anaheim-gazette 1923-03-15

EASTERN MANUFACTURERS COMING TO CALIFORNIA Lower Power Rates Offered By the So. Cal. Edison Co. Incentive That the abundant supply of electricity generated from the waters of the mountain streams in southern and central California, and sold at low rates, is impelling eastern manufacturers to locate within the territory served by the Southern California Edison company, and is also bringing such an enormous volume of inquiries from other concerns as to indicate great growth in population and community wealth, is dominating feature of the annual report of the company, which will be presented at the meeting of the stockholders at the general offices in Los Angeles Friday. Branch plants have been installed by many concerns to serve the increasing population, and there is every reason to expect a large increase in the industrial load during 1923. The company has now over 50,000 stockholders many of whom reside in Orange county. District Manager L. Delimling, who with others from this section will attend the meeting tomorrow, has been provided with an advance copy of the report which contains many features of interest to this community, among which are: The gross earnings of the company for the year were $16,982,225.45, and; after the payment of operating expenses, depreciation and interest on bonds, the balance remaining was $4,465,577.19. Dividends paid during the year amounted to $3,706,579.49, distributed to 48,107 individual stockholders owning the company's total capital stock of $52,487,000. An interesting chart is contained in the report, showing the growth of the company's business, and which reflects the general prosperity of before the assembly in the form of amendments to the constitution. Both were introduced by Dr. Ernest Dozier, of Redding, a pronounced reactionary. The first of these Dozier measures (A. C. A. 11), would permit the legislature to amend or repeal any initiative measure four years after its adoption by the voters at the polls. A. C. A. 12 calls for resubmission to the people of every such measure four years after its popular enactment. Obviously, these are both hostile to the principle of direct legislation, whose object is to enable the people to change the constitution or make laws for themselves, in case of failure of the legislature to meet the public demand. As the constitution stands, "No act, law or amendment to the constitution, adopted by the people at the polls * * * shall be amended or repealed except by a vote of the electors, unless otherwise provided in said initiative measure; but acts and laws adopted by the people under the referendum * * * may be amended by the legislature of any subsequent session thereof." This is as it should be. The referendum provision is simply a safeguard against vicious defective unpopular law-making by the legislature a useful and needed check upon that body. It enables the legislature to try again, or as often as it may see fit, to make ta satisfactory law upon any subject not conclusively dealt with by the initiative, which latter properly is given the force of a constitutional amendment. There is no occasion for either of the Dozier measures. For what one or the other would accomplish may now be had through initiative petition, in the form of a constitutional amendment; or the legislature may submit to the people such cal fruits from the islands we of every sort and ties of food, e meats. ROAD COUNTY The high cost roads has been come in Santa Clara ing to reports County Engineer. The usual prairie for repairing old highways, with ting the contract which the county proposition, is t by county work has to mae a pro has to do the w act cost. Engineer Ryder recent improvement more important by using his own tending the work he work was s the bid submitt der for the work. The county h by owning its othe past six month's report, th e its quarry 27,000 cost $7000. The have cost $27,000 he said; the couuown quarry save months. LAW-MAN Santa Ana w gressional party Wednesday after March 21, J. C. the year were $16,982,225.45, and; after the payment of operating expenses, depreciation and interest on bonds, the balance remaining was $4,465,577.19. Dividends paid during the year amounted to $3,706,579.49, distributed to 48,107 individual stockholders owning the company's total capital stock of $52,487,000. An interesting chart is contained in the report, showing the growth of the company's business, and which reflects the general prosperity of southern California and the San Joaquin valley in which territory the company's operations are carried on, relating that the gross earnings increased over a period of twelve years from $3,800,000 in 1910, to $16,982,000 in 1922. From a total investment in 1909 of $23,000,000 the demand for electric light and power service for residential, agricultural, industrial and railway service has necessitated rapidly increasing investment in water power plants and distributing properties from year to year to a total of $152,000,000 at the close of the year 1922. During the year the company’s sales of stock resulted in an increase of 21,752 stockholders, nearly all of whom are residents of territory served by the company and consumers of its electric product. The capital expenditures for the year were $24,129,653.00 and consisted of work on new water plants transmission lines, sub-stations and distributing systems. The budget of such new construction expenditures for the year 1923 calls for an even larger