anaheim-gazette 1925-07-23

CORNER PHILOSOPHY To the fly an open door is only a one-way street. The clothes that makes the woman breaks the man. The north pole knows what it's about when it wears an ice-cap. Scientists report that fleas can go without food for two weeks, but they won't. The eternal triangle usually ends up in a wreck-tangle. Give feminine fashions time enough and they will starve all the moths to death. As a method of dealing with the problem of the unemployed, why not pass a good stiff law against work? Give the devil his due. Ananias was dead before any of the resort literature was written. Women learn to swim sooner than men because the men have to teach themselves. If the printing of crime news makes criminals, why doesn't the printing of recipes make good cooks? It's easy to pick out the foreign-born. They cuss capital instead of congress. The man who says he runs things at his house may mean the washing machine and the vacuum cleaner. Prohibition is working smoothly now, and the only job left is to stop the sale of liquor. A jazz band is a comfort on the radio. You can't tell which part is static. Many a garage denotes the terminal facilities for the income. A man is settling down in life when the country by supplying competition with the foreign grown product. The reduction of over half a cent a pound in the tariff on Cuban raw sugar which had been recommended by one-half the membership of the tariff commission and which the President has now rejected would result, as he points out, in depriving 20 to 40 per cent of the beet sugar industry protection against foreign competition and would mean the wiping out of the whole industry in certain sections." As the President says, this would be retrogressive rather than a progressive step toward diversification in all the areas thus affected. Mr. Coolidge is no mere theorist. He realizes that we cannot get away entirely from the production of an export surplus of farm crops merely by growing sugar beets, but he recognizes this industry as one powerful agency toward the improvement of agricultural conditions, and he is against anything that will destroy it where it has been established or prevent its extension into states where it can be successfully developed. One passage in the President's statement regarding the sugar tariff can be taken as representing the Coolidge policy toward American agriculture. In it he says: "It is important that as a nation we should be independent as far as we may of overseas imports of food. Further, it is most important that our farmers, by diversification of their production, shall have an opportunity to adjust their crops as far as possible to our domestic rather than to foreign markets if we would attain higher degrees of stability in our agriculture." THE PORK BARREL Announcement that a senate postal subcommittee was about to start on the task of formulating a permanent postal rate bill brought to light the fact that a large part of the country was turning its thought again to the subject of federal "pork." Monthly reports reaching Washington in the form of telegrams from communities that for years have been promised imposing federal buildings by their representatives in congress, indicate many citizens, forgetting tax reduction for the moment, now are taking it for The man who says he runs things at his house may mean the washing machine and the vacuum cleaner. Prohibition is working smoothly now, and the only job left is to stop the sale of liquor. A jazz band is a comfort on the radio. You can't tell which part is static. Many a garage denotes the terminal facilities for the income. A man is settling down in life when he isn't afraid to ask the clerk for something cheaper. Of course the country is prosperous. We have twice as much money and it buys half as much. If only the brakes would get tight when the driver does. They might at least have slipped through an amendment to keep the gold-diggers from working before 18. There's small choice. Refuse him ten and you lose a friend; lend it and lose the ten. God made the country, but man put a mortgage on it. The Indians have their medicine men and the Africans their voodoo doctors. We have our psychoanalysts. Another good way to eliminate unnecessary nolses would be to eliminate the pronoun "I." Just because society is called the "upper crust" is no reason why it should be tough. Why couldn't they cut peep-holes in their billboards and charge a nickle to view the scenery. The objection to an open mind is that convictions get out as fast as new ideas get in. It's foolish to think Bryan descended from a dumb animal. It is getting so that the innocent bystander cannot understand where theology ends and religion begins. Police are still hunting for bootleggers. Most everybody else seems to have found theirs. The perplexing problem is to get the tolerant to tolerate the intolerant. A judge has ruled that a man can't make his girl give back the engagement ring. But the installment man can. If defeated on the seas, we would be lost. The raw material for chewing gum is imported. The only music typically American is that made by the mocking bird, the saxophone and the cash register. THE PORK BARREL Announcement that a senate postal subcommittee was about to start on the task of formulating a permanent postal rate bill brought to light the fact that a large part of the country was turning its thought again to the subject of federal "pork." Monthly reports reaching Washington in the form of telegrams from communities that for years have been promised imposing federal buildings by their representatives in congress, indicate