anaheim-gazette 1931-03-05

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Publisher ESTABLISHED 1870 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR $2.00 SIX MONTHS 1.00 Entered at the Anaheim, California Postoffice as second-class matter. PUTTING MONEY TO WORK When a person pays a debt to an individual or firm he starts a series of similar payments that are helpful to many people and to business generally. When he withholds payment his act has just the opposite effect in preventing others from meeting their obligations and thus impeding the activities on which the prosperity of everyone depends. We all realize this in a general way, but it takes an actual example to drive home the lesson. An experiment of this kind was made recently by the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, which placed in circulation three $50 checks donated by a wealthy member. One check was turned over to the Salvation Army, another to a welfare society and the third to a widow who was out of employment. The only stipulation was that the checks be used for the purpose of settling financial obligations, and that they be not deposited in a bank but indorsed from one holder to another, so that their record might be kept. At the end of sixty days the three $50 checks will have cancelled a total of $15,000 of indebtedness, according to the sponsors of the plan. Just now, when we are getting back on the road to better times, it is well to heed the lesson of such experiments. If all of us would determine not to stretch our credit beyond the due date, when we are able to pay, things would go into high gear very quickly. It is a program that can be regarded as selfish or altruistic and gets by either way. When we pay, others can pay, and the dollars eventually trickle back to us in debt payments or in the purchase of goods or in employment, as the case may be. Each dollar sent on its way legitimately is a round-robin of prosperity. three $50 checks will have cancelled a total of $15,000 of indebtedness, according to the sponsors of the plan. Just now, when we are getting back on the road to better times, it is well to heed the lesson of such experiments. If all of us would determine not to stretch our credit beyond the due date, when we are able to pay, things would go into high gear very quickly. It is a program that can be regarded as selfish or altruistic and gets by either way. When we pay, others can pay, and the dollars eventually trickle back to us in debt payments or in the purchase of goods or in employment, as the case may be. Each dollar sent on its way legitimately is a round-robin of prosperity. THE PRICE OF BREAD There are signs in the air of a new effort to make political capital out of the price of bread. Politicians are beginning to bid for votes from the wheat-growing sections of the country by pointing out that the price of bread has not gone down proportionately to the price which the farmer gets for his wheat, and that therefore somebody "higher up,"—either the millers or the bakers—is getting too much profit. We don't profess to know all about the milling and baking buisness, but we do know that the cost of the raw material is a very small proportion of the cost to the ultimate consumer of any manufactured commodity. We don't expect the price of automobiles to go down very time the price of steel falls off, because we know there are lots of things besides steel that go into manufacture, distribution and sales of automobiles. It takes about 4½ bushels of wheat to make a barrel of flour. Out of a barrel of flour, selling now for around $5 a barrel, the commercial bakers make 300 one-pound loaves of bread. They put some other things besides flour into the bread, and they have a manufacturing cost as well as a cost of selling and distributing. It seems reasonable to believe that they are right when they say that a loaf of bread, delivered to the retailer, cost the bakery about 6 cents. Whatever the customer pays above that is the retailer's charge for handling and delivery and his profit. Maybe there's something for politicians to get excited about in this bread situation. But it looks to us as if the farmer, as usual, was going to get the short end of any serious attempt to reduce the price of bread to the city folks, who are, after all, the ones who do most of the bread buying. In so far as the price the farmer gets for his wheat is a part of the cost of a loaf of bread, any general reduction in the retail price of bread will be used, somewhere along the line, as another excuse to keep the price of wheat down. THE RELIABLE COW "The dairy industry continues to furnish an example of one of the most nearly depression-proof groups in American industry," is the way in which one great New York banking institution introduces the cow to its depositors and customers. With all the troubles which the wheat farmer, the cotton farmer and the growers of other staples have been going through, we have heard few complaints from the dairy farmer. One quarter of all the farm income of the United States comes from the cow, this New York bank points out. If you wonder why Wall Street is concerned with cows, consider that item of three thousand million dollars. That is something for Wall Street to be concerned about! Dairy products bring their problem and no problem at all." of the most nearly depression-proof groups in