anaheim-gazette 1927-07-28

Compensation Act Includes Farmers Changed Status of All Farm Employers Outlined Because he will be automatically included, instead of excluded as heretofore, it is extremely important that each farmer understand his new status and fulfill the requirements under the amended Workmen's Compensation and Safety act, which becomes effective September 1, 1927, according to George E. Farrand, general counsel for the California Fruit Growers' Exchange. Mr. Farrand's statement, of interest to all classes of agriculturists, follows: A dozen years and more have now elapsed since the workmen's compensation law was first adopted in California. At first many employers unthinkingly opposed the law because it imposed liability upon an employer who was without fault and who had been guilty of no negligence. The constitutionality of the act has been uniformly sustained in practically each particular. Up until the adoption of the 1927 statute, employers engaged in "farm, dairy, agricultural, viticultural or horticultural labor, or in stock or poultry raising" were excluded. Employers who are excluded from the act are subject, however, to other responsibilities. At the present time, if an employee of a farmer doing farm work is injured by the negligence of the employer, the employer is required to pay the employee such damages as a jury may award. The employer may not defend upon the ground that the employee was guilty of contributory negligence when the contributory negligence of the employee was slight and that of the employer was gross in comparison, but the damages may be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employe, nor can employer defend upon the ground that the employee "assumed the now excluded from the compensation act unless it elects in advance to accept the law, becomes as of September 1, 1927, subject to the law excepting only as to those farmers who specifically elect to reject the law. Such rejection must be in written form and filed with the industrial accident commission. Unless this rejection is made, the farmer is automatically included under the law just like any other employer. Any employer who is subject to the compensation law must either take out insurance to protect himself and his employees or else secure a permit to self-insure. This permit can be obtained only upon application to the industrial accident commission, and is only given when bonds have been posted or other security given and when the employer is financially enough responsible to carry the hazards of his own payroll. It is extremely important, therefore, that each farmer either reject the law by filing notice with the commission and posting notice as required by the act or else that such farmer understand that he is governed by the terms of the act and take out insurance to protect him against loss. Failure to take out insurance by an employer who is subject to the act is a misdemeanor under the law. The question as to whether farmers will or will not elect to reject is a matter of policy for each farmer to determine for himself, but he should not forget that if he does reject the law, he is still subject to a responsibility for negligence, which is easily established by testimony if believed, and in any event that by coming under the terms of the act the employers save themselves all of the expenses of court costs. Lawyers' fees and litigation in case of injury to an employe, and the employee receives a fair amount in compensation for the injury which he has received. AMERICA FIRST While it is not a new thought, the declaration made the other day in an At the present time, if an employee of a farmer doing farm work is injured by the negligence of the employer, the employer is required to pay the employee such damages as a jury may award. The employer may not defend upon the ground that the employee was guilty of contributory negligence when the contributory negligence of the employee was slight and that of the employer was gross in comparison, but the damages may be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employee, nor can employer defend upon the ground that the employee "assumed the risk of the hazard complained of" nor that the injury of death was caused in whole or in part by the want of ordinary or reasonable care of a fellow servant. If any substantial testimony is produced by the plaintiff upon the question of negligence of the employer, the case goes to the jury, where the amount of damages to be recovered rests within the jury's sound discretion. Whether the employee recovers at all or not is doubtful. If he does, the amount of recovery is indefinite. The