anaheim-gazette 1931-03-12

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. FUTURE OF THE ORANGE SHOW AND FAIR The Orange County Valencia Show and Fair is assured for this year, the combined expositions to open in Anaheim on June 4, for a period of eleven days, but the people of the county should look into the future and assure the permanency of this enterprise by giving it most generous support in the form of attendance. The Orange show has been held at Anaheim for the last ten years, while the fair has been held near Santa Ana, and in recent years the two expositions have been so over taken by financial problems that the only way to save them was by combining them into one. This has now been done and $30,000 is assured with which to meet expenses for the display next June. The combined exposition will not only be worthy of all the support the public will give, but it should make such an appeal to the civic pride of Orange county citizens that it will turn a substantial profit. The value of the Orange show to the orange growing industry of the county, as well as to the county as a whole, cannot be estimated in money. Year after year its fame as a superb exposition has been spread far and wide. In nationwide publicity alone the Orange show is worth much more to Orange county than the cost of holding the exposition, for this publicity leads to growing consumption of the products of the Orange county orchards. The fair too is invaluable, especially The combined exposition will not only be worthy of all the support the public will give, but it should make such an appeal to the civic pride of Orange county citizens that it will turn a substantial profit. The value of the Orange show to the orange growing industry of the county, as well as to the county as a whole, cannot be estimated in money. Year after year its fame as a superb exposition has been spread far and wide. In nationwide publicity alone the Orange show is worth much more to Orange county than the cost of holding the exposition, for this publicity leads to growing consumption of the products of the Orange county orchards. The fair, too, is invaluable, especially as a clearing house of ideas where farmers can see what their neighbors are doing in perfecting products of the soil and herds and apply this information to their own farms. March, a custom which Scotland did not drop until 1699 and which persisted in England until 1752. In the Christian calendar the most important festival, Easter, celebrating the Resurrection, fixes its date from the Vernal Equinox; Easter Sunday is the Sunday after the first full moon that follows the 21st of March. Every religion has a festival thus commemorating the renewal of life in Spring. Much of this country is still snow-covered in March. In the northern states potatoes, the first crop to be seeded, will not be planted until April, while from Virginia south they are already in the ground. But everywhere Spring is, in the air, and preparations are under way for the perennial struggle between Man and the Soil, the struggle in which Man is so often defeated but which he approaches every year with renewed hope. THE PRESIDENT'S TERM Exactly one-half of the term for which President Hoover was elected has been completed. Only a little more than a year from now his party will decide whether to renominate him or to select somebody else to carry the Republican banner. Between now and June of 1932 both parties will concentrate their attention not upon the administration of the Government of the United States but upon how best to hold or to seize the reins of government for themselves. There is something radically wrong with a system which gives the President, whether he be Democrat or Republican, barely time to get settled in his job before the whole country is thrown into a turmoil over the question of his successor. Everybody with good sense recognizes that that is true, but the problem is how to change it. One proposal which has been seriously put forth many times, and which might work better than the present system, is to amend the Constitution so as to make the President's term seven years, with no re-election. That would relieve the President of all necessity for "playing politics" in office with an eye to renomination, and it would give him time to master the job and prove his constructive ability. Probably it will be a long time before that plan can be put into effect, if at all. Another suggested system is to shorten the time between the election of the President and his assumption of office, as well as to cut down the length of political campaigns. That has good sense in it, too. After a new President and Congress have been elected in November, the old ones continue to function until the fourth of the next March. Once the people amend the Constitution so as to make the President's term seven years, with no re-election. That would relieve the President of all necessity for "playing politics" in office with an eye to renomination, and it would give him time to master the job and prove his constructive ability. Probably it will be a long time before that plan can be put into effect, if at all. Another suggested system is to shorten the time between the election of the President and his assumption of office, as well as to cut down the length of political campaigns. That has good sense in it, too. After a new President and Congress have been elected in November, the old ones continue to function until the fourth of the next March. Once the people have decided upon a change, why not make the change effective at once? The Congress whose sessions end this fourth of March is not the Congress that was elected last November. Those