anaheim-gazette 1923-12-06

Anaheim Gazette ESTABLISHED 1870 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY Henry Kuchel, Editor and Proprietor SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR ... $1.50 SIX MONTHS ... $1.00 THREE MONTHS ... $.50 Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter OUR NEW CONGRESS DISTRICT Orange County will probably be placed in a new congressional district with San Diego and Imperial Counties which will be the Fourteenth California district, if a bill introduced by Congressman Barbour of Fresno shall become law, as seems quite probable. A similar bill was passed by the last house of representatives but was held up in the senate. According to the Barbour bill California will gain three new congressmen, which is the largest gain made by any state in the Union. Eight State delegations would be increased while eleven would suffer losses under the reapportionment, which would be fixed on ratios figured by the census. California would gain three members; Michigan Ohio, Connecticut, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas and Washington, one each; Missouri would lose two members and a loss of one each would be suffered by Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Nebraska, Rhode Island and Vermont. CITRUS GROWERS CONVENTION Citrus Growers of Anaheim District. Gentlemen: The California Citrus Growers Convention opens in Santa Ana this (Thursday) morning. December 6th dena, a brother of the writer, and C. Z. Culver of Orange. There was no Fruit Exchange or other association of packers then to stand behind the movement, but sufficient fruit was pledged to make a very creditable showing and the show was a nine days wonder in the windy city. Newspapers gave the show some fine advertising and the orange sales were materially aided by the show itself and the publicity it was given. If Mr. Earley and his ales can surpass the Chicago effort of early days they will do much to make the citrus fruit industry of California better known in one of its best markets—the gread middle west. NEW INDUSTRY FOR THE HARBOR DISTRICT Incorporated for $200,000 by men prominent in the county, and with the capital fully subscribed, the Orange County Lumber and Box Company is making preparations for beginning January 1, work that will result in location of the first manufacturing enterprise on Newport harbor, according to announcement made by Captain A. Forbes, of Costa Mesa, who engineered negotiations that resulted in the leasing from the Irvine Ranch Company of a site of thirty-two acres on the county channel. The incorporators are James Irvine, Jr., son of the owner of the Irvine ranch; C. S. Chapman, son of C. C. Chapman, capitalist, of Fullerton; J. D. Spennetta, prominent orange packer of Orange; A. S. Ralph, secretary and manager of the Automobile Club of Orange County; H. C. Hookstra, cashier of banks at Balboa and Costa Mesa; W. A. Proctor, identified with A. S. Ralph Insurance Agency, and E. J Irvine, said to be prominent in the lumber industry. He is not related in any way to James Irvine, it was said. According to Forbes, articles of indemnity make the lion gullible A billion dollars in mail fraud. Postal attorney subject close to million or so amount is still the imagination people who call it for people who acquire it for people who CITRUS GROWERS CONVENTION Citrus Growers of Anaheim District, Gentlemen: The California Citrus Growers Convention opens in Santa Ana this (Thursday) morning, December 6th and closes Friday night, December 7. The chairman of the entertainment committee requested a representative from the Anaheim District to serve with him and help arrange and carry out the entertainment program in a way that would impress each delegate to this most important convention that Orange County was indeed a community of regular people.. Certain information was required of this District and the Chamber of Commerce was requested to secure a representative. We tried, and got in touch with many fruit growers, but with no luck, as all were too busy. The Chamber got busy, however, and secured the required information, all but one item. That was the names and addresses of a few people who would loan their cars (drive themselves) and assist in showing the delegates our community, of which we are all so proud. Publicity was given the matter through the columns of our papers, asking the growers, hundreds of whom from this district expect to attend the convention and could use their cars with very little inconvenience to themselves, to let the Chamber know who would assist, and not one person responded. Fellows, what kind of co-operation do you call this? The Chamber expects to do and wants to do all the work possible but this is a case where you fellows should come across and help yourselves. Now then, phone the Chamber office, 665, and let's have the names of 25 growers who will serve. Let's have more co-operation. Yours for a more prosperous citrus community. Harry D. Riley. ST. LOUIS ORANGE SHOW How California grows oranges and packs and ships them to the hungry east and north will be shown residents of the city of St. Louis February 15-24: It will be a real orange show, not quite as complete, perhaps as the National Orange show staged ranch; C. S. Chapman, son of C. C. Chapman, capitalist, of Fullerton; J. D. Spennetta, prominent orange packer of Orange; A. S. Ralph, secretary and manager of the Automobile Club of Orange County; H. C. Hookstra, cashier of banks at Balboa and Costa Mesa; W. A. Proctor, identified with A. S. Ralph Insurance Agency, and E. J Irvine, said to be prominent in the lumber industry. He is not related in any way to James Irvine, it was said. According to Forbes, articles of incorporation have been approved by the Secretary of State. Establishment of a lumber yard and erection of a factory to manufacture all kinds of wooden boxes and cases was said by Forbes to be the purpose of the company. Pointing out that the company will direct its own docks and warehouses, Forbes said that this work would begin by the first day of January. He followed this assertion with declarations that boats would be unloading lumber for the yard and factory by early in May. Forbes also intimated that negotiations were