anaheim-gazette 1920-09-09

FORMER ANAHEIM MAN ARRESTED FOR THEFT Raymont Pendergast of The Sweet Shop Caught in Oklahoma Citizens of Anaheim were deeply interested last week following receipt of information that Raymond Pendergast, known among business circles for a period of several months ago, had been placed in custody in Oklahoma on charges of having caused a former Anaheim business woman to become bankrupt through his alleged mismanagement of a confectionery, owned by her. It was Mrs. Louise Bridgman who owned the candy store, which was known as the Anaheim Sweet Shop. While Pendergast was at work in a barber shop in Los Angeles several months ago, Mrs. Bridgman, who had known him for several years, sent for him and made him manager of her business. According to charges filed against Pendergast in Los Angeles, it took him just six weeks to gain Mrs. Bridgman's confidence and to wreck the confectionery business. After the failure of the business at Anaheim, Pendergast disappeared, but later returned and was refused admittance to the home of the woman he was said to have defrauded. Pendergast remained in Anaheim for some time and represented himself to be the flame of Mrs. Eva Peterson of Ardmore, Okla., daughter of Mrs. Bridgman. During Pendergast's second visit to Anaheim he went to a bank there and, it is said, produced deeds of property as security in obtaining a loan. He disappeared from Anaheim once more, but after a charge states Treasury. To that must be added about $2,000,000,000 loaded directly on the American people through increases in freight and passenger rates. So the grand total of what the Democratization of the railroads, under Messrs. Wilson and McAdoo and associates cost this nation in twenty-six months is $3,375,000,000 And the bills have only just begun to come in, for the destruction of railway efficiency creates an additional bill of expense which the people of this country will not be through paying for years to come. Three billion three hundred and seventy-five million. Think of it! In just twenty-six months, three billion three hundred and seventy-five million—or as much as it cost the American government to fight four years of the great Civil War! Three billion three hundred and seventy-five million dollars! Where in finance or industry was there ever such a gigantic failure? Nowhere, absolutely nowhere! For three centuries John Law and his Mississippi bubble have been used to conjure up visions of a nation crucified by a ruler's reckless credulity. But John Law and his bubble have had their day. They cost the French nation only a few score millions. Compared with Woodrow Wilson and the lost billions of his railway venture they sink into the pale insignificance of a trifling past! INCREASE IN AUTO THEFT An increase in auto thefts, sweeping thru the months of June, July and August to the present time, has led the theft bureau of the Automobile Club of Southern California to issue sufficient to provide the grove until the paying proposition several successful trymen about the would probably be in helping the lemons the poultry business. With lemons at falling to return some growers are their trees, with danger that they will and stunted. This allowed, he says, for years' care to over neglect, and he she idea as one way to for the lemon tree footing the bills upon its former And White knows lemon growers who put the idea into use. BOXING Five fast match enthusiasts on their day night the fan bill. A fair crowd Western Athletic witness the affair. Henry Gastein o Frankle Garcia of four rounds for a event." Garcia buoyed Gastein had two rounds and stephen decision with the fans. "Red" Mathews helm, won from L in the semi-win best mill of the mixed all the w Pendergast remained in Anaheim for some time and represented himself to be the fiance of Mrs. Eva Peterson of Ardmore, Okla., daughter of Mrs. Bridgman. During Pendergast's second visit to Anaheim he went to a bank there and, it is said, produced deeds of property as security in obtaining a loan. He disappeared from Anaheim once more, but after a chase which took detectives through a number of southern states, he was arrested at Thomas, Okla. He was turned over to authorities in Vernon, Texas, on charges said to include several big oil swindles. These latter charges are described as more serious than those alleged at Anaheim, where he was said to have obtained money from banks by mortgaging property he never owned. Instructions that Pendergast was to be apprehended at no matter what cost were issued by the Texas Bankers' Association. It is believed that the amounts he secured in his various alleged swindles will run into many thousands of dollars. Mrs. Bridgman and her daughter, Mrs. Peterson, left Anaheim several months ago. EATING IN ENGLISH Hotel landlords, in convention assembled, have resolved more than once to abolish French menu cards, but little has come of it. Perhaps the landlords were helpless. Chefs—as Americans persist in calling head cooks—are all-puissant, especially if they