anaheim-gazette 1928-10-25

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE ESTABLISHED 1870 HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Proprietor ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR.....$5.00 MONTHS.....1.25 THREE MONTHS......76 Entered at the Anselm, California. Post Office as second class matter. PROSPERITY A MYTH? Politicians and even statesmen often make statements in the heat of a campaign that seem a little ridiculous when analyzed in a calm and impartial manner. So it is not to be wondered that business men, unskilled either in politics or statesmanship, make the same kind of remarks when they plunge into the political arena. For instance, Mr. John J. Raskob was credited recently with the remark that the prosperity claimed for the country is a myth. This is one statement which Mr. Raskob probably made public without giving its effect due thought. For one has only to turn to the business in which Mr. Raskob looms large in the industrial world, in which he has made his fortune in fact, to get the refutation of his statement. There are now nearly twenty-five million automobiles in America, nearly enough to average one for each family. And the number is growing every day. Automobile sales continue at an unprecedented rate—and the machines are being purchased by men and women in every walk of life. The number of automobiles maintained in America is the modern wonder of the world. Every other nation marvels at us and our ability as a nation to spend money and buy the things which in other lands are regarded as luxuries. Hundreds of thousands of workers drive to their daily vocations in automobiles—workers in European countries under their present wage scales would be unable to pay for the gasoline used in these machines. Automobile manufacturers in America are all prosperous. The earnings of the company in which Mr. Raskob has been interested have steadily mounted from year to year and the price of the stock continued to climb in spite of frequent splitting up of the issue. Now if our prosperity is a myth where Hundreds of thousands of workers drive to their daily vocations in automobiles—workers in European countries under their present wage scales would be unable to pay for the gasoline used in these machines. Automobile manufacturers in America are all prosperous. The earnings of the company in which Mr. Raskob has been interested have steadily mounted from year to year and the price of the stock continued to climb in spite of frequent splitting up of the issue. Now if our prosperity is a myth where does the money come from? The machines are not being purchased by the millionaires alone. Most automobile concerns have their production chiefly in popular priced cars and are establishing new records in turning out these small machines. And the automobile illustration is only one part of the picture. People are buying other things, such as homes in the suburbs, new radios, new iceless refrigerators and other things which only a few years ago were either regarded as impracticable or in the class of luxuries. All of the money is not being spent, either. The savings accounts in the banks of the country are steadily mounting and the business of life insurance is growing constantly every day. Now if our prosperity is a myth, how do we get that way? The new homes, the automobiles, the radios, the savings accounts and the mounting life insurance policies are not mythical. We believe that Mr. Raskob, who is a keen business man, made the anti-prosperity statement under the emotional stress of the campaign. If he will examine the reports in his own industry he will see that its prosperity and the general prosperity of the country are no myths. IMMIGRATION FIGURES The report of the immigration authorities for the first month of the fiscal year, which is July, presents some interesting figures. The report has just been made public. It shows that during the month 36,658 aliens entered the United States but that only 20,682 of these were immigrants, the others benig visitors or tourists. During the same month 28,053 aliens left the country. Of this number 20,249 were alien visitors returning home after spending some time in the United States. The other 7804 were emigrants who were returning to the former homes to take up their abode again in the mother country. This indicates that about a third as many emigrants left the country during the month as immigrants entered it. Of those coming in, Canada, Mexico and other Western Hemisphere countries furnished the bulk of the immigrants. Canada sent 5234 and Mexico, 4927, so that these two countries furnished virtually half of the immigration. Of the European countries, Germany led, sending 2205 immigrants; Italy was second with 1885, the Irish Free State next with 1024, Great Britain next with 1020, the Scandinavian countries next with 778 and Poland next with 367. But of the aliens leaving the country as emigrants during the month, Italy got 1624; Germany, 1060; Great Britain, 599; Poland, 416, and Greece, 406. So it will be seen that Italy took back almost as many immigrants as she sent to us, while Germany and Great Britain took back about half as many. Poland and Greece took back more than they sent, as Greek immigration during the month was less than 300. The immigration figures are always interesting and frequently furnish us with surprises. Doubtless some efforts will be made to amend the laws during the next session of Congress, but it is But of the aliens leaving the country as emigrants during the month, Italy got 1624; Germany, 1060; Great Britain, 599; Poland, 416, and Greece, 406. So it will be seen