anaheim-gazette 1917-08-02

COAST HIGHWAY ENDORSED BY A. G. OF C. SUPERVISORS REQUESTED TO MAKE A FIVE CENT LEVY FOR ITS CONSTRUCTION ALLAN KNAPP TALKS TO ASSOCIATED CHAMBERS ON THE LABOR SITUATION The coast boulevard was one of the main propositions discussed by the associated chambers of commerce at the "Sunset Dinner," given at Seal Beach Wednesday evening. E. E. Jahrus of Laguna, introduced the question: "In four and a half hours recently," he said, "1907 machines passed a certain point in Laguna Beach. If the coast road had been open, the majority of those machines would have passed through the various places along the coast. Automobile parties prefer driving to a point one way and back another, instead of going back over the same road. It is up to the people of the beach and interior section to get this road through. We know that if the people once see the beauties of this drive along the coast, they will want to come again, and it could be made an asset in the way of valuable advertising to the county, with consequent benefit to the entire county." Speaking for the board of supervisors Chairman Talbert said: "It is estimated that it will cost $30,000 to complete this road from Huntington master's division of the war department has contracted for the purchase of 5,555,000 pairs of shoes for the army. It is an interesting fact that the average price per pair of the latest batch of 950,000 pairs, namely, $4.73, was 12 cents a pair lower than the contract price of early purchases. Considering the quality of material and workmanship required, this price, comparatively speaking, is so low as once more to suggest the propriety of making the Government a purchasing agent, not only for the army, but for the people in general. IMPERIAL COUNTY'S HEAVY REGISTRATION Will Send More Men to the Army Than Orange County Some peculiarities are shown by the registration figures. They are not very reliable as a basis for estimating populations. For instance Imperial, which has the smallest population of any county in the southern group, will furnish more soldiers than any county except Los Angeles. Following are the figures for the counties south of the Tehachipl, together with the vote at the last election: Quota to Total vote be filled in Nov. Los Angeles ... 4404 280,878 San Diego ... 554 36,552 Orange ... 385 19,654 Riverside ... 364 14,154 San Bernardino ... 498 24,569 Santa Barbara ... 423 11,218 Ventura ... 336 7,623 Imperial ... 653 7,064 Imperial county with a vote considerably less than half that of Orange county will have to furnish 653 men for the army while we are furnishing 385. Imperial will have to furnish more soldiers by 99 than San Diego. erty Loan in amount $100 to $100,000. He further states that the country more than sons engaged in gain besides the large number women whose income their investments. If in the United States government bonds to five per cent of his sessions the loan was subscribed six times. The reports of our banks on March 5, 1916, the banks had a total posit accounts, which than on May 1, 1916. The total increase of national banks during this year was about $2,000,000. The latest bank re banks and trust companies indicate total resources 000,000, exceeding by banking resources even in any country. SANTA ANA CANNE SHORT ON B Scarcity of labor aquent demand for labor workmen have had to tailing the period of big canning plant on at Santa Ana on refu­ than 25 per cent of the product expected was cannery and the balance of the growers who co beans for the plant. That the Californiaation stood its share incident to the higher tried to assist Speaking for the board of supervisors Chairman Talbert said: "It is estimated that it will cost $30,000 to complete this road from Huntington Beach to Laguna. The assessed valuation of the county, in round figures is $66,000,000. A five cent levy would be sufficient to build the road. The supervisors would be glad to build this road and do other things as fast as the people want to pay the bills. If the people think that extra levy of five cents is not too much, and want the levy made, we could do it and have the boulevard completed before the first of next year. It is up to the people. We feel disposed to go ahead, but first must know that the people are behind us in the movement. We will set the tax rate next September." A. S. Bradford, of Placentia, moved that the coast boulevard be endorsed by the associated chambers and that the supervisors be requested to make the levy of five cents. The motion carried unanimously. Regarding the situation among the Mexican laborers who are being stirred up by agitators and threatening to tie up the sugar factories and other industries, J. Allan Knapp of Garden Grove, made a vigorous talk. "The time has come when every man, woman and child in America should be a loyal worker," said Mr. Knapp, "and the shirkers and trouble makers should be made to work