anaheim-gazette 1930-03-06

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. RISING TIDE OF ORIENTAL TRADE The phenomenal rise in importance of the Pacific Ocean as an international highway is set forth in an interesting and convincing way in the current issue of the National Republic by Congressman Franklin F. Norell, of Oregon, who quotes interesting figures which would seem to indicate that the day is not far distant when the Pacific will be much more important to America as a watercourse than the Atlantic. In writing of the Pacific region Mr. Korell says: "This region contains seventy-two per cent of the potential water power in the United States. It can well be said that its vast water supply will bring forth new wealth from a fertile soil; that its coal, oil and water power will generate inexhaustible power for manufacturing purposes. Nowhere in all the world is the future more replete with hope for the unlimited expansion of farming, industry and manufacturing. "Last, but not least, it may be said while on this phase of the subject, that Oregon, Washington and Alaska are the world's largest fisheries, producing wealth of about $85,000,000 a year. "Although the development of Pacific coast commerce has been steady, it was greatly enhanced by the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 and by two events of great importance occurring in the year 1898. These were the Battle of Manila Bay which brought about ultimately the annexation of the Philippine Islands to the United States, and the formal incorporation of the Hawaiian Islands as an American territory. The opening of the canal, of course, greatly facilitated commerce between the Atlantic and the Pacific and the acquisition of the islands in the Pacific made the United States a world power." Last, but not least, it may be said while on this phase of the subject, that Oregon, Washington and Alaska are the world's largest fisheries, producing wealth of about $85,000,000 a year. "Although the development of Pacific coast commerce has been steady, it was greatly enhanced by the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 and by two events of great importance occurring in the year 1898. These were the Battle of Manila Bay which brought about ultimately the annexation of the Philippine Islands to the United States, and the formal incorporation of the Hawaiian Islands as an American territory. The opening of the canal, of course, greatly facilitated commerce between the Atlantic and the Pacific and the acquisition of the islands in the Pacific made the United States a world power. In 1913 Uncle Sam supplied about thirty-two per cent of Pacific Latin-American imports. Great Britain's share was twenty-one per cent, and Germany's, nineteen per cent. In 1925 the proportion of the United States was fifty per cent, while England's share had fallen to fifteen per cent, and Germany's to ten per cent. Uncle Sam is now the principal supplier of products to every country in South America with the exception of Paraguay. In the days before the opening of the canal, the far countries of the Pacific sent us about twelve per cent of our total imports and took about seven per cent of our exports. Now they send us about thirty per cent of our imports and take about fifteen per cent of our exports. In the words of the Washington Post: "Japan is a better customer of this country than France, Italy, Argentina or Australia. Only three other nations take a greater volume of American exports. Nearly ten per cent of our imports come from Japan. That country is second only to Canada as a source of supply for American markets.' The experts have found out that if we could increase China's per capita imports from the United States to equal Japan's, this would mean an increase of $6,000,000,000 over China's present total. In 1929 our total sales to customers amounted to $5,128,400,000 worth of commodities. Compare this world trade with our potential exports to China, if the day ever arrives, and it surely will, when China shall have a stable government and become a prosperous nation. "America's trade with Canada is now three times that of 1913. The sugar production of Hawaii in 1902 was in round figures 356,000 tons; in 1928 it was 904,000 tons. In 1902 practically no pineapples were packed; in 1928, 8,633,000 cases of twenty-four cans each were packed. The sugar crop in 1928 had a value of approximately $95,000,000, and the pineapple pack of 1928 was worth approximately $39,594,090, a clear gain over 1902. The value of the principal exports from the United States to Hawaii in 1928 was $77,824,000 and comprised a tremendous variety of things, a list far too long and too varied to even attempt to mention." LATIN-AMERICAN BUSINESS According to figures recently made public by the Department of Commerce at Washington, our Latin-American trade has increased nearly six hundred per cent since the year 1900. Last year our trade with the neighbors to the south of us constituted twenty-one per cent of our total foreign trade. The increase of this trade in thirty years has been steady and healthy and has not been the result of any mushroom growth. This news is entirely encouraging to the American producer. We ought by all means cultivate closer relations with Latin-America. For one reason we form parts of the same great geographical division and have common political interests. Again, the countries of Latin-America have commodities to sell us which do not come into competition, except in a few instances, with our home industries. of Commerce at Washington, our