anaheim-gazette 1931-05-14

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. BUSINESS AND BOOZE Business began to require sobriety before prohibition was thought possible, says Henry Ford. Railroads and industries found sober employees necessary to safe and profitable operation. Besides, those employers who were anxious to improve the condition of their men by increasing their wages soon discovered that no business can afford to pay high wages to intemperate or drinking workmen. The Ford Motor Company raised its minimum wage first, and then undertook to insure the sober use of it. If the impossible should occur—he means the return of legalized liquor—its first effect would be a widespread reduction of wages—its first effect would be a widespread reduction of wages due to the demoralization of labor which liquor always causes. No one questions the great inflow of goods into homes which were formerly bare because of liquor. No one questions the great increase in general business since prohibition came. The liquor business made money for a very few—took money and money-making ability from very many. But general business since prohibition has resulted in the kind of trade that benefits all who engage in it—producer and consumer. He is certain that this present depression, falling as it does on a prohibition population, is going to result in more sober safeguards for the future than could have been possible had our people drunk their way through this experience. The people are sober thinking. And that is No one questions the great inflow of goods into homes which were formerly bare because of liquor. No one questions the great increase in general business since prohibition came. The liquor business made money for a very few—took money and money-making ability from very many. But general business since prohibition has resulted in the kind of trade that benefits all who engage in it—producer and consumer. He is certain that this present depression, falling as it does on a prohibition population, is going to result in more sober safeguards for the future than could have been possible had our people drunk their way through this experience. The people are soberly thinking. And that is the most hopeful sign we could have. THE ROAD TO PROSPERITY In this depression some folk of intelligence but little faith have been calling for immediate remedies, for strong leaders to make everything all right at once for everybody, and if not for these for some one to sacrifice on the altar of their discontent. As a matter of fact, says Walter S. Gifford, president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., there are plenty of men in the United States who have the capacity to become the "strong leaders" of history. But to be such they must have power, autocratic or tyrannical power. Uneducated peoples that cannot attend to their own affairs must have such leaders. Educated peoples do not need them and will not tolerate them. Forty years ago there may have been an idea that our people would like such leaders in industry, but the course of events since then has made it as clear as a Summer sky that the atmosphere of the United States is as bad for the autocrat in industry as for the autocrat in politics. In Gifford's opinion there is no use looking for any Napoleons to lead us on to economic Austerlitz—or to Waterloo. We are going to go forward out of this valley as we have from others before by the democratic road—by the thought and efforts of thousands of intelligent, able people—by the wisdom of the many. LOOKING AHEAD AT THE WEATHER The art of forecasting the weather has made tremendous advances since the U. S. Weather Bureau, oldest in the world, was established just sixty years ago. Government forecasters are now able to predict the weather not merely for tomorrow or next week, but the general trend of weather conditions for a long time ahead. Looking ahead for the crop season of 1931, Merbert Janvrin Browne, the long range weather forecaster of Washington, predicts that the after effects of the drought of 1930 will be felt in the middle and eastern part of the United States. Not enough moisture has yet been stored up to make up for the shortage. Extra heavy rains will be needed throughout the growing season to insure normal crops. Thus far this year there has been less than normal rainfall, except in the extreme Southeast and the Great Plains region. The subsoil is dry in the Central Mississippi Valley and the Middle Atlantic States, as well as in parts of the Northwest. And all over the country the water table is low. All of that means, among other things, that the winter wheat crop may easily fall forty million bushels below the government estimate, and that the rain shortage in the spring wheat areas of the Northwest and Western Canada will result in a crop as small as the low figures of 1929. Such a continuation of comparative dryness will, of course, have its effect upon all crops, and while this will mean misfortune for agriculture, it should have