anaheim-gazette 1914-02-05

FRUIT GROWERS' CONVENTION AT DAVIS "BACK TO THE FARM" MOVEMENT BEING ADVOCATED BY CALIFORNIA GROWERS MANY PROBLEMS WHICH CONFROT THE FARMERS WILL BE DISCUSSED BY EXPERTS The farmers themselves have joined the "back to the farm" movement, for now the California State Fruit Growers' Association has decided not to go to town for its next annual convention, but to meet at the University Farm at Davis, under the auspices of the State Commission of Horticulture and the Yolo County Board of Trade. Instead of the past practice of holding formal meetings for three days, the fruit-growers of the state will spend the whole first week of June at their convention. It is believed this new plan will bring together a larger gathering of fruit-growers than has been customary, and that it will prove of great interest and value to all interested in any phase of fruit culture. Every morning from June 1 to 6 there will be lectures upon some of the most important aspects of the producing and marketing of fruit. There will be several simultaneous lectures, so that members may choose between such subjects as the soil and its treatment, marketing, irrigation, the labor question, protection against pests and injuries, etc. The afternoons will be devoted to conferences or meetings, to hear the discussion of the growing of special crops, problems of particular interest, or gatherings of organizations of any sort connected with fruit-growing. Any number of these conferences may be going on at the same time. The evenings will be devoted to popular lectures on those subjects of the greatest general interest and importance, according to the plan followed by ROAD CONVENTION The influence of good road construction upon increase in traffic is strikingly shown in figures compiled by the California Highway Commission relating to the increase of the number of motor trucks in Los Angeles county since the 300 miles of improved county highway began to be available in that section. Since December 31, 1909, when the good roads agitation began to crystallize into construction in Los Angeles motor trucks in that county have increased as follows: Number in use December 31, 1910, 64; on December 31, 1911, 985; on December 31, 1912, 1,880; on December 31, 1913, 3,100, or more. As the improved highways have been built for greater distances out-of Los Angeles the delivery zones have been steadily widened. Business houses whose heads testify that at one time they refused to make deliveries as far out as Jefferson and Main streets in Los Angeles, a distance of some 40 blocks, now make delivery trips daily to the beach and foothill cities nearby. Regular truck hauls are made from Los Angeles to Santa Monica, Long Beach, Whittier, Pasadena, San Bernardino, Pomona, Riverside and other cities 15 to 60 miles distant. In some instances owners of trucks have made hauls at rates practically equivalent to the short-haul rates of the steam and electric lines. A feature which will be developed by state highway construction, in the opinion of motor truck experts, is the use of motor truck trains, in which tractors will pick up trailers at different ranches to haul products cheaply to the centers of population. SANTA MONICA'S BIG AUTO RACE Will Be The Biggest Racing Event of the Year The Santa Monica course over which the Vanderbilt cup race will be run February 21st and the International Grand Prize race February 23rd, is the safest race course in the world. Most of America's famous drivers have driven over this course and they are a unit as to the safety of the course as compared to others. There has never been an accident at Santa Monica. The usual number of cars have broken wheels and there has been occasional "This doctrine was promised upon as a boon by the speeches and all who believed at the government of the man benefit of the few. It praised made the courts the dominion in every State in the Union ever any progressive status been in accord with the views entertained by the court have generally exercised that to declare such statute uncal because it was not 'due law.'" In warning his brother against overstepping their speaker asserted that "Harlan has well said: American people come to this nation that the judiciary of this usurping to itself the function legislative department of this we will find trouble. Nine people—all sorts of people not going to submit to them by the judiciary of the fraternity other departments of the government and the power on its part what is the public policy of States." SHORTAGE OF MEAT AND DECREase in Beef Cattle per Cent Shortage of meat animals ted States was strikingly reduced by comparative figures noted by the Department of Agriculture showing that there are nine cattle, seven less sheep and hogs now for each 100 per cent country than there were in means that it would take more meat cattle, sheep and give the present population supply that the census of 1910 to exist. While the population of is estimated to have increased 91,972,000 to 98,646,000 in the years, the number of beef decreased 12.9 percent, and 5.2 per cent. The number