anaheim-gazette 1917-10-18

SUGAR COMPANY ARRANGES ITS CONTRACTS WILL PAY GROWERS OF BEETS ACCORDING TO THE PRICES RECEIVED FOR PRODUCT MINIMUM PRICE FIXED ON A BASIS OF 7 CENTS PER POUND FOR SUGAR The Anaheim Sugar company Saturday sent out a new form of beet contract for next year, in which not only the price to be paid for beets is based on the net price received for sugar, but also the increased percentages of sugar in the beets are to be paid for on the same basis. In putting out this contract the sugar company assumes the responsibility of receiving a net price of not less than 7 cents per pound for sugar and is making a minimum price to be paid for beets accordingly. Under this guaranteed price for sugar the smallest amount that can be added per ton of beets for each additional 1 per cent of sugar which they contain is 46.23 cents, and beets containing 20 per cent of sugar would net the grower a minimum price of $9.33 per ton delivered at the loading station. The freight on these beets with the agricultural expense and loading made the cost of 20 per cent beets over $10 per ton delivered at the factory, while in normal times the same beets would have cost delivered about $3.50 per ton less than this. It is assumed that other sugar companies operating in walnuts by withdrawing the culls from retail markets. The first thing it did was to make its contract read that the growers were to deliver every pound of their culls to the association. It then began cracking the nuts, separating the halves, packing them attractively and offering them to the grocers and bakers all over the country. During the first year they found that the imported halves were sharp competitors, but by careful grading the Californians finally won the confidence of the trade and last year they were able to sell all the halves and pieces they could deliver. At the opening of this season the market was bare. It is now ready to buy them in large quantities. On the second floor of the association's new headquarters at No. 1326 East Seventh street, Los Angeles, the largest and best equipped walnut shelling and packing plant in the world has been installed. This plant is equipped with a battery of four cracking machines, each of which is capable of handling five tons of nuts per day. Two hundred and fifty young women, dressed in snow white uniforms, spend five months of the year at the long white tables, separating the nut halves picking out the pieces and packing the finished products. The walnut cracking machines are mechanical marvels. They were invented by walnut growers who rose to the emergency when the association announced that it needed a machine to do the work that had formerly been done by hand. These machines have devices which drop the walnuts down into channels in such a way that the pressure can be applied by wedge shaped squeezers with such ease that 80 per cent of the nut halves can be taken out of the shells whole. The success of these machines has been phenomenal. Another machine which developed from shear pecanity in the vacuum men waist brace SERG. HOWARD OF CONDITION AT CAMP MAKES AN APPROPRIATE MEN TO ENLISH WAIT TO BUY Editor Gazette:— Owing to the incumbent of men allowances, the San 160th Infantry regiment at once. This early the Seventh company at one time if some of you want regiment your father your chance. The work of this ing for the sick and regiment. Our men to do, beside nurses first aid. We have selves too, and keep we do. The follow distribution of our their duties. One mess sergeant, one sergeant in charge and surgery with the night man, two assistants, two office clerks three cooks and helclerk, one bath house stable orderlies, one of sugar which they contain is 46 2-3 cents, and beets containing 20 per cent of sugar would net the grower a minimum price of $9.33 per ton delivered at the loading station. The freight on these beets with the agricultural expense and loading made the cost of 20 per cent beets over $10 per ton delivered at the factory, while in normal times the same beets would have cost delivered about $3.50 per ton less than this. It is assumed that other sugar companies operating in Southern California will put out contracts based upon the same plan. The sugar people declare they have had considerable trouble in getting beet seed for their growers, but it is understood that all of the companies operating in Southern California now have enough seed on hand for planting the coming fall and spring. This seed has been shipped to Pacific coast ports from Vladivostock and has cost over 30 cents per pound. Notwithstanding this according to the Anaheim contract, it is to be furnished to beet growers at