anaheim-gazette 1926-12-23

OBSERVATIONS BY A CONTRIBUTOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SOUND A WELL-KNOWN globe trotter, who has just returned from an extended tour throughout the east, says one no longer hears Southern California spoken of in disparaging terms. On the contrary, practically every one from the hotel employe to the business executive is eager to learn as much as possible about opportunities here. This man is firmly convinced that Southern California is on the threshold of its greatest influx of tourist travel from the east and south. Railroad officials also are convinced of that. Eastern investors are interested in this section as never before. Such inquiry is increasing. They have learned that this country is fundamentally sound. AND THEY GET THERE JUST THE SAME AN INTERESTING and highly important discovery in biological circles has just come to light wherein a court decision has been handed down in an eastern state, making it lawful for a man to break a lease if a bedbug nibbles at your heels and prevents you from sleeping. It seems one man leased a house from another for a year. He occupied the house for a month and then moved, asserting that bedbugs made it impossible for his family to sleep. The landlord sued to recover rent for eleven months. The jury decided that the presence of the wingless insects, coyly flirting with a prson's anatomy, was sufficient cause for removal. TAKING UP THE SLACK IT IS said in financial circles that slowly but surely Europe is putting its house in order, and eventually—maybe in the next few years—will be able to take care of its own requirements. It is reported that the time is coming when Europe will be in a position to finance itself. In other words, the American dollar will not roll into foreign channels as speedily as before. That will strengthen their credit, and it would insure home money lenders better chances to get their principal and interest. THE COCK-EYED WORLD AND no wa movement is on foot to divide the great state of the Golden West. The north and the south—sounds like an old story—do not seem to be able to get along any more together. putting its house in order, and eventually—maybe in the next few years—will be able to take care of its own requirements. It is reported that the time is coming when Europe will be in a position to finance itself. In other words, the American dollar will not roll into foreign channels as speedily as before. That will strengthen their credit, and it would insure home money lenders better chances to get their principal and interest. THE COCK-EYED WORLD AND no wa movement is on foot to divide the great state of the Golden West. The north and the south—sounds like an old story—do not seem to be able to get along any more together. Better watch your step! SCUTTLED THE SHIP HEADLINE in the paper says a man disappeared on the eve of his wedding day. This opens up a wide range of deductions. Is he wise or unwise, a poor prune or a hero; was it by fair means or foul—or maybe he found out something. THEN THE HONEYMOON IS OVER ALL those foxy husbands who seek to avoid supporting their wives by remaining outside the state may have their estates confiscated, and the control of their property given to their wives, is the judicial ruling of a superior judge in another state. The judge ruled on the petition of the wife against the husband. The judge's opinion was given after reading a law passed in 1877 and never invoked before. It was dug out of dusty obscurity by attorneys representing the wife, when she complained she could obtain no support from her husband, because he had fled from the state, leaving property worth at least $100,000 here. The husband had been collecting income from his property through agents, but the judge issued an order tying up the estate and preventing any one from disposing of any part of it. The wife's petition to control the estate and collect its income probably will be granted, he intimated, after the husband, said to be traveling now in Canada, has been served with notice of his wife's complaint. The 1877 law provides that when a husband remains outside of the state for one year and fails to support his family, his property may be confiscated and control given to his wife. The wife filed suit for separate maintenance against her husband, charging that he had fallen in love with another woman and has gone gallavanting away from his own fireside. AND THERE MAY BE LESS TOMORROW IT IS printed in the paper that in a series of test cases it was demonstrated that a maiden can dress in forty-five seconds, while her male competitors required three and a half minutes. This sort of upsets the old joke about a man dying of old age while waiting for his wife to dress. It is said the young lady who won the test wore a pair of slippers, hose, step-ins (ahem), brassiere and a dress. The nearest male competitor wore sox, oxfords, B. V. D.'s, shirt, trousers, belt, collar, tie, coat and a grouch. With the extra time on her hands the fair one would have had time to rouge her lips and powder her nose. THE FORK IN THE ROAD MAN and a woman, who had plighted their troth and became husband and wife, lived happily together and two children came to bless their home. Then that green-eyed monster—jealousy—came; suspicions cropped out, differences arose, and the man went away. The wife trudged along as best she could THE FORK IN THE ROAD MAN and a woman, who had plighted their troth and became husband and wife, lived happily together and two children came to bless their home. Then that green-eyed monster—jealousy—came; suspicions cropped out, differences arose, and the man went away. The wife trudged along as best she could to make an honest living and care for her loved ones, and sorrow stalked through the house. But the husband, stubborn and unforgiving, still ranged out. Then he was arrested for failure to provide and was haled into court. He was jailed for a time, and a friend intervened and gave him employment upon his promise to once again see that the cupboard was not bare, and he was liberated. When the wife was asked if she would kill the fatted calf and provide a good warm meal for the wanderer and take him back, she rebelled. She, too, became unforgiving and while she wiped away a tear, she said an emphatic "no" and went her way. Maybe time will heal the wounded hearts—perhaps not; and another incident in the realm of unhappy marriages drew