anaheim-gazette 1932-09-01

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. HISTORICAL SKETCH MARRED BY ERROR Another history of Anaheim has appeared, this time from the University Press at Berkeley, under the title "The German Colonization of Anaheim." The author is Hallock F. Raup. The booklet contains little that is new, and is marred by errors. It seems strange that an elaborate historical treatise dealing with a subject of no little importance should be rushed to print and issued before erroneous statements might be searched out and corrected. The booklet brings out the erroneous notion that the original society was a communal enterprise. This we have heard before and it has been denied and disproven several times. It seems strange it should recur at this late date. If the society ever had a communal aspect, which is doubtful, that state did not long continue, for while the society was founded in 1857, a drawing of individual lots occurred early in 1858, when a number of the original shareholders came to the colony from San Francisco. The father of the writer drew lot D3, one of the four pieces converging on the center of the community. He also draw for Louis Keller, an intimate friend whom he had known for many years. At the time Keller lay at home with a broken leg. Lot C3 was drawn for him, adjoining lot D3 on the north. The two pioneers came to Anaheim in the same year, were neighbors together, and were the first two of the original pioneers to pass away. Theodore Reiser drew the lot at the southeast corner of Orange and Santa Ana street. He erected a palatial two-story brick residence and commodious out-buildings. This he offered to trade for lot D3, individual lots occurred early in 1858, when a number of the original shareholders came to the colony from San Francisco. The father of the writer drew lot D3, one of the four pieces converging on the center of the community. He also draw for Louis Keller, an intimate friend whom he had known for many years. At the time Keller lay at home with a broken leg. Lot C3 was drawn for him, adjoining lot D3 on the north. The two pioneers came to Anaheim in the same year, were neighbors together, and were the first two of the original pioneers to pass away. Theodore Reiser drew the lot at the southeast corner of Orange and Santa Ana street. He erected a palatial two-story brick residence and commodious out-buildings. This he offered to trade for lot D3, but the offer was refused. Each shareholder owned his own lot; it was assessed against him and he paid taxes upon it. If there was ever any communal spirit about the enterprise it faded away early in the history of the colony. The land upon which the colony was located was purchased from Don Pacifico Onteveras and comprised some 1100 acres in the Rancho San Juan Cajon de Santa Ana. If the townsite was thereafter ever increased to 3200 acres, as this new history states, we never heard of it. The name of the colony meant a home in the valley of the Santa Ana, and for brevity was referred to as a "home in the valley." The townsite was not a portion of the Rancho de Los Coyotes, which lay miles off to the northwest. We never heard of Main street, and the building lots referred to were located on several thoroughfares. Mr. Raup seems to have been a candidate for a doctor of philosophy degree at the University of California, but if he based his claims to that distinction upon his treatise on Anaheim, we are not surprised that he lost out. DOMESTIC ISSUES FIRST In emphasizing domestic issues and in outlining what has been done and what he plans to do in the nation-wide effort to shorten the depression, there is little doubt that President Hoover's statement of domestic affairs as contained in his formal acceptance address meets with the hearty approval of the great bulk of the American people regardless of their political affiliations. President Hoover, on international affairs, reiterated his support of time-honored American principles of international cooperation without involving the United States in any foreign alliances or obligations, political or otherwise. In this, too, the American people will agree. But the President properly devoted the greater part of his address to the discussion of American economic issues. It is in the United States that we have to live, and it will be the American people who will pull themselves out of this depression by the application of sound business principles. This cannot be done by talk about debt cancellation, or the elimination of so-called barriers to international trade, which means only the lowering of American tariffs to put the American producer into competition with the low priced production of Europe and the Orient. That winning the battle over the depression is an American affair so far as the people of the United States are concerned, is pretty generally recognized by our people. Only the importers, the theoretical free traders and the international bankers who have a big stake in Europe are now talking about solving the depression by international agreements which would put Uncle Sam into European politics. PICCARD Professor Piccard has above the earth than any went and came back. He go even higher to explore sphere. If the Professor went beyond the layers of gas with the earth in its could stand still in space the earth revolve