anaheim-gazette 1925-01-08

VOLUME LV CITY EMPLOYEES ARE NOT ALL KLANSMEN MANY OF THEM REFUSED TO JOIN THE RANKS OF THE HOODED ORDER Of Twenty-Five Men in the Light and Water Department Only 4 are Subjects of the Imperial Wizard—Other Departments of the City Government Show Many Who are Untrammeled by Klan Order—U. S. A. Club Fighting Only Trustees. The general idea that all or most of the employees of the city government belong to the Ku Klux Klan is erroneous. We have it on good authority that only four of the twenty-five men employed in the municipal light and water department are members of the klan, the other twenty-one being free and untrammeled citizens of the United States. Other departments of the BEAUTIFUL WEDDING AT GRIMSHAW HOME Miss Beulah Waterman Becomes the Bride of Edwin L. Miller A very beautiful wedding occurred at eight o'clock on New Year's evening when Edwin L. Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Miller, of this city, and Miss Beulah Waterman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Waterman, of Hollywood, were united in marriage at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Grimshaw of West Broadway, where thirty years ago—the parents of the groom were wedded. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Robt. McAuley, pastor of Premont Park Presbyterian church of Sacramento, a former resident of Anaheim and a boyhood friend of the groom. Before the ceremony Miss Alice Grimshaw who is a cousin of the groom in a beautifully modulated voice sang "O Promise Me," and "I Promise Thee," (de Koven) and Edward Backs, also a cousin of the groom, sang beautifully, "At Dawnning" (Cadman). The bridal party entered to the strains of Mendelssohn's wedding march played by Miss Lois Stratten, of Hollywood, and were led by the singer little Bobby Knapp. Once upon a middle western Arkansas—a quiet city as a financier his skill as a but one medicician a tonic very fits. When quarried to his bucolic active to the pro his patients, he "It ain't that numerous here or, but I don't these new fans don't try. But neighborhood knits so if I can make is threatened me as his doctor icine. If he littee, if he dies t For many years out of my fits, to fits the balan Evidently tha the campaign m have borrowed rules of this tor. They are to make the po The general idea that all or most of the employees of the city government belong to the Ku Klux Klan is erroneous. We have it on good authority that only four of the twenty-five men employed in the municipal light and water department are members of the klan, the other twenty-one being free and untrammeled citizens of the United States. Other departments of the city government also show a division of sentiment on this subject, many of them refusing to adopt the night shirt as a uniform and meet in secret conclave at secluded places in the dead hour of night, when church-yards yawn, and graves give up their dead. Some people also have imbibed the idea that the U. S. A. club will insist after the new council takes charge of affairs in February that the old employees be swept out and new ones installed. This is also a mistake. The U. S. A. Club is not making war on the employees of the city—the men who do the work. It is merely fighting the four Klan trustees, the law-making body of the city. When this work is accomplished the club will go out of existence, leaving the trustees a free hand to govern the city. And we speak advisedly in saying that the new board of trustees have no intention of discharging any official or employee because of his affiliation with any order, church or political party. No man's job is endangered because of his private beliefs, whether they coincide with the opinions of the board or not. WATER RIGHTS TO BE INVESTIGATED According to A. W. Rutan, of the law firm of Head & Rutan, attorneys for the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, investigations are under way to determine whether an application by the Rubidox Building Company of Riverside, for permission to appropriate water from Spring Brook, a tributary to the Santa Ana river, will involve rights of the irrigation company. The building company has applied the division of water right, department of public works, for permission to appropriate annually 8.75 cubic per second, the water to be used in irrigating 700 acres of land in Riverside county. Protests must be filed with the deBefore the ceremony Miss Allie Grimshaw who is a cousin of the groom in a beautifully modulated voice sang "O Promise Me," and "I Promise Thee," (de Koven) and Edward Backs, also a cousin of the groom, sang beautifully, "At Dawning" (Cadman). The bridal party entered to the strains of Mendelashon's wedding march played by Miss Lois Stratten, of Hollywood, and were led by the ring bearer, little Bobby Knapp, of Los Angeles, a cousin of the bride. The Mises Vera and Verna Waterman, twin sisters of the bride, acted bridesmaid, and Miss Leah McKee, also of Hollywood, was maid of honor. The little flower girl, Beverly Kraemer, cousin of the groom preceded the bride who came in on the arm of her father, Mr. G. A. Waterman. They were met at the altar by the groom and his best man, Arthur W. Turk, of Pasadena, formerly of Anaheim, and the ceremony was performed under a wedding bell of pink carnations and ferns. The bride was beautifully gowned in white satin. She wore