anaheim-gazette 1921-04-07

HARBOR BOOSTERS FORM ORGANIZATION Fifty Prominent Men of County Join the Association Declaring that Orange County harbor on Newport Bay could be made one of the best and greatest assets of the county— That it could be made available to the largest of the trans-Atlantic vessels for one million dollars, one-fifth of what Long Beach proposes spending for clearing that harbor of cliff and diverting the San Gabriel river from the Long Beach and San Pedro harbors— That Orange county harbor is a success and that everything that opponents of the project in the past have said could not be done, have practically been accomplished. That the people of Riverside and San Bernardino counties are enthusiastic over the harbor and its possibilities and— That they know more about the project than do a great many residents of Orange county, R. L. Bisby at the annual meeting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce at St. Ann's Inn Wednesday night proposed the organization of an association for promotion of industries and shipping for the port. The enthusiasm with which the suggestion demonstrated very clearly that Orange county folk have awakened to the fact that they have permitted a big project at their doors to lie dormant for too many years and are now ready to go to work and push the development for the harbor to the limit. Bisby asked for five minutes in which to pass papers for the signatures of men who would become members of the Orange County Harbor association, with dues at $10 a year. Several men passed the papers and in the five-minute period fifty men said they were willing to pay $10 a by shipping fruit by water instead of by rail. He is an advocate of the Orange County harbor. With fifty men constituting the initial membership of the Orange County Harbor association, it is expected that active steps will be taken at once to increase the membership to 100. Following is the agreement which the fifty men signed last night: "We, the undersigned agree to become members of an organization to be known as the Orange County Harbor association, and agree to pay the sum of $10 per annum in two equal payments of $5. We also agree to devote a part of our time and energy to the completion of and industrial and commercial harbor at Newport bay. The purpose of the association shall be to create a central organization to foster and encourage the development of Orange County's harbor at Newport bay; to co-operate in the location of industrial and manufacturing plants at this port; to initiate movements in the interest of increasing the tonnage shipments from this port; to authorize and empower one or more persons to represent the association at conferences where discussion is to be had on projects seeking port locations in Southern California; to support efforts to secure state and federal appropriations for deepening channels and enlarging port facilities; to invite the establishment of a naval base as well as the building and maintaining of federal fortifications and camps adjacent to our harbor; and to take an active part in anything that affects harbor interests. The Anaheim men who joined the association were: Fred L. Sexton, Chas. Eygabroad, Thomas L. McFadden, D. Jessurun, Harry D. Rilley, E. B. Camp, Henry M. Adams, Vic LaMont, and H. H. Benjamin." mitted a big project at their doors to lie dormant for too many years and are now ready to go to work and push the development for the harbor to the limit. Bisby asked for five minutes in which to pass papers for the signatures of men who would become members of the Orange County Harbor association, with dues at $10 a year. Several men passed the papers and in the five-minute period fifty men said they were willing to pay $10 a year for the privilege of becoming identified with the organization and pledged themselves to activity in promotion of the project by signing their names to the papers. "In the past fun has been made at the suggestion that our citrus fruits could be transported to Atlantic seaboard points by water," said Bisby. "Today it is a demonstrated fact that shipping fruit by water is not only feasible but profitable." "We heard people of this county say that the channel at the mouth of the harbor would not scour were a channel to be dredged. It has been demonstrated that it will. "We heard it said that the people of Riverside and San Bernardino counties were not interested in the harbor and would not support it by utilizing it were it established. A. S. Bradford, D. Eyman Huff and I were in Corona, Riverside and San Bernardino and I want to tell you that we found the greatest interest in the harbor project among the big business men of those communities." Here Bisby read a copy of one of several similar letters of endorsement received from businessmen of the three communities. Here's a letter received from Judge Rex B. Goodcell, of San Bernardino, president of the Chamber of Commerce of that city: "As a resident of San Bernardino county I have watched with some interest the growth of the harbor at Newport, believing the time would come when San Bernardino county would join with Orange County in the benefits to be derived from the harbor at Newport. "I heartily commend the vote of the citizens of Orange county in the building of a harbor at Newport, and look forward to the time when commercial and manufacturing enterprises will