anaheim-gazette 1932-08-18

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Publisher ESTABLISHED 1870 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR $2.00 SIX MONTHS $1.00 Entered at the Anaheim, California Postoffice as second-class matter. FARM POPULATION GROWS One of the interesting reports which political scouts are said to be taking back to Washington is one to the effect that the average farmer, in spite of the depression, and in spite of the low levels to which commodity prices have descended, is no longer so embittered and discouraged as he was a few years ago. There is of course a good reason for this, finding its roots in human nature itself. Since the depression descended on the urban population in full force, the farmer has come to find out that after all he is not so bad off as a great many other people in the country. He can at least eat and maintain a roof over his head, and can always find some market for what he has to sell. In the days of industrial prosperity when factories were busy day and night turning out automobiles, radios, electric equipment and so on down the line, the farmer on his visits to the city gathered the impression that everybody was on the road to becoming a millionaire but himself. He saw the shiny new automobiles which were being driven to the factories every day, not only by officials but by workmen, and heard marvelous tales of the high wages which could be obtained by the artisan for seven or eight hours' work. When he contemplated the fact that he, himself, had to work from daylight to dusk for what in many years amounted to little more than a living, after taxes and repair bills were paid, he naturally became dissatisfied because so little of this urban prosperity would trickle on through to him. Democrats' T TODAY AND FAITH . . . One of my farmer moth other day. He wanted land to add to his hung. "How do you expect him. 'I didn't know any making any money, with a gallon.'" "We're not," replied can't get any worse s better. I figure on buy head of cows in the sp pasture. A lot of the f ing off their cows and but I've been farming f seen the time when th and does the best he can in the end." I told John he coul day and night turning out automobiles, radios, electric equipment and so on down the line, the farmer on his visits to the city gathered the impression that everybody was on the road to becoming a millionaire but himself. He saw the shiny new automobiles which were being driven to the factories every day, not only by officials but by workmen, and heard marvelous tales of the high wages which could be obtained by the artisan for seven or eight hours’ work. When he contemplated the fact that he, himself, had to work from daylight to dusk for what in many years amounted to little more than a living, after taxes and repair bills were paid, he naturally became dissatisfied because so little of this urban prosperity would trickle on through to him. But the depression has changed all this. While it has not helped the plight of the farmer, it has brought the man in the city down to a level which has enabled the farmer to extend sympathy rather than to display envy. And finding that the city worker, when factories are closed and there are no markets for finished products, may face not only eviction but an actual shortage of the necessities of life, the farmer is gradually coming to the conclusion that perhaps he is not so bad off after all. The truth of this survey is at least partially borne out by the fact that the farm population of the nation has gained 648,000 during the year 1931. There has been a surprising increase in the back to the farm movement especially in the south and west. The boys who went to the city and the families which moved there a few years ago to get in on the high wages, are now gradually going back to the country. In addition a number of city dwellers, like the farmers, are beginning to realize that the country isn’t such a bad place after all, since one with a little labor can always get something to eat. In a statement on this increase in farm population the Bureau of Agricultural Economics recently said: “The increase in 1931 was the largest and most significant recorded by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics in the ten years in which the Bureau has been estimating changes in population. For seven years of this period annual decreases were reported and only during 1930 and 1931 were appreciable gains indicated. “The Bureau estimates that 1,472,000 persons left farms for towns and cities last year, and that 1,679,000 persons moved farmward. The surplus of births over deaths on farms was 441,000: “For the year 1930 it was estimated that 1,766,000 persons moved from cities to farms and 1,727,000 persons moved from farms to cities—these two movements almost balancing each other. The surplus of births over deaths was 399,000 in the number of persons going to farms in 1931, and a considerable decrease in the number going to cities. In the