anaheim-gazette 1917-01-18

HEAVY INCREASE IN EXPENSES OF STATE APPROPRIATIONS RECOMMENDED ARE 17.5 PER CENT GREATER THAN FOR PREVIOUS YEAR SEVERAL MEASURES INTRODUCED TO ABOLISH THE BIFUR-SATED SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE (Special Correspondence) SACRAMENTO, Jan. 16.—That the bifurcated session of the legislature is anything but popular and a needless expense to the already overburdened tax payers is evidenced by the introduction of several measures doing away with it and returning to the old 90-day session. Some very excellent features are contained in these bills such as limiting the number which any member can introduce to five and the time for introduction to the first thirty days of the session. The five would not include appropriation and special emergency bills which might be introduced by permission of a three fourths vote of the House. Assemblyman Polsley has his little hatchet out for the Fish and Game Commission. He proposes the Commission shall turn over all fees received for licenses and otherwise to the treasury and that the legislature shall provide for the maintenance of the Commission by a regular appropriation department of public instruction gets $60,000 with which to carry on its work. DEATH BLOW TO STORM WATER DISTRICT Continued from page one candidates endorsed by the Anaheim board of trade, and composed the ticket favorable to the district, while the opponents put forward L. C. Yeoman of West Anaheim, W. J. Cole of Hansen and F. P. Rosselot of Garden Grove. These men were strongly opposed to the district. Only 1855 votes were cast and as the protestants were the most active on election day it is reasonable to suppose that most of the stay-at-homes were either affirmative or indifferent voters. Anaheim gave the protectionist candidates 400 majority, Garden Grove gave them 110, but Centralla gave 368 majority for the negatives. The majority in favor of the district was more than 140. There is one gleam of comfort in the present situation. According to H. Clay Kellogg and other old timers who have kept tab on the antics of the turbulent Santa Ana river, it only gets full enough to run amuck once in seven years, therefore it will not go on the rampage again until 1923. Before that time the tri-counties project will be consummated, and the raging waters from the mountains and canyons will find a sufficient passage to the ocean down the channel made and provided for it, without being compelled to slop over onto valuable adjacent property. The work which had been planned by the trustees was the building of an embankment four feet high from the Yorba bridge to a point a mile and a half below the Olive bridge. The embankment would have been of suf- of the session. The five would not include appropriation and special emergency bills which might be introduced by permission of a three fourths vote of the House. Assemblyman Polsley has his little hatchet out for the Fish and Game Commission. He proposes the Commission shall turn over all fees received for licenses and otherwise to the treasury and that the legislature shall provide for the maintenance of the Commission by a regular appropriation. The budget prepared by the state board of control has some very interesting features. The total appropriations recommended, are $22,928,247.31, an increase of 17.5 per cent or a total of $3,429,836. This will raise the per capita of taxation, $12.17, which is already the highest of any state in the Union, a notch higher or to about $14.30. It will put California with its progressive administration of its finances in a class so completely by itself that it will not be worth while for any other state to compete with it in the race for high rates. The board recommends for itself the very considerable sum of $301,050, an increase of $62,330. The increase is found under the item of "maintenance, traveling and contingent expenses." This item calls for a total of $228,450. The large amount under this item seems excessive in view of the fact that the campaigns of their chief are all over and the necessary absence of the entire board on expensive campaign trips for months at a time, while the affairs of the state are left in the hands of—the janitor perhaps—will no longer be necessary. The railroad commission gets $507,300, an increase of $37,300. The people may be getting the benefit of this half million but it is hard to locate much of it outside of campaign literature. The Sacramento Valley gets $500,000 for flood control, the State Agricultural Society, $313,500, the state printing office, $100,000. The immigration and housing commission has $90,000, an increase of $30,000. The principal value of this commission is to provide a lot of jobs for the faithful. The bureau of labor statistics will take care of $159,200, an increase of $24,400. This is another of the commission barnacles with which the state is afflicted. The work which had been planned by the trustees was the building of an embankment four feet high from the Yorba bridge to a point a mile and a half below the Olive bridge. The embankment would have been sufficient width on top to permit the construction of an oilied boulevard, which would be accepted as a highway by the supervisors and maintained as a county road. The sand from which the