anaheim-gazette 1930-10-09

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE ESTABLISHED 1870 HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Publisher ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PR. YEAR $2.00 SIX MONTHS 1.00 Entered at the Anaheim, California Postoffice as second-class matter. RUSSIA IN THE WHEAT MARKET The theory of the Soviet government of Russia seems to be that if every economic institution in the world can be destroyed, in some mysterious way the "common people" will be benefitted thereby. It is based on the old Marxian Socialist idea that human nature is essentially honest; capable and industrious and that, given a chance at his own share of the world's wealth every man would keep his hands off the other fellow's share, do his own share of the world's work, and all would be happy. The theory is as wrong-headed as its author. Everybody who knows anything about human nature knows that is not the way humanity is constituted. Everybody who knows anything about economics knows that the way to build up prosperity is not to begin by tearing down the foundations of industry and business. But the little Socialist clique which just now dominates the millions of unintelligent Russian peasants—dominates them by force—is trying to tear down the world's economic foundations in the hope of making everybody who works so dissatisfied that they will all become revolutionists and communists. That is clearly the motive behind the Russian government's effort to depress the price of wheat in the United States. By "short selling" in the Chicago market, the Secretary of Agriculture states, the Soviet government has "beared" the wheat market to the financial detriment of every wheat grower. But we have no idea that this will accomplish its apparent purpose, that of turning American farmers into Bolshevists. SAVING BY SPENDING Savings bank deposits are growing again. They were drawn down all over the country, for a while after the business slump last fall. Now they are coming up again, indicating that the American people as a whole have not lost the habit of laying something aside for a rainy day. A considerable part of the recent withdrawals from savings banks, the officials of the national association of such institutions report, was to take advantage of opportunities offered to buy property of different kinds at bargain prices. The unthrifty had to sell, the thrifty had the wherewithal to buy. Much of the money withdrawn from the savings banks has been for the purpose of making first payments on homes. Home building in most parts of the country is not reviving as fast as had been anticipated, but there has been an active business in the purchase and sale of houses already built. Probably the first long step toward getting ahead in the world, that is taken by the majority of Americans, is when a man and his wife go into debt to buy a home. There are unfortunate ones who never have the grit and moral courage to save up the first ten or twenty percent of the cost of a home. There are others who are so afraid of owing something that they won't buy a home until they have money to pay for it in full, in cash. But in between there is the great average group who do not hesitate to borrow as much as one or two years' income, on the security of a house and lot, and then put their noses to the grindstone to pay off the debt. It is so much easier to save when one has a definite objective. When there are monthly installments of principal and interest to be met, even the most frivolous and easy-spending individuals usually find some way to meet them, whereas merely putting money into a bank to accumulate at interest does not seem so important. And when the money is put into a home, it is surprising how soon the sense of ownership of property tends to make the home-buyer more careful about other expenditures. Our advice to every young couple who do not own their own home is to buy a home and buy it now. There never was a more favorable time to build or to buy improved real estate. Building materials are lower than they have been in years, money can be borrowed on easier terms than for years, and labor is abundant at normal wages. In almost every community in the United States the man with $500 in hand or that he can get hold of within a short time, can buy a $5,000 home, as good as one for which he would have paid probably $6,500 a year ago, and which will probably be worth $6,500 in another year or two from now. The man with $1,000 can have a $12,000 to $15,000 home—if his income justifies such a house. If everybody who need a home started to build now, the business depression would come to an end within six months. PUZZLES FOR SPELLERS Years ago one of the tests of a "good speller" was his or her ability to spell such words as "Constantinople" and "Christiania" correctly. But the young people of today have some altogether new problems in spelling. There isn't any Constantinople any more. The name of the old Turkish city has been changed to Istanbul. Likewise Norway has thrown Christiania into the discard and calls its great port Oslo. To simplify the use of foreign place-names and make their spelling easier to those familiar only with their own tongue, the English centuries ago coolly changed the names of many places on the Continent. They altered Roma to Rome, Napoli to Naples, Firenze