anaheim-gazette 1930-02-06

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. ALIEN REGISTRATION A great many Americans are now becoming convinced that immigration and similar problems will not be settled to any reasonable degree of satisfaction until we have in the United States a law for the registration of aliens. Sentiment for such a law has grown with surprising rapidity during the past few years. One important example which may be cited is that of the American federation of Labor. That great organization at one time was opposed to an alien registration law. But the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor in session at St. Petersburg, Fla., went on record recently as approving and endorsing such a measure. The American labor leaders realize that the restrictive immigration laws have proven a great boom to American labor. Without such laws the recent slump in production might have been much more serious and we might have had several million unemployed foreign workers to look after, whereas, under our immigration laws, these aliens have been unable to enter the country. With the bars down the flood of immigration would have been tremendous during the past few years. There can be little doubt that an alien registration act would strengthen our immigration laws. That is the reason, no doubt, that labor leaders have gone on record as approving it. There is nothing autocratic or czaristic about such a proposal. There is no legitimate reason why any alien who is in the United States to become a citizen, or is here on legitimate business, could have any objection to registering. Indeed, registration would prove an asset for the well meaning alien for the reason that if at any time his right to remain in America and receive the benefit of its laws were questioned, he could easily prove such right by producing his registration card. And again, as President Green of the American There can be little doubt that an alien registration act would strengthen our immigration laws. That is the reason, no doubt, that labor leaders have gone on record as approving it. There is nothing autocratic or czaristic about such a proposal. There is no legitimate reason why any alien who is in the United States to become a citizen, or is here on legitimate business, could have any objection to registering. Indeed, registration would prove an asset for the well meaning alien for the reason that if at any time his right to remain in America and receive the benefit of its laws were questioned, he could easily prove such right by producing his registration card. And again, as President Green of the American Federation of Labor pointed out in a recent statement, this is asking no more of the alien than of every free born American who must be registered when he first sees the light of day, and as soon as the attending physician or nurse can get him registered. There has been a great deal of bootlegging of immigrants during the past few years and a registration law would tend to make this a more difficult undertaking. It would therefore facilitate law enforcement in the United States. In his statement issued at the St. Petersburg meeting, Mr. Green well said: "The law should be so amended as to require the registration of all immigrants and the issuance of certificates to those legally within the country so that when called upon the immigrant can show that he is properly here or be deported. "Registration involves no hardship upon the immigrant legally here and puts him in no different position than the native who is registered from the cradle to the grave. The native American is registered when he is born, when he goes to school, when he votes, when he marries, when he dies. He is registered when he goes abroad. "Such legislation is necessary because of the larger number of aliens being smuggled into the country. The figures before us indicate that the number smuggled approximates the number of immigrants legally admitted. As it is proving difficult to absorb the number legally admitted, obviously this bootlegged immigration makes more difficult the unemployment problem. "So far as the quota law is concerned there is no desire at this time to change the quota. But we do wish and we propose to do what we can to the end that its provisions are strictly enforced." THIS YEAR'S PRIMARIES Whether the year 1930 will be a good business year or not, remains to be seen, although the signs now are distinctly encouraging. But there can be no doubt that 1930 will be a real campaign year. The so-called "off year" campaigns, seem to get more strenuous as the years go by. This is especially true since the almost universal application of the primary system which means that in most of the states the candidates must go through two campaigns. During the past few years there has been somewhat of a reaction against the primary, and legislation adopted has been designed to restrict rather than to widen its use. The fact remains however, that in more than forty of the states primaries are still used to select candidates for the Senate and for the House of Representatives. The six states which now have the convention system are Idaho, Connecticut, Delaware, New Mexico, Rhode Island and Utah. Only one convention date has been fixed up to this time and that is in Idaho, where the conventions will be held on August 26. Georgia has a primary but the date is not fixed by law as in other primary states. The date for the state-wide primary there is set by the Democratic organization. During the past few years there has been somewhat of a reaction against the primary, and legislation adopted has been designed to restrict rather than to widen its use. The fact remains however, that in more than forty of the states primaries are still used to select candidates for the Senate and for the House