anaheim-gazette 1927-12-29

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE ESTABLISHED 1876 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. TAX REDUCTION BATTLE PRESIDENT COOLIDGE has the support of the country in his battle for a sane tax cut of $225,000,000 as against the $400,000,000 which the United States Chamber of Commerce suggested, and the $289,000,000 which the Democrats, Insurgents and a few Republicans of the House are trying to put over. The amount which the President has adopted was reached after careful study by himself, Secretary Mellon and General Lord, head of the budget bureau, and because of the fact that the country so far has not gone very wrong in following the President, the support which is being given him is natural and logical. This is not a battle on the part of the President for either prestige or aggrandizement, and having announced and reaffirmed his intention of retiring, no charge of political maneuvering can be brought against him. While it is true that the Chamber of Commerce in its very extraordinary original proclamation set up the curious argument that a deficit now and then was a good thing for the best of men, the theory of the strength of a nation being shown by its bankruptcy has not gained much of a hold upon the people. It is interesting to note that some of the most valiant supporters of the $400,000,000 tax cut scheme have up their sleeves plans for extraordinary spending of public money for local and national undertakings. If they are even successful in out-maneuvering the President and increasing the total of the tax cut, many of their pet projects will go out the window for lack of funds. This possible event cannot be viewed as a hardship as far as their local treasury looting schemes are concerned, but when their success means a serious curtailment of the money for the flood prevention program, the whole thing becomes vastly more serious. It will be well for the members of congress to ponder for a while on the old adage (as true today as when it was first uttered) that you cannot have your cake and eat it. ALIEN INFLUENCES AT A recent meeting of the English Speaking Union, Mr. J. Alfred Spender, former editor of the Westminster Gazette, who has been visiting in the United States very sensibly said: "America with its vast spaces, very thinly populated according to our European standard, will inevitably continue to draw upon Europe, though it may do so in a careful and regulated way. It may take from the Germans their science and industry and reject their militarism; it may take from the Irish their liveliness and imagination and add American ballast; it may get even from us British a little of our constitutionalism and orderly spirit, our tolerance and neighborliness, without taking our ancient and feudal ways. "But one thing it had better not do, and that is to encourage any of these races to transfer from the Old World to the new the unhappy feuds and quarrels which wrought so much misery in the countries from which they come. Help them at least to turn over a new leaf in that respect and teach them to live together in peace and concord." This is sound and sensible doctrine. It is even conceivable that Mr. Spender might have gone a little further. Our only danger is not that we will transfer the unhappy feuds and quarrels of the Old World to America through our immigrants. There is another, that we may through skilful effort inside the gates, but perhaps directed abroad, permit ourselves to come under an alien influence which will dictate subtly, but effectively, our national thought and our political relations with the rest of the world. We want this sort of "guiding influence" no more than we want the quarreis and feuds of the Old World. It is now being directed against our military and naval policy in an effort to decrease our preparedness, against our merchant marine in a veiled effort to discourage the American people in their newest maritime venture, and it will be directed in the future against any purely American movement which has for its purpose the promoting of American interests when such interests conflict with European purposes and European ideas of how we ought to conduct ourselves. Here is a danger on which Mr. Spender did not dwell, and it is one of which we would like to have his candid opinion. For, after all, the greatest peril to American institutions is not the ignorant immigrant who parades every time there is trouble in Europe, but the American with the international complex who thinks American patriotism is out of date and who draws inspiration from his political alma mater across the seas. THE WAY OF PEACE MANY earnest men and women, disappointed over the failure of the League of Nations