anaheim-gazette 1931-02-19

Washington's Home At Mount Vernon America's Most Revered Shrine Visited by More Tourists Than Any Other SAFE-GUARDED BY WOMEN How Homestead Was Acquired and Preserved No American shrine is held in greater reverence or is the objective of more tourists than is the home of George and Martha Washington at Mount Vernon, about 15 miles down the Patomac river from Washington, D. C. On the birthdays of General Washington, and on other holidays, many thousand Americans make the trip to this historic homestead, and next year, when the 250 birth-year of the General is to have nation-wide observance, Mount Vernon will have more attention than ever. The Women's Organization The nation is indooted to a group of patriotic women who restored Mount Vernon to its original beauty and dignity. thirty-five vice-regents, for as vacancies occur much time and consideration is given to the election of a new member, who receives the honor for life. She must be a woman who will be in harmony with the ideals of the organization and imbued with the traditions of Mount Vernon, and who, like her associates, will possess the proper esteem for her privileged position and show her devotion by the accomplishment of her duties. The work of the regent and vice-regents does not end with council session. During the year they distribute literature on Mount Vernon, speak to schools and organizations on the subject, and in every way spread the ennobling traditions of the home of George Washington among the people of America. Stork Brought 156 Babies to Anaheim Maybe the general depression of 1930 had something to do with it but the stork barely exceeded its delivery of infants in Anaheim last year over its record of the year before. Statistics issued by the state director of public health, at Sacramento, shows that in 1930 the stork brought 156 babies to Anaheim, while the year before the number was 155. The birth rate per 1,000 in Anaheim was 14.0, the statistics show, and the stork left 129 babies at the homes of white parents, while Mexican births for the year were 25. DINNER PARTY On the birthdays of General Washington, and on other holidays, many thousand Americans make the trip to this historic homestead, and next year, when the 250 birth-year of the General is to have nation-wide observance, Mount Vernon will have more attention than ever. The Women's Organization The nation is indebted to a group of patriotic women who restored Mount Vernon to its original beauty and dignity. The organization, which by its devotion and spirit has been able to accomplish this, is known as the Mount Vernon Ladies' association. It holds its annual council session on the estate, says Edward Haskell in the Chicago Dally News. Back in the fifties the last of the Washington family possess Mount Vernon, exhausted by the effort not only to keep up the estate, but to endure the strain of entertaining a constant stream of visitors who wished to see the home of their first President, offered it for sale to the state of Virginia and the United States government. Fund of $200,000 Raised When neither of these public agencies took advantage of the offer Miss Ann Pamela Cunningham appealed to the women of the country to save the home where George Washington found his greatest happiness. By her untiring efforts and with the help of Edward Everett and other enthusiastic workers, $200,000 was raised for the purchase of Mount Vernon. Under the charter from the state of Virginia by which the Mount Vernon Ladies' association holds the property, their proprietorship lasts so long as it is fittingly maintained. It is the purpose of the ladies of this organization to make Mount Vernon exactly as it was in the time of its famous proprietor. To accomplish this they spare no thought, effort or money. They are never extravagant, but they always require that the very best in equipment or service be employed. Martha Washington's Flowers In the flower beds, outlined by box hedges, are always blooms, from the gaudy tulips of early spring to the equally striking dahllas of fall. Cuttings of box and ivy and seedlings are on sale in order that all who wish may have some growing thing from Mount Vernon in their own gardens. A great many of the original furnishings of the mansion have been found by these zealous women, and have been placed in their proper setting. Although some furniture which did not belong to George and Martha Washington is used to add to the homelike atmosphere, relics which have not been authenticated as original after careful investigation are no longer accepted or purchased. Every Detail is Complete Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Mang of 531 S. Clementine street entertained a number of friends on Wednesday evening at dinner and cards. A charming arrangement of daffodils and hyacinths decorated the daintily appointed table at which covers were laid for eight. The evening was spent at cards, the game being 500. The prize for high score was awarded Miss Nelle E. Terry and the consolation to Miss Adole Howard. Those present were the hosts, Mr. and Mrs. Mang, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Allen, Mrs. Nelle