anaheim-gazette 1925-03-19

PAGE FOUR Anaheim Gazette ESTABLISHED 1870 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY Henry Kuchel, Editor and Proprelector SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR $1.50 SIX MONTHS $1.00 THREE MONTHS $ .50 Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice at second-class matter. CATCH THE "HIGH GRADERS" Gold mining! There is always a tinge of romance attached to this phrase. In the days of the pioneers we are told that a miner's gold dust or nuggets were as safe from theft in big unlocked chiln as they were in a bank. In those days the penalty for theft was swift and sure. We have all read of "high grading" but few of us really know the meaning of the term. It is a practice which has developed in mines producing rich ores, being generally carried out by employees working for a company. It is stealing, just as surely as if a man went into the cabin of a miner and took his jar of nuggets or sack of gold dust. Punishment for it has been very lax, however, because the theft seemed less when a man took a little rock from the company, bearing a little gold, than it did when he took a handful of gold from an individual. One act is just as much a theft as the other. The "high grader," while he steals rock containing gold, steals tons of it. Investigations carried on in northern and central California during the past year show that the aggregate will not be permitted to have its way; that allows mean, personal motives and petty partisan animosities to creep into its proceedings; that is afflicted with long-winded speakers whom there are no rules to choke off. "A few senators cannot, by themselves, change the rules and transform the senate into an assembly where the majority can, after reasonable debate, have its will, but they might speak out their minds about the intolerable conditions which exist, might make appeals within the Senate and outside it, and be more active and efficient than they are in endeavoring to win back a part at least, of the glory that was the Senate." FIRE PREVENTION WORK There is no let us of the work of the special committee on fire prevention methods of the Orange County Harbor Chamber of Commerce. L. L. Isboll has planned this week's letter and here it is, brief and to the point: A fire prevention campaign is the psychological time for bringing before the people suggestions that will help them be more careful. It has been said that all fires are due to carelessness and carelessness has meant the loss of dollars and lives. Statistics show this to be true. Therefore people must acquire the careful habit. There are many culprits that may be labeled firebugs that lurk around the home, ready to flare up and untold damage. A few of these are: Improper insulation of electric wires, open heaters without protection, improper adjustment of gas plugs, electric irons left attached and on explosives placed or used near fire accumulation of rubbish which might cause spontaneous combustion, lightedaces and embodies of $6,517,000. In 1924 the slightly against change of produe For every dollar received from sugar or other more than a dozen kinds brought AN ABUNDAN An almost water and an electric power haps had more up of Los Angeles other mediums formia Business of the Los Angles merce. The facts statements which sections, born that there is danger of a wave in Southern Californias Perhaps one these wild stories credence in those sections and right side formia rivers hupside down so visible like it the country. That may see far-fetched stature in the East, run until they reach the ocean and waste. Here the rivers are because they re great currents both undergroove. Punishment for it has been very lax, however, because the theft seemed less when a man took a little rock from the company, bearing a little gold, than it did when he took a handful of gold from an individual. One act is just as much a theft as the other. The "high grader," while he steals rock containing gold, steals tons of it. Investigations carried on in northern and central California during the past year show that the aggregate thefts of "high graders" (individuals who steal gold quartz) during 1924 were in excess of $500,000. To remedy this pernicious practice which robs innocent stockholders of hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, the California Metal and mineral Producers' Association, commissioned of the leading mining companies in California, has asked the state legislature to pass an act "to provide for regulation, control and licensing of any person, firm or corporation engaged in business or milling, sampling, concentrating, reducing, purchasing or receiving for sale ores, concentrates or amalgams bearing gold or silver, gold dust, silver or bullion; nuggets or specimens; to provide rules and regulations thereof, and provide penalties for violations of the provisions of this act." This act would curtail the practice of "high grading" by employees by providing regulations covering the sale and distribution thereof. In other words, it would require persons buying ore or concentrates to keep a record of the persons selling the same. This would bring many questionable transactions to light. The bill does not call for an appropriation. Neither does it provide for the appointment of its