anaheim-gazette 1919-09-25

PRICES OF FOOD CONTINUE TO ADVANCE PIRATES AND PROFITEERS GRADUALLY TURNING THE SCREWS A LITTLE TIGHTER Laugh at the Efforts of the People to Get Relief, and Meet Every Move of Government with Another ADVANCE Following announcement by the bureau of statistics of the Department of Labor that the retail price of food in the United States had increased 1 per cent in August over prices in July, despite the strenuous campaign of the government to reduce it. Asst. Atty-Gen. Ames appealed to Congress to hasten enactment of the amendments to the Food Control Act. "Will you pardon me," Mr. Ames wrote in a letter to Representative Haugen, chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, "for calling your attention to the importance of early action on the amendments to the Food Control Act. If the matter of rents in the District of Columbia is likely to cause material delay, is there not some way by which it can be separated from the other amendments so that earlier action upon them may be of twenty-two articles of food combined increased 91 per cent. Articles increasing 100 per cent or over are as follows: Ham, 100 per cent; bacon, 105 per cent; pork chops, 115 per cent; cornmeal, 120 per cent; flour, 124 per cent, and potatoes 161 per cent. SANTA ANA P. O. CLERKS EATING ARMY BACON Wasn't as Bad as Reported to be Judging by Looks. Twenty-three cases of army food ordered by employees of the Santa Ana post office for their personal use arrived Thursday, and were distributed among the buyers. This is the first order of army food ordered through the Santa Ana post office to be delivered. The clerks and carriers are quite well satisfied with their purchases. One of the 12-pound cans of bacon was cut open at the post office Thursday, just to see what the bacon looked like. The men had been told that the bacon was so fat and salty that it was not good quality bacon. No effort was made at that time to test the saltiness of the product, but the buyers were well satisfied with the looks of it. Two of the three slabs in the can were about as thick as the bacon one ordinarily buys in the store. One slab was a good deal thicker than the ordinary slab, but at that it had two good streaks of lean in it. The bacon cost about 37 cents laid down here. L. H. Harvey, superintendent of malls, who was custodian of the ship- FIGHTING TO PRIZE OUT Beachites Oppose Factory's Seven After a lengthy Board of Supervisory county, on the appraisal Alamitos Sugar Company for a $150,000 factory to the ocean to carry off waste vessels decided to put matters to two ex-counties, for investigation at an adjourned meeting October 1. The names are withheld. It was strongly in property owners' opinion that were animated by company would be vacant real estate testants. This was Property owners said a detriment to their near the ocean.. Suggested the sugar mer Judge Bordwee. W. A. Bonynge, Alamitos Bay Company waters discharged very likely be carried mitos Bay and departs lands. Dr. G.-E. The Alamitos Bay citation, was insisted should be done that property of the per Alamitos Bay. He suggested that should be discharge in Orange county. "Will you pardon me," Mr. Ames wrote in a letter to Representative Haugen, chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, "for calling your attention to the importance of early action on the amendments to the Food Control Act. If the matter of rents in the District of Columbia is likely to cause material delay, is there not some way by which it can be separated from the other amendments so that earlier action upon them may be taken? "Reports continue coming to this department indicating profiteering in shoes and other articles of wearing apparel. Pending the passage of the amendments, the department is powerless to deal effectively with these reports. "We are also just advised that the Holly Sugar Corporation of California is placing the new crop of beet sugar on the market at $11.50 per hundred against $9, which is the prevailing price for the old crop. This being a case of individual action and the new crop not being controlled by the sugar equalization board, the department cannot take effective action in the matter until the amendments are passed. "The matters mentioned in this letter are mere instances in illustration of the general argument made to your committee by the Attorney-General, and illustrate the importance of action as soon as the committee can find it possible to act." Figures from the Department of Labor showing the 1 per cent price increase in August over July, it was announced, makes the total cost of the twenty-two articles of food, upon which this comparison is based the highest of record. The articles which increased in price were eggs and rice, 6 per cent each; Crisco, potatoes, and raisins, 4 per cent each; fresh and evaporated milk, coffee and prunes, 