anaheim-gazette 1935-02-21

Mothers Asked to Look On Inside of Father’s Pockets Only Explanation Left For the Reason Why More Babies Cards Aren’t Sent In "Hey Ma! Look in dad's pocket for your unmailed card." That is advice Special U. S. Agent Walter B. Carter shouted at mothers throughout California this week, among them being the 55 per cent of the families in Orange county who have failed to answer birth registration requests sent out several weeks ago by Uncle Sam. Orange county's returns to date are only 45 per cent of the registered births of 1934, 782 replying when local records show that 1734 babies were born for the same period. However, Orange is only one of more than half the counties of the state where returns aren't any too satisfactory, in the opinion of Agent Carter. There have been but 31,098 cards sent in for 75,229 registered births, when the purpose of the survey was to register all the unregistered babies of the year. In about half the 58 of the state, Carter points out, returns have been only satisfactory, while in some of the others, as the Hollywood film directors would say, it is "lousy". The only answer he can suggest is to blame it on dad, and accuse him of forgetting to mail the card handed him three weeks ago when "it rained." HAWKEYES WILL PICNIC Iowans will hold their annual winter picnic reunion in Lincoln Park, Los Angeles, all day Saturday, February 23, or if rainy that day, one week Teague Estimates Freeze Hits Third of Florida’s Crop Declares Enormous New Acreage Was Coming In Production The extent of the loss of citrus fruit in Florida from the freeze of last December will probably never be known for the reason that there was an enormous crop and so much young acreage that it would be surprising if the crop had exceeded estimates by 25 per cent, according to C. C. Teague, president of the California Fruit Growers Exchange, who has just returned from an extended inspection tour of Florida citrus districts. "The government estimate of Florida fruit to go after January 27th was 3,600,000 boxes of grapefruit and 3,100,-000 boxes of oranges. Another carefully made estimate indicated about 6,000,000 boxes total after January 20th," said Mr. Teague. "I will hazard the opinion that the freeze will affect the Florida citrus crops considerably for some years, probably more severely than growers and shippers think," he said. "My reasons are that the effect of frost damaged citrus wood is always more serious than is first apparent and that badly frozen wood never recovers. It will be expensive to remove frozen wood and keep down fungus growth. "Any estimate of next year's Florida production is a guess and my guess would be a crop one-third less than it would have been had there been no freeze," said Mr. Teague. In any case, he believes that the competition from Florida will be difficult enough and that there is little immedi- HAWKEYES WILL PICNIC Iowans will hold their annual winter picnic reunion in Lincoln Park, Los Angeles, all day Saturday, February 23, or, if rainy that day, one week later, March 2. Rev. I. N. Demy says: I have found nothing in the past 20 years that can take the place of Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills. They are a sure relief for my headache." Sufferers from Headache, Neuralgia, Toothache, Backache, Sciatica, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Neuritis, Muscular Palms, Periodic Pains, write that they have used Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills with better results than they had even hoped for. Countless American housewives would no more think of keeping house without Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills than without flour or sugar. Keep a package in your medicine cabinet and save yourself needless suffering. At Drug Stores—25c and $1.00 DR. MILES' ANTI-PAIN PILLS Now! TEN BIG DAYS AND NIGHTS National ORANGE SHOW Any estimate of next year's Florida production is a guess and my guess would be a crop one-third less than it would have been had there been no freeze," said Mr. Teague. In any case, he believes that the competition from Florida will be difficult enough and that there is little immediate hope of effective cooperation of Florida shippers in distribution either among themselves or with California. "We must meet this competition in Atlantic seaboard territory and maintain our share of the business," he said. "The greatest problem of the Florida citrus industry is marketing, notwithstanding their low cultural costs and low transportation cost due to proximity to the great population centers. The industry is in the hands of commercial operators. The leaders have little conception of the cooperative