the usual price of 12 cents per pound. Everything used in the production of beet sugar, including labor, coke, bags, fuel, etc., is costing nearly double the normal price, the companies say, and notwithstanding this representatives of nearly all of the beet sugar companies in the United States met the United States Food Administration in Washington late in September and agreed to supply their entire output of sugar of the present year, beginning October 1st, at $7.25 per hundred pounds less 2 per cent f.o.b. seaboard cane refining points, the same to be distributed under the direction of the sugar distributing committee, with headquarters in Chicago. The price is at present $1.00 per bag under the price prevailing at the time of the meeting and will save the consumers of sugar in the United States over $18,000,000. CULL WALNUTS ARE NOT LOST NOW Growers' New Process Saves Blemished Product. Over Million Pounds Of Meats to Be Sold This Year In the lexicon of the California English walnut industry, there is no such word as "cull," There was a time when the sale of $5,000,000 worth of high grade walnuts was announced that it needed a machine to do the work that had formerly been done by hand. These machines have devices which drop the walnuts down into channels in such a way that the pressure can be applied by wedge shaped squeezers with such ease that 80 per cent of the nut halves can be taken out of the shells whole. The success of these machines has been phenomenal. Another machine which developed from sheer necessity is the vacuum separator—a device which by suction picks up and carries off through a chute all of the nuts passing beneath it which are so light that their weight marks them as containing shriveled meats or being otherwise unfit for No. 1 or 2 grade. This is the machine which separates the sheep from the goats. It takes out the culls automatically and heaps them in the big basement bins, ready for the cracking machinery. During the 1915 season the association marketed 434,526 pounds of cracked nut meats. In 1916 it sold all the halves and pieces it could pack, the prices being from 25 to 45 cents per pound, depending upon the quality and color of the meats. This year it expects to sell 1,500,000 pounds at prices from 35 to 50 cents per pound. The grower used to receive 3 cents a pound for culls, and by selling them as culls he killed his market for good walnuts. Today he gets better than 5 cents per pound for culls, receives more for his high grade nuts by keeping the poor ones out of the market, and relieves the public of the discomfort of buying nuts which may be 60 per cent shriveled or wormy when cracked. The element of chance in buying walnuts has been largely eliminated by this new and scientific method of handling and marketing one of California's most substantial crops. WALNUT CRACKING PLANT The walnut cracking plant of the Santa Ana Valley Walnut Growers' association started its run for the season Tuesday. For a period that will be somewhere between sixty and ninety days in length, the plant will be cracking cull walnuts and separating the usable meats from the worthless. The product will be sold for a sum of money that will be somewhere between $30,-000 and $40,000. A man pilots inivate at $30 per mth clothing allowances and free medical thirds of the men a first class, with a $5 first class, are eligible dispensary assistant surgical assistant, small increases of peanuts draw $44, servicing $56, hospital sergeant hospital sergeants allowances. These give all men of the department pable of filling them sergeant is the highest listed man may obtain department, unless he Of course men wittions are preferred for any intelligent young will be enlisted. Growers' New Process Saves Blemished Product. Over Million Pounds Of Meats to be Sold This Year In the lexicon of the California English walnut industry, there is no such word as "cull." There was a time when the sale of $5,000,000 worth of high grade walnuts was jeopardized by cull nuts, but that day has passed into history. Today the cull walnut yields a by-product and the demand for it is greater than the supply. During the past two years the cull walnuts handled by the California Walnut Growers' association, which markets 75 per cent of the crop grown in the state, have been cracked and sold as halves and pieces. They now bring more money than they were worth when sold as culls, and their popularity is doing much to increase the demand for unshelled walnuts from California groves. The California Walnut Growers' association is entitled to credit for lifting the cull nut out of the dump into the high grade grocery. Until 1915 the culls were sold