anaheim-gazette 1923-07-26

IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO Items of Local Interest Culled from the Files of Former Issues of This Paper From Gazette of July 26, 1873. Ice, lemonade, fans. Thermometer 95 in the shade. Langenberger 10 cents in the shade. Doan Juan Forster is at Catalina island. G. W. Barter is in San Francisco. "Dead, but not decomposed;" crushed, but not annihilated. The unpledged Democrats turned out in force last Saturday. One hundred votes were polled in Anaheim, and the delegates elected were E. W. Champlin, D. Evy and S. Goldstein. E. A. Pullen is a candidate for re-election as constable. He is a good man and an efficient officer. We wish him success. E. S. Saxton is erecting a handsome residence. Judging from appearances, his grounds will in the course of a few years, be among the most beautiful in the county. On the 4th of July a piece of silver bearing rock was taken from the Fairfax ledge, which weighs five hundred pounds, and which it is thought will net $500 per ton. Messrs. Polhemus and Howard, of Lodge Banner. Members of Anaheim Lodge I. O. O. F. Members of Los Angeles Lodge I. O. O. F. Members of Los Nietos Lodge I. O. O. F. Representatives of Grand Lodge of California. Grand Chaplain. Deputy Grand Master and Orator. M. W. Grand Master. Anaheim Lodge, F. and A. M. The procession marched down Center to Lemon street, along Lemon to Second and up Second to the site of the hall on Los Angeles street. Extensive preparations had been made for the comfort of vast numbers of spectators and the balcony of the Enterprise hall was crowded with ladies whose beauty lent an additional charm to the animated scene. The assemblage was called to order by Grand Master Wartenburg. He was followed by the grand chaplain, Rev. E. W. Edleman. P. G., John Fischer then announced the articles to be deposited in the state and handed them to the grand treasurer, M. L. Goodman, who placed them in the box. The following is a list of articles deposited: By-laws of Odd Fellows' building association, list of members and constitution of A. L. No. 199, I. O. O. F., constitution and by-laws of the following lodges: Los Angeles No. 25, Silver Star No. 7, Golden Rule No. Campaign upon the nationalists to get involved in Europe; nomic troubles under America should obey the stricken Europe. All of the moniesed Europe since the purpose of hated areas and peoples of Europe highway to peace. One of the first States government by congress supplies and equips country but locates of the government lies. Under this machinery were the countries new construction purposes in return, the sale it. Under the provisional nations p worth of supplies representation that supplies to rebuild areas or to sustainulations. Some this others took sold them to Euro cash. None of been paid for. Been accumulated of more than $110. Early in 1919 other appropriation penditure by the amount of $100,000,000 for supplies for Europe cording to the o treasury department government expo this sum for food. With the except has perfected an country refunding making payment E. S. Saxton is erecting a handsome residence. Judging from appearances, his grounds will in the course of a few years, be among the most beautiful in the county. On the 4th of July a piece of silver bearing rock was taken from the Fairfax ledge, which weighs five hundred pounds, and which it is thought will net $500 per ton. Messrs. Polhemus and Howard, of the Los Angeles Land company, left Los Angeles for San Francisco via the overland route on Thursday morning. Active operations upon their canal will probably soon be inaugurated. We were interviewed on Thursday by our friend, Gen. Phenias Banning. For the information, which he pumped from us, we make no charge. Do not, in fact, even ask him to subscribe for the Gazette, a source from which much valuable and reliable information may be had. One of the gang of petty thieves, who have been annoying the citizens of Anaheim during the past month by their depredations, was caught a few days ago in the act of appropriating a set of harness belonging to S. H. Dyer. He was tried before Justice Clark on Thursday and sentenced to twenty-five days in the county jail. On Monday last the corner stone of the Odd Fellows' hall was laid. The day was one which will be long remembered in Anaheim. Never before have our streets been graced with such a throng of beauty and elegance. From 8 o'clock in the morning till noon a constant stream of carriages poured in from all parts of the county, containing members of the order and their wives and daughters, and citizens generally. At least two thousand people were present. At 2:30 p.m. the procession was formed at the Masonic hall on Los Angeles street in the following order: Grand Marshal of Grand Lodge. Isalts band. Marshal of Lodge. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS HOLDS BUSY SESSION Awards La Habra Contract to Curtis; Transacts Important Business Contract in the matter of road district improvement No. 23, was awarded to George R. Custis, contractor, for $200,000. Wm. Ledbetter & Co., was accepted. Operator's and foreman's fumigating licenses were ordered issued to Bonkosky & Oelke, Garden Grove Citrus association and C. E. Hobbs. The petition of Jack Tentges to vacate and abandon that certain public alley in the second road district, was presented and set for hearing August 7, at 10 a.m. Early in 1919 other appropriators penditure by the $100,000,000 for supplies for Europe cording to the o'treasury department government expired sum for food. With the exception has perfected an country refunding making payment principal has been States govern the principal, imputed to the amount. In March, 1919 congress authorizes grain corporation 000,000 barrels of needs of Europe the provisions o' was expended on None of this has addition, interest of $6,781,998 have. All of these suited the United State out of the United money raised by people. All of in Europe in the nation since the has been repaid. In addition to the United State of millions