anaheim-gazette 1931-07-23

FOX ANAHEIM SUN. MON. (Continuous Shows Sunday 2:30 to 11 p.m.) July 26-27 NORMA SHEARER in "FREE SOUL" With Clark Gable—Leslie Howard TUESDAY ONLY, "CHINA NIGHT" JULY 28 "EX-BAD BOY" ROBERT ARMSTRONG, Jean Arthur, Lola Lane WED. THUR. (Wednesday Matinee at 2:30.) JULY 29-30 NANCY CARROLL—FREDRIC MARCH in "THE NIGHT ANGEL" FRI. SAT. (Matinee Saturday at 2:30.) JULY 31, AUGUST 1 JOE E. BROWN in "BROAD MINDED" With MARJORIE WHITE—ONA MUNSON 25c ANY DAY --- ANY TIME Children 10c Loges 35c 25c Westinghouse Radio $37.50 and up FEARN Easy Parking 273 E. Center St., Anaheim Phone $111 WANT ADS RATE: Five cents the line (count Westinghouse Radio $37.50 and up FEARN Easy Parking 273 E. Center St., Anaheim Phone 111 WANT ADS RATE: Five cents the line (count five words to the line) for each insertion. Phone 2414 for want ads that bring results. Stationery VACATION READING Take a book and magazine on your vacation. You'll enjoy them. E. D. ABRAMS 116 W. Center St., Anaheim—Ph. 2513 Painting & Paperhanging Painting, paperhanging. J. E. Saylor, 616 S. Philadelphia St., Phone 2761. Situations GENERAL repairing and odd jobs. Gene Adams, 416 S. Olive. 3954. 7-10-tf Fences CROWN FENCE CO. Free estimates. 206 N. Main St., Santa Ana—2560 3-22-tf Poultry WE PAY CASH for poultry; any quantity. Market or laying. Will call Phone 1401, R. D. Taylor. 3-20tfc 3-20-tf Cleaning & Pressing ALL KINDS of cleaning and pressing. Prompt service. Call and deliver; or cash and carry. HARLOW'S CLEANERS 3-20-tf 124 E. Center St.—Phone 3232 Miscellaneous $10 FREE: Send name of friend who wants piano and get $10 Free when we sell. Danz, Anaheim. Planos For Sale 100 PIANOS to choose from; Knabe, Bechstein, Steinway, Chickering, Kimball, etc., new and used. $35 up. Danz, Anaheim. Financial LOANS REFINANCED CHARACTER LOANS 119 N. Los Angeles St., Anaheim MORRIS PLAN CO. Tailoring ALL KINDS of suits altered and mended at reasonable cost. Expert tailoring, latest styles, new materials. KUEHN & BREDER 124 E. Center—Phone 3232 On the Sidewalks of New York BY OBSERVER (Correspondence to The Gazette) Police Chesterfields Every New York policeman has his shoes polished up to the last degree. You can find one without his shield sooner than without a polish. Their uniforms are always pressed and there is not a set of men in the world who present as smart an appearance as the 19,000 men on Commissioner Mulrooney's force. Naturally, on $60 a week, the pay The Goldman band is just one more thing that links New York up, in its likes and dislikes, with the small town. Hundreds of small places support a town band and the tri-weekly summer scene in Central Park differs only in size from the happenings in myriad of smaller places throughout the country. A New Wrinkle The best shoe polisher in the world has a stand in the shadow of the Metropolitan Opera House, just off Broadway. Like most of them, he is an Italian. He puts four or five different kinds of polishes on your shoes and makes them look like new. What hit me most was that when I eat down in his chair he tucked in my shoelaces, so they wouldn't get wet, and then slipped in pieces of leather about as big as a half-sole, into the sides of... BY OBSERVER (Correspondence to The Gazette) Police Chesterfields Every New York policeman has his shoes polished up to the last degree. You can find one without his shield sooner than without a polish. Their uniforms are always pressed and there is not a set of men in the world who present as smart an appearance as the 19,000 men on Commissioner Mulrooney's force. Naturally, on $60 a week, the pay of a New York cop, they can afford to dress better than they used to when they drew $80 a month not so very many years ago. Police Wire Pulling Naturally, with so many on the force, there is a certain amount of inside politics played all the time. One of the choice assignments over which the men battle is the tri-weekly job of policing the crowd at the Goldman band concerts in Central Park. And the way they fight each other for the privilege of getting that job is nobody's business. Each concert attracts close to 7,000 people, half of whom get seats while the remainder are allowed to drape themselves on the grass or wherever they can find a point of vantage. The police are there to keep them in order—and one pinch a century would be a high average. All the cops have to do is listen to one of the finest concerts on earth and then go home. A Wonderful Gift The Goldman band concerts are just one sample of the hundreds of free amusements offered New Yorkers all through the year. The city gives the bandstand and the Guggenheim family, which made a huge fortune in minerals in the Rocky Mountains, pays the musicians, the cost running to many thousands of dollars every year. The band plays at Columbia University campus on alternate nights, thereby drawing a totally different crowd. In the course of the year probably a million people hear the band, not to count the many millions more who listen in by radio. Even New Yorkers who seem to find it hard to praise anything in especial about their city, admit the Goldman band concerts are wonderful. A New Wrinkle The best shoe polisher in the world has a stand in the shadow of the Metropolitan Opera House, just off Broadway. Like most of them, he is an Italian. He puts four or five different