anaheim-gazette 1919-10-02

EDEN SUGGESTS CO-OPERATION OF COUNTIES THE BEST METHOD OF FIGHTING VICIOUS LEGISLATION, HE TELLS ASSOCIATED CHAMBERS Reports on Telephone Conference Before Railroad Commission.—Attorney General Says We Have No Right to Form Mutual System. That the Chambers of Commerce and municipalities of the whole state of California should form a co-operative association of some character to protect the interests of the people against those of public utility corporations in rate hearings before the State Railroad Commission and bills before the state legislature, is the opinion of Assemblyman Walter Eden. The suggestion is made in his written report Wednesday night to the Associated Chambers of Commerce at Placentia, of the conference last week in San Francisco of the Railroad Commission with reference to plans for arranging a basis for adjustment of the present telephone rates. He makes reference to an attempt that would be a good place to initiate such an organization. The various Chambers of Commerce of the state might also co-operate in the matter, as the territory outside of the cities is as much, if not more, interested than the people of the cities, on account of the almost prohibitive rate in rural sections. "Without much, if any, help from an expert engineer, your attorneys will be able to make a fight against the abolition of the free toll areas of the county. That is purely a local proposition, and will depend wholly upon facts that can be produced at the hearing by the testimony of witnesses. "This matter of free tolls, I feel we can fight for with considerable hope of a successful conclusion, with light expenses. We made a successful fight for our free toll areas two years ago, and I believe that had the government not taken over the lines and abolished them we would still have them. "That fight was certainly worth while, as it saved thousands of dollars for the patrons of the telephone, ever for the short time. If we can get the commission to order Santa Ana, Orange, Tustin and Garden Grove to constitute what they call a 'primary rate area' and Anaheim, Fullerton and Placentia as another, we will have accomplished much. "I do not say that even with this result, the telephone rates will be just. I merely suggest that we can make that fight with small expense, and with much hope of success. It is to cause owners or in Southern California needless dollars up their step, warns the of Southern California. This is relative to mechanical devices which turn they whether to the right. Many owners of der the impression equip their machine chanical devices, so when such is posiIn fact, quite he ever an arm signal, Sta'e, can't be seen patent device is needed out. Thousands of incelved throughout the State on the qum mobile Club and'in official answer (as State Motor Vehicle Sacramento) is: have any mechanic on your closed car usual arm signal ca rear." It is unfortunate that this misapprehension in the mind now it should be stood, and thousand asved to the motor State Railroad Commission and Bills before the state legislature, is the opinion of Assemblyman Walter Eden. The suggestion is made in his written report Wednesday night to the Associated Chambers of Commerce at Placentia, of the conference last week in San Francisco of the Railroad Commission with reference to plans for arranging a basis for adjustment of the present telephone rates. He makes reference to an attempt on the part of certain interests to slip a bill through the last legislature that would have taken franchise control of public utilities out of the hands of city and county administrations and place them in the hands of the commission. This part of his report was amplified by an explanation by Secretary Metzgar to the effect that had it not been for the personal activity of Assemblyman Eden the bill would have been passed. Eden saw the "nigger in the woodpile" and immediately got busy, protests developing from many sections of the state, resulting in defeat of the bill in the senate. When Eden reported the condition, Chambers of Commerce got busy and caused protests to be sent in. "No representative was present at the conference from San Francisco or Los Angeles," says Eden in his report. "I wondered why and upon inquiry, learned that the commission has no jurisdiction over them." "It is significant, and we should guard our rights better outside these larger cities, in the legislature. I am reminded of a bill introduced in the last legislature, near the end of the session, and an attempt to jam it through in the haste attendant upon the closing days of the session, wherein the power to grant franchises was taken from the boards of supervisors, and city councils, and transferring it to the railroad commission. It was so drawn that San Francisco and Los Angeles were exempt from its provisions and all the members from those cities voted for the bill. I mention this merely as a suggestion of the advisability of the smaller cities and counties being ever on the alert in the legislature to block vicious legislation. "The telephone company, by its at-the commission to order Santa Ana, Orange, Tustin and Garden Grove to constitute what they call a 'primary rate area' and Anaheim, Fullerton and Placentia as another, we will have accomplished much. "I do not say that even with this result, the telephone rates will be just. I merely suggest that we can make that fight with small expense, and with much hope of success. It is unfortunate that our laws are so framed that every little while we are called upon to go a long way from home, and employ lawyers and engineers at heavy expense, in order to protect ourselves from