anaheim-gazette 1932-02-18

ANAHEIM 25s Kids a Dime Loges 350 SUN. MON. (Continuous Shows Sunday 2:30 to 11 p.m.) Feb. 21-29 "THE BIG SHOT" with EDDIE QUILLAN Zazu Pitts and Thelma Todd in "SEAL SKIN" PARA. ACT PATHE FABLE NEWS TUES. WED. Feb. 28-24 "PASSIONATE PLUMBER" with BUSTER KEATON NICK HARRIS MYSTERY COMEDY SCENIC NEWS THURSDAY ONLY. "CHINA NITE" Feb. 25 "FANNY FOLEY HERSELF" with EDNA MAY OLIVER SPORTLITE—TALKERTOON NEWS FRI. SAT MATINEE SATURDAY AT 2:30 Feb. 26-27 "The Expert" With CHIC SALES OUR GANG COMEDY—"BIG EARS" METRO. NOVELTY PATHE NEWS State Finance Director Claims Rights of People Come Ahead of Road-Builders Rolland A. Vandegrift Outlines Reasons for Suggesting Part of Gas Tax Money Should go Toward Defraying Cost of Road Bonds, Especially During Time When Economy Should Rule By ROLLAND A. VANDERGRIFT Director of Finance, State of Calif I feel it is time for me to state my position definitely and clearly on my proposal to pay out of the gasoline tax funds interest and redemption charges on old highway bond issue. The proposal is one worthy of deepest consideration, for it means holding down the tax burden on the small home owner. It is not one to approve or dislike biennium and that there are various state activities which need and merit full and possibly even increased financial support. The taxpayers of California will not welcome or tolerate official indifference in retrenchment. Only when they are fully convinced that all possible savings have been accomplished in state government, will they be willing to consider any form of additional taxation to meet state government needs. By ROLLAND A. VANDERGRIFT Director of Finance, State of Calif I feel it is time for me to state my position definitely and clearly on my proposal to pay out of the gasoline tax funds interest and redemption charges on old highway bond issues. The proposal is one worthy of deepest consideration, for it means holding down the tax burden on the small home owner. It is not one to approve or disapprove on the spur of the moment. Paying interest and redemption of highway bonds has been called a diversion of gas tax funds from road purposes by those professionally interested in shelving the suggestion; men and organizations primarily interested in enhancing through new roads the value of their own property, in the sale of concrete and asphalt and road-making machines, and some who are anxious to break in the spotlight of state-wide publicity. Many Opponents Naturally, those who immediately profit from road building can see no merit in my contention that the small and large taxpayers of the state should be assured of avoiding a tax increase through the general fund of the state being relieved of the necessity of paying for road bonds and the interest thereon. bonds voted for the original highways of this state at a time when the gasoline tax was not thought of. I would be among the first to oppose, bitterly and vigorously, any real diversion of gas taxes from roads whereby the motorist of this state would be called upon to pay for something in which he had no concern. This proposal of mine distinctly is not a diversion of gas tax. Indeed, the shoe is on the other foot. To pay interest and redemption charges out of the general fund puts the burden where it does not belong, namely, upon the taxpayer who does not necessarily use and wear out the roads. Further, it is not logical to maintain that interest and redemption on old highway bonds can be classified as maintenance expense on the old highway so built? We are going through troublous times. The state must find between 25 and 40 millions of dollars to balance the budget in the next biennium. Economy is necessary. Should we not economize in all departments? Taxpayers Demand Consideration Is it logical to continue building highways at the rate of forty million dollars a year or more and make further expansion and yet lay a further tax burden upon every taxpayer to meet a deficit caused solely by the sharp drop in state revenues? It must not be forgotten that there are certain fixed charges of government voted by the people which recur automatically each biennium and that there are various state activities which need and merit full and possibly even increased financial support. The taxpayers of California will not welcome or tolerate official indifference in retrenchment. Only when they are fully convinced that all possible savings have been accomplished in state government, will they be willing to consider any form of additional taxation to meet state government costs. To me, it seems reasonable to ask what amounts to a drop in the bucket from the gas tax—$8,459,000—to aid in preventing additional taxation in this state—at least a drop in the bucket compared to the $106,000,000 which will have been spent on roads during this biennium. Important Business It is most unreasonable, in my mind, that we must be forced to eliminate state services of primary importance or to place additional tax burdens upon our people merely because a certain group, jealous of the many millions being spent on highways, is unwilling to see that the old roads built by the bonds in question are paid for as part of the