American industry," is the way in which one great New York banking institution introduces the cow to its depositors and customers. With all the troubles which the wheat farmer, the cotton farmer and the growers of other staples have been going through, we have heard few complaints from the dairy farmer. One quarter of all the farm income of the United States comes from the cow. this New York bank points out. If you wonder why Wall Street is concerned with cows, consider that item of three thousand million dollars. That is something for Wall Street to be concerned about! Dairy products bring their producers two and one-half times as much money as the cotton crop or the beef crop and more than three times the annual value of the wheat crop. And not even the most nessimistic advisers of the farmer are recommending a reduction in the milk output. It is one branch of farming that can go on expanding for a long time to come. In ten years the nation's consumption of dairy products has increased one-third, and is still growing. We drink more milk, eat more butter, cheese and ice cream than ever before, while we are cutting down on our consumption of wheat and beef. The dairy industry is the foremost example of what the individual farmer has been able to do to increase his profits by co-operation with his neighbors. These bankers point out that one-third of all the butter and cheese manufactured in America is produced by cooperatives. One cooperative, the National Cheese Producers Federation, has over 12,000 farmer members and handles more than forty million pounds of cheese a year. The Land o' Lakes Creamery Company of Minneapolis, owned entirely by producers, handles a hundred millions pounds of butter annually. Not only cooperation in marketing, but cooperating in grading up dairy herds, accounts for much of the dairy farmers' general prosperity. The average milk production per cow has been increased nationally from only 1,436 pounds a year to 4,600, by improvement of herds through careful breeding. There is still a long way to go. Too many cows are not producing enough butterfat to pay for their board. It has been pretty well demonstrated that one purebred cow producing 500 pounds of butterfat a year earns as much for her owner as do fourteen cows each producing 100 pounds of butterfat. ENDLESS CHAIN A man has gone over into a foreign country to make his khars. He says he will not employ a man who drinks. That will help to relieve the unemployment. You see, he will need many men on his breath smelling committee, and than a lot of other committees to see that each other are doing their dooty. "Well, damn Hoover!" - by Albert T. Reid IF IT IS A TICKET - "Well. — Hoover!" IF IT IS SOMETHING BESIDES VITAMINS IN THE APPLE - "Well, — Hoover!" IF SLEEP IS DISTURBED - "Well, — Hoover!" IF THE SIDEWALK IS SLIPPERY - "Well. — Hoover!" IF SET 600 AT BRIDGE- "Well, — Hoover!" IF HE'S GOT DA ELL AVA GOLD - "Well, — Hoover!" IF A TIRE GOES BLOOEY! "Well, — Hoover!" IF THE WATCH IS SLOW AGAIN - "Well, — Hoover!" IF JUNIOR HAS THE COLIC- "Well, — Hoover!" Bruce Barton Looks at Ways of Life PLENTY OF KNOWLEDGE BUT NO EDUCATION A man asked me the other day what courses I had studied in college had most helpful. I answered, "Greek and mathematics." He said it sounded like a silly answer. "You are in the advertising business. What do Greek and mathematics have to do with advertising?" Of course they have nothing to do directly with advertising, or with modern banking or the law, or any of the other occupations by which I might have chosen to earn a living. Yet Greek and mathematics have this one thing in common—each of them compels the mind to attack a difficult problem and to think its way through to a solution. That is mental discipline; that is development, in the same sense that hard physical exercise develops the muscles. That, in a large degree, is education. There is more false and fuzzy thinking about education than almost any other important subject. We have been in an age when the whole emphasis of school and college has been placed on "learning things," on "practical training," on "giving the boys and girls equipment for daily life." The result of this program, in many instances, is not encouraging. Young people graduate into life with a mass of unassimilated and more or less accurate facts, but with no real mental drill, and no philosophy. In one of his finest passages Cardinal Newman describes an educated man as one who "has the repose of mind which lives in its lf, while it lives in the world, and which has resources for its happiness at home when it cannot go abroad." He has a gift which serves him in public and supports him in retirement, without which good fortune is but vulgar and with which failure and disappointment have a charm. cation as "the preparation for knowledge." If all educators could agree upon the definition, it would mean much progress. Then we should have college graduates whose minds are prepared, rather than graduates whose minds are merely stuffed. Too many graduates at present have plenty of knowledge but no education. SANCTUARIES FOR QUAIL Disabled World War veterans at the Livermore Veterans' hospital are proving to the sportsmen of California every day that our native quail will thrive and multiply under the "sanctuary" system. The system calls for the voluntary checker-boarding of the state with small