3 per cent each; pork chops, butter, cornmeal, rolled oats, navy beans and sugar, 2 per cent each; canned salmon, oleomargarine, cheese, bread, macaroni and oranges, 1 per cent each. Ham, nut margarine and tea increased less than five-tenths of 1 per cent. The articles which declined in price were sirloin steak, round steak and rib roast, 3 per cent each; chuck roast, 4 per cent and plate beef, 5 per cent. L. H. Harvey, superintendent of malls, who was custodian of the shipment, said that he was particularly well pleased with the prices on canned peas and corn. He figures that the peas cost nine cents, while canned peas cost locally 16 cents, and in weight the government can weigh two ounces more than a can of peas he bought at a local store. For some reason the order for rice and canned cherries did not arrive. About $450 worth of army food has been ordered through the local post office. Hardly any order has come in in the last two weeks. Yesterday while in Los Angeles Postmaster Overshiner made inquiry to see if he could find out why the orders sent from here had not been delivered. He found that a big shipment of Southern California orders had that day arrived in Los Angeles and would be distributed at once. The twenty three cases that arrived here for the postal clerks and carriers was a part of the shipment that had just arrived in Los Angeles. Postmaster Overshiner has received no word to indicate that Santa Ana is to be designated at one of the points at which Uncle San is to conduct sales of new and reclaimed goods, other than food.—Register. GOING AFTER DODGERS The income tax dodger in Southern California will not only have to be artful, but persistently artful if he escapes collection. He is going to be looked up. A statement to that effect comes from the office of Collector Carter, Los Angeles, as follows: "How Uncle Sam intends going after the income tax in the local district was exemplified yesterday at the office of Collector Carter by the arrival of copies of the great register of voters in Los Angeles city and county. Similar lists, covering the counties of San Luis Obispo, Santa waters discharged very likely be carried mitos Bay and dep lands. Dr. G.-E. the Alamitos Bay citation, was insisted should be done the property of the pen Alamitos Bay. He suggested that should be discharge in Orange county, settling basins near Phil A. Stanton, Bay City Improv who resides at Se discharge from tha injure the bathing Beach, and insisted method of disposal by the company...from South Pasadena the property owner age would occur, a benefits would be Bay, he thought he granting of the frac On behalf of the Company, C. A. and William C. Plained the character to be placed in tha board the water and settled; and tha letterious nature wi tho pipe. All organ lime would be removed and used for fertil longing to the co was done, they sai be settled in basi moved, so that tha to the ocean would as drinking water" AMERICAN BUFFET NO For a time it look were destined to va The few roaming fewer year by ye herds in captivity Then the government in hand and made milk, coffee and prunes, 3 per cent each; pork chops, butter, cornmeal, rolled oats, navy beans and sugar, 2 per cent each; canned salmon, oleomargarine, cheese, bread, macaroni and oranges, 1 per cent each. Ham, nut margarine and tea increased less than five-tenths of 1 per cent. The articles which declined in price were sirloin steak, round steak and rib roast, 3 per cent each; chuck roast, 4 per cent and plate beef, 5 per cent. Other articles which declined are onions, 20 per cent, cabbage 15 per cent; lamb, 5 per cent; bacon, flour, cornflakes, baked beans, canned corn, canned peas and canned tomatoes, 1 per cent each. Hens, cream of wheat and bananas declined less than five-tenths of 1 per cent and the price of lard was the same in August as in July. The price of food since August 1918, the figures further show, has increased 12 per cent in the United States. Prunes increased 60 per cent, coffee 59 per cent; onions 42 per cent; potatoes 28 per cent; lard, 27 per cent; cheese, 26 per cent; butter, and sugar 19 per cent each; raisins, 18 per cent; ham 17 per cent; rice 16 per cent; fresh milk, 14 per cent; eggs 12 per cent; pork chops, 11 per cent; flour 9 per cent; hens 8 per cent; bacon, canned salmon and tea, 7 per cent; bread 2 per cent; and sirloin steak, 1 per cent. Navy beans declined 16 per cent; plate beef 11 per cent; chuck roast 6 per cent; cornmeal, 3 per cent and rib roast an dlamb 1 per cent. Round steak decreased less than 5-10 of 1 per cent. During the six-year period, August, 1913 to August, 1919, the retail price escapes collection. He is going to be looked up. A statement to that effect comes from the office of Collector Carter, Los Angeles, as follows: "How Uncle Sam intends going after the income tax in the local district was