anaheim-gazette 1932-09-15

A WORD ABOUT OURSELVES On October 29 the Anaheim Gazette will celebrate its sixty-third birthday. We are issuing a special edition today covering the entire community and the rural delivery routes in honor of the Diamond Jubilee of the colony. The historical spirit has seized all of us and our citizens will soon be engaged in commemorating one of the most important events in our history. The colony is seventy-five years old. Its beginning goes back almost half the way to the time of the Revolution, when the beleagured farmers, standing by the bridge which spanned the flood, fired the shot which rang round the world. This historical memory has taken hold of us and we live again in those stirring times when the Pioneers first came here to establish the colony three quarters of a century ago. The Gazette is the oldest paper but one in Southern California. It was established October 29, 1870 by George W. Barter. The writer occupied the responsible position of roller boy and we carried around the paper, going by foot about town and on horseback in the outlying sections. Manuel Garfias was foreman of the office. He was a cousin of Fred Rimpau and Miss Sophie Rimpau of this city. On a Friday evening as the first forms were about to go to press, we hid under our bed in the old household across the way, for we had tired of the job and told Mr. Barter so, because the last forms were never on the press until about midnight. It was our duty to fetch several pails of water from a well in the back yard with which to wash the forms. We were afraid of the dark and whistled like sixty while going to and coming back from the well. We told the publisher that our career as a great newspaper man would terminate right there. Manuel came over to our house and was told by the good mother where we were hiding. He picked us up and carried us back to the office upstairs in the building across the street. Mr. Barter expostulated declaring the Gazette could not be issued without us, and believing this to be true, we continued on the job. We have con- across the way, for we had tired of the job and told Mr. Barter so, because the last forms were never on the press until about midnight. It was our duty to fetch several pails of water from a well in the back yard with which to wash the forms. We were afraid of the dark and whistled like sixty while going to and coming back from the well. We told the publisher that our career as a great newspaper man would terminate right there. Manuel came over to our house and was told by the good mother where we were hiding. He picked us up and carried us back to the office upstairs in the building across the street. Mr. Barter expostulated declaring the Gazette could not be issued without us, and believing this to be true, we continued on the job. We have continued on the job all these years, since purchasing the paper, with our brother Judge Charles Kuchei, in October 1887. Ten years later we became sole proprietor. After leaving school, much against the wishes of our beloved teacher we learned to set type, wash rollers and sweep out the office. In 1879 we left for our native town San Francisco where we found employment on the city newspapers. Mr. Barter continued publishing the Gazette for something over a year. He disposed of the paper to Chas. A. Gardiner, now living in South Pasadena. Mr. Gardiner sold the paper in 1875 to Richard Melrose, who for a time was associated with Frederick Athearn. The partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Melrose conducted its publication until we purchased it from him in 1887. In 1871, a paper called The Peoples Advocate was published by Major Max Strobel and Geo. C. Knox. It continued for a year or more. It was published in a small frame building on the northwest corner of Lemon and Broadway. In 1875, The Weekly Review was started by Edward F. Cahill and Geo. C. Knox. It was published in a frame building at West Center Street where the Fox Theatre now stands. It was not successful and was discontinued after a year or so. Several years later the New Era was started by Geo. D. Field. It was published on Lemon street between Center and Chartres. It continued several years. Other papers started later were the Independent, edited by B. R. Bourland and others by W. A. Rugg and James Nugent. They did not last very long. Later on came the Plaindealer and the Herald, which were seven years ago purchased by the Bulletin, now being published here by Lotus H. Loudon. To be frank with our readers, it is nothing more than the truth to say that the Gazette engaged in many a bitter newspaper fight. One of the first was against a co-operative undertaking which endeavored to place $600,000 in bonds as a blanket mortgage upon farms surrounding the city. These bonds were to be sold in the New York Market at 85 and a good commission was to be paid for their disposal. It did not look good to the publisher, who lost no time in saying so. These occurrences are well within the recollection of many of our people. Opposition arose to the disposal of the bonds and the whole blooming thing collapsed. A fight against the Twilight Patent Syndicate was next in order, this patent was secured from the government and placed a royalty upon fumigating orange trees. Growers were notified that before fumigating they must obtain permission from the Syndicate at so much per. Growers throughout this district were up in arms against it and this newspaper fought it tooth and nail. We were offered money to desist from our warfare and when this was