anaheim-gazette 1932-03-03

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Publisher ESTABLISHED 1870 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPT PER YEAR ... $2.50 SIX MONTHS ... $1.40 Entered at the Anaheim, California Postoffice as second-class matter. RELIEF FOR THE SMALL FARMER Farmers who find themselves short of cash or credit with which to finance their 1932 crops can borrow money under the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, which provides that fifty million dollars is made available through the Secretary of Agriculture for crop-financing loans to farmers, and much more than that will be available if necessary. These loans, Secretary Hyde announces, will be on an acreage basis and not more than $400 may be borrowed by any one farmer. This money must be used for the purchase of seed and the cultivation and harvesting of crops, and loans are to be secured by liens upon growing crops. We think this a pretty good arrangement for two or three reasons. In the first place, it is cheap financing for farmers, the interest rate being only five and one-half percent. In the second place, its likely to result in teaching a good many farmers how to use credit in the same way a business man uses it: The kind of loans with which farmers are most familiar are mortgage loans on the security of their land. And if farmers, generally, take advantage of this process, it will distribute a large amount of working money throughout all of the agricultural regions, and every dollar so distributed will contribute many times its own value to the restoration of business activity and the benefit of the community in which it circulates. We are sorry for the farmers of Connecticut and Pennsylvania, where State laws prohibit the giving of liens upon crops. Farmers in those states will not be able to take advantage of this new line of credit. We understand that local or county agents are to be named of loans with which farmers are most familiar are mortgage loans on the security of their land. And if farmers, generally, take advantage of this process, it will distribute a large amount of working money throughout all of the agricultural regions, and every dollar so distributed will contribute many times its own value to the restoration of business activity and the benefit of the community in which it circulates. We are sorry for the farmers of Connecticut and Pennsylvania, where State laws prohibit the giving of liens upon crops. Farmers in those states will not be able to take advantage of this new line of credit. We understand that local or county agents are to be named for the handling of applications for loans under this new plan, but anyone interested can find out all about it by writing direct to the Secretary of Agriculture at Washington. STOCK MARKET GAMBLING We think we are perfectly safe in saying that the business depression has "scraped bottom" and the upswing has begun. It is certain that there is a much greater feeling of confidence among manufacturers, business men and bankers than there was a month ago. The remedial legislation which has been enacted at Washington has already had a deep psychological effect upon the business and financial world. The best proof that these efforts to put a stop to the process of deflation are regarded by men who know about such things as being effective, is the fact that men and institutions of great wealth who have been holding back their funds waiting to be sure that the bottom had been reached, are now actively investing again. But on the heels of these investors follows an army of speculative sharks, whose activities may succeed in undoing the beginnings of restored confidence. These are the traders who rush in whenever the shares of any corporation show signs of strength, and buy merely to sell again as soon as they can make a dollar or two profit. The New York Stock Exchange is an important institution, in that it furnishes the only open market into which anyone who wants to buy or sell securities can go to make his sales or purchases. But a large part of the trading on the Exchange is pure gambling. These gamblers care nothing about the welfare of the nation; they seek only to line their own pockets. And it is too bad that whenever there are encouraging signs of restored confidence that they should come in and kill it by first running the market up and then, when they sell to take profits, putting it down again. We believe that these stock gamblers have done more to retard the resumption of normal business than any other one influence. We hope that the nation as a whole will not continue to regard the day-to-day fluctuations of security prices on the Stock Exchange as reflecting anything more than the operations of gamblers, but we are afraid that too many people think the nation's prosperity is dependent upon the price of stocks, which have no more relation to the actual values of the properties behind them today, when they are absurdly low, than they had in 1929, when they were ridiculously too high. USE AMERICAN GOODS Free traders in America, and by the way there do not seem to be many European free traders any more, are still insisting that the United States ought