anaheim-gazette 1914-07-30

RALSTON HERE SEES PARTY LEADERS MAKES AUTOMOBILE TOUR THROUGH CITIES AND TOWNS OF ORANGE COUNTY WELL RECEIVED, REPUBLICANS PLEDGE SUPPORT IF HE SECURES NOMINATION W. C. Ralston, of San Francisco, candidate for the republican nomination for governor of California, stopped in Anaheim Monday afternoon on his way north from San Diego. He was accompanied by C. W. Fleming, the well-known Los Angeles business man, who was introducing him to the people of the Southland. Mr. Ralston is making an automobile trip and had had almost completed his tour of Orange county before running in to Anaheim. He was met by officials of the Anaheim Republican Club and escorted to headquarters in the Odd Fellows' building where many of the leading republicans called to get acquainted and assure him of their hearty support in case he is the choice of the republicans of California on August 25. Mr. Ralston expressed himself as more than satisfied with the reception he had received throughout the Southland and especially Orange county. Everywhere he was received with expressions of good will with not a single note of hostility to him from any source. While here but a few hours he was taken about the city and met many of the prominent republicans. He managed to impress all with the belief that should he receive the nomination he will relegate Hiram Johnson to the discard heap and the governor's chair will be once more held down by a wise, conservative and long-headed business man. Mr. Ralston believes that a candi-ration of principles and platform in this campaign are characteristic of the man. He dodges no issue, makes no apologies, and for every stand he takes he has a reason, sound, sane and logical. He is living up to his reputation as a first-class, two-fisted fighting man, who knows a spade when he sees one, and calls it by its right name. DARLINGTON SAYS ROAD MUST BE GOOD Passes Through Town on Monday Morning Inspecting Work on State Highway N. D. Darlington of the state highway commission, A. B. Fletcher, chief engineer, and W. L. Clark, division engineer, arrived in Santa Ana on their way over the state highway to San Diego. Monday morning they made an inspection of the concrete base that has been laid in Orange county between the county line at La Habra and Santa Ana, concerning which there has been a great deal of adverse criticism. On arriving here they stated that the state will not accept anything except good work and that whatever defects there are in the road will have to be made good before the road is accepted or wearing surface put on. Their declarations were in accordance with the declarations made in letters to Chief Engineer S. H. Finley of the county highway commission and to J. C. Metzgar, secretary of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Orange county. Darlington, Fletcher and Clark are holding a conference at the offices of the county highway commission with County Highway Commissioners D. C. Pixley, R. J. McFadden and W. T. Newland and Engineer Finley, who were appointed by the Associated Chambers of Commerce as a special committee to take whatever steps were found necessary to impress upon the state com- Mr. Ralston believes that a candidate for the high office of governor should define his position on the principal issues confronting the people, and should let the voters know precisely where he stands on the questions now under discussion by the voters. Speaking to a number of republicans at the club headquarters he said: "I am not opposed to the proposed universal eight-hour law, except as it affects the farmer, the fruit grower, the viticulturist, the dairyman and the stockman. In defending their interests I would like my reasons to be clearly understood. I am not opposed to the principles sought to be embodied in an eight-hour law. I believe that it is wholly right to prevent anybody from working others for such long hours as would be detrimental to their health, happiness and civic usefulness. No fair-minded person will object to an eight-hour law for the mechanic, the artisan, and the city-dwelling wage earner. But the same fair-mindedness must protest against such a law being forced upon others to whom it is neither desirable nor reasonable. Certainly the liberty of the individual would be unwarrantedly curtailed if the farmer, the dairyman, the fruit grower and the stockman, whose industry depends upon the seasons and upon climate, were not permitted to work as conditions require. "A law which would prevent laborers in the agricultural districts from working more than eight hours a day during the harvest and fruit picking season would impose upon the agriculturist an expense which he cannot afford, and to that extent would prove a misfortune to the entire state. The work of the fruit grower and the farmer is, as I have said, governed by the seasons and by climate, and any attempt to legislate climate and nature into law is absurd. "If the question were one of a universal eight-hour law throughout the United States, it might bear a different aspect. California then would not be handled in the competition with her sister