anaheim-gazette 1931-12-03

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. FINANCING THE AMERICAN HOME The plan for the future financing of home and farm mortgages on a national scale, which has come out of the conferences called by the President, ought to give a great impetus to the building industry and provide employment for millions in the building trades. It has the merit of not displacing any of the existing agencies, such as banks, building associations and the like, which make it their business to provide mortgage funds, but of enabling those institutions, by rediscounting their mortgages, to make additional loans and so put more money into circulation. There is no question about the need for more money for building purposes, in almost every part of the country. The natural growth of population and the destruction of buildings by fire, tornadoes and natural decay, makes it necessary to add about 22-1 percent a year to the number of buildings for home and other purposes, if we are not to be overcrowded. For the past few years we have not been building anywhere near the right porportion of new structures, so that there is a large "slack" to be taken up. And the only reason why the building program of the nation has been suspended is that the usual sources of building loans have been unable to supply more funds for building purposes. Under the program just announced at Washington, there will be organized a series of mortgage banks, one in each Federal Reserve District, which will lend their funds to local mortgage institutions as fast as the demand for money for building purposes develops. It will take time, of course, to get these banks organized, but assurances are said to have been given that their capital will be quickly poses, if we are not to be overcrowded. For the past few years we have not been building anywhere near the right porportion of new structures, so that there is a large "slack" to be taken up. And the only reason why the building program of the nation has been suspended is that the usual sources of building loans have been unable to supply more funds for building purposes. Under the program just announced at Washington, there will be organized a series of mortgage banks, one in each Federal Reserve District, which will lend their funds to local mortgage institutions as fast as the demand for money for building purposes develops. It will take time, of course, to get these banks organized, but assurances are said to have been given that their capital will be quickly subscribed, and in the course of a few months we may see a real revival of building activity in progress all over the country. And that will go a long way toward bringing real prosperity back. An Arctic expedition is planning to send us the polar weather every day by radio. That's our diea of nothing to get excited about. The Fascist government is offering prizes for the largest families. We presume first prize will go to the old woman who lived in a shoe. CLIMATE AND CLOVER Thus far, throughout most of the United States, the advent of Winter has been so gradual that old folks are wondering if we are going to have a repetition of the warm winter of 1876-77, when people died of sunstroke in New England in January. If the Winter does turn out to be a mild one, the 1933 crop of red clover will be a poor one. That is one of the observations made by Charles Darwin, the founder of modern scientific research, nearly a hundred years ago. In a cold, snowy Winter, he pointed out, the field mice starve and freeze to death by millions. The principal delicacy in the field mouse's diet is the honey in bumble-bees' nests. After an open Winter the field mice raid the bumble-bees' quarters and destroy the young bees as well as the honey. And that results in a poor crop of red clover the following year, because red clover is cross-fertilized only by the transmission of pollen from the male flower to the female by the bumble-bees. With few bumble-bees, only part of the clover is pollinated. The unpollinated clover fails to germinate, and the next year there is no red clover crop to speak of. Farmers for centuries had known that poor red clover crops came in the year following an open Winter, but didn't know why until Darwin explained it. Now they can protect themselves by sowing fresh clover seed in the year when the field-mice are scarce. And the farmers who take the pains to learn that and other facts made available by scientific research are the ones who prosper, while those who are content to go along in the way their grandfathers went are the ones who sons leave the farm for the city because "there isn't any chance to make a living by farming." People of New York City have been complaining for several days that the city water tastes fishy. But there are a lot of things about Manhattan that are fishier than the water. This election business is a funny thing. A lot of people can not be induced to go to the polls and vote once, while a lot of others People of New York City have been complaining for several days that the city water tastes fishy. But there are a lot of things about Manhattan that are fishier than the water. This election business is a funny thing. A lot of people can not be induced to go to the polls and vote once, while a lot of others are perfectly willing to go and vote a dozen times if it can be