anaheim-gazette 1923-10-11

PHENOMENAL GAINS IN STATE ASSESSMENT Southern Counties Show the Heaviest Increases Following its phenomenal gain or $22,845,286 in total assessed valuation in the fiscal year 1821-22, Orange county's $9,339,825 increase for the past year ranked favorably with other counties in the state showing gains, figures which are released by Ray L. Riley, state controller. Some of the larger northern counties "snapped out of it" during the past fiscal year and, instead of showing decreases in assessed values, made gains sufficient to dislodge Orange county from second place, in the state gain column in 1922, to sixth place in 1923, it was disclosed. This year, however, only the larger populated counties of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Alameda, Fresno and Sacramento rank the "Nature's Wonderland community" in the value of the property within their confines. Of these, San Francisco, Fresno and Sacramento showed valuation losses in the 1921-22 period. Comparative figures, held up until the state board of equalization computed railroad valuations in the various counties, showed that this railroad gain in property in Orange county during the fiscal year just past totaled $545,865.80. This, according to W.C. Jerome, county auditor, represents the value of rail equipment and other property added by the Union Pacific's entry into the county. Operative property in the county increased in assessed total $7,850,150 during the past year, while the non-operative property gain was $858,290. Jerome's figures showed. Property assessed for taxation purposes is carried on the books of county auditors and the state board of boys and girls of school age attend 'snow parties.' "At these 'snow parties,' much heroin is used. Heroin, we find, is rapidly displacing cocaine, morphine and other drugs formerly used by addicts. This drug has a peculiar effect, causing exaltation of the ego, and quickly bringing the victim under its domination. A high school student will become a hopeless addict in less than six months unless prompt measures are taken to break the grip of the drug. "Heroin is peculiarly vicious, in that it destroys initiative; sweeps away the barriers of moral responsibility, and leads the victim directly to the pathways of crime, and, in many cases, a life of shame. This ultimately in murder and serves to fill our prisons with criminals." "Virtually one-half the prisoners in state prisons are drug addicts; nineteenth of the male prisoners in the federal prison at Leavenworth have used heroin or other powerful drugs. That is why we are making a determined fight to wipe out this evil." Captain Hobson, who seeks the support of the Santa Ana chamber of commerce, will make similar appeals before the Anaheim and Orange chambers. EANS ARE GOING UP Blackeye bean growers of Orange county are being offered 5 cents a pound for the product, and some are selling at that price, according to W.C. Jerome, county auditor, and an authority on bean culture. There probably will be an increase in prices as the season advances, he declared, but he cautioned growers against holding their crops for higher prices. He pointed out that the higher quotation problem sufficient to payance on the beans. According to genetics cent a pound since several days ago of the middle-state case that the crop in Serramento valleys was 50 per cent. Price quotations here were. Jerome said that growers would now half the crop of land proximately 55,000 ested. The yield around 25,000 saccharide. I. W. W. Said to be a man W., Hiram Beekman before Justice J. of having possessed ordered to pay a 500 days in jail. Chief Criminal McClellan headed officers, including Iliott and Joe Ryan Santa Ana police Beekman Saturday sorted house just. A large capacity by the officers barrels of mash liquor and about a parently ready for added to the find. According to them had been at Elk months and had a illicit operation. A membership carvements showing how the I. W. W., it was of the money to payvent to jail. $545,865.80. This, according to W.C. Jerome, county auditor, represents the value of rail equipment and other property added by the Union Pacific's entry into the county. Operative property in the county increased in assessed total $7,850,150 during the past year, while the non-operative property gain was $858,290. Jerome's figures showed. Property assessed for taxation purposes is carried on the books of county auditors and the state board of equalization at only 45 per cent of its true value, it was pointed out. On this basis, Orange county property values have increased during the past year more than $20,755,000. Southern California property values far outstripped the rest of the state in increases, though valuations increased in 1923 faster than at any period in the state's history. To those close to the situation, it was declared, the figures portrayed a phenomenal forge forward by the state entirely unsuspected. Gains in some of the larger counties for 1923 follow: | County | Gain | | :--- | :--- | | Los Angeles | $418,685,347 | | Sacramento | 9,930,446 | | Alameda | 31,089,604 | | San Francisco | 58,082,361 | | Fresno | 12,156,399 | | Kern | 533,941 | | Orange | 9,339,825 | | San Bernardino | 4,397,102 | | Riverside | 2,697,150 | | Ventura | 3,254,399 | THE USE OF DOPE IS BECOMING ALARMING Captain Hobson Declares Its Getting Into the Schools Are the high school students of southern California attending "snow parties" and falling easy prey to the subtle allurements of those at the head of the so-called 'drug ring?" "Yes," declared Richmond P. Hobson, head of the International Narcotic Education association, answering a question following Hobson's appearance before the directors of the chamber of commerce at Santa Ana. "I told the directors," said Hobson, "that there were probably 400 drug users in Santa Ana, and that such users were a constant menace to school children." "These figures are based upon the study of national conditions made by the government in which it was Blackeye bean growers of Orange county are being offered 5 cents a pound for the product, and some are selling at that price, according to W.C. Jerome, county auditor, and an authority on bean