anaheim-gazette 1919-03-06

Anahaim Gazette ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY 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 THE CENSORSHIP On November 15th the Censorship Board announced that thereafter "press censorship in connection with cabel, postal, and land lines censorship" would be discontinued. On the 19th the board proclaimed that they had "similarly ordered the discontinuance of postal censorship of press communications." With much righteous acclaim the President commented on the two orders. "I cannot conceive of anything," said he, "more prejudicial than the application of a system of censorship that would deprive the people of a free republic, such as ours, of its indisputable right to criticize public servants." The people breathed a sigh of relief, and prepared to place renewed credence in press dispatches relating to the activities of the government. But the public is rapidly awakening to the fact that the removal of censorship restrictions in the United States was merely another of those soothing pills that have been handed out by the administration during the war to allay suspicion and criticism of executive acts. The fact is that the foreign censorship is as tight as ever, and inasmuch as the principal source of news league of nations in this country, aside from Mr Wilson himself, than his predecessor in office, and there is no doubt that he is doing the Wilson cause a far greater service by remaining at home than he could if he was tied down at the peace conference in Paris. Traveling from one end of the country to the other Mr. Taft is busily disseminating the propaganda upon the success of which the future of Mr. Wilson and the democratic party depends. So zealous has the former President become in his efforts to bring the people into line behind the league of nations that he even resorts to vituperation. "Among the gentlemen in the Senate," says he in a burst of abuse, "who are setting out to defeat this league of nations are those I would not trust with the constitution." When one recalls the character of men who already have expressed their opposition to the constitution of the league the full meaning of Mr. Taft's remark is understood. When such men as Senator Knox, Secretary of State in Taft's own cabinet; Senator Harding, heretofore a devoted friend of Taft; Senator Lodge, the leader of the republicans and an acknowledged authority on international matters; and others of equal prominence and ability, take violent exception to the principles of the new league, it is realized that Mr. Taft takes upon himself a heavy responsibility when he denounces them as dishonest. It is a sad sight to see our only ex-President, a former federal judge, many times prominently mentioned for a seat on the supreme court, indulging in such expressions—it can not be called argument. Such language is the ordinary resort of the lower classes of society in their quarrels, but never has been associated with gentlemen of standing or lawyers of reputation, unless, perchance, they were hired to say even desirable in cases of illness. Wments of a capable physician's assistant personality; without less. Then intelligence and understanding should be of fair make herself understand read, to reason. Have had training probably one year. "This training proper bed care onion of food, the patient—not his illin administering drugs agents. She shows anatomy so that she hypodermic syringe artery; she shows symptomatology to significance of bleed the abdominal pain per cent of cases nurse with the enumerated and writing will answer fit into the average. "She will be a tantant and will be not too proud to or even to help othis is true, why blew woman of ability and training her profession state and earning hood?" newed credence in press dispatches relating to the activities of the government. But the public is rapidly awakening to the fact that the removal of censorship restrictions in the United States was merely another of those soothing pills that have been handed out by the administration during the war to allay suspicion and criticism of executive acts. The fact is that the foreign censorship is as tight as ever, and inasmuch as the principal source of news is now in Paris, the American people are in the dark, just as much as they have been, in regard to events that will have a very vital effect on the future of the nation. Not only are the proceedings of the peace conference veiled in a shroud of secrecy, but the operations of our army in the final weeks of the war are yet to be reported to the people. While our military successes have been widely proclaimed, with the apparent intent of conveying the impression that our progress through the Argonne Forest and up the Meuse River was but a triumphant march, nothing is permitted in the malls or on the cables that contains any mention of the heartbreaking delays in bringing supplies from the United States for our sorely pressed armies, of the lack of adequate artillery support for our troops, of the miserable showing of our air service because our aviators had not been furnished a sufficient number of planes, and of the thousand and one trials of our men, most of which could have been avoided if the war department had functioned as it should. It is only in the reports of men who have returned to this country after personal observations at the front that the American people are given a glimpse behind the censorship screen and permitted to see things as they really were and are. Gov. Allen of Kansas, who spent ten months in France with the Y. M. C. A. and Red Cross, speaks from information gathered at first hand. He says that the censorship is as "arrogant, as absolute, as the censorship of Germany, lacking