anaheim-gazette 1918-05-30

MOVING PICTURE OF OUR CITRUS PRODUCT WILL BE SHOWN IN TWO THOUSAND AND THEATRES OF THE UNITED STATES A COMPLETE STORY OF THE CALIFORNIA ORANGE FROM PLANTING OF SEED TO RIPENED FRUIT A moving picture, which will trace the complete story of the California orange from the time the tiny seed is planted until the luscious fruit reaches the New Yorkers' breakfast table, is being prepared under the direction of the Exchange advertising department. More than 300 feet of film have already been taken and when the picture is completed it will be released in 2000 theaters throughout the country. Starting with the seed bed operations, the picture rapidly traces the various stages of development in the nursery until the trees are set out in the orchard. As the grove develops the principal cultural operations are shown until the picking gang enters and the fruit is hauled to the packing house. Here the machinery for preparing the fruit for shipment is shown in detail to emphasize the careful handling methods and the painstaking effort in sizing, grading and packing. Then the cars are iceed and the train contracts as well as government freighters. Seattle's wooden and steel shipyards launch an average of two ships a week. In 1918 they will launch a minimum of sixty steel and fifty wooden vessels. In the week of March 26 four 8800 ton steel steamers were launched. At Tacoma three Ferris type wooden steamers and one 7500 ton steel freighter have been completed, and twenty more vessels will be launched within the next four months. At Portland and Astoria and along the Columbia and Wilamette rivers in Oregon, sixty seven ships were launched during the twelve months ending April 1, 1918. The Oregon district's record for that period netted 600,000 tons—nearly half of the entire Pacific coast's allotment. A 3500 ton wooden steamer was launched at Portland forty nine days after the keel was laid. At Alameda the Union Construction company has started work on a new shipbuilding plant to construct ten freighters of the 9400 ton type for the government. CONTINUE HEARING FOR IRRIGATION DISTRICT Newport Heights Project Will be Considered Wednesday, June 5 Hearing of the petition for formation of the Newport Heights Irrigation district was continued to June 5, 1918, at 10 a.m. by the board of supervisors Wednesday. Demands on the county of Orange on the hospital fund and on the county general fund for the detention home, were allowed as read. A spraying license was ordered issued to Thomas Haster on recommen- the picture rapidly traces the various stages of development in the nursery until the trees are set out in the orchard. As the grove develops the principal cultural operations are shown until the picking gang enters and the fruit is hauled to the packing house. Here the machinery for preparing the fruit for shipment is shown in detail to emphasize the careful handling methods and the painstaking effort in sizing, grading and packing. Then the cars are iced and the train is shown departing through the Cajon pass. Briefly the Exchange method of marketing is suggested and at last the train arrives in New York City, "bringing health and happiness to the city's millions." The difference between the private sale and auction system of selling is shown and one scene shows the big auction room in New York with a spirited sale in progress. The orange juice merchant and the Italian fruit vendor come in for their part in the story and finally the fruit arrives in Mrs. Housewife's kitchen. The balance of the picture shows in an interesting and appetizing manner, the many tempting ways in which oranges may be served and some of the chief reasons why the fruit should be eaten freely. In addition to the film which will be released to the general theater circuit, there will be a longer film for use at conventions of grocers and fruit jobbers, and which will show the growing and packing operations in greater detail. Many portions of the story, such as the methods of selling in the east, will be of particular interest to citrus growers in California, and arrangements will be made to show these parts of the story at association meetings and in picture theaters in the citrus districts next year. In addition to these outlets there will also be a large use of the film for educational purposes in schools, colleges, Y. M. C. A.'s and in church organizations. It required about three weeks to photograph the industrial scenes in California and pictures were made in almost every section of the Southern citrus district. The eastern marketing scenes are not yet completed but when completed the film will be the most complete ever made of the orange industry. While the moving picture was being taken, still photographs were also made of every operation. NO SHORTAGE OF LABOR IF SLACKERS ARE DRAFTED Man Power Being Wasted in Los Angeles, says Investigator Just in order to satisfy his own mind