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The Parker post., 1914-12-12
MORATORIUM IN
FRANCE MODIFIED

PARIS, Dec. 1.-THE president of
the republic has issued statement
making various changes in the mora
torium, both as regards the payment
of liabilities and the release of depos-
its in the banks.
The main object of the statement
is to return by degrees to normal con
ditions, except as regards debtors who
are serving in the army and those
who live in the districts invaded by
the enemy. For these two classes,
payment is adjourned until further no
tice. AS for the others, the new sys-
tenn which came into force on Novem-
Der /, and will last until the end OF
the year, provides that during Novem-
Der no legal proceedings can be taken
to enforce payment.
From December 1, if the creditor
has reason to suppose that the debtor
can pay and is wrongfully sheltering
behind the moratorium, the creditor
can apply to the court for permission
to proceed which will be granted it
satisfactory evidence of the debtors
ability to pay is given. The court can
give a certain time allowance.
The Parker post., 1914-12-12
NEW FORMULA TO FIND
HORSEPOWER RATING

SACRAMENTO, Dec. S.-W. R.
Ormsby, superintendent of the motor
vehicle division of the state engineer
ing department, says:
"The motor vehicle division of the
state department of engineering an
nounces that for the year 1915 the
determination of the horsepower rat
ing of automobiles will be based upon
a displacement formula instead of as
heretofore on the associated licensed
automobile manufacturers formula.
"This formula requires that the
stroke of the piston shall be given as
we'll as the diameter of the bore and
the number of the cylinders, while the
A. L. A. M. formula required only the
diameter of the bore and the number
of the cylinders. The displacement
formula is more accurate than the
A. L. A. M. formula and works no
hardship on anyone, but requires that
the owners of automobiles shall pay
their fees in accordance with the
actual horsepower.
large manufacturers of automobiles
have been reducing the size of the
bore, while lengthening the stroke of
the cylinders, which produced a
greater horsepower, but when figured
under the A. L. A. M. formula it re-
duced the horsepower while in fact
the horsepower was increased
The Parker post., 1914-12-12
MOTORISTS DREAM
NEAR COMPLETION

TOPEKA, Kan, Dec. 8.-The motor
lists dream, high-gear dirt highway
1900 miles long, now is nearly com
pleted, and within the. next year it
will be extended until the driver can
"hit-er up" for 1000 miles without
changing gears for a grade. The road
is so marked that even route book is
not necessary for the guidance of the
driver.
This model dirt highway is the Me-
ridian road, which will run from Win
nipeg, Canada, to Galveston, when
completed. 1t is the longest "high-
gear" road in the country, if not in
the world. 1t was planned and routed
by Kansas, and virtually all the inter
est in it was brought about through
the efforts of John G.. Nicholson of
Newton.
1t is also probably the longest
straight road in the country, for in the
entire 1000 miles there are only seven
turns or jogs from the actual merid-
ian from which the road takes it's
name-the sixth principal meridian.
Kansas built the first section of the
road in 1911, when the motor car and
the good roads fever struck the state
together. More than 100000 was
spent on the road within the state.
The Parker post., 1914-12-12

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 8.-Only a
warning that there is danger OF frost
is needed to set in operation a vast
army of Southern California fruit grow
ers.
Everything is in readiness, and a
million fires can be started beneath the
precious fruit-laden trees within an
hours time.
More than $1,5OO,OOO has been spent
by the citrus producers to prepare for
frosts this year. And they stand ready
to pay out as much more if need be to
protect their golden harvest.
The system perfected by the growers
this year makes repetition of. the dis
aster of two years ago practically an
impossibility.
Apparently every emergency has
been provided for. AS result, the
damaging frosts that may be expected
any winter will find every resource OF
the citrus fruit growers Of this state
united to resist it's ravages.
Oil Heaters Now Used
Arrangements have been completed
to meet every demand. If the siege of
frost should continue longer than for
Iy-6lSuC WulCu ID OASOPCAOAAc'AAJ
rare, forces are so we'll organized that
even then they would be able to pro-
tect the trees.
The old smudge pots have been done
away with. No longer do the ranchers
rely upon smoke to protect their or
chards. A heater that burns oil and
generates real warmth has taken the
place of the old pots filled with char.
| coal.
One million of these orchard heaters
have been distributed throughout the
citrus belt.
One is required to heat each tree, OF
eighty are placed on every acre. The
heaters are equipped with dampers
drafts and chimneys, so that the heat
coming from each can be regulated to
meet the conditions.
These heaters range in cost from 81
to $125, purchased in wholesale lots
The average amount of oil burned in
each is four gallons, the capacity rang
ing, however, from two to seven gal
Ions. Four gallons of the distillate
The Parker post., 1914-12-12
CALIFORNIA FARMS
UNDER CULTIVATION

