anaheim-gazette 1933-03-02

2560 Illiterate Persons In Orange County, While State’s Total Is Less Than 125,000 2.6 Per Cent of Population of County Cannot Read or Write; Addition of Mexicans to “Other Races” Brings That Class Much Higher In Illiteracy Tests; Border Problem Cited In California only 26 out of every 1,000 persons are unable to read or write. This is one of the lowest illiteracy records of any state in the union. Ten years ago 33 out of every 1,000 Californians were illiterate, according to Secretary of State Frank C. Jordan, who has just received results of a recent federal study. Of nearly 5,000,000 persons in the Golden State who are more than 10 years of age, the number unable to read or write is less than 125,000, the report showed. In Orange county were found 2,560 illiterate persons, or approximately 2.6 per cent of the county’s population. The great increase in persons classed as "other races" in the illiteracy total is due to the fact that 10 years ago Mexicans, who now comprise 6.5 per cent of California's population, were for the most part classed with foreign-born whites or native whites of foreign and mixed parentage. During the recent census they were given separate classifications, Jordan explained. Now, however, they are included under the head of "other races." Several states have lower illiteracy rates than California, but these do not border on a foreign country. The rates ranges from eight-tenths per cent in Iowa to 14.9 per cent in South Carolina. Of the 4,283,753 illiterates in the United States, 2,407,918 are white, 1,513,892 are negroes and the remainder placed under the general head of "other races." Turn Cover Crop Under By March Farm Advisor Tells Reasons Why Succulent Growth Better Officials Tell Of State Costs (Continued from page 1) selfish minorities continue to dictate how you shall spend your money for services that in themselves are good but of direct benefit only to minorities, then all you have to do is let the minorities speak louder than the majorities. The legislators are making an honest effort to reduce expenses. They are being thwarted by organized minorities. If you want expenses slashed, communicate with your assemblyman and senator and tell them so.” Differences of opinion rose on several issues. Merriam thought a gross turnover plan would bring enough money to provide the state its present or greater budget. He figured it would relieve taxation on real estate, place equal although pyramiding costs on all business transactions, and "like the gas tax, would be painless.” Subsequent speakers landed on Merriam's "painless" tax with both feet. Koster declared: "We must beware of anything that savors of painlessness in taxation for the good and sufficient reason that state expenditures would continue to rise under such a plan, and the taxpayer would be bled still more. I believe the most sensible thing we Turn Cover Crop Under By March Farm Advisor Tells Reasons Why Succulent Growth Better Than Fiber Content By HAROLD E. WAHLBERG, Farm Advisor Cover crops that are allowed to continue growth in citrus or avocado orchards from now on become a definite source of competition for moisture and fertility. As a general rule, the winter cover crop should be worked under during February or not later than March 1, in order to attain its greatest value to the orchard during the current season. The growth will break down and decompose more readily when it is in a succulent condition, and may be counted on as a substantial substitute for about two tons of manure where a good growth has been obtained. The cover crop, if properly handled, has a leavening effect on the soil that is not obtained by the application of organic or mineral fertilizers. There is some attribute to the growing plants and roots that furnish soil reactions favorable to making plant nutrients available to the orchard trees. If the cover crop is allowed to mature and become woody, it decomposes more slowly. One or two years may be required to change it to available plant food. The succulent form, which disappears rapidly in the soil, is available during the present growing season. Some growers think this a loss. To the contrary, it is a decided advantage. There is no merit in having considerable quantities of fibrous material visible on the ground, as a result of over maturing the cover crop. Only in heavy soils that are very slow to dry out in the spring should the cover crop be tolerated after March 1. And this is the lesser evil in comparison to the damage that might accrue from excessive moisture in the root zone. Due to the deeper rooting habits of the walnut tree, the cover crop does not become such a competing factor in the spring. The cover crop in the walnut grove may be continued another month therefore, if it needs more time to acquire maximum tonnage. Usually the walnut cover crop is planted a month or two after the citrus cover crop. Subsequent speakers landed on Merriam's "painless" tax with both feet. Koster declared: "We must beware of anything that savors of painlessness in taxation for the good and sufficient reason that state expenditures would continue to rise under such a plan, and the taxpayer would be bled still more. I believe the most sensible thing we could do would be to force every citizen of California to pay in gold by personal appearance before the tax collector, every cent of taxes. That simple act would focus his attention upon the extreme costs of government, and cause him to ponder over whether or not he is getting full value for what he is paying." Professor