anaheim-gazette 1931-02-12

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Publisher ESTABLISHED 1870 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PE. YEAR $2.00 SIX MONTHS 1.00 Entered at the Anaheim, California Postoffice as second-class matter. DEBUNKERS AND DEFAMERS Now comes Lee Masters to join the thin list of authors who would by debunking and defaming our glorified Americans topple them from their pedestals and give worshipful Americans the "low down" on who Lincoln and Washington really were. Masters in a new book takes some back-handed flings at Lincoln, just as Rupert Hughes tried in an earlier book to do at George Washington. Masters would have us believe that Lincoln was little more than an uncouth, unkempt politician. Hughes tried to convince us that Washington liked to drink and gamble. Truth to tell, better authorities than Masters and Hughes long ago gave Americans the impressions they like to cherish of Lincoln and Washington. If these two nation builders have in public esteem and reverence been set upon pedestals, there are ample reasons for doing so, and all the shaking and toppling that Masters and Hughes can do is not going to shake Americans in their faith of these two fathers of their country. Both Lincoln and Washington are safe in the American Hall of Fame, and will be long, long after the books of Masters and Hughes have gathered the cobwebs of forgetfulness in musty attics or mildewed cellars, or gone up in smoke on burning trashpiles of worthless American literature. THE FAREWELL ADDRESS THEN AND NOW The Farewell Address of George Washington dealt with fundamentals, not transient issues. He and his compatriots, in the preparation of the American Constitution, studied all experiments in government over a period of more than two thousand years. Therein they differed from the leaders of the French Revolution, who, supposing like some of our modern publicists, THE FAREWELL ADDRESS THEN AND NOW The Farewell Address of George Washington dealt with fundamentals, not transient issues. He and his compatriots, in the preparation of the American Constitution, studied all experiments in government over a period of more than two thousand years. Therein they differed from the leaders of the French Revolution, who, supposing like some of our modern publicists, that all wisdom was born with them, embraced visionary conceptions which led France through the Terror, through long years of wholesale bloodshed, into despotism. Instead of being discredited by the experience of a century and a third, all that Washington said as to the nature of men and governments has had its most striking confirmation in recent years. He said that Europe had a set of primary interests apart from our own in which we could be involved only at our peril; he said that disinterested friendship between nations was a theory and not a fact; he said that our system so differed from the European system that our involvement in the European hegemony was undesirable. The events of the past dozen years have proved all this anew to the satisfaction of most Americans. Washington declared that our proper policy was friendly commercial and political relations with all nations, permanent alliance with none. Americans have better reasons for believing this today than their forefathers had when Washington’s Farewell Message was written. EUROPEAN WAGES The Minister of Economics of Germany has made public an ordinance ordering a ten per cent reduction on all trust produced goods, comprising 45 per cent of all goods produced in Germany. This followed a recent decree authorizing a reduction in wages. The cartels affected by this order are under semi-governmental control. It will be noted that the effect of governmentally directed price and wage reductions in Europe is to negative the protective features of our tariff. By reducing both prices and wages the effect of such changes may be absorbed, but lower prices of goods decrease the amount of ad valorem tariff to be paid on exports to the United States, and also increase the competitive pressure of these goods in our market. Reductions in wages have also been decreed in Italy, producing the same effect. The wage level is dropping all over continental Europe. No effort to maintain the wage level in the United States will be successful unless steps are taken to neutralize the effect of such wage reductions abroad in industries engaged in export trade. CONSIDER THE RESULTS To date there are more than 50 measures before Congress proposing immediate cash payment of World war veterans’ compensation certificates. General Hines, administrator of veterans’ affairs, estimates that full payment now instead of in 1945 would cost the government—which is to say the taxpayers—three and one half billion dollars. Not one argument offered by those advocating such a conversion is sound nor is there one that cannot be refuted. On the other hand there are any number of overwhelmingly good reasons why the Congress should reject all of these proposals. CROWELL Production of mail to the United States did under way until young engineer of Clive charge. I saw a lot of Crowell. He was a human doing, ceaselessly driving industrial organization at making everybody the war, when poll