anaheim-gazette 1909-10-14

The Weekly Gazette. ESTABLISHED 1870 Henry Kuchel, Editor and Proprietor SUBSCRIPTION.....$1.50 Per Year Six Months.....$1.00 Three Months.....50 Cts The Gazette is issued every Thursday morning. Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter. Has the Largest Circulation NO BONDS TO FEED THE MACHINE In another column of this issue will be found an article from our esteemed contemporary the Orange Post upon the present agitation for good road bonds in Orange county. This article is in line with what we have already had to say upon the subject, and we are glad to find so sane and conservative an authority as the Post ringing out in clarion tones concerning this contemplated rape of the poor. The two papers have been frequently in accord upon matters of public policy—never more so than in the present instance. Twenty years ago they fought a bonding scheme for a county high school at Santa Ana. The county-seaters put Judge Sugar-Beets Pierce in the field to stump the county for the bonds. "Sugar Beets" had just arrived from Kansas, with none too good a record behind him, and earned his first dollar in the county by telling people to vote for bonds for a county highschool. That was the first fight Santa Ana pulled off against the county at large; and the result was a signal defeat for the grasping county-seat. ROAD BONDS AND POLITICS If Dr. Dobson and his co-workers of the associated chambers of commerce indulge the notion that the supervisors of Orange county will abdicate their authority in the matter of appointing highway commissioners, they might as well dispel that delusion at their earliest opportunity. To longer indulge the snare of that hypothesis is hardly worth their while—nor did it ever attain to that dignity. To the admission of a charge of incompetency which this course on the part of the supervisors might entail, must be added the other and more important fact that the board will in the years to come be responsible to the people for the personnel of the commission. Whatever defect may be charged to the commission will react with redoubled force upon their sponsors. The years will be many, and probably criticisms not a few. Not having appointed them, they cannot be recalled. The commission will be superior to those who by law are in superior authority. It is idle to assume that the request of the associated chambers of commerce will be acceded to. If the good-roads committee will not, as has been stated, submit their petitions to the supervisors until the latter yield to them in their selection of a highway commission, then there will probably be nothing doing in good-road building in this county during their term of office. We seem to have arrived at whatever you call an irresistible force coming in contact with an immovable body. But apart from these considerations of a lack of integrity or competency which this course would naturally imply, is the overshadowing one of the politics of the situation. The highway commission has the advantages, but there is built political machiness so powerful that at our throats of the people yes; but politically Let Dr. Dobson gest, and go accordingly. ASSESSED The assesses incorporated city are given follows: Santa Ana ... Anaheim ... Fullerton ... Orange ... Huntington Beach Newport Beach Total ... The area in first five areas Santa Ana, Anaheim, Fullerton, Orange, 11 Huntington Total—34 Newport B narrow strip while its exact moment available far from that We have had $7,795,845—now the entire previous to the board of equal subject to tax should they call Here are a miles of territory of Newport B dollar may be Santa Ana. The county-seaters put Judge Sugar-Beets Pierce in the field to stump the county for the bonds. "Sugar Beets" had just arrived from Kansas, with none too good a record behind him, and earned his first dollar in the county by telling people to vote for bonds for a county highschool. That was the first fight Santa Ana pulled off against the county at large; and the result was a signal defeat for the grasping county-seat town. Santa Ana has since built a highschool of its own, and paid for it; and Annaheim and Orange, as well as other localities in the county have their highschools also. In the present proposed bonding scheme, our contemporary occupies precisely the position which we do. We all want good roads, but we shy at the political machine growing upon this county, and pretty near big enough to wear pa's trousers. We're afraid of the graft. We're afraid of the grab. A sixteen-foot paved speedway for autos in the center of our highways. What earthly good will that be to anyone but a speed maniac in an auto? Will the farmer with his load of hay or of hogs, on his way to market, have a chance at it? What will become of the sequestered portions of the roads on the sides? We commend the article of the Post to the careful perusal of our readers. It is in line with what we have already said in these columns. (1) The time is not opportune to vote county bonds, when the state is voting next year upon an issue of $18,000,000 of road bonds; (2) the livery of good roads is being used to serve the political devil of the organization in, and (3) the distrust of the political machine in Orange county is such that no million dollar bond issue will be placed in its hands—not in a thousand years. No machine bonds, masquerading under the name of good-road bonds; no scheme to perpetuate ring politics in Orange county. HOTFOOT JOHNNY Johnny Morrison is hotfoot after the job of county horticultural commissioner, which pays a salary of $6 per day. Johnny now holds down the job of deputy fish and game commissioner, at $100 per, and if reports current in local political circles are then there will probably be nothing doing in good-road building in this county during their term of