anaheim-gazette 1923-04-12

Anaheim Gazette ESTABLISHED 1870 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY Henry Kuehel, Editor and Proprietor SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR ... $1.50 SIX MONTHS ... $1.00 THREE MONTHS ... $ .50 Entred at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter OFFICIAL CITY APER DISCUSS HIGHWAYS AT LOS ANGELES MEETING Members of the state highway commission, engineers and road experts of the Atomobile Club of Southern California, supervisors from various southern counties and others interested in the development and expansion of the highway system in southern California went into session Monday with a view of determining on a program of highway construction to meet the needs of the immediate future. Chairman Toy, of the highway commission, presided at the meeting and Commissioner Nelson T. Edwards, of Orange, and Engineer Morton, who have been going over the situation in southern California for more than a week, presented data regarding the program for southern California. Chairman Toy declared on his arrival from Sacramento that the commission has made a personal investigation of the general highway situation throughout the state and is now seeks suggestions and advice of those acquainted with the specific needs of each section of the state. While we know of course, the main trunk lines of California must be given primary consideration by every Chairman Toy declared on his arrival from Sacramento that the commission has made a personal investigation of the general highway situation throughout the state and is now seeking suggestions and advice of those acquainted with the specific needs of each section of the state. "While we know of course, the main trunk lines of California must be given primary consideration by every official and citizen interested in the progress of California as a whole, the separate geographical divisions of California present individual problems that must be solved and it is our earnest hope that, through friendly exchange of ideas, we can work out a proper solution all down the line. "We want to get politics out of the highway program of this state," Toy asserted, "and get everybody working in behalf of the real interests of all the people." "The other highway commissioners, Everding and Edwards, as well as myself, feel that we owe a deep obligation to Gov. Richardson to carry out the policy he wants carried out—the construction and maintenance of good roads where needed. We are seeking the co-operation of those genuinely interested in highway development on such a basis. "The new commission would like to make a record for itself in the way of perfecting a splendid highway system, we are full of energy and we have engineers who are highly capable and enthusiastic, but, unfortunately, we are confronted with a deplorable lack of funds. "We shall, of course, proceed to do the best we can with the funds available and we hope the present legislature will afford us some financial relief. In fact we believe such relief will be given and that while we may not be able to make any considerable extension of contemplated projects, we shall have sufficient funds to effect greatly needed repairs and maintain the roads in good condition." Among the most important questions discussed at the road conference was various rights-of-way guarantees which the state highway commission has requested from southern county boards of supervisors, including a right-of-way through the Rindge ranch over the projected Oxnard-San Juan Capistrano highway and an eighty-foot right-of-way from Whittier to the orange county line. President Harding's administration has been so constructive in its plans and so successful in its execution that the Republican party has no greater asset than its record of accomplishment. While there should never have been any doubt about Mr. Harding's renomination; if he retains his health, yet the recent announcement that he will be a candidate, apparently with his approval, should serve a beneficial purpose in removing that subject from discussion. The Republican party on the one hand, could not fall to offer him the nomination, and he, recognizing his duty as a citizen and as a Republican once highly honored by his party, could not refuse it. Under the leadership of Mr. Harding the Republicans can go into the campaign of 1924 with no excuses, explanations or apologies but with pride in the achievements of a Republican congress and a Republican president. During the first two years of the Harding administration the public debt has been reduced; federal taxes have been cut; prosperity has been restored to American industry; unemployment has been eliminated; agriculture has been rescued from the depths of depression; our international standing has been regained; the British debt has been funded; a beginning has been made in the limitation of armaments; menacing disputes in the orient have been settled; the tendency towards paternalism has been checked; the "America First" protective tariff system has been restored; the federal reserve board has been strengthened in public confidence; a hundred thousand