anaheim-gazette 1931-07-16

THE A.NAHEIM 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. THE COST OF ILLNESS There is another thing that is as sure as death and taxes—sickness. The average American man is ill once a year; the average American woman nearly twice as often; the child of school age twice as often. These are figures taken from a study made by the Cimmittee on the Costs of Medical Care, which is coming to the end of a five year study of the economic aspects of the prevention of disease and the care of the sick. These illnesses total about 130,000,000 every year. Their direct cost in money is computed by the Committee at $3,105,000,000. This is a huge cost, reckoned either in terms of time lost or of money expended. The cost would be huge even if we could foresee just when we will fall ill, just how serious the illness will be, or just how long it will last. None of those things, however, can be foreseen, and to all the other burdens that illness imposes upon us must be added uncertainty. Uncertainty exists not only as to appearance and character of illness, it is even more a factor with relation to cost. No problem enters into the daily lives of Americans that is more serious than this. Medical facilities in the United States are adequate in the aggregate, perhaps. The committee has found that 1,500,000 people devote their full time to medical care. There is one physician to every 126 inhabitants. Over 7,000 hospitals have 900,000 beds, which would give every man, woman and child one-half days occupancy a year. But neither physicians nor hospitals are evenly distributed; there are places that have too many, and many more that have too few. What can be done about seeing that everybody in the United States has sure and convenient access to the medical care to which he is entitled? What can be done about seeing that those who furnish this care adequately rewarded for their labor? Medical facilities in the United States are adequate in the aggregate, perhaps. The committee has found that 1,500,000 people devote their full time to medical care. There is one physician to every 126 inhabitants. Over 7,000 hospitals have 900,000 beds, which would give every man, woman and child one-half days occupancy a year. But neither physicians nor hospitals are evenly distributed; there are places that have too many, and many more that have too few. What can be done about seeing that everybody in the United States has sure and convenient access to the medical care to which he is entitled? What can be done about seeing that those who furnish this care are adequately rewarded for their labor? What can be done about seeing that the means of paying for this care are provided for all the people? In the four years which it has already put in upon its task such progress has been made that answers to those questions will soon be submitted to the people of the United States. There is promise that the formula which will result will be workable. If it is, then one of the great contributions to civilization of our age will have been made. SAFETY ON THE BEACHES Approximately twenty lives of pleasure-seekers were sacrificed on the beaches of the Southern California coast on the Fourth, all due to the dangerous rip tides, which is abundant evidence that the life guards are not going far enough in their service to the public. If any one should know when rip tides are running, it should be these life guards and they should have available signs of warning which could on short notice be displayed warning the bathers of the impending danger. Some of those who lost their lives on the Fourth either did not know of the danger of a rip tide, or else in their fool-hardiness disregarded the danger. Education of the public as to the danger of these treacherous tides is too slow a process. There should be some distinctive warnings posted on the beaches when the rip tides are running, and it should be as much the business of the life guards to watch for these vicious tides and warn the public against them as it is their business to go to the rescue of victims who are carried out to sea. THE WORLD AND US It seems to us that a great deal of the talk about the danger of having any relations with Europe is political hooey intended to put the other fellow's party in a hole. There isn't any way that the United States can keep from having relations with Europe and all the rest of the world. "No man liveth to himself alone" is as true between nations as it is between individuals. There was a time, when George Washington was alive, before steamships, telegraph, telephones and airplanes had been invented and when the United States was a weak, struggling little strip of settlements along the Atlantic Coast, when we had a right to be afraid of Europe. But it makes us mad to listen to some of the people today who profess to be afraid that if we, the richest and most powerful nation of the world, have any relations except those of trade with foreign countries, those countries will gobble us right up. The surest way to keep out of a quarrel is to live on good terms with your neighbors. All the world is our neighbor today. When you have a good neighbor who is in temporary difficulties you try to help him—that is, if you yourself are a good neighbor. That is what the United States is proposing to do now in the case of our neighbors in Europe. We don't believe that that sort of host, who