anaheim-gazette 1927-04-28

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE ESTABLISHED 1870 HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Proprietor ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR ..... $2.00 SIX MONTHS ..... 1.25 THREE MONTHS ..... .75 Entered at the Anaheim, California, Post Office as second class matter. OUR TARIFF AND EUROPE Some of our free trade newspapers have been calling attention to the fact that European newspapers seeking to make a drive on our protective tariff system center their fire on our tariff against manufactured goods and not on agricultural products. The reason, is not however, as the free traders would have us believe, that the agricultural tariff does not protect and is therefore unimportant. The real reason is that Europe has no agricultural products to send us, only manufactured ones. Our agricultural competitors are not in Europe, but in South America, Canada and in Australia, and Europe is herefore naturally interested principally in our tariff against manufactured goods. It is difficult to see just why any change of our duties on manufactured articles would help the American farmer, as our free traders seek to make out. In the first place, everything used exclusively by the farmer is now on the free list, and curiously enough, the prices of some of these commodities are higher than ever, because of European control of the markets. Secondly, if we permitted a flood of cheaply made European goods to come into our market, the first result would be to throw hundreds of thousands of high priced American workers out of employment, in the vain hope of increasing our market in Europe. Now as the American citizen who depends on American prosperity for his job, consumes nearly all that our farmers raise, we would be destroying for the farmer the market in which he sells four-fifths of his products to try and help him in a free trade market in which at best he is only able to sell a small fraction of what he produces. The American farmers know this, and the free trader will have a hard time winning him over to international economics. ABOUT ECONOMY We have heard a great deal recently pro and con about our governmental economy at Washington. Some of the opponents of the present administration have attacked the record, but it is pretty generally accepted by the American people that the ABOUT ECONOMY WE HAVE heard a great deal recently pro and con about our governmental economy at Washington. Some of the opponents of the present administration have attacked the record, but it is pretty generally accepted by the American people that the record of economy and efficiency established by the national administration is a deserved one. It is interesting therefore to note what a prominent government official himself has to say in reply to the critics of the critics of the economy program. Here are some concrete facts offered in a recent address on the subject of economy by Ogden Mills, first assistant to Secretary Mellon: "There is one figure which tells the tale and that is the figure embracing all expenditures other than public debt retirements, but including interest on the public debt. That total is a veritable barometer. In 1923 it was $3,294,000,000; in 1924, $3,048,000,000; in 1925, $3,063,000,000; in 1926, $3,097,000,000; in 1927, estimated $3,077,000,000." "When you realize that during this period there were all manner of new burdens to be shouldered, including one item of $200,000,000 a year for veterans of the World war; another adding $37,000,000 to Civil war and Spanish war pensions; another of $15,000,000 increase for construction, and this by no means exhausts the list—and that total expenditures still hover near the $3,000,000,000 mark and will probably reach it next year, you will understand that economy in Washington is no fiction. "Take the year 1926 for example. These additional burdens amounted to $265,000,000. Yet actual expenditures increased but $34,000,000. The feat of absorbing by administrative efficiency almost all of these unexpected and large increases is significant." In view of the figures above quoted, it is difficult to see how the record of national economy and efficiency can successfully be attacked. OUR RAILROADS ACCORDING to Secretary of Commerce Hoover, the railroads of the United States have recovered from the effects of government control and are once again fit and prosperous. During the past five years the railroads under private management have cured a thousand illies, the secretary declared, and he continued: "If anyone wants to argue the question of government ownership of railroads in the United States, he has to get over this concrete demonstration of the capacity of private ownership to solve its problems." This reorganization of the railroads in the past five years has been one of the most important factors in bringing about the present era of prosperity, and in commenting on the changed conditions Mr. Hoover said: "It is worth remembering that in 1921 our railways had loaded some 42,000,000 of cars as against 52,000,000 last year, and that in 1921 they required 1,800,000 men in their personnel, whereas last year they worked under 1,750,000—an increase of 10,000,000 of tons of car loadings, with an actual decrease in the personnel of the railroads. "It is rather an interesting commentary on government ownership of railroads that at the time the railways came out from government operation they were employing somewhat near 1,900,-ooo men—that they have increased the traffic which they handled