anaheim-gazette 1925-08-27

HARRY RILEY CAR WINS NOTED RACE Gets First Honors in Studebaker Veteran Economy Run The greatest number of cars of one make assembled for a sociability economy run competed for silver trophies Wednesday, August 12, when 20 veteran Studebaker cars, all having 50,000 miles or more to their credit, made a swing of 172 miles from Los Angeles to Lake Arrowhead and return. The run was conducted by the Studebaker Corporation of America, under the direction of A.W. Maxwell, branch manager. All the cars were privately owned and were entered by Studebaker dealers of Southern California. The run was the fourth veteran Studebaker economy run to be staged in Southern California. Starting at 209 feet above sea level in Los Angeles, the cars climbed to an altitude one mile high on their run into the San Bernardino mountains, where Lake Arrowhead is located. The trip to the lake and return covered a total of 172 miles. Speed was no object, and the run was made in strict observance of driving laws—15 miles an hour in cities and 35 miles an hour in the open country. No gas savers or accessories that would increase economy were permitted. Observers appointed by dealers rode in competing cars. All cars were checked for gasoline oil and water consumption, which formed the basis for deciding winners. Big Sixes, Special Sixes and Light Sixes were entered, with a silver cup as prize for each class winner. Both to and from the lake the cars backed a strong head wind. The run both up and down the mountain grades was made in second gear. The Big Six class trophy was won by Harry D. Riley, dealer of Anaheim, whose car was driven by Curt Henderson, manager of his branch at Orange. This car came through with an average of 18.1 miles to the gallon of gasoline. The car used little oil and water. The trophy for the class is a silver cup offered by the Gilmdre Oil Company, whose gasoline was used on the run. The Special Six class trophy was won CROP RETURNS AND PROSPERITY The greatest returns ever received from the soil will come to California from the proceeds of 1925 crops. This is the assertion of Edward Chambers, of Chicago, vice-president of the Santa Fe railroad. Mr. Chambers has made a tour of the state and has made a personal survey of its agricultural and horticultural productions. Not only is there a tremendous movement to market fresh fruits and vegetables, but canned products also are in great demand. Exportations of canned fruits and vegetables have reached high figure and yet the canneries scarcely are able to meet the export demand. Mr. Chambers predicts that there will be a big expansion of canneries and an increase in canned products to meet this growing demand. Quoting Mr. Chambers: "This condition leads me to believe that the wave of prosperity will extend over two or three years, barring unseen disaster, and it insures increased production in agricultural and industrial activities, larger movement of freight and passenger traffic, increased farm land sales and subdivision of immense fertile tracts where water can be applied for irrigation." This very optimistic talk comes, remember, not from an over-enthusiastic California booster, but from a man who lives in Chicago—a railroad man of big responsibilities who does n ot talk loosely. Mr. Chambers' words, frequently corroborated by other railroad men and men of affairs who visit and survey this state, are encouraging and inspiring to Californians. What these men of big vision see is obvious to the observant Californian. BRYAN AND DEMOCRACY Just what effect the passing of William Jennings Bryan will have on the Democratic party is a question that is agitating the minds of many at the present writing. The man who so earnestly espoused the cause of the Bible would no doubt have been a candidate for the Senate from Florida at the next election, and there are many who believe that democracy's foremost figure would have stood an excellent chance of election from his adopted The Big Six class trophy was won by Harry D. Hiley, dealer of Anaheim, whose car was driven by Curt Henderson, manager of his branch at Orange. This car came through with an average of 18.1 miles to the gallon of gasoline. The car used little oil and water. The trophy for the class is a silver cup offered by the Gilmore Oil Company, whose gasoline was used on the run. The Special Six class trophy was won by the Albambra Garage of Alhambra, sub-dealers under Keller Brothers, Pasadena. This car, driven by E. G. Seely, came through with an average of 16.5 miles to the gallon, and like the Big Six, used little oil, and only a small amount of water. The trophy for this class is a silver cup offered by the Arrowhead Lake Company, through its president, J. B. Van Nuys. The Standard or Light Six class trophy was won by Keller Brothers, Pasadena dealers. This car, driven by J. H. (Jack) Adams, came through with a gasoline average of 20.5 miles to the gallon, used less than a pint of oil, and less than a pint of water. The winning Big Six had a total mileage to its credit of 136,815 miles. The winning Special Six had a total of 61,231 miles to its credit, and the winning Light Six had a total of 75,895 miles to its credit. The total mileage of all cars entered amounts to 1,873,156 miles. This is an average of 93,657 miles per car. The oldest cars entered were models manufactured in 1919. All the Big Sixes entered in the run made an average of more than 15 miles to the gallon. The lowest gasoline average made by the Special Six class was 15.6 miles to the gallon. The lowest average for the Standard or Light Six class was 18.2 miles to the gallon. There was no coasting permitted during the entire run. All driving rules of cities and