expenditure, the total being $26,000,000. The 1923 expenditures make provision for the completion of new water power plants on the Big Creek-San Joaquin project of 122,000 horsepower capacity, increasing the company’s total generating capacity to 501,000 horsepower. By the end of 1923 there will be in operation on the Big Creek-San Joaquin project four water power plants, generating 250,000 horsepower and using the same water over and over again four times by means of the natural fall of Big Creek and the San Joaquin river, controlled by the scenically beautiful Huntington Lake reservoir located in the high Sierra mounts 7000 feet above the sea level. Work on this great project proceeds from year to year and an additional 1,150,000 horsepower will ultimately be developed by the company, placing in California the greatest wafer For what one or the other would accomplish may now be had through initiative petition. In the form of a constitutional amendment; or the legislature may submit to the people such an amendment, which it is not precluded from doing by anything now in the constitution. Last November a proposal to increase the percentage of signatures on initiative petitions respecting taxation was rejected by a majority of over 120,000, as was a like measure in 1920. These results showed the disposition of the people to be strongly against any tinkering with the initiative. And the Dozier measures, being far worse, would have no possibility of approval at the polls. So as they are not only reactionary and wrong in principle, but also certain to be badly beaten if subjected to a popular vote, the legislature should reject them absolutely, and not needlessly encumber the ballot, by submitting them to the electorate. OUR TROPICAL ISLES Trade of the United States with its insular possessions in the first quarter century of our occupation totals about 5.1-2 billion dollars against a little more than one-half billion in the 25-years preceding our occupation. It was on July 7, 1898, that the United States congress adopted the resolution annexing the Hawaiian Islands in accordance with the expressed wishes of their people; on August 12 of the same year the protocol providing for the cession of Porto Rico to the United States was signed; and on December 10 of that year was signed the treaty with Spain ceding the Philippines to the United States. Guam, formerly a Spanish island, was also occupied by the United States in the same year; while the tiny Samoan island, Tutuila with the best harbor in all the south Pacific, passed completely under our control in 1899 after several years in which we had co-ooperated with certain other countries in the control of the Samoan group. generating 250,000 horsepower and using the same water over and over again four times by means of the natural fall of Big Creek and the San Joaquin river, controlled by the scenically beautiful Huntington Lake reservoir located in the high Sierra mounains 7000 feet above the sea level. Work on this great project proceeds from year to year and an additional 1,150,000 horsepower will ultimately be developed by the company, placing in California the greatest water power electric developments now existing throughout the entire state. The outlook for new business in 1923 is particularly bright. The commercial department of the company has inaugurated a carefully prepared plan of campaign for the addition of 100,000 horsepower of new business for the year, to be comprised of 56,000 horsepower for industrial and agricultural purposes, 29,000 horsepower for domestic and commercial lighting and 15,000 horsepower for cooking and heating purposes. Reductions in rates to consumers were made during the year of twelve per cent to lighting consumers, ten per cent to power consumers and eight per cent to the railways, totaling upwards of $1,500,000, under order of the railroad commission. President John B. Miller during the year completed his twenty-fifth year of service with the company and in his annual report commends the loyalty, efficiency and enthusiasm of the personnel of the organization. TAMPERING WITH INITIATIVE No legislative session passes in California without an attempt to weaken or destroy the initiative or the referendum, or both these powers long enjoyed by the people of the state. Two proposals of this nature are ANAHEIM GAZETTE ROAD COSTS REDUCED The high cost of building good roads has been to some extent overcome in Santa Clara county, according to reports recently made by County Engineer Ryder. The usual practice is to call for bids for repairing old roads or paving new highways, with the lowest bidder getting the contract. The new way which the county has found a paying proposition, is to have the work done by county workmen. The contractor has to mae a profit. The county only has to do the work and pay the exact cost. Engineer Ryder reported that in the recent improvement of three of the more important roads of the county, by using his own crew and superintending the work himself, the cost of the work was some $11000 less than the bid submitted by the lowest bidder for the work. The county has also saved money by owning its own road quarry. In the past six months, according to Ryder's report, the county has used from its quarry 27,000 yards of rock which cost $7000. The amount used would have cost $27,000 in the open market, he said; the county ownership of its own quarry saving $20,000 six months. LAW-MAKERS COMING Santa Ana will entertain