anaheim-gazette 1928-12-27

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE ESTABLISHED 1876 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. LET'S GET ACQUAINTED With President-elect Hoover returning from his trip to Central America and the Southern continent, in an effort to cement a feeling of good-will between the United States and our Latin-American neighbors, the interest of the American people, so far as world affairs are concerned, naturally is directed to the South at this time. More is being printed now in the newspapers about Latin-America than ever before. This is right and proper. If we are to have closer relations with Latin-America we must know the people of the countries to the south of us, and they must know us better. It is generally recognized that there has been great deal of misunderstanding between Uncle Sam and Latin-America. In this respect it is interesting to quote from Gaston Nerval, an authority on Latin-American affairs. The following paragraph is taken from a special article on Latin-America by Mr. Nerval: "A new feeling against the United States hegemony seems to prevail in Central America, coupled with a reactionary movement against that which they believe to be "Yankee imperialism." It is a matter of history that the United States has on several occasions interfered in the affairs of the Caribbean countries, either by armed forces or through diplomatic channels. Marines have been landed repeatedly on the shores of Nicaragua, Cuba, Santo Domingo and Haiti, and even today there are United States forces in some of those countries for the purpose of maintaining peace and order. These interventions were conducted in several in- "A new feeling against the United States hegemony seems to prevail in Central America, coupled with a reactionary movement against that which they believe to be "Yankee imperialism." It is a matter of history that the United States has on several occasions interfered in the affairs of the Caribbean countries, either by armed forces or through diplomatic channels. Marines have been landed repeatedly on the shores of Nicaragua, Cuba, Santo Domingo and Haiti, and even today there are United States forces in some of those countries for the purpose of maintaining peace and order. These interventions were conducted in several instances to protect the lives and property of its citizens; in others to re-establish peace which had been jeopardized by revolutionary movements of the natives, and still in others to avoid the danger of a possible interference by any of the European powers against their independence, as was the case with Venezuela in the year 1895. Every step taken by the Washington government in this respect has been criticized and looked upon by the enemies of Pan-Americanism as a further proof of the pecuniary and imperialistic designs of the United States in Central America. And even though the United States has so far shown its good will and honesty of purpose in such undertaking, however, that propaganda has already harvested its fruit and today evil designs are attributed to the landing of marines on the shores of Spanish-America. This is the most serious problem which this country is facing in Central America. As long as the extent of the justice or injustice of these accusations of imperialism against the United States remains unexplained, the problem will continue to hinder and impair the relations of these countries." All of which is well worth pondering over. Undoubtedly the happy result of the Nicaraguan election coupled with Mr. Hoover's visit has gone a considerable distance toward clearing up the misunderstanding in Central America. But it must be noted again that the fog of misunderstanding did not come about naturally. A great deal of it was manufactured, not altogether in the United States and Central America, but in a large measure in Europe and through European agencies. Before the World War Europe enjoyed the biggest part of the world trade with Latin-America. Now conditions are reversed and the United States is getting the bulk of this trade. Naturally Europe wants to get it back and through her political agents and newspaper agencies she has been manufacturing the "imperialist" sentiment against the United States in Latin-America, purposely misconstruin gour motives in the hope that our trade with our southern neighbors would suffer thereby. Now that things are on the mend again, we should examine into this phase of the situation. We must get better acquainted with the nations of Latin-America and they must get better acquainted with us. Let us see therefore that they get the real news of the United States and its motives and that they have the proper understanding of the peace and prosperity that we want to extend all over the Western Hemisphere. And doing this it will be necessary to swat the anti-American propagandist and show up his motives wherever and whenever he is located. The federal government has reduced taxation in such a way as to ease the burden of federal taxes on all our people. The man of family and of ordinary means now pays little or no federal income tax. This situation has been brought about by a careful and scientific reduction of taxes by the Treasury Department through Secretary Mellon and by sound economy and efficiency in all branches of the government. But when we turn to the states, counties and cities, we find that the situation is entirely different. According to figures lately The federal government has reduced taxation in such a way as to ease the burden of federal taxes on all our people. The man of family and of ordinary means now pays little or no federal income tax. This