Senators and Representatives will not meet, unless called in special session, until next December, more than a year after their election. Then, after a single session in Congress, the members of the lower house will have to go out and seek re-election. In 1787, when the system was set up in the Constitution, it took weeks or even months to travel between the outlying states and the seat of government, and it was necessary to give newly-elected officials plenty of time after election before taking up their duties. But there is no such excuse now. Two or three weeks would be plenty of time, after election day, in which to count all the votes and have them certified, and inaugurate the new President and the new Congress. And a campaign which runs from June until November takes up very much more time than is needed, in these days of rapid communications and universal ability to read, to educate the voters to the merits of the different issues and candidates. THIS MONTH OF MARCH March used to be the first month in the year, in the days when folk calculated the year's beginning from the day when the sun crosses the Equator on his journey northward. The Vernal Eqinox occurs on the 21st of March, and from then on the days are longer than the nights until the third week in September. The old Anglo-Saxon name for March was "Lencten-monath," or "lengthening month," because the days grow longer so rapidly. In some parts of England and Scotland the last three days of March are called "the borrowing," the idea being that March has borrowed three days from April. All over the world March, as the beginning of Spring, has been an important month in the religious ceremonials which are supposed to insure bountiful crops. The dead world comes to life again in March, and begins its cycle all over. There is sound logic in the old system of starting the year's reckoning with Some of the Scenes of Suffering in the Drought Region A larger proportion of the stricken families who are being fed and clothed by the Red Cross live in homes like the one in the center. A typical family is shown here, and two children who have been saved from starvation. Bruce Barton Looks at Ways of Life DOING THINGS FOR PEOPLE I have a friend who occupied a prominent official position in Washington for a number of years. After his retirement he opened an office and let it be known that he would act as an adviser to individuals and companies giving business to transact with the government. that will be of interest to women in other citrus districts, according to the Farm Journal. These Texas women, seven in number, have converted cull grapefruit into a profitable by-product. They are members of a home demonstration club, organized in 1926, and they live in the lower Rio Grande valley, where an increasing production of grapefruit has developed the question of "what can be done with culls?" Starting with little money for equipment, no established credit, and no experience, they have been outstanding successful. Among the problems which they have had to solve have been the perfecting of a recipe, the making of the marinade fresh to order from fruit Short Essays On Popular Topics SCIENCE AND HAPPINEESS By Dr. Albert Elnsteln, In a talk to the students of California Institute of Technology. Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we DOING THINGS FOR PEOPLE I have a friend who occupied a prominent official position in Washington for a number of years. After his retirement he opened an office and let it be known that he would act as an adviser to individuals and companies paying business to transact with the government. Recently he told me that his first year's income was about ten times as large as he had dared to hope for. "The only way I can explain it is that I am now cashing in on my lifetime habit of doing things for people," he said. "When I was in office I never could see why it wasn't worth while to go to a little trouble for folks you could do it properly. So when man came to me I didn't try to side-step by saying, 'You will have to take that matter up with such and such a department.' I just tried to help out." "I wasn't schenning about it. I had no conscious notion that I was laying up treasure in Heaven, or anything of that sort. "But apparently people remembered and appreciated, and now they are taking pleasure in paying me back." Neither by temperament nor conviction do I belong to the United Brother of Pollyannas. I do not hold that we live in the best of all possible worlds, nor that selfishness is always punished and virtue always rewarded. On the contrary, I see many notable examples of men who have apparently never done a gracious thing their whole lives who yet have achieved fortunes and are quite scene and contented in the enjoyment of the good things of the world. But at several different times in my own experience I have been surprised by having bread which I had cast on the waters and forgotten come back to me spread with good butter and even considerable jam. One of the most valuable contacts of my business life grew out of work which I did for a certain charitable organization, with no thought of personal gain. And a large piece of business once walked into my office, sent by the brother of a man whom I had been able to help many years before, and in an entirely different part of the country. Speaking generally, I should say that the chance of being rewarded for good works is sufficient so that any man is justified, from a purely selfish standpoint, in going out of his way occasionally to be kind. To say nothing of the fact that doing things for other people brings a personal satisfaction which is, in itself, a reward. MONEY FROM GRAPEFRUIT