anaheim-gazette 1928-01-26

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE ESTABLISHED 1870 HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Proprietor ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR.....$2.00 SIX MONTHS.....1.25 THREE MONTHS.....1.75 Entered at the Anaheim, California, Post Office as second class matter. OUR LIVING STANDARDS All business men and American well wishers were encouraged by the report of Secretary Mellon on business conditions at the beginning of the new year. The report, which is borne out by the surveys made by competent authorities, will tend to give assurance to the men who are interested in continuing the progress and prosperity of the nation in 1928. The American people have now progressed to the point where they have a standard of living which has never been equaled any time in the history of the world. This standard of living is due to American business genius, to the efficiency of American labor and to constructive policies which have made our present prosperity general. Among these policies are restricted immigration and the protective tariff, which have guarded the American worker against an incoming flood of cheap and undesirable foreign labor and cheap and undesirable foreign goods. Between our great and prosperous states there is a free exchange of goods with no barriers, and this is possible because we are one people in forty-eight commonwealths each with the same ideals and the same standard of living. But the case is far different when we compare our standards with that in the other nations of the world. The Washington Post recently well summed up the situation as follows: "When American labor is employed at good wages the nation is safe and sound. A heavy influx of foreigners would reduce wages. This would be advantageous to some employers, but it would not benefit the country as a whole. Similarly, a breach in the tariff wall would be highly advisable to importers and certain bankers who make a business outgoing money abroad on questionable security. These banks would willingly sacrifice American industry for the sake of collecting the money they have lent abroad. But the interest of all the people require that tariff protection shall remain intact, and When American labor is employed at good wages the nation is safe and sound. A heavy influx of foreigners would tend to reduce wages. This would be advantageous to some employers, but it would not benefit the country as a whole. Similarly, a breach in the tariff wall would be highly advantageous to importers and certain bankers who make a business out of money abroad on questionable security. These banks would willingly sacrifice American industry for the sake of collecting the money they have lent abroad. But the interests of the people require that tariff protection shall remain intact, and be extended in other directions whenever American industry and labor are found to be insufficiently protected. Thus all Americans are enabled to become producers, and by producing they are enabled to consume liberally what their fellow Americans produce. "The bulwark of American farmers is the tariff. It guarantees to them a body of consumers who can pay liberal prices for all farm products. As the farmers learn better to market their products they will increase their prosperity. "On a solid economic system, found by experience to be adapted to the best interests of the country, the United States enters the new year in a prosperous condition. No one but Americans can destroy the prosperity of the United States." EUROPE GAINING We have heard a great deal from the internationalists and pro-Europeans during the past year or two to the effect that we ought to reduce our tariff and cancel or reduce the European debts so that the nations of the Old World will be saved from a generation of poverty and perhaps permanent decay. We have been told that unless we do the things suggested, Europe will collapse and that we, too, will suffer when the house of cards falls. In the light of all these dire predictions, it is interesting to note the Associated Press report on conditions in Europe at the beginning of the new year. The survey indicates that the average European business man in checking up has found that the year 1927 was a good one, and it is declared that there is a slow but sure upward economic trend in all of the important European countries, including Great Britain, which has in some ways been the hardest hit nation of all. "Of course," the Associated Press report continues, "Mr. Average European has not yet paid all the bills for his fun and folly of 1914-18, and until the great war has been paid for the cry 'hard times' is going to continue to be heard." The French, it says, were complaining at the close of the year, yet their foreign trade balance is favorable. There is plenty of money there, much of which was left by members of the American Legion and American tourists during the 1927 season. In Britain, it is declared, the leaders of finance and industry are assuming a more cheerful aspect, while in Germany there has been a steady gain, in spite of the increased burden of reparations under the Dawes plan. German credit is said to be absolutely sound, which is significant when one considers what happened to German credit when the Rhineland was occupied a few short years ago. Italy