anaheim-gazette 1928-11-01

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE ESTABLISHED 1870 HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Proprietor ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR.....$2.00 SIX MONTHS.....75 Entered at the Anaheim, California, Post Office as second-class matter SUPPORT AMENDMENT NO. 3 In a statement issued today by Alexander R. Heron, director of the State Department of Finance, and member of the State Tax Commission, voters of California are urged to support the taxation amendment appearing as Number Three on the November ballot. The amendment is designed to remedy an emergency that has arisen in the State's Fiscal System through a recent decision of the Supreme Court, declaring the taxation imposed on national banks in this state, under the present law, as inoperative and void. In addition to saving to California in the next two years an amount estimated by the State Tax Commission at $22,000,000, Mr. Heron states that the passage of Amendment Three will: 1—Restore national bank etaxes to the State Treasury; 2—Place upon the tax rolls of the counties intangible personal property running into millions of dollars, that otherwise will go into hiding through fear of the 100 cents on the dollar tax that the same decision makes effective in California; 3—Make taxable the property of Fiscal institutions, allied or subsidiary to banks, which have previously escaped taxation, because of the fact that their property consisted chiefly of intangibles; 4—Correct gross inequalities now existing in the taxes assessed upon the franchises of California corporations; 5—Accomplish the above purposes without imposing any greater tax bill upon California than it low pays; 6—Enable the State to proceed with an orderly study of its present tax system. In his statement, Mr. Heron analyzes the emergency that has arisen in the taxation system of California by reason of the de- 3—Make taxable the property of Fiscal institutions, allied or subsidiary to banks, which have previously escaped taxation, because of the fact that their property consisted chiefly of intangibles; 4—Correct gross inequalities now existing in the taxes assessed upon the franchises of California corporations; 5—Accomplish the above purposes without imposing any greater tax bill upon California than it low pays; 6—Enable the State to proceed with an orderly study of its present tax system. In his statement, Mr. Heron analyzes the emergency that has arisen in the taxation system of California by reason of the decision of the U. S. Supreme Court. This decision, which is in line with decisions made upon banking laws in other states, declares the California law governing the taxation of national banks to be in conflict with Congressional enactments on this subject. The effect of the decision, he points out, is to make national banks operating in California now tax free, measured in dollars and cents. The loss to California in the next two years will total $22,000,000, according to an estimate of the State Tax Commission. The passage of Amendment Three, entitled "Taxation" on the ballot, Mr. Heron says, is the only method by which national banks can be replaced upon the state tax rolls. He further declares the Amendment to be the key of a more equitable system of taxation for California. COMPLIMENT TO HUGHES A large majority of the fifty-three votes in the assembly of the League of Nations were cast for Charles Evans Hughes when he was elected to the seat on the World Court Bench recently vacated by another American, John Bassett Moore. This fact involves a personal compliment to Mr. Hughes which he and his friends will appreciate. If we concede the propriety of an American sitting on a foreign court which his own country does not recognize, Mr. Hughes is as well qualified a choice as the league assembly could make. But if this gesture from Geneva is calculated as bait to draw this country toward the league and its court it will not avail. The determination of the United States to keep full control of its own sovereignty, to make no entangling alliances and to meet its international obligations in the future, as in the past, on the basis recommended by every wise American from Washington to this day, is fixed and unalterable. CONSERVATORS OF PATRIOTISM What Sons of the Revolution, the G. A. R., Sons of Veterans, the Loyal Legion, Veterans of the Spanish, American War and other societies of like kind have done in the past, the American Legion is doing today. The legion, now strong and vital, goes forward with the great work of its predecessors—the conservation of patriotism, and with a true understanding of the values of independent American nationalism. At San Antonio, Texas, the legion clans are gathered this week in tenth annual convention. They move to the rhythm of drums and the voicing of bugles, heard in monstrous battle a swift decade ago only. The battle days now are memories, but out of these tragic memories rises the high resolve of the legion to see that the nation no more shall go into the shambles of human slaughter uninformed and unprepared. The legion proposes to teach and proclaim the lessons of patriotism, of loyalty to country—our countrys first of all. It will urge universal draft legislation, adequate preparedness and suitable compensatory legislation. It will At San Antonio, Texas, the legion clans are gathered this week in tenth annual convention. They move to the rhythm of drums and the voicing of bugles, heard in monstrous battle a swift decade ago only. The battle days now are memories, but out of these