anaheim-gazette 1909-07-29

MR. HYATT ON CONSERVATION SUBJECT ADMIRABLY HANDLED BY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT Interesting Dissertation Upon Waste in Running Streams—Some Things People of State Must Learn—What Water Means to the Farmer Teaching Conservation But how can a teacher teach Conservation? By exuding it through the pores. If it gets in it will come out. A wise teacher will find a hundred ways to drop good ideas into the hearts of her children. For instance, in the careful use of school supplies. Economy and wise care are virtues greatly to be desired in all our citizenry. The teacher is not working for the sake of saving a few cents for the school fund; but for the habits of her children, their way of looking at things, during all their future lives. Carelessness, extravagance, recklessness, are dangerous to the nation. The difference between conservation and reckless waste may be taught in the use of such a common thing as paper, for example. Indeed, paper is really one of our national resources, as it is made of wood pulp, and wood pulp is made from trees. A big edition of a Sunday newspaper requires perhaps a dozen acres of woodland. Every sheet of paper, every desk, every box, every splinter of wood that we see or use, represents trees, trees that were chopped from our forests. Every one of our eighty million people uses more than seven times as much wood per year as do the people all over Europe. Every big city fire destroys a great and splendid forest. have led jolly lives—we do sincerely hope you like skimmed milk, and little of that. When you are shivering with the cold in a coalless country, when you are nursing one blade of grass to grow for you where two grew for us, when you have ceased automobiling on account of the high price of oil, then you'll remember us in our riotous plenty. Don't be too angry with us. We robbed you. We took the bread out of your mouths, you our babes, and fed it to the vultures who were fattening upon our national dishonor. But our sins have been the sins of ignorance rather than willfulness. Your fathers were happy, devil-may-care fellows, whose courage, as war patriots, you must in justice honor, but who never had any comprehension of the meaning of a civil patriot nor the slightest realization that it required any of the qualities of courage self-sacrifice for the common good, and intelligence which in war patriotism we have exemplified." Our Water Lavis "Worst of all, the water running in our streams has been so carelessly handled by our laws, patterned as they are after the laws of England, where water is a pest and the only thought is to get it off the place as quickly as possible), that most of it is now in private ownership, much of it many times over, with results that clearly throttle the growth of the state as a land of farming. A few things, it seems to me, the people of California must speedily come to understand. First, the wonderful value of water; what it means to the farmer, to the manufacturer, to the main sources of wealth of all sorts. Second, the endless litigation, fearful waste of water wealth, harsh water-lordism, an uneconomic application of streams to production; all the results of our foolish laws. Third, little wilder, with al undergrowth same day, in a that the Armstrong sold to a lumber about midnight first caught sight posite side of the rounded the huge came over to our some one who lent cent men condemned knew that if he they would be morning. His w spoke. "Why, I've seen 'They are all ready to cut.' these'—he motions the dark roof of far above the light they're going to it seemed to me numbers—you morning and you man could only tion, could only s The Giant Tree in the thin, dry rarely below 5,000 ing thence up to and even higher, with little hind peaks and the g found in much less est than the re dominion of with mighty sug and spruces and ern portions of Keweah and Tu Giant-Tree grove called forests—and saplings, ancient, storm-more often there much the same est as a whole s casional primeva made from trees. A big edition of a Sunday newspaper requires perhaps a dozen acres of woodland. Every sheet of paper, every desk, every box, every splinter of wood that we see or use, represents trees, trees that were chopped from our forests. Every one of our eighty million people uses more than seven times as much wood per year as do the people all over Europe. Every big city fire destroys a great and splendid forest. Millions upon millions of acres of woodland continually go into the ties along our railroad lines. Countless other forests are rotting away deep under ground in the coal mines and gold mines. The teacher who goes into the subject with interest himself will find no lack of striking and interesting and valuable things to pass along to his flock; things that point to civic patriotism; things more vital to their fatherland than the waving of battle flags and defiance of the foreign foe. E. H. Cultivate the Forests Many people consider the approaching timber famine with the same feeling