anaheim-gazette 1923-05-17

HEAVY INCREASE IN AUTO LICENSES Number issued for First Quarter Exceeds Total for 1922. As an indication of what may be expected in the use of the automobile, Will H. Marsh, chief of the Division of motor vehicles, quotes figures comparing the number of motor vehicles licensed during the first quarter of the present year as against the entire year of 1922, as well as the amount of fees collected from all licenses: Number of licenses issued during the entire year 1922: Automobiles, 822,394; trucks, 39,413; Motorcycles, 16,301; trailers, 4,861; transfers, 321,041. Gross receipts, $8,384,606.40. Number licenses issued during the first quarter 1923: Automobiles, 825,971; trucks, 35,619; motorcycles, 10,917; trailers, 4237; transfers, 119,970. Gross receipts, $8,889,998.76. These figures show an increase of 3577 automobiles in a period of three months as against the total of twelve months of 1922. There has been received to date in automobile license fees an increase of $778,047.88. The other classifications of registrations have not yet reached the amounts of 1922, the total increase from all classifications being but $505,392.36, this demonstrating a tremendous increase in fees received from new cars. The percentage of increased registrations is low compared with the percentage of increased fees from automobiles, and the belief is that this may be attributed to the fact that the higher priced and higher powered car is replacing the cheaper and lighter car. The figures compiled on the first quarter's business of the division show a remarkable registration in Los Angeles county, 305,038 cars having... The percentage of increased registrations is low compared with the percentage of increased fees from automobiles, and the belief is that this may be attributed to the fact that the higher priced and higher powered car is replacing the cheaper and lighter car. The figures compiled on the first quarter's business of the division show a remarkable registration in Los Angeles county, 305,038 cars having been registered during that period against 288,695 for 1922. Alameda county has already exceeded its automobile registration of last year. Contra Costa, with a registration of 8769 is already about 400 ahead of last year's total registration. In the balance of the counties of the state, the registrations show that they are now shooting close to the mark of last year. The former prediction of a million registrations for California in 1923 will follow if the balance of the year produces the same registrations as did 1922 for the last three quarters. RAILROAD COMMISSION INVESTIGATING PHONES Development of telephone service in California on an unprecedented scale, calling for a construction program throughout the state by the telephone companies aggregating 30,000,000 during 1923, has caused the railroad commission through its telephone department to inaugurate a state wide investigation of the telephone situation with the view to maintaining service at the highest possible state of efficiency. Under the direction of Walter D. Dodge, telephone and telegraph engineer of the railroad commission, a careful check will be made of condition in the northern and southern sections of the state with the view to ascertaining whether it will be possible to reduce the number of delayed installations, and the number of service complaints, made to the commission and to the companies by patrons. Some idea of the magnitude of the telephone development in California to keep pace with the rapidly growing population and business requirements in the state may be gained from the fact that the 1923 program for Los Angeles alone calls for the expenditure of approximately $15,000,000, while a similar amount will be expended throughout the rest of the use of these drugs sets up an intense craving which is only relieved by a further administration of the drug of addiction. The federal government reports that the continued use of these drugs for a period of 10 to 30 days is sufficient to establish addiction. It does not matter whether the drugs are administered as medicine or are taken through ilec curiosity addiction is sure to follow in the course of a month. Many people in this country have passed this stage and now require the continued administration of the drug of addiction in order to keep themselves in a state of well being. Four years ago the treasury department reported that over a million people in the United States were known to be addicted to the use of narcotic drugs. Recently, this department has issued statement that the number of addicts has increased and that today one person in every 73 in this country is known to be an addict. But this is not the total number of addicts by any means; it is only the number known to be addicted. Some estimates on the total number are as high as four millions. While we do not know definitely the total number of addicts we do know that the United States for a while was consuming more narcotic drugs than any other nation on the globe in proportion to its population. From 1910 to 1915, prior to the passage of the Harrison narcotic act, this nation imported each year enough opium to supply each person in the population—man, woman and child—with enough of the drug to put them to sleep for a period of 30 days. During this period Italy consumed only 1 grain per person; Germany, 2 grains; England, 3 grains; France, 4 grains; India 27 grains; and the United States, 36 