anaheim-gazette 1930-02-27

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE ESTABLISHED 1870 HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Proprietor. ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR.....$1.50 SIX MONTHS.....1.00 Entered in the Anaheim, California, Postoffice as second-class matter. THE WAR ON INDUSTRY "The Protectionist" for February prints a list of some seventeen hundred textile mills in the United States that have gone out of business in the last seven years. It prints also a list of fifty-seven such mills that have been sold at auction since January, 1924, by one firm in Philadelphia. Since these mills are mostly in "the industrial East" the lists ought to delight the hearts of those champions of the "agricultural west" who claim to believe that whenever a factory can be closed in the United States, whenever American wage earners can be deprived of jobs under the stress of foreign cheap-labor competition, the American farmer is helped through the elimination of his nearest and best consumers. It is unquestionably true that in the matter of domestic industrial production American political psychology is under the sway of foreign interests. Warring on the American industrial payroll is the favorite indoor political sport. Whenever the majority in the United States, on a showing that failure to give adequate protection against foreign industrial competition will result in closing American factories, can deny the relief and insure the present or future idleness of some thousands of wage earners there is rejoicing in the ranks of the anti-protection coalition. With perhaps two million wage earners jobless in the United States, and the shelves of American merchandising concern crowded with foreign-made products as never before in our history representing just that much displacement of American labor, the slashing of the American industrial payroll goes merrily on or Capitol Hill. Undoubtedly the knowledge that the United State Senate was under the control of a majority that boasts of its intention to "smash" the "industrial East," which means industrial America, since the East has no industries which are not closing American factories, can deny the relief and insure the present or future idleness of some thousands of wage earners there is rejoicing in the ranks of the anti-protection coalition. With perhaps two million wage earners jobless in the United States, and the shelves of American merchandising concern crowded with foreign-made products as never before in our history representing just that much displacement of American labor, the slashing of the American industrial payroll goes merrily on or Capitol Hill. Undoubtedly the knowledge that the United States Senate was under the control of a majority that boasts of its intention to "smash" the "industrial East," which means industrial America, since the East has no industries which are not represented in other sections of the country, had everything to do with producing the industrial recession which began last summer and culminated in the stock market debacle of last autumn. All this is done in the name of agriculture. Yet nothing can be devised to improve the condition of the American farmer in the face of widespread industrial unemployment and the destruction of the American market. Due to the fact that the Fordney-McCumber tariff law in many of its schedules proved inadequate to protect American industry against constantly intensifying competition due to the rehabilitation of Europe, the introduction of American machinery and methods abroad, large American industries in European industry and even the removal of American-owned industrial plants to the cheap-labor markets of foreign lands, substantial increases in industrial tariffs were necessary in order even to meet the Houston platform prescription of a tariff equalling the difference in labor costs at home and abroad. The industrial conditions of today and tomorrow in the United States must be ascribed directly to the political war on the American industrial payroll which for months has been in progress on Capitol Hill. There is rejoicing in foreign industrial centers, and gloom in American industrial centers, because of the realization that the Senate majority believes it is popular to "swat" American manufacturing industry. We are having a repetition of what has always followed a campaign of that kind on Capitol Hill. It is quite possibly true that the politicians who have believed that the voters of the United States would applaud them for shortening payrolls, closing factories and thwarting the growth of American industry and employment, will in due time find themselves seriously mistaken. The national leaders of the American Federation of Labor and of the national farmers' organizations have already publicly expressed their disgust with the industry-baiters. PARITY IS NECESSARY American trade already rivals that of England, reasonably may develop a commercial power greater than that now possessed by Britain. America adequately must be prepared to protect this interest so vital to the maintenance and continuance of