anaheim-gazette 1916-03-23

GREAT LECTURER TALKS TO BIG AUDIENCE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE HEAR PETER COLLINS SPEAK ON SOCIAL REFORMS MONDAY NIGHT LOCAL TALENT ALSO CONTRIBUTES TO THE ENTERTAINMENT OF THE LARGE CROWD Although the weather was threatening and it was raining at intervals, high school auditorium was well filled Monday evening, to hear Peter Collins, the famous lecturer, deliver his address on "What's the Matter with the World." Mr. Collins was secured by the Knights of Columbus, and that order was indeed fortunate in landing him for a date in Anaheim. This was the only town between Los Angeles and San Diego able to get him as his time is fully occupied in the larger cities. There were other interesting things besides Mr. Collins' lecture. The program opened with a song by Miss Ruth Grim, and this was so well received that she was forced to sing again. In the encore she gave the audience "A Little Bit of Heaven." Frank Goodrich also contributed to the entertainment with a couple of recitations. He is an able elocutionist, and elicited much applause. In fact, he only expected to give one, but was channel which could be dredged to a depth of forty feet from the entrance into the harbor and extending as far as Newport and Port Orange. More over the character of the bottom is such that the work could be accomplished by means of a pneumatic dredger which is the cheapest and most practical form of harbor dredging. With such favorable information concerning the character of the bottom at their disposal the commission next proceeded to ascertain if a harbor thus made would stay dredged or whether as in many other instances would fill up with silt and sediment as fast as it was made. To determine this it was necessary to learn the speed of the bottom currents and ascertain if the area of the tidal prism was sufficient to keep the dredged portions of the bottom scoured automatically. By means of the current meter the speed of the current at varying stages of the tide was measured from the surface to the bottom and gave as a resultant a mean velocity of the current during the total time of each tide. On an average tide of 4 the current meter registered a speed of over 100 feet per minute at a depth of over 10 feet below the surface, upon which the same ratio would indicate a speed along the bottom which would be ample to serve as an effective wash to keep the bottom free from silt. With the Santa Ana river temporarily removed to its new channel into the ocean direct, the vast benefits that would accrue to this harbor can easily be seen were this river held permanently in its present course. A river carrying silt deposits is always a detrimental factor in harbor making. This is shown by the fact that the government has of late taken a stand which is adverse to giving aid for harbor development where a silt-car. WATER LETS CONTAIN WHEELER COUNTY GETS IN CALOKLA OIL LEASE ON 70 COMPA Four bids were ing and driving seventy-four pilots sum, Cal., by the ter company S duly seconded th Construction co-work to be don’tract to be drawn. Application of 60 feet of pipe open ditch in fr Placentia avenue agreed to pay to the superintendent. Request of Mr. Linda to purchase feet of 30 inch the superintendent. Mr. Crone of pany stated that like to get a lea water company’s shoe Bend. He of what the board ed to come prepare an offer. The bill of th There were other interesting things besides Mr. Collins' lecture. The program opened with a song by Miss Ruth Grim, and this was so well received that she was forced to sing again. In the encore she gave the audience "A Little Bit of Heaven." Frank Goodrich also contributed to the entertainment with a couple of recitations. He is an able elocutionist, and elicited much applause. In fact, he only expected to give one, but was forced to come back and recite another, which was as well received as the first. Miss Grim was accompanied on the plano by Miss Marle Rimpau. Miss Morgan of Fullerton, a teacher of music, rendered two selections on the violin, which captured the audience. She is a splendid musician, and her playing contributed much to the enjoyment of the evening. Peter Collins, the lecturer, is a social reformer and while he spoke under the auspices of the Knights of Columbus, there was nothing sectarian in his talk. He brought a message that all could appreciate and endorse. Christian democracy and social reform are the doctrines he preaches, and people of all sects and believers in all creeds, who hear him, are compelled to agree with his arguments. He is one of the most convincing speakers ever heard in Anaheim, and those who braved the threatening weather and went forth to hear him, were well repaid for their trouble. Mr. Collins was for years international secretary of the Electrical Workers brotherhood, also editor of the official journal of that association. He was a member of the Illinois Industrial commission which framed a number of laws