anaheim-gazette 1913-02-13

MISS GLENN WILL OPENS WET AND DRY CAMPAIGN ADDRESSES UNION SERVICE MEETING AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SUNDAY EVENING VOTE ON PROHIBITION TO BE HELD IN THIS CITY DURING COMING SUMMER The opening gun in a campaign for the eradication of the licensed saloons in the City of Anaheim was fired at the Presbyterian church Sunday night by Miss Glenn Will, secretary of the Anti-Saloon League of Southern California, who gave a reading from the book, "Particeps Criminis," or a "California Rabbit Drive," of which E. S. Chapman, head of the anti-saloon league, is the author. The book portrays in vivid style the rabbit drive, formerly common in the upper part of the State, and likens the horrors of the scene to the driving to death of hundreds of the young men of the country by the liquor traffic. Miss Will's reading was heard by 500 people and the church was taxed to its utmost capacity to hold the throng which gathered to hear her. Other churches in the city omitted their evening services and the attendance represented all denominations in the city. The reading was illustrated by 50 stereopticon slides, and proved of natural pursuits. The residents of a large section of country usually join in one of these rabbit drives. "At a carefully chosen place on the plain a rabbit-tight corral of a half-acre, more or less, in area, is constructed with an opening or door at one side. This corral is located at a point most favorable to the accomplishment of large results, irrespective of the points of the compass, but to aid in making clear this description we will suppose the corral is located at the east side and midway between the northern and southern boundary of the section of country over which the operations are to be conducted, and that the corral door faces the west. At the north side of this door the corral fance turns abruptly and extends in a northwesterly direction from a half mile to two or three times that distance according to the magnitude of the movement. At the south side of the door also, the fence turns and extends in a southwesterly direction at the same angle and distance as the other. These two out-reaching fences marking the boundary of a fan-shaped tract of many hundreds of acres of rabbit-infested territory resemble two wide-spread welcoming arms. Several miles west of the corral is formed a semi-circular cordon of men with its concave side toward the corral, and its two ends extending out to the north and south and wider apart than are the two western ends of the outreach corral fences. Several hundred men are sometimes formed into such a cordon and at a given signal all proceed at a uniform rate of speed toward the corral, beating bushes, pans and drums, tooting horns, and making all possible tumult without the aid of dogs or firearms, ing bunny becomes darling boy rushing doom. We must shrink from the constant startling analogy. May bring to our own ary relief, but it is cowards seek and women heroically reclaim. "Many have turned the scene when they had come to witness volting stages, but went on to its tractor boy drive now in stop because we realize its existence or to let which it teaches. We it if we will awaken of its existence and enormities." From another part Will read as follows: "If a rabbit drive conducted for the illustrating the ruin of bright areas is accomplished, there could not more nearly be if vast dimension. "A rabbit drive gardened as successfully unless its furry victim by the thousands. A thousand bunnies hung and killed at a single hour of one working extended field sweep men a much larger number are found, some of that countless thorough reminds us of the American lads from years of age scattered tions of our country more potent than any." formerly common in the upper part of the State, and likens the horrors of the scene to the driving to death of hundreds of the young men of the country by the liquor traffic. Miss Will's reading was heard by 500 people and the church was taxed to its utmost capacity to hold the throng which gathered to hear her. Other churches in the city omitted their evening services and the attendance represented all denominations in the city. The reading was illustrated by 50 stereopticon slides, and proved of interest to all. Miss Juanita Powers favored the large audience with a vocal selection and Evangelist C. W. F. Daniels sang "Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight," with the assembly joining in the chorus. Following the meeting it was announced by members of the Anti-Saloon organization that an election would be called in this city to vote upon prohibition within the next six months. Petitions asking the city trustees to call such an election under the initiative and referendum act will probably be in circulation in the near future. It is necessary to secure 20 per cent of the voters in order to insure a call for such an election. That prohibition will be stubbornly fought by those opposed to a dry town is undoubtedly true, and a hot municipal campaign for and against the sale of liquor is anticipated. In