anaheim-gazette 1928-08-23

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE ESTABLISHED 1874 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. ENCOURAGEMENT FOR AGRICULTURE No one who has made a study of the situation will deny that there is a farm problem and that there has been a serious farm problem ever since the postwar deflation hit the agriculturist. But because the farmer has been hard hit is no reason to assume that he is always going to remain down. There are many signs that he is coming back, and it is these signs which the farmer and his friends ought to dwell upon. Nothing can be accomplished by pessimism and there is no business on earth which will stand the repeated assaults of those who are themselves engaged in that business. Take the automobile industry for example. How long would it remain prosperous were the manufacturers and dealers in motor cars to exclaim from one end of the land to the other that there was nothing to their business and that it would soon reduce them to bankruptcy unless something were done about it? Take the present year, too. The agricultural outlook is said to be decidedly favorable. Surveys made by the corn belt farm publications indicate that crops are generally in splendid condition and that prices are generally better than last year. Reports indicate that while the corn crop may be slightly less than last year, this will be a good year for the corn farmer. Iowa, it is said, will lead in corn production this year, and Kansas is said to have harvested the second largest wheat crop in its history. World conditions are said to indicate a good wheat price and the oats crop will show a gain over last year with a satisfactory price. Take the present year, too. The agricultural outlook is said to be decidedly favorable. Surveys made by the corn belt farm publications indicate that crops are generally in splendid condition and that prices are generally better than last year. Reports indicate that while the corn crop may be slightly less than last year, this will be a good year for the corn farmer. Iowa, it is said, will lead in corn production this year, and Kansas is said to have harvested the second largest wheat crop in its history. World conditions are said to indicate a good wheat price and the oats crop will show a gain over last year with a satisfactory price. The cattle industry, according to the survey, has entered an era of high prices, and the report, which declares against the idea that presidential years are hard on business includes the following: "It is evident that farm interest in higher tariffs is already beginning to find expression. It is found that increased tariffs have been sought for more than a score of separate important farm products. Investigations are under way or have been completed with reference to milk and cream, butter, Swiss cheese, eggs, corn, wheat, cherries, peanuts, cottonseed, flaxseed and others." "Much more will be heard along this line in coming months." It was added that new industries, especially experiments along chemical lines with regard to cellulose and starch, the increase of gasoline production and others will help the farmers. This growing interest in the agricultural tariff is one of the most interesting developments of the year and furnishes one reason why the free traders are now soft pedaling their favorite issue and perhaps will continue to try to soft pedal until after the election when Congress meets again. Secretary Jardine of the U. S. Department of Agriculture stated recently while visiting President Coolidge in Wisconsin, that the farmer deserves equal protection with the manufacturing industry and that if this protection is granted it will go a long way toward effecting farm relief. "I believe in keeping the domestic markets available for our own producers," the Secretary declared. There can be no question as to the soundness of this policy. OUR NATIONAL PROGRESS If you don't believe that the United States is a wealthy and progressively prosperous nation, it is well to call your attention to some figures recently made public, in which it is pointed out that in 1926 the national income in the United States was ninety billion dollars. In 1890, less than forty years before, the total national income was nine billion dollars. It has therefore increased ten fold in less than forty years. For each American family the annual income now averages over $2000. During the same period the value of American manufacturers annually has increased from $9,372,379,000 to $62,700,000,000 and the value of farm products has increased from $2,460,000,000 to $19,700,000,000. Individual deposits in banks have increased from $4,060,000,000 to $48,880,000,000. The population has increased during the same period, from 62,000,000 to 117,136,000. These figures will give you some idea of the great growth of America during the past eighty years. Significantly enough, although we hear a great deal about the rise in manufacturing and the declining of farming in the United States the value of far mproducts has increased a shade mor ein proportion than has the value of manufactured products. In other words the