anaheim-gazette 1919-07-17

MANY PIT PUMPS ARE USELESS THIS YEAR UNDERGROUND WATER SUPPLY A PROBLEM THAT MUST BE DEALT WITH Wate Level from Six to Eight Feet Lower than Last Year—Thirty-One Feet Below that of 1913. The problem of the underground water supply is one of the biggest that Orange county farmers have to deal with. It is a problem that concerns every acre of irrigated land in the county. This year the problem is particularly insistent because in many places the water level has dropped so far that the water can no longer be reached by pit pumps, and some of the ranchers have had to put in deep well pumps. While the problem is troublesome enough in some sections this summer the present trouble is a small matter compared to what may be expected if the next two or three years should be dry. W. L. Deimling, district manager for the Edison Company, last week made a report to the office in Los Angeles to the effort that the water supply is not fully operational. BOLSHEVISTS OPERATING IN ORANGE COUNTY Spreading Literature Exhorting Workers to Join I. W. W. The worst kind of Bolshevik propaganda in the form of flaming hand bills addressed particularly to "Oil and Railway Workers" has just been circulated in Orange county. The apparent aim behind this literature is revolution, for the bills bear such "messages" as these: "Be a Red;" "The World is Yours for the Mere Taking;" "Why not strike off the chains of wage slavery?" "Up and at them, workers. The time is right to get your past dues;" "Down with the capitalists and slave drivers who work in the A. F. of L." etc. "Join the one big union, the I. W. W. and do away with your worst enemies," is the exhortation in black type. Copies of two such hadbills are in the hands of the sheriff, one sent in from Fullerton, and the other taken from a blue denim "jumper" left on North Main street, Santa Ana. As usual with such literature, it was distributed in the night, is unsigned except by "Oil Workers 450 and Railway Workers 650," and there is no way of tracing the origin of the literature. Needless to say, the workers of Orange county have no time to waste fooling with the 'red' agitators and such literature, and their efforts are without result. Officers are keeping in touch with the situation, and would like to get all available information about the I. W. W. in Orange county. Anyone knowing who circulated the handbills or anything else relating to the I. W. W. activity is asked to give such information to the creation of a tirely of producers; producers; this is a natural aim." If the hell producers he hate statement, but respect in which he described a system der by a class abolished not only but the worship of wherever its author Call, the New York publishes with big by Prof. Ward in view of the bolsheviki methodist Christianity tinently inquires: "The whole question May a Methodist at time of dangerous means of securing sideration for the certain revolutionary program?" Of course being used in politics but society is no question about pen. Only the social use the rostrum and the pulpit as for the propagation views. ARMY SUPPLIES The French government only $300,000 army equipment in 500,000,000, the W ordered a sales posal of the prop France, Director told a special house gating War Depa be reached by pit pumps, and some of the ranchers have had to put in deep well pumps. While the problem is troublesome enough in some sections this summer the present trouble is a small matter compared to what may be expected if the next two or three years should be dry. W. L. Deimling, district manager for the Edison Company, last week made a report to the office in Los Angeles to the effect that the water level over the county has gone down from six to eight feet below what it was last year, and that the water level is now about thirty-one feet below what it was in 1913, when the period of the great growth in pumping plant operations began, continuing up to the present. The Edison Company serves hundreds of pumping plants with "juice," and probably no institution in the county is closer in touch with pumping plant conditions than are men of that company. "The chief trouble this year," said Deimling, "has been that the lowering of the water level has put a good many pit pumps out of commission. A pit pump, placed down in the pit, can draw water from only so far below it, and if the water level goes below its reach the pump has to be lowered. Last year and the year before many of the pumps were lowered. This year, with another drop of six or eight feet, a good many pumps cannot be lowered because lowering them gets them into quicksand. "Pit pumps have been going out of favor, giving way to the modern turbine pump, which is pumped by the engine above ground and with a shaft going down inside the casing, throwing the water up somewhat in propeller style. With this pump, the lowering of the water level is not serious. Lowering of the level merely means that there is a greater lift." "Out around Garden Grove wells are around 400 to 500 feet in depth, and where the water rises up to fifty or sixty feet of the surface. Up at Villa Park the lift in some of the wells is 250 feet." Deimling said that few people have any idea of the big advancement that has been made in the amount of water used by pumping plants of the county in the last