anaheim-gazette 1923-04-12

OLD-TIMERS SEEK QUIET LIFE AT REDLANDS MR. AND MRS. N. H. MITCHELL PURCHASE HOME IN THE FRONTIER CITY Have Found No Satisfactory Place of Residence Since Leaving Anaheim, But Hope to Be Contented With Latest Venture—Have Visited Many Lands, But Expect to Spend Ballance of Days Under Their Own Vine and Fig Tree. Since leaving Anaheim many years ago, Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Mitchell, who were among the early settlers here, apparently have been unable to find a place of residence that suits their fancy. They have lived in Los Angeles, Pasadena and Long Beach, and a week or so ago they purchased a dwelling in Redlands, avowing their intention of making that city their home for the balance of their days. Since retiring from business they have traveled extensively and seen many of the interesting places of the world, and their friends would not be surprised to learn that the wanderlust had again impelled them to start for some remote corner of the earth. Relative to their settling in Redlands a newspaper of that city has the following to say: N. H. Mitchell, one of the most influential scientists of the weather bureau assert that the attempt to produce rain artificially is an entirely futile undertaking. The probability is that they are right. They point to the circumstance that moisture may not be precipitated from the atmosphere unless there is moisture there. Hopeful experimenters have gone on the theory that the problem consisted in causing the moisture to fall, whereas it appears that the initial step must be in causing it to rise. If that is the case the professional rainmakers have begun at the wrong point. There hardly could be found a record of any human activity more ancient than seeking to propitiate the rain gods. Peoples so remote in history that little save tradition is to be told of them, have left evidences of their efforts to win rain through elaborate ceremonial. Later is became the habit of agriculturalists to sacrifice a certain portion of the crop as an appeal for abundant rains for the next season. Sometimes the sacrifices were more than this comparatively innocuous form, slaves being the victims. Among certain people a young man or woman would be killed, and the blood sprinkled hopefully upon arid fields. Afterwards grain bound into the semblance of mortal shape, and fully clad, was substituted for the living; thus civilization was advancing. Indian tribes always have had their rain makers, who being wise as to the seasons, often seemed to be success- OB SEEN The company emphasizes water that Santa Ana residents should in time saves. From all lock envelopes new postmaster are eight aspire Report says elimination co were reduced possibly there ing. A monkey wheels? A citizen remark that the house by day statutes, as the competitive bible the construction before you leave. With every bill before the new department would be passed interest in the members of the city is out for Morning, Judge. A neighbor flyer at the store invested $10,000 cern. Later the thousand for twining a note, and intention of making that city their home for the balance of their days. They retiring from business they have traveled extensively and seen many of the interesting places of the world, and their friends would not be surprised to learn that the wanderlust had again impelled them to start for some remote corner of the earth. Relative to their settling in Redlands a newspaper of that city has the following to say: N. H. Mitchell, one of the most interesting figures in southern California for more than half a century, and Mrs. Mitchell have come to Redlands to make their home after ra recent trip to Egypt, where they visited the tombs of the old kings of Egypt in the Luxor region and saw the excavation work on the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen long before the news was given to the world and the treasures uncovered. Mr. Mitchell has had a most interesting history. He came to southern California in 1863, and was the first man to bring a reaper into this section. He also was the guide for the party with Mrs. Helen-Hunt Jackson, author of "Ramona," when she made her trip through southern California to investigate for the government reports that the Indians were being robbed. Mr. Mitchell has of late years, until his retirement several years ago, been the owner and manager of the Hotel Mitchell in Pasadena, opposite the Hotel Green. When he retired just before the outbreak of the war in Europe he and Mrs. Mitchell went for a world tour. They went first to Europe and were at Nice when the war clouds appeared on the horizon. Mr. Mitchell was warned by a friend that war would soon be declared and he and Mrs. Mitchell left at once for the near east. They visited the Palestine country, then went to China and Japan before returning to this country. When Mr. Mitchell first came to southern California he began farming on a large scale. He had grain fields and the first year lost thousands