anaheim-gazette 1928-08-02

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, Californa. Post Office as second class matter. HIGH TARIFF MEANS INDUSTRY One of the principal issues in the present presidential campaign should be the tariff question. And regardless of politics "race, color or previous condition of servitude," every voter in the states manufacturing any considerable quantity of textile and shoes should stand in unwavering formation in favor of tariff protection. If they don't, larger and still larger foreign importations of textile fabrics and shoes will further cut down the demand for American-made products, in which event fewer and still fewer textile and shoe workers will be employed in this country. The payroll of textile mills and shoe factories, when operating full time, means not only a livelihood but greater prosperity in fifteen textile states and seven or eight shoe-producing states and hard times in these same states when those mills and shops are closed or operating on reduced schedules. Various reasons are given for the general depression in the textile business and hectic conditions in the shoe trade, but we believe that one of the principal causes is the large influx of foreign goods. A study of these importations for the past five years can lead to no other conclusion. But so long as people in the North and South are split on the tariff question the condition will not be properly remedied. There is enough cloth and yarn coming into this country every month from abroad, says "Fibre and Fabric," to change short-time operation to full time in practically every textile mill. Various reasons are given for the general depression in the textile business and hectic conditions in the shoe trade, but we believe that one of the principal causes is the large influx of foreign goods. A study of these importations for the past five years can lead to no other conclusion. But so long as people in the North and South are split on the tariff question the condition will not be properly remedied. There is enough cloth and yarn coming into this country every month from abroad, says "Fibre and Fabric," to change short-time operation to full time in practically every textile mill in this country, and this means millions of dollars in wages each year paid to foreign labor, more millions to foreign shareholders, and so far as the consumer goes, there is not a cent of gain in the price or value of the foreign goods bought in the shape of suits, dresses, overcoats and cloaks. The same condition obtains in the shoe industry. The foreign shoes dumped annually on these shores would keep every shop in New England running full tilt twelve months a year. And the startling thing about it is that more foreign-made shoes are coming over each month. These shoes are made by labor that in many instances work for fifty to seventy-five cents a day, which enables the European manufacturer to produce them in competition with the American-made product and to sell them cheaper. We are now in the midst of another great national political campaign and the tariff is sure to be a leading issue. For self-preservation, for the protection of their jobs regardless of party, mill and factory workers from the heads o f the firms to the least important employee, and all merchants, traders and professional men in industrial sections, should demand a clear-cut and non-evasive pledge from Congressmen and United States Senators that they will agitate and vote for a tariff sufficiently high to shut out foreign goods and protect our own industries. NATIONAL PARKS GROWING The number of our national parks is steadily increasing, and the parks already in existence are being constantly improved. As touring becomes more popular the people of America are visiting these parks in greater numbers each year. An interesting story of our parks and the way they are managed will be found in the current issue of the National Republic. It is entitled, "Our National Parks in Summer" and was written by Miss Isabelle Florence Story. "With the springtime appearance of robins and blue birds the offices of the National Park Service of the Department of the Interior at Washington become the liveliest places in the national capital. They are just as busy making summer preparations as are the birds and bees and ants. Several of the national parks such as the Yosemite and Grand Canyon, are open all the year, but the Yellowstone and most of the others open to visitors in June. "Managing the national parks is no slight job. Stephen T. Mather, the first and only director of the service, is a real business man. Before coming to the park service he was what Theodore Roosevelt would term a "captain of industry." When called upon, back in 1915, to correlate and build up the national park system of America he brought to the job a wealth of practical business knowledge and experience, combined with an innate idealism and love of the outdoors, which exceptionally fitted him for the tremendous task that lay ahead. His brilliant success in this public-spirited work is known to millions of grateful men and women. "There are now nineteen national parks and thirty-two national monuments administered by us." "Managing the national parks is no slight job. Stephen T. Mather, the first and only director of the service, is a real business man. Before coming to the park service he was what Theodore Roosevelt would term a "captain of industry." When called upon, back in 1915, to correlate and build up the national park system of America he brought to the job a wealth of practical business knowledge and experience, combined with an innate idealism and love of the outdoors, which exceptionally fitted him for the tremendous task that lay ahead. His brilliant success in this public-spirited work is known to millions of grateful men and women. There are now nineteen national parks and thirty-two national monuments administered through the Department of Interior, instead of fourteen monuments as when Mr. Mather took over the job. In 1915 there were only 335,000 visitors to the parks, while last year there were over two million, and still more are expected this year. The Washington headquarters office is small, with only twenty-six permanent employees to handle the work of administering the fifty-one parks and monuments. The financial end of this work alone is a big job. Last year funds totaling $3,258,409 were appropriated by Congress for administering and improving these reservations, as against $624,490 in 1915. This involved preparing detailed estimates of the funds needed, for submission to the Bureau of the Budget and Congress, and the keeping of accurate cost records to show how every cent of the money appropriated wgas spent. In addition, the parks during the same period produced a total revenue of $818,530.72, and this had to be handled through hthe Washington office and placed in the Treasury of the United States in a fund called 'Miscellaneous Receipts.' In making increased appropriations for park work Congress has shown a well-deserved confidence in the integrity of the park administration. In addition to the financial part of park work, every matter of policy for the management of the parks must be referred to the Washington office for final decision. NATIONAL DEFENSE The patriotic organizations in the United States that are demanding adequate national defense do so because they know that this is a guarantee of our freedom and of peace; men who have seen service in the army of the United States, advocate proper preparedness and training because they know of the frightful and hideous cost in human life of lack of proper preparation and training. The United States has no program of a great threatening navy, or of a huge standing army, trained and prepared for international conquest, but merely a navy sufficient to protect our shore line and an army sufficient to maintain domestic tranquility. ANAHEIM GAZETTE She May Not Need Any Further Rescuing By Albert T. Reid WHY UTILITIES ADVERTISE The best way of acquaint ing the general public with the benefits of a public improvement in service they are endowing to make. As a result bet-ter relations are gradually being estab-lished between the public and the corporials which are foreseeing enough. MEETING CHINA HALF-WAY The United States is ordering its hun-dreds of marines out of China. This is WHY UTILITIES ADVERTISE The best way of acquaintance the general public with the benefits of a public service is through the medium of newspaper advertising, according to C. L. Jones, president of the Ohio Independent Telephone association who recently declared at a meeting of his associates: "The amount of such advertising that each company should do depends upon the local commercial situation and the size of the individual company. None of the companies that are now advertising would consider for a moment the abandonment of this practice. More companies are learning to advertise each year. "Keeping the public advised of developments in the industry has more than a local effect. The strengthening of your company is its own field and the firm establishment of good public relations is of direct and substantial benefit to all of the other companies with whom you are in contact. "During the last year many new exchange buildings have been constructed and provided with new equipment. Hundreds of miles of underground cables have been added and thousands of miles of open wire have been replaced with lead covered cables. There has been recorded a universal improvement in plant and operating practice." No class of business organizations in the country during the past few years have come to recognize the value of newspaper advertising any more than the public service corporations. The day when there was little communication and apparent interest between the public service corporation and the public has gone, and will likely never return. The corporations have learned that the best way to get along with the people is to give them adequate service at a reasonable cost and the public is beginning to realize that after all, if the corporation gives good service it is entitled to a fair and reasonable profit on its legitimate investment. A great deal of this change of feeling has been brought about through newspaper publication and especially newspaper advertising on the part of the companies. When a new improvement is made, which is calculated to give better service to the public, the companies now announce the fact in big display advertisements. And by the judicious use of newspaper advertising they are keeping the public in touch with what they are trying to do and the improvements in service they are endeavoring to make. As a result bettaneous are gradually being established between the public and the corporations which are far-scoring enough to adopt a course of co-operation with the public. Now the lesson to the small business man in this is obvious. If the great public service corporation, which probably has no competition in a specific territory, finds that it pays to advertise what it has to sell, it is all the more true that the merchant, who is against the keenest sort or competition must let the public know through judicial advertising just what sort of goods he has and why it will pay the public to buy them. There can be no serious dispute on this score. A USE FOR CRIMINALS The Cuban Congress is discussing a bill which would make a murderer condemned to death, of some service to his kind. The bill provides an option for the condemned murderer. He may choose hanging for his fate, or be incarcerated with cancer germs. In case he chooses the latter, and the disease develops after the involution, he is to be returned to a cancer research laboratory for study and treatment and observation. If he continues to live after the lapse of twelve years, he is to be unlawfully released. Just how practicable or humane such a method would be, we are not quite ready to