anaheim-gazette 1920-09-09

BOY SCOUT DRIVE STARTING AT ONCE Efforts Being Made To Increase The Work In This County. A campaign to "sell" to citizens of Orange county the idea of Boy Scout work and to raise funds to extend the work to 500 additional boys in the county will be started at once in Santa Ana, Orange, Tustin, Laguna Beach and Fullerton and will be started in other communities as soon as a county scout executive is employed and can complete an organization for the work. This was the decision Thursday night at a meeting of the Orange county council, Boy Scouts of America, at the Church of the Messiah. The campaign will be closed up in the city and village communities agreed upon before October 1. Rural communities will be campaigned separately and the campaign will be made to suit the social and industrial convenience of the inhabitants in each community. A county scout executive will be hired at the next meeting of the county executive committee to organize the rural campaign, it was decided. At the suggestion of Charles N. Miller, national field scout executive, the Boy Scouts themselves will be used in the process of "selling" the Boy Scout idea to Orange county citizens. They will go into communities with a scout executive and demonstrate their work to give the subscribers an idea of what is to become of the $10 which it to be collected for associate memberships, 500 of which are to be sold in the county. The council agreed with Executive Miller that one or two public spirited men in each community who understand the value of Scout work should to the neglect of one or more of these considerations. Great losses have resulted from the practice of windrowing the peanut vines for curing instead of stacking them around small poles. If soil conditions are favorable peanuts will adapt themselves to a wider range of climate than almost any other southern crop. It is essential, however, that the crop be grown on soil where a loose surface can be maintained. The climatic requirements are a season of 100 to 140 days without frost, moderate rainfall during the growing period, an abundance of sunshine, and a relatively high temperature. Best results are secured under conditions where the normal annual rainfall is from 42 to 54 inches. Peanuts are frequently grown under irrigation. Light sandy loam soil is best adapted to their production for market. Poorly drained or sour soils are not generally desirable. Peanuts are exceptional among southern farm crops in that every part of the plant and all by-products resulting from the factory processes through which peanuts pass can be utilized to excellent advantage mainly for stock feeding. With the establishment of the peanut-oil industry, a line of practically new by-products has appeared upon the market, peanut cake and peanut meal being the most important. The demand for peanuts is increasing as new uses and a wider market are found. Farmers' Bulletin 1127, prepared by the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture, gives detailed information on practically all phases of growing and marketing peanuts. Copies may be had free upon request of the department at Washington. CANYON FIRES Two hundred cords of eusalyptus wood cut store length and corded, and Scout idea to Orange county citizens. They will go into communities with a scout executive and demonstrate their work to give the subscribers an idea of what is to become of the $10 which it to be collected for associate memberships, 500 of which are to be sold in the county. The council agreed with Executive Miller that one or two public spirited men in each community who understand the value of Scout work should not be allowed to subscribe that community's quota. "Before we enroll a citizen for a $10 associate membership, we want him to understand the Boy Scout work and to be enthusiastic for it," said Executive Miller. "He must be 'sold' the idea. He must know that Boy Scout work is a work of Americanization and citizenship among the boys, and he must want to keep the work going enough to take an associate membership. "This is not a 'drive', but a campaign to extend a worthy movement." Santa Ana will be asked to extend the work to 250 boys by subscribing for that number of associate memberships, and other allotments for cities and village in which the campaign is to be first put under way are: Fullerton, 55; Orange, 45; Tustin, 15; Laguna Beach, 10. SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS No bids being received for the $12,000.00 issue of Newport School District Bonds, the mater was continued to September 7th, 1920, at 11:00 A.M. B. R. Ford, Contractor for the Improvement of Orangethorpe Road in Road Dist. Improvement No. 3., was given an extension of forty-five days in which to complete his contract. P. L. McBride, was authorized to appoint an assistant of Superintendent of Road Department, at a salary of $150.00 per month. MONEY IN PEANUTS "Grow the best, put them up the best, and get the highest prices." This pithy admonition to growers of peanuts for profit sums up the advice given by specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture. Furthermore, in a bulletin, they tell growers how this can be done. The peanut is beginning to come into found. Farmers' Bulletin 1127, prepared by the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture, gives detailed information on practically all phases of growing and marketing peanuts. Copies may be had free upon request of the department at Washington. CANYON FIRES Two hundred cords of eusalyptus wood, cut stove length and corded, and valued at nearly $3,000 were destroyed by a brush fire of the Bixby