anaheim-gazette 1927-09-15

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 RECORD SOUTH ANY observing American who travels in Central or South America can tell you that there is in Latin—America a carefully prepared propaganda constantly circulating, directed against the closer co-operation between the United States and the southern republics of this hemisphere. This propaganda is, of course, European controlled and usually effective. It is unfortunate therefore that there are some people in the United States who play into the hands of these trouble makers by agreeing and asserting that the policy of the United States toward Latin-America is imperialistic and tyrannical. The latest outburst has come from an ex-diplomat and a man who should know better. The man referred to is Horace G. Knowles, and the occasion for the outburst was his appearance on the platform of the Williamstown alleged Institute of Politics. Some of the things which Mr. Knowles called Uncle Sam with reference to his South American policy were "meddlesome and rapacious," and our policy was termed a ruthless system of invasion and intervention and a rank perversion of the Monroe Doctrine. A great many speakers who talk that way get away with it because nobody takes the trouble to show them up, but this was not the case with Mr. Knowles. Commander John P. Shafroth of the United States navy happened to be present, and he answered Knowles in prompt and vigorous fashion. It is always-easy to answer assaults of the kind, because they consist of vituperation and not logic and cannot stand up under scrutiny. The record of Uncle Sam in his dealings with his southern neighbors, when examined, usually shows that any advantage accruing has been mutual. As Commander Shafroth put it, "we have intervened in Latin-America only when the states themselves have been unable to maintain stable government, a right conceded by international law." And it is to be noted further that each intervention has tended to promote civilization and progress and to eliminate lust because nobody takes the trouble to show them up, but this was not the case with Mr. Knowles. Commander John P. Shafroth of the United States navy happened to be present, and he answered Knowles in prompt and vigorous fashion. It is always-easy to answer assaults of the kind, because they consist of vituperation and not logic and cannot stand up under scrutiny. The record of Uncle Sam in his dealings with his southern neighbors, when examined, usually shows that any advantage accruing has been mutual. As Commander Shafroth put it, "we have intervened in Latin-America only when the states themselves have been unable to maintain stable government, a right conceded by international law." And it is to be noted further that each intervention has tended to promote civilization and progress and to eliminate lust and murder. At the very time Knowles was making his attack, Orestes Ferrara, Cuban ambassador to Washington, was telling the people of France, during his visit there, that the United States had always been courteous and honest in its dealings with Latin-America, was denying that certain Americans as charged by European propagandists are "running Cuba wit han iron hand for the benefit of New York capitalists," and was declaring, with truth, that America's relations with Cuba have always been on the plane of the loftiest ideals. This answer to Knowles, as a matter of fact, is the answer of all history. America has done infinitely much for all Pan-America. It rarely has touched this Caribbean sector except to emphatic Pan-American advantage. Take America out of the Caribbean during the last quarter century and Pan-America would still be in the "dark ages"—socially, hygienically, economically, governmentally. No intimate traveler in these areas will deny these statements. Our record there, with rare exceptions, is one of honor and utility. Admittedly, there is need for a greater spiritual liaison between all these New World units. But libeling America encourages nothing except artificial distrusts. It merely manufactures trouble. We need less of Knowles. We need more of Truth. OUR TARIFF AGAIN In a recent speech at Allentown, Pa., Secretary of Labor Davis declared that the American protective tariff is the bulwark between the American workingman and idleness and is the chief factor in this country's prosperity. "What would you rather have," he asked, "the men of Europe doing the work, or the men of the United States? If we had no tariff, the factories of other countries would run and ours would have to be closed. We must think in terms of America." Here is the tariff situation, as it affects the workingman in a nutshell. It is not a question of reducing his wages, but of facing a loss of job and the soup kitchen or starvation. Eventually if free trade were continued, it might be possible for manufacturing to be resumed in America on the basis of European wages and European