everything possible who had served diet Crowell was indict because he had ordered without waiting for Congress to authorise The indictments were court as entirely Crowell went back work in Cleveland. Now President Hoover Crowell to be a bachelor Reserve Corps, his distinguished seafarer war and to indicate over what we always grave injustice." Even the professors who infest the Senate to make political concludes tribute to B. SUCCESS "Never call it mad after he is dead," says me the other day. Million and a half two classes him as Today he has not satary. He did not get market in time. Perhaps as unsuccessful dead I am confident ecologized as a great cause of the work planning and building He has already lived something enduring which few man ever are past middle life. "In all the more things in which she canning are of the sale George Luks, tha CONSIDER THE RESULTS To date there are more than 50 measures before Congress proposing immediate cash payment of World war veterans' compensation certificates. General Hines, administrator of veterans' affairs, estimates that full payment now instead of in 1945 would cost the government—which is to say the taxpayers—three and one half billion dollars. Not one argument offered by those advocating such a conversion is sound nor is there one that cannot be refuted. On the other hand there are any number of overwhelmingly good reasons why the Congress should reject all of these proposals. From an economic standpoint the payment of three and a half billion dollars at this time would be little short of a calamity, working against the interest of the veterans as well as the country as a whole. It would be a paralyzing blow to business at a time when it is just beginning to recover. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon has testified that such payment could only be realized through a huge bond issue. The amount required for such an issue represents more than six months' normal bond financing for the entire country. Such an issue could not fail to depress the whole bond market. Business, being largely dependent on a good market for new securities to supply the needs of new enterprises, would receive a critical set-back. Every dollar diverted into the bond issue would leave one dollar less to carry on the thousand and one enterprises that keep the wheels of the nation in motion. If any one of these measures is enacted into law we can expect a business depression and a period of acute human misery like of which this country has never known. Still another economic argument against the proposed payment is cited by Andrew Mellon in his testimony before the Senate finance committee. Speaking of the results of a $3,500,000,000 bond issue to meet the payment, Secretary Mellon said: "It must be obvious that the sale of government securities in such volume at a higher interest rate than the yield based on the price at which government bonds are now selling, must immediately depreciate very materially the price of all United States bonds. Although available figures are incomplete, it is estimated that well over $2,000,000,000 of government securities are held by individuals, who have invested their savings in what they had the right to believe was one of the safest and most stable securities in the world. They will suffer a large loss in value." The advocates of cash payment plead that it will relieve the unemployment situation and ask that it be accepted as a humanitarian measure regardless of economic results. From the figures compiled by the veterans administration it appears that only one out of three veterans eligible to borrow on their certificates have made application to do so. ANAHEIM GAZETTE Daring Flyers Who Are Believed Lost at Sea Mrs. Beryl Hart and Captain William S. MacLaren started out from New York in their seaplane "Trade-wind" to carry the first "pay load" across the Atlantic by way of Bermuda and the Azores. They reached Bermuda, where this photograph was made, and have not been heard of since. towns with an ambition to become painters, musicians, sculptors, authors of dramatists, and have neither the moral courage to go back home and admit to their families and neighbors that they have failed, nor the good sense or ability to get a job at something which they can really do. One of the most popular plays in New York theaters just now tells what happens to both kinds of ambitious youngsters. "Phillip Goes Forth" ought to be shown in every community where there are young people imagining that they can become rich and famous overnight merely by going to New York and writing or painting. CHARITY In a small New England village where I frequently visit live two old people whose lives were ruined in childhood because they were taught to look down upon their neighbors: Their family was then wealthy. Today the old man and his old maid sister have not a penny left in the world except the old house which is slowly falling into ruin. But the neighbors, poor people mostly, have kept this old man and woman alive for years and still do. They are too force quite unlike anything that has ever appeared in the world before. It is producing disorder throughout the world, with vast incidental loss of life and property. It is rallying behind itself all