anaheim-gazette 1931-08-06

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. RADIO ADVERTISING We wonder if everybody is as tired of listening to advertising over the radio as we are. We wonder if the people who are paying for radio advertising are getting their money's worth out of it. But at the same time we wonder how we could get many of the really wonderful programs that we hear over our radio if advertisers didn't pay for it. Somebody has to pay for radio broadcasting. That goes without saying. Some broadcasting is paid for by political and other propagandists, and most of that sort of stuff we have listened to is pretty dreary. In Russia we understand people cannot hear anything but propaganda through their radio sets. In France the government owns all the radio stations but leases time on the air to advertisers who, we understand, do not make any very successful attempts at entertainment. In England there is a fairly liberal system of government control of broadcasting. Only one company is licensed to broadcast and it operates all of the stations in the British Isles. It gets its revenue from an annual tax of ten shillings, or about $2.50 on each receiving set. You cannot have a receiving set in England without paying this tax. The government collects the money and divides it with the broad- In Russia we understand people cannot hear anything but propaganda through their radio sets. In France the government owns all the radio stations but leases time on the air to advertisers who, we understand, do not make any very successful attempts at entertainment. In England there is a fairly liberal system of government control of broadcasting. Only one company is licensed to broadcast and it operates all of the stations in the British Isles. It gets its revenue from an annual tax of ten shillings, or about $2.50 on each receiving set. You cannot have a receiving set in England without paying this tax. The government collects the money and divides it with the broadcasting company which develops and puts on its own programs of entertainment and education, but there is always a government censor listening in and there is a decided limitation of free expression of ideas and opinions over the radio. The last thing we want in America is any kind of government censorship. Freedom of speech and of the press is one of the fundamental principles of our democracy. There is always a bureaucratic clique in Washington which would like to control not only all radio broadcasting but the newspapers and all public speakers as well. The worst thing that could happen to American liberty would be to let government or any part of the government prescribe what people may think or say. Probably, on the whole, our American system of letting advertisers pay for our entertainment is the best. We certainly get better entertainment over the radio than they do anywhere else, from all reports, just as we have better nwspapers in America because our newspaper advertisers make them possible. But we do wish these broadcasting advertisers would use a little more restraint and a great many fewer words in telling us about the merits of their wares. THOSE EUROPEAN DEBTS The principal impression which the international financial conferences make upon us is that the United States is for the first time since the war taking the part in international affairs which our country's position as the world's wealthiest and most prosperous nation demands of us. It is announced from Washington that in officially representing the United States in the Conference on International Debts our secretary of state, Mr. Stimson, and our secretary of the treasury, Mr. Mellon, will take no part in the political aspects of the European situation. It is very difficult to see how they can keep out of it. International debts are necessarily involved in politics. When a nation owes money the method whereby that debt is to be paid has to be decided in the long run by the politicians of that nation, precisely as the method of paying the interest on town or school district bonds and amortizing the principal has to be determined in the long run by the politicians of the town or the school district. International debts are just like all other public debts, in that the promises of politicians to pay them are not always based upon the ability of the town, county, state or nation to pay. That seems to be Germany's case. She owes more than she can pay, but she has given very good evidence of desire and willingness to pay. All reports from Germany are that the people there are working harder and longer hours than anywhere else in the world and are living on next to nothing in the effort to pay the small village. Certainly a vital survival of President Hoover foundation of America. I just want to that influence to store in a real burb mind you—acteristics that he go round" in typology. In the nature have so much distribution, access chain-store advantage is why our census towns of less than 10 business. To include against one of the small-town industrial relations. Take the credit dependent merchant of the fact that to extend "open small town as it He runs across one in