San Anselmo Herald from San Anselmo, California • Page 1

TT TT HraM VOL. 10, No. 51 SAN ANSELMO, MARIN CALIFORNIA FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1919 3 XX- Great Plans Being Hade for Grape Festival Great plans are being made for HEWS REVIEW Or CURREI1T EVENTS President Wilson on His Tour to Argue Peace Treaty Case Before the People. ft the California statute. Not to change the subject, but we wonder what good It will do the officers to know all about how to Interpret the law and be ready to enforce It, if, for lack of proper speed limit signs within the town, all their work and efforts are tor naught and they do not dare to arest an offending motorist.

Plan for a Jive-Inch Concrete Base on Main Road A meeting of the good roads committee was held Thursday at the town hall, and it was practicaly decided that the five-inch concrete base should, be the road lafd on the County Road from Ross to Fairfax and San Rafael, and that while it Is the opinion of the committee that a top should be put on later, it could be left off for a year or so. Word had been received from the State Highway Commissioners, who said they would be glad to co-operate in every way, but asked that the request be Bent in writing, so a letter was ordered written them asking their co-operation by sending an engineer over to go over the ground and give an opinion as to the best method of handling the proposition, Alio the matter of the Improvement of th estreets of the residence districts will be discussed with the engineer when he comes. The mjtter of road improvements for San Anselmo is one In which 1 Bolshevists burning British warehouses full of supplies at Kern, North Russia. 2 Advance porty of the First division of the American army arriving at Hoboken on the Pestores. 3 MJ.

Orde Lees In the water near the Statue of Liberty after demonstrating the practicality of his new parachute by leaping from seaplane only 250 feet above the surface. NEW MOTOR VEHICLE LAW BECOMES EFFECTIVE Next Monday. Have "Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning." Watch Your Signals or the Cop'll Get You last legislature, and author of the the Annual Grapo Festival for benefit of the youngsters of the Presbyterian Orphanage, to be held on the beautiful grounds at the home of Hon. and Mrs. Wm.

Kent, at on Saturday, October 4th. A splendid program of events is being arranged, and it is hoped to make this the most successful Festival ever held. Mrs. J. M.

Dollar of San Rafael, who is one of the directors of the Festival announces that not all of the heads of committees have been named as yet, but promises them In time for next weeks paper. One of the special features will be the baby show which will be in the afternoon, and which will be In charge of Mrs. Stanley Arnold, who was Miss Elizabeth Kent. The show will be open to all youngsters up to four years old, and Mrs. Ar nold hopes to have every baby in the southern part of the county en rolled In the show.

The ladles of the Second Pres byterian church of San Anselmo will be in charge of the tea and refreshment booth, while women of San Anselmo will be in charge of a cake booth, and a doughnut booth to be established by the Sperry Flour Company, and for which the company will contribute all supplies. There are now about 125 child ren In the Orphanage, and owing to the greatly increased cost of everything that is necessary for the upkeep of the institution, the man agement finds it pretty hard to make the finances go all the way around, and it is hoped that the Festival from which much of the necessary funds are derived will receive the generous support of the people of the whole bay region, for although the institution Is kept up principally by the Presbyterians of the state, there is no discrimination as to the Inmates, and children of families of all creeds, or of no creed, are admitted and cared for in the same manner as are the children from Presbyterian homes. The members of the executive committe of the Orphanage are In charge of the Festival, Mrs. L. A.

Kelly, president of. the board of directors, being chairman, and work-with Mrs. J. M. Dollar of San Ra fael and Mrs.

E. D. Chlpman of Ross, who are giving much time and energy to the affair. Mrs. Chlpman is unable to an nounce as yet who is the winner of the poster contest, but hopes to be able to do so next week.

The program commences at 10 a. m. and will last until p. and it Is hoped to make every mlnuto one of cirjnyment for those In at tendance. No man or woman can tell what his circumstances may be in tho future.

