anaheim-gazette 1915-05-27

AMERICAN OUTPUT OF CREOSOTE INCREASES Shortage of Imported Wood Preservate Stimulates Production Owing to a falling off since August 1 of nearly 30 per cent in shipments of creosote from England and Germany whence comes all but a small part of the imported oil used by wood preserving plants in this country. American manufacturers have taken steps which, says a report compiled by the forest service, it is estimated will increase production of the domestic article by about 25 per cent. The imported oil ordinarily forms about 65 per cent of the total used by the United States, where creosote is the most important wood preservative. The statistics gathered show that wood preservation is one of the most rapidly advancing industries in the country. In 1895 there were 15 plants in the United States; in 1914 there were 122 plants of all kinds, 100 being of the pressure cylinder type. Ninety-four of these plants last year used more than 79 million gallons of creosote oil, more than 27 million pounds of dry zinc chloride, and nearly 2½ million gallons of other preservatives, such as coal tar and crude oil, treating a total of nearly 160 million cubic feet of timber; an increase of about 7 million cubic feet over 1913, and of 35 million cubic feet over 1912. The most important consumers are the large plants in which railroad ties are treated. The preservatives materially lengthen the ties period of service, lessen the labor cost involved by renewal, and decrease the drain upon the forests due to tie cutting. To some extent the treatment of fence posts and other forms of farm timber is being taken up, an inexpensive apparatus man who is backward in loading or unloading the freight car he has ordered contributes just that much to increase the shortage throughout the country, from which the farmer is likely to suffer more than any other business man. If the farmer is willing to waive all concessions made in his favor, he is in a better position to demand the abolition of all concessions made in favor of others. This, the bulletin points out, is the best way of minimizing car detention and the evils that arise from it. At the present time a code of national car demurrage rules is applied on interstate business throughout practically the entire United States and on intrastate business in 24 of the states. In its broadest outlines this code entitles the railroads to collect from shippers $1 a day for each car that they keep waiting after the lapse of a certain specified free time. Ever since the railroads first began in 1887 to collect demurrage this charge has met with considerable opposition from business interests throughout the country. As a matter of fact (says the bulletin, it is the business interests that benefit the most by it). The railroads would gladly forego the insignificant revenue that this charge brings in to them if they could obtain in return the immediate release of their cars. From the shipper's point of view the unnecessary detention of one car by one man helps to increase the difficulty that all the others experience in securing proper transportation facilities. From this point of view, therefore, the demurrage charge is really a fine imposed by the community for its own protection against business selfishness. In the great majority of instances in which cars are not loaded promptly the delay arises simply from the ensis of the University Professor George. The woman who owns home may child hygiene to and teaching her or cookery, or the furnishing and design, or house and practical man including labor methods, the wise family wardrobe, and values, etc. The engineer or gaged in banking to the practice of professional courter fields. The social workds of vocational er Bloomfield, ditional bureau in originator of this ment; or study th trial hygiene, or with the feeble lems of poverty, o F. Snow, secretary Social Hygiene A Mazeyck P. Ravenventive Medicine Missouri, the pub and the education social problems o Those who are playground moveml training for t department of physi is to have some courses for gymnss ground workers, etc. There will be c by Merle Thorpe, lism in the Univer conducted very s the summer sessi cubic feet of timber; an increase of about 7 million cubic feet over 1913, and of 35 million cubic feet over 1912. The most important consumers are the large plants in which railroad ties are treated. The preservatives materially lengthen the ties period of service, lessen the labor cost involved by renewal, and decrease the drain upon the forests due to tie cutting. To some extent the treatment of fence posts and other forms of farm timber is being taken up, an inexpensive apparatus and method having been devised by the department of agriculture; but as yet the use of wood preservatives by farmers is on too small a scale to have any importance in the total, while the practice of treating telephone poles is in its incipiency in this country. With the rapid advance of this industry as a whole, the choice of preservatives has been fairly well established, but the kinds and classes of materials to be treated need development along certain lines. In Germany and other European countries practically all cross ties laid by the railroads are treated with chemicals or preserving oils. In this country but 30 per cent of the ties purchased by the railroads are subjected to such treatment. The number of poles treated in this country is a very small per cent of the total in use. IMPORTANCE