situation has been brought about by a careful and scientific reduction of taxes by the Treasury Department through Secretary Mellon and by sound economy and efficiency in all branches of the government. But when we turn to the states, counties and cities, we find that the situation is entirely different. According to figures lately prepared the various state governments now have a gross bonded indebtedness of nearly two billion dollars which is an increase of more than $125,000,000 in a year. This indebtedness amounts to more than $16 a day for every man, woman and child in the country and is $62,000,000 greater than was the total debt of the United States at the beginning of the World War. When we look at the record of the cities and towns we find another staggering increase in the amount of local indebtedness and local expenditures. No wonder then that taxes continue high in spite of federal reductions. The next reform must come in the state, the county and the city. It will not be argued that we can go back to the old pre-war basis. The state and smaller units are doing many things and making many improvements that we did not deem necessary before 1914. The country is wealthier and is demanding many more things in the way of modern necessity and convenience. But it is undoubtedly true that the smaller units of government can be systematized and the improvements and other necessary expenditures so carefully checked that it will not longer be necessary to increase taxes and run them further into debt. Some method of doing this must be found if our people are to get any adequate tax relief. Many remedies have been suggested and there is some merit in most of them. It is the duty of the local taxpayer to keep watch on the expenditures in his community and to have a voice in all proposed expenditures. One method suggested to cities by the United Chamber of Commerce as a part of its campaign to bring about a more systematic system of raising and expending public funds is the adoption of the pay-as-you-go plan by the cities of the country. This plan, it is believed, will slow down the expenditure of money, especially for improvements and outlays that could be postponed or avoided. And it may be said in passing that the expenditures by the local units of government in 1925, the latest year for which total figures are available, were six billion dollars, just three times the expenditures for the same purposes in 1913. Very Pre By Albert T. Reid FOR BETTER GOVERNMENT Yale university has received a gift of $350,000 to establish a foundation for his study of government. such existence are given clearly and logically in an article written by Harry F. Brewer, chairman of the Committee on Americanization and Allens of the Sons of the American Revolution. country's customs, laws and institutions. The course of instruction preparatory to citizenship is very important and should be fostered and encouraged by all patriotic societles, usu- FOR BETTER GOVERNMENT Yale university has received a gift of $350,000 to establish a foundation for the study of government. The university, according to President James Rowland Angell, will begin at once to study "those phases of American government which are of chief practical importance to the citizen;" and a vast mass of facts will be gathered to aid in the study. Now a study of government is valuable thing to undertake, and Yale unquestionably will do a work of great service. Yet government, especially in the United States, is an individual matter. In the last analysis, it depends for its successful functioning on what goes on in the brain and breast of John Doe and his 120,000,000 brothers and sisters. The machinery of government—the constitution, organization and so on—may be good or bad, and a searching study of it, such as Yale plans to make, will be a good thing. But the great point is this: this machinery, (no matter how faulty, will work pretty well if individual voters of the country are alert, thoughtful and conscientious about their duties to their country. If they are not, no amount of revising and repairing will do very much good. For after all, we in this country can accomplish anything we choose by our votes. No one can take the right to vote away from us; no one can prevent us from casting our votes for the men or the measures we approve. No matter how poorly our government may work—no matter how many injustices and mistakes and thievers it may be responsible for—we can always remedy matters if we will. The city of Philadelphia, to take an example that has been in the papers a good deal late, has been suffering from extremely bad government. And the chief responsibility lies right on the shoulders of the average law-abiding, wellmeaning citizen who has failed to vote in recent years—or who, voting, has failed to inform himself properly or reason clearly. The governmental machinery we have, city state and national, will work very well if we take the proper interest in it. If we don't, it will work poorly—and so will any other form we might devise. PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES Some people may wonder why patriotic societies exist, and the reasons for such existence are given clearly and logically in an article written by Harry F. Brewer, chairman of the Committee on Americanization and Allens of the Sons of the American Revolution. Mr. Brewer sets out the work necessary to instruct our allies in the ideals of American citizenship and shows how the anti-American forces are always at work to tear down the pillars of our government. Commenting on the duties and aims of our patriotic societies he says: "The great work of our