anaheim-gazette 1917-12-20

LAWYERS ASKED TO HELP FILL BLANKS ATTORNEYS DETAILED FOR CERTAIN DAYS AT EXEMPTION BOARD HEADQUARTERS WILL ASSIST REGISTRANTS IN FILLING OUT QUESTION-NAIRES SENT THEM BY BOARD All of the lawyers of Orange County have been called upon to assist the registrants in filling out the questionnaires sent them by the local exemption boards. The legal advisory board appointed by Governor Stephens composed of Judge Z. B. West, Clyde Bishop and H. C. Head, held a point meeting with the Bar Association of Orange county at the court house Friday. The lawyers all expressed a willingness to render assistance, and the advisory board was authorized to make such arrangement as would be most convenient for the registrants and most fairly distribute the work among the lawyers. After careful consideration and consultation with the exemption boards, it was found that the most convenient arrangement would be to divide the time among the attorneys and arrange to have one attorney constantly in attendance for assistance of the registrants at the headquarters of the local exemption board. It is not mandatory that a registrant have an attorney assist him in filling out the blank, but it is thought probable that most of them Del Norte 4,068 El Dorado 3,400 Fresno 6,900 Glenn 2,442 Humboldt a,496 Imperial 27,970 Inyo 147,681 Kern 16,260 Kings None Lake 11,750 Lassen 53,287 Los Angeles 1,388 Madera 1,720 Marin None Mariposa 2,201 Mendocino 10,555 Merced 20 Modoc 38,660 Mono 34,038 Monterey 8,052 Napa 1,463 Nevada 1,512 Orange None Placer 2,035 Plumas 6,779 Riverside 33,055 Sacramento None San Benito 2,602 San Diego 35,291 San Francisco None San Joaquin None San Luis Obispo 5,196 San Mateo None Santa Barbara 819 San Bernardino 252,685 Santa Clara 1,777 Santa Cruz 75 Shasta 18,813 Sierra 2,268 Siskiyou 34,407 Solano 324 Sonoma 510 Stanislawus 1,280 Sutter None Tehama 10,640 Trinity 12,522 Tulare 2,590 Tuolumne 2,195 Ventura 144 Yolo 440 Yuba 1,145 SECRETARY OF WAR WRITES ABC The following letter is man Small, and the secretary of War Baker, is the people of Orange county of its bearing on the proposition: October Hon. Newton D. Baker Secretary of War. My Dear Sir: I am duly solution adopted by the Rivers and Harbors of Representatives to make munication. It is conceded that the government has jurisdiction overitable waterways, and a published policy of the commission for the improvement projects consists demands of the country means of transportation. As the House of Re must initiate all legislative appropriations for the rivers and harbors, of the committee desire their duties in the most mer. The primary purpovement of our river is to provide adequate navigation and thereby transportation by water evident that the mere entrance to or in depth and area of a hard provenance of the character waterway will not lish water transportation neither will the construc road track assure traffic ply provide the basic transportation. BUSY HOLIDAYS FOR YOUTHFUL PATRIOTS Christmas vacation this year is going to be a busy time for our boys and girls. The great war savings campaign is their big chance to do their bit for Uncle Sam, who has taken every boy and girl in the country into partnership with him in winning the war. So our local youthful patriots will be busy with odd jobs of all kinds during their holidays, to earn the nickels and dimes with which to buy their thrift stamps. These thrift stamps cost 25 cents each. They are on sale at the post office, at stores and banks. Twenty thrift stamps pasted in a book which is given free may be exchanged for a war savings stamp upon the payment of an additional twelve cents during December and January, and one cent more for each succeeding month in 1918. War savings stamps will be worth $5.00 in 1923—the difference between $4.12 to $4.23, the purchase price paid during 1918 and the $5.00 which Uncle Sam pays at the end of five years representing the four per cent interest compounded quarterly which the government pays for the use of the money. PLACENTIA MUTUAL HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING Old Officers Re-Elected for the Coming Year The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Placentia Mutual Orange Association was held last Tuesday at the Round Table club house. This meeting was the largest in attendance of any annual meeting in the history of the association, there being over 100 persons present. VACANT SCHOOL LAND There are 811,810.64 acres of vacant land. VACANT SCHOOL LAND There are 811,810.64 acres of vacant school land situate in 48 counties of this state which are subject to lease by any person, firm or corporation from the state of California pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 493, Statutes of California, 1917. There are no vacant school lands in this county. Anyone desiring to lease any of said lands can, by communicating with Surveyor General W. S. Kingsbury, Sacramento, California, obtain a pamphlet containing a copy of the law governing the leasing of said lands and a list of the different tracts of state land subject to lease in the county in which he is interested together with a form for application to lease. The fee for filing an application is $5.00 and the annual rental per-acre charged is finally determined by