anaheim-gazette 1928-12-13

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE ESTABLISHED 1870 HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Proprietor ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR.....$2.00 SIX MONTHS......75 Entered at the Anaheim, California, Post Office as second-class matter RELIEF THROUGH TARIFF Now that the election is over our statesmen of both parties are anxious to do what they can to remedy the situation of the farmers. All sorts of schemes are being brought forward and it is evident that something tangible will be accomplished either in the short session of Congress now upon us, or in an extra session to be called after President-elect Hoover takes office—perhaps in both. It is to be assumed that among the remedies to be employed will be additional tariff protection for the farmers. In bgone years the free traders have been industrious in telling the farmers that they did not benefit from the tariff, but were penalized by it. But the disciples of free trade were unable to fool the farmer on this score. It is easy to prove that the agriculturist is helped both directly and indirectly by the tariff. As a concrete example of the direct aid given him, the following is taken from the Deadwood, S. R., Pioneer-Times, on the sugar tariff—and it is to be remembered that agriculturists in many Western states are beet growers. "The tariff on sugar is a very important item to the Black Hills and it will increase with the development of new beet growing territory in and about the Belle Fourche irrigation project and the Rapid Valley. All contracts with beet growers in the past have been based on the probable price that will prevail in the American market when it is placed on sale by the mill owners. These contracts name a minimum payment per ton for the beets." It is easy to prove that the agriculturist is helped both directly and indirectly by the tariff. As a concrete example of the direct aid given him, the following is taken from the Deadwood, S. R., Pioneer-Times, on the sugar tariff—and it is to be remembered that agriculturists in many Western states are beet growers. "The tariff on sugar is a very important item to the Black Hills and it will increase with the development of new beet growing territory in and about the Belle Fourche irrigation project and the Rapid Valley. All contracts with beet growers in the past have been based on the probable price that will prevail in the American market when it is placed on sale by the mill owners. These contracts name a minimum payment per ton for the beets, and have a schedule attached which guarantees the grower additional sums dependent upon what the finished product eventually brings." There are many other instances. The interests of the country get protection against imports as do the poultrymen, the shee growers are given protection from importations from Australia and the cattlemen and corn growers know that they are interested in keeping out the cheap products of other nations. In fact our tariff against Argentine corn, beef and other products is one of the chief sources of irritation against us in that important South American republic, but we cannot abandon this tariff without sacrificing the American grower. Now in many instances the tariff on the importation of farm products is not high enough, and Congress will doubtless increase some of the schedules in its farm aid program. This will be of considerable help in the rehabilitation of agriculture. But the farmer is benefitted indirectly as well as directly by the tariff. The tariff protects the home market for the American producer and assures the American worker prosperity through the highest wages in the world. This gives to the farmer the best market for his produce that the world affords and the farmer knows this. Nor is the agriculturist penalized by the tariff. Practically everything used exclusively on the farm comes in free of duty. The list includes plows, harrows, reapers, threshing machines, cultivators, cotton gins, wagons and other machinery, binder twine, fertilizer, building materials and so on. The logic is inescapable. The farmer benefits both directly and indirectly from the tariff, and he is entitled to higher rates whenever these are necessary to protect him from cheap products from abroad. WHY A NAVY Our State and Navy departments are following apparently conflicting programs. The word "apparently" is used advisedly, for though their programs appear to conflict they really do no such thing. Secretary of State Kellogg promotes a treaty formally denouncing all war "as an instrument of national policy," but neither he nor anybody else that had anything to do with it thinks for one moment that it really abolishes war. So Secretary of the Navy Wilbur proceeds, as he should, to bolster up our waning power. The public, however, is quite naturally puzzled. If war has been outlawed, it asks, why spend any more money on warships? The uncomfortable truth, of course, is that war outlawry does not abolish wars any more than crime outlawry abolishes crime. We properly abhor war but as a people we must protect ourselves against such outlaw nations as might attack us. Our chief protection is our navy. To support a navy too weak to protect us against the biggest and strongest enemy that might attack us is worse than none at all. Our navy should be the equal of any or we should scrap it altogether. Navy Wilbur proceeds, as he should, to bolster up our waning power. The public, however, is quite naturally puzzled. If war has been outlawed, it asks, why spend any more money on warships? The uncomfortable truth, of course, is that war outlawry does not abolish wars any more than crime outlawry abolishes crime. We properly abhor war but as a people we must protect ourselves against such outlaw nations as might attack us. Our chief protection is our navy. To support a navy too weak to protect us against the biggest and strongest enemy that might attack us is worse than none at all. Our navy should be the equal of any or we should scrap it altogether. Our policy should be to extend a standing invitation to the rest of the world to join us in armament reduction and limitation, but it would be sheer folly for us first to disarm and then invite the others to do likewise. Our overseas interests—our foreign possessions, investments, shipping, trade and what not—are worth approximately $50,000,000. Creating this gives our workers a standard of living such as no other people in all the world ever enjoyed. Maintaining it and increasing it further will lift these standards to a still higher