anaheim-gazette 1919-05-08

VOLUME XXXXVIII BOND ELECTION CALLED FOR MAY 31 TRUSTEES ASKING FOR $116,000 FOR ERECTION OF NEW SCHOOL BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS Will be Compelled to Cut Down Original Estimates and Alter the Plans.—Little Doubt Bonds Will Carry. Because the law of California limits the amount of bonds a school district can issue to a certain per cent of the assessed valuation, the trustees of the grammar district are compelled to pare down their original estimate for new school buildings, more playground and repairs. The Anaheim district can only bond itself to the extent of $144,000, and as it is already carrying a debt of $28,000 for previous improvements, $116,000 is the limit that can be voted at this time. ducer is benefitted by co-operation he is now paying $50 per ton, while independent buyers are paying as low as $25. Ninety per cent of the cabbage acreage in the county is controlled by the association, consequently the independent growers are few. From the tenth of May to the fourth of July, 1917, the association shipped 600 cars of cabbage, but this season's crop is very light. Shipments are made from Fullerton Anaheim, West Anaheim, Stanton, Buena Park, Garden Grove, Olive, Placecia and other points. The excellent prices secured by the association are a great stimulant to the produce industry in the county. MAY GO AHEAD WITH OUTFALL SEWER Anaheim and Fullerton May Combine in Twin-City System. Fullerton and Anaheim are going ahead with plans for a joint outfall sewer to the ocean, says the Register. Whether the outfall will be carried to the ocean at Newport or at Anaheim Landing has not been determined, it is understood. The bill prepared at the time Santa Because the law of California limits the amount of bonds a school district can issue to a certain per cent of the assessed valuation, the trustees of the grammar district are compelled to pare down their original estimate for new school buildings, more playground and repairs. The Anaheim district can only bond itself to the extent of $144,000, and as it is already carrying a debt of $28,000 for previous improvements, $116,000 is the limit that can be voted at this time. The board met Thursday night and issued a call for $116,000, the election date being fixed for Saturday, May 31, at the Central building. There will be only one polling place. J. L. Van der Veer has been appointed inspector of the poll, with W. F. McClellan and G. W. Alexander judges. The issue will consist of 116 bonds of one thousand dollars each, five of them due each year for 23 years, the last one due in 24 years. It was the hope of the board that the Central building could be replaced by a ten-room modern structure, the plans for which called for an expenditure of $71,000, and a five-room building on a new site near the Fremont school at a cost of $40,000, but these plans will have to be considerably modified. The site for the new building and the additional ground at Fremont will cost $10,000, which brings the total five thousand above the limit aside from the furnishing, the architect's bill and other necessary expenses. The site upon which the board has been figuring consists of a lot 200 feet square on Citron street belonging to a Los Angeles resident, which can be purchased for $6,000, a lot belonging to J. H. Enearl, the price of which is $2500, and a lot belonging to Frank Baum, for which he asks $1500. This property adjoins the Fremont grounds and a portion of it can be added to the playground of that school. Should the people vote the issue of $116,000 on May 31, the trustees will alter their plans to fit the sum available, and the new buildings to be erected will relieve the present congested situation. The old Central building will be razed and a new up-to-date structure erected on the ground, although it will probably not contain the proposed ten rooms. It will be worth the entire sum to get that old obsolete building out of the way. It was built more than a third of a century ago, and is totally unfit for school purposes in the present day. It has been an Anaheim and Fullerton May Combine in Twin-City System. Fullerton and Anaheim are going ahead with plans for a joint outfall sewer to the ocean, says the Register. Whether the outfall will be carried to the ocean at Newport or at Anaheim Landing has not been determined, it is understood. The bill prepared at the time Santa Ana, Orange, Anaheim and Fullerton were considering an inter-city project has been enacted into law by the legislature. The bill was necessary to make it possible for the cities to co-operate in such an enterprise and now that Santa Ana and Orange are out of consideration in the project the two northern cities will avail themselves of the provisions of the law to put the proposition through. The law will become operative in 90 days after signing by the governor. It is understood that City Engineer Wells of Fullerton has been doing considerable work in running lines and figuring out the most feasible route and plans for a joint outfall. The trustees of both cities realize that something must be done, and they are losing no time in getting busy. The outfall will soon be a reality if the trustees do not fall out. Whether the new council of Santa Ana will attempt to revive the inter-city project started by the late city council and then abandoned because of certain