ranch in Santiago canyon Thursday afternoon, according to Hugh T. Thompson, manager of the ranch. In addition the fire went through two of he gum groves on the ranch, including about 15 acres, and considerably damaged one of the groves. The spread of the blaze was stopped by valient efforts of nearly 75 fire fighters late yesterday afternoon, but the corded wood was still burning at that time and Manager Thompson kept a crew of men on the job until nearly midnight when the blaze was finally extinguished in the wood. Approximately 500 acres was burned over. The fire started at the Mexican camp, at southwest corner of the Bixby ranch shortly before noon yesterday and spread rapidly to the top of the main ridge north of the ranch house. A crew of firefighters was quickly gathered from the ranch from Orange and from Santa Ana and aided by Bob Northcross and his men who were working at the county park, they succeeded in halting the fire by beating and by quickly cutting fire breaks. The help of the Santa Ana and Orange men was greatly appreciated by the Bixby ranch management. "I never saw flames jump so high except during a strong desert wind", said Thompson. "This was due to the fact that everything was so dry. Even without a strong wind, the flames jumped as far as 75 and 100 feet. With everything so dry, people going into the hills should be extra careful at this time as a little precaution may prevent a really disastrous fire." If yesterday's fire had not been stopped so quickly, it probably would have gone over into the Santa Ana canyon and damaged the Irvine pasture land as well as burning over the watershed, according to Thompson. Another hillside fire which might have created havoc had it not been MONEY IN PEANUTS "Grow the best, put them up the best, and get the highest prices." This pithy admonition to growers of peanuts for profit sums up the advice given by specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture. Furthermore, in a bulletin, they tell growers how this can be done. The peanut is beginning to come into its own; far from being looked upon as a circus and holiday-fete delicacy its importance has waxed until today it is ranked as one of the best money crops for use in rotation with cotton and other farm crops in the fight against the boll weevil. It is now of commercial importance in no less than 12 Southern states. Until comparatively recently it was grown in the greater part of the Gulf coast region chiefly for stock feeding. In 1918 the peanut crop of the United States was approximately 53,000,000 bushels, valued at about $100,000,000. Peanuts are in increasing demand for oil manufacture and for making many other products. It has been shown to be safe for the Southern farmer to grow peanuts, as every part of the crop can be used to advantage for feeding on the farm in case the market does not justify their sale. A closer working relation between growers and dealers say specialists of the department is desirable; and the establishment of standard grades will do much toward stabilizing the industry. Good seed, proper preparation of the soil, frequent cultivation of the crop, proper harvesting and curing and grading of the product according to standard grades are the chief essentials to the growing of peanuts for profit. Most failures have been due jumped as far as 75 and 100 feet. With everything so dry, people going into the hills should be extra careful at this time as a little precaution may prevent a really disastrous fire." If yesterday's fire had not been stopped so quickly, it probably would have gone over into the Santa Ana canyon and damaged the Irvine pasture land as well as burning over the watershed, according to Thompson. Another hillside fire which might have created havoc had it not been quickly attacked, broke out in the Santa Ana canyon on the Irvine lauds one afternoon this week, burning over about 40 acres. Some autoist, it is believed, carelessly threw a match, cigar or cigarette out into the dry grass and the blaze quickly spread up the hillside. Fire Warden Baird of Riverside happened along, returning from the beach, and was soon joined by Forest Ranger Gerish of Glen Ivy, and together they gathered a dozen men and stopped the fire before it had spread far. These are the first two fires on this side of the range this year, and forest officials strongly urge extra care on the part of motorists and campers. It is an unusually dry season in the hills, and one bit of carlessness might result in a disastrous fire which might do irreparable damage to the local watershed. A FIX INDEED She—I'm in an awful fix! Just fancy! My husband has received an anonymous letter informing him of something I did before marriage! He—The best thing you can do is to confess. She—That's just it! He won't let me read the letter—and I don't know what to confess... ANAHEIM GAZETTE AND THEY SAY One of the women on an election board observed that elections are combersome, or something like that. Why not mark your ballot at your leisure during a certain period, then mail it to the proper party through Uncle Sam's postoffice, says she. Maybe the P. O. clerks would strike. A prominent San Diego dentist went up against the Santa Ana speed-fining judge and pulled ten days. He can pull teeth, but he couldn't pull his drag and get out. Speeders in this neck of the woods have many thrills. Some get the once over; others have close shaves, but when the speed-finer gets tough customers he drives them in. He used to be a barber. Rent grabbers are getting to be thicker than hair on a dog. How about a raise in the assessment. Recently a well known citizen kidded another and got