movement as we understand it here. There are over 150 shippers, not counting innumerable truck operators, who buy from growers and packers. Their major interest is in making a profit from packing and shipping, and of course they sometimes make profits even when growers do not. "There are 33,201 commercial citrus properties in Florida. The bearing acreage is 300,320 and non-bearing, 41,400, all varieties. Citrus is grown in 35 counties of which 10 counties have over 10,000 acres each, 5 counties over 15,000 acres, 4 over 20,000 acres. Lake and Orange counties have 34,000 acres each and Polk county; 90,000. "Orange acreage is 66% of the total, but orange production only 51.7%. Grapefruit acreage is 26.6% and production 41.7% of the total. Tangerines represent about 7 per cent of acreage and production." MONTANA PICNIC Montanans will hold their annual picnic reunion Friday, February 22 at Sycamore Grove park, Los Angeles. If it rains that day, the picnic will be held Sunday, March 10, instead. Today's reservoirs the storing of water and the grandchild grandchildren will has completely nu that this generation grandest attempt serve water-the Bo mammoth storage billion acre feet o man doesn't do so the watershed above Good men have let let's see if that of facts. Nature years to tear down a valley. Laborio century after century ing the rocks into fine soil with decay life. Ten thousand in building up just productive top soil forefathers found earth we farm to the ages, and by the heritage of the turn rich fertile less, bankrupt far Good men mostingly robbed them They say, "It's isn't farmed outfertile top soil ha by the uncontrol away in the wind tation of the land natural channels and that was meant the rains down earth has been p and robbed of its roots and grass sa it away a million mixed with salt o The result? S acre corn land bushel-an-acre la Now! TEN BIG DAYS AND NIGHTS National ORANGE SHOW SAN BERNARDINO • FEB. 21 to MAR. 3 THE Silver Anniversary MORE FEATURES ENTERTAINMENT ATTRACTIONS Food Show—Industrial Show—State Fish and Game Display Citrus Experiment Station Exhibit—19 Feature Displays Gorgeous Rack Displays MILE LONG HISTORICAL PAGEANT SATURDAY FEB. 23rd 20 AMERICAN LEGION DRUM & BUGLE CORPS PARADE SUNDAY ~ MARCH 3rd Greater HORSE SHOW De Luxe Harness Horses—Jumpers—Roadsters—Saddle Horses Polo Ponies in a Great Exhibition of Horsemanship Western America’s Finest Show Horses on Parade in a Comfortable Indoor Arena—12 Performances THE GREATEST EXHIBITION IN THE HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL ORANGE SHOW California's Greatest Midwinter Event "Let's Go to the Orange Show" SAN BERNARDINO • FEB. 21 to MAR. 3 PACIFIC ELECTRIC MOTOR TRANSIT Direct to Grounds ANAHEIM GAZETTE GOOD MEN HAVE ROBBED THEIR CHILDREN BY HARRY E. REDDICK, REGIONAL DIRECTOR, U.S. SOIL EROSION SERVICE OF CALIFORNIA AND CHAS. D. JARRETT Can you stand just one little spoonful of facts and figures? It will be a bitter dose, if you stop to think about it, but Dr. Nature says take it, or the dose will be ten times as large and far brighter when you children have to swallow it. Erosion is taking the equivalent of all the good soil in the state of Rhode Island out of the country every year. Every four years the Mississippi river alone dumps enough good rich earth into the Gulf of Mexico to cover Rhode Island four feet deep; or in other words 1,250 good, rich, 160-acre farms go floating down and out into the ocean—and are gone forever. Men are digging reservoirs to hold water, but erosion laughs at them. In 20 years many of today's reservoirs will be useless for the storing of water because of silting, and the grandchildren of your own grandchildren will find that erosion has completely nullified all the effort that this generation has put into the grandest attempt ever made to conserve water—the Boulder Dam, with its mammoth storage capacity of over 30 billion acre feet of water, that is if man doesn't do something to protect the watershed above the dam. Good men have robbed their children most precious possession—the top soil. Horace Greeley is remembered for his wiser crack "Go West, young man" more than he is for many finer things he said in his life. It was good advice back in the seventies, when there were rich prairies waiting for the pioneer to string out his oxen and turn a furrow across the fenceless plain, but where, oh where is the young man to go today? That is the catch. He isn't going anywhere, because practically all of the good land is taken up. When Horace gave his well-meant advice men could afford to waste the life of a piece of land in a few years, and tens of thousands of them did. The remedy then was to coax their family