addition to men actively engaged in the liquor business, are many men engaged in other lines of business who believe that a dry town is a dead town. These will be lined up against prohibition. A very pretty fight seems to be in prospect. Reading from Dr. Chapman's book, Miss Will proceeded as follows: "There are many large sections of California in which the rabbit is regarded as an intolerable pest. So numerous and voracious are they as to make impossible the successful prosecution of any branch of agriculture. With ravenous appetite they girdle every fruit tree and fruit-bearing vine and consume every blade of grass and every green leaf within their reach. In those portions of the state where rabbits thus abound it has been found necessary occasionally to engage in concentrated movements for the destruction of these little animals. "The number of rabbits is so great and their increase is so rapid that the ordinary methods of trapping, shooting and poisoning are of but little value. The ranchmen, therefore, unite in what are known as "Rabbit Drives" to accomplish the wholesale formation of a semi-circular cordon of men with its concave side toward the corral, and its two ends extending out to the north and south and wider apart than are the two western ends of the outreach corral fences. Several hundred men are sometimes formed into such a cordon and at a given signal all proceed at a uniform rate of speed toward the corral, beating bushes, pans and drums, tooting horns, and making all possible tumult without the aid of dogs or firearms, and thus driving the affrighted bunnies toward the distant corral. "As they advance, the two ends of this cordon overlap the two ends of the corral fences to avoid the danger of the escape of the fleeing and fleet-footed bunnies. When this cordon forms a junction with the corral fences the rabbits are enclosed—by the corral, the fences and the cordon of men. And, as amid a cloud of dust they hasten toward the wide-open door of their carefully constructed prison, they resemble a vast flock of sheep and lambs playfully seeking the protecting enclosure of their beloved fold. When at length the rabbits are all within the corral, the door is closed and men leap over the fence and heartlessly club them all to death. Not one beautiful bunny which enters the corral is permitted to escape this wholesale and heartless slaughter. "I will endavor, with greater fullness and as clearly as possible, to explain in detail some of the thrillingly interesting features of a successful rabbit drive. The story should be read in its entirety that its full significance may be understood and realized. "However necessary the rabbit drives may be, we cannot refrain from a feeling of tender pity for the soft-furred little bunnies that are thus driven to cruel slaughter. When they realize their peril and utter helplessness, their large, friendly eyes assume a glassy glare of frightened protest against their doom, and move us with a strong desire to rush to their deliverance. "And if those bunnies were boys, who were thus being sacrificed, our zeal for their deliverance would overleap all restraint, and the civilized world would rise up and with vehement indignation demand and secure the cessation of such barbarities. "Yet, a rabbit drive, with all its accessories and revolting results, is a startling illustration of what the beverage liquor traffic is accomplishing upon the boyhood of the nation. If we regard the corral into which the rabbits are driven as an illustration of the condition of those who have been less its furry vicinity by thousands. A thousand bunnies had killed at a single hour of one work extended field sweep men a much larger area are found, some of which that countless thrombosis reminds us of the American lads from years of age scattered tions of our country more potent than any in an enthusiastic with tremendous force nearer and still newness that knows no." "Twenty thousand during a few frolices by million boys dillied a far more savage twenty million boys, feet apart, as their school yard when awaken their class rooms, limit a field of more. A square mile of less than six square miles of bustling, buoyant ing over an area fourth miles in length. Arranged in feet apart, as if man they would make arrest 11,363 miles in length; the rate of three my eight hours per day 474 days for that treasure pass a given point." "As in our thought more than four thousanduberant youth we can limitless affection wiin its warmth and to infinite and hoped-for those twenty million is the quarry she seeking! Around that of Satanic influence Over that field she active operation, and where all is now many will be borne vice as the playful bury from their joyous awful doom. Yes, many, more by far faith causes our unrealize, more than tiring the fleeting hours are swept, as with an engulfing vortex of hundred boys during day! Twenty thousand weeks and then tweaked thousand boys goes by, yield to them by which they are..." BIG RUSH FOR GREAT The Government has recently opened land in Arizona, near railroad, that is for $3.00 per acre, $1.25 per