anaheim-gazette 1918-06-20

NEW DIRECTORS WILL RECLAIM CEMETERY EXPECT TO PLACE IT UNDER PERPETUAL CARE WHEN TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS IS RAISED BOARD EXTENDS THANKS TO F. A. HARTMAN FOR HIS BEAUTIFUL MEMORIAL ARCH Notwithstanding pessimistic predictions made by discouraged people during the past few months, there is an excellent prospect now that the Anaheim cemetery will shortly be reclaimed from its present desert condition and placed under the perpetual care system. The new board of directors, consisting of H. V. Weisel, Henry Hetebrink, Joe Wagner, A. G. Langenberger and Mrs. E. S. Seale, recently met and organized by electing Mr. Langenberger president and Max Nebelung secretary. Realizing that something must be done or the cemetery will exentully be abandoned and many of the dead moved to better kept burying grounds by the lot owners, the new board is determined that the overgrown jungle shall be cleared up and placed under a better system. The board met at the office of H. V. Weisel last week to discuss the matter at which meeting a statement was issued to the public which was published in last week's issue of the Gazette. At this meeting it was stated that $9000 had already been pledged, THEY SAY— Some sidelights upon the closing of saloons here may be of passing interest. Without doubt there would be an aching void from the renters' standpoint, and it is not at all unlikely that a number of owners of other business houses outside of the wet emporiums would feel the sting. Take Saturday night, for intsance. After eight o'clock a person has had difficulty in parking his auto in town and people on the hoof have had to elbow their way through the crowds on the sidewalks. Among these crowds it's a safe bet that fifty per cent come to wet their whistles. They come from San Berdoo, Ontario, Riverside and San Pedro. Checks given by people from these towns have been cashed here Saturday nights. Of course, were all the thirst garages closed up a large percentage of these visitors would not come here. The city now receives upwards of $12,000 annually from liquor licenses and for water and light used in these places, and were the places darkened the city treasury would feel it. This money helps finance the city government, and without it the deficiency would necessarily have to be raised in other channels. Increased taxes could be resorted to and this no doubt would be the ticket. A gent who is pretty well versed in business and who has been around some, even claiming Kansas as his one time abode, along with other progressive commonwealths, will buttonhole you and give you this: "Yes, bo, when they close the thirst emporiums in this town look out for breakers and buckles and bumps in business. Booze is the peskiest thing you ever saw to get shut of, and when you try to kill it in one place the varmint breaks out in two or three other places worse than TO AID WHEN IS THE CALIFORNIA BOARD PLAN AND STATEMENT EMERGENCY FUNDED AGRICULTURE HELP INC. The Stanislaus nancing farmers themselves, in the needed foodstuffs war measure, is rising county and state the war. The plan is now likely the underwriting that has been in men, public service nanciers, etc., Lloyd's London co-ago. The only time present instance of the land and the to be applied to of interest and tows: The California some months ago lem of increasing foodstuffs in accordance of the governors quisites were a seed, equipment man power gone ply of dependable The board met at the office of H. V. Weisel last week to discuss the matter at which meeting a statement was issued to the public which was published in last week's issue of the Gazette. At this meeting it was stated that $9000 had already been pledged, principally by lot owners for the reclamation work, and with $12,000 in sight the board would feel justified in placing it under the perpetual care law. This sum would be sufficient for a foundation fund, the grounds could be laid out and beautified by a landscape gardener and a water system could be put in. The supervisors some months ago granted permission to vacate certain streets. From the new lots thus created and the unoccupied lots already on sale something like $70,000 could be raised. This sum, added to what the present lot owners are expected to contribute, will give a sufficient sum for the work which must be done or this eternal resting place of those who have gone before will soon degenerate into an insult to the dead and a reproach to the living. There is an opportunity now to place it in such a condition that lot owners will know that the graves of their departed will be kept green and their property beautiful forever without the expenditure of any more money on their part. Those who have moved away and who are unable to give personal attention to their lots should be especially interested in this move if they still remember with regard their dead who are buried here. F. A. Hartman of Los Angeles, has set an excellent example to the former citizens of Anaheim who have moved away. He not only owns a beautiful and costly mausoleum, but only a few months ago built a memorial arch in honor of the pioneers at a cost of $4000. At a meeting of the board it was regretted that Mr. Hartman's public spirit had not been sufficiently recognized, and the newspapers were asked to extend to him the thanks of the board. The Anaheim cemetery is the oldest established burying ground in this section of Southern California. The original site was purchased in 1859, and it was incorporated