the national prosperity—an interest as vital to America as Britain's economic trade development and protection on the seas is vital to the empire. The objectives of the two countries properly are the same, but with radically differing conceptions as to how the end sought may be attained. The United States has only seven outlying naval bases and fuel stations, with only 70 merchantmen convertible into small cruisers and less than a half dozen into big ones. We at present depend wholly for the security and protection of our commerce on distant seas on big cruisers with long cruising radius, and a competent battleship fleet to serve as a moveable naval base equipped to function on any distant sea as effectively as British ships are able to function from Britain's outlying bases. economic trade development and protection on the seas is vital to the empire. The objectives of the two countries properly are the same, but with radically differing conceptions as to how the end sought may be attained. The United States has only seven outlying naval bases and fuel stations, with only 70 merchantmen convertible into small cruisers and less than a half dozen into big ones. We at present depend wholly for the security and protection of our commerce on distant seas on big cruisers with long cruising radius, and a competent battleship fleet to serve as a moveable naval base equipped to function on any distant sea as effectively as British ships are able to function from Britain's outlying bases. Our national interest demands that parity in this respect must be attained. We here face the fact that Britain possesses 27 naval bases and fuel stations scattered all over the globe; that she possesses 50 merchant ships convertible into big-gun and 177 into small-gun cruisers. She does not need big battleships and cruisers and other ships to penetrate long distances and operate over extended periods far from their bases. Great Britain is at present independent in her sea mastery, and if human nature has not been radically changed, she will endeavor to hold on to that mastery. The United States is her only dangerous rival. Consequently the United States should enjoy actual parity—neither more nor less—with the nation that has lorded the seas for long; enjoy an equality in cruiser, gun and battleship strength, with that strength reduced to any limit that will not impair respective legitimate national interests. This is America's right. If Britain and the other nations cannot agree to this, then the London conference will have represented one more international fiasco. LITTLE TOWN FACTIONS A most distressing thing is the little town faction; the little squables over little affairs. Petty envy or jealousy tend to set one neighbor against the other. Here we all are, living together for some reason that we know not, trying to better conditions for ourselves and others. Our viewpoint becomes strained and short and we readily become unwisely prejudiced. We need more of the vision of Emerson who "looked at this earth very much as a visitor from another planet would look upon it." We are neighbors here for a day, then gone. The good things we do, the kindly thoughts that we strew along our way, endear us to others of our kind. Let us be happy if others are successful; perhaps they deserve it. Envy is silly and betokens a mean heart. Be glad and make others that way. The Foundation of Our Country By Albert T. Reid Thomas Jefferson, inventor of the modern ploughshare, demonstrates his device to George Washington at Mt. Vernon, Washington to Jefferson: "Your plough, neighbor, will complete the work my sword began." RETALIATION MERCHANT MARINE GROWS The latest statics show that the RETALIATION Manila dispatches announce a general boycott in the Philippines against American cigarete. So determined are the boycotters that natives caught smoking the forbidden brands have been publicly beaten. The boycott is in retaliation for the action of mobs in certain California cities in attacking Filipinos working for American employers; in one instance with a resultant death to a Filipino laborer. As Filipinos are liberal consumers of cigarettes, this boycott is no small matter; if persisted in, it will mean a considerable loss to American manufacturers. That the boycotters may also suffer in depriving themselves of their favorite brands of smokes will not halt the boycott, which is the outgrowth of intense feeling. The boycott is a modern substitute for plotting and other forms of physical retreat where differences of race or nationality reach acute stages. We had a demonstration of it recently when the Mexican inhabitants below Laredo, Texas, refused patronage of Laredo merchantia as a protest against an ambitious county prosecutor's announced intention to arrest and imprison former President Calle on a journey through the American city. So effective was this boycott that American merchants and manufacturers involved called upon the state department to patch things up with the offended Mexicans and restore amicable trade relations. When the Arabs in Palestine began mobbing Jews a few months ago the boycott of Arabian