anaheim-gazette 1924-01-24

WANT SPEEDY ACTION ON DAM PROJECT Cities of Southland Send Telegrams to Washington The heads of five city governments of Southern California sent joint telegrams to President Coolidge and Secretary of the Interior Work, urging that immediate action be taken in the development of the Boulder Canyon dam project on the Colorado river. The sending of the telegrams by the governmental heads of Los Angeles, Pasadena, Long Beach, Riverside and San Diego, was motivated by the belief that powerful private interests are attempting to gain delay so that the present congress will have no opportunity to act on the plan, it was declared. The wire to the president read in part: "Earnestly and respectfully request your intervention and aid to prevent any further departmental delay in presenting to congress for action proposed project for improvement and development of lower Colorado river for protection of Imperial Valley from serious flood menace. Measures authorizing project has been before interior department for thirty days waiting its report back to congressional committee before which pending." The message further stated that the department of the interior has expended hundreds of thousands of dollars in investigations of the project during the past three years and that it recommended definite and well-matured plans to the last congress. The telegram to Secretary of Interior Work urged him to put the measure before congress before it was too late for action to be taken on it. THE PRECOCIOUS CHILD blems which are not answered in books. The so-called "dull" student, unable quickly to grasp such things, must on the other hand learn to study and is really giving his brains greater development than his more impressionable mates. School teachers will vouch for much of this, for they have so often seen grammar school or high school prodigies fall into minor positions of retine work while the alleged "dull" pupil has become a business or professional success, because he has learned how to use his mental faculties for other purposes than memorizing and reciting. That may be why the prodigy sometimes remarks there is no place in this world for those who have brains. There may be another explanation of the frequent failure of these mental prodigies. It is a widely-recognized fact that boys of the age of development who devote too much time to athletics "burn out" physically, sometimes incurring serious maladies of the body which either greatly hamper or sometimes wholly incapacitate them. The mind, in many respects is physical. It knows fatigue. It knows overwork, and exhilaration after rest the same as the body. Is it not probable that these prodigies "burn out" mentally through over-concentration, particularly if they do not devote a certain amount of their time to physical or other forms of recreation? This rather than the first theory, may be more applicable to the case of Sidis, because it is to be agreed he at one time showed extraordinary mental powers. CALIFORNIA SAFETY NEWS The December issue of California Safety News, published by the Indus- the department of the interior has expended hundreds of thousands of dollars in investigations of the project during the past three years and that it recommended definite and well-matured plans to the last congress. The telegram to Secretary of Interior Work urged him to put the measure before congress before it was too late for action to be taken on it. THE PRECOCIOUS CHILD The sad plight of William J. Sidis, who at the age of 7 years passed the Harvard medical school examination in anatomy, at 18 was an instructor in mathematics at Rice Institute and now at 26 is a melancholic individual earning a paltry income as a clerk because he does not want to do anything whereby he would use his brain." is only an extreme example of the failure of precocity to fulfill early expectations. Those who as children were bright and learned without effort, more times than not gain less distinction in later life than those who might be termed "dull" but are willing to apply themselves diligently. Youngsters with highly impressionable minds can easily learn and recite book knowledge, but in so doing, while they may be at the head of their classes are not developing mental power to solve particularly if they do not devote a certain amount of their time to physical or other forms of recreation? This rather than the first theory, may be more applicable to the case of Sidis, because it is to be agreed he at one time showed extraordinary mental powers. CALIFORNIA SAFETY NEWS The December issue of California Safety News, published by the Industrial Accident Commission, contains a number of instructive articles regarding the prevention of accidents in industry. The field covered by Safety Engineering is discussed on the inside cover page: "The field covered by Safety Engineering, so-called, is very broad. There is generally more thought given to public safety than to the problem of making places of employment safe for workmen. The Industrial Accident Commission has its work specifically limited by law to responsibility for safe engineering practice as asecting employees. Through the employer only can the ideal of safe engineering be made effective and should all employers demand a one hundred per cent compliance with good engineering practice, from ten to twenty per cent of industrial accidents would be eliminated. The most of the burden, however, of successful accomplishment." YOUR WINTER FIRE Is what makes home comfortable on the chilly damp even to Sunny Southern California. For cheerful heat—the lasting kind that fills your rooms with a delightful glow Burn Carbon Briquette The Best Solid Fuel Order yours now and be prepared for snappy weather Burn Carbon Briquette The Best Solid Fuel Order yours now and be prepared for snappy weather The Eleventh Hour Rus PRICES: Per ton at yards $11.00 $12.00 P. S.