anaheim-gazette 1927-10-13

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. FACTS ABOUT THE TARIFF The tariff troubles between the United States and France have again served to emphasize the different principles on which national and international policies are based in the United States and Europe. In our own country tariffs are assessed against all nations alike. They are assessed on the theory that in order to assure the American wage scale and the American standard of living, goods coming from Europe must be taxed to a point which will equal the difference between the cost of production at home and abroad, which is after all the difference in the wage scale and the standards of living. But in Europe the tariff question is approached differently, as the recent action of France shows. There tariffs are made not on a broad general basis, but for bargaining purposes, in an effort to get certain commercial or political advantage from Italy or that nation. Hence one nation may be discriminated against and the other favored in the matter of tariffs. All nations are not treated alike. It is the old European scheme of bargaining and intriguing for national advantage, playing one nation against another. The free trade internationalists in our own country therefore, who gleefully declare that France in discriminating against America in favor of Germany is giving us a dose of our own medicine, show by their statements that they do not understand the different tariff principles of the two nations. The principle of high or low tariff is not concerned in the present situation. American exporters would have no basis for complaint if France effort to get certain commercial or political advantage from or that nation. Hence one nation may be discriminated against and the other favored in the matter of tariffs. All nations are not treated alike. It is the old European scheme of bargaining and intriguing for national advantage, playing one nation against another. The free trade internationalists in our own country therefore, who gleefully declare that France in discriminating against America in favor of Germany is giving us a dose of our own medicine, show by their statements that they do not understand the different tariff principles of the two nations. The principle of high or low tariff is not concerned in the present situation. American exporters would have no basis for complaint if France fixed a high rate of tariff applying to everybody. Trade can adjust itself to a high duty, but not to unfair competition. A nation is at liberty to fix as high a duty as she pleases on imports and America would be the last nation in the world to complain against a high tariff. The complaint in this case is that America has been discriminated against and virtually shut out of a market which at the same time is left open to competitor nations. France has fixed rates on the same commodities, four times higher for American made products than for those made in Germany, England and other countries of a favored status. The right of a nation to fix a high rate of duty is not questioned. America has preached and practiced that doctrine. But the right of a nation deliberately to discriminate against a friendly power in the hope of getting something from that friendly power by agreeing to cease the discrimination under the conditions, while it may not be a subject for debate is at least conducive of strong protest from the nation which is a victim of the discrimination. Here is the meat of the cocoonanut. But there is more to be said. While our tariff laws do not permit us to discriminate against any other nation, they do give the President the right to retaliate and defend the country when we have been discriminated against. There is not apt to be any tariff war because the French realize the potence of this weapon as well as we do. In any tariff war Uncle Sam would have all the better of it. What France sends us is much more important to her in a business way than what we send France is to us. Moreover, the things we import from France are mostly luxuries which we can well do without. But the things we send to France are in the main necessities which the French can not so well afford to do without. These are good reasons why the tariff misunderstanding will be settled in a way satisfactory to America. OUTLOOK GOOD ACCORDING to estimates made in quarters which are usually conservative, there is no reason to fear any decided recession in the general prosperity of the nation during the coming fall and winter. One significant feature in the present situation is the fact that our export trade is once more showing large gains. For the seven months ending with July the trade balance for the year was in our favor to the extent of $270,000,000. For the same period in 1926 the balance of trade was against this country to the extent of a little more than $65,000,000. Our exports have grown considerably during the current year, while our imports show a slight decrease. There was an increase in our sales to every