anaheim-gazette 1927-08-11

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE ESTABLISHED 1870 HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Proprietor ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPT PER YEAR $2.00 SIX MONTHS 1.25 THREE MONTHS .75 Entered at the Anaheim, California, Post Office as second class matter. IMMIGRATION PROPAGANDA THIS is the day of propaganda. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that this is still the day of propaganda, for we have been having plenty of it since 1914 and perhaps before that date, although it was only then that we began to sit up and take notice and to wonder what it was all about. We have had propaganda recently about cancelling the debts which Europe owes us. We have had subtle propaganda advocating universal brotherhood which has had for its real objects many things besides cancellation, such as American participation in the affairs of Europe, and even the lowering of our American tariff. Then we have had the propaganda against American policy in the Philippines and Latin-America, propaganda against our merchant marine, and lately against our efforts in the naval conference at Geneva. Some of this propaganda has a European origin and some of it comes from the little friends of Europe in the United States. Not even our immigration laws, which have seemed soundly American to most of us, have escaped the wiles of propaganda. We have all read stories about how the poor immigrants are treated on Ellis island, and how Uncle Sam is cruelly separating relatives in America from relatives in Europe. We have ever noted propaganda to the effect that the letting down of the bars of immigration would help the American farmer, though the argument is a little far-fetched. The principal attack against the immigration laws has come through the proposal to admit outside the quota relatives of alien already in America. Now as nearly every immigrant who reaches our shores has relatives who want to come over, and as 85 percent of those coming in under the quota have relatives here, it is easy to see that permitting relatives to enter the United States outside the quota would be tantamount to repealing the immigration laws altogether. As a matter of fact, a bill was introduced in the last congress to give relatives preference in coming in under the quota, and it noted propaganda to the effect that the letting down of the bars of immigration would help the American farmer, though the argument is a little far-fetched. The principal attack against the immigration laws has come through the proposal to admit outside the quota relatives of alien already in America. Now as nearly every immigrant who reaches cur shores has relatives who want to come over, and as 85 percent of those coming in under the quota have relatives here, it is easy to see that permitting relatives to enter the United States outside the quota would be tantamount to repealing the immigration laws altogether. As a matter of fact, a bill was introduced in the last congress to give relatives preference in coming in under the quota, and it was defeated in the Senate by the efforts of those who have been demanding relief for "suffering relatives" in Europe. Which proves clearly that what these forces want is not relief for relatives, but the breaking down of the immigration laws. As a matter of fact, the present law is working well. If it is changed it ought to be changed not by opening the gates, but by closing some of the gates now open along the Latin-American border. LENDING TO EUROPE IN SPITE of the fact that our government has been having some difficulty in securing the funding of the debts which European nations owe to the United States, the business of lending money to Europe from private sources continues steadily to increase. According to the latest figures during the first half of 1927 foreign securities totaling more than three quarters of a billion dollars were sold in the American market. This was a considerable increase over the amount sold during the same period of 1926, and indicates that they have an abiding faith in the soundness of European investments. The American investment abroad is now estimated at more than twelve billion dollars and this, of course, does not include what the European nations owe to the government of the United States. All of this money, however, has not gone to Europe. Approximately four billions have gone to Latin-America, and three billions to Canada. This is quite a change from the days before the World war when the United States was a debtor nation and owed around four billion dollars to European lenders. It indicates that Uncle Sam has become to a considerable extent the banker of the world and it may account somewhat for the alleged unpopularity which the name America is said to carry abroad. Of course every dollar loaned abroad is taken away from possible productive American enterprise. It goes in some cases toward financing enterprises in Europe which will come in competition with American producers later on. Just what will happen if this American money continues to pour into Europe, of course, no one can foretell. It will be well however, for thoughtful Americans to stop and consider the problem occasionally. WHAT VETERANS THINK IT IS good to note that the convention of the Disabled Veterans of America passed a ringing resolution, without a dissenting voice, advocating for the United States proper preparedness against a possible future conflict. Surely these men who fought and suffered for their country, many of them permanently disabled, have a right to be heard when