anaheim-gazette 1931-10-01

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Publisher ESTABLISHED 1879 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR ... $2.00 SIX MONTHS ... 1.00 Entered at the Anaheim, California Postoffice as second-class matter. PAY YOUR BILLS NOW. The most practical and simple means of starting money into circulation and so stimulating the return of prosperity was put forward the other day by Alvan Macauley, president of the Packard Motor Car Company. Mr. Macauley pointed out that if everybody who owes money would begin at once to pay his bills to the extent of his ability to do so, the wheels of commerce would be instantly speeded up. We believe that that is true. We know many people, and we have heard of many more, who are not paying their bills because they are afraid to reduce their cash resources. Business men tell us that collections are slower than they have ever known them. Customers whose credit is perfectly good, and who have cash reserves in the savings banks and elsewhere, are holding off payment of accounts long past due, apparently for no other reason than timidity. It is easy in these days for a debtor to get a long extension of credit. Many who are not entitled to it are taking advantage of this situation to postpone payment of their just debts. Nobody of course has any statistics on the subject, but we think it is a fair guess that if, on a given day or during a given week, everybody in America who owes anybody else would pay all that he owes, or all that he is acutally able to pay on account, money would begin circulating so fast that there would be an end almost immediately to all of the talk of depression. If the tailor, for example, who is not paying his bills because he hasn't got holding off payment of accounts long past due, apparently for no other reason than timidity. It is easy in these days for debtor to get a long extension of credit. Many who are not entitled to it are taking advantage of this situation to postpone payment of their just debts. Nobody of course has any statistics on the subject, but we think it is a fair guess that if, on a given day or during a given week, everybody in America who owes anybody else would pay all that he owes, or all that he is acutally able to pay on account, money would begin circulating so fast that there would be an end almost immediately to all of the talk of depression. If the tailor for example, who is not paying his bills because he hasn't got enough business in sight, would pay what he owes the butcher, and then the butcher would pay the grocer, the grocer would be able to order a new suit of clothes from the tailor, which he does not feel justified in doing now. Money lying idle in the bank does nobody any good. It is only the revolving dollar that has any value. We would like to see everybody in this country make a start toward the application of Mr. Macauley’s sound advice. EDUCATION. Schools everywhere are under way and the colleges are opening. There is a larger number of students in all grades, from kindergarten to university, than ever before. As long as this state of things keeps up there is no reason to have apprehension about the future of America. We are getting very close, as a nation, to the point where every person above the age of ten will be able to read and write and have some rudimentary knowledge of simple arithmetic. That may not sound like a very high educational standard, but it is enormously higher than that which obtains in almost every other part of the world. Every year sees more young Americans entering high school, larger and larger numbers pressing so hard upon the facilities of the colleges that those institutions are put to it to find money and space in which to carry on their work. All of this means that we have a steadily increasing proportion of people who have been taught how to use their brains. In the long run it is always the people who have learned how to think who control the affairs of a nation. These young folks are learning how to be different from their parents. That is the real purposes of education, boys being different from their fathers. They will look on the world differently when they are forty from the way in which men and women who are forty today look at it. They will try social and political experiments which the older ones regard as foolish and hazardous. But they will make the world a different kind of a place in which to live, and one that will suit their generation better than the present world does. Nothing is more useless, it seems to us, than to try to keep conditions from changing. The intelligent thing to do is to give the children every possible opportunity to train their intelligences, so