anaheim-gazette 1918-08-15

The Weekly Gazette. ESTABLISHED 1870 Henry Kuchel, Editor and Proprietor SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR ... $1.50 SIX MONTHS ... $1.00 THREE MONTHS ... $ .50 Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter COUNTY TREASURER JOPLIN So little interest is being taken in local politics this year that the average voter, in sizing up a candidate, does not take the trouble to inquire what party he has affiliated with. If a candidate has already served a term and has made a satisfactory record the people, generally, consider it unwise to retire him for untried material. For this reason the men now holding office who have demonstrated their fitness, have a considerable advantage over the candidates who are opposing them. County Treasurer J. C. Joplin is one of the officials who is seeking re-election, and he has held the position so long it has become a habit in Orange county to return him by an overwhelming majority. Mr. Joplin was first elected many years ago, and he has been a candidate for re-election so often that those opposed to him have had ample opportunity of slitting his record, official and private, and making public any dereliction. As he has never been accused of anything that could alienate the support of a single voter, it is not probable that the friends who have stood by him in the past will desert him now. The only argument the opponents of Mr. Joplin advance against him is that he employs two deputies in the office. As the law provides two deputies in inroads of enemy machinations. Crops necessary to the feeding of the nation and the army, have been destroyed. Wells have been poisoned, incendiaries have done cruel work. "And these conditions are increasing with dire rapidity. The state itself should be able to cope with the situation. If I attain office I shall do my full duty in compelling a movement to stamp out these enemies of agriculture and the nation. "It has been brought home forcibly to me that woman's work and women's activities will continue to play an important role in the adjustment of economic conditions such as are arising and will continue to arise in times of war and peace. I recognize that this new establishment of woman's status will demand legislation to meet the new conditions and give women the recognition which they have won so convincingly. I will be found urging such legislation. "I emphatically favor military training in schools and colleges. The fighting spirit of a liberty-loving people is taking root in the blood and spirit of the future defenders of American honor. “If I am elected governor of California I shall consider that the election carries with it an absolute obligation to devote my time and attention to the duties of that office from the beginning to the end of the term; I shall remember that the governor's office is, under the law, in Sacramento, and there I will be found on the job, attending at San Francisco, Los Angeles, or elsewhere only when some local matter absolutely requires my personal attention. “If I am elected governor of this state, I pledge myself that there will be no personal political machine built up, and, furthermore, that if I find there already exists a semblance of such a machine, I will destroy it, root." ROLPH HEADQUARTER OPENED San Francisco County Following History Southern California James Rolph, Jr., publican and democrat for governor have Angles and the those in charge is remarkable activity terized the business the aspirant for gree Those who know and those who have honeiness and politician viced that in his governor's chair he what he has preached Before he was first San Francisco almost he believed that our honest business must destinies of states and for tain responsible manner in which mayority job of S plainly, his thousand herents declare, we elected. Born 49 years after the public school started his career Twelve years later Hind, he founded a shipping firm of Pany, now one of country. From the business career his He is now the real business enterprise owner of an immigrant and of the largest ing yard on the which is now turn-ord time for the Corporation. He has the president of two which he establishes so often that those opposed to him have had ample opportunity of lifting his record, official and private, and making public any dereliction. As he has never been accused of anything that could alienate the support of a single voter, it is not probable that the friends who have stood by him in the past will desert him now. The only argument the opponents of Mr. Joplin advance against him is that he employs two deputies in the office. As the law provides two deputies in counties of this class and fixes their salaries, we cannot understand why Mr. Joplin should be censured for obeying it. THE COUNTY ASSESSOR One of the candidates who hasn't made much splash in the campaign puddle so far is County Assessor James Sleeper. Jim has been so busy attending to affairs at the court house that he has not made a single visit to this section of the county with a supply of "made in Anaheim" cigars. However it is not necessary for him to neglect his duties in the county capitol to look after his political fences and remind his friends that he is again a candidate. Nobody in the county is courageous enough to attempt to pry him loose from the job he has so ably and satisfactorily filled during the past years. But notwithstanding his popularity Sleeper has some enemies. In the exercise of his duties he has kept pace with the march of progress, the development of properties and the increase in valuation, and he doesn't hesitate to make his assessment returns accordingly. He is constantly