kinds of polishes on your shoes and makes them look like new. What hit me most was that when I eat down in his chair he tucked in my shoesaces, so they wouldn't get wet, and then slipped in pieces of leather about as big as a half-sole, into the sides of my shoes, letting them etick up to protect the socks from getting stained. It was a touch of the real service one gets in this town. It's a good tip for your local shoe shiner. Boot Trees Nearly every man in New York owns one or more pair of boot trees—those chunks of wood shaped like the foot that go in the shoes when you take them off. They keep the leather from shrinking and make them look like new right up to the day you fire them into the garbage can. Of course, all women everywhere keep their shoes on lasts when they are not being worn, but New York is probably the only place in this country where the men use them. In England, where it rains every day for months, everybody has to use them or have their shoes look like Charley Chaplin's. Slot Machine Ban Flared Up, Dies Down The slot machine ban declared by Sheriff Jackson last week, the enforcement of which was temporarily halted by an injunction asked for in Superior court, is back to where it was before the sheriff's declaration. The application for an injunction was dismissed in court on application of Thomas C. McFadden, Anahelm attorney, just before the case came up for hearing. The suit was brought by Henry T. Foust, of Santa Ana, who is operating a number of machines under a license granted by the Santa Ana city authorities, and for which he pays $40 a year to the city for each machine. The average most profit if 400 colonies, for single-hand from the U.S., culture just reberg, farm advantage bee handling of a good beer temperament efficiently. One man can work required even during rurement learned years; the record is separated With an aplause he will need some income. Beekeery, as a super man in New York 100 acres and bees learned 70-colony apiary 40 acres of labor. One beekeeper time in his apache employer of la more than $6 a colony one year; the next year, are poor managing colonies report pounds of ext colony and a to 1928, or a net hour he worked labor and know beemen have re to $5.50 an hour aplary. Italy has res Probably was hot weather by phone artists. Union Pacific Men In Booster Move High Officials of Railroad Confer With Anaheim Business Leaders Two Union Pacific representatives, W. F. Lincoln, general freight agent, and George R. Bierman, general passenger agent, both with headquarters in Los Angeles, were in Anaheim yesterday conferring with business men and industrial leaders, as well as the railroad's local representatives, with a view to increasing business out of Anaheim and Orange county. Interested in Its Communities To businessmen they said that while the Union Pacific is one of the great transcontinental railroads, it is keenly interested in every city and town on its lines. A statement explaining this community relationship from the two officials said all of the employes of the Union Pacific are thoroughly awake to the seriousness of the general railroad situation through the loss of business to unregulated forms of transportation, and in a sincere spirit of self-defense the employes are organizing in an effort to recover this lost business and bring it back to the railroads. Employe Booster Leagues In every city and town served by the Union Pacific this organization is taking the form of employe booster leagues. Collectively, in Southern California these leagues will include 2953 employes, representing 2030 families, who, in 1930, received $5,447,150 in wages and salaries. This sum supported more than 12,000 persons who are dependent upon Union Pacific wages and salaries. Of the approximately five and one-half million annual disbursement, part Employe Booster Leagues In every city and town served by the Union Pacific this organization is taking the form of employee booster leagues. Collectively, in Southern California these leagues will include 2953 employees, representing 2030 families, who, in 1930, received $5,447,150 in wages and salaries. This sum supported more than 12,000 persons who are dependent upon Union Pacific wages and salaries. Of the approximately five and one-half million annual disbursement, part was spent with local merchants. Another portion was paid out by employees in the form of taxes on their homes as 1245 Southern California homes are owned by Union Pacific employees. Still other portions were deposited in banks where it was employed in usual banking operations to build other businesses in Southern California. Millions Spent In Southland For the past ten years the average annual expenditures of the Union Pacific in Southern California have totalled $10,957,513. Southern California taxes paid in 1930 by the Union Pacific amounted to $1,180,484. Much of the Union Pacific's million dollar annual advertising appropriation is devoted to the exclusive advertising of Southern California. Using these facts and figures to demonstrate that the Union Pacific is one of the state's basic industries, and as such entitled to the support of other industries vitally interested in the welfare of this $5,500,000 consumer market which Union Pacific employees represent, the employees' organizations are asking for fair consideration at