anaheim-gazette 1931-06-04

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. A CHAIN STORE BOOMERANG The Indiana Legislature at its last session, alert for something new to tax, passed a bill levying tribute on the chain stores which thrive abundantly in that and every other State. To evade the charge of discrimination which the chain stores were apt to bring, the legislature authorized a tax of $3 a year on each and every store of every kind of merchandise, and increasing the tax step by step in the chain store groups according to the number of stores a chain might have. Under the schedule some chains might pay $750 a year and other and larger groups considerably more, while an independent store would pay $3. All of the large chains operating in Indiana are incorporated under the laws of other states and they brought a test suit in the U.S. Court to upset the Indiana law, basing their plea on discrimination. They won the suit. The State of Indiana appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which a few days ago upset the decision of the lower court and held that the Indiana legislature had authority to levy the tax. Since the Indiana law went into effect, the legislatures of several other states have patterned after it, and in time it is likely that similar tax laws against the chain stores will be enacted in all the States. The law makers are proceeding on the theory or fact that chains do nothing of civic value for the communities in which they conduct their stores. They do not support chambers of com- U. S. Court to upset the Indiana law, basing their plea on discrimination. They won the suit. The State of Indiana appealed to the U. S. Supreme Court, which a few days ago upset the decision of the lower court and held that the Indiana legislature had authority to levy the tax. Since the Indiana law went into effect, the legislatures of several other states have patterned after it, and in time it is likely that similar tax laws against the chain stores will be enacted in all the States. The law makers are proceeding on the theory or fact that chains do nothing of civic value for the communities in which they conduct their stores. They do not support chambers of commerce, charity and welfare organizations, and make no contributions to the general public weal of a community from which they extract business. Hence this spreading movement to take something back from the chain stores by taxation. With the taxation plan in operation in every State, the chain organizations would be in for heavy expense in operating their stores. On the other hand, the new tax scheme may prove a boomerange rather than a financial benefit to a community. Since chain stores sell merchandise on narrow margins of profit, with each sale generally in cents rather than dollars, the chain may in turn penalize the people of each State by raising the price of each article two or three pennies and in this way recover the amount spent for taxes, throwing the taxes back upon the very people who took the tax money from them. They are shrewed and far-seeing—chain stores are, else they would not or could not go on and on expanding their links or units as they do. It will take a smart lot of legislators to devise a taxation scheme that the chain stores cannot elude. SUMMER EATING Summer is here and we are changing our eating habits for the warm weather. The canners and the preservers do wonderful things, but somehow or other even the best canned goods don't taste like fresh vegetables right out of the garden. It is not to be wondered at that city folks all try to spend their summers in the country. People that never go outside the big cities don't know what really fresh peas and sweet corn and lima beans and the rest of the garden products taste like. And as for fresh eggs—well we are just sorry for city folks. With all the talk about depression and unemployment, we notice that people are eating just about as much as they ever did. That is one great thing about these United States, we can make an awful lot of fuss about hard times, but it is only in a very few parts of the United States that anybody has really suffered for lack of food through all of our recent difficulties. There has been a great deal of very genuine suffering in the regions affected by last year's drought, but that has not primarily been due to hard times, and the people of the best of the United States have been generous in their response to them. So it seems a fair statement that there are not conditions approaching starvation anywhere in the United States. And, for the great majority of our people, they not only have plenty to eat, but more than they need and now for the next few months they will have what we think is the finest food in world. That is, the fresh stuff out of the gardens. In the South the watermelon season has begun. It will work its wav north until New England's melons are ripe, just a few days ahead of the first September frost. If there was nothing else to look forward to in summer, the watermelon alone would almost be a sufficient excuse for living. That is something we have that they don't have in most other parts of the world. It is... In the South the watermelon season has begun. It will work its way north until New England's melons are ripe, just a few days ahead of the first September frost. If there was nothing else to look forward to in summer, the watermelon alone would almost be a sufficient excuse for living. That is something we have that they don't have in most other parts of the world. It