anaheim-gazette 1921-09-08

AN EXCITING EXPERIENCE Mrs. E. F. Wents, of Brookhurst avenue, returned Friday morning from a visit with her people at Holstein, Ia., accompanied by her sister, says the Fullerton Tribune. And thereby hangs a tale. The ladies were passengers on the Union Pacific train which was held up by bandits just outside of Ogden, Wednesday night, an experience they will not soon forget. As Mrs. Wents tells the story, she was in the observation car, when a masked gunman appeared on the platform, drove the people sitting there inside and herded them all back to a chair car, gathering up other Pullman car people along the way. Here their shepherd was joined by another man, also masked, and while the passengers stood with hands in the air with a gun trained on them the newcomer proceeded to appropriate such stores of currency as they had about them, such articles of jewelry as pleased his fancy. He refused to rob the train conductor, and with fine courtesy allowed the ladies of the party to retain their valuables, but levied tribute on every man in sight, the estimate of their losses when a hasty inventory was taken later, being placed at $500 to $700. When the through train slowed down for Salt Lake the robbers backed out of the car with their sack of loot, hopped off and fled in the darkness. Mrs. Wentz has a sense of humor and her description of the demeanor of some of her fellow-passengers in the emergency was good. Particularly entertaining were the antics of the colored porters who took cover in all manner of places and gave voice to a variety of accluations, indicative of their frame of mind. Mexico, this invitation from Obregon is admission that the oil companies have a case, and it is also a commitment to a policy of adjustment and reason. On the side of the oil companies there is assurance of our own government that they will be protected in their legitimate interests. But coupled with that firm assurance there was in the Hughes note, and there has been in the subsequent attitude at Washington, the plain desire not to force the issue with Mexico. An understanding is possible and desirable because of the fundamental consideration that through more than 10 troubled years in Mexico the American people, under great provocation, has given repeated proof of its sincere friendship and sympathy for the Mexican people and its wish for a solution of Mexico's problems on the basis of the recognition of America's elementary rights and interests. SHIRTWAIST DIPLOMACY Miss Alice M. Robertson, congresswoman from Oklahoma, says that any woman who is to sit in the disarmament conference ought to have the following qualifications: "She should be learned in international law. She should have diplomatic knowledge and training. She should be a linguist. Her social position should be above question. I would eliminate all social climbers. Women with ambition for future political honors should not be considered. "Added to these qualifications, a woman for that position of trust, honor and responsibility should have discretion and know how to listen and how to keep silent." Here indeed is a delineation of a super-woman. It tends to discourage, at the outset, those who have maintained that women should be represented in the conference, although Miss Robertson acknowledges that she Angeles Finance ed and declared A deed for right Marlon Johnson and declared a p Office of janitor, fixing salaries The county a transfer $2250 fund to road m4. The county a transfer $3500 fund to road im5. The county e to attend the meeting to be in Court time in September expenses and tr FOREST S According to strict forester or ice, the forest year's California interesting and sands who attend service has decided this year's fair. The exhibit at forest area been devastated it is a canvas pa 30 feet long, so cool attractive dered by a fire of which is th which fire spee is Mt. Eddy crea and shadows r acros its snow features in the ing are continuing foreground and been matched makes a very piece of work. In addition there are a nu ed out of the car with their sack of loot, hopped off and fled in the darkness. Mrs. Went has a sense of humor and her description of the demeanor of some of her fellow-passengers in the emergency was good. Particularly entertaining were the antics of the colored porters who took cover in all manner of places and gave voice to a variety of ejaculations, indicative of their frame of mind. A hint of the stern savagery which sometimes enters into the train-robbing business came when the gunman fired a shot in the direction of a passenger who showed symptoms of breaking away. Happily, no one was hurt or seriously crippled in a financial way and when the company separated at the Salt Lake station it was with a new experience added to their store and the conviction that they had come well out of the encounter. AUTOS ESCAPE TAXATION Less than 75 per cent of Orange county's automobile owning family of 16,003 pays a county assessment property tax. One in every five of Orange county's residents, whose names appear on the state vehicle licenses, owns no thing more than his automobile. And that automobile is of such low value that it is below