anaheim-gazette 1931-05-07

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. MOTHERS' DAY Next Sunday, May 10th, will be Mother's Day. There will be millions of flowers presented to mothers all over the United States. Sons and daughters everywhere will pay a beautiful, sentimental tribute to their mothers. This is as it should be. Our only criticism of the observance of Mother's Day as a special occasion for doing something for mothers, is that it occurs only once a year. Sometimes we wonder whether setting apart a single day in the year for this homage to mothers doesn't tend to make children feel that they can more or less neglect their mothers the rest of the year. Not that the mothers care. There is nothing a child can do to its mother which can alienate the mother's love. Some of the finest, most touching examples of mother love we have ever known or heard of have been expended upon utterly worthless, thankless, useless children. Mother love is the only kind of love which does not demand reciprocal affection from the object of its devotion. There is another side to the picture of Mother's Day. While we are paying tribute to mothers we, as a nation, are sacrificing the lives of thousands of mothers. More than 16,000 women in less neglect their mothers the rest of the year. Not that the mothers care. There is nothing a child can do to its mother which can alienate the mother's love. Some of the finest, most touching examples of mother love we have ever known or heard of have been expended upon utterly worthless, thankless, useless children. Mother love is the only kind of love which does not demand reciprocal affection from the object of its devotion. There is another side to the picture of Mothers' Day. While we are paying tribute to mothers we, as a nation, are sacrificing the lives of thousands of mothers. More than 16,000 women in the United States die in childbirth each year. More than 10,000 of these wasted lies could be saved by proper maternity care. The proof of that is the fact that there is no such toll of deaths in any other civilized country in the world, because everywhere else in the world there is adequate care provided for all expectant mothers. A nation-wide movement for the extension of the work of the Maternity Center Association, which has been successful in a limited field in greatly reducing mortality in childbirth, has been endorsed by the U. S. Public Health Service and the Federal Children's Bureau. There is no community too small or too poor to establish a maternity center. Surely if mothers are especially worthy of remembrance on Mother's Day, their lives are worth saving. GOING BACK TO THE FARM We have been hearing for many years about the movement from the farm to the village and the city. Commentators who have let their imaginations roam have pictured a future civilization for America in which there will be no rural life at all. Everybody will live in cities, and food will be produced by chemical processes in factories to which these city dwellers will go every day to work. Light and sunshine and ventilation and exercise and all of the other essentials of health will be provided, according to these dreamers, by artificial means devised by engineers. As a matter of cold fact, it turns out that the tide of migration from the farm to the municipality has been slackening for many years, and now has definitely turned in the other direction. For the first time in twenty years the records of the U. S. Department of Agriculture show that there was a gain in farm population during 1930. There are 208,000 more people living on the farms than there were a year ago. One reason for this is that life on the farm is more comfortable and less strenuous than it used to be. The average farmer is no longer isolated from the world. The commercial farmer—the farmer who makes a business of farming—has been affected by the present wave of economic depression even more than the manufacturer. But the great majority of small farmers, with whom life on the farm is more a mode of living than it is an industry, are the people in America who have suffered least by reason of the economic slump. The drought, to be sure, has hit hundreds of thousands of these, but the drought hasn't been universal, and in the sections where nature has not interfered there seems to be little doubt that the greatest security and contentment to be found anywhere in the U. S. is found on the nation's one-family farms. OUR WORLD-WIDE TIES A banker in a small Ohio town sent a telegram the other day OUR WORLD-WIDE TIES A banker in a small Ohio town sent a telegram the other day to the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington asking this question: "Do the slaughter houses of Antiochia make a profit?" Within twenty-four hours the banker had on his desk a complete report of the earnings, over a period of years, of the municipally owned abattoirs of the State of Antioquia, in the Republic of Colombia, South America. "The Department had been prepared for months to answer just the question," Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, told a luncheon gathering in Washington the other day. Through its commercial agents in Colombia it knew that an issue of Colombian government bonds was about to be offered in the American money markets, and that the security behind these bonds was all of the government owned public utilities in the State of Antiochia, which include, besides electric light, gas and water works, the public abattoirs. The bond issue has been sold in Wall Street, and the Wall Street bankers had annortioned the bonds out through their correspondent banks, and the Ohio banker wanted to satisfy himself of the value of the security back of the bond before offering them to his local investors. That is an example not only of the kind of information which the United States Government, through the Department fo