situations that bobbed up in the negotiations is not known. The new members have not as yet gotten fully into the harness. It will take them some time to get in close touch with city work and conditions. Relief from the present sewer situation will have to be provided by the present council. That is certain. Use of the outfall of the Southern California Sugar company cannot be contifused much longer, and the life of the contract under which the city is using the outfall will expire at the end of this year. Councilman Greenleaf, who is a member of the new board and who represented the Fifth ward in the old board, is strictly opposed to an outfall to the ocean. He believes that the city should acquire more land for the sewer farm and make the farm a source of profit to the city in PRODUCE ASSOCIATION GETTING GOOD PRICES Secretary Wallop is Now Engaged in Shipping the Cabbage Crop. The Orange County Produce Association, with headquarters at Fullerton, was incorporated Tuesday night of last week, and its membership will probably reach 150. The association with J. W. Wallop as secretary-manager, has been doing business for the past two years. Cabbage, potatoes, both Irish and sweet, tomatoes and other vegetables are handled and shipped by the concern, and the growers reap the benefit of co-operative dealing. Mr. Wallop states that he is now handling cabbage. The crop in this county is very light this season. The association has already shipped 110 cars and will probably handle 250 during the season. He has paid from $11.50 to $100 per ton this year, and the present pool will net the growers $60. As an indication of how the proCalifornia Sugar company cannot be continued much longer, and the life of the contract under which the city is using the outfall will expire at the end of this year. Councilman Greenleaf, who is a member of the new board and who represented the Fifth ward in the old board, is strictly opposed to an outfall to the ocean. He believes that the city should acquire more land for the sewer farm and make the farm a source of profit to the city in the future. John W. Tubbs, who was a member of the old board and is a member of the new, is just as positive that the only correct solution of the local situation is an outfall to the ocean. The city already owns a right of way to the ocean, with the exception of about a quarter of a mile near the beach. Just what attitude the new members of the council will assume relative to the project is not known and it is probable they have not as yet given it consideration enough to form any conclusion. REGISTER If you want to vote for the Orange County Harbor Bonds on June 10th you must register before May 10th if you have not registered since Jan. 1st, 1918. Register with Bertha Meyers at Meyers Bookstore or Hannah HorWitz at Judge Howard's office. Mrs. Eva Booms died at her home at West Anaheim Thursday at the age of 61 years. She was born in Bavaria, and came to Anaheim in 1887. Funeral services were held at Back & Terry's Saturday, Rev. Schmelzer officiating. The rise in rentals age of more than houses, owing to construction during the war, furnish a sufficient consideration of the Information and Educational campaigns are all these have as the starting of building pearliest possible dates. AHEIM GAZETTE Anaheim, California, Thursday, May 8, 1919 DON'T BE A QUITTER Are you wearing the little blue button with a white "V" stamped on its face? If not, why not? Do you realize the significance of this emblem? It means that you are fulfilling a pledge made by your government with your sanction, that you are paying a debt incurred in your name and with your consent. On April 6, 1917, in its declaration of war against Germany, Congress adopted this resolution: "Whereas, the Imperial German Government has committed repeated acts of war against the Government and the people of the United States of America: Therefore, be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the state of war between the United States and the Imperial German Government which has been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared; and that the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Imperial German Government; and to bring the conflict to a successful termination all of the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States and varied are the excuses advanced by individuals for refusing to purchase Victory notes, but there is no valid excuse that can be offered for violating a sacred obligation. It matters not to you whether or not you have an itemized statement of the cost of the war, it matters not to you what others subscribe, it is a question of your individual duty. Should Anaheim subscribe ten dollars to every dollar of its quota and your name is not on the list it does not relieve you of the odium of being among those who failed in the test. You are not legally bound to pay your final share of the debt incurred in preserving us from our enemy, but if you refuse to do so you must pay the penalty in a troubled conscience and the scornful opinion of your fellow man. It is a debt contracted by the government under the pledge that every individual would pay his just proportion, and the man who refuses to assume his share stands convicted of accepting the benefits while shouldering the burden of costs onto his neighbor. He is a shirker and a quitter. Perhaps if you do not