commission. Licenses are issued by the secretary of state and the income derived therefrom is deposited to the credit of the general fund of the state. Colorado was forced to pass legislation similar to this in 1914 and has saved the miners of that state millions of dollars. The relief sought by this proposed legislation in California will put money into the general treasury and cost the taxpayers nothing. It will be a material factor in the future development of the precious metal resources of the state and in the rehabilitation of one of California's most important industries which has been showing a gradual decline in annual production. PORTO RICO-U. S. TRADE NOW $150,000,000 A YEAR Although Porto Rico is smaller in area than Connecticut, it outranks all Central America, all Africa and all countries of South America, except Argentina, in the extent of its purchases in the markets of the United States, says Facts About Sugar. Last year the island spent $78,412,000 for goods brought from the United States. People must acquire the careful habit. There are many culprits that may be labeled firebugs that lurk around the home, ever ready to flare up and untold damage. A few of these are: Improper insulation of electric wires, open heaters without protection, improper adjustment of gas plugs, electric irons left attached and on explosives placed or used near fire accumulation of rubbish which might cause spontaneous combustion, lighted cigarettes and matches carelessly thrown aside, fire not extinguished when being left. These culprits must be apprehended and not put on probation. The people must be filled with inspiration during this campaign. The habit must be instilled. What habit? The careful habit. Most people know what to do but do not do it. Why? Because the habit has not been formed. How can we get the habit? By keeping before us what is done and doing it. Essays, posters, tags, slogans and verse may be added. Above all, let us play "safety first" and let preparedness be our watchword and know that we have an adequate fire department to take care of the inevitable should the time arise. This slogan might be a daily saying: "Careful first and never sorry." This verse may also be a help to many: There is a habit to acquire. Be ever careful where there's a fire. Look here; look there; look everywhere. Best Demon Fire a bomb has there. Take care that Self be careless not. Take care of neighbor, too. No day will then be left to rue. Word has been received that during the month of February no less than 18 cities held fire prevention conventions of a state-wide nature. This evidences a national effort to reduce fire loss and fire risks. There are now 342 chambers of commerce entered in the national fire waste contest. State school superintendents are endorsing the work. Discussing this said: "Of the rp construction, tha load of 19260,000 horsepower than sufficient load and pos water supply." All this is p regard for the power from tha water supply an "THE GLORY THAT WAS THE SENATE" Vice-President Dawes, in his inauguration address, shattered a lot of senatorial precedents. It was such an unusual event for an incoming public official to hold up for public gaze the shortcomings of one branch of our national law-making body that it brought a storm of protest from some political quarters. Why shouldn't Vice-President Dawes endeavor to shake the Senate into a realization of its duty to the public? The sixty-eight congress has ended and at the close of its three-month session, the enactment of vital measures failed utterly. The cold truth about the United States Senate will benefit that body, and the nation owes General Dawes a vote of thanks for his effort to shake it into activity and awaken some of its members from the self-satisfied and "holier than thou" attitude which they have adopted toward the public and industry during recent years. Commenting on the Senate, the New York Times says, editorially: "Largely through its own fault, it is coming to be thought of as the branch of congress which is either unable or unwilling to transact the public business in an orderly manner; that has to many members ready to insist with mulish obstinacy that if they cannot have their own way, the PORTO RICO-U. S. TRADE NOW $150,000,000 A YEAR Although Porto Rico is smaller in area than Connecticut, it outranks all Central America, all Africa and all countries of South America, except Argentina, in the extent of its purchases in the markets of the United States, says Facts About Sugar. Last year the island spent $78,412,000 for goods brought from the United States. The list of its purchases included meats, dairy products, flour rice, vegetables and other food supplies to the value of $31,599,000, cotton goods and other textiles worth $15,256,000, metal manufactures and machinery to the extent of $12,738,000, coal and oil worth $4,890,000, leather and rubber manufactures valued at $4,503,000, lumber and paper worth $2,771,000 and fertilizers costing $2,813,555. These are a few of the larger items in a list that includes practically everything produced by the farms, mines and factories of the United States. Since 1899, Porto Rico's first year under the Stars and Stripes, its purchases from the United States have increased from $3,954,000 to $78,000,000 a year while the