in litigation because the irate big corporations always protest, carry their protest to the board of equalization or the courts, and the board and the courts invariably sustain Sleeper. These big oil companies despise and fear Sleeper. They have no use for a man who cannot be subsidized. They pay their annual taxes under protest and file suit, but Jim's figures always stand. Only a month ago the Standard Oil Company turned in a check to the county treasurer for $385,000—under protest, of course—in payment of this year's taxes, and his assessment will be sustained. Sleeper increased the assessed valuation of Orange county more than ten million dollars this year, eight million dollars of this being on oil development in the city of Fullerton. And shall remember that the governors' office is, under the law, in Sacramento, and there I will be found on the job, attending at San Francisco, Los Angeles, or elsewhere only when some local matter absolutely requires my personal attention. "If I am elected governor of this state, I pledge myself that there will be no personal political machine built up, and, furthermore, that if I find there already exists a semblance of such a machine, I will destroy it, root and branch, at my earliest opportunity." OFFICIAL REPORT OF THIRD LIBERTY LOAN The official report of the Third Liberty Loan which was held from April 6th to May 4th, 1918, has just been issued by the Treasury Department of the Twelfth Federal Reserve District. This report is compiled from the official records of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. In analyzing the statistics set forth in regard to the Third Loan, Orange County has no cause to feel ashamed of what it did. There were nine counties included in the Southern California district. Imperial county with a quota of 708,000 raised $1,127,750. That means that their loan was over-subscribed 59.29 per cent. The number of subscriptions in Imperial county were 7,928, which gave a percentage of the population subscribing 58.33 per cent. This was the highest percentage of distribution attained by any county in Southern California. Second—Los Angeles county with a quota of $29,310,000 subscribed $44,485,650, or over-subscribed 51.78 per cent. The number of subscribers was 193,317 or an average of 38.35 per cent of its population. San Diego county with a quota of $2,635,000 subscribed $4,101,350 with an over-subscription of 55.65 per cent. The number of subscribers was 20,846. The per cent of its population subscribing was 33.81. Orange county with a quota of $1,420,000 subscribed $1,971,500, or an over-subscription of 38.84 per cent. With the number of subscribers as 10,918 it makes the percentage of population subscribing 31.70 or fourth in the list. If we then start in to take the cities of Southern California, we find that for distribution among its population, Santa Ana is second. Long Beach with 13,572 subscribers After his induction mayor of San Francisco whelming majority-ness administration that city that coysophants to week first, last and all matter of public en service alone can only way I run me replied in answer seekers and grafts. Of the many this San Francisco stands out most days of government utilities was the bing of the municipal system of that poured malediction was beset on many sisted. Today they are not only ably wages of the emp ever before—but ting one. San Francisco many years with naughty and there places there today any large city if you and your eyesight Mayor Rolph gave as it never had keeps the vacuum over time. As a big business led industrial condemn from many others better the condition labor. His trend may judge by well plished, is construcive. Joseph J. Tynan Works, of San Francisco. Schwab recently est shipbuilder in outspoken for Rolph part of him, "he can business-like admit need of." pay their annual taxes under protest and file suit, but Jim's figures always stand. Only a month ago the Standard Oil Company turned in a check to the county treasurer for $385,000—under protest, of course—in payment of this year's taxes, and his assessment will be sustained. Sleeper increased the assessed valuation of Orange county more than ten million dollars this year, eight million dollars of this being on oil development in the city of Fullerton. And this increased assessment will stand, as investigation always proves that his figures are just. JUDGE BORDWELL Judge Walter Bordwell, in his campaign as republican candidate for governor of California, includes the following extracts in his address to the people: "The people of California now fully realize that the expenses of the administration of state are beyond all reason. They must be reduced." "Will the people retain the administration under which this enormous increase occurred? "Retrenchment is a clear, positive and unmistakable demand of the people themselves. "I hereby pledge myself that if I am elected it shall be one of my first duties to personally attend to the matter of securing a reduction of the cost of maintenance of our state government. "One of the vital problems confronting state and nation, is the great menace now facing the economic life of the country. This is especially so in California. Since the United States entered the war, California agriculturists and orchardists have suffered the Orange county with a quota of $1,420,000 subscribed $1,971,500, or an over-subscription of 38.84 per cent. With the number of subscribers as 10,918 it makes the percentage of population subscribing 31.70 or fourth in the list. If we then start in to take the cities of Southern California, we find that for distribution among its population, Santa Ana is second. Long Beach