anaheim-gazette 1918-05-23

CALIFORNIA WILL STILL BE PLAY GROUND PEOPLE MUST REST AND RECUPERATE FROM OVER EXERCISE SAYS TREASURY OFFICIAL STATE TAKING PROMINENT PART IN PREPARING NATION FOR THE WAR The process of getting the country mercantile pursuits on a war basis will be gradual and not sudden, said one of the highest officials of the treasury department in analyzing the administration attitude toward business and the war. "While people everywhere must economize by cutting out the frills and getting down to the essentials and solids, there need be no disaster and disorder," he added. "The whole situation is just what England and France and Canada have had to go through. Proper adjustment now doesn't mean hard times or non-employment. It means all the way through adjustment. Many men and women will have to change their employment, factories will have to discontinue making the non-essentials and devote their energies to war essentials and necessities." "Department stores and retail businesses need not fear disaster, but they must change their merchandise and provide more solid, dependable things and cut out or minimize fadsment of all effort to win the war. Prosperity will still abound, but will be found in new places and in new lines, and the American man, woman and child must show his and her patriotism by making the individual adjustment and adaption necessary." RATION SUGAR FOR COMMERCIAL USE Manufacturers Using It Must File Certificate With Food Administration Beginning with May 20, 19187, sugar will be rationed to all manufacturers using sugar, it was announced by C. S. Crookshank, county food administrator. Refiners, wholesale and retail dealers are prohibited after May 20, 1918 from selling all manufacturers using sugar, until said manufacturers have first procured a certificate from the food administrator, except the following: Hotels, restaurants, boarding houses and public eating places, whose products are sold for consumption on the premises; bakers and cracker manufacturers engaged exclusively in the manufacture of their products. No manufacturer using sugar will be permitted to purchase sugar without the surrender of authorized sugar distribution certificates. The seller of the sugar must take up the certificates, cancel same and return them to the food administrator within one month from date of sale. Manufacturers may obtain certificates from C. S. Crookshank at his office in room 3 of the First National bank building, Santa Ana, upon delivery of the required sworn statement. These regulations do not apply to household users of sugar. Certificates are required before sugar can be sold to manufacturers of the following: doesn't mean hard times or non-employment. It means all the way through adjustment. Many men and women will have to change their employment, factories will have to discontinue making the non-essentials and devote their energies to war essentials and necessities. "Department stores and retail businesses need not fear disaster, but they must change their merchandise and provide more solid, dependable things and cut out or minimize fads and frills of passing fancy. With the withdrawal of millions of young men, necessary labor must devolve on those left at home and no one need be out of employment at good wages. There is no necessity for refraining from things that are essential to health and morals. To be overcareful would be as wrong as to be extravagant and profligate with money. "All through the Civil war and all the other wars, wholesome amusement has been encouraged to keep the public morals, and so it will be this time. Recreation of the needed and rational kind is essential and California will fill its wonted function to many people who need climatic change and physical restoration due to the great exertions in the progress of the war. All the citrus products will be needed for home and over seas consumption and many men who have devoted themselves and the lands they tilled to flowers and vegetables of a perishable nature, can now devote themselves to essential foods that can be stored and that will help win the war. "California is taking a big step in this readjustment in concentrating on ship building and fabrication for the government. Many otherwise employed are now getting into effective war work in this way and more will be called into concrete ship manufacturing. There will be readjustment in the use of pleasure cars, as there has been in France and England. Manufacturers have cut their produce to a fraction of the normal output and ultimately, if the war lasts, we will use automobiles only for essential war work and not at all for pleasure rides. All the wealthy and the nobility among our allies now walk. Their cars are helping to win the war, and that will come here too, but it will come without shock and as an adjustment from one useful work to another more useful. Men employed in the garages who have not been called to the colors will go into shipbuilding or other lines needed for winning the cancel same and return them to the food administrator within one month from date of sale. Manufacturers may obtain