anaheim-gazette 1922-02-23

THE GAS COMPANY ELECTS NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS W. B. Williams, of Santa Ana, One of the New Officers W. B. Williams, cashier of the First National bank of Santa Ana, prominent in banking circles of the county, was elected to the board of directors of the Southern Counties Gas company of California at the annual meeting of that corporation held Wednesday afternoon in the Los Angeles office of the company. One other Orange county banker, A. S. Bradford, who has been a director of the local gas utility for several years, continues on the board of directors. The Southern Counties Gas company directorate for the ensuing year comprises the following: Ferdinand R. Bain, Los Angeles; LeRoy M. Edwards, who was born and raised in Santa Ana; attorney Los Angeles; A. S. Bradford, president National bank of Placentia; John H. Bartle, president First National bank of Monrovia; T. H. Dudley, formerly mayor of Santa Monica and president of the Ocean Park bank, Santa Monica; P. E. Hatch, vice-president of the Security Trust and Savings bank, Long Beach branch; F. W. Hadley, president of the First National bank of Whittier; C. M. Stone, president of the First National bank of Pomona; W. B. Williams, cashier First National bank of Santa Ana; Chas. H. Dickey, president of the American Meter company New York, and Rufus C. Dawes, Chicago. Officers of the company, re-elected at the recent meeting, are: Ferdinand R. Bain, president and general manager; Rufus C. Dawes, vice-president; A. S. Bradford, vice-president; Chas. H. Dickey, vice-president; Walter S. McFarland, secretary; T. H. Dudley, treasurer; LeRoy M. Edwards, counsel; Frank S. Wade, supervisorists some vital statistics and convincing proof of the value of work done in the Santa Ana canyon. Among other things, he told them that, though much water is still wasted in the Santa Ana canyon, (enough in fact, to irrigate some 40,000 acres of orchard), the saving made by the Creek dam system worked out and used during the past four years since the use of the Curtis dam of heavy wire has been in effect, is proof past all doubt of the worth-whileness of their efforts. During the past three dry years, the water level in the Santa Ana river basin, north of Redlands, has been raised forty feet. This means that the level now is this much higher than ever before since the records have been made. In the Lytle creek basin, the water level has dropped from 80 to 100 feet during the past year, Mr. Mort states. Water is being lifted now for irrigation as much as 280 feet, as a maximum, he says, from wells which were flowing artesian wells eight years ago. The cost of the power alone, for pumping as shown by the power bills of the users in this district last year, was $150,000. These are facts to induce serious consideration. With 500 to 1000 ranchers in the district, in addition to the residents of the towns and in view of the great cost to the county and the state highway commission, as well as the railroads in washouts during flood period, it is also significant to note that by actual measurement during the January storm, 50 per cent of the flood waters flowed under the bridges and thence to the ocean. Normally, it has been estimated, one-third of the seasonal rainfall from this water shed flows out to the sea, while only one-sixth is made available for actual use. LINING UP FOR THE TARIFF I don't grow when I think of sources," Secretary Fall told memorial Department of the eration the other "No other country such inexhaustible." Secretary Fall of the first of a government. The 000,000,000 left United States alone," said the ed wealth suffice debt of $24,000. "Recently an width and runnin can was discover of Santa Ana; Chas. H. Dickey, president of the American Meter company, New York, and Rufus C. Dawes, Chicago. Officers of the company, re-elected at the recent meeting, are: Ferdinand R. Bain, president and general manager; Rufus C. Dawes, vice-president; A. S. Bradford, vice-president; Chas. H. Dickey, vice-president; Walter S. McFarland, secretary; T. H. Dudley, treasurer; LeRoy M. Edwards, counsel; Frank S. Wade, superintendent of operation; M. K. Thompson, engineer, and A. I. Bridge, rate engineer. According to gas company engineers the 1922 budget will run approximately $1,500,000; $26,750 oof which will be expended in Orange county. Eight thousand feet of 6-inch high pressure main on Baker and Walnut street, Santa Ana, will be included in this item, costing $9200. This is for the improvement of the gas service in the western part of Santa Ana. In Orange $13,550 will be expended by the company for better service. This will include 2400 feet of 6-inch low pressure main on Cambridge street from Maple to Palmyra and on Palm street from Pine to Cambridge, costing $3000; a regulator at Almond and Cambridge streets, $300; and 7,500 feet of 8-inch transmission line to connect the Southern Counties Gas company lines with the Industrial Fuel Supply company mains, $11,250. Extensions and replacements due to paving in the city of Fullerton will cost the company $3000. According to figures given out at the annual meeting the gross earnings of the company for 1921 were $4,251,-023.80, which amount is $1,345,665.90 more than those of 1920. The net earnings for the same year show an increase of $147,810.16 over the 1920 figures. Total number of meters in service as of December 31, 1921, were 85,000. The gas company estimates that the 100,000 mark in meters will be reached before the end of 1922. During 1921 8,781,324,600 cubic feet of gas were