anaheim-gazette 1923-04-26

WHERE MOTORISTS FAIL TO COMPLY WITH LAW Auto Club of Southern California Checking Up on Drivers A definite tabulation of the things in which local motorists fail today to comply with the law, has been made by the safety bureau of the Auto Club of Southern California, in checking up vigilante activities throughout the southern part of the state. Out of more than 19,000 auto drivers in the southern counties of California who have been reported to the auto club as being careless, it is found in the report just issued that 2690 failed to give proper signals before turning or stopping. This proves, according to local authorities, that there is a great need for closer attention to the arm signals and to the making of them properly. In the check on universal carelessness, it has been found that out of the 19,000 culprits, 3179 have been driving around the state with their license plates obscured by dust and mud, or damaged to such an extent that they cannot be deciphered. It is stated that the ratio of various forms of law breaking as shown by California auto owners also holds true for the motorists of every state in America. The next largest number of offenders were reported by the citizen vigilante committees for driving with only one headlight, or no tail light, or no lights at all. The "vigilantes" are really nothing more nor less than committees of citizens of the various communities who work together anonymously for the purpose of aiding the police in stopping careless and reckless drivers. Their reports are handled by the safety bureau of the automobile club and more than 19,000 letters have been sent out by this organization to those who have been reported by the committee. Rats walk the hawksers whenever the good ship docks. A pharos of amity and true co-operation is occasionally discernable. The "Red," the wrecker, and the intrigant must be spotted. The friend and the competitor should be signaled. A high-power foreign service is the searchlight for the job. The Rogers bill presents specifications for the twentieth century model, made in America, for America and by Americans. HULL'S HULLABALOO The minute the chairman of the Democratic national committee read in the newspapers that the prices of sugar had gone up, he sent forth a blast against the new tariff, blaming it for high sugar. The tariff on sugar was increased one-fifth of a cent a pound over the emergency tariff rate. The increase in price, December to February was 3.12 cents a pound, or about 18 times the tariff increase. The sugar men themselves warned of speculation, and the speculators admitted that was the cause of the increase, blaming a government prediction of shortage because speculation occurred. The government forecast, by the way, did not specify a shortage, but it did predict that there would be a smaller carry-over this year than last. However, the speculators interpreted that to suit themselves, so the government is going to look into their little game. Now, just about the time sugar was advancing, the price of crude rubber was also going up. It is surmised that the Democratic chairman had made arrangements to blame that to the tariff when somebody tipped him that crude rubber was on the free list, so he had to call it off. British control of crude rubber was the chief reason for aviation in price, to which might be added the fact that the prosperity prospects are so great our sometimes an innocent prison for months we fore the jury and frees him. In the last were no eye witness course, greatly hanged in the District last spring for two years and fore both of them eye witnesses. It is such lax courts and the loosest that are responsible other single cause, evil so prevalent in are also largely reduced. Ku Klux Klan and apparently have been the name of that radical menace and tions of open defiance would soon subside. The statutes could effectively applied ought to have fixed idea that if he commiss most and will suffice. Until that day ingrained, the never be reduced to... OUR FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE A foreign service unsurpassed by any other nation at an additional cost to the people of the United States of less than two-fifths of a cent per capita annually will be assured by the passage of the Rogers bill. The foreign service is our first line of defense and the advance guard of commercial expansion. Considered from the standpoint of results to be achieved in higher efficiency and prestige in the foreign service of the United States; in strengthening the agencies which make for peace; in attracting to that service the best talent in this country; in inducing those already in the service, as well as those who will press for entrance in the future, to select it as a permanent career; in expunging the anarchronistic distinctions now existing between diplomatic and consular officers, and in democratizing our service, as every leading nation has done with its own; in humanizing the service; and in giving every officer a fair field with no favor—the traditional appropriation contemplated by the bill becomes infinitismal. The Rogers bill reclassifies and reorganizes diplomatic and consular offices. It puts the two services under one head and one roof—the foreign service. And below the grade of ambassador and minister are to be known as foreign