anaheim-gazette 1931-01-08

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE ESTABLISHED 1870 HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Publisher. ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY PRODUCTION PER YEAR $2.00 SIX MONTHS 1.00 Entered at the Anaheim, California Postoffice as second-class matter. THE TURN OF THE YEAR What will 1931 bring? This year just ended will go down in history as one of the hard years, economically speaking. Everybody in the United States has felt the pinch, not of poverty but of "hard times." Business has been slack, money hard to collect, credits have been curtailed, spending has been less, more people have been out of work, than at any time since the last great depression, which lasted through the year 1921. Yet there was little actual suffering in 1930, and the great majority of people continued to drive their automobiles, to enjoy themselves in much the same way as they were in the habit of doing. Most of us didn't buy as many new clothes, but nearly all of us had just as much of the same sort of things to eat. According to those who study those things, more of us went to the movies in 1930 than in 1929. And when the calls came for help for the unemployed, we gave money, in hard cash, for charitable purposes, than we had given in any year since the war, when everybody was "giving till it hurt." In short, "hard times" as we have experienced them in 1930, would have seemed like very good times indeed to the great majority of Americans, if we had not had six years of such riotous prosperity just before as to distort our sense of values. Nobody can foretell the future, but we doubt very much whether 1931 will come any closer to the old-fashioned sort of "hard times" with great masses of people everywhere reduced to beggary and starvation. All of the signs visible today point the other way. We know that in many lines business is getting better; we are told that it is improving in almost every direction. The principal thing the matter with our economic situation today is the habit of thinking in terms of hard times, which may take the better part of 1931 to overcome. would have seemed like very good times indeed to the great majority of Americans, if we had not had six years of such riotous prosperity just before as to distort our sense of values. Nobody can foretell the future, but we doubt very much whether 1931 will come any closer to the old-fashioned sort of "hard times" with great masses of people everywhere reduced to beggary and starvation. All of the signs visible today point the other way. We know that in many lines business is getting better; we are told that it is improving in almost every direction. The principal thing the matter with our economic situation today is the habit of thinking in terms of hard times, which may take the better part of 1931 to overcome. SPECIAL ASSESSMENT RELIEF A successful revision of special assessment procedure in California appears likely from the preliminary report of the legislative committee on the revision of street improvement laws. Special assessments have become one of the most burdensome of all governmental impositions. Assessments often fail to benefit the property in anything like the cost to the owner. The complicated and unbusinesslike methods of notification prescribed by the existing laws have made the owners the prey of lien sharks, who add their fees and charges to the already burdensome costs of improvements. Special interests with personal profit in view have promoted and forced many unnecessary and ill-advised improvements on a public already paying heavy taxes. Insufficient care has been taken to guard against overlapping improvement districts. People who have had the misfortune to own property in these over lapped areas have been assessed far in excess of the value of their holdings. Many have lost their property. Such taxation is confiscation. The legislative commission has held hearings in various parts of the state and has learned the facts of the situation. It has heard the voice of the people raised in protest and will recommend drastic revision of our public improvement laws. The people have spoken in no uncertain terms. They have demanded that the menace of excessive special assessments be removed. UNCLE SAM GETS AFTER RACKETEERS The word "racketeer" is a comparatively new one, but the thing itself is as old as any other form of robbery. The racketeer preys upon legitimate business by threats of damage to life or property if his demands for tribute are not met. He levies an illegal tax upon the privilege of doing business. In the big cities the racketeer who sets fire to a store whose owner has refused to pay for "protection" is usually organized in gangs, and so far police and citizens organizations have been powerless to curb him. Few men will risk their lives for the sake of their dollars, and enough business men have been murdered by racketeers to make others fearful of resisting their demands. The Federal Government is taking steps to curb some forms of racketeering, which can be reached by Federal laws and agencies. Every shipper of farm products to the larger markets is a potential victim of the racketters who prey upon the commission houses and dealers. The Federal laws requiring every commission merchant handling perishable foods in interstate commerce to have a Federal license, and giving shippers a remedy in the Federal courts if they do not obtain the proceeds from the sale of their shipments, have already had a wholesome effect... Few men will risk their lives for the sake of their dollars, and enough business men have been murdered by racketeers to make others fearful of resisting their demands. The Federal Government is taking steps to curb some forms of racketeering, which can be reached by Federal laws and agencies. Every shipper of farm products to the larger markets is a potential victim of the racketters who prey upon the commission houses and dealers. The Federal laws requiring every commission