anaheim-gazette 1923-10-25

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 BUSINESS EXPANDING That every line of business in Southern California has entered into a period of steady expansion is indicated by an increase in Internal Revenue taxes listed for assessment in 1923 of $8,273,819.05. The unprecedented gain in taxes assessed was disclosed in a report sent to Washington yesterday by Collector Rex Goodcell. Collector Goodcell's survey shows that from January 1 to October 1 the total amount of taxes listed for assessment was $49,564,225.27, compared with $41,290,415.22 for the same period of 1922. The gain was 20 per cent. Every class of taxes is represented in the $49,000,000 assessment. Collector Goodcel said that few persons realize just what the gain of $8,273,000 in taxes listed for assessment means in the way of increased business. He pointed out that figured on an average tax rate of 3 per cent the $8,273,000 increase in taxes must call for $273,600,000 of new business in the Southern California district. "The increase in taxes assessed is due to business expansion alone," disclosed Collector Goodcell, "for no tax rates have been raised but on the variance Germany a reasonable gold credit; provided the financial affairs of the nation are put in competent hands with autocratic power to act. At all events, Germany today is buying large quantities of American cotton and paying for it with gold or American currency. Nothing but a dictatorship, the gold standard and a new currency system based on gold will bring Germany out of her trouble. To repudiate countless billions of paper marks will be hard on debtors but will, in time, restore credit and place a ruined nation on the right road. History has never furnished such a terrible example of the appalling consequences of irredeemable government paper currency issued in amounts to meet the requirements of business. Some of our so-called financial reformers in and out of Congress should take warning if they are really interested in the welfare of the American people rather than in putting something over on the people—a proposition that is open to some doubt. FRUIT GROWERS TO MEET IN SANTA ANA The fifty sixth annual convention of the California Fruit Growers, attracting hundreds of growers, horticultural commissioners, packing house executives and others, will be held in Santa Ana in December, according to announcement by A. A. Brook, horticultural commissioner. The convention will open at Santa Ana high school Monday, December 3d, and will continue until December 6th. The necessary expense incurred in staging the convention and in making the voluminous record required by the State Agricultural Department, will be borne by the Orange County Board of Finance. LECTOR Goodcel said that few persons realize just what the gain of $8,273,000 in taxes listed for assessment means in the way of increased business. He pointed out that figured on an average tax rate of 3 per cent the $8,273,000 increase in taxes must call for $273,600,000 of new business in the Southern California district. "The increase in taxes assessed is due to business expansion alone," disclosed Collector Goodcell, "for no tax rates have been raised but on the other hand many classes of taxes have been repealed. In the Southern California district alone the repealed taxes amount to $15,000,000 annually, so any increase in tax assessments would have to come from new business and the expansion of established industries." GERMANY'S WARNING Germany's economic and financial situation today should be another warning to those who are opposed to the gold standard and urge the substitution of irredeemable government paper money up to the requirements of business. Henry Ford's weekly publication recently printed a series of articles undertaking to point out the peril of the gold standard the impossibility of continuing it and the need of a paper currency for the common people. Germany has been experimenting with this sort of paper currency. She recently has been printing paper marks at such a rate there are estimated to be more than 100 trillion of marks in circulation. This is only a guess The fact is, no one knows how many marks are in circulation. This currency is practically worthless, and many concerns are printing their own money. Merchants, traders, manufacturers are all at sea; wage earners are starving, for it takes several million paper marks to buy a loaf of bread. Chaos and misery are everywhere. The result of this unprecedented depreciation of a nation's currency is practical confiscation of all property. People who owned property in 1914, who had deposits in banks or who held mortgage notes, find all their property swept away. Debtors and speculators on borrowed money in 1914 have paid all their debts in depreciated money, and many once poor are now rich on paper. A new currency on a gold basis may equalize matters somewhat. Business has be- The result of this unprecedented depreciation of a nation's currency is practical confiscation of all property. People who owned property in 1914, who had deposits in banks or who held mortgage notes, find all their property swept away. Debtors and speculators on borrowed money in 1914 have paid all their debts in depreciated money, and many once poor are now rich on paper. A new currency on a gold basis may equalize matters somewhat. Business has become utterly demoralized and ruin for the nation is near, unless something radical is done. The workers are the greatest sufferers; only the speculators and profiteers have been helped by the cheap money orgy. That is Germany today, the nation with the largest volume of paper money