service officers. Now, just about the time sugar was advancing, the price of crude rubber was also going up. It is surmised that the Democratic chairman had made arrangements to blame that to the tariff when somebody tipped him that crude rubber was on the free list, so he had to call it off. British control of crude rubber was the chief reason for aviation in price, to which he added the fact that the prosperity prospects are so great our automobile manufacturers are preparing for the biggest sales in history, and that means record rubber purchases for tires. When the Republicans put a protective tariff on potatoes, the Democrats declared this would add millions of dollars to the cost of living. They added the tariff to each bushel of potatoes consumed. The tariff on potatoes is about 30 cents a bushel, and the supply is so great that the growers have been receiving less per bushel than the tariff theeron. At the time the Democratic chairman took his fling at the sugar tariff, potatoes were being advertised by a chain store right under his nose at about 3 cents a pound, or more than six times what the grower received for them... Freighting, handling, commissions,and profits had step-laddered the price. And one could go still further and point to the fact that a baked Idaho potato served in a Washington restaurant cost the consumer just about what a bushel of those potatoes sold for on the Idaho farm. Chairman Hull is wrong as usual. QUICK TIME ON THE SCAFFOLD Whatever we may think of the merits of capital punishment, the execution in England of Mrs. Thompson and Bywater furnishes an example of prompt administration of justice that might well be emulated in this country. The murder was committed on October 4. Exactly 97 days later the murderers paid the penalty with their lives. In the meantime they had been given every right that the law allows. They had been tried and found guilty by a jury. They had taken an appeal and the appellate court had heard the case and affirmed the judgment of the lower court. Then they had appealed to the British home office and finally to the king himself; all of which action is permitted by the British law. The culprits were granted every essential right that murderers have under the American law. The differ- In an editorial which is both critical to the New York Woolowing question: "Is the United State cause there are old traditional hatreds we should sit at home death of a great or fatuous belief that not be dragged down is one of the quests enceau is asking. It clumsily and awful times he confuses lack of emphasis; enough what he feels his way throws off foreign language senatorial critics his insistent quest United States going. But the senate elicited this question three decided under its order that the thing he going to do was to attend strictly to it. And the people of endorsed this desirable terms in the eleven unmistakable were Democratic leaders hastened on every country all assurance of nations would issue again. Only like the World, in European than withment, have failed result of the "greatendum" 'of 1920. Concluding, the "M. Clemenceau's false and M. Clemson principles may be his question remain no stabilized peacethe American people right answer to it.even the World,h prove to any sensitisation that it isthe United States to solve the questionpermanent and satEurope. It is about time European statesmenthe Atlantic were illization that Europe sibility in its own saying that God he themselves still h applies to Europeanscans. The continuing The Rogers bill reclassifies and reorganizes diplomatic and consular offices. It puts the two services under one head and one roof—the foreign service. And below the grade of ambassador and minister are to be known as foreign service officers, the entering class 9 for young men at 3000, to class 1, at $9000 per annum. It provides for a retirement annuity at the age of 65, ranging from $875 to $4800, dependent on length of service and grade attainment therein. It makes provision for representation allowances, as other nations have done. The bill has the earnest support of the chief executive, the state department, the United States chamber of commerce, and many other organizations. Devoid of partisan features, its virtues appreciated, it should be supported by a large majority in congress. If the country at large has displayed no more than a passing interest in the measure that fact is attributable to a disposition, heretofore chronic and general, to let foreign relations slide and to center on domestic affairs. Such an attitude of mind is less pronounced today than it was a decade ago. It will have well nigh disappeared a decade hence. We must not become internationalized; we can not become insularized. The United States is approaching the tidal flood of commercial competition. False lights and deluding buoys are on every hand to lure the ship of state upon the rocks. The pets of international intrigues are spread to enmesh the propellers. The "Red" ANAHEIM GAZETTE sometimes an innocent man is kept in prison for months waiting his turn before the jury and the verdict that frees him. In the English case there were no eye witnesses, which, of course, greatly handicapped the prosecution. Nevertheless, the entire proceeding consumed only three months. As a contrast, there was a young man hanged in