anaheim-gazette 1926-03-25

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Proprietor SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR $1.50 SIX MONTHS $1.00 THREE MONTHS $ .50 Entered at the Anaheim, California, Post Office as second class matter. EDITORIAL NOTES REGISTRATION OF ALIENS FOR obvious reasons the proposal of Secretary of Labor Davis that aliens be registered is vigorously opposed by aliens who are in the country through violation of the immigration laws and by interests engaged in "bootlegging" immigrants into the country. It is also opposed by communists, socialists and self-styled "liberals" in sympathy with them, who fear the apprehension and deportation of alien agitators engaged in carrying forward the bolshevist plot to overturn the American government by violence. To these must be added some deluded sentimentalists more concerned about the individual hardship the enforcement of such a law might impose upon aliens, than about the safety and welfare of the American government. Every alien legally in this country has opportunity to become an American citizen, thus escaping any hardship that might be involved under the proposed law in the necessity of registration and the payment of the tax of $10 for adults, with an annual fee of $5 thereafter, and of $3 a year for every child between the ages of 16 and 21 years. Registration involves no greater hardship for those entitled to be in the country than is imposed by law upon every American citizen who owns an automobile or a dog, calling for a process or registration and payment of a fee. The unnaturalized alien has come to this country, in every case where his errand is legitimate, for the purpose of improving his economic condition; to share the better standards of wages and living this country affords. As compared with the benefits thus secured, the fee proposed is a small one. State laws provide for an American citizen, thus escaping any hardship that might be involved under the proposed law in the necessity of registration and the payment of the tax of $10 for adults, with an annual fee of $5 thereafter, and of $3 a year for every child between the ages of 16 and 21 years. Registration involves no greater hardship for those entitled to be in the country than is imposed by law upon every American citizen who owns an automobile or a dog, calling for a process or registration and payment of a fee. The unnaturalized alien has come to this country, in every case where his errand is legitimate, for the purpose of improving his economic condition; to share the better standards of wages and living this country affords. As compared with the benefits thus secured, the fee proposed is a small one. State laws provide for the payment of a poll tax by the American citizen, which is not required in the case of an alien. The earnings of the alien in most instances go abroad, while those of the citizen stay at home. The citizen, moreover, is subject to military duty in time of war. The alien is subject to military duty, perhaps, in some foreign country, conceivably military duty against the United States. Is the tax proposed a heavy price to pay for immunity from such service here? Especially is it a heavy price when it is taken into consideration that it is proposed to expend this money in behalf of these immigrants themselves? The system of registration would not only require the alien to prove that he is legally in the country, disclosing doubtless thousands of cases of fraudulent entry, but it would require such a showing as to enable the American authorities to know how many alien criminals we are harboring. In this day of syndicalized crime this would be a measure of safety to the American people. In case of war it would enable the American government to know how many subjects of an enemy government are within the United States. The American who has traveled abroad knows how close supervision is kept of aliens traveling or domiciled in these countries. In most European countries there must be registration of aliens with the police, either directly or through the hotels where aliens register. With removal from one point to another there must be notice. This regulation, while irksome to the alien, is of great advantage to police authorities in countries where a better check seems to be kept on crime than in the United States. The sensible American who has nothing to conceal does not object to these regulations, nor will the law-abiding unnaturalized alien in the United States, who has no good reason for hiding his movements, find this supervision unreasonable. It is no reflection upon an American citizen that he is compelled by law to register when he begins to enjoy the hospitality of a hotel. Most of the agitation for loosening of our present regulations affecting the entrance of aliens, especially those preventing the entrance of criminals and advocates of the violent overthrow of our government, and most of the opposition to proposed legislation requiring unnaturalized aliens to register, originates with those who are dupes or tools of that European radicalism which aims at the destruction of the United States. This government has no higher duty than that of protecting itself and the American people against subversive agitators of foreign origin, who wish to abuse the privilege of entrance into the United States by plotting against the life of the nation and the safety of the American people. Opposition from such a source should serve to strengthen, rather than weaken, the determination to protect the republic from its enemies, foreign and domestic. Why not express yourself to your representatives and senators on this subject? THE BLOC SYSTEM ELIHU ROOT says that it is essential