anaheim-gazette 1917-09-27

WALNUT PRICES WILL BE HIGH THIS YEAR Nuts Now Coming in are Excellent Quality No. 2 walnuts will bring a price this season equal to that on No. 1 nuts last year in the opinion of C. Thorpe, of Los Angeles, manager for the California Walnut Growers Association. Thorpe has been making a tour of the Orange county fields and packing houses, making observations of conditions under shipping operations, and feels satisfied that the second grade will command a good price, because of its fine quality. Thorpe also predicts that white meats from cull nuts will bring 25 per cent more than last year. Adoption of a new method by the association this year in handling its products will probably result in the growers benefiting by $60,000 or more. Heretofore sales have been made f.o.b. shipping point. This year the price will be established f.o.b. destination. The association has made application to the railroad commission for a lower rate on nut shipments, and if the application is granted, the growers identified with the association will benefit by at least $60,000. The rate is now $1.35 and the association has requested a rate of $1.00 and by shipping f.o.b. destination the association brokers will receive the rebate if the commission decides that the $1.00 rate is fair to the railroads. Hearing on the application was had in Los Angeles last June, at which time the association pressed the point that the rich on walnuts was one-fifth of 1 per cent as against from three to one per cent on perishable products. It also demonstrated that cars could be loaded to maximum capacities—from thirteenth to eighteenth place. With the granting of the State Railroad Commission of the application of the Southern California Edison Company, to offer for sale to officers, employees and the general public a portion of the $2,500,000 par value of its common capital stock, recently authorized by the Commission, President John B. Miller has issued a statement announcing that the Edison will follow the practice of other large and successful electrical companies of America, giving its consumers the opportunity of becoming partners in the business and sharing in the profits of the Company on terms that permit the smallest saver and investor to participate. This stock which is offered at $89.00 per share, cash, and $90.00 per share on installments of $5.00 per share per month, pays dividends at the present time quarterly at the rate of 4% per annum, which at the price of $90.00 per share yields a return on the investment of about 74%. A substantial part of this stock has already been subscribed for by the officers and employees of the Company and the directors now give the consumers and the general public an opportunity to purchase direct from the Company a portion of the remainder of the issue. To protect itself against over subscription, as the amount of the issue now authorized by the State Railroad Commission is limited, the Company reserves the right to withdraw its sale offer at any time prior to October 15th, and to return any subscriptions that may be received after the issue has been sold out. The privilege of allotting stock in a less amount than subscribed, is also reserved as it will be the policy of affording as many as possible of the smaller subscribers, particularly among the consumers, an opportunity to become stockholders and profit sharers in the production and sale of t.e.e electric product of the Greater Edison Company, which they are using in their homes or in their business. Among the features of the common stock to which Mr. Miller calls attention in his public statement are the following: That it could not be offered without the official approval of the California State Railroad Commission; that it is tax free in California; that UNIQUE ENTERTAINMENT AT NEIGHBORING CITY Old-Fashiened County Fair Will be Given at Seal Beach An old fashioned county fair for the benefit of the Seal Beach branch of the Red Cross will be given in the dance pavilion on Saturday night, Oct. 6. It will include an excellent vaudeville program, dancing, a Red Cross exhibit and various forms of amusement. The vaudeville program will include some of the well known film stars who will appear in person; also Seal Beach local talent. Arrangements are being made to procure special scenery and curtain for the stage from Los Angeles, and assurance is given by the committee that the entertainment will be worth while. Following the entertainment program there will be dancing and various other features that will make the evening one continual round of pleasure. Members of the Red Cross will have a booth in which they will have on display the various kinds of work they are doing for the soldiers and hospital supplies. Also they will have a bazaar. Seal Beach has the distinction of having the largest Red Cross membership in proportion to population of any city in California. The women members of the organization have worked hard preparing Red Cross supplies, and the materials for these have cost a lot of money. They plan to do much more work for which funds will receive the rebate if the commission decides that the $1.00 rate is fair to the railroads. Hearing on the application was had in Los Angeles last June, at which time the association pressed the point that the rish on walnuts was one-fifth of 1 per cent as against from three to one per cent on perishable products. It also demonstrated that cars could be loaded to maximum capacities—from thirteen to eighteen tons—while this could not be done on other products. Walnuts now being delivered at the packing houses are showing up fine in quality. The deliveries are running 96 per cent good on an average. Secretary Burke estimates this year's crop at between 50 and 60 per cent of normal. The consolidation of the Southern California Edison Company and the Pacific Light and Power Corporation and the subsidiary companies of the latter, the Ventura Light and Power company operating in Ventura, and the Mount Whitney, supplying electricity to the "Kingdom of the San Joaquin," under an order of the Railroad Commission last May, makes the combined property one of the largest electric generating and distributing organizations in the world and insures permanent stability of the Company's business and