to Florence, Livorno to Leghorn, Wien to Vienna, and 's Gravenhage to The Hague. We in America have followed that style, but now that international relations are closer than ever before and the nations of Europe are feeling their individual importance more than ever; an international movement has been set on foot for the uniform spelling of place names everywhere. The standard, of course, is that of the local official usage. Thus the town in Silesia which the Germans called Lemberg now appears in Polish as Lwow, and you can guess at the pronunciation as well as anybody else can. The Finnish people resent the use of Helsingfors, a Swedish corruption of their own name of Helsinki. On old maps you will find a town in Europe called Philippopolis, but Poles are incensed if you write it any way except Plovdiv. The patriotic young republic of Estonia has changed the name of its capital from Reval to the more ancient name of Tallinn. Smyrna is no longer spelled correctly except as Izmir. The United States Government is trying to get people used to these modern and corrected spellings. The U. S. Board on Geographic Names has in preparation a complete list which will be available in a few months for everybody interested. But so long as the old maps and geographies are in existence, there will always be a high percentage of children growing up to be familiar with the Anglicized spellings that are not only out of date but incorrect and, moreover, offensive to the nationals of the countries which they misrepresent. Heartbreaking Days — By Albert T. Reid "You can't come with me, Tige, and dog-gone, it; what're you looking that way at me for? I guess it aint my fault'cause I gotta go to school, is it?" The Way of Life By BRUCE BARTON WIVES One could draw many interesting lessons from the recent biography of the great English barrister, Sir Edward Marshall Hall. For instance, it furnishes a striking commentary on the difference between our method and the English method of administering justice. Sir Edward appeared in most of the celebrated trials of his time. Any one of them would have dragged on for weeks over here. The longest of them lasted only eleven days in England. A majority were wound up in less than a week. We are ahead of the English in most departments of modern business. We are even with them in medicine, in science, and, perhaps, in literature. In the law we are woofy, shamelessly and inexcessfully behind. But at the moment I am more interested in one very human little incident in Sir Edward's life which occupies only a paragraph, and was perhaps overlooked by most readers. He had just been elected to Parliament and had prepared a speech with which he hoped to dazzle the House and make his reputation. Again and again during the long night session he tried to catch the Speaker's eye, but each time he was overlooked in favor of some older member. So he went home with the speech still undelivered, its ringing sentences still ringing in his head. There in bed lay his little wife, who had been asleep for hours. But Sir Edward, so much disappointed and so on fire with his own oratory, could not let her sleep. Forthwith he woke her up and insisted that she listen to the whole long speech. Is there any wife in the world to whom something of the sort has not happened? I knew personally one of the leading men of the last generation. For years he had gone home every evening and—detail by detail—told his wife the whole story of the day's proceedings; what he did, what he said, and what other men had done and said to him. When she died at a ripe old age, the husband seemed organically sound and good for another ten years at least. Yet he followed her to the grave within a few months. Life had no more zest for him. He had lost his audience. panding under the encouraging smile of a girl, talking along, showing what a great fellow he is. And she, asking questions which are much dumber than they need to be, deliberately concealing her own wisdom in order to make him appear the wiser. They are a great invention, these women, and particularly those of them who do us the honor to become our wives. Whenever any one tells me that with the increasing wealth of the country, the wives are growing more idle, I contend that they still earn their living handsomely. And would continue to earn it even if they had to do nothing but listen to us talk. IMMIGRATION This is a good time to check up on immigration, and the report of the State Department made to President Hoover indicates that the authorities at Washington are doing everything possible to prevent foreign labor from coming into the United States at a time when not all of our own people can find employment. In normal times, a person who is able-bodied and intelligent is not regarded as "liable to become a public charge," and so is admitted, if his other qualifications are all right. Now the consular service is instructed to make certain, in every case, that the intended immigrant is going to be able to live for a considerable period in the United States before he gets a job. Mexican immigration into the United States has practically ceased, the State Department reports, as a result of this restriction. Canadian immigration has fallen off materially. Unless a foreigner has relatives in the United States, which entitle him or her to preference, he is having a harder time than