anaheim-gazette 1922-02-09

IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO Items of Local Interest Culled from the Files of Former Issues of This Paper From Gazette of February 10, 1872. Gen. Banning has been commissioned brigadier general of the first brigade, N. G. C., vice Gen. John M. Baldwin, resigned. Mr. Banning has held the same position before, and we congratulate him upon being a second time honored with the commission. About four years ago Postmaster Clark, of Los Angeles, and a party of prospectors, found a small spring of petroleum at San Fernando. Drilling a hole into the rock in which the spring was located, with an ordinary mining drill lengthened oout, they struck a flowing well, which has, we are informed, yielded an average of four barrels of oil a day ever since. A large shipment of this oil has just been made to San Francisco. Ben Dreyfus, Esq., Maj. Strobel and Harry Polhemus returned from San Francisco on yesterday's steamer. The petition of W. W. Rubottom and others asking for the construction of a road from Anaheim to San Juan was referred to the road committee to ascertain whether such is feasible. Wilhelm Pederson, a German, aged 28 year, and brother-in-law of R. Burkle, of this city, died yesterday morning at the residence of the latter of pneumonia and internal injuries received about two weeks ago by a fall from a wagon. Deceased had been in the employ of A. Langenberger & Co. From Gazette of February 11, 1897 Wedding bells rang out yesterday at Buena Park, where Gilbert Landell, son of Judge and Mrs. Landell, of Centralia, and Miss Penelope Beard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. I. Beard, and sister of Mrs. Charles Bizby, were married. The ceremony was performed by Rev. R. M. Webster, of Pasadena. The ushers were George R. Whitaker, Leonard Johnson and Dr. Ed Johnson. The bride was in traveling costume of seal brown cloth with light blue and pink silk front, cut with bolero effect of velvet and silk with a charming turban of brown velvet. Immediately after the ceremony they received the congratulations of their relatives and friends, among whom were Mrs. Fannie Schumacher, Mrs. Josephine Butler, Frank and John Landell and Miss Ray Kings and many others. The bridal couple left for their honeymoon on the fourth clock train. Alex Henry has presented us with a sample lot of oranges grown on his Caledonia orchard at West Anaheim, which are the superior of any we have seen in a long time. In uniformity of size, perfection of color and excellence of flavor they take easy rank alongside the prize fruit of Highland, or any other place. The samples are Washington navels and Navel Blood4, the latter a new and highly prized variety. Mr. Henry has disposed of his crop of oranges at the rate of $1 per box of 65 pounds on the trees. There are to be no "off sizes," in fact, Alex Wilhelm Pederson, a German, aged 28 year, and brother-in-law of R. Burkle, of this city, died yesterday morning at the residence of the latter of pneumonia and internal injuries received about two weeks ago by a fall from a wagon. Deceased had been in the employ of A. Langenberger & Co. and is well spoken of by those who knew him intimately. (Even in those early days Los Angeles and San Diego regarded each other with jealous eyes, as noted in the following): The land in some portions of San Diego county is so poor that the natives find difficulty in raising a disturbance on it—Los Angeles Star. True for you, Brother Star. We can't even find a tree big enough to hang a Chinaman upon.—Daily San Diego Union. Messrs. Bent and Ralph hold a grand skating carnival at their rink in Los Angeles on Tuesday evening next. Those of our citizens who find it convenient to be there will have an evening's entertainment worth visiting. The beauties of the Indian peace policy are again illustrated in the slaughter of three more white men between Tucson and Camp Bowle, Arizona, on the 24th ult. It seems that the buck-board (the vehicle on which the mafs are carried in that country) was attacked by Apaches, three persons killed and one more wounded, the mafs destroyed, the driver barely escaping with his life. Does charity begin at home? Are the people of Arizona entitled to any protection at the hands of the government under which they live? There is a military force at the command of the general government strong enough to occupy every square mile of Arizona, and there is no good reason why these Indian robbers and murderers should not be immediately exterminated. One of the most gratifying features of our progress, and the strongest recommendation that could be given of the character of our people is the rapid increase of school facilities in this county. Our courteous and efficient superintendent, W. M. McFadden, Esq., Caledonia orchard at West Anaheim, which are the superior of any we have seen in a long time. In uniformity of size, perfection of color and excellence of flavor they take easy rank alongside the prize fruit of Highland, or any other place. The samples are Washington navels and Navel Blood+, the latter a new and highly prized variety. Mr. Henry has disposed of his crop of oranges at the rate of $1 per box of 65 pounds on the trees. There are to be no "off sizes," in