anaheim-gazette 1919-09-04

ALL IN READINESS FOR WELCOME TO BOYS PROGRAM COMPLETE FOR DOINGS AT ORANGE COUNTY PARK NEXT TUESDAY Gov. Stephens Will Present Medals to Soldiers and Sailors and Lay Cornerstone of Memorial Arch.—Four Bands to Furnish Music. The principal thing upon the program at Orange County Park on September 9th is the presenting of the War Service Medal to our returned service men and women, and this presentation is to be made by the highest officer in the State, the Governor, Hon. William D. Stephens. On that occasion, as the Governor of the State, he will be speaking not only for the citizens of Orange county but for every man, woman and child in the State. In order that there may be no inconvenience to our returned service men and women, there will be no restrictions as to what they shall wear or what they shall do. There will be no marching, nothing of a military nature. It is going to be a home coming, a real gathering together of the men and women of this county to express to these returned service men and women their pleasure at having them with them once more. It is a real homey affair in which the families gallons of ice cream and cones for the kiddies, barrels of ice water and many other features that will lend to the comfort and convenience of the people. Several thousand orange packing boxes are being secured from the packing houses to be placed around the grounds so that all may have a seat. This is going to be a real home coming to these men and women of ours who have been over there. The ones who have purchased the medals for these service men and women are the ones who are wearing the Orange County War Service Recognition Association button. If you have not exercised this privilege of contributing to the purchase of these medals you are depriving yourself of the pleasure of knowing that you have done something for someone else. TELEPHONE INVESTIGATION The Railroad Commission has directed the issuance of a notice to all the telephone exchanges in the state, numbering more than 400, as well as to city attorneys and other officials, announcing that in the Flood Building at 10 a.m. on Monday, September 15, the Commission would hold a hearing at which would be determined the method and scope of the Commission's investigation into the matter of telephone rates in California. The hearing was originally set for Friday, September 5. While this first session will be preliminary in its nature it will be important in that it will enable the Commission to outline its huge task of reviewing the entire telephone rate question which became involved when the rates were raised under governmental authority. At that time the Commission used every effort to maintain its In order that there may be no inconvenience to our returned service men and women, there will be no restrictions as to what they shall wear or what they shall do. There will be no marching, nothing of a military nature. It is going to be a home coming, a real gathering together of the men and women of this county to express to these returned service men and women their pleasure at having them with them once more. It is a real homey affair in which the families of the men will gather together with their loved ones in a basket picnic, where the good-old things that mother fixes will be found. I know that on the two days prior to September 9th many a chicken in Orange county will come to an untimely death, and many a father will swing with joy the axe that severs the earthly connections of Mr. Rooster and prepares him for the deft hands of mother. Oh, boy, I say to you it will be some chicken eating day, and we can sit there with our own folks and have the time of our life. In addition to presenting the medals to the boys, there will be the laying of the corner stone. The arrival of a fleet of airships scattering flowers over the crowd during the ceremony. There will be a band concert from early morning until late at night, and at 2 p.m. a massed band concert of four bands. Numerous other features are being worked out. In the evening those who wish to can devote their time to dancing. One of the features that is going to appeal to the men most is the reunion, that of meeting men over here that were over there, and clasping by the hand the same Buddies that went down into the Shadow of the Valley with them in France. It is going to be a real welcoming and home coming for our own Buddie. The Orange County War Service Recognition Association was organized for the purpose of giving the Orange county citizens a chance to show their appreciation to the returned service men and women for the part they took in the late war. Admission Day, September 9th, was selected as the date on which to hold this Welcome Home Celebration, and Orange County Park was designated as the place. Honorable Wm. D. Stephens, Governor of the State of California, is to be present and present these souvenir medals to our returned service men and women. While this first session will be preliminary in its nature it will be important in that it will enable the Commission to outline its huge task of reviewing the entire telephone rate question which became involved when the rates were raised under governmental authority. At that time the Commission used every effort to maintain its rate making power, but the United States Supreme Court sustained the Federal policy. As soon, however, as the wires went