conditions. But nobody in America wants such wages paid or such living conditions endured. And first at any rate would come idleness in the factories and general stagnation. But the farmer is directly interested too. Lowering the tariff would not help him, because he is now paying no tariff on commodities used exclusively by himself. It would hurt him both directly and indirectly. Indirectly because his great home market for provisions would be destroyed, and directly because he would face competition in certain agricultural commodities from Cuba, from Mexico, from China, from Canada, from South America, and Spain, and Italy. And the farmer knows this. He realizes it in the South and in the Southwest as well as in the North and Northwest. That is why the tariff is no longer regarded as a sectional issue. Growers in Florida and Texas need it as well as the farmers of Minnesota... But the farmer is directly interested too. Lowering the tariff would not help him, because he is now paying no tariff on commodities used exclusively by himself. It would hurt him both directly and indirectly. Indirectly because his great home market for provisions would be destroyed, and directly because he would face competition in certain agricultural commodities from Cuba, from Mexico, from China, from Canada, from South America, and Spain, and Italy. And the farmer knows this. He realizes it in the South and in the Southwest as well as in the North and Northwest. That is why the tariff is no longer regarded as a sectional issue. Growers in Florida and Texas need it as well as the farmers of Minnesota and California. PEACE AND PREPAREDNESS PEACE is the most necessary condition for the world today. Another war like the great war would probably result in the extinction of western culture. Every intelligent man knows this. Above all, those who took part in the fighting between 1914 and 1918 know what modern warfare means, and know only too well that the next war will, as Marshal Foch has said, be a war against civilian populations. But there is no use losing our heads about the matter. There is no use introducing childish resolutions like that introduced before the World Federation of Education Associations, at Toronto. The abolition of military training in all civil educational institutions is not an essential step in the cause of world peace. Because men are trained to keep discipline and respect order and to carry on with their work, no matter how disagreeable, it does not necessarily mean that they will henceforth go about the world seeking whom they may devour. Military training, as taught in civil establishments, does not make soldiers in these days. It makes good citizens, for anybody who has been taught to do his job is a better citizen than the man who shirks it; and man for man, those who went to the war are better men than those who could have gone and did not go. But the sort of drill which is given in schools does not make figting men today. In happier days, when cannon balls could be dodged, and battles were won by the infantry which were more than a match for the opposing infantry in muscular development and quickness of movement, the simple maneuvers of the parade ground were no doubt of practical use. But nowadays when the whole army is being mechanicalized, and it is possible to serve through a long campaign without ever seeing a live enemy, it is nonsense to talk as if a training in discipline were the same as military training. The gentlemen of the World Federation of Education Associations are talking too much by the book and too little from experience. ANAHEIM GAZETTE All Right If the Bailer Holds Out By Albert T. Reid TAXPAYER 3 BILLION DOLLAR LOSS U.S. SHIPPING ADVENTURE GOOD FEELING IN TRADES: Ivan workers and their employers. The SALARIES OF GOVERNORS GOOD FEELING IN TRADES We are now enjoying an era of good feeling in American industry, and this accounts in a large measure for our present prosperity, according to James J. Davis, secretary of labor, in the September issue of the National Republic. Speaking of the better industrial relations, Mr. Davis says: "The victory we have won is really a victory over ourselves and over our former ignorance. Our present prosperity is the result of a long process of economic education. Business and finance have been utilized, of course, by the federal reserve system. But in my estimation, this and other mechanical means are the least of the factors that have released us from our former slavery to panic. Let me tick off a few of the states of mind we have slowly arrived at, which I think account for our present fortune condition. "In the first place, worker and employer have risen out of their former state of fixed hostility. In former times such hostility, while regrettable, was perhaps unavoidable, inevitable. Men of business genius were then shaping together our large, modern producing units, our great corporations. These inspired distrust, at first, not only in