of dollars when wild horses and cattle broke into the fields and ate the grain. Mr. Mitchell was greatly interested in southern California and settled in Anaheim. He built the stage line from Anaheim to Wilmington to bring passengers to that community, which was then one of the most flourishing in southern California. For many years he operated the stage. He acquired considerable property in Anaheim and now owns one of the were more than this comparatively innocuous form, slaves being the victims. Among certain people a young man or woman would be killed, and the blood sprinkled hopefully upon arid fields. Afterwards grain bound into the semblance of mortal shape, and fully clad, was substituted for the living; thus civilization was advancing. Indian tribes always have had their rain makers, who being wise as to the seasons, often seemed to be successful. They were not even in a crude sense scientific, but depended upon weird incantations, and the painting of their faces. However, it is likely that they did as much to stimulate rainfall as has been accomplished since. The only way as yet assured for getting greater benefit from the clouds is to conserve the supply as released. DON'T TAKE A CHANCE Gentle rains threaten to sneak upon the unwary motorist this month and cause a lot of grief for him if he doesn't look out. We have with us "Mr. Skid." "Mr. Skid" is not a person, but he is a very dangerous agent nevertheless, declare officials of the Auto Club of Southern California. "Mr. Skid" is a ghostly passenger who travels with every motoring party when ever they go out in the rain or on sprinkled streets. Mr. Skid is like the old man of the sea. He just sticks with your car through thick and thin and the only way to get rid of him is to chain him. You can chain him by putting skid chains on your wheels when you drive on slippery pavement. If you do not, Mr. Skid will have one hand on your steering wheel all the time and is liable to make things very unpleasant not only for yourself but for any other automobile you may encounter on the road, points out the auto club. He gets busy when you least expect it and when you are sailing along a smooth slippery road all of a sudden he gets in his dirty work and you go slithering off into the gutter or somebody else's innocent machine. Don't take a chance! It only takes a minute or two to put on chains and it may save several months of grief and expense. If you want to come to a stop on a slippery road the unpected is liable to happen and you find yourself continuing on perhaps into a smash-up. Eighty-nine people have been killed in traffic accidents in the county of Los Angeles alone... Mr. Mitchell was greatly interested in southern California and settled in Anaheim. He built the stage line from Anaheim to Wilmington to bring passengers to that community, which was then one of the most flourishing in southern California. For many years he operated the stage. He acquired considerable property in Anaheim and now owns one of the blocks there, on which a bank is located. He also owns considerable property in Pasadena. Mr. Mitchell has come to Redlands and is purchasing a home here because he has decided that he likes the city better than any place in the south now. He and Mrs. Mitchell are living in the Bungalow apartments. Last year they made a trip to Egypt and the Mediterranean countries. They went far up the Nile and to Luxor, where they made their headquarters and from there made trips on donkey back to the "Valley of the Kings." Mr. Mitchell is a large man and he says it was a rare sight to see him bestride a donkey, which was being urged on by a long stick in the hands of a man in a red fez with a night-gown for a dress. They went to see the excavation work then being done by the large force in charge of Lord Carnavon, which resulted in the rich find of King Tut and his tomb. He says it was most interesting and all details of the trip were. They traveled in wonderful speeding cars, all painted white and most comfortable. When Mrs. Jackson came to southern California to make her investigation as to the abuse of the Indians she went to Abtit Kinney. He told her that the best man for a guide would be Mr. Mitchell, of Anaheim, who, he said, knew he trails of southern Cali- MAY FLOWERS April showers in southern California are bringing May flowers for motorists to enjoy. According to an announcement from the Automobile Club of Southern California the desert regions of this part of the state are in blossom at this time of the year. Wild flowers are not as profuse this season on the desert as they were last. Word received from the club touring bureau from the vicinity of Palm Springs and other desert points informs autolists that this year's flowers are very beautiful to behold. In the mountain districts wild flowers are at their best in April and hundreds of motoring parties are enjoying them to the utmost. In the mountains of San Gabriel county and Santa Barbara county hundreds of varieties of wild