anaheim-gazette 1931-04-16

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. SPRING There is something about us humans which makes us all want to do queer things in the Spring. As soon as the first green shoots appear boys begin to think about baseball, men consider the likelihood of getting in a little fishing between tasks, and the women—God bless them!—begin to turn the house upside down. Perhaps there isn't as much "spring housecleaning" done these days as there used to be, but that's a matter of opinion. There is something in the coming of Spring which stirs the feminine instinct for renovation. Perhaps it is a reflection of the replenishment of the earth. Nature has slept all Winter, the trees have been bare, the grasses brown, everything out of doors has a dingy look. Then, suddenly, all is bright and fresh and green. It that is so outside, why not inside? That, at least, seems to be the logic, such as it is, behind the housecleaning urge. Spring is the happiest season of the whole year, however, in spite of the discomfort to the male sex which the upsetting of his domicile imposes upon him. It is the season of hope. No matter how bad things were last season, no matter how severe and distressful the Winter has been, Spring brings a fresh promise every year. The promise is not always kept, but at least in Spring a man feels that there is something he can do to help things along, which he could not do in the Winter. The coming season may be different. At any rate, he won't freeze to death for another nine months at least. Probably we would all get tired of a climate where it was always Spring. People who have gone to live in lands of perpetual Spring is the happiest season of the whole year, however, in spite of the discomfort to the male sex which the upsetting of his domicile imposes upon him. It is the season of hope. No matter how bad things were last season, no matter how severe and distressful the Winter has been, Spring brings a fresh promise every year. The promise is not always kept, but at least in Spring a man feels that there is something he can do to help things along, which he could not do in the Winter. The coming season may be different. At any rate, he won't freeze to death for another nine months at least. Probably we would all get tired of a climate where it was always Spring. People who have gone to live in lands of perpetual mildness are said to get homesick for the changeable climates they came from. And one certain thing about Spring is that it won't last long. Before we know it we will be head over heels in Summer. WOMAN'S PLACE A wealthy man left $100,000 in his will to be given some college of standing which would agree to use the money to teach the doctrine that "woman's place is in the home." Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia refused the bequest. They were not willing to commit themselves to teaching anybody else's opinion, much less an opinion so contrary to that held by great numbers of women today—and men, too, for that matter. Not long ago a young woman, a graduate of one of the most famous colleges, discovered that she had considerable talent as a writer. At the same time she discovered that she was in love with a prosperous business man. She wanted a career as a writer, but she also wanted a career as a wife and mother. The man in the case told her to choose between them. He had good business sense. He knew that she was reasonably certain to make a failure of one career or the other if she tried to have both. It took this young woman a good while to decide, but finally she came to the conclusion that the place of that particular woman was in the home. That does not mean that every woman's place is in the home, however. It depends so much upon the woman. Every one of us know some splendid woman who has never married but who has done magnificent work in helping others. It used to be that a woman who worked in an office or devoted herself to an artistic or literary career did so merely because she had not been able to capture a satisfactory husband. There was a stigma about being an "old maid" which has practically disappeared today. The woman who chooses to work rather than to marry has her place in the world, and it is not in the home. But the woman who marries, most people will agree, has but one proper job, home-making, until her family has grown up and left the parental nest. That is not to suggest that married women should not have just as good a time as anybody else. But there have been very few instances where the result of the wife and husband both engaged in occupations outside of the home has been anything but disastrous for the children. The leaders among women's political and social welfare activities are mostly women who have either never married or who have been successful home-makers and have reached the age where their children are married or otherwise off their hands. The percentage of grandmothers at any convention of women's clubs is very high indeed. Those are opinions. Perhaps they are no more sound than the fixed opinions for the teaching of which $100,000 was offered to different colleges. But everybody will agree that the colleges where the result of the wife and husband both engaged in occupations outside of the home has been anything but disastrous for the children. The leaders among women's political and social welfare activities are mostly women who have either never married or who have been successful home-makers and have reached the age where their children are married or otherwise off