grains. It is quite clear that the greater portion of the opium reaching this country during this period was used to satisfy the habits of addiction and not to relieve human suffering. These faces enable us to understand the nature of the problem with which we have to deal. We can not afford to abolish entirely the importation of these drugs—they are needed in medicine. On the contrary, we desire to stamp out addiction and to prevent the "dope" peddler from creating new addicts. In short, we are trying to limit the consumption of these drugs to strictly medicinal and scientific purposes. SHORT COURSE FOR METERMEN installations, and the number of service complaints, made to the commission and to the companies by patrons. Some idea of the magnitude of the telephone development in California to keep pace with the rapidly growing population and business requirements. The state may be gained from the fact that the 1923 program for Los Angeles alone calls for the expenditure of approximately $15,000,000, while a similar amount will be expended throughout the rest of the state to meet demands for service. Complaints of all naturo in regard to telephone service to the railroad commission average 600 a month in Los Angeles, and about 76 a month so the rest of the state. Complaints to the company in Los Angeles aggregate approximately 6000 a month. Delayed installations in Los Angeles now aggregate nearly 15,000, while installations are being made at the rate of 4005 a month. Applications during February numbered 13,000. Service changes numbered 4000 in addition to the new installations. It is for the purpose of preventing a condition similar to that in Los Angeles developing in San Francisco and the bay district, which are now showing indications of a great increase in population and the incidental demand for telephone service. The recent installation of a new telephone exchange in Berkeley to be known as Thornwall exchange was in line with the efforts of the telephone company to keep pace with the demands for service in Berkeley, which are showing a remarkable increase. NARCOTIC WEEK EDUCATION The week beginning Sunday, May 27, has been designated by the Narcotic Education association as "Narcotic Education Week." The object is to instruct people through the medium of The University of California extension division has announced the organization of a first annual short course for metermen to be given on the campus at Berkeley during this week. The course was planned with the co-operation of the meter committee of the Pacific Coast Electrical association which has long recognized the need for short training courses for men who have charge of the electric metering equipment of various public service corporations in the state. Applications for the course were received from the San Diego Consolidated Gas and Electrical company, San Diego, from the Southern California Edison company in Los Angeles, and from the San Joaquin Light and Power company at Fresno, and the interest which has been shown assures the success of the course. Intensive instruction ninth lecture room and laboratory will be given, and each evening interesting talks on the meter industry will be given by manufacturer's representatives and other man long acquainted with this field. The theory, construction and operation of alternating watthour meters and demand indicators will be studied in detail, and the lectures were so arranged that men with little knowledge of electricity can get the maximum benefit from the course. Sunday acts of narbelieve huhas discove such a the nation is found drugs are none. Morton opium ist distilled Heroin, is not come ed States has been countries, viewed by olivia for larger chemcoline, comcomparaof these in the nine and died places real circles such an imcian has physicians to practice the most continued ennuse oved by a drug of ment reof these 60 days is intion. It drugs are are taken on is sure a month. try have require the drug THE REAL AND THE IDEAL "I believe the public opinion of this country is essentially sound," wrote former President Wilson to a friend in the south, "and it is obviously swinging back to the high levels it occupied during the war. I look for a genuine and an immediate renaisance of the finest sort of political idealism in this country." Idealism had its day during Mr. Wilson's term in the white house. Unfortunately for the political prospects of the Democrats, the worship of ideals was so intense as to exclude the need of making practical application of them to modern life. Mr. Wilson failed to comprehend the truth that the frailties of human nature are responsible for the imperfections of national morality, and make impossible the attainment of the ideals that be advocated. Had he comprehended that fact he would have been content with such progress toward his ideals as circumstances permitted. Instead, he strove for the impossible and his cherished schemes fell to the ground. President Harding's ideals are as lofty as those of his predecessor, but he has tempered their application with a practical understanding of the readiness of the world to accept reforms. He has not sought the millennium at a stroke, but has won a long succession of diplomatic triumphs that mark the progress of his administration toward world peace as in striking contrast to the disheartening failures of Mr. Wilson. The contribution that the United States will make in the future toward the cause of peace will