anaheim-gazette 1919-03-20

MUTUAL PHONE COMPANY WOULD BE ADVISABLE Mills Thinks County Co-operative System Could be Made Success. Soon after the hearing of the telephone merger last summer I suggested a plan to the Anaheim Board of Trade for a co-operative telephone system. At that time there were those who said that it was not opportune to take up the matter the, but to wait until the telephone company did increase the rates and then that the matter be pushed. The increase in toll rates has been in for some time and the increase in the phone rates went into effect on March 1. For sometime there has been much discussion of the telephone situation and it seems to be the consensus of opinion that the co-operative telephone is the only solution. In several of the eastern states these co-operative phones have been in use for some time and the companies, besides paying expenses, have been and are paying dividends, with charges of $1.00 per month a phone. So it will be readily seen that these cheaper phones may be a reality and not an iridescent dream. In California there have been several failures of these co-operative telephone systems. This is due generally to the stock being negotiable and thereby bought up by rival companies which immediately began to wreck them. I therefore hold that there are a few principles that must be adhered to in order to make a success of such a system. These may be summed up as follows: (1.) The system should be truly co-operative and therefore a nonprofit system (2.) The stock should be held by the telephone users, should be non-transferal, except in the case of property, then the stock EXTERMINATING SQUIRRELS IN ORANGE COUNTY New Formula Being Used to Poison the Rodents. G. W. Wardwell, who has charge of the squirrel poisoning campaign in this county, is doing effective work on the big ranches in the south, but expects to keep is up until the pestiferous animal is exterminated throughout the entire county. "We have been using poisoned grain prepared by the new formula," said Wardwell, "and it has been doing wonderful work. It certainly is death to squirrels. It beats anything we have ever used. This campaign is to be kept going until Orange county is free of ground squirrels. L. F. Moulton of El Toro will start poisoning on his big ranch the first of next week." Wardwell urges ranchers all over the county to begin poisoning at once, so that the parent squirrel may be killed before she brings forth her litter. "Ranchers must not wait for me to come around to them and say to them that they must poison squirrels," said Wardwell. "They should at once take steps to poison, without waiting for any further word from me. I cannot cover all of the county at once. I am staying with a locality until it is absolutely cleaned up, then move on to the next community. Big ranchers should prepare their own poison. Smaller ranchers can get what poisoned barley they need at the courthouse at cost, 15 cents a pound. They should get their poison at once and just as soon as the rain is over with, spread it out so that the squirrels will get it and die before their young is born." The following is the latest and best formula for poisoning of ground squirrels as given by the Department of families large and nourishing beans. The country has no California in terms of lemons. It is not genetically able to be, that they also the producer of the best of that staple food in American nation cated through the next Day to the truth about will think about Los Angeles of Boston, when beans. AUTO STAGE DRIVE RUNS Victim's Left to Die, in Time to Said With their automobiles upon them by a speech Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Angeles were near afternoon when help a incident occurred six m and out of the affair action in, regard to t operating between San Diego. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn in a light automobile Packard stages came non said that he es stages were going for hour. The drivers took they wanted, as is o specially when a light proached. Glennon and second of the safely, but the third machine, whirled over. The stage did not The man and work beneath the automobile on the machine brood acid flowed over his to the stock being negotiable and thereby bought up by rival companies which immediately began to wreck them. I therefore hold that there are a few principles that must be adhered to in order to make a success of such a system. These may be summed up as follows: (1.) The system should be truly co-operative and therefore a nonprofit system. (2.) The stock should be held by the telephone users, should be non-transferalbe, except in the case of transfer of property, then the stock to go to the new owner, provided he keeps the phone. (3.) It should be a no-toll system to cover the entire county. In this connection it would be well to sign up the users