anaheim-gazette 1928-05-03

Wahlberg Talks on Spring Irrigation "The right time to start spring irrigation in the citrus grove can only be judged by use of the soil augur, and not by the surface conditions." Farm Advisor H. E. Wahlberg stated in a bulletin received here. "Light, sandy soils need irrigation now, loam soils somewhat later, and the heavier soils possibly not till June." Wahlberg continued. "Last year many claim loam orchards were not irrigated till July. The lack of spring rains, however, this year may require a somewhat earlier application, but as I said before, intelligent irrigation can be guided only by use of the soil augur. "I have noticed several heads of water running in citrus groves recently that I know are doing more harm than good. Soil borings show an adequate amount of moisture present in the upper three or four feet, which is the average root zone under Orange county conditions. In the deeper soils we find citrus roots going down five or six feet." During April and May the soil is just beginning to warm up after the cooler winter season. Trees that showed a tendency to a yellowish cast in their leaves in the winter months are beginning to turn greener, and take on a healthier appearance. The change for the better is due to the bacterial activity increasing as the soil warms up. Now comes Mr. Farmer who throws cold water on the situation. What happens? The soil temperature is chilled, the air spaces are discouraged in their good work making available the valuable nitrates that are so essential to plant growth and particularly the setting of the fruit at this time. Then we wonder sometimes why our fruit doesn't set. Of course, this is not the only reason for small fruit sets but is a contributory factor in too many rays." Bamboo Introduced In Southern California Biological Control Association was held at San Diego, April 13, 1928. This organization of entomologists engaged in the work of biological control of mealybug and other insect pests together with their visitors received a real treat in the form of a report by Harold Compere, entomologist for the University of California on his recent trip to Australia. Mr. Compere left the citrus experiment station in August, 1927, expecting to spend two years in Australia, searching for the home of the citrophilus mealybug. Pseudococcus gahani. Soon after arriving in Sydney, however, he found a few specimens which he identified as this insect, and from material collected and reared in his laboratory Mr. Compere was able to obtain five different species of beneficial insects. The scarcity of infestations in the field in Australia prompted Mr. Compere to accompany his important shipments back to the United States, arriving here in March. The insects are now safely established in the insectary at River- Bamboo Introduced In Southern States Bamboo, the forestry crop of the Orient, is being transplanted to the southern half of the United States, where in the course of time this giant grass may enter into the life of the people as it has in China and Japan. The federal department of agriculture, after more than 25 years of studying the bamboo, is distributing a limited number of plants to planters who have the facilities and willingness to care for small groves of from one-eighth to an acre until they are well established. B. T. Galloway of the department's office of foreign plant introduction has made an exhaustive study of the bamboo for the United States. "The plant timber bamboo" he says, "promises to be one of our most valuable forms. It is hardy and from the evidence at hand will succeed well in suitable soil and under proper care." Most bamboos will thrive wherever cotton is successfully grown. This means in all south Atlantic states, the Gulf coast states, and one or two interior states, like southern Tennessee and southern Arkansas. They will also do well in moist valleys in the western part of the Pacific coast, and especially the west coast valleys of Southern California. Two bamboos, similar to the giant form, but harder and smaller, will be found useful as far north as northern Virginia, northern California, and western Oregon and Washington. Since the bamboo seldom bears seed, and importation of growing plants is no longer permitted because of the risk of introducing disease, propagation must be by means of underground rhizomes or runners. Improved methods of increasing the supply of such propagating material have given impetus to the work of establishing the bamboo in this country. The timber bamboo is not a quick crop like corn or wheat, but once a grove is established new canes shoot up at the amazing rate of a foot or more a day to a height of 60 or 70 feet, furnishing poles 4 to 5 inches in diameter that are ready for use in a few years' time. Aside from being useful in ornamentation, in furnishing shade in summer and protection from rain, winds in winter, bamboos provide material for many uses around the farm and in the home. The long pole may be useful in making light fences, trellises, chicken coops, baskets and crates of all kinds, water-carrying pipes, light ladders, and shelters for garden plants. 