of regret and helplessness with which they listen to the story of the extinction of the buffalo. They feel that both are wild things which must inevitably perish before the advance of civilization. A large proportion of the trees in a wild forest are not best suited to our use. They are of the wrong species—like weeds in a garden—are too old or crooked and have a variety of other blemishes; and, while doing us little good themselves, they prevent the growth of better timber. To destroy all the original growth and then plant a new forest on the devastated area seems illogical, but it is neither impractical nor unprofitable, as the experience of Germany and experiments in this country show. It is much easier, however, and more profitable, gradually to turn the wild forests into cultivated ones. The French began to do this in the fourteenth century. * * * France, as thickly settled as it is, has maintained its cultivated timber for five hundred years, while the west with its scattered population is about to make an end of its wild forests in seventy-five years. In contrast to the forestry conditions of France are those of southern Tunis. It was once a very fertile country, but the Arab conquest destroyed all the trees and now the ruins of its old capital. Suf A few things, it seems to me, the people of California must speedily come to understand. First, the wonderful value of water; what it means to the farmer, to the manufacturer, to the main sources of wealth of all sorts. Second, the endless litigation, fearful waste of water wealth, harsh water-lordism, an uneconomic application of streams to production; all the results of our foolish laws. Third, that there is a remedy, partial because we have been slow to seek it, but still a remedy that will save to the future the possibility of sustaining an agricultural community of two million prosperous homes in California. As to this great subject of water in relation to agriculture in California Bulletin 100, Department of Agriculture, contains the whole story and shows us our tardy remedy." Last of the Big Trees They rise up two hundred, two hundred and fifty, three hundred feet sometimes, the trunks bare of branches for seventy-five or a hundred feet fluted, gray-brown columns like pillars of stone. Far overhead, the delicate tracery of their foliage weaves a roof which shuts out the direct sunlight and gives to everything below the soft twilight radiance of a cathedral. Like a Gothic cathedral, indeed, is the natural aisle with the fluted, columnar trunks rising side by side toward the mountain background, the mellowed light filtering through the arching roof far above. Even the curious fluted trunks and the color—a cinnamon turned stone-gray by age and weather—seems exotic and to belong to an older age, when strange monstrous animals roamed the forests. And well they may look so, for they—and more especially their near relatives, the giant Sequoias of the Sierras—are the oldest living things in our world. The latter have conquered fire and snow and the other enemies that have attacked them through the centuries, and stood there, lofty and silent and serene, while wars have raged and been forgotten and religions grown up and fallen to decay. The redwoods proper, as these trees in the Bohemian grove are called, are not quite so ancient, but they were mighty trees, at any rate, before the Roman Empire fell, and they and their brothers may still be standing when with mighty sugars and spruces and ern portions of Keweah and Tu Giant-Tree grow called forests—wand saplings, ancient, storm-more often than much the same est as a whole s casional primevalthe common secethe "woods"of west. The largest truly the "Genera Giant Forest National Park," of the town of tral southern p has a circumfered feet from the g than 70 feet are its crown broken high. Dredge Our laws are to the dredger to capitalists to valleys, pay big chards, vineyard into barren piles a temporary pro- of the soil get is plentiful, price capitalist carries perhaps. But passes away in and what of them It would have o ing food, supporting taxes for years or four o now it is gone.olation for all There is some It is legal at pm moral. No one to destroy the It is against th have a right t not to 'destroy' CABBAGE The judgment in favor of Fuc cabbage grown Strain was last the Appellate o out of deals f Strain, a shipping growers claimed of cabbage to refused payment The French began to do this in the fourteenth century. France, as thickly settled as it is, has maintained its cultivated timber for five hundred years, while the west with its scattered population is about to make an end of its wild forests in seventy-five years. In contrast to the forestry conditions of France are those of southern Tunis. It was once a very fertile country, but the Arab conquest destroyed all the trees and now the ruins of its old capital, Sufetula, stand in an uninhabitable desert. "Not long after the conquest," says M. Jesseraud, "an Arab chronicler recalled in his book the former times of prosperity and added: 