anaheim-gazette 1920-02-05

CALIFORNIANS PILE UP WEALTH 1,650,000 Persons of State Have Total of Over Billion Dollars in Savings Banks. One million six hundred and fifty thousand persons in California have savings bank accounts averaging $675 each, their deposits aggregating more than a billion dollars and averaging $325 per capita, according to a summary of condition of state banks at close of business December 31, 1919. In issuing this statement Charles F. Stern, state superintendent of banks, said it indicated "very widespread and wonderful prosperity." "In a year," said Mr. Stern, "these savings deposits have increased $148,000,000, combined savings and commercial deposits in State banks have increased $253,000,000, and total State bank resources in California have increased $258,000,000." In noting that "over half of these stupendous increases is for the period between September 12 and December 31," the bank superintendent said this indicated a tremendous speeding up of all industries and possibly "a higher level of prices and a greater measure of inflation as the year drew to its close." "Fairly considered," he continued, "the great increase in the commercial departments of our banks means a rapid and healthy return to normal business activities." RAILROAD FIGURES NEW SCHOOL HOUSES FOR ORANGE COUNTY Almost a Million Dollars Being Spent This Year on Buildings. Over $1,000,000 is the value of improvements being made or to be made in school facilities of Orange county this year. With building already under way and building that is contemplated, this year is to be the biggest year in schoolhouse construction in the history of the county. Many of the districts have already voted their bonds. Others are starting proceedings, and others have plans made for improvements either through money raised by bonds or by a direct tax. Bolsa, Greenville and Olive districts are completing their new school buildings. Villa Park is building now. The foundation is laid for Anaheim's grammar school building. Santa Ana high school's $110,000 bonds for an assembly hall, gymnasium and other additions are to be put up for sale this month. Trustees from Fullerton, Katella, Seal Beach, Laurel, which is located in the Los Alamitos sugar factory section, and Alamitos, located between Los Alamitos and Garden Grove, have been in consultation with County School Superintendent R. P. Mitchell relative to bonding for construction. Fountain Valley is also considering putting up a new school building. Included in the accompanying list are two estimates of construction, one at Fullerton and the other at Tustin. EXTENDS NEEDS Salvation Army Service Program In an endeavor of the pre-war coed a social barricaded man and his Salvation Army bipetate its war-torn men of the army corps. This is one to be announced its Home Service formula for this year. Such activities eventually at all navy bases in the else a need for work among enlisted Army is conducted Angeles where may the service may commodations and national prifileges. The Navy Club listed men fulfilled for service men, navy and marine Mare Island. In San Francisco Market street acct for enlisted men and otherwise. The established a record in the form of in distress. This vation Army's w manent. The army and RAILROAD FIGURES Speaking at a meeting in Washington on the railroad question, Senator Cummins of Iowa in addition to touching upon many phases of the railroad problem pointed out that when the government finally settled its score with the railroads for the period of government operation under the present railroad administration the deficit which the government would have to meet would be about $700,000,000. This must be paid out of the treasury of the United States and comes from the taxpayers. Senator Cummins' figures again emphasize the fact that the public is the real "goat" in connection with the operation of the roads by Mr. McAdoo and Mr. Hines. It is not the railroads for as everybody knows who has given the matter any attention President Wilson and Mr. McAdoo succeeded in getting for them a standard of return or compensation equivalent to the average of their earnings for their three fattest years. Senator Cummins' figures, staggering as they are, do not tell the whole story of the public's loss. It will be recalled that at the Jackson Day Banquet Senator Pomerene of Ohio who is a member of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, pointed out that in addition to the big deficit which the Treasury must meet and which he calculated at approximately the same figure as that given by Senator Cummins, there were upwards of $300,000,000 of unpaid claims. Senator Pomerene calculated that the public would ultimately be out of pocket for the venture of the railroad administration something like a billion dollars. Of course these figures which are distressing enough from the public standpoint and from the standpoint of the average citizen who has to bear the tax burden, are only a part of the chapter even at that. They tell noth... mins, there were upwards of $300,000,000 of unpaid claims. Senator Pomerene calculated that the public would ultimately be out of pocket for the venture of the railroad administration something like a billion dollars. Of course these figures which are distressing enough from the public standpoint and from the standpoint of the average citizen who has to bear the tax burden, are only a part of the chapter even at that. They tell nothing of the untold losses which the country has experienced by reason of car shortage and other results of