anaheim-gazette 1913-06-12

ALIENS RUN OUT WHITES AT FLORIN TOWN IN SACRAMENTO VALLEY ENTIRELY TAKEN OVER BY JAPANESE WHITE STOREKEEPERS MOVE AWAY, NIPPONESE TAKE THEIR PLACES It was the small fruit farmer of California fighting for his home and for his American community life against submergence by an Asiatic social and industrial order which forced the Anti-Allen Land Bill through the California Legislature. Some of the most beautiful rural districts in the State were in jeopardy. In vain for Exposition Directors to protest, in vain for Presidents to intervene, in vain for Japan to cog and cozen—these small American farmers and rural communities felt they had a right to protection and clamored for it so insistently and with such manifest reason that none in authority dared refuse them. When the issue was finally raised there were but five men in the whole Legislature who dared to go home to their constituents and say: "The line was drawn between the white man and the brown, and we voted for the brown." The details of the final vote were in the Assembly, 72 for, 3 against; in the Senate, 35 for, 2 against; both houses together, 107 for, 5 against. Just at the moment the classic instance of Japanese agrarian aggression is the town of Florin, which is but 8 miles southeast of Sacramento, and therefore an object lesson right at the doors of the Legislature. The opponents of the Anti-Allen Land Bill took great pleasure in showing Mr. Bryan by means of this community exactly pained to notice an air of neglect about the garden and the doorway. The grass is uncut, the flowers look neglected. The very house has an absentee air about it. There are no lace curtains at the windows, only shades. One of the shades goes up and a face is seen, peering, inquisitive, suspicious. It is the face of an Oriental. We round the corner and Japanese babies are sprawling before the door. We turn toward the barnyard and a pair of Japanese boys are romping there. The barnyard itself has an empty look. There are no cows or calves, not even a fowl, for these Japanese of Florin are tillers of the soil pure and simple. Beyond the barn one sees a Japanese plowing. In a berry patch to the left half a dozen men and women are squatting in the rows, pushing their picking trays before them. If we could look inside of this American house and see how it is furnished and occupied by its Japanese owners we should be still more depressed. Pictures of cherry-blossom festivals in the Flowery Kingdom and stories of the wizardry of Japanese gardeners would lead one to suppose these Japanese "occupations" would be found blossoming with floral beauty and fragrance. The contrary is true. Nothing appears to receive attention but that which can be sold for money. The rainbow hues fade out as we see these people in the midst of a Western environment. Sordid realism takes the place of romance. We see merely an alien race with likes that are not our likes, ambitions that are not our ambitions, satisfactions that are not our satisfactions, with morals that to us are no morals, and habits of life that make social relation with them utterly impossible. Luke McLuke Says When a man has a good wife and a good razor he never gets tired bragging about the razor. It is a wise girl who can know enough without wanting to know too much. Daughter's idea of helping at housekeeping is to pose at the front window in a party dress and a linen apron as big as a parcel post stamp while her $7,599,000 WAGE OF AUTHORITY Sacramento Reports Bought 3,798 Machines April motor vehicle orders, which heretofore water mark in California by the one during May the monthly report State Jordan's office numbering 3,798 were Californians during passed, and registered vehicle department. An investment of about 596,000, according to superintendent of the partment. Mansfield mate on the theory cost of an automobile. The total number been registered since was established in Ma books were closed May 698; total investment This does not include ber of motorcycles California. OUR SUPERIOR "There never was a history when the sea-fight service was in better present, and addition ready planned assure ready for anything at These are the work Roosevelt, assistant United States Navy led during his visit to Mr. Roosevelt, of customary official re is no danger of war posterous!" he exclaims assistant secretary said. "In a sense, this serves a good purpose become thereby more workings of our army." "The line was drawn between the white man and the brown, and we voted for the brown." The details of the final vote were in the Assembly, 72 for, 3 against; in the Senate, 35 for, 2 against; both houses together, 107 for, 5 against. Just at the moment the classic instance of Japanese agrarian aggression is the town of Florin, which is but 8 miles southeast of Sacramento, and therefore an object lesson right at the doors of the Legislature. The opponents of the Anti-Allien Land Bill took great pleasure in showing Mr. Bryan by means of this