for the improvement of the health, comfort and safety of working men. He has spoken to more than a million people in the United States and Canada since taking to the lecture platform, and has received the hearty indorsement of the press wherever he has been. He left here Tuesday for San Diego, at which place he delivered his next lecture. The Knights of Columbus are to be congratulated on having secured him for Anaheim. HARBOR COMMISION REPORT COMES SOON With the Santa Ana river temporarily removed to its new channel into the ocean direct, the vast benefits that would accrue to this harbor can easily be seen were this river held permanently in its present course. A river carrying silt deposits is always a detrimental factor in harbor making. This is shown by the fact that the government has of late taken a stand which is adverse to giving aid for harbor development where a silt-carrying river enters a bay. Whether or not the Santa Ana river will stay in its new outlet to the sea is a question upon which engineers are evenly divided. With proper direction and control there is no doubt that the detrimental effects of the river can be turned to great gain to this as well as other counties. Statistics show that the Santa Ana river breaks from its bounds once in every three and one-half years and does greater or less damage to the counties through which it flows. Great possibilities exist within the three counties of San Bernardino, Riverside and Orange for conservation of the waters of the Santa Ana by constructing great reservoirs along its banks at various places by means of which millions of wasted gallons of water could be saved annually to irrigate thousands of acres of arid lands that is now virgin soil. In this way the detrimental effects of the flood waters could be turned to good, reacting to the benefit of those whose lands it has heretofore damaged. And last but by no means least, by such conservation the river would be robbed of the major portion of its slit and sediment before reaching its outlet to the ocean and the project of Newport Harbor inestimably benefited thereby. HOT LANGUAGE FROM BENCH Strongly condemning any parent who puts a mere child upon the witness stand in a divorce case to testify against the other parent, Judge Thomas Monday afternoon refused to grant a divorce to Mrs. Mary Jane Davis of La Habra against Albert Henry Davis. "So far as calling each other names and creating suspicions, honors were about even in this case," said the judge, "and I am going to leave the couple just where they were. I will deny the divorce asked for by Mrs. Davis. I want to say that I do not in HARBOR COMMISSION REPORT COMES SOON Will Declare That Construction of a Harbor at Newport is Feasible The harbor commission appointed by the board of supervisors last fall to inquire into the project of a harbor at Newport Bay, will in a short time make its report. The detailed work which was begun early in January under the able direction of Capt. Chas. T. Leeds, U. S. A., retired, was completed on Wednesday and it now only remains for the engineers to map up the field notes and tabulate their data to make the work complete. The report of the commission will contain many surprises to the people of Southern California who have in the past been skeptical of the harbor project at Newport Bay. From the investigations of the commission, which have been scientific and painstaking it appears that the development of a harbor at Newport is a feasible proposition and one that is extremely practical of construction. To conclusively arrive at this decision it was necessary for the harbor board to work along broad lines to determine: first, the character of the dredging bottom, and second, the effect of the bottom currents upon maintaining the dredged area. The operations of the marine boring apparatus show no obstacles in the way of the construction of a 700-footfy against the other parent, Judge Thomas Monday afternoon refused to grant a divorce to Mrs. Mary Jane Davis of La Habra against Albert Henry Davis. "So far as calling each other names and creating suspicions, honors were about even in this case," said the judge, "and I am going to leave the couple just where they were. I will deny the divorce asked for by Mrs. Davis. I want to say that I do not in any way approve of calling children as witnesses in a divorce case to testify against either parent. In this case a little bit of a girl not over six years of age was asked to go on the stand and testify. The supreme court has held that a court cannot refuse to allow a child to testify in such a case, but the Supreme Court can't stop me from having my own opinions when it is done. "In this case the plaintiff alleged mental agony as the result of things that were said to her. I watt to say that anyone who is so constituted that she can bring her little child into a court room to testify against her father can't be so thin skinned that she suffered much mental agony." Misses