Commerce, supplies to business and industry, but it is also an example of the international interdependence of all business. We cannot put any kind of a wall, tariff or other, around the United States. There is hardly a sale over the counter in a country store that hasn't some bearing upon the commerce and industry of some remote corner of the world. Every time you buy a chocolate nut-bar or a chocolate soda, you are contributing to the prosperity of Ecuador and other nations where the cacao tree grows. And this makes it possible for the people of Ecuador to buy our automobiles and radio sets and sewing machines. It is a very common thing to hear people say they are not interested in international affairs. It is certain, however, that those who will succeed most conspicuously and rapidly in the world of business and industry are those who do take the trouble to keep themselves informed about the relations of each corner of the world to all the other corners. ANAHEIM GAZETTE Betty Betts, New York society girl, ron the Pinehurst, N. C., pig race with her entry. Dorothy Knowlden, led the festivties at the Ogden, Utah, carnival this year. Mabel Claire Gold, University of Arkansas co-ed, attended a stag a "Jim Smith." The pictures are of the same girl. Short Essays On Popular Topics CLARITY AND THE LAW BY CHARLES E. HUGHES, How difficult it is to secure legislation that is simple and unequivocal. To the business man writing a letter or an ordinary business contract, to a judge The property as it stands is assessed by the city for taxation purposes at $3,690,000, and it is one of the most valuable parcels of land in Manhattan occupied by a private dwelling. There are only two other private houses in Manhattan that are assessed at a higher valuation than the Wendel house, the Frick mansion, Seventieth street and Fifth avenue, at $3,750,000, and the Vanderblit residence, Fifty-first street and Fifth avenue, at $3,700,000. According to the fashion experts the girl with the sun tan complexion is to Bruce Barton Looks at Ways of Life THE VACANT LOT Ten years ago, in the midst of the depression of 1920-21, I made a talk before a thousand men, representing one of the country's basic industries. Short Essays On Popular Topics CLARITY AND THE LAW By CHARLES E. HUGHES, How difficult it is to secure legislation that is simple and unequivocal. To the business man writing a letter or an ordinary business contract, to a judge writing an opinion, a sentence may seem to be clear and exact, and yet in the light of some unexpected situation how strangely ambiguous it becomes—the breeder of controversies rather than of settlements. Clarity, the greatest of legislative and judicial virtues, like the sunshine, revealing and curative. For example, I think we have an extremely well administered tax system. Our revenue laws are the subject of close study and are drafted by experts. We have elaborate provision for consideration of claims. And yet, despite this care and expertise, how many problems arise from little clauses apparently simple and innocuous. Notwithstanding the host of controversies that never get beyond the departments, government cases crowd the calendars of our courts. And I am not speaking of criminal prosecutions. The solicitors in the various departments may render, and I think are rendering, an important service in keeping down the volume of litigation by not attempting to force statutes to an extreme construction and by a willingness to take a reasonable measure of responsibility and thus to avoid the placing of an unnecessary burden upon the courts. There is abundant opportunity for good sense even in administering laws. WENDEL HOME EXPENSIVE Much has been said and written regarding the Wendel fortune in New York, variously estimated at from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000. Many of the statements gave the impression that the members of the family were "eccentric" and parsimonious. They may have been somewhat eccentric, but a little figuring will disprove the charge that they were miserly. Cost the late Ella Wendel a small fortune to maintain the old house on the northwest corner of Thirty-ninth Street and Fifth avenue. In land taxes alone the estate paid the city about $250 a day for this corner plot. In addition there were other taxes and maintenance charges which probably brought the total up to about $300 a day. Lawyers for the estate have been quoted as reminding Miss Wendel that altogether it was coasting her $1,000 a day to live in the house but her answer The property as it stands is assessed by the city for taxation purposes at $3,690,000, and it is one of the most valuable parcels of land in Manhattan occupied by a private dwelling. There are only two other private houses in Manhattan that are assessed at a higher valuation than the Wendel house, the Frick mansion, Seventieth street and Fifth avenue, at $3,750,000, and the Vanderbilt residence, Fifty-first street and Fifth avenue, at $3,700,000. According to the fashion experts the girl with the sun tan complexion is to be succeeded this summer by the one with the pink skin. Well this change of colors ought to help the paint manufacturers some. BUSINESS AS A GAME Gordon Selfridge, American-born London merchant, says: "As a young man, working in an insurance office in the United States, I decided to become a lawyer. I spent my nights reading Blackstone, though I had to read every sentence three times over before I understood it. But after three months I decided that I was not fitted for the law. All that I remember is that all the dead fish found on the shores of Britain belong to the Crown—and I find now that even that is not quite true. "Business is a great game. I play it very hard and in as sportsmanlike way as I know how, and I feel that at the end of the day I have got the fullest reward. In that delightful organization of which I am head—a perfect joy—there