anaheim-gazette 1910-02-10

HAPPY GUESTS AT BANQUET SENTIMENTS EXPRESSED AT THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FEAST Prof. Tople on Safety of Pupils at Central Grammar in Case of Fire, and Playgrounds for Children—Mrs. Storm on The Woman of the Hour —Dr. Beebe on Sanitation — The Ladies by Dr. Wickett An expression of happy sentiment was the order of the evening at responses to toasts during the annual banquet of the chamber of commerce on Monday night of last week. One of the most forceful was that of Prof. Tople in his reply to criticisms by Mr. Mills in his annual report in dealing with the swinging-door incident at the central grammar school. Prof. Tople showed the school building had been recently equipped with a modern electric fire-alarm system, which coupled to the fact that the fire drill has resulted in clearing the edifice of its 350 children in less than one minute, left nothing to be desired on the part of parents who desire the safety of their children. Prof. Tople also gave some interesting facts upon the need of playgrounds for children. Mrs. Storm's response to the Woman of the Hour was one of the cleverest of the evening. Dr. Beebe's suggestions upon Sanitation were timely, and Dr. Wickett in his response to The Ladies was at his best. Mr. Grim's observations upon Future Anaheim were interesting, and all were timely and to the point. Toastmaster Stern was at his best, and his witticism and stories provoked loud laughter and applause. without it he is unable to satisfy his other desires to the fullest extent or to be that useful member of society for which he was destined." The foundation for a healthy body must be laid in childhood. Activity or use is the inexorable condition of growth. Nothing, says one of the eminent physicians, is more characteristic of a healthy child than unceasing activity; and to insure this sustained activity nature gives him the impulse to play. A healthy boy will work at play twice as hard as he will work at work or at study; because he is twice as much interested in play as he is in work or study, and it is perfectly natural that he should be. A little five year old invalid of the tenement said: "I don't want to get dead and be an angel; I want to play first." If God gives the instinct man ought to provide the playground. It has been stated that in every neighborhood where playgrounds have been opened juvenile misdemeanors have decreased. If this statement is true, is it not more profitable from every point of view to provide and equip playgrounds than it is to build and maintain reformatories? Dr. Luther Gulick, a lecturer at the recent Southern California Teachers' Association, said: "A fundamental condition for the permanent development of a free people is that they shall in childhood learn to govern themselves. Self-government is to be learned as an experience, rather than taught as a theory. Hence in a permanent democracy adequate play grounds for all the children are a necessity." Prof. Elmer E. Brown, United States Commissioner of Education, says: "Our modern life is making more of the intervals, and with the shortening of the hours of labor, they will fill a woman of the hour has been factor to be reckoned with, not be left out of your account you want your accounts to. Who, then, is this woman hour, what is being said of her is expected of her, what claims and aspirations, what she stand for? In the first place, she is woman. Many a good woman a club-woman, but she belongs other generation, she is no man of the hour. For in our woman finds the avenue to her away from household from the sordidness of economy from the fretfulness of children brings her back to the dignior, the pleasure of economic thrift, the sacredness of me. The Youth's Companion "The 800,000 club-women country have the force of and the adaptability of an They have done much practice for the public good in playgrounds for children, schools, in promoting public in various ways, and in their home towns, for instishing the hideous billboard by the way, we have our Cremo cifar which we will if it does cost only 5 center advertisements that many beauty, and soon our army work at them. "Their good the Youth's Companion con town and state, has fairly promises to extend yet for the solution of social, civic tary questions." The ill-tempered editor H. J. is not quite so kind. "The woman's club has e 25 years and has not made promoting public welfare improvement." OUR SCHOOL CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUNDS By Prof. P. L. Tople Mr. Toastmaster, Ladies and Fellow Townsmen: It seems to me that a great deal of unwarranted criticism is being heaped upon the trustees of our public schools in regard to the doors of the class rooms swinging inward instead of outward. I will state to you that the trustees have been very solicitous in regard to the safety and welfare of your children. They have thrown every possible safeguard about them. The doors of the classrooms are supplied with automatic fasteners and are tightly held back when thrown open, making it impossible for them to close in case of a jam. The addition of outside fire escapes provides two exists from the second floor; one by central staircase, the other by the outside fire escapes, making it almost, if not impossible, to cut off our escape, in case of fire, from the second floor. The trustees about two months ago had an automatic fire alarm system installed