anaheim-gazette 1917-11-15

GET IN TOUCH WITH YULETIDE COMMITTEE Everyone of Orange County's Soldiers Must Have a Christmas Box Workers in the Yuletide committee are finding themselves up against a hard problem, and are not meeting with the proper cooperation on the part of the general public. Many people are helping in all the ways they can, but many others are not. One thing of vital importance at this time is that no duplication of presents be sent, to the end that one man will get half a dozen gifts and another be left out entirely. This does not mean that private individuals should not send their Sammy friends present, but there are many organizations planning on sending boxes to addresses they now hold. These organizations should get in touch with the Yuletide committee at once. Churches, lodges, clubs and other organizations should forward their lists of addresses to whom they are going to send presents without any further delay. This is a thing that does not require much trouble, but will save considerable on the part of the committee. Many addresses are needed. Responses to the lists printed recently have been very few. These addresses are known to many people, who should feel enough interest to sit down and write out those they know. Send them or telephone them to J. C. Metzgar, of the chamber of commerce, and do so at once. It is a very little thing to do, this helping to get the boys remembered. It will not require much of your time, and it will tell some homesick boy in the camps that he is at least thought of by one or two within his own home town. While you sit easily in the belief that these boys are making the challenge of the Hun. No one can view the success of the undertaking from other than the national standpoint, for it embodies the national spirit of confidence in the strength and purpose of the people to go through with the great task which is before us. This spirit will not be content with any incommensurate reaction. The 10,000,000 men and women who have bought the second issue of Liberty bonds, many of them not to be found in the roll of the 8,000,000 who took the first issue, now have a closer tie with the issues and events of the war than ever before. They have made it their war by giving of their substance to sustain it. And it will have to be carried on as they desire—efficiently, economically, patriotically, successfully. JUST A HINT It is more than a prayer meeting, this Y. M. C. A. war work, toward which the generous and patriotic people of the United States are asked to contribute $35,000,000 this week. Here follows a suggestion: Out of the Presidio, San Francisco, his coat off, his hair matted down over his forehead, his arms waving the air like a madman, may be seen one of the most dignified clergymen in San Francisco. It is none other than the Rev. O. P. Bell, pastor of the First United Presbyterian church and the religious task he is undertaking is coaching the army football players. "Maybe you will wonder what I expect to get out of that for the kingdom?" asked the minister who is engaged in Y. M. C. A. war work. "Well, how about this? I said to the men when they asked me to help them out that I would do so if they would let me do whatever cussing was necessary. They have stuck to the bargain and I think you will agree with me subscribe their quota of state. Forty San Francisco students of a high school, officers in the Municipal edu-6 at $5 a day, and turn over to the Y. M. C. A. Thousands of boys all are making an effort to $10 to contribute to the social, educational and gram for the soldier." In San Francisco and the campaigns for $10 war work began in day morning, under the expert campaign manager of business men in that are engaged in the care. PERPETUAL CARE IN ANAHEIM Association Only Wear Necessary Fashion Editor Gazette:— The board of directorsheim Cemetery associates requested me to state, that the board is nowthe old cemetery underprovided the necessarypurpose can be obtained. As it now stands, the fairs are nearly at allthere are no funds to co-work, not even the masonas small as it has been few years and unlessa perpetual care systembecome an abandonedwho have served on tha past well know how ha-merely keep up thain past, some memebon on the board for years,the sale of burial lots but several have removedof their loved ones tokeep cemeteries in niglTo many, our home ce- should feel enough interest to sit down and write out those they know. Send them or telephone them to J. C. Metzgar, of the chamber of commerce, and do so at once. It is a very little thing to do, this helping to get the boys remembered. It will not require much of your time, and it will tell some homesick boy in the camps that he is at least thought of by one or two within his own home town. While you sit easily in the belief that these boys are making the world safe for you and yours, spend enough time to let them know they are remembered. WARNS AGAINST VENEERED