anaheim-gazette 1927-09-29

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. NEW FREE TRADE IDEA FRANCE is not the only country where things are going on to cause searching of hearts among American high tariff devotees. In England several large steel manufacturing companies have just made a combined agreement—what for? Why to lower prices to English consumers. The scheme is ingenious. To every domestic purchaser of steel who for six months refrains from buying foreign steel a rebate will be given. Thus instead of asking for a protective tariff to keep out steel now being sold in England by German and Belgian and American makers—to the amount of $250,000,000 annually—in that way raising the price, the English steel masters propose to undersell the foreigner in the home market. The inference is of course that the British are going to keep out steel exports by selling cheaper at home through rebates and so giving the home steel producers the benefit of home made goods and lower prices at the same time. It is doubtful whether knowledge of this plan will cause any anguish to protectionists here or raise any considerable number of advocates of a similar plan for America. The most significant thing about that is the admission that in even free trade England with low wages and unemployment some sort of protection is needed to keep foreign concerns from capturing the steel market. Here is a condition and not a theory which needs some explaining on the part of the free traders. Now in order to undersell foreign competition in the British market without a protective tariff the British manufacturers will have to cut costs. And cutting costs means cutting wages to a point below the lower wage scale in continental Europe. For this reason it is not likely that any adaptation of the plan will be popular in America. Any such scheme in America would mean putting the American workers on the low wage level of European workers or even lower with European standards of living. That may work in Great Britain, but it can't be put over in even free trade England with low wages and unemployment some sort of protection is needed to keep foreign concerns from capturing the steel market. Here is a condition and not a theory which needs some explaining on the part of the free traders. Now in order to undersell foreign competition in the British market without a protective tariff the British manufacturers will have to cut costs. And cutting costs means cutting wages to a point below the lower wage scale in continental Europe. For this reason it is not likely that any adaptation of the plan will be popular in America. Any such scheme in America would mean putting the American workers on the low wage level of European workers or even lower with European standards of living. That may work in Great Britain, but it can't be put over in the United States. American business men and American workmen prefer the economic scheme which is in effect today. This is possible because the American manufacturers, with the great American market as their special field, are so able to increase and stabilize production that costs can be reduced in spite of the high wage scale. This is the American idea, and it beats any plan for inverted protection by lowing the tariff walls and then trying to keep the American market by offering rebates to American consumers of steel. PRIVATE CONTROL AFTER having nurtured the infant air mail service to its present stage of proved success, the government has turned over its lines to private operators. The National Air Transport Corporation recently took over the New York-Chicago run, the last link of the transcontinental line remaining under government control. This means from now on that the commercial air service in the United States, including the air mail service, will be developed by private corporations and by individual enterprise. The government will of course continue to assist the air service in every way possible, by lighting the airways for night flying, and in many other ways, including indirect subsidies. As Postmaster General New put it: "The real purpose of the business has been to demonstrate to private capital that the service was not only possible scientifically, but that it could be made profitable commercially, and hereby encourage the creation of a new industry in the United States. "Today there are more companies making airplanes in the United States than there are manufacturing automobiles. There are fifteen privately owned lines flying the air mail, and there are several others for which contracts are let and which shortly will be placed in operation." The government has put the air service on a substantial basic and then wisely turned it over to private capital for development. The government has built up a merchant marine, and in time this will be turned over to private shipping interests for further development. Experience has proved that services of this kind can better be operated by private effort. We need our air service and our merchant marine brought to the highest point of development, for our prosperity in time of peace and for our safety in time of war. The government will always be willing to aid the commercial air service and the merchant marine, because they are necessary to our national welfare. And these will develop faster under private control with the necessary federal aid. ABOUT NAVIES THE London Referee declares that "for no consideration on earth will