E. Terry, Miss Adole Howard, Miss Elizabeth Mang, Miss Leona Nelson. SCHOOL ELECTION MARCH 27 The Anaheim school election is to be held on March 27, and the board announces that there will be but one polling place, at Central school, the light vote of other years making two voting places unnecessary. Frank Gibbs, whose term expires, will be a candidate to succeed himself. He has served on the board since 1925. Superintendent M. A. Gauer reports an enrollment of 1724 in the grammar schools, an increase of 70 since the first of the year. There were 1787 pupils enrolled this time last year, he said. Mrs. Robert Jensen, of Clexico, spent several days past week in town as the guest of Mrs. Dean Polhemus. The Mothers' Chorus, which is winning much favor wherever it is heard, is to sing tomorrow at 3:30 for the Federation of Missionary Associations at White Temple M. E. church. The chorus will also be heard tomorrow evening on the Katella school program. The parents of members of the Orange County Junior Symphony Orchestra met Monday night and elected Mrs. L. C. Hiserodd, of Anaheim, president, and Mrs. J. P. Hanson, of Orange, as secretary and treasurer. Girl Scout Training School Opens Feb. 23 A training school for Girl Scout leaders is to open in Anaheim on February 23. A great many of the original furnishings of the mansion have been found by these zealous women, and have been placed in their proper setting. Although some furniture which did not belong to George and Martha Washington is used to add to the homelike atmosphere, relies which have not been authenticated as original after careful investigation are no longer accepted or purchased. Every Detail is Complete It is no effort to imagine the enjoyment that the gracious master and mistress of Mt. Vernon derived from their home. By merely removing the grills at doorways, a perfectly appointed mansion is again ready for occupancy. Every detail is complete. Beds are made with snowy covers over billowy mattresses, books are on the library shelves, a card table and counters await players, the harpsichord for which the General paid $5,000 in London and his flute are there, even knives are in their wooden cases on the buffet in the family dining room, and a clock ticks on the mantel in the banquet hall. In addition to the ancient, rare and valuable furnishings are the most modern protective systems, by their perfect concealment lending no discordant note. Hot-air heat is piped from a distance furnance, portable electric fixtures are used when necessary, and equipment for fire prevention that is the last word in ingenuity is used. Fire the Dread Specter Fire is the dread specter of Mount Vernon. Every known precaution against it is employed. Guards, export by training, fly to their posts at a second's notice, and chemicals and water are available for immediate use. Even a mechanical fire detector is installed. The ladies of the association which has made Mount Vernon both what it is today and was in George Washington's time, by their monumental work earn for themselves a reward which in turn inspires them with love of and devotion to their mission. A Member From Each State Each state is entitled to one member in this body. She is known as a vice-regent. Usually there are about The parents of members of the Orange County Junior Symphony Orchestra met Monday night and elected Mrs. L. C. Hiserodd, of Anaheim, president, and Mrs. J. P. Hanson, of Orange, us secretary and treasurer. Girl Scout Training School Opens Feb. 23 A training school for Girl Scout leaders is to open in Anaheim on February 23, to continue through the 27th, the sessions to be held at the Knights of Pythias Hall, from 7 to 9 p.m. The planes have been announced by Miss Wilcox, secretary and field captain of the Anaheim Girl Scout community committee. The school will be under direction of Miss Thelma Trout, a national trainer sent out from New York headquarters, and is being conducted for captains, lieutenants, committee and council members and all other people interested in the Girl Scout programs. DAILY AGRICULTURAL PROGRAM Beginning each day at 12 p.m. and continuing 10 minutes, talks of interest to farmers, growers and producers will be given during the week beginning, February 23, under the auspices of the Agricultural Extension Service, cooperating with Radio Station KFI, as follows: February 23—"What Type of Fruit Shall the California Calave and Avocado Growers Produce for Better Consumer Satisfaction," with Resultant Better Prices to the Grower in the Large Eastern Market." Edwin Humason, Sales and Advertising Manager, Calavo Growers of California. February 24—"Truck Crop Question Box." F. H. Ernest, Assistant Farm Advisor, Los Angeles County. February 25—"Copperation in Agriculture Between Federal, State, and County Officials." E. S. Kellogg, Agricultural Commissioner, Santa Barbara County. February 26—"Walnut Institute." M. H. Kimball, Assistant Farm Advisor, Los Angeles County. February 27—"Stabilizing the Dairy Produce Market." Jay Dutter, Southern Representative, California Dairy Council. Thirty-five pre-grain farmers report of the grain acreage taken the initial Cooperative Grains Cornaia, after a