anaheim-gazette 1930-01-30

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE ESTABLISHED 1870 HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Proprietor. ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR.....$1.50 SIX MONTHS.....1.00 Entered at the Anaheim, California, Postoffice as second-class matter. AN HISTORIC MISSION The American Naval conference delegation is now in Europe on a mission which may be fairly described as historic—a mission which implicitly recognizes the vital fact that the happiness and economic well being of an ever-increasing number of Americans are dependent on the sea and on the lands which lie beyond the horizon. It goes with the immediate object of securing international limitation and parity in auxiliary warships and with the ultimate object of promoting peace. The delegation may fairly be said to sail under auspicious circumstances. Only a few months ago a British Prime Minister, for the first time in history, came to the United States, and with the President created an atmosphere of Anglo-American friendship which should go far to make definite understanding possible. In spite of this fine beginning there is no use denying the fact that there are bound to be great difficulties wherever national interests are focused as they are now in London. Collisions are likely and the chances of agreement may at times seem slender. The American delegation, animated by the desire for peace which is so marked in President Hoover's character, will do its best to show the same patience and the same spirit of helpfulness which the President has so often displayed. It should sincerely strive for agreement, but it should always bear in mind that no agreement is worth the paper it is written on if it does not give the United States real equality of the brand which both our naval authorities and American public opinion can approve. To say that we wish the delegation good luck and godspeed is to understate the case. This newspaper is dedicated to peace and to the intelligent promotion of measures calculated to The American delegation, animated by the desire for peace which is so marked in President Hoover's character, will do its best to show the same patience and the same spirit of helofulness which the President has so often displayed. It should sincerely strive for agreement, but it should always bear in mind that no agreement is worth the paper it is written on if it does not give the United States real equality of the brand which both our naval authorities and American public opinion can approve. To say that we wish the delegation good luck and godspeed is to understate the case. This newspaper is dedicated to peace and to the intelligent promotion of measures calculated to achieve it. We have shared in the general admiration of the President's approach to the intricate naval problem, from the meeting with Prime Minister MacDonald to his appointment of a delegation unusual in the strength and ability of its members. From the first the President has shown that he is mindful of the needs of this country and of the primary mission instruced by the Constitution to the federal government of caring for the common defense. It was no mere chance that Mr. Hoover in his telegram to the Republican National Convention at Kansas City put the assurance of national defense first on the list of the principles for which he stands. The country is back of the President in his desire to safeguard peace. As on every previous occasion, the country is glad to make sacrifices, provided others make them and that our sacrifices are not merely for the sake of setting an example. Although America can more easily afford to maintain a large navy than any other power, Americans are glad to limit their naval construction, provided this is done on a thoroughly equal basis, with the consent of those who best know our growing naval needs. An agreement which would not give us equality would be even more deplorable than a failure which would lead to competitive building. As one surveys the American delegation, there is reason to be hopeful that great things will be done at London. Like the rest of the country, we wish them all possible success. DEPOSITS GUARANTEED Most political students will remember the wave of sentiment for the guarantee of bank deposits which swent over the country a few years ago. In most instances the idea did not take root and the people soon forgot about it but in some states this attractive theory was enacted into law. One of these states was Nebraska. From time to time we have heard that the law was not working so well in this commonwealth. And now T. R. Porter, writing from Omaha in the Boston Transcript says that the state banking system seems on the verge of some sort of decisive change because of the state bank guaranty law. Eleven of the largest state banks, he says, have applied for charters as national banks and eighty additional state banks have asked the Federal Reserve Bank for information as to what methods they must nurse to be changed into national banks. Continuing in the Transcript, Mr. Porter says: "The state bank guaranty fund, designed to guarantee the deposits of state banks, is the cause of the possible wrecking of the state banking system. The guaranty fund is now behind approximately $16,000,000, all of which must be paid by the state banks. About $3,000,000 of this $16,000,000 has been assessed against the banks and has been due for some months, but not paid. The banks have the matter up in court in an effort to escape payment and the case is now before the United States Supreme Court. But the United States Supreme Court, a number of years ago, declared the law creating the guaranty fund to be constitu- Continuing in the Transcript. Mr. Porter says: "The state bank