fact, Alex has no "off sizes" in his grove. Alex has a box of his fruit on exhibition at Boyd's grocery. The following term trial jurors have been drawn by the superior court: George H. Clark, F. R. Farman, L. F. Lewis, J. W. King, G. W. Griffith, W. A. Bear, A. H. Clark, A. Gardiner, C. N. Burbank, George Bixby, J. F. Snover, John Jackson, J. D. Thomas, Sam Tustin, W. S. Ritchey, F. E. Cone, Sam Ross, F. M. Gist, E. C. H. Franzer, W. F. Brown, D. Gockley, W. F. Crawford, A. Fuller, W. McDavitt. Mrs. McWilliams is quite seriously ill at her home with quinsy. Herman Dickel and John Hartung are thinking of experimenting with tobacco culture. They have sent for seed and will set out several plats of ground in town to the "weed," and have every confidence of scoring a success with their new undertaking. Our friends feel certain they will be able to overcome all difficulties with the curing of tobacco and it is not impossible that in the near future a first-class cigar factory may rear its head in this vicinity. Mike Reagan was up from the factory Sunday and reports the building moving on rapidly to completion. The factory will cost $500,000 and in a few months will be turning out sugar at the rate of 50 tons per day. County Surveyor Kellogg was in town one day last week. The new county government bill cuts the surveyor's salary from $10 to $8 per day, but Clay does not specially object to this reduction, because times are hard and $8 is all he charges private parties for work, anyhow. He objects, however, strenuously to the fixing of his salary at $600 per year, as one statesman at Sacramento has suggested, because he might be kept at work 365 days out of the year, and he One of the most gratifying features of our progress, and the strongest recommendation that could be given of the character of our people is the rapid increase of school facilities in this county. Our courteous and efficient superintendent, W. M. McFadden, Esq., favors us with the following exhibit: Anaheim, Jan. 29, 1872. My dear Editor: At your request I have prepared a statement of the increase of the school districts, schools and census of children between the ages of 5 and 15 years for the last six years in Los Angeles county: In 1866 there were 12 districts, 16 schools and 2504 census children. In 1870 there were 34 districts, 43 schools and 5137 census children. The total value of the school property increased from $13,786 in 1866 to $39,512 in 1871. Wednesday next, 14th inst., will be St. Valentine's day. This being leap year, the fair sex will doubtless avail themselves of the opportunity of sending under love missives to our bashful young men. In this connection we beg leave to present the following statute, in such cases made and provided, from the old Saxon code: "Abblet, as often as leape yearré dothe occurre the women holdeth prerogative over the menne in matters of courtshippe, love and matrimonie; so that when the ladye proposeth it shall not be lawful for the manne to say nae, but shall entertain proposall in all gude courtesie." So you see what the law is young man! Hereof fail not at your peril. County Surveyor Kellogg was in town one day last week. The new county government bill cuts the surveyor's salary from $10 to $8 per day, but Clay does not specifically object to this reduction, because times are hard and $8 is all he charges private parties for work, anyhow. He objects, however, strenuously to the fixing of his salary at $600 per year, as one statesman at Sacramento has suggested, because he might be kept at work 365 days out of the year, and he would be money out on the job. But Clay recognizes the necessity for a reduction in official salaries all along the line. In Memoriam: Caroline Mead, wife of the late lamented E. A. Mead, died in Los Angeles on the 6th inst. She was born in Tennessee in 1826, being seventy years old at the time of her demise. She was married to E. A. Mead in 1847 and in 1870 they came to California and settled in Orange thorpe. Mrs. Mead leaves behind her to mourn her loss one son and three daughters, one of her daughters being Mrs. B. F. Porter, of Fullerton. She was a sister of our postmistress,Mrs.J.S.Gardiner, and K.A.R.Keener. Mrs. Langenberger has been quite seriously ill at her residence for some days past, mut her condition was reported yesterday as being somewhat improved. Mrs. Mary Barker and three children, of Central City, Colo., are here on a visit to the lady's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fay, and will remain for a couple of months. Lloyd Bailey departed yesterday for Los Angeles to study dentistry. THE PRESIDENT A LARGE USER OF TELEPHONE White House Telephone System Kept Busy by Nation's Chief During the terms of Presidents Harrison and Cleveland, the white house had but one, solitary telephone and that was used principally by the servants. Today the executive mansion has a private branch exchange and four male operators, providing a twenty-four hour service, though the board itself is in operation only till midnight. The telephone exchange is located in the office building to the west of the white house proper. The switchboard connects with the residential portion of the white house, with the offices of the president and