anaheim-gazette 1922-06-01

TAKE NEW STEPS IN BUILDING COAST ROAD Further steps in preparation for building the proposed new coast boulevard, actual beginning of which is being delayed pending the settlement of right of way problems, were revealed when a notice was received from the federal engineering department that plans for a concrete bridge across the San Gabriel river mouth had been filed by the Los Angeles county road department. J. L. McBride, superintendent of Orange county highways, at the same time announced that he was ready to file with the federal engineers, plans for a concrete bridge in Orange county, as soon as the right of way has been obtained. The state highway commission, McBride said, has also expressed itself as ready to begin actual construction of the boulevard as soon as the right of way is provided. The task of procuring right of way has been delegated by the county supervisors to J. A. Armitage, of Huntington Beach, who has been at work upon the matter for some time. Upon the completion of this preliminary work, the state highway commission will call for bids upon an eight-mile strip between Long Beach and Huntington Beach, according to McBride. The counties through which the boulevard passes are required to provide the bridges. The plans for which Los Angeles county has asked approval of the federal engineers, calls for a concrete bridge, 340 feet in length, 24 feet wide, with a movable 40-foot span near the center, to allow passage of a dredger when necessary. The proposed site is at the point where the San Gabriel river empties into Alamitos bay. The Orange county bridge will be erected across an arm of Anaheim bay. Besides a 40-foot movable span, although he was still compelled to pay the higher prices which nilation of other industries established. Thus the farmers' profits during the war were limited. At the same time that the Wilson administration was holding down the prices the farmer could receive for his produce, that same administration was adopting cost-plus plans of having construction work performed with the result that wages were greatly enhanced in the cities and the farmer found it impossible to secure farm help unless he paid waiges on the government's cost-plus basis. Thus the government increased the farmer's expenses at the same time that it curtailed his receipts. Moreover, the McAdoo management of the railroads, after they were taken over by the government, loaded upon the railroads vastly greater annual expenditures. There would perhaps have been no complaint of this if the McAdoo regime had at the same time increased the passenger and freight rates to be collected by the railroads so that their revenues would be increased in proportion to their expenditures. Mhis Mr. McAdoo did not do, with the result that following the waa it became absolutely necessary to increase freight and passenger rates in order to make up in some measure the revenues which the railroads were unjustly denied at the time when the government increased their expenses. This blow of larger freight rates fell heavily upon the farmers, for farm products constitute a large proportion of railroad traffic. The farmer would have had no complaint whatever to make if freight rates had been increased atthe same time and in the same proportion that wages were increased, if his prices had been permitted to vary in the same degree. His grievance, as indicated by Secretary of Wallace, is that there was discrimination in government regulation and that the farm- PRIZES AWARD AT ORANGE (Continued from cally arranged plate; a counter: First, bon, Anaheim Oran sociation; second, re tificate, American Fr lerton. Plate of O Class No. 20—Best Valencia oranges; bon and certificate; many; second, red r Orange association; bon, American Fruit. Class No. 21—Best lemons: First, blue cate, Villa Park Or second, red ribbon; and Lemon associate ribbon, Mutual Or Redlands. Class No. 22—Land show: First car Packing company. Class No. 23—C products, commercial; al display of citrus manufactured and o or corporation: Fir Thomas Crawford; North Ontario Pr third, $10 cash. Excl ducts company. Class No. 24—Best of citrus fruit by-p entered by an indiv cash, Mrs. R N Allee. First best plate fruit: First, blue cate, Anaheim Cit tion AIRPLANES A You can't fish from Later you will—when discovers how to re chine stand still in A HEAVY PUNISHMENT Let the world that believes men in high places are never properly punished settle back with the conviction that it does sometimes happen. The banker at Fort Bragg, J. R. Weller who embezzled $175,000 has been sentenced on six counts to serve from one to 10 years in San Quentin penitentiary, and sentences to run consecutively. Attorney for the once trusted cashier, pleaded with the court that the sentences run concurrently. The judge, for years a personal friend of the convicted man, refused. He declared the enormity of the crime of this leading citizen and churchman made it incumbent for the court to impose the stiffer sentence which is equivalent to a possible 60 years