the cry of pacifism is abroad in the land. They know something about war and the penalties which come to the nation which is too lacking in patriotism or too indifferent to guard its citizenry. But the Disabled Veterans are not alone. The American WHAT VETERANS THINK IT IS good to note that the convention of the Disabled Veterans of America passed a ringing resolution, without a dissenting voice, advocating for the United States proper preparedness against a possible future conflict. Surely these men who fought and suffered for their country, many of them permanently disabled, have a right to be heard when the cry of pacifism is abroad in the land. They know something about war and the penalties which come to the nation which is too lacking in patriotism or too indifferent to guard its citizenry. But the Disabled Veterans are not alone. The American Legion, the Daughters of the American Revolution and other organizations have at every opportunity advocated reasonable preparedness as the best insurance which the United States can buy against war. And the celebrated Rainbow Division of the American Expeditionary Forces met recently at Des Moines, Iowa, giving the members an opportunity to give unanimous approval to the plea for preparedness as voiced by the speakers on the occasion, General Charles P. Summeral and Colonel Hanford MacNider, Assistant Secretary of War. We are hearing a lot of pacifism during the past few years, and the plea has come generally from organizations and individuals who do not always stand up for American rights when the occasion demands it, adopting the international rather than the American viewpoint. But it may be said the pleas of these so-called liberals lose force when compared with the manly statements of those who have been through the battle and know what it means. It ought to be especially gratifying to those who stand for real Americanism to note that in the present Geneva conference the American representatives do not propose to sacrifice legitimate American safeguards to any chimerical apparition which might promise well but give us only a secondary naval status. "Excluding trade with the Philippines and that on the Great Lakes, our aggregate domestic sea-borne commerce is close to 170,000,000 cargo tons per annum. It is surprising to know that this domestic ocean-going trade of the United States is greater by fifty per cent than the total foreign trade of Great Britain. The blocking of the great traffic lanes along our sea coast and those leading to the United States from over the seas would unquestionably so dislocate the business of the entire country and bring such hard times upon us that it would mean practical industrial starvation on a scale beyond comparison." ANAHEIM GAZETTE THE ANNUAL SIGHT SEEING TRIP By A. B. CHAPIN GARAGE KANE LEKE THE MITY FRIEND LAUGHING ON THE RUNNING SLEEP SLOW X DANGEROUS CROSSING GAS BRANCH BURDE CHANNEL IN 30 MIN. 4 MILES TO BLUE PIC HIN GAS RATS & EVERYTHING Hot Dogs - DUP CURVE AHEAD END OF 15 MI. LIMIT SEEKING HOMES HERE JUST BOXING MATCHES MARRIAGE LICENSE LAW A favorable outlook for continuous SEEKING HOMES HERE A favorable outlook for continuous tourist travel to California, and a special interest among people who are planning their homes, is reported by C. L. Seagraves, general colonization agent, who has returned to Los Angeles following an extended trip through all of the eastern and middle western states. “There are a large number especially interested in acquiring small farms near established communities,” said the colonization official. “California occupies an enviable position, as people can be induced to come here more readily than any other section of the country, and they will continue to come.” He stated that while the agricultural situation throughout the country has been depressed for several years, it has not been as bad as reported by many who are ready to spread gloom and predict disaster to the foremost industry, agriculture. The utilization of labor-saving machinery on the farm resulting in greater efficiency, he said, has materially increased production; but on the other hand, the increasing population has caused consumption to grow in like ratio. A hopeful sign is found by the official in the fact that the agricultural implement sales the past season have been greater, while the tractor manufacturers are receiving many orders. The farm-owned radios, he said, have increased from 550,000 in 1925 to 1,230,000 at the present time. The mail order houses report a largely increased business in the agricultural centers. “These are all hopeful signs and indicate that the purchasing power of the farmer everywhere has not slowed down, but is again on the upgrade,” he stated. The prospects for California farms are coming from a new class, principally from the large industrial centers of the east—people who have had some farm experience, and many are planning to live on small farms close to good towns, with all the attendant advantages. “This interest is centered almost entirely in California. Such people are desirable, as they usually build a good class of homes.” JUST BOXING MATCHES The observatore Romano, official organ of the vatican, under the title "Civilization in a Wallop," gives the recent Dempsey-Sharkey fight a wallop and the whole United States as well. It does include Europe in the blow so far as Europe is prize fight crazy, but her mania is mild compared with that of the United States. Here is where we breed champions and here is where we pay millions of dollars to see them scrap. Here, then must be the place where paganism is being resurrected, as