Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-08-14
Comment and Criticism


Under the heading of "unfnishe,
stories" it would have paid some daily
newspapers TO have printed the de
tails Of the final action Of the Unite,
States court in Los Angeles in thu
famous Doheny-Elk Hills case.
A final decree was issued ordering
the Pan-American Petroleum Com
pany to pay to the Government sos,
888 and also to pay court costs which
will amount to an additional 5000 900
The decree held that the Govern.
ment should pay to the defendants
I$10,4l7,41O expended by them in de
yeloping the Elk Hills properties I'M
der the lease and in construction OF
! storage facilities at Pearl Harbor
with the value Of the oil stored in The
Pearl Harbor tanks.
The defendants, on the other hand
were ordered TO pay 10 the Govern
ment approximately S10,S00,000, the
value of all oil taken from the ground
under the leases. These figures left a
difference Of $35S,03l to the credit of
the Government, the amount for which
the court gives judgment.
An appeal will be taken to the dis
tfict court but the special prosecutors
of the Government are confident the
verdict will stand In this case the
United States will have some naval
oil reserves and considerable developed
property.
Nearly eleven million dollars worth
of oil has been taken from the Elk
Hills navy reserve property. Ii will
be interesting to know how much mcge
may reasonably be expected to remain
in the territory and the plan of conser-
Yation of the Government.
-
American marines are out of Mica
ragua. 1t WASN'T much of piece Of
news for the papers when the little
contingent departed from Managua,
the balmy capital where for IL years
they have enjoyed life and protected
American interests" whatever those
were.
It's been a sorry story-this occu-
patton of a friendly capital through
all those years. It's one of those
little incidents Of camaullaged imper-
ialism of which we're not very proud.
But the homecoming is significant
1t hetokens a better time and a bet
ter understanding. 1t betokens also
the fact tina ii isn't as easy any more
to occupy capital and make it pay
as it has been in years gone by.
Nobody lately has been kicking
about the marines in Nicaragua The
Nicafaguan government has felt that
they were nice boys and meant to do
the right thing. They have been Wis.
itofs having a good time and doing
no harm.
But the whole idea was wrong and
it's a chapter well closed. Labor has
more than once protested against the
| occupation and labor now is happy to
see the occupation so peacefully and
satisfactorily closed. So, everybody
including our own State Department,
is doubtless happy.
| -
President Coolidge isNreported as
determined that there must be rail
road consolidation he is happy
about the farmers Mrs. Cool.
idge is gaining weight and strength
|. he is worried about the coal
situation . he is surprised about
the possibility of a coal strike
he poses with apparent discomfort in
a yachting cap and so it goes
one day after another at Swampscott;
and the special correspondents are
happy and the telegraph editors are
happy and so it's almost unanimous
No President, except in war time, has
ever so completely had the shaping Of
national political news under his
thumb. The whole newspaper family
seems to be asleep at the switch
lhypnotized, bamboozled, or else de-
termined to see to it, enc and all, that
Cal Coolidge gets a third term.