the District of Columbia last spring for two murders committed about two years and three months before, both of them in the presence of eye witnesses. It is such lax procedure of our courts and the looseness of our laws that are responsible, more than any other single cause, for the lynching evil so prevalent in some states. They are also largely responsible for the Ku Klux Klan and the outrages that apparently have been committed in the name of that organization. The radical menace and other manifestations of open defiance of our laws would soon subside if the penalties in the statutes could be promptly applied. Every citizen ought to have fixed in his mind the idea that if he commits certain acts he must and will suffer certain punishments. Until that impression is firmly ingrained, the crime record will never be reduced to a minimum. THIS QUESTION WAS ANSWERED LONG AGO In an editorial on Clemenceau which is both critical and sympathetic the New York World asks the following question: "Is the United States to assume because there are old racial feuds and traditional hatreds in Europe that we should sit at home and watch the death of a great civilization in the fatuous belief that we ourselves will not be dragged down with it That is one of the questions that M. Clemens" U. S. C. ADOPTS NEW METHOD OF TEACHING HEBREW A new experiment in the teaching of Hebrew is being tried in the school of religion of the University of Southern California. In the past the study of the Hebrew language has been a bug bear to most students of Divinity, who could not understand its use or purpose. Many seminaries have even removed the old requirements that enterring the ministry study Hebrew. But the University of Southern California department of divinity considers Hebrew of both classical and practical value to the minister. Therefore a new experiment in the form of a class in "Old Testament Interpretation" is being tried. The course is designed primarily for students doing graduate work in the theology department. Instead of spending the usual time in routine work of learning the language the course combines a study in the English and in the Hebrew. Selected portions of the Old Testament are used to illustrate Hebrew idioms and to give something of the genius of the language. From these selected passages they learn a limited amount of vocabulary and by an inductive method they acquire some knowledge of grammatical construction. The passages are also selected with a view of tracing the development of the ruling ideas of the Old Testament, and to placing before the men not only the Massoretic text, but such variant readings as research has revealed. The effort is to find out what the Bible writers really said and what the essence of the message was. If by touch a course interest in the Hebrew Bible can be stimulated so that the preacher will at least make his Hebrew Bible and lexicon a working part of his study program, then the course will have been worth while. WILL ARREST OIL MEN Because the superior courts are too busy, due to the illness of one judge, to attend to contempt proceedings which Deputy District Attorney C. N. Mozley plans to bring against oil companies who are said to have disobeyed injunctions prohibiting them from allowing oil and water to run on pavement near Huntington Beach, County Engineer J. L. McBride began a campaign of criminal prosecution against the employes. George Meyers and John Doe Riggle, arrested and arraigned before Justice J. B. Cox on charges of allowing water to seep into the highway, pleaded not guilty, and their trial was set for June 12 at 9 a.m. Through their attorney, John A. Harvey, the men requested a jury trial. A temporary injunction, forbidding the company from allowing the road to be flooded, was granted following a civil suit brought recently, but the affair has never been remedied, McBride and Mozley said. Because of the fact that Superior Judge Williams is attending to court affairs in his own department and in department 1, he could not find time to attend to contempt of court proceedings immediately, he said, and the criminal actions were taken as emergency measures. Motorcycle Office H. S. Warner was stationed at the rigging at Huntington Beach, with orders to arrest every man on the rigging who allowed the water and oil to escape from the dikes. FIGHTING TO SAVE SAILOR Attorneys for George Fellows, sailor, convicted of a serious crime carrying a maximum sentence of 15 years in the penitentiary, by a jury in Superior Judge R. Y. Williams' court, will ash for a new trial when their client In an editorial on Clemenceau which is both critical and sympathetic the New York World asks the following question: "Is the United States to assume because there are old racial feuds and traditional hatreds in Europe that we should sit at home and watch the death of a great civilization in the fatuous belief that we ourselves will not be dragged down with it. That is one of the questions that M. Clemenceau is asking. Sometimes he asks it clumsily and awkwardly, and sometimes he confuses his meaning by a lack of emphasis; but it is plain enough what he is driving at as he feels his way through the intricacies of fa foreign language, and none of his senatorial critics has tried to answer his insistent question: What is the United States going to do?" But