anaheim-gazette 1930-11-13

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. ALLIES' DEBTS AND WARSHIPS It has been made perfectly clear that the Hoover administration is opposed to any allied debt reduction—at least while Europe refuses to do anything definite toward disarmament. The administration believes that if Eurpoe can afford to build battleships she can afford to pay her debts and this belief is definitely fixed. If France and Italy have money enough to launch expensive cruiser-building programs in preparation for war, it is the opinion of the White House that they can afford to return the money which was lent them by this country to prosecute successfully the World War. The fact that on the first Sunday after the London Naval Treaty was signed last April, Italy launched five warships, has not convinced the White House of any great enthusiasm in Europe for disarmament. Nor have the subsequent negotiations between France and Italy increased this conviction. It can be said authoritatively that Mr. Hoover cherished as one of the chief hopes of his administration the reduction of expenditure on armaments both in the United States and the rest of the world. Although a part of this was accomplished at London, Mr. Hoover is known to be considerably disappointed at the lack of cooperation his moves have received in Europe. LOOSE THINKING ON TAXATION We have too much loose thinking on tax questions, says the California Taxpayers' Association. The public mind is in a condition of murkiness on the problem. Millions of people are under LOOSE THINKING ON TAXATION We have too much loose thinking on tax questions, says the California Taxpayers' Association. The public mind is in a condition of murkiness on the problem. Millions of people are under the impression and sincerely believe that a tax stays whereever you put it. They believe that if you tax the rich, the rich pay the tax. They do not see where the tax finally rests. They seem to believe that when railroads are taxed, the owners of the roads pay for the tax out of their own pockets. They do not appreciate the fact that railroad owners only pay the taxes in the first instance and then collect every dollar of them from the passengers and the shippers. They fail to realize that taxes affect the cost of living. They fail to realize that taxes affect the cost of living. They do not seem to know that there is no such thing as a nontaxpayer. We would have a taxx conscious public if we could make everyone who smokes realize that his smoking is really taxpaying, for at least half the cost of tobacco is made up of contribution to Uncle Sam's purse. Nine-tenths of the extravagance of government is due to the delusion that the people do not have to pay the bill. BUY NOW FOR CHRISTMAS The slogan "Do Your Christmas Shopping Early" has a genuine importance this year. Usually it is merely a reminder that if you delay too long in selecting the things you intend to give at Christmas you run the risk of finding the things you want are "out of stock." This year it means that putting money into circulation now will hasten the return of "good times." Money passes from one person to another in exchange for commodities. Everybody, of course, must decide for himself what sort of commodities he is willing to take in exchange for his money. There are some things, the value of which is beyond question, which can be bought cheaper now than for several years. There are other commodities which only a few can afford in the best of times. In urging our readers to spend their money now we do not want to be understood as advocating foolish spending. But there are some things which everybody needs, and recognizes the need of, and if those are bought now by all who can by any possibility afford to buy anything at all, the fact that that money has been put into circulation again will hasten the day when more of us can afford to buy luxuries. The first suggestion that has come from President Hoover's Commission on Unemployment is the proposal by Col. Arthur Woods, at its head, that a great national campaign or repairing and painting he begun. There are few houses or other buildings that are not in need of either repairs or painting. The money spent on such things is money well invested. If everybody who has been thinking of adding a bathroom, or reshingling a roof, or putting a couple of coats of fresh paint on the house, or doing any of the other necessary things which must be done sometime, would do it now, that would help a lot toward making general business better. Such a program would give immediate employment to The first suggestion that has come from President Hoover's Commission on Unemployment is the proposal by Col. Arthur Woods, at its head, that a great national campaign or repairing and painting he begun. There are few houses or other buildings that are not in need of either repairs or painting. The money spent on such things is money well invested. If everybody who has been thinking of adding a bathroom, or reshingling a roof, or putting a couple of coats of fresh paint on the house, or doing any of the other necessary things which must be done sometime, would do it now, that would help a lot toward making general business better. Such a program would give immediate employment to workers in the building trades, it would mean added business for lumber and hardware merchants, and by putting more money into circulation would enable those who received it to buy more liberally from merchants in other lines. "Buy Now" is not an invitation to reckless spending, but