anaheim-gazette 1922-01-12

IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO Items of Local Interest Culled from the Files of Former Issues of This Paper From Gazette of Jan. 13, 1872 The following gentlemen compose the grand jury for the January term of the county court: J. J. Warner, foreman; J. D. Hicks, Marcus Serrat, Chris Henne, George Walters, S. S. Reeves, Wolf Kalisher, J. H. Whitehorn, A. M. Dodson, Wm. Huber, H. Dockweller, C. T. Park, A. Harris, John See, Jose Redona. We are glad to see that the mattresses and furniture now being put into the Anaheim hotel have been made here by those competent workmen, Messrs. Backs Bros. This is as it should be—patronize home industry, and keep the money here. Geo. W. Barter, Esq., the genial and talented editor of the Los Angeles Star, paid us a visit on Wednesday last. He notes many improvements in Anaheim, and still gives us credit of having the loveliest and most thriving town in the state—and he is right. We had 1 1-2 inches of rain this week, making a total to date of 7 1-2 inches. Married—At the residence of the bride's father, near Anaheim, on the 9th inst., by A. Kohler, Esq., J. P., Mr. Charles Counza to Miss Lizette Parker. From Gazette of Jan. 14, 1897. Mme. Modjeska has gone to San Francisco to prepare for her farewell tour. She will open at the Baldwin theatre on the 25th and play an engagement of four weeks. Mme. Modjeska may retire permanently after this engagement. Clarence Groat has a contract for cementing 1300 feet of ditch running north from Orangethorpe avenue between the Schulte and Skinner places and for a mile and a half of ditch at the Botsford ranch, east of Tuffree's. Clarence had a gang of fifteen men at work upon the improvements, but had to knock off yesterday on account of the rain. There will be a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce at the city hall this evening, when an attempt will be made to reorganize, elect new officers and start the organization anew. Mr. L. H. Ledger, of Los Angeles, visited with his sister, Mrs. Lloyd C. Bailey, last week. Miss Mable Langenberger gives a piano recital in Los Angeles tomorrow evening, under the tutelage of her instructress, Miss Mary L. O'Donaghue, the noted pianist, and assisted by Miss Jennie Winston, the well known soprano. Miss Langenberger is an accomplished musician having attained... We had 1 1-2 inches of rain this week, making a total to date of 7 1-2 inches. Married—At the residence of the bride's father, near Anaheim, on the 9th inst., by A. Kohler, Esq., J. P., Mr. Charles Counza to Miss Lizette Parker. The legislature adjourned on the 8th inst. in respect to the memory of Gen. Jackson and the battle of New Orleans. Farmers, rally, rally! Two thousand head of bronco horses broke the enclosure at Bolsa Chica Rancho, and are scattering over the entire Stearns' Ranchos in everybody's grain fields and vegetable gardens. Are we to stand this another year? Where is the no-fence law petition? Hand it around and let's sign it. We must have this fixed at once, or two more years will roll around and we shall be pestered nigh unto death. Sign it! A bill has been introduced into the state legislature, prohibiting the sale of intoxicating drinks to minors. The L. A. and S. B. Land company, through their efficient agent, W. R. Olden, have recently sold 40 acres to R. Cummings, 40 acres to James D. Byrd, 120 acres to Leonard Parker, and 90 acres to Dr. W. M. Higgins. Several other sales are in process of consumption. Geo. W. Barter has sold his 10-acre lot in Fairview to Robert Ashcroft. The land is selling fast and whoever would buy had better do so soon. An adjourned meeting of the Anaheim fire company was held on Monday evening, with 34 members present. Mr. Phil Davis stated he had been appointed a committee by the common council to request the fire company to dispense with the ringing of the fire bell except in case of fire. The president appointed a committee to inform the common council that no fire alarm will be rung except in case of fire. Bill of N. H. Mitchel of $7.50 for stage hire, ordered paid. The secretary was ordered to procure, with the least delay possible, a fire alarm bell to weigh not less than 300 pounds. Mr. Brookbanks submitted plan for truck house, with proposition for building; ordered that Mr. B. Mr. L. H. Ledger, of Los Angeles, visited with his sister, Mrs. Lloyd C. Bailey, last week. Miss Mable Langenberger gives a piano recital in Los Angeles tomorrow evening, under the tutelage of her instructress, Miss Mary L. O'Donaghue, the noted pianist, and assisted by Miss Jennie Winston, the well known soprano. Miss Langenberger is an accomplished musician, having attained a perfection in playing that is seldom seen in one so young. Marshal Steadman dtsires us to return thanks to the gentleman who was so considerate as to return his fountain pen the day after its disappearance, noted in our columns a fortnight ago. We forgot to mention it last week, but two weeks ago this morning as the marshal entered his office in the city hall there lay his long lost fountain pen upon his desk. Asked whether he still suspicioned the city clerk as the guilty party, he replied evasively that that august official had said nothing about it, and it might have been one