anaheim-gazette 1925-03-26

MOUNTAIN COUNTIES SEEK TO RETAIN WATER Ask Legislature for a Law Safeguarding Their Rights The following article, which is of interest to all water users, is issued by the Calaveras County Chamber of Commerce: A bill has been introduced at this session of the legislature by H. E. Dilliger, the representative of Calaveras, El Dorado, Amador and Alpine in the assembly. The bill has the endorsement of the Chambers of Commerce of Stockton and Sacramento. Its purpose is to reserve from all future appropriations 15 per cent of the water flowing in the mountain streams for the future development of the mountain sections of California. The reason why this bill has been introduced and its passage urgently sought is that unless some such protection is given the mountain counties they are in danger of losing whatever small amount of water they may need in order to grow and prosper as they should. The cities cannot afford to have any portion of California condemned to stagnation; they are dependent upon the hinterland for their own growth and prosperity. The more back country is developed the more they will grow and prosper. This is a practical and potent reason why they should help in passing this bill. There is a sentimental reason also—the Sierras has contributed a great deal to the welfare of the state and nation. When gold was discovered it acted as a powerful magnet, attracting to this coast the bulk of its population. we have been put at a further disadvantage since much of our land is in the forest reserve and pays no county tax, and the same is true with reference to lands inundated by irrigation reservoirs, or by power plants and other public utilities. We may argue further and say that in the matter of all those things to tend to increase the material welfare of the state we contribute much, both directly and indirectly. No matter how one looks at our problem, the outstanding fact is that we need time. Time to gather all the data of a technical character in order to know what can be done and at what cost. Time to educate our people. Time to improve our roads, to have cheap and practical transportation facilities. The cities and the vallys have not been pressed for time; we think we have a right to ask being given the same privilege. As long as no section of California was financially more powerful than another, there was no danger to any one. All could take their time. The people of the lower country did take their time. For many years our streams have flowed unmolested to the sea. It is but lately that storing of water has been considered. Not because its value was unknown, but because the time had not come when our friends and fellow citizens of the lower country could figure on the building of the very expensive structures necessary to attain that end. Now the balance of financial power is broken; one section of the state is therefore able to take away from the less prosperous regions whatever water they may need later on, so that while the possibilities for irrigation of the mountains are being investigated... There is a sentimental reason also—the Sierras has contributed a great deal to the welfare of the state and nation. When gold was discovered it acted as a powerful magnet, attracting to this coast the bulk of its population; after it was extracted, it constituted the capital with which our cities were built and the valley lands cultivated. During the Civil War that gold helped to preserve the Union. The state of California has evolved normally. Those regions possessing the greatest natural advantages were developed first and have progressed and prospered most—but, because some parts of the state are leading others, that is no reason to think the mountain sections are worthless and can be deliberately neglected. All the gold has not yet been mined. Other minerals of great industrial value are being discovered, and what has been done in some of our counties shows that our land is eminently suited for horticulture. Some people say: "If your lands are as valuable as you say, why not develop them now—why wait?" If we answer that "At present we have not the necessary capital," they answer, "Borrow the money; put up those lands as security to guarantee a bond issue." This seems reasonable, but looking at the question a little closer one sees obstacles of a serious nature in the way. To begin with, it would be necessary to investigate the engineering and technical features of the problem in different regions, to determine where water can be stored, how, it can be distributed and what this work would cost. Then a campaign of education will have to be started and diligently prosecuted in order to show our people the necessity for action. To persuade people to bond their land is no easy task, and it will take a great deal of time. Our people are very much like all other people. They are conservative by nature and not inclined to accept new ideas very readily. From what I have heard it has taken seven years to organize one of the irrigation districts in the valley. In other parts of the San Joaquin, farmers have refused to subscribe to become members of an irrigation project because their own growth and prosperity. The more back country is developed the more they will grow and prosper. This is a practical and potent reason why they should help in passing this bill. Now the balance of financial power is broken; one section of the state is therefore able to take away from the less prosperous regions whatever water they may need later on, so that while the possibilities for irrigation of the mountains are being investigated, while the people are being educated and the means of transportation improved, there is nothing to prevent anyone at any time from appropriating all of the water, bringing all efforts to naught and condemning a whole region to everlasting stagnation and aridity. This is possible because our