anaheim-gazette 1930-03-20

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE ESTABLISHED 1870 HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Proprietor. ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR.....$1.50 SIX MONTHS.....1.00 Retired at the Anaheim, California, Postoffice as second-class matter. CABLING OUR DELEGATES When President Hoover appointed the American delegation to the London conference, his selections were generally acclaimed. It was everywhere conceded that it was one of the strongest groups it was possible to choose. This delegation has been in London face to face with the facts and the difficulties of the situation, and nothing has developed to create lack of confidence in them. Nevertheless some of our home grown guardians of peace and other things evidently believe that those who are on the ground in contact with the facts need some prodding and advice from people who are many hundreds of miles away. Consequently a group of forward looking persons in New York, all of them incidentally boosters of forms of internationalism American people have decisively rejected, spent several thousand dollars telephoning and telegraphing to some twelve hundred "representative Americans" four hundred words reminding the delegates of what President Hoover has said relative to the purposes of the conference, and urging, in effect, that the President's idea of naval parity be attained without American naval construction. It is not surprising that when the eighteen ounce cablegram reached the American delegates, they were not well pleased. Just how American naval parity is to be maintained without American naval building, in case Great Britain declines to do any ship-sinking was not explained to the delegates. The lack of parity is due to the fact that while the United States sunk a half billion dollars worth of battleships following the Washington conference to ensure naval parity, Great Britain proceeded ing and telegraphing to some twelve hundred "representative Americans" four hundred words reminding the delegates of what President Hoover has said relative to the purposes of the conference, and urging, in effect, that the President's idea of naval parity be attained without American naval construction. It is not surprising that when the eighteen ounce cablegram reached the American delegates, they were not well pleased. Just how American naval parity is to be maintained without American naval building, in case Great Britain declines to do any ship-sinking was not explained to the delegates. The lack of parity is due to the fact that while the United States sunk a half billion dollars worth of battleships following the Washington conference to ensure naval parity, Great Britain proceeded feverishly to build cruisers with the effect that naval parity was upset. Our government has held off in naval construction, and is willing to continue to do so, provided Great Britain will do her turn at ship sinking; otherwise to attain parity the United States will have to do some cruiser building. The blame for this is not on the United States, but on Great Britain for having upset parity in cruisers. Great Britain's navy building, it is true, is not directed against the United States, but against France. Nevertheless this disturbs a ratio agreed on at the Washington conference, and to this principle of equality the American government is committed. Just why the 1200 persons who signed the "appeal" to the American delegates did not ship their advice to the British and French delegates instead is puzzling. This much is certain, and has been certain from the beginning of the naval conference. If there is no agreement at London a powerful element in the United States will blame the disagreement on the United States; indeed the charge is already being broadcast that it is the determination of the American government to dominate the world through superior armament that keeps the world under the shadow of war. The fact that there is no justification whatever for this charge will not interfere in the least with our domestic internationalists who profess to believe that any American measure looking to adequate national defense is a gesture of defiance to the whole world and evidence that Uncle Sam is getting ready to go forth to seek whom he may devour. A good many people doubtless signed this five thousand dollar "appeal" without giving it much consideration. Petition signing is one of the favorite American indoor sports played upon by pretentious organizations and leaders professing to represent "the people of the United States." Doubtless the American delegation at London realizes that most of the people of the United States have confidence in their patriotism and intelligence, and are willing to have these negotiations carried on the light of information rather than of distant speculation. THE