community exactly what the Japanese invasion meant. Florin is the center of a beautiful little vine and berry growing district comprising about 24 sections of land. A dozen years ago each of its vineyards and berry farms surrounded and sustained an American home. Now it is estimated that 65 per cent of these farms are owned or operated by Japanese—about 15 per cent owned and 50 per cent leased. Formerly there were about 1,500 whites and no Japanese in this community. Today it is estimated that there are 500 whites, and from 1,500 to 2,500 Japanese according to the demands of the season. There were three large general merchandise stores in the town, owned by whites, says a writer in Collier's. Today two of those stores are held by the Japanese, and the lone white man has computed the hour of his own demise. He says that within five years the Nipponese will put him out of business. His store, too, will become Japanized. There were two white hotels in the place; now there is only a Japanese boarding house. There were two white blacksmith shops, now one of them is Japanese. The barber shop, the shoe shop, the fish market, and the meat market are owned or operated by the Japanese. There is a fruit-basket factory in the town. It formerly employed white help and the management prefers white help; but when Secretary Bryan walked into this factory he found 40 Japanese employed, the foreman being the only white man about. Apparently about half of the employees were women. Some of them had their babies by their sides. As we were preparing to take a picture a woman with a baby rushed out, but she could not take the crib with her. These employees are now all Japanese, while formerly they were all white because, as the manager informed me, so many whites had moved away to avoid Japanese neighbors that he was compelled to employ some Japanese and then the remaining whites began to ooze out because they would not work in the same factory with the Japanese. We went around to the neat little two-room school house, presided over by two charming young women—typical American rural school teachers—and found in the primary grade 20 whites and 22 Japanese. The white children in the primary were small, but among the Japs were two straping young fellows who had been in high school grades in Japan. Ten years ago there were 110 white children in the school. Today there are but 40. The 70 white children who are gone constitute an index to the exodus Luke McLuke Says When a man has a good wife and a good razor he never gets tired bragging about the razor. It is a wise girl who can know enough without wanting to know too much. Daughter’s idea of helping at housekeeping is to pose at the front window in a party dress and a linen apron as big as a parcel post stamp while her mother does the dirty work in a gingham shroud. Before marriage he will hold her hands for hours at a time so they won’t get cold. After marriage he won’t even buy her a pair of gloves. It must be fine to be a reformer. All you have to do is to announce that you have made a tour of the redlight district and will tell all about it at a meeting for women only. The women will fight to get in and you can say anything you please. This boosts Purity’s batting average up to .999 and makes everybody feel better. Eugenics means that a man with a face like a cement crusher should not marry a girl with a map like a dough mixer. But they often do. That is why there are so many little cement crushers and dough mixers in the world. My idea of a fine job is to be the husband of one of those British suffragettes. A woman never gets so old, nor so fat, nor so homely that she doesn’t like to tell about what a queen she was before she married and how her father had to keep her beaus away from the house with a shotgun. Every wife tells every husband that she could have as swell a figure as any girl if she could afford expensive corsets like the other women are wearing. A girl’s skirt may be shabby and worn and her waist soiled and faded, but if her clothes are clean where you can't see them she is happy. The girls who can afford silk stockings never holler about the steps on the street cars being too high. What excuse is there for a girl wearing one of these thin white waists? All you can see is pink openwork, pink baby ribbon and pink skin. The world is growing better, but we are still purchasing too much talcum powder and too little soap. When a girl has her own hair she wants to take it down and comb it every time she sees a mirror. Married men are not as ornery as women think they are. They wouldn't lie half as much as they do if their wives wouldn't ask so many questions. Conference to Be Held Next Week to Make San Diego is preparation for the state California Celebration be held at Hotel Dale At this meeting shows of the state w a united program w unprecedented public San Diegans invite recently declared thof most import only there but anyway These men include o f the Chamber of O. Talbot of the M tion. In