anaheim-gazette 1923-08-09

Anaheim Gazette ESTABLISHED 1870 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY Henry Kuchel, Editor and Proprietor SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR ... $1.50 SIX MONTHS ... $1.00 THREE MONTHS ... $ .50 Entred at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter WATER DIRECTORS MEET The regular meeting of the board of directors of the Anaheim Union Water company was held Saturday, with all members present at roll call. Minutes of the last regular meeting and of the special meeting held on July 26 were read and approved. Report of the finance committee was, upon motion, accepted and warrants ordered drawn in payment of the various demands therein recommended. The reports of the treasurer and superintendent were upon motion accepted and ordered filed. Messrs. Jacobsen, Bielefelt and Luzler, representing the Placentia-Richfield school district, came before the board with a request to purchase a portion of the companys' lots in Placentia for school purposes. It was moved by Tuffree, seconded by Annin, that this company sell to the Placentia-Richfield school district for a sum of $5500, that portion of the Placentia lots described as follows: The southeast corner to be 30 feet south of the southeast corner of the tract now under lease to the Placentia-Richfield school and thence westerly to a point 10 feet south of the southwest corner of the tract now under lease, thence north to a point 95 feet south of the Organization of the farm advisors and horticultural commissioners of the seven southern California counties was completed at a meeting held at Pomona, according to a report made by H. E. Wahlberg, Orange county farm advisor. A. A. Brock, Orange county horticultural commissioner, was elected chairman and Wahlberg was elected secretary of the organization. Meetings were scheduled to be held quarterly. In order that Orange county Elks may be free to pay full tribute to the memory of their departed brother, Warren G. Harding, the annual barbecue and picnic of Santa Ana lodge, No. 794, scheduled for Friday, August 10, at Orange county park, has been postponed until Friday, August 24, Secretary W. W. Wasser announced. "Inasmuch as the nation is mourning the passing of our president and brother," Wasser said, "it was felt that our picnic and outdoor entertainment should be postponed. Members of the Santa Ana lodge, who have made reservations for the barbecue, will be notified by mail of the change in plans." Wasser said an excellent program will be arranged for the several hundred Elks and the members of their families who are expected to attend the picnic. Blaming & leaky gas pipe for the alleged destruction of six orange trees and damage to others on his ranch near Anaheim, John W. Crill, rancher, is preparing to carry his fight into the superior court to hold advantages he won over rte Southern Counties Gas company in justice court at Anaheim, where Crill was awarded $295.99 damages. The gas company's appeal from judgment, given Crill in the lower court July 14, was filed in the superior court late Monday. The litigation centers about a gas main extending past Crill's twenty-acre grove. Crill alleged, in his suit against the gas company in horticultural commissioners of the seven southern California counties was completed at a meeting held at Pomona, according to a report made by H. E. Wahlberg, Orange county farm advisor. A. A. Brock, Orange county horticultural commissioner, was elected chairman and Wahlberg was elected secretary of the organization. Meetings were scheduled to be held quarterly. When his name is in the period of blightion, and the fact caped impeachment President Arthur Cleman. If his high lights, at least aerene, and dignify been a practical York city environm comparatively brine of life. They have been a thought was to outlive his equation never devised As to Roosevelt his strong perk knows, and of C soon. Much is e Coolidge. He has given his place on Harding, but with vice-president ou able to succeed the necessity to arise. PRESIDENT The constitutive vice-president shi in the event o fft dent or his remove misdemeanor or hold longer th e tive, and he sha rethe remainder o term, but the de Hendricks in 188 auguration called that there was cession in case he vice-president we or disability bef sembled. In 188 was passed provi the cabinet, in th ilishment of th em ents should s dency, provided o order of success state, secretary centia for school purposes. It was moved by Tuffree, seconded by Annin, that this company sell to the Placentia-Richfield school district for a sum of $5500, that portion of the Placentia lots described as follows: The southeast corner to be 30 feet south of the southeast corner of the tract now under lease to the Placentia-Richfield school and thence westerly to a point 10 feet south of the southwest corner of the tract now under lease, thence north to a point 95 feet south of the north line of lot 31, block B, thence east parallel to the north line of said lot 31, to a point 14 feet west of the east line of said tract, thence south and