anaheim-gazette 1932-09-08

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE HENKY 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. FOREIGN TRADE MIRAGE One of the excuses which our noisy internationalists make for urging Uncle Sam to join the League of Nations, cancel the debts, lower his tariff wall, and enter generally into the European scheme of things is that he will in so doing increase his foreign trade. Although this foreign trade amounts only to about ten per cent of our local trade, the internationalists seem to think for some reason or other that it is a pot of gold at the end of an internationalists rainbow which will make us all rich in time. They point to the shrinkage in our foreign trade since the depression began and blame it in to our "nationalistic policies." They fail to point out that in value our domestic trade has shrunk many times as much as our foreign trade, that if we can restore the domestic trade the foreign trade will take care of itself. In this regard it is satisfying to point to the recent address by the American writer, Henry Kitteridge Norton, in which he told the Institute of Politics at Williamstown that permanent recovery for the United States depends on renunciation of the world market for "more intense cultivation of the domestic market." Doubtless these words were quite a shock to the balmy internationalists gathered at Williamstown, most of whom are used to giving and receiving advice about joining the League of Nations and cancelling the war debts, but it ought to do them some good. "It is idle for us to pursue further the will-o'-the wisp of the world market," he said. "Capitalism" he continued. "will raise In this regard it is satisfying to point to the recent by the American writer, Henry Kitteridge Norton, in which he told the Institute of Politics at Williamstown that permanent recovery for the United States depends on renunciation of the world market for "more intense cultivation of the domestic market." Doubtless these words were quite a shock to the balmy internationalists gathered at Williamstown, most of whom are used to giving and receiving advice about joining the League of Nations and cancelling the war debts, but it ought to do them some good. "It is idle for us to pursue further the will-o'-the wisp of the world market," he said. "Capitalism" he continued, "will raise the standard of living in the United States and increase profits as soon as we realize that we can dispose of our products only among the masses of our own people." They cannot be distributed abroad. Norton indicated for the same reason that we cannot allow distribution of foreign products here. Each nation has its own products to sell, and while each competes in the world market, its own population is left hungry in the midst of plenty he averred. Here is something for the free traders and internationalists to think about. We have in the United States the biggest and broadest market in the world, one capable of absorbing ninety per cent of our products, and one in which the buying power of the average individual in normal times is many times the buying power of the average individual in Europe. Once we get production going again the American demand for our products will bring prosperity again. Prosperity cannot be brought back by throwing open the American market to the cheap products of the world, in the vain hope that we might, in so doing, find a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. RAILROADS AND TAXES For many years the special object of attack on the part of the demagogues and those who wanted to undermine the fundamental principles of American government was the American railway system. Restrictive laws of all sorts were passed and whenever possible the railroads were entangled in a system of red tape. The result has been finally the crippling of our fundamental system of transportation and the financial embarrassment of our people, not only those who own railroad securities but those who are bank depositors and life insurance owners. Of late there has been a cessation of the attack of the demagogue on the railroads, perhaps for the reason that he saw such a drive was no longer possible and not productive of votes. But a great deal of damage has been done and it is damage which will require some years for repair. One of the favorite cries of the demagogue was to the effect that railroad profits were inordinately high and that these went into the pockets of the bloated securities holders. He painted a picture in which the entire transportation system was in the grasp of a Wall Street octopus. And yet as a matter of fact railroad securities are owned by the ordinary man all over the country, and by the life insurance companies and other institutions with which the ordinary man deposits his savings. And never has the ownership of railway securities been so widely diffused as at present. As for earning, of course, nobody will have the hardihood to claim that anybody is getting rich out of the railroads in these days. In view of all this a statement issued the other day by F. E. that railroad profits were inordinately high and that these went into the pockets of the bloated securities holders. He painted a picture in which the entire transportation system was in the grasp of a Wall Street octopus. And yet as a matter of fact railroad securities are owned by the ordinary man all over the country, and by the life insurance companies and other institutions with which the ordinary man deposits his savings. And never has the ownership of railway securities been so widely diffused as at present. As for earning, of course, nobody will have the hardihood to claim that anybody is getting rich out of the railroads in these days. In view of all this, a statement issued the other day by F. E. Williamson, president of the New York Central