him bawled out in the paper. Then the other retaliated and gave his crony a jolt—making the Josh a good bug house story, and all the boys got gabbling about it. Strange part of it all some outsiders believed both stories. A dishwasher arrived here a few days ago and going up against the housing problem, was given free lodging for the night in the city jail. You would hardly know the old place. Close observers declare that there were more machines on the road from as he carried a heavy wallet he felt uneasy nevertheless. While it's dry on top its moist underneath, and needs only a little scratching. A good many of the local sports find that they have business in a north end county town certain nights in the week. For several days afterwards they tell you all about the hooks, swings and uppercuts. Some of the women folk attend the "mills" and become highly excited along with the male species. Atta boy. EFFECTIVE COMPETITION This has been repeatedly admitted by Democrats after their party has been placed in power. An illustration of the impractical idealism has been seen in narly all of the important public acts of President Wilson. One of the first steps taken by him after his election was the calling of a special session of Congress to revise the tariff, and in his message at the opening of the session he asserted that 'the object of tariff duties must be effective competition, the whetting of American wits by contact with the wits of the rest of the world.' "Effective competition" and "whetting of wits" were phrases that appealed to popular favor and won the votes of many people who did not stop to analyze the expressions. If competition is to be effective it must be successful, and if foreign competition is successful in the American market it means the closing of American mills. The closing of American mills means the discharge of American workmen and the sending of American money abroad to buy goods made by foreign labor. Mr. Wilson missed the people when he assumed that the outcome of competition between American and foreign producers de- MUST USE YOUR HEAD IN RAISING POULTRY Why A San Gabriel Woman Is So Successful. The prevailing masculine idea that a woman uses her heels when she ought to use her head may be true of the woman whose pathway from range to sink is worn deep with the daily grind but it does not apply to the poultrywoman. To make any sort of success with poultry a woman must use her head—so says Mrs. E. Decker of San Gabrell and she ought to know. To care for nearly 2,000 hens and pullets, besides hatching and selling many thousand chicks each spring, with only a little help on the cleaning and some other heavy jobs, is a man size task, and any woman who accomplishes it must use her head. "I find I must save myself on the heaviest work," said Mrs. Decker, "for the head is not clear when the back is tired, and one must think one's way through." In every part of her big plant she has carried out this plan, and it is astonishing, when you come to think of it, in how many ways steps can be saved in the care of poultry. There are her self feeding bins, for instance, one in each house. These need only to be filled every two weeks or so and the mahshaken down occasionally so that it is always within reach of her birds. Then a particularly interesting device is a sort of wire pocket under the droppings board, in which greens are fed. This pocket is two or more feet from top to bottom and so aranged that it catches every bit of air that is circulating and is kept fresh for a long time. The hens peck through the wire but cannot drag the cut alfalfa onto the groud. How her big brooder house, which the boys got gabbling about it. Strange part of it all some outsiders believed both stories. A dishwasher arrived here a few days ago and going up against the housing problem, was given free lodging for the night in the city jali. You would hardly know the old place. Close observers declare that there were more machines on the road from Saturday afternoon to Monday night than ever before. Everybody who had four wheels and a gallon of gas was on his way. An interesting story is going the rounds about how a neighboring town to the north succeeded in laying a sewerage pipe line on a county highway. And the neighbors to the southwest are considerably "het" up about it. Political prognosticators have taken to the tall timbers. Best way to foretell a result of an election is to wait until the votes are counted. A man says he borrowed $10 and then went and lost it before getting action on the berries. Must have seen the new moon over his right shoulder. Auto bumps are becoming so frequent that many times no reports are made about them. But they are good for the repair man. A north-end county town is in the throes of a boxing contest discussion. Many good towns have given these "contests" the soft pedal. The park bond election is again drawing the spotlight. Start something to unite the people. Rumor has it that a brand new theatre is going to be built here soon. Now, what do you know about that? A local man, speaking of his business organization, said "if we could only pull together" we could accomplish much. Pipe the muscilage Glide, "If you'll stick to me; I'll stick to you." The girl with the roll top stocking has come to town. If you don't believe it stick around and rubber, says the stop to analyze the expressions. It competition is to be effective it must be successful, and if foreign competition is successful in the American market it means the closing of American mills. The closing of American mills means the discharge of American workmen and the sending of American money abroad to