anaheim-gazette 1917-12-13

ALL TO ANSWER UNDER NEW DRAFT PREVIOUS EXEMPTIONS BY LOCAL AND DISTRICT BOARDS ARE ALL REVOKED EVERY MAN OF SELECTIVE AGE MUST RESPOND TO THE NEW CALL The regulations governing the new selective draft system will go into effect on December 15. The questionnaires will be mailed about December 13, and every man between the ages of 21 and 31, whether he has been called or not by the first draft, will receive one of the documents, which are in booklet form and contain sixteen pages. These questionnaires must be filled out and returned to the local exemption board, at which the man receiving it is registered, within seven days from the date stamped on the face of the booklet. Failure to comply with this order, which is strictly mandatory is punishable by fine or imprisonment. The questionnaire provides a series of questions for men who, by reason of their personal qualifications, or lack of qualifications, physical, mental, moral, industrial or otherwise, will fall into one of the five classes provided for all registrants. It must be understood by all registered men that all previous exemptions are the final judges as to this and may classify the registrant in accordance with the nature of his answers. The claiming of classification in any but the first class is equivalent to a claim for exemption, and the local boards must pass on this claim, subject only to the review of the district boards, which boards under the new rules are confined strictly to appellate jurisdiction and can examine into the case only in so far as the evidence is furnished by the local boards, which evidence in every case will be the affidavits of the registrant and his supporting affidavits. Under the new regulations, if a man decides that he wishes to be placed in the first class, has all the qualifications, but also has dependents, the dependents can file affidavits asking that he be placed in some subsequent class. A dependent may file an affidavit claiming deferred classification. This affidavit must show exactly how the dependency rests, its degree and all facts necessary to establish it. An employer may file a claim for an employee asking for deferred classification on industrial or agricultural grounds, providing he can show that the employee is engaged on work necessary to the conduct of the war and that his place cannot be filled. INTERESTING NEWS IF IT'S AUTHENTIC Newport Beach Looking Forward to Big Ship Building Plant It isn't much of a job to build a $3,-000,000 ship building plant at Newport Beach (on paper), and it sounds pretty good when you read it, but, as to the actual facts in the plan, we will give our readers all we know about it and let them take it for what it is. from the date stamped on the face of the booklet. Failure to comply with this order, which is strictly mandatory is punishable by fine or imprisonment. The questionnaire provides a series of questions for men who, by reason of their personal qualifications, or lack of qualifications, physical, mental, moral, industrial or otherwise, will fall into one of the five classes provided for all registrants. It must be understood by all registered men that all previous exemptions granted by either the local or district exemption boards are revoked and every man stands in the position of being called for service in the order in which his qualifications fit him. Many men who were exempted by the local and district boards under the first draft, will, by reason of the new regulations, naturally into the first class and will be subject to immediate call to service, and other men, who would naturally have been selected by the old system, had their numbers been called, will, under the new rules, fall into the second or possibly the third class. Only men falling into the first class will be physically examined at this time. Men falling into other classes, except class five, will be called for physical examination only when the men in the class ahead of them are all called for service. The first step for the registrant to take upon receipt of his questionnaire is to call on the board, and secure, free of charge, assistance in the proper filling out of the blank forms in the questionnaire, which relate specifically to his case. This step must not be put off. Men should go immediately to this board, and if a man's case cannot be attended to on the spot, the board will fix a day and hour on which to take the matter up. This is vitally important and cannot be too strongly emphasized. Another point made clear is this: Every man should answer every question in full and truthfully, for the answers are under oath and a false statement may operate to deprive the registrant of his full rights under the rules. When the questionnaire is complete it must be promptly returned to the local board, and when the board finally decides into what class the registrant falls, his number will be posted in a conspicuous place at the board's headquarters. The boards are under no obligation to notify the registrant personally as to what class he has been assigned. Newport Beach Looking Forward to Big Ship Building Plant It isn't much of a job to build a $3,000,000 ship building plant at Newport Beach (on paper), and it sounds pretty good when you read it, but, as to the actual facts in the plan, we will give our readers all we know about it and let them take it for what it is worth, says the Newport News. At the meeting of the board of trustees Monday evening, Clarence Alves, the