anaheim-gazette 1922-01-26

IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO Items of Local Interest Culled from the Files of Former Issues of This Paper From Gazette of Jan. 27, 1872 Everybody should attend the opening ball at the Anaheim hotel tonight. This fine house has been elegantly furnished and it is but fair that the public should respond liberally to this enterprise of its proprietor. The new fire bell was, holsted and rung last evening for the first time. The hotel at Santa Ana is nearly completed, having been already partially painted. A large quantity of material for it was lost by the stranding of the steamer Caroline Medan, near San Francisco, a short time ago, but more material is already shipped and will soon be here. A fine new flag staff was raised at the Planters' hotel on Monday last and soon after the flag of the United States went gaily up to the mast head to the inspiring music of "The Star Spangled Banner," and amid the hearty cheers of many loyal subjects of the great republic. As "mine host" Fischer toasted, "long may it wave." Mr. C. Tustin, of Tustin City, one of the most entertaininf and valuable men our country possesses, paid us a visit on Wednesday last. Always glad to see such men. They are live men who never stop to whine about hard times, nor wait for something to turn up, but manfully take hold of something and turn it up. We wan more like him. From Gazette of Jan. 28, 1897 Ed Crowther, the Placentia avenue pressario, is arranging for an amateur performance of "Pinafore." Who says we are not in the swim? Herman Stern contemplates making a trip to Randsburg on Monday, and if prospects are good, the Stern Bros. will open up a store in the new mining camp. Rud Bentz has our thanks for a fine bunch of ducks bagged at the Landing a few days ago. Rud and Prof. Fox went down to the Landing Saturday night and during the following day's sport killed thirty-seven fine ducks. Mike Reagan was up from the sugar factory at Alamitos to spend Sunday with friends in town. Mike informs us that the factory is being pushed rapidly to completion and the structure will soon be under roof. Frank Gates takes quite an interest in the completion of the Orange county jail and incidentally to the payment for labor thereupon. He worked upon the structure all last fall and has not been able to get his pay. Frank has recently put in a cement reservoir for E. D. Ware, of Garden Grove. Marshal Steadman is engaged in the praiseworthy task of lining the gutter in front of the postoffice block Demands on tha were allowed as, re Bonds of the high school district sold. The clerk will notice of sale News. Bids to be a.m., February 7th J. S. Howard, just Anaheim township of absence from days, commencing Cora M. Wheat statician at a month, not to excel Map of tract No as official plotting Plans, specifically presented by Benchley, with him for the construction board. The clerk give notice for bid by publication in the Evening Register. Ed up to 11 a.m. A resolution was sentiment of the chises for stage over county highway Petition of Joe for vacation and a certain public street in the fifth granted. The clerk was letter inviting the tate association tenth annual conv Orange countp. Map of tract No as official plotting The chairman wa prove bond on agr Map of tract No as official plotting Trial jurors for selected as per or court. Mr. C. Tustin, of Tustin City, one of the most entertaininf and valuable men our country possesses, paid us a visit on Wednesday last. Always glad to see such men. They are live men who never stop to whine about hard times, nor wait for something to turn up, but manfully take hold of something and turn it up. We want more like him. Mr. Brookbank is now building a house 14 by 30 feet for the Anaheim fire company in the rear of Enterprise hall, in which to house the ladders, truck and other apparatus of the company. Anaheim lodge, No. —, I. O. O. F., was instituted last Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Masonic hall, by R. W. G. W., Wm. H. Hill, assisted by D. D. G. M., Henry Wartenberg, and the following members of the order: Win Pridham, N. G.; John C. Brown, P. G.; A. G. Faber, C. L. Minor, John Osborn, V. Wollenstein, John Dolland, F. Woodruff, J. Cohn, D. Schenk, L. Roeder, H. Slassford and S. Zergeter After the institution the participants marched to Kuchel's hall, where the following officers were publicly installed in the presence of a large number of ladies and gentlemen: John Fischer, N. G.; E. W. Champlin, V. G.; John P. Zeyn, Sec.; John Adams, Treas. The G. M. delivered an address in which he explained the meaning of the words "Odd Fellow." He said: "It is strange, in a cold and calculating world like ours where so many walk through life with ears hermetically sealed against the calls of humanity encased in a frozen garb that repulses all approach; petrifying what little heart and soul they own. We say it is idd to see a society like ours band together for the benevolent duties we have bound ourselves to perform. Hence we are Odd Fellows. We are sharers of each other's burdens. Whenever we hear the sigh of sorrow, the moan of the heart-broken, the appeal of the destitute, or the wall of