anaheim-gazette 1919-04-24

VOLUME XXXXVIII SHIPS OF THE AIR VISIT ANAHEIM TONIGHT BIRDMEN FROM FRONT BRING SQUADRON OF BATTLE PLANES TO THIS CITY Land on North Los Angeles Street Where Patriotic Demonstration is to be Held. Some time this afternoon, the exact hour having not been determined, the airplane squadron engaged in exploiting the Victory Loan, will arrive in Anaheim and land on the grounds prepared for the occasion by the city. They will probably arrive toward evening, but the entertainment given by the loan committee in which the aviators will participate will be held after supper beginning probably at 7:30. The big Armada of the Air will embrace a splendid Squadron of fighting machines, including every type of the selfes of this service, in order to be assured that they have taken the proper course relating to their income returns, for it is the policy of the office of this district to prevent rather than inflict penalties. ENABLING ACT PASSES IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY Anaheim Authorized to Accept Langenberger's Offer to the City. City Attorney Ames has received word from Sacramento that the joint sewer act and the enabling act giving the city of Anaheim authority to accept the Langenberger property for park purposes have passed both houses of the legislature. Owing to the turn affairs have taken recently the sewer proposition is not as lively an issue at the present time as it was some time ago, but the people of Anaheim are vitally interested in the park question. When Mr. Ames went to Sacramento and laid the matter before Assemblyman Eden it was problematical whether the bill could be got through this session owing to its low place on the calendar. In order to get action it would have to be given preference over hundreds of others that were ahead of it. Word that it has been passed is good news to Anaheim. There is now nothing to The big Armada of the Air will embrace a splendid Squadron of fighting machines, including every type of the battle machines of the air, the squadron to be under the direction of James F. Rogan, representing the Publicity Committee of Los Angeles and Southern California. Returned soldiers, some of them bearing the scars of battle received in the Argonne, Chateau Thierry and St. Mihiel salient battles, will be among the speakers and tell stories of their experiences fighting for Victory. A suitable field on North Los Angeles street has been secured as a landing place and it is here the evening entertainment will be held. The Anaheim band has been engaged to make the music, splendid orators will be present, and a patriotic demonstration will be given. Chief of Police Wood has called for a volunteer guard of fifty soldier and sailor boys to protect the big planes while they are on the ground. Extraordinary precautions will be taken to prevent meddling with the machines and to give them plenty of room. One of the instructions regarding their reception reads: "If upon arrival over your city the Squadron Commander sees that the field is not clear he will signal to the other ships and they will not land under any circumstances unless this space is kept clear and guarded until the whole squadron is down. The balance of the ships that are in the air, if the crowd overflows in the field will fly back to where they came from. So it should be impressed upon our guards to be firm and determined to keep the course open. Guards will stay off the field while the ships are landing." Thousands of people will no doubt congregate to greet these intrepid navigators of the air and view the big battle planes. The occasion will be a joyous victory celebration, in which every patriotic citizen should participate. ANAHEIM SLEEPING WHILE OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS Correspondent Thinks We Should Awake and Sieze Possibilities in Door Yard. The Gazette has received a letter from Mrs. Anna Derksen, who resides in the Golden State region, east of town, in which she urges the people of Anaheim to investigate and become better acquainted with the possibilities of that section of the country. She says: "By private letters and by invitation to the board of trade I have tried to interest the people of Anaheim in the opportunity that lies at their doors, but no avail. The time is soon coming when big corporations will come in and take away the bread that might be yours. Uncertainty of success is the reason your people have been holding back, believing that oil development is like a lottery or gamble, and should only be risked by big capital, but I believe it can be made a sure business with small capital. 