anaheim-gazette 1925-02-26

CUTTING TIME IS OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE World Wants to Travel Fast, Says Oldsmobile Man Cutting the time required to travel from one place on this earth to another and reducing the time element between the occurrence of any event and the broadcasting of this information in the form of news are the two factors that have been responsible for some of the greatest achievements of the past quarter century, according to E. J. Shassberger, advertising manager of the Olds Motor Works, Lansing, Mich. "Without question the three great mechanical and scientific events of the past 25 years have been the development of the automobile, the wireless transmission of sound and the airplane," said Mr. Shassberger. "The rapidity with which these have been received, improved and made part of our lives, particularly the automobile and the radio, have been veritable miracles when compared to the slow, tedious fight against ignorance unenlightenedment that the railroads, the steamship and the telephone had to wage before their worth was fully recognized. "Newspapers and periodicals, but particularly the daily press, should be credited with much of the rapid success attained by the worthwhile inventions of the past 25 years. During that time news gathering and news disseminating agencies have so perfected their methods that New York and San Francisco are but minutes apart as regards the world news of today. "Newspapers, furthermore, have shown the utmost progressiveness in keeping in touch with the trend of striking contrast to the immense sums paid in state and federal taxes by private companies. Private companies employ staffs of experts to handle their business. These men are chosen because of their efficiency and not because of any political affiliations. On the other hand, where the state is in business, appointments are often made through political influence rather than because of ability. Under which system will the public secure the most for its money? FARMERS' LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM Farm organizations in California, including the State Grange, Farm Bureau Federation, Farmers' Union, Farm Legislative Committee and marketing organizations are united in a statement that public utilities owned by cities shall be taxed, and that issuance of all tax-free securities shall be prohibited. These two propositions are perfectly logical when it is considered that cities operating public utilities issue tax-free securities with which to construct the same, thus exempting large properties from taxation, and at the same time enabling large financial interests to escape their federal income taxes. Tax-free, city-owned utilities built with issues of tax-free securities create a privileged condition for dwellers in cities and cast a double burden upon the owners of the farms that is arbitrary, unjust and absolutely unfair in its operations. The Petaluma Argus, chaimploning agriculture's major legislative program, says, editorially: "Those who evade this state tax live almost entirely in our cities. The amount of this tax, now being shifted purchase value in which the tariff affords. The tariff operates profitable to the man abroad than would case. Removing the guarantee with it of buying abroad wishing of retail price consumer. In many movals or lowering an advance in prices, whenever sugar has been an immediate of Cuban raw sugar slack is thus taken producer is not at prices in the Americas 100 per cent. All does do, is to cut to undersell the A.Most, if not all, of off is absorbed by house and the store. Two other rather erations are lost shaping gentleman who cost of Peter's coat happens to be emptied in which wage prevailing in Europe applies in must either accept work if his neighbor needs abroad rathis. This is a fact a life be seen by free who turn up contempt vulgar facts. More dustry in which Peleployed has been competition based and living scale, that that the foreign porter, altruists assist the free traders' work to shower cheapness." particularly the daily press, should be credited with much of the rapid success attained by the worth-while inventions of the past 25 years. During that time news gathering and news disseminating agencies have so perfected their methods that New York and San Francisco are but minutes apart as regards the world news of today. "Newspapers, furthermore, have shown the utmost progressiveness in keeping in touch with the trend of public desires. In so doing they have quickly seen the benefits new mechanical and scientific inventions would bring the human race, and have made every person in the country familiar with these achievements almost instantly. "The history of the automobile industry from almost nothing in 1900 to the second largest industry in the world today is one of the most striking examples of mechanical porgress aided by the widespread publication of news of interesting events in the industry. "In view of its great advance, it seems that the automobile had a start of many years over the radio and airplane, but such is not the case. In 1894 the first vehicle was propelled by a gasoline engine. In 1901 Marconi sent his first wireless signal. In 1903 the Wright brothers made their memorable flight at Kitty Hawk. "The only background the automobile had was the carriage industry, which started downward when the first auto started chugging. In fact, the heritage of the carriage proved a handicap, and it was not until about 1905 that the automobile shook the last traces of this dying industry from its neck and proceeded on its own. "The radio and the airplane, on