'KEY-NOTER' DEFEATED An embarrassing situation has developed as a result of the vote in Ohio's primaries. Senator Simeon D. Fess headed the list of candidates for delegates to the national Republican convention on the Willis ticket. He went down in the landslide of Hoover, being defeated by Theodore E. Burton by 80,000 votes. This eliminates Senator Fess from being temporary chairman of the convention. Senator Fess had been selected as the "key-noter" of the national convention by the national committee headed by Chairman Butler. It was possible of course that Senator Fess will still make the opening speech of the convention by invitation. But his defeat in Ohio in such an overwhelming manner, and his elimination from the convention as a delegate would almost destroy his value in the position for which he had been selected. Senator Fess was primarily for President Coolidge. He probably did not expect that Senator Willis had a real chance at the nomination. But he is now handicapped by one of the accidents of political life from doing a really fine piece of work for which he was eminently fitted. It was feared by some Chairman Butler and Senator Fess, both of whom were known Coolidge nominee in their minds when they selected Senator Fess as the "key-noter", and that Senator Fess would adroitly use his opportunity to attempt to stampede the convention for Coolidge. Even if Senator Fess now is invited to make the keynote speech, all such fear must be dispelled from the minds of the Hoover group, for the vote in Massachusetts and Ohio was too clear and certain to permit any such action. INTER-CONTINENTAL ROAD "With roads to use them," says the head station in August, 1927, expecting to spend two years in Australia, searching for the home of the citrophilus mealybug. Pseudococcus gahani. Soon after arriving in Sydney, however, he found a few specimens which he identified as this insect, and from materials collected and reared in his laboratory Mr. Compere was able to obtain five different species of beneficial insects. The scarcity of infestations in the field in Australia prompted Mr. Compere to accompany his important shipments back to the United States, arriving here in March. The insects are now safely established in the insectary at Riverside, where they are being propagated and observed. An attempt will be made to colonize these insects in the citrus groves of Southern California in the very near future. Importations include one insertion though to be Tetrachnemus coccolphagus; a dipterous predator. Diplosus; two new ladybirds, and one new lace-wing, a Chrysopid. In addition to a very interesting description of his journey abroad, Mr. Compere gave the members increased hope that these new introductions might prove of great importance in the control of mealybug." ART APPRECIATION The Fourth District Parent-Teacher Association, our own district, has been fostering, for the past several years, a movement for art appreciation study in the schools. Traveling exhibits of the work of Orange county artists centered at Laguna Beach, have been sent to various schools in the county. Recently the exhibits have been requested by principals of schools in San Diego county and the cities of Long Beach and Los Angeles. Hitherto, the expense of sending the art on tour has been met by the Parent-Teacher Associations, but several school authorities in the county who see the value of the exhibits are including the fees necessary for the exhibits in their school budgets. There will certainly be some glory to Orange county and the Fourth District Parent-Teacher Association when this movement for the incubation of art appreciation through the schools has spread throughout the United States as its merit makes it inevitable that it will. But in addition to once again "putting ourselves on the map," as those who are pushing this movement are doing for us, there is the intrinsic value of art appreciation itself. It is maintained by some that taste is an individual matter, that a man's artistry as displayed in his reactions to things, in the development of his home and grounds is his own affair. But none likes to be laughed at, and the individual who expresses himself in the crude style of the barbarian among coolidge nomination in their minds when they selected Senator Fess as the "key-noter", and that Senator Fess would adroitly use his opportunity to attempt to stampede the convention for Coolidge. Even if Senator Fess now is invited to make the keynote speech, all such fear must be dispelled from the minds of the Hoover group, for the vote in Massachusetts and Ohio was too clear and certain to permit any such action. INTER-CONTINENTAL ROAD "With roads to use them," says the head of a big rubber company, "South America would use 10,000,000 automobiles." That would be very fine for the automobile and rubber people. And inasmuch as the recent prosperity of this country has been based largely on the motor industry, it would be fine for nearly all of us. "We need new markets to take care of our surplus," adds the rubber