the hands of shippers through promotion of a "Ship and Travel by Rail" campaign. They are asking merchants and others whom they patronize to reciprocate by patronizing the railroad. Seek Lost Business It is not the intention of the railroad company or the employees through their own organization to attempt to abolish motor truck transportation, according to leaders of the leagues and officials of the company. They realize that the motor truck fills a very definite need and has a big field of its own which has only the effect of making business better for both the railroads and the truckers. The rail service of the Union Pacific is adequate and dependable and it is the purpose of the Union Pacific employees, backed by their company, to regain the business lost to competing truck lines paralleling the railroad and which handle the cream of its traffic. This action is being taken to promote railway employment and for the stabilization of the railroad industry. 400 Bee Hives Show Most Profit Death and Grief From Motor Cars Abuse of Traffic Laws Worse Than Racketeering and Political Corruption The cost of human life, the cost in human suffering, and the cost in dollars and cents growing out of traffic accidents and the abuse of traffic laws is actually an indictment of our civilization. Political and social corruption, racketeering and crime in California, all taken together, are not more fatal and costly in terms of life, suffering and money loss than the deadly toll taken by traffic on our highways. “This is the most monumental scandal that has ever afflicted a civilized country,” states Christopher M. Bradley, chairman of the Traffic Hazards Section of the Commonwealth Club of California. “Not so many years ago,” further states Bradley, “we were without dependable statistics. We have some now. In the year 1930, you and I and other careless and inattentive people of the state killed 2,244 people; we injured 35,443. To April 30, 1931, the first four months of the year we were making a new record, having killed in that time 754 of our men, women and children and injured 14,354. Public Goes on Killing “The lack of public interest in the solution of the traffic problem is almost incredible. The public turns a deaf ear to the anguish of bereavement cried out of broken hearts—to the anguish of pain cried out of broken bodies. The public goes on killing and malning. "The percentages of death, injuries and destruction of property have kept an even pace of increase over a period of years, yet the motoring public, the pedestrian public and the non-combatant public calmly proceeds in the construction of more hundreds of miles of getting season is used during July and August, the hottest months of the summer. In the coastal sections, typified by the Whittier-Santa Ana area, the cities referred to show fully mature walnut trees use from 24 to 27 acre increments of water annually. In the more intersections, typified by the West Coville Puente area, there is used from 326 to 36 acre inches of water during a growing season. Other studies by University, and the cost of product study records carried on in Orange county, indicate that adequate summer irrigation prevents much of the land shriveling of kernels, which often seriously reduces quality. Growers should be particularly careful of their irrigation program at this season. Not all of the water which applied is used by the trees. A certain amount of it is always lost by surface evaporation. More is lost, particularly at the upper ends of irrigation furrows by percolating beyond the reach of roots. Frequently some is lost at lower end by the same deep penetration, and some may be lost by dry run-off. Rarely over 70 per cent of water which goes onto an orchard used by the trees. In this connection it is very important that walnut growers know how much water is going onto their orchards. This can be calculated when it is remembered that 50 miner's inches flowing for one hour will deliver one acre inch of water. A RADIO FOR EVERYBODY The time will come when every member of the family will have his individual radio receiver just as every man has his own books, according to Elmer Morgan, chairman of the National committee on Education by Radio. “This development will come gradually as wealth increases, as a cost of receivers decreases, and as school radio teaches to the masses—the people art of discriminating tending,” said Mr. Morgan. “Just as school by its use of books has done more to spread reading habits among the people than any other single institution.” 