in the building. This has given us additional protection, in that it is automatic, sounding the alarm of fire from any part of the building where thermostats are located. We feel that altogether we have the most perfect fire protection that it is possible to obtain. We have frequent fire drills. These drills show that the children are under perfect control of the teachers. Under the old system of fire drill it took from 50 seconds to one minute to clear the building. Since the installation of the automatic fire alarm system, we have on two occasions, at least, emptied the building in 30 seconds, without previous warning to the teachers or pupils. Your children are in no danger of being burned even if a fire should occur in the building. I consider the protection thrown around your children in this respect almost perfect. Prof. Elmer E. Brown, United States Commissioner of Education, says: "Our modern life is making more of the intervals, and with the shortening of the hours of labor, they will fill a larger place. It is in the intervals that we play, and if we play well, the intervals will count for life and not for death.Play counts for morals; for it is in our play that we choose things according to our character, and by choosing we make our characters." Those who have studied the history of playgrounds know what enormous prices have been paid for land in some of our large eastern cities. Whole blocks have been purchased and demolished to provide adequate playgrounds for the children. In San Francisco before the fire an earthquake the amount of playground furnished per child in that city was 17.3 square feet. This is less room than all authorities agree should be furnished per pupil inside a schoolroom. We may profit by the mistakes of these cities. Let us not delay this matter longer. As has been said,"The things that must needs be understood about play is that it is not a luxury, but a necessity. It is not simply something that a child likes, it is something that he must have if he ever grows up strong." Our school ground is wofully inadequate. In fact we have none. It is a pathetic sight to watch three hundred and fifty children try to play on a small city block which contains a large school building, the outhouses and is also thickly set with trees. A child cannot play unrestrained for fear of being hurt himself, or of hurting some one else. A set of boys get possession of a certain portion of the ground at recess. Here comes another set and claims it because they played there in the morning. And there you have it. The teacher on yard duty is called on to act as judge, jury and executioner, You ask, "Why didn't the second set go some other place and play?" Yes, why? Well, you want a civil answer. There is no other place for them on that block. There are other children; three hundred and fifty of them. All of this is not conducive to the best discipline and spirit on the ground, neither does it bring the best results in the school-condition for a free people is that they shall in childhood learn to govern themselves. Self-government is to be learned as an experience, rather than taught as a theory. Hence in a permanent democracy adequate play grounds for all the children are a necessity." Remarkable, really, when to think of it, that the two years have not succeeded in all the conditions that they allowed to exist and to grow years. Edward Bok says, "not discussing the public cup, the patent medicines, lightenment of children." He has written so many these questions, there is nothing left to say. He says a club will get through why of Rembrandt and Van der Walt one meeting, when it takes do any justice to it at all are not guilty of that in A he had said Beethoven or might have felt it. But eing, isn't it better to mastempt at a sonata than t fled in the mastery of Sh Ocean waltz? "And then," on to say, "a woman will this dangerous half-knowle children." But she does has better sense than that enjoys the action of her she finds a gold nugget now in a language into which it patiently been digging for two years. She is sympathetically ested in the reading of hard Paris when she recognizes vre, the Place de la Conte Pont des Arts as places has been in her imaginary. The German Kaiser said woman's sphere should be to the three K's: Kinder, Kirche—in children, kitchen And the woman of the hilted with this, for child care for their physical and welfare, an insight into its items and social conditions since their first twenty en includes the question of laws,and household economy as cleanliness among her kettles. While church in solicitude for missionaries and South Africa just as teaching a Sunday schooling for her own spiritual system of fire drill it took from 50 seconds to one minute to clear the building. Since the installation of the automatic fire alarm system, we have on two occasions, at least, emptied the building in 30 seconds, without previous warning to the teachers or pupils. Your children are in no danger of being burned even if a fire should occur in the building. I consider the protection thrown around your children in this respect almost perfect. But my friends I appear before you tonight to make a plea for the children of Anaheim school district—for your children who have not the opportunity of making a plea for themselves. Our complex civilization has brought to us problems for solution not dreamed of by the generation preceding ours. One of the