state. But on first reflection it seems in this way the murderer might be of some service to mankind. It is increasingly manifest that the death penalty justified upon murderers serves no great purpose. It is questionable whether it acts as a deterrent for those who commit murder usually do it under the power of a supreme objection or a violent hate. But if we must have capital punishment, why is it not a good idea to have it serve some high purpose in humanity as this proposed method seems to have in view? The probabilities are that in most cases the choice would be a continuation of life. There would be the natural instinct of self-preservation as a determinant. In addition, there would be hope and even the expectancy that the disease might be averted in spite of the inoculation, or that if it did develop it might be cured. To us it seems much more humane than hanging, and the murderer might render a high service to humanity. MEETING CHINA HALF-WAY The United States is ordering its hundreds of marines out of China. This is a recognition of faith in the nationalist movement which is getting practical control of the situation. It is in marked contrast with the attitude which Japan has assumed in threatening to break off diplomatic relations, and palpably for just the opposite reason which prompts America in her course. To be sure, Japan's interest in Manchuria is less upon treaty rights and the new government, in Japan's opinion, is threatening those "rights" if it has not already violated them. The rights which have been obtained by the kind of persuasion one connection and another that have been used upon China for years are not rights as understood by the ordinary ethical standards of men generally. In fact, it has been some of these rights which have caused the most profound feeling of enmity by China against foreigners, and if we place ourselves in China's position we can understand the sentiments thoroughly. Japan, except in a very recent period, has been as arrogant as any of the powers since she came into a realization of her physical prowess. Through extra-territorial rights Japan, as others, has been able to violate China's laws with impunity through the division of China into its various smaller units of influence, and because of a lack of a common language which can be spoken and understood by all of the Chinese, China has always been an easy prey to the powers that would divide her. The nations which now will join in and aid China in bringing about a national unity and a permanent peace will deserve and, we believe they will receive, China's undying gratitude. As a natural result trade relations are bound to be established with her in an ever increasing volume, for be it known that China's power will be unlimited as she comes into a real national light with her many millions and with a natural fruitful country with unlimited resources. We can watch our relationship and Japan's relationship to China with great interest as they develop. In any case, this action by the United States evidence confidence in the nationalist government and recognition will unabettly soon follow. People are wondering why President Coolidge wore than ten-gallon hat up in Wisconsin. Maybe he found it an ideal place to carry the bait. A great deal has been brought about through newspaper publicly and especially newspaper advertising on the part of the companies. When a new improvement is made, which is calculated to give better service to the public, the companies now announce the fact in big display advertisements. And by the judicious use of newspaper advertising they are keeping the public in touch with what they are trying to do, and cases the choice would be a continuation of life. There would be the natural instinct of self preservation as a determinant. In addition, there would be hope and even the expectancy that the disease might be averted in spite of the inoculation, or that if it did develop it might be cured. To us it seems much more humane than hanging, and the murderer might render a high service to humanity. OH KATIE! WHERE DID YOU PUT THE HAIR BRUSH? IT'S RIGHT THERE ON THAT WHAT-CHA-MAY CALL IT! ON WHAT WHAT-CHA-MAY CALL IT? WHERE DO YOU MEAN? WHY - ON THAT THING-A-MA-G. THERE BY THAT NIZ-A-RINK-US. YOU'LL SEE IT! BE JABBERS! I CAN'T SEE WHAT SHE MEANS-WHERE DID YOU SAY ON THAT IT WAS KATIE?! WHAT-CHA-MAY-CALL-IT-ON THAT YOU-KNOW-WHAT I MEAN. SAY! WILL YOU COME IN HERE AN' SHOW ME WHERE IT IS! HOW DO I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT! THERE! RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU, ON THE WINDOW SILL WHERE I TOLD YOU IT WAS! WHY DON'T YOU USE YOUR EYES?!! People are wondering why President Coolidge wore than ten-gallon hat up in Wisconsin. Maybe he found it an ideal place to carry the bait. OBSERVATIONS UNRAVELLING THE MYSTERY "Where is Aunt Ri's Camp?" asked a motorist of a corpulent and swarthy Indian near old San Jacinto the other day. The interrogation was put in neat Spanish, but when the Indian answered it was readily learned that the Redman's English was more fluent than the white man's Spanish. The Indian pointed over to the east, saying it was about 3½ miles "over there." Come to find out it was just three blocks "over there." Arriving at the place, wrapped in curiosity, the motorist asked a young lady where Aunt Ri's Camp was located. The lady said, "Why, it is right here," pointing to a place near by. She explained further that that was where the old adobe house once stood—but that it had been wrecked by an earthquake. And the lady explained further that it was there where Aunt Ri raised "Joe"—although the motorist had been led to believe that it was there where Ramona had lived. THE HOME TOWN BOOSTER "Is this surphur water?" asked a tourist of a keeper of a camp in the upper valley. "Yeah," replied the man, taking a glassful himself. "It puts pep into you—makes a new man out of you. But, say, brother, we have another brand of water here called Chaw-pain-go." (Which no doubt is derived from the combination of your pain goes). The keeper said it will cure all your sills—makes the lame walk—and gives the wife an amiable disposition. The tourist agreed to come back just as soon as his rheumatism began popping again. FED UP ON BONDS Strange as it may seem at elections in several Southern California cities, the other day school bonds, totaling millions of dollars, lacked the necessary two-thirds' votes to carry. What will the coming generation amount to without education? But anyhow property owners seem unwilling to carry the burden. GOOD THING FOR WHOLE CITY Civic bodies of East Los Angeles at a meeting held recently heartily endorsed the union depot (at the Plaza site) and passed a resolution asking the three railway companies to join hands and FED UP ON BONDS Strange as it may seem at elections in several Southern California cities, the other day school bonds, totaling millions of dollars, lacked the necessary two-thirds' votes to carry. What will the coming generation amount to without education? But anyhow property owners seem unwilling to carry the burden. GOOD THING FOR WHOLE CITY Civic bodies of East Los Angeles at a meeting held recently heartily endorsed the union depot (at the Plaza site) and passed a resolution asking the three railway companies to join hands and help build the depot as planned. The union depot (on the above site) is the one big thing that would cement Los Angeles together. It should be made a fact as soon as possible for the good of everybody in that city. THE BEEHIVE The harbor at Long Beach (when it begins to function) will be the biggest thing, commercially, in Southern California. Fact is, the harbor will be the Southland's best asset. Ships from the four corners of the earth will use the harbor. That will mean big business. Northern Orange county will feel the effects of the industrial activity sure to follow. People with money to invest will be safe in buying property between Anaheim and Long Beach. The deepening of the oil wells northwest of Signal Hill brings forth increased oil production. It is safe to predict that the next five years will see that section (and adjacent territory) one of the greatest industrial centers in the state. PENDULUM SWINGS BACK If you notice closely you will see that the "spoken drama" draws better now than for some time. The "silent drama," via the silver sheet, unless the picture is good, is losing ground, simply because the people are "getting tired." And incidentally there is too much "metallic" sound to the new variety, so they say in the barber shops. SAVING FUNERAL EXPENSES A man who was wielding his hammer the other day said a mossback is a man who is dead, but who has not as yet been buried. BACK INTO CIRCULATION Quite often the announcement appears in the paper wherein it says Miss So-and-So (of the movie world) has established a residence at Reno. GETTING AN EARFUL If the talkie pictures get a neck hold the owners of theatre will have to velvet the acoustics. BEDTIME STORY With the newspapers in Los Angeles "split" as to where that union depot should be located, the people up there might as well forget it, turn over and go to sleep, for divided they fall, and the choo choo cars will assemble when the cows jump over the moon. A WARRING People should be careful before signing their names to contracts, especially if some stranger comes along and wants to sell them a piano, radio, washing machine, or what have you. Side-step the flowery talk of the smooth salesman. Should you desire to buy any article suitable for your home, do business with some responsible firm and get value received. But by all means look before you leap and be sure you are right and then go ahead. With the newspapers in Los Angeles "split" as to where that union depot should be located, the people up there might as well forget it, turn over and go to sleep, for divided they fall, and the choo choo cars will assemble when the cows jump over the moon. A WARRING People should be careful before signing their names to contracts, especially if some stranger comes along and wants to sell them a piano, radio, washing machine, or what have you. Side-step the flowery talk of the smooth salesman. Should you desire to buy any article suitable for your home, do business with some responsible firm and get value received. But by all means look before you leap and be sure you are right and then go ahead. You will save a lot of sleep. SHORT AND SLOW "Can't pay that grocery bill?" asked a bill collector of an overdue debtor the other day. "Well, I'll tell you, pardner," said the slow-pay, "you see it is like this; I need a car and the missus wanted a piano, so you see I'm pretty well tied up; but I'll do the best I can." JUNGLES OF THE WILD AND WOOLLY WEST A newspaper said: A lady while taking her usual morning horseback ride on a mountain trail back of a tourist town in the upper valley, the other day, was trailed by a big timber wolf. A small spaniel dog that followed at the heels of the horse, it seems, was the object devoutly to be seized by the wild animal. The lady dismounted, gathered up the poodle in her arms, remounted her charging and plunging steed, and rapidly rode away, leaving the wolf without his breakfast. THE FEMALE STILL RULES THE ROOST At an Indian festival the other day, as the noon hour was near at hand, a man went to the place where meals were to be served. "Can I get something to eat," he asked. The Indian woman in charge, speaking correct English, replied, "Dinner will be served in one hour." WHAT DID THE GAL MEAN? A man who sat at a table de hote in a coastal town the other day, after ordering fried chicken with trimmings, and incidentally displaying a roll of one-dollar bills when paying for the feed, the coy waitress stepped up to him and asked "If he was a railroad man?" FOOLS AND THEIR MONEY, ETC. All those small Bear speculators, who dabbled in bank stocks, no doubt by this time realize that they were out of their class.