of every telephone in the county and as many more as possible before the undertaking is started, so that there be but one telephone system in the county. (4) The rate should be uniform for residence and should be at least not more than one-half the rate for business and professional phones. On calls between swichboards there should be a measured service for all calls over and above a certain maximum number to be agreed upon. If these fundamental principles are carried out there would seem to be no reason to doubt the successful outcome of the enterprise. A. A. MILLS. FARM BUREAU DIRECTORS TO VISIT THIS COUNTY Delegates from 36 Bureaus Will Spend Night in Anaheim. The annual meeting of the Farm Advisors and Farm Bureau directors will be a big affair this year. The delegates from each of the thirty-six Farm Bureaus in the State will convene at Berkeley March 26th, and start on a conference tour embracing Santa Cruz, Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside Counties to inspect the Farm Bureau projects which have been carried on in each county. Farm Advisor Wahlberg has left here to attend the conference. The delegation will arrive in Orange County 5 p.m., March 31st, at La Habra, where the La Habra Contribute oranges as compliments of the Farm Bureau. At 6 o'clock the delegation will have supper at the Fullerton club They will adjourn then to the Fullerton lately cleaned up, then move on to the next community. Big ranchers should prepare their own poison. Smaller ranchers can get what poisoned barley they need at the courthouse at cost, 15 cents a pound. They should get their poison at once and just as soon as the rain is over with, spread it out so that the squirrels will get it and die before their young is born." The following is the latest and best formula for polsoning of ground squirrels, as given by the Department of Agriculture, and used by Wardwell: Barley—clean grain, 16 quarts. Strychnine (powdered alkaloid), 1 ounce. Bicarbonate of soda (baking soda), 1 ounce. Thin starch paste, % pint Heavy corn syrup, % pint. Glycerin, 1 tablespoonful. Saccharin, 1-10 ounce. Mix thoroughly 1 ounce of powdered strychnine (alkaloid) and 1 ounce of common baking soda. Sift this into % pint of thin, hot starch paste and stir to a smooth creamy mass. (The starch paste is made by dissolving 1 heaping tablespoonful of dry gloss starch in a little cold water, which is then added to % pint of boiling water. Boil and stir constantly until a clear thin paste is formed.) Add % pint of heavy corn syrup and 1 tablespoonful of glycerine and stir thoroughly Add 1-10 ounce of saccharin and stir thoroughly. Pour this mixture over 16 quarts of clean barley and mix well so that each grain is coated. For mixing small quantities an ordinary galvanized wash tub is convenient. For larger quantities a tight smooth box may be used, and the mixing may be done with a spade. Each quart of the poisoned grain is sufficient for 40 to 50 baits. This quantity scattered along squirrel trails, or on clean, hard places on the surface about the holes, will not endanger stock. N. B.-Strychnine in any form other than the powdered strychnine alkaloid is not effective in the above formula. A BEAN DAY At a recent meeting of bean growers of California at Santa Barbara, E. W. Stow, director of the California Lima Bean Growers' Association, proposed the institution of a national "Bean Day," planned after the idea of the present "Raisin Day" as an aid to the permanent solution of the bean lately cleaned up, then move on to the next community. Big ranchers should prepare their own poison. Smaller ranchers can get what poisoned barley they need at the courthouse at cost, 15 cents a pound. They should get their poison at once and just as soon as the rain is over with, spread it out so that the squirrels will get it and die before their young is born." The following is the latest and best formula for polsoning of ground squirrels, as given by the Department of Agriculture, and used by Wardwell: Barley—clean grain, 16 quarts. Strychnine (powdered alkaloid), 1 ounce. Bicarbonate of soda (baking soda), 1 ounce. Thin starch paste, % pint Heavy corn syrup, % pint. Glycerin, 1 tablespoonful. Saccharin, 1-10 ounce. Mix thoroughly 1 ounce of powdered strychnine (alkaloid) and 1 ounce of common baking soda. Sift this into % pint of thin, hot starch paste and stir to a smooth creamy mass. (The starch paste is made by dissolving 1 heaping tablespoonful of dry gloss starch in a little cold water, which is then added to % pint of boiling water. Boil and stir constantly until a clear thin paste is formed.) Add % pint of heavy corn syrup and 1 tablespoonful of glycerine and stir thoroughly Add 1-10 ounce of saccharin and stir thoroughly. Pour this mixture over 16 quarts of clean barley and mix well so that each grain is coated. For mixing small quantities an ordinary galvanized wash tub is convenient. For larger quantities a tight smooth box may be used, and the mixing may be done with a spade. Each quart of the poisoned grain is sufficient for 40 to 50 baits. This quantity scattered along squirrel trails, or on clean, hard places on the surface about the holes, will not endanger stock. N. B.