nearing completion for the location on the channel of other industrials that have been attracted by the fact that the Orange County Lumber and Box Company is to establish its enterprise there. "The names of the men mentioned as incorporators are sufficient guarantee of the competency of the company to finance a big enterprise and to inspire public confidence," Forbes said. "Operations of the company will signal initiation of the building up of industrials at the harbor and will be an important item the Orange County delegation now on its way to Washington will have to present to the board of army engineers at the hearing on Newport Harbor scheduled for December 5." Pointing out that a truck road would have to be built from Newport boulevard to the factory site, Forbes said that work preliminary to the construction of the waart warehouse and factory will entail the expenditure of considerable money. Orange and apple boxes will be among the products of the factory, Forbes said, as he pointed to the vast market open for the output of such a factory enterprise. WHY NOT BUTTER? "Now that price-ixing appears to be Yours for a more prosperous citrus community. Harry D. Riley. ST. LOUIS ORANGE SHOW How California grows oranges and packs and ships them to the hungry east and north will be shown residents of the city of St. Louis February 15-24. It will be a real orange show, not quite as complete, perhaps as the National Orange show staged every year in San Bernardino, and the annual valencia Orange show at Anaheim, but of such completeness as will prove highly interesting and educative to the Missourians, who are rather proverbial for wanting to be shown. The California Orange Show and Fruit exposition, a non-profit organization of fruit growers, will stage the event, and samples of others of the state's fruit products will be placed on exhibition. Varieties included will be figs, dates, olives, raisins, avocados and nuts. The St. Louis exposition has been planned as an experiment and if successful similar shows will be held in Chicago, Kansas City and other cities next year. Fourteen carloads of fruits will be shipped to St. Louis by the exhibitors' organization, of which C. P. Earley is president. The St. Louis show reminds old timers of the first citrus fair ever held in the east. This was the Chicago orange show, held, if the writer's memory serves him right, along about 1892. It was conceived by L. M. Holt, then publisher and editor of the Press, and a boomer of rare initiative and originality. He had as associates in the enterprise J. E. Clarke of Pasa- ANAHEIM GAZETTE They may not have any money left with which to buy our wheat and hogs and butter after they pay their taxes but some of our farm 'leaders' have promised a guarantee and these white-collared birds are about all who are left, with the exception of that good old political football, the railroads. "Establishing a minimum price on wheat alone would probably stimulate the production of that commodity greatly. But it has been whispered that there are already several bushels more wheat in sight than the country needs. So our plan of fixing a minimum price on everything is absolutely necessary to keep the farmers of Minnesota and Iowa and Wisconsin and New York from choking the old cow and turning that pasture land into wheat. We think it's a great idea. The only drawback to it is that it probably won't work. But we may want to run for office some of these days and we might just as well begin to learn how to ignore such trifles. "If one of our Minnesota senators and one of our Iowa senators can only bring one of the Wisconsin senators to see things as they do, the three greatest butter producing states in the union will truly stand on the pinnacle as the champions of the wheat farmer. That ought to be a big victory for the dairy farmer—somehow." ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE A solicitor of the Post Office Department makes the estimate that a million guilible Americans yearly lose a billion dollars in money and property in mail fraud schemes. Even if the Postal attorney who has given this subject close attention is a hundred million or so off in his figures, the amount is still so large as to stagger the imagination. The loss falls upon people who can least afford to stand it, for people who have had the ability to acquire considerable savings do business. But even where the concern is honest, the purchaser does not have the convenient opportunity to exchange goods if not entirely satisfactory. In the long run it pays to deal with the merchants in your home town and make your investments through and with the advice of your local banker. HIS OBSTINACY TO BLAME In denouncing what he is pleased to term the "sullen isolation" of the United States, Mr. Wilson forgets that this country is now out of the League of Nations solely because of his own influence. When the League covenant was under discussion in the Senate certain reservations were proposed which merely reduced to writing the interpretations orally put up on the covenant by Mr. Wilson himself. But he insisted that the treaty must be ratified "without the dotting of an 'i' or the crossing of a 't,'" and his control over the Democrats in the Senate was so complete that they voted to reject the document with the reservations attached. This is all history and can readily be verified by the record. Mr. Wilson was successful in getting his covenant put into the Treaty of Versailles as its most prominent feature, but his stubborn nature would not consent to the interpretations put upon it by the Senate, even though they expressed in formal language only what he himself had said the document meant. The United States is the gainer because of Mr. Wilson's uncompromising attitude in 1920. Had it not been for his determined stand against reservations, we would now be up to our necks in the European turmoil. He calls it a "fatal error" because we are not involved therein, but the "error" is his own, and the shafts he aimed at his countrymen should, in the light of the record, have been directed at himself. Of Dresses, C Wool, Sweater Xmas Suggestion THE PR Cor. Cer A solicitor of the Post Office Department makes the estimate that a million gullible