anaheim-gazette 1916-02-03

MOVEMENT AFOOT FOR ADEQUATE PROTECTION DELEGATES ASSEMBLE AT MOTHER COLONY CLUB ROOMS AND DISCUSS MOMENTOUS QUESTION BOTH SIDES OF THE RIVER TO BE TAKEN IN PROPOSED DISTRICT—COST $800,000 The opening gun in a campaign to obtain protection against floods from the Santa Ana river was fired in Anaheim Tuesday afternoon when about twenty-five ranchers met with a committee of seven appointed by the Anaheim Board of Trade to discuss the matter of a protection district and to outline a method of effectually curbing the Santa Ana's future antics. The meeting was held in the Mother Colony club at two o'clock. The ranchers wasted no time in getting down to business and a sober analysis of the situation that confronts them. As a result some definite moves were mapped out and the project will be pushed with energy. The protection district was outlined, plans were drawn up for river control and the manner of meeting the expense was decided on. A portection district extending from Yorba at the mouth of the Santa Ana canyon to meet the Newbert protection wall at the West Fifth street bridge near Santa Ana, is the idea of the decides to keep going for another year, making a two years' continuous performance. Ample funds have been subscribed to insure success. The San Diegans plan some marked improvements for 1916. Many important foreign exhibits will be moved down from San Francisco, including the Canadian, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Spanish, Swiss, German and Austrian. It is probable that India, Persia and Turkey will be added. Exhibits of the California counties have been secured, and a number of Zone attractions. The Santa Fe's Painted Desert Indian village will also remain. A large attendance is expected from the East, particularly during the summer season, when the perfect climate of San Diego is at its best. Patriotic Americans who were unable to visit the far west during 1915 should not fail to include the San Diego exposition in their vacation itinerary for 1916. STRENUOUS DAYS FOR THE NEWSPAPER MEN Have Thrilling Experiences Getting Through to Isolated Towns Los Angeles newspapers were delivered in this section last week under great difficulties. J. W. Berry and P. E. Dustin as driver had a day of thrills Friday getting papers to Orange county points. They were turned back several times but got the papers through soon after noon. They left Los Angeles a little after 2 o'clock in the morning with a truck piled high with copies of The Times. They were stalled two hours between Anaheim and Fullerton and were unable to proceed in this direction. They detoured to Garden Grove. There the water was so high it flowed over the truck, flooded the carburetor Russia in Europe Russia in Asia Denmark Norway Argentina Greece Spain The total export by $1,409,000,000. There’s money in for Uncle Sam. He vember had a value $126,000,000 more than of last year. AMERICA CAN E The destiny that new freedom after is painted alluring Post Dispatch. We says the Post Dispatch a matter as the inmates by the cheap eign lands. All that the mouth-filling great constructive we must get real goods in new volu But this does not close the factories fore been supplying markets in the United. “On the conde. “On the conde we must become eign manufactures in the world.” Here, indeed, is American manuf earner who cannot ant, coolie or peo new freedom.” jobber and dispose dise in Terre del tamia. He can apply a “master of com acy.” He can swell fectly good theories you can set to mus As a result some definite moves were mapped out and the project will be pushed with energy. The protection district was outlined, plans were drawn up for river control and the manner of meeting the expense was decided on. A portection district extending from Yorba at the mouth of the Santa Ana canyon to meet the Newbert protection wall at the West Fifth street bridge near Santa Ana, is the idea of the ranchers. The cost of the project is estimated at $800,000 for the ten miles of river covered in the plan. The district would include in the neighborhood of 70,000 acres west of the river, with only about 5000 acres on the east side. The expense would be met by voting bonds to cover a period of ten years and the entire cost is estimated at not to exceed $10 per acre. The matter of river control was met by a plan that looks thoroughly practical. It is to mark a channel 300 feet wide in the center of the river bed and to dredge down to a depth of seven feet, then bolster up each side with piling driven ten feet apart and connected by a wire fence. On each side of the channel the plan is to construct a flat bench 150 feet wide. Along the outer edge of the benches will be a dyke or wall, eight feet high and measuring 200 feet at the base with the sides sloping gradually so that the top measurement would be 150 feet. The tops of the dykes would be oiled and prepared for traffic as they would be used as roadways in patrolling or doing any necessary work along the river. The benches on either side of the channel would be planted to willows to check any over flow current, keep it from eating at the dykes and deflect it back into the channel. Under the measurements of the various portions of the plan, it would be possible to control a stream nearly 700 feet wide