many citizens, forgetting tax reduction for the moment, now are taking it for granted the federal government is in shape to carry out an extensive public building program. In some instances, there is an impression that Sentator Mosca's postal subcommittee is going on a proposed tour to parcel out new federal buildings. According to the communications reaching the capital, the news that the treasury wound up the fiscal year with a surplus of $250,000,000 was a new signal for the old and resounding cry of "pork." It is believed here the "pork" statesmen in both branches of congress will find the soil ripe for renewing their building projects and will lose no time in starting operations. For many years, Representative John W. Langley of Kentucky, now appealing a conviction on liquor conspiracy charges, was the leader of the House group advocating "a public building for every community." As chairman of the House public buildings committee, Mr. Langley proposed from time to time a program calling for ultimate expenditure of $150,000,000 for new structures in many towns and cities. He readily found support from nearly every colleague for whom provision was included. Although Mr. Langley is out of picture, at least temporarily, Representative Elliott of Indiana, acting chairman of the House committee, is keeping the "pork" question alive. The Langley type of "pork" was to specify by law the sites of new governmental structures, and Senator Fletcher of Florida, continued to fight for such a plan at the last session. Representative Elliott and Senator Smoot, however, have proposed a $150,000,000 program in the form of a "lump sum" appropriation, by which the treasury department, with the President approving, would designate the communities where the buildings were needed most. This proposal failed in the last congress, partly because it would have made "pork" distribution a prerogative of the executive department. A complicating factor is the resentment felt by some sections of the country toward ambitious improvements in Washington. When $50,000,000 was sought for new buildings for the capital, the "pork" contingent countered by proposing to add $100,000,000 for other cities and towns. At the last session, however, congress authorized $14,000,000 to be spent for the Lincoln memorial bridge, over the vehement protest of Senator Borah and others. The senate postal subcommittee will have nothing whatever to do with the "pork" problem. Its business is that Who Knows Oil Is Leak? Experts report Institute in 1916 ply of petroleum was 5,763,100,000 at that time ww.year. In 1922 more than doubled of the 1916 re-drawn that with be no more oil right in 1916. A posits will be ex-However, tha They had never an oil field, nor Signal Hill in almost as much production for t Since the Sign deposits have b stand of trying fornians are e where it is not. Both California set the calculat-the petroleum more uncertain Shates, with abundant capita- has been produce world's oil cent. When tha and this may m more. there are earth upon wha a further resource there are extent-the western state production. The established on rn United State oil reserves in cThere need l future of the ol an actual short be sure that tha generation deve-SUPERW PEAll bids receiv construction of ocular Hospital perial county an taken under ad1925.at 10.a.m.The chairman a contract with Growers' AssocState aid waV. Oughton andFumigating lau sued to ZimmSquire,Henley,A.R.MacBethGrove Citrus AOelke and Floylicenses were oDodge.No bids being The perplexing problem is to get the tolerant to tolerate the intolerant. A judge has ruled that a man can't make his girl give back the engagement ring. But the installment man can. If defeated on the seas, we would be lost. The raw material for chewing gum is imported. The only music typically American is that made by the mocking bird, the saxophone and the cash register. Mix tin and copper and you have bronze; mix tin and brass and you have a road hog. President Stands By the Farmers Calvin Coolidge has given another proof of his staunch friendship for the American farmer by his refusal to reduce the tariff on foreign grown sugar imported into the United States. In the statement given out from the White House announcing his decision, he declares unequivocally, "The farmer is entitled to share along with the manufacturer direct benefits under our national policy of protecting domestic industry." As the President says: "The farmer has received advice from every hand to diversify his crops. He has done this in certain sections of the country by going in for sugar beet culture, and is thus in process of building up a great home agricultural industry that improves his soil, enables him to diversify his crops and helps to relieve the people of the country from dependence upon the foreigner for one of the major items in the national food supply. As long as we are still importing millions of tons of foreign grown sugar and exporting a vast surplus of wheat and other farm products that must be sold on foreign markets, often at a loss, it would be a distinct backward step from the needed development of a better balanced agriculture to discourage the home production of sugar, which at the same time benefits the consumers of executive department. A complicating factor is the resentment felt by some sections of the country toward ambitious improvements in Washington. When $50,000,000 was sought for new buildings for the capital, the "pork" contingent countered by proposing to add $100,000,000 for other cities and towns. At the last session, however, congress authorized $14,000,000 