states. But there are many states where ten-hour laws obtain, and it would be obviously impossible for this state to compete with them in many lines in the open market. In the nation at large we raise the barrier of a protective tariff against the products of the cheaper labor of foreign countries; we cannot do so as between the states. So if we handicap ourselves by making expensive the products of Megalogical secretary of the Insurance Chambers of Commerce of Orange county. Darlington, Fletcher and Clark are holding a conference at the offices of the county highway commission with County Highway Commissioners D. C. Pixley, R. J. McFadden and W. T. Newland and Engineer Finley, who were appointed by the Associated Chambers of Commerce as a special committee to take whatever steps were found necessary to impress upon the state commission the necessity of having the concrete base already laid in this county repaired before the road is accepted. FACTS ABOUT SUGAR The results of the operation of the new tariff law as it affects the domestic sugar industry are turning out just as predicted when the tariff bill was pending before the special session of congress. The 25 per cent reduction in the sugar tariff which was effective March 1 last, and was equivalent to a reduction of 34 cents per hundred pounds, has been absorbed by the refiners and the campaign cry of the free traders that sugar would be 2 cents a pound cheaper to the consumer if the tariff were removed, has gone glimmering. The only ones who are benefited by the reduction so far are the refiners of raw cane sugar in New York. A great deal of dissatisfaction is being manifested, not only by the domestic sugar industry, but by many democrats over the way in which the law is working out, and it is rumored that a persistent effort will be made in congress next winter to remove the free sugar clause in the law and fix a permanent tariff duty of 1 cent a pound on sugar. As a result of this tariff law 13 beet sugar factories in the United States which handle 500,000 tons of beets a year will not be operated this year. This will result in a loss to the beet growers of over $3,000,000 a year. Owing to this law also there will be about 20 per cent less beets harvested this year than last, which involves a further loss of $7,000,000 to growers. This is not the only loss that will be sustained. The raising of sugar beets has so increased the fertility of the soil that the yield per acre of other crops grown on the same soil has increased from 50 to 100 per cent. Cane sugar has been produced for years in large quantities in Louisiana, and the industry has just been started in Texas. In the former state 36 sugar plantations have cut business and the In the question were one or a universal eight-hour law throughout the United States, it might bear a different aspect. California then would not be handicapped in the competition with her sister states. But there are many states where ten-hour laws obtain, and it would be obviously impossible for this state to compete with them in many lines in the open market. In the nation at large we raise the barrier of a protective tariff against the products of the cheaper labor of foreign countries; we cannot do so between the states. So if we handle our ourselves by making expensive the products of our farms, vineyards, and orchards, we shall suffer a serious industrial loss as well as add to the 'high cost of living' at home. "I believe thoroughly in the eight-hour day for those who want it. I believe that that should be the maximum that a man should be obliged to work, if he does not want to work longer. But I do not believe such a restriction of individual liberty should be forced on those who do not want it and upon whom it would work an unnecessary hardship." "Grops do not ripen by the clock, nor will the harvest wait upon a man-made law. "In the name of the fruit grower, the farmer, the dairyman, the viticulturist, the stockman, and every individual who, through choice or necessity, is engaged in work which must conform to the vagaries of nature—I protest against this measure." Mr. Ralston is also outspoken on all the other issues of the campaign and is fearless in expressing his views. "I believe," said he, "that the people should know precisely where all the candidates stand. I am not catering to any element by side-stepping any of the questions confronting us, but am making my canvass on my convictions." Ralston has always been known, in politics and out of it, as a man who loves a fight, but throughout his entire career, no matter what the issue, his motives have never been questioned, his sincerity never impugned. Everybody knew that he was fighting for his idea of the right, and whether agreeing or disagreeing with that idea, everybody respected him. His straightforward, fearless declayear than last, which involves a further loss of $7,000,000 to growers. This is not the only loss that will be sustained. The raising of sugar beets has so increased the fertility of the soil that the yield per acre of other crops grown on the same soil has increased from 50 to 100 per cent. Cane