anaheim-gazette 1929-06-27

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE ESTABLISHED 1870 HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Priprietor. ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPT PER YEAR.....$1.50 SIX MONTHS.....1.00 Entered at the Anaheim, California, Postoffice as second-class matter. GENEVA AND OUR TARIFF In the International Labor Conference held at Geneva recently, reference was made by the Italian emplovers' delegate to the growth of American trade over the world. He declared that the American republic was developing a large movement for "an imperialis economic invasion of other countries" through the exceptional situation it enjoyed owing to its vast natural resources and its large home markets. He declared that this movement "was going on from the sole viewpoint of North American interests in an atmosphere in which emplovers and workers were mutually assisting one another to derive the greatest advantages from an economic policy outside the framework of the League of Nations and a social policy very different from that of the International Labor Office." All of which ought to be interesting information for our international free traders in the United States, especially when it is coupled with reports from our own Department of Commerce that our foreign trade is increasing. The free traders have been telling us, if we didn't lower our tariff and cancel the war debts which Europe owes us, that pretty soon we wouldn't have any markets left, because the people of the rest of the world couldn't buy from us unless they sold us in turn commodities which would come into competition with the product of our higher paid American workmen. But something seems to have gone wrong with this free trade theory in actual practice. Our own trade reports show that the foreign trade of the United States is steadily increasing, and add- ternational free traders in the United States, especially when it is coupled with reports from our own Department of Commerce that our foreign trade is increasing. The free traders have been telling us if we didn't lower our tariff and cancel the war debts which Europe owes us, that pretty soon we wouldn't have any markets left, because the people of the rest of the world couldn't buy from us unless they sold us in turn commodities which would come into competition with the product of our higher paid American workmen. But something seems to have gone wrong with this free trade theory in actual practice. Our own trade reports show that the foreign trade of the United States is steadily increasing, and adding insult to injury from the free traders' standpoint, we now have a member of the governing board of the International Labor Office, an adjunct to the League of Nations in Geneva, telling us that America is preparing for an "imperialistic economic invasion" of the rest of the world, selling our products in the face of European competition. And he adds further that we are able to do this because of our great home market and the fact that our employers and employees are mutually assisting one another, which seems to be something beyond the understanding of Geneva. Further in his address the International Labor Office official said that the American policy of high wages was possible because it was carried out in a closed circle to an immense and self-sufficient home market surrounded by a "Chinese wall" now being raised still higher where the process of production, circulation and consumption was carried on apart from all external influences and could be completely regulated, enabling overproduction to be exported by aid of a new form of dumping. Evidently the doctrine of American protection is making some impression at Geneva, which may be one reason why the boys over there, who heartily favor free trade for the United States, are so anxious to get us into the international poker game. OUR NATIONAL INCOME In an interesting and comprehensive report issued recently by Dr. Morris A. Copeland of Cornell University, for the Committee on Recent Economic Changes, of which President Hoover is chairman, we find the statement that the total income for all of the people of the United States for the year 1928 was around 98 billions of dollars. This is a sizeable sum, one beyond the comprehension of the average human being, and it represents an average income of $745 for every man, woman and child in the United States. It is to be remembered, too, that this sum does not include paper profits, from the sale of capital assets or the value of the service of the housewives of the United States. Dr. Copeland declares that the prosperity of the past few years is shown in the tremendous growth of the national income since 1921. From 1928 the realized income of our people increased from 63 billion to 80 billion, and the money income from 56 to 81 billion. The gain in the employees' share of the national income since 1914 was greatest in 1919 and 1920 during the World War. But the employees' proportion of the national income has not been declining and is about the same as it was in 1920, which proves, of course, that it has been increasing in the total as rapidly as other incomes. Proof. Copeland declared further that there has been an appreciable increase in the proportion of total money income or "fixed incomes" comprising salaries, interest and rent, and this felt accounted for increased stability in business conditions. He added further that there was no information which tended to show that the wealthier or "unner income" classes have been enjoying either more or less than their share in the increased prosperity. scarcity following the World War. But the emplovers' proportion of the national income has not been declining and is