exemplified yesterday at the office of Collector Carter by the arrival of copies of the great register of voters in Los Angeles city and county. Similar lists, covering the counties of San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Kern, Orange, Riverside, Imperial, San Bernardino and San Diego will be secured at the various county seats. "These registers contain hundreds of thousands of names and every man who is not on the income tax list will be looked up. In the smaller communities where every man knows the standing of his neighbor, these lists are expected to be invaluable." HOW MUCH GRAIN TO FEED Specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture advise poultry keepers to feed about 1 quart of scratch grain and an equal weight of mash (about 1½ quarts) daily to 13 hens of the general purpose breeds, such as the Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Island Reds or Wyandottes, or about 16 hens of the smaller or egg breed. This would be about 7½ pounds each of scratch grains and of mash daily to 100 Leghorns and about 9½ pounds each to 100 general purpose fowls. 1 hens have free range or large yard containing green feed a general purpose hen will eat about 75 pounds of feed in a year, while a Leghorn will consume about 55 pounds in addition to the green stuff which she eats." FIGHTING TO PREVENT OUTLET TO OCEAN Beachites Oppose Los Alamitos Sugar Factory's Sewer Proposal. After a lengthy hearing before the Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles county, on the application of the Los Alamitos Sugar Company for a franchise for a $150,000 pipe line from the factory to the ocean at Alamitos Bay, to carry off waste water, the Supervisors decided to present the entire matter to two experts, now in the county, for investigation, and to report at an adjourned meeting of the board October 1. The names of the experts are withheld. It was strongly intimated that many property owners opposing the pipe line were animated by hope that the sugar company would be induced to purchase vacant real estate owner by the protestants. This was vigorously denied. Property owners say the line will be a detriment to their property located near the ocean. Sam M. Haskins represented the sugar company and former Judge Bordwell the protestants. W. A. Bonynge, president of the Alamitos Bay Company, declared waste waters discharged into the ocean would very likely be carried back into Alamitos Bay and deposited on the tide lands. Dr. G.-E. Pryor, president of the Alamitos Bay Improvement Association, was insistent that nothing should be done that would injure the property of the people who reside at Alamitos Bay. He suggested that the waste waters should be discharged into the ocean in Orange county, or else deposited in citrus growers in general have come to the realization that an adequate supply of readily decayable organic matter added to the soil at periodic intervals is of paramount importance in maintaining the trees in a healthy and thrifty conditions, writes Robert W. Hodgson in the Cultivator. There are about three sources of active organic matter available to citrus growers at the present time, animal manures, bean straw and alfalfa hay, and the green manure or cover crop. The choice of the source which the individual citrus grower makes will depend naturally upon a number of factors. In some citrus sections bean straw and alfalfa are practically unavailable or cost too much to ship in, while in others the cost of transportation is practically nothing. In practically all sections manure has now reached an almost prohibitive citrus grower has many things to consider. Where the cover crop is possible, however, we have considerable data to show that its use furnishes the cheapest and most efficient method of soil building in our citrus orchards. Its use is especially to be advised in young orchards, and particularly where soil conditions at the time of planting are not especially favorable. It seems possible by the judicious use of cover crops, both winter and summer, to build up the soil in a young orchard at the same time the orchard is being developed. The emphasis has largely been placed on the winter cover crop on account of the natural rainfall occurring in that season of the year, and accordingly the last eight or ten years have seen the development and rapid spread of the practice of using winter cover crops in our citrus orchards. At one time or another a large number of different crops have been tried, but in the competition sour, or bitter, clover, Melilotus indica, has gradually demonstrated its superiority until at the present time it constitutes the most important winter green manure crop grow in Southern California. Second in importance ranks common vetch, Vicia sativa, closely followed by Canada peas, both of which, however, have serious drawbacks preventing their