Editor Rideout, of the Placentia Courier, put on a pair of sneak shoes, went up to Los Angeles and investigated the labor situation. Here is what he found: The Courier has been considerably worried by the fear of a labor shortage, by the possible necessity of bringing in a horde of Chinese coolies to harvest our crops, but it feels better since the editor has done a little investigating. He found himself with an hour of spare time while in Los Angeles, one day last week, so he meandered up to the little park on Hill street and counted 297 young and middle aged men, apparently able bodied, basking in the sunshine. He did not have time to visit the old plaza or he would have found other hundreds there. But he did ramble about the streets, keeping his eagle eye open, and he saw able bodied men running elevators which old men, or boys or even women could run. He saw strong young men standing in the slidered Wednesday, June 5 Hearing of the petition for formation of the Newport Heights Irrigation district was continued to June 6, 1918, at 10 a.m. by the board of supervisors Wednesday. Demands on the county of Orange on the hospital fund and on the county general fund for the detention home, were allowed as read. A spraying license was ordered issued to Thomas Haster on recommendation of the horticultural commissioner. The county auditor was ordered to cancel Warrant No. 3769 for $18.19, in favor of A. Carlisle & Co. The petition of Albert Pryor, et al for abandonment of a portion of Victoria Blvd., San Juan by the Sea, was granted. The application of Perry V. Grout for permit to lay pipe line across Valencia avenue, was granted. An election was called for June 24, 1918, for the formation of the Newport Mesa Irrigation district. The clerk was authorized to advertise for bids for the sale of $12,000 La Habra school district bonds, to be opened June 5, 1918, at 11 a.m. The adoption of the appointment order to revise the old formia insurance closing meeting on agents' convention Saturday. The result after a splendid ad son of Oakland, atance department, condemned the prince in this state. He said that it is po companies to do are unable to meet He urged a new tion of the people. The convention lution condemning insurance agents by E. C. Foster oition was also ac Santa Ana insurtaining the conve Jay W. Stevenvention lecture by Saturday afternoon up to expectation is chairman of th SHIPBUILDERS SPEEDING UP Pacific coast shipbuilders may double their original allotment of 1,250,000 tons of new shipping in 1918. From Puget Sound to San Diego practically every harbor is building ships of some sort at top speed, and nearly a dozen new yards will be in operation before the end of the year. The Skinner and Eddy corporation of Seattle, which launched the first ship for the Emergency Fleet corporation, established a world's record for quick construction of a steel hull. The Columbia Shipbuilding corporation, Portland, broke that record a few weeks later by dropping an 8800 ton steel freighter into the water just sixty one days after the keel was laid. The Seattle company girded its loins and launched a hull only fifty-five days after the laying of the keel, and turned the completed freighter over to the government in seventy-one days from the beginning of construction. Standard specifications freighters of the 8800 and 9400-ton type are under construction in Oakland, Alameda and San Francisco. Many have been launched and several completed. Exact figures are held as a war secret, but two of the world's largest ship-building companies—the Union Iron Works and the Moore & Scott company, are operating full blast on navy space time last week, so he meandered up to the little park on Hill street and counted 297 young and middle aged men, apparently able bodied, basking in the sunshine. He did not have time to visit the old plaza or he would have found other hundreds there. But he did ramble about the streets, keeping his eagle eye open, and he saw able bodied men running elevators which old men, or boys or even women could run. He saw strong young men standing in the corridors, wearing "uniforms" that make an army officer look like thirty-three cents (war tax included) playing castanets as the elevators ran up and down. He saw young men selling jewelry, selling cigars, selling post cards, drawing sodas. He saw strong men, blocking street corners, selling penny papers. He saw big huskies in front of office buildings, clubs and department stores, bowing people in and out. And the liveries they wear are enough to make a fellow go home and beat his grandmother. Think of a man—a man—wearing a brown fatigue cap, a long tailed blue dress coat, white riding breeches, tank leggings and black shoes! When the loafers are drafted into the fields, when the able bodied men now filling ornamental positions are replaced by old men, women and boys, when idlers in other towns and cities are likewise