anaheim-gazette 1928-02-02

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE ESTABLISHED 1870 HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Proprietor ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR.....$2.00 SIX MONTHS.....1.35 THREE MONTHS......75 Entered at the Anaheim, California, Post Office as second class matter. EXPENSIVE TO UNITED STATES EUROPEAN propagandists who assert that the United States was made rich by the World war will do well to study the figures recently given to congress in a report on the cost of the conflict to America prepared by no less an authority than A. W. Mellon, secretary of the treasury. According to these figures, the war has cost the people of the United States the sizeable sum of $35,119,622,144. This is nearly thirty-six billions, and is eloquent testimony that the World war was not a prosperous venture from the standpoint of the United States. This sum is of course in addition to the loss of life and suffering of America's finest young manhood, which can never be estimated in money. The gross costs of the war are estimated at nearly forty-eight billions, of which more than nine billions was in cash advances to the allied governments. The net cost of the war is arrived at by subtracting from the gross cost the estimated expenditures of the army and navy departments on a peace time basis. Surely no estimate could be fairer than this. The internationalists who think that Uncle Sam has played the Shylock with Europe will be interested to know that Secretary Mellon does not figure the foreign debts at their face value, in his report, but discounts them 40 per cent to arrive at the true value at this time. "It is not believed the assets representing obligations of foreign governments and claims against Germany for army costs should be listed at their face value, but should be stated at their present value based upon the average rate of interest the United States is paying on its public debt. This average rate was on..." by subtracting from the gross cost the estimated expenditures of the army and navy departments on a peace time basis. Surely no estimate could be fairer than this. The internationalists who think that Uncle Sam has played the Shylock with Europe will be interested to know that Secretary Mellon does not figure the foreign debts at their face value, in his report, but discounts them 40 per cent to arrive at the true value at this time. "It is not believed the assets representing obligations of foreign governments and claims against Germany for army costs should be listed at their face value, but should be stated at their present value based upon the average rate of interest the United States is paying on its public debt. This average rate was on June 30, 1927, slightly under four per cent per annum. The payments, therefore, to be received under the various funding agreements have been discounted so as to show their present value on a basis of four per cent per annum, payable semi-annually. This amounts to approximately $7,440,000,000, or about 60 per cent of the value of these foreign debts based on the terms of the original obligations." Estimating the population of the United States at 115,000,000, these figures show that the war cost each man, woman and child in the United States the sum of $805. The silver lining to the cloud is that while the gross expenditures were forty-seven billions, the total public debt never amounted to more than twenty-six billion at any one time and has now been reduced to eighteen billion. In view of the loss of life and limb and the staggering war cost of thirty-five billions, it is to be noted that the United States received nothing from the spoils of war—no territory and no indemnity. The allied nations each received slices of territory, some of them of almost untold value, and some of the neutral even benefitted in the slicing off of the territory of the Central Powers. But the United States asked for nothing and received nothing. In the face of all this, many European diplomats and some American internationalists have branded Uncle Sam the shylock of the world. And this because the United States government, with the support of the people of the United States, regardless of politics, refuses to subscribe to any scheme which would thrust upon our people the burden of paying for the entire war. OUR FOREIGN TRADE IN SPITE of the dire predictions of the free trade pessimists, our foreign trade continued its growth in 1927, according to the report of Dr. Julius Klein, director of the United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Speaking of our exports, Dr. Klein says: "Our exports of finished manufactures have increased in each of the last five years, and in 1927 were over 50 per cent higher in value than in 1922. Turning to the regional distribution of our trade in 1927 as compared with 1926, the United State has exported more merchandise to all continents except Oceania. "There has been a particularly large gain, amounting to about 14 per cent, in our exports to Canada, based on ten months' figures, and that country advanced to first place in our trade, supplanting the United Kingdom, which has held that position throughout most of the history of our country. The commodities which have been responsible for most of the gain in our exports to Canada are coal, automobiles, tractors, wheat and rye." The free traders told us that our tariff was so high European countries could not buy from us because they would be