is a no-shaving, and I was to use very "it seems sort so conscientious," all, the few droves won't make any "They don't make the final result," make a lot of diffrence. When he saw that I did not quit he proceeded to go of life. He said that we college, a quarter there was a great emphasis upon service." Science had been derful new invention human happiness by the hope of Young people gravel that few years o transform the w My friend was of the reformer voted, and agitation happened. The whom he cast h The good causes Human nature is unwillingness to "I went through disillusionment," to myself, what's thing when one's futile? "One day while I discovered them, 'I therefore may exhibit judge in a Wherefore, discuss that most men to the truth, reality to live can; and when I invite all ot most of my contest, which all contests he "That flashed-bolt of lightning," "It clarified ever "I realized that for the success cause. All I am own best effort er my vote be effe the amount of make any different questions. "That discover fort," he conclude use it in one of "Many thanks." a weak, struggling little strip of settlements along the Atlantic Coast, when we had a right to be afraid of Europe. But it makes us mad to listen to some of the people today who profess to be afraid that if we, the richest and most powerful nation of the world, have any relations except those of trade with foreign countries, those countries will gobble us right up. The surest way to keep out of a quarrel is to live on good terms with your neighbors. All the world is our neighbor today. When you have a good neighbor who is in temporary difficulties you try to help him—that is, if you yourself are a good neighbor. That is what the United States is proposing to do now in the case of our neighbors in Europe. We don't believe that that sort of thing constitutes the sort of "entangling alliance" of which Washington warned us. DEBT AND ARMAMENTS As a matter of fact the "burden" of debt payments to America on the backs of European taxpayers is very small when compared with the burden of armament. Senator Shipstead, of Minnesota, pointed out recently that foreign governments pay their debts to the United States "with less than one half of one percent of their national wealth, less than three percent of their national budget, and less than 13 per cent of what they spend for their armaments for war." And the senator added that he had serious doubts as to the validity of the argument that we ought to cancel the debts in the interest of international "good will" for the reason that "if a man is only your friend on condition that you pay his bills, his friendship is of doubtful value." FUTURE OF EUROPE There can be little doubt that we are on the threshold of sweeping changes in the European situation. Whether they will be changes for the better or worse depends now on the nations of Europe and the degree of cooperation they can maintain among themselves. Uncle Sam has made the first move in seeking the twelve months postponement of debt and deparations payments. He cannot help Europe further unless Europe decides first to tighten its belt, to retrench all along the line, and to seek cooperation among the various nations of the continent. President Hoover has now given the nations of Europe a splendid opportunity to prove that they want to help themselves and to pull out of their difficulties. If they cooperate and show the proper spirit of giving and taking they can pull out. But if they miss the opportunity which Uncle Sam has given them and decide to sink further into the mire they will never get a similar chance. The American people will become convinced that they are not sincere, that they put politics above cooperation, and their international friends on this side of the Atlantic will be silenced forever. ANAHEIM GAZETTE Thorpe Now in Movies Jim Thorpe, America's great Indian athlete twenty years ago, has "gone Hollywood" and is shown playing the part of an Indian chief. A Classical Beauty Miss Alikl Diplerekos, 19, of Greece, was chosen as the most beautiful girl in all Europe by Hollywood judges. She intends to become a writer and not a film actress. A Legal Blueblood Richard Coke Marshall, 23, of Washington, D.C., has just graduated from Harvard Law school. He is a direct descendant of Lord Chief Justice Coke, of England. Bruce Barton Looks at Ways of Life WHAT DOES IT MATTER? Last summer there was a water shortage in a town where I was visiting. I happened to be chatting with my host, who is a noted man, while he was shaving, and I noticed how careful he was to use very little water. "It seems sort of silly for you to be so conscientious," I remarked. "After all, the few drops that you conserve won't make any difference." "They don't make any difference in the final result," he said, "but they make a lot of difference to me." When he saw from my expression that I did not quite get his meaning, he proceeded to give me his philosophy of life. He said that when he graduated from EVOLUTION OF "OLD GLORY" Recent historical research has brought to light practically every important step in the evolution of the American flag, a process which required more than 75 years. No army or navy record mentions the Stars and Stripes until 1861, nor does it appear in any army regulations until that year. The popular Betsy Ross story is a myth, according to Irvine Haines, whose summary of flag