the other hand, had industrial relatives that aided their progress. The automobile's constant development of the gasoline engine greatly helped aviation, while the telephone and telegraph gave constant aid to radio. "The newspapers proved the 'big brother' to the automobile and helped it over the bumps of the early days. From the time the first curved-dash Oldsmobile chugged its merry way over the streets of Lansing, Mich., in 1897, newspapers throughout the country recognized the automobile as 'news.' It is the only industry that is accorded special pages and sections in the daily press, such as is given national sports. Tax-free, city-owned utilities built with issues of tax-free securities create a privileged condition for dwellers in cities and cast a double burden upon the owners of the farms that is arbitrary, unjust and absolutely unfair in its operations. The Petaluma Argus, chaimploning agriculture's major legislative program, says, editorially: "Those who evade this state tax live almost entirely in our cities. The amount of this tax, now being shifted upon the backs of those who live outside the larger cities, especially upon the farming class, amounts to millions of dollars annually. "There are good and substantial reasons why publicly owned public utilities should contribute to the cost of maintaining the stategovernment in exact proportion with privately owned public utilities, and no good and valid reasons why they should no do so." "PETER'S COAT AND THE TARIFF" "Peter's Coat and the Tariff" is the title of an article in the February Atlantic Monthly by William L. Chenery. The author conducts an imaginary conversation between a person of unmentioned occupation—perhaps only a consumer identified with no productive employment, and therefore uninterested in the credit side of the tariff ledger. Articles of common use are mentioned, and the amount of "tax" imposed on the consumer is estimated at the full amount of the tariff levied in the existing tariff law. A formidable addition to the cost of living is thus evolved, and the theory that the exclusion of goods produced abroad by cheap labor displaces a similar amount of production in the United States by higher priced labor is dismissed in airy fashion. The assumption of the writer of this article is that if an importer or distributor in the United States can purchase a given article abroad cheaper than he can buy it at home, he will pass the saving on to the consumer. This is evidence of a child-like faith in the theory that distribution adds only a fixed percentage to first cost. It is not borne out, however, by experience. There is no certainty that the importer, the jobber, the wholesaler and the retailer will feel bound to fix the retail price of an article on the basis of the foreign price, plus freight, handling, merchandising cost and an invariable rate of profit. This is a fact a life be seen by free who turn up contact vulgar facts. More dustry in which Peteployed has been capped competition based on and living scale, that the foreign porter, altruists as free traders" will shower cheapness have come to own. If Peter is a type he wears a better age European, Asianican Peter. Perhaps a new coat would reign cousin at all American boy wear more of them? I can wage and their standard of living any other country. It is to be hoped grow up to be too want to wear cheapening the man cloth and the coated by the sacrines is not really endless chain of a labor and service from consumer to consumer broken in any one in down the whole greatest prosperity in any land benevolent. We do not see this country to live Cheap coats and Peters, the Heimtons of older down our gates if rush to come where scale of living sensible America; that her boy has living in a country willing to pay a price represents something human hours and toller. For tho boy too may liven than the boys of thing more is insult of a coat than tha coat. MUST NOT REPEAT Radical influence nancial influences an obvious eye on "The newspapers proved the 'big brother' to the automobile and helped it over the bumps of the early days. From the time the first curved-dash Oldsmobile chugged its merry way over the streets of Lansing, Mich., in 1897, newspapers throughout the country recognized the automobile as 'news.' It is the only industry that is accorded special pages and sections in the daily press, such as is given national sports. "And when it is considered that we have nearly 18,000,000 automobile owners in this country and that nearly 75 per cent of our population are automobile riders, it appears that the newspapers knew their business and could foresee this great mass of the public all interested in the one thing—the automobile." BENEFITS OF COMPETITION Forty-two of our states have workmen's compensation laws. In 26 of these, the insurance is carried solely by private companies. In nine, the state has set up a competitive fund. In seven, private companies are not allowed to operate because the state government takes over practically all of the business. "It is a matter of record," says the Illinois Journal of Commerce, "that in the nine states where the government enters into active competition with the private insurance companies in providing workmen's compensation insurance, the average of the total business handled by the state is only 14.69 per cent, while the private companies do 85.31 per cent of the business. In New York, with a total in premiums written by both state and private companies amounting to about $39,000,000, the private companies handle 92.2 per cent of the business. State funds pay no taxes. This is a study of the schedules