anaheim-gazette 1912-10-31

BIRDS FRIENDS TO CALIFORNIA FARMER POLICE EARTH AND AIR, DESTROYING INSECT ENEMIES OF HORTICULTURALISTS LARKS, SEARCH GROUNDS FOR GRUBS AND INSECTS—HAWKS AND OWLS CATCH GOPHERS Birds work more in conjunction with man to help than does any other form of outdoor life, according to a recent magazine article. They police the earth and air, and without their services the farmer would be helpless. Larks, wrens and thrushes search the grounds for grubs and insects. The food of the meadow lark consists of 75 per cent of injurious insects and 12 per cent of weed seed, showing it to be a bird of great economic value. Sparrows, quail and finches eat a large amount of weed seed. Practically all of the food of the tree sparrow consists of seed. Examination by Prof. F. E. L. Beal of the Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture, shows that a single tree sparrow will eat a quarter of an ounce of weed seed daily. In a state of the size of Iowa tree sparrows alone will consume more than 800 tons of weed seed annually. This, with the work of other seed-eating birds, saves the farmer an immense amount of work. Nuthatches and chickadees scan every part of the trunks and limbs of trees for insect eggs. In a day's time and occurs during March, April, or May. The annual minimum flow of the Colorado varies from 2,500 to 5,000 second-feet and occurs during January or February; that of the Nile is about 14,500 second-feet and occurs about the end of May; for the Susquehanna it is from 2,200 to 11,000 second-feet and occurs in September or October. The mean flow of the Colorado for the period 1894 to 1903 was 10,700 second-feet. The mean flow for the period 1904 to 1910, however, was 25,400 second-feet; for the Nile it is about 115,-800 second-feet; for the Susquehanna it is about 41,000 second-feet. A copy of the report may be obtained free on application to the Director of the Geological Survey, Washington, D.C. GREEN HOUSES FOR THE FAIR Preparing Plants and Shrubs For San Francisco Exposition A large force of carpenters is at work on the green houses and potting house that are being erected in Tennessee Hollow at the Presidio reservation, for the landscape department of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. These green houses and potting house will hold the plants and flowers that are being prepared for planting on the exposition site. The building of these structures is being done under the direction of Neil A. McLean. According to the specifications the ground to be occupied by the green houses will be 13,640 square feet. They are being provided with piping which will connect with the heating plant, which is to be located in the potting house a short distance away. The green houses are for the purpose of propagating the flowers and plants which are to be used in beau- of the Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture, shows that a single tree sparrow will eat a quarter of an ounce of weed seed daily. In a state of the size of Iowa tree sparrows alone will consume more than 800 tons of weed seed annually. This, with the work of other seed-eating birds, saves the farmer an immense amount of work. Nuthatches and chickadees scan every part of the trunks and limbs of trees for insect eggs. In a day's time a chickadee has been known to eat hundreds of insect eggs and worms that are very harmful to our trees and vegetables. Warblers and virobes hunt the leaves and buds for moths and millers. Fly-catchers, swallows and night hawks are busy day and night catching flies that bother man and beast. Hawks and owls are working silently in daylight and darkness to catch moles, mice, gophers and squirrels. A number of years ago blackbirds were exceedingly abundant through Eastern Nebraska. They were so plentiful that the farmers believed they were damaging crops, so they began poisoning the birds. A single grain of corn soaked in strychnine was enough to kill a blackbird. In the years that followed, great numbers of these and other birds were destroyed during the spring and fall. At the same time thousands of quail, prairie chickens and other game birds were killed in every county to supply the market. As the birds began to disappear, swarms of locusts took their place. These insects hatched out in countless numbers and began devastating the crops. Few fields of grain escaped damage; many were entirely destroyed. Where black birds, quail, prairie chickens, plovers and other birds remained they took to living entirely on locusts. In such localities fair crops were secured solely through the assistance of the birds. The members of the United States Entomological Commission who witnessed the work accomplished by the birds in this region, said that the results were so incomplete that it was impossible to entertain any doubts as to the value of birds as locust and insect destroyers. COLORADO, NILE AND SUSQUEHANNA Colorado River, which drains an area of some 300,000 square miles, is often called the Nile of America, and like the Nile it is subject to an annual summer rise which comes at the time the water is most needed for irrigation. In Water that are being proposed for building on the exposition site. The building of these structures is being done under the direction of Neil A. McLean. According to the specifications the ground to be occupied by the green houses will be 13,640 square feet. They are being provided with piping which will connect with the heating plant, which is to be located in the potting house a short distance away. The green houses are for the purpose of propagating the flowers and plants which are to be used in beautifying the exposition grounds. John McLaren, the landscape gardener, has a score or more of men employed preparing the trees and plants for the exposition. He has 30,000 plants and trees ranging in size from seedlings to trees 35 to 40 feet in height. Contracts numbers 