more extensive use, in that they are readily attacked by aphis and vetch, the latter also serving as a host plant for the cottony mold fungus. For these reasons the use of vetch and Canada peas as green manure crops has been decreasing year by year, although on certain of the more open and porous soils... waters discharged into the ocean would very likely be carried back into Alamitos Bay and deposited on the tidelands. Dr. G.E. Pryor, president of the Alamitos Bay Improvement Association, was insistent that nothing should be done that would injure the property of the people who reside at Alamitos Bay. He suggested that the waste waters should be discharged into the ocean in Orange county, or else deposited in settling basins near the sugar plant. Phil A. Stanton, president of the Bay City Improvement Company, who resides at Seal Beach, said the discharge from the pipe line would injure the bathing privileges at Seal Beach, and insisted that some other method of disposal should be found by the company. Henry A. Perkins, from South Pasadena, representing the property owners, was afraid damage would occur, and inasmuch as no benefits would be given to Alamitos Bay, he thought best to oppose the granting of the franchise. On behalf of the Alamitos Sugar Company, C.A. Hamilton, manager and William C. Poe, engineer, explained the character of the discharge to be placed in the pipe. Both assured the board the water would be clarified and settled, and that nothing of a deleterious nature would be placed in the pipe. All organic matter, and all lime would be removed from the water and used for fertilizer on lands belonging to the company. After this was done, they said, the water would be settled in basins and all dirt removed, so that the fluid to be carried to the ocean would be almost as pure as drinking water. AMERICAN BUFFALO NOW ON INCREASE For a time it looked as if the buffalo were destined to vanish from America. The few roaming wild were growing fewer year by year, and the small herds in captivity were decreasing. Then the government took the matter in hand and made a deliberate effort to save the species from extermination. The first buffalo census was taken in 1889, and at that time only about 500 of the animals were discoverable in the United States. Now, happily, the number is more than 3,000. About two-thirds of these are owned by individuals, but the government owns eight herds, six of them under the direct control of the department of agriculture. The largest of the eight is that one in Yellowstone Park which contains about 450 buffalo. The Smithsonian Institution has a herd of eighteen at Washington, D.C. Recently provision has been made for lending government animals to municipalities or institutions, or changing them. This is because of a surplus of males in some of the government herds. It is hoped that the loan or exchange may result in a greater increase in numbers in the next few years. Without the American bison our plains could hardly have been traversed, our West won. Not only is a debt due this race, so wastefully handled for so many years, but by preserving it one of the most interesting of historical monuments is kept for posterity. The commercial possibilities in large herds of buffalo are enormous, needless to say, so that there is every reason in the world why our native bison should be preserved. Although most citrus growers will readily admit that the addition of organic matter and nitrogen to the soil, such as is accomplished through the use of a green manure crop, especially if the cover crop be handled properly, oftentimes the question is brought up of just how great is the value received from their use. To answer this question among others, some 12 years ago the citrus experiment station began a series of experiments on the use of cover crops, the results of which are summarized in Bulletin 292 of the agricultural experiment station, by W.M. Mertz, issued only last year. This bulletin constitutes one of the most valuable publications ever put out from the citrus experiment station, and every orchardist would do well to have a copy which may be obtained by writing to Berkeley or Riverside. In this bulletin Mr. Mertz, who until recently was a member of the citrus experiment station staff, and who had charge of the cover crop experiments for a number of years, shows by actual measurements that at the end of ten years there is a vast difference in yield and quality of fruit on trees in the plots planted to green manure crops and those where winter cover crops were not grown, although given the same care in other respects. Moreover, there is a marked difference in size of trees and in general health in favor of the legume green manure plots. In fact the trees on the plots where legume green manures have been annually turned under were found to be superior in every way to those