parallel to the east line to the point of beginning. Motion carried. The Placentia school trustees refused to accept this offer and stated that they would start condemnation proceedings to secure this land. It was moved by Thamer, seconded by Rust, that the board reconsider the vote taken to sell the land to Placentia-Richfield school district for $5500. Upon roll call vote Directors Hale, Thamer, Annin and Rust voted aye; Directors Miller, Hansen and Tuffree voted no. Motion carried. It was moved by Thamer, seconded by Rust that this company sell to the Placentia-Richfield school district, for the sum of $5000 that portion of the lots in Placentia described above, this company reserving all oil rights. Upon roll call vote the following directors voted aye: Hale, Thamer, Annin and Rust. Directors Miller and Tuffree voted no. Motion carried. Upon motion the matter of losing up this sale was referred to the attorney and superintendent to be escrewed in the Orange County Title company. On motion of Mr. Thamer, seconded by Mr. Hansen, and duly adopted, the president and secretary of the Anaheim Union Water company were directed and authorized to execute a deed of the company conveying to Placentia school district of Orange county the parcel of land at Placentia, California, this day agreed to be sold to said district for $5000, inserting in said deed the proper description of the land as furnished by the surveyor and reserving and excepting all gas, oil and other hydro-carbon substance in and under said land. Superintendent Wallop reported for the committee they presented plans for the extension of the Pratt dam to the S. A. V. I. board of directors, and reported that the S. A. V. I. board near Anaheim, John W. Crill, rancher, is preparing to carry his fight into the superior court to hold advantages he won ove rthe Southern Counties Gas company in justice court at Anaheim, where Crill was awarded $295.99 damages. The gas company's appeal from judgment, given Crill in the lower court July 14, was filed in the superior court late Monday. The litigation centers about a gas main extending past Crill's twenty-acre grove. Crill alleged, in his suit against the gas company, that for two years the pipe had been leaking gas into the soil, causing the asserted loss of six orange trees and injury to a number of others. HARDING'S CANADIAN VISIT The comment of the Vancouver Sun on the visit of President Harding to Canada is exceedingly interesting and is printed herewith: "America's president created a very favorable impression with the Canadians. There is no question about it. For reasons of heritage and for sentimental reasons Canada will always be part of the British empire, but that should not prevent Canadians from seeking full advantage of the fact that the North American continent forms a single commercial trading unit and that Americans are our good neighbors. The man who stepped ashore at Vancouver and in twelve hours won the people of Canada was hardly the man Canada expected. From United States press reports, Canada had been led to believe that the president was simply a figurebead placed in office through political compromise. Our unsolicited advice to those Americans who have any such ideas is that they get acquainted with their president. Free from the influence of Republican pats and Democratic raps and having only good will to ask and receive,the Canadian public was able to take full measure of Warren Harding as a man. The president got through the heads and hearts of Canadians with his homely truth that the best citizen was the man who was a good neighbor and the best neighbor was the one you were friendly enough with to go and borrow a couple of eggs from. A man with common sense enough to talk that kind of language and whose own life proves that he means what he says is not the man who will lose his head because wheat goes up or down five cents, is not the public NO CASE FOR A boy arrested December 1922, for penalized by them forbidden to drive. The same lad had again, this time drove through Out lights, with the speed of fifteen minutes of time of the became 17 years Now the claim is not be 18 until he hopes to take the juvenile court times passes as this offender considered as an type. The type gerous, or it is equally dangerous the age of an old sense enough, or refrain from indulging as a menace and he shall be subjectciplin, the better by the idea of through discoursecriminals, wouldthe undesirability type loosed on court would be hoped that the jcline to consider guish kid. His sympathy. county the parcel of land at Placentia, California, this day agreed to be sold to said district for $5000, inserting in said deed the proper description of the land as furnished by the surveyor and reserving and excepting all gas, oil and other hydro-carbon substance in and under said land. Superintendent Wallop reported for the committee they presented plans for the extension of the Pratt dam to the S. A. V. I. board of directors, and reported that the S. A. V. I. board voted to grant us permission to extend this dam across their channel, provided that a