arranged. WANT MORE VOTERS TO VOTE In less than a year from now the United States will again hold a national election. Women's study clubs throughout the country hope to be able, by education and example, to produce a material improvement in the number of eligible voters who go to the polls. In the last presidential election, Americans showed themselves interested only to the extent of 61 percent of the eligible voters. Almost 40 percent of the American electorate did something else rather than go to the voting booth on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November. A comparison of this record with that of Argentina is one of the angles which the study clubs will emphasize, thanks to a compilation prepared for this purpose by the Woman's Home Companion. In the Argentine the voters vote—and in numbers worthy of respect At their last election, which took place in the same year as the American election, approximately 88 percent of the electorate went to the polls Not much more than 10 percent stayed home on election day. Even discounting as heavily as need by the invisible factors in the situation—for instance the fact that there is no middle class in Argentina and the fact that the resulting semifeudal conditions of life thus make it possible for great landholders to control large numbers of votes almost as a unit, the fact that an extensive bureaucracy often makes votes and jobs synonymous—it is plain that somehow some of the citizens of Argentina have discovered that there is a self-interest to be served by casting their votes; that there is some connection between their government and their daily life. The trouble with China is lack of national spirit. And yet there a lot of pacifists in America who would like to destroy the national spirit in this country. America's Screen Queen Marie Dressler, gave the greatest moving picture performance of any actress in 1930-31, according to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She won the honor in "Min and Bill." Knows Italy's Plans Dino Grandi, Italian Foreign Minister, followed Premier Laval of France to this country for informal conferences with the President. Second Woman Senator Senator Thomas H. Caraway's widow has been appointed to succeed her husband as Senator from Arkansas. Mrs. Rebecca Felton of Georgia was the first of her sex to sit in the Senate. Bruce Barton Looks at Ways of Life HE NEVER MADE MISTAKES The head of a large Philadelphia company decided to open a New England branch. Looking through his organization, he selected a prudent, industrious young man. "I am thinking of appointing you our New England manager with headquarters in Boston," he said. The young man received the news gravely. "I believe it will be a wise move, sir," he answered. "I never make mistakes." "Never make mistakes?" the boss repeated incredulously. "My, my, then I couldn't think of appointing you. Just imagine how I should feel, having a man in Boston who never makes mistakes, when I am down here in Philadelphia making them every day." The young man was not sent to traffic would have to be lightened. Long bridges must carry not only a live load but their own dead weight as well. At about 50,000 feet cables would snap of their own weight. The cost of iron ore and coal is steadily mounting and the supply of both is not unlimited. In about a century it may be commercially impossible to utilize steel for bridges. What then? We may have to resort to artificial and natural stone. Such a structure as the George Washington bridge will be looked upon as a priceless relic of a wonderful engineering past when men wrought in iron. A report from the Graf Zeppelin on its recent Arctic flight said: "We made another discovery, too. On Talmyr Peninsula we 'picked up' a mountain range which heretofore has been unknown." The Graf Zeppelin is a mighty ship—Sioux Walls Argus-Leader. LIGHT IN OCEAN DEPTHS Since no night can penetrate 5000 feet below the surface, all cellplant life and all other animals are par. ENLIVENING BIOGRAPHY By LORD RIDDELL British Newspaper Proprietor. Dry bones are the biographers' raw material, and the art of making them live is extremely rare. It demands an observant eye, a lively pen and a sense of drama. Many biographies are marred by long, tedious accounts of transactions in which the subject takes part. Owing to this defect some political biographies are like doses of morphia. Generally speaking, the author is not responsible. The subject's relatives, by whom the work is commissioned, stipulate for several fat volumes. They will pay for quantity but not for quality. Only a friend or acquaintance can write a real biography. Public and private forms are often very difficult. "I am thinking of appointing you our New England manager with headquarters in Boston," he said. The young man received the news gravely. "I believe it will be a wise move, sir," he answered. "I never make mistakes." "Never make mistakes?" the boss repeated incredulously. "My, my, then I couldn't think of appointing you. Just imagine how I should feel, having a man in Boston who never makes mistakes, when I am down here in Philadelphia making them every day." The young man was not sent to Boston. He lived out his business days in an obscure position, minus errors and minus hits. One of the most interesting men of my acquaintance has been wrong about forty