about the same as it was in 1920, which proves, of course, that it has been increasing in the total as rapidly as other incomes. Proof. Coneland declared further that there has been an appreciable increase in the proportion of total money income or "fixed incomes" comprising salaries, interest and rent, and this he felt accounted for increased stability in business conditions. He added further that there was no information which tended to show that the wealthier or "unner income" classes have been enjoying either more or less than their share in the increased prosperity. In short, our national income has increased steadily and remarkably, and the poorer have not been growing poorer while the rich have been getting richer. There has been a general improvement all around, with all workers high and low getting a share. MILITARY TRAINING FOR BOYS For the evil influences that assail a boy's life, the nulls to poolrooms and to petty thieving, the slow pressures toward personal dishonor, living and the vices of the city, no antidote is better than a high-grade military training in the schools. The honor of the Boy Scout is guarded with no more punitive than the honor of the boy soldier. Sneaks and liars do not fit well in a military training corps. In military training there is a discipline that boys find all too rarely in the modern world. The discipline of the farm, where jobs must be done without question, has largely gone. The discipline of other work work declines as living standards rise and boys work less. In military training remains a way to discipline and manliness for growing boys. Military training in the public schools should be encouraged, intelligently handled such training is invaluable, not only in the interests of national defense, but for the character of boys. RING DOWN THE CURTAIN A spiritual and highly intellectual question that will come up before the joint session of the Ways and Means and Steering Committee at their forthcoming semi-annual meeting, will relate to the showing of a picture after a member of the cast has passed on to the land beyond. The practice of displaying a version showing a person who has left this life gives a timid customer a spooky feeling or something, and he conjures up all sorts of ideas as to ghosts, apparitions or whatnots of the deceased person, and it makes him afraid to go home in the dark, or pass a cemetery at the zero hour. ANAHEIM GAZETTE What Do You Do If the Parachute Doesn't Open? By Albert T. Reid POLITICAL PLEDGES OF BOTH PARTIES WHEAT FARMER DAWES TALKS OUT THE WEAK SPOTS Versatility of California Soil DAWES TALKS OUT Ambassador Dawes takes on enough of the diplomat veneer to meet the amenities of his position, but not enough to cover up his flair for plain speaking. Discussing naval reduction before the Pilgrim's Club in London—the avenue of introduction for all diplomats to Britain—he virtually attributed the failure of the previous arms convention at Geneva to the mixture of naval experts and diplomats in a job properly assignable only to the statesmen. In other words, he blames the dominance of the navy men for the lack of real action. His analysis is briefly that navy men, following the excusable impulse of "human nature," cannot give fair consideration to any question of armament reduction because they reason that superior fleets mean certain victory, equal fleets mean doubtful victory and inferior fleets mean defeat. His formula is that the question of reduction must be discussed by statesmen not on a basis of pure reason, but on a basis which recognizes "human nature"—going back to Edmund Burke for his authority. The ambassador would not exclude naval experts, but would use their conclusions simply as "yardsticks" for the guidance of the statesmen. Britain's new administration takes great encouragement from the Dawes attitude and expressions; his success with the reparations problem gives him extraordinary prestige and his common sense is regarded as a huge asset in the present problem. Not only the sentimental hope for peace, but the economic phase of naval competition, are pressing hard in England for an arrangement which will bring about curtailment in the foolish and burdensome expenditures for colonial navies. While the United States is not suffering economically like Britain, Ambassador Dawes reminder that our tentative program for naval construction calls for more than a billion dollars is sufficient to occasion some thought about the wastefulness of continued extreme armament. Our opinion persists that the essential preliminary to any practical disarmament or naval reduction scheme is agreement on some other means of settling international quarrels than war. But we believe that Mr. Dawes has started the people of at least two nations thinking in right direction again and that ultimately he will be found urging the substitution of orderly adjudication for world-beating armie and navies. THE WEAK SPOTS A cult promoter lately called by the law to an accounting victimized hundreds of Southern California residents by inviting them to take up a new religion, good for soul and body, and contribute sums of money which he proposed to return some fifty-fold within a few weeks. The wonder is that his dupes did not number thousands instead of hundreds. For the promoter was clever enough to approach his prospects along the three lines of greatest human weakness. Every individual is interested primarily in his health. His second interest—in many cases the first—is his eternal destiny. Next in compelling power is availance, the hope of getting something for nothing. A cult artist who promised health, salvation and riches could hardly have failed. And the probabilities are that if the law hadn't intervened he would