HAY The United States department of agriculture urges buyers of baled hay to make certain that they do not buy veneered or faced bales as high grade hay. Veneered bales contain high grade hay on the outside while the center is packed with cheaper grades. The National Hay association is opposed to the practice and has asked the department to assist in eliminating it. CRACKING CULLS More than 400 people are now employed in the cracking and sorting department of the California Walnut Growers association cull packing house on East Seventh street. These workers have been on the job for nearly two months and they will not complete the run before the first of February. C. Thorpe, manager of the association, says that the market for all grades of California English walnuts and nut meats is running high and that everything offered commands a good price. The association is this year cracking all of the cull walnuts and sorting the meats before offering them to the trade. In this work a cracking machine which handles four tons of nuts per day is used, and a suction machine which picks out the light weight meats from a tray full of heavy ones is used to determine the several grades of meats intended for use in bakeries and candy stores. More than 1,500,000 pounds of culls will be handled in this way. The industry affords women a fine opportunity to make money this year. It is a new Southern California factor enterprise United Presbyterian church and the religious task he is undertaking is coaching the army football players. "Maybe you will wonder what I expect to get out of that for the kingdom?" asked the minister who is engaged in Y. M. C. A. war work. "Well, how about this? I said to the men when they asked me to help them out that I would do so if they would let me do whatever cussing was necessary. They have stuck to the bargain and I think you will agree with me that to stop cussing wheer there is so much of it amongst the most popular men of a regiment is at least heading in the right direction. I am wondering if the folks who have not rubbed up against this army situation have any real idea of what it is and what we are trying to do?" Rev. Bell is the heaviest man who ever ran 100 yards in 10 seconds flat. He is one of the volunteer workers in the ranks of the army and navy Y. M. C. A. He is carrying a real message to the soldiers. Every minute of his time is occupied in this worthy work which must be extended to embrace the troops of the armies of Russia, France and Italy. It must be maintained for the American troops at home and abroad. The Y. M. C. A. war work reaches every man in the army and navy. Y. M. C. A. CAMPAIGN The latest reports received from over the state indicate that instead of $750,000 the amount raised in the Y. M. C. A. war fund campaign this week will probably total, if not exceed, on million dollars. In every district, it is stated, business men have eagerly joined the movement and have gotten into the drive with their sleeves rolled up. The spirit of sacrifice became apparent in the campaign early in the week when it was announced that the 400 employees of the Diamond Match company, of Chico, had voted to work on Thanksgiving day and donate their entire wages to the war fund. College students, working their way through school, also have contributed sums to the campaign which meant sacrifice on their part. The largest contributions announced early in the week were; $25,000 given by Capt. Robert Dollar, of San Francisco, $10,000 by an anonymous friend and $5,000 by Mrs. Phoebe Hearst. Before the campaign had started, in fact, new years and unless they become an abandoned one who have served on the past well know how hard they in the past, some memorial on the board for years, sale of burial lots but several have removed of their loved ones to keep cemeteries in night To many, our home ceilings hallowed ground thought of either remodeled ones or allowing them an abandoned cemetery reending. Not only are Anaheim interested in many in the surrounding especially of Fullerton All are invited to help. It is generally known etery association is a m and is not, and never has way a profit sharing o future every dollar w put the grounds in the t to keep it in such co shall be a beauty spot restful to the eye and mind. To this end it will be all of us to agree to hail and other obstacles (sa grave markings and prizes moved so that all may put into lawn with a few trees. For this purpose it sary for those whose ready buried in the cec in addition to the small their lots, such amounts sible for each to pay Vista cemetery at Fullerton under the perpetual cost-from $400 to $600. The board has succeeded many of the roads from abandoned by the county abandoned roads are th burial lots. Part of all is to be used for press part is to be placed in a fund invested as the law direct, the interest, only such fund to be used care hereafter. The more sale of new lots will slowly but