anaheim-gazette 1931-10-22

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Publisher ESTABLISHED 1870 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY RESCRIPTION PER YEAR $2.00 MAX MONTHS 1.00 Entered at the Anaheim, California Postoffice as second-class matter. ANOTHER COUNTY SPLIT-UP A threatened reapportionment of the five supervisorial districts of San Diego county promises to bring another of the county division fights which have marked the history of Southern California. The taxpayers of the northern part of San Diego county propose to split the old county and form a new one bearing name "Palmora", and including the towns of Fallbrook and Escondido. The proposed reapportionment is to be based on population. One of these old county fights occurred many years ago when taxpayers in a section of Los Angeles county "seceeded" and after prolonged agitation Orange county was mapped out of Los Angeles county. But changes in the State Constitution now make the division of a county almost impossible. It would require the signatures of not less than 50 percent of the registered voters and 65 percent of the electors within the boundaries of the new county to split San Diego. In other words, at least 46,421 electors would have to sign the petition for a division. The number would have to include 10,769 registered voters from the district embracing the proposed Palomar county. More than this, the petitioners would be required to post a bond of not more than $10,000 to defray costs of the preceedings in case the election is unsuccessful, the amount of the bond to But changes in the State Constitution now make the division of a county almost impossible. It would require the signatures of not less than 50 percent of the registered voters and 65 percent of the electors within the boundaries of the new county to split San Diego. In other words, at least 46,421 electors would have to sign the petition for a division. The number would have to include 10,769 registered voters from the district embracing the proposed Palomar county. More than this, the petitioners would be required to post a bond of not more than $10,000 to defray costs of the proceedings in case the election is unsuccessful, the amount of the bond to be determined by the supervisors. After filing the petition the supervisors would have to hold a hearing within fourteen days to hear proofs of the assertions made in the petition. The petitioners would have to show that the remaining county would still have a population of at least 10,000 after the division that the population of the proposed county would be 10,000, that the county line would not run within five miles of a county seat and that the area of the remaining county would not be less than 1200 square miles. A GREAT MAN PASSES Four years ago, when President Coolidge appointed Dwigh' W. Morrow Ambassador to Mexico, his name was all but unknown to the people of the United States. He had been a classmate of Mr. Coolidge's in Amherst College, had become a partner in the great international banking house of J. P. Morgan and Company, and had served as one of the American government's financial advisors during the war. But so quietly and modestly had he done his work that very few people outside of the limited circle of his personal acquaintances had ever heard of him. Everybody wondered what this quiet little man could do to straighten out the extremely strained relations between this country and our neighbor to the south. It did not take long to find out. This country and the Mexicans soon learned that Dwight Morrow had a mind which went directly to the heart of things, and a personality which charmed everyone with whom he came in contact. In a surprisingly short space of time he had established the relations between the United States and Mexico upon a more friendly basis than they had been for nearly a hundred years. He was chiefly responsible for Lindberg's good-will flight to Mexico, which culminated in the young airman's romantic courtship of the Ambassado's daughter, and their subsequent marriage. Mr. Morrow's election as U. S. Senator from New Jersey was regarded by political leaders as a step toward the White House. From the moment of his election President Hoover leaned upon him heavily for advice and council in international finance. He was one of the few men in American public life of whom it can be truthfully said that he was universally beloved and respected. In his all too brief public career he had made himself a national figure of the first importance. His death is a loss to the whole world. THE WORKER AND THE LAND Under the wonderfully stable government which has been set up in Czechoslovakia since the war, the industrial workers have a greater sense of security than in any other country, including our own. When this new nation was formed out of territory which used THE WORKER AND THE LAND Under the wonderfully stable government which has been set up in Czechoslovakia since the war, the industrial workers have a greater sense of security than in any other country, including our own. When this new nation was formed out of territory which used to be part of Austria, a little more than twelve years ago, its people chose for their president Professor Masaryke of Columbia University, New York. A native of what used to be called "Bohemia," he had been laboring for years for his country's independence. When his people finally were liberated by the Treaty of Versailles and he became their leader, he