'If any of the people in Anaheim care to come out and investigate the conditions here I will give them all the information I possess. They will learn facts about the underground situation that they never dreamed of. They should investigate thoroughly before investing a dollar. No one will ever regret having made the trip. All time as it was some time ago, but the people of Anaheim are vitally interested in the park question. When Mr. Ames went to Sacramento and laid the matter before Assemblyman Eden it was problematical whether the bill could be got through this session owing to its low place on the calendar. In order to get action it would have to be given preference over hundreds of others that were ahead of it. Word that it has been passed is good news to Anaheim. There is now nothing to legally prevent acceptance of Mr. Langenberger's generous offer, and the trustees will probably proceed to take the steps required by law. An election will now be called immediately for the purpose of giving the trustees authority by a vote of the people, to enter into a contract with Mr. Langenberger in accordance with his proposition. The enabling act was necessary in order to give the city legal authority to take this step." The one serious lie in the apparent its true nature. Us may enter up and final installment incurred and to buy one's full one of the American men died to prince bought and they all the people o portion to his ally be paid for either made, or by borrow out of the saving method. If the war we still piling up, as bought in that seventh loan, and rests upon the people. They clothe their acts and only some of them them will do it, impel most of them remaining few. It is not that includes product mobilization and many other fighting is o Official announces government Secretary of 000,000. The initially tax example of notes and are which will be what is four years wi keep the course open. Guards will stay off the field while the ships are landing." Thousands of people will no doubt congregate to greet these intrepid navigators of the air and view the big battle planes. The occasion will be a joyous victory celebration, in which every patriotic citizen should participate. U. S. TAX OFFICE AT COUNTY COURT HOUSE Deputy Collector Elmer B. Burns Will Aid Orange County Taxpayers. Deputy Collector Elmer B. Burns, a representative of the office of John P. Carter, collector of internal revenue for the Sixth District of California, will have an office in Santa Ana for a period of two weeks. Collector Carter has sent his deputies to the various county seats for the purpose of assisting taxpayers in any matters relating to internal revenue laws about which they are in doubt. Special attention is directed to that part of the law that specifically requires each and every individual or corporation to file reports of information on forms No. 1096 and No. 1099, giving the name and address of every employee to whom a total of $1000 or more of salary or wages was paid during the taxable year. The services of Deputy Burns will be available at the county seat to the tax payers during usual office hours and he will be located in the west basement room of the courthouse. The phone number is 520: No fee is required to be paid to the deputy for the services above stated and Collector Carter sincerely hopes that the taxpayers will avail them- BOYS COMING HOME Among the boys who have recently arrived at home from overseas are Paul Nicolas, Leo McGavren and Milton Pannier. These boys were in different commands and came home separately, but each has an interesting story to tell. McGavren was in the aviation department of the army, making the trip across to France on the Leviathan, the world's largest vessel. This ship travels at a speed of thirty knots and is so swift that it needed no convoy to escape marines. When nearing the coast of France on the trip over, McGavren says, the destroyers guarding their fleet of transports had a lively battle with five German subs, sinking two of them. The other three submerged and dissappeared. Pannier was in a motor supply company and had some live experiences at the front. Paul Nicolas came home ahead of his regiment. Owing to the illness of his brother, Pierre, he was given permission to come home in advance provided he paid his own fare. Paul received an ugly bayonet wound in his side in an encounter with a Hun, but is almost as good as new again. AHEIM GAZETY Anaheim, California, Thursday, April 24, 1919 The Boys Made Good--It's Now Up to You When America plunged into the world war—reluctantly, as we all know—the entire resources of the nation were pledged to support the government. The young men loaned their bodies to the cause. They went across the seas to encounter sufferings and hardships, to face hell on the battlefields, and to die if need be. We who remained at home pledged ourselves to back the government with the necessary finances, to support the boys who were fighting for us at the front, and to pay the bills. We bade the heroes Godspeed as they left for the bloody battleground, thousands of them to make the supreme sacrifice in our defense, and we promised them that we would do our part. These boys did not quit nor hesitate. They made good. They faced the foe at Chateau Thierry, St. Mihiel and at Argonne, and put an end to his insane desire to conquer the world. They saved us from facing a possible invasion by the Hun hordes, and from paying future tribute to the butcher of Berlin. They performed the part assigned to them heroically. They never faltered when hell raged around them and death stared them in the face. They kept their part of the compact, now it is up to us to keep ours. The Victory Loan campaign is now in progress. The government is asking $4,500,000,000 to pay the last of the bills. Based upon deposits in the banks each community is