inefficient management. Even now constant complaints of car shortage are reaching Washington and shippers say they are losing heavily by reason of it. As an example many farmers and livestock shippers in the great agricultural states of the central west are writing to members of Congress saying they cannot get cars to move their livestock and they are suffering heavy losses in consequence. Shippers in other lines are making like complaints. Therefore, when to the direct loss which the public will incur because of the manner of handling the roads by the railroad administration there is added the indirect loss, the total will reach far into the billions. The aggregate of it simply can never be calculated. A two weeks' revival meeting, exclusively in English, will be held at Salem Evangelical church, Anaheim, beginning Sunday. The evangelist will be Dave Hill, the lumberjack evangelist of Ohio, who will preach every evening. The converted lumber-jack enjoys noted success as an evangelist and he has been particularly successful in a series of meetings he has been conducting at Santa Ana. CHECKING FRAUD IN PICKLING OLIVES Abuses which have arisen in pickling and coloring immature olives to simulate pickled ripe olives, have led the United States Department of Agriculture to investigate the subject, and compile data which can be used in detecting such dishonest practices. These investigations show that the test of maturity for olives, both fresh and pickled, is the percentage of oil in the fresh fruit. Allowance, of course, must be made for variations due to varieties and the localities in which they are grown. The department's experts suggest that a minimum oil content of 17 per cent in the flesh be taken as a tentative standard of maturity for Mission olives and other common varieties, except the Manzanillo, Ascolano, and Sevillano. A minimum oil content of 15 per cent is recommended as a tentative standard for Manzanillo, but no standards for maturity are recommended for the large-fruited Ascolano and Sevillano olives, which must be gathered when relatively immature. They point out, however, that these should not be sold under the designation "ripe." Because of the great variations that were found to exist in the composition of olives of the same variety grown in different localities, it probably never will be practical to set hard and fast minimum requirements for oil in mature olives, and department officials state that the standards suggested must be applied with caution. Copies of the belletin, the title of which is "A Chemical Study of the Ripening and Pikling of California Olives," may be had by addressing the United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. EXTENDS NEEDED HELP TO ENLISTED MEN Salvation Army Announces a Home Service Program for Ex-Soldiers. In an endeavor to prevent a return of the pre-war conditions which erected a social barrier between the enlisted man and society in general the Salvation Army has determined to perpetuate its war-time activities among the men of the army, navy and marine corps. This is one of the first policies to be announced in connection with its Home Service Program for California for this year. Such activities will be carried on eventually at all permanent army and navy bases in the state and wherever else a need for the Salvation Army's work among enlisted men develops. At the present time the Salvation Army is conducting a hostel in Los Angeles where men in all branches of the service may obtain sleeping accommodations and have all the recreational prifileges of a modern club. The Navy Club at Vallejo for enlisted men fulfills a similar function for service men, especially men of the navy and marine corps stationed at Mare Island. In San Francisco a relief office on Market street acts as a clearing house for enlisted men's troubles, financial and otherwise. This office in one week established a record of $5000 advanced in the form of loans to enlisted men in distress. This feature of the Salvation Army's work will also be permanent. The army and navy man in times of hogs. Each morning there will be an educational program will reference to the particular breed under discussion that day. In the afternoon there will be an auction sale of the same breed. California Dairy Council is interested in the dairy breed day on February 27, and Secretary-Manager Samuel H. Greene will take part in the morning program. He has agreed to furnish buyers for pure bred sires of four of the leading dairy breeds. These bulls are being selected by the experts of the university and will run from $250 to $350 in price. No sire is accepted whose mother has not a year's record for the production of 400 pounds of butter fat. This is in line with Dairy Council's campaign of education for improved quality of stock and economy of production. Higher Prices Shown In All Things (Continued from Page 1) wool for his money crop naturally has quite a keen interest in the price of clothes. The government tells us that the average sheep raiser all over the United States got 15.5 cents a pound for his wool at the country stations on November 1st, 1913. He had to sell 161 pounds to get money to pay for a $25 suit of clothes. On November 1st, 1919, the average price paid to the producers for wool was 50.6 cents a pound. He had to sell 118 pounds of wool to get enough money to buy a $60 suit of clothes. "But how about the working man? Let's start with the man who husks..." NICKEL IN ALASKA Nickel minerals are known to occur at several localities in Alaska, but none of the deposits have yet