anaheim-gazette 1920-06-17

Anaheim Gazette ESTABLISHED 1870 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY Henry Kuchel, Editor and Proprietor SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR ... $1.50 SIX MONTHS ... $1.00 THREE MONTHS ... $ .50 Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter OFFICIAL CITY PAPER THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION Never in all our history has a national convention met a difficult situation more squarely and with greater wisdom than did the republican convention held in Chicago last week. The platform is a sane declaration of the legislation needed to restore this nation to a sound business basis and to cure the hysteria that is responsible for the present appalling orgy of extravagance and high prices. The platform is unassailable at any point. It demands restoration of laws that made this country great and prosperous, repeal of which by democrats always caused chaos and disaster. It repudiates President Wilson's maudlin internationalism, but refuses to endorse the policy of the willful few in the senate who sought to reject the peace treaty entire. It voices the sentiment of the majority of senators, republican and democrats alike, who wished to accept the treaty but surround it first with safeguards that would recognize the integrity of our Constitution and preserve to congress the power to legislate for the people of the United States. In the selection of candidate, also. S. AFRICA'S CITRUS INDUSTRY The South African Journal of Industries recently contained an interesting discussion of the progress of fruit growing in the Union and the development of an export trade, with special reference to citrus fruits. Extracts from this article are quoted below: The productions of citrus fruits in South Africa was in the past confined to comparatively small areas and the annual income derived therefrom a matter of small moment. There was no inducement to plant large numbers of orange and lemon trees, because the total white population of the country was small and the demand limited. As soon as it was demonstrated that oranges could be successfully exported to the European markets the matter assumed another aspect, and it was gradually realized that here was a business which could be exploited to an almost unlimited extent. Just as South African deciduous fruits arrive in Europe at that season of the year when the market there is bare and there is no competition, so do the citrus fruits arrive when the supply from Europe and North America has ceased, and South Africa has almost a monopoly of the orange business from June until October. This means that it is now possible to obtain in Europe South African citrus fruit of all kinds just at that period of the year when they are most appreciated and are most beneficial from a health point of view. Oranges are grown principally in the Transvaal, Cape Province and Natal. Very few groves exist in the Orange Free State, its name notwithstanding. From a commercial point of view these are negligible. The area of land this fruit has been used last few years, arisen for better more in demand not more than trees in South Africa are not worth pledging for some years is that the Spable in such hu such low figures down below the African growers. HARE AND A stiff wind day morning came the Orange County "hare" lose the scent at the "hare" took Ana, and from the more in the nat leader" affair. With Ernest Ridgway "hare," announced er attempt to be made on Sunday. The "hare," in car, left the club day morning, got street to King, pointed in the door from that point. N. Buck of Buck agency, opened told the "hound" pick up the "hare" an immediate run the "hounds" we. When it can scraps of paper give the "hounds." the policy of the willful few in the senate who sought to reject the peace treaty entire. It voices the sentiment of the majority of senators, republican and democrats alike, who wished to accept the treaty but surround it first with safeguards that would recognize the integrity of our Constitution and preserve the power to legislate for the people of the United States. In the selection of candidate, also, the convention was particularly wise. The nominees for president and vice president are both capable, conservative and clean. Neither one is indebted to Wall Street or the big interest for anything. Neither one is tinged with radicalism. Senator Harding is a counterpart of McKinley—safe, sound and sane. He cannot be warped in his judgment with excitement, or stampeded with pyrotechnics. Gov. Coolidge has not been in the limelight long. He came into prominence during the Boston policemen's strike, when he took a firm stand for Americanism and demonstrated that he could not be intimidated by bolshevik threats. With Harding in the White House and a republican congress in the Capitol, this nation will speedily regain its sanity, and extravagance, graft and profiteering will disappear. RECOLLECTIONS OF HARDING When a man suddenly climbs into an exalted position and becomes one of the great men of the earth, it is natural for those who knew him and associated with him, to hark back to the days of his youth, to recall the distinguishing traits, if any, that set him apart from