of the orange growers, probably Mr. _____, but we won't say anything about it. Ont of the pleasantest of the social gatherings enjoyed by the Ladies' Euchre club was the meeting at the home of Mrs. Merritt on Friday afternoon last. Mrs. Crist, by superior playing, won the first prize, a handsome mantel clock, and Mrs. Landell captured the second, an elegant cut glass bottle of perfume. Delicious refreshments were served and as the sun was sinking in the west the ladies dispersed to their homes. Mrs. Wm. Konig entertained a number of the young folks at her home on Sunday evening, the occasion being in honor of Miss Krauss and Miss Malstead, of Los Angeles, who are visiting her. During the evening Mrs. Konig favored the guests with a vocal solo. Several piano, mandolin and guitar duets were also rendered by some of the guests. Editor Bynon, of the San Pedro American, has distinction after distinction heaped upon him. He recently purchased a second paper at Long Beach, then he was arrested for libel committed upon a San Pedro town trustee, and was last week found guilty. He was to have been sentenced again and again. Of course Mr. is not right, then government is fine Representative based upon the book of the people—the ship—can be true... The mountains northeast and east of Anaheim present now a beautiful white covering of snow, contrasting finely with the bright green verdure of the valley and foothills. San Bernardino county has resolved by a vote of 398 to 71 to donate $50,000 of county bonds to a railroad from San Bernardino to San Diego. The survey of the San Diego and Los Angeles railroad route was commenced yesterday, the first stake being given in Old Town. The surveying party consists of Chas. Fox, chief engineer; Megars. Knox and Rueble assistants, and eight other men who do duty as flagmen, etc. The following is the general line of the route Commencing at Old San Diego and running towards Powil, from the c/o to San Luis Rey then through the Santa Margarita and San Jaun Capistrano valleys to Anaheim, and finally terminating at Los Angeles. From Anaheim to San Bernardino, the route for a branch road will also be surveyed.—San Diego Union. Editor Bynon, of the San Pedro American, has distinction after distinction heaped upon him. He recently purchased a second paper at Long Beach, then he was arrested for libel committed upon a San Pedro town trustee, and was last week found guilty. He was to have been sentenced yesterday, and we expect to hear of the lucky dog getting ten years in San Quentin. It is better to be born lucky than rich. On Tuesday afternoon last Fritz Ruhman was very happily wedded to Mrs. Henry Boege, a well known and universally esteemed lady of this city, whose friends are legion. Fritz could not have picked out a better wife—nor the bride a better husband. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Father Bannon at the Catholic parsonage. Mr. and Mrs. Shanley attended the happy couple. After the ceremony the wedding party were driven to the home of the bride, where an elegant breakfast was partaken of. The happy couple took the afternoon train for Los Angeles, where a short honeymoon will be spent. The Pasadena Star objects to the expression "an hospitable." Pshaw, Charley, we've done lots worse things nor that. Born, Saturday, Jan. 9, 1897, to the wife of Walter Parrett, a beautiful daughter. She weighs 10 pounds and is the fifth in line of fine living generations. May she attain the ripe old age in health and happiness of the eldest of her great-great grandmothers. INCOME TAX EXEMPTIONS Exemptions of $2500 for married persons and $400 for dependents, provided in the new income tax law and effective on returns for 1921, will save many thousands of dollars to Orange county income taxpayers, according to declarations made by E. B. Brusn, deputy collector in Orange county for the United States internal revenue bureau, in an address before the Kiwanis club at St. Ann's Inn. Burns made it clear that these exemptions are available to payers who have to file returns in 1922 for incomes for 1921. There has been considerable doubt on this point, information being given out immediately following the adoption of the new regulations that the exemptions could not be applied to the 1921 returns. Burns asserts that there are many hundreds of income payers in the county in the $2000 class and the increased exemptions will come as great relief to them. Tax rates remain the same. There is no increase in exemptions for single persons. He referred to three classes that must file reports. First, all single persons, and they include widows and widowers and husbands and wives who are living apart voluntarily with net incomes of $1000 or over. Second, all married persons with net incomes of $2000 or over, regardless of whether the exemption would relieve them of paying a tax. Third, every person with a gross income of $5000 or more, regardless of net income and exemption of $2000. This is a new feature in the law. The other two points are old, but emphasized to make them clear. If particular interest to Orange county farmers is a new provision, applicable to 1921 returns, making it was not a full compliance with the qualifying clause of Mr. Kahn's proposition, "provided the case is stated fully." Decisions