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HomeMy Public PortalAbout1923, 08-01/ ) FULL&RTCN public Pulitrtofi, Calif. +■ ! i ----------------------------------- —---------- —------------------------------------------------------*---------------------------------------------------------------------- f DEDICATED TO THE PEOPLE AND INTERESTS OF ORANGE COUNTY TO THE Nature’s Prolific Wonderland TO THE Great State of California a k/i • -f .l i_i United Ttates of America 1 the Land by the Western Tea A y lo ^ 3 .d J lC 1C3F til 0 ElCDlTlC God’s Most Favored Coo ''try “PUMAS” LITHOGRAPH BY ELSIE HENDERSON —International Print Makers’ Exhibit, Los Angeles Museum NUMBER TEN i VOLUME TWO AUGUST, 1923 ---- 4 Subscription~$3.50 Per Year I Single Copies 35 Cents ! Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library iTGhe logical Place Jor Your “Home Beautiful” is ting for your ‘‘Home Beautiful.” Exclusiveness will be its keynote. 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The Orange County Review Fullerton, California Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library THE ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW Three luiiiitnKiiKtiiminniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliHuiiMiiniiiiiiiuiiiiiiHiimmiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiMMMiiiiMiiiiiMiiitiiiiiMniitiiiiiiiiiiimiiitimiiiiitMiiiHiiuiniiiiiiMiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiuiiiiiimmimiiiuiiimiiimulinniiiiiiiiHitumiiiMiit SANTA ANA INVITES YOU 7(T IS THE LEADING CITY in the “biggest little county on earth.” You ^ wouldn’t guess that Orange County produces twice as much oil as the state of Pennsylvania—though you may have heard that it produces more wealth from the soil than any other equal area in America. Orange County is first in the state in both total production and in yield per acre of walnuts, sugar beets and Valencias, and second in lem­ ons and truck crops. It produces 40% of the walnuts, 30% of the sugar beets, 21% of the truck crops, 20% of the lemons and 15% of the oranges. It has five sugar mills with an output of $9,000,000 annually. Its total soil production is over $40,000,000 and its oil flow brings more than $52,000,000 annually. It is running close to a hundred million production and is sometimes spoken of as the “biggest little county on earth.” You can see that prosperity, wealth, happiness and health are logical consequences and natural conditions for the inhabitants of this dynamic little kingdom. Do you desire to share these blessings? Of course you do, and any one of the following Realtors, members of Santa Ana Realty Board and licensed by the state, will help you in every way possible. Write or call on them. SANTA ANA. Freeman H. Bloodgood & John A. Newcomer.......... ............................................114 1-2 West Fourth St. F. C. Pope.................................413 North Sycamore St. John C. Wallace............................315 North Main St. A. W. Fuller..................... 408 North Sycamore St. Shaw & Russell.................................122 West Third St. A, B. Rousselle.........................New Ramona Bldg., Fifth and Sycamore C. W. Longmire.....................309 North Sycamore St. D. C. Huntington, Huntington Square_____________ ............................................Tenth and Flower Sts. J. E. Livesey...................................214 East Fourth St. C. M. McCain Go.............................601 North Main St. Everett A. White........................306 North Broadway Trickey Bros...........................-..-.420 West Fourth St. Cochems, “ The Hustler”........... 121 West Third St. R. L. Cooper & W. D. H art.................... ....... ............................................214 North Sycamore St. LAGUNA BEACH. E. E. Jahraus. Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library Four T H E ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW J.J. Farley Electric Co. 310 North Spadra FULLERTON, CAL. *•"—"—"" AlNAHEIM CREAMERY CO. .Milk recommended, and j j |l used at grammar school, iggil Fullerton, for its purity H ll and cleanliness. r J i m JJLKI Delivered Fresh Morning and Evening Call Anaheim 666—Fullerton 83 of the name - HOLSUM M ade Clean S old Clean '‘'‘Buy a Kuppenheimer Suit and be Satisfied" 150 W. Center St. Anaheim Calif. The best insurance in all the world is fireproof construction. It does more than insure—IT PROTECTS. H. GARBER BRICK COMPANY Olive, Calif. Telephone 124 Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library THE ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW Fw TON I'UFLIC lil ■ . ■*.. Fullerton, Calif. Five The Orange County Review Business Office, 210 No. Balcom Ave. PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY The Orange County Review Co. Fullerton, California Mail address, Lock Box 387 E ntered as eecond-class m atter January 10, 1922, at the post office at Fullerton, California, under the Act of M arch 3, 1879 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION ■Endorsed by Fullerton Chamber of Commerce- The Chambers of Commerce of Various Cities in Orange County The Santa Ana Realty Board and the Investigating Committee of the Santa Ana Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Association Dedicated to the People and Interests of Orange County, “Nature’s Prolific Won­ derland,” to the Great State of California, the Land by the Western Sea, to the United States of America, God’s most favored Country. A Magazine for the Home. Change of Address m ust be received prior to the 10th of the m onth to affect the forth­ coming Magazine. Both old and new addresses m ust be given. The Orange County Review assum es no responsibility for the dam age or loss of m anu­scripts or photographs subm itted for publication, although due care will be taken to insure their safety. Full postage should alw ays be sent for the return of unavailable m aterial. J. B. FITZPATRICK, A. M„ Editor Editorials OUR CRIMINAL RECORD A FEW years ago, Mr. Raymond Fosdick published some comparisons between crime-records, American and foreign, which were not flattering. Mr. Fosdick seemed to think that if records could prove anything, they proved, in this instance, that we were a criminal people. With this con­ clusion the American Bar Association, at its meeting in 1922, agreed. An American sta­ tistician of unusual balance and accuracy, Mr. Frederick L. Hoffmann, now comes for­ ward with the deduction, drawn from the reports of twenty-eight American and ten Canadian cities, that murder is five times more frequent in the United States than it is in Canada, the respective rates per unit of population being 8.5 and 1.7. Mr. Hoffmann’s analysis of this shocking condition is enlightening. We do not take murder and other crimes of violence seri- nisly. Our police methods allow too many criminals to escape. Is there an American city today without its long list of “ unsolved murders” ? If the criminal is caught, an indictment may follow, and, again it may not. If arraigned for trial, he has a far bet­ ter chance of acquittal than the law has of vindication. “ In England,” Judge Quinn, of Boston, is quoted as saying, “ it bardic takes an hour to select a jury, and some- tunes only thirty minutes in Canada.” In the United States, the tedious process may drag on for weeks. Even when conviction is secured, delay follows upon delay; if sen­ tence is imposed, a commutation is often se­ cured. Hence the public becomes accus­ tomed to loose methods of dealing with crime and imperceptibly there arises “ a public apathy as regards capital crimes.” A lawyer of long experience once remarked that it was a perennial source of surprise to him to learn how many good citizens sym­ pathize with the criminal, if not with crime. The effect upon law-enforcement could hardly be worse if their sympathy was de­ voted to the crime itself. It is certainly true that “ it is of the very first importance that sentence be carried out without unnecessary delays,” but the real remedy, as Mr. Hoffmann recognizes, calls for something more than swift justice. “ We are falling short of the accepted standards of Christianity.” Even more necessary than a consistent policy of pun­ ishment of crime is a consistent policy of prevention of crime. Punishment is a weak deterrent, and prison rarely reforms. The best way to train our children to re- pect the law of the land is to teach them to respect the law of God. MARRIED WOMEN AND THEIR NAMES O NE OF the newest of our many associ­ ation for the social uplift bears the name of Lucy Stone. Like the eccentric female of whom Artemus Ward tells, the members of the Lucy Stone League believe that too long has lovely woman been the t Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library Six THE ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW Editorials slave of domineering man, and in their judgment, the woman who assumes her hus­ band’s name permits herself to be regarded as a chattel or a servant. This position is, of course, absurd. What name a woman bears after marriage is, in itself, a matter of no great moment. The taking of a husband’s name is commanded by no law and, like the general use of fami­ ly names even by men, is of comparatively recent origin. In our day and country, we speak of Mr. and Mrs. John Smith, and not of Mr. John Smith and his wife, Miss Jane Jones, not because we believe that Miss Jane Jones is a serf, but simply in conformity with a con­ venient custom. As long as this custom, recognized by law and generally approved by society, remains in force, it is well to con­ form to it, although difformity is banned by no law of God or man. In any case, hus­ bands who are determined to treat their wives as slaves or chattels, probably will not be deterred by the fact that these ladies have retained their own names. THE DECADENCE OF THE SHORT STORY I T IS REFRESHING to read an honest criticism of modern American fiction. In the January Bookman the short story is evaluated by a writer who appreciates this literary form and deprecates its decadence, llis contention is that the short story has deteriorated as the magazine has developed. The magazine that calls itself popular, and counts its circulation in the thousands and hundreds of thousands has pandered to the cheap and the thoughtless in American life, estimating its success by its advertising re­ turns. It is by means of the blue pencil that the most debasing effect on our fiction is achieved. For in the interest of advertising the blue pencil well nigh eliminates the modern short story as the medium of self expression. Today it is a commonplace of the trade to have an author deny responsibility for the action and character development in his story be­ cause one-quarter or one-third of it has been cut off by some literary Procrustes. This is done without notifying the writer or seeking his permission, and there is no redress, since the fact that the story has been mangled is known only after it has appeared in its final form. The excuses given are various but the main reasons for lopping are the last minute increases and the unexpected cancellations in orders for advertising space. One contemplates with a shudder what the blue pencil put to it to find space for a column ad on “ Self-Supporting Suspenders” might have done to “Rip Van Winkle” or to “ The Fall of the House of Usher.” There was a time when the world admitted our claim to this literary form for a number of reasons. . . . But we have failed signally to live up to the promise of our early writers and have gradually ceased to achieve esthetic expression through the short story. Only recently the editor of one of our advertising mediums called popular maga­ zines lamented the fact that our fiction had reached its lowest ebb. No change however has been noticed in this magazine which continues to run its stories from page one to page one hundred and then in and out of a page of beautiful pictures of house fur­ nishings and wearing apparel. This is sure­ ly one block to building up a short story lit­ erature. No sane reader is going to submit to a game of hide and seek in an endeavor to get the unity of impression which is the short story’s aim. Admitting even that, the editorial SSolons of our popular magazines really did not hack a good writer’s effort for a good advertisement’s financial return, it is next to impossible for the writer to deliver his message on the printed page if that page is to be broken up by pictures of soap suds or washing powder. Poe or Haw­ thorne or any of the real short story writers of America in the past would have gone down before the modern onslaught of soap or suspenders. Their readers could not have been reached, 'for the human mind cannot take in the word picture in all its power if it is faced by the “ ad” picture with all its color and flare. This is why our popular magazines block anything like real writing, and whether their editors have any true literary sense or not, until they keep advertising copy in a section by itself no true writers can have a chance to display their power, nor true readers a chance to appreciate that power. There are a number of things the matter with our popular magazines as the Bookman points out. But one thing that can be rem­ edied by a gentleman’s agreement among editors of American magazines is the glar­ ing defect of mixing “ad copy” with liter­ ary copy. Here is a use for the blue pencil. Let it run through the “ ad” page and move it into a distinct section. This should be the first step in the campaign for better American short stories. Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library THE ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW FULLERYON PUBLIC L li Fullerton, Calif. Seven Editorials THE PUBLIC PAY-ROLL T O BRING HOME the significance of the fact that the number of public .servants in the United States is not less than 2,000,000, and that out of every twenty men and women employed in mines, mills, factories, stores, offices or farms throughout the land, one is on the Govern­ ment payroll, the Budget, published bj the National Budget Committee, writes: Distribute these employes, for the sake of illus­ tration, equally throughout our population. You step out of your office and every twentieth man or woman you meet on the street is a Government employe. You ride home in the subway, every twentieth one there is working for the Government. You take a train; of the 120 persons thereon, such is the average, six are on Government pay rolls. You go to the far places of the West; one out of every twenty workmen devotes his full time to the business of serving and governing the other nine­ teen and at their expense. But let us not imagine that only one out of every twenty dollars earned by the work­ ers goes to maintain the Government ma­ chine. The fact is that eveiy week every one of us is at work approximately one day without pay in order to produce our share of the Government upkeep. On the basis of five persons per family the cost of Gov­ ernment is about $400 per family per year. The total cost of the American Government, Federal and State, in 1921 was $8,460,011,- 587, a figure eluding even the imagination. REVISION IS NEEDED HE CONTROVERSY over text books of history in the public schools is be­ ing waged quite vigorously. While it is not altogether the result of the war our association in it has been an influence. That there is need of cautious revision can scarce­ ly be questioned. We do not believe that history should be a paean of glory but rather should be a rela­ tion of facts. The early histories of our country fed our children on the glories of America and Americans, frequently at the cost of historic truth. While it may be said that recent histories are more truthfully written, yet we find in some of them a spirit of sycophancy that is disgusting. The early struggles of the American colonies have been made to appear little better than a re­ bellion by an unruly mob. Some of the text hooks speak in scathing terms of the militia that refused to obey orders in our second war with England. Whatever may have been the actual facts in early American struggles, they were exhibitions of the high­ est courage. Even the untrained militia who refused to obey orders in 1812 were not moved by cowardice nor by want of patriot­ ism but by what they believed to be con­ scientious objection to aggression against Canada. The final blow that brought on the War of Independence was a trifle but it represented the end of a long series of injustices. The greatest declaration of hu­ man rights was forged in a living fire and conceived by men who put high value on things spiritual. We want our children to learn the truth, but we do not want to raise a generation of cynics. There is ample rea­ son for prudent glorification in the history of our republic. The histories that are placed in the hands of our children should inspire a respect for their country and their forebears and should properly emphasize the glorious ideals of the fathers of our country. At the same time history should not palliate some of the mistakes and injustices that may have been committed in our rather brief national life. Under date of June 6, 1923, The Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette says editorially: The time has come now for real 100 per cent Americans to assert themselves as to the character of history to be taught in the public schools and in the public schools of Indiana. It- is up to the American people to say whether English, propaganda belittling the story of our Rev­ olution and sneering at the heroes of those Plu- tarchian days shall be forced upon the impression­ able minds of the children by any aggregation of educators in the country. The Muzzey history has been adopted in this state and out of this bitterly partisan, and, as we believe, miserably unpatriotic volume, your children are to be taught. This is the history that the commissioner appoint­ ed in New York to investigate has denounced as unfit to be taught in the public schools. It is the history that the Sons of the American Revolution excoriated in their national convention in Nashville last week. It is the history that the Grand Army of the Re­ public and Spanish-American veterans have con­ demned. And it now develops that in Indiana this history was denounced as unfit and unpatriotic by the American Legion in a protest lodged with Mr. Bur­ ris, the state superintendent of public instruction. Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library / Eight THE ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW Editorials It is a history that has no space for the mention of Paul Revere’s ride, which dismisses Concord and Lexington in forty-one words, and devotes but seven out of 538 pages, to the American Revolution, the most momentous movement for the liberty of man that the world has ever known. It is such a history of underhand attacks on American characters and movements as would not be tolerated by the most backword, least self-re­ specting nations on the face of the globe. In its letter of protest the American Legion of Indiana says: The American Legion, department of Indiana, does hereby most earnestly and emphatically enter its objection to the acceptance of either of these! books for use in the public schools of Indiana for the reason that the spirit in which they are written is manifestly unpatriotic and biased. This office is advised that these histories have been rejected by many schools over the country. Our objections are solely on patriotic grounds as we have no knowledge as to the names of the publishers of either book. We most respectfully urge the rejection of these two histories. Not only is the Muzzey book adopted in this state but the other book by Professor West, “ A History of the American People”—which is the other book against which the legion protests. It is up to the American people, whose children’s impressions of their country and the things for which their country has stood and stands, to deter­ mine whether they shall have forced upon them books of alleged “ history” bearing all the earmarks of un-American propaganda, which have been de­ nounced and damned as unpatriotic by the— American Legion. The Sons of the American Revolution. The Grand Army of the Republic. The Spanish-American W ar Veterans. It would be unfortunate if it should become nec­ essary for the parents to take their children from their classrooms to point out the slanders, the be- littlement, the sneers, and the falsehoods that had been taught them during the day in the schools. That, we s'jbmit, is an intolerable outrage. The issue has been made and must be met. For, as has been said, “ any nation that will not defend its defenders and protect its protectors is a disgrace to the map of the world.” It is to be hoped that the full protest of the Am­ erican Legion and these other organizations may be published to the world, and that real Americans will make it their business to protect their children against this poison. SPECIAL HARBOR NUMBER HE ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW expects shortly to publish a special Orange County Harbor number that should claim the interest of every citizen and property owner in each of the three counties benefited, San Bernardino, River­ side and Orange. We ask your loyal co-op­ eration to the end that this special number may be worthy of the great project it seeks to promote. LATEST JEWISH STATISTICS The Jewish Year Book informs us that the Jews throughout the world now number 15,- 4-00,000. About 9,250,000 of these are in the various Slavic countries, and in Hungary and Austria. Various estimates have been given of the Jews in Palestine, but they are said to number at least 85,000, or somewhat over twelve per cent of the total population. For the United States the figure given by the Am­ erican Jewish Committee of 1918 is used. It places the Jewish population at 3,300,000. Of New York City the American Israelite inci­ dentally writes in a recent issue that: “ It has a larger Jewish population than any city in the world, its 1,500,000 citizens of the Jew­ ish faith constituting almost half the total Jewish population of the United States, about one-tenth the total in the world, and more than twice the 600,000 population of Jerusalem be­ fore its fall.” SAN JUAN MISSION CHIMES ARE RESTORED SAN JUAN.—Another of the 21 original Spanish missions in California is under way of restoration. Recently the double chimes of the Mission San Juan Baptista sounded, proclaim­ ing to the world that damage from age and long-forgotten earthquakes was to be repaired and rebuilt. The Mission San Juan Baptista is the largest in Northern California. It was founded in 1797, and completed in 1809. It is located in the little village of San Juan, San Benito coun­ ty, on the old coach road ,or king’s highway, between Sargent and Hollister. Southern California alone bought more goods in January than the combined states of Oregon, Washington, Delaware and New Hampshire, ac­ cording to the statistics. All of which goes to show that the Los An­ geles trade territory is fully justifying its repu­ tation as the “white spot” of the nation when it comes to prosperity. People do not buy in record quantities when the pinch of poverty is upon any great proportion of the population. Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library b arren garbing PRESIDENT OF TH E UNITED STATES Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library .Wen ? TWO DAYS By Katherine Elspeth Oliver The day broke bellowing On the land and f rom the dawn To candle-light, each hour Piled up disaster. * * * At night the red sun Skulked adown the sky as one Who looks not back upon His work. * * * * * * The gastly twilight Fell on houses where women hugged their babies; And moaned, and starving men who fought and failed, lifted on high their Empty hands * * * * * * Fromi out the ruin’s Midsts “There is no God!” They cry. A morning broke In fairest calm, and beauty Walked abroad—the land all glad With bounty and the songs Of men * * * * * * At eve the great sun Moved unto his rest as one who leaves Behind benign remembrances And generous deeds. * * * * * ' The twilight fell On peaceful homes where rested men From toil; where children played And women softly sang. * * * The crooning mother sighs— “God must be nigh!” Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library f 3&LSBJWH PUBLIC LIBI, . Fullerton, Calif. THE ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW Eleven Must We Rob Our Enemies? By Elbridge Colby O NE OF THE last things which happened at the last session of Congress, was the passing of an Act (Public; No. 536; 67th Congress), providing that certain money and property held by the Alien Property Custod­ ian be returned to the owners, but not in any case in amounts to exceed $10,000. On March 7 the New York Tribune referred editorially to the enactment under the heading “ Passed in the Dark” and started a vigorous discus­ sion. As a matter of fact, there was no last minute speed or masquerade about it at all. The matter had been avowedly under advise­ ment since June, 1922. In public hearings and executive sessions, Senate and House Commit­ tees had considered the matter. The Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York had framed and adopted a resolution on the sub­ ject. Yet there has been running in the daily press a nice little controversy on the matter, a controversy which has brought up the whole question as to whether the property should be returned, or whether it should be confiscat­ ed and the proceeds applied to the settlement of claims of Americans against the German Government. This is a question which affects all citizens of this country, and not merely those with pecuniary interests in pressing diplomatic claims. It is to be hoped that a New York gentleman is in the minority when he an­ nounces : I am glad to say that the House of Representa­ tives refused to adopt an amendment declaring it to be the policy of our Government never to apply any of the proceeds of this property to the Ameri­ can claims. It is much more reassuring to see that the Alien Property Custodian can remark: This Administration does not advocate the policy of confiscating private property to pay national debts. When the New York State Chamber of Com­ merce on March 1 adopted the resolution al­ ready referred to, one of the gentlemen pres­ ent argued thus: Read section 5 of the peace treaty, providing that the United States might hold the property seized at the beginning of the war until all claims were settled and that the Alien Property Custodian might use the funds to pay off claims against Germany. They cite the Treaty with Germany as am­ ple justification for the wrong they would do. Just so they might have cited the Treaty of Versailles, Articles 231-244, together with an­ nexes 14, which insist on Germany’s responsi­ bility for all damages, direct and indirect, growing out of the war suffered by allied Gov­ ernments or their nationals and which furth­ er provide that the reparations commission “ shall not be bound by any particular code or rules of law” or rules of evidence. In other words, as has been well said, “ No modern treaty of peace has done international law such violence. . . . The treaty appears to discard many vital principles of the customary as well as the conventional law of nations. . . . The reparations commission must nec­ essarily be freed from any such obligation if it is to carry out certain terms of the treaty.” Things may be done in the heat of action that are contrary to international law. Even the treaty which puts an end to that terrible litigation of nations may be oppressive and unfair and improper from the standpoint of international law. Simply because a thing is in a treaty is no guarantee of its righteous­ ness, particularly in a treaty which the defeat­ ed nation has had to sign on the dotted line without discussion. We may pardon errors of judgment of this sort committed in the heat of belligerent animosity. But five years later more reasonable views should have an oppor­ tunity to prevail. Have we forgotten the words of the Presi­ dent who said, “ We have no quarrel with the German people!” Have we forgotten the terms of the resolution by which “ the Gov­ ernment and people of the United States” de­ clared war on “ the Imperial German Govern­ ment?” The matter of claims is a matter be­ tween our citizens and the German Govern­ ment, to be settled by the interposition of our State Department. The matter of Alien Prop­ erty is a matter between our Government and individual Germans and their property. It is private property which we still hold. It is private property which these extremists want confiscated. It is private property which they desire to endanger and to continue to hold as a guarantee and eventually to use to set off the claims. Slowly decent humanitarian motives have managed to build up over a space of many hundreds of years an immunity of private property in time of war. Slowly slight suc­ cess has succeeded slight success until private property has been hedged around by certain Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library T welve THE ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW protections. Since its very foundation the Government of the United States’ has consist­ ently advocated this principle in international relations. As early as 1785 we concluded a treaty with Prussia which said: All women and children, scholars of every faculty, cultivators of the earth, artisans, manufacturers, and fishermen, unarmed and inhabiting unfortified towns, villages, or places, and in general all others whose occupations are for the common subsistence and benefit of mankind, shall be allowed to continue their respective employments, and shall not be mo­ lested in their persons, nor shall their houses or goods be burnt or otherwise destroyed, nor their fields wasted by the armed forces of the enemy, into whose power by the events of war they may happen to fall. And all merchant and trading ves­ sels employed in exchanging the products of differ­ ent places, and thereby rendering the necessaries, conveniences, and comforts of human life more eas­ ily to be obtained, and more general, shall be al­ lowed to pass free and unmolested. The doctrine grew. When we entered Porto Rico and the Philippines, not to mention Cuba, we announced ourselves as enemies only of the enemy army and promised protection to the individual citizens. We had done the same in Mexico in 1846-1848. The principle ap peared in Hague Conventions. In 1835 Gal­ latin wrote to Everett: The British in case of war, seize .every vessel in their ports belonging to the enemy. With this single exception, the relic of an age of barbarism and piracy, I am not aware that any civilized nation does at this time, .even in case of war, seize the property of private individuals which in time of peace had been trusted to the hospitality and good faith of the country. And there is the crux of the whole situa­ tion. It is a matter of national honor, of na­ tional principle, of national policy, and of na­ tional pride. The sums of money involved are very small. The amount to he returned by the new legislation is only forty-five mil­ lions, merely about an eighth of the total amount held. But it should all be returned! It should not even be held as a “guarantee” for no guarantee worth calling such, implies the liability to future confiscation. And fu­ ture confiscation is the evil that must be avoided. As a man of business remarked, the merchants of New York in supporting the con­ fiscation idea are trying to establish a prece­ dent. though they probably do not know it, which will jeopardize their own private prop­ erty in time of war. Revert to the theory of confiscabilitv, and the work of generation upon generation of publicists and statesmen will pass away in the wild plunder of future con­ flicts. Are we to progress during the coming century or to retrograde1? In 1909 the Eng­ lishman Bentinck remarked: Until the end of the eighteenth century, the com­ mon opinion held that one of the aims of war was to. enrich the State and impoverish the enemy by despoiling his individual subjects. The French Rev­ olution brought into prominence again the idea of a natural law and a state of nature, and asserted throughout Europe the rights of the individual man against the powers of government. This great change in thought brought with it a new concep­ tion of the proper purpose of belligerents. In the widespread awakening of the human race, and in the questioning of all law and all existing ideas, a new theory of the relation of war and conquest to private property was enunciated. Its basis has remained until the present day . . . It is true that these ideas were for a long time mere theories which were travestied in action, but their utterance marks the beginning of a change in feeling which in the nineteenth century had had far-reaching ef­ fects on practise. We may take it that the great principle which governs modern usage is to elim­ inate all wanton violence and damage from war, and to restrict the passions of greed and cruelty in bel­ ligerents. The French Revolution heralds and ushers in the democratic age in Europe, and the democratic principle in war is to pay regard to the private property of the peaceful inhabitants. The absolute monarphs who went to war to enrich them­ selves maintained spoliation. The sovereign peoples regard peace as the normal and desirable condition of mankind, and only resort to war to secure some great national end which is not furthered by seiz­ ures of private wealth. Shall we, who fought to make the world safe for democracy; .shall we, who fought to ex­ tend the frontiers of freedom against the en­ dangering might of our enemy, shall we, who believe in fairness and decency, shall we, Avho have always been in the very foremost rank of the nations on every occasion where the advancement of international law and order are concerned, shall we stoop to such a subver­ sion of proper principles? Shall we confiscate private property simply because some money is owed to some of our nationals? Shall we stand alongside of the French commissioners who confiscated German private property in Alsace and Lorraine? Our only excuse might be the properly discredited tu quoque argu­ ment. The reasons against such a step are legion. Chief amongst them is the selfish reason that if we foster and further the theory of confiscability we endanger our own prop­ erty overseas and imperil every American merchant and trader and financier who has in­ terests or commercial relations or invest­ ments in any foreign land; and the most pow­ erful reason that as a nation we have always stood for the right and for the advancement of international law, not for the wrong, and for the subversion of law. Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library THE ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW Thirteen How “Home Sweet Home” Was Written By Maude Gardner. An exile from home, splendor dazzles in vain: Oh, give me my louiy thatched cottage again! IT IS THE SORROW in the voice that makes the song so sweet; this song, born of suffer­ ing and sadness, like all immortal things made perfect through suffering, is John How­ ard Payne’s song of triumph. It seems the very irony of fate that the poet from whose pen came the immortal lyric, Avhich has touched re­ sponsive chords in the heart of the king as well as the peasant, was himself a homeless wan­ derer. It was on a dreary October evening that John Howard Payne found himself in the upper story of a cheerless lodging house in what is now the throbbing heart of the city of Paris. His theatrical ventures had proved failures; he was broken in health and reduced in fortune; and as he stood by his window and looked down on the happy crowds that promenaded the streets below him, a feeling of utter desolation and loneliness crept into his heart. Everyone seem­ ed going home,—home to lighted houses where loved ones were waiting. A light in the window and somebody waiting! But the Atlantic Ocean separated him from those he loved and who loved him. He was a stranger in an unsympa­ thetic multitude where silitude is more oppres­ sive than that of any other. Thoughts of the old home of his grandfather at East Hampton, on Long Island—the friendly old house where much of his boyhood and youth had been passed,—came to him; and far-away America became glorified through the mist of homesick­ ness,—the longing for dear familiar faces, the seeing of alien places through sight-Avearv eyes and the poignancv of memory. Bereft of all other consolation, the words of the song came rushing into his mind; and from the aching heart of an humble exile came the little song that has expressed the sentiment of millions of exiles in every clime and country,— the song that makes us forget the disappoint­ ments and the heartaches of life and takes us back to childhood days. But not even in death did John HoAvard Payne haA7e a home; for he died in the Ameri­ can Consulate at Tunis, on April 1, 1852, at­ tended onlv by his faithful Moorish servants and tAvo Sisters of Charity. TTe was buried on a hill overlooking Carthage, and there in alien soil the poet slept for more than thirty years. And then in the mind of Mr. W. W. Corcoran, the great philanthropist of Washington, D. C-, there was conceived the idea of bringing the re­ mains back to America, to rest in the soil of his native land. It had semed to him almost a desecration to allow the precious dust of an American citizen who had sung so sweetly in praise of “ home, sweet home,” to mingle Avith any other than American soil. And so from that distant land they brought the remains of John Howard Payne; and on the ninety-second anniversary of his birth—June 9, 1883—they were reinterred in his native land. In beautiful Oak Heights Cemetery, just out­ side the city of Washington, D. C., and in front of the little vine-covered chapel, they made his grave. A plain Avhite marble shaft, surmounted by a bust of Mr. Payne, one half larger than life-size, marks the hallowed spot. The slab which covered the grave in Tunis, and which with the body was brought to America, lies near. On one side of the shaft is the poet’s name, Avith the dates of his birth and death; while on the other is the inscription: Sure when thy gentle spirit fled To realms beyond the azure dome, With arms outstretched God’s angels said: “Welcome to Heaven’s home, siveet home!’’ John Howard Payne had lived in Washing­ ton, and this cemetery, which was then only a Avoodland, was a fa\Torite haunt of his. He fre­ quently visited the charming spot with friends, and Avas always enthusiastic in his praise of the beauty of the place and the picturesque scenery surrounding it; little dreaming that, after his mortal remains had rested in alien soil for more than thirty years, they would be brought thither by a friend whose loyalty to his memory Avould cause them to be consigned to their final resting-place beneath the very trees in whose grateful shadow he had once loved to A\mnder. There is no happy life: there are only happy days.—A. Theuriet. Visitors to Italy who travel on Sunday have to pay a special tax. Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library Fourteen THE ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW The People of Palestine By A. H. Atteridge HE BRITISH COLONIAL Office has published the preliminary results of the new census of Palestine. The country that is now thus officially described is the Pal­ estine of the “mandate,” Earl Balfour’s “Na­ tional Home for the Jewish Race”—and thus excludes some portions of the historic Pales­ tine. East and west its boundaries are the line of the Jordan and the seacoast of the Mediter­ ranean. The country beyond the Jordan is now the Arab State of “ Trans-Jordania” under British protection. The northern boundary of the new Palestine cuts off and assigns to the French a small portion of the extreme north of the older Palestine. In the south the his­ toric boundary is maintained, namely the mar­ gin of the desert country beyond Beersheba and Gaza. Until the census was taken last year the esti­ mates of population for this new Jewish State were based on the last Turkish census, correct­ ed by local inquiries. These figures made the total population of Palestine, when the new Government came into existence in 1919, amount to 647,850. The census figures show either that there has been in three years a re­ markable increase of the population, or that the result arrived at in 1919 was an underesti­ mate. The latter is almost certainly the true explanation of the matter. The census has been very carefully carried out and is based on a complete enumeration of the people, except in the extreme south around Beersheba, where the Bedouin Arabs regarded census-taking as having some malign purpose and refused to cooperate in any way with the officials. In that district the enumerators had to rely on estimates based on local knowledge. But the numbers involved here were in any case unimportant, and we may take it that they do not affect the general result. The total arrived at for the whole country is 755,858, in round numbers 750,000, an increase of about 100,000 on the estimates of 1919. Out of these 750,000, the Jews, who now con­ trol the new Palestine, number only 83,794; though since 1919 they have been reinforced by more than 20,000 Jewish immigrants, drawn chiefly from Russia, Poland and the Balkan lands. We have thus a minority of some 80,000 Jews dominating a non-Jewish majority of about 675,000. Was there ever a more glaring violation of the principle of nationality and that of democratic rule! The position is even worse than these figures suggest, for among the Jews themselves a not inconsiderable number of the older residents in Palestine are opposed to the Zionist adventure. In the non-Jewish majority the largest figure is that of the Mohammedans—589,564. Next come the Christians who number 73,026. The remaining 9,474 of the population are made up of some 7,000 Druses in the northern districts, bordering on their stronghold in the Lebanon; a few adherents of unorthodox Moslem sects, Bahais, 265, and Metwallis 156; a handful of Samaritans, 163 in all, the remnant of what was once a nation; and finally some 1,800 Hindus and Sikhs, apparently garrison troops and po­ lice from British India stationed temporarily in Palestine. Leaving these unimportant denominations out of account, we have, as forming the active opposition to the rule of the Jewish minority, more than 650,000 Mohammedans and Chris­ tians. They are commonly classed together as “Arabs,” for though they are not all of Arab descent, and large numbers of them represent races that have been longer in Palestine than most of the Zionists, the language of all the Mohammedans and all the native Christians is Arabic. The common danger resulting from Zionist rule has drawn Moslem and Christian together for united defense. The Arab delega­ tion which came to London last year included an Arab-speaking representative of the Catho­ lics of the Holy Land. The delegates are again in London. They have had a first interview with the head of the Colonial Office, the Duke of Devonshire, and he has told them that there is no prospect of the present system of govern­ ment in Palestine being modified. But Moussa Kazim el Husseini and his colleagues are not discouraged by this first rebuff. They say it was just the kind of official reply they expected at the outset. They are staying on in London and hope to have their case brought before both houses of Parliament. If they succeed in their purpose, the result will be interesting. The Zionist propaganda persistently repre­ sents the Arab majority in Palestine as an alien race, inferior in every way to the ruling Jew­ ish minority. The fact is kept in the back­ ground that some 70,000 of these “Arabs” are Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library THE ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW Fifteen Christians, a more numerous body than the Jews of Palestine before they were reinforced by the organized immigration from Eastern Europe. The Zionists trade upon the popular idea that the Arab is a rude dweller in tents, of the Bedouin type. But there are very few Bedouins in Palestine; these are chiefly to be found on the desert margins about Beerslieba. The Arabs of the Holy Land-----Moslem and Christian—are small farmers in the country, artisans and traders in the towns. Among them, too, are many highly educated men, and successful men of business. The only part of the Holy Land where the Jews, apart from the privileged position given them by the Zionist regime, form an important element in the popu­ lation is in the South. In and around Jerusa­ lem they outnumber slightly the Moslems and the Christians, if each denomination is taken separately, though, they are in a minority com­ pared to the two combined. In Jaffa Jews and Moslems are about equal in numbers. In the North about Haifa and Carmel the Christians form the majority of the population. In view of these facts it is not a matter for surprise that another delegation has come from Palestine to protest present conditions in that land. The Tragedy of Thrace By E. Christitch T HE REINSTATEMENT of Turkish rule in Thrace is a woeful landmark in his­ tory. Thrace was once a kingdom, and an independent kingdom; but it was success­ ively subject to Persia, Macedonia and Syria, till it fell under Roman sway fifty years B. C. It lies to the south of the Rhodope mountain chain; and Western Thrace is situated between the Mesta and Maritsa rivers. All Trace is claimed by Turkey, whose policy of extermina­ tion enables her to point here, as in Armenia, to the diminished Christian population and to rely on its being sufficiently cowed to make a plebiscite a safe venture. But Greece, Serbia arid Bulgaria, were able to prevent at Lausanne the imposition of a plebiscite. Western Thrace or Gumuljina as it is otherwise called, has cer­ tainly now a large Moslem, if not a Turk, pop­ ulation. It is inhabited by numbers of Pomaks (who are Bulgarian Mohammedans), and a ma­ jority of Christian Greeks. The land has long been disputed between Greeks and Bulgarians, and at the end of the second Balkan War in 1913 Bulgaria got possession of a large Thra­ cian area. The Turks, as a rule, fraternized better with the Bulgarians than with the Greeks; and when at the close of the Great War almost the entire province of Thrace, East and West, was given by the Allies to Greece, both Turks and Bulgarians departed. Both peoples are now looking to resettle­ ments in this fertile province, so vast that if has been proposed as a refuge ground for the Armenian nation, for whom the Turks have de­ cidedly no room in Asia Minor. The eminently industrious Greek population was thriving in this congenial region, when the terrible collapse of the Greek army beyond Smyrna, and the cession at Mudania of Eastern Thrace to the visitors, suddenly flooded AVestern Thrace with hundreds of thousands of Greek refugees seek­ ing asylum from the returning tyrants. There is no geographical line of demarcation between Christendom and Islam ; for in the bor­ der lands of Asia and Europe creeds are inter­ mingled, and Christianity fluctuates as the Mos­ lem scythe moves hither and thither mowing down, as relentlessly as it dares, those who re­ sist Mohammed. In Europe, the Turks are moving into silent and deserted Thrace, whence the Greeks fled in panic, but the fugitives are already hoping and planning for a future re­ turn to their homesteads. A gallant little Greek contingent still holds the fort of Karagatcli at Adrianople, in spite of the protests of the French mandatory force, so that Christians still assert themselves even here. Islam, indeed, has regained a foothold in Europe that it had lost, but it has not wiped out the Christian religion in Asiatic Turkey by expelling the Greeks. The deathless Armenians are again lifting their heads and clamoring for territory on which to live within Cilicia. They will not go to Thrace, where neither Greeks nor Bulgar­ ians want them; but they will stay in Asia and exist there as Christians, decimated, tortured, but ineradicable. Their normal existence is one of revolt, and it was a new, proud experience for them last year to join up with a regular army like that of the Greeks. They had harassed the Turkish army as best they could during the World AArar, and paid the penalty. One reads in Sir V. Chirol’s “ Turkish Em- Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library Sixteen THE ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW pire” that sufficient ammunition was still pos­ sessed by the Ottoman troops after the Meso­ potamian and Palestine campaigns to enable them to shoot the Christians in batches. Tied together in droves, and huddled into the small­ est possible space, they were exposed to the play of machine guns till the last was laid low. 