anaheim-gazette 1908-02-20

TALKED OF STREET WIDENING City Council Will Begin Proceedings to Condemn Property on Various Streets If Deeds are Not Made by Owners The city trustees met on Thursday evening; present, Rust, Fiscus, Stock, Kroeger. Marshal Steadman reported the following collections for January, the same being the largest monthly collections in the history of the city: Water $556.47, electric lights $124.70, license $551.25; total $2232.42. Delinquents reported: Water $53.45, lights $70.85; total $124.30. Delinquents collected: Water $74.60; lights $89.90, license $19.25; total $183.75. Treasurer Hartung reported funds in bank amounting to $13,545.57. Recorder Howard reported 17 cases in his court during the month; fines collected $101.50; fees $51; in treasury $50.50. Tax Collector Steadman reported the total amount of taxes collected during the past year to be $12,600.22; amount delinquent, $14. Personal property taxes collected, $862.27; delinquent, nothing. The city's total assessed valuation is $816,756; rate, $1.65; total taxes, $13,476.49. Collected for street cleaning during year, $65.50. Superintendent of streets reported Rosa Leitzmann, $800 bldg Hermine. O. Lagman, contractor, mobile house for Hans West Center. The clerk was authorize vertise for bids for sprint streets for the next two years contract is now held by and probably several will for it. The Street superintendance whether it was the intent board to widen Sycamore the present time, and was the matter will lay over date in the near future. The city is desirous of land for widening North geles, South Los Angeles, ter and West Broadway deeds are made forthwith will begin condemnationings against property-ow cure such necessary land. The clerk was authorize cure the necessary blanks for the city elec occurs April 13th. To Establish Model Representative Scott chairman of the House on Agrisulture, has concei el plan which he believes ed will enable the farm country to produce better larger crops than heretofo Mr. Scott's proposition the establishment of 100 e the total amount of taxes collected during the past year to be $12,600.22; amount delinquent, $14. Personal property taxes collected, $862.27; delinquent, nothing. The city's total assessed valuation is $816,756; rate, $1.65; total taxes, $13,476.49. Collected for street cleaning during year, $65.50. Superintendent of streets reported two water connections made for new residences, Oak and Chestnut streets graded from Lemon to Palm, and dumping grounds fenced. Finance committee reported auditing bills against the city amounting to $3218.47. Warrants were ordered drawn upon the treasury for their payment. Clerk Merritt was authorized to write the water company saying the city trustees were willing to pay half the cost of changing the pipe line on Broadway between Los Angeles and Lemon, the city having given the water company street grade at time of laying of pipe. From Lemon to Palm no grade was given, and the board holds the company should pay for the change in the location of the pipe between these streets. A communication was received from Mayor Evans of Riverside, asking a donation for fighting the suit against the Dustless patent. The board considered the matter favorably and instructed the clerk to enter into further correspondence with Riverside, asking what contribution was expected from cities of this class. Rev. Markle addressed the board in reference to widening Broadway west of Citron street. He is owner of property to which the city wishes a deed for such widening. He referred to the fact that the city, in order to secure a deed from W. Wuesthoff for widening Broadway, had entered into an agreement with that gentlemen exempting him from future assessments for street work on that thoroughfare. This, Mr. Markle claimed, was an injustice to other property owners on the street. Representative Scott chairman of the House on Agrisulture, has conceived plan which he believes will enable the farm country to produce better larger crops than heretofore. Mr. Scott's proposition the establishment of 100 external farms of one acre each county in a group of four agricultural states for the giving of farmers a demonstration of the best of growing different kinds. It is proposed that this purpose shall be furthest farmers themselves they do the work of cultivating the direction of the Department of Agriculture. No additional appropriation Congress will be required Mr. Scott's proposition, it ed, as the Agricultural De now has the requisite number perts to carry out the plan. Mr. Scott declares that money is now being practiced by the Department of Agriculture in sending out farm bulldoors government documents carry out his scheme. He much valuable information distributed by the experts publications, but their content so little understood by that they do not derive edge from them that they to the best cultural method corn, wheat, hay and other crops. Large Mortgage A mortgage was filed by the Bolsa Land Company of the Pacific Mutual Life Company of Los Angeles acres of land bordering Bay. The mortgage is to $52,000 note and whatever of property to which the city wishes a deed for such widening. He referred to the fact that the city, in order to secure a deed from W. Wuesthoff for widening Broadway, had entered into an agreement with that gentlemen exempting him