assessed its proportionate share of this sum, and is expected to subscribe the allotted amount. If it fails to do so it fails in its promise to the government and to those who went to the front from that community. The quota of the Anaheim district is $282,100, divided as follows: City of Anaheim $267,-100; Los Alamitos $12,750; Stanton $2250. In the three previous popular loans Anaheim heavily over-subscribed and made a record that her citizens year sooner than we expected, at a far lower price than we would have been glad to pay. It is exactly the kind of Victory wanted. We are well pleased with it. But, in hurrying back to peace and safety and to the pursuit of profits or wages, we forget that we still owe for it. This is no new obligation that each of us may enter upon or not as he pleases. It is the fifth and final instalment on a just debt that we have eagerly incurred and must honorably pay. There are those who say, "The banks ought to buy this entire loan." After doing so, should the banks then turn to the business of loaning bonds instead of money to the public and pay out bonds instead of money to depositors? To the extent that a bank parts with money in exchange for bonds, it has, just to that extent, ceased to be of any further use as a bank serving the public and the nation. To illustrate this by an extreme case, if a bank should exchange all of its loanable funds for bonds, it might as well close its doors, because it could do no further business with anyone. Such a bank, to be sure, might earn just as much money, for it would be receiving the interest on the bonds; but it could do nothing for the public. Probably three days without banking facilities would bring modern business and industry to a virtual standstill. There is the occasional investor who says he will buy no more bonds because the ones he bought are quoted below par in the market. If he has not already sold his Liberty Bonds he can avoid any loss by holding them. There is no probability of their remaining permanently below par. Their fall was only because the country had to absorb so many in so short a time in order to insure a quick victory. But he thinks the Government should have protected him from this apparent loss. By quick victory, the The Victory Loan campaign is now in progress. The government is asking $4,500,000,000 to pay the last of the bills. Based upon deposits in the banks each community is assessed its proportionate share of this sum, and is expected to subscribe the allotted amount. If it fails to do so it fails in its promise to the government and to those who went to the front from that community. The quota of the Anaheim district is $282,100, divided as follows: City of Anaheim $267,100; Los Alamitos $12,750; Stanton $2250. In the three previous popular loans Anaheim heavily over-subscribed and made a record that her citizens can always point to with pride. We must not sully that proud record by failing to do our part in this final petition of the government for money to pay its war debt. The boys in France and on the seas carried on until they won the victory and fulfilled their duty, other communities will fulfill this last obligation, and Anaheim must not fail. Every city, town, hamlet and rural community in the United States is assessed in this loan according to its ability to subscribe. The apportionment is just and equal and if one community fails to raise its just proportion others must make up for its dereliction, and it stands convicted as a slacker. It is every man's individual duty to help his town, to the amount of his ability, to subscribe its required quota, and if he fails to do so he is a quitter. The world has no use for the quitter. On the battlefield, in the prize ring, in the whole field of human endeavor, there is notating but contempt for the man who fails to see his effort through. Anaheim's reputation for gameness is at stake in the Fifth Liberty Loan. The reputation we gained in former campaigns will be lost if we fail to finish over the top. It is for every money-earning individual to do his or her part for the good name of the city. The one serious danger to the success of this Loan lies in the apparent failure of many people to realize its true nature. It is no new obligation that each of us may enter upon or not as he pleases, it is the fifth and final installment of a just debt that we all eagerly incurred and all must honorably pay. To refuse to buy one's full proportion is virtually to deny being one of the Americans whose future safety and liberty men died to protect. The Victory bonds must be bought and they can be bought in only one way—by all the people of America, each in approximate proportion to his ability, just as heretofore. They must be paid for either of savings that have already been made, or by borrowings which shall be paid, in turn, out of the savings of the future. There is no other method. If the war were still going on and the expenses still piling up, as we expected it to be, we would have bought in that way not only this but the sixth and seventh loan, and perhaps others as well. Its success rests upon the honor and integrity of the American people. They chose their government; its acts are their acts and they will fulfill