anaheim-gazette 1923-05-10

RIVER CONTROL DISCUSSED BY OLD TIMER SAMUEL ARMOR SUGGESTS A METHOD OF CONSERVING FLOOD WATERS Recommends Organization of a District Comprising the Three Counties—Declares the River Should Have an Official Channel Established With Protection Embankment on Each Side—Tells of Futile Efforts to Dam the Stream. Samuel Armor, of Orange, one of the county's best posted men on the subject, submits the following article relative to flood control and the water problem: In a report of a recent meeting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce the following paragraph occurred: "Calling attention to the rapidly diminishing water levels, the chairman of the water conservation committee declared that, at the rate water levels in county pumping plants are being reduced, in twenty-five years pumping for irrigation water would be prohibitive. In proof he cited the records maintained at the Anaheim Irrigation company's plant, where a marked recession has been shown in the past two years, the water being two feet lower than on March 1 of the present year. In regard to federal investigation of the situation, he stated that incorporation in 1877. Later E. E. Keech, at my request, prepared an amendment to section 324 of the civil code, which was adopted by the legislature, providing for the transfer of the waterstock in the deed as an appurtenance to the land. This appurtenancy principle is an extension of the long-established law of riparian rights, so as to include all the lands in the basin of a stream within those rights. The river, having no official channel, made its way during high water over private property wherever the resistance was the least. During periods of light rainfall the owners of the land would forget about the floods, would grub out the willows along the putative banks and cultivate to the very edge of where the water previously ran. Then, when the rains came down, as they did in 1862, 1867, 1884, 1916, and to a less extent in some other years, the floods would sweep over the low banks of loose sand and even between fairly good dikes of the different districts which were not connected all the way to the mouth of the canyon. Why, in 1916, it rained more or less on twenty days out of thirty-one in January, though not all consecutively, and precipitated twenty-five inches of rainfall on the lower course of the river within that month! The better way to protect against such occasional floods is to establish an official channel with a protective border on each side at least twenty-five feet wide, upon which willows, pampas grass and other vegetation should be encouraged to grow. After many years of independent action and considerable expensive litigation, the tri-counties reforestation committee was formed with twelve members from each of the three counties, interested in the waters of the..." minishing water levels, the chairman of the water conservation committee declared that, at the rate water levels in county pumping plants are being reduced, in twenty-five years pumping for irrigation water would be prohibitive. In proof he cited the records maintained at the Anaheim Irrigation company's plant, where a marked recession has been shown in the past two years, the water being two feet lower than on March 1 of the present year. In regard to federal investigation of the situation, he stated that government engineers had reported that no site in the Santa Ana river, where a dam could be built to impound waters, would be commensurate with the cost of construction of such a project." The few old-timers who are left now remember not only the early decisions of the experts, about the lack of dam sites, but also the following facts which partly corroborate such decisions: A dam was constructed across the river above Olive, during Emory Foster's superintendency of the S. A. V. I. company, with heavy, deeply driven piles, which popped up and floated away as soon as the sand became saturated by the first flood. No bottom could be reached with the longest available pole at the old West Orange bridge during a moderate flow of water. The broad bases of the heavy concrete piers of the Santa Fe bridge, northwest of Orange, rest twenty-three feet deep on the same kind of sand as is on the surface. No bedrock has been reported in any of the wells bored up the river for oil or water. The nearest place reported where bedrock was found, was at the Salt Lake bridge southwest of Riverside, and that was sixty-five feet below the surface. In the campaign for aqueduct bonds about twenty years ago, a mass meeting was held in Los Angeles, at which several noted engineers announced that the water level had gone down 40 feet on an average in the wells of the coastal plains within ten years, and, at such a rate of lowering, the water would soon be out of reach, without taking into account the increasing demand for such water. Shortly after Orange county was formed the supervisors, in answer to petitions, began to restrain the river from overflowing its banks in its lower course during the high water, but they soon found that the laws authorized protection only through districts. The Newbert protection district organized in 1907 may be men- way to protect against such occasional floods is to establish an official channel with a protective border on each side at least twenty-five feet wide, upon which willows, pampas grass and other vegetation should be encouraged to grow. After many years of independent action and considerable expensive litigation, the tri-counties reforestation committee was formed with twelve members from each of the three counties. Interested in the waters of the river, and has been working harmoniously over fifteen years for the good of all the people within the basin of the stream. While that committee has done more for the good of the valley, with the aid granted it, than is generally realized, yet the pressure for retrenchment in all government departments has curtailed the committee's support when more maney is needed to store the floods. The two laws passed by the