this decla inforced by Winfield ber of the executive The California Ce is expected to add o success of Californi including the Panama Diego. In Northern Calif will center largely festival. The conference is onado, not at anotherously announced in We went around to the neat little two-room school house, presided over by two charming young women—typical American rural school teachers—and found in the primary grade 20 whites and 22 Japanese. The white children in the primary were small, but among the Japs were two strapping young fellows who had been in high school grades in Japan. Ten years ago there were 110 white children in the school. Today there are but 40. The 70 white children who are gone constitute an index to the exodus of white families. Nor was there a single Japanese child in the school a decade ago. In the town of Florin the great majority of people one meets in the streets and stores are Japanese. All but a few of the workers seen in the fields are Japanese. One may stand at the freight station in the afternoon when the fruit is coming in for shipment and see 40 wagons drawn up in line for the station platform, every wagon driven by a Japanese. There will be Japanese check clerks, Japanese roustabouts, Japanese foremen, and Japanese fruit buyers. The whole scene is Japanese. To see an American community that had been representative of the very best elements of our rural life thus completely displaced by Orientals gives one a strange sensation. This sensation is deepened when one drives up to an American farm only to find it inhabited by Japanese. Imagine ourselves bowling along a splendid California roadway with the finest of fruit farms on every hand. We see the fence by the side of us and know an American built it, we see the house designed after American architectural plans, surrounded by trees and lawns, and that profusion of flowers with which California's soil and climate repay so bountifully the touch of an affectionate hand. The house is environed by beautiful vineyards or orchards, and the whole is a picture of independence and contentment that makes the life of the California rancher seem ideal. But driving in at the big gate we are what excuse is there for a girl wearing one of these thin white waists? All you can see is pink openwork, pink baby ribbon and pink skin. The world is growing better, but we are still purchasing too much talcum powder and too little soap. When a girl has her own hair she wants to take it down and comb it every time she sees a mirror. Married men are not as ornery as women think they are. They wouldn't lie half as much as they do if their wives wouldn't ask so many questions. Why is it that the children will run a mile for one of the neighbors, but won't go across the street for their own mothers? Another reason for the high cost of living is that father didn't have to buy carburetors and tires for the old family horse. The reason a woman has to have a corset is that she wants to make the long places look short and the short places look long. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC The public is hereby notified that I have sold and disposed of my novelty and confectionery business conducted at 110 West Center street, Apaheim, to O. A. Mills. I take this means of thanking the people for their liberal patronage for the last 36 years during which I conducted business at this stand and trust that the same courtesy will be extended to my successor. Very respectfully, JOSEPH HELMSEN. Dr. Harvey's new residence on North Los Angeles street is nearing completion and will soon be ready for occupancy. With the new residence of W. E. Duckworth and E. J. Hartung, it forms a row of handsome structures which are a great adornment to the northern part of the city. The California Center is expected to add on success of California including the Panama Diego. In Northern California will center largely on festival. The conference is onado, not at anotherously announced in... $7,599,000 WORTH OF AUTOS IN MAY Sacramento Reports That Californians Bought 3,798 Machines in Month April motor vehicle registration records, which heretofore stood as a high water mark in California, were broken by the one during May, according to the monthly report of Secretary of State Jordan's office. Automobiles numbering 3,798 were purchased by Californians during the month just passed, and registered in the motor vehicle department. This represents an investment of approximately $7,596,000, according to J. G. Mansfield, superintendent of the automobile department. Mansfield bases his estimate on the theory that the average cost of an automobile is $2,000. The total number of cars that had been registered since the department was established in May, 1905, when the books were closed May 31, was 107,698; total investment $215,396,000. This does not include the great number of motorcycles that are used in California. OUR SUPERIOR NAVY "There never was a time in our history when the sea-fighting arm of the service