value of farm products annually now is eight times as great as in 1890. During the same period the value of American manufacturers annually has increased from $9,372,379,000 to $62,700,000,000 and the value of farm products has increased from $2,460,000,000 to $19,700,000,000. Individual deposits in banks have increased from $4,060,000,000 to $48,880,000,000. The population has increased during the same period, from 62,000,000 to 117,136,000. These figures will give you some idea of the great growth of America during the past eighty years. Significantly enough, although we hear a great deal about the rise in manufacturing and the declining of farming in the United States the value of far mproducts has increased a shade mor ein proportion than has the value of manufactured products. In other words the value of farm products annually now is eight times as great as in 1890 while the value of manufactured products is a little less than seven times as great. More significant than this, however, is the fact that the bank deposits of the people have increased nearly twelve times during the same period of time. Now with value of manufactured products seven times as great, farm products eight times as great and bank deposits twelve times as large, the population has not quite doubled. It is hard to see, therefore, that the individual is a great deal better off in the United States in 1928 than he was in 1890. This in spite of the fact that we herd a great deal of bunk about the good old days and how the farmers are slipping into "peasantry." We must not lose sight of the fact either that during practically all of this great era of the development of our country, the same fiscal policies have been in effect that are now in effect. In other words, during the past seventy-five years, for a greater part of the time the United States has been operating under a protective tariff, a plan which had for its purpose the holding of the great American market, for the American producer both in agriculture and the manufacturing field. It has only been when we have deviated from our tariff policy that we have suffered a recession of our forward march along the road to prosperity and progress. That the system is worked is best evidenced by the conditions in the United States and the rest of the world today. Compare the condition of our workers with those of Europe and Asia and then make up your minds what kind of a tariff system you want. And don't forget that during a time our population was trying to double itself our bank deposits increased twelve fold. After all the greatest proof of the pudding is in the eating. The Republican and Democratic campaign committees are said to be flooded with new campaign songs. We have a suggestion for one for the Socialists, too. The title of it is "The November Blues." ANAHEIM GAZETTE The Subject For His New Picture By Albert T. Reid MY LOVELIEST GIRL INDUSTRIALISM A Chicago writer aptly phrases the CRIME IS ORGANIZED From investigations by the National Crime commission. It has been disclosed The Democrats at Houston very properly put a plank in their platform for the outlawry of war, but they forgot to extend it to the North Carolina and INDUSTRIALISM A Chicago writer aptly phrases the alms of Prof. O. R. Sweeney, scientist and farm waste specialist of Iowa State College, Ames, when he says that "he now proposes to solve the difficulties of poor old Agriculture by a chemical marriage to the rich widow $industrialism." Professor Sweeney has told of the Ames College's experiments in the use of farm waste for raw material for the manufacture of many useful arti-clase before Dubuque and other Iowa audiences. He has written of them in magazines and newspapers. He probably, however, received a more widely effective hearing during the past week, when he addressed the American Chemical Society institute at Northwestern University, Evanson, than he ever did before. The press of the nation has given wide publicity to what he had to say to the chemical experts. He described the Corn Belt as a "vast sponge for the absorption of heat units to the sun." These heat units are stored in chemical compounds from which experts may later extract power as needed, and he forsees far-reaching results. He told of the hundreds of millions of tons of industrial raw materials that are going to waste every year in the Corn Belt, and how the Ames experimental station is devising ways and means of utilizing them profitably in industry. He said chemistry can make some 3000 known industrial products from corn stalks, corn cobs, out chaff, cotton seed hulls, peanut hulls, straw and other such waste. He spoke of furfural, a proved substitute for gasoline, and said that 100 pounds of corn cobs contains 24 pounds of this fuel oil. Professor Sweeney declared that the present policy of locating factories in the large cities is "like a dog chasing his tail." He advised the taking of industries to the far northeast. He pictured a coming day when attention will be given to growing types of corn that will grow tall stalks, because of the value the stalks will be to the corn raisers. If the Republicans and Democrats want to make a hit with the radio audience they will advocate a law limiting the length of seconding speeches to twenty-five words. CRIME IS ORGANIZED From investigations by the National Crime commission, it has been disclosed that a highly organized system of "fences," as receivers and disposers of stolen goods are called, handle more than $50,000,000 worth of loot each year. Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War, who is chairman of the commission, declared that the lone burglar is now a rarity, and that well organized gangs are plying their thieving trade along efficient business lines. In order to do this they must have definite outlets for the property stolen. If these could be eliminated, Mr. Baker believes that the total thefts would be largely reduced. While police and other officers of the law are aware of this condition, and generally do what they can to break up these "fences," there is need for greater co-operation on the part of the public in keeping a lookout for places of character and promptly reporting to the authorities. Losses suffered by the public from thefts, burglary and robbery almost equal the destruction by fire. If these losses are to be lessened there must be increased vigilance on the part of all citizens and a greater determination to aid in putting criminal gangs out of business. WANT FREE TRADE Nearly 300 representatives of the shipping, coal, iron and steel, textile, engineering and other great British industries have petitioned the government to "support in every possible way any movement in the direction of international free trade." The petition declares that, "So long as the manufacturers of Europe, above all Great Britain, are obstructed in their entry to overseas markets, so long must prices of agricultural produce for which industrial Europe offers the greatest market, remain depressed." In this connection it should be noted that many of the largest foreign industries are so deeply interlocked with American capital that many of our foreign investors and international bankers are backing the movement to secure an outlet for surplus production and protect their foreign investments. It is a serious situation and the American people must be constantly on guard to prevent a flood of cheap products in this nation. STATE FAIR A MAGNIFICENT, complete display of California's choice products. OVER $100,000 IN PREMIUMS —greatest exhibit of livestock, poultry and machinery on the Pacific Slope. —thrilling harness and running races, and the famous State Fair Horse Show. —exceptional art and education exhibits; auto and radio shows; three big bands. —the Fearless Greggs, sensational aerial performers, every afternoon and night. EIGHT BIG DAYS See your State Fair and know California better SACRAMENTO SEPTEMBER 1-8 Anaheim, Cal., August 23, 1928 CALIFORNIA PREPARATORY SCHOOL Class Nod-Military Accredited School for 80 Days, Opens Sept. 14 Lower school grades, 5 to 8. High school admitting to college. Junior college for limited number. Illustrated catalogue. Address the Headmaster, Box W. Corvina, Cal. WESTLAKE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS HOLMBY COLLEGE Leads to 3rd year in Universities Music, Art, Expression Home, Economics Opens this fall in beautiful new buildings on 12 acre site at Holmby Hills, Los Angeles. Write for Catalog of College Prep Course or Junior College Jessica Smith Vance, M.A., Frederica De Laguna, M.A., Principals 338 South Westmorland Avenue, Los Angeles, Calif. YELLOWSTONE Land of Unmatched Wonders! EVERYWHERE you gaze, something new, strange, astounding! Geysers soaring magnificently skyward. Huge waterfalls that drop so far they seem to drift like smoke. Brilliantly colored "paint pots" and "punch bowls" murmuring and boiling. Here a mountain of sulphur—there a cliff of volcanic glass—further on a petrified forest. Great evergreen trees—mountain lakes—and grassy flower-strewn meadows, where you meet friendly bears and see buffalo and deer in their native haunts. A wonder spot to spend vacation days reached by luxurious Union Pacific Trains! Low Summer Fares! PERSONALLY ESCORTED TOURS August 18, September 1 at surprisingly low cost. For the Price of an Evening Paper Robbery in the very next block... silverware, jewelry taken while the family was away. A light left burning on the porch, in the house, in the side yard would have made the burglar's work less easy. And would have cost no more than the paper that tells about the burglary. electricity is CHEAP . . . Use More of It" Central-Southern California electricity is particularly cheap, because Edison partners California people, glad to share their profits with their neighbors. When "Edison" adds a great steam power plant at Long Beach to make sure its customers will never lack for electricity, even in the driest years . . . and when it learns there to get twice as much power out of a barrel of oil than was extracted only seven years ago, it doesn't put this extra profit into its own pocket, but passes it on to its 400,-000 patrons, 118,000 of whom also are partners. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY Owned by Those it Serves