anaheim-gazette 1918-02-21

RADICAL CHANGE IN THE DRAFT RULING NEW ORDER MODIFYING RESTRICTIONS ISSUED TO LOCAL EXEMPTION BOARDS FLAT FEET DOES NOT BAR A MAN'S DEFENDING HIS COUNTRY NOW The most radical change in the draft regulations since the passage of the selective service act became effective Wednesday when local boards received copies of the new physical requirement. The standard by which men were judged for the first draft is greatly lowered. "We could almost draft a dead man under these regulation," said one member of the board. One of the new departures is the physical requirements in the standard set for "limited service" men. The medical advisory board was made the exclusive judge of the men who are to be certified for "limited service." No local board can select a man for such service, but must refer the case of all such registrants to the medical advisory board. "These regulations place a burden on the Medical Advisory board that will necessitate a doubling of its activities, and it is already snowed under," said one of the members. The regulations specify that local young men to take agricultural course Orange and Los Angeles Counties Y. M. C. A. to Co-Operate The Orange County Young Men's Christian association, through Secretary Ralph G. Cole, is planning to cooperate with the Los Angeles high school in its effort to give the young men taking an agricultural course there satisfactory practical experience. An agricultural department is being maintained by the Los Angeles high school and the board of education there has made it obligatory that the young men who graduate must have at least six months of practical experience. In order to provide this experience under conditions, not only favorable to the working knowledge of the young man, but also to provide him a position to work where his moral influence will be what it should be, the high school authorities have asked the County Y. M. C. A. organizations throughout the state to aid them in placing these boys. A class of about twenty will be ready for outside work the latter part of this month and part of these boys will be located in Orange county. Secretary Cole states that he is making arrangements to place the boys that are assigned to this county. It is the hope of the school authorities to get the boys into positions where they will have a general experience, such as team work, care of horses and cows, and general agricultural experience. They expect the farmers to pay the boys a minimum of $20 a month and board, and where the boy proves his ability, and is worth more than this it is expected that he will be given advanced pay. The young men will be between and approached asking Mr. A. concerning real estate of El Monte, cers. As the tomers in the nearly closing the man to wait he would talk. The bandit room and show property on a wall when he Arnold to hold Arnold, an e bear the com ward the band revolver. The Mr. Arnold by him toward to over the head. As Arnold w he fell, in some time lock was shut that He staggered to fusely from a head where he wayman's revolar alarm to Then he fail blood. Pedesting heard the top of the ban Constable L. C. to the scene erating the im Constable notified the SH utles Fox and Strong rushed While Arnold the vault, then front of the b teller's cage o fled through a that he made mobile. Arnold desc 35 years old The medical advisory board was made the exclusive judge of the men who are to be certified for "limited service." No local board can select a man for such service, but must refer the case of all such registrants to the medical advisory board. "These regulations place a burden on the Medical Advisory board that will necessitate a doubling of its activities, and it is already snowed under," said one of the members. The regulations specify that local boards can either accept a man for unconditional service, or reject him entirely. Here are some of the requirements for absolute rejection: Reject all registrants with absence of one eye or when there is no doubt they are totally blind in both eyes. Color blindness is not a cause for rejection. Reject all registrants with long standing skin diseases as would render them unsuitable for social intercourse or dangerous. Reject all men deaf in both ears. Reject all registrants with cases of disease, injury or amputation which would destroy the functions of both upper or lower limbs. Refer to medical advisory board all cases of registrants with one good arm and one good leg and all doubtful cases. Refer to medical advisory board all cases of deafness in one ear. All cases of probable limited service are to be sent to the medical advisory board for final determination, local boards to be governed entirely by the decision of the medical