needless government employees have been taken off the payrolls; the railroad system of the country has been restored to efficiency under private management; provision has been made for adequate care for disabled veterans; the affairs of the government have been placed on a business basis under the budget bureau; harmonious co-operation has been established between congress and the executive departments, and the Socialistic element has been disconnected from its close association with high offices of government. The record is one of which not only Republicans in particular but Americans in general may well be proud. Republicans will record their endorsement in the next national convention and the voters of the country will register their approval in the week, presented data regarding the program for southern California. Chairman Toy declared on his arrival from Sacramento that the commission has made a personal investigation of the general highway situation throughout the state and is now seeks suggestions and advice of those acquainted with the specific needs of each section of the state. "While we know.of,course,the main trunk lines of California must be given primary consideration by every official and citizen interested in the progress of California as a whole, these separate geographical divisions of California present individual problems that must be solved and it is our earnest hope that, through friendly exchange of ideas, we can work out a proper solution all down the line. "We want to get politics out of the highway program of this state," Toy asserted, "and get everybody working in behalf of the real interests of all the people." "The other highway commissioners, Everding and Edwards, as well as myself, feel that we owe a deep obligation to Gov. Richardson to carry out the policy he wants carried out—the construction and maintenance of good roads where needed. We are seeking the co-operation of those genuinely interested in highway development on such a basis. "The new commission would like to make a record for itself in the way of perfecting a splendid highway system, we are full of energy and we have engineers who are highly capable and enthusiastic, but, unfortunately, we are confronted with a deplorable lack of funds. "We shall, of course, proceed to do the best we can with the funds available and we hope the present legislature will afford us some financial relief. In fact we believe such relief will be given and that while we may not be able to make any considerable extension of contemplated projects, we shall have sufficient funds to effect greatly needed repairs and maintain the roads in good condition." Among the most important questions discussed at the road conference was various rights-of-way guarantees which the state highway commission has requested from southern county boards of supervisors, including a right-of-way through the Rindge ranch over the projected Oxnard-San Juan Capistrano highway and an eighty-foot right-of-way from Whittler to the Orange county line. HUNDREDS OF LIONS TO INVADE SANTA ANA State Convention to Meet in That City In May With the expectation that between 1000 and 1200 visitors will flock to Santa Ana when the state convention of the Lions club opens May 24, J. A. George, general chairman of the arrangements committee, is busily engaged in active preparations for one of the most successful and pretentious gatherings of the kind ever staged in the west. Although the complete program is not available at this time, a surreptitious peep at the advance sheets indicates that the local organization playing host, will make originality the keynote of the three-day meeting and will leave nothing undone in a determined effort to "give the visitors the time of their lives." St. Ann's Inn, convention headquarters, will be a bee hive of activity from the moment the conclave meets on Thursday. May 24, until the farewells are given on Saturday. May 26. One of the most colorful features of the gathering, according to John A. Henderson, Jr., secretary, will be an immense garden party, to be staged CONGRESS OF RECONSTRUCTION Those political slanderers who are declaring that the last congress was a do-nothing congress should be confronted by the facts when they let their imaginations run at large. As all know, who knew anything about congress, there are thousands of bills introduced which never get farther than the drafting stage. In many instances they are dropped into the "hopper" simply to placate friends. Thousands are called, but hundreds are chosen. Going back to the 62nd congress, which was under Democratic control, it will be found that 28,879 bills were introduced of which 716, or 2.13 per cent became laws; in the 63rd congress 21,616 were introduced, and 700, or 3.24 per cent became laws; in the 64th, 21,104 introduced, and 684, or 3.24 per passed; in the 65th, 16,-239 were handed in, and 508, or 3.13 went on the statute books. The Republicans assumed control of the 66th, when 16,170 bills were introduced and 594, or 3.66 per cent became laws; and in the 67th, just ended, 14,475 bills were offered, and 931, ANAHEIM GAZETTE or 6.43 per cent were enacted