anaheim-gazette 1933-04-20

Beer Occupies Attention of State Press As Sale Becomes Legal; Varied Opinions Prosit! Saluta! Here's mud in your eye! Beer is here, and the long, dusty journey fourteen years long is ended as the nation gathers around the casis from which gushes the amber fluid, viewed by many California editors as indicating that "happy days are here again." Declaring the return of legal beer and wine "gives us the chance to prove that we have grown up," the San Diego Sun adds: "In older countries people rarely drink beer and wine to excess. The mugs and goblets there are emptied as part of the meal, and the meal itself is a social function. Because they have learned temperance they have not had prohibition. Excess breeds a counter-excess. With our increasing leisure wy too may take time to eat and drink together and, perhaps, recapture the fading arts of conversation, wit and philosophic discourse." Pointing out that the modified bill which permits, so far as the federal government is concerned, the sale of beer, is a far cry from the old day of the corner saloon, the Long Beach Press-Telegram said: "Those who favor the legalization of beer must surely realize that conditions which existed prior to the passage of the eighteenth amendment never again will be tolerated. Legalized beer must mean that not only its sale but every transaction related to it must be lawful and without effrontery to common decencies." The celebration which welcomed the return of the beverage was more than a rejoicing for beer, states the San Francisco News, adding: "It is a symbol of our newly recovered freedom, of our right to use what brains and character we possess to decide for ourselves such intimate personal questions as to what we shall drink with our meals. We are once more adults, not children, under the eyes of a prying government." "King Gambrinus" again is clothed with respectability, said the San Rafael Independent, commenting: "It seems strange now that the righteous element banished him to Siberias of smelly back rooms, attached to him sinister characteristics, made him associate with thugs and gangsters. He, who had been the favorite of temperate drinkers, the jolly patron of laughter and song, was suddenly declared a criminal, became the inspiration for murder and corruption and gangsterism ... And let no prohibitionist again advocate placing Gambrinus in chains and restoring another Capone to power." As for the nationwide celebration, the Salinas Index-Journal remarks: "The nation was at play, and after all, the nation has a right to play a little. God knows, there have not been many play themes during the last three or four years. In a little while our beer drinking life will settle down to normal. Those who like it will drink it. Those who prefer hard liquor will return to old habits—if they can, maintain a supply—and those who really prefer a raspberry sundae will order it." "There will, of course," said the El Centro Imperial Valley Press, "be discussion for some days to come on various angles connected with the arrival of beer, but it is due to become a minor topic with considerable swiftness. It is high time we concentrated some of the time given over to beer on other more important things—getting the unemployed back to work, and giving the farmer a decent living, being the two most important." State Buys Birds of Private Group Purchases 7200 Quail and 1800 Pheasants from Private Game Farms Raising quail and pheasants by private parties under permit from the state fish and game commission has been able to purchase 7200 quail, 1800 pheasants from various private game farms in California. The prices paid for these birds means a great saving of money, and will give impetus to the plans of the fish and game authorities to increase upland birds. The program for the year calls for the distribution of more pheasants and quail than have ever been released in one year, and though the two game farms are running to capacity, the number aspired to for distribution would have been below the estimates made at the beginning of the year, had it not been possible to buy at bargain prices these additional birds. The opportunity to purchase 9000 birds completes the allotment for 1933. August Bade, superintendent of game farms, has examined the birds purchased, and pronounced them of fine quality and in perfect condition. The birds will be taken to selected sanctuaries where they will be given complete protection and every encouragement to propagate without molestation. They will be protected from predatory animals and birds on these refuges, and proper feed and sufficient water furnished as the needs develop. It is the aim of the commission this year to turn loose in the upland areas over 15,000 quail. Thousands of acres are being signed up, free of rental, where the birds will have advantage of all natural conditions to increase their numbers. A new feeling for men past Bob Ripley, of "Believe It or Not," fame, is an expert handball player. His left is as good as his right. The chairman of the Connecticut State Board of Fisheries and Game has made public the location of the trout streams which he announced several months ago, would be used exclusively by women anglers. Phil Scott, former British heavyweight champion, has accepted the post of boxing instructor to the Egyptian police. Hunting mountain lions is a popular sport in California. More than 1300 of them have been killed within