have made millions from his scheme. There may be no cure for the gambling instinct in humanity, which manifests itself in forms ranging from boys shooting craps in the alleys to the mania of the cultured woman for "hargains." But the eagerness with which men and women grab at every sort of fake health prescription and quack religion must suggest to the thinker that there is a work for the medical profession and the churches which has not been done. Neither the healers of the body nor the healers of the soul have persuaded the masses of their efficacy or authority. Until they do so, the faker and charlatan will continue to reap rich refards from credulity. POLITICAL, NOT SOCIAL Mrs. Hoover follows Roosevelt's precedent in Chiring Booker T. Washington and entertains the wife of a plague congressman at tea. The entertainment was one of a series which included thwives of all the congressmen. The southern beaches areending high heaven with their protests against this recognition of "social equality" between the races. It isn't a question of social equality, but of political equality, guaranteed by the constitution. As to the political consequences, Mrs. Hoover is on the right side of the argument. Colored citizens can't vote in the south. But in most northern states they are a big contributing factor in the Republican majority. Versatility of California Soil As an indication of the versatility of California soil, a report from forest rangers stated that seventeen varieties of tree species were recently discovered within an area not over one acre in size in Lassen National Forest. These tree types were: Incense cedar, white fir, Douglas fir, western yellow pine, drier pine, California nutmeg, Sierra maple, white alder, black cottonwood, sycamore, red bud, California buckeye, valley oak, black oak, blue oak, canyon oak and willow. This report serves as another illustration of the havoc wrought by forest drenns which might be destroying many types of trees of high value both commercially and scenically, points out the motoring organization. These many species of trees were found at the moderate elevation of 1,750 feet on a small mountain bench with fairly shallow but good moist soil. The unusual variety of trees in this small space was accredited to evidence that the creeks had at one time flooded the area and in all probability deposited seeds of such species that are not common to the site or elevation. PEACEABLE PEOPLE A community of more than 100 population settled more than one-half a century ago into which no sheriff has ever sent a deputy to make an arrest. This is the boast of San Diego county for DeLuxx; 20 miles north of Oceanside and 16 miles east of San Clemente. A pioneer of the region is authority for the claim that his community has always been entirely law-abiding. "Only three times in more than 50 years has an officer of the law paid an official visit to DeLuxx," he declares. "A deputy sheriff once called to take a mentally deficient child to a state institution, a fire wardn came to serve notice of a fire hazard on a landowner, and a game warden once made an arrest of a northern visitor who had exceeded the bag limit." It will soon be time for Uncle Sam to provide for the building of two new battleships under the Washington agreement, and we presume the professional pacifists have their cowbells and horse fiddles all ready. Maybe one way to protect the pedestrian from the over ambitious automobile speedwould be to paint the pedestrians red. Our opinion persists that the essential preliminary to any practical disarmament or naval reduction scheme is agreement on some other means of settling international quarrels than war. But we believe that Mr. Dawes has started the people of at least two nations thinking in th right direction again and that ultimately he will be found urging the substitution of orderly adjudication for world-beating armie and navies. It isn't a question of social equality, but of political equality, guaranteed by the constitution. As to the political consequences, Mrs. Hoover is on the right side of the argument. Colored citizens can't vote in the south. But in most northern states they are a big contributing factor in the Republican majority. SAY, POP AN' MOM, THE GANG IS ROUND MEETING EVERYBODY TODAY. HERE'S EARS DUGAN, TUBBY BIGGS, CUDDLES RUFF, PERK VAN HORN, RED ROSEN, COWBOY COLLINS, BOO HOO SMITH, AND KERSWAT MUNCHAUSEN HEY, PINKY, CAN'T WE STOP IN AND EAT A BITE? LET ME DO A FEW ROPE TRICKS FOR THEM, PINKY AW, C'MON NOW SNEEZER GO GET A WHEEL BARROW AND LOAD HIM ON IT, JEFFERSON Jerry Gilkson OBSERVATIONS THE NUMBER OF HATCHED CHICKENS PROBLEMATICAL One of those hasty Mexican marriages was indulged in a short while ago by a lady of the amusement world and a scion of an historic family. The nuptial knot was tied down there the day after the lady became an interlocutory divorcee here. That was fast work. The happy couple returned. Then the law stepped in. It looked like a felony. A separation followed, even their telephone numbers being erased. Now then, it has been agreed that another year should pass and, as the lady says, if she still loves her man at the end of the twelvemonth then the wedding bells will ring for sure. Ain't love wonderful? SOMETHING JUST AS GOOD And now, after a thoroughand far-reaching investigation by a special officer from the Ways and Means Committee, it has been found possible for a movie star (who has no voice) to call in an understudy, a double, or what have you. GETTA THE BEEG HAND Local press notices for actresses are fine and dandy and help out a whole lot, but when you receive favorable mention via the cable from abroad, say, boy, you are sitting pretty. GETTING IT OUT OF THEIR SYSTEM Many of the budding