anaheim-gazette 1931-02-19

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Publisher ESTABLISHED 1870 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PL. YEAR $2.00 SIX MONTHS 1.00 Entered at the Anaheim, California Postoffice as second-class mail. WE CAN'T LET THEM STARVE In twenty-one states of the Union distress such as our country has not experienced since the earliest pioneer days has visited literally millions of American citizens and their families. All of the industrial unemployment, of which so much has been said and written, is trifling in its consequences of human misery, compared with the sufferings of these country people in the regions where the drought of 1930 laid its withering hand. The men and women who are administering the Red Cross relief in the stricken districts report that even the distress caused by the Mississippi flood of 1928 was less serious, not only because there are now many more people affected, but because of the feeling of hopelessness among the drought sufferers. Those who were driven from their homes by the flood, even though their homes would subside in time and leave their land richer than before there was always the land and next year's crops to look forward to. The people in the drought country have seen their land fail them. That is the real tragedy of the present situation. Their crops failed, their live-stock died of thirst, they could not accumulate enough to carry themselves and their families over the winter, and they look forward despondently toward another poor crop year, for it takes more than one season to bring the dried-out soil back to fertility. Unlike a large part of those seeking unemployment relief in the cities, these people have never before sought or accepted charity. It has been stated that fully half of those living on public bounty in the cities have never worked regularly and refuse to work when employment is offered them. These drought sufferers have always worked and worked hard. They are of the stock and The people in the cities have never before sought or accepted charity. It has been stated that fully half of those living on public bounty in the cities have never worked regularly and refuse to work when employment is offered them. These drought sufferers have always worked, and worked hard. They are of the stock and character which makes up the backbone of our Nation. And they exhausted their own resources down to the last morsel of food, most of them, before they would accept, the bounty of the Red Cross, administered in each locality by the devoted men and women of the community, serving without pay, neglecting their own business and affairs to minister to these their distressed neighbors. “There is not a rabbit nor a squirrel left in the whole district,” one Red Cross worker reports from Kentucky. “All of the wild game that survived the drought has long since been shot or trapped to feed these starving people.” More than half a million of these good American families must be kept alive and in health by the help of the rest of us. The Red Cross had five million dollars to start with and is asking the American people for ten millions more. That is little enough, even though every cent of it goes for actual provisions and clothing, as it does. Are we going to let these people starve? Or will we who have been more fortunate than they come to their rescue? THREE KINDS OF FARMERS One of the drawbacks to any discussion of the farmer and his problems is the uncertainty as to what sort of farming, and in almost every part of the United States all three are to be found side by side. The most widely-distributed type is what may be called the “non-commercial” farmer, the great group with whom farming is not so much a business as a mode of living. This type raises no considerable amount of any one “money crop,” but grows on his own land the means of subsistence for his family and, counting out the eggs, butter or other marketable produce traded in town for store goods, handles very little cash in the course of a year. The group of farmers who are specialists, “one-crop” farmers, is probably the largest numerically and in acreage under fence. They are business men, in the broad sense, producing nothing but a single commodity which they sell or hope to sell, for money, and growing nothing, or almost nothing, which they themselves consume. The single crop may be cotton, tobacco, wheat, corn, oranges, apples, celery or potatoes, depending upon location. Dependent upon their money returns from the single cash crop for everything which they eat and wear, these are the first to feel the effects of a general business depresssion and are constantly at the mercy of competition and over-production in their staple crops. This is the type of farmer at whose relief most of the political remedies for agricultural ills are aimed. The happiest farmers are the third class, those whose farming operations combine those of the other two. They live off the soil and can continue to