evolution has been published as basic material for patriotic studies in women's clubs. The actual American flag was raised by John Paul Jones an the sloop-of-war Alfred in the Delaware River, 1775. On January 3, 1776, a flag waved over General Washington's head quarters at Cambridge, known as the "grand union flag," due to the union of the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew. From it originated the thirteen stripes in the American flag. It was used until October 1777. The adopted by Congress on June 14, 1777, did not receive any public recognition until 1793 when it had third-rate status. VOLCANIC ISLANDS By CHARLES F. TALMAN (In New York Times) A marine volcano that has been playing hide-and-seek for many years is Falcon Island, one of the Tonga group, in the South Pacific. The spot was so named in 1865, when H. M. S. Falcon reported it as a shoal. In 1877 H. M. S. Sappho observed smoke issuing from the sea at this place. In 1885 a submarine volcano suddenly burst into activity and, in the course of a year's intermittent eruptions, raised a mound 200 feet high. Later observations showed that this was gradually wearing away and by 1898 it had disappeared, the site being occupied by a shoal. In 1900 a small part was again above water. In 1913 host, who is a noted man, while he was shaving, and I noticed how careful he was to use very little water. "It seems sort of silly for you to be so conscientious," I remarked. "After all, the few drops that you conserve won't make any difference." "They don't make any difference in the final result," he said, "but they make a lot of difference to me." When he saw from my expression that I did not quite get his meaning, he proceeded to give me his philosophy of life. He said that when he graduated from college, a quarter of a century ago, there was a great deal of popular emphasis upon so-called "social service." Science had begun to introduce wonderful new inventions for increasing human happiness. Men were stirred by the hope of a quick millennium. Young people graduated with the notion that few years of earnest effort would transform the world. My friend was one of the most eager of the reformers. He organized, voted, and agitated, and did all the things that he should. But nothing happened. The good candidates for whom he cast his vote were defeated. The good causes made slow progress. Human nature showed a discouraging unwillingness to change. "I went through a period of deep disillusionment," he said. "I thought to myself, what's the use of doing anything when one's single effort seems so futile? "One day while I was in this mood I discovered these words of Socrates: "I therefore... consider how I may exhibit my soul before the judge in a healthy condition. Wherefore, disregarding the honors that most men value, and looking to the truth, I shall endeavor in reality to live as virtuously as I can; and when I die, to die so. And I invite all other men, to the utmost of my power; ... to this contest, which, I affirm, surpasses all contests here." "That flashed across my mind like a bolt of lightning," my friend continued. "It clarified everything. "I realized that I am not responsible for the success or failure of any good cause. All I am responsible for is my own best effort in that cause. Whether my vote be effective or not; whether the amount of water I can save will make any difference—these are not the questions. "That discovery gave me great comfort," he concluded. "Maybe you could use it in one of your editorials?" "Many thanks." I answered. "I can." Telephone users in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia last year made more than 1,070,000,000 telephone calls over the Bell System lines, which was an increase of 26,400,000 over the number made in 1929. The actual American flag was raised by John Paul Jones on the sloop-of-war Alfred in the Delaware River, 1775. On January 3, 1776, a flag waved over General Washington's head quarters at Cambridge, known as the "grand union flag," due to the union of the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew. From it originated the thirteen stripes in the American flag. It was used until October 1777. The adopted by Congress on June 14, 1777, did not receive any public recognition until 1793 when it had thirteen stars in a circlo and two in the center, and was never carried in the Continental army or navy. Congress adopted a flag on July 4, 1818, having twenty white stars on a blue field and thirteen red and white stripes. Since than a star has been added to the consellation as each new state was born, so that the flag today has forty-eight stars and thirteen stripes. If the Virgin Islands had water enough for irrigation many of the soils would be highly productive, a soil survey shows. FOUND IN BATH TUB Hiram Maxim, inventor of "silencers" for firearms, for giant diesel engines and motorboats and factory exhausts, has just revealed for the first time that the idea for this invention came originally from his bath-tub. "I had been working on the problem of a silencer for many years, but seemed to get nowhere," he says in the American magazine. "Then, quite unexpectedly one morning, the solution came to me. I had just finished my bath, was standing on the cold floor thinking of my problem, when I happened to glance down into the tub. In stepping out I had stirred up the water, given it a rotating motion. Now it was