guaranty fund, designed to guarantee the deposits of state banks, is the cause of the possible wrecking of the state banking system. The guaranty fund is now behind approximately $16,000,000, all of which must be paid by the state banks. About $3,000,000 of this $16,000,000 has been assessed against the banks and has been due for some months, but not paid. The banks have the matter up in court in an effort to escape payment and the case is now before the United States Supreme Court. But the United States Supreme Court, a number of years ago, declared the law creating the guaranty fund to be constitutional and attorney-save there is small chance that tribunal will furnish any relief to the Nebraska state banks." Mr. Porter adds that 550 banks are left to bear the burden of $16,000,000 and the immediate payment of $3,000,000 into the fund. Many of the banks say they cannot meet the assessments. Hence the turning toward the federal system. The state, it is added, has made no attempt to collect the assessment but has simply required the banks to set aside their particular share on their own books to the credit of the guaranty fund. The state guaranty of bank deposits was designed to guarantee for all depositors the payment of their deposits. The opponents of such legislation at the time it had nation-wide discussion opposed it as impractical and claimed that it would encourage reckless banking. Whether or not this latter claim is well founded is not to be stated here. But the facts are that like many other plausible theories this guaranty legislation does not work in practice. It must be admitted of course that the past few years have been trying ones for banks in agricultural communities. But this of course does not entirely excuse the failure of the law to work. Legislation should be designed so that it will be effective as possible in trying as well as in good times. When everybody is properous, the depositors are fairly safe anyhow. INCREASING INCOMES Secretary Lamont's report gives added authority to a statement of the National Bureau of Economic Research that since 1923 the average annual income of the people of the United States has progressively increased at the rate of nearly $3,000,000,000 a year. The total realized annual income for 1928 is put at $89,419,000,-000, which compared with $65,949,000,000 in 1919 and $29,605,-000,000 in 1909. The advance has been uninterrupted save in 1914, the year of the beginning of the World War, and in 1921, the year of post-war deflation. ANAHEIM GAZETTE The Modern Dick Turpin. By Albert T. Reid "RACKET" SYSTEM FARM FOOD PRODUCTS ANNALS OF THE PAST ANNALS OF THE PAST The Santa Ana Register has been looking up the records of the county a generation ago, and comes to hand with the following hair-lifting story: A county bond issue of $100,000 seemed a tremendously big issue at the time bonds were proposed for the present courthouse. It was revealed Saturday by F.P. Nickey, chairman of the Board of supervisors at the time, in the presentation of an editorial clipped from one of the weekly numbers of the Anahela Gazette for May, 1899. The editor of the Anaheim publication also took exception to intimation by the board of supervisors that in case bonds failed it would raise the money for the structure by a direct tax over a period of three years. The bonds were voted. Here's the Gazette's editorial: "The board of supervisors, in promulgating the call for a county election to vote upon the question relative to the issuance of bonds in the amount of $100,000 for the erection of a court-house at Santa Ana, have the politeness to suggest: "Should the voters at the special election decide by an adverse vote that it would not be wise to bond the county, thereby signifying that a direct tax is preferable, then the Board of Supervisors will, on the third Monday in September, 1899, and every year for three years thereafter, make a special levy of 33 1-3 cents on the $100 valuation for the purpose of erecting a suitable courthouse." "That is rather a disingenuous way of putting it. Will the defeat of the proposition to issue bonds signify that the people prefer a direct tax? Hardly. People who are complaining of high taxes and dry years may prefer to submit to neither the bonds or the direct tax. But as the election does not occur until September, there will be abundant time to consider the subject in all its bearings. Certainly the project of bonding the county in the amount of $100,000 is no light affair, and the scheme should not be rushed into hastily. However, the supervisors have evidently started out to build a courthouse, whether the voters say so or not." Incidentally, Nickey commented on the point that in construction of the court house the county received big value for every dollar invested. He pointed out that the big structure was built without even the semblance of kraft, and he said, with pride, that never has there been indication that taxpayers were not fully satisfied with the action of the supervisors. RUSSIA AND RELIGION One of the things which puzzles the average American is the fact that so many of the so-called "liberals" in the churches of America as well as out, have been prone during the past few years to look with a kindly eye on the communist experiment in Russia. Surely the present Russian system has nothing in common with Christianity nor with any other sort of religion for that master. And indeed the latest dispatches from the soviet autocratic government would seem to indicate still further effort to make Russia an atheletic country. Plans have been made by the Supreme Council of Industry in Russia. It is stated, looking toward the abolition of Sunday as a day of rest. Factories, mines and brickyards are to run throughout the week so that there will