live independently and comfortably year in and year out, except for natural catastrophes such as floods or themselves consume. The single crop may be cotton, tobacco, wheat, corn, oranges, apples, celery or potatoes, depending upon location. Dependent upon their money returns from the single cash crop for everything which they eat and wear, these are the first to feel the effects of a general business depression and are constantly at the mercy of competition and over-production in their staple crops. This is the type of farmer at whose relief most of the political remedies for agricultural ills are aimed. The happiest farmers are the third class, those whose farming operations combine those of the other two. They live off the soil and can continue to live independently and comfortably year in and year out, except for natural catastrophes such as floods or drought. They grow enough of one or more cash crops to figure as important factors in the produce markets, but failure in any one year to cash in on such crops or livestock does not reduce them to penury or plunge them into debt. For forty years and more the United States and the various State departments of Agriculture, as well as the agricultural colleges have been preaching the gospel of diversified farming in the one-crop regions. Every once in a while some natural or economic disaster drives the one-crop farmers of a district into diversification, and the result is always greater prosperity and stability, not only for the farmer but for all the people of his district or state. DIFFERENCE IN LABOR COSTS Both political parties in the United States, after years of struggle over the question of a protective tariff, have endorsed the principle of a tariff sufficient to measure the difference in labor costs at home and abroad. Only by such protection is it possible for us to maintain American standards of living. A chief cause of unemployment in the United States today is the displacement of American labor by the entry of vast quantities of the output of cheap labor in foreign lands. Because wages have remained stationary in Europe since before the World War, and have greatly increased here, such competition becomes constantly more destructive. The American who wants to buy something made cheap by cheapening the producer fails to understand that such cheapening of the worker means the destruction of his consuming power. Europe's economic troubles are chiefly due to the fact that labor so cheapened cannot consume the output of mass production; thus a stalemate has been brought about. It is sought to gain relief for Europe's plight by giving freer access of this cheap production to the American market, since the consuming power of 120,000,000 Americans is normally equal to that of 500,000,000 Europeans. The question involved is whether or not the world will gain by dragging American standards of living and capacity for production per capita down to that of the rest of the world. Winners in Search for "Beauty and Brains" Richard Loosley Marian Storgaard A Hollywood motion picture producer had the original idea that intelligence as well as good looks might be useful in the case of screen actors, so started a "Beauty and Brains" hunt at the University of California and found Marian Storgaard, 20, and Richard Loosley, of the same age, both sophomores and both blond. Some day before long you'll see them on the screen. The Way of Life By BRUCE BARTON DIFFICULTIES My little tailor came to the office to measure me for a new suit of clothes. He looked tired. It had not been such a good winter. The American people are either away up or away down in their thinking and their sounding. While the stock market was boiling they bought lots of clothes. But they stopped very suddenly, so the little tailor said. I wondered what a tailor thinks about. It must be monotonous life, going around and measuring men, sewing up the suits and trying them on, and fixing them over, and listening to a good deal of grumbling. "Do you find life worth living?" I asked him. His face brightened. "It keeps me interested." "But what are your pleasures?" I persisted. "What gives you a thrill?" "Well, for one thing I get quite a lot of excitement in overcoming my difficulties." He went on to tell me about his difficulties, and as he talked I felt a reverence for that little tailor and a certain amount of shame for myself. How much less he has than I have. But no complaining, no self-pity, no temptation to surrender. He is playing a game in which difficulties are his opponents, and every day, in his modest fashion, he wins some victory. When I was in Chicago a couple of years ago they told me about the late T. F. Merseles who left the presidency of Montgomery Ward and Company to become the president of Johns Manville. Why did he do it? He had all the money he could possibly use. Why should a man of sixty give up something which was going smoothly to tackle a new situation? "Money had nothing to do with it," one of his former