anaheim-gazette 1924-09-11

NATION IS READY FOR DEFENSE DAY TEST EVERY CITY AND TOWN IN THE UNITED STAES WILL GIVE DEMONSRATION Tomorrow Will Show How Far We Have Progressed in Preparations to Defend the Country From Invasion By a Foreign Power—All Civic Orders In Anaheim Taking Part in the Pageant to Be Presented Here Friday Evening. The American Legion, the Citizen's Committee appointed by the mayor and representatives of various lodges and civic societies and clubs met at the Legion rooms Tuesday evening for purpose of arranging final details for Defense Day program. Nearly all the orders in Anaheim are preparing to take part in the great parade which will pass through the principal streets quarrel. These men and women would, if they could, render America absolutely helpless against attack of any and all kinds, whether by insidious revolutionary propaganda or by armed force. Many of them are well meaning, but those who think straight who reason from cause to effect, know they are wrong. Herbert Spencer in his "Synthetic Philosophy" makes the statement that all men think, but only one in ten reasons. Do you grasp the significance of this statement? The dyed-in-the-wool pacifist does not. He does not reason lucidly; he is inconsistent. If he believes what he says he believes then he is convinced of the goodness of heart of all men. He does not believe that men will, or do, commit murder and burglary and petty theft. Or if he does, he believes that men, like nations, can be convinced of the error of their ways by moral saasion and all that is necessary is to arbitrate or argue with the murderer, the burglar and the sneak thief. He should do as he urges his country to do. He should not lock his door at night, but meet the midnight marauder on the doorstep and resort to arbitration. But the normal American knows better than this. He knows an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. He locks his door. This is all America wishes to do. It knows STATE HIGHWAY GROWING NARRER A. C. OF C. DEMANDED THROUGH COUNTRY Denounced as a Dead Highway Commissure to Thirty or Few Chambers Land University County. — Co-operating Factories Ask The American Legion, the Citizen's Committee appointed by the mayor and representatives of various lodges and civic societies and clubs met at the Legion rooms Tuesday evening for purpose of arranging final details for Defense Day program. Nearly all the orders in Anaheim are preparing to take part in the great parade which will pass through the principal streets and lead the multitude to Municipal Park, where exercises fitting the occasion will be staged. In addition to the Legion drum corps, which will march at the head of that body, three bands have been engaged, the Anaheim band the Y. M. I. band of Los Angeles and the high school band. In order that there could be no charge of favoritism in arranging the parade a drawing was held Tuesday night to determine the position of each unit in the lineup. The post and the committee are desirous of honoring all gold star mothers, women who lost sons in the great war and giving them a prominent place in the pageant. They are requested to communicate with Jack Hibson, adjutant of the post, phone 350-W. Speeches by Secretary of War Weeks, General John J. Pershing, head of the army and General J. J. Carty of the Signal officers' Reserve corps will be Broadcast on the radio KGO at Oakland, handling the Pacific Coast, putting it on at 9:15 p.m. What is the ideal that inspires the observance of Defense Test Day? The motivating idea is to practice or rehearse the methods we would use in repelling invasion that we may become more or less conversant with the methods to be employed in case of foreign hordes should determine to overrun and despoil America. This we will never permit. Do not be alarmed. The danger of this is not imminent and it may never come, but what if it does come? Is it not the wiser to look into the future, to visualize what may happen and to be prepared for it? The statement has so often been made by the prejudiced or the misinformed, that war is made by what they are pleased to call Capital, that some refutation of this statement may not be amiss. Those who say this believe, or pretend to believe, that the moneyy interests of the country sit sion and all that is necessary is to arbitrate or argue with the murderer, the burglar and the sneak thief. He should do as he urges his country to do. He should not lock his door at night, but meet the midnight marauder on the doorstep and resort to arbitration. But the normal American knows better than this. He knows an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. He locks his door. This is all America wishes to do. It knows that it is dangerous to permit America to be overrun either in peace or in war by alien hordes who know little of and care less for American institutions. He would make his country safe from invasion. Is this going much farther than Congress—your Congress and mine—did recently in passing the Restricted Immigration Act? It recognizes the fact that it is not safe to permit the country to be invaded by foreigners, even when they come with peaceful intentions. It is therefore more necessary to prevent them from coming with hostile intentions. ORANGE GROVE THIEF RIDDLED WITH SHOT Visited Orchard at Orange That Was Guarded By Watchmen With severe gun shot wounds in his head, arm and chest, a man giving the name of William Freeman, 25 years of age, Los Angeles., is in the Orange County Hospital following a raid Friday