-Strychnine in any form other than the powdered strychnine alkaloid is not effective in the above formula. The drivers took they wanted, as is often pecially when a light proached. Glennon and second of the safely, but the third machine, whirled over. The stage did not occur. The man and woman beneath the automobiles on the machine brood acid flowed over his Luskily the solution was, had not help would have been both he and his wife located. The fumes neither could get away was black in the face rescued. Two or three machines in one was a nurse; non's face with a seize acid. Mrs. lived and she and placed in a machine J. Kirby of Santa Ana Mrs. Glenn bone and an arm braw later taken to their geles in a closed car office in the Hellman Efforts were made City Marshal Jernins stages. Glennon's son visited Los Angeles shortly every effort is to be Angeles office and here to locate them bring an action against there has been a plaintiff against the stage have hogged oral of the drivers lined and fined for speed been a good deal oo jail sentences to th ties along the State clared to be the mator in travel upon and Riverside Counties to inspect the Farm Bureau projects which have been carried on in each county. Farm Advisor Wahlberg has left here to attend the conference. The delegation will arrive in Orange County 5 p.m., March 31st, at La Habra, where the La Habra Centribute oranges as compliments of the Farm Bureau. At 6 o'clock the delegation will have supper at the Fullerton club. They will adjourn then to the Fullerton Center at the auditorium of the Fullerton high school, 7:30 p.m. After the Center meeting the delegation will retire to rooms at Anaheim and Orange which have been reserved for them. Leaving Anaheim at 8 p.m. on the morning of April 1, the visitors will be shown the agricultural points of interest in the county including Farm Bureau projects. They will pass through Garden Grove, Westminster, Smeltzer, viewing the gun clubs and wells, Santa Ana and Tustin. At Tustin a dust spray demonstration by Prof. Ralph E. Smith on the control of walnut coding moth will be given at Capt. P. T. Adams' grove, 9:40 a.m. The procession, headed by C. E. Utt, will then ascend Lemon Heights where the visitors will get a panorama view of Orange County. Utt will be spokesman. Then to Orange at 11:05 a.m. to visit the Santiago packing house in operation. Orange County Park will be reached by noon. A barbecue will be served for the delegates, the directors and county officials. At 1:30 p.m. a bud selection and scaly bark demonstration will be held at S. W. McCullock's orchard, Placentia. From here the visitors will continue through the line, where a Los Angeles committee will take further charge. A BEAN DAY At a recent meeting of bean growers of California at Santa Barbara, E. W. Stow, director of the California Lima Bean Growers' Association, proposed the institution of a national "Bean Day," planned after the idea of the present "Raisin Day" as an aid to the permanent solution of the bean marketing problems. The idea has gained such momentum that it appears probable that the great California bean, its utilization, flavor and cheapness, will be advertised extensively throughout the country through general observance of a day for eating beans, bean soup, boiled beans, pork and beans, baked beans, bean salad and other preparations of the tasty legume. The date for the observance of "Bean Day" will be set at a meeting of the growers with the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce at Los Angeles. A campaign of education as to ways of utilizing beans will be carried on prior to the date set it is announced. On Bean Day, it is proposed, beans will be on the menu of the largest and most exclusive hotels of the Pacific Coast and, as the idea grows, it is hoped, of the largest and best hotels in the United States. The lima bean is a Californian. It is a real California institution in fact. This State supplied in the neighborhood of 90 per cent of the lima beans grown in America California is also first in the production of other varieties of beans. Therefore it is fitting that this State should take the lead in the movement for the glorification of the bean and the establishment of a day when the housewife and the hotel chef shall prepare for the delectation Fully one-half of all farm crops in according to the Bentates of the nited Agriculture, is for the crop total beef and the cereal total maize group next below the fibre crops, cotton latter is insignificant