anaheim-gazette 1919-01-30

ORANGE COUNTY FARM BUREAU ACTIVITY CAMPAIGN ON FOR INCREASING MEMBERSHIP OF VARIOUS CENTERS OF THE COUNTY EFFECTIVE WORK CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED BY ORGANIZATION OF ALL THE GROWERS The Orange County Farm Bureau is now engaged in a systematic and vigorous membership campaign throughout the county. Committees are at work in every Farm Center during the present month and the farming districts are being thoroughly canvassed. Members are renewing and all non-numbers are invited to join. It is hoped that the number of members in the Farm Bureau will be doubled. Both the farmers of the county and their wives are urged to become members of the organization. The Farm Bureau stands for better farms, better homes, and better community life. It includes the women as well as men in its membership. Membership dues may be paid to the directors, farm center chairmen, or secretary, membership committeemen, or to the secretary of the Orange County Farm Bureau, S. S. Twombly, Fullerton, Calif. It is planned to have FORECAST OF CROP FROM CALIFORNIA GROVES Danger From Frost Estimated at From 10 to 15 Per Cent The annual estimate of the orange and lemon crop of Southern California for the season of 1918-1919 is published by the Riverside Press and the forecast is for a crop of 31,000 cars of oranges and 7,000 cars of lemons. The crop has been reduced about 10 or 15 per cent by the severe frost which occurred on December 31 and Janaury 1, but the consensus of opinion now is that the damage is much less than was feared. The estimates by localities follow: Oranges Lemons Pomona district ... 4,500 335 Ontario district ... 3,000 750 Azusa-Glendora dist... 3,000 200 Riverside district ... 2,850 300 Redlands district ... 2,800 ... Orange district ... 1,900 450 Covina district ... 1,500 ... Anaheim district ... 1,400 20 San Dimas ... 1,200 600 Rialto ... 1,150 90 Whittler ... 1,000 800 Placentia ... 1,200 20 Highland ... 1,000 125 Ventura county ... 800 1,000 San Diego county ... 225 650 Fullerton ... 700 40 Duarte-Monrovia ... 700 ... Corona ... 400 400 San Fernando ... 400 400 Alhambra district ... 500 ... Santa Barbara county. ... 500 Moreno ... 170 ... Hemet ... 125 20 Other localities ... 480 300 Total So. California .31,000 7,000 Central California .3,200 300 Northern California .250 ... Total for state...34,450 7,300 ONLY TWO DEEP Both Disappeared by the Chief Clerk Geo local exemption board is to be coined only two real dumps of 6,600 trist since commencement of question 15,1917. This does seem the cosmopolitan situation is taken into account. The two deserts riguez, of West Aguirre, of Anaheim. About the most notice was mailed at Westminster quarters of the trainment on Mistrant did not and the quota was him. It was lost that Rodriguez beet fields of Utica into custody by while on a trail Douglas, near made his escape has never been was 29 years of Texas. Joe Cervantes guez, also of Wet beet fields of Utica custody at the guez, and on to which the latter landed at Fort entrained for Car board but was officers there few teeth. Cerv Westminster. Rodriguez is no Both the farmers of the county and their wives are urged to become members of the organization. The Farm Bureau stands for better farms, better homes, and better community life. It includes the women as well as men in its membership. Membership dues may be paid to the directors, farm center chairmen, or secretary, membership committeemen, or to the secretary of the Orange County Farm Bureau, S. S. Twombly, Fullerton, Calif. It is planned to have all memberships run for the period of the calendar year, beginning with the first of January. Those who have paid their dues since July first of last year will be given credit for half the dues for 1919. Prof. B. H. Crocheron, State Leader of Farm Advisors, Berkeley, addressed the monthly conference of Directors of the Orange County Farm Bureau at the Farm Advisor's office recently. He pointed out the necessity of the individual center to propose the plan of program which it desires carried out during the year. At the outbreak of the war the fifteen county farm bureaus then organized in California voted to transfer their activities from their past regular program to one that would be aimed primarily toward the aid of the national defense. Since that time twenty additional farm bureaus have been formed, making a total of 35, all of which have put their entire efforts toward carrying out the requests of the federal government for food production along certain definite lines that made for the winning of the war. These campaigns have been extremely successful so that it has been stated that in no state in the Union have the farmers shown more willingness to carry out the desires of the government than in California. With the end of active hosilities, it seems desirable to plan to transfer the efforts of the farm bureaus from a program based upon the desires of the federal government to the pre-war conditions wherein the county farm bureau program was based upon the desires of the people in the localities in which the work was conducted. In order to make this change effective, it may be done in some organized way which will bring clearly to the minds of the people the new objective of the farm bureaus which are to make for individual and community betterment along the lines in which the people are interested. By so doing it is believed that the farm bureaus will become more effective and that thereby a ASKING A BOND ISSUE