sold by the company. Fourteen billions is the figure set by the company engineers as the total consumption for 1922. SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY IS LOOKING AHEAD Takes Independent Steps for Water Conservation Water conservation in San Bernardino county took a definite step forward to note that by actual measurement during the January storm, 50 per cent of the flood waters flowed under the bridges and thence to the ocean. Normally, it has been estimated, one-third of the seasonal rainfall from this water shed flows out to the sea, while only one-sixth is made available for actual use. LINING UP FOR THE TARIFF The president of the National Association of Manufacturers, in the course of his address to the convention called to consider the subject of the tariff, emphatically stated the necessity or protection from competition of Europe and other cheap labor countries. Another report from Washington is to effect that the agricultural bloc in the senate is agreed on the modified American valuation plan as now pending. Here is an evidence that an understanding is being reached on the tariff question. No greater duty confronted the Harding administration than the revision of the so-called Underwood tariff, which embodies to the greatest possible extent the democratic doctrine of free trade. The failure of that law to produce revenue or to protect American industry was made clear before the war came to disturb conditions. It would have produced disaster long ago, had it not been for the effect of the war on American foreign commerce. With the prospect of stability ahead, the Underwood schedule is a distinct danger to our future. Europe can not produce as yet on a pre-war scale, but already has a surplus, a considerable part of which is finding market in the United States. Every article so purchased displaces a similar article made at home; ever day's work provided for an English, a French, German, or Belgian workman by reason of the sale of his output in this country means a day of idleness for an American workman. Some advocates of a low tariff argue that Europe will not be able to pay the debt owed to America in cash, and so must pay in kind. One of the visitors from England to the Washington conference said that British workmen can make our automobiles, typewriters and the like, and so in a few years the debt now due from Englane will be discharged. He did not tell us what is to be done with the skilled mechanics of our own land while the workers of Great Britain were employ- LEARN F That America things of value head of the new Young Women' tion, who has trip to the orient In many ways SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY IS LOOKING AHEAD Takes Independent Steps for Water Conservation Water conservation in San Bernardino county took a definite step forward on January 31st, when, following a series of preliminary meetings, the Little Creek and Cajon Water Consequence association was permanently organized. The meeting, held at the Chamber of Commerce rooms at Rialto, was attended by representatives of water companies, municipalities and railroads, as well as by ranchers and land owners. C. E. Mort, president of the Rialto Chamber of Commerce, was elected president of the permanent body. At the first of the series of meetings just culminated in the permanent organization, the committee had as speaker Francis Cuttle, president of the Tri-Counties' Reforestation and Water Conservation association which has done and is doing such memorable pioneer conservation work in the Santa Ana canyon, above Redlands. Founded in 1906 as the reforestation committee, with twelve members from the three counties of San Bernardino, Riverside and Orange, this organization grew out of this one, known as the water conservation committee, both having the same membership and with Mr. Cuttle as president, as he still is. This past year both were consolidated as the tri-county reforestation and water conservation committee, an incorporated body. Mr. Cuttle detailed to the interested group of San Bernardino water con- Some advocates of a low tariff argue that Europe will not be able to pay the debt owed to America in cash, and so must pay in kind. One of the visitors from England to the Washington conference said that British work men can make our automobiles, typewriters and the like, and so in a few years the debt now due from Englane will be discharged. He did not tell us what is to be done with the skilled mechanics of our own land while the workers of Great Britain were employed in supplying the American market with manufactured wares. Our farmers are as deeply concerned in this as are the manufacturers, for unless the factories are running full time, the consumptive demand of the city population is reduced, and the farmer's market is thereby restricted. What the protective tariff should do is to equalize conditions so as to protect the home market at all points from foreign invasion. Our external commerce at its utmost is scarcely more than one-eighth of the domestic trade, and we can not afford to let down the bars any further in order to accommodate Europeans. All are anxious to see the affairs of the world set in order, and health restored to every nation, but there is not selfishness in keeping the American market for the American producer as far as possibly can be done. FALL IN DIAMONDS A cut in the price of diamonds has been announced. This affects only the small stones that amount to about a fifth of a carat when polished. It is said the reduction is due to a hope thus to revive the diamond trade. To