culture. There probably will be an increase in prices as the season advances, he declared, but he cautioned growers against holding their crops for higher prices. He pointed out that the high-energy water driven electric Pacific West came on Southern California with its full titanic force and five thousand bore. This new plant generates energy to take care of the electrical requirements of Los Angeles. The power used for generating capacity would be sufficient to lion acres for semi-arid cultivation, use production value per land in Southern California mean that the new agricultural production lion Dollars ($100,000). The power from spread over the entire hundred cities, towns ties in the ten county Central California selections including the wholesale City of Los Angeles tory adequate electricity." head of the International Narcotic Education association, answering a question following Hobsons' appearance before the directors of the chamber of commerce at Santa Ana. "I told the directors," said Hobson, "that there were probably 400 drug users in Santa Ana, and that such users were a constant menace to school children. "These figures are based upon the study of national conditions made by the government in which it was brought out that fully 500,000 men, women and children in New York state are drug users, in one form or another. If we pursue this investigation, we find that between 2 and 3 percent of the residents of the United States have fallen victims to this evil. "Using this as a basis, after consultation with the respective district attorneys and federal officers, we are able to estimate, with some little accuracy, the number of addicts in the cities of southern California, particularly near the great centers of population. "Take a city like Los Angeles, for example, with its many suburbs and its great moving picture colonies. Our investigators find that scores of workers, closely identified with the narcotic ring, work in and out of the city. These workers not only supply drug users in Los Angeles, but they operate quietly in other cities, including Pasadena, Hollywood, Glendale, Culver City, San Diego, Santa Ana, Anaheim and other cities. "Close investigation shows that these nefarious workers do not hesitate to ply their trade in the schools of the southland. It has been found that a high school boy or girl will fall easy prey to these allurements, once the way has been paved. Our investigators, and those employed by the federal authorities, find that many ANAHEIM GAZETTE attend much land, is arborine by ad effect, and suffer its student in less measur of that may the city, and the pathuses, a murious withmers in nine in the have drugs, deter 1." The supporter of appeals chamomile a one are to W. van aucrease loss, he growers higher the higher er quotation probably would not be sufficient to pay storage and insurance on the beans. According to general reports, prices of blackeye beans have advanced one cent a pound since the hot winds of several days ago damaged the crop in the middle-stafe counties. It is said that the crop in San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys was damaged at least 50 per cent. Prior to the hot wave, quotations here were 4 cents a pound. Jerome said that Orange county growers would not harvest more than half the crop of last year, when approximately 55,000 sacks were harvested. The yield this year will be around 25,000 sacks, he predicted. I. W. W. MOONSHINE Said to be a member of the I. W. W., Hiram Beekman was arraigned before Justice J. B. Cox on a charge of having possession of liquor and was ordered to pay a fine of $500 or serve 500 days in jail. Chief Criminal Deputy Sheriff Ed McClellan headed a raiding party of officers, including Constable J. L. Elliott and Joe Ryan, and Lauren Hurd, Santa Ana police officer, who arrested Beekman Saturday afternoon in a deserted house just west of El Toro. A large capacity still was unearthed by the officers they said. Seven barrels of mash, a ten-gallon keg of liquor and about ten pint flasks, apparently ready for delivery, also were added to the find. According to the officers, Beekman had been at El Toro for several months and had attracted suspicion of illicit operations. Beekman carried a membership card and other documents showing his connection with the I. W. W., it was said. In default of the money to pay his fine, Beekman went to jail. EXAMINATION FOR THE TREE DOCTORS Authorities on Tree Diseases Must Qualify for the Job When your trees get sick, call the doctor. No, not the M. D. Call the T. D. That's the advice of County Horticultural Commissioner A. A. Brock, who with three other horticultural commissioners in southern counties, is paving the way for a new kind of shingle on professional row. The examination for "tree doctors" announced for October 15 at Pomona marks the move by the four horticultural commissioners of Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, to require the credentials of all those who practice treating trees for various diseases. The idea is to protect fruit growers from "quacks," many of whom are said to be operating through the orange belt, doing more damage than good, the commissioners declare. The Pomona examinations were arranged by Commissioner Brock, Commissioner H. J. Ryan, of Los Angeles county; Commissioner John P. Coy, of San Bernardino count, and Commissioner A. E. Bottel, of Riverside county. Tree doctors who succeed in passing the tests of the horticultural commissioners will be issued licenses, showing them to be qualified for properly treating tree diseases. Fruit growers are advised to employ no one who is without such a license. A considerable number of applicants for licenses have already signified their intention to take the examinations, it was announced. The examinations cover an investigation of the applicant's experience, his references and his methods of treating tree diseases. On general principles, it would seem strange indeed if these two classes were to join and work together, on a large scale, because their economic interests are so much at variance with each other. The farmer, primarily a capitalist and business man, wants to get the most he can for his crops and pay as