anaheim-gazette 1929-09-12

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Priprietor. ESTABLISHED 1870 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR.....$1.50 SIX MONTHS.....1.00 Entered at the Anaheim, California, Postoffice as second-class matter. ENGLAND AND FREE TRADE "Lord Beaverbrook's campaign for free trade within the empire and a tariff around it will certainly not appeal to Canadian manufacturers and manufacturers in other parts of the empire. They are diligently engaged in building up industries, and these might not survive the competition of English factories. Whatever form an enlarged inter-imperial trade may take, it must be based upon recognition of the fact that one portion of the empire is not to flourish at the expense of another."—St. John Telegraph-Journal (Canada). Here is taken into account one of the tariff difficulties with which the British Empire now has to contend. It has been the time-honored policy of Great Britain to concentrate all of its manufacturing industries in the mother country, and to use its colonies as territory for the production of the raw material and the food for the mother land. For this reason manufacturing has flourished in England and agriculture has been neglected. But now something seems to have gone wrong with this world-plan. It does not appear to be working just as the economists have said that it would work. The United States, Germany and other countries which do not depend on colonial possessions for world trade seem to be getting a big share of the business, while in England there are millions of people idle. This is not all of the picture. The fine colonies of Great Britain, particularly the ones like the Dominion of Canada, want manufacturing industries of their own. They have found that they cannot become wholly prosperous without urban population to consume at least a part of what the vast agricultural regions produce. Hence the complaint as noted above, of the plan to build flourished in England and agriculture has been neglected. But now something seems to have gone wrong with this world-plan. It does not appear to be working just as the economists have said that it would work. The United States, Germany and other countries which do not depend on colonial possessions for world trade seem to be getting a big share of the business, while in England there are millions of people idle. This is not all of the picture. The fine colonies of Great Britain, particularly the ones like the Dominion of Canada, want manufacturing industries of their own. They have found that they cannot become wholly prosperous without urban population to consume at least a part of what the vast agricultural regions produce. Hence the complaint as noted above, of the plan to build a tariff wall around the British Empire but to continue free trade between the mother country and the colonies. The scheme will not work as it has worked in the United States because between England and her far-flung colonies there are different costs of production and scales of living, while in the United States we have pretty much the same cost and the same standard of living everywhere. It would seem on first thought that with her great idle population England would attempt to colonize the unemployed in the great open spaces of Canada and Australia. But the trouble is that this idle population in England is urban and not rural. The people have been trained to work in the great industries of the mother country and they know nothing about farming and the rural life of Canada. For this reason they find it impractical to go into a strange world amid strange surroundings. If Canada had great manufacturing industries a portion of this idle population might be absorbed but the creation of these industries, as noted above, has always been against the imperial policy of Great Britain. It might be stated in passing that this British policy of keeping all manufacturing and shipping in the home country was one of the principal factors in bringing on our Revolutionary War. The thrifty people in the thirteen American colonies wanted to expand their manufacturing and to carry their share of the world trade in colonial ships. But the mother country by legislation prevented this and the Revolution was the result. The first act passed by the legislative assembly of the new republic in the administration of President Washington was a tariff law designed to create and foster new American industries. The law at the time was hailed far and wide as a second Declaration of Independence, and such it proved to be. Without it the United States might still be as rural and as thinly populated, in proportion, as the great dominion to the north or us. WE PAY OUR OWN DEBT Occasionally we still get from the William town conference and other seats of the kind of learning that "ain't so," suggestions that the United States ought to cancel the European debt. True it is that the suggestions are now becoming half-hearted as the liberal brethren here and abroad, liberal at least when it comes to spending other people's money, begin to realize that it is the purpose of the United States government to collect the amount owing us so far as it is possible to do so, through the debt agreements. Although the charge is not made so frequently of late, we still hear it occasionally, to the effect that Uncle Sam is the world's shylock and that he is seeking to recover his war debts from poor down-trodden Europe. In view of all of this it is interesting to examine the figures on the war debts recently compiled by the Alexander Hamilton Institute. Fourteen nations have agreed to liquidate