we believe it is sound advice to all who can spend anything at all. BUNK ABOUT BEER A rumor is being circulated all over the country, to the effect that President Hoover is shortly to give his approval to the manufacture of beer containing 2.75 percent of alcohol. The brewers, according to the rumor-mongers, are ordering new machinery by the million-dollars' worth, and before New Year's Day expect to put several hundred thousand men at work making beer, buying quantities of grain from the farmers for this purpose, and thus at one stroke restoring farm prosperity, eliminating unemployment and repealing the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Law! It is interesting, but it is all bunk. Nothing of the sort will be done. It would not be worth paying any attention to, were it not for the fact that it is not only being passed by word of mouth to business men, bankers and others who are in doubt whether to believe it or not. Even if the President desired to open the door to the free manufacture and sale of real beer, of which desire there is not the slightest evidence, there is no authority under the Prohibition law or any other whereby he could do so. The law is extremely clear and explicit. No beverage containing more than one-half of one percent of alcohol can legally be made or be sold in the United States, and only Congress can change that. The likelihood of any such action by the present Congress or the next is about equal to the likelihood of a collision between the earth and the moon. This wide-spread rumor, which some city newspapers have been printing as if it were true, has no foundation except in the imaginations of the people who wish it were true. Just the Boost That Is Needed By Albert T. Reid HOW LONG WILL YOU LIVE! "How long am I going to live?" This age-old question, asked by mankind ever since the marathon record a temporary period of slackened industrial and commercial growth." This optimistic report is made by Will C. Wood, state superintendent of banks, who said that the last fiscal year master at Boulder, Colo., and Mrs. Minnie C. True, postmaster at Pittsburg, Kans., each receive an annual salary of $3,600 from the Government. For serving as postmaster at Beck- HOW LONG WILL YOU LIVE! "How long am I going to live?" This age-old question, asked by mankind ever since the marathon record bung up by Methuselah, has been answered in part by a scientist from Scotland, who has discovered the factors determining the life curve and length of mankind. He is Dr. J. Arthur Thomson, regius professor of natural history at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, whose findings were submitted to the state department of education. Dr. Thomson's theory is simple: If you want to find out how long you are going to live, look to your environment, your habits and your heredity. There is the question of environment involving whether you work at an office desk or at manual labor out of doors, whether you take exercise on a miniature golf course or by playing handball or tennis, and whether you eat highly-seasoned or plain, old-fashioned foods. "A man ages or keeps young according to his tasks and ways," he said. "A strenuous roving creature like the otter with its several homes and frequent journeys between, remains singularly young, and even playful throughout its adult life. "Perhaps the usefulness and joyfulness of most birds may in part be correlated with the migratory habit, with its stimulating changes and its double summer in the year." If your grandfathers or grandmothers lived to a happy old age, take heart, Dr. Thomson says. The chances are good that you will also live long, for hereditary is an important factor. "The quality of being long-lived is sometimes demonstrably hereditary in human lineage, just like the similarly subtle quality of fecundity," he declared. "The life curve is also intimately correlated with emotional disturbances, such as anger and fear. As was wisely said of old time: "A merry heart is a continual feast," and A merry heart is the life of the flesh." Dr. Thomson pointed out that a slow steady growth, with resting phases, in cold or temperate environment perhaps, as in the cases of many flashes and repulsions or even the giant redwoods, is one of achieving long life even though there are other methods, particularly with the human family. BANKS IN GOOD CONDITION California's banks have "more than ample funds for any emergency and are now ready for the general revival of business that follows in the wake of a temporary period of slackened industrial and commercial growth." This optimistic report is made by Will C. Wood, state superintendent of banks, who said that the last fiscal year brought to a close a decade of banking growth in California unparalleled in the state's history. In 1920, Wood said, the 725 state and national banks and their 170 branches reported aggregate resources of $2,499,-316,000. On June 30 of this year the 437 state and national banks with 852 branches reported resources totaling $4,233,409,000. The gain in ten years was nearly two billion dollars! During the same period savings deposits showed an increase of almost a billion dollars, bringing their total up $1,003,637,000 increased by more than merCIAL deposits, which now stand at $1,000,637,000, increased by more than a quarter of a billion. "In view of surrounding conditions, the state banks have made a very credible showing during the past two years," said Wood. "All banks in this state reported an aggregate decline of $358,000,000 in savings deposits