to lower its tariff barriers and admit a flood of cheaply made foreign goods, on the theory that this would enable us to sell more goods in impoverished Europe which can USE AMERICAN GOODS Free traders in America, and by the way there do not seem to be many European free traders any more, are still insisting that the United States ought to lower its tariff barriers and admit a flood of cheaply made foreign goods, on the theory that this would enable us to sell more goods in impoverished Europe which can only take a very small portion of our products even in prosperous times. The fact that cheap foreign goods would disrupt our great home market which has always been the cornerstone of American prosperity bothers these free traders of ours not a little giving rise to the well grounded suspicion that what they most desire is not the prosperity of America but a bettering of conditions in Europe even if this can only be brought about at the injury of American enterprise. The big financial quarters of the East and Wall street especially are frequently accused of forming the background of this modern and internationalist free trade sentiment in America. It is pleasing therefore to quote the following from that conservative journal "The Magazine of Wall Street:" "If we are to accelerate the pace of business most effectively, we must preserve home markets for ourselves! Competition of foreign goods is increasing in our own stores and shops, despite tariff barriers. It is time we took a leaf out of Great Britain's book to 'buy British goods only,' and resolve to give preference to American goods. If we ignore low-priced foreign merchandise, it will foster our own industrial production and speed the return of prosperity. It will solve the problem of unemployment. Buy American-made goods and put every man back on the job!" Americans are more and more coming to realize that after all, if we want to restore normal conditions at home we must begin at home and not go wool gathering in Europe. Of course, we want conditions in Europe to improve, too, and the quickest way for our internationalists to help bring this about is by helping to put Uncle Sam on his feet first of all. Newton Baker says that the League of Nations ought not be and issue in the next campaign. But it will be if the Democrats pick Newt as a standard bearer. The political parties of Germany are planning to get behind Hindenberg and give him another term without opposition. That hasn't been done in United States since Monroe's administration. Something Else You Can Do With a Ford High school boys of Harmony, Pa., found an old hand-car beside the abandoned trolley tracks. They bought an ancient Model T for three dollars and hitched its engine to the car axle. They cover the two miles to school at the rate of 35 miles an hour. And is it fun? THE WAY OF LIFE By BRUCE BARTON BLESSED ARE THE COMPETENT An important New Yorker called me up to ask about two doctors who run a clinic in a little town in Canada. He knew that I had visited them some years ago and that they did me much good. I described them to him in the words of one of their patients. "They are human ferrets." I said. "They seem to be able to discover and correct conditions where even specialists have failed." The man went up to the clinic and stayed THE FAMILY DOCTOR By JOHN JOSEPH GAINES, M. D. SOME SIMPLE RULES A letter reached me from a friend in the great state of Texas this week, a good, warm-hearted message, breathing the generous spirit of the south. After his words of praise for my humble effort, he just wondered what would be good for an acid stomach. He is a young man, very diligent in his work on farm or ranch; in fact I will wager that he doesn't take time to properly masticate his food, so keen his desire to get back to the field. Here in part, is some of the advice I gave him: An important New Yorker called me up to ask about two doctors who run a clinic in a little town in Canada. He knew that I had visited them some years ago and that they did me much good. I described them to him in the words of one of their patients. "They are human ferrets." I said. "They seem to be able to discover and correct conditions where even specialists have failed." The man went up to the clinic and stayed three weeks. Yesterday he telephoned me to say that he had not felt so well in years. He was so enthusiastic that I could hardly get him off the phone. I sent another man up to Bill Brown’s health farm opposite West Point. The man is vice president of a business that has had plenty of problems. He was nervous and discouraged. He came back from Bill's on the top of the world. I referred a friend to an architect who has done some very clever work for us on our country house. My friend was delighted. The doctors write me letters of thanks. So does Bill. So does the architect. They think I have done them a friendly service. I reply that, on the contrary, the obligation is entirely on my part. They have given me one of the best pleasures in life, the pleasure of recommending someone who is really competent. Now seldom we have that pleasure. What a discouraging lot of applications we receive from men who want to do something but have