embankment was to be constructed would be dredged from the bed of the river, thus deepening the channel. A heavy barbwire fence with filling behind, would protect the embankment from the river's current. The cost would be a little over $100,000. But the men who have been foremost in the protection fight are not disposed to lay down and acknowledge defeat. They will probably begin at the beginning again and file another petition for a district. E. N. Cook, who is one of the principal advocates of protection, and was one of the hardest workers in the cause, said: "According to the established law that a majority shall rule in all contests, I see no reason why we should be deprived of the privilege of protecting our property and ourselves from the overflow waters of the Santa Ana. In a show down of hands of both the property owners and the voters within the prescribed district, we won overwhelmingly, but we lost on a mere technical point of law. I have talked with a number of men who were prominent in the movement for protection, and they are unanimous in the opinion that we should immediately file another petition. All who favored the proposition before will be with us again, and I am inclined to believe that we have gained some recruits from the enemy. We have learned wisdom from this decision, and will not again permit ourselves to be wrecked on a technicality. It is unreasonable to believe that 85 per cent of the property owners will permit themselves to be defeated by a minority mustering only 15 per cent of the district. We cannot afford to lay down and surrender to an insignificant minority. There is too much at stake, and being better versed in the require- Churchill's novel a week from the indelicate sex day, and its thread runs entirely length of the photostory connects directly with that Lincoln is an esesse in the working out of it. It is he who brings the lea-in the final episode. Advantage is taken on Mr. Selig to work in an esque background of L.Lincoln-Douglass debate-litical campaign of the 6th reproduced. The bomber Fort Sumter follows disastrion of Lincoln to tand and the country rushes to ring incidents of the gloom momentarily flashed befoe of the spectator, culminate battle of Vicksburg, for land and water forces in and South, embodied in two lovers, are finally Lincoln's bier. Abraham Lincoln, instu-vague, superhuman shadvery blood and bone of THE NEW Peerless Madame Petear on the screen at th tonight in the big MetrExtravagance." The play deals with The immigration and housing commission has $90,000, an increase of $30,000. The principal value of this commission is to provide a lot of jobs for the faithful. The bureau of labor statistics will take care of $159,200, an increase of $24,400. This is another of the commission barnacles with which the state is afflicted. The industrial accident commission is to have $425,000, an increase of $48,760. One is led to wonder if the injured are getting benefits commensurate with this enormous amount of money. For the first time in six years there is no increase recommended for the executive department. The reason is obvious. The Blue Book, one of the most interesting of the state publications, will be discontinued, the $5000 needed for its publication being disallowed. This book contained a general compendium of state affairs, lists of all officials and salaries, but was gotten out under the direction of the Secretary of State with whom the administration is decidedly out of harmony. As economy is the watchword this was a good place for a cut. Another is the board of equalization, the board the administration sought to abolish last session by a constitutional amendment which the people turned down at the October election when so many of the governor's pet measures were consigned to the dump heap. Having failed to abolish the board, the administration will seek to cripple it by cutting off $16,000 for clerical and expert work, traveling and contingent expenses. The university fares well with a recommendation for $1,310,000. The cruits from the enemy. We have learned wisdom from this decision, and will not again permit ourselves to be wrecked on a technicality. It is unreasonable to believe that 85 per cent of the property owners will permit themselves to be defeated by a minority mustering only 15 per cent of the district. We cannot afford to lay down and surrender to an insignificant minority. There is too much at stake, and being better versed in the requirements of the law we should have no difficulty in carrying the project through the next time." NATIONAL FARM LOAN ASSOCIATION FORMED Orangethorpe People Orgainze With More Subscribers Than Needed Forty ranchers living between this city and Fullerton met at Orange-thorpe school house Tuesday evening, January 9, and organized a national farm loan association, with a membership of twenty. A board of directors composed of J. E. Durkee, C. M. Annin, A. J. Christieib, G. W. Morgan and H. G. Meiser was selected and the board elected H. G. Meiser president, C. W. Morgan vice president and J. E. Durkee secretary treasurer. This association will cover the Orangethorpe-Fullerton territory. The subscriptions were more than twice as much as is required by law in order to organize an association. FOR SALE—10 acres in West