anaheim-gazette 1930-09-11

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. LOOKING TEN YEARS AHEAD The Census of 1930 is the most important numbering of the people of the United States since the first count of our inhabitants was made. Even though all of the conclusions to be drawn from it have not yet become available, it has already taught us more about ourselves than we ever knew before. Especially has it shown us that one of the causes of our great national prosperity is disappearing—the steady increase in population at a high rate. Decline in immigration and decline in the birthrate have combined to reduce our annual rate of population growth to about 1 percent a year. Twenty years ago we were growing at the rate of 2 percent a year; forty years ago, at a 3 percent rate. This will make a great difference in business, industries and investments which depend upon increasing population for their own growth. Real estate values depend upon population. The rate of growth in the big cities is falling off more rapidly than in country towns and small communities generally. That means that real estate in the large cities will not increase so rapidly in value from year to year, while in the smaller towns it will increase at a faster rate. The redistribution of population is always an important factor in business and industry. Nowhere in the world do people shift their homes from one place to another as they do in America. Just now the Census shows a strong tendency of manufacturing industries away from the larger centers and to the smaller towns. That will mean more building in the smaller places in the next ten years, homes, factories, stores, institutions and public buildings. There probably will be less building in the large cities, and that largely by way of replacing obsolete structures. The declining birthrate is sure to have a definite effect on building as well as on business generally. Not only will we need fewer school buildings, especially in the lower grades, but the type of home now in growing demand is in smaller units than formerly. fewer babies are born, but more of them grow up to go to high their homes from one place to another as they do in America. Just now the Census shows a strong tendency of manufacturing industries away from the larger centers and to the smaller towns. That will mean more building in the smaller places in the next ten years, homes, factories, stores, institutions and public buildings. There probably will be less building in the large cities, and that largely by way of replacing obsolete structures. The declining birthrate is sure to have a definite effect on building as well as on business generally. Not only will we need fewer school buildings, especially in the lower grades, but the type of home now in growing demand is in smaller units than formerly. fewer babies are born, but more of them grow up to go to high school and college. More people live to old age. It is not hard to forecast a time coming when the whole problem of living will center more about the needs of the adults and the elderly and less about the needs of the children than ever before in history. INCORRIGIBLE EUROPE Twelve years after the last guns on the western front were fired the state of Europe offers as sardonic a comment on the ingenious hopes which inspired our first crusade to the Old World as history discloses. There has seldom been a time in European history when new wars seemed less obviously in the making. Behind the thin facade of the league, Locarno, the Kellogg-Briand treaty, the naval limitation conferences, the peoples of Europe, or at any rate their governments, are engaged in precisely the same processes that brought forth the vast disaster of 1914. Armies are training, new implements of destruction are being devised, new fortresses are building, new fighting ships are preparing. France and Italy have been on the ragged edge of open war for months. The Germans took the occasion of the evacuation of the Rhineland to stage provocative celebrations, and her popular press is full of inflammatory cartoons and articles. Her government at such a moment announces that it intends to raise the difficult and dangerous question of boundaries, though accompanying the announcement by the assertion that her effort will be diplomatic and not military. We do not think any government in Europe wants war, except perhaps the Soviet. Bolshevism alone may hope to profit by a renewal of destruction in civilized Europe. But, in spite of this mutual distrust, jealousy and national ambition seem to preoccupy the Euronean mind and more attention is given to the complicated intrigues of competing nations to the redemption of lost territories, to new experiments in alliances, and new efforts at building up power than to the development of the conditions upon which peace must be founded. The problem of European peace can not be solved by America as some of our dreamers have imagined. We who have a different mind and spirit cannot be free from the consequences toward which the Old World seems again to be moving incorrectly. What we can do consistently with our own right of self-preservation we are doing and will do, but that we preserve ourselves as far as it is possible from the effects of a disaster we can not prevent is not only our first duty, but one of the most difficult our statesmanship has ever faced. We are not isolated and can not be, if we would. But we can retain our independence of judgment and action, and this it has been the wise instinct of our people always to preserve. NEW ERA FOR SOUTH AMERICA In a recent interesting article in the Washington Star, Dr. Thomas H. Healy, professor of Foreign Relations, gave us some insight into what happens when we try to interpret the verse in reafis: "Be sure you out." NEW ERA FOR SOUTH AMERICA In a recent interesting article in the Washington Star. Dr. Thomas H. Healy, professor