anaheim-gazette 1917-12-06

TAKE INVENTORY OF ALL FOOD SUPPLIES ADMINISTRATION COMPILING FIGURES ON EVERYTHING EATABLE IN THE WORLD WILL BE ABLE TO TELL PRECISELY WHAT IS REQUIRED FOR NEXT YEAR The United States food administration, carrying out its purpose of facilitating the movement of foodstuffs in as direct a line as possible from the producer to the consumer, has established machinery for ascertaining accurately how much food is in the United States and in the countries of the world, both friendly and enemy. Germany, at tremendous expense and by the most painstaking efforts, has gathered information concerning the resources of all other nations. Such information has been extremely useful. Without it Germany would be a less formidable foe. Facts are the basis of science and this war is a combination of all sciences, including that of human nutrition. As a general study the strength and position of his army and the enemy's, Food Administrator Herbert Hoover, has established a statistical division as a source of definite information regarding the amounts and distribution of food. The director of this division is Dr. Raymon Pearl. He has a half hundred assistants and has made an expert study of the food supply as well as make a general investigation of the beet situation in the county if it acts on a resolution passed Saturday by the directors of the Associated Beet Growers of California at its meeting in Santa Ana. The directors passed a motion requesting the grand jury to make a thorough investigation in the county, alleging that the growers are not receiving fair treatment, and that they cannot continue to produce beets at the present prices and do so at a profit to themselves. R. S. Valle, appointed to make a crop survey of the South for the food administration appeared before the board and made a brief address, asking its support in the movement. The directors in attendance Saturday were O. E. Elftman, Compton, Frank Meikle, Long Beach, E. Thomas of Norwalk, I. Sawa of Los Angeles, F. D. Plavin of Greenville and Alex Jeffries of Zelzah. SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT Following is the report of the superintendent for the month of November: Regular employees ... $810.00 Oil well employees ... 100.00 Yorba Linda Zanjero ... 58.50 Truck driver ... 75.00 Construction:— Venturi Meter Tube (135 sks) 201.90 Laying pipe for P. E., Fullerton (93 sks cmt., 353 jt. 30-in.) 228.25 Hauling pipe to P. E. job ... 65.35 Repairs:— Zanjero house ... 3.50 Repairs P. P. No. 3 ... 7.00 Repairs P. P. No. 4 ... 90.70 Repairs P. P. No. 2 ... 94.25 Hauling pump frames ... 25.00 Work on flume 4 ... 223.10 Work at head of ditch ... 327.50 Digging around stumps ... 24.75 Work on main canal, Sec. 2... 56.25 Hoeing weeds Anaheim, Fullerton ... 13.75 Since arsenic is thereto in Paris green, the supply of arsenic combating the destructive is therefore planned; the cooperation between tato growers' associates makes of insecticide vide for local maintenance stocks by these organizations. Further opinion of experts, it is important that a sufficient white arsenic be availed the needs next year grasshopper control. General drought of which has been very grasspoppers, those in situation believe that situations develop next spike be unfavorable for grasshopper, an outbreak is probable. A widespread plague would work of cereal, forage and White arsenic is also large quantities for worms, and the like, with eradic damage every year. FIFTY-THREE PEOPLE SOMETHING Peter Stoffel and Nerli Thanksgiving Tree Peck & Colby Peter Stoffel was who carried off the Peck & Colby's draw night, and Nerland Town of the smaller bird thousand customers names on the register As a general studies the strength and position of his army and the enemy's, Food Administrator Herbert Hoover, has established a statistical division as a source of definite information regarding the amounts and distribution of food. The director of this division is Dr. Raymon Pearl. He has a half hundred assistants and has made an exact study of the food supply of the world. He has in hand for the guidance of Hoover the facts and figures of what America and the rest of the world can do to feed their own and other peoples. The statistical division has records showing the amount and distribution of canned goods in the country. It knows how much