anaheim-gazette 1927-12-08

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 Annheim, California, Post Office as second class matter. WATCH FOR THE ANTICS Now that Congress has convened again, the efforts of the internationalist propagandists will be quickened. It will be interesting to note just what line they will pursue in playing their game, which now seems to be "Europe uber alles," the "alles" of course in this respect being represented by the United States. Two questions which bid fair to become prominent in this session of Congress are the merchant marine issue and the cruiser issue. On both of these subjects the internationalists and the internationalist press will be found lined up against the sound American view. They will of course disguise their efforts carefully in order to give their propaganda a sugar coating, but these efforts will be anti-American and pro-European just the same. For instance: they will not come out openly against an American merchant marine because this would be obviously unpatriotic and would do their European brethren more harm than good. But they can be expected to raise the cry that "special interests are trying to milk the taxpayers" by getting some kind of governmental aid for the merchant marine. They know full well that without some sort of aid and without the American marine having, through wise legislation, an equal chance it cannot compete with European shipping and will languish and die. So they will stand for an American marine, providing through their kindly efforts they can assist it in starving to death. So the internationalists can be counted on to oppose any legislation to help our merchant marine and to put it on an equal operating footing with the shipping of other countries. When the question of more cruisers for the American man comes up, they can be counted on to try blocking tactics. They will raise the cry that Uncle Sam is imperilling the peace of the world by building new cruisers and will seize every opportunity they can to try to make it appear that Europe is anxious to his arm and that Uncle Sam is holding up the program. In this effort they can count on the support of their European brethren. not compete with European shipping and will languish and die. So they will stand for an American marine, providing through their kindly efforts they can assist it in starving to death. The internationalists can be counted on to oppose any legislation to help our merchant marine and to put it on an equal operating footing with the shipping of other countries. When the question of more cruisers for the American navy comes up, they can be counted on to try blocking tactics. They will raise the cry that Uncle Sam is imperilling the peace of the world by building new cruisers and will seize every opportunity they can to try to make it appear that Europe is anxious to arm and that Uncle Sam is holding up the program. In this effort they can count on the support of their European brethren who will make all sorts of bluffs toward disarmament without actually doing anything, in the belief that with the aid of the allies in America they can put the American navy in an inferior position. We have already had some effort along this line by distinguished European statesmen during the past few weeks. If the real American statesmen of both parties are alive, these sniping efforts will come to naught. The public can help by supporting the American side. And in the meantime the public can have a lot of fun by watching the camouflaged antics of the internationalist press and its followers. But it is to be hoped that the public will not permit itself to be fooled by the sugar coating. THEY WOULD STILL COMPLAIN THOSE who rave about "American imperialism" in the area between the Rio Grande and the Isthmus of Panama and in particular object to intervention in Nicaraguan affairs, contend in substance that the rerions and their people ought to be allowed to go to the devil in their own way and create disorder and anarchy and wallow in blood to their heart's content without interference, as far as we are concerned. If the United States should adopt that course, eventually some European government, probably the British government, would intervene for the protection of its nationals and in the interest of civilization. In which case those who are now spending their days and nights criticizing and cursing the policy of Washington would with one accord attack the government for permitting the interference and for allowing the condition that had caused it. A NEWSPAPER POLL FROM now on we will begin to hear in increasing number of polls taken to catch the drift of sentiment for the 1928 campaign. One of the most interesting conducted to date was the one recently completed by the National Republic magazine. In this poll the magazine sought to learn from Republican newspaper editors and Republican leaders, the sentiment existing in their respective communities on both the Republican and Democratic nominees. The idea was a sound one, as perhaps no class of men are better acquainted with sentiment in their communities than the newspaper editors and owners. Inquiries were addressed to 5,800 editors of Republican papers, of whom more than one-third replied, and to 3,600 members of state committees, of whom about one-fourth replied. The inquiries were made on the assumption that President Coolidge would