the turbulent forces of disorder, latent in any country until given bold leadership; the communist membership in China is but 70,000, but these lead lawless elements numbering millions. Those who assume that an uninformed and indifferent America can be protected from such a movement by inaction, since this country is the announced chief target of this world-wide conspiracy, speak out of either ignorance or disloyalty. The Way of Life By BRUCE BARTON PLEASANT PLACES When he was hardly more than a boy my friend Jim Derleux, one of the editors of the American Magazine, was secretary to the governor of South Carolina. There was a brilliant young chap in the state administration who at the age CROWELL Production of munitions of war in the United States did not get organized and under way until Benedict Crowell, a young engineer of Cleveland, was placed in charge. I saw a lot of Crowell during the war. He was a human dynamo, never resting, ceaselessly driving the hugest industrial organization ever assembled, but making everybody like it. After the war, when politicians were doing everything possible to discredit everybody who had served his country, Benedict Crowell was indicated as a criminal because he had ordered was supplies without waiting for the slow action of Congress to authorize the expenditure. The indictments were thrown out of court as entirely unwarranted, and Crowell went back to his engineering work in Cleveland. Now President Hoover has nominated Crowell to be a brigadier-general of the Reserve Corps, with a reference to his distinguished service during the war and to indicate "my own feeling over what we always considered was a grave injustice." Even the professional mudslingers who infest the Senate will hardly try to make political capital out of this belated tribute to Benedict Crowell. SUCCESS "Never call a man successful until after he is dead," said an old friend to me the other day. He was worth a million and a half two years ago. That classed him as a "successful" man. Today he has nothing left but his salary. He did not get out of the stock market in time. People now speak of him as unsuccessful, but after he is dead I am confident that he will be cullogged as a great success, not because of the work he did in a lifetime planning and building great enterprises. He has already lived long enough to get something enduring accomplished, which few man ever achieve before they are past middle life. "In all the more difficult callings, the things in which sheer luck and low running are of the least importance," said George Luks, the painter, not long CHARITY In a small New England village where I frequently visit live two old people whose lives were ruined in childhood because they were taught to look down upon their neighbors: Their family was then wealthy. Today the old man and his old maid sister have not a penny left in the world except the old house which is slowly falling into ruin. But the neighbors, poor people mostly, have kept this old man and woman alive for years and still do. They are too proud to accept food or clothing offered to them, bridling indignantly when anyone suggests they may be in need. So the kindly neighbors leave baskets of provisions on the front stoop, ring the bell and run away! Other neighbors leave firewood in the back yard, drop around after dark and shovel a path through the snow from the gate to the front door. That is real charity. It is the sort of charity that "vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up," as the stout Apostle Paul puts it in the King James translation of the Bible. And it is probably common among the poor than among the rich. Only those who have known the pinch of need know what it means to those who feel it. FLYING The airplane business is one which did not feel the business depression of 1930. More planes were made and sold than in any previous year, and the principal companies making them report more untitled orders on hand than ever before. The impetus given to flying by Lindbergh's spectacular feat has not died down. Ambitious boys look forward now to learning to fly and eventually having their own planes, as they did a few years ago in respect of automobiles. A twelve-year-old boy made a solo flight recently after only two hours so of instruction. The youngsters start at that age or thereabouts will, of course, be the best pilots of the future, better flyers than any now in the air. COMMUNISM IN CHINA At Changsha, China, six years ago the management of a girls' school complained to the local authorities about disturbances raised in a house next door by a group of young communists most of them only about sixteen years of age. The authorities investigated, and out of their "broadmindedness," they closed, not the communist headquarters, but the girls' school. Five years later this very group of young communists led into Changsha a communist army which burned and looted most of the city after killing many of these civil officials, blew up the banks when it was discovered that they had removed their cash in anticipation of the raid, and when driven from Changsha, this Red army carried away $800. PLEASANT PLACES When he was hardly more than a boy my friend Jim Derieux, one of the editors of the American