anaheim-gazette 1928-01-19

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. TEACHING HISTORY The American Historical Association seems to be agitated with the fear that American histories may become so patriotic they will not follow the truth. A resolution adopted at a recent meeting of the association in Washington, after denouncing the action of newspapers and patriotic societies in condemning certain text books as patriotic, holds that "criticism of history books should therefore be based not on grounds of patriotism, but only on faithfulness of fact as determined by specialists, and that attempts to foster national arrogance and boastfulness and indiscriminate worship of national heroes can only lead to promote a harmful pseudo-patriotism." The great majority of our people, however, are still of the opinion that patriotism should at least be considered in the writing of our text books. Facts we want to have, of course, and if they are facts, it will make little difference whether they are given to us by specialists or not. But the trouble with some historic specialists at this time is that they are not so much interested in facts unless these facts can be twisted in such a way as to dim the prestige of the founders of the country and promote the worship of internationalism rather than Americanism. What the specialists want to do is to prove their super-smartness, and they think that the easiest way to do this is to re-write the early history of America in such a way as to show that we would now be much better off if we were adjuncts of some European aristocracy rather than Americans. Internationalism and anti-patriotism form the new cult of the so-called intelligentsia. They can see nothing good in American traditions or American institutions. Of course, any danger of fostering national arrogance or boastfulness by venerating the founders of the republic is pure bunk. The greater danger in America is that we will lose sight of the fundamental principles of the republic and forget the great sacrifices which were necessary to bring them into being. If the American Historical Society is really worried lest real American history will not be taught to American children... re-write the early history of America in such a way as to show that we would now be much better off if we were adjuncts of some European aristocracy rather than Americans. Internationalism and anti-patriotism form the new cult of the so-called intelligentsia. They can see nothing good in American traditions or American institutions. Of course, any danger of fostering national arrogance or boastfulness by venerating the founders of the republic is pure bunk. The greater danger in America is that we will lose sight of the fundamental principles of the republic and forget the great sacrifices which were necessary to bring them into being. If the American Historical Society is really worried lest real American history will not be taught to American children, it ought to turn its attention from the patriotic societies of America to the long-haired and neurotic professors who are trying to prove that America is all a mistake and that the only way this mistake can be rectified is to crawl back under the European tent, after first leaving all of our money in the band-wagon. The United States has progressed beyond all precedent in the last century and a quarter. It has become a great and powerful nation of progressive and peace loving people. And during all the time these people have been taught that Washington and Adams and Jefferson and Marshall were high minded, patriotic men. It is doubtful whether at this late date the country can be greatly improved by trying to teach ourselves that these men were false alarms, that the real seats of culture are London, Paris, and Berlin, and that the real seat of our government ought to be Geneva instead of Washington. GOOD PROSPECTS THE year 1928 seems to be starting off with good prospects. Secretary of Commerce Hoover, whose duty it is to keep his finger on the business pulse of the country, and who usually does a good job of it, declares that all signs for the coming year are good. Among other things, Mr. Hoover declared: "There is an ample supply of credits at low rates; the somewhat larger stocks of goods which were accumulated during the summer are being reduced; there is no consequential speculation in commodities; the crops have been abundant; wages are at a high level; we are recovering from some partial unemployment, especially in the automobile industry. There is peace in most sections of the labor world, except bituminous coal; there is more peace in the international world that at any time since the war; the foreign world is recovering its economic strength and buying power; therefore, our foreign trade is steadily increasing." After pointing out that the average price of non-agricultural goods has fallen in the past twelve months, while the prices of agricultural products have risen, Mr. Hoover declares that "manufacture and distribution have by savings and diminished profits accommodated themselves to this system of decreasing profits without reduction in