the senate eloquently answered this question three years ago when it decided under its constitutional right that the thing the United States was going to do was to stay at home and attend strictly to its own business. And the people of the United States endorsed this decision in unmistakable terms in the election of 1920. So unmistakable were the terms that the Democratic leaders ever since have hastened on every occasion to give the country all assurance that the league of nations would never be a political issue again. Only a few newspapers like the World, in better touch with European than with American sentiment, have failed to comprehend the result of the "great and solemn referendum" of 1920. Concluding, the World asserts that "M. Clemenceau's history may be all false and M. Clemenceau's political principles may be all reactionary; but his question remains and there will be no stabilized peace in the world until the American people have found the right answer to it." But nobody, not even the World, has been able to prove to any sensible Americans' satisfaction that it is solely the duty of the United States to make answer or to solve the question of how to secure permanent and satisfactory peace in Europe. It is about time that some of the European statesmen on both sides of the Atlantic were to come to the realization that Europe has a little responsibility in its own welfare. The old saying that God helps those who help themselves still holds good and applies to Europeans as well as Americans. The continuing squabble in Europe development of the furring ideas of the Old Testament, and to placing before the men not only the Massoretic text, but such variant readings as research has revealed. The effort is to find out what the Bible writers really said and what the essence of the message was. If by souch a course interest in the Hebrew Bible can be stimulated so that the preacher will at least make his Hebrew Bible and lexicon a working part of his study program, then the course will have been worth while. The experiment is a concession to the modern demand for rapid, efficient training, even at the expense of classical foundations, while at the same time it keeps before the student body the fact that the school of religion recognizes the value of a study of fundamentalists and still upholds the classical study as an ideal. There are indications that this experiment will work out successfully. It may lead to a new mode of instruction and a new type of text to fit the course. NEW RECORD IN GAINS Checking of the number of income tax returns filed in the southern California district was completed yesterday and Collector Rex Goodcell announced that 227,193 returns of all kinds had been filed, compared with 195,077, a gain of 32,116. In 1918 only 203,471 returns were made in the entire state of California. The Los Angeles gain sets a new record. The number of taxable returns of all classes filed was 128,145, against 106,926 in 1922, a gain of 21,219. There were 124,645 personal taxable returns made, of which 94,614 were on incomes less than $5000, and 27,031 for incomes over $5000. compared with 87,687 less than $5000 incomes and 17,238 more than $500) income in 1922. This shows a gain of 19,719 in personal returns filed on which tax was paid. Collector Goodcell pointed out that an unusual feature of the taxable returns filed was that seventy-five percent of the taxpayers filing returns on incomes of less than $5000 and fifty per cent in the more than $5000 class paid their taxes in full. In the non-taxable class there were 9,048 returns filed, of which 82,021 were for less than $5000 incomes; 350 more than $5000 incomes and 16,677 corporation and partnership returns. In 1922 the total of non-taxable returns filed was 88,151, of which 72- FIGHTING TO SAVE SAILOR Attorneys for George Fellows, sailor, convicted of a serious crime carrying a maximum sentence of 15 years in the penitentiary, by a jury in Superior Judge R. Y. Williams' court*, will ask for a new trial when their client comes up for sentence Friday. Fellows was found guilty as charged in the information after the jury had denounced from 5:30 p.m. to 7:50 p.m. The jury recommended clemency, a compromise believed to have resulted from an earlier disagreement. After evidence and argument had been concluded late Mohday the jury went into consultation on the matter.Before the dinner recess was taken they were reported to have stood eight to four for conviction. Attorneys Roland Thompson and Albert Pierce, representing the defendant, will appeal for a new trial on the ground that The court erred in a decision on a legal point. Thompson moved that the court dismiss the case on the ground that the information was not correctly drawn. According to Thompson, when a crime occurs on a train passing through more than one county, a special venue must be declared, and the case may be tried in any county through which the train passed. Mozley and the court agreed that when one county were specified, as in the information filed, it might be tried without that provision. It was upon this argument that the petition for a new trial will be based, according to Thompson. Fellows was arrested on a train at Fullerton. A girl said to have been involved escaped, and was last seen in Mexico, it was declared. The defendant was on a furlough