the past few months. From 1899 to 1913 Frank Gotch, famous wrestler, won 154 matches and lost but six. Philadelphia National League baseball park seats but 18,800. More than 85,000 fans have crowded into Yankee Stadium, New York. Yankee Stadium, New York, home of the world champion Yankees, is to be enlarged to seat 100,000. The Western America Winter Sports Association has recognized Alf Engen's flight of 281 feet as a world distance record for ski jumpers. Ralph Metcalfe, Marquette University Negro sprinter, eclipsed the world indoor record for the sixty-yard dash in the Central Intercollegiate Conference track and field championship at South Bend, Ind., the other day. He won the event in 0.61.1, one-tenth of a second better than the record set by Loren Murchison in 1923. If the owners of the professional baseball teams really want to see larger crowds in their ball parks let them stage field events to determine what time we concentrated some of the time given over to beer on other more important things—getting the unemployed back to work, and giving the farmer a decent living, being the two most important." A new feeling for men past fifty If you've let yourself grow systemically old, here is a way to stimulate yourself without the slightest harm, and, in fact, with effects beneficial to the entire body. This method of stimulating a sluggish system to new life is a doctor's discovery, so no one need hesitate to try it or believe in it. It is a sane, sensible way to keep keenly alive. The only medicine you take is a most likeable and remarkable syrup made with fresh herbs, active senna, and pure pepsin. The benefits are many, and far-reaching. Its immediate effect on the lower bowel gets rid of lingering poisons better than a powerful laxative. In fact, you will need no other laxative if you take an occasional spoonful of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. If you regard yourself in fairly good health now, you might still find after a week or two of this gentle stimulation that you were only in a state of half-health before. It makes an amazing difference in the way one feels, especially at an age when one inclines toward auto-intoxication. (Daily headaches, failing appetite and tiring too easily, are apt to be symptoms of a toxic condition.) Women, too, get decided benefit from a few weeks' regulation with Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. Ralph Metcalfe, Marquette University Negro sprinter, eclipsed the world indoor record for the sixty-yard dash in the Central Intercollegiate Conference track and field championship at South Bend, Ind., the other day. He won the event in 0.61.1, one-tenth of a second better than the record set by Loren Murchison in 1923. If the owners of the professional baseball teams really want to see larger crowds in their ball parks let them stage field events to determine what ball player can encircle the bases in the fastest time, who can throw a ball the greatest distance and who can fungo-hit the furtherest. Imagine the excitement if some bush leaguer should defeat the big leaguers. Eighty colts, thirty-three goldings and five filles comprise the 118 thoroughbreds which have been nominated for the fifty-ninth Kentucky Derby, to be run May 6 at Churchill Downs. Again the race will carry $50,000 in added money and is as usual at a mile and a quarter. Edward W. Dunn, the oldest figure skater in the country, and by no means the least agile, is 78 years of age. The Boston Athletic Association has announced that the thirty-seventh annual marathon run will be held as usual on Patriots' Day, April 19, from Hopkinson to Boston. George H. Corey, well-known Cincinnati sportsman, has presented the writer of this column with a book on games that was printed in London in 1831. The author traces the history of sports to a period long before the birth of Christ. Baron Bela von Kehrling, veteran Hungarian tennis star, collapsed after losing a tennis match—the other day, and physicians said he will never play again. Von Kehrling for years has been champion if his country and No. 1 man in the Hungarian Davis Cup lists. ANAHEIM GAZETTE Indicted Banker An early trial is scheduled for Charles E. Mitchell, resigned chairman of the National City Bank of New York, and now under indictment for income tax evasion. When arraigned Mitchell pleaded not guilty. Consolidated Plant Rebuilt After Fire President L. C. Montgomery of the Consolidated Ice company this week announced that its plant on West Broadway, which was partially destroyed by fire several months ago, has been rebuilt to a point where it will meet the demands for storage of perishable products as well as for demands for ice for this district. In Bed For Month, Frees Wild Cat Pet It all depends on the viewpoint. Clark Clemans, resort owner, recently had to spend four weeks in bed as the result of an injury. He described the cost analysis as Announced Farm Advisor Completes Studies for Third Year On Avocado Production The third year’s analysis on the cost of producing avocados in Orange county has just been completed by the farm advisor’s office. The analysis is based on production costs submitted during the year on 32 representative avocado orchards located principally in the La Habra, Tustin and Yorba Linda districts. In reviewing these cost data before the recent avocado growers institute at La Habra and San Diego, Farm Advisor Harold E. Wahlberg pointed out that the study