anaheim-gazette 1928-07-19

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE ESTABLISHED 1870 HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Preprietor ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR.....$2.90 SIX MONTHS.....1.55 THREE MONTHS......75 Missed at the Anaheim, California. Post Office as second class matter. THE TREASURY RECORD That Secretary Mellon continues to be a good guesser—or perhaps a good estimator would be better—is evidenced by the report recently submitted by the Treasury Department on the condition of the United States Treasury for the end of the fiscal year, June 30. The surplus in the Treasury for the year amounted to $398,000,000 which expressed in percentage was just one and three-fourth per cent less than the estimated surplus which was given out by the Secretary of the Treasury months ago when the tax bill was in process of formation. And Mr. Mellon's estimate of the income tax receipts was even closer. The actual receipts of the Treasury from income taxes for the year amounted to $2,174,000,000 while Mr. Mellon's estimate had been $2,165,000,000, a difference of less than one-half of one per cent. Evidenly the Treasury head knew what he was talking about when he made his estimates early in the year and it is well that Congress followed pretty closely the advice of the Treasury in fixing the amount of tax reduction instead of listening to the advocates of a still greater reduction who declared that the surplus would be much larger than Secretary Mellon's prediction, and that it would "all come out all right anyhow." The further record of the Treasury is one which bespeaks economy and careful handling of the nation's finance. During the fiscal year just closed the total payment on the public debt was $907,000,000, and during the same time, it will be remembered that taxes were reduced nearly $225,000,000. The total debt The further record of the Treasury is one bespeaks economy and careful handling of the nation's finance. During the fiscal year just closed the total payment on the public debt was $907,000,000, and during the same time, it will be remembered that taxes were reduced nearly $225,000,000. The total debt of the government by the latest reduction, has been brought down to $17,604,000,000, a quite different figure than the one which stared the nation in the face when Mr. Mellon took charge of our financial housekeeping. And during this same year refunding operations by the Treasury so brought it about that there is now a reduction of interest on five billion dollars worth of Liberty bonds. It has always been the policy of Mr. Mellon, and in this course he was backed up by the administration, that the public debt should be reduced as rapidly as possible, without interfering with the regular financial processes of the government. There has been, and still is, a considerable school of financeers who have taken issue with Secretary Mellon on this point and who have maintained that the debt should be retired by the normal funding operations, which would be a much slower program than the one followed by the Secretary of the Treasury. That Mr. Mellon is right is evidenced by the fact, that if the wishes of this other school of finance had prevailed and only the normal funding operation had been carried out, the people of the United States would now be paying $300,000,000 more in the way of interest on the debt, than they are now compelled to pay. Quite a saving, this, and one due to the policy carried out by the Treasury Department. The Mellon policy has been to operate the government on a safe margin and apply any surplus to reduction of the national debt. This has resulted in a saving just as actual to the taxpayer as any reduction in taxes but has not always suited those who considered their own desires before those of the nation as a whole. The best proof of the soundness and efficiency of the fiscal policy of the Secretary of the Treasury is that it works. OUR WORLD RELATIONS The League of Nations and the World Court seem to have gone definitely out of American politics. For years the Democrats advocated adherence by the United States to the League of Nations. The Republicans rejected the League of Nations but advocated our joining the World Court. A perusal of the platforms of the two parties this year, indicates how far we have rereased from any involvements in strictly European politics. The Republicans at Cleveland four years ago advocated Uncle Sam's entry into the court under proper conditions. The World Court resolution passed the Senate with reservations which our senators, Republicans and Democrats alike, thought were necessary to preserve the traditional independence of action of the United States. The European nations, or at least a part of them, refused to accept our amendments and the matter was dropped. So the Kansas City platform this year fails to make any mention of the World Court, but promises co-operation with Europe at any time that such co-operation could be mutually helpful. So ends the league fight and the World Court fight so far as Republicans are concerned. But the change in the Democratic platform is fully as significant. After having waged bitter campaigns in support of our en- court under proper conditions. The World Court resolution passed the Senate with reservations which our senators, Republicans and Democrats