to the welfare of the United States that we return to "the good old-fashioned form THE BLOC SYSTEM ELIHU ROOT says that it is essential to the welfare of the United States that we return to "the good old-fashioned form of party organization." The substitute, the bloc system, he declares, has proved a failure in every country where it has been tried, causing discontent and disruption. He says: "The bloc system was enforced during the most corrupt and disgraceful period in England's history. It has made the government of France virtually helpless, because no statesman can rise there to speak on public policy and be sure the bloc system will not pull his chair from under him before he sits down. In Italy the bloc system so disrupted the theory of government that Mussolini, with his stern and rigid dictatorship, was heartily welcomed. I assure you that bloc rule will never secure for us the rule of the majority. We have run into a period of government when individuals seem to ally themselves with a party for no other purpose than that to get elected. They feel no obligation to stand by the principles of the party in whose name they are elected or to back up their associates in that party." DEPLORE PACIFICISM RESOLUTIONS adopted by a group of seventy national guard officers, reserve corps and regular army chaplains: "Will anyone declare that America will never become involved in war? The resort to arms still remains the final arbitrament of international disputes, however much we may deplore the fact or wish it otherwise. We are not militarists. At the same time we doubt the wisdom of pacifist agitation and refuse to join the peace at any price propagandists. No nation or people can endure in the terrible antagonisms of our restless world unless its stalwart manhood be willing and prepared to defend it. We therefore believe in and shall strive for a policy and program of adequate national defense—in a real, not a dream world." England thinks she would like to retaliate by keeping out of Great Britain all the American moral turpitudites, but she feels if she did the tourist business would suffer too severe a slump. The fourteenth pact for the payment of the French debt having been signed, sealed and delivered, France would now like to open negotiations concerning payment of the French debt. ANAHEIM GAZETTE NEVER TOUCHED ME By A. B. CHAPIN INCOME TAX 1500 EXEMPTION FOR UNMARRIED MEN 3500 EXEMPTION FOR MARRIED MEN THE AVERAGE GUY STATE PURE SEED LAW PROVISIONS Explained by W. S. Wilkinson in The California Cultivator There is no factor in the business of the farming of California's field crops so important as the quality of the seed which the farmer uses for the production of his crop. Every precaution may be taken to obtain a maximum production; every condition of soil, climate and seed bed may be optimum, but if the quality of the seed used is poor, the resultant crop will be poor in proportion to the variance of the quality of the seed from good. The legislature of 1921, realizing the importance which quality seed plays in the production of field crops, passed the California pure seed act. This law was approved and became effective August 3, 1921. The California seed act is not a law which prohibits the sale of poor or inferior seed. Instead it places the responsibility of obtaining good seed upon the consumer of that seed by providing him with methods by which the quality of the seed he is producing can be accurately determined. The seed act requires that each lot of agricultural seed must have a label attached to it. This label must bear statements as to the kind of seed, the percentage of purity, the percentage of weed seeds, the names of any noxious weed seeds which may be present, and the percentage of germination. In addition to the statement of germination, the label must show the month and year in which the germination test was conducted. The act, by requiring these statements to be attached to each lot of agricultural seed, enables the purchaser to determine—by an examination of the label—whether the seed is of the kind desired (whether the seed is pure, whisper it contains large quantities of hard material and weed seeds). Of special importance, the purchaser can determine if the weed seeds are of an ordinary nature or are of a noxious character and hence particularly objectionable. The purchaser can also determine the power of the seed to germinate or commence growth under optimal conditions. With all other factors governing quality of seed being ideal, if the seed is of low germinating ability, it is value-less since it would not produce a good stand so essential to the economical production of a maximum crop. Since some seeds deteriorate quite rapidly after maturity, a statement of the month and year that the germination test was conducted is required. By examining this statement, the purchaser can judge whether sufficient time has elapsed since the germination test was conducted for the seed to deteriorate materially. All of these statements are required so that the discriminating purchaser may be able to accurately judge the quality of the seed offered to him and not have to depend entirely on his own examination of the seed or upon the statements of the seller. The seed act not only requires the labeling of all agricultural seed, but also provides machinery whereby a check is made upon the label statements to insure that they are correct and truly represent the lot to which they are attached. This machinery is provided through the California state department of agriculture by requiring that the department establish and maintain a seed testing laboratory. Such a laboratory was established in January, 1922. In cooperation with the United