anaheim-gazette 1928-09-20

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE ESTABLISHED 1870 HENRY RUCHEL, Editor and Proprietor ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR.....$2.00 SIX MONTHS.....1.50 THREE MONTHS.....1.75 Referred at the Anaheim, California, Post Office as second class matter. TARIFF THE ISSUE California agriculturalists will be more solidly united than ever before for a political candidate in support of Herbert Hoover according to C. C. Teague, manager of the California Fruit Growers' Exchange and the California Walnut Growers' Association, who is calling an organization conference to be held here next week. So far as California and the Pacific Coast states are concerned, there is but one issue in the present campaign and that is the protective tariff. The new organization will include leader representatives of all farmers, ranchers, fruit and produce groups in the eight Southern California counties to make certain the state's share in continuing the prosperous times of the last eight years. In calling the farm protective league together, Teague said: "In this Presidential campaign the Democratic party is attempting to delude voters by putting up a 'smoke screen' of new issues to prevent the people from giving proper consideration to the real issues. The only issue is: Shall the Republican party and its policies, which have brought such remarkable prosperity to the working men and women and to industry in the United States, be continued? "They are claiming that tariff is no longer an issue. Make no mistake—it is still the most important issue before the country today. The Republican party has always stood for a high protective tariff that would foster and build up American industry and that would give employment to American labor and protect "In this Presidential campaign the Democratic party is attempting to delude voters by putting up a 'smoke screen' of new issues to prevent the people from giving proper consideration to the real issues. The only issue is: Shall the Republican party and its policies, which have brought such remarkable prosperity to the working men and women and to industry in the United States, be continued? "They are claiming that tariff is no longer an issue. Make no mistake—it is still the most important issue before the country today. The Republican party has always stood for a high protective tariff that would foster and build up American industry and that would give employment to American labor and protect it from the cheap labor of foreign countries. "Whenever the Democratic party has been in power it has always revised the tariff downward, which has resulted in economic disaster and great distress among our people. Everyone agrees that with the incoming administration that there must be a revision of the tariff as it have been many changes in industry and agriculture so that the present bill does not properly meet the situation. "The Pacific Coast particularly is vitally interested in this revision, as it is enjoying a fair measure of protection on its industries and agriculture which have been fostered and built up under the Republican tariff system. "I submit that we cannot afford to have our tariff schedules set up by a Democratic party which has always been the enemy of a proper protective tariff. If the Democratic party should elect its candidate for President, in all probability a Democratic congress will be elected. If this should be the case, the tariff will undoubtedly be revised downward and the Pacific Coast will lose a large part of the protection it is enjoying, which means disaster to our people. "It is equally important that the protection to industries in other states be maintained as it is only through prosperity, which means high purchasing power, that we can hope to find a market for our great and rapidly increasing production. "I am satisfied that our people have the good judgment to recognize these things and will cast their votes for Herbert Hoover and the Republican ticket." California fruit growers and agriculturalists are not to be "taken in" by the "political farmers of the corn belt area" who are attempting to lead a revolt against the Republican standard-bearers. Teague recently told a group of agriculturalists at the Alexandria Hotel Hoover headquarters the political history of William Hirth and George N. Peek, farm bloc radical leaders who have declared for Smith. "Since these two radical organizations pretend to speak for millions of farmers, the California grower is entitled to know something about the men that compose them and why they are opposing Herbert Hoover. "This man, Hirth, who is a chairman of the corn belt committee, and lives at Columbia, Missouri, is well known throughout that region as a life-long Democrat of the radical type. "On the committee with him are seven men who at this time or in the past have been associated with the activities of the Non-Partisan League. One of these, A. W. Ricker, was formerly with Pearson's magazine when it was a radical publication, and is best remembered in Kansas as a former editor of the "Appeal to Reason." He was called to North Dakota by Arthur Townley to help organize the Non-Partisan League. "All but six of the twenty-two members of the corn belt committee which only last week by resolution declared for the Tammy Hall farm relief program and the Democratic ticket, are radical Democrats. Only six in that group have ever voted the Republican ticket and two of those in 1924 worked and voted for..." "On the committee with him are seven men who at this time or in the past have been associated with the activities of the Non-Partisan League. One of these, A. W. Ricker, was formerly with Pearson's magazine when it was a radical publication, and is best remembered in Kansas as a former editor of the "Appeal to Reason." He was called to North Dakota by Arthur Townley to help organize the Non-Partisan League. "All but six of the twenty-two members of the corn belt committee which only last week by resolution declared for the Tammy Hall farm relief program and the Democratic ticket, are radical Democrats. Only six in that group have ever voted the Republican ticket and two of these in 1924 worked and voted for La Follette. It is this record which provoked the Daily Times of Davenport, Iowa, recently to say: "'These men now have the effrontery to tell us what mid-west Republicanism must do.'" VOTERS, TURN OUT We hope the published statement is not wrong in the prediction that the vote next November will be "sensationally large." One of the things is that the vote at the last few Presidential elections has been "senationally" small. According to estimates, there are 56,000,000 persons in the United States who are entitled to vote. In 1924 a trifle more than 29,000,000 persons cast their votes for President. The talk now is that this year at least 40,000,000 persons will go to the polls. Of course, that is all guesswork. But it is based on the fact that both parties appear to have determined to concentrate their best efforts on getting out the vote. It costs a lot of money to get out the vote, for there is an immense numer of indifferent voters. That indifference this year may be less than it has been in preceding Presidential years because there are issues, dodged by the platforms though they were, which the people themselves insist shall be fought out. But still, that leaves millions of voters who will not go to the polls unless it is made easy for them to do so. Inasmuch as both parties expect to have well filled war chests, it will be possible for both to create the physical means for getting these voters to the polls. As said before, that will cost a lot of money. But it may also be added that such expenditures are legitimate. Nicholas Murray Butler seems to be as thoroughly convinced that liquor cannot be abolished by law as he is that war can be abolished by law." ANAHEIM GAZETTE THURSDAYS NO ESCAPE By Albert T. Reid VACATION RANGE Hoover Wins Fight Against Monopolies policies of government officials in some foreign land dictate his destinies. "Every manufacturer using these raw materials must carry large quantities ton imposed by Chile on nitrates has stimulated development of plants to produce nitrates from the air. This tax alone costs American farmers some $10,-999,000." Hoover Wins Fight Against Monopolies Breaks Down Effect of Price Control on Raw Materials Essential to U. S. No bugles blow, no arms are presented and no flags waved, for the victories of peace, but, as President McKinley, one of the greatest Republican leaders, said, the victories of peace may be greater than those of war. Such a victory is that which just his been won under the leadership of Herbert Hoover in his capacity as Secretary of Commerce. The battle was one of peace but calculated to forestall more bitter struggles. The victory directly affects more Americans, as well as people of other countries, than would an armed conflict. It was the battle to break down the trade barriers set up by various nations looking to the control of absolutely essential raw materials, for the purpose of obtaining higher prices. The victory may be said to be won because through the mediatory efforts of Mr. Hoover, "calyx of such a dog-in-the-mang" policy has been accepted by the most influential nation involved; but that victory must be followed up asiduously, under competent leadership, if the full measure of benefit is to accrue and the smears of international bitterness be avoided. Governmentally-controlled foreign combinations had been set up in a number of raw materials which, because of our inability to produce, we must depend upon purchasing abroad. Among them are rubber, coffee, nitrates, potash, sisal, camphor, iodine, mercury and long-staple cotton. These combinations fixed both production and prices. "One need dilate but little on the difficulties of our consumers," Mr. Hoover declared in discussing the foreign controls. "They are apparent enough. The rising prices in some commodities have penetrated into every household in the United States. Every family budget is penalized. Further than that, they have subjected our industries to great jeopardy. No industrial consumer of these commodities can rely upon his own judgment as to one conduct of his business when the policies of government officials in some foreign land dictates his destinies." "Every manufacturer using these raw materials must carry large quantities in transit and in stock for his operations. His investment in materials is so great that if he is to be subjected to alternating feminic prices and collapses of prices with any ill economic wind or any shift in foreign government policies, then the whole of the savings invested in his business are in constant peril." Mr. Hoover was notably consistent in his plan of campaign. A champion of the doctrine that government should hold aloft from business, he managed adroitly the task of using government agencies to show business how to handle this problem largely by itself. When word reached Mr. Hoover of these developments in international trade, his first step was to ask Congress for funds for an intensive investigation into foreign-controlled essential raw materials. Congress further authorized use of scientists from other government departments to assist in the work. The results of this campaign have been of direct effect on the pocketbook of every American. The British control of rubber production and prices has been broken by various measures applied, under Mr. Hoover's leadership, by American business. The price of crude rubber—which had gone from 163 cents a pound in 1921 up to a peak price of $1.21—has receded to a fair price of below 30 cents a pound. The British legislative restriction will be abandoned on November 1, 1928, and the American rubber consumers are being saved upwards of $500,000 because of the lower price. Of the world coffee crop of 18,000,000 bags, Brazil produces 12,000,000. Although coffee was as low as 14 cents a pound in 1924, the Brazilian control sent into 29 cents in 1925. Mr. Hoover's activities brought the price back to around 22 cents, this decline representing a saving of about $100,000,000 to the American people. Although it costs but 5 cents a pound to produce sisal, the raw material from which binder tannis is made, the control exercised by the government of Yucatan, Mexico, has boosted the price to 23 cents. This control, it is estimated, costs the American farmer from $35,-000,000 to $70,000,000 a year. The flat export tax of $12.34 per ton imposed by Chile on nitrates has stimulated development of plants to produce nitrates from the air. This tax alone costs American farmers some $10,-000,000 a year. Chile exercises a similar control over iodine, levying an export tax of 46 cents per kilo. We rely on Germany for potash and must meet the prices demanded by the government control, but, meantime, are searching for native beds. Japanese government control of Formosa camphor sent the price of that essential from a low point of 43 cents a pound to $4, but economic pressure brought it back to $1. The outstanding example of how Mr. Hoover's plan worked is furnished by rubber. The United States uses 70 per cent of the world's rubber in its automobile, electrical and other industries, for our twenty-odd million automobiles, our millions of telephones, and for other fields. Great Britain, controlling 77 per cent of the world's rubber output, six years ago put into effect the Stevenson Act, a scheme which was intended artificially to restrict the supply and to obtain a better price. The object was to obtain from 24 to 36 cents a pound and to improve the British East Indian rubber industry. The result was almost instantaneous. Prices sprang up to more than a dollar a pound. Half a billion dollars was added to the American consumer's rubber bill. Of vital commercial and industrial importance and of scientific interest, the investigations which followed wore the colors of romance. Trained men from the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce and skilled scientists from the Department of Agriculture set forth an quest of sources of rubber. The vast basin of the Amazon was the most promising field. On the north bank of the Amazon they found a great shoulder of land with adequate natural conditions and the river offering a highway to the sea. Today this territory, as extensive as all New England, is being prepared by American capital for the production of high grade Para rubber, the best in the world. Remember the goo dold political days when "tariff for revenue only" was one of the burning issues of the campaign? A prize gazelle was found shot dead the other morning in the Bronx zoo. Up to this time the New York newspapers have not blamed this tragedy on a prohibition agent. ign controls. "They are apparent enough. The rising prices in some commodities have penetrated into every household in the United States. Every family budget is penalized. Further ban that they have subjected our industries to great jeopardy. No industrial consumer of these commodities can rely upon his own judgment as to the conduct of his business when the American people. Although it costs but 5 cents a pound to produce sisal, the raw material from which binder twine is made, the control exercised by the government of Yucatan, Mexico, has boosted the price to 23 cents. This control, it is estimated, costs the American farmer from $35,-000,000 to $40,000,000 a year. The flat export tax of $12.34 per HERE'S SOMETHIN' THAT OUGHT TO INTEREST AUNT EMMIE. NOW'S THE QUENCH MARKET MONTY? SHAH! HEY'S READING TN YOUR PRINT? NEWS! I READ WHERE SOME GUY'S WIFE HADN'T BROKEN TO HIM FOR TWENTY YEARS. SOME MEN ARE BORN LUCKY! SINCE YOU HAVE ENTERED YOURSELF IN THE 'MISS SMALL TOWN AMERICA' BEAUTY CONTEST THIS SHOULD INTEREST YOU AUNT EMMIE. TAKE OFF 20 LBS OVER NIGHT! GET THAT BATHING BEAUTY FIGURE! BE ENVIRED BY ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND PLEASE NOT TO TAKE-ANTI-BEEF LET THAT BE A LEGSON TO YOU, YOU FRESH YOUNG SCALAWAG! AMLTO THINK THEY'RE LOOKING FOR A NEW WORLD'S HEAVY WEIGHT CHAMPREN! SORRY THERE MATE! AUTOCASTER OBSERVATIONS KICKING OUT THE CLUTCH A court up-state held recently that a speed of fifty miles an hour does not of itself constitute reckless driving. In so ruling the court dismissed charges against a motorist who was arrested for driving fifty miles an hour on an open highway with no other cars in sight. LAUGH AND THE WORLD LAUGHS WITH YOU Lots of people when they pick up their daily paper look for the comic page first. Whether that is a slam at the editorial writers has not been found out up to the time of going to press. WHITTLED HIM DOWN "Hey, you kid," said a Sergeant of Police, "What do you mean by burning up the road in that manner. People might think you are going for a doctor." FORK IN THE ROAD One young man won a sensational footrace, because as he says he lives a clean and simple life. Another young man who turned burglar (and was caught) said he craved a fast life and excitement. The former wins, glory and renow—the other gloom and remorse. The parents of the former boy are happy; the parents of the other boy are sad. IT WON'T BE LONG NOW There used to be a time when the men folks said the women could wear their shirt, hat and coat, but they never would be so bold as to wear their pants. But the "strides" are now old stuff. Now if the flying bug takes hold of the women, whatever is to become of the men. They will have to "root hog or die." They will have to look out for themselves and join the kitchen police. They will be left at the post. The old axiom of everybody works but father, will be relegated to the ash can. Mother will be up in the air, while the daughter is preening her wing feathers. Father's troubles have just began, and instead of going out into the woodshed to cool off he will have to climb into the attic, for the backyard will be turned into an airport. THINGS ARE LOOKING UP Report has it that one of those classy coupes (that cost about $20,000) was seen rolling up street the other day; and also you hear now that the Mexican orange pickers have quit buy THINGS ARE LOOKING UP Report has it that one of those classy coupes (that cost about $20,000) was seen rolling up street the other day; and also you hear now that the Mexican orange pickers have quit buying second-hand cars. THERE'S LOTS OF 'EM TAKING A CHANCE An easern hygien expert informs a breathless and petting public that only four people out of five should kiss. He allows the lingering lip practice spreads pyorrhea. S'ALL RIGHT S'LONG'S JOB HOLDS OUT A credit man who sells homes at a dollar down and a dollar a week, speaks up boldly and says he considers a good risk the young man and young woman who starts out to make a real home. GETTING AWAY TO EVEN BREAK On the eve of the Republican convention in Kansas City a bunch of bandits robbed a bank, and just before the Democrats assembled in Houston the boys down there lynched a negro. NOW YOU SEE IT. NOW YOU DON'T Sometime ago a man in this country was tried for a murder and he was acquitted, the jury believing him insane at the time the tragedy had been committed. Later the man was examined as to his (present) mental equilibrium and he was pronounced sane. BUSIER THAN ONE-LEGGED BUCK AND WING DANCER After much discussion by the Pro and Con association, a man was in town the other day circulating a petition for signatures calling for referendum to abolish rodeos. It is said this is because the cowbodys use cruel methods, especially shapened spurs, when riding the broncs. Now, says one Con Spieler, as a matter of fact, nine cowboys out of ten, when hitting the high spots on the hurricane deck of a wild cavuse, have no time at all to use spurs or anything else, and usually land on their heads and have to walk back to the paddock while the pony ranges over onto the other side of the fence where the grass looks greener. TRAVELLING HIGH, WIDE AND HANDSOME A young sprig of gentility, when poverty overtook him, said the "impulse" to steal overcame him and he robbed a bank state. He at once took the swag and bought a car, a couple of new suits, top riding boots, a wrist watch and whatnots—and was arrested. THE COCK-EYED WORLD Many men and women try to make a living by their wits. They believe they are smarter than the "other feller" and proceed to wind their web about him. The fleeing comes later—in some cases. But sometimes their game does not work out and they resort to kidnapping—or murder. But they have "no brains" and when the shrewd detectives get hold of them they break down and spill the beans. BILLY GOAT FODDER If the garbage can is any criterion, lots of the chefs de cuisine THE COCK-EYED WORLD Many men and women try to make a living by their wits. They believe they are smarter than the "other feller" and proceed to wind their web about him. The fleecing comes later—in some cases. But sometimes their game does not work out and they resort to kidnapping—or murder. But they have "no brains" and when the shrewd detectives get hold of them they break down and spill the beans. BILLY GOAT FODDER If the garbage can is any criterion, lots of the chefs de cuisine are of the can opener variety. ITS IN THE NECK When you are seated comfortably in the movies and a fellow just behind you starts coughing, an dif you do not "duck," you know that the bozo failed to bring along a handkerchief. DRIFTING WITH THE TIDE Just why a mother will take her baby to the picture show is past finding out. Of course, she wants to see the "pitcher." But when the baby starts to bawl, and keeps up the screescendo, and the usherettes assemble, get figgetty, excited and everything, wanting to order the baby out (but don't) the customers just sit back and let nature take its course. TELLING 'EM WHERE TO PARK Gather around, fellows, and lend an ear. Speaking about that much-discussed Union denot in Los Angeles, The City of the Angels is a town of wonderful distances. It is spread all over the map. To be sure, there are many fine buildings and boulevards. But Los Angeles should specialize in stability—that's the word—look it up in the dictionary—it's means to be firm. In the early days the sections from the Plaza to Fourth street—from Alameda to Broadway—bore the brunt of the city's civic vicissitudes—(that's a big word). In 1888 things were somewhat panicky—just after that real estate boom. But the city weathered the storm all right. The area just mentioned was the heart of the town. That was the acorn from which the great oak grew. It is now a wonderful modern city. But it must brush up its stability. A Union railway depot at the Plaza site would do that very thing. There may be some sentiment mixed with this. It would be great for the travelling public. It would put pen into the east side and adjacent territory—that now seems lost in the municipal shuffle. A Union depot there would be a fine thing for the entire city. Sure thing, fellows—no foolin'.