total value of the trade between the island and the mainland has risen from $7,412,000 to over $150,000,000 a year. The principal basis of the commerce between Porto Rico and the United States is the island's big sugar crop. Last year Porto Rico shipped to the mainland 795,000,000 pounds of sugar valued at $48,445,000. Sugar thus comprised over 63 per cent of its total shipments which were valued at $76.551,000. Next to sugar, tobacco is the most important export, the amount shipped to the United States in 1924 having a value of $15.652,000. Other shipments from the island included cotton goods, largely in the form of In urging upon inaugural address Senate's rules of that body the public into the interests of Vice-President overwhelmingly lean public opinion. Under the prince is governed no cordance with pleas of republic but by minorities hove the right delay or defeat totally without of the people representatives. It is not surviident Dawes waving public grown up in the rogatives of s important that the of the America- ANAHEIM GAZETTE AN ABUNDANCE OF WATER AND POWER An almost inexhaustible supply of water and an abundance of hydroelectric power at low rates have perhaps had more to do with the building up of Los Angeles than have any other mediums, says Southern California Business, the official magazine of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. The facts disprove conclusively statements which are made in other sections, born of ignorance or envy, that there is or ever has been, a danger of a water and power shortage in Southern California. Perhaps one of the reasons why these wild stories have been given credence in the East is that rivers in those sections run more or less full and right side up. In Southern California rivers have a habit of running upside down so that the water is not visible like it is in other sections of the country. That may seem like a strange and far-fetched statement, but it is true. In the East, rivers run their course until they reach the Great Lakes or the ocean and for the most part go to waste. Here in Southern California the rivers are practically invisible because they run underground, but in great currents, and feed the mammoth underground basins placed there to be believed that the Senate is not a public body but a private club. The American people, whose representatives and servants in authority senators are, are not so much interested in the prerogatives of senators as they are in the transaction of public business. The spectacle of one of a half dozen men blocking or killing important legislation through the abuse of their privileges is one of which they have grown weary, and Vice-President Dawes did not put the matter too strongly when he said that an "outraged public sentiment" demanded a change. Elected by the whole American people to preside over the Senate, it was not an act of effrontery, but a simple performance of duty for Vice-President Dawes to give expression to their views on this question, just as much the business of the people who elect senators as that of senators themselves. Vice-President Dawes has shown the ability to sense and the courage to voice public opinion. When he launched his attack upon radicalism in the last campaign he was violently denounced by the opposition and sent many of the leaders of his own party into a fit of trembling that resembled the Saint Vitus dance. Before the end of the campaign every Republican speaker and writer was following his line of battle and the result was an overwhelming popular victory. Those who are now similarly denouncing him for throwing open the windows of the Senate to a violent gust of common sense will find that in his views Vice-President Dawes has the public back of him in the demand that the Senate cease to be a death trap for business and a sounding board for obstructive oratory. Legitimate debate of public questions however extended to all sources The car was started without difficulty and ran 12½ miles up the state highway on the gallon. A gallon of ordinary gasoline was used on the return trip, but was exhausted at 10 miles. The secret of the process, as well as the inventor's name, is carefully guarded by the newly organized company, but it is claimed that the new fuel, which is made of petroleum waste products, also can be made from wood. WHY AMERICANS ARE CONSERVATIVE According to a statement issued by the New York Trust Company, there were in the United States last October 11,814 building and loan associations and the number was steadily increasing. The total membership in these associations was nearly eight millions, and this number too was growing every day. The increase in the number of associations and the number of members during the year 1924, up to October, was placed at 10 per cent. This bit of statistics indicates that the number of wage earners in the country who are gradually building up their savings by means of these community associations is steadily increasing and that in the interest of the working people of the United States in the property rights and other privileges granted them by the Constitution is tremendously on the upgrade. The building and loan associations, of course, only represent a part of this interest, as a great many of our wage earners patronize the savings banks and similar