surrounded himself with strong, intelligent men and began to work out a system whereby every man in the nation should be independent. One of the first things the new nation did was to take over all of the huge estates, many of them owned by citizens of other countries, and divide them up into small farms, which were sold or rented to families which had never been able to hold land before. The next thing was to organize the industries of the nation, with the result that Czecholovakian efficiency is famous throughout Europe. President Masaryk merely took American experts over there and had them show the manufacturers of that country American methods. But the most important variation from the American system is a provision whereby every industrial worker will eventually have at least one acre of land surrounding his home. This has been accomplished in many of the industrial centers and it is only a question of time when it will be the rule throughout Czechoslovakia. The avowed purpose is to refuse employment to any man or family who will not agree to live on one of these tracts. An acre of land means little in America. In Europe, where the whole family is accustomed to outdoor manual labor, it means the cultivation of every square inch, and at least a living for the occupants. In times of industrial depression the factory worker has his land to fall back on, and is in no danger of starvation from unemployment. And in good times he can save and invest a very large percentage of his earnings in the factory. There are several lessons we could learn from a closer study of some of the smaller nations of Europe. The principal one which all of them have to teach, however, is that you cannot separate the mass of the people very far from the land without subjecting them to unnecessary risks. And the next one is that when every worker is a landowner there is no danger of revolution. ANAHEIM GAZETTE Hindenburg Reaches 84 Germany's aged president and former commander of its imperial armies is still active in spite of his years. Cup Challenger Dies Sfr Thomas J. Lipton will never contest again for the America Cup. The famed Irish yachtman, who spent years in the U. S., failed to rally from a cold. He was past 81. Seeks Wendel Fortune Miss Rosa Dew Stansbury, 72, Vicksburg, Miss, is suing for a share of the $75,000,000 estate left by Ella Von E. Wendel. Bruce Barton Looks at Ways of Life DESERVE—ELIMINATE Broadly peaking, mottoes have done me little good. Being exhorted to "do it now" has not conquered a natural instinct to procrastination. "Tackle the hard things first" has not increased my courage; nor has "a penny saved is a penny earned" spurred me to thrift. All of these wise saws, and others, I would trade for the two words on which a shrewd old merchant told me he had built his store: Almost anywhere you look in business you may see the need for those two words. A certain manufacturer, whose products already covered the field, announced his intention of still another At many points between St. Paul and St. Louis the river during August fell below the government's low-water mark set at the lowest stage of water in 1864. Government dams, thrust out from both shores in the present effort to confine the main channel for navigation purposes, have played a large part in exposing so many square miles of the river's bottom. Sandy silt, deposited by the current below these dams, is uncovered when the water falls and now appears as an extension of the mainland. The good swimmer who in predam, pre-drought days found difficulty in breasting his way across the Mississippi, now thinks nothing of crossing the narrow main channel from one such sandbar to another and recrossing without a pause. Walking on the river's bottom has been a Summer diversion this year at such places as Rock Island, Ill., where the creeps into the water is too steep to permit its annual exposure. Long-vanished hulks of stern and side waders have appeared above the Mississippi's fallen surface. Many vesicles Short Essays On Popular Topics RUNNING THIS WORLD By H. G. WELLS In Radio Broadcast on What He Would Do With the World. Would I abolish war? Yes. Many think war cannot be abolished, but I am not of that opinion. Fierce, strenuous souls would not abolish it if they could. But simply to abolish war is nothing very much. Mr. Kellogg abolished war a year ago without any marked results. War still hangs over us, threatening every one. Mukden, the other day in South Manchuria, seemed quite like pre-Kellogg times. To my mind war was only effectively abolished when the sovereign States of the world relish so much of their national sovereignty. not conquered a natural instinct to procrastination. "Tackle the hard things first" has not increased my courage; nor has "a penny saved is a penny earned" spurned me to thrift. All of these wise saws, and others, I would trade for the two words on which a shrewd old merchant told me he had built his store: Almost anywhere you look in business you may see the need for those two words. A certain manufacturer, whose products already covered the field, announced his intention of still another item to the line. His banker was skeptical. "What excuse is there for it?" he demanded. "Does it meet real need? Has it any special qualities that make it deserve to succeed?" The manufacturer replied rather testily that he could not see what deserving had to do with it. There was an opportunity to steal moral business from a competitor, and he