in the groves, usually at about 3 cents per pound. The hucksters who bought them mixed them with a few nuts of better quality and topped them with some selects, then sold them to the retail grocers. At that time 10 cents per pound was the prevailing price for English walnuts here. People didn't think they were worth more than that and select walnuts met with discouragement when offered at more than 10 cents per pound. The association decided that it could only establish a market for high grade The walnut cracking plant of the Santa Ana Valley Walnut Growers' association started its run for the season Tuesday. For a period that will be somewhere between sixty and ninety days in length, the plant will be cracking cull walnuts and separating the usable meats from the worthless. The product will be sold for a sum of money that will be somewhere between $30,-000 and $40,000. All Dresser, foreman of the plant, expects to have no less than sixty women and girls employed in the plant. The association has a splendid plant, and has developed the walnut meat end of its business into formidable proportions. WILL SILVER COME BACK With bar silver at over a dollar an ounce, a price higher than the white metal has enjoyed since "the crime of '73," with silver at a premium over gold in India—where silver has always been the popular medium, with South American coinage at a higher value that its face value as currency, with the gold of the world piling up in the United States and in Japan; with all these things confronting the monetary world, it is small wonder that some people are beginning to talk of the remonetization of silver, of bimetallism, and like. The conditions of indebtedness which gave the silver movement its force in this country 20 years ago will be of international scope when the war is over. Every country will be in debt, and it will be to their temporary interest at least to increase the stock of basic money. It would be indeed strange if the doctrine advocated by Bryan, the chief orator on the Prince of Peace, should finally come to fruition through the course of war. Our detachment had officers and the listed men I have come from various Southern California. It is 23 years and a fragrant crabbers. In this sociable, congenial one could get along some more just like you fellows around very ones we need. Grafted? You will ask you do. Why delay the day that you wait me arrive on the line a great struggle will be extent. There is no need in debating the forests and whether we Anaheim Gazette MEN WANTED FOR SANITARY BRANCH SERG. HOWARD GATES WRITES OF CONDITIONS PREVAILING AT CAMP KEARNY MAKES AN APPEAL TO YOUNG MEN TO ENLIST AND NOT WAIT TO BE DRAFTED Camp Kearney, Calif. Oct. 11, 1917. Editor Gazette:— Owing to the increase in the number of men allowed the various organizations, the Sanitary Detachment, 160th Infantry requires fifteen more men at once. This regiment was formerly the Seventh California with a company at one time in Anaheim, so if some of you want to serve in the regiment your fathers used to, here's your chance. The work of this detachment is caring for the sick and wounded of the regiment. Our men have many things to do, beside nursing and rendering first aid. We have to care for ourselves too, and keep records of what we do. The following is the present distribution of our men according to their duties. One first sergeant, one mess sergeant, one duty sergeant, one sergeant in charge of the dispensary and surgery with two assistants, one night man, two assistants to the dentists, two office clerk, one messenger, three cooks and helpers, one property clerk, one bath house attendant, two stable orderlies, one on detached serthe fight or not. The day for that is long past. The die is already cast. It is certain that if we do not go across and fight now we will have to fight on this side some other day. There are fifteen or twenty thousand of us in this camp that say we prefer to fight on the other side. Are you game to go with us? Let's get up and at 'em! We expect to stay here for some months completing our training. This is one of the best, if not the best camp in the country to train in, too. Applications for enlistment may be made in Los Angeles, but if you prefer to enlist in this detachment, it is best to come here and then you will be sure of getting into the organization you wish to. Thanking you for your courtesy in placing this appeal before the young men of our community, I remain, Very truly yours, HOWARD E. GATES, Sergeant, First Class, San. Det. 160th Inf. LUTHERAN CONFERENCE HELD AT SANTA ANA Interesting Session of Pastors of Southern California Churches The Lutheran conference of