tragic memories rises the high resolve of the legion to see that the nation no more shall go into the shambles of human slaughter uninformed and unprepared. The legion proposes to teach and proclaim the lessons of patriotism, of loyalty to country—our countrys first of all. It will urge universal draft legislation, adequate preparedness and suitable compensatory legislation. It will foster love of country. It would have the country so buttressed and buckled in the next war as to withstand any onslaught, so as to endure any trial, to bear well the burden of any sacrifice. With the legion is General John J. Pershing, commander during the war of the greatest American armies in the history of the Republic—and their worthy commander; one of the outstanding generals of that terrific conflict in which the destinies of civilization trembled in the balance. While such organizations as the American Legion endures, this Republic will rest securely on its foundations of democratic principles. They are the conservators of right nationalism, the defenders and supporters of a government which welcomes peace, but which must continue to scorn peace secured at the price of national dishonor or at sacrifice of the rightful interests of the American people. MR. MELLON Secretary Mellon takes philosophically the reports that he will retain his post at the Treasury Department if Mr. Hoover is elected. "At my age I might as well work here as anywhere else," he says. It goes without saying that Mr. Mellon can have about anything he wants from a Republican administration. The right-hand man of President Coolidge in carrying out the financial policy which has given to the country prosperity unprecedented in history is deserving of every consideration from his party and from the country. His achievement in carrying the government successfully through the gigantic financial operations of the last eight years cannot be dimmed even by the Democratic campaign criticisms and political sniping. His unimpeachable record speaks for itself in terms easily comprehended. If Mr. Mellon wants to remain as Secretary of the Treasury after Mr. Hoover's election, it can be stated without serious fear of contradiction that he will stay. ANAHEIM GAZETTE So Say We All By Albert T. Raid *Thank goodness, these presidential elections are four years apart!* TAX AMENDMENT Voters' attention is being directed by the California Taxation Improvement Act. this is not to be a fifty or sixty per cent vote year. In Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York there is almost 100 per cent registration. The swing of British labor away from the radicals in the past few months has indeed been a reassuring sign of world sanity. The time was when it looked as though British labor might go radi- TAX AMENDMENT Voters' attention is being directed by the California Taxation Improvement association to Proposition No. 3—a constitutional amendment on taxation—appearing on the November 6 general election ballot. A "yes" vote is advocated by Governor Young, the State Tax commission, California Development Association, California Real Estate Association, practically all civic groups and assessors. No argument appears in the voter's handbook against the amendment, which was unanimously adopted by the recent special session of the legislature. Adoption of this amendment insures local tax revenues at an equitable rate from intangible securities, such as stocks and bonds, merchants' accounts, etc., similar to the 1925 seven per cent assessment law which worked admirably according to the several county assessors. Also, the state treasury surplus in the amount of $22,000,000 finds protection from suits of recovery by banks which have paid their taxes under protest for several years past. Further, $5,000,000 annual revenue to the state is protected by this act and its failure to carry threats either increased corporation taxes, collected from everyone through utilities, or a state ad valorem levy all real and personal property to make any deficit in fixed charges. Alternative plans have been discarded as impractical after exhaustive and thorough research by tax commission, legislators, state and county tax administrators, and interested groups as well as individuals, and all agree that failure to vote "Yes" on No. 3 will result in a chaotic fiscal situation in California. As the tax commission states, the proposed plan is not new or untried, but has met with success in New York and Massachusetts and Governor Young declares No. 3 should "carry with an overwhelming majority." A FULL VOTE If a full vote is to be desired in any election, we are certainly to have it on November 6. Traveling about the country, one is convinced that the registrations this year exceed anything that the country has ever known. It has not been necessary for Civitan clubs to cudgel people into registrations this year, and there is every indication that this is not to be a fifty or sixty per cent vote year. In Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York there is almost 100 per cent registration. Whether we approve or not, the character of the issues that are arresting the attention of the voters, it must be said that whenever there are issues before the people which to them seem to be vital, they will vote. There may be local issues in various parts of the country which are arresting the attention of the voters. Such are the Boulder Dam projects here in California, the McNary-Haugen bill in the wheat, corn and tobacco states, and possibly the tariff in New England. But even these issues are hardly rivaling in intensity