into a covered wagon, call the dogs and head westward. Six months later they could be sole owners of a sod house and fields of belly-deep grain that stretched far away toward the horizon, but "them days" are gone forever. Today the farmer who has a good farm is perfectly willing to stay put, and if anybody talks about his moving it is usually the banker or the sheriff. That very same thief that came with the rain and caused the farmers of the seventies to take Greeley's advice and "Go West" is working away at stealing One-tenth of All People In State Get SERA Relief Magnitude of Problem Seen As 659,239 Persons Get Unemployment Help The magnitude of the unemployment with which the SERA deals is indicated by the fact that the average number of persons who received unemployment relief in California for the four-month period July-October, 1934, was 595,185, or over ten per cent of the population of the state, as shown by 1930 census, according to Dr. N. Gregory Silvermaster, SERA director of research & surveys. To provide these people with the necessities of life, over five million dollars was being spent by the federal, state and local government, per month. In November, 1934, 659,239 resident persons in California were receiving unemployment relief. This figure represents approximately 11.6 per cent of the total state population. The total number of persons on relief in California in November was 5.9 per cent greater than in October and approximately 13.0 per cent greater than in September. During the second half of 1933 an average of 554,000 persons, or 9.7 per cent of the population were receiving relief. Of this number approximately 357,000 or over 60 per cent were in Los Angeles county. San Bernardino county, however, with 24,683 relief clients had a higher percentage of its population on relief than any other county in the today's reservoirs will be useless for the storing of water because of silting, and the grandchildren of your own grand children will find that erosion has completely nullified all the effort that this generation has put into the grandest attempt ever made to conserve water-the Boulder Dam, with its mammoth storage capacity of over 30 billion acre feet of water, that is if man doesn't do something to protect the watershed above the dam. Good men have robbed their children—let's see if that is a true statement of facts. Nature takes millions of years to tear down a mountain and fill a valley. Laboriously, inch by inch, century after century, she works grinding the rocks into dust, and mixing the fine soil with decayed plant and animal life. Ten thousand years are consumed in building up just one foot of that rich productive top soil that our pioneer forefathers found so fertile. This good earth we farm today is the product of the ages, and by every right should be the heritage of the ages—yet good men turn rich fertile fields into barren, lifeless, bankrupt farms in one generation. Good men most surely have unknowingly robbed their children. They say, "It's farmed out," but it isn't farmed out—it's washed out. The fertile top soil has been washed away by the uncontrolled rains, or carried away in the wind. Thoughtless exploitation of the land has plugged the natural channels and crevices in the soil that was meant by nature to convey the rains down into the depths. The earth has been plowed up, pulverized, and robbed of its sheath of protecting roots and grass so that the rains carry it away a million tons at a time, to be mixed with salt on the ocean floor. The result? Seventy-five bushel-an-acre corn land has been reduced to 17 bushel-an-acre land. Isn't that robbing the land? This paper was asked to print these articles because a survey has shown that Orange county is dangerously affected by the work of this man-made thief of the soil. Who proposes to do what about it? The federal government has caused to be formed the United States soil erosion service, which, under the direction of H. H. Bennett, has established 32 demonstrational projects in 21 states. These projects are designed to show the agriculturist how he can stop soil wastage, without materially lessening the income from his land. There are at present three, such demonstrations under way in California, one being in the Las Posas area of Ventura county; one near Corralitos, in Santa Cruz; and one at Arroyo Grande, in San Luis Obispo county. These sites were selected because of the aggravated condition of the problem and because of their availability to the agriculturists whose land is dangerously affected. At these locations the soil experts, the agronomists, and the engineers are meeting with the farmers and together they are working out ways and