and with a depth, half that distance, of 15 feet and the other half 8 feet. At this meeting committees of two from each district were appointed to meet at the same place the following day and consult with engineers of the Southern Pacific, Pacific Electric, Santa Fe and the county as to the practicability of their plan for river control or to receive any suggestions for improvement or other changes that the engineers may advance. The ranchers intend to launch a campaign of education on the project throughout the various districts and rush matters through as rapidly as possible county points. They were turned back several times but got the papers through soon after noon. They left Los Angeles a little after 2 o'clock in the morning with a truck piled high with copies of The Times. They were stalled two hours between Anaheim and Fullerton and were unable to proceed in this direction. They detoured to Garden Grove. There the water was so high it flowed over the truck, flooded the carburetor and killed the engine. The truck was turned around by the force of the waters and swept some distance down the block. Mr. Berry then secured a horse and wagon, piled the papers on it and succeeded in getting within two and a half miles of Santa Ana on Fifth street. There with flood waters boiling ahead of him, he chartered a big touring car and tried to get through. Telegraph poles, railroad ties, fence rails and other debris were being swirled in the torrent about him. He saw a grocery store and a dwelling house swept away. He saw a horse and buggy with two occupants overturned. The horse kicked himself free and swam away. One of the men disappeared, the other floated down to a submerged barn, where he apparently found shelter. They could not see the other one and were unable to go to his rescue. Blocked in this direction Mr. Berry came back again to Garden Grove and Anaheim. He then investigated the remnants of a railroad bridge over the Santa Ana. The structure was gone and the sagging rails hung precariously over a river. A helper carried a wire over the dizzy, swaying rail and men on the other side pulled the car over. OUR BEST CUSTOMERS Our exports for ten months ended October, 1915, totaled a value of $2,800,515,448, an increase of $1,198,401,-298 over the corresponding period of 1914. Our best customers were: United Kingdom ... $961,383,612 France ... 401,784,756 Canada ... 276,394,628 Italy ... 222,196,262 Netherland ... 126,846,410 Russia in Europe ... 84,617,480 Cuba ... 72,492,054 Sweden ... 72,840,438 Denmark ... 62,754,304 Here, indeed, is American manufacturer earner who cannot afford coolie or peacock "new freedom." Jobber and dispose of disin Terre del tamia. He can apply "master of commerce." He can swellfectly good theory you can set to music he is unable to buy can feed himself an inficient program of sounds a whole lot thing that ever hither ever will happen. The war has beenness for the wordington and New Utica confines their wings of imagination ing the empyrean. But when the wustrial and politician have become intoxic prospectuses will come with a dull, sickenbe face to face with temporary abandon industry by Europe mean a permanent markets of the world be reminded that prosperity that has crazy is just as peril and no more so. casion to realize back here in the American condition problems to meet tical way, and that will not do the be meeting again prevailed in the T to the European of 1914. They will after all, has not bury by the war any molutionized by anyone it's the same old with competition in foreign markets creased, by tha ment of the mass and the necessity product of their A little less ima more horse sense national "leaders," litical financiers, ders, and some who dwell in a wo facts. from each district were appointed to meet at the same place the following day and consult with engineers of the Southern Pacific, Pacific Electric, Santa Fe and the county as to the practicability of their plan for river control or to receive any suggestions for improvement or other changes that the engineers may advance. The ranchers intend to launch a campaign of education on the project throughout the various districts and rush matters through as rapidly as possible. Ranchers from the east side are of the opinion that the west side is doing the right thing by letting the east side ranchers in with them on the project and walling both sides of the river considering that the great bulk of the acreage is on the west side of the river. Further the west side is now united on the proposition and will go ahead with fortifying their side, a move that would certainly force the east side to follow suit or get all the flood water that formerly went on both sides. A separate attempt to control the river would naturally cost much more than the combined forces of both sides. The board of trade committee was composed of Charles Eygabroad, E. Borchert, Wm. Stark, E. N. Cook, John Reuther, John Kellenberger and F. N. Gibbs. SAN DIEGO FAIR The Panama California Exposition at San Diego will be continued during 1916, with a number of new features. California has set the pace in worlds fairs. Up to 1915 nobody thought it possible to hold more than one exposition at a time; California had two, at San Francisco and San Diego. Hitherto the time limit was late spring, summer and early fall; the San Francisco big show ran about ten months and San Diego a full twelve months. Now the latter city boldly... ANAHEIM GAZETTE—THURSDAY, FEB. 3 Russia in Europe ... 