of the existing tariff will show that increases in retail prices of articles on the free list have been just as marked as increases in the prices of articles bearing a tariff duty. Shoes, for instance, are on the free list. The price of shoes is more above the pre-war normal than the price of clothing, which bears a duty of 65 per cent. The credulous author of "Peter's Coat and the Tariff" estimates the cost of the tariff by applying his percentages to retail value, rather than to foreign pass the saving on to the consumer. This is evidence of a child-like faith in the theory that distribution adds only fixed percentage to first cost. It is not borne out, however, by experience. There is no certainty that the importer, the jobber, the wholesaler and the retailer will feel bound to fix the retail price of an article on the basis of the foreign price, plus freight, handling, merchandising cost and an invariable rate of profit. Peter's mother, unfortunately, cannot shop in Berlin, Paris or Vienna; she must depend upon several intervening purchasing and distributing agencies. The importer and distributor will continue, no matter what the foreign price, to charge what the traffic will bear. This was illustrated in a striking way when the Senate finance committee collected the import invoices and retail sales slips of foreign-made articles sold in New York retail stores. This exhibit played havoc with the credulous theory that permitting articles to be bought at low prices abroad gave the consumer any guarantee that he would get them cheaper than if they had been bought at prices paid on the basis of the American wage scale. These articles were sold at profits ranging all the way from 200 to 5000 per cent. Radical influence nancial influences an envious eye on and potential creature as to the consequent befall the American suit of relationship pushing with such propaganda in french Russia. When the Ameirtheir government of the bloody-handed cow, they ought to their eyes open eration of what a Bolshevism would peace and safety. No citations on matter of recognition in the considerate government's prince Russia. That France is of no shi in view of the republic has already for regret by these selves for taking French government under duress by war France was and the hundred holders of Russian sessed of the vast way a government claims its belle debts may be least some of tha purchase value in the manner in which the tariff actually operates. The tariff operates to make it less profitable to the merchandiser to buy abroad than would otherwise be the case. Removing the tariff carries no guarantee with it that the privilege of buying abroad will mean a lowering of retail prices to the ultimate consumer. In many cases the removal or lowering of the tariff causes an advance in prices abroad. For instance, whenever the tariff on raw sugar has been lowered, there has been an immediate rise in the price of Cuban raw sugar. Most of the slack is thus taken up. The foreign producer is not anxious to cut his prices in the American market 50 or 100 per cent. All he needs to do, or does do, is to cut the price enough to undersell the American producer. Most, if not all, of what he does throw off is absorbed between the custom house and the store counter. Two other rather important considerations are lost sight of by the writing gentleman who mourns over the cost of Peter's coat. If Peter's father happens to be employed in an industry in which the wage scale is double that prevailing in Europe, and that situation applies in most industries, he must either accept less wages or quit work if his neighbors supply their needs abroad rather than at home. This is a fact a little too obvious to be seen by free trade doctrinales who turn up contemptuous noses at vulgar facts. Moreover, when the industry in which Peter's father is employed has been closed because of a competition based upon a lower wage and living scale, there is no assurance that the foreign producer and importer, altruists as they always are in the free traders' view, will continue to shower cheapness in a market they singular and unprecedented is that the Russian soviet "republic" is the only government ever established in the world based upon a philosophy which demands the overthrow of all non-communist governments. The elements in control of Russia make no secret of their purpose to bore from within, and attack from without, when the boring-in process has gone far enough, every government in which private property is permitted to exist. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that no temporary declaration of a Russian government representative which is out of harmony with this purpose is worth the paper it is written on. This government has no right to dictate the form of government established in any other country, even though it be known, as in the case of Russia, that the masses of the people have no voice whatever in government, but are held in subjection by a handful of ruthless tyrants backed by a million bayonets, and aided in the maintenance of their oligarchy by the hang-man, the firing squad, the dungeon and complete suppression of liberty of speech and of the press. But this government has a right, and it is bounden duty to insist that friendly relations can be maintained with no government which openly boasts that it is only awaiting opportunity to overthrow our government, not merely by propaganda, but by violence when the opportune moment arrives. BOOST WHILE YOU CAN Tell us not in mournful numbers that this town is on the bum; rouse up from your peaceful slumbers; get right out and make things hum. If