OF LIBAU Libau, recently captured by the German invaders of the Russian Baltic provinces, is one of the important naval and commercial ports of the Czar's kingdom and a city whose rapid growth during the last few years has given a good view of the remarkable future in store for the mighty Muscovite Empire. It forms the subject of the study in war geography issued by the National Geographic Society. The sketch of this prosperous port, as yet little known to Americans, is as follows: Libau is one of the first of Russia's naval bases, a strongly fortified port and a well supplied arsenal. The Russian government completed the extensive and powerful defensive works that inclose the port during 1893-1906. The naval harbor is north of the commercial harbor, though the fortifications were planned to include both harbors. The port is prepared to build, equip and commission naval fleets. The annual exports of Libau total COULDN'T GO TO COLLEGE? COME NOW IS INVITATION "If I'd only had a chance to go to college!" says many a man. But now the University of California is giving people who can't go to college for four years a chance to go to college for six weeks, and for those six weeks live the life and do their cars. From the shipper's point of view the unnecessary detention of one car by one man helps to increase the difficulty that all the others experience in securing proper transportation facilities. From this point of view, therefore, the demurrage charge is really a fine imposed by the community for its own protection against business selfishness. In the great majority of instances in which cars are not unloaded promptly the delay arises simply from the fact that the shipper is deliberately using the freight car as a storage warehouse. The economic waste in this is obvious. The ordinary storage warehouse does not have to be equipped with automatic couplers and air brakes, for somebody has to pay and which earn nothing while they are lying idle. If, therefore, shippers persist in wasting the earning capacity of this valuable equipment, they should be made to pay for the waste themselves and not pass the burden on to the rest of the community. As has been said, it is usually possible to load and unload a car within a reasonable time, and there is no reason why the whole community should pay the storage bills for any one individual shipper. The farmer, who of course, ships much more than he receives, is interested in the matter, because a freight car can not be used as a warehouse and as a means of transportation at the same time. If it is held up on a sliding until it suits the convenience of the man to whom it has been consigned to unload his goods, it is not available for the transportation of perishable produce from the farms. For this reason the bulletin favors demurrage charges so high that the use of freight cars for storage purposes will be clearly unprofitable. Such a condition of affairs, it says, will materially reduce the ground for complaints of shortage in cars. Obviously however, if the farmer is to benefit in this way he must do his part by refraining from expecting special concessions in the loading of cars. TERRIBLED No missile used on land is more obliquely shrapnel, according to Ian Boy. The ship from an ordinary shell contains balls, each a half inch in diameter anywhere in university summer s Libau is one of the first of Russia's naval bases, a strongly fortified port and a well supplied arsenal. The Russian government completed the extensive and powerful defensive works that inclose the port during 1893-1906. The naval harbor is north of the commercial harbor, though the fortifications were planned to include both harbors. The port is prepared to build, equip and commission naval fleets. The annual exports of Libau total as high as $30,000,000, while its imports have soared to well beyond $10,000,000. The leading articles of export are oats, wheat, rye, butter, eggs, spirits, flax, linseed, oil cake, pork, timber, horses and petroleum. A great part of the vast golden tonnage of butter from Siberia and nearer interior that takes its way into Great Britain, France and Germany during times of peace went through Libau. Millions of lodders have been expended in the harbor development of the city and just before the outbreak of the war the government had under consideration plans for expanding millions more for extensive improvements. The railway connections of Libau are good, Moscow, Petrograd, Orel and Kharkov being bond to the puort by adequate railways. CAR DEMURRAGE Because a shortage of freight cars may, at certain seasons, mean to the farmer a total loss of his year's labor, the importance of insisting upon more stringent regulations to prevent the unnecessary detention of cars by shippers is pointed out in a new publication of the department of agriculture. Bulletin 191, Demurrage Information for Farmers. At the present time some of the state demurrage codes contain provisions apparently designed to give the farmer special concessions. Such privileges, says the bulletin are far from being a real advantage. The COULDN'T GO TO COLLEGE? COME NOW IS INVITATION "If I'd only had a chance to go to college!" says many a man. But now the University of California is giving people who can't go to college for four years a chance to go to college for six weeks, and for those six weeks live the life and do the work of a regular student. Of the three thousand or more students who will be at Berkeley from