Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 57

4 1 'i to- '1 I 5 BltgoD 3 1 VOLUME XCVI. OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 1922. NO. 92. 1 i i vas ITUC IIMI1ICPCITV A.

RltOWN. iirc-ldont of I he I I'U. I II V. V. POKTEK, new prewklont of til Ottklana Itoul -ltttilu IioAnl.

i L'UhJ IL 11 1 1 1 question whether it is cheaper to shiplland that can be made for port track- F. F. PfiRTER PRESIDENT OF REALTY BOARD i 11 ITS EFFECT DPOfl BERKELEY are. In ths. she lias opportunities that have both San Francisco land-Los Angeles backed off the map.

and Vc must remember that a ver moderate (sized ship of say 10.000 tons cargo capacity. If full.M Joaded, will require 200' freight cars to carry off a cirgo that she brings to port 4I if all the raw material to New Eng land and manufacture It there for the Eastern population or to manufacture it here and ship the required amount of manufactured products to supply the Eastern population, or whether it is not advantageous to have mun'ufi'torles here that dupli cate the products of the Eastern fa tories That is a question for each Individual industry to decide for it self, but (he rest of the problem is general, and in it lays OAKLAND'S THE KEQl IRKMIW'TS. What are, the principal require? ments for. economic manufacture? 1. Ample ground for factory sites, including storage, for both -the raw materials and the manufactured pfoUucts.

2. AmpFe ground fbi- industrial tracks and avenues for trucks. 3. The above must be conveniently located to established lines- of transportation, that switching and material handling costs' may be low. 4.

The whole must be conveniently located to ns many-lines of rail and water transportation as possible," for FUEL the- jMirposes of receiving raw mate rials as well as for the distribution of tho manufactured products, 5. Port -accommodations and loading facilities. Mud, flats and water-lapped tldelands, or places to tie up boats, do not make port accommodations without development and equipment to handle freight. 6. Ample and cheap supplv of vomiimilaiioris ran he installed she will have almost aii.cven break with Seattle, for AlaskV coal.

TOW I AT HAMK The power question, is a vitsl'l onK due fhing that has kept New England populated. Al, present Oakland has the best of it. over-San Francisco or Los Sun Francisco will always dependent upon hy-C dro-electric power brinish acrosi the bay, where -a. drupgtng nuhor mayany day cut off the power, forcing the city to depend upon its emergency plants or duplica-te The development of more water pnw-ers in the Sierras is In progress and sstlll more possible, all of win-h arc within reach-of Oakland as the centralized location" in th-'-nou er question for some time I locking The SacrainenTo river al Lirijuiiifi straits and inak.ing a of tho river a sluvilar pt tlie grejt river hydro -electric plant can be made. THE Pl.AN.

Twelve years ago i suggested that, power plants be constructed in the Colorado river ca.nyoiis, hctween Ari-zona and that the mictions nf horsepower which could ho developed there be linked utth jho Truckee river power plants on west and the I'tah Power Company on the north. This is more feasible today than It was thru, and can be linked Villi California power lines by way of the San Joaquin. Southern- Giilifornla' and Trueke? river plants. Los Angeles is even now working on, the plans to bring the Colorado power into that city that she may offer cheap power ns an Inducement to industrial plants to locate there. This project will make, Angeles have 'cheaper POwei' than any other city In- tho world.

The Colorado river can fur-1 nlsh eight times as much power as all the power plants now running on both the Canadian' and New York sides of Niagara, with the Mississippi river plant added. -WAKE UP, OAKLAND. "Cart Oakland realize -what that moans to Los Angeles? Are you going to sleep In this "bedroom of San Francisco" antl let Los Angeles grow without growing with her? Far be it from me 'to deprive Los Angeles can use, but that is no reason whv: Los Angeles grow-without any ef fort, to grow along with her." To 1 K( Icy. Mill College Park to Re Sold dl Udrp4lll I nus. nrfnes 7.

