anaheim-gazette 1927-10-27

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. AMERICAN INDIVIDUALITY COMMENTING in the Atlantic Monthly on mass production in America, and standardization, which had tended to reduce the cost of production and at the same time increase wages, an English writer deplores the situation to which America has been brought and declares that in traveling 3000 miles across the American continent one is depressed by the sameness of things, of the people, the architecture and the newspapers. He adds that what the average cultured European desires above all else is to be an individual, to express his own personality in work and in play. In conclusion he says: "After all, if we are all to have more and more things but only on condition that they shall be exactly like every one else's, what becomes of the joy of individual living, of expressing your own personality—provided you have one—in work and play? It is worth while to gain the whole material world and lose your own soul?" Standardized production, made possible by efficient producers and the assurance of the big American market, has indeed lowered costs and increased wages in the United States. But in spite of this there are Americans provincial enough to believe that the average citizen of the United States has as much individuality as the average European. In Europe the masses have always been exploited for the benefit of the few. It has been the accepted theory that the way to improve the race is to work from the top stratum upward. In America our theory has been different. Starting out with new ideals of government, we have constantly sought to better the condition of all the people and especially of the less fortunate ones. American sympathy for the under dog is proverbial. Through this system we have built up a prosperity greater and more general than anything the world has ever known. Our In Europe the masses have always been exploited for the benefit of the few. It has been the accepted theory that the way to improve the race is to work from the top stratum upward. In America our theory has been different. Starting out with new ideals of government, we have constantly sought to better the condition of all the people and especially of the less fortunate ones. American sympathy for the under dog is proverbial. Through this system we have built up a prosperity greater and more general than anything the world has ever known. Our so-called working class—although class distinctions are ill defined in America and the worker is often a capitalist—live in a way which would have been envied by the rich of every land a few generations ago. Many of them ride to work in automobiles, and these are not all mass-produced flivers either. They are sending their children to school to give them an opportunity to do even better in the world, and their families are well nourished, well clad and generally as happy as the rest of our citizens. But we do not concede that this system has robbed our people of their personality. In fact we believe that one way to develop individual talent is to educate, to pay better than a mere living wage, and to permit all of our people to have a little leisure to expand and develop naturally. Perhaps Europe has developed some personality in the aristocracy which we do not possess, since we have no aristocracy to develop personality in. But outside of that we contend that the individuality is all in favor of America. It is true that most of our homes and our buildings are comparatively new, but the ones which are going up now show plenty of individuality, and our critic could have ascertained as much had he visited any modern suburb in any American city. Nothing so cramps personality and individual effort as semistarvation and a hopeless prospect for the future. If these qualities are to be found anywhere, they are certainly in Europe and not in America. This is not said in a boasting way. We all hope that Europe will improve, but in order to improve she will have to adopt American standards and give the fellow underneath a chance to develop a little personality by feeding and housing him better and giving him a chance to develop as nature intended that he should. COMPETITIVE TARIFF THESE tariff reformers who, like Senator Dill of Washington, plead for a "competitive tariff" apparently overlook the fact that the present tariff is properly competitive, for its duties are designed to equal the cost of production at home and abroad, not to exclude foreign goods. Customs revenue exceeding $600,000,-000 a year—a total without precedent in American history—proves that the present tariff does admit large quantities of imports and is, therefore, absolutely competitive. We need no revision downward. Here and there we need revision upward to avoid destruction of certain basic Yankee industries. Among the commodities which the present tariff admits free of duty are lumber and farm implements, of interest to farmers who use both commodities—and to lumbermen who produce one of them. When the present tariff was adopted in 1922, fluctuation in the value of certain European currencies was such as to render extremely difficult the adjustment of duties to cost of production abroad. For that reason, the schedules were made flexible—subject to adjustment. As Europe's money standards have become more stable, the cost of production overseas has fallen, an import of certain commodities to this country. OUR WORLD TRADE ONE of the most touching instances of modern economic diplomacy can be found in the earnestness with which European economists are now warning us that if we do not mend our ways so far as the tariff is concerned, and lower our rates, the time is soon coming when we will have no foreign trade at all. Of course any situation in which Uncle Sam would be stripped of all his foreign trade would be greeted by his European competitors with sincere lamentations. These same European nations are now competing with us for the trade of the world. They know that if our trade falls off, theirs will gain accordingly. What a beautiful example therefore of international unselfishness! It is in fact so beautiful that we are at once suspicious that there may be an Ethiopian lingering near the wood-pile. There is of course a reason. What Europe covets is the American market. She knows it is worth more than most of the other world market put together. If she could get it she could afford to give up a great deal of the rest of the world trade. But she knows also that this sacrifice would not be necessary. Once the European nations have penetrated our tariff barrier and captured the American