happen to have been born in France, and a servile nation has encouraged them in having their own way. So they have kept right on, in the so-called better restaurants, printing their eating programs in their own language. It has been, usually, a fearful and wonderful production, that menu French. Any Frenchman but a chef might not recognize it as such. But it has served the purpose, regardless of hashed spelling and pled accents, and the ordinary run of patrons, not knowing a hors d'oeuvre from a hors du combat, have stood for it with pathetic resignation. Now the hotel stewards have taken the matter in hand, and maybe there will be better luck. A steward, presumably has some influence over him. INCREASE IN AUTO THEFT An increase in auto thefts, sweeping thru the months of June, July and August to the present time, has led the theft bureau of the Automobile Club of Southern California to issue a warning to all motorists that the approaching season promises to be a busy one in theft circles. Not only have more cars been stolen in Los Angeles, but other cities of the southern counties have suffered from increased losses in this line. The low-water mark was reached in February, but since that time the number of machines stolen each month in Southern California has steadily increased, reports the Auto Club. Gangs of theives annually make California their headquarters, and in order to successfully combat their activities the car owners themselves must take steps. The most ordinary precautions are the safest, states the theft bureau. Lock your car at all times, even when it is left parked for a few moments. The first two minutes after an owner leaves his car are the most dangerous ones. According to the club figures, more than $1,250,000 in automobiles have been stolen in Southern California since January 1 of this year. Of a large percentage of this figure has been recovered, but in the meantime the car owners have suffered loss and much damage to the machines which were stolen. It is suggested that all motorists who are interested in protecting their property from theft call at any Automobile club branch office and inquire as to the best manner for circumventing the auto thief. This information will be cheerfully given. Also, report without delay stolen cars. PLAN SUGGESTED FOR SAVING THE LEMON TREES Make Poultry Business Pay Expenses Until Tariff Is Remedied "Poultry for Profit" in Orange county lemon groves is a current suggestion for alleviation of the unfavorable market conditions now affecting Frankle Garcia of four rounds for a event." Garcia buys but Gastein had two rounds and stephen decision with the fans. "Red" Mathewshelm, won from Lilian in the semi-winners best mill of the year mixed it all the way the aggressor froze hell and scored a win in the second round the bout. Lugo pans but couldn't land boy when he had boys got a big hit the ring. K. O Swall of decision to Jack Cain in four good canto capped by being put up a good exeption Jess Reed of Boy Man Carlson of through nearly all of who got the lute tune favored Reed Reed for a return it was accepted. The curtain rises Duffy and Young bara did not last boys to hardly sparred for a couple let go with a coup course that put Rivers owe The management bouts would be a Wednesday night on Tuesdays. SHAKESPEA It is a curious Shakespeare prognosis given anywhere of a well-known writer the best given in German tion of Julius C. Reinhardt, in the plelhaus of Berlin. The building of all in-door reinhardt himself the last word in ture. It accompanies spectators. It has in tiers, a modified door Greek stage variety of arran wonderful production, that menu French. Any Frenchman but a chef might not recognize it as such. But it has served the purpose, regardless of hashed spelling and pied accents, and the ordinary run of patrons, not knowing a hors d'oeuvre from a hors du combat, have stood for it with pathetic resignation. Now the hotel stewards have taken the matter in hand, and maybe there will be better luck. A steward, presumably, has some influence over a French cook. The steward is at least nominally responsible for the menu, and has a right to have it printed in French, Greek or English as he prefers. The stewards say that they prefer it in English, and the eating public rises up with one grand amen chorus. In eating, even more than in most other things, we Americans are a simple and provincial people. We like to eat in our own language, and if there's anything in this nationalism and self-determination of peoples, we certainly have a right to it. JUST ONE EXAMPLE "We pledge the Democratic party to a policy of strict economy in government expenditures." So says the Democratic platform, adopted at San Francisco, and Governor Cox, the Democratic presidential candidate, echoed the pledge in his speech of acceptance. Oh, very well; but let's have a look at the facts and figures which tell the story of Democratic "strict economy in government expenditures" as practiced by the present administration. One billion three