never done anything really well. It is time for someone to reprint and redistribute Elbert Hubbard’s “Message to Garcia.” It tells, you remember, how President McKinley, when the Spanish War broke out, needed to get immediate word to the leader of the Cuban insurgents, General Garcia. Some one told the President that there was a man named Major A. S. Rowan who could find Garcia. Major Rowan took the letter, asked no questions, sought no directions or advice, but quietly and promptly set sail for Cuba, made his way through the wilderness and delivered the letter. Hubbard sang the praises. "Civilization is one long anxious search for just such individuals," he exclaimed. "Anything such a man asks shall be granted. He is wanted in every city, town and village—in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cries out for such: he is needed and needly badly—the man who can 'Carry a Message to Garcia'." I do not think that humanity is inherently selfish or hardboiled. I think there are many business men who would like to help their fellows to better jobs and more business. But so few of those who want help have ever delivered anything. A letter reached me from a friend in the great state of Texas this week, a good, warm-hearted message, breathing the generous spirit of the south. After his words of praise for my humble effort, he just wondered what would be good for an acid stomach. He is a young man, very diligent in his work on farm or ranch; in fact I will wager that he doesn't take time to properly mastigate his food, so keen his desire to get back to the field. Here in part, is some of the advice I gave him: First, if a tobacco-chewer, cut out chewing for a long time before meals. Save saliva for digestion; it neutralizes the excess of acid; that's what it is there for—not to be spat out with tobacco juice, leaving the acid to do its harm. Second, keep the bowels moving regularly with a good preparation of magnesia. Then, take time to eat—to chew the food thoroughly. Third, use "smooth," bland, soft-cooked food. No hard, rough irritating thing. I am convert to the smooth diet; am rebelling most earnestly against all harsh, coarse, indigestible forms. I urged the well-balanced diet—a portion of most all the good things to eat—no excess of any. A good breakfast, a well-rounded dinner at noon. A mild bit of refreshment for supper, when the body is tired from the labor of the day. The long night of rest fits the stomach for a good, tonic breakfast again. These simple suggestions may be helpful to other workers who are not "sick," but simply functioning wrong. It is estimated that the expense of the American delegation to the Geneva disarmament conference will be $450,000. We hope that the delegation will be able to get European arms reduction in that amount, but we are still from Missouri. France is said to fear that our new reconstruction finance corporation will result in inflation. But it occurs to us that France is already pretty well inflated, from a political standpoint at least. A petition bearing signatures of 500,000 American people who want peace was presented to the American delegates departing for the Geneva disarmament conference, by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. These signatures should have been secured in Europe where they are needed. New England manufacturers who object because westerners want a tariff on foreign oil do not object at all to a tariff on foreign textiles. Isn't it a funny world? One thing to be said about the present phase he exclaimed. "Anything such a man asks shall be granted. He is wanted in every city, town and village—in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cries out for such: he is needed and needly badly—the man who can 'Carry a Message to Garcia.'" I do not think that humanity is inherently selfish or hardboiled. I think there are many business men who would like to help their fellows to better jobs and more business. But so few of those who want help have ever delivered anything. Now and then comes one who does deliver. And what a joy it is to recommend him! New England manufacturers who object because westerners want a tariff on foreign oil do not object at all to a tariff on foreign textiles. Isn't it a funny world? One thing to be said about the present phase of the Japanese penetration of China is that the Japs are going in by the front door. HANDSUP HE'S BEEN IN THIS COUNTRY ONLY A SHORT TIME MR. BIVINS HE'S TRYING TO SAY — HAND SOAP OBSERVATIONS NEIGH! NEIGH! Wild horses of the northwest are killed and shipped inland to be canned. Sort of hors do come back. IN THE SHADE OF THE OLD UMBRELLA Speaking of unemployment and this and that any week end in the good old summer time on the seashore from Laguna to San Diego will find the folks just lounging around, and swatting mosquitos. YOU MEAN, MISTER, HE SHOULD DO IT SINGLE HANDED? When the corks kept popping merrily a Los Angeles minister said Mr. Mussolini could clean up New York in a week. NEXT TIME THEY HAVE A PIPE DREAM THEY SHOULD FURNISH THEIR OWN HOP Seven persons went to the Guadalupe Islands in search of pirate gold, almost starved to death, and then got Uncle Sam's goat and he sent a vessel