wares and the curtailment of credit to Arabs by the Jews proved more effective than the warnings of the British government. The effectiveness of the boycott as a means of bringing about settlement of international troubles as recognized in the league of nations, Article XVI, providing for a general boycott byague signatories of any member guilty of making aggressive warfare. That such a procedure would be even more effective than military or naval demonstrations can hardly be doubted, so closely is the world knit together now-an economic sense. The weak spot in the league plan at present, however, is that the greatest commercial nation of the world would not be emitted in such a boycott, as the United States is not a member of the league and has never subscribed to the boycott plan. It is safe to say that if United States alone, by refusing credit, refusing to supply war material and breaking off commerce with any viola- tor of the world's peace could almost prevent or stop an aggressive movement on the part of any other power. Our failure to bind ourselves to the boycott article of the league covenant, however, practically renders that article futile—and leaves us in the position of being one of the outstanding obstructionists to permanent peace. Refusal of Filipinos to buy American cigarets may not prevent California moats attacking Filipinos in this state. But it does repind us that racial conflicts, even of a minor sort, hold potentialities of serious economic flare-backs. A UNIQUE HOSPITAL No other country has raised hospital construction to the high level it has attained in the United States. Our institutional buildings are characterized by beauty, cheerfulness, convenience, healthfulness and extraordinary suitability, in gross and in detail, for the purpose of which they are erected. Highly skilled experts supervise the smallest mineuita of plan and equipment, and devise meritorious improvements almost daily. Able and enthusiastic men and women staff most of these institutions, and as a net result they serve certain groups with a perseverance which 15 or 20 years ago would have seemed incredible. Extremes meet in the personnel of the group that gets the complete service, for among these happy patients are both the very rich and the very poor. The wealthy enjoy every diagnostic, medical, surgical and therapeutic advantage the institution can muster because they are able to pay for it whatever ever be its cost. The indigent command the skill of crack surgeons and specialists and receive very much the same sort of treatment for nothing, or next to nothing, because no hospital worthy of the name is content to give a patient anything less than its best. A large percentage of hospital inmates lack these advantages, for it they who comprise the great financial middle class, composed of self-respecting persons who are too proud to accept free service and too poor to be able to afford private rooms, a private nurse and costly medical, surgical and diagnostic services. Now this neglected middle class is to come into its own. A new hospital in New York, with the aid of a $3,000-000 endowment fund to make up the deficit between revenue and operating costs, is to give the middle class patient the best at a price he can afford. MERCHANT MARINE GROWS The latest statics show that the world's ship-building has attained a greater volume in the past year than ever before in the history of the world. In 1929 fifty-four American ship yards delivered 554 merchant vessels of a gross tonnage of 284,225, an increase of 22.3 per cent over the shipbuilding of 1928. During the coming years still more ships will be built. The Jones-White law, of which Congressman Wallace H. White of this state was a co-author, will stimulate ship-building to a greater degree than ever before. Mamoth steamships for service on mail routes on the Atlantic and Pacific oceans will be completed in 1930 and many of them will be equal to any ships that are being built in other nations. Not only are we now beginning to build more ships but the ships which are flying the American flag are commencing to carry a large part of our commerce. This means the expansion of our foreign trade and better markets for American goods abroad. We are making rapid strides in recovering the ocean carrying trade which this country once enjoyed but which lost to other maritime powers because of the unfavorable legislation which Congress enacted and the discouragements which confront American ship owners when they sought to get some of this business. Look Out for Measles! Watch out for the measles! This is the warning of the State Board of Health, which says that 864 cases reported for the state last week indicates the disease is rapidly increasing. More than half these cases, or 469, are in San Francisco. Oakland has 121, Berkeley 3, Alameda 33, Los Angeles county 34, Long Beach 4, Los Angeles 35, Merced county 7, Son Joaquin county 11, Lodi 2, Stockton 2, San Luis Obispo county 3, Santa Barbara county 2, Santa Clara county 12, San Jose 43, Sunyale v. Siskiyou county 3, Sonoma county 12, and Marysville 6. It is now being advocated