anaheim-gazette 1925-10-08

GROWTH OF ANAHEIM Total for 1910 was... 2,268 Total for 1920 was... 5,525 Today estimated at... 12,000 VOLUME LV DISCUSS AMELIOR HOW. JOS. SCOTT IS PRINCIPAL SPEAKER MISS MACKEY TELLS OF SUCCESSFUL WORK IN OTHER SECTIONS Steps Determined Upon for Americanization of all Allens; Resolution Adopted Urging City Council to Undertake a Plan for Colonization of Mexicans, Giving Them Opportunity to Purchase Own Homes. Two hundred citizens of Anaheim, vitally interested in the welfare of the city, and believing that Americanization of the Mexican population would be an important step toward advancement, met at the Elks club rooms Monday evening and listened to speakers who had been enamed in this work. Santa Ana Judge Worms His Way Out of Dilemma JUDGE TALBOTT, police judge of Santa Ana, found himself in a serious predicament some days ago, when he stepped into his car and found a tag cliting him to appear before himself and answer to the charge of parking his car longer than the time permitted by law. This reminds the writer of an incident that occurred in Kansas some years ago. Police Judge Callahan, who was spending an evening with a few boon companions, followed the example of the others and imbibed much Arkansas moonshine. The members of the party were all apprehended by a policeman and ordered to appear in court the following morning. Consequently, when court opened, the judge called his own case first. "Bill," he said, "you are charged with being drunk last night. Are you guilty?" "Yes, your honor, but it was the fault of those roughnecks I was with." "No excuses, if you please. You are fined $5. Pungle up, please." The Santa Ana judge, however, found a different way out of his Two hundred citizens of Anaheim, vitally interested in the welfare of the city, and believing that Americanization of the Mexican population would be an important step toward advancement, met at the Elks club rooms Monday evening and listened to speakers who had long been engaged in this work. The meeting was held under the direction of the forum committee of the Chamber of Commerce. Hon. Joseph Scott of Los Angeles was the principal orator of the occasion. For many years he has devoted much of his time to the work of Americanization and improving the condition of Mexicans, and he thoroughly understands the needs of these people and the best methods of making them 100 per cent Americans. The speaker had no direct solution of Anaheim's problem to offer, but he did dwell at length on the problem as it affected the moulding of these foreigners into better American citizens. Scott urged his hearers to stress the importance of training the will of these people in preference to their intellect declaring the former to be far more important in solving the question which he said confronts the people of California, particularly the Southland. In speaking of the affection for their children which he said was one of the dominant characteristics of the Mexican people, the speaker declared that American fathers and mothers might well profit by adopting this trait. He deplored the existing spirit of American parents in letting their children solve their own problems and he urged these parents to give greater consideration to the problem of rearing their offspring. Scott spoke briefly on the value to a community of cleanliness among the people and around the home, declaring that visitors form their opinion more from the general appearance of a community than from statistics prepared by civic organizations. In urging the people of Anaheim to get solidly behind any logical movement which might tend to better the condition of the foreigners who dwelt amongst them Scott declared it was in the small communities that this must first be done. If it can not be successfully accomplished in cities of the size of Anaheim, he declared, there is no hope for coping with the question in the large cities. Miss Drusilla Mackey, who has been engaged in welfare work among the Mexicans in the northern part of the county, was one of those speakers. She told of conditions at La Habra, Fullerton and Placentia, where she has succeeded in making great strides among the Mexican people, exhibiting a number of pictures showing conditions as they were a few years ago and some showing the improvements made since the beginning of her efforts in those moonshine. The members of the party were all apprehended by a policeman and ordered to appear in court the following morning. Consequently, when court opened, the judge called his own case first. "Bill," he said, "you are charged with being drunk last night. Are you guilty?" "Yes, your honor, but it was the fault of those roughnecks I was with." "No excuses, if you please. You are fined $5. Pungle up, please." The Santa Ana judge, however, found a different way out of his dilemma. He promptly issued a warrant for his wife and fined her $2 on the ground that the automobile