as an instrument for world peace are still anxious that their country help in some way toward doing away with war as a means for settling international disputes. In response to this feeling many efforts will be made in the next session of congress to outline a policy for permanent THE WAY OF PEACE MANY earnest men and women, disappointed over the failure of the League of Nations as an instrument for world peace are still anxious that their country help in some way toward doing away with war as a means for settling international disputes. In response to this feeling many efforts will be made in the next session of congress to outline a policy for permanent peace. Before we make universal arbitration treaties we want to be sure that we are willing to arbitrate all possible disputes. Would we be willing to arbitrate our immigration laws with Italy or with Japan? Would we be willing to submit our tariff laws to arbitration? As to the "aggressor" nation, can we always be sure the nation that begins hostilities without waiting for arbitration is the aggressor? In the last war every nation engaged was able to convince its people that it was acting only in self-defense under the recognized code of international law. All the maneuvering even on the part of the aggressor nations, was to make them appear to be attacked. Suppose two nations were in a controversy over a vital interest. Suppose one should begin mobilizing while professing to wait for the slow process of arbitration. It is at least conceivable that the other might become convinced that its opponent intended war as soon as the army was ready, and that its only defense was to strike first. The aggressor might be the one that paid the greatest lip service to arbitration. Has the world yet reached a stage where it can undertake these alluring programs for universal peace? Is not the greatest service the United States can do to make sure it deals justly with other nations, and is ready to negotiate with them for the settlement of all differences which are proper subjects for arbitration. WARNS U. S. WORKERS The Communist Party Congress which has been sitting in Moscow has given over the conversion of our workmen and is fearsome that their own party workers who come here may be corrupted, and may be corrupted in their faith. That is why it has issued its warning to the party leaders to beware of America and American industrial tendencies. ANAHEIM GAZETTE Let's Hope For A Good Brood——By Albert T. Reid NOW, LISSEN, BIDDY, WERE EXPECTIN' YOU TO SET, NOT SIT. NAVY FLOOD CONTROL FARM RELIER MUSCAL SHADLS TAX PRODUCTION SHIPPING FEDERAL BANKING FOREIGN LOANS 70TH SESSION Albert T. Reid AUTOCASTER GUN ELEVATION It was decided in the last congress that the guns of the battleships Oklahoma and Nevada, two of the thirteen battleships now outranged by British dreadnaughts, could be elevated under the terms of the Washington disarmament treaty. The sum of $940,000 for elevating the guns was contained in the deficiency bill killed by the Senate filibuster. It was made plain at the recent Geneva naval conference that the United States is far below the parity with Great Britain which it was intended to enjoy under the 1922 treaty. It was made plain that Great Britain was in no mood to compromise and insisted on going about naval building in its own way. The United States came out of the Geneva conference bent upon a policy, officially determined and publicly sanctioned, of also going its own way, and of building a fleet to suit American needs, in so far as they are compatible with existing international agreements. Under that policy our cruiser strength is to be materially augmented. The same policy ought to be applied to gun elevation. There can be no talk of parity so long as our first line battleships are outranged by Britain's Congress has decided the matter once. It is to be hoped that the new congress will not bag down in sentiment, but will cut through diplomatic technicalities and settle the gun elevation question on a strictly reasonable basis. YOUR MERCHANT MARINE The American merchant marine is the only sure means that our shippers, whether they be exporters or importers, can rely upon for the transportation of their products across the seas. It is not necessary to refer back to the World war when our merchandise was piled high on the docks and side-tracked on the railways for miles back to prove this. Your merchant marine alone was responsible for the expeditious delivery of our surplus grain at reasonable freight rates during the recent coal strike in England. It is your merchant marine that enables you to bank on regular sailings over the essential trade routes, for if it did not exist, our foreign rivals would, as the good business