anaheim-gazette 1912-02-22

Thursday, February 22 Newsy Letter From the State University Actvit at University as Recounted by Our Correspondent (Correspondence of The Gazette) February 18. Ground has been broken for the new concrete Chemistry Auditorium, a lecture hall for science courses. It will seat 500. The old chemistry building, built to accommodate 500, is now used by more than 1500 students. One of the greatest needs of the university is a new permanent chemistry building, planned to relieve the present overcrowding in the laboratories. Gilbert N. Lewis, research professor of chemistry in the Massachusetts institute of technology, to be professor of chemistry, will come next fall to Berkeley. A new testing laboratory has just been completed for the department of civil engineering. Here the department trains its municipalities and counties in such matters as require special scientific investigation and the use of equipment beyond the scope of private commercial testing laboratories. For the United States reclamation service, for example, the department is testing the fitness of sands from various parts of the west for use in concrete, for various California cities experiments have been made as to rock for road building, while an experiment recently pro-pounded by a northern county was to determine the fitness of cinders from a volcanic cone for use in concrete. ed in more than two thousand newspapers in India. The recipients will live together at Berkeley in a Hindu clubhouse. They will be provided with free board and lodging and all college expenses, for three years, and are to study for the master's or the doctor's degree in commerce, history economics, literature, medicine, or mechanical or electrical engineering. An easy method of insuring pure water for a community—the use of bleaching powder—is pointed out by Charles Gilman Hyde, professor of sanitary engineering, in a pamphlet on "The Sterilization of Water Supplies" just issued by the California league of municipalities. Professor Hyde states that when a poor water supply is changed to a good water supply not only are deaths from typhoid fever prevented, but for every person thus saved from death from typhoid fever, three other persons are saved from death from other causes. Typhoid fever comes often from impure drinking water, and so also cholera, dysentery, diarrhoea, anthrax, and probably also tuberculosis, pneumonia, bronchitis, and various infant diseases. The application to a city's water supply of bleaching powder, an inexpensive method, discovered about three years, is found to kill the germs in the water supply. It is absolutely harmless to human beings. Plants for thus ster- on Flamenco Is bor, it will be enemy seventeen the first lock o inch gun has a ten miles and ten miles from Eight 14-inch at the western gether with two which throw sh miles. The zone red of a peculiar k tested at Sandy have the resits ches of steel. be provided at canal. Both em mined. WHY INCLU Concluding Statement (Contributed accident Board.) As much has nation of "Why included" by the Law as the issu without trespass good natures who have found icles in their mains only to California what, to be included of that law, the islature to do Will they ask mon-law doctrine risk" re-establish they ask that thor they expect and the use of equipment beyond the scope of private commercial testing laboratories. For the United States reclamation service, for example, the department is testing the fitness of sands from various parts of the west for use in concrete, for various California cities experiments have been made as to rock for road building, while an experiment recently pro-pounded by a northern county was to determine the fitness of cinders from a volcanic cone for use in concrete. The department does such work only for public purposes, where original investigation of new problems is involved. The annual exhibit of the department of agriculture, just held, showed the best plans drawn by students during the year. Among the buildings which the students had planned were a hotel, gateway for world's fair, a custom house, and a country villa. There are over 70 students taking the full professional course in architecture, and several hundred others taking lecture courses in the history of architecture, architectural theory, etc. A number of graduates of the department are now studying in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, while others have returned from Paris and are practicing their profession in California, New York and elsewhere. Excellence in construction and design of the beautiful new permanent granite buildings of the Hearst plan, such as the Doe library, Boult hall of law, the Hearst mining building, California hall, and Agricultural hall, are an important aid to the university in its training of architects and in setting good architectural standards. A spring festival will be given by the women students April 6. Under the campus oaks will be presented, by 400 costumed students, "The Parthenela—a Masque of Maidenhood," a blank verse play written by Miss Anna Rearden, a senior daughter of the California scholar, the late Judge H. Rearden. The Masque portrays the spiritual transition from maidenhood to womanhood. Chorus dances will be a feature. Particularly notable will be the music, which will consist entirely of compositions, 14 in number, by the late Edward MacDowell. That by selecting their seed the bean growers of Ventura county alone could increase their yield more than half a million dollars a year is urged by Professor George W. Shaw WILSON TO REPRESENT TAFT Agricultural Educator to Address a Dry-Farming Congress at Lethbridge, Oct. 21-26 Washington, D.C., Feb. 18.