anaheim-gazette 1931-09-03

Anaheim, Calif., Sept. 8, 1931 CUBA We have learned a few things about Cuba and the Cuban people since we went to war with Spain, 33 years ago, to set Cuba free. The Cuban people are about as badly off under self-government, so-called, as they were under Weyler. When sugar and tobacco sell at high prices they are happy; when these commodities are cheap, as they have been for some years, there is revolution. We gave them political freedom but we did not give them the more important economic freedom. Nobody today wants to annex Cuba to the United States, least of all the American speculators who have built race-tracks, hotels and gambling houses there to attract Americans who want to carouse and waste their money. Under American rule Cuba would have to be officially "dry," and that would start another revolution. ICE Greenland, the latest scientific explorers tell us, is a great bowl of ice several thousand feet deep, surrounded by high mountains. This ice has been gradually melting since the last ice age, some 20,000 years ago. As it melts, the land below it will rise and the tropical vegetation which once flourished near the North Pole, and of which traces are still found, will grow there again. By that time all of the white races will have moved much farther north than they live now. Then will come another ice age and population will be driven back toward the Equator. That is what has happened at least three Game Bird Season Reduced to a Month Following a declaration by the United States Department of Agriculture which reduced to one month the open season for hunting migratory wild fowl this fall, President Hoover has issued a proclamation, which says: "The long-continued and severe drought of the past two years has inflicted not only economic hardships by seriously curtailing crop and stock production, but also has resulted in an emergency condition as regards the present and future safety and abundance of the waterfowl of the continent. In large areas of the United States and Canada, through lack of the water on breeding grounds essential to rearing the young birds, the drought has entailed widespread destruction among the former hordes of the wild fowl that migrate to our several states." This devastation has constituted so ready overtaken some American birds." plorers tell us, is a great bowl of ice several thousand feet deep, surrounded by high mountains. This ice has been gradually melting since the last ice age, some 20,000 years ago. As it melts, the land below it will rise and the tropical vegetation which once flourished near the North Pole, and of which traces are still found, will grow there again. By that time all of the white races will have moved much farther north than they live now. Then will come another ice age and population will be driven back toward the Equator. That is what has happened at least three times in the earth's recent history, and there is no reason to doubt it will happen again. Explorers from the universities of Nova Zembla and Spitzbergen will find traces of human handcraft in the tropical jungle growing where Chicago now stands, and will wonder what gods these primitive people worshipped. AGE I got a bill the other day from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where I vote, for $1, with the information that this was my annual "old age assistance" tax. It seems to me like a good way of creating a fund for the care of aged persons. The direct tax which every individual has to pay has the effect of bringing government and its activities more closely to the attention of everybody who pays it. Massachusetts voters are going to watch the "old age assistance" program more closely than they would if it were merely a matter of paying for this sort of relief out of the general funds. BRAINS Reading Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart's fascinating autobiography, "My Story," I was struck by one phrase she uses, "the physical lethargy of the brain worker." I have never known a great athlete who was at the same time a great thinker, nor a person with a creative mind who excelled in any form of sport. The two attributes do not go together. Charles P. Steinmetz, perhaps the greatest scientific mind we have ever known in America, was a tubercular hunchback. Elnstein gets his exercise by playing the violin! Edison, mentally keen at 84, never took any form of exercise in his life. Charles Dickens died comparatively young because of his notion that he could keep his brain in condition by vigorous daily physical exertion. Persons of average ability can combine physical development with enough mental development to "get by" in their jobs. But the person who would excel in either field must concentrate solely on the one or the other. Perhaps the best method is Mrs. Rinehart's own. She drops all mental work for long vacations on her western ranch, living and riding in the open until her bodily vigor is restored, then returning to her writing. Merriman Makes Final Che TAXES The government deficit and the question of how we are to pay for the