The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-14

to six feet below the surface of the
sea by means of cutters operated at
the extremity of wide aprons on which
the harvest is carried to the bins
aboard by endless carriers The larger
harvesters are fitted with bins of 500
tons capacity.
Much remains to be learned in the
new industry, but it has been deter
mined that the kelp. after being har-
vested, will grow back to previous
length in an average of three months
time, and that its cutting in no way
interferes with fish life or reproduc-
ton as fishermen at first feared. Conn
mercial experimenters have turned
their entire attention to making pro-
fits from their finding because of high
prices for potash at this time, but the
government is taking hand to furth-
err develop the scientific phase of the
business. Congress has provided an
appropriation of s175,00 to carry on
the investigation, this to be done by
the department of agriculture, and
there is reason to believe the govern
ment's experiment station will be To-
Gated at San Diego at an early date.
Your Favorite Fish.
Concerning the fish industry at San
Diego a fact not generally known is
that the only real, living sardines not
in the Mediterranean are at home off
are captured annually and canned,
needless to say. You all know, of
course, about the California tuna. or
albicore, which tastes like chicken.
But since you have chicken in plenty
here why worry about a substitute.
It is a fact, however, that San Diego
fish dealers began this summer to ship
full carloads of various kinds of fish
by express to eastern markets daily.
Meanwhile. numerous canneries give
employment to thousands of girls and
some concerns, too busy to bring in
the catches of their crews. operate
floating canneries out. on the ocean
convenient to their fleets of fishing
smacks. Ashore, the fish canning
business has grown to the complete
ness of the packing of Chicago or
Kansas City in so far as allowing no
scrap of a victim to escape the divi-
dends. The result is reduction plants.
making fertilizer. and the honorable
council is concerned with the nicely of
differentiation between a smell and n
stencil, the former being deemed a
legal form of odor while the latter is
to be regarded a common nuisance.
Now, before I subject myself to a
charge of boosting, let me tell about
! THE Shame of San Diego" This was
stock heading over daily stories in
the alleged newspapers published in
Los Angeles by one E. T. Earl. His
clientele and a probable majority diff
fer as to his motive for the character
ization but the subject was happen
ings in Tijuana, Mexico. across the
| border line, eighteen miles from .the
J city of San Diego. For some reason
Editor Earl blamed San Diego because
some folks journeyed over the line
/ during 101 days of the fastest horse
\ racing or North American tracks and
| because some visited the Monte Carlo
of America" which is Eot inaccessible
from the racing plant. 1t also is OF
record that the San Diego Ministerial
association played a hand at Washing
ton and the W. c. T. U. petitioned Mr..
Wilson-but the gambling casino con-
tinues to operate all day and night and
/ it is announced that another program
| of racing, with the same open system
| of bookmaking, will begin Novem-
Der IL.
Laws and Politics.
November, That reminds me. 1t
| never would do to address an audience
| of Kansans about California without
reference to politics. for if there is any
. state with more laws and politics than
| Kansas it is California Kansas, how
ever, never has produced such a poll
| tician as the present California gov
ernor. Hiram Johnson. Its nearest
approach along the same line. per-
| haps, was one Roscoe Stubs, the prin-
/ cipal difference being that Hiram is
still getting by with the same goods
| Holy Hiram. as he Is COInpu-
mented by his heated opposition. also
has the oratorical advantage. and he
probably has painted more horrible
word pictures of big interests tramp
| ling the common people than any
other living person. He broke in by
spearing the Southern Pacific goat
| that roamed at large in the Golden
Gate region for many fattening years
OF course. Hiram was a bull moose
| one of the most locoed. and the Grand
| Old Puritans can't see him in any
other light yet But Hiram admits