man. "Europe can provide for its own people—except for new industries where our mass production enables us to compete, and even in those industries European manufacturers are adopting Ford ideas for production. In South America 93,000,000 persons live in 17 republics isolated by lack of highways. Where we have one automobile to every four and one-half persons, they have one to every 150 persons. Help them to build roads first, and automobiles will follow. It will mean a vast increase in every business allied with the automobile industry." It will mean a vast increase, too, in understanding and goodwill. The close friendship and mutually profitable business relations of the United States and Canada are due largely to the easy accessibility of the two countries. Today, more than ever before, the road builder is the prosperity builder. 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: "Adam and Fallen Man." Sunday School will be held at 9:30 a.m. at 8 p.m. The free reading room, 304 Bank of Italy building, is open daily from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., except Sunday and legal holidays. ANAHEIM GAZETTE representatives of the California units of the World war veterans' organization have been invited to meet at Denver to discuss with legionnaires from Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming problems affecting the orphans of World war veterans. The conference, according to State Commander Phil Dodson of the Legion, is a part of the child welfare program of the Legion which is seeking improved legislation and the application of existing legislation for the benefit of orphaned or neglected children in the various states. Five hundred junior baseball teams will be entered in the California elimination contests of the American Legion's national tournament to decide the Junior baseball championship of the United States, according to State Adjutant James K. Flak of the state headquarters of the Legion. The boy teams will compete in the various districts of the state under the direction of the local Legion posts, and the winners will play elimination contests to determine the state champion. The tour-new will be staged during July and August. J. Cal Ewing, owner of the Oakland Club of the Pacific Coast Baseball League, will help finance the teams in Alameda county, and the regional championship games for California, Nevada, and Arizona will be staged at the Oakland baseball park. U. P. Takes Care Of Tourists to Parks Aside from the suge sums which are being expended by the Union Pacific system to care for the expected rush of travelers to the national park tours which the transcontinental line is inaugurating this summer, provision is also being made for the auto tourists. A new information office will be the main feature of the improvements now being made to the public auto camp in Zion national park. This office is he Top to bottom: Barbara Kent. Southern California beauty, makes no secret of her preference for Valencia oranges for breakfast as the correct and most approved way of starting the day, but the other day her breakfast was rudely interrupted by an impromptu shower from an unexpected source—a sort of fruit shower as it were—and Barbara couldn't proceed with her morning ritual until she discovered a new way to partake of oranges, which she has agreed to demonstrate in person for the benefit of attendants at the eighth annual Valencia Orange Show at Anaheim, May 24 to June 3. State Population to Doubtl in 20 Years California's population 20 years from today will be 11,586,924—or more than double that of the present time. This prediction was made by Alexander R. Heron, state director of finance, who based his figures upon the average increase of four and one-half per cent a year for the last 20 years. Director Heron is now compiling figures for California's state budget for the biennium of 1929-1931, which, for the first time, will be taken into consideration the growth of the state for the next 10 years. That is, all state buildings, including teachers' schools, prisons, insane hospitals, correctional schools, etc., will be given funds for permanent improvements in consideration of their growth for 10 years. Already the budget for California's state highway construction and maintenance for the coming two years has been prepared with the state's motor traffic for 10 years in view, while the state agricultural society recently adopted a 10-year building program for the California state fair. California is riding on the crest of a crime wave which, if it continues unabated, will result in more than 14,000 convicts in state prisons by 1938. This is also oshown in Heron's figures, which disclosed that during the last seven years the state's prison population has gained at the rate of 10½ per cent per year, as compared with 4 per cent a year for the last 20 years. What the state's prison population FUTURE OF AVIATION The partial success of the German flyers on the Bremen and the remarkable feat of Captain Wilkins in his flight from Point Barrow to Spitzbergen over the desolate northern sea just south of the