the miserable, we should be quick in our ministrations of mercy, not passing by on the other side." At 5 o'clock the initiation occurred at the lodge room, when eighteen new members were added to the order. The evening was finished by a supper at the Planters' hotel, which was enlivened by music from the band and was enjoyed by all. Frank Gates takes quite an interest in the completion of the Orange county jail and incidentally to the payment for labor thereupon. He worked upon the structure all last fall and has not been able to get his pay. Frank has recently put in a cement reservoir for E. D. Ware, of Garden Grove. Marshal Steadman is engaged in the praiseworthy task of lining the gutter in front of the postoffice block with boulders closely packed together, which he gathered in Santiago creek, the object being to afford a more perfect drainage and permit the storm water to run off, instead of accumulating in pools about the hitching posts. He is doing a good job, and thinks of putting down a layer of boulders similarly in the gutter in the block in which this office is situated. While keeping score for Sunday's ball game, Ed Zens, of our force of composing room artists, was struck by a foul ball and knocked unconscious. Ed was carried off the field insensible, but soon recovered, and is now ready for the resumption of hostilities. The Christian Endeavorers of the Presbyterian church will give a social at the residence of the Misses Melrose this evening. All are cordially invited to come. The Chamber of Commerce met at the city hall on Friday afternoon last. Mr. Dickel in the chair and Secretary Goldwater keeping the minutes. The application for a donation of $200 on the part of a monthly publication to assist in the issuance of a special number to cost according to the figures of the canvasser, $100 was denied. Judge Ballard in the superior court has filed the list of new grand jurors for the ensuing year (six from each supervisor district) with the county clerk as follows: First supervisor district—J. D. Beach, J. E. Bunker, J. W. Flagg, Jonathan Harmon, D. M. Burns, C. D. Overshiner; second district—H. A. Young, O. J. Buck, Eugene Swayze, Silas Wright, Granville Spurgeon, Albert Lee; third district—Max Nebelung, William Crowther Alex. Barrow, Cyrus C. Neff, George Stadtegger, George C. Hager; fourth district—E. E. Gallup, E.M.Crowell Thos. E.Dosier, Wilber E.Brist, J.E.Parker, W.H.H.Clayton; fifth dis- We are glad to announce the inauguration of a new enterprise among us. Messrs. Goodman and Rimpau, who by the way, are the pioneer merchants of this county, having been engaged in mercantile pursuits at Los Angeles as early as 1849, have opened a fine new store on Center street, devoted exclusively to the dry goods, clothing and general furnishing business. Mr. Goodman has been quite prominently identified with the early history of the county, having been deputy U. S. mayor and president of the Los Angeles city council, in which capacity we believe he signed the first bonds issued by that city. Mr. Rimpau is one of our oldest and most respected citizens and is a gentleman whose excellent reputation and good name are sure to command confidence and support to any enterprise in which he engages. The town of Santa Ana makes steady progress. A new store has been added to its business facilities within the past fortnight. Everybody seems to be hammering at something and adding a little to the general wealth. The hotel is nearly finished. It commands a splendid view of the surrounding country and must prove a pleasant place of resort. Mme. Modjeska made her appearance at the Baldwin theatre in San Francisco on Monday night to a crowded house after a retirement of nearly two years. A year and a half ago Mme. Modjeska was stricken with paralysis and it was thought her acting days were over. She has entirely recovered, however, and has been engaged for a season of four weeks by Al Hayman & Co. She opened in Magda and will play there two weeks. The house was crowded and the gifted actress was given a cordial reception. Herman Kruger was in town last Tuesday from his frog ranch west of town and reports the crop of frogs coming on nicely. Mr. E. Turk returned on Saturday from Louisiana, where he has been during the winter sugar campaign in his capacity of head chemist for the Oxnard sugar mill at Cypremont. J. B. Stone was in from his Orange-thorpe avenue ranch yesterday. Mr. Stone has recently recovered from a serious illness and is receiving the congratulations of his friends. An appeal to the American valuation new tariff which insulate business in the hold American warards is made by Coney, of the house committee. He says: "Opposition to the measure is readily American produced who deals chiefly products, but to duces or purchases man whose chief ing the product of to the American mone." "Those interesting prises are well owing large sums of to make you and me they seek is for the welfare. The impala delay or defeat tae to accomplish his criticism upon nation plan, without present chaoticities, it will be me a tariff measure wi will afford the slight tection against connection is most nee" "In opposing tha tion plan the import der its operation to