anaheim-gazette 1925-03-19

ORIGIN OF FIRE In the fourth week in the fire prevention campaign of the committee of the Orange County Harbor Chamber of Commerce, instead of a letter we have a short story telling of the origin of fire, its uses as well as dangers. The story is very interesting and was prepared by a member of the committee: When properly controlled, fire is an indispensable friend of man. Previous to the discovery of fire, man ate his food raw—like the beasts. He labored with his hands and had the use of only the crudest kind of tools made of wood and stone. The primitive man learned to make fire by rubbing two sticks together. This was a slow procedure, and the next efforts were to keep the fire going. Never-ending fires were religiously maintained in the temples of ancient Egypt, Greece and Persia, where people came to get their precious firebrands. It was only natural that some of these ancients came to worship this mysterious fire. Fire has brought us many blessings and gifts, but with a thousand easy ways of producing it fire has now become one of man's most dangerous enemies. We are still, in a way, fire worshippers like the ancients who kept the friendly fire going, but we have our everlasting fire which is not friendly, but wasteful and destructive. In the next 20 minutes twenty fire alarms will sound throughout the United States—one every minute—five dwelling houses, three farm buildings and much other property will be turned into smoke and ashes, and every minute nearly $1000 dollars worth of property will be destroyed. Each day fire destroys a hospital, four or five schools, churches, four or bor's property, as well as our own and the lives of ourselves and others may not be endangered by carelessness. CALIFORNIA FIRST HOME OF HUMAN RACE IN AMERICA Harold S. Gladwin, honorary curator of the Santa Barbara museum of natural history, and D. B. Rogers, formerly with the local museum staff, made public an announcement here Friday of recent discoveries in this vicinity which they said showed to their satisfaction that the first home of the human race in the western hemisphere was where Santa Barbara and neighboring communities are now located. The assertions of the two scientists are in substantiation, they said, of tentative statements made a year ago by J. P. Harington of the Smithsonian institution at the time the skulls of the "homo barbarensis" was exhumed. The "homo barbarensis" was considered the American prototype of the Neaanderthal man found in the gravel beds of southwestern Europe. The announcement Friday said that 60 or more ancient burial grounds scattered along the Pacific coast from Gaviota to Rincon have yielded skeletons of extreme antiquity. "Thousands of years before recorded history begins," the archeologists said, "a tribe of wandering mongols explored the virgin continent and stopped at the site of Santa Barbara and founded the first American settlement. Now the bones of the hemisphere's oldest inhabitants, who combed the beach from Gaviota to Carpinteria for shell fish and asphalt many centuries before Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt are being exhumed from their eon-old resting places." War has been relied upon parks, armories and places in New England. Designed to be therized on the Atlantic coast now abandoned, and several forts whose thorized by congregated by congeny years. Although it is background of many are few which are this grim old "moor" which stands guard filled hope on the barbary of America," the People. MUSCLE S Few people are seen on the Muscle Shoals give an intelligent object, but the follow George C. Roedding and Cultivator, will give lightenment: If there is one thing importance to the farmer try than another, he mental control and Muscle Shoals enter numerical production in the maintenance of it. With the constant major crops of this city, the cereal corn belt states, orchards crops of the Pacific the necessity for fertile productives is becoming annually. California, with its productive soil, finds food tremendously in horticulturists are fine some expense. Citrus vineyard crops in only be profitably application of liberal ficial and organic m kept the friendly fire going, but we have our everlasting fire which is not friendly, but wasteful and destructive. In the next 20 minutes twenty fire alarms will sound throughout the United States—one every minute—five dwelling houses, three farm buildings and much other property will be turned into smoke and ashes, and every minute nearly $1000 dollars worth of property will be destroyed. Each day fire destroys a hospital, four or five schools, churches, four or five factories and warehouses. The annual fire waste has now passed the $500,000,000 mark. Less than two-thirds of that sum paid for the greatest engineering project of modern times, the construction of the Panama canal. You may well speculate what relief this great sum would give us on taxes. How many miles of