most people this explanation will seem surprising. They had no thought that the diamond trade was in need of stimulant. They had been led to be- ANAHEIM GAZETTE lieve that the dealer in these precious stones was doing quite well. Never before had there seemed to be such a display of diamonds, in this country at least, as at present. At any gathering to be classed as fashionable, fortunes in diamonds gleam lustrous and abundant. The busy burglar who enters the residence of almost any well to do family, emerges with thousands of dollars worth of diamonds. It is no uncommon circumstance for the casual highway robber to vanish into the night bearing the $1000 stick pin of his male victim, and a few rings belonging to the unfortunate lady in the case, which she explains to the police, were valued anywhere from $500 up, to say nothing of a lavilaire by which a princess might have been decked, if the kingdom happened to be prosperous. To persons engaged in the production of diamonds an increase of trade would be welcome of course. The public draws the inference that the increase is essential, and the idea comes as a surprise. UNITED STATES RESOURCES ARE INEXHAUSTIBLE "I don't grow very possimistic when I think of all our natural resources," Secretary of the Interior Fall told members of the Woman's Department of the Nationa Kivie Federation the other day in New York. "No other country in the world has such inexhaustible resources." Secretary Fall was on the program of the first of a series of lectures on government. There is a total of $150,000,000 left in the resources of the United States. "We have in Alaska alone," said the secretary, "undeveloped wealth sufficient to pay the war debt of $24,000,000,000. "Recently an oil spring 500 feet in width and running into the Arctic ocean was discovered in Alaska. And world, the art of living has become almost as lost as the secret of Tyrian purple. To many westerners, the most intolerable thing is to be left alone with nothing to do but to think and entertain oneself. Life has become largely an objective matter sustained by exterior sensations and emotions. If the Chinese may seem to have the "manana" habit in the extreme, Americans haste with no creative ideal in view may be just as foolish and as frustrative of happiness and contentment. A happy mean of both activity and leisure would seem still to be the most satisfactory basis of living. LAWYER'S BILL FLAYED BEFORE THE BANKERS Declaring that it is to the interest of banks and patrons of banks to defeat what is known as the lawyer's bill, Hiram J. Wambold, of Los Angeles, Thursday night called on the Orange County Bankers' association to lend its aid in the fight that is to be made against the measure. The bill was passed by the last legislature, and a referendum upon it was taken. Whether the bill shall become the law of California is to be decided at the state election to be held November 7. The measure according to Wambold, if it becomes law, will prevent banks from preparing many of the documents that they now prepare in their dealings with their patrons, and will prevent them from giving advice to their patrons concerning anything of a legal nature. It was announced at the meeting at the county bankers, which was held at the Anaheim National bank, that Judge Rex Goodcell, newly appointed collector of internal revenue for southern California, will be the speaker at... "No other country in the world has such inexhaustible resources." Secretary Fall was on the program of the first of a series of lectures on government. There is a total of $150,000,000 left in the resources of the United States. "We have in Alaska alone," said the secretary, "undeveloped wealth sufficient to pay the war debt of $24,000,000,000. "Recently an oil spring 900 feet in width and running into the Arctic ocean was discovered in Alaska. And who do you think discovered it? Prelatory interests? No. It was discovered by a man who has spent twenty-five years mushing along in the snow and ice. But it is 600 miles from these oil fields to Fairbanks and it would cost $40,000,000 to build a pipe line to get the oil to where it could be of use. There are hundreds of millions of dollars in it, but we (the government) have no authority to build that pipeline. The government is not in that business and should not be in it. Old fields in southern Alaska have been located and these should provide a supply for the orient and relieve California and the southern states. There are in Alaska 180,000 reindeer belonging to the Indians, and these reindeer are in charge of country school teachers who are employees by the department of education at salaries that would hardly justify them in living in Alaska. This is one of the things that we expect to adjust soon. Secretary Fall said that no one in the department of the interior, which he described as a dumping ground for everything that they didn't know what to do with, was receiving any more money or any bigger salary than he or she got ten or fifteen years ago. "They are all working for exactly the same as they got before the war, except the stenographers and clerks getting less than $25 a week, who were allowed a bonus," he said. "The salary of an expert is $300, but we have to give these men furloughs in which to earn enough to support their families, and some of them earn $25,000 to $50,000 in that time." LEARN FROM CHINESE That Americans can learn some things of value from the Chinese is the declaration of Miss Mabel Cratty, head of the national board of the Young Women's Christian association, who has just returned