quail refuges, or sanctuaries, for the purpose of giving the birds protection for breeding purposes. About two years ago a number of veterans started to feed and protect a small covey of about 20 quail that sought refuge around the hospital grounds. Troublesome house cats were given the "bums rush" and hunters were instructed not to violate the sanctity of the grounds. In a letter to the Division of Fish and Game, Veteran Maurice McCann announced that this small covey has now increased to a flock of nearly 200 quail. "They have become quite tame," McCann writes, "and each morning at 6 o'clock and each evening at 5 o'clock the quail are all around here, just raising marmalate until we feed them—and then what a sight to behold! A great sight I have never seen before and that alone is worth the care and need we have given to them. "Right now we use a sack of wheat every two months. Soon I expect the look is doubled and that will mean one sack of wheat each month. I am afraid we might have to call on some one to help us out because it will mean quite an expense to us. We will be more than will to match every sack of wheat that is donated with another one brought from our own pockets." The government grounds consist of about 100 acres at this Livermore location and the work being done by the veterans in protecting quail from extinction in the district is of immeasurement as "the preparation for knowledge." THE MENACE OF INSECTS By Sir Walter Morley Fletcher British Research Council, Broadcasting in England on "Biology and Statecraft Insects represent that rival race of animal that came out of the sea as their vertebrate animals of which man chief came to live and breathe in Happily, they have followed in the family descent a faulty engineer model, the converse of the vertebrate plan; they kept their soft parts inside and put their hard skeletons on outside. This, from mechanical chemical reasons, has imprisoned them within small limits of possible size. For that the insects might now be lords of creation and our own descendants a series of forgotten forms. As it is, we have the better of them in size and brain, but they are so our most destructive enemies as rivals. In India alone the loss of crops of timber and of animal products in insect damage is estimated at over $750,000,000 annually and the death roll due to insect-borne disease to over a million and a half lives. * Human enemies were destroying lives and property in that degree, or one-thousandth part of it, the whole nation would mobilized to fight them. The British Empire has a population four times that of the United States and suffers vastly more diversified damage both to agriculture and human life in this insect war; but spend annually for all the empire's dominions only one-quarter of what the United States spends upon nonglobalists. In this grave matter have not considered national or imperial policy at all; our statecraft has is void and ignores the plain teachings of biology. An internationalist is an American who doesn't believe in giving Universe an even break. people graduate into life with a mass of unassimilated and more or less inaccurate facts, but with no real mental drill, and no philosophy. In one of his finest passages Cardinal Newman describes an educated man as one who "has the repose of mind which lives in its if, while it lives in the world, and which has resources for its happiness at home when it cannot go abroad. He has a gift when serves him in public and supports him in retirement, without which good fortune is but vulgar and with which failure and disappointment have a charm." And in another place he defines education: "Right now we use one sack of wheat every two months. Soon I expect the look in no doubt and that will mean one sack of wheat each month. I am afraid we might have to call on some one to help us out because it will mean quite an expense to us. We will be more than willing to match every sack of wheat that is donated with another one brought from our own pockets." The government grounds consist of about 100 acres at this Livermore location and the work being done by the veterans in protecting quail from extinction in the district is of immeasurable value. DAD TODAY AT SCHOOL I GOT 100 IN MY SPELLING! THAT'S FINE! YES, THERE WAS ONLY TWO IN THE CLASS THAT GOT 100! ME- AND THE BOY I COPIED FROM! Pinky Dinky JINGLES! DON'T TURN BABY'S EAR AS IF IT WERE A CRANK YOU KNOW YOUR PROPER PLACE WHERE DAD WILL SURELY SPANK! TERRY GILKISON An internationalist is an American who doesn't believe in giving UnSam an even break. OBSERVATIONS POPULAR POLITICAL PASTIME Julius—What does a feller mean when he says you belong to the species known as Machivelli? Bill—Well, you know, it's this way out. Sometimes it's an equivalent to calling you a nifty short word that often causes a fight; but really when you are out for an office and you get a friend in a tight place and want to squeeze him you give him the double-cross. GETTING IT UNDER CONTROL Horatio—What is meant by the exhibiting remark, it is not intoxicating in fact? Horace—You see, it's like this. It all depends who is on the receiving end. Of course, it wouldn't cut much ice as a boiler-maker's special but if you put a lot of it under your belt at one sitting you might make whoopee. SPILLING OVER If you look closely you will notice that when ever a liberal says he is in favor of