good roads it would construct if only the fire waste could be stopped. This wealth, natural and created, is gone forever and new human efforts must again be put forth to produce like property and. In the final analysis, we people pay for this great loss. These almost perpetual fires call for other expenses. The county spends about another $500,000,000 on water works and fire departments to combat fires. It is difficult to estimate the many incidental losses due to fires, such as interruption of business, loss of employment and wages, loss of heirlooms and valuables, loss of earnings—to say nothing of how many people injured in fires each year. It would be impossible to fix the price of lives annually snuffed out by fires. Despite this great loss and human sacrifices, the average citizen does not sense his own responsibilities in the matter. We pride ourselves on our intelligence, wisdom and keen business judgment, but we have never learned that it is quite as important to save $500,000,000 as to originally earn it. Is it not just a bit mortifying to us to have an annual per capita fire loss of $4.75, while in England it is 72 cents and in some other European countries it is still lower. Like other countries, we must learn to build against fire—to make it difficult for fires to spread. We must learn to properly care for use and store explosives, inflammables and combustibles, and above all, we must learn to realize a fire concerns us all and taxes us all—that each one of us has a personal responsibility in this matter. A "MONUMENT OF FOLLY" Much has been written about the abandoned farms of New England, but her abandoned forts are not so well known. Of all of these obsolete strongholds, none is more interesting than Fort Knox on the Narrows of the Penobscot river at Prospect, Me. This fort, which derived its name from the fact that it was built on land once owned by Henry Knox, the Boston bookseller who became Washington's chief of artillery in the Revolution and the first secretary of war for history begins, the archeologists said, "a tribe of wandering mongols explored the virgin continent and stopped at the site of Santa Barbara and founded the first American settlement. Now the bones of the hemisphere's oldest inhabitants, who combed the beach from Gaviota to Carpinteria for shell fish and asphalt many centuries before Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt are being exhumed from their eon-old resting places." Seventeen skeletons have been removed from a mound on the John Catlin estate near Carpinteria in the last week. They are of "extreme antiquity" the museum experts say—probably of an age to make Hamurabi and Tutankhamen and King Solomon seem moderns. Other old skeletons, carrying the calcerous accumulations of ages, have been dug up in the old Indian villages of Cleneguita and Sagspileel on Hope ranch, just outside the city limits; at Fernald Point, beyond the fashionable suburb of Mirmar and at Amolamol, near the foot of Chapala street, within the city itself. "The coast land of Santa Barbara is, in fact, chock a block with Indian burial grounds filled with bones and implements of thousands of early inhabitants," Mr. Gladwin declared. "Some of them are as recent as the landing of the Spaniards in 1542, while others hark back to the time-less centuries when both Americas were manless, nameless wildernesses. "Anyone who tries to put any actual date on the remains we have uncovered at this time is rather presuming. Personally, I doubt that man has been on this continent more than ten thousand years." But whenever it was, be settled permanently in Santa Barbara. On that point both the archaeologists are emphatic. Appreciating these because somewhat far work, and more so point of view. I end demand that Muscle be allowed to pass in but must be operated by federal authority and the prosperity nation. Some few months laterests called me on the southern states bama I paid a visit. The magnitude of the significance to the horticultural welfare States is beyond belief completed it will supply the demand in the manufacture that too, at a price its free use in the most fertility on America to this is added its manufacture of explosive war, to jeopardize ship is simply unthin not happen. fire loss of $4.75, while in England it is 72 cents and in some other European countries it is still lower. Like other countries, we must learn to build against fire—to make it difficult for fires to spread. We must learn to properly care for use and store explosives, inflammables and combustibles, and above all, we must learn to realize a fire concerns us all and taxes us all—that each one of us has a personal responsibility in this matter. The average American citizen lolls himself to sleep by fallacious theories. Many a man says, "Why, I have been in business and never had a fire," not realizing that this is no guarantee for the future. He takes a chance on all sorts of dangerous conditions. Another