FOR HIGHWAY BUILDING Southern California Wants to Spend Ten Million For Roads Representatives of Southern California communities are in Sacramento lobbying for an act authorizing a ten million dollar bond issue for road building. Attorney David R. Faries, one of the lobbyists, said: "Some other Southern Californians and I are here to persuade the Highway Commission to include in their legislative petitions the request for authority for a $10,000,000 bond issue to complete Southern California highways now partially constructed. "I am sure our mission will be a success because we have the commission in the position that Los Angeles legislators will fish with the commission in other measures it desires enacted if it will give us part of the balt." The other members of the Southland delegation, who met with the Highways Commission and will hold another session soon, are Col. Ed Fletcher, president of the California-Arizona Highway Association; Arthur Cogsgrove, John Gillons and O. W. Cotton, representing Imperial Valley and the San Diego Chamber of Commerce, and Senator E. P. Sample, of San Diego, who is on the job to see that his constituents get what they want. The highways to be finished are: Completion of the old Mecca road from Los Angeles to Brawley, construction of a new macadamized thoroughfare from El Centro to San Diego and realization of the motorists' dreams, the scenic coast driveway from Oxnard to San Juan Capistrano. Completion of the Rindge route through the Malibu is also demanded. The Imperial Valley and San Diego representatives assert that the El Centro to San Diego road is the most important to them, as it means a great amount of commerce for San Diego and will give Imperial Valley a southward something they maintain is Joe Cervantes guez, also of Wheat fields of U.S. custody at the guez, and on tha which the latter landed at Fort entrained for Ca board but was officers there few teeth. Cerv Westminster. M Rodriguez is not The other dedicationaires were sio Aguirre, 29 show up for en 1918, although medical examinat that date. Aguirre been born at S whereabouts are military authorities. Prior to send on December 16 of Mexicans fai lical examination above mentioned deserters of th ing of question quired. WHAT ARE Surchages, s road Commission the temporary California Edi usual costs of f he form of sp class of service creased, as co disturbing th e rates approving body. Rate regulator cost of pro electricity dec rethe surcharge it is entirely due to normal price. In authorization enue, the State followed th e n dent Wilson, t of the several effect, that th e maintained in tion, so that th e duty to th e wheels of indu earnings were enormous ad everything tha vide service. Those chargement of th e eau program was based upon the desires of the people in the localities in which the work was conducted. In order to make this change effective, it may be done in some organized way which will bring clearly to the minds of the people the new objective of the farm bureau which are to make for individual and community betterment along the lines in which the people are interested. By so doing it is believed that the farm bureau will become more effective and that thereby a greater benefit will result to the community, the county and the state. It has always been recognized that the county farm bureau is an organization independent of the federal or state governments and of their county farm advisor. It has also been recognized that the county farm advisor, as an agent of the federal and state institutions of agriculture is necessarily distinct from the farm bureau and it therefore may occur from time to time that projects are undertaken by the farm advisor or by the farm bureau in which the other does not participate. It is expected, however, that in practice the great majority of projects undertaken will be those in which both the farm bureau and the farm advisor will co-operate. The effort of this project will be to initiate a distinctly county farm bureau program of work both in centers and in the county which shall be based upon the desires of the people themselves as distinct from that of the agricultural institutions of the state and nation." Orders have just been received at the postoffice that letters, post cards, printed matter, samples of merchandise, and commercial papers, ordinary and registered mail may be accepted when addressed to Alsace or Lorraine, France. No provision has yet been made to mail parcel post packages. The Imperial Valley and San Diego representatives assert that the El Centro to San Diego road is the most important to them, as it means a great amount of commerce for San Diego and will give Imperial Valley a southern outlet, something they maintain is a positive necessity. Attorney Faries urged the coast motor highway very strenuously and said in addressing the commissioners that Los Angeles county shows a truly magnanimous spirit in asking for it, as, if it is constructed, it will enable motorists to travel from San Francisco and way points without even hesitating at Los Angeles. The commission already has surveyed the projected road, which passes through Los Angeles and Orange counties along the ocean and traverses every beach city in the two counties. It will cost approximately $4,000,000. It is 130 miles long, but 43 miles have been built in the limits of incorporated cities and but 86 miles remain to be completed. A branch from a winter banana apple tree, with five apples at the end of one small twig and four