of dollars pended in help on various other relief administratio created by theploying governed over $66,000 American Red Cross excess of $153,000 tice was signed Europe on its liigious denomination stantly at work staffs, and thrown tens of millions. All this clear York Herald po no merit and m that the United Europe, that we grabbers, and t ideals and our b BOARD OF SUPERVISORS HOLDS BUSY SESSION Awards La Habra Contract to Curtis; Transacts Important Business Contract in the matter of road district improvement No. 23, was awarded to George R. Custis, contractor, for $205,000. Bonds of the Newport Beach school district were ordered to be sold. Bids to be received up to August 7, at 11 a.m. Bids were opened for the $13,000 issue of Laguna school district. The Citizens' bank of Laguna Beach, being the lowest responsible bidder, bonds were sold to them for par, accrued interest and a premium of $50. Bids were received and opened for the $26,500 issue of Orange county water works district No. 1 six per cent bonds. The matter of accepting bids and awarding bonds to the First National bank of Santa Ana, was continued to July 24, at 11 a.m. The district attorney was ordered to enter satisfaction of judgment in superior court cases Nos. 957, 958, 959 and 960. It was ordered that all proceedings for construction of county jail, as per plans and specifications furnished, be abandoned. It was ordered that Frank K. Benchley, architect, be employed to prepare plans and specifications for county jail at a commission of 3.6 per cent, maximum cost for jail building with fixtures and furnishings to be $200,000. Work of constructing pumping plant and water distributing system at Orange county park, as completed by Wm. Ledbetter & Co., was accepted. Operator's and foreman's fumigating licenses were ordered issued to Bonkosky & Oelke, Garden Grove Citrus association and C. E. Hobbs. The petition of Jack Tentges to vacate and abandon that certain public alley in the second road district, was presented and set for hearing August 7, at 10 a.m. Assessment No. 4001 was ordered cancelled. Resolution of condolence was passed in the death of Mrs. Steele Finley. The chairman was authorized to approve bond on map of tract No. 516, and map of tract No. 516 was accepted as the official plotting of said tract. Map of tract No. 524 was ordered received by the board and referred to the city engineer of the city of Orangethorpe. The chairman was authorized to approve bond on map of tract No. 520. The purchasing agent was authorized to secure proper conveyance by deed to the county of Orange for property belonging to the Bastanchury Ranch company. Purchase price not to exceed $2390. The matter of accepting the report of the harbor commission was continued to July 24, at 11 a.m. Formation of the Placentia sanitary district was ordered and an election was ordered for August 28. DEVASTATED EUROPE The New York Herald publishes a recapitulation of the amount of money the United States has furnished Europe since the signature of the armistice. This resume comes at a very opportune time, in view of the renewed campaign upon the part of internationalists to get the United States involved in Europe's political and economic troubles under the pretense that America should do something to help the stricken European countries. All of the money or credits furnished Europe since the war has been for the purpose of helping rebuild devastated areas and place the war-torn peoples of Europe firmly upon the highway to peace and reconstruction. One of the first acts of the United States government was an authorization by congress for the sale of war supplies and equipment, owned by this country but located in Europe, to any of the governments who were our allies. Under this act, the supplies and machinery were to be turned over to the countries needing them for reconstruction purposes, without any cash in return, the sale being made on credit. Under the provisions of this act, European nations purchased $574,706,299 worth of supplies on credit, upon the representation that they could use the supplies to rebuild their devastated areas or to sustain their stricken populations. Some of the countries did this. Others took the supplies and resold them to European customers for cash. None of these supplies have been paid for. In addition, there has been accumulated an interest account of more than $18,000,000. Early in 1919 the congress made another appropriation authorizing the expenditure by the treasury department of $100,000,000 for foodstuffs and other supplies for European countries. According to the official records in the treasury department, the United States government expended $84,093,963 of this sum for food and other supplies. With the exception of Finland, which has perfected arrangements with this country refunding her debt and is making payments on it, none of this tons of wheat from this year's Russian harvest. Another thing Mr. Brand discovered, in the course of his studies in Europe, was the fact that although the American farmer is the largest user of nitrate in the world, he buys his nitrate from Chile, the control of the prices of Chilean nitrates rests with a London committee made up of representatives of British nitrate houses. Through this committee, 97 per cent of the Chilean output is controlled and the price thereof fixed, although the United States farmer is the purchaser of practically half of that amount. The nitrate producers' association, 'with headquarters in Valparaiso, Chile, was organized in 1919 with the avowed purpose of fixing prices. In theory, according to Mr. Brand, the price fixing is done in Chile, but in reality the price fixing is done by a sub-committee in London, which is the power that stipulates what the American farmer and the rest of the world must pay for nitrate. How this sub-committee is appointed is not known, but Sir Arthur Goldfinch, who was director general of war materials of the British war office during the war, is the present chairman of the sub-committee. The importance of this