anaheim-gazette 1924-09-04

Anaheim Gazette ESTABLISHED 1870 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY Henry Kuehel, Editor and Proprietor SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR ... $1.50 SIX MONTHS ... $1.00 THREE MONTHS ... $ .50 Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter STATE HIGHWAYS REVIEWED Highway construction in California is not keeping pace with the designation of new roads. Construction is running a constantly losing race with new mileage, until, at present, 2,814 miles of designated state highway 40 per cent of the state system remain uncompleted in the face of a depleted treasury. These are some of the facts brought out by State Highway Engineer R. M. Morton in an article in the current issue of the highway commission bulletin in which he reviews the history of state highway building in California from its inception in 1910 to the present time. The original bond act contemplated laterals connecting all the county seats with the main trunk lines. Fourteen county seats, Mr. Morton points out, are still without state built roads. The state is without a single completed interstate connection, while in many places in the interior valleys and adjacent to the large centers of population existing pavements are inadequate to handle the rapidly increasing traffic and must be widened and thickened. With seventy-three million dollars in bond funds expended, the state year, eight million for construction and maintenance and twelve million, the average expenditure during the last three years, for new construction will only keep the work going at the present rate of progress. It will not meet the evident desire of the people Mr. Morton says, for the immediate extension of the improved highway system of the state as additional roads are being requested in many sections. This sum, then, must be considered the minimum when the refinancing of state highway construction is undertaken. CENTER OF ATTRACTION Never before in the history of Washington have so many automobilists visited the White House as this summer. These tourists have come from all parts of the country, the greater proportion coming from the middle west, although a large number carry tags of Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, Idaho the Dakotas Nebraska and Minnesota. Almost without exception they park their machines on the great wide street in front of the White House while they go in to see what sort of a building their president lives in. Monday the newspaper men counted 81 machines lined up against the curbstone and they decided to take a poll of the autoists' choice for president the result was Coolidge 60, Davis 15 and the head of the third ticket, 4. The balance being divided. The majority of the cars were of a well known make or machines within the reach of the average pocketbook, there were only two that one would classify as high priced machines. Among those questioned as to their choice was a couple, no longer young; he a man who gave one the impression of many years of toll, she one of the perialism or the de ideals upon and su people. It is not than studying the for America. September 12 is Some years ago American said: "foreign menace a spring to arms from still more highly asked the question spring and to what pitchforks or what laented Roosevelt ed. The proper ob test Day will ans plain the insurance against the ruthless tile armies. Will you do you force this NATION or will you remain If you are going night or day, you w give up two or th spare time to it. do less for the caurity? FIND DOUGLAS IS SO Recent exhausti Prof. John Davids University of Brit revealed that long of the white man ans of British Col sugar of high qua rived from the Dovritory. This source of to have escaped eof white traders, missionaries and remains today an illized resource. Investigations of teen county seats, Mr. Morton points out, are still without state built roads. The state is without a single completed interstate connection, while in many places in the interior valleys and adjacent to the large centers of population existing pavements are inadequate to handle the rapidly increasing traffic and must be widened and thickened. With seventy-three million dollars in bond funds expended, the state highway engineer declares it is time to take stock and to consider where we are drifting in highway construction. But of 3064 miles of highway contemplated by the first bond act, 381 miles remain in the same condition as in 1910, with no state expenditure. Of the 701 miles added by the second bond act of 1915, there remain 177 miles unconstructed. In order to insure the popularity of the third bond issue of 1919, some 1848 additional miles of state highway were added to the system of which 1392 miles remain to be built. Besides these roads, placed in the system by the three bond issues, the legislature from time to time by special acts has added roads, the total length of which is now 1009 miles. These legislative acts seldom provided funds for construction and to date 943 miles of these special act roads have had no state expenditure from limited maintenance funds. A summary shows the net state highway mileage to be 5504 miles. Of this total the state has paved 2,085 miles; the counties have paved and the state has taken over 280 miles; counties have paved and the state has adopted 83 miles; the state has graded 1,240 miles; leaving 2,814 on which no construction has been done or approximately 40 per cent of the total. Reviewing past expenditures, Mr. Morton shows that, to keep construction going at the same rate as during the last few years, it will take an income of one million