anaheim-gazette 1929-09-26

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Pririetor. ESTABLISHED 1870 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR.....$1.50 SIX MONTHS.....1.00 Entered at the Anaheim, California, Postoffice as second-class matter. SIX MONTHS OF HOOVER President Hoover has completed the first six months of his administration and there seems to be justification for the statement made by members of the Republican National Committee who met in Washington recently to the effect that because of the record of the administration so far, Mr. Hoover enjoys the confidence and support of the American people regardless of party, in even a greater degree than on election day last November. Six months is of course a comparatively short time in the history of a nation, but even in this brief period things of importance have been accomplished by the administration. Foremost among these, perhaps, has been the passage of the farm relief law embodying ideas outlined by the President during the campaign and after. The Farm Bill is now functioning and the future of the farmer in America seem brighter now than for some time past. The passage of the tariff bill with increased farm schedules will doubtless accelerate his economic recovery. Much progress has been made also on the question of further naval limitations. In this respect the President has instituted conversations with Great Britain which will fair ultimately to result in a general naval reduction agreement. At the same time the administration has let it be known that America will make no undue sacrifices in naval disarmament but will insist on a navy as good as the best. The President has also named a non-partisan commission, lief law embodying ideas outlined by the President during the campaign and after. The Farm Bill is now functioning and the future of the famer in America seem brighter now than for some time past. The passage of the tariff bill with increased farm schedules will doubtless accelerate his economic recovery. Much progress has been made also on the question of further naval limitations. In this respect the President has instituted conversations with Great Britain which will fairly to result in a general naval reduction agreement. At the same time the administration has let it be known that America will make no undue sacrifices in naval disarmament but will insist on a navy as good as the best. The President has also named a non-partisan commission, made up of men of national reputation, to study the question of law enforcement, has put another commission at work upon the problem of improving the conditions under which the American child is reared. Other things have been accomplished, too. The President has asked Congress for legislation designed to put the prohibition enforcement agencies all in one department, has put under way a plan to reorganize the government and diplomatic corps of the country, and has called for decreased expenditures under which it is hoped that there may be further reduction in income taxes. And best of all, it may be said, with all the processes of reorganization going on, the government has functioned smoothly and efficiently and in a most business-like manner, as was anticipated by those who knew Mr. Hoover best before he took office. The President's cabinet compares favorably with those of previous administrations and the appointments made by the President in various branches of the government service have met with general public approval. With six months past, it may be said that the Hoover administration is now fairly under way and that greater things may be anticipated in the future. Business is generally good over the country and there is no reason to feel that we will be called on to confront anything but peace and prosperity during the next few years. WHAT ABOUT TERRITORY? It is surmised by some commentators on foreign affairs that now that European nations have settled their debt difference, a drive will be made for revision of all foreign debts, the chief thing in mind being to inaugurate a debt cancellation program in which the United States will be asked to surrender claims on European debtors. The trouble with all this is that the United States government has no way of cancelling the obligations it assumed when it borrowed from the American people the money it loaned to European governments. The bonds representing this debt must stand, the interest be paid and the principal satisfied. One matter that seems to be overlooked by the statesmen of European governments in proposing that the burdens of the war be equalized, is the matter of territorial acquisitions by these governments in which the United States asked and received no share. It has never been proposed that the German and Austrian territory taken over by France, Great Britain and Italy be thrown into the common pot, or recognized as an asset when the liabilities are assessed. These acquisitions certainly weigh against what these European governments are now compelled to pay in excess of the monetary cost of the war with the Central Empires. What valuation does Great Britain place upon German East Africa, France upon Alsace Lorraine and her new territory in Africa, and Italy upon that part of Austria which is now Italian territory? The question of war settlements is not entirely one of debts. The acquired territory must be considered in any adjustment. governments in which the United States asked and received no share. It has never been proposed that the German and Austrian territory taken over by France, Great Britain and Italy be thrown into the common pot, or recognized as an asset when the liabilities are assessed. These acquisitions certainly weigh against what these European governments are now compelled to pay in excess of the monetary cost of the war with the Central Empires. What valuation does Great Britain place upon German East Africa, France upon Alsace Lorraine and her new territory in Africa, and Italy upon that part