satisfactory agreement could be entered into. Upon motion by Thamer, seconded by Annin, the president and secretary were authorized to sign an agreement with the S. A. V. I. company for the extension of the Pratt dam when the name is approved by Attorney Head. Communication read from the Union Bank & Trust company regarding a transfer of 2 shares of stock from A. Taussau. On motion this was referred to Attorney Head. Upon motion the following transfers of stock were granted: Two shares C. L. Dean to Charles A. Brown; 8 shares Antoinette Hall to be divided 1 share to Leo E. Fallert, 3 shares to E. S. Gregory, 4 shares to W. H. Dreyer; 20 shares J. W. Newell to W. J. Cadman and R. E. Corcoran; 2 shares O. B. Baxter to Freiderick Noske. Upon motion by Miller, seconded by Rust, the secretary was authorized to refund Messrs. C. M. Fender and F. E. Miller the difference between the 2-3 estimate deposited and 50 per cent of cost of laying pipe line in front of their place on La Palma avenue. Committee appointed to investigate regarding the development of more water on the Gomber tract granted more time. FROM VICE-PRESIDENT TO THE PRESIDENCY Six times now has the death of a president elevated the vice-president to the executive chair. Several of these instances are within easy memory of the mature. In one case only has the vice-president after serving the portion of the term remaining, been elected as the head of the ticket, the exception being that of Roosevelt. Before the time of Roosevelt, Presidents Tyler, Pierce, Johnson and Arthur each had finished out a term to which another had been elected. Not one of these has been rated as a great statesman. Indeed, they were mostly rather commonplace. None was called upon to identify himself with any large feat of development or diplomacy that caused him especially to be remembered. None had to meet the sort of crisis that brought out to the utmost, qualities of fineness that he may have possessed. Johnson admittedly, never was fit for high station. According to made by the A.C., there that in the near future will have the summit of the Owens valley valley. There is no this mountain we Tioga Pass road, Walker Pass road mountain playground only by forest trail. Engineers of it with representatives bers of commerce of Inyo and More concluded an in feasibility of su Lone Pine with ing a distance miles. THE COA The ocean work is complete The highway is lies through Lo Beach, and there The highway completed is one of ANAHEIM GAZETTE When his name is mentioned it recalls the period of blundering reconstruction, and the fact that he narrowly escaped impeachment. President Arthur was a tactful gentleman. If his administration lacked high lights, at least it was civil and serene, and dignified enough. He had been a practical politician with a New York city environment. Garfield was comparatively robust man, in the prime of life. There could scarcely have been a thought that his associate was to outlive him, murder being an equation never definitely considered. As to Roosevelt, his unique career, his strong personality, the world knows, and of Coolidge it will learn soon. Much is expected of President Coolidge. He had not by chance been given his place on the ticket with Harding, but with the thought that a vice-president ought to be of caliber able to succeed the president were the necessity to arise. PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION The constitution provides that the vice-president shall become president in the event of the death of the president or his removal from office for any misdemeanor or disqualification to hold longer the office of chief executive, and he shall hold the office for the remainder of that presidential term, but the death of Vice-President Hendricks in 1885 soon after his inauguration called attention to the fact that there was no provision for succession in case both the president and vice-president were removed by death or disability before congress had assembled. In 1886, therefore, a law was passed providing that members of the cabinet, in the order of the establishment of their respective departments should succeed to the presidency, provided they were eligible, the order of succession being secretary of state, secretary of the treasury, secretary of all these revolutions from the Rio Grande to Patagonia. They simply did not know of any other way to govern the country than by plundering it. Gen. Crowder found the same thing in Cuba and it required all his firmness to compel the Cuban officials to act with common honesty. It will take generations to educate the Filipinos to political and official probity, and the present disturbance is merely the scheme of a lot of hungry politicians whom Gen. Wood has been blocking in their efforts to plunder the people for their own benefit. It has taken many generations to bring the South American countries up to a realization of what constitutes official probity, and it is likely that the same slow educational process will be necessary for generations in the Philippines before they are fit to take the government of the country