as a cemetery on May 30, 1866. People from many miles away buried their dead there. Many of these lot owners have moved —A gent who is pretty well versed in business and who has been around some, even claiming Kansas as his one time abode, along with other progressive commonwealths, will buttonhole you and give you this: "Yes, bo, when they close the thirst emporiums in this town look out for breakers and buckles and bumps in business. Booze is the peskiest thing you ever saw to get shut of, and when you try to kill it in one place the varmint breaks out in two or three other places worse than ever. Back in my old home town they voted her dry and how instead of paying a license the booze dispensary, owners simply step up to the captain's office once a month and plank down their fines. And say, boy, some of that 'likker' 'll curl your hair, and when a fellow becomes a regular the undertaker lists him in his little book for future reference." —That "bone dry" rallys are being held in many outlying precincts and it wouldn't be at all surprising to hear of old John Barlycorn getting bumped pretty hard at the fall election. —That it may be well for the estopage of manufacture of liquor for conservation purposes, but so far as this town is concerned no one has ever been hurt very badly by the licensing of the trade here, unless it were a few cronics who perhaps would have slid down the toboggan just the same by some other route. Anaheim has always been a peaceable and law abiding community, and when a disturbance did occur here it was generally pulled off by some indiscreet outsider. Ninety-five per cent of improvements that have been made in the down town district from a building standpoint have been financed by men who are classed as having liberal ideas as to the governing of the city. WALTER JOHNSON DECLARED WORLD'S GREATEST PITCHER Has no Rival in Either League, it is Now Announced A New York dispatch puts Walter Johnson, the former Orange county boy, pitcher for the Washington American league team, at the top of all the base ball pitchers of the world. The dispatch says in part: "Since the great Alex left the Cubs to don the khaki, Walter has no rival in either league who quite measures up to his high standard as a Hindoo Many able bodies of doing not owing to their credit; this was the tenant and the gage heavy enough tree of his house good only for them of their families if not elastic. App able them to do came from nearly Imperial to Del Norte. Tenants or own for instance, please plant 80 or 160 or joining. A few when appealed with the board farmers whose moral character, and the quality sired to plant. S were made in or ready planted. Township justice written to with red acreage in his writer is ashamed. The department record of 2,500,000 tillable land is The $50,000,000 to extend emergency was regretted that Mr. Hartman's public spirit had not been sufficiently recognized, and the newspapers were asked to extend to him the thanks of the board. The Anaheim cemetery is the oldest established burial ground in this section of Southern California. The original site was purchased in 1859, and it was incorporated as a cemetery on May 30, 1866. People from many miles away buried their dead there. Many of these lot owners have moved away and cannot be located now, many others are indifferent and refuse to contribute anything, having abandoned their lots to weeds and wild growth, but the people of Anaheim should see to it that the graves of the pioneers who founded the Mother Colony are kept green and fragrant with perpetual flowers and that the cemetery wherein they lie should not become a desert waste. SITTON KEEPS THE CAR By non suit Albert H. Sitton came out winner in an action involving possession of an automobile. The New England Motor Car company of Los Angeles was the plaintiff. Last April a man named S. Dlaz Garaz went to the company with a Metz car and gave it and a check for $625 for a new automobile. The motor car company gave Garaz a bill of sale for the car. Afterward the check was reported worthless. In the meantime Garaz had traded the automobile into Sitton's garage at Fullerton, and in a big new car he made his way to Mexico, where he entered the stage business. He was brought back here recently on a bad check charge. Judge West heard the argument of the New England Motor Car company's attorney, who declared that since it was swindled by Garaz it ought to have its Dodge car back. Sitton's attorney, T. L. McFadden, stood pat on the sufficiency of the bill of sale produced by Garaz and turned over to Sitton. The court held that the New England company would have to stand behind its bill of sale. Sitton gets the Dodge. Mrs. Theodore Roberts made a business trip to Los Angeles Friday. A New York dispatch puts Walter Johnson, the former Orange county boy, pitcher for the Washington American league team, at the top of all the base ball pitchers of the world. The dispatch says in part: "Since the great Alex left the Cubs to don the khaki, Walter has no rival in either league who quite measures up to his high standard as a Hindoo of the slab. Alex was as great as Johnson during his active days in the majors, but Alex is gone. "A most vivid example of Johnson's greatness was established May 15, when he pitched and won an 18-inning game for Washington against the world's champion Chicago Sox, beating them by a count of 1 to 0, and helping to win the game by a long single that put a runner in position to score. "That game of ball will go down in base ball annals as