anaheim-gazette 1929-07-04

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE ESTABLISHED 1870 HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Priprietor. ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR $1.50 SIX MONTHS 1.00 Entered at the Anaheim, California, Postoffice as second-class matter. A PLEASANT SURPRISE One of the pleasant surprises of the past few weeks for the American citizen was the announcement made by the President recently that instead of a budget deficit of $17,000,000 at the end of the fiscal year as was estimated some time ago, there will probably be a surplus of around $110,000,000. Treasury officials declared that the estimate made by the President of this unexpected surplus was most conservative and they added that according to their figures the surplus might reach any figure between $120,-000,000 and $150,000,000. It was stated further by treasury officials that the estimated deficit of $17,000,000 had been wiped out by the surprising increase in income tax collections during March. It was also stated that the receipts from customs duties had been increased, too. Heavy importations are always in order when a new tariff bill is in the offing and this is thought to account for some of the increase in customs receipts, although our foreign trade has, of course, been steadily growing. Receipts of the treasury will include also $90,000,000 from foreign governments as payments on their war debts. Just what effect the unexpected surplus will have on proposals for further tax reduction of course remains to be seen. There has been some disposition in Congress to work for another cut in the tax on earned incomes. Those opposed to this action point out that the farm relief bill will require $500,000,000 and that there may be a shrinkage in income tax receipts next March. Heavy importations are always in order when a new tariff bill is in the offing and this is thought to account for some of the increase in customs receipts, although our foreign trade has, of course, been steadily growing. Receipts of the treasury will include also $90,000,000 from foreign governments as payments on their war debts. Just what effect the unexpected surplus will have on proposals for further tax reduction of course remains to be seen. There has been some disposition in Congress to work for another cut in the tax on earned incomes. Those opposed to this action point out that the farm relief bill will require $500,000,000 and that there may be a shrinkage in income tax receipts next March because of the shrinkage in values in the stock market. This is of course figuring a long way ahead as there is no way of telling now just what direction the general market will take before the end of the year. It is encouraging of course to note that business in the country is generally good. So far as can be detected on the surface, there is no reason to expect a business depression during the year 1929. Things seem to be moving along smoothly and since constructive policies will be followed by the administration, things ought to continue to run smoothly. Each year the receipts of the government have a way of pleasantly surprising the country. It is encouraging to note that this year has proved no exception. That the receipts are exceeding rather than falling short of the treasury estimates indicates that the Treasury Department has been following a sound and conservative policy in making its estimates. Certainly it is much better to have an unexpected surplus at the end of the year than an unpleasant and at the same time unexpected deficit. HOW TIMES CHANGE A great many newspapers have commented on the statement made by Mrs. Ruth Dewan Owen, daughter of the famous Commoner, and leader of the Democratic party for a generation, explaining her vote in Congress as a representative from Florida, in favor of the new Hawley-Smoot tariff bill. He explanation that she voted for the bill because her constituents wanted protection embodied in the bill, has given rise to many editorials on the question as to whether congressmen or senators should vote as their constituents desire, or according to party rule, or their own best judgment. This leaves the inference that Mrs. Owen may have voted against her own judgment, bowing to that of her constituents. But this is an inference which is not justified by her own explanation, because she did not say, in the statement as published, that she regarded the bill as wrong. When she was reminded of the tariff views of her illustrious father, during the time he was in Congress, Mrs. Owen is quoted by the United Press as saying that "any comparison between my attitude toward the tariff and my father's would be invidious. He was here thirty-nine years ago representing Nebraska. I am here in 1929 representing Florida. It would be impossible to draw a fair comparison without an exhaustive treatment of changed conditions and different party attitudes." It would seem to the average by-stander that the most significant thing in this episode is not that Mrs. Owen, as a Democrat, differed from her father's opinion of by-gone days, but that in voting according to the interests of her constituents in a state which was formerly a part of the Solid South, she gave her support to a protective law. Economic conditions and party attitudes have indeed changed since the days when Mr. Bryan was in Congress. Then opinion in the South was almost solidly against free trade. Now protective sentiment is growing more rapidly in the South than in any other part of the country. The reason is that industries are going It would seem to the average by-stander that the most significant thing in this episode is not that Mrs. Owen, as a Democrat, differed from her father's opinion of by-gone days, but that in voting according to the interests of her constituents in a state which was formerly a part of the Solid South, she gave her support to a protective law. Economic conditions and party attitudes have indeed