CURE FOR HAITI Talk of withdrawal of United States troops from Haiti is absurd. Such action would result almost at once in a reign of blood, terror, rebellion and oppression after the manner recorded in the island's turbulent history. The government would be instantly taken over by a small group of mulatto politicians, who are the ruling class and whose predecessors for a hundred years held the country under the doom of plunder and pillage, of such a saturnalia of criminal excesses and murder as the world has not known outside of Russia. Haiti has a population of 2,500,000 people; of these more than 95 per cent are absolutely illiterate. for the most part groveling in abject poverty. These blacks could have no more liberty under their five per cent of yellow rulers than could a toad under the hypnotizing gaze of the snake about to swallow it. Without American resistance direction and protection to those blood, terror, rebellion and oppression after the manner recorded in the island's turbulent history. The government would be instantly taken over by a small group of mulatto politicians, who are the ruling class and whose predecessors for a hundred years held the country under the doom of plunder and pillage, of such a saturnalia of criminal excesses and murder as the world has not known outside of Russia. Haiti has a population of 2,500,000 people; of these more than 95 per cent are absolutely illiterate, for the most part grovelling in abject poverty. These blacks could have no more liberty under their five per cent of yellow rulers than could a toad under the hypnotizing gaze of the snake about to swallow it. Without American assistance, direction, control and protection to these "black peasants" Haiti would at once resume her revolutions, butcheries, assassinations and indescribable tyrannies. The achievements of this government in Haiti have been nothing less than marvelous. The government's colossal debt steadily has been reduced and a cash surplus accumulated for the first time in the history of the country; banditry has been suppressed and order maintained throughout the republic so-called. This government has created there the greatest asset a nation may possess—a network of good roads, which has opened up what would for generations have remained inaccessible areas. We practically have banished the lothsome diseases which so long cursed the people of the island. We have introduced sanitary laws and made over cities dedicated to degradation and filth. We have made phenomenal progress in the development of agricultural and industrial schools. We have minimized collective murder and suppressed the human sacrifice required by the rites of jungle voodooism. The President's commission of inquiry may learn all this, but they should not be permitted to be content with information gathered at Port-au-Prince. They should be sent among the black peasantry to live a bit after the departure of the United States Marines. The Boston Transcript recently in an interesting editorial pointed out that a new party movement in the United States seems to develop about every sixteen years and that one is therefore about due. Figuring from 1928, the Transcript points out that sixteen years before that date we had the Progressive or Bull Moose movement which played havoc with Republican affairs for a few years. That was in 1912, and sixteen years before that occasion there was the Free Silver movement which played havoc with the Democratic Party. Sixteen years before the rise of Bryan, in 1880, came the Greenback Party "which reached its high water mark with 308,000 votes for James B. Weaver." Better Call Off the Dog——By Albert T. Reid HIGH TAXES PARITY IN SHIPS AND GUNS of course, the greater the loans, the greater the burden when the inevitable pay day rolls around. And it is to be HIGH TAXES While Anaheim has been steadily reducing its tax rate during recent years, three reductions in the past five years having been made, giving it the lowest rate with one exception of any municipality in the state, other cities have been increasing the levy. This applies not only to California but to the entire United States. One of the most significant signs of the times is the steady increase in taxes, in spite of all of the efforts through publicity an dother agencies to ease the burden of taxation. According to the figures prepared by the National Industrial Conference Board and made public a short time ago the total amount of taxes collected by the federal, state and local governments in the United States for the fiscal year ended in 1928 amounted to $9,289,000,000 as against $9,059,000,000 in the year previous. According to this report, taxes have been increasing steadily since 1923, when they amounted to something over seven and a quarter billions, and the significant fact is that this increase has been in