Latin-American trade has increased nearly six hundred per cent since the year 1900. Last year our trade with the neighbors to the south of us constituted twenty-one per cent of our total foreign trade. The increase of this trade in thirty years has been steady and healthy and has not been the result of any mushroom growth. This news is entirely encouraging to the American producer. We ought by all means cultivate closer relations with Latin-America. For one reason we form parts of the same great geographical division and have common political interests. Again, the countries of Latin-America have commodities to sell us which do not come into competition, except in a few instances, with our home industries. The same thing, of course, cannot be said of our trade with Europe. The fact that our Latin-American trade is steadily increasing is very encouraging from still another reason. Since the World War, our principal trade rivals in Europe have been seeking to win back the Latin-American field to themselves by encouraging anti-American propaganda in Latin-America. They have misrepresented our purposes and aims toward the southern American countries. They have skilfully nourished the idea that we are imperialistic, that we have illegitimate designs on Latin-America. And worst of all, these European propagandists have been dided by certain internationalists in our own country who have availed themselves of every opportunity to play the European game in Central and South America. The imperialist charge is of course childish. If we possessed imperialist designs against Latin-America we would have been annexing Latin-American territory long before this. But nothing of the kind has happened. It is to be hoped that we will continue to cultivate closer relations with the nations to the south of us. There is no American international policy sounder than this. Now if a Mediterranean pact might involve Uncle Sam in European troubles it follows of course that membership in the League of Nations or similar institution would be all the more dangerous from the American standpoint. During the League fight it was often said that our joining the League would be like signing a promissory note in blank. Signing a Mediterranean pact might be signing a promissory note too, dangerous, even if not as dangerous as joining an organization which might involve us all over the world. Speaking of reducing the size of the guns on battleships it occurs to us that the ancient Creeks and Persians put up some good naval battles without any guns at all. ANAHEIM GAZETTE Great Team Work — By Albert T. Reid OIL IMPORTS While Southern California oil fields RESTORING A SHRINE "Wakefield," the birthplace of George First offense, loss of allowance for one week. Second offense, same, plus whipping. Third offense, death. OIL IMPORTS While Southern California oil fields are adopting a curtailment policy and thousands of workers are unemployed, oil imports keep coming into the United States from Venezuela and Mexico. The statement is made that last year's importation from Venezuela came totalled nearly 110,000,000 barrels, as Venezuela oil can be laid down at Atlantic and Gulf ports for something like 70 cents a barrel, it is obvious that American producers face stiff competition. On the basis of these state-owned independent oil men are asking congress to impose a tariff on foreign oil sufficient to give American oil a break. The larger oil companies oppose a tariff and make this argument. If any tax imposed on oil imports, they will be obliged to establish refineries in Louisiana and other foreign countries in this hemisphere to handle their output, producing small cheaper inexpensive products to the world far under American prices, thus throwing our refineries into impossible competition and eventually producing a greater amount of unemployment. Besides depriving the business from the producers and still further. Thus it will be seen that congress is facing a tributable problem. On the one hand it is hard to see life workers in the domestic oil fields due to curtailment, while foreign oil enters the field on the other hand it might prove a disaster to bring about a situation wherein cheap foreign labor would come into competition with us in the mining business and in the world market. Perhaps the real solution lies in the persuasion of large companies to institute curtailment in their Mexican and South American fields proportionate to the curtailment now being undertaken in the United States. Friday's dispatches stated that the Shell Oil company, one of the largest operators in Venezuela had expressed willingness to adopt such a policy. If certain curtailment in these fields be all companies can be effected the situation ought to be improved without serious harm to anyone concerned. A New Jersey man stole a fire truck there day. He must be one of those bleptomanics. RESTORING A SHRINE "Wakefield," the birthplace of George Washington, is being restored in preparation for the two-hundredth birthday of that greatest of all Americans—the father of America as a nation. Past Feb. 22, 1932, this isolated and occidental spot will have been transformed into a national shrine, duplicating the setting of the great patriot's childhood. The Wakefield National Memorial Association has acquired 38 acres of the old Wakefield estate, John D. Rockefeller Jr., has purchased 257 acres more at a cost of $15,969, President Howard has asked Congress to appropriate $65,000 for the erection of an exact copy of the mansion, which was destroyed by many years