anaheim-gazette 1929-07-11

THE TOWN DOCTOR (The Doctor of Towns) SAYS A man recently asked me, "What good is a Fourth of July celebration to a town?" And he expressed a question that undoubtedly is in the minds of many, especially those past the age of getting a kick out of any kind of celebration. It is true that much of the original intent and purpose of Fourth of July celebrations has been lost or at least overlooked in modern ways of celebrating. Have you ever stopped to consider how many of those that shoot firecrackers, never stop to consider why they are doing it? I have often wondered at the percentage of people who make hurrah on the Fourth of July that really pause in commemoration of the deed representative of the day. Leaving unsaid the honor due the day, a Fourth of July celebration has a material value to every community, whether that community holds a festival, or the inhabitants go elsewhere to spend the day. If your community is going to put on a celebration, pitch in and do everything—go to the organization committee or whoever is sponsoring it, and offer to do something. Get busy and invite your friends to join you and yours for the day. Make an invitation worth while. If you haven't any friends you can induce to join in the festivities, help somebody else to entertain their guests or appoint yourself a committee of one to do your utmost to help entertain the casual stranger in your midst. Start now on brightening the corner where you are. Make your yard, your house, your store, your entire community look clean, bright and attractive; put on your best behavior and your most winning smile, and when the company comes, show them around, introduce them to the place where you live, and "SELL 'EM" on your community. If the Fourth of July isn't worth anything else to a community, it is worth the opportunity it gives you to SELL EVERYBODY that comes to your town on what a real place it is and that the people in it are REAL people. If there is to be no celebration to be held in your home town, and if you attend a celebration elsewhere, you still have an opportunity to serve well the place where you live. Business goes where it is invited, and stays and comes back to the place where it is well treated and served best—you can not SELL people on your community if you do not TELL them about your community. Therefore, if you are a guest of those who dwell in some other city, INVITE them to visit and do business with YOUR community, tell them about your community, "tell 'em 'til you sell 'em" that your community is a good community in which to live, work, play and prosper. But whatever you do, celebrate at home, if home is celebrating. Copyrighted, 1929, A. D. Stone. Reproduction prohibited in whole or in part. This Town Doctor article is published by The Gazette in co-operation with the Anaheim Lions club. New War Against Drunken Drivers Division of Motor Vehicle Starts Another Movement Take Precaution Against Fright Organization to Fight Terranean Peat The Mediterranean fruit is now well under way in California, and plans for organization were laid at Los Angeles of all horticultural missioners of the south. At a prior meeting in the offices at Sacramento of county officials, together growers, bankers, various and railroad officials, D state entomologist of Cal chosen to direct a state-write determine if by any chance has reached California. The department of Agriculture decided that the state should be four districts, each district a separate head, and Harp horticultural commissioner gales county, will be in all movements of the eight southern counties. Mr. Ryan declared that the present infestation of Florida, it is imperative that determine definitely whether pest is already present in and that the survey project a regulatory and continue future, in order to detect infestation as quickly as possible. Those attending the meeting that it was not feasible large force of men in the town to the present horticators of the state and count a complete inspection of all fruit sections during when the host fruits are attacked by the fruit fly rather is to put into effectization consisting of all winters regularly bring them with the orchards and not necessitate the many men to those already working in various phases. New War Against Drunken Drivers Division of Motor Vehicle Starts Another Movement The Division of Motor Vehicles has prepared for a new offensive in its war against drunken drivers with the establishment of night patrols in the vicinity of roadside resorts suspected of selling liquor to motorists. This announcement of this new phase of the division's campaign was coincident with the release of figures showing 412 drunken drivers to have been involved in accidents in California during the last six months. Thirty-one of these accidents involved the death of one or more persons. Applying the familiar adage of an ounce of prevention being worth a pound of cure, it was announced the officers will be instructed to arrest any person attempting to leave such places in automobiles in an intoxicated condition and to submit them to a "sober-up" process before permitting them to