the affect on the whole of mat- TODAY FUN By W. W. M. President of Penn It is evident to you that no country in the world can be safe from impediments of one of the greatest ways of commercial trial nation, with our flag in excess of our land and with gold resale of our requirement our international ability to use our great surplusage of vantage, not only at the world at large. I cannot help feel certain fundamental world situation, so which must be correct put on a sound argument I also question whether we are basically enough. Among the fund tariff walls which are building against it to separate them into hermetically sealed so far as commerce further complicating war debts. The maintenance cards is a fine and but perhaps we shall faster toward recoalization of the facts some sound truth about the virtues high thinking," and omic laws still govern always, even in this era. DUDE RANCHI Scattered through dude ranches. This is $6,000,000, according industrial congresses yearly income exceed figures in a sparse place the dude ranches, and all the experiences countered on regular errants and others wedge edge of the great sport on dude ranches. UNCLE SAM IN NICARAGUA Theodore Roosevelt declared that the United States had a vital interest in protecting all nations which commanded or affected the approaches to the Panama Canal. This especially means Nicaragua, for there the United States is now conducting a survey, with a view to building, under treaty, a second isthmain canal. Those who demand that the United States abandon all effort to save Latin-America from being plunged into the horrors of armed revolution and chronic oppression and exploitation by military adventurers, speak in no spirit of friendship either to Latin-America or the United States. For the masses of the people in these countries are the chief victims of the irresponsible military adventurers who live on loot and pillage, and who seek to rule only in order that they may enrich themselves and satisfy their lust for power. It is customary for anti-Americans in the United States to inveigh against American capital invested in Latin-America. But foreign capital affords the only hope of that development in most of these countries which offers the prospect of orderly civilization or a decent standard of living for the masses. REDUCTION IN IMMIGRATION It is said that immigration has been reduced by 10,000 a month through the refusal of visac, that 1,500 a month being deported and that 200 a month will soon be going back voluntarily. There were only 3,147 alien admittances in February against 13,585 in February, 1930. Surely this energetic action of the administration is helping to solve the immigration problem. In reducing and restricting immigration America is not seeking to assert its superiority to other nations. We all realize the value that immigration has been to the nation in the past. But times have changed now and with about 5,000,000 of our people now unemployed, certainly the government is acting wisely in its present immigration policy. ANAHEIM GAZETTE No More Cares Being ex-President is not bad at all, judging by Calvin Coolidge's latest picture. See that smile? High-Low in Texas Rev. J. W. Holt, chaplain of the Texas House of Representatives, is 76 inches, and Charlie Lockhart, state treasurer, 46 inches. Going on Stage Flo Ziegfeld liked the looks of Eleanor Holm, 17, of New York so much he signed her up for a little girl's part. Not to swim. Short Essays On Popular Topics TODAY FUNDAMENTALS By W. W. ATTERBURY President of Pennsylvania Railroad. It is evident to all informed people that no country in the existing state of the world can be self-contained, and that the impediments of international trade reaches the reducing stage playing cowboy on a dude ranch. FRUIT OF JOSHUA TREE In the deserts of California, Arizona and New Mexico grows the Joshua tree, the giant of the cactus family. It never gets very tall and has only a few sprawling, awkward branches, and sends its main root deep into the sand in search of water. Its few branches are like giant arms, a leafless candelabra reared high above the scrub sage bushes or smaller cactus growing around it. The Joshua tree is the WHETHER WE FEEL THAT WAY OR NOT A friend of mine tells me that he has recently added to his income by working in the evenings as a press agent for an amusement park. It was his first contact with that great industry which has grown up Short Essays On Popular Topics TODAY FUNDAMENTALS By W. W. ATTERBURY President of Pennsylvania Railroad. It is evident to all informed people that no country in the existing state of the world can be self-contained, and that the impediments of international trade are one of the greatest obstacles in the way of commercial recovery. We are today a great agricultural and industrial nation, with our ability to produce far in excess of our ability to consume, and with gold reserves far in excess of our requirements; and, because of our international relations, we are unable to use