be established at this harbor. "It has lately been shown that citrus fruits can be shipped at a considerable saving of freight and a lesser damage in shipment." The suggestion of President Harding to combine the Department of War and the Navy into one Department of National Defense is meeting with widespread approval. Such a combination would eliminate the disastrous rivalry that has featured so many of the transactions of those departments. It is chaged that millions of dollars are lost to the people through the competitive bidding by the two secretaries for supplies Centralization of that sort, with consequent reduction of overhead expense, is in line with the principle of good business management. The contemplated reform in the military and naval branches of the government can be, and doubtless will be, reflected to a greater or less extent in the rest of the Federal service. Already the Department of Public Welfare is under consideration, into which would be collected bureaus now scattered about that pertain to the welfare of the citizen. Mr. Hoover says he intends to make the Department of Commerce a real aid to both our foreign and domestic trade. At present that department is cumbed with bureaues that have no relation whatever to commerce. It is probable that one of the reforms will be a much closer relation between the commercial attaches of that Department and the Consular Service, which is now directed through the State Department. There is little doubt that a man with a broad financial experience of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon will find much to improve in his new surroundings. The same is true of the other offices to be presided over in the future by Harding appointees. It has been suggested by one editor that a capacious ash can should be presented to President Harding to keep company with the new broom that somebody sent him. But reformation in the Government departments will not be a process of destruction alone. It will be rather a redistribution of activities that will bring max- SCOUTS NOTICE Of all the juvenile court cases was an active case. That was the Hairton, city Wash., and is fictitious bits of law with the entire body. Of the 700 boys in Tacoma one in active who had ever worked on scout work she considered speaking for its duct that she did the boys associate. "Scouting harm me for three mon, continuing great interest in it." First, it taught lessons there end; it gives physical activities doors. Third, it is highest ideal citizenship. "Such teaching ties for the gross estimable value included Mr. Huron." "I heartily commend the vote of the citizens of Orange county in the building of a harbor at Newport, and look forward to the time when commercial and manufacturing enterprises will be established at this harbor. "It has lately been shown that citrus fruits can be shipped at considerable saving of freight and a lesser damage in shipment. "I am heartily in favor of building a harbor at Newport because I believe it will permanently benefit the business interests of San Bernardino, Riverside and Orange counties." Letters of similar character were received from Francis Cuttle, president of the Riverside Water Company, W. G. Fraser, president of the Security Savings bank, and W. B. Clancy, president of the Citizen's National bank, all of Riverside; Judge G. R. Freeman, J. F. Mamner, former supervisor and Joy G. Jameson, president Bi-Products company of Corona J. H. Wilson, cashier of the San Bernardino County Investment Bank; A. S. Kendal, chairman of the board of supervisors; the Harris Company by Arthur Harris; George N. Havens, editor of the Index; H. C. Parker, secretary of the Parker Iron Works; F. M. Renfro, secretary of the San Bernardino Chamber of Commerce; Chas. A. Rouse, proprietor of the Arlington hotel and Joseph A. Rich, president of the National Orange show, all of San Bernardino. Charles Eygabroad, of Anaheim, a member of the foreign trade committee of the California Fruit Exchange, stated that $200 a car was being saved in his new surroundings. The same is true of the other offices to be presided over in the future by Harding appointees. It has been suggested by one editor that a capacious ash can should be presented to President Harding to keep company with the new broom that somebody sent him. But reformation in the Government departments will not be a process of destruction alone. It will be rather a redistribution of activities that will bring maximum efficiency with a minimum cost to the taxpayer. Unnecessary appendages attached to the Federal machine by the Wilson administration will be amputated and destroyed, but the work as a whole will be essentially constructive. Democratic editors threw fits over the appointment of Mr. Dougherty to the cabinet without arousing a sign of sympathetic action among the Republicans. Mr. Harding went on serenely with his cabinet making and Mr. Dougherty kept about his business. Having failed with their first feint, the Democratic editors are now unable to decide what course next to pursue. The action of Congress in determining on a continuation of the 1916 naval construction program, forecasted in the report of the Senate Naval Committee, it assured that our first line of defense is to be kept at a state of efficiency that will enable the United States to maintain its independent position in the world. Anaheim