ago, and a fund of several hundred thousand dollars is being raised to complete the restoration. Wakefield will be the name of the institutional observance of Washington's birth. While Mr. Noten will be no longer of hundreds of thousands of visitors in 1932, Wakefield because of its significance and its more recent restoration will attract still more. An improved highway from Washington and a new river enclosed will bring them. Every American especially by February—the birthday month of Americans—is glad for the restoration of Wakefield and a little unassumed that the birthplace of the revolutionary leader had to wait so long for recognition. OLD TIME PENALTIES One of the recognized reasons for the increase in crime is that the complexities of civilization have provoked a larger number of legal inhibitions and thereby created more forms of legal crimes. At the same time we have outgrown some offices which in our current days were severely punishable by statute. The Golden Book has discovered a copy of the criminal code promulgated by Sir Thomas Dale first high marshal in Virginia, in 1611. Here are acquainted with the crimes and penalties with which the citizen of that era had to deal: "Hussey against God." First offense, severe punishment. Second offence, bedkin through the tongue. Third offense, Death. "Failure to attend Sunday services, First offense, loss of allowance for one week. Second offense, same plus whipping. Third offense, death. "Robbing church or store, death. "Treasonable words against the King, death. "Unauthorized trading with the Indians, death. "Killing any domestic animal or fowl without the consent of the General, death. "Mariner selling at higher rates than set by Governor and Council, death. "Refusal to go to the minister to be instructed in religion. First offense, whipping. Second offense, whipping twice and public contition. Third offense, whipping every day until public acknowledgment and obedience. "Running away to the Indians, death. "Robbing gardens of flowers or vegetables, death. "Failure to keep the regular hours of work for the colony. First offense, whipping. Second offense, galleys for one year." "The laws seem to have been very rigidly enforced," says The Golden Book's writer. "John Rolfe and Ralph Mann, secretary to Governor Dale, acknowledged their extreme severity but justified them as a public necessity." It is possible that some of the more righteous reformers of our present day, if given full sway, might reinstitute some of these offenses as a part of our criminal code; but public sentiment, fortunately, would not tolerate such legislation. Game Law Violating Patrol service of the state division of fish and game was active in January, with 248 arrests made for game law violating, according to the division's monthly report. Only 32 cases were dismissed, while 210 fines amounting to $7,667.50 were imposed. The heaviest jail sentence went to a person found with deer meat in his possession, now spending six months in the county jail. Five other sentences of imprisonment were imposed, ranging from five days for possession of undersized abalone to 150 days for illegal nets while fishing. Fish are now sent by airplane from the Gulf of Mexico to Brownsville, Texas, then repacked and shipped north. First time we ever heard that flying fish were good to eat. OH, MOTHER! I BROUGHT OVER, WILLIE MCCUE, FOR A VISIT! MISSUS DINKY W - WH - WHERE'S THE DEAD CAT? THERE, THERE! RUN AND PLAY! STOP ASKING QUESTIONS. YOU KNOW CURiosity KILLED A.CAT SAY, MOM! WILLIE WANTS TO ASK JUST ONE MORE QUESTION ALL RIGHT, GO AHEAD! WHAT IS IT? MISSUS DINKY W - WH - WHERE'S THE DEAD CAT? PINKY DINKY JINGLES FROM EURE MENDEL, RIDGEFRIED. WELL I KNOW YOUR FRIENDS ARE MANY FOR THE WORLD'S IN LOVE WITH YOU BUT I'D GIVE A BRIGHT NEW PENNY JUST TO KNOW YOU LIKE ME, TOO. OBSERVATIONS THE BEEG HAND No way if you can sing and happen to get in on a good size, he kept quite often your success is secured and you don't have to shoo the wolf away from the door. There awhile ago a good looking young man became famous because he warbled sweetly. He got so many letters from the ladies that he got a raise in salary. Many of the fair damsels proposed marriage. It has not been learned whether it was the song or the salary that attracted the females. Anyway if you can sing be sure and get in on some radio because you may be the very guy whom the fair sex is looking for. TWO'S COMPANY, THREE'S A CROWD They met. Love at first sight. Hurried marriage. Eight weeks of happiness. Husband goes out of town. Comes back suddenly. Finds wifey away with boy friend. Nothing wrong; but husband's jealous. Moves out. Wife cries. Goes home to mother. ANYWAY, IT LOOKS LIKE A WET WINTER If you were charged with murder and had 20 million dollars, would you rather go to the pen and keep the money, or would you give the 20 million and go free? CAN'T YOU DO SOMETHING? Uncle Sam's natural resources are so large that you can hit him over the head and take away all his money, and he would come back smiling. But yet again why should he play the part of Santa Claus all the time? POOR RULE THAT DOESN'T WORK BOTH WAYS It is said that over in a movie colony if two young people are seen together twice they surely must be engaged. Now, after the wedding bells cease chiming if they are not seen together twice are they separated? END OF THE TRAIL A charming young lady heiress from out the East has been all over the world looking for an ideal man for a husband. The young lady recently had extended her quest to California, but up to the hour