SACRAMENTO, Dec. S.-California
has 8S,197 farms. Of this number, 10,
049 are operated by owners and man
ayers, and 18,14S by tenants.
Seventynine per cent of the farms
of this state are operated by owners
and managers, and Fl per cent by ten.
ants.
The farm home owners and man
ayers of California cultivate 8,19S,0OC
acres of land, and the tenants till
3,197,000 acres in this state.
The value Of the land and buildings
of the tenant farms of this state is
1888, 100000. That of the home own,
ers and managers is SILL $4,000.
In compiling data for the last fed.
eral census, the enumerators asked
every farmer in California this ques-
ton: "How long have you lived on
the farm you now Occupy?" This
question was answered by 5000 OF
the 88,197 farm operators in this state.
More than 10000 stated that they had
occupied their farms only one year or
less; 23,299 from two to four years
1896 from five to nine years, and
22,723 ten years or over. The most
restless class of people in this state is
the tenant who operates his farm on
the share basis. There are 6839 of
these farmers in this state; 6607 of
them made answer to the query, and
their replies indicated that 1905, or
about "a per cent of them, moved every
year.
The Parker post., 1914-12-12
UNITED STATES TO ACT
ON ANTI-ALIEN LAW

WASHINGTON, Dec. Son the pro-
tests by the British and Italian govern
ments against the Arizona anti-alien
employment law, the state department
asked Governor Hunt whether his
authority would permit him to suspend
its operation, and whether he thought
it advisable to take other measures to
prevent it's immediate enforcement.
The department based it's message
to Governor Hunt on information con-
tanned in the protest filed with the de-
partment by the British and Italian
ambassadors, which was furnished by
their consuls in Arizona. The British
ambassador informed the department
that British subjects would test the
law in the courts. He did not make
any reference in his note to any treaty
between Great Britain and the United
States, but based his protest on the
provision in the constitution of the
United States which declares that no
state shall deny to any person within
its jurisdiction the equal protection of
the laws.
The Parker post., 1914-12-12
CALIFORNIA CITRUS GROWERS
FORTIFIED AGAINST FROST
lone MILLION fires CAN BE STARTED BENEATH fruit trees
IN ONE Hours TIME-NEN SYSTEM is PERFECTED
One Oil Heater Now Used for Each Tree Doing Away With the Old Smude
PotsMakes Repetition Of the Disaster of Two Years Ago Practically
an mpossibty- 900 Worth Of Dslate Always Hand

have been found sufficient to warm one
tree one night during the severe frost.
Each grower has a storage tank ca
pable of holding three extra burnings
for each heater. But just as soon as
there is any need at all new supply
is sent to the groves, so that the grow
ers are not forced to depend solely on
their own generous supply.
All of this means that for the first
siege of frost the citrus producers have
100000 gallons of oil already in their
heaters and storage tanks.
At an approximate cost of two cents
a gallon, this represents an outlay of
more than $32O,OOO.
The heaters stand the growers about
$1,250,000, making the equipment alone
cost about $1,50O,OOO. In addition,
elaborate systems for observing condi-
tions and temperatures have been ar
ranged.
In a short space of time every Sec
ton knows of conditions in every other
section. A constant vigil is kept, and
at the first sign or warning of danger
the army of ranchers and their assist
ants get into action.
All OF CnlS guarding against pOSSlUle
visitations of the frost and keeping
posted on conditions costs additional
thousands. But it has to be done, and
the citrus men are used to doing things
right.
Strong Demand for Oranges
All growers in this state are now jul
bilant over the strong demand for their
fruit in all markets of the country, and
if Santa Claus uses all of the vast or.
ders he has on file for California or
anges, with present prices ruling, there
will soon be flood of gold coming
from all parts of the country which
will roll with joyous jingle into the
pockets of the growers.
There will be about 5000 carloads
reach the markets before the Christ
mas trees of the nation are decorated
Packing houses in the early northern
belt are working day and night to
satisfy the demand. Under the new
ruling of the pure food department, the
fruit is not shipped until it is fully
colored and ripe.
The Parker post., 1914-12-12
COMPLAINT is MADE
OF IMMATURE FRUIT