his fellows, and marked him as favored of the gods. The writer hereof, the reporter for the Gazette, was intimately acquainted with Warren G. Harding, the next president of the United States, during the period of his boyhood, in the little town of Caledonia, Ohio. Looking backward to those dim and distant days, some forty years ago, we remember him as a youth who differed very little from his associates. He was just a full-blooded, active, intense American boy, remarkably quick to grasp an idea or master a task, but who never exerted himself to excel. He was the sort of boy who always means that it is now possible to obtain in Europe South African citrus fruit of all kinds just at that period of the year when they are most appreciated and are most beneficial from a health point of view. Oranges are grown principally in the Transvaal, Cape Province and Natal. Very few groves exist in the Orange Free State, its name notwithstanding. From a commercial point of view these are negligible. The area of land suitable for citrus fruit is more extensive in South Africa than that on which any other fruit will thrive, and for this reason it will be readily seen that the orange will be the leading export fruit within a few years. The suitability of vast tracts of land in the Transvaal and Cape Province to the growth of the orange is demonstrated in the thrifty appearance of an occasional tree planted where there happens to be a little water available. The exportation of citrus fruit commenced in a small way in 1907, since which time considerable though not uninterrupted progress has been made. Each of the three producing provinces is represented in the export figures. Very little difference occurs in the numbers shipped from the Transvaal and those from Cape Province. At one time the bulk of the citrus fruit exported from South Africa was grown in the Transvaal then the Cape took a slight lead! now indications point to an increase in the Transvaal production. Inspectors at ports and local shipers estimate the quantity of citrus fruits available for export in 1920 at 16,054 cases. The varieties of oranges for export have in the past consisted of the ordinary seedling of the country, with perhaps half a dozen of what may be termed "popular standard varieties." About 75 per cent of the total have been seedlings. Future plantings, and consequently exports also, will undoubtedly, as has been the case in California, consist of standard kinds, and the favorites will be Washington Navel, Valencia Late, St. Michaels, Joppa, Jaffa, Mediterranean Sweet and Malta Blood, in approximately the order named. The demand for grape fruit is larger in American than in any other country. As South Africa has not hitherto grown any to speak of, the Union has not been able to tap this most profitable street to King, pointed in the direction that point N. Buck of Bucks agency, opened told the "hound" pick up the "hare" an immediate run the "hounds" we. When it can scraps of paper give the "hounds" was no paper too had wiped out an "Shortly" Health finally rounded up was way off his head the "hare" from. While the change considerable excused over some eral of the rider them serious. I are said to be success of last $ it did not turn out ule, and are loo 18 when another hold the event a Mrs. Maida Shaw is now on trial court of Superior ams on a charge deadly weapon w her father. Maricentia rancher has been shown of the priminence the circumstance leged shooting o antano is alleged father as she sat the center of th district. The show the middle of th 14 when the street people. Mrs. Shad a short time ago was released un raigned before J Cox. Mrs. Shera by Attorneys E ton and Horace H THE JU president of the United States, during the period of his boyhood, in the little town of Caledonia, Ohio. Looking backward to those dim and distant days, some forty years ago, we remember him as a youth who differed very little from his associates. He was just a full-blooded, active, intense American boy, remarkably quick to grasp an idea or master a task, but who never exerted himself to excel. He was the sort of boy who always creates a division of opinion among the neighbors, and causes them to differ widely in prophesying his future career. Harding's father being a physician, naturally wished his son to follow his profession, while his mother was ambitious to see him in the pulpit. But the young man turned a deaf ear to both and following his own inclinations, drifted into a print shop. He was too ambitious to be content in working for other men, and he soon acquired a paper of his own. It was a poor sheet when he purchased it, but it gave him a vehicle for his thoughts, his ideas and his budding genius, and the editor and his newspaper rapidly grew. Like Abraham Lincoln, Harding is the product of the backwoods, and has climbed from the bottom to the top by his own exertions. He has performed manual labor for a pitiful wage, but through his native ability and by his indomitable energy has ascended the ladder to the topmost rung, and will shortly be chosen ruler of the mightiest nation in the world, the highest position a man can reach on this earth. The railroad commission has authorized the construction of a spur track at grade