anaheim-gazette 1918-04-18

RELIGIOUS OBJECTORS MUST DO THEIR BIT Opposition to War Does Not Relieve Them From Responsibilities "Every member of the Pentacostal Nazarene church has been protected in his person and property by this government and its constitution and laws, and I submit that each owes to the government that thus protects him his undivided, unwavering support in its titans, unprecedented struggle in the cause of that liberty so dearly prized, so completely enjoyed, that it may continue and may be extended to the oppressed of other Christian lands whose people have suffered so grievously under the iron heel of tyranny which threatens to enslave the civilized world." This statement is contained in a letter sent out by the postoffice inspection service, copies of which have been received here, in response to a communication from a Nebraska postmaster whose name is not given, stating that the residents of a certain locality in "The Blackwater State," had declined to buy war savings stamps on the ground that they belonged to a religious organization which is opposed to war. The letter, in reply to the communication from the postmaster, in part is as follows: "Our government is a democracy 'of the people, by the people and for the people,' and the people of your community, of whatever religious persuasion, are a portion of that people who constitute this government, each having a voice in determining its policies. The policies of a democracy are determined, and properly so, by a majority of the electorate, and when in its wisdom and its patriotism that majority has decided by proper methods" OFFICIAL FOOD NEWS Issued by U. S. Food Administration For California The U. S. Food Administration for California announces that all meatless days and porkless days have been discontinued, until further notice and that it is the specific request of the government that people fix their attention on the saving of wheat as well as grains of all kinds. You may eat all the meat you need, but be sure to save every ounce of wheat and wheat products that you can and if possible do entirely without bread until the next harvest. Many thousands of American families are now doing this by substituting potatoes and other vegetables for bread. The object of the wheat campaign is to cut consumption one half. Keep your eye on that goal; let nothing turn you aside. We are in a race with Germany. "Food will win the war"—but whose food? The American people have been asked to save 100,000,000 bushels of wheat by July as a military necessity. You are a military unit in the campaign and three times a day you are called on to do your share. If you fail you imperil the safety of the army on the other side. No reason, no excuse matters; the only thing that counts is saving the wheat—the cut must be made. "But biscuits are the quickest to make," objects one woman. That's an excuse, not a reason—you must have biscuits why not barley biscuits, rice biscuits, or corn flour biscuits? "I must keep light bread on hand," says another, "my oven is often not hot enough for cornbread." Another excuse—mush, rice, potatoes or hominy are excellent bread substitutes and can be cooked on top of the stove. ANAHEIM BOY WEEK EXPERIENCE C. A. Garten Tellin As the Census Mrs. C. A. Garten a letter from her at the front in France be experiencing makes no complaint. "There are lots like to tell you all mitted, so at time short, but if you know just about I found a shell clean water today wash, also washing get a bath and change we are back of them to go a long time times, and sometimes either hands have hardly had five months. Now." "I always manage away, and keep a comrade loaned mining and chemie in spare time. course of study arithmetic, agriculture, competitions and instructors to enroll when wishing to rest, camp or ing to be a good after the war." "Vimy Ridge great battlefield ent the fighting yond the ridge Moricourt. The there is no mud it was awful. We deep in places legs in strips of my hips. One so but if he does not hard to get the n." "Our government is a democracy of the people, by the people and for the people,' and the people of your community, of whatever religious persuasion, are a portion of that people who constitute this government, each having a voice in determining its policies. The policies of a democracy are determined, and properly so, by a majority of the electorate, and when in its wisdom and its patriotism that majority has decided by proper methods and has spoken in legal and proper manner, every loyal member of the minority should become one with the majority and do all in his power to carry out the policies decreed by the majority. Permit me to suggest that any other course, be it lukewarm indifference, in the present situation, is giving aid and comfort to the enemy in a negative, but very