anaheim-gazette 1928-04-19

Hoover Firm for Protective Policy Recites the Benefit of a Tariff Law in His Speeches The Tariff and Agriculture Excerpt from radio address delivered in Los Angeles, California, October 29, 1924, closing the presidential campaign. "The Fordney tariff, passed by this Republican administration, is of more importance to the state of California than to any other single state in the Union. The Democratic party promises a speedy reduction of this tariff. Mr. LaFollette and the Third party are equally vigorous in their denunciation of it." "Both of these gentlemen denounce the Fordney tariff as the product of Wall Street and the 'citadel of privilege.' It is a curious fact, known to every student of American economics, that Wall Street is for free trade, and anyone who wishes to examine the question has only to study the three or four daily and weekly journals which emanate from that center. Wall Street has been increasing the denunciation of this Republican policy. Wall Street certainly has no interest in keeping up the tariff on California products. If there is any 'citadel' that will maintain this protection to every one of California's fundamental industries, I am for California keeping her representation in that citadel." "Both the Democratic and Mr. LaFollette's party have repeatedly denounced the tariff as 'an act to increase the price of what the farmer buys and reduce the price of what he sells.' We can prove the untruth of this statement right here in California with great precision. It is of vital importance that we should make this test for California will have a large voice in deciding whether or not President Coolidge is to remain President, and he is the sole candidate supporting this protective policy for California." "The Fordney tariff greatly increased the duties on the following commodities: Shelled almonds, walnuts, oranges, lemons, grange fruit, olives, apples, berries, the fundamentals necessary for the useful commodity known as 'bread and butter.' I found that a skilled mechanic in Italy could buy with his average weekly wages 240 pounds of this useful commodity, whereas a skilled mechanic in the state of California can buy 865 pounds, or over three times as much. I found a common laborer got 143 pounds of it in Italy as against 302 in California, or over twice as much. By taking the tariff off of California products you are being asked to reduce your standards of living and your wages down toward these levels." "The Fordney tariff greatly increased the duties on the following commodities: Shelled almonds, walnuts, oranges, lemons, grape fruit, olives, apples, berries, cherries, figs, peaches and pears, rice, beans and peas onions, barley, wheat and oats, sugar beets, dried and preserved fruits, poultry and eggs, butter, cheese, hay and hops, sheep and wool. If there is any important agricultural product of California that is not protected by the present tariff I do not know what it is. On the other hand, there is no tariff on agricultural implements, on breeding animals, on fertilizers, on oil or gasoline, on harness, and the kinds of lumber and cement used on the farms. Our prices on automobiles and sewing machines and others are the lowest in the world. "It must be evident that the real truth is 'this is an act to increase the price of everything the California farmer sells and reduce the price of what he buys.' Where is the 'citadel of privilege' in all this? If there is such a citadel, then the California farmer is sitting in the middle of it. In 1920 there were 517,000 people making their living directly from the protected agricultural industry in California. Today there are many more. Indirectly another half million are dependent upon the supply to the farmer, on the distribution, transportation, banking, and other necessary steps in marketing his products. This has been increased since the 1920 census. "If there is anything that the leaders of the Democratic party and the Third party have been certain about, it is that they are going to reduce or abolish the tariff on California products. They did practically demolish this protection in the Democratic Underwood tariff of 1913. If it had not been for the intervention of the war, with its shrinkage of European production and high demand for California products, our industries would have been destroyed. "It is the most vital matter in this whole campaign to us in California, because we have built here an agricultural industry peculiar to ourselves. Our agriculture is highly specialized. It represents an enormous invested capital per acre in cultivation, in land and water, power, and roads. It also represents the finest homes the finest intelligence, the highest skill, the finest civilization