back to private control the California Commission undertook a sweeping review for the purpose of determining whether the so-called Burleson rates were fair and reasonable and today’s order is one of the results of this determination. SANTA ANA'S NEW HOTEL Plans for the St. Ann's Inn, Santa Ana's new tourist hotel, have been accepted and bids are now being received on the construction work. The location is the Bailey property on North Broadway, opposite the Court House, extending through Birch street, which was purchased two years ago as a hotel site, when plans and cash were ready, operations being halted by the war. The residence on the site has been sold and will be torn down at once. Plans for the hostelry were drawn by Architect Myron Hunt of Los Angeles. The structure will be three stories, with seventy-one guest rooms. It will be built in the shape of a T, this being necessary to preserve the tree growth on the lot. The main entrance will be from Broadway, the driveway being arranged so as to pass between two palm trees that have been growing in the yard for thirty or forty years. On the first floor a sun room will greet the visitor entering from Broadway, and immediately back of this is located the lobby, 44x120 feet. At the top of the T will be located the kitchens and grill room and dining room. First and second floors will be of reinforced concrete. Estimated cost o fthe project is $150,000. Stockholders in the hotel company are prominent business men of Santa Ana, including A. J. Cruikshank, George B. Shattuck and W. A. Huff. TO BOYCOTT U. S. A London correspondent says: The phone rates in California. The hearing was originally set for Friday, September 5. While this first session will be preliminary in its nature it will be important in that it will enable the Commission to outline its huge task of reviewing the entire telephone rate question which became involved when the rates were raised under governmental authority. At that time the Commission used every effort to maintain its rate making power, but the United States Supreme Court sustained the Federal policy. As soon, however, as the wires went back to private control the California Commission undertook a sweeping review for the purpose of determining whether the so-called Burleson rates were fair and reasonable and today's order is one of the results of this determination. Confronted by the cost of lathing the cultivation nuts, Southern have, during sorting to sort of culture in groves increase take care of heavy overhead. In discussionuation Mr. Wei "It is almost realize the trepense to which has been put alone." "Where in irrigation are from three to ten ter have been rancher must get it, and is irrigate day and ter has not problem. The serious item the prevailing country." "I know of where irrigation almost continue a cost of $40 labor each 24." "That this lath was justified percentage of water was not groves the creature elsewhere, and are almost enmen." No suggesteder by state ment station of the field Admission Day, September 9th, was selected as the date on which to hold this Welcome Home Celebration, and Orange County Park was designated as the place. Honorable Wm. D. Stephens, Governor of the State of California, is to be present and present these souvenir medals to our returned service men and women. Each returned service man and woman will be given a medal and every man or woman in the service from Orange county, or who has made Orange county his permanent home since the war, will receive one of these souvenirs. The Board of Supervisors have completed arrangements to have the corner stone of a Memorial Arch ready on that date and Governor Stephens will lay the corner stone and in this corner stone will be placed a copy of every paper published in the county, the date nearest to the laying of the corner stone; a combined statistical report of the war activities of Orange county; together with the names of every member of this organization who has helped to purchase these medals for our returned service men and women; the names of the Board of Supervisors; the names of the Exemption Boards of Orange county; also a complete list of that loyal body of men and women who went from Orange county to take up the cause of Freedom in the World War. The committee have arranged to make 1000 gallons of coffee on that date so that each and every person present may have a cup. There will also be 500 gallons of lemonade, 100 lobby, 44x120 feet. At the top of the T will be located the kitchens and grill room and dining room. First and second floors will be of reinforced concrete. Estimated cost o the project is $150,000. Stockholders in the hotel company are prominent business men of Santa Ana, including A. J. Cruikshank, George B. Shattuck and W. A. Huff. TO BOYCOTT U. S. A London correspondent says: The following does not come from an official source. I cannot prove its truth. It is sure to be denied. It is with equal certainty true. Here it is: A scheme has been arranged—quite officially—among the governments of Great Britain, France, Italy and Germany, according to which all necessities in Germany for both raw materials and especially manufactured goods shall be supplied by imports from the other three countries. They are to buy everything they need from either English, French or Italian houses. Just how the payment is to be guaranteed my informant did not know, but there is a fund of more than $100,000,000 provided by the British government and mentioned in Prime Minister Lloyd George's last speech, which is to be used to prevent loss to the British merchants. Unofficial instructions to merchants and manufacturers in the three Allied countries go still farther. They are to stop importing so far as possible from the United States and neutral nations and to place orders—even at higher prices—in the other two countries. For instance, clothing manufacturers who have been buying silks in the United States are advised to place such orders in Italy. ANAHEIM GAZETTE WALNUT YIELD IS HEAVIEST IN HISTORY GROWERS' ASSOCIATION EXPERT REPORTS BIG PROSPECTS FOR THE ORCHARDISTS Seventy-Seven Thousand Acres in Southern California will Yield a Crop Worth $15,000,000.