anaheim-gazette 1927-12-15

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE ESTABLISHED 1870 HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Proprietor ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR.....$2.00 SIX MONTHS.....1.25 THREE MONTHS.....7.75 Entered at the Anaheim, California, Post Office as second class matter. TIME FOR ACTION PLANS for the preservation and further development of the American merchant marine are becoming more numerous every day. This is undoubtedly a healthful sign. It indicates that the people of the country are aroused to the necessity of doing something to preserve our marine and that their concern is finding expressin through the congressmen and senators from the various states. Some of the best minds in congress are preparing legislation dealing with the merchant marine problem and without doubt some sort of permanent merchant marine policy will be adopted at the present session of congress. Our lawmakers generally, according to the metropolitan press, have come to the conclusion that the merchant marine fog of uncertainty should be cleared up and a real program adopted during the present session of congress. It can be said in all fairness that the time is ripe for such program and that it ought not be long delayed if the American merchant marine is to be kept on the seas. For, according to shipping board statistics recently made public, foreign ships carried the greater part of our foreign commerce during the year 1926 and less than one-third of the American goods shipped abroad was handled by American vessels. It would seem that we ought to have a fifty-fifty break on carrying American goods, at least. "The analysis, the first of its kind compiled, showed that 5761 ships of thirty-two different countries participated in moving the American business of freight and passengers. "American ships numbered 1678, with an aggregate gross tonnage of 7,336,000. They were proportionately more numerous in the tanker traffic than in the other trades. Of a total of 594 tankers, aggregating 3,700,000 gross tons, trade in American waters, 250 aggregating 1,620,000 gross tons were American. "Of 444 combined passenger-cargo ships, aggregating 3,800,000 gross tons, 127 ships, aggregating 838,000 gross tons, were Amer- The analysis, the first of its kind compiled, showed that 5761 ships of thirty-two different countries participated in moving the American business of freight and passengers. "American ships numbered 1678, with an aggregate gross tonnage of 7,336,000. They were proportionately more numerous in the tanker traffic than in the other trades. Of a total of 594 tankers, aggregating 3,700,000 gross tons, trade in American waters, 250 aggregating 1,620,000 gross tons were American. "Of 444 combined passenger-cargo ships, aggregating 3,800,000 gross tons, 127 ships, aggregating 838,000 gross tons, were American. Of a total of 4000 general cargo carriers, aggregating 18,000,000 gross tons, 993, aggregating 3,640,000 gross tons, were American." "Thus it is seen,' the board said, 'that about 42 per cent of the tankers were American; 28 per cent of the combination passenger-cargo ships were American, and about 25 per cent of the general cargo vessels were registered in this country.'" The figures given are not reassuring from the American standpoint. There are so many arguments for the maintenance of the American merchant marine that it is difficult to see why any real American would be against a sensible and constructive plan looking toward this end. It is high time that congress is getting busy on the task, and we can feel confident that it will deliver the goods. EDUCATING FARM YOUTH Some of the necessity for the education of our farm youth and a description of the difficulties of rural education in some DANZ sells every piano himself. 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Mr. Tigert declares that the best qualification for American citizenship is broad mastery of the tools of learning. Speaking of the occupational change which has come in our population during the past hundred years, Mr. Tigert says: “In the United States eighty-seven per cent of all persons gainfully employed in 1820 were engaged in agriculture. In 1920 this percentage had been reduced to twenty-six. Stated differently, in 1820, eighty-seven per cent of productive effort was directed toward the production of the raw materials of food, clothing and shelter. In 1920, we had released two or three men engaged in producing agricultural commodities for productive effort in non-extractive industries, and though we have done this we yet produce sufficient for our own needs and remain the world's greatest exporter of agricultural commodities. We have been able to do this because our very efficient agricultural educational program has centered in productive efficiency. As a result, our agricultural workers, while comprising less than four per cent of the world's total, produce approximately twenty-five per cent of the world's supply of cereal crops, which constitute the bulk of the world's supply of agricultural commodities. The American farmer therefore produces more than six times as much per worker as the farmer of the world outside of the United States. "Because of this increased efficiency in production we have not lost relative producing power in the United States, although the percentage of workers that are engaged in agriculture has been reduced. In 1870, forty-seven per cent of gainfully employed persons in the United States were engaged in agriculture. This is 180 per cent of the percentage employed in 1820. The productive efficiency per person of agricultural workers in the United States rose over this period to 182 per cent of that of 1870. Relatively, we have a better supply of agricultural labor than in 1870, and no apparent national menace appears because of the exodus. If the process were hastened rather than retarded, the economic position of the farmer would undoubtedly be strengthened with no resulting danger to the nation." There seems, on the whole, scant need for indoctrination of farm youth so as to create a bias toward the farm on the score of national need for additional supplies of agricultural commodities. Let us consider, therefore, the policy on the purpose for which the public school was created." THE SUGAR BEET FARMER The campaign to protect the tariff rights of the American sugar beet growers should be one of the American people. THE SUGAR BEET FARMER The campaign to protect the tariff rights of the American sugar beet growers should be one of the American people. The sugar beet industry in America exists largely by reason of its tariff protection. The sugar beet farmer, living on the American standard, and paying the American wage scale to such help as he employs, is constantly battling against the large acreage, corporation-owned Cuban cane sugar producers who have at hand an inexhaustible supply of cheap peon labor which can be herded, coralled and harassed into intensive activity. In Colorado, Utah, the Dakotahs, Michigan, and other states which might be named, sugar corporations exist but only as refiners and marketers. The sugar beet itself, however, is produced by individual farmers, and the seizure of the market by low-priced cane sugar (which would be inevitable if the tariff were affected) would mean that this group of American farmers (and it is a very considerable group) would be absolutely eliminated, and their fields would become simply idle acres. 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