merchant handling perishable foods in interstate commerce to have a Federal license, and giving shippers a remedy in the Federal courts if they do not obtain the proceeds from the sale of their shipments, have already had a wholesome effect in putting many crooked commission houses out of business, or holding them to the straight and narrow path. GROW LESS—GET MORE That is the title of a little pamphlet which has just been got out for free distribution by the Federal Farm Board. It is worth every farmer's while to read it. If any proof were needed that the less of any crop were produced, the more actual money the growers would get, it is furnished in the figures which the Farm Board cites. Every farmer realizes that when potatoes are scarce in the market he gets a higher price per bushel. What many do not realize is that the price per bushel is so much higher, in time if scant supply, that he actually makes more money on his small crop than when he grows a large crop. The potato figures are the ones the Farm Board uses. In 1928 the United States had the largest potato crop on record—463 million bushels. The average farm price for potatoes that year was 66 cents a bushel, and the total received by the farmers was 185 million dollars. In 1925 the potato crop was small—only 321 million bushels. As a result, the average price was a full dollar higher than in the year of the big crop, or $1.66 a bushel. The farmers received 337 million dollars for less work and less expense than when they got only five-eighths as much. Of course, crop reduction won't work to increase farm prices unless all, or most of the farmers in a given district, growing the same commodity, agree to cut down their acreage. One of the results of the cooperative system which the Farm Board is charged by law to inaugurate, is a wider exchange of information among farmers, and a better mutual understanding, so that it should be easier in the future than it has been in the past, for farmers to agree to reduce their acreage in wheat, corn, cotton, potatoes or the other staple crops, to the advantage of all. Fewer acres under cultivation, larger yields per acre, are the only secrets of real farm prosperity. ANAHEIM GAZETTE Promoted Hail the Queen! James Rolph, Jr., for more than 20 years mayor of San Francisco, was elected governor of California by the largest majority ever given a gubernatorial candidate. Miss Emma Sobo, 17, of Woodside, N. Y., was crowned "Miss Maygar America" at the Hungarian ball given in New York in connection with the National Horse Show. TODAY AND TOMORROW FRANK PARKER STOCKBRIDGE CHOCOLATE Perhaps America's most widely-distributed food product is chocolate. It was unknown to the civilized world until the Spanish conquistadores found the Mexicans drinking a decoction made from the cacao bean. The explorers took the bean and the drink back to Europe with them. We use about 150,000,000 pounds of chocolate a year in the form of candy. and I can not see wherein they differ from others." Generally speaking, the great achieve their greatness by industry rather than by mere brilliance. The editor whom I quoted is said to be the highest paid in the world. But if you divide his salary by the more than two hundred newspapers which print his editorials, he is the lowest priced worker whom each of those papers employs. He produces more than anybody else and works longer hours to do it. I was glad that I went to that dinner. It reminded me how little wisdom and genius really rule the world; how far industrious effort can stretch the few ideas, or even one idea. WORLD WIDE DEPRESSION Just now when Congress and the administration are attempting to do what they can to relieve the effects of the depression it is well not to forget that the hard times which came upon us so suddenly a little more than a year ago are of world-wide extent and due in the main part to causes over which the United States government has no control. This fact was pointed out repeatedly during the recent campaign by the political orators supporting the party in power but judging by results it is doubtful whether they got the message over to the bulk of the voters although they tried to the best of their ability. But the fact remains that the causes of the depression are world-wide. That the depression itself is world-wide is evidenced by the changes of govern- A. B. C. I For Quick Reference Business or Profes Anaheim Gazette Auto Glass Business Fullerton Glass Co. CHOCOLATE Perhaps America's most widely-distributed food product is chocolate. It was unknown to the civilized world until the Spanish conquistadores found the Mexicans drinking a decoction made from the cacao bean. The explorers took the bean and the drink back to Europe with them. We use about 150,000,000 pounds of chocolate a year, in the form of candy, flavoring for ice-cream and soda, and as a drink, which we call cocoa, although the original Mexican word was cacao. The rest of the world uses about as much as we do. The food value of chocolate is high; it is a concentrated energy producer. The forms in which it is generally sold, highly sweetened, make it less digestible for persons who cannot take care of sweets easily. But for anybody engaged in active physical work there is no better stimulant combined with nourishment than sweetened chocolate. HOGS There is something in the idea of feeding wheat instead of corn to livestock, according to an account issued by the Federal Farm Board of the experiences of many farmers who have tried it. Frank Evans of Oklahoma fed 311 hogs on wheat, and found that 400 pounds of wheat made 100 pounds of pork. He figured up what he got for his wheat thus converted into pork, and says it brought him $1.67 a bushel. Other farmers who have tried the same thing report that wheat has brought them from $1 to $1.50 a bushel by the same process. Every innovation of this sort is a step toward the ultimate solution of the farm problem. DOLLARS To most of us a dollar is just a dollar. To financial experts, a