of Representatives. The six states which now have the convention system are Idaho, Connecticut, Delaware, New Mexico, Rhode Island and Utah. Only one convention date has been fixed up to this time and that is in Idaho, where the conventions will be held on August 26. Georgia has a primary but the date is not fixed by law as in other primary states. The date for the state-wide primary there is set by the Democratic organization. Not all of the states nominate and elect governors this year but a great many of them do. Of course one-third of the states will select senators, and all of them will select members of the national House of Representatives. The states which will elect governors this year are Alabama, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, North Dakota, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Arkansas, Nebraska, Ohio, Wvoming, California, South Carolina, Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York and Maryland. THE D. A. R. A Boston clergyman finds fault with the Daughters of the American Revolution. He says the organization is a menace to the peace of the world, that it is losing caste with intelligent people and with educated liberals who believe in internationalism. The ladies of the organization need not be concerned. The less they gratify the American internationalists, clerical and otherwise, the more they will serve a useful purpose. The intellectual endeavor to make patriotism odious is not intellectual. It is merely emotionalism. It is sentimentalism attacking a decent sentiment. It has an undoubted influence in American affairs, not because the internationalists are numerous or because they are intelligent but because they are well supplied with money and because they terrify certain types of public men with their noisy virtues. The assumption that they represent all the American yearning for a better life disregards all the facts. The D. A. R. is a patriotic organization with a pride in the national past and a regard for the national future. It arrays these women against the pacifist sisterhood. It irritates the internationalists to find a representation of American homes insisting upon nationalism as a virtue instead of a vice. February Twelfth — By Albert T. Reid Could Abraham Lincoln speak to the countrymen today he probably would ask them to make a Deity of him be to look upon him as a human being who had the most heartbreaking task our country ever gave to any man and who tried his best to bring peace to reunite his country and to heal the wounds ANOTHER CONFLICT The Colorado river water situation larger increase in Mexico is brought under cultivation, so that there can be a demand made for additional water and to prevent the development of the marine itself, it can of course be taken for granted that these interests are not ANOTHER CONFLICT The Colorado river water situation seems to be getting no better fast. For a period of time it was Arizona that was holding up negotiations, and they haven't yet agreed. But at the same time as serious, if not a more serious difficulty has arisen right here in the state of California. Now the Imperial Irrigation District is demanding all of the estimated regular flow of water which will be assigned to the state of California, namely 4,400,000 acre feet. They ask this for the agricultural interests of Southern California and the agricultural interests are defined as the Imperial, Coachella and Palo Verde valleys. There is an estimated 800,000 acre feet beyond this regular amount, and from this the Metropolitan Water District would have to get any water that it was able to obtain, enough or less than enough, unless the Imperial Valley people change their attitude. The movement for the Colorado-River project was first started by the Boulder Dam organization. The forces behind it were primarily those in Los Angeles. The Imperial Valley was enlisted because they were interested and then they might be helped. By their present attitude, however, they are the tall that wags the dog. This makes a serious difference between the Metropolitan water district and the agricultural representatives, and this difference developed at Reno. It is estimated that the Metropolitan Water District will need at least 1,000,000 acre feet per annum. Engineers claim there is little doubt but that there will be a total of at least 5,400,000 acre feet, including what is the regular flow and the surplus, but this is uncertain. It is urged that both should make concessions, and agree to divide it on some other basis. The Imperial people, however, according to Director Rose, maintain that they had rather postpone the whole project indefinitely than to run the possibility of getting less than their demands of 4,400,000 acre feet. We doubt seriously if the people as a whole would take such a position. Many times directors of a movement for some reason or another assume attitudes that the people themselves would not support, particularly if it meant foregoing of all benefits. The enemies of the Boulder Dam project, and those who, while not unfriendly to it are anxious to postpone it until such time as a larger increase in Mexico is brought under cultivation, so that there can be a demand made for additional water because it is already being used, are made happy over this situation. Each of the representatives desires to grab everything possible for himself and his group and then maintains the attitude of insisting on it even though the entire object itself is defeated. The hundreds of thousands of people who are interested and will be benefited in the entire project will have something to say about it if a deadlock continues which is going to ruin the whole concern. Anti-Marine Propaganda Occasionally we hear some complaint to the effect that the United States has no shipping policy or