of Austria which is now Italian territory? The question of war settlements is not entirely one of debts. The acquired territory must be considered in any adjustment. Moreover, there might be some calculation of the territory these European nations might have lost, and the indemnities they might have to pay if the weight of the United States had not been thrown into the war on their side in a grave emergency. Certainly but for the entry of the United States into the war, the result would not have been just the same. Certainly more money and life would have been spent by the allies, and quite probably the result might have been no better than a stale-mate in which no indemnities or acquisitions would have been considered. PENNSYLVANIA AND TARIFF Considerable is being printed these days as to Pennsylvania's attitude on tariff revision. The charge has been heard that this state's representatives at Washington make the sky the limit. This is by no means true. Pennsylvania has not asked during the present session for a penny more than would properly protect its industries from the low wage products of Europe and Asia. Those who are more interested in exports than imports should remember that the home market comes first, and that if it is lost all the foreign markets of the world will not yield prosperity to the business people and the working people of the United States. Pennsylvania working people know of old hard times that follow closely on the enactment of low tariff laws. They demand sufficient protection to enable them to keep busy at high wages, and they look to those who represent them at the Capitol to do their best for them along this line. Fortunately those at the helm are men of courage who are neither fooled nor frightened by selfish interests that would open our markets to cheaply made wares from abroad. Over in Russia the proletariat walks and when a man has a couple of horses he is placed in the hated bourgeois class. To show you how far we are behind the communist state, here in America the proletariat drive fours and sixes and a man has to have an eight cylinder car and a rumble seat roadster before he can break into the middle class. The Little Mind-Reader — By Albert T. Reid "I know what you are thinking - I know just exactly, that that hat looks just as good as new, and you think you'll put it away. That's what you do each year at this time, and in the spring you throw it away. If we had all the storage space it has taken we would have a couple of new rooms on our place." THE TOWN DOCTOR (The Doctor of Towns) SAYS THE NEXT FEW MONTHS ARE BUYING MONTHS You are going to buy new things in the next ninety days, but the kind of a BUY you make will depend on how well posted you are on that for which you are in the market, and how well posted you are on the various places to buy it. The way to be posted is to know all there is to know about both. Therefore, common sense and good business judgment says, "Study up, that you may get your money's worth." You do not have to go out of your home, your office, or your place of business to get the best possible information. You can learn all there is to know about everything offered for sale if you will just read newspaper advertising. Many people get the wrong idea of advertising. There are dozens of definitions; but regardless of any of them, advertising is to you an opportunity to study, learn, and get posted on the things for which you are in the market. It used to be "Read the ads, and get stung;" nowadays it is "Fail to read the ads, and buy blindfolded." A fraud can misrepresent when he talks to you, but he doesn't dare lie in a good newspaper—that is why a lot of shysters don't advertise in good newspapers. There are some good concerns who don't advertise, but that is no sign they are frauds—it is just a sign they are old-fashioned and behind the times. If a concern does not INVITE you to do business with them, give you a reason why you SHOULD do business with them, and keep doing both until you become a customer at least once—if they fail to do this, then they have no reason or right to complain if you do not patronize them. Advertising Pays and the fellow that it pays is YOU. That's not "bunk"—it's facts. The only "bunk" about advertising is the claim that all advertising is good advertising. That "bunk" is the rock on which many a good business ship has been wrecked. Good advertising informs you, keeps you posted on values, market conditions, prices, etc., on all those things which you must buy and those things you would like to buy, and some day will buy. Read the advertising in your local paper and keep up to date—pay no attention to this advertising, and you will get behind. The truth of the matter is that in any good newspaper there is more valuable reading in good advertisements than in the news columns—in fact, the advertising columns are the real news columns. Your newspaper—this newspaper—is the catalog of all those things offered for sale by the merchants of Anaheim. Consider it as such. Read and study those columns of each page that tell what you may buy and where and how you may buy it—and REMEMBER that when you do this you are not doing the paper or the merchants any favor—you are doing yourself a good aurn, and proving yourself a wise business man. Copyright, 1529. DYCKSTON, INC. Reproduction prohibited in whole or in part. This Town Doctor article is published by the Gazette in cooperation with the Anaheim Lions Club. WAR DEBTS RECORD A London financial weekly recently had something to say about the European war debts to America which implies that the allies have nothing to show for the money they are required to repay to this country. It was said: "When the United States lent money to the allies for war purposes, the expenditure of this capital enabled destruction of property and loss of life, thus definitely reducing the borrowers' capacity to meet the service on these debts. Yet this service has regularly to be paid. At present it involves