June 21 to July 31 for the next summer session, one-fifth will be college graduates returning for more study, perhaps a third will have had some University work, and the rest will be men and women of mature years who come to see for themselves just what going to college means and who are made welcome with no questions whatever as to their previous preparations. All ages will be represented, from fifteen to eighty, and all manner of occupations, for the University of California tries to give to every summer session student what will be the greatest possible personal usefulness in his own life work. Teachers, for instance, by attending courses in their own particular specialties, may bring themselves abreast of the times through instruction from men of distinguished reputation, from the faculty of the university or from other leading American universities. Thus, for example, teachers of history may take a course in American history which will be given jointly by Professor Frederick J. Turner of Harvard; Dr. J. Franklin Jameson, managing editor of the American Historical Review and director of the department of historical research of the Carnegie Institution, and Professor Max Farrand of Yale, or else a course in European history given jointly by Professor Charles H. Haskins of Harvard, Professor H. Morse Steph- ANAHEIM GAZETTE ens of the University of California and Professor George L. Burr of Cornell. The woman whose career is in her own home may study psychology or child hygiene to help her in rearing and teaching her children, or textiles, or cookery, or the principles of home furnishing and decoration, or costume design, or housewifery, the scientific and practical management of the home including labor saving devices and methods, the wise purchasing of the family wardrobe, tests for qualities and values, etc. The engineer or the young man engaged in banking or looking forward to the practice of the law may take professional courses in their particular fields. The social worker may study methods of vocational guidance under Meyer Bloomfield, director of the vocational bureau in Boston, really the originator of this important new movement; or study the problems of industrial hygiene, or methods for dealing with the feeble-minded, or the problems of poverty, or under Dr. William F. Snow, secretary of the American Social Hygiene Association, and Dr. Mazyck P. Ravenel, Professor of Preventive Medicine in the University of Missouri, the public health movement and the educational, commercial, and social problems of social hygiene. Those who are interested in the playground movement may have special training for this work in the department of physical education—which is to have some thirty different courses for gymnasium teachers, playground workers, athletic directors, etc. There will be courses in journalism by Merle Thorpe, professor of journalism in the University of Kansas, who conducted very successful courses in the summer session last summer, and object say that they will not run because they cannot. It is presumably the same in all other states, and it is certainly the case with the cane sugar growers of Louisiana, whose sugar costs more than beet sugar. But that will not help the consumer in the least. While with all forms of sugar as they now are, the beet sugar factories cannot run without protection, with the millions of tons of domestic sugar withdrawn the refiners will be able to get the same old prices and pocket the profits. For years the Refiner's Trust which has been characterized by the department of justice as having practiced "a long continued system of defrauding the government of unparalleled depravity," has been striving to put best sugar producers out of business. At last, by the aid of congress, it has done the trick, and not only has it not profited the consumer by one cent, but when the war exigency came these same refiners would sell only at the most extortionate prices, and are endeavoring to do so still. That which this most villainous trust has done before it will certainly continue to do whenever it is possible. The one possibility of preventing extortion was in the beet sugar industry. Under the fostering policies of the Republican party, the sugar industry had advanced to a point where it supplied nearly one-half the sugar used in this country. Now the industry is facing utter ruin. And if the consumer has had any advantage therefrom, we would like to have it pointed out to us. The war has clouded many issues; its unexpected advent has resulted in abnormal conditions in all lines of trade. But the war may be ended one Commercial Hotel FIRST-CLASS DINING ROOM AND BAR Handsomely Furnished Rooms Everything neat and clean A home for the Traveling Public A trial will convince JOHN ZIEGLER.Manager Spineless Cactus I will plant your acreage or lots to the choice varieties of SPINELESS CACTUS, without any immediate cost outlay on your part, if your property is free and clear. Write for particulars, CACTUS GROWER Box 7, Newport Beach, California surety company, the creditor knowing that Trounce & Stoecker have no more money coming from the county. EXPANDING TRADE RESULT OF WAR North and South America Coming Together for Increased Business "The most remarkable fact affecting the Western Hemisphere which has developed by the European war is the impetus which it has given to practical Pan-Americanism," said John Barrett, director general of the Pan- Those who are interested in the playground