anaheim-gazette 1926-01-14

ANAHEIM GAZETTE ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY Henry Kuehel, Editor and Proprietor SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR.....$1.50 SIX MONTHS.....$1.00 THREE MONTHS.....$ .50 Furried at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter Legion Notes Judge Timothy I. Fitzpatrick, presiding judge of the superior courts of San Francisco, has been presented with a handsome American flag by the state officers of the American Legion on behalf of Golden Gate Post No. 40, of San Francisco. The presentation was made to Judge Fitzpatrick in appreciation of his assistance and cooperation with the American Legion in its program of Americanism among aliens in San Francisco. In the presence of a large gathering of World War veterans, attorneys and citizens, Judge Fitzpatrick accepted the gift. He commended the Legion and especially Golden Gate Post for its work and declared that "the Legion is to be highly congratulated by all loyal citizens for its Americanization work." Erection of new hospitals involving an expenditure of $13,000,000 is necessary to complete the permanent hospital building program of the United States Veterans' Bureau for disabled World War veterans, according to a statement made here by State Adjutant James K. Fisk of the Legion. Ten million dollars was authorized for expenditure for the building program by the last Congress and $3,000,000 more is to be requested of the present Congress. The Palo Alto hospital needs 200 additional beds for mental cases and the sum requested for the institution is $400,000. In Southern California, 250 additional beds are requested for tuber- named chairman of the state-wide committee on Legion membership by Commander Bixby at the same time. Rehabilitation of disabled World War veterans, child welfare work. Americanization and other matters are to be discussed at Indianapolis this week by the National Executive Committee of the American Legion. George J. Hatfield, U.S. Attorney for Northern California, is the representative of this state on the committee and is in attendance at the convention. Hatfield is also one of the committees which is arranging details of the "On to Paris, France" meeting of the American Legion members in 1927. Texas, "Old Gray Mare," is dead. Nationally famous in American Legion circles, the Old Gray Mare, an equine of unpedigree patronage which was taken to five national conventions of the World War veterans and which during the San Francisco conclave of the ex-service men caused consternation in the lobbies of the famous Palace hotel of this city, died at Browntown, Texas, recently. May Peterson, Texas prima donna, rode the Gray Mare into the lobby of the Palace hotel here during the Legion convention and produced a sensation among the ranks of the fashionably gowned women, and tuxedo clad men dancers in the palm court of the hotel. BUMPS IN THE ROAD Some of the state highway departments are beginning to fine contractors for leaving bumps in a paving job. One contractor, the price of one square yard of paving for every variation from the level of more than one-quarter of an inch in 10 feet of concrete road. The irregularities are measured by a "prolometer" run over the finished strip of roadway. There may be anywhere from one to a couple of hundred such spots found in a mile. They may seem too small to bother about, but they all detract from expenditure of $13,000,000 is necessary to complete the permanent hospital building program of the United States Veterans' Bureau for disabled World War veterans, according to a statement made here by State Adjutant James K. Fisk of the Legion. Ten million dollars was authorized for expenditure for the building program by the last Congress and $3,000,000 more is to be requested of the present Congress. The Palo Alto hospital needs 200 additional beds for mental cases and the sum requested for the institution is $400,000. In Southern California, 250 additional beds are requested for tubercular hospital at San Fernando. The second of the state-wide interpost meetings and conferences of the posts of the American Legion in California will be held January 17, at Pasadena, home of State Commander Allen B. Bixby. All of the posts of Los Angeles county are to send delegates to the conference which will discuss the program of welfare, community service and other activities which the Legion is to carry on during 1926. Roy J. Nielsen, Sacramento assemblyman and American Legion leader, has been named state chairman of the Interpost Relations Committee of the World War veterans' organization by State Commander Allen B. Bixby of Pasadena. Nielsen will be instructed with the duty of co-ordinating the work of the three hundred posts of the American Legion in California in welfare, social