vn and at prices that would i not replace the improvements on the. MMuk.k'ir rr 4 miT awr ifi Jn i i irTf'irfii hj i -n -i iirun iw iuiw -jLk. CLOSING OUT LIST LOTS III PfiPiiriBTniir.T I Ulr ULHII I IIIIU I I I 1 1 I rj HSlKPOu water. wake up to your opportunities and! f. park utilize them isn't throwing one sin-' Chevrolet Park Tract' lt to be ah- gle obstacle In the way of Los An- "1 11 and will require 200 carloads of freight to fill It for export, making a total of 400 cars that niust be quickly handled for.

each ship that and loads in the port, of Oakland. The earning capacity of a ship may or. 3000 a day and with demurrage running against it, it, is a matter of -importance that(the ship lie quickly unloaded and 'reloaded. Tills cannot done with Wheelbar-rovvs, hand trucks or -wagons without manv days' delay. THE WATERFRONT OF S.

K. San Francisco ban a long waterfront with piers where perhaps sixty or seventy, boats can "tie up," but with i(t track and a couple 6f locoinot ives serving all these piers, and crossing the-front of 'the ferry building, she hasn't a chance to handle the freight without great loss of time. Her waterfront is dominated by warring tribes of warehousemen, longshoremen and stevedores. There isn't a crane on the waterfront Hint would load a locomotive, consigned for export, anil every piece of cargo is handled two or three times or more, and often after long delays in reaching It behind a blockage of congested The cost of wharfage, demurrage and freight handling runs an expense against port costs and prevents many skippers from using this port. Even if.

San Francisco had cranes and gantrys and warehouses, its pos-1 slbilllles are limited to the number of cars that can be handled over a singe line'of railroad track. Furthermore, when San Francisco's pop ulation increase another 200,000 shej win nave no tanii tor runner lactones, and be utterly unable to handle freight that will by that time be knocking at this' port, which will be forced to go to Los Angeles. Portland or Seattle, unless Oakland prepares to handle It. OAKLAND'S FUTURE. We have been content to regard Oakland as.

the of San but it is now. necessary to turn this great bedroom into accommodations for Industry. San Franciscp may become the. "counting; house" for Oakland industries, if she plans for but she never can com- pete with Oakland If Oakland utll- izcs'her opportunities for industrial development. Ample and cheap supply of good water is one place where Oakland! will soon find herself handicapped.

I Los Angeles has already bi-ought the Owens river water into her city and has so-well provided for the city that fifty years' growth have been anticipated. Ships that land' at the port of Los Angeles are given all the water they want -without cost, while Oakland and San -Francisco both make port charges for water; As an inducement for industries to locate In Los Angeles, that city can offer free water (or very cheap water), which is" a big drawing card Unless Oakland wakes up and gets busy on some competent water system Los Angeles will be the great industrial center oT California. OIL FOR 1TEL. Los Angeles has a limited amount of fuel oil that Is obtained from' oil wells, within' her -city limits, but so far as that goes she has also the opportunity tor both oil and gas hy pipe lines front-the Fresno and Kern fields Oakland already has pipe lines from th" oil flekls, and the big oil have refineries and supplies of oil at the tidewater plants on the Oakland shore. There is little if any difference be- tweon Los ngeles.

and Oakland In the facilities for fuel oil. SafTTrari- cisco is nanuicappea oy oeing on tne wrong side of the and Seattle are out of the race in the fuel oil problem. As for coal. Oakhind has the best of it for Utah -Wyoming coal, and if port ac- ''llrair' porperty. mere ar only iinout loo- quarters.

property values are lots left In this tract, and these are creased, city records show, and t. to be sold regardless of conditions increases become more The prices at" which lots will each year. be sold range from $285 to $515. Practically every students at tK i and this with all street, sewer and: university has either a commercial ot sidewalk work clone In the best way. savings account in Berkeley's 'banksv This is announced as 'a -real bar- and this item alone is not one to be, gain sale of lot in a good part of I frowned at by financial institutions.