on June 30, 1930, as compared to a year ago. Our summaries reveal that the system actually recorded a slight gain in savings deposits during this interval." In past periods of economic depression the question of liquidation without loss in slow moving situation affords an agreeable contrast, for at no time during the present administration has the cash and secondary reserve position of the banks been more adequate." WOMEN AS POSTMASTERS The Postoffice Department affords a striking example of the important parish women come to play in the Government service. Since March 4, 1923, here have been appointed or reappointed a total of 1,244 women postmasters at offices of the first class is from $3,200 to $12,000 inclusive. Postmasters at offices of the second class receive from $2,400 to $3,000 inclusive, and those serving at offices of the third class are paid from $1110 to $2,300 inclusive. Mrs. Elizabeth D. Barnard, postmaster at Tampa-Fla., tops the list of high-salaried officials of her sex in this department. She receives $6,000 a year. Another high-salaried postmaster is Mrs. Florence S. Van Gorder, who serves at Warren Ohio, and who is paid $3,900 a year for her work for the Government. Miss Mary H. Cowle, postmaster at Boulder, Colo., and Mrs. Minnie C. True, postmaster at Pittsburgh, Kans., each receive an annual salary of $3,600 from the Government. For serving as postmaster at Bockenridge, Texas, Mrs. Bernice H. Trammell is paid $3,300 a year by the Government, while Mrs. Lila Miller, postmaster at Palm Beach, Fla., receives $3,200 a year. The postmaster at Plant City, Fla.,—Mrs. Manile F. Barnes—is on the pay roll at $3,000 a year. It is interesting to note that a postmaster is a postmaster, whether man or woman; so for as the Government is concerned there are no "postmistresses." A SCHOOL TEACHER'S LONG JUMP It is a long jump from teaching school in a Georgia town to the rating of an expert on taxation, but Miss Annabel Nathews has made it. Today she is in Washington, D.C., as the first and only woman member of the United States Board of Tax Appeals, a recognized authority on what is known as "double taxation," and she is paid $10,000 a year, the same salary as a Congressman. She went to Washington as an employee in the Treasury Department, went to night law school and in 1921 was admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia after seven years of making her own way as a law student. She is now also a member of the Georgia bar and has been admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme court. For four years Miss Nathews was a special attorney in the interpretive division o'the office of the general counsel Bureau of Internal Revenue. In the course of her duties in the Bureau, there were assigned to Miss Nathews many cases dealing with the taxation of non-residents aliens and foreign corporations and with questions of double taxation. On account of her special work on these subjects, she was named legal assistant to the expert representing the United States at the international conference on double taxation, held under the auspices of the League of Nations in London in 1927. She was again designated as assistant to the representative of the United States at another conference held at Geneva in October 1928. Double taxation, as the term implies, has to do with property which may be taxed in two or more countries. Straightening out such a possible tangle calls for abilities of a high order. What we would like to know is whether Adolph Hitler grew his moustache or painted it on. BANKS IN GOOD CONDITION California's banks have "more than ample funds for any emergency and are now ready for the general revival of business that follows in the wake of the first class is from $3,200 to $12,000, inclusive. Postmasters at offices of the second class receive from $2,400 to $3,000, inclusive, and those serving at offices of the third class are paid from $1,110 to $2,300, inclusive. Mrs. Elizabeth D. Barnard, postmaster at Tampa, Fla., tops the list of high-salaried officials of her sex in this department. She receives $6,000 a year. Another high-salaried postmaster is Mrs. Florence S. Van Gorder, who serves at Warren, Ohio, and who is paid $3,900 a year for her work for the Government. Miss Mary H. Cowie, post- What we would like to know is whether Adolph Hitler grew his moustache or painted it on. "Yotka say as how" - THAT PINKY! HE WORKS HARD BUT HE MAKES ME LAUGH - PINKY I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY TO YOU. TEACHER'S VOICE YEAH? I TAKE GREAT PLEASURE IN GIVING YOU 93 IN MATHEMATICS! SAY! MAKE IT 100 AND ENJOY YOURSELF! PINKY DINKY JINGLES! MARY HAD A SWARM OF BEES SHE NURSES THEM TENDERLY AND EVERYWHERE THAT MARY WENT THE BEES WERE SURE TO BE... OBSERVATIONS PASSING THE GRAVY When a heavy weight prize fighter wins a championship belt on a foul, it creates a certain amount of tumultuous enthusiasm, likened somewhat to the dropping of a pin in a boiler factory. THAR'S GOLD IN THEM THAR PILLS If you were a girl and would go to a hospital for your operation and you would meet another patient there and you would fall for the boy friend, and than you find out he's married, what would you do? Well, you up and buy him. The plot thickens. Now, if there are wives who have husbands who are run down at the heel and they need the money, the hospitals may have to put in some extra cots in the hallway. YES, AND UNTIL THE COWS COME HOME A man handed a feller one of the old $20 gold notes of Uncle Sam's stationery. He said: "I don't think it's good now, is