from future assessments for street work on that thoroughfare. This, Mr. Markle claimed, was an injustice to other property owners on the street. He asked for fair treatment to all taxpayers. The matter went over without action, and it is probable an amicable arrangement will be made whereby the street in question may be widened. All other property owners in the block between Citron and West streets have already deeded land for widening purposes. The trustees agreed to immediately begin the work of grading and improving the thoroughfare as soon as it is widened. Petition from property owners on West Broadway asking for an arc light at corner of that street and Citron. The board agreed to install such light at the corner named when Broadway shall have been widened. Petition from citizens on West Center street asking for an arc at the corner of that street and Helena. The board decided to move the arc now located on Center street, midway in the block between Clementine and Helena, to the latter corner and to place a new arc at Clementine and Center streets. Building permits were granted as follows: Michael Neipp, $150 barn on Rush street. Leitzmann, $800 building on leighman, contractor, $100 autohouse for Hans Vosbeck on inter. Lerk was authorized to adfor bids for sprinkling city for the next two years. The it is now held by R. Fossek, probably several will put in bids street superintendent asked that it was the intention of the to widen Sycamore street at present time, and was informed after will lay over until some the near future. City is desirous of procuring for widening North Los Anouth Los Angeles, West Cenlal West Broadway. Unless are made forthwith the board begin condemnation proceedinst property-owners to sech necessary land. Lerk was authorized to propose necessary candidates' for the city election which April 13th. Establish Model Farms representative Scott of Kansas, man of the House Committee culture, has conceived a novwhich, he believes, if adoptenable the farmers of the to produce better and far rops than heretofore. Scott's proposition involves plishment of 100 experiment- PARCELS POST A MENACE Centralization of Trade in Great Cities Resulting from Mail-Order Business Threatens the Rural Shopkeeper The recent debate between Anaheim high school and Poly upon the parcels post system has had the effect of instilling a greater degree of interest into the subject than has hitherto characterized it. The more we study the subject, the less we think of it. Population follows trade. If the business is done in the country town and village, of supplying the needs of the countryside for merchandise and manufactured articles of all kinds, the people who carry on the trade, the merchant and his helps, will live in the town or village: If, on the other hand, the trade is done by mail, cutting out the country merchant, the latter is finally driven out of business, his store ceases to exist, his village home is abandoned, and if he should continue in the trade, he and his assistants must move to the city and become employees for some great centralized mail trade institution. where men are mere machines, fitting like cogs into one great wheel with which they must day after day revolve, The country merchant, with his self-reliance, his sturdy individuality, his broad acquaintance, his knowledge of local affairs and needs, his support of local institutions, his civic usefulness, his neighborly offices, his public services, and his co-operation in move- Presentative Scott of Kansas, chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, has conceived a novel whichever he believes, if adoptable the farmers of the state to produce better and far crops than heretofore. Scott's proposition involves establishment of 100 experimentations of one acre each in every farm in a group of four western rural states for the purpose of the farmers a practical orientation of the best methods using different kinds of crops. Proposed that the lands for these shall be furnished by farmers themselves, and that the work of cultivation un-direction of the experts of department of Agriculture. Additional appropriation from this will be required to test its proposition, it is explainable Agricultural Department in the requisite number of ex-carry out the plan. Scott declares that enough is now being practically wasteful Department of Agriculture ag out farm bulletins and government documents to suit his scheme. He says that valuable information has been used by the experts in these articles, but their contents are understood by the farmers they do not derive the knowledge them that they should as most cultural methods to grow great hay and the other regios. Large Mortgage Filed Mortgage was filed on Friday Bolsa Land Company in favor of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance of Los Angeles on 1900 land bordering Bolsa Chica. The mortgage is to cover a note and whatever addition-great centralized mail trade institution. where men are mere machines, fitting like cogs into one great wheel with which they must day after day revolve, The country merchant, with his self-reliance, his sturdy individuality, his broad acquaintance, his knowledge of local affairs and needs, his support of local institutions, his civic usefulness, his neighborly offices, his public services, and his co-operation in movements