anaheim-gazette 1924-08-21

U. S. CHIEF FORESTER REVIEW FIRE SITUATION The danger of terrible losses from forest fires in California, created by the extreme drought throughout this state, the prevailing low humidity of the air and the almost daily occurrence of high winds, continues unabated. These conditions threaten the most widespread loss of the natural resources of California that the city has faced for at least twenty-five years. There have been 1350 forest and brush fires in California this year burning over about three hundred thousand acres. On the National Forests alone we have had almost a thousand fires which have swept approximately two hundred thousand acres of public land. The season is giving organized forest protection one of the hardest tests it has ever experienced in any part of the United States. So far, however, the fires in National Forests have burned but one half of one per cent of their area in the state. This goes to show that with a sufficient organization hard work and eternal vigilance it is entirely feasible to protect the vast forest and water resources of California even during the worst drouth in her history. The emergency has been splendidly met in California. The assistance given by many business interests and organizations to the protection plans of the State Forestry Department and the Federal Forest Service, the cooperation of the public generally, and the support of the press have been admirable. What California is doing this year is an outstanding example of what can be done by good team work in meeting a critical situation. The forest using and forest loving people of the state have shown a fine spirit in accepting the restrictions which the government has been compelled to burn" had previously kept down. Forest protection has its difficulties, but to adopt light burning as the remedy would be as sensible as to prevent epidemics of diptheria by killing our babies. There are always irresponsible people or people with some selfish interest to serve who are quick to act on suggestions of this sort. We have already had to fight 60 incendiary fires in California this year. Those who advocate light burning, particularly in the middle of a drouth as severe and hazardous as the present one, are consciously or otherwise, allies of the incendiary. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS The Board met in regular session. Present Supervisors S. H. Finley, Wm. Schumacher, Leon O. Whitsell and the Clerk. Absent Supervisors T. B. Talbert, chairman and George Jeffrey. The board was called to order by the clerk. On motion of Supervisor S. H. Finley, was elected chairman pro tem. Minutes of previous meeting was read and approved. Demands on the County of Orange were allowed as read. May Tract No. 714 was ordered received by the Board and same referred to the City Engineer of the City of Fullerton. The contract was awarded to E. S. Bruce, contractor, at a price of $19,-516.00 for grading and gravelling on Garden Grove avenue from Huntington Beach boulevard to Los Alamitos boulevard in the Second Road District. A resolution was adopted in the matter of Road District improvement No. 29, declaring work completed, accepting same and ordering bonds. file of the vote LaFollette has not, the slight president, he He will never good. Consequence campaign to mery discontent tire recklessness promises where led upon to mail letter has just to the Ku Klux comfite of those who see in this from their care of normally are disgusted vow of the Democation. "We are, be publicans, strict right government declared John Maine, as he speech on his He told the true political advice found them in issue had they to charge these honesty? they cents. And if going to admit were honest a right government throw up the seen the error later, opening keepsie, he said this campaignment." Of course are in flat co publicans are and upright go government is voters believe ment they will selves." If both organizations to the protection plans of the State Forestry Department and the Federal Forest Service, the cooperation of the public generally, and the support of the press have been admirable. What California is doing this year is an outstanding example of what can be done by good team work in meeting a critical situation. The forest using and forest loving people of the state have shown a fine spirit in accepting the restrictions which the government has been compelled to place around the use of a number of National Forests. Their necessity is plain from the bare fact that already 268 fires have been started on the National Forests by smokers and 125 by campers, together more than 40 per cent of all the fires we have had. Many of the Forest Supervisors and Rangers have been fighting forest fires, with only occasional breathing speels, since the first of May and the stress they have been under can be compared only with that of men at the front in time of war. The record of