Gazette, fifty-two weeks for $1.50. There is so much industrial circles tent and of the sea national atmosphere understandable to have devoted their work there should become a about their security. This tendencyally in the delta registration blank. Energy is the registration which slon work of no maintains the recd will some day was badge and control appreciation which not feel regardlbe be a part of a ce FOREST SERVI NEW WESTERN SCOUT LEADER Fresh from his duties overseas, where, as director of athletics for the American expeditionary forces, he did conscientious work in guiding the recreational activities of millions of doughboys, E. S. DeGroot, noted physical educator, joint author of the California public school physical education law, one of the organizers of the Playgrounds Association of America, organizer and director for eight years of Chicago's public recreation centers and considered an authority on physical development the world over, has definitely allied himself with the boy scout movement by accepting the position of scout executive of the Los Angeles council. Rellinquishing a position paying a much higher salary, DeGroot, in consenting to devote himself exclusively to the development of scouting in Los Angeles, offers another example of the high grade of men that are new being attracted to the movement. DeGroot's advent into the executive phase of scouting will be hailed with enthusiasm by the hundreds of thousands of men and boys now connected with the Boy Scouts of America, for the record that he has built in the field of physical education is one that few men can excel or indeed equal in this country. SCOUTS NOT KNOWN IN COURT. "Of all the boys passing through the juvenile court in the past year, not one was an active scout." THE MASTER SPOILSMAN OF MODERN TIMES The prize for the most hypocritical editorial of the week goes to the New York Times, Wilson organ, which has been sneering and snarling at the Harding administration every morning since the new President took the oath, on the ground that what we have been getting is so little like the sort of thing the American people stepped on last November. The Times declares that Republican members of Congress who favor the appointment of Republicans to office are victims of a "singularly fossil state of mind." It says that what these "spoilsmen" favor is a return to the "Jacksonian era." Why the Jacksonian era? Andrew Jackson was an amateur in spoilsmanship as campared with Woodrow Wilson. Judged not by his words but by actions which speak far more convincingly. Andy was a retailer in political patronage: President Wilson was in the wholesale trade. The patronage passed out as party spoils by Andrew Jackson during his two terms aggregated a few paltry millions in salary value: Woodrow Wilson has given out patronage, on a personal and partisan basis, which can only be measured in billions. A few thousand men made up the civil list in Jackson's time; after eight years of Wilsonism with a quarter of a million new jobs created, there are three quartre of a million places. The narrowness of the partisanship manifested by Mr. Wilson in ladeling out the political potrage makes Andrew Jackson's spoilsmanship look like the manifestation of an era of political good feeling. The important diplomatic appointments were turned over to the heaviest campaign contributors. The smaller places were given out to build up local, state and national party machines. This was the general practice throughout the eight years of Mr. Wilson's Presidency, and to deny it is to dispute what is a matter of common knowledge to people living in every community in the country. To what depths of degradation spoilsmanship sank under Wilson, himself a former President of the National Civil Service Reform Association, may be judged from the statement, made out of the personal knowledge of the National Republican, that in one case papers it was desired to bring before the Senate Election Investigation Committee in the interests of Governor Cox, were purchased with a cash payment plus the appointment of the person making the sale to the place in the Department of Justice! A civil service commission which proved to be insufficiently pilant to the administration demands was "fired" from t he service and an entire new board appointed. This was accomplished without protest from the Tines or any of the professional civil service reformers, who as a matter of fact, are never alive to the horrors of the spoils system until a Republican administration gets into power. In cases where the law provides that the opposition party must be represented, President Wilson, in violation of all precedents and the spirit of the law, insisted upon selecting henchmen of his own, who were nominally Republicans. He continued an incompetent partisan cabinet all throughout a great war, and when he came to choose a peace commission, made it a mixture of his own personal agents and as the Republican representative selected one who had been out of the country for years and did not have a voting residence in the United States. The Wilson administration was the most riotous orgy of spoilsmanship this country has ever witnessed. The SCOUTS NOT KNOWN IN COURT. "Of all the boys passing through the juvenile court in the past year, not one was an active scout." That was the statement of U. E. Harmon, city attorney of