into their own hands. MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY That southern California loyally supports its most colorful industry, the making of motion pictures, was testified to by a special report sent to Washington by the collector of internal revenue for the Los Angeles district. The outstanding features of the collector's survey of collections for admission taxes to motion picturetheatres and other places of amusement were: That the 1,424,000 people credited to southern California by the 1920 census paid 18,330,000 admissions to motion picturetheatres and other places of amusement during the month, of which 3,000,000 were 10-cent or less admissions and therefore tax free. That $261,805.41 was collected in admission taxes compared with $196,-804.09 for the corresponding period of last year, a record-breaking gain of 30 per cent. NO CASE FOR SYMPATHY A boy arrested at Riverside in December, 1922, for reckless driving, was penalized by the juvenile court, being forbidden to drive a car for one year. The same lad has just been arrested again, this time on the charge that he drove through Ontario at night without lights, with muffler open, and at the speed of fifty miles an hour. At the time of the first arrest he said he became 17 years old January 19, 1922. Now the claim is set up that he will not be 18 until January, 1924. Thus he hopes to take chance once more in the juvenile court, where crime sometimes passes as a prank. This offender does not need to be considered as an individual but as a type. The type is vicious and dangerous, or it is mentally lacking and equally dangerous. No matter what the age of an offender, if he has not sense enough, or character enough, to refrain from infesting the highways as a menace and a pest, the sooner he shall be subjected to restrictive discipline, the better. Any court inspired by the idea of protecting the public through discouraging the activity of criminals, would be likely to realize the undesirability of having one of the types loosed on society. If a juvenile court would be less severe, it is to be hoped that the juvenile court shall decline to consider the offender as a roguish kid. His case does not call for sympathy. BEWARE OF COUNTERFEITS Counterfeit $5, $10 and $20 federal reserve notes recently have been put into circulation, according to a warning received here from Los Angeles. Federal officers urge businessmen to be on the lookout. The $20 note is of the series of 1914, in a portrait of Cleveland, issued on the federal reserve bank of Chicago. It is printed from photo-etched plates on two pieces of paper—the face of the note on thin paper, the back on heavier paper, with silk fibre between. The coloring, the seal and the number of the note is good and the note is described as very deceptive. Both the face and the back are shorter than the genuine. The $10 counterfeit is on the federal reserve bank of Boston. It is printed on two pieces of paper with coarse fibre between. The workmanship is crude, and should deceive no one who is accustomed to handling money. The $5 note is a particularly deceptive specimen. Printed on two pieces of thin paper with silk fibre between, the coloring, seal and numbering are all good. The most noticeable defect is the portrait of Lincoln, in which the eyes have a particular unlife-like expression. The ear also is too flat and of unnatural appearance. The note is on the federal reserve bank of Philadelphia. PHILIPPINE IMBROGLIO That the 1,424,000 people credited to southern California by the 1920 census paid 18,330,000 admissions to motion picturetheatres and other places of amusement during the month, of which 3,000,000 were 10-cent or less admissions and therefore tax free. That $261,805.41 was collected in admission taxes compared with $196,-804.09 for the corresponding period of last year a record-breaking gain of 30 per cent. That the tax collected shows that approximately $3,225,000 was spent for amusements in southern California during the month. Emphasizing the unprecedented growth in motion picture and other amusement attendance in southern California, the collector's report shows that for the entire year of 1918 the amusement tax amounted to only $582,000, as compared with $261,865 for July, 1923, alone, and $1,600,000 for the first six months of 1923. In 1918 the tax on ten-cent admissions was in force, but this tax was eliminated by the 1921 revenue act, and was not collected in 1923. With $1,600,000 collected for the first six months of 1923, the receipts for the full year should show a gain of 550 per cent over 1918. Taking the amusement attendance for June as a bisis, the paidmissions for the full year 1923 should reach 220,000,000, or twice the population of the United States. OUR TRADE WITH CHINA Foreign trade means domestic employment in working our own or imported materials into articles for export. It is most effectively promoted by American firms resident in foreign countries who naturally order from their home country. To promote such trade the British government exempts from taxation British corporations doing their actual