belonged to her. Reid Will Manage Next Orange Show Chamber of Commerce Secretary Will Be Big Boss With a view of maintaining a closer contact between the chamber of commerce and the management of the annual California Valencia show, the directors of the chamber have formally abolished their orange show committee and named George W. Reid, secretary of the chamber, as manager of the show. In taking this action, the directors declared it was no reflection on the manner in which the show has been conducted in the past. It being the unanimous opinion of all that the orange show committee had labored earnestly to build the show to its present high standard. When the orange show was originated in 1921, Malcolm Fraser, at that time secretary of the chamber of commerce, was placed in charge, and with Harry D. Riley, at that time president of the chamber, was mainly instrumental in staging the initial show. Since that time, a committee named by the chamber has had charge of the show and Herman Stern has been the active manager since 1924. Under Stern's management, the 1925 show was the biggest and best exhibition that has been held. Financially, it was considered a success, although the actual figures will not be known until an audit of the books has been made. Permanent improvements, estimated at nearly $16,000, have been made at the show grounds, which will enable the new management to proceed with next year's exhibition unhampered by many minor details and which also lower the cost of staging the show. Mr. Reid expects to start work on tentative plans for next year's show immediately. He believes the show can be improved in many ways and he promises to leave no stone unturned towards making it the greatest citrus exhibition possible. He has been assured the undivided support of the WORLD'S VETERAN BILLET TO BE BUILT IN ORANGE COUNTY A billet to care for ex-service men and orphans of ex-service men in this section of the state is one of the plans of the California American Legion Auxiliary, and plans for such a building are now being formulated, according to a statement made by Mrs. F. L. Chapline, Orange, newly elected president of the state American Legion Auxiliary. It is planned to build the billet somewhere between Santa Ana and the Orange county hospital, on the main highway. Mrs. Chapline, who spoke before the Orange Community Chamber of Commerce, said that efforts would be made to build two billets in the state, one for the northern section of California and the other for the Southland. She said that plans for the Southern billet already were under way. The billet here is badly needed, it was said, and Mrs. Chapline has appealed for co-operation from all of the county in erecting the building. Orange county has probably been selected because, in spite of the fact that it is one of the smallest counties in the state, figures show that welfare work in this county are larger than elsewhere. Mrs. Chapline declared that auxiliary work in other sections of the state were growing in leaps and bounds, however, and that the membership in the auxiliary at this time is approximately 6500. There are 378 auxiliary units in the state this year, compared with 200 a year ago, and more than $40,000 was spent last year in carrying out welfare work, it was said. NAHEIM GAZETE Anaheim, California, Thursday, October 8, 1925 DELIORATION OF MEXICANS MERCHANTS PLAN A HALLOWE’EN CARNIVAL ANNUAL CELEBRATION TO BE GIVEN FRIDAY EVE, OCTOBER 30 Street Parade Main Feature of the Affair, With Other Stunts on the Side—Unique Flouts, Chariots and Vehicles Being Constructed, and Costumes of Participants Will Be Varied—Schools May Take Part. Preparations are already under way for the Hallowe’en street carnival to be given by the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association on the night of Friday, October 30. This is the third time the merchants have staged this affair. Both the other carnivals were unqualified successes, but it is promised that they will proceed well for another year. Walnut Crooks Get Heavy Sentences in Santa Ana Court SENTENCES of four months each to three culprits, and a month each to two others, were meted out by Justice K. E. Morrison in the cases of walnut thieves arrested on the Irvine ranch. The defendedants, all were residents of Delhi, employed as pickers in the orchards they looted. A seventh defendant, Jesus Cortez, was certified to juvenile court, and an eighth, Mrs. Gubentina Cortez, pleaded not guilty. She demanded a jury trial, which was set for October 13, at 10 a.m. Mrs. Cortez, who held a screaming baby in her arms throughout the court arraignment, was allowed liberty without bail. Pedro Castro and Ramon Montejano were sentenced to one month each, but Manual Ybarra, Lorenzo Cortez and E. Montejano received four-month terms. This, the court explained, was because the latter trio were contractors for the picking gangs and therefore were more