PORTERVILLE, Dec. S.-Attention
of the state health board has been
called to the fact that within the past
few days fruit brokers have been buy
ing in this district and surreptitiously
shipping to bay district markets small
consignments of fruit for which the
Tulare county authorities have re-
fused inspection certificates setting
forth the fact that the oranges are
up to the standard of maturity ap-
proved by the pure food division of
the bureau of chemistry. The state
officials have promised their co-opera-
ton in putting stop to this traffic
in green fruit and it is stated that if
any of the fruit is located, the con-
signments will be confiscated and the
shippers prosecuted.
The Parker post., 1914-12-12
FLOOD PREVENTION WORK
TO Be STARTED SOON
FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY
GOVERNMENTS UNITE
Mountain Distractions Sought to Re-
pIenish Underground Sources
of SuppIy-Surveys Are
BEING Made

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 8.-With the
federal, state and county governments
working in harmony, it is confidently
expected by those directly interested
that water conservation and flood pre-
vention plans of Importance to South
ern California as a whole, and Los An
geles county in particular, will be put
into effect within the next few months.
Nearly hundred men, under the di-
rection of the board of engineers, flood
control, appointed by the board of SUI
pervisors of Los Angeles county last
April, now are in the field, making
surveys. 1t is expected that when all
their reports shall have been made
the board of engineers will be in pos
session of data on which will be based
an exhaustive statement as to the eX-
act amount of work to be done, with
the approximate cost, to insure the
county against repetition of the dis
astrous flood experienced last winter
On recommendation of the board of
engineers, the board of supervisors
have been and are now making i'm
provements at the more dangerous
points along the various streams, in
an effort to prevent as much damage
as possible, should another season of
high water be experienced.
AS result of investigations thus far
made, belief is expressed that the plan
will be adopted of building hundreds
of small dams in the main and side
canyons in the mountains which COM
prise the watersheds of the various
rivers which flow through Los Angeles
county.
In a large majority of cases these
dams merely will be in the nature of
rock distractions, blasted out of the
sides of the canyons, and which will
retard but not permanently impound
the water that rushes down the noun
tain sides during a storm.
By this means, it is stated, floods not
only would be prevented, but as re-
suit of the longer flow the water would
have better opportunity of sinking
into the natural reservoirs along the
various streams and replenishing the
underground supply, which has been
found to be considerably less than it
was several years ago.
Other than an effort to conserve wa
ter by replenishing the natural reser-
vo1rs, the county government will not
endeavor to work out plans for the
storage of water.
The Parker post., 1914-12-12
.FOODSTUFFS GOING ACROSS
SEA FROM UN|TEDESTATES
COUNTRIES AT WAR BECOME
HEAVY BUYERS IN STATES
New York Port Figures Show Steady
Increase in Exports-Russia, Eng
land, France, Australia and
Italy Best Customers

NEW YORK, Dec. 8.-That a new
era of prosperity for all industrial and
agricultural enterprises in the United
States is at hand is demonstrated by
figures sent out by the government bu-
reau of foreign and domestic COM
merce. In round figures, the gain in
value of exports is nearly $4O,00O,OOO.
The total exports for October were
$195, 5,404, ,637, as compared with $685.
1888 in September.
AS was to be expected, the greatest
gain was shown in exports of food
stuffs and manufactured articles, al
though a gain of considerable import
ance is shown in crude material for
use in manufacturing. Since October,
manufactured articles and foodstuffs
have been largely in demand, and these
orders from the warning countries are
growing larger with each succeeding
day of the war.
Figures of the port of New York
show there has been steady increase
in exports through that place, as com
pared with the corresponding weeks in
1913, since the week ended Septem-
ber 10.
for use in manufacturing amounted to
$32 ,9S9,050. Articles already manufac-
tured and ready for consumption
amounted to $53,5S9,172. Articles in
a partly manufactured state amounted
to $20,949;595.
Foodstuffs wholly or partly manu-
factured amounted to $37,411, ,532. The
figures are approximately $8,00O,O00 in
excess of those of the corresponding
month in 1913. Crude foodstuffs were
about $25,00O,OOO in excess of those of
the corresponding period last year.
On the face of the figures it would
appear that Russia, England, France,
Australia and Italy were our best GUS
toners. Both Russia and Great Britain
took products from this country large
ly in excess even of the figures of the
same month in 1913. Italy's increase
of approximately $5,000,444 over the
corresponding month in 1913 can be
attributed to the elimination of COM
merce with Germany, as it has been
known that products destined for the
latter country have been shipped to
Italy.
The revival of the export business
has been pronounced.
The Parker post., 1914-12-12
ASK PUBLIC HALL
IN STATE BUILDING