and what kind of food there is in the cold storage warehouses and in the grain elevators. It knows the amount of packing house products. These figures are constantly gathered and brought up to date. They expose hoarding, speculation and waste, inasmuch as they give a truthful record of what is on hand to feed humanity with and what may be expected in the crops to come. Facilities for gathering information are of international scope, including the high commissions of allied governments, consular agents and officials in practically every country. But to the American public perhaps the most interesting branch of the work is the system lately developed for gathering retail prices. The division has been receiving, each week, reports on the retail prices of 30 staple food commodities in about 800 cities. These weekly reports are to be extended till they include all cities and towns of 3000 population and over, about 2100 places in all. Those making the reports are carefully selected volunteer workers and the system is organized to insure absolute accuracy. There are enough workers in every town to act as a check on each other. These price reports will be an important means by securing information on retail practices, in bringing food in the direct line aimed along from the producer to the consumer, and thus cutting down the high cost of living by cutting out brokers, speculators, and unnecessary dealers. Through the various reports which every food dealer of any size must make, and statistics gathered at first basis of science and this war is a combination of all sciences, including that of human nutrition. REPORT OF FINANCE COMMITTEE The committee on finance submitted the following report: Nov 1, cash with Treasurer.$20,842.81 Same with Secretary.....70.10 Water collections.....3,229.38 Oil well rents.....3.00 Construction.....4.00 Expense, telephone.....2.25 D. Degryse.....16.00 Ben Baxter.....11.50 J. J. Dwyer.....1.25 Lumber.....11.00 Joe Wagner.....110.34 St. Helens Pet. Co..853.94 M. H. Peelor.....57.79 O. W. Lillie.....214.67 Plac Pioneer Rancho.....8.77 A. S. Bradford.....150.00 A. E. W. Co.....8.40 N. P. Robertson.....4.84 Gravel.....6.00 Vernon Oil Refining Co....4,812.14 Bastanchury Ranch Co....1.00 S. A. R. D. Co.....250.00 Calif. Oil Asp. Co....144.36 Stock transfers.....6.00 Edison Co.....931.10 Total .....$31,746.28 Cks, pd. & ret..$8,544.64 Pd. out by Scy...21.25 8,565.89 Available cash, Dec. 1, 1917 $23,180.39 Expenditures: Print shop .....$11.50 Dally Tribune .....1.00 Fuller, Mut., O., Assn..11.10 Pac, Mill & M., Co..1.31 Peck & Colby .....1.30 Herringbone Metal Lath Co..12.17 Placentia Courier .....7.75 Byron Jackson Co..249.42 Standard Oil Co..53.40 Wickersheim Imp., Co..46.65 Brown & Dauser Co..90.99 J. Gardiner .....62.95 West Reinf., Con., P., Co..130.65 Pac., Tel., Co., Ana..9.15 Pac., Tel., Co., Ful..20.25 Anahelm Truck & Trans Co..6.35 M.H.Peelor .....2.25 Grimes Stassforth Co..1.66 Snow Mfg., Co..65.53 F.C.Jordan, Secy..200.00 Wm.Wallop, Sal..166.65 Wm.Wallop, Exp..11.58 Crane Co.....20 SOMETHING Peter Stoffel and Nerlking Thanksgiving T Peck & Col Peter Stoffel was who carried off the Peck & Colby's draw night, and Nerlking Town of the smaller bird. Thousand customers have names on the register, a number, and at 9 o'clock evening the draw. Fifty-three prizes were given by firm, fifty-one of the products of the Globe M. Following is a list of prizes in addition to the bin: Josina Florentinas, Mrs.F.Shanley,Mas. Mrs.E.D.Williams, Harold Maxwell,Mas. Mrs.E.R.Campbell, O.B.Baxter,Mas. Frank J.Oelke,Mas. Mrs.W.M.Gray,Cos. Mrs.E.Zitzman,Her. Mrs.H.E.Davis,Her. A.G.Pence,Health. J.A.Poteet,Corn m. F.Clark,Steel cut m. Mrs.J.Helmsen,CroMrs.L.E.Miller,GreW.B.Bliss,Corn m. F.A.Backs,Sr.,StoPercy A.Dickel,CroMrs.Leroy Leep,GreG.H.Goodale,Corn m. L.R.Wilson,Steel m. G.T.Hatfield,CraccMrs.Florence Turner, B.Dauser,spaghetti, Mrs.Florence Turner Woodrow Owens,Sir Mrs.C.A.McKinley, Lena Fischer,Spaghett, Martha Paute,Mas. Ida M.Neff,A1 FlouMilan Pierce,Sack M. A.H.Maas,A1 FlouW.H,Bandy,Malzair, Selma Thompson,A1 Orpranage,Malzair, George W.Sloop,Mas. Mrs.Steckert,A1 flouK.S.Jensen,corn m. Mrs.Rosa Dickel,Mas. F.W.Schmidt,A1 flouYsabel Yriarte,Corn m. Ruth E.Dall,Whole n. Agnes V.Weber,Malzair These price reports will be an important means by securing information on retail