responsible for the offense than their employees. Jack Meek and O. D. Scott, employees of the Irvine company, appeared in court against the pickers. HEAVY RAINFALL SOAKS ENTIRE SOUTHLAND FIRST STORM OF SEASON GIVES ANAHEIM CLOSE TO INCH OF WATER Gradually Grew Heavier Toward the South, San Diego Getting Nearly Three Inches—Belated Bean Harvesters Damaged, but Walnut Growers Helped by Ripe Nuts Falling from Tree—All Vegetation Revived. Probably feeling some compunction because of his niggardliness during the past two years, the weather man began the season of 1925-26 with a rainstorm that drenched the entire Southland, even extending into the outposts of the desert country, where precipitation is very infrequent. It happened also during the first week in October, which Preparations are already under way for the Halloween street carnival to be given by the Merchants and Manufacturers' Association on the night of Friday, October 30. This is the third time the merchants have staged this affair. Both the other carnivals were unqualified successes, but it is promised that this one will excel by far anything that has gone before, as the promoters are learning by experience. Last year's parade was the most unique and amusing thing of the kind ever presented in the city, although little time had been devoted to its preparation. This year the committees in charge began earlier, and many new stunts will be invented. Following out last year's scheme, the big event on the program will be a carnival parade with gaily decorated floats for which prizes will be awarded. The committee in charge of this feature is composed of Arthur Cohen, president of the Merchants and Manufacturers' Association, and H. E. W. Barnes. The judges who will select the prize winners will be J. A. Clayes, chairman; Mayor Perry W. Mathis, Mrs. Helen Hardin and Mrs. E. E. Smith. R. B. Young, who will be marshal of the parade, is making an effort to have the schools represented in this parade with distinctive floats and costumes. R. B. Young, W. B. (Bud) Holland and Roy Wethered compose the committee in charge of decorating the store windows. Prizes will be offered for the best decorated window and for novelty windows. George W. Reid, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, will handle the finances, which will be raised by a committee consisting of J. Plotske, H. E. W. Barnes, E. E. Smith, Bud Holland, Arthur Cohen, Bob White, Roy Wethered and C. J. Nenno. New Basement Store Doing Big Business An innovation in merchandising was made in this city Saturday afternoon with the opening to the public of Falkenstein's new basement store with a new and excellently balanced stock of seasonable merchandise. In opening this new department it has been our most sincere endeavor to provide the people of Anaheim and Orange county with a basement store of such character as becomes the prosperity and progress of the county, was the statement made this morning by Kurt Epstein, manager of the store. More than 300 women were in line at 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon when the doors to the new department were opened and fully 2,000 visited the basement during the course of the afternoon according to the store manage-ment was allowed liberty without ball. Pedro Castro and Ramon Montejano were sentenced to one month each, but Manual Ybarra, Lorenzo Cortez and E. Montejano received four-month terms. This, the court explained, was because the latter trio were contractors for the picking gangs and therefore were more responsible for the offense than their employees. Jack Meek and O. D. Scott, employees of the Irvine company, appeared in court against the pickers. They said they had, for some time, been nonplussed to detect the thievery they knew was going on. but one day they watched from a distance, through powerful field-glasses and saw the pickers load up their vehicles with walnuts before starting home after the day's work. The stolen nuts were covered with coats and blankets when Meek and Scott descended upon the pickers. All of the defendants pleaded guilty in court, except Mrs. Cortez. COUNTY BEAN MEN REAP BIG HARVEST Better Prices Estimated for This Year's Crop Bean growers of Orange county have nearly completed harvesting a crop that will return them around $2,500,000 under quoted prices, according to estimates made by men competent to compute the crop. Seven threshers are working in the county and they are thrashing the beans at a rapid rate, with possibility of completing their work within two weeks. The harvesting reveals that bean production in the county is larger than was estimated early in the season, Representatives of the California Bean Growers' Association estimated the production of 150,000 sacks of 100 pounds each. It is now believed that 200,000 sacks will be harvested. Irrigated lands are producing from 20 to 25 sacks to the acre. The original estimate was 20 sacks to the