England consent to surrender the right and power to protect her own empire by the means by which it was won. She was born of the sea; by the sea she will hold her own, and she ABOUT NAVIES THE London Referee declares that "for no consideration on earth will England consent to surrender the right and power to protect her own empire by the means by which it was won. She was born of the sea; by the sea she will hold her own, and she and she only will determine the limit of the sea power needed to discharge that task." This is a position which, as Americans we have, of course, no right to criticize. If Great Britain believes that her safety and the integrity of her empire demand a big navy, then the British government would of course be reckent in its duty if it did not maintain a big navy. But it does not follow that because Great Britain needs, or thinks she needs, an imposing navy, that America should accept inferiority in the naval line. We have a pretty good country ourselves. We have lots of commerce, both trans-oceanic and coast-wise, and most of this commerce would be endangered in event of war. It is entirely probable, therefore, that some of our own safety depends on a good-sized American navy, despite the opinion of a number of pacifists and internationalists to the contrary. America is naturally impressed by the British opinion. If world conditions make it advisable for Great Britain to have a powerful navy, it would be no less wise for the United States to have a powerful navy, too. It is a compelling argument. And there you are. Rather than continue to discuss with our British cousins what now seems to be purely a theoretical question, let us see that our own naval needs are taken care of. Ex-Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska urges the Democrats to attack the tariff in the next campaign. As a political strategist Mr. Hitchcock is as good as ever. It will be remembered that he is the same Mr. Hitchcock who urged the Democrats to stand on the League of Nations as an issue. With $13,000,000,000 invested in Europe in addition to war debts, America appears to bank on Europe's ability to pay privately, if not publicly. A boxer who recently crossed from America to England remarked on the roughness of the sea. Nothing annoys a boxer more than to be attacked below the belt. The Political Outlook By Albert T. Reid SPORTS $1450,000.00 in PRIZE FOR DEMPIRE TURNKEY FIGHT. Average Young American: "Naw, I don't wanna be president; I wanna be a prizefighter. They get more for one little old fight than you paid all your presidents in the last nineteen years." NO AMPLIFICATION President Coolidge will neither amplify nor explain his original statement. Not that he has any desire to continue a state of doubt in the minds of the people, or any ambition to profit by what some observers have been inclined to designate as the ambiguity of his remarks, but the President believes that in the ability to express exactly his intentions through the written word, he has acquired considerable skill. Under the circumstances, his issuance of any additional statement would inevitably be a direct admission that at a most critical moment when clearness, directness and forcefulness were the primary necessities, he had failed to meet this situation. His friends intimate casually that those demanding amplification or explanation, and who attempt to construe his original statement as an undecover bid for renomination, belong to a class who would not be satisfied even if the ten words were explained by ten thousand. In short, these persons belong to that group which has been characterized in the old saying: "None are bound as those who will not see." THE FILE-GNAWERS The performances of the enemies of order in Europe will probably have the effect of keeping at home considerable numbers of Americans who would otherwise cross the Atlantic to spend millions. Some of the Americans will not for the present risk having their families exposed to insult and violence on the other side, small though the risk be. Thus the European "proletariat" contributes to the strengthening of the resources of the American "bourgeoisie." As heretofore pointed out, the excesses of the European "reds" will cause the stiffening of American restrictions on immigration, which means of course, increasing wages for American labor and the emergence of more and more of its members into the ranks of the "bourgeoisie." What gnawers of files these "reds" are! COURTESY OF THE WEST Western courtesy, according to one of the intimates of the President, is now ranked in his mind as being co-equal with western hospitality. South Dakota, his summer habitat, has as many political factional rows as the average central and western state. In many cases these political feuds are even a little sharper than those east of the Mississippi. During his stay, the President met leaders and members of all groups, and what was a matter of fine satisfaction to him, because he interpreted it as a tribute to his office, was that the rival leaders, not only declared but maintained a political moratorium during his stay, so at one and the same time he was able to have these various leaders break bread with him without fear of embarrassment. The President was also touched by the fact that while access to him was extraordinarily easy, that in no single instance was this liberty construed as license. There were job hunters and favor seekers, but they never broached