the Forest Service by no means is perfect, but the black pins on the map in the San Francisco office show 64 bad fires that have been fought and stopped, in the National Forests, and at this time, as the worst of the season approaches, but three fires are not under control. We are searching for every possible means of strengthening our defenses during the remainder of the dry season with the certainty that it will bring more peak loads of bad fires during the waves of very hot, windy weather or in connection with lightning storms. A reserve force of experienced Forest rangers from other states will shortly be concentrated in California, to be available for any emergency need. The State Forestry Department is ably handling the areas under its jurisdiction. The United States Army is giving splendid help. We can and will carry the forests and watersheds of California through until the rains come without any overwhelming loss. Every year the opening of the hunting season in this state has been marked by a tremendous jump in the number of man caused fires. While we have been compelled to close extensive areas in the National Forests to public use, a number of commonly used hunting grounds within the Forests will remain open to the sportsmen of California. This in contrast with the situation in Oregon where the red to the City Engineer of the City of Fullerton. The contract was awarded to E. S. Bruce, contractor, at a price of $19,-516.00 for grading and gravelling on Garden Grove avenue from Huntington Beach boulevard to Los Alamitos boulevard in the Second Road District. A resolution was adopted in the matter of Road District improvement No. 29, declaring work completed, accepting same and ordering bonds issued for contract price, incidental costs, expenses and proceedings. The County Auditor was directed to draw a warrant for $1500 in favor of E. A. Spalding, for the purchase of certain real property to be used for public purposes. The County Auditor was ordered to draw a warrant for Registration Clerk as set forth in certified list presented by the County Clerk. The chairman was authorized to sign contract with the Southern California Business for advertising for 6 months at rates of $81 per half page per month. Permission was granted Oyharmabal Brothers to install a water pipe line on the West side of Occidental street in the township of San Juan Capistrano. Permission was granted to the Coast Land Construction Company to close Orangethorpe avenue at such places and at such times as may be necessary to protect the work of installing the outfall sewer for Placentia Sanitary district. Resolution No. 1, adopting a Satum Place or point from which elevation shall be measured, was adopted by the Board. The County Auditor was authorized to draw a warrant for $1000 in favor of Alice Engerman on the County General Fund for Right of Way. The Chairman was authorized to approve bond on Map Tract No. 750. The chairman was authorized to approve bond on Map Tract No. 716. The clerk was authorized to write a letter to the California State International Association for Identification inviting said Association to hold their 1925 meeting in Orange county. It was ordered that two guards be appointed at a salary of $125 per mo. for guard and patrol duty for Tri-Counties Reforestation. Specifications, plans and profiles, as presented by the County Superintendent of Highways, with his recommen- Every year the opening of the hunting season in this state has been marked by a tremendous jump in the number of man caused fires. While we have been compelled to close extensive areas in the National Forests to public use, a number of commonly used hunting grounds within the Forests will remain open to the sportsmen of California. This in contrast with the situation in Oregon where the governor has suspended all hunting for the duration of the fire season. I cannot impress upon the hunters too strongly for the necessity of extraordinary precautions to prevent the starting of fires. If the hunting season brings any considerable increase in the number of fires we will be compelled to close all of the National Forests in this state. If every hunter will constitute himself a citizen fire guard, his presence in the forests will be a help rather than an added fire hazard. I regret deeply the revival of the old notion that the protection of California's forests requires their "light" or annual burning. That idea was thoroughly studied and tested years ago and its impracticability from the standpoint of cost and destruction of merchantable timber alone was thoroughly proven. Furthermore light burning means the end of timber growing and future timber resources of California, to say nothing of its disastrous effect upon stream flow. Even the lightest fires kill young trees. The immense brush fields around Mt. Shasta, which have replaced valuable pine and fir forests, represent the last word in light burning, or "Plute