the vell and orange blossoms worn by Mrs. L. E. Miller, the groom's mother, at her wedding thirty years ago. She wore a beautiful string of La Tauce pearls with a clasp of sapphires and diamonds, the gift of the groom and carried a shower boquet of bride's roses, lilies, of the valley and malden-hair fern. In the receiving line were Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Miller, parents of the groom, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Waterman, of Hollywood, parents of the bride, assisted by Mrs. McKinley and Mrs. H. M. White. About 160 guests were present, a large number of them relatives of the high contracting parties. The house was beautifully decorated by Miss Steckheirt assisted by Miss Ellenora Parker, the color scheme of pink and green being elaborately carried out in a variety of lovely pink roses, carnations, azaleas and cyclamen intermingled with ferns and other greenery. At the conclusion of the ceremony the happy couple received the congratulations of those present and the bride cut the wedding cake after which refreshments were served. Later the newly-weds quietly departed on their honeymoon, being assisted in eluding their friends by Edward Backs. They drove to Riverside and will make a number of short trips to different points of interest before returning to Los Angeles where they expect to "The U. S. A. sole purpose of the insidious duo has a membership than one thousand." The list is not illic; it is not to drop into the basement on East Center and check up its role you will most prominently. FARM BUREA FO Thousand Dollar Offer A thousand rest and convict poultry will be department of Farm Bureau realize. At a pariment appeal solicit funds for understanding scriptions would full thousand scribed before. "Chicken stoke joke by a great E. Block, prompt Costa Mesa," eral hundred ceased to be pany of Riverside, for permission to appropriate water from Spring Brook, a tributary to the Santa Ana river, will involve rights of the irrigation company. The building company has applied the division of water right department of public works, for permission to appropriate annually 8.75 cubic per second, the water to be used in irrigating 700 acres of land in Riverside county. Protests must be filed with the department before February 3, according to a notice from Edward Hyatts, Jr., chief of the division of water rights. Rutan said the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company would file a protest if investigations disclosed that rights of the hompy will be jeopardized by the diversion of water from the brook. KNOW WHAT YOU JOIN It is claimed that there are some 200 organizations and 611 publications (mostly foreign languages) in the United States spreading radicalism and communistic propaganda. That many weeds in the average garden would prevent normal growth and productivity of the soil. We could easily detect and put to an end the sources of "red" activity, because they rear their heads and flaunt their flags boldly and wantonly. The greater danger, however, is the gaining of adherents to these organizations among well-disposed and unsuspecting persons who "fall" for the phrases contained in their codes and slogans. The leaders of these movements that threaten America know the phycology of using catch words. One of these organizations is said to use the word "Christian" in its title; another waves the peace flag, using the term 'anti-war.' The result is, Mr. Miller is a native son of Anaheim and graduated from the local high school. He then entered Occidental college. At the close of his second year he entered the war and served 18 months in France with the One Hundred and Seventeenth Engineer corps, belonging to the Rainbow Division. After the war he returned and graduated from Occidental college, and is now associated with the Southern California Telephone company as engineer of the Manual Traffic Engineering Department. The bride, who is well known in Anaheim, having lived here for some years, is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Waterman, of Hollywood. She is a member of the National Dramatic society and has been engaged in concert work for more than three years, during which time she has frequently appeared on radio programs. Many beautiful gifts were received from friends and relatives. people "join." In truth, they join the name—the slogan—not the organization, as any of us might be lead to do but they fail to investigate the motives behind it. Competition which is said to be "the life of trade," is frequently the death of competitors. NAHEIM GAZETE Anaheim, California, Thursday, January 8, 1925 CAMOUFLAGING THE ISSUE Once upon a time there lived in a middle western state—presumably Arkansas—a quack doctor, whose ability as a financier greatly overbalanced his skill as a physician. He carried but one medicine in his saddle bags, a tonic very effective in combatting fits. When questioned by a visitor to his bucolic settlement one day relative to the prevalence of fits among his patients, he explained: "It ain't that cases of fits are more numerous here than elsewhere, stranger, but I don't know how to handle these new fangled diseases, and I don't try. But everybody in this neighborhood knows I'm hell on fits, so if I can make a patient believe he is threatened with fits he will accept me as his doctor and swallow my medicine. If