practices, in bringing food in the direct line aimed along from the producer to the consumer, and thus cutting down the high cost of living by cutting out brokers, speculators, and unnecessary dealers. Through the various reports which every food dealer of any size must make, and statistics gathered at first hand by Dr. Pearl's division, the United States food administrator will know the price of every important product to the retailer. Hoover says there has been earnest effort by business men of good standing to assist him in eliminating abuses from the food handling industries. The trades understand that in these times of high prices its best interests, in the long run, will be subserved by putting itself under government supervision. The administration realizes that the desired large production of farm staples can be secured only when the farmer is reasonably sure of a fair return on his investment and labor. And yet to protect the consumer there must be no large profits in the line of distribution. The price gathering organization of which Dr. Pearl has general charge concerns itself with getting all this information to be made public at the proper time through suitable publicity channels. And in possession of the facts, which is merely another name for the truth, the administration can resist the rapacity of selfish interests and take definite forward steps for the good of all the people. PROBE BY GRAND JURY The Orange county grand jury will go into the details of the difference between the sugar growers and the Anaheim Gazette to widely fluctuating demands and price, will be stabalized when under the control of the food administration. Since arsenic is the active poison in Paris green, the potato farmer is quite dependent upon an adequate supply of arsenic compounds for combating the destructive potato bug. It is therefore planned to bring about the cooperation between the state potato growers' associations and the makers of insecticides and thus provide for local maintenance of insecticide stocks by these and similar state organizations. Furthermore, in the opinion of experts, it is especially important that a sufficient supply of white arsenic be available to meet the needs next year in the work of grasshopper control. Owing to the general drought of the past season, which has been very favorable for grasspoppers, those in touch with the situation believe that unless conditions develop next spring which will be unfavorable for the hatching of grasshopper, an outbreak of the pest is probable. A widespread grasshopper plague would work heavy losses of cereal, forage and other crops. White arsenic is also necessary in large quantities for the control of cutworms, and the like, which do considerable damage every year. FIFTY-THREE PEOPLE GET SOMETHING FOR NOTHING Peter Stoffel and Nerland Tobin Win Thanksgiving Turkeys at Peck & Colby's Peter Stoffel was the lucky man who carried off the big gobbler at Peck & Colby's drawing Wednesday night, and Nerland Tobin was winner of the smaller bird. Nearly four thousand customers had signed their names on the register each receiving receipts in excess of the actual minimum cost of bringing the orchestra there will be credited toward the minimum amount for a concert at the institute next year. To date within about $150 of the minimum amount has been subscribed. At the concert last year in Fullerton about $150.00 worth of special admission tickets were sold the night of the concert. If the same happens this year, the amount secured for reserved seats between now and Dec. 17 will constitute the nucleus of the fund for next year. The price for reserved seats will be 75 cents. Reservations will be made in the order of receipt of checks by J. E. Donaldson, Fullerton high school, Fullerton. HOLD EXAMINATIONS FOR A MIDSHIPMAN This District is Entitled to Another Cadet at Annapolis Examinations will be held at several points in this district on January 9 for the purpose of filling a vacancy in the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, according to the following letter received at this office from Congressman Kettner: The Eleventh California district, which I have the honor to represent, will be entitled to a midshipman at Annapolis in June, 1918, and I have been requested by the department to make designation for this appointment. I have