'file decency of a light covering of earth was often given to the mound of corpses. Far dif ­ ferent was it with the doomed victims later on, to whom military parsimony grudged such a merciful end to their sufferings. Stripped of every tattered garment that still hung on then- shrunken limbs, they were chased at bayonet point into the mountainous regions of eternal snow, and left, thus unclothed, to perish of exposure and starvation. Bitterly, indeed, must the Christians of Asia Minor rue the temerity of the Greeks when, prompted by the Western powers, they challenged Turkey-in-Asia, with the hope Jiidden in their hearts of resuming the interrupted liturgy in Santa Sophia. Still does the legend run of the priest, interrupted while celebrating the Holy Sacrifice, who miraculous­ ly disappeared in the wall behind the altar when the Turks rode into the sacred edifice. Simple folk on the Greek Islands still dream of being among the Faithful to receive the Sacred Species at the hands of this priest, when he reappears to complete the unfinished Mass while the Cross glitters once more on Hagia Sophia. The loss of Thrace to Greece does not mean the loss of Greek aspirations. Turkey is cer­ tainly less formidable than she was a century ago; she is no longer a power in Africa; Her sway in Asia has been reduced; and she will have to act warily in Europe with the eyes of the little neighbor States fixed upon her. It is calamitous that the close of the war did not see proper restrictions applied to this malignant anti-Christian factor. The Turkish army had dwindled to ono- fourth its size in 1914; and, to take England's case alone, there was sufficient reason for stern measures One-third of the British prisoners taken by the Turks succumbed to neglect, and the fate of missing thousands was never made known. Vet. while Germany was forced to sur­ render her armament, Turkey was exempted from like penalty. Her heavy artillery, as the Greeks discovered when prompted by the West­ ern Powers to try their luck, was in perfect working order. Turkey’s success was so com­ plete that after 3,000 years the Greek race ex­ ists no more in Asia Minor! Military victories always find admirers and acclaimers, and so we find that suddenly Mohammedanism lias be­ come fashionable. Some months ago there was an impressive Moslem celebration in a town of Sussex, where sixty converts to Islam were re­ ceived, and many in the assembly promised to recruit actively for augmentation of the num­ ber. One of the kindly patrons was a British peer, Lord Headley, most influential of the “ true believers’’ in England, who is responsi­ ble for the building of an imposing mosque in Liverpool. Turkey has plenty of friends nearer home, where doubtful or tepid coreligionists have gained fresh ardor by the triumph of Mus- tapha Kemal. “ The time has come,’’ said the Afghan En­ voy, congratulating the conqueror of Smyrna on the rout of the Christians, “when Heaven sees fit to uplift the Moslem world, and pre­ pare the restoration of the Caliphate to its pris­ tine splendor.” In Smyrna, the people, reliant on French sympathy, manifested their joy so boisterously as to alarm the French residents, who felt keen­ ly that in the eyes of the turbulent masses they, too, were “ Christians’5 like the “ Greek dogs” just defeated. There were amicable remon­ strances from the French authorities, which had little result. A wealthy" Syrian had offered a reward to the first Turk who planted the ban­ ner of the Prophet on the walls of Smyrna, and this man now became the hero of the hour. The Arabs themselves, discontented at the small territory given them for -a kingdom, held moreover in tutelage by England, although still.hostile to the Turks whose l’ule they dis­ carded, are impressed by the hero of Angora, the indomitable Kemal. The link of creed with a victor is more potent than dislike of the sov­ ereignty of the Sultan. In Palestine it was seriously considered whether Kemal should not be invited to relieve the citizens from the Zionist domination foisted on them by England. One cannot even hope that the sad prospect of Islam, once more in control of the holiest places on earth, should bring together the nations built up on Christian civilization, and inspire them to sink their differences for the sake of their common de­ fense, so long as the ominous move of Turkey- back to Thrace is not only tolerated but conced­ ed as a welcome event. Thrace is primarily Hellene, then Slav, and only- in the third place Turk. Turkey-’s popu­ lation is now about 7,000,000, and in the vast stretch of Thracian territory- confided to her she will be incapable of carry-ing on without Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library FULLERTON FUSLIJ u Fullerton, CaJif. THE ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW Seventeen the Greeks she lias expelled. They are always The Greeks will surely creep back again, and her principal workers, for the Turks allow their treatment by the lords of the land will Christians to exist within their Empire mere- then be a matter of profound interest for their ly because they desire laborers and servants, neighbors. Trifles Reveal Criminals By P. Laurent EVERY criminal leaves some tell-tale evi- further inquiries led to the recovery of some dence of his crime. Careful though he property which he had stolen from his victim, be in each detail, some little thing is al- jn much the same way another murderer re­ ways overlooked. Stories by American detec- cently has been detected. His conviction was tives have time and again proved this to be due to a few spots of candle grease on his the rule here, and now, from France, is it dothes. Who would expect that so small a mat- verified tor the European countries. ter would bring a man to the scaffold? “ Betrayed by a shoelace, or the iatal knot.” Again the case involved the murder of a This isn’t the title of the latest thriller at woman, in this instance a war widow, named the Grand Guignol, the little theater of sensa- Sutter, who kept a small shop. One day she tions here in Paris, but it might well be. It did not appear at the usual time and the neigh- epitomizes the denouement of one of the most bors found that she had been attacked and mur- recent of the strange crimes of Paris. It illus- dered in the night. trates, as the sequels to several other cases do, An examination of the premises showed lit- too, how the cleverest criminals are caught tie orl which to prosecute inquiries. Once again through trifling slips that even the most stupid the criminal had carefully removed all traces of their kind ordinarily would not make. but one. The trifle he had overlooked gave the. In this case a Madame Mallet was found clew to the police. After the house had been dead in her apartment with a shoelace tied scrutinized from top to bottom and had yield- tightly around her neck. She had been ed no result, the next step was to question the strangled, but by whom there was not the neighbors. At that time no suspicion attached slightest clew to show. The detectives searched to any of them. the room in vain. The murderer had left no Among them was a man named Bodart. With trace behind. It looked as if he would remain all the confidence of the man who knows that undetected. That was, no doubt, what the there is nothing to connect him with the crime murderer himself thought, for with great cun- —had he not seen to that himself?—Bodart ap- ning he had completely covered up his tracks, peared with the rest and did his best to mislead But he had forgotten one very simple thing the police still further. -—the fact that he was left-handed. The way A keen-eyed detective noticed on the man’s in which he had tied the knots which slowly clothing a few grease spots. Now, in the house and cruelly squeezed the life out of Madame of tragedy they had found a trail of candle Mallet drew the attention of a clever detective, grease passing from one likely hiding place It therefore was quite to be expected that for money to another. Evidently the murderer the search would lead to a boot shop. And, had taken a candle to light him in his search for surprising though it may seem, the shop hap- his victim’s treasure. Bodart was at once ar- pened to be that which the victim had visited rested and afterwards convicted of the crime, as a customer. One can imagine the amazement Though lie had contrived to enter and leave of the criminal when he saw the officers enter, the shop unseen he had carried away with him One can glimpse his terror when they demanded the evidence of his guilt. that he tie up some parcels. These cases are not alone, for there are Thus he was caught. It was discovered that many instances in which clever criminals have the knots in the bootlace which formed the only made slips that have led to their undoing. One clew held by the police were exactly like the of the most curious cases in all the annals of knots tied by this man when he fastened up par- crime was the death last winter of Count Dor- cels for customers. Arrest followed, and endorff. Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library Eighteen THE ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW The Count gambled heavily with a Pole named Rogulski. Later his body was found by gendarmes, frozen to death in a wood. Rogul- ski explained, when questioned, that the Count had lost severely while gambling with him and that he was so enraged at this that he rushed out of the house and so met his end in the freezing night air. This explanation would have passed muster but for the fact that the Count was wearing patent leather slippers. These slippers disproved the glib tale of the Pole. There was no sign that the Count had walked in them. They bore no trace of mud nor any indication that he had been out of doors at all. The truth, as it came out later, was that Ro- gulski was the loser and had paid his debt by murder. He had drugged the Count with a powerful narcotic, placed his helpless victim on a sledge, dragged him into the wood and then callously left him there to die. The apparently insignificant point that all tlie glass splinters from a broken window lay outside a room convicted Courvoisier the French valet of Lord John Russell, of the mur­ der of his master. With calculated cunning he stripped himself completely before he com­ mitted the crime. So it left no trace upon his clothes. Then lie broke the window of the room to support his story that the murderer had broken into the house. But he had forgot­ ten to go outside to do it and so insure that the broken glass would fall inside. It was this fact that gave the clew to the criminal. A curious error, due to the criminal’s ignor­ ance of science, actually kept the evidence of one murder intact for twelve months. The murderer, after killing his victim, a woman, placed the body in a dry cellar and covered it with chloride of lime. He thought the lime would destroy the identity of the body whereas it did exactly the opposite. The body was in such a good state of preservation a year after the medical experts had no difficulty in estab­ lishing through it the vital clew to the crime and the criminal. If the man only had mixed some water with the lime he might have escaped detection. A gold chain hanged another murderer. He killed his wife and so cleverly destroyed all possible clews on the scene of his crime that the police were baffled completely. But he made the fatal mistake of giving away to a girl the gold chain which his wife had worn. This was identified and led to his arrest and execu­ tion. A similar oversight caused the downfall of the infamous Dr. Crippen. He was clever enough to know that the use of liyoscin would be safe, as its presence in the body of his wife could not be traced. But he, too, despite his coolness and calculation, made a fatal mistake. This was to give his dead wife’s jewelry to his sweetheart, Le Neve, to wear. It is possible that even then he might have escaped if, at the last moment, he had not taken to flight, with the result that the police visited the house and dug up the cellar, where he had buried the body of his victim. Another notorious murderer, who devised a scheme as cunning as it was diabolical, did not allow for the fact that while one crime may be kept secret a succession of them must in the end arouse attention. This was Smith, the man responsible for the “brides in the bath” case. He drowned no less than three women in their baths and secured their insurance money. His plan was to marry a woman with money, to get an insurance on her life, and then to ar­ range an accident in which his bride had appar­ ently been suffocated in her bath after a faint­ ing fit. It was so cleverly a fainting fit. It was not until three women had met their ends in this way that suspicion began to be directed towards him. As a matter of fact at the first two inquests verdicts of “ death from misad­ venture” were returned. When the third case occurred the co-incidence was too ominous to be overlooked. It was im­ possible to believe that all these women could have married the same man, only to die by acci­ dent in the same way, in each case enriching the widower, without some human intervention. Smith, like many cunning criminals, had over­ reached himself. Though clever enough to evade suspicion twice, he forgot the little fact that even “ the long arm of coincidence” does not reach quite so far as a third death of the same kind among one man’s wives. It is a good thing for society that the crim­ inal often gives to the police, through the sim­ plest of slips, the vital clew to his guilt. The “ foolishnessproof ” criminal would be too great a menace. Happily he does not Seem to exist, except in the romantic pages of fiction. LICENSE 264 FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS SACRAMENTO.—California has licensed 264 foreign language school teachers the past two years, according to the biennial report of Will C. Wood, state superintendent. Of the total, 181 were Japanese, 77 special teachers and six Germans, the report showed. Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library “ADOBE FLORES”—PAINTING BY NORMAN S. CHAMBERLAIN —Los Angeles Museum Mr. Chamberlain has been in California only two years and is now a resident of Laguna Beach He formerly lived at Grand Rapids. This is the first picture he ever exhibited—Edtior’s Note. Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library “IN SCHOOL”—ETCHING BY EILEEN SOPER ■—Los Angeles Museum This little artist, only 13 years of age, has great '7ogue among the leading etchers of England Her father is well known in the art world.—Editor's Note. TH E OLD CHURCH"—BT J. HAROLD LEIGHTON —Los Angeles Museum Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library “ALONG A W EST INDIAN STREET” BLOCKPRINT BY CHAS. A. W ILIMOVSKI —Los Angeles Museum “W ESTCHESTER H ILLS”—PAINTING BY HOBART NICHOLLS —Los Angeles Museum Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library H A PPY "— BY W IL L IA M A U ERBA CH LEVY J —Los Angeles Museum Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library THE ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW Twenty-Three A Convention in Perspective By Katherine Elspeth Oliver O RANGE COUNTY had a rare privilege recently: that of entertaining the annual convention of the state federation of music clubs. The daily papers in accordance with their particular function gave the affair generous publicity with the result that the details of the conference are now an old story. The more pertinent and permanent impressions of such a conference require some measure of perspec­ tive in order to define them and time is required to “ register” their effect in the community in which the event is held. Personally the writer w7as one of many who, outside the trend of music affairs, felt not a little curiosity as to the functions and purposes of a music convention. A political convention, a business convention —a convention of the Elks, the Lions or other members of the zoo-logical brotherhood—a con­ vention of the Amalgamated Window Wipers of the World—we are all acquainted with such assemblies: these have their .society’s politics to do, wires to pull, offices to fill, things to be put over. But a convention of music people. We have never associated the aforementioned activities with such folk. We’ve always thought of the artist and the musician as a people apart —formed to live in a realm of idealism and art from which should they descend to common soil and offices would certainly lose their use- fulness to the world. Just what is the object of the State federa­ tion of music clubs—what do music people want of organization—what will a convention of music clubs accomplish? These were ques­ tions asked with some skepticism by the mere layman, previous to the coming of the confer­ ence to Santa Ana. The first justification of the music people’s convention appearing to those in attendance was of a personal character. The pleasure of listening to such musical treats as the Orange County Choral Union’s splendid rendering of the “ Golden Legend,” under the accomplished direction of Mr. Ellis Rhodes, the evening of American Music prepared by some dozen of the State’s best known musicians, and that im­ perial musical offering, the Flonzaley quar­ tette—to say nothing of the afternoon with the accomplished young winners of the amateur music contest, and the superb closing entertain­ ment by the Broadway chorus—such a feast, alone, would justify an annual assembly of the musicians of the state. Again, the pleasure of having a face to face, and hand to hand acquaintance with the music people of the state, distinguished folk, house­ hold names gratefully enshrined because of the cultural gifts they have contributed—this again is another fine privilege of the convention. The social features of the convention—the luncheons, banquet and reception hours—were noteworthy as occasions—not of dry formality but real pleasure. These were no “kid glove” affairs but a sort of family reunion of the mu­ sic folk into the cordial spirit of which even the hardened pen men and women were irre- sistably drawn and yielded gratefully to the charm and bonhomie that prevailed. That eminent trio of presiding geniuses, Mrs. Lillian Birmingham, Mr. Gustlin and Mr. Be- heymer, invariably keyed the after-dinner feli­ cities to an informal pitch—a sort of “ toss ball” affair where the surprised guest had no time for conjuring oratorical effects or fine phrasing, and real spontaneity and wit pre­ vailed. Another distinguishing feature of these occa­ sions was the fact that in no instance was the object of the convention—the business in hand -—made an object for jocular remark or a theme upon which the speaker whetted his wit. Some deep personal reverence for the ideals in the name of which they were met, spared reference to the name of music in a flippant relation. This may seem a small matter, yet how often the fun feature of a convention has been turned into an occasion of such raillery as had the ef­ fect, even in the minds of the “hard boiled” reporters of absolutely annulling the motives and ideals for which the meeting was called. A real lover of art and beauty does not use his classic vase upon which to scratch his match, and a man’s, or