unable to sell to us. The internationalists told us that unless we cancelled the war debts which Europe owed Uncle Sam our foreign trade would be wiped out. Evidently both these schools of political thought were in the wrong. Our foreign trade continues to grow and the European nations themselves are gradually pulling out... There has been a particularly large gain in 14 per cent, in our exports to Canada, based on ten months' figures, and that country advanced to first place in our trade, supplanting the United Kingdom, which has held that position throughout most of the history of our country. The commqdities which have been responsible for most of the gain in our exports to Canada are coal, automobiles, tractors, wheat and rye." The free traders told us that our tariff was so high European countries could not buy from us because they would be unable to sell to us. The internationalists told us that unless we cancelled the war debts which Europe owed Uncle Sam our foreign trade would be wiped out. Evidently both these schools of political thought were in the wrong. Our foreign trade continues to grow and the European nations themselves are gradually pulling out of the mire of post-war deflation. So it is becoming evident that the best laid theories of the political economists some times explode without doing a great deal of damage. HAMSTRINGING HOME INDUSTRY One admirable thing about most European governments is the zeal with which they look after their own interests and their own industries. Uncle Sam's activity in looking after his own is not always so pronounced. One American industry which now seems to be the special target of politicians and industrials is the motion picture industry. Because of the aggressiveness and ability which has gone into its management and the magnitude of the home market which enables it to do things on a larger scale, it is the most important factor in contributing to our visible foreign trade balance. During a recent debate in the British parliament, it was pointed out that American moving pictures have a tremendous influence in promoting American trade. While the dominance of American films was deplored by some speakers, it was admitted that they are used because of customer demand and that the moral and technical standards of American films were above those of films produced in continental countries. In France and Germany definite restrictive legislation has been effected against American films on economic grounds. While Europeans are taking pot shots at this American industry there seems to be a disposition among some American politicians to go as far as possible in ham-stringing the big scale American producers of pictures. So there is considerable activity right at home, running parallel with this European attack, along the line of interfering with the internal affairs of the motion picture industry. Leaders in this industry express a willingness to correct any abuses which may have arisen, voluntarily, but the idea with the politicians who have a natural dislike for anything big is to pass some more laws and regulations on the subject. ANAHEIM GAZETTE THERE HE SITS By Albert T. Reid DEMAND FOR FARM LEGISLATION CONVENTION MEMBERSHIP a state shall be entitled to one additional district delegate from each concessional district casting ten thousand gone through. But there have been defenders of liberty and order made of sterner stuff. The Peking and Arcos CONVENTION MEMBERSHIP There will be 1089 delegates in the Republican national convention against 1109 who sat in the convention at Cleveland in 1924. The loss thus indicated as having taken place is set forth in the states herein named: Alabama at the 1924 convention had sixteen delegates, and this year will have fifteen. Arkansas in 1924 had fourteen, and this year will have eleven. Georgia in 1924 had eighteen delegates and this year will have sixteen. The other changes are as follows: Kentucky with twenty-six in 1924, has twenty-nine this year, a gain of three. Louisiana had thirteen in 1924; this year it has twelve. New York had ninety-one delegates in 1924; this year it will have ninety. North Carolina had twenty-two delegates four years ago; this year it will have twenty. Oklahoma had twenty-three in 1924; this year it will have twenty. Tennessee had twenty-seven delegates four years ago; this year it will have nineteen. Texas in 1924 had twenty-three delegates, but this year it will have twenty-six, a gain of three. Virginia had seventeen delegates four years ago; this year it will have fifteen. Wisconsin had twenty-nine delegates in 1924; this year it will have twenty-six, a loss of three. All the other states will in 1928 have the same number of delegates which they had in 1924. These losses and gains are predicated on this scheme of apportionment: Four delegates-at-large from each state; three additional delegates-at-large from each state casting its electoral vote for the Republican nominee for President at the last preceding quadrennial election. Thus it will be seen that in a state without representatives at large the normal allotment is four delegates-at-large. Where the state has been carried by the Republican nominee for President, three additional delegates-at-large are awarded, so that in a majority of the states the general allowance is that of seven delegates at large. District delegates are provided on the basis of one district delegate from each congressional district, but the rules of the Republican party also