received a great many requests from the boys of my district, who want to do their bit, but who are not of age, and I am going to give all of the young men in the district, the same fair chance to secure this appointment. I have decided to have held at the post office buildings in Bishop, San Bernardino, Santa Ana, Newport Beach is now at work on a $100,000 jetty to extend 1900 feet into the ocean. It will be necessary to extend the jetty 200 feet, at a cost of $33,000. Newport Beach has called another bond election for this month to vote on $50,000 bonds for dredging a channel from the mouth nearly to Newport Beach proper. Captain Leeds, United States army engineer for this district, has called a public hearing in Santa Ana for December 11, at the supervisor's room for the purpose of making an investigation for the government as to whether or not Federal aid should be given the project. CALIFORNIA C. AND D IN NUMBER OF AUTOS One Machine In State for Every Tenth Person California is now second among the states in number of automobiles per capita. Recent figures show that nearly every tenth person in California owns an automobile. Iowa is first, with a car to every nine persons. Nebraska runs California a close race for second place. Kansas and South Dakota are tied with a car to every thirteen inhabitants. Alabama is at the bottom of the list with a car for every eighty-one inhabitants. The average for the United States is twenty-four. Superintendent H. A. French of the state motor vehicle department announces the following figures covering automobile registrations and receipts up to Thursday morning: Registra-tions. Receipts Automobiles ... 294,538 $2,681,126 SOMETHING FOR NOTHING Peter Stoffel and Nerland Tobin Win Thanksgiving Turkeys at Peck & Colby's Peter Stoffel was the lucky man who carried off the big gobbler at Peck & Colby’s drawing Wednesday night, and Nerland Tobin was winner of the smaller bird. Nearly four thousand customers had signed their names on the register, each receiving a number, and at 9 o’clock Wednesday evening the drawing took place. Fifty-three prizes were awarded by the firm, fifty-one of them being products of the Globe Milling company. Following is a list of those who drew prizes in addition to Stoffel and Tobin: Josina Florentinas, Spaghetti. Mrs. F. Shanley, Macaroni. Mrs. E. D. Williams, Spaghetti. Harold Maxwell, Macaroni. Mrs. E. R. Campbell, Spaghetti. O. B. Baxter, Macaroni. Frank J. Oelke, Corn Meal. Mrs. W. M. Gray, Corn meal. Mrs. E. Zitzman, Health Brand. Mrs. H. E. Davis, Health brand. A. G. Pence, Health brand. J. A. Poteet, Corn meal. F. Clark, Steel cut oats. Mrs. J. Helmsen, Cracked wheat. Mrs. L. E. Miller, Graham flour. W. B. Bliss, Corn meal. F. A. Backs, Sr., Steel Cut oats. Percy A. Dickel, Cracked wheat. Mrs. Leroy Leep, Graham flour. G. H. Goodale, Corn meal. L. R. Wilson, Steel cut oats. G. T. Hatfield, Cracked wheat. Mrs. Florence Turner, Graham flour. B. Dauser, spaghetti. Mrs. Florence Turner, Macaroni. Woodrow Owens, Spaghetti. Mrs. C. A. McKinley, Macaroni. Lena Fischer, Spaghetti. Martha Paute, Macaroni. Ida M. Neff, A1 Flour. Milan Pierce, Sack Maizarina. A. H. Maas, A1 Flour. W. H. Bandy, Maizarina. Selma Thompson, A1 flour. Orpranage, Maizarina. Mrs. J. B. Coykendall, A1 Flour. George W. Sloop, Maizarina. Mrs. Steckert, A1 flour. K. S. Jensen, corn meal. Mrs. Rosa Dickel, Maizarina. F. W. Schmidt, A1 flour. Ysabel Yriarte, Corn meal. Ruth E. Dall, Whole wheat flour. Agnes V. Weber, Maizarina. Alabama is at the bottom of the list with a car for every eighty-one inhabitants. The average for the United States is twenty-four. Superintendent H. A. French of the state motor vehicle department announces the following figures covering automobile registrations and receipts up to Thursday morning: Registrations. Receipts Automobiles ...294,538 $2,681,126 Motorcycles ...27,716 50,055 Chauffeurs ...22,553 19,194 Auto dealers ...2,306 48,349 Motorcycle dealers 163 876 Miscellaneous ...9,858 CHECKMATE TO PIRATES That some business concerns had deliberately planned to “hold up” the government through high prices on naval contracts is the expressed view of officials engaged in supply work. The navy, however, proposes to commandeer goods wherever this becomes imperative, and it will not temporize with any hoarding for higher prices. The bureau