which any desperate over a debtor with "Look here, Jo me this bill for you half-way. I of what you owe And John can "Fine! I'll meet other half." A pretty weighing the flow of b is that of person people go to the same lodge the same plen small-town merc wants and procl sitions of his tow. QUAIL AND Alarm is spread country over tha quall crop un fowl—principally reparts to the A tion. Hunters tha for remedial mea tal stock and insi able the future "Quail shortag nessee, Maryland tors of Louisiana north as the ba Kentucky, Illinois Nash Buckingham of the American recently complete Drought and att given as the cause affected by muu and reported ver "What is need in equivalent to a restriction mean- International debts are just like all other public debts, in that the promises of politicians to pay them are not always based upon the ability of the town, county, state or nation to pay. That seems to be Germany's case. She owes more than she can pay, but she has given very good evidence of desire and willingness to nav. All reports from Germany are that the people there are working harder and longer hours than anywhere else in the world and are living on next to nothing in the effort to pay the heavy taxes which the national debt requires. Even doing the best they can the country cannot meet its obligations. The old-fashioned way of meeting a situation like that was for the creditor nations to send an army into the country to take possession of it. The modern wav is for all of the nations to whom Germany owes money to get together, as they are doing in London, and try to figure a way out, based upon Germany's proved and actual ability to pay, just as in private business a committee of creditors might work out a plan to enable a debtor to meet his obligations gradually. SHARPERS AT IT AGAIN Not content with having mulched the gullible investors of Los Angeles out of $100,000,000 for worthless securities and "tricks of high finance," according to a public official, the sharpers are out to repeat the dose, this time with worthless lands in the Hoover Dam region. But Riverside people do not intend to stand for such a raid on investors in that city, if they can help it. The Planning Commission of Riverside has appealed directly to the State Real Estate commission to block what is declared to be unfair advertising of sale of desert lands. Pointed criticism of the proposed sale of nine sections of land in the Chocolate Mountains, near the Imperial county line, by a Los Angeles firm is included in the letter directed to Joseph P. Smith, state real estate commissioner. The sale of this land, according to members of the planning commission, is being pushed by literature in which county chamber of commerce statements on citrus and mineral wealth are quoted. The commissioners asserted that the chamber of commerce statements, applicable to some parts of the county, are misused in the sales literature. Th protest in general will be aimed at advertising which would tend to mislead prospective purchasers unfamiliar with the area, and to cause them to buy lands not accessible to highways, with no agricultural value and doubtful mineral wealth. World's Largest Vessel Against New York Skyline The new 73,000-ton Cunarder, still unnamed and called "534" temporarily, will be launched next February. It is shown at it will appear against the tall skyscrapers of New York. The new boat will have cost $30,000,000 when it takes the water. Its engines will develop 200,000 horse power and the ship is expected to cross the Atlantic in four days. Drawn to scale is shown the first Cunarder, the Britannia, launched 91 years ago. Short Essays On Popular Topics CHAIN STORES IN SMALL TOWNS By DR. JULIUS KLEIN (Assistant U. S. Secretary of Commerce) "Can the chain store successfully invade the small town?" Certainly a vital problem—this one of the survival of the independent, who, as President Hoover has put it, is "the foundation of American business." I just want to mention a few things that influence the situation. A chain store in a real small town—not a suburb, mind you—lacks some of the characteristics that help to "make the wheels go round" in typical chain-store activity. In the nature of things it cannot have so much large-scale requisition, distribution, accounting, and other city chain-store advantages. Probably that real sportsmen, authoritative, easily obtained, practical methods of game bird production at minimum expense. Such information includes lessons in 'environmental control,' meaning providing sufficient cover, food, water and control of natural enemies to the desirable species." Budapest contains more mineral springs and health baths than any other city in the world. ROMANCE IN RAILROADING There's romance in the name of Roscoe and pioneer residents of that little city in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California raise objection to the proposal that the name be changed to Duidee, which was the Scotch birthplace of some of the first settlers in the district. More than half a century ago, so the story goes, there was no name for the platform station along the newly built Southern Pacific line where farmers