certificates from C. S. Crookshank at his office in room 3 of the First National bank building, Santa Ana, upon delivery of the required sworn statement. These regulations do not apply to household users of sugar. Certificates are required before sugar can be sold to manufacturers of the following: (a) Apple butter, beverage syrups, candy, catsup, cereals, chili sauce, chocolate, cocoa, confectionery, condiments, explosives, flavoring extracts, fruit preserves, fruit syrup, glycerine, honey, invert sugar, ice cream, jam, jelly, meat products, medicines, preserves, pickles, soda water, soft drinks, syrups, tobacco, wine. (b) Canners preservers and packers of every kind; vegetables, fruit, milk and meat. (c) Soda water fountains and dispensers of soft drinks. (d) Bottlers of soft drinks. (e) Leather tanners and manufacturers of non-edible products (Use of sugar prohibited). Certificates may be issued from May 15 to July 1 in accordance with the following percentages of the amount users are entitled to as shown by statements filed with federal food administrators: Preservers and packers of vegetables, catsup and chill sauce, fruit and milk, 100 per cent; manufacturers of jam, jelly and preserves, 100 per cent; meat packers, 100 per cent; ice cream manufacturers (excluding sherbets and water ice), 100 per cent; druggists, for medical purposes only, 100 per cent; tobacco and explosives manufacturers, 100 per cent; manufacturers of apple butter, 100 per cent; honey producers, 100 per cent; glycerine manufacturers, 100 per cent; condiment manufacturers, 80 per cent; manufacturers of soda water, 80 per cent; confectionery, candies, 80 per cent; manufacturers of chocolate, 80 per cent; manufacturers of soft drinks and beverage syrups, 80 per cent; bottlers of soft drinks, 80 per cent; fruit syrup and flavoring extract manufacturers, 80 per cent; manufacturers of sweet pickles, 80 per cent; chewing gum manufacturers, 80 per cent; cocoa manufacturers, 80 per cent; manufacturers of invert sugar, 80 per cent; wine and cereal manufacturers, 80 per cent; leather tanners, no sugar; manufacturers non edible products, no sugar all others, 80 per cent; soda wa- ELEANOR ROSE the devastated children or for the same plan French if they ha or plan. Pollus Like C The canteen we gratifying ways To see those pollinates they have soul-satisfying signs French maintain dispense soup hot bacon chocolate can Red Cross dinners at cost o are inordinately salad when they of oysters or a American canteen as children. We the French zone France is of zones. In one little cafe we serve up a day. The ultimately, if the war lasts, we will use automobiles only for essential war work and not at all for pleasure rides. All the wealthy and the nobility among our allies now walk. Their cars are helping to win the war, and that will come here too, but it will come without shock and as an adjustment from one useful work to another more useful. Men employed in the garages who have not been called to the colors will go into shipbuilding or other lines needed for winning the war. "And afterwards—after the war there must be another adjustment and we must look ahead to that now. Millions of men will be returning to their homes and they will want work and occupation. We must be in position for resumption of peace business just as we must now concentrate on the business of war. We must hold hard and postpone all civil improvements that are not absolutely necessary. No sidewalks or paving, public buildings or other work of that kind can possibly be put off should be carried on now. We will need that work to employ our returning victors and make after the war prosperity real and permanent—just as after the panic year of 1907, we needed all road work and public work possible to get the wheels of business going again. Now we need the men for war work and we need the cement for boats and other things for war use, we need the ships and can't spare them to bring road and paving supplies from Trinidad and other places. "This is not a time to become hysterically stingy, but a time to buy carefully and well of needed things and to exercise common sense. There need be no change from normal prosperity, but there must be a readjustment; manufacturers of soft drinks and beverage syrups, 80 per cent; bottlers of soft drinks, 80 per cent; fruit syrup and flavoring extract manufacturers, 80 per cent; manufacturers of sweet pickles, 80 per cent; chewing gum manufacturers, 80 per cent; cocoa manufacturers, 80 per cent; manufacturers of invert sugar, 80 per cent; wine and cereal manufacturers, 80 per cent; leather tanners, no sugar; manufacturers non edible products, no sugar, all others, 80 per cent; soda water fountains and sellers of soft drinks 80 per cent. NEW OIL COMPANY An oil development company composed principally of workmen in the local oil fields has been formed and is to be known as the Liberty Petroleum company. A lease on 55 acres has been secured in the Irvine ranch district, with an option on an additional 100 acres. The property lies adjoining the Standard's 2000 acre lease on the Irvine ranch where the first test well