it? You know the new small bills took the place of the old ones." The other said: "Say, brother, that thar bill is good so long as it cidculates." Okay. ITS DYNAMITE There are many good stocks for sale. But people who buy stocks "on margin," might just as well call on Aunt Jane and buck her roulette wheel. S'ALL RIGHT (HIC) FILL 'EM UP AGAIN (HIC) A dispatch from Berlin says it is reported over there that the Volstead act over here is to be changed soon; and they ask Americans with cash to go over there and buy up their wines and ship them over here. NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON'T A judge upstate ruled that officers cannot (legally) search your premises without a search warrant. And the court severely criticized the use of "blanket" search warrants—those not regularly issued by a magistrate. Then another judge took up the situation and ruled that even though the warrant was defective, it held just the same—IF the citizen did not protest. Well, now, buddy, how in heck would the citizen know when to protest! NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON'T A judge upstate ruled that officers cannot (legally) search your premises without a search warrant. And the court severely criticized the use of "blanket" search warrants—those not regularly issued by a magistrate. Then another judge took up the situation and ruled that even though the warrant was defective, it held just the same—IF the citizen did not protest. Well, now, buddy, how in heck would the citizen know when to protest! GETTING ON THE FRONT PAGE When it looks like business is dull, it appears some screen folks get mixed up in one of those love triangles. WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS A man, who formerly was in the public eye, is quoted as saying: "I still believe the country is dry." Perhaps he was speaking of Death Valley. METAPHORICALLY SPEAKING A comedian who was sued for the alleged theft of the love of another man's wife, was under cross-examination. Pressed as to the exact time, of the transfer he said as near as he could remember it was about the time he made the picture called "Heart Trouble," or mebbe it was the one titled the Chaser. And the bailiff had to bring his gavel down on the table hard. EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS Speaking of farm relief, the back seat driver wakes up long enough to ask why they don't put more space between the seats in the showhouses. Ouch! You're on my foot! GOSH DERN THE LUCK It's in the book that a traffic cop must be in a white car when he puts the law onto you. Now, the plot thickens. Ferinstance, the cop was going home, in a black one, and would see a fella burning 'em up, what about it? HE'S IN THE JAILHOUSE NOW About the time the latest styles in bathing suits were in the windows, a deputy constable in another county contracted a severe dose of Vodkaitis. That comes usually from protecting booticians. In some section the ailment is contagious. A trap was set and into it he went. They say he swallowed hook, sinkers and line. THE LIGHT IN THE WINDOW A husband was granted a divorce the other day, when he testified his wife, the mother of his new born babe, had deserted him. Said he: "She didn't want the baby. I took the baby away to humor her. I thought when she left, everything would be all right. I used to watch and wait for her to return home; but she did not come." SEARCH AND SEIZE Next to being sued for heart balm is the exhilerating indoor sport of being charged with plagiarism—you know, stealing the other guy's thunder. A husband was granted a divorce the other day, when he testified his wife, the mother of his new born babe, had deserted him. Said he: "She didn't want the baby. I took the baby away to humor her. I thought when she left, everything would be all right. I used to watch and wait for her to return home; but she did not come." SEARCH AND SEIZE Next to being sued for heart balm is the exhilerating indoor sport of being charged with plagiarism—you know, stealing the other guy's thunder. DISTANCE LENDS ENCHANTMENT A well known actress, whose husband has been away for night onto a year, said: "He's a fine man, and I love him so." WHY BRING THAT UP? That story about the dead English sailor being put in a barrel of rum at sea, for preservation, and then to have the rest of the crew drain the rum out of a hole in the barrel to quench their thirst, may be all right—but see what the fellers here are getting now! TURNING OVER A NEW LEAF When a husband sues another man for a big slice of hertbalm for stealing his wife, and loses, perhaps he could get the fellow hooked for petty larceny, or maybe charge him with disturbing the peace—and then he could go out and look over the used car markets and forget it. LEST WE FORGET At a meeting of citizens up state, a warning that more than 500,000 acres of the richest and most intensely developed agricultural land in California may revert to desert because of a rapidly dwindling water supply, and an appeal for State and Federal aid to avert this condition was sounded. TWO EDGED DAGGER When they decided to curtail the supply of oil, while they were about it why, for instance, didn't they curtail the supply of flivvers and whatnots. CALL IT A DRAW A learned physician is quoted as saying, that restraining your emotions is bad for your heart. Ferinstance, if you are sad you should cry; if you are glad you should laugh—make Whoopee. And so on. But, say, doctor, if the installment man calls and you haven't the money and he persists and you resist, what then?