institutions. These eight million participants in building and loan associations, how- That may seem like a strange and far-fetched statement, but it is true in the East, rivers run their course until they reach the Great Lakes or the ocean and for the most part go to waste. Here in Southern California the rivers are practically invisible because they run underground, but in great currents, and feed the mammoth underground basins placed there by nature. Just how much water is stored up in these wonderful subterranean rivers and lakes is not definitely known because there has never been an occasion for making a complete survey. But here in Southern California we have a pretty clear insight of what we have, and we know beyond dispute that if there were no aqueduct there would still be a great supply of water. What is true of the ample water supply also holds good for the supply of electric power. From the municipal plants there is now provided industrial power of a total motor connected load of 190,000 horsepower. To this will be added within the next 12 months 40,000 horsepower more. Then 140,000 horsepower additional is the program for the next three years, making a jump from 190,000 horsepower, the present capacity, to 330,000 horsepower capacity in three years' time, or 73 per cent increase. That is the plan of the municipal power bureau alone. The Southern California Edison Company has under construction and in contemplation additional power plant installation totaling 536,000 horsepower within the next five years, according to John D. Miller, president of the company. In addition to this the Los Angeles Gas and Electric Corporation is now installing in its Los Angeles steam plant and its new Seal Beach steam plant 54,000 horsepower more this year, bringing the total up to over 800,000 horsepower. Discussing this subject, Mr. Miller said: "Of the power plants now under construction, there will be ready for the load of 1925 a total increase of 260,000 horsepower which will be more than sufficient to carry the growth of load and possible contingencies of water supply." All this is pointed out without any regard for the coming of water and power from the development of a water supply and hydro-electric supply. Putting it another way, if all the purchases had been made in actual gold coin, there would have been 28,892,343 pounds of gold or 14,441 tons. This coin, if loaded into freight cars, would have made 361 carloads or 12 long trains, all loaded with nothing but pure gold coin. That is what would have been required in gold coin to transport all the business creasing and that in the interest of the working people of the United States in the property rights and other privileges granted them by the Constitution is tremendously on the upgrade. The building and loan associations, of course, only represent a part of this interest, as a great many of our wage earners patronize the savings banks and similar institutions. These eight million participants in building and loan associations, however, furnish one explanation of the complete defeat of the radical movement in the United States last year and the accompanying repudiation of La Follette and his constitution baiting. In a country in which the wage earners by enterprise and thrift build up thousands of savings institutions and so share in the fruits of so-called "capitalism," the appeal of socialism has but little chance of inflicting permanent damage. Communism and individual thrift and enterprise do not go hand in hand. Communism cannot gain a foothold where thrift and enterprise, coupled with the privileges of a free government, are the attributes of the working people. That is why the United States is at once the most conservative and the most truly progressive country in the world. And furthermore, that is the reason why a campaign to recognize bolshevism in Russia arouses very little interest among the citizenry of the United States. FACING A BRIGHT FUTURE The Southwest was never in a more enviable position than it is today. What unsettlement there was is over. The road ahead is clear and well paved. If any community in any of the Discussing this subject, Mr. Miller said: "Of the power plants now under construction, there will be ready for the load of 1925 a total increase of 260,000 horsepower which will be more than sufficient to carry the growth of load and possible contingencies of water supply." All this is pointed out without any regard for the coming of water and power from the development of a water supply and hydro-electric supply from the Colorado river. No one doubts for a moment that the time is near when a dam will be built across the Colorado. Besides caring for a flood control for the Imperial valley, this great project will provide for a large distribution of water and the development of hydro-electric power. THE VICE-PRESIDENT ON SENATE RULES In urging upon the Senate, in his inaugural address, a revision of the Senate's rules to permit the procedure of that body to be conducted in the public interests, rather than in the interests of individual senators, Vice-President Dawes voiced the overwhelming preponderance of American public opinion. Under the present rules the Senate is governed not by majorities, in accordance with the underlying principles of representative government, but by minorities and individuals who have the right under these rules to delay or defeat legislation at will totally without regard to the wishes of the people or a majority of their representatives in the Senate. It is not surprising that Vice-President Dawes was denounced for thus voicing public opinion. The idea has grown up in the Senate that the prorogatives of senators are more important that the rights and interests of the American people. It has come A new motor fuel, by actual test found to be 20 per cent more efficient than ordinary gasoline and suitable for use in a standard carburetor, is being perfected at Santa Barbara by the Pedro Engineering Company, headed by S. J.