clearly shows that there is opportunity in some orchards for reduced costs and greater efficiency of operation. He cited the considerable range of costs for the same items reported by avocado growers. For instance, total labor costs ranged from $15.36 per acre to $120.48 per acre. The average cost reported by all the cooperating growers was $47.90 per acre. The high profit orchards spent only $37.56 per acre for labor. It is obvious, then, according to Wahlberg, that there is room for cutting costs when those costs are higher than the average. The range in the cost of materials, including water, fertilizer and bracing materials, was also great, varying from $21.05 per acre, the lowest, to $96.19 per acre, for the highest. The average amount spent by all growers for materials was $55.20 per acre. Avocado yields last year averaged 2192 pounds per acre for the bearing orchards over five years of age. In 1951 the average yield was 3995 pounds per acre. The purpose of the analysis, according to Wahlberg, is to furnish the avocado grower a schedule of costs that he may use as a standard of comparison in studying his own orchard costs and efficiency. The project was initiated four years ago at the request of a large number of growers assembled at the first avocado growers institute held in Orange county under the auspices of the agricultural extension service and the farm bureau. To Court of St. James Robert W. Bingham, publisher of the Louisville, Ky. Courier-Journal has sailed for England to become the United States Ambassador at the Court of St. James, replacing Andrew W. Mellon. The Farmer's Corner By Ralph H. Taylor Secretary Agricultural Legislative Committee The economy budget projected by the assembly ways and means committee and now pending before the state legislature, while it undoubtedly represents a sincere attempt on the part of the committee to meet the state’s financial emergency, affords striking illustration of the danger involved in hurried legislation and “star chamber” sessions. In the main, the budget shows a commendable desire to cut state expenditures to a point commensurate with the ability of the people to pay. There can be no quarrel with the committee’s objective: in fact, California farmers, among the first to demand that state costs be heavily trimmed, will applaud the apparently genuine attempt to effect drastic retrenchment. But in the results achieved, agriculture, together with many other groups sin- In Bed For Month, Frees Wild Cat Pet It all depends on the viewpoint. Clark Clemans, resort owner, recently had to spend four weeks in bed as the result of an injury. Remembering the month of confinement, Clemans' first act on getting up was to open the cage in which he had kept a wild cat for more than a year as a tourist attraction. Finds Old Bottle Had 2.75 Per Cent With the advent of 3.2 percent beer, W. W. Ackerman of Gerber recalled that he had put away a bottle of beer at the time the country went dry. Dusting off the bottle hidden in an old truck, the label revealed it had been bottled in 1919 and had an alcoholic content of 2.75 per cent. Slight Decrease In Tourists Seen During the first three months of this year a total of 71,971 out-of-state motor tourists arrived in Southern California via Blythe, Daggett, Yuma and Verno gateways in 26,017 cars, a decrease of only 2.4 per cent over the corresponding period last year. These figures were compiled by the California state agricultural department as a result of inspecting every car entering through the southern gateways. Beekeepers Plan Apiary Studies Beekeepers of Orange county hold their annual spring field day Friday, April 21, at 2:00 P.M., at the Bay Bishop ranch, south of Orange. This announcement comes from C. P. Cash, chairman of the beekeepers department of the farm bureau. Usually, about 100 honey producers attend the demonstrations, according to Farm Advisor Harold E. Wahlberg, who is cooperating with the Beekeepers committee in arranging the program, which will include discussions on marketing honey, apiary management, and a report of honey conditions in Orange county, an dother sections of the south. 4-H CLUB RANGES CATTLE Wyfy up in the Rocky Mountains in an unfenced cattle ranging valley would seem to be the last place to find a 4-H club doing business, but there is one serving a splendid pose in the North Park basin in Jackson county. Entrance to the basin is made over the highest passes in the Rockies. It is so high that frost can be seen most any summer morning. Cattle raising is the main industry of the basin, and it is almost entirely a grazing proposition. Despite this, the herds have been greatly improved through the selection of the best animals for breeding purposes, use of purebred sires, and application of other methods. The 4-H club was organized with some assistance from State Club Leader C. W. Ferguson of the Colorado State College to instruct the ranch boys and girls in the ways of improving the herds. Three years ago the club got under way with 12 boys and 3 girls as members. Each secured a heifer calf from their father, as the club project was to teach members how to build up high class producing herds. This was the major problem in the cattle business of the valley. As all of the herds range free it was necessary for the club members, the same as the ranchers, to brand their animals. One of the first things they did was to apply to the brand inspection office of the