their hands. The percentage of grandmothers at any convention of women's clubs is very high indeed. Those are opinions. Perhaps they are no more sound than the fixed opinions for the teaching of which $100,000 was offered to different colleges. But everybody will agree that the colleges were right in refusing to be bound to teach any opinion which changing social conditions might alter from generation to generation. TROUBLES AHEAD During the past few months, due to the effects of the depression, the jam in Congress and the results of the congressional campaign of 1930 the newspapers have devoted most of their space to the airing of the troubles of the Republican party. But now it becomes very evident that the Democratic party is to have its share of troubles in the coming campaign. The first indication of this came with the meeting of the Democratic National Committee in Washington during which a sharp difference of opinion developed between Chairman Raskob and his friends on the one hand and the dry Southern leaders of the party on the other. Of course, Mr. Raskob and his friends hold the machinery of the committee but that they are not to be given continued control without a fight is evidenced by the recent activities of the Southern leaders. The meeting held recently by Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Senator Swanson of Virginia, Senator Hull of Tennessee and former Governor Byrd of Virginia indicate that the dry leaders of the party will make some concerted effort to block the efforts of the Northern Democrats under Chairman Raskob to commit the party to the wet cause and nominate an out and out wet candidate for the presidency. The issue is still a burning one in national politics and it is possible that a rift in the party may seriously impair what a few months ago looked like the glowing prospects of the party in the 1932 election. PENNY WISE, POUND FOOLISH The leaders of Russia have dumped their wheat on the markets of the world at a price cheaper than it can be raised here. And at the same time the masses in Russia stand in line waiting for their meager ration of bread! ANAHEIM GAZETTE "Miss America IX" Breaks World's Speed-Boat Record Gar Wood, Detroit's famous designer of fast boats, drove his "Miss America IX" over a measured nautical mile at Miami Beach at a speed of 102.25 miles per hour. This beats the world's record of 98.76 miles an hour established last year by Sir Henry O. D. Segrave in England. Bruce Barton Looks at Ways of Life TO ERR IS HUMAN I stood in line one night at the ticket window in Providence, waiting to take up the lower berth which I had reserved to New York. In front of me was a man who had come up from Chatham on Cape Cod, having telegraphed for a reservation from there. Through a mistake on the part of the Chatham operator the telegram had gone to Boston instead of Providence. If the man waited for the train to come through from Boston he would not get to bed until about two o'clock in the morning. If he got on a Providence car he would have to sleep in an upper berth because all the lowers were sold. He bought an upper, but not without a great deal of grumbling. "This is atrocious," he exclaimed. "Give me a telegraph blank. I am going to wire that operator in Chatham its residents being located in the Syrian district. Being left without parishioners, such churches as Trinity, St. Paul's, where Washington used to worship and which still contains his pew as he left it, the old John Street Methodist Church, the first Methodist house of worship in America, and others, had to devise new ways of existing. As a result they have all turned to week-day noon services and one will go their auditorium crowded six days a week for the short services offered for busy brokers, clerks and office help, of which glass women form a respectable proportion. In addition the churchyards of Trinity and St. Paul's are always thronged on bright days by stenographers, who delight in sitting around on the ancient tombstones and eating their lunches. And nobody, including the sextons, seems to find anything sacrilegious or disrespectful in their actions. The Federal Bureau of Engraving and Printing turns out each year one billion pieces of paper money, and some of us are wondering who gets our share. Short Essays On Popular Topics GOVERNMENT A RACKET By GEORGE U. HARVEY, Borough President of Queens, New York City. City government in this country is racket. It has become so bad in some sections, such as Chicago, that actual control of city government is in the hands of gunmen, thugs and racketeers. New York City is fast drifting in the direction. Unless the structure of city government is changed we shall soon be a second Chicago. Every thinking citizen welcomes the city investigation, which, we trust, will not only punish those guilty of misfeasance but will also correct the defects of our city government to prevent a recurrence of present conditions in the future. Past investigations have generally done nothing but punish was albeitualmates that it feels in the colony the most as a with but in the sense of one young conclureme. home, of us who has that a artistic able to being The place in berries, taking, what is good finances occupaor for the activiivie have where the per-clubs than Teredleges A dozen or more churches still stand in lower Manhattan, the so-called Wall Street district, in New York City, and find themselves as much of service to humanity as ever they did when their parishes were thickly populated. Nowadays, after the offices close, that