ever developed in agriculture in the whole United States—and in fact, there is no growth comparable with it at any place in the wide world. We have set a leadership in the development of agriculture. In the standards of living and comfort on our farms unparalleled in history. If we are to tear this down we should do it with our eyes open with full realization as to what it means." Cheap Insurance For Auto Drivers Richfield Oil Company Adopts Novel System of Protection In an effort to lessen the hazards of motor travel, the Richfield Oil Company of California announces through C. M. Fuller, its vice-president and general manager, a new policy of protecting the motoring public by the issuance of travel accident insurance through its service representatives. This plan, which goes into effect April 20, follows the completion of an arrangement between the Richfield Oil Company of California and the Federal Life Insurance Company of Chicago whereby the Richfield company will issue accident policies to any motorist. Policies may be obtained anywhere in California through any of the thousands of authorized Richfield dealers and representatives. The maximum coverage is $10,000, and the only cost will be a nominal charge of one cent for each policy issued. The life of the insurance is 72 hours from the date and hour of issuance. The holder is protected on either steam railroad or steamship; a maximum of $2500 for street railway motorbus, taxicab or elevator; and a maximum of $1000 for injury or fatality resulting while riding in a privately owned automobile. In a statement regarding this innovation Mr. Fuller says: "The Richfield Oil Company of California is sincere." It represents an enormous invested capital per acre in cultivation, in land and water, power, and roads. It also represents the finest homes the finest intelligence, the highest skill, the finest civilization ever developed in agriculture in the whole United States—and in fact, there is no growth comparable with it at any place in the wide world. We have set a leadership in the development of agriculture, in the standards of living and comfort on our farms unparalleled in history. If we are to tear this down we should do it with our eyes open with full realization as to what it means. "Let us have no illusions about this. The competitors of California for a market in our specialties are the countries surrounding the Mediterranean—Spain, Italy, Serbia, Turkey, Greece, and North Africa. The great market for California's surplus produce lies within 500 miles of the Atlantic seaboard. It is that market in the congested populations of the United States that makes the prices for California produce. Of the fruit shipped from California 65 per cent goes there. Yet transportation cost by sea from the Mediterranean to the heart of California's market is less than it is by rail from the state of California. It costs $1.40 a box of lemons from Los Angeles to New York and only 47 cents from Italy. It costs $1.25 a hundred pounds of dried fruit by rail to New York, it costs 55 cents from Greece. Rail transportation cannot compete with water. Wages of our railroads must be higher than Italian sailors. Not only is transportation cheaper, but the standards of living and the wages paid for labor in the Mediterranean are less than one-half of the standards that we have set in California as the minimum necessary for the civilization which we demand for our people. I recently had the occasion to investigate comparative wages in this section of Europe with those in the United States. Wage comparisons can not be truly made in the paper monies of these different countries. We must find a common denominator of what they can buy in each country. In order to find such a common denominator I adopted a mixture of 95 per cent flour and 5 per cent butter, as being The holder is protected on either steam railroad or steamship; a maximum of $2500 for street railway motorbus, taxicab or elevator; and a maximum of $1000 for injury or fatality resulting while riding in a privately owned automobile. In a statement regarding this innovation Mr. Fuller says: "The Richfield Oil Company of California is sincere in its desire to benefit the motoring public through this method of insurance. All motorists will be enabled to secure this new and inexpensive protection. There are no strings to it. We believe furthermore, that no departure in the field of automotive service holds greater possibilities for lessening the hazards if motor travel." The Richfield company, before completing its arrangements with the Federal Life Insurance Company made a thorough survey of the various forms of insurance. Experienced underwriters, who were of the opinion that it was impossible to offer