from a trip to the orient. In many ways Chinese customs ana hold, if it becomes law, will prevent banks from preparing many of the documents that they now prepare in their dealings with their patrons, and will prevent them from giving advice to their patrons concerning anything of a legal nature. It was announced at the meeting of the county bankers, which was held at the Anaheim National bank, that Judge Rex Goodcell, newly appointed collector of internal revenue for southern California, will be the speaker at the annual meeting of the association. The annual meeting is to be held at St. Ann's Inn in April. A banquet is to be served. Waldo O'Kelley, of Fullerton, president of the association, presided at this meeting. Most of the banks of the county were represented. PLENTY OF TIME "I trust, Mr. Borum," said Miss Cutting, as the young man was about to depart, "that you will spend one more afternoon with us before we move into our new house. "Delighted, I assure you, Miss Cutting," replied Borum. "By the way, when do you expect to move?" "I'm not positive as to the exact date," she answered, "but the workmen began excavating for the cellar yesterday, and papa expects the house to be finished in about eighteen months." FOUR BIG BILLS The next four months of the session of congress promise to be prolific of results. The foreign debt refunding bill is to be followed by the soldiers' bonus bill, the ship subsidy bill, and the tariff bill. Along with those measures of supreme importance will go a large number of other bills of more or less special industrial or local interest. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of L. V. Steen, Deceased. Notice is Hereby Given, by the undersigned, Administratrix of the estate of L. V. Steen, deceased, to the creditors of and all persons having claims against the said deceased to file them with the necessary vouchers in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of California, or to exhibit the same with the necessary vouchers to the said Administratrix at her place of business, at Suite No. 2 Odd Fellows Building at No. 133 West Cen- ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE In the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Orange. In the Matter of the Application of Percy Angus Misenheimer for change of name. Order tg Show Cause. The above-named Percy Angus Misenheimer having on this 25th day of January, 1922, filed in the above-en-titled court a petition to have his said name changed to Percy Angus Swope; IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the hearing of said petition be had at the court room of Department One of this Court, in the Court House of Orange County, in the City of Santa Ana, Orange County, California, on the 24th day of February, 1922, at 10 o'clock, A. M., of said day, at which said time and place all persons interested in said matter are hereby directed to appear to show cause, if any they have why said application for change of name should not be granted; It is further ordered that a copy of this order be published in the Anaheim Gazette, a newspaper of general circulation printed in said County for four successive weeks before said LEARN FROM CHINESE That Americans can learn some things of value from the Chinese is the declaration of Miss Mabel Cratty, head of the national board of the Young Women's Christian association, who has just returned from a trip to the orient. In many ways Chinese customs and ideals are antithetical to those of America, but what struck Miss Cratty particularly was the ordered leisure there as compared with rustling, busiling, rush here. Miss Cratty came away convinced that in this respect Americans could well go to school to the Chinese and find in the short span of years allotted to men a finer and more satisfactory manner of living. All travelers of insight have told how the Chinese make the mere westerners feel like parvenus, new arrivals in this age-old world, their standards hardly more stable than their hurried flitting from place to place and pleasure to pleasure. On this point, Miss Cratty is reported as saying: The Chinese have the fine art of leisure as contrasted to our economic struggle and the artificialities of much we devote our energies trying to get. "Be sure you learn before you attempt to teach" is the atmosphere. You begin to seek a more tolerant meeting ground between their "let well enough alone" and our "faster, faster, and even faster." There is a vast difference between a life of mere inertia and one of real contemplation and meditation. But amid the roar of modern machinery and the swiftly speeding airplanes and automobiles in the western Notice is hereby Given by the undersigned, Administratrix of the estate of L. V. Steen, deceased, to the creditors of and all persons having claims against the said deceased to file them with the necessary vouchers in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of California, or to exhibit the same with the necessary vouchers to the said Administratrix at her place of business, at Suite No. 2 Odd Fellows Building at No. 133 West Center Street, in the City of Anaheim, in the County of Orange, within four months after the first publication of this notice. Dated this 16th day of January, 1922. EMMA STEEN, Administratrix of the Estate of L. V. Steen, Deceased. WEST BROADWAY M. E. CHURCH Sunday school, 9:45 a.m. Preaching, 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Epworth League, 6:45 p.m. Prayer meeting, Wednesday evening. Bible study, Friday eaening. 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