anaheim-gazette 1920-06-03

An Echo from the Chautauqua Did you see the lot Saturday following the last performance of the Chautauqua (or any morning since, for that matter) on which the Chautauqua tent held down for a week? It looked as though a circus had vacated the lot, and not a "genteel" organization. Did you notice a large truck-load of sawdust piled up against a building bordering the west line of the lot? Did you notice that there was scarcely any sawdust at all on the area covered by the tent? Now, do you know why your shoes were so dusty after coming from the Chautauqua? The Ellison-White Chautauqua Company had some "punk" "house manager." Why can't somebody or something be perfect? Transportation Becoming Too Individualized We have taught the people to ride instead of walk and the result is that riding has taken on a difficulty we never knew in walking. Vehicles are everywhere. Wheels interlock on every thoroughfare. The boy who is sent by his mother to the corner grocery, dashes madly thither in his motor car. The lady going a block to return a call must have her limo-sine brought round. On any morning on any thoroughfare you will see from $2,000 to $6,000 worth of skilled labor and fine material, in the shape of a vehicle, required to get one man from his breakfast table to his office. ucts out of seemingly worthless things. Christ had the rich mentality. He knew how to make fishes cough up money; how to make a few loaves and fishes increase sufficient to feed a multitude; how to turn water into wine. (Would He be arrested if He turned water into wine these days?) This eastern girl had the same same kind of a mind to a certain degree. To be able to create, is a spiritual attribute. There are too few of these kind of women in the world today. The Effect of a Period of Years of Jazz Our times are out of joint. They rattle. With loose and dislocated frames we go stumbling and falling from one humiliation to another, from one castrophy to a worse one. In this the notable Year of Peace, Strikes and Prifiters, we discover ourselves in a worse case than the oldest of us has ever known, than the most truthful of our chronicles ever have recorded. We are immersed in times whose coming we made possible but did not forsee; and if we follow the course of all the previous generations, we shall continue our present way until we come smash up against some Cosmic — "Thus Far, and No Farther!" This is a jazz generation. The multitudinous wheels of its enterprises have somehow gotten into its head, and we live to the whirr and sleep to the hum of machinery to which long ago we lost the steering wheel, and now the brake is gone. We are joyriders on a rutted turnpike whose terminus is a wady marsh. Nothing that we have attempted in the serious work of arranging our social organization has stood the test. The wage system seemed best and safest for the worker, but now wages have been raised to the status of profits; TEACHERS NO IN SOUTH County Superintendent There While many are facing a severe and high school cause of the low ing offered, California no cause to worry Mitchell, Orange intendant, andudent of the San Register. Mitchell says probably be me for the schools of the county, but more to the delicate positions in because of a quirk. The question cal schools is not in the least. The worrying him is he will be successful teachers from applications for posh has on file. He changes in the in prospect and are not based on I never expect Southern California teachers," said he would be willing at salaries lower mand elsewhere ate, but in spite county's salaries ably with those of the country." Mitchell has the teachers no well satisfied wife proposed for no are everywhere. Wheels interlock on every thoroughfare. The boy who is sent by his mother to the corner grocery, dashes madly thither in his motor car. The lady going a block to return a call must have her limo-sine brought round. On any morning on any thoroughfare you will see from $2,000 to $6,000 worth of skilled labor and fine material, in the shape of a vehicle, required to get one man from his breakfast table to his office. The question always is: Is it worth it? People always have hopes that the transportation problem will be solved. Their hopes, of course, take the direction of there being more transportation for more riders; never the thought of their being possibly less need for transportation at all. Even though you fill the streets with private and public cars and the air with air-busses, the transportation problem remains. Like too many fish in the sea, this congestion is bound to kill off part of itself. There is too much individualism about it. Individualism has its limits. Privacy of utilities has its limits, too. It is plain that nature has limited our rightful privacy to the family, all else is shared with the public and lived in the public view. Individuality beyond the home threshold is preserved in only two instances—the umbrella which is a private protection from rain and sun, and the private conveyance. When Women Smoke, What Does It Mean? A dispatch from Boston says that the women are invited to smoke while riding on the elevated railway, a car for that purpose being provided. Must we now acknowledge smoking by women as a part of Boston "culture"? Is Boston suffering from jazz music, too? A dispatch from Chicago says ministers are becoming cigarette "flends." If the women and the ministers go to the bow-wows, what is going to become of us? A dispatch from Tacoma, Washington, says that a woman thrilled cafe folk when she "climbed" out of a big limousine, entered