service, Boy Scout, community betterment and in matters concerning the ex-service men. Wm. A. Knost of Los Angeles was Some of the state highway departments are beginning to fine contractors for leaving bumps in a paving job. One state deducts, from the money due the contractor, the price of one square yard of paving for every variation from the level of more than one-quarter of an inch in 10 feet of concrete road. The irregularities are measured by a "proliferometer" run over the finished strip of roadway. There may be anywhere from one to a couple of hundred such spots found in a mile. They may seem too small to bother about, but they all detract from smooth riding, and every driver knows how an apparently insignificant obstacle sometimes gives a shock out of all proportion to its size. The worst spots, however, may be not small elevations or holes but smooth, rolling bumps. The whole subject of bumps needs to be studied scientifically, and the resulting discoveries applied in road-making, especially by repair gangs. Talking the country over there is an amazing amount of blundering in road work, apparently because repairmen gauge the effect of any particular irregularity by the way it looks to a pedestrian, or by the way it would effect a slow vehicle, rather than by its demonstrable effect on a rapid-moving automobile. As a result, there are spots on many roads where 10,000 drivers a day course the men responsible for that senseless bit of paving. This is a matter in which road engineers should get together and lay down a few simple rules for the observance of construction and repair gangs, with perhaps a simple outfit of insurers to test the surface as they go along. New Location will be Center and Lemon REMOVA SALE SPECIAL FOR Friday and Saturday SALE SPECIAL FOR Friday and Saturday 30 Men's and Young Men's SUITS $14 Values to $32. The assortment includes Tweed, Whipcord and Ca SHOP EARLY! THE S. Q. R. STOR ANAHEIM GAZETTE Automobile Notes Figures of the state traffic survey for 1925 just released by the California Highway Commission show that Southern California is a most popular section for motoring. An increase of 93 percent in the traffic on state highways in four years is noted in the records which were obtained from a week's traffic study at over 70 national locations chiefly on state highways. The census taken for 16 hours daily from July 12 to July 18 indicates that the records obtained at 103 stations which were identical in the county of 1820, 1822, 1924 and 1925 revealed the remarkable increase in state traffic. The heaviest traffic anywhere on the state highway system during the period of the 1925 count was at Santa Monica on the coast road. The number of vehicles that passed the station there on Sunday, July 12, between the hours of 5 a.m. and 10 p.m. numbered 25,661, and the average daily count between these hours for the entire week was 17,758. This traffic on Sunday at the easterly city limits of Los Angeles was 23,806, and the average for the week 20,457. At several places between San Francisco and San Jose on the Pacific Highway the Sunday traffic was over 22,000 and the average for the week over 11,000, according to the report. Studies of previous years have generally shown that traffic in summer is about twice that of winter over the entire state. In Southern California alone this figure does not hold because of the all-year climate that permits pleasant motorizing winter and summer. It is also indicated that traffic counts on Sunday between 9 a.m. and 10 p.m. average about 25 per cent of the traffic for the entire week and Saturday traffic is about 16 per cent. Travel on state highways is nearly one-third of the traffic on all the roads of the state, it is pointed out by the engineering department of the Automobile Club of Southern California, since the 1925 traffic count reveals that the annual movement on state highways totals 2,120,000,000 vehicle-miles, whereas 4,000,000,000 vehicle-miles is the total E. H. Adams has recovered his two horses which strayed from his newly purchased ranch west of town. They were found at Stanton. Mrs. A. J. Lawton* of Los Angeles spent several days with friends in town this week. Mrs. Lawton who was recently graduated from the law school of the University of Southern California, has associated herself with the Taxpayers' Association. Soph: "But I don't think I deserve an absolute zero." Prof.: "Neither do I, but it is the lowest mark that I am allowed to give." and more of his own home in California and the wonderful things we ought to be thankful for and the advantages and possibilities at home." "We have seen London and a large part of England, some parts of France, which we are to visit again, but the greatest value of the trip is the added enthusiasm we have for Orange County. We