movement from cities to farms for both 1930 and 1931, and continuing into 1932, were many farmers’ sons and daughters who had previously migrated to towns and cities. Many of these upon losing their city jobs have returned to the home farm, many bringing families with them. Some city families have found refuge on the farms of other relatives. “These figures do not take into account another change that has been widely heralded as a ‘back-to-the-farm’ movement, a change that has been under way since 1930. Many city and town families are now planting subsistence gardens of one-fourth to two acres where formerly they purchased all of their food.” Of course we all hope and believe before long a measure of prosperity will return to the cities. But when it comes there will be an accompanying increase in farm prosperity, so that next time we shall all hope to go up economically together, so main- upon losing their city jobs have returned to the home farm, many bringing families with them. Some city families have found refuge on the farms of other relatives. "These figures do not take into account another change that has been widely heralded as a 'back-to-the-farm' movement, a change that has been under way since 1930. Many city and town families are now planting subsistence gardens of one-fourth to two acres where formerly they purchased all of their food." Of course we all hope and believe before long a measure of prosperity will return to the cities. But when it comes there will be an accompanying increase in farm prosperity, so that next time we shall all hope to go up economically together, so maintaining a sound and healthful progress. THE CLAN OF ROOSEVELT One of the most curious illustrations of the fact that most people don't seem to know what is going on in the world is the receipt by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, widow of the former President, of several hundred letters and telegrams congratulating her upon the nomination of her husband for the Presidency! It seems incredible that there is still anyone in America who does not know that Theodore Roosevelt died in 1919. There were also a good many thousands who wrote to Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Democratic nominee for President, under the impression that he is a son of the former President. As a matter of fact, his wife is much more closely related to the late Theodore Roosevelt than Franklin D. Roosevelt is. She was the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt's brother, Elliott, and that makes her a first cousin to the present Theodore Roosevelt, Governor-General of the Philippines. One has to go back nearly two hundred years to trace the relationship of Franklin D. Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt, but it is there. The first of the name to settle in America was a Dutch merchant named Nicholas Roosevelt, who came to New York in 1649. In 1742, the old records show, there were two brothers Roosevelt, nomed Johannus and Josephus. They were great grandsons of the original Nicholas Roosevelt. One of them was the ancestor of Theodore Roosevelt, and the other of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Their descendants in both lines accumulated wealth and acquired high social position, but none of them was ever active in politics until Theodore Roosevelt, just out of college, was put up by the Republican organization in 1881 for member of the Legislature in what was supposed to be a safely democratic district, and surprised everybody by getting himself elected. And Franklin Roosevelt, his distant cousin, made the same kind of a sensational entry into politics in 1910, when he was elected as a Democrat to the New York State Senate from a district which had been regarded as safely Republican. ANAHEIM GAZETTE Democrats' Treasurer Frank C. Walker, Butte, Montana New York, is the new treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. Mr. Walker was pre-convention treasurer of the Roosevelt campaign. Drops Jail Martyrdom Mrs. Clem Seeley, Milwaukee clubwoman, went to jail for 30 days for speeding rather than pay a $25 fine, "for the principle of the thing." After a few days she weakened and paid her out. Breaks 46 Year Record G. P. Richey, Tunice County, Miss., Baptist Church official and Men's Bible Class teacher, for 8 years district attorney and always a dry, is a candidate for congress on a wet ticket—the first wet candidate in that state since 1886. TODAY AND TOMORROW By FRANK PARKER STOCKBRIDGE FAITH buys farm land One of my farmer neighbors called on me the other day. He wanted to buy forty acres of my land to add to his hundred and sixty. "How do you expect to pay for it?" I asked him. "I didn't know any of your dairymen were making any money, with milk down to four cents a gallon." "We're not," replied my neighbor, "but things can't get any worse so they are bound to get better. I figure on buying twelve or fifteen more head of cows in the spring, and I'll need more sturge. A lot of the folks