effective way. While our government, in its great desire to demonstrate to the full the widest religious liberty and exercise thereof, according to individual conscience, has declared that those members of religious sects that are conscientiously opposed to war and to fighting, may be relieved from participation in actual fighting in the armies, it has not and does not release such from their obligation as protected citizens, from their duty to support the government with their substance secured under and by reason of its protecting laws, through the payment of taxes on property assessed, and on income, or from their duty to lend to the government of their surplus revenues. THE HONOR ROLL Harold Janss, director of publicity of the Third Liberty Loan for Southern California announces that the honor rolls are now ready and are being sent out to each county chairman in Southern California and they are to be placed immediately in a central location selected by the local committee so that each citizen of his community may read the names of those who are doing their bit to help Uncle Sam send the boys in the trenches in France over the top to victory. On the honor roll for this community the name of every person, man woman and child who bought a bond of the Third Liberty loan will be listed and proud will this community be when it can hold its honor flag which is to be provided by the treasury department of the United States and point to an honor roll that has upon "But biscuits are the quickest to make," objects one woman. That's an excuse, not a reason—you must have biscuits why not barley biscuits, rice biscuits, or corn flour biscuits? "I must keep light bread on hand," says another, "my over is often not enough for cornbread." Another excuse—mush, rice, potatoes or hominy are excellent bread substitutes and can be cooked on top of the stove. "But" and this is heard from many women, "my grocer has no substitute flour for Victory bread." Well, why not potatoes? Potato bread is excellent and potato biscuits a treat. There are always potatoes too small to bake that can be turned into bread. Small potatoes make large loaves. Substitute brains and the will to conquer for excuses, and the wheat will be saved. One woman who could buy no substitute cereals at her store and had no money to order elsewhere made two week's supply of flour do for three. She did the job; she cut flour consumption one-third, and that's the point. How to save your share of that 100,000,000 bushels of wheat is mostly a matter of ingenuity. When you get in a tight place use your head—substitute brains—but above all do the job. WHEATLESS RECIPES Hominy Bread 1 cup cold boiled hominy. 1½ cups milk. 1 cup corn meal ½ teaspoon salt. 1 teaspoon baking powder. 1 egg 1 tablespoon fat. Put the hominy into a bowl and beat it thoroughly with a fork. Pour the milk gradually over the hominy and continue beating. Mix and sift the corn meal, salt and baking powder and add them, with the egg well beaten and the melted fat to the hominy. Bake the mixture in a deep, greased baking dish for thirty minutes, or for fifteen minutes in muffin tins. Wheatless Pie Crust—No. 1 1½ cups rye flour 1½ cups barley flour ¾ cup rice flour 1 teaspoon salt ¼ cup fat ¼ cup water. Barley Pone With Corn Meal ½ cup barley 1 cup corn meal munity may read the names of those who are doing their bit to help Uncle Sam send the boys in the trenches in France over the top to victory. On the honor roll for this community the name of every person, man woman and child who bought a bond of the Third Liberty loan will be listed and proud will this community be when it can hold its honor flag which is to be provided by the treasury department of the United States and point to an honor roll that has upon it the name of every person who is able to and has bought a Third Liberty loan bond. If you have not bought, do it now, and see that your name is immediately enrolled on this honor list. No loyal American can hold his head up and look his fellow man in the eye unless his name is inscribed there. The time for excuses has gone by and the local Third Liberty Loan committee will see that no slackers will continue to enjoy the freedom and liberty and delight of living in Southern California without doing him or her share towards upholding this democracy of ours. A total of 70,000,000 frozen rabbits, valued at $14,599,000 were shipped out of Australia last year. Aside from rabbits being killed for food, millions are annually killed for their skins; also to rid the country of them as pests. The merchants and bakers of several California towns have united to stand behind the food administration and are issuing food cards, and no flour, cereals, pastes, breakfast foods, bread or other wheat products can be procured without a card which will allow six pounds of flour or six loaves of bread per month for each member of a family. Bake the mixture in a deep, greased baking dish for thirty minutes, or for fifteen minutes in muffin tins. Wheatless Pie Crust—No. 1 1½ cups rye flour 1½ cups barley flour ¾ cup rice flour 1 teaspoon salt ¼ cup fat ¼ cup water. Barley Pone With Corn Meal ½ cup barley 1 cup corn meal 1 tablespoon vegetable oil or oleo-margarine. 