that the policy is changed too often to be effective. This might lead a thoughtful person to ask just what is the matter. The Washington Post makes the inquiry and then answers it by suggesting that perhaps there are alien influences behind some of the criticism of our merchant marine and the way it is developing. According to the Post: "From all that can be learned, the real trouble lies back of the shipping board and its members, all of whom are doing their best to establish and maintain American shipping. The trouble comes from without. It is a studded effort by agents and friends of foreign shipping lines to weaken and break down the American lines in the hands of the shipping board." "As far back as 1921 Senator Jones, of Washington, called attention to this in a public address in New York City, Commissioner Plummer, of the shipping board, also has echoed the charges of the Washington Senator. Paid agents of foreign steamship lines, able writers and publicity men are employed to fight the American lines and to circulate false stories calculated to undermine confidence in the United States in the matter of building up a merchant marine. "Recently a dispatch was published reflecting upon the seaworthiness of the Leviathan. Representatives of the shipping board pronounce these stories false, and a part of the program of enemies of American shipping on the outside." Now if alien interests are seeking to disrupt our merchant marine policy and to prevent the development of the marine itself, it can of course be granted that these interests are not doing this with any view of helping the people of the United States. We all realize the power of propaganda. We heard it and felt it during the European war. Since then the foreign propagandists have not let us entirely alone. They still see in the United States the most fertile field for their endeavor. Small wonder, therefore, that the alien propagandists should seek to strike at our merchant marine. But such efforts ought to arouse in America a real sentiment for an active merchant marine and a real determination to see that a definite policy is adopted and carried out. The question will be threshed out in the next Congress, and it is every American's duty to do what he can to see that it is settled right. MILLIONAIRES INCREASING In 1928, we are told: 496 persons in this country received incomes in excess of one million dollars. This was an increase of 206 over the year previous. In 1922, there were only 67 people in the United States with incomes of more than $1,000,000. In 1923 there was a slight increase to 74. In 1924 it increased one, in 1925 it increased to 207. In 1926 to 231 and then in 1927-28 the figures were as we have given them above. Of these 496 persons receiving over $1,000,000, 24 persons reported a net yearly income of $242,236,796, or an average of more than $10,000,000 a year each. However, out of the 120,000,000 people in this country, there were only 2,436,640, about 2 per cent, who had to make any return to the government at all, and everyone who has an income of over $3500 makes such return, so we may know that there are 118,000,000 people whose income is less than $350. In fact, 80 per cent of the people have an income of less than $2000, and 56 per cent less than $1500. The profits made by machine production through the elimination of expensive help, as well as the reduction in the number of workers, is rapidly widening the breach between the great mass of workers and owners. There is hardly a line of labor into which this breach is not developing. One trouble with going to a banquet is the tooth is liable to be burned and the toothmaster stewed. We doubt seriously if the people as a whole would take such a position. Many times directors of a movement for some reason or another assume attitudes that the people themselves would not support, particularly if it meant the foregoing of all benefits. The enemies of the Boulder Dam project, and those who, while not unfriendly to it are anxious to postpone it until such time as a marine. "Recently a dispatch was published reflecting upon the seaworthiness of the Leviathan. Representatives of the shipping board pronounce these stories false, and a part of the program of enemies of American shipping on the outside." Now if alien interests are seeking to disrupt our merchant marine policy WELL, WELL, PINKY. MY BOY. MOTHER TELLS ME YOU DID A GOOD DEED TODAY YOU STOPPED TWO BOYS FROM FIGHTING. THAT'S PINE! YOU'RE A REAL LITTLE MAN. NOW, JUST TO ENCOURAGE YOU FOR SHOWING SUCH JUDGEMENT I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A QUARTER. AND, REMEMBER ALWAYS BE THAT WAY. FOR FIGHTING IS CRUEL AND ANIMAL LIKE BUT TELL ME, JUST HOW DID YOU STOP THEM FROM FIGHTING? I LICKED THEM BOTH! Pinky, Dinky, JINGLES IN EXAMINATIONS PINKY DID YOU GET A PLENTY? MY HIGHEST GRADE WAS EIGHT MY LOWEST WAS TWENTY! WWW.MAJEL.EVL.TANEGRINDL.SEND ME SOME ME. OBSERVATIONS GETTING AWAY TO A GOOD START Some time ago when there was a lot of humidity a man up state said he killed a rattlesnake five feet long wearing 23 rattles. HEY, THERE, QUIT YOUR SHOVING A headline in the paper says this state leads in airships because there is one plane for every 8700 persons. LEST WE FORGET When a rich young man paid a heavy fine for driving a car while inhocksitated he was severely reprimanded upon the fallacy of attempting to neutralize the gasoline with the guzzling goolash. HEY, EDDIE, FETCH THE SMELLING SALTS After everything has been said and done it has been determined that you should not attempt long flights—if you have a weak heart. YOU'RE O-U-T! THE EMPIRE SHOUTED A piece in the paper said the father of a district attorney up state paid a $5.00 fine for parking the car wrong. It is said that was his third offense. The other two perhaps were fouls. LOTS OF 'EM WENT DOWN TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN Just so you may be able to refresh your memory, on August 31 at 2 P.M. it was 106 in the shade—but you didn't have to stay in the shade. BUSY AS BEAVERS BUILDING A BANK An interesting scene was witnessed in a news reel the other day when it said about 7500 aliens had arrived at a port in one day and there were only about 250 agents to inspect their baggage. SURELY, SOLONG. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF A charming, young divorcee who tried to fly over has married again and savs: "Now I hope the public will forget, because, I'm just Missus So and So." RUNNING AROUND IN CIRCLES There is a country out in Europe that requires bachelors to marry or pay a head tax. The men folks say they are hooked either way they jump. OR, MEBBE SHE'S DOING IT ON A BET SURELY, SOLONG. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF A charming, young divorcee who tried to fly over has married again and savs: "Now I hope the public will forget, because, I'm just Missus So and So." RUNNING AROUND IN CIRCLES There is a country out in Europe that requires bachelors to marry or pay a head tax. The men folks say they are hooked either way they jump. OR, MEBBE SHE'S DOING IT ON A BET Uncle Rueben inclines to the notion that a lady who rides on the rear seat of a motor cycle has a super-abundance of confidence in the man in front; and that it would be tiresome if she had to limp home. BRINGS BACK FOND MEMORIES One of the thrills a fellow gets in the early morning hours is to be awakened suddenly and hear the neighbor's radio broadcasting "Sweet Adeline." You rub your eyes, sit up, and wonder if it is some gang you left to wash up the dishes and ditch the dead ones. JUST COASTING ALONG About the time the thermometer shifted into high there awhile ago, a bootician in a town up the rialto, made a sensational statement that he had been shaken down so often by higher ups that he decided to go into intermediate and quit the fracket. GETTING THE GLAD HAND If you ever dropped with a parachute, or went over the Niagara in a barrel, you may qualify for the aviation elimination contest, but uncle Rueben inclines to the notion that the zeppelin business gets going everybody will be making friendly calls and they won't need any battleships. HANDY REFERENCE There are so many crimes in some of the big towns that they do not try to keep track of them by real names. They use catchy phrases, for instance as follows, to-wit, and whereas: Torso, red rose, blue wing, racketeer, one, two, three, etc. Oh, yes, the tony case, the tailor case, and Jiminy crickets. (Ha, Ha, Ha) the assessment case. CARD OF THANKS A republic close by has been so prosperous of late years that it is said she is much nearer to meeting her foreign debts, and it seems the lean years have passed. Incidentally felicitations are extended visiting Americans and other hombres who cross over and leave their contributions, double crosses and whatnots, and believe it or leave it there are not bed time stories. CAUSING A CACKLE A wise cracking columnist asks a very pertinent question as follows, to wit: If the government has so much money why don't they pay off the national debt? That's easy. If you don't keep a good setting of eggs on hand, how in . . . , how, would you hatch the "budchiks," (S-a-y wait a minute.) ONE HAND WASHES THE OTHER It is reported that the recent revolution in a southern republic cost about eleven million dollars. It is also reported that there is no direct cause for alarm upon the part of the taxpayers, be cause in some quarters it is firmly believed that a few of the bord- CAUSING A CACKLE A wise cracking columnist asks a very pertinent question as follows, to wit: If the government has so much money why don't they pay off the national debt? That's easy. If you don't keep a good setting of eggs on hand, how, would you hatch the "budchiks," (S-a-y wait a minute.) ONE HAND WASHES THE OTHER It is reported that the recent revolution in a southern republic cost about eleven million dollars. It is also reported that there is no direct cause for alarm upon the part of the taxpayers, be cause in some quarters it is firmly believed that a few of the border towns will make up the deficit quicker than you can say Jack Robinson—for a few days, at least. EDDIE. BRING THE PULMOTOR From unimpeachable authority the palpitating public has been informed that a well known criminal lawyer from out the east has been retained as counsel in a sensational case out west now on docket, at a salary that really tickles the imagination. It is said his fee is $500 per minute. Up to the hour of going to press it is believed that sum is the peak of the pack, with all precincts heard from nunc pro tunc. HEY. EDDIE. BRING THE PERNICIOUS ACTIVITY BOOK When it's sauce for the goose, it usually is apple sauce for the gander used to be seen on the billboards, and if a man or woman is paid by a government to do certain work and he or she goes about the country blabbing politics, or something, isn't he or she breaking the law the same as 'er . . . the same as er, oh yes, a bootlegger, or a fella who puts the small potatoes in the middle of the sack? WHO SAID THERE WAS NO SANTA CLAUS? A movie comedian owed the first mate $1400 alimony. He married again, and also supported, he said, his father and mother. Then he went into arrears. He was cited for contempt. He said he had been out of work. He was sent to jail. He told the judge he could not stand it in jail. So the obliging judge sent him to the road camp where he will earn $1.50 a day. That will help some. Figure it up yourself. And the good second mate said she would keep the light burning in the window for him, and believe it or leave it he was habeas corpused, and then returned wholly unsatisfied.