been worked. One group of these deposits is described in a recent publication of the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, Bulletin 712-C, "Nickel Deposits in the Lower Copper River Valley, Alaska," by R. M. Overbeck. They lie 12 miles east of Spirit Mountain, in a high range east of Copper River and south of Chitina River, on Canyon Creek. Chitina, the nearest town, is about 21 miles away. The country rock is schist cut by intrusive basic igneous rocks. The chief nickel deposit appears to be connected in origin with the basic igneous rock. The ore body is cut by a facet and has not been developed by underground or surface workings, so that its extent is not known. The ore minerals are sulphides which have been altered by weathering. An analysis of the nickel-bearing sulphide was made, but owing to the presence of impurities a formula for the mineral could not be obtained. The other sulphides are pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. A selected specimen of this sulphide ore analyzed in the Geological Survey laboratory showed 7.23 per cent of nickel. A number of rusty croppings of igneous bodies on Canyon Creek have been staked, and assays are reported in San Francisco a relief office on Market street acts as a clearing house for enlisted men's troubles, financial and otherwise. This office in one week established a record of $5000 advanced in the form of loans to enlisted men in distress. This feature of the Salvation Army's work will also be permanent. The army and navy man in times of war is an acknowledged hero to whom the entire community opens its arms. In times of peace this has not always been so. The Salvation Army believes however that there is a distinct community obligation towards the man in uniform, whether it be peace or war time, and it will use every effort to keep him within the community circle of fellowship. "But how about the working man? Let's start with the man who husks corn for the Iowa farmer. In 1914 he got 2 cents a bushel for the work and the crop was of such a character that he did well if he husked one hundred bushels a day. He had to work twelve and a half days to pay for a $25 suit of clothes. Last fall he demanded and, in most instances, got 8 cents a bushel for husking corn. The ears were so big and plentiful that it was no trick at all for him to husk one hundred and twenty-five bushels, earning $10 a day. It took him just six days to earn enough to pay for a $60 suit. "The government tells us that the average pay for farm laborers hired by the month in 1914 was $21.05 and board. In 1919 wages went up to a minimum of $40 and ran to even $60 or $65 in many instances. The going day wage for harvest-hands in 1914 was $1.55. In 1919 they were hard to get at $5 a day. Workers in the cities do almost as well. "The prosperity of the worker is no longer adequately measured by his wage rate per hour. Five years ago work was scarce; a large percentage of workers expected to be idle many days in the year. Now there is demand for the service of every available man in practically every trade, not only for 44 or 48 hours a week at regular pay, but for many hours of overtime at double pay. "Is it any wonder that the demand for clothes is enormous? Producer and worker alike have more money, in proportion, to spend on clothes than they ever had before. They want good clothes, too, and are creating an unusual demand for them." ASKS GUARDIAN FOR HER AGED FATHER Daughter of Col. Dunham Complains Property was Given Wife. half of Topeka surface on the road for a distance of about three miles from Irvine south. The concrete shoulders were made an inch and a half about the base and the Topeka surface will bring the center of the highway up to the shoulders. The shoulders will not be surfaced. Leaving the shoulders white with the center black will make night driving easier on the boulevard. It will be easier to follow the edge of the road under electric headlights. The shoulders from the Culver corner to Galivan have been put down with cement and it is said that they will last as long as the base. Hereofore the addition to the width has been constructed of rock and oil and it is not standing up under the heavy traffic. The highway south has been closed for several months while the work has been in progress. A detour was necessary between the Culver corner and El Toro while the shoulders were being put in between the corner and Irvine. That stretch was thrown open some time ago. The closed section now is from Irvine to El Toro. Elimination of the detour to El Toro will be hailed with delight by autoists driving between Santa Ana and San Diego. FARM WAGES HIGHEST KNOWN At no time have the wage rates of OLIVES in pickolives to have led out of Agsubject, be used practices. that the both fresh age of oilance, of variations salities in the depart- a mini-ent in the standard and other the Manllano. A per cent is standard when point out, not be sold tions that composition grown inibly never and fast officials suggested. Copies which is Ripening lives," may the United agriculture, bearing sulphide was made, but owing to the presence of imperities a formula for the mineral could not be obtained. The other sulphides are pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. A selected specimen of this sulphide ore analyzed in the Geological Survey laboratory showed 7.23 per cent of nickel. A number of rusty croppings of igneous bodies on Canyon Creek have been staked, and assays are reported to show a small percentage of nickel. A specimen of sulphide ore from one of