anaheim-gazette 1932-05-26

Fairy-Book Characters Live For Too Brief a Period In Colorful Pageant Children Stage "Mother Goose Island" and Actually See Sugar Plum Tree Loaded With Lolypops, Candy Sticks and "Everything Good"; Play Before Capacity Audience Simple Simon, Little Jack and Jill, Bo Peep, Little Boy Blue and other fictional characters who live in the imaginations of America's children, came to real life for all too brief a time a week ago when "Mother Goose Island" was presented in costume by the Olive Lee Shoemaker music studio in the Ebell clubrooms before a capacity audience. The child's dream of a sugar plum tree loaded with lolypops came true. Nuts and Candy sticks and everything good fascinated as the audience went back to the days when their greatest desire was "a gunnysack full of candy." Colorful in extreme, Mother Goose and her children went through fairy-book antics, much to the delight of everybody. Miss Mildred McAfee took the part of Miss Bright, the school teacher; Clayton Davis that of Simple Simon; Philo Tozer as Richard. Those taking part in the pageant were: Beverly Wilson, Philo Tozer, Jeanne Freek, Helen Cram, Wilhelmine Schultz, Ruth Valentine, Luella Wharton, Lois Ellis Margaret Campbell, Monty McCollom, Clara Belle Redman, Betty Jean Sims, Alberta Maass, Dicky Freek, Betty Jane Monahan, Dick and Shirley Tozer, Ruth Thompson, Clayton Davis, Mary Show, Loraine Sims, Elaine Maass, Wally Cram, Junior Williams, Buddy Cram, Merle Thompson, Jane Pike and Irene Lucas. The concluding numbers were "Sugar Plum Tree" and "Wynken, Blynken and Nod," given by Mildred McAfee. Candy was then distributed to the children from the sugar plum tree. Plano, vocal and dance numbers were given in part one of the program with selections from Victor Herbert's opera "Sweethearts," played in a two piano number by Virginia Sims and Mrs. Olive Shoemaker, well received by We Grin and Pay As Law Fixes Tax (Continued from page 1) District bond interest and redemption must be charged off against the agency transaction of $3,961,981.01 as charged above to arrive at a true picture this table affords. State law fixes the amount which the county must contribute to schools, as explained in the first of a series of articles on taxation running into the Gazette. There is no possibility, of course, of cutting down the interest and redemption of either the county or district bonds. We must pay and grin, so far as these are concerned, but voters might well consider the cost before voting more of them. Control One-Fifth Here are some of the functions of government over which the board of supervisors does wield direct influence. Let's compare the total amount with the amount over which they have little or no control. Protection to person and property $400,131.52 Conservation of health 66,243.35 Highways 1,227,850.61 Bridges 10,294.03 Other road structures 29,227.85 Charities and corrections 349,995.58 Lamb Clarifies Tax Delinquents Tax Collector J. C. Lamb recently clarified the method through which tax delinquent property is first bought by the state and held for a period of five years, and then because of lack of interest by the owner, auctioned off to the biggest bidder. Only property that has been advertised for five consecutive years is subject to bid by individuals, the other automatically going to the state. This, to a decided degree, Lamb states, takes out the purpose of finding buyers of tax-delinquent property because such buyers in most instances couldn't even enter a bid. State Gets It "The extent of circulation of the delinquent tax list has no meaning or effect one way or another upon the bidding for property advertised on the delinquent tax list." Lamb said, "for the very simple reason that there is no such bidding. Those who argue that the tax list should be given wide circulation to enable more people to bid on the property advertised and, therefore give the owner of the delinquent property the benefit of the more extensive bidding have not acquainted themselves with the law." "So far as the main tax list is concerned that property is struck off to the state, which holds it for five years against all comers before it is subject to control." Here are some of the functions of government over which the board of supervisors does wield direct influence. Let's compare the total amount with the amount over which they have little or no control. Protection to person and property $ 400,131.52 Conservation of health 66,243.35 Highways 1,227,850.61 Bridges 10,294.03 Other road structures 29,227.85 Charities and corrections 349,995.58 Total $2,133,742.94 Making allowances for the overlapping figures on agency transactions and district funds, the supervisors have actual control of only about one-fifth of the money which is taken in by the county. Included in the expenditures out of this fifth of total expense, we have such necessary functions as care of inmates in reform schools and homes for feeble-minded. $1,940; Sheriff and staff, $41,541.86; constables, $14,741.35; county jail, $43,899.41; inspection of livestock, bees, oil wells, weights and measures, $6,508.03; horticultural commissioner and farm advisor, $116,281.89; game warden, $550; forest and fire protection, $25,728.33; compensation