States department of agriculture, at 1217 L street, Sacramento, inspectors working from this laboratory are required to examine the lots of seed offered on the market, and to take samples of these lots. These samples are sent to the laboratory for test and analysis and a comparison of the results is made with the label statements, if any great variance exists, and attention of the company responsible for such labelling is called to the difference, but if it is found that the variance is caused by a wilful and direct misrepresentation the company can be prosecuted. Because of the precautions taken to make the labels representative, no reputable vendor of seed will intentionally misbrand or mislabel his stocks. Others who are not so careful are soon apprehended. The act also provides that the seed laboratory shall test any sample submitted by a citizen of California. This provision is made so that the farmer wishing to plant his own stock of seed may determine the exact quality of that seed. The germination in this instance is of prime importance, since from the test he can determine the proper planting rate to insure the desired stand. By allowing samples to be submitted for test and analysis, the dealer or consumer of seed may obtain seed of high purity, free of noxious weeds and of high germination. The purchaser of seed should demand the labels, should examine them carefully before buying and then, if doubt exists, send a sample to the seed laboratory for test. Only by taking these precautions can he be certain of obtaining seed of high quality, thus insuring the foundation for a maximum crop. AMERICA SETS EXAMPLE Certain English trades agitators have urged the adoption of soviet ideas as the salvation of the English laborer. With a far clearer and more rational vision, Premier Baldwin urges the trades unions to come to America and study labor conditions. Labor in Russia is at the absolute bottom of the social, financial moral and political scale—that is, all labor but the organized military oligarchy. Premier Baldwin knows this fact, and to him Russia is a terrible model. But he sees in America the best paid, the most prosperous, the most independent, the best-living workman in the history of the world. He would have his countrymen take lessons from the best, instead of the worst. The act, by requiring these statements to be attached to each lot of agricultural seed, enables the purchaser to determine—by an examination of the label—whether the seed is of the kind desired (whether the seed is pure, whether it contains large quantities of nutrient material and weed seeds). Of special interest, Premier Baldwin knows this fact, and to him Russia is a terrible model. But he sees in America the best paid, the most prosperous, the most independent, the best-living workman in the history of the world. He would have his countrymen take lessons from the best, instead of the worst. "The Purdys by Paul Robinson" PUBLISHERS ADTOCASTER SERVICE REG. U.S. PAT. OFFICE YOU KNOW THE PURDYS, THEY ARE THE GREA AMERICAN NEIGHBOR, THEY LIVE ON MAIN STREET AND ANY WEDNESDAY OR SUNDAY EVENING ABOUT 8 O'CLOCK YOU'LL FIND THEIR PARLOR LIT UP AND SEE MARY MARIE WAITING FOR HER STEADY, LISTEN! CAN'T YOU HEAR MRS. PURDY CALLING WARREN GAMBRIEL? OF COURSE, YOU KNOW WARREN, HE'S ALWAYS AMONG THE BOYS WHO PUT SOAP ON YOUR WINDOWS EVERY HALLOWEEN—GRANDPOP PURDY, WHO LIVES WITH THEM IS ONE OF THE TOWN CHARACTERS—YOU'VE SEEN HIM MANY TIMES MARCHING ON DECORATION DAY, LAST BUT NOT LEAST, LET ME INTRODUCE EDWIN PURDY, JUST PLAIN ED TO EVERYBODY—Paul Robinson NO, WHAT DID HE SAY? YOU DID? BUT LISTEN! BE ON TIME! WHO'S GOING WITH MABEL? WE'LL ILL SEE—SURE, DON'T FORGET! SH-H-H-H RUDOLPH VALENTINO IS PLAYING AT THE MOVIE TONIGHT—FOR GOODNESS SAKE MRS. SPIPFEN IS VISITING HER DAUGHTER AGAIN! AN'T THE CAPTAIN SAID "DON'T SHOOT TILL YA SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES MEN!" WHOT? ON THE RADIO POP? MARY MARIE ED ANNE GRANDPOP WARREN GAMBRIEL OBSERVATIONS BY A CONTRIBUTOR THOSE IFS AND BUTS AN EX-CONVICT, who, it is alleged, has added murder to his criminal career, and who broke jail for a sideline when captured later, said he would have "shot it out" with his captor if he had known how to handle his new "rod," a yegg nickname for a pistol, which happened to be a pattern he was unfamiliar with—one which he said he "promoted" during his short term of freedom. The man is rated as being hard-boiled among his underworld cronies. But his captor was too quick for him, and no doubt being handy with a "gat" and light on the trigger, he would have given a good account of himself in the artillery argument had it started. In any event, the bad hombre is now in solitary confinement and will have a long time to think it over. THOSE ALLIANCES WITH several of the countries of Europe changing premiers and dictators over night, these same countries who are now members of the League of Nations, Uncle Reuben allows the good old U. S. A. would have a heck of a time keeping the works from gumming up. LIVE LONG AND PROSPER ORANGE growers of Anaheim are embryo bonanza kings, and their properties are valuable. A number of years ago a well-known citizen made the prediction that prices for really good orchards would reach $10,000 per acre. That price seems high, but in time it will, no doubt, be realized. Orange juice has become a daily ration of the American family in which there are children. It is no longer a luxury or a dessert. It is, in fact, a standard medical prescription for babies and children up to adolescence and no less beneficial for the grown-ups, says a well-known writer in the Fruit News. The reason for the prescribed presence of oranges in the dietary of children is because it is