at that time by something over 20 per cent, and that they are destroying for the farmer the market in which he sells four-fifths of his products to try and help him in a free trade market in which at best he is only able to sell a small fraction of what he produces. The American farmers know this, and the free trader will have a hard time winning him over to international economics." It is worth remembering that in 1921 our railways had loaded some 42,000,000 of cars as against 52,000,000 last year, and that in 1921 they required 1,800,000 men in their personnel, whereas last year they worked under 1,750,000—an increase of 10,000,000 of tons of car loadings, with an actual decrease in the personnel of the railroads. "It is rather an interesting commentary on government ownership of railroads that at the time the railways came out from government operation they were employing somewhat near 1,900,000 men—that they have increased the traffic which they handled at that time by something over 20 per cent, and that they are handling it with 200,000 less of personnel." The American people still remember with something akin to shuddering our experiences with government control of railroads, made necessary at the time, its proponents declared, by the war emergency. This unpleasant experience had at least one beneficial effect. It set back any drive for government ownership of railroads for at least a generation. The national transportation system is on a sound basis once more. The people want no more experiments in government ownership or control. APOLOGIZING FOR U. S. WHEN it comes to making a college address, there is something unusually sane and healthy in Hanford MacNider, assistant secretary of war. In a recent address to the students of the University of Maryland, Mr. MacNider paid his respects to those performers on the public platform, now all too numerous, who are trying to make it popular to apologize for America and all things American. These internationalists, Mr. MacNider said, have as their favorite sport the holding up of our international dealings to scorn and derision and they are in a constant state of amazement that we should want to abide by the faith and traditions of our fathers. There is much good sense and sound Americanism in what Mr. MacNider has to say to the college youth. It is to be regretted that a considerable portion of the misguided internationalism to which he refers has its birth in our American institutions of higher learning. If the Russians really are better off than other peoples, what do they stay mad about? ANAHEIM GAZETTE Wisdom Begins With Mother —By ALBERT T. REID Casa Grande an Ancient Landmark Auto Parts Men On County Trip Members of the California Auto Parts Casa Grande an Ancient Landmark Casa Grande, one of the best known and best preserved prehistoric structures in the United States, is located in the Gila River valley, some twelve miles southwest of Florence, Arizona, and reached by splendid improved automobile roads from Pacific coast points. The name is Spanish and implies "large house," but it is known among Indians and Spaniards as the "House of Montezuma." There seems to be very little doubt that the first European to see Casa Grande was a Jesuit priest, Eusebius Francisco Kino, who, in 1687 led a band of friars into northern Sonora and began the work of establishing a chain of 29 Jesuit missions. In 1694 Kino started on a trip of discovery and was led by Indians to Casa Grande, which was even then in a ruined, dilapidated condition. He gave the ruins their present name. A Spanish army officer, Lieutenant Mange, visited the ruins with Kino some time after 1700, and in 1838, Paul Weaver, an American trapper, inscribed his name on one of the walls of the venerable pile. He was undoubtedly the first American to examine the structure. The Casa Grande national monument incorporates 160 acres of ground, and located in the center of the monument is the "Big House" itself. The walls are still standing in an excellent state of preservation, of caliche or limestone earth; five or six feet in thickness and rising four stories in height. It is the main structure in a compound that embraces three other groups of ruins that must once have formed a part of this extensive village or town. For many miles up and down the Gila river in this locality are found other villages, less pretentious in size, but of similar construction and style. Many metatars, mortars and large storage jars indicate the early occupants of these villages stored and ground corn, beans and various seeds. Numerous bits of pottery have been found, both whole and in fragments, which show a high degree of skill in the ceramic art. The colors most used are red, chalk white and mesquite gum black. Remains of great irrigation systems rivaling those of the present day are found in the Florence-Casa Grande and Salt River valleys, which indicate that at one time hundreds of acres were under cultivation in these districts. Very little evidence has been discovered that would indicate that the former residents were warlike people, but rather that they lived in peace and developed permanent homes and community life. The Pima Indians now living in the valley state that their tribal records, which can be traced back 800 years, carry no information relative to the first inhabitants of Casa Grande. It is fairly safe to presume that the minimum date of the construction of its walls would be about nine hundred or a thousand years ago, and that Arizona was inhabited and attaining a degree of civilization