anaheim-gazette 1928-12-20

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTI ESTABLISHED 1870 HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Proprietor ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR.....$3.00 SIX MONTHS......75 Entered at the Anaheim, California, Post Office as second-class matter. BUILD THE NAVY Congress is in session again, and one of the most important bits of legislation to come up during the short term will be the naval bill, providing for fifteen new cruisers, which was passed by the House of Representatives at the last session and hung up in the Senate during the closing days of Congress. The bill was greatly delayed in the last Congress by consistent fighting on the part of the pacifists inside Congress and out. Congress was overwhelmed by a veritable flood of anti-navy propaganda. Some of this doubtless was well meaning but some of it may have been inspired by interests none too friendly to the welfare of the United States. A great many pacifists too part in this campaign of protest and that the campaign was effective is evidenced by the fact that the number of warships provided in the original bill was greatly trimmed down, and that the passage of the bill was so delayed that the appropriation was finally hung up in the Senate. Flushed with their success, the pacifists have planned new drives on the present session in a final effort to prevent passage of the bill. The pacifists are shooting that since the Kellogg anti-war pact has been agreed upon, no more warships are necessary. They shout this despite the fact that every nation in Europe from Red Russia to Great Britain is arming to the teeth and increasing its offensive and defensive armament. It was only lately that the Associated Press carried a story of the proposed construction of the great British naval base at Singapore by the British government, a base which the British believe will give them dominion of Flushed with their success, the pacifists have planned new drives on the present session in a final effort to prevent passage of the bill. The pacifists are shooting that since the Kellogg anti-war pact has been agreed upon, no more warships are necessary. They shout this despite the fact that every nation in Europe from Red Russia to Great Britain is arming to the teeth and increasing its offensive and defensive armament. It was only lately that the Associated Press carried a story of the proposed construction of the great British naval base at Singapore by the British government, a base which the British believe will give them dominion of the waters of that part of the globe. Of course nobody wants war, and all of us hope there will be no more war. The best insurance the United States can have is a good navy. To the pacifist who declares that he isn't raising his boy to be a soldier, the best answer is that if he doesn't want to have his boy rushed unexpectedly into training to go to the front half prepared at some time when it is necessary to defend the country, he will now get behind the movement to give Uncle Sam a navy which is equal to or better than the best in the world. Nothing will be so effective in keeping our boys from being volunteer or conscripted soldiers of the future, as a first-class navy for Uncle Sam. For nobody is going to take a chance on attacking us if they know that we are well able to take care of ourselves. We have the richest, most prosperous and most progressive nation in the world. Surely, then, we can afford the best navy to protect it, or one at least as good as any. OUR SAVINGS According to a special report filed by Postmaster General Harry S. New with the Speaker of the national House of Representatives, deposits in postal savings banks increased during the fiscal year 1927-28 in the sum of nearly five million dollars. The total on deposit at the end of the fiscal year in these banks was $152,-143,349, bringing the total of the funds deposited in the system since its inception January 1, 1911, to more than a billion and a half dollars. The Postmaster General sets out in his report that the real mission of the postal savings system is to encourage thrift and economy and to bring into useful work the idle dollars of the hoarders. The report pointed out that there was a general lessening of friction between the postal savings department and the banks of the nation. The report also corrects the general erroneous conception that the postal savings banks are used principally by citizens for foreign birth. Nearly sixty per cent of the depositors, it is pointed out, are native born. The principal significance in the report from the standpoint of the average layman is the fact that the postal savings deposits are on the increase, just as are the deposits in other savings banks, and similar institutions. Here is the best proof that the prosperity of the United States is not one-sided—that the rich are not getting all the money. The plutocrats do not patronize the postal savings banks or other savings banks. These institutions are used principally by those who have modest salaries and wages. The fact that the deposits are increasing indicates that the prosperity of the country is increasing and that it is being passed around so that everyone who has the will and ability to work, is getting a reasonable share, and a share which is growing greater each year. Increase of our savings deposits in the banks and similar institutions of the country is one of the best antidotes to socialism and communism, which grow in a soil of poverty and discontent. HOW TARIFF HELPS The Minneapolis Tribune points out the fact that in 1927 Minnesota farmers received $113,613,474 for butter fat, which was the greatest of all their crops in the aggregate cash value. The increase over the previous year was twelve million dollars and the average price received was 51.21 cents. Continuing, the Tribune says: "Here was a crop that sold for a higher price per unit in the face of a marked increase in production. Here was a crop that put twelve million more real dollars into the pockets of Minnesota farmers than had been realized from the same source the previous year, in the face of the fact that butter is produced in Denmark at a cost of thirteen cents under production costs in Minnesota, and in New Zealand at a cost twenty-four to twenty-eight cents under; and in the face of the fact that the water freight rate from New Zealand to New York is less than the rail freight rates from some points in Minnesota to New York." The Tribune asks what made this gain possible and answers the question correctly by stating that it was the protective tariff. Under the Underwood tariff milk and cream were on the free list while butter had a tariff but two and a half cents per pound. Compare prices which the farmer receives for