problems is the task of providing and equipping suitable playgrounds for the school children of our villages, towns and cities. The greatest folly committed today is to build a schoolhouse for the mind with no playground for the body. It is a crime. I believe there are sins of omission as well as sins of commission, and while I shall not sit in judgment on those who build schools without playgrounds, I will say however that they are in a great measure responsible for thousands of the weak, stunted and physically defective children who live in our cities and towns not adequately provided with playgrounds. "Man has been called a bundle of wants. First of all, men desire life and health. Men will ordinarily give up anything in order to preserve their lives. Good health is one of the most priceless possessions. A perfectly sound and healthy body is one of the greatest joys a man can have and er set and claims it because they played there in the morning. And there you have it. The teacher on yard duty is called on to act as judge, jury and executioner. You ask, "Why didn't the second set go some other place and play?" Yes, why? Well, you want a civil answer. There is no other place for them on that block. There are other children; three hundred and fifty of them. All of this is not conducive to the best discipline and spirit on the ground, neither does it bring the best results in the schoolroom. I know that your taxes are somewhat burdensome. You need a sewer system, you are paving your streets, making them more beautiful and useful, but there is no improvement needed in Anaheim that will pay you greater returns dollar for dollar than a well equipped playground for your children. Give the children a chance. You all wish to see your children grow up broad-shouldered, deep-chested, sunny-hearted, physically perfect men and women. We are told that Athens and Rome had their intellectual supremacy because they built a perfect body for boys and girls, knowing that a health mind would inevitably follow. I leave the question of securing a playground in your hands, believing you will take the initiative in this movement and before long will provide a suitable, convenient and well equipped playground for your children. THE WOMAN OF THE HOUR Response by Mrs. O. Storm Mr. Toastmaster, Ladies and Gentlemen:—Tonight is the first time in the annals of your city that you have asked a representative of the Ebell Society to speak at a public gathering, thereby acknowledging that ANAHEIM GAZETTE UTILITY OF WATER POWERS THEIR GOVERNMENTAL REGULATION BY FEDERAL AUTHORITY Comparison of Practices Obtaining In America With Those of Foreign Countries — French, Italian and Swiss Legislation—Review of Laws The general legislative status of water powers and their relation to public utility are discussed in a report just issued by the United States Geological Survey as Water-Supply paper 238. The authors are M. Rene Tavernier, chief engineer of the department of public works, Republic of France, and M. O. Leighton, chief hydrographer, United States Geological Survey. The report is timely, for water power development and its governmental regulation are now the subject of technical and popular discussion and have acquired a wider interest by reason of the President’s recommendations relative to water power sites on the public lands. The principal object of the paper is to show how the French and Swiss republics and the Kingdom of Italy are treating this problem in their political economy and to afford a means of comparing foreign practice with the procedure followed in this country. It is the opinion of the American author that in the adjustment of our water-power problems it will be wise to observe the nature and drift of measures adopted by older countries, which were long ago obliged to consider the same questions that the people of the United States are facing at present. The paper shows that water power is a public utility and that the political and economic PETITIONS READY FOR FILING Bond Boosters Ask Supervisors About Highway Commission The Board of Supervisors on Wednesday last received a communication from the good roads committee of the associated chambers of commerce offering to file the good roads petitions if the board would give assurance that C. C. Chapman, M. M. Crookshank and W. H. Burnham will be appointed highway commissioners. No action was taken by the supervisors, Supervisor Angle being absent. The matter was considered in executive session, and will be taken up later. The committee communication says: “In accordance with the suggestion of the chairman of your honorable body, we have interviewed the three gentlemen suggested by him as commissioners for the good roads election, as provided by the statute in that case made and provided, and they have assured us of their willingness to serve in that capacity. “We have in our possession the petitions necessary in this matter, and shall be glad to file them with you, upon the assurance that you will appoint to said office the three gentlemen before referred to, namely, C. C. Chapman, M. M. Crookshank and W. H. Burnham, who are entirely satisfactory, we are assured, to a vast majority of the voters of Orange county. “We hope to receive from your honorable body an early assurance of your decision to appoint these gentlemen to the aforesaid offices, so that we may have the pleasure of giving satisfaction to the body which appointed us as