unjust rates for various public services. But, too much is involved to stay away when we are notified that a rate hearing pends before the railroad commission, because if we do not appear and make a showing the commission will assume we are satisfied. "This constant source of expense upon our Chambers of Commerce to protect ourselves against exorbitant rates diverts funds which should go into a different channel—advertising our county. "Some of our citizens seem inclined to think that we should not make a fight before the commission to keep down the rates, but that we should depend solely upon the formation of a mutual telephone company of our own. That is all right, if we were sure we could form such a company. In my judgment, if we succeed in forming a mutual company it will be at the end of a lawsuit, and lawsuits have two sides and are always uncertain. "The attorney general is of the opinion we have no right to form such a company. I disagree with him and believe we have the legal right to form a strictly mutual company. I do not believe it wise to abandon our right to free tolls without a fight, and then, if we are defeated in court in our attempt to organize a mutual company, we have lost all, beyond recovery." MISUNDERSTOOD LAW The little word "or" in a clause of the new Motor Vehicle Act is liable that this misapprehenses in the mind now it should be stood, and thousand asved to the motor NEED 100,000 TRUFT TO FULLY That Many Americans Required in Tu Accepts View "One hundred troops will be necessary of our manpower under the League of N.S. Gale Lowrie, prosecution in the Unnati, in an interview. Capt. Lowrie has Constantinople, we charge of the Reddition tending relief to menia and Turkey to soldiers, several thaand is onhis way h "The necessity for he said, "arises outdition in that part Balkan question is the disposition of Arabia. The peace yet taken them up. The United States tish possessions. E withdraw her troop She has enough to Mesopotamia, to saiand Africa generally attempting to edge control of Syria. S potamia's oil resource financial losses of If we do no accohethe withdrawal of result in anti-Christ massacres. We haw power and must keep pulse of the entire maintain peace in tion, we shall have engulfment. On this expense will be g have divided inter spheres." "I have not ent It was so drawn that San Francisco and Los Angeles were exempt from its provisions and all the members from those cities voted for the bill. I mention this merely as a suggestion of the advisability of the smaller cities and counties being ever on the alert in the legislature to block vicious legislation. "The telephone company, by its attorney, stated to the commission its attitude in the question of rates. He informed us that the company would contend to have the Burleson rates retained, and in addition thereto, would ask permission to charge an installation fee, but did not state how much they would ask. "So we are confronted with a fight against rates fixed by the government at a time when its avowed policy was to curtail the use of the telephone. Mr. Shaw, attorney for the company, stated as much, and admitted that the policy had the desired effect." "I would suggest that insolving the calculations of a just rate for the company is concerned, based upon a physical valuation of the property, you can do very little contesting their demands without the employment of a competent engineer of your own. This will involve the expenditure of a much larger amount of money than your attorneys will cost you. Too much, in fact, for any one locality to expend. "It seems to me that the various municipalities and civic bodies of the state ought to organize and co-operate in making this fight, at least to the extent of having the services of an engineer." "I am informed that the Association of City Attorneys of the state will hold a meeting at Riverside in October, and ANAHEIM GAZETTE to cause owners of closed automobiles in Southern California thousands of needless dollars unless they watch their step, warns the Automobile Club of Southern California. This is relative to the installation of mechanical devices on cars to indicate which turn they are going to make, whether to the right or left. Many owners of closed cars are under the impression that they must equip their machines with such mechanical devices, says the Auto Club, when such is positively not the case. In fact, quite the contrary, for whenever an arm signal, as approved by the State, can’t be seen from the rear, no patent device is necessary, it is pointed out. Thousands of inquiries are being received throughout the southern part of the State on the question by the Automobile Club and in each instance the official answer (as confirmed by the State Motor Vehicle Department at Sacramento) is: "You don’t have to have any mechanical signalling device on your closed car or truck when the usual arm signal can be seen from the rear." It is unfortunate, say club officials, that this misapprehension should have arisen in the minds of motorists, but now it should be thoroughly understood, and thousands of dollars will be asved to the motoring public. NEED 100,000 TROOPS TO FULFILL MANDATORY That Many American Boys Will be Required in Turkey if Senate mind on the subject, but I think we ought to let this mandatory alone. Now that the war is over the European nations are already jealous of each other. Any government, no matter which it might be, would have troubles in governing the former possessions of the Turkish Empire. None of the European nations wants the other to take them, but they all want us to do so. At any rate, I am convinced that neither the