cotton seed, these value of $1,946,000,000 of the aggregate corn. The census items crops make a total 2000 for 1918 or 13 pts but these items cover the value of stover and do not include the value of which they estimated at $ than one-half as my hay crop. If pasture value of the hay must be nearly $3,000 of the crop total. Vegetables, subject in production to year, nevertheless gaining in relative value in 1909, there was 7.6 per cent and in 1918 it was 2000,000. The same value of which 2000,000, or 4.5 per cent of 3.1 per cent of 1909. Tobacco has this history for the crop reaches the estimate or 2.6 per cent of The high prices forest products have value of the year farmer's wood lot of families large and small, delicious nourishing beans. The country has come to think of California in terms of oranges and lemons. It is not generally known, as it should be, that the Golden State is also the producer of the most and the best of that staple food, the bean. Once the American nation is properly educated through the medium of Bean Day to the truth about the bean people will think about Los Angeles, instead of Boston, when beans are mentioned. AUTO STAGE DRIVER RUNS DOWN A CAR Victim's Left to Die, but Help Arrives in Time to Save Them With their automobile turned over upon them by a speeding auto stage, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Glennon of Los Angeles were near death Thursday afternoon when help arrived. The accident occurred six miles below Serra, and out of the affair may grow drastic action in regard to the stage drivers operating between Los Angeles and San Diego. Mr. and Mrs. Glennon were driving in a light automobile when three big Packard stages came in sight. Glennon said that he estimated that the stages were going forty-five miles an hour. The drivers took all the highway they wanted, as is often the case, especially when a light machine is approached. Glennon got by the first and second of the speeding stages safely, but the third stage struck his machine, whirled it and turned it over. The stage did not stop. The man and woman were pinned beneath the automobile. The battery on the machine broke and sulphuric acid flowed over his face and clothing. proportions. A rough estimate for 1918 computes a value of $366,000,000, or 2.5 per cent of all crops. The group called "seed crops" in the census arrangement includes beans and peanuts as well as various other seeds. For 1918 the value of this class of products is $348,000,000, as estimated, and this is 2.4 per cent of the crop total. In the value of the sugar crops, no beet or cane sugar is included, but only the beets and the sugar cane. Other items are sorghum cane sold and syrup made and maple sugar and sirup. The total is $137,000,000, of which $94,000,000 represents sugar beets and sugar cane, and this compares with the value at the factory of the 1,007,050 short tons of beet and cane sugar of 1918, which may be $177,000,000, more or less. A BEFUDDLED JUDGE "Observation," says Mr. Taft referring to the league of nations, "justifies the belief that the public mind favors the plan." After this broad assertion, and with hardly a pause for breath, the former President continues, "Everywhere the inquiry is, What is the league of nations?" The man in the street thinks it is something to prevent war without knowing how. He is in favor of it without knowing why, except for its object." In one sentence Judge Taft congratulates himself that the league is generally approved, and in the next he saps that the people know nothing about it, except its object. We see small cause for Mr. Taft's satisfaction if those statements be true. Approval born of ignorance is no approval at all. Precisely the same observations might be made of the Bolshevik government in Russia. What the people saw in it was division of wealth free love and no work. CONSTRUCTIVE POLICIES DEMANDED BY GILLETT New Speaker Declares Country Wants More Than Criticism in Next Congress. "Militant Republicanism, tempered by sound common sense in legislating for the best interests of the whole country, will be the policy of the majority in the House of Representatives in the new Congress," said Speaker-elect Frederick H. Gillett, in an interview with your correspondent. "The country is tired of Democratic incompetency, ex travagance and incompetency, ex travagance and waste," he went on. "It wants no more of vague Democratic phases which mean nothing—party shibboleths in order to gain support, and specious promises without intention of fulfilment. It began to learn a severe lesson when the cost of living was not reduced and when it was beguiled into a dissappointing administration by an insincere cry of 'Thank God for Wilson'; he kept us out of war.' It proved that the lesson had its effect when it overwhelmingly repudiated the behest of the President to return a