anaheim-gazette 1920-10-28

DEEPER WELLS NEEDED FOR PUMPING LOWERING WATER LEVEL MAKES IT NECESSARY FOR FARMERS TO SINK DEEPER. W. L. Diemling of the Edison Company gives Good Advice to Owners of Pumping Plants—Declares Water is Lower Now Than Ever Before—More Powerful Machinery Also Needed. When W. L. Diemling, district manager for the Edison Company, urged the farmers of Los Angeles and Orange counties to abandon shallow wells, dig deep wells and install turbine and large centrifugal pumps, it was only after an exhaustive survey of the underground water sources in these two counties had shown that increased usage of water, owing to a larger acreage to irrigate, combined with deficient rainfall for the past three years had lowered the water level to a point never reached before. It is certain that farmers operating pumps which are in wells less than 220 feet deep will soon be obligated either to install more powerful equipment, suffer crop losses or decrease their acreage. In every part of Southern California, with the exception of the San Fernando Valley, where the city of Los Angeles is filling up the underground channel of the Los Angeles River with water from the aqueduct—and this is up in connection with the recent reported sale. Wallace stated, however, that there is a possibility the purchasers may be planning on purchasing dredged material later to fill in the island. Wallace said he had no information as to the plans of the proposed syndicate in regard to the use of the island. The deal comes as an outgrowth of the present $500,000 harbor improvement being made. The island has been owned by the Pacific Electric Railway company for several years. The consideration involved in the deal is said to be $50,000. The land, which has a frontage of two miles along the barbary channels, including the Newport city channel, and the 16-foot channel now being dredged by the county, is expected to become industrial and commercial sites. MEXICO STILL AFLAME IN WATCHFUL WAITING Wilson and Lansing Descriptions Borne Out by Ibanez and Yet Nothing Has Been Done. Blasco Ibanez's statement on Mexico that letters he has received read like the lamentations of slaves, denouncing the crimes of their oppressors and doubting whether there will ever be justice in that country" is taken here as sufficient ground for further investigation by Congress of the entire Mexican problem. Members of the House recall the words of President Wilson five years ago. "Mexico is apparently no nearer a solution of her tragical troubles than she was when the revolution was first kindled. And she has been swept by civil war as if by fire. Her crops are ter his arrival morning. What caused gasoline tank mother and were at work child was plung Suddenly the a terrific expulsion they fought which enveloping clothing was placed rushed to the spite every cumbed. The parent in the habitat This adds tion with w fumes. That state how m the tank. PATRON S CE Birthday of Fi Within we can priests quarter ago San Juan Cthe mission. Solemn b sacristy of at San Juan was ruined mass in 1832 charge at the risty when down the grend end of the lives off Upon them of that day. had lowered the water level to a point never reached before. It is certain that farmers operating pumps which are in wells less than 220 feet deep will soon be obligated either to install more powerful equipment, suffer crop losses or decrease their acreage. In every part of Southern California, with the exception of the San Fernando Valley, where the city of Los Angeles is filling up the underground channel of the Los Angeles River with water from the aqueduct—and this is spreading to other sources in the valley—this condition prevails. Regarding the Orange county underground flow, Mr. Deimling says: "Underground water levels in Orange county are lower now than they were at any time last season. During September of last year scores of pumping plants that had pit pumps working had to be lowered in order to get sufficient water. The lowering of pit pumps seems to be only a temporary relief. In many wells, too, the pit pumps cannot be lowered on account of quicksand and in other places these wells are down as far as they can go and be operated successfully." "Some of the farmers with shallow wells to the west and southwest of Santa Ana have told me that they are not getting any water from their pumps, even when irrigating at night, when the water level generally rises a bit. These same wells produced a flow last year throughout the season. I am certain that the shallow wells have far less water to draw on now than they had at any time last season. The answer is, dig deeper wells, and install more powerful pumping machinery. It will pay in the long run. The farmers will have to come to it sooner or later." The owners of deep wells throughout proven water districts of Southern California are getting all the water they want through the use of turbine pumps. These wells are all the way from 250 to 1200 feet deep. The shallow wells that draw from the gravel strata about ninety feet down are failing. Ray Dixon, a Santa Ana contractor and well driller, says he has more work than he can handle sinking deep well pumps for farmers who fear a water shortage next season if they do not install deeper pumps. Mr. Dixon has just finished sinking a well for Dr. G. W. Schroeder of Harperville which goes 800 feet down, and has a flow of 120 inches through a turbine pump. This well, before it was deepened, was 160 feet deep and gave barely ten inches of water. and doubting whether there will ever be justice in that country" is taken here as sufficient ground for further investigation by Congress of the