anaheim-gazette 1925-01-08

Klan Trying to Becloud the Real Issue (Continued from Page 1) ors" or whatever these klan operators are called. We should like to get a look at these "estimable ladies" who swooped down upon our quiet community and left a trail behind them. If this hysterical hullabaloo of the klan about the "wet and dry" issue in Anaheim is not a matter of throwing dust to fool the people, to create a smoke screen behind which the Klan hopes to ride into office February 3, attempt to carry forward a lying propaganda and raise campaign funds and we are willing to grant that, still it has done our city no good and it is wide of the facts. It would seem that "poor old Anaheim" had suffered enough by being klan-advertised as the home of bigotry, of religious hysterics and race hatred, without being held up to all Southern California as a bootleg-center and a rendezvous of the underworld. Klan Fooled Voters I have been pastor in this city now nearly five years and I have kept in close touch with affairs in the city and I am in a position of responsibility where any statement I make can easily be checked up by the proper ecclesiastical authorities. (I am not an ecclesiastical outlaw) and I desire to say because I feel it my duty to do so that I hope the people of Anaheim, the voters of Anaheim, are not going to be fooled again. We were fooled last spring. The Klan fooled us then. The plain dealer helped them do it. Mr. Metcalf and his fellow klansmen on our council helped them do it then. They had then, as they have now, a man by the name of Long as campaign manager. He is now also secretary of the klan. It is said he is being groomed like this present condition? Do you wish it to go on for four years? It is up to you to say. You have the ballot. You have the opportunity of using it February 3. I think none but the feeble minded will be deceived by the present efforts of the klan. At least the U.S.A. organization of leading citizens, banded together to rid the city of klan-control, is doing, and will do all it can, to get the people to think straight on this issue and to vote right February 3. May I say in closing that I have made it a point since coming to this city not to mix up in any kind of political affairs. I do not believe that it is the business of a minister to play politics or to try to use his influence, the influence of his position, to determine elections. But the present situation is not merely a political one. It is not one group of politicians trying to oust another met that they themselves may get into office. Our situation is this: Anaheim can't go on as it is. The future of our entire community is menaced by this secret influence emanating from Atlanta, Georgia, and existing primarily for the graft there is in it. I have written this article and I am adding in the present campaign solely for what I think is the good of the city. Candidates Not Politicians It is only fair to say that the four men, Mr. Grafton, Mr. Franzen, Mr. Mathis and Mr. Miller, have agreed to stand for office simply to restore Anaheim to its former condition. Not one of them is a politician. Everyone of them has standing and the confidence of the public and the business ability necessary to lift our city out of its plight. What they are doing every man and woman must do. You must do your act such lawfully to defend its stitutional and plea that he wounds were correct. "The defender tertain the order convention party from its situate it through Workers' part the decision such opinion, ed at the Brid underground, known as nu the communal. The recordists with whosembled are realization of process of evencerate them aims by revoked allegiance a foreign body, and are remands in ours. "Their docurrection antics involve injuring until plan the loot voke its law installing their booters and pity compared ers. Their he ho commit crusade of terrorism the red threat and their avail striction of United States." ecclesiastical outlaw) and I desire to say because I feel it my duty to do so that I hope the people of Anaheim, the voters of Anaheim, are not going to be fooled again. We were fooled last spring. The Klan fooled us then. The plain dealer helped them do it. Mr. Metcalf and his fellow klansmen on our council helped them do it then. They had then, as they have now, a man by the name of Long as campaign manager. He is now also secretary of the klan. It is said he is being groomed for city manager in case the klan candidates get into power again. The same tactics are used now as then. They are raising the hue and cry about the wets trying to get back into power. I am writing this present article because I feel that it would be cowardly for me to keep quiet when I know that some people are being fooled again by this false issue. My