2 tablespoons molasses 1 teaspoon salt 4 teaspoons baking powder. Wash the barley and boil slowly in 4 cups of boiling water for one hour. While hot, add the corn meal slowly, stirring very hard so the meal will not lump. Add the molasse sand salt; mix well; when cooled add the baking powder; put into two well greased medium sized pie tins. Bake for from thirty or forty minutes, or until nice and brown. Serve with syrup. Eggless Rye Muffins 2 cups rye flour 4 teaspoons baking powder. ½ teaspoon salt 4 teaspoons sugar 1 cup milk 1 tablespoon vegetable oil or fat. Mix and sift the dry ingredients; add the milk and vegetable oil. Mix quickly, do not beat. Bake in greased muffin pans 20 minutes, in a hot oven. This yields 12 muffins. Women are to be taken on as rural route mail carriers all over the country as a war emergency measure. The first civil service examination will be held on April 27 in all sections where there are vacancies. ANAHEIM BOY WRITES OF EXPERIENCE IN FRANCE C. A. Garten Tells His Wife as Much As the Censor Will Permit Mrs. C. A. Garten has just received a letter from her husband who is now at the front in France. He appears to be experiencing strenuous times, but makes no complaint. In part he says: "There are lots of things I would like to tell you about if it were permitted, so at times my letters are pretty short, but if you watch the papers you know just about what is going on. I found a shell hole half full of nice clean water today and took a good wash, also washing all my clothes. We get a bath and change of clothes when we are back of the lines, but we have to go a long time between baths at times, and sometimes I haven't washed either hands or face for a week. I have hardly had my clothes off for five months. Not much like home. "I always manage to keep the bugs away, and keep as clean as I can. A comrade loaned me some books on mining and chemistry. I am studying in spare time. They have started a course of study in English, French, arithmetic, agriculture and stock farming, competent men giving lectures and instructing those who care to enroll when we are out of the lines to rest, camp or in reserves. It is going to be a good thing for the boys after the war. "Vimy Ridge has certainly been a great battlefield. However at present the fighting line is five miles beyond the ridge in front of Lens and Moricourt. The weather is fine and there is no mud now, but last winter it was awful. We waded in mud waist deep in places. I always wrapped my legs in strips of blankets clear up to my hips. One soon gets wet through, but if he does not get down it is not hard to get the mud off. Rubber boots years of the present war gave wheat the higher place. Gradually the cotton crop, lint and seed, climbed over the great hay crop, and thus cotton become in recent years second only to corn. The corn crop of the United States is by far the most valuable agricultural product. When the colonists at Jamestown and Plymouth were saved from starvation by the corn provided by the Indians, this was a common Indian crop east of the great plains, and its annual production at that time has been estimated to have been possibly 2,000,000 bushels. Corn at once became the mainstay of the agriculture of the whites, and the value of this crop, at farm prices, according to the estimate of the department of agriculture, reached the extraordinary total of $4,054,000,000 in 1917 for 3,159,000,000 bushels, the largest and most valuable crop of corn ever grown. The cotton crop is next below in value, with an estimated production of 10,949,000 bales of 500 lbs. gross weight, worth at the farm $1,518,000,000. When $327,000,000 is added for seed, the aggregate value of the cotton crop of 1917, at farm prices becomes $1,845,000,000. Hay is not the joke that the funny writers would have it. Indispensable to proper crop rotation and to stock keeping, hay often contended with both cotton and wheat for a place next to corn in value, but in the order of crop values in recent years it has a settled third place, below corn and cotton, and usually above wheat before the present war. In 1914 to 1916 it was siligently exceeded in value by wheat, but it resumed its third place with emphasis in 1917, when the value of the crop was $1,567,000,000 for 95,000,000 tons, both quantity and value making the highest record, while the wheat crop value was $1,307,000,-000 for 651,000,000 bushels. Oatmeal was only for the sick, many