great public works program. Inaugurated largely to provide employment, have combined to revive interest in the subject of taxation. Two major proposals are being strongly advocated. One is an increase in inheritance taxes, the other a general sales tax. We have sales taxes now, federal and state, on automobile sales, on gasoline, on theater tickets above a certain price, on stocks, on cosmetics, cigars and cigarettes and many other commodities. Why not extend the principle to everything anybody buys? Inheritance taxes are low, especially on large estates. Inheritance is a privilege bestowed by law, not an inherent right. Who would be injured by a law which provided that nobody might inherit more than a million dollars, or enough to care for a dependent widow and children comfortably? I fully expect to see much higher inheritance taxes and a more widely spread system of sales taxes generally adopted before many years. Forest Fires Show Increase This Year Compared with the same date in 1930, fires in the national forests of California have this year burned over four times the acreage and have cost over twice as much to control, according to a report issued by Regional Forester S. B. Show. A total of 909 fires have covered 59,505 acres and have cost $193,090 to suppress as compared with 652 fires, 15,306 acres and $91,010 last year. The number of man-caused fires to date this season is 70 percent of the total, a slight decrease over 1930. With seven years of exhaustive engineering investigation of some 60,000 square miles of Colorado River mountain and desert country to its credit, one of the most imposing lineups of American water experts ever assembled on a single project is ready to begin actual construction on the Colorado River Aqueduct immediately upon passage of the $220,000,000 Colorado River water bond issue by voters of the Metropolitan Water District on September 29. At the head of the District's board of engineering review is Thaddeus Merriman of New York who is now in Southern California making field trips to various points along the Aqueduct route in a final checkup of engineering and geological details. This distinguished authority on water is head of the New York Board of Water Supply and one of the designers of the famous Catskill Aqueduct which supplies metropolis with water. Important divisions in the staff of Chief Engineer Frank E. Weymouth of the Metropolitan Water District are headed by Julian Hinds, chief designing engineer; James M. Gaylord, chief electrical engineer; James Munn, general superintendent, and Judson B. Bond, construction engineer. Including Mr. Weymouth became chief engineer of the States Reclamation Service following twenty years of each of the division heads that branch of the federal ment in highly responsible. During the period prior while Weymouth occupies sition of project engineer on vising engineer on importation projects including by Arrowrock Dam, the high world. Hinds was chief in charge of designs for all Munn was superintendent structure for the Reclamation ice. Bond was in charge of construction and operation works on several pr Gaylord after eight years ant work, was placed in electrical and mechanical ing for the Service in 1931. Each of these men accomplished notable achievements in a civilian and Weymouth, Hinds achieved international power for their work in Central Mexico and China, respect Munn bears the unusual of being identified with major engineering jobs in central capacity for forty years. VERY LATEST by Mary Marshall Raisin Industry Clears Up Surplus The California raisin industry is one of the important industries of this state that is "in the clear" so far as having no surplus on hand. For the first time in ten years, the raisin men are said to be free of a carry-over crop, and the growers are looking to the future with expectancy of better times and prices. The storage warehouses of the California Raisin Pool, Inc., a Farm Board organization, carried into 1931 only 6,238 tons of the previous crop, which was the equivalent of none at all when compared to 70,000 tons which has been reached in earlier years. Of the raisin stocks on hand from 1930, 59,955 tons were muscats, a variety reported faced with a decided shortage this season and therefore consid- Here is the new chiffon evening scarf that is rather mystifying the first time you see it worn—but extremely simple once you see it unfolded. You see, it consists of a square made of three strips of chiffon in three tones of the same color or in three different colors and when it is folded over diagonally there is a charming blending of tones. Fewer Warnings and More Arrests Lower warnings and more arrests for major violations of the motor vehicle laws have been ordered by E. R. Cato, chief of the California highway patrol, in a bulletin issued to all inspectors captains and traffic officers. Making it plain that he will expect the officers to deal literally with violations of a flagrant nature, Cato said that the new law now limiting an increase in motor speed limitations had made stricter enforcement