under down thousands of miles went up. He would have sixty miles up, however, and even then his ball would still be within the earth's attraction and wove it. It is not beyond the rarity, however, that traction future, wanting to get side of the world in a huge up a hundred miles on the earth move under that of a thousand miles an spot they want to reach. That sounds fantastic more so than any kind tion sounded a hundred y MARCONI . . . Another Senatore Guglielmo Maveno ventors of wireless te nounces that he has been developing an ultra-shot which follows the curv earth. Marconi, unlike someitors, has always been public statements. He nee that he has something actually tried and proves knows they are going very soon. The new discovery is because it means that ra cation is going to be moo less expensive. The show waves, the less interfer from static and other ca Marconi told me seven we have been friends fo and more — that it wou before radio reception wo at all distances and un called barriers to international trade, which means only the lowering of American tariffs to put the American producer into competition with the low priced production of Europe and the Orient. That winning the battle over the depression is an American affair so far as the people of the United States are concerned, is pretty generally recognized by our people. Only the importers, the theoretical free traders and the international bankers who have a big stake in Europe are now talking about solving the depression by international agreements which would put Uncle Sam into European politics. The case of the American citizen who thinks in terms of his own country and its welfare was well summed up in a recent editorial opinion of the Progressive Labor World, a sound American labor paper which said, in part under the caption, Solve America's Problems First: "We are within a few months of a presidential election. Domestic issues of the greatest importance are in the balance. Voters are insistently pressing candidates for explicit statements showing what they propose to do to relieve an intolerable situation. "This is no time to suggest that the idle, the hungry, the naked, must look to international agreements for relief. "We must not furnish perplexed politicians with an easy alibi which would enable them to say to inquisitive constituents: 'Don't ask us now what we will do for the farmer and the unemployed. Wait till we get through with our international "talkfest" at Geneva or Lausanne, or some other European center.' "We have had too much of that kind of 'buck passing' in recent years. "Our economic recovery is not contingent upon what some foreign country may or may not do. It must never be forgotten that we have the means to put agriculture on its feet and to supply employment for our jobless army. All we need is the courage and intelligence to use them. "Of course, it is highly desirable that the rest of the world should come to its senses, get rid of the war complex, reduce armaments and prepare to live in peace with its neighbors. Every decent man and woman is praying for that blessed day to dawn. "But—we cannot permit plans for the millennium to interfere with the solution of the problems which are crowding us so fiercely at this moment:" A British writer says the the Bostonians who put on the Boston tea party back in Colonial days were a bunch of Hooligans. Maybe they are getting ready to put in the destruction of this British tea as a set-off on the war debts. WELL BOYS-TODAY REX IS GOING TO ZOOM OVER SOME OF THE PAGES OF FAST HISTORY-MY FACTS HAVE TO DO WITH LEGENDS OF THE "GREAT FLOOD" THERE'S REX OVER THERE-LETS GO! MANY SAVAGE LEGENDS CONTAIN THE STORY OF THE FLOOD EVEN WHERE TRIBES DWELLED THOUSANDS OF MILES APART. HERE, FOR INSTANCE, THE ESKIMOS BELIEVED THAT THE WORLD HAD ONCE BEEN TIPPED OVER AND ALL PEOPLE DROWNED. THE TRADITION OF THE SOCIETY ISLANDERS IS THAT A FISHERMAN CATCHING HIS HOOK IN THE HAIR OF THE GREAT SEA-GOD AS HE LAYASLEEP GREATLY ANGERED THE GOD SO THAT HE FLOODED THE LAND. ONLY THE FISHERMAN AND HIS FAMILY SURVIVED. A WELL AUTHENTICATED MYTH OF THE DELUGE HAS BEEN FOUND AMONG 28 NATIONS OF AMERICAN INDIANS IN FUJI, THERE IS A LEGEND THAT THE DELUGE WAS CAUSED BY TWO GRANDSONS OF A GOD KILLING HIS FAVORITE BIRD-AND SO IT IS REMARKABLE THAT THIS STORY HAS EXISTED MANY CENTURIES IN MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD. COME GET YOUR HANDS AND FACE WASHED FOR SUPPER BOYS - WHEREVE YOU BEEN THIS PAST FIFTEEN MINUTES? TOMORROW FRANK PARKER Sunday School Lesson by Rev. Charles E. Dunn, Gifts for Building the Tabernacle Lesson for August 28 — Exodus 35:21-29 Golden Text: Proverbs 3:9 In the passage chosen for our lesson we read of a hearty, liberal response on the part of the Hebrews to the needs of their tent of meeting. yearly tobacco bill, in the neighborhood of two billions, is larger than the annual-cost of our religious and educational institutions-combined. Now while we recognize that civilization must have its amenities, there is surely need in the expenditure of our wealth. TOMORROW FRANK PARKER STOCKBRIDGE PICCARD . up he goes Professor Piccard has been higher above the earth than anyone else ever went and came back. He thinks he can go even higher to explore the strata-sphere. If the Professor went high enough, beyond the layers of gases which travel with