patriotic societies is to be as active pro-Americans as these persons are active anti-Americans. With the united efforts of our personnel, with the leaders we have in government, in business, in education, and in the professions, we could stop the pratings of these malcontents by compelling the enforcement of the present deportation laws by preventing any weakening of the present immigration laws and extending them as widely as possible, and by hedging the nation about with as much protection in the registration of aliens and in the certainty of criminal law enforcement as the average foreign government has today. "The anti-American is ever and always on the job. Our patriotic societies can combat him not only by working in the schools, but by persuading our churches to be greater instruments for patriotic and civic worth than they are now, by informing our commercial and civic groups everywhere that their continuance depends upon the solidarity of America, and by bringing the press and literary organs of America away from an attitude which tends to popularize the radical of every degree or type, who stands for worthlessness or which delights to minimize and belittle the patriot, whose efforts would stabilize and perpetuate the nation and stimulate them to reaction against the subversive groups and leaders. The third mission of our ancestral societies is to instil the spirit of America into the native-born as well. This field of work is two-fold. In the first place it is concerned with adult aliens. The initial object of this phase of the work is to encourage the aliens to attend school where they can learn English and thus become assets and not liabilities to themselves and to the nation. Next they are urged to take out their first citizenship papers and finally help them complete the process and become a part and parcel of their adopted land, with a good working knowledge of the country's customs, laws and institutions. The course of instruction prepares to citizenship is very important and should be fostered and encouraged by all patriotic societies, usually in co-operation with some institution such as the Chamber of Commerce, or the Y. M. C. A., or one of that type. This work which is actually being carried on now in many communities is Americanization par excellence." THE BOULDER DAM A water compromise amendment to the Boulder dam bill giving California a maximum of 4,400,000 acre feet of water annually from the Colorado river was adopted by the senate. The amendment was offered by Senator Bratton Dem., New Mexico. Besides limiting the amount of water California may use, the amendment provides that work on the Boulder dam project may be started after six interested states have given their consent, unless all seven ratify the Colorado river pact within six months. Senators Ashurst, Dem., Arizona leader of the opposition to the Boulder dam bill, voted for the Bratton amendment and Senator Johnson, Rep., Calif., author of the measure, against it. During discussion on the amendment Johnson offered to accept it if given assurances the water compromise would remove the possibility of a continued filibuster against his bill. The Hayden amendment to the Swing-Johnson Boulder dam bill to reduce California's water allotment from the Colorado river to 4,200,000 acre feet annually, was defeated by the senate, 48 to 29. The vote was a victory for California on the first record vote taken in the Boulder dam fight at this session of Congress. Senator Johnson, California, author of the bill contends his state must have 4,600,000 acre feet of water annually. Senator Hayden, Dem., Arizona author of the defended amendment, placed in line for her first vote by an agreement with Senator Philps, Rep., Colorado where he endorsed an endorsement meeting California demands, was withdrawn a vote in Hayden's amendment first. Philps then re-introduced it and it became the pending business after defeat of Hayden's amendment. What did the bandits do before we had any filling stations to rob? PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES Some people may wonder why patriotic societies exist, and the reasons for it. NICE-PIECE CAKE FOR EDDIE! THANK YOU MA FUMBLE ER-A-BY THE WAY-MA DOESN'T THOSE GLASSES YOU WEAR MAKE THINGS LOOK LARGE-R? YES, THAT'S RIGHT—they do magnify things some what. BEING THE WOULD YOU TAKE THEM EXT TIME OUT ME A OF CAKE? INJUNS WHOOPEE! Animal Crackers LIFE IS JUST A MERRY-GO-ROUND! YES WITH ALL THE GIRLS REACHING FOR THE GOLD RING THAT MEANS A FREE RIDE! THANKS TO WILLAARD VAN WOERT, ROYDURY, N.Y., READERS TO THE WIFE AND KIDDIES VAN. OBSERVATIONS CRACKING ANOTHER LEGAL NUT A superior court in an adjoining county has ruled: That if a husband suddenly decides to make his wife a present of his share of community real estate, it is not necessary for the wife to sign the transfer to make it legal. YOU KNOW. THEY STILL MAKE LEFT-HAND TWINS It is reported that the undertakers held their annual state convention the other day and it was reported that there was a great deal of whole-hearted merriment at the conclave, besides singing and dancing. WHAT'S ALL THE RACKET? The telephone bell rang. It rang again. For the third time it rang. Then at intervals of two seconds each it rang quite merriily. Fact is, the bell was working everytime. The occupant of the apartment was busily engaged in another part of the house and did not answer at once. Finally he reached the telephone and out of breath (almost) took down the receiver and anxiously said, "Hello!" Imagine his surprise when a sweet voice on the other end of the line asked, "Number, please?" MADE THINGS WARM FOR THEM In a sensational case up