co-huff, president, a general manager, national Grains Corp., The sales agency and Minor was on with the marketing Board under the personal Marketing Association wide as a foreign cooperative method. A committee pointed to investment of a California grain prepare its by-laws agreement. The co-D. Schindler of St. Boyd, of Willows, Francisco; Jessie Grimes; E. L. Ada Cormack; Rio V. Schiranz, Jr.; Robb. A statewide meet has been called by local San Francisco to consider the report of seven and to call of the cooperative methods. STATE GARDEN Net increase of $185 is shown in the roster for 1931 just reported of Motor Vehicles: two million mark exactly 2,099,293 motorcycles and is a three per cent including approx. registered under classification nor tered from other ANAHEIM GAZETTE Fiesta State Fair To Set New Record Legion Campaign To Get Members Sixteen Airplanes Will Roar In Skies on Washington's Birthday The rooftop of airplane propellers will be heard throughout California on Washington's Birthday, next Sunny day, when the American Legion will conduct a membership drive to top its quota of 60,000 members for 1931. Sixteen airplanes, nine on feeder routes and seven on main air lanes, will comprise a flying squadron which will contact the 407 Posts of the organization in this state and deliver the membership' cards to Mills Field in this city. Start at 9 o'Clock A.M. The planes will take-off from their respective fields from the Mexican border to the Oregon line at 9 o'clock in the morning and it is expected that by 4 o'clock in the afternoon every community in the state will have been visited and the membership cards delivered to B. W. Gearhart, state commander, and James K. Fisk, state deputy, at Mills Field. The drive and the routing of the planes are being handled under the directions of "Tex" Frohlich, chairman of the Legion's Aeronautics Committee, and Warren H. Atherton, chairman of the membership committee. During the event of California's graphically and more impressively than any other single activity." Rolland A. Vandegrift, (left) director of state department of finance, and A. B. Miller, (right) newly appointed president of the State Fair, planning to make the 1931 exposition the greatest ever held in California. SACRAMENTO, Feb., 18, 1931—With Governor James Rolph, Jr., enthusiastically backing their plans, officials of the California State Fair are already at work on arrangements for this year's exposition to be held in Sacramento, September 5th to 12th. "It is our aim to make the 1931 State Fair a triumphant event of California's graphically and more impressively than any other single activity." The same opinion of the importance of the State Fair is held by A. B. Miller of Fontana, the newly appointed president of the State Agricultural Society and the State Board of Agriculture. Miller, who succeeds the late R. A. Condee, has been actively engaged in all three divisions of Cali- respective fields from the Mexican border to the Oregon line at 9 o'clock in the morning and it is expected that by 4 o'clock in the afternoon every community in the state will have been visited and the membership cards delivered to B. W. Gearhart, state commander, and James K. Fisk, state deputant, at Mills Field. The drive and the routing of the planes are being handled under the directions of "Tex" Frohlich, chairman of the Legion's Aeronautics Committee, and Warren H. Atherton, chairman of the membership committee. During the flights constant touch will be kept with all fields and planes by airphone to ensure the keeping of the schedule. Will Cover 9,000 Miles It is estimated that during the flight the sixteen planes will cover approximately 9,000 miles, a distance equal to three times across the United States, and will demonstrate the practicability of getting in immediate personal touch with every community of the state and returning to a central location within a few hours. The first of the planes carrying the cards will arrive at Mills Field at 3 p.m., where appropriate ceremonies will be held to commemorate the event. Increase In Dividends Increased dividends will be paid to holders of government life insurance this year according to advice received by James K. Fisk, state adjutant of the American Legion, from George E. Jams, director of the United States Veterans Bureau. The total amount apportioned for the payment of dividends for the year of 1931 is $8,200,000. This is an increase of approximately $900,000 over the year of 1930. Through the California Department's Rehabilitation Commission, under hte chairmanship of Van Hogan, of Los Angeles, the Legion is now conducting an educational campaign to inform the veterans of the World War of their privilege to take out government life insurance. No Refreshments at Police Wet Party The Anaheim police gave a "wet" party Monday morning, at which none of the refreshments were served the uninvited guest. To the onlookers it looked as if the party was one of wonton waste of complicated likker, for tea pints of whiskey, a gallon bottle partly filled with "red eye," 22 gallons of wine, 15 cases of beer, a quart of bitters, a quart and live pint bottles of elder were