'But in those days, one could walk from Tripoli to Tunis in the shade.'" Confession to Next Generation "We dislike to go on with these embarrassing confessions, but you will learn the whole wretched story yourselves sometime, and we may as well tell you. As for the coal and iron, our fathers left us enough to last for two or three thousand years if it had been economically mined according to some system established by law. We regret to tell you, upon the authority of Andrew Carnegie and John Mitchell, that we've wasted in getting out what we could use what should have lasted eighteen hundred or two thousand years. The coal may hold out another two hundred years and the iron one hundred years, but both will come high in your time. We wish we did not have to mention the oil and the natural gas, but we may as well tell you that we've sucked them out of the earth almost completely and wasted them. Dear next generation, such is part of the shameful explanation truth compels us to make to you concerning the waste and loss of your patrimony. We've skimmed the cream and latter have conquered fire and snow and the other enemies that have attacked them through the centuries, and stood there, lofty and silent and serene, while wars have raged and been forgotten and religions grown up and fallen to decay. The redwoods proper, as these trees in the Bohemian grove are called, are not quite so ancient, but they were mighty trees, at any rate, before the Roman Empire fell, and they and their brothers may still be standing when the solitary New Zealander looks upon the ruins of St. Paul's—those at least which haven't been cut up into fenceposts and shingles. To an outsider, the spell they cast necessarily overshadows the doings of the little humans playing at their feet. In the cool, fragrant interior of the grove, the hectic bustle of the ordinary world seems trifling and unimportant. Voices come pleasantly across the great spaces; even the humor of the street, provided it has a basis in reality, is mellowed and enriched and merged into the region of art. The grove becomes a world in itself—a more radiant world; you walk out into the open and are conscious of leaving some enchantment behind, of entering a more difficult, harsher, more material universe. Voices sound as from very far away through the trees, men lounging in groups here and there are listening and laughing carelessly—it is as though the blessings of humor and grace and happy insight belonged to all who breathed that air. An Easterner, a young poet and playwright, was a guest at the camp. He had never been west before, never seen the big trees. And it was into this pagan temple that he was led. The day before, he and some of his friends went to another forest nearby, the Armstrong grove. Here were the same trees, only a TALBERT FOR SUPERVISOR WILL SUCCEED MOORE IN SECOND DISTRICT Republican County Central Committee Makes Endorsement Unanimous—Gov. Gillett Will Make Appointment This Week—Charley Curry Out for Governorship Thirty members of the republican county central committee assembled at the city hall at Santa Ana on Saturday afternoon in response to a call by the chairman for the purpose of endorsing a candidate for supervisor in the second district to succeed George W. Moore. Before proceeding to the business before the meeting the committee appointed L. A. West of Santa Ana to succeed Sid Smithwick as a member from the fifth ward, and Lawrence Wakeham to succeed Jeff Harlin of Newport precinct. The real business of the meeting was stated by Chairman Morrison to be the selection of a man to fill the vacancy to be made by the resignation of Supervisor Moore. Dr. Ball asked if it were not true that the appointment had already been made and was answered that it had not, but that the executive committee of the county central committee had endorsed the application of a certain man and had forwarded it to the Governor. Then Dr. Ball offered a petition from Jacob Walton which was filed with the secretary and then L. A. West made a motion that the several candidates be placed in nomination and a vote for choice be taken. Dr. Ball offered an amendment that the matter be left to the committee men from the second district to say which of the three candidates before candidate. I shall be a candidate for the entire state and of all the people. "While I was in the south all classes of people came to me and asked me to announce myself. They are my friends. Some are legislators, others judges, lawyers, merchants and working people, in fact, from all walks of life. When I received this universal petition, I decided that the matter had now passed beyond my hands. My candidacy is in the hands of the people for them to decide. If the people desire me to be their candidate I shall serve their wish." "I will admit that one and one-half years before the time of election is a long period for a person to be a candidate. But when one considers that the next election will be under the new primary law, that the petitions must be circulated through the counties and