we go to work in earnest and we make things hit on high; adjust them this is true, so help me Jack. Now's the time to do your boosting, wait not until tomorrow's dawn, in the grave you may be roosting, all your boosting chances gone. Lay aside your little hammer, grab a horn and tool a few; squelch the kicker's dad-blamed yammer with a joyful blast or two. This old town is sure a pipie, and we ought to boost it big when we hear some growler yippin we should smile him on the wig. Mighty oaks that grow and flourish came from acorns plain and small; with your boosting you may nourish something that may help us all; something that may prove a blessing to the tolling sons of men—that's the point I am stressing—boost and boost, then boost again. People love the smiling booster and for him they loudly cheer, but they hate the knocking roofer, long to pelt him on the car. Boost your country and your business, boost the people in your town; they will dub you wise and witty and you'll gain a wide renown. The biggest talkers are the smallest doers. Don't Delay In Having Your Headlights Adjusted Official Headlight Adjusting Station AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRIC CO This is a fact a little too obvious to be seen by free trade doctrinaires who turn up contemptuous noses at vulgar facts. Moreover, when the industry in which Peter's father is employed has been closed because of a competition based upon a lower wage and living scale, there is no assurance that the foreign producer and importer, altruists as they always are in the free traders' view, will continue to shower cheapness in a market they have come to own. If Peter is a typical American boy, he wears a better coat than the average European, Aslatic or South American Peter. Perhaps the problem of a new coat would not bother his foreign cousin at all. Why does the American boy wear better coats and more of them? Because the American wage and therefore the American standard of living is higher than in any other country in the world. It is to be hoped that Peter will grow up to be too good an American to want to wear a cheap coat by cheapening the man who makes the cloth and the coat. Cheapness attained by the sacrifice of human values is not really cheap at all. The endless chain of adequate reward for labor and service performed reaches from consumer to producer and producer to consumer. It cannot be broken in any one spot without slowing down the whole movement of the greatest prosperity that ever existed in any land beneath the sun. We do not see many Peters leaving this country to live in the lands of Cheap coats and cheap wages. The Peters, the Heinrichs, and the Antonios of other lands would break down our gates if they could in a mad rush to come where coats and the scale of living are higher. Every sensible American mother is glad that her boy has the privilege of living in a country where people are willing to pay a price for a coat that represents something more than human hours and living conditions for the toller. For this means that her boy too, may live on a higher level than the boys of other lands. Something more is involved in the price of a coat than the mere price of the coat. MUST NOT REORGANIZE SOVIET GOVERNMENT Radical influences, coupled with financial influences which look with an obvious eye on Russia's resources opportunity to overthrow our government, not merely by propaganda, but by violence when the opportune moment arrives. BOOST WHILE YOU CAN Tell us not in mounthful numbers that this town is on the bum; rouse up from your peaceful slumbers; get right out and make things hum. If we go to work in earnest and we make things hit on high: "dust thou art, to dust returneth," is a song of by and by. 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MUST NOT REORGANIZE SOVIET GOVERNMENT Radical influences, coupled with financial influences which look with an envious eye on Russia's resources and potential credit and are careless as to the consequences which may befall the American people as the result of relationship with Russia, are pushing with singular persistence propaganda in favor of recognizing soviet Russia. When the American people permit their government to strike hands with the bloody-handed butchers of Moscow, they ought to at least do it with their eyes open and with full consideration of what such bolstering up of Bolshevism would have upon the peace and safety of the world. No citations of precedents in the matter of recognition carry any weight in the consideration of the American government's proper attitude toward Russia. That France has recognized Russia is of no significance, especially in view of the fact that the French republic has already been given reason for regret by the Bolsheviks themselves for taking this action. The French government is at all times under duress by radicals. Before the war France was the banker of Russia, and the hundreds of thousands of holders of Russian securities are possessed of the vain hope that in some way a government which openly proclaims its belief in repudiation of debts may be induced to repay at least some of the money. What makes the Russian situation Millions of Oranges, Lemons and Grapefruit, Interesting By-Products Department, Hundreds of Demonstrations, Gorgeous Feature Exhibits, Wonderful Decorative Effects, Splendid Musical Programs, a Great Automobile Show, an Industrial Display, Operatic Singers, Ballet, Strolling Musicians. U. S. Department of Agriculture Display first time ever shown in Southern California. An Electrical Demonstration of interest. 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