acre. Drylands are running from one to three sacks to the acre. However the dry acreage is limited, the harvested acreage being very much less in past seasons. First quotations wired out by the association indicate that by November delivery prices on regular limas and baby limas will be higher than for October deliveries. For October deliveries, regulars were quoted at $12.90 per hundred pounds, f.o.b., and November at $13.15. Choice recealened are quoted at $12.65 for October and $12.90 for November. Baby limas were quoted at $11.65 for October and $11.90 for Novemeber, and choice recealened were quoted at $11.40 for October and $11.65 for Nov- Probably feeling some compunction because of his niggardiness during the past two years, the weather man began the season of 1925-26 with a rainstorm that drenched the entire Southland, even extending into the outposts of the desert country, where precipitation is very infrequent. It happened also during the first week in October, which is unusual even in this favored clime, and it proved that Father Ricard, the sage of Santa Clara, is not infallible, because some days ago he prophecied fair weather throughout the entire month. This storm, however, strained in from the Southwest, and its advance signs were far beyond the reach of the padre's telescope. The first drops began to fall at 7 o'clock Sunday morning, and within an hour there was a gentle but steady downpour which continued for 24 hours. The gauges in Anaheim measured .85 of an inch for the storm, but it gradually increased toward the South. Santa Ana reported an inch, Capistrano 1.55, and San Diego 2.88. All vegetation is looking brighter for the grateful moisture. Naturally, there was some damage on account of that unusually early downpour. The bean harvest is practically over, but a few were caught and will probably be injured. Tomatoes also will suffer, as a rain causes them to crack. Walnut growers will greatly benefit by it, as the rain softens the dry hull and permits the nuts to drop. In all probability nearly the entire crop was on the ground Monday morning. Rain does not damage the nuts unless it is prolonged and causes them to mould. Reports from various points in the county indicate that "Old Jup" in his liquid distribution was more generous to the southern half of the county than to the northern. The high point was at the ranch of the San Joaquin Fruit Company, on the Irvine ranch, where 1.80 inches fell. Capistrano followed with 1.55 inches. In the northern part of the county, Anaheim was high with .85 of an inch. While streets of cities and highways of the county were flooded by the heavy downpour of last Sunday, no damage of consequence resulted, according to reports of street and highway departments. The detour on the state highway near Capistrano, where rebuilding work is in progress, was a source of trouble to a large number of motorists traveling north and south. According to H.S.Warner, captain of the state motorcycle officers, 200 cars were stalled at that point Sunday night, some of them having to be assisted by service cars or teams, or by motorists who were equipped with tow ropes. Traffic south was detoured by way of Tuatlin and Riverside, and traffic north was detoured at Oceanside by In opening this new department it has been our most sincere endeavor to provide the people of Anaheim and Orange county with a basement store of such character as becomes the prosperity and progress of the county, was the statement made this morning by Kurt Epstein, manager of the store. More than 300 women were in line at 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon when the doors to the new department were opened and fully 2,000 visited the basement during the course of the afternoon according to the store management. The basement adds a large floor area to the store, is well ventilated and lighted and what is known as the daylight system of lighting giving a bright adequate light to every corner of the room. Some of the lines carried the same as those upstairs but at lower prices, some new departments have been added and others can be looked for from time to time. ONE TAXPAYER'S EXPERIENCE From a letter contributed to the Petaluma, California, Courrier, we take this excerpt, says the San Francisco Bulletin: "The necessity for immediate attention on the part of the farmers of this county to matters pertaining to taxation is well shown by the writer's own case. His tax rate has increased 217 per cent within the last 10 years (from $2.02 for purposes other than state to $6.40 proposed 1925-26). Applying Babson's formula this means a confiscation of value of the land, or nearly $140 per acre." "This experience is not exceptional. Every other land owner in California is similarly burdened. It is not only an unpleasant but an alarming fact that the tax bill of California more than consumes the combined values of our agricultural and horticultural products." It