Anaheim, on South East corner of Broadway and Garden Grove road. Ready to set to oranges and trees ready to plant. Good easy terms. See Dr. A. A. Prall, R. F. D. 1, Box 129, Anaheim. First house north of Broadway and on Garden Grove road. 1-11-tf "Anaheim Gazette" "The CRISIS" At the New Grand Theatre, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 21, 22 and 23. No play of more thrilling interest has ever been produced than "The Crisis," which Manager Mozart has secured for the New Grand. It will be shown Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, January 21, 22 and 23, with a matinee every afternoon. "The Crisis" is an elaborate photoplay, following closely the story told in Winston Churchill's famous novel, and presented with full orchestra and elaborate sound effects after the manner of "The Birth of a Nation." It has been the aim of William N. Sellig, the producer, to emphasize the romance of the civil war, rather than its cruel horrors, and to present the political aspects in a fair, broad and impartial spirit, vigorously, but without offense to either North or South. The love story is told fully in the rich, romantic vein that has rendered Winston Churchill made Lincoln a vital personage in his novel, and William N. Selig in transferring the story to the screen, took more pains with this one character than all the others put together. Lincoln, as portrayed by Sam D. Drane, is a guant, awkward, yet magnetic backwoodsman, who rose by sheer common sense to the presidency in spite of the scorn and contempt of his enemies, and even his enthusiasm, whole hearted friends could not restrain a smile at the spectacle of such a leader. It is the human Lincoln, not the Lincoln that history and tradition are already converting into a demi-god. Lincoln is intimately mixed up with the plot of "The Crisis," and appears again and again throughout the play. He is not merely a shadowy figure in place her. There are country clubs and Newport gayeties. Throughout the film Mrs. Castle displays a fire of spirit and brilliance of conception which will make her most popular with the spectators. "The LIBERTINE" A Plea for the Higher Education "The Libertine" with John Mason and Alma Hanlon in the leading roles, was shown three times Sunday at the New Grand. It is supposedly a "lesson in morals," but it goes far deeper. Its most salient feature is the powerful revelation of man's vanity, conceit and selfishness, with all the consequent cruelty involved. Vain and pleasure-seeking men search for victims to their lusts, because, forsooth, they esteem themselves privileged on account of their wealth. The so-called "good" young lover is equally cruel, or more so, because the girl does not act according to the law he thinks is right. From one end of the picture to the other we have "Intolerance," woman must perforce obey rules of conduct men lay down. It is an endless violation of the things, the liberty, our fathers fought for: "A just government derives its powers from the consent of the governed." The picture is of immense value, because it does not "preach," it is ex ample rather than precept. Today, in the new world that is emerging from the chaos of evil passions and desires, it is not seemly that those who imagine themselves "called" to save the world from sin, should ignore this great new and powerful instrument placed at their disposal. Here in California has been sown broadcast the seed from which shall spring that most glorious flower which shall be the crown and seed-bearer of that wonderful new race which is to grow Churchill's novel a welcome relief from the indelicate sex fiction of the day, and its thread runs through the entire length of the photodrama. The story connects directly with history, in that Lincoln is an essential character in the working out of the romance. It is he who brings the lovers together in the final episode. Advantage is taken of the fact by Mr. Selig to work in a broad, bicturesque background of history. The Lincoln-Douglass debate and the political campaign of the 60's are vividly reproduced. The bombardment of Fort Sumter follows directly on the ascension of Lincoln to the presidency, and the country rushes to arms. Stirring incidents of the great war are momentarily flashed before the eye of the spectator, culminating in the battle of Vicksburg, fought by both land and water forces in detail. North and South, embodied in the persons of the two lovers, are finally re-united at Lincoln's bier. Abraham Lincoln, instead of being a vague, superhuman shadow, is of the very blood and bone of "The Crisis". An historical background, but is as necessary in tangling and then unraveling the threads of the story as any fictitious creation of Mr. Churchill's imagination. He is shown in the picturesque campaign of the sixties, when the flaming torchlight and the crackling bonfire added a homely excitement unknown in this day of electric illumination; his debate with Douglass is dramatically staged; the events are then depicted, that converted him from a village humorist to a sublime Man of Sorrows, firm in his determination to save the nation intact, yet merciful to the individual sufferer; and finally, North and South, embodied in the Northern hero, Stephen Brice, and the Southern heroine, Virginia Carvel, are