highway system. The payment thereon is justifiably an obligation of those using the roads. I do not believe that $8,459,000 worth of highways are more important than $8,459,000 used in caring for our blind, our mentally ill, our orphans and our aged. I do not believe that $8,459,000 worth of highways are more important than money spent on marketing our agricultural crops and keeping out the white fly, alfalfa weavil, and other agricultural pests. We are going through extraordinary times. We must meet the problems created by the present depression with extraordinary measures. That is why the department over which I have the honor to be director is bending every effort to effect economy in state government. That is why I present only a fair proposal in asking that gas tax money pay for all costs of state roads. That is why I also urge the placing of the gross receipts tax on bus and truck companies in the general fund. The railroads pay the state for the privilege of operating within its confines. They haul passengers and freight. Buses and trucks pay into the high-road bed—namely, the highways of the way fund gas taxes for the use of the state. Why should they not be required to pay the state for the privilege of operating as do the railroads, and measured in the same way. He hired you to the wilderness darles of his past that work too country, clear realized that he was going to leave soon as roads from then on, chance, he bowed then the West. The only man in the Ohio county to lead the color in 1755. When he was rence became diered him to go George went to smallpox in Bost face pitted and his life. Lawrery leaving George non, a large andarge Washington reached his fullland as one of hthe largest hands belng." His coally burned bricks his hair was fainting. There isn't much Washington's like the French and beginning of those fifteen years when he was 27 records and a which interested He was 27 and Mount Vernon in Fredericksbury a house his faith met the Widow seems to have first sight, and th married. Martha 26, had two littl Martha, and a hut A wife's money band in those days ital George Wa join the Fairfax tions which paid The principal verment of the little andra into a city Washington Lord Fairfax town house on Washington built the street; which town house when Mount Vernon, but as an office his increasing b Fairfax house s Washington hous WANT ADS BATH: Five cents the line (count five words to the line) for each insertion. Phone 2414 for want ads that bring results. Apartments For Rent FOR RENT. 4 room furnished family flat, 3 beds, laundry room, electric washer, froner, garage. Close in. Rent reasonable. Phone 2360. Squier Villa, 201 N. Emily St. Stationery BOOKKEEPING FORMS Best popular standard forms, ledger sheets, receipts, etc., see E. D. ABRAMS 118 W. Center Anaheim. Phone 2513 Financial MANS TO INDIVIDUALS $100-$1200 MAKERS OR COLLATERAL Autos Refinanced INVESTMENTS 119 N. Los Angeles St., Anaheim Painting & Paperhanging Painting, paperhanging. J. E. Saylor, 676 S. 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He was the richest man in the United States when he died, and he had made most of it by his successful operations in real estate. We celebrate Washington's Birthday on February 22, but in the calendar, in use when he was born at Pope's Creek, Westmoreland county, Virginia, just 200 years ago, it was February 11th. In 1756 England and the English colonies adopted the modern calendar, and dropped eleven days out of the month of September in that year, so that all anniversaries fell eleven days later. Few people bothered to change their birth-dates, and George Washington never did, but after his death some precise school-teacher sort of people, the kind who are always trying to set the world right, said that to continue to celebrate the 11th as Washington's birthday would be all wrong. He was dead by then and nobody else cared, so it got into the schoolbooks as the 22nd. Augustine Washington, George's father, died when he was eleven, and he went to live with his half-brother, Lawrence Washington, at his farm on Hunter's Creek, which was later named Mount Vernon, after Admiral Vernon of the British navy, Lawrence's great friend. George went to a little school taught by the local minister until he was fifteen, and when he was sixteen went to work. Lawrence Washington had married a daughter of William Fairfax who, with his brother, Lord Fairfax, owned more land than anybody else in America. Love at First Sight He hired young George to go out into the wilderness and survey the boundaries of his property. For three years that work took him into unexplored country, clear to the Ohio river. He realized that land in the Ohio valley was going to be worth a great deal as Happy Warrior Back Al Smith will run for the Presidency again as the Democratic standby bearer if his party wants him to so, he has publicly announced, but will make no effort to land the nomination. and where, tradition has it, he often led the singing of popular ditties. His favorite was an old England song entitled "The Derby Ram." If there had been such things as Rotary and Kiwanis in his day George Washington certainly would have belonged to them! Liked