one of the cleanest cut and most perfect pastimes played in many a year, for there were only nine players used by each team throughout the 18 inning and not a single misplay was made by either side." San Francisco $186,000,000 for millions for other ry the load alone a conference was Stanislaus county present the ban prominent men managers, etc., and Robert N. I and manager of opment board Chamber of com man president of wholesale grocers Joaquin county secretary of the board and o department of the ber of commerce Moore, president cific Exposition. TO AID FARMERS WHEN THE WAR IS OVER THE CALIFORNIA DEVELOPMENT BOARD PLANS FOR COUNTY AND STATE ASSISTANCE EMERGENCY FUNDS TO BE LOANED AGRICULAURISTS TO HELP INCREASE FOOD CROP The Stanislaus county plan of financing farmers who can not finance themselves, in the production of much needed foodstuffs, while at present a war measure, is rich in possibilities for county and state development after the war. The plan is not original, it is simply the underwriting system, or method that has been in use by commercial men, public service corporations, financiers, etc., since the days of Lloyd's London coffee house 300 years ago. The only thing original in the present instance is its application to the land and the farmer. How it came to be applied to agriculture may be of interest and told in outline as follows: The California Development board, some months ago, took up the problem of increasing the production of foodstuffs in accordance with the demand of the government. Three requisites were absolutely essential—seed, equipment to take the place of man power gone to war, and a supply of dependable farm labor. Of the was passed in discussion and recital of the cold hard facts. It was learned there as elsewhere that the banks were carrying everybody they could in consonance with sound banking as they had the money of their depositors to safeguard. Eventually it was decided to apply the underwriting system, to those who do not thoroughly understand this method it may be explained, avoiding technicalities, as follows: A group of men subscribe to a list by which they loan their credit to the banks, guaranteeing certain loans. Suppose Stainislaus county needs or could place $100,000 or extend that amount of credit to practical farmers to increase the production of foodstuffs, but who had no security to offer the banks, 100 or 200 men can loan their credit to the banks in sums of $500 or $1000, each and through a board of trustees selected by the subscribers, pass upon and endorse each loan made under the form of guarantee. The plan decided upon the next problem was where to get the money if the banks should need it. The development board was instructed to confer with the officials of the federal reserve bank, a branch of the U.S. treasury, to that end. This instruction was followed and the resulting conferences with federal reserve officials proved that they were willing to do everything in reason to assist Gavin McNab and Luther Elkins, attorneys for the federal reserve bank, and Geo. T. Wright, counsel for the Chamber of Commerce, drafted an underwriters agreement, form of note and endorsement that were entirely satisfactory to the bank and the plan was successfully launched. There is little or no chance for loss; it is the intention to cooperate where possible with county councils of defense and their many patrols who will report all untilled acreage, advise where possible and report what aid is needed. couver Barracks, Vancouver, Washington. They have been inducted into the spruce production division of the military aeronautics corps of the United States army. They are limited service men and go in as clerks. Hubert Jolly is a member of the firm of Giles & Jolly, stationers and printers, and George Ruble is in the grocery department of Stern & Goodman. Lester G. Baldwin, with the Standard Oil company at Whittier, was entrained on Sunday, June 16, by the local board for Vancouver Barracks. He was the first man from Class 1, group C, men physically qualified for special or limited military service, to be called by the local board. FOUND GUILTY OF SLANDERING SOLDIERS Continued from Page 1 Spier, but he did it in all innocence believing he was justified in repeating anything he had heard others say. It had been told him, he said, at Villa Park, by E. H. Neiman, who had heard it from Richard Sackman, who had got it in a round-about way from soldiers. Neiman, on taking the stand, was warned by both Judge Howard and Mr. Koepsel, that he was not compelled to answer a question that might incriminate himself, but he denied that he had made such a statement. Sackman said in his testimony that Dross had made the same statement at Villa Park. A touch of German kultur came to the surface in Dross' examination when he said that he could not understand that it was forbidden to make remarks detrimental to the character of a private or a petty officer, but it would be criminal to say the same about an officer of high rank. A long list of Santa Anans was introduced by council for the defense to prove the previous good character of the accused, and their testimony naturally, was unanimous. Col. Heath- to be applied to agriculture may be of interest and told in outline as follows: The California Development board, some months ago, took up the problem of increasing the production of foodstuffs in accordance with the demand of the government. Three requisites were absolutely essential—seed, equipment to take the place of man power gone to war, and a supply