percent of the time. I can look back over his career and point out a dozen different points where he took one stand and subsequently had to revise it. Why then has he stayed on top? First, I think, because he is absolutely truthful. What he sometimes imagines to be the truth turns out later to be an error, but he never consciously hedges for anything or anybody. Second, he is always trying. Roll him in the dust, and he is up in a minute and starting forward again. Lay something before him which you think is pretty good, and he instinctively reaches for a penil and begins to try to improve it. Let him accomplish an objective, and immediately he has set his eyes on another point further ahead. Finally, he never wastes any time in regretting the past. "Regret," said some one, "takes as much out of you as a prolonged drunk" This man has been an encouragement to me. So have the words of Stevenson, who exclaimed, "God give us young men who have the courage to make fools of themselves." I figured that I am entitled to one major mistake a week. This is my quota. As long as I keep within it I feel all right. And frequently I run over. Largest suspension bridge in the world" is a description that only temporarily fits the George Washington bridge between upper New York and Fort Lee, N.J. Its single span, which leaps bodily 3500 feet across the Hudson, will be surpassed by the 4200 Golden Gate bridge that San Francisco is planning. There is also the 5000-foot span projected for the Narrows in New York. Such large structures naturally raise this question: How big can a suspension bridge be? Civil engineers are agreed than 10,000 feet, a little less than one mile is the commercial Since no night can penetrate 5000 feet below the surface, all cellplant life ceases and all subsea animals are parasitic, carnivorous and cannibalistic. Beneath these dark depths, where the temperatures drops below 28 degrees Fahrenheit, the great sunken valleys and gorges lie covered with coral sands near coral reefs, volcanic sands off volcanic islands, and continental silt and waste near the mouths of great rivers. Such matter is classified in a half-dozen varieties of clay, and blue, red, green, volcanic and coral mud. Man has yet to discover the exact nature of the ocean floor, however. It is thought that continental masses float along the deep-sea floor much as icebergs float in the sea. The period of deep-sea investigation began about 1850, when it became possible to measure ocean depths with precision. An exact knowledge of depths became of practical necessity in the laying of telegraphic cables. There is no era of constructive thought. The only way you can get a hearing from the public nowadays is to be against something. DUAL CITIZENSHIP IN HAWAII Dual citizenship is decreasing in the Territory of Hawaii, according to a survey recently completed by the New Americans association. Japanese born in the islands since the passage of the expatriation law of December, 1924, by the Japanese Government total about 30,000 of which 18,000 are American citizens and the remaining 12,000 are dual citizens. The total number of Americans of Japanese ancestry in Hawaii is 90,000 of the 60,000 born prior to 1925 however, comparatively few have taken steps to expatriate themselves from Japan, according to Vice Consul Ichitaro Shibata. Two important features of the 1924 Japanese expatriation law were disclosed at the recent conference. First, if the birth of a Japanese child is not registered with the Japanese Government through the local consulate, the child is automatically expatriated. Second, any expatriated person may regain his full Japanese status through repatriation. The way those Jaws and Russians refrain from attacking one another, but take it out in shadow boxing, gives rise to the suspicion that they may have an wrought in iron. A report from the Graf Zeppelin on its recent Arctic flight said: "We made another discovery, too. On Talmyr Peninsula we picked up a mountain range which heretofore has been unknown." The Graf Zeppelin is a mighty ship—Sloux Walls Argus-Leader. LIGHT IN OCEAN DEPTHS Since no night can penetrate 5000 feet below the surface, all cellplant life ceases and all subsea animals are parasitic, carnivorous and cannibalistic. Beneath these dark depths, where the temperatures drops below 28 degrees Fahrenheit, the great sunken valleys and gorges lie covered with coral sands near coral reefs, volcanic sands off volcanic islands, and continental silt and waste near the mouths of great rivers. Such matter is classified in a half-dozen varieties of clay, and blue, red, green, volcanic and coral mud. Man has yet to discover the exact nature of the ocean floor, however. It is thought that continental masses float along the deep-sea floor much as icebergs float in the sea. The period of deep-sea investigation began about 1850, when it became possible to measure ocean depths with precision. An exact knowledge of depths became of practical necessity in the laying of telegraphic cables. There is no era of constructive thought. The only way you can get a hearing from the public nowadays is to be against something. DUAL CITIZENSHIP IN HAWAII Dual citizenship is decreasing in the Territory of Hawaii, according to a survey recently completed by the New Americans association. Japanese born in the islands since the passage