around here are selling off their cows and throwing up their hands, but I've been farming forty years and I've never been the time when the fellow that sticks to it does the best he can didn't come out all right at the end." I told John he could have the land, and I THE FAMILY DOCTOR By JOHN JOSEPH GAINES, M. D. A FRIENDLY CHAT Our editor and I are trying to give our public the very best service that is in us. We must accept the popular opinion of our effort, whether it be good or bad. It is well sometimes to pause and "check up" on results. In this letter I try to do so from the family doctor's quarter. That honest boy away up in Vermont, among the grand old maple trees; he likes "Family Doctor," and says so; he says it with some fine maple syrup by parcel-post. And an Oklahoma reader—he has gained 27 pounds, his last letter explains; his neuritis almost abated. And the dear woman over in New Hampshire—in her wheel-chair for four years,—it's arthritis. She is improving on common-sense principles. There are so many—one this morning, from California; she is too fat, "We're not," replied my neighbor, "but things don't get any worse so they are bound to get better. I figure on buying twelve or fifteen more head of cows in the spring, and I'll need more moisture. A lot of the folks around here are selling off their cows and throwing up their hands, but I've been farming forty years and I've never seen the time when the fellow that sticks to it does the best he can didn't come out all right at the end." I told John he could have the land, and I implimented him on his faith in the future. It was always seemed to me that the real backbone of America is that quality of confidence. Our recent troubles have largely been due to loss of faith in the realities of life. Too many people are too far removed from the soil, but the man with his feet on the ground is the one who is going to pull us out of the hole. SILVER . . . watch developments As I have been predicting in this column, the monetization of silver has become a topic of world-wide discussion by governments and economists. The proposal to put the Indian rupee back on a silver basis and to restore the silver content of the subsidiary coinage of the British Empire is being hotly debated at the conference Ottawa. At the International Economic Conference held by the League of Nations for October, the United States has insisted that the position of silver as money be given a place on the program. I think it is quite probable that we shall eventually see a small percentage of silver added to the gold reserves of the world and used as an additional basis for money which will be acceptable everywhere. If that is done, the effect will increase the volume of money and so increase the value of commodities. This will help every debtor, who must pay his debts either in poor or commodities produced by labor, and it will not injure any creditors except those who are trying to take advantage of present low commodity prices to grind their debtors. CAMERA . . . to doctor's aid I was in the office of a medical friend the other day and noticed for the first time a hole in the wall, almost concealed by the pattern of the full paper. I asked the doctor what that was. He took out of the file on his desk several records, on each of which was a photograph of myself. "That's the latest idea for a busy specialist," said. "I don't see my patients every few days, but only once a year or so as I do you. I cannot remember what each one of them looks like, and sides, it is of importance in my specialty to give a record of any change in a patient's pos- That honest boy away up in Vermont, among the grand old maple trees; he likes "Family Doctor," and says so; he says it with some fine maple syrup by parcel-post. And an Oklahoma reader—he has gained 27 pounds, his last letter explains; his neuritis almost abated. And the dear woman over in New Hampshire—in her wheel-chair for four years,—it's arthritis. She is improving on common-sense principles. There are so many—one this morning, from California; she is too fat, and asks some questions. All good people, I tell you. I cannot help loving them. I almost hate to tell you of the ugly-minded crank from Indiana; he bemeans me with every vile word he can lay his tongue to—all because I am a friend to coffee. He even calls me a liar and tells me I am doing it consciously... seven pages of awful, scurrilous abuse. I hope his tirade made him feel better—and it did me no harm whatever. In my library of nearly 3,000 volumes, and with nearly forty years of practical experience with caffein, I almost know what I am talking about, because I can prove my assertions. There is not a word in this abusive letter that my scorbutic friend can prove; so let him pass. I do not ask anybody to believe my statements if they prefer not; and I do appreciate many more friends than enemies, as I pass in review among my fellow-creatures. Bless you all! TAXES . . . the Beloit way There are seventy cities