spite of the successful efforts of the federal government to decrease federal taxes, and despite the efforts to create public sentiment for a curtailment of state and local taxes. Federal taxes collected in 1928 were lower than those collected in 1927 but state and local taxes were higher. For instance, in 1928 the state governments collected taxes in the sum of $1,465,000,000 as against $1,355,000,000 in 1927 and the local governments in the United States collected $4,630,000,000 in 1928 as against $3,367,000,000 in the year before. But as the Industrial Conference points out, this does not tell all of the story of our government expense, and of the burdens assumed by the people through taxation. While in the long run, increases in taxes and public expenditures go hand in hand, municipalities and states in recent years have been resorting more and more to loans. These loans have a tendency to create a disparity between expenditures and tax collection and of course finally have to be paid off with money collected from the taxpayers. The figures show that a total of $12,179,000,000 was expended by the federal, state and local government in the fiscal year 1927 while the receipts from taxation were only a little more than $9,000,000,000. This means that three billion more were spent than collected in taxes. The bill will have to be paid sooner or later, and of course, the greater the loans, the greater the burden when the inevitable pay day rolls around. And it is to be remembered that this money has been borrowed by the state and local governments a sothe federal governments made no ne whoans during this time. The situation is one which should be carefully studied by ythe taxpayers of the local taxes which show the big burden if Increase. In the fiscal year 1927, the latest for which complete figures are available, the reports of the National Industrial Conference Board show that the local governments incurred 53 per cent of all governmental expenditures and collected but 48.2 per cent of all the taxes while the state governments' share of the public collected 15 per cent of the total taxes pense was 13.6 per cent but the states collected that year. The federal government incurred 33.4 per cent of total expenses and collected 26.8 per cent of all the taxes. QUARANTINE RUSSIA The soviet leaders in Russia are good showmen. Their chief desire at present is to attract attention. Their drive against religion is part of the ballyhoo we believe, and will purposes purely political. It will have no effect on true religion anywhere and deserves only to be ignored. The uproar their actions arouse is greatly to the liking of communists everywhere. That is their prime objective. The flury in Los Angeles caused by their activity last week was blamed to their soul. What they deserve, both here and in Russia is to be laughed at. At refusal to take them seriously would be the worst punishment possible to give them. It is rest of the world would put a wall around Russia and refuse to be interested in anything that went on there, they soon would come to time. A thoroughly effective quarantine is the treatment required. LEMON TARIFF Orange county citrus associations and lemon houses are backing up the California Fruit Exchange in its appeal for a higher tariff on lemons. The southern section of Orange county ships approximately 1000 cars of lemons each year, it was stated. Last year the Orange County Fruit Exchange in the southern half of the county accounted for 324 cars of lemons and more than 200 other cars were be- PARITY IN SHIPS AND GUNS Actual parity with Great Britain our navy must have, not a hypothetical parity or a potential parity, but an absolute defacto equality. The Washington conference left us with a hypothetical parity in battle fleets, but an actual disparity. It has been a sore point with our navy ever since that the British were left with their Rodney while we scrapped our newest, biggest and best. If there is any battleship fleet cutting done at the London conference it will naturally be done at the older end. That will still leave the British with their Rodney and us with nothing to match it. If to get an actual parity in battle fleets it is necessary for us to build a firstclass battleship 'et us build it! Forty millions is quite a sum of money. But if the principles of the case demand the building of a battleship the amount of the cost is not an issue; the expenditure is warranted. Of course, some enthusiasts have a notion this London conference is going to abolish navies. It will do nothing of the sort. While the world is what it is, navies are going to be needed for one time yet. What we hope for from the London conference is a reduction of navies to the lowest practical terms. But, whatever the cut, we are determined to have a navy equal to the biggest one left. If when the cut has been