its obligations. Not only some of them will do it, but practically all of them will do it. Personal honor and integrity will impel most of them. Public opinion will compel the remaining few. It is not that the war is over, but only danger. War includes production, transportation, financing, the mobilization and demobilization of Army and Navy, and many other things, none of these are over—only the fighting is over. Official announcement of the amount and terms of the government Victory Loan has been made by the Secretary of the Treasury. The amount is $4,500,-000,000. The interest rate is 4% per cent with partially tax exempt features. They will be in the form of notes and are convertible into 3% per cent notes which will be wholly tax exempt. The maturity date is four years with the Treasury reserving the priviled them heroically. They never faltered when hell raged around them and death stared them in the face. They kept their part of the compact, now it is up to us to keep ours. The Victory Loan campaign is now in progress. The government is asking $4,500,000,000 to pay the last of the bills. Based upon deposits in the banks each community is assessed its proportionate share of this sum, and is expected to subscribe the allotted amount. If it fails to do so it fails in its promise to the government and to those who went to the front from that community. The quota of the Anaheim district is $282,100, divided as follows: City of Anaheim $267,100; Los Alamitos $12,750; Stanton $2250. In the three previous popular loans Anaheim heavily over-subscribed and made a record that her citizens can always point to with pride. We must not sully that proud record by failing to do our part in this final petition of the government for money to pay its war debt. The boys in France and on the seas carried on until they won the victory and fulfilled their duty, other communities will fulfill this last obligation, and Anaheim must not fail. Every city, town, hamlet and rural community in the United States is assessed in this loan according to its ability to subscribe. The apportionment is just and equal and if one community fails to raise its just proportion others must make up for its dereliction, and it stands convicted as a slacker. It is every man's individual duty to help his town, to the amount of his ability, to subscribe its required quota, and if he fails to do so he is a quitter. The world has no use for the quitter. On the battlefield, in the prize ring, in the whole field of human endeavor, there is notaling but contempt for the man who fails to see his effort through. Anaheim's reputation for gameness is at stake in the Fifth Liberty Loan. The reputation we gained in former campaigns will be lost if we fail to finish over the top. It is for every money-earning individual to do his or her part for the good name of the city. The one serious danger to the success of this Loan lies in the apparent failure of many people to realize its true nature. It is no new obligation that each of us may enter upon or not as he pleases, it is the fifth and final installment of a just debt that we all eagerly incurred and all must honorably pay. To refuse to buy one's full proportion is virtually to deny being one of the Americans whose future safety and liberty men died to protect. The Victory bonds must be bought and they can be bought in only one way—by all the people of America, each in approximate proportion to his ability, just as heretofore. They must be paid for either out of savings that have already been made, or by borrowings which shall be paid, in turn, out of the savings of the future. There is no other method. If the war were still going on and the expenses still piling up, as we expected it to be, we would have bought in that way not only this but the sixth and seventh loan, and perhaps others as well. Its success rests upon the honor and integrity of the American people. They chose their government; its acts are their acts and they will fulfill its obligations. Not only some of them will do it, but practically all of them will do it. Personal honor and integrity will impel most of them. Public opinion will compel the remaining few. When the Government calls upon the people of this country to buy its bonds whereby it may discharge a just indebtedness which the people of this country ordered it to incur, the willing, the patriotic and the loyal, who do their full proportion, are not going to submit to an additional burden being placed upon them by allowing a few delinquents to trade their just responsibility upon precious pleasures. There is the occasional investor who says he will buy no more bonds because the ones he bought are quoted below par in the market. If he has not already sold his Liberty Bonds he can avoid any loss by holding them. There is no probability of their remaining permanently below par. Their fall was only because the country had to absorb so many in so short a time in order to insure a quick victory. But he thinks the Government should have protected him from this apparent loss. By quick victory, the Government protected him against paying his proportion of an indemnity to Germany; it protected the security of his family—perhaps life of his boy—and the safety