part of town is practically deserted, most of reservation from there. Through a mistake on the part of the Chatham operator the telegram had gone to Boston instead of to Providence. If the man waited for the train to come through from Boston he would not get to bed until about two o'clock in the morning. If he got on a Providence car he would have to sleep in an upper berth because all the lowers were sold. He bought an upper, but not without a great deal of grumbling. "This is atrocious," he exclaimed. "Give me a telegraph blank. I am going to wire that operator in Chatham and tell him what I think of him." To which the station agent answered very samely: "What good will that do? You're mad already. What's the use of getting two men mad?" Every hour of every day a certain number of things happen which just should not happen, but do. To err is human. When I became a magazine editor years ago a very wise editor said to me: "You are about to make a sad discovery. You are about to learn that there are no efficient people in the world." He went on to prophesy that writers would consistently misinterpret my instructions about articles and that artists would insist on drawing their pictures all wrong. To a certain extent the prophecy was fulfilled; but having been warned in advance, I managed to get along without losing my temper often or increasing my blood-pressure much. If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped. Too many of us are like that man in Providence, who probably out of humor with everybody he met the next day, saying that he was tired because a fool operator in Chatham had caused him to sleep in an upper berth. Doubtless he went home and protested to his wife; and he may still be telling the sad story, for all I know. What's the usage of it all? The old fashioned rural citizen whom the smart uckles called an "apple knocker" seems to have disappeared, and maybe that is why is the matter with the country. WALL STREETS CHURCHES A dozen or more churches still stand in lower Manhattan, the so-called Wall Street district, in New York City, and find themselves as much of service to humanity as ever they did when their parishes were thickly populated. Nowadays, after the offices close, that part of town is practically deserted, most of reservation from there. Through a mistake on the part of the Chatham operator the telegram had gone to Boston instead of to Providence. If the man waited for the train to come through from Boston he would not get to bed until about two o'clock in the morning. If he got on a Providence car he would have to sleep in an upper berth because all the lowers were sold. He bought an upper, but not without a great deal of grumbling. "This is atrocious," he exclaimed. "Give me a telegraph blank. I am going to wire that operator in Chatham and tell him what I think of him." To which the station agent answered very samely: "What good will that do? You're mad already. What's the use of getting two men mad?" Every hour of every day a certain number of things happen which just should not happen, but do. To err is human. When I became a magazine editor years ago a very wise editor said to me: "You are about to make a sad discovery. You are about to learn that there are no efficient people in the world." He went on to prophesy that writers would consistently misinterpret my instructions about articles and that artists would insist on drawing their pictures all wrong. To a certain extent the prophecy was fulfilled; but having been warned in advance, I managed to get along without losing my temper often or increasing my blood-pressure much. If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped. Too many of us are like that man in Providence, who probably out of humor with everybody he met the next day, saying that he was tired because a fool operator in Chatham had caused him to sleep in an upper berth. Doubtless he went home and protested to his wife; and he may still be telling the sad story, for all I know. What's the usage of it all? The old fashioned rural citizen whom the smart uckles called an "apple knocker" seems to have disappeared, and maybe that is why is the matter with the country. WATCH SCHOOL ZONES: With statistics of the State highway union showing that 12 children were killed and 41 injured in California last year by vehicles on the local department of the Automobile Club of Southern California calls attention to sections of the law requiring motorists to drive at a speed not exceeding 15 miles an hour in snowy conditions and to stop when school buses are taking on or discharging passengers. More vehicle incidents in California involving death or injury during the year 1938 or approximately 30 percent involved collisions with pedestrians in Pennsylvania accidents. 