for local improvement, has been uprooted and driven away. There is no one to take his place. The trade that gave him his vocation has gone. And with it has gone the prosperity of the town or village which was his home. The mail trade has destroyed them. The village life and the citizenship developed by it constitute the only hope of perpetuity for the free institutions of this country. The most grave and serious dangers that now menace its future result from the overgrowth of our great cities and the consequent degeneration of the average citizenship of the nation. In the place of the "plain people" whose country environment has made them stable, steady-headed, self-reliant and independent in action, thought and character, we have the volatile city multitude, a floating population, anchored to nothing, either mentally or physically, and blown about by every breeze of popular prejudice or passion—ready for any rash experiment, social or political. No stronger portrayal of the effect of the cities on our citizenship was ever made than in these striking words of Wendell Phillips: "My ideal of civilization is a very high one; but the approach of it is a New England town of some two thousand inhabitants, with no rich man and no poor man in it, all mingling in the same society, every child at the same school, no poorhouse, no beggar, opportunities equal, nobody too proud to stand aloof, nobody too humble to be shut out. That's New England as it was fifty years ago. . . . The civilization that lingers beautifully on the hillsides of New England, nestles sweetly in the valleys of Vermont, the moment it approaches a crowd like Boston, or a million men gathered in one place like New York, rots. It can and a loyal devotion to principles for which our as Lincoln declared them field of Gettysburg. The farmer does not stop is but an integral part of and it is this social solidarity community as a while the country town and village interests, that forms the character. Isolate the farmers fellows and he becomes an Experience has too often to be true to permit of that score. Isolation spmpathy out of the souls too often brings the fact the insane asylum. It was isolation of the old farm driven so many of the youth from the farms to the now, at this late day, when of isolation have been so obstructed, should we demote it by developing a system which tends to drive the chant and the country visions out of existence, and its evils—country isolation gestion? The educational influence free delivery, and of this literature that the second rate brings to the farm what reconciles the people deficit caused by that seoul influence of the mail tracing and its effect from a point of view is the revival. The well-stocked general Mortgage Filed Mortgage was filed on Friday in Bolsa Land Company in favor of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company of Los Angeles on 1900 land bordering Bolsa Chica. The mortgage is to cover a note, and whatever addition be borrowed by the land up to forty per cent of over and above the $52,000 borrowed. Mortgage was made on December 6, 1907, and is signed by M. Bell, president, and W. F. McCormick, secretary, of the Bolsa Company. The note is for years with interest at nine per cent. The interest will be reduced per cent if the land company taxes. The property by the mortgage is 1900 sections 28, 29, 30 and 33 in south, range 11 west. Another writer has said: "No nation was ever overthrown by its farmers. Chaldea and Egypt, Greece and Rome, grew rotten and ripe for destruction, not in the fields, but in the narrow lanes and crowded city streets, and in the palaces of their nobility." The adjacent village or the nearby town which furnishes for the farmer the social side to his life that the isolation of the farm denies to him, is a potent factor in the development of the fully rounded out, broad and patriotic character that makes the American farmer the bulwark of the nations stability. Not the farmer alone, but the whole life and environment of the community of which he is a part, the country merchant, the editor of the home paper, the preacher, the village school master, the country doctor, and all the men of many vocations who form the village community, bound together by ties of close neighborly affection and friendly intercourse, as well as the feeling of mutual regard born of mutual interdependence in their lives, create a social circle, welded together by closer social bonds than is possible among dwellers in cities. The whole circle of citizenship in the country village or town has the same elements of quiet faith in the final triumph of the good, gestion? The educational influence free delivery, and of this literature that the second rate brings to the farm what reconciles the people deficit caused by that seoul influence of the mail trade and its effect from a point of view is the revival. The well-stocked general country town, which they would destroy, is a great influence in itself with descriptions displayed gathered from many places many varied needs interest is awakened and the opportunity it gives one's own eyes the thing supply a need, and discard cost with the means salesman. The social nature is developed by contact involved in such and the trip to town or visit the purchase is oftentimes most agreeable breaks in of farm life for the farmerily. They meet there of friends whose neighbors give an added cheeriness happenings of the day. Out of the farmer's life from it something that and social value that created by money, any more affection can be so measurable. 