will say, "I am well protected. The fire department is only a block away and it is the best in town. A fire in my place could not gain much headway." He does not realize that fire departments are often delayed or handicapped and in large conflagrations are absolutely helpless. Perhaps another will say, "I am fully insured and the insurance company will pay for the loss." The insurance companies act only as collectors and distributors of the people's money. Even the man who has no property to insure and pays no fire insurance premium helps to pay for the fire loss. A fire cost is a tax, and the old saying is that we cannot escape taxes or death. Though helping to pay the loss, we actually waste sympathy on the careless mortal who has a fire due to his own carelessness. Our main efforts must be directed to awaken the public fire consciousness, a realization that a fire is a loss to everybody; that each of us helps to pay for the loss; that we are bound to keep our premises free from fire dangers so that our neigh- Much has been written about the abandoned farms of New England, but her abandoned forts are not so well known. Of all of these obsolete strongholds, none is more interesting than Fort Knox on the Narrows of the Penobscot river at Prospect, Me. This fort, which derived its name from the fact that it was built on land once owned by Henry Knox, the Boston bookseller who became Washington's chief of artillery in the Revolution and the first secretary of war for the United States, was begun in the early forties to protect the shipbuilding and commerce of the Penobscot, which was then at its height. Work had progressed far enough at the outbreak of the Civil War to enable the war department to use Fort Knox as a training school for many of the artillery officers who served in the Union army. This was the nearest that Fort Knox ever came to a war record, owever, for in 1869, after construction had been in progress for 26 years, work on it was abandoned. "Costing about a million dollars, it stands a monument of human folly," writes one historian. "The recent advance in the science of war is such that Fort Knox would be scarcely more effective in time of danger than an ancient feudal castle of the middle ages." "Monument of folly" though Fort Knox may be, it is also a monument to the days when masonry was a fine art. Huge white slabs of granite, quarried from Mount Waldo, a few miles north and floated down the river in scows, are set in its walls edge on edge with beautiful precision, and a great circular staircase of solid pieces of granite is the crowning piece of workmanship. Near the shore batteries can still be seen the brick ovens where the 42-pound cannon balls were heated, but nearly all of the artillery placed in the fort during the Civil ANAHEIM GAZETTE War has been removed to adorn parks, armories and other public places in New England. Designed to be the finest fortress on the Atlantic coast, Fort Knox is now abandoned, and it is one of the several forts whose sale has been authorized by congress within recent years. Although it lacks the historic background of many other forts, there are few which are as picturesque as this grim old "monument of folly" which stands guard over an unfilled hope on the banks of the "Rhine of America," the Penobscot river. MUSCLE SHOALS Few people are sufficiently posted on the Muscle Shoals proposition to give an intelligent opinion on the subject, but the following, written by George C. Roedding for the California Cultivator, will give them some enlightenment: If there is one thing of more importance to the farmers of this country than another, is the governmental control and ownership of the Muscle Shoals enterprise for the economical production of fertilizers for the maintenance of soil fertility. With the constant production of the major crops of this country—cotton in the South, the cereals in the great corn belt states, orchard and vineyard crops of the Pacific coast regions—the necessity for fertilizers to maintain the productiveness of our soils is becoming annually more acute. California, with its remarkably productive soil, finds the use of plant food tremendously important, and our horticulturists are finding it a burdensome expense. Citrus, deciduous and vineyard crops in many sections can only be profitably produced by the application of liberal amounts of artificial and organic manure. This expense is so momentous that anything ENDORSE PLAN FOR $650,000 SANTIAGO DAM That the John T. Carpenter Water Company, El Moderna, the Serrano Water Company of Villa Park, and the Irvine company virtually have reached an agreement for the joint construction of a dam at the fourth crossing of Santiago creek in the Santa Igua canyon, became known through endorsement of the project by the stockholders of the Carpenter Water Company at their annual meeting. The dam, it is estimated, will cost $650,000. With details agreed to by the three organizations, attorneys