market, the American manufacturer will be helpless. His mills will close and, bereft of the great home market which keeps him going now, he will lose out both at home and abroad. ANAHEIM GAZETTE And That’s That By Albert T. Reid I’LL BE THE CAPTIN, ANWHERE YOU GOIN’? AW RIGHT,- THEN YOU CAN BE CAPTAIN. SECTIONALISM PASSING The automobile has been charged with many things, most of which probably are not true, but at any event there is something to be added to the credit side of the ledger. Figures prepared by government statisticians show that during the past fifteen years 600-900 miles of highway have been built in the United States and another million miles have been made more servable. There are still a great many small communities in certain parts of the country which are not on railroad lines, but these are now being connected up more closely with the outside world through the medium of motor transport lines. It is now possible to travel from Maine to California and from Oregon to Florida by motor without any discomfort because of impassable roads. And the highways are being constantly improved. Now of course all of this is costing money and the automobiles which skim over these roads are costing money. But aside from the economic benefit, which is by no means small, the roads are worth the entire cost because of the effect they are having on the unity of the country. Northerners are motoring south and southerners are motoring to New England. The western tours in the East and the eastern drives through the West in his more or less trusty car. The man from one section is finding that the people in another section are a great deal like the folks at home after all. He is beginning to appreciate the magnitude and the many advantages of his country, and to see that after all, north and south, east and west we are an homogeneous people. As one motor expert recently put it: "The political effects of motor transportation are startlingly evident. If we could have visualized the United States in possession of motor transportation in 1861, can any one doubt that there would have been no Civil war? Such a political consequence, we can readily understand, would have been impossible if our people had had the facilities of travel, of business and the social and educational advantages we now enjoy through motor transportation." Perhaps some people are driving automobiles who ought to be farming, or going to school or attending business. But this does not lessen to any extent the value of good roads and motor transportation to the country. We have always had the shiftless with us and always will have. And if these persons who cannot afford to spend so much time motoring, had no motoring facilities they would probably be fishing or doing something worse to kill time. At any rate, good roads and gasoline are rapidly making us one national nation. The day of sectionalism is passing. May its departure be speeded. HAVEN OF RADICALS Loading up several ships with malcontents and radical extremists, the president of Chile sent them to an island in the Pacific with his good wishes and his hopes that they might work out a civilization to their own liking. Out there they can throw bombs, they can engage in any violence or do any of the stunts which they were carrying on in Chile. If they object to established institutions in their own island bailwick, it will be their right to bomb them. Whatever is wrong in the conduct of affairs, they can denounce with torch and blasting powder. Being of like minds, they can apply their philosophy of violence without challenge from those who believe in governments, laws and established authority. It is their island, and there will be no capitalistic hand to wrong them or oppose them or humiliate them. If they believe in the torch and the infernal machine and violence, why should they not on their own island domain pursue liberty as they see it, and shoot up the town or blow up the banks or burn up all the temples of authority? If with them the bomb is preferable as an instrument of freedom to the ballot box, it will be theirs, if they so will, to bomb the ballot boxes. If a written constitution is the coection of capitalism, they can spurn it or blow it into fragments and perdition with injury to no emissary of the capitalistic class. Out there in the Pacific, where the ocean surf sings the song of liberty on their own island, they can carry out their inalienable rights and every man be vouchsafed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, as he sees them. LOSSES BECOME GAINS Only a few years ago, California citrus growers were compelled to dump their cull fruit and pay a dumping charge ranging from $1.25 to $2 per ton. Now exchange growers realize a return from every ton of culls, and save the dumping charge. The successful development of the Exxchange Orange Products Company, and the Exchange Lemon Products Company, is solving the irritating problems of cull citrus fruit. From unmerchantable oranges are made concentrated orange juice, orange oil, and dairy feed. From cull lemons come citric acid, citrate of lime, lemon oil and citrus pectin. And the withdrawal of this lower grade fruit from the fresh fruit market is of far-reaching importance in preventing losses and in maintaining the quality of California fruit. Years of research were required to determine the correct processes for the salvaging of this fruit. But these experiments have already been the means of saving exchange members hundreds of thousands of dollars. Growers joining the exchange now profit fully from this past experimental work. They will realize a return from their culls in the future. The distributing channels of the exchange are increasing the outlets and the demand for these by-products every season. In developing by-products, as in other departments of its work, the California Fruit Growers' Exchange renders a service to citrus growers that goes far beyond that of any other citrus marketing organization. THAT'S A VERY UNHAPPY EXPRESSION ON YOUR FACE! YESSIR, I AINT HAPPY I HAD TROUBLE AT HOME! I WOULDN'T TAKE MEDICINE UNLESS MY MAW WOULD LET ME JUST GARGLE IT! AWK! IT SLIPPED! GOOD NIGHT A SID OF wife, case, know passed OBSERVATIONS BURIAL GROUND BEAUTIFIED WITH a high degree of satisfaction and commendable pride, people here view with pleasure the renovation and transformation now being enacted at the burial place set apart in the holdings of the Anaheim Cemetery Association east of town. This has been brought about through the community plan adopted by the people comprising this district. The board of directors are men who have taken charge of this