he lives he will pay me my fee, if he dies the family will pay it. For many years I have made a living out of my fits, and I am going to stick to fits the balance of my days." Evidently the Ku Klux managers in the campaign now waging in Anaheim have borrowed a page from the book of rules of this eminent Arkansas doctor. They are frantically endeavoring to make the people believe that Anaheim be the office or of the church public the Nation ment of introduce the ass has been it is no men re interests its ganda able owners of save city—men and women who built the city and are determined that the yoke of the alien Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan shall be removed from our necks, and that the blasting influence of this secret order shall be checkmated. Perhaps few of the men on this roll are not in sympathy with the Volstead law, but all of them are one hundred per cent American, and they believe in the enforcement of all laws while they are on the statute books. If you have an opportunity to scan the membership roll of the Anaheim Klavern, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, you will find that many of the members have not been noted for their zeal in the dry cause. It is reported that one of the bootleggers enmeshed in the raid engineered by Myers, Starbuck and Stueke some weeks ago, was found to be a member of the Klan. His arrest was a mistake on the part of the "investigator," but the discovery was made too late to whitewash him. One hundred members of the U.S.A. club have been appointed on an advisory board. On this board we find the names of Mrs. Nellie E. Terry, Mrs. C. S. O'Toole, Mrs. J.P. Brastad, Mrs. J.W. Truxaw, Mrs. J.E Schu draws perquisites from the membership. It is to his interest financially to keep the order in existence and to lengthen its roll. He is making a desperate fight to keep the discredited organization alive, because its death would mean serious financial loss to him. Does any person in Anaheim capable of reasoning, believe that the ten leading ministers who are supporting the citizens' ticket, would deliberately attempt to displace a dry city government by a wet one? These men were all reluctant to take part in the campaign, but they finally did so because they were convinced that the future peace and prosperity of the city depended upon its rescue from the yoke of the Ku Klux Klan. One of the most formidable warriors in the ranks of the U.S.A. club is Dr. J.A. Gelissinger, pastor of the White Temple Methodist church. Years before he came to Anaheim Dr. Gelissinger was noted throughout the length and breadth of the state for his warfare on the liquor industry. He has not changed his views, but is just as perniciously active now in defense of prohibition as he was in his younger days. Does anybody in Anaheim be is threatened with fits he will accept me as his doctor and swallow my medicine. If he lives he will pay me my fee, if he dies the family will pay it. For many years I have made a living out of my fits, and I am going to stick to fits the balance of my days." Evidently the Ku Klux managers in the campaign now waging in Anaheim have borrowed a page from the book of rules of this eminent Arkansas doctor. They are frantically endeavoring to make the people believe that Anaheim is menaced by the wets, and that should the present Ku Klux board of trustees be dethroned the city would be in the hands of the enemies of the prohibitory law. Men and women who are giving voice to this propaganda are either woefully ignorant of the real issue, or they are deliberately lying in order to deceive the people. You can take your choice. If you talk to a man who mouths such statements you can decide in your own mind whether he is lying or whether he doesn't know any better, and is an object of pity rather than of censure. The U.S.A. Club, organized for the sole purpose of saving America from the insidious domination of the Klan, has a membership in Anaheim of more than one thousand men and women. The list is not hidden from the public. It is not secret, and should you drop into the headquarters of the club on East Center street you can see it and check up the membership. On its role you will find the names of the most prominent men and women in the FARM BUREAU LAYING FOR CHICKEN THIEVES Thousand Dollars Being Collected to Offer as Rewards. A thousand dollar reward for the arrest and conviction of parties stealing poultry will be offered by the poultry department of the Orange County Farm Bureau if present plans materialize. At a recent meeting the department appointed a committee to solicit funds for this reward with the understanding that none of the subscriptions would be binding unless the full thousand dollars had been subscribed before March 1, 1925. "Chicken stealing is regarded as a joke by a great many," declared A.E. Block, prominent poultryman of Costa Mesa, "but to us who lose several hundred dollars in a night it has ceased to become amusing and we ex- HUGO WITZEL VICTIM OF CARBON MONOXIDE GAS Former Resident Here Found Dead in His Bed at Los Angeles During the past ninety days seventeen men and women have died in Los Angeles from the effects of carbon monoxide gas, generated by a heating stove. The sixteenth victim was Hugo Wetzel, formerly a well-known rancher of this neighborhood, who was found dead in his room at the hotel Allen, on