level, providing, however, that we can continue to live on in peace. War would menace this whole structure upon which our prosperity is based. It is the navy's business to make us secure in our jobs. If we are wise we will leave no stone unturned to advance the cause of world peace. But we will not forget that the world is what it is, not what we would have it be. MR. HOOVER IN EUROPE'S EYES Americans may be pardoned a smile at some of the comments in the European press about Mr. Hoover. He is regarded as a benefactor and a menace, an idealist and a materialist, a sentimentalist and a scientist—as anything, in short, which happens to fit in with the temper of the writer. From France in particular come strains of uneasiness lest Mr. Hoover prove a "nationalist." The presumption is that his critics there fear that he will fight vigorously for America's interest over against Europe. Just why they should expect him to do anything else is not clear. Certainly they do not condemn M. Poincare if he upholds France's interests, or Herr Stresemann when he defends Germany. It is only fair to point out that some of the French never liked Mr. Hoover. They disapproved of his methods while he was food dictator. They distrusted his directness in dealing with the lesser states of Europe regardless of political interests. Edison Company Extending Service Large Sum to Be Expended in This County During Year The expenditure of $374,000 for the extensions and re-enforcements of the Southern California Edison company distributing system in the Santa Ana district has been planned for 1925, according to the announcement today of W. L. Deimling, district manager for the company here. The announcement was made following the receipt of information from R. H. Ballard, president of the company, that the local manager's recommendations for appropriations had been approved. "In addition to this amount, which is to be spent for actual construction work in this district," Mr. Deimling said, "Santa Ana's proportion for generation and transmission will amount to $70,000, moving a total of $444,000 to be spent by the Southern California Edison company to maintain its standard of service in this territory. This is a part of the company's total construction budget of $29,260,214 for 1925, which in turn is a portion of the $130,000,000 the company plans to spend during the next five years, largely for extensions of the distributing system." The Santa Ana district which will benefit by the betterments planned for in the company's 1929 construction budget includes Santa Ana, Garden Grove, Orange, Tustin, Anaheim, El Modena, Olive, Stanton, Villa Park and the intervening territory. The growth of the towns and of the district as a whole during the past year justifies this large appropriation. Mr. Deimling said. The proposed expenditures were planned, he said, to enable the company to keep abreast with this growth and to provide for meeting the future demands for electric service. Re-enforcements to meet the new service requirements have been planned for the Fairview sub-station as well as the district in general. The budget for the entire system of the Southern California Edison company, which now serves 360 cities and highway construction, and related undertakings. One of the social workers who attended the recent session of the "Friends of the Mexicans" at Pomona College declared that Mexicans in this country cannot be induced in large numbers to return to their native land. He said he had received answers to a questionnaire showing a large majority of the Mexicans interviewed as favorable to remaining in the United States. It will be interesting to learn the response of those same Mexican nationals after they read the bulletins issued by their Irrigation Commission with such inducements as these: "What ambition can be more legitimate than to own a parcel of land in one's own country, and to build a house according to one's own tastes, to satisfy one's own individual necessities, to embellish it in harmony with his own innermost perception, and with the tastes and inclinations of the people of his own blood and of his own land? "What desire more noble and what outlook more alluring than that to work to increase the economic strength and the greatness of his own country; to return to live among equals and friends, viewing friendly horizons, enjoying a mild climate, under a sky kindly and enjoyable, upon a footing of absolute equality, political and social, with the dignity and freedom of one who lives in his own home, the rights which liberal institutions give?" This "Mexican problem" we of the Southwest have heard so much about in the last year or so may, it would appear, be solving itself in the not distant future. The particular solution that is in prospect may not be just the one our agriculturists would prefer, but no one will begrudge these alien workers of our fields and orchards the opportunities that seem to be opening to them at home. Time alone will tell how the thing is going to work out. CURTIS SHOES The political shoes, state and national Charlie Curtis is to vacate to become vice-president, take a lot of filling. Possibly the fact that he wears two pair simultaneously has something to do with it. At any rate, the question of his successor in the senate is still unsettled in Kansas, while in the senate itself a three-cornered battle for inheritance of his honors as majority leader is under way. Gossip has it that Curtis will resign from the senate before the inauguration of Governor-elect Clyde Reed in Kansas in January in order that Governor Paulen, Incumbent, may appoint his successor. That's about the only certain way Curtis men in Washington see of his making sure that former Governor Henry Allen doesn't get the job. At an rate, Curtis himself is quite The growth of the towns and of the district as a whole during the past year justifies this large appropriation. Mr. Deimling said. The proposed expenditures were planned, he said, to enable the company to keep abreast with this growth and to provide for meeting the future demands for electric service. Re-enforcements to meet the new service requirements have been planned for the Fairview sub-station as well as the district in general. The budget for the entire system of the Southern California Edison company, which now serves 360 cities and towns in ten counties of Southern and Central California, provides for the continuation of the development of the Long Beach steam generating plant and the Big Creek-San Joaquin hydroelectric project. A major item in the new budget will care for the erection and extension of transmission