the state board of control. There is no charge for the pamphlets sent out by the surveyor general. The following table shows the vacant school land in the various counties of the state: Acres Alameda None Alpine 1,675 Amador 640 Butte 1,906 Calaveras 1,040 Colusa 2,000 Contra Costa None HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING Old Officers Re-Elected for the Coming Year The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Placentia Mutual Orange Association was held last Tuesday at the Round Table club house. This meeting was the largest in attendance of any annual meeting in the history of the association, there being over 100 persons present. The regular business was transacted in the forenoon. Secretary Fuller read his yearly report, which was very pleasing to the stockholders. He stated there were 30 additions in membership during the past year with only one withdrawal, making 52 members joining the association for the past two years. At noon the stockholders adjourned to the Presbyterian church basement where a delightful spread was served under the direction of Mrs. Mozler. After dinner the stockholders convened at the club house where they were addressed by the following speakers: Dale R. King, Manager Northern Orange County Citrus exchange, Dana C. King, Orange Sales Agent California Fruit Growers' Exchange; A. E. Barnes, Secretary Fruit Growers Supply Co.; Don Francisco, Advertising manager California Fruit Growers. Following members were re-elected to serve on the board of directors for the ensuing year: John C. Tuffree, president; Samuel Kraemer, Vice-president; Benj. Kraemer, A. T. Pendleton, C. C. Wagner, J. Sullivan, A. L. Porter. Charles E. Fuller was re-elected secretary and manager. The members and friends present expressed themselves that this meeting was a very enjoyable and profitable one. The committee submits above additional facilities necessary and feasible, suggest as a general plan water terminals must be located in the state or municipal public agencies of that water carriers must be maintained by individuals, or other local may be substantially lessgress may only improve navigation of capacity bors and the channels waterways. It will be admitted to limited number of larger number of interest which the foregoe have not been provided may be stated that the country, including every class of citizens who must dustrial units and are ed in transportation, slight knowledge of their details for securing trawater. The demand four of products by water under normal conditions acute under war many cases the essential lacking. The committee are the conviction that it direct attention to this liction of duty upon the public and to express appropriations should for the improvement and harbors where they and localities are controlling to discharge their by providing the fac SECRETARY OF WAR WRITES ABOUT HARBOR Tells What Local People Must do Before Securing Appropriations The following letter from Congressman Small, and the answer from Secretary of War Baker, is of interest to the people of Orange county because of its bearing on the Newport harbor proposition: October 5, 1917. Hon. Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War. My Dear Sir: I am directed by resolution adopted by the Committee on Rivers and Harbors of the House of Representatives to make this communication. It is conceded that the Federal Government has jurisdiction over all navigable waterways, and it is the established policy of the congress to make provision for the improvement of meritorious projects consistent with the demands of the country for additional means of transportation by water. As the House of Representatives must initiate all legislation and appropriations for the improvement of rivers and harbors, of which this committee has jurisdiction, the members of the committee desire to discharge their duties in the most effective manner. The primary purpose in the improvement of our rivers and harbors is to provide adequate channels for navigation and thereby to promote transportation by water. It is self-evident that the mere deepening of the entrance to or increasing the depth and area of a harbor or the improvement of the channel of an interior waterway will not alone establish water transportation. Likewise neither will the construction of a railroad track assure traffic. They simply provide the basic necessity for transportation. for the promotion of water transportation. The committee have not established any arbitrary or inflexible rule. They are conscious that the public must be induced to realize its obligations in the development of water transportation by the processes of publicity and education. They find it difficult to excuse larger cities where production is large and additional facilities of transportation are so insistent and where neither ignorance nor poverty can be pleaded in extenuation. The committee are further aware that time will be required, even where the civic conscience has been aroused, to provide these facilities and to fully utilize navigable waterways. For the present the committee only insists there shall be no wilful disregard of local and public obligations in these respects. On behalf of the committee I have the honor to suggest that a copy of this communication