anaheim-gazette 1931-10-15

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. AN UNEMPLOYMENT EMERGENCY During the campaign to induce the voters of thirteen cities of the Metropolitan Water district to vote for the $220,000,000 bond issue with which to construct the Colorado river aqueduct, was the inducement that building the big aqueduct would give employment to 10,000 men for a period of six or seven years, or while the construction work was in progress. Since the voters by a majority of about five to one voted for the bond issue, word has been issued that it may require a delay for six months while the courts of the state pass on the validity of the bids, that the issue may be sold and money for the aqueduct made available. The argument was advanced during the bond campaign that the construction of the aqueduct would be a great help in relieving the unemployment situation in the thirteen cities of the district. If there ever was a time when the courts should make a short cut through legal red tape, which is delaying the validation of the aqueduct bonds, the time is now. Never in the history of Southern California has the unemployment situation been so general or so pressing. Thousands of men are out of work, and they as well as general business is feeling the effects of the unemployment. Thousands of other idle men are making their way into the hands of capital funds of their business. If the process rate for another trust companies proportion of the States. "Your problem to the banker." bond campaign that the construction of the aqueduct would be a great help in relieving the unemployment situation in the thirteen cities of the district. If there ever was a time when the courts should make a short cut through legal red tape, which is delaying the validation of the aqueduct bonds, the time is now. Never in the history of Southern California has the unemployment situation been so general or so pressing. Thousands of men are out of work, and they as well as general business is feeling the effects of the unemployment. Thousands of other idle men are making their way into the Southland, which only complicates the situation. Warnings have been sent "back East" that California is having difficulty in providing work for its own jobless men and women, but that does not seem to retard the inflow of thousands who have been lured to this region by reports of Hoover Dam, aqueduct and other huge construction projects. Since the voters have responded to the entreaties of the aqueduct projectors by giving them the bond issue, now comes the needless delay of waiting for the courts to get into action and pass on the validity of the bonds, which instead of requiring a delay of some six monthss, ought to be passed upon in six days. The voters of the Metropolitan district are insisting that the courts take immediate action on the bonds, not only to provide the promised employment for idle men, but to hasten the coming of Colorado river water into the Metropolitan district to relieve the threatened shortage. WARNING TO JOBSEEKERS In a statement issued by Chairman Henry W. Wright of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors appealed to the citizens of Southern California asking that they advise their Eastern relatives and friends not to come here seeking employment this fall and winter. "We have just completed a survey of the local unemployment situation, which shows that 74 percent of those who migrate here from the East seeking work have been attracted by news of large construction programs in this area or by the written invitation of friends and relatives living here," said Supervisor Wright. "Obviously such construction projects as Boulder Dam, the aqueduct, Federal buildings, school buildings and other municipal projects can provide jobs for only a fraction of our own resident unemployed who must be given first consideration. "I have asked Secretary of Labor Doak at Washington, Walter S. Gifford, chairman of President Hoover's Emergency Employment Committee, and President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, to make a similar appeal to the nation's unemployed. "The All-Year club is running a statement in every magazine and newspaper advertisement published in the United States and Canada warning individuals not to come here seeking employment. "Our own people can help to stem this flow of unemployed into the state by not inviting their friends and relatives away from their homes where they are known to search for employment this fall and winter, particularly in tourist states." TAKE ACCOUNT, TOO, OF YOUR BLESSINGS Federation of Labor, to make a similar appeal to the nation's unemployed. "The All-Year club is running a statement in every magazine and newspaper advertisement published in the United States and Canada warning individuals not to come here seeking employment. "Our own people can help to stem this flow of unemployed into the state by not inviting their friends and relatives away from their homes where they are known to search for employment this fall and winter, particularly in tourist states." TAKE ACCOUNT, TOO, OF YOUR BLESSINGS Press dispatches carry the story of a Bulgarian who committed suicide the other day because he had been ordered deported to his native land from America. Every day deportation is resisted by aliens illegally in the country as if this were a sentence to death. A pathetic story comes from Burgas, Bulgaria. Fishermen in the Black Sea saw a boat drifting, apparently empty. Investigating, they found in it four children, 4 to 12 years of age, completely exhausted. They had