Rose and Bertha Krueger, of Orange, received painful injuries when the automobiles in which they were riding turned turtle on South Main street, near Delhi, Saturday evening, about 10 o'clock. R. Cook of Santa Ana, was driving with some friends. Miss Rose Krueger was pinned under the car as it turned over, and received bad cuts on the arm, above the eye, and on the back of the head. Her sister also received cuts about the head. They were treated at the Santa Ana hospital and then were able to be taken home. Other members of the party escaped with minor injuries. The cause of the accident is not known. United States hires of the seas in 1789 a vessel fly appeared at Calhoun 1812 the amount destroyed by was $9,500,000 that which the course of the percentage of carried in America 92. Between 1832 an ican merchant made per cent a year per cent. The most glorious clapper ship immediately prepares When new desig Griffiths were ad outsailed every men educated in knowing French commanders of the coming owners foundations of were thus laid days of the gold Australia. The S which made a record olulu to New York the Cunard steamer Atlantic, new ald McKay, $200 On a voyage from the Lighting made in 24 hours, an an hour, which an ocean steam James Baines in the world in 132 which no sailing When the Clipper total American 174, compared with entire British en were carrying 70 ports and 65 per cent But the days of WATER COMPANY LETS ANOTHER CONTRACT WHEELER CONSTRUCTION COMPANY GETS THE JOB OF DRIVING 174 PILES CALOKLA OIL COMPANY WANTS LEASE ON 700 ACRES OF THE COMPANY'S LAND Four bids were received for furnishing and driving one hundred and seventy-four piles in the river at Gypsum, Cal., by the Anaheim Union Water company Saturday. On motion duly seconded the bid of the Wheeler Construction company was accepted, work to be done according to a contract to be drawn. Application of Miss C. Hansen for 60 feet of pipe to replace the present open ditch in front of her property on Placentia avenue, upon which she agreed to pay one-half was referred to the superintendent. Request of Mr. Payne of Yorba Linda to purchase about two hundred feet of 30 inch pipe was referred to the superintendent. Mr. Crone of the Calokla Oil company stated that his company would like to get a lease on 700 acres of the water company's property near Horse shoe Bend. He was given an idea of what the board wanted and instructed to come prepared to make the board an offer. The bill of the Mercereau Bridge & numbered. It had already to contend with the adverse influence of asinine statesmanship. Now began a hopeless contest with steam and with iron and steel ships. Fossilized naval officers reported to congress against steamships and our merchants were slow to adopt them. Our resources of steel and engine building were relatively undeveloped, while Britian was supreme in both respects. During the Civil war we lost our lead, and the proportion of our commerce carried in American bottoms steadily decreased until in 1913 it was a beggarly 8.9 per cent. Can we regain our lost martime supremacy? We certainly can. Every factor other than legislative which was against us in 1860 is now in favor. In 1913 our production of pig iron, the raw material of steel, was 30,966.152 tons, against 19,004,022 for Germany and 10,481,917 tons for Great Britain and our total is still growing. We lead the world in steel construction and engine building and can easily turn our skill in those directions to shipbuilding. The war has given us an opportunity to make a good start in this neglected industry, for it has eliminated the difference against us in cost of production and has temporarily boosted freights to a point where our higher cost of operation is immaterial. The immediate future for shipping that the strong foothold which the United States is now gaining in the shipping business may be maintained and that we may continue to gain, we need no government investment in ships,, as is proposed by the administration. We need only to revise our shipping laws in such manner that after the war we shall be able to compete with other nations on equal terms. The conditions under which our ship- INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM MATTERS PROVE A WALK-AWAY Our latest information regarding the success of those engaged in securing the requisite number of signatures to petitions invoking the referendum and initiative to correct, respectively, the nonpartisan registration law recently condemned by the California Supreme Court, and the vicious practice of gubernatorial appointment of legislators while in office, to bolster executive control of legislation, is very satisfactory. As we are informed voters generally, without regard to party affiliation, are eagerly placing their names upon these petitions in all parts of the state. It now appears that, instead of the forty-odd thousand required, it is expected that 50 per cent more names than these will be readily