that Italy took back almost as many immigrants as she sent to us, while Germany and Great Britain took back about half as many. Poland and Greece took back more than they sent, as Greek immigration during the month was less than 300. The immigration figures are always interesting and frequently furnish us with surprises. Doubtless some efforts will be made to amend the laws during the next session of Congress, but it is a good guess that the restrictions will not be weakened. Some effort may be made to put the nations of the Western Hemisphere on a quota basis. The American people as a whole are convinced that the immigration restrictions have worked well, and they will brook no weakening of these. If any changes are made these will doubtless go toward strengthening the laws. THE WOMAN VOTE This is going to be woman's year in the national election unless all signs fail. From every direction reports come of renewed interest in political affairs on the part of the women. In the states and cities which require registration before voting come reports of great increases in the womend's registration before voting come reports of great increases in the women's registration. In Philadelphia the registration shows 40 per cent of the voters are women as against less than 30 per cent in 1924. The highest previous record was in the mayoralty campaign last year when 32 per cent of the registered voters were women. In Baltimore it is reported more women have registered for voting than mn. In Cleveland the registration of women has increased ten per cent so far over 1924 and in Cincinnati the first day's registration showed that 23,000 more women had registered than in 1924 and 20,000 more than in 1920. Chicago reports that while the men have increased their registration 39 per cent since 1924 the women have increased their total registration 84 per cent. St. Louis reports that in some of the residential wards more women have registered than men. In Kansas City the women's registration has increased 30 per cent and Seattle reports more women registering than men. In San Francisco the woman registration increased nearly 25,000. ANAHEIM GAZETTE That Middle-Age Spread By Albert T. Raid Gets out a Last Fall's Dress and Tricks on. Horrors! It lacks an INCH of Meeting. Manages to Break the Terrible News - On! HOOVER AND LABOR Herbert Hoover's magnificent record of service to all mankind is so broad as to overshadow his activities in behalf of any one particular class or group of people. However there is one cured that great sore of the labor world—the 12-hour day and the 84-hour week. It has now been abolished from all American industry. And this was not accomplished by legislation, not by strikes, but by co-operation bewteen government and the industries them- AS WOMEN SEE IT According to a recent dispatch from Washington, the Republican chieftains are highly gratified over the preponderance of Hoover sentiment among the women voters of the nation. That HOOVER AND LABOR Herbert Hoover's magnificent record of service to all mankind is so broad as to overshadow his activities in behalf of any one particular class or group of people. However, there is one phase of his work so outstanding as to merit particular emphasis. It is his record as a friend of labor. It is not the record a day, month, nor a year. It is the record of a score or more of years interwoven into a career of world-wide activity. In a book written in 1908 on The Principles of Mining, Mr. Hoover said: "Given a union with leaders who can control the members, and who are disposed to approach differences in a business spirit, there are fewg sounder positions for employers, for agreements honorably carried out, dismiss the constant harrassments of possible strikes. Such unions exist in dozens of trades in this country, and they are entitled to greater recognition. The time when the employer could ride roughshod over his labor is disappearing with the doctrine of lalasse faire, on which it was founded." And his every public and private utterance alone that time has been in accord with that statement made long before he had any thought of entering public life. Herbert Hoover was born the son of a blacksmith, left an orphan at the age of 10, and was earning his own living at the age of 11. He worked his way through college by working at the hardest of jobs, finally being graduated as a mining engineer. When he could not get a job as engineer after leaving school, he worked as a miner until he obtained an engineering position. He afterwards spent 20 years successful engineer in the United States and in introducing American methods and in installing machinery in various foreign countries. In an address in the Memorial hall, Springfield, Ohio October 21, 1926, while making a comparison with American wages and those paid in Great Britain, Mr. Hoover said in part: "Now have these advances in the condition of American labor been accomplished by the grinding of men between the millstones of industry. The hours of labor here have sensibly decreased; the amount of leisure has increased. The present administration has finally cured that great sore of the labor world—the 12-hour day and the 84-hour week. It has now been abolished from all American industry. And this was not accomplished by legislation, not by strikes, but by co-operation bewteen government and the industries themselves. And the movement of lessening of hours of labor and increase of leisure is not at an end; there will be further sharing by labor in the increased productivity that comes with the development of science and industry and with sound policies of government." In an address, October 