63,000,000 Russia in Asia ... 28,000,000 Denmark ... 42,000,000 Norway ... 25,000,000 Argentina ... 18,000,000 Greece ... 18,000,000 Spain ... 15,000,000 The total exports exceeded imports by $1,409,000,000. There's money in that big business for Uncle Sam. His exports in November had a value of $331,144,527, or $126,000,000 more than for November of last year. AMERICA CAN BECOME JOBBER The destiny that awaits us under the new freedom after the European war is painted alluringly by the St. Louis Post Dispatch. We should not worry, says the Post Dispatch, over so small a matter as the invasion of our markets by the cheap labor output of foreign lands. All that is disposed of by the mouth-filling phrase entitled "a great constructive program." We must get ready to take foreign goods in new volumes and amounts. But this does not mean, that we must close the factories which have heretofore been supplying this demand for markets in the United States. No indeed. "On the contrary, it means that we must become the jobbers of foreign manufactures in the markets of the world." Here, indeed, is consolation for the American manufacturer and wage earner who cannot compete with peasant, coolie or peon labor under the "new freedom." He can become a jobber and dispose of foreign merchandise in Terre del Fuego and Mesopotamia. He can apply for a position as a "master of competitive supremacy." He can swell himself up on perfectly good theories and phrases that you can set to music and tango by. If prospect that their domestic competitors may be allowed to continue in business, have adopted a new line of campaign. By this ingenious project they hope to encompass the destruction of American sugar production and to realize the extra profits that they would have received under a regime of free sugar. During their earlier campaign the taxation of sugar in any form was an abomination in their eyes—a crime against the consumer. Now they boldly advocate the taxation of sugar and the imposition of the tax in such form that its full incidence will descend with unabated force upon the consumer. They urge upon Congress the adoption of a form of taxation such as never has been applied in this country to an essential food product, except under the severest financial stress of war. They propose this in the form of a consumption tax, an excise tax, a producers' tax, as it is variously called—at any rate a tax to be levied upon every purchaser of a pound of sugar and to be paid by him and him alone. There are taxes comparable to this at the present time. They are levied upon whiskey, beer, tobacco and similar articles. In all these cases the purpose behind the taxation is not only to raise revenue but also to discourage or limit the consumption of commodities that are regarded as luxuries or worse. Is there any reason for doing this in the case of sugar, for stigmatizing it as the other products named are stigmatized? To adopt the proposal advanced by the refiners who are advocating this plan for their own selfish ends would be to enter a new field of taxation in direct opposition to the historic policy of the United States. If sugar is to be made the subject of an excise tax the next step logically would be to place similar taxes on flour, meat, tenance of automobiles. In this state alone the consumption of the motor fuel is so enormous that the refineries have been taxed to the limit to produce a supply sufficient to meet the needs of autoists. Lubricating oils produced here and having an asphalt base also are in demand throughout the country. The superiority of the lubricants with asphalt base over other oils has created a market for these products practically within the past two or three years. RARE CHINESE FRUIT MAY BE RAISED HERE Jujube Will be Given a Test in Southern California Many new fruits, flowers, vegetables and trees, believed adaptable to the United States, have been gathered during a three-year expedition in China just concluded by Frank N. Meyer, plant explorer of the department of agriculture. Mr. Meyer went through Central China, 1500 miles on foot, to th eborders of Tibet, touching some regions never before visited by a white man. The most important discovery, probably, was the Jujube tree, which bears a heavy crop of brownish fruit, delicious when fresh and forming when dried a confection similar to the Persian date. Officials believe it offers a new industry to California and the southwest. Mr. Meyer discovered a wild peach, resistant to alkali, cold and drought, the root system of which offers great possibilities as a grafting post; Chinese persimmons larger than any hitherto known in this country; aquatic food roots and vegetables offering promising possibilities for the utilization of swamp lands; about thirty varieties of vegetable and timber Here, indeed, is consolation for the American manufacturer and wage earner who cannot compete with peasant, coolie or peon labor under the "new freedom." He can become a jobber and dispose of foreign merchandise in Terre del Fuego and Mesopotamia. He can apply for a position as a "master of competitive