400 Bee Hives Show Most Profit The average beekeeper will make the most profit if he limits his business to 400 colonies, the number he can care for single-handed, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture just received by H.E.Wahlberg, farm advisor. He may be a first-rate bee handler, but the temperament of a good beeman generally is not the temperament for managing employees efficiently. One man can do practically all the work required for 350 or 400 colonies, even during rush seasons, the department learned by studying for three years the records of beekeepers in widely separated regions of the country. With an apiary of this size, however, he will need some additional means of income. Beekeeping is at its best, generally, as a supplement to farming. One man in New York state, who farms 100 acres and cares for 70 colonies of bees learned from experience that a 70-colony apiary is equivalent to about 40 acres of land in both income and labor. One beekeeper, who spends little time in his apiary and is an inefficient employer of labor, had a labor cost of more than $6 a colony. He lost 53 cents a colony one year, and $1.75 a colony the next year. But not all good beemen are poor managers. One who owns 1800 colonies reported a yield of about 250 pounds of extracted honey from each colony and a total income of $23,387 in 1928, or a net income of $11.78 for each hour he worked with the bees. He hires labor and knows how to use it. Other beemen have reported returns of $2.40 to $5.50 an hour for their time in the apiary. Italy has restored the death penalty. Probably was driven to it during this hot weather by radio crooners and saxophone artists. Public Goes on Killing "The lack of public interest in the solution of the traffic problem is almost incredible. The public turns a deaf ear to the anguish of bereavement cried out of broken hearts—to the anguish of pain cried out of broken bodies. The public goes on killing and malning. "The percentages of death, injuries and destruction of property have kept an even pace of increase over a period of years, yet the motoring public, the pedestrian public and the non-combatant public calmly proceeds in the construction of more hundreds of miles of paved highway, and calmly contemplates the unlawful use on those highways of more and more powerful engines of destruction, without any shock whatsoever, at the awful, daily holocaust." Requires a Catastrophe "It requires a catastrophe to attract public attention. Some shock would occur, and some adequate attention to the solution of the problem of traffic hazards would be given, if all the deaths and injuries could happen in one day or instantly. The tragedy and loss of it would call for a remedy, if for no other reason, because the morticians could not handle the dead and the hospitals could not handle the injured. "Properly approached and properly handled, the human element, causing so much trouble, can be controlled in a remarkable degree for the prevention of traffic accidents. The necessary things to be brought about are discipline and self-discipline." Critical Time of Walnut Irrigation According to the best information available on walnut irrigation, the months of July and August constitute the most critical period of the entire season. The Citrus Experiment Station at Riverside has carried on extensive studies over a period of three years to determine how much water walnut trees use under different conditions and at what season this water is taken from the ground. This work was prosecuted by Professor S.H. Beckett and by O.L.Braucher. In discussing these water use studies, H.E.Wahlberg, farm advisor, points out the fact that from 45 to 50 per cent of the total amount of water used dur- er, From the Pilgrimage Play Books In Library At Mount Vernon George Washington Read Some Fiction, But Mostly Books of Information (Correspondence to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—Visitors to Mount Vernon, if they make usual cursory tour of the house, come away with the belief that they have seen in the library the books of George Washington precisely as he left them. If they later learn that these books are in many cases simply other copies of volumes Washington is known to have possessed, they are disappointed and wonder why the Boston Athenaeum should own and keep such a large number of the original books from Washington's library. Washington as a Reader How many books did Washington really own, and how did he stand as a bookman among men of his day? This was the question asked of Dr. Herbert Putnam, librarian of the Library of Congress, by a representative of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission. "Ah, you must not expect me to give you an off-hand answer to a question of that importance," said Dr. Putnam. "Of course Washington, man of action and affairs, was no such reader as Thomas Jefferson, and had no such collection of books as Jefferson's library, now safe in the Library of Congress. It is fortunate that we have had preserved for us the considerable remnants of Washington's collection saved by a popular subscription raised in Boston to prevent their being scattered." An Exact ListExists While it is known how many volumes went to Boston, it is doubtful if posterity will know exactly how many books Washington did possess. It is known that he lent books and doubtless he had visitors to Mount Vernon come away with the opinion that it was the most interesting and attractive room in the house. And Washington is known to have passed much of his life at his work there. Farmers Are Liable Under New Law A bill introduced in the last legislature automatically excluding California farmers whose payrolls for the year immediately preceding were $500 or less, from the Workmen's Compensation Act, has been passed, although it was opposed by many farm organizations. The law becomes effective August 14, 1931. The passage of this bill, however, does not exempt the farmer from liability for injury to employees, even though his payroll is $500 or less. Injured employees can still claim damages in court from the farmer and past experience has shown that