—President Taft has designated Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson as his personal representative to the seventh international dry farming congress to be held at Lethbridge, Alberta, Oct. 21-26, and has promised the co-operation of the department of agriculture in the sending of agricultural experts to address the congress and the making of a big exhibit of the dry-farmed products of the demonstration and experimental farms and agricultural colleges throughout the United States. The president received executive secretary-treasurer, John T. Burns at the White house recently and Mr. Burns formally presented the invitation of the Canadian board of control to attend the congress. The president expressed pleasure at receiving the invitation and the spirit in which it was sent by the people of the province of Alberta and the city of Lethbridge, but expressed his regrets that it would be impossible for him to attend. He spoke of the nearness of the presidential election,and said it would be only two weeks after the congress and the press of official duties at such a time precluded the possibility of his making a tour to western Canada. He did not appear to consider the old-time unwritten code that a president should not leave American soil when in office as having any bearing upon his decision. He spoke of the delightful meeting he had recently had with the Duke of Connaught and expressed regret that he could not have the pleasure of again meeting him at Lethbridge in October when he understood, the duke would be in at- good natures or who have found icicles in their mains only to California what, to be included in that law, the islature to do or Will they ask mon-law doctrine risk" re-establish they ask that they bor they expect shall assume all industry and then as good grace matters of the south black brothers b slavery. Not a Europe retains a jurist of note fend it, not a this country, ever resisting laws for woman and child asking that this ed for its advance that old doctrine this state is to no progress be th en when were the first accused of being Will the farmer the next legislaturethe fellow-servant them? Will they driver of one or lessly permits it run down and r working for a new held liable in de ways have been team run down at their own farm require that w employ thereby such protection ways required on not in their employ so willing to co for all injuries suf of their employee friends and faith For, be it unders law only accords another the same law has ever th who do not so w mers of California ferent and less juof law apply to their service than not? Will the farmerthe next legislaturethe law the exis relation to "cont H. Rearden. The Masque portrays the spiritual transition from maidenhood to womanhood. Chorus dances will be a feature. Particularly notable will be the music, which will consist entirely of compositions, 14 in number, by the late Edward MacDowell. That by selecting their seed the bean growers of Ventura county alone could increase their yield more than half a million dollars a year is urged by Professor George W. Shaw in a bulletin on "The Production of Lima Bean," just published by the university, and obtainable without charge by writing to the college of agriculture at Berkeley. Professor Shaw urges that every bean grower should select from the field, when the beans are ripe, a large number of the plants that are most heavily laden with ripe pods containing a high average of beans to the pod, that these plants should be threshed separately, that the seeds so selected should be sown in a special seed plat the succeeding season, and the seed from this seed plat used the second season for general seeding. For permanent results the grower should continue such selection yearly. The method would apply also, to the improvement of other crops. How to fumigate or spray for the black scale, the worst pest of the citrus fruits in several Southern California counties, and an enemy not only of the orange but of the plum, the almond, and the apricot, and the pepper tree, the poplar, and the rose, is set forth by Professor H. J. Quayle in a bulletin just issued by the college of agriculture. A series of scholarships for graduate students from India has been provided through the generosity of Sirdas Jawala Singh, a Hindu living in Moorland, California. These scholarships have already been announced BIG GUNS FOR PANAMA Canal to Have World's Strongest Fortifications Washington, Feb. 19.