Southern California connected with the Luther eran synod of Missouri, Ohio and other states, convened at Trinity church, Santa Ana, last week. There were six sessions, the last coming to a close Friday. The sessions were opened with devotion exercises, led by the Rev. Arthur M. Wyneken, chairman of the conference. In the absence of the regular secretary, Rev. Walter F. Traeger of Santa Monica was chosen to act as secretary. Rev. J. Hilgendorf of Omaha, Neb., fourth vice president of the synod and the Rev. Otto Soehner who intended for by the ladies of the congregation, who served both dinner and supper at the assembly hall, where all the guests were seated at one long table, beautifully decorated with flowers and heavily laden with tempting dishes. The efforts of the ladies were certainly appreciated. On Tuesday evening the young people of the church tendered an informal reception to the members of the conference. BILL SACKETT'S DREAM The other evening while waiting for the city dads to open up their meeting J. W. Sackett, who had just recovered from a serious illness, was telling the boys of the dream he had one night after the doctor called. He had been suffering excruciating pain and the doctor administered an anesthetic Bill's dream carried him out on a long and narrow highway, along which bloomed the most beautiful flowers, and diverging at intervals from the smooth surfaced road were numerous laterals leading into the valleys below, where babbling brooks wended their way to verdure covered dells. While the sun shone upon the silvery sheen of running waters, amid the luxuriant growth of vegetation, the scene, Bill said, was truly beauiful. Here and there people on the cross roads asked where the traveler was bound for, but no heed was paid them, and on and on he travelled. The road lay in a straight line ahead of him, ever so far beyond its ever-increasing beauty being intensified by its heavenly appearance. Presently Bill felt as though he bumped into projecting rocks, (that no doubt was the twitching of the muscles caused by the intense pain), but he continued on his way. The goal appeared to lay just a short ways ahead, where the crest of a mountain came into view. We have to care for ourselves too, and keep records of what we do. The following is the present distribution of our men according to their duties. One first sergeant, one mess sergeant, one duty sergeant, one sergeant in charge of the dispensary and surgery with two assistants, one night man, two assistants to the dentists, two office clerk, one messenger, three cooks and helpers, one property clerk, one bath house attendant, two stable orderlies, one on detached service with the military police in San Diego, two handy men, one sick, and ten on duty with the companies who are guarding railroads, etc. In time of battle we are on the firing line rendering first aid and carrying off the helpless. This is no place for a fellow with a yellow streak. Over in Europe they have several branches of the service they call suicide squads. The medical department is one of them. In the Spanish American war a larger percentage of the medical department were killed and wounded than in any other branch of the service. We are doing as much to win victory as anybody. To be effective an army must be kept in good health and the wounded returned to the front as quickly as possible. The man in the medical department has an advantage over the others in that his work is merciful and constructive. It is the work the general public imagines the Red Cross is doing. Another advantage is that he learns something that will always be of value to him regardless of his future occupation. A man enrolls in the grade of private at $30 per month, with ample clothing allowances, board, lodging and free medical attendance. Two thirds of the men are rated privates, first class, with a $4 raise. Privates, first class, are eligible for ratings as dispensary assistant, dental assistant, surgical assistant, and nurse with small increases of pay therfore. Sergeants draw $44, sergeants, first class $56, hospital sergeants $71 and master hospital sergeants $81 per month with allowances. These grades are open to all men of the department who are capable of filling them. Master hospital sergeant is the highest grade an enlisted man may obtain in the medical department, unless he is a surgeon. Of course men with special qualifications are preferred for enlistment, but any intelligent young man who applies will be enlisted. We give them a Santa Ana, last week. There were six sessions, the last coming to a close Friday. The sessions were opened with devotion exercises, led by the Rev. Arthur