lines is more than interesting. In this statement the figures show that during the past seventeen and a half years, the New York Central Railroad, as now constituted, has paid more than a half billion dollars in taxes. But this is only half the story. During the same period the railroad has paid in dividends the sum of $365,701,304. In short, the company has paid in taxes $142,369,941 more than it has paid out in dividends. Now this half billion dollars in taxes is a dividend which goes to the people themselves, and they get it whether they own a share of railroad stock or not. It goes to pay the running expenses of the state and local governments as well as of the federal government, and it means that the farmer and the home owner and the business and professional man have to pay that much less in the way of tax, if they reside in the county through which the railroad runs, than they would have to pay if the railroad were not there or if it were owned by the government. Here is one phase of the question of private versus government ownership which is often missed. If the government owned and operated the railroads not only would the stockholders lose the dividends and have less money to spend to help the general business of the country, without getting better service, but the general public would lose a great deal more in indirect dividends by the loss of millions in taxes. And it is to be added, of course, that government ownership and operation would mean even greater deficits than have been piled up in this time of depression. Let us not forget too that a government deficit is paid for by the taxpayers themselves while the deficit of a private corporation comes out of the dividends of the "bloated" securities holders. The Japanese yen has now dropped to a little more than fifty per cent of its former value. Maybe this is having something to do with slowing up the Japanese operations in China. THE ROCKET-PLANE IS READY BOYS—LETS GET OFF TO SOME MORE INTERESTING PARTS OF THE WORLD AND I’LL TELL YOU OF BELIEFS & CUSTOMS OF THE PLACES WE VISIT TODAY. HERE IN AFRICA IT IS CUSTOMARY TO STICK BRanches OF TREES IN THE GROUND WITH BROKEN POTTERY ATTACHED. THE BELIEF IS THAT THIS WILL KEEP THE MOST DETERMINED THIEF FROM CROSSING THE THRESHOLD... IN SOMOA, THIEVES CAN BE SCARED AWAY BY FIGURES OF LIZARDS, SHARKS ETC. WOVEN FROM COCOAUT LEAVES. THE HINDUS BELIEVE THAT IT IS A GOOD OMEN IF WHEN STARTING OUT ON BUSINESS A CROW FLY FROM LEFT TO RIGHT BUT A BAD OMEN IF THE CROW FLIES FROM RIGHT TO LEFT. HERE IN GERMANY YOU WILL STILL FIND A CUSTOM OF PLACING MONEY IN A HOLE, DUG AT THE FOOT OF A FRUIT TREE BY THE PEASANTS. IT BEING THEIR BELIEF THAT PRAYERS AND THESE GIFTS WILL BRING ABUNDANT CROPS FROM TREES SO FAVORED. Sunday School Lesson by Rev. Charles E. Dunn, Evils of Intemperance Isaiah 5:11-16, 22, 23 Golden Text: Leviticus 10:9 Isaiah’s sharp denunciation of drunkenness, hurled like a thunderbolt long ago is thoroughly timely. The liquor problem has never been solved. Intemperance is still Now we may cherish reasonable doubts as to the wisdom of the eighteenth amendment. But certain it is that the arguments against the liquor traffic are as strong now as ever. Rigid tests have proven that alcohol is a food only in a very limited sense, that it is not a stimulant, but a nar- TODAY TOMORROW FRANK PARKER STOCKBRIDGE RUB Cal Spencer way The women of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, are getting to be about the best cooks I know of anywhere, and that is all on account of my neighbor, Cal Spencer. After Cal's wife died, a couple of years ago, he went into the kitchen himself and made such good bread and ses and doughnuts that his daughter encouraged him to show them at the West Stockbridge Grange Fair. Cal did, and he walked off with first prize five or six classes. This year he is going to send samples of his culinary products to the Berkshire County fair at Great Barrington, and the farm woman of the county are determined not to let him get away with any blue ribbons. As a result, Berkshire County farmers are setting a chance to sample some of the best pies and doughnuts a man ever put tooth in. MOKERS lose last sanctum One effect of the enniacipation of women has been to leave mere man with very few places to go where he can enjoy the society of his own sex without feminine invasion. The saloon used to be such a refuge, but they tell me that the speakasies, the big cities at least, have as many women patrons as men. They still can't let women into Masonic and other lodges, but most of the railroads are leading it impossible to keep them out of the smoking cars. I traveled from New York to Washington a short time ago and found that the so-called "club," formerly an exclusively male institution, had put in a lot of fancy sofas and doodads for the benefit of women smokers. I see that the Santa Fe railroad has hit on a special smoker for women. If girls want to smoke, they ought to live a place for it where they wouldn't hurt in the men's way. MAZING Olympic receipts The most amazing statement I have seen in print in years is that the Olympic Games Committee has enough SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON by Rev. Charles E. Dunn, Evils of Intemperance Isaiah 5:11-16, 22, 23 Golden Text: Leviticus 10:9 Isaiah's sharp denunciation of drunkenness, hurled like a thunderbolt long ago is thoroughly timely. The liquor problem has never been solved. Intemperance is still a serious challenge to the stability of society, and its peril is peculiarly intense in our machine age. Unfortunately the clearly established facts concerning the menace of alcohol are obscured by the fierce controversy now raging over the merits and demerits of prohibition. Both sides are warring camps, and their psychology therefore tends to be that of military factions angrily circulating