the earth in its revolutions, he could stand still in space and let the earth revolve under him, coming down thousands of miles from where he went up. He would have to go at least sixty miles up, however, instead of ten, and even then his balloon probably would still be within the range of the earth's attraction and would travel with it. It is not beyond the realm of possibility, however, that travellers of the future, wanting to get to the other side of the world in a hurry, may just go up a hundred miles or so and let the earth move under them at the rate of a thousand miles an hour until the spot they want to reach is under them. That sounds fantastic now, but no more so than any kind of air navigation sounded a hundred years ago. MARCONI . Another achievement Senatore Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless telegraphy, announces that he has been successful in developing an ultra-short radio wave which follows the curvature of the earth. Marconi, unlike some other inventors, has always been careful in his public statements. He never announces that he has something until he has actually tried and proved it, and he knows they are going to come very soon. The new discovery is of importance because it means that radio communication is going to be more reliable and less expensive. The shorter the radio waves, the less interference there is from static and other causes. Marconi told me several years ago—we have been friends for thirty years and more — that it would not be long before radio reception would be perfect at all distances and under all atmospheric tobacco bill, in the neighborhood of two billions, is larger than the annual cost of our religious and educational institutions combined. Now while we recognize that civilization must have its amenities, there is surely need in the expenditure of our wealth, of a greater degree of sobriety and moderation. God is calling us, as stewards of His bounty, to live a simple life, and to return to Him, in the spirit of the Golden Text, a much larger proportion of the generous wealth He has bestowed upon us. Personally I am a strong believer in the Old Testament practice of tithing. I watch my expense carefully through a budget plan, and aim to give to my Church and various philanthropic causes at least a tenth of my income. To do this demands a systematic method, with a "check-up." A tither does not give in a haphazard manner. As Dr. Charles R. Brown has pointed out, the rich young ruler who came to Jesus was familiar with the phrases, "Sell and get," "Sell and hoard," "Sell and spend," but the Master's command, "Sell and give," was to him a new, and uncomfortable idea. In these present days of widespread and tragic want, "Sell and give" is a slogan that might well be proclaimed from the housetops. THE FAMILY DOCTOR By JOHN JOSEPH GAINES, M. D. AFTER OPERATION An operation for diseased ovary? Removal of tumor? Of the appendix? Or, for hernia? If you have had any of these operations, yours is a "surgical abdomen," or has been. And, nerves within that wonderful structure may not function for a good while as they did before you had the disease requiring the surgery. I often tell my patients that have had operations: "Let a mechanic stoop down before your piano and saw a hole in its 'abdomen,' let him go inside the instrument and remove part of the wires, and twist the others here and there. Then let him fill the wound in the wooden wall and varnish it anew, so that all evidence of the job is hidden. Would you expect the piano to play after the internal damage to its strings?" So it is with the surgical abdomen, whose nerves have been originally adjusted far more perfectly than any piano-strings. You may have had the best surgeon on earth, for a most malignant condition—the operation may have been done in the highest skill of perfection—yet the damaged nerves may not perform naturally for a long time, until the parts have become adjusted to the new order of things. Give yourself a few months time to get over the effects of your possibly life-saving operation. If you have had a capital operation and yet have a quarrelsome belly, for goodness sake let up on your carpet-tack diet of "roughage." Eat soft, easily-assimilable, nourishing food—the kind that builds up wounded tissue and nerves. Let your bowel rest from the rough stuff; try smooth stuff. The movement to give men longer terms in office and make them ineligible for re-election does not seem to The new discovery is of importance because it means that radio communication is going to be more reliable and less expensive. The shorter the radio waves, the less interference there is from static and other causes. Marconi told me several years ago—we have been friends for thirty years and more — that it would not be long before radio reception would be perfect at all distances and under all atmospheric conditions. His newest discovery is a step in that direction and probably what he had in mind. TELEVISION . . . on its way One of the experts of the Bell Laboratories, who is working on the problem of television, told me the other day that he thought scientists and engineers are getting very close to the day when it will be possible for anybody to see the person one is talking with over the telephone. It is being done now, as a laboratory demonstration, and the problem is to