its committee. “Respectfully submitted, "A. E. Bennett, G. H. Dobson and C. L. McComber, Good Roads Committee of the Associated Chambers of Commerce.” Remarkable, really, when you come to think of it, that the women in 25 years have not succeeded to change the conditions that the men have allowed to exist and to grow for 6000 years. Edward Bok says, Women are not discussing the public drinking tap, the patent medicines, the enhancement of children. Well, real-life has written so much about these questions, there is hardly anything left to say. He says women in club will get through with the study of Rembrandt and Van Dyke in the meeting, when it takes a year to any justice to it at all. Now, we are not guilty of that in Anaheim. If he had said Beethoven or Mozart, we might have felt it. But even supposedly, isn't it better to make an attempt at a sonata than to be satisfied in the mastery of Shells of the ocean waltz? "And then," Bok goes on to say, "a woman will deal out this dangerous half-knowledge to her children." But she does not; she has better sense than that. But she enjoys the action of her mind when she finds a gold nugget now and then in a language into which she has patiently been digging for two or three years. She is sympathetically interested in the reading of happenings at Paris when she recognizes the Louvre, the Place de la Concorde, the Mont des Arts as places where she has been in her imaginary travels. The German Kalser says that a woman's sphere should be confined to the three K's: Kinder, Küche, and Kirche—in children, kitchen, church. And the woman of the hour is contented with this, for children include care for their physical and spiritual welfare, an insight into school systems and social conditions that influence their first twenty years. Kitchen includes the question of pure food news, and household economics as well as cleanliness among her pots andettles. While church includes the solicitude for missionaries in Alaska and South Africa just as well as teaching a Sunday school class, caring for her own spiritual life and critical economy and to afford a means of comparing foreign practice with the procedure followed in this country. It is the opinion of the American author that in the adjustment of our water-power problems it will be wise to observe the nature and drift of measures adopted by older countries, which were long ago obliged to consider the same questions that the people of the United States are facing at present. The paper shows that water power is a public utility and that the political and economic problems to which it has given rise have grown nearly to maturity within ten years.' In this country the public-utility feature has been hardly perceived and in consequence the legislative consideration of the question is concerned with a mature condition. M. Tavernier's contributions consist first, of a discussion of hydraulic power and its relation to irrigation, in which it is shown that there is or should be no necessary conflict in the use of water in the two utilities, but rather that water-power development in arid regions goes along with and becomes part of irrigation development; second, of a discussion of French, Italian, and Swiss legislation relative to the development of water powers, which reviews the legislative practices and their effect on water-power development. Ample quotation are made from laws either enacted or proposed in the three countries. The gist of the whole matter, so far as European interpretation is concerned, is summed up in a statement in a proclamation of the director of public works of the Canton of Berne, Switzerland, which is quoted by M. Tavernier, as follows: "It is the communes on which the law imposes the obligation of establishing and maintaining dikes and dams—the people who for years and centuries have had to bear expense of maintaining the banks and protection works, without taking into consideration the great damage to which they are often subject on account of inundations—who should profit by the wealth that lies in the utilization of water powers. . . . It is thus our purpose to have the country itself profit by the water powers located." Mr. Leighton points out the fact that our present unpreparedness to meet the new questions involved in power development creates some disadvantages that are not altogether internal. In Europe water-power development has become a national policy which can not fail to attract great industries to the countries in which it is properly managed. There is a priority of the voters of Orange county. "We hope to receive from your honorable body an early assurance of your decision to appoint these gentlemen to the aforesaid offices, so that we may have the pleasure of giving satisfaction to the body which appointed us as its committee. "Respectfully submitted, "A. E. Bennett, G. H. Dobson and C. L. McComber, Good Roads Committee of the Associated Chambers of Commerce." GOBBLING NEWPORT BAY Protest Filed Against Scheme to Bottle Up Harbor Protests against granting permission to the California fish and game commission to place stakes or posts in Newport bay to mark what is intended for a state game preserve have been filed with Lieut. Chas T.Leeds, United States engineer, by the Newport chamber of commerce. The protests, like the application, are directed to the war department, and if they are correct the fish and game commission has no authority to set apart