anaheim-gazette 1922-02-09

TRYING TO TAKE REGATTA FROM ORANGE COUNTY William Wrigley Wants to Move the Headquarters to Avalon That William Wrigley, owner of Catalina island, is laying plans for a determined fight to deprive Orange county of one of the most valuable advertising assets to which it has fallen heir in many years, was the statement made last Saturday night by Commodore Frank Smith and former-Commodore Claude Putnam at an adjourned meeting of the members of the Newport Yacht club. Wrigley, with his millions of wealth, is trying, it was asserted, to take the 1922 regatta of the Southern California Yachting association away from Orange county's harbor. The regatta was awarded to the Newport Harbor Yacht club at last year's annual meeting of the association. It developed last week at a meeting of the association that Wrigley desires to stage the next regatta at Avalon and is prepared to spend a large sum of money to accomplish his end. Charges that The entrance to Newport harbor was not deep enough to admit the large boats that will enter the regatta were made at the association meeting by men said to be representing Wrigley. It was also declared that Newport and Balboa do not have the accommodations properly to handle the crowd that will attend and take part in the regatta. Lew Wallace, secretary of the Orange county harbor commission, declared last Saturday night when these charges were revealed, that the harbor entrance and channels will take care of any boat entering the regatta and that the city plans many improvements to be completed before next August, the month in which the regatta is to be held. Notable among these are the sewer system, paving or wind or snow," is the burden of this warning. The auto club has been engaged in engineering rescue parties throughout the state during the past week and a large majority of the motorists who have made the rescue work necessary have been those who went out "to see what the weather was like." Highway bridges, it is pointed out, have a habit of going out at a moment's notice, and motoring parties are likely as not to be marooned far from home and food in the twinkling of an eye. The recent instance of more than 100 parties getting caught in deep snow on the Ridge route is a moral lesson which should be held by all, according to the auto club's touring bureau. Sight-seers and curiosity hounds make the work of rescue doubly hard by getting in the way, besides usually being the victims of the weather themselves. Roads which become covered with water during the winter months are very dangerous, warns the club, and no car can travel with safety on any route which is under wates. Only in cases of business or dire necessity should motorists start out from home in the winter when a storm is brewing. MOTORISTS MAKE IT EASY FOR THE THEIVES Auto thieves are of the opinion that many automobile owners enjoy having their cars stolen. They also believe that many motorist aid in the theft of their own cars. This startling information has been secured by the theft bureau of the Automobile Club of Southern California from scores of professional thieves who have been captured by the club between the Mexican boundary and San Luis Obispo county. "Motorists make it easy for us thieves," is the way the thieves them- The best price that similar work by a M house was $293.50; lower than elsewhere than in London, 30 New York," declared concern. A glance at the list U. S. department for the calendar year that these foreign people were valued at $79 en, or about 10 1-2 193 dozen razors and at $515,418—$1.88 a 16 cents each; 591,776 scissors and shears 965—$1.66 a dozen, cents a pair. The not separately stated may be made to the 642,244 mantles formed at $28,843, or 691,763 gross of pet leads valued at $411,600 cents a gross; ed hats valued at $14 than 14 cents each; the line wherever oues are indicated in tistics. The argument of its manufacturers, farmers, all who so strong American valuation assess duties on such as these amounts to trade, and no consu benefit of these low importers who exac 200 to 1000 per cent over their counters. CALIFORNIA'S A million dollar loss and grain was Cali- the fire demon during according to the an- Lew Wallace, secretary of the Orange county harbor commission, declared last Saturday night when these charges were revealed, that the harbor entrance and channels will take care of any boat entering the regatta and that the city plans many improvements to be completed before next August, the month in which the regatta is to be held. Notable among these are the sewer system, paving on many streets and the dredging of a turning basin near the yacht club at a cost of $30,000. Commodore Smith and Putnam will represent the Orange county club as a meeting of the association to be held