proceed. Those caught out on the highways will be dealt with in a more summary manner. Charges of driving while intoxicated will be placed against them and they will be taken to the nearest fail. "The motos vehicle act specifically confines the duties of traffic officers to enforcement of the traffic laws," said a bulletin issued by Chief Inspector Geo. F. Moynahan. "We have, therefore, instructed them to take no part in the enforcement of liquor laws and to stay out of places suspected of selling liquor." "But we are vitally concerned in saving human lives from the irresponsible drunken driver and propose to prevent persons in an intoxicated condition from driving on the highways." For this reason our men will be instructed to work along roads known to be used by persona frequenting night resorts where liquor is sold and in the vicinity of such resorts." Moynahan said the patrols would give particular attention to the hours between midnight and morning when many "parties" are breaking up and the individual members returning to their homes in cars. Officers will be instructed to take intoxicated persons to the nearest physician for examination. Moynahan declared, however, that it is not necessary to do this to establish intoxication and that the arresting officer may himself submit the arrested party to such tests as shall in the judgment of the officer determine whether the offender is intoxicated. The chief inspector announced the war on drunken drivers had resulted in the revocation of the licenses of 377 think our own has curious sources and affiliations. Thus describing the lobbying of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ, which, in the opinion of Mr. Coolidge and others in a position to know the situation, was primarily responsible for the defeat of the cruiser building bill in a former session of Congress, Captain Knox notes that the council's president at that time was an Englishman by birth and education, who did not come to the United States until he was 21 years of age. The influence of the federal council is active and widespread and is persistently opposed to the development of our naval strength and to all defense measures. The general membership doubtless is merely pacifistic, but we may well give some serious thought to an organized pressure which was directed, or at least largely influenced, by a man of alien birth, and that birth in the country with which alone we have serious naval competition. What would be thought in England of a lobby resisting naval measures and headed by a man of American birth who had come to England at twenty-one? There is no other great country in which resistance to defense measures is so highly organized and effective as in the United States. The federal council is the most formidable and persistent of these. Captain Knox says it is reported in the press that a considerable part of its endowment came from the bequest of Sir Henry Lunn, an English man. That is a pliant item, not unworthy of note. It has been promptly denied, but whatever the fact, the more serious factor in the council's maintenance is the support it derives from Protestant clergy and members from religious organizations which it claims to represent and which include millions of American citizens whose interest in adequate defense not only of our shores but, of our rights throughout the world is substantial, whether they realize it or not. The need for public education of the American people in the nature and requirements of maritime power is as great as it is greatly ignored. It is neglected by the press, by the schools, by the many organizations of citizens, even by those organizations of business men which ought to know their own material interests. We are soon to enter upon renewed negotiations for naval reduction and limitation. The problems involved should be examined with a clear understanding of our American interests, and not in ignorance of them and under a heedless urge of substantial altruism. It is not truly altruism to weaken the security of the American people, nor does it make for world peace. Great Tree Exhibit At the State Fair Flood Control Office Is Being Closed The Orange County Floor Control district office under Paul Bailey, will close within the next few days as a result of the defeat of the $16,500,000 bond issue proposed for carrying out a water conservation and flood control program. One man is remaining in the office to clean up detail work preparatory to final discontinuance of the organization. Bailey is reported to have received serevarl offers of engineering positions at salaries considerably larger than the one he received here. The decision to discontinue the flood control office resulted from discussions held by the board of supervisors on Tuesday. Bailey and the board met in the board's committee room on Tuesday for a conference, after which it was said that a decision had been reached to close the flood control office. Bailey has made no announcement of acceptance of any of the offers reported to have been made to him. WHO DETERMINES OUR DEFENSE? In his illuminating article on "The Navy and Public Indoctrination" (United