the place and calmly lighted a cigar. Just think, a cigar! The cafe folk were "thrilled." I wonder if the reporter expected that good people would be thrilled—anything sensation thrills cafe patrons. The reporter was rather indelicate when he Efficiency of a Super-Nature The owner of an eighty-acre pear orchard on the Sacramento river hitherto required ten men and three weeks to spray his orchard. Now he only requires four men and two and a half days. Some efficiency, hey? This was brought about by a new system—get it, system—that only cost him $500. This shows what an orchardist can do with "head work" and a system. Are All Economic Theories Workable In an article going the rounds of the press regarding Liberty bonds are these words: "If the market is flooded with tomatoes, you can buy them cheap, but if everyone is clamoring for tomatoes and there are few to be had, the price goes up." Is this true regarding walnuts? The manager of the California Walnut Growers association says the walnut crop is doubling every three years. That looks like an increasing supply for the markets, but the price of walnuts has not decreased. The puzzle is: If the above quoted economic theory will work with tomatoes, will it work with walnuts? Professionals Win, Police and Boys Losse On the front page of the Gazette recently were two news items regarding burglaries committed within and we live to the whirr and sleep to the hum of machinery to which long ago we lost the steering wheel, and now the brake is gone. We are joyriders on a rutted turnpike whose terminus is a wady marsh. Nothing that we have attempted in the serious work of arranging our social organization has stood the test. The wage system seemed best and safest for the worker, but now wages have been raised to the status of profits; they have gone beyond that and have become a levy on capital; they threaten to go still further and become economic brigandage practiced upon both producer and consumer. The end of that must come very speedily, because when bandits have striped every possible victim, what is there left for the bandits to do? The tree stripped of its fruits is stripped for a year—and a man may starve to death many times in a year. Mr. Bryan's Advising the re-iam Jennings Br to say: "The p important than tha pointing in a chac A dispatch from Tacoma, Washington, says that a woman thrilled cafe folk when she "climbed" out of a big limousine, entered the place and calmly lighted a cigar. Just think, a cigar! The cafe folk were "thrilled." I wonder if the reporter expected that good people would be thrilled—anything sensation thrills cafe patrons. The reporter was rather indelicate when he said a "well-dressed woman climbed" out of the car. One would think "well-dressed" women would be more graceful than to climb. Los Angeles comes to the rescue. The police department there has started a crusade against young women smoking in public dance halls. What next in womankind? A Girl of Real Accomplishments A dispatch from New York says that a girl in Hempstead, L. I., designed and constructed a hat at a total cost of less than $5, and won a prize of $50. A discarded nectie, and ribbon from a fruit basket were among materials used. A worth-while girl—a kind of a girl that make good wives. Now, wait—not necessarily because she was economical, but because her demonstration indicated she had an eye to see beauty in common things; she had an eye to bring the beauty in common things to the surface. Her demonstration indicated a rich mentality, a mind that could be resourceful, if occasion required it. Anybody can have pretty things if they have the money to purchase pretty things. It is another accomplishment to have a rich mentality, a mentality that can create rich prod- Professionals Win, Police and Boys Lose On the front page of the Gazette recently were two news items regarding buglaries committed within a week of each other. The first was committed by professionals who have yet to be caught. The other was committed by boys who were soon caught. Do you see the point? Hard to Please Everybody The man or woman who edits the average country newspaper cannot well avoid treading on somebody's toes continually; must expect to be censured often for unintentional failures; must expect hard work and little thanks; must expect to be called a coward because he does not "pitch into" everybody that somebody thinks is wrong, and a fool if he speaks out too plainly on public evils; he must expect to grind other peoples axes—and turn the grindstone himself. Still we think it is one of the noblest professions on earth; the one in which the carnest man can do the most good to his fellow man. While Coming, While Here, While Gone It is said that the midwives' union in Chicago has advanced their fee to $20. The doctors of Aurora (pill peddlers) have boosted their price to $5 a call. The diggers of graves at Ke(continued on page eight) Advising the revered William Jennings Briggs to say: "The portant than the pointing in a chace party like the rep is in control of Coily confident of su election, does not and men afterward. As a general less One's content more important through which it correct. He has of unique principle never been able to ican people that he to superintend thrying them out. formulating poli and as to carrying principles formula others Mr. Bryan been a lamentable Possibly the sae Bryans own party with its personally rule regardless of ciple—brings forth vice offered to the Possibly Mr. Bryan or indulge in a b expense of his own. In any event it for the Nebraska cern himself as to of the republican