of going to press it has not been learned whether she paid a visit to Anaheim. It is highly probable that if the lonesome lassie will give the local drugstore cowboys the once over, she surely will find the mate she is looking for. Eh? END OF THE TRAIL A charming young lady heiress from out the East has been all over the world looking for an ideal man for a husband. The young lady recently had extended her quest to California, but up to the hour of going to press it has not been learned whether she paid a visit to Anaheim. It is highly probable that if the lonesome lassie will give the local drugstore cowboys the once over, she surely will find the mate she is looking for. Eh? SWABBING OFF THE DECKS Some weeks ago some "big magnates" underwent quite a bit of quizzing, and from all accounts they became peeved, or something. It seems an agent, not a pacifist, had been in attendance at a disarmament conference, and while there he did some observing, and as a result it is said there blossomed forth some propaganda, or mebbe it was propagose. That dove of peace tried hard to find a place to light, but it seemed all it did was a lot of mourning. Of course, if there is peace there would not be any need of building battleships. And just what that man did over there was the cause for this zippy conference. War is horrible and people do not want any more of those conflicts. But here is where the footgear pinches. If anybody went over there to throw monkey wrenches, it is time that was aired up right pronto. To keep the pot boiling just so as to be able to build fighting ships, is bad business. Human lives seem to be cheap when the money grabbers try to crash the gates in order to keep the rivet hammers hot. If there has been any shenanigan going on the time is ripe for smoking out the gemmen from the warship junk pile. Anyway things over there seem to have gone kaylooey and the guy who upset the applecart spilled the beads and it is going to be quite some job to get them back on the string again. And yet again the agent is quoted as saying that he believes his countrymen are in favor of an adequate navy, and not one of paper parity. And so it goes, folks. NOW, IT SURELY LOOKS LIKE A WET WINTER A highly interesting and educational item appeared in the paper the other day. It said a truckload of "ambassey" likker had been delivered, from another eastern city, the cheer water having been transported by one of the trucking companies of the city of the second part. SORT OF A SMELLY SUBJECT There awhile ago everybody and the cook were on the tip-toe of expectancy, when a man "riz" up and declared it was time they cleaned up Washington. It would appear no place is free of the plague. Seems as though there should be a respectable funeral and bury the carcass. But it is derned difficult to get anybody to act as pall bearers. NOW WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THAT! A car man says prohibition is effective with 99 per cent of the population. All of which goes to show that figgers is figgers. SHIFTING SCENES Perhaps one reason why a certain car builder is opposed to the open saloon, is because there is so much demand for little closed coupes. BACKWARD, TURN BACKWARD, O, TIME IN ITS FLIGHT There was a furor not to say considerable comment in an executive body the other day when it became known that a well NOW WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THAT! A car man says prohibition is effective with 99 per cent of the population. All of which goes to show that figgers is figgers. SHIFTING SCENES Perhaps one reason why a certain car builder is opposed to the open saloon, is because there is so much demand for little closed coupes. BACKWARD, TURN BACKWARD, O, TIME IN ITS FLIGHT There was a furor not to say considerable comment in an executive body the other day when it became known that a well known lady who is laboring in the evangelistic vineyard had run a bill of a couple of thousand dollars for beauty treatments. In view of the fact that she is good looking and has a charming personality, the members wanted to know why they paint the lily. But it seems the lady wanted to look like a school girl again. GEE, SHE'S LUCKY TO GET RID OF HIM A wife up state was granted a divorce when she testified: "He stayed away for days at a time and often would bring several of his friends to the house at 3 a.m. (all drunk) and make me get out of bed an entertain them." BORROWING FROM PETER TO PAY PAUL Man came first and woman after and she has been after him ever since. A charming young lady from out the east is in this midst. She says her father owes $800 on the old home place. She says further if any all American man will come forward with the aforesaid $800 to lift that mortgage, she will ask no questions and marry him. BULGE AT THE HIP There awhile ago a man from a middle west state made an address "on the floor" which created a furor, or something, in the high halls of the country. This man said once upon a time a swell banquet was given for a lot of high ups in the councils and their come on friends. He said a souvenir was given each guest, and what do you think it was? It was, he said, a silver whiskey flask! Just think if it. He did not say whether it was a pint size, or a quart variety. He did not say what was in the flask either. It may have contained ginger ale, or buttermilk. Anyway, the flask would be handy in case you get the flu and a prescription. And yet again if they wanted to carry a little nerve remedy to a sick friend the flasks would be fine and dandy for immediate delivery.