the minimum assessment figure, deducting the legal allowance of $100. Or else, he is an ex-service man with an assessed property valuation of less than $5000. These facts appear in the figures of James Sleeper, county assessor, who is completing the compilation and tabulation of the annual county assessment roll. Sleeper said: "Though the figures are not yet complete, I am able to estimate that between 11,500 and 12,000 automobiles will be assessed by the county this year. Last year 9000 cars were assessed. This is an increase this year of about 3000." "The divergence between these figures and the total number of Orange county automobiles registered with the state motor vehicle department is explained by the various exemptions from county assessment." "When a man owns no other property but his automobile, and that given an assessed valuation of $150 or less, with ambition for future political honors should not be considered. "Added to these qualifications, a woman for that position of trust, honor and responsibility should have discretion and know how to listen and how to keep silent." Here indeed is a delineation of a super-woman. It tends to discourage, at the outset, those who have maintained that women should be represented in the conference, although Miss Robertson acknowledges that she has in mind one woman who might almost fill the bill. There is natural curiosity as to who this near-paragon may be. As for men, let them refrain from sinful pride. Where, indeed, is the statesman who measures up to the specifications? There are quite a few male public servants at Washington who ordinarily consider themselves capable of handling international negotiations. Since Miss Robertson outlined her ideal of a disarmament commission, they have maintained a modest silence. Let women, as well as men, however, take heart. Granting that a diplomat, male or female, should be of the supernal type described, we may still remember that the most vicious diplomacy of European history has been the work of men possessing the qualities mentioned. Good will and common sense are possibly more important than professional training. Perhaps shirtsleeve diplomacy—or shirtwaist diplomacy—is more likely to accomplish something worth while. SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS The board of supervisors ordered that the common school districts of Silverado school district and Peralta school district be annexed to the Orange union high school district of Orange county; that the common school districts of Trabuco school district, El Toro school district, Laguna Beach district and San Joaquin school district be annexed to the Tustin high school district; that the common school districts of Diamond school district, Greenville school district, Delhi school district, Harper Fairview school district, Newport Beach school district and Paularine school district be annexed to the Santa Ana high school district. The board accepted the resignation of Charles Prinslow, director of the Newport Height irrigation district, California, v. ed., A.S. Securities points out, P. 2000 square mile has a population is not considered populated. To its larger than England, Scotland—and yet United Kingdom England state area than California of more than a billionation, for striking, is the sylvania, Illinois which, combining the same term fornia, yet th "The divergence between these figures and the total number of Orange county automobiles registered with the state motor vehicle department is explained by the various exemptions from county assessment. "When a man owns no other property but his automobile, and that given an assessed valuation of $150 or less, his car is exempt, as the legal allowance is $100 and the remainder is not enough to be taxed. "Former soldiers, also, are exempt unless their property is valued at more than $5000." THE OIL MEN IN MEXICO No such good news concerning Mexico has come out for a long time as the announcement that the principal heads of virtually all the American oil interests are about to visit Mexico City for a round table discussion of the entire unhappy controversy with the Obregon government Business men in criticizing the torturous way of diplomacy, have so regularly emphasized the good that can be accomplished by opponents getting together for a heart-to-heart talk that it is now for these representative business men to make good their censure or ever more be silly. May take it for granted that something of the methods of diplomatic obtained in the present case, and private negotiations have prevailed the formal acceptance of Obregon's invitation to a conference. The presumption is that the oil men are going to Mexico prepared to find a settlement. There is every reason why a settlement should be found. On the side of district and San Joaquin school district be annexed to the Tustin high school district; that the common school districts of Diamond school district, Greenville school district, Delhi school district, Harper Fairview school district, Newport Beach school district and Paularine school district be annexed to the Santa Ana high school district. The board accepted the resignation of Charles Prinslow, director of the