associates told me. "He called us in one day and said: 'Boys, I think I have this job licked. So I'll just say good-bye. I'm going where there are some problems.'" Mana makes himself unhappy. CHESTERTON Gilbert K. Chesterton, the brilliant English essayist now visiting America, confesses that he has been surprised to discover that the American people are quite different and much more likable than he had expected to find them. There is nothing the matter with the American people, he conceded, but our ideals are all wrong. Mr. Chesterton suffers from the false impression which most Europeans get from reading and hearing about things American which make no real impression upon our lives. Because we build skyscrapers so stories high, for economic reasons, he thinks that every American wants to work and live in a skyscraper, whereas most of us perfer to work and live anywhere else. The average height of buildings in New York City, including the skyscrapers, is only five stories, but Europe thinks of us as devoted to the skyscraper ideal, not alone in building but in everything else. As a matter of fact, the American ideal standard of life seems to me to be something which Mr. Chesterton has entirely overlooked. If he had said that we as a people are striving toward an ideal social order in which everybody shall be independent economically and socially and all get the most enjoyment out of life, each one own way, he would have come across the mark. But that is not the local we advertise. SOCIALISM Timorous critics of social progress view every extension of governmental authority over property rights and privileges as a gyp toward Socialism in a sense they are right. Of the three forms of government, first defined by Aristotle on ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, morality, or government by one man, exists today only theoretically in a few countries, in particular in Italy among the larger nations: constitutional second form, aristocracy, or government by a selected few, still, it effect the government of nos. or the world's peoples. In early days the moral however the moral toward Aristotle's ideal mind was the Common earth (of which he is gardened Democracy as a legitimate state), going on with more or less demagogic; the British government finally understood Socialistic; so is that of Germany. In America we reject the naïve outcast the substance when the great majority do not possess. If everybody were intelligent, industrious and inherently just in all his relations with others no government at all would be needed. As we are constituted, we seem to be working out an aristo-democracy in America which comes closer to our national concepts and needs than any form of government as yet devised anywhere else. COMMUNISM Few persons today realize that the first form of government adopted by the Pilgrim Fathers in the Plymouth Colony was precisely what today we call Communism. Everything was held in common, land, houses, food, property of all kinds. But even under the most primitive conditions, the experiment did not work, though it was tried for several years. "This communitie," writes William Bradford, "was found to breed much confusion and discontent... The young men that were most able and fitted for labor did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other mens wives... this was thought injustice... And for means thought injustice... And for mens wives to be commanded to do servise for other men, as dressing their meat, washing their cloths, etc., they deemed it a kind of slavery... Let none objecte this is mens corruption. I answer, seeing all men have this corruption in then, God in his wisdom saw another curse litter for them." The spelling is Governor Bradfords; the philosophy is ingrained in the American tradition. Until Communism was abandoned the Plymouth Colony inaugurated; as soon as each man began to work for himself alone and to enjoy all the benefits of his own labor the foundation was laid for the American ideal which found expression so year later in our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. DO-X By competing without mishap the first two legs of its flight from Germany to America, the largest airplane built, the DO-X, has revived interest in the competition between planes and airplanes. The DO-X has reached the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic ocean as I write. By the time this print it may have reached America; the first airplane to transport a plane across the ocean. Builders of dirigibles are confident that they will establish regular freight and passenger routes between the countries in the course of a year or two. So are the builders of airplanes. Perhaps both will succeed, but it seems more likely that the transnational nights of fifty years from now, when nobody will go by boat except those who are compelled to travel cheaply will be made by aircraft. T. F. Merseles who left the presidency of Montgomery Ward and Company to become the president of