secured within the time limit. Needless to say, this is highly gratifying information to all friends of good government in the state, for the movement involved is essentially one for honesty and fidelity in the executive and legislative branches at Sacramento. All citizens who believe that the executive, like all other officials of the state, should heed public opinion and order his conduct conformably to the laws, have a vital interest in these two measures. And all voters who believe in the integrity of parties and the efficiency of party method of formulating policy and choosing candidates, are also interested in the matter. At the risk of superfluous repetition we may as well again express the purpose of these proposed referendum and initiative movements. The former is designed to do away with the vicious law passed at the late extraordinary session of the legislature, whereby it was sought, under executive coercion to control non-party registration not Request of Mr. Payne or Yorba Linda to purchase about two hundred feet of 30 inch pipe was referred to the superintendent. Mr. Crone of the Calokla Oil company stated that his company would like to get a lease on 700 acres of the water company's property near Horse-shoe Bend. He was given an idea of what the board wanted and instructed to come prepared to make the board an offer. The bill of the Mercereau Bridge & Construction company for forty per cent of contract work driving piles at P. P. No. 1, was O. K.'d by the engineer and the president and the secretary authorized to issue a warrant for the amount, $1418. Communication received from Mrs. M. F. Pilgrim and the secretary was instructed to notify the stockholders that the water would be in the ditches about March 25th. Communication from St. Helens Petroleum company in regard to handling the company's royalty oil for 1916 was referred to the oil committee. Reports of Amalgamated Oil Co., Hurley Smith & Collins Co., and the St. Helens Petroleum Co., for the month of February was received and filed. On motion the following transfers of stock were granted: 1 from H. D. Tuffree to Carrie B. Lang, 3 from L. E. Hampton to T. & A. M. Dietrich, 5 from F. Cotter and 5 from Trustees Placentia school district to A. S. Shanklin, administratrix. WE CAN COME BACK Most inspiring to Americans who take pride in their country's achievements is the article on "The Yankee Clippers," by William Brown Meloney in the Saturday Evening Post. It is a story of a time when the American flag was seen in every port, when American clipper ships contested with the British and won the prize for fast sailing on long voyages and when the United States held the title mistress of the seas in peace. As early as 1789 a vessel flying the American flag appeared at Calcutta. In the war of 1812 the amount of British commerce destroyed by American privateers was $9,500,000 only $40,000 less than that which the British captured. In the course of the next two decades the percentage of American commerce carried in American bottoms rose to 92. Between 1830 and 1836 the American merchant marine increased to 19,344. The immediate future for shipping that the strong foothold which the United States is now gaining in the shipping business may be maintained and that we may continue to gain, we need no government investment in ships,, as is proposed by the administration. We need only to revise our shipping laws in such manner that after the war we shall be able to compete with other nations on equal terms. The conditions under which our shipping business is now developing are mainly abnormal and temporary. That we may hold and enlarge the place we are now gaining, it is necessary that we change the normal, permanent conditions. All preparations, legislative and administrative, to do this should be made before the war ends. DESTRUCTIVENESS OF RIVERS It is estimated that the rivers of the earth carry 6500 cubic miles of water to the sea every year. If, writes John Oliver La Gorce, in the National Geographic magazine, the reader can imagine a column of water ten miles square and reaching sixty-five miles skyward, he will get a fair idea of the tremendous work that the sun and the winds have to do in pumping up this water from the sea and carrying it over the earth. Perhaps a third of this is expended on the landed area of the earth. Imagine a falls half a mile high and as large as 10,000 Niagaras tearing away at the continents every day and wrestling material from them and transporting it to the sea. This represents the work of the running waters. The Mississippi river alone carries more than 1,000,000 tons of material to the Gulf of Mexico every day. It would require nearly 1700 Lidgerwood dirt trains, such as were used at Panama, to move each day's deposit that the Mississippi brings to the Gulf. The total bulk of material removed annually from the Mississippi valley into the Gulf through the Mississippi river is greater than the total amount of material