an assembly’s ideals may be judged by the handling they receive when the devotee is at play. Altogether, as a rather “ case hardened” con­ vention goer, the writer was more than pleased with the seriousness with which the music peo­ ple considered their responsibility in regard to musical ideals of musical art. The theme of the artist’s passion for his ideals has been so capitalized by films and Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library Twenty-four THE ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW fiction as to have its significance and even cred­ ibility impaired, but the fact remains, that art, music, is a real element in life—an appeal to the spirit, indisputable; and that the real ar­ tist who yields himself to this appeal, who makes the art of music a study and a consecra­ tion—grows a loyalty to that art that takes the form of an ideal: precious, inviolable—a religion, a faith—perhaps it is not too much to say—a way to God. And that this Ideal be­ comes thereafter an object to he championed— defended—exalted—with all the power of his will and strength. Something of this fidelity and zeal, like the flash of the gold in the quartz, was revealed in the many addresses and conferences of the con­ vention, and the unstudied utterances of the musicians at the informal assemblies, causing the heart to thrill with the knowledge that the servers at the shrine are keeping pledge. The same zeal spoke in the unfeigned pleasure of the older musicians present in the accomplish ment of the younger. The young amateur’s con­ tests which the federation is fostering is an exemplification of the same spirit—the passing on of the “ torch.” It was with pride that Orange County members acclaimed one of their own young musicians as among the successful contestants. Little Miss Hardy of Balboa, who is expected to give a fine account of herself next month at the annual convention of the national federation of music clubs. The day devoted to public school music was an illuminating one to the man or woman un­ familiar with the amazing development of this phase of public school instruction. It is prob­ able that the average citizen and taxpayer has no idea of the amount of money and attention expended upon music—that which fifteen to twenty years ago was considered a mere accom­ plishment. Four years of musical training in practically any line of musical accomplishment he elects is now available for the public school student by means of the school glee club, or­ chestra, band and the individual lessons avail­ able for him in many schools. With the conviction that this education is as valuable in its particular service to the mind and heart of the child as any other study of the school course, the federation is drawing under its expansive wings—to promote and to foster—the various music organizations of the school. Church music was another aspect of the con­ vention’s theme given discussion and able ex­ emplification. Personally, if “ Sunday School Music” or “ Young People’s Music” had been the theme some of us would have been given outlet for long pent up emotion. AYe have banished in the public school, the primer containing the ancient inanities of “John and Mary” and substituted little class­ ics for the Beginners. We have made the dis­ covery that the child is peculiarly susceptible to the ideals in art, and we have set him to learning the music of the masters. Why then, do we impose upon him in the Sunday School, music utterly lacking in elements of beauty or appropriateness—mere tinkle set to a denatur- ized kind of jazz, evidently with the motive of cheating him into feeling that he is attending the “movies” ! Why, instead of the noble hymns that breathe reverence, zeal and the militant voice of the advancing church are our young people as­ signed the sentimental jingles with their syn­ copated choruses (“ sing and repeat, whist­ ling”) that are invariably collected in the song books “ for the young.” Have we not heard that youth—adolescence—is the hour for the High Call and the Splendid Challenge, the time when the heart of the normal boy and girl repudiates the common and cries for the Ideal! Perhaps the next music convention will come to their help. “ Industrial music”—the convention conun­ drum ! The uninstructed mind easily conjures the song of the sewing machine, the music of the vacuum cleaner; the “ anvil chorus,” perhaps, or the high staccato of the builder’s rivetter on the twentieth story girder. Nothing of the kind. This is “ sure ’nuf” music—music of humans—the music of eighty- two humans—to be accurate—members of the industrial chorus of the Broadway Department Store of Los Angeles, in their superb rendition of the cantata, the Rose Maiden, the conclud­ ing number of the convention. It was an impressive and splendid revela­ tion. And later we heard Ben Pearson, one of the department heads of the great store, speak— not of commercial successes—stories of profit and loss—but with an enthusiasm and sincerity not often heard, telling of the inspirational value of the big chorus to the sales force and heads of his store and his personal sentiments in regard to music as a definite spiritual ele­ ment, elevating and purifying the mind of the individual and harmonizing the aspirations and sympathies of the working body. Others, members of the chorus and men of Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library irULLERTOi; PUBLIC LIEP.AEf . Fullerton* Calif. THE ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW responsibility and worth, seconded Mr. Pear­ son’s testimony. It was an impressive endorse­ ment from practical men—men of the material world—concerning the value of art as an ideal possessed of definite human functioning of in­ valuable nature. Many other phases of music and its interest were touched upon: the emphasis upon the Am­ erican—the home artist as opposed to the im­ ported was made; the defeat of “jazzmania” determined, matters of state and national fed­ eration discussed. The entire justification of adding a music convention to the convention-rid times was proven by the useful fruits of the federation’s activity. In the face of the organization’s more than full program of work it might seem presump­ tuous for a mere layman to have conceived of one thing more the federation might usefully do; namely to encourage the graduates from our music departments of the public school to maintain alumni musical organizations—for the benefit of the community which has paid so generously for their musical training. The community chorus—the community orchestra and band, formed of the young people gradu­ ated from our public schools making grateful return for the favors they have received. If music is indeed the fine and useful and beautiful thing its disciples claim and such conventions and assemblies as that recently held testify, then it is indeed a great privilege and an act of real citizenship and patriotic ser­ vice to charm with the magic of that supple bow—the art of those accomplished fingers and voices, the dissonent elements of one’s home town, to invite the fagged business man and the tired worker, busy and anxious women, to an hour of relaxation and pleasure—an hour of delightful oblivion from which they will emerge rested, cheered, to mingle with one another and do their work in a new spirit of harmony and understanding because they have known together the great experience of a high emotion shared. This would indeed be a great and fine thing for any boy or girl to accomplish for his “home Twenty-five town” and his “home folks.” It would be a nne and great thing for the State Federation of Music to help tiie boys and girls do it, and thus set the capstone of accomplishment upon the projected program for the benefit of Cali­ fornia and her people. PRESIDENT HARDINC TO BE IN OR­ ANGE COUNTY AUGUST 6 President Harding will address Orange coun­ ty people in Santa Ana from the rear platform of his train Monday morning, Aug. 6, ac­ cording to word given a committee from the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce which con­ ferred with Walter Brown, special representa­ tive of the president, yesterday afternoon. The president will arrive in Santa Ana from Los Angeles, Sunday afternoon to visit his sister, Mrs. E. E. Remsburg, 1701 North Main street. The president’s visit with his sister will come immediately after his vacation jaunt to Catalina Island as the guest of William Wrig- ley, Jr. His boat will dock at Wilmington and he will be conveyed by automobile to Orange county. At the county line he will be met by a squad of Orange county motorcycle officers, who will act as an escort to Santa Ana, according to present plans. His speaking platform will be equipped with amplifiers to permit the large crowd which will be in attendance at the train to hear distinctly every word of the speech. James C. Metzgar, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, will call a meeting of the board of directors to com­ plete arrangements for the president’s visit. The president will leave Santa Ana and go direct to San Diego, where he will embark for Porto Rico. Word that he would address Orange county people was received with great pleasure and everything possible to assure the president that Orange county welcomes him will be arranged. The Treasury Department of the United States handles more money than any other in­ stitution on earth. DIAMONDS JEWELRY AX SILVERWARE I f it’s from Witman's it’s good Terms if desired"WITMAN’S FULLERTON—California Hotel ANAHEIM—155 W. Center Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library Twenty-six THE ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW Orange County Notes SUPERVISORS HEAR EINAL REPORTS OJ?’ HARBOR COMMISSION SANTA ANA, June 26.—Final reports of the Orange County Harbor Commission, active for late m 1915 in the development of the harbor at Newport Beach, was tiled with the board of supervisors shortly before noon today, in which the harbor commission recommends a million dollar bond issue at once for further develop­ ment and details how all of the $500,000 voted was spent. The report was taken under advisement by the board, and if accepted the commission will be discharged and their bonds released. A new commission is to be appointed, according to I he laws, to carry on the development work. The following is a summary of the recom­ mendations : Immediate $1,000,000 bond issue for building east jetty, dredging entrance and lengthening west jetty, and deepening and dredging en­ trance to harbor. Appointment of committee to go to Washing­ ton in November to work for federal appropria­ tion for harbor. Immediate construction of $40,000 wharf and warehouses. County owned railroad belt line. Court actions at once on land titles. All titles approved by courts. Employment of expert traffic engineer to de­ vote all time and energy to getting business for harbor, in belief that barge business can be opened within 60 days. The commission signing the reports unani­ mously consists of the following members: Linn L. Shaw, J. W. Duckworth, J. A. Armi- tage, K. E. Watson and Lew H. Wallace. JOINT MEETING OF TRUSTEES ON COUNTY SEWER PROJECT Members of the city boards of trustees of Santa Ana, Orange and Fullerton were pres­ ent at the meeting of the Anaheim board of trustees on the evening of July 12 when bids were opened for construction of the last part of the sewer to the sea project of these cities. According to City Manager O. E. Stewart of Anaheim, the bids probably will be referred to a committee for final award at the earliest possible date in order that work may get under way as soon as possible. The sewer line will pass through Garden Grove and that community is desirous of join­ ing in the project. As yet however, no plan has been worked out by residents of that commu­ nity but several prominent residents and prop­ erty holders there are trying to devise suitable means to join the project. As the time for starting work on the sewer project approaches, many other communities of Northern Orange county are contemplating plans for joining in the project, either on a rental basis or by paying for their share of con struction. Efforts are under way at La Habra, Brea and Placentia to join the project in some manner that will care for the sanitary condi­ tions of the prospective communities. The cities of Anaheim, Fullerton, Orange and Santa Ana, through their boards of trus­ tees, it is understood are favorable to letting all of these communities join if they can devise a feasible way to finance the plan. TWO MEMBERS COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION RE-NAMED C. C. Smith of Anaheim and Geo. C. Sher­ wood of Orange, district school superintend­ ents, were reappointed members of the county board of education by supervisors late yester­ day. It was voted to re-surface Verano street in the second road district to West Fifth avenue, one and three quarters miles. Acceptance of bids on the Rio Vista paving was continued to June 19. FIVE MILLION INCREASE IS SHOWN IN COUNTY’S ASSESSED VALUATION Orange county’s total assessed valuation this year amounts to $149,654,275, it was announced today by County Assessor James Sleeper, who is giving final touches to the tax roll before presenting it to the board of supervisors. The county total does not include railroad property, taxes on which are paid to the state. The city total does not include what is known as the “mixed roll,” which consists of property partly within Santa Ana district and partly in adjacent districts. Several millions in assessed valuation are represented there. The county’s assessed valuation for 1922 was $144,095,685.' COUNTY JUVENILE HOME COST $60,000 The total cost of the new County Juvenile Home will be $60,000, of which $20,000 will be expended next year, according to R. R. Miller, Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library THE ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW Twenty-seven County Probation Officer. Forty thousand dol­ lars probably will be spent this year. The building will be ready by Jan. 1. The structure will be located on Fruit street, near Grand ave nue, Santa Ana. The old building will be used to house dependents. COUNTY TAKES LEAD IN DAIRY INDUS­ TRY OF PACIFIC COAST Orange county is rapidly coming to the lead in the dairy industry of not only California but the entire west coast, figures given out by W. M. Coy, assistant farm advisor, show. The Orange County Cow Testing association took sixth position in the rank of associations of California during May, when 898 cows pro­ duced an average of 898 pounds of milk with 36.4 pounds of butter fat as a cow average for the month. All of the five leading associations were in the northern part of the state. ANAHETM PLUNGE LARGEST IN OR­ ANGE COUNTY Anaheim’s new swimming pool in the City Park will be the largest, it is said, in Orange County according to plans now being prepared by M. Eugene Durfee’s office. It will measure 50x150 feet and will include all of the latest features usually found in structures of the sort. There will be a diving stand with spring board, modern heating and circulating plant of a type approved by the State Board of Health and bath house 33 by 200 feet, contain­ ing 125 private dressing rooms and 350 lockers. The central portion will be 32 feet wide and v ill house the offices, first aid room, laundry room, etc. Upstairs there will be a five-room apartment for the care-taker. The roof will he of Spanish tile and the exte­ rior in light stucco. A six foot wire fence will surround the pool and buddings. Bids now being advertised for will be closed on July 12, and the work is expected to be fin­ ished by Sept. 15th. ANAHEIM P. O. RECEIPTS INCREASE ANAHEIM, July 5.—During the fiscal year ended June 30, the receipts of the Anaheim Postoffice were $44,083.29, compared with $36,- 839.14 in the previous fiscal year, Ex-Postmas­ ter J. F. Ahlborn reported today. Ahlborn added: “ The fiscal year of 1923-24 will bring about several improvements in the postal serv­ ice at this office. Two additional clerks were added July 1, and it is expected that the three additional city carriers requested will also be granted in the near future. This will mean the extension of the present city delivery district, embracing the Elk’s Park Tract, N. Clementine street, extension of Zeyn Tract, Diamond and Pearl street Tract, Nut Grove, Rose and Bush Streets, Cherry Street and West Broadway, beyond Walnut street. The contemplated ex­ tension will add 44.9 miles to the present city delivery territory. “ Rural Extensions are also contemplated, comprising upward of 10 miles additional ter­ ritory to be served. “ Both, rural and city delivery extensions are now pending and it is confidently expected that all of these contemplated improvements will be granted at an early date.” EIGHT STORY ANAHEIM BANK IS ASSURED ANAHEIM, June 29.