anaheim-gazette 1926-12-09

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Proprietor ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR.....$2.00 SIX MONTHS .....1.25 THREE MONTHS .....1.75 Entered at the Anaheim, California, Post Office as second class matter. CALIFORNIA FRUIT IN GERMANY The American consul in Hamburg reports that the Germans are preparing to take a leaf from the California fruit growers' book; in other words, plans have been made to conduct an advertising campaign in that country, using the "Eat More Fruit" slogan which has proved a business-builder for the British fruit trade. Germany has been known as a consumer of meats and other heavy foods, and it is now urged that the addition of more fresh fruit to the national bill of fare would be a healthful, as well as palatable measure. Leading German newspapers, a number of the principal radio stations and colored placards will be used, all giving publicity to the value of more fruit in the diet. Advertising of California citrus fruits as carried on during the past nineteen years by the California Fruit Growers' Exchange has been the example and the inspiration for many other fruit marketing agencies in the United States. Now that California oranges, and especially Sunkist oranges are being consumed in quantity throughout Europe, it appears that our European friends see the advantage of advertising their local products in their "Eat More Fruit" campaigns. The quantity of exchange and foreign lemons now rolling to the markets is only 285 cars, 100 cars less than the average of the past three years, according to a statement from Lemon Sales Manager Powell of the California Fruit Growers' Exchange. Exchange sales during late November and early December have run 25 to 50 per cent greater than previous years, and there is no accumulation of supplies in the hands of the easterntrade at this time. Retail prices on lemons are as low as we have known in recent years, with many markets featuring lemons at bargain prices. An improved consumer demand, which we have every reason to expect, will create a much better situation." The quantity of exchange and foreign lemons now rolling to the markets is only 285 cars, 100 cars less than the average of the past three years, according to a statement from Lemon Sales Manager Powell of the California Fruit Growers' Exchange. Exchange sales during late November and early December have run 25 to 50 per cent greater than previous years, and there is no accumulation of supplies in the hands of the easterntrade at this time. Retail prices on lemons are as low as we have known in recent years, with many markets featuring lemons at bargain prices. An improved consumer demand, which we have every reason to expect, will create a much better situation." In Mr. Powell's judgment, exchange district managers, jobbers and retailers have been doing everything possible to sell the largest volume of lemons. With the large supply in California, all factors have been kept at work to maintain widest possible distribution. Foreign shipments have been very light for some time. The present market does not encourage shipments from the other side. The California Fruit Growers' Exchange announces that member associations packing Sunkist grapefruit have been authorized to mark individual fruits of this grade with that well-known trade name. Consumers of both California oranges and grapefruit may now be sure of getting what they order when they ask for Sunkist. The exchange also advises that maturity standards for Sunkist grapefruit have been raised. The new ruling reads, "Grapefruit shall be considered immature if the juice does not contain soluble solids equal to, or in excess of, five and one-half parts to every part of acid contained in the juice; the acidity of the juice to be calculated as citric acid without water of crystallization." The previous standard was five to one. WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE BONDS NUMEROUS reasons can be advanced why the progressive people of Orange county should vote for the harbor bonds next Tuesday, but the only reason given why anybody should oppose the project is the matter of costs in additional taxation. The man who advances that argument probably hasn't stopped to figure just what the improvement would cost him. On the present basis of assessment, the bond issue would add a little over three cents to each hundred dollars of assessed valuation, or ten cents to the actual value on each thousand dollars. As an offset to this, here are some of the unanswerable reasons why the bonds should be voted: From the standpoint of safety, the loss of life has been such that any county ought to be willing to spend this small sum to saves lives, even if the project had no commercial advantages—which it has. New wealth it will bring to Orange county. We must create new values to keep down the taxes. Existing property is assessed about as high as it should be. Co-operative support which must be given to all county-wide matters. Without co-operation between different sections of Orange county, the county cannot progress. Building up of the county for the children who are now at school. We must do everything possible to keep them here. Attraction it will add to the ones the county now possesses. It will be the only county having what all other counties have to a degree—good roads, good schools, towns, groves, homes, etc. In addition, Orange county will have the great asset in its harbor. If we do not take advantage of what we have and develop it, we will lose prestige. It will stimulate activity all along the line. Work will be started on many programs now held up. It will directly and in Co-operative support which must be given to all county-wide matters. Without co-operation between different sections of Orange county, the county cannot progress. Building up of the county for the children who are now at school. We must do everything possible to keep them here. Attraction it will add to the ones the county now possesses. It will be the only county having what all other counties have to a degree—good roads, good schools, towns, groves, homes, etc. In addition, Orange county will have the great asset in its harbor. If we do not take advantage of what we have and develop it, we will lose prestige. It will stimulate activity all along the line. Work will be started on many programs now held up. It will directly and indirectly provide employment for many workers in all parts of Orange county. It will only need the addition of four million dollars of new assessed values to take care of the entire cost. There are projects