was in better condition than at present, and additions to the fleets already planned assure that we will be ready for anything at any time." These are the words of Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the United States Navy Department, uttered during his visit to Boston this week. Mr. Roosevelt, of course, made the customary official remark that there is no danger of war with Japan. "Preposterous!" he exclaimed. Then the assistant secretary said: "In a sense, this bellicose element serves a good purpose, for our citizens become thereby more familiar with the workings of our army and navy in time" PERSONAL ITEMS ABOUT EARLY ANAHEIM MAYOR FRANK EY OF SANTA ANA FORMERLY TONSORIAL ARTIST IN THIS CITY LOCAL GENTLEMAN SEES STEAMER IN OCEAN EIGHTEEN MILES DISTANT (From Gazette March 21, 1874) Adolph Rimpau arrived on Thursday for a short visit to his parents. Married—March 17, by Rev. Dr. Kellogg, of the Episcopal church, George C. Knox and Miss Regina Langenberger. Anaheim Lodge No. 207, F. & A. M., will hold its regular monthly meeting this evening. On last Saturday afternoon a youth who for some time past has been in the employ of H. D. Polhemus, decamped with a number of valuable articles during the temporary absence of the family from the house. Among the articles stolen were a gold watch, which was an heirloom in the family and highly prized by its owner, a rifle, horse, saddle, blankets, etc. A search was made for him by officers, but so far he has successfully eluded pursuit. The clearness and purity of our atmosphere was well illustrated the other morning. A gentleman standing in his vineyard at 6 o'clock A.M. distinctly saw a steamer on the ocean. The distance could not have been less than 18 miles. Mrs. Th. Rimpau and Mrs. H. D. Polhemus leave on tomorrow's steamer for San Francisco. NOTICE TO THE LADIES Have you seen the beautiful ladies' suits at Fogel's? If not, have one made. They certainly fit. Upstairs at Mullinix' drug store. Chas. H. Rockwell Repairs all Makes of Gasoline Engines and Pumping Plants LARGE AND SMALL See us about digging that CEMENT PIT 201 South Los Angeles Street WILL GET TOGETHER ON CELEBRATION Conference to Be Held in San Diego Next Week to Make Arrangements San Diego is preparing a royal reception for the state conference of the California Celebrations Committee, to be held at Hotel Del Coronado June 18. At this meeting the holidays and shows of the state will be merged into a united program which will be given unprecedented publicity. San Diegans invited to the meeting recently declared the conference one of the most important ever held not only there but anywhere in California. These men include William Tomkins of the Chamber of Commerce and W. O. Talbot of the Merchants Association. In this declaration they are reinforced by Winfield Hogaboom, member of the executive committee. The California Celebrations scheme is expected to add considerably to the success of California's expositions, including the Panama-California at San Diego. In Northern California the program will center largely about the Portola festival. The conference is to be held at Coronado, not at another point as previously announced in some quarters. MUST BELIEVE IT These are the words of Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the United States Navy Department, uttered during his visit to Boston this week. Mr. Roosevelt, of course, made the customary official remark that there is no danger of war with Japan. "Preposterous!" he exclaimed. Then the assistant secretary said: "In a sense, this bellicose element serves a good purpose, for our citizens become thereby more familiar with the workings of our army and navy in time of peace. "For instance, when one of these periodical war scares is at its malignant stages, many of us are for the first time informed that the United States navy has a gross tonnage of 763,132 tons and consists of 146 ships of all classes, exclusive of supply and repair vessels, and that the sea-fighting force of Japan has a tonnage of 471,962 and has 156 vessels of all classes. "Again, for the first time the layman learns that in the United States navy there are 60,617 officers and men, while Japan boasts only 47,289. "Thus the jingoes unconsciously conduct a campaign of education which makes more for peace than war." Pumping Plants LARGE AND SMALL See us about digging that CEMENT PIT 201 South Los Angeles Street Are You Looking Around for the best place at which to buy meat? Well, look everywhere else first and then come here. What you have seen will enable you to compare our meats with others. The comparison is bound to result in our favor whether you judge by quality or values. Next time you won't have to look around. You'll come here at once. The Palace Market Wm. Schumacher, Prop. E. Center St. Anaheim, Cal. NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS OF SECTION TWO WATER COMPANY Notice is hereby given that, in pursuance of a resolution of the board of directors