our great credit system or our surplusage of production to advantage, not only to ourselves, but to the world at large. I cannot help feeling that there are certain fundamentals, some in the world situation, some here at home, which must be corrected before we are put on a sound and substantial basis. I also question whether they are receiving the attention they deserve—whether we are thinking deeply and basically enough. Among the fundamentals are the tariff walls which nearly all nations are building against one another, tending to separate the different countries into hermetically sealed compartments, so far as commerce is concerned, and further complicating the problem of the war debts. The maintenance of high living standards is a fine and laudable ambition, but perhaps we shall be on our way faster toward recovery with general realization of the fact that there is still some sound truth in the old saying about the virtues of "plain living and high thinking," and that sound economic laws still govern and control as always, even in this, our so-called new era. DUDE RANCHES IN ARIZONA Scattered throughout Arizona are 60 dude ranches. The total investment is $6,000,000, according to the Arizona industrial congress, while the average yearly income exceeds $2,000,000. Such figures in a sparsely populated state place the dude ranch in a position of importance, along with major industries. Dude ranches have been operated throughout the far west for more than a decade. Arizona, due to climatic peculiarities, is especially favored. Experienced cowboys are employed on the dude ranches, and the guests are given all the experiences that could be encountered on regular ranches. Easterners and others with but little knowledge of the great open spaces find good sport on dude ranches, and take home boy on a dude ranch. FRUIT OF JOSHUA TREE In the deserts of California, Arizona and New Mexico grows the Joshua tree, the giant of the cactus family. It never gets very tall and has only a few sprawling, awkward branches, and sends its main root deep into the sand in search of water. Its few branches are like giant arms, a leafless candelabra reared high above the scrub sage bushes or smaller cactus growing around it. The Joshua tree is the patriarch of the desert, thriving in a vast assemblage of old plant life. Desert birds feed upon its seeds. The fibre of the trunk twists and winds around, unlike grain of other trees. But the Jooshua tree yields a fruit which means much, or has meant much, to the Papago Indians. It yields fruit and drink for them, and in periods when these Indians were threatened with starvation, it has meant life itself to them. In June the Papagoo Indians go into community camps where the Joshua trees are plentiful and gather and preserve the fruit, making it into preserves or cooking it to a syrup from which they make wine. At the trading posts on the Papago Indian reservation one can purchase one or two-gallon olla jars filled with Joshua preserves, the tops of the jars sealed over with adobe mud, or sometimes with corn husks or leaves, and then the mud, to preserve the contents from spoiling. The fruit inside the jar will not be spoiled and is clean and wholesome. In their preserving processes the Papagos have never used sugar. It is not needed in Joshua preserves, for the fruit itself contains a high percentage of sugar. SMOKING IN AFRICA Antelope horns, gourds of many species, bamboo and a hole in the ground partly filled with water are a few of the alps to smoking which have been devied by the natives of Africa and Madagascar, according to the report of the scientific expedition of the Field Museum of Natural History. The expedition, consisting of Berthold Lauter, Wilfrid D. Hambly and Ralph Linton, recently return to the United States after having made a study of tobacco and its uses in Africa. They report that the plant is now chewed, smoked and snuffed all over the Dark Continent and on the neighboring island of Madagascar, although tobacco was not introduced into Africa until many years after its discovery in America. Some natives were seen to smoke tobacco through their flintlock muskets. They filled the priming-pan with tobacco and drew the smoke out through the muzzle. To their tobacco some African tribes add jisonweed or hemp, the latter plant being an importation from Arabia, to give their smoke an added potency. With the exception of a few tribes un- WHETHER WE FEEL THAT WAY OR NOT A friend of mine tells me that he has recently added to his income by working in the evenings as a press agent for an amusement park. It was his first contact with that great industry which has grown up out of the rather pathetic eagerness of folks to be happy—to have their minds diverted from their work and worries. He said: "My job has been hard work, but it taught me one thing that is priceless—how to look pleasant whether I feel that way or not." It reminded me of a conservation I once had with (the press agent of) a circus. In describing the freaks