ever before to get into this country. That is as it should be. Our first duty is to our own people. Likewise, the policy announced by Governor Roosevelt of New York, of employing only citizens on public works, is in accord with the rules of the times. "WHITE-COLLAR MEN" One result of every period of inflation is that it renders so many young men discontented when the inevitable slump comes and they are no longer able to get large money for small work. Among the unemployed now are tens of thousands of these "white-collar men" who never took their jobs very seriously. their incomes faster than they received them. Those men placed a false value upon themselves and their services. And many of them have not yet been disillusioned. They still think they are worth the fat salaries they used to draw, and most of them will never be happy again, remembering always the days of easy money. The really intelligent office workers are the ones who have made themselves so useful to their employers that they are the last to be paid off when times are dull. They have sense enough to realize that the way to get ahead is to spend less than they earn, to plug away steadily at the day's work, and be content with that. They are the ones who have stored up happiness to tide them over the dull times. TIDE OF BATTLE TURNS Apparently the Republican generalship has wrested from the Democratic forces that intestimable, if intangible, advantage in war, love and politics—the offensive. After months of dignified silence under the onslaughts of mud-slinging statements of the Democratic propaganda bureau and its mouthpieces, the newly formed Republican leadership swung into action late in August. It was not a defensive, a rear guard action, covering a rout. It was a brilliantly executed maneuver which left the Democratic forces completely occupied with protective movements, defending policies and policies of recent months. The volume of aggressive Democratic attack dwindled to a trickle and finally stopped. The Democratic propaganda bureau and its mouthpieces had more than they could handle in replying to Republican charges. They have sought to explain that the "smear Hoover" propaganda was all in fun; that they didn't really mean the cost of living would go up a billion dollars on account of the tariff; that the tariff lilbuster was actually a splendid tonic for lagging business. All of which may have little or no effect on the average voter. It is possible that the individual voter pays no more than casual, amused attention to the bombardments of statements issued back and forth from the two political camps. But the effect is direct and immediate upon the morale of party organization. Down through the whole body of the Republican party a Is there any wife in the world to whom something of the sort has not happened? I knew personally one of the leading men of the last generation. For years he had gone home every evening and—detail by detail—told his wife the whole story of the day's proceedings; what he did, what he said, and what other men had done and said to him. When she died at a ripe old age, the husband seemed organically sound and good for another ten years at least. Yet he followed her to the grave within a few months. Life had no more zest for him. He had lost his audience. Go into a restaurant and watch the couples at their meal. See the man exduty is to our own people. Likewise, the policy announced by Governor Roosevelt of New York, of employing only citizens on public works, is in accord with the needs of the times. "WHITE-COLLAR MEN" One result of every period of inflation is that it renders so many young men discontented when the inevitable slump comes and they are no longer able to get large money for small work. Among the unemployed now are tens of thousands of these "white-collar men" who never took their jobs very seriously. They could always get another, so they thought; meantime, they tried to emulate the rich and spent WHAT'S ALL THE PUSS ABOUT? MB AND FATTY JUST HAD AN ARGUMENT ABOUT WHICH ONE OF US CAN EAT THE MOST BOILED EGGS! WELL, WHO WON? IT'S A TIE! 'CAUSE WE CAN'T GET ANYBODY TO OPER US THAT MANY BOILED EGGS! Pinky Dinky JINGLES HE TAKES HIMSELF IN EARNEST HE NEVER STORS TO THINK OTHERS MAY BE BLUE BUT HE'S ALWAYS IN THE PINK! FEND PINKY A JINGLE- OBSERVATIONS SAY, THIS IS GETTING INTERESTING Now that the question is hot a feller steps up to ask: If it's unlawful to have the detached paraphernalia in your possession, could you charge a feller with stealing chickens just because you catch him with a setting of eggs. BOUNCE BACK One reason why some gazabos get along nowadays is because in their hurry to get by they write rubber checks. These birds get the mazuma—but their "paper" has about as much value as a safty razor in Russia. SPOKE OUT OF HIS TURN There awhile ago when the big wind twisted things around in Texas, a man wrote a letter to a judge recommended leniency for a bozo up for sentence, and the argumentative gent was held for contempt. NOTHING LEFT TO DO BUT THE SHOUTING The law provides that where a township has 30,000 or more population, a municipal court must be created. There awhile ago such a court was created—when by "some means" it was found out the township contained over 30,000 population. Now the plot thickens. Along came the census enumerators and after an intensive house to house