into laws. The 67th congress was a congress of reconstruction and some of the hardest problems known to representative government were up for solution. In addition to the difficulties accompanying such problems, the "bloc" system made its bow to the public and that added to parliamentary confusion. Nevertheless, in the matter of efficiency the 67th congress was three times more capable than the 63rd, and about twice as efficient as the other three Democratic congresses. And over and above all it should not be forgotten that the 67th passed a tariff bill, which is generally supposed to test the energies of any congress almost to the breaking point. As a rule a congress adjourns when that one piece of legislation has been accomplished. Those who twit the members of the 67th congress with frittering away time are unfair, and a general acceptance of such a charge as true would lend strength to the old saying that "republics are ungrateful." The time that was wasted was that consumed in the numerous Democratic filibusters. FARM TAXES CLIMB Taxes of farm lands have more than doubled in the last eight years, survey made by the United States department of agriculture shows. As an average for the entire United States farm taxes were 71 cents an acre in 1922, compared with 31 cents in 1914. The increase is attributed in part to a disproportionate increase in assessed valuation based on high land prices during and following the war, and in part to increased cost of state and local government. Highest farm land taxes are paid in New Jersey, which shows a tax of $2.22 an acre in 1922, compared with 96 cents in 1914. California may not be especially interested in the particular prizes of this expedition completed by Professor Fred L. Washburn—a bug which attacks cocoanut groves and another bug that is harmful to sugar cane plantations—but other universities in the United States are keenly alive to their value and these and other destructive insects will be exchanged with them for study with an aim toward extermination wherever they appear. In the free masonry of scientific learning, everybody is interested in everybody else's bugs. California has an indirect interest even in tropical bugs because of the Hawaiian islands and other places which may land their fruits on this coast with dangerous pest eggs or larvae concealed in them. WANT PROTECTION FOR GAME RESERVE Some of the members of the Orange County Game Conservation association, recently organized, are considering the advisability of having Bell canyon and some of the surrounding area placed into a game reserve. At the same time it was stated that the association had forwarded to Sacramento a protest against any change in the boundaries of game district 4A, which district is the game refuge lying in the Santa Ana mountains. The protest sent to Sacramento was brought about by reason of an effort having been made to remove the ranch property of County Treasurer J. C. Joplin from the refuge. Under the law a refuge is an area set apart by the state legislature. In that area no hunting is allowed. Two kinds of game reserves are allowable under the law each reserve being under the control of the state fish and game commission. Each can be organized by order of the commission, or petition of the owner of the property concerned. In one of these... A CORNER IN BUGS A scientific gentleman connected with the University of California has returned from the Marquesas and Society islands with four tropical and fighting bugs. A world absorbed in the final throes of making out its income tax returns has viewed this news item without excitement. It has even treated the matter of bugs with indifference. There is probably a well defined notion that we in California have plenty of bugs of our own. The dangers suffered by this entomologist in meeting poisonous insects while chasing bugs and scale do not move the unscientific mind as much as the Perils of Pauline or some other lady bug of the movies. It is, however, the rounding up of dangerous bugs, dangerous to horticultural interests, which results in discovering the way to fight them when or if they attack our fruits. ELIMINATING THE FORESTS The chief forester of the agricultural department forges the extinction of the timber supply within fifty years. This assumes, of course, a continuance of the present policy of waste and lack of replacement. There is no valid reason why extinction should be expected. It could be prevented. Adequate protection of the wooded region would cast about 3 cents annually. If an acre of standing timber is not deemed worth three cents, the public being thrifty, will permit it to vanish, the ground in many instances reverting to wilderness, which is worth nothing. Destruction by fires is enormous, and in part inevitable. Most of the fires are due to carelessness. As to many of them there is reason to suspect the incendiary. All this is an old story. So is the fact that a lumber concern commissioned to harvest all the merchantable trees in a certain tract, manages to leave such as cannot be utilized, nothing but an array of blackened stumpage. Ground that has borne trees may bear another