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The farmer does not stand alone. He is an integral part of a social whole, is this social solidarity of a counmunity as a whole, including country town and village and all its rests, that forms the farmer's charIsolate the farmer from his wives and he becomes a different man. Experience has too often proven this true to permit of controversy on score. Isolation drives human healthy out of the soul of a man and often brings the farmer's wife to sane asylum. It was this deadly dion of the old farm life that has so many of the younger generafrom the farms to the cities. And that this late day, when these evils isolation have been so clearly demated, should we deliberately proit by developing a system of trade tends to drive the country merand the country village and town of existence, and intensify both -country isolation and city conon? The educational influence of the rural delivery, and of the abundance of future that the second class pound brings to the farmer's home is reconciles the people to the heavy caused by that service; but the force of the mail trade is reactionand its effect from an educational of view is the reverse of benefi- more the farmers order by mail the more the mail order advertisers feel justified in spending for advertising in the farm papers. And so the system grows by what it feeds on. Nothing could be more natural than for the farm paper to favor anything that will stimulate the mail trade. It is only human nature that they should do it. Consequently the farmer has tons upon tons of farm literature distributed to him from one end of the land to the other, always favoring the extension of the parcels post. It is a unique instance of allies being made by a common interest. The farmer is being made the subject of a most stupendous campaign of education through the farm papers in favor of the parcels post simply because the publishers of these papers are naturally allied with their advertising patrons, the mail trade interests. It is a fortunate juxtaposition of interests for the mail trade, because it relieves them of the burden of making such a campaign directly. It works automatically. The more the mail trade advertises, the more the farmer buys by mail, the more that class of advertising goes into the farm papers and the more the mere logic of events makes the editor of the farm mail advertising paper see and present to the farmer the advantages of the proposed extensions of the parcels post. And so the circle grows and the farmer hears only one side of the case. There is no such huge automatically working engine of argument and edu- the educational influence of the rural delivery, and of the abundance of nature that the second class pound brings to the farmer’s home is reconciles the people to the heavy cost caused by that service; but the influence of the mail trade is reaction- and its effect from an educational view is the reverse of benefition. The well-stocked general store of the village town, which the mail trade destroys, is a great educational chance in itself with its wares of all options displayed to the eye, freed from many places and supply-many varied needs. The mental rest is awakened and stimulated by opportunity it gives to see with brown eyes the thing that will best satisfy a need, and discuss its merits cost with the merchant or his man. The social side of human life is developed by the personal act involved in such intercourse: the trip to town or village to make purchase is oftentimes one of the agreeable breaks in the monotony from life for the farmer and his family. They meet there a whole circle friends whose neighborly greetings can added cheeriness to the homely evenings of the day. Blot all this off the farmer’s life and you take it something that has a human social value that cannot be measured. If doubt there are farmers who thoughtlessly sacrifice all this slight satisfaction of saving aRENTS or even dollars temporarily high trading by mail with one of great cities. That patronage is the cause of their existence. Without it would soon die. Naturally the trade advertises, the more the farmer buys by mail, the more that class of advertising goes into the farm papers and the more the mere logic of events makes the editor of the farm mail advertising paper see and present to the farmer the advantages of the proposed extensions of the parcels post. And so the circle grows and the farmer hears only one side of the case. There is no such huge automatically working engine of argument and education at work on the other side of the question. It is easy to make a man who has heard only the mail trade side accept the oft reiterated statement that cheaper parcels post rates for merchandise would save him money and be a convenience. No doubt there might be times when it would be. No doubt there are many who could be induced, if they gave no special thought to the matter, to fall in line as advocates of a plan that the government should haul the farmer’s products to the market for less than cost, or furnish him seed wheat free. 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