signed by at least one per cent of the voters of each county, with the subsequent formula, the time is not so long. "Before circulating his petition in the different counties, the candidate must be assured of his friends supporting him. I believe I have my friends in every county of the state. The organization that is necessary for the candidate will take time and for that reason I believe the present time is opportune for a candidate to announce himself." THIS YEAR'S STATE FAIRS Meetings to Be Held at Sacramento and Oakland The regular State Fair and Live Stock Exposition will open at Sacramento on August 28th and close on September 4th. This will be the first time that the State Fair has been held in one enclosure, and this feature gives added interest to the year's proceedings. The Oakland Auxiliary State Fair will open at the Idora with mighty sugar and yellow pines and spruces and firs. In the southern portions of the belt, along the Keweah and Tule rivers, there are Giant-Tree groves that deserve to be called forests—vigorous young trees and saplings, growing beside their ancient, storm-stricken sires, but more often the Giant Trees bear much the same relation to the forest as a whole as is borne by the occasional primeval oaks found among the common second-growth timber in the "woods" of the east and middle west. The largest tree known is probably the "General Sherman," in the Giant Forest Grove in the Sequoia National Park, about forty miles east of the town of Visalia, in the central southern part of the state. It has a circumference of 103 feet; 200 feet from the ground it is not less than 70 feet around, and even with its crown broken off it is 280 feet high. Dredger Mining Our laws are stupid, too, in regard to the dredger industry. They allow capitalists to come into our fertile valleys, pay big prices for fields, orchards, vineyards, and convert them into barren piles of rocks. This makes a temporary prosperity. The owners of the soil get a lot of money, work is plentiful, prices are good—and the capitalist carries away large profits, perhaps. But the brief prosperity passes away in four or five years—and what of the land? It is no more. It would have otherwise been producing food, supporting people and paying taxes for four or five hundred years or four or five thousand—but now it is gone. It is a hideous desolation for all time to come. There is something wrong in this. It is legal at present, but it is not moral. No one should have a right to destroy the Homes of the future. It is against the general good. We have a right to 'use' the land—but not to 'destroy' it. E.H. CABBAGE GROWERS WIN The judgment of the superior court in favor of Fullerton and La Habra cabbage growers against Thomas Strain was last week affirmed by the Appellate court. The case grew out of deals for cabbage made by Strain, a shipper and packer. The growers claimed that they made sales of cabbage to Strain, and that Strain refused payment on the ground that led to the application of a certain man and had forwarded it to the Governor. Then Dr. Ball offered a petition from Jacob Walton which was filed with the secretary and then L. A. West made a motion that the several candidates be placed in nomination and a vote for choice be taken. Dr. Ball offered an amendment that the matter be left to the committee from the second district to say which of the three candidates before the meeting was the choice, but on roll-call the amendment was lost and the original motion carried. Then T. A. Talbert was nominated by Attorney L. A. West, Jacob Walton brought to the notice of the meeting by the request of Dr. Ball that his petition be accepted and S. R. Herrin nominated by Bert Warner, of Bolsa. The vote was by secret ballot and the count showed thirty votes cast, and out of these, twenty-three were for Talbert, four for Walton and three for Herrin. On motion of Albert Hermes of Newport Beach, the vote was made unanimous and the meeting ended with the adoption of a motion by D. A. MacMullen that the action of the meeting be communicated to the Governor. It is understood Gov. Gillett will make the appointment this week. If the Governor had intended to run for re-election he would certainly have told his friends and I am one of them. As long as he did not tell me he was going to run again I take it for granted that he does not want another term in office. For that reason I am going to be a candidate and I expect to be elected Governor of California." This is the statement of Charles Curry, Secretary of State, made at Sacramento the other day. The election is a year and a half distant, but Curry has been pulling his wires for many weeks and working toward this end. He declared that if the present Governor had evidenced a desire for the nomination he would not have opposed Gillett. The present Governor refuses to say whether he intends to run in 1910, but some of his friends seem to think that he will. Curry says he is going to conduct a personal campaign. While Governor Gillett denies that he has ever stated that he