proposed to do so. The banker protested. "That seems a poor foundation on which to build," he said. He was right. After an expensive and unsuccessful campaign the new product was abandoned. Another company, whose volume had grown rapidly during the months of prosperity, came into dull times and began to examine its expenses. It discovered that nearly half its overhead could be cut without reducing profits. While things were rolling it had entirely neglected elimination. The words apply with equal force to individual lives. How many useless habits we loaded up with during the ten years previous to 1929! How we frittered away our time and diluted our energies! Apparently hard times are necessary once in a while to compel us to cut. As for the word deserve, who has not experienced the increased sense of power which comes when one knows in his heart that his plans and purposes are wholly right? Under the spell of such conviction we astonish ourselves by an unexpected capacity. We feel in tune with infinite forces. We deserve, and the stars in their courses seem to be fighting on our side. Lots of mothers who cant bear the thought of daughter growing up and getting married when daughter is still ten years of age, will change their minds and go husband hunting when daughter arrives at the age of twenty GREAT RIVER FEELS DROUTH "Ole Man River" is waddling rather than rollin' along, for the Mississippi is feeling the drought more than at any time in the history of that stream. From a swirling river a mile wide in its middle reaches, it has shriveled until a great share of its sand and graud bottom lies bare. Sloughs have been transformed into shallow lakes, imprisoned by sand bars between willow-clad islands and willow-clad shore. Fish The good swimmer who in pre-dam, pre-drought days found difficulty in breasting his way across the Mississippi, now thinks nothing of crossing the narrow main channel from one such sandbar to another and recrossing without a pause. Walking on the river's bottom has been a Summer diversion this year at such places as Rock Island, Ill., where the crops into the water is too steep to permit of its annual exposure. Long-vanished bulks of stern and side-wheels have appeared above the Mississippi's fallen surface. Many vessels that are usually active have tied up at wharves abutting on the channel, their trips postponed until a rise in water makes landing safe at shallower places. Late in August there was a weeks' period when hardly a steamer churned its way between the Illinois and Iowa shores. A new gold rush has started in the Yukon region and we are waiting for some economist to tell us that is the final phase of the depression. The fall duck hunting season has been reduced to a period of one month—just at a time when the boys have more time to go duck hunting than ever. BACK TO THE FARM Movements of population have been extremely large in the United States since the war. Heavy migration has taken place from the farms to the cities, towns and villages, and also in the opposite direction. In the ten years previous to 1930 the net movement was cityward. Our farm population dropped in that period from 31,614,269 to 27,222,000. In 1930, however, the tide seemed to turn, though the recession may prove to have been only temporary. Fewer people left the farms in 1930, and more people moved to the farms, with the result that our farm population increased for the first time in two decades. The number of persons who left the farms in 1930 was 1,543,000 compared with 1,876,000 in 1929, and a peak movement of 2,155,000 in 1926. The movement from cities to farms in 1930 was the largest since 1924, amounting to 1,392,000 persons, compared with a peak movement of 1,396,000 in 1924. Hence, the net movement away from the farms was 151,000 persons, but a normal increase of 359,000 births over deaths on the farm brought the total farm population on Jan. 1, 1931, to 27,430,000, compared with 27,222,000 on Jan. 1, 1930. The revolution in Cuba seems to be over, although it may turn out that the curtain has just gone down between acts. Mayor Walker is over in Vienna and the New York gangsters are busy, indicating that when the mouse is away Yes. Many think war cannot be abolished, but I am not of that opinion. Fierce, strenuous souls would not abolish it if they could. But simply to abolish war is nothing very much. My Kellogg abolished war a year ago without any marked results. War still hangs over us, threatening every one. Mukden, the other day in South Manchuria, seemed quite like prince Kellogg times. To my mind war only be effectively abolished when the sovereign States of the world relish quo so much of their national sovereignty as to place control of their relations one to another in the hands of a federal world authority and peace council. It is really nothing more than one statesmen are feeling their way toward today, too timidly and elowly. I fear with debt conferences, the Bank of International Settlements, &c. My worst economic council would make a twentieth year's plan for the reorganization of the world's production and distribution. There would have to be only one money in the world. That is a matter now of considerable urgency, and the first task, almost of my dictatorial would be to see to that. It is manifest to every one now that the existing cash and credit system is breaking down. It is ancient and worn out, rotten. The industrial life of the world is being strangled in an immense tangle of debts. A