—Anaheim will have a new bank in a new building which will be the highest building in Orange county, it became known today at the conclusion of a meeting of directors of the Anaheim Savings Bank held in the directors’ room of the First National Bank. The proposed building will be erected at the corner of East Center and Claudina streets by Samuel Kraemer, plans for which are drawn by Architect M. Eugene Durfee and work will be started within 90 days, it was announced. PREPARE TO DRILL WELL IN EAST ANAHEIM ANAHEIM, July 4.-----Lumber for the first rig in what is believed to be the next big oil field is being assembled on the “ Billy” Wag­ ner property in the East Anaheim district where the first oil well will be drilled, it was announced today by some persons who were in Anaheim and who are Vitally interested, having land in that vicinity under oil lease. The rig is being constructed for the Stand­ ard Oil Company which has leases on approxi­ mately 1,000 acres from the eastern city limits of Anaheim to the river. Work of drilling the first well is expected to be underway within 60 or 90 days, it is said by parties who have leased their oil rights to this company. From the date the first drill starts, everyone will be watching this field until something definite is known of the oil possibilities. Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library Twenty-eight THE ORANGB COUNTY REVIEW BOARD ACCEPTS CITY HALL PLANS FOR FULLERTON FULLERTON, June 13.—It is anticipated that specifications for construction of the new City Hall in Fullerton will be completed by July 15 and immediately following this, actual construction will start, following final approval of the revised drawings by the city hoard of trustees at their regular meeting last night, when Architect Horace Austin of Long Beach, appeared in person and explained the plans as redrawn. The final plans call for a large auditorium in the basement, where public gatherings can be held. This room will be provided with a projection room from which motion pictures or stereopticon pictures can he flashed. When the occasion arises, this large assembly room can be used for a ballroom with dancing. Just across the hall from the auditorium is a kitchen, where refreshments can be prepared and at each corner are large lodge rooms, one for women’s organizations, and another for men’s organizations. On the main floor is located the offices of the city clerk and water departments with their respective clerical accommodations. The offices are arranged so as to provide the best possible efficiency for all. A large court surrounded by colonades is in the center of the main floor and extends on up through the second floor. It is the hope of the city trustees to have the building under way in the immediate future that it may be completed during the present year. \ INCREASED SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AT FULLERTON There is no surer indication of the growth of the city than its school population. At the opening of the fall term in 1922 there were approximately 1000 grammar school pupils en­ rolled. With the opening of the new term in September there will be in excess of 1500, ac­ cording to figures now in the hands of the Ful­ lerton educational authorities. This means that at least 200 families will have made their home in Fullerton during the summer months. PROF. PLUMMER REMAINS AT HEAD FULLERTON HIGH SCHOOL FULLERTON, June 26.—Louise E. Plum­ mer, supervising principal of the Fullerton union high school and junior college, ended his four-year contract with the close of the present term. He has entered into a contract with the trustees for another four-year period, it was announced after a meeting of the high school board of trustees Friday. Mr. Plummer is one of the best known educa­ tors in California and parents and pupils alike will be glad to learn that he is retained as head of the schools. FULLERTON PERMITS $148,785 THIS MONTH Building permits were issued in Fullerton during June covering improvements amounting to $148, 785, more than double the same period last year, E. S. Richman, Fullerton building in­ spector, announced today. Richman said that permits have more than doubled every month this year, except March. The California hotel permit was taken out in March a year ago; and this year’s permits were not able to overcome it, he said. Most of the permits taken out this month were for residences, he said. The permits for June last year amounted to $66,625. New permits issued include: Tom Vernon, residence on W. Ash street, $3300; L. J. Ellis, residence E. Ash street, $3500. FULLERTON LIBRARY CIRCULATION 82,780 The total circulation for the year up to June 23 at the Fullerton library was 82,780, accord­ ing to the report of Miss Minnie Maxwell, li­ brarian. This is an increase of , 12.7 per cent over last year’s circulation, which was 73,401. The total cost of library service for the year has been $10,119.07, an average of 12.2 cents per volume circulated. Many thousands of books and periodicals have been used in the library, but of those no record has been kept. LAGUNA BEACH GETS PARK LAGUNA BEACH, June 25.—Laguna Beach is to have a natural park. The Catherine A. j THE FLOWER SHOP OF ANAHEIM | 120 N. Los Angeles St. j FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS I Members of the F. F. D. Our down town store, 2 1/2 acres of flowers and plants and large greenhouse, enable us to give you —Quality and Service at all times. Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library THE ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW Twenty—nine Brooks and Skidmore Brothers interests have purchased of the Yoche corporation the site in Laguna Canyon at the 90 degree curve 41 acres of the most beautiful mountainous country near Laguna Beach for a consideration of $12,000. This wonderful strip of land running from the curved road to the top of the foothills will be dedicated to Laguna Beach in commemoration of the late Nathan Brooks, the father of Laguna Beach, by Mrs. Brooks and the children, who hold their step-father in such high esteem. A bronze tablet will be placed on “ Pulpit Bock” on the property, dedicating the park to the memory of this grand old man. The site will be given to the city as soon as it is in a position to accept the deed. Joe Skidmore has formulated plans for ex­ tensive improvements on the several acres of level land at the foot of the wooded rocky slope. Tennis courts and a baseball diamond are planned. There is a wonderful site for a natural theater on the hillside, where a stage 50 feet across is planned. The acoustic powers are perfect, the ordinary speaking voice carry­ ing to the top of the opposite hillside where a gradual slope will make ideal seating arrange­ ment, possible for thousands of people. An open dancing pavilion is planned amid the trees, a straight wall of rock forming a natural background. There are fine old sycamore trees overhanging winding paths over the hills back into flower sprinkled dells—ideal lovers’ lanes. There are endless possibilities for the enthusi­ astic hiker. Mr. Skidmore plans to improve the property gradually and will make certain restrictions in the deed for the carrying out of his ideas. Mr. Skidmore will build a small stone lodge for his own private use near the summit where a great rocky ledge overhangs the hillside. The be­ quest to the city will be made with the under­ standing that the park is to be always for the use of the public. No charges are to be made except for the raising of public benefit funds. The deal is now in escrow at Santa Ana. ANAHEIM BJJILDING RECORD Anaheim building permits for June totalled $141,985, compared with $140,185 for May, re­ ported J. W. Price, city building inspector, to­ day. -<“• This makes a total of $1,237,330 for the first half of the year, far in excess of any six months in the city’s history. Price believes that with the large building projects in sight the last half of the year will exceed this figure. PAYING PROJECT TO AID LA HABRA Bids for the construction of roads in the La Habra Road district will be opened July 17tli. This date was set by the board of supervisors at their last meeting at which time they accept­ ed the plans and boundaries of the new road district. Practically all the highways and thor­ oughfares in the La Habra district will be paved, according to the plans as announced. ARIZONA PRAISES OUR HARBOR SECRETARY From a Phoenix newspaper we clip the fol­ lowing under date of May 30: Announcement was made this afternoon of the resignation of Harry Welch as secretary of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, a position he has filled since 1910. He has accepted an offer to become secretary-manager of the Or­ ange county harbor Chamber of Commerce, which is seeking establishment of a deep sea­ port at Newport Beach. Mr. Welch has been a leader in all civic ac­ tivities here and has been secretary of the Ari­ zona Good Roads Association since its forma­ tion. 11 'y U. P. ISSUES FINE SO. CAL. BOOKLET C. S. Brown, district passenger agent of the Union Pacific, announced that the railroad has just gotten out a new folder on Southern Cali­ fornia which is one of the most elaborate and comprehensive ever issued by any railroad. Notice to Subscribers. Because of the complete remodeling of the plant of onr publishers we were obliged to suspend publication during June and July. All subscription contracts will be extended two months to cover this omission. We thank our readers and subscribers for their kind forbearance. *—---------------------------------------------.—-----------— We invite you to come to The Emporium The New Corner Store in Fullerton Cortecelli Warner’s Kayser’s Phoenix Butterick Silks, Royal Art Goods. Corsets, Holeproof Hosiery, Gloves, Vernon Draperies, Hosiery, Kayser’s Underwear, Patterns.iI Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library Thirty THE ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW AUTOMOBILE, TRACTOR AND TRUCK WORLD CENSUS OF AU­ TOMOTIVE VEHICLES A rather strong side light is cast upon American civiliza­ tion, in a material way, by the latest registration census of motor vehicles completed hy the United States Automotive Division. It shows that out of every six motor cars and trucks in the world, five are operated within the United States. The world’s combined total of passenger cars and motor trucks is given as 14,- 622,161, of which 12,357,376, or eighty-four per cent, are with­ in our boundaries. The motor trucks, numbering 1,763,378, account for only twelve per cent of the total world regis­ tration ; the remaining eighty- eight per cent consist of 12,- 858,783 passenger cars. In many foreign countries econ­ omy has made motorcycles more popular than low-priced passenger cars. There are 683,365 such machines owned abroad, or three times as many as are registered in the United States. ROAD HOGS DE LUXE The road hog has changed a lot in the past 10 years. Occa­ sionally he will burn the road and give everybody his dust, but his methods are more skill­ ful nowadays and far more an­ noying and dangerous. When you are trying to pass by him on the road—and when you have every reason to be in a hurry—he will speed up a little, just enough to keep yon guessing as to whether you are going to get by or get hit by the car approaching. When you are in a hurry to buy gas you will find him parking his car directly in front of the pump while he tinkers with his engine. When you have pulled up ahead of a parking space which you in­ tend backing into he will come up behind you and sound his horn because he wants the space. His methods are so de luxe nowadays that he doesn’t both­ er to confine his hoggishness.to the highways. As a matter of fact he plays road hog just as expertly when he is in the gar­ age. For doesn’t he invariably race his engine or let it idle whenever the man next to him is trying to work on his car? A favorite stunt is to park his car so close to yours that you couldn’t get away with a shoe-horn. If he has bumpers on his car he doesn’t care if he does hit you; it’s nothing to him. If there is parking space for two cars he will always leave his in such a way that you could make use of the oth­ er space by cutting your car into two sections. He may have all the latest equipment but if you will look him over carefully you’ll see that he is none other than the time- honored road ho g, brought down to date. Let’s make automotive pork out of him! DIESEL ENGINE RACK AGAIN Will the Diesel engine final­ ly be adapted to replace the spark ignition engine now used to propel automobiles This question, recurrent al­ most annually since the inven­ tion of the automobile, faces its last repetition with the an­ nouncement from Paris of the invention of a semi-Diesel type of engine for motor cars. At the very beginning of the automobile industry, use of a Diesel engine was attempted on automobiles. But, although used for stationary purposes and in submarines, the engine would not work well in a mov­ ing, vibrating machine. The engine, with spark igni­ tion, that has replaced the Diesel, however, uses up costly gasoline, while the air-com­ pression engine feeds on a cheap, low grade of oil. A combination of the good in both of these engines, there­ fore, would make an ideal pow­ er plant for automobiles. This ideal—or the nearest to it—French automotive engi­ neers believe is finally attained in the semi-Diesel automobile engine tested recently on a trip between Paris and Bordeaux. The engine, according to re­ ports, burns low-grade oil which costs 12 cents a gallon in France, as compared with Special Body Building, California Tops, Body Covering, High Class Painting Eddy Auto Paint and Top Shop Anaheim, Cal. Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library THE ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW Thirty-one 56 cents for gasoline. At the same time it retains the advan­ tages of the spark-ignition en­ gine now in use. Besides, its inventors say, the semi-Diesel costs less for upkeep and is simpler and therefore cheaper to make than the present type. Exper­ iments are still going on, with the idea of installing the en­ gine on Paris busses. STIRRING CLAN SPIRIT While the nation concerns itself with the Ku Klux motor­ ists may be interested to know that plans are afoot for the revival of that clan spirit which prevailed in automobile circles in the old days. Once upon a time if a man met an­ other man who drove the same make of car a salute was passed. Folk who cast their lot with a particular make of car felt that they had joined a club; and as loyal members they made it a point to be club­ by with all who boasted of the same radiator monogram. Frequently motorists stuck to their clan because thev knew tbev were “ stuck.” Misery loved companionship. But this “ root for your home team” spirit did much to en­ gender a spirit of rivalry among competing manufactur­ ers and those who supported them; and any old timer will admit that the benefits enjoyed by the car owner were in direct proportion to his interest in his particular clan. Then came an era of tremen­ dous expansion, with all kinds of people taking to the wheel, and little time for the further development of the clan idea. We are just at the fag end of this period with the beginning of the new year; and the new tobacco which we are urged to put in our pipes and smoke is to be the old clan spirit done up in a new package. One of the large quantity producers of motor cars has discovered that thousands of its stockholders are driving other makes of cars. It is go­ ing to try to make rooters of investors, and discourage the habit of deserting one’s clan “ just for a change.” It seems logical. And if it will help to revive some of those ideas of courtesy and motor chivalry we’ll say it’s essential as well. TEST YOUR MIXTURE Carburetors can be made to supply safe mixtures or dang­ erous ones— a fact which very few drivers appreciate. Your carburetor should be adjusted so that stepping on the accel­ erator will make the car jump out of danger. Test it today and be on the safe side. If stepping on the accelerator chokes the motor and causes it to slow down your mixture is as dangerous as brakes that fail. TWO TRAFFIC TRICKS Watch out for street car switches when driving in the car tracks and abreast of other machines. The front wheels may follow the curve of the switch and swing the front of the car into the machine beside it. In an emergency where the quickest possible stop means everything don’t be afraid to shift to reverse after locking the wheels with the brakes. It is true that a car cannot be shifted to reverse while it is rolling forward, but when it is sliding the rear wheels are not revolving and shifting to reverse is as easy as though the car were standing still. But let in the clutch before releas­ ing the brakes. The wheels will then tend to pull the car backwards. J U N E ’S lO R O W N MILL COFFEE — at last 1 & A superb coffee in a n / economy package BROWN M ILL .BLEND SHOWNMIU. COFFEE 1 Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library Thirty-two THE ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW FIRST NATIONAL BANK AND FULLERTON SAVINGS BANK The fundam ental idea of our Bank is SER V IC E. Your tim e is valuable. W e know it. Your convenience is the first consid­ eration. W e recognize the fact. Your business is im portant. W e ap­ preciate it. LET US SERVE YOU W e pay 4% on Savings Accounts FIRST NATIONAL BANK and FULLERTON SA VINGS BANK ----------------------------------------------------------1 Strength— Individual Service— Integrity— T h e First National Bank A N D Farmers g Merchants Savings Bank OF SANTA ANA Combined Deposits .................