is now going down. The Liberty Petroleum Co. will incorporate for $100,000 and $30,000 will at once be raised for drilling the first hole. Among the stockholders are W. B. Wigle, superintendent for the St. Helens Petroleum Co., J. O. Hollowell, E. E. McPherson, Ed Hurst, Jud Hillman and Mike Burough. C. E. Holcomb of the First National bank, of this city and Dr. Deming and Herman Stern are among the stockholders in the new company. Drilling will be started as soon as preliminary plans can be made. "Wheat is needed in the front line trench over there. Let potatoes serve as the home guard over her." CANTEEN WORKERS CATER TO POILU’S APPETITE FOR OYSTERS AND SALADS Eleanor Robson Belmont, Home From Europe, Tells of Her Unbounded Faith In the Red Cross. By ELEANOR ROBSON BELMONT. WHEN I left for Europe a few months ago I had no cast iron reverence for the Red Cross. When I returned from Europe I brought home with me unbounded belief in the organization. I had seen enough to make me realize that this was the best method of serving the soldiers and sailors. We are waging an economic war. Therefore the surest and most effective way to help is through the established channels selected for that purpose by the government. The main work of the American Red Cross, however, is, of course, carried on in France. The policy of those seeding this work is to back up the French in their own efforts and to help them develop along their own lines, not to root out French institutions and transplant American ones. Whether we work, then, in canteens, huts used for this purpose are little alleys marked "Paris," "Dijon," or "Lyons." These little alleys are laid out with bunks filled with sleeping men. If a pollu is going to Paris, he throws himself down in the Paris bunk, serene in the knowledge that he will be called in time for the Paris train. In some of the canteens the lights have to be dimmed on account of aeroplanes. Often the lights are covered with colored muslin shields which make a rosy glow that is very home-like. One of the canteens has been decorated by some of the best camouflage artists in France, who have taken great delight in covering the walls and even the ceiling with their pictures. The canteens are open day and night for the benefit of the men at the big junction points. Do More Than Feed Men. U. S. ARMY DOCTORS LOOK AFTER NATIVES Have Numerous Patients Among the Civilians in France Imagine that an army has moved into your state, occupying a half dozen, or a dozen counties. Then imagine that in every town and village in these counties there are cases of measles, scarlet fever, spinal meningitis, and other diseases. Imagine that all of your doctors, except one or two old men to every three or four towns, have gone away. It is physically impossible for these old men to meet the medical demands of the community. They are unable to care for the people in their own village, to say nothing of traveling to other towns. Then imagine that out of this army that has come into your state, step uniformed doctors. They establish dispensaries. Nurses are sent to look after the wives and babies. You are given medicine and advised as to the care of those in your family who are ill. Wouldn’t your heart warm to these uniformed doctors? The hearts of the French people have for it is in France that all of this is more than an imaginary story. The uniformed doctors are of the American army medical corps. And in doing this for the French people they are safeguarding the health of American boys. Fractally all able bodied medical men of France are in the army, so France has not been able to give her civilian population the medical attention it had normally. To move American boys into towns and villages where contagious diseases are prevalent would mean that our fighting forces soon would be depleted by sickness. It is the business of the ELEANOR ROBSON BELMONT, the devastated districts, for the children or for the aged, it is always on the same plan of backing up the French if they have any organization or plan. Pollus Like Oysters and Salad. The canteens work is one of the most gratifying ways of helping the men. To see those pollus enjoying the first delicacies they have had for days is a soul-satisfying sight. The English and French maintain canteens where they dispense soup, hot coffee and cocoa, teacoo, chocolate, etc., but the American Red Cross canteens serve real dinners at cost or under. The pollus are inordinately fond of oysters and salad; when they can order a plate of oysters or a dish of salad in an American canteen they are as happy as children. We have six canteens in the French zone for the French army — France is, of course, divided into zones. In one line of communication canteens we serve from 4,000 to 8,000 upon a day. These canteens are near In some of the canteens the lights have to be dimmed on account of aeroplanes. Often the lights are covered with colored mullin shields which make a rosy glow that is very home-like. One of the canteens has been decorated by some of the best camouflage artists in France, who have taken great delight in covering the walls and even