brought their produce for shipment to Los Angeles. There was a young and Bruce Barton Looks at Ways of Life IF John Golden, who is a swell fellow well as a smart one, told me that when he was in Chicago producing "Turn to the Right," one of the theater attendants came to him and said a visitor wanted to see him. "What does he want?" asked John. "He wants to read you a play." John threw his hands in the air. He was having enough troubles putting on one play without letting some unknown author inflict another. The author returned two or three times, but John refused to see him. When the job in Chicago was done he boarded a train and shut himself up in a drawing room, tired out. Then came a timid knock; the door opened and through it walked a young man. Certainly a vital problem—this one of the survival of the independent, who, as President Hoover has put it, is "the foundation of American business." I just want to mention a few things that influence the situation. A chain store in a real small town—not a suburb, mind you—lacks some of the characteristics that help to "make the wheels go round" in typical chain-store activity. In the nature of things it cannot have so much large-scale requisition, distribution, accounting, and other city chain-store advantages. Probably that is why our census figures show that, in towns of less than 10,000, the chains do less than 10 per cent of the total business. To increase that, they are up against one of the great assets of the small-town independent—namely, personal relations and special service. Take the credit question. The independent merchant can take advantage of the fact that it is probably as safe to extend "open credit" in the American small town as it is anywhere on earth. He runs across very few cases like the one in which an exasperated merchant, desperate over a bill long due, accosted the debtor with these words: "Look here, John, you've been owing me this bill for a year. Now I'll meet you half-way. I'm ready to forget half of what you owe." And John came right back with: "Fine! I'll meet you. I'll forget the other half." A pretty weighty factor in determining the flow of business in a small town is that of personal friendship. The local people go to the same churches—belong to the same lodges—swat mosquitos at the same picnics. The independent small-town merchant knows the typical wants and proclivities, even the dispositions of his towns people. QUAIL AND DUCK SHORTAGE Alarm is spreading throughout the country over the obvious shortage of the quail crop and the depletion of wildfowl—principally ducks, according to reports to the American Game association. Hunters themselves are clamoring for remedial measures to save the capital stock and insure as nearly as possible the future of these species. "Quail shortage has affected Tennessee, Maryland, Virginia, across sectors of Louisiana and Texas, and as far north as the baked areas of Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, Ohio and Indiana." Nash Buckingham, executive secretary of the American Wild Fowlers, who has recently completed a survey, said. Drought and attendant conditions are given as the causes. Wildfowl are also affected by much the same conditions and reported very scarce. "What is needed is game restoration in equivalent to blood transfusion; more restriction means postponement of theade small town?" There's romance in the name of Roscoe and pioneer residents of that little city in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California raise objection to the proposal that the name be changed to Duodec, which was the Scotch birthplace of some of the first settlers in the district. More than half a century ago, so the story goes, there was no name for the platform station along the newly built Southern Pacific line where farmers brought their produce for shipment to Los Angeles. There was a young and handsome brakeman on this run. His name was Roscoe, the rest of the moniker having long since been forgotten. Railroad men were heroic characters in those early days, much as aviators are now in the public fancy. It was not strange that a pretty malden, who often drove to the station, should be attracted to the handsome rail Lochinvar. The acquaintanceship developed into infatuation and the whistling post where the train stopped became known as "Roscoe's Station." Later the designation shortened itself to Roscoe. No one seems to know how the railroad romance of fifty years ago terminated. But there is a legend among the old timers at Roscoe that the farmer's daughter married the handsome brakeman and lived happily ever after. The water power development in the United States has reached the figure of 15 million horsepower—one-third the total of the world. HOW FAST DO BIRDS FLY! Before the Wrights made their first successful flights more than twenty-five years ago, inventors of flying machines, from Leonardo da Vinci down, studied birds on the wing. It might be supposed that the speed of vultures, eagles, condors and petrels is well known. The truth is there is more guessing than certainty about the air speeds of nature. In order to obtain more accurate information, Lieutenant