Balboa real estate broker, exploded a small sized bomb in the midst of the trustees by making the statement that an option had been secured on a 170 acre tract for a ship building site, fronting on Newport bay, between the city and the bluffs, and owned by the Newport Beach Company and the Newport Dredging Company. Plans are on file in the land company's office. and the possibilities are a matter of conjecture. The only thing the men behind the proposal ask Newport Beach is that the channel to the open ocean be made deep enough to allow the big boats to be towed out. Government contracts await the company upon its becoming prepared to handle them. If the proposal is accepted by the board of trustees, the plant will be placed in operation inside of six months from this date. The coming of a $3,000,000 annual output factory to this city means that at least $1,500,000 per year will be added to the payroll of the city and the employment of from 250 to 2000 men at times. The government estimates show that in the next two years over 50,000 laborers from the different trades will be placed in the different ship plants of the country. The plans and specifications of the proposed docks, buildings, etc., will be presented to the committee from Washington and California when it arrives in Sanya Ana on the 11th of this month. The men backing this proposition are H. S. Duncan and Leon Figheroa, both of New York. FOOD CONSERVATION—WHAT IT MEANS A new term has recently come into general use—food conservation. It is heard on every hand—at public meetings—a sufficiency of wheat and nutritious food than enough for cafe, and if distributor properly controls reason for suffering country. (1) It does no cann are themselves. The government means at its dispense every man a sufficiency of wheat and nutritious food than enough for cafe, and if distributor properly controls reason for suffering country. (2) It does not hoard up food stuff not have enough awers are under oath and a false statement may operate to deprive the registrant of his full rights under the rules. When the questionnaire is complete it must be promptly returned to the local board, and when the board finally decides into what class the registrant falls, his number will be posted in a conspicuous place at the board's headquarters. The boards are under no obligation to notify the registrant personally as to what class he has been assigned. It is his duty to call at the office of the board and examine the numbers placed in the different classes. If his number appears in class No. 1 he must hold himself in readiness to answer any call affecting his class. Being classified in class No. 2, or any subsequent class, will operate as a temporary exemption from service, excepting class No. 5, which is equivalent to a permanent discharge from military service, but not from other service of a semi-military nature, to which the government may later call those in that class. Failure to return the questionnaire within seven days from the date appearing on the face of the document, will operate to place the man falling—unless he can give a good and sufficient reason to the local board—in the first class and subject to immediate call to service without reservation, if he be physically fit. All registrants must keep their board informed as to any change of address, and if a trip out of the city is contemplated, the board must be informed and the temporary address of the registrant given so that he may be reached by letter, telephone or wire. While each man will indicate by an "X" on his questionnaire, the class to which he claims to belong, if his answers to the questions are such as to indicate plainly that he should be in another class the exemption boards in Santa Ana on the 11th of this month. The men backing this proposition are H. S. Duncan and Leon Figheroa, both of New York. FOOD CONSERVATION—WHAT IT MEANS A new term has recently come into general use—food conservation. It is heard on every hand—at public meetings, in private homes, in shop and store and factory. It appears on bill boards and blazes forth from electric signs throughout the nation. It has a vital meaning, which to some may not be altogether clear. The definition in a broad sense has 10 More Watches Jewelry Bracelet Watches Lavallieres Diamonds Rings Theo. Robe Notice —Be sure you look for the Victor trade mark when you make the purchase of a talking machine. None are genuine without it. VICTOR OUTFIT IV A —Victrola IV A Oak cabinet with 10 selections (5 double faced 10-inch records), 200 steel needles and four semi-permanent needles for $23.85 VICTOR OUTFIT VIII A they do not need at the present time would be to defeat the very thing at which the government is aiming. Don't hoard. Hoarding withholds food from our Allies and boosts the cost of living for ourselves. (3) It does mean just two very definite things. It means in the first place that nobody shall waste any foodstuffs of any kind. The dwellers in the towns and cities who must buy most that they eat should waste nothing. Doubtless the high prices that prevail at present will prevent cause for complaint here. The garbage barrel should receive nothing that can be used on the table. The same care should be exercised by the farmers where the food is produced. Doubtless careful saving will require more good will and effort on their part than among their city cousins; but they should heed the call of patriotism and humanity and let nothing go to waste if it can be