advisory board on limited service. Special instructions governing such cases have been forwarded to the medical advisory board. Reject no foot cases. Reject all cases men weighing less than 100 pounds except where such weight is due to a recent illness. There were many other provisions to the new regulations regarding the acceptance of registrants. There was a long list of instructions regarding eyesight couched in technical terms, which means according to local board members, that only registrants who have one eye or are totally blind will be rejected. There is much the same ruling on deafness, the men who have partial hearing being acceptable for limited service. It is evidently the intention of the war department to use men with one arm, where such men are able to earn arrangements to place the boys that are assigned to this county. It is the hope of the school authorities to get the boys into positions where they will have a general experience, such as team work, care of horses and cows, and general agricultural experience. They expect the farmers to pay the boys a minimum of $20 a month and board, and where the boy proves his ability and is worth more than this it is expected that he will be given advanced pay. The young men will be between the ages of 17 and 21. THRIFT STAMP SALES Total Sales Santa Ana ... $12,451.63 Harper ... 155.33 San Juan Cap. ... 85.08 Seal Beach ... 105.00 Los Alamitos ... 129.95 Orange ... 1,731.02 El Toro ... 22.24 Placentia ... 21.11 Newport Beach ... 265.17 El Modena ... 23.65 Balboa ... 142.75 Brea ... 54.43 Fullerton ... 2,288.81 Tustin ... 199.48 Garden Grove ... 2,471.39 Westminster ... 61.88 Yorba Linda ... 56.23 La Habra ... 140.66 Olive ... 16.12 Stanton ... 39.50 Anaheim ... 4,135.26 Buena Park ... 174.02 These were the figures reported up to Thursday of last week. There has been considerable increase since that date. With ten and one-half months to go, the quota of $903,000 in thrift stamps for Orange county is still a long distant figure. At the present rate of sales there will be sold $214,000 worth on December 31. In order to complete the quota on the last day, of the year it will require that $878,230 worth of stamps be sold between now and that time. This means a weekly sale of over $19,000 or nearly as much as has been sold in the first six weeks of the campaign. There remains to be sold 3,312,920 stamps in Orange county. If there are 270 days left on which stamps will be sold, there must be a daily retail of 12,270 stamps throughout the county. So far the sales have averaged 2828 per day, or $707.* There was a long list of instructions regarding eyesight couched in technical terms, which means according to local board members, that only registrants who have one eye or are totally blind will be rejected. There is much the same ruling on deafness, the men who have partial hearing being acceptable for limited service. It is evidently the intention of the war department to use men with one arm, where such men are able to earn a living for themselves in civil life. Such men can be used for clerical work or for non-combatant duties. Local board members said that all men who have been previously examined will have to be carefully considered again by the local board members so that those who come within certain regulations can be sent to the medical advisory board for further examination. "The mere fact that we can reject no foot cases when in the past flat feet or enlarged bunions were cause for rejection shows in one instance how radical the change is," said one member of the board. CATTLE DROWN IN SALTON SEA Quicksands at the mouth of the Alamo river are causing the death of scores of cattle in the Salton sea, according to Capt. Davis, who has been for years in charge of fishing operations and of the pumice deposits at the Salton sea, says the Brawley News. These cattle are being pastured at points along the Alamo and not being watched very carefully, are unable to escape from the quicksands and get back to the banks when they attempt to drink. Capt. Davis estimates the number of carcasses now afloat on the sea at 150. ANAHEIM GAZETTE Enlist Your Dollars In the Nation’s Service War-Savings Stamps help your country, but they help you far more. Begin to buy now—on sale everywhere Ganahl Lumber Company Anaheim, Cal. ship crossed the ocean, 1819, to 20 billion dollars in 1900 and 40 billions in 1913, the year preceding the great European war. But to determine this record of the foreign commerce for all the nations of the world for every year in the last century is far easier than to determine the value of the internal commerce of the United States. The census of 1915 put the value of the factory products of the United States in 1914 at $24,246,000,000, and we know that the reports of the earlier censuses that the value of the manufacturers produced by the "hand trades and neighborhood industries" is nearly 2 billion dollars, which must be added to the value of the factory products in an effort to obtain the true value of all manufactures produced in the country. So we may set down the value of the manufactures turned out in the United States in 1914 at fully 26 billion dollars. The secretary of agricultural estimates the value of the farm products of ten United States in 1914 at approximately 10 billion dollars, though it is estimated that about one-tenth of this, or say one billion dollars, was consumed on the farm, leaving the amount of agricultul- ple—Build a Bridge of Ships to France. To carry soldiers and their equipment to France, to transport food other supplies to them there, and to feed the civilian population of our allies the United States will need hundreds of ships as fast as they can be built. In scores of shipyards a quarter of a million men will soon be busy. In this industry will be needed acetylene and electrical welders, asbestos workers, blacksmiths, boiler makers, carpenters, chippers and calkers, laborers, loftsmen, machinists and machine hands, painters, plumbers and pipe fitters, sheet metal workers and coppersmiths, ship fitters, structural iron workers, and other trades. The work of enrolling these workers has been going on for some days in all parts of the country. California must register 13,300 men. This is the most pressing work that now occupies our nation. Every man who has had experience in any of the trades above listed should enroll and then go about his daily work. When there is a place for him he will be notified. If he accepts he will receive good pay in a patriotic service. Existing industries will be disturbed little as possible. The purpose of NEW REGULATIONS The Auto Mailing Services of Los Angeles, which makes a specialty of automobile statistics, gives the following figures of new cars registered in each of the eleven Southern California counties, as follows: Los Angeles ... 1746 San Diego ... 117 Orange ... 72 Imperial ... 50 Kern ... 40 San Bernardino ... 41 San Luis Obispo ... 19 Santa Barbara ... 40 Ventura ... 43 Inyo ... 6 Total new cars registered ... 2218 Last year the number of new cars registere din January was 2532. This year there were 197 new commercial cars registered, four less than in January, 1917. JUNIOR RED CROSS Miss Hazel Bemus, chairman of the Junior Red Cross committee of Santa Ana has been busy organizing Junior Red Cross societies in the schools throughout the county. The drive for membership will end Feb. 22 (George Washington's birthday) and the young patriots have answered the call in a way to set a shining mark for their seniors to follow. Certificates of membership have been granted to the Santa Ana high school, with a membership of $80; the Huntington Beach high school with 130 members; El Toro, 67; Fountain Valley, 67; Trabuco, 24; Garden Grove, 265; Newhope, 57; Old Newport, 30. MORE SHIPS WANTED This is the message that General Pershing sends to the Aemrican peo- Quality Work Prompt Service Phone 522 COMMERCIAL WARFARE Will Be Waged After the War Ends, With No Favor or Quarter A writer in the Tokio, Japan, Times MORE SHIPS WANTED This is the message that General Pershing sends to the Aemrican peobranch in Orange county of the American-Lutheran Patriotic League and committees on liberty bonds, thrift stamps and Red Cross were appointed. The thrift stamp committee reported Tuesday night the sale of $700 worth of stamps. 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Corner Lemon and Center Sts Anaheim, California Rates, $1.00 per night, up. Special Rates by the week or month. of the value of our exported agricultural products most of which went to Europe, to the nations at war with Germany, during the years of 1916 and 1917, show what effect obedience by this nation to Germany's demand in her war-zone decree would have had on the American farmer. The figures are for the 10 months of 1917 ending with October and for the full year of 1916: Exports 1917 1916 Cotton ... $563,783,00 $502,617,000 Wheat flour. 99,025,000 70,839,000 Wheat ... 224,444,000 172,516,000 Barley ... 21,156,000 18,032,000 Corn ... 65,115,000 41,663,000 Horses ... 30,225,000 52,570,000 Wool mf/g... 14,150,000 34,627,000 Mules ... 