fact to the United States appears from the figures which show that out of a total world consumption of 1,850,000 tons last year, the United States used 733,000 tons. ACTIVITY SHOWN IN WATER DEVELOPMENT That activity in development of the water resources of the state is still proceeding at a rapid pace is evidenced by the large number of applications to appropriate water which have been received by the division of water rights, state department of public works, during the fiscal year which DOPE SMUGGLING SITUATION Dr. Heber Votaw, federal superintendent of prisons, tells harrowing stories of the devices resorted to by inmates of the Atlanta penitentiary to obtain narcotic drugs. The drugs are usually smuggled in by friends and relatives. Often handkerchiefs are saturated with cocaine or morphine. The prisoners virtually eat the handkerchiefs, or soak them in water, then use the liquid hypodermically. Wilves pass to prisoners small bottles or packages of drugs in kissing them good-bye. "Dope" is secreted in the clothing of babies brought to see their fathers. Drug addicts do their best to bring their favorite drug in with them, when they arrive, concealed in the soles of their shoes or in their mouths. Cocaine is often found in small quantities under the folds of envelopes in letters sent to prisoners. All this is not additional evidence of criminality. It is merely evidence of the lengths to which any drug addict, reputable or disreputable, will go, when necessary, in order to renew his supply of "dope" and stop, for a little while, his intolerable craving. As restrictive law enforcement tightens up thousands of men, women, boys and girls outside of the prisons are driven to all sorts of expedients to escape the torture of deprivation. They are supplied usually by the bootleg traffic in narcotic drugs, and they keep it alive. This is a traffic more pernicious than the bootleg liquor traffic, though less is said about it. And it will continue, authorities say, until two things are done by co-operation of federal, state and municipal governments—until present victims are treated to free them from the physical craving for drugs, and the supply is shut off so they will not be tempted again. ORANGE COUNTY ASSISTS Early in 1919 the congress made another appropriation authorizing the expenditure by the treasury department of $100,000,000 for foodstuffs and other supplies for European countries. According to the official records in the treasury department, the United States government expended $84,093,963 of this sum for food and other supplies. With the exception of Finland, which has perfected arrangements with this country refunding her debt and is making payments on it, none of this principal has been repaid to the United States government. In addition to the principal, interest has accumulated to the amount of $12,192,368. In March, 1920, the United States congress authorized the United States grain corporation to sell on credit 5,000,000 barrels of flour to relieve the needs of European countries. Under the provisions of this act, $55,858,802 was expended on flour sent to Europe. None of this has been repaid, and in addition, interest charges in the sum of $7,831,998 have accumulated. All of these sums were furnished by the United States government, paid out of the United States treasury from money raised by taxing the American people. All of it has been expended in Europe in the work of reconstruction since the armistice. None of it has been repaid. In addition to this sum taken out of the United States treasury, hundreds of millions of dollars have been expended in helping reconstruct Europe in various other ways. The American relief administration, an orginalization created by the government and employing government funds, has expended over $66,000,000 in Russia. The American Red Cross has expended in excess of $153,000,000 since the armistice was signed in an endeavor to get Europe on its feet. A number of religious denominations have been constantly at work in Europe with large staffs, and through these have expanded tens of millions of dollars. All this clearly shows, as the New York Herald points out, that there is no merit and no truth in the charge that the United States has deserted Europe, that we are a nation of money-grabbers, and that we have lost our ideals and our interest in humanity. EUROPE'S FOOD SUPPLY The United States department of agriculture is engaged in an agricultural survey of Europe, comparable statistics needed in estimating probable world demands for American crops. ACTIVITY SHOWN IN WATER DEVELOPMENT That activity in development of the water resources of the state is still proceeding at a rapid pace is evidenced by the large number of applications to appropriate water which have been received by the division of water rights, state department of public works, during the fiscal year which closed June 30, 1923. All appropriative water rights in California are now initiated through application to the division, and the number being received is a very good index to the rate at which new hydroelectric power, irrigation, mining and water supply developments are being proposed. During this fiscal year 580 applications for permits were made to the division, a much greater number than ever received in a like period since the creation of the office. These applications contemplate the use of 106,000 cubic feet of water per second and the storage of 35,800,000 acre feet at total estimated cost approximating $126,000,000. Under them it is proposed to irrigate 4,600,000 acres and develop 3,000,000 theoretical horsepower. In addition to the use by b y number of mining and municipal water supply projects. Up to July 1, 1922, a year ago, there had been received by the division of water rights a total of 2923 applications, of which 979, or 33 per cent were still awaiting approval or rejection. Those received during the past year brought the total number received up to 3499. In spite of the large number of apllications coming in, the number awaiting action has been reduced