anaheim-gazette 1932-07-14

One-Half of Monies Appropriated for Governmental Departments Is Not Used for Purposes as Designated Col. McCormick, Publisher of Chicago Tribune, Declares That Bureaucracy Has Degenerated Into Racket in Some Branches; Says Greedy Horde of Office Workers Should be Let Out By COL. ROBERT R. McCORMICK (Editor's note: This is an address delivered recently by the publisher of the Chicago Tribune. It contains a verbal picture of the extent to which taxation has forced the enslavement of United States citizens.) Before the war our public expenditures were $3,000,000,000 per year, including state and local governments. Five years after the war they were $10,263,000,000. Before the war our national indebtedness, including states and counties, was $4,850,000,000 while five years after the war it had risen to $31,000,000,000. How to account for this phenomenon I am not sure. Increased income from property was responsible for but a small part. The effect of spending borrowed money had some share. The energy created by war enthusiasm and the natural optimism following victory all contributed. The consequence has been that property of every kind was raised, as a ship on a wave, and left by the receding wave high and dry on the jagged rocks of ruinous taxation. Earnings never were high enough to support the levels of taxation which were imposed. The unbearable load was concealed, like the face of Mephistopheles, behind a mask of plenty. Now, under the grinding load of taxation, industry is everywhere slowing up. Incomes are falling and disappearing. Industries, contracting or closing down altogether, are unable to furnish employment to workmen. Everywhere we find economies and hardship excepting on the part of those people who have their hands, under color of law, in the pockets of others, and even these are suffering as the pockets become empty. Virtual Rackets The course which our rulers have laid out for us, and from which they show no sign of deviating, is the road to complete and inescapable ruin. If they proceed as they are going, they will dry up every profit, every interest payment, and every payroll. If you ask me what is the alternative, I will make this statement and I will continue to make it. There is not a cabinet officer, there is not a member of Congress who can demonstrate that one-half of the money appropriated for any department of government is used for the purpose designated. I will be specific; not one-half of the money appropriated for the way department is spent to make an army; not one-half of the money appropriated for the navy department is spent to build, operate, and maintain a combat fleet; not one-half of the money appropriated for the postoffice department is spent to move the mails. As for other great branches of the govern- Tax Strikes Heard They are like the wolves of Anticosti. At one time the island of Anticosti was populated by limitless droves of caribou. One year some Labrador wolves were carried to the island on the ice. The island was favorable to the pursuit of the wolves, and its shores prevented escape to the pursued. The wolves waxed in number. Finally they destroyed all the caribou, and then, with nothing to feed upon, allied of hunger. That is the prospect which lies before our tax-eaters. The evil talk of tax strikes is heard throughout the land, but far more serious than strikes is the growing inability of taxpayers to pay. Strike or no strike, it is absolutely impossible to pay the taxes assessed. Owners of buildings are tearing them down because the taxes are more than the receipts. Owners of unimproved property are unable to pay their taxes, and tax-buyers cannot be found to evict them. Individuals, estates, and corporations are beginning to find it impossible to meet Federal taxation extorted with all the ruthlessness of the Germans in Belgium. Obviously, by the continuation of the principle of exacting tribute on values as they rise and returning nothing when they decline, sooner or later the government will have extorted the entire value of all property. The great industrial enterprises which pay so large a part of all kinds of taxes, real personal, and income, started from small beginnings and have been built up from accumulations. If these accumulations had been sequestered in the past as they will be in the future, the industries never could have grown. If we stop accumulations at this time, no more industries may grow to take up the slack of unemployment and to pay the cost of government. A no less vital factor is the repayment of debts. The existence of banks, and hence the existence of bank depositors, depends upon the ability of debtors to pay. To the non-producing theorist on the outside, perhaps a strictly limited return on capital may seem sufficient and all that is morally justified, but for the borrower, a return sufficient to pay not only the interest but the principal of his debt, is necessary lest he lose his all. If the opporter of Congress who can demonstrate that one-half of the money appropriated for any department of government is used for the purpose designated. I will be specific; not one-half of the money appropriated for the way department is spent to make an army; not one-half of the money appropriated for the navy department is spent to build, operate, and maintain a combat fleet; not one-half of the money appropriated for the postoffice department is spent to move the mails. As for other great branches of the government—the department of commerce, the department of the interior, the department of agriculture are not much better than rackets. Rackets, I regret to say, which are supported by a small element of our population who are persuaded that they are receiving from them special benefits at the