—Is your citrus grove protected against frost? 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The number of accilents due to acts of workmen outnumber accidents due to poor engineering, which includes lack of proper safeguards, by a ratio of from 4:1 to 10:1". "A pamphlet explaining the steps to be taken in forming Safety Committees will soon be available for distribution and members of the department of safety will be held in readiness to assist in the formation of such committees and to give information regarding what may be accomplished through them. Employers and employees should avail themselves of this opportunity to prepare for the Age of Accident Prevention." On the editorial page reference is made to the nurse in Industry. An article regarding the dangers encountered by linemen while engaged at their work should appeal to all interested in electrical work. The responsibility of the foreman on the job in connection with the prevention of accidents is discussed. Other articles of interest in this issue are: The New Employee; Safety Information for Young and Old; The Storage of Explosives in the Lumber Industry; Discussion on a Peculiar Boiler Failure and Cost and Causes of Accidents. The Index of articles in "California Safety News" for the year 1923 is also included in this issue. THE SMALL-TOWN PAPER The New York World, from its high plane of 600,000 circulation looks down and remarks that "the curse of tied and muzzled journalism is at its worst in many of our smaller towns, especially one-industry towns built up on tariff spoils." The gratuitous insult to the small-town paper needs no particular classihim what to say and how to say it. The days of Horace Greeley, Charles Dana, Harry J. Raymond, and other knights of the pen who were sans peur at sans reproche, has passed. The late Henry Watterson was almost the last of the great metropolitan editors who dared to say what he thought without dictation from the ring. Another thing: We have yet to see an American town which was built up by free trade, but we have seen a number that have been depopulated by that policy. The towns that are built up by the tariff policy advocated by the World are located in Germany, France, Great Britain, and Japan. The nations that would have been built up at the expense of the United States, had we joined the League of Nations as the World exhorted us to do, are the same that would have us permit free entry to their manufactured goods—a program contemplated in the League covenant. There are some able big-town editors, whose advice is sweet and sound and whose editorials ring true, even if they do not always agree with the reader's views. But the institution of today, called the New York World, is not the institution that Joseph Pulitzer founded, by a long shot. PAC. TELEPHONE CO'S. CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company System's construction program for the year 1924, in the State of California, involves a capital outlay considerably in excess of the amount which has heretofore been spent in this state in any single year. The plans involve expenditures in excess of $40,000,000, which will be spent for the additions to land, buildings, equipment and outside plant required to care for the constantly increasing than in any earlier year. A normal and expensive feature of the telephone company's operations is the flow of stations in and out of the system; new subscribers are being added from day to day, and at the same time other subscribers are discontinuing service. The attainment of a net gain, therefore, represents connecting and disconnecting operations involving five stations for every one that is included in the net increase. A heavy growth is expected not only in the urban sections, but throughout the state as a whole. Land must be purchased on which to erect the buildings required to house the central office equipment and the working forces, and building projects, either new buildings or additions to existing structures, are planned for many of the Company's exchanges throughout the state. The plans for central office equipment require an expenditure of upwards of $8,400,000 and approximately the same amount is included in major projects including the underground conduit, underground cable, aerial cable, poles, wire, etc., required for connecting the subscribers' stations no single one-of which is of sufficient size to be regarded as a major project, will require an outlay of approximately $9,800,000. The provision of land, buildings, central office equipment and exchange lines must be supplemented by additional facilities in the toll lines, for communication between the different localities. The 1924 program includes provision for addition to the toll lines costing $2,-500,000. The heavy outlay to be met in the current year in the