—Plans for a military government for the Panama canal zone, modeled after that of Gibraltar, are now being drawn by the War Department. According to the plans, between 5000 and 6000 troops are to be stationed permanently on the zone. The fortresses guarding the ends of the canal will be made the most powerful in the world. In recognition of the fact that a military governor can best administer the functions of such a government, it is the purpose of the department to recommend that Colonel Goethals, now in charge of the canal work, be advanced to the rank of major general and be placed in supreme command. General William Crozier, chief of the bureau of ordnance, stated that by the use of 14 inch guns emplaced ON Flamenco Island in Panama harbor, it will be possible to reach an enemy seventeen miles distant from the first lock of the canal. The 14 inch gun has a penetrating range of ten miles and Flamenco Island is seven miles from Miraflores lock. Eight 14-inch guns will be located at the western end of the canal, together with twenty 12-inch mortars, which throw shells eight and a half miles. The zone redoubts are to be built of a peculiar kind of artificial stone, tested at Sandy Hook and found to have the resitsance of about 17 inches of steel. Similar protection will be provided at the east end of the canal. Both entrances are to be mined. WHY INCLUDE THE FARMER? Concluding Statement on Purpose of New Law (Contributed by the Industrial Accident Board.) As much has been said in explanation of "Why the Farmer Was Included" by the Roseberry Liability Law as the issue seems to require, without trespassing unduly upon the good natures of newspaper editors who have found space for these articles in their columns. It now remains only to ask the farmers of California what, if they do not wish to be included within the provisions of that law, they will ask the legislature to do on their behalf? Will they ask to have the old common-law doctrine of "assumption of risk" re-established as to them? Will they ask that those upon whose labor they expect to make their crop law at a time in the world's history when those who toll for a livelihood possessed few rights that any employer of labor was bound to respect. Those old common-law defenses were contemporaneous with the unrelieved application of the doctrine of "master and servant", with all the arrogation and subordination of status which those terms imply, and they ill befit an era in which employer and employed assume contractural relations of equal dignity and equality before the law. The supreme court of the United States, no longer ago than the 15th of January, 1912, in cases involving the national liability law of 1908, effectually disposed of the old, common law defenses so far as the constitutionality of laws abrogating them is concerned. This is the highest authority in the land and it held unequivocally that no rights vested under these common law doctrines that congress and legislatures may not take away by statute, and that decision will prove the death knell of those defenses the whole country over. The sentence of death will be speedily carried out. It cannot be that the farmers of California shall, with eyes open and in a full consciousness of the purpose of what they ask, make any such demands of the legislature of this state. On the contrary, we have the faith to believe that if the truth of the matter can be taken to them in comprehensible form they will accept the law in good faith and join forces with the industrial accident board, and other friends to the measure, in devising and putting into operation such legislation relating nearly twice that of the Ohio. The maximum flow of the Ohio is approximately 1,500,000 cubic feet per second—about 30 times the low-water flow. A comparison of records of flow of Ohio river with those of the upper Mississippi and Missouri shows that although its drainage area is but one-third that of the combined Mississippi and Missouri its mean and low-water flow is 1.3 times as great as their combined flow, and its maximum flow is 1.5 times as great. This fact is accounted for by the greater rainfall in the Ohio basin and by the general character of the region. The Ohio basin affords many opportunities for storage, especially on the southern tributaries. From topographic maps of the geological survey covering part of the drainage area of the Ohio a large number of reservoir sites have been located, some of them of enormous capacity. Careful surveys would undoubtedly show many suitable sites for dams that will impound large reservoirs. The magnitude of such a flow as that of the Ohio may perhaps be better appreciated if it is stated that a discharge of 300,000 cubic feet a second would in one day cover 595,000 acres to a depth of 1 foot. ELECTRIC RAILWAY MORTGAGE A mortgage given by the Pacific Electric companies on all its properties in Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties has been filed at