that when they start changing the world over, as they surely will; they will not be blind revolutionists but rather enlightened evolutionists. DEPRESSION WHERE IT BELONGS. The depression has spread over all the world, touching rich and poor alike, but there is one element that has so far escaped, while it at last has come into the clutches of the lack of money. The gangsters and racketeers are feeling it. Reports from Chicago say that even Al Capone and his like is feeling fit. Reports Bruce Barat PADL We were discarded dinner table of knew anything that did not prevent conversation. The general opened, was that St. represent the great sent-day world. All the capitalist blime to overthrow gime. Finally I made I said that it that the Russia to be very much It appears to run deep-seated hum. Man is movedquire opportunities children. The Right of acquaintance"; the tempted to abolish man has always bridled autocracy or name. "But," I contend bolder, "any one capitalistic court that our eaves a lot to be tragedy of wheat of production sands are standing a frightful thing be shut down for a large percentage still lacks adequacy." Instead of out of hand, wounded to see whet thing, no matter could apply to economic machine. Recently I reeased Harold L pointed out how ever came into t posed by the "cow." Not even so Simpson could see covery of antisition opposition to Pan that he declared not know he had. Napoleon scoff Wellington was the breech-loading Vanderbilt refuse crazy notion that stop his trains by the wheels." If we keep our ideas we are bound DEPRESSION WHERE IT BELONGS. The depression has spread over all the world, touching rich and poor alike, but there is one element that has so far escaped, while it at last has come into the clutches of the lack of money. The gangsters and racketeers are feeling it. Reports from Chicago say that even Al Capone and his like is feeling it. Reports from Capone's headquarters in the Lincoln hotel, in one of Chicago's notorious districts, indicate that Al like a big business man, has followed the lead of the U.S. Steel Corporation, General Motors and some others by issuing a wage cut order. Reports from other sources give the reason. Boofergers speakeasies and open saloons are moving only about one-third the quantity of beer and hard liquors which went over the bars and to their more private customers than back in the days when this element swam in prosperity. Violators of the laws who drank because they thought it was smart to beat the Eighteenth amendment and the Volstead law evidently have learned that it was not as smart as they thought it was. Other reports from Chicago where crime is thought to run with free rein, say that the gambling houses are yielding less profits than they did awhile back. ILLITERACY IN CALIFORNIA When the census takers began their work in California last year there were 124,810 persons ten years old and over who could not read or write, says a report by the National Advisory Committee on Illiteracy, of Washington, D.C. But there was a decrease over the preceding ten years. The 1930 census showed there were 45,000 foreign born illiterates in 1930, while there were 69,768 in 1920. But during that period the native white illiteracy increased from 8747 to 9840. There was also an increase in the illiteracy among Indians and Mexicans. With nearly 125,000 illiterates in California, the advisory committee thinks there is a serious educational task ahead. While the state ranks high in educational facilities, it is 21st in illiteracy ranking. During the census decade of 1920 to 1930, the state's rank remained stationary. However, the state ranked 17th in 1910. California now has a committee definitely organized to wipe out illiteracy. Inroads are being made on foreign born white illiteracy through the Americanization division of the State Department of Education, led by Mrs. Magdalene F. Wanzer. ANAHEIM GAZETTE Michigan Peach Queen Visits Hoover Virginia Aller, chosen queen at the peach festival in Romeo, Mich., presented two choice baskets of the fruit to the President Sets a Fast Pace Edward Kettwitz, 57. Grant County farmer of South Dakota, ate thirty-seven ears of sweet corn in 8 hour and 45 minutes. He admits he could have eaten more only he had corn for dinner two hours earlier. Bruce Barton Looks at Ways of Life PADLOCK MINDS. We were discussing Russia at the dinner table of a banker. None of us is to assume that God has completed His process of revelation and that the world tomorrow will be exactly like the world today. An our college professor has a five-year plan for saving the world. But what the world seems to need is fewer plans and more jobs. NEW PIECE OF MONEY. Short Essays On Popular