their war debts to the United States. The only one which has failed to make an agreement is Soviet Russia, and most Americans believe that no agreement may be made. liberal brethren here and abroad, liberal at least when it comes to spending other people's money, begin to realize that it is the purpose of the United States government to collect the amount owing us so far as it is possible to do so, through the debt agreements. Although the charge is not made so frequently of late, we still hear it occasionally, to the effect that Uncle Sam is the world's shylock and that he is seeking to recover his war debts from poor down-trodden Europe. In view of all of this it is interesting to examine the figures on the war debts recently compiled by the Alexander Hamilton Institute. Fourteen nations have agreed to liquidate their war debts to the United States. The only one which has failed to make an agreement is Soviet Russia, and most Americans believe that any agreement made by Russia, as at present constituted, would not be worth much more than the paper it is written on. The fourteen countries have agreed to pay us eventually the sum of something like eleven and a half billion dollars on the war debts representing principal and interest up to the time of the settlements. But the present war debt of Uncle Sam is something over sixteen billions and at its peak it was more than twenty-five billions. The reduction from the peak has been made possible by the wise fiscal policy of the United States government, and money has come from American taxpayers and not from Europe. It will be seen therefore that Uncle Sam is not paying his war debts from money collected from any European "chattel slaves." But this is not all. In the fiscal year 1928 the total payments from the fourteen paying nations on war accounts amounted to something like $207,000,000, while the interest in 1928 on Uncle Sam's national debt was about $640,000,000. It will be seen therefore that the money we received last year from our European debtors amounted to less than one-third of the interest charges on Uncle Sam's war debts. Of course, as the years go by and our national debt is reduced further by our economic policies the interest on our public debt will be reduced to the point where the payments from Europe, if still coming in, will take care of it. But this will be some years yet and in the meantime Uncle Sam will continue, as in the past, to pay off his debts through money saved and earned at home. All of which makes the outcry about our grinding down Europe to pay our war debts sound like a lot of "horse-feathers," to say the least. Life insurance now in force in the United States has passed the hundred billion dollar mark, which proves among other things, that the pestiferous agents are getting results from their pestiferousness. ANAHEIM GAZETTE The Posse Has Captured Mrs. Everyone's Jimmy By Albert T. CHILD WELFARE One subject in which every American AMERICAN PREDOMINANCE Allike In Europe and America, we DON'T BE AN OSTRICH There is an ancient belief that the CHILD WELFARE One subject in which every American no matter what his race, creed or politics may be, is vitally interested is the subject of "child welfare." This is as it should be and it is therefore fitting that the first citizen of the land, the President of the United States, should in characteristic fashion launch a program, comprehensive in scope, calling for the co-operation of the federal government and the various states in furthering this important work. President Hoover, like all good Americans, has always been interested in children. His calling of a child welfare conference next year to determine how the national and local governments can help in this important subject was a cause for general satisfaction. Mr. Hoover does not suggest that the question of child training is one which can be fit to any particular theory, nor that it is a problem which the federal government ought to take over for solution. The President has long been interested in child welfare from a humanitarian standpoint as his work in Europe during and after the war proved, and it is ensuring that learn that he does not believe that the question is one for solution by the federal government alone. On the other hand, he declares that "major progress in this direction must be made by voluntary action and by the activities of local government." The President is undoubtedly right in this and it is to be hoped that the recommendations made by the national conference can be worked out through the state and local authorities with the cooperation, wherever possible, of the federal government. In touching on this phase of the work, the Chicago Post well says: "The proposed gathering will avoid one of the evils attending on other relief agencies which have been suggested in that it will involve no increase in federal authority or machinery dealing with a subject of primary importance to the individual states. There are many agencies eager to engage in relief enterprises if the federal government will authorize generous appropriations. The iniquitous federal aid scheme has been exploited to the limit and public sentiment opposes further treasury drains in that direction. "President Hoover's plan will test the unselfishness of those who participate. It asks the co-operation of repre-" AMERICAN PREDOMINANCE Alike in Europe and America, we have slipped into the habit of assuming not merely that America is now "the great noise," indubitably the most powerful single national unit in the world, having captured an economic predominance which yesterday was Britain's but that this