East Second street. Sunday morning. The windows of the room were tightly closed and the stove was burning when he was discovered, and physicians state that he had been dead twelve hours. Hugo Wetzel was known to most of the people of this region. He owned a ranch in the oil region northeast of money stolen from the mails. His case will be set for trial January 12. Wheeler was arrested at Whittier where he was employed as a barber. He moved to Whittier after he was acquitted in Federal Judge Bledsoe's court in Los Angeles on a charge of conspiracy to rob the mails. His arrest on a bench warrant issued when Joseph R. Abernathy, former superintendent of schools here, testified in the trial of J.U.Hemmi, Torrance lawyer, that he and Wheeler and J.Lloyd-Findlay had stolen $25,000 from a registered package at Anaheim last December. Abernathy is serving a five-year sentence at Leavenworth on the conspiracy charge. Hemml was convicted on a charge of recoiling part of the stolen money and was sentenced to ten months in jail. A.K. upon it had be he could immed asked him the year listed ed: "W some but t I have replied demi- — "The answer want and a Peter darkfle that h funera MUST Farm question census their stated many lately farmer they ques tion The by th under 1919, under Stats B.Va. sententio 10 minia. act me who of the penal is swa as coevie evider it be not no confo income Ma. to th tive f return first and r At a recent meeting the department appointed a committee to solicit funds for this reward with the understanding that none of the subscriptions would be binding unless the full thousand dollars had been subscribed before March 1, 1925. "Chicken stealing is regarded as a joke by a great many," declared A. E. Block, prominent poultryman of Costa Mesa, "but to us who lose several hundred dollars in a night it has ceased to become amusing and we expect to create an incentive for people to report such cases." It was declared at the poultry meeting that the monies collected for the reward would be placed in the First National Bank at Santa Ana for a period of three years, the ownership of the money to remain in the name of the donor, each for himself, and the interest which might acrue would revert to the respective donors. It was agreed that no part of the money could be withdrawn during the three year term except for the payment of a reward for the arrest and conviction of a person guilty of stealing poultry and even then the payment must be ordered by W. S. Hatch, chairman of the poultry department. At the end of the three year term the donors may withdraw the monies remaining to their credit and when a reward is paid the amount will be divided equally among the several donors in ratio to the amount they subscribed. It was decided that the following rewards would be offered: For the theft of one to twenty-five, $60; twenty-five to one hundred, $75; more than one hundred, $100. A fifty dollar reward may be given for the conviction of an attempted robbery. The plan met with ready support and nearly $300 was subscribed at the close of the meeting. Wetzel, formerly a well-known rancher of this neighborhood, who was found dead in his room at the hotel Allen, on East Second street, Sunday morning. The windows of the room were tightly closed and the stove was still burning when he was discovered, and physicians state that he had dead twelve hours. Hugo Wetzel was known to most of the people of this region. He owned a ranch in the oil region northeast of town, and was called by all his friends and acquaintances "the mayor of Richfield." Two or three years ago he sprang into moterley through the shooting of a young man named Eddy in his watermelon patch. Eddy and a companion visited the patch on a night when Wetzel exasperated because certain vandals had been destroying the vines and green melons, was guarding it with a shotgun. Hearing the boys in the field Wetzel fired, and Eddy fell, mortally wounded. He died before he could be conveyed to a hospital. Wetzel was arrested, but stoutly maintained that he had no intention of shooting anybody, but merely fired in the darkness to frighten the raiders away. He was tried on a charge of manslaughter, but acquitted by the jury. Following his acquittal he left on a visit to his old home in Germany, and remained there nearly a year. On his return here he took up his residence in Los Angeles. He was 65 years of age. DENIES GUILT IN POSTOFFICE ROBBERY Charles R. Wheeler, formerly in charge of the registry division of the Anaheim postoffice, has pleaded not guilty before Federal Judge James in Los Angeles to a charge of receiving go Wetzel, formerly a well-known rancher of this neighborhood, who was found dead in his room at the hotel Allen, on East Second street, Sunday morning. The windows of the room were tightly closed and the stove was still burning when he was discovered, and physicians state that he had dead twelve hours. Hugo Wetzel was known to most of the people of this region. He owned a ranch in the oil region northeast of town, and was called by all his friends and acquaintances "the mayor of Richfield." Two or three years ago he sprang into moterley through the shooting of a young man named Eddy in his watermelon patch. Eddy and a companion visited the patch on a night when Wetzel exasperated because certain vandals had been destroying the vines and green melons, was