Newport Heights irrigation district, and appointed George A. Waterman, as director. The county auditor was directed to draw warrant on the advertising fund for $1000 in favor of the All Year club of southern California, same being to advertise Orange county. No bids being received for the $20,000 issue of 6 per cent bonds of the Bay City school district bonds, the matter was continued to September 6th, 1921, at 11 a.m. The chairman was authorized to approve the bond on map tract No. 74, and same was accepted as official plotting of said tract. It was ordered that map tract No. 184 be received by the board and the same be submitted to the city engineer of Huntington Beach. Spraying licenses were ordered issued to Harry L. Riehl, F. E. Gwin, Frank E. Smith and W. T. Davis & Son; fumigating license was issued to Morago & Woodhead, upon recommendation of the horticultural commissioner. Upon recommendation of the county engineer, the concrete tank at county farm was accepted as completed by Wm. Ledbetter Co., contractors. Upon recommendation of the county engineer, Lyon street, in the fifth road district was accepted as completed by B. R. Ford, contractor. A deed for right of way from the Los Obregon companies commit and will commit of our will be pro-interestes. Assurance state, and sent atti-ness desire mexico. Table and fundamental more than Mexico the last provoof of itsathy for Jewish for on the America's arts. ACY congress-that any disarmament the internal diplomat-the should position I would Women critical honors, a wobust, honorive discreet and how notion of a discourage, we main-be repre-although that she Angeles Finance company was accepted and declared a public highway. A deed for right of way from Estelle Marlon Johnson et al., was accepted and declared a public highway. Office of janitor and assistant janitor, fixing salaries, was created. The county auditor was ordered to transfer $2250 from the auto license fund to road improvement district No. 4. The county auditor was ordered to transfer $3500 from the auto license fund to road improvement district No. 5. The county engineer wa-s authorized to attend the meeting of the road testing to be in Contra Costa county some time in September. County to furnish expenses and transportation. FOREST SERVICE EXHIBIT According to Paul G. Redington, district forester of the U.S. forest service, the forest service exhibit at last year's California state fair proved so interesting and instructive to the thousands who attended the fair that the service has decided to again exhibit at this year's fair. The exhibit a-s a whote will depict a forest area before and after fire has devastated it. The mal nscene, which is a canvas painting 10 feet high and 30 feet long, shows on one side the cool attractiveness of the forest burdened by a fire line, on the other side of which is the blackened desolation which fire spells. In the background is Mt. Eddy crowned by a play of light and shadows as storm clouds drift across its snow-covered summit. The features in the foreground of the painting are continued out in the actual foreground and the way they have been matched up with the painting makes a very artistic and realistic piece of work. In addition to the main setting there are a number of models panels fro ma war on which we spent $24,000,000,000, and have now on hand, left over, much of it unused and still in original packing cases, millions upon millions of supplies, ready to use and already paid for. In spite of this we are spending nearly a billion and a half on the war department; nearly 50 per cent more for this department alone than all the expense of government combined ten years ago. The people of the whole world are crushed under the burden of taxation, the most of which is for or because of war. It will startle most people to learn that of all the taxes we are now paying, out of each dollar eighty-seven cents are spent for war. With the world war-sick; with no one in position to really jeopardize us; with other nations nearly or practically bankrupt, our liability to dangerous attack was probably never less than now, or for a good many years to come. With most of the world anxious to reduce the burden of armament, let us hope that the effort of President Harding to secure even a sort of gentleman's agreement, which would be a first and long step, will receive the outspoken support of every citizen. When public sentiment really insists upon disarmament it will come. MAKE THE STREETS SAFE The work of the city and county authorities to compel obedience to laws and ordinances governing automobile drivers on city and county streets and roads l-s one to be highly commended, and the present "campaign" l-s certain to bring good results. San Diego in the past has had more than its share of accidents due to careless driving and to disregard of ordinary laws for safety. It l-s time that all citizens should join in a movement to suppress such violations of the law and to make another kind of reputation for San Diego. ariculture has found that broodiness can be reduced very markedly by careful, rigid, and persistent selection. At the Massachusetts experiment station, where a detailed experimental