united at the coffin of history's most mourned martyr. "The Crisis" is accompanied throughout by a special musical score based on patriotic and romantic themes, interpretative of the scenes being flashed on the screen and rendered by a full symphony orchestra. The musical part is one of the features of the great production. THE NEW GRAND Peerless Madame Petrova will appear on the screen at the New Grand tonight in the big Metro production, "Extravagance." The play deals with a father and original story was written by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow and Ida Park prepared the screen version from which Joseph De Grasse has directed the Bluebird players. There is an original approach to the divorce question in "The Piper's Price"—and there is a happy ending after five acts of tribu-lation and heartaches for a wife who has realized that her husband's returnample rather than precept. Today, in the new world that is emerging from the chaos of evil passions and desires, it is not seemly that those who imagine themselves "called" to save the world from sin, should ignore this great new and powerful instrument placed at their disposal. Here in California has been sown broadcast the seed from which shall spring that most glorious flower which shall be the crown and seed-bearer of that wonderful new race which is to grow upon American soil. This kind of teaching is better than all the worded sermons ever preached by hired servants. It is not in loud-voiced, noisy vaporings that the Truth is given to mankind. The pharaical voice and motion prove that such have never so much as knocked at the Great Temple of Truth. It is in the silence of a whisper, that the ineffable Name is spoken, and that Name kept in the heart grows from within outward, and in the end makes Man higher than the Angels, and gives him power and dominion over himself and all created things. Let those who would minister to the coming race remember that truth is not received in loud sounding, swelling words, neither may it be so imparted. ANAHEIM MAN MAY GET BIG ESTATE Jarrie Seeman is One of Forty Heirs To $37,000,000 in Denmark Twelve years ago the Danish government began advertising for the heirs of Gen. Jurgen Moldt, and has finally succeeded in rounding them up. There are forty of them, and they will divide an estate valued at $37,000,000 between them. Jarrie Seeman of Anaheim, aged 89, is one of them, and will probably receive one-fortieth of the estate, which will foot up nearly a million dollars. Gen. Moldt married Thanie Seeman, a German peasant girl. Hoving no heirs of his own, and being determined that his wife's poor relations should not inherit his vast fortune he stipulated that at her death it should go to the crown and be held for a period of one hundred years. Mrs. Moldt died shortly afterward and the provisions of the will were carried out. It remained in the Danish treasury drawing 2¼ per cent interest, and at the expiration of the hundred years the government... THE NEW GRAND Peerless Madame Petrova will appear on the screen at the New Grand tonight in the big Metro production, "Extravagance." The play deals with a father and his daughter who fetter themselves by their own extravagance. The father commits forgery. The daughter's suitor, an estimable man, is dragged into the maelstrom of financial ruin. From beginning to end the play is a powerful lesson, and it is filled with dramatic situations. Probably no other star could have thrown into the part of Norma Russell, the daughter, more realism than has Mme. Petrova, who held a high social position in England and there was enabled to observe the extravagance of many titled folk. In America, too, she encountered extravagance among society people, whose real wealth probably could not be reckoned in more than four figures. Yet these social spendthrifts were struggling desperately to maintain what they considered a "position of prominence" among multi-millionaires. "Extravagance" is one of the most powerful motion picture dramas of the season. Does the lesson found in it apply to you? See it and give your own answer. Friday and Saturday nights, also Saturday afternoon, will be shown "The Piper's Price," with Dorothy Phillips in the star role. Four of the cleverest artists on the screen will unite in presenting the newest and most interesting of the Bluebird productions, "The Piper's Price." The original story was written by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow and Ida Park prepared the screen version from which Joseph De Grasse has directed the Bluebird players. There is an original approach to the divorce question in "The Piper's Price"—and there is a happy ending after five acts of tribuation and heartaches for a wife who has realized that her husband's return to the woman he divorced might mean discrace and misery for herself and her unborn child. Lon Chaney, who has played every kind of villian photo-playing can devise, appears in "The Piper's Price," for once in his screen career, as a hero of the most glorified type. The unfolding of this intensely interesting story will prove a source of gripping entertainment for patrons of the Grand. PATRIA IS COMING The Anaheim public will have an opportunity of witnessing the great photo drama "Patria" at the New Grand at