Poland, your daughters from the hordes that ravished Belgian women even as they fled through the streets, American men are making the supreme sacrifice. What sacrifice will you make to help equip these defenders of your country? What will you give up that you may help finance the struggle to save American freedom? "Not a gift, but a loan is asked of you. Not a free loan, but a loan at interest. Will you withhold your money while men offer their blood? Buy a Liberty bond for your country's sake. Put it in your own name. Buy one for the daughter it may save. Buy one for the boy too small to fight?" From Los Banos, Merced county, it was reported that the women sold $18,500 worth of bonds on the first day of the campaign. Before the Liberty bells had ceased ringing last Saturday morning, at 7 o'clock the women of Martinez, Contra Costa county, had subscribed $2,550 among its women in the first 24 hours of the campaign, and a small, scattered isolated precinct in the San Fernando valley reached $4,500 before Saturday night." "Vimy Ridge has certainly been a great battlefield. However at present the fighting line is five miles beyond the ridge in front of Lens and Moricourt. The weather is fine and there is no mud now, but last winter it was awful. We waded in mud waist deep in places. I always wrapped my legs in strips of blankets clear up to my hips. One soon gets wet through, but if he does not get down it is not hard to get the mud off. Rubber boots were no good, as they would soon stick in the mud and pull off even if they were tied on. "There is some complaint of food being scarce in England, but it is no more than could be expected. People there are not going hungry, but they cannot expect to have things as they were before the war." CASTOR BEANS The government is asking that any land not now otherwise planted or prepared for some specific crop be planted to castor beans, as castor oil is now considered essential to the safe and effective operation of aeroplanes. Owing to lack of ships, no oil can be imported from India and as this was formerly the chief source of castor oil, it must be produced here. Almost any Orange county soil will grow castor beans well and without irrigation, if there is enough moisture to germinate them. They should be well soaked for 24 hours before painting and then put two in a hill spaced five by five feet. Afterward one from each hill is taken. A net profit of from $70 to $90 dollars per acre should be realized by the grower. Any inquiries will be promptly answered from this office. A. R. SPRAGUE, Farm Advisor. ITS UP TO US Chairman Harry M. Halderman of the Red Cross selling organization now putting over the Liberty loan drive in Los Angeles is following up all excuses given by people for not buying Liberty bonds or not buying a sufficient quantity of Liberty bonds, and the Vigilance committee is receiving reports from financial institutions of people in Los Angeles and vicinity who have been in the custom of loaning large sums of money at 6% and this will be used as a basis for determining a report upon many of the cases. TO THE WOMEN of crop values in recent years it has a settled third place, below corn and cotton, and usually above wheat before the present war. In 1914 to 1916 it was slightly exceeded in value by wheat, but it resumed its third place with emphasis in 1917, when the value of the crop was $1,567,000,000 for 95,000,000 tons, both quantity and value making the highest record, while the wheat crop value was $1,307,000,000 for 651,000,000 bushels. Oatmeal was only for the sick, many years ago, and was sold by the drug stores; now, this food; more especially in the form of rolled oats, has become an important item in the general human dietary, and horses and other live stock share the large crop with their owners. In both production and value the oats crop of 1917 exceeds that of ever yformer fear, and the 1,587,000,000 bushels haxe a farm value of $1,661,000,000. This is regularly the fifth crop in order of value. The potato crop of 443,000,000 bushels in 1917, the record crop, has a producer's value of $554,000,000. A very rough estimate gives the value of $298,000,000 to the log, lumber and wood production of the farm. This is the production of what is often called the farmer's wood lot, out in some parts of the country the "lot" is often a sizable forest. The tobacco crop of 1917, also, is at the top of the record, the 1,196,000,000 pounds being worth $297,000,000 to the farmers. Below this, in order of value, follow the barley crop with a farm value of $237,000,000; apples,$213,000,00; kafir corn and milo maize$131,000,000; dry edible beans,$111,000,000; peanuts,$107,000,000; and rye$100,000,000. Every other crop has a value less than that of rye. An estimated value of $98,000,000 is give onto sweet potatoes; of $68,000,000 to