Knst Oakland. The tract was a large Faculty members must also be taken one. and in the hist two years strong into consideration when considering efforts have made to close it the relation of Berkeley's banking to out entirely. This has really been the university, the Instructors hav- hut in the course of sales.made ing accounts with the banking in-upon small deposits about 100 lots stltutlons and many of them being have. reverted to the original owners, numbered among the stockholders the Realty Syndicate.

These lots i ant1 directors of the financial institu are to be rcal'lv sacrificed, and thejtions of the community, new huver will he clven the full Not only 1s the value of the prop. 4 Ti' 1 1 1 1 1 The busy technical man Is not sufi-posed to be the- proper one to produce community-building propaganda, this service to the city or district being generally regarded as one that can only be rendered by a Chamber of Commerce representative or a newspaper publicity man. But when the busy technical man can be induced to put his -knowledge and hia ideas upon paper the result is al-vay worth while. Letson Ballet was for a number of years efficiency engineer at the Moore shipbuilding plant in this city, Previous' to that he had been a mining' engineer in Nevada. In 1914 he made the first survey for a Colorado Kiver hydro-electric project, the same general plan that has been the subject of a great conference of ationai repress riTat Ives erh -nent and the engineering profession within the last Shortly Hftef leaving the Moore ehipyards Mr.

Balllet was Induced to prepare an address upon Opportunity" to be delivered before an Oakland luncheon club. Fot some reason the address was never delivered, but the facts contained (herein and the ideas cxpresrw-rt ate so' Important and the vision so cleiir and wide that The TRIBUNE reproduces it in full as an admirable exposition of Oakland and Eastbay conditions. OA LA NO'S t) PPO RTF I TY, By Lctwm Balllet. Almost every one who writes or speaks to gain tells what we like to hear instead Cff whaf wf ought to know. Those who tell us what we ought to know are "regarded as.

Iconoclastic, and we are very prone to argue that our images and idolsJhc not destroyed. At the risk of being called an iconoclast, I shall" tell you something that I think yon ought to know, but which to many Will be more in the nature of a reminder of facts that you may have forgotten than information. Thirty ytars ago the school, geographies used throughout the-coun try gave the principal products for which-various sections of the United States were most known. Regarding the New England States, they said: NEW ENGLAND FACTORIES. "New England is famous for Its manufactured products.

It is tho manufacturing center of the United States not because Its rocky soil is productive of raw material, but OF THE MAGNIFICENT WATER POW-. ERS IN WHICH IT ABOUNDS. Raw materials are shipped to New' and there- manufactured into various commodities to be -shipped away as manufactured products." In those days factories were located upon the streams where water wheels turned the machinery, but today California-has nioj-e water power than ALL NEW ENGLAND and is rapidly growing irtto importance as manufacturing state, which I am willing to go on record as saying will -be the MANUFACTURING STATE IN THE UNITED STATES BEFORE MANY YEARS. Yet New England has one advantage over California. It is nearer the population center of the United States for markets, though this is fast being equalized by the increasing population of the West.

Of New England was settled nearly -200 years before California, had any prominence at all. SEAL ROCKS OR PLYMOUTH If the Pilgrims Ihid'landed near the Seal Rock on -the Pai-iflo Instead of near the Plymouth rock on the Atlantic side of the country. New England would he a howling wilderness today, for no one wdnld have any Interest In turning over the pocks of New England to see if there was soil enough there, to grow anything, and tli8 water powers of tho West yet all" be utilized. We have enough power in California to manufacture everything that is niandfactured In England even if they shut down entirely. That brings up the- industrial BUSINESS AS APPLIED TO THE RANGES By J.

P. IVERSO.V,.- in Weekly News letter of the State Department of AgrlruTtjirc. The man who makes investments and devotes considerable time on any project for the purpose, of making money is generaJy knovn as a business man. The successful business man Is continually striving toward increased effclenoy in all his lines of endeavor. Wherever, ah irregularity Is detected which tends toward a reduction In profits hs re- Lw of what monev has been paid! r-t' ln Rerkeley's residential dis-nnon the lots bv the last nurchaser I trtcts increased through the uni- Bank Deposit Jump Up At tlie Beginiiing of the nivcr-ity Term.