single word currency and a world-controlled creep system constitute a necessary preliminary to that rationalization of economic life which is the only sure foundation of world peace and porsperity. Of courses if Mahatma Gandhi is unable to settle his difficulties in London there is always the League of Nations to fall back on. FRENCH WOMEN WIN LEGION OF HONOR Although only a thousand French women have received the decoration for the Legion of Honor since the order was founded by Napoleon, 709 of them are living today. The Countess Noallles, poetess, is the only woman attaining the grade of commander. But there are numerous officers now on her feminine roll of those decorated for one cephalical services. The achievements of women honored are not confined to pursue that have been recognized as in their feminine province. The list contains the names of eleventeen women farmers, two directors of business administrations, six owners of business houses, two aviatrixes, three explorers, one hotel proprietress and one motion picture producer. The first woman to be decorated with the Legion of Honor was a sister. She was Mme Marie Schalline who served throughout Napoleon campaigns, attained the rank of Lieutenant and was wounded at Austrelia She was decorated by the Emperor GREAT RIVER FEELS DROUTH "Ole Man River" is waddling rather than rollin' along, for the Mississippi is feeling the drouth more than at any time in the history of that stream. From a swirling river a mile wide in its middle reaches, it has shriveled until a great share of its sand and mud bottom lies bare. Sloughs have been transformed into shallow lakes, imprisoned by sand bars between willow-clad islands and willow-clad shore. Fish trapped in these lakes are easy prey. The revolution in Cuba seems to be over, although it may turn out that the curtain has just gone down between acts. Mayor Walker is over in Vienna and the New York gangsters are busy, indicating that when the mouse is away the cats will play. LET'S SEE IF HE'S REALLY TOUGH, HUH BUB? YOU SOCK ME WITH THIS OW OBSERVATIONS FILL 'EM UP AGAIN, BOYS! The headman of the enforcement seetor has given warning to arid agents against misappropriation. It seems some of the boys get a thirst on sometimes and blow a cork or two for personal use. Of course, it wouldn't be so bad if they would use it for themselves in cases of an emergency; but when they call in outsiders to make whoopee it gets to be too much like a convention. PATRONIZING HOME INDUSTRY The height of something or other is for a charming young heiress over here to fall in love with a count or a duke over there. and marry him because he has a title. It has been said that those high-hat hombres are in some cases have been derned expensive to have around. And judging from the way Kings are on the wing a crown is not worth very much if you haven't a permanent place to put it. Of course some of the Counts may be loveable and all that, but it is of record that some of the local drug store cowboys, when it comes to making a dame's heart flutter, can give the foreign nobility cards and spades and beat them in the finals. During the unemployment period some of the local shieks would have been tickled pink to pick up some pin money from the love sick ladies with a bank roll. PICKING UP THE LOOSE CHANGE Several high-powered salesmen are in an eastern city jail-house, charged with swindling. Among the victims were members of the nobility across the big pond. The slickers sold oil stock by the yard, and the only oil within a radius of 20 miles, was at a filling station. Another pastime was to sell the suckers land on the bed of the ocean. Up to the hour of going to press it has not been learned whether or not the high financiers sold the Statue of Liberty or the Brooklyn bridge. LOOKING AHEAD Prognosticators say that prosperity will begin to come back along about the fall of the year. And it is said the peak of prosperity will arrive about 1934 or 1935. It is said further that the good times will materially affect industries and real estate. That is fine and dandy. Speaking of real estate, that commodity will be a good thing to have, because within the next ten years, Southern California will double its population, and no think war cannot be abolished over us, threatening Mukden, the other day in Kurilia, seemed quite like pre-occupation. To my mind war will actively abolished when the states of the world reelinch of their national sovle place control of their revo another in the hands of world authority and peace. by nothing more than our feeling their way toward immlidly and slowly, I fear conferences, the Bank of Insettlements, &c. My world council would make a twenty for the reorganization of production and distribution. Would have to be only one world. That is a matter unfamiliar urgency, and the almost of my dictatorehip see to that. It is manifest now that the existing credit system is breaking ancient and worn out. It The industrial life of the long strangled in an image of debts. A single world and a world-controlled credit institute a necessary preliminaryization of economic ties the only sure foundation space and porosity. If Mahatma Gandhi is not his difficulties in London, says the League of Nations on. WOMEN WIN LEGION OF HONOR only a thousand French received the decoration of Honor since the order by Napoleon, 709 of them today. The Countess de Petitess, is the only woman of grade of commander, but numerous officers now on the front of