—First Picking at San Juan Capistrano. Forty-six million pounds of walnuts is the estimate placed upon this year's crop by W. T. Webber, secretary of the California Walnut Growers' association, who has just completed an exhaustive survey of walnut-growing districts to arrive at a conservative estimate of the 1919 production. Prices on this year's crop will not be given until October 1, but it is believed the value of the walnuts which are soon to be harvested will range between $13,000,000 and $15,000,000. The 46,000,000-pound harvest in prospect is the largest in the history of the industry. The yield in 1918 was 39,000,000 pounds and in 1917 it was 32,000,000 pounds. There are now 77,000 acres of walnuts in the state, and the bountiful yield of the present season is due in a degree to the fact that approximate-25,000 acres of new groves are coming. Percentage of number two in this year's crop, the association fully expects that the season's opening price on this grade of walnuts will show a considerable wider variance with that of number ones than ever before. In fact it is expected, Mr. Webber says, that the price which will be placed upon number twos will be so comparatively low as to greatly stimulate their sale. Practically the entire increase in production this year will be of the budded variety, which fortunately will be of the usual fine size, as most of the plantings within the last ten years have been buds, and these young trees produce the largest nuts. The walnut trees this year were fully a month late in putting on their foliage and setting the crop, but the development of the nuts is not more than ten days later than usual. Each of the twenty-six local packing associations affiliated with the California Walnut Growers' association has this season either built an entirely new packing house or modeled the old one so it will have sufficient capacity to handle the walnuts harvested by its grower-members as rapidly as they can be delivered, even at the height of the harvest. Walnut picking will begin in most sections of the nut-growing counties of Southern California about Sept. 20, while shipping will begin in earnest the first week of October; although some districts—notably San Juan Capistrano—will start harvesting the crop between the 10th and 15th of September and will have the first shipments out the last week in September. STEIN CASE DISMISSED its attention to the Kenyon-Anderson measures providing for the licensing of meat packers, and their separation from the production of other foodstuffs, which is now being given daily hearings. And They Say Many Santa Anans are wondering how they are going to straighten out the bumps in the pavement on Main street. The P. E. tracks just about monopolize the roadbed and the intervening spaces are just about shot to pieces. There is no danger of autoists breaking the speed limit upon this thoroughfare. And then as you journey along in the fair city you halt at Fourth street to allow a long string of freight cars to go by. Seems as though the county seat town has been handed a lemon. You can see young society gents standing around looking sad and forlorn and are being joshed for being slow as icewagons, deficient in that condiment commonly called pep, thereby finding themselves asleep at the switch, all because a good looking Oklahoma came to town and after a brief romance and whirlwind courtship carried away one of the young society belles as a life mate. May the newly weds ever be happy and prosperous. Quite a number of citizens are somewhat confused over the forthcoming bond election to raise $75,000 for park purposes. Two sites have come prominently before the people. According to law, it cannot be designated in the notice calling the election where the park is to be located. Should the bonds carry, it then devolves upon them. are soon to be harvested will range between $13,000,000 and $15,000,000. The 46,000,000-pound harvest in prospect is the largest in the history of the industry. The yield in 1918 was 39,000,000 pounds and in 1917 it was 32,000,000 pounds. There are now 77,000 acres of walnuts in the state, and the bountiful yield of the present season is due in a degree to the fact that approximately 2500 acres of new groves are committing bearing each year, but more than any other thing it is due to intelligent cultural methods. Confronted by a steady increase in the cost of labor and supplies used in the cultivation and harvest of walnuts, Southern California ranchers have, during the past two years, resorted to the most scientific methods of culture in order to make their groves increase the yield