R.W. Wickes has been chasing birds in an airplane. This he did on the theory that an alarmed driven bird will travel at its maximum speed. Although it cannot be said that Lieutenant Wickes' measurements are final, at least he discloses some of the old false notions of high speed. On four occasions a flock of geese was pursued, and, by reading the air speed indicator of the plane when nearly level with the birds, fair estimates of speed were obtained. The results were respectively 56, 53, 55 and 52 miles an hour. Wild ducks proved to be slower. Lieutenant Wickes credits them with a speed of nearly 45 miles an hour. Teal travel nearly 75 miles an hour when frightened. Grouse proved difficult to pace. Five attempts gave them a top speed of 56 to 58 miles an hour. The oldest wine obtainable anywhere in Hungary Tolkien What does he want?" asked John. He wants to read you a play. John threw his hands in the air. He was having enough troubles putting on one play without letting some unknown author inflict another. The author returned two or three times, but John refused to see him. When the job in Chicago was done he boarded a train and shut himself up in a drawing room, tired out. There came a timid knock; the door opened and through it walked a young man with bushy hair, who looked fresh from the farm. Mr. Golden, my name is McAvoyhe said. "You were too busy to see me in Chicago, so I found out what traint you were taking and I bought a ticket and want to ride with you as far Cleveland. I want to read you my play.John fussed and fumed, but finally surrendered. The young man started读，但 John's tired mind absorbed nothing. After a while the young man said "Any time you are not interested, I stop." "You can stop right now then," John answered. With a palmed look, the young man put away the manuscript and started for the platform. The train was pulling into Gary. He stepped off, took another train, and rode patiently back to Chicago. When the next theatreical season opened in New York John saw in papers the advertisement of a play called "The Potters." The author's name struck him-McAvoy. Could it be that same young man who had bored him from Chicago to Gary? It was the same young man. The play ran for months. IF John had tened to McAvoy he would have added another big hit to his list of successes IF, when I was editing a magazine I had taken time to glance at a certain manuscript which came in from an unknown writer. I should have had t satisfaction of publishing "The Spoof of Kinge," the story that started Arthur Somers Roche on the road to fame. IF I had listened carefully to what the president of a certain big company was saying to me one afternoon I might have made a great many thousand dollars. If... if... we all have these bothersome little words in our records It's folly to waste time regretting them The only intelligent attitude is to easy "While I could have done much better still I have had my share of good luck and shall not grumble. Only in the future I'll try a little harder to keep me eyes and ears open." For it is very difficult to tell when some wild and annoying visitor may try to force fortune upon us. Wherever we read the attacks of certain American statesmen on Secretary Mellon, we are always reminded of the observation of a French philosopher who said that the strongest of all archaic "Quail shortage has affected Tennessee, Maryland, Virginia, across sectors of Louisiana and Texas, and as far north as the baked areas of Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, Ohio and Indiana." Nash Buckingham, executive secretary of the American Wild Fowlers, who has recently completed a survey, said. Drought and attendant conditions are given as the causes. Wildfowl are also affected by much the same conditions and reported very scarce. "What is needed is game restoration in equivalent to blood transfusion; mere restriction means postponement of the inevitable," Mr. Buckingham continued. "Conservation's job, therefore, is to tell the farmers and their friends, the The oldest wine obtainable anywhere in the world is a Hungarian Tokay, made in 1610, which can be bought in Warsaw, Poland, for $55 a quart." BUBS THE LAST ONE IN LAST ONE IN IS A DIRTY RACE GEE, THEY'VE DUMPED SOMETHING IN THIS WATER OBSERVATIONS OCK, OH! During one of the bathroom "seens" in a play a charming and good looking young lady was flashed while taking a steam bath in one of those new fangled cabinets. Of course, only her head and shoulders appeared to the naked eye of the audience. And, believe it or not, then the telephone rang. But the lady did not rush over to the receiver; the maid brought it to her. Then the conversation of love and kisses with the hero on the other end of the phone. The audience was speechless, especially the men folks. All of a sudden the cabinet opened. For just a fleeting moment it revealed the young lady enveloped behind a thick steam screen. Only her head and shoulders were visible. "Aw, shucks," said a young fella, "why so much steam." Ring, tee ting tee tie lee Oh, follera boom de aye. AND THEN THE GROUND HOG CAME OUT After you rubbed your eyes and took another breath after you