not be a candidate to succeed himself. The result of the poll as just announced is interesting. It showed that Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, is leading in sentiment in the Republican ranks, with former Governor Lowden, of Illinois, second, followed by Hughes and Dawes. In the Democratic camp the poll indicated, according to these The idea was a sound one, as perhaps no class of men are better acquainted with sentiment in their communities than the newspaper editors and owners. Inquiries were addressed to 5,800 editors of Republican papers, of whom more than one-third replied, and to 3,600 members of state committees, of whom about one-fourth replied. The inquiries were made on the assumption that President Coolidge would not be a candidate to succeed himself. The result of the poll as just announced is interesting. It showed that Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, is leading in sentiment in the Republican ranks, with former Governor Lowden, of Illinois, second, followed by Hughes and Dawes. In the Democratic camp the poll indicated, according to these Republican editors and leaders, that Governor Al Smith of New York has virtually a walk-away for the nomination. SMALL-TOWN STUFF THE importance of instilling in the child's mind a spirit of loyalty to his own home town, no matter how small it may be, was stressed by Dr. Edward A. Steiner of Grinnel College, when he spoke recently to the Northwest Iowa Teachers' Association at Sioux City. We are glad to see somebody swinging a cudgel in defense of the small town. It is high time. The sneers of the vaudevillians, the jokesmiths on the humorous periodicals, the Menckens and Nathans and Sinclair Lewises, the wisecrackers generally, have all, of late years, had a tendency to make the professional smart alecks and urban youngster a little ashamed of his home town. If he believes all he hears and reads, he is likely to reach maturity with a sneaking idea that there is something shameful about being born and reared in a community where citizens go to bed of nights and church on Sunday. So when he travels from Gopher Prairie, Minn., to Chicago, he is tempted to register as from Minneapolis; and when he goes on to New York, he is tempted to discard Minneapolis and say he is from Chicago. When, and if he reaches Europe, he is from New York. But why? Why not from Gopher Prairie, and proud of it, wherever he goes? What is there to be ashamed of in "small town stuff?" Small town stuff! The stuff of nearly all our Presidents, nearly all our senators and supreme court justices, nearly all of our important writers and painters and sculptors and musicians, present and past. The stuff of nearly every big name in New York or Chicago today. So why not be proud, rather than embarrassed by the fact of small-town birth or rearing? ANAHEIM GAZETTE The Ghoul — By Albert T. Rei "President Coolidge—"Stop! You shall not rob the dead." THE REAL ISSUE The real issue in politics the world over is that of the rights of the individual as against the power of the state. If, at one time, the doctrine of laissez faire (let alone) was extremely applied, today the doctrine of the do-it-all state is even more menacing to human rights and human welfare. The most dangerous of all our special interests today, and the most powerful, is the highly organized political interest. This interest seeks to sweep society into the maw of an all-devouring state, which is to be the task-master of humanity. At the root of this demand is the same greed for domination on the part of those who envision themselves as the masters of this state, that is responsible for all the wrongs committed by the ambitious and the greedy under the existing economic system. In the case of Russia and of Italy we see to what lengths such tyranny inevitably carries itself. It results in the complete suppression of liberty, the destruction of initiative, of all that makes social progress possible. From the vote-getting standpoint we have no very formidable socialist party in the United States. But we have many socialists masquerading under old party names, industriously seeking the destruction of private and the lengthening of public payrolls, demanding government ownership in the face of that record of failure this system has scored when tried in the United States and elsewhere. Power in private hands in a government of public opinion is subject to the restraints that public opinion may put upon it. But when such power is concentrated in governmental agencies, when it is increased to such an extent that the office holding interest dominates the situation, it cannot be called to accountability, because it is, in effect, the government itself. During this session of congress socialist demands will be loudly sounded. Speeches and proceedings calculated to advance the cause of government own-orship will develop. There will be the usual socialist outcry against American "imperialism"—which means the national defense of the rights and property of Americans abroad, the usual demand for abandonment of the Philippine islands, as much territory of the United States as the old Louisiana purchase, the usual buttery against American business enterprise by demagogues who, with all their professed courage, have not that bravery which would cause them to run up the political banner to which they actually yield allegiance. There