Starting with little money for equipment, no established credit, and no experience, they have been outstanding successful. Among the problems which they have had to solve have been the perfecting of a recipe, the making of the marmalade fresh to order from fruit previously canned for that purpose, thus avoiding deterioration, the selection of a name and label design, the introducing of a new product to undeveloped markets, and the successful shipping of a perishable product through the malls. For a factory these women have used the home of one member. They introduced their product to local markets through demonstrations and then sent samples to more distant markets, thus securing orders for their Valley Sunshine Products Grapefruit Marmalade, from several railroad diners and from big hotels. From a small venture, the business has grown to be so successful that others have wished to buy it. However, these citrus women have refused to part with their business child, since they intend to keep up the standard and quality of a true home-made product, which they hope some day to make into an internationally famous brand. BATTLE OF THE BRIDGE The world's biggest suspension bridge, spanning the Hudson river connecting New York with the state of New Jersey, has a big name, and a big fight is being waged about it in a big way. Here's what happened: The Port of New York Authority named it the George Washington Memorial Bridge. It was not built as a memorial, although its completion will coincide with the Washington bicentennial in 1932. The protests are based on the assumption that the name, when used orally, will be shortened to "Washington bridge." Now there are two other bridges around town called that, one in Flatiron and one in Brooklyn. So if the sight-seeing visitor leans out of his car and yells at the traffic cop! How does get to Washington bridge?, the cop will have to yell back. "What Washington bridge?" Confusion will result, traffic will get tied up, horns will be honked, and unkind words said. A newspaper poll of its readers said that the bridge should be called Hudson bridge. Why that very logical name was not given the giant in the first place is not known, for it is the only bridge crossing the Hudson river within fifty miles of New York City. But George Washington Memorial SCIENCE AND HAPPINEESS By Dr. Albert Einstein, In a talk to the students of California Institute of Technology. Why does this magnificent applied science when saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have no yet learned to make sensible use of it. In war it serves that we may poison and mutate each other. In peace it has made our lives hurried and uncertain. Instead of freeing us in great measure from spiritually exhausting labor, it has made men into slaves of macnery, who torr the most part complete their monotonous long days work with disgust and must continually tremble for their poor rations. It is not enough that you should understand about applied science in order that your work may increase mains blessings. Concern for the man himself and his fate must always form the exact interest of all technical endeavors; concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the mist of your diagrams and equations. I could sing a nymn of praise with the remain of the splendid progress in applied science that we have already made and the enormous further progress you will bring about. Just consider a quite uncivilized Indian, whether his experience is less lenient and happier than that of the average civilized man. I hardly think so; there lies a deep meaning in the fact that the children of an civilized countries are so fond of paying humans. GUN JUMPERS" IN DANGER Automobile drivers who "jump the gun" on traffic signals are in tor hard sidding, according to notice of police departments. The increasing tendency to creep up between the first and second belts at signalized corners and to transtrically to beat stop signals is going to be curbed, say traffic officials. A dangerous condition is being created on city streets due to these practices, and all officers have been notified to enforce strictly the law requiring drivers to await the ringing of the second ball before starting their cars. Continuous energetic action is expected of all officers against drivers who in any way disregard traffic signals. Amid the general criticism now being directed at Congress it must be remembered that there are honorable, sincere, and able members in both Houses—but MONEY FROM GRAPEFRUIT Wives of a number of Texas citrus growers have been carrying on a projdure. Dear Cousin Leroy; Here am I answering your letter. In school the other day the teacher asked me which traveled faster heat or cold—and I said I guesed heat did—for you can catch cold. Mom has a new hair wave—I just happened to think how funny it is—Mom's hair is all waves and Dad is all beach. Reddy Murphy is awful lazy. He's going to try to get a job as caddy in a miniature golf course. I was arguing with Reddy today—and I bet them fine cents that my Dad could kick his Pop in ten minutes. When I got home I asked Dad if he would hold open Saturday to stage the fight. But he said I ought to be glad that he didn't give me a ticking for talking that way. Which I was—as B 4- Pinky PINKY DINKY JINGLES! HER DAD WAS A TRAFFIC COP SHE HAD A PRETTY FACE NO WONDER WHEN YOU WENT TO CALL, YOU FOUND NO PARKING PLACE OBSERVATIONS THE CORONER GOT THERE LATER A man and his wife in a car tried to beat a fast moving railway train to a crossing. STOPPING THE CLOCK Now that they have driven that silver spike to start the Boulder dam, somebody ought to try and find out who started all the chatter about daylight