its securities. It now operates in a territory equal to that of New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Delaware, serving one hundred and fifty cities, towns and intervening rural communities, supplying approximately 175,000 consumers and owning and operating sixteen hydro-electric and steam power stations; with a combined generating capacity of over 300,000 horse-power, two gas plants and electric street railway and fifty-six miles of standard guage steam railroad. During the past year over ninety per cent of the total electric output of the property was generated from the water power plants which attests its unique position of ability to maintain its low operating costs, which is in marked contradistinction to the increased cost of production, which is advancing all other commodities of life, excepting electricity. The Company owns enough water rights that have not yet been completely developed to double its present generating capacity. This fact ensures an indefinite continuation of the lowest possible cost of production, without impairing earnings or dividends. During the last ten years the com- GULF STATES PICNIC REUNION A cordial invitation is extended to all former residents of the Gulf States, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, to join in a great popular picnic reunion in Sycamore Grove, Los Angeles, September 29th, all day, with basket picnic dinner at the noon hour. Coffee will be furnished free to all who buy the souvenir badge but each one should bring dinner, cup and spoon. Many have lived in two or more of these states and this will give a chance to meet the old home friends of each state. Come as early as you can and have a jolly social reunion with the home folks. There will be registers for all the counties of all the states. Enroll your names so friends may find you are here. There will be a popular program after dinner with real Southern oratory, old plantation songs by genuine colored minstrels, rousing patriotic music and a "talkfest" for everybody. Your friends will come in from all the surrounding towns to meet you. Tourists and visitors from each Gulf state will be welcome as well as all who live here. Any other information can be secured from the secretary of the federation of state societies, C. H. Parsons, Los Angeles. The Company owns enough water rights that have not yet been completely developed to double its present generating capacity. This fact insures an indefinite continuation of the lowest possible cost of production, without impairing earnings or dividends. During the last ten years the combined gross and net earnings of the properties constituting the present Edison System have more than tripled, and for the year ending on the 30th of last June were as follows: - Gross Earnings $9,252,627 - Operating expense and tax...3,646,657 - Net earning $5,605,970 - Bond interest ...2,555,041 - Balance for dividends and depreciation Res. ...$3,050,929 This statement was made previous to the merger and does not take into consideration or make deductions from operating expenses of $400,000 per annum, which will be saved by eliminating duplication and by joint operation. HERE IS A PLACE WHERE MEAT IS CHEAP People of Alsace and Lorraine Paying 10 Cents a Pound The cheapest place in the world today to buy meat is precisely where the ordinary mortal might consider it the dearest—namely, in the German portions of Alsace and Lorraine. While meat in all other portions of Germany is selling at an average of six and seven marks a pound, it is being sold, on the orders of the German government in Alsace and Lorraine at 10 cents a pound. The inhabitants of the two provinces are allowed to have it in any reasonable water power plants which attests its unique position of ability to maintain its low operating costs, which is in marked contradistinction to the increased cost of production, which is advancing all other commodities of life, except electricity. The Company owns enough water rights that have not yet been completely developed to double its present generating capacity. This fact insures an indefinite continuation of the lowest possible cost of production, without impairing earnings or dividends. During the last ten years the combined gross and net earnings of the properties constituting the present Edison System have more than tripled, and for the year ending on the 30th of last June were as follows: - Gross Earnings $9,252,627 - Operating expense and tax...3,646,657 - Net earning $5,605,970 - Bond interest ...2,555,041 - Balance for dividends and depreciation Res. ...$3,050,929 This statement was made previous to the merger and does not take into consideration or make deductions from operating expenses of $400,000 per annum, which will be saved by eliminating duplication and by joint operation. HERE IS A PLACE WHERE MEAT IS CHEAP People of Alsace and Lorraine Paying 10 Cents a Pound The cheapest place in the world today to buy meat is precisely where the ordinary mortal might consider it the dearest—namely, in the German portions of Alsace and Lorraine. While meat in all other portions of Germany is selling at an average of six and seven marks a pound, it is being sold, on the orders of the German government in Alsace and Lorraine at 10 cents a pound. The inhabitants of the two provinces are allowed to have it in any reasonable water power plants which attests its unique position of ability to maintain its low operating costs, which is in marked contradistinction to the increased cost of production, which is advancing all other commodities of life, except electricity. The Company owns enough water rights that have not yet been completely developed to double its present generating capacity. This fact insures an indefinite continuation of the lowest possible cost of production, without impairing earnings or dividends. During the last ten years the combined gross and net earnings of the properties constituting the present Edison System have more than tripled, and for the year ending on the 30th of last June were as follows: - Gross Earnings $9,252,627 - Operating expense and tax...3,646,657 - Net earning $5,605,970 - Bond interest ...2,555,041 - Balance for dividends and depreciation Res. ...