We may need the nsistanco of some of theso very youngsters then grown to be men and women so It Is up to us to do what we can to aid them In their time of need, that they may grow up to bo such men and women as wo would havo our own flesh and blood become. Let us all get behind this event and make it a great success from every point of view, and especially from the financial side, that these little ones may lack nothing they need to give them an opportunity to bo- honest and upright citizens of our state and nation. Volanda vs SanRafael Next Sunday There is a great deal of centered on the baseball game to be played in San Rafael on Sunday afternoon when the Yolanda team travels to tlie county seat to try conclusions with the nine. Great rivalry exists between these two towns and a record breaking crowd is expected. Tom Carwright, recently returned from overseas, wilt make his first appearance in a San Rafael uniform.

He will be on the mound. "Smiling" McN'ally will be held in the reserve. Heine Lay is slated to do the pitching for the Yolanda team with Vellou on the receiving end. Game starts at 2:30 sharp on the Douglass Playgrounds. present law, explains it in part.

He says the law was changed so that motorists would have greater safety in driving on the roads of the state. Mr. Eskward says: "Under the law, glaring or feeble headlights, with their attendant menace, are forbidden, and rigid standards set forth. Important signal rules are set forth. Driving while intoxicated, or joy riding without the car owner's consent, will bring heavy penalties.

"The speed limit Is raised to 35 miles per hour, with certain limitations, protecting the motorist. "Red warning signals must be dis played by all vehicles, whether motor or horse drawn, and by all bicycles. "No motor vehicle may be equip ped with a siren except police and fire department cars and trucks. "The new law makes stealing of motor vehicle a felony punishable by imprisonment in the State prison for a term of one to five years. "Motor car drivers must have li censes.

They can be secured rroin the State Motor Vehicle Department on application. "Don't get angry at the traffic officer if he tells you to report to the station next morning when he finds that you have no license. Get one. The main thing that win cause trouble for the average driver Is' the lack of proper headlight lenses andi signaling devices. "You have no excuse, however, and if the officer takes you in, don't berate him.

Besides being in the wrong it wil cost you more money. HE ACCEPTS NO COMPROMISE Striata Committer Votes to Report Pact With ReservationsSupreme Council Sends Ultimatum to Roumanla and Warning to Germany Industrial Conference Planned. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. President Wilson Is on his way.

telling tlie people of the United State? face to face how excellent a document is the peace treaty with the Incorporated League of Nations covenant, and how necessary to the welfare of the world It Is that It should be ratified by the senate speedily. Beginning his addresses at Columbus, 0., he continued them at Indianapolis, St Louis, Kansas City and Des Moines, and he Is now proceeding on westward by the northern route. Before leaving Washington Mr. Wilson had a final confer ence with Senator Hitchcock and issued Instructions to his supporters to make a fight to a finish for ratification of the treaty just as It stands. Senator Hitchcock on the same day addressed the senate on the question, hotly denouncing the opponents of the treaty, even those who favor only mild reservations.

He declared the real purpose of the majority on the foreign relations committee was to kill the pact entirely, and Indeed there seems to be justification for that assertion. Senator Knox's proposal thut the treaty be rejected and a separate peace made with Germany, he said was an insane mixture of poltroonery and folly. Mr. Hitchcock took direct issue with those who complain that the United States will derive no advantages and benefits from the treaty as It Is. They evidently have no conception, he said, of the enormous benefits America will get from It, and Intimated these would come through the operations of the reparations commission, though how.

and what they would be, he neglected to explain. The senate committee on foreign re lations voted to recommend the rutin cation of the treaty by the senate with four Important modifications. These reservations provide for unconditional right to withdraw from the League of Nations; assumption of no obligation to guarantee territorial integrity or nations or to employ troops for coercive purposes or to accept mandates except under the direction of congress; full freedom to determine wliut questions are domestic and therefore not subject to consideration by the league; exemption of the Monroe doctrine from consideration by the league and declaration that the United States Is sole Interpreter of that doctrine. Senator Shields of Tennessee, Democrat, Joined the majority In voting for all the reservations except that relating to article X. Senator MeCiim- ber of North Dakota voted against the first two reservations.