reduce the cost. As for radio television, broadcasting on a screen events actually in progress, that is a long way yet. It would be interesting if anybody who had a proper receiving set could see the next Olympic Games without having to travel across a continent or an ocean to do so. Nobody who has even a glimmering of what is going on in the research laboratories is willing to say today that anything is impossible. POLITICS . . . how it's done I asked a small-town official the other day why he had favored a measure which clearly would benefit only a few and would not do the town as a whole any good. "I don't like it any better than you do, but I have to get myself re-elected, don't I?" was his frank reply. It is the desire for re-election that makes most office-holders careless with the taxpayers' money. Since most of the voters in most communities are non-taxpayers, what difference does it make? That is the politicians' way of looking at public questions. The movement to give men longer terms in office and make them ineligible for re-election does not seem to be making much headway. It is worth thinking about. I believe it would be a good plan for all office-holders, from President down. SILK . . . Japan resumes I lunched the other day with the head of one of the largest mercantile firms in the world. He told something which illustrates perfectly the interdependence of nations. "Japan is hard up," he said. "because rayon—artificial silk—had cut into the world market, for Japan's principal export, which is natural silk. The dressmakers of Paris, who set the fashions for the world, have decreed that woolen materials will be the height of fashion this coming winter. But the ladies' garment makers of America, catering the masses, don't think the ordinary American young woman will wear wool; it doesn't sound as expensive as silk. So the American manufacturers have developed a fabric which looks like wool but is made of silk. It can't be made of rayon, and it takes four times as much silk to the yard as the standard fabrics now in use. "As a result," my friend continued, "Japan is getting larger orders for silk than she has had for years and the price is going up. And because of the prospect for this additional revenue, Japan's military party is making plans to go ahead with the conquest of Manchuria, for which there was not enough money available—a few months ago." The idea that any one nation can stand alone is as unsound as it is dangerous, THE FIVE DAY WEEK The five day week in industry has been tried for a year or more in a number of important manufacturing establishments of different kinds and sizes, and the general verdict is that it works to the advantage of every body concerned. We think it is something which was bound to come sooner or later. The period of depression from which we are now emerging has merely hastened it along. In almost every kind of business in these days the Saturday half holiday is generally observed. It is not generally the case, however, that a full day's work is done on Saturday morning. Some of the large organizations, like the big life insurance companies, which have had a five day week for their clerical staffs for a long time, say that just as much work is done in five days as used to be done in five days and a half. Also, that their employees get such a definite physical and spiritual benefit from having their time to themselves from five o'clock Friday until nine o'clock Monday morning, that it has proved an actual economy to cut down the working week without reducing salaries. We have too much of a tendency in America to make a virtue out of work for its own sake. A sounder philosophy of life is that work is a necessary evil, and should be regarded as merely a means to the end of achieving more leisure in which to enjoy the really valuable things of life. If the world's work could be done in three days of every week, we think that this would be a much happier world in which to live. OBSERVATIONS STEPPED INTO DEEP WATER About the time the robins came a newspaper correspondent panned the spokesman of the house to a fair thee well. Besides having a lot of sons of wild barnyard canaries in his hands he failed to keep them steered in the path of parliamentary practice when big questions were up for the raspberries. Things sort of got twisted, and the herd got out of step and the captain had a heck of a time in keeping more than one at a time from blabbing. The correspondent said instead of a czar and a leader the parliamentary pilot looked like a back seat driver, and it is believed the presidential bee buzzed out the window. AND THEN ALL HANDS CALLED FOR A LIME RICKEY “You know the cop got me for 55, when I tole him the old boat couldn’t make 35 on a bet,” said a fella when he displayed one of those corban copies that usually draws a ten spot. “But you know my speed-o-meter was out of tune and that caused all the fuss.” “Your speed-o-meter?” horns in a guy. You mean your spee-dom-eter, don’tja.” “Yes, I guess that is right; Well, you know, my speed-o-meter was...” And that’s when the convention broke up. AND, BIGOSH. THE FOLKS DIDN’T EVEN KNOW HE WAS ACTING A palpitating public again has been amazed all on account of another film colony marriage going on the rocks, because of fame. The good wife and mother says the divorce must come because her