provide that a state shall be entitled to one additional district delegate from each congressional district casting ten thousand or more votes for any Republican candidate for elector in the last preceding Presidential election, or for the Republican nominee for congress in the last preceding congressional election. The changes which have accordingly taken place in the number of delegates allotted to the various states as reflected in the notation set forth above signify really the rewards or demerits which have been determined by the Republican party in the several states. BOLSHEVISM'S BAD YEAR Recently the tenth anniversary of the Russian revolution was celebrated throughout Russia and by all the subjects of the new caws of Russia throughout the world, including some 150,000 communists and communist sympathizers in meetings held within the United States. There was little to celebrate but the anniversary. For 1927 was bolshevism's blackest year. Within Russia and throughout the world it met disastrous reverses. Because of this the horizon of civilization is brighter than at any time since the close of the World war. The masters at Moscow are more concerned at the moment with the task of suppressing revolution at home than with fomenting it abroad. The dreams of world-wide revolution around the red banner have for the moment faded. One year ago the strategists of bolshevism looked forward to revolution in England through the coal strike, in China through penetration of the Nationalist forces, in India through incitation of colonial unrest, in Latin-America through the Mexican partnership—and beyond that through agitation in the United States,"the last stronghold of capitalism," whose Constitution is hung up, in a government "museum of horrors" at Moscow as "the worst enemy of mankind." With a more mollycoddlish policy on the wart of the western powers—such a policy as was urged by pacifists and "liberals," the program might have gone through. But there have been defenders of liberty and order made of sterner stuff. The Peking and Arcos raids exposed the hand of bolshevism in England and in China. Great Britain broke diplomatic relations with Russia. The Chinese nationalists, discovering that the plans of the bolshevists contemplated using the revolution for Russian rather than Chinese advantages, have turned against their whilom allies, and the conspirators who were inciting the Chinese to kill western "foreign devils" are now being themselves chased like rabbits. The firm attitude taken by the United States in protecting its own nationals, likewise denounced by our pseudo-pacifists and "liberals," has helped to prevent the Chinese revolution from becoming another Boxer crusade against American missionaries and merchants. France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Turkey, Poland, Roumania, Latvia, Greece, and other nations this year took firm action in the face of indubitable evidence of bolshevist conspiracies against existing governments. The action of France included a demand for the recall of the soviet ambassador and the arrest of French communist members of parliament. President Callez of Mexico was taken on a high mountain by Madam Koltenay, the soviet ambassador, and shown a world conquered by communism in which he was to have his share out of the western hemisphere, has seen a new light. He too has issued orders against the further landing of Russian communist agitators. And so those who have with good reason looked with alarm upon the activities of the world-wide organization which has as yet so overthrow all the principles and Rulers for which American soldiers have reason to rejoice. Let it be remembered however, that the check which bolshevism has received has not been due to the adoption of counsels of timidity and indecision, but to their rejection. Stock exchange seats last year sold as high as $310,000 apiece, which is more than a ringside seat will cost at the next Dempsey-Tunney fight. District delegates are provided on the basis of one district delegate from each congressional district, but the rules of the Republican party also provide that With a more mollycoddlish policy on the wart of the western powers—such a policy as was urged by pacifists and "liberals," the program might have stock exchange seats last year sold as high as $310,000 apiece, which is more than a ringside seat will cost at the next Dempsey-Tunney fight. VERY SORRY! NOTHING FOR YOUR TREAD BUT TOUTTER THAT'S APPLESAUC! SOMETHING? POP! OBSERVATIONS ECONOMIC EXPERIMENTATION OVER in Kansas, where corn grows tall, they are going to give the companionate marriage a tryout. The bride-to-be goes to school, aged 18; the groom, also a student, is 20. The girl's father, who is said to be an atheist, says he believes they will be better off to "marry" now, rather than wait four or five years to finish schooling, and then get up housekeeping. The parents are going to provide for the "companions" until such time as the newlyweds decide to make it "go" themselves. DRAWING THE SPOTLIGHT A LADY who has gone in for philanthropy has brought several children of a tribe of people from the Philippines, who are said to be cannibalistic. The lady is going to educate the youngsters over here in English. And one of them has been named after a well-known movie actor. Now, it's all right to have streets named after you—but when it comes to babies, there is a difference. It might cause a lot of discussion—especially if a man is modest, or a