be continuous industry, and many holidays, especially those having to do with the church, are to be abolished. This will make 360 working days in Russia and a day off per week is to be allowed, one seventh of the workmen in each industry one day during the week. Communist leaders have asserted that a Russian calendar with church holidays is quite out of the question as a permanent institution in the red republic, and that the sooner these are abolished the sooner the people will forget religion. The object of forgetting Christianity is, of course, that it is not in line with the teachings of communism, free love and the destruction of family life. But this is not all of the story. We are informed by press dispatches that the Russian Commissariat of Education recently set aside sums of money to maintain schools wherein the youth of the land would "be enlightened with regard to the non-existence of God and the faults of religion: be taught that 'religion is a farce and a fraud originated and maintained for the purpose of keeping the workers under the heel of capitalism." Communist Russia also has a "no God" society, the purpose of which is to muster as many people as possible under the banners of no-religion. It is not certain of course that the plans of the communists will succeed. The Russian peasants have always been intensely religious. But it is to be remembered that the reds are well organized and constantly on the job in everything that they undertake. When American "liberals," some from our colleges and some even wearing the cloth, tour Russia as guests of the red republic and come home to tell us about the beauties of communism they generally fail to relate to startling facts as set out above. Either they do not see what is going on in Russia or they purposely suppress part of the truth because under the guise of their "liberalism" they are in sympathy with the anti-religious, anti-family plan of the communists in Russia. At any rate, no real American who believes in the value of religion and the sanctity of the home to civilization ought to be fooled by the platitudes spilled on their return to America by these "week-enders" in Russia. The best evidence of what the reds are trying to do comes from the lips and the pens of the red leaders themselves. PROSPECTIVE OIL LANDS Prospecting for oil by use of airplanes, once a novelty, is now in use by all the major oil companies of California. This information, contained in a report to the state by the United States Bureau of mines, further disclosed that the method is a means of saving time and expense in making geological surveys of prospective oil lands. Aerial photography, which enables the geologist to locate in detail the faults and other topographic details, is used for the surveys. A series or several series of overlapping photographs are taken at regular intervals from an airplane flying 15,000 feet over the ground. The lens of the camera points vertically downward through a hole in floor of the plane's cabin, and at this altitude each 7 by 9 inch photograph covers an area approximately 2 by 2½ miles. Certainly the project of bonding the county in the amount of $100,000 is no light affair, and the scheme should not be rushed into hastily. However, the supervisors have evidently started out to build a courthouse, whether the voters say so or not. Incidentally, Nickey commented on the point that in construction of the court house the county received big value for every dollar invested. He But this is not all of the story. We are informed by press dispatches that the Russian Commissariat of Education recently set aside sums of money to maintain schools wherein the youth of the land would "be enlightened with regard to the non-existence of God and the faults of religion: be taught that 'religion is a farce and a fraud originated and maintained for the purpose of keeping the workers under the heel" AW! HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS NEVER FORGOT ANYTHING? G'WAN TELL ME! ALL RIGHT! COME ON DOWN HERE! FOLLOW ME AND ILL SHOW YOU HOW I FOUND OUT THAT COLUMBUS WAS GOOD AT REMEMBERIN' THINGS! SEE! IT SAYS, RIGHT THERE,— THIS STATUE ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS! PINKY DINKY JINGLES MY FEET FROM CAMERA WRITER, PAISHA, NASH IT ALWAYS MAKES ME LAUGH ITS SUCH A TREAT TRYING TO RUN A MILE AND MOVING ONLY TWO FEET. OBSERVATIONS PASSING INTO THE SHADOW It is said after a nation wide survey by a large industrial labor organization it has been found out that men over 45 years are not wanted as laborers. (But, listen...). WOULDN'T KNOW THE OLD PLACE You remember they used to tell you that there would not be any use for policemen, or prisons, and everything would be as peaceful as a cooing dove, but wake up, look, the pens are boiling over. FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE It has been ruled up state that when liquor is found in a house the husband is liable—not his wife. The plot thickens. Suppose the man is dry and the woman likes a snifter and perchance put a pint in the pantry; the old man should be derned careful if wifey made whoopee. EAT 'EM WHILE THEY'RE HOT If you read your newspaper closely you will notice that whenever something seriously happens, the lynx-eyed reporters dish up the doings right off the reel, direct evidence, cross examination, re-direct, rebuttal, and everything. Should it so happen that they have overlooked anything perhaps the lawyers will dig it up at the trial. LETTING THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG Just about the time the big zep zoomed in a conversation took place something like this: Eh? Did you read what that cafe owner in a city up-the boulevard said after his place had been padlocked? Yeah, old stuff. He said some of the cops went to