anaheim-gazette 1932-03-10

MAIN STREET Looks at BROADWAY By "Observer" An Old Bread Line Recently we chronicled the Fleischmann Bakery as being the first to maintain a bread line, dating back about fifty years. That fine piece of charity, however, is far from being the oldest bread line here. The other day it came to light that Trinity Parish is still running one that is exactly 139 years old. It appears that in 1792, John Leake willed the interest on $5,000 for bread to be distributed by that famous Episcopal Church, and through all those years the will has been compiled with. The dole is being distributed nowadays by Rev. Edward H. Schleuter, vicar of St. Luke's Chapel, one of Trinity Church's affiliates. No "Hands Off" Signs One of the most attractive free shows here is maintained in the Daily News building on East 42nd Street. It is curiously enough, an exhibition of machinery and "robots." And children especially are invited to stroll through the exhibition and handle everything to their heart's content. Children are simply mad about the place. My own youngster, 6, went there with a pal a couple of years older and reveled in the various gadgets. One thing shown was a telephone. She took down the receiver, dialed her number and saw the machinery she set in motion get her the connection and then, ten feet away her pal answered the call and talked to her. Other things are automobile models, steam engines, elevators, riding stairs and all kinds of things like that. After a child has spent a few hours in the place she comprehends a lot more about modern conveniences than she ever did before. And it is all gorgeous fun! Sales People One of the curious things visitors here observe quickly is the detached air with which sales people in the big stores wait on customers. In the better stores there is never any attempt made to force a sale. The idea seems to be that, if that particular customer walks out, there will be a new one in before many minutes. One result is that women here thoroughly enjoy shopping, more so than in any other city in the world. In London, one cannot escape from a shop after one has entered it without buying something, or being forced to listen to high pressure selling from everybody in the place, clear up to the owner. Here it seems to be quite all right to walk out. One never gets a "dirty look" from any of the sales force. And they are really grateful when a sale has been consummated. Horse Cars New York City was probably the last place in the whole country to stop running horse cars. The last line was on Fulton Street, a few blocks from Wall Street and it took the car about half an hour to go the half mile between terminals. Of course the line was operated merely to hold the franchise. The other day one of the big department stores celebrated its fifty-ninth anniversary and part of the celebration was to get a horse car on 59th Street on which the store is located. The car ran all day and took in thousands of nickels from people who enjoyed the "novel" experience. COMBO-RINGLETTE PERMANENT WAVE Including Shampoo and Finger Wave ..... $5.00 Prosperity of Last Europe; Democracy (Editor's Note: This article known writer, shortly in this 41st year credited in value to $49,699,677 Americans sent and spent investments and loans, depreciation expenses and remittance.Exports during the We more than covered by our penditures, much of them all a contribution to foreign America paid for much to Europe by loans while told will not be paid.The European nations they cannot pay the cuuowed our government and already collected nine from Germany.The allow to collect ten billions m Besides,the allies received many vast areas in Africa and the islands of asked and got nothing.value of Alsace-Lorraine At the price of how many France cede these "lost Germany or any other Having driven a big trideade with Europe on our hands propped up prosper basis,settlement day had for our foreign adventure in 1917.That is all our unemployment means.A perity has not been done without,with help from meYet national leaders guished that John W. 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Center — Phone 4304 — Anaheim 23 of the 25 LARGEST 23 of the 25 LARGEST CALIFORNIA CORPORATIONS are now depositors in Bank of America Ten of these twenty-five corporations have assets of 100 MILLION DOLLARS or more. Fifteen have assets exceeding 30 MILLION DOLLARS. All of the first 10—23 of the entire 25—are depositors in Bank of America. You, as a Bank of America depositor—whether your account be large or small, savings or commercial—will enjoy the same safeguards approved by California’s business leaders. BANK OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRUST & SAVINGS ASSOCIATION "Old Hickory's" Vigorous Protection Of American Freemen Is Kevnote Now Prosperity of Last Decade Bought by Loans from America to Europe; Democratic Leaders' Insistence On Lowering Tariff Held Unsound by Noted Writer (Editor's Note: This article was written by George B. Laskwood, nationally-known writer, shortly before his death in Indiana last week.) In the 10 years ending with 1925, our total import value in value to $49,609,677,114. During the same period the amount of money Americans sent and spent abroad was over $60,000,000,000. This included foreign investments and loans, debt funding settlements, gifts, ocean freight bills, touristic