rice; of $61,000,000 to peaches; of $46,000,000 to sugar beets; of $39,900,000 to onions; of $35,900,000 to cabbages; of $34,900,000 to oranges; of $28,900,000 each to sugar cane and buckwheat; of $25,900,000 to flaxseed. At the lower end of the scale are sorghum cane, fororage and sirup,$24,900,000; clover seed,$17,9ooo; broom corn,$16,ooo; and pears,$15，ooo，ooo. The grand aggregate farm crop value of 1917 is $13，61o，ooo，ooo an increase of 97 per cent over the $6，9o7，ooo，ooo of 1915，或 nearly a doubling in tow years. MISCELLANEOUS FARM NOTES Purchases of sugar may now be made up to 25 pounds at one time. A 240 acre farm at Crows Landing was sold last week for $9o，ooo or $325 per acre. California's allotment of Castor beans for oil for the airplane service is 1O，ooo acres. Joseph Basile Jr., has purchased the 25O acre Mitchell fruit farm at Hollister for $1OO，ooo. A state wide campaign is being made to enroll 37，ooo boys in the U.S. Working Reserve. Armour & Co. will build a $25O，ooo cannery at San Jose with a capacity of 3O，ooo tons a year. H. O. Jacobsen,vice president of the Dodge Land Co.,of Chico,has purchased 1，26O acres west of Nelson,Butte county,fors $94，5OO. Seventy farmers from Niland to Rockwood and from Welst to the Salton Sea organized a farm center at Calipatria last week. Commandeering of imported Oriental white and red beans in California has been discontinued by the navy for the present. It is planned to have the new Hopland and Lakeport railroad completed by August 15 so as to ship out the crops on it. Realizing that brush fires have been one of the biggest drawbacks to a big honey yield,Riverside county bee-keepers will appoint ten fir wardens for the season. The arrest and detention by a draft putting over the Liberty loan drive in Los Angeles is following up all excuses given by people for not buying Liberty bonds or not buying a sufficient quantity of Liberty bonds, and the Vigilance committee is receiving reports from financial institutions of people in Los Angeles and vicinity who have been in the custom of loaning large sums of money at 6% and this will be used as a basis for determining a report upon many of the cases. Also reports are being received by the committee of people who have loaned their money at 6% or better interest, and now refuse to buy a decent quantity of Third Liberty loan bonds. These people will be dealt with through the course of the committee's work. Chairman Halderman further emphasizes the fact that the government must have and will have the money to carry the United States through to victory. If it is not subscribed in the purchase of Third Liberty loan bonds, then it will be taken in the form of taxes and it is up to every loyal American to see that the government receives every dollar in Third Liberty Loan Bonds that should rightfully be placed in this security for its use. FARM PRODUCT VALUES In the years when cotton line was sold by farmers at a low price, and when cotton seed was little used and was more likely a waste and a nuisance, the cotton crop was outranked in value by corn, hay, and usually by wheat, so that it was commonly the fourth crop in order of value. By 1899 cotton had taken precedence of the wheat crop, although the exceptional situation during the first two months of the year was striving was won for American women long ago by the swords of American men. To preserve their safety for you and your children, American men are now marching to battle. Will American women stand shoulder to shoulder with them? They are offering their lives as a gift. Will you offer your dollars as a loan? To save your home from flames destroying France, your babies from the sword that murdered infants in total white and red beans in California has been discontinued by the navy for the present. It is planned to have the new Hopland and Lakeport railroad completed by August 15 so as to ship out the crops on it. Realizing that brush fires have been one of the biggest drawbacks to a big honey yield, Riverside county beekeepers will appoint ten fir wardens for the season. The arrest and detention by a draft board of a number of Mexicans from the Kings river district has resulted in about 50 Mexican farm laborers leaving the district. Asserting that weeds are as great a pest as ground squirrels, State Horticultural Commissioner Hecke is considering a state wide weed campaign to be known as weedless week. One thousand schoolboys in Fresno, Kings, Tulare and Madera counties will have the opportunity to work in the peach and grape harvests this summer under Y. M. C. A. auspices. California fruit packers have been notified by the government that they must be careful to examine all sulphur used in drying and see that it contains no arsenic as no more such will be accepted. AUSTRALIAN WHEAT OUTLOOK The Australian wheat harvest is just