during the life time of Socrates. MAMMOTH NAVAL REVIEW The greatest assembly of American naval war craft which the country has seen in many years will be gathered at Hampton Roads at the end of May. Secretary Wilbur and the admirals are anxious to stage a naval review there, then calculated to give the country through the medium of the movie news reel. concrete evidence to refute the baseless charge that the present day American navy is composed of "paper ships." The President is giving serious consideration to the invitation to go down to the Virginia Capes on the Mayflower and participate in a great peace time demonstration of our naval strength, and as commander-in-chief review the squadron and receive the presidential salute. If Mr. Coolidge finds it impossible to spare the necessary time to do this, it remains to be decided whether the review will be held just the same, with Secretary Wilbur holding the spotlight alone. Mellon's food for thought is good for Princeton professors. Auto Parts Men On County Trip Members of the California Auto Parts Jobbers' Association, with about sixty in the party, visited Orange county supply houses in their annual tour of inspection Sunday. The trip is held by the automobile supply men for the purpose of exchanging ideas in conducting sales and stock arrangement. During the tour of Orange county, a scout car driven by Harry Harlow and H. M. Miller, conducted the visitors along the route. The auto jobbers left Los Angeles in the morning, visiting in Whittier and then coming to Orange county. After making the circuit of northern Orange county, the party went to Orange County park, where barbecued steak was served. Each year some section of the Southland is toured by the auto jobbers. Ventura county was visited last year. On Sunday's trip, the stores inspected were the Walter Anderson Company on Whittier boulevard, the H. M. Miller Company of Whittier and Anaheim, Harlow & Phillips auto supply house of Fullerton, the Orange County Ignition Works and Hockaday & Harlow of Santa Ana. There are ways to improve the quality of eggs besides producing only infertile ones, keeping them in a cool place, and marketing them often. There are various management practices that will improve the quality of eggs. In the first place, laying stock should be kept on clean land. The houses and nests should be kept clean at all times. And only clean eggs should be marketed. Dirty eggs not only look bad, but they sell less readily. Get them out of the nests promptly. In warm weather, when the temperature is 80 degrees and above, the contents of the egg tend to evaporate rather fast—and eggs will become stale quickly if they are left in the nests. The same is true if you let broody hens sit on either fertile or infertile eggs. And, of course, eggs should not be left exposed to the direct rays of the sun. POP ASKED ME TO SHUT UP AN' GET OUTSIDE OF THIS KAKE I DON'T KNOW WHAT HE MEANS. I'M OUTSIDE OF IT ALREADY I'll ASK HIM FOR YOU DIDJA FIND OUT FOR ME? YES, LET ME SHOW YOU HI-I-I CHUAT OBSERVATIONS WOULDN'T KNOW THE OLD PLACE JUST when you get to know the name of a street, or a park, or whatnot, some one comes along with a proposition to change it. Some of the new names suggested have a highly euphonious ring to them, but when you look into the matter the old ones are just as good, or maybe a little better. Some people change their names at times for obvious reasons, and many change their cars and draw a mortgage besides, and quite a few nowadays change their wives, but really the old landmarks and streets should be left alone. HEED THE TIMELY WARNING THE calamity that has fallen upon people in the Mississippi valley, where thousands of people are homeless and millions of dollars of damage done, may happen right here in a neighboring county. Twenty-one years ago the Colorado river overflowed, flooding what is now the famous Imperial valley. A vast lake many miles long and wide was formed, and today the lake's high water lines, against the adjacent mountain sides, are plainly visible. A large quantity of this flood water flowed into the Gulf of Mexico. The major portion of it remained, but has since then gradually seeped away or lost in evaporation. Now, what is known as the Salton sea, 250 feet below sea level, is all that remains of that gigantic flood, and these waters are slowly receding. And as history repeats itself, this very same thing may occur again. Should that calamity be re-enacted, Imperial valley in great part would be swept away. Hundreds of millions of dollars of loss would be the result. Thousands of people would be rendered homeless; many might be caught in the maelstrom and perish. It is said the mountains in Montana and Wyoming, which form mainly the headwaters of the Colorado river, are blanketed, as never before in years, with deep snow banks. With the melting of this snow in May and June, augmented by copious rainfall, the good Lord only knows what would happen to Imperial valley, which now lies unprotected from a flood hazard by the overflow of the Colorado. LIKE WATER RUNNING OFF DUCK'S BACK MOST of the people trekking out of China say the trouble out there is of the natives' own making and they should be allowed to scrap it out themselves. That old-time practice of educating and reforming the heathen is—er—what you call, the sauce of the apple, broadcasts Q D P. LIKE WATER RUNNING OFF DUCK'S BACK MOST of the people trekking out of China say the trouble out there is of the natives' own making and they should be allowed to scrap it out themselves. That