expenses and remittances. Exports during the World War were more than covered by our direct expenditures, much of them spent abroad, all a contribution to foreign interests. America paid for much of our export to Europe by loans which we are now told will not be paid. The European nations which tell us they cannot pay the cut-in-two debts owed our government and people, have already collected nine billion dollars from Germany. The allies are trying to collect ten billions more. Besides, the allies received from Germany many vast areas in Europe, Asia, Africa and the islands of the sea. We asked and got nothing. What is the value of Alsace-Lorraine to France? At the price of how many billions would France cede these "lost provinces" to Germany or any other nation. Having driven a big and boasted trade with Europe on our own money, and propped up prosperity on that basis, settlement day has now arrived for our foreign adventures beginning, in 1917. That is all our depression and unemployment means. American prosperity has not been destroyed from without, with help from within. Yet national leaders no less distinguished that John W. Davis and Governor James M. Cox complained at a Jackson Day dinner at Washington that the trouble with us is that we did not get far enough into what Premier MacDonald so well described as "The Finish Kitchen." With flying room with Wallpaper, the Modified oil paint Dries in 4 hours. Spencer Store, 15 W. Center, Ausl. Ir. Christian Science Sermon Is On "Faith" "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." These words from the eleventh chapter of Hebrews constitute the Golden Text on Sunday in the Lesson-Sermon on "Substance" in all branches of The Mother Church. The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass. One of the Scriptural selections in the Lesson-Sermon presents passages concerning the apostles, from Matthew: "These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not; but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." And as ye go, preach saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers raise the dead, cast out devils; freely ye have received, freely give." Another Bible citation includes James' question: "What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works?" MOVIES— Some small European nations have prohibited the showing of "Mickey Mouse" in movie theater on the ground that this animated cartoon is "mentally unwholesome." New intelligent people will agree with that. On the contrary, I think such amusing productions as Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphonies are not only the best sort of comedy entertainment but they are almost the only original form of art which the movies have developed. In such pictures as those, and in newsreels and travel pictures, the movies give something which the stag cannot offer. Much of the other stuff shown on the screen these days consists of poor substitutes for real plays presented by real actors. They do bring the drama—of a sort—within the reach of everybody, but that is not to say that every type of drama is wholesome for everybody. I sympathize with the effort of Mr. Will Hays to "clean up" the movies, but I don't think he is making very much headway, to judge by some talks I have seen lately. There is some excuse for a play which deals with more or less delicacy with illicit sex relations when it is confined to a single theater and audiences of presumably sophisticated adults. There is no excuse for vulgarizing the same play until even a child can sense its rawest implications and then showing it to audiences of millions of children in the movies. trade with Europe on our own money, and propped up prosperity on that basis, settlement day has now arrived for our foreign adventures beginning, in 1917. That is all our depression and unemployment means. American prosperity has not been destroyed from without, with help from within. Yet national leaders no less distinguished that John W. Davis and Governor James M. Cox complained at a Jackson Day dinner at Washington that the trouble with us that we did not get far enough into what Premier MacDonald so well described as "The European mess!" Their prescription for national prosperity is for the United States to keep right on keeping on in European economic and political involvement, and as for what Europe owes us, the thing to do, they say, is to displace more American production, which means more American employment, by more cheap foreign production, to enable Europe to pay what it owes us. Europe vastly increased her production during the fifteen years beginning in 1914, by the introduction of mass and machine production. During that period wages and standards of living were lowered in Europe, rather than increased. Without lifting her consuming power, Europe vastly inflated her producing power. The result Karl Marx predicted is at hand. With one-fourth America's per capita-consuming power, Europe is smothered in a glut of goods for which she has no outlet at home. This is the result of attempting to base prosperity on foreign trade, in which the effective weapon is a constantly growing cheapness attained by the cheapening of wages and living standards and consequent destruction of consuming power. Because we doubled wages while Europe was lowering wages, between 1914 and 1827, and did from 92 to 94 