it on the Irvine ranch. About 7800 acres lies within the boundaries of the Cleveland national forest. Lying inside the national forest boundaries, in Orange county, are approximately 63,000 acres. The recent fire was almost all in this county. Less than 20 acres of the burn is in Riverside county." The first started on the morning of October 31, at the Hathaway cabin, in the Santiago canyon, a half mile above the Modjeska home place. In addition to the $20,000 expended by the forest service in fighting the fire, the federal compensation insurance department will have a substantial cost to meet for loss of life and for injuries sustained, by fire-fighters. Ranger Stephenson is today completing compensation papers for members of the families of two men, Ramon Hernandez of Placentia, who was burned to death when caught in the path of a wall of flame, and Angel Lopez, 112 Garfield street, who died at the county hospital of pneumonia. Lopez was away from home about 12 hours. His mother states that he caught a severe cold while fighting the fire, and that the cold turned into pneumonia. Lopez was unmarried. He was a native of Mexico. He lived here with his mother, brother and sister. Hernandez left a widow and no children. The acreage covered by the fire has been variously reported all the way from 13,000, which was Stephenson's estimate, to 50,000. The official report is accompanied by a map showing FARMERS' SALES ABROAD The American farmer knows by his own experience in recent years the truth of the conclusion that his sales abroad are not a measure of his prosperity. He need go back no further in his memory than 1921 to prove it. That year witnessed the greatest export of American farm products ever recorded. During that year the American farmer exported five times as much wheat as he averaged annual export of any previous five-year period, eight times as much rye, eleven times as many dairy products, and 80 per cent more meat products. But in 1921 farm prices were lower than they had been for over a decade, and the American farmer went "dead broke." Such experience proved beyond a doubt that it is not the American farmer's foreign markets, consuming not over 10 per cent of his total production, which is the measure of his prosperity! For one hundred years free trade or low tariff advocates have portrayed a protective tariff as the forerunner of high prices for manufactured goods, forcing upon the American people the burden of greatly increased living costs. That these predictions never came true, has not prevented politicians from reiterating them at every opportunity. The debate preceding the enactment of the Fordney-McCumber tariff was no exception. Senator Simmons, in leading the fight against the enactment of that tariff, made the prediction that if the bill became a law, prices would be increased from 25 to 75 per cent. He stated that if the proposed protective schedules were enacted American manufacturers would "jack up" their prices. This prediction was made in more detail by the New York World in the article referred to, which stated that in the event the Fordney-McCumber bill became a law— "The high cost of living will jump. A new tariff wall will be erected behind which war prices would be charged for food, all sorts of clothing, shoes, housing, and other necessities of life, without danger of competition. High duties are proposed upon cement, brick and other building materials, which would add to the already exorbitant building and housing costs." SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS The assessment on tract No. 99, etc., was ordered cancelled, being property of Orange county. The chairman was authorized to sign the agreement for sale of real estate with A. E. Dutzel, et ux, dated November 19, 1926, for the center one-half, being a strip 154.40 feet in width and running the full length of the four acres, more or less, on East Vermont avenue, for fully described in the agreement. Los Alamitos News (By DORA H. MARTIN) Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Reed, who have been living in this community since last spring, left on Tuesday for their new home near Escondido. Mr. and Mrs. George Martin and Elizabeth accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gilchrist an dson, James, to northern San Diego county on Friday. Miss Marion Watts spent the weekend in Los Angeles with her friend, Mrs. Fay Lightfoot. Mrs. C. M. Richardson and son, Charles, of San Diego spent the weekend at the George Martin home. The Willing Workers' Club met at the administration building, on the boulevard, on Tuesday afternoon, with Mrs. Mabel D. Church as hostess of the day. Plans for the bazaar to be held on December 11 were perfected. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Peck of Anaheim visited at the George Martin home Sunday. Mesdames James Watts and George Watts were shopping in Long Beach on Tuesday. The Woman's Improvement Club held its regular meeting at the clubhouse on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. William McOmie are visiting friends in Idaho. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. DeForest and son of Long Beach were guests of Mrs. George Martin Monday. European scientists blame the nearness of Mars for all the storms we are having. Why can't the defeated candidates blame the political storms on to the same planet? A Parisian writer says that the French are a nation of pessimists, and we think this must be so, especially when it comes to debt paying. Again We're Winners Of a Gold Medal Again We’re Winners Of a Gold Medal On Pasteurized Milk AT THE Pacific Coast Dairy Show Oakland, California Gold Medal Milk Can Be Delivered Daily to Your Home ANAHEIM CREAMERY 120 West Chartres Phone 668 Y and Saturday TWO DAYS MORE department throughout our ntinues to offer greater and as as Yungbluth's greatest nd. 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