the ranks of the labor but among us all. Now we see the benefits we derive from these larger, more unfilled, more scientifically managed enterprises. We early learned to control them. Now they control themselves. Our public opinion keeps them keyed to a high ethical standard. When they were young, nevertheless, labor especially feared them. In defense of itself, labor likewise was driven to organize into units directed by able leaders. These organizations, in turn, inspired a certain distrust in employing ranks. The result was a state of constant mistrust and suspicion that often broke forth into violent strikes. "Beyond all doubt these ever-recurring labor disputes, with their costly stoppage of production and the disturbance they wrought, to industry in general, contributed greatly to the keeping in existence the old cycle of booms and panies. And I can't help thinking that much of this present prosperity is the result of a better spirit that has come into being between the 42,000,000 Americans." SALARIES OF GOVERNORS In these days of high salaries and wages, paid in industry, it is interesting to note the salaries paid to the governors of the various states. Not including the use of an executive mansion in some states, the average salary paid a governor is $6400. In only eighteen of the states, however, is this amount equaled or exceeded. The highest salary, $18,000 is paid by the state of Pennsylvania, followed by $12,000 in Illinois, and $10,000 each to the governors of California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and West Virginia. The people of Indiana and Rhode Island pay their governors $800 per annum. Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, and Oregon value the services of their chief executives at $7500. Nevada pays $7200; Minnesota $7000; and Arizona and Kentucky $6500 each. Four states, Florida, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming, are the only ones in the $6000 class, while there are eighteen states whose governers receive an annual salary of $5000. Maryland and Oklahoma pay $4500; Delaware, Tennessee and Texas, $4000; and New Hampshire. South Dakota and Vermont, $3000. A total of only $207,200 per year is required to pay the salaries of the chief executives of the 48 states, which constitute our great nation with its population of 110,-000,000 inhabitants. MINNESOTA PICNIC Minnesotans from all over Southern California are invited to join in the mammoth picnic reunion all day Saturday. Sepember 24, in Sycamore Grove park. All the happy picnic features be carried out, including the county registers and headquarters. Silk souvenir badges will be provided and hot coffee for all, but plenickers will carry basket dinners. An interesting program follows the dinner hour. Dr. and Mrs. Ed M. Hiner, popular cornerist and soloist, will both be among our entertainers. Minnesotans may see the big register at the Rosslyn hotel, Main street at Fifth, where are the headquarters of all the state societies. C. H. Parsons, secretary, Faber 3300. IT'S ALL RIGHT, IT'S ALL RIGHT! ILL HAVE THEM PRIED APART PRESENTLY! ONCE I KNEW A LITTLE TOY WHO NEVER DID ANY FIGHTING AROUND THE HOUSE! YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND HOW THAT COULD BE, CAN YOU? OH-H-H, YES, IF HE HADDA HAD NO BROTHERS HE COULD'A DIDDUT, HE COULD'A OBSERVATIONS BETTER LATE THAN NEVER AFTER many years of talking and coaxing, the people of Orange county are finally beginning to realize that the conservation of flood water is imperative. Steps are now under way to prepare preliminary plans to build what is known as the Prado dam in the Santa Ana river, near Horseshoe bend. It is authoritatively stated that the plans will be rushed in order to place the project before the people of the county, asking for a bond issue to build the dam. It is estimated that this will cost $6,000,000. That the bonds will be carried there is no reason to doubt. With the wealth of Orange county this bonded debt will be small compared to the vast benefit to be derived by the increase in the underground water supply. The water impounded will insure ample supply for irrigation. The loss averted by the prevention of river overflow during wet winters will be a very big item. Altogether, the building of the Prado dam will be one of the most sensible steps forward ever undertaken within a few years. The work should be rushed to an early completion. LEST WE FORGET A WELL-KNOWN merchant from the East visiting the Southland says business is much better here than it was last year at this time, and he is much impressed with the industrial activity, the growth of Southern California and, above all, the marvelous enthusiasm which he finds everywhere among the business men. "Never, in all my travels, have I found such implicit faith and confidence as I find here, and with such a spirit the Southland is bound to make progress." HAVEN'T WALKED OUT ON THEM QUITE often you read in the paper where it is