of dependable farm labor. Of the latter the only available supply was in Manchuria, practical farmers to be brought in and returned under bond, but this supply was tabooed about the time it was ascertained that they could be landed in San Francisco at 40 per man. The board learned, almost immediately, that the Mexican supply was problematical, if not improbable, owing to enemy propaganda in that country. With the intimation that at the peak of the harvest soldiers in the cantonments might be furloughed at the going wage to aid in gathering the food for themselves and comrades, the board next turned its attention to the problem of seed and equipment in order to increase the acreage and consequent production. Many able bodied farmers were desirous of doing much more but could not owing to their inability to obtain credit; this was especially true of the tenant and the owner with a mortgage heavy enough to sag the roof tree of his house. Their credit was good only for the immediate needs of their families in normal time; it was not elastic. Appeals for aid to enable them to do more to win the war came from nearly every county, from Imperial to Del Norte. Tenants or owners on 20 or 40 acres, for instance, pleaded for a chance to plant 80 or 160 or 1000 more acres joining. A few San Francisco men, when appealed to, deposited funds with the board to be loaned those farmers whose only security was their moral character, ability as a farmer and the quality of the land they desired to plant. Some emergency loans were made in order to save crops already planted. Every one of the 700 township justices of the peace was written to with reference to the untilled acreage in his township and the writer is ashamed to tell the result. The department of agriculture has a record of 2,500,000 acres of uncultivated tillable land in this state. The $50,000,000 appropriation bill to extend emergency credit to farm- David McNab and Luther Eikins, attorneys for the federal reserve bank, and Geo. T. Wright, counsel for the Chamber of Commerce, drafted an underwriters agreement, form of note and endorsement that were entirely satisfactory to the bank and the plan was successfully launched. There is little or no chance for loss; it is the intention to cooperate where possible with county councils of defense and their many patrols who will report all untilled acreage, advise where possible and report where aid is needed. The business man and farmer are the same under the skin and this is simply a revival of the plan of our forbears helping a neighbor with teams and men in emergencies, only in this instance the business man loans his credit instead of teams. There is another much to be desired result which this plan will aid in bringing about; the interest of the inter and business man are absolutely interdependent for everybody knows that when the farmer is broke we are all broke. These are critical times and by settling himself in the collar alongside the farmer and pulling with him the business man proves that he is the farmers' friend and together they will prevent others from rocking the old ship of state. The majority of men yet believe that at least 95 per cent of their fellows will pay their debts if they have the money and will back up their belief with their credit. The chief difficulty of the farmer has been his lack of organization and not knowing to whom to make the high sign for help when in trouble. It is hoped this plan will, to a great extent, remedy that. As a business proposition the plan is an excellent one to develop the resources of the county and state, but in the present emergency "business" is a side issue. When our forbears, with one hand on The Book and the other raised before God, pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor in support of a document for which their children's children are fighting to maintain, they took no thought of business. The farmer's son and the banker's son are bunk mates over there today, drinking from the same canteen, fighting shoulder to shoulder and together taking the touch of the elbow to the right to close the gap caused by the enemy's guns. With rifle at shoulder they marched away in the utmost confidence that Dad would follow through with the bacon, beans and bread. He wanted to go with his boy for in his park. A touch of German kultur came to the surface in Dross' examination when he said that he could not understand that it was forbidden to make remarks detrimental to the character of a private or a petty officer, but it would be criminal to say the same about an officer of high rank. A long list of Santa Anans was introduced by council for the defense to prove the previous good character of the accused, and their testimony naturally, was unanimous. Col. Heathman, Santa Ana's city recorder, was one of them, Sam Jernigan the city marshal, J. H. McDuffie, Harry Pritchard, W. F. Fenn, in whose house he lives, T. Palmer, for whom he now works, and Harry Spencer, foreman of the Irvine ranch where he worked on his first arrival here, all answered that his character was good. Col. Heathman stated that he had lived several months with him in the same boarding house. It was the custom in such places, he said, for the inmates to compare notes and discuss each member of the family, and if none of them could discover anything derogatory to report against a man his character was unimpeachable. He therefore, uniquifiedly gave Dross a good character. But the hard headed jurymen refused to believe that the exemplary character of the accused