absolutely necessary to the end of a reduction in the number of accidents. Luting in, reckless driving, driving on the wrong side of the road, failure to give way when overtaken, driving while intoxicated, failure to comply with traffic signs are some of the factors which contribute to the ever-growing number of accidents, he said. "When cases like these are observed by highway patrolmen," Cato said, "arrests are to be made instead of merely warning the offending motorists." Largest Buck Shot in Mendocino County Mendocino county holds the record for furnishing the largest buck taken by hunters so far this season, accord- FUMIGATING DUSTING AND SPRAYING NEW TENTS R. DELEON Coffman Avenue, Anaheim Telephone 4586 In ten years, the raisin men are said to be free of a carry-over crop, and the growers are looking to the future with expectancy of better times and prices. The storage warehouses of the California Raisin Pool, Inc., a Farm Board organization, carried into 1931 only 6,238 tons of the previous crop, which was the equivalent of none at all when compared to 70,000 tons which has been reached in earlier years. Of the raisin stocks on hand from 1930, 59,955 tons were muscats, a variety reported faced with a decided shortage this season and therefore considered easily salable. Of the big sellers, Thompson seedless, there were only 89 tons of standards and 99 tons of substandards reported unsold by the Pool. The Raisin Pool controlled in excess of 80 percent of the 1930 crop, and will control an additional 8 to 10 percent this year. Officials who announced the sellout pointed to the steadily rising prices at which raisins were sold, meted out at regular intervals to packers, according to their sales capacity. Sales of the last allotments were on a basis of $77.50 a ton plus $3.85 concentration fee, the highest prices paid by packers in several years. Every time Uncle Sam goes to Europe he loses his shirt. Not having any, Gandhi won't lose his. Here is the new chiffon evening scarf that is rather mystifying the first time you see it worn—but extremely simple once you see it unfolded. You see, it consists of a square made of three strips of chiffon in three tones of the same color or in three different colors and when it is folded over diagonally there is a charming blending of tones. The colors you choose for your scarf will depend on the color of the dress with which you wish to wear it. With a white and black combination you will find a combination of black, white and gray chiffon charming. With pink and rose, you might choose pale pink, light rose and deep rose—with a green dress, three shades of green. Or to wear with a figured chiffon dress, choose three shades of chiffon in three tones shown in the print. The finished scarf is about one yard square, so each of your three strips should be one yard long and 12 inches wide. The three strips should be joined in a narrow French seam or French fell and the edges are finished with a fine rolled hem. You will probably have to buy a yard of chiffon of each color, so you can make three of these smart scarfs from the material that you will need to buy for one. That means one scarf for yourself and two to use for gifts. When the scarf is worn it should be folded diagonally from one corner to the opposite corner—draped around the shoulders and tied in a loose knot. To wear with a daytime dress you might make the scarf a trifle smaller, of crepe de chine in three contrasting tones, such as eggshell, brown and orange, or red, black and orange. In the old days the doctor who gave the worst-tasting medicine was supposed to be the best physician. Why not try the same theory in the European situation? Use the Including Mr. Weymouth, who became chief engineer of the United States Reclamation Service in 1920 following twenty years of service, each of the division heads has served that branch of the federal government in highly responsible positions. During the period prior to 1915, while Weymouth occupied the position of project engineer and supervising engineer on important reclamation projects including building of Arrowrock Dam, the highest in the world. Hinds was chief draftsman in charge of designs for all projects, Munn was superintendent of construction for the Reclamation Service, Bond was in charge of location, construction and operation of irrigation works on several projects and Gaylord after eight years of important work, was placed in charge of electrical and mechanical engineering for the Service in 1915. Each of these men has also accomplished notable engineering achievements in a civilian capacity and Weymouth, Hinds and Bond achieved international prominence for their work in Central America, Mexico and China, respectively. Mr. Munn bears the unusual distinction of being identified with major American engineering jobs in supervisorial capacity for forty years. Anaheim 2414 Next to knowing the exact person to call to satisfy your wants—it is best to call the Classified Advertising department of the Anaheim Gazette. 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