anaheim-gazette 1924-05-22

HIGHWAY NEWS A determined effort to secure for California the next convention of the American Association of State Highway Officials will be made by Chairman Harvey M. Toy of the California Highway Commission, who leaves San Francisco next week to represent the state highway department and Governor Richardson at several important meetings of highway officials and good roads supporters to be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Greensboro, North Carolina, and Washington, D.C. This is the announcement at the headquarters of the commission in Sacramento. Following the next meeting of the commission, to be held in San Francisco, May 21st, Charlman Toy will leave Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he will address the annual conventions of the United States Good Roads Association, and the Bankhead National Highway Association, which will be in session in that city during the week of May 26th. Mr. Toy has been invited to speak on Saturday, May 31st. He expects to discuss the new and higher standards of highway construction now in force in California and the state's attitude toward the building of interstate connections, and similar matters which will be of interest to delegates from other states. From Albuquerque, Mr. Toy will go to North Carolina where he will attend a meeting of the executive committee of the American Association of State Highway Officials of which he is a member. An important matter before the meeting will be the selection of the next meeting place of the convention. Chairman Toy will urge San Francisco for this honor. An informal invitation already has been presented and taken by the Government. He urged the fullest measure of preparation for the government in harbor matters. A committee of three consisting of Messrs. Grill, Garriguez, Burris and Williamson was appointed to take down the "For Rent" and "For Sale" signs. The Harbor Realty Club now has 27 members and in order to get hold of every Realtor in the harbor district, it was decided to appoint a committee on membership to invite all to join. This committee consists of Messrs. Andrews, Briggs and Chambers. The members asked for some ideas of the plans of the Committee of Fifty appointed to consider the harbor matters. The Secretary gave a short outline of work as it had been discussed at the meeting held the previous evening. Mr. Bloodgood referred to the plans for definite information on the entrance and was assured that the Army Engineer's report would be very clear on this subject and that recommendations from the Army Board would decide for all time the question of whether or not the harbor is a sound business proposition and also if the entrances could be made and maintained in a safe condition. It was agreed that the sentiment of the people in the Bay district was for the straightening out of the entrance situation first, this being considered the most important feature of harbor work. A letter of thanks from U. G. Houck inspector-in charge of the Federal forces regulating the quarantine for the hoof and mouth disease, has been received at the Harbor Chamber. The letter expresses appreciation for the ready cooperation extended by all citizens and organizations in the efforts made to control the situation. It is believed that the prompt action to exist and We are rich friendless. Spected when negligence occurs us with more With an is secure we are assis invader. We can continue national loan of peace wha or Cuba or o we can comp plies and lav ready at any country's or creachment of our territie It may be naval expert is true, that placency peri- lorate below Washington investigation intros that we are fixed by tha Congress to everything tha fleet what tha and what eve-be—a guard The Secret following et The Pres War Depart project for al defense 1924, the s Battle of S The object to represent From Albuquerque, Mr. Toy will go to North Carolina where he will attend a meeting of the executive committee of the American Association of State Highway Officials of which he is a member. An important matter before the meeting will be the selection of the next meeting place of the convention. Chairman Toy will urge San Francisco for this honor. An informal invitation already has been presented and strong support from Pacific states has been promised the California Commissioner in his efforts to bring the next convention to the West. Such a gathering, it is pointed out; would be of inestimable benefit to California and other Coast States. It would bring here the best known highway engineers o the country, many prominent highway supporters, besides officials of the United States Bureau of Public Roads who would have an opportunity to study first hand western highway problems. Western engineers would have opportunity to contact with eastern highway builders. Extensive advertising of western highway systems also would result, if the convention comes to San Francisco. From North Carolina, Chairman Toy will journey to Washington where he will interview members of Congress and officials of the federal road bureau regarding questions of federal aid, forest highway appropriations, distribution of surplus war equipment, and other matters of interest to California. Toy is hoping for adoption of the measure now before Congress, providing for 100 per cent federal aid to western public land states in the