anaheim-gazette 1918-08-15

SIGN CONTRACTS FOR NEWPORT SHIPYARD STRONG CORPORATION FORMED FOR THE PURPOSE OF ESTABLISHING LARGE PLANT ONE THOUSAND PERSONS WILL BE EMPLOYED WHEN THE YARDS ARE IN OPERATION With a contract signed for the dredging of Newport Bay, with funds provided under the $50,000 bond issue voted by the city of Newport Beach some time ago and the dredging contracting firm under contract to install a ship building plant, Newport Beach again assumes the position of a prospective ship building city. The contracting firm also has purchased thirty acres as a site for its ship building plant. The Pope Shipbuilding Corporation is the name of the concern which will do the work and eventually start the shipbuilding industry at the Orange county harbor. The corporation has been organized by men who are said to be thoroughly responsible and they have evidenced their faith by the placing of a bond to carry out their agreements. The building site of the company lies on the south side of the bay immediately back of the Newport garage and extends to the proposed channel. The property was purchased from Stevenson and Gleason. J. P. Greeley, as chairman of the Board of City Trustees, signed the con- sued by the Interior Department through its Bureau of Education for circulation among Mayors, School Board members and other public officials. In his report on French schools in war time, John H. Finley, Commissioner of Education of New York State, delivers France's message to America in these words: "Do not let the needs of the hour, however demanding, or its burdens, however heavy, or its perils, however heartbreaking, make you unmindful of the defense of tomorrow, of those disciples through which the individual may have freedom, through which an efficient democracy is possible, and through which the institutions of civilization can be perpetuated and strengthened. Conserve, endure taxation and privation, suffer and sacrifice, to assure to those whom you have brought into the world that it shall be not only a safe, but a happy place for them." Another message comes from England. The Hon. H. A. L. Fisher, president of the English Board of Education, who is in charge of the pending educational legislation of fundamental significance, says: "At the beginning of the war, when first the shortage of labor became apparent, a raid was made upon the schools, a great raid, a successful raid, a raid started by a large body of unreflecting opinion. The result of that raid upon the schools has been that hundreds of thousands of children in this country have been prematurely withdrawn from school and have suffered an irreparable damage, a damage which it will be quite impossible for us hereafter adequately to repair. That is a very grave and distressing symptom." Final place on the broadside is given to a report of the English Committee on Juvenile Education in Re- gives the Secretary authority to issue Liberty Bonds, which to the country for the 28th of September knew that the money and they did not die but passed it in show amount authorized will have war debt follows: United States, $297,000; Britain, $37,000,000; Germany, Italy, $7,500,000,000; Before the war these countries were United States, Britain, $3,000,000,000; Germany, Italy, $1,200,000,000; It will be seen States, which has been than one and a half land, France and Germany at it for over four hundred national debt rents. One reason is forced to speed up and provide the rate none of the capable of and also more to finance about 3,000 miles away the belligerent people are near the We are expending ing to treasury every twenty-four lbs of $1,000,000,000 ea Since the war been 43,000,000 men have arms either in the fighting nation men have been wounds and diseases before the last battalion 000 soldiers will premature graves on the battlefields The corporation has been organized by men who are said to be thoroughly responsible and they have evidenced their faith by the placing of a bond to carry out their agreements. The building site of the company lies on the south side of the bay immediately back of the Newport garage and extends to the proposed channel. The property was purchased from Stevenson and Gleason. J. P. Greeley, as chairman of the Board of City Trustees, signed the contract papers in the deal in Los Angeles, he and Lew H. Wallace and City Clerk Lemon taking them to Los Angeles for proper execution by the men representing the corporation. The company has 210 days in which to complete its dredging contract, and in the meantime must build the dredger and do the work. Work on the dredger is to start within thirty days. The corporation, in a sense, will "dig itself in." It is to do the dredging work necessary to make a channel of sufficient size and depth to make launching of its ships and towing them to the ocean possible. The estimated cost of the dredging is $100,000, the returns from dredged material in filling new lands being figured on to provide the funds between the amount of the bond issue and the estimated cost. The corporation, which is headed by Frank Scoville as president, Ed. D. S. Pope as secretary-treasurer and general manager and A. H. Rose as vice president, contemplates, say the directors, first, completing their contract with the city of Newport Beach in dredging the channel, and second, the erection of a shipbuilding plant costing about $500,000. Other dredging, which at present is only in prospect, would cost about $400,000, say officers of the company, thus bringing the enterprise into the $1,000,000 class. The directors of the corporation