Democratic Congress last November on the ground that its patriotism was superior to that of the Republicans, despite all the evidence to the contrary. And during the past winter it has discovered that it must pay the cost of its lesson by hundreds of millions and even billions from its pocket to complete extravagant Democratic projects." "Criticism which has as its sole aim the development of facts, so that legislative remedy may be provided, is highly beneficial. We have too much adulation of one man and attempt by his followers to stifle all opposing opinion. The war is over. We are The drivers took all the highway they wanted, as is often the case, especially when a light machine is approached. Glennon got by the first and second of the speeding stages safely, but the third stage struck his machine, whirled it and turned it over. The stage did not stop. The man and woman were pinned beneath the automobile. The battery on the machine broke and sulphuric acid flowed over his face and clothing. Luskily the solution was weak. As it was, had not help arrived the man would have been badly burned and both he and his wife might have suffocated. The fumes were such that neither could get air. Mrs. Glennon was black in the face when she was rescued. Two or three machines arrived and in one was a nurse, who washed Glennon's face with a solution to neutralize the acid. Mrs. Glennon was revived and she and her husband were placed in a machine driven by M. J. Kirby of Santa Barbara and were brought to a physician's office in Santa Ana. Mrs. Glennon had a collarbone and an arm broken. They were later taken to their home in Los Angeles in a closed car. Glennon has an office in the Hellman building. Efforts were made at once by City Marshal Jernigan to locate the stages. Glennon's son visited the office of the Los Angeles sheriff, Friday, and every effort is to be made by the Los Angeles office and the sheriff's office here to locate the stage driver and bring an action against him. There has been a good deal of complaint against the stages. For months the stages have hogged the roads. Several of the drivers have been arrested and fined for speeding. There has been a good deal of talk of applying jail sentences to them. Their activities along the State highway are declared to be the most dangerous factor in travel upon it. CROP VALUES Fully one-half of the total value of all farm crops in 1918 at the farm, according to the Bureau of Crop Estimates of the nited States Department of Agriculture, is found in the cereals the crop total being $14,222,000,000 and the cereal total $7,079,000,000. The group next below in value is that of the fibre crops, cotton and hemp, including In one sentence Judge Taft congratulates himself that the league is generally approved, and in the next he saps that the people know nothing about it, except its object. We see small cause for Mr. Taft's satisfaction if those statements be true. Approval born of ignorance is no approval at all. Precisely the same observations might be made of the Bolshevik government in Russia. What the people saw in it was division of wealth, free love, and no work. They looked no further but hailed the new order of things with acclaim. They now begin to realize that governments founded on such theories mean suffering and death for their peoples. The American people want to see an end to war: And who does not? They have been told from all sides that the league of nations will accomplish that object and the general public may look no further. But when our people realize that the adoption of the league by the United States carries with it the surrender of a national sovereignty brought into being under the leadership of Washington, and maintained for over 140 years by nearly all our former Presidents, our statesmen in Congress and our soldiers on the battlefield, they will hesitate before giving it their endorsement. Unless the present generation of Americans have lost the virility of their ancestors they will prefer war rather than surrender of the independence bequeathed to them by the fathers of the Republic. War could have been avoided in 1776 by the endurance of crushing humiliations from the British. We could have had peace in 1812 by humbly submitting to British arrogance on the high seas. In 1846 our serenity would not have been disturbed if we had patiently watched the encroachments of Mexico at our borders. By accepting the proclamations of the Southern States in 1861 the price of peace would have been the setting up of another nation carved from our territory. No money need have been spent in 1898 or blood shed if we had hardened our hearts to the attrocities of Spain in Cuba. In 1917 our peaceful calm would not have been ruffled had we chosen to look the other way when our ships were sunk by Germany and innocent women and children drowned. Throughout