state at Denver for an official brand and have it registered. This establishes ownership to an animal anywhere in the range country or at a livestock market. As an old cattleman had registered the 4-H (Four-bar-H) brand years before, the club had to orchestrate over five years of age. In 1931 the average yield was 3995 pounds per acre. The purpose of the analysis, according to Wahlberg, is to furnish the avocado grower a schedule of costs that he may use as a standard of comparison in studying his own orchard costs and efficiency. The project was initiated four years ago at the request of a large number of growers assembled at the first avocado growers institute held in Orange county under the auspices of the agricultural extension service and the farm bureau. The cost and efficiency bulletin has proved very popular. It is available upon request at the farm advisor's office, Santa Ana. Drafted largely behind closed doors, in executive committee meetings, the fundamental weaknesses of the ways and means committee budget are the weaknesses of hurried action, and lack of cooperation with many industries and agencies affected. Working against time and harried by political pressure from interested groups, the committee handled itself in an attempt to work tree from interference. But following this course, it sacrificed competent coats on many problems and violated a basic rule of democratic government that the interests of the people are paramount and that the people have right to their day in court. The results of this "star chamber" policy, a policy which has become all too general in state business, lay seen in many inconsistencies. Irregular and inequalities which are evident in the budget set-up. There is a wide disparity for instance, in cuts permitted for various departments of government with some agencies suffering slashes as high as 50 per cent and others escaping with 20 per cent reduction. As culture, for example was cut 14 per cent of its general fund appropriation, as compared with less than 24 per cent cuts in controlled external funds of government generally. Even more serious from this point of good government was the committee's apparent refusal to send all director complete executive projects with the result that politically minded department heads were "hunched up" their budget requests escaped with lower reductions than the directors who cut their requests drastically in an attempt to deal honestly and fairly with the committee. In the face of emergency conditions which call for the fastest measure of sincerity and honesty in government, California farmers can be proud that Director A. A. Grock of the state department of agriculture came before the committee with clean hands and recommended cuts in his department budget of more than $1,000,000. Agriculture, on the other hand, may perhaps question whether it pays to make an honest and open attempt to economize, in view of the action of the announcement comes from C. W. Cash, chairman of the beekeepers department of the farm bureau. Usually, about 100 honey producers attend the demonstrations, according to Farm Advisor Harold E. Waliberg, who is cooperating with the Beekeepers committee in arranging the program, which will include discussions on marketing honey, apiary management, and a report of honey conditions in Orange county, an dother sections of the south. "Quake" Proves To Be Lover's Case Raymond Harris asked San Francisco police to investigate the "earthquake" in his apartment house. They found Chris Montero, nigro, chasing his 250-pound sweetheart in the building. Governor of Alaska John W. Troy, publisher of the Alaska Daily Empire at Juneau is the new Governor of Alaska. He is a native of Washington State and has been in Alaska since the gold rush days. His nomination was sent to the Senate by President Roosevelt. 3 Building Permits For Quake Damage Building Inspector R. Nyboe late last week issued three permits: Knights of Pythias lodge for repair of building from earthquake damage, estimated cost $1000; H. D. Cook, building at 1124 West Chestnut, $100; Mrs. Belle Tedrick, for house at 111 East Valencia street, $75. 3 Peace Officers Believe In Peace Police officers of three counties were enjoying their regular monthly dinner meeting in a Santa Cruz restaurant. A sniffer accidently touched off the burglary alarm in the bank across the street. Not an officer appeared. In all of the herds range free it was necessary for the club members, the same as the ranchers, to brand their animals. One of the first things they did was to apply to the brand inspection office of the state at Denver for an official brand and have it registered. This establishes ownership to an animal anywhere in the range country or at a livestock market. As an old cattleman had registered the 4-H (Four-bar-H) brand years before, the club had to adopt another brand to go with their individual brand. They chose the 4|H brand, of four-slash-H, as it is called in rancher language. Members of the club have had plenty to do. They study disease control, how to dehorn and vaccinate. Learn judging and the history of the beef breeds. They ride 40 or more miles on some of their tours to study cattle raising problems. They also learn how to select and fit show animals and to show them. They go to market and see how animals are sold, and how they kill out. Their parents are strong for the club. The committee's additional cut totaled $471.424 in the