flowers can be seen. Auto club representatives visiting the vicinity of Pine Hills and San Diego county report acres of beautiful flowers. If promises were currency nobody would have to be without a motor car. ANAHEIM GAZETTE OBSERVATIONS By Charles Kuchel. The comparative dry spell serves to emphasize the fact that every drop of water that runs to waste in the Santa Ana river during the wet seasons should be conserved. A stitch in time saves nine. From all accounts there is a deadlock enveloping the appointment of a new postmaster for this city. There are eight aspirants for the position. Report says that if there were an elimination contest and the number were reduced to one, or perhaps two, possibly there would be something doing. A monkey wrech in the cog-wheels? A citizen and taxpayer rises to remark that the plan to build a school house by day labor is contrary to the statutes, as the law positively says competitive bids must be asked for the construction of the building. Look before you leap! With every possibility that the bill before the legislature, creating a new department in the superior court, would be passed, has awakened keen interest in the matter among local members of the bar. Because this city is out for the coveted honor. Morning, Judge! A neighboring city man took a flyer at the stock market recently and invested $10,000 in a commercial concern. Later the man unloaded his ten thousand for twenty-five hundred, taking a note, and then discounted the payment. California citrus experiment station. Batchelor has kept in touch with the rainfall records of Orange county and in every territory of southern California during the last two months and his report agrees with the statements made many times in the columns of the "Diamond Walnut News" and university bulletins in which it was pointed out that there was a direct relationship between light winter rainfall and a high percentage of No. 2 walnuts, since all progressive growers realize that ample early spring water is necessary for the early growth of the trees and the production of large-sized walnuts. Mr. Batchelor's report on this question as made to the university follows: "The growers, who are close students of the irrigation problem also realize that plenty of moisture is necessary in the deep sub-soil in order to adequately irrigate the groves in the summer time. That is, if the sub-soil is dry at the beginning of the growing season, it is quite impracticable to make the summer irrigation water penetrate down to the full depth of the root zone. "In some districts it might be quite impossible to obtain enough extra water in the early summer to thoroughly wet up the deep sub-soil which has been left dry because of lack of enough rainfall the previous winter." Of course, this is an old story to many of the walnut growers and these men have already applied a heavy winter irrigation to the current season. I am concerned with the large group of the growers who are not as close students of their irrigation problems as they might profitably be. This is, I would like to have all of the growers as successful as the most successful ones are at the present time and citrus scab than is lime-sulphur solution. Spraying after the smallest fruits have attained a diameter of three-fourths of an inch has no effect on the control of scab. Local and seasonal conditions play an important part in the spread of the disease. Citrus scab is very likely to be serious if there is rainy weather during or soon after the blossoming period, making conditions favorable for the development of the disease. The bulletin gives some tables showing the relation of temperature and precipitation to the extent of the disease. Results of various spraying experiments are included. Copies may be obtained free by request to United States department of agriculture, Washington, D. C. BELLS RING OUT ON ANOTHER OLD MISSION Restoration of St. John the Baptist is Progressing Another of the twenty-one old Spanish missions in California is under way of restoration. Recently the double chimes of the Mission San Juan Bautista sounded, proclaiming to the world that damage from age and earthquake of seventeen years ago, was to be rebuilt. The Mission San Juan Bautista is the largest in northern California. It was founded in 1797, in accordance with the plans of Father Junipero Serra, and completed in 1809. It is located in the little village of San Juan, San Benito county, on the old coast road, or king's highway, between Sargent and Hollister. The mission is in the plaza, where the Spanish general, Castillo of California, made his headquarters. The ancient Hotel Plaza remains facing the square. new department in the superior court, would be passed, has awakened keen interest in the matter among local members of the bar. Because this city is out for the coveted honor. Morning, Judge! A neighboring city man took a flyer at the stock market recently and invested $10,000 in a commercial concern. Later the man unloaded his ten thousand