anaheim-gazette 1909-09-02

ROAD BONDS BOB UP AGAIN ASSOCIATED CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE FAVOR INDEBTEDNESS Meeting at Orange Last Wednesday Night Resolves Itself into a Love Feast for Good Roads—Don't Ask Us Where They Are Going to Be Despite the fact that the State will next year vote upon Gov. Gillett's scheme to bond the State for $18,000,000 for good roads, the sentiment at the meeting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce at Orange last Wednesday evening was practically upanimous in favor of an issue of county bonds for the same purpose. Petitions will be in circulation as a result of the meeting, with a view to securing the necessary number of names to make mandatory upon the Board of Supervisors the seemingly agreeable task of calling a bond election. Doc McMullan of the Push took advanced ground in favor of issuing the bonds, and promised the meeting the supervisors would be guided in selecting three commissioners to supervise road building by the sentiment in the various portions of the county—so far as that was possible under the law. "Do not ask us where these good roads are to be located," said one enthusiastic county seater." "Let us call the election first, and settle the location of the roads later on." Doc McMullan started the ball for bonds by stating that he believed the people of county want better roads and that they will vote bonds for some men, and their ability to ride with skill and grace. During his talk on bonds Dr. MacMullan referred, incidentally, to the county assessment. He wanted it distinctly understood that neither the Board of Supervisors nor the assessor had anything to do with the railroad assessment; also that whatever showing the assessor and supervisors may make before the state board of equalization, that board has arbitrary power to raise the assessment and will probably do so. The speaker pointed out the fact that the assessed valuation of the county had been increased five million dollars during the past ten years, and Assessor Scott gives figures on assessment: 1890, $9,022,672; 1900, $10,263,130; 1905, $13,433,755; 1909, $19,508,575. From 1890 to 1906, seventeen years, including state raise of 1904 and assessment of the P. E. railway, which came in 1906, the valuation of the county was raised $6,-185,088. From 1907 to 1909 inclusive, three years, without any state raise or added railway assessments, the increased valuations amount to $4,300,-815. Dr. Dobson called attention to the out-of-dateness of the Orange county pictures in the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and urged each Chamber in the association to at once have four new scenes prepared. The next meeting of the association will be held in Santa Ana on September 22d. Orange proved to be a delightful host. The following menu was discussed: ME-N-U (Will enjoy this.) MOCK TURTLE SOUP vise road building by the sentiment in the various portions of the county—so far as that was possible under the law. “Do not ask us where these good roads are to be located,” said one enthusiastic county seater.” “Let us call the election first, and settle the location of the roads later on.” Doc McMullan started the ball for bonds by stating that he believed the people of county want better roads and that they will vote bonds for permanent road improvements. As one member of the board of supervisors he was willing—and he believed all the other members would be willing—to be advised and counselled and assisted in every possible manner that the law permits in working out this problem to successful solution. He called attention to the good roads work going on all around us and said that Orange county, if it didn’t improve its roads, would soon be known as the “chuckhole” of Southern California. “There is no other way,” said he, warming to his subject, “to improve the roads than by a bond issue. Our road tax of forty cents is ample to keep the roads in good repair after they are once properly and permanently improved, but with it we can do nothing in the way of permanent road building, nor can we keep the roads we now have in decent condition with that amount of money.” “We have 86 miles of roads in Orange county and only $7000 per year to maintain them.” D. H. Thomas, F. P. Nickey and Clyde Bishop, who toured the county three years ago for good roads, also appeared and spoke their little pieces for bonds. The question of how the commission shall be selected was fully discussed. Fred West said he thought the people of the northern part of the county would not want to sign the petition without knowing something about what was proposed to be done and by whom—the amount of the bonds, what roads improved, who the commission, etc. A county seater explained that such information could not be given until the commission was appointed and made its report. The signing of the petition meant nothing but to say, we want a proposition submitted for our consideration—one that we can approve or defeat at the polls. As to the appointment of the commission he sug- Mr. Pinchot will go to San Diego where he will make his headquarters for a few days. He will go on a fishing trip to San Clemente island. Secretary Wilson of the department of agriculture, who will be in Los Angeles probably the last week in October, also will visit the forestry bureau there, and has expressed to Supervisor Charlton by letter his desire to make a trip of inspection through the Angeles National Forest in the San Bernardino mountains. CALIFORNIA RIFLEMEN Wni Fourth Prize at Camp Perry Targets Camp Perry, O., Aug. 25.