protection of this character at such low cost have agreed that the policy now offered is one of the broadest and most generous of its kind in the field of travel accident coverage. The Federal Life Insurance Company is well known throughout the country and has already paid out more than $16,000,000 to its policy holders and their beneficiaries. The Richfield Oil Company believes that in its affiliation it is now offering the motorist not only a new and welcome safeguard, but the most logical and most readily available protection of its kind it is possible to secure. A scientist says that fifty billion electrons can sit on the point of a pin. But who wants to be an electron anyhow? Then there is another advantage in short hair. Since the women got to visiting the barber shops the barbers don't get to do all the talking. National Raisin Week, April 23-28 Gladys McConnell, Wampasac Baby Star, reminds the world that National Raisin Week will be celebrated April 23 to 28, with April 28 designated as National Raisin Day. Co-operating with the raisin growers of California, the Union Pacific System dining cars, hotels, and restaurants will serve special raisin dishes during the week. Miss McConnell also calculated that the 285,000-ton annual crop of raisins would make 1,140,000,000 ples or, placed one on top of the other, bilities are that in the event of the continuance of payments to us of the allied debts, the treasury will regulate its payments in such a manner as to make the debt hold out until such time as the European allies have met their obligations to us. In any event, the speed with which the war indebtedness is being liquidated indicates the tremendous resourcefulness of the country. Each DELINQUENT NOTICE Office of the Anaheim Eucalyptus Water Company, R. R. 3, Anaheim, Orange County, California. There is delinquent upon the following described stock on account of assessment No. 24, leased on the 12th day of March, 1928, the several amounts set opposite the names of the respective churchers as follows: Cert. No.of No. Shares Amt. Santos Hernandez ... 489 ... 1 $3.00 Shell Company of California ... 501 $\frac{1}{2}$ 1.50 Helen B. Russell ... 369 2 9.00 Helen B. Russell ... 370 2 6.00 Paul Kog or, et al... 454 5 15.00 Geo. C. Pickerling ... 339 8 24.00 Claus Hehrle ... 334 5 15.00 Eleanor Von Wedelstaedt ... 337 10 30.00 Eleanor Von Wedelstaedt ... 356 10 30.00 J. S. King ... 485 1 3.00 J. W. Marco ... 508 2 6.00 Nellie Cline ... 462 1 3.00 Ernest C. and Nellie D. Newell ... 474 1 3.00 J. R. and Josephine Watson ... 478 $1\frac{1}{2} 4.50 J. C. and Emma Willis ... 490 1 3.00 J. C. and Emma Willis ... 496 1 3.00 J. C. and Emma Willis ... 507 4 12.00 And in accordance with law and order of the Board of Directors, on the 12th day of March, 1928, so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be necessary will be sold at the office of the Anaheim Eucalyptus Water Company, at the pumping plant, R. R. 3, Anaheim, Orange County, California, on the 14th day of May, 1928, at the hour of 8 P.M. to pay deliquent assessments Gladys McConnell, Wampasac Baby Star, reminds the world that National Raisin Week will be celebrated April 23 to 28, with April 28 designated as National Raisin Day. Co-operating with the raisin growers of California, the Union Pacific System dining cars, hotels, and restaurants will serve special raisin diehes during the week. Miss McConnell also calculated that the 285,000-ton annual crop of raisins would make 1,140,000,000 ples or, placed one on top of the other, would make a pile 2250 nails high or the distance over the Union Pacific from Los Angeles to Chicago. THE PUBLIC DEBT The recent figures given out by the treasury indicate how rapidly the debt incurred by the great war is being liquidated. It should be recalled that the cost of the war did not end at the time of the armistice. The last great loan, the Victory loan, was raised after the war was over. The money was largely used to rehabilitate the allies, and to help them on to a financial footing. The total debt incurred by our participation in the war amounted to some twenty-four billions of dollars. The debt today stands about eighteen billion of dollars. This makes a reduction of about one-quarter of the debt in somewhat less than ten years. If the reduction continues at this rate, the debt will be extinguished in about the year 1965. Most of the debts owe dus by our allies in the great war have been funded, and are expected to be paid by 1965. This would leave ten years of income toward the payment of the debt still continuing after we had paid it all. Of course, the proba- TELEPHONE FOUR-ATE Acme Cleaners and Dyers ELDO R. WEST, Proprietor. 920 N. 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