be transmitted through the department to all district engineers in the United States, with the request that they submit a copy of the same to the governors of the States in which their districts are located, to the mayors of municipalities, to the officers of all commercial and civic organizations in their districts, and that they give publicity to some through the press as far as may be practicable. Very respectfully, JNO. H. SMALL, Chairman. War Department, Washington, October 6, 1917. Hon. John H. Small, House of Representatives. My Dear Mr. Small: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of October 5, 1917, giving the views of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors of the House of Representatives on the general subject of the facili- FIRST BANK Condensed statement of the Comptroller of the C RESOURCES Loans & Discounts ... $541,011 Bonds, Securities, Etc. ... 107,100 Building & Fixtures ... 113,200 Cash on hand and due from banks ... 152,218 Suspense A-C, Liberty Loan ... 30,369 Total ... $943,900 American Savings OWNED BY THE STOCKHOUSE BANK OF is to provide adequate channels for navigation and thereby to promote transportation by water. It is self-evident that the mere deepening of the entrance to or increasing the depth and area of a harbor or the improvement of the channel of an interior waterway will not alone establish water transportation. Likewise neither will the construction of a railroad track assure traffic. They simply provide the basic necessity for transportation. There are additional facilities which must be provided for the establishment of water transportation: 1. There must exist a demand for the movement of products. 2. There must be water terminals constructed in accordance with appropriate plans. These terminals require ample water front and capacious warehouses. They should be physically connected by a BELT LINE railroad with the railroad or railroads serving the community, and one or more good highways should radiate therefrom. They should be equipped with modern appliances for transferring freight between the water carrier and the warehouse and the rail car in the cheapest and most expeditious manner. These terminals should be constructed by the municipalities or other agencies of the state and maintained and regulated for the service of the public. The size and cost of such terminals will vary according to the population and the financial ability of the community to be served and the volume of traffic which exists. 3. There must be one or more established lines of water transportation with sufficient capital, the requisite number of carriers, and a complete traffic organization. 4. There should be a complete coordination between the water transportation lines and the railroads, and a proring of track as to through rates between the water carriers and the rail carriers such as now exists between the several lines of railroads, to the end that each may complement the other and be jointly dedicated to the service of the public. The committee submit that the above additional facilities are both necessary and feasible. They further suggest as a general proposition that water terminals must be provided by the state or municipalities or other public agencies of the states, and that water carriers must be organized and maintained by individuals corpor War Department, Washington, October 6, 1917. Hon. John H. Small, House of Representatives. My Dear Mr. Small: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of October 5, 1917, giving the views of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors of the House of Representatives on the general subject of the facilities for water transportation that should be furnished by local interests in order to warrant and make effective the government improvement of channels, and expressing the opinion of the committee that Government appropriations should not be made for localities that persist in disregarding these obligations. This statement has my hearty approval, and I shall take pleasure in bringing it to the attention of the Chief of Engineers for compliance with your request that it be distributed through the local engineer offices having charge of river and harbor improvements throughout the country. I consider it a most opportune reminder to local interests generally of the essential part they must take in the rational development of water transportation so that it may best serve the commercial and industrial needs of the country. Very truly yours, NEWTON D. BAKER, Secretary of War. WATER COMPANY CONTRACTS FOR CEMENT SUPPLY California Portland Cement Company Will Furnish Supply At the meeting of the Anaheim Union Water company board Saturday Director Thamer reported the committee appointed by the board to consider the proposals for furnishing the company with cement for 1918 had received two bids, and he recommended that the president and secretary be authorized to execute a contract with the California Portland Cement company whose bid was the lowest. On motion duly seconded the president appointed the superintendent and secretary a committee to get up a report of the year's business to be read at the annual stockholders' meeting. On motion duly seconded the pres- the Comptometer, several of which are to be found