law, as it stands gives the right to water to whoever appropriates it first and puts it to beneficial use. That law is right when applied to individuals, it prevents unscrupulous speculators from appropriating water they do not intend to use, in order to be able to sell it at high gifures to those who otherwise could get it for much less. But it is wrong when applied to political subdivisions having theoretically the same rights but being in different stages of development. As you have no doubt noticed, it allows a rich section to rob a poorer one. The water belongs to the state. This means that all citizens of California are entitled to their share of it. The object of our bill is to practically consecrate that principle, give every region equal opportunities, discriminate against no one, thus enabling all to hopefully work together for the maximum development of our state, prevent feelings of hatred and suspicion from arising in our midst; on the contrary, promote the feeling of good fellowship which necessarily follows the knowledge that everyone is getting a square deal. SOUTHLAND LEADS AS FISH CENTER That Southern California has gained first position in the matter of fisheries is shown in the current issue of Southern California Business, the official magazine of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. In an article by Frank V. Stump, editor of that publication, it is declared that Southern California has taken the lead over the New England states which for years because its value was unknown, but because the time had not come when our friends and fellow citizens of the lower country could figure on the building of the very expensive structures necessary to attain that end. For the work to the summer seasonment of history that has arranged a new courses which have national flavor. Theern Europe, which growth of westernization from 500 A.D. of Vienna and affeivevele of the devil politics and institute during that period mented by a course development of E since 1815. Sever devoted to constitute changes, and pres will be briefly cone The Hispanic-America are our neighbors we have looked east and toward the average person t countries are practical field. D session a general colonization in th sphere will be press interested, a cou fthe history of th survey of the rec Hispanic-American special emphasis with the United States. For the broader diplomatic history from 1776 to 1925 planned which will important phases in national relations mental principles The work of th under its most tarles will be exam influence on diploional law will be James Morton Ca department of his science and dean art and sciences University, will w this course. Prov done extensive reational politics and written a number Our people are very much like all other people. They are conservative by nature and not inclined to accept new ideas very readily. From what I have heard it has taken seven years to organize one of the irrigation districts in the valley. In other parts of the San Joaquin, farmers have refused to subscribe to become members of an irrigation project because their wells were sufficient to meet their needs. The city of Stockton and surrounding country have time and again been devastated by floods. For more than 15 years they have been thinking about the erection of a dam for the control of those floods. Three times they refused to vote the bonds necessary to provide the capital necessary for the erection of that dam; it is only last spring that they finally gave their assent to the project. With these facts in mind, one can readily see that it will take time to educate the mountain people, and unless they are educated nothing can be done. It is also to be expected that during this campaign of education many will say: "We agree with you that water put upon our lands will make them produce a great deal more; but land does not produce money, it produces crops that can be converted into money provided a ready market is at hand. To market our produce we must have adequate transportation facilities." This is a very important condition. As a matter of fact, our roads at present are none too good. In addition to many other advantages, the valleys have had that of having a wonderful system of highways built throughout their territory. We, on the contrary, have had very little help from the state; we have been left to do as best we could under unfavorable conditions with our own meagre resources. Instead of help, That Southern California has gained first position in the matter of fisheries is shown in the current issue of Southern California Business, the official magazine of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. In an article by Frank V. Stump, editor of that publication, it is declared that Southern California has taken the lead over the New England states which for years had stood at the top of the list. Also it is shown that Los Angeles has run ahead of Boston, one of the most noted fishery points in the world. On this subject the article says: Not only does Los Angeles outstrip Boston in pounds of fish handled, but in money value of the product. These are the figures for a single year: Pounds Value Los Angeles...159,649,560 $6,923,476.00 Boston.....124,215,034 6,433,731.00 Ten years ago the fishery business of the entire Pacific coast amounted to 49,366,000 pounds annually. That represents less than one-third of what the Los Angeles fishing industry alone amounted to last year. Still more interesting is the fact that four years ago the fishing industry of the entire United States, exclusive of the Pacific coast, amounted to 163,362,000 pounds, which was only a trifle more than the output for Los Angeles alone in 1924. The figures for four years ago follow: Pounds South Atlantic States...11,194,000 Gulf States...17,310,000 Middle Atlantic States...63,132,000 New England States...54,623,000 Great Lakes...15,754,000 Mississippi