Ry P. lUltiWV. A lec-pmidi nl of the I1rt National Rank of Hcrkclcy and the Berkeley lUml The reTafion of tn-th'e' business of Br-'-" ls clearly andd- forcibly demonstrated each year with the 6f 'the educational inatitu- ti.Ml. Retail tr.i le in. Berkeley naturally iel.s the effect of -tlie college With huge: -increase: in Sll Hns a4d this stimulating effect is through in the business of the university ity's manufacturers, wholesalers and jobbers.

Ilank dop.iiiits which may be directly traced university, students -'during the two week's of the" university year Increased alone with It1' Klrt National Bank of Berkeley and tlflr Berkeley Bank of Savings and Trust company, more than J.IOO.OOt). Th -entire amount of moneys pass- through Berkeley's hank from. univei-Nity Mtndents, exclusive of that spent wiih Berkeley's business men and property owners would be Impossible to estimate, the Clearing bouse, association reports not making records of. -checkw en out-of-town hanks which are brought to Berkeley and cashed here by the Real estate values are enhanced through the proximity of the state's great educational institution -tMCausn-the of students registered must find quarters close to the seat of learning and as arcsull. proRsrtv is easily.

rentea. xr Many Berkeley real estate fers may traced directly' (oi Jthe university, whole families itiliiPH nmvtnp hpi-p for norlnH members of the younger attending the' college. Ji. times the tics made during the VfarS result in thes-e -families Permanently Berkeley. thuaV crowth of the citv.

auo" ana hiunui VI II 1. with the unusual demand I versity's proximity but this extends 1 10 ln "usincss ousincta as wen times take advantage of business with the univers'ity students and niVmberi of their families. The increased business of the merchants through the business with the college students Is also folt in Berkeley's banking circles as clearing house reports show. WORK FOR PROSPERITY. As the only means of producing a newvera of commercial Prosperity A.

vice-president of the International Chamber of Commerce, advocates the old-fashioned principles of law and order, thrift and hard work. Mr. Bradford called the Americans the optimists of the commercial world. A tax of 100 levas is- imposed in Bulgaria for use of walking canes by persons le.s than 50 years old In good i i rOCKET BOOKS nraery ImnA Squab Farms Cherry and Miharban Home Si. half and full acre wafer and city oniaywaru.

I to $150 Down p. m. Srndioat. lir. Oak.

Offioa. Cn'ra Btrt I it i Mm A 'f-ir'jw. Wl it ,1 I National Realty Convention Will Be thf Big of the Year. tfie Oakland Heal Estate Board ttas organized for a nw year of work, It promises be a year of work In all thn th tpi-t tmpn F. F.

Porter wus chosen president of iu uunrti ni iiih rnpfiuiH vi ino en-rectors held Monday aflernoon, dlic-ceedlng: Bruce Mafden, who. has held the place for two yearn. Maiden wan first vice president, With Wll-lard White and fVed T. Wood as second and third vies presidents, TCml! Fritch as -treasurer and Tt. Porter Giles as secretary.

With this combination of officers an actlvs year is certain, and the Oakland Poal Kftate Hoard looks forward to Increased activity In the work of tin- i proving Oakland and ralsjnK the itandard of the profession. The election of V. I'orter was a tribute to a man who has don much for the Real Estate Board In a quiet way. It Is through K. Porter that the board will be located In Its, own hqma before the end of the year ondjt wns-fittlngf that Porter should have been clwwen.

to Install tho board In' this home. Porter ha bought on Fifteenth tree In the heart of the new real estate district! and he will build this yenr a building that will house tho Ileal Estatea Board with exeoutive offices and an assembly hall. The Oakland -Peal' Estate Roard has been left In 'Rood condition by the retiring officers. There is money In the treasury, all bills are "paid knd the Oakland Board has taken lis plane at the very head of tho real estate associations of the state. The annual convention of the National Association of.