On the last two the vote was 11 to 6. The committee resolution stipulate that the treaty ratification by the United States shall not take effect until the American reservations have been accepted by three of the four other great powers: Great Britain, France. Italy and Japan. The hearings granted the representatives of smalt' and dissatisfied peoples by the foreign relations committee must be regarded as largely political bunk. The spokesmen for the Irish of course made the loudest noise, demanding that the senate reject the treaty entire, but the Republican sen-.

tors know, as do most Americans, that the Irish question Is none of our business; moreover, many of us believe the Irish alreudy are tolerably free and In the way of being freer very soon. As for the Chinese, If Yosuke Mat-sucka, a member of the Japanese peace delegation, is to be believed, the wind will soon be taken out of the sails of those who are shouting against the Shantung settlement. He thinks Japan will open negotiations In a very few, weeks for the settling of the Shantung question In a way that will satisfy ev eryone. Tokyo will offer to restore the territory to China, withdrawing all Japanese troops, stipulating that the peninsula shall be open to International trade and that there shall be an In ternational settlement at Tslng-Tao, and that the Shantung railway shall be operated by a Chlno-Japanese Joint corporation. There are reasons to believe the Chines government Is not nearly so angry over the Shantung article as the American opponents of the treaty pretend to be.

Hungary continues to present the most annoying problems now before the peace conference. The Roumanian occupants' of the country so far have been absolutely defiant of the orders of the supreme council and are said to be plundering It In a most shameful way." Finally the exasperated council Inst week dispatched to the Routuanluns un ultimatum couched In drastic terms, demanding that they evacuate Hungary and hand over to the allies for proper distribution all the good the? have requisitioned. The Roumanian diplomatic representatives In the allied capitals also were sum moned by the foreign ministers who Impressed on. them the seriousness of the situation that would arise If their government should refuse to comply. The position of the Roumanians Is that what they call the war between them and the Hungarians is a new affair and that the allied conference has nothing to do with It.

In Budapest they were trying hard toestublisIi a government that the al lies would recognize. Frlediicn offered to resign In favor of a coalition cabinet formed by Heinrich, a wholesale hardware merchant, on certnln conditions. All Jews are barred from the Heinrich ministry, but all other classes and parties are represented, Serbia officially denied the report of a generul revolt of the Montenegrin, but neutral observers who have arrived In Paris from the Black Mountain country declare the Serbs are fust wiping out the loyal people of Montenegro and that they can be saved only by military Intervention by America and Great Britain. These observers assert that much of the food Hoover sent Into that country fell the hands of the Serbs nnd that no Monte negrin can obtain supplies unless lie denounces his own country and swears alloglunce to Klug Peter of Serbia. Late reports from the Ukraine said retlura aud Denllclne were closing In; on Kicff and apparently were about to take that Important city from the The Reds claim the cairture of Dubovka, on the lower Volga, and also announced that Admiral Kolchak had evacuated 'Omsk and established his government at Irkutsk, 1,050 miles further cast.

Kolchak lias Issued a stirring appeal to all loyal Russians to rejoin the ranks, and his representatives have been granted the privilege of recruiting In Japan. The Estonians had the bolshevik armies In so tight a hole that the Lenlne government offered to make peace with them. Trotsky, addressing the Petrogrnd soviet, said the bolshevikl must stand im-pregnably In the defense of that city. The reports that General Cough, the British commander, was about to attack Petrogrud appear to have been untrue. The Poles also, using tanks for the first time, whipped the bolshevikl, capturing the fortified town of Bobruisk and 500 prisoners.

The supreme council handed to Austria the final peace terms and a long reply to the protests of the Austrian delegates. The note impressed on the Austrlans the fact that they were primarily responsible for the outbreak of the great war and cannot escape Yet-rlbution by claiming they have thrown off the. yoke of the Hapsburgs. The people of Austria-Hungary, It said, had given full support to the ultimatum to Serbia and to the prosecution of the war, and for years had supported the (Continued on Page 3) Films developed and printed at City prices at Hund's. The new motor vehicle law, which was passed by the last Legislature, and which should have become effective July 22nd, but on which the traffic officers "have allowed the motorists sixty days to become familiar with Its provisions and have their lighting systems arranged to comply with the law, will become operative next Monday, and the traffic ofllicers throughout the state say they are going to enforce it to the letter.