North Pole have given a new impetus to aviation. A certain number of facts, hitherto unavailable are now known, which give new light on trans-oceanic flights. The German flyers have learned a great many things in their flight. After the repeated failures of the past year, I which many secrets went down with the intrepid flyers who failed where the Germans partially succeeded, we have now come into possession of a body of facts which will make transAtlantic flights somewhat more feasible. The loss of life thus far in the attempt to cross the ocean on airships has been very tragic, but it is only so and by such sacrifices that progress has been made possible in the past. We must concede that the success of commercial aviation overseas is not such a remote possibility as it seemed a year ago. We shall not be surprised if most of us shall live to see the day when the present day will be looked back upon with a great deal of surprise. In the future day we shall hear men recalling the exploits of the past year in the same way as we now recall the crossing of seas by steamboats, the transmission of volces by electricity, and the early wonders of the talking machine. When the flyers of the Bremen relate their experiences and bring to light the BEEN prepared with the state's motor traffic for 10 years in view, while the state agricultural society recently adopted a 10-year building program for the California state fair. California is riding on the crest of a crime wave which, if it continues unabated, will result in more than 14,000 convicts in state prisons by 1928. This is als oshown in Heron's figures, which disclosed that during the last seven years the state's prison population has gained at the rate of 10½ per cent per year, as compared with 4 per cent a year for the last 20 years. What the state's prison population will be 10 years from now depends largely upon the stringency of crime laws enacted in the next few years. Heron believes. "California's prison population in 1907 was 2518," he said, "and during that year 839 new prisoners were admitted. Since that time crime has so increased that the population is now 5335, with 2050 new prisoners admitted last year." "The upward curve began immediately after the World war. During the war the population of prisons dropped from an average of 3442 in 1915 to 2708 in 1919, showing the effect of removing a large portion of the male population from the country." TRUE TO U. S. PRINCIPLES The fact that there are about forty-five millions of bank depositors in the United States is advanced as the reason why communism and bolshevism has failed to obtain a foothold on our soil. Might not an admission of this character be construed to mean that a people not so favorably situated in cash reserves would be justified in communal tendencies? We believe the people of the United States would be true to American principles of democracy if they didn't have a dollar in the bank. FOR SALE— $500 PER ACRE Down payment will handle 10 acres; beautiful building knoll; 1-3 Valenias; 2-3 lemons. Located on Telegraph road, about 3.2 miles west of Habra. Full price, only $1500 per acre, for 10 days. Fine water right. Brokers please list. O. T. GREGG, Owner 411 Security Bldg., Long Beach, Cal. CALIFORNIA WORLD WAR VETERANS ARE BEING ENROLLED FOR A Solid Front Drive on the members of the congressional delegation from this state for support of the permanent peach legislation now pending at Washington, according to State Adjutant James K. Fisk of the American Legion, which is sponsoring the legislation, known as the universal draft measure. State Adjutant Fisk has received the following telegram from National Commander Spafford of the American Legion, who has recently completed an airplane tour of the West and Middle West in the interest of the universal draft bill which would draft capital and labor, as well as men, in times of war: "Concentrate the efforts of your department upon securing favorable action upon this most vital part of our peace legislation program as embodied in the universal draft bill now before congress." As a part of the national child welfare program of the American Legion. Anaheim, Calif., May 3, 1928 Robert Marsh, son of F. L. Marsh of Anaheim, has been granted a diploma by the Chillicothe Business College, in Chillicothe, Mo., upon the completion of the work in the commercial department. A Massachusetts man is raising 450 chickens in the ballroom of his country estate. Well, chickens generally are pretty well contented in a ballroom. Major Walker of New York, returning from a Florida trip, says that he caught a phoebe. We don't know what this is, but it sounds like it might be an Al Smith delegate. Mussolini, no doubt, is a quite a fellow and has a lot of authority, but we know a lot of folks who would rather be assistant doorkeeper at the national convention. INDIATIRES Built to Outwear—Outrun Any Tire Made This is why INDIAS are GUARANTEED 20,000 MILES Any Tire Made This is why INDIAS are GUARANTEED 20,000 MILES TRADE IN YOUR OLD TIRES NOW WEST BROS. 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