business in China and also British subjects residents in China from personal income taxes. Taxation in all countries is now so severe that tax exemption for British competitors is a real discrimination against Americans. Congress has given some relief, but apparently not enough. What is asked is entire equality in respect to taxation by the home government with competitors of any other nation. It is fair and in the public interest should be granted. San Francisco and indeed the entire coast, is especially PLANNING NEW ROAD According to an announcement made by the Auto Club of Southern California, there is every likelihood that in the near future southern California will have its own auto road over the summit of the Sierras, connecting Owens valley and the San Joaquin valley. There is no road passing through this mountain wonderland between the Tioga Pass road, on the north, and the Walker Pass road, on the south. This mountain playground is penetrated only by forest trails. Engineers of the auto club, together with representatives of various chambers of commerce and the supervisors of Inyo and Mono counties, have just concluded an investigation as to the feasibility of such a road to connect Lone Pine with Camp Nelson, covering a distance of about seventy-two miles. THE COAST HIGHWAY The ocean highway construction work is completed to Sunset Beach. The highway is open from Los Angeles, through Long Beach to Sunset Beach, and there traffic must divert. The highway east from Huntingtonpleted is one of the finest trips in Cali- PHILIPPINE IMBROGLIO We might have expected just such trouble as is now coming to the front in the Philippines. A delegation is to be sent to Washington to demand the independence of the archipelago and the removal of Gov. Gen. Wood. The Philippine senate and house have asked for immediate independence and the recall of Gen. Wood. The trouble is the same as that in Cuba, which required the strong hand of Gen. Crowder. All of the so-called aristocratic class in countries which have been governed by Spain look upon public office as graft and the only way to wealth. They want to get control of the public treasury and to enrich themselves and their relatives. It was this, and this alone, that brought the loss of all the Spanish colonies. There had grown up in these colonies native-born men who became aggravated by having the wealth of the country captured by those sent out from the mother country with the avowed intention of enriching them. The native-born men wanted the riches not for the people, but for themselves, and when they succeeded in establishing their independence the country was harassed for decades by so-called revolutions, which were simply uprisings of cabals envious of the wealth coming to their opponents and thought to pry them loose. There were no principles or taxation in all countries is now severe that tax exemption for British competitors is a real discrimination against Americans. Congress has given some relief, but apparently not enough. What is asked is entire equality in respect to taxation by the home government with competitors of any other nation. It is fair and in the public interest should be granted. San Francisco and indeed the entire coast, is especially concerned. The rate of our expansion in industry with payrolls depends on the rapidity with which we can extend trade with countries bordering on the Pacific, of which China is by far the most important. Our national and local interests demand that the nation do all that any other countries do to encourage our nationals to engage in this distribution of whatever we produce at home by American labor. REDWOOD NURSERIES If, in the days of the overland stage and pony express, pioneers, felling giant trees on the fringe of redwood forests, had been told they would live to see redwood nurseries by the side of sawmills, they would have flouted the statement. At that time redwood seemed to be California's one inexhaustible resource, which would continue in their might long after the mineral lodes had yielded their hidden wealth. These old woodmen might well look on forest tree nurseries as an absurd fancy. Redwoods inter-look boughs over spaces that a man on horseback might spend weeks in traversing. They emerged fro mforest fires with scorched bark when pitchy firs and pines became flaming torches. Unlike other cone-bearers, the redwoods re- PICTURES Many subjects may be seen in our Art Department framed in the new toned mouldings. The exquisite coloring and effect produced with toned frames will delight the most artistic. B. F. SPENCER ART GOODS Pictures Wall Paper 166 W. Center St. Anaheim fused to succumb to saw and axe and sent forth a ring of vigorous suckers about their stumps. Such vitality would not die. But redwood nurseries are now here. They supply evidence of a new spirit in America—a realization that the country has been playing the wanton spendthrift with its natural resource or lessen murder. Such impression has not the slightest basis in fact. The circumstance that there are more murders in any American city than in the whole of the