or be put away where they cannot hinder the others and endanger the safety of our republic. The president says that every American must work or fight in aid of his country during this war crisis. There are now a number of I Won't Workers and other agitators who refuse to do either. I contend that every man should work, fight or move out of the country. It there's no law to force every agitator to take one of these three courses, let's get a law to that effect. This is a serious problem, and it concerns every loyal American. No one who is enjoying the protection of the American government should be allowed to paralyze industry and endanger the safety of the land." I won't workers and other agitators who refuse to do either. I contend that every man should work, fight or move out of the country. It there's no law to force every agitator to take one of these three courses, let's get a law to that effect. This is a serious problem, and it concerns every loyal American. No one who is enjoying the protection of the American government should be allowed to paralyze industry and endanger the safety of the land." Intimation that the report of the Orange county harbor commission to the supervisors would be presented probably in September and would recommend a county bond issue for improvement of Newport harbor was given by Lew H. Wallace, secretary of the commission, in his report on "our harbor" to the Associated Chambers of Commerce at the meeting. The amount of the proposed bond issue, he said, is as yet unknown, the commission not having fully determined upon the amount of money which will be required to carry out the improvements. Mr. Wallace said further that the report is now nearly ready, but is being held up because of the investigation as to the cost of work necessary and methods to be employed in diverting the Santa Ana river from the bay, so it will dump its silt directly into the ocean to the west of Newport Beach. This diversion, he said, is necessary before we can hope for government aid in building a harbor, and hence is one of the first things to be accomplished in making of Newport bay a commercial harbor. A motion was carried that "Our Harbor" be a permanent question at the county meetings until the harbor is a reality. From the date of the declaration by the United States of a state of war until the present time, the quarter- Ships states that Miles presented with a paper, which she thought was merely giving him the right as an agent to sell the property. She is a German woman and not well acquainted with English, and she says she did not know that she signed a power of attorney. This was on June 26, 1913. It is declared that the mortgage and note given by Miles with his power of attorney bears date of May 16, 1913, prior to the actual signing of the document. The answer further alleges that no consideration was ever given for the $4000 note signed by Miles. THE FINANCIAL COLOSSUS Dr. Frank Crane, in the New York Globe, grows enthusiastic over the immense wealth of the United States. He says: Suppose you take your pad and pencil and just make a few notes about this country of ours and its wealth. Do you realize that you are living in the richest nation in the world? The United States of America contains about 103,145,000 people. Their total wealth is estimated at $230,000,000,000, or $2,255 per capita. This includes not only actual money, but also real estate, factories, railways, etc. We are nearly twice as rich as the British empire, the wealth of which is placed at $130,000,000,000; five times as rich as France, with her $50,000,000,000; six times as rich as Russia, with $40,000,000,000; twelve times Italy, with $20,000,000,000; sixteen times Japan, with $15,000,000,000; and two and a half times Germany, Austria, and Turkey combined. The controller of the currency at Washington, who certainly ought to know, says that there are in the United States at present more than ten million individuals and corporations who might have subscribed to the Liberated states. In the opinion of men the extra fine quality there will in a higher cost. The bearer are of a quality far better than have been grown for canning in past seasons when born in the corporation plaza. “This district has best lot of string beans ever packed,” “We have satisfied our can be produced here city and quantity and under way to secure for next season. “The prevailing law the rural districts cut the output of refugees standing the fact that fered about 25 per cent work than has prevailed for similar work in the Northern California.” “Women and girls bean pack in the capital paid a much better rent than has been had the growers beet plant with a large men and boys would able to earn considerey than they have.” Kitterman will defend the present largely samples of dried appletinct. His firm is in dried fruit and he is in order to get quotation. It is absurd to preach in some one