made, it is still necessary to rite United States to build something to attach an actual naval parity with Great Britain we shall just have to build it that's all. We know that we shall have to build some cruisers. And, unless the British scrap their best battleship it looks as though we may have to build one to match the Rodney. Actual disparity between two theoretically equal powers con incite nothing but trouble. Those who love peace ought to be the first to insist that there be no ambiguity in this respect. lledue to have been shipped from private houses and through associations not affiliated with the exchange. A bill which would provide an increase of 15 cent a pound on Sicilian lemons, which are threatening the California trade on the Atlantic seaboard, is proposed in the Senate. Opposition to the tariff has developed, it is reported. About 3500 carloads of lemons are imported each year, it is said. A tariff of 2 cents a pound now exists. more than groveling property under Without to these revolutions, have beenossal debt simulated for has been public soest asset a has openedible areas. which so long and sanitary filth. We of agricul-tective murhe rites of n all this, information among the United editorial United States he is there-points outive or Bull affairs for before that layed havoc the rise of reached its Weaver. Orange county citrus associations and lemon houses are backing up the California Fruit Exchange in its appeal for a higher tariff on lemons. The southern section of Orange county ships approximately 1000 cars of lemons each year, it was stated. Last year the Orange County Fruit Exchange in the southern half of the county accounted for 321 cars of lemons and more than 200 other cars were be-lieved to have been shipped from private houses and through associations not affiliated with the exchange. A bill which would provide an increase of ½ cent a pound on Sicilian lemons, which are threatening the California trade on the Atlantic seaboard, is proposed in the Senate. Opposition to the tariff has developed, it is report-ed. About 3500 carloads of lemons are imported each year, it is said. A tariff of 2 cents a pound now exists. WHY PINKY DINKY YOU DON'T MEAN TO SAY YOU'VE BEEN FIGHTING AGAIN? NO'M MISS GREEN! WE MOVED TODAY AND I HAD TO CARRY THE CAT! PINKY DINKY JINGLES! NOW LITTLE GETTY WAKE LIKES CHOCOLATE COVERED CAKE WHEN TO EAT IT SHE TRIES IT GETS IN EARS, NOSE AND EYESSEE BY RUMMER BROOKLYN, YOU SEND ME A WHOLE- OBSERVATIONS MEETING HIMSELF COMING BACK There has been some thefts of oranges round about of late. Some time ago two orchards were stripped by the bold burglars. One man conceived an idea that he thought would scare away the bandits. He decided to buy a tent and pitch it in his orchard. He believed that would make the miscreants believe the tent was occupied and therefore no one would attempt to steal anything. He went to town, bought the tent, put it in his car, and went about on a few more errands. When he returned to the car he found that somebody had stolen the tent. HO-HO-HUM—NOW YOU TELL ONE A piece in the paper said an old woman in an eastern city who died had been kept alive by charity of neighbors; and when the officers searched her room they found four hundred thousand dollars in money hidden away in an old trunk. FINAL FADEOUT Bill—What is meant by that yippy declaration, "I'll take this case to the highest court in the land." Jim—Well, I'll tell ye. Sometimes it is made by a guy who is like the fellow who whistles while going through the woods; but on second thought after everything is said and done why they let the matter drop and let nature take its course. AND, THEN, EVERYBODY RESUMED THEIR KNITTING A man from the country went to the city and while there got in the court house. Presently, he said, he heard a deep sound, sort of an explosion. He thought it was a bomb, or perhaps a Japanese invasion; and then when the smoke cleared away he learned that a photographer had taken a "pitcher" for his paper. DISHING IT OUT WHILE IT'S HOT Uncle Ruebeh rises in the rumble seat to declare that it is his unbiased opinion that the reason why they lock up the jurors nowadays is for the sole purpose to keep them from reading the up-to-date newspapers. AND, OH, THOSE WITHERING GLANCES "Is that young man your son?" asked a demure little maiden, behind the ribbon counter, of a lady customer. "O-o-h y-o-u! Say look here! Y-o-u! O-o-h y-o-u! I want you to understand that man is my husband." DISHING IT OUT WHILE IT'S HOT Uncle Ruebeh rises in the rumble seat to declare that it is his unbiased opinion that the reason why they lock up the jurors nowadays is for the sole purpose to keep them from reading the up-to-date newspapers. AND, OH, THOSE WITHERING GLANCES "Is that young man your son?" asked a demure little maiden, behind the ribbon counter, of a lady