our history Americans have been as peace loving as those of today, but in each of those years the people of the United States preformed more than accord without evidence to the contrary. And during the past winter it has discovered that it must pay the cost of its lesson by hundreds of millions and even billions from its pocket to complete extravagant Democratic projects. "Criticism which has as its sole aim the development of facts, so that legislative remedy may be provided, is highly beneficial. We have had too much adulation of one man and attempt by his followers to stifle all opposing opinion. The war is over. We are already in the midst of a new era, with its problems pressing for solution. It can no longer be contended that one is anti-American because he desires to know the truth and to express his conviction regarding the party in power. Yet, if I do not mistake the temper of the country, it does not want mere criticism. It has given its mandate to the Republican party because it has faith in its constructive capacity to deal with reconstruction. It wants to stop the expenditure of vast sums to lend scope to opportunism. It desires a general checking up of appropriations and a limitation of them to real necessities. It demands broad and general legislation which will meet all the exigencies resulting from the war and prepare us for the most splendid commercial and industrial development we have yet experienced. "To this end it is desirable that there should at the earliest opportunity be prepared and passed by the Republicans of the House a protective tariff measure which will provide a more abundant revenue and prevent an inundation of foreign goods produced by cheaper labor. Upon the President and his party should be placed entire responsibility for its veto, at a time when manufactures need stimulation and men and women in great numbers need employment. "And to this end also we should provide for the return as soon as possible of the railroads and the telegraph and telephone systems to their private owners under a modified method of public control, in order that the public business may be subserved, investors be protected, and initiative be retained. The military and naval establishments should be developed to conserve American interests afterwards, for after all, American interests mean world inferests, as exemplified by the war from which we have just emerged so successfully. But it would be presuming for me to say just what legislation shall or shall not be enacted. It is my purpose to preside over the great body, of which I have..." CROP VALUES Fully one-half of the total value of all farm crops in 1918 at the farm, according to the Bureau of Crop Estimates of the nited States Department of Agriculture, is found in the cereals the crop total being $14,222,000,000 and the cereal total $7,079,000,000. The group next below in value is that of the fibre crops, cotton and hemp, but the latter is insignificant. Including cotton seed, these two crops have a value of $1,946,000,000, or 14 per cent of the aggregate of all crops. The census items of hay and forage crops make a total value of $1,884,000,000 for 1918 or 13 per cent of all crops, but these items do not adequately cover the value of straw and corn stover and do not include pasturage, the value of which may now be roughly estimated at $1,000,000,000—more than one-half as much as that of the hay crop. If pasturage is included, the value of the hay and forage of 1918 must be nearly $3,000,000,000—one-fifth of the crop total. Vegetables, subject to high variability in production and price from year to year, nevertheless appear to be gaining in relative importance. Their value in 1909, the latest census year, was 7.6 per cent of that of all crops, and in 1918 it was 9 per cent or $1,246,000,000. The same is true of fruits, the value of which has become $638,000,000, or 4.5 per cent in place of the 3.1 per cent of 1909. Tobacco has the highest value in history for the crop of 1918, and this reaches the estimate of $370,000,000, or 2.6 per cent of the crop total. The high prices of lumber and other forest products have raised the farm value of the year's products of "the farmer's wood lot" to considerable money need have been spent in 1908 or blood shed if we had hardened our hearts to the attrocities of Spain in Cuba. In 1917 our peaceful calm would not have been ruffled had we chosen to look the other way when our ships were sunk by Germany and innocent women and children drowned. Throughout our history Americans have been as peace loving as those of today, but in each of those years the people of the United States preferred war rather than accept without question the conditions. confronting them. Has the spirit of America changed that it will hereafter surrender without a fight whenever aggression threatens. Are we calmly to