of Foreign Relations, Georretown University School of Foreign Service, pointed out the significance of the new era in the affairs of the United States and Latin America, together with the tremendous changes in the commercial, political and social relations between Uncle Sam and the nations to the south during the past twenty years. Only two decades ago we had comparatively little to do with Latin America, and what few little relations we had were generally irritating and unsatisfactory. Our own people dismissed Latin America from their minds as a land of irresponsibility and of a multitude of revolutions. The Latin Americans looked on us simply as imperialists who were trying to run the entire Western Hemisphere without consulting any of the other nations on this side of the Atlantic. Perhaps the misunderstanding was aided by European propaganda, designed to keep us apart. At any rate England, France and Germany enjoyed all of the foreign trade and most of the financial investments in South and Central America. There was little direct communication between the two Americas. BANISHING "MOTHER" The American "youth movement," we are told insists that "Mother" must be abandoned. We are told that "Father" and "Mother" imply a submissiveness out of all harmony with the cynical omniscience of emancipated souls who are looking forward to fullest exemplification of their "careers," "self-expression" and the sloppy silliness of hard-boiled cynicism which has grown to regard normal affection for parents as an interference with the freedom to which their colossal degeneracy entitles them. So Mother is to become "Kate," or "Fan," or "Sal," "Old Girl," or "Sis." Well, the biological relation between parent and child perhaps is a bit singular. To the "enlightened" and "emancipated" progeny of the adolescent age of the present it indeed may be something to be ashamed of! True parenthood will never be dragged into the slime of abnormal perversion such as is here manifest in the contemplation of "liberated souls." No child born of woman that is worthy to live will ever forget or fail to experience and express the love, devotion which are a mother's due. ANAHEIM GAZETTE Another of Those Endurance Contests By Albert T. Reid I WISH I HAD SOME KIND OF A GUN The Way of Life By BRUCE BARTON CHEATING Once upon a time I hired a man to do a certain piece of work. He was well along in middle life, and I wondered why he had not made more progress, since he seemed honest and industrious. I said to him: "I cannot be here to watch this work and so I shall have to trust you to do it as if you were working for yourself." He was profuse in his assurances. He seemed to want the job. At the end of six months I visited him. He had done fairly well, but was rather glib with alibis. Other people were always holding him up. The weather was always very bad. He would have done so-and-so if he had been sure just what I had wanted, but that failed to let him know. I put this down as the grumbling habit of an old man. "At least he is honest and means well," I said. But one day, after about a year, I happened to appear unexpectedly. He was not in evidence. Upon inquiry I discovered that he was using my time and some of my materials on a little private job of his own. We had a solemn conference and decided to part. When you put a man on his honor and then have him take advantage of your trust it is a blow to your faith in human nature. So I was depressed and a little sore. But only for a few minutes. Then I said to myself: How foolish I am to let this worry me. This man has cheated me out of a few hundred dollars, but what a petty thing that is compared with the way he has cheated himself: All his life he has held a nickel so close to his eyes that he couldn't see a dollar. All his life he has lived on alibis, watching the clock, stealing a little here and there from his employers, and imagining that he was doing well for himself. "And where is he at sixty? Poor and jobless, and a failure. Reaping what he has sown." The idea of Heaven and Hell was very bad because it made us think that our reward or punishment is coming to us in some far-off place hereafter. In the same way most people misinterpret the verse in the Bible which reads: "Be sure your sin will find you out." Modern Maturity Goes to College What is meant by the term "college age"? Formerly "college age" applied to youth of twenty or thereabout, but now with college courses conveniently available to men and women occupied during the major portion of the day, "college age" clastically embraces the parents of day students as well as their parents, uncles, teachers, and even more mature relatives and associates. During the school year of 1929-1930, University College, downtown evening division of the University of Southern California at 122 East Seventh Street, Los Angeles, was attended by 10,191 adult students, fully or partially employed, learning and earning at the same time. The 1930 fall quarter of University College opens on September 15, with a program of over 200 evening, late afternoon, and Saturday morning classes granting full residence credit—credit recognized by any institution of higher learning, and applicable to requirements for state board of education teachers' credentials and certificates, as well as for advanced college degrees. One of the differences in the education of extreme youth and maturity is the use of memory and reasoning faculties. The courses at University College, conducted by members of the regular faculty of S.C., are planned with the reflective and critical powers of mature moderns in mind. Training is no longer a process which terminates in youth. Through continuation of college classes, intellectual and spiritual freedom is available to men and women of every age. Exercise of a "self-protecting vitality" distinguishes the present generation of active-minded adults. "Melancholy