entire Mexican problem. Members of the House recall the words of President Wilson five years ago. "Mexico is apparently no nearer a solution of her tragical troubles than she was when the revolution was first kindled. And she has been swept by civil war as if by fire. Her crops are destroyed, her fields lie unseeded, her work cattle are confiscated for the use of the armed factions, her people flee to escape being drawn into unavailing bloodshed, and no man seems to see or lead the way to peace and settle order. There is no proper protection either for her own citizens or for the citizens of other nations resident and at work within her territory. Mexico is starving and without a government." Robert Lansing, Democratic Secretary of State, addressed the Minister of Foreign Relations of the Carranza Government which had been recognized by the United States in a note containing the following sentences: "For three years the Mexican Republic has been torn with civil strife; the lives of Americans and other aliens have been sacrificed; vast properties developed by American capital and enterprise have been destroyed or rendered non-productive; bandits have been permitted to roam at will through the territorry contiguous to the United States and to seize, without permission or without effective attempt at punishment, the property of Americans, while the lives of citizens of the United States who ventured to remain in Mexican territory or to return there to protect their interests have been taken, and in game cases barbarously taken, and the murderers have neither been apprehended nor brought to justice. It would be difficult to find in the annals of the history of Mexico conditions more deplorable than those which have existed there during these recent years of civil war." It is held that no plea of ignorance of conditions in Mexico can be accepted for Woodrow Wilson and his Democratic administration. The words of the President himself and of his Secretary of State show plainly that they have known the lives and properties of American citizens in Mexico were being ruthlessly sacrificed, and they did nothing but write notes admitting it—in the face of the Democratic platforms pompously proclaiming the duty of the nation to protect "the sacred rights of..." Ray Dixon, a Santa Ana contractor and well driller, says he has more work than he can handle sinking deep well pumps for farmers who fear a water shortage next season if they do not install deeper pumps. Mr. Dixon has just finished sinking a well for Dr. G. W. Schroeder of Harperville which goes 800 feet down, and has a flow of 120 inches through a turbine pump. This well, before it was deepened, was 160 feet deep and gave barely ten inches of water. Irrigation and soil moisture studies in Southern California show that, on the average loam soil, it requires from twelve to eighteen inches of water an acre to produce a crop by irrigation, the average being fifteen inches. The actual amount required, of course, depends upon the crop and the texture of the soil, but those who desire to install a pump take the average as fifteen inches of water per acre for field crops. Orchard irrigation requires 2 or 3 inches more as a rule. Flooding alfalfa six inches deep will, on average soil, under average climatic conditions, wet the soil four inches from the surface. MYSTERIOUS SALE Mystery surrounds the identity of the purchasers in the recent sale of the 105-acre island in the west end of Newport harbor. Lew Wallace, of Newport Beach, who made the sale Monday, stated that he has no information regarding the buyers, who, however, are believed to comprise a tentative syndicate of Long Beach men. The deal was made through an agent acting for the proposed syndicate. Other deals with Long Beach parties for this same land have previously been held up on the matter of filling in the marshy land of the island. This factor has not come It is held that no plea of ignorance of conditions in Mexico can be accepted for Woodrow Wilson and his Democratic administration. The words of the President himself and of his Secretary of State show plainly that they have known the lives and properties of American citizens in Mexico were being ruthlessly sacrificed, and they did nothing but write notes admitting it—in the face of the Democratic platforms pompously proclaiming the duty of the nation to protect "the sacred rights of American citizenship at home and abroad." This duty was ignored by Woodrow Wilson and his Democratic administration. With the riot of lawlessness, anarchy and destruction to which President Wilson and Secretary Lansing bore witness, education in Mexico was allowed to be swept away so that tens of thousands of children have grown up during the past decade in ignorance. Graft, intrigue, trickery and hatred of Americans have been the lessons learned by the arriving generation of Mexicans from their elders. Schools were abandoned, teachers were left unpaid until they were forced to seek other means of livelihood. The coterie of men in power recognized by Mr. Wilson as the "government" of Mexico deliberately sacrificed the teachers and the children. One estimate has it that in the Federal District alone 50,000 children of school age were deprived of education, and its is known that the number of schools in the Federal District dropped from more than three hundred to fewer than one hundred. JAP BOY KILLED His body burned to a crisp when his clothing ignited as the result of a gasoline tank at Costa Mesa, Pedos'a Dijiri, 6, a Japanese died in agony at the county hospital fifteen minutes af- RECENT REPORT that there mers may be reduced maland. Walnation as to syndicate is