grand division of the world showing that our foreign trade is in a healthy state, to say the least. COMPETITION INCREASES INDUSTRIAL Europe has practically recovered from the World war and America must be prepared for the keenest competition in history not only for the markets of the world, but for American was in our favor to the extent of $270,000,000. For the same period in 1926 the balance of trade was against this country to the extent of a little more than $65,000,000. Our exports have grown considerably during the current year, while our imports show a slight decrease. There was an increase in our sales to every grand division of the world showing that our foreign trade is in a healthy state, to say the least. COMPETITION INCREASES INDUSTRIAL Europe has practically recovered from the World war and America must be prepared for the keenest competition in history not only for the markets of the world, but for American markets. This is the opinion of Dr. Edgar B. Brossard of the United States tariff commission, who has just returned from a trip abroad. "European industries will make tremendous efforts to compete in our markets, and American industry must produce efficiently and economically in order to meet these renewed efforts to capture this, the largest and richest market in the world," he declared. There is little argument on this point. American industries are performing efficiently and economically. That is proved by the fact that with wages increasing, living costs are going down in the United States. The industries have been able to bring such a situation about because they have been afforded protection in this richest and greatest market in the world. And our manufacturers and workers will continue to ask for and to get the protection which is necessary for our continued industrial development. Dr. Brossard declares further that in spite of the popular notion to the contrary in this country, "the government of this country is respected and looked up to in Europe, both apparently and actually, as equal to if not superior to any other government in the world." He declares that a citizen of America traveling in Europe is received courteosuly everywhere. Field Marshall Haig says the Allies would have won the war without the aid of the United States. Gosh! How we wish they had! The September warm wave did more to help the farmer in two weeks than congress will be able to do in an entire session. The French want another big loan from America and say that they need the money for road building and repair. There may be some merit in this if they can show that the American tourists are wearing out the highways. In seeking another loan in America, the French government is generously willing to let bygones be bygones. ANAHEIM GAZETTE Help! Help! By Albert T. Reid FLOODED SECTION U.S. AID POWER PROJECT REclamation Project LOCAL IMPROVEMENT Albert T. Reid AUTOCASTER AMONG THE 'CANDIDATES' The newspaper correspondents in the capital city are still contributing most of the facts and figures relative to the Republican presidential contest. The "candidates." If it is possible to use that word, are all as dumb as the proverbial oyster. That various booms are in the making is not to be denied, but the promoters are unofficial. The recent declaration of Senator George Moe for Hoover, for example, was a spontaneous move on the part of the senator, and was no part of an official plan or program. The same statement can be made with regard to reports which are now constantly reaching Washington that political scouts are traversing the Southland seeking delegates for the men whose names have been presented as candidates. That considerable scouting is being done in the southern states is not to be denied, but it can be said, positively and authoritatively, that no one of these scouts can produce any authorization from any of the candidates for the work in which he is engaged. These gentlemen are simply taking a flier in the political stock market, with the hope that if they succeed in corraling any possible delegates their activities will be later recognized to their own personal profit and distinction. It can be honestly said that each and every one of the "candidates" is trying to hold aloof, not only out of respect to the President, but because of the haunting understanding that the early maturing of fruits, booms and vegetables spells a quick disease. The good old girls of our set labor passionately to keep that schoolgirl complexion, but what we long for with an unutterable longing is that schoolboy stomach. George Washington produced the first American mule. The Garden of Gethsemane is owned by the Franciscan Monks. IT PAYS THE FARMER Credit for establishing the first rural electrification project in the United States is claimed by the University of Minnesota, which established a station for experimental purposes at Red Wing four years ago. A recent report by Prof. E. A. Stewart, director of the project, gives an account of the remarkable progress of the work, which has not