lines to carry additional loads of steam and hydro-electric energy into the Santa Ana and other districts of the system. The 1929 program of expenditures also calls for the construction of a new general office building for the company in Los Angeles. "The Santa Ana district has been among the leaders in the growth of Southern California and in the development of the Southern California Edison company," Mr. Deimling said. "The company expects to continue as a factor in the future growth of this district and this year will contribute to its business through the distribution here of its $175,000 district payroll." With the completion during the past year of the fifth of a series of hydroelectric power houses as a part of the Big Creek-San Joaquin development, the Southern California Edison company now has a capacity of 460,000 horsepower from this source. Other water power plants and the giant steam generating plants at Long Beach furious an inter-connected generating capacity of 1,061,000 horsepower. MEXICO CALLS HER OWN That employers of Mexican laborers in the United States may soon be found seriously to consider other sources of labor supply, especially in agricultural pursuits, is the expressed belief of members of the Mexican Federal Commission on Irrigation. Irrigation projects nor being opened below the international line, they say, are bound to attract many thousands of Mexican nationals back to the homeland in the next year or two. A bulletin already in the hands of many Mexicans now in this country describe in attractive terms the opportunity Mexico has for those who are industrious, ambitious and experienced in some form of agriculture. The first treat project to be opened is that of the San Martin dam which is to impound 1,400,000 cubic meters of waters from the Rio Salado between the States of Neuvo Leon and Coahuila, near the Texas border. The dam and the principal canals for distributing these waters are to be completed before the A bulletin already in the hands of many Mexicans now in this country describe in attractive terms the opportunity Mexico has for those who are in numerous ambitious and experienced forms of agriculture. The first treat project to be opened is that of the San Martin dam which is to impound 1,400,000 cubic meters of waters from the Rio Salado between the States of Neuvo Leon and Coahuila, near the Texas border. The dam and the principal canals for distributing these waters are to be completed before the end of this year and will be ready for irrigating a large area by next winter. Following the opening of that project will come that of six other major projects and several minor ones, all offering advantages to colonists. Among them, the new dams will open around 1,000,000 acres to cultivation. Even now the Irrigation Commission is planning to construct still other reservoirs designed to serve areas in excess of the total already provided for, according to Suastegul, commercial attaché of the Mexican embassy at Washington. Many of these dams, it is stated, will tie the walls of canyons "made to order" by nature and will require a minimum of construction. They will impound flood waters which heretofore have been wasted. The commission insists that none of its nationals come to the Rio Salado, first project to be opened, without satisfying its officials through correspondence, with verification from competent references, that he is qualified to become a useful and permanent member of the proposed colony. It names as reason the mutual protection of the colonists as well as the Federal government, which finances the projects, furnishes tools and living expenses until the first crop and offers easy terms of payment over a twenty-year period. With those who can qualify as colonists, it is believed, will go a large fringe of those who will hope for livelihood by general labor in the villages which spring up, at industrial plants promoted by the hydro-electric power from the new dams, and on railway and and orchards the opseem to be opening. Time alone will tell is going to work out. SHOES shoes, state and nartis is to vacate to ident, take a lot of that he wears two y has something to pay rate, the question on the senate is still Kansas, while in the three-cornered battle his honors as mader way. That Curtis will resign before the inaugurare elect Clyde Reed in ry in order that Govnment, may appoint that's about the only men in Washington g sure that former Allen doesn't get the Curtis himself is quite likely to spend his Christmas holidays at home and engage busily in state politics during that period. It's entirely clear that the Kansas veteran is by no means looking to his elevation to the vice-presidency as the culmination of his political career. He has no intention of retiring on his honors. On the contrary, not only does he seem to have finite plans for recapturing whatever degree of leadership in Kansas may have slipped from his grasp in the election of Reed as governor; but signs are not lacking that his presidential ambitions are as hearty and flourishing as ever. Just now a man of Curtis' Washington experience could live in daily sight of the butts of the vice-presidents which line the walls of senate corridors and have any confidence that it's a job with a future is not clear. In his life time, only two vice-presidents have advanced to the White House, both times through intervention of death. Senator Jim Watson of Indiana, whose political ambitions have at times ranged from the governorship to the presidency, is the man most immediately concerned in the struggle to succeed Curtis as majorit leader of the senate. He is now deputy leader, a job bearing about the same relation to the actual leadership as the vice-presidency does to the presidency, except there is no law of succession. If the senate does nothing about it when Curtis resigns, Watson will become leader automatically and probably will so function for the tag end of the seventieth congress. It would be unheard of for his party colleagues to put somebody in over his head at this stage. When the senate of the seventy-first congress organizes, however, a different situation presents itself and Watson already has two stout rivals, Wesley Jones of Washington, hero of the unanimous senate vote on flood control, and McNary of Oregon, farm block leader. Watson has not announced his own plans but, as one senator puts it: "Jim is mighty voluble about what his friends are doing." The progress of the towns on the main highway is now evidenced by the number and condition of their filling stations. 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