from the navy when he was arrested. He served overseas during the war in the army, and was decorated for bravery in action, the court was informed. If his plea for a new trial is denied, he will appeal for probation, it was understood. WHEDON QUITS JOB Edwin F. Whedon, secretary-manager of the Orange county farm bureau, has tendered his resignation to take effect May 15. What action the board would take to solve the question of how to secure permanent and satisfactory peace in Europe. It is about time that some of the European statesmen on both sides of the Atlantic were to come to the realization that Europe has a little responsibility in its own welfare. The old saying that God helps those who help themselves still holds good and applies to Europeans as well as Americans. The continuing squabble in Europe is primarily a family quarrel. It is their own boundaries and their own debts that Europeans are contending about and not ours. Every man of experience knows that when an outsider mixes in a family feud he usually gets the worst of it and that is exactly what Uncle Sam would get if he were to throw his resources into the European maelstrom. Of course we don't want civilization in Europe destroved, but cancelling the debts the governments over there owe us in order to re-establish their credit so they can borrow more money to raise bigger armies to keep on destroying each other is not a good way to save European civilization. The best way to save Europe is for the Europeans themselves to learn to get along with one another. If they accomplish this they will find that they can do with much less credit and less money than they now imagine, because militarism is the most expensive pastime in which governments can take part. At any rate until Europeans show some disposition to save themselves they cannot expect much material help from the United States. It is obviously impossible for Uncle Sam to save the European nations against their will. In the non-taxable class there were 9,048 returns filed, of which 82,021 were for less than $5000 incomes; 350 more than $5000 incomes and 16,677 corporation and partnership returns. In 1922 the total of non-taxable returns filed was 88,151, of which 72,672 were for incomes less than $5000, and 1870 on incomes more than $500. In 1923 there were filed 10,897 more non-taxable returns than in 1922. An outstanding feature of Collector Goodcell's report was the fact that under the relief afforded by the new revenue act 82,371 taxpayers who filed returns on small incomes were not required to pay taxthe encreased exemptions allowed placing them in the tax-free class. The 124,645 taxpayers who filed taxable returns were saved from $20 to $44 each, due to the increased exemptions. Growth of the Los Angeles district as a producer of income tax revenue was reflected by figures given out by Collector Goodcell which showed that his office was charged up by the department with $24,370,772.53 for income taxes listed in March alone, to which the Washington bureau added $2,112,834.96 in old and additional taxes, a total of $26,483,607.49, as compared with $13,461,241.69 for March, 1922. If you are prepared for the worst it is surprising how often the best will happen. The only kind of a living world owes you is the one you can pay for by work. Lots of men have made a good deal of money by keeping out of other people's business while others have made it by stealing other people business. Edwin F. Whedon, secretary-manager of the Orange county farm bureau, has tendered his resignation to take effect May 15. What action the board would take in relation to the resignation President Smiley said he was not in position to say at this time, but that the matter would come before the board for attention at a meeting to be held May 4. "My affairs elsewhere demand my personal attention," Whedon said in explanation of his request to be relieved of the farm bureau position. "These interests offer me more opportunity and future than the bureau has had to offer me up to this time." Whedon came to the farm bureau January 1 of this year. He succeeded R.D. Flaherty, now manager of the 1923 Orange county fair. Smiley said he had given no consideration to Whedon's successor. "Whedon's successor will be named by the board if the present secretary-manager leaves us next month," said Smiley. "There is the possibility that Whedon may be prevailed upon to remain here, or will have changed his mind by the day of the board meeting. No thought has been given to his successor." It Pays to have The PASS BOOK Habit! The pass book habit is the best habit you can form and let it be a REGULAR habit. Money deposited regularly in the bank will build a fortune just as sure as one brick being placed upon another makes a building. The roll top desk, the revolving chair and an interest in a business comes only to those who HAVE MONEY. EARN, DEPOSIT, HAVE. We will welcome your account FIRST NATIONAL BANK Of Anaheim American Savings Bank NOTICE OF SALE OF "SEWER CONSTRUCTION BONDS" OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Trustees of the City of Anaheim, California, will receive sealed bids or proposals up to eight o'clock P.M., of Thursday, the 26 day of April, 1923, to purchase bonds of the City of Anaheim, ordered issued under and by virtue of the provisions of a certain resolution of