an annual payment of upward of fifty million pounds from Europe to the United States, and this figure will grow from year to year." In answer to that, it might be asked what is represented by the war reparations claims it is the destruction of property and the cost of the war to the allies. In other words, by collecting reparations from Germany the allies are making the deficated power pay the losses. At the same time, however, it is possible to show that the allies have something to show for their money aside from the collections from Germany. For one thing they are not in a position to compels them to pay huge indemnities to Germany. They have taken over German colonies and have valuable concessions in various parts of the world. Italy rules the Adriatic, instead of having that sea under the domination of Austria. France has Alsace-Lorraine. Belgium is independent and prosperous. England is in a dominating position in Europe. It is easy for the people of the allied nations to take stock of some really valuable tangible returns from the war. Without the money borrowed from America, and without the other aid received from this side of the water, it is very doubtful if they would have enjoyed such an outcome of the great conflict. In assuming that they have nothing to show for the money they borrowed, they choose to overlook the real facts. It must not be forgotten, either, that the total he allies will be required to repay has been scaled down. They borrowed something like eleven billion dollars. The war debt settlements scaled these debts down to a total of something around six and a half billions. That is the capital value placed on the debts in the settlement agreements, and the interest in nearly every case has been scaled down to a figure that is insignificant in comparison to general world interest values of today. The American government borrowed the money it loaned to the allies from the people of the United States. It is paying interest on the full amount of the loan at the figures agreed upon at the time the loans were made. It is repaying the loans in full, too, to the lenders. If it can be said truthfully that any country has nothing to show for the war debts it is compelled to pay, the United States is that country. It has nothing to show for the five billions or so of the European indebedness that has been wiped away by the war debt agreements. reason why you should be business with them, and keep doing both until you become a customer at least once—if they fail to do this, then they have no reason or right to complain if you do not patronize them. Advertising Pays and the fellow that it pays is YOU. That's not "bunk"—it's facts. The only "bunk" about advertising is the claim that all advertising is good advertising. That "bunk" is the rock on which many a good business ship has been wrecked. Good advertising informs you, keeps you posted on values, market conditions, prices, etc., on all those things which you must buy and those things you would know for the money they are required to repay to this country. It was said: "When the United States lent money to the allies for war purposes, the expenditure of this capital enabled destruction of property and loss of life, thus definitely reducing the borrowers' capacity to meet the service on these debts. Yet this service has regularly to be paid. At present it involves an annual payment of upward of fifty million pounds from Europe to the United States, and this figure will grow from year to year." In answer to that, it might be asked what is represented by the war reparations claims of the allies against Eu- The American government borrowed the money it loaned to the allies from the people of the United States. It is paying interest on the full amount of the loan at the figures agreed upon at the time the loans were made. It is repaying the loans in full, too, to the lenders. If it can be said truthfully that any country has nothing to show for the war debts it is compelled to pay, the United States is that country. It has nothing to show for the five billions or so of the European indebedness that has been wiped away by the war debt agreements. OBSERVATIONS NEW LINE OF ENDEAVOR A fellow steps up to ask why they don't appropriate a lot of money to stop murder. He says he thinks maybe it would be like trying to sweep back the tide with a broom. RAN A FREE HORSE TO DEATH Quite a few who practiced usury, who were arrested, and later it was urged should not be prosecuted because they had made restitution. But mister, do you think they would have paid the money back, if they had not been arrested? Anyway, a county jail is a zippy bill collector. A FEW IFS AND BUTS A man in the rumble seat perks up and asks: "Going back to the time before prohibition came, would the legislators have ratified that amendment if they had then known what is happening now? Send answers, care of hot air department, one flight down cellar. THEY SAY IT'S CHEAPER TO MOVE THAN PAY RENT In a city up state it is learned there is an ordinance against what is known as Resorting, and it applies to public places, but not to those that are private. Now, a palpitating and breathless public would like to know just what is a "private" place. IT WON'T BE LONG NOW A young lady went about the streets in a city up the boulevard the other day smoking a cigarette. As soon as one got down so close that it burned her fingers she torched up another. The reason for this was not made known, but in all likelihood she was the advance agent for the independent and fraternal society for the spreading of smoke screens on the boardwalk. The experiment primarily was to ascertain how the curious took to the new-fangled idea. Should the lady report favorably upon this new innovation, and if the wimmin take up puffing at the pills in public the female of the species would have to provide another pocket to carry the makings—or maybe they could get the next size larger vanity case. And if they are addicted to motoring while