of interest the religious and the prohibition questions. These are the questions in which the people at large are most interested, and that, too, on both sides of the questions. It is quite generally conceded that the election of Governor Smith would be a mandate from the country to revise the Volunteer Act and to change the Constitution. And there are those who would say that in the matter of religion the reated prejudices of the great masses of the country are going to find expression. These last issues, the one publicly and the other privately, are being discussed everywhere, while one hears very little about tariff, or Boulder Dam, or Farm Relief, or oil scandals, except on the political rostrums. When religious bigotry or prohibition is mentioned the people wake up. All other issues seem to leave them cold. It is these issues that are to bring out the largest vote the country has ever known. Whether to rejoice or to question depends upon the way these questions interest us as individuals. NO REVOLT IN BRITAIN British labor desires no revolt and has rejected the leadership of Moscow according to well-known English industrialists now visiting in the United States. Instead in the future there is to be more co-operation between capital and labor, and already, one of the visitors declared: "the by-products of co-operation are many and striking." British labor is not looking to Moscow for leadership and it has no use for massed and revolution. It realizes that its prospect for betterment is through the prosperity of industry." The swing of British labor away from the radicals in the past few months has indeed been a reassuring sign of world sanity. The time was when it looked as though British labor might go radical. After the British government had recognized the reds, the communists immediately began to bore from within, and to try to sap the foundations of British constitutional government. When the disastrous general strike was declared the reds were busy everywhere sowing the seed of discord and attempting to fan the flames of revolution. But the radicals did not win and the constructive labor leaders began to get control of the labor movement, in Great Britain; just as they have had control of the labor movement in the United States. As a result there has been more co-operation between employer and employee in the past few months. The worldwide signs are indeed not encouraging from the communist standpoint. In China the reds seem to have decidedly the worst of it; their schemes on the continent of Europe seem to have gone awry; there is now little or no danger of a successful red movement in France or Germany, and the swing to right of the labor movement in Great Britain has been noted above. In the United States the communists are busy as usual boring from within. In this campaign year they have filed a ticket in the majority of the states and have used this as a vehicle for training red speakers for the future. But in this country the responsible labor leaders have always stood against Moscow domination and will continue so to stand. It is too bad that a few of our so-called intelligentsia do not have the good sense to follow suit. The workers in America have realized for a long time that the best thing for their cause is not revolution, but stable government and a prosperous industry. If this becomes the consensus of opinion among the laboring groups in Great Britain the red cause there is indeed on the wane. A speaker before the convention of National Restaurant Men at Atlantic City says that people are forgetting the pleasure and dignity of eating. How can they be very pleasant when they glance at the check? Fashions change in campaigns as well as in everything else. If you don't believe this, go out some morning wearing a free silver badge and see what they do to you. If a full vote is to be desired in any election, we are certainly to have it on November 6. Traveling about the country, one is convinced that the registrations this year exceed anything that the country has ever known. It has not been necessary for Civitan clubs to cudgel people into registrations this year, and there is every indication that City says that people are forgetting the pleasure and dignity of eating. How can they be very pleasant when they glance at the check? Fashions change in campaigns as well as in everything else. If you don't believe this, go out some morning wearing a free silver badge and see what they do to you. YES, EMMIE HAS A BEAU—SHE'S ENTERTAINING HIM IN TH' PARLOR NOW. HE WORKS FOR THE EXPRESS CO. I HEAR. HA! HA! HA! OH THAT'S RICH! WHAT'S THE BEST CURE FRIZ LAB-SICIOUS MARRIAGE! AUNT EMMIE IN LOVE AND WITH AN EXPRESSMAN TOO~MUST BE ONE OF THOSE BIG, HUSKY BRUTES—HA! HA! HA! WHOOPIE! I'M WORRIED TO DEATH OLD MAN! I'M LOOSING MY MEMORY! OH, FORGET IT! HE BEAT HIS WIFE INTO SUBJECTION WITH A GOLF CLUB! IN HOW MANY STROkes?? WOULD YOU MIND SITTIN' ON A CHAIR EMMIE DARLING? PAPA'S BEEN MOVIN' PIANOS ALL DAY!! OBSERVATIONS IT'S IN THE BAG Bone Dry Bill—"It is said there is a man who has offered twenty grand to the person who can give the best plan to make a dry plank like the Sahara." William Dripping Wet—"Say, Buddy, that is hitting on all four. The scheme is a fine ady, and got his name in most all the papers. Here's the Solution (listen, closely): The best way would be to place all the bootleggers on the retired list under a pension. (Send the prize by money order or a certified check). BACK TO NORMALCY It is said some big concerns are selling household goods and what-nots on the budget system. That is, you hear they require