across the county road west of Anaheim. ANAHEIM GAZETTE AUSTRY of Inan intergress of and the dee, with its. Expected befruits in confined and the dee from a here was numbers because the counand limitinstrated fully extends the tit, and it there was exploited deciduous at season there is mention, so when the Ameririca has large busirer. This be to obnus citrus period attempt to hold the chase will be made on Sunday, July 18. The "hare," in motorcycle and sidecar, left the club rooms at 9:30 Sunday morning, going west on Fifth street to King, where a large arrow pointed in the direction they took from that point. At r:45 o'clock H. N. Buck of Buck & Buck motorcycle agency, opened the envelope which told the "hounds" where they could pick up the "hare's" trail. There was an immediate rush for machines and the "hounds" were off in hot pursuit. When it came to following the scraps of paper left by the "hare" to give the "hounds" their scent there next year's Valencia crop in this section will be somewhere around a ninety per cent crop. "Of course," said B. W. Crawford, manager of the Tustin Hills Citrus association, "the period in which the June drop is to be feared is not over. However, if we get by the next two weeks without an unusually hot spell the oranges will be so well set that we will have nothing much to fear so far as drop is concerned. "The fruit is already well set, and I am of the opinion that nearly all of the drop is over with. The fruit is of good color and of good size for this time of year, and one can tell from the size and the color whether or not a tiny orange is likely to drop. The fruit looks good. The settings are generally very good on the older trees, most of which had a light crop this year. However, the setting is spotted. I mean that there are some groves where the indications are for a good crop and others where the fruit has set unsatisfactorily. Culture conditions in some cases are responsible for the difference. Then, too, the Valencia by nature is rather alternating. That is, a heavy crop is likely to alternate with a light crop. That tendency is overcome in many groves where the owners are right on to their jobs, for proper irrigation and fertilization to a certain extent at least overcome the tendency toward skipping." Crawford is optimistic over the outlook for the summer's market. "We are getting good prices now," said he, "but I look for a good deal better late in the summer and early fall. It begins to look now as though the Orange County Valencias will have the markets pretty much to signed up for the Anaheim team. They are Buster Callan, Herb Salveson, Harry D. Riley, L. Lewis, Fred Schneider, Oscar Schneider and Pete Wisser. Practice will be started shortly and the men will be put in the best possible trim as Harry D. has his eye on the state championship. Miss Irma Neff, who left here Sunday to meet her intended husband in Chicago, has not yet reached her destination. Her father, H. A. Neff, received a telegram yesterday morning stating that she was in the train wreck at La Junta, Colorado, in which two persons were killed and thirty others injured. Miss Neff was unhurt. She is to marry Fred Sidebottom of Akron, Ohio, as soon as she reaches Chicago, and will make her home in Akron. AND THEY SAY Ornamental street lights maintain their wonted splendor so long as they remain in position. But when a heartless autoist comes in contact with one they lose much of their aforetime beauty. Some drivers require lots of elbow room. A Japanese potato raiser says the reason why spuds are high is owing to the fact that growers have to pay $1 an hour to laborers to dig them. He said something! Report has it that the conservation of gasoline now is being advocated by the big companies in anticipation of a strike soon by the oil workers. The report says they want a 6-hour day street to King, where a large arrow pointed in the direction they took from that point. At r:45 o'clock H. N. Buck of Buck & Buck motorcycle agency, opened the envelope which told the "hounds" where they could pick up the "hare's" trail. There was an immediate rush for machines and the "hounds" were off in hot pursuit. When it came to following the scraps of paper left by the "hare" to give the "hounds" their scent there was no paper to be found. The wind had wiped out all trace of the route. "Shortly" Healton, who led the pack, finally rounded up the "hare," but he was way off his course and came upon the "hare" from the wrong direction. While the chase lasted it provided considerable excitement. The chase opened over some rough road and several of the riders took spills, none of them serious. Members of the club are said to be enthusiastic over the success of last Sunday's ride, even if it did not turn out according to schedule, and are looking forward to July 18 when another attempt will be to hold the event according to program. Mrs. Malda Sherantano of Placentia is now on trial before a jury in the court of Superior Judge R. Y. Williams on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to murder her father, Martin Epson, aged Placentia rancher. Considerable interest has been shown in the case because of the priminence of the family and the circumstances under which the