Magazine, was secretary to the governor of South Carolina. There was a brilliant young chap in the state administration who at the age of twenty-six held the office of assistant comptroller. He had not intended to run for the comprollership, but a political faction organized to head him off. This made him mad, and so he did run and was elected. After holding office for only six months he asked for an interview with the governor. "What's on your mind?" asked Jim. "I am going to resign." "Why?" "I'll tell you presently." They went in to the governor's private room, and the young official tendered his resignation. The governor was amazed. "What's the matter?" he exclaimed. "I thought you were sitting pretty." "I am," said the young man. "That's just the trouble." "I But I don't understand." "Well, Governor, you know this office that I hold is a mighty pleasant place. I'm twenty-seven years old, and it's a very pleasant place indeed. I am afraid of it." He was afraid he would settle down and become too contented. Afraid that, without hard problems to tackle and certain duties to conquer, he would get dabby and soft. Afraid that at forty he would wake up to find himself a lazy office holder with no ambition and no hope. Nobody under fifty should be in too pleasant a place. Robert Updegraff, the writer of business articles, uttered a profound business truth when he counseled: "Never complain about your troubles. They are responsible for the greater part of your income." Almost any one can hold a job which presents no difficulties; hence such jobs pay small salaries. Men at the top are paid for their willingness to accept responsibility; for the problems that they tackle and the difficulties they lick. King David wrote: "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; He teaseth me beside the still waters." But when David wrote that he was a fugitive from Saul, He was fighting through the wilderness, pursued by encroachs and wild beasts. The green pastures and still waters were all in his mind. He never did reach an entirely pleasant place. Even when he became king his life was full of problems, disappointments and hard work. But his He did not get out of the stock market in time. People now speak of him as unsuccessful, but after he is dead I am confident that he will be cologized as a great success, not because of the work he did in a lifetime, planning and building great enterprises. He has already lived long enough to get something enduring accomplished, which few man ever achieve before they are past middle life. "In all the more difficult callings, the things in which sheer luck and low cunning are of the least importance," said George Luks, the painter, not long ago. "Man is just out of school at sixty. All the solid and enduring work is done by men who have lived long enough to have mastered their calling and life itself." Real success is measured by achievement, never by money. FAILURES New York City is crowded with failures. They are the young men and young women who came from the small door by a group of young communists most of them only about sixteen years of age. The authorities investigated, and out of their "broadmindedness," they closed, not the communist headquarters, but the girls' school. Five years later this very group of young communists led into Changsha a communist army which burned and looted most of the city after killing many of these civil officials, blew up the banks when it was discovered that they had removed their cash in anticipation of the raid, and when driven from Changsha, this Red army carried away $800,000 in cash levied on the city, and many hostages. This was the penalty paid for so-called "tolerance" toward forces well known to be preaching and planning just such violence, but whose activities were dismissed as unimportant by those who ridiculed the alarms sounded by a few informed and thoughtful people. It should be remembered that communism is an organized, world-wide, cunningly directed, unscrupulous, blood-thirsty and often cleverly comouflaged enough to give money a chance to talk in the appropriation bills and there may thereafter be no extra session, and a great silence.—Boston Transcript. Tells Why Corns Hurt Dr. John Arthur Wilson, expert in he chemistry of leather, just awarded he American Chemical Society prize, says damp weather makes shoes shrink. Would Forgive Debtors Albert H. Wiggin, great New York banker, says world business will be stabilized and depression curred if the U.S. will reduce the debts other nations owe us. Head Tariff Board Henry P Fletcher, former Ambassador to Rome, whose nomination as Chairman of the U.S. Tariff Commission has been confirmed by the Senate. OBSERVATIONS MIGHT HAVE BEEN WORSE If the republican administration caused that "depression" what in heaven's name would have been the plight of the country under a hit and miss free trade policy. FUNNY ISN'T IT A prize fighter died from the beating he got in the ring and a great uproar was raised about it. Sad, to be sure. But the motor vehicle bowls 'em over right along and you hardly notice it. GOING—BUT DON'T KNOW WHERE Ever since whip sockets went out of fashion there has been a sort of depression among certain quarters. THAR'S WISDOM IN THEM THAR WORDS