consider yourself obligated to help bring the boys home from France; to help pay the money due them to compensate the maimed and the state of war between the United States and the Imperial German Government which has been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared; and that the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Imperial German Government; and to bring the conflict to a successful termination all of the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States." This resolution pledged you and all you possessed to the cause—all your man power and your worldly goods, and it received your hearty endorsement. At that time our lives, our liberties and our possessions were menaced by a merciless foe and we were willing to pledge our all if need be to check his triumphal march. At that time we generously purchased Liberty Bonds because the danger threatened us. So long as the danger existed we were liberal in our subscriptions and our promises to the government and the boys who went across the sea to fight the enemy in Europe and prevent him coming across to us, devastating our land and murdering and pillaging our people as he did in Belgium and France. The government at Washington and the man with the gun fulfilled their part of the compact and destroyed the enemy that threatened us. It is now our duty to keep our promise and pay the balance of the indebtedness which was incurred in our defense and with our sanction. NOW IS THE TIME TO BUILD HOUSES More Money Available for Construction than Ever Before. This is the time to build homes, according to the consensus of opinions that are coming in to the United States Department of Labor, which is receiving many expressions of approval of its "own your own home campaign" and assurances of co-operation in its nation-wide work of stimulating construction. It is pointed out that an abundance of employment at high wages has made the desire for comfortable and pleasant living conditions more widespread than ever before. Since economy and thrift have been preached and practiced in America, during the period of the war, there is a new desire to use money wisely. Economists estimate that more MADE IN CALIFORNIA That California manufacturers should advertise their products broadcast to the world, and at the same time assemble the brains and efficiency of the world to make them, was the basis of the enthusiastic "Made in California Week" (May 5 to 10) conference luncheon of the Home Industry League of California, held at the Palace Hotel. Present were representatives from promotion organizations throughout the state. "The Home Industry League," declared Lewis F. Byington, former district attorney of San Francisco, speaker of the day, "has started a wonderful movement. I am a Californian, but not narrow enough to believe that manufacturers should confine their employees to Californians. For the best prosperity of California, I should recommend, instead, that the best brains throughout the state, according to advice received at the Home Industry League headquarters, will display California-made goods during this time. THOSE TELEPHONE RATES It is the opinion of the Railroad Commission, that under the Joint Resolution of Congress the Postmaster General is not given authority to prescribe rates for telephone and telegraph service between points within the state of California, and that such authority remains exclusively with the Railroad Commission. Because the Postmaster General has assumed to exercise arbitrary control over both rates and service of telephone companies in intrastate as well as interstate business, the Railroad Commission has instituted in both the federal and state courts proceedings to restrain the Postmaster General from continuing such unlawful interference. and assurances of co-operation in its nation-wide work of stimulating construction. It is pointed out that an abundance of employment at high wages has made the desire for comfortable and pleasant living conditions more widespread than ever before. Since economy and thrift have been preached and practiced in America, during the period of the war, there is a new desire to use money wisely. Economists estimate that more money is available for building in the United States this year than there has been in recent years. This fact, added to the general disposition to seek a settled abiding place, after the adventures and separations attending on war, is giving home building a decided impetus in all parts of the United States. Surveys made of the whole country show that the advance in cost of materials has not kept pace with increases of other commodities and real estate has not risen in price. Moreover there is a disposition among those who finance building projects to make easy terms for those who desire to put their money in what is acknowledged to be the most satisfactory of all investments. The rise in rentals and the shortage of more than half a million houses, owing to the suspension of construction during the period of the war, furnish a sufficient reason for the consideration of building a home. In forty cities now listed in the Devision of Public Works and Construction Development of the department's Information and Education service, intensive campaigns are in progress and all these have as their object the starting of building projects at the earliest possible dates this