anaheim-gazette 1921-12-08

EMPHASIZES IMPORTANCE OF WATER CONFERENCE Congressman Swing Points Out Necessity of Harmonious Action Editor Gazette: May I take a minute of your time to emphasize the importance of the coming irrigation and power conferences to be held at Riverside the 8th, 9th and 10th and at San Diego December 12th? These meetings have the opportunity to do much good towards starting work on the development of the lower Colorado river, from which development will flow a wonderful prosperity for all the southwest. I have been working on this proposal for a number of years and am greatly interested in seeing the undertaking successfully begun. I am convinced that when this project is completed it will compare favorably with the Panama canal in importance and in the amount of benefits resulting therefrom to the American people. The present is a critical time for this great undertaking. Harmony is absolutely necessary. The united effort of the southwest is needed, if we are to succeed. It is a big enterprise and should be looked at in a big broad way. Pactional strife must be eliminated. Local jealousies and personal feeling should be submerged for the good of all. There will be benefits enough for all, once the work is done. I consider the development of the Colorado river the most important domestic matter before the people today, and I am, therefore, arranging my plans to attend these meetings. I hope you will not only follow the proceedings closely and give them the publicity they deserve, but that you will also use your influence to see that the delegates from your community realize the importance of reaching an agreement to work together for the common good. Sincerely yours, COMPANY AUTHORIZED TO ISSUE AND SELL STOCK Southern California Edison Company Will Increase Its Capital The Southern California Edison company was authorized this week by the railroad commission to issue and sell for cash at not less than $94 a share $7,500,000 of its common capital stock of the par value of $100 a share. The proceeds, which are to be used for construction work and to meet maturing obligations are required by the order to be held in the applicant's treasury, and disbursed only for such purposes as the commission may authorize in supplemental orders. The Southern California Edison company has an authorised stock issue of $100,000,000 divided into four million dollars of first preferred, $12,500,000 of second preferred and $83,500,000 of common. Of the authorized stock $55,085,800 is reported outstanding and subscribed. This includes all the first preferred and practically all the second preferred. The company is paying dividends at the rate of 8 percent on its outstanding first preferred and common stock and 5 per cent on its outstanding second preferred stock. The funded debt as of September 30 is reported at $72,626,000. The order of the commission quotes A. N. Kemp, vice-president of the Southern California Edison as testifying that the company's budget for 1922 calls for an expenditure of $19,750,000. Of this amount approximately $16,000,000 was stated to be needed for new construction, $1,000,000 to refund debentures due January 15, 1922, and about $2,500,000 to pay Edison Electric company of Wyoming bonds due September 1, 1922. VOICES FROM THE TOMB Now that the conference on the THE ROSE TOURNAMENT Entry blanks for the 1922 Tournament of Roses parade will be obtainable at Tournament of Roses headquarters by or before December 10. These blanks will give full information as to the classes in the big oral pageant. Chairman B. O. Kendall, of the Tournament of Roses parade committee, made this announcement. More handsome silver and gold trophies have been offered so far this time than on any similar date in the long history of the parade, says Chairman Kendall. The prizes this time will be the finest which have ever been offered for competition in the annual pageant. The parade record was set on January 1, 1921, when more than 100 notable entries were reviewed by some 300,000 people. It is expected that the parade this time will be even larger and more elaborate than the one a year ago. Special arrangement is being made this year to provide additional parking space for those who come to Pasadena by auto to witness the parade. A corps of workmen are already at work putting the great grand stands in shape for the annual "East and West" football game. This is expected to be the last of these football classics to be played at Tournament park as it is hoped and expected that the great, new stadium will be finished in time for the game on January 1, 1923. The football stands at Tournament park will seat practically as many persons this time as last when over 45,000 witnessed the game between Ohio State and California. AT THE TURNING POINT Now that the conference on the limitation of armaments bids fair to come to a successful termination the anti-administration press is adopting the age-worn policy which has for its precept that "if you can't criticize a thing, say that you originated it." Democratic organs like the New York World are attempting to claim that the credit for originating the plan is due to the repudiated Wilson administration and is virtuously advising the remaining democrats in the senate not to embarrass the conference or they will put themselves in the class of such naughty boys as Henry Cabot Lodge, et al., who prevented the dawning of the millennium by refusing to permit the United States to enter the league of nations. There are voices from the tomb, too. The late "Jimmy" Cox, with a vigor that will probably