saving. TOOTING YOUR OWN HORN If you own a string of publications and crave publicity it's just as easy as coasting over the border to get pieces in the paper with pitchers an' everythin'. OCK - OH! It was along about the middle of the play when the husband accused the wife of being below zero and saying he was going out for a whirl with the world. The wife grieved; but was advised by her maid to go places and do things. She did. She went to a masque ball. As she slammed the door at her home when leaving on an errand of joy, she looked back over her left shoulder, and in great glee, exclaimed: "I'll be so hot they will have to call out the fire department." She won. GREATLY IMPROVED AS TIME PASSES When those Hawaiian gals danced the hula hula they started something. But now believe it or not some of the white sisters round about over here can give them cards and spades and still win the string of beads by their eye-opening terpsichorean interpretations and dazzling technique. THE SITUATION REALLY IS UNUSUAL If you are in favor of repeal of that amendment, are you wet, Horatio? Well, that all depends how you have been raised, Hidalgo. Suffice it to say, yet again, if you are not in favor of repeal, are you dry. You see, it all depends on the weather and the quality. However, if you aspire to a high office and they pin you down to brass tacks, you can resort to that time honored THE SITUATION REALLY IS UNUSUAL If you are in favor of repeal of that amendment, are you wet, Horatio? Well, that all depends how you have been raised, Hidalgo. Suffice it to say, yet again, if you are not in favor of repeal, are you dry. You see, it all depends on the weather and the quality. However, if you aspire to a high office and they pin you down to brass tacks, you can resort to that time honored custom of changing the subject. WAIST LINE REDUCTION Now that the women have gone in for miniature golf it is reasonable to suppose that they will never again go in for an 18-day diet. GLOOM CHASERS There awhile ago a vicic organization took a whack at that hard times boogaboo by declaring that they would never again use the word "depression". They went in for such phrases as, spend your money where it will do the most good, give somebody a job, change your tone of conversation. Fine and dandy, and they should also have told the fellers to bury their hammers, tend to your own business, and keep your nose clean. And, oh, yes, slow down at street intersections. THE BIG NOISE When they put that prohibition spoke in the wheel it was fastened good and tight; but during the past election it rattled around quite a bit. SAY, FELLERS, IS THIS RELATIVITY A man who knows says if you want to live to a ripe old age you should brush your teeth before and after meals, breathe through your nose and keep your mouth shut. He should keep your mouth shut. He says eat your food slowly because then you will not eat too much. He says worry has killed more people than whiskey ever has. He allows when stocks drop, diabetes and heart failure go up. This man says he takes good care of himself, is 72 years of age, feels like he is 27, and expects to live to be 120. DERNED TOOTIN' SHE WILL, BEGOSH About a certain charming actress:—If she keeps on cutting up like that anymore she might lose her public. DON'T ALL SPEAK AT ONCE After everything has been said and done would you care to go back to the time of the old horse and buggy and whipsocket and currycombs? LEFT AT THE SWITCH Modern machinery has taken jobs away from many men—and that's one reason for this unemployment. THEY'VE GOT THE HABIT DON'T ALL SPEAK AT ONCE After everything has been said and done would you care to go back to the time of the old horse and buggy and whipsocket and currycombs LEFT AT THE SWITCH Modern machinery has taken jobs away from many men—and that's one reason for this unemployment. THEY'VE GOT THE HABIT If some of the fellers got hold of a shovel and a hoe, instead of a car and a radio, the wouldn't have to sidestep the bill collector. RENDERED HORS DE COMBAT A charming and vivacious actress, in an amusement colony, while clowning with an actor at her home is reported to have received a dislocated shoulder while the pair were rassling. Up to the hour of going to press it has not been learned whether the man used a half nelson, the scissor squeeze or the famed strangle hold in flooring his fair adversary. However the lady has been obliged to carry her arm in a sling. Her numerous friends indulge the hope that she will soon be enjoying her aforetime good health. WHEEL WITHIN A WHEEL Bill—What do they mean when they say a man refuses to testify because it might incriminate himself? Jim—Well, buddy, that is an old constitutional custom; but believe it or not sometimes that opens the door of freedom to some guys who ought to be inside looking out. FACTS ABOUT BOULDER DAM Boulder dam will remove the flood hazard from Imperial Valley, and it will insure domestic water for Los Angeles. It will also provide power to generate electricity. There will be no water for irrigation here from the Colorado river. Imperial Valley may get some for irrigation. The cost of building the pipe line to bring the water to the cities in the Metropolitan Water District will be very expensive. Some people believe the water is not palatable. After the water has been filtered it is good to drink. Las Vegas, thirty miles from the dam, will not get any of the water. That city does not need it, because they have flowing artesian wells that furnish all the water they want. After actual work has been started, about 1000 men will be employed. Most of the construction work will be done by machinery. It will take ten years to complete the dam.