oc-plain-dealer 1921-11-18

THE ORANGE CO. Plain Dealer Independent Newspaper, Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday ERNEST, Manager PAUL V. HESTER, Editor Subscription rate—In North Orange co: Per year $2; Six montana, $1.25. Registered at the Postoffice at Anaheim, Calif., as second class matter. BROOK IS ECONOMICAL AND RESILIABLE of the United States remains to their armament and their junk men. After the ongoing statement, the Press adds this interesting mention and comment: Twenty years ago the taxpayers of country provided more than $4, 1000 for the construction of the battleship Wisconsin. The builders tained a handsome profit and the people got the battleship. The people lived on the ship and paid them money. They paid for all repairs. They paid for dockage facilities and an upkeep. And they paid for operations of the vessel. Now the battleship Wisconsin is to scrapped. The junk dealers will her for almost nothing. From the molecule vessel they will make a nice profit. Along with the Wisconsin goes the Maine She cost more than $5,500, in 1902. The Missouri is also observed. She cost $5,000,000 in 1903. Along with the three battleships go to ships, the navy department audores, that, when built cost $1, 100,000 and $4,000,000 apiece. These ships the people of the country spent approximately $27,000, more than 20 years ago. Out of $8,000,000 the builders derived some profit. Millions more amount in operation, maintenance, and equipment for the vession now they will be turned into the junk dealers for a song. The battleship business in indeed profitable to builders and junk men. And the people pay the bills. These facts are undisputed and they constitute a most powerful argument in favor of disarmament. The people are burdened with federal taxes and at the same time we are spending vast millions on battleships that after a few years are junked. We have to maintain a big navy because Japan and other powers that might possibly be hostile to the United States have big navies. If the powers can all agree to cut down, the tax-burdened people will breathe a sigh of relief. Good roads are a necessity, not a luxury. No locality can thrive today if it be surrounded by a chain of bad roads. So large portion of California has well-improved highways, the few localities without good roads suffer greatly by comparison with the well-paved ones. The arms conference, as Mr. Hughes pointedly suggests, is called, not to make honeyed promises or floral suggestions, but to give definite and amelioatory action. The world has a better-grounded hope for the attainment of world peace than it ever had before. The United States is leading the way, in the arms conference. Only 50 per cent of the qualified voters of the United States vote. The voter who habitually refuses to vote, is not really a voter but a "slacker." LOS ANGELES WHAT IS IN THE OTHER (Editorial from Hanford) Angeles has been postponed for the reason that the that city will be called unertain the officers and Pacific fleet on the days to visit the valley. We are wondering if the boosters were not influenced ferring their visit on access strong feeling that exist present time among them in the entire San Joaquin city of Los Angeles, through Angel City hopes to rob of the hyrdro-electric power the Sierras to our east. It is a certainty that I cannot come here with a hand to carry away baggage from us, and with a bouquet in the other hand, and see only the bouquet. OUR WATER SITUATION (Bridgeport, Mono-co.) Last week we printed which gave a brief insigni­ntions of the city of Mono regarding the acquisition of resources of Mono-co. We will agree that it was wonderfully nice thing if Los Angeles could acquire holdings of the So. Siele Co. by condemnation. After this they would then the scheme of taking all thru Owens or Roundtown conveying it thru duct to Los Angeles. The electric current to be used by the city of Angeles that is to be in 1936. The water is for the San Diego valley as well as the Angeles. It has been lea­ authoritative sources that used in San Fernando val­ ed or sold to the farme­ ing and irrigation purpose is the case, then this wi­ longer be claimed for mu­ poses and can legitimize der head of county taxes. BRADLEY'S Porch Floor Paint WILL STAND THE GAFF Think of the hardships the floor of your porch has to withstand: The incessant tramping of feet, the grinding of grit and dirt, the pelting of rain, the racking changes of temperature. It takes a real paint to hold its own against that kind of treatment and Bradley's Porch Floor Paint is a REAL PAINT—made with real stuff in it, so that it will stand the gaff. The time to paint your porch floors is right now. 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Write for full information regarding Turbine Centrifugal Pumps, their cost, etc. Tell us how water you desire. If requested, our Field Manager District will call and discuss in full the advantage L. & B. Plant. Layne & Cowler Corporation "World's Largest Water Developers" 900 Santa Fe Ave. Los Angeles District Office: 302 N. Main St., Santa Ana Phone 506 J. R. GILBERT, LOS ANGELES POWER GRAB WHAT IS IN THE OTHER HAND? Editorial from Hanford Journal The booster excursion from Los Angeles has been postponed astensibly for the reason that the people of that city will be called upon to entertain the officers and men of the pacific fleet on the days they were visit the valley. We are wondering if the southern boosters were not influenced in deriving their visit on account of the strong feeling that exists at the present time among the people of the entire San Joaquin valley over the attempted power grab by the city of Los Angeles, thru which the Angel City hopes to rob the valley of the hydro-electric power sites in the Sierras to our east. It is a certainty that Los Angeles cannot come here with a sack in one hand to carry away booty stolen from us, and with a bouquet for us in the other hand, and expect us to see only the bouquet. OUR WATER SITUATION (Bridgeport, Mono-co Chronicle) Last week we printed an article which gave a brief insight into the intentions of the city of Los Angeles regarding the acquisition of the water resources of Mono-co. We will agree that it would be a wonderfully nice thing if the city of Los Angeles could acquire all the holdings of the So. Sierras Power Co. by condemnation proceedings. After this they would then put thrue the scheme of taking all our water thru Owens or Round valley and then conveying it thru their aqueduct to Los Angeles. The electric current is supposed to be used by the city of Los Angeles that is to be in 1925. The water is for the San Fernando valley as well as the city of Los Angeles. It has been learned from authoritative sources that the water used in San Fernando valley is rented or sold to the farmers for grazing and irrigation purposes. If such is the case, then this water can no longer be claimed for municipal purposes, and can legitimately come under the head of county and state taxes. not under control of the railroad commission, and is free to set rates high or low, or to give or to refuse to give service, without restriction. THE LOS ANGELES MENACE (The Bishop, Inyo-co Index) 1. 