Topics TASKS FOR CHEMISTS. BY HARRISON E. HOWE Editor of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. Bruce Barton Looks at Ways of Life PADLOCK MINDS. We were discussing Russia at the dinner table of a banker. None of us knew anything about the subject, but that did not prevent a long and animated conversation. The general opinion, forebly expressed, was that Stalin and his associates represent the great menace to the present-day world. It was even urged that all the capitalistic powers ought to combine to overthrow the Bolshevik regime. Finally I made a slight suggestion. I said that it seemed to me probable that the Russia experiment will have to be very much modified or it will fail. It appears to run contrary to too many deep-seated human instincts. Man is moved by the ambition to acquire opportunity and security for his children. The Bolsheviks deny him the right of acquisition. Man is "incurably religious"; the Bolsheviks have attempted to abolish God. Sooner or later, man has always revolted against unbridled autocracy under whatever guise or name. "But," I continued, waxing a little bolder, "any one who looks over the capitalistic countries today must admit that our economic organizations leave a lot to be desired. Think of the tragedy of wheat selling below the cost of production at a time when thousands are standing in bread-lines. What a frightful thing it is for factories to be shut down for lack of orders while a large percentage of the human race still lacks adequate clothing and shelter. "Instead of condemning the Russians out of hand, wouldn't it be more sensible to see whether they discover anything, no matter how small, that we could apply to make our own decrepit economic machine a little better?" Regently I read an article by Professor Harold L. Laski in which he pointed out how every new idea that ever came into the world has been opposed by the "experts." "Not even so great a surgeon as Simpson could see merit in Lister's discovery of antiseptic treatment. The opposition to Pasture was so vehement that he declared regretfully that he did not know he had so many enemies." Napoleon scoffed at the steamship. Wellington was never persuaded that the breech-loading rifle was any good. Vanderbilt refused to entertain the crazy notion that Westinghouse could stop his trains by "jamming air against the wheels." If we keep our minds open to new ideas we are bound to be misled often. is to assume that God has completed His process of revelation and that the world tomorrow will be exactly like the world today. An old college professor has a five-year plan for saving the world. But what the world seems to need is fewer plans and more jobs. NEW PIECE OF MONEY. U. S. Treasurer Mellon will this fall issue a treasury note well worth hanging on the wall. It will bear a portrait now rare, that of the most romantic Secretary of the Treasury we ever had, William Harris Crawford. He was as brilliant a duelist as Aaron Burr, and luckier. In one encounter he suffered from the re-doubtable hand of Governor Clark of Georgia only a slight wound, and when he killed Solicitor General Peter Lawrence Van Allen on the field of honor no such immediate loss of prestige followed as in the case of Burr. As Ambassador to France he had as companion Lafayette, saw Napoleon drop from power, the Bourbons come back and go forth again, and the Little Corporal return from Elba. No other Ambassador in Paris endured through these upetics. Yet he has "kept the interest of the United States untangled with those of Europe." This is not necessarily the reason why Mr. Mellon honors him a century afterward. Crawford was as ardent in his friendship as he was implacable in his enemies. When decision on the Presidency passed from the voters into the Electoral College he refused to offer further competition to his chum James Monroe. In the next campaign choice reverted to the House of Representatives. Crawford stricken with paralysis, had to be carried to the Capitol. Believing him too ill for office, Clay swung his strength from the Jeffersonian candidate to J. Q. Adams, and Crawford became numbered among the distinguished Presidential "also rans." His advocacy of a United States Bank may or may not have made some appeal to the present Secretary. One prefers to believe that in commemorating this stanchere representative of Jeffersonian ideas, including simplicity, Mr. Mellon is paying a subtle, none-too-precipitate compliment to all Jeffersonian Democrats. For the denomination of the new bill is $1,000,000. If mama wants to be convinced that she isn't as young as she used to be let her try on one of those Empress Eugenie hats in front of a high mirror. Locomotives cause too