the paper charges. And where should there be a better opinion on the subject than in Rome, where in pagan times the gladiators of the world give their lives in combat with each other or with wild beasts? Yet we cannot help calling the attention of this Roman critic and of the head of the church himself, if it be that he was inspiration of the newspaper attack, to the fact that we do not have prize fights in the United States. It may be a surprise to them to know that prize-fighting is a felony in nearly every state in the Union, if not in all of them. We allow only boxing matches, and we appoint commissions of citizens to see that they are merely exhibitions of skill with gloves/and not brutal physical contests for a prize, such as our British ancestors, and those of this country as well. were wont to indulge. To fight, actually fight, for a prize, such as a championship belt, is illegal, but to "don the gloves" for a million dollars, more or less, is quite another thing. Our Roman critic may not understand this as well as we do, but perhaps he has not our deep perspicacity. We might also instruct him in the fine line of distinction by telling him that what he supposes to be prize-fights are held under state laws and the federal government has nothing to say about it. It can, and does, forbid pictures of them being transported in interstate commerce on the ground that they are pictures of fights and therefore unfit for visual observation, but if they can be taken across the state lines they at once become exhibitions of skill and may be exhibited ad lib. MARRIAGE LICENSE LAW California's new law requiring three days' notice of intention to secure a marriage license, which went into effect on Friday, is a wise enactment. The results of this law will be watched with interest by many states. It sounds, its proponents believe, the end of hasty and ill-considered marriages. The new enactment has not gone into effect without objection and criticism. It is a needless provision and an unnecessary interference with the rights of the people. Its critics charge. But all laws are interference with the rights of one one. No longer, for the common good, can a minority conduct themselves as any whim may direct. There are hundreds upon hundreds of laws which direct human conduct in one direction or another. Most of them, of course, concern only persons in special activities and are unknown to the majority. But we do know of speed laws, liquor laws, gasoline and other tax laws and various others that constantly figure in everyday life. Many marriages are hasty. There have been occasions when weddings were solemnized in the middle of the night because of some dare or bet. There have been occasions when couples married as the climax of gin parties. There have been occasions when boys and girls too young to marry legally have perruced themselves, as to their age and later discovered that because of this act they were not married at all. It is at this class of marriages that the new laws are aimed. The necessity to give at least three days' notice of intention of marriage will discourage all hasty marriages. The new law requires that the participants make application for a marriage license. Three days must elapse before the license can be issued, and if it is not issued within 30 days the application is cancelled. It will be interesting to watch the number of applications made and the number of licenses actually issued, for it is predicted that there will be those who do not complete their plans even after the application is made. It is a good law, one of the best of the last legislature. "This interest is centered almost entirely in California. Such people are desirable, as they usually build a good class of homes." OMIGOSH! POP, POP! WILLYUM HE WIPED HIS HANDS ON THE GUEST TOWEL! EVERYBODY STICK TOGETHER! ACT LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED! HM-M! WHO DID WHAT? (Payne) OBSERVATIONS THE GOLDEN WEST A UNIVERSITY president, just returned from Honolulu, says the future of the world lies in the Pacific area, in which, he says, vast marts of trade lie, thus affording America its greatest opportunity in the nation's progress. The most important possession of America is Hawaii, the speaker said, and that a strategic power in the Pacific must be maintained. HELLO! IS THIS GENEVA? HELLO— This government has sent word to its representative to call off all negotiations looking to a settlement of that naval disarmament conference. It seems the works got all balled up when a certain power over there wanted all their ships to have bigger guns than anybody else. THE WORLD'S NOSEBAG The more a man reads about that disarmament question the less he knows about it. If all those foreign fellows insist on large navies and want to fight, let them hop to it. All Uncle Sam needs to do is to sit pretty and watch the fireworks and furnish the belligerants with stuff to eat—provided they pay for it. Some of those birds over there carry chips on their shoulders. Let them get the fight bug out of their systems. They might wake up some day, cool off and settle down like peaceful citizens. But if those war-like nations want to fight some informing prospects that they have been lucky in drawing a lieved the girls will have to carry fly swatters. RAN INTO RED INK In an inland desert town, five former city trustees of that town, it is said, are personally liable for approximately $5000 lost in a municipal farming enterprise there, as it is alleged no benefits accrued to the city from the venture, and the former trustees must stand good for the loss of the public