of his business and property. He can now live throughout the future in security and personal liberty. To decline to buy his full proportion of the Victory Loan is just to deny that he is one of those whose liberty and future security men died to protect. Apparently there are even those who feel that they need to buy no bonds in the Victory Loan provided they can sufficiently criticise the Government for its mistakes and its extravagance. One of the things that won the war was extravagence; and Victor forgives a multitude of mistakes. The French find just as much fault with their government; so do the British; so even do the Germans. Our Government is just as good as we deserve. We create it from time to time to suit ourselves. Very few of us have ever devoted much of our time or money in efforts to remove the faults and weaknesses in it that we criticise. That it was not better suited to the task is nothing but the fault of every one of us. It was never designed to fight wars with. It undertook a perfectly appalling task and performed it successfully. As governments go, it is probably best of any of them. Abuse of it cannot be accepted as a substitute for support. There are people who say the Government must make the bonds so attractive that a supposed class called "the investors" will want them. If this could be done,the very people who propose it would roundly denounce the Government for having given away vast profits to these investors. But in reality there exists no great money-lending class to whom we may direct the Government and thus evade our individual responsibility. There is no such sum as four and a half billion dollars of surplus wealth in the hands of anybody merely awaiting attractive terms for investment. These bonds must be bought (or a like amount in taxes' levied),and they can be bought in only one way—by all the people of America,each in approximate proportion to his ability,just as heretofore. They must be paid for either out of savings that have already been made,或 by borrowings which shall be paid,在turn,出of的 savingsof的未来。Thereisnoothermethod.Ifthewarwerestillgoingonandtheexpensesstillpilingup.asweexpectedittobe.bewouldhaveboughtinthatwaynotonlythis,buta sixthandseventhloan,andperhapsothersaswell.Butnowthisoneisthelast.IssuccessrestsuponthehonorandintegrityoftheAmericanpeople.TheychosetheGovernment;itsactsaretheiractiesthaywillfulifitsobligations.Notonlysomeofthemwilldoitbutpracticallyallofthemwilldoitit.Personalhonorandintegritywillimpetmostofthem.Publicopinionwillcompeltheremainingfew.WhentheGovernmentcallsuponthepeopleofthiscountrytowbuyitsbondswherebyitmaydischargeajustindebtednesswhichthepeopleofthiscountryorderedittocurre willing,thepatrioticandtheloyalwhodo theirfullproportion AREnotgoingtosubmittoanadditionalburdenbeingplaceduponthemenbyallowingafewdelinquentstogradethejustresponsibilityunsopeonsplease It is not that the war is over, but only danger. War includes production, transportation, financing, the mobilization and demobilization of Army and Navy, and many other things, none of these are over—only the fighting is over. Official announcement of the amount and terms of the government Victory Loan has been made by the Secretary of the Treasury. The amount is $4,500,000,000. The interest rate is 4% per cent with partially tax exempt features. They will be in the form of notes and are convertible into 3% per cent notes which will be wholly tax exempt. The maturity date is four years with the Treasury reserving the privilege of redeeming the notes in three years. The 4% per cent securities are to be exempt from State and local taxation, except estate and inheritance taxes and from normal rates of federal income taxes. The 3% per cent securities will be exempt from all Federal, State and local taxes, except estate and inheritance taxes. Two notable events will be staged in Anaheim during the campaign for the purpose of stimulating interest in the Loan. One is the Victory Trophy train carrying many carloads of battle engines captured from the Huns, which will be here on May 6, the other is the Victory Loan Flying Circus billed for exhibition here tonight to participate in the loan drive. The airplanes are of the fighting type, and will attract general attention. One machine is De H4 which is painted a robin egg blue with cream yellow wings to make it indistinguishable in the air at a height of 10,000 feet. It is the latest and greatest type of flying ship in the world. Thousands of people are expected to be here to see these planes and greet the daring aviators who handle them. Men are occasionally heard to say, says Chairman McKee, that while they bought bonds willingly when the country was fighting for its life, they do not feel obliged to extend their credit to the nation now in time of peace. They say, "If the Government wants to borrow money, let it apply to those who have money to loan." To anyone who reasons correctly it will be plain that if the Government were borrowing this money for the purpose of undertaking some new project which the public had not previously authorized, that view would be perfectly sound and correct. But is it correct under the circumstances that do exist and what are the circumstances? We were at war for our