are Mr. Pope, Frank Scoville, W. M. Loftus, A. H. Koebig, S. J. Chappel, Mark S. Clark and A. H. Rose. The papers relating to the dredging were signed in the office of H. F. Scoville, attorney for the company, Mr. Wallace representing President Greeley of the Newport Beach Board of Trustees. The dredging, according to the contract, is to be assembled or started in thirty days, and actual dredging must begin in ninety days. The officers of the company say that work will begin at once. The channel will follow the one laid out by the government several months ago but will not be so wide. Final place on the broadside is given to a report of the English Committee on Juvenile Education in Relation to Employment After the War, which says: "Any inquiry into education at the present juncture is big with issues of national fate. In the great work of reconstruction which lies ahead there are aims to be set before us which will try, no less searchingly than war itself, the temper and enduring qualities of our race; and in the realization of each and all of these education, with stimulus and discipline, must be our stand-by. We have to perfect the civilization for which men have shed their blood and our women their tears; to establish new standards of value in our judgment of what makes life worth living, more wholesome and more restrained ideals of behavior and recreation, finer traditions of co-operation and kindly fellowship between class and class of man and man. "These are tasks for a nation of trained character and robust physique, a nation alert to the things of the spirit, reverential of knowledge, reverential of its teachers and generous in its estimate of what the pro-teachers inevitably cost." MAY TAKE OVER OIL INDUSTRY Mark A. Requa, director of oil supplies for the fuel administration, expects within two weeks to announce a plan for federal control of the oil industry. It is desired to put the plan into operation through voluntary action of producers and refiners, although the provisions of the Lever bill are available if needed. The plan is to eliminate competition through fixing prices of crude oil in various fields and setting a maximum figure on bonuses. If necessary to keep military needs of the allied nations fully supplied locations will be undertaken, as in the case of steel. It is considered likely the industry will shortly come into contact with the government regulation through the necessity of applying for priority reflecting opinion. The result of that reid upon the schools has been that hundreds of thousands of children in this country have been prematurely withdrawn from school and have suffered an irreparable damage, a damage which it will be quite impossible for us hereafter adequately to repair. That is a very grave and distressing symptom." The brain reels is challenged by the one asks instinct longer can this point end of each Liberty men and women cannot stand another but when the next around we somehow again and would mean and low had first Liberty Loan 595,200 from 4,500 500,000 persons Second Liberty Loan 3,808,766,150, and 000 individual sub Liberty Loan,the 4,170,019,650. Co Longworth, of Ob Representatives dicted that 30,000 subscribe to the Le We do not doubt more than that m who are ready and every dollar they have to bring righteous war w ever the price w pay it. AMERICAN HOUSE To care for Am from the French military hospitals Cross has assigned Cross nurses,and lish speaking Re French hospital according to a from Paris.Before assigned some o been fighting in rived at institut could speak Eng soldiers not recor S. Clark and A. H. Rose. The papers relating to the dredging were signed in the office of H. F. Scoville, attorney for the company, Mr. Wallace representing President Greeley of the Newport Beach Board of Trustees. The dredging, according to the contract, is to be assembled or started in thirty days, and actual dredging must begin in ninety days. The officers of the company say that work will begin at once. The channel will follow the one laid out by the government several years ago, but will not be so wide. It will be 125 feet wide and ten feet deep at low-water tide and about two miles long. Koebig and Koebig are engineers for the company. The ultimate plans of the company is the erection of a plant for the erection of ships of all sizes and classes, principally of wood and concrete. The tract purchased is located at the head of the proposed government deep-water channel. The consideration, which, it was said, was very low under the circumstances, was not given out. It is anticipated by the moving spirits back of the organization, among whom is, besides the officers, N. H. Beer, who will be the general superintendent, that about 1,000 persons will find employment at the plant. How soon erection of the plant itself will begin was not stated. KEEP UP SCHOOLS Every public officer entrusted with the support of public schools should know that Europe's lesson to the United States as a result of the war is to keep the schools going and to make education during and after the war better and more effective than it has ever been, according to a broadside announcement entitled "Europe's Education Message to America," just is- BARLEY DISEASES Studies are in progress on the stripe, net blotch, and spot blotch diseases of barley by the United States Department of Agriculture, in co-operation with the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station. These diseases are common in the upper Mississippi and Ohio Valley states and are often responsible for serious losses to