sugar has been produced for years in large quantities in Louisiana, and the industry has just been started in Texas. In the former state 36 sugar plantations have quit business and the Louisiana sugar industry is being dealt a rulous blow at the hands of its own friends in congress. The domestic sugar manufacturers are hard-headed, practical business men, and it has been a matter of surprise that their judgment has had so little effect upon the law-makers at Washington. It is certainly to be hoped that the ruin being caused by this legislation will be remedied at the earliest possible moment. It is an industry of great value to the country, the beet growers last year receiving $22,000,000, and since no one but the New York sugar refineries are benefited by the passage of the law, there is every reason for undoing the injury that has already been sustained. TEACHERS’ PENSIONS The State Board of Education has just granted retirement salaries to 61 additional teachers in California, making 212 in all on the record. These retired teachers draw an annual salary, annuity or pension of $500, payable in four quarterly installments of $125 each. These retirement salaries, however, are not paid by the taxpayers of the state, but chiefly by the members of the teaching fraternity themselves at the rate of $1.00 per month each. In this way the state receives over a hundred thousand dollars yearly, or more than enough to refined, probably to the Cal-Okla County is still producing oil per day. This some months ago. On its 82-acre tract will probably soon completed. The s A number of new menced north of P Socialists Unable Petition The farmers’ flight legislation to be vested ember election by the important branch by Thomas W. Warytary of the socialists claims would be their initiative permium wage law, wi not go on the ballot. Three others laws for which they culating initiative fall of sufficient s the November bar. “Tax Exemption taxes from $1,000 ing occupied by it the personal property $100 to $200; thor Work Law,” which bureau of industry give employment; to any person whi she had made a re had been unable to the “Right to Vote ranged a system f for that transients ou could cast their b Wallop & Champion THE GROCERS All Fresh Fruits and Vegetables in Season TEAS, COFFEE, FLOUR Headquarters for Fruit to Can Our Prices are the Lowest in Town Quality Considered PACIFIC 157——PHONES——HOME 138 PROMPT DELIVERY “Quality, Quantity and Courteous Treatment” pay all the retirement salaries so far claimed. In addition, the fund receives 5 per cent of the collateral inheritance tax, a state tax collected from the estates of wealthy persons after death. This amounted to $78,854 last year. A case of vital interest to the public school teachers of the state has been recently settled in San Francisco. Shirely King, and twenty other teachers, appealed to the state superintendent of schools, alleging that the city board of education had illegally withheld their salaries, refusing to recognize experience outside the city in rat- The "Universal 8-Hour Law" is the only one of the five socialist measures to succeed, but the initiative petition for it has already been filed and approved. The "Minimum Wage Law," second in importance, has secured some twenty thousand signatures to its petition, but thirty-one thousand are necessary and these cannot be secured before the last date, August 4th. This law as drafted provided a minimum wage of $2.50 per day for any person over 18 years of age and $1.50 per day for any under 18. The socialists announced, however, that they will continue tury, half a century an- BIG STORAGE TANKS BEING ERECTED Standard Is Putting In Tubes With Half a Million Capacity The Standard Oil Company is building ten 55,000-barrel storage tanks in the Coyote Hills field, as well as ten at El Segundo, to take care of the tremendous production in the Coyote Hills field. Five of the field tanks will be on the Murphy and five on the Emery lease. The total capacity of the tanks here and at El Segundo will exceed 1,000,000 barrels. The Standard's famous gusher well on the Emery lease, which has now been producing for about nine months, is still doing close to 5,000 barrels daily. The total amount of oil produced since the well started flowing is now about 2,000,000 barrels, valued at nearly $1,000,000, based on the field price and worth to the Standard, when refined, probably three times as much. The Cal-Okla Company's No. 1 well is still producing about 300 barrels of oil per day. This well was brought in some months ago. On its 82-acre tract the Amalgamated will probably soon have well No. 1 completed. The showing is favorable. A number of new, wells will be commenced north of Placentia next month. MINIMUM WAGE LAW A case of vital interest to the public school teachers of the state has been recently settled in San Francisco. Shirely King, and twenty other teachers, appealed to the state superintendent of schools, alleging that the city board of education had illegally withheld their salaries, refusing to recognize experience outside the city in rating them according to the salary schedule. Superintendent