a game preserve in Newport bay, let alone maintaining stakes or posts to mark it. These protests state that Newport bay is by nature navigable, and is therefore under the control of the war department; and that the California legislature also has declared as navigable "Newport bay, in the county of Orange, and all arms thereof and all sloughs connecting therewith in which the tide ebbs and flows." It is also set forth that the very law, passed by the last legislature, authorizing the fish and game commission to set apart game preserves under certain conditions, makes the following exception: "Provided, however, that no provision in this act contained, shall be construed as prohibiting or preventing any person or persons from hunting or taking fish and wild game from or on navigable water." Lieutenant Leeds will give the fish and game commission a chance to reply to these protests, and will then forward the documents to Washington. GARDEN GROVE AWAKE Citizens Take Steps for Protection from River Overflow At a meeting of Garden Grove Improvement Association on Friday evening the river protection question was presented by the committee in charge. J. Allen Knapp spoke upon It has been said to my face, and by a man of weight in Anaheim, that a sub-woman's husband, if his work should be among banknotes and gold coins instead of crackers and cheese, has no chance for keeping up a well-purished appearance, for he is comelled to eat so many cold meals. Now you know this is just slander, for some men are thin, no matter what you feed them or what their occupation is; indeed, I believe, like the rows in Pharaoh's dream: a thin man would devour a fat one and still not be any fatter. The woman of the hour is diligent and faithful to her larger duties, as the women of all times have been to their smaller ones. She is loyal to husband and friends, for she stands up for them in public and sits down on them in private. She is a helpful and companion to her husband, and yet she is emancipated from him. For she has the courage to live her own life according to her own light, regarding his approval as a gracious gift rather than a necessary incentive to action. She is the companion and intelligent guide for Mr. Leighton points out the fact that our present unpreparedness to meet the new questions involved in power development creates some disadvantages that are not altogether internal. In Europe water-power development has become a national policy which can not fail to attract great industries to the countries in which it is properly managed. There is a menace to American industrial leadership in the situation. The water-power sites of Europe are close to the great markets of the world. The trade and production are entirely cosmopolitan. No one can be so confident of this country's industrial leadership as to assert that the wholesale development of large and cheap European water powers will not seriously affect our commercial welfare. United States laws that relate either closely or remotely to water powers are discussed and quoted extensively, and legal and judicial opinions are either cited or quoted in full. The statutes and regulations governing power development in the national forests are also given. The water-power laws of Pennsylvania and New York are summarized, and the situation in several Western States which have enacted water laws is discussed. Extensive quotations are made from the water law and the water-power law recently passed in Oregon, which are cited as typical of other western laws. The paper presents a general survey of the situation in its most important aspects and is a valuable contribution to the current discussion of the subject. A copy may be obtained free by applying to the Director of the Survey at Washington. GARDEN GROVE AWAKE Citizens Take Steps for Protection from River Overflow At a meeting of Garden Grove Improvement Association on Friday evening the river protection question was presented by the committee in charge. J. Allen Knapp spoke upon the seriousness of the situation and reviewed work done and history of the river. After a general discussion entered into by the older residents who know the vagaries of the Santa Ana river it was moved that the sense of the meeting be that a protection district be formed to control the river. Committees were appointed to canvas for funds for the immediate protection and to assist in the actual work. Over fifty farmers and business men were present and great enthusiasm was shown in the movement. One man said: "It certainly behooves every man in Orange county and especially those owning land west of the river to use all his influence for the forming of a protection district to permanently control the river." GLADHANDERS TO THE REAR In regard to the selection of candidates for office, the Anaheim Gazette well says: "Let the gladhander be relegated to the rear and let selection be made of men capable in every way of filling the offices to which they aspire." That is the platform of the Huntington Beach News. Not the "good fellow" unless he is also the capable fellow is the man to put into office. Much may depend upon it THURSDAY, FEBRIARY 10 THE First National Bank Capital Stock, $50,000.00 BOARD OF DIRECTORS JOHN HARTUNG, President. FRANK SHANLEY, A. S. BRADFORD, 1st VICE PRES'T 2d VICE PRES'T EDGAR J. HARTUNG, Cashier. O. STORM and O. BEEBE, Ass't Cashiers. 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