are often made by the people through the force of public opinion as well as at the ballot box. This has been particularly true in recent years when some important problems have arisen not of a political and partisan character. It was public opinion, for instance, that prevented the threatened railway strike a few weeks ago. Open discussion brought the facts to the attention of the public, and the masses decided the case. What American business needs is more faith in the people—in the composite citizen. TUMULTY WRONG AGAIN It is an extraordinary tale that Mr. Tumulty has unfolded for the edification of the American people. They would be credulous indeed if they accepted without question all of the remarkable statements he has made concerning his former chief and his connection with the war and the Paris peace settlement. The Republican majority of the senate who accomplished the defeat of the league covenant must stand agast at the enormity of their offense aslaid bare by Tumulty. The famous Round Robin of March 4, 1919, signed by 39 Republican senators decreeing the defeat of the covenant, is designated as "a singularly shameful chapter in American history." Mr. Tumulty ascribes to the publication of that Round Robin the events in the peace conference immediately thereafter, while Mr. Wilson was on the ocean hastening back to Paris. Upon receipt by cable of the news of the action of the Republican senators, Mr. Tumulty says the league length from the boundary line to the Lower California sea-port, and is one of the most scenic routes on the continent of North America, according to automobile club officials who have just completed an inspection and charting trip into Mexico as guests of Governor Ybarra and Superintendent of Roads Miguel Gandara. OCEAN the largest Casualty and Accident Company in the world for Compensation, Health and Accident, Plate Glass. FRANK TAUSH Representative of Northern Orange County Phone 342-W Johnston-Wickett Clinic Clinic Building, Anaheim DR. H. A. JOHNSTON DR. W. H. WICKETT DR. H. D. NEWKIRK DR. J. RODINSON DR. A. H. GALVIN DR. R. D. AIKMAN DR. H. VAN DE ERVE DR. W. M. COLE DR. M. W HOLLINGSWORTH DR. C. MAYFIELD DR. B. RAICHE DR. K. W. ALLEN J. S. WARD, Ph. G. Second, all married persons with net incomes of $2000 or over, regardless of whether the exemption would relieve them of paying a tax. Third, every person with a gross income of $5000 or more, regardless of net income and exemption of $2000. This is a new feature in the law. The other two points are old, but emphasized to make them clear. If particular interest to Orange county farmers is a new provision, applicable to 1921 returns, making it possible for a farmer to carry a loss over from one year to the next. For instance, if a farmer in 1921 sustains a loss of $1500 and in 1922 he shows net income of $1000, one thousand dollars of the loss in 1922 can be absorbed in loss exemption, and the $500 can be applied the following year should income show a net sufficient to absorb the $500. A loss can be carried over for a period of three years. In order to avail themselves of this provision farmers must keep books and keep them systematically and accurately. Another provision that will be effective for 1922 returns is one limiting the tax on capital increases to 12 1/2 per cent. Gains through capital increases must be kept separate from income from other sources. The maximum rate was established to encourage investment of capital in industrial enterprises. The deputy collector announces definitely that as soon as income blanks are available information will be given out through the press. Blanks will be sent from the Los Angeles office to those who filled returns for 1920. Burns does not have blanks at this time and none will be available until received by the Los Angeles office and forwarded here. KAHN'S ARGUMENT SOUND It would be well if all business men, particularly those interested in public utilities, could fully realize the truth of the assertion made by Otto H. Kahn, of the banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., when he said, "Business can safely put its trust in the masses of the people provided it will go to the trouble to state its case clearly and fully. This has been demonstrated again and again." Of course Mr. Kahn is right. If he is not right, then our entire system of government is fundamentally wrong. Representative popular government is based upon the belief that the masses of the people—the composite citizen—can be trusted to form government. March 4, 1919, signed by 39 Republican senators decreeing the defeat of the covenant, is designated as "a singularly shameful chapter in American history." Mr. Tumulty ascribes to the publication of that Round Robin the events in the peace conference immediately thereafter, while Mr. Wilson was on the ocean hastening back to Paris. Upon receipt by cable of the news of the action of the Republican senators, Mr. Tumulty says the league covenant was discarded, and a preliminary peace arranged based upon a frank division of spoils. Germany was to be a slave state; the allies were to form a military alliance to guarantee their gains; an allied army was to march on Russia to put down the Bolsheviks, the treaty was to be enforced by an allied army of