anaheim-gazette 1927-08-25

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 CITIZEN CAMPS ACCORDING to recent press dispatches, war department authorities are congratulating themselves on the fact that 28,851 young men have received or are now receiving military training in citizens' military training camps. The war department records at the time disclosed that 56,094 applications had been received up to July 20 and 44,976 candidates accepted and notified to report at training camps. It is to be remembered that thirteen citizens' training camps were yet to open for this year, so that the record promises to be even greater before the year is closed. All records for number of applications and acceptance of candidates have been broken for this year, and the war department in charge of this citizens' military training has just cause for pride and self-congratulation. The citizen who knows what is going on in the way of propaganda in this country will find an additional reason for satisfaction in the splendid showing to date. For many months the country has been fairly flooded by pacifist and anti-military propaganda. Of course we are constantly exposed to propaganda fire from all directions, but no brand has been more persistent than that of the pacifists. Some of this propaganda has of course been spread by innocent, well meaning individuals who simply do not "know their onions" when it comes to international affairs. But a great deal of it has come from agencies more sinister, agencies which have the welfare of other doctrines than Americanism at heart. We all know of course that America does not have the militarist spirit and never will have. We have plenty of room to develop in and all we can do to mind our own business. Where pacifism should be spread is in Europe, where there is always danger of war among overcrowded nations with a thousand years of tradition hostile toward one another. Many of our pacifists show their "liberal" spirit by sympathy with Soviet Russia, yet Russia with is compulsory military training in schools and colleges, even among the girls is the most Some of this propaganda has or course been spread by innocent, well meaning individuals who simply do not "know their onions" when it comes to international affairs. But a great deal of it has come from agencies more sinister, agencies which have the welfare of other doctrines than Americanism at heart. We all know of course that America does not have the militarist spirit and never will have. We have plenty of room to develop in and all we can do to mind our own business. Where pacifism should be spread is in Europe, where there is always danger of war among overcrowded nations with a thousand years of tradition hostile toward one another. Many of our pacifists show their "liberal" spirit by sympathy with Soviet Russia, yet Russia with its compulsory military training in schools and colleges, even among the girls, is the most militaristic nation on earth today. The showing of the citizens of the military training camps is indeed encouraging, indicating as it does, that the pacifist propaganda has failed to work. HELPING LITTLE HAITI AMERICA'S help to Haiti is real and it stands a monument to altruistic, efficient and successful effort for the upbuilding of a whole people, according to Senator Oddie of Nevada, who recently visited the island and who writes interestingly of his trip there and of what Uncle Sam has done for the island, in the current issue of the National Republic. Senator Oddie's article is especially interesting in view of the criticism which is often voiced at America's efforts to help Haiti. After describing how the people formerly lived, in ignorance and misery, Senator Oddie says: "Under our occupation, and with our assistance Haiti has purged itself of the notorious graft and corruption that existed for generations. It has stabilized its finances and currency, balanced its budget, materially increased its revenues, reduced its costs and increased its business and economic efficiency, refunded much of its foreign debt, repected over $36,000,000 of unjust, pressing claims against it. It has established peace and prosperity and law and order which had not been known for over 100 years. It has established an efficient sanitary service which has done great work in cleaning up the hitherto filthy cities and towns, and in clarifying and improving insanitary water systems and in draining disease breeding marshes. "It has created a progressive public works service which has built and repaired hundreds of miles of good roads, trails and bridges, which have opened to production to the natives a large part of the hitherto inaccessible country. It has improved its harbors and created an efficient lighthouse service. It has built streets and parks in the cities and towns and is constructing irrigation works. It has established a technical service which has built twenty-five excellent agricultural schools throughout the country, and is building that many more. It has created a splendid agricultural experiment station, which is practically self-supporting, and which with the schools is educating the masses of the people and preparing the country for a greatly enlarged and diversified agricultural development. It has, through this agency, successfully introduced the growing of sisal in the arid and unproductive portions