overbalanced the indisputable fact that he had slandered the girls of Santa Ana, and by circulating an insidious story, which he could not substantiate, was endeavoring to destroy the peoples' confidence and pride in our soldier boys. Being a citizen of Germany, with his parents and relatives living there, and only five years a resident of the United States, it is perfectly natural to believe that he is one of the kaiser's four hundred thousand agents employed in this country to create discord and dissentions among us, and to destroy the morale of the army we are creating to go over there to discipline his people and yank his imperial master off the throne. When the jury returned its verdict Judge Howard announced that he would pass sentence at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Ninety days in jail and $200 fine is the extreme penalty the justice can hand him. On the stand Dross loudly protested his fealty to the government and his loyalty to everything American, but after his trial the statement was made that a former partner of his is now interned at Fort Douglas, Utah, and that a relative is under arrest and the quality of the land they desired to plant. Some emergency loans were made in order to save crops already planted. Every one of the 700 township justices of the peace was written to with reference to the untilled acreage in his township and the writer is ashamed to tell the result. The department of agriculture has a record of 2,500,000 acres of uncultivated tillable land in this state. The $50,000,000 appropriation bill to extend emergency credit to farmers never got beyond the committee. Uncle Sam has no reinforcements to send; he depended on the farmer to hold his trench as he always had, yet never before were the odds so great against the farmer. But his trench must be held for on its holding depended half the population of Europe, the allied armies and our own. There surely was a way—there had to be a way by which it could be held. San Francisco having subscribed $18,000,000 for Liberty bonds and millions for other drives could not carry the load alone. In this emergency a conference was held at Modesto, in Stanislaus county at which there were present the bankers, warehousemen, prominent merchants, corporation managers, etc., of Stanislaus county and Robert N. Lynch, vice president and manager of the California Development board and San Francisco Chamber of commerce; W. B. Wellman president of Wellman, Peck & Co. wholesale grocers; Albert Lindley, San Joaquin county farmer, E. E. Bowles, secretary of the farmers committee of the board and of the legislative department of the San Francisco chamber of commerce and Charles C. Moore, president of the Panama Pacific Exposition. The greater part of an afternoon The farmer's son and the banker's son are bunk mates over there today, drinking from the same canteen, fighting shoulder to shoulder and together taking the touch of the elbow to the right to close the gap caused by the enemy's guns. With rifle at shoulder they marched away in the utmost confidence that Dad would follow through with the bacon, beans and bread. He wanted to go with his boy for in his conceit he believed he yet could take the old rifle from the wall and empty a saddle at 500 yards but Uncle Sam said "No; old men for counsel; young men for war." It was absolutely necessary that he hold this trench over here, he is "carrying on" to the very best of his resources; give him credit for seed and equipment and he will hold his trench until hell freezes so tight that he can cross on the ice and Dad with the grub wagon will follow through with his boy to Berlin. TWENTY EIGHT MEN TO GO The 28 men to be entrained for Camp Kearny from this district during the 5-day period beginning June 24, are to be entrained on the 24th for the big camp. As near as can be ascertained the leaving time will be 2 o'clock p.m. The twenty-eight men will be notified to report at the headquarters of the exemption board at 10 o'clock a.m., of the 24th. The Board of Trade will probably enter tain the boys at dinner at noon and the Red Cross will present them with comfort bags at that time. Hubert T. Jolly and George F. Ruble, both of Fullerton, will be entrained on Tuesday, the 18th for Van- When the jury returned its verdict Judge Howard announced that he would pass sentence at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Ninety days in jail and $200 fine is the extreme penalty the justice can hand him. On the stand Dross loudly protested his fealty to the government and his loyalty to everything American, but after his trial the statement was made that a former partner of his is now interned at Fort Douglas, Utah, and that a relative is under arrest for pro-Germanism. It was also stated that his father and four brothers have been killed while fighting for the kaiser in the present war. A HUN ROOSTER The 20-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Walte of Talbert, who were visiting at the home of the latter's sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Lamb, was painfully injured last Sunday by a game rooster which ran amuck, knocked the baby down and scratched and pecked its face as the child lay prostrate on the ground. The baby was missed from the house and upon going outside in search of him, members of the family found him lying on his back in an unconscious condition with the game rooster over him, viciously pecking and clawing his face, which was covered with marks, a number of which barely escaped his eyes. The