anaheim-gazette 1932-07-28

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Publisher ESTABLISHED 1870 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR $2.60 SIX MONTHS $1.00 Entered at the Anaheim, California Postoffice as second-class matter. CRAEMER HONORED Hands across the county to the city of Orange and the Orange Daily News, there to shake the hand of Justus Craemer, co-publisher of that newspaper who brings distinction and achievement to the press and to the people of this section of the state in his recent election to the presidency of the National Editorial Association. His is a personal honor and a point of pride to his friends as well. It is the more impressive, since his election followed years of service in the interest of newspaper co-operative movements; thus he won on his merits, and upon them alone. A WAVE OF PROTEST Business men, manufacturers, property owners of every class and kind are joining in the wave of protest against increasing Governmental expenditures and mounting taxes. Marshall Field & Company, the largest department store in the world, we believe, have issued a circular to their wholesale customers in which they point that while, last year, Federal, State and local taxes took almost 22 cents out of every dollar of private income, the proportion will be higher this year because of the greatly reduced income. Expenses have not been reduced; they have been increased. According to the Field tabulation, since 1927 our Federal costs have increased 63 percent, from $1,964,000,000 to $3,195,100,000 a year. This is all wrong. It is time to call a halt. We see only one way to do that, and that is to make economy the watchword of the coming campaign. No man should be supported for election to any office in which he will have anything to say about taxation or the spending of tax money who will not pledge himself to reduce expenses and taxes, even if by doing so he loses a few income, the proportion will be higher this year because of the greatly reduced income. Expenses have not been reduced; they have been increased. According to the Field tabulation, since 1927 our Federal costs have increased 63 percent, from $1,964,000,000 to $3,195,100,000 a year. This is all wrong. It is time to call a halt. We see only one way to do that, and that is to make economy the watchword of the coming campaign. No man should be supported for election to any office in which he will have anything to say about taxation or the spending of tax money who will not pledge himself to reduce expenses and taxes, even if by doing so he loses a few votes when he comes up for reelection. We think that nine-tenths of Governmental extravagance is due to the desire of legislators to placate groups of individuals whose votes they desire. It is nothing short of robbery, in our opinion, for a man in public office to impose taxes upon one class of the public in order to spend the money for the benefit of another class, whose votes, he hopes, will perpetuate him in power. A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS We have been interested in the proposal sponsored by John Perry that the United States might accept whiskey, wine and cordials from the European nations which owe us money, in settlement of the war debts. If the United States should repeal the Eighteenth Amendment, making the sale of intoxicants legal again, there could be no objection on legal grounds to the importation of British whiskey, French wines, Italian cordials and Cuban rum; and the merit of Mr. Perry’s project is that these are commodities which we do not produce and of which there is no considerable supply on hand in America. To be sure, the Perry plan involves the Federal Government going into the liquor business. We feel certain, however, that if the people of the United States are going to repeal the Prohibition amendment they will set up some sort of control in place of the old-time saloon system, and that will mean that Uncle Sam must either sell liquor himself or delegate its sale to some agency under governmental control. We shall know by November, perhaps sooner, whether we are “going wet” again or not. And if we are, why shouldn’t we stock up with foreign wines and liquors while our own breweries and distilleries are getting into shape to replenish the domestic supply? WE WILL HEAR SOME SILVER TALK Washington will have plenty of unofficial observers at the British Empire Conference at Ottawa. Many questions which may directly affect the United States are to be discussed among the delegates from the various members of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Among them will be the monetary position of silver, which Canada wants restored to its pre-war status. Canada produces about a quarter of the world’s silver. India consumes about half of all silver. India has been trying to maintain the gold standard, and that has forced