spring. Present were representatives from promotion organizations throughout the state. "The Home Industry League," declared Lewis F. Byington, former district attorney of San Francisco, speaker of the day, "has started a wonderful movement. I am a Californian, but not narrow enough to believe that manufacturers should confine their employees to Californians. For the best prosperity of California, I should recommend, instead, that the best brains and greatest efficiency available, whether it be from California or from any other point in the world, be recruited to master workmanship. Then the goods of California would have no superior." "Producing the best quality, the manufacturers must then learn to advertise. Advertising must go hand in hand with prosperity and one hundred per cent products. The state of California should be advertised. Its manufactures should be advertised." "Some of the money latent here, or acquired here and put into buildings and farms, should be diverted to industries. On the industries, their efficiency and output, depends the future of this country. "California has the raw products, may capital find the way to utilize them. Stop sending lumber and fruit and leather products of the highest quality out of the state and have them returned labeled 'imported' at a great advance in price. Make them here yourselves and then let the world know about them. Then like all loyal Californians, don't just look at goods displayed during 'Made in California Week'—buy them." "Made in California Week" will be formally ushered in Monday 5. More than one hundred thousand stores graph service between points within the state of California, and that such authority remains exclusively with the Railroad Commission. Because the Postmaster General has assumed to exercise arbitrary control over both rates and service of telephone companies in intrastate as well as interstate business, the Railroad Commission has instituted in both the federal and state courts proceedings to restrain the Postmaster General from continuing such unlawful interference. Pending determination of this jurisdictional question, the Railroad Commission has refused to consider applications of California telephone companies for readjustment of rates. Numerous applications for increases in telephone exchange rates have been presented to this commission, and for the reasons above stated none of them have been acted upon. Not only has the Postmaster General increased telephone toll rates in the state of California, but in at least one instance he also has ordered actual increases in telephone exchange rates. A report also has reached this commission to the effect that another order by the Postmaster General is expected soon materially increasing telephone exchange rates in California as well as elsewhere throughout the country. In the light of these facts the Railroad Commission believes that this is a fitting opportunity to present, not only to the Class "D" telephone companies but to all others interested in charges for telephone service, a frank statement of its present attitude. Messrs. H. P. Noel, George Hamler and Al Erickson and families will leave May 24th for the East, going by automobile route, to be gone several months. CITY MARSHAL WOOD RECOVERS HIS UNIFORM Stolen Suit Found in Warehouse at Santa Ana. With the first day of May adding to the costs of clothes by reason of the government tax, City Marshal A. W. Wood is a lucky man, and it probably will be some time before he will have to "cough up" the tax for a new uniform. A uniform stolen from his home some two months ago was recovered Thursday in Santa Ana. It was found at the Zerman warehouse on the Santa Fe tracks, where it evidently had been placed by the thief who entered the city marshal's residence and carried away the uniform, another suit of clothes and other articles of value. The thief evidently didn't take to the idea of masquerading as a police man and he tucked the suit away in a place where it would not be readily discovered. It was brought to light while J. B. Wine and W. A. Carpenter, employed by Zerman, were cleaning out the warehouse recently. It had been hidden in an air vent in the northeast part of the building and was found when they lifted the heavy screen to clear the accumulations from the hole. The uniform was turned over to City New Telephone Schedule In Effect FREE TOLLS BETWEEN ANAHEIM AND NEIGHBORING POINTS ARE NO LONGER IN OPERATION Indignant Citizens Protest Against the Change.—Efforts Making to Organize Mutual Company.—Hundreds of People Ordering Their Phones Taken Out. In spite of the vigorous protests of the people and the opposition of the state railroad commission, the new telephone schedule went into effect Thursday. Free tolls are eliminated throughout Orange county and subscribers are compelled to pay increased monthly rates on private phones. This is one of the effects of government control, as the new schedule was ordered by Postmaster General Burle- SECURING OPTIONS The Chapman district may not be the only spot that can gloat over oil gushers, for who knows but that other territory near to Fullerton may within a short time be attracting the eyes of the old world? And there is a reason for this question. Geologists and oil experts have been studying and prospecting every available foot of land in every direction of Fullerton, and when certain experienced