changed since the days when Mr. Bryan was in Congress. Then opinion in the South was almost solidly against free trade. Now protective sentiment is growing more rapidly in the South than in any other part of the country. The reason is that industries are going into the southern states, and their specialized agriculture is flourishing, to a degree not deemed possible a generation ago. Now the industries of the South, like those of the North and Central states, need a tariff to protect them from unfair competition brought about by the low wages and poorer living conditions in Europe. And the fruit and fancy vegetable growers of the South need protection against the cheaper production costs and peon labor of Mexico, Central America and the islands of the West Indies. This accounts for the change of sentiment among Mrs. Owen's constituents, and it must be admitted that the showed excellent judgment, politically and from the standpoint of public welfare, in voting for the schedules in the Hawley-Smoot bill. PATRONIZE AMERICAN SHIPS In response to what is undoubtedly the will of the majority of the American people, the federal government is getting out of the shipping business. Since 1921 the Shipping Board has disposed of 75 per cent of its vessels, and at the present time has only 250 ships in service. Since the most desirable lines have already been disposed of, it may be some little time before the remaining lines can be sold. But, eventually, they will be transferred to private ownership. There is a general belief that private enterprise can operate the ships more economically and efficiently than can the government. Assuming that this is true, the private interests which have taken over the government's ships will likely make a better showing with them than the government has. But it must not be forgotten that the ships, regardless of whose management they are under, must be patronized if they are to pay operating expenses and make a profit for their owners. One of the reasons why the American Merchant Marine has not flourished in recent years is that American shippers and travelers have been indifferent about patronizing American ships. The same principle involved in patronizing home industry is involved here. If the American flag is to increase on the seven seas, the American people must patronize their country's ships. Evidently there is need for an educational campaign along this line. ANAHEIM GAZETTE Shooting It Full of Holes By Albert T. Reid ALIEN BUTTES HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS INFEST THESE HILLS BILL TO COUNT ALIENS IN FIGURING CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATION UNDESIRABLE ALIENS Albert T. Reid USE OF BY-PRODUCTS hundreds of examples of this. The cornstarch industry started out to rulling by the Massachusetts supreme court in denying a Socialist soap-box. USE OF BY-PRODUCTS Few people who have not studied the subject realize how the scientist is helping the farmer by his research and how many ways are being devised to utilize what was formerly agricultural waste, so adding to the farmers' income. Something of the changes which are taking place in agriculture is told in an interesting way by Arthur M. Hyde, Secretary of Agriculture in President Hoover's cabinet, in an interesting article in the current issue of the National Republic under the title, "Using the Farm By-Products." In introducing the subject, Mr. Hyde says: "It may appear to some who are unfamiliar with the spirit and method of research that research into small things may at times be trifling. No 'unknown' is trifling in honest research. To the scientist every strange field is as the rainbow, with always the hope and possibility of the pot of gold being at the end. The little tomato seed was a ware of the catapult industry until chemists found a way to extract its oil. Today this oil is used as food and making fine soaps. The kernel of the seed of the apricot was a waste of the apricot industry until chemists found a way to free it from its bitter principle. Today the apricot kernel, tasting nearly like the almond, is used in flavoring macerations. The seeds of the raisin were a waste with the seeded raisin industry until chemists found a way to use them. The oil of the seed is compatible in taste with the raisin, and work is now being done in spraying this oil on the seeded raisins to keep them soft and fresh until consumed. Until only a short while ago the pancreas gland of the slaughtered calf and hog of the packing-house was only a minor edible by-product, called sweetbread when used as food. Then medical research found in the gland the marvelous substance called insulin, which relieves mankind from suffering the death from diabetes. This discovery not only greatly heightened the commercial money value of a trifling lipid, but it benefited suffering humanity entirely beyond any mere money value that can be put upon it. So nothing is too small for research. "In these days of rapidly moving evolution in industry—and the farmer must draw a lesson from it—one can never tell but that the humble and little-respected by-product of today may be a main product tomorrow. The manufacturing industries can show hundreds of examples of this. The cornstarch industry started out to make corn starch for cooking and laundering." Then science showed how to make glucose from the starch. Then someone conceived the idea that the soil of the germ had attributes of the comparatively costly imported olive oil. Today glucose, corn syrup and corn oil are main products of the corn refining industry. There was a time when this industry dumped into the river all of the corn kernel that was left after the starch had been removed. Today these formerly utterly wasted by-products are livestock feed, selling for well up into the millions a year." TREASURY STATEMENT Secretary Mellon said Friday that the latest estimates indicated that the government will conclude the fiscal year on June 30 with a