the congressional party of forty persons on Wednesday afternoon and evening, March 21, J. C. Metzgar, secretary of the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce, announced. we are posted in our knowledge of world conditions, that we take prompt measures to increase our transportation facilities, secure equitable freight rates and maintain the standard of our product. "HEADED FOR THE JUNGLE" A man holding station in government service lately declared in a speech that there is a distinct movement in this country backwards towards the jungle. He bases this melancholy view mostly upon the circumstance that strikes occur, and that these are attended by violence. He says it is a weak government that permit labor controversies to be fought out between the parties immediately concerned. Granting that there is much truth in the statement, it is not to be admitted that the conclusion he reaches may be sustained logically. It is easy for a man whose interests are concentrated upon a single phase of social activity, to lend to that phase undue importance, and to believe that the whole situation is to be judged solely by one element. That there should be differences leading to strikes and that controversies arise and defy early and amicable adjustment, is to be deplored sincerely. It argues a mutual selfishness. Too often there is an unwillingness to admit that the man on the other side is entitled to consideration. Yet the great public, the overwhelming majority that is on neither side, but advocates equal justice for both, is not to be counted out in the summary fashion of the speaker. The people of this country, aware of discontent, seek the reason. They believe in fairness. They believe in the good in human nature. They are studying great questions; striving to educate themselves; to make them are not. The commander feels that only a direct investigation can uncover mistakes "which involve the misplacement of thousands of veterans upon whom many millions of public funds have been expended in the last four years." It is the honest intention of this nation that the war veterans, particularly the disabled, shall have the care and training to which their sacrifices entitle them. Great sums have been voted generously for this purpose. The taxpayer carries his share of this burden cheerfully. If, through incompetency or for any other reason, these funds have been misapplied and work which should move smoothly is being managed badly, the reasons should be laid bare, no matter whom they hit. But it is not a pleasant thought that after all the expenditure of time and money investigation is still necessary. QUESTIONING OIL PRACTICES Charges made against the Standard Oil company before a senatorial committee sounded like extracts from the ancient history of that organization. If the Standard has been cutting the prices temporarily, in various localities, to drive out the independent oil men, and compensating itself for the loss by higher charges elsewhere it is doing what it was accused of doing in the years of its early development. "Cutthroat competition" was supposed to have been eliminated in this industry, as in others, especially since the forced division of the oil trust into its component parts. The public, to be sure, has never taken that partition seriously. But the public has supposed that the immoral and monopolistic practices of yore were nearly extinct, except for maintaining the prices habitually at slightly high- have cost $27,000 in the open market, he said; the county ownership of its own quarry saving $20,000 six months. LAW-MAKERS COMING Santa Ana will entertain the congressional party of forty persons on Wednesday afternoon and evening, March 21, J. C. Metzgar, secretary of the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce, announced. "The party will remain overnight." Metzgar said. "Members of the party at present are on their way across the continent, according to their itinerary, which includes a trip into Imperial valley, San Diego, Riverside and Los Angeles. "It was in a great measure due to the efforts of Congressman Phil D. Swing and Frank Wiggins, secretary of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, that we were able to arrange for a visit of the party here. "We plan to take the congressmen to Newport harbor and convince them of the logic of our argument for its development. "The San Diego train bringing the party from San Diego arrives at 3:25 p.m." "Following the trip to the harbor, dinner will be served either at the Newport Harbor Yacht club or at St. Ann's Inn. Definite arrangements have not been made." CENSUS FIGURES SHOW GROWTH OF NATION The population of the continental United States on January 1, 1923, was approximately 110,100,000, according to a preliminary estimate made by the national bureau of economic research and given out by that society. This shows an estimated gain of 4,500,000 since the date of the last government census. These figures are necessarily preliminary, says the bureau for the final census figures on births and deaths are incomplete after the end of 1920. However, enough data available to show that since January 1, 1921, the rate of increase in population growth has been accelerated noticeably, the present rate approaching that of pre-war years. This more rapid gain in population, according to the bureau, has been brought about partly by increase in net immigration, but has been decidedly reinforced by a reduction in the ingness to admit that