only brought electricity to many farmers in his state, but has spread to more than half of the states of the Union and is rapidly growing. The most encouraging feature of the report is that which shows that the use of electricity is not only lessening the hardships of farm labor, but that it is also being found a profitable investment for the farmer. Commenting on Professor Stewart's report, the Christian Science Monitor in a recent editorial said: "The lightening of the severities of farm labor by increasing the use of machinery and electric power, with the consequent improvement in the comfort of rural life, may well have a considerable influence also in checking the drift of farm folk away from the county to the cities." BUY HOME PRODUCTS Campaigns having for their object the encouragement of buying products manufactured near home have been carried on in various communities with varying success for many years. Nearly everyone agrees that the idea is sound in principle, but many fail to put it into practice when their time comes to buy. Any small local industry which manufactures a worthy product and sells it at a reasonable price might be enabled to grow large through the loyal support of home people. Its growth would enable it to increase its payrolls, increase its consumption of locally produced raw materials, build up increased taxable wealth, and in every way contribute to the progress and prosperity of its community. These are trite and self-evident facts which have been put forward time and again, yet many otherwise good citizens deliberately contribute to the upbuilding of distant cities at the expense of their own towns and counties, through failing to patronize home industries and mercantile establishments. The simple policy of buying at home would do much for the average town. The longest and oldest canal in the world is the Grand canal of China. It is a thousand miles long and 2500 years old. George Washington produced the first American mule. The Garden of Gethsemane is owned by the Franciscan Monks. enabled to grow large through the royal support of home people. Its growth would enable it to increase its payrolls, increase its consumption of locally produced raw materials, build up increased taxable wealth, and in every way contribute to the progress The simple policy of buying at home would do much for the average town. The longest and oldest canal in the world is the Grand canal of China. It is a thousand miles long and 2500 years old. 3-14 YES, DARLING WHAT DO YOU WANT? I DIDDUNT SAY A WORD! ISUT WHEN THE TSALLOON TSELEW UP I ANSWERED HUMOROUSLY, SEE? ISUT IT WUZN'T A WORD! MIGOSH! NOW IT'S AN ARGUMENT OBSERVATIONS AND IT SAVES LOTS OF WORK, TOO AGENTLEMAN who owns a 10-acre orange grove east of town says he has the largest set of oranges for the next year's crop that he ever saw on his trees, and he usually has good crops. This is significant because this season many growers report a scant setting, some growers having practically none. In a radius of a half mile around this man's grove the coming crop will be small, generally speaking. The purpose of this paragraph is to show the implied reason why this man has such a good crop this season. He is a successful orchardist and has listened to and followed the advice of many growers as to the best methods to pursue to successfully raise oranges. And this man does not cultivate his orchard. He irrigates frequently, because he realizes that more water is needed, since cultivation maintains moisture. But the real reason why he does not cultivate is for the simple fact that cultivation cuts the top, feeder roots of the tree, thereby curtailing its products, he says. YES, GIRLS, RUN ALONG HOME AND FORGET IT THE hero genius who flew over alone has spiked the rumor that he contemplates matrimony. When asked for a reply, the intrepid aviator said: "Tell them I'm not going to marry." When the famous boy uses the plural pronoun "we," he refers to himself and his ship, and while the Atlantic held no terrors for him, he shies away from the matrimonial sea. STRETCHING THE HEMP SAY what you want to, but down in Mexico they have a way all their own in dealing with mal hombres. It is reported that the bodies of 38 bandits, hanging singly and in groups, were seen dangling from telegraph poles and trees in a certain pueblo. The government took this means to rid the country of outlawry; which is different from methods used in other sections. RECAPITULATION A high official in the prohibition ranks is determined to clean STRETCHING THE HEMP SAY what you want to, but down in Mexico they have a way all their own in dealing with mal hombres. It is reported that the bodies of 38 bandits, hanging singly and in groups, were seen dangling from telegraph poles and trees in a certain pueblo. The government took this means to rid the country of outlawry, which is different from methods used in other sections. RECAPITULATION A high official in the prohibition ranks is determined to clean house of dishonest and incompetent agents. He