part of this w is the other part and go keep fund. However, fresh lots, years and yeas before much will be rea be necessary for those In this work a cracking machine which handles four tons of nuts per day is used, and a suction machine which picks out the light weight meats from a tray full of heavy ones is used to determine the several grades of meats intended for use in bakeries and candy stores. More than 1,500,000 pounds of culls will be handled in this way. The industry affords women a fine opportunity to make money this year. It is a new Southern California factor enterprise which will provide perhaps 500 people with work at least five months in the year, after this season. DON'T SELL THE FAMILY COW This might appear to many to be a good time to sell the family cow or the family dairy herd, because prices for cows are high and it is easy to sell; but suppose you do sell? What is gained? Prices of milk and butter are high—seem higher when you buy than when you sell. Perhaps we are crossing the "stream" referred to by Abraham Lincoln when he advised against swapping horses while crossing a stream. In any case, will it not be better if the family cow and the family dairy are kept by those who know how to make them most productive? A DEMONSTRATION WITHOUT PARALLEL With ten million subscribers and well above $5,000,000,004 in subscriptions, the second Liberty loan stands forth as a demonstration of nation wide patriotism without parallel. More subscribers and a larger sum than any war loan of any of the belligerents has to its credit are the terms of the answer which the nation makes to Especially in the country and smaller city districts there was an early rally to the Y. M. C. A. banner. Glenn county, with a population of 7,000 people, was the first to oversubscribe its quota of $1,500 and this was done before the campaign even started. In Redlands last Sunday the campaign workers completed a fund of more than $7,500 after a few days' work. On Saturday before the campaign began, Riverside, Imperial and San Bernardino counties had subscribed more than $10,000 towards the $50,000 goal in that district. Stanford University subscriptions had grown to $9,000 and probably have reached $12,000 by now. At Whittier College also more than half of the $6,000 goal was reached by the students before the state wide campaign began. In San Diego it was reported that more than half of the $30,000 to be raised in that city was subscribed before the campaign began last Sunday. The same was true at Long Beach, where $1,000 contributions were made at a single conference of business men. One of the encouraging features of the campaign has been the service rendered by the boys in an effort to over- At a meeting of the L.M., association, E.E.P.ention to the fact that acres of land just north limits of Fullerton and to the Fullerton grammar trict which he believed needed for La Habra district of a law passed by them will be necessary to rear lerton district, which willory from several otheris believed that the superlook with favor upon a add the tract in question. It already has one proof is stated, with others in Proud, W.L.York and were appointed a committee a petition for the annex strip. Considerable discussion to the matter of widening nue. While it was the opinion that nothing can for the present in the ting back the buildings lieved that an agreement subscribe their quota of $35,000 in this state. Forty San Francisco boys, students of a high school, acted as watchers in the Municipal election of Nov. 6 at $5 a day, and turned the money over to the Y. M. C. A, war work fund. Thousands of boys all over the state are making an effort to earn at least $10 to contribute to the recreational, social, educational and religious program for the soldier. In San Francisco and Los Angeles the campaigns for $150,000 for the war work fund began in earnest Tuesday morning, under the direction of expert campaign managers. Hundreds of business men in these two cities are engaged in the canvass. PERPETUAL CARE FOR ANAHEIM CEMETERY Association Only Waiting Now For Necessary Funds Editor Gazette:— The board of directors of the Anaheim Cemetery association have requested me to state, through the press that the board is now ready to put the old cemetery under perpetual care, provided the necessary funds for this purpose can be obtained. As it now stands, the cemetery affairs are nearly at a stand still as there are no funds to carry on further work, not even the meager amount, as small as it has been, of the past few years and unless it is put under a perpetual care system it must soon become an abandoned cemetery. Men who have served on this board in the past well know how hard it has been to merely keep up the little expense in the past, some men having served on the board for years. Not only has the sale of burial lots almost stopped, but several have removed the remains of their loved ones to perpetual upkeep