11 and 12, covering the north, service and south garden sewers within the exposition site, have been awarded to Pringle, Dunn & Company, of San Francisco, and work will be commenced at once and completed within 90 days. The sewer work for the exposition grounds has been divided into five contracts and numbers 11 and 12 are the first two to be awarded. Number 13 covering the foreign pavilion site sewer is now being advertised and bids will be opened on October 29. It will be noted from the foregoing that rapid work is being done in preparing the underground necessities of the exposition and this work will call for the employment of a considerable force of men. Contract number 10, covering the roadway through Fort Mason, for which bids were opened last Tuesday by the building and grounds committee of the exposition, has been awarded to F. R. Ritchie, of San Francisco. This important piece of work will also be completed within 90 days. Contract number 14 for grading the site of the machinery hall and railway yards is also being advertised, and bids will be opened for this work on October 24th, at 10 A.M. Petitions for the Liberty Bell have been pouring into the exposition by every mail. Children attending the public, parochial, and private schools of this city and state have shown the deepest interest in the campaign to secure the priceless relic for the coming world's fair. Requests for petitions are coming in daily from the county and city superintendents of schools throughout California. Thus far 4,000 have been sent. When these petitions are signed and returned to the exposition, they will be added to the enormous reel that has been constructed for holding these COLORADO, NILE AND SUSQUEHANNA Colorado River, which drains an area of some 300,000 square miles, is often called the Nile of America, and like the Nile it is subject to an annual summer rise which comes at the time the water is most needed for irrigation. In Water Supply Paper 289 of the United States Geological Survey, an interesting comparison is made of this great southwestern river with the Egyptian Nile and with the Susquehanna. The Nile is similar in type to the Colorado; the Susquehanna shows the difference in flow between arid and humid regions. In the comparison a normal, year based on a 10-year record for Colorado and Susquehanna rivers and such data as could be found in regard to the Nile, have been used. The Colorado has been taken as the standard of comparison. The Nile has 5.7 times the drainage area, and the Susquehanna about one-eighth the area of the Colorado. The rainfall in the Nile basin is 3.8 times greater; that in the Susquehanna basin is 4.5 times greater. The run-off per square mile from the Nile basin is 1.9 times greater; that from the Susquehanna basin is 37 times greater. The discharge of the Nile is 10.8 times greater than that of the Colorado; that of the Susquehanna is 4.5 times the greatest. The annual maximum flow of the Colorado varies from 50,000 to 150,000 second-feet and occurs in May, June, or July; for the Nile it is about 533,000 second-feet and occurs about the first of September; for the Susquehanna it is from 150,000 to 550,000 second-feet every mail. Children attending the public, parochial, and private schools of this city and state have shown the deepest interest in the campaign to secure the priceless relic for the coming world's fair. Requests for petitions are coming in daily from the county and city superintendents of schools throughout California. Thus far 4,000 have been sent. When these petitions are signed and returned to the exposition, they will be added to the enormous reel that has been constructed for holding these petitions. Ten huge wagons and auto trucks loaded with lumber, hardware, plumbing fixtures, paints, mill work and other materials to be used in the construction of the service building, the first structure to be erected on the exposition site at Harbor View, paraded the streets of this city last Thursday and aroused the enthusiasm of thousands of citizens who are interested in the 1915 project. It was the first tangible evidence that work was to begin at once on the exposition, and bore out the statement made a short time ago by President Charles C. Moore that all the exhibit palaces would be completed by June 25, 1914. Governor Thomas R. Marshall, of Indiana, selected a site for his state's participation at the exposition on Tuesday last. Thus far 19 states have chosen locations for their buildings. Two days later Commissioner Chin-Tao Chen and Ching-Chun Wang, selected a site for China's participation. The latter ceremony was picturesque and spectacular. Many Chinese residents took part in the exercises. China is the second foreign nation to choose a site. Portugal has accepted the president's invitation to take part in our exposition. HANS V. WEISEL'S STATEMENT TO VOTERS PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATE FOR ASSEMBLY TELLS OF POLITICAL FAITH THAT IS IN HIM STOOD FOR ROOSEVELT AT PRIMARIES, CONTINUES TO BE A BULL MOOSE AND GLAD OF IT Anaheim, Cal., Oct. 23, 1912. Editor Gazette: It being impossible for me to see all of the people of this community and believing that they are entitled to know my reasons for asking their support, I respectfully request you to publish this letter and assure you that I shall sincerely appreciate your kindness in so doing. I have never before sought public office nor have I ever held any. During my campaign for the Republican nomination I made but one promise, which was that, if nominated, I would support Theodore Roosevelt for president. I was nominated by the Republicans of this county, everyone of whom knew just where I stood in regard to national politics, and knew just what I would do if nominated. After being nominated I kept my promise and supported Roosevelt for the presidency. I did this because Theodore Roosevelt was the choice of a great