should be allowed money during a wartime living expenses. If weulate savings we shall the end of our tether. Anaheim Gazette erty Loan in amounts ranging from $100 to $100,000. He further states that there are in the country more than 40 million persons engaged in gainful occupations, besides the large number of men and women whose income is derived from their investments. If every individual in the United States had bought government bonds to the extent of only five per cent of his or her total possessions the loan would have been subscribed six times over. The reports of our national savings banks on March 5, 1917, showed that the banks had a total of 15,739,969 deposit accounts, which is 1,499,910 more than on May 1, 1916. The total increase of deposits in national banks during these ten months was about $2,000,000,000. The latest bank returns, including banks and trust companies of all kinds indicate total resources of $35,000,000,000, exceeding by far the greatest banking resources ever before shown in any country. SANTA ANA CANNERY IS SHORT ON BEAN TONNAGE Scarcity of Labor and Higher Demand Causes Halt in Operations Scarcity of labor and the consequent demand for higher wages of workmen have had the effect of curtailing the period of operation of the big canning plant on East First street at Santa Ana on refugee beans. Less than 25 per cent of the tonnage of this product expected was delivered to the cannery and the balance is in the fields of the growers who contracted to raise beans for the plant. That the California Packing Corporation stood its share of the burdens incident to the higher wage demanded and tried to assist the growers is tirely right to preach that no one should benefit financially from the dreadful calamity of war, that no one should be permitted to use the urgent necessities caused by war to exact extortionate prices. Of course, also we should all economize during war, but the rule of reason holds good even in respect of things that it is well and praiseworthy to do. CALIFORNIA COTTON CROP The bureau of census, United States department of commerce, reports the 1916 California cotton crop at 43,564 bales. Of this number, 39,028 bales were produced in Imperial county and 4636 bales in Riverside county. In Imperial Valley, besides the 39,028 bales ginned on the American side 24,147 bales were ginned on the Mexican side, making a total valley production of 63,175 bales. With the 4636 bales ginned in Riverside county, the California and Baja California total is 67,811 bales. Up to 1916, the Mexican cotton was ginned on the American side and the production included in the California statistics by the census bureau. For relative purposes, the production of 67,811 bales may be compared with the following record of California cotton production as furnished by the director of the census: 1909, 183 bales; 1910, 5986 bales; 1911, 9790 bales; 1912, 8215 bales; 1913, 22,838 bales; 1914, 49,835 bales and 1915, 28,551 bales. The 1916 California production of 43,664 bales moved the state from 13th to 12th place in cotton producing rank. In average yield per acre and average price per pound, received by growers for short staple cotton, the American standard, California again in 1916 led all cotton producing states. The Sixteenth Wife," Sunday A pretty Kentucky girl who poses as a Russian danseuse, thereby winning the plaudits of the world, is the heroine of the Greater Vitagraph's Blue Ribbon feature, "The Sixteenth Wife," in which Peggy Hyland and Marc MacDermott are presented. "The Sixteenth Wife" comes to the New Grand theatre Sunday only, August 5. "The Sixteenth Wife" was adapted by A. Van Buren Powell from Molly Elliott Seawell's romance, "Mary Ann and the Grand Duke." Mile. Olette, heading the Russian ballet, is really a shrewd American girl who poses as a Russian to make success easier. She is a wonderful dancer and the idol of... workmen have had the effect of curtailing the period of operation of the big canning plant on East First street at Santa Ana on refugee beans. Less than 25 per cent of the tonnage of this product expected was delivered to the cannery and the balance is in the fields of the growers who contracted to raise beans for the plant. That the California Packing Corporation stood its share of the burdens incident to the higher wage demanded and tried to assist the growers, is evidenced by the fact that it increased the price per ton over the contract price and helped in the securing of labor to gather those that were harvested. About 25 tons of beans were delivered where at least 200 tons were expected. The price is rated according to the length of the beans, the shorter beans commanding the higher figure. The contract price per ton for three grades was $25, $35 and $45. When it developed that the growers would have to have more money because of the extra cost in harvesting the corporation raised 15 per ton on the