is safe to say that the experience of this California farmer is not much different from the experience of farmers in many other states. RETURNS FROM EAST Mrs. Annie Perdomo has returned from a two months' visit East, during which time she spent 19 happy days with her son, Dr. Clarence Perdomo, and his wife of Buenos Aires, who had been enjoying a six months' vacation in Europe and returned to New York to meet her. She also spent some time in Baltimore, Washington, Chicago and other cities, and returns to Anaheim First quotations wired out by the association indicate that by November delivery prices on regular limas and baby limas will be higher than for October deliveries. For October deliveries, regulars were quoted at $12.90 per hundred pounds, f.o.b., and November at $13.15. Choice recleaned are quoted at $12.65 for October and $12.90 for November. Baby limas were quoted at $11.65 for October and $11.90 for Novemeber, and choice recleaned were quoted at $11.40 for October and $11.65 for November. In issuing its quotations to the trade the lima bean association says: "Higher prices were obtained for early September shipments, but there was only a very limited demand at these premium figures, and a testing of various markets showed the distributing trade to be decidedly unwilling to pay for later shipments, prices much in excess of the first quotations for October shipments last year, which were $12.50 for limas and $11.15 for baby limas. "The association anticipates that outside growers, not members of the association, will hold for and secure such cash prices as properly correspond with the current shipping prices at the time of sale or shipment. It also expects that the market on limas and baby limas during the ensuing months will be healthy and reasonably advancing." It was pointed out that the market is clear of last year's beans, this condition assuring ready sale for this year's product. The county beans this year are of excellent quality and run to good size. Impressed with the fact that we have cleaner streets here than any city seen by her in her travels. She is, of course, very glad to be home again. Dr. Perdomo and wife returned to Buenos Aires, where he has been for a number of years a prosperous practicing dentist. The city has a population of more than two and a quarter million and is the sixth city in size in the world. The doctor has traveled extensively in Central and South America, and has been for several years located in Buenos Aires. His mother may make a trip there in the not distant future. Her daughter-in-law was her guest here for some time a few years ago. ZETTE ANAHEIM—YOUR CITY Founded by German Colonists, 1857 Assessed Value, 1925, $10,500,000 School System Valued at $951,000 Number 52 CANS AT MEETING RAINFALL ENTIRE LAND OF SEASON DIM CLOSE WATER Eavier Toward Diego Getting Ranches—Belated owers Damaged, owers Helped Falling from Mation Revived. Some compunction of illness during the weather man began with a rainstorm in Central Southland, the outposts of the precipitation is happened also in October, which Soft Drinks Are Being Swatted by W.C.T.U. Heads MEMBERS of the Orange County Women's Christian Temperance Union were urged to start an immediate campaign against the use of synthetic drug drinks by Mrs. Pearl Kendall Hess, superintendent of the medical temperance department of the county organization. In her report to the county convention at Huntington Beach Wednesday, Mrs. Hess attacked patent medicines and the drug drinks, which she alleged were habit forming and harmful. Coca Cola was named as one of the most harmful of the drinks condemned by the medical superintendent. "The drug drink habit is being rapidly formed by high school boys and girls of today," Mrs. Hess declared, in appealing to mothers present to point out to their children the dangers and illness caused by the drinks. In advocating her program against the sale of the drug drinks, Mrs. Hess declared that certain drinks sold at soda fountains contained harmful drugs which in many cases caused a craving for stronger drinks, dope and tobacco. "Coca Cola is unfit for human con- FIX PRICES FOR CALIFORNIA WALNUTS GROWERS WILL RECEIVE ONE GENT LESS THAN LAST SEASON Soft Shells to Bring 24 Cents, but the Crop Is 67 Per Cent Larger Than Last Year—Early Harvest Will Help Dispose of Crop—California to Ship 54,000,000 Pounds to Eastern Markets This Year. Although the California walnut growers through their representatives and the heads of the association, have the privilege of fixing the price at which the crop will sell to the dealer, they are not disposed to demand an exorbitant figure for their product. At a meeting of the association at Los Angeles last Wednesday, the price for Brea Votes Bonds For High School Only Six Votes Cast Against the Proposition With only six "no" votes out of a total of 368 cast in Brea, workers for the new Brea-Olinda Union High school are