Friday night in Los Angeles and will make a determined fight against Wrigley's asserted plan to take the regatta away from Orange county. Efforts also are to be made to have the board of supervisors, harbor commission, representatives of the Balboa and Newport Chambers of Commerce and other Orange county organizations present. Members of the yacht club maintain that the free advertising Orange county will receive as a result of the regatta being held in the county's harbor is worth a determined fight. Representatives of all boating and yachting magazines will attend the regatta. Many of the big eastern newspapers will also send reporters to the event and thus all yachting and boating enthusiasts will be made acquainted with Orange county's harbor. At the first annual regatta of the association, held last year at Santa Barbara, every yacht club of the coast was represented. Boats from as far south as San Diego and as far north as Seattle and Portland take part in the regatta. Hundreds of eastern boatmen also attend the event. ESCAPED WITH WOODEN KEY How Louis Rodarte, alias "White feather," held in the county jail on suspicion of a murder committed at Talbert in 1911, escaped from the Mexican prison at Tia Juana, where he was also held for murder, was revealed by Officer O. K. Carr, who is grilling Rodarte in connection with the Talbert slaying. Rodarte and Julian Castro, now serving a life sentence in San Quentin for the murder of a Syrian merchant at Delhi, escaped from the Tia Juana jail at the same time. According to he was also held for murder, was revealed by Officer O. K. Carr, who is grilling Rodarte in connection with the Talbert slaying. Rodarte and Julian Castro, now serving a life sentence in San Quentin for the murder of a Syrian merchant at Delhi, escaped from the Tia Juana jail at the same time. According to Rodarte, a Mexican guard came into the jail and washed his hands in a basin. He laid his key down near a bar of soap. Rodarte stepped up to the wash basin and pressed the soap down upon the key, thus making an impression. The guard did not observe the trick, nor did he use the soap. He left, taking the key with him. Rodarte and Castro then carved a wooden key that fit into the impression made in the bar of soap. With this they unlocked the door and made their escape at a time when the guard was not on the lookout. Rodarte is suspected of the murder of Marco Guerrero at Talbert, which occurred 11 years ago. He was identified when he came into the courthouse Tuesday by a streak of white hair in the center of his scalp. BITTER STORM LESSON A bitter storm lesson has been learned by thousands of motorists throughout southern California during the recent rains and freak snowstorms. As a result of this lesson, officials of the Automobile Club of Southern California have just issued a serious warning to all autoists in this section to cover any similar emergencies which may arise. "Don't go sightseeing in the rain." The best price that could be made for similar work by a New York printing house was $293.50. "Wages here are lower than elsewhere, 15 times less than in London, 30 times less than in New York," declared the Budapest concern. A glance at the import statistics on the U.S. department of commerce for the calendar year 1921 indicates that these foreign prices are not misstated. For example, 632,164 dozen pocket knives imported last year were valued at $792,772—$1.25 a dozen, or about 10 1-2 cents each; 275,193 dozen razors and parts of valuers at $515,418—$1.88 a dozen, or less than 16 cents each; 591,785 dozen pairs of scissors and shears, valued at $978,965—$1.66 a dozen, or less than 14 cents a pair. Thermos bottles are not separately stated; but reference may be made to the importation of 642,244 mantles for gas burners, valued at $28,843, or 4 1-2 cents each, 691,763 gross of pencils and pench leads valued at $413,647, or less than 60 cents a gross; 14,146,167 unblocked hats valued at $1,968,100, or less than 14 cents each, and so on down the line wherever quantities and values are indicated in the official statistics. The argument of the American manufacturers, farmers, workingmen, and all who so strongly advocate the American valuation plan is that to assess duties on such foreign valuers as these amounts to practically free trade, and no consumer is getting the benefit of these low prices paid by the importers who exact profits of from 200 to 1000 per cent when they sell over their counters. CALIFORNIA'S FIRE BILL A million dollar loss to timber range and grain was California's tribute to the fire demon during the past season, according to the annual fire report. CALIFORNIA'S FIRE BILL A million dollar loss to timber range and grain was California's tribute to the fire demon during the past season, according to the