John Manville. Why did he do it? He had all the money he could possibly use. Why should a man of sixty give up something which was going smoothly to tackle a new situation? "Money had nothing to do with it," one of his former associates told me. "He called us in one day and said: Boys, I think I have this job licked. So I'll just say good-bye. I'm going where there are some problems." Made a man makes himself unhappy, I think because he regards his difficulties as some special affliction for which Fate has singled him out. Difficulties are as much a part of the program of life as the pleasures You've certain to have them. The only question is, how will you regard them? As afflictions? Or as a part of the game—like Mersales and the little tailor? JUDGES IN GERMAN COURTS In Germany the common courts are composed of three professional and two "hay" judges chosen like jurors. At a court in Berlin recently the presiding judge noted the uneasy demeanor of one of the lay magistrates. During the proceedings this man sat without any show of interest, looking miserable and casting appealing looks at the state's attorney. When the judges who had to pass the verdict were about to leave the courtroom, the president heard the unpaid magistrate speaking to the police sergeant. He approached and heard to his greatest astonishment. "I dare not go home, sir; I dare not tell my wife, who is ill in bed, that I have been found guilty. I have never been in court before; I have all my papers and testimonials with me; I was never asked to show them. Really, I have never done anything against the law in all my life." The judges crowded around, and under peals of laughter the poor lay magistrate was informed that he had not been asked to attend the court as an accused, but had been summoned to do his citizen's duty as a magistrate. MACADAM AND HIS ROADS John Leodun Macadam, an Englishman, invented the type of road building which bears his name. His methods have been superseded to some extent, but macadamized roads are still plentiful. If roads were made at all before Macadam's time, they were intricate affairs consisting of piles, sub-roads and the road proper. Macadam declared that good roads could be made without all this preparation and made roads ten inches thick instead of the feet which was customary. His discovery in short was that stone broken small, shaken and then pressed together by traffic, rapidly settled down face to face and angle with angle, making as close a mass as a wall. This meant drier, harder roads that were undisturbed by temperature. theoretically in a few countries, in purely in Italy among the larger nation, established second farm, aristocracy, or government by a selected few, still, in effect the government of most of the world's peoples. in every part of the world, however, the national toward Aristocats ideal third class Commissar with of what he called Democracy as a segmented society going on with more or less equality. The Polish government finally Socialistic; so is that of Germany. In America we reject the name but accept the substance more and have literally every year. The greatest danger in Socialism By the time this is printed it may have reached American on the first airplane to transport a passenger across the ocean. Builders of dirigibles are confident that they will establish regular freight and passenger routes between the aids in the course of a year or so are the builders of airplanes. Perhaps both will succeed, but it seems more likely than the transmantic flights of fifty years from now, when nobody will go by boat except those who are compelled to travel alongity will be made by aircraft which will combine the safety of the liquid with the speed of the airplane. POP, WHO IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE OLDEST PERSON WHO EVER LIVED? METHUSALEH ~ HE WAS 900 YEARS OLD, PINKY! GEE! WHAT A GREAT LOT OF BIRTHDAY PRESENTS HE MUST HAVE GOTTEN - AND WHAT CAKE! PINKY DINKY JINGLES! GIM'ME! GIM'ME! OIM'ME! FATHER JAY MAE BOX KUNDE, TEXAS PINKY - OH, HE GOES TO SCHOOL AND BILL CHUMS WITH JIMMIE - FATTY LIKES TO ACT THE FOOL AND IS ALWAYS KNOWN AS "GIM'ME!" OBSERVATIONS ATTENDING TO HER KNITTING In trying to keep 400 million natives from getting too much salt the Tight Little Isle is as busy as a one-legged buck and wing dancer. SHE LOVES ME—SHE LOVES ME NOT Horatio—Look in your date book and tell me the meaning of a frame-up. Hidalgo—Lend me your ear. It all depends. It may put your bank roll in jeopardy. But if the party happens to be a pretty blonde it causes you to lose a lot of sleep—if you believe you are as good a man as you were twenty years ago. And as you ponder you pick the petals from the Petunia. ALL READY FOR THE FIREWORKS A prominent lady says by mixing tangerines and kumquits she gets a delicious punch ingredient. She uses plain spring water also. Up to the hour of going to press it has not been learned when they add the 198. ACH, HIMMEL, VE VAS SUSH BLAYING A newspaper printed