similarly fertilized where no leguminous green manure had been used. Green For a time it looked as if the buffalo were destined to vanish from America. The few roaming wild were growing fewer year by year, and the small herds in captivity were decreasing. Then the government took the matter in hand and made a deliberate effort preserving it one of the most interesting of historical monuments is kept for posterity. The commercial possibilities in large herds of buffalo are enormous, needless to say, so that there is every reason in the world why our native bison should be preserved. WHERE WE GET OFF 6 VOTES LEAGUE OF NATIONS Business-like Suits for business men THE man of affairs we call him; the man whose clothes are an index to his position. Hart Schaffner & Marx make these suits. They are tailored in the manner of the best custom work; no padding to add heat and weight; no interlinings; no surplus material anywhere. Finest fabrics; models to fit all men perfectly F.A. Yungbluth "By All Means Get a Fit." Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes Anaheim Union Water Company "Anaheim Union Water Company RUN NO. 6 Starts Sept. 20,'19 100 inches per hour per share. All rented stock must be transferred in office before run starts" legume green manures was found to be as follows: potatoes, 39 per cent; corn, 45 per cent; cabbage, 44 per cent; sugar beets, 43 per cent; sorghum, 25 per cent, and Sudan grass, 18 per cent. The $30 or $40 worth of nitrogen added to the soil, however, does not represent the total value of the incorporation of legume green manures in the soil. Of very considerable importance is the addition of the organic matter, entirely aside from its high nitrogen content. The necessity of adding organic matter to our soils to replenish that lost through oxidation and other agencies has been urged for years. A text frequently used at farmers' institutes and fruit growers' conventions by Professor G. W. Shaw used to be "With all your getting, get humus." It would have been more nearly correct had he stated "get organic matter," for we are now convinced that it is the active organic matter which is of the greatest value to our soils. Not only does this active organic matter add to our humus content and thus improve the physical condition of the soil, but it acts as a source of food for the bacterial flora and provides optimum conditions for their activity. In addition, it plays the very important part of setting free penditure for the main hydroplane base at North Island, the main base at San Diego, to be developed by erection of new buildings to cost $3,800,-000. The naval training station at San Diego, contingent upon the city furnishing the land, is to be accorded $3,-000,000 for its upbuilding. ROYAL SPLENDOR MARKS PRESIDENTIAL JUNKETS Palatial and Pretentious Are Trappings Surrounding His Comings and Goings. The President's train, on which he is touring the country, for the purpose, in part, of dealing with the high cost of living is described by admiring chronicles as the most "pretentious" train that has left the Union Station in Washington for many years. This is in harmony with the palatial character of the George Washington on which the President went to Europe and in keeping with the fact that the American peace mission at Paris consisted of 1,300 persons and had an expense account which has dazed Congress. Likewise, it is in consonance with the fact the railroads of the country are now in control of NAVAL EXPENDITURES IN SOUTHLAND Word that a $15,000,000 plan has been completed by army and navy experts for the first steps toward adequate protection of the Southern California coast and is ready for presentation to congress, has been received in Los Angeles. Five million dollars of this sum is proposed to be spent upon the development of a submarine base in the outer Los Angeles harbor. The program includes a half million dollar expenditure at the March Field, near Riverside, for the addition of more lands and the construction of a number of new buildings; a naval hospital for San Diego; a $4,300,000 ex- Billy Green, of La Habra, a student at the Fullerton High School, sustained painful, but not dangerous injuries while returning to his home from Fullerton on his motorcycle. A truck, said to belong to a Brawley transfer company, was left standing on the highway about one mile this side of La Habra, and it is claimed there was no light on the truck. Green came bowling along and collided with the truck the impact throwing him some distance and rendering him unconscious. He was picked up by a passing autoist and brought to the hospital at Fullerton, the report being circulated that he was fatally injured. It was found that he sustained a severe cut on the chin and was bruised about the body, but his injuries are not dangerous. Anaheim Gazette, per year, $1.50, payable in advance.