very national life, the security of our property and the personal safety of every one of us. We were determined upon Victory at any cost, in either wealth or human life. We chose our own Government and we authorized it to take life and wealth, absolutely without limit, to win Victory. Our Government won it for us. It did it nearly a but a sixth and a seventh loan, and perhaps others as well. But now this one is the last. Its success rests upon the honor and integrity of the American people. They chose their Government; its acts are their acts and they will fulfill its obligations. Not only some of them will do it, but practically all of them will do it. Personal honor and integrity will impel most of them. Public opinion will compel the remaining few. When the Government calls upon the people of this country to buy its bonds whereby it may discharge a just indebtedness which the people of this country ordered it to incur, the willing, the patriotic and the loyal, who do their full proportion. Are not going to submit to an additional burden being placed upon them by allowing a few delinquents to evade their just responsibility upon specious pleas that will not bear analysis. It is not the war that is over, but only the danger. War includes production, transportation, financing, the mobilization and demobilization of Army and Navy, and many other things. None of these are over—only the fighting is, and your proportion of this loan is just as much as it would have been if they were still fighting. 1. Interest rate 4% per cent. 2. Notes dated May 20, 1919. 3. Notes due May 20, 1923. 4. First coupon will represent interest from May 20th to December 15th. 5. Interest dates June and December 15th and last coupon at maturity, May 20, 1923. 6. All subscriptions up to and including $10,000 will be allotted in full. Subscriptions in excess of this amount will be subject to allotment. 7. The Government will deliver 4% per cent notes to all subscribers except where the specific request is made for notes bearing 3% per cent, which are fully tax exempt, (see section 9 below). Any holder of 4% per cent notes may convert his notes into 3% per cent notes at any time during the life of the issue. The same privilege is also extended to the 3% per cent notes, which may be converted into 4% per cent notes. 8. 4% per cent notes carry the following tax exemptions: (a). Exempt from all city, county and state taxes, with the exception of estate and inheritance taxes. (b). Exempt from normal Federal income tax. 9. 3% per cent notes are entirely exempt from all city, county and state taxes and from all Federal income, excess profits and war profit taxes, being subject only to estate and inheritance taxes. 10. The Treasury Department reserves the right to redeem any or all of the notes before maturity on June 15th or December 15th, 1922, at par and accrued interest. COUNTY ODD FELLOWS TO HOLD PICNIC Centennial Celebration at County Park Saturday, April 24. The Orange county I. O. O. F. lodges will hold a centennial picnic at the county park on Saturday, April 26, and all the Odd Fellows in the county, with their families, are making arrangements to attend. The Anaheim and Fullerton visitors will leave this city at 9:30, and will be met at the park by the Orange, Santa Ana, Westminster, and Huntington Beach lodges, at 10:45 the following program will be given: 1—Selection. Conzad's Martial Band. 2—Address of Welcome. F. C. Drumm 3—Solo...H. A. Dickel. 4—Reading...Mrs. Liedtke. 5—Duett. Mesdames DeVinney and Llewellyn. 6—Address: "A Century of Odd Fellowship"...G. H. Scott. 7—Solo...Mrs. C. A. Palmer. 8—Selection ... Butlers Entertainers. 9—Selection ... Butlers Entertainers. 10—America. A banquet luncheon will be partaken of at noon and the afternoon will be given up to sporting events' in which many citizens incline to the opinion that petroleum permeates this city. Further Development Depends Upon Success of Drillers in New Wildcat Territory, of which Oil Experts Speak Highly. "Why, they've struck oil right over there on the Golden State tract," assuredly observed an Eastside cement pipe maker, in answer to an assumption of a group of townspeople who were discussing the great possibilities of this section should oil be discovered in paying quantities close to our doors. The speaker had reference to the latest venture in the wildcat territory that has recently been commanding the attention of oil experts from all over the State. Of course, it is yet early to predict just what success will TEXANS TO CELEBRATE BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO Out of the smoke of the battle of San Jacinto eighty-three years ago arose the Lone Star of the Republic of Texas. The day of this battle has an abiding place in the hearts of Texans, and its anniversary will be celebrated by a picnic at Sycamore Grove Park, Saturday, April 26th, 1919. All Texans and former Texans in Southern California are expected to be on hand. Every Texan is expected to write and phone and talk of the occasion from now to the day. Pass the word from Texan to Texan, so that not one in California Southland will miss the pleasure of the celebration. It will be a basket picnic—a picnic of baskets of fried chicken, home made preserves, pickles, cookies, cakes, and so on and so forth. Hot coffee will be provided. There will be a county headquarters and registers so friends may find each other. The program will include speeches, music and song. Many former Texans, or Texans visiting California, men and women, loved by Texans will be present. It will be an occasion for old friends to hob-nob, new friendships to be formed and a day of general relaxation and enjoyment. A truck train loaded with war relics 4—Reading ... Mrs. Liedtke. 