would not be a candidate for return to the gubernatorial chair and declares that it will be housed in a special building at the fair grounds, now being completed. A feature of the building is an immense concrete tank, 60 x 12 x 8 feet, to demonstrate the working of pumps. As irrigation by electrically CABBAGE GROWERS WIN The judgment of the superior court in favor of Fullerton and La Habra cabbage growers against Thomas Strain was last week affirmed by the Appellate court. The case grew out of deals for cabbage made by Strain, a shipper and packer. The growers claimed that they made sales of cabbage to Strain, and that Strain refused payment on the ground that he had taken the cabbage on commission and not by direct purchase. F. E. Proud appeared as plaintiff, representing the claims of F. E. Proud, H. G. Meiser, J. H. Smith, J. L. Updike, Lee Meyers, J. P. Des Granges, and McGimpsey & Woodward. The case was tried before Judge West and a jury in June of 1907, and the jury gave Proud judgment against Strain for $1,942.50 with $173.25 costs, all of which has been drawing seven per cent interest since the judgment. Strain appealed to the supreme court, which referred the case to the appellate court for a decision. The decision means that the growers will get their money. KANSAS PICNIC The Kansas Society of Southern California will hold its annual picnic at Sycamore Park on Saturday, August 7th. Coffee will be served free. You are requested to bring cups with you. The following program will be given: cornet solo; song, Mrs. Charlotte Weaver; speech, John W. Huntsberger. Ice orders promptly delivered to all parts of city, large or small. W. E. Duckworth. He declared that if the present Governor had evidenced a desire for the nomination he would not have opposed Gillett. The present Governor refuses to say whether he intends to run in 1910, but some of his friends seem to think that he will. Curry says he is going to conduct a personal campaign. While Governor Gillett denies that he has ever stated that he would not be a candidate for return to the gubernatorial chair and declares that it is entirely too early to begin talking about his candidacy, Secretary of State Charles F. Curry has now come out with formal announcement of his candidacy for Governor at the next election. Curry declares that Governor Gillett has practically admitted to him that he would not again be a candidate. The Governor says that he has made no admissions. Upon returning from Southern California, Secretary of State Curry said: "I have about decided to formally announce myself as a candidate for Governor. While I was in the South hundreds of my friends came to me and asked me to be their candidate. I was not received this way only in one section, but in every place I visited, and I see no reason why I should decline the honor if my friends urge me to accept their support. "I want to be Governor of the State of California. Had Governor Gillett made any announcement or indicated that he would be a candidate for re-nomination I should never present myself. He has maintained an absolute silence, in spite of the many times he has been asked openly whether or not he would run again. I do not believe that he intends to be a candidate again, and I see no reason why I should not present myself for the office. "I shall not be a sectional candidate. Nor will I be a factional can- by themselves. The Premium List has more than 2,000 prizes in this class, amounting to over $3,000. Every fancier in California with pure bred birds should either show at or visit the fair this year. The machinery exhibits this year will be housed in a special building at the fair grounds, now being completed. A feature of the building is an immense concrete tank, 60 x 12 x 8 feet, to demonstrate the working of pumps. As irrigation by electrically driven pumps has become a feature of farming operations in many sections of the state, this portion of the fair will prove mutually profitable both to exhibitors and interested visitors. In addition a splendid program of harness races will be carried out with a special musical program, every day and evening, and numerous free attractions in the entertainment line, in addition to a great "glad way" where all sorts of up-to-date amusements of high class will be presented. The fair will be the greatest in the history of the state, and combined with the Oakland Auxiliary Fair, to which all the pavilion exhibits will be hauled free of charge by the Southern Pacific Company, and shown at Idora Park, a pleasure spot whose equal is seldom found within the borders of the United States, will attract the greatest attendance in the history of State Fairs. Fully a quarter of a million admissions are looked for at these fairs, which will doubtless form the greatest advertising and educational expositions in the history of California. Secretary J. A. Filcher is daily receiving applications for space, and says there is no question of this fair proving a great success in every way. 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