increased slightly, 1.3 per cent did not keep up with the growth of population. In spite of the reduced net estimated that the value owed in the country increased from 600,000 in 1910 to $1,930,087 that members may choose between such subjects as the soil and its treatment, marketing, irrigation, the labor question, protection against pests and injuries, etc. The afternoons will be devoted to conferences or meetings, to hear the discussion of the growing of special crops, problems of particular interest, or gatherings of organizations of any sort connected with fruit-growing. Any number of these conferences may be going on at the same time. The evenings will be devoted to popular lectures on those subjects of the greatest general interest and importance, according to the plan followed in previous conventions. For these various meetings some of the most prominent men connected with fruit-growing and marketing are to be secured from all over the country, in addition to local men. A special feature of the convention will be the series of conferences upon subjects of interest to special groups of fruit-raisers and farmers. Several of these conferences will be session at one time, in order that everyone may find some subject in which he is vitally interested. The conferences will be led by some prominent grower or specialist or by some member of the State Horticultural Commission or of the agricultural staff of the university. A paper will be presented upon the subject under consideration, after which the rest of the period will be given over to a round-table discussion by the members present. It is hoped in this intimate and informal way to get at the heart of the subject under discussion, and to give everyone an opportunity to secure the specific information desired. Suggestions of subjects for these half-day conferences will be welcomed. The following are some of the subjects already suggested: Walnut culture; the propagation, planting, and cultivation of olives; methods and distribution of cotton cultivation in California; labor problems of the fruit ranch; how will immigration affect the fruit-raiser? control of weeds; pear blight; possibilities of fruit-growing for women. What effect is China, with its four hundred million people, going to have on the rest of the world? Since this is one of the greatest problems of today, the University of California has invited the distinguished explorer and orientalist, Dr. Berthold Laufer, to come to the university from Chicago, where he is now of the scientific staff of the great Field Columbian Museum, to lecture on March 2, 3, and 4, on China. This famous anthropologist has spent a number of years exploring in the interior of China, in Tibet, and among the aboriginal tribes of the vast Amur River basin. He has published many volumes on Tibetan and Chinese religion, art, literature, and ethnology, and is a member of numerous anthropological and orientalist societies. How to drill an oil-well, how to control a gusher, how to pump, store, transport, and refine petroleum—these subjects are now to be taught by the University of California. The College of Mining has just announced this new course in the mining and handling and refining of petroleum by Professor E. B. Durham. Students will Be the Biggest Racing Event of the Year The Santa Monica course over which the Vanderbilt cup race will be run February 21st and the International Grand Prize race February 23rd, is the safest race course in the world. Most of America's famous drivers have driven over this course and they are a unit as to the safety of the course as compared to others. There has never been an accident at Santa Monica. The usual number of cars have broken wheels and there has been occasional skids off the course, but no driver carries any scars as a result of accidents, and Santa Monica as yet has no death record. Races have been held there each year since 1909 and there has seldom been less than two separate events; 13 separate races to be exact. Considering that laps have been made as fast as 93 miles per hour and the world's road race record was established over this course, the distinction of no serious accidents is one that will appeal to drivers and spectators alike. There is no reason why this good record should be marred in the coming races. The turns will be safer than ever before and the course will be in perfect condition. There is only one right-angle turn and that is to be made as wide as possible and, for further safety, a railroad rail will be extended along one side at a height of two and a half feet. This has been done in the past and has saved more than one mishap. Two years ago when Tetzlaff with the 120 horsepower Fiat established a world's record of 78.72 miles an hour, he almost threw away the honors on the last lap. He endeavored to take this "Nevada avenue turn" faster than it could be taken and the big car skidded into the iron railing and tore off a tire. Had the railing not been there, there would probably have been another winner that year. One year the turn was banked, but this idea was abandoned after being tried