fowl had often chased the children when they went into the yard, but no one had thought it possible that he could knock them down and inflict such injury. This rampage, however, signed his doom and a chicken supper was forthcoming at the Lamb place that night. The baby is apparently all right again with the exception of bruises with which its SUMMER SHOES An excellent line of white goods for summer wear recently received by us. GIVE YOUR FEET THE BENEFIT Don’t wear heavy winter shoes this hot weather. You can’t afford it. Our prices are right and our goods the best quality on the market. JOE LAUTENBACH Cor. Lemon and Center. Anaheim, Cal. body and especially its face, are literally covered. MAKE IT UNANIMOUS President Wilson, in his statement calling upon every man, woman and child to pledge themselves on or before June 28 to save constantly and to buy regularly the securities of the government, says, "May there be none unenlisted on that day" As the president points out, "This war is one of nations—not of armies—and all of our 100,000,000 people must Liberty Bonds or War Savings stamps to continue to practice economy and thrift and to appeal to all who do not own government securities to do likewise and purchase them to the extent of their means. The man who buys government securities transfers the purchasing power of his money to the United States government until after this war, and to that same degree does not buy in competition with the government. I earnestly appeal to every man, woman and child to pledge themselves on or before the 28th of June German kultur came to Dross' examination one could not underforbidden to make real to the character betty officer, but it was to say the same of high rank. Santa Anans was in full for the defense good character and their testimony, Almous. Col. Heathcity recorder, was Jernigan the city ruffie, Harry Pritchin whose house he for whom he now Spencer, foreman of where he worked on there, all answered was good. Col. that he had lived with him in the same suit was the custom he said, for the in-notes and discuss his family, and if none recover anything derogatory against a man his impeachable. He readily gave Dross a headed jurymen rethought the exemplary accused overbalanced fact that he had of Santa Ana, and insidious story, which antitiate, was endeavors the peoples' confine our soldier boys. Germany, with his lives living there, and a resident of this perfectly natural is one of the kaiser thousand agents embody to create disguises among us, and to of the army we are there to discipline his imperial masse returned its verdict announced that he face at 2 o'clock Wednesday days in jail the extreme penalty and him. Dross loudly protested the government and everything American, the statement war partner of his is Port Douglas, Utah, who is under arrest MAKE IT UNANIMOUS President Wilson, in his statement calling upon every man, woman and child to pledge themselves on or before June 28 to save constantly and to buy regularly the securities of the government, says, "May there be none unlisted on that day" As the president points out, "This war is one of nations—not of armies—and all of our 100,000,000 people must be economically and industrially adjusted to war conditions if this nation is to play its full part in the conflict." Our nation, not our army and navy only, is at war. And that means that all of us not actually fighting must do our part. That part consists in giving the army and navy all the support of which we are capable. To do that each one of us must first of all be a producer to our maximum ability and a consumer of necessities only, for every bit of man power and every particle of material is necessary for the use of the army and navy and for the making of the things essential to our citizens. As a maximum producer and as a consumer of necessities only, each one of us will be an accumulator of savings. And these savings can be invested in War Savings Stamps with benefit both to the government and ourselves. PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT AND GOVERNOR Every American Asked to do His Duty In Thrift Stamp Campaign President Wilson has issued the following: This war is one of nations—not of armies—and all of our one hundred million people must be economically and industrially adjusted to war conditions if this nation is to play its full part in the conflict. The problem before us is not primarily a financial problem but rather a problem of increased production of war essentials and the saving of the materials and the labor necessary for the support and equipment of our army and navy. Thoughtless expenditure of money for non-essentials, uses up the labor of men, the products of the farm, mines, and factories, and overburdens transportation, all of which must be used to the utmost and at their best for war purposes. The great result which we seek can thrift and to appeal to all who do not own government securities to do likewise and purchase them to the extent of their means. The man who buys government securities transfers the purchasing power of his money to the United States government until after this war, and to that same degree does not buy in competition with the government. I earnestly appeal to every man, woman and child to pledge themselves on or before the 28th of June to save constantly and to buy as regularly as possible the securities of the government; and to do this as far as possible through membership in war Savings societies. The 28th of June ends this special period of enlistment