with 13,572 subscribers sold to 76.21 per cent of its population, thus ranking first in distribution. Santa Ana with 4,714 subscribers sold to 55.93 per cent of its population or making second in the matter of distribution in the cities of Southern California. These figures have a great deal of bearing upon the Fourth Loan. The residents of Orange County should study them carefully. Should the government decide to make the next call for six billion, it will be twice as large as the call for the Third Loan, consequently the residents of the county must make their plans to double the subscription that they made before, or they must co-operate with all the different committees and bring in as buyers of these bonds all those who have not up to the present time bought. The war is not for any particular set of individuals, but for every individual in the United States, consequently it is the bounden duty of every individual in Orange county to own all of these bonds that he can afford to buy. Policeman M. F. Andrade is taking a ten-days' vacation. He left Sunday for a few days' stay at Venice, and will spend the balance of the time with his aged father at Elizabeth Lake. With the Los Alamitos Plains Open With the Los Alamitos fields in full swing plants in the countryside start on the beetles next harvesting or beet crop will soon cutting beets for plant started last wheels commenced tory on Thursday at Huntington Beach 22d or 23d, with Santa Ana and Sills starting a farm the Southern is put all. The Los Alamitos acres under control Holly plants have In past seasons each have taken care of acres, and it is rea possibility of thia not starting th ever, work is proc with preparation wance of the o should it be decide ROLPH HEADQUARTERS OPENED IN LOS ANGELES San Francisco Candidate Has Strong Following in the South Southern California headquarters of James Rolph Jr., candidate for the republican and democratic nominations for governor have been opened in Los Angeles and the vigor displayed by those in charge is in keeping with the remarkable activity that has characterized the business and public life of the aspirant for gubernatorial honors. Those who know Rolph intimately and those who have followed his business and political career are convinced that in his desire to occupy the governor's chair he is but practicing what he has preached for many years. Before he was first elected mayor of San Francisco almost seven years ago, he believed that only a successful and honest business man should guide the destinies of large municipalities and of states and for that matter hold certain responsible public offices. The manner in which he has handled the majority job of San Francisco shows plainly, his thousands of staunch adherents declare, what he will do if elected. Born 49 years ago and educated in the public schools, Rolph in 1888 started his career as an office boy. Twelve years later with George U. Hind, he founded the commission and shipping firm of Hind, Rolph & Company, now one of the largest in this country. From the very start of his business career his advance was rapid. He is now the real head of his first business enterprise as well as the owner of an immense coal business and of the largest wooden ship building yard on the Pacific Coast and which is now turning out ships in record time for the Emergency Fleet Corporation. He has found time to be the president of two well known banks which he established and is interested in operation, it probably will have only a short run. From three to three and a half months is the usual run of a beet sugar factory in this county, and this year will be no exception to the rule in the case of at least four of the plants. While there is considerable of a shortage of acreage as against previous years, the yield per acre will be about the average. The beets are said to be in excellent condition, and the average percentage of sugar contents is expected. The labor shortage is not os acute as it was at this time last year, and unless present conditions change there will be no necessity for importing any great amount of labor. Local Mexicans will be given the preference in the field work, and while a week ago there was some disposition on their part to again attempt their tactics of last year, it is said that today the situation is much easier and more favorable. The importation of Mexicans into the local beet fields will be adopted only as a last resort to overcome excessive demands of local help. It is believed local Mexicans profited by their experience last year and will not attempt to cripple the industry by demanding wages that are considered by farmers to be out of proportion to the service they render. With the starting of the mills and harvesting of the crops will come a flood of money, for it takes lots of money to gather the crop and put it through the mills. U. S. DESERTERS ARE STARVING IN MEXICO Pitiful Condition of the Outcasts Who Are Too Cowardly to Fight Ragged and starving, sweating out a bare existence on the Mormon farms of southern Chihuahua, Mexico, is a FICKERT WILL SPEAK TO CALIFORNIA VOTERS Candidate For Governor to Be Here on Monday Afternoon Charles M. Fickert, district attorney of San Francisco, candidate for the republican nomination for governor, will speak at the corner of Lemon and Center streets at 4:30 Monday afternoon. Mr. Fickert has made many enemies by his prosecution of anarchists and I. W. W. violaters of law, and in his campaign he throws out a defi to that element. Here is his platform: 1. Our first duty to our country and ourselves is to win the great struggle in which we are engaged. To accomplish this we must uproot the anarchists and the I. W. W. 2. I have first-hand knowledge of the principles and activities of these well-organized and enemy-financed anarchistic organizations in our state and nation. We know that these organizations, not content with circulating treasonable propaganda and inciting sabotage, are most active in committing wholesale murder, dynamiting munition plants, burning farm buildings and homes, and destroying crops, orchards, vineyards and livestock. 