to be spent for the Lincoln memorial bridge, over the vehement protest of Senator Borah and others. The senate postal subcommittee will have nothing whatever to do with the "pork" problem. Its business is that of conducting hearings to determine how the present postal rate schedule is working out and then to devise a law that will seek to prevent the $68,000,000 pay increase voted last February from adding to the operating deficit of the postoffice department. The department and the senate committee now are trying to find out how much the temporary law is bringing in and what will be necessary. The postoffice department, at the end of the 1924 fiscal year, reported an operating deficit of $14,463,976, and still has outstanding about $21,000,000 in obligations to be audited and added to the total. Until the pay increase was voted the department was making fair progress toward putting itself on a self-sustaining basis. HER SENSATION "I was sitting in my chair on the porch, dozing, when the cyclone came," said the elderly but active lady. "The first thing I knew, I was whirling through the air with one arm of the chair in my hand. The thunder rolled and the lightning flashed. The air seemed full of lumber, dust, tree limbs, dogs, calves, furniture and all sorts of stuff. When I came to myself, I was more than a mile away from where the porch had been." "Ah," we replied. "Now, tell us, what were your sensations as you flew through the air on the wild wings of the wind?" "Well, about the only thing I could think of was the wasteful way in which my daughter-in-law cut the bread." Beautiful Building For Balboa Beach Clubhouse to Cost $800,000 Is Being Planned Construction operations on the proposed club building of the Southern Seas Club of Balboa will start in November, according to directors of the organization. Plans are now being prepared by a Los Angeles firm, Ruoff & Munson, it is stated. With the completion of the edifice, Balboa will have one of the finest clubhouses of any beach city in Southern California, it is said. The proposed structure will be located on the bay front between Bay View and Fernando streets. Option on practically the entire city block at the site is already held by the club. In the plans, it is contemplated to install concession stores on the ground floor. An arcade will pass through the building. There will be facilities for a swimming plunge and canoes. The second floor will be equipped for the social affairs of the club with a dining room, social hall, lobby, ladies' room and a mezzanine floor for billiards, cards and grill. Six floors of club apartments will comprise a total of approximately 400 rooms to be rented and sold to members. On the roof, a gymnasium and playground with observation towers will be built. Prominent men from all over the Southland are backing the undertaking. A membership of 2000 is sought. The clubhouse will be completed by January 1, 1927, it is believed. Who Knows How Much Oil Is Left in Ground? Experts reporting to the Smithsonian Institute in 1916 estimated that the supply of petroleum in the ground then was 5,763,100,000 barrels. Consumption at that time was 265,000,000 barrels a year. In 1922 the consumption had more than doubled. Yet on the basis of the 1916 report a conclusion was shape than ever before to participate in the hauling and delivery of the veritable flow of gold to the waiting markets and consumers in the East," said the official. "Business conditions are good and there will be a market for the grapes and other fruits, and those demanding these food products will be able to purchase." The vice-president said the co-operative movement, inspired and set in motion by the regional boards, had done much to clear up the possibility of congestion at the big-eastern terminals, where a bulk of California products go, and this condition materially aids the railroads and the shippers in a more even and profitable distribution of their products. Cars are quickly unloaded and hurried back to the vineyards and orchards for reloading, he said. Mr. Chainbler said -the agricultural conditions in the middle states have improved and large yields in a majority of the producing centers now appear possible. This, he said, affords a dependable source of prosperity upon which California naturally looks to for its influx of tourists and the home-seeker travel. 20 YEARS AGO IN MOTORDOM Editorial comment in a newspaper of 20 years ago read: "For some time John D. Rockefeller has been devoted to motoring, and recently he purchased a buzz wagon for his wife. Mr. Rockefeller's machine is of 40 horsepower and is capable of making 40 miles an hour, but the Standard Oil magnate will not permit his chauffeur to drive faster than eight miles an hour. Golf and motoring have wrought wonderful changes in his health, and it is said that he is now in no terror of the richest concoctions of his chef." Some drivers of the "chug-chug wagons" of the early days in automobile history had to resort to wily tricks in order to go faster than the Los Angeles speed limits allowed, and yet not be caught by the police. These gentry oiled their number plates so that they would catch the dust and prevent detection. It was proposed to place number plates higher on the cars in order of 20 per cent, according to the Safety First Bureau of the National Automobile Club. Every mile added to your speed in excess of 35 miles an hour increases the strain on driver and car not by the percentage of increase maintained in the first 35 miles, but in geometrical progression for every 10-mile increase. In other words, the strain at 40 miles an hour is