Real Estate Boards will bo held in Ban Francisco I nJuly next and the Oakland board under. President Porter will play an -important-part in- this convention- 1 l', RealiElate Board Official Bulletin Although there are 250 names of brokers and salesmen Tin the roster of the Oakland Real Estate Board, each one baa been carefully considered by a cpecial committee prior to being accepted as a member. A few local realty, men "have applied for membership and been denied becais their busrtiiWs record In community did not reflect No broker or salesman ran become a member of the organization unless the- investigation in his ease shows him to be. honorable In his dealing and to have a clean business record. menVber is required to sub- erihe to the "Realtor's Code of Kthlcs;" -ft collection of rules and regulations affecting customs and' practices In the real estate business, all based on the "Golden Rule." The organization and each member' is obliged to enforce the spirit of this code In all phases of the real estate profession and It is the basis and ieory of the real estate-license law tinder which the State Real Estate Department operator.

Questionable customs which were once generally recognized at legitimate, even though the.y were not used to the detriment of clients by the vast majority of realty men, have heen' abandoned and are prohibited hy tho eralty boards of today because they provide tho machinery for an unprincipled broker to use In taking unfair advantage of a client. The result hi that the "shark" and the sharpshooter" of a decade ago are neldoin found among "realty brokers -of today, are being rapidly and effee tivfly eliminated- by the realty boards and the State Estate Department, and are never permitted to hold membership in a realty hoard which has- the legal, right to designate its members as, "Realtors." The Superior Court of thij 'county has for the fourth time sustained the State Real Kstate Commissioner In a decision when the court upheld the commissioner in revoking the license of A. Bchomlg of East Oakland. The decision was ahnounced on March 14. Rchomig was accused of having collected for a client payments being made on account of the purchase of.

the client's property anq oi retaining for himself a considerable percentage" of the payments when he falsely accounted, to the client for them. This contention was sustained at the formal hearing held the commission at (which tirfie it also appeared. that Schomig had his client's endorsement on "checks submitted in payment. 'State Real Estate Commissioner Kelser prompt ly canceled Schomigs license as a real estate broker. Schomlg appealed to the Superior Court for a writ of review, and after mature consideration of the records involved the court upheld the commissioner.

In previous cases of this kind the Superior Court of Alameda County has consistently upheld the rulings of the State -Real JCstate Commissioner GUICHAHD MORGAN Phone KrnllTSle 420 OAKLAND BRASS FOUNDRY All kinds of BRASS AND ALUMINUM CASTINGS Our Special Aluminum Stronger Than Iron B28-0R4 Twemty-tMrd Avenue Eat Oakland. California i vvho forfeited. The constantly growing attendance at Mi Is Colleee is eausirrz a well rie- vcloped college settlement to grow up in Mills College Park. The Mills College faculty is well represented in the building activity, Dean Egge, Miss Nina Alderton, Mrs. Martha.

Castor, others who are building in the trnct are J. Raifsoni, William A. Wheeler. E. L.

Williams. Jl: H. Crow-ton. H. Shlel and J.

C4earJ-There are fifty other new homes whii ti will- start building at once. This yilc has been placed in -the hands of Frank W. Epperson and it has been arranged by the company to hiive, autos leave the Syndicate Building every half, hour Sunday, to accommodate, those who wish to visit the property. FXPELTVERED GOODS. There-Ms more 4han $50,000,000 worth of American exports undelivered in porta of several South American cuies.

TOE LANDS OFTOE FIFTYPER CENT Howard Terminal Officials Make An Estimate-For Present Year. According to conservative esli mates made by the Howard Terminal officials, the Increase in tonnage handled through-the port of Oakland will shpw an increase of' at least fiO per cent for this year as against l2l. With the docking of the motoi ship Slam 6t the I lolland-'Amerlcan line at the Howard Terminal on Tuesday the" 'resumption of law scale activities on. the Oakland Waterfront-has been The Slam hroughe a 4000-ton cargo of sand, nitrate and -whiting for East-bay Industries from Hamburg and Antwerp and will lod 400 tons of oil cake from one, of -the Eastbav plants for Hamburg. This product Is used as cattle food.