counties, all safety zones and boulevard stops were strictly observed. Going up and coming down the mountain grades all cars operated in second gear. Motors were never shut off. All gasoline tanks were drained before starting by the Gilmore Oil Company and were drained again at the end of the run. Eighteen of the 20 entries used Penzoll one Ventura oil and one Valvoline. The cars were started from the Los Angeles branch of the Studebaker corporation at two minute intervals after 8 o'clock. All cars had four hours to check in to A. W. Maxwell at Lake Arrowhead village. Clete Mulick, president of the Lovejoy Pacific Company, served as referee. All the cars entered arrived at Arrowhead within the four hours, and completed the return trip within the allotted time. At Lake Arrowhead the drivers, observers, officials and newspapers were guests at the Arrowhead Lodge for luncheon, at the invitation of J. B. Van Nuys, president of the Arrowhead Land Company. The entire party was given a boat ride on the lake by Dr. Ralph Brown resort manager, and otherwise. BRYAN AND DEMOCRACY Just what effect the passing of William Jennings Bryan will have on the Democratic party is a question that is agitating the minds of many at the present writing. The man who so earnestly espoused the cause of the Bible would no doubt have been a candidate for the Senate from Florida at the next election, and there are many who believe that democracy's foremost figure would have stood an excellent chance of election from his adopted state. Despite the fact that Bryan was defeated three times for the presidency his influence in Democratic party councils was still a force to be reckoned with. It was the Bryanites that made the nomination of Woodrow Wilson possible, and he was powerful enough in 1924 to deadlock the convention in New York. If Bryan had not died, there is no doubt that he would have appeared at the Democratic convention in 1928 as the champion of a cause and with a following as great, if not greater, than he ever had before, that would have practically made him a dictator as far as the nomination of the Democratic candidate was concerned. Many of the northern Democratic politicians would have fought Bryan tooth and toenail at the next Democratic convention, but the thousands who believed in William Jennings Bryan will not follow the dictates of the eastern Democratic leaders. While it is too early to forecast as to what will happen in the next Democratic convention, Democratic politicians, when speaking privately and not for publication, shake their heads sadly and aver that it is their belief that the fight will again be between Al Smith of New York and William Gibbs McAdoo. MOTOR ETHICS SUGGESTED The American Automobile Association is starting out to formulate and put over a "national code of motoring ethics." The need of such a code is evidenced to anybody anywhere. It is more important for motorists to agree on the decencies of driving, and observe them, than it is to agree on a national set of uniform traffic regulations. The latter, too, is essential; but no rules amount to anything if people don't want to observe them. First get good road rules, then make them known, then persuade everybody to do his best to live up to them, in spirit as well as letter. The last is the hardest. Motor ethics surely are in a bad state at present. For some unexplained reason, people are usually more impolite and inconsiderate behind steering wheels than anywhere else. Ladies and gentlemen do things on the road that they wouldn't think of doing at home or in a public assembly. As for those who are not ladies and gentlemen anywhere—and there are many such driving in this prosperous and democratic country of vals after 8 o'clock. All cars had four hours to check in to A. W. Maxwell at Lake Arrowhead village. Clete Mulick, president of the Lovejoy Pacific Company, served as referee. All the cars entered arrived at Arrowhead within the four hours, and completed the return trip within the allotted time. At Lake Arrowhead the drivers, observers, officials and newspapers were guests at the Arrowhead Lodge for luncheon, at the invitation of J. B. Van Nuys, president of the Arrowhead Land Company. The entire party was given a boat ride on the lake by Dr. Ralph Power, resort manager, and otherwise entertained during the stay of two hours. "At the completion of the run the cars were in excellent condition, and all motors were running smoothly, in spite of the hard test to which they had been put. The remarkable record of these veteran cars, all with 50,000 miles or more to their credit, again proves, in striking manner, the endurance, reliability and economy of all models of Studebakers." Maxwell declared. The dealers entering cars were as follows: Elsbery Reynolds, Jr., Inc.; Pomona; W. F. Krumm & Company; Monrovia; Paul G. Hoffman Company; Inc., Los Angeles; three cars; Whittle's Garage, Whittler; Keller Brothers, Passadena; two cars; C. E. Elson, San Bernardino; Harry D. Riley, Anaheim; two cars; Alhambra Garage, Alhambra; Sassard & Kimball, Huntington Park; Glenn E. Thomas Company, Long Beach; Allington-French Company, Van Nuys; Hale & Hiserodt, Redondo; Packer-Motor Company, Inc., Glendale; two cars; A. J. Koch, Santa Paula, two cars. The veteran car having the greatest mileage to its credit was a Studebaker Big Six entered by Hale & Hiserodt, with a total of 265,153 miles. The committee in charge of the run consisted of A. W. Maxwell, manager of the Los Angeles Studebaker factory branch, as manager; John R. Huff, assistant branch manager, as official checker; E. R. Carpenter, president of the Paul G. Hoffman Company, Inc.; Clete Mulick, president of the Lovejoy-Pacific Company, as