acre per year. This land is being taken up rapidly because heim have availed themselves of this last ten days. Just such land not raising Egyptian Cotton, Alfalfa, Succulent. SECURE THIS CHEAP LAND $23.10 pays return trip R.R. fare. We pay ORANGE COUNTY Pacific Phone 251 J (Ross B.) ING bunny becomes in our thought a darling boy rushing to a drunkard's doom. We must not shudder and shrink from the contemplation of this startling analogy. Possibly we thus may bring to our own hearts temporary relief, but it is the relief which cowards seek and which true men and women heroically refuse. "Many have turned and fled from the scene when the rabbit drive they had come to witness reached its revolting stages, but the rabbit drive went on to its tragic end. And the boy drive now in progress will not stop because we refuse to recognize its existence or to listen to the lesson which it teaches. We may aid to stop it if we will awaken to a realization of its existence and of its unspeakable enormities." From another part of the book Miss Will read as follows: "If a rabbit drive were planned and conducted for the sole purpose of illustrating the processes by which the ruin of bright and promising boys is accomplished, the two proceedings could not more nearly be alike. Each is if vast dimensions. "A rabbit drive is not usually regarded as successful or satisfactory unless its furry victims are numbered by the thousands. As many as twenty thousand bunnies have been corraled and killed at a single drive during the hours of one working day. Upon an extended field swept by the cordon of men a much larger number of rabbits are found, some of which escape, and that countless throng upon that field reminds us of the twenty million American lads from five to nineteen years of age scattered over those portions of our country where influences more potent than are those engaged" FROST PROBLEMS TO BE DISCUSSED BY EXPERTS UNIVERSITY EXTENSION TRAIN WILL ARRIVE HERE NEXT TUESDAY AFTERNOON EMINENT SCIENTISTS TO AD DRESS GROWERS ON TOPICS OF TIMELY IMPORTANCE The officials of the college of agriculture of the state university have shown their interest in the problems growing out of the recent freeze by arranging to send out a special train for a series of institutes at which the situation will be discussed by scientific experts. Dean Hunt of the college of agriculture, and Dr. Webber, head of the citrus experiment station, will visit all localities and President Wheeler of the university expects to be present for several of the evening meetings. The train is furnished by the Southern Pacific and the schedule of dates is as follows: Thursday, February 13—Duarte, 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Monrovia, 10:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Arcadia, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Pasadena, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. San Gabriel, 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Covina, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, February 14—Charter Oak, 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. San Dimas, 10:15 to 11:15 a.m. VALENTINE’S PARTY AT BUENA PARK Eastern Star Lodge to Give Affair Tomorrow Evening in Masonic Hall (Correspondence of the Gazette) The Buena Park Masonic Lodge had an open installation on Thursday evening, January 30th. After an elegant supper served at 7 P.M. the assembly was called to order by E. E. Angell, of Anaheim, who acted as installing officer, assisted by Harry Whitaker, master of ceremonies. The officers installed were: L. D. Jaynes, master; C. L. McComber, senior warden; C. R. Miller, junior warden; A. L. Bennett, treasurer; J. S. Perry, secretary; Sidney Feagan, senior deacon; Geo. Thomas, junior deacon; Dr. Hassen, chaplain; senior steward, H. Haggerty; junior steward, Thos. McGuire; Sam Little, tyler. Mrs. J. S. Perry presided at the piano and the ceremony of installation was most beautiful and impressive. After the gavel of authority was placed in Bro. Jaynes' hand, he sprang quite a surprise and showed himself a diplomat by calling on the ladies present for short talks. Among those who responded were Mesdames Kemp, McCann and Boyd of Anaheim, and Mrs. Durgan of the Park. E. E. Angell and Harry Whitaker covered themselves with glory by making splendid talks and indulging in many witty and reminiscent recollections of the good old times when they too belonged in the Park. Mr. Braden of Anaheim also made some very pleasing remarks. The new master of the Twenty thousand bunnies slain during a few frolicsome hours! Twenty million boys diligently sought, for a far more savage slaughter. Those twenty million boys, if arranged three feet apart, as they appear in the school yard when awaiting the call to their class rooms, would fill to its limit a field of more than 4,132 acres. A square mile of boys! Yes, more than six square miles—a solid mass of bustling, buoyant boyhood extending over an area of three and one-fourth miles in length by two miles in width. Arranged in single file three feet apart, as if marching in parade, they