that state highways be lightened to make travel easier at night. This will mean a lot of extra poles to run into. If we ever get to feeling as self-satisfied as the average traffic cop looks we will be on the road to happiness. is vital to comerly are the how the end val bases and into small We at present our commerce radius, and a naval base only as British cases. this respect nossesses the globe; that gun and 177 attempts and operate and operate breaking off commerce with any violasea mastery. she will ences is her only should enjoy tion that has lisser, gun and any limit that ereests. This cannot agree presented one the world knit together nowan economic sense. The weak spot in the league plan at present, however, is the fact that the greatest commercial nation of the world would not be emitted in such a boycott, as the United States is not a member of the league and has never subscribed to the boycott plan. It is safe to say that if United States alone, by refusing credit, refusing to supply war material and breaking off commerce with any violasea mastery. she will ences is her only should enjoy tion that has lisser, gun and any limit that ereests. This cannot agree presented one this neglected middle class is to come into its own. A new hospital in New York, with the aid of a $3,000,-000 endowment fund to make up the deficit between revenue and operating costs, is to give the middle class patient the best at a price he can afford. WHAT'S THE MATTER, PINKY? WHAT RE YOU CRY IN! FOR? WH- WHY - M-M-MY FATHER WAS DRIVING A NAIL AND H-H-HE HIT HIS FINGER WITH THE HAMMER NO! YOU SHOULDN'T CRY ABOUT THAT - YOU SHOULD LAUGH! TH - TH - THAT'S WHAT I DID! PINKY DINKY JINGLES! THERE WAS A MAN IN LYNN WHO WAS SO EXCEEDINGLY THIN THAT WHEN HE ESSAYED TO DRINK LEMONADE HE SLIPPED THROUGH THE STRAW AND FELL IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY 12, San Jose 43, SUNYVale 9, Siskiyou county 3, Sonoma county 12, and Marysville 6. It is now being advocated that state highways be lighted to make travel easier at night. This will mean a lot of extra poles to run into. If we ever get to feeling as self-satisfied as the average traffic cop looks we will be on the road to happiness. OBSERVATIONS THE SPIDER AND THE FLY "Me: my boy friend are going down to see Aunt Jane tomorrow," said a 17-year-old girl as she sipped a soda the other day. "Zat right? me and my pal were down there yesterday," said another. "Didja win anything?" "Naw. Blew the works." ENTENTE CORDIALE, 'ER. WHAT? Scene—Courtroom, sensational case. Prosecutor—I object to counsel barnstorming the courtroom. Defense Counsel—I just wanted to make you feel at home. The Court—Gentlemen, be seated, please. LAYING BACK IN THE TRACES Max—What for the love of Lulu, is the zippy phrase, I don't remember? Max—Ah, that may refer to the time you borrowed that ten spot; but when a witness testifies and he is pressed for a decisive yes or no, he relaxes and cannot recall to mind just what occurred. IT DISAPPEARED—and HOW! An interesting news item came in over the backfence broadcasting station about a "colossal" supply of good liquor taken on a raid up state, but which from all accounts now is only a mere bagatelle in quantity. From a scientific viewpoint, if the choice brands were in wooden containers it naturally was reduced by evaporation superinduced by the heat of summer. THE DOVES LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO LIGHT There awhile ago in the fall of the year when the autumn leaves were falling, a candidate said he would try and do something for the farmer. Well, as time rolled on the janitor cleaned up the place, opened the big front door and let the guests in. And then the fireworks started. They kept popping merrily for quite some time, and from all accounts there is a lot of boomshells still unused. Just what the outcome will be is a hard nut to crack. But one thing is certain if you want to give the farmer relief you don't want to let the boys start talking about the tariff, because that olive branch gets all tangled up in the driftwood and it is derned difficult to locate. THE ONCE OVER Often times when you go to the movies you get a thrill when the side lines tell you the men of the hour will be thrown upon the screen. You get settled nicely and then so and so appears. T MARINE GROWS statistics show that the building has attained a grade in the past year than the history of the world. Long American ship yards merchant vessels of a number of 284,225, an increase over the shipbuilding of the coming years still will be built. The Jones-which Congressman Walcott of this state was a co-inventor ship-building to a date than ever before. Mamhlips for service on mail Atlantic and Pacific completed in 1930 and will be equal to any being built in other nations we now beginning to ships but the ships which American flag are carry a large part of our trade which this counsell but which lost to other wars because of the unfavourable which Congress enactcouragements which conducive ship owners when to get some of this business. Out for Measles for the measles! warning of the State Health, which says