12,972,000 22,130,000 1,0'0,000,000 914,994,000 These figures do not include the Wasted Helps The Enemy —Money spent thoughtlessly for something you don't need keeps somebody needlessly busy in a way now essential to our welfare. Buy War-Savings Stamps and help win the war. Begin today—on sale everywhere. Wm. H. Houts Anaheim, California trade? Is it probable that the grudges of the war will so guide the trade current that, even at a denial of profits, Allied countries will exchange goods only with each other? Such a thing cannot be. Trade will follow the course of largest profits." Reciprocity is the wise course, this writer argues. Tariffs may be levied on luxuries in order to raise revenue; but, revenue demands being satisfied, trade ought to be as nearly free as possible—always having regard for Protection to home industries. From the Japanese viewpoint, the East will be the center of keenest commercial rivalry, and the struggle in the field will be watched by the rest of the world! This economic strife will not start immediately after the end of the war, but is sure to come. A market once lost is not easy to regain. A wholesale dumping of goods appears to be generally feared by most nations. Germany is most likely to resort to this method for recapturing her lost markets. There will be a spectacular commercial warfare with no favor or quarter! The United States is supposed to be in the best position, but we believe her merchants are more interested in trade with South America than the Far East. Japan's commercial and political alliance with the United States is now assured; her trade with China and the Great Republic represents 50 per cent of her entire exports and imports! If Japan succeeds in these two spheres, her economic life is safe. year of 1916: Exports 1917 1916 Cotton $563,783,00 $502,617,000 Wheat flour. 99,025,000 70,839,000 Wheat 224,444,000 172,516,000 Barley 21,156,000 18,032,000 Corn 65,115,000 41,663,000 Horses 30,225,000 52,570,000 Wool mf'g... 14,150,000 34,627,000 Mules 12,972,000 22,130,000 1,0'0,000,000 914,994,000 These figures do not include the lesser agricultural exports, nor all in manufactured form. The effect on the price and value of the more than a billion dollars' worth of agricultural products of the United States which found a market in Europe in the first 10 months of 1917, had the United States tamely submitted to Germany's insolent demand, which would have denied them access to these markets, can easily be imagined. or lack of a market much of these products would have rotted on the farms or in warehouses or been used in unprofitable ways. The crimes of Germany against the lives of American citizens and insult to our nation's honor fully justified—in fact, made imperative—America's entry into the war. These figures only show a portion of the tremendous material loss which would have followed America's tame submission to the war-zone decree. Our whole exports to the European nations at war with Germany amount to three and a half billion dollars a year. Pomona is contemplating establishing a large dehydrating plant. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA In and for the County of Orange In the Matter of the Estate of Quirico Adot, Deceased, Order to Show Cause Why Order of Sale of Real Estate Should Not be Made IT IS ORDERED BY THE COURT, That all persons interested in the estate of said deceased appear before the said Superior Court on Friday, the 5th day of February, 1918, at 10 o'clock A.M. of said day, at the Court Room of Department 1 of said Superior Court in the Court House in said County of Orange, State of California, to show cause why an order should not be granted to the Administrator of said estate to sell all of the real estate of said deceased as may be necessary. AND THAT a copy of this Order be published at least four successive weeks in the Anaheim Gazette, a newspaper printed and published in said County of Orange. That certain real property situate, lying, and being in the County of Orange, State of California, and described as follows, to-wit: Lots Fourteen (14) and Fifteen (15) of the Town of Richfield, according to a map thereof recorded in Book 31, page 61, Miscellaneous Records of Los Angeles County, California. Save 25% to 33½% on Building No need to pay high prices on building material. Buy direct from headquarters. This Cozy 4-Room House will be shipped complete—$975 cut-to-fit and ready to erect for This price includes Lumber, Inside Finish, Sash and Doors, Screens, Roofing, Paint, Hardware, Plumbing, Electric Fixtures and Wiring, Built in Bed, Shades, Cement and Plaster. No waste, no extras to buy because all the material you need is included in the price. All materials specified are of the very best grades obtainable in their respective kinds. Each piece is inspected before it is sent to the cutting room, and experienced men handle the cutting and the loading, so it is really inspected three times before shipping. California Ready-Cut Bungalow Co. 1060 S. Mata St. LOS ANGELES ANAHEIM GAZETTE City Official Paper. Clean and Reliable