-Stanwood, county supervisor. The first test of the new fuel, which resembles orange juice in appearance, was made on a county automobile. A 1915 60-horsepower automobile equipped with a modern carburetor was used in the test. A gallon of the new fuel was carefully measured and held by a passenger in the rear seat, connections being made to the carburetor by a rubber hose. started without difg miles up the state gallon. A gallon of was used on the was exhausted at 10 the process, as well newly organized committed that the new made of petroleum also can be made CONSERVATIVE statement issued by Trust Company, there States last October and loan associations has steadily increasmembership in these early eight millions, too was growing increase in the numbers and the number for the year 1924, up spaced at 10 per cent. Statistics indicates that age earners in the gradually building baby means of these tions is steadily inin the interest of role of the United property rights and granted them by the endlessly on the loan associations, represent a part of great many of our enforce the savings institutions. union participants in associations, how- southwestern states falls to forge ahead at an unusual stride, it will be the fault of that community alone. Chambers of Commerce and the newspapers have been busy ever since the war in an attempt to make the public understand that all that was required was a little pep and determination. Chambers of Commerce and the various business men's luncheon clubs in most communities are today in a position through better organization and through a better feeling in the commercial world to put their towns on the map than ever before. There has never been a time when the newspapers have played a more important part in the upbuilding of community life and business conditions than they have in the past two years and today their power for good is being felt in a way that will mean much in community development. In NOTICE OF SALE OF STOCK FOR DELINQUENT ASSESSMENT ANAHEIM EUCALYPTUS WATER COMPANY — Location of principal place of business, Anaheim, Orange County, State of California. Notice is hereby given that there is delinquent upon the following described stock of the corporation, on account of assessment levied on the 11th day of March, 1925, the several amounts set opposite the names of the respective shareholders, as follows: Cert. No. Name No. Shares Amt. Guy L. Burhman 421 1 $3.00 A. F. Wickerschelm 422 1 3.00 A. J. Dunigan 423 1 3.00 Rose L. Paulding 246 10 30.00 E. E. Burrows 324 2½ 7.50 Chas. F. Yates 306 2 6.00 Fred Van Hagen 145 5 15.00 G. W. Rogers 359 1 3.00 J. W. Weaver 374 9 27.00 Albert O. & Gertrude E. Nelson 402 5 15.00 I. J. & Kate Owens 426-27-28 3 9.00 And in accordance with law and other words, we have reached the time now when all elements are pulling together, when not only petty jealousies that have hampered the growth of small communities have been set aside, but when all the animosity and bickering between cities have been wiped out almost entirely, and one town today is only too glad to help another. To keep a household budget record requires so much work that it is hard to find time to make money to put into the budget. Then there's the guy who is so small that he thinks he must impress the waiter. A lot of intellectual steam is wasted in trying to reason with folks who merely like to blow off steam. Mary L. Johnson Marcelling and Shampooing PHONE 1054 205 North Lemon St. Anaheim, California Phone 311-310 W. A. HOOD Water Well Contractor Do You Know That we have suitable Gifts for any occasion all the year, priced to suit your pocketbook? GIBSON'S DRUG STORE "AT YOUR SERVICE" Corner Center and Lemon Anaheim, Cal. "Meet your friends at our fountain" Phone 311-310 W. A. HOOD Water Well Contractor LARGE AND DEEP WELLS A SPECIALTY Three Big Drilling Rigs ONE AVAILABLE NOW First Class Work GUARANTEED 1231 Ohio Ave. Long Beach ANAHEIM EUCALYPTUS WATER COMPANY, By M. E. BEEBE, Secretary. X SAVING ONTHS! April to September are saving months—or should be in every home in the land. During these six months is a period of the year when expenses can be pruned and savings accumulated faster than at any other time. Why don’t you plan now to take advantage of this annual opportunity and so regulate your expenditures that your saving account will show a healthy gain before September arrives? Deposit your savings in our bank. We issue certificates of deposits or make entry direct into a saving account for you—then pay you 4 per cent interest. PUT PART OF YOUR EARNINGS TO WORK FOR YOU. Anaheim National Bank Anaheim, Calif.