River and Tributary...646,000 Total ...163,362,000 Los Angeles alone (1924)...159,649,560 The difference between these two amounts to 3,712,440 pounds, repre- Under six months bells will be ringer time, for thousand children. Picture citizens trudging schools of our realize the importance but their parents fact that entering act of citizenship child. It marks shoulders against it is the beginning as a unit in our sounds like assurance for it is unquestionable important and meets a child's life. The and fathers who their first day in it was a day of tears; with other wide-eyed wonder was a day of hail entertainment of Whether the opportant day with ANAHEIM GAZETTE sents the bare margin of the rest of the United States, exclusive of the Pacific coast four years ago as compared with last year's Los Angeles fisheries' total. If one considers only the fish placed in cans for the market, it is found that Los Angeles furnished last year practically one can of fish for every two inhabitants of the United States, or in other words, 55,373,766 cans ranging in size from quarter pound to one pound cans. This pack is divided as follows: Cans Albacore 12,020,928 Barracuda 1,445,232 Bonita 362,148 Sardines 32,987,580 Skipjack 1,241,392 Tonno (style of pack) 4,208,502 Tuna 2,860,864 Tuna Flakes 267,120 Total 55,373,766 Of the 32,987,580 cans of sardines, 17,864 cans were in the form of "sandwich spread." Besides these millions of cans of fish sent out from the Los Angeles fishing plants, there were 39,679 pounds of salted fish; there being salted bonita 22,407 hard salted tuna, 4772 pounds, hard salted sardines 12,500 pounds. As by-products of the fishing industry there were 1,019,924 gallons of fish oil, 499,250 pounds of salacchinl and 7450 tons of fertilizer. CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SUMMER SESSION For the work to be offered during the summer session under the department of history the state university a large extent upon his physical condition. If his teeth are decayed, if his tonsils are diseased, if he is unable to breathe freely through his nose, he is not in fit condition to enter upon his important career as an educated citizen of the United States. He cannot escape attending school because the law requires it. Whether or not he goes to school in fit physical condition, depends entirely upon the wisdom and foresight of his parents. His mother is chiefly responsible for the child's physical condition and she should make certain that he is physically fit. If there are physical defects in a child who will enter school next fall, right now is the time to learn of such defects and have them corrected. Then he will be fit and ready when the time comes to answer the school bell's joyful ring. The Bureau of Child Hygiene of the California State Board of Health is undertaking a plan for helping California children to be fit for entering and has made arrangements for free examinations of school children to be given this spring in nearly every county of California. Local papers in nearly every part of the state will print full particulars concerning the time and place where each conference will be held. If parents are unable to learn the necessary particulars, they can obtain full information by writing to the Bureau of Child Hygiene, California State Board of Health, State Building, San Francisco. These physical examinations will be made by competent physicians, at no cost to the parents, and no fees of any sort will be required. This is part of the state's plan for helping to give California school children an op- the state. The $10,000,000 per annum thus raised would be distributed by the highway commission as in the past. When it is considered, say the opponents of this program, that the state highways carry only 10 per cent of the total vehicular travel and that they benefit all persons alike, it is not believed fair to assess the entire cost to motorists. It is called bad business to assume that the owner of a Ford automobile is equally able to finance the construction of highways as the owner of a $1,000,000 worth of property from which he receives an annual revenue, and which property is materially benefited through the construction of highways. Protesters in Southern California against the proposed legislation hold that the people of this section are more than willing to contribute to the building of important state trunk highways in the north as well as the south, but cannot concede that they are willing to build local roads of the north at the expense of the southern counties. CHURCH NOTICE Services of Maxwell's Spiritual church at Sycamore and Olive. Lecture and Messages Monday evenings at 7:30. Thursday evenings 7:30. Club Class Wednesday afternoons at 2:00. Healing 2:30. Messages Wednesday afternoon at 3:00. Everybody welcome. Rev. Maxwell, Pastor, Phone 369 NOTICE OF SALE OF STOCK FOR DELINQUENT ASSESSMENT CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SUMMER SESSION For the work to be offered during the summer session under the department of history the state university has arranged a number of different courses which have distinctly international flavor. The history of modern Europe, which will present the growth of western European civilization from 500 A.D. to the congress of Vienna and afford a general perspective of the development of society, politics and institutions in Europe during that period, will be supplemented by a course restricted to the development of England and France since 1815. Several lectures will be devoted to constitutions and imperial changes, and present day questions will be briefly considered. The Hispanic-American countries are our neighbors on the south, but we have looked so long toward the east and toward the west that to the average person the Latin-American countries are practically a virgin historical field. During the summer session a general survey of European