alleged shooting occurred. Mrs. Sherantano is alleged to have fired on her father as he sat in an automobile in the center of the Placentia business district. The shooting occurred about the middle of the afternoon of April 14 when the streets were crowded with people. Mrs. Sherantano was arrested a short time after the shooting and was released under bond when arraigned before Justice of the Peace Cox. Mrs. Sherantano is represented by Attorneys E. J. Marks of Fullerton and Horace Head o f Santa Ana. THE JUNE DROP The June drop, which means a period of anxiety for growers of oranges, is well along; and so far its visitation has not hit hard. Present indications are that a fair setting of Valencia oranges will stick, and that jobs, for proper irrigation and fertilization to a certain extent at least overcome the tendency toward skipping." Crawford is optimistic over the outlook for the summer's market. "We are getting good prices now," said he, "but I look for a good deal better late in the summer and early fall. It begins to look now as though the Orange County Valencias will have the markets pretty much to themselves later on. Last week some of us took a trip up through the upper valley, Pomona, Upland and up that way. We do that once in awhile just to keep in touch with what they are doing. We found that all through that country they are shipping heavily right now, and present indications are that they will clean up very soon. "There has been a good deal of worry on the part of orange growers on account of a shortage of cars. So far however, the shortage has really been beneficial. It has held back our shipment, and I think that before the season is over with we will find that holding back of shipments was the very thing for us to do or have done for us." A great many of the growers are having part of their crops taken off now, leaving a part for shipment later. By lightening the trees, the trees are relieved and the remaining fruit is benefitted. It is considered advisable by many to take off all of the fruit from the young trees at this time in order to give the trees a better chance for growth. ELKS BALL TEAM An Elks baseball league for the state of California is the latest in the way of sports under the auspices of the antlered herd. Anaheim Lodge 1345 has already begun recruiting players for their team and Harry D. Riley, Pete Hax and Fayette Lewis, committee in charge, are throwing together a strong line-up. The state will be divided into three divisions, Northern, Central and Southern California. Each division will be composed of eight teams, each with two four-team leagues. The champs of each division will meet in an elimination series and the two leaders in the series will play for the state championship at Sacramento, this fall. Already seven players have been — A Japanese potato raiser says the reason why spuds are high is owing to the fact that growers have to pay $1 an hour to laborers to dig them. He said something! — Report has it that the conservation of gasoline now is being advocated by the big companies in anticipation of a strike soon by the oil workers. The report says they want a 6-hour day and more money. What's the world coming to? — It seems as though a traveling midco, who used a vaudeville barrage as a screen to entice the unwary, slipped one over on the municipal guardians. Some guys are keen. — Those new trustees of a neighboring town who have had a dream that this city has sent out the S.O.S. sign must not let themselves get unduly excited. Might run into a brainstorm. — The habit of some people have acquired of rushing to a fire is going out of fashion. The special police will get you if you don't watch out. — A space writer and a cartoonist of a paper in the big city up the road invaded this county a few days and next day their paper had a lot of frivolous sayings about this gem of all the counties. In speaking of one of the towns through which they passed in the high this paragraph is encountered: "Where the breweries used to flourish, but the blink is on them now." Howzat? Clifford R. Clark of Tulare county through Attorney Leonard Evans of Anaheim today petitioned the superior court for letters of administration over the estate of his father, James A. Clark, who died May 6 at Anaheim leaving an estate valued at approximately $9000. John N. Anderson of this city and J. F. Simpson and D. W. Hassen of Buena Park were yesterday appointed appraisers of the estate of Eugene Caldwell Cady, deceased. Miss Julia Dresher, who has been an employee of the water office for several months past, has gone to San Francisco to reside. Her place is being taken by Mrs. Edmunds. Cox. Mrs. Sherantano is represented by Attorneys E. J. Marks of Fullerton and Horace Head o fSanta Ana. THE JUNE DROP The June drop, which means a period of anxiety for growers of oranges, is well along; and so far its visitation has not hit hard. Present indications are that a fair setting of Valencia oranges will stick, and that the state will be divided into three divisions, Northern, Central and Southern California. Each division will be composed of eight teams, each with two four-team leagues. The champs of each division will meet in an elimination series and the two leaders in the