means of improving America's most valuable asset. away in the wind. Thoughtless exploitation of the land has plugged the natural channels and crevices in the soil that was meant by nature to convey the rains down into the depths. The earth has been plowed up, pulverized, and robbed of its sheath of protecting roots and grass so that the rains carry it away a million tons at a time, to be mixed with salt on the ocean floor. The result? Seventy-five bushel-an-acre corn land has been reduced to 17 bushel-an-acre land. Isn't that robbing our children who have to raise corn for the next generation? Eleven cows-to-an-acre of grazing land has been reduced to two cows-to-an-acre land—and how about that youngster of yours who wants to be a T-bone manufacturer when he gets big? It means that ten tons of fertilizer on an acre will not make it produce the cotton, or the oranges, or the beans that the raw land would when men first turned it with a plow. These things are true. Why? There's only one answer—man-induced soil erosion has robbed the land of its Blames Selfishness As Major War Cause Individual and national selfishness was stressed by Capt. Ray E. Smith as the primary causes for war, although there are factors of conflicting religious beliefs, and ambitious politicians, diplomats and business leaders, at the Anaheim Lions club luncheon in the Elks clubhouse last Friday. "The best insurance against the United States becoming involved in another war will be to keep out of the World court, keep out of foreign lands, and be prepared for eventualities, which will, if needed, call into service not only the country's man-power, but its industries, finances, transportation facilities and especially communication systems," he said. The speaker cited the national defense act passed in 1920 by congress, which was sponsored by the American Legion. Forestry Men Will Be Hired From CCC Enrollees in Future A suggestion for providing replacements in the ranks of the forestry technical services from among the many civilian conservation corps men qualified to fill just jobs by their work and study of forestry was made by President Roosevelt in a recent press conference, according to Dayton E. Jones, SERA director of clivian conservation corps. The plan, though no definite system has been worked out as yet, would presumably take the form of a requirement that qualified men—leaders and graduates of camp classes in forestry—take examinations, the successful passing of which would place them in line to fill the ranks of the forestry foremen and other positions. Local Resident Files Petition in Probate Mrs. Clara Long of 311 North Emily street, widow, last week filed a petition in superior court for letters of administration in the estate of her deceased husband, William James Long, who died January 31. Value of the estate was given at not more than $2500. Heirs included a son, William John Long of Atwood; and Laura Walker, daughter, of Elma, Washington. Rare Books To Be Exhibited Soon at New S. C. Library "Book as a Work of Art" Theme of Display; Collection is Finest in West A public exhibit of rare books from the private collection of Mrs. Edward L. Doheny, gathered from famous collections of the world, will be held at the Edward L. Doheny Jr., Memorial library of the University of Southern California from February 19 to March 9. Known as "The Book as a Work of Art" exhibit, it represents illuminated manuscripts and bindings from the 12th century to the present and includes first editions from master printing craftsmen of France, England, Italy and Germany. It is said to be the finest private collection in the west. Included are volumes from the libraries and collections of the Sistine Chapel in Rome; Louis XV, Marie Antoinette, David Garrick, Prince Charles Louis de Bourbon and others. From the Benedictine monastery of Abbotsbury is a volume bound in wood with deerskin cover. Entirely written by scribes and embellished in hand- WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE—WITHOUT CALOMEL And You'll Jump Out of Bed in the Morning Rarin' to Go If you feel sour and sunk and the world looks punk, don't swallow a lot of salts, mineral water, oil, laxative candy or chewing gum and expect them to make you suddenly sweet and buoyant and full of sunshine. For they can't do it. They only move the bowels and a mere movement doesn't get at the cause. The reason for your down-and-out feeling is your liver. It should pour out two pounds of liquid bile into your bowels daily. If this bile is not flowing freely, your food doesn't digest. It just decays in the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. 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