men that they are, attend to their own business first and then fulfill our needs at whatever freight prices they choose to charge us. The United States Steel Corporation, Standard Oil, and many other of our large industrial corporations maintain their own fleets because they are then sure of uninterrupted deliveries of their products at reasonable rates. Is the welfare and prosperity of the entire nation of less importance than the dividends derived from the exportation of steel, oil and automobiles? Shipping legislation that will induce private capital to invest in American shipping is needed, but congress rarely acts upon necessity alone. There must be a demand and the most logical place for that demand to originate is from the manufacturers and shippers of American products. Economy and efficiency in mass production have been developed to a higher degree in this country than in any other. Are we to jeopardize our prosperity as well as our national security—the navy cannot operate without a merchant marine as an auxiliary in time of war—just because we are too indifferent to make sure that the country is provided with sea delivery wagons? While we have delayed action, great shipyards such as Cramps, Harland and Hollingsworth, Sparrows Point, Bath Iron Works and many others have ceased to build ships. Their highly specialized craftsmen are seeping into other trades. Something must be done very soon if we are to remain the master of our own business, because if we depend on our overseas competitors to handle our goods, they will dictate the terms. EUROPE HAD ITS CHANCE When the President issued the call for the disarmament conference at Geneva, he made a fine, sincere gesture worthy of the attention of the world. With resources sufficient and plenty to build the largest navy among the nations of the world, he deliberately offered to hold his hand out of respect to the nations on whom a competitive navy-building program would impose a great burden which their several taxpayers could but ill afford. The disarmament conference which he proposed was his hard-thinking New England move towards peace based on the simple fact that naval wars are impossible without guns and effective guns are impossible without ships. Our English cousins and Lord Rothermere, the British publicist, have now said within the week; that the British participants at that conference deliberately killed it on the theory that Uncle Sam was bluffing and would not make good. Under the circumstances, the United States is doing one thing it should do; it is proving that it acts as well as talks, which apparently is the only way our European friends can be duly impressed. When the British scoffed at the Geneva conference, the President then served notice that we would build a navy in keeping with the 5-5-3 program. The bill before congress now simply sustains this promise, and it will give this country no more ships than it is entitled to under existing treaty arrangements and no more than the major powers have. We were ready to disarm. Our plan was rejected. Under these conditions, the President has said that the powers that rejected our plan have no right to dictate the size of our naval armament. When taking ashes out of the ash pit, sprinkle them if possible before handling. A small watering pot kept near the furnace assists materially in keeping down dust. Pork and other meats to be canned are cooked first in the usual way for any given cut, and then processed under steam pressure. Directions for doing this are found in Farmers' Bulletin 1186-F. "Dork on the Farm." HEAR THIS MAW? WHERE'S THE SWITCH? EE-EE-EEK. YOU'D USE A SWITCH ON HIM? MY ERROR! MY MIND WAS ENGROSSED WITH RADIO JUST THEN! YA THOTCHA COULD TURN HIM OFF HUH, POP. OBSERVATIONS MUSIC SOOTHES SAVAGE BREAST, EH, WHAT? DOWN in Florida the policemen formed a band and gave concerts, no doubt at times for the edification of jailbirds. But now the grand jury has recommended that the band be disbanded, and the policemen put to work; and perhaps look for the lost chord. WHO SAYS ADVERTISING DOESN'T PAY? AN INTREPID explorer and hunter, who is desirous of finding a friend long lost in the African jungles, put a piece in the paper, asking for a "real man" to join his party of four searchers. Up to date he has received 15,000 answers to his advertisement. CLUTCHING AT STRAWS A WOMAN and her paramour, who have been convicted of murdering her husband, over in an eastern state, and who are doomed to die, now that the highest court has denied their appeal for a new trial, have turned their eyes longingly to the governor for intervention. They seem to have forgotten the life they snuffed out. Their repentance is too late. BACK TO THE FLOWERY KINGDOM FOUR Chinamen, ranging in age from 70 to 84 years, who have been toiling in the placer gold diggings in a mining town in Montana for the past sixty years, are now going back to China, where they intend to spend the rest of their lives in ease. They worked over ground that had been abandoned by white men as being unprofitable. They went into the northwestern mining camps in the early '60s, when the presence of the Chinese was no longer resented by the adventurous miners, because they thought the ground had been worked out. The Chinese daily clean up was small, and the finding of a gold nugget as big as a pea, it is said, caused great jubilation among them. The Chinamen say they are going to Canton to take a rest, after sixty years of toil, having saved up quite a small fortune, and are now on their way to their old home. BUT — YOU NEVER CAN TELL AN ATTORNEY appearing in a court, asking for leniency in BUT — YOU NEVER CAN TELL AN ATTORNEY appearing in a court, asking for leniency in behalf of a client, in an adjoining county town, charged with "possession," in summing up, said: "Probably thirty-five elaborately equipped saloons are operating day and night within a stone's throw of——." While the elbow is akimbo, and the foot rests on the rail, you may later land in limbo; then you'll begin to wail. THE REAL THING DISCIPLINE, and plenty of it, with something held over their heads (which they fear) are the only things to be used on hardened criminals in prison. This idea of "words of love" to be honeyed over them is what is called the applesauce. HOLD ON, BOYS, BACK UP! A HEADLINE in a paper reads, "Ginning Figures in Valley Given Out." But it relates to the separating of the seeds from cotton. ON AGAIN, GONE AGAIN A MOVIE actor, who is credited with having had about nine wives, besides the one he took under his wing about a year ago, is credited with the statement that the present noose is not going to slip—but, other reports about a separation prevail, notwithstanding, however and to-wit. THAT'S THRIFT AWELL-KNOWN Los Angeles attorney, the other day, was admitted to practice law before the supreme court of the United States. LEAPING LUNAR "This is the best moon I ever ran across," said a gent, once upon a time, as he was stepping high, wide and handsome. THEY'RE POOR SPORTS, ALGERNON IT SEEMS now, in sporting circles, whenever a close decision is given in a crucial stage of any game, a lot of fellows begin hollering about robbery, in the bag, sewed up, and such stuff. TWO WRONGS DO NOT MAKE A RIGHT That mother who killed a young man whom she claimed ruined her 18-year-old daughter, and who was exonerated from all blame in doing so, took the law into her own hands, and incidentally it may be remarked, established a dangerous precedent, and created a hazardous pastime with a pistol. CLEARING THE CALENDAR Now that the new model of 1928 locomotion has been shown to TWO WRONGS DO NOT MAKE A RIGHT THAT mother who killed a young man whom she claimed ruined her 18-year-old daughter, and who was exonerated from all blame in doing so, took the law into her own hands, and incidentally it may be remarked, established a dangerous precedent, and created a hazardous pastime with a pistol. CLEARING THE CALENDAR NOW that the new model of 1928 locomotion has been shown to an expectant and palpitating public, the people can get back to guessing who is going to run for President. HORSE ON THEM IT HAS just been discovered that milk wagons in congested parts of a city are drawn by horses. You see, they learn the route and know when to stop and start, whereas the gas buggies do not. SLIPPING THE NOOSE QUITE often now, if you happen to be charged with murder, all you have to do—in some cases—is to prove you were insane when you did the killing; and that does not seem hard to do if you can muster up a couple of alienists. OUGHT TO CHANGE BOOTLEGGERS AN EXPLORER who is hunting prehistoric animals writes home and says, in his recent travels he saw a terrible monster of the jungles. He solemnly avers the creature was as large as ten elephants. It ran like a cyclone over a frozen river, smashing big blocks of ice into thin air. It had long bristles, red eyes; held in its mouth a carcass, dripping with blood, that weighed about 800 pounds, and traveled at the rate of 20 miles an hour—where there were boulevard stops. BUT, IT'S ALL RIGHT GIRLS, GO, AHEAD A NEWSPAPER writer says men who have nice hair go bare-headed just to show off; not because they think the hair will grow better when the lid is off. The same thing applies to flappers—when they have something nice to put on display. But, the writer allows, you never see a bald-headed man without a hat. But yet again, this does not apply to a girl who has a knobbby knee.