be enhanced by keeping our feet on the ground, and extending helpful advice and suggestions only when the world indicates a readiness to receive them. A renai- gretted that it was not given its day in the general court of Missouri in order that the world might learn what a typical politically-minded legislature can think up in the way of amendments to the Ten Commandments. Thirdly, the repeal of all existing law has its engaging aspects. It would be interesting to know how Missouri would go about ordering a grade separation or fixing a salary, for example on the strength of the Decalogue and the covenant of the league. All in all a rare opportunity to add to the general gaiety of existence appears to have been overlooked in Missouri. THE OPEN ROAD A TEACHER The paved highway is more than a convenience. It is an educator, a peace maker, a prosperity stimulator. The modern Californian learns more about his state in a vacation tour than he would have learned in a life-time before the automobile came. His occasional trips in the old days would have taken him to San Francisco, to Los Angeles, to San Diego, to Yosemite, perhaps; but his private car now carries him from one end of the commonwealth to the other, giving him an intimate personal touch with every village and valley, every hamlet and hill, every mountain and metropolis. The observing tourist who comes to California and spends a few weeks in travel about the state in a motor car absorbs more practical knowledge of the golden west than the stay-at-home native may have. The influence of this increase in appreciation of one's state is far reaching. An inspection of the resources of California can do nothing less than inspire respect and confidence, and promote progress by encouraging investment, arousing new ideas, and co- CITIZENS OF TOMORROW As a feature of the recent "Loyalty week" some hundred thousand boys marched down Fifth avenue, New York. They were hours in passing, but all the timt there were thongs to watch them. In the parade were banners, perhaps, inscribed with patriotic legends, but the boys themselves, determined, eager, erect, constituted the display that thrilled the heart. The citizens of tomorrow! Soon to be the man into whose hands must pass the conduct of affairs, it is most essential that there be awakened in their minds and nurtured there, a love of the principles on which this great government is founded. New York, most populous of American cities, hath a large foreign element. It has a startlingly large proportion of alien-hearted Americans. Writers there who have a certain distinction in letters, use their talents for the poisoning of public opinion. There are weeklies devoted to promotion of disloyalty, although such is not their prolific purpose. There are monthly magazines that do their utmost to bring not only the constitution, respect for it, into contempt. They use the term "American" only as a reproach. They slander the government, phishing perverted and true accounts of its activities and objects. They deride American culture, and hoot derisively at the mention of American education. Some of them are pro-bolshevists, none is pro-American. In the late war they were treasonable in sentiment, and their sentiment has not changed. It is necessary that something be done to offset the malign influence of these public enemies. One of the most helpful agencies is that of organizing boys. The Boy Scouts, Rangers, and similar bodies are potential for cor- HEALTH LIES IN AMERICANISM American national character is not averse from assuming responsibility, but American intelligence and common sense refuse to be fuddled by appeals to embark upon responsibilities which have little or no relation to our own well being. The American who was for keeping out of the Philippines and opposing the Platt amendment and for keeping the nation unprepared, on the theory that America cannot trust itself to be strong, is today preaching a sentimental internationalism which has nothing to do with the true American policy of clear and vigorous enforcement of our international interests. The epoch following the Spanish war was inspired by an athletic nationalism, the ideals of which were justice within and without, and the manly development of our strength. It did not aspire to the moral monitorship of mankind. It did not fear its own prosperity and power. It would do us good to revert to that day and that mood. We are invaded by a plague of alien issues and influences. We are vexed with a brood of vague doubts. We need a restored confidence in our traditions, our principles, our conscience and our intelligence. We need to purge ourselves of the poison which turns us against one another in industry, in politics, in international responsibilities. We are sickened with foreign diseases and our health is in the air of our own Americanism. We need a rededication of ourselves to fundamental stroke, but has won a long succession of diplomatic triumphs that mark the progress of his administration toward world peace as in striking contrast to the disheartening failures of Mr. Wilson. The contribution that the United States will make in the future toward the cause of peace will be enhanced by keeping our feet on the ground, and extending helpful advice and suggestions only when the world indicates a readiness to receive them. A renaissance of the political idealism that Mr. Wilson has in mind would bring to a sudden stop the steady progress of the last