The Slam, which Is being followed by the West Farallone from Australia and South Sea. Island ports with 5000 tons of copra for local consumption. The copra market has been quiet for some time and the West Farallone brings In practically the first cargo since tho market opened. It Is anticipated that ocean -homo freight will Increase steadily for-the next six or eight month's, with peak loads handled in June, July, August and September. The estimated 00 per -cent minimum Increase in freight through Oakland is due to two factors, increased foreign trade and an increase' in the number of ships making Oakland a port of call Announcement has Just, made of the Holland-American and Royal Steam Packet -vessels docking at Oakland.

This consolidated service accepts freight for practically any port In tho-world In two nw such appeals which were takfrn' to the Supreme Court of the State and the commissioner sustained. F.B. C. Newman, doing business as tlie People's Realty Company, was accused of misrepresentation and dishonesty antl his license was revoked. His appeal to the Superior Court was denied.

T. L. Brecheen of Berkeley lost his license upon conviction by the commissioner of dishonesty, appealed to the Superior Court which sustained the commissioner and appealed further to the Supreme Court of the State, alleging that the law giving tho commissioner authority to cancel a broker's license was unconstitutional, His contention was denied by the Supreme Court. Brecheen applied for a new license the succeeding year, which was denied, and rje brought, mandamus proceedings' Superior Court to compel the commissioner to issue the license. The Superior Court denied his request and Brc cheen appealed to-the Supreme Court questioning the constitutionality of the law in that it gives the com missioner tne rtgnt to wirnnoia a licensp3The Supreme Court the sec-ond time upheld the validity of the state real estate license law.

of his-appeal, has been continuing his operations In East as the law provides1 that an appeal to the Supreme Court shall act as a stay of execution of the. commissioner's decision. The decision jf the Superior Court upholding the commissioner in having canceled Schomig's 'license be-, came immediately operative "and Schomlg is, now barred from con ducting a 'real estate brokerage business. FARM POPULATION. Of the 6.186,813 male farmers in the United States, 8,737,326 are 67,762 managers and 2,381,725 tenants.

Ptinn Otkland 4t Downey Class and Paint Co. INCORPORATED MANUFACTURERS JOBBERS 368-370 Twelfth Street tests -ta4 DlntHhtitort for 1 JOHN. LVCA CO. of Phlltillplil runt ana varnitn Mtktra ilnce 1MB HER II 7. Ample fuel.

and cheap supply of 8. Ample and cheap hydro-electric power. 9- Climatic conditions -for economic operation of plants, with the best- conditions for loading and transporting commodities. -supply of labor and conditions that maintain satisfied, contented and continuously employed labor. OAKLAND'S ADVANTAGE.

Now let us see how many of these requirements Oakland has or can get. In comparison with other cities of In the first, second and third re quirements, undeniably Oakland has the greatest advantage over Francisco, and Js at least the equal of4Xos Angeles. In the fourth. Oakland has the advantage over San Francisco in rail outlet, and a chance to be even greater than San Francisco for water transportation. Oakland also has a small advantage over Los Angeles In rail opportunities and cen tralized locatlDn for direct Eastern and Northwest distribution, and a big advantage in opportunities for water MAKING HARBORS.

However, we must no forget that Hamburg-, Germany, is on a river that is dredged to make Hamburg a great port. London is on a river. And plans have been made for dredging a waterway to Paris, France, and to "Los Angeles. With modern dredging equipment such as was used in making the really not a staggering problem to dredge a waterway catyil that would bring ocean ships into the most convenient position for Los Angeles, and in a few years Los Angeles will have shipping brought to her very door by such a canal. We have all heard the old joke about" Los Angeles not having a bay like San Francisco bay, and that "if they would build a pipe line to the ocean and suck on it as hard as they blchv, that she wbuld have a bay," and that Is alniOFt what An geles is going to do, not with a pii line, but with a canal to deep water.