predominance is bound to be permanent because inherent in the nature of things, in American superiority of natural resources, more fortunate situation, in physical advantages denied to Europe. sentative citizens and officials interested in this important subject. There will be no appropriations to divide. Ignorance at no service alone will determine the co-operation of those whom the President has invited to aid in this splendid enterprise." Some understanding of the President's motive may be gathered from the statement which he made two years ago on the subject of a national health program, when he declared: "The ideal to which we should strive is that there shall be no child in America that has not been born under proper conditions, that does not live in hygienic surroundings, that ever suffers from undernutrition, that does not have prompt and efficient medical attention and inspection, that does not receive primary instruction in the elements of hygiene and good health; that there shall be no child that has not the complete birthright of a sound mind in a sound body and the encouragement to express in fullest measure the spirit within which is the final endowment of every human being." Certainly the entire nation will have nothing but the best wishes for President Hoover's child welfare conference. The conference is being started on the proper lines. After all it is all up to Mr. Citizen in his daily life and through his local government to look after the rising generation as far as possible. The co-operation of the national government will of course not be lacking under the plan as Mr. Hoover visualizes it, and his plan if carried out will be a practical demonstration of how the federal government can help in a problem which comes directly under the supervision of the state governments, without creating a new bureaucratic factor at Washington. DON'T BE AN OSTRICH There is an ancient belief that the ostrich has the least discriminating appetite of all beasts. Recently an autopsy was performed on a West African specimen, and the following things were found in the bird's "innards": Several gloves, three handkerchiefs, wire clippings, a tire valve, a coin, several film spools and 65 articles of no known food value. Science is to be congratulated on this discovery. People will scoff at the idea that human beings may be as careless of their diet as this particular ostrich, but it is nevertheless true. People who overeat fill themselves when not hungry, or eat when angry or excited, are every bit as foolish in the matter of food as this ostrich. While it is true they do not consume gloves, handkerchiefs and tire valves, they consume many things that will ultimately prove just as harmful to them, and contain as little food value as these articles. Watch what you eat! Take only the purest, finest food not your system. Balance your diet—plan the proper combinations of food. Be careful of when and what you eat—don't be an ostrich! Even if a man isn't his brother's keeper, there are times when he thinks his brother needs one. The undoubted superiority of America and its economic preponderance today is not to be explained by superiority of natural resources, but by a political fact (which gives rise, be it noted, to an economic one). The states have political unity: Europe has not. If the course of historical development in North America had been more like that of South America, so that English speaking America had been as much divided as is Spanish-speaking America; if, in what is now the United States there existed, not one nation, but a dozen rival nations—as south of the Mexican border there are more than a dozen different nations—we should not now be talking about American power and its predominance in the world. North America would figure for very little more in such terms than does South America. many agencies eager to engage in relief enterprises if the federal government will authorize generous appropriations. The iniquitous federal aid scheme has been exploited to the limit and public sentiment opposes further treasury drains in that direction. "President Hoover's plan will test the unselfishness of those who partici-pate. It asks the co-operation of representation of the national govern-ment will of course not be lacking under the plan as Mr. Hoover visualizes it, and his plan if carried out will be a practical demonstration of how the federal government can help in a problem which comes directly under the supervision of the state govern-ments, without creating a new bureaucratic factor at Washington. IDEA BOO HOO! POP, BOO HOO HERE BAYS IF YOU GIVE HIM A NICKEL HE'LL STOP CRYING! BUT I LIKE TO HEAR HIM CRY- IT AMUSES ME! B-ZZ-B B-ZZ-DZZ! POP, BOO HOO WANTS TO KNOW CAN HE HAVE A NICKEL FOR AMUSING YOU! OBSERVATIONS ONE OF THE DAILY PUZZLES Query:—When that great airship limped back into port and started out again, how many of the original passengers climbed back into their seats? ALMOST USELESS An association in an adjoining state held a meeting the other day regarding the present day moral conditions. The assembly was called on account of a college poster advertisement which showed that the dresses of the women, worn at one of their entertainments, were "formless, lengthless and backless." GOOD ANYTIME, ANYWHERE An interesting news item came in the other day from Poland. It seems immigrants in America have been sending dollar bills back there to relatives, and they have been hoarding them up until the total runs into millions. Now that the government has changed the appearance of its currency, those foreigners were afraid the dollars they had would be worthless. But such is not the case. American representatives over there have been kept busy reassuring those people that the old money they have is just as good as the new variety—because Uncle Sam does not repudiate his obligations. TRAVELING LIGHT, A LA SKETCHY A minister of the gospel in a nearby seacoast town the other day denounced a beauty parade held there, declaring that it was a "pageantry of nakedness." RECEIVING THE RAP A highly interesting and enlightening item appeared in the paper the other day as follows, to-wit: "When a man shoulders the blame for an offense committed by a higher up and goes to the pen, the party of the first part receives $100 per month during the period of his stretch." A little added to what you already have makes just a little bit more. IF YOU CAN'T BE GOOD, BE CAREFUL A wife of a man, who got tangled up with another man over an alleged brawl over a woman, said: "Oh, it's just a gesture." And a lotta wimmin would begin to figure up the alimony. SWEET ADELINE BEHIND THE BARS A headline in the paper says: "The jailor admits furnishing IF YOU CAN'T BE GOOD, BE CAREFUL A wife of a man, who got tangled up with another man over an alleged brawl over a woman, said: "Oh, it's just a gesture." And a lotta wimmin would begin to figure up the alimony. SWEET ADELINE BEHIND THE BARS A headline in the paper says: "The jailor admits furnishing liquor to prisoners." In all probability the boys had a hangover. BURNING THE MIDNIGHT OIL A commission has been appointed to study the cause and cure for crime. That's a real job. SHAKING THE FAMILY SKELETON One thing that may be written in your day book, should you suddenly become famous (and wealthy): You surely will be made the target for something or other. And if ever you talked to your sweetie about marriage, she will keep the home fires burning (should it so happen that you hook up with another gal), by suing you for breach of promise. TAKING A CHANCE It has been given out upon the best of authority that if girls are to keep their shapely, 'er, legs, they must refrain from wearing those three-inch heels to their "kicks." It has been discovered that by wearing those spikes the muscles of the legs acquire what in medical science is known as atrophy, causing a disease that is classed as whatyoumaycallit, gastrocnemious—Anyhow, that's what the doctor said. YEAH—TELL IT TO THE JUDGE! "Hey, what's the matter? Are ye going to a fire? Are any of the folks sick? Are ye looking for a doctor?" EXCESS BAGGAGE Just how machine guns are sold to customers in the "open market" is one of the complex problems that has been baffling the boulevardieres for many moons. To the ordinary citizen they are as useless as the fifth wheel on a wagon, but in the hands of a bold, bad bandit they are capable of making your anatamy look like a sieve or a well-used meal ticket. MADE WHOOPEE It has been reported that certain members in a high-up body cheered when it became known that a lone rider in a car had been killed, as an alleged bootician. Just what the mirthfulness would have been had there been two of them, is a matter that will have to be referred to the champion cross-word puzzler to figure out, after due and deliberate deductions. CAVING IN THE SLATS It is given out on unimpeachable authority that the prize fight business is dying a natural death. This it is said is caused by the affection that many bruisers have for each other, causing them to almost hug each other out of existence. The society for the prevention of marred anatomies has taken up the question and their committee on ways and means has arrived at the conclusion that the race of reachers will become extinct, unless something is done about it. CAVING IN THE SLATS It is given out on unimpeachable authority that the prize fight business is dying a natural death. This it is said is caused by the affection that many bruisers have for each other, causing them to almost hug each other out of existence. The society for the prevention of marred anatomies has taken up the question and their committee on ways and means has arrived at the conclusion that the race of reachers will become extinct, unless something is done about it. FORMING A CONTACT After an exhaustive research it has been computed that wives along Alimony Row go into court more frequently in the spring of the year, asking for a raise in their rations. This is believed to be caused by the many new and nifty styles on parade in the display windows. SEEMS THAT SAME THING HAS BEEN HEARD BEFORE Marriages may come and marriages may go, but divorces go on forever. Quite often it is cruelty and incompatibility upon which the action is based—but usually the charges wind up with: "And he registered at a hotel with another—" MATRIMONIAL CRAFT HIT THE ROCKS A wife secured a divorce from friend husband when she testified, from her observations, he was the best single-handed gin guzzler in four counties, and besides, she said, he threatened to knock her teeth down her throat. It would be interesting to know what the man would do if he became angry. IT JUST HAD TO GET OUT. THAT'S ALL Footprints on the sands of time. And there's the Rock of Ages; a stitch in time will save you nine. And a tested voice gets a raise in wages. AND THEY REMAINED HAPPY EVER AFTER Nowadays divorces are in many cases something that just had to happen. Quite often it is announced by the two principals that "we are still good friends." Sometimes marriage is just a gesture, and as time rolls on the divorce mill opens the gate for a getaway to start all over again. And most of them will be happy and live long, if they keep in tune with the traffic signals.