urin IT WON'T BE LONG NOW A young lady went about the streets in a city up the boulevard the other day smoking a cigarette. As soon as one got down so close that it burned her fingers she torched up another. The reason for this was not made known, but in all likelihood she was the advance agent for the independent and fraternal society for the spreading of smoke screens on the boardwalk. The experiment primarily was to ascertain how the curious took to the new-fangled idea. Should the lady report favorably upon this new innovation, and if the wimmin take up puffing at the pills in public the female of the species would have to provide another pocket to carry the makings—or maybe they could get the next size larger vanity case. And if they are addicted to motoring while up in the closed fire zones they will be required to furnish an old tomato can to carry the ashes of each coffin nail inhaler. THE TAIL GOES WITH THE HIDE Adelbert—What is likker la de jure embassy? Horatio—Now, lookit here, from a hoity-toity viewpoint, since that has leaked out it has caused some of the people to scratch their heads. It seems to be a delicate proposition. Of course, a lot of plenipotentiaries, it is said, crave their morning's morning; but now when they entertain, a lot of home folks, in order to be consistent, have to send their regrets. GOOBER GOING GOOD One of the late scientific experiments concerned a man pushing a peanut with his nose over a long and tortuous trail, the highly important and educational event being caused by the fact that the man lost an election bet. The latest returns are to the effect that the man has propelled the legume for a good many miles and has quite a distance yet to go before he reaches his goal. Should his nasal organ remain intact he may nose out. If the man makes the grade it will demonstrate the fact that the nose is good for something besides sticking it into other people's business. The possibilities are varied and should it be shown that the man can keep a peanut rolling on top of the ground, that organ may afford a fellow an easy way to get his grub by hunting for roots below the surface. And yet again should he win, the man may become so famous that he will not be compelled to keep his nose to the grindstone to gain a livelihood. And the axiom, root hog or die, may be relegated to the ashcan, should he get a contract. THERE'S A LIGHT IN THE WINDOW Much space and discussion has been given over to the famous farm relief bill, but it is now authoritatively stated that a section in the bill on stabilization corporations has been retained. Good. This it is said will authorize the corporations to acquire and store the surplus crops. This would be done to stabilize the market, it was reported. In other words, this is interpreted to mean that the government will buy and sell farm products. And right there is the meat in the cocoanut. By cutting down overhead costs of the farm it is said that feature would eliminate the middleman. Very good. That would bring the producer and the consumer closer together. That is excellent. Wise heads for many years have persistently urged that by removing the man in the middle, the producer would receive more money for his products. That's good stuff, mates! A new day is dawning! GO AS FAR AS YOU LIKE! When a number of visiting Shriners arrived in Los Angeles to hold their convention, some of them carried fishing poles while others brought their raincoats and gum boots. That caused mirth to be sure. You know, when they came four years ago, in the merry month of June, it rained! But, fellows, have a heart! That GO AS FAR AS YOU LIKE! When a number of visiting Shriners arrived in Los Angeles to hold their convention, some of them carried fishing poles while others brought their raincoats and gum boots. That caused mirth to be sure. You know, when they came four years ago, in the merry month of June, it rained! But, fellows, have a heart! That was unusual. Be advised, all weather is doubtful. And if you must know, one year, a long time ago, it rained here on the Fourth of July. You know, an honest confession is good for the soul. But believe it or not, visitors, the climate here is good, and some months it is better than others. Eh? Oh, yes; the big doings were really wonderful. It is said the convention was the best ever held. HEAVING OVERBOARD EXCESS BAGGAGE A man who claims to know what he is talking about says in the years to come, maybe a hundred years from now, men will wear very few clothes. That will be okay with the fresh air fiends, but some of the boys will be struck pink in chilly weather. The women started this few clothes racket and if they are to finish the job, it is problematical what their raiment will consist of later on, because what they use now would rattle around in a cigar box. If everybody went in for scanty attire that may help reduce the high cost of living; but yet again those subject to pneumonia might have increased doctor bills staring them in the face. Should this craze continue there would be no use holding strip poker parties. This new idea will eventually put people back to the pre-historic age and persons who own fig trees might reap a rich harvest. SOMETHING SHOULD BE DONE ABOUT IT Murders are becoming so common that the police have a hard time keeping up with the procession. A life seems not to be worth very much in the eyes of a degenerate, and the sooner that class of crooks are put out of the way the better it will be for those who desire to live and let live. If they abolish hanging, maybe all the penitentiaries would have to be enlarged. An eye for an eye is an old-time slogan, and perhaps if there were more honest to goodness hemp stretching parties, it might have a tendency to curb the crime. Motor vehicles bump off a whole lot, but bootleg booze and drugs seem to be holding up the percentage. The crime wave surely is a problem, and if a remedy may be found before the ranks are entirely depleted, there may be a ray of hope.