annual fire report issued by the United States forest service and the California state board of forestry. The report states that 2245 fires were handled by the federal government and state organization. Information secured by these bureaus shows that in addition 293 grain fires burned within the state. The alarming and disconcerting fact that 90 percent of these fires result through carelessness and negligence of men, officials of these bureaus state, deserves the serious attention of all Californians, particularly when the statistics indicate that 745 of these fires are directly chargeable to campers and smokers. As travel along the highways and in our mountains increases the public must exercise greater care with fire if our resources are not to suffer irreparable loss. The report shows that the losses were made up of the following: Timber, $67,851.00; range $367,243.00; improvements, $189,738.00, and hay and grain $370,506.00. The fire bill is further augmented by an item of $175,000.00 spent for fighting these fires. Six hundred state and federal officers are engaged in the difficult task of controlling the fires in California's forests and on the water-sheds. THE PEOPLE'S ECONOMY LEAGUE IS TO WORK Organization is being perfected or the People's Economy League to work for the defeat of the water and power act which will appear on the ballot at the next state election. Many men and women prominent in the business and social life here have enrolled for the campaign. Similar leagues are being formed throughout the state and strong opposition to the measure, which is declared to be impractical and unsafe, has been evidenced in all sections. Literature prepared by the People's Economy League of Los Angeles is Economy League that the act would give the board power to engage in the most dangerous kind of wildcat financing by the issuance of additional bonds to meet payments in principal and interest on the original issue of $500,000,000. Another provision, which permits the board to take money out of the state treasury without the consent of the governor or legislature to make payments on principal and interest, is attacked as it is held that "after this money is taken from the treasury the act compels the return of it and provides that the people must be taxed to make up the loss. "Why are these raids on the state treasury necessary if the plan is a sound business propositions?" asks the league. By giving the board power to dip into the state treasury it is declared that an open invitation is issued to professional politicians to loot the treasury and exploit the taxpaying public. It is further asserted that through the power to employ an army of people and spend $500,000,000 on unknown and unspecified projects the board can and will bludge up the great electricity, the first known form of electric manifestation except lightning, made clear certain principles such as conduction and insulating and served to distinguish the two opposite electric conditions known as positive and negative. Franklin's kite experiment confirmed the long-suspected identity of lightning and electric sparks. It was not, however, until the discovery by Alexander Volta, in 1799, of his pile, or battery, that electricity could take its place as an agent on practical value. Volta, when he made this great discovery, was following the work of Galvani, begun in 1788. But Galvania in his experiments mistook the effect for the cause, and so missed making the unique demonstration that two different metals immersed in a solution could set up an electric current. Volta, a professor in the University of Pavia and a foreign member of the Royal Society of England, communicated his discovery to the president of the society in March, 1800, and brought to the notice of the world the first means for obtaining a steady flow of electricity. Before this event electric energy had been known to the experimenter in for the defeat of the water and power act which will appear on the ballot at the next state election. Many men and women prominent in the business and social life here have enrolled for the campaign. Similar leagues are being formed throughout the state and strong opposition to the measure, which is declared to be impractical and unsafe, has been evidenced in all sections. Literature prepared by the People's Economy League of Los Angeles is being given wide circulation and will be available for use here. One of the striking features of the digest prepared by the People's Economy League of Los Angeles is a "deadly parallele," in which an analysis of the drastic provisions of the act is given in one column while a parallel column the actual wording of the measure appears as concrete proof that no misstatements or exaggerations have been made. Among the high points stressed are the