cemeteries in neighboring places. To many, our home cemetery has been employed in the factories as returned to the department in 1916 was 88,388 and in 1917, 95,220. The total daily wage for all in 1916 was $284,-071.99 and in 1917, $355,942.88. PUBLIC UTILITIES BREAK ALL RECORDS Most Prosperous Year in History of California California public utilities enjoyed the most prosperous year of their existence in 1916, their net operating revenue being increased $25,000,000 over the preceding year, according to the advance sheets of the annual report of the state railroad commission to Governor Stephens, made public Monday. Electric railroads made the poorest showing, owing to competition of jitney busses and auto trucks, and the increase of privately owned automobiles. The report covers all utilities over which the railroad commission has jurisdiction, more than 1800 steam and electric railroads, stages and trucks, express companies, passenger and freight boats, pipelines, water gas, electric, telephone, telegraph, wharf and warehouse public utilities. The total operating revenues of these in 1916 were $436,215,161. In 1915, heretofore the banner year, the total operating revenues were $384,617,734. Total operating expenses for last year were $275,161,231, and net operating revenues were $161,053,929. Steam railroads' net revenue approximated $99,000,000 in 1916. This is an increase of $16,000,000 or nearly 20 per cent over the preceding year. With the exception of electric railroads, all classes of public utilities in the state enjoyed greater net operating revenues than ever before. The slight change in writer utilities' profits is held due to increasing sale of water systems to municipalities by corporations. HOTEL VALENCIA Modern in Every Respect Finest Hotel in Orange County Accommodations Unsurpassed By any hotel in the Southland and prices reasonable. Corner Lemon and Center Sts Anaheim, California in force which would prevent any further buildings being put on the present line, and for the moving back of the buildings which now project at some future date. The committee was instructed to work along this line and report at the next meeting. FOR WORMS IN CHICKENS "Very successful" is the way a poultry raiser describes a remedy for worms in chickens, suggested to him by the United States department of agriculture official after recommen­dation by investigators in the California agricultural experiment station. The poultry raiser added, in his letter of thanks, that thorough trials of other remedies had failed. That which he praised follows: new years and unless it is put under a perpetual care system it must soon become an abandoned cemetery. Men who have served on this board in the past well know how hard it has been to merely keep up the little expense in the past, some men having served on the board for years. Not only has the sale of burial lots almost stopped, but several have removed the remains of their loved ones to perpetual upkeep cemeteries in neighboring places. To many, our home cemetery has become hallowed ground, and the thought of either removing our loved ones or allowing them to remain in an abandoned cemetery is near heart-rending. Not only are the people of Anaheim interested in this matter, but many in the surrounding country and especially of Fullerton and Placentia. All are invited to help. It is generally known that the cemetery association is a mutual concern, and is not, and never has been, in any way a profit sharing one. So in the future every dollar will be used to put the grounds in the best shape and to keep it in such condition that it shall be a beauty spot which will be restful to the eye and to the peace of mind. To this end it will be necessary for all of us to agree to have all curbings and other obstacles (save monuments, grave markings and private vaults) removed so that all may be leveled and put into lawn with a few shrubs and trees. For this purpose it will be necessary for those whose people are already buried in the cemetery to pay, in addition to the small sum paid for their lots, such amounts as it is possible for each to pay. In the Loma Vista cemetery at Fullerton, lots 20x20 under the perpetual upkeep system cost-from $400 to $600. The board has succeeded in getting many of the roads in the cemetery abonded by the county and these abandoned roads are to be sold for burial lots. Part of all funds raised is to be used for present work and part is to be placed in a fund and this fund invested as the laws of the state direct, the interest, only, derived from such fund to be used for perpetual care hereafter. The money from the sale of new lots will come in very slowly but part of this will be used as is the other part and go into the upkeep fund. However, from the sale of new lots, years and years must elapse before much will be realized so it will be necessary for those of the present FOR WORMS IN CHICKENS "Very successul" is the way a