Tacoma, Wash., and is one of the most significant bits of information in connection with the entire scout movement. Of the 700 boys now affiliated with the Tacoma council the fact that not one in active standing and only two who had ever had any connection with scout work should come under the consideration of the court officers speaks for itself of the ideals of conduct that the scout movement gives the boys associated with it, it is said. "Scouting has always appealed to me for three reasons," said Mr. Harmon, continuing his explanation of his great interest in the scout movement. "First, it teaches the boys the practical lessons they need to learn. Second, it gives them the recreation and physical activities in the great out-of-doors. Third, it holds up to the boye the highest ideals of service and good citizenship. "Such teaching, training and activities for the growing boys have an estimable value to a community," concluded Mr. Harmon. CHALLENGE TO THE CHURCHES. "I became well acquainted in the White mountains this summer with a layman from a large Eastern parish," writes Dr. George Parkin Atwater, in the Witness. "As we climbed Mt. Willard together, he asked, 'What do we need most? Could this church capture the child life?' "It might," I replied, "if it would begin to train laymen for work among children, if it understood the meaning of the boy scout movement, if it poured its money into training men and women rather than into bricks and mortar; in other words, if it accepted the challenge of the children, as Doctor Gardner so finely puts it, and brought the training of children out of the basement into the chief place in the life of the church. "Moreover, never forget this: The surest way to the heart and life of the parent is through an interest in the child." SCOUT REGISTRATIONS HELD. There is so much of uncertainty in industrial circles, so much of discon- SCOUT REGISTRATIONS HELD. There is so much of uncertainty in industrial circles, so much of discontent and of the spirit of waiting in the national atmosphere, that it is quite understandable that scoutmasters who have devoted tremendous energy to their work through the war period should become a little more deliberate about their scout work this year. This tendency is expressed nationally in the delay of innumerable registration blanks. Energy is the secret of a prompt re-registration which sustains the extension work of national headquarters, maintains the records of the boys who will some day want the Veteran Scout badge and contributes so largely to the appreciation which the boys feel or do not feel regarding the opportunity to be a part of a certain troop. FOREST SERVICE FOR SCOUTING. The forest service through Forester H. S. Graves, addressing its officers on the extension campaign, said in part: "As you doubtless know, the boy scouts co-operated with the forest service last year in locating black walnut for the war department. We have sought to encourage the use of the national forests by boy scouts in various ways. The forest service has a peculiar interest in their activities and ideals, as they should have in ours." PAGE THREE first two-term Democratic President since Andrew Jackson handed out as personal and partisan spoils a hundred times as many federal jobs as Andrew Jackson ever dreamed of being at the disposal of the autocratic head of a political machine. And yet the chief organ of the Wilson administration has the unspeakable hypocrisy to inveigh against the "spoils system" and pretend that Republican members of Congress in recommending Republicans for office, are reverting to the stone age politically! THE COUNTY OIL WELLS According to official reports just compiled in the office of the County Assessor James Sleeper from reports turned in by field deputies, on March 7, there were 697 producing wells in Orange county and 159 wells drilling. The county assessment for 1921 is based on conditions and facts as they were on the first Monday in March. A wildcat property that was still a wildcat property up to March 8 escapes taxation as oil property until next year, even had the well been brought in immediately after March 7 of this year. County Assessor Sleeper watches oil properties and oil developments more closely than does any other assessor in California. He has gained a statewide reputation among assessments of oil companies right up to date. Sleeper's reports show that on March 7 there were five producing wells in the Huntington Beach field and thirty-six wells drilling; fifty-nine producing wells in the Richfield district and seventy-two drilling; 633 producing wells in the Coyote-Fullerton district and forty-two drilling. At that time there were nine wildcat wells drilling in recognized wildcat territory. Eva Lyons Smith Plano Classical-Thilo Böcker Method Orange County Representative CHRISTENSEN SCHOOL OF POPULAR MUSIC. Studio, 211 W. Chartr's, Anaheim Phone 549-J Res. Fullerton, Phone 452-M Johnston-Wickett Clinic Clinic Building, Anaheim Dr. H. A. Johnston General Surgery DR. W. H. Wickett General Surgery Dr. J. A. Jackson X-ray and Radium Dr. W. M. Cole Internal Medicine Dr. H. D. Newkirk Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Dr. R. D. Alkman, Assistant Dr. H. van de Erve Pathology Dr. J. Robinson Diseases of Children Dr. A. H. Galvin Orthopedics J. S. Ward, Ph. G. 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