—The national rifle team match was won by the United States navy, winner in 1907, by the score of 3801, 584 ahead of the United States infantry's winning score last year. The navy gets the national trophy and $450. The United States infantry took second prize of $350 with 3752. The skirmish scores follow: United States navy, 1131; United States infantry, 1135; Massachusetts, 1101; United States cavalry, 1152; Ohio, 1107; Wisconsin, 1110; New York, 1088; Pennsylvania, 1103; United States marines, 1103; Iowa, 1073. The winners in classes B and C will receive the following prizes: Class B—New York, the $3000 Hiller trophy and $350; Maryland, $250; Connecticut, $225; California, $200. DEATH OF GEO. N. FRENTZ Geo. N. Frentz, a native of Germany, died last week at his home in Los Angeles of diabetes. Deceased came to this county 25 years ago and lived near Buena Park on a ranch, until two years ago, when he moved to Los Angeles. A widow and two married daughters survive him. PUSH GOT WHAT IT WANTED MINORITY WAGGED MAJORITY IN LEGISLATURE Personnel of Body Better Than For Years, but Machine Had No Difficulty in Framing Legislation to its Liking—Record of the last Session The people of California are in debt to Franklin Hichborn, the courageous and efficient correspondent of the Sacramento Bee. He has done for the State of California what no other man, so far as we know, has done for this or any other State—the he has faithfully described a State Legislature in action from the beginning to the end of the session. The voter who reads Hichborn's "Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1903" will know more about the way he is misrepresented and how the State is misgoverned than he ever knew before; and that is true of the voter of Massachusetts, of Pennsylvania and of every other state except those in which the people have taken back into their own hands the power that belongs to them. Change the names of the reformers and "performers," and the picture drawn by Hichborn will fit almost any State Legislature. Last winter, when the Legislature was in session, the best reports of what was done and how the people were "done" were written by Franklin Hichborn and published in the Sacramento Bee. That was because, first, the Bee had no partisan or other ax to grind; second, because Mr. Hichborn knows legislative procedure and knows how to tell what occurs. Perkins was re-elected. They are a record of some big blunders of the majority—blunders that were expensive all during the session. They give a primary lesson in the working of legislative wheels. They show how the anti-machine Republicans of the Senate walked into a trap prepared for them by the Machine. Perhaps the most interesting chapters of the book are the four that tell the story of the jobbery of the Direct Primary bill, and in which the Call and George Van Smith, the Call's political editor, are justly, correctly, scientifically and artistically skinned—merely as a contribution to political history and in the interest of truth. It is the first time the people have had placed before them a correct chart of the devious wanderings and meanderings, coat-turnings, temporary disguises and burrowings of Van Smith and the Call in regard to the Direct Primary bill. After readnig the plain tale, written without varnish, it is a legitimate inference that some one very close to the chief fountain-pen of the Call was "hypnotized" by the political Machine that did not want a good Direct Primary law, and was busy trying to throw dust into the public eye. Hichborn makes no such charge. All he does is to produce evidence, and he submits the evidence without argument. Any voter in California who wishes to read the record of his State Senator or his Representative or misrepresentative in the House, can find that record in Hichborn's book. For example, if one of Senator Wright's constituents wishes to trace the devious course of that senator, who first posed as a reformer the better to do the unclean work of the Machine, he can find that record. REINFORCED CONCRETE Series of Tests Being Carried on by Geological Survey The increasing use of reinforced concrete as a building material has led to numerous investigations of its strength when variously prepared and when subjected to various conditions. Perhaps the most elaborate series of tests is that now being carried on by the United States Geological Survey, which has recently published (Bulletin 344) a preliminary report on the subject. A full report with a thorough analysis of the results, will be published after the 52-week tests are completed. The attempt has been made to bring out the comparative value of gravel, granite, limestone, and cinders for use in concrete, and the effect of age and consistency on the strength and on the stiffness. No attempt has been made in this preliminary report, however, to generalize the results of the tests, or to draw any conclusions, however warranted they may appear from an examination of the test data. It is hoped that the matter presented will provoke discussion, and in order to promote this end extended expressions of opinion or attempted applications of theory to results have been avoided. A running commentary on the results of the tests, however, emphasizing matters of particular interest and indicating a few points that might lead to interesting analysis, is included. The bulletin, which is by Richard L. Humphrey, may be had free or charge on application to the Director United States Geological Survey, Washington, D.C. the reformers and "performers," and the picture drawn by Hichborn will fit almost any State Legislature. Last winter, when the Legislature was in session, the best reports of what was done and how the people were "done" were written by Franklin Hichborn and published in the Sacramento Bee. That was because, first, the Bee had no partisan or other ax to grind; second, because Mr. Hichborn knows legislative procedure and knows