alike, thought were necessary to preserve the traditional independence of action of the United States. The European nations, or at least a part of them, refused to accept our amendments and the matter was dropped. So the Kansas City platform this year fails to make any mention of the World Court, but promises co-operation with Europe at any time that such co-operation could be mutually helpful. So ends the league fight and the World Court fight so far as Republicans are concerned. But the change in the Democratic platform is fully as significant. After having waged bitter campaigns in support of our entry into the League the Democrats at Houston adopted a platform which does not mention the League of Nations, so prominent in the Wilson days, but declares among other things for "freedom from entangling political alliances with foreign nations," "but for free, full and open co-operation with the other nations of the world." So ends the League of Nations issue and the World Court issue so far as the Democrats are concerned. The veering away from the League and the World Court, by both political parties, and the similarity of their declarations on the subject, is a matter of vast significance which has received scant notice in the press of the country as yet, perhaps for the reason that there have been so many other things to write about and talk about. It is not likely, unless some new crises arises, that international affairs will play a prominent part in the campaign this year. The reason they will not play an important part is that the United States is now definitely committed to a policy of no entangling alliances and no interference in the political affairs of Europe. We are of course, as a nation, ready to do anything and everything we properly can to preserve the world peace, but we will not give up our independence of action and our determination to keep aloof from troubles which do not concern us. This crystalization of the American foreign policy, eliminating it as a political issue, is all the more astonishing in view of the fact that it has been accomplished despite the greatest campaign of international propaganda the world has ever known. For years the internationalists of one type or another have been seeking to destroy the "hands off Europe" sentiment in the United States. They have used the press, the pulpit, the lecture platform and every means known to man to further their aims, but they seem now definitely to have failed, although the campaign will doubtless be now directed into new channels and with carefully disguised objectives. But the point of felicitation is that Americans whether they be Republicans or Democrats are still sound to the core, and they are not so easily fooled as a lot of people thought they might be. THE BIG BOUT (Continued) By Albert T. Reid AN HERE ON MY LEF' IS KID JACK DEMOCRACY EXPORTS GROWING backward, who are on the verge of starvation, do not buy automobiles. The automobile business is a good barom-into the muck raking, mud throwing stage. It is much more difficult to weigh the issues' and the candidates with an EXPORTS GROWING In spite of dire predictions to the contrary Uncle Sam is still in the exporting business. The total exports of the United States for the first three months of 1928 amounted to $1,203,000,000 which is the largest figure for any three-month period in the past eight years with the exception of one quarter in the year 1925. A few raw materials, lime, unmanufactured cotton, leaf tobacco, coal and coke, petroleum and wheat decreased in the value of their exports the first quarter of this year, but losses in these and other commodities were offset by increases in the value of manufactures exported. These facts were revealed in a report on "Our World Trade," published by the Foreign Commerce Department of the Chamber of Commerce in the United States. It said that two-thirds of the country's principal exports increased in value, notwithstanding a somewhat lower level of prices. With four exceptions these gains were in manufactures, including a few manufactured foods such as flour. It is interesting to note that the shipment of automobiles increased during this quarter in the amount of eighteen per cent and strengthened their hold as our second leading export to foreign lands. Only three of the ten leading exports showed losses during this three-month period—unmanufactured cotton, gasoline and leaf tobacco, two raw materials and one manufactured product. To return for a moment to automobiles, the figures show that the value of motor cars exported during the quarter reached approximately $120,000,000 which is said to be a substantial increase over the corresponding period in any previous year in the history of the automobile business. The leading importers of American passenger cars were Canada, Sweden, Argentina, Australia and Belgium while Argentina, Brazil and British Africa led in truck imports. The increase in the exportation of American automobiles proves that there is a noticeable improvement in the economic conditions of the world. People who are going backward, who are on the verge of starvation, do not buy automobiles. The automobile business is a good barometer of economic conditions everywhere. With the increase of our exports therefore, especially of automobiles, it must be admitted that world conditions are generally improving. We