in a down east city said the cops raided an exclusive resort there, and in the dining room were many guests in formal evening attire. Among those present the paper said was the name of a man quite well known round about. It is said in those kind of places after two or three sittings a feller forgets all about his personal liberty. JUMPING AT CONCLUSIONS You are wet, ain't you? How come? Well, you didn't send back that questionnaire, did you? Nope. Well, by ignoring if you put yourself in the wet column. Say, hold on a minute. Never took a drink. Well, why didn't you say so. Aw, shucks, you're crazy. IT LOOKS LIKE WE'LL HAVE A WET WINTER Quite a few people voted against officials in office because they had been in office for a number of years. These voters argued to give the other fellow a chance at the job. Now, reverse the picture: If you had a man working for you, would you kick him out after a number of years of faithful service? You are wet, ain't you? How come? Well, you didn't send back that questionnaire, did you? Nope. Well, by ignoring if you put yourself in the wet column. Say, hold on a minute. Never took a drink. Well, why didn't you say so. Aw, shucks, you're crazy. IT LOOKS LIKE WE'LL HAVE A WET WINTER Quite a few people voted against officials in office because they had been in office for a number of years. These voters argued to give the other fellow a chance at the job. Now, reverse the picture: If you had a man working for you, would you kick him out after a number of years of faithful services, just to give the other fellow a chance? HANDING THE BOY A BOUQUET "Louie," says Tantalizing Tommy, the town-cut up, "you'll be a man before your mother." TAKING A HEADER A man in public, who is said to be an ardent dry, is credited with saying that he voted to "hist" the saloon; but he says that brought in the dive. IRONING OUT THE ROUGH SPOTS If you happen to be ordered out of a country and then another country takes you in, and wines you and dines you, it sorter evens up the score. OH, YES, AND DON'T FORGET YOUR DRAK GLASSES Men sell canes on the streets of Tia Juana. You know a cane is handy if your gait is uncertain and unsteady. But nobody sells safety banks. REDUCING THE COST OF HIGH LIVING The pretty girls in the hat checking department at Calle Ante say business is poor. If you watch closely you will notice the "boys" leave their lids in the limousenes. ROLL, ROLL, ROLLING ON Some of the numbers on the boards next to the roulette wheels "down there" are invisible. The dealers have been scraping in the chips so often that the numerals are wiped out. Perhaps some time when they get a breathing spell they will paste on some new figures. FICKLE GODDESS OF CHANCE Speaking about unemployment "down there" at the roulette wheels men and women stand four deep around the tables waiting to put their money on the red or black, or perhaps a combination. FATHER, DEAR FATHER, COME HOME WITH ME NOW If they had not closed the saloon, what would be the status of the case at the present time? KNOCKED HIM OFF HIS BALANCE It is said by a lawyer, that his client, (who was charger with murder, convicted and sentenced to hang) is insane. HE SHOULD HAVE MADE HER FATHER, DEAR FATHER, COME HOME WITH ME NOW If they had not closed the saloon, what would be the status of the case at the present time? KNOCKED HIM OFF HIS BALANCE It is said by a lawyer, that his client, (who was charger with murder, convicted and sentenced to hang) is insane. HE SHOULD HAVE MADE HER PEEL THE ONIONS A scenario writer compiled a sad story. He read it to an actress, and she cried. Then they were married. He wrote another story and read it to the wife. But she never shed a tear. Then they were divorced. GETTING AN EYE OPENER If you can tell how the next congress is going to look at prohibition you would be entitled to the first prize offered by the amalgamated order of mysteries. But in order to sleep well you might as well forget it, and if you crave a thrill go down to Tia Junan. BETTER TAKE ALONG A SPARE If you can read all the crime news and whatnots, together with the wise cracks in the comedies, and still, maintain your equillebrium, without a blowout, you are a bear. ETERNAL TRIANGLE When you read this or that about a separation, if you watch closely you will see another standing in the wings ready to step into the picture. FILLING A LONG FELT WANT It is said a song writer, who is also a pianist, has built a sound proof room in his house, in order that he would not disturb his family when he gets up at 4 A.M. to pound the ivories to get an inspiration. But, mister, how about the public when the piece is finished? STRADDLE THE FENCE If you are an ultra-dry and get the nomination for a high office at the primaries, and your opponent is wet, and then if the people decide to give the works the referendum, and you then declare that you will abide by their decision, you cut a sort of circle that causes a loop de doop de la poof de loop that gets you in the haywire.