have seen many ports since we left and each one has served to impress us more and more the great asset that Orange County has awaiting development in Newport Bay." "We hope everything and everybody will be able to enjoy our new resorts." INLAND WATERWAYS In taking his stand definitely on the side of completing the inland waterways system, runs the Kansas City Star President Coolidge is doing more for the best than he could accomplish. In any other way, the great agricultural region is not making special favors. It does not want the government to make artificial prices for its products. All it wants is a chance to buy and sell without the handle of excessive transportation charge. The west looks to the water hand to help minimize the disadvantage it suffers because of its distance from the largest domestic and world markets. It is greatly encouraged by the president's understanding of its problem, with the hope this holds out that his influence will be used to push through the work that will connect the mid-continent region with the sea. TELEPHONE AIDS DIVERS In the rescue work which followed the muking of the Submarine S-51 off Block Island last fall, a calamity which caused over the whole country, the telephones played an important part. Divers working 150 feet below the surface of the wreckage of the ill-fated S-51 were able to keep in touch with the men directing the work by means of a specially arranged telephone. This is but one of the many examples of the advances made in the art of telephony whereby modern telephones can render aid in real emergencies. Motor vehicle registration increased more than 2,100,000 in the nation last year, according to preliminary figures received by the Automobile Club of Southern California. More than 2,100,000 motor vehicles were registered in the country during 1925, an increase at least 2,132,768 in a year. More than 1,000,000 cars were scraped in the past year, according to this increase was the second largest data numerical gain in motor vehicle registration since the automobile came into general use. The record year was 1928, when the registration increased 3,012,888 over the highest year before. Your most dangerous period for driving is the sunset hours between 4 and 7 o'clock, Mr. Motorist. National reports to the public safety department of the Automobile Club of Southern California show that the largest percentage of accidents occur in ant period. Children are released from school and are playing in the streets at that time; persons are hurrying home from work at or in motor cars. Fatigue is considered a large factor in the cause of many accidents at this time of day. It is then that motorists and pedestrians alike are slow to react to danger. He cautious even at the care-free time when the day's work is done. Watch out for yourself, as the other fellow may fail to watch out for you. DEBT SETTLEMENTS There is still considerable speculation as to the final attitude of congress with regard to the foreign debt settlements. That in all the settlements made to date, the American government has made a compromise of the obligations is not to be denied. Indeed the Debt Commission and the officials of the government have frankly conceded that in making their figures "the capacity to earn and to pay" of the several nations was a primary factor. The problem which faced the Debt Commission and the administration in this matter can be expressed in very homely language: The Commission had on one side debts owing of so large a total that the demand of repayment in full would inevitably provoke a state of moral bankruptcy on the part of the debtor nations. A program of "all or nothing," would have resulted in the United States securing not to be denied. Indeed the Debt Commission and the officials of the government have frankly conceded that in making their figures "the capacity to earn and to pay" of the several nations was a primary factor. The problem which faced the Debt Commission and the administration in this matter can be expressed in very homey language: The Commission had on one side debts owing of so large a total that the demand of repayment in full would inevitably provoke a state of moral bankruptcy on the part of the debtor nations. A program of "all or nothing," would have resulted in the United States securing nothing. In this emergency, Mr. Mellon—who it is agreed has some slight acquaintance with money—reached the conclusion, to put it bluntly, that "half a loaf is better than no bread," and on the whole the American people are apt to agree with that thought. One little additional thought should be considered, a goldily amount of the obligations contained in relief supplies furnished to the people of the several nations with at least a gesture of charity. No official, no matter how high his