for twenty-five hundred, taking a note, and then discounted the paper, sacking twenty-three hundred cash. Must be a bear! Some timid folk were becoming alarmed at the shortage of rainfall, which to date is below normal. But an old timer, who declares he has been keeping tab on the moon, says this season is late, and we have another five or six weeks in which to expect rain, and says there is time enough for a flood. The gloom chaser! Three men hesitated on a street corner the other evening, and after passing the spittin' tobacco, started telling their troubles. The first said his neighbors have a phonograph of the 24-hour variety, but as he works in a boiler factory he is getting used to it. The next human allowed that was nothing, because out his way a young man is learning the saxaphone, but as his dad makes a pretty good brand of home brew, he can take quite a bit of punishment. The third victim piped up, and waving his hearers to one side, says among his neighbors there is a young lady who sings—that's it—he would not use any other word—but he, too, can forget many nerve rackers, as the young lady wears the knee lengths and has the llama stride down to perfection. The alibi trio! A son of a pioneer tells that he has it indelibly impressed upon his memory that his parents often told him an adventurous person, after coming through the isthmus of Panama, made his way from the south through this section in 1849 headed for the north, and besides his blankets, carried a hand organ, for be it known there were Indians here in those early days. Music soothes the savage breast. Two citizens had an "argument" the other day, one saying to the other that he would "run him out of town." The party of the second part barking back, fifty-fifty. As you were! Of course, this is an old story to many of the walnut growers and these men have already applied a heavy winter irrigation on the current season. I am concerned with the large group of the growers who are not as close students of their irrigation problems as they might profitably be. This is, I would like to have all of the growers as successful as the most successful ones are at the present time, and I feel more and more as the years go on that the problem of irrigation is the most vital factor in successful walnut culture. Looking at the situation from another angle, the penetration of under average conditions, it would require 3 acre-inches per acre, which stated in miners inches, equals 150 hour inches per acre, and would require a stream of say 10 inches per acre for 15 hours. Relative to "the present rains in the walnut groves which have not been winter irrigated, you will be interested to know of the observations recently made by Mr. Wylie in six groves along the route from Anaheim around through Whittier to El Monte. The average penetration of the rainfall on these properties is 3 feet and 10 inches. Below this wet area the soil is usually bone-dry. In order to wet up this dry sub-soil to a depth of 8 feet it would require at least 6 or 7 acre inches per acre to put the soil in a first-class moisture condition to the above depth. Stated in miners inches it would require 300 or 350 hour inches or a stream of 10 miners inches per acre for 30 or 35 hours. "It seems to me that the walnut groves in general in southern California which have not been heavily irrigated, should receive from 3 to 10 acre inches per acre during the next thirty days. From any angle that we look at the situation, this irrigation requirement is unavoidable or we are sure to have a lot of No. 2 nuts, and we are also likely to be badly fooled and disappointed in the effectiveness of our summer irrigation. With a dry sub-soil to start out with at the beginning of the irrigation season it becomes very difficult to properly irrigate the grove the rest of the summer." Under such conditions many of the growers fail to realize that a large amount of water is necessary to wet up this sub-soil and many of the growers cannot obtain this water if they do realize that it is important. That is, they may not be able to obtain the IRRIGATION NEEDED IN WALNUT GROVES L. D. Batchelor, of the State University, Gives Advice to Growers That the walnut groves of Orange county and southern California that have not been winter irrigated are in danger because of the light rainfall, was the statement made by Leon D. Batchelor, of the division of orchard management to the University of CITRUS SCAB CONTROL Citrus scab, a fungus disease of foreign importation and of great economic importance to the citrus industry, can be controlled satisfactorily and economically according to the United States department of agriculture bulletin 1118, Citrus Scab; Its Cause and Control, by John R. Winston, pathologist. Plain Bordeaux mixture, as well as Bordeaux mixture plus oil emulsion, is very effective against citrus scab, either in the nursery or in the orchard. Burgundy mixture is distinctly less effective than Bordeaux mixture, and ammoniacal copper carbonate