canvas it was determined that that township did actually have 30,160 population. The law says a witness may testify as to facts only which he knows of his own knowledge. Now, just how was that population determined by those "other means." Send answers to Perzazza department, second floor, first door to the left. EVERY CLOUD HAS A SILVER LINING A man, who no doubt is imbued with good intentions, was sent to jail for contempt for a "short stretch." It is said while in the hoosgow he indulged in friendly wrestling matches with his cellmate and romped around in horseplay to help while the time away. EVERYTHING IS GOING ALONG FINE The census shows the population has increased in nearby EVERY CLOUD HAS A SILVER LINING A man, who no doubt is imbued with good intentions, was sent to jail for contempt for a "short stretch." It is said while in the hoosgow he indulged in friendly wrestling matches with his cellmate and romped around in horseplay to help while the time away. EVERYTHING IS GOING ALONG FINE The census shows the population has increased in nearby all the towns—including Tia Juana. HE'S IN THE JAILHOUSE NOW A fellow it is alleged got away with a lot of money that did not belong to him; and he lit out for pastures new. He got lonesome. He then telephoned to his wife to join him—and the cops got him. RUN ALONG AND SELL YOUR PAPERS There awhile ago it is said some miscreant rifled the desks of somesens. The plot thickens. Eh? Naw—it couldn't have been that. What makes you think so? Oh, well. Good day. NOB EXP. DRWS. SP. LGT. The man in the rumble seat says he believes the wet and dry question will be an issue in the fall. If the mods go with the cons, The chances are there will be some new faces in the sen. and rep. seats. But if the mods, go with the pros, perhaps the roll call will remain as is. TRAVELLING LIGHT Judging from the bathing suit models shown by the fashion designers, if the garment is sent in a two-cent envelope there will be no extra postage due when deliverd. AS OLD AS YOU FELL Acharming and vivacious lady, who was a reigning queen on the stage years ago, is now described as being the perennial beauty. The other day the lady said, in the movietone, that she was the only woman in captivity who would tell her real age. She said she is sixty. She looks thirty, or less. The lady says if you are 30 you may look like 60 if you are 60 you can look like 30, if you assert yourself and don't let father time load you down with excess baggage. She says if you get on the shelf you may lay there if you lose your pep; and if you let yourself get fat you may make a chairful. And then you would not be cheerful. It all depends on your mind, she says, and the manner in which you live. Beware of the double chin and excess poundage—and love your neighbor. And, Oh, yes, mind your own business. Instead of having your face lifted hold it down from within. Don't be a wall flower, because you may wilt and fade away. Go out in the wide open spaces and make two blades grow where only grew before. NIP AND TUCK—AND TAKE There about the time the spring cleaning was cleared up a big city in the east and one in the west compared notes as to which one had the "best" crime wave. Up to the hour of going to press, when the printers hollered "30", it seemed it was a case of draw—upon the part of the hold-up gents. NIP AND TUCK—AND TAKE There about the time the spring cleaning was cleared up a big city in the east and one in the west compared notes as to which one had the "best" crime wave. Up to the hour of going to press, when the printers hollered "30", it seemed it was a case of draw—upon the part of the hold-up gents. PUTTING YOUR JOHN HANCOCK ON THE DOTTED LINE In an interview the other day an actress was quoted as saying among things that she would like to do something that was "gripping." It is to be inferred the lady was intent on grabbing a new contract. IT'S A SAFE BET SHE IS BOSS IN HER HOUSE There is a lady in Miami who can hypnotize an alligator. She raises 'gators in order to help out suit case manufacturers. Should one of the 'gators close down on you while walking around in the water you would be in line for a wooden leg. THAT'S WHEN YOU REACH FOR YOUR HAT If you watch closely you will notice that the scenario writers, or whatever you call 'em, when going after heavy stuff, get fairly well with the play until along about the middle. Then it seems they flounder. They run out of continuity, or whatever that is. You know, make the story click. Well, anyway, the story becomes disjointed and then it is when they have to draw on their imaginations—and it gets on your nerves. LURE OF THE WEST Say, pard, will yuh slip me a dime for a cup of coffee? Thanks, a lot. Where are you from? Just came in on a freight car. Where are you going? I'm headed for Las Vegas. BURNING UP THE BOULEVARD A wife received a divorce when she showed she had to drive a car of 1921 model, while friend husband drove one of the 1928 vintage. It appears the man was seven laps ahead and going strong. CAUSE AND EFFECT A delegation of 50 men were on a train going to the boilermakers picnic. A man in an adjoining compartment had a fainting spell. The portah rushed in, exclaiming: A gentleman has just fainted. "De conductor wants to give him some whiskey. Is any of youse genimen got any stimulants wid yuh." At once 50 hands reached for the hips.