sufficient to take care of at least a part of the heavy overhead expense. In discussing this phase of the situation Mr. Webber says: "It is almost impossible for one to realize the tremendous additional expense to which the walnut industry has been put this year for irrigation alone. "Where in normal times one or two irrigations are sufficient, this year from three to five applications of water have been necessary. As the rancher must take water when he can get it, and is generally obliged to irrigate day and night, the cost of water has not been his only serious problem. The cost of labor has been a serious item of expense because of the prevailing high wages all over the country. "I know of one good-sized grove where irrigation has been carried on almost continuously since January at a cost of $40 for water and $21 for labor each 24-hour day. "That this heavy additional expense was justified is proved in the small percentage of groves where irrigation water was not available. In these few groves the crop is much lighter than elsewhere, and the nuts in some cases are almost entirely No. 2s." No suggestion that has been offered by state or government experiment station experts or by members of the field department of the California Waltner Grove Association. Walnut picking will begin in most sections of the nut-growing counties of Southern California about Sept. 20, while shipping will begin in earnest—the first week of October; although some districts—notably San Juan Capistrano—will start harvesting the crop between the 10th and 15th of September and will have the first shipments out the last week in September. STEIN CASE DISMISSED Evidence given in the justice court at the preliminary hearing of J. J. Stein, accused of embezzlement, was held insufficient to hold him to answer and the case was dismissed. The complainant, G. A. Waterman, owner of a general store at Richfield, was unable to give testimony sufficient to convince Justice Cox that Stein was guilty of the charge against him, embezzling $300 from the store. It was indicated by the testimony that Waterman and Stein had entered into a verbal agreement as to the latter's status in the Richfield business and that the $300 which Stein was alleged to have misappropriated was taken by him merely as compensation for his services. Deputy District Attorneys Menton and Nelson handled the case for the people and M. B. Wellington of the firm of Bishop and Wellington, appeared for the defense. President Wilson's belated suggestion of having Lodge and Knox represent the United States in the formulation of a peace treaty is such a good one that the wonder is he never thought of it before. COMMITTEE IN FAVOR OF CLOTHING CONTROL Will Report Bill Giving Full Authority to President to Stop Profiteering. Hearing before the House Committee on Agriculture on various phases of the high cost of living have progressed to the point where Chairman Haugen authorizes the statement that the committee is ready to report to the House a comprehensive cold-storage regulation measure, and the amendments to the Lever food control law which were recently requested. QUITE a number of citizens are somewhat confused over the forthcoming bond election to raise $75,000 for park purposes. Two sites have come prominently before the people. According to law, it cannot be designated in the notice calling the election where the park is to be located. Should the bonds carry, it then devolves upon the trustees to name the site. Options have been taken upon the library site and these have been placed in possession of the board of trustees. Option upon the North Lemon street site have also been secured and are ready to be turned over to the trustees. Of course only one site can be accepted. Sunday evening two men living in the eastern part of town so far forgot themselves as to indulge in a fight. The woman of the house rushed into the street, crying "Fight, Fight!" Another neighbor woman hearing the commotion and understanding the outcry to be "Fire," sent in an alarm. The fire truck burned up the pavement in response to the call, but upon arrival at the scene found everything quiet and serene. The moral to this is: when two men want to fight let them alone and later call the ambulance, if necessary. Every evening two large trucks with trailers are seen going south laden with heavily hooped barrels on their way, some say, to relieve the drout in a southern zone, or maybe the containers are used for ballast in outgoing deep sea vessels. Just what the contents are is puzzling some people who see the motors whiz by, but the opinion prevails that the country is not totally arid. One-half of one percent? Two bold burglaries were committed here during the past week. Load up the family shotgun. HAND GRENADES AS SAVINGS BANKS Banks of the Twelfth Federal Reserve District have ordered 60,000 hard grenades which were ready for shipment to the American Expeditionary Forces when the armistice was signed and which have been turned over to the Treasury Department for use. "That this heavy additional expense was justified is proved in the small percentage of groves where irrigation water was not available. In these few groves the crop is much lighter than elsewhere, and the nuts in some cases are almost entirely No. 2s." No suggestion that has been offered by state or government experiment station experts or by members of the field department