is something that makes us the envy of the whole world, for that organization is imbued with the ambition to do things as well as possible. "Besides ambition, business demands courage, judgment, imagination and organizing ability. But it has no use for self-satisfaction or for mental laziness—the first crime in the list." The stock market is receding and it may be discounting the fact that Congress meets again next winter. WANTS BOTH CONVENTIONS With their hopes for success bolstered by the favorable reaction of the nation to the Cermak Mayoralty victory, leaders of the Chicago Association of Commerce are reported to be speeding the plans for an attempt to bring one or both of the 1932 national party conventions to Chicago. Skepticism regarding the outcome of the municipal election has been replaced by good toward Chicago, the association officials believe. Prior to the repudiation of "Thompsonism" they felt that there was a scant chance to get either of the conventions. Now they believe they are nearly sure to land the Democratic convention, while the opportunity to win the Republican gathering is greatly enhanced. Bruce Barton Looks at Ways of Life THE VACANT LOT Ten years ago, in the midst of the depression of 1920-21, I made a talk before a thousand men, representing one of the country's basic industries. For weeks they had heard nothing but bad news from their salesmen. Their only mail was cancellations. It was a tough assignment for a speaker. I showed these hopeless gentlemen a photograph of a vacant lot, a big corner, a couple of hundred feet square, in the very center of New York. I said to them: "Doesn't it strike you as strange that here, in the heart of the greatest city, where land is worth thousands of dollars a front foot, there should be this vacant lot?" They were only mildly interested, but I took a deep breath and ploughed ahead. "I'll tell you why that lot is vacant," I continued. "It was part of a farm. Just a hundred years ago the farmer died; his will gave definite instructions to his heirs. They were at liberty to do as they wished with his other property, but this particular corner of his favorite pasture was to remain forever unencumbered with buildings, as a resting place for his bones and the bones of his wife. "Stop and think what that means." I said to my downhearted audience. "Only a hundred years ago... only a little more than one life-time, this island was farms. Moreover, the people who lived on it assumed that it always would be farms. Now look at it, a city of six million people." "Yet you men sit here in the midst of it and assume that because business has slowed up a little America is never going to buy more shoes, and more houses, any more automobiles. Don't be like the owner of that farm. The country which was pastures only three generations ago is going to step ahead. This is the time to make plans for a bigger future." They looked at me as much as to say: "Here is a bright young man trying his best to cheer us up. But, of course, he doesn't know what he is talking about." The other day, by a curious coincidence, I was invited to address the same convention, in the same hotel. I made the same speech. "You thought I was talking through my hat ten years ago," I said to them. "But just look at the last ten years. Every man in this room has done more business than he would have dreamed possible in 1920." I told them about the vacant lot again. They looked impressed, the charge that they were miserly. It cost the late Ella Wendel a small fortune to maintain the old house on the northwest corner of Thirty-ninth Street and Fifth avenue. In land taxes alone the estate paid the city about $250 a day for this corner plot. In addition there were other taxes and maintenance charges which probably brought the total up to about $300 a day. Lawyers for the estate have been quoted as reminding Miss Wendel that altogether it was coasting her $1,000 a day to live in the house, but her answer was that it was her home and that Tobey, the dog, had to have "a place to run about in." Skepitism regarding the outcome of the municipal election has been replaced by good-will toward Chicago, the association officials believe. Prior to the repudiation of "Thompsonism" they felt that there was a scant chance to get other of the conventions. Now they believe they are nearly sure to land the Democratic convention, while the opportunity to win the Republican gathering is greatly enhanced. The antipathy of the Hoover forces to the Thompson Republicans has never been concealed. Dear Cousin Bobby— I am riting this standing up cause Dads like hair brush has been working overtime an' every chair seems 2 be a seat of trouble. Dad says that men should always stand up for their rights but I guess boys have to stand up for their wrongs. Dad said this morning that he would like to go a hole week without spanking me—and I said, "Ok, Dad, you have my consent." Our teacher come over to our house the other day and Mom asked her — "Does Pinky like to study?"—and the teacher said — "Oh, he likes to do nothing better." As B4, Pinky R.S. I just found out what kind of dog lives longest—the dashhound. RINKY DINKY JINGLES, OUT! WE HAD A FAN IN OUR TOWN HE WASN'T SO WONDROUSWISE HE TRIED TO WHIP AN UMPIRE JUST ABOUT HALF HIS SIZE! OBSERVATIONS RUNNING UP NEW LIGHTING ROD If you hold your ear to the ground and listen you may hear distant rumblings in the political arena that sounds like something is brewing in the third-party line. Some people seem to think there are too many barnacles clinging to the old ship of state. It is rumored quite freely that a well known newspaper man is in receptive mood to take dictation, provided it were possible to start a third party of robust constitution. That the publisher has his weather eye on the chair in the White House is reflected by some of the pictures and pieces in his papers that have been