young actors and actresses who go to Hollywood expecting to be received with open arms and other accessories, have found hard sledding instead. The world is just about the same everywhere, and Uncle Reuben suggests that all those who crave the footlights better create a reccord first in their old home town. IT'S ALL RIGHT. SO LONG AS IT JELLS Speaking of crops, a wag ventures to remark that so far as a bouncing bailiwick up the boulevard is concerned, the tourist variety brings in a pretty penny. KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURNING When the four wheel brakes came in everybody believed there would be no more accidents. But, believe it or not, there are more. You get bumped from the rear now. The fellow behind not knowing about your intentions, keeps coming on. IT'S ALL RIGHT. SO LONG AS IT JELLS Speaking of crops, a wag ventures to remark that so far as a bouncing bailiwick up the boulevard is concerned, the tourist variety brings in a pretty penny. KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURNING When the four wheel brakes came in everybody believed there would be no more accidents. But, believe it or not, there are more. You get bumped from the rear now. The fellow behind not knowing about your intentions, keeps coming on. THEY ALL LOOK ALIKE A man who is said to be a "multi." has been ordered to a prison for three months. The prison rules and regulations are simple, but inflexible. No meals are sent in. If a man works he is allowed a bath a day. If he idles around he gets washed up once a week. The hours are regular. You are up with the lark at 5:30 a.m. and hit the hay at 9 p.m. This is said to cause inmates to remain healthy. Of course, there are no golf links, or gymnasiums, or manicures within the walls, and those who have been used to high living have an excellent chance to reduce. One of the main occupations after nightfall is to count the days when the bars will be let down. After the sojourn a fellow who is up in life usually will think twice before he will do it again. EDDIE, FETCH A STEPLADDER A woman who was sued for heart balm, or something just as good, by a big boy friend, rises to eiaculate as follows, to-wit: He comes from a submerged zone several stories beneath the atom who osculates and cackles. INTO THE HAY WIRE If a fellow up a tree would try to figure out who was telling the truth in the maze of charges and counter-charges as cropped out in a sensational case up state, he would be stricken with acute spinal meningitis, dislodged vertebrae, lumbago. St. Vitys' dance, or what have you. AND THIS IS NO JOKE A movie comedian, whom all the fans believed was sitting pretty, it has now developed has more troubles than an old hen with a flock of ducklings. He has an ex-wife who claims back alimony, besides the one now on the job who wants out and enough money to live separate. The bread winner says he's busted, has no friends, and his meal ticket looks like a sieve. INNOCENT BYSTANDER A charming young lady, out of the east, who is said to be able to cause out-of-town men's hearts to flutter, when attending one of those night clubs back yonder, occuied the witness stand in a trial the other day and solemnly averred that she never knew, for sure, whether any talk water had ever been used on the premises no time, no where, no how—and she was dismissed. PLEASE GO 'WAY AND LET ME SLEEP A man who had been chosen as a juror in a trial up state was later excused when it was shown that he had the habit of "dozing off" during the trial. In all probability this man has a talkative wife, or noisy neighbors, and yet again he may have a clear conscience. IN THE FIRST LINE TRENCHES PLEASE GO 'WAY AND LET ME SLEEP A man who had been chosen as a juror in a trial up state was later excused when it was shown that he had the habit of "dozing off" during the trial. In all probability this man has a talkative wife, or noisy neighbors, and yet again he may have a clear conscience. IN THE FIRST LINE TRENCHES From a time when the memory of the oldest inhabitant runeth not to the contrary, it is doubtful if any section ever had three or four sensational cases going on continuous and caloric as has been evidenced recently in a state away out west, where the people usually are happy and the cows are contented. The first pages drew the spotlight, morning, noon and night, and the good housewife had a hard time keeping abreast of the back yard broadcasting and attending to her household duties. The men folks gathered in groups and after discussing the happenings retired to the pinochle table or a horse-shoe campus to think them over. The blushing debutantes likewise were kept busy figuring out the situations while sinning their cherry cokes and whatnots. Taking it altogether, if it is publicity that you are after, all the chambers of commerce might as well fold the tents, for the headliners in the escapades were surely doing their stuff to attract the attention of the wide world. But after the storm came the calm, and everybody is wondering when the Boulder dam will be finished. NOW YOU TELL ONE Gather around, folks, and listen to this. An orange grower east of town while going through his orchard the other day, discovered a perfectly formed and rinned apple growing on the limb of an orange tree. Up to latest reports, that is the first of its kind ever found. The grower is rated as being truthful in at least four counties and his neighbors say he can tell an apple blindfolded. THE FLY IN THE OINTMENT Stories about drownings, kidnappings and cottages by the sea you have heard aplenty these past few years; but why spend so much good money truing to find out something personal, when you have the initiative, referendum and recall. It's a whole lot cheaper.