those decorated for ex-services. movements of women thus not confined to pursuits been recognized as in the province. The list contains seventeen women farm-directors of business admin-six owners of business aviatrixes, three explor-totel proprietess and one pure producer. woman to be decorated region of Honor was a sol-vas Mme. Marie Schnallinck, and throughout Napoloeno's attained the rank of Llout-was wounded at Austerlitz. Decorated by the Emperor on the bed of the ocean. Up to the hour of going to press it has not been learned whether or not the high financiers sold the Statue of Liberty or the Brooklyn bridge. LOOKING AHEAD Prognosticators say that prosperity will begin to come back along about the fall of the year. And it is said the peak of prosperity will arrive about 1934 or 1935. It is said further that the good times will materially affect industries and real estate. That is fine and dandy. Speaking of real estate, that commodity will be a good thing to have, because within the next ten years, at least, Southern California will double its population, and no foolin'. LOST IN THE SHUFFLE If you owe a guy $100 and give him a check for it, and take a receipt; and then if you take the fella to a speakeasy and he gets pickled and loses the check, how much do you owe him? CARRYING ON A soothsayer is credited with the prediction that the people would be satisfied if they gave them beer and wine. But, Mister, from what you can learn from hearsay, the racketter is doing that now. TERMINAL DEPOT AT THE PLAZA They are going to build the railway terminal depot at the Plaza sit in Los Angeles. That is the best news for that city heard in a long time. The terminal will be the hub, as it were. It will be a great benefit to property owners all over that city. In other words, people will know where they are "at". The terminal will be great for the traveling public. It will also remove many dangerous street crossings—Now a menace. There is a touch of romance to this also; because it was from that point Los Angeles started to grow. The new enterprise will stabilize property values in that city. When the project is finally completed, Los Angeles should hold one great big festival and invite all of Southern California to come and enjoy themselves. GOSH, FELLERS, THOSE NATIVES MUSTTA HAD A THIRST! The other day a score of agents swooped down on a desert town in an adjoining state, where the lid has been blown off, and they closed up five breweries, three stills and twenty-five speak-easies. M m m!. LAND OF MILK AND HONEY Southern California soil is noted for its fertility and some wonderful things may be related about the crops raised here, but it remained for a land syndicate promoter to pull a rare one. His company agreed to take peoples' money and set the land to trees and when they were fullgrown and bearing the orchards would be turned over to the new owners. Fine and dandy. But in one instance, in their hurry to get going, a promoter planted some big trees upside down. This section is wonderful to be sure, and perhaps some other enthusiastic promoter will tell you that he can raise hair on a billiard ball out here. GEM OF THE COUNTIES Southern California soil is noted for its fertility and some wonderful things may be related about the crops raised here, but it remained for a land syndicate promoter to pull a rare one. His company agreed to take peoples' money and set the land to trees and when they were fullgrown and bearing the orchards would be turned over to the new owners. Fine and dandy. But in one instance, in their hurry to get going, a promoter planted some big trees upside down. This section is wonderful to be sure, and perhaps some other enthusiastic promoter will tell you that he can raise hair on a billiard ball out here. GEM OF THE COUNTIES Senator Samuel Shartridge spoke at a large meeting of the Farm Bureau at the County Park there awhile back, and his speech was eloquent and loudly applauded. The senator is steadfast in his position for protection for American industries. The senator reached heights of oratory in his splendid address. In closing, his praises for Orange county were sincerely expressed, as were evidenced when he observed, poetically, that it was here where "the Sun casts its showers of gold; the moon its rays of silver." Solong Senator, We'll be seeing you. AIN'T PRINTER'S INK WONDERFUL It is said a scion of a wealthy family engaged in the newspaper business several years ago, and from all appearances blew up. He is credited with the nifty assertion that he is as flat as a busted tire. Sad story. Old timers say it is not what you put into the paper that makes its successful, but rather it is what you leave out. And yet again an editor once put a piece in his paper about a swell society party and printed a list of the names of those present. And lo and behold he left out, by mistake, the name of a dame who was a leader in society, and she immediately stopped her paper. HEY, EDDIE, PUT THE CORONER'S NUMBER ON THE EMERGENCY LIST Now that the speed limit has been hoisted no doubt quite a few will try and see just what the old boat will do—if the governor signs the bill. Hot Ziggetty! WHY NOT TRY A TARIFF ON OIL A number of well meaning men in the state have formed an organization to try and find out what's the matter with the oil industry here. WATCH DOG OF THE TREASURY In view of the billion dollar deficit, it appears Uncle Andy knew his Bermudas. Anyhow, it seems he has the situation well in hand.