of supplies and accounts, the navy’s purchasing organization, has evidence that at least one commodity had been deliberately held for abnormally high prices. In the case of tin, the navy has commanded one thousand tons stored in New York warehouses, but has turned over to the American Steel and Iron Institute the question of further adjustment of prices and supply. The navy had sufficient tin through fore-sighted purchases last spring to supply its own need, but there was a prospect that if more tin was not given contractors, the navy destroyer program would actually be halted for want of machinery in which tin was used directly as an alloy. One New York concern, a Dutch house, had a big supply of tin from which the navy drew eight hundred tons. The manager of it manifestly was holding for high prices, for he did not even know what to charge for it when asked for a quotation. He informed the department that he would have to consult his office. This waiting on high prices was undertaken in the face of the fact that Holland would have no market here if the British had not permitted her to ship the goods in. Other materials, the navy has com- TEACHERS' INSTITUTE HELD AT FULLERTON Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra Will Be Present and Make Music For the first time in the history of Orange county the annual teachers institute will be held outside the city of Santa Ana. That it will be one of the best in the history of the county is shown by the fact that to date more than half of the teachers and a great many who are not teachers have subscribed to a fund to bring the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra to Fullerton for a concert as one session of the institute. Manager Blanchard of the orchestra has agreed not only to bring the Symphony, but to present Desedir Vecsel as piano soloist. Vecsel, who ranks as one of the world's greatest pianists will play the great fifth concerto by Saint-Saens. A move has been started to make a concert by the Symphony one session of the institute each year. Manager Blanchard has agered that any re- ASKS BOND ISSUE Recommends Half a Million Dollar Issue for Work at Newport Bay A county bond issue of $500,000 is recommended in the report of the Orange County Harbor commission filed with the board of supervisors at a special meeting held Saturday. Jetty work, dredging and opening the Santa Ana river direct to the ocean will cost $635,000 according to experts. Dredged materials will return $135,000, leaving $500,000 to be supplied by bonds. Newport harbor is feasible and advisable in the opinion of the commissioners and Engineer Leeds. A COOL ARBOR The slack times of Autumn afford the best time in which to beautify your farm for next season's growing period. An arbor located at the end of the kitchen walk makes a delightful place for the housewife to turn to when preparing fruit or vegetables from the home garden as well as affording a cool resort for hot days. It also acts as a shield, screening off the less desirable view—it's inexpensive GIBBS LUMBER Phone Pacific 201—Home 2664. East Broadway MARKETS OBSERVE MEATLESS DAY The meat markets of Anaheim will observe every Tuesday as "meatless day" by closing at noon. These markets will have fresh fish, oysters, poultry, lard and cheese to offer on that day, but no fresh or salt meat, will be sold. Kindly phone your order early so that all orders can be delivered before closing time. Signed: ANAHEIM CASH MARKET, By J. E. Stroup, CITY CASH MARKET, By Schneider Bros. PALACE CASH MARKET, By J. Bergman. NATIONAL CASH MARKET, By J. D. Rasmussen. DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP Notice is hereby given that the partnership heretofore existing between D. J. O'Connor and V. U. Simpson, hitherto engaged in business under the firm name of O'Connor & Simpson, is hereby dissolved by mutual consent, D. J. O'Connor continuing the business, and assuming all indebtedness and receiving all moneys due the firm. O'CONNOR & SIMPSON. Anaheim, Cal., Nov. 26. START YOUR Christmas Shopping Early and there isn't a better place to supply your wants for men and boys than JACKSON'S Men's and young men's suits and overcoats $15. Schobel hats $3 to $4. Smoking jackets $5.50 to $7.50. Bath robes $4.50 to $12 Suspenders in fancy-boxes 50c to $1. Handkerchiefs in holiday boxes 3 for $1 and