removed from the Panama canal, as it stands today, by the French and the Americans. In view of this fact the statement of Gen. Goethals, the builder of the Panama Canal, that the man who attacks the task of deepening the Mississippi river will have the biggest engineering job ever undertaken by man indeed of parties and the efficiency of party method of formulating policy and choosing candidates, are also interested in the matter. At the risk of superfluous repetition we may as well again express the purpose of these proposed referendum and initiative movements. The former is designed to do away with the vicious law passed at the late extraordinary session of the legislature, whereby it was sought, under executive coercion to compel nonparty registration, notwithstanding the people, at the August, 1915, election demanded, by a majority of 40,000 votes, that no legislation restricting freedom of party registration should exist in this state. The initiative measure calls for a constitutional amendment making it impossible for any governor of California to ever again appoint legislators while in office to other lucrative jobs in the state service, as a means of securing executive control of the state legislature or for any other reason. The evil of this procedure has been carried to amazing lengths under the present state administration, no less than twenty-three appointments of this kind having been made. As an illustration of the practical result of this practice, to use a single instance, witness that the very non-partisan registration bill now to be referendumed was jammed through an unwilling legislature by Governor Johnson, by the very force of his group of state office holding legislators who, by reason of his appointment of them to lucrative jobs, felt themselves obligated to take program. The scandal of this outrageous situation is superlative. And the further offensiveness of it, in defying the voters of California and in entailing upon them the wholly superfluous but inevitable expense of an election to correct the evil, calls for unqualified condemnation. In due course these two measures will be presented to the voters for their ballots. Happily, present indications are that, as to the referendumed nonpartisan registration measure, the Supreme Court quietus has convinced everyone one that it demands, as it will doubtlessly receive, in the opinion of the Oakland Enquirer, undoubtedly the foremost progressive newspaper in the state, almost unanimous disapproval at the polls. And as to the initiative measure, to put a stop to usurpation of state government, by the executive it is expected that the same fate awaits. United States held the title mistress of the seas in peace. As early as 1789 a vessel flying the American flag appeared at Calcutta. In the war of 1812 the amount of British commerce destroyed by American privateers was $9,500,000 only $40,000 less than that which the British captured. In the course of the next two decades the percentage of American commerce carried in American bottoms rose to 92. Between 1830 and 1836 the American merchant marine increased 12 3-4 per cent a year, the British only 1½ per cent. The most glorious days of the American clipper ship were the two decades immediately preceding the Civil war. When new designs by John Willis Griffiths were adopted, American ships outsailed everything afloat. College men educated in the classics and knowing French and Spanish became commanders of ships as a step to becoming owners and merchants. The foundations of present day fortunes were thus laid, especially in the boom days of the gold rush to California and Australia. The Sovereign of the Seas which made a record voyage from Honolulu to New York and which outsailed the Cunard steamship Canada across the Atlantic, netted her owner, Donald McKay, $200,000 in eleven months. On a voyage from Boston to Liverpool the Lighting made a run of 436 miles in 24 hours, an average of 18 1-6 knots an hour, which was not exceeded by an ocean steamship until 1889. The James Baines in 1854-5 sailed around the world in 132 days, making a record which no sailing ship has excelled. When the Civil war broke out the total American tonnage was 5,299.174, compared with 5,710,968 for the entire British empire, and our ships were carrying 70 per cent of our exports and 65 per cent of our imports. But the days of the clipper ship were The total bulk of material removed annually from the Mississippi valley into the Gulf through the Mississippi river is greater than the total amount of material removed from the Panama canal, as it stands today, by the French and the Americans. In view of this fact the statement of Gen. Goethals, the builder of the Panama Canal, that the man who attacks the task of deepening the Mississippi river will have the biggest engineering job ever undertaken by man, indeed becomes significant. How rapidly the Mississippi is carrying forward its task of changing the shore line of