Santa Ana, and in all the other counties at the same time. The mortgage is for $100,000,-000 and is given to the United States mortgage and trust company of good natures of newspaper editors who have found space for these articles in their columns. It now remains only to ask the farmers of California what, if they do not wish to be included within the provisions of that law, they will ask the legislature to do on their behalf? Will they ask to have the old common-law doctrine of "assumption of risk" re-established as to them? Will they ask that those upon whose labor they expect to make their crop shall assume all the hazards of the industry and themselves none? With as good grace might the cotton planters of the south ask that their black brothers be returned to chattel slavery. Not a civilized nation in Europe retains that old doctrine, not a jurist of note will undertake to defend it, not a great corporation in this country, even though it be now resisting laws for the protection of woman and children who work, is asking that this defense be preserved for its advantage. To ask that old doctrine be re-established in this state is to ask that the wheels of progress be turned backward, and when were the farmers of any state accused of being reactionaries? Will the farmers of California ask the next legislature to re-establish the fellow-servant doctrine as to them? Will they demand that if a driver of one of their teams carelessly permits it to run away and run down and run over a farmhand working for a neighbor they shall be held liable in damages, as they always have been, but not so if the team run down and run over one of their own farm hands? Will they require that whoever enters their employ thereby forfeit all right to such protection as the law has always required on behalf of everyone not in their employ? Are they also willing to compensate strangers for all injuries sustained at the hands of their employees, but not their friends and faithful fellow workers? For, be it understood, the Roseberry law only accords those who work for another the same protection that the law has ever thrown around those who do not so work. Will the farmers of California demand that a different and less just and humane rule of law apply to those who enter in their service than to those who do not? Will the farmers of California ask the next legislature to expunge from the law the existing modification in relation to "contributory negligence" California shall, with eyes open and in a full consciousness of the purpose of what they ask, make any such demands of the legislature of this state. On the contrary, we have the faith to believe that if the truth of the matter can be taken to them in comprehensible form they will accept the law in good faith and join forces with the industrial accident board, and other friends to the measure, in devising and putting into operation such legislation relating to insurance against hazard of accident as will make accident insurance as accessible as fire insurance or life and at rates of premium no greater than such insurance is reasonably worth. To hold to any other view is to doubt man's growing humanity to man and the patriotic disinterestedness of that body of the American nation upon which we have been taught to look as constituting the dependable substance of the nation's life. WHERE WOMEN RULE African Tribe in Which the Men are Utterly Subservient to Their Wives The Tuaregs found in the village of Tripoli are descended from the Auxoriani of old, who in the fourth century took Leptis from the Romans after eight days' siege. Later on they were driven west and lived with the Hoggar Tuaregs, who finally quarreled with them and forced them to migrate. They then settled around Ghat and devastated the country, according to the usual fashion. Amongst the Tuaregs, writes Hans Vischer in "Across the Sahara," it is man the brute who by all the laws of the country has to obey the women. Descent is traced through the mother, woman shows her proud face to all the world, while the men go veiled. In the presence of a woman of noble birth men cover their faces and heads altogether. The women give the children what little instruction they have and train them to respect and obey them. Bullied and worried by his womepolk, the Tuareg has no liberty at all. All the goods, tents, camels and the clothes are the woman's property. The stick he carries and the great wooden box into which he puts what his wife suffers him to have are all the man possesses and all he retains if for some reason his wife chooses to divorce him. In Ghat when a man goes out af- ELECTRIC RAILWAY MORTGAGE A mortgage given by the Pacific Electric companies on all its properties in Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties has been filed at Santa Ana, and in all the other counties at the same time. The mortgage is for $100,000,-000 and is given to the United States mortgage and trust company of New York. The mortgage occupies 140 pages of matter and the recording fee here was $59.50. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS At a meeting of the supervisors at Santa Ana last week the bid of the Anaheim Union Water Company of $100 for a pipe line franchise for irrigation purposes along certain county orads in Fullerion road district was accepted. The county surveyor was directed to furnish the state comptroller with the area of the Cleaveland national forest reserve, lying in this county. W. E. Cooper A. Shriner THE NATIONAL MARKET No. 107 W. Center St. COOPER & SHRINER, Proprietors The Best of Beef, Mutton and Pork, Sausage, Ham, Bacon and Lard. The patronage of the public is respectfully solicited. Boston Bakery and Confectionery STEPHEN KISTLER, Proprietor Fresh Bread, Cakes and Pies daily. Chris topher's Chocolates and Bonbons always fresh, on hand. E. Center st., opposite City Hall Anaheim Anaheim Bakery Peter Syre, prop. Fresh Bread Cakes and Pies Confectionary, Tlc. Wedding Cakes a Specialty Los Angeles and Express Sts. Finest of Wines. Liquors and Cigars, at law only accords those who work for another the same protection that the law has ever thrown around those who do not so work. Will the farmers of California demand that a different and less just and humane rule of law apply to those who enter in their service than to those who do not? Will the farmers of California ask the next legislature to expunge from the law the existing modification in relation to "contributory negligence". Will they ask that, however gross their own negligence may have been in the matter, and however slight that of their injured employee, nevertheless the employe, injured by such gross negligence, shall be barred from making any claim for damages? Are we to be made to understand that the sense of interest has so blinded the farmers of California that they no longer possess a sense of justice where their own obligations are involved? These, in plain terms, are exactly what will be involved in any demands made by the farmers of California to have their class accepted from the provisions of the sebery liability and compensation law. Thirty nations and twenty-five states of the American union have turned their backs upon the objection and indefensible defenses as barbarous and immoral and no longer fit to survive. No legislature or parliament ever had the hardihood to enact them in the first place and it may be doubted if any legislature will ever have the hardihood to reenact them once they have been faced from the statute books, of any state. These defenses were, in their origin, the product of an unsympathetic cloistered, judicial reasoning in stupid obliviousness of the commonest facts of every-day life, and were promulgated and given the force of Bullied and worried by his womenfolk, the Tuareg has no liberty at all. All the goods, tents, camels and the clothes are the woman's property. The stick he carries and the great wooden box into which he puts what his wife suffers him to have are all the man possesses and all he retains if for some reason his wife chooses to divorce him. In Ghat, when a man goes out after sunset he is usually followed by a negro servant, sent by his wife to dog his steps, and woe to him if he forgets himself or comes home too late. He will find the door shut and must count himself lucky if he is not put onto the street altogether. The young man who, in spite of all this, wants to marry must pay a heavy sum for the bride, to obtain which he is obliged to look for other means than his usual work for the Arab trader. Thus he is forced into taking part in one of the annual rhazzias. The ladies decide when the right moment has come, and the men sally forth against some luckless caravan or to the rich highlands of Tibesti. These senseless raids have destroyed many a fertile oasis, and also have accelerated the final disappearance of trans-Saharan trade. OHIO RIVER'S DISCHARGE Greater Than that of Upper Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Combined In volume of water Ohio river is the main tributary of the Mississippi. Its mean discharge, according to the records of the United States geological survey, is about 300,000 cubic ft. per second, which is much more than the discharge of St. Lawrence river at Ogdensburg, N. Y., although the drainage area of the St. Lawrence is Are You After Business? If you are call at the "GA-ZETTE" office and let our advertising man tell you how to get it. He has something of interest to tell you—something that means dollars and cents to you. Do you know that every tradesman who has made a success in business credits it directly to advertising? If others have been successful by using a liberal quantity of printer's ink, why not try it yourself. Come and talk it over, or phone and our representative will call. AILWAY MORTGAGE given by the Pacific nies on all its proper e, Riverside, San Berlos Angeles counties at Santa Ana, and in counties at the same rtgage is for $100,000. ven to the United Staand trust company of the mortgage occupies matter and the recordcas $59.50. 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