hundred and seventy-five million dollars loss on the Democratic administration of the railways for twenty-six months! Nor is that all, for this vast sum is merely what the Democratic taxeaters loaded on the taxpayers through the United States delay stolen cars. PLAN SUGGESTED FOR SAVING THE LEMON TREES Make Poultry Business Pay Expenses Until Tariff Is Remedied "Poultry for Profit" in Orange county lemon groves is a current suggestion for alleviation of the unfavorable market conditions now affecting the lemon growers. What with the heavy importation of foreign lemons and the high price of sugar, California lemon growers are facing a period of "red ink" and the future is regarded with some uncertainty. The condition may last a year or two or three or possibly longer. Some think it will last at least three years, before things will adjust themselves so that the lemon growers will again reap a substantial profit. But during this period of depression what shall the lemon growers do to "get bp!" E. A. White, local fruit buyer is one man who has given this thought consideration, and he believes that poultry-raising may be adopted successfully in lemon groves to carry them along until lemons become a paying crop again. At several places about the county, according to White, a few orchardists have installed stocks in their orange, walnut or lemon groves with profit to themselves, and can see no reason why the lemon and poultry business could not be successfully combined at this time on a large scale. "There is money in poultry when the poultryman understands his business," said White today. "It seems to me the lemon grower could fence in his grove and let the thickens run in the grove. They would eat up the bugs and worms, and would help keep the trees well fertilized. In addition the profit from the hens should be..." THE FACTS ABOUT WOMAN SUFFRAGE STATES THAT HAVE RATIFIED REPUBLICAN California, Nevada, Colorado, New Hampshire, Illinois, New Jersey, Indiana, New Mexico, Idaho, New York, Iowa, North Dakota, Kansas, Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Maine, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, South Dakota, Michigan, Washington, Minnesota, West Virginia, Montana, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Wyoming. TOTAL .....29 DEMOCRATIC Arkansas, Utah, Arizona, Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee, TOTAL .....7 STATES THAT HAVE NOT RATIFIED REPUBLICAN Connecticut, Florida, Vermont, North Carolina, TOTAL .....2 STATES THAT HAVE REJECTED REPUBLICAN Delaware, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, Maryland, Louisiana, TOTAL .....1 ELEVEN Special Sessions of State Legislatures Frankie Garcia of Los Angeles mauled four rounds for a draw in the main event. Garcia built up an early lead but Gastein had a shade in the last two rounds and earned an even-stephen decision which seemed popular with the fans. "Red" Mathews the idol of Anaheim, won from Lucky Lugo of Vernon in the semi-windup which was the best mill of the evening. The boys mixed it all the way but Mathews was the aggressor from the clang of the bell and scored a clean knock-down in the second round which gave him the bout. Lugo put up a game battle but couldn't land on the Anaheim boy when he had the chance. Both boys got a big hand when they loft the ring. K. O Swall of Santa Ana lost the decision to Jack Oliver of Los Angeles in four good cantos. Swall was handicapped by being out of condition but put up a good exhibition nevertheless. Jess Reed of Bolse, Idaho, and CaveMan Carlson of El Paso slugged through nearly a round. It was a case of who got the lucky punch and fortune favored Reed. Carlson challenged Reed for a return battle next week and it was accepted. The curtain raiser between Kid Duffy and Young Rivers of Santa Barbara did not last long enough for the boys to hardly shake hands. Duffy sparred for a couple of seconds, then let go with a couple of rights and lefts that put Rivers out for the count. The management announced that the bouts would be staged at Brea on Wednesday nights hereafter instead of on Tuesdays. SHAKESPEARE'IN BERLIN It is a curious thing that the first Shakespeare production now being given anywhere and in the opinion of a well-known New York dramatic writer the best he has ever seen, is given in Germany. It is a production of Julius Caesar by Prof. Max Reinhardt, in the Grosses Schauspielhaus of Berlin. The building itself is the biggest of all in-door theaters, designed by Reinhardt himself and said to be the last word in playhouse architecture. It accommodates 5,000 to 6,000 spectators. It has three stages, arranged in tiers, a modification of the old outdoor Greek stage, permitting a great variety of arrangements and giving they shouldn't seek to raise rather than lower the public tastes. America can still learn some things from Germany. WHAT IS JUNK Ask a woman. "Junk is that pile of old clothes my husband doesn't wear and won't let me give way. Some day he will wear it on a fishing trip. That pile of magazines