insurance, $12,978.75; health officer, $66,243.35; probation officer, $15,593.99; burial of indigents and other charities, $28,695.56. State Laws Under Attack By far the largest outlays over which the supervisors have control are the funds for highways, bridges and other road structures which total $1,317,-372.49, or more than half of the total amount over which they have direct control. In this department the county is fortunate to have a county unit system of road administration which has resulted in a better road system at less expense than most other counties in the state enjoy. This article is not written in defense of the board of supervisors, but merely to get at the facts before condemning them—in other words, to know something about which we talk before attempting to criticise. There are many functions in county administration which can be greatly improved upon and at less expense to the taxpayers, but the biggest problem now before the taxpayers in their own state constitution which makes possible the tremendous expenses over which the voters and their officers have no control. Provisions for expenditures while probably wise at the time they were included in the state constitution, are antiquated today because of vastly greater population, proportionately less uninhabited and sparsely settled territory, and changing economic conditions. This explains why there is considerable agitation for a new state constitution, with which an article in the Gazette will deal in the near future. Suggests In U. (Continued) Two three four The cottages are it is difficult to end and the countryside "Crossing the line finds an entirely different county is sparse mostly living here" This situation to the prevail in Nicaragua. CoThe much-headline been heard of in was wounded a year Whenever bandits aragua it is able speaker said, and likely to become like Robin Hood. Cost "Costa Rica is race in the West where the speaker. The descendants of the Spain. They provide oft-repeated statements man cannot live in there for nearly forty." In Panama they ent racial situation races. Negroes. In Chinese. Japanese and whites. Even through the canal. Cuba is th most luxurious of all the Western Hemispheres d thousand Am every year. Much carried in by Am spoken everywhere. The speaker declares was becoming tropic did, the Central became increasingly nationally. "All of Central tidewater," said CoIs strategically th in the tropics. Speaking on our relationship with Colonel Tupper sued of substituting for a policy in which would have a part. Business I The speaker said ness conditions, th difficulties which th America had been iad resulted from bidding for property advertised on the delinquent tax list." Lamb said, "for the very simple reason that there is no such bidding. Those who argue that the tax list should be given wide circulation to enable more people to bid on the property advertised and, therefore give the owner of the delinquent property the benefit of the more extensive bidding have not acquainted themselves with the law. "So far as the main tax list is concerned that property is struck off to the state, which holds it for five years against all comers before it is subject to auction. "The law, which is very liberal in that respect, operates on the theory that if the owner fails to pay taxes for five years he has lost interest in the property, so that it is subject to auction. Cost Charged to Property "However, it is self evident that any property that has been abandoned by its owner for five years is not going to hold any attraction for someone else. We have very little interest in the tax sales. Occasionally someone bids in a piece of property that has been relinquent five years, but nearly always regrets it. when he finds he has overlooked the back taxes, or the confiscatory assessments or impending litigation that caused the original owner to drop it. Many times the bidder forfeits his deposit and does not carry the sale through. "And here is another point of interest. Even though the delinquent property is sold the original owner has no interest in the matter. He gets none of the proceeds, which go to the county, city or other unit of government in proportion to their interest in the tax. So the delinquent property owner has no advantage in wide circulation. He's probably forgotten all about the property in five years. "So far as the rate paid for publication is concerned, the taxpayer has no interest in it. He doesn't have to pay it. The cost of advertising the delinquent tax list is assessed against the delinquent property. A charge of 50 cents per parcel is made against each delinquent parcel, that covering all the expenses of delinquency, including printing of the list, which is only one item." Announce Subject Of Lesson-Sermon The Christian Science Lesson-Sermon for Sunday denounces ancient and modern necromancy, alias mesmerism and hypnotism. The same Lesson-Sermon is presented in all branches of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass. The Golden Text is from Proverbs: "Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good." One of the Scriptural selections in the Lesson-Sermon is from James: "From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that was in your members? Ye lust, and have not; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not . . . Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded." A passage from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy, states, "Christian Science goes to the bottom of mental action, and reveals the theodicy which indicates the rightness of all divine action, as the emanation of divine Mind, and the consequent wrongness of the opposite so-called action—evil, occultism, necromancy, mesmerism, animal magnetism, hypnotism." Another question: Has Japan quit or is she merely getting her second wind? "Alice" is Now "Doctor of Letters" Mrs. Reginald Liddell Hargreaves, original "Alice" of Alice in Wonderland, was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University. Mrs. Hargreaves is 80. Goodwill Held Important Aid Goodwill, that intangible asset desired by all professional and business men and institutions, is the factor which gradually builds up and maintains the prosperity of any community. Whittier's Burl Miller told 65 Anaheim merchants at the Wednesday luncheon-meeting held at the Pickwick cafe. Introduced by Program Chairman Bill Payne, the speaker said that every purchase should lead to more goodwill, and that the growth of a city's business district is like a growth of any healthy organism, a little at a time, but substantial and lasting. When one knocks one's own business, it is a knock at the city's business. Miller said. Co-operative advertising and development of services to increase Anaheim's goodwill were discussed at the meeting. New Machinery Is Help In Packing Installation of $3,500 of new machinery in the Yorba Linda Citrus Fruit association's orange-packing house has facilitated shipment of first cars of oranges this year. Manager P. W. Damon announced. Last week the association shipped five cars, and with increasing pro rata from the exchange expects to gradually send more fruit. The new machinery delivers the fruit to the basement where a more even temperature can be maintained in the sweat rooms. Suggests Change In U. S. Policies (Continued from page 1) Two, three, four or five-acre farms. The cottages are so close together that it is difficult to tell where the towns Superior Court Efficiency Told Judge Allen Tells of Many Cases And the Methods of Handling Them Automobile Deaths 32,500 persons were killed in America by automobiles last year. Slightly less than the number killed during the war. Someone has to pay... Suggests Change In U. S. Policies (Continued from page 1) two, three, four or five-acre farms. The cottages are so close together that it is difficult to tell where the towns end and the country begins. "Crossing the line into Nicaragua one finds an entirely different condition. The county is sparsely settled, the people mostly living in the cities." This situation was attributed to the prevalence of banditry in Nicaragua, Colonel Tupper stated. The much-headlined bandit has not been heard of in Nicaragua since he was wounded a year and a half ago. Whenever bandits break loose in Nicaragua it is always Sandino, the speaker said, and added that he was likely to become a legendary figure like Robin Hood. Costa Rica "Costa Rica is the most Caucasian race in the Western hemisphere," said the speaker. "The people are the descendante of the people of northern Spain. They proved the fallacy of the oft-repeated statement that the white man cannot live in the tropics by living there for nearly four hundred years. In Panama there is quite a different racial situation. Here are many races, Negroes, Indians, half breeds, Chinese, Japanese, turbaned Hindus and whites. Every ship that passes through the canal leaves its influence. Cuba "Cuba is the most North American of all the countries. Havana is the most luxurious of all the capitals of the Western Hemisphere. Three hundred thousand Americans visit Havana every year. Much of the business is carried in by Americans. English is spoken everywhere on the island." The speaker declared that the world was becoming tropic minded and as it did, the Central American countries became increasingly important internationally. "All of Central America is close to tidewater," said Colonel Tupper. "It is strategically the best located region in the tropics." Speaking on the political phase of our relationship with Latin America, Colonel Tupper suggested the wisdom of substituting for the Monroe Doctrine a policy in which all the countries would have a part in directing. Business Relationship The speaker said, in telling of business conditions, that many of the difficulties which the countries of Latin America had been involved in the past had resulted from over-borrowing on Superior Court Efficiency Told Judge Allen Tells of Many Cases And the Methods of Handling Them Orange county's superior court has its work so well in hand that despite more than 300 cases per month this year, a civil case can go to trial within 60 days, instead of a wait of from 12 to 18 months as in many other counties of the state. Presiding Judge James L. Allen stated in a recent address. Judges Allen, H. G. Ames and G. K. Scovel have handled 1,202 cases this year, averaging more than 100 to each department per month. In the total were 246 civil, 106 criminal, 116 juvenile, 458 probate, 41 insane and incrliacy, and 235 other cases. Workings of the superior court, with its six divisions of civil, criminal, juvenile, probate, law and motion and insane were explained, with the functions of each described. Probation, in the opinion of Judge Allen, is good in cases of juveniles or young defendants where there is an opportunity to remould character, but he opposes probation for hardened criminals, especially where involved in desperate offenses. 