25 percent of all injured and 17 percent killed were children. Over three-thirds of the pedestrian accidents occurred at intersections and almost one-fourth were due to "jay-walking." According to the state highway patrol figures. In addition the churchyards of Trinity and St. Paul's are always thronged on bright days by stenographers, who delight in sitting around on the ancient tombstones and eating their lunches. And nobody, including the sextons, seems to find anything sacrilegious or disrespectful in their actions. The Federal Bureau of Engraving and Printing turns out each year one billion pieces of paper money, and some of us are wondering who gets our share. PUBLIC MUST BE REMINDED To the business man who thinks the public does not need to be constantly reminded of who he is and what he has to sell, the often told story of Pyle's Pearline will bear repeating. In 1904 Pearline, a cleaning material, was used by a large percentage of the housewives of the country, and the company spent $500,000 in advertising that year. Later the advertising was curtailed, and about 1907 was discounted altogether, as the company thought the product so well-known that it did not require further advertising. Sales fell off rapidly, but the owners persisted in their non-advertising policy until 1915, when the whole concern, including goodwill, was sold for $12,000. Pearline was dead. Many other products whose names were housebound words a few years ago are not heard of today because they failed to keep up their advertising and consequently the public forgot them. Businessmen must remember that new generations are coming along all time and these new layers must be personally sold on a product or a store as their fathers and mothers were sold before them. The only time it is safe to stop advertising is when one is ready to go out of business. PAUL REVERE TO RIDE AGAIN Paul Revere's historic horseback ride in the War of the Revolution is so repeated and made a feature of this 200th birth anniversary of George Washington next year especially from towns named Concord and Lexington Kansas City has planned a ride by Paul Revere from that city to Lexington Mo. There are 26 states with a town-named Lexington or Concord, and nine both. There are 15 Concords and nine Lexington. There are seven Bostons, too, from which this ride can be started, as the original ride was started from Boston, Mass., and it was from that city that the British start their march against the army of Washington. The clashes at Lexington and Concord were the final episode in the series of difficulties between England and Ireland which brought on the Revolution. They were the factors which convinced George Washington that we with Mother Country was inevitable and caused him to enlist unequivocal in the cause of complete separation from Britain. Writing of the battles: "a friend in England, he said: 'Unhappily it is to reflect that a brother's swine has been sheathed in a brother's breast and that the once happy and peaceful plains of America are to be either descheduled with blood or inhabited slaves. Sad alternative! But can virtuous man hostile in his choice?" WALL STREET'S CHURCHES A dozen or more churches still stand in lower Manhattan, the so-called Wall Street district, in New York City, and find themselves as much of service to humanity as ever they did when their parishes were thickly populated. Nowadays, after the offices close, that part of town is practically deserted, most of whose vehicles incidents in California involving death or injury during the year MISS or approximately 30 percent involved outlaws with pedal caravans or those pedestrian accidents. 25 percent of all injured and 17 percent of all killed were children. Over three-third of the pedestrian accidents occurred at intersections and about one-fourth were due to "jay-walking," according to the state highways department. KEY LOOK IT FURRY WE'RE GOING TO THE MOVIES! FIVE TICKETS PLEASE! OLOND NORM HUNTING LIGIS IN AFRICA! OFF FOR THE LION HUNT GRRR BANG! AH HE STUMBLES AND FALLS! Pinky Dinky JINGLES! THE WINSWANG IS A LIFFLOUS BIRD OF MOST PELLUSIVE FEATHER; IT CANNOT FLY WHEN SKIES ARE BLURRED - OR WHEN IT'S AGNOSE WEATHER OBSERVATIONS YOU SEE, IT PAYS TO RAISE CHICKENS When a lady was feeding her chickens in another town the other day a diamond setting, valued at four figures, became loosened from her ring while she was throwing grain to the poultry. The diamond could not be found after diligent search. Then the family had chicken patties, chicken Fricasee, chicken a la carte and table de hote. And still the dimond was missing. Finally the prized rooster's head fell in the basket and his gizzard held the sparkler. The family is fed up on chicken now; but the missus is glad she got the diamond. SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT If you feed chickens why, wear diamonds and if you wear diamonds why feed chickens. Of course if you raise chickens you might have diamonds, but if you have diamonds why raise chickens? WELL PERHAPS THAT JUST HAD TO HAPPEN When two Englishmen were hunting big game in the African jungles, they were engaged one day in setting up their camera in a bunch of brush in order to get close ups of the lions when they came prowling around. One day they saw a lion in a near-by thicket and called to their native helper to go to their auto truck, a short distance way, and fetch their rifle. As the native ran for the firearm the lion pursued him and overtaking the frightened man killed him. Now, then, why did those two hunters be where they were without their rifles, handy. And furthermore why did they send that poor, faithful native after their rifle, when the stalking lion was so near by. Anyhow they got an interesting story for the movies. OH, HOW THE BOARDERS YELL! In another town a guy worked an old Scotch custom when he wanted to unload his boanery. He staked out a lot of fellers for three days and gave them free eats to make it look like he was doing an Oklahoma rush business. The new buyers fell for the game. The owner who wanted to get out told a pal he had a brace of easymarks and desired to heave the canine caliente so the suckers would take the hook. But the cat came back and the head biscuit shooter ran afoul of the law and for a time rested his dogs on a prison cot. He finally