majority of the Republicans of Orange county as well as of the United States and was robbed of the nomination by fraud. This has been proved to the entire satisfaction of the American people. It was useless for Mr. Roosevelt and the other Progressive Republicans to remain in the Republican party because the National Republican party was and is hopelessly in the control of the big money power and its hirelings, such as Penrose, Guggenheim, Crane and Bernie whose principal aim in life COUNTY Y. M. C. A. BULLETIN Report on Year's Work Together With Plans For Ensuing Months The Orange County Young Men's Christian Association recently issued helpful bulletin, from which we take the following: Over a thousand people attended the first annual track meet of the Orange County Triangle League, May 11, 1912. One hundred boys and 50 girls participated, representing 25 schools of the county. Twenty-eight schools were represented in the spelling contest by 51 boys and girls. Anaheim school won both the spelling and athletic championships. The object of the league is to discourage the use of tobacco, liquor and profanity, and to encourage the equal development of muscle, mind and morals. The membership consists of 610 boys, 564 girls and 25 teachers. The county secretary co-operates with the teachers of the grammar schools in carrying on the work of the league. A silver cup has been offered by Geo. B. Key, county chairman, to the Y. M. C. A. in the county that does the most along the line of temperance oratorical contests. The winner of each contest receives a silver medal and of the county contest receives a gold medal. A special circular giving full information may be obtained from officers of the association or from the county secretary. One of the best methods of work among boys along recreative-educational-character-building lines is furnished by the Boy Scouts of America. For this reason the county committee will assist in organizing and promoting the work. It is planned to have a meeting of interested workers with boys to organize a county council to direct this work. In past years deputations of college students have conducted evangelistic nated I kept my promise and supported Roosevelt for the presidency. I did this because Theodore Roosevelt was the choice of a great majority of the Republicans of Orange county as well as of the United States and was robbed of the nomination by fraud. This has been proved to the entire satisfaction of the American people. It was useless for Mr. Roosevelt and the other Progressive Republicans to remain in the Republican party because the National Republican party was and is hopelessly in the control of the big money power and its hirelings, such as Penrose, Guggenheim, Crane and Barnes, whose principal aim in life seems to be to debauch and corrupt government. There was nothing for the Progressive Republicans to do but to form a new party—a party which would recognize and perform the will of the people. How well they have succeeded in the formation of this party is revealed in its wonderful progressive platform and by the tremendous welcome and support given it by the common people. In California the state Republican party is thoroughly progressive, and California Republicans are not the kind of men who will quietly submit to fraudulent and corrupt political proceedings which are an outrage and a disgrace to the American people. The fact that must not be overlooked is that the National Republican party and the Republican party of California are two separate and distinct organizations, legally, absolutely independent of one another. This has been established by the highest courts of the land. It has been the custom of the state parties to support their respective national organizations, but the moral obligation ceases when the state organization by so doing would make itself a party to a collossal fraud perpetrated upon the American people. My action in supporting Theodore Roosevelt has been referred to by certain reactionary Republicans as "treacherous." I consider this an insult to the Republicans of Orange county who nominated me. In carrying out my campaign promise I merely performed the will of the Republicans of this county to whom I owe my nomination. Are the Republicans of Orange county willing to expose this country to another Democratic "Tariff for Revenue Only" regime, as some of the reactionary Republicans of Orange county are willing to do, as indicated by their action in endorsing the Democratic candidates for United States and State officers? We have tried tariff for revenue only and as long as our industrial conditions remain different from those of Europe, as is now the case, we must have some protection. I do not favor a protective tariff that is too high. It should only equalize the difference between the cost of production in the United States and in Europe, so as to protect us against the cheap labor of Europe. I am satisfied that these反应aries do not represent the majority of the Taft Republicans of Orange county whom they claim to represent and their attitude therefore gives me little concern. If elected to the Assembly I shall serve the people of Orange county One of the best methods of work among boys along recreative-educational-character-building lines is furnished by the Boy Scouts of America. For this reason the county committee will assist in organizing and promoting the work. It is planned to have a meeting of interested workers with boys to organize a county council to direct this work. In past years deputations of college students have conducted evangelistic meetings for men and boys during the vacation periods. It is planned to have a group in this county at the Christmas holidays this year. A number of Y. M. C. A. members have already adopted the habit of carrying a pocket testament in a special "pocket for the Lord." Others desiring to join may secure information, testiments, etc., from