is fairly prosperous, and from Vienna comes the report that for the first time since the war business men in 1927 were able to live on their earnings. All of which makes very interesting reading for the average American. It would seem that conditions in Europe are not so bad as they are sometimes painted, especially when the painter has an object in view, the object being the securing of some special favor from the United States. Doubtless, the cry of "hard times" will be heard until the war is paid for, and if America can be induced to do the paying, all the better. Of course we want to help Europe all that we can, but not... All of which makes very interesting reading for the average American. It would seem that conditions in Europe are not so bad as they are sometimes painted, especially when the painter has an object in view, the object being the securing of some special favor from the United States. Doubtless, the cry of "hard times" will be heard until the war is paid for, and if America can be induced to do the paying, all the better. Of course we want to help Europe all that we can, but not at the expense of American prosperity and the American standard of living. FARM STATES WEALTHIEST THE National Industrial Conference, in a recent report, gives some interesting figures upon the subject of national wealth. The term "wealth," as used in its computations, considers as such only actual real values such as lands and improvements, equipment of industrial enterprises, livestock, railroad and public utility land and equipment, personal property, motor and other vehicles. Gold and silver coin, bullion, credits and currency are not considered. On this basis it is somewhat surprising to find that Iowa ranks fourth in the entire country in per capita wealth; that is, the wealth of the state divided by its population. The total wealth of the states is estimated at $511,242,000,000, giving a per capita average of $4,646. South Dakota, with a per capita wealth of $4,900, Wyoming with $4,961, and Nevada with $7,299, are the three states with higher per capita wealth than Iowa. Nevada, however, owes its leadership almost entirely to its mining interests, which are heavy, and to its small population. Oregon, Nebraska, California, North Dakota and Connecticut follow in order of per capita wealth. New York, with an average per capita wealth of $3,593, is fourteenth among the states. Illinois, with $3,385 average, is twenty-third in the list. New York, however, has the largest aggregate wealth slightly in excess of $40,000,000,000. Pennsylvania with $32,000,000,000 of wealth, Illinois with $24,000,000,000, Ohio with $21,000,000,000. California with $17,000,000,000. New Jersey with $13,000,000,000. Michigan with nearly the same figure, and Massachusetts, $14,-000,000,000 are the leaders, with Iowa and Missouri next in line. The report as a whole indicates that large populations are not necessarily the greatest accumulators of wealth, and that generally speaking, farm wealth is greater per capita than in non-agricultural communities. This is true in the north, but the rule does not hold as well in the south, where the cropper system and other factors have kept farm wealth at a low average. ANAHEIM GAZETTE A War Without A Public Debt By Albert T. Reid KAPE BACK AV THOT LINE, THEER COST OF PRODUCTION I DON'T SEE AS WE CAN AFFORD TO WALK MA PUBLIC Reid AUTOCARTE NEAREST MOST DELEGATES While a variety of explanations have been given for the selection of Kansas City for the Republican national convention, the one dominant reason was its availability to the mass of the Republican delegates and alternates. In the earlier days before President Coolidge's statement of August 2, San Francisco was first choice. While Chairman Turner skilfully and wisely resisted, even while in California, the many attempts made to pledge him to the City of the Golden Gate, it is known that he was more than inclined to favor Mr. Crocker's selection for the convention. At that time, of course, the renomination of Mr. Coolidge was the naturally expected happening, and the convention itself, it was assumed, would be little more than inclined to favor Mr. Crocker's selection for the convention. The withdrawal of the President, however, changed that situation immediately. The elder statesmen of the party sensed that the convention of '28 would have to select a candidate, and not merely confirm a choice made by the people in advance; and to make certain that this selection would be made by regularly elected delegates. It was agreed a more accessible city than San Francisco should be named. Kansas City, which is in the exact geographical center of the country, thus became a logical choice. Available by an overnight journey from almost any direction, the possible plea of the business delegate that he would be unable to attend if San Francisco were the place, because he could not afford to spend the time, not to speak of the money, was all once disposed of. It can be said now, in advance, that the men and women who sit and pick the nominee at Kansas City will be the regularly elected delegates, and the Democratic issue, which is in the making, that the nominee would only have a proxy title has been disposed of before they are ready to start. REQUESTS OF GROWERS The tariff commission, it is learned, has virtually completed some