two years toward contentment in our own country and toward the elimination of the causes of discontent among nations. Mr. Wilson's optimism over the Democratic outlook is testimony to his courage, but there is little to warrant it. THE observing tourist who comes to California and spends a few weeks in travel about the state in a motor car absorbs more practical knowledge of the golden west than the stay-at-home native may have. The influence of this increase in appreciation of one's state is far reaching. An inspection of the resources of California can do nothing less than inspire respect and confidence, and promote progress by encouraging investment, arousing new ideas, and coordinating existing assets. Perspective is broadened by the same process. A study of the problems of one district helps one to understand these problems and gives him a more sympathetic feeling for his neighbors; "neighbors," in this sense, being residents of distant counties, and perhaps distant states. As an international agency, the good road also has its important part to play. It is already reaching into Mexico, bringing the people of the two countries into more friendly relationship. BOY SCOUTS' FIELD MEET Santa Ana is to have a count, Boy Scout field meet this year according to announcement made by Boy Scout headquarters. This field meet, which is the third annual meet of Orange county scouts is to be held on Saturday, May 26, starting at 1:30 p.m. It is fully expected that between 750 and 1000 boys will participate in this meet which will be preceded in the morning by a parade through the down town streets of Santa Ana. The meet is to start at 1:30 p.m. and this year the scout council has practically eliminated all athletic events from the field meet, making it purely a scout affair. The opening event will be the parade and formal review, at which time the officers of the county council will formally review the scout troops of Orange county. Each troop then has three minutes to demonstrate its ability in fancy drill. The next event is a dressing race in which each troop in the county will have at least one entry. Scouts are to be staged fifty yards apart, clothed only in a track suit and every ten yards there will be placed part of his scout uniform, which he will put on as quickly as possible, presenting himself for inspection at the fifty yard line. The third event is a water boiling contest in which every troop will have objects. They deride American culture, and hoot derisively at the mention of American education. Some of them are pro-bolshevists, none is pro-American. In the late war they were treasonable in sentiment, and their sentiment has not changed. It is necessary that something be done to offset the malign influence of these public enemies. One of the most helpful agencies is that of organizing boys. The Boy Scouts, Rangers, and similar bodies are potential for correcting the false beliefs that are bandied about by crafty propagandists or their dupes. To teachers in public schools there is also a fine opportunity for instilling the principles that mean a sane and devoted citizenship, proud of the county, quick to defend it against the assaults of an armed foe, or the treacherous foes whose weapon is venom, and whose inspiration is hatred of the republic that makes the mistake of harboring them. SOMEBODY SAID IT It is a common thing to ascribe to Washington the oft quoted warning against entangling European alliances. Historical papers reveal an expression of the sentiment in a paper of Jefferson's not of the first president's. Now comes Prof. Samuel Flagg Bemis, of Whitman college, Walla Walla, with the statement that he author of the phrase was Hamilton. This is an interesting, rather than an important fact. In confines the theory that in those days European entanglements were recognized as something to be feared. Wel lthey might have been. The United States was a new and weak experiment. The isolation possible in its beginnings was the buttress of its safety. Communication with Europe was slow and difficult. Commercial and diplomatic relationships were tenuous. Inter-dependence had not become manifest. England did not stagger under the blow when the Pilgrim fathers set sail. Had England sank into the sea, knowledge of the catastrophe could not have reached these shores for many weeks. When the early statemen were formulating their opinions touching the peril of entanglements, wise as they were, they could not have had in mind the conditions that prevail today. The handful of colonies has grown into the richest and most powerful nation of the globe. Its existence does not rest upon the whim of people across the sea. Were it to enter into any agreement... A MISSOURI COMPROMISE Among the curios produced by legislatures in our various states during the season now closing, the most awake inspiring is the effort of a lawmaker rejoicing in the moniker of J. Dal Swiers. The proposed legislation which died with the adjournment of the Missouri legislature included a measure promoted by the said Swiers to declare the Ten Commandments and the league of nations legal in Missouri and to repeal all other laws. The common reaction to momentary speechlessness in the presence of so much nobility in a single piece of legislation will be a vague wonder what would happen if the constitutional restriction of the treaty making power of states were lifted long enough to admit Missouri to the league. There would be