the ceiling with their pictures. The canteens are open day and night for the benefit of the men at the big junction points. Do More Than Feed Men. The women in the canteens do more than feed the men, however, important as that is. Pollus leaving their families are naturally depressed and need sympathetic listeners. Some one to admire his wife's picture, some one to laugh over the baby's latest sign of genius, some one to tell him that the oldest boy is the image of his handsome father—this is as real a need in the pollu's life as salad or soup. In fact the presence of these fine women is such an influence for good that officers say the morale of the army is distinctly higher wherever the canteens are. This causes great rivalry among the canteen workers. Each one wants her canteen to be the best afd most popular in the service. Besides this direct, personal service to the soldiers the Red Cross is doing a kind of John the Baptist work with dispensaries. We have fifteen dispensaries scattered through districts where war has been or is likely to be. France had mobilized 18,000 of her 24,000 physicians, leaving about 6,000 for the whole of civilian France. Sometimes you will find one old doctor taking care of several villages with no means of transportation except occasionally an aged, overworked horse. Here is a chance for the Red Cross to step in and help. There is a syndicate of physiologists to which the Red Cross applies to find out if a certain village has a medical adviser; if not we establish a center and operate in a given section around the center. Bathing a Luxury. A Red Cross doctor and nurse go out regularly to the villages, in their section. Each village is informed when they are coming so that all who want medical advice or treatment can meet together in one spot and save unnecessary calls. Of course, if any one is too ill to come to the doctor, the doctor goes to him. The nurses carry among other things shower baths for babies. In many regions of France, owing to lack of facilities, bathing is a luxury, so the supervision has grown up that it is dangerous. Now since the mothers are convinced that their children will be neither killed nor injured, but on the contrary benefited by baths, how they do look forward to them! After all this inspiring activity of the Red Cross on the other side, romantic in spite of the drudgery and in doing this for the French people they are safeguarding the health of American boys. Fractally all able bodied medical men of France are in the army, so France has not been able to give her civilian population the medical attention it had normally. To move American boys into towns and villages where contagious diseases are prevalent would mean that our fighting forces soon would be depleted by sickness. It is the business of the medical corps, not only to care for the soldiers when they are wounded or ill, but to strive to prevent illness. The first step is to see that the civilians in whose midst the soldiers must live are healthy. That is one of the things the medical corps is doing. From a central point automobiles carrying doctors and nurses hurry away every day for dispensary work. Men, women and children without funds are cared for without any charge whatever. At the door there is a box. Families able to do so may drop a fee in this box. The money thus given is turned over to the French authorities, to be applied to a fund for families of French physicians who have been killed in the war. Uncle Sam doesn't take a cent of the money. The first thought of the medical corps is the health of the American army. It is constantly working ahead of forces about to move into new territory, isolating contagious disease, caring for these who are ill, and preparing the "healthful way." It is saving lives of American soldiers and acting as a ministering angel to the people of Lorraine. POLICING THE WORLD "This war," writes a citizen of Berkeley, Calif., in a letter to a newspaper, "is evidence per se of the utter rottenness, inefficiency, stupidity and unrestrained criminality of the famous German government and the failure of its equally famous and much boasted system of education and training. Germany is far behind civilizations of the world. Of the rights of others the Germans know nothing and care less. As citizens they have been bullied and policed from infancy, and each adult has had his turn at bullying, driving and policing someone weaker or lower in scale than himself. As a nation they have grown up with the idea, and now they propose to bully, drive and police the world." French maintain canteens where they dispense soup, hot coffee and cocoa, teacoo, chocolate, etc., but the American Red Cross canteens serve real dinners at cost or under. The pollus are inordinately fond of oysters and salad; when they can order a plate of oysters or a dish of salad in an American canteen they are as happy as children. We have six canteens in the French zone for the French army — France is, of course, divided into zones. In one line of communication canteen we serve from 4,000 to 8,000 men a day. These canteens are near the railroad stations