middle age" is definitely a thing of the past. Instead of working their way through college, these university students may be described as studying their way through life. verse is untrue." But the verse does not say that your sin will be found out. It says, "Be sure your sin will find you out"—be sure that it will settle down in your heart and mold you in its own image. That's terrifying thought, or a very encouraging one, according to the way you live. Everything you do has its influence on what you are. When you cheat you cheat yourself. And whatever you do that's decent New Platforms New Committees The Republican, Democratic, Socialist and Prohibition party conventions will be held at Sacramento September 18, to adopt party platforms and appoint new state central committees. The convention will have 144 members. All legislative, state and congressional officers are delegates to their party conventions, except when there are vonvention delegates. The offices include governor, lieutenant governor, state treasurer, controller, attorney general, secretary of state, board of equalization, 11 congressmen, 40 state senators and 80 assemblymen or nominees for the offices. Each delegate to the convention is authorized to name three members to the state central committee meeting in Sacramento September 27, from his county or district, and these three, together with one convention delegate, constitute the state central committee of 576 members. The new law providing for this system of selecting members of the state central committees is the outgrowth of the now-famous "Battle of Proxies" at the St. Francis hotel in San Francisco in 1928. At this meeting Senator F. F. Merriam of Long Beach succeeded in unseating Governor Young's man, Charles F. Neumiller of Stockton, as chairman of the committee. At the 1829 legislature both Merriam and Senator J. M. Inman of Sacramento introduced measures to correct this proxy evil. The upshot was a compromise measure, adopted by the legislature and signed by the governor. Senator Merriam, republican nominee for lieutenant governor, cannot succeed himself as chairman of the republican state central committee, as the new act provides that a chairman may hold office for only the duration of one year, and that the position shall alternate between Northern and Southern California. Under the new law, proxies must be filed in writing, and duly acknowledged before a notary before the day of the meeting. This will eliminate the chance of "stacking the decks" for the meeting and insure harmonious party conventions. The farmer claims prices are so low he can not make a living raising them, and the city folks indulge in them. "And where is he at sixty? Poor and jobless, and a failure. Reaping what he has sown." The idea of Heaven and Hell was very bad because it made us think that our reward or punishment is coming to us in some far-off place hereafter. In the same way most people misinterpret the verse in the Bible which reads: "Be sure your sin will find you out." They say: "Lots of people sin and are never found out. Therefore the verse is untrue." But the verse does not say that your sin will be found out. It says, "Be sure your sin will find you out"—be sure that it will settle down in your heart and mold you in its own image. That's terrifying thought, or a very encouraging one, according to the way you live. Everything you do has its influence on what you are. When you cheat, you cheat yourself. And whatever you do that's decent automatically and inevitably builds you up. YESSIREE! MY FATHER WAS BORN HERE AND WENT TO THE SAME SCHOOL THAT I'M GOIN' TO NOW! WELL, MY FATHER WAS BORN IN NEW YORK AND WENT TO SCHOOL IN ENGLAND! GEE! WHAT A LONG WAY HE HAD TO GO EVERY DAY TO SCHOOL! PINKY DINKY JINGLES! OUR LITTLE MARY HANDY LIKED TO EAT TAFFY CANDY EAT IT ALL SHE TRIED THEN OH, HOW SHE CRIBED YOU SEND PINKY A JINGLE! AND SEE IF HELL POINTS! OBSERVATIONS FEEDING HONEY TO THE BEE A highly interesting case has come up in the courts regarding concentrated grape juice (grapes in condensed form). For instance: After making the compound, if you let the "water" remain, it's a violation of the law, because it then contains more than the celebrated one half of one per cent by volume. But when you have the grapes in condensed form, which is not unlawful, after you have removed the "water," the home wine owner contends that no offense has been committed when you put that same "water" back again—that which nature gave you. You get this straight, do you? Eh? AND THE DOVE FLEW OUT THE WINDOW It seems all those who went over to that peace conference were running around with chips on their shoulders. GIVE THE BOZOS BICYCLES That beeg jolly fella who came over to fight good naturally knocks out his man in a few seconds. His manager says he has so far never been required to extend himself; and says he does not know what the giant would do if he ever got mad. NOW, YOU TELL ONE A man owns a fox terrier who will not eat until his master tells him to. The man says one day a friend put a juicy lot of bones in front of the dog—but the terrior did not touch them. He says he then told the dog to eat and those bones disappeared in a hurry. The man says he could place a top sirloin in front of the dog, go away and the dog would stay there all day looking at the meat—but would not touch the steak, until he came back and told him to hop to the feast. GETTING THEIR FEET UNDER HIS TABLE A judge up state cautions love sick swains to stop, look and listen, count nine, and look before they leap before they ask the fair charmer to embark upon the matrimonial sea. The other day a man married a widow. She said she had one child, after the nuptial knot was tied he discovered instead of one child there were six. One of them was married and had four children. When they all came to live under his roof he became flabbergasted and sought a divorce; but the