buy goods made by foreign labor. Mr. Wilson missed the people when he assumed that the outcome of competition between American and foreign producers depends upon wits. True, it depends somewhat on wits, but it is affected far more by standards of living scales of wages and conditions of work. The Japanese and Chinese work long hours, exploit child labor live in mere hovels, eat the plainest of food and care little for what Americans consider the comforts of life. Conditions are somewhat better in European countries, but a British commission which was sent to this country to investigate conditions expressed surprise at the higher standards of living among American workmen. They remarked that American workman live in better houses, wear better clothes, eat more meat, enjoy more recreation and have more money in the savings banks. Because the foreign workman is willing to live according to lower standards, he is able to produce it a less cost, and, in competition, has that advantage. It is not primarily a question of wits, it is a question of standards of wages, work and living. Undoubtedly, the better fed, better clothed and better housed workman is capable of turning out a somewhat larger amount of work, but he does not always do it. The underfed and poorly housed foreigner will work harder for fear of losing the small pay he receives. The record of foreign trade has repeatedly shown that under full competition, the American loses, not because less competent but because not willing to produce under the low standards prevailing aboard. "Effective competition" and "whetting of wits" were phrases that won votes, but they also proved to be pitfalls for American industry, as was demonstrated by the idle mills and the breadlines after the enactment of the Wilson-Underwood tariff law in 1913. And the Democratic platform of 1920 reaffirms the traditional policy of the Democratic party in favor of a tariff for revenue only. Are you going to vote for 'effective competition' or for casionally so that it is always within reach of her birds. Then a particularly interesting device is a sort of wire pocket under the droppings board, in which greens are fed. This pocket is two or more feet from top to bottom and so aranged that it catches every bit of air that is circulating and is kept fresh for a long time. The hens peck through the wire but cannot drag the cut alfalfa onto the grud. How her big brooder house, which will hold 1,200 chicks, could be so arranged that extra pullets could be kept in if late into the summer was a puzzle which kept Mrs. Decker thinking for some time. Finally she hit on the plan of building a long wooden awning over each of the two east-windows. In warm weather, and even in rainy weather, if the chicks are not very young the windows can be removed. The awning keeps out the morning sun, admits air and adds much to the availability of the house. The door of the feed room opens on the south and catches the sun all day. How to save carrying feed out through the heat was another problem which was finally solved by building several chutes which carry grain and mash out into the shed room where the big clover cutter stands. On a shelf above the chutes stand half a dozen pails on each of which a big black number is plainly painted. "I could never make the boys I hired now and then understand where a given pail of feed was to go," said Mrs. Decker. They invariably took the right pail to the wrong house. Finally I painted a number on the door of each house and the same number on a pail. Now when boys carry the pails they don't have to remember; they just make the numbers match." In the incubator cellar is a compact set of cooling shelves and a table that folds up against the wall. Three thousand chicks can be hatched here at once, and 1,200 of them can be brooded around the big brooder stove. "One can probably save more chicks if they are kept in smaller flocks," admits Mrs. Decker, "but I prefer the large flock because the labor is less." To make sure that the chicks are abundantly warm at bedtime more heat is turned on just as they are ready to sleep. This overcomes the chilly feeling that keeps them from settling down quickly, and as soon as they are settled down for the night the temperature is lowered again. The chicks A local man, speaking of his business organization, said "if we could only pull together" we could accomplish much. Pipe the muscage Glide, "If you'll stick to me; I'll stick to you." The girl with the roll top stocking has come to town. If you don't believe it stick around and rubber, says the office cub. On Monday afternoon a strange sight was witnessed at the Los Angeles Center street intersection, when during a jam of autos, two circles of cars formed around the flagpole in the congestion, hedged in on all sides by other machines. The traffic officer for a time was busier than a one-legged buck and wing dancer. A man who is on easy street allows everything has gone up except interest. Don't tell anybody. Many autoists who have had occasion to attempt to make the "cut-around" at the blocked Olive bridge come back with tales of hardship in pulling out of the sand. Some tell of their experiences in plain English, while others interject numerous blank-blankety-blank words in their recitals. A Los Angeles stranger came into the police station the other evening, and asked: "have you picked up a man today that was drunk?" Being informed that such a species was a rarity and that none now were in captivity, the stranger departed. He observed that his friend, while carrying a souse no doubt had hit the grit homeward, but "Effective competition" and "whetting of wits" were phrases that won votes, but they also proved to be pitfalls for American industry, as was demonstrated by the idle mills and the breadlines after the enactment of the Wilson-Underwood tariff law in 1913. And the Democratic platform of 1920 reaffirms the traditional policy of the Democratic party in favor of a tariff for revenue only. Are you going to vote for 'effective competition' or for 'America First?'