at the end of another, being from the second crop this year, has been brought to Fullerton by Judge Wm. French from his home garden on West Santa Fe avenue. This tree has given Mr. French and his family all of the apples they could use during the summer and when the first crop began to ripen in June, blossoms came for the second crop. The apples of the first crop were the shape of an ordinary apple, but those of the second crop are oblong. ANAHEIM GAZETTE PROVES at From orange California published the forewors of orabout 10 frost 31 and of opinis much follow: Lemons 335 750 200 450 20 600 90 800 20 125 1,000 650 40 400 400 500 20 300 7,000 300 — 7,300 ONLY TWO DESERTIONS IN THIS DISTRICT Both Disappeared But Are Still Wanted by the Authorities Chief Clerk George H. Gobar, of the local exemption board, says that the board is to be congratulated in having only two real deserters from all the upwards of 6,600 registrants of the district since commencement of the issuance of questionaires on December 15, 1917. This does seem remarkable when the cosmopolitan character of the population is taken into consideration. The two deserters are Jesus Rodriguez, of Westminster, and Epitasio Aguirre, of Anaheim. About the middle of March, 1917, notice was mailed to Jesus Rodriguez at Westminster to appear at the headquarters of the local board for entrainment on March 28. But the registrant did not put in an appearance and the quota was entrained without him. It was learned in June, 1918, that Rodriguez was working in the beet fields of Utah and was later taken into custody by a sheriff there and while on a train en route to Fort Douglas, near Salt Lake City, Utah, made his escape from the train and has never been heard from since. He was 29 years of age and a native of Texas. Joe Cervantes, a relative of Rodriguez, also of Westminster, was in the beet fields of Utah and was taken into custody at the same time as Rodriguez, and on the same train from which the latter escaped, and was landed at Fort Douglas and later was entrained for Camp Lewis for the local board but was rejected by the army officers there because of having too few teeth. Cervantes is again back at Westminster. It is safe to assert that Rodriguez is not. LEGISLATURE TO FIX BOUNDARY LINES Agreement Between Los Angeles and Orange County Legalized by Act A bill to set the boundary line between Los Angeles and Orange counties has been introduced in the legislature, and doubtless will be passed without opposition. By this measure it is not proposed to make any changes in the map. Instead, it is proposed to legalize the map. When Orange county was formed in 1889, the Coyote creek was given as the boundary between the two counties. When the assessors of the two counties got to work figuring out assessments it was found that a large number of pieces of property were cut up in odd shapes and sizes. Occasionally, also, the Coyote creek might change its abiding place, though as streams go it was always rather a stable stream so far as location was concerned. The supervisors of the two counties got together, talked the matter over and agreed upon a boundary line that followed section, half-section and quarter-section lines, and under that agreement the county line was considered as established where they agreed that it should be. That stipulated boundary line crosses and re-crosses the Coyote creek and does not follow the creek bed. While counties may get together and by an agreement operate for decades, the fact remains that the state legislature alone has authority to establish a boundary line. A number of matters have arisen that brought up the admissibility of having the legal boundary line conform to the recognized or assumed boundary line, the one used on the maps. Not long since there was a Mexican COUNTY MOTOR COPS ON TRAIL OF SPEEDSTERS Many Stage Drivers Pungle Up For Violating the Law With the county motor cops under instructions from the board of supervisors to devote their attention at certain periods of the month to stage drivers who violate the speed laws in driving through Oranage county, the cops are hot on the trails of the stages. Motorcop Carr has adopted the policy of discarding his uniform and trailing the stages with an automobile, and by doing so he has had no trouble in getting the dope on many of them. The chief offenders are the stages running through to San Diego from Los Angeles. All the drivers had spotted the traps of the officers, and knew their location as well as the cops. The drivers always protected themselves in the traps and therefore were not caught. Carr now at unexpected times follows the stages from the Orange county line beyond La Habra nearly to the line of Capistrano, and has picked up a number of drivers. Carr has discovered in following them that the drivers would hit up to 40, 45 and 48 miles an hour when they were at a distance from the traps and that when they came to a trap they would slow down to 32 and 33 miles. In this way he detected that each driver knew the exact location of the various traps. BUILDING IS VITAL Reconstruction plans of the Department of Labor provide for America perhaps the greatest development of public works and housing ever projected. A greater and better America is the object of this vast campaign. The BUILDING to Spend in California courting a ten for road St. Faries, Californians the Highhold anEd Fletchla-Arizona our CogsW. Cotton, and the mercee, and San Diego, at his conshed are: broad from construction throughfare and real-steams, the Oxnard to pletion of the Malibu San Diego the El Centmost im-mas a great San Diego by a southmaintain is Joe Cervantes, a relative of Rodriguez, also of Westminster, was in the beet fields of Utah and was taken into custody at the same time as Rodriguez, and on the same train from which the latter escaped, and was landed at Fort Douglas and later was entrained for Camp Lewis for the local board but was rejected by the army officers there because of having too few teeth. Cervantes is again back at Westminster. It is safe to assert that Rodriguez is not. The other deserter since the questionnaires were first sent out, Epitasio Aguirre, 29 years of age, failed to show up for entrainment on April 29, 1918, although he had appeared for medical examination ten days before that date. Aguirre claims to have been born at Silver City, N. M. His whereabouts are still unknown by the military authorities. Prior to sending out questionnaires on December 15, 1917, quite a number of Mexicans failed to show up for medical examination, but the two men above mentioned are the only two real deserters of the district since the filing of questionnaires has been required. WHAT ARE SURCHARGES? Surchages, such as the State Railroad Commission has authorized for the temporary relief of the Southern California Edison Company from unusual costs of material and labor, take the form of specific additions to each class of service, which can be decreased, as costs decrease, without disturbing the scientific schedules of rates approved by the public regulating body. Rate regulation is automatic, and as the cost of producing and distributing electricity decreases, the amount of the surcharge may be decreased, until it is entirely discontinued by a return to normal prices. In authorizing an increase in revenue, the State Railroad Commission followed the request made by President Wilson, to the rate fixing bodies of the several states, which was in effect, that the utility organizations be maintained in sound financial condition, so that they could perform their duty to the public, and keep the wheels of industry moving, while their earnings were being eaten up by the enormous advances in practically everything that was necessary to provide service. Those charged with the management of the affairs of the Southern Coyote creek and does not follow the creek bed. While counties may get together and by an agreement operate for decades, the fact remains that the state legislature alone has authority to establish a boundary line. A number of matters have arisen that brought up the ad-sability of having the legal boundary line conform to the recognized or assumed boundary line, the one used on the maps. Not long since there was a Mexican murder committed on the west side of the creek, and the authorities did not know whether the murderer should be prosecuted in this county or in Los Angeles county. Three or four years ago a bridge was to be built across Coyote creek near Cypress. Under the act as passed by the legislature the bridge belonged half in Los Angeles county and half in Orange county. As a matter of common understanding, however, it was entirely within Orange county. Had the bridge been located down the creek or up the creek half a mile or a mile, possibly it would have been entirely in Los Angeles county. The bill that has been introduced into the legislature fixes the boundary line in accordance with the agreement made thirty years ago and upon the lines that have been considered by both counties as the boundary line for all these years. ANECDOTES OF THE FAMOUS Victor Hugo's powers of digestion were of no ordinary caliber. In some reminiscences contributed to Le Temps. M. Edouard Lockroy relates that the poet when served with crayfish, invariably ate them whole, swallowing the claws and shell with great gusto. Oranges were dealt with in the same way, the peel being eaten with as much relish as the fruit. A dinner party at the poet's was a trying ordeal for the people of normal appetite. "On one occasion," writes M. Lockroy, "we were fed for three hours without intermission. And after 40 minutes' respite in the drawing room we were marched back to partake of pastry and syrups." When Jenny Lind visited Edinburg in 1865 she went into a music seller's in Princess street to buy some songs. The young man who served her, not knowing who stood before him, asked if she had heard the great Jenny Lind. The answer was in the affirmative, and the stranger then put the same question to him. Regretfully he in this way he detected that each driver knew the exact location of the various traps. BUILDING IS VITAL Reconstruction plans of the Department of Labor provide for America perhaps the greatest development of public works and housing ever projected. A greater and better America is the object of this vast campaign. The building program contemplated by the department will mean a transition from war to a peace basis; it will furnish employment for large numbers of men to be demobilized from the army and the war industries; and it will stand, after the readjustment is completed, as a monument to American labor and enterprise. It will mean a tremendous addition to the material wealth of the country and to its public resources. States and cities are being encouraged to put full steam ahead on their plans for betterment, held up nearly two years as a result of the war. Private builders are urged to begin their work at once. The average working-man, who has been steadily employed during the war