of the country. This crop will be profitable to the small land holders, and will furnish employment to many of the people who badly need it. It will be a competitor of the Yucatan sisal monopoly, which furnishes binder twine to the American farmers at excessive cost." TOO MUCH LAWLESSNESS IT IS all very well to declare—and it should be declared when occasion demands—that useless, foolish or uneffective laws tend to create a disrespect for law and authority. Yet every TOO MUCH LAWLESSNESS IT IS all very well to declare—and it should be declared when occasion demands—that useless, foolish or unforceable laws tend to create a disrespect for law and authority. Yet every sensible person knows that is not the full explanation for a light, flippant or indifferent attitude toward law in this country. A good part of the trouble is that the American admiration for smartness and cleverness is allowed to extend itself too far. We have allowed ourselves to acclaim the fellow who "gets by" with practically anything, provided he displays cleverness in the performance. So the reminder of Attorney General Sargent about the danger of a jesting attitude amounts to a national rebuke. The condition against which the attorney general protests is a national characteristic. It is traditional. It will not be easily changed. Yet the thoughtful person will admit it must be changed. As the attorney general says, the American people cannot go on poking fun at the law, at attempts to enforce or observe it and attempts to assist in that endeavor, without disastrous consequences. Education and a persisting demand for wiser legislation will have to have a large part in bringing a change. The first requirement is a different attitude toward law itself. There must be an end to admiration of lawlessness, of criminals and other offenders, just because a certain degree of cleverness happens to be exhibited. The enemies of society, in whatever manner they display themselves, must be condemned for what they are. Only on that condition can law be maintained. FLAG SYMBOLISM THE FLAG'S design was fixed not by a aesthetic considerations, but wholly by a desire to suggest the territorial growth of the country and to employ colors and features which would give some impression of the dominant aspirations of the American people—the red for the wars and strife which gave the country its being, the white for the peaceful inclinations of all Americans, and the blue field with its white stars, as a mark of the deeply religious character of their people and their hopeful and lofty ambitions for the future of their country. ANAHEIM GAZETTE Not Many Steps Behind By Albert T. Reid UNDESTRABLE ALLIENS ANACRITIC PROPAGANDA CONTEMN OF DUE LAWS SACCO-NAZETTI STRIKE WHO HAS THE MONEY? A good many pertinent questions can be asked about the Julian catastrophe; and one of these is certainly, "What has become of the money?" By the sale of fraudulent stock, by the manipulation of the stock market and by usurious loans many millions were made by somebody. Most of this money was secured by operations illegal, if not criminal, and the people who bought the Julian stock on the theory that it was a good, safe investment supplied this money that went into the pockets of financial manipulators, stock gamblers, loan sharks, grafters and plain crooks. Who has the rest of it, and is there any prospect of its restitution to the innocent stockholders? That is what not merely the holders of stock but the people generally would like to know. Possibly somebody will be sent to fall as a result of the criminal actions that have been instituted; if so, they will no doubt be getting what was coming to them. But that does not restore one dollar of money to the people who have been deprived of it by the most gerritic and far-reaching series of swindles that Southern California has ever seen. It is probably true that considerable of this money went into the pockets of gamblers and crooks, who in turn lost it in still wilder speculations, or in extravagant dissinations. That money is probably gone for good; but a very substantial part of this ill-gotten wealth went to men who are leaders in the business life of Los Angeles, men who still have large means, resources ample even if they should be forced to disgorge the money that they secured by methods that make ordinary theft seem a very minor offense. If that money ever were restored, hundreds of innocent purchasers of Julian stock might be saved from financial ruin. The writer thinks he is ordinarily a good deal of an optimist; but he is very pessimistic about these millions of illegal profits made in this hectic Julian affair; he is much inclined to the opinion that they are gone "for good and ill." But it is a serious indictment of our system of justice that this is true. INCOME TAX SCHEDULES Much has been said of making the next tax revision of equitable adjustment as well as a measure of reduction. One of the injustices under fire is the excessive rates on income ranging from $20,000 to $90,000. Just what is meant by that? Contenders for adjustment point out these facts: That since 1929, when the tax was highest, other income taxes have been reduced more than the taxes on the so-called Middle Incomes; That more than three million taxpayers in 1929 have through exemptions, been relieved entirely of income taxes; That while taxes