the growers. The investigations cover the life history and habits of the several organisms, the distribution and economic importance of each of the three diseases, the relation of the causative organisms to other cereals and the wild and cultivated grasses, and methods of control by means of formaldehyde and other fungicides. Stripe disease of barley is found to be largely preventable by formaldehyde treatment. Some of the results obtained are now being prepared for publication. THE FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN The House of Representatives gave just one hour's consideration to the Fourth Liberty Loan Bond bill, which WHEAT AND Rye Planting Procedures States Department 1918-19 in the Censored at a conthe department ANAHEIM GAZETTE POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS WILLIAM G. LORIGAN (Incumbent) Candidate for Associate Justice of the State of California J. M. BACKS Candidate for CLERK OF ORANGE COUNTY Chief Clerk for Six Years. Primary Election, Tuesday, Aug. 27 J. C. JOPLIN (Incumbent) CANDIDATE FOR TREASURER OF ORANGE COUNTY Primary Election August '27, 1918 R. P. MITCHELL (Incumbent) Candidate for COUNTY SUPERINTENENT Primary Election, Tuesday, Aug. 27. SAM JERNIGAN Candidate for SHERIFF ORANGE COUNTY Primary Election Tuesday, Aug. 27. JAMES SLEEPER Incumbent Candidate for ASSESSOR Primary Tuesday, August 27 VICTOR CEMENT AGENCY GIBBS LUMBER East Broadway ANAHEIM CAL. OFFICE PHONES HOME 753-1 SUNSET 341-J. Res. 125 E. Broadway, Cor. Claudina RESIDENCE PHONES PACIFIC 341-M HOME 753-2 J. W. TRUXAW, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON HOURS 11:12; 2:4; 7:8 GERMAN AMERICAN BANK BLDG. Cor. Center and Los Angeles Sts. ANAHEIM, CAL. J.C.Osher, D.D.S., M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT—ORAL SURGERY—GLASSES FITTED SUITE 1 CENTRAL BLDG. PHONE SUNSET 337 Dr. G. A. Neth General Drugless Practitioner SUITE 4, CASSOU BLDG., ANAHEIM Our treatments are especially advantageous for ailments of the Nerves and pains in the muscles and joints. Acute or chronic diseases of the various organs often yield with surprising alacrity to our modalities. Fees reasonable. ING to treasury figures, $50,000,000 every twenty-four hours, or at the rate of $1,000,000,000 every twenty days. Since the war began four years ago 43,000,000 men have been put under arms either in the armies or navies of the fighting nations while 8,700,000 men have been killed or died of wounds and disease. In all probability before the last battle is fought 10,000,000 soldiers will have been put into premature graves or their bones left on the battlefields or return cripples. How many civilians, innocent non-combatants, men, women and children, have died can only be estimated, but the number must reach into the hundreds of thousands. The brain reels and the imagination is challenged by the figures and every one asks instinctively: How much longer can this possibly last At the end of each Liberty Loan campaign men and women say Well, we simply cannot stand another call of this kind, but when the next loan period comes around we somehow manage to buy again and would feel shame-faced and mean and low had we held aloof. The first Liberty Loan brought in $1,986,595,200 from 4,500,000 purchasers; 9,500,000 persons participated in the Second Liberty Loan, which realized $3,808,766,150, and there were 17,000,000 individual subscribers to the Third Liberty Loan, the total of which was $4,170,019,650. Congressman Nicholas Longworth, of Ohio, in the House of Representatives the other day predicted that 30,000,000 Americans will subscribe to the Fourth Liberty Loan. We do not doubt it because there are more than that number of Americans who are ready and willing to subscribe every dollar they possess or ever nope to have, to bring victory in this most righteous war we are waging. Whatever the price, we are prepared to pay it. AMERICAN HOSPITAL NURSES To care for American wounded sent from the French sectors to French military hospitals, the American Red Cross has assigned one of its Red Cross nurses, and a French and English speaking Red Cross aid to every French hospital caring for our men according to a report just received from Paris. Before these nurses were assigned some of our men who had been fighting in French regiments arrived at institutions where no one could speak English. A few of these soldiers not recognizing the language, SAM JERNIGAN Candidate for SHERIFF ORANGE COUNTY Primary Election Tuesday, Aug. 27. JAMES SLEEPER Incumbent Candidate for ASSESSOR Primary Tuesday, August 27 Save Expenses of one Deputy by Voting For J. H. WHITAKER of Anaheim, Candidate for COUNTY AUDITOR Primaries August 27 W. C. JEROME (Incumbent) Candidate for COUNTY AUDITOR Primaries, Tuesday, August 27 J. C. LAMB (Incumbent) Candidate for TAX COLLECTOR Primary Election, Tuesday,\ Aug. 27 CAL D. LESTER Candidate for COUNTY TREASURER Primaries Tuesday, August 27th tives, held in Chicago, July 25 and 26. State agricultural college extension directors and wheat specialists from 10 states were present. These states—Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan—have been asked by the department to plant a little more than 27,000,000 acres of winter wheat or practically three-fifths of the acreage suggested as a minimum for the entire United States. Every state representative at the conference felt confident that the minimum acreage allotment for his state could and would be planted, and that if conditions continued favorable the maximum acreage suggested by the department might be reached. PROTEST