cleared out, the labor situation will be considerably clarified. Some of them won't work. Oh, yes they will. Put a man on piece work, in a potato patch (without a shade tree) give him a hoe, tell him two rows or no dinner, two more rows or no supper, two more or no breakfast—no work, no eats—and he will not miss more than two meals. The convention lution condemning insurance agents. By E. C. Foster oition was also added Santa Ana insurance taining the convev. Jay W. Stevenvention lecture by Saturday afternoon up to expectation; is chairman of the eau of the Pacific forceful manner; moving pictures tance of using tha to prevent fires. prevention, he said when as a fireman came his duty to death of her son tightly locked up after the boy and set the house afflic matches. The co-rated when he lai shal of Portland tilo to 20 per cent. four Portland chil to death each ma last time he had been 20 month currence. Efforts will be time to get Mr. S illustrated lecture on mass meeting. Mac O. Robbins Santa Ana insurance coast president oation of insurance briefly to the coor of local agents an ner in which the up with the nati After an auto w on Heights and A MESSAGE FROM FRANCE Spirit of This War Pictured by French Schoolgirl in Letter Received by John H. Finley. THIS letter is one of the many messages which have been received from the schools of France in response to the messages from American universities and schools, carried to them by John H. Finley, Commissioner of Education and President of the University of the State of New York. It is reproduced here and comes from a pupil in the Lycee Victor Durny in Paris, which he visited last May, and there heard the pupils singing "The Star Spangled Banner" in French and crying in chorus, "Vive l'Amérique." It is doubted if there has been a more graphic or poetic expression of that which separates the men in the opposing trenches or of that which brings America and France together. "It was only a little river, almost a brook; it was called the Yser. One could talk from one side to the other without raising one's voice, and the birds could fly over it with one sweep of their wings. And on the two banks there were millions of men, the one turned toward the other, eye to eye. But the distance which separated them was greater than the stars in the sky; it was the distance which separates right from injustice. "The ocean is so vast that the sea gulls do not dare to cross it. During seven days and seven nights the great steamships of America, going at full speed, drive through the deep waters before the lighthouses of France come into view; but from one side to the other hearts are touching." The Great American Dollar Has a Great American Heart WILLIAM GERARD CHAPMAN. I am the Great American Dollar. I was born of Toll and Sweat and sired by Human Endeavor. Treasured and trained by Thrift, I grew ing, entered the great fight that Right might triumph, and Men and Dollars were marshaled to combat the enemy. I chanced to be of those that lin-giving ease to malmed bodies, relief to limbs writhing in torture, cooling drafts to parched throats. And under my beneficent ministrations the sons The Great American Dollar Has a Great American Heart WILLIAM GERARD CHAPMAN. I am the Great American Dollar. I was born of Toll and Sweat and sired by Human Endeavor. Treasured and trained by Thrift, I grew powerful and competent to perform for my masters the duties of a willing servant. Apprenticed to Industry, I earned wages that repaid my sponsors for their care and self denial. They loved me—not for myself alone, but for what I accomplished for human good, for by tireless labor I smoothed the paths of their lives and the fruits of my energy made sweeter their days. A Sudden Awakening. In piping times of peace I grew self complacent, and, forgetting the Spartan character of my upbringing, became more and more the slave of Luxury. Then suddenly came an awakening. The forces of Good entered into conflict with the Legions of Evil, and battle raged upon the earth. The Land of the Free, where I had my being, entered the great fight that Right might triumph, and Men and Dollars were marshaled to combat the enemy. I chanced to be of those that lingered behind, for I was the mainstay of my masters, but one day the call of the wounded in a far country was heard by them, and they sent me to where the coffers of compassion waited to receive me. There by the alchemy of human sympathy I was transmuted into instruments of aid and relief and healing. Beneath the banner of white bearing a blood red cross I fought the good fight against pain and disease and death that the heroes who fell in the great war of Humanity against the Hun might be comforted and given new life. Comfort for the Wounded. Now, on the thundering battle line in my new identity I minister to the wounded, bringing them from blood soaked ramparts to beds of comfort, giving ease to malmed