the past, the repu ANAHEIM GAZETTE TEACHERS NOT SCARCE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA County Superintendent Mitchell Says There is no Shortage While many sections of the country are facing a shortage of elementary and high school teachers next year because of the low salaries that are being offered, California, and especially the southern section of the state, has no cause to worry, according to R. P. Mitchell, Orange county's school superintendent, and J. A. Cranston, superintendent of the Santa Schools, says The Register. Mitchell says that some difficulty will probably be met in securing teachers for the schools in the outlying districts of the county, but that this will be due more to the desire of teachers to secure positions in the cities rather than because of a question of pay. The question of teachers for the local schools is not worrying Cranston in the least. The only thing that is worrying him is as to whether or not he will be successful in picking the best teachers from the long list of applications for positions here which he has on file. He said today that few changes in the teaching force here are in prospect and that those scheduled are not based on salary differences. "I never expect to see the cities of Southern California suffer for want of teachers," said Cranston. "Teachers would be willing to accept posts here at salaries lower than they would demand elsewhere because of the climate, but in spite of this fact Orange county's salaries now compare favorably with those of any other section of the country." Mitchell has found that as a rule the teachers now employed here are well satisfied with the salary increases proposed for next year. Following out to present to the American people constructive, forward-looking, patriotic principles and, as ever, it has to hand a wealth of material from which to choose the right man to direct the carrying out of those principles after the Fourth of March next. FORD LIBERTY MOTORS A certificate of merit, together with a citation by the director of air service, war department, has just been received by the Ford Motor company, Detroit. The letter announces that the "chief of ordinance also make similar recommendation and citation." It reads: "This company produced 3,950 complete Liberty-12 motors of unusually good quality. They also produced all cylinder forgings used by all plants in the manufacture of Liberty motors, and they invented and developed special machinery and processes for this purpose. This plant was 100 per cent on war work." Besides the cylinder forgings, the Ford company perfected and manufactured all the cylinders and all the bearings used in American-made Liberty motors. All war work handled by Henry Ford for the United States government was done at actual cost. MANY NEW USES FOR LOWLY CORNCOB Latest By-products From the Cob Are Dyes and Paints Corn cobs yield a substance—furfural—from which can be made a great many kinds of dyes, several paints and lacquers, and perhaps many other useful commodities. It can be used successfully to manufacture hard Southern California suffer for want of teachers," said Cranston. "Teachers would be willing to accept posts here at salaries lower than they would demand elsewhere because of the climate, but in spite of this fact Orange county's salaries now compare favorably with those of any other section of the country." Mitchell has found that as a rule the teachers now employed here are well satisfied with the salary increases proposed for next year. Following out a suggestion recently made by Mitchell, the board of supervisors has agreed to increase the school tax from 22 to 42 cents for the elementary grades and from 15 to 25 cents for the high schools. This increase will allow for an average increase in pay for the county's 440 teachers of approximately $450 per teacher, bringing an increase in the salary fund of about $200,000. At the present time the amount being paid yearly to teachers will approximate $545,805. This includes all of the public schools of the county. Under the plan proposed for next year, elementary teachers will receive a minimum salary of $1200 with a maximum of $1500, the maximum to be reached over a period of five years, while the minimum for high school teachers will be $1500 with a maximum of $2000 to be reached over a like period. These figures do not mean that all teachers will be held to the minimum in the two branches. Many are already receiving better than the minimum pay announced, but there are quite a few receiving less than that amount. All salaries will be increased proportionately and many experienced teachers will receive the maximum pay next year. Both tCly Superintendent Craston and County Superintendent Mitchell have received numerous letters from local and county teachers congratulating them upon their success in bringing about the increases, and for that reason neither Craston or Mitchell are worrying over the question of teachers for next year. MR. BRYAN'S FREE ADVICE Advising the republican party, William Jennings Bryan permits himself to say: "The platform is more important than the man and it is disappointing in a chaotic time like this that MANY NEW USES FOR LOWLY CORNCOB Latest By-Products From the Cob Are Dyes and Paints Corn cobs yield a substance—furfural—from which can be made a great many kinds of dyes, several paints and lacquers, and perhaps many other useful commodities. It can be used successfully to manufacture hard resins similar to those used in making pipe stems and like articles, and is seems to have promise as an insecticide. The