legislature, to enable a conservancy district to be formed of the basin of the river lying partly in each of the three counties, proved to be abortive and useless, the first one being declared unconstitutional in two particulars and the second one placing the district under the control of the state administration, with other objectionable features. To show the bountiful supply of water furnished this valley, I will reproduce some statistics on the rainfall collected over twenty years ago. According to estimates given me by J. B. Lippincott, resident federal hydrographer at Los Angeles in 1900, the area of the basin of the Santa Ana river consisted of 557 square miles in its mountain section, 382 in its hill section, and 525 in its valley section, or a total of 1464 square miles, which equals 936,960 acres. The average annual rainfall, as reported by observers for thirty years, from 1870 to 1900, was 33.84 inches in the mountains, 20.00 inches in the hills, and 14.98 inches in the valley, which amounts spread over their respective areas and the products added together would give a total annual average rainfall in the basin of the Santa Ana river of 79,819,529,856 cubic feet of water. Let the tri-counties reforestation committee have articles of incorporation for a conservancy district prepared and signed by five incorporators from each of the three counties. Fix the capital stock at $100,000, (or any other amount preferred) divided into 1,000,000 shares of a par value of ten cents each. The stock to be sold only at more exclusive there is no essay tween the two; he ward appearance binding and the cover. The cont. In a talk giving to the citizen last day of his said "it will be when she has rite surely will, that United States is in the world." In truth were being eery occasion at throughout the U.S. Why doesn't a conference try securing an American lieves 100 per cent and government to stand on his good old goo and minding our practice of which great and respect for the various chambers of conferences and nations national intending purely local owing to foreign comes to our country with and belittle we do not need in order to inform rope. The America vastly better and Europe than Europe America. Let tha and leaders who better understand country and Europe and endeavor to countrymen regaof America and lished. Let them official lies in regarding this nation its motives. Let within their own about restoration as America has and all will be we Instead of bring understanding tha gospel of class and this country. T large class of peo ligent, in the belie ter all, is wrong tutions and Ameri are keeping alive countries the fall that we have not rope countries. It is high time at such a rate of lowering, the water would soon be out of reach, without taking into account the increasing demand for such water. Shortly after Orange county was formed the supervisors, in answer to petitions, began to restrain the river from overflowing its banks in its lower course during the high water, but they soon found that the laws authorized protection only through districts. The Newbert protection district organized in 1907, may be mentioned as an example of such districts along the river. The question of how to regulate the waters of a stream, so as to get the best use of such waters, naturally separates itself into two heads or subdivisions, flood control and water conservation, which assist or supplement each other. Then, too, each of these two purposes can be accomplished in several different ways. For instance, flood control can be effected, to a certain extent, with impounding dams where there are suitable sites, with check dams in the tributaries, with protecting the cover of the basin from fires, also by reforestation, with spreading the water on waste land to fill the underground strata, and with strengthening the banks to prevent overflow. All of these methods to affect flood control will also produce water conservation except the last. As to whom the waters of a stream belong and whose duty it is to control and utilize the same, it has been the theory of the Santa Ana Valley irrigation company, from the beginning, that all of the water which falls within the basin of a stream belongs to the lands within that basin and cannot fairly be taken over the watershed into the basin of another stream. In line with that theory, the principle that the water is appurtenant to the land was embodied in the articles of "AMERICA—THE MOST JUST NATION" What's the matter with the United States of America? Isn't there anything worth while in our institutions, our principles, our national traditions and ideals, our national policies and accomplishments Has the spirit of patriotism and nationalism been wholly smothered by the stifling effluvium of internationalism which has been constantly poured over this country ever since the former administration attempted to make Uncle Sam the chore boy of Europe? Pick up the program of a state or national convention or conference of almost any organization or association and most likely the headliner is some foreigner who is over here to tell us what a sordid, clay-footed, selfish peo- Instead of brining understanding this gospel of class and this country. The large class of people lagent, in the belief all, is wrong institutions and America are keeping alive countries the fall that we have not ropean countries. It is high time propaganda. America by far the best, most constructive munity of nations ing the world oach and normal prosperity. OUTLOOK In the summaries of the twelve district, Chairman serve bank, note business conditions "Activity of p which has been made of the year, war March, with record being steadily applied in numerous labor is fully employ advancing. Subs rates of pay in th and metal trades nounced during many sections are securing adequate planting and cultu the relatively low tural laborers." Perhaps it would true had the writer of relatively low tural products." perity reflected h ANAHEIM GAZETTE plie we are, simply because we refuse to become an active partner in Europe's