colonization in the western hemisphere will be presented, and for those interested, a course which narrows the history of the Americas to a survey of the recent history of the Hispanic-American countries and lays special emphasis on their relations with the United States will be offered. For the broader field of American diplomatic history and foreign policy from 1776 to 1925, a course has been planned which will discuss the most important phases of American international relations and the fundamental principles of American policy. The work of the state department under its most distinguished secretaries will be examined and America's influence on diplomacy and international law will be appraised. Prof. James Morton Callahan, head of the department of history and political science and dean of the colleges of art and sciences at West Virginia University, will direct the work of this course. Professor Callahan has done extensive research in international politics and diplomacy and has written a number of books dealing with America's relations in Cuba in time and place where each conference will be held. If parents are unable to learn the necessary particulars, they can obtain full information by writing to the Bureau of Child Hygiene, California State Board of Health, State Building, San Francisco. These physical examinations will be made by competent physicians, at no cost to the parents, and no fees of any sort will be required. This is part of the state's plan for helping to give California school children an opportunity to start school physically fit, for the state knows that a sick child can not be educated properly and the state can not get full value for the immense sums that it spends for education, unless its great army of school children is composed of strong, healthy, red-blooded young citizens. THE NEW GAS BILL The legislative program now before the state assembly is being strenuously opposed by thousands of motorists, according to opinions registered with the Automobile Club of Southern California. These attack the new highway revenue-raising bills in no uncertain terms and protest the general program as merely continuing a chaotic situation at an added expense of some $10,000,000 a year to the motorists of the state. It is reported that boards of supervisors in the 58 counties of the state are awakening to the lack of equity in the proposed financing and are preparing to take some action designed to change the present plan, which if carried out, will perpetuate the inequity existing and further delay the completion of important state trunk roads. The majority report of the governor's Committee of Nine recommends a primary system of 4960 miles of roads at an estimated total cost to complete of $156,347,005. Of this proposed expenditure, the north will receive 63 per cent and the southern counties 37 per cent. The secondary road system recommended would include a total expenditure of $60,915,417, of which 75 per cent will go to the northern counties and 25 per cent to the south. The aggregate expenditure recommended is $217,262,422, divided 67 per cent for the north and 33 per cent for the south. It is proposed to provide a construction fund of $10,000,000 a year to carry forward this work by Services of Maxwell's Spiritual church at Sycamore and Olive. Lecture and Messages Monday evenings at 7:30. Thursday evenings 7:30. Club Class Wednesday afternoons at 2:00. Healing 2:30. Messages Wednesday afternoon at 3:00. Everybody welcome. Rev. Maxwell, Pastor, Phone 369 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: Name No. Shares Amt. Guy L. Burhman 421 $3.00 A. F. Wickerschelm 422 1.30 A. J. Dunigan 423 1.30 Rose L. Paulding 246 10.30 E. E. Burrows 224 2½.75 Chas. F. Yates 306 2.60 Fred Van Hagen 145 5.15 G. W. Rogers 359 1.30 J. W. Weaver 374 9.27 Albert O. & Gertrude E. Nelson 402 5.15 L.J. & Kate Owens 426-27-28 3.90 And in accordance with law and order of the Board of Directors made on the 11th day of March, 1925, so many shares of each parcel of such stock as may be necessary will be sold at public auction at the plant of said corporation, Anaheim, R. D. No. 3. County of Orange, State of California, on the 13th day of April, 1925, at S o'clock P.M. of that day, to pay delinquent assessments thereon, together with costs of advertising and expense of sale. ANAHEIM EUCALYPTUS WATER COMPANY. By M. E. BEEBE. 3-19-4t Secretary. Don't Delay In Having Your Headlights Adjusted Official Headlight Adjusting Station AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRIC CO. GET READY FOR SCHOOL NOW About six months from now school bells will be ringing, for the first time, for thousands of California children. Picture this army of small citizens trudging toward the public schools of our state. They little realize the importance of the event, but their parents should consider the fact that entering school is the first act of citizenship performed by the child. It marks his first rubbing of shoulders against those of his fellows. It is the beginning of the child's life as a unit in our civilization. This sounds like assuming a tremendous responsibility for a small child, but it is unquestionably one of the most important and most serious events in a child's life. There are few mothers and fathers who can not remember their first day in school. With some it was a day of fears and a day of tears; with others it was a day of wide-eyed wonder, and with many it was a day of happy surprises, full of entertainment of a new sort. Whether the child greets this important day with gladness depends to 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" The Senior Class of '25 PRESENTS "The GOOSE HANGS HIGH" A 3-Act Cemedy Drama Directed by Lucille Bickley A U.H.S. AUDITORIUM "THE GOOSE HANGS HIGH" A 3-Act Cemedy Drama Directed by Lucille Bickley A. U. H. S. AUDITORIUM 8:00 P.M. 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