construction of east and west transcontinental highways. The pending law would not increase the federal aid allotment of any state but would permit western states to use their entire share on interstate routes through spareely settled territory without the necessity of matching federal money with local cooperative funds. Chairman Toy is making the trip at the suggestion of the other members of the California commission and State Highway Engineer R. M. Morton and as the personal representative of the Governor. HARBOR NOTES A very interesting meeting of the Harbor Realty Club was held on Friday... Chairman Toy is making the trip at the suggestion of the other members of the California commission and State Highway Engineer R. M. Morton and as the personal representative of the Governor. HARBOR NOTES A very interesting meeting of the Harbor Realty Club was held on Friday, May 9th at the Harbor Yatch Club, at 6:15 P.M. After the dinner, E. A. Spaulding, chairman presided. The social session was made very interesting by an address of Freeman H. Bloodgood, of Sant Ana, who told of the wonderful work being done in securing an Industrial Survey of Santa Ana. He urged the club to secure a copy of the survey, if it is possible to do so. Mr. Bloodgood also talked on the Harbor situation, pointing out the relationship between shipping and industry. He expressed the belief that the future development of Orange County would be along industrial lines and indicated that there should be a city of 40,000 people within fifteen years, where Costa Mesa now is. He thought the time about ripe for the Realtors in the Harbor District to have a Realty Board of their own. While he agreed that he would like to see them all members of the Santa Ana Realty Board, he thought the time was not far distant when the harbor district should have one. Mr. Spaulding then told of his early experiences in California and also of the beginning of the Salt River Valley project in Arizona, stating that the plans and preparations which the people of the Valley had made had resulted in the adoption of the Salt River Valley project as the first to be under- He urged preparation for matters consisting of Burris and to take "For Sale" now has 27 get hold of harbor district, that a commit-invite all to consists and Chamor some ideas committee of Fifty harbor mata short out-then discussed previous evento the plans on the enhat the Army be very clear recommendation would destion of whe-a sound busiif the end maintained sentiment of strict was for the entrance considered of harbor U. G. Houck the Federal guarantee for se, has been Chamber, preciliation forended by all in the efthe situation. prompt action The Secretary of War has made the following statement: The President has authorized the War Department to proceed with its project for a demonstration of national defense plans on September 12, 1924, the sixth anniversary of the Battle of St. Mihiel. The object of the demonstration is to represent the mobilization require- to exist and perhaps will always exist We are rich; we are envied; we are friendless. We will cease to be respected when other nations, through negligence on our part, forge ahead of us with more efficient navies. With an adequate navy this nation is secure. With an adequate navy we are assured against aggressor or invader. With an adequate navy we can continue to maintain our international leadership in the promotion of peace whether that be in Honduras or Cuba or on the European Continent; we can compel respect for our principles and laws. A navy adequate and ready at any time and all times is this country's one insurance against encroachment of our rights and invasion of our territory. It may be true, and if reports of our naval experts are to be accredited it is true, that we have in our snug complacency permitted our Navy to deteriorate below the ratios fixed by the Washington treaty. And if the investigation growing out of the resolutions introduced in Congress prove that we are not up to the strength fixed by that treaty it is the duty of Congress to supply without delay everything that is needed to make the fleet what the country supposed it was and what every American wants it to be—a guarantee of security. DEFENSE TEST The Secretary of War has made the following statement: The President has authorized the War Department to proceed with its project for a demonstration of national defense plans on September 12, 1924, the sixth anniversary of the Battle of St. Mihiel. The object of the demonstration is to represent the mobilization require- GRADING VITAL PART OF ROAD MAKING Costs More Than One-Fourth of Total Bill. Grading in road construction includes virtually everything except paving. In many cases it means retaining walls, piling to prevent slides, guard rails, deep cuts and fills, the blasting of large quantities of rock, and numerous small bridges, in addition to the clearing of rights of way, ordinary excavation, culverts, and drainage ditches. With the same transportation facilities there is not much variation in the cost of the same type of paving as between the different States, but grading costs rise and fall in different localities, like the temperature chart of a patient with chills and fever. On the sandy plains of the Southwest, grading costs are almost nothing. In any comparatively level or rolling country they are low. In hilly country