behind the bars. It is a heavy punishment. The people and officials of these smaller cities do not view lightly the betrayal of such a trust. Despite his fall, this man must have had some admirable qualities which made fellow citizens his friends. A pleasant social life of years standing among these people who knew him so well must have faced him in court. A part of his punishment must have been the look of astonishment and incredulity on their faces changing to shocked certainty as he made his confession. If one can think of anything harder to bear than having a former personal friend of years pronounce the sentence which is to put years of darkness between a man's face and the sunshine, it must be only the exactions of the judge forced to speak the fateful words. Yes, this man is being adequately punished. Let the world rest easy about that. FARMERS CHIEF VICTIMS OF GOVERNMENT REGULATION FEDERAL BLUE SKY LAW freight rates fell heavily upon the farmers, for farm products constitute a large proportion of railroad traffic. The farmer would have had no complaint whatever to make if freight rates had been increased atthe same time and in the same proportion that wages were increased, if his prices had been permitted to vary in the same degree. His grievance, as indicated by Secretary of Wallace, is that there was discrimination in government regulation and that the farmer was hit at evry turn. All this being true and unquestionable, Mr. Wallace is sound in his assertion that federal aid is due agriculture. That aid, which the government is now giving, is not class legislation or class favoritism, but merely an effort to remedy a wrong which the government itself perpetrated. KLANSMAN UNDER COVER With rebellion of the California Ku Klux Klan from the imperial authority of Atlanta officials impending, the continued absence from his customary haunts of H. L. Tiarks, late kleagle of the Santa Ana provisional klan, cast a shroud of silence about the local situation. Reports to the effect that the local klan had officially protested "reorganization with Coburn as king kleagle" could only be partially verified. According to information received, the local klan, with the klans of Bell, San Pedro, Long Beach, Covina, Whittigr, Santa Monica, Redondo, Hermosa, Venice, Glendale and Inglewood, sent the following telegram to the offices of the imperial wizard, at Atlanta, Ga.: "The Pacific domain of the Ku Klux Klan will not submit to reorganization with William S. Coburn as king kleagle. We want Price." Rumor had it that scores of Orange county klansmen had supported these official protests with personal telegrams. Tiarks was in conference with G. W. Price, the former king kleagle, in Los Angeles, le was understood. According to the report, the nineteen deposed kleagles conferred all day Thursday with their former chief. According to Price, none of the kleagles has received official notice of the action, but this does not effect Tiarks, who resigned several days ago. AIRPLANES A You can't fish from Later you will—when discovers how to ride chine stand still in But the airplane ing used in the fish In British Columbia adopt the seaplanes tion of hatcheries and waters. Also, the seaplan eggs from hatcheries far distant from This permits a strife of baby salmon. Itthe acreage planted The airplane, elime time and geography to the salmon industry rives in the nick mon "catch" has b two since 1905. Strange times we ermen using flying of ships and with n number of salmon usurping one of nat Quite naturally, v mighty is man! Watch one of m A sockeye salmon lakes of the Frie remains in the lake down the rivers to For three years appears in the occe having been able t it goes. Then, matured, its birthplace, and home, though the j 000 miles. Back home, th e spawns. Returning is purse-netted an next stop is a tin c Why does the so eration after gene main in the ocean same length of tim How does it find of miles back to it These are myste side them, the use fishermen is rather event. FARMERS CHIEF VICTIMS OF GOVERNMENT REGULATION Secretary of Agriculture Wallace is unquestionably correct in his assertion that "Most of the farmers' troubles resulted from government regulation as a war emergency." It is true that deflation has been a world wide experience, but far as the farmer has suffered men of other industries his losses have been due to the loss resulting in the war. If all the farmers had enjoyed inflation equivocal the losses of defense time and in the fact that the fact of this man's sufferer, as shown by the records that the government withheld from the farmers some of the profits of inflation and precipitated its deflation program at the very moment when it would be most injuries to agricultural producers. It will be remembered that in an effort to encourage the production of food congress passed an act which was supposed to guarantee a minimum price for wheat. Under the administration of that law during the Wilson administration, the minimum price became a maximum price, so that when other industries enjoyed the profits of great inflation the farmer was not permitted to do Price, the former king kleagle, in Los Angeles, le was understood. According to the report, the nineteen deposed kleagles conferred all day Thursday with their former chief. According to Price, none of the kleagles has received official notice of the action, but this does not effect Tlarks, who resigned several days ago. FEDERAL BLUE SKY LAW Uncle Sam is now helping with blue sky legislation. The Denison bill, intended to help the states enforce their own laws against fraudulent securities, passed the house other day and is expected to pass the senate soon. Heretofore the state governments have been hampered by the fact that investment crooks operated largely through the mails, over which the states have no control. The new law will forbid the use by stock fakers of the mails and other agencies of interstate commerce. Even this will not completely stop the flood of worthless securities nor protect the public from the sharks. There is only one final and complete remedy, and that is the refusal of the public to "bite." Some over-credulous investors never seem to learn the elementary principles of caution. Some deliberately take a chance. And there is always a new crop of "suckers" growing up. If present educational work continues, however, the percentage of suckers in the next generation will be smaller. The wonderful thing about life is that it can make a twenty-dollar-a-week man certain, without having anything in his experience to warrant the belief, that he can support a hundred-dollar-a-week bride. NEWSPAPERS OF WATER Completing a case papers of California on the water and poised to be voted upon an amendment at the following result: The People's Econo Against the act For the act Neutral ... This summary papers that have decided up to the present number of publications "on the fence," will nounce their pollution is closer at hand. The canvass has interest as the war will be the dominating state election. It strongest sentimenture has been created the measure provided of $500,000,000 and board, or commission power in the exxon money. The combined newspapers fighting as 926,077, while the lation of the paper en as 149,943. Th PRIZES AWARDED AT ORANGE SHOW (Continued from Page One) cally arranged plate display placed on a counter: First, cup and blue ribbon, Anaheim Orange and Lemon association; second, red ribbon and certificate, American Fruit Growers, Fullerton. Plate of Oranges. Class No. 20—Best plate of twelve Valencia oranges: First, blue ribbon and certificate, Pepper Fruit company; second, red ribbon, Villa Park Orange association; third, white ribbon, American Fruit Growers, Rialto. Class No. 21—Best plate twelve lemons: First, blue ribbon and certificate, Villa Park Orange association; second, red ribbon, Anaheim Orange and Lemon association; third, white ribbon, Mutual Orange Distributors, Redlands. Class No. 22—Largest grapefruit in the show: First certificate, Placentia Packing company. Class No. 23—Citrus fruit by-products, commercial; for the best general display of citrus fruit by-products manufactured and entered by a firm or corporation: First, cash prize $50, Thomas Crawford; second, $25 cash, North Ontario Packing company; third, $10 cash, Exchange Orange Products company. Class No. 24—Best general display of citrus fruit by-products made and entered by an individual: First, $20 cash, Mrs. R N Alleh, of Anaheim. First best plate of twelve grapefruit: First, blue ribbon and certificate, Anaheim Citrus Fruit association. AIRPLANES AND FISHING You can't fish from an airplane now. Later you will—when inventive genius discovers how to make a flying machine stand still in the air. neutral papers, which are now printing both sides of the question, is 707,000. “This is the strongest indication we have had of the opposition that is growing into a tidal wave of resentment against this vicious and dangerous measure,” said Herbert L. Cornish, chairman o the People Economy League, which has a membership of thousands in the various district organizations of southern California. ARE WE LIVING LONGER There is being expressed these days that idea that we Americans are living more years than we used to in order to refute the charge that the lives we are leading are excessive and therefore costly. Statistics are being presented to carry the point of longevity. In the years 1911-1912, reputable authorities declare, the expectation of life of industrial policy holders was 46 1-2 years; in 1019-1920 this had increased to 51 years, an appreciable gain. It is interesting to observe that the reasons for this increased life have to do with the sort of lives we are leading. It is said that we know better how to live than we used to and that we have come into a keener appreciation of the values of physical well-being and of the methods of how it may be obtained. We also are busier than we used to be and the result of being busy is a wider interest and activity in things general. We pay more attention to recreation and amusements