expenses are great and both parties must pay lawyers' fees and court costs and the expenses of getting the testimony. Farmers felt they ought to be excluded from former compensation acts and they were excluded, but by an act adopted by the California legislature of 1927, which goes into effect September 1, 1927. It is expressly provided that any employer and his employees engaged in farm, dairy, agricultural, viticultural or horticultural employment or in stock or poultry raising not subject to the workmen's compensation act shall from an earlier September 1, 1927, be conclusively presumed to have accepted the compensation provisions of said act, unless either the employer or the employee shall, prior to the occurrence of any injury, have given notice of rejection of the provisions of the act by posting and filing a notice as required by the act. In substance, farm labor which is The S.Q.R. 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Store ANAHEIM GAZETTE Marine Spectacle At Newport Harbor Tournament of Lights Staged for Saturday Night, July 30 The world's most unique and magnificent annual marine spectacle is the Tournament of Lights, to be staged on Newport harbor, Saturday evening, July 30, according to the Newport Harbor Chamber of Commerce. This will be the eighth annual Tournament of Lights, which is the only annual event of its kind on the west coast and, so far as known, in the world. It will be staged on a scale grander by far than any of the former tournaments and, in addition to the "riot of illumination" on Saturday evening, there will be a three-day regatta on Newport bay, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Both evenings will again be under the management of Commodore J. A. Beek of Balboa Island. He and a staff of helpers have been busy for weeks preparing magnificent floats which will be in the big marine parade to sail down beautiful Balboa bay, starting at 8 p.m. Newport Harbor Chamber of Commerce officials announce that the parade will be visible from almost every part of the harbor. The parade will include canoes, sail boats, yachts, motor boats, schooners, sloops, and anything that will float, including elaborately decorated and illuminated barges. The spectacle has been called a "riot of illumination." It is expected that the greatest crowd in the history of Newport and Balboa will witness the Tournament of Lights. Included in the program will be band music and a brilliant display of fireworks. DR. WORK CLARIFIES AIM Secretary Work, by putting into a single sentence a clear statement of the Buena Park Notes (By MRS. J. P. ROBISON) The newly organized Kiwanis Club held their first luncheon Friday noon, at the Masonic hall. Frank Merriam, president of the Long Beach Kiwanis Club, gave the principal address. The Fullerton Kiwanis Club put on their usual work. A silk flag and standard was presented the Buena Park club by the Fullerton club, Dan O'Hanlon making the presentation speech and C. L. McCumber the response. There were about one hundred present. Preston Owens left Friday for an automobile trip with his uncle, J. B. Norton. They will go to Yellowstone park, stopping at places of interest in Nevada, Wyoming and Montana. Floyd Neal of Bakerstfield, who has been quite sick at the home of his parents, Rev. and Mrs. B. Y. Neal, for the past week, had tonsils removed by Dr. Foster, Friday. L. C. Burr, whose business takes him to Arizona most of the time, is spending a few weeks at home. A ball game between Cypress and Buena Park was played here Sunday, with Buena Park winning, 7 to 5. C. H. Wahl and family have moved into their new home on Court street. Mrs. S. B. Thompson of Eureka, Calif., is visiting her niece, Mrs. J. E. Tipton. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Spohn and children and guests, Mrs. Wallace and Miss Jewell Wallace, motored to San Clemente Sunday. Mrs. T. R. Payton and son, Donald, of Fullerton, were guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Robison, Wednesday and Thursday. Mrs. J. E. Wright has gone to her cabin at Lake Arrowhead for a two weeks' stay. Mrs. Carl Johnson and Misses Mabel and Myrtle Johnson have gone to Modesto for a few weeks' stay. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Weap of Los Angeles were Sunday guests at the L. E. Berkey home. Mrs. L. A. Strain has as a guest Mrs. Johnson of Torrance, who was a University Students Touring This County Gathering Information Relative to Horticultural Methods A group of senior and graduate students with their instructors from the college of agriculture, University of California, Davis, arrived in Orange county Saturday to study fruit growing in this district. The students, in charge of Prof. W. T. Duruz, pomologist, are spending six weeks touring the state and visiting all of the important fruit centers in the Sacramento, San Joaquin and Imperial valley, Southern California and coastal regions. Several countries and states are represented in the party, which includes the following: M. A. Badie, Cairo, Egypt; H. Van Elden, Pretoria, South Africa; L. R. Van Graan, Bloemfontein, South Africa; J. W. Cline, San Jose; G. C. Hanna, Flodata, Texas; Leo Hillard, Visalia; Percy M. Nelzel, Cyrdella; J. S. Parsons, Hemet; Kenneth Smoyer, Los Angeles; Ruel R. Stickkey, Uldiah; J.L. Stahl, associate instructor connected with the state university, is accompanying the party. Badie and Sadek belong to prominent families of their native country. Following their graduation from college in Cairo, they were awarded government scholarships for the purpose of DR. WORK CLARIFIES AIM Secretary Work, by putting into a single sentence a clear statement of the federal government's relation to the Colorado river development, makes what ought to be a very helpful contribution toward clearing up popular misunderstandings on the subject. Except for the international question as to the distribution of the waters, the United States has but one concern in the premises. That concern, says the secretary, "is the moral responsibility to protect its people from the dangers of floods from interstate streams." There have been floods of confusing talk about the Colorado river project, equating the raging freshets of that river which seasonably threaten the imperial valley. These floods of talk have been almost as destructive to the project as the river out of its banks would be to the helpless regions below its level. The talk has boiled with particular heat about the question of power, as if the purpose of a government dam on the Colorado were to manufacture electric current. But it is not the business of the government to supply hydro-electric power to the Southwest any more than it is the government's business to supply coal to the people of Pennsylvania or natural gas to those of Ohio and Indiana. Secretary Work is right again when he points out that the only interest the government has in the subject of power as a by-product of the Colorado dam is its possibility as a means of paying back to the United States treasury the money invested in the engineering works to protect the people against floods. This is the whole law and the prophets as to the government's relations to the Colorado river. Other phases of it are details, some of them important details commanding the interest of communities and states which are not threatened by the floods. But these must be adjusted to the main purpose of the project and to the government's responsibilities in the premises. The sooner the public understands this and the sooner the entire project is approached with that understanding in mind, the sooner will the problem of the great river be solved. IMPORTANT CONFERENCE At last there are indications that California and Arizona are to have a definite understanding on the Colorado river question. There seems good reason to believe they will agree either to agree or disagree. Whatever the outcome of the conference in Denver August-10, Arizona will once and for all float, including elaborately decorated and illuminated barges. The spectacle has been called a "riot of illumination." It is expected that the greatest crowd in the history of Newport and Balboa will witness the Tournament of Lights. Included in the program will be band music and a brilliant display of fireworks. Mrs. T. R. Payton and son, Donald, of Fullerton, were guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Robison, Wednesday and Thursday. Mrs. J. E. Wright has gone to her cabin at Lake Arrowhead for a two weeks' stay. Mrs. Carl Johnson and Misses Mabel and Myrtle Johnson have gone to Modesto for a few weeks' stay. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Weap of Los Angeles were Sunday guests at the L. E. Berkey home. Mrs. L. A. Strain has as a guest Mrs. Johnson of Torrance, who was a former neighbor of hers in Texas. Mrs. O. C. House and daughters, Ruth and Mary Rose, are visiting her mother, Mrs. M. S. Keyey, and other relatives. Mr. House brought them down Friday, but returned immediately to their home in Van Nuys. S. J. Jackson moved from Central street to the Thompson house, on West Eighth street. Mr. Thompson has moved into the newly completed home on Western avenue. Miss Eleanor Warren left Thursday for a two weeks' summer schooling at Santa Barbara Teachers' College. Miss Warren will teach domestic science in the Wasco high school. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Bert Duce Friday night. Mrs. E. E. Thurman and grand-daughter, Ruth Thurman, returned home Friday from a week spent with Mrs. Thurman's son, Arthur Thurman of Bryn Mawr. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Owens and Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Roberson and Virginia and Laurence, Jr., spent the week-end at the Owens ranch, near San Marcos. Miss Faye Burr was a guest last week of Miss Audrey Reeves of Fullerton at Balboa Beach. Miss Mildred Bacon accompanied her guest, Miss Hazzel Wright, to her home in San Diego Wednesday, and visited her until Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Berkey of Huntington Beach visited his mother, Mrs. M. S. Berkey, Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Tice attended the Illinois state picnic at Bixby park Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Murch are enjoying a two weeks' vacation at Bishop, Mr. and Mrs. Harold West of Long Beach are taking care of the filling station. Mrs. George Huten of Los Angeles visited Mrs. Arthur Huddlestone Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Middleton and children and Mr. and Mrs. C.W.Middleton have returned from two weeks at Big Basin. Mrs. Ethel Conway spent the weekend in Los Angeles. Virginia Wygal returned Saturday from a week's visit at her aunt's, Mrs.R.E.Williams of Corona.Her cousins,Phillis and Doris Williams,returned with her for a visit here. Mrs.Murphy Osborne entertained a number of little people Saturday afternoon in honor of the sixth birthday of her son,Bobby. Nadine Thornton is home after a month's visit with her aunt,Mrs. The First Condensed Statebent (Date of) Loans Stock in Federal Research Furniture and Fixtures U.S.Bonds and Other Cash and Exchange Capital Stock Surplus and Undivided Circulation Deposits Let This Strike COMMERCI H.H.Benjamin President Samuel Kraemer Vice-President J.G.Hilleary Vice-President W.J.Sieman H.H.Benjamin Samuel Kraemer IMPORTANT CONFERENCE At last there are indications that California and Arizona are to have a definite understanding on the Colorado river question. There seems good reason to believe they will agree either to agree or disagree. Whatever the outcome of the conference in Denver August 40, Arizona will once and for all be compelled to make known its position as to river development. One of the most encouraging phases of the Denver conference is that its discussions are to be public. In the past such parleys have been held behind closed doors. Statements, framed to the satisfaction of the conferees, were handed the newspapers. What actually went on at the meetings remained more or less a mystery. Now the important deliberations are to be open to all interested persons, and there will be no more of the secrecy that has been such an objectionable feature of river development meetings in the past. According to W. B. Mathews, one of the members of the California Colorado river commission, there will be "for the first time a public discussion of the conference, in which Arizona will be required to state concretely her demands of California, and to state with equal concreteness what portions of those demands she will yield." Mathews declared that if Arizona and California can agreed to terms that will remove Arizona's objections to the ratification of the seven state pact, the one of the governors will be realized. The objections cannot be removed, Mathews believes, it will be made clear they cannot. CHURCH NOTICE First Church of Christ Scientist—a branch of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, In Boston, Mass., Philadelphia street at Chartres. Sunday service at 11 a.m.; subject, "Love." Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. Te timonial meeting every Wednesday at 3 p.m. The free reading room at 30 Bank of Italy building is open daily from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., except Sunday and legal holidays. KNOW WHAT Women Are Not Easy Dupes Millions of dollars are spent annually, to sell people inferior products. The margin of profit in a substitute is so large that the producer of the genuine food cannot compete in advertising broadsides. Consequently, it is to women who THINK to whom we sell the fresh and fresh Pasteurized wholesome milk. Anaheim Cr Preferred We Sell No Canned Milk Five Students of This County Information Relative Cultural Methods Color and graduate students instructors from the culture, University of Orange arrived in Orange to study fruit growing. The students, in W. T. Duruz, pomologist, six weeks