of the expatriation law of December, 1924, by the Japanese Government total about 30,000 of which 18,000 are American citizens and the remaining 12,000 are dual citizens. The total number of Americans of Japanese ancestry in Hawaii is 90,000 of the 60,000 born prior to 1925 however, comparatively few have taken steps to expatriate themselves from Japan, according to Vice Consul Ichitaro Shibata. Two important features of the 1924 Japanese expatriation law were disclosed at the recent conference. First, if the birth of a Japanese child is not registered with the Japanese Government through the local consulate, the child is automatically expatriated. Second, any expatriated person may regain his full Japanese status through repatriation. The way those Jaws and Russians refrain from attacking one another, but take it out in shadow boxing, gives rise to the suspicion that they may have an wrought in iron. A report from the Graf Zeppelin on its recent Arctic flight said: "We made another discovery, too. On Talmyr Peninsula we picked up a mountain range which heretofore has been unknown." The Graf Zeppelin is a mighty ship—Sloux Walls Argus-Leader. Living in a psychological age, characters are rarely analyzed except in ephemeral articles in newspapers or periodicals. Things were different in the seventeenth century when people talked with more freedom and were more interesting. Character sketches of that century were models of what a sketch should be. Lord Halfax on Charles II is a masterly work. Some countries grow "Ceremonial teas." These teas are usually grown under shade and prepared under rituals for ceremonial purposes. Some of them cost as much as $100 a pound. "AUNTY" GETS VIOLINS Austria's economic suffering is revealed in a most characteristic manner by the publication of the fact that in Vienna, city of music and song, 3000 violins have recently been pledged with "Aunty Dorothy," otherwise the Dorotheum State pawnshop, says the New York Times. These pledges are evidence of the poverty of the once wealthy city which has resulted in ten years in the closing of one operatic and three operetta-theatres. "Canned music," being cheaper, has done its part in bringing the 3000 violins to "Aunty". Sound film, radio and gramophones with loud-speakers have driven orchestras from cinemas and cafes. In the little inn and wine gardens, hard-pressed propriets have abolished the time-honored languorous violinist and replaced him by some machine. Practical, unromantic Socialists have taxed other orchestra out of existence in the name of "social welfare." It is a tragedy for Vienna, whose great musicians—notably Haydn—were not above availing themselves of the best of the people's melodies which in the eighteenth century were interpreted by the inevitable Viennese violinist, in beer garden, on the Danube ships (where they carried the music of the Austrian Alps into the heart of Vienna), on the Danube banks and in world" is a description that only temporarily fits the George Washington bridge between upper New York and Fort Lee, N. J. Its single span, which leaps bodily $500 feet across the Hudson, will be surpassed by the 4200 Golden Gate bridge that San Francisco is planning. There is also the 5000-foot span projected for the Narrows in New York. Such large structures naturally raise this question: How big can a suspension bridge be? Civil engineers are agreed than 10,000 feet; a little less than two miles, is the commercial limit. A longer bridge could be built, but it would not pay for itself because Two important features of the 1924 Japanese expatriation law were disclosed at the recent conference. First, if the birth of a Japanese child is not registered with the Japanese Government through the local consulate, the child is automatically expatriated. Second, any expatriated person may regain his full Japanese status through repatriation. The way those Japs and Russians refrain from attacking one another, but take it out in shadow boxing, gives rise to the suspicion that they may have an agreement among themselves back in the bushes somewhere. THAT'S A SWELL DOG BUD, WHAT'S HIS NAME? I CALL HIM GYP! WHAT DO YA CALL HIM THAT FER? WELL, LOOK AT IM WE GOT GYPPED WHEN WE BOUGHT HIM! HE'S HARDLY GOT LEGS AND WHEN WE ASKED FOR A DOG THEY GAVE US THAT! OBSERVATIONS ABE'S NAME BOBS UP SERENELY A new law provides that persons admitted to practice law in this state must have had a high school education, or its equivalent. There was some opposition to the bill. Opponents said some budding Abraham Lincoln would be deprived of the chance to rise out of poverty and illiteracy and shine at the judicial bar and gain political fame and greatness. Well, Ahem, whar is that boy? OCH, OH! Up Carmel way they have what is called a nudeist colony. Hundreds came in cars to take a look; and the town constable had to run the visitors away. Then they came in airships for an eyeful. WHAT'S THE USE OF CROSSING THE BRIDGE UNTIL YOU GET THERE Some newspapers deplore the fact that large numbers of Mexicans are leaving this country. These same papers are afraid the ranchers here will be injured, because they will have a hard time getting Americans to do the work formerly performed by Mexicans. Try it and see! IT WONT BE LONG NOW An unusual case happened in another town there awhile back. A man and a woman were in a parked car out on