A prominent man is quoted as saying that the present depression was not caused by republican policies; but a failure to apply those policies "promptly." SEALSKINS WENT UP IN SMOKE Some of the wimmin who went out to that gambling ship in fur coats came back in life preservers. SACRAMENTO. KIS KE DEE MUCHAY About the time the last primary election returns were coming in an American publisher was ordered to leave French soil. As his bag was all packed and he had seen the town and everything he brushed the dust off his spats and went hence, and indulged in some caustic repartee. CAN'T HOLLER DOWN THEIR RAIN BARREL People coming from Horseshoe Bend say there was great excitement about the way a publisher was ordered away from a foreign country. Latest reports are to the effect that there will be no duel, or bloodshed and in all probability they will not have to call out the league of nations. HEY, EDDIE. BRING THE EXTRADITION PAPERS In another city they have a law that a policeman "must not enter a (s-h-s-s) speakeasy." Now the plot thickens. Thugs CAN'T HOLLER DOWN THEIR RAIN BARREL People coming from Horseshoe Bend say there was great excitement about the way a publisher was ordered away from a foreign country. Latest reports are to the effect that there will be no duel, or bloodshed and in all probability they will not have to call out the league of nations. HEY, EDDIE, BRING THE EXTRADITION PAPERS In another city they have a law that a policeman "must not enter a (s-h-s-s) speakeasy." Now the plot thickens. Thugs and bandits it is said make those kind of places their hangouts. Of course, if a cop went into one of those places to look for a bad man he might be tempted to take a snifter. RUNNING UP THEIR LIGHTNING RODS Bill—What is an independent? Julius—Well. I tell ye; an independent is a feller who has lots of long green and craves excitement; but when he goes in for an office in the fall run off he must be possessed of a vast amount of confidence and his sprinting ability. He might believe he has the makings of a dandy official, or something, and hates to see the other fellow float in too easily. Of course, his friends urge him on, believing that they may profit a bit; and after sleeping on the yes and nos for a while he decides to throw his hat in the ring and let nature take its course. ALL OVER BUT THE SHOUTING Speaking of elections, you know, its a funny thing. You see, when there's three or more candidates some of the popular ones figure they have the whole works well in hand and will beat the bunch at the primaries. Well, sometimes it don't happen that way. So they buckle up their belts for the run off between the two highest, and each are so certain of victory that there is nothing to it—except that they don't know a thing about it until the votes are counted. THE OFF BLOOM In another city they had a round-up and gathered in 27 men who were booked as robbery suspects—and two of them were "policemen." GOING AND COMING And now the wise-crackers are calling the Atlantic ocean a two way street. YES AND NO, AND YET AGAIN THERE'S A DIFFERENCE Just because you can drive a fliver that is no reason why you should take up aviation. HELLO, FELLERS, HOW'S TRICKS It looks as though they will have to make another visit of good will to those southern republics. EVERYTHING IS JUST FINE Barring a drought here and there, torrential rains in some spots, a hurricane now and then, an earthquake and a runaway volcano, besides several car crackups, the Old World is still doing business at the same old stand. SOMETHING DOING ALL THE TIME HELLO, FELLERS, HOW'S TRICKS It looks as though they will have to make another visit of good will to those southern republics. EVERYTHING IS JUST FINE Barring a drought here and there, torrential rains in some spots, a hurricane now and then, an earthquake and a runaway volcano, besides several car crackups, the Old World is still doing business at the same old stand. SOMETHING DOING ALL THE TIME While some countries have revolutions and walkouts this country has a dickens of a time with prohibition. THE D. A. SHOULD HAVE BOOSTED FOR CALIFORNIA In another county a man was tried for murder, and when the prosecutor was "summing up" to the jury, it is said he "denounced and ridiculed the defense attorney." YOU EXPECT MORE THAN YOU GET Every day it becomes more apparent that pre-election prophecies are a good deal like cating soup with a fork. FORMING A TRIANGLE Ruth—What for the love of Mike is an ultra-dry candidate. Ham—Well, sister, it's just like this, when in that class you resemble a powder horn. And should you try to finesse it's a good deal like carrying water on both shoulders and you may get all wet. THINKING OF THE LOVED ONES AT HOME Pat—How would you like to be up there with that airship? Mike—Sure, and begorrah, I would hate to be up there without it. A LOT OF WATER PASSED UNDER THAT BRIDGE After a man has been convicted of a felony and has been sent to prison for a long stretch, oftentimes when he gets out he spends the rest of his life trying to tell people to keep on the straight and narrow path. MUSIC SOOTHES SAVAGE Some of the stars are O. K. until they commence to sing. It causes a fella to relax, close his eyes; and he misses a good part of the show.