on incomes of $4000 to $5000 have been cut 86.1 per cent, the reduction on incomes of $40,000 to $50,000 has been only 47.1 per cent, with reductions running correspondingly on other incomes, for example those: From $9000 to $10,000, reduction 81 per cent. From $14,000 to $15,000, reduction 73.1 per cent. From $70,000 to $80,000, reduction 47.9 per cent. From $90,000 to $100,000, reduction 50.2 per cent. From $300,000 to $500,000, reduction 69.6 per cent. One million and above, reduction 75½ per cent. Now, either there was a wrong distribution of the taxes when they were much heavier or there is a wrong distribution of the reductions made from the maximum rates. The net incomes on which the smallest percentage of reductions has been made are the bulk of incomes representing active business, which is stimulated or hampered according to the burdens it mitigates. Therefore, both as a matter of justice and as a business policy a fairer adjustment of rates should be made in the next revision. The women used to talk about how many biscuits they could get out of a quart of flour. Now they talk about how many miles they can get out of a mile of gas. CONQUERING BY PEACE It will be gratifying to Americans to learn that this country has had a very fruitful if indirect influence in a project of rehabilitation in a particularly needful region in Europe. American precedents, methods and machinery are being invoked to reclaim five million acres on the plain of Hungary, hitherto arid and unproductive. To grasp fully what this will mean to the resources of the Hungarian nation a little comparison is necessary. The region in be reclaimed is one-fourth the area of the rest of the kingdom. It will contain twice as much agricultural land as Alsace-Lorraine. Hungary about equals the land surface of New Jersey. The success of sub-soiling methods in the United States suggested the project of reclaiming the five million waste acres in Hungary. Experiments carried on in the most unpromising of the arid territory have given hope that they can be made to produce as good crops as the fertile lands surrounding them. American equipment for reclamation is to be imported to complete the job. Economic conferences to discuss Europe's problems have their value, and in them America's influence is wielded for the benefit of the war-necked nations. But the Hungarian reclamation project is an illustration of another and perhaps more valuable kind of influence which this country is exercising on the economic problems of the Old World. OKLAHOMA PICNIC President D. C. Hendricks is calling all the Oklahoma people to a mammoth picnic reunion, all day, Saturday, September 3, in Sycamore Grove park, Los Angeles. He will open county registers all day and supply coffee and silk souvenir badges for all. The program will follow the basket dinner hour and will include numbers by real, genuine Americans, the Indians from Oklahoma. All Oklahomaans, resident and visiting, are cordially invited. Ask your questions of the president or of C. H. Parrons. Faber 3300, Hotel Rosslyn. POP I'M SCARED TO GO IN THE DARK ROOM OF ALL ALONE. GO IN SINGING LIKE THERE ARE SEVERAL OF YOU! BLUFF THE BOOGIES WHAT THA DING DING? HAIL, HAIL, THA GANG'S ALL HERE! Payper OBSERVATIONS ROCKING THE BOAT IT IS announced by a gentleman in the furniture business that the average American has reached the point where he lives in a garage with a bedroom attached, and he says also that happiness will cease soon unless a change is made. HARD NUT TO CRACK A VETERAN worker in the field of the insane says he finds that 60 per cent of the inmates of asylums are far happier than their normal brethren. The worker tells a skeptical world that many of the patients are among the happiest persons he has ever seen. BLOW YOU UP WHILE YOU WAIT A NEW formidable air dreadnaught carrying six machine guns tons of bombs has just been made. The warrior of the air is so equipped that it could rock an area a mile square with the discharge of a single one-ton bomb. THE APPLESAUCE A NEWSPAPER is a great institution, although some people say it is a dangerous plaything—if you do not know what not to print. But when editors engage in wordy battles—usually bloodless—it's different. The other day an editor everlastingly razzed another publisher, using innuendo to convey his idea, or maybe a fact, and (whew) it was hot. OH, BY THE WAY— NINETEEN years ago a man and his wife came here from Idaho on a visit, and they had return tickets. After looking around, the man asked his wife when she wanted to go back. "I'm not going back—I'm going to stay right here." And both stayed, bought ranch property and have been getting along fine ever since. THE number of people who go to a well-known movie town to get into pictures grows apace. They come expecting to make good, and some are a long way from home, with only a one-way ticket. Now, if some of the “premiers” would move on out, the OH, BY THE WAY— NINETEEN years ago a man and his wife came here from Idaho on a visit, and they had return tickets. After looking around, the man asked his wife when she wanted to go back. "I'm not going back—I'm going to stay right here." And both stayed, bought ranch property and have been getting along fine ever since. THE number of people who go to a well-known movie town to get into pictures grows apace. They come expecting to make good, and