study of broodings has been made, it was ascertained that previous to the practice of selection the average hen in the flock was broody 3.88 times a year. After palmaking selection was practiced for 5 years, this tendency to broodiness wa-s reduced so that the average egg producer in the flock developed broodiness only 0.36 times a year. A study of the correlations between broodiness and egg production shows that pullets that are very broody tend to lay relatively few eggs between their broody periods. There is no one dominant cause of broodiness among poultry. Genetically, there occur four distinct types of non-broodiness and one of broodiness. It is believed that birds showing only a slight tendency to broodiness belong in the same class as the non-broody fowls, as each has about the same proportion of broody offspring. The determination of broodiness is complicated by the fact that birds that are not broody during the pullot year may become broody during their second or third laying season. SCORES WILL ATTEND WALNUT GROWERS' MEET Orange County Will Be Well Represented at Puente Scores of Orange county walnut growers are expected to participate in the walnut growers' field day at Puente, Friday, September 16, which will be held under the auspices of the Los Angeles farm bureau. H. E. Wahlberg, Orange county farm advisor, announced that an invitation was extended to all walnut growers of Orange county to join the excursion to Puente. He said: of which is the blackened desolation which fire spells. In the background is Mt. Eddy crowned by a play of light and shadows as storm clouds drift across its snow-covered summit. The features in the foreground of the painting are continued out in the actual foreground and the way they have been matched up with the painting makes a very artistic and realistic piece of work. In addition to the main setting there are a number of models, panels and other paraphernalia illustrating the work of the forest service, the biological survey and the bureau of roads, all of which are under the department of agriculture. Redington said: "We all know that the fire risk in California is great and the enormous losses of hay, grain and forest products have been the fire toll this summer. The long dry season, the inflammable nature of the cover and the habit natural to Californians of camping out during the summer all help to produce these severe fire conditions. If the people who come to the fair this year and see the forest service exhibit can take away with them a realization that it is up to them to be careful with fire and will resolve not to take unwarranted chances with camp fires, matches, burning tobacco, etc., we will feel that we are more than repaid for all the work and expenses incident to the installation of this exhibit." This same exhibit will be shown later on at the Fresno district fair and at the Riverside fair. NO OVERPOPULATION HERE California, with its 3,000,000 population, is far from being overpopulated. As Secretary of State Jordan points out, Prussia, with an area 21,000 square miles less than California, has a population of 40,000,000, and yet is not considered menacing overpopulated. Territorially, California is larger than the United Kingdom—England, Scotland and Ireland combined—and yet the population of the United Kingdom is 5,000,000. The New England states combined have less area than California, yet a population of more than 7,400,000. Another combination, for comparison, which is striking, is that of New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and New Jersey, which, combined are approximately of the same territorial extent as California, yet they have a population of and ordinances governing automobile drivers on city and county streets and roads is one to be highly commended, and the present "campaign" is certain to bring good results. San Diego in the past has had more than its share of accidents due to careless driving and to disregard of ordinary laws for safety. It is time that all citizens should join in a movement to suppress such violations of the law and to make another kind of reputation for San Diego. If automobile driving in San Diego has the proper safeguards thrown around it and there is built up here a healthy respect not only for the law but for ordinary courtesy to "the other fellow," whether he be driving or walking, it will do much to increase the popularity of San Diego as a place in which visitors may have a good time. All who drive automobiles ought to help in building up such popularity. —San Diego Union. DOES IT PAY TO RAISE RUNTS QUERY PUT TO MANY FARMERS A questionnaire survey conducted among 1000 leading farmers and breeders by the United States department of agriculture indicates that about 7 percent of the annual production of farm livestock in the United States consists of runs and undersized specimens of the various breeds and classes. Farmers report that their annual incomes from livestock would be increased an average of 13 per cent if runs could be eliminated. Better methods of feeding and breeding better stock, the use of purebred registered sires, good care and systematic attention, better housing and sanitation, proper care of