touring the Sacramento, San Bernardino valley, Southern coastal regions. Sales and states are reparty, which includes M. A. Badle, Calro, Elden, Pretoria, South Graan, Bloemfontein, W. W. Cline, San Jose; Odada, Texas; Leo Hillery M. Neizel, Cgrdella; Amet; Kenneth Smoyer, Hel R. Stickney, Ukiah; associate instructor constate university, is ac party. Back belong to prominent native country. Foli- graduation from college were awarded govern-ops for the purpose of studying agricultural conditions in California, which in many respects are similar to those of Egypt. Their enrollment at Berkeley was arranged through the diplomatic representatives of the two countries. Van Elden, of Pretoria, and Van Graan, of Bloemfontein, are members of old Dutch pioneer families of the former Boer Free State. They are taking post graduate work at Berkeley at their own expense. This morning the students visited the offices of the Orange county farm advisor, in the course of which they listened to a lecture given on walnut growing. Commenting upon the visit to Orange county, Professor Duruz took occasion to praise the excellent work of Harid E. Wahlberg, which he said, is not only in a class of itself, but has attracted much favorable notice throughout the entire state. A prearranged schedule is followed day by day, including visits to orchards, vineyards, truck crops, nurseries, canneries, dry yards, dehydrators, packing houses, storage plants, markets and other places of interest. The objects of the course, Professor Duruz explained, are to study the geographical distribution of fruit growing in California, to observe methods of growing, handling and marketing of the various horticultural crops, including berries, tree and vine fruits and vegetables, and to become acquainted with fruit organizations, their officials and many individual growers. Five Injured in Auto Collision Five persons were injured, four of whom were children, in an automobile accident at the corner of Tustin street and Santiago boulevard, near Olive, Sunday, when a Ford roadster, driven by J. O. Wilkins of Colton, collided with a Ford touring car driven by D. P. Battroff of 478 South Cambridge street, Orange. Following the accident, police arrested Wilkins on a charge of reckless driving. He was later released on putting up a $50 cash bond. That the accident did not result fatally to some of the occupants of the Battroff car was declared to be fortunate by witnesses, who said Wilkins was driving at high speed when the collision occurred. Wilkins was driving north on Tustin and Battroff west on Santigua when the cars came together. When the crash came, Mrs. Battroff was holding her two weeks' old baby in her arms. The woman fainted, and both the baby and herself received severe bruises. Three other children in the car were cut and bruised. Both cars were severely damaged. We certainly do progress in some ways. It was only two or three years ago that it didn't matter if silk stockings had lisle tops. Building booms come and go, but there never seems to be any change in the construction of air castles. The First National Bank OF ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA Condensed Statement from Report to Comptroller of the Currency, July 11, 1927 (Date of Consolidation With American Savings Bank) RESOURCES $2,630,411.24 Federal Reserve Bank 6,000.00 Estate Owned 79,021.31 Fixtures and Fixtures and Vaults 72,750.87 Bonds and Other Bonds 1,047,732.36 and Exchange 931,048.38 $4,760,964.16 LIABILITIES Total Stock $ 200,000.00 Plus and Undivided Profits 115,475.73 Valuation 97,400.00 Units 4,349,088.43 $4,760,964.16 Let This Strong National Bank Serve You (Member Federal Reserve Bank) COMMERCIAL, TRUST AND SAVINGS OFFICERS Benjamin, President O. E. Hanson, Cashier Kraemer, Vice-President H. L. Jacobson, Asst. Cashier Milleary, Vice-President Evan S. Alsip, Asst. Cashier Arthur G. Porter, Trust Officer DIRECTORS Ieman S. P. Kraemer P. J. Weisel Benjamin S. C. Hartranft F. H. Houck Kraemer Chas. Eygabroad Gilbert U. Kraemer OFFICERS Benjamin, President Kraemer, Vice-President Milley, Vice-President Arthur G. Porter, Trust Officer O. E. Hanson, Cashier H. L. Jacobson, Asst. Cashier Evan S. Alsip, Asst. Cashier DIRECTORS Wieman Benjamin Kraemer Johnston S. P. Kraemer S. C. Hartranft Chas. Eygabroad J. G. Hilleary P. J. Weisel F. H. Houck Gilbert U. Kraemer WHAT YOU EAT EVERY DROP OF FRESH AND FRESH-PASTEURIZED MILK THAT WE SELL IS PRODUCED BY NON-REACTING TUBER-CULIN-TESTED COWS. THIS MILK COSTS US MORE, BUT THE PRICE TO YOU IS THE SAME AS THAT OF DOUBTFUL MILK. Phone 666 Heim Creamery Co. Preferred Products Our Products Are All Fresh