surplus of $160,000,000 or $1170,000,000. This balance will be on hand, he said, after the $50,000,000 allowed railroads for the retroactive mailrate increase has been paid. Income tax returns for the present month up to June 24, including the second quarter's payment of the 1928 tax, have totaled $515,725,068, an increase of $50,000,000 over the similar period of last year. Income taxes for the fiscal year on the same date totaled $2,321,180,412, as compared with $2,166,600,373 in the same period of the previous year. Customs receipts also have shown an increase this year, aggregating on June 24 a total of $502,974,151, an increase of approximately $35,000,000 over the same period of 1928. The government's total receipts to date in the fiscal year 1929 have amounted to $3,998,694,187, leaving a surplus on June 24 of $237,596,910, but expenditures that must come out before the end of the month are expected to cut this amount by approximately $60,000,000 or $70,000,000. The increase in the surplus, which last February for a time appeared to have been wiped out, was due; treasury officials said, to the huge income tax payments likely because of large transactions in trading in stocks. SOAP-BOX NUISANCE Free speech as guaranteed by the Constitution is a citizen's right, but it is not to be exercised when or where it infringes upon equal rights of other citizens. Such is the substance of a ruling by the Massachusetts supreme court in denying a Socialist soap-box orator's appeal from a fine imposed for obstructing a street in Lynn. In his appeal the defendant claimed the right of the people to assemble in the streets and to make speeches therein. Chief Justice Rugg in his opinion said: "By the location of a highway, an easement of passage is secured for the public with all incidental privileges thereby implied. Whatever interferes with the exercise of this easement is a nuisance. It is manifest that making a speech from a box and thereby gathering a standing crowd of people is obstruction to the right of the public to use the highway for travel." And soap-box orators are not only persons who obstruct the streets and highways to the annoyance and inconvenience of the public. DETROIT If statements from the treasury department are dependable, we are about to witness a major test of prohibition enforcement as the strategic center of the bootleg industry, Detroit. The narrow river between this large city and the source of huge wet supplies in Canada offers a peculiar field for running. The facilities offered have developed liquor smuggling to a point which challenges official action. Uncle Sam is mobilizing patrolmen and river craft and the runners are reported to be laying in speedy boats and plenty of machine guns. The inevitable clash is anticipated with keen interest. If the battle omes—as seems likely—we are going to see a practical test as how efficient enforcement can be made and what it is going to cost. The men and vessels required to meet a situation like this cannot be had for any small amount of money. The stakes are high for the bootleger and they will not be squamish morally nor parsimonious as to expenses. Naturally the good citizens of the country hope to see this open rebellion effectively squashed. But keeping it squashed may be a permanent job of large dimensions—and Detroit is only one point on a long border line. Hint to June brides: One of our wise woman friends says that the only way to have an ideal husband is to keep crediting to him all the virtues you thought he had before you married him and pretty soon you will have yourself so fooled you will be almost as happy as you thought you would be. when relieves manhood from surfinis the death from diabetes. This discovery not only greatly heightened the commercial money value of a trifling lyproduit, but it benefited suffering humanity entirely beyond any mere money value that can be put upon it. So nothing is too small for research. "In these days of rapidly moving evolution in industry—and the farmer must draw a lesson from it—one can never tell but that the humble and little-respected by-product of today may be a main product tomorrow. The manufacturing industries can show The increase in the surplus, which last February for a time appeared to have been wiped out, was due, treasury officials said, to the huge income tax payments, highly because of large trans actions in trading in stocks. SOAP-BOX NUISANCE Free speech as guaranteed by the Constitution is a citizen's right, but it is not to be exercised when or where it infringes upon equal rights of other citizens. Such is the substance of a Hint to June brides: One of our wine woman friends says that the only way to have an ideal husband is to keep crediting to him all the virtues you thought he had before you married him and pretty soon you will have yourself so fooled you will be almost as happy as you thought you would be. HERE PINKY, TAKE THIS QUARTER AND CHASE OUT AND BUY ME A BINGO MAGAZINE C'MON GANG! I'M GOIN' TO THE STORE TO GET A MAGAZINE FOR POP. IT ONLY COSTS TWENTY CENTS AND POP ALWAYS LET'S ME KEEP THE FIVE CENTS CHANGE TOO BAD PINKY WE'RE ALL SOLD OUT OF BINGO MAGAZINES, NOT A COPY LEFT/ SORRY I COULDN'T GET IT FOR YOU POP. ALL SOLD OUT WELL, WELL! TOO BAD, THEN I'LL TAKE MY QUARTER BACK! 1729 Publishers Autocaster Service OBSERVATIONS OLD STUFF Who cares whether a woman lets her foot slip, on purpose, or by accident; but after standing off the withering fire for many moons Uncle Reuben inclines to the notion that they ought to sit back and let nature take its course. PARTICEPS CRIMINIS Listen, brother, if a woman conspired and bargained to do a certain thing, which one the face of it was wrong, wouldn't the lady be as deep in the puzzle as the other person (who, perhaps, also was wrong) provided she attempted to shield that person? This way out, second isle to the left. FADES OUT OF THE PICTURE After a man has been convicted of a felony he begins to grasp at straws. He