would make an army more than 11,363 miles in length. Marching at the rate of three miles per hour for eight hours per day it would require 474 days for that tremendous army to pass a given point. "As in our thoughts we view those more than four thousand acres of exuberant youth we cannot overlook the limitless affection which holds them in its warmth and tenderness, nor the infinite and hoped-for possibilities of those twenty million boys. And that is the quarry the game-hunters are seeking! Around that field the cordon of Satanic influences is extended. Over that field the boy drive is now in active operation, and from that field, where all is now so glad and gay, many will be borne to vagrancy and vice as the playful bunnies are driven from their joyous freedom to their awful doom. Yes, 'many,' very, very many, more by far than our faltering faith causes our unwilling hearts to realize, more than three hundred during the fleeting hours of one brief day are swept, as with a tempest, into the engulfing vortex of despair. Three hundred boys during each and every day! Twenty thousand boys in ten weeks and then twenty thousand more during a like period until one hundred thousand boys, while the year goes by, yield to the potential agency by which they are 'driven out of the pects to be present for several of the evening meetings. The train is furnished by the Southern Pacific and the schedule of dates is as follows: Thursday, February 13—Duarte, 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Monrovia, 10:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Arcadia, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Pasadena, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. San Gabriel, 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Covina, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, February 14—Charter Oak, 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. San Dimas, 10:15 to 11:15 a.m. Lordsburg, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Pomona, 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Ontario, 3:15 p.m. to 5 p.p. Pomona, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.p. Saturday, February 15—Bloomington, 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Colton, 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. San Bernardino, 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Redlands Junction, 3:30 to 5 p.p. Redlands, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.p. Monday, February 17—Crafton, 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Highgrove, 11:30 a.m. to 12:50 p.p. Riverside, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.p. Tuesday, February 18—Fernando, 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Whittier, 1:35 p.m. to 3 p.p. Anaheim, 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.p. Santa Ana, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.p. Day meetings will be held at railway stations; evening meetings in halls as announced in local press. Speakers T. F. Hunt, dean and director college of agriculture; H. J. Webber, director citrus experiment station; E. J. Wickson, ex-dean and director college of agriculture; W. T. Clark, superintendent farmers' institutes; J. E. Coit, professor of citri-culture; J. S. Burd, chemist in charge of fertilizer control; J. B. Neff, conductor farmers' institutes for Southern California. President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the University of California and General Manager G. Harold Powell of the California Fruit Growers' exchange will be present and speak at some of the meetings. The Home Telephone Company has just issued a new directory for Orange county and the books are being distributed throughout this city and neighboring towns. The gain in subscribers since the issuance of the last directory five months ago is decided about 600 having been added since that time. A new exchange has been opened at Garden Grove and upwards of 200 subscribers added to that point. A gain has been recorded throughout the county and Manager Bates said to a Gazette reporter the first of the week that business was booming in the telephone world. We will accept good property in exchange in Merced County; 40 acres and 20 acres of alfalfa land right. We also have many of San Joaquin Valley properties accept trades, if the price right. We have both improvable or surplus property available. Orchard & Farm Land 215 Mercantile Place, Los Angeles FOR GOVERNMENT LAND recently opened for settlement a limited amount of Very Few Railroad, that can be filed on under the Homestead of Desert 15 per acre puts you in possession of this land under the Hesup rapidly by people from all over California, and many of this magnificent opportunity and secured 5,000 acres on land not far from this is selling for $80 per acre, and we pay for sleeper, meals, auto hire, etc. Join our excuse. COUNTY REALTY CO (Ross Bros.) 120 East Center St., Anaheim, Cal. ROYAL BAKING POWDER Absolutely Pure The only Baking Powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar NO ALUM, NO LIME