Munroe said: "It does not matter how you raise your tax money, it eventually comes from you and me, the average taxpayer and average citizen. We might try to 'soak the rich,' but we will pay the bills just the same. What I would like to see is less money spent by the state. I'm willing to have less government to get less taxes." Bush and Cobb gave a detailed report of the studies of their committees, which are reported state government does everything from exchange milk bottles to teach contract bridge," elsewhere in this issue. They stressed the necessity of cutting general government expense, and came face to face with the issue of either changing the tax law to raise more revenue, or cutting the fixed expenses. Vandegrift pointed to the last 44 pages of the budget recommendations of Government Rolph, stating that they contained what in his mind were the most important issues before the people of California. "Here we have offered us a plan to reduce government costs to the point where an ad valorem tax, or any increased taxes whatever is obviated. Here is a plan being followed out in part by the committees of the senate and assembly in that portion providing for a drastic cut of general operating expenses. But, in order to bring disbursements within state income, we must go into the vast field of fixed charges. We are cutting from 25 to 35 per cent on every controllable item in the state government. If we cut 20 per cent, less than that of other departments, in the vast assemblage of fixed charges, shift the surplus from the highway to the general fund for the purpose of paying highway bond interest and redemption, and make a few more common sense adjustments, we can balance the budget without increasing our taxes. "To change the fixed charges of the state in matters of education, etc., Napa Plumber Takes Old Hen for a Ride When James Thompson, Napa plumber, drove into town the other night, he took along an unexpected passenger. One of his hens had perched on the bumper, and made the trip safely. "Stonewall" Kin The first kin of Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson ever to reach stardom in moving pictures is a great-great-granddaughter, Miss Gretchen Wilson of Alexandria, La., 19 years old. She has just signed a staring contract. 5 Bask at Haven of Forgotten Men Five men who appeared before Superior Judge James Allen last Friday for sentence following conviction on charges of burglary and robbery, now are mere numbers in that haven of forgotten men, San Quentin. Carleton E. Lawton, Clyde Pierce and Harold Pierce pleaded guilty to robbery of the E. D. Wood Lumber company safe at the Huntington Beach office. They were denied probation and sent up from one to five years. Francisco Ramerez and Eligah Morales withdrew their applications for probation and were sentenced to San Quentin. 2 Burglars Must Year In Bastile On condition that they serve one year in the county jail, Roy Trumble, 40, of Whittier, and his uncle, Cliff Trumble, 55, former Los Angeles county deputy sheriff, Monday received suspended sentences to San Quentin, on burglary charges. Probation was refused Friday by Judge James Allen. The pair admitted entering the home of Robert Knights at San Clemente. Lauds Newspapers For Aiding Drive Hats off to the newspaper publishers and printers of California. They are doing more than their share of encouraging "buy at home" campaigns, coupled with unemployment relief. So declares Justus F. Craemer, co-publisher of the Orange Daily News, and president of the National Editorial association. "Newspapers drive home to the public the necessity of patronizing home merchants as a means of minimizing unemployment, and see a veritable swarm of racketeers preying on local advertising appropriations," said Mr. Craemer. "Novelty salesmen, feature stunts and a dozen other rackets take advertising funds from the local community. Printing goes to out-of-town shops while home presses stand idle and home payrolls disappear." Corrective steps can be taken if the merchant is shown that the advertising dollar spent with the home newspaper is returned more directly into the community than any other dollar, he added. A New York department store is selling an electric penell with which it is possible to write indelibly upon practically anything. You can inscribe your signature upon drinking glasses, plates, book covers, pipes, keys, wallets, watch cases. Windbreak Tour Slated Monday Farm Advisor Wahlberg To Be In Charge of Group to Study Windbreak Benefits A second field tour to study and observe the benefits of windbreaks has been arranged by the agricultural extension service, in response to many requests received since the recent winds. The tour will be held in the Orange and Villa Park districts next Monday afternoon, March 6, at 2:00 p.m., starting at the W. W. Perry orchard located on Collins avenue about one-fourth mile east of Tustin avenue. This location is about one mile north and one mile east of Orange. C. A. Palmer, president of the Foothill farm center, and Holmes Bishop, chairman of the citrus department of the Orange county farm bureau, are cooperating with the extension service in pointing out the value of windbreaks in exposed areas. They urge the attendance of all growers who are interested in the planting or management of windbreaks for orchard protection. Farm Advisor Harold E. Wahlberg will be in charge of the field tour. Several stops will be made to study various types of breaks, including eucalyptus, cypress and artificial wooden breaks. Some of the phases of windbreak management