25 Troop No. 74 Boys Go To Green Valley Twenty-five members of Boy Scout Troop No. 74 will leave Anaheim Sunday morning at 5:30 o'clock for an over-night camping trip to Green Valley. Scoutmaster Carl Schweiss will be in charge. This is the third such over-night trip the troop has held during the past Boy Scout year. The fourth and last will be held in September. stated. "When a project is to be undertaken and a loan negotiated the needs are studied by special commissions. The result is advantageous to both the borrower and the lender." Failure to recognize the value of courtesy and the niceties of social customs in connection with business, he indicated. "The countries to the south of the United States can learn from efficiency." FREE SUMMER SCHOOL A FEW MORE SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE Those wishing to avail themselves of our Free Summer School offer should secure their scholarships now before this offer is withdrawn. WHO SHOULD ATTEND SUMMER SCHOOL? 1— Those Interested in Business Careers. Summer School provides an opportunity to get a Three Months' Start. 2— High School Graduates who expect to go to College or University in the fall. A Summer Course will give practical ability which will be useful in preparing College Assignments, in earning money during spare time, and in securing vacation office positions. 3— Commerce Graduates and Undergraduates of High Schools and Colleges who wish to take advantage of a "finishing course" in business subjects and secure the assistance of our Employment Department. Full credit will be allowed for previous training. ALL FACILITIES OF THIS INSTITUTION ARE FULLY AVAILABLE TO SUMMER SCHOOL STUDENTS Cool sea breezes render our quarters most comfortable on the hottest day. Orange County Business College 706 N. Main St. Santa Ana, California President. Long Beach Youth Refused Probation George Kilstrom, 19-year-old Long Beach youth who was shown to have served two terms in reformatory schools, was refused probation last Friday, and sentenced to serve until 21 years of age in the Preston School of Industry at Ione, as a result of burglarizing six Santa Ana schools and eight Long Beach schools. Kilstrom was arrested at Santa Ana when he tried to board a stage for Long Beach. Previously he had made a bicycle tour of the six Santa Ana institutions. He admitted all the charges against him. He was sent to Whittier in 1928 for burglary, and to Ione in 1929 for a statutory offense. Rebekahs Accept Two Odd Fellow Invites Two invitations, one to join the Odd Fellows in a pot luck dinner to be held May 31, and the other to participate with the Odd Fellows in the annual memorial services to be held June 5 at 10:40 o'clock at the White Temple church, were accepted by the Lois Rebekah lodge at its meeting Friday in the I. O. O. F. hall. The lodge will elect officers at the June 3 meeting. At the last session Mrs. Eva Scutt presided. Committee women Mrs. Seutt, Miss Pearl Bircher, Mrs. Mabel Ives and Mrs. Laura McAfee reported 22 calls. Mrs. Mabel Clark and Mrs. Ives reported on the Rebekah assembly at Riverside recently. Gazette Want Ads Are Good Salesmen. WESTINGHOUSE RADIO - $37.50 and up FEARN Easy Parking Phone 3111 278 E. Center St., Anaheim Holiday Comingtelephone ahead! Fishing? Golf? Off for the beaches, the open road to places far and near? Telephone ahead. And telephone homeward—keep in touch by voice. It's easy to place an inter-city telephone call. And it adds a lot to the pleasure of the outing. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TELEPHONE COMPANY LAKE'S MEN'S STORE West Center St. Next to Fox Theatre—Anaheim ordered Sold For Benefit of Creditors HERE'S THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS SALE After 8 years selling clothing in Orange County, Lake's Men's Store goes broke. Nearly three weeks ago doors were closed and padlocked. All merchandise has been assigned for the benefit of the Creditors and Must Be Sold Regardless of Cost. n's Shirts Men's Suits Men's Fine After 8 years selling clothing in Orange County. Lake's Men's Store goes broke. Nearly three weeks ago doors were closed and padlocked. All merchandise has been assigned for the benefit of the Creditors and Must Be Sold Regardless of Cost. Men's Suits Less 1/2 Price ALL NEW Spring and Summer Suits Guaranteed $25. Values go at ... $6.95 Guaranteed $30. Values go at ... $11.75 Guaranteed $35. Values go at ... $15.00 Guaranteed $45. Values go at ... $17.50 All Suits Guaranteed All Wool Men's Fine Dress Shoes Reg. $5.00 Values Out They Go at $2.85 Per Pair Fine Rayon Shirts & Shorts 75c Value at 19c Summer Weight Union Suits 59c Work Shirts 75c Blue Chambray 29c Men's Heavy Khaki Pants 98c NOW ON OPEN EVENINGS