no longer hear the great cry so much to be heard a few years ago, that Uncle Sam should play Santa Claus to the world. NO MUCKRAKING It is announced from both political camps at Washington that so far as the leaders are concerned this will not be a campaign of personal abuse. This is a state devotion to be wished, and it is hoped that the good intentions of the heads of the two great parties will be followed out by the lesser lights on down the line. After all political campaigns are questions of principle rather than of personality. Persons may die and eventually be forgotten, but principles, if based on truth, are imperishable. It is of course to keep the personalities of the national candidates out of the picture. Each of them may have qualities which will attract to him voters who base their suffrage on the personalities of the candidate. There can be no criticism of this and it is right and proper that the qualifications of the various candidates be weighed carefully to see how they measure up for the positions to which they are aspiring. Put mud throwing with similar evil practices which crop up now and then in campaigning is a far different matter. It is not only degrading to American politics but it blinds the public vision to real issues in the campaign. After all, the principal reason we have two great political parties is that men differ in their ideas of how the affairs of the government should be conducted. If all were agreed there would be no excuse for a campaign. But since we do not agree it is up to the good American to study the issues in the campaign, and the qualifications of the candidates to fill the offices to which they aspire. To do less than this is to fall in our duties as American citizens. And if the campaign gets into the muck raking, mud throwing stage, it is much more difficult to weigh the issues' and the candidates with an impartial mind. Therefore the less personal abuse, and the more attention to principle, the better off we are all going to be when the campaign is over. LAW AND JUSTICE A 13-year-old boy, born and reared in Kentucky mountains, quarreled with a boy friend, drew a gun and shot him. It was not a premeditated murder, and the boy admitted that he carried the gun because all the other boys and all his elders did. This 13-year-old was sentenced to a reformatory until old enough to enter the penitentiary to serve the state for the balance of his life. About the same day the door of a Lima, Ohio hospital was opened and George Remus, who confessed to premeditated murder of his wife, walked out a free man instead of going to the gallows. We free Americans are taught that liberty can only be secured by respect for law, but if law is to deserve respect it must possess some more decent semblance of justice than is illustrated in these two cases. Ohio produces an educated bootlegger with a barrel of money. He plans and performs a cold-blooded murder, the state slaps his wrist and lets him go. Kentucky produces a lad in the mountains who carried a gun because other boys had guns. In the heat of passion he used it. The state pounces upon him and the law says—life in prison. We have had so much of this inequality of justice that respect for law has to some extent broken down. The reporters say that the weather in Houston was terribly hot. But that ought to have put the politicians in good seasoning for the fall campaign. The ex-Kaiser is quoted as saying that America is the master of the world. The trouble with Bill seems to be that he doesn't think soon enough. POP COULD ONE BIRD HATCH OUT A OTHER BIRDS EGG? I SUPPOSE SO. I'M GLAD TO SEE YOU TAKE UP SUCH QUESTIONS GO INTO THE QUESTION FARTHER AN' POP WILL ENLIGHTEN YOU IF A ROB IN WOULD HATCH A OSTRICH EGG BY MISTAKE, AN' THA OSTRICH WOULD COME OUTA THA SHELL AN NOT WATCH WHERE IT WUZ STEPPIN, AN' STEP ON ITS MA, AN- GOSH I NEVER GOT THAT FAR IN NATURE STUDY MYOELF! ILL TURN YOU OVER TO THE FOOTBALL EDITOR. HE'S WELL UP ON THE SUBJECT OF ONE PARTY STEPPING ON ANOTHER OBSERVATIONS THE AYES HAVE IT, BE GOSH! The sooner Los Angeles citizens (and the railway companies) build that union depot at the Plaza the better. There is nothing that would stabilize conditions in Los Angeles better than that union depot at the Plaza. THE WIND JAMMER, HO, HO, HUM! There have been marathon runners, dancers, tug-of-war artists, and whatnots, and now a young member of a governing body is down for a speech twenty-four hours long for the first of a filibuster. PUTTING A BURR UNDER THE SADDLE Some orange groves along the main highways do not seem just right. They need fertilizer and better care. The reason no doubt for this is that perhaps the owner expects to subdivide into town lots—or maybe he is speculating and expects some one to happen along and take it off his hands, and consequently he is just letting nature take its course. But, really, if those holders would get in and dig, and quit visiting, they would get a nice return—if they raised good fruit. E PLURIBUS UNUM Now that the North Pole has been definitely located it may be expected that a well-known Southern California city will take proper steps to annex it. IDEAL SUMMER RESORT And be it further known that the North Pole has been discovered beyond the peradventure of a doubt. In all probability some live wire subdivider will get busy and lay it out in town lots. CALL AGAIN, FOLKS The Eighth Annual Valencia Orange Show held in Anaheim has again shown to the world what real oranges look like. This section is the home of the valencia orange—it comes in when all other fruit goes out. A good valencia orange grove is like a gold mine. Thousands of visitors were in attendance, and from an advertising viewpoint there is nothing to equal the Orange Show. Good orange groves around Anaheim are not for sale—because there is nothing that a man can invest his money in to CALL AGAIN, FOLKS The Eighth Annual Valencia Orange Show held in Anaheim has again shown to the world what real oranges look like. This section is the home of the valencia orange—it comes in when all other fruit goes out. A good valencia orange grove is like a gold mine. Thousands of visitors were in attendance, and from an advertising viewpoint there is nothing to equal the Orange Show. Good orange groves around Anaheim are not for sale—because there is nothing that a man can invest his money in to bring better results. All Southern California is benefitted by the Valencia Orange Show, and if you will pardon us, folks, we will mention that Anaheim is the only place where you can raise good valencia oranges. There is room here for others who want to get into the citrus business. A CLOSE UP A barber says: "If a soap salesman would call he would give him the names of some women who need washing behind the ears." DENOUNCING THE GOLD DIGGERS A well-known movie actor, who is visiting abroad, is reported to be down for a discourse, over there, his subject being, "The Tyranny of Women." Epigrammatically speaking, it is expected, that the actor will unloosen some poignant paragraphs for the emancipation of husbands who have been sorely oppressed. CAUGHT ON THE FLY "Why, hello, Bill." said a man who had been away for twenty years. He had just met a fellow he knew well when he romped around these parts a couple of decades ago. "How you all getting along? Say, whatever became of Billy So and So?" he asked. "Is that so; that's too bad. Billv was a good scout. And say, where is Old Man What's His Name? The dickens he is. Do you think he's home now? I'm going right over to see him. Say, remember the time we had a Dutch Pot? That was real funny, wasn't it. We swiped the chickens belonging to one of the gang. He didn't know it until the feed was over. Yeh! They were the happy days. Well, so long, old timer. Come in and see me when you get into the city. And say, (shish) I'll see that you have a good time. Oh, say, you remember May-'er-May; that's it—May Flower. Whatever became of her—she was a good pal of mine. What? Four! You don't say! Well, well, of all things. So-long." NO WONDER THERE ARE BURGLARS It is reported that pass key thieves entered the apartment of a young woman in an adjoining city, and stole jewelry and silverware valued at $6500. ANY PORT IN A STORM It has been revealed that a young man in a neighboring town has not slept in a bed in 12 years, having made his bed all this time on the bare floor. Now, all those henpecked husbands who have nagging, irascible, onion-eating wives speak up, or forever hold your peace. HAVE THEIR OFF DAYS If you read the mutterings of some of the Jokesmiths you wonder what it is all about; while some of the rest of them do not always ring a bull's-eye. ANY PORT IN A STORM It has been revealed that a young man in a neighboring town has not slept in a bed in 12 years, having made his bed all this time on the bare floor. Now, all those henpecked husbands who have nagging, irascible, onion-eating wives speak up, or forever hold your peace. HAVE THEIR OFF DAYS If you read the mutterings of some of the Jokesmiths you wonder what it is all about; while some of the rest of them do not always ring a bull's-eye. LAUGHING TO BEAT THE BAND If you have that tired feeling, or indigestion, or are feeling blue, if you would just read what some of the press agents sav about their favorite stars, why, boy, you would be cured right now. STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN Another life has been sacrificed at a "dangerous" railroad crossing. The total casualties mount higher. All "dangrous" crossings, it would appear, should be underground. Incidentally, it may be cited that a person, riding in a motor vehicle, especially an inclosed one, and going nearby in the same direction with a locomotive cannot hear the oncoming train. So when (at a crossing) you see the two streaks of rust, put on the brakes, wait, and do nothing until you are sure there is no train in sight. IN THE WRONG PEW Just why there is such a thing as a filibuster is past finding out. Any man who can talk for twelve hours without stopping, instead of being sent to legislative halls, could be used to better advantage in congested places to direct traffic. ADDING TO THE GAIETY OF NATIONS When important measures destined to redound to the good of the people, are sidetracked to allow a wind-iammer to discourse on "dead" issues, that is enough to cause a chuckle long and loud, and to a man up a tree, should be given the soft pedal. MISSED THEIR CALLING When electing men to high office it would be well for the people, when looking 'em over before the primaries, to give the guys X-ray treatments to ascertain whether or not they have lungs of leather. Might save a lot of time and trouble by using those hombres as radio announcers.