many forest fires. Railroads are testing a centrifugal spark arrester which catches sparks A period of unemployment relieves the restraint of routine and offers an unequaled opportunity to call up for review one's discarded or half-formed ideas to determine whether or not they were rightly laid to one side. We know that the waste heaps of one generation often provide the wealth of the next. The same is as true of the intangible waste heaps of ideas. The present is a profitable time for digging into them. The real problem is one of selection, and requires even more research into human desires than into things to do. Many lists of needed discoveries and improvements have been printed. Who will provide a really first-class fuel for cigarette lighters? Or a convenient can opener? There can be no real excuse for idleness based on equipment if a man really wants to do things. Do we forget the great discoveries of science and engineering which were feats of mind based on experiments with the crudest apparatus? John Dalton with his ink bottles on the back of the kitchen stove, Charles Goodyear with his frying pan, Count Rumford in a machine shop, Joseph Priestly with an ordinary burning glass—these and others have demonstrated that logical thinking is often capable of bridging the physical deficiencies of experimental equipment. Great industries of today have sprung from the original experiments carried out in somewhat simple or crude equipment by such individual workers as Hall, Acheson, Backeland, Hyatt, Perkin, Frasen and others. A genius could find in the stock of an average 5 and 10 cent store materials with which to assemble extensive trains of apparatus. Moscow says the fall of the British cabinet indicates that British capitalism is in desperate straits. Yet if the victims of Russian communism could live in the "desperate straits" of British capitalism they would believe they had been transported to paradise. Some of our reformers will not be satisfied until our prisons are artificially cooled in the summer time and the prisoners are served three times a day with highballs clinking with real ice cubes. Every tenth load of hay produced in this country is lost through spontan- "Not even so great a surgeon as Simpson could see merit in Lister's discovery of antiseptic treatment. The opposition to Pasteur was so vehement that he declared regretfully that he did not know he had so many enemies." Napoleon scoffed at the steamship. Wellington was never persuaded that the breech-loading rifle was any good. Vanderbilt refused to entertain the crazy notion that Westinghouse could stop his trains by "jamming air against the wheels." If we keep our minds open to new ideas we are bound to be misled often, and sometimes to be ridiculous. But the surest way of all to be wrong If mama wants to be convinced that she isn't as young as she used to be let her try on one of those Empress Eugenie hats in front of a high power mirror. Locomotives cause too many forest fires. Railroads are testing a centrifugal spark arrester which catches sparks in the stack and whirls them until they have time to cool. NOW BUD; YOU AND BUB CAN HELP MOTHER ENTERTAIN HER GUESTS BUB DEAR--YOU TAKE THESE THINGS AND PUT THEM ON THE JUDGES LAP. LAP? OBSERVATIONS IT SEEMS THE GROWERS ARE RUNNING WILD. With 90 percent of the gals wearing silk hosiery and what you may call ems, the Texans are still raising cotton. THEY MAY GO WEST. With one of the big middle west cities cleaning house whatever will become of the transients whose home is where they hang their hats. TRUGGING AT THE HEARTSTRINGS Scene in East Lynne. The son is being tucked into bed. The nursemaid kisses him twice. "Why do you kiss me twice?" asks the boy. "One is for me, the other kiss is for one who loves you the best," replies the maid. Yep, that's when the handkerchiefs came out. THE WIDE OPEN SPACES A comedian, who is a jolly good fellow, sued a circus man for $100,000 for using his face for advertising purposes without saying anything about it before opening up the question. The circus man just smiled while the comedian said it was no laughing matter. PUTTING 'EM ON THE SPOT It is reported that the head man in the amusement sector has passed out the word to stop making gangland "pitchers." Oh y-e-a-h! WHEN MINUTE SEEMED AN HOUR If your wife is of the nagging variety and you go down to the beach for an outing and you stop to talk to a dizzy blonde and your wife appears unexpectedly on the scene what do you offer for an alibi? FOREVER BLOWING BUBBLES To a man up a tree it looks like some of the former highup gents, who were intrusted with the job of seeing that stock companies were OKaying properly, were afflicated with poor eyesight or