expense of the general taxpayer. Privileged Class It took centuries for enough wealth to accumulate to raise our civilization from the misery of the Middle Ages to the high estate we have witnessed. It has taken ten years of excessive taxation to bring us down to the verge of ruin. The tax bill passed by the national house destroys all hope for the future. Like the nobility of royal France and pre-revolutionary England, our office holders are a privileged class, becoming hereditary, holding sinecures established by law. They look down upon civilians with contempt as fit only to work for the support of their masters. They dominate and exchange place with elected officers, with whom they conspire for special benefit. Civilization could not start until the old privilege aristocracy was overthrown. Now it is re-established in another form and is again sucking the life blood of the working world. If you are to exist, you must tear these weasels from the throat of the nation. To attend meetings is not enough; to pass resolutions is not enough. Our salvation and the salvation of our country depends upon an immediate call to action by the producers of all wealth. There is no time to be lost. Fast Driving Fallacy Told Survey Shows Seconds Gained But Hazards Doubled at 50-Mile Clip The fallacy of fast driving as a time saver was demonstrated in figures released by E. Raymond Cato, chief of California highway patrol. A no less vital factor is the repayment of debts. The existence of banks, and hence the existence of bank depositors, depends upon the ability of debtors to pay. To the non-producing theorist on the outside, perhaps a strictly limited return on capital may seem sufficient and all that is morally justified, but for the borrower, a return sufficient to pay not only the interest but the principal of his debt, is necessary lest he lose his all. If the opportunity of repaying his debt is denied him he cannot venture, and if the government will take from the borrower the money which is needed to repay the lender, this man dare not lend. Nothing is more popular today than the progressive estate tax. If, it is argued, it is fair that the creator of wealth is entitled to its use, this right does not extend to his children, his heirs who did nothing to produce it—an argument plausible to those who wish to see it that way, but one which carried to its logical conclusion, injures the very people it is supposed to benefit. Modern property is no longer in the patriarch stage. The rich man does not own one thousand goats or ten thousand sheep, of which five hundred or seven thousand and fifty may be taken by Pharaoh, still leaving the heirs a considerable quantity of mutton and wool. In its simplest form, for the tax-gatherer, this wealth will be found represented in bonds and shares of stocks listed on an exchange, part of which can be sold to pay the tax on the whole. Forced sales of stocks to pay taxes are another form of bear raids, of short-selling. Stock which in the natural order of events would be kept off the market, will be forced on the market, breaking the market. The forced sale of the stock sold destroys the value of that retained. Any glee caused by the confiscation of the estate of a rich man will be turned to dismay when it is found out that all stock, in whose ever hands it may be, is thereby depreciated in value. Not only every share of the particular stock sold will be depreciated, but as these fall in value they will bring all the other shares down with them. The recent collapse of the stock market is partly due to stocks forced upon the market by government exac- Fast Driving Fallacy Told Survey Shows Seconds Gained But Hazards Doubled at 50-Mile Clip The fallacy of fast driving as a time saver was demonstrated in figures released by E. Raymond Cato, chief of the California highway patrol. Cato pointed out that the time gained in driving at the rate of 50 miles an hour instead of the legal rate of 45 miles is but eight seconds per mile. On the other hand the hazard of accident is increased many times as the stopping distance required to brake a vehicle going at 50 miles an hour instead of 45 is increased 27 feet. The saving in time for an average trip of 200 miles was computed at only a little more than 27 minutes. Illustrates Point As another example, the highway patrol chief said the man who travels from Los Angeles to Sacramento at 50 miles an hour will arrive only 53 minutes ahead of the driver who travels at 45 miles an hour—and his chances of an accident will be infinitely greater. "The moral of this is to drive at a legal rate of speed." Cato said. "Our records of accidents show most of those involving death occur at high speeds." Drivers traveling at 20 miles an hour who increase this speed to 25 will save 36 seconds in a mile. On the other hand this increase of five miles an hour means an increase in stopping distance for two-wheel brake cars of from 37 to 58 feet and an increase in the stopping distance for four-wheel brakes of from 22.2 feet to 34.7 feet. Cato's computations show it takes 139 feet to stop a car with four-wheel brakes going at 50 miles an hour and 112.8 feet to stop the same car going at 45 miles an hour. It takes 232 feet to stop a car with two-wheel brakes going at 50 miles an hour. Cars going at this rate travel 73.3 feet per second. VALLEY WORK COMPLETED Construction on the Valley boulevard between Walnut and Pomona, has been completed an dtraffic is no longer subject to delay at this point. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM AMENDING SECTION 16 OF ORDINANCE NO. 374 ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE CREATING THE OFFICE OF PLUMBING INSPECTOR FOR THE CITY OF ANAHEIM AND DEFINING HIS DUTIES AND REGULATING THE CONSTRUCTION AND INSPECTION OF PLUMBING AND HOUSE DRAINAGE WITHIN SAID CITY," AND ADDING TO SAID ORDINANCE NEW SECTIONS TO BE NUMBERED 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60 AND 61. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. That Section 16 of Ordinance No. 374 of the City of Anaheim entitled "An Ordinance Creating the Office of Plumbing Inspector for the City of Anaheim and Defining his Duties and Regulating the Construction and Inspection of Plumbing and House Drainage within said City" be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 16. That every soil pipe and waste pipe under or inside of any building shall be of cast iron, lead or brass. All joints in cast iron pipe whether inside of the building line or otherwise, shall be made with moulten lead and thoroughly caulked. When lead or brass pipe is used for soil or waste, no grade lighter than standard shall be used. All changes in direction shall be made as required in Section 18 of this Ordinance, and all fittings used in the several angles, shall be standard drainage fittings; ordinary maleable or cast iron fittings that are not recessed are prohibited, and all fittings used in such work must be of the same internal diameter as pipe line uponance with his application; and such certificate of competency shall authorize the holder thereof to do plumbing work in the City of Anaheim until the first day of January next succeeding the date thereof. Section 58. The City Council of the City of Anaheim shall have the power to suspend or cancel the certificate of any master plumber or journeyman plumber for violation of this ordinance or for incompetency. Section 59. All certificates issued by the Examining Board of Plumbers shall expire on the last day of December of each year unless sooner revoked. Every master plumber or journeyman plumber holding a certificate of competency issued by the said Examining Board of Plumbers may, during the month of December of each year, make application to the Examining Board of Plumbers for an extension of such certificate of competency for an additional year, and said Examining Board of Plumbers, if satisfied that the holder of such certificate of competency is competent to do plumbing work, shall grant an extension of such certificate of competency for an additional year without an examination. No plumber failing to make such application to obtain such extended certificate of competency during such time shall do any plumbing work in the City of Anaheim after the expiration of the certificate of competency then held without taking the examination and paying the full fee herein provided for persons originally desiring to do plumbing work in the City of Anaheim. Section 60. No person shall receive a certificate of competency as a master plumber who has not attained the age of twenty-one years. Section 61. The Plumbing Inspector shall not issue a permit to any person, firm or corporation to do any plumbing, drainage or gas-fitting work until such person, Olympic Village Teen As 2000 Athletes Better Athletes and Better Training to Many New World Marks and Events Closer Than Ever Olympic village is teeming with life world athletes plunged into their final competition in the Olympic games. July 30th of the athletic world gathered at the nation was made by William M. Henry two-thirds of the existing Olympic track-and-field records will be shattered during the 1932 Olympic celebration. "At Amsterdam with a new track bad weather and altogether too many entries, and therefore, too many heaters they succeeded in breaking 12 Olympic records and tying two more," said Henry. "At Los Angeles there will be better athletes, better weather, a seasonal track known to be fast and much better competition, not to mention the fact that the ruling, which cuts the number of entries from four to three in each event, means fewer heats and correspondingly better time." Athletes on each of the five continents have broken the 100-meter mark of 10.6s., which was first made in 1925 according to Henry, who believes that not only one, but several of the athletes from 24 countries entered in the sprints will set a new record. The 200-meter mark of 21.6s., made by Archie Hahn at St. Louis in 1904 and which is the oldest record on the books, is another believed almost certain to go by the boards. While the sprint races are the most popular and have entries from most nations, other track and field events also find many countries represented among the official entries. Eighteen countries will be represented in the hop-step-and-jump and high jump. In the decathlon and no less than 22 in the Olympic marathon. SECTION 2. That new sections be added to Ordinance No. 374 of the City of Anaheim as follows: Section 50. Every master plumber, before he is granted a license, shall give a bond to the City of Anaheim in the sum of One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars, with two good and sufficient sureties, for the faithful discharge of his duties as a master plumber, to secure any person ordering work done by him against damage by reason of faulty workmanship, which sureties shall qualify that they are worth said sum in property over and above all liabilities, and exemptions; which said bond shall be approved by the City Council of said City, and shall be filed with the City Clerk thereof. At the expiration of his yearly license every person carrying on the business of plumbing, within thirty days, shall again register and file a new bond as aforesaid. Section 51. No person, as principal, agent, manager or employee, shall conduct, manage or carry on the trade, business or calling of a master plumber or work as a journeyman, or do any plumbing work of any kind or description in the City of Anaheim, for which a plumbing