once. Work putting the course in shape has been under way for 10 days and by the time it is opened for practice, practically no work, other than the finishing touches, will remain to be done. Chief of Police Randall, of Santa Monica, and Deputy Sheriff Robert Bain, of Los Angeles, are mapping out their plans for guarding the course. The Santa Monica course has always been perfectly guarded. The troubles that have existed on other courses from spectators crowding onto the course, have never been in evidence in California. The railroads report that "never has there been so many inquiries regarding a sporting event in the West" makes it a certainty that thousands of people will come from the Middle West and from the East to witness the big races. California is at its most beautiful in February. At the season when the East is having its hardest snow storms, the gardens bloom their loveliest in Southern California and the fields are their greenest. The race course skirts the Pacific ocean for a distance and then winds in and out among the gardens of palms and pepper trees. The course is reachable from all over the country. Will Be the Biggest Racing Event of the Year The Santa Monica course over which the Vanderbilt cup race will be run February 21st and the International Grand Prize race February 23rd, is the safest race course in the world. Most of America's famous drivers have driven over this course and they are a unit as to the safety of the course as compared to others. There has never been an accident at Santa Monica. The usual number of cars have broken wheels and there has been occasional skids off the course, but no driver carries any scars as a result of accidents, and Santa Monica as yet has no death record. Races have been held there each year since 1909 and there has seldom been less than two separate events; 13 separate races to be exact. Considering that laps have been made as fast as 93 miles per hour and the world's road race record was established over this course, the distinction of no serious accidents is one that will appeal to drivers and spectators alike. There is no reason why this good record should be marred in the coming races. The turns will be safer than ever before and the course will be in perfect condition. There is only one right-angle turn and that is to be made as wide as possible and, for further safety, a railroad rail will be extended along one side at a height of two and a half feet. This has been done in the past and has saved more than one mishap. Two years ago when Tetzlaff with the 120 horsepower Fiat established a world's record of 78.72 miles an hour, he almost threw away the honors on the last lap. He endeavored to take this "Nevada avenue turn" faster than it could be taken and the big car skidded into the iron railing and tore off a tire. Had the railing not been there, there would probably have been another winner that year. One year the turn was banked, but this idea was abandoned after being tried once. Work putting the course in shape has been under way for 10 days and by the time it is opened for practice, practically no work, other than the finishing touches, will remain to be done. Chief of Police Randall, of Santa Monica, and Deputy Sheriff Robert Bain, of Los Angeles, are mapping out their plans for guarding the course. The Santa Monica course has always been perfectly guarded. The troubles that have existed on other courses from spectators crowding onto the course, have never been in evidence in California. The railroads report that "never has there been so many inquiries regarding a sporting event in the West" makes it a certainty that thousands of people will come from the Middle West and from the East to witness the big races. California is at its most beautiful in February. At the season when the East is having its hardest snow storms, the gardens bloom their loveliest in Southern California and the fields are their greenest. The race course skirts the Pacific ocean for a distance and then winds in and out among the gardens of palms and pepper trees. The course is reachable from all over the country. Will Be The Biggest Racing Event Of The Year The Santa Monica course over which the Vanderbilt cup race will be run February 21st and the International Grand Prize race February 23rd, is the safest race course in the world. Most of America's famous drivers have driven over this course and they are a unit as to the safety of the course as compared to others. There has never been an accident at Santa Monica. The usual number of cars have broken wheels and there has been occasional skids off the course, but no driver carries any scars as a result of accidents, and Santa Monica as yet has no death record. Races have been held there each year since 1909 and there has seldom been less than two separate events; 13 separate races to be exact. Considering that laps have been made as fast as 93 miles per hour and the world's road race record was established over this course, the distinction of no serious accidents is one that will appeal to drivers and spectators alike. There is no reason why this good