made to help sustain human life. What vast quantities of fruits and vegetables go to waste on the farms of this country. Let the farmers save as much as possible of these perishable things by eating them, by canning, drying and preserving them, by feeding them to food animals, by marketing them. Everything saved on any farm in this country is a help toward victory and freedom, an aid to the alleviation of human hunger and suffering. In the second placefood conservation means that we Americans shall save for our allies across the seas, those foodstuffs which can be most easily shipped and which they need the most. Experience has shown that the foods which are most needed by the allied armies and peoples are wheat, meat (including beef, pork and mutton) fats, dairy products and sugar. These are also the forms of foods whose nutritive value is highest in the birthday we are celebrating—"Behold, I bring you good tiding of great joy which shall be to all people"; and that which was expressed in the Red Cross treaty made by nations, which established that in warfare the sick and wounded of the enemy should be sacred to the Red Cross. This is a Christmas when we cannot see our new young soldiers, strong and straight of back, without visioning those others whom war has made helpless. We cannot see the happiness of our children without thinking of those little ones in Europe who have starved to death. Perhaps we cannot deck our children's Christmas tree without remembering that He in whose honor they are was a "man of sorrows and acquainted with grief." In the Red Cross campaign for 10,000,000 new members during the week preceding Chrisamas there is scope for all our tenderness, all our richest imaginings, all our new born power of simplicity of heart, all our possibilities of service. The Red Cross chapters have asked all members of the American Red Cross to take part in a simple ceremony on Christmas Eve—the placing of a lighted candle in the window shining through a Red Cross service tflag on the window pane. This flag is a piece of white transparent paper, blue bordered, with the sign of the Red Cross five inches square in the center, and smaller crosses to be adder for each member of the household who belongs to the Red Cross. It is an expression of service in this unexampled time—a symbol so instinctive that the Red Cross will glow from the windows of our homes over the length and breadth of the land, sending out the Christmas message to the world, and telling not only the passer-by but our own hearts, that just as our boys and men are finding new VICTOR OUTFIT VIII A — Victrola VIII A, Oak or Mahogany cabinet, 20 selections (ten double faced 10-inch records) 200 steel needles and 4 semi-permanent needles. $52.60 WEBER'S Book and Music Store Anaheim, California been set forth by the United States food administration for California as follows: (1) It does not mean that Americans are themselves to go hungry. The government is employing all the means at its disposal in an effort to assure every man, woman and child a sufficiency of wholesome, palatable and nutritious food. We have more than enough for ourselves in America, and if distribution and prices can be properly controlled there will be no reason for suffering anywhere in our country. (2) It does not mean that we are to hoard up food stuffs for fear we shall not have enough at some unknown time. In the second placefood conservation means that we Americans shall save for our allies across the seas, those foodstuffs which can be most easily shipped and which they need the most. Experience has shown that the foods which are most needed by the allied armies and peoples are wheat, meat (including beef, pork and mutton) fats, dairy products and sugar. These are also the forms of foods whose nutritive value is highest in proportion to their bulk, making them the easiest of all foods to ship in these times when there is not enough tonnage to carry all that is needed on the other side of the sea. The government, therefore, urges that we spare these foods for our allies by substituting other things which will serve us equally well and which cannot be shipped at all or at least not so easily. For wheat bread substitute in larger measure corn, oats, rye, buckwheat and barley products and eat potatoes and other vegetables more alrgely than heretofore. For beef, pork and mutton substitute other meats in many cases with beneficial effects on health, for Americans are very large meat eaters. There are no substitutes for dairy products and sugar. But we can save much by cutting out all waste and by reducing in some cases the amounts used without any detriment to our own health or comfort. Cut out some of the candy and the health of the children will be improved; leave no sugar in the bottom of the cup; leave no butter on the plate to be lost in the dish washing; be sparing in the use of these articles. If all Americans will voluntarily and faithfully follow these simple suggestions they will suffer little in comfort, none in health or efficiency, will save much money for themselves and will contribute immensely to ultimate victory. It is the one way, perhaps, in which absolutely every one of us can help on the great cause. To lose this war would set back the cause of humanity and freedom for centuries. America may well look agast at such a possibility. This war must be won, and each of us can help by food conservation. FIRST RED CROSS CHRISTMAS Something has happened. A simple and