twice that of 30; the strain at 50 miles an hour is twice that at 40, and the strain at 60 miles an hour is twice that of 50. The hazard of accident increases in the same scale, so that the man who proceeds at an average speed of 60 miles an hour has eight times the chance of accident as the man proceeding at gat 30 miles an hour. Excess speed with a motor car is hardly worth while. It is not the main element contributing to the accident, but it plays a big part in many mishaps on the road. The man who follows the "A. B. C." of safety, which is "Always Be Careful," keeps within the legal limit of speed at all times. Award Contract for Widening Boulevard The California highway commission has awarded a contract for the widening and thickening of 13.1 miles of pavement between Oceanside and San Onofre, on the Orange county line, to Jahn and Bressal, of Los Angeles, according to word received today. The firm's bid was $322,757, a sum $38,657 less than the engineer's estimate for the work. The operations will be financed with funds derived from the state gasoline tax. A contract has been awarded for grading and rock surfacing an 8.6-mile section between El Centro and Holtville. Apricot growers of Ventura report a big crop of rather small sizes. Who Knows How Much Oil Is Left in Ground? Experts reporting to the Smithsonian Institute in 1916 estimated that the supply of petroleum in the ground then was 5,763,100,000 barrels. Consumption at that time was 265,000,000 barrels a year. In 1922 the consumption had more than doubled. Yet on the basis of the 1916 report a conclusion was drawn that within 22 years there would be no more oil. If the experts were right in 1916, American's petroleum deposits will be exhausted by 1930. However, the experts were wrong. They had never heard of Signal Hill as an oil field, nor had anyone else. But Signal Hill in four years has produced almost as much oil as the total annual production for the United States in 1916. Since the Signal Hill discovery, other deposits have been uncovered, and instead of trying to tell where oil is, Californians are endeavoring to find out where it is not. Both California and Texas have upset the calculation of those who forecast the petroleum yield. Mexico is a still more uncertain quantity. The United States, with its superior facilities, abundant capital and long experience, has been producing about 70 per cent of the world's oil, and Mexico about 20 per cent. When these fields are exhausted, and this may not be for 100 years or more, there are other portions of the earth upon which to draw. There is a further resource of oil shale, of which there are extensive deposits in many of the western states, susceptible of large production. The initial plant will be established on an experimental scale by the United States government on naval oil reserves in Colorado. There need be no alarm about the future of the oil industry. By the time an actual shortage owevelops, one may be sure that the perfecting of electrical generation devices will supply every need. SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS All bids received in the matter of the construction of the Tri-Counties Tubercular Hospital of Orange county, Imperial county and Riverside county were taken under advisement until July 21, 1925, at 10 a.m. The chairman was authorized to sign a contract with the Santa Ana Walnut Growers' Association. State aid was granted to Mrs. Helen V. Oughton and Nettle Wilfley. Fumigating licenses were ordered issued to Zimmerman & Priest, P. C. Squire, Henley, Aspelin Company, Inc., A. R. MacBeth, Orel Herman, Garden Grove Citrus Association, Bonkosky & Oelke and Floyd F. Dungan. Spraying licenses were ordered issued to D. J. Dodge. No bids being received for the Laguna faster than eight miles an hour. Golf and motoring have wrought wonderful changes in his health, and it is said that he is now in no terror of the richest concoctions of his chef." Some drivers of the "chug-chug wagons" of the early days in automobile history had to resort to wily tricks in order to go faster than the Los Angeles speed limits allowed, and yet not be caught by the police. These gentry oiled their number plates so that they would catch the dust and prevent detection. It was proposed to place number plates higher on the cars in order to foil the lawless drivers. In support of an anti-speed movement of 20 years ago, the Automobile Club of Southern California adopted resolutions condemning those automobiles who drive their cars at speed prohibited by law. The board of directors recommended to the Los Angeles city council and chief of police that a number of bicycles be equipped with speedometers for the use of the police department, so that officers may determine to a certain whether motorists are going at prohibited speeds. The auto club also tendered the use of one or more machines so equipped to the police. Automobilists had to pay a toll of 1 cent a mile for machines holding two persons and 2 cents a mile for three persons or more on all toll roads in the state of New Jersey 20 years ago. How to Judge Safe, Sound Investments Sound, conservative investments, what they are and how they may be judged, were discussed before the Santa Ana Rotary Club meeting at St. Ann's Inn, by E. B. Sprague, of the trust department of the First National bank of Santa Ana. Safety first in investments was pointed out by Sprague as essential to accumulations to carry one through old age or to care for one's family, following death of the provider. Sprague argued in favor of a diversity of investments, so that an unexpected blow to a single investment