record should be marred in the coming races. The turns will be safer than ever before and the course will be in perfect condition. There is only one right-angle turn and that is to be made as wide as possible and, for further safety, a railroad rail will be extended along one side at a height of two and a half feet. This has been done in the past and has saved more than one mishap. Two years ago when Tetzlaff with the 120 horsepower Fiat established a world's record of 78.72 miles an hour, he almost threw away the honors on the last lap. He endeavored to take this "Nevada avenue turn" faster than it could be taken and the big car skidded into the iron railing and tore off a tire. Had the railing not been there, there would probably have been another winner that year. One yearthe turn was banked,but this idea was abandoned after being tried once. Work puttingthecourseinshapehasbeenunderwayfor10daysandbythetimeitisopenedforpractice,practicallynowork,thegroundworthandWarnockhaveinitialsandnotthefullertonunheldtifie has spent a number of years exploring in the interior of China, in Tibet, and among the aboriginal tribes of the vast Amur River basin. He has published many volumes on Tibetan and Chinese religion, art, literature, and ethnology, and is a member of numerous anthropological and orientalist societies. How to drill an oil-well, how to control a gusher, how to pump, store, transport, and refine petroleum—these subjects are now to be taught by the University of California. The College of Mining has just announced this new course in the mining and handling and refining of petroleum by Professor E. B. Durham. Students wishing special preparation for the promising career of oil engineer may have university instruction also in the chemistry of oils, from Professor Edmond O'Neill; in invertebrate palaeontology, which is indispensable to anyone who would understand the geology of oil-bearing regions, from Professor J. C. Merriam, and in gas engineering, including the production of gas from California oils, gas engines, and the new developments in direct combustion engines, such as the Diesel engine, which promise such marvels of economy and efficiency. These new methods of getting energy direct from the burning of California oils, without the wasteful and round-about step of making steam, mean that in a few years the steamer will have disappeared from the sea, just as the steamer supplanted the sailing-ship. Involved also is the probability that electricity can be generated from California oils by dynamos driven by direct-combustion engines at a cost well nigh as low as the cost of making electricity from the great mountain-water-driven electric generating plants. A series of six university extension lectures on the origin of the oils of California, their chemistry, and the engineering problems of the oil industry, including gas production and the Diesel engine, have been planned by the university and are to be given in several California towns during the spring. TOO MUCH POWER Declaring that all the power of government, both Federal and State, lies at the feet of a "judicial oligarchy" composed of the lawyers of the United States, Chief Justice Walter Clark of the North Carolina Supreme Court, in addressing a meeting of the People's Institute at Cooper Union, warned his fellow-jurists throughout the country to take heed lest their power prove their own undoing. Justice Clark's theme was "Government by Judges." In part he said: "In this country, as in all countries, the control of the government is in the hands of the few. We have learned that the form of government amounts to little. The real question is, 'where does the control of government reside?' "The overwhelming preponderance of the judiciary was unexpectedly created in 1803 by a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States—without a line in the Constitution to authorize—when that body assumed the right to veto any act of Congress they choose to hold unconstitutional." GRAVEL PLANT WP The high water in the creek put the county gravel commission for several years. The water on Monday came to the plant and flooded the excavations have been maintained amount of mud was done this must be cleaned out but can be taken out for the re-cleaning. As the waters receded, the Pacific Electric road on the east side of the tracks between Orange and was cut out. A section along and from 10 to 15 feet cut-out of the fill. Ties been laid on the grade we to save them. Paulito Munos, the Mayor sentenced to San Quentin years Monday for the co-annamable crime on the Anaheim. This doctrine was promptly seized upon as a boon by the special interim and all who believed at heart in the government of the many for the benefit of the few. It practically has made the courts the dominant power everywhere State in the Union. When any progressive statute has not been in accord with the economic news entertained by the courts, they have generally exercised their power to declare such statute unconstitutional because it was not 'due process of law.'" In warning his brother' judges against overstepping