poultry raiser describes a remedy for worms in chickens, suggested to him by the United States department of agriculture official after recommen dation by investigators in the California agricultural experiment station. The poultry raiser added, in his letter of thanks, that thorough trials of other remedies had failed. That which he praised follows: "Give the chickens no food or water for 24 hours before treating; then feed them half the usual amount of ground feed in which has been mixed finely chopped tobacco stems soaked for two hours in all the water they will labsorb. One pound of tobacco stems (weighed before soaking) is sufficient for 100 birds. Two hours after the chickens haave eaten the medicated mash, give them one fourth of the ration of ground feed mixed with water in which Epsom salt has been dissolved, using 11 ounces of Epsom salt for 100 birds. "To reduce the chances of further infestation all manure and loose dirt should be removed from the chicken yard and the pens and roosts thoroughly scalded and cleansed with hot water." WOMEN WORKERS IN FACTORIES INCREASING Seventeen and a Half Per Cent More Than a Year Ago Although there has been a great increase in the number of men employed in Detroit factories and workshops, the women so employed are increasing almost three times as fast as the men, according to statistics compiled by Labor Commissioner Richard H. Fletcher, in factories employing more than 500 persons. Comparing the pay rolls of the factories mentioned as of May, 1916, and May, 1917, Mr. Fletcher finds that the increase in men was almost 7 per cent, while the increase in the number of women employed in the same factories was 17.6 per cent. In 1916 these factories employed 82,359 men and 6029 women. In 1917 the same factories employed 88,125 men and 7095 women. The gain in women is shown in the higher positions. In 1916 there was but one woman superintendent; now there are two. In 1916 there were operating revenues were $161,053,929. Steam railroads' net revenue approximated $99,000,000 in 1916. This is an increase of $16,000,000 or nearly 20 per cent over the preceding year. With the exception of electric railroads, all classes of public utilities in the state enjoyed greater net operating revenues than ever before. The slight change in water utilities' profits is held due to increasing sale of water systems to municipalities by corporations. Additions, betterments and extensions of systems during 1916 cost -39,551,214.58, the report states. This includes 160 miles of main or branch lines of steam railroads in the state, costing $4,000,000. Six railroads are now building new or extending present lines. Telephone extensions cost $10,000,000, and water companies spent nearly $3,000,000 in this way. Electric companies spent nearly $12,000,000 in power plant construction alone. The Southern California Edison company's extensions including: Increasing storage capacity of Huntington lake reservoir, supplying Big Creek power plants; enlargement of Kern river hydro-electric plants; constructing transmission line connecting its system with Mt. Whitneey Power and Electric company's system; constructing transmission line from Ventura Power company's system to Santa Barbara. Extensions of other Southern Corporations are detailed in the report as follows: Southern Sierra Power company—Extension of transmission line to Yuma, Ariz. (giving company longest transmission line in California, 350 miles); installation at Riverside of 5000 kilowatts capacity connection for interchange of power with Southern California Edison company. San Joaquin Light and Power corporation—Construction of 2000 kilowatt steam plant at Betteravia, Santa Barbara county; construction of San Joaquin hydro electric plant No. 2. Southern Counties Gas Company—Extensions to Arcadia, Azusa, Pomona, Claremont, Del Monte, Gllendora, Lordsburg, Monrovia. The war will have a material bearing on the utilities' financial showing for the current year, the commission states, through increased prices of wages, fuel oil and materials and supplies. Many applications for rate increasing authority are based on these increased costs. is to be used for present work and part is to be placed in a fund and this fund invested as the laws of the state direct, the interest, only, derived from such fund to be used for perpetual care hereafter. The money from the sale of new lots will come in very slowly but part of this will be used as is the other part and go into the upkeep fund. However, from the sale of new lots, years and years must elapse before much will be realized so it will be necessary for those of the present to finance the plan now. Let us do so. A. A. MILLS. INCREASE SCHOOL DISTRICT At a meeting of the La Habra M. & M., association, E. E. Proud called attention to the fact that there are 400 acres of land just north of the city limits of Fullerton and now attached to the Fullerton grammar school district which