cheaper Silk Shirts in fancy boxes Neckwear in a class by itself 25c to $2. Gloves for work or dress Silk Sox. Silk Pajamas. Mackinaw Coats. Rain Coats. Suit Cases and Bags. Collar Boxes $1. Belts with sterling silver buckles. You will avoid all the perplexities of shopping by coming to JACKSON'S MEN'S WEAR SHOP Only Exclusive $15.00 Suit House in Orange County ANAHEIM chine tools. In the latter case, tools intended for South America have been seized because of the pressing need of them here. OUR BOYS IN FRANCE children. Mr. Hatfield's father and his two brothers served Uncle Sam during the Civil war and his grandfather was a colonel in the Revolutionary war. GROWING COTTON FOR TIRES OUR BOYS IN FRANCE EAGER FOR THE FRAY Lieut. Hatfield Writes They Can Hear The Guns, and Long to Get Into Action The Los Angeles Times on Monday printed a picture of Lieut. Leland Hatfield, with the following comment added: J. S. Hatfield is a proud man. He not only raised all his boys to be soldiers, but his father before him raised his boys for the same purpose—ditto his grandfather. From somewhere in France Mr. Hatfield has just received a letter from his son, Lieut. Leland Hatfield, that the latter is within hearing of the big guns and expects and hopes to get into action most any day. Lieut. Hatfield entered the California Field Hospital Corps No. 1, under Maj. Decker in 1913. That was on his 18th birthday. Later he served with the regimental hospital corps under Maj.-Gen. Wiser in the Mexican border troubles and at Fort Huachuca he took an examination for lieutenant in the regular army. He failed, in Spanish and was turned down. When the war with Germany broke out young Hatfield was sergeant at Arcadia, and later received an appointment to go to San Francisco with the noncommissioned officers of the Seventh regiment. While in the officers' training camp in the north he received notice from Washington that his examination at Fort Huachuca had been reconsidered and he was appointed second lieutenant in the United States army and later appointed first lieutenant. Young Hatfield is well known in Los Angeles, although his old home is in Anaheim, in which city he was born. His father intends to move to Linda Vista, at which point his oldest son is first sergeant of the ambulance corps. Another son, George T., has seen service in the navy but now resides at Anaheim with his wife and children. Mr. Hatfield's father and his two brothers served Uncle Sam during the Civil war and his grandfather was a colonel in the Revolutionary war. GROWING COTTON FOR TIRES The manufacture of automobile tires and the cultivation of a high grade of cotton go hand in hand. One of the big tire and rubber companies of the Middle West was foresighted enough to realize that the war was going to make it hard to get hold of the Egyptian cotton needed for its tire production. Immediately that company began to look into the possibilities and decided that the cotton it needed could be grown in the Salt River valley of Arizona. First it purchased 26,000 acres of desert land. Then it reclaimed a tract of 600 acres and planted its first crop, the finest grade of Egyptian cotton. That first crop is being harvested. It seems to be satisfactory both as to quality and yield. The next planting will cover 14,000 acres and is expected to yield a bale an acre. All this plantation is irrigated by water from the Roosevelt Dam. This tire company has pretty successfully protected its future from the submarine peril. It has also greatly stimulated cotton grawing in the Salt River valley. It has been predicted that at least 100,000 hitherto neglected acres will be under cultivation in the coming season. Cotton seed oil and oil cake will be manufactured in the valley. There seems to be no limit to the lessons the war teaches and the new lines of endeavor toward which it turns human ingenuity. A wealthy farmer of Iowa, assured a United States Marshal that it was his private business whether or not he stood up in a theatre when the orchestra played the "Star Spangled Banner." He also said the same was true whether he bought Liberty bonds or alped the Red Cross. This man is now out on $5000 ball awaiting the action of the federal grand jury. This is a free country but not quite as free as it was for some. 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