that will be discussed will be type of seedlings, varieties, distance in the row, distance from property lines, root cutting, fertilization and irrigation of windbreaks. Influence of height and effect on quality production will also be reviewed by the farm advisor, who collected considerable data on windbreak protection in Orange county. Poison Found In Colorado River State Conducts Varied Function (Continued from page 1) Out of every dollar earned in the state, 30 cents goes to pay costs of government. State highway department has surplus of $9,000,000, which cannot be used to pay $8,000,000 highway bond interest and redemption, which comes out of a general fund. On June 30, the state will have a deficit of $9,000,000. Fixed charges of state constitution will equal estimated income for new biennium, under present tax law. General budget already slashed 25 percent, with a total cut of 40 per cent looming. Proposals that schools, and other fixed charge divisions take a per cent cut in operating cost me with smoke-screen arguments. A per cent cut on fixed charges, combining with proposed cuts on general government... A New York department store is selling an electric pencll with which it is possible to write indelibly upon practically anything. You can inscribe your signature upon drinking glasses, plates, book covers, pipes, keys, wallets, watch cases. If the elevators in the Empire State Building here could be put end to end they would reach seven miles into the air. If you look long enough in New York you will see women wearing spats. Evidently in times of depression New Yorkers go to the zoo. More than three million persons visited the New York Zoological Park last year, the largest number since the opening of the park in 1899. New York harbor has again been visited by its friendly whale, a familiar figure known to pilots through the ragged white scar on his back and affectionately called "Spud." Seven hundred black ducks from Canada have decided to make the New York Zoological Park their home where there is plenty to eat. It costs $90 a month to feed them. It takes 67 feet of space to list the Browns in the New York City directory. Fourth street is about half a mile south of Thirteenth street and those two crosstown thoroughfares, of course, run parallel to each other when they cross Broadway. Yet in the Greenwich Village section you can stand at the corner. And if you want to walk from Thirteenth to Twelfth street along Fourth street you will walk four blocks before you get there. Unemployed architects are serving as sight-seeing guides in New York. There is a taxi-cab driver in New York with diamonds in his teeth. One New York hotel asks its guests and patrons not to tip the hat room girls. "It's not the original cost but the upkeep," will no longer apply to hats and coats if all hotels here adopt the same rule. Poison Found In Colorado River Presence of a poisonous chemical substance called fluorine in Colorado river water offers the latest problem confronting the thirteen city members of the Metropolitan Water District. Anaheim, Orange and Santa Ana are Orange county members of the district. This poison, according to proof offered by Dr. Margaret Cammack Smith, and her husband, Professor Howard D. Smith, both of the University of Arizona, and Dr. Frederick S. McKay of the New York Academy of Dentistry, works irreparable damage through mottling of permanent teeth during the formative period. These experts pointed out that in certain cities and towns along the Virgin river of Nevada which empties into the Colorado above Hoover dam, 100 per cent of native persons are affected by this mottling, which damages the calcified area of the teeth, offering permanent disfigurement. The experts offered slides and proof of studies extending back as far as 25 years to show that the drinking water caused this deformation. In some instances the mottling becomes stained, in others it remains a chalky white. Most of the testimony offered, however, concerned the Gila and San Pedro river areas in Arizona, which empty into the Colorado below the dam, from which the 13 Southern California cities propose to take their drinking water. The experts outlined their studies before the directors of the California Taxpayers' association Wednesday afternoon in Los Angeles. Consulting engineer Lewis Clark Stubbins submitted his preliminary report, which surveyed the findings of the experts in the last two years. The association went on record as arising a suspension of aqueduct work pending a study of the Colorado river water to determine whether or not it would be injurious to future generations who used it. In the resolution as adopted the association declared that no blame can be attached to the present authorities of the Metropolitan Water District because discovery of the cause of mottling is so recent, within the past two years, and the studies so incomplete as yet that they had no on- Unemployed architects are serving as sight-seeing guides in New York. There is a taxi-cab driver in New York with diamonds in his teeth. One New York hotel asks its guests and patrons not to tip the hat room girls. "It's not the original cost but the upkeep," will no longer apply to hats and coats if all hotels here adopt the same rule. At 22 West 17th Street is the Depression Cafe. New York has a Prosperity Emblem Corporation, a Prosperity Laundry, Prosperity Textile Corporation and prosperity this and that. General, famous Indian peacock at the New York Bronx zoo, got ambitious the other day and flew into a den occupied by grizzly