to 870, or 25 per cent of those received to date. Up to a year ago the number of applications awaiting action had steadily increased, the largest number of actions during any fiscal year having been 376, during 1921-22. The number acted upon last year, 689, showed an increase of 83 per cent over this figure. Work in disposing of these pending applications has been speeded up by the division during the past six months in contemplation of a reduction of its personnel during the coming biennium. CALIFORNIA LEGION POSTS AID COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES Wide spread activity among legion posts in the state of California, in re- This is a traffic more pernicious than the bootleg liquor traffic, though less is said about it. And it will continue, authorities say, until two things are done by co-operation of federal, state and municipal governments—until present victims are treated to free them from the physical craving for drugs, and the supply is shut off so they will not be tempted again. ORANGE COUNTY ASSISTS Orange county will co-operate with other counties and communities of the southland in making the Los Angeles reception to President Warren G. Harding and his party the largest and most impressive ever attempted in southern California, according to announcement made by Dr. J. D. Thomas. of Olive, president of the associated chambers of commerce of Orange county. Steps to enter a county float in the pageant in Los Angeles were to be taken at a meeting, at St. Ann's Inn, Santa Ana, yesterday, of the secretaries of all the county organizations identified with the associated chambers. A large orange, quartered, with one of Orange county's most beautiful women seated in the big shell, has been suggested as the nucleus of a suitable float. Dr. Thomas is acting in the movement at the suggestion of Mayor Cryer, of Los Angeles. Los Angeles plans include a monster pageant, reviewing the various episodes in the progress of California, and the massing of 60,000 children at Exposition park when the president will dedicate the stadium. Each child will carry a small American flag, and the general public will be requested to carry flags also. The president is scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles August 2 at 9:30 a.m. FRENCH BAD FAITH The reparations demands of France would receive more sympathy in the United States if they were coupled with the sincere desire to liquidate her own obligations. If Française would arrange in good faith for the funding and eventual repayment of her debt to this country she would then be justified in taking all proper measures to collect the sums due her. But that is not her course. She is insisting on satisfactory assurances from Germany for reparations payments before she is willing to give similar assurances to the United States for EUROPE'S FOOD SUPPLY The United States department of agriculture is engaged in an agricultural survey of Europe, comparable statistics needed in estimating probable world demands for American crops and livestock. Surveys have been completed in Czecho-Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Jugo-Slavia, Rumania and Bulgaria. Surveys are in process in France, Holland, Germany and the Mediterranean basin. As fast as the data is ascertained it is being printed. Some of those engaged in this work have returned. Among them is Chas. J. Brand, who visited all the principal European countries. Mr. Brand reports agriculture in Europe has made greater progress toward normal conditions than industry. This is largely because people must eat, and their first attention is devoted to production of food. This rehabilitation of agricultural districts is also aided by nature, which cannot co-operate in industry and trade. According to Mr. Brand, practically every country in Europe is increasing its food production. Although Mr. Brand did not visit Russia, he ascertained from other countries that agricultural conditions in that country are much better than people outside are led to believe. In Rome he found representatives of the soviet government offering grain for sale. Mr. Brand's observation in this regard is given verification by a recent cablegram from Germany, which states that the Russian soviet government has completed arrangements whereby Germany is to be furnished 600,000 acres upon last year, 689, showed an increase of 83 per cent over this figure. Work in disposing of these pending applications has been speeded up by the division during the past six months in contemplation of a reduction of its personnel during the coming biennium. CALIFORNIA LEGION POSTS AID COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES Wide spread activity among legion posts in the state of California, in relation to community welfare, show many striking examples of what such co-operation will develop for the post and the locality it serves. A group of posts in this department of the legion, concentrating on definite programs, have been able to render considerable aid for the development of civic pride and community progress. Some posts have specialized in Americanism work. Berkeley post No. 7 conducted a preparatory course of instruction for aliens who seek to become citizens before the federal courts. Petaluma post has carried out a program of Americanization talks in public schools of the county. Other posts have assisted in Boy Scout activities. Fifty per cent of the posts of the state have adopted scout troops in their communities. General community activities of the posts are varied. Members of the Ft. Humboldt post at Eureka, have attempted to better conditions in a local tourist camp and park, by co-operating with city authorities. A post at Stockton was the first and only civic organization in the city to plant its quota of trees along a shore line boulevard. Legionnaires at Fresno, have laid out a baseball field for the use of the city, and the post at Dinuba is working toward a community playground. A quack doctor has gone for patients. 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