his dairy products now with the price received in Underwood tariff days and it is easy to see how the protective tariff can help the farmer. And is not only the farmer of Minnesota who is helped. Farmers over the country are getting fat checks for milk, cream and butter fat, and they are getting these checks because the tariff keeps our cheap foreign competitive products. To the dairy farmers, as tariff beneficiaries can be added the sugar beet growers of the West, and those who produce sheep, and beef cattle. Then we must not forget the citrus grower of the South and his southern neighbor who raises fancy garden truck for the northern market, Permit Granted For a Pipe Line Waste Water Co. Gets Franchise From Supervisors Final granting of a franchise to the Santa Fe Springs Waste Water Disposal company for a pipe line through Orange county, a matter which has been before the board of supervisors for several weeks and which was fought at every stop by residents of the Seal Beach district, was approved by the county officials. The board, however, made it clear that the franchise does not include certain streets which the company representatives claimed were in the original plans submitted, but which the board declared it had no knowledge of. Only after striking from the franchise a section on Orangethorpe avenue from the Los Angeles county line to Cypress avenue and on Cypress avenue from Orangethorpe avenue south to Placentia boulevard, was the franchise granted. Final action had been postponed for several weeks after the discovery that these portions of streets were included in the company's plans. The pipe line on these streets was to have been of a subsidiary nature and would not have been constructed until future needs required it, company officials said. When the matter first was brought to the attention of the board of supervisors, Seal Beach and Sunset Beach residents led by J. A. Armitage and P. A. Stanton, voiced vigorous objections to the granting of the franchise. They declared that it was giving Los Angeles county the right to dump its refuse on the Orange county const line. Representatives of the company pointed out, however, that the waste water going through the pipe line to the ocean would be entirely pure except for a small residue of salt. The board of supervisors granted the franchise after listening to both sides of the case, in the apparent belief that disposal of waste in this manner would minimize the chance for a continuation of the oil nuisance on the beaches of the county. Therefore, any tinkering with the tariff resulting in a downward revision of those agricultural industries now possessing protective rates or failing to recognize the claims of others not now enjoying the protective tariff mantle will have a disastrous effect upon all growers. The purpose of the League is to build up public opinion back of the principle of a protective tariff for soil and animal products so that the American grower may be able to compete on a basis of equality with low cost imported farm products. NEW ENGLANDERS HAD REAL THANKSGIVING Although it is not generally known by the most of us, our New England ancestors frowned on any riotous celebration of Christmas, but were strong for the celebration, or rather the proper observance of the Thanksgiving season. In an interesting story on "Life in the Colonial Days," in the current issue of the National Republic, Mr. H. O. Bishop says on the subject of holiday observance: "Some of the customs of the early colonists are passing strange to the present generation. Before leaving England they had become disgusted with the method in vogue of celebrating Christmas, and therefore for years would not celebrate it at all in Massachusetts. They bitterly referred to the old country celebration as 'wanton Bacchanallian Christmasses spent in reveling, dicing, masking, mumming, consumed in compotitions, in interludes, in excess of wine, in mad mirth." "The first Christmas in Massachusetts was spent at hard labor. The record says: 'Ye 25 day began to erect ye first house for someone use to receive them and their goods.'" "The following Christmas some new arrivals told the governor it went against their consciences to work on Christmas. He excused them. But, after in the day, when he found them having a lot of fun playing 'pitch-the-bar' and 'stool-ball' in the middle of the street, he laconically informed them that it hurt his conscience to see them play while others were working, and ordered them to quit." By 1659 they were so bitter against the English form of Christmas that they Farm Relief For the first time in history the country is facing tariff revision with agriculture occupying the center of the stage. The stage setting is all that the grower could wish; a friendly administration, a president-elect not only committed to agricultural relief but definitely o record as favoring tariff protection as the first step towards attaining it, and a general public better educated than it has ever been before in history regard the needs of agriculture. But we need something more than stage setting. Facts and more facts ought to be the beginning and the end of the efforts of all of our agricultural commodities desiring tariff protection. Take these facts to Washington, present them to the Congress and the Tariff Commission. Show that your costs of production must have a definite offset in the form of a tariff on imported competitive products. Official Washington will be glad to have the facts and you will get consideration just so far as your figures justify. We want an equal chance for our farm products in the domestic market. That is far to us, to the consumer and to the foreigner eeking our markets. Anything lower is rank discrimination against American agriculture and anything higher is that form of artificial support reacting against the industry favored and unfair to the other interests involved. We need and will have the support of public opinion if we keep that opinion well informed. Our people want to be fair, and just now they have enjoyed the advantages of an education into the problems of the farmer, a by-product of the recent national presidential campaign that should be capitalized for the future good of agriculture. That will be the big job of the Growers Tariff League. We want and will work to secure the intelligent backing of the public for the tariff needs of the grower and farmer. The League will be able to do so in proportion to the support it receives from interested growers. It must speak with the power and clearness of wide spread and representative organization when it appears at the tariff council. The League is the natural outgrowth of the growing importance of the tariff issue. Mentoring in Sacramento on September says: "Ye 25 day began to erect ye first