judge said he was hooked and told him to go back home and try to forget it. GETTING THEIR FEET UNDER HIS TABLE A judge up state cautions love sick swains to stop, look and listen, count nine, and look before they leap before they ask the fair charmer to embark upon the matrimonial sea. The other day a man married a widow. She said she had one child, after the nuptial knot was tied he discovered instead of one child there were six. One of them was married and had four children. When they all came to live under his roof he became flabbergasted and sought a divorce; but the judge said he was hooked and told him to go hack home and try to forget it. LOTS OF WAYS OF SKINNING A CAT Said an Optimist: "If there is an overproduction of oil, why don't the big companies reduce the price. The motorist then would buy more oil, and use it. That would make business all around. That would keep the oil workers employed." Well, well, why don't they do something. SAY. BOYS. THAT'S A NEW ONE Pray tell us, when did the other nations ever have a notion that the United States entertained ideas of aggression, imperial power or exploitation of foreign nations? GIGANTIC MAGNET W. P. Whitsett says: Assurance of the Colorado River aqueduct water means that Los Angeles and her sister cities in Southern California are destined to double their population and their wealth within the next twelve years. Let us stop for just a moment and contemplate the full force of that statement. And let us come to a full realization of the solid facts upon which that statement is based. Every dollar of industrial and real estate value in Southern California is based upon the possession or assurance of an adequate and reliable water supply. Without water there could be no Southern California as we know it and love it. This means that the population and the wealth of this section of the country accurately can be measured in terms of water. We have sufficient water resources available in Southern California to support temporarily a population double our present one, if we can be assured that large additional quantities of water are forthcoming from the Colorado River. There are literally millions of people in the East and Middle West who hope some day to come to Southern California to make their home. The Boulder Dam project and the Colorado River Aqueduct with their assurance of cheap power for the industrialist and ample water for all domestic and industrial purposes, will draw those millions westward like a gigantic magnet. The aqueduct, as now planned will be able to deliver to Southern California cities a continuous flow amounting to 1500 cubic feet per second. That amount of water, economists have carefully estimated, will permit of the doubling of our present industrial output. Specifically, it is estimated that within ten years after work has been started on Boulder Dam the value of manufactured products in Southern California will amount to $2,500,000,000. The low rate at which BoulderDam power will be offered will draw irresistibly to this area great manufacturing plants of almost every description. ERN California cities a continuous flow amounting to 1500 cubic feet per second. That amount of water, economists have carefully estimated, will permit of the doubling of our present industrial output. Specifically, it is estimated that within ten years after work has been started on Boulder Dam the value of manufactured products in Southern California will amount to $2,500,000,000. The low rate at which BoulderDam power will be offered will draw irresistibly to this area great manufacturing plants of almost every description. HEY, EDDIE, BRING A HABEAS CORPUS. If you have insomnia and are interested read this: The judge: You are fined $100, "or" serve 50 days in jail. That's wrong, because the judge pronounced two judgments. He should impose only one. He should say you are fined $100 and you will be imprisoned until that fine is paid in proportion of one day for each two dollars of the fine. And yet again. Are you interested- The judge: You are fined $100, "and" serve 50 days in jail. Should the defendant serve the 50 days and fail to pay the $100, he must be released, because the two sentences run concurrently. Should the defendant be held in jail for failure to pay the money fine the city would have a damage suit for false imprisonment. What the judge should do is this: He should say: You are fined $100 and you will be imprisoned until that fine is paid in proportion of one day for each two dollars of the fine; and it is further ordered that you, the defendant, be imprisoned for 50 days. After reading this and you cannot get it through your head, you should take a cold bath when arising, take a brisk rubdown, and then go out in the wide open spaces and smell the new mown hay—and forget it. A BIRD IN THE HAND IS WORTH TWO IN THE BUSH Once upon a time a trusted employee embezzled one hundred thousand dollars from his bank. He knew his shortage would be found out when the examiner came. He went to see his lawyer, who was keen. He was a bear. Said the man: I have stolen one hundred thousand dollars from the bank.. I'll get caught. What shall I do. Said the keen lawyer: Go and steal another hundred thousand. and bring it to me. "What?" said the man in amazement. Go and do as I told you. The man did. Then the lawyer telephoned the manager of the bank that his trusted employee had stolen two hundred thousand dollars. "What?" said the manager in amazement. The lawyer said: If you agree to take fifty thousand dollars and do not prosecute the employee I'll see that you get the money. The manager scratched his head and said O. K. The trick is—if they put the employee in jail they would not have gotten anything back. Who got the other money? You ask. Well( let's see, maybe the lawyer and the employee went 50-50. And then it rained. Funny, isn't it? Ho, Ho, Hum! Let's go to the movies!