only the German intelligence." The 35th division, Mr. Allen declares, suffered 7,000 casualties, half its strength, in six days of battle in the Argonne Forest, chiefly because there were not horses enough to bring up artillery to support the infantry. He asserts that the Germans maintained domination of the air on the American front. Intrepid American aviators did not hesitate to ascend in the few planes at their command and engage three or four times their sponsibility when he denounces them as dishonest. It is a sad sight to see our only ex-President, a former federal judge, many times prominently mentioned for a seat on the supreme court, indulging in such expressions—it can not be called argument. Such language is the ordinary resort of the lower classes of society in their quarrels, but never has been associated with gentlemen of standing or lawyers of reputation, unless, perchance, they were hired to say something and were at a loss for substantial argument. Thus far Judge Taft has failed to reply to the position taken by leading republican senators that the adoption by the United States of the league involves the abandonment of the form of government untilled in our constitution, to the support of which every senator is bound by oath. Rather has he indulged in rosy predictions for the future of the world if the Wilson plan is followed. We undertake to say that what-the people are concerned about first is the preservation of their own country, after which attention may be given to the welfare of other nations, after which attention may be given to the welfare of other nations, and Mr. Taft will find that he is not striking a popular note in advocating the contrary. NEED MORE NURSES Training School Requirements Here Are Too Rigid During the war, before the epidemic, Los Angeles and every city in the United States was greatly lacking in a sufficient number of nurses. During the epidemic there have not been half as many nurses as were needed. There has also been a scarcity of suitable applicants as pupils in the training schools of America. The Journal of the American Medical Association of recent date has an editorial on this subject, of which the following is an extract: "What's the matter with the trained nurse? A wave of harsh and resentful criticism of the professional nurse seems to be sweeping over the country. Is it because, through high standards of admission to her schools and long years of training before she is graduated, she has chosen to make herself one of the small body of the elect, a superior being? Is it because of the high cost of living and the scarcity of these chosen few she has demanded higher pay, which only the well-to-do ability and training her professors state and earning hood?" sorship of Germany, lacking only the German intelligence." The 35th division, Mr. Allen declares, suffered 7,000 casualties, half its strength, in six days of battle in the Argonne Forest, chiefly because there were not horses enough to bring up artillery to support the infantry. He asserts that the Germans maintained domination of the air on the American front. Intrepid American aviators did not hesitate to ascend in the few planes at their command and engage three or four times their number of the enemy. Human life was the price paid for such lack of support. Similar stories are told by the officers and men who are coming back on the transports. Through the activity of the censor the American people were not allowed to know of those conditions, and to insist on their correction. Instead they were fed on stories of the success of our arms, and the complete demoralization of the Germans. When Mr. Wilson went to Paris, loudly proclaiming for "open covenants of peace, openly arrived at," they had a right to expect that the last phase of the war, the preparation of the peace treaty, would be opened to them for discussion and suggestion. Believing that they would be allowed to write the news as they heard it, 100 American correspondents went to Paris, but they might almost as well have stayed at home. The censorship is down, and the only word the people will get of the conference is what filters through the official publicity agent. VITUPERATION IS POOR "ARGUMENT We now begin to understand why it was that the President did not select former President Taft as one of his colleagues on the peace commission. There is no stronger advocate of the "What's the matter with the trained nurse? A wave of harsh and resentful criticism of the professional nurse seems to be sweeping over the country. Is it because, through high standards of admission to her schools and long years of training before she is graduated, she has chosen to make herself one of the small body of the elect, a superior being? Is it because of the high cost of living and the scarcity of these chosen few she has demanded higher pay, which only the well-to-do can give? Is it because in the home she is autocratic and unwilling to serve except in accordance with rules that she herself lays down, often demanding that service be rendered her and causing discord of the household management at a time of crisis? Is it because in many hospitals she has gradually acquired more influence and power until, through her officials, she speaks with authority even to the management; and dictatorially demands that before the interests of the medical staff are considered—sometimes even before the interests of the patients—there must be considered those of the nurses? "The war and the epidemic of influenza, with the consequent sacriety of nurses, have acutely drawn attention to the trained nurse and to the fact she does not supply the suitable agent for ministering to the large body of the ill. The very poor may get free