startle even Conan Doyle and Sir Oliver Lodge, speaks in clarion tones to the effect that the present conference is "but the fruit of Mr. Wilson's labors." All of which is, of course, interesting but not true. The present conference is the very antithesis of the one Woodrow Wilson got us into. At the risk of digging up the unpleasant past permit us to say that Mr. Wilson went to Europe with fourteen points, including something about "open covenants openly arrived at," the freedom of the seas, and the right of small peoples to choose their own political destiny. The "openly arrived at" idea was instantly discarded on Wilson's own motion. After numerous secret sessions the fourteen points went into the discard and Mr. Wilson came home with a remarkable document which obligated the United States to preserve the "staus quo," in other words, bound Uncle Sam to go to the assistance of any of the victors in the late war at any time any of the territory it had acquired as the spoils of war should be in danger of slipping. Mr. Wilson took with him a number of advisors and then paid no attention to their advice. We do not get this from this amount approximately $16,000,000 stated to be needed for new construction, $1,000,000 to refund debentures due January 15, 1922, and about $2,500,000 to pay Edison Electric company of Wyoming bonds due September 1, 1922. VOICES FROM THE TOMB A campaign will increase the membership. This is a most enlisted sympathy or horticultural interest familiar how labor lifted its condition high standard, we with the effects of our understandings in fifty utilities and companies seen the practical results from the clash and the raisin and but the general profit from the bar or distributors from the organization special crops. Now bureau to promote business methods operation among the greater fraternity, who represents them which is the founders superstructure of and prosperity. The organized fathom beginning to make in legislation and the partial progress been made in the ment. It is hard, make the power who organization will be the benefit of the benefits the farmer edit all of the people industries of the m AT THE TURNING POINT The world will not long remember whether the disarmament conference held open or secret sessions, provided the results are satisfactory. What the world must have to save it from universal bankruptcy, financial and moral, is less expensive and less provocative guarantees of peace. If it can be done by private conference, well and good; if it can be done by public discussion and public hearings, so much the better. The great objective is prevention of war, through abandonment, wholly or in part of the machinery of warfare. No one expects disarmament now; but everyone desires, demands and expects limitation of armament, with complete disarmament (except for police and defensive purposes) as a possible ultimate. If the conference falls, what hope is there for civilization? If it succeeds, what may not every nation accomplish for itself, what may not all to go her accomplish for the world? The Southern California Edison company was authorized by the railroad commission to use the proceeds from the sale of $1,000,000 of common stock previously authorized to reissue itself in part for moneys expended in paying $1,000,000 worth of debt that matured on January 15, 1923. The present conference is being held on American soil. Its general sessions are open and above board. On the American delegation is not the president himself, but his secretary of state in whom he properly has the greatest of confidence, and the Republican and Democratic leaders in the senate. The conference is not seeking to remkke the world, to guarantee territory to this sovereign or that one, but is honestly endeavoring so far as the United States is concerned at least, to lift some of the burden of taxation from the suffering peoples of the world by reducing armament. Versailles and Washington are so different that it is hard even for a Democratic newspaper to find any inspiration of one in the other. If, as "Jimmy" Cox says, the present conference is the fruit of Mr. Wilson's labor, it must be in that Wilson's fasco showed President Harding and Secretary Hughes just how not to do it. CAPT. HOLDERMAN HONORED Capt. Nelson M. Holderman, son of Mrs. Elwood Coate, of Orange, was introduced to the house of representatives in Washington by Congressman ANAHEIM GAZETTE CURRY NOVEMBER 9. Holderman was an officer of the "Lost Battalion" commanded by Col. Whittlesey, who committed suicide, and received the congressional medal of honor for rescuing two wounded soldiers under machine fire after he was severely wounded, and for other acts of gallantry during the stand of the battalion. Capt. Holderman is at present stationed at the Presidio in San Francisco. NATION BEING EDUCATED One important thing the Harding conference on limitation of armaments is doing. It is educating the American people to the fact that there are Pacific problems. In a vague way people have known of the clashes of interests in the far east. They have heard that the Japanese situation was difficult. But they have not known just what those problems are, or how they affected the United States. This ignorance has not been due to lack of informative material. There have been newspaper articles, magazine articles and books innumerable on the subject. But when a person isn't interested in a subject, he passes over what is written about it. Now of a sudden the whole question of the Pacific and of eastern Asia has been brought into dramatic prominence. People have become