island. OUTGROWTH OF or improveand has been Electric Railway The condeal is said frontage of or channels, city channel, now being expected to commercial PATRON SAINT'S DAY CELEBRATED AT MISSION Birthday of St. John of Capistrano Fittingly Observed. Within walls hallowed by Franciscan priests nearly a century and a quarter ago, Saturday the day of San Juan Capistrano, patron saint of the mission, was celebrated. Solemn high mass was said in the sacristy of the great stone church at San Juan Capistrano. This church was ruined by earthquake during mass in 1812. The priest who was in charge at that time stood in the sacristy when the terrific tremblor shook down the great bell tower at the south end of the building and crushed out the lives of about forty neophytes. Upon the bricks where the altar of that day stood, today appeared "Why I Shall Vote Yes on Number Five" Let us imagine a patient in bed, with an Allopath on one side, a Homeopath on the other, a Christian Scientist at the foot and a Chiropractor at the head, not admitting, for want of room, the Eclectic, the Osteopath, the Magnetic or other healer. The Homeopath reproaches the Allopath on account of his big doses which may kill; the Allopath answers that the small pills of the Homeopath cannot do any good and that the patient should be receiving some active help; the Chiropractor insists that the medicine cannot do the work as the patient's spine is not in order, and the "VITAL FORCE" cannot reach the affected organs and that he, the Chiropractor, can release the pressure upon the nerves that lead to the affected organ with a simple little thrust of the hands and some common sense suggestions; finally, the Christian Scientist says the patient will get well soon if all the doctors leave the room and the sick patient alone. Every one of these different schools of healing has not only faithful but decidedly intelligent followers; common sense tells us that the Chiropractic idea is the most wonderful discovery of the age, as our government statistics will show during the flu epidemic, therefore I think the people of this state... CERTIFICATE OF CO-PARTNERSHIP TRANSACTING BUSINESS UNDER FICTITIOUS NAME. We, the undersigned, do hereby certify that we are co-partners transacting the business of practising medicine and surgery under the firm name and style of "Johnston-Wickett Clinic". That the principal place of business is at No. 117 North Claudina Street, in the City of Anaheim, Orange County, California. That the names of the members of said co-partnership and their respective places of residence, are as follows: Herbert Allan Johnston, residing at No. 104 East Broadway Street, Anaheim, Orange County, California. William Harold Wickett, residing at Chapman Ranch, Fullerton, Orange County, California. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands this 23rd day of September, 1920. HERBERT ALLAN JOHNSTON WILLIAM HAROLD WICKETT STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF ORANGE On this 23rd day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty, before me, Homer G. Ames, a Notary Public, in and for the County of Orange, State of California, residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared Herbert Allan Johnston and William Harold Wickett, known to me to be the persons described in and whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged to me that they executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written. HOMER G. AMES, Notary Public in and for said Orange County, California. (Notarial Seal) VOTE. "YES" ON NO. 5, T HIROPRACTIC CONTEST LETTERS ers are from Citizens in Our $100 Prize Contest. hiropractic Society. Huntington Beach, Calif., Oct. 7, 1920 WHY I SHALL VOTE "YES" ON THE CHIROPRACTIC BILL NO. 5 Four years ago the 13th of this month a certain girl baby was born in Pass, Calif. When the child was two weeks old, the doctor (can give you name if you wish it) said to the mother, "Don't set your heart on her; she can't live; she has taken your disease—consumption." The child thrived but breathed so loud when laid on her back you could hear her all over the house. At nine months of age she was put in a Los Angeles baby show of five hundred babies. Eight babies were picked out as possible winners. She was one of the eight. She lost out because she was too hcavy, but her photo appeared in a newspaper. The judges were the mayor of the city of Los Angeles and the head doctor at city or county hospital. At 14 months old she contracted pneumonia of the lungs. The same doctor was called. He said: "I told you so; she can't live; don't try to do anything for her; let her die quietly." I said, "Never say die until a chiropractic doctor gives her up." We called one, Dr. Lichty. The child was up playing in 10 days. She never breathed hard any more. We asked the doctor why the child's spine was twisted at birth, and when the chiropractor adjusted same today she breathed The same doctor was called. He said: "I told you so; she can't live; don't try to do anything for her; let her die quietly." I said, "Never say die until a chiropractic doctor gives her up." We called one, Dr. Lichty. The child was up playing in 10 days. She never breathed hard any more. We asked the doctor why the child's spine was twisted at birth, and when the chiropractor adjusted same, today she breathed natural. Today she is the picture of health—strong and vigorous. One more reason why I will vote "Yes" on No. 5 bill. If you need any more proof on this case I will be glad to furnish same. I am a registered voter of this town. Yours respectfully, F. L. BAILY, R.D. 1, Box 375, Huntington Beach, Cal. NO. 5, THE CHIROPRACTIC BILL