31, 1924, in San Francisco, among other things, Mr. Hoover said: "American men did not want charity, the American woman in the kitchen does not want gifts. The most precious thing in her life is an honest-to-God job for her man." He also stated in the same address: "The high wages and this high standard of living which we enjoy would sink in a year if we would open the gates of immigration. Moreover, this restrictions is equally a boon to those of my hearers who have come from the Old Country and to us who were born on this soil, for everyone would suffer equally by the lowering of wages and living. That there can be no lack of consideration to those who have already made their homes with us we have provided that the relatives of those now here may come freely. There is no selfishness in this protection to labor. The world gains nothing if the high standards of America are sunk and if we are prevented from building up a civilization here which sets a standard and a hope to the entire world." In his speech August 11, 1928, accepting the Republican nomination for the presidency, Mr. Hoover said: "Having earned my living with my own hands, I cannot have other than the greatest sympathy with the aspirations of those who toll. It has been my good fortune during the past twelve years to have received the co-operation of Labor in many directions and in the promotion of many public purposes. At one time we demanded for our workers a 'full dinner pail.' We have gone far beyond that conception. Today we demand larger comfort and a greater participation in life and leisure." AS WOMEN SEE IT According to a recent dispatch from Washington, the Republican chieftains are highly gratified over the preponderance of Hoover sentiment among the women voters of the nation. That sentiment should develop in this direction was a foregone conclusion. It was a foregone conclusion not so much because Mr. Hoover did or said this or that specific thing, or because the platform of his party made this or that declaration. Rather it was because women are possessed of an instinct which is older than politics or parties, the instinct that enables them to strip every situation of the unequalials and to interpret the essence of it in terms of those things that are foremost in their hearts and minds. They have interpreted and will continue to interpret from now until election day, the issue of this campaign in terms of the security of their homes and the welfare of their children. And Mr. Hoover, being the manner of man he is, his record as the greatest humanitarian of modern times being what it is, and his ways of thought being what they are, it was inevitable that the overwhelming majority of the womanhood of the nation should rally behind his standard. Above all things, Mr. Hoover represents security. Here is the protective instinct at work and driving toward its goal with all the prelusion of Aristotle's syllogism. In addition to this, millions of women voters will be influenced in their choice by their own conclusions from the records of the two parties in the domain of progressive legislation in behalf of womanhood, childhood and the home. By this test, Mr. Hoover can point to a party record seldom equalled by any country at any time. It is a record that ranges all the way from the enactment of the Equal Suffrage Amendment, which established political freedom of women, to the recent legislative declaration of their economic equality through the statute guaranteeing equal pay for equal work, irrespective of sex, in the government service. It ranges all the way from the large body of legislation safeguarding the wholesomeness of food and meat used in the home, to the statutes setting up governmental bureaucracy consecrated wholly to the welfare of motherhood and childhood. I'M SO GLAD YOU MADE TH' FOOTBALL TEAM MONTY.'STEAD OF GOIN' INFER SOCCER LIKE YA INTENDED. FOOT-BALL IS A REAL MAN'S GAME BE JABBERS! HEY! GET OFF TH' FIELD! HOLD THAT POSE A SECOND SON WHILE I SNAP YER PITCHER! HEY! MONTY! COME TO THINK OF IT I BELIEVE YOU'D LIKE SOCCER MUCH BETTER! SORRY OLD MAN! PUNKEE OBSERVATIONS STAND BACK, GIRLS, GIVE HIM AIR A movie screen actor, who is a favorite with a lot of feminine fans, has sued a merchant because he used the actor's "pitcher" to aid the advertising of a certain brand of de-ve-bees. It is alleged in the complaint that the chill resisters were of a variety inferior to the brand he always wore, and consequently it is said his reputation as a fastidious dresser has been injured. Now he wants money. He was depressed and a report was current that the screen star swooned, went into a nosedive and fainted. SWEEPING IN FRONT OF THE DOOR Reforming Citizen Fixit (Female)—“Explain to the class the origin of the term, Lily White.” Modern Young Woman—“There are many-heartaches hidden therein. As a deterrent a happy solution to the complex would be to advise that those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.” SAY, FELLERS, HAVE A HEART, KICK IN A bootlegger up state is in a city jail charged with a sale, accompanied by a $500 fine, which he is unable to pay. He has given the officers a list of his customers whom he says during the four years last past he has furnished goods, wares and merchandise, and they owe him $500 which they refuse to pay. He asks that the officer collect this sum for him so he can liquidate the account, but the officer said he was not Santa Claus. PLAIN AS YOUR NOSE ON YOUR FACE A presidential candidate says the farmer receives eight billion dollars a year less for his products than the consumers pay for it, because much of that is lost to the middlemen who market the