nursing in the charity hospitals, or, if lucky, at their homes through charity; the rich can and will pay whatever may be demanded; but the large mass of people of moderate means, too self-respecting to accept charity, not able to pay the high price of the expert nurse, must be deprived of her services, or secure them at what, so these people, is often a rudous sacrifice. "More than this, a nurse of the highly-trained type is not necessary or..." ANAHEIM GAZETTE even desirable in the vast majority of cases of illness. What are the requirements of a capable, skilled nurse - physician's assistant? First, a right personality; without this she is hopeless. Then intelligence, by which we mean a readiness of comprehension and understanding. Furthermore, she should be of fair education, able to make herself understood, to write, to read, to reason. Lastly, she should have had training of sufficient length, probably one year, in a good hospital. "This training should teach her the proper bed care of the ill, the preparation of food, the management of the patient—not his illness—the methods of administering drugs and other remedial agents. She should learn enough of anatomy so that she will not, with her hypodermic syringe, enter the brachial artery; she should know enough of symptomatology to sense the possible significance of blood in the stool or of the abdominal pain in typhoid. For 90 per cent of cases of illness a skilled nurse with the characteristics just enumerated and with one year's training will answer fully as well and will fit into the average household better. "She will be a true physician's assistant and will be a household helper, not too proud to assist in the kitchen, or even to help care for the baby. If this is true, why should not this capable woman of ordinary but sufficient ability and training be allowed to practice her profession licensed by the state and earning an honorable livelihood?" MORE SCHOOL ROOM AN IMPERATIVE NEED A. A. Millis Writes in Favor of a Westside Building Editor Gazette: In reference to new school buildings, would like to say that ance there will be—the Germans will return to Versailles, and then will come the public signing of the preliminary peace treaty. It will take place just about one year from the time when Hindenburg with many gutural "hochs" was proclaiming the joys of an immediate dinner in Paris and all the German army thought it was goose stepping to a monumental triumph in the French capital. VOCATIONAL TRAINING What the government wants to do for its disabled heroes and how every fighter, entitled to compensation under the War Risk Insurance Law, may secure the proposed aid under the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, is still unknown to many disabled soldiers and sailors. Agents of the Federal Board in fourteen districts stretching from coast to coast, alided by various other governmental departments and the Home Service of the American Red Cross, are at work spreading this information. Three officers have been established by the Federal Board in this district, one at San Francisco, in charge of R. T. Fishert, one in Los Angeles, in charge of Dr. B. F. Gowen, and one at Phoenix, Arizona, in charge of R. Thane Cook. Significant of the close co-operation between the Federal Board and the American Red Cross, the Los Angeles office has been opened in the Red Cross building at 10th and Main streets. At least 20,000 disabled American fighters are entitled to the benefits offered by the Federal Board for Vocational Education. Its work is so well started that more than 500 men have actually begun their re-education. The compensation allowed while training lasts, equals the monthly sum to which the soldier, sailor or marine is entitled under the War Risk Insurance Act. TELLS HOW TO FIGURE INCOME TAX Squarely Up to Every Individual to Get Busy by March 15 or Suffer Penalty. "Don't wait until the final due date, March 15, for paying your Income Tax and making your return. Avoid the last minute rush. Any person can figure out his liability today as well as he can next week, and if there is any point on which he needs advice he can now get in touch with a Revenue man." This word of advice is from Justus Wardell. Collector of Internal Revenue, San Francisco, Cal., who is collecting the Income Tax in California. Collector Wardell is giving without charge any aid of his office and his enlarged field force to help the people get their payments and their returns in by March 15th. But the Income Tax men will not pull your door-bell or your coat-tails, according to the Collector's announcement. It is squarely up to every individual to figure out his own case and to get busy if he comes within the scope of the new Revenue law. Did You Earn This Much? Every unmarried person who received income averaging $19.25 a week during 1918 and every married couple who jointly received income averaging $38.50 a week should secure at once from the nearest Deputy Collector or the nearest bank a blank Form 1040 A. That form contains the information he will need to enable him to figure his correct net income and any tax that he owes the government. The law requires that every unmarried person who had a net income of $1,600 or over and every married person whose net income was $2,000 or over (including the income of husband or wife and the earnings of minor children) be required to pay taxes on their income. WHERE REPRESENTED Mr. Represented by the floor cosidied this quit the ether I w and tha have renot but tha ed by The my fr practice We a get lift th their est m that me tect t them You govern and y despi ple America believe and teach by day shall our n are being jobs tries, that itself MORE SCHOOL ROOM AN IMPERATIVE NEED A. A. Mills