mebbe it was sleeping sickness. TAKE THE RUBBER OFF YOUR ROLL. WHEN MINUTE SEEMED AN HOUR If your wife is of the nagging variety and you go down to the beach for an outing and you stop to talk to a dizzy blonde and your wife appears unexpectedly on the scene what do you offer for an alibi? FOREVER BLOWING BUBBLES To a man up a tree it looks like some of the former highup gents, who were intrusted with the job of seeing that stock companies were OKaying properly, were afflicated with poor eyesight or mebbe it was sleeping sickness. TAKE THE RUBBER OFF YOUR ROLL It is said one reason for hard times is the hoarding up of money. When the mazuma gets into circulation everybody and his aunt gets a whack at it. If you happened to be on a desert island with your pockets filled with money you might starve to death. THEY THINK UNCLE SAM'S MIDDLE NAME IS SANTA CLAUS If Uncle Sam agrees to cancel all those old war debts perhaps some of the debt ridden nations over there would get on their financial feet and do business again, and they might send some of it over here. Of course that was good money your Uncle loaned them; but some of the boys over there would like to wipe the slate clean. THE BUSTS HAVE IT Once upon a time a life termer worked on the bust of a governor. The first bust wasn't good so they "busted" it and started on another bust. Some fellows go on a "bust" and land in jail. Now, if this man can make a good bust in jail he may have a good chance to "bust" out of jail. NOW, LOOK HERE, IT COULD NOT HAPPEN THAT WAY! In one of the recent "gangland" pictures the author essays to interweave the plot around a modern daily newspaper. The narrative is interesting, but the high spot, where the reporter betrays his trust, and takes hush money, sounds too much like fiction. If that reporter really did as portrayed in the picture, the city editor was a wooden Indian. AND HE HASN'T APOLOGIZED TO ANYONE EITHER The Secretary of Labor is the right man in the right place. Thousands of illegal entrants have been deported. And the unemployment here is on the downgrade. More power to the elbow of the secretary. LET'S SEE, DIDN'T SOMEBODY SAY LOVE IS BLIND The first day at the Reno divorce mill was a sellout. About 200 wives were among those present who wanted out. It took five minutes to break the shackles. And all the gals wore heavvy dark glasses. Lawyers and cameramen were thick as bees around a honeysuckle vine. HEAVING THE EXCESS BAGGAGE Some people think the quick divorce will undermine the social fabric. But yet again the mismated couples believe the governor of an adjoining state is a dear. MERIT WILL TELL If anyone thinks the silent drama is due for the discard he HEAVING THE EXCESS BAGGAGE Some people think the quick divorce will undermine the social fabric. But yet again the mismated couples believe the governor of an adjoining state is a dear. MERIT WILL TELL If anyone thinks the silent drama is due for the discard he should see "City Lights," Charlie Chaplins latest production. It is one of those pictures you can always go and see again and enjoy it. OH, PSHAW, WHY DID HE WAKE UP A young man from out the east came west and spread the glad news that he had fallen heir to a fortune and was a millionaire. He stepped high, and even said he had been robbed of a cool quarter million. But just when things were going good, and he was pinned down to brass tacks he weakened and confessed he was only dreaming. NOW, WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THAT! They say even though congress legalized beer it could not be sold in California owing to the Wright Act, which says nothing doing. GEE, THAT TAKES IN A LOTTA TERRITORY A governor of another state says his political slogan is: allowing every man to do as he pleases so long as he does not interfere with his neighbor. Oh, Bozonkus! LOOKING FOR THAT PANACEA Uncle Sam is criticized for putting up a tariff wall to protect home industries. Well, now, if he didn't keep the wall up he wouldn't have the industries. Some foreign countries are heavily burdened with war debts. They pulled off that shindy and are now crabbing about the price. Some of the foreigners want that tariff fence filled with holes so they can slip in a lot of their cheap made products. One of the countries over there would starve to death if she didn't get her foot stuffs elsewhere. It seems in the absence of other remedies the foreigners hav jumped Old Man Tariff. One of the big ones over there says she buys more from your Uncle Samuel than she sells him—but there is a reason. She needs our stuff to keep going. Uncle Sam has been a dandy Santa Claus for a long time—but if he does not look out for himself he may have to hock the Sleigh Bells.