$3,050,929 This statement was made previous to the merger and does not take into consideration or make deductions from operating expenses of $400,000 per annum, which will be saved by eliminating duplication and by joint operation. WORK OF D A majority of the try believe that they justified by both considerations in They believe that they have longer remain compromising both A SOUND 7¾ Per Cent Southern California Edison Offers Subject to Prior Sale $917,400 Common Capital Following the precedent established by other large utilities in the United States, the authority of the Railroad Commission of the State of California, offers its consuan attractive investment upon very reasonable terms. The Company owns or controls a comprehensive and thoroughly modern electric system operates in ten Counties in Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley, with an area tion of over 1,000,000. The Edison System includes generating plants with a total installed capacity of 301,115 heer. With this large amount of hydro-electric power it is in a strong position to maintain its fuel and labor conditions. During the past ten years the combined gross and net earnings of the properties have moample to meet all dividend requirements. As a result of the purchase of the Pacific Light economies in operation will be effected, thus materially increasing the surplus available for PRICE $90 PER SHARE IN MONTHLY INSTALLMENTS OF $5 PRICE $90 PER SHARE IN MONTHLY INSTALLMENTS OF $5 Under the present dividend rate of 7 per cent the yield is better than LET YOUR DIVIDENDS PAY YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED A FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SANTA ANA THE NATIONAL BANK OF ORANGE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF HUNTINGTON BEACH FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF NEWPORT BEACH SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY, 120 EAST OR AT THE OFFICE OF THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY, 120 EAST quantity and the great bulk of them are now buying and eating more meat than before the war. While the motives of the German government in this matter are quite apparent, Swiss investigators who have recently looked into the affair, and whose reports have just reached France, declare that the ultimate effects upon both the population and the meat supply of the two provinces will be disastrous in the extreme. Under the system the German military authorities purchase from the farmers of Alsace and Lorraine all of their livestock at a very high price, giving them in payment a government certificate, which, up to the present time, however, none of the farmers have succeeded in cashing. The animals are then turned over to the local butcher, who must kill, sell and account to the military authorities for every pound. His report must provide for the disposition of all the meat at two marks a pound, which is the price established for those who are wealthy enough to pay it, and which is still several marks below the prevailing price in the rest safety. Not only do a majority of the people believe this, but a large majority of them. But one would be blind if one did not see that the minority is of formidable proportions. It is not great enough to arrest the energies of the government. But it is great enough to embarrass those who are directing its energies and measurably to impair the efficiency of their efforts. The commander in chief of the nation is not permitted to concentrate all his energies on the task of defeating the government with which we are at war. He is required to appropriate a considerable part of his time to the task of defeating the enemy at home. The president is being fired on from the rear to an extent never before suffered by any man who led a nation into war. Disloyalty has shown itself to a degree which must arouse a feeling of shame and resentment in every man of robust patriotism. CRYING FOR HELP Lots of it in Anaheim But Daily Growing Less ONE CHANCE OF DEATH OUT OF ONE HUNDRED English Soldier Says Percentage of Casualties are Slight At the British recruiting headquarters in San Francisco information regarding the war is freely given by men who have been in it. "Your son," an anxious mother was informed by Corporal F. J. Greene, who returned from the Somme with a shrapnel bullet in his head, "has 100 chances to one of escaping death, and by taking proper care of himself his chances of receiving serious injury are correspondingly slight. Besides the fatalities in the British, French and Belgian armies—I know nothing about how the German wounded fare—have never exceeded 20 per cent of the casualties, owing to the marvelous work of the surgeons and their recently discovered remedies and appliances." He further comforted her by displaying an excerpt from a report by M. Hardinu, French high commissioner, stating that not more than 11 soldiers are killed in action or die of CRYING FOR HELP Lots of it in Anaheim But Daily Growing Less The kidneys often cry for help. Not another organ in the whole body more delicately constructed; Not one more important to health. The kidneys are the filters of the blood. When they fail the blood becomes foul and poisonous. There can be no health where there is poisoned blood. Backache is one of the frequent indications of kidney trouble. It is often the kidney's cry for help. Heed it. Read what Doan's Kidney Pills have done for overworked kidneys. Read what Doan's have done for Anaheim people. Mrs. Wm. Lawe, 428 Olice St., Anaheim, says: "I suffered from a bearing down pain in my back and my kidneys were out of order. Doan's Kidney Pills put me in good shape, taking away the lameness in my back and regulating my kidneys." Nearly three years later, Mrs. Lawe said: "Doan's Kidney Pills have never failed to give me prompt relief and I recommend them at every opportunity." Price 60c at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan's Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs. Lawe has twice publicly recommended. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N.Y. He further comforted her by displaying an excerpt from a report by M. Hardinu, French high commissioner, stating that not more than 11 soldiers are killed in action or die of wounds in each 1,000 of mobilized strength on the western European front; also, that during the fiercely-fought Marne and Charleroi battles the allies casualties were only 5.41 of the mobilized strength. "How did you get hurt?" the mother inquired, in less anxious tone. "By not taking proper care of myself," was the reply. "It is impressed upon the mind of every man in the British army that by unnecessarily risking life or limb he injures instead of aids his country in this war, and no doubt the same policy will prevail in the United States Army." REPAIR WORN FARM MACHINERY Scarcity of Implements Must be Met By Putting Old Ones in Shape For Work The great outcry for farm production and the scarcity of machinery points to the need of some way to repair a great many implements that are now useless largely because of the neglect with which they have been treated, says the United States department of Agriculture, which adds that the machinery manufacturers and their local sales agents should help to perform this repair service. Throughout the country there are Cent INVESTMENT Edison Company Prior Sale Capital Stock United States, the Southern California Edison Company under nia, offers its consumers and the public an opportunity to secure modern electric system supplying over 150 cities and towns. It in Valley, with an area of over 55,000 square miles and a populaled capacity of 301,115 horse power, of which 156,520 is water powposition to maintain its present low operating costs, regardless of of the properties have more than tripled, and present earnings are phase of the Pacific Light & Power Corporation properties large surplus available for stockholders. ICE $89 PER SHARE IF PAID FOR IN FULL AT ONCE $89 PER SHARE IF PAID • FOR IN FULL AT ONCE field is better than 7 3-4 per cent on the investment YOUR ELECTRIC BILLS NS RECEIVED AT FARMERS & MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK OF SANTA ANA FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF FULLERTON FARMERS & MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK OF FULLERTON SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY, SANTA ANA. DEATH OF ONE HUNDRED Days Percentage of Care Slight Recruiting headquarters information freely given by men Anxious mother wasoral F. J. Greene, in the Somme with his head, "has 100 escaping death, and care of himself his long serious injury slight. Besides the British, French—I know nothing man wounded fare—died 20 per cent of the marvelous uss and their recent needles and appli-orted her by dis- from a report by a high commission more than 11 soli- action or die of thousands of binders, mowers and other farm machines rusting in the fence corners, and many of these might be made available for further valuable service. The manufacturers of farm machinery are admittedly unable to furnish all the new machinery required and are paying for full page advertisements to influence governmental authority to insure them necessary raw materials and transportation in competition with the demand for machines of war. The railroads of the country, according to one of their officials, are being compelled in the present emergency to rescue practically every scrap locomotive from the old iron graveyards and rebuild them for active service. A similar plan should be adopted, says the department, for the reclamation of this cast off farm equipment thru the agency of central repair shops where the work could be done. Many of the machines might be made available for further service with repairs of comparatively small cost. Added to the almost sinful carelessness of some farmers there has been the attitude on the part of farm machinery manufacturers in years past to favor the abandonment of worn and disabled machines in order to sell new ones; but now the time has arrived when it is difficult to supply the market with the necessary new machinery. The department suggests that representatives of the manufacturers, on the one hand and of the farmers—such as farm agents or county agents—on the other hand, should get together to establish the necessary farm machinery repair stations in convenient localities. One of the opponents out west to the Anaheim-Yorba storm water district, who has been kept busy button-holing people, and asking them to swat the district with a negative vote on election day, is the same person who wanted out of the district, because he said his land was not subject to overflow and never would be; but when the deputy county assessor came around, he asked that his assessment be reduced because his land was subjected to overflow and that two years ago he suffered quite a loss from the flood waters. The British, French I know nothing man wounded fare— led 20 per cent of going to the marvelous us and their recentbedles and appliported her by disfrom a report by a high commissionmore than 11 solaction or die of 000 of mobolized western European during the fiercelyCharleroi battles were only 5.41 of length. hurt?" the mother excious tone. proper care of my- "It is impressof every man in the by unnecessarily the injures instead in this war, and no policy will prevail in Army." FARM MACHINERY Events Must be Met Ones in Shape Work for farm productility of machinery of some way to reimplements that likely because of the they have been United States deliture, which adds manufacturers and agents should help our service. country there are and rebuild them for active service. A similar plan should be adopted, says the department, for the reclamation of this cast off farm equipment thru the agency of central repair shops where the work could be done. Many of the machines might be made available for further service with repairs of comparatively small cost. Added to the almost sinful carelessness of some farmers there has been the attitude on the part of farm machinery manufacturers in years past who has been kept busy button-holing people, and asking them to swat the district with a negative vote on election day, is the same person who wanted out of the district, because he said his land was not subject to overflow and never would be; but when the deputy county assessor came around, he asked that his assessment be reduced because his land was subjected to overflow and that two years ago he suffered quite a loss from the flood waters. The Gazette Reliable Clean Newsy Official Paper $1.50 Per Year Good Advertising Medium