States Naval Institute Proceedings for June), Capt. Dudley Knox reminds us of the very great influence exerted by foreign propaganda indoctrination, prior to and during the late war. But the country is full of propaganda now, our own and alien, and some that we Great Tree Exhibit At the State Fair Trees—every type that grows in California and many from foreign lands will be exhibited at the California Diamond Jubilee State Fair and Western Exposition at Sacramento, starting August 31. Each county in the state has been invited to send a tree, typical of their particular county, and more than 20 have already accepted the invitation. The trees are to be planted around the horticultural pavilion. They will be placarded with their botanical names and the name of the county sending them. California has long been noted for its variety of trees, but not until the specimens actually began coming in did the directors of the fair realize the profusion of species in this state, they said. The native California redwood is represented, of course, and from this the list goes through a wide collection, including the flowering Parkinsonia of Australia. A botanical "freak" from Placer county is one of the exhibits. A Madrona tree has grown through the huge stump of a dead cedar tree and is thriving in its close quarters. A general dedication program for the tree exhibit is being arranged, with Governor C. C. Young as the speaker, including ceremonies to be held at each of the trees by delegations from the various counties. It is said that when the next war comes, the soldiers will be billeted in hotels. This will be fine for the buck privates, as a little contact with the modern hotel clerk will teach them to endure the second lieutenants a little later on. Take Precautions Against Fruit Fly Organization to Fight the Mediterranean Pest The Mediterranean fruit fly survey is now well under way in Southern California, and plans for the project's organization were laid at a meeting in Los Angeles of all horticultural commissioners of the southern counties. At a prior meeting in the executive offices at Sacramento of state and county officials, together with fruit growers, bankers, various business men and railroad officials, D. B. Mackle, state entomologist of California, was chosen to direct a state-wide search to determine if by any chance the pest has reached California. The State Department of Agriculture has determined that the state should be divided into four districts, each district to be under a separate head, and Harold J. Ryan, horticultural commissioner of Los Angeles county, will be in direct charge of all movements of the campaign in the eight southern counties of California. Mr. Ryan declared that because of the present infestation of the fly in Florida, it is imperative that California determine definitely whether or not the pest is already present in this state, and that the survey project should be a regulatory and continuous one in the future, in order to detect an introduced infestation as quickly as possible. Those attending the meeting decided that it was not feasible to launch a large force of men in the field in addition to the present horticultural workers of the state and counties. To make a complete inspection of short duration would require additional men in all fruit sections during the period when the host fruits are susceptible to attack by the fruit fly. The plan rather is to put into effect an organization consisting of all workers whose duties regularly bring them in contact with the orchards and markets. This would not necessitate the addition of many men to those already in the field working in various phases of horticulture. To Study Methods In Other States Farm Advisor H. E. Wahlberg will visit several state experiment stations this summer to review data and results from fertilizers practices on various soil types. His itinerary will include the agricultural experiment stations at Logan, Utah; Bozeman, Montana; Pullman, Washington; Corvallis, Oregon, and Davia, California. Enroute he will also meet with a number of farm advisors and agricultural agents who are engaged in agricultural extension and demonstration work. The Western States Farm Bureau conference will be held at Bozeman during the week of July 22. Orange county will be represented there by Farm Advisor Wahlberg, N. M. Blaney and J. A. Smiley. The conference will draw delegates from Oregon, Washington, California, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. Executives of the American Farm Bureau Federation from the Chicago office will be in charge of the convention. Summer Course In Horticulture A six-week summer course in subtropical horticulture will be held again this year at the Citrus Experiment Station in Riverside beginning July 1st, and covering a period of six weeks, ending August 10th. These courses are prepared and held for the benefit of students in subtropical horticulture and are offered for credit to those students both undergraduate and graduate who are working for a degree. They are also offered for the purpose of giving anyone interested in subtropical horticulture an opportunity to gain information and to study systematically the growing of these several fruit crops. The courses offered this year are: 1. Citriculture. 