he believed could be secured for La Habra district. As a result of a law passed by the legislature, it will be necessary to rearrange the Fullerton district, which will take territory from several other districts. It is believed that the supervisors would look with favor upon a proposition to add the tract in question to La Habra. It already has one producing well, it is stated, with others in prospect. Mr. Proud, W. L. York and J. G. Launer were appointed a committee to get out a petition for the annexation of the strip. Considerable discussion was given to the matter of widening Central avenue. While it was the consensus of opinion that nothing could be done for the present in the matter of setting back the buildings it was believed that an agreement could be put increase in men was almost 7 per cent, while the increase in the number of women employed in the same factories was 17.6 per cent. In 1916 these factories employed 82,359 men and 6029 women. In 1917 the same factories employed 88,125 men and 7095 women. The gain in women is shown in the higher positions. In 1916 there was but one woman superintendent; now there are two. In 1916 there were forty four forewomen; in 1917, sixty-four. Seventeen girls under the age of sixteen were employed in 1916; forty-six in 1917. Of these more than sixteen, the factories in 1916 employed 1725 women in offices, while this year there were 2160. The other women employed in 1916 numbered 4242 and this year 4813. The men employed, numerically speaking, showed these increases: Superintendents, twenty five; foremen, 641; boys under sixteen, eighteen; unskilled workers over eighteen years of age, 5664. There was a decrease of one in the number of boys between sixteen and eighteen years of age; a decrease of twelve in men over eighteen employed in offices; and a decrease of 569 in skilled men over 18 used in skiled labor. Despite this decrease in the latter line, there was an increase in the aggregate daily wages paid skilled labor, over eighteen amounting to $3,067.43. The unskilled labor received $31,947.77 more daily this year than was paid in 1916. In the total daily wages paid women, all classes show increases. For superintendents the increase is $3.20. For forewomen, $45.26; girls under sixteen, $51.60; over sixteen in offices $1438.98; women over sixteen, $174.10. The total number of men and women SHERWOOD MUSIC PUPILS RECEIVE GOOD GRADES The following Sherwood pupils of Stella A. Schwentker, teacher of the Anaheim branch of the Sherwood Music School of Chicago, completed their first quarterly examination with splendid grades: Edna Hochull, Opal Kelly, Doris Eden, Helen Jordan and Aurora Daniels. These are the first enrolled pupils, those who enrolled later will soon be ready for their examination and are hoping their grades will be as good. The examining committee in Chicago grades these papers and they are then returned with the Sherwood school pin, a beautiful gold pin, which the pupils are delighted to receive and proud to wear. Several of Miss Schwentker's old pupils and a number of new ones have taken up the Sherwood work. Much improvement is noticed in their work in comparison wit htheir former work. Miss Schwentker has a large class of pupils, and she hopes that before llong GREAT CLIMAX TONIGHT Final lecture of J. Stitt Wilson In Anaheim Institute of Democracy “Democracy Triumphant” Democracy Triumphant" You will remember always this remarkable address on the war. ADMISSION FREE Anaheim High School Auditorium 7:30 P.M. Thursday, Nov. 15 they will all be Sherwood pupils, as this form of study is an incentive to better and more thorough work. POSTAL SAVINGS SAFE The trading or dealing with enemy aliens now resident in the United States is not a violation of the federal trading with the enemy act and that postal savings of enemy aliens are not to be seized by the government, form the text of an official bulletin just received by all postmasters. "Postal savings deposits will not be seized by the government," is the heading of this bulletin. Following is the further text of the bulletin: "The following statement by A. Mitchell Palmer, alien property custodian, removes any possible doubt on the question: Some misapprehension seems to exist relative to the status under the trading with the enemy act." This means that Germans resident here who have deposits in Uncle Sam's postal savings will not see their balance confiscated nor their interest impaired. It also makes it clear that entering into a business transaction with or buying goods from an individual who is still, under the law, a subject of Germany did not constitute a violation of the trading with the enemy act. "DEMOCRACY TRIUMPHANT," SUBJECT OF LECTURE AT HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM TONIGHT "DEMOCRACY TRIUMPHANT," SUBJECT OF LECTURE AT HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM TONIGHT J. STITT WILSON, 20th CENTURY APOSTLE OF DEMOCRACY.