percent of our business at home, we increased mass consuming power until a rapidly widening gap between American and European labor costs began to operate to the injury of our independent industries and the destruction of employment more than five years ago. The battle put up by the international bankers and industrialists and by demagogues, prevented Congress from enacting a tariff sufficiently high to bridge this change in living levels. Through intensive propaganda highly organized and heavily financed, the people have been led to believe that a tariff lower in protective value than any we have had since we became a great industrial nation, is the highest tariff in our history, and is responsible for the depression and unemployment directly due to the effort to bring American living standards, to the level to those of Europe through lowering our price levels by European and Aslatic competition. With international financiers and bankers having billions at stake in the attempt to save their European investments at the sacrifice of Americans, it was natural that they should undertake to fool the people AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE NO. 161 OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE FIXING THE COMPENSATION OF CERTAIN OFFICERS OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM" PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SAID CITY ON THE 29TH DAY OF MARCH, 1904, AS THE SAME HAS BEEN AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. That Section 1 of Ordinance No. 161 of the City of Anaheim entitled, "An Ordinance fixing the Compensation of certain officers of the City of Anaheim," which said Ordinance was passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of said City held on the 29th day of March, 1904, as the same has been amended from time to time, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 1. That the compensation of the City Clerk and Ex-Officio Assessor of said City is hereby fixed at Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($250.00) per month, payable monthly." SECTION 2. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict, with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. The City Clerk of the City of Anaheim shall certify to the passage of this Ordinance and shall cause the same to be published once in the Anaheim Gazette, a newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and circulated in said City of Anaheim. Will Hays to "clean up" the movies but I don't think he is making very much headway, to judge by some talks I have seen lately. There is some excuse for a play which deals with more or less delicacy with illicit secrections when it is confined to a single theater and audiences of presumably sophisticated adults. There is no excuse for vulgarizing the same play until even a child can sense its rawest implications and then showing it to audiences of millions of children in the movies. WIVES— Not many years ago a wife was the property of her husband, not only in Turkey but everywhere else in the world, especially in England. The other day in London a man sued a doctor for enticing his wife to leave him. The judge decided against the plaintiff. He said a wife had a right to leave her husband whenever she desired, that she had the right to decide whether to bear children and when, that she was an independent individual and could decide her own course of life without consulting her husband. Not all of our states go as far as that, but it was pointed out in court that in England women today also have the best of it in other ways. If a married woman driving her car injures somebody else her husband can be sued jointly with her and made to pay the entire damages. If she gives her husband any money it is a loan in law but anything he gives her is a gift. No action can be taken against a wife for deserting her husband, but she can have her husband arrested if he deserts her. A husband must pay the income tax on his wife's income if she fails to do so, and if she owed him money before they were married he cannot collect it after marriage. IRON— A hundred years ago New England mines and furnaces were producing pig iron and getting a cent a pound for it. Seventy-five years ago Pittsburgh began to be the iron center, selling castings for three cents a pound. Fifty years ago New England found a way of getting ten cents a pound for iron, making it into machinery. Ironmasters of today get fifty cents a pound for their watchsprings and pressed steel alloys. Every advance in the art of fabricating iron yields a higher price for the finished product. The new alloys, stainless steel, chrome-plated sheets, are being made into new art forms which bring the price of iron to the user up to a dollar or more a pound. Every step away from the raw materials of existence raises the economic standard of living. The more labor goes into the iron, the more persons are employed; the higher the price of the people have been led to believe that a tariff lower in protective value than any we have had since we became a great industrial nation, is the highest tariff in our history, and is responsible for the depression and unemployment directly due to the effort to bring American living standards, to the level to those of Europe through lowering our price levels by European and Asiatic competition. With international