he is saving till he finds time to read them is junk; that collection of pipes he never smokes is junk. Oh, if you want to know what junk is ask any married woman. She knows." Ask a man. "Junk." Well, I don't know a better way to define the word than to give an example. My wife has chests and bureau drawers filled with table cloths and remnants of callco, lace and all that sort of stuff which she never uses. That's junk. She has all her old hats in the box on top of the closet shelf. That's junk. We are only two in the family, but she has enough dishes to serve twenty people and enough pots and pans for forty.That's junk. Oh, I should say offhand that junk is the accumulation of things around the house for which a woman has no immediate use and may never use. That's a pretty good definition of the word. Ask any man. He'll tell you the same." What do you think is junk? TARIFFS AND REVENUES The record of Republican and Democratic tariff laws as revenue producers compiled from official figures is set forth today by the Republican Publicity Association through its presi- of revenue;the Democratic years $507,-000,000. The average rate of duty on all imports under Republican law was about 20 per cent; under Democratic law it has sunk to 6 per cent. 'Had the Republican rate of duty been applied to the colossal imports under the Democratic law during the past seven years, our treasury would have realized nearly $4,000,000,000 instead of the $1,600,000,000 actually received. In order that the Democratic tariff policy might produce customs revenues equal to the sums produced annually under the Republican policy, this country would be obliged to continue importations at a rate in excess of five billions of dollars a year, and in this connection it is noteworthy that our imports for the fiscal year ended June 30th last, valued at $5,239,000,000, produced $323,000,-000, of customs revenues, or just about the sum realized in the last Republican year on $1,813,000,000 worth of imports. "Having learned that in order to equal Republican tariff laws as revenue producers, the Democratic policy must provide for an import value of goods nearly three times our pre-war average, another phase of the situation remains to be discussed, namely: How long can this country continue to import five and six billions of dollars worth of goods annually and still remain industrially prosperous, keep up a wage standard twice as great as before the war and pay enormous income taxes? Nor should it be argued that high prices are mainly responsible for the large aggregate in money value of our imports today. Quite the reverse is true. As an able economic writer recently stated, in commenting on our 1920 import trade: 'Yet even this figure is The building itself is the biggest of all in-door theaters, designed by Reinhardt himself and said to be the last word in playhouse architecture. It accommodates 5,000 to 6,000 spectators. It has three stages, arranged in tiers, a modification of the old outdoor Greek stage, permitting a great variety of arrangements and giving room for the great scenic effects. There is a revolving platform on the main stage, which allows the setting of one scene while another is being run off. Julius Caesar is given with only one intermission instead of the usual pauses between acts and scenes. It takes more than mechanical equipment, however, to make an artistic success. It is Reinhardt rather than his theater that interests. His house is crowded every night. His "Midsummer Night's Dream" ran for more than 1,000 nights. The American critic explains: "Reinhardt's followers enjoy Shakespeare because he has made it interesting for them—something our managers have failed to do. He doesn't treat a Shakespearean play as a vehicle for a star to display his or her histrionic talents. He offers is simply as an interesting play with a well balanced cast and with such artistic staging and lighting that David Belasco's tricks and photographic realism fade by comparison." He quotes Reinhardt himself as saying, in reply to an inquiry as to whether he would come to America: "I doubt if your theater-going public would welcome anything from Germany at this time. But there is no reason why some of your managers cannot present Shakespeare in an interesting fashion." No reason, indeed. And no reason, either, as Prof. Reinhardt adds, why use. That'a pretty good definition of the word. Ask any man. He'll tell you the same." What do you think is junk? TARIFFS AND REVENUES The record of Republican and Democratic tariff laws as revenue producers compiled from official figures is set forth today by the Republican Publicity Association, through its president, Hon. Jonathan Bourne, Jr., as follows: "Seven years of our import trade under the Democratic tariff law, 1914-20, inclusive, brought goods into this country aggregating nearly $20,000,000,-000 in value, and brought customs duties into the federal treasury in the sum of $1,631,000,000. During the last seven years under the Republican protective policy, 