his place in groups with fragile containers. Yeah. He said they made whoopee. Yeah.' Well do you think he told the truth? Dunno, wait and see how the cat jumps. AMONG THOSE PRESENT A fella woke up suddenly, when he realized he had been dreaming. It appears he went over to see the zep and while roaming around ran across a lot of guys wearing high hats. They all went to places and finally the fellow who had the dream asked a policeman the way to go home and the next morning the judge said it was five days. Hey, mister, can I use the telephone? AMONG THOSE PRESENT A fella woke up suddenly, when he realized he had been dreaming. It appears he went over to see the zep and while roaming around ran across a lot of guys wearing high hats. They all went to places and finally the fellow who had the dream asked a policeman the way to go home and the next morning the judge said it was five days. Hey, mister, can I use the telephone? UNDER THE SOD AND THE DEW In looking over the billboards and some of the ads in the paper you will notice that the ubiquitous bootlegger has run up against a stiff competitor, known as Veeno Tonique. The former's produce, full of fusel oil and whatnot, will fill you up with squirrel food, while the latter when taken as a regular diet will knock you for a row of epitaphs. Taken morn, noon, and night, the exhilerating compounds it is said will cause you to create a slow procession while you ride in the first vehicle. Taken as per directions, in a teaspoon, it is said the vintage will put pep into you. But if you persist in keeping your foot on the brass rail and take on a lot of the loquacious liquids you will cause a flurry in the florist's business and make the ambulances go zoom! ALL STEAMED UP You know there awhile back when the big gas bag heaved anchor they printed a lot of articles that were neatly tucked away, and the ice chest it is said had the following prequisites, to-wit: Champagne, whiskey, beer, wine and what not. (Conversation): Hey, wait a minute. This country is dry. Sure, who said it wasn't. Listen, you; suppose you was away out on the Pacific in a fog, cold and shivering; don't you think a little snifter would be O Kay? Say, and when you was away up in the clouds, and you didn't know where you was at, don't you think a little bracer would steady your nerves. Say. Listen. Sure, this country is dry. Aw, pshaw, if you can't listen to reason; well, its no use trying to argue this question any more. Delightful cool evenings, now. Goodday. Oh, say, Bill, I hear you bought one of those newfangled refrigerators. Eh, all right; I'll come over some evening. You know that new stuff they put out now blends fine. All right, so long. ALL IS NOT GOLD THAT GLITTERS Concerning one of the burning questions of the day, it is said a note of warning has been issued by the spitandargue committee that women should be careful in using suntan other than that provided by the violet rays of the sun down at the beaches. It is said nature puts on that glow which foretells that the subject has been basking in the sunshine while the wild waves were sighing. It denotes health and happiness, and does not close up the pores. However, it is said where the wimmin cannot vacation at the watering places they resort to the drugstores for relief so far as that tantallizing tan is concerned. Some say the artificial brand is just as good, but believe it or not when a fly lights on the slippery solution it is liable to flop and break a leg. According to the concensus of opinion of the he-man on the board walks the proper method to pursue is for the maidens to don one of those vanity box bathing suits and recline on the shimmering sands and let nature take its course. But one fella says (s-h-s-s) if a gal has hairy limbs she must look out because if she uses the liquid form its like pulling off a porous plaster. MONEY TALKS There awhile back while the hot waves caused sighings a young millionaire on a honeymoon was arrested charged with propelling a vehicle while inhocksitated. He was tried and found guilty. There were a lot of wimmin on the jury. They did not send him to jail because they allowed that would interfere with the honeymoon. So a heavy money fine was imposed, which of course, was paid. Of course, the ends of justice were met. Now look on the other side of the "pitcher." Had he been a "noor boy" that money fine would have kept him in jail for about 5000 days; and in all probability there then would have been no honeymoon. Now, the interesting question arises, What is a honeymoon? Now, here's a way that could have been handled. If they did not want to stop the honeymoon, they could have let the young man off with thirty days to go on the honeymoon, and after the honeymoon was over, they could have sent him to jail where he would have had lots of time to think of the honeymoon. ANYWAY. IT WAS INTERESTING Some time ago a scientific man, who is credited with having hypnotic powers, or something like that, you know, a sort of mind reading, or in other words he makes you think the same as he does, held an audience spellbound and told them he wanted them to concentrate. Now, believe it or not-there is a lot of wisdom in that concentrating word. Try it some time. Well, anyway the man told his hearers to concentrate. They did. He then wrote a name of a wonderful man on a piece of paper. He wanted to learn later if his audience were thinking the way he was thinking, you understand. Then later he appeared and opened the envelope and drew out a piece of paper on which the name of the wonderful man had been written. And lo and behold the name he had written on the piece of paper was the name of a great wizard, a genius, a name that is a household word; but a lot of fellas who had concentrated that day had picked Lindy.