OAKLAND HARBOR. Oakland already has a waterway that could be dredged-, clear through to San Leandro and around Alajneda Island that would make Oakland harbor equal to Hamburg or Lon don. Hundreds of manufacturing sites could then be prepared that would be actually located on deep water. Oakland. also has the outer bav waterfront with acres and acres of sorts to.

logical procedures to pre-vent "further losses' that source. Th.d. is q'UKe 'noticeable tday in our commercial Institutions and factories. The QwneYs or managers of such concerns not only devote time and thought each day to the reduction of expense, but they lose considerable sleep at' night pondering over which their products may be pro duced and marketed at tho leasts geles, nor is Los Angeles-throwing any 6bstacles in the way of Oakland. i On the other hand, Los Angeles would be glad to see Oakland wake up help her get that Colorado project In operation.

Power at or per kilowatt hour will mnva. many of the New England" manufactories to California and perhaps some of the great industries from Detroit and other Middle West cities that rely upon steam power directly or indirectly. I do not think that admit- of any argument. Any part of California can excel the Eastern climates, -aifd at no time in the year do ships come into port with half a cargo of ice frozen to the superstructures, as ttiey rio in New York, New England and the Uftiat Lakes. Both Los Angeles and Oakland have ample supply df labor and conditions that make satisfied and continuously employed workers.

Increasing industry will bring more laborers and their families to Oakland. TJie opening of the new canal around Niagara Falls tht will be big enough to permit ocean-going ships to pass from the St. Lawrence river to the Lakes Will make water transportation from California; clear into Chicago, Milwaukee and Duluth and thus California products can compete with "Eastern products as fur west as Minnesota, Dakota, Lva "and Nebraska. The question is, are we dohig we can do fu get the benefit of the natural resources that surround Oakland? DIS1HSS COM TLA INT. Without prejudice the Railroad Commission has dismissed the 'complaint, of the Willows Chamber of Commerce against thc'SOuthern Pacific protesting against changes in Sacramento Valley train service proposed bv the -railroad.

The dismissal order was made on request of the Willows organization. Better to Laugh Than Cry Hence "I wish I might always play comedy parts," says George Arllss, who is appearing at the Century Theater in "The Ruling Passion" all thls 31u JlaLl 7 I ITTI FOR LITTLE I ITTI.K FRMS FARMS ON EASY TERMS Poltry Kairmn Merry l.nnd 4 nrifnt Prune Orphardx setalilf l.jind In quarter, third, -nlerrs Aiith rilv new streets; close, to schools I V. churches, IS miles south f'Sf'4 Of Oakland'; electric curs, S. P. It.

K. Jir 1 1 and Western Pacific puss the prop- I ertyf adjoining the Terms from $50 fand. fitm 55 to $L'I) monil gcil soft .1. P. Itirh cardealeam now crop M.t f'- on farniing roMting cr'-nK in Aajprii-a.

vv'ritp hi nr two fre Toe I.nn:i thu ltate" sixl "VVbat ll'lr llinern Sr tllis li'lil tOfore de- CUi: Pi i-MI) H'fil lHe. You bur direct fron the- owner at the ranch at 11 ay ward SaiT Frnm niw k. m. t-t II (incorporated) 'f like our coinlKfciat houses we are obliged to market our products in such a way as to reap the, greatest profits. When the California Department of Agriculture considers the methods pursued by many of our well-meaning agriculturists, there arises the question as to whether or not they, like other branches of commercial, activities, are always on the alert for factors which cause waste and thereby a reduction in profits.

In numerous Instances it appears that many of us engaged In-raising live "stock-over-loolnthe excessive waste occurring annually through, our careless methods In dealing with diseases. Kafa Offl- 701 Orchard Ealaa and Bunnt BoilieTardi Hayward San viuca i I8 Balboa Bidt. expense. They realize that waste moans a reduction In profits and unless prevented may eventually lead to financial ruin. The same situation to our farmers.

Our farms are our factories on which vyth the aid of naturs engage In the aroduc-tlon of agricultural products and.