completed. Due to a carry over of 100,000,000 bushels from the 1916-1917 crop the acreage was decreased last season. Unfavorable conditions combined with decreased acreage to make the present crop 114,000,000 bushels as against the previous crop of 152,656,000 bushels. While Australia thus has 214,000,000 bushels on WHAT WILL 1923 MEAN TO YOU? If you invest in W.S.S. now Uncle Sam will repay you in 1923—returning all you invest with a fine dividend. Will you be among the lucky in 1923? WAR SAVINGS STAMPS Ganahl Lumber Company Anaheim, Cal. Wanted Boy with A Bicycle The want-ad columns show the many opportunities that are open to Make Money with a Bicycle The DAYTON IS AMERICA'S FINEST WHEEL. IT IS GUARANTEED FIVE YEARS IN WRITING BY THE MAKER. COME IN AND LET US SHOW YOU ITS MANY POINTS OF SUPERIORITY. Bicycle The DAYTON IS AMERICA'S FINEST WHEEL. IT IS GUARANTEED FIVE YEARS IN WRITING BY THE MAKER. COME IN AND LET US SHOW YOU ITS MANY POINTS OF SUPERIORITY. W. H. HOUTS NOTE—About the first of April I will move into the Houck building opposite my present place of business. FRED KELLY GETS COMMISSION Fred W. Kelly, former world's champion hurdler and national all around champion, has won a commission as second lieutenant in aviation, according to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Kelly of El Modena. Kelly, who has been training at Gerstner field, near Lake Charles, La., has been transferred to Camp Dix, Dallas, Texas, where he is in a flying corps of 1500 cadets and 300 officers. He expects to be transferred shortly to another field, to take a course in advanced flying. Kelly has long been interested in aviation, his ambition toward that career dating from the day that he first saw a flying machine. It was in Rheims, France, in 1912, just after Kelly had won the world's hurdle championship at the Olympic games in hand, available shipping cannot transport much of it to the allies, and Lord Rhondda, the British food administrator says England must get 75,000,000 bushels from the United States during the next few months. A hopeful sign for movement of the Australian surplus is the negotiations by which it is hoped that the United States may buy Japanese vessels of 200,000 tonnage in return for allowing the sale to Japan of 100,000 tons of steel. Meanwhile the price of 1918 American wheat has been guaranteed by Congress and there is no possibility of the price dropping unless the kaiser gets control of our government. Exports of wheat from the United States to the allies between July 1, 1914 and January 1, 1918, totaled more than 389,000,000 bushels. Wheat flour exports exceeded 24,600,000 barrels. The total in terms of wheat shows that the United States has sent the Allies nearly five bushels of wheat for every person in this country. Until the next harvest the great need is for wheat from the United States, and the utmost self denial is called for. Will Double Output: States to the allies between July 1, 1914 and January 1, 1918, totaled more than 389,000,000 bushels. Wheat flour exports exceeded 24,600,000 barrels. The total in terms of wheat shows that the United States has sent the Allies nearly five bushels of wheat for every person in this country. Until the next harvest the great need is for wheat from the United States, and the utmost self denial is called for. Will Double Output: Camillo Marzo, president of the Placentia Canning company, has perfected plans for a big run this season. He expects to double the output of last year, running heavy on tomato paste. Their product in this line has proven very satisfactory. F. C. Marzo, former manager, is now in the service, and the management has fallen upon another brother, Adolph, and a brother-in-law, Joe Enfield. Enfield is now living in Los Angeles, but has taken the house at 137 North Bradford and will occupy it with his family in a few days. BOLSHEVIK GENEROSITY A representative of the Bolshevik government announces that, "while an alliance with America is impossible, Russia is willing to accept American assistance in the form of loans and arms." Maybe we ought to be grateful for this concession. It is something new to be permitted even to make a donation to the "Reds." But there are so many people who are willing to take our money away from us! Most of them have somewhat better William B. Goldie, a ploneer resident of Buena Park, died at a Los Angeles hospital Tuesday, after an illness of several months, at the age of 54 years. Funeral services were held at Backs & Terry's parlors at two o'clock Thursday, Rev. T. J. Brown of the Buena Park Congregational church officiating. He was buried in Anaheim cemetery, a large concoction of friends following him to the grave. The citrus packing houses of Redlands are preparing to change to the 8-hour day working basis as required by the Industrial Accident Commission.