Louisiana is revealed by the fact that it is building a mile of Louisiana territory into the Gulf every seventeen years. Its delta, assuming that a delta begins at the first point where a break occurs and river water escapes to the sea, is now more than 200 miles long. This territory, which has been entirely built up by the river, now contains nearly 12,000 square miles, making it equal in size to the state of Maryland. For every 1500 pounds of water that the Mississippi carries to the sea it carries one pound of material, either solid or in solution. It carries down to the sea nearly eight times as much material as the Nile, whose alluvial burens have enriched Egypt for thousands of years. The jamming of that machine gun at Columbus sticks in the craw of the American people. We make better machine guns and sell them to European nations, and, if the new Secretary of War wants to make an impression, he will see to it that the U.S. army is equipped with the latest and best. Nothing is too good for the American army, and the American people will pay the bill without a murmur. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT Of The County of Orange, State of California Carl Walter, Plaintiff vs. A. Zwirn, John Doe and Mary Green Defendants Action brought in the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of California, and the Complaint filed in the office of the Clerk of said County of Orange. Leonard Evans, Attorney for Plaintiff. The People of the State of California Send Greeting to A. Zwirn, John Doe, and Mary Green. Defendants. You Are Hereby Directed to Appear and answer the Complaint in an action entitled as above, brought against you in the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of California, within ten days after the service on you of this Summons, if served within this County, or within thirty days if served elsewhere. And you are hereby notified that unless you appear and answer as above required, the said plaintiff will take judgment for any money or damages demanded in the complaint, as arising upon contract, or he will apply to the Court for any other relief demanded in the complaint. Given under my hand and the seal of the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of California, this 10th day of March, A.D. 1916. (Seal of Superior Court) W. B. WILLIAMS, Clerk. 3-23-9t BUY YOUR Lawn Seed HERE We Handle a Guaranteed Line of Lawn·Mowers Rubber Hose Garden Tools, etc. DICKEL'S DICKEL'S THE GAZETTE has a large and bona-fide circulation. THE GAZETTE is a good advertising medium. STATE DESTROYS NEARLY A MILLION POUNDS OF FOOD Nearly a million pounds of foodstuffs unfit for human consumption, have been condemned and destroyed by the California state board of health during the pats four months. Some of these products were decayed, others oring to supply the public with wholesome foods at fair values, from the competition of the dealer who is able to sell products at low rates because they are spoiled or adulterated. Through the removal of these five hundred tons of foodstuffs from the markets of the state, not only has the health of the public been safeguarded, STATE DESTROYS NEARLY A MILLION POUNDS OF FOOD Nearly a million pounds of foodstuffs unfit for human consumption, have been condemned and destroyed by the California state board of health during the pats four months. Some of these products were decayed, others were infested with worms; all were putrid and unfit for eating. Prof. E. J. Lea, director of the board’s bureau of foods and drugs, states that these foodstuffs which have been destroyed consist of 437 tons of condiments, chiefly catsup made from spoiled tomatoes, nearly seven tons of decomposed eggs, six tons of fruit, five tons of poultry and eight tons of miscellaneous food supplies. The destruction of the catsup alone has undoubtedly prevented many cases of illness, and unscrupulous dealers are now unable to procure those foodstuffs that are unfit for human consumption. Many retailers have been buying such products at very low prices, and in turn they have been selling to the general public at low rates. This action of the board protects the honest dealer who is endeavoring to supply the public with wholesome foods at fair values, from the competition of the dealer who is able to sell products at low rates because they are spoiled or adulterated. Through the removal of these five hundred tons of foodstuffs from the markets of the state, not only has the health of the public been safeguarded, but unscrupulous dealers have been taught that such foods can not be sold to citizens of California. FOR SALE—Valencia orange trees, for 1916 planting. First class stock, from carefully selected buds. Twombley Ranch, Fullerton, Cal. Phone 158-J 3. Dancing School Every Monday and Wednesday Night at Fisher’s Hall. Private Lessons any time. PROF. H. A. FRANZMATHES INSTRUCTOR Home Phone 2424 Pacific Phone 167-J Panama Hats Made New At 301 West Center St. Anaheim Dye Works