six or seven years. This year the prospect is that there will be fifty per cent more water pumped in this county than in any precedingature. Needless to say, the workers of Orange county have no time to waste fooling with the 'red' agitators and such literature, and their efforts are without result. Officers are keeping in touch with the situation, and would like to get all available information about the I. W. W. in Orange county. Anyone knowing who circulated the handbills or anything else relating to the I. W. W. activity is asked to give such information to Sheriff Jackson or any other officer in the county. Several Southern California cities have been flooded recently with I. W. W. literature. Reports from San Bernardino and Colton say that an automobile was seen there about 2 o'clock Tuesday morning, supposedly engaged in distributing the dodgers. In Los Angeles, where the handbills also made their appearance, two men who, it is said have much the appearance of Russians, were seen in a light automobile. They are supposed to have been distributing the literature. A man giving the name of Cavanaugh, it is stated, was arrested in the Angel city and is charged with being implicated in distributing the handbills. CONQUESTS From San Diego de Alcala, in 1769, to San Francisco de Asis, on the Laguna de los Dolores, in 1776, was a seven years' journey for the plious Fra Junípero. Now, be aeroplane, it is a new record of 4 hours, 32 minutes and 30 seconds. Even after Serra's missions were founded, San Diego San Juan Capistrano, San Gabriel, San Buenaventura, San Luis Obispo, San Antonio de Padua, San Carlos, Santa Clara, San Francisco, and after thirteen others were added by his successors, with the Camino Real joining them, it was still a journey of weeks. Until the coming of the railroad, it could scarcely be done in less than the twenty-one days marked by the mission etages. Now it is four hours and a half—an interlude between luncheon and golf. These records are being broken almost too fast to commemorate them. While ye are reading the dispatches regarding a new Atlantic passage, somebody flies over at 150 miles an hour, to break the California record. Before we get over wondering at that word comes from Hawaii of the com- ARMY SUPPLIES The French government only $300,000 army equipment in 500,000,000, the W ordered a sales posal of the property France, Director o told a special house gating War Depa- abroad. Mr. Hare said that termining the size-taining use of men handling the stocks delay in placing stocks on sale. The clude $50,000,000 $100,000,000 worth tables, he said. Director Hare said was made to Chad United States liquor The offer, he said tails including works and equi trucks and textiles. Mr. Hare, with dustrial experts Saturday to begin Sales offices and formed and main places throughout said, and much of returned to the U. "If France will not the statement add the stuff to this elsewhere." Sales of machinery twenty to thirty mglum is planned,the horses and m Rumania. Members of their discussion it plain that they all the possible stry "to break the man Johnson of S reply Mr. Hare better market is alone,the goods w as the patriotic t A SAMARIE WEST After giving ther charity, Jim Jade Chinese of San J San Francisco en probably never t genuine sorrow. Deimling said that few people have any idea of the big advancement that has been made in the amount of water used by pumping plants of the county in the last six or seven years. This year the prospect is that there will be fifty per cent more water pumped in this county than in any preceding summer. "This year," said he, "with a dry spring, heavy pumping began in March, when ordinarily it would not have started until June. The plants are keeping busy. The ground seems to take more water this year than usual, and an irrigation does not seem to last as long as usual." The pumping plants are proving to be the salvation of the citrus orchards, for without them the co-operative water companies would not be able to supply the orchards: Gravity water is a scarce article this year. The company's pumping plants are throwing ample streams. The lowering of the water level has not brought trouble to the deep well pumps so far as being unable to get water is concerned. It has merely made the lift greater. In the lowlands some of the artesian wells have quit flowing. It is no unusual sight to see sugar beet farmers with gasoline engines temporarily installed pumping water for the beet fields. The question of replenishing the underground wafer supply is one that is going to be studied closely, and must be studied closely if the future of the pumping plant here is to be what the county would like it to be. Great faith has been expressed by many people in the polley of spreading storm waters. These records are being broken almost too fast to commemorate them. While ye are reading the dispatches regarding a new Atlantic passage, somebody flies over at 150 miles an hour, to break the California record. Before we get over wondering at that word comes from Hawaii of the completion of the first leg of the trans-Pacific flight. The next news will be of a race around the world, to see who can make it in a week. And yet it was five years from the Marne to the Rhine! It was six months from peace to partial justice. It may be a