funds. That is the gist of an opinion handed down by their city attorney. It is related that the city trustees undertook to raise hay on 70 acres of land without formality of entering into a lease for the property. The attorney's statement also declares that the board was not within its legal rights when it purchased a stallion and started a stock breeding enterprise in connection with the farm. RAN INTO RED INK IN AN inland desert town, five former city trustees of that town, it is said, are personally liable for approximately $5000 lost in a municipal farming enterprise there, as it is alleged no benefits accrued to the city from the venture, and the former trustees must stand good for the loss of the public funds. That is the gist of an opinion handed down by their city attorney. It is related that the city trustees undertook to raise hay on 70 acres of land without formality of entering into a lease for the property. The attorney's statement also declares that the board was not within its legal rights when it purchased a stallion and started a stock breeding enterprise in connection with the farm. Members of the new board indicated that it was their intention to start action to recover the money lost in these enterprises from the former trustees. WATCH THE FUNERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS THE DEER season has opened in several districts, and a small army of hunters stormed the trenches the first few days. Mountain retreats have their usual quota of nimrods, and besides getting buck fever, most of the hunters may get back home. KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURNING ANOTHER tempest seems to have broken out in an evangelistic circle. This time it is said to be about the money. SHE ISN'T GOING TO RENO NOW AWIFE living in a northern city flew down to a southern town to attend the last sad rites of her husband. The wife left the north in the morning, attended the funeral in the afternoon, returning up state immediately thereafter. It is believed this is the record, and shows friend wife to be a fast worker—and maybe she is a gold-digger. GETTING IN ON THE GROUND FLOOR A NEW game is being played by some ambitious subdividers inform prospects that they have been lucky in drawing a certain lot. The prospect is then told to call and sign up for the lot. It is of record, in some cases, that street improvements are put in afterwards—usually sidewalks and curbing. These improvements run all the way from $100 up. Of course, the new owner pays for them. Should the street be ordered paved, the expense runs up two or three hundred dollars more. In some cases the lot may be worth it—sometimes not. Then assessments follow, and if the owner cannot pay, he may lose the lot and draw a judgment besides. CANT TELL DIFFERENCE, ANYHOW THE STOCKINGLESS days are here, and the cooling fad the other day struck this town, and other settlements have gone in for heaving the hosiery. A certain high school group of girls tried it out the other day and all hands came near losing all their credits, but after school hours the stockings come off. They say it has even invaded the movie colony. Some of the maidens say while its cooler without them, it also puts a crimp in the high cost of living, as they save the price of silk. But it is believes the girls will have to carry fly swatters. HADN'T WOKE UP YET PICK and shovel worker received a wire the other day that he had fallen heir to $500,000. He scratched his head, rubbed his eyes and went back to work. HADN'T WOKE UP YET A PICK and shovel worker received a wire the other day that he had fallen heir to $500,000. He scratched his head, rubbed his eyes and went back to work. LET'S SEE—DON'T BELIEVE WE'VE MET YOU THE VICTORIOUS mittman coming back to his old home town was greeted by 10,000 persons. The fallen fighter went to his home unheralded and unsung. But he won't have to go to the poorhouse. THAT GOOSE AND EGG STORY THE EXULTANT admirers of a certain returning victor in the prize ring was so tickled that they arranged several banquets in his honor. As highly flavored eats (with the trimmings) lay many people low, maybe the marine is chuckling to himself. 'Aeneas Hall' Name Of New Dormitory "Aeneas Hall" is carved over the entrance of the new men's dormitory of the University of Southern California, which is to be occupied for the first time with the opening of the fall semester. "Aeneas," recalling the undaunted Trojan warrior, was chosen by President von KleinSmid and endorsed by William Henley, president of the Southern California student body, as the name most significant of the Trojan spirit, and therefore most suitable for the men's living hall just erected on the university grounds. Convenient to both scholastic and recreational pursuits of the Trojan campus, the four-story residence hall will house 155 college men who do not live at home or reside in fraternity houses. It is in the same square as the new Student's Union building, the center of campus activities, and besides sleeping quarters features, a spacious dining hall, study hall, hospital room, recreation room, guest rooms, and a lobby. Aeneas hall will be opened for occupancy during Freshman Week, which begins September 13th, according to Warren Bovard, vice-president of the University of Southern California. The fall semester at Southern California opens September 19. One nice thing about travelling by airplane is that you don't have to read a lot of billboard advertising en route. Who remembers the old-fashioned experts of 1920 who told us that by 1927 the supply of crude oil would be practically used up?