M. Wyneken, chairman of the conference. In the absence of the regular secretary, Rev. Walter F. Traeger of Santa Monica was chosen to act as secretary. Rev. J. Hilgendorf of Omaha, Neb., fourth vice president of the synod and the Rev. Otto Spehr, who intends to spend the winter months in Southern California, were guests of the conference. The morning sessions were devoted chiefly to discussion of doctrinal subjects. Reports on missions and other departments of church activities were heard in the afternoon meetings. Rev. Edward J. Rudnick, pastor of Santa Ana church read a paper on The First Chapter of Genesis, or the Creation of the World. The conference was unanimous in affirming its faith in the Biblical record of creation as a divinely inspired account of the origin of all things, and was equally emphatic in rejecting the Darwinian theory of evolution as an unproven hypothesis, which cannot be reconciled with the plain statements of Holy Writ. A very interesting essay was read by Rev. N. F. Jensen of Orange on "Winifred Boniface, the Apostle of the Germans." Born in England in the latter part of the seventh century this sturdy Anglo-Saxon missionary went to Germany in the year 710. Here he labored forty-five years with untiring zeal for the christianization of the pagan inhabitants of that country, and succeeded in turning hundreds of thousands away from their idols to the living God. He finally died as a martyr, being slain by a band of healers conspirators A. D. 755. Rev William Lankow of San Bernardino submitted a paper on "St Paul's Instructions Concerning the Proper Position of Woman in the House, State, School and Church." The essay called forth an animated debate on woman's rights, woman suffrage and kindred subjects. On Wednesday evening a special communion service was held in which Rev. J. Kogler of Orange gave the confessional address, taking as a text the words "The Lord Seeth Not as Man Seeth, for Man Looketh on the Outward Appearance but the Lord Looketh on the Heart." I Sam. 16:17. BEEFSTEAKS FROM THE SEA That porpoises and dolphins, no less than whales, are good food for mankind has been reported to the committee on resources and food supply of the council of defense, by the agricultural college. Like whales, cattle, or sheep, the porpoises and dolphins are mammals and their flesh is meat and not fish. In texture and appearance the flesh of porpoises and dolphins resembles beef, although the color is darker red. There is no reason why this meat should not be placed on the market, not only fresh, but also corned and canned. As to whale meat, the probable development of the future is that the tendered cubs will be sold for table use and served in all the various ways in which beef is used, while the less tender portions of the whale promise to be of much commercial and practical value if dried and ground and sold as a meat food to give chickens the much needed protein element in their diet. WOMAN MAY BE U. S. SENATOR There is a probability of there being a woman in the United States genate in the near future, and, as might well be imagined, she will hall from one of the liberal states of the Great West. Several months ago, Sentor William E. Borah of Idaho announced that he would not be a candidate to succeed Horses are furnished to the officers, non-commissioned officers and an orderly for each officer. The rest of the men walk which is very good exercise. If anyone has an ornery disposition and wishes company there are two pack mules to lead. Our detachment has a splendid set of officers and the highest type of enlisted men I have ever met. These men come from various towns in Southern California. The average age is 23 years and a fraction. There are few crabbers. In the main they are a sociable, congenial crowd that anyone could get along with. We want some more just like them and some of you fellows around Anaheim are the very ones we need. Why wait to be drafted? You will always regret it if you do. Why delay the game? Every day that you wait means that you will arrive on the line a day later and this great struggle will be prolonged to that extent. There is nothing to be gained in debating the whys and wherefores and whether we ought to be in proper position of woman in the House, State, School and Church." On Wednesday evening a special communion service was held in which Rev. J. Kogler of Orange gave the confessional address, taking as a text the words "The Lord Seeth Not as Man Seeth, for Man Looketh on the Outward Appearance but the Lord Looketh on the Heart." I Sam. 16:17. Rev. M. H. Tietjen of Los Anegles delivered an eloquent sermon on "The Royal Priesthood." The speaker exhibited from his text 