thrilling thing that brings something of real greatness to our lives, humble as they may be. In an expression of service in this unexamined time—a symbol so instinctive that the Red Cross will glow from the windows of our homes over the length and breadth of the land, sending out the Christmas message to the world, and telling not only the passer-by but our own hearts, that just as our boys and men are finding new strength in their new sacrifices, so may we through our new service. MORE FARM ADVISERS Word has come from the secretary of agriculture to the University of California that the United States government regards immediate extension of the farm adviser system to every agricultural county in the United States as of vital importance toward winning the war. "State and county councils of defense and all rural organizations can do a patriotic service," say Secretary Houston, "by assisting the government and the state in accomplishing this end. The farm adviser, working in intimate and sympathetic relation with rural people, is able to secure the application of scientific knowledge and discovery to the business of the farmer and the home life or country people. In this present war he has been ready to meet the emergency and to concentrate all rural forces and organizations in working out the great problems of good production and food conservation." Six more California counties have now been added to the twenty which already had farm advisers. These new counties are Contra Costa, El Dorado, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Sonoma and Ventura. The university expects that soon practically all of the agricultural counties of the state will have organized a farm bureau and arranged for a farm adviser, his salary to be paid by the university and by the United States, from a war emergency fund appropriated by Congress, and his local expenses by an appropriation of $2000 per annum by the supervisors of each individual county. "The farm advisers constitute America's agricultural first line of defense" says an appeal from Carl Vrooman, assistant secretary of agriculture. "Not only do they zealously guard the farmer's interests and bring to his attention all that is of immediate prac- means at its disposal in an effort to assure every man, woman and child a sufficiency of wholesome, palatable and nutritious food. We have more than enough for ourselves in America, and if distribution and prices can be properly controlled there will be no reason for suffering anywhere in our country. (2) It does not mean that we are to hoard up food stuffs for fear we shall not have enough at some unknown time in the future. Such a policy would be the direct reverse of what is desired. For the farmers to hold back the supplies with which their barns and larders are filled and the city people who have money to buy up and lay away vast stores of food which FIRST RED CROSS CHRISTMAS Something has happened. A simple and thrilling thing that brings something of real greatness to our lives, humble as they may be. It is the observance of our first Red Cross Christmas. One cannot have even the thought of its appropriateness and its significance in this world of anguish without having touched the highest thoughts of all the world—that which was given on university and by the United States, from a war emergency fund appropriated by Congress, and his local expenses by an appropriation of $2000 per annum by the supervisors of each individual county. "The farm advisers constitute America's agricultural first line of defense" says an appeal from Carl Vrooman, assistant secretary of agriculture. "Not only do they zealously guard the farmer's interests and bring to his attention all that is of immediate practical value in scientific teaching, but also they fortify this with results from the experience of the most successful hardheaded practical farmers of each county. Food production is of vital military importance, and the value of 10 More Shopping Days--Then Go Do Your Shopping Now Select your gifts "where every dealing leaves a friendly feeling" Our stock is larger than ever. Our prices are reasonable "Quality Counts" Roberts Jeweler "At the Sign of the Big Clock" the farm adviser to the government can hardly be over estimated. Some of the most important battles of this war will be won during 1918 in the furrows and fields of America. The farm advisers will be the captains of the soldiers of the commissary and will make this victory possible. CITRUS AND SEMI-TROPICAL The Azusa Citrus Association is closing its 1916-17 season. Its shipments of oranges have reached 150,000 boxes. The members growers will receive over $240,000. J. C. Forkner has contracted for 100,000 rooted Calimyra fig cuttings made last winter and being rooted by Kirkman Nurseries of Fresno. They will be planted at Avocado, a thermal tract on Kings river. Citrus fruit shipments the past year from San Fernando were 268 cars of oranges and 12 cars of lemons. There were 110 cars of navel and the balance Valencias and lemons. There been a steady increase in acreage in the valley, but few oranges will be raised the coming season owing to the heat wave of last June. Reports from Redlands say that shipments of Valencia oranges from that point up to November 1 had reached 5,100 cars and there was more to go forward. Many shipments had been held back late this year on account of the failure of the navel crop. It is said there will not be over an eighth of a crop of navels this season in the Redlands district and no shipment of navels are expected until February. Fresno county oranges tested a satisfactory sugar content during the week ending Nov. 24 and were well colored, only one house having resorted to sweating before shipment. All NO. OF BANK, 329 REPORT OF CONDITION OF THE American Savings Bank At Anaheim, Cal., as of the close of business on the 20 day of November, 1917. RESOURCES Loans and discounts ... $265,935.00 Bonds, Warrants and Other Securities ... 