Hyatt rendered a decision in favor of the teachers. To everyone's astonishment the city board accepted the superintendent's decision as gospel, gave up the contest and paid down the money. This was an agreeable surprise all round, as both parties to the controversy had lined up for a protracted legal battle. The "Sunday Rest Law," by which it is proposed to force almost every class of workers to cease toll on the Sabbath, unless religious beliefs compel them to select some other day, it is stated may yet land on the November ballot through initiative petitions still in circulation. This measure is said to have been originally drawn by union barbers, who wish to close all tonsorial parlors on Sundays through a drastic penal statute. Farmers and fruit growers all over California are organizing strenuous opposition to the 8-hour law, which they urge would be absolutely ruinous to agriculture and a menace to the general prosperity of California, inasmuch as it contains absolutely no exemptions to allow for weather conditions and the necessities of harvesting ripe crops, nor for any other such contingencies. No other state has ever tried such a drastic law, which inflicts a maximum penalty of 90 days in jail and a $500 fine upon any employer permitting more than eight hours' work in one day or more than 48 hours in one week. The law includes all women, even household helpers, trained nurses and others expressly exempt from the women's 8-hour law now in force. BIDS OPENED Bids for paving section 1 of the Bay City road were opened by the board of supervisors last week. This section extends from the end of the pavement on West First street, north to the Westminster街, thence westerly five miles to the Los Alamitos road. The section is six miles in length. The S.C. Constructing Company of Santa Monica was the successful bidder, the price being $20,350.80. The office estimate for the work was $21,495.21. Construction of the paving from Bay City to Los Alamitos has already been begun. Other bids received were as follows: "The Minimum Wage Law," second in importance, has secured Rome twenty thousand signatures to its petition, but thirty-one thousand are necessary and these cannot be secured before the last date, August 4th. This law as drafted provided a minimum wage of $2.50 per day for any person over 18 years of age and $1.50 per day for any under 18. The socialists announced, however, that they will continue getting signatures for the other laws, so they may be submitted at a general election in 1916. The "Sunday Rest Law," by which it is proposed to force almost every class of workers to cease toll on the Sabbath, unless religious beliefs compel them to select some other day, it is stated may yet land on the November ballot through initiative petitions still in circulation. This measure is said to have been originally drawn by union barbers, who wish to close all tonsorial parlors on Sundays through a drastic penal statute. FREDERICK'S IDEAL HOME LIFE Captain John D. Fredericks has an ideal home life. His wife and four children are devoted to him and he to them. Mrs. Fredericks is with him on his northern tour, and although she is personally averse to the limelight she attends all her husband's political meetings, and is one of his most unbiased (if fond) critics. Their eldest child is Doris, a sweet girl of 16, of true California build, lissom and strong in her perfect health. John is the second child. Before Deborah appeared on the scene it was young John's earnest wish that he be given a baby brother, which desire was secretly fostered by his father. When the result was announced it became the captain's duty to break the news to John and take the edge off his disappointment. Young John was in bed, but not a sleepen, when his father came in wearing an anxious look. "What's the matter, daddy?" asked the alert youngster. "I'm troubled, John, and want your advice," replied the diplomatic captain, carefully feeling his way. "You see, we didn't get that baby brother; she's..." MINIMUM WAGE LAW NOT ON BALLOT Socialists Unable to Complete Their Petition in Time The farmers' fight against dangerous legislation to be submitted at the November election was simplified when the important announcement was made by Thomas W. Williams, state secretary of the socialist party, that the socialists would be unable to complete their initiative petitions for the minimum wage law, which, therefore, will not go on the ballot. Three others of the five proposed laws for which the socialists were circulating initiative petitions also will fall of sufficient signatures to get on the November ballot. These are the "Tax Exemption Law," removing any taxes from $1,000 value of any dwelling occupied by its owner and raising the personal property exemption from $100 to $200; the so-called "Right to Work Law," which provided for a state bureau of industry that would either give employment, or pay $2.50 per day, to any person who proved that he or she had made a reasonable effort and had been unable to secure work; and the "Right to Vote Law," which arranged a system for voting by mail, so that