the Board of Trustees of the City of Anaheim, entitled "A resolution providing for the issuance and redemption of bonds of the City of Anaheim in the sum of One Hundred Sixty Thousand ($160,000.00) Dollars for the purpose of the acquisition, construction and completion by the City of Anaheim of a certain municipal improvement, to-wit: An outfall sewer, together with all necessary rights of way upon which to construct and the construction of an outfall sewer pipe line, including the acquisition of all necessary pipe and the payment of the cost and expense of installing said sewer pipe line, in accordance with and as authorized by a special election held in said City on the 4th day of April, 1923," passed and adopted by the Board of Trustees of said city on the 15th day of March, 1923, in the some of One Hundred Sixty Thousand ($160,000.00) Dollars. Said bonds are negotiable in form and are designated as follows: "Sewer Construction Bonds." Sald Sewer Construction Bonds are one hundred and sixty in number, and are of the denomination of One Thousand Dollars each, and are numbered consecutively from one to one hundred sixty, both inclusive. All of said bonds shall be dated April 15, 1923. Sald one hundred and sixty bonds shall be paid in the order of their numbers consecutively, in the following manner: Four of said bonds shall be paid on the 15th day of April, 1924, and four upon the 15th day of April of each and every year thereafter, together with interest on all sums unpaid at such date until the principal and interest on all of said one hundred sixty bonds and the money thereby represented shall have been paid, the same being and constituting an annual payment of the sum of Four Thousand ($4,000.00) Dollars on the principal of said bonds, which said sum is not less than one-fortieth part of said indebtedness. Sald bonds are payable at the office of the City Treasurer of the City of Anaheim. All of said bonds shall draw interest at the rate of five per cent (5 per cent) per annum, payable semi-annually, on the 15th day of October and the 15th day of April of each and every year until said bonds and the indebtedness represented thereby shall have been paid. Principal and interest on all said bonds is payable in gold coin of the United States. and, in its discretion, readvertise for bids. By order of the Board of Trustees or the City of Anaheim, California, made at a regular meeting of said Board held on the 12th day of April, 1923. EDWARD B. MERRITT. City Clerk of the City of Anaheim. 4-19-3t NOTICE INVITING SEALED PROPOSALS OR BIDS Notice is Hereby Given that sealed proposals or bids will be received by the City of Anaheim at the office of the City Clerk of said city up to $800 o'clock P.M. on Thursday, the 3rd day of May, 1923, for the furnishing to said City of Anaheim of the following described material and labor: The construction of sanitary sewers upon certain streets and alleys in the City of Anaheim, requiring the following approximately quantifies: $826 feet of 6 inch vitrified pipe including: 318 6-inch by 4-inch Y's. 318 4-inch vitrified caps. 20 manholes complete. 6 flush tanks complete, excepting 3iphons. Sald work shall be done in accordance with the plans, profiles, and specifications for said work, which said plans and profiles were adopted by the Board of Trustees of the City of Anaheim, by resolution on the 19th day of April, 1923, and are marked and designated "Sewer System Anaheim, California. Profiles No. 29." A note are on file in the office of the City Clerk of said city, and which said specifications were adopted by the Board of Trustees of the City of Anaheim, by resolution on the 27th day of July, 1911, and are marked and designated "Specifications for the construction of pipe sewers in the City of Anaheim, California," and are on file in the office of the City Clerk of the City of Anaheim. All proposals or bids must be accompanied by a certified check payable to the City of Anaheim, for an amount which shall not be less than ten per cent of the aggregate amount of the proposal, or a bond for the said amount so payable, said check or bond to become forfeited to the City of Anaheim in the event that the successful bidder shall fail to enter into contract for the doing of said work and furnish the bonds required. The Board of Trustees of the City of Anaheim reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Trustees or the City of Anaheim. Dated this 19th day of April, 1923. EDWARD B. MERRITT. City Clerk of the City of Anaheim. 4-19-3t PUBLIC SALES We have purchased 122,000 pair U.S. Army Munson last shoes, sizes 5-1-2 to 12 which was the entire surplus stock of one of the largest U.S. Government shoe contractors. This snoe is guaranteed one hundred per cent solid leather, color dark tan, bellows tongue, dirt and water proof. The actual value of this shoe is $6.00. Owing to this tremendous buy we can offer same to the public at $2.95. Send correct size. Pay postman on delivery or send money order. If shoes are not as represented we will cheerfully refund your money promptly upon request. National Bay State Shoe Company Then there is the man who goes through life taking so much of his time fighting other people's battles that he hasn't any strength left to fight his own. You may not be superstitious and still believe it is unlucky to break a bill.