they advance rapidly, and in mountainous regions reach their maximum. Thus no definite figures as to grading costs can be given. From 1917, up to March 1, of the present year, the Federal Government had helped to build 33,036 miles of completed roads. These roads include all o'f the leading types, and are distributed among all of the forty-eight States. On this work the average cost of grading was $7,658 per mile. Up to the first of March, of this year, the average cost of all road improvements in the United States, as shown by the Federal Report, was $25,562.69 a mile, so that the average cost of road making, exclusive of grading, was thus $17,904.69 per mile. Grading may thus roughly be stated to cost slightly more than one-fourth BEAUTIFUL HIGHWAYS IN FLORIDA Eleven counties in Florida now have official "highway beautification committees." charged with preservation of natural beauty, prevention of the encroachment of disfiguring signs, planting of trees, etc. "Swat the sign and save the scenery." is the slogan of the anti-advertisement campaign. Fifteen counties now prohibit defacing signs, and instruct road crews to destroy all such which may be erected. Four counties report over ten thousand signs destroyed. One civic organization flower-seeded fifteen miles of highway edge. Shrubbery and flowering plants are everywhere along the roads. Big Pay Jobs OPEN IN Los Angeles for auto mechanics, electricians, etc.,—earn $40 to $125 week. Learn auto trades. Short, easy, practical course. We guarantee to qualify you. Earn room and board while learning. FREE 84-page illustrated catalogue explains everything. Write Dept. 146 DEFENSE TEST The Secretary of War has made the following statement: The President has authorized the War Department to proceed with its project for a demonstration of national defense plans on September 12, 1924, the sixth anniversary of the Battle of St. Mihiel. The object of the demonstration is to represent the mobilization requirements of our National Defense Policy. The "Defense Test" should inform the public of the plans and methods by which American Armies will be raised in the event of any National emergency. We have no need as a nation to conceal our military purposes. They have no hostile object and our plans contemplate actual mobilization in our own defense. It is vitally necessary for the success of those plans that they should be known and understood in advance by our people. The "Defense Test" of next September is designed to give our people that information. Our program provides for individual and community cooperation and the exercise of decentralized authority by so many elements, national, state, municipal, and private, that it is desirable to portray the functions and missions of each of those agencies, civil as well as military. The "Defense Test" should illustrate to citizens and communities the initial services required for National Defense. It is designed to make plain how the government plans to utilize and combine community units and energies so as to obtain the maximum orderly results in conformity with the thoroughly democratic character of our military policy as laid down in the National Defense Act of 1920. "The organized peace establishment, including the Regular Army, the National Guard and the Organized Reserves, shall include all of those Divisions and other military organizations necessary to form the basis for a complete and immediate mobilization for the national defense in the event of a national emergency declared by Congress." The demonstration will be local in nature, and will not involve any increased expenditures of public funds. So far as practicable arrangements and ceremonies will be in accordance with the wishes of local civil committees, as the War Department only desires an opportunity to illustrate in each community the effect of its plans distributed among all of the forty-eight States. On this work the average cost of grading was $7,658 per mile. Up to the first of March, of this year, the average cost of all road improvements in the United States, as shown by the Federal Report, was $25,562.69 a mile, so that the average cost of road making, exclusive of grading, was thus $17,904.69 per mile. Grading may thus roughly be stated to cost slightly more than one-fourth of the total price per mile of road. LEGION NOTES The State Department of the American Legion is not interested in the proposed initiative measure to restore ten round boxing contests in California and the use of the Legion's name is unsanctioned. State Commander James F. Collins, wants this fact known by the people of California. "As a State Department we are not concerned with any ballot measures and what the individual Legion members do is not to be officially attached to the organization in political matters" Collins said. "Individual American Legion Posts may favor the return of boxing but that is not a question for the State Department," according to Collins. Thoughful and complete investigation of the work of the Veterans' Bureau so that constructive recommendations may be made, is courted by State Commander, James E. Collins who yesterday announced that he is aiding in every way the present investigation of the Bureau. Commander Collins desires that the American Legion officials cooperate in the investigation so that whatever recommendations made, will be made for the betterment of