and these are the things that contribute to longer lives. The healthy interests of life do not permit us to grow stale. They act as tonics, the most effective we know of. If our occupations do not permit us time to think about the worrying things we presume we shall have to conclude that we simply have not the time to die and that therefore, we AIRPLANES AND FISHING You can't fish from an airplane now. Later you will—when inventive genius discovers how to make a flying machine stand still in the air. But the airplane even now is being used in the fishing industry. In British Columbia, salmon fishers adopt the seaplane for rapid inspection of hatcheries, spawning grounds and waters. Also, the seaplane carries salmon eggs from hatcheries to lakes and rivers far distant from the coast. This permits a strategic distribution of baby salmon. It is like increasing the acreage planted in corn or wheat. The airplane, eliminator of distance, time and geography, thus puts life into the salmon industry. The help arrives in the nick of time. The salmon "catch" has been nearly cut in two since 1905. Strange times we live in with fishermen using flying machines instead of ships and with men regulating the number of salmon born each year, usurping one of nature's functions. Quite naturally, we comment. "How mighty is man!" Watch one of nature's mysteries: A sockeye salmon hatches in one of the lakes of the Fraser watershed. It remains in the lake a year, then swims down the rivers to salt water. For three years it completely disappears in the ocean, no man ever having been able to figure out where it goes. Then, matured, it always returns to its birthplace, and never fails to get home, though the journey is often 2,000 miles. Back home, the sockeye salmon spawns. Returning to the ocean, it is purse-netted and trapped. The next stop is a tin can in your kitchen. Why does the sockeye salmon, generation after generation, always remain in the ocean depths for the same length of time? How does it find its way thousands of miles back to its birthplace? These are mysteries of nature. Beside them, the use of airplanes by fishermen is rather a dull and tame event. REPUBLICANS HELP FARMERS When the Republican party came into power in March, 1921, its first effort was to correct the wrongge perpetrated by the Democratic administration, and the most serious of these was the wrongs imposed upon the American farmer. The Democratic administration had hit the farmer with a free trade tariff law; hit him again by limiting prices for his products during the war while the prices of other commodities were not limited; hit him again by the time and manner of starting the deflation program; and hit him again by refusing to continue the war finance corporation. In the last days of the Wilson administration, the Republican congress passed a bill to revive the war finance corporation and when Wilson vetoed the bill it was passed over his veto. But it was not until the Republicans came into control of the administrative offices in March that anything could be done under that law. The Wilson administration was opposed to doing anything for the farmer. President Harding called a special session of congress and one of the first acts was the passage of the emergency tariff law. The administration also adopted a more liberal policy in the matter of bank credits in general and provided additional funds for farm credits in particular. This record shows the Republican and Democratic parties occupying opposite positions on subjects of interest to agriculture. The Democratic party favors the foreign producer in the enactment of tariff laws—the Republican puarty favors the American producer. The Democratic party limited the price the farmer could get for his product—the Republican party helps him to get a higher price by aid him to export his surplus. The Democratic party precipitated deflation on the farmer—the Republican Demonstration has been complete that a monetary system must rest on a sound basis or it cannot be permanent, and cannot be effective while it lasts. The judgment of the country rejected silver as a basis. The wisdom of that move has been made plain. Now there are proposals to use the undeveloped resources of the country as something on which to base a paper currency. Some contend that water power ought to form a good foundation for an issue of paper, or that unharvested and even unplanted crops, would be tangible enough for the purpose. There is no likelihood that any of these schemes will go beyond the present stage, which is wholly in the minds of the persons who have conceived them. ACTION POSTPONED Hearing of petition for incorporators of Buena Park as a municipality, was deferred by the board of supervisors on Tuesday morning until June 13, when final action will probably be taken. Senator Eden appeared for petitioners, and Attorney Marks, of Fullerton, for protestants. An agreement was arrived at between them and the petition went over without dis- NEWSPAPERS OPPOSE WATER AND POWER ACT Completing a canvass of the newspapers of California as to their stand on the water and power act, which is to be voted upon as a constitutional amendment at the November election, the following result is announced by the People's Economy League: Against the act ... 