in the side-show, he remarked: "Every so often we have to send them away. They get sucker sore." "Sucker sore!" I exclaimed. "That's a new one on me. What's the meaning of sucker sore?" He explained that in the parlance of the circus, a customer is a sucker. It is not a derogatory term, merely the conventional phrase. "The freaks sit there on their raised platforms, listening to the comments of the suckers who press around them all day long." he said. "The living skeleton hears the same rude jokes a hundred thousand times. The fat lady is poked at with umbrellas, and kidded by smart young fellows who imagine that their wise cracks are something absolutely fresh and new. "Day after day the freaks put up with it, smiling patiently. But every day the strain of their suppressed emotions grows greater, until finally they want to jump down off their platforms and bite the customers. Then we have to send them away for a rest. They are 'sucker sore'." Most of us can sympathize with the freaks; we too have been sucker sore. There have come days when our tired nerves rebelled against the demands of the customers who give us a living; when we grumbled at the job for which we should have been grateful; when it seemed that all interest had gone from our work, leaving only dull routine. It is wise-on such days to pull down the desk and walk out of the office, and say: "I will not be back until tomorrow." But even this cure does not always work, or can not always be applied. Soon or late we have to face the fact that life is a tight, not a plecicle. And one of the elements of victory, in the words of my friend, is the capacity to "look pleasant, whether we feel that way or not." yearly income exceeds $2,000,000. Such figures in a sparsely populated state place the dude ranch in a position of importance, along with major industries. Dude ranches have been operated throughout the far west for more than a decade. Arizona, due to climatic peculiarities, is especially favored. Experienced cowboys are employed on the dude ranches, and the guests are given all the experiences that could be encountered on regular ranches. Easterners and others with but little knowledge of the great open spaces find good sport on dude ranches, and take home with them something to talk about for years to come. Arizona dude ranches set fine tables. A city man, thin for lack of proper nourishment, soon report that the plant is now chewed, smoked and snuffed all over the Dark Continent and on the neighboring island of Madagascar, although tobacco was not introduced into Africa until many years after its discovery in America. Some natives were seen to smoke tobacco through their flintlock muskets. They filled the priming-pan with tobacco and drew the smoke out through the muzzle. To their tobacco some African tribes add jinson-weed or hemp, the latter plant being an importation from Arabia, to give their smoke an added potency. With the exception of a few tribes under Mohunimedan influence, all Africans smoke, or at least use tobacco in some form. NOW PINKY EAT ALL YOUR SPINACH. ITS GOOD FOR YOU. AW NO, MOM! I DON'T LIKE SPINACH! WELL, DEAR, JUST PRETEND YOU LIKE IT! NO MOM! I'LL JUST PRETEND I'M EATING IT. Pinky Dinky JINGLES TWINKLE, TWINKLE LITTLE STAR IN THE MOVIES THERE YOU ARE, AND TO SEE YOU EVERY DAY ID GO; IF I OWNED A MOTION PICTURE SHOW! OBSERVATIONS LIKE RUNNING WATER OFF A DUCK'S BACK And now a learned attorney from out the east, has declared that the 18th amendment is unconstitutional. The measure has been accused of several things, and perhaps this last one will create about as much hilarity as 2.75. BURYING THE TOMAHAWK About a hundred years from now somebody might rise up and tell the cockeyed world why the men in legislative halls do not cooperate and work in harmony when something good needs to be done. FIGURING OUT THE BUDGETS An economist has figured out that he belives it would be better to pick big public men, to do things and go places, when things get into the haywire, and pay them a dollar a year, like they did during the war. You see, he says, everybody would then do his bit, and the high salaries now paid out could be passed out to help the poor. Think it ovah. STRANGE BEDFELLOWS When one man will yell about unemployment, and another will yell at a football game, after spending ten bucks to get into the yelling, it creates a complex similar to two horses pulling in opposite directions. RUBBING OUT MISTAKES The genius who put the rubber on lead pencils was a wonderful man, and may his tribe increase. It's too bad there are not more of his kind roundabout. For instance, in legislative halls see what he could do to keep certain fellows out of the haywire. He would have a wide range of possibilities before him now. COMING OUT FEET FIRST During the short session they had quite a fuss over whether or not they should put poison in the industrial alki. The man in the rumble seat wakes up long enough to ejaculate that the last he got hold of was bad enough, and the brand is a