5—Duett. Mesdames DeVinney and Llewellyn. 6—Address: "A Century of Odd Fellowship" ... G. H. Scott. 7—Solo ... Mrs. C. A. Palmer. 8—Selection ... Butlers Entertainers. 9—Selection ... Butlers Entertainers. 10—America. A banquet luncheon will be partaken of at noon and the afternoon will be given up to sporting events' in which a number of valuable prizes will be awarded. Among the contests on the list are a fat men's race, a free for all race for men, a fat women's race, a free for all women's race, a boys' race, girls' race, sack race, centipede race, huckleberry pie eating contest, plate race, woman's nail driving contest, tug of war. There will also be a Canton drill and dancing. The Butler Entertainers will furnish music for the picnic. Thousands of acres of land have been leased by shrewd speculators who appeared on the scene several weeks ago and took options on everything they could get hold of. A number of land owners are now regretting that they were too hasty in leasing, claiming that they did not get enough money. Had they held off until now it is probable they would have secured a great deal more money for the mineral development of their holdings. The oil fever is catching and a number of men owning land in the section southwest from this city are taking on that supreme air of optimism and are convinced that they are in the oil belt. Many conservative men, who are not in the habit of running around in a circle, believe that oil exists in this section and it only awaits the hands of experts to prove that their theory is correct. While there is no disposition to become unduly exercised over the acquisition of sudden riches there are men here today who are actually computing how much royalty they would be willing to take when oil is struck in their own backyards. A well-known oil-expert writer, in his weekly review of the oil situation, has the following reference to what is locally known as the "Heffron" well, north of this city. "The Sand Wash Oil Company continues to hold the interest of the operators by striking gas pockets and small showings of oil as the well goes deeper. A late report from the well gives the depth at 1100 feet, and at this depth a gas pocket was struck and quite an appreciable showing of oil. Should this concern be successful in bringing in an oil well it will..." and registers so friends may find each other. The program will include speeches, music and song. Many former Texans, or Texans visiting California, men and women, loved by Texans will be present. It will be an occasion for old friends to hob-nob, new friendships to be formed and a day of general relaxation and enjoyment. A truck train loaded with war relics is to pay a visit to Anaheim. It will be here on Tuesday, April 29, from 6:30 to 10 o'clock p.m. It will carry a Browning machine gun, Stokes mortar, hand and rifle grenades and gas masks, automatic rifle, the United States rifle, Enfield model, and bayonet, also a complete torpedo, the kind that was used to sink German subs, and many other specimens of war material. Men accustomed to handle these engines of war will be in charge and good speakers will also accompany the trucks. Deputy County Clerk Abbey was distributing registration books yesterday. Owing to the fact that a large number of the soldiers and sailors now returning from the war have not yet registered the supervisors have provided for the payment of certain registration clerks who will work until the 10th of May, giving all the boys an opportunity to qualify for the ballot at the next election. Misses Eva Merritt and Hannah Horwitz and Mrs. W. P. Myers are the clerks appointed in Anaheim. Mrs. Isabel Davis came down from the bay region a few days ago and will make her home with her daughter Mrs. Leonard. Ernest Schroeder, a miser, for a quarter of a century the baker at Los Alamitos, left an estate appraised at $32,000.38. While Schroeder was a miser in his methods of saving, though he would suffer misery before he would spend a nickel, he was a modern miser. He did not hide his money under a loose brick or behind a secret panel in the wall. He bought stocks and bonds, loaned out his money, and made it earn more for him. Most of his estate will go to relatives in Germany, some of whom fought in the German army. When Schroeder drew up his will on July 23, 1918, he had no question in his mind but that his fatherland, Germany, would be defeated. "The reason for leaving most of my property to people now fighting in the German army," says a paragraph of his will, "is not that Lespouse their cause, but is because I know the misery which will be suffered by destitute soldiers returning to civil life from a vanquished army, and I wish to see them properly provided for."