of Section Two Water Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of California, unanimously adopted at a regular meeting of said board held duly on the 4th day of April, 1913, at the office of said corporation in Anaheim, in said State of California, a meeting of the stockholders of said corporation is hereby called for and will be held at the office of said corporation, at the residence of O. S. Auten, in said City of Anaheim (said place of meeting being at the principal place of business of said corporation and at the building where the board of directors usually meet) on the 9th day of June, 1913, at 7:30 o'clock P.M. of that day, for the purpose of considering and acting upon the proposition to increase the capital stock of said corporation from Four Thousand Five Hundred Dollars divided into One Hundred Fifty shares of the par value of Thirty Dollars each, to Seven Thousand Five Hundred Dollars divided into Two Hundred Fifty shares of the par value of Thirty Dollars each. The amount to which it is proposed to increase the capital stock is Seven Thousand Five Hundred Dollars. By order of the board of directors. Dated this 4th day of April, 1913. (4-10-10) O. S. AUTEN, Secretary of the Board Of Directors. Notice to Creditors Estate of A. A. Lee, deceased. Notice is hereby given that The California Celebrations scheme is expected to add considerably to the success of California's expositions, including the Panama-California at San Diego. In Northern California the program will center largely about the Portola festival. The conference is to be held at Coronado, not at another point as previously announced in some quarters. MUST BELIEVE IT When Well-Known Anaheim People Tell It So Plainly When public endorsement is made by a representative citizen of Anaheim the proof is positive. You must believe it. Read this testimony. Every sufferer of kidney backache, every man, woman or child with kidney trouble will do well to read the following: Mrs. E. Kraatz, 122 S. Claudina street, Anaheim, Cal., says: "For a long time one of my family had serious symptoms of kidney complaint. His back was weak and there was a swelling under his eyes. He was frail and delicate. Doan's Kidney Pills acted directly on his kidneys and restored them to a healthy condition. After Doan's Kidney Pills were taken, all the ailments left him and he gained in weight. He has been strong and healthy ever since. The publicly endorsement I have given Doan's Kidney Pills before, still holds good." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan's—and take no other.—Adv. SOMETHING ELSE AGAIN Magistrate—And what was the prisoner doing? Constable—'E were 'avin' a very 'eated argument with a cab driver, yer worship. Magistrate—But that doesn't prove he was drunk. Constable—Ah, but there worn't no cab driver there, yer worship. Anaheim and Its Surroundings It is almost impossible for one to take in the extent of the settlement of which Anaheim is the center, by the ordinary hurried visits of the correspondent or tourist. Not quite six years ago the traveler, after leaving the settlement of Los Nietos, then too in its infancy, passed over an immense uninhabited plain and through a dense undergrowth of mustard and malve, seeing no signs of civilization until he had arrived at the oasis, created by a German colony, devoted to the cultivation of the wine grape and called Anaheim. At that time the voting precinct included within its area five government townships of land with hardly 50 voters. Then there was no settlement east of the Santa Ana river from the Yorbas at the mouth of the canyon to the Refugio ranch near the sea. In only six years' time and during six years, unexamplied in the memory of the oldest citizens as years of drought, a most marvelous revolution has been effected. In a solid block around Anaheim, 20,000 acres of land have been sold in small tracts, ranging from 20 to 160 acres each, and at least three-fourths of this acreage has been placed under annual cultivation. The voting population of the precinct has increased from the small number mentioned above, until it is tallied by hundreds, and that too after making much smaller the exterior boundaries of the precinct. On the east side of the river there have been started three settlements, Orange, Santa Ana and Tustin City, each of which is growing with unexamplied rapidity. Probably, how- Gas, Wood, Coal, and Coal Oil Heaters AT DICKEL'S ALSO Wood, Gasoline and Coal Oil Stoves. We have a few Gas Ranges left at 30 per cent discount. ORANGE COUNTY WINE CO. ORANGE COUNTY WINE CO. We will Publish Weekly in this space a SERIES OF TOASTS Watch Weekly for It TOAST NO. 1 ORANGE COUNTY WINE COMPANY We will Publish Weekly in this space a SERIES OF TOASTS Watch Weekly for It TOAST NO. 1 "Use, do not abuse, Neither abstinence nor excess renders a man happy." My MITCHELL Demonstrating Car Can be seen every afternoon at the Orange County Garage, Fullerton. 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