referee, and E. J. Fortman, advertising manager of the Paul G. Hoffman Company. First get good road safety on his seventy-eighth birthday. Motor ethics surely are in a bad state at present. For some unexplained reason, people are usually more impolite and inconsiderate behind steering wheels than anywhere else. Ladies and gentlemen do things on the road that they wouldn't think of doing at home or in a public assembly. As for those who are not ladies and gentlemen anywhere—and there are many such driving in this prosperous and democratic country of ours—things they do openly and flagrantly in the midst of traffic would have been incredible before this motor age came, or in its early years. And it isn't mere disregard of others' obvious rights. Any slight infraction of what other drivers take rightly or wrongly, to be their own rights, is often met nowadays with an explosion of profanity regardless of surroundings. Automobiling, with all its pleasant features, seems to be getting on the nation's nerves. Should there be a motor moratorium before starting in with this decency code? NEW ENGLAND PICNIC The six New England states, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, will join in a great picnic reunion all day Saturday, August 29, at Sycamore Grove Park, Los Angeles. The program following the basket dinner at noon will consist of informal song and oratory. Separate county registers will be open all day for each state. Hot coffee will be supplied for all. Those born in other states may enroll in the states' of their ancestors, for all people of New England ancestry are invited. Many will want to meet unknown relatives or friends. Pass the word to others. Write, phone or call on C. H. Parsons; Trinity 3511, 901 South Main street, Los Angeles. A man at Santa Catalina island landed a 157-pound tuna on his seventy-eighth birthday. ANAHEIM GAZETTE Industrial Exhibit at Orange County Fair All Manufacturing Plants Will Display Products Agriculture, oil and industry are the economic trinity of Orange county. All three are important and each has a past, present and future. For the last five years, agriculture has yielded something like an average of $10,000,000 annually. Oil has ranged as high as $50,000,000. Agriculture grand totals have receded a little, lacking the stimulus of war prices. Oil has dropped decidedly. But industry has forged on. Not including oil products, the industrial output five years ago was little more than $5,000,000. Last year, according to Chamber of Commerce reports, the total was near $25,000,000, and this year's incomplete figures indicate an approach to $30,000,000. So industry wins a seat of honor with agriculture and oil in Orange county. Representatives of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Orange county report universal response to the idea of a large and complete display of Orange county manufactured products at the fair. The special committee, of which A. L. Ollier, secretary of the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce, is chairman, is gathering information to submit at the next meeting of the supervisors. Mr. Oliger reported that the manufacturers of the county already have sent in scores of reservations. A questionnaire was sent out last week to the hundred and more manufacturers of Santa Ana. Within three days, 10 of them replied, all in favor of participating in the co-operative industrial exhibit. Many more have replied since. "He begins to look like the exhibit will be an emporium of Orange county manufactured products, where everybody will see everything manufactured in the county," said a fair official. "And this activity also is stimulating the commercial exhibit section of the fair. In the co-operative exhibit, nothing will be offered for sale." Just a case of selling' Orange county industry to all its people and visitors from elsewhere." like Hindenburg—of whom there are many in the world—must give the old German bulldog credit for being a good sport about it. Repudiation is what it really is. Germany has repudiated her domestic obligations on a vast scale. And not only her public indebtedness but, to almost as great an extent, her private indebtedness. Mortgages on landed property and debts on shipping and railway lines have been revalued at 25 per cent. Industrial bonds are revalued at 15 per cent. Here is "confiscatory action" of which Americans never dreamed. Thousands of Germans have lost big fortunes. Millions have lost the savings of years. The war has swallowed them up, albed by a government willing to use herotic methods. The professional classes have been impoverished. There is a certain justice in it, too. The capitalist, professional and military classes, so largely responsible for the war, have lost most. The masses who had little lost least, because the country starts afresh with scarcely any internal debt to bear a heavy weight of interest and taxes. It is bitter medicine, but good for Germany. The influential citizens who staked their fortunes on war, and lost will not want another war. In that "historical tragedy," perhaps lies the fairest hope of European peace. LEADS IN STAR STUDY The Pacific coast has reason to be proud of the prominence it has gained with respect to astronomical research. At Mount Hamilton and Mount Wilson, California has two of the best equipped observatories in the world, in which astronomers of note have made important contributions to knowledge of the stars. The largest telescope is on Mount Wilson, the next in size is in British Columbia. But still larger than either of these is one made at Vancouver, B.C., soon to be in operation at the Frye observatory, in Seattle. This will have a reflecting mirror 120 inches in diameter—20 