sit by while a council of foreign diplomats meeting a strange land decides our destiny for us? Of course we want to avoid war when honor can be maintained as well. Let Mr. Taft cease playing upon the ignorant but popular impression of the league as "something to prevent war without knowing how," and let the people realize that our Monroe Doctrine, our Constitution, and our very sovereignty as a nation, if his arguments prevail, are to be handed over to the tender care of a European court in which the United States will be overwhelmingly outvoted. The new revenue law provides a tax on pocket books, but if things keep on nobody will need a pocket book to keep his money in anyway. Advocating a form of world government which will involve this nation in every war anywhere in the world and calling this a plan to ensure peace is just as common sense a proposition as the Democratic campaign slogan of 1916: "He keeps us out of war." CALIFORNIA ELECTRIC RAILWAYS Preliminary figures of the forthcoming quinquennial report on the electric railways of the State of California have been given out by Director Sam L. Rogers, of the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce. They were prepared under the supervision of Eugene F. Hartley, chief statistician for manufactures. The statistics relate to the years ending December 31, 1917, 1912 and 1907. The totals include electric light plants operated in connection with electric railways and not separate therefrom, but do not include mixed steam and electric railroads nor railways under construction. The figures presented for California show decreases in traffic and income for 1917 as compared with 1912, together with increases in operating expenses and other costs, in contrast with large gains for the preceding five-year period, 1907-12. The operating companies numbered 32 in 1917, as compared with 35 in 1912 and 41 in 1907; and the line mileage operated by them in 1917 aggregated 1,885, comprising 3,022 miles of single track. The rate of increase in the line mileage was 6.8 per cent for the five years 1912-17 and 49.1 per cent for the ten years 1907-17; and the corresponding rates of increase in single-track mileage were 16 per cent and 50.1 per cent, respectively. The employees in 1917 numbered 15,977, a decrease of 4.6 per cent as compared with 1907; and their salaries and wages amounted to $16,217,815, an increase of 21.7 per cent over 1912 and of 73.9 per cent over 1917. The revenue passengers carried in 1917 aggregated 494,165,724, a decrease of 5.1 per cent as compared with 1912 and an increase of 50.7 per cent over 1907. The income from all sources amounted to $34,419,699, a decrease of 1.2 per cent from the 1917 figure but an increase of 59.8 per cent as compared with 1907. The operating expenses were $25,582,252, an increase of 18 per cent over 1912 and of 75.5 per cent over 1907; and amounted to $12,660,626, an increase of 18.4 per cent as compared with 1912 and of 88 per cent over 1907. There was thus a deficit of $3,823,179 in 1917, as against a net income of $3,464,490 in 1912 and a net income of $234,725 in 1907. The power consumption in 1917 aggregated 512,343,198 kilowatt hours, of which 12,248,329 was generated by the companies and 500,094,869 was purchased. The rate of increase in total power consumption during the five-year period 1912-17 was 3.9 per cent. It is reported there is more building activity in Fullerton now than ever before. One man has contracts for putting in six foundations. Condensed and Combined Statement The Southern County Bank Commercial and Savings Anheim California Condensed and Combined Statement The Southern County Bank Commercial and Savings Anaheim, California At the close of business, March 4th, 1919 RESOURCES Loans and Discounts ... $289,538.40 Overdrafts ... 252.20 Bonds and Other Securities 75,025.37 Furniture and Fixtures ... 6,000.00 Cash and Sight Exchange 115,123.97 LIABILITIES Capital Stock ... $75,000.00 Surplus ... 2,350.00 Undivided Profits ... 6,518.56 Deposits ... 402,071.33 Total ... 485,939.94 Officers and Directors J. W. Phelps, President J. S. Killian, Vice-President A. Nagel, Vice-President H. A. Hawley, Cashier Wm. Abplanalp, Kasson Avery, A. M. Brown, James A. Fay, F. C. Herbert, Chas., E. Jones, C. Klingerman, W. C. North, F. P. Sappington, Wm. Schumacher, H. E. Warren. WHY Everybody Eats at the Exchange Grill Excellent Service and Exchange Grill Excellent Service and Good Eating A. KLUEWER, Prop. BUCKEYE SINGLE ACTING PUMPS Capacity up to 250 Gals. a Minute—from Depths to 250 Feet Can also be furnished in center stroke type for use with double acting cylinders. SEND FOR CATALOG—of Pumps, Engines and Motors for Every Service Dealers in Unoccupied Territory Should Write Us for Liberal Proposition. MITH BOOTH USHER CO ESTABLISHED 1893 THE PUMP AND ENGINE HOUSE OF THE PACIFIC COAST LOS ANGELES