supremacy." He can swell himself up on perfectly good theories and phrases that you can set to music and tango by. If he is unable to buy a meal ticket, he can feed himself and family on a magnificent program of world trade that sounds a whole lot better than anything that ever happened, or maybe ever will happen. The war has certainly made business for the word wizards of Washington and New York. "No pent up Utica confines their powers." On the wings of imagination they are cleaving the empirean. But when the war is over these industrial and political statesmen who have become intoxicated on their own prospectuses will come down to earth with a dull, sickening thud. They will be face to face with the fact that the temporary abandonment of peaceful industry by European powers doesn't mean a permanent vacation of the markets of the world. They will rudely be reminded that this frenzied war prosperity that has set Wall street crazy is just as permanent as the war and no more so. They will have occasion to realize that they are right back here in the United States, with American conditions and American problems to meet and solve in a practical way, and that mere word painting will not do the business. They will be meeting again the conditions which prevailed in the United States prior to the European war, in midsummer of 1914. They will find that the world after all, has not been made over again by the war any more than it was revolutionized by any previous war; that it's the same old business-like world, with competition in our markets and in foreign markets intensified, not decreased, by the further impoverishment of the masses in foreign lands, and the necessity of converting the product of their labor into cash. A little less imagination and a little more horse sense wouldn't hurt some national "leaders," some frenzied political financiers, drunk on war orders, and some romantic journalists who dwell in a world of words, not of facts. To adopt the proposal advanced by the refiners who are advocating this plan for their own selfish ends would be to enter a new field of taxation in direct opposition to the historic policy of the United States. If sugar is to be made the subject of an excise tax the next step logically would be to place similar taxes on flour, meat, shoes, clothing and ultimately upon the whole line of necessary articles of daily use. Such taxation would grow to an intolerable burden and would possess no compensating benefits of encouragement to American industry. It is not to be expected that Congress will give serious attention to such an un-American device of taxation, but the clamor with which the project is being urged by the representatives of the refiners testifies eloquently to their animosity toward the home sugar industry and to the greed which inspires their hope of destroying that industry for sake of the extra profits such a calamity would bring to their own pockets. NEW PROSPERITY ERA FOR OIL MEN That a new era of prosperity is opening before the oil industry of California is the opinion of prominent operators throughout the state. Recovering from the depression that seriously affected the industry following the commencement of hostilities in Europe the oil situation improved wonderfully during the last six months of 1915, shipments reaching an average of more than 8,000,000 barrels monthly. At the same production was being maintained along practically the same lines as formerly with the result that it was necessary to draw upon the oil stock stored through the state. Coincident with this regaining of market strength came a rise in the price of both crude and refined products. The demand for California petroleum products is fast becoming world wide and tremendous in its scope. During the past year heavy shipments of gasoline have been made to European countries and the returns from this trade have been most gratifying. California oil companies, however have opened markets in the Pacific doing this in the case of sugar, for stigmatizing it as the other products named are stigmatized? Mr. Meyer discovered a wild peach, resistant to alkali, cold and drought, the root system of which offers great possibilities as a grafting post; Chinese persimmons larger than any hitherto known in this country; aquatic food roots and vegetables offering promising possibilities for the utilization of swamp lands; about thirty varieties of vegetable and timber bamboos, and a number of Chinese vegetables, bush and climber roses, shrubs and roses. In a hitherto unvisited valley in Tibet he found a hazel tree 100 feet high, a surprising departure from the hazel bush. Elsewhere English walnuts were discovered in a wild state. Discovery of the wild peach is regarded as idicating that the peach may have been a native of China, rather than Persia, and the presence of native and hardy oranges and otehr citrus fruits gave added evidence that China was the home of the orange. Many other plants commonly ascribed to other countries, such as the wistaria, chrysthemum, lilac, azalea and certain peonies and rambler roses have been developed by the Chinese, although because they reach Caucasian use through other nearby nations, their Chinese origin often has been over-looked. SAN DIEGO COUNTY STRICKEN HARD BY FLOOD Sixty-Five Persons Drowned by Bursting