position, has a right to give away the money of the American people, but the American people themselves are the last, after extending a hand of helpfulness to the women and children of a foreign nation, so demand that debt also be repaid dollar for dollar. Jeffrey Writes From Scotland Writing from Paris, France, December 19th, Supervisor Geo. Jeffrey gives some very interesting details of his trip and observations. After a 250 mile auto journey through Scotland he compares the lack of development in some sections with the great advances made in Orange County. He says: "Scotland is beautiful but we notice the class distinction very much and the lack of new ideas and conveniences. As an illustration of many places, Kelso, a city of five or six thousand people located on a beautiful river, the Tweed, is without electric lights and the Sunday or Blue Laws are such that on Sundays there is no train to Edinburgh, a few miles away. The country is very different fro mour own lovely Orange County and yet it is also beautiful, but oh,' so different and it makes one think more EUROPE'S VIEWS AND OURS Whether Washington joins in the disarmament conference called by the League of Nations depends, in a large measure, on how far it is planned to extend the inquiry and what promise the completed program has, in our judgment, of producing practical results. These are questions that cannot be determined until the preliminary groundwork has been gone over by the preparatory commission. It is to enable the United States to participate in these early discussions that President Coolidge has asked Congress to make an appropriation sufficient to meet the expenses of an American delegation. Our disarmament problem is a simple one; Europe's is complex and perplexing. We have no army to reduce. Europe is still burdened with an excessive military establishment. Living at peace with our neighbors, we have no borders to guard. Europe, through the centuries, has kept most vigilant watch over her national frontiers. Inherited animosities and fears are slow to die. Washington has held to the policy that land forces should be first reduced before attempt was made to go further in the way of naval disarmament. And it held to this opinion more because at Locarno the nations of Europe gave evidence that they really desire to live at peace with their neighbors. Security from enemy attack was guaranteed in the Locarno treaties and, security being given, it was anticipated that reduction of armaments would naturally follow. The United States itself was willing to sponsor another conference to supplement the work done at Washington under the direction of Secretary Hughes. The general policy of our country, President Coolidge has pointed out, is for disarmament. And if the scene has shifted to Europe and the sponsorship to other agencies, that is no reason why we should not be willing to co-operate. This preliminary meeting will determine whether the United States decides to attend the disarmament conference proper, to be called at a later date. If the United States does go, it will naturally try to bring about a more sensible attitude toward military establishments. "So you're lost, little man? Why didn't you hang onto your mother's skirt?" Youngster: "Couldn't reach it." "What is an opportunist?" One who meets the wolf at the door, and appears the next day in a fur coat. Patron: "Do you serve fish here?" Walter: "Certainly, we cater to everyone." Carlsbad, San Diego county, has formed a lighting district to obtain better service. Authorized Dealer RCA The place to buy your Radiolas-RCA Loudspeakers and RCA Accessories We are glad to announce that we have been selected by the Radio Corporation of America to sell and service Radiolas, RCA Loudspeakers and RCA Accessories. Winter Shoe Sale of Fall Footwear AT BIG REDUCTIONS EXCEPTIONAL VALUE OFFERED IN THIS Cat Semi-Annual Event Children’s Felt Slippers This Week Only All sizes from 5 in child’s to 2 in misses’, of good grade felt, ribbon trimmed, only Women’s Black Kid Boudoir Slippers, padded or leather soles; all sizes ... $1.00 50c a Pair SALE OF WOMEN’S NOVELTY LOW SHOES Here is an offer that stands out like a sore thumb. A large assortment women’s Women's Black Kid Boudoir Slippers, padded or leather soles; all sizes $1.00 SALE OF WOMEN'S NOVELTY LOW SHOES Here is an offer that stands out like a sore thumb. A large assortment women's fancy oxford, pumps and strap slippers, in patent kid, tan kid or calf, black kid or Cuban or French heels. All sizes and widths...$4.00, $5• $6 values $2.85 Light Tan Oxford or Shoes opportunity in this item. Made of tan leather, in the new light broad toes. All sizes; a $5.00 $3.85 Closing Out Play Oxford Made of tan leather. Sizes 2½ to 8 for women only, 85c FATERIASHOESTORE 109 W. Center St., Anaheim