their authority the speaker asserted that "Mr. Justice Marlan has well said: 'When the American people come to the conclusion that the judiciary of this land is surping to itself the functions of the legislative department of the country, we will find trouble. Ninety millions of people—all sorts of people—are not going to submit to the usurpation of the judiciary of the functions of other departments of the government and the power on its part to declare what is the public policy of the United States.'" SHORTAGE OF MEAT ANIMALS Decrease in Beef Cattle of Nearly 13 Per Cent Shortage of meat animals in the United States was strikingly demonstrated by comparative figures made public by the Department of Agriculture, showing that there are nine less beef cattle, seven less sheep and three less hogs now for each 100 persons in the country than there were in 1910. This means that it would take 18,259,000 more meat cattle, sheep and swine to live the present population the same supply that the census of 1910 showed exist. While the population of the country estimated to have increased from 9,972,000 to 98,646,000 in the last three years, the number of beef cattle has decreased 12.9 percent, and of sheep 2 per cent. The number of swine increased slightly, 1.3 per cent, but it did not keep up with the proportional growth of population. In spite of the reduced number, it is estimated that the value of the cattle in the country increased from $1,534,-000,000 in 1910 to $1,930,087,000 on Jan- MUCH RAIN IN 1883 To the old-timers there is nothing modern that can compare with the happenings of long ago. The recent storm which deluged this county with more than five inches of rain, moved the editor of the Santa Ana Bulletin to hark back into history and tell what happened before the present generation of young people was born. He says: "The late storm was a gentle reminder to the pioneers hereabouts, of former storms years ago, when about everything in the peat land district was under water. Take the winter of 1883-4, when about 40 inches of rain fell, and there was hardly a clear day between the middle of January and the first of May. That was some storm, and everything was washed out, and the only railroad entering this city at that time was the Southern Pacific, and that was put out of commission for weeks at a time. In fact, at one time it did not turn a wheel for three weeks, and the only way to get to Los Angeles was by an old stage resurrected for the occasion, and then most of the rivers had to be forded, as bridges were all out. As for mails we were lucky to get one a week, and then the citizens would have to pass the hat to raise money to induce some one with a large team to make the round trip to Los Angeles, and it was no uncommon sight to see them bring back a large wagon load of mail. Those were days that a few of us can remember, and we can remember too, that only one or two inches of rain had fallen up to the 25th of January, 1884, and every one was predicting a dry year, but that was one of the times they missed it. The year 1888 was also a close second to 1884, but then we all managed to live through it all." STALWARTS MEET The Orange County Republican Central Committee, the stalwarts, will hold a meeting at 2:30 o'clock on the afternoon of Saturday, February 7. J. C. Burke, secretary of the committee, will send notices to members of the committee. These notices will be mailed on Saturday of this week, and will name the Santa Ana city hall as the meeting place. It will be remembered that two years ago, the Progressives secured control of the county convention, and took charge of the Republican County Central Committee. The stalwarts held another meeting soon afterward and selected another central committee, which they claimed to be the real Republican committee. Two weeks ago the Republican committee that had been headed by S. J. Jackman as chairman, met and adjourned sine die, and the Progressive County Central Committee was organized. Jackman's committee will no longer meet as a Republican committee, and there will no longer be any dispute over the right of the stalwarts to the use of the name. In this county no mass meeting for reorganizing a central organization of the Republican party will be necessary. Secretary Burke is calling the committee together mainly to elect officers for the year and to fill whatever vacancies there may be in the committee, and to take what other actions the committee may desire. BRISTOW SPEAKS Next to California, Kasns has been perhaps the most strongly insurgent state in the Union. We use the word "insurgent" advisedly. More and more facts are emphasized that what has happened in and to the Republican party was a movement within the party to enforce some changes in national policy and leadership. Only in California is that still strongly denied. Here Hiram Johnson insists on leading a lost cause to destruction, by lashing those followers he can command to take themselves out into a third-party movement that is already dead elsewhere. One of the leading national insurgents has been Senator Bristow of Kansas. He