2. Subtropical fruit culture, including the avocado, persimmon, olive, date, pomegranate, carob, jujube, loquat, pistachio, felica, tuna, cherimoya, guava, 3. Water management. 4. Soil conservation. 5. Plant protection. 6. Nutrient cycling. 7. Disease control. 8. Pest control. 9. Weed control. 10. Crop rotation. 11. Grower education. 12. Farm safety. Officials Confer On Water Problem City Engineers of County in Conference Friday With their thought turned to the vital necessity of a program of research and organization for the purpose of conserving the agricultural and domestic water in Orange county, following the failure of the water control and conservation program by the recent defeat of the water bonds, a group of city engineers and water superintendents from various communities in the county gathered at an informal meeting at the Santa Ana council chamber Friday afternoon. The group was called together by Clyde Jenken, Santa Ana city engineer and water superintendent, after he had spent much time in preliminary surveys that turned up some possible leads in use of a conservation program. It was learned from the expressions of the men from other communities that the same thought had occurred to many of them, and that the time was at hand when a campaign of serious study and education of the public to the needless waste of water and the necessity for conservation should be undertaken. Preliminary plans made by the group Friday, as announced by Jenken, who presided at the meeting, include a program of study of the possibilities of saving water now being wasted without in any way curtailing the necessary usage and decision to meet again informally next Friday evening in the Santa Ana council chamber for further discussion and organization. Stress was placed on the statement made by Jenken that the men are meeting as a clearing house for the exchange of ideas and information and for the mutual benefit of the group, and that they were not in any way representing their cities or pledging them to any movement or program. Those who attended the first meeting of the group Friday in addition to Clyde Jenken of Santa Ana, were Clayton M. Thorpe, cify engineer, Fullerton; William M. Gillett, water superintendent; Utilizing As Well A practical water for dairies poses by means as the result of pamphlet versiety of California. The bulletin—the farm advisor— The advisability been found part persons living in California where Many of the hear home-made, although few of commercials the average house ter at temperature to 159 degrees Farrall believes it can be used if it is reduced. "In considering a heater, the number of days it should be taken is less than our types of instill determine the type most common is covered absorber in the center." As an example observations were stalled on the site of a house which family of three freezing" type, unable to circulate through water tank. It alley with an auxiliary furnace for winter time. The found furnished water the year intention required cleaning of the move any dust which might colloid. RETURNED Lee J. Sherida from a five week newsota and his wife and children Those attending the meeting decided that it was not feasible to launch a large force of men in the field in addition to the present horticultural workers of the state and counties. To make a complete inspection of short duration would require additional men in all fruit sections during the period when the host fruits are susceptible to attack by the fruit fly. The plan rather is to put into effect an organization consisting of all workers whose duties regularly bring them in contact with the orchards and markets. This would not necessitate the addition of many men to those already in the field working in various phases of horticulture, but would make a co-operative organization under one head of all state and county horticultural inspectors augmented by such groups as farm advisors, orchard material salesmen who are continually in the field, and the subsidiary groups of packing-house organizations. These men will work under their various managers and heads of departments who, in turn, will keep in touch with and be informed of progress and new developments through a central office. A plan of education as to other habits, characteristics and methods of inspection for the Mediterranean fruit fly is in progress, and the plan is to have an office to work in the capacity of a supply center, which will furnish all papmhlets, general literature and other supplies necessary in the educational campaign. Co-operation of all interested in agriculture, such as growers, market men, railroad officials, and directly contacting" business men, will be olicited. King Zog of Albania is said to work eighteen hours every day. Looks to us like he ought to join the kings' union. One way to raise the price of wheat would be a national advertising campaign asking the housewives of the country to bake more biscuits like mother used to make. Isn't it too bad that this new-fangled non-shatterable glass wasn't invented until after the back mirrors in the bar rooms went out of existence? Limited is faster 61¼ hours to Chicago The time formerly made by The CHIEF No extra fare Fred Harvey Dining, Lounge & Club Cars The Grand Canyon The Indian-Detour Santa Fe Ticket Office and Travel Bureau C. A. 