the price of silver down until Canada can no longer make a profit on it. The fur may fly when the Canadian and Indian delegates get into an argument on this subject. On the outcome of the silver discussion at Ottawa will depend the date and program of the international conference on silver and commodity prices which is to be held later in the summer, with the United States taking part. wealth of Nations. Among them will be the monetary position of silver, which Canada wants restored to its pre-war status. Canada produces about a quarter of the world's silver. India consumes about half of all silver. India has been trying to maintain the gold standard, and that has forced the price of silver down until Canada can no longer make a profit on it. The fur may fly when the Canadian and Indian delegates get into an argument on this subject. On the outcome of the silver discussion at Ottawa will depend the date and program of the international conference on silver and commodity prices which is to be held later in the summer, with the United States taking part. CHANGING THE CONSTITUTION The conventions are over and the Presidential campaign of 1932 is under way. By the time the spell-binders of both parties have begun to get into action it may be that people will get all excited over such important issues as tax reduction and government economy, and a lot of the other things which both parties endorse in different language in their platforms. But so far as we can see the situation from this point in time and space, about the only action of the conventions that the general run of people are interested at the moment, outside of the personalities of the candidates, is whether the Democrats or the Republicans have the better plan for letting the people vote on prohibition. As long as there is so much talk and excitement in various parts of the country about this question, it is probably just as well to take steps to find out whether the people of the United States, or any considerable majority of them, want to change the dry laws or not. We don't see how anybody can take exception to that proposition. No matter how ardently dry an individual may be, if the overwhelming majority of them are against prohibition, it seems to us that it is of the very essence of Americanism to accept a verdict of the majority. And the same goes for the citizen of wet inclinations. As long as there is a widespread belief that the prohibition law does not reflect the dominant national public sentiment of today, there will always be bitter feelings until the facts are brought out. The only way to bring them out is by the means that both parties propose, that of submitting an amendment to conventions called in the different states solely for the purpose of considering a change and so giving every voter a chance to vote for either wet or dry delegates as he prefers. Our hope is that, if and when these conventions shall have acted upon the proposed change in the Constitution, everybody concerned will be content to prove his Americanism by abiding by the result. ANAHEIM GAZETTE In The Glow of The Olympic Torch Georgia Coleman, Los Angeles, and Helene Madison, Seattle,—both national champions, diving and swimming. THE FAMILY DOCTOR By JOHN JOSEPH GAINES, M. D. THE WAY OF LIFE By BRUCE BARTON THE FAMILY DOCTOR BY JOHN JOSEPH GAINES, M. D. BITES AND STINGS Summer is the time to look out for biting and stinging insects. An author, friend of mine, mentions the mosquito and the bed-bug as the chief offenders. I shall not discuss the latter; he is taboo in our set this year. I confess I have grown rusty in my clinical data on the bed-bug. But the mosquito—the malaria-carrier, you know. The more bites the more malaria. Keep out of his way. A strong solution of camphor with twenty drops of carbolic acid to the ounce is a good lotion for mosquito-bites; wet cloths with the solution and leave in contact with the stings. The poison—almost a venom—of hornets, wasps and bees, is believed to be acid in nature; hence an alkali is the logical antidote. A bottle of aqua ammonia should be kept in the medicine closet for stings, to be applied freely when needed. Coarse "bayonets" may be left in the wound near in mind. Get them out before the medicine is depended upon. If a wasp-sting just chanced to enter a vein of the victim, as in case of a child, serious symptoms may be caused, and even deaths have been reported from them. The nests of these insects should be searched for, and destroyed. I know that nothing more agonizing for the moment than the sting of a hornet. They are plentiful in wooded districts in our country. Remember your ammonia solution. I have seen quite a fever arise from bee-tings,—in fact my last adventure with the little honey-makers was a case in point; I went to bed for several hours, aching all over, with temperature 103. I had had over a dozen bee-bounds before armistice was declared. We are ever too old to learn, it seems. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, in a speech in London on July 4, called for world cooperation. Fine. The only trouble is that the internationalists seem to want Uncle Sam to do all the cooperating. Five million dollars in bonds of the Puerto Rican republic have been launched in New York. THE WAY OF LIFE BY BRUCE BARTON TO THE LAND Here an dthere we run across a fact which shows that important social changes are working themselves out silently in a time like this. For instance: The insurance companies are experiencing a rather brisk demand for some of the farms they have had to take over during the past few years. So are the Land Banks. In one southern city a canvass of the unemployed revealed nine hundred families that had formerly lived on the land. These people were moved out to vacant farms and are being helped to self-support. The president of a charity organization in a middle western city came to see me, with figures showing the abnormal growth of our cities, and particularly of the negro population in northern cities, in the two decades between 1910 and 1930. Said he: "In my own city we are feeding many thousand people, including almost the entire negro population. The negro is the first to suffer in a time like this for the white man is likely to be favored in the distribution of jobs. The negro is a good farmer. On an acre of land he can raise enough food for his family. Our city could well afford to build cottages and settle a large proportion of its unemployed on the land. For no more than it will cost us to take care of them in town another year we could make them permanently independent." In the depression of 1873, the unemployed in our cities was almost one hundred per cent, but only a quarter of our people were in the cities; we were seventy-five per cent rural. The unemployed simply moved back to the land until the storm was over. The expression "back to the land" is unfortunate; it seems to imply defeat in the city and subsequent retreat. I prefer "forward to the land," to a freedom and security the city too often fails to provide. Certainly many men are now saying to themselves: "I should much rather have a roof over my head and potatoes and cabbages in the cellar than to be an ex-vice-president sitting on a cold curb stone." Perhaps as a result of that thinking we shall Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, in a speech in London on July 4, called for world cooperation. Fine. The only trouble is that the internationalists seem to want Uncle Sam to do all the cooperating. Five million dollars in bonds of the Puerto Rican republic have been launched in New York. Well, some people will buy most anything. The expression "back to the land" is unfortunate; it seems to imply defeat in the city and subsequent retreat. I prefer "forward to the land," to a freedom and security the city too often fails to provide. Certainly many men are now saying to themselves: "I should much rather have a roof over my head and potatoes and cabbages in the cellar than to be an ex-vice-president sitting on a cold curb stone." Perhaps as a result of that thinking we shall find ourselves, one of these days, with a better balanced, less top-heavy social organization. OBSERVATIONS IT WONT BE LONG NOW A wife mistrusted her husband. She had a clew. Together with a witness she tiptoed to a window, where the curtain had not been pulled down all the way, and sure enough there was her ole man with a pretty young woman parked on his knee. BURNED HIS BRIDGES A senator said he was going to vote for enough taxes to balance the budget—whether he went back to the big meetings again or not. Looks like he was not "afeared" of the folks at home. GETTING THE OLD CART BEFORE THE HORSE Just about the time the financial skies were clearing a former cabinet officer ups and suggests that they tax the bootlegger to raise some taxes. That would be a good deal like calling for a milkshake at a bartenders picnic. AH, THERE, JACKIE, OLE BOY! Some of the sport writers have been paying a lot of attention to the legs of the former heavy-weight prizefight man. TALK ABOUT IT The hoarding of money is a good deal like the sweetie pulling petals off the petunia while reciting these love words: "She loves me; she loves me not." People who hide their money in the mattress should go and see their nearest good banker and ask him questions about this and that and then put the money in the savings bank, and give the old mattress to the Salvation Army. NOT SO HOT With the return of prosperity, rising over the depression mountain, it begins to look to the donkey that the seat in the White House is quite a distance away. PASSING THE BUCK A senator over New Hampshire way knows his onions. He says the government has already gone too far in trying to regulate private life. He allows