? When a man named Vaughn, a well-known rifle shot, who has traveled nearly all over the world giving exhibitions, wanted to move from Burbank to Fullerton, he hired a Fullerton firm to move his household goods, and in the moving, he told the city trustees, the furniture was damaged $500 worth. The furniture was stored here and Vaughn has now taken a place in Santa Ana and wants his furniture moved there. But he doesn't want the same moving van on the job, he told the trustees, for he says it is not properly equipped, and he has asked that some method be opened so that he could get an outside company to move him from Fullerton to Santa Ana. A city ordinance prohibits any outside transfer company taking goods out of Fullerton without a license, but the trustees decided to make a special case of the Vaughn mater and issue a license to an outside van to move the goods and remit the license fee, in order that Vaughn may get the relief he asks. The feeling was expressed that when the city protects the local business man with a special license tax, that he in turn should be made to give a bond to protect the public. One can probably save more chicks if they are kept in smaller flocks," admits Mrs. Decker, "but I prefer the large flock because the labor is less." To make sure that the chicks are abundantly warm at bedtime more heat is turned on just as they are ready to sleep. This overcomes the chilly feeling that keeps them from settling down quickly, and as soon as they are settled down for the night the temperature is lowered again. The chicks are taken from the brooder house at six weeks of age and put in colony houses where they are warmed at night by kerosene lamps if necessary. A little heat is all that is required and the lamps answer the same purpose as the more expensive portable hovers. The laying house is of a type used by several San Gabriel poultrymen and dicers from the conventional design in that the front is boarded up two-thirds of the way to the eaves. A wide door in the side and another at the end with ventilators under the dropings boards and also above them under the eaves supply any lack of air from the closing of so much of the front. The closing of the space under the eaves which is advocated by so many writers and lecturers, Mrs. Decker has not found necessary. The door at the end of the house is divided in the middle, making possible to admit more air without a floor draft. Mrs. Decker came to San Gabriel three and a half years ago alone and anxious to make a living by outdoor work. Her work with poultry has been unexpectedly successful, and she has built up not only a big poultry plant but a cozy home with garden fruit trees and all that makes country life worth while. HEAD RAISING POULTRY Woman Is So safeful. masculine idea that he heels when she head may be true of the pathway from corn deep with the does not apply to To make any sort oftry a woman must may Mrs. E. Decker she ought to know. 2,000 hens and pullishing and selling chicks each spring, help on the cleaning navy jobs, is a man woman who accome her head. save myself on the and Mrs. Decker, "for near when the back must think one's way part of her big cried out this plan, ing, when you come how many ways steps the care of poultry. self feeding blins, for each house. These used every two weeks shaken down ocit is always within Then a particularce is a sort of wire droppings board, in fed. This pocket is from top to bottom that it catches every circulating and is long time. The hens wire but cannot drag to the groud. oeder house, which American Canning Popular In France. Thousands of women and children in France are learning to can in the American way this year. All classes from the peasant in the cottage to the lady in the chateau, are being reached by the four American canning specialists who are giving the canning demonstrations. This is the second year the United States Department of Agriculture has lent canning specialists to the French Government for the purpose of teaching the French people the American art of home canning and drying. The same group has been sent both years. The first demonstration this year was given early in June at a chateau near Versailles. At this demonstration an exhibit was also held of the products which were put up during the past year by French house wives under the instruction of the French teachers who attended the school conducted by the Americans in 1919. Several commercial canners competed with the home canners for the prizes, but the housewives carried off the bronze medal—the first prize. At Morsain large numbers of farm girls attended the demonstration given there and carefully watched each step in the canning of cherries, peas, and beans, in the drying of peas and beans, and in the extraction of pectin used in jelly making. All during June, July, and August the little group of Americans moved from place to place in France, teaching those who were anxious to learn the American methods. The work was carried by them into practically every section of France. Anaheim Gazette, per year, $1.50. payable in advance. TRAINED ANIMAL SHOW 2-PERFORMANCES-2 RAIN OR SHINE AFTERNOON AND NIGHT DOORS OPEN at 1 and 7 P.M. 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