how to tell what occurs. When he announced that he would write a book about the doings and undoings of the session of 1909, many thought that he would merely reprint some of his articles written for the Bee. But the book is "another story" in many respects. This "Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909" is written partly to show what was done at Sacramento. It is important for the people to know that, but it is of more importance for them to know "how it was done," and Hichborn's book is valuable chiefly because it tells "how it was done." That is what not more than one man in two or three thousand knows, but what every voter should know, because what is done and how it is done is a part of his life. In telling this true story, Hichborn has divided the several measures under three heads—moral, political and industrial measures or issues. Then the principal issue of each group—the issue that was of most importance to The People and on which the Machine concentrated its efforts, is considered in detail. The Anti-Racetrack Gambling bill is taken as the most important of the moral issues, the Direct Primary bill as the most important political issue, and the railroad regulation measures are taken as the chief industrial issue. "The story of the fight over these bills is the story of the session of 1909." Nine chapters of the book are devoted to these measures and they are particularly interesting. Before coming to that part of his story, however, Hichborn explains several matters that the people should know. He says the personnel of the Legislature was better than that of any other Legislature that has assembled in California in a decade or more, that a majority of each chamber labored for the passage of good laws—and yet, regardless of the purpose of this matter he submits the evidence without argument. Any voter in California who wishes to read the record of his State Senator or his Representative or misrepresentative in the House, can find that record in Hichborn's book. For example, if one of Senator Wright's constituents wishes to trace the devious course of that senator, who first posed as a reformer the better to do the unclean work of the Machine, he can find that record in Hichborn's book. And if the Lincoln-Roosevelt League wishes to see snapshots of some of its folly, they are in the book. "But," some may ask, "if the Machine minority controlled the majority, how did the Anti-Racetrack Gambling bill get past that minority? That is a good question, and the story is interesting. If the men in charge of the Direct Primary bill had had the nerve, the political honesty and the political sense possessed by the advocates of the Racetrack bill, California would now have a Direct Primary law worthy of the name instead of a Machine-made primary law. The members of the Commonwealth Club, and every other man interested in reform of the criminal laws of California—or of any other state—should read the chapters in which Hichborn explains how the Commonwealth Club bills were sent to the cemetery, how the Machine-made Change of Venue bill was passed, and how the Wheelan bills—to put more abuses into the criminal code—were passed. Those in favor of local option will be interested in reading how the Local Option bill was killed. The defeat of the Initiative amendment and Anti-Japanese bills are explained in strong chapters. Two chapters are devoted to the very queer "rule against lobbyists" and "The Machine Lobbyist at Work." The rule against lobbying was enforced only against the friends of reform legislation. The dark deeds of the San Francisco delegation are drawn in fitting colors, and there is a chapter on the State Fish and Game Commission that will interest many voters. The public does not keep track of the rewards given to the faithful servants of the Machine. Hichborn devotes one chapter of twelve pages to the telling of the rewards already handed out by the Machine to its faithful servants of last winter. In a chapter on the hold-over senators of opinion or attempted applications of theory to results have been avoided. A running commentary on the results of the tests, however, emphasizing matters of particular interest and indicating a few points that might lead to interesting analysis, is included. The bulletin, which is by Richard L. Hunphrey, may be had free or charge on application to the Director United States Geological Survey, Washington, D.C. SPIRIT LEVELING IN CALIFORNIA A Handbook for Engineers and Surveyors A recent publication of the United States Geological Survey (Bulletin No. 342) contains the results of the spirit leveling done by the Survey in California for years 1896 to 1907, inclusive, and forms a reference book for great value to engineers, surveyors and explorers in that state. It comprises descriptions and elevations of bench marks in 42 counties, which furnish vertical control for one-third of the state. The levelling since 1906 in the Sacramento Valley was done in cooperation with the state. The lists are separated into two classes, precise and primary, distinguishing the degree of refinement in the method of leveling employed. The exact location of each bench mark described and its elevation in feet above sea level, carried out as a rule to three decimals, is given. Complete index makes information contained in the volume easily accessible. A copy of this bulletin can be had free on application to the Director United States Geological Survey, Washington, D.C. FOREST RANGERS Examinations for Positions to Held at Various Places An examination to fill vacancies on ranger force on all national fences in District 5 will be held October 25 and 26. From this examination it is expected that 75 appointees will be made on national fences in this district. The