for the benefit of the men going to the front, being transformed to some other section, or going home on a furlough. In one section the total gross debt of Great Britain at 5,678,600,000 pounds, ($27,636,000,000). The French minister of finance in presenting the budget for 1918 estimated the public debt of France on December 31, 1917, at 115,166,058,000 francs ($22,227,000,000). The public debt of Italy at the end of 1917 is estimated at about 35,000,-000,000 lire ($6,676,000,000). The debts of the Central powers are estimated as follows: Germany, $25,-408,000,000; Austria, $13,-314,000,000; and Hungary, $5,-704,000,000. Our own public debt is now around $8,000,000,000, but more than half of this amount has been loaned to our allies and will be repaid us. It is estimated that of the total net expenditures of the United States for the fiscal year 1918, exclusive of our advances to our allies, more than half will be defrayed by taxation. "The potato has done its bit by us. Shall we not do our bit by it? It's a good soldier. Help it fight the kaiser." Germany is far behind civilizations of the world. Of the rights of others the Germans know nothing and care less. As citizens they have been bullied and policed from infancy, and each adult has had his turn at bullying, driving and policing someone weaker or lower in scale than himself. As a nation they have grown up with the idea, and now they propose to bully, drive and police the world." That sounds rather drastic. But apply it to the existing situation. Germany having made a peace treaty with the new republic of Ukraine, is now seizing the little store of food possessed by Ukrainian peasants and send it back to Germany and in order to loot the country has placed it under German military rule. Germany is forcing upon the Russian government an agreement for exchanging war prisoners, by which Russia is to keep and care for all her sick and wounded German prisoners and send the able bodied back to Germany, while Germany herself keeps the able bodied Russian prisoners to work in her war factories and sends the sick and wounded back to Russia. Having declared Poland free and independent, Germany is forcing Polish men of military age into her army, and Polish women into her factories. In the invaded part of Italy, German taskmasters are working the men, women and children literally as agricultural slaves. Tens of thousands of men and women have been taken from Roumania, as black people once were from Africa and forced into German slavery. Germany is pitilessly "policing" Russia's Baltic provinces, where she has no governmental rights whatever. AFTORS K AFTER NATIVES Patients Among the in France An army has moved occupying a half dozen counties. That in every town and counties there are scarlet fever, spinal other diseases. Of your doctors, ex-men to every three have gone away. It is able for these old medical demands of They are unable to live in their own viling of travelling to out of this army to your state, step They establish cases are sent to look and bables. You are advised as to the four family who are heart warm to these? The French peopleance that all of this imaginary story. The are of the Ameri-corps. Is for the French safeguarding the boys. able bodied medical life in the army, so en able to give her the medical atten-ly. Can boys into towns contagious diseases did mean that our would be depleted the business of the rannizing over and slaughtering the population. Germany is reducing Finland to the same bloody vagsalage. Germany is bulldozing Holland into yielding unneutral transportation privileges by holding over her head for a warning the fate of Belgium; and is threatening free Switzerland with dire punishment if she fails to do the kaiser's will. WHAT THE NAVY IS DOING Some indication of the ceaseless watch kept on the high seas, in the path of American troopships, by United States naval forces operating in European waters may be gained from statistics just compiled at the naval headquarters in London. These statistics show that a single force of American destroyers operating from one base had steamed almost a million and a half miles up to April 1. The maximum distance covered by a single destroyer was more than 580,000 miles from May 1, 1917 to April 1, 1918. This destroyer was one of the first to arrive abroad after war was declared. It has been announced that Vice Admiral William S. Sims, commanding United States naval forces abroad, offered to send an auxiliary force composed of naval units to the French front at the beginning of the German offensive. The chief of staff of the French navy and General Foch did not consider that the circumstances demanded the presence of such a force at the front. The French have had a naval division operating in the forces of the Lorraine sector for some time, and the naval units have made their part of the line as shipshape as possible, with everything from big naval guns down to sleeping hammocks and ships' cats. The American soldiers billited in Mrs. May Prothero of 1309 Grand avenue is suing for $5375, and Mrs. Minnie Dietrich of 1333 Grand avenue, for $2100. The complaints against Ancle B. Watson owner of the Crown stages, were filed by Attorney H. C. Head. The allegations in each complaint are the same, excepting that the injuries sustained by Mrs. Dietrich differ from those sustained by Mrs. Prothero. It is alleged that the women were in a party that started by Crown stage from Santa Ana for Athens-on-the Hill. C. L. Knight drove the stage. It is alleged that by excessive speed, by carelessness and by failure to observe the right of way of a machine approaching the intersection from Knight's right, the accident was caused. Mrs. Prothero alleges that she sustained beside lesser injuries, a dislocation of the pelvic joint. For money expended for medical attention she asks $375 and for damages she asks $5000. Mrs. Dietrich alleges that she had an arm broken, a rib broken and received cuts and bruises. Her medical bill was $100 and she asks $2000 damages. It is understood that the Crown stage depends upon a surety company bond to protect it against judgments. Maxwell Adds to His Gallery: Four women and four children, relatives of Jose De Leon, traveled eight days in a one horse wagon, from Brawley to Santa Ana, that they might see Jose when he and Perfecto Trujillo, Los Angeles Mexicans, were there from San Quentin. The two men were brough back for re-sentencing for robbing chicken houses at Orange-thorpe. Trujillo got seven years and De Leon five. Trujillo's wife and six children were also there, and with the De Leon rela- From a central carrying doctors away every day for Men, women andounds are cared for whatever. At the fact Families able to see in this box. The turned over to the to be applied to a French physicians killed in the war. take a cent of the medical men of the Americanently working ahead move into new ter-contagious disease, who are ill, and pre-ful way." It is saveman soldiers and acting angel to the peo- THE WORLD A citizen of a letter to a newsaper se of the utterency, stupidity and quality of the fam-ment and the fall-famous and much education and is far behind civil-world. Of the rights humans know nothing citizens they have policed from infancy, had his turn at and-policing some-ver in scale than they have grown and now they pro-ve and police the offensive. The chief of staff of the French navy and General Foch did not consider that the circumstances demanded the presence of such a force at the front. The French have had a naval division operating in the forces of the Lorraine sector for some time, and the naval units have made their part of the line as shipshape as possible, with everything from big naval guns down to sleeping hammocks and ships' cats. The American soldiers billited in England for temporary training or en route for France are more and more compelling the admiration and cooperation of the English people. The National Sporting Club of London has started a series of weekly entertainment for enlisted men of the United States Army and Navy. CURTAILS STOCK ISSUES With a record of having effected a curtailment of $55,000,000 in issues of new capital stock in five months, the federal reserve board's voluntary capital issues committee gave way to the committee created by statute, last week. The official birth of the new committee screws the lid tight on unwarranted expansion in industrial, public utility or municipal issues for the period of the war. The new committee begins work wit hthe solid support of the large bankers' association and practically every stock exchange in the country. Since the voluntary committee was formed January 12, three hundred and fifteen applications, embracing a total issue of $449,450,000 have been considered. Of this amount $251,300,000 was for the purpose of refunding or renewing obligations already created. Unqualified approval was given new applications totaling $55,000,000 so the aggregate amount placed on the market this year is $142,500,000. In the same period last year, new capital stock issues totalled $492,000,000. Through banks and other financial institutions and its own sub committees, the capital issues committee has succeeded in causing postponement for the period of the war of projects involving more than $20,000,000. A total of $61,000,000 in new capital stock for industries was approved. In the same period of 1917 industrial expansion carried new capital issues of more than $285,000,000. The curtailment in this class was about $31,000,-000. Twenty municipal projects have been abandoned until after the war as Four women and four children, relatives of Jose De Leon, traveled eight days in one horse wagon, from Brawley to Santa Ana, that they might see Jose when he and Perfecto Trujillo, Los Angeles Mexicans, were there from San Quentin. The two men were brough back for re-sentencing for robbing chicken houses at Orange-thorpe. Trujillo got seven years and De Leon five. Trujillo's wife and six children were also there, and with the De Leon relatives the alley between the court house and the jail fairly swarmed with Mexican women and children. Along in the middle of the afternoon Sheriff Jackson was told that the Mexicans had had nothing