great help to boosting the undertaking business, without any outside treatment. But THE 'LIL SON-OF-A-GUNS ARE JUST AS HARD TO COMING OUT FEET FIRST During the short session they had quite a fuss over whether or not they should put poison in the industrial alki. The man in the rumble seat wakes up long enough to ejaculate that the last he got hold of was bad enough, and the brand is a great help to boosting the undertaking business, without any outside treatment. BUT THE 'LIL SON-OF-A-GUNS ARE JUST AS HARD TO CATCH AS EVER It is said your Uncle saves millions of dollars, in making the small-sized currency, by using less paper and ink. DANGEROUS PRECEDENT There awhile ago, just before they lighted the Christmas trees, a woman in another county was acquitted of a murder charge, when it appeared she shot her sister to death, as an act of mercy, because her kin was slowly grieving herself to death over family difficulties and the loss of her two children. The plot thickens. Any relative, who shows signs of mental decay, has heebee jeebees, or anything to show he or she has outlived their usefulness, may be a target for a bullet, or something. It would be terrible if this practice got a foothold. For instance, if a man, or his wife, wearied of each other, may be either could make themselves believe that the other was non-compos-mentis, or something like that, and give them the works. That would do away with going to Mexico or Reno; but if a feller had a conscience he might lose a lot of slip. WONDERFUL WESTERN WEATHER Some time back an investigation was ordered for a mayor of an eastern city, and they say the fireworks made it so hot for the official that his health was impaired. But that particular brand of warmth was not what he wanted, so he came west to bask in the Southland's sunshine. It was a sort of conditioning the mayor desired in order to give battle to his opponents and fight back. He only stayed 10 days but the sunbaths out here did the work so well that he went back home and knocked out the adversaries in one round. If the mayor would have stayed here for, say a month, it's no telling what he would have done to his enemies. It might have required the services of a surgeon to dig his fist out of the other guy's solar plexus, or something like that. Anyway the sunbaths are on tap out here, and you are put in the pink while you wait. REACHING UP INTO THE SKY If that blue sky law was in good working order how in heck could a man embezzle eight million dollars of people's money entrusted to his care, without the headman getting his lamps on the loopholes. ON AGAIN, GONE AGAIN And now it appears another able jurist has decided that the 18th amendment is unconstitutional, and naturally that has unloosened a lot of citations, alibis and rebuttals, or what have you. TWO AND TWO MAKE FOUR Speaking of relativity and whatnots there is the confessed emblezzler and the jailhouse across the way; and oh, yes, the aching tooth that stopped thumping when you saw the dentist. ON AGAIN, GONE AGAIN And now it appears another able jurist has decided that the 18th amendment is unconstitutional, and naturally that has unloosened a lot of citations, alibis and rebuttals, or what have you. TWO AND TWO MAKE FOUR Speaking of relativity and whatnots there is the confessed emblezzler and the jailhouse across the way; and oh, yes, the aching tooth that stopped thumping when you saw the dentist. VIEWED WITH ALARM After a ruler has been on the throne for nigh onto 30 years, and then has to leave his country between two suns, do you believe he would go to the poor house. GET RICH QUICK, AND THEN WEEP When people lose money in financial concerns its sad to be sure. Many times they fall for that hight rate of interest promised by the high powered promoter. People should be careful. They should know that money, legally, can only earn a certain amount. High interest is suspicious. POURING WATER DOWN A RAT HOLE During one of the latest financial blowouts it was said most of the lost money went into the oil game. And sad to relate they got dusters. HOWEVER, IT'S GOOD FOR THE SOUL Moses—What am a confesshion? Rastus—You all don't know what is a confession? Well, lookit heah, big boy, a confession whats you make on the outside aint worth the paper it is written on; but when youse gets into court and holds up your right hand you usually don't make no confession—after you see your lawyer. AW, HECK, BRACE UP; IT MIGHT BE WORSE People are easily frightened. And money, that gets frightened, too. When scared money hides out like a jack rabbit. The depression ailment, it seems many had it, came and is on the way out. It was a sort of psychological sickness. Many thought they had it, but didn't. And they tried to show the scars. This country has been through some tough times. But things always righted themselves. Maybe these hard times come just about so often in order to clean house. People should live within their means. It's bad business to go in for luxuries and come out with mortgages.