anaheim-gazette 1927-11-10

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 "IMPERIALISM" IT IS quite proper that our attention is being called with greater frequency than formerly to the importance of American business relations with the nations of Latin-America. Our trade with our neighbors to the south is constantly becoming greater. And it is a noteworthy fact that this trade is more important even to the Latin-Americans than it is to us. According to Dr. Julius Klein, director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Department of Commerce, the people of the United States purchased from the Latin-American countries in 1926 goods valued at the sum of $703,000,000, including bananas, cacao, sugar, coffee, cabinet woods and products of a similar nature. At the same time and during the same year the Latin Americans bought from the United States goods valued in the sum of $603,000,000. The trade balance in favor of the Latin Americans was therefore something like $127,000,000, and there can be added to this the large sums spent by American tourists in South America. Now before many years the foreign trade between the United States and Latin-America will be reckoned in the billions, for it is steadily growing. This trade growth means an additional outlet for our goods, and it means to the people of Latin-America more money, greater prosperity and higher standards of living. Natural conditions for trade between the United States and Latin-America are ideal. With few exceptions our Latin brethren produce the things which because of climate and soil we cannot produce for ourselves and we send them a variety of products which do not come into competition with Latin-American industries. In order to develop this trade it has of course been necessary that Latin-Americans seek some foreign capital, and they have received much of this aid from the United States. American capital has gone into the southern countries therefore to de- steadily growing. This trade growth means an additional outlet for our goods, and it means to the people of Latin-America more money, greater prosperity and higher standards of living. Natural conditions for trade between the United States and Latin-America are ideal. With few exceptions our Latin brethren produce the things which because of climate and soil we cannot produce for ourselves and we send them a variety of products which do not come into competition with Latin-American industries. In order to develop this trade it has of course been necessary that Latin-Americans seek some foreign capital, and they have received much of this aid from the United States. American capital has gone into the southern countries therefore to secure them economically, afford employment and better living conditions for their people. Here, if ever, is depicted a mutually helpful economic set-up—an almost ideal group arrangement, strong and stabilized, promising benefit and prosperity for all concerned. Yet it is this arrangement which the anti-American propagandists, with their silly notions of "Yankee imperialism," would like to smash. Unfortunately, some of this propaganda comes from American sources. Some of it is communistic, directed against us because we are the most prosperous "capitalistic" nation in the world, and some of it comes from European sources which desire to destroy friendly relations between North America and South America for purely selfish commercial purposes. It is up to American enterprise to see that these unworthy schemes are branded with total failure. WEST IS AROUSED One of the most encouraging signs for the American merchant marine lies in the fact that the people of the Middle West are coming to realize the importance of this branch of our national economic equipment. The people of this part of the country are becoming aroused and a meeting of the friends of the merchant marine is to be held in St. Louis, November 15 and 16 to formulate an expression to Congress on this all important subject. In speaking of the meeting and of the importance of the marine to the growers of the Middle West, Malcom Stewart of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce recently said: "It is tremendously important to the financial welfare of the whole mid-continent region as well as to the Gulf and South Atlantic states that nothing be done to hamper the protection of our merchant marine at this time. We must fight in order to protect our trade routes for the crops of 1927-1928, as we did in 1926-1927, else the producers and exporters will not have enough ships to move their goods to market. There is no method of estimating the financial loss and stagnation to business throughout the country which would have resulted last season if the Shipping Board had not been able to step in and provide American vessels to move products to world markets. Last year the Shipping Board handled 29 per cent of the exported grain, 46 per cent of the flour, 47 per cent of the cotton, 43 per cent of the tobacco, and 12 per cent of the apples exported