will be the usual socialist demand to disarm the United States. To render the United States helpless, to dismember its territory, to paralyze its prosperity—all this is a part of the socialist agenda. It is well that the American people should realize the underlying significance of this campaign. It aims at the politicalization of industry, the hamstringing of the nation, the advancement of the Marxian conception of the citizen as a slave of the state, the establishment of the tyranny of political power. It is high time that thoughtful Americans should begin more active resistance to the attacks of political leaders entirely out of sympathy with the American form and spirit of government, and with that system of individualism which alone has been responsible for the growth of this republic to its present wealth, power and diffused prosperity. TRUCE WITH THE BEAR Nearly thirty years ago, a young English poet created a sensation throughout the world by a series of prophetic poems affecting the political affairs of the world, particularly those of the British empire. One was "The Recessional," and another, "The White Man's Burden." In the former he stressed the danger to England's future if she should place all of her trust in "Recking tube and iron-shard." In the other he questioned the policy of extension of the "White man's" civiliza-tion into the countries of the black man, referring to America's new island holding and the responsibilities thus entailed of attempting to protect, govern and civilize them. There was another poem about "The Truce of the Bear," also written by Rudyard Kipling, in which he questioned the good faith of Russia, at that time urging world disarmament agreements at The Hague peace conferences. Kipling, in his poem, voiced the international suspicions of the day, directed against Russia and told the story of "Adamzad, the bear that walks like a man," and in this poem presumed to be Russia, which after inducing a hunter to disarm himself, because of the bear's apparent pitiable condition, arose and smote his unprotected victim to earth. Kipling questioned the sincerity of Russia's disarmament proposals and intimated that the suggestion was made for the purpose of getting the rest of the nations in a helpless condition, after which the bear would rise in all his might and smite them. And now comes Soviet Russia, again proposing world disarmament to The League of Nations, and it is received by England and some of the powers in the same spirit of skepticism as was the proposal of nearly thirty years ago, made by an Imperial Russia. OPPRESSIVE TAXATION California is one of the few states that collect a huge inheritance tax from the estates left, not only by man of wealth, but also by those who leave small estates. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon has recommended that the federal estate tax be abolished. The federal government tax is 20 per cent on large estates, and of this the state of California collects 80 per cent. Incomes are heavily taxed yearly, and it would be on that an estate tax in top or all other state and federal taxes now being levied is an unnecessarily oppressive burden playing to the galleries. During this session of congress socialist demands will be loudly sounded. Speeches and proceedings calculated to advance the cause of government ownment. It is publican memd. The coolidge spirit of may be, when association defense vaudenckens generally, professional home to reach ameful cens go chicago, ne goes and say s from of it, "small identents, all of musicians, in New the fact I CAN'T MAKE HEAD NOR TAIL OUT OF IT! GEND FOR AN INTERPRETER SKOW-W-CH SKOW-W-CH GLAMFFGK SKPUGFF DO YOU GET IT? GLAMFFGK SKPUGFF WAMMMK? HE SEZ, KETCH THE CAT AN' TAKE THE PINS OUT OF ITS FEET THEN GO BA AN' FI OBSERVATIONS NO DANGER OF EXPLOSION SOME people in sections where gas tanks are located have become unduly alarmed since that catastrophy in Pittsburgh. An expert, employed by the Los Angeles Gas and Electric Company, gives the following sensible and illustrative description of gas holders and their operation. Read this and be calm: "Everyone has seen what happens when gas direct from an ordinary gas pipe is burned without the use of an air mixer, as in the pilot-light of a heater. A yellow flame is produced, but there is no explosion. A similar yellow flame is produced at the burner of a gas range when there is not sufficient air admitted at the mixer. But if the mixer is adjusted to increase the proportion of air for best combustion the familiar and desirable blue flame results. Even that mixture of gas and air will not explode. If, however, the proportion of air is still further increased, the flame may pop back and burn with a yellow blaze in the mixer. This popping back through the burner to the mixer is a small and harmless explosion. “If a hole were drilled through the side of a full gas holder and a match applied to the outrushing stream of gas, there would be yellow flame where the gas came in contact with sufficient air to support combustion, but there would be no explosion, and no harm would result except the waste of gas through the hole. In the case of the Pittsburgh explosion, it appears that workmen were repairing the holder. To do this it is customary first to empty the holder of gas and fill it with air. Probably a leaky valve permitted a small percentage of gas to enter the holder and form an explosive mixture with the air, after which a workman with a blow torch ignited the fatal charge. A holder full of ordinary fuel gas has never exploded, and could not explode.” DOES NOT YELL FOR THE DINNER BELL A HUSBAND in a waterfront city, when he sued for divorce, told the judge that he had once dreamed that married life was just one long banquet. While he was courting his sweetie, whom he later led to the altar, he said she always regaled him with sumptuous meals that really were fit for a king. He was, gastronomically speaking, carried off his feet by the good eats. And so they married. But after the honeymoon was over, he DOES NOT YELL FOR THE DINNER BELL HUSBAND in a waterfront city, when he sued for divorce, told the judge that he had once dreamed that married life was just one long banquet. While he was courting his sweetie, whom he later led to the altar, he said she always regaled him with sumptuous meals that really were fit for a king. He was, gastronomically speaking, carried off his feet by the good eats. And so they married. But after the honeymoon was over, he discovered that all those tempting dishes had been prepared by his sister-in-law, and that friend wife could not even boil water. So the obliging judge told him to go buy his wife a good cook book, give her his pay envelope, and start all over again. MAY NOT BE ABSENT VERY LONG Two bankers, who were convicted of embezzlement, were sentenced by the trial judge to serve one to ten years, on about thirty counts charged up against them, the sentences to run "concurrently;" that is, all to run together. For instance, if the prison board fixes a maximum term of ten years, the men will serve ten years. But should the board give the minimum sentence, the convicted bankers would serve only one year. Had the sentence been ordered to run "consecutively"—if the prison board fixed the term at ten years for each count—these men would spend 300 years in jail. A PREMONITION THAT is a strange case reported from a town in Maryland wherein a 38-year-old negress announced a vision picturing her death and burial. On a Thursday, apparently in good health, she made arrangements for death, and on Saturday morning revealed to her husband that she had money hidden away in a trunk for funeral expenses. She died that afternoon. It is said that negroes of that town had regained their composure after three days of terror while the body of the woman awaited burial. FAITH NEGRO prize fighter, and a good one from a fistic point of view, who, once before entering the fight game, had been a minister, went on an operating table there awhile ago, for a minor operation to remove an affection above the right eye, and died without regaining consciousness. Just before an anesthetic was applied, the negro repeated his childhood prayer, "If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." OUI, OUI SPEAKING of the modern juvenile delinquency, whatever that is, a minister of the gospel away over in an eastern state, says he believes too many mothers are wearing out slippers on the dance floors rather than in the old-fashioned way of spanking their offspring. The preacher also says he is not worried half as much about the 16-year-old flapper as he is about the 60-year variety. EDDIE, BRING THE BLINKERS AWAY over in Chicago they are arranging for an arts ball, and it is said one of the high light features will be the impersonation of a renowned lady, riding a white papier mache horse; the fair rider to be golden-haired and covered with talcum powder. But particulars are lacking. Anyhow, out Texas way, a famous EDDIE, BRING THE BLINKERS AWAY over in Chicago they are arranging for an arts ball, and it is said one of the high light features will be the impersonation of a renowned lady, riding a white papier mache horse; the fair rider to be golden-haired and covered with talcum powder. But particulars are lacking. Anyhow, out Texas way, a famous cowgirl says she would cast her bonnet in the ring as one of the contestants—but she says she would not appear before nobody, nowhere, without anyhow some tights. DO NOT CHOOSE TO LET OUT THE HEM DESpite the rumor in certain quarters that just a shapely ankle is far prettier than the whole limb, many of them appear as they were. LOOKED UP THE LOOPHOLE A CLERK in a store, who had been accused of "knocking down" some of the cash sales, and who was charged with embezzlement, was acquitted the other day, when his keen attorney showed that "embezzlement consists of appropriating money that has first lawfully come into the possession of the embezzler from the owner." It seems the missing money was just I. O. U.'s, or tips, or something. THINGS ARE LOOKING BRIGHTER AN INVESTMENT banker of the East, who is in this state to attend the diamond jubilee commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of a fraternal organization, says the climate of this Southland is great, and he has also found that business conditions are extremely good. THE .GOLDEN HARVEST ANAHEIM is known as the home of the Valencia orange. Of course, other varieties are also grown here. According to the report of the general manager of the Fruit Growers' Exchange, the returns for the season in Southern California were, in round numbers $120,000,000 from a volume of 70,000 carloads of citrus fruit, or nearly $22,000,000 in excess of last year's high record.