said the Indians have not been treated right by the white man. But if you look in the book, you will see where the red men in some states have acquired so much money through oil that they are well greased for life. And just the other day an Indian maiden hooked HAVEN'T WALKED OUT ON THEM QUITE often you read in the paper where it is said the Indians have not been treated right by the white man. But if you look in the book, you will see where the red men in some states have acquired so much money through oil that they are well greased for life. And just the other day an Indian maiden hooked onto a fifty million dollar boarding house, and everything. SAY IT WITH FLOWERS AN ASTOUNDING statement is made that more people have been killed in the United States by the automobile during the eight years just past than were killed during the World war. A national automobile association says that between 1919 and 1926, 137,017 people met death by motor vehicles, while the war total for Americans was 120,000. It is estimated that the injured totals over thirty-five million since the armistice was signed. About 26 per cent of the killed and injured by the automobile were children under 15 years. In 1926, it is estimated, 23,000 persons were killed by motor vehicles. PICK UP THE MARBLES—YOU WIN In a town in the Middle West there lives a lady—born in 1818—who has 225 living direct descendants. When altogether the family is listed as having 12 children, 53 grand, 136 great-grand, and 24 great-great-grand. CALLING IN THE COMMUTERS An inland town's school board of trustees has created a bit of a flurry when an edict was issued that all teachers in their schools must establish their residence there—if they want to hold onto their jobs. SAVING THE FLOWERS A charming divorcee who has just been freed in Mexico from the ties that bind, and who does not believe in that rough stuff, says: "My husband and I are the best of friends. Our divorce was entirely amicable. In fact, he has just wired me that he is going to meet me in New York and see me off for Europe. That's the way divorces should be, on a friendly basis." BACK TO THE OLD HITCHING POST A certain city dweller up state has withdrawn from all booster organizations, and this is his reason: A few years ago he said his children went to schools that were not overcrowded and had plenty of wide open spaces to play in. On Sundays then he could drive out into the country and see something besides the stop signal on the car six feet ahead of him. He allows then the wife could go shopping, park the car within a block or two of where she wanted to trade, and in midafternoon she could find some one to wait on her in the shops. She does her shopping now over the telephone. She goes down town now only when she cannot avoid it, and when she does, she rides on street cars. The BACK TO THE OLD HITCHING POST CERTAIN city dweller up state has withdrawn from all booster organizations, and this is his reason: A few years ago he said his children went to schools that were not overcrowded and had plenty of wide open spaces to play in. On Sundays then he could drive out into the country and see something besides the stop signal on the car six feet ahead of him. He allows then the wife could go shopping, park the car within a block or two of where she wanted to trade, and in midafternoon she could find some one to wait on her in the shops. She does her shopping now over the telephone. She goes down town now only when she cannot avoid it, and when she does, she rides on street cars. The old family car has not been taken out in six months, because the last time the wife went to town a traffic cop tagged it for being parked over the two-hour limit. Altogether, the man says, people are living too fast, and he is in favor of calling off the boosters. MAKE HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES Now that the Prince of Wales has demonstrated how to clean up the cow barn on his ranch, besides pitching hay, perhaps that may be the means of sending a lot of young men back to the farm. TRYING TO FOLLOW THE LEADER Almost every day brings forth the sad news that another ocean flyer has been lost. This stunt business is too risky. Many try, but only a few get over. The old story about a live coward and dead hero is being revamped. This aviation opens up a new way of shuffling off besides hopping off. SHIP WITHOUT A RUDDER A man who was in court, charged with possession, had a lawyer to defend him, but when the latter indulged in a lot of rigama-role, the judge called in a physician, and when he reported that the barrister could not pronounce "Shibboleth" correctly, the judge had the man billeted in the calaboose for a day to regain his bearings. WEEK-END PARTY ON TAPIS While a man was chugging through, he halted his flivver when a loud report was heard, believing he had blown a tire. Upon a close inspection, however, he found all the tires intact, but the cork was out of the cider jug.