the disabled men as a part of the program of his organization's work. More than 18,000 alien ex-service men of the recent World War, who while in the training camps of the United States made application for citizenship, have never received their final papers, according to National Commander, John R. Quinn, of the Legion. Quinn has written to Morgan Keaton, State Adjutant of the Legon here, asking that an endeavor be made to have all ex-service men who have not received their naturalization papers write to the Legion officials or... From Cow to Baby Direct from Sanitary Dairies comes the Milk we sell. When you get our Milk, you are certain to get it in its purest and most healthful form. It all comes from satisfied, contented cows. It's food and drink combined. Babies iike it—and adults greet it with equal joy. Use it for every purpose—for nourishment and drink. Let us put you on our list. Aneheim Creamery Company PHONE 666 Anaheim, California GHWAYS IN FLORIDA Changes in Florida now highway beautification charged with preserva-beauty, prevention of use of disfiguring signs, etc. Sign and save the slogan of the anti-campaign. Fifteen hoohbit defacing signs, and crews to destroy may be erected. 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If a business worth $10,000 earned $500 net income in a year (or $41 a month), would it be considered an unreasonable profit and proof that its prices were too high? The railroads are in that situation today. The 1923 net return for the whole country was less than 5 per cent. As of December 31, 1919, the Interstate Commerce Commission gave to the railroads a tentative valuation of $18,900,000,000. With If a business worth $10,000 earned $500 net income in a year (or $41 a month), would it be considered an unreasonable profit and proof that its prices were too high? The railroads are in that situation today. The 1923 net return for the whole country was less than 5 per cent. As of December 31, 1919, the Interstate Commerce Commission gave to the railroads a tentative valuation of $18,900,000,000. With actual figures for 1920, 1921, 1922, and with 1923 conservatively estimated as $1,100,000,000, there has been invested in the railways since this tentative valuation a net amount of $2,371,583,000, making the value as of December 31, 1923, $21,271,583,000. On this amount the Railways in 1923 earned an aggregate net operating income of approximately $997,610,000, or 4.69 per cent. The Government guarantee of earnings expired August 31, 1920. If this guarantee had been continued—as repeatedly but erroneously claimed—the Government would owe the railroads more than a billion dollars. Last year the roads handled a record volume of business but could not earn the fair return of 5% per cent to which the Interstate Commerce Commission, under the Transportation Act, has found they are entitled. If the roads cannot earn 5% per cent in a big year, what will they do in a small year? The Transportation Act provides that if a road in any year earns more than 6 per cent it shall pay one-half of the excess to the Government. The Act is, therefore, a limitation rather than a guarantee. GIVE TRANSPORTATION ACT FAIR TRIAL The Transportation Act should be given a fair test and its merits judged by the results of a normal period of reasonable length. The year 1923 was the first since the war under conditions approaching stabilization. What the railroad situation demands just now is not more law but more confidence. The railroads have emerged from the welter of the war, restored their morale, made enormous investments of new money, and in 1923 handled a peak business with universal satisfaction. The Transportation Act is the only really constructive railroad legislation of a generation. Previous acts were almost solely repressive. In framing the Act the public interest was paramount. The Act directs the Interstate Commerce Commission to "give due consideration to the transportation needs of the country and the necessity of enlarging railway facilities in order to provide the people of the United States with adequate transportation." Give the Act a chance. Don't amend it. If the roads are let alone they should make as good a record for efficiency this year as last. Constructive suggestions are always welcome. C. R. GRAY President. Omaha, Nebraska. April 1, 1924. UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM How to Avoid Traffic Crossing Accidents Mobile drivers, when approaching railroad crossings, should slow down at second speed. Then look and listen. Absolute control thus ensured. Stop or go ahead, as conditions warrant. In 1923 one hundred and three mobile drivers were killed and four hundred four-four injured at highway crossings in Santa Fe Railway. These regrettable accidents might have been avoided if these motorists were careful. A rapid increase in grade-crossing incidents is due to the greatly increased and general use of the automobiles the hands of drivers ignorant or disregardful of the perils which careless driving. Sometimes it is wireless driver alone who pays the bill, but usually innocent ones pay part or entirely. Mobile vehicles should be safer at railroad crossings than horses, because they are urged to give this "Safety First" suggestion most earnest considera- tter be safe than sorry. W. B. STOREY, President The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway System