anaheim-gazette 1928-09-27

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE ESTABLISHED 1870 HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Proprietor ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR.....$2.00 SIX MONTHS.....1.25 TWENTIETH MONTHS.....7.75 Retrieved at the Anaheim, California. Post Office as second class matter. OUR GROWING TRADE In a survey of our foreign trade, it is pointed out that, although exports have almost doubled since 1913, the proportion of the total productive output of this country to that shipped abroad is no greater than it was twenty-five years ago. The statement continues that it is considered creditable that American exports should have developed at the same pace as domestic sales in view of the marked increase in domestic consumption and the lower purchasing power abroad. Here is something worth pondering over by those who are interested in studying our tariff laws and their effect on American industry. It has long been the theory of free traders that with a protective tariff in operation for a considerable number of years our foreign trade would languish and die. But we have had a protective tariff for the past seven years and our foreign trade is now about double what it was before the World War commenced. And in spite of the fact that our domestic trade has grown by leaps and bounds, setting up records never equaled in the history of the world, we are now told that the total productive output of this country to that shipped abroad is no greater than it was a century ago. In other words, under the protective tariff principle, our trade is in a healthy condition at home as well as abroad. There are several reasons for this, one of which is the protective tariff law itself. This law by preserving the great home market for American producers, has so increased this market through high wages that American manufacturers are able to produce at a rate and with an output never dreamed of in Europe. This has resulted in a lowered cost of production in spite of high wages and has ena- in spite of the fact that our domestic trade has grown by leaps and bounds, setting up records never equaled in the history of the world, we are now told that the total productive output of this country to that shipped abroad is no greater than it was a century ago. In other words, under the protective tariff principle, our trade is in a healthy condition at home as well as abroad. There are several reasons for this, one of which is the protective tariff law itself. This law by preserving the great home market for American producers, has so increased this market through high wages that American manufacturers are able to produce at a rate and with an output never dreamed of in Europe. This has resulted in a lowered cost of production in spite of high wages and has enabled our manufacturers to compete in the foreign markets with the products of countries where free trade, low wages and restricted output are the economic rule. Again we have sent great sums abroad through our tourists each year and it is also to be remembered that in spite of our protective laws a big proportion of our imports come in duty free. This is of course especially true in the case of commodities which do not come into competition with American products. It would seem therefore that our trade, both at home and abroad, is in a decidedly flourishing state. It would be unfair, however, not to mention the co-operation which the shippers, both to the domestic and foreign trade, have received from the Department of Commerce during the past few years. This department has written a record for trade organization and advancement which will be hard to surpass and this doubtless has had a great deal to do with promoting our foreign trade, by developing and encouraging it along proper and effective lines. TARIFF AND TEXTILES Evidence continues to pile up that the free traders are not exactly popular in the present campaign. Thomas F. McMahon, president of the United Textile Workers said in a recent address at the twenty-seventh annual convention of the organization in New York recently that what the textile workers need now is not less tariff but more protection. Additional duties, he declared, are necessary to protect the textile workers in the United States against the cheap labor of Japan. A tariff which takes into consideration only the higher paid textile workers of Great Britain will not do, he said. "I believe," he added, that this organization should fight for a fair protective tariff on all imported goods that obtain under cheaper working conditions than obtain in the United States." Each succeeding year the free traders find themselves with a harder row to hoe. Their appeal to the western farmers has fallen on deaf ears. These farmers, realizing that lower tariffs would bring greater competition from Argentine, Australia and the Orient, are asking for higher rather than lower tariffs. The agriculturalists and fruit growers of the South have felt keenly the pinch of competition from Mexico and the West Indies, where crops can be grown with peon labor at a much less cost than in the United States. These southern agriculturists are asking for more tariff, too. The South is no longer a free trade section of the country. The Southern States are growing industrial, too, and these industries are demanding protection just as the industries of the North, the East and the Middle West. The free traders, therefore, for the present at least, have fallen on evil days. Nobody seems to recognize them just now. Their principal aiders and abettors aside from the importers are a few financial interests with investments abroad, who hope to make European investments more attractive at the expense of American capital and American labor. United States. These southern