bankruptcy and hatreds. We are lectured upon our duty to the world. We are commiserated upon having lost our soul. We are informed that our traditions and ideals are old fogey, that the policy of minding our own business is a sign of narrow mindness; that while cleaning our own house and putting it in order may have brought prosperity to us, it is a supremely selfish policy. We are described as hard-boiled and cold-blooded and Shylocks, lacking in all the fine attributes just because we refuse to join a regular international Saturday night debauch and get into a rough house at the cost of our self-respect and our physical and financial standing. Those attending the convention have to listen to some imported lecturer sneer at our government, deplore our provincialism and characterize us as a nation wholly lost to higher and better things. This sort of thing is breeding a spirit of discontent and spreading the gospel of hatred to American institutions quite as truly as the soap-box evangelist who "cusses out" the government in language less polished and phrases less rounded than the distinguished foreign gentry who speak at more exclusive gatherings. But there is no essential difference between the two, however, except in outward appearance. One is morocco binding and the other is a paper back cover. The contents are the same. In a talk given by President Harding to the citizens of Augusta on the last day of his recent vacation, he said "it will be the verdict of Europe when she has righted herself, as she surely will, that the republic of the United States is the most just nation." dly expanding volume of bank credit." "Interest rates have tended upward during the past month." "The general price level continued upward during the month. Prices of many agricultural products of the district, however, are now lower than one year ago, the principal exceptions being wool, cotton, sugar and barley, all of which are selling at prices considerably above those of April, 1922." "Crops and livestock of the district are in good condition. The past winter has not been severe and early spring weather has been generally favorable. Rains during the first week of April ended a six weeks dry spell in California, relieving a situation which was becoming serious both for the livestock and general farming interests." SPECULATION, NOT TARIFF, BOOSTED SUGAR PRICE The United States tariff commission has made its report to President Harding on the sugar situation. It states without equivocation that the increase in sugar prices since January was due to "causes not connected with the American tariff." Simultaneously with this report, the department of justice, at the direction of Attorney General Daugherty, filed suit in the federal courts against sugar speculators. This action was taken after the facts collected by ythe department of justice had been presented to President Harding and his cabinet and discussed in detail by them. In filing the suit, the department of justice sets forth that there was and is a combination and conspiracy in the restraint of trade in raw sugar has been indulged in through the instrumentality of the exchange and clear abroad from the United States during 1922. That about one-half of every dollar paid to the federal government is taken to meet obligations incurred by the war. That the United States is now the largest silk consuming and manufacturing country. That 35,000,000 Bibles are printed annually in this country and Canada. That in 1900 there was one telephone for every 90 persons in the United States, while now there is one to every 8. That the world's shipbuilding shows a heavy decline from 4,341,679 tons in 1921 to 2,467,084 tons in 1922. That country districts need doctors while the cities are oversupplied with them. That New York's murder rate is far below the average for 28 of the largest United States cities. That there are 3,000,000 civilian employees of the government, their annual salaries aggregating $3,000,000,000. That the population of continental United States was approximately 110,000,000 on January 1, an increase of 4,500,000 since the last census. That the number of persons killed or injured on railroad tracks was 50 per cent les sin 1922 than the average of the preceding 15 years. That $1,209,915 is provided in the annual appropriation bill of the United States treasury for 1924 health measures. That the total losses through check forgeries and alterations in 1923 amounted to nearly $47,000,000. That the 1922 farm products of the United States are valued at $14,310,-000,000 as compared with $17,402,000,-000 the previous year. TIME FOR MEDITATION France so far, instead of profiting at more exclusive gatherings. But there is no essential difference between the two, however, except in outward appearance. One is morocco binding and the other is a paper back cover. The contents are the same. In a talk given by President Harding to the citizens of Augusta on the last day of his recent vacation, he said "it will be the verdict of Europe when she has righted herself, as she surely will, that the republic of the United States is the most just nation in the world." Isn't it about time this truth were being emphasized upon every occasion at every opportunity throughout the United States? Why doesn't some convention or conference try something new by featuring an American citizen who believes 100 per cent in our institutions and government and who is not afraid to stand on his two feet and preach the good old gospel of Americanism and minding our own business, by the practice of which this country became great and respected. Is it not time for the various merchant associations, chambers of commerce, industrial conferences and those club organizations national in their scope, as well as purely local clubs, to stop featuring the foreign propagandist who comes to our country only to find fault with and belittle it? We do not need these propagandists in order to inform us regarding Europe. The American people have a vastly better and truer knowledge of Europe than European people have of