office. We seem to have arrived at whatever you call an irresistible force coming in contact with an immovable body. But apart from these considerations of a lack of integrity or competency which this course would naturally imply, is the overshadowing one of the politics of the situation. The highway commission has the appointment of subordinates, and these men are always handy in controlling county committees and conventions. The direct primary is not yet perfect, and we have seen how in Los Angeles the party bosses have called a convention to forestall probable unfavorable action toward them by the voters at the polls. We have seen, here in Orange county, not longer ago than last year, how push supervisors have scampered over the county summoning the faithful road overseers to a meeting of the county central committee, called to defeat the will of the party, and how by their votes efforts for an honest primary election were defeated and denied. The chairman of the present board of supervisors himself declared at that meeting of the committee that he would never vote to grant the party an opportunity of exercising its choice for delegates to the state convention. He was himself selected as one of the delegation to the state convention, and at Oakland voted in defiance of the will of a majority of his party. We have seen a deputy at the courthouse attending a meeting of the county committee, when not a member of that body, and voting with the push to throttle the will of the party. Pack a county central committee with road bosses and complaisant deputies, and what show have the voters arrayed against the state railroad machine? Absolutely none whatever. At following county conventions, with this situation repeated, the independents go down to defeat, first, last and all the time. Wise ones say it is all on account of lack of organization; that the push is organized, the independents unorganized. But this is only half the story. The black crows of the road bosses, feeding out of the hands of the supervisors—they are the milk of the push cocoanut. It is this that the people hold against the board of supervisors. They do not charge them with being personally discharged from these considerations. Of the fifty in the Los Angeles who founded it in 1857, only dore Edward mentine Lang known and high of this city. Honor of name. He selected that meaning the river of the sea whose life-givingity of the orchid was and continuesberg," was an meaning Annah Mr. Schmidt cause there we er the colony fifty or more was finally seethe name of Ten or a doze was jumped up to some other sense of the innovation dropped. Mr. Zeyn, week, was one HOTFOOT JOHNNY Johnny Morrison is hotfoot after the job of county horticultural commissioner, which pays a salary of $6 per day. Johnny now holds down the job of deputy fish and game commissioner, at $100 per, and if reports current in local political circles are to be believed, the state commission has indicated to him that little time would be lost in accepting his resignation. Johnny seems to be on the toboggan as fish and game commissioner, and is out after another snap. He wants to be county horticultural commissioner, and it is said he can have it, despite the opposition of the citrus people to him. The push is lined up behind him, and he looks a winner. Ralph Fuller, one of the pinto delegates to the Riverside senatorial convention, who was instructed by the Republican county convention not to support Estudillo and turned his back upon them, is said to be scheduled to succeed Morrison as fish and game commissioner. How we organization applies swim. What's become of the electric railway rumors? Isn't it about time some one saw Col. Pillsbury scally-hootin' about the country? The simmer of the spring election titulates the ear anon. Will the town go dry, or will license be revised upward? Now we are having a bread trust. Please pass the pie. Mr. Crane seems to have been short-circuited. ANAHEIM GAZETTE LITICS workers of cointhat the county will commission all dispel opportunity snare worth attain admission which the supple added fact years to people commission. charged with reinsors.The obably critiaving appe recallsuperior in supassume associated be accedcommittee submit insiders unin their commission, nothing in this office. what force movable consideratcompete natshadowing situation. the ap- stances, but throughout the state. There is building up in California a political machine so far-reaching and so powerful that its tentacles grip us at our throats. The political freedom of the people is at stake. Good roads, yes; but political satrapy, never. Let Dr. Dobson read, inwardly digest, and govern his future course accordingly. ASSESSED VALUATIONS AND ROAD BONDS The assessed valuations of the six incorporated cities of Orange county are given by Assessor Scott as follows: Santa Ana $3,948,500 Anaheim 717,655 Fullerton 1,029,250 Orange 998,075 Huntington Beach 606,185 Newport Beach 436,180 Total $7,795,845 The area in square miles of the first five are given as follows: Santa Ana, 2 3-4x3—8 1-4. Anaheim, 1 1-2x1 3-4—2 5-8. Fullerton, 3x5 1-2—16 1-2. Orange, 1 1-2x1 3-4—2 5-8. Huntington Beach, 2x2—4. Total—34. Newport Beach occupies a long narrow strip along the coast, and while its exact area is not at the moment available, it is probably not far from that of Huntington Beach. We have here an assessment of $7,795,845—not much less than half the entire county's assessed value previous to the raise of the state board of equalization, which will be subject to taxation for road bonds should they carry. Here are also thirty-four square miles of territory, exclusive of that of Newport Beach, in which not a dollar may be expended for road im- ed work would decrease the tidal basin and narrow the channel, injuring the bay as a prospective