the county secretary. A team of 34 Y. M. C. A. boys from the associations at Anaheim, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Placentia, Huntington Beach and Greenville defeated a team from Santa Ana Y. M. C. A. in a 17-mile cross-county relay race June 15, 1912, ending at Huntington Beach. Each runner was presented with a fob. The Huntington Beach Y. M. C. A. furnished a splendid "feed" after which there were toasts and speeches. The county Y. M. C. A. committee in behalf of the Young Men's Christian Associations of Orange county has issued a challenge to the associations of San Bernardino county to an intercounty relay race to be run some time during the year 1912-1913. We Believe That it is fairer to train a boy to do right than to restrain him from doing wrong. That it is easier to cultivate good habits than to remove bad ones. That it is cheaper to prevent the crime than to cure the criminal. That it is business-like to form character instead of trying to reform it. That it is better to win a boy to the Christian life when he is in the formative period than to wait until he is hardened. That every community should give its boys the best of intelligent care. That the best supervision can be brought about by community co-operation. That even if a community gain the whole world it is profited-nothing if it lose its own boys. Three young men's Sunday school classes in Orange county have organized as Y. M. C. A. Bible classes, continuing their meetings at the regular Sunday school hour and adding other Y. M. C. A. features during the week. ious benefits, it has been decided to plan for a camp at one of the beaches in Orange county during the Christmas holidays. Churches of the county desiring to have a deputation of young men from the associations of the county speak at church services should correspond with the county secretary. "What punishment did that defaulting banker get? "I understand his lawyer charged him $40,000." In the Superior Court OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA In and for the County of Orange. In the matter of the Estate of Sarah F. Allen, deceased. Order to show cause why order of sale of real estate should not be made. It is Ordered by the Court. That all persons interested in the estate of said deceased appear before the said Superior Court on Friday, the 6th day of December, 1912, at 10 o'clock A.M. of said day, at the court room of said Superior Court in the court house in said County of Orange, State of California, to show cause why an order should not be granted to the Executrices of said estate to sell all of the real estate and personal property of said deceased as may be necessary. And that a copy of this order be published at least four successive weeks in the Anaheim Gazette, a newspaper printed and published in said County of Orange. Judge of the Superior Court. Dated October 28th, 1912. 10-31-6 Notice to Creditors Estate of Clara A. Simpson, deceased. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned, Administrator of the estate of Clara A. Simpson, deceased, to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit the same with the necessary vouchers, within four months after the first publication of this notice which publication was first made on the 31st day October, 1912) to the said Administrator of the said estate at the office Melrose & Ames, at number 112½ West Center street, in Anaheim, Orange county, California, the same being place for the transaction of the business of said estate, in the County of Orange. Dated this 29th day of October, A.D. 1912. Y. U. SIMPSON, Administrator of the Estate of Clara A. Simpson, Deceased. 10-31-5 I am satisfied that these reactions do not represent the majority of the Taft Republicans of Orange county whom they claim to represent and their attitude therefore, gives me little concern. If elected to the Assembly I shall serve the people of Orange county faithfully and to the best of my ability. I am especially desirous of working for the interests of the common people—the people who work for a living, and upon whose welfare depends the future prosperity of the nation. I believe that radical reforms are necessary in our system of dealing with prisoners. I see no good reason why the inmates of our prisons and reformatories should not be employed by the state to manufacture such material as is needed by the state for public purposes. A small portion of their wages to be kept for them by the state so that when liberated they will have the means with which to make a new start in life and will not be forced to choose between starvation and crime. The greater part of their wages to be paid to their families or to the victims of their crimes. We also need reforms in our marriage laws and judicial procedure. We need a law which will prevent the marketing of stocks in wildcat speculations. I believe that no democracy that places the dollar mark above human life and liberty can prosper for any length of time. The people of this county now realize that for the protection of future generations we must decide once and forever that human rights are above property rights. To these general progressive principles I stand pledged and I deem it an honor to help in this great struggle for human and industrial freedom. Again thanking you for your courtesy, I am, very truly yours, HANS V. WEISEL. Thursday, October 31 SELL THIS OUTFIT FIRE THESE MEN Buy a Dart And Save $1,500.00 a Year Part 1590 lb Light Delivery Motor Wagon, $850, f. o. b. Anaheim. Made by Dart Motor Mfg. Co., Waterloo, Iowa. Safe in making this deal. The saving is bona fide and certain. Your delivery service will no doubt, but more efficient—it will do a bigger day's work—it will make quicker deliveries. End on the Dart always. The Dart expert engineering force and severe testing system eliminates weak spot. 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