bears. That's the whole story. There's no more peacock. An army of starlings birds, estimated at 50,000 made a night sanctuary of the exterior of the Metropolitan Museum of Art here, the other night. Naturalists declare that vast conclave of birds here to be one of the most curious phenomena ever witnessed in New York City. For five years Central Park police have watched a certain character occupy the same bench in the park. The other day he was missing. Investigation showed that the man had been ejected from his room for not paying his rent. He stayed away from the park to find another place to live. A recent Tuesday was the 100th anniversary of the purchase by the United States of the last of three parcels of land upon which stands the old Sub-Treasury Building on the northeast corner of Wall and Nassau Streets. The Government usually finds the patriotic societies up in arms at every suggestion to sell the property and is reported to have refused an offer of $15,000,000 for it some years ago. Editor King Tells Faith In Anaheim Editor John E. King of the Hemet News told members of the Anaheim Merchants and Manufacturers' association at their regular luncheon-meeting Wednesday at the Pickwick hotel that the future of the United States depends upon typical American communities like Anaheim, "and smaller." He declared that the depression has taught us how to enjoy life. He pointed to present-day co-operative campaigns carried on by merchants as illustrative of a new era, replacing the old competitive, almost antagonistic attitude. President Harold Keirsey presided over the meeting, when members passed a resolution urging Washington officials to hire local architects, contractors and other workers in connection with construction of the proposed new $100,000 federal building. Avocado Growers To Meet March 10 Authorities Secured as Speakers at Institute to be Held at La Habra Authoritative speakers have been secured to present data on the various problems confronting the avocado industry at the annual institute to be held at La Habra on March 10. Austin Marshburn, Yorba Linda, chairman of the avocado department of the farm bureau, reports that his committees have completed all arrangements for the day, including luncheon facilities and parking. The sessions will be held in the auditorium of the Washington grammar school, starting at 9:30 a.m. Mayor F. E. Proud of La Habra will welcome the visiting avocado growers from all parts of Southern California. La Habra is often called the avocado capitol of Southern California. The present status of the industry will be reviewed by J. G. France, farm advisor of San Diego county. Harold E. Wahlberg, farm advisor of Orange county, has been invited to summarize the production costs of avocado culture in the three-year analysis just completed by his office. The subject of his talk, based on data compiled in Orange county, is "Increasing Profits by Reducing Costs." A dialogue between George B. Hodgkin, general manager of the Calavo Growers association, and Edwin Humason, sales manager of the same organization, will present the marketing problems before the industry at the present time. The discussion will be in form of questions and answers. Other speakers scheduled include J. R. Brown, University of California irrigation specialist; C. H. Richards, La Habra Mutual Water company; H. L. McKenzie, entomologist; Dr. W. T. Horne, pathologist; and W. R. Schoonover, specialist. According to chairman Marshburn, over 500 growers are expected to attend the Institute. Kiwanians Sponsor Work All over the nation Kiwanis Clubs are sponsoring programs for 4-H club members. It has been found one of the best ways to promote better relations between the towns and rural sections. The Kiwanians sponsor achievement days, county fairs for 4-H exhibits, harvest festivals, and county picnics. They help club members buy livestock, seed and other things they require to carry on projects. They award trips to state meets; and in many other ways do a fine service to 4-H members. The Chicago Kiwanis club turned over the entire program of their meeting held during the National Club Congress week in their city to 4-H club leaders and members. It is to be done next year, the members decided after the innovation. State club leader L. I. Frisbie of Nebraska, a Kiwanian told the Chicago members of some of the fine things Kiwanis Clubs were doing over the country to aid the 4-H program. The Kiwanians of Rensselaer county, New York, closed up their ninth year of cooperation with 4-H clubs with a big meeting attended by 100 club members. They awarded the best club grower a prize trip to the state club congress, and $5 prizes to a number of other growers. The Kiwanians of LaPorte county, Ind., entertained about 125 club members, parents and guests at the annual meeting closing up the potato improvement program which they carried on the past year. It is the eighth year, and it has yielded mahy good results for town and country alike. It has helped to keep enrollment up, which was nearly 800 boys and girls in the year. President Frohme of the local Kiwanis Club pointed out that the county does not yet produce enough potatoes to supply itself, which shows that this activity can be continued for... LIBBY Peaches SLICED or CLINGS No. 2½ can 10c Yes, He Got Away With $95 Cold Cash A thief that broke into W. Devenham's home in Sacramento got away with $95 in cold cash. The money was hid in the family refrigerator. Crisco 3-1lb. can 49c With Upsidedown Cake Pan FREE! 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