certain interesting possibilities implied in the state's right to carry her neighborhood quarrels to Geneva and to attempt to sway the moral pressure of the British empire et al., against the sovereign states of Arkansas and Oklahoma. Regarding another item in the Swiers chef d'oeuvre, it is to be re- Too much sympathy will make some men lazy. When the early statemen were formulating their opinions touching the peril of entanglements, wise as they were, they could not have had in mind the conditions that prevail today. The handful of colonies has grown into the richest and most powerful nation of the globe. Its existence does not rest upon the whim of people across the sea. Were it to enter into any agreement with Europe it would enter as the most potent element of the combination. Therefore the old grounds for fear have passed away. The axiom of the eighteenth century or the beginning of the nineteenth, has no application to the twentieth. The isolationists of the present are not potential Washingtons, Jefferson's or Hamiltons. They are a coterie of the blind, trying to lead millions who have vision. IF THE HORSE COMES BACK There continues to arrive at this and doubtless at other newspaper offices the publicity of the Horse Association of America. The purpose of this association is to "boost" the use of horses. In a current bit of publicity, we find notes on how this and that industry is turning back from the use of motors to horse drawn appliances. On this question, we are entirely netural. What ever is for the betterment of industrp, we are for it. We have no brief for the horse, or for the truck or tractor, except each is a benevt to humanity and to the society among which we move and have our being. But there is this t obe said about and even against the use of horses—it involves, unless we take care, a certain amount of cruelty, that it takes constant effort on the part of society California Theatre Thursday, May 17 Vaudeville Road Show Five Big Acts—Don’t Miss It “Till We Meet Again” Friday and Saturday, May 18-19 Marie Corelli’s Great Novel “THELMA” Starring Jane Novak Sun., Mon., May 20-21 A First National Attraction “Might Lak’ a Rose” Kinograms Around the World No. 12 Tues. Wed. May 22-23 Leatrice Joy in “You Can’t Fool Your Wife” Prizma Color Topics "You Can't Fool Your Wife" Prizma Color Topics After Victory Notes WHAT? Just five years ago some 25,000,000 people bought Liberty Bonds and Victory Notes, many on weekly payments—the greatest example of thrift this country has ever know. However, the value of this lesson in saving will depend upon the choice of future investments—and the will power of these Bond and Note holders to keep on moving. We will redeem all Victory Notes of the series G, H, I, J, K, or L, called for redemption May 20, and will gladly assist you in reinvesting your money or will credit your savings account with the proceeds. FIRST NATIONAL BANK Of Anaheim American Savings Bank Of Anaheim American Savings Bank Of Anaheim At this time, when the opportunities of motor vehicles and machinery are at their height, it will be well for us as sentitive beings, if we nerve ourselves against any use of draft animals except under conditions that are merciful. We well remember the times when the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals had a real purpose and a daily service. We can remember when on every street of every village could be seen animals used in ways that were atrocious, with shoulders and backs having marks of sucering. Well we remember when starvation was the lot of a certain too large percentage of draft animals. True, the far-sighted driver used his animals well, just as the most thrifty slave owner treated his slaves well, because thus he got the most out of them. But it was true also that by no means a large share of drivers knew this ultimate lesson in kindness and thrift. If we are to return in any sense to a horse age, let's take this time, when the use of horses is at a minimum, to insure that our laws and our social customs conform to the dictates of humanity and common sense. ARIZONA'S STAND HURTFUL Through the influence and at the instigation of Governor Hunt, Arizona has assumed an attitude toward the proposed control of floods and development of power and irrigation from the Colorado river that bodes ill for the enterprise. Briefly, the official Arizona attitude is to "go it alone." Governor Hunt's conference resolved that "all power development of the Colorado river within the state of Arizona should be developed, controlled and eventually owned by the state." This policy, if pursued consistently and logically, would put Arizona in the position of blocking the plans for unified action by the seven states of the Colorado basin, under a compact for equitable distribution of water, power and benefits from the project. This blocking would be an impracticable reactionary course, hurtful alike to Arizona and to all the other states of the southwest. The worst thing that could happen to this great enterprise would be to create dissension among the states lying in the Colorado basin. Arizona is starting on a course that, if persisted in, will cause bitter controversy and delay indefinitely the beginning of the great project under auspices of the United States government. A "selfmade" man never admits that he is responsible for putting the thickness in his skull. If you don't look forward bouyantly to the future, you're dead in the present.