dollars a month for primary construction alone. If the commission is to build roads faster in the future than it has in the past, more than twelve million dollars a year for primary construction must be provided. Reconstruction is an ever increasing problem. A start toward its solution was made by the last legislation in the enactment of the gasoline tax measure and during 1924, the com- poll of the autoists' choice for president the result was Coolidge 60, Davis 15 and the head of the third ticket, 4. The balance being divided: The majority of the cars were of a well known make or machines within the reach of the average pocketbook, there were only two that one would classify as high priced machines. Among those questioned as to their choice was a couple, no longer young; he a man who gave one the impression of many years of toll, she one of the sweet old ladies like your mother or grandmother. This little bit of old fashioned charminess, when asked why she was for Coolidge, replied. "He is honest and brave, he is one of our own people, the kind that most people are. Some call us the plain people, no frills, no putting on airs, just a God loving, clean American citizen, a man of high ideals, the kind we like to have as a model for our children, a man who believes in honesty and common sense. We heard him on the radio. We are tired of having speakers tell us about how they will do this and that for the country when they know deep in their hearts that the things they speak of cannot be done, that is not being honest. My husband and I are enjoying a vacation, our son and his wife look out for things on the farm while we take our vacation seeing the country. This is the third year we have been on the road and we have seen a lot of the United States. We take turns driving and we get over a lot of country in a day's ride. We will be home for election day, as both "father" and I feel it our duty to vote for Mr. Coolidge. The car bore a California tag. The members of the "first national grange tour" traveling through the east were conveyed in 240 automobiles. They were farmers from the west and middle west, 12 states being represented. They met President Coolidge while he was at his father's farm in Vermont and all declared their intention of voting for Calvin Coolidge. DEFENSE DAY IS INSURANCE Do you believe in Insurance? Is the house in which you live, which you own, insured against the Fire Demon? If it is not, are you not taking unwarranted chances? Your house is part of America-America has a policy of insurance—the National Defense Act.Shall America maintain this insurance? Reconstruction is an ever increasing problem. A start toward its solution was made by the last legislation in the enactment of the gasoline tax measure and during 1924, the commission will expend $4,500,000 from this source largely in rebuilding old pavements. Reconstruction already is far behind traffic requirements and ten million a year for several years could well be used for this purpose. The most serious problem, however, is that of securing funds for primary construction. California, the engineer indicates, has witnessed periods of scarcity of funds and times when more money was available than could be expended quickly enough to satisfy the demands of the people. This has proved a decidedly uneconomical way to forward road construction. Any new plan of financing should provide the organization with sufficient funds to lay out each year's program well in advance and should be continuing from year to year to bring about the highest economy and efficiency in the state highway department. In view of the fact that it will cost at least two hundred million dollars to complete the present system, Mr. Morton concluded that an income for the state highway commission of not less than twenty million dollars a year is needed. Future expenditures will increase because much of the work remaining to be done is in the mountainous sections where grading and surfacing costs are necessarily higher than in the valleys. A fund of twenty million dollars a perialism or the desire to impress our ideals upon and subjugate any foreign people. It is nothing more nor less than studying the policy of insurance for America. September 12 is the day. Some years ago a distinguished American said: "In the event of a foreign menace a million men would spring to arms from sun to sun." A still more highly placed American asked the question how they would spring and to what would they spring, pitchforks or what? This query of the laented Roosevelt remains unanswered. The proper observance of Defense Test Day will answer it. It will explain the insurance policy of America against the ruthless invasion of hostile armies. Will you do your part to keep in force this NATIONAL INSURANCE or will you remain indifferent to it? If you are going to a movie show, night or day, you would not hesitate to give up two or three hours of your spare time to it. Can you afford to do less for the cause of national security? FIND DOUGLAS FIR IS SOURCE OF SUGAR Recent exhaustive investigations by Prof. John Davidson, botanist of the University of British Columbia, have revealed that long before the coming of the white man to Canada the Indians of British Columbia made a white sugar of high quality which they derived from the Douglas fir of that territory. This source of sugar supply seems to have escaped entirely the attention of white traders, explorers, surveyors missionaries and other pioneers and remains today an untapped and unutilized resource. Professor Davidsons investigations of this subject are de- draw a warrant for $2500 in favor of Charles G. Johnson, state