solution is much less so. Lime-sulphur solution is much less effective against this disease than is Bordeaux mixture. The other sulphur sprays are no more effective against our summer irrigation. With a dry sub-soil to start out with at the beginning of the irrigation season it becomes very difficult to properly irrigate the grove the rest of the summer. "Under such conditions many of the growers fail to realize that a large amount of water is necessary to wet up this sub-soil and many of the growers cannot obtain this water if they do realize that it is important. That is, they may not be able to obtain the extra water after the gravity flow from our mountain streams is reduced to anything like the summer volume. Right at present, extra water is obtainable from practically all of our gravity irrigation systems and in fact a lot of water is still going to waste from our mountain streams. This condition will probably maintain during the next 30 days or more and it is during this period that the walnut growers should act, if the groves are to start off the growing season under the best conditions. WOMEN DEMAND PASSAGE OF BILL The women of California had an ingining in the assembly of the state legislature Friday when a community property bill proposed for them was presented by one of them, while another occupied the chair as speaker pro tem. Miss Esto Broughton was the pro fem speaker while consideration was taken of the proposed law, which has already been passed by the senate, and she opened a debate that was in good order when the noon recess was taken. When the bill came up as a special order, Speaker Merriam called Mrs. Dorris, of Kern county, to the chair and she presided for a time. The bill, which would give to the wife testamentary powers over one half of the community property, subject to the husband's debts and the usual charges of administration, was urged by Miss Broughton, who was followed by Spence, of Alhambra, in its favor, and Crittenden, of Tracy, against it. Frank L. Coombs read a telegram from the state bar association favoring the passage of the bill. Crittenden had the floor when the noon recess was taken. Office boys don't ask to get off in order to attend their grandmother's funerals nowadays. They just go to the ball game and take the boss with them after he has locked up the office. And Now Comes Chautauqua 7 Splendid Days 7 13 Entertaining Helpful Programs 13 19 Big Features 19 Buy Yoar Season Ticket Now and Enjoy these Events "Turn to the Right" Play Company Alice Louise Shrode Evelyn McFarlane McClusky Dr. Ng Poon Ghew Mixer's Orchestral Quartet James Hamilton, Tenor Beatrice Weller Tom Skeyhill Winifred Windus Guy Marriner Leslie Taylor Princess Te Ata and Company James Hamilton, Tenor Beatrice Weller Tom Skeyhill Winifred Windus Guy Marriner Leslie Taylor Princess Te Ata and Company "Jamie" Heron Thaviu's Exposition Band Thaviu's Grand Opera Singers Magic Lunar Circus Ellison-White Chautauqua ANAHEIM May 6-7-8-9-10-11-12 BIG SACRIFICE One of the best buys in Orange county. Orange and lemon grove, 8-9 years old. Worth at least $35,000. Must be sold to satisfy creditors. Get in your bid if you want a real snap. For further information write or phone 629 California Bldg. Los Angeles. 67443 FOUR-HOUR SERVICE Orderless Cleaning and Dying. Minor Valet Service Free. Men's Suits, Cleaned and Pressed, $1.00. We invite your patronage at our new plant. FULLERTON DYE WORKS 229 West Santa Fe Ave. Phone 6 FOUR-HOUR SERVICE Orderless Cleaning and Dying. Minor Valet Service Free. Men's Suits, Cleaned and Pressed, $1.00. We invite your patronage at our new plant. FULLERTON DYE WORKS 229 West Santa Fe Ave. Phone 6 TRADE VIA PANAMA CANAL The Panama canal, constructed under a Republican administration, has increased our trade with Asia, and the recently enacted Republican tariff law has not hampered that portion of our trade. Less than 5 per cent of our trade went to Asia in 1913, the year before the Panama canal was opened. In 1920 Asia's share of our total exports was 9 per cent; in 1921 it was 12 per cent; and in 1922 about 12 per cent. Imports from Asia in 1913 totaled 15 per cent of our total, 26 1-2 per cent in the ten months ended October, 1922, and for the single month of October, the first month of the new tariff law, 29 per cent. That is a pretty good indication of the benefits derived from the Panama canal, and it also goes to show that the present tariff law is not keeping oriental goods out of our market. The total imports from that division for October, 1922, amounted to just about $100,000,000, compared with $45,000,000 for October, 1921, when the Democratic tariff law was in operation, or an increase of 111 per cent with a protective tariff law in effect. Imports from Oceania, the same months compared, showed an increase of 142 per cent. To assert that the present tariff law is a prohibitive measure is to tell an untruth. It is the lowest tariff ever enacted consistent with protection to American industry and agriculture.