state are required to place the telephone company in a position to meet its obligations to THE SMALL-TOWN PAPER The New York World, from its high plane of 600,000 circulation looks down and remarks that "the curse of tied and muzzled journalism is at its worst in many of our smaller towns, especially one-industry towns built up on tariff spoils." The gratuitous insult to the small-town paper needs no particular classification other than as a World editorial, and by this time readers of the N.Y. World are fairly well convinced that it has wandered far from Joseph Pulitzer's idea of "an institution that should always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party." For one thing the World is Democratic to its very marrow, a free trader of the most pronounced type. Justin Miller, professor at the University of Minnesota, has been quoted as saying that "higher standards obtain in the smaller towns, where the editor is known and is personally responsible." There is a great deal of truth in that statement. The small-town editor comes daily into intimate touch with his fellow-townsmen. The editor of the World type meets the gang nightly in the "Amen Corner" of some large hotel, and the gang tells Put Edison List for Savi EDISON is owned by 90 Pct. of California EDISON has paid d interruption 13 years EDISON has total d devoted to n Briquets olid Fuel for snappy weather ahead of Hour Rush at yards $11.00 bulk $12.00 sacked protected against its of Carbon BriqHeater for grove n Briquets comfortable electric Corporation Los Angeles, Cal. EDISON has paid due interruption 13 years EDISON has total debt devoted to business EDISON is free from in California Federal inc EDISON PREFERRAL cash, or $1 installment Southern California Edison 301 North Main Street SANTA ANA, CALIF PHONE 46 POLITICS AND TAXES To the average senator and representative at Washington, the main issue that present appears to be politics. To the average citizen, the main issue is taxation. There is no getting away from that fact. Proposals for tax reduction have stirred up more enthusiasm throughout the country than anything else done or contemplated at Washington for some time. Knowledge that the present rate of taxation provides more money than the government needs, knowledge that heavy taxation is not only a direct burden on every home but a drag on business prosperity, assurance by financial experts, public and private, that big tax cuts are feasible, and concrete plans submitted by the secretary of the treasury, all have combined to start a wave of popular demand that is already great and steadily growing in volume. When the nation is in such a mood, it will have what it wants. It will punish obstructionists and reward obedient servants. It is a time when the best "politics" in congress is not to play politics at all, in the narrow sense, but simply to acquiesce and do what the country wants. Credit then will go where credit is due. ANAHEIM UNION WATER COMPANY Continued from Page 3 a cost $17,284.24. The addition which we constructed the past year is as large if not a larger job than the original dam and was constructed for $11,781.86, or a saving of approximately $5,500.00 over the contract. COMPARATIVE COSTS OF OPERATING VARIOUS PLANTS No. 2 ...1466 273,320 $6,696.34 $56.55 $525.00 $48.25 $4.93 625 $.94 Booster 744 74,300 1,837.91 4.88 194.32 00.00 2.60 400 .65 No. 2B Gas E.g.1006 915,100 399.90 88.73 433.31 272.01 1.18 200 .69 No. 6 ...238 31,740 764.45 13.65 117.34 17.23 3.83 375 1.02 No. 3D ...36 2,760 67.34 .65 No. 1A 1513 141,450 2,050.23 14.62 300.24 100.92 1.63 200 8.15 No. 1B 887 43,900 663.60 4.35 160.00 77.00 1.02 100 1.02 No. 1 Booster 362 298.00 463.14 Well caved in and repairs show very high. You will note no record for P Plant 3D for the reason that we did not start this plant until late in season and after running three days the ground around the well caved just below the water level crowding the casing out of line, breaking the pump bowl. We pulled this pump and had it repaired and are now installing it in well known as 3E which we have been carrying as an extra Well caved in and repairs show very high. You will note no record for P Plant 3D for the reason that we did not start this plant until late in season and after running three days the ground around the well caved just below the water level crowding the casing out of line, breaking the pump bowl. We pulled this pump and had it repaired and are now installing it in well known as 3E which we have been carrying as an extra. We installed an extra pump at 3D which is smaller than the pump taken out and will have this plant as an extra the coming season. Outside of this one item of repairs you will note the repairs on all the rest of our pumping plants for the entire season of 1923 was only $515.41, and $272.01 of this amount was spent on the gas engine, leaving a balance of only $242.40 on all our motor driven plants. WM. T. WALLOP, Supt. N has paid dividends without interruption for 13 years N has total assets of $186,000,000, devoted to an essential business N is free from personal property tax in California and normal Federal income tax N PREFERRED sells for $105 cash, or $106 on the installment plan Edison Co. in Street CALIF 16 1924 Investment Dept., Edison Building, Los Angeles Kindly send me data re your ? Pct Preferred Stock Name..... Address...