his secretary, with the capital, with the clerks in the office building, and has direct private lines to the office and homes of every member of the cabinet. There are also about fifteen private lines from the white house switchboard to the homes of important government officials. There is a telephone in every room of the white house and office building. Two lines connect with the capitol. The government has its own interdepartmental telephone system, which connects every federal department in Washington, but the white house switchboard is entirely independent. The president, to get the secretary of war, does not have to call first through the white house operator, thence through the inter-departmental operator and finally through the war department. All he has to do is to pick up his received, ask for the secretary of war and he gets that member of his cabinet immediately. "Main 6" is the white house telephone number, but not everyone who calls that number in the hope of talking to the president or his secretary is allowed to do so. Every telephone caller is queried by the operators, who that the railways, like other industries, may earn large profits in good years and small profits or none in bad years. It may decide that in good years the railways must be content with smaller profits than those earned in other businesses, and in bad years will be allowed to earn larger profits than are earned in other businesses. One or the other of these policies it must adopt, however, if the railroad problem is to be solved under private ownership. "Upon the net return the railways are allowed to earn always must depend on the amount of new investment they can make in their properties. Upon the new investment they can make must always depend in turn both the economy and adequacy of the service they can render. They cannot in the future effect large economies in operation and reduce rates as in the past, unless they can make large capital expenditures as in the past. Facts such as these have been theoretically recognized but actually ignored in all past regulation of the railways. They have been regulated as if it was to the public interest to reduce and limit their net returns as much as the courts would not hold confiscatory. The facts regarding railroad development under this policy of regulation are indisputable. The development of the railways has steadily declined. This decline did not begin with recent years. It began more than ten years ago and has continued at an accelerating rate ever since. Continued application of this theory will forever prevent an adequate revival of railroad development and that would be actually worse than government ownership itself." LAW AND ORDER MUST PREVAIL This making a joke of lawlessness is dangerous business. For the example might spread. If your debonair clubman may treat with contempt the white house operator, thence through the inter-departmental operator and finally through the war department. All he has to do is to pick up his received, ask for the secretary of war and he gets that member of his cabinet immediately. "Main 6" is the white house telephone number, but not everyone who calls that number in the hope of talking to the president or his secretary is allowed to do so. Every telephone caller is queried by the operators, who are given discretionary powers and rank, as assistant secretaries. The youngest white house operator in point of service has been working on the switchboard for eighteen years and the official in charge has been in the white house twenty-three years. Under the spoils system these operators could be removed with changes in administration, but this has never been done. Long association with the white house switchboard has made the operators familiar with the voices of cabinet members, most of the senators and other important officials and they readily identify them when they call up the white house on the telephone. It is said that when Mr. Wilson was president, the white house operators had instructions never to ring him and that during the entire eight years of his incumbency, President Wilson seldom talked on his white house telephone. President Harding is said to use the telephone more than any previous chief executive, employing it to transmit much of the routine work of the day. Cabinet members and congressmen invariably call the president or his secretary before visiting the white house. President McKinley was a great user of the telephone, as like wise was President Taft, while President Roosevelt is said to have used the telephone mainly for emergencies, while Presidents Cleveland and Harrison used the telephone but little. The white house press room is connected by direct wires with each newspaper and press association office. These lines do not connect through the white house switchboard. All the telephone equipment in the white house was installed by the Chesa peake and Potomac Telephone company and most of the private lines that go outside the white house are in the underground cables of that company. LAW AND ORDER MUST PREVAIL This making a joke of lawlessness is dangerous business. For the example might spread. If your debonair clubman may treat with contempt the prohibition law which he dislikes, why may