of the California Walnut Growers' association, looking toward the production of quality as well as quantity, has been overlooked by the walnut growers. They have dusted for the eradication of aphis and codlin worm, and have in most instances resorted to liberal irrigation to offset the shortage in rainfall, the result being that unless an unexpected spell of extreme heat should strike the groves the ranchers are going to harvest a world-beating crop. Blight has not been generally prevalent during the present growing season, and the June drop was not serious. Mr. Webber states that market conditions are very satisfactory. Within the past ninety days the California Walnut Growers' association has been offered much business which it felt compelled to decline because its estimated output of number one soft shells and budded walnuts has long since been contracted for. Notwithstanding the heavier probable tonnage, the demand seems materially greater than the supply, especially for the number one soft shells, it is said. Because of the unusually high per- Hearing before the House Committee on Agriculture on various phases of the high cost of living have progressed to the point where Chairman Haugen authorizes the statement that the committee is ready to report to the House a comprehensive cold-storage regulation measure, and the amendments to the Lever food control law which were recently requested by Attorney General Palmer. Mr. Haugen said: "My committee, I believe, is almost unanimously in favor of amendments to the Lever food control law which will give to the President the same control over the hoarding of clothing, and profiteering in clothing, that he has previously had over food. We will also recommend to the House an amendment providing the penalty of fine and imprisonment requested by the Department of Justice. "We have had long hearings on the cold storage question, and everyone, including the packers and cold storage operators, seems to be satisfied with the proposal to limit the period of food storage to twelve months, with quarterly reports to the government of the amount of food in cold storage. These reports, to be made every three months, would permit the public to know how much food material is on hand at all times, and permit them to judge as to the question of shortage. The bill which we are about to report will include these provisions, and will also provide that all goods entering cold storage must be marked with the date of receipt." Following the completion of these two measures, the committee will turn HAND GRENADES AS SAVINGS BANKS Banks of the Twelfth Federal Reserve District have ordered 60,000 hard grenades which were ready for shipment to the American Expeditionary Forces when the armistice was signed and which have been turned over to the Treasury Department for use as savings banks to stimulate thrift. The only alteration made in the hand grenades to convert them into savings banks was the removal of the TNT charge and the cutting of a slot as a coin way. The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, which is handling the distribution of the grenades to the banks and trust companies, anticipates orders aggregating 100,000 of the war souvenirs. Robert E. Smith, director of the War Loan organization for the Twelfth Federal Reserve District, said "These American-made hand grenades constitute one of the best souvenirs of the war one could possibly get. Some months ago an eastern firm managed to get some of them and disposed of them readily at one dollar each. It is planned to distribute the grease banks to the public through banks and trust companies exclusively. The only conditions imposed by the Treasury Department are that to gain ownership of a grenade: Persons 1 to 12 years of age must purchase one $5 War Savings Stamp; Persons 12 to 18 must purchase it loast two $5 War Savings Stamps; School Days Soon SCHOOL Days are near, when boys will meet over their work in place of play. And the proper clothes for school wear for boys will be found here. School Boy Suits We can save you time and money in your boys wearing apparel. Boys School Suits $8, $10, $12, $15, $16. The better grades are all wool and are made with double seat, double knee and double elbow. Boys Corduroy Pants, double seat, heavy weight, $3. Boys Blouses in light colors, black, blue, chambray and khaki. Boys Not-a-Seam Stockings, colors absolutely fast black, 40c, 50c, 60c, according to size. Boys Hats $1, $1.50. Caps $1, $1.50 JACKSON'S MEN'S WEAR SHOP. Persons over 18 years must buy either one $100 or one $1000 Treasury Savings Certificate which is the big brother to the War Savings Stamp bearing the same four per cent interest compounded quarterly and running for five years. "Naturally the supply of grenades is limited," said Director Smith. "Orders for them will be filled in the order received and after the supply is exhausted, no more will be manufactured. Eastern banks and trust companies have asked for hundreds of thousands of them. In all the War Department had only 15,000,000." The grenades are expected to arrive in San Francisco within thirty days. S. C. EDISON COMPANY ADOPTS PENSION SYSTEM Employees on Reaching Certain Age to be on Retired List. Southern California Edison Company employees and the employees of its subsidiary companies will be pensioned upon reaching the age limit, after a prescribed period of continuous