materially incr down his propaganda he presents no argu principle is wrong." SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS Demands on the county of Orange were allowed as read. Bonds of the Garden Grove union high school district were ordered to be sold. The clerk was directed to publish notice of sale in the Garden Grove News. Bids to be received up to 11 a.m., February 7th. J. S. Howard, justice of the peace of Anaheim township, was granted leave of absence from the state for thirty days, commencing January 17. Cora M. Wheatley was appointed statistician at a salary of $25.00 per month, not to exceed $350. Map of tract No. 236 was accepted as official plotting of said tract. Plans, specifications and profiles as presented by the architect, Frank Benchley, with his recommendations for the construction of an addition to the board. The clerk was directed to the board. The clerk was directd to give notice for bids for doing the work by publication in the Santa Ana Daily Evening Register. Bids to be received up to 11 a.m. February 14th. A resolution was passed stating the sentiment of the board as to franchises for stage lines and trucking over county highways. Petition of Joe W. Skidmore et al for vacation and abandonment of that certain public street known as Flora street in the fifth road district was granted. The clerk was authorized to write letter inviting the California Real Estate association to hold their eighth annual convention for 1923 in Orange countp. Map of tract No. 213 was accepted as the official plotting of said tract. The chairman was authorized to ap prove bond on agreement. Map of tract No. 235 was accepted as official plotting of said tract. Trial jurors for the year 1922 were selected as per order of the superior court. that the rates are too high. Neither of his contentions is true. “If we are to have stable tariff rates, ad valorem duties must be predicated on a stable basis. Foreign values are the very personification of instability, and it is on the foreign value that ad valorem rates are now assessed. The manufacturer in the United States wants reasonable, stable and consistent protection upon which he can depend. He wants protection against the country of low production costs rather than the country of high production costs. He wants the American valuation plan to prevail. The importer welcomes the extreme fluctuations and the instability of the present system. He welcomes the present conditions which so harass his competitor, the domestic producer, the importer is most anxious to have the rate abnormally low, for it affords him the opportunity to displace the American-made product with a foreign article. With a wide margin to work on he can close the American factory. He wants foreign valuation to be the basis for levying ad valorem duties. He wants it with all its inequalities, its fluctuation, and its instability. In it he sees the opportunity for excess profits, and the more unscrupulous importer welcomes the opportunity it affords for fraudulent undervaluations. “Now, in a population of 107,000, 000 of people there are, in round numbers, 2000 importers. There are 317 corporations in the United States, and a very large percentage of those corporations are manufacturers. There are many individuals and co-partnerships that are manufacturing, and the 2000 importers whom I mention are spending a large sum of money in advertising, as I shall show you before I conclude, in opposition to American valuation. "Too little is known regarding the importer and his margin of profits; his invoice, generally speaking, is not FIRST IN VEGETABLES California is the leading state in the union in the production of vegetables, according to a report by the University of California college of agriculture. During the year 1920, California led all other states in the amount of shipments of asparagus, celery, cantaloupes, lettuce, onions and spinach; third in green peas and tomatoes; fifth in green beans, seventh in watermelons, tenth in cucumbers and thirteenth in green corn. Averaging all these vegetable outputs totals with the production of the country, California ranks first. The methods of culture, harvesting and marketing as practiced in the districts of the state where vegetables are grown on a commercial scale will be discussed by D. H. Carey, of the division of agriculture, during the short course from January 2 to 7, 1922. ADJUSTED SERVICE CERTIFICATE The national commander of the veterans of foreign wars is seeking pledges from members of his organization that if a soldier bonus bill is passed they will ask for adjusted service certificates of land and home aid rather than for a cash bonus. The official is convinced that many members of congress hesitate to give their support to the bonus measure for fear that most of the veterans would demand cash bonuses. There is little doubt that much of the opposition to the bonus bill would disappear if it could be shown that the beneficiaries under it would accept their relief in other ways than as a cash allotment. AMERICAN VALUATION PLEA An appeal to the country to support the American valuation plan in the new tariff which is calculated to stimulate business in this country and