now are engaged in drafting an agreement providing for division of the waters and taking care of other technical matters in connection with the project. The scheme has been under consideration for more than a year, and endorsement of the water conservation plan by the El Modena company indicates that satisfactory arrangements have been made for the site upon which the dam will be built. At the meeting, those directing the operations were urged to hasten details, so that construction may be started at an early date. Construction will require a year. It was said. The plans provide for a hydraulic earthen-filled dam with a clay core. In the election of directors Dr. Randall was chosen as a successor to R. C. Adams. The other directors are L. W. Evans, Wade Flippen, L. O. Whitsell and A. Y. Davis. Maybe this is a solution of some modern problems. The present slogan is, "Let's go and dance." It used to be, "Let's stay at home and read." More people try to make up others' minds than can make up their own. BUY YOUR BLANK BOOKS AND OFFICE SUPPLIES AT E. D. ABRAMS' BOOK STORE 116 W. Center, Anaheim The last citation has fallen. A man used to be "next" in a barber shop, but he's not even second nowadays if there is a flapper in the house. MUSIC INSTRUCTION By pedagogue of great experience, and concert pianist of international reputation. MR. KURT MUELLER Will be at the Anaheim Conservatory, 705 W. Center St. every Wednesday. All the discussions concerning cooperation and distribution of farm crops and the creation of better markets become negligible subjects if volume of agricultural production goes below the danger line. Muscle Shoals is already a governmental institution, and since it is an insurance against any future war demand for explosives; and since it provides for the economic production of immense quantities of free nitrogen, it is nothing short of a national crime for the people to allow the enactment of legislation at Washington that will pass this great enterprise over to private interests. Appreciating these incarnate facts, because somewhat familiar with war work, and more so with the farmers' point of view, I endorse the popular demand that Muscle Shoals must not be allowed to pass into private hands, but must be operated and controlled by federal authority for the benefit and the prosperity and safety of the nation. Some few months ago business interests called me on a trip through the southern states and while in Alabama I paid a visit to Muscle Shoals. The magnitude of the plant and its significance to the agricultural and horticultural welfare of the United States is beyond belief. When finally completed it will, in my judgment, supply the demand for free nitrogen in the manufacture of fertilizers, and that, too, at a price which will enable its free use in the maintenance of soil fertility on American farms. When to this is added its application to the manufacture of explosives, in the case of war, to jeopardize public ownership is simply unthinkable. It must not happen. NOTICE OF ABANDONMENT OF HIGHWAY Notice is hereby given to all freeholders in the Third road district that the hearing of the petition of R. T. Davies, et al., filed on the 3rd day of March, 1925, to vacate, discontinue abandon and abolish a certain highway (or certain highways, as the case may be) in the Third Road District in Orange County, California, has been set for Tuesday, the 31st day of March, 1925, at 10 o'clock A.M., at the room of the Board of Supervisors in the Court House at Santa Ana, California. Said road (or roads, as the case may be) is described as follows: That certain unnamed road running along the north side of Lots 11, 12, 13 and 14, of the GOLDEN STATE TRACT NO. 2, as shown on a map thereof, recorded in Book 4, Page 68, Miscellaneous Maps, Records of Orange County, California. By order of the Board of Supervisors of Orange County, California. Dated this 3rd day of March, 1925. J. M. BACKS, County Clerk of Orange County, California, and (Seal) ex-Officio Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of said County. NOTICE OF ELECTION FOR TRUSTEES OF THE UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT (See Section 1731, Political Code) Notice is hereby given to the electors of the Anaheim Union High School District, County of Orange, State of California that the Annual Election for High School Trustees will be held in the Public Schoolhouses in said district on the last Friday in March, viz., March 27, 1925. It will be necessary to elect two trustees at large for three years. The polls will be open between the hours of 8:00 o'clock A.M. and 8:00 o'clock P.M. in the Anaheim Precinct and the polling places will be the High School for all voters West of Los Angeles Street and the Central dall was chosen as a successor to R. C. Adams. The other directors are L. W. Evans, Wade Flippen, L. O. Whitsell and A. Y. Davis. Maybe this is a solution of some modern problems. The present slogan