the curtain. THE MAN BEHIND THE GUN SOME of the big companies have decided to pay off their employees with checks, instead of putting the hard cash in their pay envelopes. This, it is said, would have a tendency to cause the bold, bad bandits to lay off. But yet again quite a number of hombres nowadays give checks of the no-fund variety, and the man on the receiving end is still looking for the cash. Checks are all right if the bank balance is in working order, but there are lots of victims who would like to turn bandit to make the phony man pungle up. THEY ALL LOOK ALIKE PREMIER in one of the European countries has sent out an edict that all males must work. The ruler says the existence of privileged individuals for whom life's sole employment is to of privileged individuals, for whom life's sole employment is to profit by the work of others, is wholly inadmissable. If this should spread to some other countries, it would just simply be terrible, that's all. Year's Fire Record In National Forests Hundreds of Thousands of Acres Of Timber Burned Over A total of 1662 fires which burned over 584,601 acres and cost $585,136 to suppress is, in brief, the 1928 fire record for the national forests of California, according to figures released by S. B. Show, chief of the California district, United States forest service. Of the total of 1662 fires that occurred in and adjacent to the federal forests, 1138 or 63 per cent were due to human carelessness, as compared with 537 out of a total of 1915 fires in 1925. Smokers led the list with 427 fires, with incendiaries 178, railroads 170, campers 137, lumbering operations 52, brush burners 50, and miscellaneous causes 124. Lightning is credited with starting 524 fires. The total area of Government timber and brush land burned over was 215,-508 acres, while 369,094 acres of private lands within and adjacent to the national forests were swept by flames. The total cost to the forest service of fire suppression was $585,136, or more than double the expenditures made for like purposes in 1925. Fires in the national forests this year killed 296,000,000 feet of federal owned timber besides large amounts of young growth, destroyed 750,000 feet of cut logs, and occasioned damage to logging equipment, mills and improvements amounting to $216,000, making a total loss, based on conservative estimates, amounting to nearly one million dollars, of which more than three-quarters of a million dollars were timber losses. Figures on additional losses of forage, wild life, water conservation and recreational resources are not available. The leading fire forests were: Acres Fires Buried Shasta 329 85,542 Plumas 181 30,988 Klamath 161 111,412 Sequoia 122 104,262 The Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Bernardino and Cleveland national forests of Southern California, long noted Weather Forecasts Aid to Many People By H. E. WAHLBERG, Farm Advisor Just now the citrus growers of California are vitally concerned about the functions of the weather bureau. Frost predictions are by phone and radio broadcast each day, based on observations of trained men stationed at crucial points. There are other uses to which weather information is put besides the agricultural phase. Public utility companies of all kinds make use of weather bureau information to effect economies on a large scale. In the Middle West, for example, a number of public utility companies maintain a joint committee to work in co-operation with the weather bureau to investigate the weather effect on the loss in weight of coal in shipping. Again, officials of a large railroad in Montana are asked by their headquarters in St. Paul why there has been a noticeable falling off in coal shipments to that state as compared with previous winters. Weather records show that there has been a period of unusually mild weather, and thus answer the question. Along similar lines is the request made by a local lighting company of a large city for a comparative statement from the weather bureau at the close of any unusually cloudy, gloomy month, showing what constitutes an average month and why the one just past has been unusual. This report is sent to consumers of electricity with their monthly bills as an explanation of any increase in the amount. Private business also uses weather records to keep watch over small economies. An ice cream manufacturer supplying a number of nearby towns makes use of weather forecasts in summer to vary the amount of cream to be made and sent out, as the consumption varies from day to day, depending on the temperature. In winter the coal dealer watches the weather forecasts for a cold wave so that preparation may be made for handling an increased demand for coal. If a cold wave is expected on Sunday the yards must be kept open and special forces held in readiness to handle the coal. Big Bread Basket Many Easterners Spend Xmas Here Shortening of Time Adds to Influx of Visitors "Spend Christmas in California" is the slogan suggested for eastern broadcast by Union Pacific officials. There are innumerable advantages to this suggestion, according to R. B. Robertson, assistant traffic manager of the Union Pacific system, with headquarters in Los Angeles. It has true traditional elements as well as personal comfort inducements that can hardly be surpassed, he says. "The first Christmas was not a "White Christmas," Robertson explains. "The climate around Bethlehem was much like that of California, so 'Christmas in California' is, after all, the ideal Christmas." For the benefit of Union Pacific guests who may be speeding across the country on Christmas day, the picked crews of the crack 63 and 68-hour filers are planning special entertainment features. The spacious dinners will be appropriately decorated, and the menu will leave nothing to be desired by even the most fastidious followers of epicures, the stewards report. An added convenience for Union Pacific passengers is the installation of telephone service at each terminal stop. As soon as the Union Pacific filers pull into the station, telephone connections are plugged in and passengers can call their friends and make their appointments, right from the observation club car, thus obviating tedious delays. "California is only a week-end jaunt from the frosty zone," said Robertson. "You can hop on the Los Angeles Limited at Chicago, at 8 o'clock Friday evening and be in Los Angeles at 9 o'clock Monday morning." As a suggestion for those who may want to make a last minute decision to drop in on California for Christmas take the Los Angeles Limited out of Chicago. Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock and pull into the Central station in Los Angeles, under sunny skies Christmas morning at 9 o'clock in time for Christmas breakfast; telephone your friends right from the train and roadside. The leading fire forests were: Acres Fires Burned Shasta 329 85,542 Plumas 181 30,988 Klamath 161 111,412 Sequola 122 104,262 The Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Bernardino and Cleveland national forests of Southern California, long noted as the "tinder boxes" of the state, had only 147 fires that covered a total of 11,384 acres—an area less than that swept by the great San Gabriel fire of 1924, in the Angeles forest. Smoking was prohibited on all national forests in Southern California throughout the fire season and, backed by similar ordinances in some counties, was rigidly enforced, with the result that of the 427 smokers' fires that occurred in the government forests of the state, only 46 occurred in the Southland. On the San Bernardino forest alone there were 108 convictions for violation of the smoking regulations, and the fines assessed totalled $2194. The no-smoking regulation was later extended to the northern forests until, on September 1, over fifteen million acres of national forests in California were closed to smoking. With the opening of the statewide hunting season on September 1, a large force of special registration guards was placed on the main roads leading into all national forests, and everyone entering the forests was required to register and was warned to be careful with fire. On the Modoc forest every automobile was required to be equipped with an ax and shovel, and on the Shasta forest every man in a hunting or camping party was required to provide himself with these fire fighting implements. The sportsmen's clubs of California gave assistance to the forest service in carrying out registration and no-smoking orders by raising money for the hiring of guards. By and large, the 1926 fire season on the national forests was a stronuous one and almost equal in intensity to the disastrous year of 1924. Because of the prolonged dry season, low humidity and hot winds, fires started easily and made spectacular runs. The Deetz fire, on the Shasta forest, on out-over land, ran 2000 acres the first afternoon, was controlled, but broke out again and ran 3000 acres the second day. On the Plumas forest, the Little Last Chance fire, in virgin timber and young reproduction, swept over 25,000 acres in three days. Many fires outside the national forests attained sizes of from 10,000 to 75,000 acres. But, the forest service says, this is only half of the fire story—the state forester has yet to report fire losses in California outside the federal forests, and when these figures are made public the combined losses of forest resources should be such as to awaken every citizen to the tremendous seriousness of the yearly fire problem of the state. Big Bread Basket The Mississippi river basin, the richest and largest surplus producing agricultural area in the world, contains roughly two-thirds of the land in farms in the United States, said Assistant Secretary of Agriculture R. W. Dunlap in a recent address. The whole of the corn belt and the largest wheat-producing states lie within this basin. The bulk of the can sugar, about one-third of the cotton, and much of the market supply of minor crops, both staple and perishable, originate within this great territory. It furnishes large supplies of hogs, cattle, and dairy and poultry products to millions of people both here and abroad. Americans lose $900,000 yearly by not presenting government bonds for redemption. And then they call us dollar chasers! Recent results in potato production indicate that growers in general would profit by a more liberal use of seed, says the United States department of agriculture. The recent accomplishment of a firm of California potato growers in producing 1,038.3 bushels of potatoes on a measured acre and an average yield of 1,001 bushels on nine acres would not have been possible if only the usual quantity of seed had been planted. Planting large-sized sets insures a better germination and a larger set of tubers, and is, therefore, a desirable practice, provided the resultant plants have an abundant supply of food and moisture. Last Chance fire, in virgin timber and young reproduction, swept over 25,000 acres in three days. Many fires outside the national forests attained sizes of from 10,000 to 75,000 acres. But, the forest service says, this is only half of the fire story—the state forester has yet to report fire losses in California outside the federal forests, and when these figures are made public the combined losses of forest resources should be such as to awaken every citizen to the tremendous seriousness of the yearly fire problem of the state. Fullerton Trustees Consider Drainage Drainage problems were the principal topics before the Fullerton trustees at their regular bi-monthly meeting Tuesday. George Welton, property owner living on East Commonwealth, was present and informed the council that he was circulating a petition in that part of town for a drainage system to take care of flood waters such as caused damage during the flood the first part of this month. E. Stone, who said that he received the greater part of the flood waters, was represented by Attorney Haynes. Others present were William Kroeger and Henry Matter. Raymond avenue was a point of importance in the discussion, and it was brought out by some of the property owners that a lowering in the grade of the street and turning it into a drain to carry the water during heavy rains might prevent damage. The city officials contended that the problem was one between the property owners and not a city problem, although the cooperation of the city was promised in effecting a solution of the problem. A motion was made that the city trustees, with the city engineer and the city attorney, make a personal inspection of the section effected. A discussion of the Fullerton airport was taken up. Although nothing definite was done, it was stated that representatives of the project would be present at the next regular meeting and present their data. THE S.Q.R. 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