been drifting in the boat for days, the eldest explained, and they were "on their way to America." In their native village of Constanza, Bulgaria, they had heard stories of the land where there was more happiness for children, and leaving a note at home, they had run away. Hundreds of millions of people, young and old, in other countries, dream of coming to America. Scores of millions have come. America has absorbed millions of aliens during the past half century. They have come here empty handed. Here millions of them have found opportunities undreamed of in the lands where they were born. A few years ago it was necessary for America to limit this migration. Except for our immigration laws, it is probable that a yearly entry of immigrants then rising to a million, would long ago have risen to two millions. This country slowed down this migration only because the economic and social system of the United States could not permanently stand this dilution of the stock already here. It was bringing some strength but more weakness to the republic which once boasted that it was the haven for the oppressed of all lands. While the whole world would rush to America for greater prosperity and security if it could, how much appreciation of America is felt or voiced by those already here? American children possess what these poor Bulgarian children were ready to trust themselves to the wind and the waves in the hope of finding. Do we sufficiently count the values of what we possess in this republic of ours, or do we spend most of our time complaining and finding fault? Pigskin Warriors Practice in Torrid Weather When the calendar showed autumn was here the football players of Tech High School, Atlanta, Ga., went to work, although the thermometer stood at 90 degrees. Captain Billy Street is shown running with the ball as "Pug" Boyd tackles him and "Red" Bradfield tries to block him off. Bruce Barton Looks at Ways of Life PERSONNEL The head of a trust company was describing the extraordinary growth of their business. More and more estates are passing into the hands of trust companies. The capital funds of these estates are invested not only in bonds and mortgages but in the voting stocks of the country's leading corporations. If the process goes on at the same rate for another twenty-five years the trust companies will control a large proportion of the wealth of the United States. "Your problem is personnel," I said to the banker. DEPTH OF OCEANS While man continues his conquest of the air and the upper atmospheric regions by means of airplanes and balloons, the vast depths of the ocean remain inaccessible, except to sounding instruments, says the New York Times. A diver in a suit has touched forty-six fathoms, or 276 feet, and lived. William Beebe and Otis Barton descended last year to a depth of 1,426 feet off Bermuda in a steel sphere, and various specimens of multi-colored and illuminated fish have been obtained from a mile below the surface, but the rest of the under-water world is impenetrable. Yet an ocean depth of around 35,000 feet has been reported, a distance which exceeds the greatest known height above sea level—Mount Everest in the Himalayas, which is more than 29,000 feet high. Ocean depths greater than 18,000 feet are called deepes and have names, as do mountains. Short Essays On Popular Topics MIDGETS IN SEATS OF MIGHTY By NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER. President of Columbia University This system of popular election is producing—indeed it has already produced—a psychology and an ethics all its own. These regard immediate victory at any cost as the overruling end, with only general, minor and subordinate reference to principle and to high public interest. No significant or considerable element of those who are privileged to participate in the choice is to be alienated by any definite pronouncement on any subject which is highly controversial or widely debated. Platitudes displace principles and the their business. More and more estates are passing into the hands of trust companies. The capital funds of these estates are invested not only in bonds and mortgages but in the voting stocks of the country’s leading corporations. If the process goes on at the same rate for another twenty-five years the trust companies will control a large proportion of the wealth of the United States. “Your problem is personnel,” I said to the banker. “That’s our only problem,” he answered. “How are you solving it?” “Well, we try to pick the smartest young men from the colleges, men who have majored in economics and finance. We start them in at the bottom and let them fight their way up. Some drop by the wayside, but the survivors develop into very good men.” I told him I thought they were omitting one very important step in the process of training. “After your young man has had two or three years’ experience in the bank, you ought to pull him out and send him into the heart of the country.” I said. “Make him spend a year or two working on a farm, or with a section gang on the railroad, or clerking in a country store. Insist that he live on what he earns.” “When he comes back to New York he will have some idea of how hard ordinary people have to work for their money. He will have a social, as well as a merely financial point of view. A dollar will never become merely a sign or a sum to him. It will represent hopes and fears, ambitions and defeats, human sweat and blood. When it came time for me to go to college my father took me aside and said: ‘You have planned to go to Amherst, and I approve of the plan. But I want you to take your first year at Berea College in Kentucky, where I worked my way through.’ He added a sentence which I have never forgotten: ‘I want your sympathies to be always on the side of the man who have to struggle for what they get.’ It was a wise and fine thing for a father to say to a boy. I am one of those who believe that we are entering a period of great social changes. No matter how big and strong institution or an industry may be it is going to be tested. Those institutions will win out which are headed by men of broad, human sympathies; men who can see the other man’s point of view because they have shared the other man’s daily life. It is a time of wonderful opportunity for young men. But they must get themselves education. Not merely the education of books; the greater education of really knowing and liking their fellow men. Hunters and sportsmen have been killing from 12 to 15 million ducks a year. This year a kill of half that num- This system of popular election is producing—indeed it has already produced—a psychology and an ethics all its own. These regard immediate victory at any cost as the overruling end, with only general, minor and subordinate reference to principle and to high public interest. No significant or considerable element of those who are privileged to participate in the choice is to be alienated by any definite pronouncement on any subject which is highly controversial or widely debated. Platitudes displace principles and the multitude roars applause. There have been 30 men who have served as Presidents of the United State—not thirty-one, as many books of reference continue to missate—the first four of whom represented the very flower of the nation’s intellect and character. Of how many of their twenty-six successors can the same be truthfully said? Opinions and judgments will certainly differ in giving answer to this question, but perhaps there may be as many as five, or possibly six, of these twenty-six not more, on whom much the same judgment might be passed. That system of social organization and control and that system of education is a futile failure which cannot discover excellence, give opportunity to excellence, and exalt excellence. This is possible in letters, in the fine arts, in science, and in many of the applications of knowledge to the practical problems of life. Why should it remain so very, very difficult in the realm of politics and government? Why are our midgets so often found in the seats of the mighty? The way everything is twisted all over the world leads to the suggestion that the League of Nations adopt the pretzel as its emblem. FREE WINE IN HUNGARY The Hungarian village of Harka is the mecca of the thirsty, for in Harka alone of all places on earth, “free drinks” are the order of the day. Any one, male or female, rich or poor, arriving in the village, may drink his fill—and more, if he wishes—of good Hungarian wine, and not pay a cent. The explanation is simple—poverty and shortage of wine casks. The wine is last year’s vintage—good, but not to be compared with the exceptional crop of this year. Owing to the general economic crisis, last year’s wine yield remains largely on the wine-growers’ hands, and they cannot raise money to purchase new casks. This year’s wonderful vintage is maturing in the vats and must soon be bottled. The thrifty peasant is naturally reluctant to pour out his wine merely as a libation to the gods, and so has allowed it to be known that he will gladly do so to any one, hiker or motorist, who will help him toward his aim of empty casks for the new will win out which are headed by men of broad, human sympathies; men who can see the other man's point of view because they have shared the other man's daily life. It is a time of wonderful opportunity for young men. But they must get themselves education. Not merely the education of books; the greater education of really knowing and liking their fellow men. Hunters and sportsmen have been killing from 12 to 15 million ducks a year. This year a kill of half that number would be too many. The salvation of his sex, Dr. Engelen says, lies in man's refusal to encase himself. In tightly woven stuffs. His experiments with loosely-woven woolens has given satisfactory results, even with the handicap of lining and shirts. According to dispatches from Moscow, the pay of Soviet workers has been boosted thirty per cent which ought to make it about ten cents a day. BUD, I CAN'T UNDERSTAND BUB THESE DAYS. HE JUST ISN'T HIMSELF. HE SELDOM EATS HEARTILY AND HASN'T BEEN ANYTHING LIKE THE BUB WE KNOW. WELL, ILL TRY TO FIND THE REASON MOTHER. OBSERVATIONS PUTTIN YOUR FEET UNDER THE TABLE A man high up in authority suggests that everybody should keep a cow and a pig and some chickens in order to insure them the eats if times got real tough. Fine and dandy. And if you are a vegetarian put in a few rows of corn and beans. And put out some buckwheat. The flapjacks with strawberry jam will cause you to forget your troubles, and makes you friendly with the wife. GET INTO THE SWIM Money is nice to have around the house if the weather is rainy; but if you have a lot of it in the bank and it is not "working" it is about as useful as an old shoe. It comfortable and all that sort of thing, but if you want to go somewhere you must have a good strong pair of shoes to get you there. Money must get to work in order to make both ends meet. But stick a pin here. Look out for the wild eaters that are roaming around. NAVY BULLDOGS There is a movement on foot to curtail the expenses of the navy. Those battleships, in times of peace, look