agricultural department, including the elimination of many services which might cost the agricultural industry millions of dollars in losses. Among the committee's cuts which fall in the category of short-sighted economy were perial or complete elimination of citrus white fly eradication work, rodent control, bulbonic plague control, the banon of plant pathology, seed inspection, meat inspection and many other essential services. Agriculture faced with potential losses which might well run in to many millions as a result of these recommendations, probably will lead its safe guard in the state Senate, composed largely of members from rural and agricultural areas. Four Sheepskins For Johnson Home There'll be no dearth of sheepskins at the Axel Johnson home in Orland this year. Wilbur Johnson, oldest son graduates from University of California in May; Kenneth, his brother, and bernies, a sister, receive their diplomas from Chico state teachers college in June. Gerald Johnson, the youngest son of the family, completes his term at the local high school this spring. Bill Would Limit Use of Firearms Increasing Number of Accidents by Children Given as Reason for Measure Alarmed at the increasing number of casualties caused by firearms in the hands of children, Assemblyman Charles W. Dempster, Los Angeles, has introduced in the assembly a bill intended to safeguard against such accidents. Dempster's measure would prohibit the use or possession of any firearm by any person 16 years of age or under. "The number of accidents—fatal and otherwise—that have occurred increasingly during the last years due to careless use or handling of a gun in the hands of children should be stopped," Dempster said. "Children under 16 years of age should not be allowed to handle guns nor should they be able to get possession of them through carelessness. Daily the papers record where a child has slain or wounded another child or person through inability to realize they were handling a deadly weapon. My bill will go a long way in safeguarding lives." The measure excludes from its provision military schools where possession of a firearm is part of a course of training. It already has the endorsement of a number of members of the assembly and has been reported favorably by the committee on crime problems of which Miss Eleanor Miller, Pasadena, is chairman. Included in endorsements from throughout the state are letters from police officials, women's clubs, parent-teachers' associations district attorneys and numerous welfare organizations. District Attorney Buron Fits of Los Angeles county writes: "May I emphatically state that I favor the measure and as a matter of fact wish the deadly weapons act could be made much stronger, not only with reference to children but adults as California still is one of the healthiest places in the world for babies. A report of the state department of public health reveals that the infant mortality rate for the state took another drop in 1932 when there were 145 infant deaths compared to 1699 in 1931. The drop in the rate was from 56.5 per thousand live births to 52.8 last year. In Orange county, there were 187 infant deaths last year as compared to 192 in 1931 according to state records. Lower infant mortality rates prevailed in 1932 among all races except Indian, Chinese and Japanese," the department reported. "The rate for white infants fell from 41.8 to 40 in 1932; for Negro infants from 71.2 to 58.6; for Mexican infants from 127.1 in 1931 to 118.9 in 1932. "The determination of the Mexican decreased rate was undoubtedly influenced by the extensive migration of Mexicans to their native country." Segregated by races, the infant deaths were as follows: White, 2,332; Negro, 39; Indian, 51; Chinese, 48; Japanese, 89; Mexican, 1,357, and others, 27. The general rate established in the state as a whole was bettered by many California cities, including the following: Oakland, 40; Alameda, 34.8; Berkeley, 24.8; Richardson, 42.8; Fresno, 49.8; Long Beach, 36.1; Pasadena, 34; Glendale, 26.4; Sacramento, 46.7; San Diego, 17.2; San Francisco, 39.4; Santa Barbara, 36.3; San Jose, 33.2, and Palo Alto, 22.3. From these statistics it would appear that children born in cities such as Palo Alto and Berkeley, both of which incidentally are university cities, have a better chance to live than other infants insmuch as the death rates for these communities are less than half." Miss Eleanor Miller, Pasadena, is chairman. Included in endorsements from throughout the state are letters from police officials, women's clubs, parent-teachers associations district attorneys and numerous welfare organizations. District Attorney Buron Fits of Los Angeles county writes: "May I emphatically state that I favor the measure and as a matter of fact wish the deadly weapons act could be made much stronger, not only with reference to children but adults as well." From these statistics it would appear that children born in cities such as Palo Alto and Berkeley, both of which incidentally are university cities, have a better chance to live than other infants insmuch as the death rates for these communities are less than half of the rate of the state as a whole. Everything Good That Goes With BEER Our meals are more tasty than ever. With them we serve Real Beer! On draught when we can get it, otherwise by the bottle. We have Blatz for those preferring premium beer. 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