whole generation from liberty to order in Russia. We have conquered the earth and the sea and the air. We have conquered space and time. MORE PROFESSORIAL BOLSHEVISM The extent to which socialists have entrenched themselves not only in educational but religious institutions, in positions they are enabled to employ for the furtherance of radical teaching, would surprise many of those who provide the funds to sustain these persons in their supposed work. Prof. Harry F. Ward, socialist, of the faculty of Union Theological Seminary, is editor of the Sunday School text books used by the Methodist Episcopal Church, both North and South, and of the Congregational Churches. Prof. Ward is also Secretary of the Methodist Federation for Social Service, and under the auspices of this organization he has recently issued a statement that "the aim of the bolshevik is clearly less than the twenty-one days marked by the mission etages. Now it is four hours and a half—an interlude between luncheon and golf. After giving ther charity, Jim Jasmin Chinese of San Jose San Francisco en probably never to genuine sorrow, the people of San cially the little foe is gone. Jim forala 52 years s and obtained a j ranch, near San stepped into prom The year previous heavy rainfall, a had overgrown t used to clean ther would give him th 100 other Chinese acres that netted sold to French ers. In 1879 ther much privation at the San Benito gave away $20,00 everybody. Pro scription by ther were hauled from distributed. He ple for a year, had food, provid and horses. By discovered the re ever since he has smooth the way ple. Of late years I truck garden, an ing the doctrine to give than to was always libe ANAHEIM GAZETTE the creation of a state composed entirely of producers and controlled by producers; this is manifestly a scriptural aim." If the Professor meant hell producers he has made an accurate statement, but this is the only respect in which he has properly described a system of theft and murder by a class autocracy, which has abolished not only private property but the worship of God in Russia wherever its authority is supreme. The Call, the New York socialist daily, publishes with high favor a bulletin by Prof. Ward in which the criticisms of the bolsheviks are depreciated. The Methodist Christian Advocate pertinently inquires: "The whole question at issue is: May a Methodist agency be used in a time of dangerous agitation as a means of securing favorable consideration for the idea upon which a certain revolutionary group bases its program?" Of course if the agency were being used in behalf of any kind of politics but socialist politics there is no question about what would happen. Only the socialist claims the right to use the rostrum of the school room and the pulpit as a personal agency for the propagation of his own political views. ARMY SUPPLIES ABROAD The French government having offered only $300,000,000 for American army equipment in France costing $1,500,000,000, the War Department has ordered a sales organization for disposal of the property be formed in France, Director of Sales C. W. Hare told a special house committee investigating War Department expenditures abroad. never forgot that there were 364 other days when cupboards were lightly stocked. Nor did he confine himself to necessaries. Always with the flour and bacon went candy, cookies and oranges; for, as he maintained, "Blead all light, but cookie makee sunshine in the face." At his little shack he had boxes of oranges, fruits and sweet meats, and the well-worn trail to his door proved their lure to the children of San Juan. At one time Jim Jack was asked why he persisted in giving away all he made, especially after he had worked so hard to get it. His answer was typical of the man: "No catchee childen, so why leavem money for Billie Black?" Black at that time was public administrator of San Benito County. In all this humble Chinese's charitable acts he insisted on being in the background. He obtained his pleasure in giving, and he did not want to be present when his gift arrived, as he said it was embarrassing to all concerned. VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOR CRIPPLED SOLDIERS Arrangements Made for Taking Care of Over 4,000. Through the adoption of legislation providing that the Board of Vocational Education, instead of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, shall decide upon the eligibility of disabled soldiers for vocational training, Congress has made it possible for more than 4,000 applications, upon which action has been greatly delayed, to be passed upon almost immediately, and the training of the applicants undertaken. The legislation was sponsored in the ARMY SUPPLIES ABROAD The French government having offered only $300,000,000 for American army equipment in France costing $1,500,000,000, the War Department has ordered a sales organization for disposal of the property be formed in France, Director of Sales C. W. Hare told a special house committee investigating War Department expenditures abroad. Mr. Hare said that difficulties in determining the size of the army and obtaining use of men and equipment for handling the stocks caused five months' delay in placing surplus army food stocks on sale. These stocks now include $50,000,000 worth of meat and $100,000,000 worth of