night on the orange grove belonging to George Shaffer, Orange citrus rancher, which was thwarted by two special watchmen who opened fire when the intruders failed to halt at their commands. A grand larceny complaint charging him with the theft of 200 boxes of oranges was filed against Freeman by Shaffer, whose grove has been the object of five raids. Freeman was winged by Austin Watt and G. M. Bickford, special watchmen employed by Shaffer following a similar invasion of his orchard a week ago last Wednesday. The man, it was said, was seen to emerge from the grove and proceed along La Veta avenue to a red speedster parked along the road near Flower street. The watchmen commanded him to halt but Freeman immediately broke into a run. Following declarations Chambers offered at La Habra by Huntington Beach narrow width through Orange trap," the county boarded a movement to highway commission paved portion of thirty or forty feet. The good roads citing of H. A. Lakes Crumrine, Joe Skidl brake and W H Spruce ed to at once commission and rec provision for widem as rapidly as finance. It was pointed out session now is engaged width the highway tello section to WH declared by Armitage should be extended city as a matter of persons travelling th Judge L. F. Cobrune dent of the chamber roadway is conge of serious detriment of travelers h traverse the road-the meeting Crumrine the good roads con he believed work o dirt roadbed south costing the state test it should. He said he did result of employ instead of machine. Referring to state brief address by W. retary of the Long association, that Angeles, the city o private owners and tween Long Beach were co-operating in 70 feet of the pavement connecting Loron non by way of LA said that "if the feels it wise to s amount of seven m thousand dollars tional highway fac vision here the futur ty and start to y time when our popu er and our roads me than today. The statement has so often been made by the prejudiced or the misinformed, that war is made by what they are pleased to call Capital, that some refutation of this statement may not be amiss. Those who say this believe, or pretend to believe, that the moneyed interests of the country sit behind their mahogany desks and pull the strings, the strings that send the humble, the poor and unfortunate out to face the guns of the enemy and become what is popularly known as cannon fodder. Nothing could be further from the truth than this. In the late World War the hand of Conscription reached down into every rank of society and took the son of the millionaire and the son of the workingman and placed them side by side in the ranks. This is ample refutation of so silly a contention. There has never been anything in the world more democratic than the armies we sent to Europe in 1917. There never has been a greater leveling of class and caste. Men in every walk of life were glad and eager to wear our olive drab. What we fought for—the ideals that inspired us—are too well known to require repetition. "Peace and good will upon earth," is enjoined upon all of us. America believes in and practices this precept, but what of the rest of the world? Does it? There is in America a small minority that believe so, and would have us place our sole reliance for defense on that. This group is known as pacifists. All men are pacifists up to a certain point—it is only a question of degree. It is only with the rabid, ultra-pacifist that Americans have any Freeman was winged by Austin Watt and G. M. Bickford, special watchmen employed by Shaffer following a similar invasion of his archd a week ago last Wednesday. The man, it was said, was seen to emerge from the grove and proceed along Las Veta avenue to a red speedster parked along the road near Flower street. The watchmen commanded him to halt but Freeman immediately broke into a run. Both officers fired at the fleeing figure, which was seen to falter as several shots found their mark. While Freeman was being brought down by the hall of lead, his accomplice, who was picking fruit in the grove made good his escape. At the county hospital Freeman, severely wounded, with bright chances for recovery, refused to talk to authorities concerning the raids. He is suspected of being the same intruder who victimized the Shaffer grove on several past occasions. The tire patterns, authorities said, plainly indicate that the same machine was used on these occasions. Freeman is also suspected of being a member of what appears to be a well organized gang of orange thieves who have been plying their operations in the northern part of the county, where the grove belonging to R. T. Davies, prominent Fullerton ranches, has been raided several times. The red bandit car was registered to K. Stewart, 120 West Seventh St. Los Angeles. Whether Freeman is Stewart and has given a false name or whether Freeman's companion was Stewart, authorities have been unable to ascertain as the injured man will divulge no information. A son was born Saturday to Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Robinson of this city. Discussing the point of industrials munities of Orange son, secretary of the merce of Orange, by all organizations industrials in the coalition point, he said, ability of an individual finance manufacturer and he suggested that unity has reached that pass to another county with ability to project, all legitimacy propositions offered. "We should keep good enterprises on city cannot handle should pass it on community competitive standpoint to sition," the secretariat nounced