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Since the average household needs much water at temperatures of from 120 degrees to 159 degrees Fahrenheit, Professor Farrell believes that many more would be used if the cost of them could be reduced. "In considering the practicability of a heater, the number and distribution of the days of sunshine in a locality should be taken in account," says Professor Farrell. "Since there are various types of installations, the use will determine the type of construction. The most common is some kind of glass-covered absorber with a plain iron coil in the center." As an example of what may be done, observations were made on a heater installed on the south slope of the roof of a house which furnished water for a family of three. It was of the "non-freezing" type, using a special mixture to circulate through the coll on the roof and through a heater coil in the water tank. It was connected in parallel with an auxiliary heater, attached to the furnace for water heating in the winter time. This arrangement, it was found, furnished the owner with hot water the year round. The only attention required was an occasional cleaning of the absorber glass, to remove any dust or foreign material which might collect. RETURNED FROM THE EAST Lee J. Sheridan returned on Monday from a five weeks' tour of Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota, accompanied by his wife and two children. They Delinquent Sale Brings Few Bidders Less Than 500 of the Parcels Offered Are Sold County Tax Collector J. C. Lamb, Friday, offered for sale 77754 parcels of land, of which 483 were sold. It was all property on which taxes had been due and unpaid for five years and a large share consisted of oil lots. There were no bidders for the latter class of property and it will be deeded to the state where it will remain, unless a petition is filed through Lamb to have it sold. Lamb pointed out today that California has the best tax laws in the nation. When taxes become delinquent and remain unpaid, the state buys the property and holds it for five years for the owner, to give him a chance to redeem it. The state will protect the land against all comers for this period. After that time it is assumed that the owner has lost interest and the state sells the land in order to get its money back. Of the property sold, Mr. Lamb states that owners of the property can recover it now only through suits to quiet title. Usually, Lamb pointed out, the courts are inclined to sympathize with these owners and they can recover their land. The supreme court has held that a man cannot be deprived of his land without due process of law and any error in the transaction, from the assessment to the ta sale, will invalidate a deed and give the owner a basis for action. Lamb also stated. There were practically no bids for the oil lots, Lamb said, explaining that taxes and penalties amount to more than the property is worth. Lamb also pointed out that no tax officials or others fanillar with tax titles bought any of the property sold at the auction. Supervisors' Proceedings RETURNED FROM THE EAST Leo J. Sheridan returned on Monday from a five weeks' tour of Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota, accompanied by his wife and two children. They visited with Mrs. Sheridan's relatives and report an enjoyable outing. Leo states wheat farmers in the northwest look for a bumper crop, and adds that those growers who raise stock along with their wheat production are making money, while those who have no stock have much to learn yet in respect to diversified farming. Throughout the section great good is expected to come from the newly organized Federal Farm Board. He found the region making excellent progress, and with careful handling of the wheat crop may enjoy profitable returns. Wheat is higher than two months ago and the outlook is good for a return of prosperity. The trip was made in his automobile, and although the journey over the desert was exceedingly warm, the outing was enjoyable. Supervisors' Proceedings Warrants for election, officers and rent of polling places for the flood control election were ordered issued. A deed of right of way was accepted from the Irvine company. Garden Grove school district bonds were ordered advertised for sale on July 23, 1929, at 11 o'clock a.m. Cancellation of tax sale No. 7080 for Assessor's Map No. 10, Lot 44, was ordered made. Albert V. Jimenez was appointed constable of San Juan township. Geo. McPhee was appointed county sealer of weights and measures. Bond on Map Tract No. 947 was approved. Bond on Map Tract No. 946 was approved. Transfer from various funds in the budget were ordered made. nting needs may be, we can take care of ob that will be a delight to the eye. 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