refused were threatend with a criminal prosecution for libel. We called in a number of growers and placed the case plainly before them. They were indignant at the outrageous proposition and promised to stand by the paper through thick and thin. One of them, Wm. M. McFadden, father of Thos. L. McFadden and A fight against the Twilight Patent Syndicate was next in order, this patent was secured from the government and placed a royalty upon fumigating orange trees. Growers were notified that before fumigating they must obtain permission from the Syndicate at so much per. Growers throughout this district were up in arms against it and this newspaper fought it tooth and nail. We were offered money to desist from our warfare and when this was refused were threatend with a criminal prosecution for libel. We called in a number of growers and placed the case plainly before them. They were indignant at the outrageous proposition and promised to stand by the paper through thick and thin. One of them, Wm. M. McFadden, father of Thos. L. McFadden and Ralph McFadden, who owned a fine orchard at Placentia, said the grove was valueless to him if this patent was upheld in the courts, and said that every dollar that he could raise would go to defend this paper. Other gentlemen expressed similar sentiments. They were assured the paper would continue in the fight. A case was carried to the United States supreme court attacking the validity of the patent and it was set aside as null and void. A jollification meeting came on, the church bells rang in joyous announcement of the glorious news. We walked down the street arm in arm with one of these gentlemen. It was about the happiest day of our life. He took his straight and we had a bit of lemon in ours. Other fights occurred over disputes about water, over the boundaries of county division and about unfit men seeking public office. But all came happily to an end, and for years we have been proceeding quietly on our way minding our own business and meeting all issues as they have presented themselves. We have tried to print a newspaper which would be interesting to our readers, to protect the citizens in every way in our power and shall continue to do so until we lay down the editorial pen. That we have made mistakes, we do not deny, but in the words of a certain colored gentleman who used to live here, we hope they have been pretty dog-gone few and at that forgiven. Other papers have come in Orange county during the past forty-five years, while we have been here, and have passed into oblivion for guessing wrong. Two papers at the county seat which supported the so-called twilight patent, passed out quickly, while one which fought it survived. We have found plenty of hard work to do, have always striven to hold the goodwill of the public and we trust we have succeeded. We shall strive to continue in this endeavor, and with capable gentlemen associated with us shall meet all issues adequately as they appear. We thank our many friends and supporters for their patronage. This has been sufficient compensation for our labors. We have tried to do the right, have shunned the wrong and shall continue to do so to the end. Anaheim, Calif., Sept. 15, 1932 First Hundred Steps the Hardest — By Albert T. Reid HIGHER EDUCATION READIN' RITH LATIC JUDGERFY Albert T. Reid AUTOCASTER DR. HENRI L. GADDIS Sunday School Lesson by Rev. Charles E. Dunn, Israel Journeying Toward Canaan lesson for September 11 — Numbers 10:11-36 Golden Text: Numbers 10:29 The children of Israel occupied about thirty years in their wanderings toward the land of promise. It is surprising how uneventful was their wilderness journey, although it was of supreme importance in laying the foundations of their religion and culture, and so preparing them for the momentous changes in their later history. For the most part their life was fairly settled, with headquarters at Kadesh; holy shrine on the southern border of the promised land, with an exceptional spring-of water. Our lesson describes the departure of the Israelites from Mt. Nai, where they had camped nearly eighty yards, giving, in detail the order of the twelve tribes in the route of march. Then comes the charming episode Moses' appeal to his father-in-law Hobab, elsewhere called Jethro, to act as guide. A member of the nomadic clan of Kenites or Midianites, he was thoroughly acquainted with the country through which the chosen people desired to pass. It is evident that he finally yielded to his son-in-law's urgent entreaty, despite his initial blunt refusal. That his services were not forgotten is indicated by Saul's counsel, many years later, to the Kenites to separate themselves from the enemy he was about to attack, because they doubtless through Hobab, had been kind to his own folk. See 1 Samuel 15:6. The Golden Text, "Come thou with us, and we will do thee good," the greeting of Moses to Hobab, is one of the Bible's gracious invitations. Hobab was a foreigner, but he is promised complete equality of treatment. "Come and be a pair of eyes for us," pleads Moses, to quote Moffatt's graphic translation, "and as the Eternal prospers us, so will we prosper you." The Church of God might well make use of the Hobabs outside its fold capable of guiding its thinking into new areas of experiment. Let every household of faith welcome such open arms in the generous affection of the Golden Text. DR. HENRI L. GADDIS CHIROPRACTOR Graduate of and former Faculty member and head of department of technique and clinics. 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