Americans yearly lose a billion dollars in money and property in mail fraud schemes. Even if the Postal attorney who has given this subject close attention is a hundred million or so off in his figures, the amount is still so large as to stagger the imagination. The loss falls upon people who can least afford to stand it, for people who have had the ability to acquire considerable savings do not usually fall for the scenes of the crooks. It is the man or woman of small savings who becomes the victim. There ought to be a few principles so clear that no proof of them is necessary. In the first place, if a man has an oil stock or gold mine stock or some sort of industrial stock that really has value, he will not paying some stock salesman a commission of 25 to 50 per cent to sell it for him. If the man who owns it and is in the best position to know its value, is anxious to sell it, that fact ought to be conclusive evidence that it is really worth less than the price the owner asks. He is not a philanthropist. He is selling because he thinks the money he asks is worth more than the stock. Another plain fact is that in buying commodities the purchaser is safest in dealing with the local merchant whom he has a "comeback" if the article is not as represented. The Post Office Department tells of mail order concerns that advertise a certain number of yards of silk at a low price—and buyers received silk thread for their money. No local merchant ever tried to put over a scheme like that. There are undoubtedly a few well established and responsible mail order houses which always deal honestly with customers. They could not otherwise stay in BRITON'S BRYAN It is rumored that Mr. Lloyd George may become the leader of a British free-trade party and make another bid for the premiership. The distinguished gentleman has adopted an unfortunate platform. The recent imperial council demonstrated more than ever the trend of British thought away from free trade and toward protection. The dominating thought of that conference was to adopt measures that would make the empire self-supporting—free trade among the dominions but a high tariff against importations from other countries. Of course that is the sound policy for Great Britain, the United States, or any other nation. From the standpoint both of national defense and better working conditions at home it is essential that every country shall encourage production over the widest possible field. MUST BE CONSIDERED AS A WHOLE Some Congressmen are saying that they are for the Mellon tax reduction plan, with a few reservations. When those amedments are analyzed it is found that they riddle the Mellon program and destroy its object, which is to raise some of the tax burden from all the people. The Mellon plan must be considered as a whole if its full benefit is to be experienced. It represents the result of a thorough study of the whole economic situation. If the soldiers' bonus is to be authorized, if a cut in surtax rates is to be denied, or if the excess profits tax is to be rewritten into law, the Mellon plan might as well be abandoned, and the people be called upon to continue payment of the $325,000,000 taxes that the Secretary of the Treasury would like to save for them. It is that thought that has caused some friends of the Administration to doubt the wisdom of opening up the subject of tax reduction. Once the Mellon bill is introduced it will open the way for all sorts of radical schemes for the benefit of one class of our people at the expense of the others. Unless there is sufficient strength in both Houses to defeat such amendments when they are proposed the hopes of the people, aroused by Mr. Mellon's proposals, are likely to be disappointed. Congressmen of all shades of political bellof try to respond to the wishes of their constituents, and the Mellon tax cuts will receive Congressional support just in proportion as conservative thought at home makes itself manifest at Washington. DEBTS AND REPARATIONS France thinks Premier Baldwin blundered when he accepted the debt refunding arrangement between Great Britain and the United States. Frenchmen consider it certain that Premier Poincaré will not make any such arrangement and lay himself open to the charge that he is burdening French taxpayers while the German taxpayers have not yet paid their obligations. That has a plausible sound, but the principle is contrary to accepted standards of honor among individuals and among nations. The delinquency of one debtor does not abolve his creditor from the latter's obligations. If it did there would be no such thing as credit and finances... WHO? WHO—Pays taxes to help make this community worth while living in— WHO—Helps support your churches and donates to your local charities— WHO—Extends you credit from week to week, or when you are ill— WHO—Makes possible the publication of your community paper by advertising— WHO—Has a financial interest in your community— WHO—Extends you a personal welcome when you visit his place of business— WHO—Feels an interest in the welfare of yourself and family— Your Home Merchant TRADE AT HOME A Dollar Spent at Home will Come Back Taken Up—White mare. Owner can recover same by paying damages by horse and for her feed. R. D. 3 Box 144, Anaheim, G. Casella. The Prince Store PreChristmas Sale Dresses, Coats, Skirts, Brushed ol, Sweaters, and Hundreds of as Suggestions for Gift Buying. THE PRINCE STORE Cor. Center and Lemon Sts. Pictures For Eastern Shipment This Store Packs Your Pictures and Gifts for Eastern Shipment Free of Charge. You may make your selection from our art department, leave name and address and your gift will go forward the following day, properly and securely packed. The service this store gives will please you. B. F. SPENCER Pictures Wall Paper ART GOODS 166 W. Center St. Anaheim OUR SPECIALTY H. Jevne's Fine Food Products Eastside Grocery BOSTON BAKERY OUR SPECIALTY H. Jevne’s Fine Food Products Eastside Grocery 329 E. Center St: Phone 422. Free Delivery W. J. LARRISEY, Prop. John D. Rockefeller was the original douhboy. 50 GOOD CIGARETTES 10¢ GENUINE "BULL" DURHAM TOBACCO BOSTON BAKERY Saturday Specials Pumpkin Pies 25 Cents Boston Bakery 201 East Center St. Phone 135-W 248 West CenterSt Phone861-J