probably has more money than ever before, and now is the time for him to begin an investment in a home. Building, in short, is an important part of the government's plan for peace. Stopped during the war, this industry is far behind its normal condition. Nearly every town and city in the country needs new buildings; nearly every city in the country needs new houses. The people of America have been living in close quarters. They must have more air, more sunlight, more green fields, more natural freedom. Plans are under way to create demands for homes, to start work on public buildings, and to encourage private building on a large scale. Everyone can co-operate in this great task. It is a job for the business man, the worker everybody in the community. Reconstruction must be made literal, the Department of Labor believes. There must be reconstruction of that which is antiquated and obsolete, and new construction to supply the Nation's need for new homes. War-time labor requirements made new building, except upon government work, out of the question, and as a result America's population is living NEW ALASKA METALS Two more minerals, platinum and molybdenite, have been added to the list of metals produced in paying quantities in Alaska, says a review of Alaska mining in 1918 issued by J. L. McPherson, secretary of the Alaska bureau of the Seattle chamber of commerce. When Jenny Lind visited Edinburg in 1865 she went into a music seller's in Princess street to buy some songs. The young man who served her, not knowing who stod before him, asked if she had heard the great Jenny Lind. The answer was in the affirmative, and the stranger then put the same question to him. Regretfully he replied that he had not been able to afford to go, much as he desired. Jenny Lind then asked him to play the accompaniment of the song she held in her hand. Unconscious of everything except the rich notes which poured from the singer's throat, the young man played on. When the song was finished, the great singer remarked, "Now you have heard Jenny Lind!" and left the shop without waiting for any thanks. "Alaska made its first shipment of platinum in November, 1918," said the review. "One hundred and thirty-three ounces of the metal valued at $13,577 arrived in the states recently from widely separated localities in the Territory. Six ounces came from Salt Creek in the upper Copper River region, twenty-two ounces came from Dime Creek, near Nome, and 105 ounces came from Salt Chuck Mine in the Ketchikan district." Molybdenite, the other new metal of the north, is used in hardening of steel, in coloring of pottery, analytic chemistry work. "Molybdenite will be added to Alaska's exports next year," the review said, "through the opening of a large deposit at Shakan on the northern end of the Prince of Wales Island where the Treadwell Gold Mining Company, has installed a mill." for labor that will assure employment to the men who have been fighting so bravely to make the world safe for democracy. More than a resumption of building operations is sought. An extension of the program so inclusive that it will include the erection of every building that is needed everywhere, the prosecution of public work, the erection of public buildings, and the construction, above all, of homes. Unity is as essential in this campaign as it was in winning the war. The Nation must be united in support of a program that will supply its greatest need and at the same time minimize the difficulties of transition from war times to the normal organization of the country. "Keep industry humming," is the aim of the government. If every man takes a hand in the building campaign, the Department of Labor believes, this aim will be made good. DEPARTMENT AIDS CITRUS FRUIT GROWERS The occurrence of mottle-leaf in California citrus orchards is an indication by the plant that the soil in which it is growing lacks some element of plant food. The investigations of the specialists of the Department of Agriculture have revealed the fact that this condition is more frequently a result of lack of humus in the soil than of any other single soil ingredient. As a result of these investigations, much interest has been aroused among growers in regard to the question of the humus content of the soils in citrus orchards, and many growers are using every practicable means at their disposal to increase the amount of decaying organic matter in the soil by the use of manures and cover crops. The department specialists have also conducted... AN ACT CREATING THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC DEFENDER AS ONE OF THE REGULAR COUNTY OFFICERS IN THIS STATE HAS BEEN INTRODUCED BY ASSEMBLYWOMAN DORRIS. THE CREATION OF THE VOCATION OF DENTAL NURSE IS PROPOSED IN A BILL BY ASSEMBLYMAN PRENDERGAST. HE ALSO ASKS THAT IT BE MADE A MISDEMEANOR TO DIVIDE A TIP. THIS IS TO PREVENT THE ABUSE OF SOME PROPRIETORS DEMANDING THAT THEIR EMPLOYES TURN OVER A SHARE OF THE MONEY RECEIVED AS GRATUITIES. THE Educational Bill, Calling For Part Time Compulsory Education For All Children Over The Age Of Compulsory Full Time Schooling, But Under 18, Was Introduced By Assemblywoman Taylor. GRIFITH LUMBER CO. SEE US FOR YOUR BUILDING MATERIAL In Any Amount, Large or Small South Los Angeles St. H. M. ADAMS, Mgr. GOOD PLACE TO BUY— G-O-O-D L-U-M-B-E-R C. GANAHL LUMBER COMPANY Anaheim: : : : Cal Good Place to Buy— G-O-O-D L-U-M-B-E-R C. GANAHL LUMBER COMPANY Anaheim: Cal ANAHEIM FEED and FUEL CO. 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