state, wherein an accused person in a criminal case, spilled the beans, he made damaging statements concerning other men, regarding the acceptance of bribes. All those men, while vigorously denying the receipt of any of the little white envelopes, some of them said that they had received some stoves and heaters that Santa Claus had sent them. BACK TO ONE-CYLINDER HAY BURNERS Quite a bit of newspaper comment has been going the rounds about a manufacturer who has stopped making a certain kind of tractor. The reason for that in main part, it is said, is because orchardists quit buying them. They use horses and mules, claiming they do not create hardpan. SAY. BUDDY, DIDJA FERGIT SUMPIN' In the big cities some of the enterprising florists keep cars laden with flowers parked as long as possible in front of the hos- BACK TO ONE-CYLINDER HAY BURNERS Quite a bit of newspaper comment has been going the rounds about a manufacturer who has stopped making a certain kind of tractor. The reason for that in main part, it is said, is because orchardists quit buying them. They use horses and mules, claiming they do not create hardpan. SAY, BUDDY, DIDJA FERGIT SUMPIN' In the big cities some of the enterprising florists keep cars laden with flowers parked as long as possible in front of the hospitals. AND YOU CAN FLY TO TIA JUANA IN ONE HOUR A man who was in a court up the boulevard, charged with a beatup on an adversary, when questionel regarding the use of throat wash, said he has not had a drink in nigh onto twelve years. IT WON'T BE LONG, NOW It is said the honeymoon is over, when the bride, should she be charming and talented, is discovered by a director and given a five-year contract in the movies. TELL US, TOM, WHATTINELL 'D THE FELLOW SAY? A two-gun, double-fisted he-man cowboy has been acquitted of an assault charge against a sententious gentleman, because at the trial it was said that the remarks directed against him were of such a nature that no red-blooded hombre could be expected to stand by and take and be peaceable. EDDIE, QUICK, FETCH THE SMELLING SALTS A 70-year-old actor is going to marry his team mate actress, aged 35, just as soon as he can get a divorce from his present wife (the Second)—the first one having died in 1924 after having lived happily with him for 40 years. THIS MAN KNOWS HIS NOTES A well-known film man says the talkie fad will soon pass. He allows certain patrons like the sound pictures now because it's a novelty. He says as time rolls on the audiences will not believe what he is showing them, if they are constantly annoyed by the rasping talking of the mechanical voice. Surest thing, Mister. THE YEARS ROLLED AROUND UNTIL ONE EVENING A former trusted official of a company, up the paved highway, has been found guilty of several felony charges, and should the sentences run consecutively, he would remain in jail for 170 years. In all probability he would be out in time to see the union depot built. LISTEN, FOLKS, SOMETHING HAD TO BE DONE A well grounded rumor on the Rialto has it that over in El Aye they charge a person with disturbing the peace who is caught singing "Morona." AH! HAH! THAT'S WHY FELLOWS LIKE TO BE POLICEMEN It is said there are lots of women who admire personality and a uniform—in other words—courageous men. LOCKING STABLE DOOR AFTER HORSE IS STOLEN A young lady of the cinema, it was learned the other day, underwent a surgical operation to remove several pounds of flesh from her hips and legs in order to retain a svelte figure. And A well grounded rumor on the Rialto has it that over in El Aye they charge a person with disturbing the peace who is caught singing "Morona." AH! HAH! THAT'S WHY FELLOWS LIKE TO BE POLICEMEN It is said there are lots of women who admire personality and a uniform—in other words—courageous men. LOCKING STABLE DOOR AFTER HORSE IS STOLEN A young lady of the cinema, it was learned the other day, underwent a surgical operation to remove several pounds of flesh from her hips and legs in order to retain a svelte figure. And now since the talkies have arrived the fans don't look, but listen. TAKE A BOY TO RAISE A charming young lady of the cinema and real estate circles, who has at least "fi" million dollars as a bank balance, has decided to marry a young man of very modest circumstances financially. And some friends believe her happiness is thus hanging in the balance. Said the lady: "Money by itself is worthless sand. Its only value is to share it with people you love." Hey, who said there was no Santa Claus? Said the lady again: "As for a man's being happy under those circumstances, it denends whether he keeps his self-respect and that of his rich wife by working hard at his own line of business. Should he do that sincerely, his income does not matter a ran. He must free himself from the conventional old attitude that the man is the provider, or he is nothing—which is not very flattering to the man anyway." Percy, try and be good. Don't fool with fire, or blondes. Keep early hours. Don't let your relatives eat you out of house and home. Be a man. Do your shopping early. Have three or four kids. Don't burn up the road, and you might make the grade. Take care of yourself. See you later. Solong. REDUCING HIGH COST OF LIVING It is said that the bathing beauties' suits at a certain beach resort are so abbreviated that the mail order houses can now send them for two cents. WHAT'S YOUR HURRY Frolicsome Youth—"What is a boulevard stop?" Wise Old Owl—"Geographically speaking it is a warning that you are in a danger zone. If a motorist would stop a minute he no doubt would add years to his life, and would be a living example of what it means to be careful."