is hard to believe it, but there are literally hundreds of millions of people in Europe who never had a chance to taste a watermelon. And cantaloupes! Some old-fashioned folks still prefer to call them muskmelons. They taste just about as good under one name as under the other. And sweet corn? We don't know who invented Golden Bantam, but he ought to have a medal and his statue in the Hall of Fame. They have been picking strawberries in Florida since January, but it will not be long now before all the rest of the country will be eating fresh berries out of our own strawberry beds. Another week or two of sunshine the meadows and pastures of the northern states will be covered with wild strawberries. They are a lot harder to pick, but they are a lot sweeter and juicer than the best and biggest berries ever grown in the garden patch. Once we get started writing about good things to eat, it is hard to tell where to stop. What we are really trying to say is that this is the season of the year when we folks who live in the small towns and the country have it al lover the city people who don't know anything about what good eating is until they come out to the rural districts. Well, come on you city folks. THE HORSE COMES BACK The day of the horses as motive power on the farm is far from being over. Some recent figures, compiled by the Minnesota agricultural authorities, show that for a great many kinds of farm work, which used to be done by horses but lately have been done by motors, the horse is again the cheaper motive power. Oats and hay are selling for the lowest prices in years. Even though gasoline is down, there are a great many farmers who are finding it now more economical to use horses. On the other hand, race horses and riding horses are more expensive than ever before. The United States Army is finding it difficult to get enough high-grade horses, part thoroughbred, ofr cavalry remounts. Numerous sales of the saddle horses, or so-called steeplechase or hunter-type, have been made in the East at prices ranging above $3,000 anpiece. Horses of a similar type and quality were easily purchasable for $500 or $600 until a few years ago. Bruce Barton Looks at Ways of Life OTHER PEOPLE'S SUCCESS We went to the opening night of a play. Between the acts we were talking with the author when a friend rushed up. "It's to be a great success, old man," he cried. "I congratulate you." Then his expression suddenly changed. Jealously shot into his eyes. "I wish I knew how you get away with it," he exclaimed. "Why in the world can't I write a play?" As he walked away we looked after him with pity. We know him well. We have seen him act the same way before. His whole attitude is introspective. Envy guards forever at his soul. One of the most pathetic figures in the literary history of England was the author George Gissing. What was the secret of his constant unhappiness? He reveals a part of it in presenting the hero of one of his own novels: Intensely self-conscious, he suffered from a habit of comparing, contrasting himself with other men, with men who achieved things, who made their way, who played their part in the world. He could not read a newspaper without reflecting, sometimes bitterly, on the careers and position of men whose names were prominent in its columns. Philosophers and religious teachers have attempted in various ways to account for the gross inequalities of life and to hold out future hope to those who seem to have received only a niggarly portion of happiness. Christian theology presents the promise of another world where rewards will be distributed in proportion to sacrifice, courage and fidelity to truth. The reincarnationist holds that the soul is but a short time tenant in any human frame; that if I make spiritual progress in this incarnation I shall reappear in happier form; or, failing to progress, will be demoted, to work my way painfully up again. Until we have passed across the River Short Essays On Popular Topics PEACE ABOVE WAR By Dr. O. C. KIEP, German Consul General in New York, to German Veterans. Greater than war and the noble spirit it produces, greater than the valor and devotion of war's deeds is the spirit that can overcome war. In uniting here enemies of yesterday as friends of today, soldiers who fought bitterly against each other in war, as comrades and friends in peace, we are seeking to realize for ourselves and our countries a greater achievement. We are seeking the noblest fruits of the deeds of war and of the sacrilege brought by our departed comrades, in trying to insure that their children—if they were fortunate to have such—and children's children should not be called upon again in future times to bring that supreme and noble but at the same time most deplorable sacrifice. In the first place, we can, as individuals and as organizations, stand for peace and offer the prestige and authority which our veteranship confers upon us in our different countries and communities in support and encouragement of those who are striving and working for the great aim of a permanent understanding among peoples. Today, as perhaps never before, statesmen and governments are engaged in manifold activities toward the establishment and maintenance of peace. Economists and businessmen are exhorting their political leaders to banish the spectre of new war which is exercising such a devastating effect on our national and world economic system. There is, I submit, more sincere and more convincing than the soldier who has learned from his own experience and