their missions. The "open door" was never abused. These people of themselves had fine appreciation of the dignities and lived up to them magnificently. U. S. MARKET IS TARGET Jim Davis, secretary of labor, has put his finger on the crux of this whole business of foreign loans and foreign tariff. The battle abroad, as he sees it, is for entry into the American market, and his position is that while it is a matter of sincere and humane regret on our part that unemployment prevails in Europe with family distresses, that after all, our primary task is to see that in our anxiety to help the workingmen overseas, by buying their low cost production goods, we do not put our own workmen on the street. In short, if there are to be armies of unemployed, our primary task is to see that the United States of America does not enter that quota. TAX RELIEF With all due respect to the gentlemen in high official position in both the Republican and Democratic parties, who with carom shots are trying to spread the belief that the little fellow has had enough tax relief and that the corporations and the big surtax payers need additional reductions, it would be just as well if they soft pedaled that line of argument. A reduction in corporation taxes can be probably explained and defended, because the money thus saved will go either into the pockets of the workmen and stockholders in reasonably fair proportion; but the little fellow can yet be relieved and he should be relieved of another part of his load. before we begin to weep over the woes of the taxpayers in the higher brackets. Taxation relief should now be based in part on a full understanding of the habit which the ordinary cost of living does to even a substantial weekly pay envelope, and nobody has a right to say that the little fellow should not have more relief until it has been proved that all these other factors of living have been given full consideration. REAL FARM RELIEF Carrying 1000 tons of freight, the S. S. Thorpe and the General Allen, each towing two barges, docked at St. Paul recently, eight days after leaving St. Louis and 16 hours ahead of schedule. This maiden trip of the two river vessels indicates that no serious obstacles exist to the development of river traffic on a big scale in this country. The fleet belongs to the Government Barge Service. As was pointed out by Major General T. O. Ashburn, head of the Inland Waterways Corporation, when he arrived in St. Paul with the fleet, the trip was made in the lowest stage of the season. This means that river transportation on the Upper Mississippi is entirely feasible and that reduced freight rates to both farmers and business men of the Middle West is at hand. increasing wages for American labor and the emergence of more and more of its members into the ranks of the "bourgeois." What gnawers of files these "reds" are! DOUGHNUTS FROM MRS. COFF. NONE TO TSE EATEN TILL MEALTIME. HELP ME GET INSIDE THE LINES. VERY SIMPLE. PROCEED! I SMELL DOUGHNUTS! OMIGOSH! I LEFT THE IMPORTANT OPENING UNCOVERED! SNiff! SNiff! SNiff! DOUGHNUT SCOUT ON HOT TRACK river transportation on the Upper Mississippi is entirely feasible and that reduced freight rates to both farmers and business men of the Middle West is at hand. OBSERVATIONS SOMETHING THAT CONCERNS EVERBODY PEOPLE of Orange county should guard their riparian water rights in the Santa Ana river and its tributaries. Owing to the steady growth of Southern California, the demands upon nature's storehouse for the life-giving fluid is being taxed to the utmost. Already opposition from the upper valleys appears against the building of what is known as the Prado dam. Just how far this opposition will extend remains to be seen. Long drawn out lawsuits may result. But the people of this valley must be alert and stand for their rights. That flood waters must be impounded there is no reason to question. Maybe the people here have waited too long to get busy on this important matter. Now is the time for immediate action. There may come a time—perhaps within ten years—when there will be very little, if any, water flowing in the Santa Ana, except during flood periods. THIS MAKES IT UNANIMOUS A CABINET official, visiting this Southland on commerce business, said: "Every time I come here I am impressed with the forward strides that have been made in my absence. Unless this development is checked, and there is nothing in sight to check it, there will be a population of 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 in Southern California in the next fifteen years. One requirement, of course, is a sufficient water supply, but I have every confidence this will be provided." HEED THE WARNING A WELL-KNOWN authority on reforestation, in an address before an assemblage of citizens a few days ago, said: "You can't legislate fertility back into the soil, and the only adequate, permanent flood protection, water conservation and land salvation lies in an aggressive, continuous campaign of reforestation. God is not mocked, and no nation can wantonly waste His rich bounties and destroy His handiwork and expect to regain those gifts through artificial methods. "The forest, mother of rivers, is the basis of all our industries and all our prosperity," continued the speaker. "In the beginning America had 822,000,000 acres of virgin forest land—a vast domain of trees that fed our soil, tempered the winds, gave food and shelter to man, beast and bird, controlled flood waters, beautified