the concentrated vitamin supplier, particularly of the essential vitamin C, which guards against the rickets and scurvy and the forms of malnutrition which afflict infants when given an improper diet. their properties are valuable. A number of years ago a well-known citizen made the prediction that prices for really good orchards would reach $10,000 per acre. That price seems high, but in time it will, no doubt, be realized. Orange juice has become a daily ration of the American family in which there are children. It is no longer a luxury or a dessert. It is, in fact, a standard medical prescription for babies and children up to adolescence and no less beneficial for the grown-ups, says a well-known writer in the Fruit News. The reason for the prescribed presence of oranges in the dietary of children is because it is the concentrated vitamin supplier, particularly of the essential vitamin C, which guards against the rickets and scurvy and the forms of malnutrition which afflict infants when given an improper diet. The strained orange juice is the form in which the little folk get their oranges, while the elders can have them on the "half-shell" to scoop out the pulp or sliced as desired. All restaurants now offer orange juice as part of the regular menu. No more beneficial draught can be taken to start off the day right and tone the digestive organs for the day's work. The juice is diluted for babies, but for the grownups at least two good-sized and juicy oranges are necessary to furnish the morning glass of fruit juice. The addition of a tablespoonful of the crimson juice of the pomegranate to the orange juice gives the morning glass a handsome appearance and is an attractive and healthful variant. Where pomegranates are not available a teaspoonful of grenadine syrup, the flavoring of pomegranate, gives the same effect. This is best with oranges which are on the sour side, as it is a little too heavy and cloying for use with the sugar-sweet oranges which the growers now send to market with the improved facilities of handling fruit for the big markets. GETTING WISE PICTURES shown on the screen tell how the young women of China are fast adopting the ways of Americans regarding their method of dressing. The Chinese maidens are good-looking and, while they cannot be classed as flappers, they are using the styles in vogue here by donning neat and becoming frocks; and there is no telling, may also go in for bobbed hair. The Chinese better classes are also being educated in the English language, and this fact may go a long way toward straightening out the internal domestic troubles now besetting that unhappy nation. If the female of the Flowery Kingdom could be given the ballot, which is a nation's strongest weapon, there is no doubt that China some day would line up as one of the big countries of the universe. BETTER STICK AROUND WHEN a married man gets bumped off into the land of deep slumber by a Ford or a railway train, the widow at times is reimbursed according to his earning capacity, usually in a sum not exceeding $10,000, sometimes less. But when the wife sues another woman for stealing hubby's affection, there are cases where she recovers money up to $200,000, sometimes less. All this goes to show that the male species is worth more on the hoof than under the sod and dew. ILL WIND THAT BLOWS NOBODY GOOD IT IS said that as a result of the popularity of bobbed hair with western women, about 16,000 Chinese women, formerly employed in making hair nets in Chefoo, are now dependent on charity. But it is also said the sale of safety razors in this county has increased over 500 per cent—used no doubt to shave the feminine neck. HOORAY! ILL WIND THAT BLOWS NOBODY GOOD IT IS said that as a result of the popularity of bobbed hair with western women, about 16,000 Chinese women, formerly employed in making hair nets in Chefoo, are now dependent on charity. But it is also said the sale of safety razors in this county has increased over 500 per cent—used no doubt to shave the feminine neck. HOORAY! FRANCES GIBLIN, a student of a business college, has smashed the Pacific coast typing record by typing 133 words a minute for 10 minutes, and is awarded the $1500 diamond medal. That's real talent. LINE'S BUSY THAT straw vote now balloting around the country seems top-heavy, but there is a steep grade ahead of it, and if it does not get into the record, it won't buy anything. THE LIGHT BRIGADE EUROPEAN express companies are clamoring for an increase in rates to make up the deficit caused by the lightness of the luggage of travelers. The male used to be called the suitcase sex, and now the Saratoga has gone out of style. Milady's wardrobe has of late become to light that she can now put her entire summer and winter outfit into a cigar box. Consequently, transportation lines are almost as hard hit as cloth manufacturers by the brevity of skirts and lack of lingerie. WHY PERMIT THIS? AS EVIDENCE of the well financed condition of the Moscow controlled communist party in the United States, 150,000 pieces of literature in seventeen languages were used in advertising the Lenin memorial meeting held at the auditorium, Chicago. Over 17,000 two color posters were displayed, and communist speakers visited all sections of the city. More motor cars were used in staging a street parade of communists immediately before the meeting than are used by the workers of Russia, other than those holding government jobs/and riding in government automobiles. Eight thousand people attended this meeting and cheered the doctrines of "red" revolution. Congress having cut the income tax, it now behooves big business to manlulate a cut in the other fellow's income. Nothing like running true to form.