America. Let those foreign scholars and leaders who would bring about a better understanding between this country and Europe remain at home and endeavor to enlighten their own countrymen regarding the viewpoint of America and what it has accomplished. Let them stop the spreading of official lies in their own countries regarding this nation, its purposes and motives. Let them do as much within their own borders to bring about restoration of normal conditions as America has within its boundaries and all will be well with the world. Instead of bringing about a better understanding they are spreading the gospel of class and racial hatred in this country. They are getting a large class of people, otherwise intelligent, in the belief that something after all, is wrong with American institutions and American ideals. They are keeping alive in all European countries the false and vicious idea that we have not done our duty to European countries. It is high time to stop this sort of in filing the suit, the department of justice sets forth that there was and is a combination and conspiracy in the restraint of trade in raw and refined sugar. The petition alleges that "an orgy of speculation in raw sugar has been indulged in through the instrumentality of the exchange and clearing association" (at the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange, Inc., and the New York Coffee and Clearing Association, Inc.) since February 7. In support of this it sets forth that during the month of February "enormous quantities of raw sugar greatly in excess of quantities customarily dealt in and more than the total stock of raw sugar then in existence have been subject to fluctious paper sales." It shows that the transactions on the exchange during February aggregated 1,515,050 tons, while in point of fact, during that month, only 300 tons were actually delivered as a result of transactions. In other words, only two ten-thousandths of one percent of all the February transactions on the sugar exchange were bona fide and represented the sugar that was actually delivered. All this bears out exactly what the Republican national committee stated on March 17, in reply to the Democratic charge made at that time that the high price of sugar was due to the Vordney-McCumber tariff. It also bears out the statement at that time to the effect that the Republican congress had stopped gambling in grain to the detriment of consumers, and there was no reason why there should not be a stop put to gambling in sugar or any other food product to the exploitation of the consumer. Since that statement was issued, the United States supreme court has declared the grain futures act constitutional and it is largely upon the principles of law embodied in that act that department of justice intends to base its prosecution of those it charges with gambling in sugar and fixing fictitious prices to the American consumers. It was charged by the Democratic national committee's publicity bureau, by leading Democrats and by a number of demagogues who do not classify themselves as Democrats that the department of justice would never do anything in regard to the sugar situation. The investigation was started in the federal district attorney's office in the federal district attorney's office in the federal district attorney's office in the federal district attorney's office in the federal district attorney's office in the federal district attorney's office in the federal district attorney's office in the federal district attorney's office in the federal district attorney's office in the federal district attorney's office in the federal district attorney's office in the federal district attorney's office in the federal district attorney's office in the federal district attorney's office in Instead of bringing about a better understanding they are spreading the gospel of class and racial hatred in this country. They are getting a large class of people, otherwise intelligent, in the belief that something after all, is wrong with American institutions and American ideals. They are keeping alive in all European countries the false and vicious idea that we have not done our duty to European countries. It is high time to stop this sort of propaganda. America today is playing by far the best, the highest and the most constructive part in the community of nations in the work of bringing the world back to a sane viewpoint and normal prosperity. OUTLOOK IMPROVED In the summary of business conditions of the twelfth federal reserve district, Chairman Perrin, of the reserve bank, notes improvement in business conditions. "Activity of production and trade, which has been marked since the first of the year, was sustained during March, with records of previous years being steadily approached or exceeded in numerous lines of activity. Labor is fully employed and wages are advancing. Substantial increases in rates of pay in the lumbering, mining and metal trades industries were announced during March. Farmers in many sections are having difficulty in securing adequate help for spring planting and cultural work because of the relatively low wages paid agricultural laborers." Perhaps it would have been equally true had the writer suggested "because of relatively low prices paid agricultural products." "The business prosperity reflected has resulted in stead- THE ACTION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IN SEeking To Stop The Speculation On Sugar By An Injunction Is A Hard Nut To Crack For Those Demagogues Who Have Been Attacking The Courts And What They Term "Government By Injunction." It Is The Favorite Argument Of This Class Of Enemies Of Judicial Process That The Injunction Is Never Used Except Against The Poor Man Or The Laboring Man, That It Is A Weapon Only In The Hands Of The Wealthy. The Invocation Of The Injunction As A Legal Weapon To Protect The Breakfast Table Of The Working Man And Bring The Wealthy Speculator To Book Conclusively Shows The falsity Of Such Propaganda. DO YOU KNOW? That there were 12,238,375 motor cars and trucks in the United