service. Those who have qualified by service may be granted a disability benefit, should physical misfortune fall before they reach the retiring age. W. L. Deimling, Orange county manager for the company, attended a meeting of district managers in Los Angeles Friday, at which the plan was explained. A contract prepared under the direction of President W. A. Brackenridge and approved by the board of directors of the company I n July was authorized by the State Railroad Commission at San Francisco on August 27. This male employees advances to sixty-five years, and that of females to sixty yeors. The monthly pension allowance is based upon the average monthly compensation during the five years at which it was the greatest, two per cent of the monthly wage being multiplied by the years in service, applicable to all salaries of $200 per month or less. The percentage allowed to those receiving higher salaries decreases in blocks as the compensation increases over $200 per month. A disability benefit is provided for employees who have been in the service twenty years and are disabled in any manner which disqualifies for service, the company, the board of directors or upon the approval of the president of the finance committs. Some latitude is given the management to grant disability benefits to those who have not served the full twenty years, whose claims are meritorious. In addition to the employees of the Southern California Edison Company, the parent organization, employees of the following subsidiary companies are included in the pension plan, employment with any of which counts as continuity of employment: The Mount Whitney Power & Electric Company, the Santa Barbara Gas & electric Company, the San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad Company, the Huntington Lake Hotel Company, and the Santa Barbara & Suburban Railway Company. WILSON IS COMING It is now definitely settled that President Wilson will make a flying visit to the Pacific coast in an effort to Twelfth Federal Reserve ordered 60,000 hand American Expeditionary force armistice was signed been turned over to department for use to stimulate thrift. The made in the hand greed them into savings removal of the TNT Reserve Bank of San Francisco is handling the disgrades to the banks companies, anticipates Coying 100,000 of the war Robert E. Smith, director of an organization for the Reserve District, said non-made hand grenades of the best souvenirs could possibly get. Go an eastern firm made of them and disposed at one dollar each. to distribute the great public through banks manies exclusively. The imposed by the Treaty are that to gain own-made: 12 years of age must be 55 War Savings Stamps; 18 must purchase it War Savings Stamps; W. L. Deimling, Orange county manager for the company, attended a meeting of district managers in Los Angeles Friday, at which the plan was explained. A contract prepared under the direction of President W. A. Brackenridge and approved by the board of directors of the company 1 July was authorized by the State Railroad Commission at San Francisco on August 27. This establishes the principle of pension as a legal right to those who are qualified by service and age, and not as a charity. In its decision, the Railroad Commission says: "We consider it a wise move on the part of utilities of the state to provide for employees in old age when their earning power is lessened; therefore, we approve your plan as a proper expenditure." The Edison pension plan is worked out on very broad and generous lines, after a careful study of those in operation by the large corporations of the country, one of the important features being that the granting of this benefit is not left to discretion, but is given the force and effect of a contract and is collectible at law by those who have earned it. Male employees reach the retiring age at sixty years and female employees at fifty-five year, on the completion of twenty years continuous service. Men who are sixtp-one years of age and women who are fifty-six can be retired after nineteen years of service, the period of service decreasing to fifteen years of service as age of Company, the San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad Company, the Huntington Lake Hotel Company, and the Santa Barbara & Suburban Railway Company. WILSON IS COMING It is now definitely settled that President Wilson will make a flying visit to the Pacific coast in an effort to stimulate support for the League of Nations covenant. He will be in Los Angeles Saturday, September 20, making an address at Shrine Auditorium, and will remain over Sunday at the Angel city. Thursday night or Friday morning he will pass through here on the way to San Diego, returning to Los Angeles either Friday night or Saturday morning. No stops will be made between the two cities. Senator Johnson will follow Wilson to California and, it is announced, will make a number of speeches in answer to the President's plea for support of his league of nations scheme. Tomato canning operations are in full swing at the Buena Park plant of the Campbell Canning company, a Los Angeles concern, which recently secured the plant formerly used for milk condensing. The Campbell concern, which is in charge of Superintendent Bryant, is handling tomatoes exclusively. Thirteen new members were taken in by the Elks at their meeting Wednesday night. The lodge is rapidly growing.