PHOSPHATE Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Gardner near Fullerton. The Chamber of Commerce is still booming. About 100 new members have been added to its membership since December 1st. The new officers for this year are A. Nelson, president; R. D. Rose, secretary and I. D. Jaynes treasurer. Board of directors, Geo. Trapp, Wm. Schumacher, Edna Jaynes and Mrs. J. S. Perry. The Parent Teachers' Association's Saturday evening picture shows are rapidly increasing in popularity as is shown in the door receipts. They certainly deserve all the patronage they receive. J. K. Wymard of Orangethorpe is putting in a pipe line. D. Degryes of Anaheim is doing the work. had blown down a derrick, which had been erected in order to bore for water. A depth of 700 feet was reached when Boreas toppled the derrick over. "Pretty bad wind this, boys, isn't it?" said the local orchardist. "Aw," replied the largest of the youngsters, "this ain't nothin'. You ought to have seen the wind that blew down the derrick. That was a beaut." C. H. Thayer was in town Monday from his orange ranch on the east side. He has 4,000 young orange trees for sale which were not injured by the frost attendant upon the recent cold spell, and which are in first-class shape. Mr. Thayer said the country was looking fine after the rain of the previous week and that more down-pour was coming. WIND BLEW GREAT GUNS WIND BLEW GREAT GUNS IN IMPERIAL VALLEY Never Anything Like It—But Boys Said You Ought to Have Seen the Other One Mr. Neff was at El Centro the other day when a desert wind was blowing so boisterously that navigation in the thoroughfares of the town was well impossible. The sky was overcast with great clouds of dust, and tin cans toppled over each other in the streets, each one seeking to beat the other out of town. "Pretty hard wind you are having," suggested Mr. Neff to one of the oldest inhabitants. "It's the worst I ever saw since settling in the country," replied the El Centroite. Mr. Neff thought he had seen worse winds than this in the Imperial valley and sauntered down the sidewalk a piece, where a crowd of boys were at play. Some weeks before a high wind ENTRY PROPERTY FOR EXCHANGE All accept good Southern California property in exchange for a 60 acre farm County; 40 acres in bearing peaches of alfalfa land with perpetual water also have many other desirable pieces in aquin Valley property on which we trade, if the property here is priced have both improved and unimproved. D & Farm Lands Company Entile Place, LOS ANGELES, CALIF. Welsh, Agent, Anaheim, Calif. C. H. Thayer was in town Monday from his orange ranch on the east side. He has 4,000 young orange trees for sale which were not injured by the frost attendant upon the recent cold spell, and which are in first-class shape. Mr. Thayer said the country was looking fine after the rain of the previous week and that more down-pour was coming. No. 357 Incorporated Oct. 30, 1905 REPORT OF CONDITION OF THE GERMAN - AMERICAN BANK At Anaheim, Cal. at the close of business on the 11th day of January, 1913: Resources: Commercial Savings Combined Loans $19,118.20 $135,286.00 $287,448.20 Overdrafts 1-2-70 182-70 Bonds, Warrants, and other securities 6,735.18 6,735.18 Bank premises Furniture and Fixtures 16,100.00 16,100.00 Due from other Banks 587.20 587.20 Date From Service Banks 14,240.02 1,947.56 16,387.58 Actual Cash on Hand (a) Gold and Standard Dollars 9,845.00 2,402.00 12,217.00 (b) Subsidiary and Minor Coins 1,963.22 27-01 1,900-23 (c) Gold Certificates 2,380.00 2,000.00 1,380.00 (d) Silver Certificates 1,053.00 765.00 1,818.00 (e) United States Notes 100.00 70.00 260.00 (f) National Bank Notes 1,310.00 1,060.00 2,340.00 Exchanges for Clearing House Checks and other cash items 53-02 53-03 Total $291,664.70 $111,506.57 $345,571.27 Liabilities - Commercial Savings Combined Capital $35,000.00 $5,000.00 $50,000.00 Surplus ... 4,550.00 1,500.00 5,550.00 Unpaid profits loss expenses and taxes paid 9,788.27 9,188.27 Dividends Paid 36.00 49.00 Individual Debtors subject to Check 148,761.24 148,761.24 Demand Certificates of Deposit 485.00 485.00 Time Certificates of Deposit Saving deposits 84,329.64 84,329.64 Certified Cheques ... 255.69 255.69 Cashier's Checks ... 5,241.67 5,241.67 Postal Savings Peposis ... 698.02 698.02 Other Liabilities Escrows ... 499.00 499.00 Total $291,664.70 $111,506.57 $345,571.27 STATE OF CALIFORNIA. County of Orange. Alpholp Thomas President, A.B.McCord. Cashier of the above named Bank being daily sworn each for himself says that the foregoing statement is true to the best of his knowledge and belief. ADOLPH THOMAS President, A.B.McCORD Cashier. Severally subscribed and sworn to before me by both deponents, the 8th day of February, 1913, California District Court LAND IN ARIZONA Act of Very Fertile and Well Watered Head of Desert Land Act, or scripped under the Homestead of Desert Act. and many far-sighted men in Anarured 5,000 acres of this land in the acre, and farmers are getting rich s, Dairying, Fruits, and Vegetables. ALMOST LIKE FINDING IT in our excursion Fri. Feb.14 or Wed. Feb.19 COMPANY m, Cal. Home Phone 2461