is, "Let's go and dance." It used to be, "Let's stay at home and read." More people try to make up others' minds than can make up their own. Cut out hard worry and you don't need to fear hard work. One touch of "easy" money makes the whole world "skin." NOTICE OF CONSTABLE'S SALE To Whom It May Concern: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Friday, the 20th day of March, 1925, at the hour of 10 o'clock in the foremoon of said day, at the premises of West Bros., southwest corner South Los Angeles Street and Chestnut Street, in the City of Anaheim, County of Orange, State of California, the undersigned will sell at public auction the following described personal property, to-wit: 1. One Ford Speedster, engine No. 1068172, license No. 991045; 2. One Ford Touring car, engine No. 346814, license No. 820218; 3. Overland Touring car, engine No. 2797, license No. 226692; 4. Ford Touring car, engine No. 5129310; license No. 542827; Said sale or sales will be conducted and made under and by virtue of Sections 3051, 3051-A and 3052 of the Civil Code of the State of California, and for the purpose of satisfying the lien of the undersigned upon each of said automobiles for the cost of certain repairs, labor and storage bestowed thereon by the undersigned together with cost of sale; the amount due the undersigned for which a lien is claimed on each of said automobiles being, $85.41 on the first above specified automobile; $110.73 on the second above specified automobile; $100.75 on the third above specified automobile; $50.00 on the fourth above specified automobile. The undersigned being at all times the proprietor of a garage and electrical repair shop in Anaheim, California, for the repair, maintenance and storage of automobiles and other motor vehicles. Dated this 2nd day of March, 1925. E. D. MARION. Constable. but well, delete it of Me. name land and fertility on American farms. When to this is added its application to the manufacture of explosives, in the case of war, to jeopardize public ownership is simply unthinkable. It must not happen. This statement does not necessarily imply that the government is to go into the fertilizer business on a retail basis, but it does imply that the price and methods of handling the product will be a matter of public information. The completed product, however, should reach the farmer through the established channels of trade. I happen to know that Henry Ford has expended large sums of money and has employed a corps of experts and engineers to make careful investigation of the possibility of Muscle Shoals. Had it not been for him, Muscle Shoals today would be a passing dream. The offer which he has made to this government, placing his organization of experts at its disposal without charge, is so liberal that it cannot afford to reject it. Three years of investigational work, covering very nearly every angle of Muscle Shoals developments, will do much towards expediting its successful operation along economic lines. Further than this, Henry Ford is setting an example which might be followed to advantage by other men who have acquired immense wealth. No time should be lost, and our people should impress their demands for the public ownership of Muscle Shoals on the executive and legislative branches of our government. Notice is hereby given to the electors of the Anaheim Union High School District, County of Orange, State of California that the Annual Election for High School Trustees will be held in the Public Schoolhouses in said district on the last Friday in March, viz., March 27, 1925. It will be necessary to elect two trustees at large for three years. The polls will be open between the hours of 8:00 o'clock A.M. and 8:00 o'clock P.M. in the Anaheim Precinct and the polling place will be the High School for all voters West of Los Angeles Street, and the Central Grammar School for all voters East of Los Angeles Street; The polls will be open between the hours of 2:00 o'clock P.M. and 6:00 o'clock P.M. in the Loora Precinct and the polling place will be the Loara School Building; The polls will be open between the hours of 2:00 o'clock P.M. and 6:00 o'clock P.M. in the Katella Precinct and the polling place will be the Katella School Building; The polls will be open between the hours of 2:00 o'clock P.M. and 6:00 o'clock P.M. in the Laurel Precinct and the polling place will be the Laurel School Building; The polls will be open between the hours of 2:00 o'clock P.M. and 6:00 o'clock P.M. in the Centralia Precinct and the polling place will be the Centralia School Building; The polls will be open between the hours of 2:00 o'clock P.M. and 6:00 o'clock P.M. in the Gypress Precinct and the polling place will be the Gypress School Building; The polls will be open between the hours of 2:00 o'clock P.M. and 6:00 o'clock P.M. in the Savanna Precinct and the polling place will be the Savanna School Building. 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