now pending which will be put into operation as soon as Orange county moves to fix the entrance. EXPENSES OF GOVERNMENT The annual expenses of the federal government now approximate about $3,000,000,000—a very large sum of money; but some fifteen billions less than 1918. Of this annual budget, the three largest items are: $865,000,000 for interest on the public debt; $559,000,000 care of disabled soldiers; $472,000,000 for the sinking fund; $344,000,000 for the army; $338,000,000 for the navy; $217,000,000 for Civil and Spanish war pensions. The balance goes for ordinary expenses of the three branches of the federal government with the many commissions, bureaus and independent establishments. HOW THEY LINE UP As a matter of record, the following statement of the political condition of the congress which met December 6 and the congress which comes into being March 4, 1927, may prove of interest. In the congress which met December 6, in the Senate there were 53 Republicans, 42 Democrats and 1 Farmer Labor. In the House there were 247 Republicans, 182 Democrats, 3 Farmer Labor, and 2 Socialists. There is also one vacancy in the Twelfth Illinois district owing to the death of Charles E. Fuller. The seventieth congress, which begins March 4, 1927, will have the following political status, in the Senate 48 Republicans, 47 Democrats and 1 Farmer Labor. In the House 238 Republicans, 194 Democrats, 2 Farmer Labor and 1 Socialist. ANAHEIM GAZETTE READY TO CARVE THE PUDDING By A. B. CHAPIN WELL, FOUR, THE FEAST IS READY—! 398,268,000 CHRISTMAS SAVINGS FUNDS DEC. 1926 CHRISTMAS SHOPPING TAXES CHAITWU KOTHATTA Forest Grazing Fees Need Adjustment Livestock Expert Declares They Should Be Lowered The report of Dan D. Casement, expert livestock grower of Colorado Springs, Colo., who was appointed by Secretary William M. Jardine to make an impartial investigation of the methods used by the United States forest service in appraising range values and fixing grazing fees on the national forests, has been submitted to the department of agriculture and made public, according to S. B. Show, district forester of the California district. Mr. Casement's report sustains the forest service methods of appraising national forest range values, which are based on commercial principles similar to those controlling the value of private range lands and commends the thoroughness of the appraisals made, which were the result of five years of intensive investigation covering 2000 tracts of private grazing land containing over twenty million acres. It also asserts that national forest administration has benefitted the livestock industry and that there is a greater demand for grazing permits than can be supplied. Mr. Casement recommends that the new grazing fees be somewhat lower than those originally proposed by the forest service and that, in consideration of the general economic condition of the livestock industry, they be put into effect on a graduated scale extending over the period from 1927 to 1930. The grazing industry, he says, has much less to expect from specific and rigid grazing legislation than from flexible, sensible administrative rules, based on confidence and good understanding between forest service officers and users. He thinks it desirable, however, to give legal recognition to forage as a national forest resource to be permanently utilized. "Grazing permittees are united and forceful in their demand that adequate appropriations be made by congress for range improvements," Mr. Casement states, "and they certainly deserve far greater consideration in this regard than they have ever received. More fences and water development would contribute largely to the proper conservation of the forests, to their greater usefulness, to the profits of the permittee, and to government revenues." Tideland Property Owned by County of Orange County Harbor Newport Bay Showing Land Ownership Outside CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH Orange County Owns Land and Frontage as Follows: On the County Channel 19 acres Frontage 2900 feet On the Balboa Island Channel 40 acres Frontage 4500 feet On the Channel to Upper Bay 396 acres Additional area in Upper Bay under Easement 223 acres Total Acres - - - 678 Total Frontage 29,000 feet MAP MADE BY COUNTY SURVEYOR Beekeepers Meet in Annual Convention Many Orange county beekeepers are planning to attend the sessions of the thirty-seventh annual state convention at Los Angeles Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week, according to word from Roy Bishop, chairman of the beekeepers department of the Orange county farm bureau. Many phases of the industry will be discussed by the group. A banquet and entertainment has been arranged for Friday evening to provide a little diversion to the convention. The results in New York indicate that the people of the metropolis were more worried about their synthetic liquor than about their milk. FIRST harbor map showing land belonging to Orange county. Publication of this map gives the people of Orange county an opportunity to see the large area that is now the property of the county. The request for such a map was made by the chairman of the Harbor Entrance Development Association, W. J. Carmichael of Fullerton, and the treasurer, Harry D. Riley of Anaheim. Going back to the work of the tidelands committee of the Committee of Fifty, the settlement of the tidelands matter in Orange county has taken a very short time, when it is remembered that for fourteen years the city of Los Angeles was engaged in settling the ownership of tidelands there. Orange county has accomplished this difficult and trying matter in about two years, due to the splendid work done by Chairman Harry H. Hale of Placentia, as head of the tidelands committee, which initiated the movement and who has been very active in bringing about the settlement that has established ownership and control of 678 acres. Included in the land area map is shown the area which the county can utilize when it is found necessary to do so; for navigation and similar purposes. This is the large area at the head of Newport bay, about four miles inland from the city of Newport Beach. Many citizens of Orange county will be surprised to learn of the inside bay, or as it is generally called the upper bay, and its great extent. Actually, it is larger than the much better known lower basin. The upper bay covers 1950 acres covers all the open been superseded general to a greater political interest. Here we House harbor, and Illinois 27, will publicans, publicans, Predicts December Will Be Busy Month Safeway Store Official Sees Prosperity