not the I. W. W. treat with like contempt the laws which he dislikes? If your business man may wink at bootlegging, with what face shall he condemn the walking delegate who winks at sabotage? If men of means oppose state prohibition enforcement and support administration which condone violations of the liquor law, how shall they complain if poorer men do politics to get police who will not enforce the anti-picketing laws. We condemn a labor union which refuses to abide by an arbitration award. What shall we say of those who sneak through the arbitrament of two-thirds of congress and forty-five out of forty-eight legislatures? It is not enough to say that "public sentiment" is against prohibition, and that the law comes, therefore, quite naturally into contempt. For public sentiment is by enormous majority, in favor of prohibition. The sentiment against it is a localized or group minority sentiment. It may be the sentiment of your class or of your neighborhood, but it is not the sentiment or the people as a whole. And if minority sentiment, when it is your minority, is entitled to bring into contempt the laws it dislikes, what about the very earnest minorities which do not like the laws protecting property, or restricting anti-social methods in strikes? The very stability of American institutions depends on our respect for the laws which we do not like. If laxity in the enforcement of prohibition any where "brings law into contempt," what is the remedy—abolish the law or respect it? But prohibition cannot be abolished. It was enacted by forty-five states, but it can be retained by thirteen. There are more than thirteen which will never permit it to be repealed. Therefore, the remedy or repeal cannot be considered, and the use of non-enforcement as an "argument against prohibition" is futile. There is no such alternative. The law there and nothing can be done at continued at an accelerating rate ever since. Continued application of this theory will forever prevent an adequate revival of railroad development and that would be actually worse than government ownership itself." Orange County Business College SANTA ANA, CAL. Midwinter Term, Jan 2, 1922. Day School and Night School all the year. Enter now, today or tonight. Ask for our free catalogue. J. W. McCormac, Pres. Dr. G. W. 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The provision of the law directing the commission to fix rates that would enable the railways to earn from 51 cents to 6 per cent expires on March first. Thereafter, the rate of return the railways should be allowed to earn must be fixed by the commission itself, and in that connection it must consider the country's need for adequate transportation. "The railroad problem will besolv-ed" says the Railway Age, in a statement made public, "only when the public and the government decide finally to do one of two things and then act accordingly. One solution of it would be the adoption of government ownership. It would be bad solution, but it would be a solution. The only other solution possible is the definite and final adoption of a policy of allowing the railways under private ownership to earn an average net return sufficient to enable them to improve and expand their properties so that they can handle all the traffic offered them with reasonable economy." Government regulation may decide where "brings law into contempt," what is the remedy—abolish the law or respect it? But prohibition cannot be abolished. It was enacted by forty-five states, but it can be retained by thirteen. There are more than thirteen which will never permit it to be repealed. Therefore, the remedy or repeal cannot be considered, and the use of non-enforcement as an "argument against prohibition" is futile. There is no such alternative. The law is there, and nothing can be done to change it. But much can be done to bring it into respect or into contempt. Whichever we do, we thereby contribute to the respect of contempt in which other laws are held. The conservative classes at least ought to be careful how they knock the props from under any part of the structure of law and order. The dry parts of America are its most American parts. Every third generation community in America voted prohibition on itself. PROTECTING THE ORANGE The value of the California orange crop is endangered by the wilfulness of some shippers in insisting that their fruit picked since the recent cold spell shall go forgard regardless of inspection of standardization officials. Standardization specialists have made careful examination of fruits which have been shipped and declare the cells are already showing a breaking down, likewise proof of frost injury through crystalization is also possible. The railroads announce that they will not ship excepting they have certificate from standardization officials. As a rule orange growers are standing pat with the officials and demanding that the good name of the Califor- ORANGE COUNTY BUSINESS COLLEGE Santa Ana, California Enrollments now active for our tail term. We can train you in a few months for a good position paying from $75 to $150 a month. The command for our graduates was never great. Salaries were never so high. 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