repeal or modification, he usually qualifies that by saying: "But remember I am opposed to the open saloon." ANYHOW, YOU DON'T HAVE TO TUNE IN, UNLESS YOU WANT TO It is reported that two comedians have been signed up to talk over the raydieoo for the next five years. Oh, deah! FIELD OF HONOR Two deputies down Argentine way fought a duel the other day with rapiers, one of the men being cut on the forearm. This is derned dangerous. However, no fear of blood poisoning is entertained, because one of the seconds had a bottle of iodine. THE VILLAGE CUT-UP Just about the time the frost ggt on the pumpkin a young woman stepped up to the wicket in a bank in another city, and demanded $5000. The teller told her to tell her tale to the trouble department and he went about his business, while the gal powdered her nose and walked out. FILL 'EM UP AGAIN BOYS THE VILLAGE CUT-UP Just about the time the frost ggt on the pumpkin a young woman stepped up to the wicket in a bank in another city, and demanded $5000. The teller told her to tell her tale to the trouble department and he went about his business, while the gal powdered her nose and walked out. FILL 'EM UP AGAIN, BOYS Those who worship at the Shrine of Bacchus will be pleased to note that they will not be chased very hard—if they do not sell it. EXHIBITS ONE AND TWO One of the highlights of a bold bank holdup, after the robbers have made a get away, is for a double chinned detective to pose for a "pitcher" with the blindfolds and everything used by the bandits. WRONG NUMBER! "Why, Hello, Mabel, Is that you? I'm awful glad to hear your voice again. You know I have had a terrible time getting you on the phone. It seems an age since I last called you. You know, this new dingus is the limit." THAT'S WHAT DREAMS ARE MADE OUT OF There in October when the thermometer got back into the 90's if you read the papers you should have noticed that a certain car builder promised labor a $27 day. As the days rolled on that promise remained as mysterious as the identity of the guy who struck Billy Paterson. NOW, LET'S GET THIS THING STRAIGHT There awhile ago a columner, who is said to be an original guy, used a zippy phrase that rang true, and which use has been reprinted by others quite freely. And now, believe it or not, another columner, who is a bear, claims he coined those very lines ten years ago. UNITED THEY STAND There is one thing about those revolutions, in the countries down Argentine way, that stands out like a sore thumb, and that is, when things got panicky the small armies always desert and go over to the general who has the best and largest bunch of men. AND MAY ALL THEIR CHILDREN BE DIRECTORS A husband, who had been having a heck of a time with his wife, and then had trouble with an old friend of the family because he had stolen the love of the wife, said: Take her and I hope you remain married for a hundred years. The plot thickens. You mean to say, mister, that that would be enough punishment. THOSE GUYS MIGHT STEAL THE CITY HALL NEXT TIME In an eastern city where they have many miniature machine guns, they put in a new chief of police to clean up the town, and then some of the boys up and robbed the mayor's wife of a lot of looty A husband, who had been having a heck of a time with his wife, and then had trouble with an old friend of the family because he had stolen the love of the wife, said: Take her and I hope you remain married for a hundred years. The plot thickens. You mean to say, mister, that that would be enough punishment. THOSE GUYS MIGHT STEAL THE CITY HALL NEXT TIME In an eastern city where they have many miniature machine guns, they put in a new chief of police to clean up the town, and then some of the boys up and robbed the mayor's wife of a lot of joolry. CLOSE TO THE EDGE OF THE CLIFF Some of the wisecrackers that are turned loose in some of the movies are of dual-meaning variety; and it appears the director let them go in just as far as possible; and if you don't "get" them you are as dumb as an oyster, or maybe you are hard of hearing. SAY, FELLER, DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS It is reported that a city employee, in a town up the boulevard, who died 10 years ago, had been receiving his pay envelope up until a short time ago when they found out for sure that the man had died. CHICKENS WILL COME HOME TO ROOST One man in talking about it, summed up the situation something like this: There are men and women who wouldn't think of committing a crime—but when they can get some good stuff they place an order. CRYING OVER SPILLED MILK The business depression and unemployment can be molded into a few "ifs." If the people had invested their money in good legitimate business enterprises—instead of buying worthless stocks, everything would be O. K., if the people then would have lived within reason, and if they would have saved something. IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED, TRY IT AGAIN You should have noticed in the paper where an emotional actress was trying to hold her husband while another vivacious vocalist was waiting outside ready to claim the prince charming should the matrimonial shackles be rent asunder. Anywav it was exciting. But it was also reported that at least five other gay lotharios were also in the offing ready to offer themselves upon the matrimonial altar in the event the actress got her papers.