Forestry." On the other hand, there are hundreds of thousands of acres in California where continuous protection from fire has now restored a new growth of young trees which "light WASHINGTON LETTER Robert LaFollette is not a candidate for President. He knows just as well as does every one of his supporters that he has not the slightest chance of being elected. His most enthusiastic followers cannot figure that he can get more than 51 votes out of the 531 in the electoral college. What then is his aim? It is solely to prevent the election of Coolidge and Davis throw the election into the senate and there exercise some control over the election of the next president. He knows that the House would be as effectively deadlocked as the electoral college and the Senate would have to choose between the two vice-presidential candidates. Dawes and Bryan. Then LaFollette could make terms with the Democrats by throwing his votes to Bryan. These are the plain facts which are realized fully by the managers of the two big parties and which they hope to get clearly before the people. Another fact they hope to get to the rank and FILE OF THE VOTERS IS THAT INASMUCH AS LAFOLLETTE HAS NOT, AND KNOWS HE HAS NOT, THE SLIGHTEST CHANCE OF BEING PRESIDENT, HE CAN PROMISE ANYTHING. HE WILL NEVER BE CALLED UPON TO MAKE GOOD. CONSEQUENTLY HE IS SHAPING HIS CAMPAIGN TO MEET THE WISHES OF EVERY DISCONTENTED INDIVIDUAL WITH ENTIRE ROCKLESSNESS. IT IS EASY TO MAKE PROMISES WHERE ONE WILL NEVER BE CALLED UPON TO MAKE THEM GOOD. LAFOLLETTE HAS JUST ASSERTED HIS OPPOSITION TO THE Ku Klux Klan TO THE GREATEST DISCONTENTION OF THE DEMOCRATIC MANAGERS WHO SEE IN THIS STEP A SCHEME TO DRAW FROM THEIR CANDIDATE THAT GREAT MASS OF NORMALLY DEMOCRATIC VOTERS WHO ARE DISGUSTED WITH THE COWARDLY COURSE OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION. "We are, both Democrats and Republicans, striving for an honest upright government in the United States declared John W. Davis at Rockland, Maine, as he stopped to make a brief speech on his way back to New York. He told the truth, but when he met his political advisers in New York he found them in tears. What possible issue had the Democrats other than to charge the Republicans with dishonesty? they asked in mournful accents. And if he, their candidate, was going to admit that the Republicans were honest and striving for an upright government they might as well throw up the sponge. But Davis has seen the error of his ways. One week later, opening his campaign at Poughkeepsie, he said, "The great issue in this campaign is honesty in government." Of course the two statements are in flat contradiction. If the Republicans are "striving for an honest and upright government," "honesty in government is not an issue. But if the voters believe Mr. Davis' first statement they will naturally ask themselves, 'If both parties are honest and vice of the oil leases cannot come until after the election.' The charges have been made, the indictments have been returned, but the government has been instrumental in putting off all the trials until October or later, so there can be no decision to upset the plans of the Democratic managers to make these leases an issue. If, of course, after the election the courts find the leases honest and legal and beneficial to the navy and the United States, and if the juries find that neither Secretary Fall on the one hand or Messrs. Sinclair or Doheny on the other did anything improper in making the leases, but instead saved millions of barrels of government oil for the government, it will not effect the campaign at all. The election will be over and the so-called "oll scandal" will have served its purpose nicely and incidentally, Senator Walsh of Montana will have been saved from that defeat at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan in Montana which was staring him in the face when he conceived the idea of exploiting a scandal and playing the role of St. George as he saved the nation from the dragon of his own creation. While politics generally will remain in abeyance until after the formal notification of the candidates, the condemnation of Davis by the Federation of Labor is adding somewhat to the gayety of the campaign even if it "ain't doing the Democratic candidate no good." You'll be popular if you limit your efforts at reforming the world to the effort to reform yourself. C. F. Grim, who has been visiting his daughter in San Francisco, re- READ EVERY WORD OF THE Would Fight A State I MAKE THIS PLEDGE TO ORANGE COUNTY ILL FIGHT ANY MOVE TO SAVE MONEY FOR THE STATE BY SHOVING STATE FUNCTIONS ON TO CITIES AND COUNTIES. This county has lost $5000 for its health department, it is taking care of insane patients, it has to hire fire guards, cost $800 or $1000. For opposing this kind of thing, Richardson says that I am a "spendthrift." In his anxiety to dictate to this nor Richardson issued an unfair lined up with the spendthrifts