Writes in Favor of a Westside Building Editor Gazette: In reference to new school buildings, would like to say that last year I submitted a minority report to the board of trade, suggesting that there was a call for and need of certain increased school facilities. Now only a few months later the schools are so crowded that the new class now ready could not be taken in. I would like to be understood as in no sense being a "booster" for school buildings but an earnest advocate of necessary school room. Necessity and demand should control and not just "boosting" for new buildings. As I view the situation there is now needed a new school building, west of the state highway, that will accommodate at least a kindergarten and a first and also a second grade. This could be brought about by building three or four rooms now so arranged as to be added to later when found necessary. If the patrons of the school so desire it, the same should be done in the eastern section of the district, say at Placentia avenue, or even farther east, if the majority of the patrons in the eastern section want it. The old Central school building was modern some 30 years or more ago, but is both out of date now and in need of extensive repairs. This should be replaced by a modern building with rooms all on the ground floor. However no additional rooms should be added here as already there are enough children there for the size of the grounds. Let us go ahead and solve the school building problem. A. A. MILLS. HUN PEACE DELEGATES The peace conference will be in "camera" when the German delegates reach Paris to learn the fate of four bloody years of militarism and hear the verdict of civilization. While the time for their advent in Paris is still a month hence, the supreme council is already considering the methods of procedure for their reception. It is practically assured that Versailles, which has been chosen the original ability and training be allowed to practice her profession licensed by the state and earning an honorable livelihood? The compensation allowed while training lasts, equals the monthly sum to which the soldier, sailor or marine is entitled under the War Risk Insurance Law, or a sum equal to his pay for the last month he was in active service, if that be greater. In no case, will a single man or one required by his course of instruction to live apart from this dependents, receive less than $65 a month, exclusive of the sum paid his dependents. A man living with his dependents will not receive less than $75 a month, inclusive of the amount paid the family. Tuition, books and other equipment are all provided men taking training courses approved by the Federal Board, which may range from six months' shop training to a full four year college course. If a man's disability does not prevent him from returning to employment without retraining and he chooses to follow course of vocational training provided by the Federal Board, the course will be furnished free of cost and the compensation provided by the War Risk Insurance Law will be paid him but no allowance will be paid his family. The Federal Board does not attempt to dictate to the soldier entitled to retraining what calling he shall follow. The greatest latitude of choice is allowed, consistent with the soldier's acuity and adaptability, but of course, the board does seek to discourage men from entering vocations already overcrowded or waning. As an instance of this, except in unusual cases, applicants for retraining are not encouraged to take up study of automobiles. This is based on the fact that in our demobilizing armies there are at least half a million men who have, through their army work, familiarized themselves with automobile operating and repairing and gas engine work generally. Accordingly, with these men discharged into civil life there are not likely to be heavy enough demands for newcomers in this line of endeavor. And in this connection, the authorities find cause for gratification in the fact that the men whose applications for retraining have already been approved, display a wide diversity of ideas as to the callings they wish to attend 1018 and every married couple who jointly received income averaging $28.50 a week should secure at once from the nearest Deputy Collector or the nearest bank a blank Form 1040 A. That form contains the information he will need to enable him to figure his correct net income and any tax that he owes the government. The law requires that every unmarried person who had a net income of $1,000 or over and every married person whose net income was $2,000 or over (including the income of husband or wife and the earnings of minor children, if any) must make a return on or before March 15th. And this requirement does not hinge on whether the person owes a tax. Taxable Income. An individual must include under gross income all gains, profits and income derived from salaries, wages or compensation for personal service of whatever kind and in whatever form paid or from professions, vocations, business, sales or dealings in property of all kinds, interest, rent, dividends or profits derived from any source whatever. Very few items of income are exempt. Deductions include ordinary and necessary business expenses, interest paid or accrued on indebtedness, taxes of all kinds except Federal income and excess profits taxes and assessments for local benefits, losses actually sustained, debts ascertained to be worthless and depreciation on buildings, machinery, fixtures, etc., used in business. A further deduction is allowed for contributions to corporations operated for religious, charitable, scientific or educational purposes or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals to an amount not