in the United States which pay al lof their profit from operation of municipally-owned public utilities. Beloit, Wisconsin, nearly 25,000 inhabitants, is the latest and largest city to take taxes off real estate. The city of Jacksonville, Florida, owns the community's electric light and power system, and also owns the toll bridge across the St. Johns river. Both of these investments have been paid for, and now the Commissioner of Public Utilities has proposed to the city council that if they will scale the budget down 25 percent he will provide income enough from the operation of these utilities to run the city without any taxes on real property. If this plan is adopted in this city of 140,000 inhabitants. I expect hundreds of other large municipalities to follow Jacksonville's example. He took out of the file on his desk several records, on each of which was a photograph of himself. "That's the latest idea for a busy specialist," said. "I don't see my patients every few days, but only once a year or so as I do you. I cannot remember what each one of them looks like, and sides, it is of importance in my specialty to have a record of any change in a patient's pos- and also owns the toll bridge across the St. Johns river. Both of these investments have been paid for, and now the Commissioner of Public Utilities has proposed to the city council that if they will scale the budget down 25 per cent he will provide income enough from the operation of these utilities to run the city without any taxes on real property. If this plan is adopted in this city of 140,000 inhabitants, I expect hundreds of other large municipalities to follow Jacksonville's example. BUD'N BUB HAVE FOUND A NEW FRIEND • THIS FRIEND, READERS, IS NONE OTHER THAN REX ROAMER • REX HAS JUST ABOUT COMPLETED WORK ON A NEW ROCKET PLAN IN WHICH HE WILL TAKE THE BOYS EACH WEEK TO SOME UNUSUAL PART OF THE WORLD TO SEE THE STRANGE AND UNUSUAL THINGS THAT ACTUALLY EXIST... GEE BUB-AND REX SAYS HIS FRIEND SAM SINK HAS A SUBMARINE THAT CAN TRAVEL ON THE BOTTOM OF OCEANS AND SOME DAYS WE CAN TRAVEL WITH SAM-ISN'T THAT GREAT? YESSIR BOYS-SAM AND I CAN TAKE YOU TO ANY PART OF THE WORLD AND BACK, EVEN BEFORE MOM WONDERS WHERE YOU ARE-BE READY NEXT WEEK AND WELL GO TO THE WEST INDIES TO SEE A MOST UNUSUAL VILLAGE 2000 FEET ABOVE THE SEA NOW FOLKS • THIS ROCKET PLANE CAN'T CARRY US ALL BUT WE CAN FOLLOW BUD'N BUB HERE EACH WEEK • THE PLACES THEY'LL VISIT AND THINGS THEY'LL SEE ACTUALLY EXIST! Ed. Kvessy OBSERVATIONS MAMIE, DID THE GHOST WALK? UGH, UH! A pretty blond, (in fact, all blonds are beautiful) whose name at one time appeared in the big electric lights outside, (and who belonged to a feminine organization the members of which were required to have a nifty 34 and a pair of well balanced limbs) has had trouble with her employees’ wages. It seems the lady took over a shoppee as a side line an dit is said when pay day rolled around all the girl workers got was a glassy stare. So the blond was summoned into court, was found guilty and sentenced to jail and everythin’. But it is reported she is going up on that decision and hopes to gain her freedom on a reversal, or maybe a writ of review complex or what you may call it. JUST LIKE A SHIP WITHOUT A RUDDER Any government in order to endure should pass constructive laws to gain revenue to keep the various departments working. If a government squanders money foolishly and then resorts to taxing the people for money to fill up the gaps in the treasury, it is only a question of time when there will be a first class funeral with the government riding up front in the first carriage. Artificial and temporary laws to pull people out of the financial pitfalls are life savers for the time being, but there comes a time when there must be an end to such emergency measures. The way some men, collectively, do business for the people—if they would apply the same methods to their private and individual affairs they would bust up quicker than you could say Jack Robinson. POLITICAL PUZZLE If Herr Schmidt threw one monkeywrench into the band wagon to put Voosebilt out of the game, how many gayels would Varner have to break to make Cauliflower Ike president. LIFE'S SEAMY SIDE In a town in an adjoining county a minister’s son, aged 22 years, was convicted of manslaughter and sent to the penitentiary for 10 years. It was one of those hit-and-run affairs. The young man picked up two other men and two young women in his coupe and headed for a “party.” In the mad race a man was struck by the car and killed. The driver did not stop on account of fear. Later he was arrested. The judge pronouncing judgment said all the occupants of that car were equally guilty of a felony. Now, here’s the rub. If that young man when he gets to prison is made to mingle with the life timers, the father better LIFE'S SEAMY SIDE In a town in an adjoining county a minister's son, aged 22 years, was convicted of manslaughter and sent to the penitentiary for 10 years. It was one of those