half a dozen investigations of the pleas of the agriculturists for an increase in the tariff duties on certain farm commodities. The report on onions asked for by Southern California will reach the commission next week and a public hearing will be held in two weeks. The citrus celery and other investigations are also scheduled to clinix very shortly. In all these cases, the farmers have asked for increases to protect them from the low labor cost foods from Cuba, Mexico, Spain, Italy and various South American countries. Some of the Republican leaders, most anxious to help the farmers in their emergency, are now worried over the possibility, in the event of the tariff commission agreeing to all of the increases requested, of the consumers becoming aroused. The whisper has already started on Capitol Hill that Senator Wagner of New York is seriously considering the introduction of the consumer argument, building up a case on the ground that in the desire to help the farmer that the industrial workmen are being ignored. This is an absolutely preposterous argument, but it must be admitted that it has an element of plausibility, especially as the farmers themselves have been at pains so forceful in the public mind the theory that the tariff rates are always passed to the consumers. It is to be hoped that some of the farm leaders will give this new development serious consideration. We cannot afford a farmer-industrial clash, not because of party fortunes, but because it would be a bad thing for the country at large. THOUGHTS ON 1932 The Democratic nomination of Governor Smith is now regarded as inevitable. There are many strong Democrats who feel that by selecting Smith, no matter who the Republican nominee may be, the party is doomed to defeat. As they see it, however, whether they do or whether they don't, the party is damned anyway. As long as Smith wants the nomination, they must give it to him. They have lost the power to affect the situation. The one and only way out would be Governor Smith's voluntary retirement, and they are honest enough to admit that they see no possibility of that happening. Unless it came about so absolutely clearly as a voluntary act on the part of the governor, and with an explanation which all who run may read, that they would have before them an issue to answer that they had forced him out. It is interesting to note that after Jackson Day dinner, the most interested and earnest groups were composed of those discussing the nominee of '32. Their discussion was predicted, of course, on the conclusion they had reached that they would dispose of Smith in '28 with his defeat and be able to start anew four years later. PLANKS 'IN ADVANCE' A real weakness in convention planning and arrangement is the slap-dash, last-moment, hurried formulation of platform declarations. Governor Smith, in a recent open letter, upset the legal big-wigs in both political parties by his suggestion that steps be taken so that the national political committees be authorized to at least prepare the fundamentals for party platforms in advance of the convention. He was at once advised, and truthfully, that the resolutions committee which is created by the convention on its assembly alone has the right to frame a platform, and that advance work is therefore legally impossible. For all of that, it would seem that this was one of the cases where the convention would not at all take offense, if preceding its formal gathering, some careful advance data was prepared, so that when the committee on resolutions met, it would have before it a basis for discussion certain of the definite party fundamentals. It can be said now, in advance, that the men and women who sit and pick the nominee at Kansas City will be the regularly elected delegates, and the Democratic issue, which is in the making, that the nominee would only have a proxy title has been disposed of before they are ready to start. The Democratic nomination of Governor Smith is now regarded as inevitable. There are many strong Democrats who feel that by selecting Smith, no matter who the Republican nominee may be, the party is doomed to defeat. As they see it, however, whether they convention would not at all take offense, if preceding its formal gathering, some careful advance data was prepared, so that when the committee on resolutions met, it would have before it a basis for discussion certain of the definite party fundamentals. ADIO FAN DUCKING INSTRUCTION. THAT'S MOST UNUSUAL! HIS POP CAUGHT HIM TAKING THE SET APART! HE SAID HE'D TEACH HIM TO MONKEY WITH THE RADIO! AWK! WHAT THA DING DING? LISSEN-YAINT SUPPOSED TO SEE ME COME IN, YAINT! OH H-H, I SEE! A NEWSPAPER man from the East says: "I am amazed at the Californian's lack of appreciation of his state's excellent and varied food products. On this trip I have had set before me in homes and public dining-rooms and restaurants eastern products in an amazing variety. Ketchup, ginger ale, grape juice, sauce, candy, coffee, tea, chili pickles, cocoa, chocolate and cigars are some of the eastern products which have been served to me, in spite of the fact that some California concern grows, packs or distributes each and all of these products. "Californians ask the world to eat their products, buy their lumber and other manufactured products, but if the thousands of winter and summer visitors