3. In my long fight against the despicable traitors to our state and nation, I have been subjected to a campaign of most vicious slander and calumny, which has served only to strengthen me in my determination to crush them. 4. It was in no small part due to my fight that the I. W. W. throughout the United States have been brought to the bar of justice. There the information was first secured of the infamies perpetrated by the members of this organization. I therefore come before you, not only with my pledge, but with my proofs. 5. No government that fails to pro- U. S. DESERTERS ARE STARVING IN MEXICO Pitiful Condition of the Outcasts Who Are Too Cowardly to Fight Ragged and starving, sweating out a bare existence on the Mormon farms of southern Chihuahua, Mexico, is a colony of a hundred deserters from the American army, exiled from civilization and home. The story of the privations endured by the expatriates is told by Garland Whitt, a deserter, who has returned, sick at heart, to "take his medicine." Whitt's regiment was stationed at El Paso, and one night he, with two comrades, slipped away from camp, waded the Rio Grande and started on their hike into the heart of Chihuahua. Sleeping by night in any Mexican hovel they could find, living on beans and tortillas, riding burros when they could, walking when they could not and occasionally getting a ride in a wagon or on a freight train, they drifted into the land of "manana." One day they emerged from the mesquite through which they had hiked for days, and came out upon a harvest field. Hammering on a fence post was a man, dirty and ragged, but an American. He also clad in the remnant of an army uniform and proved to be another deserter. They had struck the outskirts of one of the famous Mormon colonies of Mexico. The Latter Day Saints knew that the occasional wanderer who drifted down from the north probably had a past he did not care to rehearse and they offered him a chance to make a living, but that was all. For three months Whitt and his comrades were members of the colony within a colony, the groups of men without a country, herded together because of their common crime. Their homes were barns and sheds. Their wages were their board, and just enough money to keep them in tobacco. His knowledge of Spanish raised him somewhat above the level of his fellow-deserters, and he obtained a job in a Mexican store at El Valle, once occupied by the American punitive expedition. For this he got his board, a place to sleep and $10 a month. One day Whitt rode into the Mormon colony to see the two men with flood of money, for it takes lots of money to gather the crop and put it through the mills. 4. It was in no small part due to my fight that the I. W. W. throughout the United States have been brought to the bar of justice. There the information was first secured of the infamies perpetrated by the members of this organization. I therefore come before you, not only with my pledge, but with my proofs. 5. No government that fails to protect the person and property of the individual is worthy of the name. The supreme sacrifice return, they will reits possession letters written by members of the I. W. W., boasting that the wanton destruction of property in California in recent years by arson and sabotage has amounted to $8,000,000 annually. There must be a closer cooperation among state, county and municipal governments in apprehending these malefactors and ridding every community of the undesirable elements that produce nothing, that make a mockery of our laws, and thrive on the destruction of the lives and property of honest citizens. California must not be permitted to become an asylum for anarchists and members of the I. W. W. The villains responsible for the explosion of the infernal machine during the preparedness parade in San Francisco two years ago, killing ten persons and malming fifty others, must not be permitted to evade the penalty of their crime. 6. To those brave sons of California now engaged in the most titanic struggle of history we owe a clear duty in order that our nation may not perish. When those who have not made the supreme sacrifice return, they will rejoice that we have done our part in crushing the enemy within, whilst they endured the suffering in fighting the enemy in a foreign land. We must destroy anarchy or the anarchists will destroy our nation. Americanism or anarchy, that is the issue. My choice has been made. I am confident of yours. Budget estimates of the federal government for the fiscal year ending July 1, 1919, total $24,000,000,000. About one-thirtieth of this amount, or $800,000,000, must be raised in California. In order that such an enormous sum may be withdrawn from the state without seriously crippling labor and industry, it will be necessary not only to encourage production to the end that the greater part of this sum may be earned, but to practice the most SUGAR FACTORIES SOON WILL BE SLICING BEETS Los Alamitos Plant Is Already in Operation With the Los Alamitos sugar factory in full swing and the four other plants in the county getting ready to start on the beet grind week after next, harvesting of the county sugar beet crop will soon be on in full force. Cutting beets for the Los Alamitos plant