246 For the act ... 32 Neutral ... 18 This summary includes all newspapers that have decided their policies up to the present time. There are a number of publications still listed as "on the fence," which will not announce their policies until the election is closer at hand. The canvass has aroused statewide interest as the water and power act will be the dominant issue of the state election. It is stated that the strongest sentiment against the measure has been created by the fact that the measure provides for a bond issue of $500,000,000 and gives a political board, or commission, uncontrolled power in the expenditure of this money. The combined circulation of the 246 newspapers fighting the act is given as 926,077, while the combined circulation of the papers favoring it is given as 149,943. The circulation of the Democratic parties occupying opposite positions on subjects of interest to agriculture. The Democratic party favors the foreign producer in the enactment of tariff laws—the Republican puarty favors the American producer. The Democratic party limited the price the farmer could get for his product—the Republican party helps him to get a higher price by aid ing him to export his surplus. The Democratic party precipitated deflation on the farmer—the Republican party has tried to save the farmer from some of the losses of deflation. That is the record written in black and white on the pages of recent history, yet the Democratic campaigners would try to make the farmer believe that he is the victim of a Republican administration. They do not know the farmer. WORTHLESS MONEY In Russia the paper ruble is almost without value. The German mark is but the feeble ghost of real currency. In nearly every part of Europe money, considered as a mere bulky commodity, is more abundant than hay, and far less useful. Notwithstanding this, and despite the fact that the monetary system of the United States has proved itself sound, about once in so often some citizen suggests that the printing presses be started in this country and the creation of money by the bale be inaugurated. The most surprising thing about these propositions is that they come from men who have been successful in their chosen walks of life. Nothing could better illustrate the necessity for the conduct of financial matters by students of finance. Debasing the currency of a people is the most disastrous thing. ACTION POSTPONED Hearing of petition for incorporators of Buena Park as a municipality, was deferred by the board of supervisors on Tuesday morning until June 13, when final action will probably be taken. Senator Eden appeared for petitioners, and Attorney Marks, of Fullerton, for protestants. An agreement was arrived at between them and the petition went over without discussion until the date set. Some say they get along with four hours' sleep, but there are men who would confer a favor on the rest of humanity by sleeping twenty-four. DODGE BROTHERS MOTOR CAR MOTOR CARS public believes implicitly in the goodness of Brothers motor cars because it has found in than seven years of experience that they are all they are represented to be. You are invited to come in, look over the im- BIG ASSORTMENT OF USED CARS Right Prices, Easy Terms During the last two weeks we have reduced our stock by over 25 cars. A FEW BARGAINS THAT REMAIN: A 1921 Ford two-ton Truck, Olsen extension, Woodward transmission, extra large platform body, room for 60 boxes of oranges, special price...$595 1921 Ford Sedan, speedometer, double Hasslers...$575 1921 Ford Coupe, in A-1 shape, demountable rims, extra tire, speedometer, new upholstering, tires nearly new...$550 1921 Ford Coupe, just out of paint shop, spare tire, upholstered recovered...$550 Chevrolet Touring, just overhauled and put in fine condition...$150 1919 Chevrolet Touring, overhauled...$225 A Dort Touring in running order, good rubber...$115 A fine Ford Speedster, new paint, motor overhauled...$200 Late model Mitchell Touring, wire wheels, special top, rubber like new. This car has had exceptionally good care...$685 1920 Oakland Touring, with extras, also spare tire, good as new mechanically...$490 1919 Oakland, looks like new, motor in fine condition new paint. Take it out on the road and be convinced...$450 Overland Touring for only...$200 WICKERSHEIM IMPLEMENT CO. FULLERTON GETTING ON HIS NERVES "Have you 'The Four Horsemen?'" "The Four Horsemen' of what?" asked the crusty looking book dealer. "There you go," snarled the would-be customer, "trying to make me pronounce that word. I've been in three book stores already and I'm darned if I don't believe there's a conspiracy on foot to show up my ignorance." 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 evening. Sunday evening and Friday evening services are in the English language. H. C. JACOBY, Pastor.