little as possible for manufactured goods. The industrial worker wants to pay as little as possible for his portion of those crops and to get as much as possible for his own work—thereby raising the price of what the farmer has to buy. How can those opposite interests be reconciled to any political program? So far, they have not been reconciled, but each class has taken what it would get through organization and legislation; regardless of the other. Latterly the industrial workers have been getting the better of the struggle. The farmers naturally want their inning. They deserve it, but organized labor will hardly help them much. NEW COURT TO OPEN TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16 Edward J. Koerner, accused erstwhile promoter of the so-called "sky-scraper bubble," who is charged with obtaining money under false pretense, will provide the first criminal case to be tried before Superior Judge F. C. Drumm, in the new department 3 of the superior court, it was decided when Koerner's trial was set for October 18 and 19. Koerner, who was in court again without his attorney, J. Morgan Marmaduke, entered a plea of not guilty to the charge and asked the earliest possible date for trial. Judge R. Y. Williams set the case down for the first open date in Judge Drumm's new court. The new department of the court ANT of the West Lines Today FARMER AND WORKMAN Senator-elect Magnus Johnson, of Minnesota, says he is sure that the farmer-labor combination will work on a national scale because there is cooperation of these two elements in his state. It may be fairly questioned whether Minnesota affords a good test. It is mainly a farming state. Will farmers and industrial workers cooperate so harmoniously in states where they are about equally divided? Or will the workmen be able to see the farm- Fourth Powerhouse on Edison Big Creek-San Joaquin Project; Largest in the West Today the "Electric Giant" the largest water driven electric power house in the Pacific West came on to the lines of the Southern California Edison Company with its full titanic force of one hundred and five thousand horse power. This new plant generates enough electric energy to take care of lighting and all of the electrical requirements of a city the size of Los Angeles with the exception of the power used for transportation. If its generating capacity were used alone for pumping water for irrigation purposes, it would be sufficient to reclaim over a million acres for semi-arid land and bring under cultivation, using the standard of production value per acre of irrigated land in Southern California, this would mean that the new plant would increase agricultural production One Hundred Million Dollars ($100,000,000.00). The power from this plant will be spread over the entire system of some three hundred cities, towns and rural communities in the ten counties of Southern and Central California served by the Company including the wholesaling of power to the City of Los Angeles. In this vast territory adequate electric service will be sup- See your own Spine and know positively which of your are out of place 100 per cent right with X-Ray. 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Lord Birkenhead says the United States can serve the world best by looking after its own affairs. Is that the reason certain internationally minded people jumped on him so hard? ED NOT BE SICK! and Where Your Troubles are Without Asking a Question 1. Slight subluxations at this point will cause so-called headaches, eye diseases, deafness, epilepsy, vertigo, insomnia, wry neck, facial paralysis, locomotor ataxia, etc. 2. A slight subluxation of a vertebra in this part of the spine is the cause of so-called throat trouble, neuralgia, pain in the shoulders and arms, goitre, nervous prostration, la gripe, dizziness, bleeding from nose, disorder of gums, catarrh, etc. 3. The arrow head marked No. 3 locates the part of the spine wherein subluxations will cause so-called bronchitis, felons, pain between the shoulder blades, rheumatism of the arms and shoulders, hay fever, writers' cramp, etc. 4. A vertebral subluxation at this point causes so-called nervousness, heart disease, asthma, pneumonia, tuberculosis, difficult breathing, other lung troubles, etc. 5. Stomach and liver troubles, enlargement of the spleen, pleurisy and a score of other troubles, so-called, are caused by subluxations in this part of the spine, sometimes so light as to remain unnoticed by others except the trained Chiropractor. 6. Here we find the cause of so-called gall stones, dyspepsia of upper bowels, fevers, shingles, hiccoughs, worms, etc. 7. Bright's disease, diabetes, floating kidney, skin disease, boils, eruptions and other diseases, so-called, are caused by nerves being pinched in the spinal openings at this point. 8. Regulations of such troubles as so-called appendicitis, peritonitis, lumbago, etc., follow Chiropractic adjustments at this point. 5. Stomach and liver troubles, enlargement of the spleen, pleurisy and a score of other troubles, so-called, are caused by subluxations in this part of the spine, sometimes so light as to remain unnoticed by others except the trained Chiropractor. 6. Here we find the cause of so-called gall stones, dyspepsia of upper bowels, fevers, shingles, hiccoughs, worms, etc. 7. Bright's disease, diabetes, floating kidney, skin disease, boils, eruptions and other diseases, so-called, are caused by nerves being pinched in the spinal openings at this point. 8. Regulations of such troubles as so-called appendicitis, peritonitis, lumbago, etc., follow Chiropractic adjustments at this point. 9. Why have so-called constipation, rectal troubles, sciatica, etc., when Chiropractic adjustments at this part of the spine will remove the cause? 10. A slight slippage of one or both innominate bones will likewise produce so-called sciatica, together with many "diseases" of Delvis and lower extremities. positively which of your spinal bones with X-Ray. The most modern with individual rest rooms, the complete X-Ray, with all adjustments and get an X-Ray of your course of adjustments H. Coleman ractor Successful Practice in Los Angeles. Center St. Ground floor Anaheim GRADUATE Dr.Joseph H. Coleman