harbor. The land company stated that the necessity of a harbor there is unimportant and that the bay is not navigable. The brief sent goes to refute both contentions. It is pointed out that within twenty-five miles of the bay 11,388 carloads of produce are raised annually that could be shipped by water. William Kelley of Delhi and James McMillan of Newport Beach, who were pilots in the bay when it was used by James McFadden, and the Pacific Coast Steamship company as a shipping point, John McMillan of Newport, a seaman, G. W. Minter of Santa Ana, and J. H. Sharps of Newport Beach, testified by affidavit that in the seventies and eighties vessels of 300 tons crossed the bar regularly and loaded and unloaded two and a half miles up the bay. Kelley stated that he has recently measured the water on the bar and finds it fully as deep as it was twenty-five years ago. GUARD BIRD BROODS. Sea-Bird Scavengers and Insect-Eating Waterfowl Grow Scarce. New York, Oct. 9.—That the threatened extermination of the valuable birds of the sea coasts and lakes of this country has been checked to some extent by the operation of reservations during the past year was announced at the headquarters of the National Association of Audubon Societies in this city today. At some fifty points along both shores of the continent and on inland waters the breeding birds have this season been shielded from the ravages of egg poachers, plume hunters and market butchers, according to annual reports that have just been received from the wardens employed by GIRL ROMANCE WITH PRESIDENT "Mr. Taft Is Not Like the Boy and Man I Knew," Says Resident of Washington North Yakima, Wash., Oct. 2.—Mr. H. F. Hodge, to whom President Taft alluded during his visit here as a "old sweetheart of mine," today made the first statement regarding her girlhood romance with Mr. Taft. "Mr.. Taft and I grew up as children together in Cincinnati," she said. "And from our earliest days we were dear friends. In one sense of the term, we were sweethearts though most people have put an unfortunate interpretation upon the word the president used. Our parents went to the Unitarian church so we took a deep interest in each other." During recent years Mrs. Hodge had seen President Taft but seldom She came west about a year ago,and bought a ranch near here for her sons. When she heard Mr. Taft was to be at North Yakima she came here She said: "He was not at all like the boy and man I had known at home.I am glad that, as an old friend, he was so highly honored,and I am proud of him." Though Mrs. Hodges, who was formerly Elizabeth Evans,did not say so in so many words,she gave the impression that possibly the president in their earlier days,regarded her in a different light from that which she regarded him. ADOPTING A BARBAROUS CIVILIZATION. Dr. Thomas Green, clergyman and investigator,tells as the result of observations in Japan,as pub- ADOPTING A BARBAROUS CIVILIZATION. Dr. Thomas Green, clergyman and investigator, tells as the result of observations in Japan, as published in Hampton's Magazine, that Japan does not want war with this country or any other. The fact is that the people are struggling under a crushing load of taxation. The war with Russia cost some $900,000,000, and, although Japan was victorious, the peace of Portsmouth brought no indemnity. The war in fact, almost left the country bankrupt. Quoting Dr. Green: "Everything in Japan is taxed from the land you own, or rent and till, to the salt you eat, the oil you burn, the railroad ticket on which you travel, even the laborers you employ. You are taxed coming and going, waking or sleeping, living or dead. Not because the government wants to, but because the government must. Previous to the war the man whose income amounted to or exceeded $50,000 per annum paid 55 per cent. of it to the government. Now he pays 68 per cent! The average man pays an average tax of 32 per cent. of his entire income to the government. Where else in all this wide world do you know of patriotism so absolutely dominating as this?" After the war an ambitious naval program was announced, but it was soon discovered that it was impossible of accomplishment. It was planned to expend 65,000,000 yen between 1908 and 1914 in building Dreadnoughts, but this has been cut down to 20,000,000 yen, which would just about build one Dreadnought for the six years. That is not a very formidable program, but in 1915 the Japanese government hopes to be able to appropriate 50,000,000 yen for building warships. It seems as if the Japanese had adopted with enthusiasm the most barbarous feature of European civilization—the craze for militarism. The unhappy Japanese are the chief sufferer. We have here an assessment of $7,795,845—not much less than half the entire county's assessed value previous to the raise of the state board of equalization, which will be subject to taxation for road bonds should they carry. Here are also thirty-four square miles of territory, exclusive of that of Newport Beach, in which not a dollar may be expended for road improvements under the absurd "good-roads" law. Should these cities of right be made to bear nearly half the burdens of this bond issue, while receiving none of the benefits upon roads within their borders? These cities, moreover, have bonds outstanding for municipal improvements, for sewers, water and lighting plants, city halls, jails, and street betterments, while the outlying sections of the county have little or none of such indebtedness. Is it right to add to their burdens when they are denied participation in the benefits of this proposed bond issue? Mr. Voter, it's up to you. ONLY TWO REMAIN Of the fifty original shareholders in the Los Angeles vineyard society, who founded the colony of Anaheim in 1857, only two remain, viz., Theodore Edward Schmidt and Mrs. Clementine