crop. Now, all the farmers have to do to get farm relief is to do away with the middlemen. THEN, BROTHER, THEY MISS HALF THE SHOW A writer says all the Japanese, attending a movie, (when the twin stars go into a clinch and kiss) always hold their hands over their eyes. BUILDING THEIR FENCES Astute Politician—“Please give a definition of a straw vote.” Man on Firing Line—“While the farm felt ballots show which way the wind blows, an inside tip is secured by the big butter and egg men as to where the wheels of chance need the most lubricants.” THEN, BROTHER, THEY MISS HALF THE SHOW A writer says all the Japanese, attending a movie, (when the twin stars go into a clinch and kiss) always hold their hands over their eyes. BUILDING THEIR FENCES Astute Politician—“Please give a definition of a straw vote.” Man on Firing Line—“While the farm felt ballots show which way the wind blows, an inside tip is secured by the big butter and egg men as to where the wheels of chance need the most lubricants.” BIRD IN HAND IS WORTH TWO IN BUSH Two men were standing outside and each wanted a drink, but neither had the price. But one had a green frog in his pocket and told the other to wait within carshot while he went in to get a bet out of the soda jerk. “I bet you this animal is a bird,” said the first rounder, putting the frog on the bar. He continued by saying the wind had blown all the feathers off the creature. “I'll wager its a bird and you can leave it to the first man who comes in," volunteered the mystic. "All righto, I'll bet you the drinks its a frog and leave it to that guy outside." "Hey, Pat, come here," called his pal. "Now tell the man what the devil that thing is there on the bar." "And, begorrah," said Pat, "It's a boid." MATRIMONIAL COMPLEX And it is said on the best of authority that the honeymoon is over when the man and wife walk up street and a freckle-faced kid runs up and calls out, "Hello, Daddy." BOON TO MANKIND The experts of the University of California have discovered a method for the fertilization of seed on a large scale, thus making the fertilization of soil unnecessary, it is reported. It is announced that this is the most important contribution of science in the history of the world. It is said that for years such a method was sought by scientists of every civilized nation. But it remained for Prof. W. F. Gericke, associate plant physiologist at the Berkeley institution, to disclose this long sought secret of nature. It is said Professor Gericke has succeeded in developing a method of treating seed grain on a large scale before planting with phosphate salts without destroying its power to live and grow. By this means he makes it possible for grain to be grown in soil deficient in phosphorous without the more costly fertilization of the entire field. During the last three years it has been found possible actually to increase the weight of the seed to 10 to 30 per cent, varying with the species. In the case of barley so treated, as high as a fifteen-fold increase has been obtained, as compared with no crop at all where untreated seed was planted in phosphorus lacking ground. The great value of Professor Gericke's discovery, it is said, lies in the fact that his methods permit treatment of seed on a large scale at low cost. Further experiments, however, will be made in the field before the method is given widespread application. THAT'S JUST LIKE A SNOWBALL IN YUMA Innocent Bystander—“What in your opinion is the third degree?” Hard-boiled Sherlock—“That is frying the fat. It's great to get a guy's goat. After three or four questioners, who have undergone so much quivering at the suspected untreated seed was planted in phosphorus lacking ground. The great value of Professor Gericke's discovery, it is said, lies in the fact that his methods permit treatment of seed on a large scale at low cost. Further experiments, however, will be made in the field before the method is given widespread application. THAT'S JUST LIKE A SNOWBALL IN YUMA Innocent Bystander—"What in your opinion is the third degree?" Hard-boiled Sherlock—"That is frying the fat. It's great to get a guy's goat. After three or four questioners, who have a voluminous vocabulary, shoot rapid-fire queries at the suspected subject for several hours, if he does not come across, the culprit is given two or three more workouts, and when he finally falls in exhaustion and admits everything from petty larceny to murder, the eance is closed and the bozo (ha-ha) is branded as guilty—and has to fight his way out." KNOCKING THE CHIP OFF HIS SHOULDER A man who is not a pessimist says that if a nation is everlastingly preparing for war that nation surely will have a war, so this man believes the best thing to do is to use a little horse sense. ROBBING PETER TO PAY PAUL? Somewhere in the public prints you should have noticed that the exponents of farm relief said: "Before agriculture can be afforded stability and protection equivalent to that developed, for other groups, an effective control of agricultural surpluses must be provided, which will permit the handling of supplies that are in excess of seasonal or domestic requirements, independently of the portion needed at home. "If such surplus control is to be effective, and if the treasury subsidy is to be avoided, explained our conviction that the costs involved in handling the surplus must be assessed against the units of the commodity benefitted." WHERE DO YOU WANT YOUR BODY SENT? In another city in an eastern state a movement has been started to take off the speed limit of motor vehicles. It is argued that the slow motion is the cause of many accidents in congested places.