these croppings showed, when tested in the Geological Survey, only a minute trace of nickel. The extent and probable value of these deposits could be determined only by careful sampling and by some development work below the partly oxidized surface capping. Did you know that I am going out of the jewelry business? Come in and let us show you what big discounts we are offering. THEODORE ROBERTS, Jeweler. STOCKMEN'S MEETING A stockmen's week will be given at the University of California farm at Davis from February 23 to 28 by the Division of Animal Husbandry of the College of Agriculture. Each day will be devoted to a special breed of beef and dairy cattle and The Gazette $1.50 Per Year The Best Local Paper Subscribe Now ASKS GUARDIAN FOR HER AGED FATHER Daughter of Col. Dunham Complains Property was Given Wife. The petition of his daughter, Lulu Carson, to have Attorney Fred W. Morrison appointed guardian of Col. Edward L. Dunham, who formerly held the lease on the Nadeau Hotel, was opposed in Judge Valentine's court Saturday by his wife, Mrs. Effie M. Dunham. Col. Dunham, a veteran of the Civil War, is 73 years old. It is claimed that he is incompetent to manage his business affairs. He is said to own property valued at $50,000. Mrs. Effie M. Dunham is said to be his fifth wife. The evidence shows that he deeded property to her, and his daughter alleges that the transfer to Mrs. Dunham was made while he was irrational. Mrs. Dunham contends that her husband is perfectly competent to attend to his affairs. In the event that the court finds him incompetent, she asks that she be appointed his guardian. STATE HIGHWAY OPEN The state highway south from Irvine will be thrown open to traffic by Thursday or Friday of this week and all obstructions removed. The work of putting the concrete shoulders from El Toro to Galivan was finished Saturday night and the contractor is busy laying an inch and a At no time have the wage rates of farm labor been as high in this country as they were in 1919, certainly as far back as 1866, when the first investigation of this subject was made by the Bureau of Crop Estimates, United States Department of Agriculture. Averages for the United States are in mind, and not local rates. For labor hired by the month with board, the average rate was $39.82, among the geographic divisions the average was as low as $30.54 in the South Atlantic and as high as $62.96 in the Western, including the Mountain and Pacific States. Without board, the average for the United States was $56.29, and the lowest was $44.03 in the South Atlantic States and the highest, $87.12, in the Western. Extras, such as firewood, milk, etc., are not included. Harvest wages per day with board reached the top figure of $4.48 in the North Central States west of the Mississippi River and the lowest figure of $2.28 in the South Atlantic, and the United States average was $3.15. Without board, the United States average of $3.83 was most exceeded by $5.33 in the former States, while the latter States had the lowest average, $2.82. Statements in similar form for day wages for work outside of harvest with board make the United States average $2.45, that ofthe North Central States CLOSING OUT SALE! going out of the Jewelry business. Everything must be sold. have a big line of beautiful rings and La Valliers. See Them for a Good Selection come in Early and Get the Best Reductions Theo, Roberts Home in Early and Get the Best Reductions Theo, Roberts JEWELER Anaheim, California "Where Every Dealing Leaves a Friendly Feeling" west of the Mississippi River $3.22 and of the South Atlantic States $1.85; the rarest without board, in the same order, were $3.12, $4.03, and $2.39. WILL PACK FRUIT AT ORANGE SHOW Packing of California oranges, a sight interesting to thousands of tourists and even Californians, will be one of the features of the National Orange Show, to be held at San Bernardino, Feb. 13 to 23. A complete packing house plant, showing the course of oranges from the graders to the boxes ready for shipment, is being installed by the Fontana Company. Girls clad in orange costumes will be in charge of the display and throughout the show oranges will be in progress of preparation for market. At least one car load of fruit, designated as having come from the National Orange Show, will be packed and shipped to the markets of the East. Construction of the Orange Show is nearing completion. Monday there arrived at the county clerk's office a remittitur showing that the appellate court, sitting in San Francisco has affirmed the judgment of W. H. Thomas, then superior judge in this county, in the case of S. E. McPherson of Orange, against the Great Western Milling Co. McPherson got judgment of $2,094.04 against the defendant on an accounting. The defendant took an appeal. The upper court ruled that the Orange county court was correct in its findings. F. C. Drumm of Orange and H. C. Head of Santa Ana, were McPherson's attorneys. One of the judges signing the findings is John T. Nourse of San Francisco, formerly of Santa Ana. For Sale Eight and three-fourth acres all For Sale Eight and three-fourth acres all valencias, good soil, trees are four and five years old; some family fruit, and twenty walnut trees. Five room house and garage. Good domestic well; eight shares of water stock. Cement pipe valve to each row of trees. Price $30,000. See us for terms. 10 acres, 7 year old trees, loaded with fruit. Good location, 1-3 interest in pumping plant. Price, $25,000. ELLIOTT-ANDERSON REALTY COMPANY 111 North Los Angeles St. Anaheim, California