of a Reservoir Loss of life in the floods of the past two weeks was reported from various sections, but San Diego was the worst stricken in this respect. The bursting of a dam Thursday turned loose eleven billion gallons of water confined in the Otay reservoir, which swept the fertile valley, carrying everything before it into the bay. Sixty-five deaths are reported, many of the bodies being carved out to sea and picked up by vessels in the harbor. Marines from the battleship Oregon and the cruisers Milwaukee and with competition in our markets and in foreign markets intensified, not decreased, by the further impoverishment of the masses in foreign lands, and the necessity of converting the product of their labor into cash. A little less imagination and a little more horse sense wouldn't hurt some national "leaders," some frenzied political financiers, drunk on war orders, and some romantic journalists who dwell in a world of words, not of facts. AN ATTEMPT TO DESTROY AN AMERICAN INDUSTRY The adoption of the free sugar clause of the Underwood tariff law marked the culmination of a long campaign for the free importation of foreign grown sugar. This campaign was instigated, organized, conducted and paid for by certain refiners of sugar located in and about New York. Their interest in the matter was twofold. Paractically all of the sugar they handled was grown in foreign countries and they naturally wished to get their raw material as cheaply as possible. Moreover, they faced a steadily increasing competition from sugar grown and made in the United States and turned out as a finished product ready for the table by the beet sugar factories of the country. Every pound of sugar produced by these factories meant one pound less from which the seaboard refiners could collect toll, and in the desire to crush this competition is found the real mainspring of the refiners' reports to bring about the removal of the tariff on imported sugar. Since the present administration advised the repeal of the free sugar clause of the Underwood law and the continuation of the duty on sugar, these same refiners, alarmed at the market strength came a rise in the price of both crude and refined products. The demand for California petroleum products is fast becoming world wide and tremendous in its scope. During the past year heavy shipments of gasoline have been made to European countries and the returns from this trade have been most gratifying. California oil companies, however have opened markets in the Pacific that have taxed the ability to supply the demand. To meet this new demand modern steel tank ships are being built as rapidly as possible. The Union Oil company launched a million dollar steamer last month and will christen another during February, while rumor has it that an entire new fleet of five or more tankers is contemplated by this company. These steamers will replace older vessels of smaller capacity and slower speed. The Royal Dutch-Shell company, that has lately expended upwards of $25,000,000 in developing its holdings in California, also has a fleet of eleven ships building or contracted for. All these will ply their trade in Pacific waters and carry California oil products to every point on the globe. The Standard Oil company of California, branch of the parent concern, also has five or six tankers under construction or contracted for. Other companies engaged in the marketing of oil will add at least five more steamers to their fleets as soon as possible and when the world's commerce opens once more California oil companies expect to be ready to claim their share of the business that will make unusual demands on the transportation facilities available. Among the factors that has tended to build up the oil industry here has been a tremendous edmand for gasoline and lubricants used in the main- Dodge Bros. and Hudson AUTOMOBILES Racine, Goodrich, U. S., and Goodyear' Tires Supplies and Repairing P. J. Weisel & Co. 137 8. Los Angeles St., Anaheim Dressing for the Party or other social affair need not cause you any worry if you have been wise enough to send your silk, satin or velvet slippers, your waist, etc., to us for dry cleaning. 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Mexican bandits began looting in the stricken valley, but found the atmosphere unhealthy. The Otay valley was turned into an armed camp. Marines and sailors from the three vessels patrolled all approaches and penetrated into the valley, with orders to shoot looters on sight. Each carried 20 rounds of ammunition. The marines under Capt. Charles T. Westcott, Jr., camped in the valley. The sailors under Ensign Hamilton O'Brien of the brick schoolhouse at Otay city. The Milwaukee took quarters in the lit-United States destroyer Lawrence act-as base ship and a hospital squad from the Milwaukee operated in conjunction with both forces. Another dam broke Sunday throwing three billion gallons of water into the San Diego river, causing much damage, but probably not adding to the death list. The Eagles and many of their friends enjoyed a fish dinner at the lodge banquet hall one evening recently. A fine mess of fish was caught at the Anaheim Landing and the boys decided to enjoy themselves by having a big "feed." The Arden—Outside rooms, 50 and 75 cents. Inside 25 cents.