bureau of chemistry, United State department of agriculture, has been making a series of experiments for some time past to discover the best methods for the utilization of corn cobs and, in the process which was developed, recovered furfural as a by-product. Further experiments have shown that it can be obtained in much larger quantities by chemical treatment of the adhesive recovered from corn cobs. Furfural has been up to this time, a comparatively rare product and has been sold chiefly in small quantities for scientific purposes. The price is now about $17 a pound. Specialists of the bureau of chemistry say that it can be manufactured from corn cobs at a cost of, perhaps, 15 or 20 cents a pound. The previous scarcity and high price have prevented commercial use of furfural to any considerable extent, and the uses to which it can be put are, as yet, imperfectly known. Its most important known use is, in chemical nomenclature, as an intermediate for dyes. A whole series of dyes may be prepared by interaction with various coal-tar products. Shades covering a very wide range have already been made and tested in the bureau. A plant handling, say 100 tons of cobs a day would recover about a ton and a half of furfural a day as a byproduct. A considerably larger quantity can be obtained from the corn adhesive, by a comparatively simple process. Two grades of adhesive are recovered from the cobs. The first and more valuable one amounts to about 45 percent of the weight of the cobs. One of the principal uses now contemplated for it is as a substitute for silicate of soda in the manufacture of fiber container and wall board. It is both a cleaner and a better material than paper. The United States produces from 2,500-000,000 to 3,000,000,000 bushels of corn every year. That means 18,000,000 or 20,000,000 tons of cobs. A large percentage, of course, is not available for manufacturing purposes, being scattered over the farms or fed with the corn. Large quantities, however, are concentrated at central points and are easily available. The establishment of a plant for the manufacture of corn-cob products in the Ohio valley is being contemplated. Three shellers will furnish 24,000 tons of cobs a year. The plant will operate on a basis of 100 tons a day. It will turn out cob adhesive, furfural, acetate of lime, and cellulose. MANY CLAIMS SETTLED Settlement of 127,151 insurance claims, for death and total permanent disability, and representing a total value of $1,135,552,173.b5, is announced by Director R. G. Cholmeley-Jones of the bureau of war risk insurance. Only 5,119 claims are pending, and in these cases the claimants are beneficiaries in many instances residing in foreign countries where dssturbed conditions render communication impossible. It now requires only about five days from receipt of final evidence of death in an insurance case for the issuance of the first check, and frequently cases have been handled even more rapidly in the compensation and insurance claims division of the bureau. In cases of total permanent disability, men have been examined, the award made, and the first check placed in their hands all within a few MR. BRYAN'S FREE ADVICE Advising the republican party, William Jennings Bryan permits himself to say: "The platform is more important than the man and it is disappointing in a chaotic time like this that party like the republican party, which is in control of Congress, and apparently confident of success in the coming election, does not put principle first and men afterward." As a general statement the Peerless One's contention that principle is more important than the instrument through which it is put into force is correct. He has advocated a number of unique principles himself but has never been able to convince the American people that he was the right man to superintend the experiment of carrying them out. In fact, both as to formulating policies and principles, and as to carrying out the policies and principles formulated and approved by others Mr. Bryan, by his record, has been a lamentable failure. Possibly the sad predicament of Mr. Bryans own party at the present time—with its personally conducted one-man rule regardless of principles, or principle—brings forth the gratuitous advice offered to the republican party. Possibly Mr. Bryan is only "spoofing" or indulge in a bit of sarcasm at the expense of his own party. In any event it is hardly necessary for the Nebraska statesman to concern himself as to the present policy of the republican party. Today as in the past, the republican party is able product. A considerably larger quantity can be obtained from the corn adhesive, by a comparatively simple process. Two grades of adhesive are recovered from the cobs. The first and more valuable one amounts to about 45 per cent of the weight of the cobs. One of the principal uses now contemplated for it is as a substitute for silicate of soda in the manufacture of fiber container and wall board. It is both a cheaper and a better material than silicate of soda. The cob adhesive has been tested under practical mill conditions and found suitable in every way. Other uses to which the cob adhesive may be put are labeling of containers and manufacturer of coarse envelopes and paper bags. It has also been successfully tested as a sizing for walls and for the manufacture of paper-coated pasteboard. The second adhesive is of lower grade and can be used only for such purposes as foundry cores and as a binder for the coal-dust fuel known as briquette. A considerable quantity of acetic acid is liberated in the process of extracting