whirling around the drain, whirling fast. And in the center was an air hole, extending from the surface into the pipe." "The whirling motion, I saw prevented the water from entering the drain until it had slowed down. Watching it, I did a bit of traction. I saw the air hole as the brake of a rifle and the water as the hot noisy gases created by the discharge of the cartridge. The rest was easy. I made a tube that would fit the muzzle of a gun and inside it placed a series of spirals in such a way that they would catch the gases and while them around the opening left for the bullet. Thus they were slowed down, silenced before they reached the air." The telephone systems of Paraguay and Argentina are soon to be fully connected. Service has already been inaugurated between the cities of Encarnacion, Paraguay, and Posadas, Argentina. Falcon Island, one of the Tonga group, in the South Pacific. The spot was so named in 1865, when H. M. S. Falcon reported it as a shoal. In 1877 H. M. S. Sappho observed smoke issuing from the sea at this place. In 1885 a submarine volcano suddenly burst into activity and, in the course of a year's intermittent eruptions, raised a mound 290 feet high. Later observations showed that this was gradually wearing away and by 1898 it had disappeared, the site being occupied by a shoal. In 1900 a small part was again above water. In 1913 H. M. S. Cormoran reported that the island had disappeared and, so far as known, it remained beneath the surface for fifteen years. In October, 1927, great columns of smoke were observed in the direction of Falcon from a neighboring island. H. M. S. Laburnum proceeded to the spot and found a violent eruption in progress. This continued at intervals for months, building a larger island than had previously occupied the site. In 1928 a small party of Americans and Tongans landed, with considerable difficulty, on the newly formed island where subdued volcanic activity was still in progress, and raised the flag of the Kingdom of Tonga over it. It should be noted that the rise of a volcanic island is not a slow process of uplift, such as is constantly changing the elevation of seacoasts in many parts of the world, but is the abrupt result a submarine eruption. As water covers nearly three-fourths of the earth's surface, submarine eruptions are probably more common that eruptions on dry land. Many, however, occur at such depths that they give no token of their occurrence except through causing earthquake shocks. Others, at moderate depths, may send up steam, discolor the surface water, etc. Still others finally build volcanic cones above the level of the water, forming islands, which may remain indefinitely or may be worn away in the course of time by weathering and wave action. Farmers and other individual landowners in the United States planted 33,467 acres to forest trees in 1930. EFFECTS OF GOOD ROADS What has been the effect of the good roads upon the business life of the small town? Here is an example that bears upon the domestic life as well. In 1910, about 80 per cent of the bread consumed in this country was baked by housewives in the homes. Today the proportion is exactly reversed, four-fifths of the bread being now produced in bakeries. Good streets and roads and motor transport by commercial bakeries, especially to suburban regions or outlying small towns, have been a major factor in bringing about this dramatic change in our household economy. "That discovery gave me great comfort," he concluded. "Maybe you could use it in one of your editorials?" "Many thanks," I answered. "I can." Telephone users in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia last year made more than 1,070,000,000 telephone calls over the Bell System lines, which was an increase of 26,400,000 over the number made in 1929. The telephone systems of Paraguay and Argentina are soon to be fully connected. Service has already been inaugurated between the cities of Encarnacion, Paraguay, and Posadas, Argentina. Here is an example that bears upon the domestic life as well. In 1910, about 80 per cent of the bread consumed in this country was baked by housewives in the homes. Today the proportion is exactly reversed, four-fifths of the bread being now produced in bakeries. Good streets and roads and motor transport by commercial bakeries, especially to suburban regions or outlying small towns, have been a major factor in bringing about this dramatic change in our household economy. OBSERVATIONS GOING OVER THE TOP Now, that they have got started it would be a good idea to deport all undesirable aliens and put a tariff on oil. HAVEN OF REST And it has been suggested that they keep Muscle Shoals for the lame ducks. THE GHOST WALKED It looks as though it took all of Andy's spare change to fill those pay envelopes. DO YOU, MEAN, MISTER, THAT IT'S ALL WET? In another county one editor says the other editor's paper belongs to the ante-diluvian age. (Oh, Yeah!) CONSISTENCY THOU ARE A JEWELL There awhile ago in the wide open spaces some one said something about playing politics at the expense of human misery. The zippy phrase rang out loud and long and then the echo came back. But believe it or leave it, it is on the broadcasting board that foreign oil is let in free while wells here are shut down throwing out of employment at least a quarter of a million men, and the ground hog was shy on coming out. AFRICAN IN THE