anaheim-gazette 1930-08-14

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE ESTABLISHED 1870 HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Publisher ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR ... $2.00 SIX MONTHS ... 1.00 Entered at the Anaheim, California-Postoffice as second-class matter. FRUIT FLY THREAT GROWS Dangers of fruit fly infestation of citrus belts in Southern California become increasingly apparent as the pest leaps control districts around infested areas in Mexico and now appears to have established itself in the state of Sinaloa. Reports from Washington that U. S. agricultural inspectors had intercepted infected fruit from Sinaloa at Nogales, Arizona, have led to the proposal that both U. S. and Mexican authorities make a study of Sinaloa and attempt to stamp it out before it can spread to fruit centers in Arizona and California. Stringent efforts in the hoof and mouth disease that broke out in California several years ago brought success in combating the disease. Similar stringent efforts, or even more drastic measures, entailing great damage to certain areas, would be necessary to eliminate the fruit fly once it infected Orange county. Thus, it is infinitely cheaper to guard well every border and every possible means of conveyance of the fly. Every meausre, strict as some have been during the past year to protect California citrus belts from the pest, should be doubly enforced now that the danger comes nearer than ever. The department of agriculture's warning that finding of fruit infested by larvae of the fruit fly at Nogales "illustrates forcibly the increasing risk of the identification of this pest through border ports near the fruit centers of Arizona and California" cannot be taken too seriously. The citrus industry has been brought to Thus, it is infinitely cheaper to guard well every border and every possible means of conveyance of the fly. Every meausre, strict as some have been during the past year to protect California citrus belts from the pest, should be doubly enforced now that the danger comes nearer than ever. The department of agriculture's warning that finding of fruit infested by larvae of the fruit fly at Nogales "illustrates forcibly the increasing risk of the identification of this pest through border ports near the fruit centers of Arizona and California" cannot be taken too seriously. The citrus industry has been brought to its highest development in California. Anything that threatens its continued profitable development deserves our utmost attention and energy. TWENTY-ONE AMENDMENTS Voters of California will be called to decide upon four initiative measures and 21 constitutional amendments at the general election November 4. There will be no referendum taken on any act of the 1929 legislature. With the closing date for filing initiative measures past, only four had actually won a place on the ballot, according to Secretary of State Frank C. Jordan. A number of others fell by the wayside for lack of signatures. The lucky measures were: Sunday closing law for barbers, giving tonsorialists "one day's rest in seven." Daylight saving law, which would set clocks forward one hour from April to September of each year. Permanent registration, providing that a voter's name shall remain on the books so long as he votes regularly or does not move from one precinct to another. Usury law amendment, forbidding corporations to charge treble interest and requiring legislature to regulate pawnbrokers. Among the measures failing to qualify for the ballot were those proposing repeal of the Wright Act, California's "Little Volstead Law"; resumption of hydraulic mining; increasing chiropractors' educational requirements from two to three years, and giving the State Fish and Game Commission legislative powers. Two bond issues are among the 21 constitutional amendments before the voters for ratification. One of these, for $20,000,000 is designed to complete the state's farm and home loan program, which has already aided more than 7,500 ex-soldiers, sailors and marines. The other, for $10,000,000, would supply funds for much-needed improvements on San Francisco harbor, owned by the state. BUILDING AND PROSPERITY Last year's total of homes built in the United States sank to the lowest level since 1921, and this year will doubtless establish the home building low water mark for a decade. Last year's shortage may have been due to a tightening of credit because of the great volume of money diverted to speculation. There is no money shortage at this time, and the willingness of financial institutions to let loose of cash for home construction must be due more to apprehension than to actual conditions. BUILDING AND PROSPERITY Last year's total of homes built in the United States sank to the lowest level since 1921, and this year will doubtless establish the home building low water mark for a decade. Last year's shortage may have been due to a tightening of credit because of the great volume of money diverted to speculation. There is no money shortage at this time, and the willingness of financial institutions to let loose of cash for home construction must be due more to apprehension than to actual conditions. These apprehensive have chiefly been caused by speculative building in the larger cities, where the construction houses beyond the needs of the population has caused shrinkage in values. Such apprehension does not properly apply to home building in the settled smaller cities of assured future. There are few safer risks than homes occupied by owners, about which their family life is built. From both an economic and a social standpoint the halt in the progress of home construction is to be deplored. The home is our strongest social cement. Pretty had to make a revolutionary out of a home owner. Moreover a shortage of proper housing affects materially the industrial efficiency of a community. More important still, comfortable homes are the greatest contribution it is possible to make to the happiness of humans. This is of course not a local, but a national question. The stoppages of the flow of credit come from the top of our financial system down. In so far as the national government may exert influence, it ought to be in behalf of a loosening of credit for home and industrial construction, what ever limitations are placed in speculative ventures either in construction or other wise. A half billion dollars lent by the government to build homes would probably do more to promote wheat prices by putting home consumers at work than any effort to directly boost the price of wheat. Idle workmen an dtheir families are not good at consuming a wheat surplus. The effect of our vast national and state programs of public construction is small as compared with that of normal home construction. Last year's slow-down would justify great expansion of activity along this line this year and next. That expansion would do much to alleviate the employment situation. Building materials are at a lower price at this time than in several years. Now would be the best time to build for anyone who wishes to insure construction at low comparative cost. Financial institutions should be put in position to meet the demand for building by persons wishing to construct homes, but unable to do so except on a basis of deferred payments for much of the investment required. ANAHEIM GAZETTE Endurance Gives Out—On One