come to California and report, when then return home, that eastern products are in greatest demand, how can Californians expect the outside world to consume California products?" NOW, IF HE WILL GO AND JUMP INTO THE OCEAN PEEVED resident up the road writes to his home town paper, saying that figures of rainfall should not be run at the top of the page—in fact, ought to be suppressed—because that town does not need the rain. He said rain is not an asset, but is a liability, because they have to build storm drains to carry off the water. GLOOM CHASERS THOSE nifty red raincoats which you see the young ladies wearing when it rains helps out a lot. MIGHT BE WORKING OUT TRUANA COMBINATIONS WIFE sued her husband for divorce because he stays home nights to read the newspapers instead of taking her to picture shows, and friend wife lost the decision. Wonder what wifey would do if she found a pair of silk stockings in the old man's pocket? PASSING THE BUCK THOSE nifty red raincoats which you see the young ladies wearing when it rains helps out a lot. MIGHT BE WORKING OUT TRUANA COMBINATIONS A WIFE sued her husband for divorce because he stays home nights to read the newspapers instead of taking her to picture shows, and friend wife lost the decision. Wonder what wifey would do if she found a pair of silk stockings in the old man's pocket? PASSING THE BUCK ABOLD, bad bandit, who confessed to a murder, says his conscience bothered him so much that he desired to die with his boots on. So he would go forth and rob a bank, believing all the time that some one would kill him. He did not have the nerve to commit suicide. The other day, while robbing a bank, his wish almost became fulfilled, when a bystander gave him both barrels of bird shot. HIT WHILE IRON IS HOT THAT new law requiring people to post a three days' notice of intention to marry may be all right, but then again it may not. Lots of people go into adjoining states to have the nuptial knot tied, not caring to wait three days. Another angle has cropped out that shows its bad business to tinker with old laws. Two young people posted the notice, and then the man changed his mind; there was no wedding—but he is in jail, charged with a statutory offense, showing he is a fast worker. ILL WIND THAT BLOWS NOBODY GOOD HOUSE was robbed in an adjoining town, and among the plunder taken was a saxophone. At latest reports no word has been received as to what the neighbors think about it. NOW, IF SOME OF THOSE IN WOULD TAKE THE HINT ONE of those two mild-mannered, but determined, northern rough riders who captured that arch fiend said, when questioned about a contract: "I can ride horses and shoot fairly straight, but I don't see what good I can do in the movies." COULD THEN CALL IT A PERFECT DAY THEY have just finished balloting for the most popular screen star of both sexes. Everything would be Jake, and the breathless public could turn over and go to sleep if they would now find out who is the most popular Ford salesman. SPARE THE ROD AND SPOIL THE CHILD YOU can see in the paper where a lawyer has been sent out here to represent the mother of a son who is charged with a gruesome crime. Surely it can be truthfully said that this young one must have been a very naughty boy—and no doubt the lawyer will break the news to her gently. THOSE COUNTERFEIT PRESENTMENTS THE photographer plays a prominent part nowadays when a sensational murder has been committed. The pictures of the captors and the captive usually appear in the prints, and if no guide lines were used it would be difficult to find out what it was all about. SOME RESPECTABLE HANGINGS WOULD HELP THOSE COUNTERFEIT PRESENTMENTS THE photographer plays a prominent part nowadays when a sensational murder has been committed. The pictures of the captors and the captive usually appear in the prints, and if no guide lines were used it would be difficult to find out what it was all about. SOME RESPECTABLE HANGINGS WOULD HELP JUST what to do with youthful law-breakers is a vexed problem, but when they commit murder, the law should be swift and sure. THE LONE EAGLE COLONEL LINDBERGH, without doubt, has done more to extend the well wishes of this country to other nations than anything that has ever happened. Whenever any dictator is found running around with a chip on his shoulder, it is suggested that the intrepid colonel fly over and call on him. WOULDN'T KNOW THE OLD PLACE AWISE man said he can remember when the butcher would throw in a piece of liver or a soup bone, and when kerosene was used for illumination; but now everybody is bumping into everybody else, and very few go to bed the same day they get up—but after all, the old world is just what you make it. SMOKING 'EM OUT ACCORDING to late figures, there were about 30,000 millionaires in the U. S. A. in 1926, showing a reduction of about 620 in previous years. This was revealed when the income tax returns were handed in. BEHIND IN THE DELIVERIES AWITTY man says instead of the mayor of the fastest growing city giving the keys to visiting guests, he should hand them the corkscrews. But yet again, it is said in some cities they don't need corkscrews, because they haven't got time to put in the corks. GOOD WORK, BROTHER AMONG the prizes awarded at the Tournament of Roses at Pasadena appears this one: "Class A—California Valencia Orange Show, Anaheim, First."