transients or illiterant workers could cast their ballots in any locality. THE IDEAL FREE TRADER Poor old dreamer. Wilson says he does not believe that the tariff has anything to do with the conditions now prevailing throughout the country. But the manufacturers do; Mr. President, and your platitudes do not seem to jar them loose so that they dare to enter competition with your European friends who are shipping goods into this country as fast as they can produce them. And those goods are cheaper than Americans can produce them, too, and until wages are reduced all along the line there is little hope that American factories can run on more than 50 percent of their capacity, and not on that much as soon as the Europeans increase their capacities. The balance of trade is now against this country, the first time in forty years. Go it, Woody, old scout! You are the ideal free trader of this century. Make most of your time while you wield the club over your terrorized subjects. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Walter S. Matthews, Deceased. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned executor of the last Well and Testament of Walter S. Matthews, deceased, to the solicitors and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit the same with the necessary vouchers, within ten months after the first publication of this notice (which publication was first made on 20th day of July 1894). To the said executor at the law offices of Melrose & Ames, the attorneys for sale executor at No. 1121 West Center street, in the City of Anaheim, Orange County, California, which is hereby designated as the place for the transaction of the business of said estate, in the County of Orange. Dated this 23rd day of July, A.D. 1914. FREDERICK GEORGE CRISP, Executor of the last Will and Testament of Walter S. Matthews, Deceased. (7-30-5) OWLS The Only Order that Pensions Widows The ORDER OF OWLS is but eight years old, during which over 200,000 Members have joined its ranks in over 1700 different nests throughout the world. The ORDER OF OWLS has its own General Hospital at Bend, Indiana, where disease-stricken men and women receive the best medical and surgical treatment at no expense themselves or their families. The ORDER OF OWLS provides a home for its ORPHAN CHILDREN. The ORDER OF OWLS is the only fraternal order which cons Its Deceased Members' Widows monthly, that they be able to rear their children at their own fireside so as to love all the Affection and Love only a mother can bestow on offspring. We have the spectacle of organizations a quarter of a cen-half a century and even centuries old in our land without The ORDER OF OWLS provides a home for its ORPHAN CHILDREN. The ORDER OF OWLS is the only fraternal order which cons Its Deceased Members' Widows monthly, that they be able to rear their children at their own fireside so as to save all the Affection and Love only a mother can bestow on offspring. We have the spectacle of organizations a quarter of a cenhalf a century and even centuries old in our land without ings of a charitable nature, which the OWLS proudly boast and point to in the short period of eight years. While other orders are built and thrive on the implacable the OWLS are the Great Order of the future, with its index or turned toward the horizon of that glorious age when men women will stand free and equal, and jails and poorhouses povery be the remnants of a forgotten age. ORGANIZER NOW HERE Organizer's Headquarters, Rooms 16 and 17, Iowa House M. W. Martenet DEALER IN Hardware, Stoves, Tinware Crockery, Paints, Oil and Glass 106 to 110 South Los Angeles Street Anaheim, - California CABLE MILLINERY Next to S.Q.R. Store on Los Angeles Street CABLE MILLINERY Next to S.Q.R. Store on Los Angeles Street SPECIAL BARGAINS One lot of Trimmed Hats $1.00 Balance at EXACT COST. Panamas Half Price Human Hair Switches $3.00 Tango Pins from 25c up. Patent Leather Girdles 59c. Final Clearance Sale of Season! NOTICE To the Taxpayers of Orange County: The Statistical Report for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1914, has been compiled and issued in book form. Any party desiring a copy of same will be supplied by applying to Cal. D. Lester, County Auditor. The report will prove of interest and assistance to those who may desire information regarding the finances of Orange County. The sum of $1,655,391.68 was expended during the year and you should know where your taxes are being expended. CAL. D. LESTER, County Auditor. George Riley and Lillian Carlson took out a marriage license in this county the other day. They were not wise to the fact that they should have to get married in the same county in which they obtained the license, and went back to Los Angeles, and there were married by Rev. Bransforth. He should have known better than to have married the couple under the circumstances, but he said not a word. Saturday Recorder Joe Backs received the license and discovered that the couple had been married in Los Angeles county, contrary to law. He at once wrote to them that they must be remarried in the county in which the license was granted.