the level of wages and therefore in the national buying power," and adds that "the great extent to which industry has accommodated itself to lower prices by decreased costs makes for a sounder condition for the ensuing year." It's a good idea still to stay on the "long" side so far as your Uncle Samuel is concerned. PROSPERITY IN AMERICA ACCORDING to the "Outline of Business," published by the Chatham Phenix National Bank and Trust Company of New York., the United States has begun the year 1928 with the largest accumulation of fluid capital ever recorded. During the year 1927 more than $1,368,000,000 was added to savings deposits in banks and trust companies. The report continues: PROSPERITY IN AMERICA ACCORDING to the "Outline of Business," published by the Chatham Phenix National Bank and Trust Company of New York., the United States has begun the year 1928 with the largest accumulation of fluid capital ever recorded. During the year 1927 more than $1,368,000,000 was added to savings deposits in banks and trust companies. The report continues: "Bank deposits climbed in a line parallel to wage levels, but whether the increase in the former is a result of higher wages is a matter of dispute," the publication says. "But it is clear that wages during 1927 were probably higher than in any other year. From a financial standpoint, the United States government had a successful year. The gross debt was reduced approximately $1,000,000,000." Now an increase in savings deposits means an increase in the prosperity of the working people of the United States. There is no better barometer of the financial status of the every-day fellow in the United States than the condition of the country's savings banks. A billion and a third in good United States money added to the bank roll of the workers is no mean sum in itself. No wonder the internationalists who want us to adopt European ideals, and the communits who want us to take up Russian methods are able to make so little headway with Uncle Sam's children. REUNION OF BLUE AND GRAY A PLAN for a joint reunion of the survivors of the soldiers of the Civil War at Washington next year is proposed in a bill introduced in the House by Representative Edgar Howard of Nebraska. The bill provides for a national commission to be in charge. It is a proposal that much carry a wide appeal. This will be nearly the last opportunity for such a reunion. The commissioner of pensions reports there are only 84,000 surviving Union soldiers. Probably there are fewer surviving Confederate veterans. Fifty thousand of the Union survivors are incapacitated, and it is thought that perhaps only 10,000 men from both armies would be able to be present. This is a united nation. Could there be a more touching way of dramatizing the fading of the old war feeling than by a reunion of the men who opposed each other in the field? There ought to be at least one such reunion before the survivors are gone. ANAHEIM GAZETTE Little Glimpses of America — By Albert T. Reid HOW HOW IT TASTES Eat Snick Pick I JUST LOVE, SNICKLEFRITZ PICKLES HOW, WATCH! YOU CAN BE IT BETWEEN THESE SIGNS WAR ON ILLITERACY WORKERS' 'ARISTOCRACY WAR ON ILLITERACY America still needs to make war on illiteracy, according to John J. Tigert, United States commissioner of education. who declares in an article on the subject in the current issue of the National Republic that there is still room for patriotic volunteer service in combatting this natural enemy of free institutions. "We have two pictures of our illiteracy—absolute illiteracy as revealed by the census each ten years, and illiteracy as revealed by the army test in 1917." says Mr. Tigert. "These two pictures attract attention by the contrast they present. "If a man can write his name in any language he is considered as literate in the census returns. The officials of the army tried to find out the men in the draft who were really able to read and write. If an order in plain English were handed to a man could he read it understandingly? Could he write a simple letter so that it could be understood? More than one-fourth of the 1,700,000 men examined could not pass these simple tests; 25.3 per cent of these men had to be classed as illiterates so far as military duties were concerned. These men were between 20 and 34 years of age. The census returns show that illiteracy is greater in old groups and that it is more common among females than males. It is probably true that one in four of our population 10 years of age and over cannot read understandly or convey a message by writing. "From the 1920 census we find that there were 4,981,905 people over 10 years of age in the United States who could not sign their names in any language; 3,084,733 of these illiterates were native-born and 1,249,572 of the number were native-born whites." The census returns each decade show that the relative number of people who cannot sign their names is growing smaller but that the actual number of individuals classed as illiterate is only slightly smaller than it was in 1870. In that year the bureau of census reported 5,658,144 illiterates. Our population has increased so rapidly that the percentage of illiteracy has decreased from 20 per cent in 1870 to 6 per cent in 1920. "The 1930 census will again reveal the number of people in our various communities who are illiterates. Local state, and national pride can more easily be appealed to now than it can after the census is taken. Most people are willing and some are anxious to do something unselfishly for the good of their fellow men. Here is an excellent opportunity to do a service to our country at the same time." HASTY CONCLUSIONS Young Hickman was a model Sunday school boy. He committed a brutal crime. Therefore all model Sunday school boys should be watched. How often such a line of reasoning been followed in the last few weeks. How often one may observe the same type of reasoning in innumerable other connections. There is the old fallacy, still persisted in and regarded by some as a truism, that preachers' sons as a rule go wrong. The fact that investigation has shown just the contrary, that preachers' sons as a rule give a better account of themselves than many other sons, still has not exploded the traditional idea, an idea that was gained simply by the observance of a few isolated cases that stood out prominently because they were isolated. Then there is the familiar contention that a good record in school has no relation to a good record in later life. There is, of course, no guarantee that success in school means success in the world. But in general it has been shown by investigation of school and college records that the chances favor the youth who stands high in scholarship. Young Hickman did not go wrong because of his Sunday school or public school records. He went wrong in spite of both. WORKERS’ 'ARISTOCRACY' The Communist Party congress which has been sitting in Moscow has given over the conversion of our American workmen and is now fearful that its own party missionaries who come here may be converted and may be "corrupted in their faith." That is why it has issued its recent warning to the party leaders to beware of America and American industrial tendencies. The president of this Communist Party congress denounced American workers as "the aristocracy of labor, whose high wages and better living conditions make them incomparably more comfortable than the workers of other lands." He suggests that the condition of this American workers' aristocracy must be pointed out as an "injustice" to the Oriental coolies and Polynesian savages. Let our "liberals" now take up this plea—let them urge that American prosperity be whittled down to the plane and level of other peoples. Let them—and see how far they get! CHANGE OF SENTIMENT Times certainly change. It used to be that the South was regarded as the citadel of free trade. Now ninety thousand Florida farmers have signed a petition asking for an increase in the tariff on peanuts, citrus fruits and other things by the agriculturists of the state. And it is not only in Florida that the farmers of Dixie are beginning to take an active interest in protection. The Louisiana sugar growers are no longer alone in their demand for tariff assistance. All the way from Jacksonville to El Paso the people who grow things for the markets are beginning to get very much alive to the tact that they need some protection. Competition is getting keener all the time. It is coming not only from Cuba and the islands of the West Indies, but from the growers in Mexico, in South America, and even in Italy and Spain. The reasons given by these southern agriculturalists for protection do not differ greatly from the ones given by the New England manufacturers. I INHALE AN' THAT MAKES TROUBLE I SAID I COULD SWIM, EXCEPT I INHALE, I DO! I INHALED THA OCEAN WUNST! WHAT! PART OF IT! THAT'S MORE REASONABLE, DON'T FALL INTO EXAGGERATION THAT WAY! OBSERVATIONS HOLD THE FORT, FOR WE ARE COMING ENCOURAGING reports coming from upwards of thirty Chambers of Commerce throughout the United States picture a colorful situation as to the nation's prosperity. Regarding Southern California, the report is particularly fine. The city of Los Angeles, the heart of the Southland, has gained 60,000 in population during the past year. About a dozen large industries have established headquarters in and around that city, the effect of which is felt all over Southern California. These industries represent an investment of nearly fifty million dollars. Agriculture as a whole is in a much improved condition. The cotton crop is excellent, and the oil situation is much improved, and all companies are starting on an important program of intensive development. The new year should be a banner one for all concerned. WHEN PATIENCE CEASED TO BE VIRTUE In a town up state a man resorted to the For Sale column to dispose of one "white elephant." He said sometimes it crawls and runs. He S. O. S.'d that he had been trying to run it for fourteen months, and had been trying to sell it for a long time, and he admitted he was licked. Apologetically, he allows, that if anyone believes he is a steam engineer or a mechanic, that man can wrestle with the animal forever and a day by simply handing him $200; and the owner feelingly says his sympathy and blessings go free with the deal. As a climax, the man says its a real bargain for some one in their second childhood, and if anyone should happen to buy it, for heaven's sake don't bring it back. MUST BE AFRAID OF THEIR SHADOWS A JURY down Texas way convicted a young woman charged with holding up a bank (with a gun) and gave her 14 years in the pen, meanwhile intimating that it should be a warning to other young women. But really among 99 per cent of the fair young set the most dangerous weapon they use is a powder puff, while gold digging. DOES NOT CHOOSE TO TAKE THINGS EASY When the chief executive was asked what he intended to do after 1928, he remarked that he might just whittle. In consequence, a number of friends have sent him a lot of jack- MUST BE AFRAID OF THEIR SHADOWS AJURY down Texas way convicted a young woman charged with holding up a bank (with a gun) and gave her 14 years in the pen, meanwhile intimating that it should be a warning to other young women. But really among 99 per cent of the fair young set the most dangerous weapon they use is a powder puff, while gold digging. DOES NOT CHOOSE TO TAKE THINGS EASY WHEN the chief executive was asked what he intended to do after 1928, he remarked that he might just whittle. In consequence, a number of friends have sent him a lot of jackknives. But as the chief executive now says he will not accept any more knives, the inference is that he may accept some other high position, or may practice law or something. MAKING IT UNANIMOUS WITH that intrepid lone eagle, that level-headed ambassador, and that versatile humorist within its gates, Mexico ought to know by now where the U. S. A. stands. There is no reason why the dove of peace should not remain calm and serene and perched aloof forever and a day, after hearing all those "vivas." EATING OUT OF HENRY'S HAND THAT nifty new car has attracted so much attention that in all probability most everybody will have to annex one. HARD SLEDDING AHEAD A NUMBER of young students were out for a frolic the other day, when a girl in the party remarked to her escort: "I wish I was in school so I could take up my studies." "Aw, come on," said her sweetie, "this is no time for school talk." "I wish it 'were,'" said the coy one. SURELY, IT WAS UNUSUAL! ANYHOW, out of the 365 there was only two really disagreeable days. Of course, they were "bad" ones, but just stop and think of the "good" ones. S-H-A-Y (HIC) IT'S S'ALL RIGHT, MISTER (HIC) "A DEPENDABLE" dispenser of holiday cheer is one who takes a "drag" first to show the customer that the potion won't lay you low. However, if business is brisk, the pilot is liable to have an awful headache. SOB SISTERS ON JOB EARLY WHILE that fiend was in jail a delegation of women called. One of them asked the prisoner: "How are you this morning? You must be brave. It's the only thing you can do." Another said: "The young man has such a splendid personality." Still another observed: "He looks anything but a murderer." LINK IN THE CHAIN OF PROSPERITY ONE of the transcontinental railway companies announces that several hundred new Pullman cars and a score or more of modern engines are to be added to their equipment to handle the ever-increasing line of trade coming to this coast. NEXT THE latest thing in the line of curiosities is that Southland LINK IN THE CHAIN OF PROSPERITY ONE of the transcontinental railway companies announces that several hundred new Pullman cars and a score or more of modern engines are to be added to their equipment to handle the ever-increasing line of trade coming to this coast. NEXT THE latest thing in the line of curiosities is that Southland barber who fell heir to a cool million, back East, and who says he will not go and claim the windfall until the weather back yonder warms up a bit. DESPISED DIABOLICAL DEMONS DOWN Texas way, it says in the papers, the other day two human beings, said to be deputy sheriffs, shot to death two innocent Mexicans, who had been lured to a place in front of a bank, in what is said to have been a frameup; and were murdered by those men for no other reason than to collect a reward, offered for any robber who sought to hold up a bank. AS THE TWIG IS BENT, SO IS THE TREE INCLINED THAT Northwest rough-rider, who figured prominently in the capture of that offender, and who has been complimented, is afraid his superior officer has not received his share of the praise for the capture of the alleged murderer. Listen to what he says: "It's the training that man gives the men on the road that makes these things possible. I think some of these folks are forgetting that I'm not just 'Buck' Lieuallen, but an officer of the state highway department." The superior officer referred to is described as a square-shooter and every inch a man. VIVA EL TORO Y CAVIJO WHEN those well meaning women telegraphed to Lindy not to go to the bullfight, they got off on the wrong tack. The best way to discourage a human with the least bit of compassion from going to bullfights is just to let him see one—one is enough; and maybe he will get out before it's over. SAME OLD NOISE Sign on a Ford—"Mrs. Often."