ever issued. What a warning to so-called financial reformers who assert that the value and purchasing power of all money is in the stamp of the government! Will Germany ever recover? Yes, if she stops the printing press and the issue of paper money, organizes a national bank with gold as a basis, of a limited amount of redeemable government paper money and retires all the paper marks now in circulation at a discount rate somewhere near the present estimated wealth of the nation. This will be deflation with a vengeance, but it is the only course. Probably nearly all the present paper money would be destroyed if discounted at a point near the actual property of the people, on a gold basis. German paper marks can never be redeemed on the old gold basis. That is impossible. Doubtless there is still enough gold and sound credit in Germany upon which to base a new currency. Doubtless the solvent nations of the world would be willing to ad- A publication of value to citrus growers is Bulletin No. 360, "Gum Diseases of Citrus trees in California," recently issued by the University of California Agricultural Experiment Station. Howard S. Fawcett, Professor of Plant Pathology at the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, is the author of this bulletin, which aims to bring together the information now at hand regarding the so-called gum disease of citrus and the various minor forms of gumming in citrus trees under California conditions. Early investigators came to the conclusion that gum diseases of citrus were largely self-generated and were induced frequently through the effects of certain climatic or soil conditions. It now appers evident that these environmental conditions cannot by themselves initiate the severe forms of gummosis in citrus, although certain factors are found to play an important role as contributing conditions which favor infection and invasion of the host by the causal parasites. Bulletin No. 360 gives the history and symptoms of Pythiacystis, or brown rot gummosis, and an account of the investigations which have been made into the nature and cause of this disease. The resistance of different species and varieties, the conditions facilitating infection and development of the disease, and control measures are described. Similar information is included relating to other gum diseases such as Mal Di Gomma, or footrot; Botrytis fummosis; Sclerotinia gumming; Psorasis or scaly bark; Exanthema or die-back; and minor forms of gumming. Special emphasis is given to contributing conditions and to methods of prevention and treatment. A copy of Bulletin No. 360 may be secured by addressing the Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station. ANARBIM GAZETTE BERKELEY, or the Farm Advisor, 508 N. Main St., Santa Ana. HUNTERS RETURN John Tuffree, Henry Tuffree, John E. Scott and O. H. Schumacher arrived home on Monday from their bear hunting trip into the Morgollon mountains of Arizona, said to be the wildest place in the United States. The party in which they went brought back a bear, two deer and many turkeys. They left the 24th of September in Henry Tuffree's speedwagon going to Mecca, Blythe, and Phoenix to the Roosevelt dam and Payson where they took the pack train for two days into the wilds. The weather was extremely cold, there was an inch of ice every morning, and they found it difficult to keep warm. Once they saw a half dozen bear but were too far away to get a shot at them. The party returned by Yuma, arriving here just three weeks from the time they started, and very enthusiastic over the trip. LARGER WHOLESALE BUSINESS According to the reports collected by the Federal Reserve board, the wholesale trade in the United States for the month of August was greater than for any month since October, last year. The only lines showing decreased business were agricultural implements. CITRUS ACTIVITIES The activities of the Citrus Department of the Orange County Farm Bureau have been keenly felt by the growers, of Orange County, according to Dr. S. S. Twombly, Chairman of the Department and prominent citrus grower. WANTED—Valencia Orange Ranch 10 to 20 acres. Must be a bargain with price, location, etc. Paul Jordan, 1725 N. Main, Santa Ana. CERTIFICATE OF CO-PARTNERSHIP DOING BUSINESS UNDER FICTITIOUS NAME. We, the undersigned, hereby certify that we are co-partners doing business under the fictitious name of "Kennedy Radio Sales and Service," and as such make sales of radio equipment and render and maintain radio service; That our principal place of business is located at Meyer Apartment Building, 310 Spurgeon street, Santa Ana, California; That the names in full of all members of said co-partnership, and their respective residences are as follows: W. V. Peeling, Main Street, Orange, California. Mrs. N. Newton, R. D. 7, Santa Ana, California; This certificate is filed in compliance with sections 2466-2468 of the Civil Code of the State of California. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands, this the 20th day of September, 1923. W. V. PEELING, Main Street, Orange, California. MRS. N. NEWTON, R. D. No. 7, Santa Ana, California. State of California, County of Orange, SS: On the 20th day of September, 1923, before me, Juanita Snyder, a Notary Public in and for the said County of Orange, State of California, residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn personally appeared W. V. Peeling and Mrs. N. Newton, personally known to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that they executed the same. In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal in said County the day and year in this certificate first above CITRUS ACTIVITIES The activities of the Citrus Department of the Orange County Farm Bureau have been keenly felt by the growers of Orange County, according to Dr. S. S. Twombly, Chairman of the Department and prominent citrus grower of Fullerton. The revised irrigation campaign promoted this year by the department, co-operating with the Farm Advisor, is one of the most important steps ever made for the improvement of production and orchard vigor. Testimonials are coming into the Farm Bureau office daily, approving the recommendations of the Agricultural Extension Service for more judicious use of irrigation waters. We have been farming by Messwork, and our taxes have suffered. The use of the soil auger has systemized our irrigation practice, so that now we can put water on our groves when we need it and not according to the calendar as in the past. The Citrus Committee will continue to champion the application water instead of the regular run. Some of the smaller water companies will be approached this fall to point out the advantages of the application basis. NEW BIG PACKAGE 111 Cigarettes 24 for 15¢ BOSTON BAKERY Cake for Hallowe'en Boston Bakery 201 East Center St. Phone 135-W 248 West CenterSt Phone861-J Beautiful Mirrors On the 20th day of September, 1923, before me, Juanita Snyder, a Notary Public in and for the said County of Orange, State of California, residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared W. V. Peeling and Mrs. N Newton, personally known to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that they executed the same. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal in said County the day and year in this certificate first above written. JUANITA SNYDER, Notary Public in and for the County of Orange, State of California. 10-11-5t SUMMONS In the Justice's Court of Anaheim Township, County of Orange, State of California. A. C. Bowers, Henry M. Adams and Elmer L. Bowers, co-partners transacting business under the name and style of Adams-Bowers Lumber Company, Plaintiffs vs. Anaheim Building Corporation, a corporation, and Joe Siegel, Defendants. Alias Summons. The People of the State of California send Greetings to; Anaheim Building Corporation, a corporation, and Joe Siegel, Defendants. You are Herby Directed to Appear before me at my office, at the City Hall, in the City of Anaheim, in said Township, and answer the complaint in an action entitled as above, brought against you in the Justice's Court of Anaheim Township, County of Orange, State of California, within five days after the service on you of this summons—if it is served within the city and County, township or city, in which this action is brought; but within ten days if it is served out of said township or city but in the County in which the action is brought, and within twenty days if served elsewhere. 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Train operation is safe because railway employees are carefully trained. Except in a few states, automobile drivers are turned loose without even an examination. Trains and street cars stop before crossing another railroad where there is no interlooking device. If it be necessary for them, how much more necessary for the auto driver! For most automobiles carry loved ones and friends of the driver. Yet, eight out of ten automobile drivers race across railroad tracks without stopping and looking in either direction. Many motorists disregard the watchman's stop signal. Running through and breaking crossing gates is a common occurrence. One-fifth of all train accidents involve Train operation is safe because railway employees are carefully trained. Except in a few states, automobile drivers are turned loose without even an examination. Trains and street cars stop before crossing another railroad where there is no interlooking device. If it be necessary for them, how much more necessary for the auto driver! For most automobiles carry loved ones and friends of the driver. Yet, eight out of ten automobile drivers race across railroad tracks without stopping and looking in either direction. Many motorists disregard the watchman's stop signal. Running through and breaking crossing gates is a common occurrence. One-fifth of all train accidents involving automobiles are caused by the automobile running into the side of the train. The railroads maintain warning signs and require engineers to whistle and ring the bell for every crossing. Highways are being re-located to eliminate crossings. But railroads are powerless to prevent injury to occupants of automobiles who fall to exercise care for the own safety. It has been suggested that all grade crossings be removed. There are 250,000 in the United States and at $50,000 each it would cost $12,500,000-$60—and take at least thirty years—to remove them. This expense is about two-thirds of the value of all the railroads of the country, as tentatively found by the Interstate Commerce Commission, and neither the railroads nor the munefel-palities have the money. The "Stop, Look and Listen" rule can be followed now without cost. It takes a train but a few seconds to pass over a crossing. Surely no one would sacrifice his life and his loved ones to save a few seconds! Lives of rail passengers are imperilled by grade crossing accidents. Recently several trains on eastern roads have been derailed by striking motor vehicles, and engineer and passengers have been killed. Grade crossing accidents would absolutely cease if every automobile driver would stop, look and listen at every grade crossing. Won't you do it? C. R. GRAY President. Omaha, Nebraska, October 1, 1923. UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM