anaheim-gazette 1926-02-04

OBSERVATIONS BY A CONTRIBUTOR HOT ZIGGETTY, LISTEN FOLKS! A man who has lived in Annheim for 60 years says this year will bring forth much rain. February 20th he predicts heavy rains will descend and March will be wet. He says there will be much thunder and lightning, and the old Santa Ana river will run bank full. In 1884 no rain fell until the latter part of January and continued for 16 days, netting 9 inches for the storm. February and March swelled the precipitation to 26 inches for the season. This weather prophet says this year is very similar. He has no faith in moon signs, but bases his prognostications upon the air currents. It rained on October 4th last, which is an infallible sign for a wet season, he says. In 1887 there was: 25 inch rainfall, that year being similar to the present. In 1862 we had a flood. 26 inches of rain falling in a short space of time. Water ran down Center street. Merchants had to throw up earthen banks in front of their stores to keep out flood water that year 1863 and 1864 were very dry, only about 3 inches of rain fell during the two seasons. MARCH OF PROGRESS One of the biggest things taking place in Southern California at this time is the building of the sea mole at Long Beach. Thirteen million dollars has been appropriated by the federal government and the cities of Los Angeles and Long Beach for this improvement. The enlarged harbor will afford ample room for shipping for the next ten or fifteen years. Facilities will be provided for deep sea vessels, affording a safe anchorage for the big coast trade ships. The congestion at San Pedro, or Los Angeles harbor, makes this new venture imperative for the hardling of the ever-increasing volume of trade coming to the Southland. This immediate section will be indirectly benefited by the utilization of the land contiguous to the water front for industrial purposes. The acreage lying between here and Long Beach will become valuable for the hardware store here. "I have often told her to come to California, but it's hard to pry her loose. But it is only a question of time when she will change her mind. You can't beat Southern California for climate. That snow is getting to be old stuff." KNOCKING 'EM FOR A ROW OF RUTS Motor busses and heavy trucks are taking a heavy toll from the paved highways. Many streets show signs of their presence and the pavements are breaking up. A number of city streets need resurfacing how. An extra license tax for large vehicles would seem to be the proper remedy. PUTTING ON THE BLINKERS An attorney general in a neighboring state has issued an order forbidding merchants from placing whiskey flasks on exhibition in their store windows, and now the only way to get the bulge at the hip is through the sign language. MISSING THE BULLETS Every city and county in the state should pass an ironclad ordinance requiring a person who wants a pistol, or any deadly weapon, to file an application, showing the cause for the purchase and further, not to release the weapon until after a period of thirty days to enable the authorities to make an examination of the person and the purpose for which the weapon is to be used. The Santa Fe railroad has just finished a new station house at Blythe, Palo Verde Valley. About Your Health Things You Should Know About Your Health Things You Should Know by John Joseph Gaines, M.D. DOCTORING YOURSELF. I cannot think of anything that is a greater menace to your physical welfare than the hour when you attempt to diagnose your own disease, and set out to buy a ready-made cure for it. You could hardly assume a task that is fraught with greater danger. There is little of "magic" in common sense. A human being who does not know how to keep from getting sick, is a mighty poor proposition to take care of his own alliments when he does get sick. Yet there are dozens of people in most communities, who attempt to cure themselves upon that hypothesis, that they know is wrong when they exercise reason. The profession of medicine is an honorable one, however unscrupulous some of its adherents may be. There are pirates on all seas where easy victims are affloat; and the most villianous is the buccaneer who preys on the sick and afflicted, under the disguise of respectability. And, there are people who are ever ready to sing the praises of "cure-alls" and furnish their photographs to clinch the evidence. That any valid reason why the stuff is good for you? Most any kind of testimony can be bought for the price these days, from the people who sell them. A good thing to remember is, that every ache or pain has a definite cause beneath it. And, unless you know what this cause is, and exactly how to remove it, you had better leave treatment to somebody who does know. Even a good physician when he is sick, and his judgment likely to be erroneus, will call his neighbor physician to help him eat. No good doctor will trust his opinion of his family to the advice of the exploiters of the exploits. BOUNCING AROUND Automobile owners are asked to help knock down the price of crude rubber by curtailing its uses, by using the old tires as long as possible. The rubber supply, it is said, is in the grasp of a foreign nation. He BOUNCING AROUND Automobile owners are asked to help knock down the price of crude rubber by curtailing its uses, by using the old tires as long as possible. The rubber supply, it is said, is in the grasp of a foreign nation and is being manipulated at the expense of the motoring public. Make patches popular and everybody would then be in style. Swat the rubber king. OFF THE AIR A federal judge in a northern state has rendered a decision upholding the blue laws there, making it unlawful for a barber to shave a customer on Sunday. The constable had arrested a tensorial artist for scraping a chin on the first day of the week, and now the barber has only six days a week in which to do his broadcasting. GO WEST, YOUNG MAN The opening of a new oil field north-east of Signal Hill—18 miles west of Anaheim—is the big thing now attracting attention in the industrial world. During the past six weeks over a hundred new wells have been drilled there and all are producing oil. The depth ranges from 3500 to 4000 feet. This new area will greatly strengthen property values west of this city. That oil exists in the Stanton section is a foregone conclusion among people who profess to know oil signs. This new endeavor, coupled with the development and extension of the harbor at Long Beach, really makes the west section very desirable property. This is turn indirectly helps Anaheim as we are only a short distance away as the crow flies. This city is destined to be an admirable place for residence and it is not too much to say that the future prospects of Anaheim are rosy, to say the least. NIBBLING AT THE BAIT "I received a photo from my sister a few days ago, showing a public square in a city back in Iowa covered with a blanket of snow two feet deep on the level," said a young man clarking in a Our Mary's Message I Envy You The simpler things are after all the real things of life. Neither the compliments of the multitude, the honors of high places nor the pleasures that money buys can compensate for the simple joys of a happy family, a smile from a loved one or an honest friend's handclasp." Mary Pickford his pulpit says; it is bound by what is written in the covenant of the league of nations. And citizens should study the matter before committing themselves to sentiment and hearsay. ACTUAL DISARMAMENT Disarmament in Europe is slow but progressive. There are about 3,000,000 men now under arms on that continent. A few years ago there were perhaps 40,000,000. The Locarno agreements are bearing Rumania with 146,000, Jugoslavia with 127,000 and Greece with 86,000. The world will breathe more freely when they are cut in two, especially the first three. That is the business of the immediate future. England strikes a new note in disarmament, in the recommendation of the British cabinet that $100,000,000 be struck from the air expenditures program. That should give the preliminary disarmament conference, in which Uncle Sam joins, something to talk about. It invites the powers, after quitting competition in sea armament, to avoid com- his pulpit says; it is bound by what is written in the covenant of the league of nations. And citizens should study the matter before committing themselves to sentiment and hearsay. ACTUAL DISARMAMENT Disarmament in Europe is slow but progressive. There are about 3,000,000 men now under arms on that continent. A few years ago there were perhaps 40,000,000. The Locarno agreements are bearing fruit and hastening the process. Belgium and Poland, with their security now guaranteed, are reducing their forces materially. So are the big powers giving the guarantees, because they now have less fear of each other. The Central Powers are virtually disarmed by the Versailles treaty. Germany, Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria have less than 200,000 soldiers among them. The Scandinavian countries and Switzerland are demobilized. Several other small countries have hardly any troops worth counting. The big armies, in order of size, are those of Russia with her 550,000 men, France with 420,000, Italy with 308,000, Spain with 262,000, Britain with 154,000. Rumania with 146,000, Jugoslavia with 127,000 and Greece with 56,000. The world will breathe more freely when they are cut in two, especially the first three. That is the business of the immediate future. England strikes a new note in disarmament, in the recommendation of the British cabinet that $100,000,000 be struck from the air expenditures program. That should give the preliminary disarmament conference, in which Uncle Sam joins, something to talk about. It invites the powers after quitting competition in sea armament, to avoid competition in air armament. PLENTY OF US There’s 1,849,500,000 of us. That includes Mongolian, Caucasian, Negro, Semitic, Malayan and Red Indian faces, according to Whitaker's almanac for 1926. The estimated maximum population the earth can maintain is placed at 6,000,000,000, which will be reached about 2100 A.D. at the present increase rate. Shipments of lettuce from the Imperial Valley to January 20 totaled 2,770 carloads. 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