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 8.-Members
of the Civic Association meeting in
the lecture room of the public library,
adopted resolution to send letter
to Governor Johnson advocating a
public reception and assembly room
in the state building that is to be built
in Los Angeles.
That Los Angeles county greatly
needs public reception room that
could easily be converted into a din
ing room, in which to hold it's public
meetings and reception banquets, was
the opinion of the association.
The Parker post., 1914-12-12
INVESTIGATES Utilities

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. S.-Acting
on it's own initiative, the state rail
road commission instituted an investi
cation into the practice of gas, light
and water companies of demanding de-
posits from their customers before
they will install meters or make ex.
tensions.
Hundreds of complaints have been
pouring into the commission from all
over the state, and it decided, with
out waiting for a formal demand, to
look into the matter thoroughly.
Representative of the gas, light and
water companies were present to argue
that to take away their right of de-
posits would be to inf1ict confiscation
without granting compensation.
The Parker post., 1914-12-12
1000 CARS OF FOOD
FOR KAISER is SEIZED

PARIS, Dec. 1.-THE Italian govern
ment has seized thousand cars of
merchandise destined for Germany by
way of Switzerland, which had collect
ed in the international freight yard at
Luino, near the Swiss frontier.
A Geneva message to the Matin says
that 800 cars of provisions have
reached Stuttgart, Hanover and Co
logne in the last few days by way Of
Italy and Switzerland.
German stained glass houses, the
message states, are arranging to sup
ply Swiss dealers with glass to replace
the church windows wrecked by the
German armies in Belgium and
France
The Parker post., 1914-12-12
AUSTRIA CALLS ITS
LAST MAN TO WAR

ROME, Dec. 7.-Austria's last avail
able forces have been called to the
colors, according to dispatch received
today from Vienna. 1t says that the
schools will be closed for lack of
teachers.
"From December H. asserts the dis
patch, call schools in Trieste and the
surrounding districts will be closed A
majority Of the teachers have been
called up, they being members of the
last landsturm. The levy has abso-
lutely cleared the whole country of
men,
The Parker post., 1914-12-12
To Run Flying Boats

OAKLAND. Dec. 8.-Past failures tc
sustain an aerial service between Sar
Francisco and Oakland will not pre-
vent Silas Christofferson from install
ing a fleet of flying boats for that pur
pose.
The Christofferson Aerial company
has applied for berthing space from
the state board of harbor commits
sioners. Christofferson asks that
space be assigned to him in San Fran
cisco south of the Ferry building, and
as close as possible to the foot of Mar
ket street. He proposes to run line
of flying boats between the cities dur
ing the exposition year.
The Parker post., 1914-12-12
Three Weeks Under Sea, Claim

LONG BEACH, Dec. S.-Recalling as
a guarantee of his claim that his sub
marine year ago had broken the
worlds record for submergence by
staying under water for thirty y-eight
hours, John M. Cage, at Long Beach,
asserts that he has invented another
type of submarine, whose features
will cause revolution in underwater
craft construction.
The new boat will be able to travel
5000 miles under the water at a mod
crate speed, for a period of three
weeks, without coming to the surface.
Mr.. Cage will next year lay the keel
for a 10-foot model of his new boat.
1t will be equipped with a new type OF
engine invented by Cage.
The Parker post., 1914-12-12
Boxinu Law in Effect Dec. 1a

SACRAMENTO, Dec. 8.-Secretary
of State Frank S. Jordan stated that
he would sign the official returns of
the election on the 18th of the month.
Jordan laughingly said that he would
not sign until a minute before mid
night, so that any club desiring to
hold boxing bout on the 18th, which
would be the last day of the five al
lowed by the law after the official an
nouncement of the vote, would have
plenty of time to finish its card be-
fore the law went into effect.
The Parker post., 1914-12-12
Niagara Dry in 1000 Years

PITTSBURG, Dec. 8.-A pebble
found in Beaver county caused DR..
A. E. Ortmann, scientist of Carnegie
museum, to predict that thousand
years from now Niagara Falls will be
dry. The odd little stone led DR.. Ort-
mann to consider the oscillations" of
the earth's surface. He says it is rails
ing the northeast end of Lake Erie
and sending it's water to the south
west instead of toward Niagara Falls.
The Parker post., 1914-12-12
$165, 900 SANTA CRUZ
PIER is DEDICATED