read the piece in the paper you came to the conclusion that an adjoining state had passed a law licensing gambling and cutting down the time limit of divorces. Yep, everything is wide open. An old-timer over there says its all nonsense to try to regulate people's morals by law. The old-timer seems to have been visiting around. The old-timer inclines to the notion that it's all wrong for a lot of would-be reformers to try to tell you what to do. But he winds up by saying "the boys have got to run those games on the square." MEBBE THAT'S WHY THEIR JAIL FILLS UP It is said, in another county, that the eats for the jail inmates cost $1.07 a day, while on the outside, good, filling meals calculated to remove the wrinkles, can be had for 25 cents per, and no questions asked. ROUND AND ROUND THE MARBLE ROLLS Now that one state has licensed gambling, the man in the rumble seat would like to know if the habit will be contagious. HOISTING YOURSELF BY YOUR OWN BOOT STRAPS Some folks believe that since an adjoining state has licensed gambling, the money will remain "at home" instead of going into Mexico. ROUND AND ROUND THE MARBLE ROLLS Now that one state has licensed gambling, the man in the rumble seat would like to know if the habit will be contagious. HOISTING YOURSELF BY YOUR OWN BOOT STRAPS Some folks believe that since an adjoining state has licensed gambling, the money will remain "at home" instead of going into Mexico. TAKING A TAIL SPIN When you read of the salaries paid some of the movie stars you wonder where all the money comes from; and the ordinary guy heaves a sigh, becomes flabbergasted, or something, and flops. LURE OF THE WEST A colored man with an old clay pipe in his mouth and a roll of canvas on his back large enough to cover a tent, greeted the early commuters: "Say, boss, can yuh pass me a quahtah to eat on?" O. K.—"Where are you going?" "Ise headed for Las Vegas." THE CAT IS STILL IN THE BAG If the learned professor who came over from Berlin had a secret when he arrived, it is very evident that he took it back with him. Awf Weidershen! Some good and conscientious men favor canceling all the war debts owing your Uncle by the foreign countries. Since the old world has been topsy-turvy since that terrible conflict, these men believe for the good of all, the slate should be wiped clean—and everybody start over new again. That might be the panacea for all the ills. IT APPEARS THE “NOES” HAD IT A man and his wife went up in an airship, quarreled as to who should run the derned thing; the plane crashed to the earth in a nose dive and both were killed. GETTING AWAY TO A LATE START There awhile ago district attorneys all over the U. S. held a meeting and decided to form an organization and fight the crime wave. AND YET AGAIN, MEBBE THEY USE ONLY BLANK CARTRIDGES The scenes in some of the gangland pitchers look real, all right, and quite a few of the hombres bite the sawdust—but they never call the coroner. CAUGHT SHORT There was a horse race down below sometime ago and quite a few of the customers placed their dinero on a nag touted to win—but he didn’t—and many of the boys had not bought their winter underwear, either. CONVERSATIONAL CURRENCY Experts have figured out that during 1930, if all the money The scenes in some of the gangland pitchers look real, all right, and quite a few of the hombres bite the sawdust—but they never call the coroner. CAUGHT SHORT There was a horse race down below sometime ago and quite a few of the customers placed their dinero on a nag touted to win—but he didn't—and many of the boys had not bought their winter underwear, either. CONVERSATIONAL CURRENCY Experts have figured out that during 1930, if all the money in the country were equally divided between every man, woman and child, that each one would have had about $2,000. Hot ziggety! YOO, HOO! THE BOOTLEGGER IS HERE, DEARIE A short while ago the officers raided a place, found a still, accessories and whatnots. In the kettle of mash it is said there were several dead rats. M-m-m-m-m! THE TIN SHOWER An eastern city has adopted a plan to stipulate the auto market. All obsolete and worn out cars will be taken in one big lump and scrapped. All the large dealers will participate in the house cleaning and remove the debris from their own back yards. GOSH! BILL, THE BUG MUSTA GOT YOU When the hero in the play met up with the leading lady, he unlimbered himself something thuswise: "Ever since I was a youngster, and knelt at my mother's knee, I have never met one whom I loved more than you." CUTTING ACROSS LOTS "How long do you have to live in this state before you can sue for a divorce?" asked a little man, apparently ill at heart. "One year." "Oh, heck, I've been here ten months; I guess I'll go to Reno." THAT OVERPRODUCTION BUGABOO BOBS UP AGAIN When the chief executive paid a visit to a southern republic he found out to his amazement that there are too many natives down there. HITTING THE HIGH SPOTS When the affable mayor of an eastern city was told he should go up in the air for the benefit of his health—that is, seek higher altitudes—he laconically remarked that he had been up in the air already for quite awhile.