canned vegetables, he said. Director Hare said the French offer was made to Chairman Parker of the United States liquidation commission. The offer, he said, included all materials including ship docks, railroad works and equipment, automobile trucks and textiles. Mr. Hare, with a small party of industrial experts, will sail for Europe Saturday to begin their work abroad. Sales offices and organizations will be formed and maintained at various places throughout Europe, the director said, and much of the material may be returned to the United States. “If France will not pay a fair figure,” the statement added, “we will bring the stuff to this country and sell it elsewhere.” Sales of machinery and tools, worth twenty to thirty million dollars, to Belgium, is planned, Mr. Hare said, while the horses and mules may be sold to Rumania. Members of the sub-committee in their discussion with Mr. Hare made it plain that they favored returning all the possible supplies to this country “to break the high prices” as Chairman Johnson of South Dakota said. In reply Mr. Hare assured that “if the better market is here, not in price alone, the goods will be returned home as the patriotic thing.” A SAMARITAN OF THE WEST COAST After giving thousands of dollars to charity, Jim Jack, the big-hearted Chinese of San Juan, left recently for San Francisco en route for China probably never to return. There is genuine sorrow, consequently, among Through the adoption of legislation providing that the Board of Vocational Education, instead of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, shall decide upon the eligibility of disabled soldiers for vocational training. Congress has made it possible for more than 4,000 applications, upon which action has been greatly delayed, to be passed upon almost immediately, and the training of the applicants undertaken. The legislation was sponsored in the Senate by Senator Kenyon, of Iowa, and in the House by Representative Fess of Ohio. In explanation of the action of Congress, Mr. Fess said: “Heretofore, the question of eligibility for vocational training has been handled by the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, but the bureau’s contention that the degree of a soldier’s disability must first be determined before he could commence his vocational training has resulted in delayed action upon thousands of cases. Under the law just passed training can be commenced merely upon proof of disability, regardless of its degree, leaving to the War Risk Bureau the separate question of the extent of the applicant’s disability, and the compensation to be paid. Under the new law a minimum monthly allowance of $80 is provided during the ten months course of instruction. However, if a man’s disability compensation is eventually set at a higher figure, the larger amount will be paid during the entire course. “This is an exceptionally good piece of legislation on behalf of the disabled soldier. It not only removes all impediment to his securing the education which has already been provided for, but it assures him ample funds for living expenses until such a time as the War Risk Insurance acts upon his claim for compensation. It clears up an unhappy situation, and will be very pleasing to those who are interested in the soldier’s welfare.” Mr. Fess recalled that criticism had been voiced because the total appropriation for vocational training compared unfavorably with the amount set aside for similar work in Canada. He pointed out, however, that vocational training was to be undertaken in the United States in conjunction with schools already established while in Canada the project called for the creation of new schools, thereby necessitating a much greater outlay of money. By any hotel in the Southland and prices reasonable. Corner Lemon and Center Sts Anaheim, California Rates, $1.00 per night, up. Special Rates by the week or month. Anaheim Cash Market A Good Place To Trade J. E. STROUP, Prop. Home 282 Pacific 300 109-111 N. Los Angeles St. A SAMARITAN OF THE WEST COAST After giving thousands of dollars to charity, Jim Jack, the big-hearted Chinese of San Juan, left recently for San Francisco en route for China probably never to return. There is genuine sorrow, consequently, among the people of San Benito County, especially the little folks, as their benefactor is gone. Jim Jack came to California 52 years ago, at the age of 16, and obtained a job on the Tom Flint ranch, near San Juan. In 1879 he stepped into prominence over night. The year previous there had been a heavy rainfall, and the wild mustard had overgrown the crops, so he promised to clean the land if the farmers would give him the mustard seed. With 100 other Chinese he cleaned up 10,000 acres that netted him $40,000 when sold to French mustard manufacturers. In 1879 there was a drought, and much privation among the formers of the San Benito Valley; so Jim Jack gave away $20,000 that year, helping everybody. Provisions of every description by the ton, hay and barley, were hauled from San Francisco and distributed. He provisioned some people for a year, saw that their stock had food, provided others with cattle and horses. By 1880 Jim Jack had discovered the road to happiness, and ever since he has made it a practice to smooth the way for hundreds of people. Of late years he has been