bodies, relief to limbs writhing in torture, cooling drafts to parched throats. And under my beneficent ministrations the sons of my masters are rescued from agony, the hero youth of the land are restored, or the last hours of the wounded to death robbed of the grisly horror of neglect. The flower of our young manhood go in ever growing hordes to right the world's wrongs. New legions of the Great American Dollar must be marshaled to equip the army that follows—the Red Cross Army that wages its splendid fight against pain and death behind the battle lines. Enlist your dollars to fight under the Red Cross banner, you who would staunch the wounds of those who battle to bring peace and safety to you and yours and your home land—and to the world. For thus is the Great American Dollar ennobled! NEW INSURANCE LAWS FAVORED BY DELEGATES Interesting Convention of State Insurance Men at Santa Ana Saturday The adoption of a resolution urging the appointment of a state commission to revise the old or draft a new California insurance code, featured the closing meeting of the state insurance agents' convention held at Santa Ana Saturday. The resolution was adopted after a splendid address by J. W. Stetson of Oakland, attorney for the insurance department, in which he strongly condemned the present insurance laws in this state. He said the laws are lax, and that it is possible for insurance companies to do business here which are unable to meet their obligations. He urged a new code for the protection of the people of the state. The convention also adopted a resolution condemning the use of banks as insurance agents. This followed a talk by E. C. Foster of Madera. A resolution was also adopted thanking the Santa Ana insurance club for entertaining the convention this year. Jay W. Stevens gave his fire prevention lecture before the convention Saturday afternoon, and it came well up to expectations. Mr. Stevens, who is chairman of the fire prevention bureau, tricted, the party proceeded to the Orange county park, where the closing meeting of the convention was held following a steak barbecue. Will P. Stephens, past president of the state association, was toastmaster and several short talks were given by members of the jolly crowd. A stunt of this gathering was a kangaroo court, presided over by Judge Cox and two big six shooters. District Attorney Koepsel read a complaint, charging all members of the Ancient Order of Blue Goose, composed of travelling insurance men, with disturbing the peace during initiation of new members Saturday afternoon. The judge declared them guilty, and sentenced each to buy $2 worth of Thrift Stamps. There were no appeals from the court's judgment, and the total supply of $100 worth was quickly disposed of. Dancing completed the evening's entertainment. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President, L. S. Hotchkiss of Oakland; first vice president, Matt T. Mancha of Los Angeles; second vice president, Walter P. Casey, of Brawley and secretary, E. H. McCandish of Oakland. The next convention will be held in the northern part of the state. ORANGE COUNTY'S QUOTA Following is the amount to be raised this week in Orange county for the Red Cross: Santa Ana chapter ...$22,500 Anaheim chapter ...16,000 Fullerton chapter ...15,000 Newport Beach chapter...1,000 Orange (branch of L. A.) ...9,000 Total for county ...$63,500 The convention also adopted a resolution condemning the use of banks as insurance agents. This followed a talk by E. C. Foster of Madera. A resolution was also adopted thanking the Santa Ana insurance club for entertaining the convention this year. Jay W. Stevens gave his fire prevention lecture before the convention Saturday afternoon, and it came well up to expectations. Mr. Stevens, who is chairman of the fire prevention bureau of the Pacific, gave his truths in a forceful manner, and by words and moving pictures showed the importance of using the most extreme care to prevent fires. His interest in fire prevention, he said, came to fever heat when as a fireman in Portland, it became his duty to tell a mother of the death of her son who had been unwittingly locked up and burned to death after the boy and a small brother had set the house afire while playing with matches. The campaign he inaugurated when he later became fire marshal of Portland reduced the loss ratio to 20 per cent. Where an average of four Portland children had been burned to death each month previously, the last time he had visited Portland it had been 20 months since suc h occurrence. Efforts will be made at some future time to get Mr. Stevens to give his illustrated lecture before a Santa Ana mass meeting. Mac O. Robbins, secretary of the Santa Ana insurance club and Pacific coast president of the national association of insurance agents, talked briefly to the convention on the unity of local agents and the splendid manner in which the Pacific Coast is