permit is required, without first having submitted to a practical examination before, and obtaining from the examining board of plumbers of the City of Anaheim, a certificate of competency showing such persons to have sufficient practical experience and sufficient knowledge to do plumbing work. If applicant fails to pass such examination he can again make application to take examination, but not before a period of thirty (30) days has elapsed. Section 52. The Examining Board of Plumbers of the City of Anaheim shall consist of five (5) persons, to be appointed by, and to serve during the pleasure of, the legislative body of the City of Anaheim. Section 53. The fee for examination for said Examining Board of Plumbers shall be Five ($5.00) tion and paying the full fee herein provided for persons originally desiring to do plumbing work in the City of Anaheim. Section 60. No person shall receive a certificate of competency as a master plumber who has not attained the age of twenty-one years. Section 61. The Plumbing Inspector shall not issue a permit to any person, firm or corporation to do any plumbing, drainage or gas-fitting work until such person, or corporation has registered his or its name and address in a book kept for that purpose in the office of the Plumbing Inspector. SECTION 8. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall cause this ordinance to be published once in the Anaheim Gazette, a weekly newspaper printed, published and circulated in said City of Anaheim, and thirty days thereafter it shall take effect and be in full force. The foregoing ordinance is signed, approved and attested by me this 12th day of July, 1932. FRED KOESEL, Mayor of the City of Anaheim. (SEAL) Attest: J. W. PRICE, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim. STATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF ORANGE, CITY OF ANAHEIM. I. J. W. PRICE, 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 14th day of June, 1932, and that the same was passed and adopted at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 12th day of July, 1932, by the following vote: AYES: Councilmen Koesel, Mann, Martenet, Cook 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 12th day of July, 1932. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the City of Anaheim this 12th day of July, 1932. Farm Center Aides At Budget Hearings Representatives of each farm center within the county will attend all school budget hearings, if plans adopted recently by the Orange county farm bureau are adopted. Chairman Felton Browning of the bureau's tax committee introduced the resolution making each director responsible for attendance of farm center members at the hearings. The bureau at the same time approved a motion requesting the county board of supervisors to hire unemployed men for flood control and water conservation work within the county, instead of hiring them to clear roadways of weeds. The consensus of the bureau directors was that this type of employment would be of more value to the county. The quota of Orange county names on petitions to place a proposition on the November ballot to require the state to raise through a sales tax and an income tax all the monies being spent in California for schools was placed at $510. This quota already has been exceeding, it was pointed out. HIGHWAY OPENS SOON Construction is still in progress on the new Ortega highway, which extends from San Juan Capistrano to Lake Elsinore. Motorists are advised not to attempt to traverse this route until it has been officially opened. Agricultural Radio Program Announced The schedule of daily radio talks given on agricultural and allied subjects, under the auspices of the agricultural extension service and station KFI, is announced by Farm Advisor Harold E. Wahlberg for the week beginning July 18. The talks are presented at 12 o'clock noon each day. July 18, "Talk on Home Economics," Lillian Brinkman, home demonstration agent, Kern county. July 19, "Man, Trees and Life," J. E. Pemberton, Los Angeles county forestry department. July 20, "Feeding Dairy Cows," C. V. Castle, assistant farm advisor, Los Angeles county. July 21, "Recreational Advantages in the National Forest," John P. Kaye, U. S. forest ranger. July 22, "Lemon By-products in Their Relation to the Lemon Industry," A. E. Bottel, agricultural commissioner, Riverside county. July 23, "Advantages of Local Grower Unity in National Avocado Marketing," E. C. Dutton, field manager, Calavo Growers of California. Mexico was rocked by a violent earthquake recently. Maybe their Congress has been trying to balance the budget, too. Diet Didn't Do This! A little girl, just bursting with pep, and she has never tasted a "tonic!" Every child's stomach, liver, and bowels need stimulating at times, but give children something you know all about. Follow the advice of that famous family physician who gave the world Syrup Pepsin. Stimulate the body's vital organs. Dr. Caldwell's prescription of pure pepsin, active senna, and fresh herbs is a mild stimulant that keeps the system from getting sluggish. If your youngsters don't do well, they'll play as hard or even as well as other children do, begin this evening with Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. 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Fate tossed him up on the shores of Manhattan Island and with it started to unfold a thrilling story which presents New York in the 90's and spreads before the reader cross-sections of life during a 30-year era of making the greatest city in the world. It is all told in the new serial, "First Loves"—the second installment of which appears in this issue. Start the story now—where action begins and you'll quickly appreciate the keen reading pleasure it brings you.