following: That the proposed board of five members, provided for in the act, can mortgage the entire state of California for $500,000,000 and pledge the full faith and credit of every piece of property, every security and every other taxable thing in the state for payment of the money which is to be raised by the greatest bond issue ever proposed for an experiment of this nature. That the board is given power to employ as many people as it wants, pay whatever salaries it desires and disregard civil service regulations; confiscate and take immediate possession of any property it desires; engage in any business or manufacture anything it wants to; start its own bank; make any rates it desires to meet unlimited payrolls and other expenses. It is also maintained by the People's treasury necessary if the plan is a sound business proposition?" asks the league. By giving the board power to dip into the state treasury it is declared that an open invitation is issued to professional politicians to loot the treasury and exploit the taxpaying public. It is further asserted that through the power to employ an army of people and spend $500,000,000 on unknown and unspecified projects the board can and will blup up the greatest political machine ever known in the United States. Many meetings are to be held by the local People's Economy League between now and the November election. A campaign to educate the people as to the danger that lies in adoption of the measure will be launched at once. ELECTRICITY The great importance which electricity has attained in many departments of human activity is so constantly evident that we have difficulty in realizing how short is the time which has been occupied in its development. The latter half of the nineteenth century must ever remain memorable, not only for the great advancement in nearly all the useful arts, but for the peculiarly rapid electric progress, and the profound effect which it has had upon the lives and business of the people. In the preceding century we find no evidences of the application of electricity to any useful purpose. Few of the more important principles of the science were then known. Franklin's invention of the lightning rod was not intended to utilize electric force, but to guard life and property from the perils of the thunder storm. The numerous instructive experiments in friction; A STRIDE TOWARD NORMAL The Democrats had eight years in which to run up national debts by extravagance and waste, to scramble the railroads, to inflate and deflate the currency, and to encourage socialism. And they expected the Republicans to get the nation back to normal in eight months. It could not be done, and the Republicans did not do it, but they did the best they could. The country is on the way to normal and has made good progress, as industrial statistics will demonstrate in the next few months. Liberty bonds that sold for 85 cents on the dollars a few months ago are above 95 cents now, an increase of 10 cents. An increase of ten cents on 85 is an increase of nearly 12 per cent. That is to say, holders of Liberty bonds are 12 per cent better off than they were when the Republicans came into power. That is not a bad start on the way back to normal. SE BROTHERS announce instantial reduction prices of their cars ive January 1st, 1922 CHAS. H. MANN St. Telephone 43 Good Place to Buy— G-O-O-D L-U-M-B-E-R C. GANAHL LUMBER COMPANY Anaheim. Cat Wick's Used Car Week Special Prices on Used Cars for this week. Low Prices talk. Come in, look them over, ride in them. In Overhauled Condition. 1917 Ford Speedster, motor overhauled $125 1916 Ford Roadster, delivery body $150 1916 Ford Touring motor just overhauled $165 Week Special Prices on Used Cars for this week. Low Prices talk. Come in, look them over, ride in them. In Overhauled Condition. 1917 Ford Speedster, motor overhauled ... $125 1916 Ford Roadster, delivery body ... $150 1916 Ford Touring, motor just overhauled ... $165 1916 Ford Touring, looks fine, seat covers, ready to go ... $180 1916 Overland Roadster ... $150 1918 Overland Touring ... $200 Overland Country Club, new top, wire wheels ... $250 1920 Maxwell Touring, looks like new ... $475 1920 Ford Touring, good rubber, starter ... $375 1919 Chevrolet Roadster, spare tire, motor in good shape ... $300 1921 Ford Coupe, many extras, very good rubber ... $575 1921 Ford Sedan, with extras ... $670 1919 Mitchell Touring, like new mechanically ... $650 1919 Overland Touring ... $500 1919 Brisco Touring ... $400 1921 Ford Coupe, new paint, 4 new tires ... $575 The reason for the great popularity of new and used Fords and Fordsons is—in buying a new or used Ford or Fordson, you buy the economy of Service, plus resale value—not the false economy of price. 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