1 Peter 2:19, first that in the New Testament all true believers are priests before God, and secondly, that it is their privilege and duty as such "to show forth the praises of Him who hath called them of darkness into His marvellous light." After the sermon all the pastors present, together with the congregation celebrated the Lord's Supper. Following are the names of the pastors attending the conference: Rev. J. Hilgendorf, Omaha, Neb.; Rev. W. F. Traeger, Santa Monica; Rev. A. M. Wynneken, Long Beach; Rev. V. Brohm, Hollywood; Rev. H. O. Michel, Covina; Rev. N. F. Jensen, Orange; Rev. J. W. Theiss, Olive Rev. T. L. Haenser, Whittler; Rev. D. Lebahn, Santa Barbara; Rev. W. G. Reuhle, Oxnard; Rev. H. G Schmelzer, Anaheim; Rev. E. T. Coyner, Los Angeles; Rev. G. H. Smukal, Los Angeles; Rev. W. J. Lankow, San Bernardino; Rev. J. Kogler, Orange; Rev E. J. Rudnick, Santa Ana; Rev. A. E. Michel, Los Angeles; Rev. M. H. Tietjen, Lincoln Heights; Rev./Otto Spehr, Loraine; Rev. J. C. Kaiser, Los Angeles. The physical needs of the visiting pastors were most bountifully provid- IT'S TIME TO BEGIN PROPPING YOUR TREES Stock of 6in.-7in-8-9-10 to 14in Select quality props on hand. GIBBS LUMBER Phone Pacific 201—Home 2664. East Broadway We Want You To Know That your account is welcome at this Bank, regardless of size. Big fortunes have small beginnings. Get the habit of saving and your future welfare and prosperity are assured. Call at any time. Anaheim National Bank We Have Moved We Have Moved OWING to the necessity for more room we have moved our store into the Mitchell building. You will find us on Los Angeles street, first door north of Heying’s pharmacy, where all our old customers as well as new ones will be welcomed. We are still handling the best brands of coffee and tea on the market, and are selling at a price that cannot be lowered by any dealer. Ours is an Anaheim institution and we ask the people of this city and vicinity to give our goods one trial. If they are not satisfied they have a comeback. Great Western Coffee & Tea Co. reelection, the family name will still remain on the roster of the senate, as the women of Idaho will insist on Mrs. Borah being a candidate to succeed her noted husband. The talk of Mrs. Borah seeking a senatorial toga has been in circulation for some time, and, not having denied or affirmed her candidacy, it may be reasonably assumed that she will enter the race in the event Mr. Borah ultimately declines to remain in the upper house of congress. It is just possible that Senator Borah may have decided to leave the Senate in order to give Mrs. Borah a "Such news as this is certainly gratifying and I believe if the work of this branch is continued with the same enthusiasm and hard efforts the fruit growers of Southern California will be greatly benefitted." The Kill Kare Klub was entertained by Miss Ella Tanner at her home southeast of town Friday afternoon. After spending an enjoyable afternoon the guests partook of refreshments served by the hostess at 4 o'clock. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. A. V. Wheeler. The talk of Mrs. Borah seeking a senatorial toga has been in circulation for some time, and, not having denied or affirmed her candidacy, it may be reasonably assumed that she will enter the race in the event Mr. Borah ultimately declines to remain in the upper house of congress. It is just possible that Senator Borah may have decided to leave the Senate in order to give Mrs. Borah a chance to be the Jeanette Rankin of that body. BUGS VS. BUGS That insects are not all injurious has long been known. The state commissioner of horticulture has been working for years to find and distribute beneficial insects which prey upon injurious forms. Many shipments of these beneficial insects have been sent to all parts of the state and have been the means of controlling the bean aphis, melon aphis and the cottony cushion scale. Just recently a letter was received by State Commissioner G. H. Hecke from Commissioner Brock of Ventura, which said in part: "We wish here to express our appreciation of the work done at the branch insectary at Alhambra. We have recently started a war on the mealybug in a certain grove here at Santa Paula and have called on Mr. Clausen for parasites. In response he has furnished us with two large colonies of "Paraleptomastix abnormis" and has also furnished us with a large colony of "Cryptolaemus montrouzleri." This colony of predators was liberated yesterday and Mr. Clausen in a letter states that he expects in the very near future to be able to furnish us with a colony of "Hyperaspis lateralis." 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