put up some dough for his release, pending a rehash of the list of customers he OH, HOW THE BOARDERS YELL! In another town a guy worked an old Scotch custom when he wanted to unload his beanery. He staked out a lot of fellers for three days and gave them free eats to make it look like he was doing an Oklahoma rush business. The new buyers fell for the game. The owner who wanted to get out told a pal he had a brace of easymarks and desired to heave the canine caliente so the suckers would take the hook. But the cat came back and the head biscuit shooter ran afoul of the law and for a time rested his dogs on a prison cot. He finally put up some dough for his release, pending a rehash of the list of customers he alleged he held in the palm of his hand when the dinner bell announced the onion stew was ready. IRRESISTABLE FORCE — IMMOVABLE BODY If the elephant and donkey can be made to pull together that will go down in history as one of the big wonders. They both live on the same kind of food and there is a chance to make them peaceable and homelike. Of course, if their keepers don't know animals there is a strong suspicion that one or the other will kick over the traces and upset the bandwagon. NIP AND TUCK At the last election, when the house of representatives put on the gloves, the republicans won the decision over the democrats, the score being 218 to 216, with one farm-labor candidate out on the sidelines. Some of the home folks have started what is termed a "Coalition" movement. But from a survey of the situation it looks like they will find out what that word means. It is believed in some quarters that should the word grow it might produce something. In some of the cases the votes were so close that some of the boys are going in for a re-count. But as that cuts both ways mebbe it would be better to leave things alone and let nature take its course. STEPPING INTO DEEP WATER Mose—What you all mean when yuh said something 'bout camppain expenses. Rastus—Lookit heath, colored boy, you am so dumb youall neber would make a good pollytician. Dem camppain expendimatures is dee money you am supposed to loosen up for leggitimate purposes only. You am supposed to keep wid in the limmit of the law. But when youse say youse hab expended a sutten sum and when dey can proove youse had a lotta loose money floating around dat you all am unnable to account for propperley, a man sure am sidestepping prutty fast to explaysonate hisself. CHICKENS WILL COME HOME TO ROOST A charming and vivacious young lady, who climbed pretty high on the ladder of jazz, at one time had the drug-store cowboys waiting in line a block long looking for seats, but of late the lemon coke customers have been losing interest. Rubber checks, secretaries and boy friends sometimes require the services of an expert to keep things from spilling over. Some mighty fine folks, in the past, after they got on to the toboggan have hit the bottom hard and they seemed to have dropped out of sight. ALL CYLINDERS HITTING SOMETIMES Cars and radios are fine things to have, if you have the A charming and vivacious young lady, who climbed pretty high on the ladder of jazz, at one time had the drug-store cowboys waiting in line a block long looking for seats, but of late the lemon coke customers have been losing interest. Rubber checks, secretaries and boy friends sometimes require the services of an expert to keep things from spilling over. Some mighty fine folks, in the past, after they got on to the toboggan have hit the bottom hard and they seemed to have dropped out of sight. ALL CYLINDERS HITTING SOMETIMES Cars and radios are fine things to have, if you have the money to pay for them; but if you haven't the mazuma you sometimes get a headache. THE DIE IS CAST The passage of the 18th amendment is a good deal like cutting off the dog's tail. The job is done. Neither will ever be changed. There are too many complications. The Volstead act could be amended, but that would be like the dog wagging the stub of his tail, you couldn't tell whether he was glad or not. Some people think they will get beer back. But that won't make all the people glad. The dog scratches himself to keep the fleas on the jump and no doubt the dry law will keep a certain class of people on the jump, if they violate it. They kill a dog if he has rabies and bites you; but when a guy drinks poison liquor if he dies and leaves no will, a lot of unknown relatives turn up. OPENING UP YOUR WAR CHEST The other day the president of a motion picture organization, in an eastern state, made the highly interesting and educational statement that people should learn to spend their money extravagantly, and buy things they don't need. That man believes his plan would relieve the unemployed. Of course, if you have a pocketful of your uncle's stationery you might as well blow it in before it burns a hole through your pocket. That would seem to be an ideal indoor game for the idle millionaires and prosperous bootleggers. A certain multi has been known to give away a dime every once in a while and it would help a lot if he would double the ante. Of course, you can't eat you currency, but yet again if you haven't got the money you don't eat. Lots of people save up money for a rainy day, and it is honestly believed that things would brighten up a bit if they would take the rubber off their rolls when we have a downpour. Some of the hardboiled guys in this neck of the woods, who have worked early and late to acquire what they have got, look upon this stuff as being a mild form of socialism.