destroyed. Police Chief Bouldin authorized the "party" and the liquor destroyed was that which had been taken from prohibition law offenders in recent weeks. Grain Growers Plan Sales Cooperative Rolland A. Vandegrift, (left) director of state department of finance, and A. B. Miller, (right) newly appointed president of the State Fair, planning to make the 1931 exposition the greatest ever held in California. SACRAMENTO, Feb., 18, 1931—With Governor James Rolph Jr., enthusiastically backing their plans, officials of the California State Fair are already at work on arrangements for this year's exposition to be held in Sacramento, September 5th to 12th. "It is our aim to make the 1931 State Fair a triumphant event of California's 'Fiesta year,' started by the California Newspaper Publishers Association, bigger, better and more brilliant than any of the 76 State Fairs that have gone before," is the way Rolland A. Vandegrrift commented to-day on plans for the big show. Vandegrift, director of the state department of finance, is also the official head of the State Agricultural Society under whose direction the annual State Fair is held. "We regard the State Fair as California's greatest advertising medium," he said, "an outpouring of products and resources unsurpassed anywhere in the world. This exposition tells the story of California's growth and progress more graphically and more impressively than any other single activity." The same opinion of the importance of the State Fair is held by A. B. Miller of Fontana, the newly appointed president of the State Agricultural Society and the State Board of Agriculture. Miller, who succeeds the late R. A. Condee, has been actively engaged in all three divisions of California's agriculture—field crops, horculture and livestock—for more than thirty years. He also has had extensive experience in the poultry industry. "In the past decade the California State Fair has won its way into the ranks of the world's leading agricultural and livestock shows," Miller said, "and we will exert every effort to make it still greater. This year two more structures will be added to the State Fair group in Sacramento, the poultry building and the sheep and swine building. This means California is gradually developing the finest State Fair plant in America, an institution which is a distinct credit to all California." Grain Growers Plan Sales Cooperative Thirty-five prominent California grain farmers, representing a majority of the grain acreage of the state, have taken the initial steps in forming the Cooperative Grain Growers of California, after a conference with C. E. Huff, president, and George Milnor, general manager, of the Farmers National Grain Corporation of Chicago. The sales agency represented by Huff and Milnor was organized to cooperate with the marketing plans of the Farm Board under the provisions of the Federal Marketing Act, and offers a nationwide sales channel for grain as well as a foreign distribution under cooperative methods. A committee of seven has been appointed to investigate the organization of a California grain cooperative; and prepare its by-laws and marketing agreement. The committee includes A. D. Schindler of San Francisco, James Boyd, of Willows, I. L. Borden of San Francisco; Jesse Poundstone of Grimes; E. L. Adams, Chico; Dan McCormack, Rio Vista; and Edward Schranz, Jr., Robbins. A statewide meeting of grain men has been called by the Farm Bureau to meet in San Francisco on February 23 to consider the report of the Committee of seven and to complete organization of the cooperative. STATE GAINS IN AUTOOS Net increase of 52,325 motor vehicles is shown in the registration total for 1931 just reported by the state Division of Motor Vehicles. Reaching over the two million mark, the figures show exactly 2,099,293 vehicles, including motorcycles and trailers. The total is a three per cent gain over 1929, not including approximately 36,000 cars registered under the license exempt classification nor the 91,247 cars registered from other states. AN ELASTIC CLAUSE Clause 18, Section S, of Article I of the Constitution is called the Elastic clause. It reeds as follows: "The congress shall have the power... To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or if any department or officer thereof." This clause does not give any Anaheim, Calif., Feb. 19, 1931 It is proposed by some experts that every applicant for a marriage license should have a mental examination. But one of our cynical bachelor friends says that when one applies for a marriage license that is prima facie evidence of his mental condition. Astronomers tell us that Pluto, the new planet, is about the size of the earth and that its year is 250 times as long as ours. We are inclined to think that the winter there after the first 50 years would begin to drag a little. Well, the bathing beauty photographs are coming in again from the winter resorts in case you are at all interested in what the smart women are not wearing this season.—Boston Herald. Make Arrangements Now for Your INCOME TAX Books Audited and Installed Roy N. Mendoza (16th Year) New Office 219 S. 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