lower grade and $10 per ton on the other two grades. The increase was secured through the efforts of Ed. J. Kitterman, manager of the plant. With the customary picking rate of three-quarters of a cent per pound, the season started with one cent per pound being paid to pickers. Pickers later demanded one and one-half cents a pound, or $30 per ton, and the growers decided to let the beans stay on the vines rather than pay this price. As a result there are several hundred tons going to waste. The cannery was closed down on beans last Monday and will not again be in operation until pimentons ripen. Operation of the cannery for the brief period developed the fact that the cost per case for handling the output was about twice the amount fixed under a schedule of cost prepared by the state labor commission. In the opinion of Manager Kittermen the extra fine quality of the product there will in a measure offset the higher cost. The beans produced there are of a quality far superior to those which have been grown in other sections for canning in Los Angeles in past seasons when beans were canned in the corporation plant in the Angel City. "This district has produced the finest lot of string beans the company has ever packed," said Kitterman Senator Borah evidently did not vote to send the Stars and Stripes to France for the purpose of making "the world safe for democracy" so much as to make the world safe for American citizens. The big brained Idaho senator brought things up with a round turn in the senate the other day when he made some very terse observations as to why the United States is at war, and it is well to have them recalled to public attention. It may help to popularize the war a little, for it may as well be frankly admitted that, while slackers may not be numerous nor financial help withheld, yet the war does not stir the blood of America's millions as it ought to. Said Mr. Borah: I did not vote for war out of sympathy with France, much as I admire her, but because our American rights were trampled upon and our people murdered with the prospect of continued outrages and national degradation. I voted for war to make safe our own blessed republic and give dignity, honor and security to this democracy of the United States. It did not vote for war to spread democracy throughout Europe, although I would in which Peggy Hyland and Marc MacDermott are presented. "The Sixteenth Wife" comes to the New Grand theatre Sunday only, August 5. "The Sixteenth Wife" was adapted by A. Van Buren Powell from Molly Elliott Seawell's romance, "Mary Ann and the Grand Duke." Mile. Olette, heading the Russian ballet, is really a shrewd American girl who poses as a Russian to make success easier. She is a wonderful dancer and the idol of Petrograd. One of her admirers is Kadir El Raschoud, a high Turkish official, who wishes to make her Mrs. Sixteen of his harem. Through craft he decoys her to Turkey and ultimately makes her a prisoner in his hare.m But she escapes and comes to America, where new triumphs await her. The Turkish nobleman follows Mile. Olette meets an old sweetheart, Jimmie Warburton, a Kentuckian, who is now a newspaperman in New York City. The further efforts of the powerful Turk are foiled and Mile. Olette, alias Mary Ann, promises be glad to see every king and prince exiled and every dynasty broken forever. This has become an American war, a fight for American principles, to be discontinued when American interests are safeguarded and satisfied. It is no longer a war to spread democracy in Europe or for rehabilitating European countries. It is a war showing that the United States, though slow to act, is swift to avenge." Exactly and precisely. The spread of democracy in Europe may be the result of the war, to the very great advancement and improvement of European peoples. But the United States has no business in the war merely for that purpose. European nations can uncrown their own kings, unseat their own czars and oust their own kaisers, just as other peoples have won their way to a place in the sun and on the scroll of the world's democracies. But that is not what the United States is fighting for. She is in the war because of the sinking of the Lusitania and other outrages and because of threats of repeating and continuing them—a cause worth fighting for if the flag means what it says. "Results are Better" MITCHELL BUICK men the extra fine quality of the product there will in a measure offset the higher cost. The beans produced there are of a quality far superior to those which have been grown in other sections for canning in Los Angeles in past seasons when beans were canned in the corporation plant in the Angel City. "This district has produced the finest lot of string beans the company has ever packed," said Kitterman. "We have satisfied ourselves that they can be produced here in superior quality and quantity and plans are already under way to