damage awards allowed by juries are so excessive that no farmer can afford to be without compensation insurance; his entire property might be swept away in one damage suit. In case of a suit by an injured employee, the uninsured farmer cannot under the present law use as a defense what are termed the "three common law defenses" which are: contributory negligence, assumption of risk, and the fellow servant rule. Under the present law if a farmer carries compensation insurance one year, regardless of his status, he is thereafter automatically under the Act, whether he continues his insurance or not, until he files a notice of election to withdraw from the provisions of the Act at some time subsequent to the expiration of his insurance. Approximately 4,000 Exchange growers are at present insured under the Growers Blanket Insurance policy carried through the California Fruit Growers EExchange with the State Compensation Insurance Fund. All growers, even though their payrolls are less than $500 yearly, should take advantage of this inexpensive insurance which may In books, according to Joy Ogman, chairman of the National Institute on Education by Radio, development will come about as wealth increases, as the receivers decreases, and as teachers to the masses of the art of discriminating list-men Mr. Morgan. "Just as the fruits use of books has done spread reading habits among those any other agency the uses of radio teaching will spread creative listening people than any other single issue is especially true in the school and school for there radio more than it does in the long to the remotest home a contact with the world at large, industry will eventually realize and independent educating is its best friend because its shortsighted policy to kill off stations associated national institutions." An Exact ListExists While it is known how many volumes went to Boston, it is doubtful if posterity will know exactly now many books Washington did possess. It is known that he lent books, and doubtless he had the luck of the leader. That is, many a book borrowed was never returned. The curious may find on file in Orphan's Court of Fairfax County, Virginia, the appraisers' exact list of the Washington library as it was after his death and probation of his will. But even these thousand or so titles represent but a part of the books Washington is thought to have owned. By the infallible test of the appraisers' list, Washington bought chiefly books of information. Authorities on military science interested him. Next in importance he seems to have rated books on agriculture and husbandry. At the head of the appraisers' list stands the American Encyclopedia of that period in ten volumes. One volume with a title calculated to amuse the sophisticates of the present day is a "Royal Grammar, for Young Gentlemen and Ladies." Another striking title in the list is "Jeffries Aerial Voyages." Read Shakespeare and Homer Washington read Shakespeare, and occasionally quoted him. He read Homer's Iliad and Odyssey in the Pope translation. He owned the Letters of Junius, Gibbons' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, the Letters of Voltaire, Chesterfield's Letters, Seneca's Moral Essays; and the prose of Swift, Sterne and Addison. Fiction seems to have entered very sharply into Washington's reading. To repeat, he read for information rather than for entertainment. Nevertheless we find among his books Don Quixote, Gulliver's Travels, Hudibras, Peregrins Pickle and a book called "The History of a Foundling," which sounds very much like "Tom Jones." Whatever Washington did read, he regarded books as of sufficient importance to warrant the building of a wing to his house to serve as a library, and tion and affairs, was no such reader as Thomas Jefferson, and had no such collection of books as Jefferson's library, now safe in the Library of Congress. It is fortunate that we have had preserved for us the considerable remnants of Washington's collection saved by a popular subscription raised in Boston to prevent their being scattered. English Tribute To Good Roads Good highways have been subject matter of many eulogies in the form of speeches, articles, engineers' reports, and books, but the finest and most concise tribute noted recently is credited to an Englishman whose name is unknown, according to the Automobile Club of Southern California. In a pamphlet announcing the formation of an institute of highway engineers in England, the following tribute to good roads is given: "Roads rule the world—not kings, nor courts, nor constables; not ships, nor soldiers. The road is the only royal line in a democracy, the only legislature that never changes, the only court that never sleeps, the only army that never quits, the first aid to the redemption of any nation, the exodus from stagnation in any society, the call from savagery in any tribe, the high priest of prosperity after the order of Melchisede, without beginning of days or end of life. The road is unpire in every war and when the map is made it simply pushes on its great campaign of help, hope, brotherhood, efficiency and peace." Uncle Sam closed the fiscal year with a debt of sixteen billions. Well, that is considerable more money than we owe personally, but we are willing to bet that our Uncle won't have as hard time settling up as we will, at that.