the appointees Williams, T. B. Ta McFadden, as a paranormal authorized at the time to present to the re-university the advance county as a location California Branch, to move the branch. The president said that men who are membership alumni to compel and that he would not later. AHEIM GAZETTE Anaheim, California, Thursday, September 11, 1924 STATE HIGHWAY GROWING TOO NARROW A. C. OF C. DEMANDS THAT IT BE WIDENED THROUGH ORANGE COUNTY Denounced as a Death Trap and State Highway Commission sked to Widen It to Thirty or Forty Feet — Associated Chambers Endeavoring to Land University Branch in This County. — Co-operation in Securing Factories Asked of Cities. Following declarations at the Associated Chambers of Commerce meeting at La Habra by J. A. Armitage of Huntington Beach that because of its narrow width the state highway through Orange county is a "death trap," the county body has inaugurated a movement to induce the state highway commission to widen the paved portion of the thoroughfare to MUST EXERCISE CARE IN APPLYING WATER Wahlberg Saya Too Much Is Injurious To Trees Notwithstanding the light rains of last winter, there exists the possibility of doing more harm than good to the orange groves by too heavy irrigation, according to H. E. Wahlberg, Farm Advisor of Orange county. Mr. Wahlberg believes in the soil auger and closely regulated application of water. The direct effect of too much water is to reduce the temperature of the 'soll, discourage bacterial activity, exclude algi, and limit root development, he believes. "If tree roots are discouraged by the use of too much water" says it will have a tendency to reduce the root system with a result that when a special demand is made on the tree during the time of the desert winds in the fall for extra moisture, the limited root system will be unable to take up the moisture required for the tree. An exhaustive survey conducted by the Riverside Citrus Experiment Station experts in over 2000 groves in Orange county revealed that maximum production for both oranges and lemons was reached where less than the average amount of water was used. The highest yields, they found, or 20,500 pounds per acre for oranges ANAHEIM AGAIN BRILLIANTLY LIT UP WHITE LIGHTS BLAZE UNRESTRICTED IN BUSINESS SECITION OF TOWN State Power Supervisor Issues Order Releasing More Juice Throughout Southern California — Conservation and Effective Work of Power Companies Overcome the Shortage—Cities and Towns Only on Probation And Must Not Be Extravagant. Again the business section of Anaheim is brilliantly lighted at night. The ornamental street lights are burning at full capacity the electric signs are blazing and the store fronts have resumed their old time brilliance So obedient were the people of Southern California to the conservation order issued some months ago, and so effective has been the work of the power companies to overcome the Following declarations at the Associated Chambers of Commerce meeting at La Habra by J. A. Armitage of Huntington Beach that because of its narrow width the state highway through Orange county is a "death trap," the county body has inaugurated a movement to induce the state highway commission to widen the paved portion of the thoroughfare to thirty or forty feet. The good roads committee, consisting of H. A. Lake, chairman, C. L. Crumrine, Joe Skidmore, C. C. Bonebrake and W H Spurgeon was directed to at once communicate with the commission and request that it make provision for widening the pavement as rapidly as finances will permit. It was pointed out that the commission now is engaged in paving full width the highway through the Montebello section to Whittier, and it was declared by Armitage that the work should be extended through this county as a matter of insuring safety of persons traveling the highway. Judge L. F. Cobrua of Orange, president of the chambers, asserted that the roadway is congested to the point of serious detriment to speedy operation of travelers having occasion to traverse the road. As an incident of the meeting Crumrine in reporting for the good roads committee, said that he believed work of widening the dirt roadbed south of Capistrano was costing the state ten times more than it should. He said the extra cost was the result of employment of hand labor instead of machinery. Referring to statements made in a brief address by W. D. Pottinger, secretary of the Long Beach Boulevard association, that the county of Los Angeles, the city of Long Beach and private owners and municipalities between Long Beach and Los Angeles were co-operating in the widening of 70 feet of the pavement on the highway connecting Long Beach and Vernon by way of Lynwood, Armitage said that "if the interest involved seems it wise to spend an estimated amount of seven million five hundred thousand dollars to provide additional highway facilities, we should vision here the future of Orange county and start to prepare for that time when our population will be larger and our roads more congested even today." An exhaustive survey conducted by the Riverside Citrus Experiment Station experts in over 2000 groves in Orange county revealed that maximum production for both oranges and lemons was reached where less than the average amount of water was used. The highest yields, they found, or 20,500 pounds per acre for oranges and 26,600 pounds for lemons were produced with 14 to 18 inches of water, or 2 to 4 inches less than the average amount used in the county. The heaviest application of water showed results very similar