desire is simply to get the people to pause long enough to think on our present situation. The issue is not now, and it was not last spring "wet or dry." Fine Art of Klansmen The voters last spring did not know what they were voting for. They thought they were voting for certain men. They did not know they were voting the klan into power. They were misled. That is a fine art among klansmen, misleading their neighbors. That's what they call it. Some of us have another word for it. But let that go. WE WERE MISLED LAST SPRING. THE PLAINDEALER HELPED TO MISLEAD US THEN. They tried it again in August. They are trying it again now. They have set up the same old squawk once more: "The old gang is trying to get back into power." "Look out or the wets will get you." Those whose memories have a little continuity will recall that as soon as the klan council got into power it began to oust every anti-klan city-employee. The klan entered the council chamber and reminded its creatures as to who had elected them and what was expected of them. Then the klan painted up the streets, took down the flag-pole, donned their muslin robes and pillowslips and began to march and patrol our streets and wave their firey crosses. The City Now Awake Then we saw. Then we awoke. Then we began to act. And one civic group after another took action denouncing the klan and deploring our condition. It is only fair to say that the four men, Mr. Grafton, Mr. Franzen, Mr. Mathis and Mr. Miller, have agreed to stand for office simply to restore Anaheim to its former condition. Not one of them is a politician. Everyone of them has standing and the confidence of the public and the business ability necessary to lift our city out of its plight. What they are doing every man and woman must do. You must do your part to save your city. Make February 3 a day never to be forgotten by custing our K. K. K. council. "LAME DUCKS" NOT ALWAYS "DEAD DUCKS" There is a great deal of foolish editorializing about "lame ducks" in public life—men who have been defeated for re-election and are therefore assumed to have been "reduplicated" by the people tnd thus shown to be unworthy of public trust. A man may be defeated for public office not because he has done wrong, but because he has been courageous enough to act according to his own convictions and judgment. There is no taint of disgrace in such a defeat, and it may bear witness to his strength rather than his weakness. In a case where such a man is fitted by ability to fill a public post there is no common sense reason for his rejection (thereafter as unavailable). Lincoln was a "lame duck" after one term in Congress—that is to say he was not returned to the House—and he started his public career with a defeat as a candidate for the legislature. McKinley was a "lame duck" when he was nominated and elected Governor of Ohio and sent on his way to the Presidency. Roosevelt was a "lame duck" after his defeat for Mayor of New York, but indeed showed considerable political sprightfulness after that temporary reverse. Grover Cleveland was a lame duck after his first term in the Presidency, but he served a second term. President Harding was defeated as a candidate for governor of Ohio, but he did not stay "lame" long. Few men of distinction have failed to fall short at times of majority support for their ambitions. The "lame duck" stuff is drivel, especially when it is used as the basis of an "argument" that once a man has been defeated for re-section to Congress harm may... as to who had elected them and what was expected of them. Then the klan painted up the streets, took down the flag-pole, donned their muslin robes and pillowslips and began to march and patrol our streets and wave their firey crosses. The City Now Awake Then we saw. Then we awoke. Then we began to act. And one civic group after another took action denouncing the klan and deploring our condition. Many leading citizens then called upon the klansmen who had been elected to the council by the grossest misrepresentation to resign and when they refused, the recall election was set. That is where we are now. The issue now is not "wet and dry" but "do we wish to be controlled by the klan?" "Do we intend to have a klan controlled city council?" That is the issue. Spelled so all klansmen may read it: "De we intend to have a klan kontrolled kouncil after February 3?" That is the issue and the only issue. The klan has boasted here and elsewhere that no one can live peaceably in Anaheim who is unfriendly to the klan, who believes the klan contrary to our Christian ideals and the liberties guaranteed by our Constitution. They have a right to make that boast. It is true. I have found it out. They boast that they control the council, the police force, the school board. They