exceeding 15 per cent of the taxpayer's net income as computed without the benefit of the contribution deduction. The taxpayer is not allowed to deduct any personal, living or family expense; any amount spent for improving property or any expense of restoring property or making good its exhaustion for which an allowance is claimed under depreciation. Figuring the Tax. Before figuring the normal tax the dividends are deducted as credits from net income, together with the personal exemption. As in previous years, dividends of domestic corporations are exempt from normal tax when received by the stockholder. The normal tax rates for citizens and residents are as follows: On the first $4,000 of net income in excess of the credits the rate is 6 per cent; on any further taxable income the rate is 12 per cent. The surtax rates apply to net income of each individual in excess of $5,000. The personal exemption and the dividends are not deductible before computing surtax. In the case of returns by husband and wife, the net income of each is considered separately. The peace conference will be in "camera" when the German delegates reach Paris to learn the fate of four bloody years of militarism and hear the verdict of civilization. While the time for their advent in Paris is still a month hence, the supreme council is already considering the methods of procedure for their reception. It is practically assured that Versailles, which has been chosen the original seat of the conference, will house the outwardly repentant Potsdam crew and recall to their minds now bitter memories of other days—those of 1871. The supreme council undoubtedly will name a sub-committee to confer with the Germans. In this manner Gerany's chief plant—which is that the terms do not agree with President Wilson's fourteen points—will be told to men fully aware of the deception that usually constitute the major part of Teutonic crocodile tears. The German delegates may be given quarters in Paris, but if the sentiment runs higher they may perhaps be lodged unobtrusively in some nearby suburb and their identity will be kept secret. It is generally believed the sub-committee to be appointed by the Supreme Council will number three. Those will be the representatives of the United States, Britain, France and Italy, as the chief adversary of Austria. President Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemenceau will be the men who will sit opposite the representatives of the supposed new Germany democracy. About three days or a week at most, will be consumed in detailing the terms to the Germans. The latter will then be allowed to go homewards for the purpose of telling their government what is what. Upon the acceptance—and accept- army work, familiarized themselves with automobile operating and repairing and gas engine work generally. Accordingly, with these men discharged into civil life there are not likely to be heavy enough demands for newcomers in this line of endeavor. And in this connection, the authorities find cause for gratification in the fact that the men whose applications for retraining have already been approved, display a wide diversity of ideas as to the callings they wish to be fitted for. NOT ROOM FOR THEM A blacklist of those persons who withdrew their first naturalization papers during the war to avoid being drafted for military duty is being prepared by Naturalization Examiner Frederick Jones and will be presented to Judge Bledsoe at Los Angeles, this week. Fifty or more names will be on the list, most of them residents of Los Angeles. Jones will ask the court that these individuals forever be barred from becoming citizens. Similar lists are to be prepared all over the United States. The California Southern Railroad Company has been authorized by/the Railroad Commission to issue $40,000 of its second mortgage 6 per cent bonds, due November, 1955. The bonds are to be sold at not less than 80, and the proceeds are to be used to provide improvements of the company's line from Blythe to Blythe Junction, in the Palo Verde Valley. The betterments are necessary because of washouts that occurred in August and September of last year. Mr. and Mrs. George Perry, of Pomona, were visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Clabaugh and family last week. INCOME TAX PAYS FOR PUBLIC BENEFITS. "Viewed in its largest and truest sense, the payment of taxes is payment for benefits received or expected. Only from a narrow and essentially selfish and shortsighted viewpoint can the individual propose to himself the evasion of tax liability as a desirable course of action."—Daniel C. Roper, Commissioner of Internal Revenue. HOW TO INCOME TAX Every Individual Day March 15 Penalty. The final due date, your Income Tax Return. Avoid the many person can figure today as well as be if there is any needs advice he can with a Revenue man." Price is from Justus of Internal Revenue, Cal., who is col-Tax in California. Is giving without his office and his to help the people and their returns Tax men will not or your coat-tails, collector's announcement up to every individual his own case and comes within the revenue law. This Person who re-engaging $19.25 a week every married couple income averaging hold secure at once Deputy Collector or blank Form 1040 A. The information he him to figure his and any tax that he mit. that every unmarried a net income of every married per-ome was $2,000 or income of husband earnings of minor WOUNDS FROM A FRIEND Representative Dies, a Texas democrat, expressed his sentiments on the floor of the house a few days ago. He said: Mr. Chairman, when members talk about loaning money to the farmers of this country, and talk about democrats and republicans, it makes an honest non-partisan