1921) It has been said that the Los Angeles-Southern Sierras Power Company suit recently won by the city of Los Angeles in the San Francisco federal courts did not seriously concern Inyo-co, "because the suit only involved the power rights, and did not affect the water for irrigation." The city of Los Angeles doesn't give a continental whether the irrigation of Inyo-co is affected or not. The officials are subtly working continuously to gobble up all water and power in this section — just as they are trying to do in the Imperial valley—and unless there is some very effective means found soon to stop this southern city's encroachments upon the native rights of the towns and communities hundreds of miles away, Inyo-co land owners will some time awaken to the realization that they have permitted Los Angeles to dry up their agricultural lands. Inyo farmers and stockmen will then be in the predicament of standing helplessly by watching their water racing down flumes to Los Angeles—possibly to irrigate Japanese vegetable gardens there — while their own lands will become parched, cracked, useless desert waste. The Village Gossip Two former Arizona couples now residents of Ortinge-co, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. B. Miller of Cypress, and Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Cherry of Sanla Ana, recently returned from a trip to their old home town, Prescott, and an extended tour in the Monongallow mountains, an elevation of 7500 feet. They traveled by motor, a 1917 model Dodge car and a 1920 Mitchell, going by way of Needles and Kingman and returning by Ehrenberg, Blythe and Mecca. They encountered some of the worst roads imaginable, driving thru sections for miles and miles without a single habitation and where auto travel was often very infrequent. They had camp outfits fully equipped so ate and traveled as their appetites bade them. Both Miller and Cherry are nimrods and sportsmen. They went loaded for bear but failed to find old bruin. Cherry brot back the scalp of a mountain lion and the antlers of a five-point buck. Both animals were killed by his fearless aim and noted rifle. Miller brot back memories of good times with the other fellows and of helping devour his share of the game, five-five-point bucks and a spike being brot to camp. Miller is an adept with a shotgun for smaller game. He had much sport all to himself the latter part of his trip slaughtering mountain quail. There is only one way to learn the merits of an auto, declares Miller, and that is by taking the wheel and driving over roads, good, bad Harris & Evans Mrs. J. Boynton woman in Executive National allows M headgear appeared mittee's and indiff roads muci ciated. In fact, and forever India's 000,000 t othe smalll The electric current is supposed to be used by the city of Los Angeles that is to be in 1925. The water is for the San Fernando valley as well as the city of Los Angeles. It has been learned from authoritative sources that the water used in San Fernando valley is rented or sold to the farmers for grazing and irrigation purposes. If such is the case, then this water can no longer be claimed for municipal purposes and can legitimately come under the head of county and state taxes. Why should the city of Los Angeles be so eager to get the water in Mono-co., at the expense of the agricultural possibilities of this country, and take them to a territory which in all probability will be over-supplied by electricity from the proposed project on the Colorado river? It begins to look as if Los Angeles deserved the appellation that has been pinned onto it by several papers in the west—that of being a "water hog." (Editoriau from the Bishop-Inyo Register, June 16, 1921) As mentioned last week, Los Angeles is seeking to condemn the state is asserted; and some So. Sierras power sites in Owens River gorge. The case was taken before Judge Van Fleet, of the U. S. district court in San Francisco. Comment in So. Calif. papers outside of Los Angeles is apparently all against the city. That the latter seeks to establish a complete monopoly of power in the southern part of the important communities interested are strongly apprehensive that if it secures such monopoly the purpose will be to so fix rates and to distribute power as to center industrial development in Los Angeles, to the injury of neighboring communities. Such a program is wholly consistent with the records. It is pointed out that the city is This Matchless of World I in Thought, in St in Letters, in Are Contributors SUNDAY'S E Reporting the Arms CLEMENCEAU The Greatest Figure in France. H. G. WELLS The World's Foremost Writer. HANOTAUX Former French Foreign D'ANNUNZIO Italian Poet-Patriot. WU TING FANG China's Foremost Statesman. IDA M. TARBELL America's Leading Woman Journalist. 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Letters From People The Plain Dealer: There was some good melodrama washed in the Los Angeles jail the other day when the "hero," Obenchain, entered the preschool of the "beautiful" Madalynne, with a license to remarry her, and then the climax where Burch was on his knees before the Lady of Obenchain. It is a matter of regret that the public demand forces news papers to print such Tommy-rot. If Mr. Obenchain wishes to be hitched to the mate that balked once at being in a team with him, it is up to him. What in thunder do we care about the other nut? If he is so weak as to let a woman lead him about by the nose why should we have to witness it? The whole matter appears to me to be staged for affect. The beautiful Madalynne may be innocent of the crime charged to her. If she is, she should be exonerated; if guilty, she should suffer. The idea is why do such examples, such stories of crime, have to be paraded and detailed before the public view? The Public demands it, but why? 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