in various of the state office. Skilled operators of the Comptometer will have an opportunity to qualify for service in any department of the tsate using such machines in an examination to be given by the state civil service commission on December 29, 1917. Candidates for this examination test in the meter, beginning not tion bin sku. Further blanks be secured mission, roo between the several lines of railroads, to the end that each may complement the other and be jointly dedicated to the service of the public. The committee submit that the above additional facilities are both necessary and feasible. They further suggest as a general proposition that water terminals must be provided by the state or municipalities or other public agencies of the states, and that water carriers must be organized and maintained by individuals, corporations, or other local agencies. It may be substantially stated that Congress may only improve for purposes of navigation the capacity of the harbors and the channels of the interior waterways. It will be admitted that there are a limited number of harbors and a larger number of interior waterways on which the foregoing essentials have not been provided. In fact, it may be stated that the people of the country, including even that forceful class of citizens who manage large industrial units and are vitally interested in transportation, appear to have slight knowledge of the primary essentials for securing transportation by water. The demand for the movement of products by water which exists under normal conditions has been made acute under war conditions, but in many cases the essential facilities are lacking. The committee are impressed with the conviction that it is their duty to direct attention to this serious dereliction of duty upon the part of the public and to express the opinion that appropriations should not be made for the improvement of those rivers and harbors where the communities and localities are continuously unwilling to discharge their correlative duty by providing the facilities essential had received two bids, and he recommended that the president and secretary be authorized to execute a contract with the California Portland Cement company whose bid was the lowest. On motion duly seconded the president appointed the superintendent and secretary a committee to get up a report of the year's business to be read at the annual stockholders' meeting. On motion duly seconded the president and secretary were authorized to donate $25 to the Yorba Richfield protection district. Report of the Amalgamated Co., the Hurley Smith Co., and the St. Helens Petroleum Co., for the month of November were received and filed. On motion duly seconded the following transfers of stock were granted: 1 share from W. F. Baker to Luke Woodward and 5 from G. G. Lehmer to W. H. Bates. COMPTOMETER OPERATORS ARE WANTED BY STATE The state of California employs most of the modern office appliances in carrying on its various activities and offers a field of employment to persons skilled in their use. One of these labor saving appliances is the calculating machine, used in the processes of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. One or more machines of this type are to be found in practically every business office that employs modern, up to date methods. Some of these machines are know nas listing, others are non-listing machines, depending upon the nature of the records made by the machine. One of the most widely used of the non listing calculating machines is FIRST NATIONAL BANK Of Anaheim, California. Aensed statement of the First National Bank, as rendered to the Comptroller of the Currency, November 20th, 1917: RESOURCES Amounts ... $541,011.60 Cities, Etc. ... 107,100.00 Mixtures ... 113,200.96 and due from 152,218.50 Liberty Loan 30,369.00 LIABILITIES Capital Stock, Surplus & Undivided Profits ... $119,574.22 Circulation ... 49,995.00 Deposits ... 623,330.84 Other Liabilities ... 151,000.00 Total ... $943,900.06 American Savings Bank of Anaheim BY THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ANAHEIM CALIF. American Savings Bank of Anaheim BY THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ANAHEIM CALIF. Statement of the American Savings Bank, as Rendered to the Supt. of Banks, Nov. 20th, 1917. RESOURCES $265,935.00 Capital Stock, Surplus and Undivided profits $41,077.61 Deposits 282,039.60 $323,117.21 Total $323,117.21 LIABILITIES FINED CAPITAL, SURPLUS, & UNDIVIDED PROFITS $160,651.83 FINED LOANS 806,946.60 FINED DEPOSITS 905,370.44 FINED RESOURCES 1,267,017.97 Final of which volumes of the regulators of the opportunity any depart- each machines given by the mission on De- tates for this examination will be given a practical test in the operation of the Comptometer, beginning at 1:30 p.m. and lasting not over three hours. Further information and application blanks for this examination may be secured from the civil service commission, room 1007 Hall of Records, Los Angeles. Edward Hemmerling of this city and Miss Helen Ross of Santa Ana were married at the home of the bride on Monday. They left on a honeymoon trip and will reside on their return on the groom's ranch west of town. ange County Bank s Its Patrons and the Public Generally A Merry Christmas And a Happy New Year