one of the roads. They were making a disturbance. A bottle of booze stood at the curb. Neighbors called the cops. They came. The man and woman resisted. They were taken to the police station. The man was accused of being drunk. The doctor however pronounced him sober. He was furious. The woman was hysterical. The lady was the wife of one of the arresting officers. Curtains. Headaches. Apologies. DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH A wise newspaper man says some of the men in the amusement sector are not doing so well now. They lack the talkie qualifications. Each in the past had made a record with one of their "pitchers." They went over big. Now their celluloid cinemans fail to explode. The press agent allows if somebody would dig up just the right kind of a story each of the boys could make DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH A wise newspaper man says some of the men in the amusement sector are not doing so well now. They lack the talkie qualifications. Each in the past had made a record with one of their "pitchers." They went over big. Now their celluloid cinermans fail to explode. The press agent allows if somebody would dig up just the right kind of a story each of the boys could make good again, stage a comeback and be a wow, or something. WATER RUNNING OFF A DUCK'S BACK The other day a man talked to an audience for twenty hours without stopping. It is said that beats the last filibuster's record. In the early days a speaker talked long and earnestly, in favor of a candidate for a county office, during one of the conventions. All the delegates fell asleep and when awakened to cast their votes, in their bewilderment, the voted for the other fellow. OTHER SIDE OF LIFE The other day in another town up the boulevard a detective killed his sweetheart. He had separated from his wife. The dead woman was the man's friend. She leaves two young daughters. The officers was jealous. There was a radio next door. The woman and a lady friend of hers were dancing with other men. The officer was furious. He filled up on synthetic gin and Scotch whiskey. (By the way, that mixture would make a Belgian hare fight a wild-cat) He brutally beat the woman, whom he said he loved, and then shot her. She died. The officer in his prison cell said he was sorry. And he didn't remember how it all happened. And yet again there are many happy people out in the wide open space, where they are up with the lark, to smell the new mown hay and where all nature is smiling with gladness. FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS When the folks go to Reno they should be careful about forming new acquaintances before they are rid of the old ones. Sometimes it leads to a gun play and may upset the dissolution proceedings. It's better to be out with the old before taking on the new. THINGS GOING PRETTY SMOTH Besides getting a divorce while you wait in another state, they give you 20-round prize fights, gambling in all its mysteries, and it is said if you are onto the ropes you may have cracked ice and a bottle of ginger ale. HO, HO, HUM! Nowadays, when a fella bumps off a guy and gets in jail his lawyers advise him not to talk." SAY, GOV, WHAT'S THE CHANCES FOR A PARDON When a governor goes visiting to a two-time penitentiary, his fan mail may increase by leaps and bounds, asking him to call again, with a postscript at the left hand corner. ALL RIGHT, DOC, WE'LL TAKE YOUR WORD FOR IT If that intriped and daring navigator who went after the North Pole gets it what is he going to do with it. HO, HO, HUM! Nowadays, when a fella bumps off a guy and gets in jail his lawyers advise him not to talk." SAY, GOV, WHAT'S THE CHANCES FOR A PARDON When a governor goes visiting to a two-time penitentiary, his fan mail may increase by leaps and bounds, asking him to call again, with a postscript at the left hand corner. ALL RIGHT, DOC, WE'LL TAKE YOUR WORD FOR IT If that intriped and daring navigator who went after the North Pole gets it what is he going to do with it. AND "THEY" LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER Over in the divorce colony when an irate husband went after the other man in the case, with a gun, he said the reason he didn't shoot the fellow was because the gun wasn't loaded. ALL WASHED UP If they are not going to hang first degree murderers, and are going to parole the others, the D. A's might just as well punch the clock and call it a day. PUT IT ON THE ICE Speaking of moratarium there are some individuals, who have made "loans", and instead of postponing the payment, they just simply forget it. THE PANACEA Ever since that terrible world war things have been topsy-turvey, or something like that; and mebee if Uncle Sam gives some of the fellows over there a lift, things might shape around o. k. HANDWRITING ON THE WALL If the postponement of war debts for one year put such a wonderful stimulant into weary business, what would happen if the postponement was extended to ten years. EVERYTHING JUST FINE AND DANDY If that wonderful plan to delay war debt payments is not talked to death by the filibusters, everything would be Jake and the president could go fishing again. PROSPERITY JUST AROUND THE CORNER And then if the individuals would go in for maratoriums about all a non-combattant would have to do would be to keep on smiling and let nature take its course..