Hunting To be a vestryman of Christ church was one of the highest social distinctions in Alexandria, and Washington held held that office for many years. When at home at Mount Vernon he attended the little Pohick church, of which Parson Weems, his first biographer, was the rector. He was a great horseman and his favorite sport was fox hunting. Many of the present streets of Alexandra run just as they were originally laid out by George Washington. The little school which he built for the children of the poor, and for which he left an endowment in his will still stands and is still a school, while a block of tenements which he built is still occupied. There is a tradition that Washington, when in his 'teens,' raced another boy on horseback down what is now King street and won by running his Prospects Dimensions On Trobabe Trails Few Good Men Show Up! Events in First Workout of New Season With Frank Wykoff, Dick Barber Hall, Art Woessner, Cliff Halstead many other leading University of Southern California track and field stars in their senior year at the Trojan institution, Coach Dean Cromwell is called an anxious eye on the freshmen team from which he will need to draw help for his varsity material next year. And as the amiable Dean looks at his Trobabes the famous Cromwell has a hard time staying in evidence for Southern California's new track field talent at the present time anything but promising. In the meet for the Trojan fresh last Friday they took a bad heating by a scooter 71-1-3 to 45-2-3 from the Los Angeles Junior college squad, and bright for S. C., were few and far between. Few Good Prospects Coach Cromwell has a splendid dream prospect in Paul Summers of Passaic and a good low hurdler in Edward J. who is from Harvard Military academy. Los Angeles. Al Reboin, fast freshman football star from Santa Clara cleared 11 feet, 9 inches in the vault last Friday. Joe Ramsey of Inwood is another good prospect in event. John Cutler, from Fairfax high school Los Angeles, looms as the outstanding frosh distance hope as the result of 4:45 mile last Friday. James Casco from Commerce high school San Francisco is a quarter-miler who shaded seconds as a prep star and he is expected to be a valuable point winner in future. Many Aspirants In addition to these men, Cromwell freshman track prospect line up as follows: 100, Herbert Ballew, Lindeey; and 220, John Moore, Fort Colo.(Colo); 880, Ferris Webster, W School Classmates. Reduce Fares to Big Orange Show According to J. H. Harrington, local agent for the Motor Transit stages, he has just received instructions that his company will put on sale special reduced round-trip excursion tickets from Anaheim and other Southern California points on the Motor Transit Lines to the 22nd National Orange Show at San Bernardino, February 18th to 28th, inclusive. "The National Orange Show this year will commemorate the life and history of George Washington, depicting events and story in gorgeous feature exhibits and historical decorative scenes," commented agent Harrington today. Buses leaving this city daily at 7:35; 11:40 a.m. and at 5:40 p.m. Two Watches, Currency Stolen from F. Elliott The Anaheim police last Friday instructed Francis Elliott, R. F. D. 2, Box 433, Anaheim, to report the theft of two watches, $15 in currency, and a ruby ring fro m his home Thursday afternoon to the sheriff's office. This was necessary because he lives outside the city limits of Anaheim. Elaborate Fete For Washington (Continued from Page 1) Betty Leu McGinnis, and "Story of Washington's Life" by Wilma Keez is scheduled in that order. Secretary George Reid of the Anaheim chapter of commerce will give the dedication speech, with Langdon Hillery accepting on behalf of the school the new name plates, which were ordered his week. A colonial minute by the sixth grade girls will conclude the program which was arranged by Principal Elliott and Miss Clara Merkke teacher. "We believe the merchants and home will cooperate to the fullest extent in making this program a success by hanging out patriotic decorations, flags etc., on Washington's birthday," Chairman Whitaker and Decoration Committee chairman Harry C. Wilhelm stated. "We hope to see the flag flying at every place of business and at every home." Chairman Whitaker, observing that Anaheim is planning the most elaborate program in the county, said: "We cordially invite residents throughout the county to participate. Everything will be entirely free, and we want everybody to come to Anaheim and participate in our tribute to George Washington." NOW ON! National Orange Show SAN BERNARDINO, ENDS FEB. 28TH Commemorating The 200th Anniversary of the birth of GEORGE WASHINGTON Colonial Decorations of RARE BEAUTY WASHINGTON'S HOME of Mr. VERNON Famous Paintings Depicting the Life of WASHINGTON PROVIDE A SETTING OF HISTORICAL INTEREST FOR THE MOST LAVISH DISPLAY OF FRUITS AND FEATURES IN THE HISTORY OF THE MIDWINTER CLASSIC MUSICAL COMEDY, LIGHT OPERA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, SUPERB SINGING ENSEMBLE SOLOISTS ETC. FIVE DIFFERENT CHANGES OF PROGRAM FROM THE STATELY MINOTTO TO PRESENT DAY MUSICAL GEMS. 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