the landscape, mothered the rains and provided material for all our needs. We have destroyed five-sixths of those forests." before an assemblage of citizens a few days ago, they can't legislate fertility back into the soil, and the only adequate permanent flood protection, water conservation and land salvation lies in an aggressive, continuous campaign of reforestation. God is not mocked, and no nation can wantonly waste His rich bounties and destroy His handiwork and expect to regain those gifts through artificial methods. "The forest, mother of rivers, is the basis of all our industries and all our prosperity," continued the speaker. "In the beginning America had 822,000,000 acres of virgin forest land—a vast domain of trees that fed our soil, tempered the winds, gave food and shelter to man, beast and bird, controlled flood waters, beautified the landscape, mothered the rains and provided material for all our needs. We have destroyed five-sixths of those forests, with practically no thought of reforestation and we have been punished." BURNING UP THE ROAD TITLED husbands (who have not taken out their naturalization papers) and who have wives living here, are put to a whole lot of trouble to keep on good speaking terms with friend wife, because they have to go back and get a new passport once every year. To say nothing of nicking the family bankroll, and the lonesomeness caused by the forced separation, the love might cool if this passport business is followed strictly according to the letter. The foreign daddy is thus kept on the jump, and is prevented from putting both feet under the family table three times per day; besides, the wife may conjure up all kinds of wild dreams as to where her "wandering boy is tonight." And again, when friend husband embarks on his long non-stop voyage across the pond, the neighbors begin broadcasting as to whether or not a divorce case looms in the offing. QUIT THROWING THE DIRT A CONVENTION of realtors up state has placed a ban on shoddy practices and urges that a new day and new deal be launched in handling realty. It was resolved that what people want is not morce service, but more of the things that they pay for. PICKED UP THE SCENT A WOMAN was granted a divorce the other day when she testified that, after her suspicions were aroused, she followed her hubby to the room of a woman, who lived in such small quarters that while the husband visited her he had to stick his feet out of the open door, where the wife found and recognized them, when she was snooping around. TRAVELING LIGHT BACK in a New York village the chief of police has a problem on his hands regarding women's clothes. He says he does not object to short skirts, or even to bathing suits—if the wearer appears to take even a vague interest in swimming. But the officer says women arrive in his town wearing some little jumpers, that look like men's track pants, and sandals. So the mayor is going to call a special meeting and pass an ordinance compelling the wimmin folks to wear more clothes. DIDN'T KNOW THE GUN WAS LOADED THE intrepid first trans-Atlantic flyer is so modest that he says had he known it would result in so much public acclaim, he never would have hopped off in his memorable flight across the sea. PASSING OF THE PIONEERS DIDN'T KNOW THE GUN WAS LOADED THE intrepid first trans-Atlantic flyer is so modest that he says had he known it would result in so much public acclaim, he never would have hopped off in his memorable flight across the sea. PASSING OF THE PIONEERS A NEWS item says a prominent actress arrived in town, accompanied by her "latest" husband. Those between the first and the last are not mentioned. NOW AND THEN IT IS said that the "titular" bout of the century, which was staged in the stockyard city, drew a $2,800,000 gate; and the late John L. used to bowl 'em over for an even thousand. POLISHING UP THE DICTION PRONOUNCING the name of a well-known mittman causes some trouble in ultra society circles. Those who get it wrong are the birds who believe he "tuned" in on time after being down on his back; but yet again, the rest of the flock, who believe they pronounce the name right, say they think that boy felt as though a "ton" fell on him when he went down. Anyhow, this might help you out. Optimistic Forecast By Bank Department A substantial growth in commerce and industry in California for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1927, is shown by figures compiled by the statistician of the state banking department. In making a general estimate of progress throughout the state, the figures for total resources of banks operating in the state were used as a general guide to the progress of commerce and industry. The figure for June 30, 1926, was $3,706,466,000, which represented an increase of $214,081,000 over the previous year, or 6.1 per cent. The total for the present year is $3,833,-938,000, an increase of $127,492,000, or 3.4 per cent over the total for 1926. This constitutes a lesser gain than that recorded for 1926, but it is nevertheless a very substantial one. Although the average rate of increase over the period 1920 to 1927 was 6.3 per cent and the increase of 1927 over 1926 is admittedly smaller, the fact still remains that there was a substantial increase and no tendency toward an absolute decline. An estimate for the present fiscal year has also been worked out, which anticipates a greater progress than that recorded in the year just ended.