Up the present time there are, it seems to the writer, but few of the motorists who have compiled or even attempted to comply with the headlight dimming law, which Is one of the Important "safety" provisions of the new law, and which every pedestrian who has to walk along the streets after night hopes will be strictly enforced. The stop and turn law require all drivers to give suitable signals when changing the course of their cors or coming to a stop, and these are becoming pretty well generally observed, so that one can have a little better chance if he happens to be tho car behind, than formerly. There is no doubt but that every motorist in the state has quickly learned the lesson of increased speed permissible under the new law --35 miles per hour on tho state highway outside of Incorporated towns and are taking advantage of it, they learn lesons of speed so very quickly. Probably the most important one of the new provisions is for the arm signals, which should do much to stop the numerous rear-end wrecks and Ride swipes which have caused so much damage In the past. The law provides that signals shall be given before the turn is started, and not afterward, and then it is up to the "man behind" to keep his place, but if the signal Is not made and you get hit, you not only run the risk of serious Injury to yourself and car, but also lay yourself liable to a suit for damages for failure to give the proper warning of your Intention to change your course, pr stop If such has been the case.

The signals are as folows: For left hand drive cart Arm extended upward meant a turn to the right. Arm extended horizontally turn to the left. Arm extended downward slow down or ttop. For right hand drive cart Arm extended upward turn to the left. Arm extended turn to the right Arm extended downward glow down or ttop Where a closed car or heavily loaded truck is used so that the arm signals cannot be used, mechanical or electrical devices must be provid ed so that proper signals may be given.

F. L. Eskward, chairman of the committee on motor vehicles of the every resident and property owner is interested, and It is the hope of the Trustees that when the work is once started it will be on such a scale as to relieve the situation for years to come. Good roads are ex pensive. Everyone knows that, but the people of San Anselmo have come to the place where they can realize that It is also expensive not to have good roads, but to have to spend five to ten thousand dollars a year in their upkeep and then have "nothing to boast of" In the way of roads either.

The big question In the matter seems to be "How shall the roads be paid for" some contending for a bond Issue to cover the whole town, and others holding out for the assessment district plan. It has been pretty thoroughly discussed at the meetings of the committee, and the conclusion was reached the other night that the abutting property owners should pay thirty per cent of the cost of the. work on the County lload, and the inside road to Yo-landa, Lansdale and out Willow Avenue to connect with the Fairfax road, and the balance should be raised by a bond isue covering the whole town, which probably Is the most equitable solution of the matter, although some contend that abuttors should pay more of it. But as they will have to pay their por tlon of the bond Issue along with the rest, tho committee figured the above aportlonment would bo about right, It is likely that a report and recommendation will be made at the meeting of the Trustees next Mon day evening, when the matter of Barber Tract will come up for do clslon. Concert Wendesday Evening The concert to be given at St.

An-selm's Hall next Wednesday evening, September 24 th, is to be the last jone 0f the Beason, and promises to be not oni one 0f tne mogt Bucceg8 ful of the series of concerts given there this summer, but also one of the most successful events of the kind ever given in the county. The people giving the concert are real artists and will be given grand reception. Miss Marguerite Raas, noted lyric soprono, and her beautiful sister, Mrs. Howard Allen, will take part. Mrs.

Allen Is a finished singer and a violinist of reputation. Mr. Uda Waldrop Is an artist on the piano, and will render a number of selections, while Mr. Charles Bullottl, lyric tenor, will sing. -An interesting feature is that Miss Raas and Mr.

Waldrop are to be married in the near future. at me nau ine evening oi mo con cert "Remember that this law Is thejtn0 propoBed in the result of many months of effort on the part of legislators, traffic officers and motor car dealers and experts. It Is not a hit-and-miss proposition. It will make driving a great deal safer, and more pleasant, especially at night. "How many times have you cursed the man with the searchlights on the front end of his car, as he flashed up over a hill, blinding you? "Be careful and obey the law and you will have no Lieutenant Dan Sylvester, president of the Traffic Officers Association of the State of California, and officer in charge of San Francisco's traffic squad, has sent out Instrus- Hons to all members of the organiza- tlon authorizing them to vigorously enforce the provisions of the new law next Monday, and he says that the law will be enforced uniformly throughout the state, as all traffic men have been thoroughly instruct ed in interpreting the different re- strictlons.

Mr. Sylvester believes that the California law is without doubt the most safe and sane one in the whole country, and next month he will at- Tickets for the concert may be pur-tend the convention of the National chased at the parish house, now, or Traffic Officers Association and will work for the national adoption of,.