man laugh. The best thing you can do for the farmers of this country is to let them alone and quit spending their money and taxing the eternal life out of them. I wish the farmers of this country and the taxpayers of our land might have a return of the old democratic and republican theory that government is not created to support the people, but that it is a creature to be supported by the people. The great mistake we are making, my friends, here now is that we are practicing hypocrisy upon the people. We are leading them to believe that the government can support them and lift them by their boot straps out of their financial difficulties when, as honest men, we should say to them that all that the government can do is to protect their life and their liberty and tax them to support the government. You have taken the fairest and best government ever known among men and you are making it into the most despicable socialism. You took the American people at a time when they believed they could support themselves and their government, and you are teaching them hour by hour and day by day to expect that their government shall support them. Instead of telling our magnificent army, when the boys are coming back from France and are being demobilized, to go back to their jobs and engage in their former industries, you are leading them to believe that the government shall take it upon itself as a duty to support them. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY Service Sunday at 11 A.M. Sunday school at 9:45 A.M. Lesson from the Christian Science Quarterly, subject, "Man." A meeting Wednesday at 7:45 P.M., at which testimonials of healing are given. Free reading room at the church open every day except Sunday and legal holidays, from 3 to 5 P.M. The Fifth Liberty Loan is an issue of notes maturing in from one to five years, instead of bonds. The maximum authorization of the notes has been fixed at $7,000,000,000 and authority has been given to Secretary Glass to fix the rate of interest on the four types of notes to be sold. The notes would be redeemable before maturity, at the option of the government, on one year's notice. NOTICE INVITING SEALED PROPOSALS Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals or bids will be received at the office of the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, up to eight o'clock P.M. of Thursday, the 27th day of March, 1919, for the following street work to be done in said city, to-wit: That cement sidewalks and cement curbs be constructed along the southern side of West Cypress street in said city. From the western property line of North Palm street to a point 95.23 feet easterly from the easterly property line of Resh street, including corner block on the southwesterly corner of the intersection of West Cypress street and North Palm street and along the southerly side of West Cypress street from the easterly property line of North Citron street to the westerly property line of the alley in block one (1) of Resh's Subdivisions per map recorded in Book I at Page 92 of Mapellus Mappa, Records of Orange County, California, including corner block at the southeastern corner of North Citron street and West Cypress street, and the curb along the northerly side of West Cypress street from the westerly property line of North Palm street to a point 95.23 feet easterly from the easterly property line of Resh street. All of said work shall be done in accordance with the specifications contained in Ordinance Number 162 of the City of Anaheim entitled, "An Ordinance adopting specifications for the construction of cement sidewalks and cement curbs in the City of Anaheim," which was passed and adopted on the 10th day of May, 1904, as the same as amended by Ordinance Number 218 of said city, entitled, "An Ordinance amending Section 4 of Ordinance." American people at a time when they believed they could support themselves and their government, and you are teaching them hour by hour and day by day to expect that their government shall support them. Instead of telling our magnificent army, when the boys are coming back from France and are being demobilized, to go back to their jobs and engage in their former industries, you are leading them to believe that the government shall take it upon itself as a duty to support them. My friends, you are tearing down the greatest government, the greatest democracy, the world has ever seen, and you are building up in its stead the poorest fabric of socialism that history can record. Is it your intention to help the people? No. You will not help the people unless you tell them that the government has but one duty to the citizen, and that is to protect his life and property and give him an equal and fair race in this world. And you are teaching him that the duty of the government is to help him. My beloved country! I do not know; we are losing the greatest republic the world has ever seen. Talk about international democracies! It is being swamped amidst nebulous phrases and unintelligible jargon. Would God the president of the United States would get on the Tennessee and come home and preserve this republic rather than middle longer with the politics of Europe. We are casting the lot of the people of America, the peace and destinies of our country into what? Into the hotchpotch of the quarrels and poverty and woe and destruction of Europe. There is not anything new to be said. Human nature is just the same as it was when our fathers made this republic. The president of the United States, representing what has been the greatest republic the world has ever seen, may speak of justice, and of the league of nations, and the end of the sorrows of mankind; but the best hope of this republic and of