running a truck garden, and he has been applying the doctrine, "It is more blessed to give than to receive." Although he was always liberal at Christmas, he Mr. Fess recalled that criticism had been voiced because the total appropriation for vocational training compared unfavorably with the amount set aside for similar work in Canada. He pointed out, however, that vocational training was to be undertaken in the United States in conjunction with schools already established while in Canada the project called for the creation of new schools, thereby necessitating a much greater outlay of money. Senator Kenyon's bill for disabled workers in industry was also passed in two weeks by the Senate. The Democratic Congress had been discussing this measure for six years. Every labor body in the country has endorsed this needed legislation and it is regarded as the most progressive act in half a century. MINING IN THE SANDS AT BEACH RESORT Visitor Loses $400 Roll and Natives Dig for It. Somewhere in the sands at Seal Beach, between the pier and the end of the Debby coaster, there is supposed to be $400 in real money that was lost Sunday night, says the Wave. During the fireworks exhibition that night two men from Springdale drove into town in a big blue car. Parking their machine on Ocean avenue in front of the coaster they went down onto the beach to enjoy the show. The owner of the car is certain that when they drove into town he had $400 currency in his pocket, but shortly after leaving here he reached into his pocket and the roll was minus. He does not believe that his pocket was picked for he and his friend were sitting alone on the beach, consequent-ly he thinks the money slipped from his pocket and is buried in the sand. They returned that night and made an ineffectual search, and returned there again on Monday, but could find no trace of the lost money. Digging in the sand for $400 promises to become a popular pastime with visitors at Seal Beach, for it is believed the money is buried not many feet in front of the cement wall. Just how difficult it is to find anything buried in the sand was proven last year when thirty orders for War Savings Certificates were buried by the amusement department. Only a few of the orders were found by the hundreds of persons who were hunting for them, and the next morning effort was made by Otto Little, who was then resident manager, to locate the orders. He thought he knew just where he had buried them, but after digging strenuously for some time he could find but two. However, someone might be lucky and find the four hundred. TACTFUL MR. CUMMINGS Tactful Homer S. Cummings, chairman of the democratic national committee, is reported to have commented upon the proposed Soldiers' Legion. "It is to laugh." Yes, it is likely that some of the millions of members of the Legion will find something to laugh about after the 1920 elections, many of them being youngsters, full of fun and high spirits. 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The big ranches in the southern half of the county are fairly well cleaned of the pest, but the spreading of poison is still being kept up where there is need. "Ranchers to the northeast and northwest are getting into the game, too," said W. W. Wardwell of Huntington Beach, deputy horticultural commissioner in charge of squirrel extermination. "They all seem to be waiting for me to get to them before starting the fight. There is no reason for that. They all know that they have to clean their lands of squirrels, and they might as well get the poison, which is furnished at the courthouse at cost, and go to it. "Squirrels have been killed by thousands. We are using poisoned barley." AN EIGHT-BILLION-DOLLAR INDUSTRY The live stock industry is the largest and, in more than one sense, the most important industry in the United States. Its extent, measured by the value of live animals, amounts to more than $8,000,000,000. Its importance rests in the necessity for live stock to consume the products of farms and ranges, 80 per cent of which, according to census reports, is fed to live stock; in the maintenance of soil fertility, which cannot be kept continuously and economically without a considerable number of animals as a part of the farm system; in the indispensable place which animal food occupies in the American diet, of which it makes up 38 per cent, based on the average consumer's food expense account; and finally, in the far-reaching influence which the growing, fattening and marketing of live stock has upon the social and economic welfare of all classes of people, including producers, distributors, and the meat-consuming public. The slaughtering and meat-packing business is the largest manufacturing industry in the United States, according to the United States census of manufacturers. The sales of live stock in the Chicago market alone totaled nearly $1,000,000,000 in 1918, or over $3,000,000 a day, and the daily sales at all of the centralized live stock markets of this country total close to $20,-000,000. Congressman Kitchin says the Republicans in the House didn't save enough money by cutting the administration's estimate only a billion and a half. Well, it takes some experience to use the pruning knife deeply enough on an administration suffering from enlargement of the payroll as this one is.