followed the Roosevelt lead in 1912, after having fought STATUTES SHOULD BE CLEAR It is to be hoped that the supplemental legislation prescribing specific acts which shall be deemed in violation of the anti-trust law will be made so clear that even the wayfaring man may interpret it. The experience of the country with the Sherman act shows the harm in vagueness. The authors of that act were not harmonious in their interpretation of its terms. Lawyers varied widely in their views as to what it forbade and the Supreme Court itself was forced to introduce a qualification in order to uphold its constitutionality. The purpose of the supplemental legislation is double: To clear up the debatable area and to stop specific practices that are against good policy without the necessity of a general suit for the dissolution of the corporation whose officers or agents have offended. The president has wisely indicated that he does not want the proposed bills loaded down with extreme legislation. It is a subject that is attractive to hobby-riders and already some chimerical proposals have been made. The prohibition of the sale of any article below cost is an example. If the sale is for the purpose of destroying competition or injuring it, the prohibition would be justified. But conditions often arise in the business world where it becomes necessary to unload stock on hand, regardless of what its original cost may have been. There are also practices which are legitimate in trying to get a foothold in a new market which would be blameworthy if designed to crush out competition. The provisions of the decree of dissolution of the tobacco trust were carefully drawn and might serve as a model for part of the supplemental anti-trust legislation. Whether this decree has been rigidly enforced or not, its provisions were ample, even though there was a community of interest in ownership of the various corporations. The prohibition of interlocking directorates and the possible prohibition of ownership of stock in competing concerns doing an interstate business will cure whatever defects there may have been in the tobacco decision. There is a general agreement of public sentiment as to what practices should be prohibited. The proposed hearings will elicit little that is new or valuable on this phase of the subject. But the wording of the legislation offers greater difficulties and calls for the most careful attention of the lawmakers. In prescribing specific offenses the law should be so clear that there will be no possibility of long court delay and no confusion in the minds of business men who have a sincere desire to obey the law in letter and in spirit. And provisions that have little but novelty to commend them should be avoided. One of the leading national insurgents has been Senator Bristow of Kansas. He followed the Roosevelt lead in 1912, after having fought the Republican congressional leaders on those questions which were in dispute for several years. He was one of the original insurgents; but he is a Rebulican, and yesterday the wires brought the following announcement of his candidacy for the Republican nomination for senator from the Sunflower state: "I will be a candidate before the Republican primaries next August for the nomination of United States senator." "The third-party movement, in my opinion, will not succeed. There are, as you know, thousands of good men who in their sentiment are thoroughly progressive, who have been supporting us in the past, who will not leave the Republican party because of the traditional attachment they have to its history and the pride they have always taken in its achievements." If he had been speaking of the California situation, he could not have diagnosed it more accurately. There are thousands and tens of thousands of good men here, who sympathize with much that has been striven for in the name of progress, "but who will not leave the Republican party because of the traditional attachment they have always taken in its achievements." And its history is something worth professing attachment for, and its achievements are worth being proud of.—San Bernardino Sun. INTERESTING CASE IN SUPERIOR COURT Justice Decides That Initials Not Sufficient in Law Court When the law says that a certificate co-partnership using a fictitious name should be signed with the full names of the partners, the law means that the initials are not sufficient. That is what Justice Fullerton of Orange decided in an action brought by his court. T. L. Longworth and T. Warnock, doing business under the name of the Anaheim Garage, sued John Irvin of Orange for $123 for work done for him by the firm. The plaintiff was represented by Attorney F. C. Spencer of Anaheim and the defendant by Scarborough & Forgy and S. M. Weinhaus, of Santa Ana. The defendant objected to the certificate co-partnership, which was filed in order to establish the right of the partnership to use, on the ground that Longworth and Warnock have signed their initials and not their full names. Justice Fullerton unheld the defendant. 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