crop if properly treated. If the removal of one tree required its replacement by another, there never could be the barren stretches of desolation marking the spots where only a few... BOSTON BAKERY Saturday Specials Betty Brown Cake 30c and 50c Devil Food Cake 35c and 50c Boston Bakery 201 East Center St. Phone 135-W 248 West Center St. Phone861-J GOMPERS' BLIND SIDE One thing hard to understand is how the Herrin massacre escaped the attention of Mr. Gompers. He was quick to see the Arkansas riot. "Seeing is believing," but when a man sees his finish he hardly ever believes it. BRITISH IMMIGRATION For the first time since the enactment of an immigration restriction law, after the big war, the British office is being filled. For the fiscal year ending June 30, there was 77,342 British immigrants admissible. Already about 60,000 of them have come, and the rest have all booked passage. The steamship companies, accordingly, Condensed Statement Golden State National Bank Anaheim, California, April 3, 1923 RESOURCES Accounts, $ 975,857.86 Bonds, 155,062.69 Ee, 53,250.08 Exchange, 141,767.91 Fund 450.00 LIABILITIES Capital Stock and Surplus, $ 100,000.00 Undivided Profits, 22,559.86 Circulation, 9,000.00 Deposits, 1,194,828.68 $1,326,388.54 $1,326,388.54 OFFICERS Thomas, President. Vice President. Vice President. E. E. Smith, Cashier E. M. Everett, Ass't Cashier C. E. Griffith, Ass't Cashier DIRECTORS Thomas C. F. Grim Wm. Stark W. A. Bonynge E. E. Smith Pred Koesel B. F. SPENCER 166 W. Center St. ANAHEIM B. F. SPENCER 166 W. Center St. ANAHEIM Wall Paper —Bright, cheerful rooms, clothed in the Springtime Freshness of New Wall Paper. —Wall Paper costs so little but gives so much. —"Wood Tints"-the new idea in Wall Paper. —Drop in some day. B. F. SPENCER Wall Paper Art Goods Pictures PHONE 27 have spread the news in Great Britain that the lists are closed until July 1. By that time there will doubtless be a big waiting list. This is one of the most interesting developments of the present immigration law. Industrial leaders say there is a crying need in this country for skilled workmen, and the British entrants fill the need admirably. Nearly all of them are trained industrialists. Most of them come from the big cities of Scotland. Yearly the immigrants from Glasgow alone have averaged 1000 a week and from Dundee, 200. There is also a good sprinkling of Irishmen from Dublin. Thus Britain's loss is America's gain. The men are driven here by Orleans, and steps into sixteenth place. Three southern cities, Birmingham, San Antonio and Dallas, have taken steps higher on the ladder. Two cities, Scranton and Patterson, have been forced out of their positions in the first fifty class by Norfolk and Springfield, Mass. The first six cities are unchanged in rank, but have made long strides. Their populations are estimated as follows: New York, 5,927,625; Chicago, 2,886,121; Philadelphia, 1,922,788; Detroit, 995,668; Cleveland, 888,519; St. Louis, 803,853. These figures were prepared on the assuumption that growth conditions prevailing in 1920 are continuing. INMIGRATION Since the enactment restriction on the British occupation of the fiscal year was 77,342 British不可missible. Already they have come and looked passage. The states, accordingly, GROWTH OF CITIES Several of the principal cities have supplanted their closest rivals in the population race, according to figures of the census bureau. Baltimore has jumped ahead of its old rival, Boston, and now ranks as seventh largest in the country. Two west coast cities, Los Angeles and San Francisco, have stepped ahead of their eastern rivals, the former supplanting Pittsburg and the latter Buffalo. San Francisco ranks eleventh among cities of the country. Minneapolis has outgrown two cities, Cincinnati and Newark. and Springfield, Mass. The first six cities are unchanged in rank, but have made long strides. Their populations are estimated as follows: New York, 5,927,625; Chicago, 2,886,121; Philadelphia, 1,922,788; Detroit, 995,668; Cleveland, 888,519; St. Louis, 803,853. These figures were prepared on the assuumption that growth conditions prevailing in 1920 are continuing. TO PROTECT NATIONAL PARKS Those interested in preserving the national parks—the playground of an ever-increasing number of the nation's citizenry—will find satisfaction in a recent statement of Dr. Hubert Work, who recently became secretary of the interior. He said: "Our national parks have been set aside by the American government to be maintained untouched by the roads of modern civilization, so that you and your children may enjoy them. These unspoiled native bits of America are for you. They are recreation parks of the people. To visit them and see them is to inspire pride, and make more real our deep love for our country." There speaks one who should hold inviolable the trust committed to him as an official of the federal government. If Dr. Work honestly feels the lure and the beauty of the wild places of the nation, he will not permit the incursions of private intent on their spoilation. His words promise the continuance of the wise and far-seeing policy established by Theodore Roosevelt.