Ahead That December will be the greatest business month in the history of Southern California, was the prediction made by Edward Dale, vice-president of the Safeway Stores, addressing a big get-together business meeting of 500 Safeway district and store managers. Reports from the 1000 western communities served by the Safeway-Skaggs system indicate that retail stores of practically every class and description are on the threshold of what will be the greatest buying December in years, it was said. With bank clearings showing an increase of between 15 per cent and 20 per cent, the people of this section of the United States "have the money and are going to spend it this holiday season." Bank clearings unmistakably show that buying is already in full swing and retail business in Southern California is feeling the beneficial effect of the present highly satisfactory business situation; Dale declared. "More merchandise," he emphasized, "is being sold today in Los Angeles and other Southern California communities, and there is a buying interest which unquestionably reflects strong optimism over the future." "Corporations throughout the country have paid handsome dividends; more money is pouring into the Southland, and the influx of easterners, here by train and automobile is well under way and promises to exceed visitors' records of any former years. Add to this the fact that our own people are blest-with prosperity and have substantial bank deposits." "Chain groceries on the Pacific coast have been expanding in compliance with the natural law of supply and demand. The remarkable expansion of the Safeway system, the largest grocery chain west of the Mississippi, may be attributed to the fact that the people of Southern California and the entire Pacific coast recognize great economies through buying from an organization of tremendous purchasing power. "October Was the greatest month thus far in Safeway history, but December will break all records, according to present indications." Forty thousand dolls have been purchased by the Safeway Stores for distribution this month under a new selling plan designed with a view to stimulate holiday buying. Dale announced. DEPORTATIONS INCREASE Last year, while this country was gaining some millions in population, it lost 10,904 residents by deportation, the largest number deported in any fiscal year in the history of the immigration service. Compared to the national population 10,904 is a small figure, and yet it is large enough to give the government concern. Deportation of undesirables, public charges and criminals costs money and the appropriations have been of a size to make demands for rigid economy. To save fares the government has arranged deportation excursions that advantage might be taken of reduced rates amid wherever possible, has enforced a ruling making the steamship companies responsible for the charges. "Transportation alone," says Secretary Davis in the report he will submit to congress, "is unfortunately only one item of expense. She overhead of deportation proceedings is very heavy, involving as it does the rounding up of aliens found or reported to be illegally in the country or subject to deportation. Subsequent hearings and consideration of appropriate tribunals make the cost considerable." A way to reduce the number of demands for deportation is to apply a closer scrutiny to the entrants and take a more drastic course against smuggling. The department has stationed technical advisers in 19 cities abroad, men to check the lists at points of departure, and the result has been a marked decrease in the number of rejections of alien applicants at the port of New York. train and automobile is well under way and promises to exceed visitors' records of any former years. Add to this the fact that our own people are blest with prospeirty and have substantial bank deposits. "Chain groceries on the Pacific coast have been expanding in compliance with the natural law of supply and demand. The remarkable expansion of the Safeway system, the largest grocery chain west of the Mississippi, may be attributed to the fact that the people A way to reduce the number of demands for deportation is to apply a closer scrutiny to the entrants and take a more drastic course against smuggling. The department has stationed technical advisers in 19 cities abroad, men to check the lists at points of departure, and the result has been a marked decrease in the number of rejections of alien applicants at the port of New York. City County of Orange in Newport Harbor District MAP TY HARBOR BY BAY Pership Outside PORT BEACH Frontage as Follows: Frontage 2,900 feet Frontage 4,500 feet Frontage 21,600 feet Total Frontage 29,000 feet NTY SURVEYOR PROPOSED CHANNEL 1=City Hell 2=Yacht Club 3=Pavilion 4=County Wharf 5=City Wharf work done by Hale of Placentia, lands committee, movement and who in bringing about has established col of 678 acres. and area map is which the county can bound necessary to and similar purlarge area at the about four miles of Newport Beach. range county will be of the inside bay, called the upper extent. Actually, much better known upper bay covers 1950 acres in all, while the lower bay covers about 1350 acres. No plans for the opening up of the upper bay have been suggested, but a proposed channel is indicated merely to illustrate the general relationship of the county lands to a great development program. Orange county is indeed fortunate in that it can count upon private capital to carry a major part of the interior development, once the entrance is safe and perfected. In addition, there is a good prospect of reasonable support from the federal agencies when the entrance work is complete. As soon as the entrance is safe and secure, there will be presented sufficient evidence to demonstrate to the government officials that the county is in earnest in its intentions to take advantage of what nature has placed at its disposal. Copies of the land map in pamphlet form with an air photo of the region, the picture being taken from an altitude of 10,000 feet, are being issued for general distribution by the Harbor Entrance Development Association and may be had on application. The association has also prepared a leaflet giving a mass of answers to questions relating to the harbor and to Orange county. This pamphlet may be had on application to the association or to any of its officers or members. Following the publication of the land map, the association will issue other views and information which will help the people regarding the present program and the great asset which Orange county possesses in its harbor.