the adhesive, passes off with the vapor, is condensed, and recovered as acetate of lime. At present, the acetate of lime, from which by far the greater part of commercial acetic acid is made, is obtained by distilling wood and is very impure. The acetate of lime obtained from cobs is almost chemically pure. The residue after these substances have been recovered from the cabs is an almost pure cellulose but possessing very little fiber. It may be used in the manufacture of dynamite, linoleum, and in every line of work where wood flour is now used. It will be used, also, as a filler for many kinds It now requires only about five days from receipt of final evidence of death in an insurance case for the issuance of the first check, and frequently cases have been handled even more rapidly in the compensation and insurance claims division of the bureau. In cases of total permanent disability, men have been examined, the award made, and the first check placed in their hands, all within a very few hours. COUNTY REALIZES CASH ON LIBERTY BONDS Sixty Thousand Dollars Worth Ordered Sold, with Repurchase Option The supervisors Wednesday ordered that $60,000 of United State Liberty bonds, belonging to the county of Orange, be sold at private sale, at market value, with the privilege and understanding, that bonds shall be re-purchased within a period of four months from the date of said sale. No bids being received for the $40,000 issue of 6 per cent Laurel school district bonds, the matter was continued to June 1, at 10 a.m. A certificate was granted to Walter C. Burris, showing that he is a discharged soldier, unaole to earn his living by manual labor. The petition of M. P. Pickering, et al., to vacate and abandon a portion of those certain public streets and alleys, known as Second street and Hazel avenue, in the third road district was presented and set for hearing June 15, at 10 a.m. The application of Edward Stark to move house over county roads from Talbert to Santa Ana, was granted. Family Washing SAVE your wife the drudgery of the washtub by sending us your family washing. It costs you very little when compared to the pleasure it will bring to your wife—put the burden on us Send us your shirts and collars Immaculate linen is the mark of a gentleman. You get the best work here. Patronize a home concern. Anaheim Laundry Company Phone 18 WE KNOW MEATS —"Every man to his own business" is a well-known saying—and we believe that this applies to us. —Our business is buying meats as well as selling meats—upon the buying depends the success of the business. —That's why we buy only the best meats—and we know the best meats. Any piece of meat that you buy in this shop has been selected by us because we know that it is a good piece of meat, meat that you can eat with satisfaction. —Upon this basis we ask your patronage. Anaheim Cash Market WE KNOW MEATS —"Every man to his own business" is a well-known saying—and we believe that this applies to us. —Our business is buying meats as well as selling meats—upon the buying depends the success of the business. —That's why we buy only the best meats—and we know the best meats. Any piece of meat that you buy in this shop has been selected by us because we know that it is a good piece of meat, meat that you can eat with satisfaction. —Upon this basis we ask your patronage. Anaheim Cash Market 109-11 N. Los Angeles St., Anaheim J. E. STROUP, Proprietor Are You Going to Build If you contemplate building new or repairing an old building, let us figure on your material. We handle everything you need, and our prices are right. Griffith Lumber Company South Los Angeles St. H. M. ADAMS, Mgr. ANAHEIM FEED and FUEL CO. DEALERS IN Wood, Coal, Hay, Grain Seeds and Flour PUBLIC WEIGHING SCALES Phones: Pacific 317, Home 294 A. V. Vail, W. D. Grafton, Props. Good Place to Buy— G-O-O-D L-U-M-B-E-R C. GANAHL LUMBER COMPANY Anaheim, Cal Good Place to Buy— G-O-O-D L-U-M-B-E-R C. GANAHL LUMBER COMPANY Anaheim, Cal MEATS OF HIGHEST QUALITY —That’s what this market prides itself upon. None but the very best quality steer beef is ever sold over our counters. We are here to prove this statement. Let us supply your every want in quality meats. Schneider’s City Cash Market Phone 20 117 West Center St. The application of A. D. Bishop, to lay a cement pipe line across Fairhaven avenue, for the purpose of irrigation, was granted. Spraying license was ordered issued to Samuel Thomas Paine. The hearing in re: petition of S. W. Price, et al, for county road in second road district, was continued to October 5, at 10 a.m. The petition of F. C. Wilson, et al, for the vacation and abandonment of Cerritos avenue, crossing Santa Fe Railway company’s right of way, was granted. Deeds for right of way from the following were accepted: Villa Park Orchards association, et al; Alice Floy Johnson, et al; Dean W. Campbell; Roy Elbert Johnson, etal. The board deemed it advisable to sell and dispose of certain personal property owned by the county of Orange and ordered that said property be sold at public auction at the Orange county farm. Tuesday, June 2, at 2 p.m. President Wilson said at Indianapolis four years ago that when the republicans criticised him on account of his Mexican policy “Woodrow Just sat back and laughed.” Does Mr. Wilson’s peculiar sense of humor still find the mess he made in Mexico amusing? The suggestion now made that Germany shall pay her indemnity in bonds, and the United States shall underwrite them, goes to prove that the heart of the world isn’t in half so much danger of being broken as the treasury of the United States.