secure a heavy planting for next season. "The prevailing labor scarcity in the rural districts curtailed somewhat the output of refugee beans, notwithstanding the fact that pickers were offered about 25 per cent more for their work than has previously been paid for similar work in the bean districts of Northern California and Oregon. "Women and girls employed on the bean pack in the cannery also were paid a much better rate of compensation than has been the custom, and had the growers been able to furnish the plant with a large output the women and boys would have been enabled to earn considerably more money than they have." Kitterman will devote himself for the present largely to securing samples of dried apricots in this district. His firm is in the market for dried fruit and he is sending samples in order to get quotations for the product. It is absurd to preach—as is being preached in some quarters—that no one should be allowed to make more money during a war than his bare living expenses. If we cannot accumulate savings we shall very soon be at the end of our tether. But it is en- "Results are Better" MITCHELL Mitchell Motor and Service Co., Seattle "results are better and cost of operation considerably lower while using Zerolene." BUICK J. D. Laupe, Sacramento "have found Zerolene to be a satisfactory lubricant for Buick automobiles." DODGE H. O. Harrison Co., San Francisco "gives perfect satisfaction." MAXWELL Cuyler Lee, Oakland "Zerolene has given us perfect satisfaction." ZEROLENE The Standard Oil for Motor Cars Endorsed by Leading Car Distributors because the records of their service departments show that Zerolene, correctly refined from California asphalt-base crude, gives perfect lubrication—less wear, more power, least carbon deposit. Dealers everywhere and at our service stations. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (California) For tractors, Zerolene Heavy-Duty is especially recommended. GRAND Sunday, Saturday master has been Bluebird and played at the day and Satunder the capGirl" in which personates the a notorious bast, at a time estrophe. Her telete Noble, a keen Roger Curran, thrown by ato the shores in Loa Morwins her love. Lola and Roggh ideals that markable in its columns of Santhe Presidio for Roger transupon a new created a screen strong in its containing. Sunday girl who poses thereby winthe world, is the Vitagraph's The Sixteenth Hyland and presented. "The to the New only, August 5. was adapted well from Molly ce, "Mary Ann Mile. Olette, illet, is realy a who poses as less easier. She and the idol of to become Jimmie's circlet wearer forever and ever more. "Her Official Fathers" Monday and Tuesday A riotous young madcap who causes no end of trouble for her guardians, the officials of a banking company, is the character assumed by Dorothy Gish in the Triangle-Fine Arts play, "Her Official Fathers" which will be shown at the New Grand theatre Monday and Tuesday, August 6 and 7. Miss Gish goes through an unusual costume cycle during this play. Among the varied attire which he dons is a curious Chinese negligee, with trouserettes and a round Mandarin hat. It is because of her love for such fine feathers that she has a noisy tilt with one of her guardians, who objects to her extravagance. In fact, she starts a run on the bank before getting her bill approved. A company of Chinan en recruited from the Los Angeles Chinatown appears in the scenes depicting an oriental restaurant and curio shop. It is in this Chinese bazaar that Dorothy smashes a $600 vase and is threatened by arrest unless she pays the amount at once. "Happiness" Wednesday, Thursday. Enid Bennett as a pretty young heiress, whom the newspapers have featured as "the richest and most snobish girl in America," stars in "Happiness," a Triangel play written by C. Gardner Sullivan and produced under the supervision of Thomas H. Ince, which will be shown at the New Grand Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 8 and 9. This role is in striking contrast to those which Miss Bennett interpreted in "Little Brother" and "Princess of the Dark." It gives her a better chance to exert her personality and hence should prove the most popular of the three characterizations whic hshe has made for the screen. A splendid Ince caste supports her. Amonge the players who figure prominently are Charles Gunn, little Thelma Salter, Gertrude Claire, Andrew Arbuckle, Adele Delgrade and Jack Gilbert. Reginald Barker directed the production. IN ANYTHING YOU COOK requiring milk you'll get much better results if you use ours. It is far richer than the ordinary article and the extreme care with which it is handled from cow to bottle will give added satisfaction in the knowledge of its absolute cleanliness. Anaheim Sanitary Dairy Anaheim Ice Company Building on Chartress Street NEW GRAND ANAHEIM Coolest Spot In Town. 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