a deposit and you have to pay all the rest of the installments before you can budget. WHAT'S THE USE OF CROSSING BRIDGE BEFORE YOU GET THERE A newspaper writer is fearful lest a foreign ship may catapult some areoplanes, carrying a lot of explosives, and sending them to some of the big cities and blowing up the whole works. That would be real excitement. But what would the "other fellow" be doing all that time? SEARCHING FRONT LINE TRENCHES The chief of police in a city in a nearby county is quoted in the public prints as saying that he wants to get bootleggers only—in other words does not care to molest the peaceful, private citizen who may have a little "spick" tucked away in the wood shed. The man who sells the booze is the guy who better look out, for the police will catch him. VARNISH IN HIS OIL CAN Hen Pecked Husband—"What for the love of Mike is alimony?" Demure Damsel—"That is the long green known as freight paid out after carrying the excess baggage for several years. Alimony takes the place of love lost, and if the Ex-husband has a good job the old man is set back considerable and has to cut down his gin cocktails." VARNISH IN HIS OIL CAN Hen Pecked Husband—"What for the love of Mike is alimony?" Demure Damsel—"That is the long green known as freight paid out after carrying the excess baggage for several years. Alimony takes the place of love lost, and if the Ex-husband has a good job the old man is set back considerable and has to cut down his gin cocktails." HEY, TOOTS, SEE WHAT THE MAN SAYS ABOUT YOU! A clergyman, addressing a religious convention the other day in a hilltown, said bobbed hair and short skirts constituted a "multitude of sins." Going on, he said the flapper is "a course, daring, vulgar young woman of questionable morals." (O-o-h)! But listen, girls, he also said the men were fickle because they wore "showy stockings, gold chains and wrist watches." (Ramona!) PASSING THE BUCK Nowadays in big cities round about when some "high trusted official" is accused of theft, he immediately has an alibi and counters by saying, "why, So-and-So did it." However, there is a city in the East where it is said that a fellow who squaks fades out of the "pitcher" over night. PHOTOSTATIC EXHIBIT It is related that once when a prisoner at the bar of justice was charged with possession of liquor, he grabbed the bottle and drained its contents, thereby destroying the evidence—and the case was dismissed. But the other day when a fellow who was charged with passing a burn check up-state, chewed up and swallowed the check, he did not escape prosecution—because the wise prosecutor had thoughtfully proceeded a copy of the fraudulent document before hand. GATHERING GOOSEFLESH The next worse thing to being locked up with a jury that cannot agree is to be caught in a jammed elevator. WHILE HE FLICKS THE SPEC FROM THE COAT Meek and Lowly Citizen—"What on the low down is a whispering campaign?" Pompous Person—"That opens up a wide range of discussion. For instance, the guy with a thirst and a hang over, may buttonhole a friend and softly ask what he may have in the ice chest; or, if his rent is due he may make a gentletouch to tide him over; or yet again may want to borrow a shirt." NEW BRAND OF APPLESAUCE After thirty years of buffeting the billows, the cross of gold and crown of thorns must give way to the modern version—take your hand out of the farmer's pocket and off his throat. DOWN CAME THE HOUSE ON THE SANDS A movie actress, whom everybody out in this neck of the woods thought was making the grade, has filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. The claims listed against the lady come from garages, department stores, beauty parlors and florist shops. OPEN SEASON FOR SUCKERS Teacher—"What is a keynoter?" Small Boy (in seat away back in the room, rising and snap- DOWN CAME THE HOUSE ON THE SANDS A movie actress, whom everybody out in this neck of the woods thought was making the grade, has filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. The claims listed against the lady come from garages, department stores, beauty parlors and florist shops. OPEN SEASON FOR SUCKERS Teacher—"What is a keynoter?" Small Boy (in seat away back in the room, rising and snapping his fingers): "I know. A keynoter is a guy who spreads molasses on paper to catch flies." TURNING THEIR COATS After reading some of the convention excoriations, a fellow up a tree would be led to believe that some "political" families have more than the allotted one black sheep. DADDY'S GONE ON A DIET A screen actress sues her husband for divorce and is granted a decree. She told the judge her old man would not work and that she had to support him. BETTER BUILD A FENCE AT THE CLIFF If it ever should come to pass that the Eighteenth Amendment became a real "dead letter," the undertakers would be compelled to keep a lot of ambulances in readiness. WHAT WILL THE HARVEST BE? When it comes to slinging mud, the Dems. seem to be getting away to a good start. GOTTA A BAD BLOWOUT Farm relief and strict enforcement both received respectful mention over the radio, but Uncle Reuben is afraid both will be lost in the static—after everything calms down. PUT PEP INTO THE PACK A woman breezed into a coastal town from "Frisco" the other day, wearing what is said to have been the latest design in feminine apparel. It was such a nice creation that when the lady stepped into the elevator at her hotel the he-men contingent lounging around, who wanted a close up, also sought entrance into the "lift" in such large numbers that they had to send in a riot call for the police.