to eat since breakfast and had no money. The sheriff had the cook set out some jail food, and the way the congregation of five women and ten children flew into the hash was a sight to see. It so deeply impressed Deputy Sheriff Maxwell, official photographer for the county that he took a picture of the scene. Loaded for Thieves: A number of orange and lemon growers in the Tustin district are loading their shotguns, and some of them are watching their groves at night. "There has been a good deal of orange and lemon stealing going on," said Sheriff Jackson, "and there is only one way to protect the orchards. That is the method the Tustin ranchers are adopting. The impossibility of identification of oranges and lemons once they are taken away, makes prosecutions useless even when stolen oranges are recovered. The thieves have got to be caught in the act. The shotgun method ought to have good results." "Experience so far indicates that the thieves are selecting orchards where tracks are not easily found. They are not cleaning up a tree, but distribute their theft around so that a grower will not even miss the fruit. I have no doubt but what a lot more fruit has been stolen than anyone has any idea is the case." CLASSIFICATIONS Harold D. Brundson of Placentia was entrained for Ft. MacArthur Thursday by the local board, which inducted him into the Coast Artillery. The board has received word to the effect that William E. Priebe, formerly of Anaheim, but later of Webster, S. D., has been accepted at Camp Funston, Kan., for general military made a peace new republic of Ukraine the little store by Ukrainian peasants back to Germany at the country has human military rule being upon the Russo-German prisoners lodged back to Germany herself keeps Russian prisoners to factories and sends back to Russia. Poland free and in is forcing Polish men into her army onto her factories. At of Italy, German taking the men, wore literally as agricul- of men and women from Roumania, were from Afghanistan "policing" Russians, where she has rights whatever, ty- stituents and its own sub committees, the capital issues committee has succeeded in causing postponement for the period of the war of projects involving more than $20,000,000. A total of $61,000,000 in new capital stock for industries was approved. In the same period of 1917 industrial expansion carried new capital issues of more than $285,000,000. The curtailment in this class was about $31,000,-000. Twenty municipal projects have been abandoned until after the war as a result of the committee's work. Its disapproval of "unnecessary increases in municipal debts" cut the actual issues to $41,000,000 for the last five months. Compared to this figure was the sale of more than $105,000,000 last year. Lower Canyon Road:— The lower canyon route, to be protected with a double row of piling and with a 250 foot concrete pile trestle opposite Sulphur slide, has been recommended by George W. Jones, assistant to the road commissioner of Los Angeles, in a written report to the board of supervisors on the much talked of and much worked on Santa Ana canyon road. The recommendations differ somewhat from those of County Surveyor J. L. McBride. While McBride recommended 600 feet of pile trestle at Sulphur Slide and rock protection, Jones recommends 250 feet of pile trestle and a double row of piling protection. The report was read to the supervisors, but no action was taken. Crown Stage Line Sued:— Two actions for damages have been brought against the Crown Stage as the result of the smashing of a stage at Four Corners, near Compton, on December 20, 1917. CLASSIFICATIONS Harold D. Brundson of Placentia was entrained for Ft. MacArthur Thursday by the local board, which inducted him into the Coast Artillery. The board has received word to the effect that William E. Priebe, formerly of Anaheim, but later of Webster, S. D., has been accepted at Camp Funston, Kan., for general military service. Priebe was one of the quota of April 26 and was entrained for the local board by the Webster, S. D., board. Richard L. Archie, formerly of the Murphy lease, La Habra, now at the artificiers' school at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, Cal., re-enlisted in the navy on December 15. On Thursday the local board received his questionnaire by mail from Mare Island. Louis Jacober of Santa Ana, R. F. D. 6, has been reclassified from Class A1 to Class 1, group C, being qualified for limited military service as a farmer. John E. Lonberger, formerly of Los Alamitos, now of Los Angeles, has been re-classified from A1 to Class 1, group C, qualified for limited military service as a barber. William S. Frink, formerly of Brea but now of Los Angeles, has finally been placed in Class 1, Division A. Sam Gisler of Huntington Beach has applied for a furlough for his son, who is at Camp Lewis, that the son may help on the ranch. Charlie Dunn, who is a citizen of Fullerton, entered the naval service at the navy recruiting station, Los Angeles, as seaman, second class, and will soon be serving his country at the front. His enlistment is for the duration of the war.