is quoted as saying that there are a lot of splendid and fearless men in the service, but there are also many incompetent and crooked men, and that bribery is rampant. The official avers there are many wolves in sheep's clothing; but he is after them. A lot of them have lately been let out. It is said some departments are well organized, but some crooks show up in them, but they go out as fast as they are located. The object of prohibition is to promote temperance and sobriety, and has already done much along that line. It is said even now a tenant may move into some of the large hotels of the country and go to bed without hearing the refrain of "Sweet Adeline." But, nevertheless, it is said if America can be made entirely sober and temperate in about fifty years that a good job will have been performed. THAT MAN'S A MATHEMATICIAN A COLLECTION agent got a judgment against a debtor for $80, and went in quest of something to levy on belonging to him. He found a fine car in a garage, which proved to be an installment variety, but he also learned that the balance due on the machine was $1400. THE HAPPY DAYS SPELLING bees still hold the boards, and usually the female of the species is better than the male. Once upon a time there lived a man who prided himself on being able to spell any old kind of a word, and even wagered he could also spell them backward; but one word he spelled that way, it is remembered, when it was pronounced, almost caused a riot. THE EXCESS BAGGAGE The way the King of Swat poles out those home runs, it begins to look like the national pastime could be played with less men; or else build the fences higher. PEPPERY BACK FENCE BROADCASTING PROMISED DURING a trial of a man and a woman who were tried on a moral charge, an attorney sought to exclude women jurors, saying that the testimony would be shocking. But, anyhow, eleven of the jurors chosen were females. WHY SOME GIRLS LEAVE HOME QUITE often nowadays you see pictures in the papers of young women who are charged with grand theft and other crimes. They crave fine clothes, good easy times, no work—but all play—and they are headed for prison. THE "WILD AND WOOLLY WEST" FORMATION of a vigilante committee to deal with criminals WHY SOME GIRLS LEAVE HOME QUITE often nowadays you see pictures in the papers of young women who are charged with grand theft and other crimes. They crave fine clothes, good easy times, no work—but all play—and they are headed for prison. THE "WILD AND WOOLLY WEST" "FORMATION of a vigilante committee to deal with criminals in the territory embraced by the—" etc., runs a piece in the paper in an up-the-road city. Looks like there will be something doing. BIRD IN THE HAND, WORTH TWO IN THE BUSH SHOULD justices of the peace be pryed loose of the gratuitous tips, prospective couples who seek to get spliced at "unseemly hours of the night" might find the J. P. absent or out of town on business, and lo and behold the spark of love might flicker and then go out. RUBBER FROM FIGS And now the fig tree, once the humble, poor relation of our California backyards, promises to be elevated to new importance. The viscid milk from this familiar fruit producer may soon furnish rubber for the tires on which we roll far from the proverbial vine and fig tree. A rubber specialist at Pasadena announces that he has made rubber from the sap of the French fig and he is experimenting to see what he can do with the common California varieties as well as the Kadota and Adriatic. His announcement comes at a time when Uncle Sam is seeking to break away from British monopoly and produce his own rubber. It comes also when considerable acres in our state, especially in the Salinas valley, are being converted into scenes resembling Nevada sagebrush plains through the planting of guayule, also looked to as a source of gum. The fig was man's first utilitarian friend. While our Edenic ancestors doubtless glutted themselves with its purplling fruit, they also resorted to it for their first clothing. Then down through the ages following it has been a healthful source of sustenance to numerous peoples. Years ago in California we let quantities of figs go to waste on the ground. Today in this opulent paradise of fruit, fresh figs come plenty high in the market. The smooth-skinned Kadota variety, to which large acreages have been planted in the vicinity of Stockton, make a preserve par excellence and the canning of them in wine promises to become a local enterprise. It would seem logical that the fig, which belongs to the large and important Fiscus family and is, therefore, a cousin of the India rubber tree, should prove a source of rubber. We'll all attest that the sticky liquid which it exudes has gummy qualities. All poultry houses need openings in the back as well as front, so the chicks can get plenty of air during the summer and early fall. The cornerstone of the White House was laid October 13, 1792. President Benjamin Harrison was brought up on a 400-acre farm. Louisiana has more navigable water than any other state.