hit-and-run affairs. The young man picked up two other men and two young women in his coupe and headed for a "party." In the mad race a man was struck by the car and killed. The driver did not stop on account of fear. Later he was arrested. The judge pronouncing judgment said all the occupants of that car were equally guilty of a felony. Now, here's the rub. If that young man when he gets to prison is made to mingle with the life timers, the father better get down on his knees and pray for him. MALT MATHEMATICS If it takes 300 million dollars worth of beer to balance the budget how many steins would a boilermaker have to tip over to get a reduction in his income tax? IT'S A LONG ROAD THAT HAS NO TURNING The highly interesting and educational statement has been issued by the headman of an eastern college that drinking of hard liquor by students has steadily decreased for the past 100 years, and that drinking now is at a very low ebb. It is confidently believed that within the next 100 years drinking will be stopped altogether. TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT When the wets mustered up enough votes in the house to get a vote on the proposition whether or not to let the several states regulate their own liquor, it caused anxiety on the part of some of the boys. It put the 18th amendment right up there in front of them. It had the doubtful sons guessing. Of course if they didn't want to vote they could either be sick and unable to attend the session, or they could have had imperative engagement with the dentist or maybe their grandmother was ill. Anyway the drys won the shindy by a close shave, considering everything. TEAR-BOMB THROWEHS, 'EH? A newspaper correspondent takes his pen in hand and says, says he, that the men in congress who make the long winded, eloquent, bombastic and silver-tongued speeches are not the boys who make the laws. STRAWS SHOW WHICH WAY WIND BLOWS When the prohibition question was adopted in the House in 1917, 282 voted yes, 128 no. The other day when the "ish you" came to the surface again 227 voted in favor of the measure, 187 against, a majority of 40 in favor of the animated amendment. Eighteen members were absent. A switch of 21 votes would have upset the dry applecart. As it stands now both sides claim a victory, and there is another election in November. HE LOVES ME. HE LOVES ME NOT There awhile back when the animated amendment drew the spotlight in the house, the speaker did not vote. Of course, if a fellow has the presidential bee buzzing around his bonnet, if he be in a receptive mood, he just lets the bee buzz, not caring to strike at it for fear of stirring up a hornet's nest. BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU A Mexican who had a wife and ten children was arrested the HE LOVES ME. HE LOVES ME NOT There awhile back when the animated amendment drew the spotlight in the house, the speaker did not vote. Of course, if a fellow has the presidential bee buzzing around his bonnet, if he be in a receptive mood, he just lets the bee buzz, not caring to strike at it for fear of stirring up a hornet's nest. BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU A Mexican who had a wife and ten children was arrested the other day for disturbing the peace, the complainant being a neighborly woman who had helped the little mother who was sorely in need of assistance. The man must have been seeing things. Anyway after the arrest the man was liberated with a suspended sentence. And with the goodness in her heart the neighborly woman went back to the household and helped the little mother, free of charge, and the husband no doubt wondered why he had been abusive of the good samaritan who helped the little mother with the ten children. HEY, JUDGE, DIDJA STRIKE HIM FOR TWO PAIRS OF PANTS In another county there awhile ago the thrilling and highly entertaining statement was made about some judges who it is alleged accepted gifts from a guy who had something to do with a finance company that went into receivership very much muddled up and into the haywire to bet the band. From reports coming in over the grape vine broadcasting station it was heard that the magistrates were on the receiving ends of brand new baseball bats, tailor-made suits of clothes. It seems the report caused a flurry of hub-bub not to say a whale of a lot of hubble-bubble. ALL IS NOT GOLD THAT GLITTERS A movie actor, who is a good guy and has an honest looking face, ups and says that all that talk about the "fabulous" salaries paid to members in the amusement sector, is a lotta hooey, or something. He inclines to the notion that the press agent is responsible for most of the ciphers on the pay envelope. A palpitating public has been a frazzle edge for these many moons about those altitudinarian wage scales and now all hands can turn over and go to sleep. POOR, MISGUIDED PEOPLE And all that terrible fighting and murdering in Manchuria between the Chinese and the Japanese was caused by a boycott of Japan's merchandise.