uphold American wage and living standards corporations in the United States, and a very large percentage of those corporations are manufacturers. There are many individuals and co-partnerships that are manufacturing, and the 2000 importers whom I mention are spending a large sum of money in advertising, as I shall show you before I conclude, in opposition to American valuation. "Too little is known regarding the importer and his margin of profits; his invoice, generally speaking, is not open to public inspection. However, I have some information here from the invoices from an importer. It should be of keen interest to the house and to the country. It squarely discloses the abnormal profits an importer can exact. "The range of prices in various countries on comparable articles is glaringly great, and under the present system of assessing duties on foreign values the amount of duty collected on an article from one country differs widely from the amount of duty on a comparable article imported from some other country. "At this point permit me to say that last year we received imports from 111 countries or governments or subdivisions of governments. Nearly every one of the 111 governments had a different cost of production and each and every country on a comparable basis paid a different amount of duty on that article when landed in the United States. Such a law is inequitable. "There would be some justification in the present system if the larger duty were assessed against a country where production costs are the lowest and protection is most needed. Unfortunately, however, the present system operates in a converse manner. Where the foreign value is abnormally low and protection is most essential, the amount of duty is obnormally low, but where the foreign value is high and protection is needed the least, the duty is correspondingly high. "Aside from correcting the trouble some question of undervaluation, the one big purpose for assessing ad valorem duties on values in the American market is to make the amount of duty on a given commodity uniform, regardless of the country of origin or fluctuations in the foreign values. How obviously unfair it would be if your local taxes were assessed on cost rather than actual value. Let us suppose two men had adjoining lots, that one acquired his through a forced..." AMERICAN VALUATION PLEA An appeal to the country to support the American valuation plan in the new tariff which is calculated to stimulate business in this country and uphold American wage and living standards is made by Chairman J. W. Fordney, of the house ways and means committee. He says: "Opposition to the pending tariff measure is readily traced not to the American producer, not to the man who deals chiefly in American-made products, but to the man who produces or purchases abroad and the man whose chief interest is in bringing the product of cheap foreign labor to the American market. Those interesting in importing enterprises are well organized and spending large sums of money in an effort to make you and me believe that what they seek is for the country's general welfare. The importer is working to delay or defeat tariff legislation, and to accomplish his end he is centering his criticism upon the American valuation plan, without which, on account of present chaotic world-wide conditions, it will be most difficult to write a tariff measure at this time which will afford the slightest degree of protection against countries where protection is most needed. In opposing the American valuation plan the importer tells us that under its operation he will be obliged to materially increase prices. Boil down his propaganda and you will find he presents no argument to show the principle is wrong. His complaint is "Aside from correcting the trouble some question of undervaluation, the one big purpose for assessing ad valorem duties on values in the American market is to make the amount of duty on a given commodity uniform, regardless of the country of origin or fluctuations in the foreign values. How obviously unfair it would be if your local taxes were assessed on cost rather than actual value. Let us suppose two men had adjoining lots, that the one acquired his through a forced sale at one-half its value, and that the other man paid as much for his lot as the lot was worth. For the purpose of taxation would it not be glaringly unfair to value one lot at $5000 and the other at $10,000? Would not the system be especially objectionable if the assessor through lack of means of verification was obliged to rely almost wholly on the statement of the property holder as to the purchase price, and thus an unscrupulous taxpayer could incorrectly state the purchase price and avoid a portion of the tax which the honest taxpayer would be assessed? That, however, is about the way the assessing of ad valorem duties on foreign values operates. When the foreign value is low the duty is low, and when the foreign value is high, the duty is correspondingly high, and in addition the temptation is ever present to the unscrupulous importer. "I received a copy of a letter recently sent by a manufacturer to an importer. 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