to fetch them back. THE GENTLE TOUCH A feller who was thumbing his way south on the state highway said he was looking for work, but since he couldn't find it, he took up the practice of asking for a quarter to eat on. TAKING UP THE SLACK Political parties may split on the wet and dry question; but the rum-runner goes on just the same. ATTA BAY! The health department is after the eating joints, and insists that the dish washer must use scalding hot water when cleaning the crockery and silverware. BUT, MISTER, WHAR YOU GONNA DRAW THE LINE A U. S. senator says the rich must feed the poor. If they don't do it voluntarily, they will do it nevertheless, he says. ANOTHER COUNTRY HEARD FROM A former democratic U. S. senator ups and says the late depression was caused by the republican administrations during the past ten years, and the tariff. Ho, ho, ho, hee-hee-hee. Gosh, aint that the limit! BUT, MISTER, WHAR YOU GONNA DRAW THE LINE A U. S. senator says the rich must feed the poor. If they don't do it voluntarily, they will do it nevertheless, he says. ANOTHER COUNTRY HEARD FROM A former democratic U. S. senator ups and says the late depression was caused by the republican administrations during the past ten years, and the tariff. Ho, ho, ho, hee-hee-hee. Gosh, aint that the limit! PUT 'ER THAR, BILL — HAVE A CIGAR? Down Oklahoma way the fiery Governor says what the country needs right now is men in office who are intelligent, brave and honest. PROSPERITY IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER A re-assuring note comes in from Amsterdam, saying that the diamond industry is to be revived there, employing 800 men. One of the requirements is the men must not hold out on the big boss. THAR'S GOLD IN THEM THAR SPILLS Some of the sport writer boys razzed Dempsey for the setups, but he bowled 'em ovah just the same. But later on perhaps he may call for the smelling salts. Huh? SOWED THE WIND, REAPED THE WHIRLWIND Every day in every way it looks like the pinheads who started the World's war are responsible for all the mess the cock-eyed old world got into. FIDDLED WHILE ROME BURNED That dole business is dangerous. Some countries which took it on got into deep water and came near being swamped. The dole is an aggravated form of charity. It is easily abused. With a certain class of folks it got to be a habit. Lots of them held out their cash registers to receive the charity when they were getting along pretty good under their own steam. That gimme allment is liable to cause a government to acquire internal disorders hard to cure. HEY, JIMMIE, DIDJA BUY A RETURN TICKET? When mayor went visiting over there it is said while viewing the sights in a well known watering place he lost a coupla grand. PASSING THE ROYAL 'AT Over in a foreign country when the dole began to pinch, the king agreed to let them deduct a thousand pounds from his pay envelope. CONTINUED PERFORMANCE Somebody is always causing trouble, and then somebody else is always trying to find a remedy to cure the darned thing; and then the cure is worse than the ailment. GRACIOUS GESTURE When San Francisco and other northern cities sent delegations to march in the La Fiesta parade in Los Angeles the other day, they kindled the spark of friendship that should now blaze forth forever and a day. CONTINUED PERFORMANCE Somebody is always causing trouble, and then somebody else is always trying to find a remedy to cure the darned thing; and then the cure is worse than the ailment. GRACIOUS GESTURE When San Francisco and other northern cities sent delegations to march in the La Fiesta parade in Los Angeles the other day, they kindled the spark of friendship that should now blaze forth forever and a day. MOTORIST DOES HAVE HIS MOMENTS Listen! What's that! Sounds like a pistol shot. Naw, it's the backfire of an auto. I'll bet you it's a shooting scrape. Oh, don't get excited. That flivver is just exhausting. MEN WHO GAVE UNTIL IT HURT A good lady, who goes among those in distress, with acts of kindness and words of comfort, to cheer them on, recently went to a place where there were a number of disabled world war veterans. The men were grouped around this good lady, and she sang for them. A line in the songs reads, "When the moon comes over the mountain, I’ll be alone with my memories of you." When that sweet melody reached your ears, you know, folks, your eyes just filled with tears. (Sniff, Sniff). Hey, there, stop that. We all hope the good lady will come again. WHEN NIGHT SHADES ARE FALLING If you are a bit romantic hop into your car and head east for Santiago canyon. Take a look at the new dam. Go southwest through a canyon that gives you thrill for its scenic beauty. Time yourself to get over onto the El Toro grade just before dusk, and if the weather is clear, see the sun sink into the Pacific, giving you a picture no artist can paint. AND OFTEN HE GETS THE BOID It is said a well known writer gets a dollar a woid. THE ETERNAL TRIANGLE An expert says men prefer blondes, brunettes prefer men, and red-heads fight for their men. GOT THEIR GOAT When Ghandi arrived in London with his tray of goat milk it is said everybody, including the bobbies, indulged in long and loud laughter.