movement may have special training for this work in the department of physical education—which is to have some thirty different courses for gymnasium teachers, playground workers, athletic directors, etc. There will be courses in journalism by Merle Thorpe, professor of journalism in the University of Kansas, who conducted very successful courses in the summer session last summer, and by J. Melvin Lee of New York. The farmer or the horticultural inspector, or the man who looks forward toward farming or agricultural teaching as a career, may choose between a wide variety of courses. A large proportion of the thousands of summer session students are particularly interested in instruction in literature, music or art. For these there will be a large corps of well known composers and teachers. The instruction in art will this year be of particular interest, since the summer session students may profit by the study of the ten thousand paintings and the thousands of pieces of sculpture now on display at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The annual summer session of the university has now come to be the largest in enrollment in America. For this three reasons are primarily responsible, the extraordinary diversity of the courses, which include something that will meet every human being's interest and needs; the distinction of the faculty, which is drawn not only from the university itself, but from other leading universities and particularly important, the fact that Berkeley has a cool and delightful summer climate Since San Francisco is distant only half an hour with a ten cent fare, the opportunity of combining summer session studies with a visit to the exposition will doubtless draw to Berkeley such an attendance as has never before gathered anywhere in America for a university summer session. TERRIBLE SHRAPNEL No missile used in modern warfare on land is more deadly than the terrible shrapnel, according to the American Boy. The shrapnel shell is fired from an ordinary fieldpiece. The shell contains about 260 small balls, each a half inch in diameter. It has a time fuse, which is so set that Under the restering policies of the Republican party, the sugar industry had advanced to a point where it supplied nearly one-half the sugar used in this country. Now the industry is facing utter ruin. And if the consumer has had any advantage therefrom, we would like to have it pointed out to us. The war has clouded many issues; its unexpected advent has resulted in abnormal conditions in all lines of trade. But the war may be ended one of these days as unexpectedly as it started; this side of the world and edge of the continent is a poor place from which to comment on the secrets of European courts and utter prophecies. And then we will be getting along in the same old normal way; and if we are going to have any luck at it we must have the reasonable protection that will enable home industries to live.—Bay City (Mich.) National Farmer. THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS The little humming bird can do better than the aeroplane, for in its migrations across the Gulf of Mexico it flies over 500 miles in a single night. Nearly all birds, in fact, show in their soaring and sailing that they are proficient in the use of several factors in the art of flying that have not yet been mastered either in principle or practice by the most skillful of modern aviators. A vulture or a crane, after a few preliminary wing beats, sets its wings and mounts in wide sweeping circles to a great height, overcoming gravity with no exertion apparent to human vision even when assisted by the most powerful telescopes. There is an aerial machine for more economical of energy than the best aeroplane invented, and that is the bird known as the golden plover. This bird can fly 2,400 miles without a stop, making the trip in not quite 48 hours, and using only two ounces of fuel in the shape of body fat. A thousand pound aeroplane, if as economical of fuel, would consume in a 20-mile flight not the gallon of gasoline required by the best machines but only a single pint. The fact that the screw propeller of the aeroplane has no lost motion while she to and fro motion of the bird's wings apears to be an uneconomical way of applying power makes the fact regarding fuel seem more strange. EXPANDING TRADE RESULT OF WAR North and South America Coming Together for Increased Business "The most remarkable fact affecting the Western Hemisphere which has developed by the European war is the impetus which it has given to practical Pan-Americanism," said John Barrett, director general of the Pan-American union, in an address before the Lake Mohonk conference on International arbitration. "The war has done more than any other political influence, since the declaration of the Monroe Doctrine in 1832, to promote Pan American solidarity and emphasize the importance of the common interests of the Western republic," he said. "There never has been heretofore a time when the press and people of both North and South America have been saying so many kind things of each other as they are doing at this hour, and there never was a time when the Latin-American governments and peoples were so ready, as they are now, to co-operate with the United States for the development of closer commercial and political ties. "In this growth of Pan-Americanism there looms high the possibilities of a united America, using its influence for peace in Europe. The