mandatory nor the league as a whole will stop all future wars." "EGG SUBSTITUTES" FRAUDS The so-called egg substitutes which, under various trade names are being sold to housewives, will in no sense take the place of eggs in baking or cooking, say the specialists of the Bureau of Chemistry, United States Department of Agriculture. They have analyzed and made baking tests with most of the preparations which are claimed by manufacturers to do the work of eggs. These preparations are usually sold in small packages containing from 1 to 4 ounces and priced at from 10 to 35 cents a package. It is claimed that each package will take the place of from 12 to 48 eggs. If these preparations would take the place of or do the work of even 1 dozen eggs, their purchase would help to reduce the high cost of living, but unfortunately for those who are misled by the alluring claims on the labels or in advertisements, they do not do the work of eggs in baking or cooking. The average price paid by the con- LARGEST PICTURE EVER PAINTED BY MAN Canvas Depicting California Scenes Exhibited at Land Show. The beauties of every county from Siskiyou to the Sierras are reflected in the biggest canvas of California ever painted. The canvas is eight hundred feet long and twenty feet high. It is the work of famous artists and represents the scenes assembled from four thousand photographs gathered by the Home Industry League, through the courtesy of the State press and of different organizations of California. The canvas is to be employed at the California Industries and Land Show to be presented at the Exposition Auditorium, San Francisco, October 4 to 19, and is a true expression of California scenery. From the Sierras to the ocean, through the valleys, showing stream, river, forest, field, the picture extends to the semi-tropics of Los Angeles, Riverside and other southern counties to the cotton fields of Imperial. Stars that twinkle in the realm of the poultry world are to invade San Francisco during October. They are to be prize-winners—chicks of every color and of every size. Every one of them native Californians. And they are to show Californians the breeds and quality of the poultry possible in the State at the Land Show. The exhibitors will be represented from all parts of the State and the display will be in charge of Robert V. that this misapprehension should have arisen in the minds of motorists, but now it should be thoroughly understood, and thousands of dollars will be asved to the motoring public. NEED 100,000 TROOPS TO FULFILL MANDATORY That Many American Boys Will be Required in Turkey if Senate Accepts Views of Wilson. "One hundred thousand American troops will be necessary to the maintenance of our mandate in Turkey under the League of Nations," says Capt. S. Gale Lowrie, professor of political science in the University of Cincinnati, in an interview. Capt. Lowrie has just returned from Constantinople, where he was in charge of the Red Cross work in extending relief to the families in Armenia and Turkey of drafted American soldiers, several thousand in number, and is on his way home. "The necessity for so many troops," he said, "arises out of the difficult condition in that part of the world. The Balkan question is unsettled. So are the disposition of Asia Minor and Arabia. The peace conference has not yet taken them up, except to urge that the United States take over the Turkish possessions. England is about to withdraw her troops from Asia Minor. She has enough to do in Palestine and Mesopotamia, to say nothing of Egypt and Africa generally. Even so, she is attempting to edge out France in the control of Syria. She hopes in Mesopotamia's oil resources to recoup her financial losses of the war. "If we do no accept the mandatory, the withdrawal of British troops will result in anti-Christian and pro-Moslem massacres. We have become a world power and must keep our finger on the pulse of the entire world. If we do not maintain peace in that particular section, we shall have to take part in the engulfment. On the other hand the expense will be great and we shall have divided interests in both hemispheres." "I have not entirely made up my that each package will take the place of from 12 to 48 eggs. If these preparations would take the place of or do the work of even 1 dozen eggs, their purchase would help to reduce the high cost of living, but unfortunately for those who are misled by the alluring claims on the labels or in advertisements, they do not do the work of eggs in baking or cooking. The average price paid by the consumer for the so-called egg substitutes is approximately 6 cents an ounce or at the rate of about $1 a pound. Since these products consist essentially of starch or a powdered cereal product such as wheat flour, sometimes artificially colored to imitate the appearance of eggs, the consumer pays a price far in excess of their food value or intrinsic worth. Baking tests showed that cakes made with these so-called egg substitutes are inferior to cakes made with water in place of the substitute, otherwise using the same recipe, are not nearly so good as cakes made with milk, and in no measure are comparable with cakes made with eggs. There is no doubt, say the specialists, that most of these products do not really resemble eggs, neither can they take the place of eggs in baking and cooking and further they do not serve any purpose in baking and cooking which is not equally served by the ordinary products daily used in the house hold. A distinction should be made by the consumer between dried egg preparations, dried egg powders, and the like, which consist entirely or mainly of real eggs in powdered