agriculturists are asking for more tariff, too. The South is no longer a free trade section of the country. The Southern States are growing industrial, too, and these industries are demanding protection just as the industries of the North, the East and the Middle West. The free traders, therefore, for the present at least, have fallen on evil days. Nobody seems to recognize them just now. Their principal aiders and abettors aside from the importers are a few financial interests with investments abroad, who hope to make European investments more attractive at the expense of American capital and American labor. TO MAINTAIN OUR DEFENSES President Coolidge has done well to point out that the signing of the Kellogg anti-war treaty will have no effect upon our program of national defense. Endorsement of the pact does not mean that the strength of our army and navy will be curtailed or that plans for future strengthening of the services will be revised. The President's observations, in fact, are in keeping with the memoranda of both the British and French governments that their adherence to the treaty must not be construed as a surrender of the right to wage defensive war. And in order to wage an effective defensive war the instruments of national defense must be maintained at a level consistent with the requirements dictated by geographical location, the extent of the coast line, the number and character of insular possessions, and the general economic and political position which the defending nation occupies in world affairs. The President's interpretation of the Kellogg pact in this respect is particularly gratifying because it forestalls any possible criticism on the ground that American adherence would tend gradually to expose us to foreign attack when unprepared to meet such an invasion. There is, in other words, in view of the President's interpretation, no reason for any advocate of American preparedness opposing the signing of the pact so far as the United States is concerned. Any additions to our fleet for instance, could not be construed either here or abroad as any violation of the spirit of the new treaty. President Coolidge's observations, moreover, give fresh emphasis to the theory that the anti-war treaty is merely an instrument setting forth a fine ideal in international relations, namely, that, so far as the leading powers of the world are concerned, there will be no more aggressive conflicts. National ambitions and covetousness, in past history too frequently realized through resort to war, are henceforth to go unrealized if their realization depends solely upon military warfare. ANAHEIM GAZETTE the World's Series By Albert T. Ackel Uncle Sam - "LET'S SEE, I WONDER IF I HAVE EVERYTHING?" TELEVISION SCORE BOARD FEEDING GERMANY It is the peculiar fate of those whose furnished food for Germany. From other funds, large sums were allotted for the relief of Austrian and Polish children while some $8,000,000 was district each, while now there are only four such counties, Fresno, San Diego, Sonoma and Sacramento. FEEDING GERMANY It is the peculiar fate of those whose names have been connected with great enterprises that the personality of the man often is lost in the glory of the achievement. Many Americans think of Herbert Hoover as the head of the Belgian Relief, the United States Food Administration, or the Russian Relief. They see him as an eminent executive, a noted administrator, rather than as an individual or a personality. Those who have worked with Mr. Hoover know that along with his tremendous capacity for handling big affairs, he is intensely human. To what extent this human quality permeates his administrative work is indicated by Cleveland A. Newton, former member of Congress from Missouri, in his account of efforts to get food to the starving women and children of Germany and Central Europe following the Armistice. The article by Mr. Newton has just been reproduced by the Republican National committee. When all efforts of Congressmen Newton and Hamilton Fish of New York, to obtain an appropriation for purchasing surplus foodstuffs to feed famine-stricken Central Europe had failed, Hoover appeared before the House committee with his famous declaration: "We were never at war with women and children anywhere," and the tide was turned. When Clemenceau was intimating it would be better for France if 20,000,000 Germans starved. Hoover was bombarding the Allied Supreme Council with demands that the blockade be lifted on Scandinavian countries, with the right of re-export into Germany. These efforts failing, he pleaded with President Wilson to bring pressure upon the Allies. Time after time Hoover appealed to President Wilson to bring the pressure of world opinion upon the Allies. "The situation nin Germany today is so a large degree one of complete abandonment of hope," he wrote. "The people are in a state of moral collapse, and there is no resurrection from this except through the restoration of the normal processes of economic life and hope." When the blockade finally was lifted, Hoover was able to throw into Germany $250,000,000 worth of food, for which Germany paid. In addition Hoover's relief administration and the Quakers furnished food for Germany. From other funds, large sums were allotted for the relief of Austrian and Polish children, while some $8,000,000 was transferred to individual friends of nationals in America. Criticized both at home and abroad for his humanitarian action. Hoover issued his famous statement, "Why We Are Feeding Germany." Said he: "From the point of view of my Western upbringing, I would say at once, because we do not kick a man in the stomach after he is down. "From the point of view of a governor, I would say it is because famine breeds anarchy, anarchy is infectious, and the infection of such