house for someone use to receive them and their goods." "The following Christmas some new arrivals told the governor it went against their consciences to work on Christmas. He excused them. But, after in the day, when he found them having a lot of fun playing 'pitch-the-bar' and 'stool-ball' in the middle of the street, he laconically informed them that it hurt his conscience to see them play while others were working, and ordered them to quit. "By 1659 they were so bitter against the English form of Christmas that they provided a fine of five shillings for any person observing it as a holiday by feasting or not working. The idea of this was to beate down every sprout of Episcopacle." It was not until the Church of England, some years later, established Christmas services that this bitter opposition began to lessen. "Thanksgiving celebrations were different. The Pilgrims were highly in favor of them right from the start. Edward Winslow, writing to a friend in England, December 11, said: "Our harvest being gotten in our governor sent four men on fowling that so we might after a special manner rejoice together after we had gathered the fruits of our labors. They four killed as much fowl as with a little help beside served the company about a week. At which time among other recreations we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming among us, and among the rest their greatest king Massayt with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five deer which they brought and bestowed on our governor, and upon the captains and others." "It will be observed that they had a week of Thanksgiving feasting, not merely one day. And it must have been a lavish feast when we recall Governor Bradford's statement that beside water-foule ther was great store of wild turklen." "One of the most exciting sports indulged in by the early New Englanders was the hunting of wolves which were entirely too plentiful for comfort. A wolf-drive always drew a good crowd. A lot of men, in the winter-time, would form a huge circle around a wolf-infested swamp, and then gradually close in on them." AMERICA'S ANSWER PLAIN "NO" The American reply in regard to the Anglo-French agreement is exactly what was expected. The United States holds the same views today about naval disarmament as she held a year ago at the Geneva conference. The proposal is incompatible with those views, and affords no acceptable basis of discussion. The note politely but firmly rejects it. We should like to know what has happened in the intervening year to make the British foreign office suppose that America has changed her mind. As Christmas approaches, the bumper Navel crop is pouring into the market. Let's stop a moment and consider whether have the best chance of realizing the highest this keenly competitive market will afford. That will be the big job of the Growers Tariff League. We want and will work to secure the intelligent backing of the public for the tariff needs of the grower and farmer. The League will be able to do so in proportion to the support it receives from interested growers. It must speak with the power and clearness of wide spread and representative organization on it appears at the tariff council. The League is the natural outgrowth of the growing importance of the tariff issue. Meeting in Sacramento on September 24 to discuss the tariff situation, a group of almond growers consisting of directors of the California Almond Growers Exchange and about thirty others, chiefly officials of local almond growers associations, decided to form the Growers Tariff League. The tariff question as affecting agriculture is far from settled and there is grave danger to all growers who are interested in either the maintenance of present rates as affecting their individual industries, or the adjustment of rates affecting others, or in obtaining rates for those industries which are not, at present, protected. A Growers Tariff League composed of growers expressing themselves publicly along educational lines, so far as the public is concerned, can create a background that will be of great assistance in the coming struggle to maintain and extend tariff protection for agriculture. This is the thought that prompted the formation of the League, which at present is of a temporary character in its form of organization. It is not the thought of the League to fight the battle of any one agricultural industry, but to create, if possible a more favorable reception for the needing such attention. If you believe in the principle, the League wants your moral and active support as a member. Adequate tariff protection for American growers in the opinion of the League is of paramount importance for the preservation and future prosperity of all of the soil industries of this The American reply in regard to the Anglo-French agreement is exactly what was expected. The United States holds the same views today about naval disarmament as she held a year ago at the Geneva conference. The proposal is incompatible with those views, and affords no acceptable basis of discussion. The note politely but firmly rejects it. We should like to know what has happened in the intervening year to make the British foreign office suppose that America has changed her mind. If our government imagines that the United States may still be converted to the British view, does it think it a tactful procedure to begin this evangelistic task by discussing the matter first with the French, arriving at a private agreement with them, basing this on precisely those principles of limitation which America had rejected, and then coolly presenting this to America as an agreed starting-point for fresh discussion? We can imagine nothing more tactless—nothing, shall we say, more rude—and we can well understand that it might even be construed as studied insolence. This is how many Americans have actually regarded it. Such amateurish diplomacy may well make us gasp with astonishment, and exclaim like the old lady at the zoo when she saw a giraffe—"I don't believe it!" It must be incredible indeed to those who do not know what some of those in charge of our policy are capable of. But we should like to assure our American friends that they ought not to attribute this faux pas to chicanery or wickedness. We know our ministers and can assure them that it is nothing worse than stupidity. "Ruth Elder Has Flu," says a headline in the New York World. Shouldn't this be "Ruth Elder Has Flown?" Of course it's none of our business, but we would respectfully suggest to those South American statesmen that if they will only listen to Mr. Hoover they may learn something. FOR THE 24th TIME I wish my friends and patrons A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year B. 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