financiers and bankers having billions at stake in the attempt to save their European investments at the sacrifice of Americans, it was natural that they should undertake to fool the people about this, and it is not surprising they have been able to do so. But in view of the fact that the people of this country are waking up, it is surprising that seasoned political veterans like Mr. Davis and Mr. Cox, both of whom as presidential candidates went down under an avalanche of disapproval of further European involvements, should again be preaching their America-sacrificing gospel. While Messrs. Davis and Cox were proposing this sacrificial program, another presidential aspirant, Senator James A. Reed, was demanding at Kansas City the further razing of our national economic defenses, though standing on the edge of a vast area of the country now prostrated by free trade in oil, with a million Americans deprived of income and employment in eleven near-by states through the unprofitable price levels fixed by the intrush of an ocean of foreign oil and oil products. Governor Al Smith has a longer head. He did not plead for either political or economic internationalism or anti-nationalism. He has recently shown some leanings in that direction, but he kept still about it on Jackson Day. Perhaps he recalled the famous letter of Andrew Jackson to Doctor Coleman, a Virginia Democrat, who wrote demanding to know if he was for a protective tariff; if so he and his friends could not be for him. The always courageous "Old, Hickory" replied that he was for a protective tariff, and if his Virginia friends didn't like it they could support somebody else. "Let us be careful," he said in effect, "lest in patronizing the paupers of Europe in preference to the free men of America, we do not become paupers ourselves." Children's Day Nursery, 500 day, 10o hour, 808 N. Lemon. Ph. 8058. SECTION 2. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict, with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. The City Clerk of the City of Anaheim shall certify to the passage of this Ordinance and shall cause the same to be published once in the Anaheim Gazette, a newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and circulated in said City of Anaheim. Said Ordinance shall take effect and be in full force on and after the 18th day of April, 1932. The foregoing ordinance is signed approved and attested by me, this 8th day of March, 1932. (SEAL) L. E. MILLER, Mayor of the City of Anaheim. Attest: EDWARD B. MERRITT. City Clerk of the City of Anaheim. STATE OF CALIFORNIA. COUNTY OF ORANGE. CITY OF ANAHEIM. I. EDWARD B. MERRITT, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim do, hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Anaheim, held on the 23rd day of February, 1932, and that, the same was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of said City Council, held on the 8th day of March, 1932, by the following vote: AYES: Councilmen Miller, Koesel, Martenet Jr., Lakeman, and Sheridan. NOES: Councilmen None. ABSENT AND NOT VOTING: Councilmen None. And I further certify that the Mayor of the City of Anaheim signed and approved said Ordinance on the 8th day of March, 1932. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said City of Anaheim this 8th day of March, 1932. (SEAL) EDWARD B. MERRITT, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim. Every advance in the art of fabricating iron yields a higher price for the finished product. The new alloys, stainless steel, chrome-plated sheets, are being made into new art forms which bring the price of iron to the user up to a dollar or more a pound. Every step away from the raw materials of existence raises the economic standard of living. The more labor goes into the iron, the more persons are employed; the higher the price of the finished product, the more that labor can earn. The most backward nations are those which use chiefly unfabricated natural products. The most advanced ones are those which put the most labor into the goods they consume. JEWS— The Jewish Agricultural Society has been engaged for years in the effort to induce Jewish families to become farmers. Today there are 100,000 of them in America, living solely or chiefly on the land. Most of these Jewish farmers live in colonies of their own people. They are a clannish race and they cooperate well. They are also good business men, as a rule, and make a living and more when their non-Jewish neighbors are running behind. The latest development of this sort is the establishment of "argo-industrial" communities, near enough to large cities to enable some of the family to work in town, while the others cultivate the land. I think this solution of the industrial problem is one that is worth developing. COLONELS— A humorist in the Kentucky legislature has introduced a bill taxing each Kentucky "Colonel" $100 a year. Another humorist moved that the bill be referred to the Fish and Game Committee, which was done. Being myself one of the latest batch of "colonels" I am concerned about this. I hope the Fish and Game Committee will not report a bill creating an open season for colonels. Genius Rewarded Dr. Irving Langmuir, wizard of electrons, got $10,000 cash and a gold medal for his improvements in electric lamps, vacuum tubes and electric welding. 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