a cesspool will jeopardize France and Great Britain, and will yet spread to the United States. "From the point of view of a humanitarian, I would say that we have not been fighting with women and children and we are not beginning now. "From the point of view of a negotiation that we are in honor bound to fulfill titator of the Armistice. I would say the implied terms of the Armistice that Germany shall have food. "Taking it by and large our face is forward, not backward on history. We and our children must live with these seventy millions of Germanns. No matter how deeply we may feel at the present moment our vision must stretch over the next hundred years, and we must write now into history such acts as will stand creditably in the minds of our grandchildren." Surely, here is an example of broad humanity noteworthy at any time, and approaching nobility when one considers the conditions under which it was manifested. AMENDMENT NO. 1 Nineteen new counties will automatically go to the head of the class so far as senatorial representation goes if a majority of the voters stamp "Yes" after proposition No. 1 on the November ballot, Ralph H. Taylor, executive secretary of the agricultural legislative committee of California, announced Monday. With the approval by the voters of the farmer's reapportionment measure, distributing 17 more senators among the rural counties and rearranging all the districts, there will be a grand total of 23 agricultural counties which will constitute a single senatorial district each, while now there are only four such counties, Fresno, San Diego, Sonoma and Sacramento. Upon the recognition of county unity in the senatorial reapportionment, Taylor declared, nearly half of the counties or a total of 27, after adding the single representative allowed each San Francisco, Los Angeles, Alameda and Santa Clara, will be heard in the upper House through their own senators. One senator to a county, and no more will be the rule, upon the passage of the Boggs Reapportionment Act. Taylor said. In order to cut the cloth to fit the pattern, it was necessary to double up some of the smaller counties, the farm committees working upon the re-districting of the state found, for they were faced with the necessity of distributing 40 senators among a total of 58 counties, the agricultural secretary explained. But in no instance has more than three counties been included in one district, as directed in the reapportionment constitutional amendment approved by the voters at the 1926 election," Taylor asserted, "where formerly 16 counties were in districts of 4 counties each, and 13 counties in districts of from 5 to 8 counties each." The nineteen counties which will receive such signal recognition by being advanced to "one-county" districts were enumerated by the agricultural secretary, whose organization itself represents a majority of the farms of California, as follows: Butte, Contra Costa, Humboldt, Imperial, Kern, Kings, Marin, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Stanislaus, Tulare and Ventura. Four hundred and fifty-eight thousand motor vehicles built in the United States in August! This is almost as many as were built in the whole of 1913, the last year before the Great War. The comparison is even more significant when made against recent periods. The August total was an increase of 67.249 over the preceding month, and 149.603 over August of 1927. The automotive industry, more than any other, is a barometer of industrial conditions in the United States. The sales of automobiles are an indication of the buying power of the American people. and there is no resurrection from this except through the restoration of the normal processes of economic life and hope." When the blockade finally was lifted, Hoover was able to throw into Germany $250,000,000 worth of food, for which Germany paid. In addition Hoover's relief administration and the Quakers with the approval by the voters of the farmer's reapportionment measure, distributing 17 more senators among the rural counties and recrangling all the districts, there will be a grand total of 23 agricultural counties which will constitute a single senatorial dis- MUSTLE UP THE SUPPER KATIE AND GET OUT MY DRESS SUIT, I'M GOING TO A SWELL FAIR WITH PHIL COPELAND AT HIS LODGE TONIGHT! HE'S THE ANSWER TO AM (OLD) WADEN'S PRAYER! WHO IS THIS MAN ANYWAY? TAKES US TO THE LODGE LEM! I WUZ SEEIN' NELLIE HOME-EE-EE LODGE DATE: EN? THE OLD GUY HAS A NEW WRINKLE I SMELL MOTH BALLS? HE'll NEVER GET AN ENCOURBED WITH THAT! THIS IS LIKE TAKING CANDY FROM A BABY! WELL LEM IS A SWEET MAN—A SUGAR PAPA SO TO SPEAK! I CAN'T GO TO THE LODGE WITH YOU PHIL, SOME ONE STOLE MY PANTS! SOMEONE'S AT THE SEAT OF THIS! WEAR YOUR BATHING SUIT, POP! SUGAR PAPA IS TURNING BOURZ! HAVE YOU PHONED THE POLICE? AUTO CASTER! OBSERVATIONS THAT LAST ORDER WAS ROTTEN Instructor in Biology—"What is a bootlegger?" Student—"He is a dispenser of headaches, eye strain and dark glasses—but with all his faults some love his still." YOU'RE SAFE—THE UMPIRE SHOUTED At a country picnic in a Middle West state the other day, a wife was awarded first prize for throwing a rolling pin the farthest, while her husband captured the first prize in the 100-yard dash. CONCENTRATE, MISTER In order to get this started, "A" owed "B" forty dollars and gave him a check for the amount, and "C" cashed the check. In a few days the check was returned marked with those fateful words—"Insufficient Funds." B dropped out of sight and C sued B for the money. B confessed judgment and paid C $10 on account. There the case rested for a while. Then one day B, becoming afraid, came in and paid C $30, the remainder of the forty dollars. Now B must look to A for his money. But A says he has not the ready cash to pay up. Who's who—and how? MAMA SPANK When a visiting