from the United States, and furnished 397 vessels to move American products when the British ships were taken from service because of the great coal strike in England and Wales. In the years during the war it is estimated that the farmers and manufacturers of this country lost more than a billion dollars on account of not being able to deliver their goods to overseas markets. There is no telling when a trade or industrial crisis may come and the producers and manufacturers of this country, particularly of the Middle West and the Gulf and South Atlantic states, do not want to be left at the mercy of foreign carriers." The American people want the merchant marine, and it is now up to Congress to perfect a plan whereby the American shipping man can keep the Store and Strike fluing in every important COUNTRY'S HIGHEST STAKE PRESIDENT COOLIDGE chose a bold arena when, at Pittsburgh, he stood in the presence of some of the richest men in the world, among tokens of the highest material success, and told the assemblage that only a realization of their mutuality of interests can ensure lasting peace between labor and capital. Yet this doctrine is so fundamental, is so incorporated in the fiber of the American republic that never has it been challenged by Americans worthy of the name. Nor does the President submit this thought as a mere abstraction. "It is a fundamental principle of our institutions," he says, "that freedom, education and wealth are not to be reserved for the few, but are to be reached through equal opportunity, which is open to all. We have staked America upon the potential capacity of the average citizen." This simple statement, novel in form, but only a reassertion of the principle which has guided the United States to the greatest material triumphs of modern times, embodies the bedrock of the American creed, which the enemies of American institutions are trying to blast away. So long as America remains the land of opportunity, so long her institutions are safe. Applying it only to the relatively narrow field of capital and labor—for Mr. Coolidge was speaking of the beneficent uses of wealth—the President finds the principle justified. "Under a new realization of their mutuality of interest," he says, "an industrial peace has come which a short time since would have been thought impossible." This is the answer of American patriots to alien agitators. The voters of Maine voted to sustain the primary. But out of 200,000 possible voters there were about 35,000 votes for the primary and 19,000 against. Thus the vote on the primary again demonstrates the fallacy of the primary. This is an excellent example of minority rule. ANAHEIM GAZETTE Will Never Forget By Albert T. Reid CALIFORNIA'S FINANCES The net income of the citizens of California during the past year was the greatest in the history of the state, according to figures disclosed by the internal revenue bureau at Washington for income tax collections and other federal taxes during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927. Last year a total of $139,488,418.25 was collected in California in federal taxes an increase of $4,428,413.32 over the previous year's collections. Following are some of the highlights of the report: California ranking seventh in population of all the states, ranked third in issue of capital stock and bonds of indebtedness with the issuing of $1,543,-792,100 worth of such securities. California ranked fourth in amount of individual income taxes collected, the total being $51,400,718.84. This represents the per capita payment of $11.90. This state ranked fourth in taxes collected on admissions to places of amusement where admission of 75 cents or more is charged. Total of such taxes collected was $4,357,746.30. This means the people of California spent $13,577,163 for such theater tickets during the fiscal year. Other tickets sold probably totaled the same amount. Refunds to taxpayers in Southern California through the recommendation of Gate H. Welch, internal revenue collector, totaled $1,500,000. Abatements aggregated $4,118,000. California was fifth among the 48 states of the Union in the transfer of stock certificates. During the past year the residents of the state sold certificates of stock valued at $928,-330,500. This did not include the original issue. California ranked fifth in the manufacture of cigarettes. Although far from the great tobacco growing centers of the United States, 3,443,910,620 cigarettes were manufactured within the state during the past year. In the entire United States $2,985,586,782 cigarets were manufactured. California ranked sixth in the collection of income taxes, including both individual and corporation taxes, amounting to $112,308,807.92. PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT With an interest saving of about $42,000,000 annually, the American public debt was reduced $1,051,000,000 in the year ending November 1. Secretary Mellon's debt reduction program calls for retirement or refunding of securities amounting to $3,-797,723,000 in the next 18 months. The third Liberty loan, of which $2,147,000 is outstanding, matures in 1928, $757,502,000 of the second Liberty loan is to be retired November 15, and other issues come due December 15 and March 15. Present indications point to wiping all the Liberty bonds off the books before 1925. All of the Libertys are callable not later than 1933, and it is anticipated that an effort will be made to refund them into securities bearing lower interest as soon as possible. Liberty loans outstanding November 1 totaled $11,141,217,000. Officials predict that the public debt would be cut $1,000,000,000 in the year ending next June, provided congress does not exceed the $225,000,000 tax limitation fixed by Secretary Mellon. While the average income of persons "gainfully employed" in 1926 was $2010, the income on the basis of 1913 dollar values was only $1186, according to figures made public by the bureau of internal revenue. The bureau reveals that the 117,000-ooo persons in the United States had a total income of $90,000,000,ooo an increase of about $27,000,000,ooo since 1921. There is about $26,000,ooo,ooo deposited in savings accounts; these accounts gaining at an average of $1,675-ooo,ooo every year since 1919. NATIONAL DEFENSE FUND The attempts made at increasingly frequent intervals to create the impression that the President and the Republican administration are engaged in a joint conspiracy to hamstring appropriations for national defense deserve a little corrective treatment. For the sake of the record it would be just as well to set down the fact that in the last seven years the United States has spent three times as much on national defense as it did in the seven years prior to 1914, the first year of World War. These figures do not include the river and harbor work carried on by the war department, or payments for pensions, or payments for the post-war activities of the veterans' bureau. They cover only those items which might reasonably be construed as part of the national defense. It is well to keep this thought in mind when this winter under the political urge our Democratic friends begin to weep over the penuriousness of the administration appropriations for national defense. SYSTEM NEEDS REVISION Federal Judge Carpenter, of Chicago refused to naturalize a woman because she did not answer a hypothetical question according to his ideas. It is hoped that appeal of this case to the circuit court will have some influence in securing a revision of the ridiculous and senseless list of questions submitted as naturalization tests in most of our courts. It's a safe bet that not one in one thousand of our college graduates can answer them correctly off-hand. The result is that copies, surreptitiously secured, are printed, distributed, and answers prepared in advance. If new citizenship is based on cheating, what can be expected later on. The whole system is sadly in need of intelligent revision. California ranked fifth in the manufacture of cigarettes. Although far from the great tobacco growing centers of the United States, 3,443,910,620 cigarettes were manufactured within the state during the past year. In the entire increase of about $27,000,000,000 since 1921. There is about $26,000,000,000 deposited in savings accounts, these accounts gaining at an average of $1,675,-000,000 every year since 1919. IT SAYS TICK TOCK! IT SAYS TOCK TICK. SOMETHING? POP! MAKES A NOISE MORE LIKE TWO KIDS TALK-TALK, TALK-TALK OBSERVATIONS THE LURE OF HIDDEN WEALTH BACK in the '80s, an adventurous young man, who was a prospector—and a good one—lived nearby and made three or four good fortunes, but the money did not last. He would go out into Arizona, make a strike, come back to civilization and have a good time. The boys around town called him a real live wire. One time the miner came in with $80,000. He deposited the money in a bank, and every day he would draw out a $1000 and spend it freely. One of his pastimes would be to walk up to a bar and, throwing a hnadful of silver dollars across the mahogany, would call for a drink. Then he would take a cigar and leisurely light it with a burning ten-dollar bill. When his money was all gone, the wanderlust would seize him again and away he would go, shortly to return with another stake. This money would be spent in dissipation, the gambling table, and fast living. The old Club theatre, in Los Angeles, was a favorite hangout for the miner, and he had a lot of friends. The last heard or seen of him was years after he had been in retirement, when a friend encountered him astride a cayuse and, asking where he was going, the adventurous prospector replied he was going out into the desert regions to find another mine. But he never came back to his old haunts. Maybe he carried the pitcher to the well once too often. He was a good sport and what you call a square-shooter. THE LONE WOLF In a trial in an up the boulevard town, wherein eleven women and one man were jurors, when court recessed Saturday afternoon, the male juror ranged