$ 8,695,149.44 Combined Resources................. 11,109,245.54 Combined Capital and Surplus 1,081,918.17 4% Interest Paid on Time Deposits THINGS You ought to know! DO YOU KNOW That the BAKE-RITE busi­ ness all over the State is grow­ ing- by leaps and bounds? DO YOU KNOW That NEW BAKERIES are being added almost every day in the week to supply the de­ mand? DO YOU KNOW That not only Santa Ana, Ana­ heim, Orange and Fullerton are now supplied but El Monte and La Verne are on the list? DO YOU KNOW That people all over the Val­ ley are ASKING us to put one of our Bakeries in their town? DO YOU KNOW That it is practically impossi­ ble now for us to supply the daily demand from new towns? DO YOU KNOW That there are over FIFTY Bake-Rite Bakeries now in California alone? WONDER WHY? THERE’S A REASON! Here’s the Answer in a Word “Superiority” * Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library THE OKANliK COUNTY REVIEW Thirty-three DID YOU KNOW— That engineers are at vari­ ance regarding the proper weight for a crankshaft? One eight-cylinder car developing 105 horsepower uses a shaft weighing only 30 pounds while an SO horsepower six carries a 110-lb. shaft. Both cars base freedom from vibration on the shaft they use. The mystery of it is that the claims in both cases are well founded; vibra­ tion is at a minimum in each. The layman might conclude that perhaps the weight of the crankshaft is not so important a factor in vibration as the en­ gineers believe. Else why should one extreme be as sat­ isfactory as another?# * # That a battery gives less trouble if it is not entirely cov­ ered with metal? Fumes from a battery should not be con­ fined, for if they are the box will suffer and the cells will eventually leak. It is a good idea, however, to see that the bottom of the battery is pro­ tected against water, dust, oil and stones thrown up from the road. PRIDE AND POLISH Public garages are not al­ ways as we would like to have them, particularly in these days when our cars are often mistaken for sardines, but the public garage has one very in­ teresting advantage over the private garage. When you climb over bumpers and trunk racks to get to your car in the morning you are certain to note that the hood of your car isn’t quite as highly polished as someone else’s, and a sense of pride is bound to encourage yTou to spend a few minutes making the car look better. When you keep your car in a private garage, however, the bus looks good enough to you in the morning. You discover your mistake later in the day, but then it’s too late to doll up. It’s a fact that one new car in a public garage will sell more bottles of polish than a thousand form letters address­ ed to car owners. AVOIDING THE SKID Locking the wheels is almost as certain to produce a skid with chains as without them, for the reason that the cross chains tend to spread and per­ mit the tread of the tire to come into direct contact with the road surface. The most effective stop can be made by locking the wheels momentar­ ily, releasing them and locking them again, repeating the pro­ cess if necessary. In this way the cross chains do the work of gripping the road before having a chance to spread. WHEN BRAKES CAPER Don’t be alarmed if the brakes seem to act strange some winter evening. Fre­ quently during the thawing process of the day water will be splashed all over the brake assemblies only to freeze when the temperature drops at sun­ down. When this happens the emergency brake may be hard to release, while the service brake will take hold with the slightest pressure of the foot. After a few miles of action, however, the brakes will act normally again. But in the meantime it is well to guard against too sudden application of the brakes. USE MORE LUBRICANT Few car owners realize that the one time in the year when the spring shackle bolts and other exposed bearings of the chassis need constant greasing is winter. Driving over hard packed snow and ice is exactly like bouncing over a country road in summer. Add to this Two Cars of Exceptional Merit CLEVELAND SIX The Car of Mechanical Quality at the Price That Satisfies. HERE ARE THE FACTS: The Cleveland Six is not an assembled car. It is manufac­ tured in its own plant. Its motor is of the overhead valve design, 3 1-16 bore by stroke, actually delivering 45 H. P. at the rear wheels. Its entire mechanism runs in oil. Its crankshaft, with unusually large bearings, is perfectly bal­ anced to eliminate vibration. Timkin bearings in both front and rear axles. Transmission is in unit with the motor. Special 10" single disc clutch. Bosch two-unit system for starting and lighting. Heavy, strong hydraulic pressed steal frame with four cross supports. Fisher built bodies in all open and closed models. Extremely low priced for quality. With Its New Pikes Peak Motor A car built w ith utm ost care, sacrificing no refinem ent in body or equipment. There are more than 5000 sep­arate inspections on the various parts th at enter into the Chandler Six. If a hum an hair were to be split into fifteen parts, one such part would represent the utm ost varia­ tion in diam eter which is perm itted on piston pins. This typifies the care in all operations. The Johannson test blocks used as m aster gauges in our inspection are made by a secret m ethod and guaranteed to be accurate to within .00001 of an inch. The Brinell pressure system and scleroscope rebound m ethod deter­ mine hardness of forging, casting and heat treated m aterials. Fifty operations check the crank­shaft. Fly wheels are balanced to the utm ost exactitude. Pistons are fitted to .0025 of an inch clearance. The m otor is subm itted to closest block tests, and an instrum ent sim ilar to a physician's stethoscope is used to listen to all parts as a check against noise. We handle both cars for Northern Orange County. Hubbell and Wimmer 252 N. Los Angeles Street Anaheim, Calif. Phone, 713 --------------------—------------------— Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library Thirty-four THE ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW the fact that oil and grease do not flow as freely in cold weather as in hot and the im­ portance of lavishing these ex­ tensively is readily seen. HANDLE WITH CARE Polks who are enthusiastic over the automobile and its great importance in transpor­ tation too frequently skip over the fact that an automobile also is an article of danger. Probably half the accidents in the country are due to the fact that drivers do not appreciate the hazardous nature of auto- mobiling. A new driver never learns how careful he should be when driving a car until he has run into something and had a taste of the danger that is ever present. One promi­ nent traffic expert has stated that the only way to reduce the number of accidents is to im­ press upon drivers the thought that a motor car is a dangerous article. He believes that when they see the fact clearly they will face it with common sense driving. When a driver passes an ap­ proaching street car he gets as far away from it as possible, not because he is afraid of damaging the traction com­ pany’s property but because he instinctively feels that a street car is a dangerous thing to meddle with. Yet he will pass a motor car weighing four or five thousand pounds so close that the hubs almost touch. How many drivers realize that at a speed of 30 miles an hour their car is traveling through space at the rate of 44 feet a second? How many drivers have any conception of the amount of damage 3.000 pounds can inflict when hurling through space at such a furi­ ous rate? When a freight car rolls along at only five miles an hour a motorist will shun it like poison, yet it is not capa­ ble of doing any more damage than a heavy machine doing 60. The sooner we cease to re­ gard the motor car as a toy the sooner will motorists cease to figure so conspicuously in the accident reports. LET’S LOOK AROUND Texas led all other states in the matter of road building in 1922, having added 933 miles during the year. The average for all states was 200 miles. Sometimes it is a good idea to stop planning what we’re go­ ing to do just for a moment in order to contemplate what we have accomplished. Five years of this sort of progress and traveling salesmen will be the envy of all who know the joy of a good car and a good road. THIS AND THAT Looking back over the list of once famous cars that are no more it is apparent that every car has its day. Perhaps some of the cars named after astro­ nomical bodies will break the spell by shining at night as well.# # # Finally the riddle of the cen­ turies has been solved; a chick en crosses the road for the same reason that a motorist crosses railroad tracks without looking.# # # It’s a wise man who knows his own Ford when he goes to the service station to take it home again. In one respect big cars can­ not excel small cars—neither can go any farther than its owner’s bankroll—or credit. Auto Tires, Accessories and Replacement Parts Wholesale and Retail “Quality Merchandise is Economy” 145 S. Los Angeles St. Anaheim, Calif. Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library T H E ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW Thirty-five BUILDING AND REAL ESTATE SALE CONTRACT IMPORTANT TO REALTY MEN By Carlos G. White Attorney for Oakland Real Estate Board The law of California draws a distinction between contracts between brokers to share commissions and contracts between owners or others employing an agent or broker to sell land. The latter type of contracts, those em­ ploying agents or brokers to sell land, must be in writing in order to be enforced by legal action. Even though a broker can produce a score of witnesses to testify that an owner orally authorized to sell the land and that he fully performed and made the sale on the owner’s terms, such testimony will not be received, and the law can afford the broker no relief against +he owner’s denial of a contract. A moral obligation is c rea ted , but none that can be en­ forced by law. However, a simple writing in such a case would protect a broker. For example, the fol­ lowing has been held to be sufficient written evidence of the broker’s employment to sell: “ John Jones, broker—I own premises known as 1)999 First street, Oakland, Cal. My price is: $10 000. Get me an offer. John Smith, Nov. 1, 1920.” Such a writing is not to be recom­ mended as a general form, but in an emer- gencv some such simple written evidence of au­ thority should be secured instead of merely relying upon an ora! request that may be for­ gotten or disputed. Originally oral contracts on all subjects were valid. Subsequently the law required certain specified kinds of contracts to be in writing in order to be legally recognized. California, how­ ever, does not require a written contract as between brokers where they either enter into a partnership in the real estate business or agree to divide as between themselves the com­ pensation to be secured by one of them from an owner, nor in the case where one of them, having a contract from the owner, agrees to pay another broker for assisting in the sale. The law requiring a written contract of em­ ployment in cases of real estate brokerage was designed for the protection of owners and buy­ ers against unfounded claims of employment and not for the protection of one broker against another. Contracts between brokers for the div­ ision of commissions are legally recognized and enforced, even when such contracts are entirely oral. CAL. MECCA FOR HOME SEEKERS, SAYS KEISER Stating that California is virtually without competition as a mecca for colonists and home- seekers, Edwin T. Keiser, state real estate commissioner, pre-cast a rosy future for the state. Having returned only recently from the con­ ference of directors of the National Real Estate association held at Jacksonville, Fla., Mr. Keis­ er based liis statements on observations and studies made in several states and on utterances of prominent realty brokers of the South and East. “ I found on my trip that many persons ev­ erywhere are looking toward California as a place where they expect to make their homes,” lie said, “ despite my former belief that certain states visited were dangerous com­ petitors for colonists and home-seekers.” “ On considering now the favorable condi­ tions and great potential resources of Califor­ nia, I am sure we need not fear any competition whatsoever. • California has virtually every­ thing that any other state in the Union pos­ sesses. “ When it comes to products we can raise almost any kind of grain cultivated in the na­ tion. Cotton is harvested in abundance in the Colorado river and San Joaquin valleys. Cali­ fornia grows virtually every fruit. And when it comes to manufacturing we find almost every­ thing that is essential in that line. “ Our mountain streams hold the potential power necessary to smelt our ores and run all our plants. Our location on the Pacific ocean gives a water outlet to every country in the world, and we have the markets. “ Europe is bankrupt, but the Oriental na­ tions have money, and Japan is now our best customer for many products. China is trading with us more and more, which is very encour­ aging when we consider her 400,000,000 popu­ lation. “As for real estate, it seems to me that we are justified in concluding that in the very near future there is going to be a much more active demand for California land. Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library Thirty-six T H E ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW FOR OUR YOUNG FOLK DANCING TREES By Rosamond Livingstone McN aught The trees are dancing light­ ly no iv, The breeze has made them gay; In softest green they gently boiv And rise and turn and stray. With careless grace they toss and swing In curve and. bend and rest; Then off again in fancy fling, A shimmer on their breast. There’s laughter in the dancing trees, And bloom and beauty, too; Amid the ripple of the green There shows a flash of blue. Oh, wondrous privilege is mine Who diyell in poverty, To sit in wealth of summer- shine, And watch a dancing tree! AN ADVENTURE IN ALASKA By Arthur Barry Johnnie Flannagan lived, with his father and mother, in a rustic hut, covered with branches and skins, away up in Alaska. His father had come from Ireland many years before to seek his fortune in Canada. He had failed to find that fortune in either Montreal or Quebec; and Johnnie had experienced pretty hard times, poor clothes and dry bread, even before the father, Tim­ othy Flannagan—“Wandering Tim” as he had been called in his native Tipperary,—caught the gold fever and started for the Alaskan district. Johnnie’s mother and Johnnie accompa­ nied him throughout the whole long, fatiguing, and very often dangerous journey. At last the trip was com­ pleted ; and father, mother and Johnnie (already well-grown, though he was only twelve years old), were installed on the banks of a river in whose bed they sought for gold dust and nuggets. While others around them, however, seemed to find the sparkling metal in paying quantities, the Flanna- gans had very bad luck, and it was as much as they could do to support themselves and put away some provisions for the long, long winter. Just now the sun, red and dull, showed only halfway above the horizon. The waters of the river were asleep under a thick blanket of ice; and, on this particular day of which we are writing, Johnnie’s sorrow­ ful eyes were watching the slow-falling, monotonous snow­ flakes increasing the thickness of the white robe covering the wide-extending plain. What was to become of them in this solitude? It almost seemed to the boy that horrible phantoms were passing in the sombre twilight. Suddenly a dark shadow ap­ peared at Johnnie’s feet. It had come silently over the snow; and, as the boy turned to see what it was, all that was visible were two sparkling eyes and an indistinct form. John­ nie uttered a cry of terror and stepped back. But then he heard a plaintive whine, and the next moment a rough tongue was licking his hands. It was a half-frozen, half-fam­ ished dog. “ Poor fellow!” said John­ nie. “You are a good Esqui­ maux dog, all right; but you have either lost your master or he is dead. And now I won­ der who will want to feed you in these hard times ? ’ ’ The dog continued to lick the boy’s hands, and his eyes wore a piteous look, while his sides shook as he stood tremb­ ling on his feet. “ Come, Johnnie!” cried the father’s voice from inside the hut. “Do you want your sup­ per? It’s a rather lean meal, but we won’t die of hunger yet a while, please Gfod.” Johnnie went in, and on his steps followed timidly the gaunt shadow with the appeal­ ing eyes. “ Hello! What’s this? A dog? Are you bringing us a guest? Turn him out and let his owner feed him. He’s probably better off than we are. ’ ’ “ 0 father, let me give him a little soup tonight! Tom Morris, I know, is looking for an Esquimaux dog to buy. To­ morrow I ’ll take this poor fel­ low over to him.” The boy had his way. The dog ate with relish; and when the family retired for the night he stretched himself at John­ nie’s feet. On awaking the next morning, Johnnie felt the dog pulling at his sleeve. Then he barked softly, ran to the door, came back to the boy, caught him by the sleeve again. Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library Thirty-sevenT H E ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW and tried to pull him towards the outside of the hut. “ He evidently wants to taks me somewhere,” thought Johnnie; and, telling his par­ ents he was going out for a while, he folloived the animal’s lead. The dog turned without hesitation to the north and trotted along, with the boy be­ hind him, for a full hour. Then as they skirted a hill and en­ tered a narrow valley, the dog stopped and began to howl. Looking closely, Johnnie saw that, the snow carpet seemed to he a little above the level just behind a big rock. Using the light pickaxe that he al ways carried in the belt around his waist, he cleared away some branches and skins that had formed the roof of a cabin that had collapsed; and all at once he came upon a hu­ man hand, that of the owner who had been buried in its ruins. A thpill of terror passed through the boy at the grue­ some sight; but he pluckily resolved to uncover the entire body in order to give it proper burial—if, indeed, the man were really dead. He worked for a good while, the body be­ ing under a lot of debris, but finally he succeeded in remov­ ing it, and found before him the corpse of a miner, lying with his face on the ground. There was a gaping wound on the back of the skull. Evident­ ly the heaviest beam of his house had fallen on him as he slept. One hand was pressed against a leather bag suspend­ ed from the neck. Johnnie op­ ened the bag and uttered a cry of astonishment: it was full of dull but precious nuggets. And, moreover, the miner’s belt (a hollow one) was filled with sparkling gold dust. Johnnie hurried home and brought back his father. They searched everywhere to find some clue to the identity of the dead man, but in vain. They inquired of other goldseekers, with the same result. The dog’s master had been an un­ known adventurer; and, ac­ cording to the custom of the country, all his effects, even the claim lie had been working, became the property of Mr. Flannagan. A month later a large and solid cabin sheltered “Wan­ dering Tim” with his wife and son. The snow was still whirl­ ing about, even to the horizon; but Johnnie’s thoughts, as he watched it, were no longer sad or gloomy. There was a dark shadow at his feet also, but the brilliant eyes shone now from a body that was no longer ema­ ciated. “Nugget,” as Johnnie had named his (which of course he had not sold to Tom Morris), was comfortably stretched out at the feet of his young master, to whom be­ cause of a little soup he had brought a little fortune. Not far away, under some spruce trees, is a mound with a wooden cross to mark the grave of “ Nugget’s” unknown owner. THE FIRST OMNIBUS The first London omnibus was a gorgeous vehicle, bright­ ly painted, with accommoda­ tion for twenty-two passengers inside, and was drawn by three handsome bay horses. The coachman and conductor were dressed in livery that matched the fine coach; the conductor being so fine a French scholar that many persons took pas­ sage merely for the purpose of chatting with him in order to improve their French accent. Newspapers and books were provided for the passeng'ers, so one could travel and im­ prove his education at the same time at small expense. Help Yoitr Baby Fight the Heat IT isn’t the heat that kills our babies in summer. It is stale milk, at a time when heat exhausts their little bodies. If you want a happy, healthy child this Kjmmer keep the milk cold every hour of the 24. The moment the temperature »ise*,bacteria <wmmate; the mi'1' spoils. Pure Ice - Honest W eight Qood Service NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ICE INDUSTRIES 163 W. Washington St., Chicaf* DEPEND OK ICE IN ALL WEATHER This emblem your protection Consolidated Ice and Cold Storage Co. FULLERTON ANAIIEIM Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library Thirty-eight T H E ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW Stetson Hats, Holeproof Hosiery Manhattan and Cluett Shirts Dutchess Trousers M. C. Lilly Co. Baggage Florshelm and Douglas Shoe& F. A. YUNGBLUTH THE BEST GOODS Merchant Tailor Home of H art Shaffner & Marx Anaheim, Calif. FULLERTON PAINT & PAPER * COMPANY Artists’ Materials Picture Framing Glass Windshields 212 North Spadra Phone 477 ---------------------—-------- Phone 156-J Estimates Given Repair Work a Specialty John Lotze Sanitary Plumbing Sheet Metal Work Plumbing Fixtures, Fittings and Sheet Metal Kept in Stock 124 West Commnowealth Fullerton, Calif. i ■ ■— ■■— — ..— i.— in— mi— mi—4 FULLERTON H O^ITAL Corner Pomona and Amerige Fullerton, California Mrs. E. R. Bowers, Supt. f"-----“--"------------------------- Telephone 402 HOLLAND Electric Co. MOTOR*AND LIGHTING INSTALLATIONS W B. Holland, Prop. 119 N. Los Angeles Street Anaheim, Calif. ------------------------------------—-------------------+ TO PET A HORSE “ Not many people know how to pet a horse—from the .horse’s standpoint, at any rate,” said a trainer. “ Every nice-looking horse comes in for a good deal of petting. Hitch a fine horse close to the curb, and you’ll find that half the men, women and children who go by will stop for a minute, say, ‘Nice horsey,’ and give him an affectionate pat or two. The trouble is they don’t pat him in the right place. First rub his eyelids. Next to the form of endearment, a horse likes to be rubbed right up be­ tween the ears. In petting horses, most people slight those nerve centers. They stroke the horse’s nose. While a well-behaved horse will ac­ cept the nasal caress compla­ cently, he would much prefer that nice, soothing touch ap­ plied to the eyelids. Once in a while a person comes along who really does know how to pet a horse. Nine times out of ten that man was brought u,p in the country among horses, and learned when a child their peculiar ways.” TO BE RE AT) EITHER WAY The following sentences make sense, whether you read word by word backward or forward: Solomon had vast treas­ ures—silver and gold—things precious. Happy and wealthy and wise was he. Man is noble and generous often, sometimes vain and cowardly. Carefully boiled eggs are good and palatable. Brea Phone 166J5 SCOTT & SCOTT Palmer Graduate Chiropractors X Ray Laboratory 316 So. Pomona Brea, Calif. Rem ington Portable Typewriter —the little typewriter with the Standard K ey­ board—no shifting for figures. Price, with case, $60. Terms, $65.00 > $15 down, $10 per month. THE PRINTERY 113 E. Commonwealth, Ave. Fullerton, California r- Garnier-SeymourO PHOTO ENGRAVERS 336 ROBERTS BUILDING •106 WEST THIRD STREET LOS ANGELES SE R V IC E b — «M" n n— iii n— i »i m — «« I G. Roscoe & Paul Nicolas Autos W ashed and Polished Right 114-16 W. Santa Fe Ave.Auto and Truck Garage Fullerton, Cal. 4.. ----------------- Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library T H E ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW Thirty-nine PL A T AND STUDY By Dennis A. McCarthy When you study, study hard; Then, to keep you stout and ruddy, When you play in street or yard, Play as hard as when you study. Work or play, every day, Act as if you meant it, Buddy,— Play when you’re supposed to play; And when supposed to study, study! No half-hearted tv ays for you: Lazy trains are mischief- brewing. Whatsoever thing you do, Give your mind to what you’re doing. Work or play, that’s the way, Be intent upon it, Bud­ dy— Play when you are out to play; And when you’re in for study, study! A TOPSY-TURVY COUNTRY If you should visit China you would think it a very top­ sy-turvy land. If you met a citizen who wished to salute you, he would shake his own hand instead of yours, and would keep his hat on instead of taking it off. You would notice that if he had just made a fine toilet, his boots would be whitened instead of black­ ened. The needle of his com­ pass would point to the South instead of the North. If he ate a melon he would include the seeds. If he received had news he would smile blandly. He would consider the left in­ stead of the right the place of honor. In Japan dresses are fre­ quently sold by weight. Two cupfuls of salt is re­ garded as a handsome wage for a day’s work in Togoland. Statistics show that more than 40 per cent of the clergy live to he septuagenarians. In Samoa nearly all the ba­ bies are taught to swim by the time they are 2 or 3 years old. Huntington Beach Tele­ phone company has applied to the Railroad Commission for authority to sell $25,500 capi­ tal stock for the purpose of re­ imbursing its treasury for money actually expended for capital disbursements, and to liquidate an indebtedness of $18,000,000. The company has also ap­ plied to the Railroad Commis­ sion for authority to issue $50,000 in bonds for the pur­ pose of financing construction. BUSINESS GUIDE LINCOLN Ford FORDSON SID McGRAW AUTHORIZED SALES AND SERVICE 320 North Los Angeles Street Phone 263 Anaheim, Calif. Phone 100—W. M. HUNT—Res. 373J THE FULLERTON REALTY COMPANY Orange County Groves, City Property Ranch Lands, Insurance, Loans 109 E. Commonwealth, Fullerton, Cal. IRWIN AND ROHRER Real Estate and General Insurance Orange County’s Famous Orange Groves Our Specialty 117 N. Spadra Fullerton Calif. Phone 585 Orange County Business College Santa Ana, California Open all the year to both sexes DAT? SCHOOL NIGHT SCHOOL W e train for business success Enter Any Time J. W. McCormac, Prop. Corcoran Paper Co. Complete Line of Wrapping and Roofing Paper Fullerton - California We Clean Garments in a Running Stream Most Modern Method—Odorless, Sanitary Acme Cleaners and Dyers We Call For and Deliver Anaheim Phone 48, Placentia Phone 6, Fullerton Phone 430, Orange Phone 540W Plant—920 N. Los Angeles St. Branch 250 E. Center St, Anaheim, Calif. OLIVE OLIVE Gold Buckle Flour Made in Orange County Best for All Purposes—On Sale at All Retail Stores CENTRAL MILLING COMPANY ■+ OLIVE A. S. BRADFORD, Lessee.OLIVE Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library Forty T H E ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY Telephone 149J1 CLAUDE N. ELLIS FUNERAL DIRECTOR 120 E. Almond Avenue Orange, Cal. E. J. Marks Albert Launer MARKS and LAUNER LAWYERS F. & M. Building Fullerton, Calif. Res., 705 N. Spadra; Office, 215 N. Spadra Tel. 402 M Tel. *02 J D. C. COWLES, M. D. Hours, 2 to 4 SMITH AND TUTHILL Sixth and Broadway Santa Ana, Calif. Telephone 204-J Auto Equipment Lady Assistant ANGUS McAULAY FUNERAL DIRECTOR Telephone 393 Corner Fullerton, Chapman and Spadra California Ambulance Service Phone 311 BACKS-TERRY & CAMPBELL FUNERAL DIRECTORS Successors to BACKS & TERRY Day or N ight 251 N. Demon St., IT. P. Campbell. a t Cypress St. Resident D irector Anaheim, Calif. Phone 870 Am bulance Service Lady A ssistant HUDDLE FUNERAL HOME Service A t All Hours W ALTER S. HUDDLE, Director Cor. Lemon & Broadway, Anaheim. Cal. Telephone 413 Office Hours: 10-12 a. m., 1-5 p. m. Mon., Wed., Fri., 7-8 p. m. LEOTA P. ANDERSON CHIROPRACTOR Examinations Free 204 Fisher Bldg. Anaheim, Calif. Anaheim. Calif. Fullerton, Calif. Phone 692 Phone 669 M. EUGENE DURFEE Architect Anaheim-Fullerton California X ®23tt anb H u m o r X INDEPENDENT An attorney in Los Angeles advertised for a chauffeur. Some twenty-odd responded and were being questioned as to qualifications and whether married or single. Finally, turning to a negro chap, he said: “ How about you, George; are you mar­ ried T” “Naw-sir, boss, naw-sir. Ah makes mah own livin’.’’—Judge. WRONG TIME TABLE The little son and daughter of a railroad magnate were overheard in the following con­ versation : Muriel—Bobby, did grandma go to heaven before we were born? Bobby (noncommittally)—She started. Muriel—Then how is it we didn’t meet her? Bobby—She hadn’t arrived when we left. Maybe she didn’t make connections. “ There ain’t no sense in watsin’ anything. Even when chairs and rugs is about past usin’ a body can always donate ’em to the parson­ age.” Teacher of Hygiene—Why must we always be careful to keep our homes clean and neat? Little Girl—Because company may walk in at any moment.—Judge. PRIZE WINNER A New York minister visited a small town church. During Sunday school hour he asked a small boy how many animals they had at their house. “ Four, sir,’’ replied the boy. “And what four are they?” asked the min­ ister. “ Mama’s the deer, the baby’s the lamb, I ’m the kid and dad’s the goat,” he quickly re­ torted. According to the American Legion W7eekly, it was during the impanelling of a jury in a New England town that the following colloquy occurred between the judge and a talesman: “ You are a property holder1?” “ Yes, your honor.” “ Married or single?” “ I have been married for five years, your honor. ’ ’ “Have you formed or expressed any opin­ ion?” “ Not for five years, your honor.” Some men don’t buy washing machines be­ cause they think they married one.-—Dotted Line. Washington Post—We are feeding the Rus­ sians because Lenine taught them to cook noth­ ing but their own goose. Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library GETTING AT THE ROOT IiEN YOU are ailing, Chiropractic will find the cause and at its root cor­ rect it. The human body possesses the inherent power of recuperation and self-preservation. It has within it all the essential elements which promote health and combat disease. It is its own laboratory, which creates and manufactures the product needed for its reconstruction, repair, comfort and repose. In other words, the human body is a machine that can mend itself, do its own repair work and building from the material it appro­ priates as a result of the power that is generated in the brain and carried by the nerves to every part of the human machine. The nervous system is the vital link between physical life and death—all sensation is transmitted by means of the nerves which emerge from the brain and spinal column. That a better knowledge of Chiropractic may be gained, these nerves that reach every part of the body have been studied, traced, numbered and classified. By analyzing the backbone, the Chiropractor can detect any subluxation (dis­ placement) and by simple adjustments can remove the cause of disease at its root. Good health follows naturally. Look into Chiropractic, the new Health Science, and pass the good word along to some suffering friend. Have your spine adjusted and enjoy hea 1th, strength and vitality. There will be no charge of any kind for a consultation md no cases taken that cannot be bene­ fited. ORANGE COUNTY CHIROPRACTORS J. G. Kelly, D. C., Hill Bldg., Santa Ana, Calit. Blanche J. Scott, D. C., Brea, Calif. J. H. Scott, D. C., Ph. C., Brea, Calif. Walter B. Sessions, D. C., Ph. C., 220 W. Amerige St., Fullerton, Calif. Beatrice D. Sessions, D. C., 220 W. Amerige St., Fullerton, Calif. F. H. Johnston, D. C., 219 Spurgeon St., Santa Ana, Calif. C. T. Cleland, D. C., 1010 N. Broadway, Santa Ana, Calif. J. A. Hatch, D. C., 403% W. Fourth St., Santa Ana, Calif. C. C. Hatch, D. C., 115p2 E. Chapman St., Orange, Calif. D. Philip Dudley, D. C., 174 South Orange St., Orange, Calif. Isabel H. Dudley, D. C., Ph. C., 174 South Orange St., Orange, Calif. S. D. Booher, D. C., 510 E. Pine St., Santa Ana, Cal. Vanneta Henderson, D. C., Amerige Bldg., Fullerton, Calif. Leota P. Anderson, D. C., 204 Fisher Bldg., Anaheim, Calif. Alice S. Huhn Hale, Acacia St., Garden Grove, Calif. Sue Amack, D. C., S. Kraemer Bldg., Anaheim, Calif. Charles H. Tingley, D. C., 717 N. Main St., Santa Ana, Calif. Wm. C. Symons, D. C., S. Kraemer Bldg., Anaheim, Calif. Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library launer ROOM a 00 AUGUST 1923 fhenyou {funk o f ^ THINGS MUSICAL- naturally you mink of % Birkel Company This pioneer music house has long been associated with the musical development of the Southland— it is held in high esteem by all musicians and music lovers. The Birkel Curppany is one of the oldest and largest music houses in the West and handles only instruments of national reputation for quality and value Every instrument we sell carries a doubie guarantee:—the maker's and ours. STEINW AY STEINERT STECK WEBER KRAKAUER KURTZMANN And Other Pianos THE DUO-ART REPRODUCING PIANO THE PIANOLA CONN BAND INSTRUMENTS ORCHESTRA AND STRING INSTRUMENTS OF STANDARD MAKE VICTOR VICTROLAS T IB IllK F J 4 4 8 C O M PA N Y Broadway c7fte Steinway House The Birkel Co. Is Represented in Orange County by the Siegel Piano Co., 206 West Center Street, Anaheim Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library