customer. "O-o-h y-o-u! Say look here! Y-o-u! O-o-h y-o-u! I want you to understand that man is my husband." BACK TO THE OLD HITCHING POST Now that the wine tonic is laid on the shelf in all probability the ubiquitous bootician will pick up where he left off. STATICAL PRESSURE GOES KAFLOOIE The other evening during a movie play in one of the scenes one of the leading ladies had a part where she was required to cry and carry on, you know, kinder sad like. Well, she cried all right, tears came and she was all aflutter. But when all this emotion was going on, a guy in the audience kept laughing, in fact, the fan indulged in so much mirthfulness that he gummed the works, and those who really felt sorry about it had to laugh themselves. The laughs had it. THE LONG LOST RETURNED There is one thing sure—if the long skirt comes back again the bow-legged gals can come out of retirement. SITTING UP AND TAKING NOTICE Speaking of useless noises, says Uncle Rueben, there are the switch engines down in the stockyards, the exhaust from one of the big moguls, and... Oh yes, those two torpedoes that warn the engineer to be on the lookout for something, or other. AWAY TO A LATE START Quite often nowadays after a defendant, (especially the man of means) has been found guilty in a superior court, his advisers proclaim loudly. "We will appeal—We have just begun to fight." TURNING ON THE LIGHT After everything is said and done, you know, it is darned difficult, you know, to tell where those investigations are going to end, you know. BARRING POSSIBILITIES And you know speaking of investigations, they are a sort of necessary evil nowadays, provided they don't upset the barrel of whitewash. SOME FELLAS WILL TRY ANYTHING ONCE Again that yippe accusation comes to the surface, as follows, to-wit: "He drinks wet and votes dry." You know fer instance, if you have the flu and ache all over and feel as though you were ready to cash in and didn't care to bother the family physician for a "prescripshun' and a friend told you he had something in the ice chest, why you know sometimes a dry guy would take a snifter. ALL DEPENDS HOW YOU'VE BEEN RAISED And yet again after reading the accounts of that assault case up in an adjoining county, after you have tried to figure out who's who and whatnot, including the "dialogues" between the lawyers, and everything, if you go out into the wide open spaces and inhale the breath of new mown hay and the fragrant orange Again that yippe accusation comes to the surface, as follows, to-wit: "He drinks wet and votes dry." You know fer instance, if you have the flu and ache all over and feel as though you were ready to cash in and didn't care to bother the family physician for a "prescripshun' and a friend told you he had something in the ice chest, why you know sometimes a dry guy would take a snifter. ALL DEPENDS HOW YOU'VE BEEN RAISED And yet again after reading the accounts of that assault case up in an adjoining county, after you have tried to figure out who's who and whatnot, including the "dialogues" between the lawyers, and everything, if you go out into the wide open spaces and inhale the breath of new mown hay and the fragrant orange blossoms, you honestly believe, after all, that the old world is all right—but it's the people who cause all the trouble and you wonder what is going to happen next—and, by the way, did you pay your taxes? WHY, THE VERY IDEA! When a fella says "ABsolutely no" it carries a certain element of denial; and when he says "absoLUTEly no" to a certain degree it coincides with the first declaration; but when he says "ABsoLUTEly no" the emphasis is so pronounced that you are led to believe the witness is excited and hot under the collar. SAD TALE, MATES! Sooner or later the man or woman, who try to earn a living by their wits, will learn that it does not pay to gamble with stocks, horse racing, cards, dice—or what have you. JUST SO THEY'LL UNDERSTAND A man recently returned from a trip down through several of the border states in one of which he was born. He found things moving smoothly, everybody seeming to be happy and attending to their own business. In some of the sections, this man says, you can buy anything from a bottle of ginger ale to a full-blooded race horse-provided you have the price. The people down there are hospitable, and will give you the shirts off their backs so long as you play square. Many of the backwoodsmen raise lots of corn, but they do not brother hauling it to the mills; they use it up right there on the premsies. Prices are reasonable. "Huh? Say, I'll tell ye; it will hold its own with anything you ever ran into." The man says if a fellow is a stranger down in those parts it would be well to hunt up somebody who knows his onions and tell him who you are, plainly speaking, and no foolin', because they don't like to have fellers snooping around.