States in 1922, according to a statement of the bureau of public roads. That 214,484,621 letters were sent The development of a hand to replace the ear as an organ for distinguishing sounds has been carried on by Professor Robert H. Gault, of Northwestern university, to the point where university authorities have announced that he believes he is uncovering a new field, which may lead to direct help for the deaf. Professor Gault has been able to train John Crane, a student, who is not deaf, to recognize certain unspoken words through the palm of his hand. The vibrations of a voice, speaking through a long tube, are made to impinge on Crane's palm while the sound is shut off from his ears. Professor Gault is arranging to experiment with an acousticon in the hand of a stone-deaf person, with the speaker at a long distance away. He says of these experiments: "I have concluded that John Crane when he correctly interprets words and sentences by means of the impressions on the palm of his hand through a long tube does not hear these words or sentences. In the first place, his ears have been plugged either with cotton or putty, or both, his head tightly bound with a thick bandage and a motor has been operated nearby. In the second place, his brother, George, who has done the speaking, has been distant thirty feet in another room. There are two intervening walls and, even if John were not muffled from the sound, I doubt his ability to hear anything. None of us who stood at John's side could catch the words George spoke through the tube. My theory therefore is as follows: The sound vibrations are conducted by the nerves from the delicate area in the hand to the brain and there are directly transmitted to the mind. John does not hear the words or the..." 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Commenting on the experience of Willetta Huggins, a deaf girl of Janesville, Wis., who says she hears by means of an acousticon held in her hand, Professor Gault says he is convinced that she does not hear with the ear, but receives the vibrations in the general association areas of the brain. PROFITS OF THE FARM A return of $917 to the owner-operator for the use of $16,400 of capital and the labor of the farmer and his family during the year 1922 is the average shown by a survey of over 6000 representative farms just completed by the United States department of agriculture. These farms average somewhat larger in size and value than the average of the United States, according to the 1920 census. This return included $715 cash—the margin of receipts over cash outlay—plus an increase of $202 in inventories of crops, livestock and machinery. In addition the average farm produced food and fuel consumed on the farm, estimated to be worth $294. This $715 cash balance was all the average farm made available to the owner to pay his living expenses and take care of debts. Sales of crops amounted to $816, doing something which adds to the pleasure of others, as well as the genuine enjoyment which they themselves receive. EAT MORE FARM PRODUCE The American people can and should in-rease their consumption of nearly all farm products at least 50 per cent and can and should double their consumption of many products, is the rather startling assertion of Benjamin C. Marsh, managing director of the Farmers' National Council. The people are gradually reducing the volume of consumption of many staple farm products, according to Mr. Marsh. As to wheat, for example: Domestic per capita consumption of this cereal decreased one-third in one year, from 1919 to 1920. This means a reduced consumption of more than 200,000,000 bushels of wheat per year. The amount of meat consumed also has decreased greatly. A campaign to induce Americans to eat more of the produce of their farms would be in order, it would seem. There would be both health and economy in this. The most nutritious foods are those which come from the soil. By increasing the consumption of farm products, the farmer would be encouraged to produce more, and increased production would tend to keep prices moderate for the consumer, and yet remunerative for the farmer. 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 8 o'clock P.M. of Thursday, May 10th, 1923, for furnishing to said City of Anaheim, A Metal Plate Addressing and Listing Machine, as per specifications now on file in the office of the City Clerk of said City. This return included $715 cash—the margin of receipts over cash outlay—plus an increase of $202 in inventories of crops, livestock and machinery. In addition the average farm produced food and fuel consumed on the farm, estimated to be worth $294. This $715 cash balance was all the average farm made available to the owner to pay his living expenses and take care of debts. Sales of crops amounted to $816, which was 41 per cent of the cash receipts of $1972. Sales of livestock and the products of livestock amounted to $1114 or 57 per cent of cash receipts; miscellaneous receipts were $42 or 2 per cent of cash receipts. Eash expenditures amounted to $1257, which included hired labor cost of $331 for the year, livestock $204, feed $176, taxes $174, machinery $123, fertilizer $57, seed $43 and miscellaneous $150. BEAUTIFYING THE CITY The most attractive place in the city, the residence which draws attention from the passerby, is not always the house which is constructed of the finest material, but the house where the lawn is made beautiful with flowers and shrubbery. The finest mansion in the country unadorned is but a mass of bricks, lumber and mortar. Flowers which are so easily cultivated and produce so luxuriously are needed to add the touch of beauty. Walk past the homes where there are flowers on the lawns and will involuntarily hesitate as you pass to admire them. Beautification of lawns is strictly individual work and reflects the culture, refinement and love for the beautiful of those who do it. As compensation they have the consciousness of 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. 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