concerned about it. Before the conference is very far along the nation will at least have a fairly clear idea of what it is all about. FARM BUREAU'S IMPORTANCE A campaign will see, be launched to increase the membership in farm bureau. This is a movement that should enlist the sympathy and support of an progressive thinkers in agricultural or horticultural industry. We are all FARM TROUBLES TRACED TO FENCE WEEDS As a Rule, Fence Row and Waste Place Weeds Are the Result of Neglect "I've too much other work to spend time cleaning fence corners," declared a farmer when his neighbor asked why he allowed weeds to grow on line fences and the roadside. "For instance?" observed his caller, who had the New England habit of answering one question by asking another. "For instance, there's weeds all through my corn and potatoes, and they've been getting into the oats till this year's thrashing will be half canada thistles. And, for instance, the hired man's been laid up with ivy poisoning he took fixing up the pasture fence where some rails had rotated out. And, for instance, just now there's some city acquaintances of my daughter's coming out, and they might possibly buy the place if we could only get it tidied up—and there's a big crop of fall weeds in the front lot. I guess that's enough for instance to keep me from puttering around the fence corners with a grass hook after weeds." "Yes, maybee, looking at it from one angle," persisted the neighbor. "But then, consider. With balloon-seeds like Canada thistles, dandelions, wild lettuce, and milk-weed; bur-seeds like burdock and boggar's lice, sticking to every passing man and animal; the scatter-seeds like tumble; and the seeds that are scattered by birds—do you suppose those fence-corner weeds will remain in the fence corners? Don't you imagine that they have something to do with the fouling of your crop fields, and of that front lot that you know so anxious to have look neat for prospective purchasers? And don't you imagine that they find my field so well as rows? RARE PLANTS OF THE DESERT ARE COLLECTED Rare plants from the southern Mojave and Salton Sink desert lands are soon to be represented in the national institute at Washington, D. C., by a collection by Edmund Jaeger, head of the biological department of Polytechnic high school of Riverside. Mr. Jaeger is sending the plants at the request of Dr. William Maxen, assistant curator of the national herbarium at Washington, who learned of the Riverside scientist's work during the past six years in the collecting of desert plants and became interested from the fact that he has discovered a number of species of plants not heretofore found in the United States. Some of the specimens are said by Mr. Jaeger to be still puzzling specialists in plant determination. The collection is expected to be ready for shipment in two weeks. According to Mr. Jaeger, the northwest corner of the Colorado desert is the meeting place of the plants of Lower California and Sonora and of the Arizona and Nevada deserts. For that reason, he said, the desert flora becomes the most interesting in this country. Mr. Jaeger is at present preparing a scientific paper which will give an account of the distribution of these plants. One of the most peculiar plants in Mr. Jaeger's collection is one which is found in abundance only on the fog-drenched sea coasts of Lower California. A little colony of 15 of these plants was discovered by Mr. Jaeger growing on a sun-baked mesa slope in the vicinity of Morongo valley. This, according to the Riverside man, is an excellent example of the remarkable powers of adaptation possessed by certain plants. Sets of plants similar to that sent to the Smithsonian institute, have been requested by Stanford and Occidental FARM BUREAU'S IMPORTANCE A campaign will see it launched to increase the membership in farm bureau. This is a movement that should enlist the sympathy and support of an progressive thinkers in agricultural or horticultural industry. We are all familiar how labor through organization lifted its condition to the present high standard, we all come in contact with the effects of combinations or understandings in fixing the prices of utilities and commodities, we have seen the practical effects which have resulted from the citrus fruit exchange and the raisin and prune associations, but the general farmer has neither profited from the organization of labor, or distributors, and only partially from the organizations of growers of special crops. Now comes the farm bureau to promote better farming, better business methods and better cooperation among the members of that greater fraternity, the general farmer, who represents the basic industry which is the foundation of our entire superstructure of material progress and prosperity. The organized farmers are already beginning to make their influence felt in legislation and business, through the partial progress that has already been made in the farm bureau movement. It is hard, therefore, to estimate the power which more complete organization will be able to exert for the benefit of the farmer, and what benefits the farmer cannot fail to benefit all of the people and all of the industries of the nation. SEPTIC TANK FOR FARM The well managed farm of today means many household conveniences as well as labor saving farm machinery. Back breaking drudgery has been largely eliminated from both house and fields. Running water and the kitchen sink and bathroom have supplanted the old time pump and open, unsanitary drainage. But the most efficient disposal of sewage remained a problem until the concrete septic tank was invented. It is a simple, cheap and effective device, rapidly supplanting the dry well, with its constant menace of water pollution. In brief, there has come to the farmer like burdock and beggar's lice, sticking to every passing man and animal; the scatter-seeds like tumble; and the seeds that are scattered by birds—do you suppose those fence-corner weeds will remain in the fence corners? Don't you imagine that they have something to do with the fouling of your crop fields, and of that front lot that you are so anxious to have look neat for prospective purchasers? And don't you imagine that they foul my fields as well as yours? I noticed a little clump of wild lettuce in one angle of the fence; and do you know that one wild lettuce stalk yields from 8000 to 240,000 seeds in one season—enough to infest several acres of land? "Your hired man's case of poisoning is costing you practically a week's time, just when you can't afford it. And that was another case of line fence weeds. "The importance of cleaning out weeds growing in waste places around the farm is not generally realized. They are frequently neglected under pressure of other work; but there is little work around a farm that pays better than keeping the weeds out of farm yards, barn yards and fence rows, and I am selfish and I can't keep my fields clean as long as you leave your side of the line fence foul." Many common fence-row weeds are annuals and biennials and, the United States department of agriculture points out, they can be killed by mowing twice a year; but the location is one that might better be kept clear of all vegetation than grown up to weeds and perennialls. Like Canada thistles, can be killed out in these spots. An economical way of dealing with perennials is to saturate them with waste oils from automobiles and tractors. The disposal of this oil is in itself often a problem. It is well to cut the weeds first, apply the oil and cover the ground with clean dirt for appearance's sake. Oil will make the ground sterile and bare for several years. It is less drastic to cover the ground with tar paper, old tin, or loose boards, or to apply dry agricultural salt at the rate of one pound per square foot. On the whole, fence row and waste place weeds are the result of neglect. A little well-directed energy will keep them undr control. A common saying is that a weed-free farm is the sign of a good farmer. It is a mark of distinction that can only be attained by keeping constantly at the waste Back breaking drudgery has been largely eliminated from both house and fields. Running water and the kitchen sink and bathroom have supplanted the old time pump and open, unsanitary drainage. But the most efficient disposal of sewage remained a problem until the concrete septic tank was invented. It is a simple, cheap and effective device, rapidly supplanting the dry well, with its constant menace of water pollution. In brief, there has come to the farmer his own little sewerage plant in concrete, which answers his purpose even better than large city works, for he has neither the tax nor repairs that always attach to a city sewer system. The principle upon which the concrete septic tank operates is extremely interesting. It consists of a long, water tight cistern through which sewage passes very slowly and evenly. Located underground, it is warm and dark, thus affording perfect conditions for the development of the bacteria or germs which clarify and render harmless the sewage. After passing through the septic tank, the sewage is practically free from all suspended matter and has the appearance of water. From the septic tank this clear effluent is discharged into three lines of ordinary farm drain tile. While the odor from the septic tank is scarcely noticeable, it is nevertheless best to locate it at some distance from the house. Choose a spot easy to excavate so that the top of the tank can be sunk six inches below ground level and where the lines of drain tile will have sufficient fall to carry off the discharge fluid. The tank should be large enough to hold the entire sewage for one day. Contentment in youth is a vice; in old age, a virtue. PURSE SEINING Purse seine fishermen are threatening the food and game fish of California with extinction and serious consequences will follow their unrestricted operations, according to well informed sportmen who urge protective legislation and decry the lack of activity by state officials. Characterized by get-rich-quick methods the operations of purse selners are proving a menace that will result in the destruction of California's fish supply unless adequate legislation designed to curtail the wholesale depletion of state fishing grounds, declare sport anglers. A few years ago the waters of California teemed with millions of food and game fish. Sport fishing in California waters proved an international attraction. Today several varieties of fish face extinction at the hands of purse selners, it is asserted, while at least one species has been virtually exterminated. Today the waters of California provide little sport for amateur anglers. If you get into a rut, remember you put yourself there and it is up to you to pull yourself out. Dependable Used Cars All in overhauled condition. Some have new paint, bumpers, spare tires and tire covers. New car prices are lower than four or five years ago, and used cars have hit bed rock. Reports from the east indicate that a rise in price of new cars from their present low level is likely to occur by early spring. 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