work with a determination to make this burial ground a place that can be pointed to as being worthy of any well regulated and firmly established community. Where permission has been secured from relatives and heirs, the old fences and curbs around the graves have been removed, and the ground has been set to lawns that are pleasing to the eye. Cement blocks containing names are imbedded under the surfaces at each corner lot beneath the green sward, and these correspond with a recharted map kept on file. Where expensive monuments and gratings have been erected, these are to remain. Winding roadways are laid out, making ingress and outgo more accessible. At the entrance of the cemetery a considerable area has already been cleared and remodeled, and the work of improvement will be carried on as fast as the limited amount of funds will permit. The greater part of the first year's assessment has been used to furnish water for irrigation. A 400-foot well gives ample supply of water, which is raised by modern automatic pumping machinery. This has cost several thousand dollars. The other available money has been used in beautifying the premises as far as possible. This work is being carried on systematically, and will be extended from time to time as far as practicable. Within a few years the entire plat of 14 acres will have been renovated. Especial mention should be made of Messrs. J. J. Dwyer, William Wallop, and L. E. Miller, enterprising citizens, for their interest in this work, who compose the board of directors of the association; and they have installed Charles Fay as superintendent of the reconstruction work, and it is needless to say that Mr. Fay is a capable and conscientious manager. ATTENTION, CITRUS FRUIT GROWERS ATTENTION, CITRUS FRUIT GROWERS ORANGE raisers of this section should bear in mind that the new citrus standardization laws enacted by the last legislature require that oranges show eight parts of solids to one of acids before picking. Oranges which do not show these standards, it is announced, cannot be accelerated in color and neither can they be exported. It is also said grapefruit is covered by the standardization law and cannot be picked until the maturity standard has reached a ratio of five to one. In the past, shipments of citrus fruits were permitted after November 1, regardless of whether the fruit showed the proper degree of maturity. Marketing experts hold this practice did the citrus industry more harm than good, and they now believe properly matured fruit will have a better average sale than fruit picked before it has reached the proper quality in an effort to take advantage of the early season prices. LATCH-STRING HANGS OUT THE progressive town of Placentia has just finished the construction of sixteen miles of paved highways, costing $400,000. This is said to be the largest compact network of thoroughfares in the state, and is known as a road district project. BEWARE OF THE BUNKO MAN IT IS really amazing to learn of the amount of money that is annually lost by people who get fleeced by the get-rich-quick artists. People generally are too easy with their cash, and fall for any old fake story that is unfolded to them that would lead them to wealth. There are many smooth swindlers abroad, and the guillible public should always be on their guard; and if they are so dumb as to believe these weird stories, they ought to have guardians appointed to transact their business. AT LAST THE WORM HAS TURNED ADIVORCED wife has been cited into court to show cause why she should not be fined for contempt of court for failing to pay her husband the alimony the court ordered her so to do. The old man needs the money to pay the rent. DRAWING THE SPOTLIGHT A GOOD way to get your picture in the paper is to get aboard an airship, hop off for some place, be forced down in the desert, then let carrier pigeons loose, be rescued and returned to the loving embraces of the dear folks at home. TAKING THE BULL BY THE HORNS WESTERN livestock raisers have registered a kick against the way they are treated by the packers and their financial backers. The raisers want the government to help them to keep their cattle on the ranges and compel the packers to come to them and buy them. A spokesman who knows says their trouble lies GOOD way to get your picture in the paper is to get aboard an airship, hop off for some place, be forced down in the desert, then let carrier pigeons loose, be rescued and returned to the loving embraces of the dear folks at home. TAKING THE BULL BY THE HORNS WESTERN livestock raisers have registered a kick against the way they are treated by the packers and their financial backers. The raisers want the government to help them to keep their cattle on the ranges and compel the packers to come to them and buy them. A spokesman who knows says their trouble lies in the fact that cattlemen were compelled to ship their livestock to Omaha and Chicago, where "we must take any price the packers will give." He added that feed and freight bills charged against them "will eat us a carload of cattle in a week," and that they cannot afford to ship them back home to await a better price. "There seems to be no competition among packers. They pay us about the same price. Often the difference in price between when shipment begins at home and ends at Omaha, or Chicago is so great a drop that our profits are wiped out. A fat cow that we can sell to the butcher at home for $63.50 brings about $30 in the Omaha market, and out of that must come the freight. The hide we sell for $1 is tanned by the packers and sold back to our local saddleries for about $28." NEW LITTLE RED APPLE RELIEVES RUSH SCIENTISTS have discovered that they can produce a new apple that will ripen in June, getting on the market much earlier than any now produced. It has been suggested that the new brand be called the Volstead variety. NEVER HAD ANY EXPERIENCE A SINGLE man who had been drawn as a juror to try the case of a married man who was charged with battery upon his wife, told the judge he didn't think he was qualified to try the case, reiterating that the had never been married, and didn't know how those domestic matters were handled. But he was passed, being declared just the kind of juror wanted. During the President's vacation 2,117,205 words were telegraphed from Rapid City and Yellowstone park. And of all that number the man in the street remembers Just six: "I do not choose to run." One hundred giant redwood trees have been presented by the state of California to the government of Belgium. All of which is very fine, but are wondering whether Belgium will have room for them.