some are a long way from home, with only a one-way ticket. Now, if some of the "premiers" would move out, the scales might balance and all would be well. A STATISTICIAN says every fifth person in the United States has an automobile. Do you mean the first or last payment variety? THEY say when a couple gets married in Europe, the wedding ring is placed upon the lady's index finger on the right hand, while in this country when two enter into the holy bonds of wedlock, the ring is placed on the lady's left hand—it being nearer the heart. Judging from the number of divorces here, the local couples must have believed they were in the foreign land when the ring was put on the lady's finger. WHY is it that when you strike out and go somewhere, after you have a hankering that you would have preferred to have gone somewhere else? And while you think a man is effeminate to wear a wrist watch, you will notice that the intrepid hunters who go for big game in the jungles of Africa always wear them. MAN steps up to say that the foolish desire of people to flock to the cities, causing congestion, is one reason for that wave of crime. Young men especially, who want to live easily, resort to deeds of violence to gain a livelihood—without work. The authorities should start movements to get people back into the country, where they might make an honest living. Of course this might be a big job, but something must be done to check this wild life. They say the West used to be wild and wooly, but this city life goes them one better, and while it is wild it is getting to be dangerous. IN GRANTING a wife a divorce from her husband, because he took a bath only once in seven weeks, a judge observed a husband should take a bath at least once a week, or he ought to make it two to be safe. The wife testified her hubby was so saving he slept with his clothes on, because taking them off caused too much wear and tear on buttonholes. CINEMA comedy promoter has sent out a call for twelve of the most beautiful girls to be found, and tells them to bring along their bathing suits. It is almost certain that the girls will not be accused of "covering up," and the judges will no doubt have the situation well in hand. THESE summer days when a modern flapper appears upon the streets, it looks as though she has just driven up from the seacoast without changing. AN ORANGE grower who takes an interest in his orchard believes that if more attention was paid to the trees, individually, less scale and pests would be found. For example, he recently gave a tree an extra dose of spray—literally washing the tree from top to bottom—and as a result, that particular tree has an unusually large set of fruit. THESE summer days when a modern flapper appears upon the streets, it looks as though she has just driven up from the seacoast without changing. AN ORANGE grower who takes an interest in his orchard believes that if more attention was paid to the trees, individually, less scale and pests would be found. For example, he recently gave a tree an extra dose of spray—literally washing the tree from top to bottom—and as a result, that particular tree has an unusually large set of fruit. MANY kinds of fruit and vegetables are now in season, but the way some storekeepers display them, it sort of takes away a fellow's appetite. Flies swarm around and many crates and boxes of fruit are not screened, and the flies have a merry time shoving each other aside to get a taste of the fruit. And some of these boxes of fruit are within easy reach of dogs who come smelling around. IN A town down in Texas all the people have become so good that they have turned a county jail into a rooming house. The only difference, compared to many apartment flats, is that you have to pungle up the rent in advance. THOSE non-stop aviators, with all the enthusiastic receptions, no doubt have literally been up in the air. Now if they will come to Anaheim and invest their money in real estate, they will be safe forever. OLD FOLKS' PICNIC There are in Southern California a great many people who were born over seventy years ago. These people are not old in spirit, and they like to meet for a plenic reunion as well as the younger folks. So if you are over seventy, this is your invitation for yourself and all your friends past that age to attend the annual plenic reunion of all the people in Southern California who are past seventy years of age. This our sixteenth annual, will be held in Sycamore Grove park, Los Angeles. Saturday, September 3, 1927. It is an all-day picnic with a basket dinner at noon, an informal program following. Bring your dinner, but coffee with cream and sugar will be provided free for all. Come as early as you can and have a happy day with these jolly old-young people. It is intended for those over seventy, but if you need help to carry your dinner, or to aid you, why just bring any friend along. Pass the word on to just as many as you can, so all may know of it. If you are not yet old enough, give this to some one who is. Come as early as you can and stay as long as you desire. For further information, call up C. H. Parsons, secretary of the Federation of State Societies. Phone Faber 3300, or see him or write to him at Hotel Rosslyn, Fifth and Main streets, Los Angeles. In a good thing Lindy isn't older or they would be mentioning him as a presidential possibility now.