Langenberger, both well-known and highly respected residents of this city. To Mr. Schmidt the honor of naming the colony is due. He selected the name "Anaheim" as meaning the home of Anna, or of the river of the saint of that name, from whose life-giving waters the prosperity of the original colony enterprise was and continues to be due. "Anaberg," was another name suggested, meaning Anna of the Mountains but Mr. Schmidt objected to this because there were no mountains nearer the colony than the coast range, fifty or more miles away. His choice was finally selected, and such has the name of the colony ever been. Ten or a dozen years ago a project was jumped up to change the name to some other title; but the good sense of the community was against the innovation, and the matter was dropped. Mr. Zeyn, who passed away last week, was one of the original share- cause there were no mountains nearer the colony than the coast range, fifty or more miles away. His choice was finally selected, and such has the name of the colony ever been. Ten or a dozen years ago a project was jumped up to change the name to some other title; but the good sense of the community was against the innovation, and the matter was dropped. Mr. Zeyn, who passed away last week, was one of the original shareholders, and C. F. Scholl, who died at his home in Alameda county last summer, was another. For years these four pioneers had been the four remaining pioneers, in the sense that only original shareholders were really the pioneers in the colony. Now the number is reduced to two. Forty-eight have crossed the river. Mr. Schmidt will be 86 in December. Mrs. Langenberger is years his junior, and each is in the enjoyment of good health, giving every evidence of long continuing in the enjoyment of happiness and prosperity. NEWPORT BAY FIGHT People Up In Arms Against Theft of Harbor The brief of the Orange County Harbor Association and the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trustees in their fight to prevent the Newport Land Company dredging and filling fifty-six acres adjoining Balboa Island has been prepared and was yesterday forwarded to the Secretary of War. There was a hearing before Lieut. Leeds at the United States Engineer's office in Los Angeles. The civic bodies fighting the dredging and fill contend that the proposal land Reservation off Louisiana, in violation of federal statute. Only a score of the herons whose nuptual plume furnishes the algrette to the millinery market are reported as surviving recent butchery on each of two Audubon reservations in South Carolina and Florida. From wardens stationed on both the upper Atlantic and Pacific coasts and the inland waters of the country good promise of saving and increasing the birds in their charge is held out. "Plague and pestilence will surely follow the extermination of the sea bird scavengers along our coaste and crop pests will run riot about the inland waters if their insect-eating wild fowl are allowed to become extinct," said William Dutcher, President of the National Association of Audubon Societies at its headquarters, 141 Broadway, today. "Our wardens are doing a noble work in shielding the breeding birds from human harm; but the natural checks to bird life, such as storm, tides, fogs, forest fires and cold storms during migration, operate each year to thin the ranks of the birds. The only way to offset the natural losses of bird life is to extend this 'bird refuge' work and prevent the activities of the commercial despoilers." SCHOOL BOOKS Sacramento, Oct. 8.—The report compiled by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Hyatt shows that the number of state text books sold to children during the fiscal year that closed June 30, totaled 581,335. The total receipts were $412,036. Of this sum, $107,351 was turned into the text book fund and the remaining $34,684, paid out as royalties to private companies furnishing the reading matter. The state does not make a profit on its books, the aim being to pay the expenses of printing by the state printing office. down to 20,000,000 yen, which would just about build one Dreadnought for six years. That is not a very formidable program, but in 1915 the Japanese government hopes to be able to appropriate 50,000,000 yen for building warships. It seems as if the Japanese had adopted with enthusiasm the most barbarous feature of European civilization—the craze for militarism. The unhappy Japanese are the chief sufferer thereby. The Candy Girl Never gets tired of our sweets. Our chocolates, caramels and other dainty confections have a flavor of which one never tires. The Candy Man Who makes our confectionery is a wizard in getting up combinations of sugary sweetness that excel all other candies sold at anywhere near our prices. Try a small box today. You'll want a bigger one tomorrow. Joseph Helmsen THURSDAY, October 14 ANCE WITH PRESIDENT Is Not Like the Boy and Knew," Says Resident of Washington Yakima, Wash., Oct. 2.—Mrs. Hodges, to whom President Taft bring his visit here as an heart of mine," today made statement regarding her girlce with Mr. Taft. and I grew up as childer in Cincinnati," she from our earliest days ear friends. In one sense we were sweethearts, but people have put an uninterpretation upon the president used. Our parto the Unitarian church, a deep interest in each recent years Mrs. Hodges president Taft but seldom. vest about a year ago,and anch near here for her she heard Mr. Taft was with Yakima she came here not at all like the boy had known at home. I am as an old friend, he was honored, and I am proud rss. Hodges, who was forbeth Evans, did not say any words, she gave the import possibly the president, earlier days, regarded her sent light from that in regarded him. ING A BARBAROUS CIVILIZATION. 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