in the great volunteer army of production and saving here at home. May there be none unlisted on that day. (Signed) WOODROW WILSON. Statewide observance of National War Savings Day, June 28, by encouraging investment in war savings stamps and thrift stamps is urged upon one the people of California in a proclamation by Governor William D. Stephens, as follows. "One of the most important phases of individual work toward winning the war is saving of the securities of the United States money and the investment of it in the securities of the United States. "At this time we should encourage the purchase of Thrift Stamps and war savings stamps. By this means an avenue of saving is thrown open to every individual. Those whose means do not permit of large savings can, nevertheless, by depriving themselves in a very small degree, invest in war savings stamps, and by so doing they will be of direct assistance and benefit to the nation. "The National War Savings Committee, through its sub committees in various states, is organizing war savings societies to encourage the habit of thrift and small savings. June 28 has been set aside by the President as National War Savings day in order to emphasize the importance of the work which is being done. The people of California are expected by the nation to save and invest in war stamps to the value at maturity of $1,345,980. We have responded nobly to the various calls made by the government for the Liberty loan. Our Red Cross memberships and subscriptions have been so great that we are very proud of our record. Let us be equally successful in our war savings campaign." returned its verdict announced that he face at 2 o'clock Wednesday in Ninety days in jail the extreme penalty and him. Cross loudly protest the government and everything American, the statement war partner of his is Fort Douglas, Utah, who is under arrest. It was also stated four brothers have fighting for the present war. ROOSTER Old child of Mr. and Talbert, who were home of the latter's war-in-law, Mr. and was painfully injured game rooster which need the baby down pecked its face as crate on the ground. Based from the house outside in search of the family found him in an unconscious game rooster over eating and clawing his covered with marks, which barely escaped had often chased them went into the head thought it possible knock them down injury. This rammed his doom and a was forthcoming at night. The baby might again with the cases with which its problem but rather a problem of increased production of war essentials and the saving of the materials and the labor necessary for the support and equipment of our army and navy. Thoughtless expenditure of money for non-essentials, uses up the labor of men, the products of the farm, mines, and factories, and overburdens transportation, all of which must be used to the utmost and at their best for war purposes. The great result which we seek can be obtained only by the participation of every member of the nation, young and old, in a national concerted thrift movement. I therefore urge that our people everywhere pledge themselves, as suggested by the secretary of the treasury, to the practice of thrift; to serve the government to their utmost in increasing production in all fields necessary to the winning of the war; to conserve food and fuel and useful materials of every kind; to devote their labor only to the most necessary tasks, and to buy only those things which are esesntial to individual health and efficiency; and that the people, as evidence of their loyalty, invest all that they can save in Liberty bonds and War Savings Stamps. The securities issued by the treasury department are so many of them within the reach of every one that the door of opportunity in this matter is wide open to all of us. To practice thrift in peacetimes is a virtue and brings great benefit to the individual at all times; with the desperate need of the civilized world today for materials and labor with which to end the war, the practice of individual thrift is a patriotic duty and a necessity. I appeal to all who now own either order to emphasize the importance of the work which is being done. The people of California are expected by the nation to save and invest in war stamps to the value at maturity of $1,345,980. We have responded nobly to the various calls made by the government for the Liberty loan. Our Red Cross memberships and subscriptions have been so great that we are very proud of our record. Let us be equally successful in our war savings campaign. "To assure that result, I urge all persons to become members of the war savings societies, to encourage by all possible means investment in war savings stamps and thrift stamps and to join with their respective war savings committees in celebrating National War Savings Day." PAUL RUHTER JAILED ALLEGED ENEMY Placed in City Jail on Charge of Disturbing the Peace Paul Ruhter, a naturalized German living on South Claudina street, was arrested on Monday afternoon by Marshal Wood on complaint of his wife, Mrs. Mattle Ruhter, on a charge of disturbing the peace. In default of $250 ball he was locked up in the city prison. His hearing will come up before Judge Howard next Thursday, and it is understood his case will be referred to the federal court. Ruhter is reported to have given utterance to disloyal sentiments and is said to be a pro-German. He has been out of employment of late. His wife, who is a native of Pennsylvania, is a hardworking and industrious woman, and does washing for a living.