a To this I answer: I favor the economy that sacrifices the del Rey); that lets our forests b throw up the sponge. But Davis has seen the error of his ways. One week later, opening his campaign at Poughkeepsie, he said, "The great issue in this campaign is honesty in government." Of course the two statements are in flat contradiction. If the Republicans are "striving for an honest and upright government," "honesty in government is not an issue. But if the voters believe Mr. Davis' first statement they will naturally ask themselves, "If both parties are honest and striving for an upright government, why should we turn from those who are striving with four years training and experience and put in their places men who, however honest, are wholly inexperienced?" According to the statements made at the Democratic headquarters here, the candidate will never again make the blunder of admitting what he well knows to be true and what he so frankly said at Rockland, that "both Democrats and Republicans are striving for an honest and upright government in the United States." It is also declared that the oil leases will constitute one of the chief issues of the Democratic candidate. Judicial determination of the legality and justification now to the brand that never changes and you'll never change again. Is Five Cents on the Dollar of Valuation too Much to Earn? 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 billionaire says that I am a "spend-thrift." In his anxiety to dictate to this nor Richardson issued an unfair line up with the spendthrifts a To this I answer: I favor the economy that sacrifices the del Rey); that lets our forests off on to the county; that cripple I'm not wet. I never was Legislature there were just was sick in bed unable to vote DR.C.D.BALD Who does the voting MODERN The Anaheim Nation which affords commodation to the conservative type of modern service which characterize t 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 $897,610,000, 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 EVERY WORD OF THIS BEFORE YOU VOTE FOR ASLEMBLYMAN Id Fight Any Move to Shove State Expenses on Our County THIS PLEDGE CHANGE COUNTY ANY MOVE TO SAVE THE STATE BY ESTATE FUNCTIONS AND COUNTIES. has lost $5000 for its investment, it is taking care of clients, it has to hire cost $800 or $1000. For kind of thing, Rich that I am a "spend- I'll vote with Gov Richardson when he is right, but he can't bull doze me into voting with him when he is wrong. ASK EACH OF MY OPPONENTS THESE QUESTIONS: WHAT ORGANIZATION OR GROUP PERSUADED YOU TO RUN? NAME THEM. WHOM DID THEY REPRESENT? You have the right to know. For myself I answer as follows: Nobody and no organization asked me to run. I am paying every dollar of MY campaign expenses. society to dictate to this county whom it should send to Sacramento, Governor issued an unfair malicious attack on me in which he said Dr. Ball "is with the spendthrifts and certain notorious wet politicians of San Francisco." Is answer: I favor horse sense economy. I am absolutely opposed to any that sacrifices the lives of helpless feeble-minded girls (I think of Playa that lets our forests burn; that shoves the care of hopelessly insane persons society to dictate to this county whom it should send to Sacramento, Governor issued an unfair malicious attack on me in which he said Dr. Ball "is with the spendthrifts and certain notorious wet politicians of San Francisco." I answer: I favor horse sense economy. I am absolutely opposed to any that sacrifices the lives of helpless feeble-minded girls (I think of Playa that lets our forests burn; that shoves the care of hopelessly insane persons the county; that cripples institutions for the blind. It wet. I never was wet. Make inquiry; I've been here 37 years. At the there were just eight test wet-dry bills. I voted dry on seven, and bed unable to vote on the eighth. C.D.BALL FOR ASSEMBLYMAN Who does the voting in your booth—Gov. Richardson or you? My Us for Job Printing MODERN BANKING FACILITIES Anaheim National Bank is a banking instituwhich affords every faeility and banking acmodation to its patrons. Strict adherence to conservative banking principles and the highest of modern service are two important features which characterize the progressiveness of this institu- which affords every faeility and banking accommodation to its patrons. Strict adherence to conservative banking principles and the highest of modern service are two important features which characterize the progressiveness of this institution. Ours is a safe, constructive service of the utmost value to our patrons. It is because of this service that the Anaheim National Bank has enjoyed such a steady and substantial growth. Anaheim National Bank OFFICERS A. Dolan, Prest. Jno.A.Wents, V.-P. A. B. McCord, Cash. R. L. Phegley, Asst. Cashier DIRECTORS A. Dolan, Fred C. Rimpau, J. J. Dwyer, J. H. Wents, B. Fisher, D. Jessurun, A. B. McCord