that 864 for the state last week disease is rapidly increasing half these cases, or 469, are Alaska has 121, Alameda 33, Los Angeles Beach 4, Los Angeles county 7, Son Jonquin county Stockton 2, San Luis 3, Santa Barbara county county 12, San Jose 43, Iskylou county 3, Sonoma Marysville 6. being advocated that state lighted to make travel. This will mean a lot of run into. get to feeling as self-ease average traffic cop looks the road to happiness. And then the fireworks started. They kept popping merrily for quite some time, and from all accounts there is a lot of boomshells still unused. Just what the outcome will be is a hard nut to crack. But one thing is certain if you want to give the farmer relief you don't want to let the boys start talking about the tariff, because that olive branch gets all tangled up in the driftwood and it is derned difficult to locate. THE ONCE OVER Often times when you go to the movies you get a thrill when the side lines tell you the men of the hour will be thrown upon the screen. You get settled nicely and then so and so appears. This one has a squeaky voice, the other one has a bald head and a wart on his cheek, while a lot of the others look like—well you wonder how they made the grade. Anyway it's good to always have two parties, because one can watch the other to see that his foot does not slip. MUY WHUERTA! When three visiting Mexicans had been overhauled by the police in a neighboring town for speeding, one of them told an inquiring countryman that they had been making ochenta-cinco mias! Caramba! MR. OFFICER, YOU'RE A DEAR! And now it is said traffic cops must not only be polite, but when occasion arises they may help change a tire. And does that also go for tuning up the battery, the ignition, and, oh yes, and go for the gas? MJKQ, VQIXZ-ABSKTZ Over in Moscow they are going to produce more Vodka to in order to get more rubles. For instance, if they manufacture 1,000,000 quarts they well have 1,000,000,000 rubles. DOING A LAND OFFICE BUSINESS In a city up the boulevard they have several shows that are drawing the spotlight because the gals travel light. It appears they block traffic. The authorities have taken up the matter and will prosecute under a state law, which forbids any model artist exhibition, offensive to decency, or is adopted to excite to vicious or lewd thoughts. ACID TEST Abe—What do you know about a hypothetical question? Isaac—You started something. Some lawyers use the title linking it to something not proved, but assumed for the purpose of argument. For instance, suppose the moon was made out of green cheese, do you think it would ever get full? HEY, THERE, WHAT'S YOUR HURRY Parties directly interested are using their endeavors to keep the line open until midnight, instead of closing it at 6 P.M. It is inferred that the extra time would serve to relieve congestion at the gate getting out. CAN'T YOU DO SOMETHING? A fellow who gets around quite a bit says: "With so much gasoline and booze around the country, every acre of forest in the state should be under protection from fire, just the same as houses are in the cities." EATS 'EM ALIVE If a fella reads all the crime news, he is a bear if he does not emerge with a brainstorm. CAN'T YOU DO SOMETHING? A fellow who gets around quite a bit says: "With so much gasoline and booze around the country, every acre of forest in the state should be under protection from fire, just the same as houses are in the cities." EATS 'EM ALIVE If a fella reads all the crime news, he is a bear if he does not emerge with a brainstorm. CLOSE TO THE EDGE OF THE CLIFF A wife up state sued her husband for divorce, alleging among other bric-a-brac that he "had been in too close proximity to persons using powder and other cosmetics." Now, as a matter of fact cosmetics are rated as being able to cause considerable chatter, but this is the first time the delicacy has been listed among things that cause an explosion. LOOKING AT THE FOUR WALLS "Say, Bill, where have you been for the past month or two?" asked an anxious friend of another the other day. "The boys have missed you around the usual hangouts. Did you do something? Have you been hiding?. Has your wife left you? Is the note due? Did omebody put a lock on the car? We have all been worried about you. Tell us all about it. Let's have it. Come on, loosen up. Come clean." "Well, I'll tell ye, brother," said Bill, looking pale and worn and all fagged out. "I'll tell ye, I have been on a jury." YEP. TIMES HAVE CHANGED Nowadays with wide awake newspapers and the radio, whenever a sensational case is up for trial, all the doings are pretty well aired up and it seems the case is all washed up long before it is ended. Maybe that's why they lock up the jury. As time wears on perhaps the jurors will be kept in hermetically sealed containers. Their food could be furnished through a tube, but perhaps that would lead to indigestion. Anyhow, a juror is not supposed to know what is going on in the outside world and he might as well be placed in solitary confinement, and should his wife sue him for divorce he should not be required to pay any alimony..