guarding it with a shotgun. Hearing the boys in the field Wetzel fired, and Eddy fell, mortally wounded. He died before he could be conveyed to a hospital. Wetzel was arrested, but stoutly maintained that he had no intention of shooting anybody, but merely fired in the darkness to frighten the raiders away. He was tried on a charge of manslaughter, but acquitted by the jury. Following his acquittal he left on a visit to his old home in Germany, and remained there nearly a year. On his return here he took up his residence in Los Angeles. He was 65 years of age. NATIONAL THRIFT WEEK National Thrift Week begins on Saturday, January 17, that being the birthday of Benjamin Franklin, the great apostle of thrift. The week will be observed in Orange county in a variety of ways, the general program being promoted by a special Thrift Week Committee of which J. P. Buamgartner, of Santa Ana, is the chairman. A. M. Stanley, of the County Farm Bureau, and A. L. Cliger, of the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce, constitute a cooperating committee, to aid in spreading the thrift message throughout the county. A special exhibit of thrift week posters and other material is now on view at the Santa Ana Y. M. C. A. which is thrift headquarters for the whole program. The days of Thrift Week are designated as follows: Saturday—Pay your bills promptly day. Sunday—Share with others. Monday—Thrift of bank day. Tuesday—Life insurance day. Wednesday—Own your own home Jay. Thursday—Family budget day. Friday—Safe investment day. Most of the service clubs and other organizations which hold weekly meetings will consider thrift topics in their meetings during that week, and the ZETTE Number 13 E from the member interest financially in existence and to make a desig the discredited because its death financial loss to person in Anaheim, believe that the who are support ticket, would delib displace a dry city not one? These men to take part in the finally did so be convinced that the prosperity of the its rescue from Klux Klan. Formidable warriors U. S. A. club is Dr. pastor of the White church. Years be-helm Dr. Gelssing-ghout the length state for his war industry. He has news, but is just as know in defense of was in his youngerly in Anaheim be- subject will be presented in many churches on the Sunday, while the public schools will generally take up the thought. National Thrift Week is a development of the Y. M. C. A. idea which was introduced several years ago among the association members, and which has become so popular nationally that it is now handled by a large group of men representing all lines of business interest in promoting thrift practices. It is stated that the thrift propaganda in recent years has had a noticeable effect on savings accounts, home ownership, insurance and other means of savings. TIME TO DEMIT The following story was told in this office Monday by Harry Hale. Whether or not he has personal knowledge of the matter we are not informed, but he vouches for the truth of it. A Ku Kluxer who had been operated upon in a hospital was told that he had better put his house in order, as he could not live a week longer. He immediately called up the Kleagle and asked him for a demit. The Kleagle said his dues were paid to the end of the year, and when the Klansman insisted on being left out at once, asked: "What is the big idea—Mad about something?"—"No," was the answer, that the doctor has just told me that KLAN TRYING TO BECLOUD THE REAL ISSUE MAKING DESPERATE EFFORTS TO DECEIVE THE VOTERS OF ANAHEIM Wet and Dry Propaganda Only a Smoke Screen Raised to Blind the People—Eighteenth Amendment Settled for All Time Liquor Fights in Politics—Anaheim People Must Wake Up and Redeem the City. Dr. James Allen Geissinger Pastor of the Methodist White Temple Ever since I came to California some sixteen years ago, I have been actively identified with the effort to drive the liquor traffic out of the life of our state and nation. And I have never felt so afraid of the "wets" or anyone else that I had to put a pillow alp over my head to have my say." I think our city and the country at MUST ANSWER FARM CENSUS ENUMERATORS Farmers are required to answer the questions of the special agricultural census enumerators to the best of their ability, the farm bureau office stated this week in response to the many queries that have been received lately. This does not mean that the farmers must be absolutely exact, but they must not refuse to answer the questions. The enumerators are not employed by the farm bureau but are working under the act of congress of March, 1919, which places the enumerators under the direction of the United States Department of Commerce. J. B. Valle, of Los Angeles, is the representative of this department for the 10 most southern counties in California. Valle states that section 23 of the act mentioned declares: "The farmer who refuses to answer any question of the enumerators may be subject to penalty of $100 fine. The enumerator is sworn to regard all this information as confidential, it may not be used as evidence in a court trial, neither may it be given to any tax official. It is not necessary for the information to conform identically with the farmer's incometax statements." Many farmers in the country object to the questions which are asked relative to their indebtedness and crop returns. It