lining up with the national association. After an auto ride through the Lemon Heights and Villa Park citrus dis- Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President, L. S. Hotchkiss of Oakland; first vice president, Matt T. Mancha of Los Angeles; second vice president, Walter P. Casey, of Brawley and secretary, E. H. McCandish of Oakland. The next convention will be held in the northern part of the state. DON'T HESITATE If anyone who reads this could stand in a receiving hospital in France on the day after a great battle and watch the wounded being carried in; if he could understand what sufferings are and how great an alleviation even a little care may bring, he probably would not rest or sleep until he had done everything that lay within his power to help them. It is because we do not realize all that battles mean that we are able to go about our business at home as unconcernedly as we do. But the work of caring for the wounded has to be done and cannot be done without our aid. This is Red Cross week. A contribution to the Red Cross is just as truly a help to the sick or wounded soldier, the disheartened refugee, the tubercular French or Belgian child, or the home-sick American soldier, just back from a seige in the trenches, as though we had lent a hand to carry in a stretcher under fire, had tied the tourniquet to stanch the flow of blood, or had provided the hot soup, the war bath, and the clean clothing that bring back and good cheer. The American Red Cross is the delegate in Europe of the Amreican ideal of neighborliness. Through it the good will of America reaches out to SANTA FE ESTABLISHES CAMPING-OUT BUREAU There are some Far West trips, such as to the Rainbow Natural Bridge, more than two hundred miles from the railroad, that have been taken by less than a hundred white people. Theodore Roosevelt made the bridge trip in 1913, and Zane Grey went later to get material for one of his most popular novels, "The Rainbow Trail." Every year a greater number of busy business men, as well as those who love the out-of-doors, are making trips in the southwest off the beaten path. They climb mountain peaks; they descend canyon trails; they cross painted deserts, visit prehistoric cliff ruins and see Indian pueblos. They really rough it or camp out de luxe. The great difficulty has been to get first hand and reliable information as to trips, time consumed, distance and cost, and to get in touch with dependable outfitters. The Santa Fe has established, in its advertising department, Chicago, a Camping-out Bureau to help the tenderfoot in arranging trips by pack and saddle animal, team or auto, away from the railroad. Mr. C. J. ANAHEIM FEED and FUEL CO. Successor to R. W. McClellan Wood, Coal, Hay, Grain Seeds and Flour Choice Seed Potatoes Phones: Pacific 317, Home 294 R. W. McClellan, W. D. Grafton, Props. Good Place to Buy— G-O-O-D L-U-M-B-E-R C. GANAHL LUMBER COMPANY Anaheim, Cal The Best Meats of All Kinds always in stock City Cash Market Schneider Bros., Props. Sunset 20 and 362 Home 1053 Griffith Lumber Co. SEE US FOR YOUR BUILDING MATERIAL Griffith Lumber Co. SEE US FOR YOUR BUILDING MATERIAL In Any Amount, Large or Small South Los Angeles St. H. M. ADAMS, Mgr. Enlist in the Thrift Army Sacrifice should be a pleasure when it means protecting your Country (which means YOU) from the murderous Huns. BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS On Sale Everywhere Ganahl Lumber Company SANTA FE TIME TABLE (Corrected to Date) NORTHBOUND Lv. Anaheim Ar. Los Angeles 5:05 A.M. 6:00 A.M. 7:25 A.M. 8:20 A.M. 10:05 A.M. 11:00 A.M. 11:58 A.M. 12:50 P.M. 3:57 P.M. 4:50 P.M. 5:48 P.M. 6:30 P.M. SOUTHBOUND Lv. Los Angeles Ar. Anaheim 9:00 A.M. 9:45 A.m. 10:45 A.M. 11:35 A.M. 1:15 P.M. 2:02 P.M. 3:00 P.M. 3:42 P.M. 5:25 P.M. 6:14 P.M. 11:59 P.M. 1:10 A.M. CLEAN THE STREETS CITY CLERK'S OFFICE Anaheim, Cal., May 16, 1918. You are hereby notified that Section 1 of Ordinance No. 96 makes it the duty of any person or persons who owns or controls any real property within the limits of the City of Anaheim to keep the street or streets upon which the real property is located, free from and remove all grass, weeds or vegetation from the outer edge of said street or streets adjoining such real property and the parking, up to the center line of such street or streets. You are further notified that if the provisions of this Section 1 of said Ordinance are not complied with by you within ten days from this date the City of Anaheim will eradicate and remove, at your expense, all grass, weeds or vegetation, which may be on any street or streets adjoining such real property and the parking, owned or controlled by you in the City of Anaheim, according to the provisions of said Ordinance of the City of Anaheim. By order of the Board of Trustees of the City of Anaheim. EDWARD B. MERRITT. Clerk of the City of Anaheim. 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