liberated of late. M-m-m-m-m-m! NOT SO HOT After the election there was much rejoicing among a certain class of the population because it looked like the democrats would control the next congress. A movement to rush the game and seat the new men ahead of time flourished for a while, but cooled off considerably when it appeared the congress might be a liability and not an asset. The big noise for the democrats will be heard in 1932 when a new president will be elected. And while that office is what the dems are angling for, it is likely that nothing will happen to upset the present complexion of the congress, which is scheduled to be peaceful. THE BUGS GOT IT And now a keen-edged lawyer has discovered that when wine frements, it's not the hand of man that had anything to do with it, but it's the bacteria. PLAYING A LONE HAND In many cities, where married women held jobs, the order has gone forth that they must hand in their resignations. This puts it up squarely to the "old man" to provide the groceries. MODERN PAUL REVERE Another thing that adds to the complex, started by old man depression, is the guy who jockeys you into a corner and then proceeds to tell you how it all started. VIEWED WITH ALARM If one-hundredth part of the crime, that is going on in some of the big cities here, were to happen down in Tia Juana, many people would believe a grave situation existed. MODERN PAUL REVERE Another thing that adds to the complex, started by old man depression, is the guy who jockeys you into a corner and then proceeds to tell you how it all started. VIEWED WITH ALARM If one-hundredth part of the crime, that is going on in some of the big cities here, were to happen down in Tia Juana, many people would believe a grave situation existed. FAILED TO CLICK Quite often short story writers put a line at the top announcing that it will take a certain number of minutes to read their articles. A fella says he started a month ago and he has not finished it yet. SHAKING THE PLUM TREE A feller doesn't know how many nice state jobs there are, until the new "Gov" gets ready to change his forwarding address. ANYWAY, BOBBY HAD QUITE A TIME WHILE IT LASTED There were many Thanksgiving addresses; but the Prince of Wales thrilled the universe by declaring that they were thankful over there because Jones quite playing competitive golf. BITING OFF YOUR NOSE TO SPITE YOUR FACE To allow oil from foreign lands to come into this country free while wells here are shut down, throwing thousands of men out of work, (in order to conserve the home supply) is about as logical, says the rumble seat man, as slapping the hand that feeds you. KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURNING Rumor has it that the republican and democrat parties may go "wet" and the prohibitionists ready to put up a third party candidate. WOOSKY, VISKY, UMSKY There awhile ago it was said four million dollars worth of foreign likker was aboard the 12-mile limit ships waiting for the speed boats. HEY, EDDIE, WIND UP THE ALARM CLOCK If they are going to have another special session they should speed things up to allow the boys time to get home for the 4th. THEMS THE GUYS WHAT DOES THINGS If wust comes to wust and the civil men cannot check the crime wavers, they can call out the regulars. DIRECTORS DON'T SEEM TO BE CRAZY ABOUT THEM ANY MORE It begins to look to be derned important for beauty prize girls, when they head for Hollywood, to have a return ticket stored away in their vanity bags. MEBBE HE CRAVES EXCITEMENT It is said a man who was elected to a high office in an eastern THEMS THE GUYS WHAT DOES THINGS If wust comes to wust and the civil men cannot check the crime wavers, they can call out the regulars. DIRECTORS DON'T SEEM TO BE CRAZY ABOUT THEM ANY MORE It begins to look to be derned important for beauty prize girls, when they head for Hollywood, to have a return ticket stored away in their vanity bags. MEBBE HE CRAVES EXCITEMENT It is said a man who was elected to a high office in an eastern state, spent $650,000 during the campaign. Just why a man with that much money wants to get into office is as puzzling as why a chicken crosses the road. DUCKS HAVE IT New Puzzle:—Which are the most harmful, lame ducks that do something, or the deaf ducks that quack and do nothing. GETTING BETTER AND BETTER IN EVERY WAY A lady who has been in the amusement business for a long time has made a hit with the fans with one of her recent "pitchers." It is said she appeared before the footlights long before many of the present bathing beauties saw the light of day. While the lady has a very charming personality, it is believed she would not look well in shorts. Anyway, it has been given out on the best of authority, that in order for a actress to get by nowadays she must have something besides a pair of perfect limbs and a winning smile. Since the talkies came in it is reported a lot of young ladies who won prizes at beauty shows are waiting on table up in the town where scenes are shot. It is said in the daily curbstone social register that a young lady may be beautiful and still be dumb. NO DOUBT IT'S ONE OF THE BEST SELLERS From the usually close-mouther house detective it has been learned that a kodak fiend encountered an actress, taking a sun-bath in her exotic garden, in a town where they shoot scenes, and he got a "picter" of the reclining lady. Most people when taking a sun bath take the elevator for the top landing far away from the maddening crowd. However, as the charming actress has posed repeatedly before the camera, for her public, in varied and nifty makeups, in all-probability she will pass up this incident as just another gesture. Quite a few of the actresses have become gun shy. THROW OUT THE LIFE LINE Some men when on their respective home lot reservations might be some pumpkins; but, when they are elected to high office away from home they seem to get lost in the shuffle.