congratulating themselves on the outcome of Saturday's election, when the $320,000 bond issue carried. Little interest in the election was displayed in Olinda, and reports of organized opposition to the bond issue in that end of the district appear to be unfounded with the returns showing 30 for and 22 against. There is nothing now to hinder the selection of a site, according to members of the school board. Now that funds are available, it is declared that no time will be lost in choosing a location and starting actual work on the erection of the buildings which are expected to be unfounded with the returns showing 30 for and 22 against. The two upper classes this year are being taken care of at the Fullerton High school under the terms of an agreement between two districts, and a temporary building on property belonging to the Brea grammar school is this year being used for the freshman and sophomore classes of the Brea-Olinda district. The school board will meet Tuesday night and it is expected that definite selection of a site for the school will be made at that time. Three sites are under consideration. According to reports, a 20-acre tract located on the boulevard between Brea and Olinda is favored. The other tracts under consideration consist of the 10-acre Hamilton property in Brea and the 20-acre aviation field on the Brea-Fullerton boulevard. An architect, C. T. Kistner, of Los Angeles, has already been selected to prepare the plans for the school, members of the school board feeling confident. Although the California walnut growers through their representatives and the heads of the association have the privilege of fixing the price at which the crop will sell to the dealer, they are not disposed to demand an excellen figure for their product. At a meeting of the association at Los Angeles last Wednesday, the price for this year's crop was agreed upon, and it is one cent lower than the figure for last year, notwithstanding the fact that the importation of foreign nuts will be short, and the old crop is long ago exhausted. This year the growers will be paid 24 cents for number 1 soft shell nuts, as against 25 cents which they brought last season. Number 2 soft shells will bring 15 cents as compared to 16 cents last year. For large buds the growers will receive 29 cents and medium buds will bring 22 cents. According to manager Ross, of the Anaheim Walnut Growers' Association, the crop in the Anaheim district this year will exceed last year's crop by 67 per cent in soft shell and 42 per cent in budded variety. The 1925 walnut crop will be 54,-000 pounds, estimated, the largest since 1919, according to reports made at the meeting of the directors of the California Walnut Growers' Association held in Los Angeles for setting prices. It was estimated the association would handle 86 per cent of the state crop, and that the entire product would return growers $14,000,000. Pointing out that opening prices were made earlier this year than usual, Carlyle Thorpe, general manager of the association said the crop has matured earlier this year. It is expected the product will find favor in the markets of the country in October and November, because foreign grown nuts are not expected to reach American markets until late in November. Reports indicate there is a shortage this year of all kinds of nuts, not only in the United States but in Asia, South America and Europe. The prices set for California walnuts are lower than they were last year, and in the opinion of Thorpe, this will be a favorable situation when it comes to cleaning up the crop. He has just returned from a tour of the markets of this country and he says Brazil nuts will be 80 per cent higher than at this time a year ago, and almonds ranging 27 per cent higher, wild pecans costing 10 per cent more, and filberts being offered at an advance of about 30 per cent. Packing is well under way at these local houses and an army of pickers is at work in the groves. While the price paid to the pickers is slightly less than last year, it is said larger returns will be derived by reason of the increased crop. Pickers are get- JURY FAILS TO AGREE IN STRAIN'S FROZEN FRUIT CASE Following a hard fought trial before of oranges he had cut in the test nor the number he found frozen. The defense made a capital of this, and when its turn came, presented figures which it contended proved that the inspector had miscalculated and that the packed fruit was actually below the legal limit. Several prominent fruit growers and packers from northern Orange county regified that Strain had called them in to cut oranges from three boxes of fruit which were among the lot condemned by the inspector. Their cuts, they said, showed very little frost damage. Deputy District Attorney D. G. Wetlin grilled these witnesses on their qualifications for testing, and made one packing house manager admit that he had himself been fined for handling frozen fruit.