files a notice of appeal, and seeks his release on bail. His former friends seem to disappear—they lose interest. He lives in hopes, but they do not buy him anything. Soon he is forgotten, and the haunts that knew him once now know him not. REACHING UP INTO THE SKY Drawing checks with no funds in the bank has become so common nowadays that it is a habit—with some folks. Billy Macgooffus allows it is one of the by-products of the jazz age. However, if you want to go straight, should there be a lingering doubt as to how near you are to the red ink line, you better call up for a statement. HEY, USELESS, DIDJA FERGIT SOMETHIN'? When a director loans a movie star to another, that's on account of merit. But that does not apply to the man who borrows a ten-spot and fails to pay it back. SOMETHING JUST AS GOOD When the female of the species was given the ballot, it was believed there would be no more poaching on the men's preserves. But now this pesky bandit business has opened up a new line of HEY, USELESS, DIDJA FERGIT SOMETHIN'? When a director loans a movie star to another, that's on account of merit. But that does not apply to the man who borrows a ten-spot and fails to pay it back. SOMETHING JUST AS GOOD When the female of the species was given the ballot, it was believed there would be no more poaching on the men's preserves. But now this pesky bandit business has opened up a new line of endeavor and from all accounts it is profitable for some of the fair sex. Of course, the women should not take this to mean that they should go gunning for their grub, because some of the timid ones may change their minds at the last minute and get pinched and then faint. PUTTING IT INTO CIRCULATION Funny thing about this hold-up racket is when the banker gets a gat stuck up under his nose, he has visions of an undertaker's parlor, and instead of taking a chance of having his person punctured, he just hands over the currency knowing it is insured. CALL YOUR SHOTS Ever since the long count, rumors have been afloat regarding whether or not a certain fighting man would climb through the ropes again. A breathless and palpitating public has been on the tip-toe of expectancy for many moons concerning this momentous question. At times reports were current that he would again step out on the rosin, and then again it was radioed that he would not. Now, it is given out on the best of authority that he will take on one or two; or perhaps three, of the boys who can show class. It all depends how the customers would crash the gate. One thing is certain, this controversy should be decided for sure before the snow begins to fly, for be it known that a lot of hombres are losing sleep over the matter and that jars their equilebrium, or something. CARRYING THE BANNER Speaking of relief and one thing and another, there is the guy who plays the fiddle, the flute, the piccolo and the piano. Whatever is to become of him, now that the synchronizing has come to stay? And then there is the fellow who wields a wicked willow before the orchestra during the ensemble. This complex may spread to many other avenues of amusement, and Uncle Reuben allows that the Ways and Means Committee should bestir themselves before the cold weather sets in. UP IN THE AIR Now that the spring cleaning is over, something should be done about quieting the nerves of some folks who have been reading about the salaries of some of the movie stars. The figgers are so high that a person with ordinary eyesight has to adjust an extra pair of spectacles in order to read them. FLYING HIGH Be it known that some people will mortgage their home in order to get money to buy a car; but listen, mister, the height of something or other is the bozo who mortgages the little home to buy an airship. And then the plot thickens when he is killed in a tailspin and the wife and children are left penniless and become objects of charity. It's a great world—if you don't weaken. FLYING HIGH Be it known that some people will mortgage their home in order to get money to buy a car; but listen, mister, the height of something or other is the bozo who mortgages the little home to buy an airship. And then the plot thickens when he is killed in a tailspin and the wife and children are left penniless and become objects of charity. It's a great world—if you don't weaken. CULTIVATING THE CHORDS It is given out by the higher-ups that before an actress can get into the inner circles nowadays she must have a voice that tests good for the talkies. And then, too, she must be able to "sing." Talking and singing are as much apart as day and night. But anyhow, if the lady can really sing she may make all the hurdles—but, believe it or not, the dear public should have something to say about the star's "singing." LOSING WEIGHT WHILE YOU WAIT Here's a hot tip for those who desire to reduce. A man who has been in jail for thirty days has lost twelve pounds. It is said the diet is regular, very plain, and you may eat everything set before you. NECK HOLD ON THE NEWS One of the most interesting pieces of gossip, outside of the modern sport writer's description of a ball game, is the weather report. One day early in March a bureau announced that it would be partly cloudy with westerly winds—but, lo and behold it rained all night and half of the next day, and the old southeaster left four inches of moisture before he pulled out. WELL, OF ALL THINGS; SAY, YOU! OH, YOU! YOU BEAST! It is reported that when a young lady in an eastern city met up with a bold, bad bandit the other evening, he took her purse, hat, gloves—and her dress! FILL 'EM UP AGAIN, BOYS, FILL 'EM UP AGAIN Quite often when viewing a "pitcher" the customers see a "drinking" scene. Yes sir, they see a fellow filling his glass with something that looks like the real stuff. Then they wonder whether or not the scene was shot in Europe or Asia, or whether it was in South or North America. And the fellow shows signs of having the symptoms of being full as a boot.