29,000.00 Due from Reserve Banks ... 3,820.18 Due from Other banks ... 17,104.06 Actual Cash on Hand ... 7,250.97 Checks and other Cash Items ... 7.00 Total ... $323,117.21 LIABILITIES Capital Stock paid in ... $25,000.00 Surplus ... 6,250.00 Undivided profits, less expenses and Taxes paid ... 9,827.61 Individual deposits subject to Check ... 32,437.79 Savings Deposits ... 234,617.21 Time Certificates of Deposit ... 14,984.60 and taxes paid ... 8,677.77 Total ... $323,117.21 STATE OF CALIFORNIA County of Orange C. E. Holcomb, President (Vice-President), and Edgar J. Hartung, Secretary (Cashier) of the American Savings Bank of Anaheim, being duly sworn, each for himself, says he has a personal knowledge of the matters contained in the foregoing report of condition and that every allegation, statement, matter and thing therein contained is true to the best of his knowledge and belief. C. E. HOLCOMB, President. EDGAR J. HARTUNG, Secretary (Cashier) Severally subscribed and sworn to before me by both deponents, the 6th day of December, 1917. LEONARD EVANS. Notary Public in and for said County of Orange, State of California. ious, and mildew has been scarce this year. Forms are being prepared for the nursery work which starts late this month. Clyde Webb and Floyd Hatfield were up from Camp Kearny and spent Saturday and Sunday with their rel- CHARTER NO. 6481 RESERVE DISTRICT NO. 12 REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK AT ANAHEIM, IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON NOVEMBER 20, 1917 RESOURCES 1 a Loans and discounts (except those shown on b and c). $540,752.24 Total loans ... $540,752.24 2 Overdrafts, secured, none; unsecured. ... 259.36 5 U. S. BONDS (Other than Liberty Bonds of 1917): a U. S. Bonds deposited to secure circulation (par value) ... 50,000.00 Total U. S. Bonds (other than Liberty Bonds) and certificates of indebtedness ... 50,000.00 6 a Liberty Loan Bonds, unpledged, 3½ per cent and 4 per cent ... 23,000.00 b Liberty Loan Bonds, pledged to secure U. S. and other deposits, 1½ per cent and 4 per cent ... 23,000.00 7 BOND SECURITIES, etc. (Other than U. S.): b Bonds other than U. S. bonds pledged to secure postal savings deposits ... 3,000.00 c Bonds and securities pledged as collateral for State, or other deposits (postal excluded) or bills payable ... 11,000.00 e Securities other than U. S. bonds (not including stocks) owned unpledged ... 17,100.00 Total bonds, securities, etc ... 31,100.00 9 Stock of Federal Reserve Bank (50 per cent of subscription) ... 8,000.00 10 a Value of banking house ... 22,400.00 b Equity in banking house ... 22,400.00 11 Furniture and Fixtures ... 12,598.92 13 Lawn and serve with Federal Reserve Bank ... 51,700.26 15 Cash in vault and net amounts due from national banks ... 85,098.17 18 Checks on other banks in the same city or town as reporting bank (other than Item L7) Total of Items 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18 ... 136,798.43 19 Checks on banks located outside of city or town of reporting bank and other cash items ... 8,562.35 20 Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and due from U. S. Treasurer ... 2,500.00 21 Interest earned but not collected (approximate) ... 1,000.00 22 Other assets, if any, New building and Suspense ak ... 108,571.54 Total ... $943,900.06 LIABILITIES 23 Capital stock paid in ... $ 50,000.00 24 Surplus fund... $ 50,000.00 25 a Undivided profits ... $ 30,589.84 b Less current expenses, interest, and taxes paid ... 11,015.62 Circulating notes outstanding ... 49,995.00 Net amounts due to banks, bankers, and trust companies (others than included in 30 or 31) ... 7,908.47 Total of Items 31 and 32 ... 7,908.47 Demand deposits (other than bank deposits) subject to Reserve (deposits payable within 30 days): ... 461,010.25 Individual deposits subject to check ... 461,010.25 Certificates of deposit due in less than 30 days (other than for money borrowed) ... 90,000.00 Certified checks ... 441.00 Cashier's checks outstanding ... 7,589.31 State, county, or other municipal deposits secured by pledge of assets of this bank ... 10,000.00 Total demand deposits (other than bank deposits) subject to Reserve, Items 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 and 40 ... $569,040.56 Time deposits subject to Reserve (payable after 30 days, or subject to 30 days or more notice, and postal savings): ... Certificates of deposit (other than for money borrowed) ... 45,043.84 Postal savings deposits ... 1,337.97 Total of time deposits subject to Reserve, Items 41, 42, 43 and 44 ... $46,381.81 United States deposits (other than postal savings): ... Bills payable, other than with Federal Reserve Bank, including all obligations representing money borrowed, other than rediscounts ... Bills payable with Federal Reserve bank ... 50,000.00 Liabilities other than those above stated ... 1,000. Then Christmas Now a friendly feeling." Services are reasonable. China Ivory Novelties Silverware Cut Glass Clocks Anaheim Clock"