nations of the Old World cannot fall to be impressed with the fact that all of the republics of the New World are at peace with one another and are doing everything in their power to preserve that condition. It is, therefore, altogether possible and feasible that not alone the United States but the United States having the cooperation of the other twenty American republics, or a group of them, shall be able yet to respond favorable to an appeal that might be made from the Old World to arbitrate or settle its differences." OVER MILLION DOLLARS IN COUNTY TAXES Delinquents This Year More Than 50 Per Cent Above Figures of Last Year Tax Collector Lamb has pust completed the collection of the year's taxes. His office has taken in since tax collections commenced last fall TERRIBLE SHRAPNEL No missile used in modern warfare on land is more deadly than the terrible shrapnel, according to the American Boy. The shrapnel shell is fired from an ordinary fieldpiece. The shell contains about 260 small balls, each a half inch in diameter. It has a time fuse, which is so set that the shrapnel will burst above and a little in front of the enemy's line. When the shell bursts the small balls strike down with terrible force, devastating all beneath it. The descending bullets fall over a space less than 200 yards in length and some 25 feet in width. The bursting charge is generally of black powder, so that the point of bursting may be noted and the setting of the time fuses corrected. Until recently the effective range of shrapnel fired from the 2.95-inch field guns of the United States army was regarded as not over 3500 yards. The shrapnel used by the Germans and allies has proved deadly at a range of 6000 yards. SUGAR INDUSTRY FACES UTTER RUIN Unless a Protective Tariff Is Restored The Growing of American Sugar Beets Must Stop The department of agriculture announces that in 1914 there were produced in this country 722,054 tons of refined beet sugar, and it is a matter of common knowledge that, owing to war conditions and the fact that sugar does not go on the free list until next spring, the acreage for 1915 will probably be larger than ever before. And there it will stop. There is no beet sugar factory in this state which expects to run next year, and all which have made any statement on the sub- PATTERSON HAD A BEAUTIFUL THIRST Claims that W. L. Patterson, former superintendent of the Los Angeles Athletic club, was one of the best if not the best customer at the club's bar, are made in a suit filed in the Los Angeles courts against the United States Fidelity and Guaranty company. The company was surety for Patterson and was sued by the club for $3971.92. This, according to the club's attorney, represents the total value of the merchandise obtained by Patterson at the club's liquid dispensary "on tick." Lister in the complaint are 637 cocktails, 351 pints of beer, 442 gin fizzes, 884 glasssq of Lithia water, 4683 cigars, 291 pints of whiskey, 154 quarts of the same, 146 bottles of table water, 97 boxes of cigarets, 97 boxes of candy and 132 pints of champagne. The club declares it has been unable to get an accounting from Patterson. ANOTHER CLAIM The West Coast Engineering company of Los Angeles has filed with the supervisors a claim of $976.50 against Trounce & Stoecker, the San Diego contractors who threw up their contract to build the Olive bridge. That contract is now in the hands of the contractor's sureties. The claim is filed with the county so that the creditor can maintain its claim against the shape of body fat. A thousand pound aeroplane, if as economical of fuel, would consume in a 20-mile flight not the gallon of gasoline required by the best machines but only a single pint. The fact that the screw propeller of the aeroplane has no lost motion while the to and fro motion of the bird’s wings apepars to be an uneconomical way of applying power makes the fact regarding fuel seem more strange. Tax Collector Lamb has put completed the collection of the year's taxes. His office has taken in since tax collections commenced last fall $1,099,000. Of that amount $454,762.03 goes to schools and less than $400,000 for purposes in the hands of the board of supervisors. The tax collector of the county is also tax collector for three cities, Fullerton, Stanton and Huntington Beach, whose money is included in the total. That also includes money raised for the drainage, protection, lighting and library district. The biggest item of the tax money is the school. In this year's taxes now paid, in is $325,817.07 for special school taxes, while $128,944 for schools comes out of the twenty-seven cent levy in the yearly tax rate, $1.05 inside cities and $1.45 outside cities. By the county tax rate of $1.05 and $1.45 there has been raised this year $633,265.49. Some allowance must be made for delinquent taxes, which this year are over fifty per cent greater than they were a year ago, when the total delinquency was $11,375.76. This year the delinquencies reach $17,947.99. The United States Department of Agriculture's biologist advises farmers by all means to encourage the robbin and the bluebird, considering that they will more than compensate for occasional depredations by the assistance rendered in killing undesirable insects and that they can be pretty effectually kept from eating valuable fruits if they are provided with a supply of wild ones for winter diet when insect food is scarce. 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