out and it was broadcast that he so far forgot himself as to fall by the wayside, and it is even said he was tipsy, or something like that, and landed in the calaboose. Now, whether his nerves became all unstrung during the hectic day of sensational evidence, or whatnot, is not known; or whether he was flabbergasted and felt like a lost sheep among his charming colleagues, is yet undetermined; but be that as it may, he perchance sought to drown his sorrow—or bolster up his courage, perhaps—but in any event, his foot slipped and a number of stitches had to be taken in several facial lacerations. While his vision may have been somewhat impaired, his sense of hearing was still in good working order Monday morning, and he was PLUM PUDDING WILL HAVE TRIMMINGS APIECE in the papers runs along something like this: The rum-runners gathered off the Southern California coast, preparatory to landing wet goods for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, had a "battle" the other day with the fleet of cutters mobilized to prevent the liquor from landing. The runners had a boat rated as being the fastest thing on the water, and after a chase and a number of shots, the boat escaped in a haze without being hit. SOMNAMBULISTIC SUMMARY THE champion ring man solemnly avers that he could have gotten up at that count of four, had he been so inclined. Now that opens up a wide range of comment. The picture in a pink sporting paper, showing that memorable flop, clearly depicted the champ's eyes as being closed during the early part of enumeration. It looked like the man was enjoying a siesta, or something; or, was he just resting with one eye open, playing possum, or whatnot, and yet again, would he have walked in his sleep after arising? Well, well, what a boy! TAKES TWO TO MAKE A BARGAIN THIS trial marriage bugaboo crops out quite often now, and some learned jurists believe the marriage with a five years' time limit would be the panacea to cure the matrimonial ills. Now with life as the limit, many couples stay spliced for from 30 days to a year and a half, more or less. What would be the ratio if the sentence was of a shorter duration. And again, if one wanted to quit at the end of five years, how about the other mate who wanted to carry on? Well, brother, what have you? TRY ANYTHING ONCE A HIGH municipal official in an up the road town has been arrested, together with a woman, charged with a violation of a moral city ordinance. The man says he was framed; but the officers who raided spoke their pieces and allow that the man's attire, when in the lady's room, was, according to modern fashion, what is called dishabille, to-wit B. V. D.'s. STAND UP, BOYS, AND TAKE YOUR MEDICINE Now that a senator has received a wordy flagellation from the Executive, because he insisted on saying that the President would be drafted, after his terse remark that he does not choose to run for president in 1928, some of the boys out here are wondering what is going to happen to a couple of newspapermen who have got a bet up on that issue. WHY DON'T YOU CO-OPERATE? STAND UP, BOYS, AND TAKE YOUR MEDICINE NOW that a senator has received a wordy flagellation from the Executive, because he insisted on saying that the President would be drafted, after his terse remark that he does not choose to run for president in 1928, some of the boys out here are wondering what is going to happen to a couple of newspapermen who have got a bet up on that issue. WHY DON'T YOU CO-OPERATE? SOME small growers of vegetable products complain that they do not receive a fair and just price for their commodities. But the price to the consumer remains always high, relatively speaking. The man who toils is a victim of circumstances. He is in the grasp of the man in the middle—too many men handle his products before they go on the market. MAKING THE HIGH DIVE A NEWSPAPER reporter, interviewing a man on a very important subject, when the latter began to ponder on a complex question, said: Before giving his answer, the man "started" out of the window, watching the raindrops. PLUCK A THISTLE AND PLANT A FLOWER CHARITY, as defined by Webster, is that disposition of the heart which inclines men to think favorably of their fellow-men and to do them good. It denotes love, benevolence and good will to the needy. It is liberality to the poor; charity is a generous institution. At this time of year men are inspired to extend affection to the poor and are liberal in their alms-giving, and organizations that perform those acts of mercy are popular. MOMENTOUS OCCASION THE rumored elopement of a young princess over the big pond is admitted, then denied; but the latest report is that the titled lady is busily engaged in feeding destitute soldiers and civilians, and there is no reasons to believe that diplomatic relations there and here will be broken off. MAKING THE GRADE WHERE those air-struck girls happened to be pretty, after they have had narrow escapes from death, things seem easy for them in the way of getting their pictures in the papers.