will not prove disastrous. The speaker pointed out the stability of government bonds and of good municipal bonds, which, while bearing low rates of interest, have the tax power of the country or the city back of them to insure payments of interest and principal: Public utility bonds were pointed out as usually strong and sound. "When it comes to industrial stocks and bonds," said Sprague, "we find a wide range of possibilities, and no experienced investor should invest in them without first seeking the advice of someone who is conservative and who is experienced in business affairs and whose judgment is known to be good." Sprague said that there are three foundation stones upon which one should build. These three are a bank Traffic Chief Sees Prosperity Ahead Optimistic over the business and shipping outlook and assuring the growers that a successful marketing of California crops this summer and fall with a god demand for the products may be looked for, Edward Chambers of Chicago, vice-president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad, in charge of traffic, is in the state on his regular tour of inspection. The moving of the fruit and vegetable crops grown in this state exceeds anything in transportation service in the world, and our system is in better try or the city back of them to insure payments of interest and principal: Public utility bonds were pointed out as usually strong and sound. "When it comes to industrial stocks and bonds," said Sprague, "we find a wide range of possibilities, and no experienced investor should invest in them without first seeking the advice of someone who is conservative and who is experienced in business affairs and whose judgment is known to be good." Sprague said that there are three foundation stones upon which one should build. These three are a bank account, life insurance and a home. Systematic saving as a means of accumulation for safe investment was recommended by the banker as a life practice. "First of all," he said, a "business man should see to it that he has sufficient capital to carry on his business, and by no means should he cripple his business by seeking outside investments. When his business is in good shape, he may then safely seek investments. Mrs. Frances Woody, Long Beach lecturer, addressed the Rotary Club on the duty of the business man to study business methods and to better his ways of doing business. The chairman of the program was herbert Rankin, chairman of better business methods of the club. MATHEMATICS OF SAFETY Have you ever considered the mathematics of safety? The legal limit of speed in California on the open highway is 35 miles an hour. In a trip of 175 miles the motorist who can maintain an average of 35 miles an hour will reach his destination in five hours. On the other hand, the man who maintains an average of 45 miles an hour, or 10 miles in excess of the legal limit, will reach his destination in about four hours, but the strain of driving at the faster pace is more than twice that offered to the man who stays within the legal limit. Likewise, the strain on the motor car is increased an hundredfold, while the element of time registers only a saving PROGRESS Two recent developments have focused public attention on Graham Brothers Trucks as never before. One was the sweeping price reductions of May 15th, ranging from $80 to $160. The other was Graham Brothers ascendancy to leadership by building more 1½-ton trucks than any other manufacturer in the world, during the first quarter of 1925, and by achieving second position in the 1-ton and 1½-ton fields combined. Progress such as this deserves public attention—and eliminates all doubt as to the logical truck to buy! 1-Ton Chassis, $1280; 1½-Ton Chassis, $1560; Delivered CHAS. H. MANN DODGE DISTRIBUTOR 210 South Los Angeles Street, Anaheim Graham Brothers Trucks Sold by Dodge Brothers Dealers Everywhere INCREASE Your Business Not by Earning More but by Better Spending MANY a man who is earning but $4,000 a year lives as well, or perhaps better, than the man who is earning $6,000. How does he do it? He does it by judicious spending! He makes every dollar buy a dollar's worth . . . and ofttimes more. He does not buy by impulse! He exercises care and judgment in weighing values . . . he is constantly alert as to where his money can be spent to best advantage. Thus he secures more real value for his money than his most affluent friend—the $6,000 man. The knack of saving money is easily acquired. Saving does not always mean banking it. You can buy as well as sell at a profit. And buying at a profit means a saving! Accordingly, the man who buys intelligently . . . increases income . . . not by earning more . . . but by better spending. The knack of saving money is easily acquired. Saving does not always mean banking it. You can buy as well as sell at a profit. And buying at a profit means a saving! Accordingly, the man who buys intelligently . . . increases his income . . . not by earning more . . . but by better spending. To buy intelligently is to heed newspaper advertising! Newspaper advertising . . . that never-end-g, omnipresent review of the marketing of the world's commodities! The advertising columns of this newspaper are found, practical lessons in plain, everyday economy. Not far-fetched theories in high-flown phrases . . . but simple, self-evident facts that point the shortest route to real present-day thrift. No matter what your income may be—more or less than $4,000—you can earn more by better spending; watching . . . every week . . . the advertising in this newspaper. KNOWING HOW TO BUY IS MERELY KNOWING WHERE!