is said. They regard the first as their own private business and are unable to answer the second question at this time. Some resent Dr. James Allen Geissinger Pastor of the Methodist White Temple Ever since I came to California some sixteen years ago, I have been actively identified with the effort to drive the liquor traffic out of the life of our state and nation. And I have never felt so afraid of the "wets" or anyone else that I had to put a pillow alp over my head to have my say." I think our city and the country at large has accepted prohibition as the sanest policy for city and nation and the vast majority of our citizens realize that prohibition has been a great boon to us. We have more Ford cars more working men' homes, more savings account, more purchases of home comforts, more butchers' bills paid up, more young men and women going to college than ever before and all this as a direct result of the savings on our booze bill. Not one town in one hundred would vote wet today. On no other issue are Americans so banded together as on the issue of prohibition. Liquor is Not Issue Anaheim voted out the liquor traffic before the country at large did and it never has had a desire to return to the old wet ways. Our citizens have no intention whatsoever of having the will of the people, as expressed in the eighteenth amendment, the Volstead act and the Wright law, trifled with. Many of our former drinking men and women have been completely converted to a personal policy of bone-dryness. Not a single full-witted wet politician but knows that no man can be elected to office in Anaheim now on a wet platform. I lay it down as a statement incapable of successful contradiction that an overwhelming majority of our Anaheim citizens are in favor of the strictest enforcement of the Wright law and the straightest kind of punishment for the bootleger. We doubtless have bootleggers in Orange county and in Anaheim. Some of them seem to get a peculiar kind of protection just now. But that any such condition obtains, either in our city or county, as Klansmen Starbuck, Cyclops Myers and our Plain Double Dealer try to make out no sane person believes for one minute. Jury Will Do Duty We may be assured now that the grand jury will go to the bottom of the hysterical propaganda the klan as confidential, it may not be used as evidence in a court trial, neither may it be given to any tax official. It is not necessary for the information to conform identically with the farmer's incometax statements." Many farmers in the country object to the questions which are asked relative to their indebtedness and crop returns. It is said. They regard the first as their own private business and are unable to answer the second question at this time. Some resentment developed because it was presumed that the farmers would be subject to a $100 fine if they did not answer the questions correctly, whereas the fine only applies to those who refuse to answer at all. It is desirable to make the census replies as nearly correct as possible because the census questionnaire is unfair to Southern California, it was pointed out. No provisions have been made for recording any data relative to the walnut, persimmon, avocado and several other prominent crops of this section. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Hale are enjoying a visit from several friends from the frozen north. They are Mr. and Mrs. Bendorf of Waterloo, Iowa; Mrs. Mueller and Frank Kaeding, of Potosi, Wisconsin; Mr. Bendorf and Mrs. Mueller are sisters of Mrs. Hale, and Mr. Kaeding is their brother. Mr. and Mrs. Bendorf have been here before, but this is the first visit of Mrs. Mueller and Mr. Kaeding. Hard work isn't everything, and money isn't everything, but a combination of them gets about everything. You can't be beaten out of the savings of a life-time if you haven't any savings. But that any such condition obtains, either in our city or county, as Klansmen Starbuck, Cyclops Myers and our Plain Double Dealer try to make out no sane person believes for one minute. Jury Will Do Duty We may be assured now that the grand jury will go to the bottom of the hysterical propaganda the klan has set upon this wet and dry issue. It is well that they should. If we have law public officials they ought to be reminded that an impatient public will not stand for any easy going handling of the liquor evil. On the other hand we all know that it makes for lawlessness to have self-appointed groups taking the law into their own hands. That has been the effect the klan has had everywhere. It is hard for a sane person to believe that the bootleggers have gathered here from the four corners of the earth like the arms of Gog and Macg; that Anaheim is their Mecca; that our high school students are becoming "old soaks;" that everyone has a bottle on his hip or in her stocking. Nor are we convinced by this Light Brigade of night riders rushing from town to town to hold mass meetings and take up collections. We are now paying eleven millions annually for the enforcement of the Volstead act besides what we spend locally and we do not relish this habit of having self-appointed custodians of the law run up additional, unauthorized bills for us to pay. What Is Source of Booze? We would like to know if these high school boys and girls got their booze from the so-called "investigat- (Continued on Page 9)