have a right now to make that boast. They tell their members what merchants to patronize. They inform merchants that if they will join the klan they will get the klan's patronage. That is not boycotting. It is simply boycoting or klannishness. Now Up to Voters Citizens of Anaheim, how do you DO YOU RECEIVE ANY PRESENTATIONS OF THE U.S. S.A. ZEILMAN, BANDY OF KLAN, OR ALL IT CAN, STRAIGHT ON FEBUARY? WHAT I HAVE TO DO IS TO PLAY POLITIQUE, THE DETERMINE THAT IT IS NOT ONE TO OUST ANSWERS MAY BE ISSUE IN THIS CAMPAIGN, AND EXIST THERE IS IN AN article and I campaign the good of the people. THE FOUR WORRENZEN, MR. WE AGREED TO RESTORE ANAHEIM. NOT ONE EVERYONE OF CONFIDENCE ABILITY OUT OF ITS MAN AND JUST DO YOUR FOREST RESEARCH ACTIVITIES HOLD THAT THE STATE HAS A RIGHT TO ENACT EACH LAWS AS THE SYNDICALISM ACT TO DEFEND IT; THAT THE ACT IS CONSTITUTIONAL AND THAT RUTHENBERG'S PLEA THAT HE WAS ARRESTED AND HIS DOCUMENTS WERE SEIZED ILlegally WERE INCORRECT. "The defendant would have us entertain the opinion that he attended the convention to turn the communist party from its illegal activities and constitute it through a merger with the Workers' party, an open leagal porty," the decision said. "We entertain no such opinion. Resolutions were adopted at the Bridgeman meeting that the underground, illegal party, which is known as number one and which is the communist party, must continue. The record shows that the communists with whom the defendant was assembled are not content to await the realization of their hopes through the process of evolution, but intend to accelerate the accomplishment of their aims by revolution. They have pledged allegiance to the third international foreign body inimical to a free people, and are carrying out its commands in our midst. "Their doctrines teach ultimate insurrection and civil war. Their tactics involve the cowardly purpose of injuring until they can destroy. They plan the looting of the nation, and invoke its laws to protect them while installing their doctrines. The freebooters and pirates of old were small fry compared to their modern brothers. Their hope is to find opportunity to commit crimes; their creed is that of terrorism and violence; they are the red thread of Russian communism and their avowed purpose is the destruction of the government of the United States by force." FOREST RESEARCH ACTIVITIES No. of Bank 829. Copy for Publisher of the American Savings Bank Of Anaheim, California, as of the close of business on the 31 day of December, 1924. RESOURCES Savings 1 & 2. Loans and Discounts (including Rediscounts) 968,697.00 6. United States Securities Owned 152,159.00 10. Due from Federal Reserve Bank 26,000.00 11. Due from Other Banks 252,884.29 12. Actual Cash on Hand 3,754.18 14. Checks and Other Cash Items 10.00 Total $1,403,504.47 LIABILITIES 15. Capital Paid in 100,000.00 19. Surplus 25,000.00 21. All undivided profits (less Expense, Interest and Taxes Paid) 49,627.20 27a. Dividends Unpaid 5,000.00 27c. Savings Deposits 1,119,037.22 27a. Time Certificates of Deposit 79,840.05 28. State, County and Municipal Deposits 25,000.00 Total $1,403,504.47 Interest Earned but not Collected (not included in Resources or liabilities) 9,686.97 State of California, County of Orange, ss: Wm. J. Siemann, President, and E. Zitzmann, Secretary (Cashier) of American Savings Bank of Anaheim, being duly sworn, each for himself, says he has a personal knowledge of the matters contained in the foregoing report of condition and that every allegation, statement, matter and thing therein contained is true to the best of his knowledge and belief. Severally subscribed and sworn to before me by both deponents, the 5th day of January, 1925. CECIL ATHERTON, Notary Public In and for said County of Orange, State of California. My Commission expires Sept. 6, 1926. WM: J. SIEMANN, President. E. ZITZMANN, Secretary (Cashier) FOREST RESEARCH ACTIVITIES Eight regional Forest Experiment Stations and the Forest Products Laboratory are now in operation, according to the annual report made by the Chief of the Forest Service to the Secretary of Agriculture. In addition, a new Forest Experiment Station is being established in the Pacific Northwest. A station for California is urged by Chief Forester Greeley in his report. The eight Experiment Stations now in operation are located at New Orleans, La., Missouri, Mont., Ashville, N.C., Amherst, Mass., St. Paul, Minn., Portland, Oregon, Flagstaff, Ariz., Colorado Springs, Colo. The Forest Products Laboratory, located at Madison, Wis., made the study of wood waste prevention one of its chief activities, the report states. This resulted in a national conference called the late Henry C. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, which was attended by about 400 representatives of timber producing manufacturing and consuming industries. The Laboratory also continued its study of the dimension-stock requirements of various industries with a view of reducing the numbers of different sizes needed in commerce and thus simplifying the problem of making and buying dimension stock. Much progress was also made, according to the report, in important phases of the preservative treatment of timber, in paper and pulp research, and in investigating kiln-drying and air-seasoning methods. This latter activity involved elaborate tests of airplane woods for the United States Navy and resulted in many practical advantages. In referring to the work of the Forest Experiment Stations the report states: "Already it has become evident that these stations are certain to be of prime importance in hastening the general practice of forestry within their several regions. Their influence is partly due to the fact that they be- Dress Better, And You Look Better; Look Better, And You Feel Better; Feel Better, And You Look Better; Look Better, And You Feel Better; Feel Better, And You Work Better; Work Better, And You Will be Better Regarded and Better Rewarded. "DRESS WELL AND SUCCEED" P.H.M. Closkey CLOTHIER 219 W.' Center Anaheim, Cal. 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Overdraft, secured none; unsecured, $310.27 310.27 4. U. S. Government securities owned: a Deposited to secure circulation (U. S. Bonds par value ..... 100,000.00 b All other United States Government securities (including premiums, if any) ..... 71,000.00 Total ..... 171,000.00 5. Other bonds, stocks, securities, etc.: ..... 212,196.00 6. Banking House, $75,102.63; Furniture and Fixtures, $29,848.87 ..... 104,951.50 8. Lawful reserve with Federal Reserve Bank..... 158,329.54 9. Items with Federal Reserve Bank in process of collection ..... 35,393.14 10. Cash in Vault and amount due from national banks ..... 870,103.60 13. Checks on other banks in the same city as reporting bank ..... 15,831.08 Total of items 9, 10, and 13.....921,327.82 b Miscellaneous cash items.....4,358.17 4,358.17 15 Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and duetfrom U. S. Treasurer ..... 5,000.00 16. Other assets, if any.....412.00 Total ..... $2,837,153.27 LIABILITIES 17. Capital Stock paid in ..... 150,000.00 18. Surplus fund ..... 50,000.00 19. a Undivided profits ..... $17,523.29 17,523.29 21. Circulating notes outstanding ..... 100,000.00 22. Amount due to Federal Reserve Bank (deferred credits) ..... 15,470.63 24. Amount due to State banks, bankers, and reporting bank ... 18,881.08 Total of items 9, 10, and 13 ... 921,327.82 b Miscellaneous cash items ... 4,358.17 15 Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and duet from U. S. Treasurer ... 5,000.00 16. Other assets, if any ... 412.00 Total ... $2,837,153.27 LIABILITIES 17. Capital Stock paid in ... 150,000.00 18. Surplus fund ... 50,000.00 19. a Undivided profits ... $17,523.29 21. Circulating notes outstanding ... 100,000.00 22. Amount due to Federal Reserve Bank (deferred credits) ... 15,470.63 24. Amount due to State banks, bankers, and trust companies in the United States and foreign countries (other than included in Items 22) ... 61,093.34 25. Certified checks outstanding ... 307.50 26. Cashier's checks outstanding ... 86,416.00 Total of Items 22, 24, 25, and 26 ... 163,287.47 Demand deposits (other than bank deposits) subject to Reserve deposits payable within 30 days: 27. Individual deposits subject to check ... 1,700,667.87 28. Certificates of deposit due in less than 30 days (other than for money borrowed) ... 146,082.67 29. State, county, or other municipal deposits secured by pledge of assets of this bank or surety bond ... 125,000.00 31. Dividends unpaid ... 10,000.00 Total of demand deposits (other than bank deposits) subject to Reserve, Items 27, 28, 29, and 31 ... 1,981,750.54 Time deposits subject to Reserve (payable after 30 days, or subject to 30 days or more notice, and postal savings): 33. Certificates of deposit (other than for money borrowed) ... 318,248.04 34. State, county, or other municipal deposits secured by pledge of assets of this bank or surety bond ... 50,000.00 36. Postal Savings deposits ... 1,244.02 Total of time deposits subject to Reserve, Items 33, 34, and 36 ... 369,492.06 United States deposits (other than postal savings), including War Loan deposit account and deposits of United States disbursing officers... 5,099.91 Total ... $2,837,153.27 State of California, County of Orange, ss: I. H. H. Benjamin, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. H. H. BENJAMIN, Cashier Subscribed and sworn to before me this 5 day of January, 1925. LEONARD EVANS, Nortary Public. SAMUEL KRAEMER, WM J SIEMANN, E ZITZMANN, directors