bachelor, or something. HOLDING THE LINE A POPULAR indoor discussion nowadays when women meet is to ask whether or not it is best to bob or not. The other day a dame past the forty-yard line said she would be fairly good-looking with long or short hair—if she didn't worry so much. GIVE HIM HIS OWN MEDICINE A WRITER asks a newspaper to give him a cure for the guy who doubles up and pokes his feet into the back of your seat at a movie show. That's easy. First give him a correspondence school course on simian etiquette; and if that does not work, take him into the wild woods, arm the jungle men with spears and let the natives chase him. PROSPECTIVE RAIL RIDERS AT THE afternoon session of the chewing and whitting committee, the following questions were discussed verbatim et literatum: What is to be done with the fellow who reads aloud all the titles on the screen, the woman who takes her baby to the A WRITER asks a newspaper to give him a cure for the guy who doubles up and pokes his feet into the back of your seat at a movie show. That's easy. First give him a correspondence school course on simian etiquette; and if that does not work, take him into the wild woods, arm the jungle men with spears and let the natives chase him. PROSPECTIVE RAIL RIDERS AT THE afternoon session of the chewing and whitting committee, the following questions were discussed verbatim et literatum: What is to be done with the fellow who reads aloud all the titles on the screen, the woman who takes her baby to the show, and the man and woman who carry on a spirited whispering conversation during performances. It was unanimously resolved that in such cases all the usherettes should be called into immediate action and throw out the suspects, and if they wouldn't act, then to lay the matter before the Independent and Fraternal Order or Horseshoe Pitchers' Association, nunc pro tunc, or de novo, and to-wit. GETTING ON THE BANDWAGON EVERYBODY (and the sisters and the cousins and the aunts) says the year 1928 is going to be a good one. And listen, boys, it's leap year, too. BURYING THE HATCHET WORD comes from an inland town that "the spirit of municipal amity ran rampant all day," in speaking of a get-together meeting. That’s the stuff. There should be more of it round about. RUMBLINGS IN THE DISTANCE SHOULD you hold your ear to the ground, you will hear something that sounds like a return fistic engagement of the big fellows in the next good old summer time, along about the Fourth of July or thereabouts. Talk of elimination contests is heard now, with the final flareup to be between the champion heavy and the man who wasn't shooed into a neutral corner during that celebrated slow count. TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE, ER, WHAT? THERE will be no doubt a new crop of murderers, now that a fellow, accused of a killing, can enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. It appears as though the victims of the bandits are soon forgotten. PASSING THE GRAVY MAYOR in a town down East says, that if all of the grafting policemen in his old home town were fired, why, he says, says he, there would be no police force; and so he is going to keep them and give them a chance to repent and reform. MIGHTY MESSAGE OF FRIENDSHIP WHEN Colonel Lindberg landed in Mexico, President Calles affectionately embraced the intrepid flyer, and it really looked as though he kissed him. SAY, BOY, THAT TASTES LIKE GOOD STUFF! IT HAS been said that one time an ambitious lawyer—who was defending a client for possession—in his zeal to ascertain MIGHTY MESSAGE OF FRIENDSHIP WHEN Colonel Lindberg landed in Mexico, President Calles affectionately embraced the intrepid flyer, and it really looked as though he kissed him. SAY, BOY, THAT TASTES LIKE GOOD STUFF! IT HAS been said that one time an ambitious lawyer—who was defending a client for possession—in his zeal to ascertain whether or not the liquid was intoxicating, drained the bottle. Of course, the evidence being non-existent, the case automatically was dismissed. But, as has been lately reported, when a number of jurors sampled the evidence so frequently that it ultimately vanished, a new record was established. The old world "do" move, no fooling. A MAN'S HOME'S HIS CASTLE WORD has been passed out by an enforcement bureau to its agents not to violate the law in their efforts to enforce it. Federal agents are forbidden to search a private dwelling without a warrant. A dwelling is a residence, hotel, apartment or boarding house that is not occupied transiently. Unreasonable search is always illegal, and reasonable search is permissible. If an officer has reason to believe an offense is being committed, he may search without a warrant, the same as he may make an arrest when an offense is being committed in his presence. It is pointed out a new law makes it a misdemeanor for any federal officer to search a private dwelling without a search warrant. HERE'S YOUR HAT—WHAT'S YOUR HURRY? A CORRESPONDENT writing to his home town paper says, if that lawyer out of the East comes here in furtherance of justice," well and good. But if he comes for the purpose of throwing monkey wrenches into the legal machinery, why, says he, he'd better use the other end of his ticket and go back pronto. NEW INDUSTRIES ON TAPIS A WHOLESALE bakery establishment getting ready to do business within a stone's throw of this city, and the good prospect of a borax factory being a near possibility, is cause for elation upon the part of the people.