like ornaments; but believe it or not they are handy to have around in case you need them. COME INTO MY PARLOR SAID THE SPIDER TO THE FLY It remained for a senator from an eastern state to tell t he members of that international meeting of chanbers of commerce a thing or two, and his terms and phrases were in words that were heard around the world. The senator is quoted as saying they insisted that the United States cancel the war debts now overdue from the European nations. The senator said he believed those nations probably would use that very same money for further exploitations of their armed forces Say, folks, that was a hot shot! The senator further said those foreign countries want the United States to reduce its tariff safeguards so that our home markets may become a dumping ground for the cheap products of Europe. Say, boy, that knocked 'em for a row of Pewter plates and earthenware! Judging by the way the folks here are talking about them, the ears of the visiting members must burn like the dickens. THEY ALL LOOK ALIKE THEY ALL LOOK ALIKE Quite a rumpus was kicked up there awhile ago when thieves, in an historic city, down east, robbed a man in high-up circles of his embassay likker. It seems the racketeers got 17 cases of good stuff. And worst of all the robbers beat up on the owner, causing apologies to be sent over. MUM—MUM Roses may come and booze may go, but embassay Vintages come over forever. THE EMANCIPATION An exiled member of a titled family, that was wiped out in a foreign country several years ago, says while he then enjoyed all the pleasures of life he was nevertheless unhappy. He had to account to only one human being—the King. And still his life was just one long nightmare. Now he is free. He can mingle with the common people. His soul is happy and his conscience is clean. In his new freedom, he says, he has no desire to return to his former gilded cage. ANYHOW, THE HEIRS WILL MANAGE TO GET THROUGH, ALL RIGHT A man died the other day. Everybody and his aunt believed he was worth a half billion dollars. When his will was probated he had only a mere 75 million. HE HAD HIS NUMBER Recently a colored prize fighter has had his name and picture in the paper. Looks like he is trying to come back, although he is 50 years of age. In his prime he no doubt could have whipped them all. One time he fought the brother of a man who was then the white champion of the world. He knocked out the brother in the fourth round. The champion brother was seated at the ringside, up in the Old Hazzard pavillion. After they raised his hand as the winner that colored big boy leaned over the ropes, and addressing his remarks to the world's champion, said: "And Jeff, I can lick you, too." And he did. THINKING IT OVAH A charming young actress in the amusement sector let it be known the other day that she contemplated getting married. But there were about four love-sick swains who were seeking her hand. And then she changed her mind. And armistice was declared. When pressed for a reason for casting the gallants adrift she just simply answered she had changed her mind; and that, she aversed, was not news any more than a case where a dog bites a man. BOOSTING SUNKSIT SOUTHLAND Now that the evangelist has returned in good health everybody and the cook should bury the hatchet and hang out the olive A charming young actress in the amusement sector let it be known the other day that she contemplated getting married. But there were about four love-sick swains who were seeking her hand. And then she changed her mind. And armistice was declared. When pressed for a reason for casting the gallants adrift she just simply answered she had changed her mind; and that, she aversed, was not news any more than a case where a dog bites a man. BOOSTING SUNKSIT SOUTHLAND Now that the evangelist has returned in good health everybody and the cook should bury the hatchet and hang out the olive branch to give the dove of peace a place to light. Of course, if the outsiders do not care to talk of kidnappers, somebody could say a few words about the salubrious climate of Southern California. LOOKING UNDER THE LID It appears that embassay likker is coming in for an investigation. A couple of senators have signified their intention of calling for a showdown, or something. One senator believes it is indefensible to permit violations of the prohibition law by diplomats, while an honest to goodness American citizen is jailed for having a pint on his hip. Of course, if the diplomat is used to his morning life saver it would be cruel to deny him the eye opener. But yet again by having so much good stuff on hand it makes him an easy mark for the put-him-on-the-spot fraternity. And then when the rough men threaten him with kidnapping and whatnots it causes uneasiness and may impair his health and cause him to resign and go back home where the limit is not one-half of one percent. And furthermore if the good stuff is non-diplomatic it creates a complex that might call for another commission, whose final report may be likened to the dropping of a pin in a boiler factory. LOOKING FOR LEGAL LOOPHOLES When a feller is convicted of a statutory offense, and is poor, he goes up to the pen; and when a guy is convicted of a felony, and is rich, he goes up on a appeal. HO, HO, HUM! And now, after a charming and viacious young actress has received tons of publicity, pitchers and everything; they are going to print the gal's biography. THERE GOES THE OLD BOAT If it should happen that Uncle Sam catches you with "imported liquor in your car, he takes you, the liquor and the car, Floey|