to the lightest both in greatly lowered production. Mr. Wahlberg does not argue from the survey that every ranches should make his irrigation practice conform to the figures in the findings of the survey, but simply that every grower should make a close study of the moisture requirements of his particular soil by means of the soil auger. His own investigations have revealed that "citrus growers on gravelly soils have been inclined to too frequent irrigation. "The popular supposition," he says, is that a gravelly soil should receive two or three times the amount of water that a loam or heavy soil gets. As a matter of fact, any of the gravelly loams can use from 1-3 to one-half as much and longer intervals than has been customary in the past. Many groves have been found to deteriorate on the gravelly loams with excessive use of water." In the fact of a dry year, it is serving of note that many experienced citrus growers have expressed the belief that no amount of irrigation can altogether take place of rain. The general effect of the rainy season upon the health of the tree and the condition of the soil cannot be duplicated by artificial means, whatever may be the system of irrigation devised they believe, the falling on the rain through the air impregnates it with properties that can be obtained in no other way, while the bathing of the foliage and the warm expansive effect of humid weather are factors for tree health which man cannot supply, experienced orange producers declare. Again the business section of Anaheim is brilliantly lighted at night. The ornamental street lights are burning at full capacity the electric signs are blazing and the store fronts have resumed their old time brilliance So obedient were the people of Southern California to the conservation order issued some months ago, and so effective has been the work of the power companies to overcome the shortage caused by the scant rainfall that state authorities now believe that the ban can be partially lither and if electricity is not used extravagantly there will be an ample supply for all business purposes hereafter. The order releasing more power to consumers came from H. G. Butler, state power supervisor, but Mr. Bullier warns the cities and towns of Southern California that they are merely on probation for the present and any extravagant use of power would result in a restoration of the ban. A new order has been issued by that official permitting a resumption of the wonted outdoor lighting for business houses, but it has a string on it. It is based upon the power supervisor's belief that this relaxation will not be abused, for the need of conservation is not past. If extravagance or waste of juice results, it will be necessary to withdraw the privilege now granted. Restrictions are not removed, said the power supervisor, on present schedules of street lighting, on power consumption, or on domestic lighting. The order prohibiting the power companies from taking on new burdens until the shortage is over is not revoked. The present order merely extends to the use of light for strictly business purposes. It is made possible because, up to the present time, the communities involved have given such hearty, public spirited support to the power saving program by keeping within the quotas assigned to them that the situation is well in hand, and there is no further necessity of imposing loss on business. There is now sufficient supply of juice in sight to permit this exception to run until new steam plant construction is completed in November to overcome the deficiency caused by the drop in hydro-power. "I wish to warn the public," said Mr. Bullier that there are two contin- way connecting Long Beach and Vernon by way of Lynwood, Armitage said that "if the interest involved seems it wise to spend an estimated amount of seven million five hundred thousand dollars to provide additional highway facilities, we should vision here the future of Orange county and start to prepare for that time when our population will be larger and our roads more congested even than today. Discussing the possible saturation point of industrials by individual communities of Orange county, V. D. Johnson, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of Orange, urged co-operation by all organizations in the location of industrials in the county. The saturation point, he said, would be in the ability of an individual community to finance manufacturing enterprises, and he suggested that when a community has reached that position that it pass to another community in the county with ability to finance the project, all legitimate manufacturing propositions offered. "We should keep in the county all good enterprises offered, and if one city cannot handle a factory offered it should pass it on to a neighboring community competent from a financial standpoint to handle the proposition," the secretary said. Coburn announced the appointment of W. B. Williams, T. B. Talbert and Thomas McFadden, as a part of the committee authorized at the meeting of the body to present to the regents of the state university the advantages of Orange county as a location for the Southern California Branch, if decision is made to move the branch from Los Angeles. The president said that he wanted two men who are members of the university alumni to complete the committee and that he would make appointments later. POPULAR YOUNG LADY SURPRISES HER FRIENDS Miss Elise Jessurun Married at Eagle Rock Saturday to Freeman Ashen Miss Elise