WOODPILE A piece in the paper said several leaders among the big medicine men held a meeting to arrange a program to save the nation. Of course, there is no immediate danger of the country sinking, even though there are some bad leaks in the boat. Whether or not there are any goats in cheep clothing running around, some guys incline to the notion that a third party is the offing. Two is company and three is a crowd and should it so happen that the favorite sons of each party desire to sit in the big chair, a three cornered scrap may put a lot of pep in the proceedings and a fella will have to wait until all the votes are counted to see who's the winner. HIT 'EM HIP AND THIGH A movement is on foot to smoke out the big fellers who are said to have a strangle hold on the nation's food supply. Report has it that they are going to be investigated. Some people would take candy away from a baby or steal a nickel from the blind peddler, but any guy who would knowingly and wilfully get his HIT 'EM HIP AND THIGH A movement is on foot to smoke out the big fellers who are said to have a strangle hold on the nation's food supply. Report has it that they are going to be investigated. Some people would take candy away from a baby or steal a nickel from the blind peddler, but any guy who would knowingly and wilfully get his lucre out of the housewife's bread-basket is so small that if you would place 10 thousand of them on a nickel none of them would touch elbows. HOW ABOUT ANOTHER RAIL SPLITTER Next year there is going to be an important election in this country, and while there is no doubt many longing eyes looking at the white mansion, the people should see to it that a good man lands the persimmon. THE HANG OVER In some quarters there is quite a bit of excitement as to whether or not prohibition is going to be an issue in 1932. For the love of Lulu why bring that up. COME INTO MY PARLOR SAID THE SPIDER TO THE FLY Over in another valley the people are said to be greatly alarmed at the way persons go over the border to drink and gamble. They say forbidden fruit is always the sweetest; but you may rest assured they don't sell any savings banks down there. HEY, EDDIE, FETCH A BARREL A report gained wide publicity on the radio the other day, concerning an editor in another town, who lost four suits of clothes in a robbery. Up to the hour of going to press it has not been learned whether or not they were shorts or the regular union variety. To believe they were of the Tuexedo, or Palm Beach vintage is out of range of the wildest possibility. Once upon a time there was an editor who appered in a brand new suit the morning after a gent's furnishing goods store had been robbed—and he had a dickens of a time proving an alibi. ROLLING RIGHT INTO FACE OF DANGER From what you can learn from the grapevine broadcasting station a car builder is credited with saying that if likker came back he would shut up shop. That grandiloquent statement, coming voluntary and without any third degree methods, gives a fella a complex of aggravated shivers coupled with a recurrence of gooseflesh. And right on top of that your neighbor tells you he has gone over to Ireland to make tractors. The situation is so mystifying that you feel like talking to the wife about it. After microscope inspection of the map of Ireland you wail to find a spot on the Emerald Isle that has gone in for prohibition. It is reliably reported that of you should attempt to take away the ale from an Irishman in all probability he would speak to you as you pass by, except to tell you that you are missing a heck of a lot of fun without it. MASTERFUL STROKES OF JOURNALISM MASTERFUL STROKES OF JOURNALISM Quite often when you read of the goings-on of some of the feminine gender, in a big city scandal, the reporter always says the gal is beautiful, and then they print her "pitcher." After looking at the photo you wonder if whip sockets will ever come back. GOING IN FOR WAR PAINT After reading the commission's report on the animated amendment, without a great stretch of the imagination, so far as enforcement is concerned in several of the states, a feller can almost believe those commonwealths are still in the hands of the Indians. MEBBE THEY'RE DOORKNOBS ON SPEAKEASIES A man well up in front in the political field of endeavor solemnly avers that prohibition will be the dominating issue in the big sweepstakes handicap next year. It seems there has been an issue, or something, along that line for some moons—but the eggs don't seem to hatch. MAKE WHOOPEE After seeing the names and faces of some well known men in a certain magazine a fella inclines to the notion that some of the big shots take a snifter now and then. THE TAILLESS KITE Just what will be the big issue next year when the presidential bees get to buzzing around has got some of the boys guessing. The tariff seems to be laid on the shelf and the league of nations appears to be enveloped in a smoke screen. In some quarters a movement has been on foot to try to trot out the prohibition complex, but its doubtful if there will be a rattle from that sector. They might go to bat on a beer and wine schedule or take up Muscle Shoals. It might not be a bad idea to run the candidates on their personalities. And since the female has the franchise mebbe the best looking man would win. Of course, the office seeker would have to shake hands with the men and kiss all the babies.