1907-13, inclusive, our imports aggregated $10,000,000,000 in value, but they boosted the federal revenues by $2,200,000,000. This is a statistical commentary which lands right on the point of the law of the Democratic contention that low rates of duty provide larger customs revenues, to which policy the San Francisco platform gives reaffirmance." "Comparing the two seven-year periods. While imports, under Democratic law, increased nearly 10 per cent, customs duties fell off about 26 per cent, or $566,000,000. The average annual income from port revenues under Republican law was $314,000,-000, under Democratic law, $233.000,-000; the average annual importation under the former was less than $1,500,-000,000; under the latter, over $2,800,-000,000." During the last two years under Republican law, the total imports came to $3,466,000,000; under Democratic law,. $8,334,000,000. The Republican years gave us $630,000,000 port between five and six billions of dollars worth of goods annually and still remain industrially prosperous, keep up a wage standard twice as great as before the war and pay enormous income taxes? Nor should it be argued that high prices are mainly responsible for the large aggregate in money value of our imports today. Quite the reverse is true. As an able economic writer recently stated, in commenting on our 1920 import trade: 'Yet even this figure is subject to serious modification because of the influence of foreign exchange. With the French franc worth less than half its normal value, the Italian lira less than a third, and the German mark selling under one-eighth of its parity, it is necessary for us to import a much larger quantity of goods from countries of those low currencies to offset in value an equivalent tonnage of our goods exported to them at high prices.'" When Senator Harding asserted that we would be calling for the 'saving Americanism' of the protective tariff policy again he stated what every student of the subject knows to be the truth. Assuming a 40 per cent increase over pre-war today we should count on $500,000,000 in port revenues annually. THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD The figures just given out in connection with the publication of the Congressional Record are huge. The number of words printed in 1917 was 652,511,694, and in 1919 455,130,450. Paper forms one of the principal items of expenditure, but although its price, as every newspaper publisher knows to his sorrow, has gone up enormously in the last three years, there has been an actual diminution under this heading; so far as the Record is concerned, due to the fact that a lighter and less expensive quality has been used. The cost of paper for 1917 was $300,000, for 1918 $162,000, and for 1919 $130,000. The total cost of the Record was $537,000 last year. There has been a strong agitation in congress for the discontinuance of the Record on account of its cost, but if extraneous matter were excluded and nothing given but the official account of the proceedings and the speeches of the senators and representatives a considerable saving could be effected. Many of the speeches indeed, could very well be dispensed with, but on the other hand there is no doubt that the world would be the poorer if the great orations delivered in both houses were not preserved in permanent form and indexed for a ready reference. For example, some of the spirited pronouncements for and against the league of nations are worthy of being enshrined in any collection of the great debates of history. The Congressional Record has grown to be a time-honored institution. Despite the irreverent jocosity with which it is eagerly awaited and carefully read by thousands of intelligent persons throughout the country, and besides letting them see how their representatives in congress voted, it not infrequently affords excellent and satisfying literary pabulum: The aim of legislators should therefore be to mend it, not end it. Anaheim Gazette, per year, $1.50, payable in advance. 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YOURS VERY TRULY, The Golden State National Bank of Anaheim Adolph Thomas, President. E. E. Smith, Cashier. TIME WILL TELL! Time proves all things right or wrong. If a building is built upon a poor foundation Time proves the fact. It is the same with a business foundation. Time proves the worth—it must be founded right to stand the passing of time. This business was built upon the foundation of Honest Work at Highest Prices. The foundation has proven Time proves all things right or wrong. If a building is built upon a poor foundation Time proves the fact. It is the same with a business foundation. Time proves the worth—it must be founded right to stand the passing of time. This business was built upon the foundation of Honest Work at Honest Prices. The foundation has proven to be solid and substantial. It has stood the test of thirteen years of time. Have you an automobile? Do you need any part of it repaired. 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