treasurer for the purpose of defraying salaries of Motor Traffic Officers, payable out of the Auto License Fund, and the clerk was instructed to wire Will H. Marsh, chief inspector. It was ordered that Motor Vehicle Department be notified to reduce the force of County Traffic Officers for Orange County, from seven to five men, same to take effect September 1, 1924. It was ordered that Liberty Bonds, amounting to $100,000 be sold at public auction at the South door of the Court House, in the City of Santa Ana County of Orange, State of California, on Tuesday, September 10, 1924 at 10 a.m. It was ordered that the franchise applied for by the Shell Company of California be advertised for sale in the Anaheim Morning Bulletin and that proper notice of said sale be prepared and submitted to this Board at the regular meeting on October 7th, 1924, at 10 a.m. TO PUNISH PARENTS A measure was introduced in the legislature at Albany, New York, which holds parents legally responsible for the delinquency of children under 16. This bill is said to be the result of a warning issued by a judge when he pronounced death sentence for the Diamond boys and their confederates for the murder of two bank messengers, says the American Educational Digest. The judge declared at that time, that if parents knew that they were to be held responsible for their children's acts they would exercise closer protection of their offspring than they do. In more than 75 per cent of cases authorities agree that the delinquent child is the victim so late that most of the crop will be unfit for seed unless frost holds off longer than usual. The United States Department of Agriculture is calling attention to this fact at the present time in order to prevent, if possible a serious seed corn situation in the spring of 1925. The higher prices for corn in the last few weeks are drawing much of the old crop from the farms. Farmers not having enough seed corn for 1925 left over from last year's supply should save the best of their bulk erib corn from which to obtain seed, if necessary. If this year's crop is killed by frost before it is mature, this old corn will provide a source from which seed can be selected for planting in 1925. FACES DILEMNA The dilemma facing the Division of Motor Vehicles over the salaries of traffic officers of the state or the next six months has been successfully solved and if boards of supervisors act promptly the work o the officers will continue without interruption. This announcement was made today by Will H. Marsh chief of the division, who said he succeeded in perfecting an agreement with the other state offices interested which will permit the supervisors of the various counties to turn back sufficient money from their apportionment of motor vehicle fees to make up the deficit in the salaries of the officers. The situation arose out of the fact that the bulk of registration fees is collected during the first six months of the year and the law prohibits payment of the officers out of such funds for the succeeding six months. As registration are necessarily light in many counties during the last six months it was feared that the funds revealed that long before the coming of the white man to Canada the Indians of British Columbia made a white sugar of high quality which they derived from the Douglas fir of that territory. This source of sugar supply seems to have escaped entirely the attention of white traders, explorers, surveyors missionaries and other pioneers and remains today an untapped and unutilized resource. Professor Davidsons investigations of this subject are described in an article by Francis Dickie of Heriot Bay, B. C. This sugar appears in white masses of different sizes ranging from a quarter of an inch to two inches in diameter. The smaller masses form like white drops at tips of the single leaves of the fir and also at times several of the leaf tips are imbedded in a larger drop. Masses of greater size scatter over the leaves and branches. When placed in the mouth the sugar is found to exceedingly sweet, with a flavor comparable to the highest class of the manufactured article. For a moment it passes into a pasty consistency, but quickly becomes entirely soluble. The investigation proved that this sugar is the result of natural exudation from the tips fo the needles of the fir. It crystallizes in some instances, ceemnting the twigs and leaves together, but a slight rain quickly dissolves it from the branches and it is to be found recrystallized at the base of the tree. Exposure to sun and a long succession of sunshiny days are necessary to produce the sugar and it is not generally found where the firs stand densely, so that a regular harvest of any size could not be depended upon. The deposits are, nevertheless, of considerable value. While the fir sugar will never play a part as a food supply like the product of the cane and the beet, the manna from the Douglas fir contains about 50 per cent of a sugar known as mellizose, which in small quantities is selling at $66 a pound. SUPERVISORS PROCEEDINGS The chairman was authorized to approve Bond on Map Tract No. 714, and same was accepted as the official plotting of said tract. A bond for $1500 was deposited for Street Work. Fumigating licenses were ordered result of a warning issued by a judge when he pronounced death sentence for the Diamond boys and their confederates for the murder of two bank messengers, says the American Educational Digest. The judge declared at that time, that if parents knew that they were to be held responsible for their children's acts they would exercise closer protection of their offspring than they do. In more