examination will be held at the headquarters of each national fences in California at the following places: Alturas, Bishop, Hot Springs Los Angeles Northfork Nevada City. Nine chapters of the book are devoted to these measures and they are particularly interesting. Before coming to that part of his story, however, Hichborn explains several matters that the people should know. He says the personnel of the Legislature was better than that of any other Legislature that has assembled in California in a decade or more, that a majority of each chamber labored for the passage of good laws—"and yet, regardless of the purpose of this majority," the Machine minority did its own corrupt will in almost everything. Why was that? How was it that with the majority in both chambers standing for good legislation and opposing bad legislation, the Machine minority, "at practically every turn, defeated a majority?" That is something the people don't understand. They will understand it if they read Hichborn's story. The decent majority was without organization and had no leaders. The indecent minority was thoroughly organized and had recognized leaders. The decent majority, except in regard to one measure, had no definite plan of action, while the indecent minority had its plans drawn and was prepared for emergencies even before the Legislature convened. Another reason for the triumph of the Machine, or indecent minority, was the huge blunder of the majority in permitting the Machine minority to organize the Senate and the House, and thus capture the points of vantage, the forts and the ammunition. Most legislative work is done in the committees. By permitting the Machine minority to organize the two chambers, the majority surrendered to its enemies the control of the committees, and thus of the Legislature. The first five chapters of the book are a political primer in so far as the work of the Legislature is concerned. They explain why the minority was able to defeat the majority, how the Machine controls and how the San Francisco delegation are drawn in fitting colors, and there is a chapter on the State Fish and Game Commission that will interest many voters. The public does not keep track of the rewards given to the faithful servants of the Machine. Hichborn devotes one chapter of twelve pages to the telling of the rewards already handed out by the Machine to its faithful servants of last winter. In a chapter on the hold-over senators, he gives a warning for the election next year. In concluding, he shows that before any effective reform can be brought about, anti-Machine Republicans and Democrats must unite to organize the two chambers of the Legislature and thus control the committees and the legislative machinery. There must be non-partisan organization for the public good and against political corruptionists. Buy a copy of this book. Address Franklin Hichborn, Santa Clara, Cal. 328 pages; price, $1.25. PENNSYLVANIA'S PICNIC The Pennsylvania Society of Southern California will hold its annual picnic at Redondo Beach, Saturday, September 11th, and a record breaking attendance is very much desired. This should be the greatest picnic ever held by this society, as efforts have been made by the committee this year far in excess of any previous occasion- and arrangements have been perfected that should appeal to every former Pennsylvanian. Lay aside every other matter and attend this gathering of folk from the old home. Bring your basket well filled, come and have the time of your life; and leave behind all worry, and you will spend the happiest day of your life. For tan and sunburn use Princess cold cream. Only at Mullinix' Drug Store. An examination to fill vacancies in the ranger force on all national fences in District 5 will be held October 25 and 26. From this examination it is expected that 75 appoinments will be made on national fences in this district. The examination will be held at the headquarters of each national forest in California at the following places: Alturas, Bishop, Hot Springs Los Angeles, Northfork, Nevada City Quincy, Red Bluff, San Diego, Salina Santa Barbara, Sisson, Sonora Weaverville, Willows and Yerka. San Diego is the headquarters of the Cleveland National Forest, which the reserve in Orange county is a part. While the examination is entirely along practical lines, and knowledge of field conditions rather than basic learning is considered essential, opportunities for those applicants with educational advantages are considerably increased. The rapid development of the national forests making continually increasing demands upon those engaged in management, and men with abilities assume responsibility and serve supervisory capacities are in demand. These more responsible positions national forests are filled by promotion from lower grades, so that one entering as a ranger is eligible for promotion to any of the more responsible and higher paid places including that of Forest Supervisor. Only those men who are at least 21 years of age, nor more than 40 years good character, temperate, and good physical condition, are eligible to take this examination. The salary paid to beginners is $900 a year. Applicants can secure information concerning the examination from District Forester at San Francisco Forest Supervisor, or the United States Civil Service Commission Washington, D. C. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 A BEE IN YOUR BONNET For centuries the bee has been held up as an example to improvident man but the lesson has not been carried far enough. Emulate the bee's thrifty habits and diligence but don't store the results of your labor in a hive or crevice where some creature stronger or sharper than you are can rob you. 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