from the fate of his friends and comrades in war really means. Let us then see how we feel a prime duty and a prudent act to insist on the establishment that peace for which we fought and which our comrades died. and to hold out future hope to those who seem to have received only a nig-garly portion of happiness. Christin theology presents the promise of another world where rewards will be distributed in proportion to sacrifice, courage and idulity to truth. The renunciationist holds that the soul is but a short time tenant in any human frame; that if I make spiritual progress in this incarnation I shall appear in happier form; or, failing to progress, will be demoted, to work my way painfully up again. Until we have passed across the River we shall not know which, if either, of these philosophies is true. Meanwhile, the sensible man is not afraid to face frankly the facts about life and about himself. He recognizes that he was born with certain limitations; that, however strong the desire for brilliant achievement, he has neither the talent nor the opportunity. He recognizes further that success, as the world views it, contains a very appreciable element of chance. He surveys his own equipment and tries serenely to do the best he can with what ever he has. As he grows older and more mellow, he recognizes that every minute of jealousy poisons his own soul. And that he can vastly increase his own pleasure by the habit of enjoying other people's success. THE DOCTOR AND YOUR MONEY Despite all the talk these days of huge medical fees, leaders of the medical profession declare that it is still as easy to get your money's worth when you are ill as it ever was. The trick, apparently, is in knowing how. "The price you can pay is not of first importance in obtaining the best doctor, be he family physician or specialist," says Dr. Hugh Grant Rowell in the American Magazine. "The first and most important step is to find a good family doctor—and hold on to him after you find him. Make him your consultant." Tell him your story, honestly. Make it clear that he is to consider the family his professionally, and that you expect him to help you stay solvent as well as healthy. He'll see that you get a dollar's worth of service for every dollar you pay, from the specialist as well as himself. "There are several reliable ways to select a general practitioner. Memberships in medical societies means something. Most physicians of consequence belong to the American Medical Association and to a state and county association. Then there are other societies based on specialization, and membership in those usually means superqualifications." A man who has been admitted as a fellow of the American College of Surgeons or the College of Physicians bears a sterling-mark. "Last but not least in deciding whether a doctor is the right doctor for you, size up your prospective physician as a man. The good doctor is a doctor maintenance of peace. Economists and business men are exhorting their political leaders to banish the spectre of new war which is exercising, such a devastating effect on our national and world economic system. There is, I submit, no more sincere and more convincing than the soldier who has learned from his own experience and from the fate of his friends and comrades war really means. Let us then realize how feel it prime duty and a prerequisite to insist on the establishment of peace for which we fought and which our comrades died. The wise man and the fool seem much alike when they fall in love or try to explain hard times—Boston Post. Almony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them continues to pay for it—American Lumberman. BUILDERS OF MORE BREAD IN 1 HOUR 5,000 delicious b in many a modern bakery now supplies the "staff population. To produce the nec- to sell them at a few c well as modern method- 5 of the 7 largest baking companies in California are depositors in Bank of America WHY BASEBALL HEROES FAIL John K. Tener, big league baseball pitcher who became governor of Pennsylvania and latter president of the National League, has just tried to answer the question: "Why do most baseball heroes fall in the big game of life?" Here is his answer: "Baseball is like any other game—a fine way to start life, but a mighty poor finish. It's a spring-board, not a job. That's what the average player doesn't realize. He stays in the game too long. Before he knows it he has reached middle age without having formed any of the habits of action and thought that will fit him for work. Junted at forty!" "For another thing, the whole American attitude toward sport is all wrong. We are the only people in the world who make sport a business. How can there possibly be a future in anything that has an age limit of from thirty-five to forty?" In 1928 the Biological Survey moved 23 buffalo from Montana to Alaska. They are now located and the herd numbers 29. Stalin says tyranny made him a radical. Do radicalism make him a tyrant?—Springfield Republican BUILD... while the Dollar is worth more! and take advantage of the savings Consolidated Rock Products Service and Quality can show you. Improve that vacant property! You will be surprised at the low cost for a complete building job today. and remember, the BIG ORANGE TRUCKS are at your service, anywhere, any time. Start them YOUR way. Twenty-seven producing plants, 22 distributing bunkers, 250 fast trucks and four railroad systems can rush a ton or a trainload of material to your job... QUICK! 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