United Kingdom, is the answer to it, leaving nothing to be said. Even the most enthusiastic lover of sassins will have to admit that an assaassin, once he has been executed fused to succumb to saw and axe and sent forth a ring of vigorous suckers about their stumps. Such vitality would not die. But redwood nurseries are now here. They supply evidence of a new spirit in America—a realization that the country has been playing the wanton spendthrift with its natural resources; that the present generation owes a duty to posterity; that the wasting of nature's gifts through ignorance or callousness is criminal. The movement to replant the cut areas has been started by the redwood lumbermen—members of the California Redwood association. They are actuated by ya desire to perpetuate a valuable California industry. Deposits of oil and minerals can be exploited but once. Experiments show, however, that redwood mature for commercial purposes at the relatively early age of 60 years; so that the soil and climate in which this unique species first found its home can continue to yield its valuable products for the use of mankind through the ages to come. EXHIBITION OF MINING AT THE STATE FAIR Persons who have wondered just how gold, silver and other metals were mined will have an opportunity to witness the latest mining methods. At the great mining exposition to be conducted by the department of mines and mining of the Sacramento chamber of commerce and the state mining bureau at the 1923 California state fair to open Saturday, September 1. Every process of mining will be illustrated in operating exhibits. The many processes used from the time the ore enters the stamp mill until it comes cut of the furnace in the for mof bullion or metal bars all will be shown in actual operation. A ten-stamp mill, a working model one-quarter size, will crush the ore and feed it to a complete mercuric-cyanide treatment plant, where the values will be extracted, and then smelted in a furnace. Regulation stamp mills of compact size will be shown in operation. It is hoped to have installed the new Driscoll process plant, which treats California iron ores. All manner of electrical mine equipment will be shown. Air drills will be operated or lessen murder. Such impression has not the slightest basis in fact. The circumstance that there are more murders in any American city than in the whole of the United Kingdom, is the answer to it, leaving nothing to be said. Even the most enthusiastic lover of sassins will have to admit that an assassin, once he has been executed despite the terms of the maudlin, ceases from killing. Society that had feared him, fears him no more. This detail is worth some consideration, although in the mind of the proponents of unrestricted murder of everybody but the murderously inclined, the welfare of society matters nothing. It is only the red-handed element of society, preying upon the rest, that has a place in the affections of the sentimental sissy of either sex. The reason for the high valuation on the life of the murderer and the lack of any valuation whatever marking the life of the citizen likely to be murdered never yet has been explained. The vicious thug is permitted to kill, virtually at will, but then, all at once his own life becomes a precious thing, to be securely guarded. Every safeguard thrown about it is an encouragement to the vicious, and an invitation for the criminally inclined to shed the blood of innocence. CHARACTERISTIC OF EUROPE The peace conference at Lausanne threatens to end as most other peace conferences over there do in every body grabbing a gun. PHONE 784-J. Dr. W. W. Adams THE OSTEOPATH Has opened office again and will be glad to meet all of his old friends, and as many new ones as he can at 220 North Olive Street, ANAHEIM, CALIF. BOSTON BAKERY Saturday Specials Cinnamon Roll 20c a Doz. Butter Roll 5 cents Vanilla Roll 20c doz Boston Bakery 201 East Center St. • Phone 135-W 248 West CenterSt Phone861-J A thorough education of the varied minerals of California will be given in reproduction of an underground hoist room, to be built in the main exhibit hall for the housing of a $250,000 collection of minerals, which will include a twelve-inch gold nugget and a $50,000 block of pure tungsten, from Nevada and Kern counties, respectively. Special attention will be given to industrial minerals, and there will be a comprehensive exhibit by the state mining bureau. On mining day, one of the feature days of the fair, there will be special mining contests and an evening banquet program for the mining men of California. Noted mine authorities will speak. WOULD SAVE USELESS LIVES "If murder by the state does not serve to prevent or lessen murder by individuals, then the state loses its one excuse for committing the social crime of capital punishment." Thus an editor, whose heart evidently beats for the slayer rather than the slain, sets forth something that seems to pass as an argument with his type. The fatal weakness is in the "if." That word is used in this connection to create the impression that capital punishment does not prevent