this people is upon our own shores, defending the Constitution of our fathers, protecting the liberties of the people and independent self-government, a representative democracy. And I wish, O God of Nations, that our president would come back home, and that we might leave upon this hemisphere a great democracy, unentangled and unengaged with all the European broils that exist abroad today. Mrs. Julia Hickman went up to Los Angeles yesterday on a visit to her block one (1) of Resh's Subdivision as per map recorded in Book 4 at Page 92 of Miscellaneous Maps, Records of One County, California, including corner block at southeastern corner of North Citizen street and West Cypress street, and the curb along the northerly side of West Cypress street from the westery property line of North Palm street to a point 95.23 feet easterly from the easterly property line of Resh street. All of said work shall be done in accordance with the specifications contained in Ordinance Number 162 of the City of Anaheim, entitled "An Ordinance adopting specifications for the construction of cement sidewalks and cement curbs in the City of Anaheim," which was passed and adopted by the Board of Trustees of said city, on the 26th day of November, 1909; and in accordance with the provisions of a certain resolution adopted by the Board of Trustees of said city at a regular meeting held on the 27th day of February, 1919; the specifications contained in said ordinance and in said resolution being hereby adopted as the specifications for the doing of said work. Each bid must be accompanied by a certified check drawn on some bank within the state of California, or by a good sufficient bond, equal to one-tenth (1-10) of the amount of said bid, executed by two good and sufficient sureties who must justify before an officer authorized to administer oaths, in double the amount of said bond in unencumbered property within the State of California, or by a corporation authorized to execute bonds under and by virtue of the laws of the State of California, which said bond shall be subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees of said city; and shall be conditioned that the bidder will enter into a contract and furnish the bonds required within ten days after the contract is awarded to him. And if the bidder fails to enter into said contract and furnish said bonds, then said bond shall be declared forfeited or said certified check become the property of the City of Anaheim, as liquidated damage. The successful bidder shall be required within ten days after the contract is entered into an agreement in writing, with the City of Anaheim for the doing of said work and shall furnish a bond to said City of Anaheim in a sum equal to one-half (4%) of the contract price which said bond shall be executed by two good and sufficient sureties who shall justify before an office authorized to administer oaths under the laws of the State of California, which said bond shall be subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees of the City of Anaheim and shall be conditioned upon the faithful performance of said work in accordance with said contract and with said specifications. The successful bidder shall be required at the same time, to furnish another and additional bond in a sum equal to one-half of the contract price, which bond shall be executed by two good and sufficient sureties who shall justify in the amount and in the manner hereinbefore provided, or by a corporation authorized to execute bonds and undertakings within the State of California, which said bond shall be subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees of the City of Anaheim and shall provide that if the contractor or his sub-contractor fails to pay for any materials, provisions, powders or supplies used in, upon or about the performance of the work contracted to be done. For any work or labor done thereon of any kind, that the sureties or surety will pay the same in an amount not exceeding the sum specified in said bond, provided that such claims are filed as required by law. The Board of Trustees of said city reserves the right to reject any and all bids or any part of any bid, holding such bid good for the part thereof which may be accepted by said Board of Trustees. A copy of the Board of Trustees of the City of Anaheim Dated 3rd day of March, 1919 (3-6-3) EDWARD B. MERRITT City Clerk of the City of Anaheim. Constitution of our rathers, protecting the liberties of the people and independent self-government, a representative democracy. And I wish, O God of Nations, that our president would come back home, and that we might leave upon this hemisphere a great democracyp, unentangled and unengaged with all the European broils that exist abroad today. Mrs. Julia Hickman went up to Los Angeles yesterday on a visit to her son, who is preparing for an extended trip East. CLASSIFIED FOR EXCHANGE—10 acres at Hemet, 4 in alfalfa, 6 in apricots, house, barn, pipe line, double water stock, for city property or vacant lots or acreage. Geo. C. Pickering, Hemet, Cal. FOR SALE—8-16 International Tractor, used only 25 days. Will take pair of good mules as part payment. H. E. Davis, Buena Park. Phone 785-R2, Anaheim. FOR SALE—Good barley and alfalfa hay, $20.00 per ton at ranch near Katella school, Phone 31-R4. W. W. Manter. MONEY TO LOAN—On ranch security, from $2500 to $3000. Address "H," Anahelm Gazette. FOR SALE—8-room house, cement porch, close in; all kinds of fruit; at a bargain. Address "H," Anahelm Gazette. LOST—Between Fullerton and Villa Park, leather grip with my name on side. Finder please notify me and receive reward. Wm. P. Billingsley, Orange, R. D. No., 1 Box 115. When in Need of Job Printing call at the Gazette Office