Jessurun, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. Jessurun and Freeman Ashen, an electrician on one of the war vessels of the Pacific fleet were married at Eagle Rock Saturday night. Miss Jessurun handed her friends a complete surprise Saturday evening. She went up to Los Angeles, giving out the information that she was going to visit the mother of her fiancee. She failed to add, however, that she was also going to meet her intended, and that she would be Mrs. Ashen on her return to Anaheim. After a honeymoon tour the young couple will separate for a time, the groom returning to his duties on the warship and the bride resuming her duties in the office of the Orco Oil Company in this city. Miss Jessurun is one of Anaheim's best known and most popular young ladies. She has taken a prominent part in lodge and club work and has a host of intimate friends here. Rev. J. A. Geissinger will deliver a sermon on the Ku Klux Klan at the White Temple Sunday evening "Christianity, Americanism and Klanism" is his subject. I wish to warn the public," said Mr. Butler that there are two contingencies under which the bars might have to be put up again. One is any reaction to the order of today that should lead to extravagance in the use of lighting current. The other is that some disaster might happen to one of the large steam plants. That would set us back right where we were in June, and the most rigid restriction would have to be imposed. "This is the beginning of the end of the emergency which put me in charge of what threatened to be a bad situation, but it is not yet the end, and I hope everybody will realize that We have managed so that agriculture and manufacturing industries have suffered a minimum of loss, and with good luck we shall come out of the emergency with no one very much harmed, and with a fine example of California resource and team spirit having been given to the world. With enterprises now under way that will soon greatly increase our supply of power, it looks as if we shall never again have a shortage requiring a repetition of this summer's rules." BACK TO SCHOOL All the schools in the city opened Monday with an enrollment in excess of that of last year. At the high school 550 registered last week. Of this AGAIN NTTLY UP LAZE UNREINESS SECROWN For Issues Order ence Throughout Conservation of Power Comthe Shortage— only on Probation extravagant. Section of Ananated at night. Set lights are city the electric the store fronts time brilliance people of Southconservation orhs ago, and so the work of the overcome the number 213 were freshmen, 128 sophomores, 102 juniors, 100 seniors and seven specials. There were at least a hundred more on hand to register Monday, making a total of 650. The total enrollment in the grammar schools was 1566, an increase of 72 over the opening day last year. They were divided among the various schools as follows: Intermediate, 438; Central, 366; Lincoln, 204; Citron, 200 Palm, 179; Broadway 179. Citron school led all the others in kindergarten enrollment, the total being 40. The most significant event of the year takes place in September when millions of children go back to school. When the final history of this age of democracy is written the common school will be set down as its greatest glory. Here they come — children of all classes, religions and races, trooping into the schoolrooms where they sit side by side to study and to learn. This is not only an institution for the informing of the mind, it is the training school of democracy and its importance as the representative institution of the commonwealth cannot be overestimated. Class consciousness, snobbishness, intolerance, superciliousness, cannot exist in the atmosphere of the public school. Here the barriers that separate classes and creeds, races and communities, are broken down. A sense CITIZENS WANT THE FLAGPOLE RESTORED PETITION BEARING SEVEN HUNDRED NAMES PRESENTED TO THE COUNCIL Mayor Metcalf Scores the Signers, Declaring That They Were Not Actuated By Patriotic Motives — Mercy Desired to Embarrass the Council. He Said — Matter Referred to Committee and Will Be Considered at Tonight's Meeting — Removed Because It Obstructed Traffic, It Is Claimed. The Star Spangled Banner, which for many years floated from the apax of its staff in the center of the city, is still conspicuously absent from its time honored place, and judging from the remarks of Mayor Metcalf at the City Council meeting Thursday evening, it is not likely to be restored under the present administration. The section of Anaconda at night. Net lights are quiet the electric store fronts and time brilliance people of South-Conservation orphans ago, and so the work of the overcome the scant rainfall now believe that really lifter if and extravagantly the supply for all after. More power to H. G. Butler, Mr. but Mr. Bully and towns of what they are for the present use of power restoration of the been issued by giving a resumption for lighting for has a string on the power superiors relaxation will be need of concern if extravagance results, it will be new the privilege not removed, said Mr. on present lighting, on power domestic lighting. The power common new burdens over is not reorder merely exlight for strictly because, up to communities in which hearty, publishes the power saving within the them that the sludd, and there is of imposing loss is now sufficient not to permit this will new steam completed in No. 1 the deficiency in hydro-power. The public," said are two contin- PLANS COMPLETE FOR NEW STAGE DEPOT Structure Costing $100,000 to Be Erected at Corner of Chestnut and Los Angeles Plans are now complete for the erection of the new Pickwick stage depot to be erected at the corner of Los Angeles and Chestnut streets, recently purchased by F. C. Rimpau. The plans have been drawn by Eugene Durfee and it is claimed this will be cause It Obstructed Traffic, It is Claimed. The Star Spangled Banner, which for many years floated from the apex of its staff in the center of the city, is still conspicuously absent from its time honored place, and judging from the remarks of Mayor Metcalf at the City Council meeting Thursday evening, it is not likely to be restored under the present administration. A petition signed by seven hundred citizens demanding the restoration of the flagpole was presented by Leonard Evans, spokesman for the petitioners. The mayor surrendered the chair to Councilman Knipe and took the floor in defense of the action of the city officials in removing the pole. He gave it as his opinion that not more than five per cent of the signers were animated by a patriotic desire to see the flag floating at that point. Many of the petitioners signed because they would sign anything presented to them, and the balance of them affixed their signatures because they saw in it an opportunity to slap the present administration. If he could believe that a majority of the people through patriotic sentiment desired the flag restored, he would be the first to advocate its restoration, he said. The matter was referred to the public improvements committee and will be acted upon tonight, but as the mayor undoubtedly voiced the sentiments of a majority of the board in all probability the petition will be turned down. The mayor stated that the polo was removed on the recommendation of the police department because it interfered with the regulation of traffic at that busy intersection on days when the streets were congested. That may have been the reason, in fact, it undoubtedly was, because there can be no other reason advanced for hauling down Old Glory by men who pose as one hundred per cent American. But the seven hundred people who signed the petition and the hundreds of others who would have affixed their signatures had they been given an opportunity, will refuse to believe that that was sufficient reason for removing the pole. Another cause for resentment was the fact that the pole was removed without foreknowledge of the people. Men arriving at their places of business one morning di-covered that Old Structure Costing $100,000 to Be Erected at Corner of Chestnut and Los Angeles Plans are now complete for the erection of the new Pickwick stage depot to be erected at the corner of Los Angeles and Chestnut streets, recently purchased by F. C. Rimpau. The plans have been drawn by Eugene Darfee and it is claimed this will be one of the fittest and costliest stations in Southern California. The structure is to be built of enameled brick and terra cotta and will be two stories in height. In addition to the stage companies' offices and tracks it will contain six store rooms fronting on Los Angeles street and three on Chestnut. The entire second floor will be taken up by an assembly hall, the largest in Southern California. The structure will cost $100,000 and will be an ornament to that section of the city. After almost two weeks of investigation, checking and rechecking, Placentia has won an approval from Inspector Jarvis for a recommendation to the Postmaster General, of a rural mail route that will give Placentia and Olinda patrons service from the early eastern mail and the early Los Angeles mail much quicker than they are getting it now. After making adjustments with Fullerton on their route No. 2, Anaheim on their Route No. 3 and Yorba Linda who has also been recommended for a route, the Placentia route will be twenty-four and one-half miles long. This puts it in the position of being an route that will pay a full time man $1800 and guaranteeing first class delivery service. Put the seven hundred people who signed the petition and the hundreds of others who would have affixed their signatures had they been given an opportunity, will refuse to believe that was sufficient reason for removing the pole. Another cause for resentment was the fact that the pole was removed without foreknowledge of the people. Men arriving at their places of business one morning discovered that Old Glory was not floating from its staff as usual and moreover there was no staff for it to float from. It had been spirited away while they slept. They were amazed when told that it had not been stolen, but was removed by order of the trustees. Had the matter been openly discussed before action was taken and the reason made public there probably would have been much less opposition but people generally object to having official matters discussed and decided in secret. KLANSMEN MUST QUIT City Councilman George McPhee of Santa Ana, chairman of the police commissioner, has notified the chief of police that all members of the force in that city who are affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan must immediately sever their connections with the Klan or be summarily dismissed from the force. It is argued "that a can cannot be faithful to his obligation as an official, and at the same time be subject to the influence of an invisible power and take orders from a hidden boss." therefore McPhee has decreed that he must quit the hooded order or quit his job. Mr and Mrs. Arthur Cohen were visiting in San Francisco last week.