old-time practice of educating and reforming the heathen is—er—what you call, the sauce of the apple, broadcasts Q D P. OH, WHAT A HEADACHE THEATRICAL promoter back East who staged a wild party, and for a side-line had a young lady take a champagne bath right there in the open, before all the guests, suffered a nervous breakdown on his way to prison to serve a year for committing perjury, and at latest accounts was in a state of coma. While hanging onto the ropes, groggy and almost out, and while the doctors are thinking of heaving the towel in the ring, the show will go on as per schedule, with no rain checks in sight. OLD STORY, BUT A GOOD ONE MAN came here several weeks ago looking for a business location. He stayed a few days—then went away. He looked over the other towns round about, and then came back here. He said Anaheim was best of all, and took a long-time lease on a building on Center street. NO, NO, MATE, NOT HERE—IN CANADA FROM reliable sources it has been learned the control committee has fixed the price for permits at $2 for both residents and transients. The tourist will have to pay as much therefore for his six months' purchasing privileges as the native for all his all-year tickets. Permits will be available by May 1 at the latest. In all probability they will go on sale on the twenty-fifth instant. HARD NUT TO CRACK TWO notable men engaged in a debate as to whether or not the Eighteenth amendment should be repealed. Said one: "My position is that when a clause is placed in the Constitution, it is my duty to uphold that Constitution. I believe the amendment is entitled to full and fair trial. I believe it can be enforced. . . . The American people can and will enforce anything which they write into the Constitution." Said the other: "So long as the amendment is law, it is my duty to obey it; but that does not prevent my intelligence from telling me to exert myself to my utmost to take it away legally." MAKING HAY WHILE SUN SHINES JUST so long as people, especially women, go about weighted down with costly jewelry, just so long will bandits thrive. Temptation is great. And to leave a lot of jewelry on the dresser while the owner sleeps is easy picking for the porch climber and the nimble members of the light-fingered brigade. OUI, OUI! TO SEE a man walking along the highway is not unusual, but when a society sheik is seen ambling along, quite a ways out, just at twilight, it does appear unusual, especially if he is carrying a laprobe. JUST so long as people, especially women, go about weighted down with costly jewelry, just so long will bandits thrive. Temptation is great. And to leave a lot of jewelry on the dresser while the owner sleeps is easy picking for the porch climber and the nimble members of the light-fingered brigade. OUI, OUI! TO SEE a man walking along the highway is not unusual, but when a society sheik is seen ambling along, quite a ways out, just at twilight, it does appear unusual, especially if he is carrying a laprobe. GHOST TOWNS Colorado's government has discovered in that state seven incorporated towns, once populous and famous, now reduced to only 227 inhabitants between them. One has only two persons on its census roll. The answer is, of course, that these are mining camps, once roaring ant hills, now played out and with no other resource on which to carry on. We call them ghost towns in California, where there are seven times seven of them, and more, in the hills where the Forty-niners delved. They range from considerable standing, though empty, blocks of brick or stone buildings where a few old-timers doze away the hours in the pleasant air of the hills to those completely perished camps where nothing but rows of stone chimneys standing in the brush tell of the fever of life there seventy-five years ago. Brief was the time of most of them. The placers were soon washed. Then, unless deep mines were found there, or good farm land lay near by, or the situation made a permanent trading center for cattle or lumbermen, the hurdy-gurdies moved on, the stores closed and followed, the last despairing calon gave up and the camp fell quiet to the possession of the blue jay and the pack rat. The greatest range of the ghost towns lies along the Mother Lode. They make the most romantic part of California, the scenes of Bret Harte's tales and Mark Twain's yarns. Some day the round of them will be a great tourist pilgrimage—as it should be now. It is pleasant in those hills; there is a never-ending varied charm from gulch to flat to river canyon, and over it all is the halo of the romance of '48 clinging still, even if modern matter-of-fact minds disbelieve that the ghosts of the miners haunt those old diggings and ruined camps. TENNESSEE PICNIC Every Tennessee can be included in the wide open call to the annual picnic rally in Sycamore Grove park all day Saturday, May 7. County registers and headquarters will be open all day and hot coffee supplied for all. Each one who reads this is asked to tell other Tennessee folk and all have a jolly day in the park. Tennessee tourists will be made especially welcome. The ideal condition for raising chickens is on open range—without yards. Fences greatly increase the labor cost, as well as the cost of equipment and maintenance. When open range is not practical, it is best to raise them in one large yard or field—a field fenced to keep the chickens in and the dogs and rodents out. So far as we can learn, none of the state legislatures in session this year passed any laws designated to remedy Chinese situation.