started last Monday and the wheels commenced to turn in the factory on Thursday. The Holly plant at Huntington Beach will start on the 22d or 23d, with possibility of the Santa Ana and Southern California mills starting a few days earlier—if the Southern is put into operation at all. The Los Alamitos has about 12,000 acres under contract, while the three Holly plants have about 20,000 acres. In past seasons each of the factories have taken care of from 8,000 to 10,000 acres, and it is reported that there is a possibility of the Southern California not starting this campaign. However, work is proceeding at the plant with preparation usually made in advance of the opening season, and should it be decided to place the mill their wages were their board, and just enough money to keep them in tobacco. His knowledge of Spanish raised him somewhat above the level of his fellow-deserters, and he obtained a job in a Mexican store at El Valle, once occupied by the American punitive expedition. For this he got his board, a place to sleep and $10 a month. One day Whitt rode into the Mormon colony to see the two men with whom he had deserted. Only one was left, the other having been starved out and gone back to take his medicine. While he was in the community a white man rode up and placed the two under arrest on a charge of horse stealing. "I know you are not horse thieves," he said, "but you're deserters from the American army, which is a sight worse. I'll dismiss the horse stealing charge if you will go back to the states. If not, I'll see that you get a good term in the Mexican pen, which isn't nearly as nice as Leavenworth." Two days later the deserters were bound for Juarez on foot. At Juarez Whitt walked across the International bridge and surrendered. "I suppose I'll get a heavy turn in the mill," he said. "I've got it coming, but if I get out before this war is over, I'm praying for a chance to go to France. Nine months in Mexico will make a patriot out of any man." Lieutenant Lawrence Waller, a former Anaheim boy, is visiting his mother, Mrs. Ida Waller, in Los Angeles. Lawrence is at a large aviation camp in Texas, and wears the gold bars and silver wings of a flying lieutenant. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Art O'Brien Wednesday and on the following day a daughter appeared at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Max Salschelder. Mrs. O'Brien and Mrs. Salschelder were formerly Misses Mary and Cecelia Kneip, and they were married at a double wedding nearly a year ago. Budget estimates of the federal government for the fiscal year ending July 1, 1919, total $24,000,000,000. About one-thirtieth of this amount, or $800,000,000, must be raised in California. In order that such an enormous sum may be withdrawn from the state without seriously crippling labor and industry, it will be necessary not only to encourage production to the end that the greater part of this sum may be earned, but to practice the most rigid economy in both public and private life. Whatever sacrifices we endure at home our liberty army must not be stinted abroad. In this connection I desire to call attention to the appalling increase in the cost of government in California. The ratio of increase is more than twice that of our population. The state should set an example of retrenchment to the counties and the municipalities. In order that this may be effected I shall urge upon the legislature the necessity of reducing the number of commissions by a process of elimination and consolidation and a reduction in the cost of operation of the few necessary commissions and departments until the per capita cost of state government in California (now the second highest in the United States) shall be reduced to the general average of that of other states. Memorandum: Dried and wilted needs; serve they purely feel they are as desired; limited they are peeled der day we en view Ford THE UNIVERSAL CAR Here's the Ford Sedan—a mighty comfortable car for every day of the year. Has most enjoyable refinements combined with all the utility of the touring car. Finely upholstered—almost luxuriously—with plate glass sliding windows, it is cool in hot weather while dry and warm in fall and winter. 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The Grotto Will Entertain You With Its Bohemian Atmosphere COME PEACH PITS WANTED The government is very desirous of securing all the peach pits possible, produced in California, and to this end the officials, representing the United States Chemical War Service, are now traveling over the state in an endeavor to make such arrangements as will best subserve the government's interests in this commodity. Membership of our organization represents 80 per cent or more of the dried peach producers of this state, and we desire to impress upon them the importance of the government's needs, to the end that they may conserve and deliver all the peach pits they produce. We are doing this work purely from a patriotic standpoint, and feel that the newspapers of the state are as much interested, and that their desire to help the government is unlimited. Therefore, we feel that if they will publish the article which appeared in the Fresno Republican under date of August 2d, a copy of which we enclose herewith, being an interview with Lieutenant Lester H. Eas- Miss Mildred Carter, rising young soprano, who is coaching with Thomas Askin, the singer-actor, will appear as soloist tonight at the Red Cross benefit concert at high school auditorium. She will have an important role in the cantata, "The Wreck of the Hesperus," which Mr. Askin has drilled and will produce with a large chorus in Anaheim Thursday evening.