the dam before the birth of young, practical control of such objectionable parasites as worms and lice, the control of disease, and the culling from the farm of all stunted stock which indicates no possibilities of successful reformation and rehabilitation are the control methods recommended by these experienced farmers. About three-quarters of them say that it does not pay to raise runs, while the balance maintain that the Tom Thumbs of the livestock world can be raised successfully only when well bred and when plenty of cheap feed is available and dependable markets are readily accessible. POULTRY SUGGESTIONS FOR LATE AUGUST Scores of Orange county walnut growers are expected to participate in the walnut growers' field day at Puente, Friday, September 16, which will be held under the auspices of the Los Angeles farm bureau. H. E. Wahlberg, Orange county farm advisor, announced that an invitation was extended to all walnut growers of Orange county to join the excursion to Puente. He said: "Automobiles will leave Santa Ana at 9 a.m. from the city library at Sycamore and Fifth streets; Anaheim at 9:20 from the Anaheim library; Fullerton at 9:30 from the city hall and La Habra at 9:50 from the school house. "The trip will be made through Turnbull canyon at Whittier, which is the shortest route since the closing of Brea canyon. "Every walnut grower should go if possible. The time will be well repaid. The occasion is a walnut growers' field day under the auspices of the walnut growers' department of the Los Angeles farm bureau. The meeting will be held at the Puente Valley Walnut Growers' association packing house at Puente. The morning session will be devoted to a field study of the walnut root rot. This is a disease which is occurring in many districts. The cause of it has not yet been determined, but the rot is now considered to be a serious menace to the walnut industry. At noon there will be a basket lunch in the splendid new packing house, which is the largest and most up-to-date in the world, with coffee served by the association. "The afternoon program will include a number of speeches by men prominent on subjects of interest to walnut growers. It is expected that C. C. Teague, president of the California Walnut Growers' association, will render a report on the tariff fight at Washington and that Carlyle Thorpe, general manager of the same association, will speak on accomplishments of the past year. Prof. J. W. Nelson, of the state college of agriculture, has been invited to discuss oil moisture problems." THE WAR INCUBUS It has recently been computed that the money loss, due directly and indirectly to the war, and making no allowance whatever for the loss of human life, is 350 billion dollars. Like the number of miles to some distant star, the amount is so staggering as to cause a sort of mental insensibility; because even great financiers, accustomed to thinking in large amounts, can but feebly sense this vast amount. It is good for us to reflect on the price we are all paying for Germany's war. But for that war the 350 thousand millions would have been spent for churches, houses, roads, schools, presents for little children, savings against old age, comfortable clothes for the old, and pretty dresses for the young. Millions of comforts the world would have had during the seven years past. But it is all gone, which will tax the world for at least two generations. Ten years ago we spent less than $250,000,000 on our army and navy. This year we are spending close to $1,376,000,000, and have just emerged these experienced farmers. About three-quarters of them say that it does not pay to raise runts, while the balance maintain that the Tom Thumbs of the livestock world can be raised successfully only when well bred and when plenty of cheap feed is available and dependable markets are readily accessible. POULTRY SUGGESTIONS FOR LATE AUGUST Market the surplus cockerels this month, either as broilers, fryers, or roasters, as soon as they are large enough. Cull and market all hens molting to any great extent this month. After molting begins egg production stops, and the hen is carried at a loss. Early molters are not worth carrying for another year. The department of agriculture advises against keeping them. Keep the young stock growing by liberal feeding. Put nests in the houses occupied by the pullets. A few may begin to lay, and eggs laid on the floor are likely to get broken and lead to the habit of egg eating. Figure on seeding down any poultry yards or runs not in permanent sod Rye, winter oats, and winter wheat are good crops for poultry yards. CAREFUL SELECTION LESSENS BROODINESS, TESTS REVEAL Broody hens, like wayward children, are a great discredit to their parents and a source of annoyance to all who have to do with them. That is why one of the greatest concerns of every ambitious and enthusiastic poultryman is to restrict the appearance and development of broodiness in his flock. The United States department of ag- FAIRYLAND Theatre, Anaheim PARAMOUNT WEEK Thursday—William S. Hart, in "The Whistle." Friday—Dorothy Dalton, in "Behind Masks," and four acts of Vaudeville. 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