form, and the so-called egg substitutes which contain little or no egg in any form. Real egg powders, properly prepared, will answer most purposes of shell eggs in baking and cooking. Prosecutions are now pending in the Federal courts against manufacturers of a number of the so-called egg substitutes on the charge that the preparations are misbranded under the terms of the food and drugs act. Inspectors have been instructed to watch interstate shipments of such preparations and take appropriate action in cases where misbranding is found. The Federal food and drugs act does not apply, however, to preparations made..." SECTION A A Corpse Placeformation Notice meeting Two tion, hore 1919, am half dollar levied corporate United tary, at belm, O Any ment shi day of o and advition, ar fore, wi day of llinquen costs o sale. By on B B Office a 3, B mement end o f thhe hea ger and In a ve chickens easily le ear. In be british and har $3,000,000,000 Deficit in 1920. A deficit of more than $3,000,000,000 by July 1, 1920, is facing the Treasury, even should Congress not appropriate another penny before that date. Chairman Good of the Appropriations Committee so informed the House, warning it that "greater economy than ever exhibited before" must be practiced by government departments. Already the government is committed to expenditures for the year ending next June 30th of $10,831,201,585, while the total revenue are estimated at $7,239,928,240. Representative Frederick W. Dalinger, of Massachusetts, has introduced a bill in the House providing for a restoration to the colors and ageneral amnesty to all soldiers and marines who have been prosecuted, convicted and sentenced by a court-martial. He does not include those who would have been sentenced in a civil court as of a felony. He would have all others then honorably discharged and given all forfeitures of pay. He proposes that every right of citizenship be restored. A board of clemency is created to review all court-martial cases since April 6, 1917. WHY Everybody Eats at the Exchange Grill Excellent Service and Good Eating A. KLUEWER, Prop. SECTION TWO WATER COMPANY A Corporation, Location of Principal Place of Business, Anaheim, California. Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the directors of said Section Two Water Company, a corporation, held on the 3rd day if March, NOTICE OF DELINQUENT SALE Name in full: Anaheim Products Company, formerly Union Brewing Company of Anaheim. Location of principal place of business: Anaheim, California. NOTICE: There is delinquent upon the following described stock on account of assessment levied on the 12th day of August, 1919, the several amounts set opposite the names of SECTION TWO WATER COMPANY; A Corporation, Location of Principal Place of Business, Anaheim, California. Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the directors of said Section Two Water Company, a corporation, held on the 3rd day if March, 1919, an assessment of two and one-half dollars ($2.50) per share was levied upon the capital stock of the corporation, payable immediately, in United States gold coin, to the secretary, at the office of the company, Anaheim, California, R. F. D. 3, Box 108. Any stock upon which this assessment shall remain unpaid on the 15th day of October, 1919, will be delinquent and advertised for sale, at public auction, and unless payment is made before, will be sold on Saturday, the 1st day of November, 1919, to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs of advertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board of Directors. BELLA J. WALKER, Secretary. Office at Anaheim, California, R. F. D. 3, Box 108. MENT OF AGRICulture, is to grasp the end of the breast bone farthest from the head between the thumb and finger and attempt to bend it to one side. In a very young bird, such as a broiler chicken or a green goose, it will bend easily like the cartilage of the human ear. In a bird a year or so old, it will be brittle and, in an old bird, tough and hard to bend or break. Unscrupulous dealers sometimes break one end of the breast bone before showing the bird on the market, in order that the buyer will believe the bird to be a young one. NOTICE OF DELINQUENT SALE Name in full: Anaheim Products Company, formerly Union Brewing Company of Anaheim. Location of principal place of business: Anaheim, California. NOTICE: There is delinquent upon the following described stock on account of assessment levied on the 12th day of August, 1919, the several amounts set opposite the names of the respective shareholders, as follows: Name No. of No. of Amount Certifi-Shares cate W. F. Laird 112 50 $500.00 W. F. Laird 113 50 500.00 W. F. Laird 118 100 1000.00 W. F. Laird 119 50 500.00 W. F. Laird 141 10 100.00 W. F. Laird 143 10 100.00 W. F. Laird 158 80 800.00 J. B. McFarland 101 100 1000.00 Alois Dauser 124 28 280.00 Francis Dauser 125 28 280.00 Clara R. Garden 80 2 20.00 And in accordance with law and an order of the Board of Directors made on the 12th day of August, 1919, so many shares of each parcel of such stock as may be necessary, will be sold at public auction, at the office of the Company at No. 1030 West Broadway, Anaheim, Orange county, California, on Friday the 3rd day of October, 1919, at the hour of eleven o'clock a.m. of said day, to pay said delinquent assessment thereon, together with costs of advertising and expenses of the sale. WM. J. HEGER Office; No. 1030 West Broadway, Anaheim, Orange County, California. 8-18-3t It's toasted LUCKY STRIKE cigarette toasted to inse the good, lesome flavor the Kentucky ley tobacco. regular man's ke and delis! Guaranteed by the American Tobacco Co.