there is a mass of legislation now in the mill with but one thing in sight, and that is to take away $4.90 from every guy who happens to have a five spot. The senator says once the mother used to see that her young hopeful washed behind the ears, and now the community hires a teacher PASSING THE BUCK A senator over New Hampshire way knows his onions. He says the government has already gone too far in trying to regulate private life. He allows there is a mass of legislation now in the mill with but one thing in sight, and that is to take away $4.90 from every guy who happens to have a five spot. The senator says once the mother used to see that her young hopeful washed behind the ears, and now the community hires a teacher to see to that. And the senator closed his address by reporting that a legislator tried to get a law passed requiring a man to sleep eight hours a day in order to help out on the unemployment. HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL Over toward Massachusetts a wife, 81, sued her husband, 83, for a divorce, alleging she caught her ole man petting a young woman. The gay old shiek countered by saying his woman was an ugly old thing an a peeker. OUTLIVED THEIR USEFULNESS When some of the statesmen out of the sticks get into public office and are away from home for two or three seasons, and fail to hurdle the pitfalls, in the big cities, they sorta seem to forget all about their constituents. CHANGE OF PASTURE MAKES FAT CALVES They say familiarity breeds contempt and maybe that's why some of the big shots in high legislative halls call each other hard names, and its then when the plebecite should rise up and smite them with the ballots. QUACK! QUACK!! QUACK!!! They laid down an awful barrage of hot bolony and the lame ducks were all shooed out of the perserves with nothing on but the pin feathers. DO SOMETHING! Quite often men are elected to office in the high halls of legislation because they talk good and make flourishes with their arms when addressing the old folks at the home conventions, but believe it or not what this country needs right now are men at the seat of government who talk little and use their heads for thinking and helping the people — not any particular set of high brows or special interests — and no foolin'. IRONY OF FATE A dispatch says that official endorsement was made of a measure which would allow importation of brandy and other spirits for medicinal use. And we have prohibition! Gosh, awful! GENTLE REMINDER The office seeker meet the voter. Have a cigar, said the candidate. Thanks. By Jove, the wife told me to bring home some cabbage for dinner. So long. LOTTA HIP, HIP AND HURRAH An exhilerating and perplexing item came out in the paper the other day when it was said a bottle of real honest-to-goodness champagne from California was to be used to christen a cruiser GENTLE REMINDER The office seeker meet the voter. Have a cigar, said the candidate. Thanks. By Jove, the wife told me to bring home some cabbage for dinner. So long. LOTTA HIP, HIP AND HURRAH An exhilerating and perplexing item came out in the paper the other day when it was said a bottle of real honest-to-goodness champagne from California was to be used to christen a cruiser over on the Panama canal. Considerable red tape was cut to get the bubble water across the continent, but a charming young lady was sworn in with good credentials to get it there and out-smart the hijackers. Up to the hour of going to press everything went off with a bang, including the cork, and the ship sailed majestically out to sea, while the drys sent up an awful howl about this state being out of date. REMOVED HIS INCOGNITO A well known actor went into a hospital, for an operation, under an assumed name. However, the doctor recognized him and he had a heck of a time in keeping the nurses' minds on their business. WHATEVER YOU DO, WE'LL BE FOLLOWING YOU It is reported on gasoline alley that ever since the time a car maker said he had a new model with eight cylinders hiding simultaneously, all the other big-boys in the industrial camps have been sitting up and taking notice; while yet again some of the rest of them are suffering from insomnia, or something. COME ON IN, THE WATER IS FINE Lots of folks preached about the hoarding complex, but did they unhoard? Of course, they couldn't unhoard all at once; somebody had to make a start. But the assessor was the real unhoarder, because he made the tight wads pony up for the dollars hid away in the old tin can and mattress. And after the unhoarded mazuma again saw the light of day everything was jake and the goose was hanging high and the hoarding was unheard of, bigosh. SOMEWHAT IN AHAZE, EH, WHAT? A senator over in Iowa demands that the film industry be investigated. He is quoted in the paper as saying the hearings would be sensational, likened to the T-Pot Dome debacle, or something.