dollar is merely a gauge whereby commodities are measured. But financiers often speak of the dollar as if it were variable, while commodities are stationary. Instead of saying, for example, that wheat is cheaper, they will say that the wheat dollar is higher. Dr. Andrew A. Bock, famous statistician, says that the "wholesale dollar" has increased about 7 percent and the "cost-of-living" dollar about 6½ percent since the beginning of 1930. That is merely another way of saying that wholesale prices are down below last year's level and that retail prices for the necessities of life are down almost as much. The interesting point he makes is that while the "wages dollar" has also increased—another way of saying that wages on the average are lower—the shrinkage there is only 3½ percent. Until Dr. Barton began his research, many of the popular beliefs about Lincoln were pure myth. His friends had written accounts of his life which were as false in many particulars as those written by enemies. Dr. Barton's several books revealed Lincoln as he really was, and settled forever the question of his ancestry and paternity. While engaged in this work, Dr. Barton was at the same time pastor of one of the most famous churches in the country, the Oak Park Congregational, which he built up into a model for all "institutional" churches. He was a great and good man and the father of a son, Bruce Barton, who is as famous in his line as the minister was. The other night in New York I heard the same great editor speak on the same subject. To my surprise it was the very same speech. Another speaker was a celebrated banker whom I had heard on two previous occasions. He also repeated himself. As we left the dining room one of my friends who had noted the repetitions remarked on them gloomily. "Rather discouraging to see that even the big minds have so little in them," he said. "Makes you wonder if human ingenuity is coming to an end." They say that though the stars appear so numberless, you can not count more than a thousand," he said. "Well, there are few thoughts. Count the books and you would think that there was immense wealth; but any expert knows that there are few thoughts which have emerged in his time. Shut him in a closet and he could soon tell them all. They are quoted, contradicted, but the amount remains computably small." It is a good thing for humanity that this is so. Nature apparently designed the game of human progress to last a long time, and provided that only a small advance should be made in any one generation. Suppose one mind should suddenly discover everything. How it would take the zest out of the game! Moreover, it is decidedly heartening to us average folks to know that only a very little difference separates us from the smartest. Lincoln remarked on it: "I have talked with great men," he said, For Quick Reference Business or Profes Anaheim Gazette Auto Glass Business Fullerton Glass Co. 715 S. Spadra, Fullerton 130 Auto Painting Louis Hennig 200 S. Los Angeles, Anaheim 2407 Quality Auto Paint Shop 316 N. 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Bock, famous statistician, says that the "wholesale dollar" has increased about 7 percent and the "cost-of-living" dollar about 6½ percent since the beginning of 1930. That is merely another way of saying that wholesale prices are down below last year's level and that retail prices for the necessities of life are down almost as much. The interesting point he makes is that while the "wages dollar" has also increased—another way of saying that wages on the average are lower—the shrinkage there is only 3½%. It is a good thing for humanity that this is so. Nature apparently designed the game of human progress to last a long time, and provided that only a small advance should be made in any one generation. Suppose one mind should suddenly discover everything. How it would take the zest out of the game! Moreover, it is decidedly heartening to us average folks to know that only a very little difference separates us from the smartest. Lincoln remarked on it. "I have talked with great men," he said, Champion Junior Steer Feeder Sarah Ann Tolan, 14. of Sangamon County, Ill., with her Aberdeen Angus steer with which she won the 4-H championship at the Chicago Livestock Expositron. not see wherein they differ speaking, the great achieve by industry rather than finance. The editor whom I to be the highest paid But if you divide his more than two hundred which print his editorials, best priced worker whom papers employs. He prohan anybody else and hours to do it. What I went to that dinner, one how little wisdom and rule the world; how far fort can stretch the few one idea. ment all over the world, during the past few months, many of them accompanied by revolution. The recent abortive revolutionary attempt in Spain is the latest example. A great many writers on economics say that the depression is a result of the final post-war deflation. Prices and costs of living, they say, had to get back to the pre-war basis. Others lay most of the trouble to the over-production in raw materials, eluting the over-supplies of cotton, wheat, sugar, oil and cotton as examples. Still others tells us that the trouble is not so much over production as under con- sumption, while there is still another economic school which blames it all on to the scarcity of gold and the concentration of gold in the United States and France. Perhaps the real cause of the trouble may be found to an extent in each of these theories. Albert Clustein, the eminent scientist-politician, advocates in Europe the repudiation of all European debts to the United States, and in America the disarming of the United States. There seems to be some relativity in the two ideas. Westinghouse Radio FEARN— Super-Hetrodnye No Harmonics —113 S. L. A. St., Anaheim Phone 8111 DR. G. W. CLOSSON VETERINARIAN DOG AND CAT HOSPITAL All Animals Treated 913 N. Los Angeles St. Phone 8914 Anaheim, California B. C. 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