the man on the other side is entitled to consideration. Yet the great public, the overwhelming majority that is on neither side, but advocates equal justice for both, is not to be counted out in the summary fashion of the speaker. The people of this country, aware of discontent, seek the reason. They believe in fairness. They believe in the good in human nature. They are studying great questions; striving to educate themselves; to make themselves fit to deal with each new problem that arises. The same spirit that yearns to see a world at peace, is acutely stirred by the hope that its own country may have industrial peace. A people bent on the establishment of peace, is not headed for the jungle, but for a higher plane of living, where the sun shines. GAINING YOUTH BY MAGIC Another scientist—as usual, a man of great repute and a dweller in a far country—has come forward with newspaper proposals for the renewal of youth by medical means. This man a Dr. Voronoff, of Paris, says that rejuvenation can be attained by the transfusion of healthy blood into the veins of the aged. It's an old story, isn't it, this effort to reverse the hour-glass by a "scientific" short-cut? It was old when Ponce de Leon sailed in quest of the mystic fountains of eternal youth. It is millions of years old—nearly as old as age itself. But the quest of youth by magical means is not any older than are the remedies provided by nature against the ravages of age. The old men of ancient times were not weaklings,and the respect which has become a traditional attitude toward age is probably as much due to the strength of those old men of olden times as it is to any pity for their weakness. Those old men were kept "young" by clean living, active exercise, alert thinking and the daily struggle with elements of a civilization that was still new and incomplete and imperfect. They didn't "retire"—because they couldn't. Their bodies were kept active up to the very limit of usefulness. When their bodies no longer responded to the requirements of war and the chase, the burden of tribal counsel and deliberation fell to their lot—and they were still forced to keep in touch with life and action. Now so much of our living is done is doing what it was accused of doing in the years of its early development. "Cutthroat competition" was supposed to have been eliminated in this industry, as in others, especially since the forced division of the oil trust into its component parts. The public, to be sure, has never taken that partition seriously. But the public has supposed that the immoral and monopolistic practices of yore were nearly extinct, except for maintaining the prices habitually at slightly higher level than was needed to insure a fair profit. It has long been regarded as curious, however, that the various Standard Oil companies were in such close agreement in basic prices. Still more curious has it been that the "independents," as if by some instinct, nearly always raised and lowered prices to match those of the Standard corporations in the same territory. The present revelations seem to suggest that the independents may have been forced to do this, in order to avoid ruinous undercutting. If that is the case, vigorous action by the department of justice should have a wholesome effect. In any event, it is clear that there ought to be more honest competition To the want of business man The more Bank the closeness to understand a real factor "A Strong Basis" Anaheim Wm. A. DOLAN, President A. B. McCORD, Chief Wm. A. Dolan J. H. J. J. Dwyer ANNOUNCEMENT LADIES OF ANAHEIM W. S. VARNUM 118 E. South Street is the Anaheim Representative Real Silk Hosier Mills, Indianapolis, Ind. I match EVERY SHADE of shoes and gowns with our new 39 color, advance fashion exhibit. Evening calls on post card requests. Delivery, Quality and Service "ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEED—YOU THE JUDGE." Read ads in Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Vogue, etc. What is it that causes a man who knows his own little business to think that makes him an authority on other people's big business. The biggest lie: There once was a girl who thought she was neither beautiful nor attractive. California Theatre Thursday, March 15 Florence Vidor in "The Real Adventure" Also Special Vaudeville Road Show Friday and Saturday, Mar. 16 and 17 Bebe Daniels in the Paramount Picture "The World's Applause" "The Real Adventure" Also Special Vaudeville Road Show Friday and Saturday, Mar. 16 and 17 Bebe Daniels in the Paramount Picture "The World's Applause" A good comedy, "One Terribly Day" International News. A Prizma Colorature "Plantation Dance" Sun., Mon., Mar. 18 - 19 An All Star Cast in "All the Brothers Were Valiant" "The New Mama" "Around the World No. 3" Kinograms Tuesday, Wednesday, Mar. 20.21 The Mighty Paramount Picture "JAVA HEAD." Comedy, "Broke" Topics Service, Courtesy AND Personal Attention the wants of the investor and iness man are our chief aims. The more you know about this the wants of the investor and business man are our chief aims. The more you know about this bank the closer you examine its responsibility, the better able you will to understand its value to you as a real factor in your success. A Strong Bank Thoughtfully Managed" Haheim National Bank OFFICERS L. DOLAN, President J. H. WENTS, Vice President A. B. McCORD, Cashier R. L. PHEGLEY, Asst. Cashier DIRECTORS L. Dolan J. H. Wents A. B. McCord *D. Jessurun J. J. Dwyer F. C. Rimpau B. Fisher