advance in the big-time overshadows her hubby to such an extent that he is lost in the shuffle. In order for the husband to get back in the spotlight they both stipulate to break the knot, without any knocking, and the ole man won’t have to play second fiddle. IN THE CAULIFLOWER SECTOR The prize fight game has its moments. The manager of Walker, when asked about a shindy with Dempsey, says he draws the line at fighting a nold man in a wheel chair. (Say, that musta make Jack blush behind the ears.) And there is a sport-writer who keeps up his chirping about Dempsey’s worn out legs. (But Jack says the guy never came in contact with his left hook.) Lots of the new crop of pugs bang away at each others beans and pantrys, but none of them hit the canvas. Then there’s the champ himself, and everybody seems to have forgotten IN THE CAULIFLOWER SECTOR The prize fight game has its moments. The manager of Walker, when asked about a shindy with Dempsey, says he draws the line at fighting a nold man in a wheel chair. (Say, that musta make Jack blush behind the ears.) And there is a sportwriter who keeps up his chirping about Dempsey’s worn out legs. (But Jack says the guy never came in contact with his left hook.) Lots of the new crop of pugs bang away at each others beans and pantrys, but none of them hit the canvas. Then there’s the champ hisself, and everybody seems to have forgotten his first name. And so the years roll around unless one knocks Dempsey for a row of Reno divorces, he will remain the best bet at the gate where you hear the jingle. SCALPERS DE LUXE When a squad of members of the Sit and Whittle club met at Lem Collie’s 5 and 10 store, Zeke Zembrane ups and says he believes the booze racketeers should be looked after. Doc Debonebrake puts the silencer on that because its a dry topic of debate Dick, the detector, however, says a racket that ought to be looked onto pronto has to do with the guys who offer a feller 55 per cent of his life savings that are tied up in some frozen institutions. It all depends who are the guys back of that new unit, he says. If anyone in on the “know” about those kind of loan companies have a finger in the pie it’s derned serious, he allows. Those fellers, no doubt, know when the frigid concerns will thaw out and they take a gambler’s chance to get the full amount of the money tied up. Then the meeting adjourned until next time. BUT, SISTER, WHO’S GOING TO DO THE ENTERTAINING? A lady well known in missionary circles takes her pen in hand and writes a piece for the papers, saying that prohibition has come to stay. LET GO TO GET A NEW HOLD When that tax bill came up in the house it kicked up such a fuss that all the wheelhorses and the jerk line leaders went up in the air. Windjamming raged so fiercely that all hands threw up the sponge, punched the clock and called it a day in order to start all over again to get an idea how in heck they could secure enough revenue to balance the budget before the August primaries rolled around. LOST EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE BUTTON HOLES The boys in the committee rooms worked hard for weeks in cutting the patterns and pinned together a garment they thought would look like a sales tax outfit. When the dummy got out on the floor of the house the first thing they did was to cut and pull the coat to pieces. It was ripped up so badly and had shrunk up so much that any bum salesman could have sold it to Gandhi for on overcoat. The vest was trimmed and drawn so tight that all the buttons flew off. The pants were altered and shortened so much that the “strides” looked like the cotton pantaloons on the guy after he had been pulled out of the lake. The boys wanted to tax almost everything the folks use, except beer and beeswax. NOT MUCH AUTHORITY After using the bootlegger’s brew for so long, to offer the NOT MUCH AUTHORITY After using the bootlegger's brew for so long, to offer the plebecite two-seventy-five suds would be like a fly tickling an elephant. PUT THE BOCK BEER SIGN BACK IN THE MOTH BALLS Wets said the 4 per cent lager would balance the budget in a happy manner, would stop speakeasys, and put a million men back to work. The drys wiped off their chins and said no siree, that would bring back the saloon, and they want bread not beer. And then a wet man ups and gets mad and tells the boys to quit their dry voting and wet drinking and come out in the open and fight it out. After the smoke screen blew off some of the hired hands reached for the hips while others went to rag chewing. INS AND OUTS The cons say beer would put a lot of guys back to work. The pros counter by asking what would all the boys do who are now making hair tonic. BETTER BE SAFE THAN SORRY Good morning, mister Millionaire, have you picked out your body guard yet? SCRAPING THE BOTTOM They sent Uncle Andy over there to help the foreign financiers with their figgers, but if you look closely the home cupboard is somewhat bare in spots and needs a tonic. WRITER WITH WALLOP A well known newspaper writer up in a big town in an adjoining county, whose "stuff" is always good reading, had a piece in the paper the other day that causes you to rub your eyes, read the article the second time, and wonder if you are seeing right. He says things that cut deep, calls them by their right names. The article sizzles and is important if true.