an early date. With the opening production of this famous film, Mrs. Vernon Castle, one of the most beautiful of the international stars, will be seen in the principal role, a part which she is particularly fitted to play since her life for the past two years has been devoted almost entirely to patriotic endeavor. Naturally ardent in love of her country and its flag, she has been fired to still further loyalty through the splendid courage her husband has shown in going into the aviation corps of Great Britain where his bravery has brought about several rapid promotions. The episodes of the play will offer Mrs. Castle in many of those scenes in which the public is accustomed to a German peasant girl. Hoving no heirs of his own, and being determined that his wife's poor relations should not inherit his vast fortune he stipulated that at her death it should go to the crown and be held for a period of one hundred years. Mrs. Moldt died shortly afterward and the provisions of the will were carried out. It remained in the Danish treasury drawing 2¼ per cent interest, and at the expiration of the hundred years the government began hunting for the heirs of Thanie Seeman, and it is supposed they are now all unearthed. Twelve of them live in California, eight being in Los Angeles and one in this city. Attorney David G. Hathaway is the attorney for the heirs, and will go to Denmark in the spring to settle the affair. "I do not anticipate any great difficulty in getting the estate adjusted," said Mr. Hathaway. "Since the Danish government advertised for the heirs it probably will be willing to give up the money. I will go to Denmark in the spring, probably by way of Ireland." SUDAN FOR COWS Among those who are trying out Sudan grass as a feed for livestock this year is J. W. Goodnight of Kings county, who had five acres planted, part of which is on rather heavy soil and part of which is on a sandy knoll. Planting was done about the middle of March and by August 1 one crop of hay had been harvested and another was ready to cut; and this without irrigation. The stand, however, was not as good as it might have been. At the above date none of this hay had been fed as it was all being stacked for winter feeding; but last year Mr. Goodnight found that the cow fed Sudan from a small patch did just as well as Why Your 1917 Clothes Should be Jackson Clothes Since good looking, long wearing, up to the minute Jackson Clothes at $15 came into the field such good values were not known. Our exceptional values regardless of the advance markets shall be maintained. You can always expect something different in the $15.00 clothes sold at JACKSON'S MEN'S WEAR SHOP Fisher Building, Anaheim CONDENSED STATEMENT OF THE German American Bank ANAHEIM, CAL. FROM THE REPORT OF CONDITION TO SUPERINTENDENT OF BANKS, JANUARY 4, 1917 RESOURCES LIABILITIES German American Bank ANAHEIM, CAL. FROM THE REPORT OF CONDITION TO SUPERINTENDENT OF BANKS, JANUARY 4, 1917 RESOURCES LIABILITIES Loans $349,467.64 Capital $50,000.00 Overdrafts 58.39 Surplus and Profits 12,192.71 Bank Premises 48,726.00 Safety Deposit Vaults and Fixtures 6,800.00 Other Real Estate Owned 5,300.00 Other Resources 1,835.61 Deposits - - - 502,609.94 Cash and Sight Ex., 152,615.01 Total resources $564,802.65 Total liabilities $564,802.65 ACCOUNTS SOLICITED 4% INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT $2.00 PER YEAR AND UP Notice of Annual Meeting OFFICE OF THE Anaheim Union Water Company Anaheim, California, January 8, 1917. To the Stockholders of the ANAHEIM UNION WATER COMPANY. Please take notice that the regular annual meeting of the stockholders and election for Directors of the ANAHEIM UNION WATER COMPANY will be held at the office of the Company, 401 East Center St., in the City of Anaheim, County of Orange, State of California, on Saturday the 27th day of January, A. D. 1917, at the hour of 10 o'clock A.M., for the purpose of electing Directors of said corporation for the ensuing year, and for the transaction of such other business as may come before the meeting. WM. T. WALLOP. Secretary ANAHEIM UNION WATER CO. Attention, OrangeGrowers Economy and good business acumen dictate the liberal use of tree props to support the heavily laden limbs of your trees rather than Attention, OrangeGrowers Economy and good business acumen dictate the liberal use of tree props to support the heavily laden limbs of your trees rather than allow them to break down with their precious golden burden. We keep a stock of Select quality Oregon Pine props on hand in size 1x1½, in five, six, seven, eight and longer lengths, and can supply you without delay with the best stock. GIBBS LUMBER Good Place to Buy G-O-O-D L-U-M-B-E-R C. GANAHL LUMBER COMPANY Anaheim. : : : Cal. on alfalfa and seemed to like it equally well. When Billy Sunday was holding his recent revival at Boston, there was a woman in the audience with a babe that was very restless and fretful. The mother tried in vain to quiet it. The evangelist stopped his discourse and, looking straight at the woman, said: "Lady, I have noticed you for the last fifteen minutes trying to put that baby to sleep. In my opinion, the child wants board instead of lodging." FOR SALE, Wonder Powder, the only true spraying powder. Try it. Fred Marsh. Sunset 329; Home 2184