geologists held that the bringing in of the Chapman well would indicate that oil might be found west and southwest of the city of Fullerton oil interests became active and options on property near to Fullerton have been secured on 235 acres lying between Highland and Nicolas avenues on the east and west and with Commonwealth and Orange-thorpe on the north and south. It is understood that among those from whom options have been secured are A. H. Dunlap, Jr., C. E. Holcomb, B. F. Porter, Mrs. F. Hiltcher and Knute B. Norswing. The option provides that drilling shall be begun within one year and gives a royalty of one-sixth, also that the sum of $150 shall be given for each bearing tree destroyed. Porter & Hinckley, the real estate operators of 114 East Commonwealth avenue, have been acting as agents for the oil interests and have tied up the options. SUNDAY SCHOOL OFFICERS Officers elected at the County Sunday School Convention Wednesday afternoon for the coming year follows: In spite of the vigorous protests of the people and the opposition of the state railroad commission, the new telephone schedule went into effect Thursday. Free tolls are eliminated throughout Orange county and subscribers are compelled to pay increased monthly rates on private phones. This is one of the effects of government control, as the new schedule was ordered by Postmaster General Burleson, who regards an edict of the California railroad commission as a mere scrap of paper having no weight whatever if it interferes with his will. Free tolls have heretofore existed between this city and Fullerton, Placentia and Garden Grove, but under the new schedule it costs five cents to call up a party at either of these points with a five-minute limit to the conversation, five cents being added for each additional five minutes. Indignant protests are being made throughout the entire county and a determined effort is being made to establish a mutual county system, and divert all business from the government controlled concern. With 135 of the 260 telephone subscribers in the Tustin exchange ordering their phones out and 400 or more of the progressive farmers identified with the Farm Bureau pledging their financial and moral support to a fight against the company in the elimination of free toll zones, and the telephone committee of the Associated Chambers of Commerce making an investigation with possibility of filing an injunction suit, the telephone company has bright prospects before it for a bunch of trouble. The Tustin subscribers took action at a meeting of the Farm Center there Friday night, and Saturday the 400 or more farmers expressed themselves at the annual meeting and picnic of the Orange County Farm Bureau at Orange county park. From every section of the county comes reports that the subscribers are up in arms and that they are ordering their phones out by the score. H. B. Woodrough, president of the Farm Bureau, at the business session at the park Saturday afternoon, stated that now is the logical time for the subscribers to fight—the logical time to put over a county mutual exchange. The action of the company, under authority of the federal government, in establishing new rates on May 1, has crystalized sentiment that will result SUNDAY SCHOOL OFFICERS Officers elected at the County Sunday School Convention Wednesday afternoon for the coming year follows: President—Mrs. R. W. Jones, El Modena. Vice-President—William Mauerhan, Anaheim. Secretary—Rev. G. W. Kitzmiller, Orange. Treasurer—J. R. Goodwin, Santa Ana. Superintendent of Educational Division—S. C. Hartranft, Fullerton. Superintendent Adult Division—Rev. Geo. Francis, Garden Grove. Superintendent Young People's Division—Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Kroener, Orange. Superintendent Children's Division—Miss Bessie Lewis, Santa Ana. With a capital stock of $4450, divided into shares of $50 each, articles of incorporation of the Romeney Drive Mutual Water Company were filed with the county clerk Friday. Directors of the company, with the number of shares subscribed for by each, are as follows: J. R. Carhart, Fullerton, 21; F. A. Nellesen, Anaheim, 5; Mrs. Emma Heying, Anaheim, 15; Joe Hiltscher, Anaheim, 21; F. W. Sheldon, Anaheim, 14; J. C. Bliss, Anaheim, 13. The purpose of the company is to supply irrigation water to its members from a company well. In making his final report as president, Woodrough recommended that the new directors appoint a committee of five men with full authority to retain the very best attorneys and telephone experts procurable and to work out details for the institution of the mutual system, or a plan to buy the plant of the operating company. When he asked that everyone who would back the Farm Center financially and morally to stand up, every man in the meeting stood, and the number was estimated at 410. There is some agitation among Anaheim business men relative to the proposal to cut out the phone service entirely. The telephone, however, has become a necessity in business, and there should be some way for the users to get justice without resorting to such methods. Frank Mauer and Emil Heying and families spent Sunday at Sycamore Flats up in the Santa Ana Canyon. Chillie Fisher has fitted up one of the finest bowling alleys in the state in the Cassou building basement. He also has pool tables and reading room has been arranged for patrons.