Side— By Albert T. Reid THE ART OF HYPNOTICS JUST POLITICS TREE SITTING CONGRESSMEN ABERE J. REID AUTOCASTRO THE BOOK OF BOOKS proached it in point of sales; none of the standard classics has endured in popularity, as has the Bible. THE BOOK OF BOOKS We hear a great deal of loose talk about the decline of religion. People are no longer interested in the ancient beliefs, so the critics of religion say. The church has lost its hold and nobody reads the Bible any more, if you believe them. It is encouraging, therefore, to those who hold fast to the faith of their fathers, to learn from the report of the American Bible Society that more Bibles were sold and distributed last year than ever before in the history of this great organization. The figures themselves are amazing. Eleven million, one hundred and two thousand Bibles in 179 different languages were printed and distributed by the American society last year, while the British and Foreign Bible Society in the same period distributed nearly twelve million. In the United States alone more than four million Bibles were bought by people, presumably, who wanted to read them. That does not sound as if interest in religion were dying out. As a matter of fact, more people are reading the Bible than ever before. Whatever other religious books they read, they must have the Bible. It is the Book of Books in every sense of the word. No "best seller" ever approached it in point of sales; none of the standard classics has endured in popularity, as has the Bible. Consciously or unconsciously, almost everybody who speaks the English language quotes from the Bible almost every day. The words and phrases, proverbs and other quotations of everyday life, a good half of all the allusions in modern literature, are from the King James version of the English Bible. For that reason, if for no other, familiarity with the Bible is an essential part of the education of everybody who would call himself an educated man. One not familiar with the Book of Books loses the savor and the intimate meaning of half of the world's great literature. We have not found any better way of expressing many of the great truths and eternal facts of life than the way in which they are expressed in the Bible. How a single phrase expresses the whole ideal of tolerance: "Let him that is without sin among you cast the first stone." Or how has the penalty of evil-doing been better phrased than in: "Whatsoever ye sow, that shall ye also reap?" The Bible out of date? It is the only book that is always and forever up to date. And that, beyond doubt, is the reason why it outsells all the fiction and all the philisophy of the moderns. (Political Advertising) TAXPAYERS and VOTERS My opponent, Mr. Montgomery and his friend Mr. Sidnam have in the past few evenings been working on the assessment rolls now in the Auditor's office, checking the assessments (I am informed) of the Bixby's, Hellman's, Irvine Company, Susan P. Bryant, Union Oil Company and others. For fear that Vote for James Sleeper, incumbent for County Assessor. He has fought the people's battle against the big interest for years, and has made their assessments in proportion to the small tax payers. in the past few evenings been working on the assessment rolls now in the Auditor's office, checking the assessments (I am informed) of the Bixby's, Hellman's, Irvine Company, Susan P. Bryant, Union Oil Company and others. For fear that these gentlemen may not give out their information before the election and in time for the taxpayers to make a personal investigation of it, to compare these assessments with those of adjoining property, their own property or any other property, I am extending you an invitation to come to the Assessor's office, Room 204, Court House, where we have maps showing the location of all the real property in the County, the kind of trees, their age, condition and number of acres, a list of all the personal property and improvements and how we arrive at the value of Mineral Rights of the Oil Companies. Make this investigation yourself; we will assist you in every way we can; do not let someone do this for you who has, to the best of my knowledge, never been in the Assessor's office of Orange County. I have no fear of how you will cast your vote if you personally investigate this matter as you should. JAMES SLEEPER, County Assessor. State Park Cheiftain Endorses F. F. Merriam Senator Frank F. Merriam for Lieutenant Governor Headquarters is in receipt of the following endorsement: "The California State Park Association (formerly the Santa Monica Mountains Improvement Association) but statewide now, and the first one ever made for the parks and beauty of the whole State, is deeply interested in having Mr. Frank F. Merriam elected to the office of Lieutenant Governor of the State of California. "His good taste with regard to parks and his known approval of the money saving plan that this Association has evolved, insures his support in bringing to pass, laws that will put the park interests into the County Supervisors' care where, logically, the affairs of each County can be handled as desired by the people and less expensively than in any other way. "Parks are not a luxury, alone, but in their green softness throbs the sternest necessity of life, namely, fresh air and a divine release from the insistent, crushing influences of great cities. The very quickest setting aside of them that can be brought about, will solve the question of planning all the balance of business harmony. "Please vote for Mr. Frank F. Merriam. "Signed HERR THILO BECKER, President California State Parks Association." State's Bookkeeper Tells of Problems "Keeping the books for a business whose annual transactions involve $153,000,000 is one of my duties as state controller", said Ray L. Riley speaking before the Women's Political League in Los Angeles. Another phase of my activities as state controller is the collection of all state tax revenues. Last year my office collected approximately $50,000-000 franchise taxes, $32,000,000 gasoline taxes, $10,500,000 inheritance taxes, $5,500,000 corporation income taxes, and $1,500,000 motor truck transportation taxes. During my administration, antiquated bookkeeping has been replaced by modern cost accounting. In 1924 for the first time in 75 years the people of California knew to a penny the cost of state government for the prior year." Still the situation is not without some consolation, even for the farmers, if the price of wheat is down, a bushel of it will still buy about as many gallons of gas as in the days before the war. If President Hoover wants to learn on his vacation, just how the country ought to be run, all he has to do is to slip into the Pullman smoking compartment and listen to the conversation for an hour or so. SAM L. COLLINS CANDIDATE FOR District Attorney I promise a vigorous and impartial enforcement of all the laws Now Serving Fourth Year As Deputy District Attorney. Primary Election August 26, 1930. CANDIDATE FOR District Attorney I promise a vigorous and impartial enforcement of all the laws Now Serving Fourth Year As Deputy District Attorney. Primary Election August 26, 1930. back east on splendidly serviced flyers at OW SUMMER FARES time and see more! Travel by train the route that abounds with magni- Union splendidly serviced flyers at HOW SUMMER FARES time and see more! 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