inches greater than the record-breaker on Mount Wilson. This glass for the Frye institution is said to be the first large optical mirror ever cast on the American continent. And the estimate is that it will bring Presence Demanded When Taking Oath Notaries and Justices Warned Against Violations Public officials and others authorized by any law of the United States to administer oaths in connection with internal revenue matters were warned by Commissioner D. H. Blair, through Collector Rex B. Goodcell, that failure to properly administer the oath and execute the jurat would be deemed sufficient cause for dismissal from the service, and that the offenders may suffer the full penalties prescribed by law. The warning is directed at federal officers, notaries public, justices of the peace and other oath-administering officers. Commissioner Blair holds that any officer, federal or otherwise, who executes a jurat in a federal tax matter indicating that he has administered an oath when no oath actually has been administered is liable to prosecution under the penal code. Federal officers will be dismissed for violations of this character, and in the case of notaries public and others the treasury department will request the cancellation of the oath-administering authority of any officer guilty of the offense. Commissioner Blair in his warning calls the attention of every notary public, justice of the police, collector, deputy collector or other qualified officer, who may be called upon to affix a jurat to any return of taxes or any other document to be used in the Internal Revenue Bureau in any way, or before the accounting officers of the treasury department, to section 106 of the United States Penal Code, which reads as follows: "Whoever, being a public officer or" other person with the United certificateingly my certifiable statement in a case is not e-mail law; shipper than one. Commissioner Blair cannot before do document foresee it; he adds executive oath to again administer. These adhered officer able; unpositive per hi man sworn." GERMAN REVALUATION President von Hindenburg has signed the revaluation bill passed by the Reichstag, and it is now in effect. Never perhaps, in any country, was there such a deliberate scaling down of values. Public debts, war and pre-war, are nearly wiped out. Government obligations totaling 70,000,000,000 marks, originally representing real money, are shrunk to a gold debt of 2½ per cent that size, a mere $300,000,000 or so. "The signing of the bill constitutes a great historical tragedy," says the Socialist newspaper, Vorwaerts. So it is, for all the people who put their fortunes in government bonds. Hindenburg himself and his family have been imprisoned. And those who do not BY ANY TEST IN ANY BATTERY "HYLITE" WILL PROVE ITS WORTH AGAINST THE REST "HYLITE" WILL PROVE IT'S WORTH AGAINST THE REST YOU never see a hungry man looking into an undertaker's window. You'll find him where they're flopping the pancakes. There's no need for the man with battery troubles to look in the undertaker's window either, for if he'll come to us, we'll introduce him to "HYLITE," the original "kick" battery solution. 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Blair, through goodell, that failure after the oath and should be deemed sufficial from the offenders may suffer prescribed by law. acted at federal office, justices of the administration of the other person authorized by any law of the United States to make or give a certificate or other writing, shall knowingly make and deliver as true such a certificate or writing, containing any statement which he knows to be false in a case where the punishment thereof is not elsewhere expressly provided by law, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than one year, or both." Commissioner Blair states that it has been called to the attention of the Internal Revenue Bureau that a recent indictment of certain parties for perjury in connection with their tax matters was lost solely on account of the lax methods of making acknowledgements to returns. Certain officers who are authorized by law to administer oaths in connection with internal revenue matters stated that they have made, and sometimes did make, certificates to the oaths to income tax returns without administering same, or may have signed the certificates even in cases where the returns were presented to them not by the taxpayers signing them, but by their agents. The commissioner holds that an oath cannot be legally administered unless the person taking the oath is present before the administering officer. The document which is being sworn to must also be subscribed to by the affiant in the presence of the officer administering the oath. In the event that the document has already been signed before it is brought into the presence of the administering officer, the person executing the document and making oath to it must be required to sign again in the presence of the officer administering the oath. "These instructions must be strictly adhered to so that any internal revenue officer administering an oath may be able, upon proper occasion, to testify positively and without reservation that the person who took any oath before him mutually appeared and was duly sworn," the edict reads. 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, omnipresent review of the marketing of the world's commodities! The advertising columns of this newspaper are found, practical lessons in plain, everyday economy. But far-fetched theories in high-flown phrases . . . that 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; by watching . . . every week . . . the advertising in this newspaper. KNOWING HOW TO BUY IS MERELY KNOWING WHERE!