USE OF FLAG AS CONTRIBUTION BOX Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce Says It Lowers Its Dignity Use of the American flag as a receptacle for receiving cash contributioneous for alliments of the Nerves and pains in the muscles and joints. Acute or chronic diseases of the various organs often yield with surprising alacrity to our modalities. Fees reasonable. HOTEL VALENCIA Modern in Every Respect Finest Hotel in Orange County Accommodations Unsurpassed By any hotel in the Southland and prices reasonable. Corner Lemon and Center Sts Anaheim, California Rates, $1.00 per night, up. Special Rates by the week or month. Anaheim Union Water Co. RUN NO. 4 STARTS AUG. 5th, 1918. ONE HOUR OF 100 INCHES TO THE SHARE All Rented Stock Must be Transferred and in the Office on or Before August 5th, 1918. THE PEOPLE AND WAR TAXES More than $3,500,000,000 has been collected in internal revenue taxes, including income and excess profits taxes, for the fiscal year. This exceeds by over $100,000,000 the estimates made a few months ago, and by over $200,000,000 the estimates made a year ago when the revenue measures were passed by Congress. The success in collecting this large revenue is attributed by the Treasury Department to the patriotism and cooperation of the American people in promptly and cheerfully meeting the war burdens imposed upon them. EFFECTIVE SIGN SYSTEM PROTEST USE OF FLAG AS CONTRIBUTION BOX Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce Says It Lowers Its Dignity Use of the American flag as a receptacle for receiving cash contributions is not approved by the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce, and the directors Wednesday night, following the lead of the Cincinnati chamber which has organized a campaign against such use of the flag, the local chamber passed resolutions protesting against its use for such purposes. The proposition is being taken up by all chambers of commerce identified with the United States Chamber of Commerce. Extracts from the resolutions follow: "Gradually and generally throughout the country there has developed a practice of carrying the United States flag horizontally in processions for the purpose of receiving contributions by by-standers. While the purposes for which the money is thus contributed are most pralseworthy, such use of the flag is neither dignified nor proper for the emblem of our country. The reverence in which we hold the flag of our nation moves us to protest against its being used in any manner that detracts from its dignity; therefore, be it Resolved, that the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce urge that the flag of the United States shall not be used as a receptacle for money offerings, either in processions, parades or on any occasion." EFFECTIVE SIGN SYSTEM But few residents of the Southland realize that the Automobile Club of Southern California has developed the largest and best maintained sign system of any similar organization in the world. At present the Auto Club's signposts number over 50,000, and new placards are being placed at the rate of about 400 per month. If put end to end the posts belonging to the present signing system of the organization would reach 114 miles, forming a solid white ribbon from Los Angeles nearly to Bakersfield. Four especially equipped trucks and nine men are on the go all the time, keeping the Auto Club's sign system in shape and placing new direction and warning plates. An average of 25 gallons of paint is used each month to keep the posts in good shape and looking nicely. The Automobile Club has already posted the National Old Trails route to the East but a survey of this system, taken several months ago, showed that some 800 of the club's transcontinental markers needed to be replaced. A truck was dispatched last Tuesday to take care of this work as far as Needles. This crew will proceed from Needles to Parker and Blythe, reconstructing the club's sign system Griffith Lumber Co. 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Another crew is occupied at present with the Coast and Inland routes to San Diego, on which roads a number of new signs will be erected and old ones replaced. Part of the work in the month will consist of a complete posting system for the Silver Terrace Highway from San Diego to Camp Kearny. The return trip will be made over the Inland course, one task on this leg of the journey being the routing of the Inland highway through another portion of Escondido than that entered at present. Perhaps the most notable achievement of the Auto Club's signposting department is the mapping and signing of the Lincoln Highway to Kansas City, "Dusty" Rhodes, head of the signposting department, being engaged in this work at present. Rhodes and his assistant, Ollie Lewis, of the Club's Touring Bureau, reached Omaha yesterday. After completing their work to Kansas City they will drop southward to the National Old Trails via the King of Trails and complete the restoration work on the N. O. T. as far as Needles. PULLING AN ELEPHANT'S TOOTH Perhaps the greatest dental operation on record was performed some years ago upon an elephant in the City of Mexico. The aching tooth was twelve inches long and measured fourteen inches round the root. After the animal had been securely fastened with chains his mouth was pried open and a quantity of cocaine applied to deaden the pain. When this was done a hole was bored through the tooth and an iron bar inserted. Then a rope was twisted around the bar, and four horses were attached thereto to drag the offending molar out.