than 75 percent of cases authorities agree that the delinquent child is the victim of home environment and parental indifference. Under the proposed law, parents would be punished for any of the following causes: To permit a child to become a juvenile delinquent; to associate with vicious, immoral, or criminal persons; to beg or wander about the streets late at night; to furnish entertainment for gain upon the streets, or in a public place; to wander habitually, around railroad yards; to be an habitual truant from school; to enter a disorderly house or any place where gambling is carried on; to enter any place where his morals may be in danger; and to be adjudged in court to be in need of the care and protection of the state. This movement which proposes to hold the parent responsible to society attacks the whole situation at the very root of the evil of criminal childhood. The theory of the proposed law is that any father who is indifferent to the molding of the character of the child that he brings into the world is amenable to the law of the state. Parenthood is an assumed obligation, and that obligation should be met so far as it is possible within the power of human ability. This proposed law presents one of America's great and unsolved problems in an altogether new and commendable aspect. OUR WONDERFUL HIGHWAYS New standards of construction adopted for California State highways during the past year, evidenced in recently completed contracts will assure for California a well deserved leadership in highway building not only in America but throughout the world. So declares William Calder, Australian engineer, and chairman of the County Roads Board of Victoria, who is visiting here as the guest of Harvey M. Toy, chairman of the California Highway Commission. Calder is on his way home from a trip around the world during which he has observed... SUPERVISORS PROCEEDINGS The chairman was authorized to approve Bond on Map Tract No. 714, and same was accepted as the official plotting of said tract. A bond for $1500 was deposited for Street Work. Fumigating licenses were ordered issued to R. E. Beardsley; W. O. Burgett; T. F. Yorba; W. E. Chronister; E. Randolph; Joe L. Bernard; John Erickson; Harry Carpenter and spraying licenses were ordered issued to Oscar Ronning on recommendation of the Horticultural Commissioner. The hearing on the revocation of the Pool Room license of Chris Sorenson at Laguna Beach was set for September 19th, 1924, at 2 p.m. Hearing of the petition of E. B. Cubbon, et al to vacate and abandon a portion of that certain public road, street, alley, located in the Fifth Road District, was set for September 23rd 1924 at 10 a.m. Notice to be published in the Santa Ana Daily Evening Register. The deed from E. A. Spaulding, et ux to the County of Orange, was adopted and ordered placed on record. Resolution was adopted in the matter of Road District Improvement No. 27 declaring work completed, accepting same and ordering bonds issued for contract price, etc. The chairman appointed William Schumacher, on Committee for Tri-Counties Hospital. Miss Hazel Royce was appointed Deputy Stenographical Clerk, for the county Free Library, at a salary of $85 per month, same to commence on September 1, 1924. The County Auditor was directed to cently completed contracts will assure for California a well deserved leadership in highway building not only in America but throughout the world. So declares William Calder, Australian engineer, and chairman of the County Roads Board of Victoria, who is visiting here as the guest of Harvey M. Toy, chairman of the California Highway Commission. Calder is on his way home from a trip around the world during which he has observed methods of highway construction in many lands. About San Francisco, the visitor had several opportunities to study new paving standards where roads have been built twenty to forty feet in width. He also commented upon the boldness of California engineers in their location of mountain highways where sharp and dangerous curves are being eliminated, adding to the safety and traffic carrying capacity of the highways. "Your highways are wonderful," said 'Calder, "'The impression that California was falling behind is unfounded. What I have seen convinces me that your new roads do not take second place to any I have viewed in my long journey. Those who are directing your road building program are men of vision, they are planning for the future and are daring to adopt standards that were only talked about a few years ago. "I congratulate California upon its highway program. You are still the leaders." SAVE SOME OF YOUR OLD CORN The spring of 1924 was unusually backward in many sections. Following this, the growing conditions were not good, with the result that the bulk of the corn is extremely late throughout the Corn Belt and northward. It NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT Blue Light Silver Mines Company, a Corporation, with its principal place of business at 242 West Center street, in the City of Anaheim, Orange County, California. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that at a meeting of the directors of the Blue Light Silver Mines Company, a corporation, held on the 18th day or August, 1924, an assessment of seven cents (07c) per share was levied on the subscribed and issued capital stock of said Corporation, and made payable to Sam L. Collins, treasurer of said Corporation, at the office of said Corporation, at 242 West Center Street, in the City of Anaheim, County of Orange, State of California, on or before the 25th day of September, 1924. 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