occupation, and the United States was to pay the cost of the Russian expedition and other expenses incident to the military occupation of Europe. Those were the consequences, according to the Wilson biographer, that followed from the publication of the Republican Round Robin. Ten days after the conspirators had evolved their schemes, the hero of the Tumulty book arrived on the scene. "The president allowed himself just twenty-four hours in which to grasp the plot in all its details, and then he acted." He informed his colleagues of the peace conference that the league covenant must be made a part of the treaty of peace. Two weeks later, the conferees not proving sufficiently tractable, Mr. Wilson ordered the George Washington to proceed at once to Brest, but the fit of temper incident to the Round Robin and its effect at Paris was too much for the President and he collapsed and went to bed. It may be confidently stated that it has never occurred to the 39 signers of the Round Robin that by their action they favored any of the iniquitous proceedings outlined by Mr. Tumulty. All that the Round Robin did or was designed to do was to serve notice to Mr. Wilson and to the world that the sovereignty of the United States was not to be abridged by membership in any super-government. It was completely effective in that regard, and the fatal illness that assailed the league idea in this country dates from March 4, 1919, the day the Round Robin was signed. INTERNATIONAL ROAD-SIGNING For the first time in history, an American mastering Of course Mr. Kahn is right. If he is not right, then our entire system of government is fundamentally wrong. Representative popular government is based upon the belief that the masses of the people—the composite citizenship—can be trusted to form sound opinions of both men and measures. From the beginning of our government, the people have been asked to pass judgment upon rival candidates for office, and, in national affairs in particular, this has involved passing judgment upon the issues, for the candidates have discussed the issues in the campaigns. The personalities of the candidates always have a bearing, and should have, but it is altogether probable that the principles for which the candidates stand are of more influence upon the voters than are the characteristics of the men themselves. American government has been operated upon this faith in the masses for a century and a quarter and our faith has increased rather than diminished, for we provided for the direct election of senators and a large number of states have adopted constitutional amendments providing authority for the submission of laws to the people for popular adoption or rejection. It does not appear that any great calamity has resulted from the extension of the power of the masses. Quite likely mistakes have been made, but so also have mistakes been made—equally as great mistakes—where power was exercised by a supposedly superior few instead of by the masses. It is altogether probable that where the people acting in the aggregate have made mistakes, there INTERNATIONAL ROAD-SIGNING For the first time in history, an American motoring organization is going to embark on an international road-signing undertaking. This announcement has just been made by the Automobile Club of Southern California, which is preparing to mark the new Mexican national boulevard leading from the boundary of the United States to the port of Ensenada on the coast of Lower California. This undertaking, in a way, is the most important of the many already completed by the organization which has marked the transcontinental highways of the nation and provided 83,000 road signs for the traveling automobile tourists of the United States. Straight into the heart of what is considered by sportsmen to be the happiest of all quail, duck and deer hunting grounds goes the new highway built by the government of Lower California by a tremendous cost and covering a period of two years in construction. All signs to be erected by the auto club for the guidance of international motoring parties will conform to the foreign metric system of mileage, and will be given in Spanish as well as English. Motorists of this continent who choose to travel to Ensenada over the new boulevard will get their first taste of the European metric mileage directions. The new road is sixty-eight miles in Room 5, Cassou Bldg. Phone 692 Anaheim J. H. COLE, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Diseases of the Eye and Fitting of Glasses a Specialty 312-319 First National Bank Bldg. Tel. Office Home Phone 644-J 644-M Anaheim. California CHRISTIAN SCIENCE First Church on Christ, Scientist, corner of Philadelphia and Chartres streets. Sunday service at 11 a.m. and at 7:45 in the evening. Also Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. A meeting Wednesday at 7:45 p.m., at which testimonials of healing are given. Free reading room in the First National Bank building, rooms 304 and 305; open daily from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., except Sundays; and legal holidays, where the Bible and authorized Christian Science literature may be read, borrowed or purchased if desired. The public is cordially welcome. 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