series will play for the state championship at Sacramento, this fall. Already seven players have been employed of the water office for several months past, has gone to San Francisco to reside. Her place is being taken by Mrs. Edmunds. Priscilla Dean IN THE UNIVERSAL-JEWEL MASTER PRODUCTION "The Virgin of Stamboul." AT THE FAIRYLAND THE ATER, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT Fairyland Theatre ANAHEIM Wednesday and Thursday June 16 and 17 One Show Each Evening at 7:45 Do you know Sari the beautiful Virgin beggar girl of Stamboul? Men forfested their souls for her smile. At last came the dreadful dagger duel in a Sheik's harem. And what became of the American whom Sari loved? You'll know when you see this tremendous picture. Playing Now. Men forfested their souls for her smile. At last came the dreadful dagger duel in a Sheik's harem. And what became of the American whom Sari loved? You'll know when you see this tremendous picture. Playing Now. The Years most Stupendous Moving Picture The Universal-Jewel $500,000 Production de Luxe. VIRGIN of STAMBOUL' Directed by TOD BROWNING Starring PRICILLA DEAN Admission, Adults 25,35,50c. Children 15c. War Tax Included UNANIMOUS FOR HARDING That the Johnson forces of Orange county will back Warren G. Harding for the presidency and Calvin Coolidge for the vice presidency was declared today by Clyde Bishop, who was president of the Orange County Johnson-for-President club. Declarations that the Hoover supporters in Orange county are well satisfied and that they will give enthusiastic support to Harding and Coolidge was stated this morning by Willi- California should be glad to support. Senator Harding is a man of big caliber, and he will give the country a strong administration." IMPORTED BUTTER NOT WANTED Several shipments of butter offered for entry into the United States from foreign countries have been denied entry because the butter failed to come up to the requirements of the federal food and drugs act, according to officials of the bureau of chemistry, United States department of agriculture. That the Johnson forces of Orange county will back Warren G. Harding for the presidency and Calvin Coolidge for the vice presidency was declared today by Clyde Bishop, who was president of the Orange County Johnson-for-President club. Declarations that the Hoover supporters in Orange county are well satisfied and that they will give enthusiastic support to Harding and Coolidge was stated this morning by William F. Menton, who, as the president of the County Hoover-for-President club, headed the Orange county Hoover campaign. "I am particularly well pleased with the republican convention's choice of Senator Warren G. Harding as the presidential nominee," said Clyde Bishop. "At the time Senator Harding was given a banquet here several years ago I acted as toastmaster and was impressed most favorably by his bearing. Senator Harding has an exceptionally good record and there isn't a doubt in my mind that he will be the next president of the United States. Seeing that Senator Johnson could not be nominated, I am gratified that Senator Harding was the choice of the convention. I believe that Senator Harding is a big man, with a grasp of national affairs. Orange county will give him an overwhelming majority." "There is no question in my mind but that the Hoover supporters in Orange county," said W. F. Menton, "are going to line up solidly behind Harding and Coolidge. They are satisfied with the choice, though naturally they would have liked to have seen their man nominated, just as the backers of any other candidate would have liked to have seen their man win at the convention. But I believe the convention made a wise choice. They selected a man that all republican in IMPORTED BUTTER NOT WANTED Several shipments of butter offered for entry into the United States from foreign countries have been denied entry because the butter failed to come up to the requirements of the federal food and drugs act, according to officials of the bureau of chemistry, United States department of agriculture. The imported butter has to meet the same standards and tests as the domestic product. The majority of the shipments which were refused entry contained too little butter fat and too much salt and water, but a few contained boric acid, a harmful preservative. More butter came into the United States last year than during any other single year for the last ten years. The quantity of butter exported from the United States was also larger than normal and more than three times as much as the imports. The total imports of butter and butter substitutes for the year 1919 amounted to 9,519,-368 pounds; the exports of butter for the same period were 34,556,485 pounds. The greater part of the butter imported into the United States now comes from Canada, but shipments come also from Denmark, Australia, Argentina, and New Zealand. Of 300 shipments of butter from Canada examined, 33, or a little more than 10 per cent of those examined, were denied entry into the United States. A few shipments from other countries also were not admitted because they were adulterated under the food and drugs act. Shipments of imported butter are carefully inspected at the ports of entry.