SANTA CRUZ, Dec. S.-Just as the
steamship Roanoke, from Portland and
San Francisco for Los Angeles,
steamed into the bay, the new munich
pal pier, which cost $165,O0O was ded-
icated. Whistles and sirens all over
town began to blow, and squad of the
naval militia fired a salute as the stars
and stripes were broken out atop of
the warehouse. Major Drullard and
President G. P. Doe of the North Pa
cific Steamship company delivered ad-
dresses. Thousands visited the pier.
The Parker post., 1914-12-12
Frozen Feet Thin Ranks

LONDON, Dec. 7-Officers invalided
home from the front say there are at
present about 1900 British officers and
men suffering from frozen feet in the
base hospitals in and about Boulogne-
Sur-Mer, France. Fully 1000 of this
number must have one or both feet
severed, owing to the deadening of the
nerves, which makes futile all at
tempts at treatment. Chilblains and
frostbites have been depicting the
ranks worse than bullets and shrap-
mel, and once mans foot is frozen
he is through as far as fighting is con-
cerned for the rest of the war
The Parker post., 1914-12-12
"MOVIES" IN DAYLIGHT:
DIASCOPE is INVENTED

NEWARK, N. j., Dec. Sired e.
Klumpf and A. E. Greenfield have in
vented device called the "diascope"
for showing motion pictures outdoors
during the daytime.
Besides eliminating the necessity of
darkened room, they say the inven-
ton shows steadier picture than by
the present apparatus.
The inventors create dark space on
both sides of the screen. The picture
is thrown from the rear of the screen
instead of the front.
The Parker post., 1914-12-12
ILLINOIS GIRL A VICTIM
OF CATTLE PLAGUE

JOLIET, I'LL, Dec. S.-The foot and
mouth disease has attacked a five
year-old girl here. Violet Maxwell
daughter of Policeman John Maxwell
has been pronounced by DR.. A. J. Len.
non as suffering from a form of
apthous fever, the cattle plague.
An investigation of the dairy herds
near Joliet, milk from one of which is
thought to have infected the child, has
been begun by Health Commissioner
E. J. Higgins.
"The child will recover" said her
physician.
The Parker post., 1914-12-12
PRESIDENT THANKS
FUNSTON AND MEN

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.-President
Wilson has written letter to the Sec
retary of war, asking him to express
to General Funston and the officers
and men who served at Vera Cruz the
presidents warm appreciation of the
way in which a difficult and delicate
situation was handled
The Parker post., 1914-12-12
Turks Commence Riotinq

PETROGRAD, Dec. 27-Via London.
"A dispatch received here from
Odessa describes an outbreak of fam
atical rioting in Erzerum.
Dispatches reaching Odessa from
this Turkish city say that, following
the posting of a proclamation calling
the Mohammed edans to a holy war, all
the Armenian clubs, churches and
schools we're demolished by mob.
Four Armenians, including one wo-
man, were killed on the street.
The Parker post., 1914-12-12
Forts Greatly Need Powder

WASHINGTON, Dec. S.-Major Gen
eral Wotherspoon, in his annual re-
port, makes the startling announce
ment that the United States coast de-
fenses after fighting half an hour
would run out of ammunition and our
entire seaboard would be at the mercy
of the enemy. He says there is an
adequate supply of guns and mine ma
terial, but very serious deficiency
in ammunition for these defenses.
The Parker post., 1914-12-12
snowbound While Watching Volcano

HONOLULU, Dec. 7.-Snowbound
while endeavoring to make observa-
tions of the eruption of a tropical vol
cano pouring out molten lava-this
was the paradoxical experience Of
Prof. Thomas A. Jaggar, head of the
department of geology of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, In
an attempt to reach the summit Of
Mauana LOa.
The Parker post., 1914-12-12
FIND CAPE CANAL
USEFUL IN A WAR

WASHINGTON, Dec. S.-The navy
department announced that the use
fulness of the Cape Cod canal in the
national system of defense had been
demonstrated by the sending of the
submarines KS and K-6 through that
waterway. Not only submarines but
destroyers and light vessels of all
kinds, according to the department
could use the canal in time of war.
The Parker post., 1914-12-12
Natural CoIors for Movies

FREMONT, Neb., Dec. S.-Natural
colors in moving pictures by. the aid
of secret screen have been discov-
cred by Deed Mohler, son of Prof.
Mohler of Fremont college. An ex-
hibition to newspaper men was an
entire success and convinced them
that Mohler had actually solved the
problem of colored pictures for the
movies.