celebrity out of the East was being entertained in a silver sheet settlement, it is said he uncorked a very unwise remark which, from all accounts, has rocked his party's political boat. He is credited with articulating something like this: If you plebians don't vote a certain ticket next fall you might find that things won't click regular and promiscuous. Perhaps that was said after the fourth or fifth argument or maybe the sixth or seventh. And about one hour later. "Say, fellas, if you can do about it. It's s'all rite—you guys (Wampoo) better youse don't like (Wampoo) my style, you know (Wampoo) what watch out." And there the wires got hot, for the folks at home got busy and intimated that the versatile visitor weigh anchor and beat it back to the old stamping grounds. GETTING IT OUT OF THEIR SYSTEM During Sunday and Monday, Sept. 2-3, it is conservatively estimated that one hundred thousand people crossed over the border into Tia Juana. Putting it mildly, the average cost would be $10 a head. That's a cool million. GETTING IT OUT OF THEIR SYSTEM During Sunday and Monday, Sept. 2-3, it is conservatively estimated that one hundred thousand people crossed over the border into Tia Juana. Putting it mildly, the average cost would be $10 a head. That's a cool million. IT'S DARKEST JUST BEFORE DAWN A justice of the peace from the country was transferred to a municipal court in a city and assigned to a department where they handle the violators of the motor vehicle law. And be it known the magistrate was doing a land office business. He fined speeders fifty dollars a crack and had the step-on-it fellows hanging on the ropes. He was denting their bank rolls. And when a fellow cut a button it was twenty-five cart wheels and five days in la casa, even though the man said he had a wife and three or four children at home in need of his loving care. And a lawyer went up in the air when he drew a five spot for alleged contempt of court; but it didn't "take" after being habeascorpused. But the J. P. from the rural routes was making the city guys sit up and take notice of the boulevard stops, and the city treasury was bulging at the sides, when presto change the judge was sent over to listen to the chatter in the civil court. BUT SHE MIGHT MAKE THE MOVIES A daring young lady who made a non-stop flight across the big pond no doubt has a heart as big as an ox and perhaps is as brave as a lion, but from a facial angle she need have no fear of being kidnapped by any of the local drugstore cowboys. EDDIE, BRING THE SMELLING SALTS A cartoonist has been running a series of pictures in his paper that deal with politics, accompanied by dashes of poetry. But those effusions! Oh, boy, it is to weep. Have a heart. RIDING TO A FALL A couple of foreign films producers assert that the talking pictures are too mechanical, and that producers who are going in for the canned variety of amusement are going to lose a pretty penny. THAT'S WHY THEY PUT RUBBERS ON LEAD PENCILS From all accounts a number of divorces which a lot of high-hat folks secured abroad must have been hand picked over there and a lot of lawyers have been up on the carpet. Anyhow mistakes will happen in the best regulated families. HEY, THERE, YOU SURE THOSE ARE BLANK CARTRIDGES Should you watch closely you will notice not all the big stars who are married engage in those hugs and kisses while playing before the camera. But yet again once in a while when either is clean looking and has not got haliotosis, you will see a few go into one of those death-grappling clinches and linger quite a while. BOOTLEGGERS ARE BUSY In a city up state the police records show that 13,236 intoxicated persons were brought in during the past fiscal year. It is reported that this number exceeds by 3000 that of 1910, when the town was wide open. HEY, THERE, YOU SURE THOSE ARE BLANK CARTRIDGES Should you watch closely you will notice not all the big stars who are married engage in those hugs and kisses while playing before the camera. But yet again once in a while when either is clean looking and has not got haliotosis, you will see a few go into one of those death-grappling clinches and linger quite a while. BOOTLEGGERS ARE BUSY In a city up state the police records show that 13,236 intoxicated persons were brought in during the past fiscal year. It is reported that this number exceeds by 3000 that of 1910, when the town was wide open. SHAKING THE FAMILY TREE A rich banker in an eastern city some time ago employed a beautiful young woman as his confidential secretary, agreeing to pay her $1000 a month for 100 months. He signed a contract. Now, since he is 70 years old he says he doesn't need any more advice and he wants to retire to private life; and the lady has brought suit to recover the deferred payments. BETTER BE SAFE THAN SORRY Some people complain about being required to make a right hand turn, when their destination is just around the left hand corner—but they live to tell about it. LETTING THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG A councilman in a town in an adjoining county has written a letter to the police commission there, as was printed in the newspapers, saying that he knows that two of their policemen are bootleggers. GIVE 'EM THE END OF A THREAD. THEY'LL GET SPOOL The chemists have come to the relief of the farmers by announcing that they have found a way to make gold out of cornstalks. A new process will make cellulose products, chemical compounds, silk, pipes and numerous other articles. RUNNING AROUND IN CIRCLES Teacher—"What is a padlock?" Johnny—(Back of hall, raising his hand and snapping his fingers): "I know. A padlock is a fakus that makes night clubs move into new quarters." SNAPPY SLOGAN Said a barber: "I don't care for prizefighting or booze; no sir-ree; don't cut any ice with me."