atrocity stories about one another. What is needed is more light and less heat. The failures and successes of prohibition must be studied dispassionately. Above all, the place of alcohol in our modern, complex civilization must be scientifically approached. THE FAMILY DOCTOR By JOHN JOSEPH GAINES, M. D. OUR QUEST OF TRUTH How many times we have pouenced upon supposed truths—only to find out after more exhaustive study and experiment—that we were wrong! For instance: I have preached for years that, the pipe-smoker may bring himself a lip-cancer by long frequent massage with a pipe-stem. Now, a careful thinker observes that tobacco has little influence in causing cancer; in other words, any sort of stick would cause cancer of the lip just as quickly used in the same way. No, mama. I'm not trying to encourage, the use of tobacco; I'm just telling Grand-dad not to chew any sort of stick as a habit. It is known that an exposed corset-stay may bring to light a cancer of the breast. No tobacco about that, but it is a villian, just the same. And, a fine medical writer tells us that blood-pressure is not permanently made worse by tea or coffee or even salt. That more folks die from lack of chlorides than from excess of them. That the INTELLIGENT use of these things never does harm. Another thing we learn: If indisposed, go at once to your good family physician; don't seek him as a last resort but as a very first and best aid in trouble. It will pay you. We know now that meats are not "deadly poison" to the human organism. To be a "vegetarian" is to be a faddist—and, all faddists are skating on thin ice. Nevertheless a finicky, evanescent public will do as it pleases, with my full consent. One of my own very satisfactory conclusions is, good common horse sense is a qualification to be proud of. BACK TO NATURE It seems to us that one of the beneficial results of this long period of depression and industrial unemployment has been to force upon large to pay for the expense of setting up regular mining equipment, but we understand that a good many thousand people are making good wages panning out placer gold all the way from the BACK TO NATURE It seems to us that one of the beneficial results of this long period of depression and industrial unemployment has been to force upon large numbers of people, who had never realized it before, that there is no safety or security for most folks if they get too far away from the soil and the sea. We were reminded by this by reading that the State of New York has decided to grant fishing licenses free to the unemployed, so that they may at least have the chance of catching part of their food from the rivers and lakes, bays and ponds of the state. We think it would be a good plan to adopt everywhere. Then we read about the various places all over the country where thousands of unemployed are being encouraged to pan out gold from the soil. There os gold almost everywhere in the United States. Most of it doesn't run enough gold to the ton of earth or rock to pay for the expense of setting up regular mining equipment, but we understand that a good many thousand people are making good wages panning out placer gold all the way from the Pacific Coast to the Atlantic. Hundreds of communities gave help and encouragement during the past summer to the unemployed who were willing and able to work small garden patches and so help to feed themselves and their families. All such projects are, of course, merely temporary experiments, but one of them it is reasonable to expect that a great many Americans, who have been brought up that they did not know how to take care of themselves unless they were attached to a payroll, will have learned that it is possible for a man to make a living without much equipment beyond his two hands, if he will stick close enough to nature's sources of wealth, and seize them for himself instead of buying them through a chain of middlemen. COUNTY FAIR TIME In almost every part of the United States this is in many respects the pleasantest season of the whole year for the folk who live on farms. The heavy work of the year is practically finished. In most sections the harvests have already been garnered. And while there is still a lot of crops yet to be brought in, there isn't anything more that the farmer can do to improve this year's production. He has a little time on his hands now for relaxation. So this is "county fair time," at least all over the North. The trotters and pacers are being groomed, and the sulkles overhauled, for the contests on the half-mile track. In spite of the automobile, the horse is still the farmer's friend and pet. How many hundreds of thousands of farm boys and girls are looking forward to their chances of winning some of the innumerable 4-H Club prizes at the County Fair? It is these youngsters and their work to whom the nation looks for the continuous betterment of farm conditions and farm life. For city folks the vacation season ends on Labor Day, but the farmer's real holiday time comes after that. The only drawback, from the point of view of the boys and girls on the farm, is that in so many places school begins before the pleasant September weather is half over. But even the schools, ir most of them, have to give precedence to the county fair and grant enough holidays, or half holidays, so that all the children can go. OBSERVATIONS SAY, CAL, GONNA CHOOSE NOT TO RUN AGAIN THIS TIME? Calvin Coolidge there awhile back wrote a timely article in the Saturday Evening Post. He said, "It would seem perfectly apparent that high taxes stimulate overproduction and underconsumption." That's as sure as the night follows the day. Mr. Coolidge also said: "If the farmer finds his taxes are high, very naturally he seeks to pay them by increasing the amount he has to sell." Hope springs eternal. The article in the Post was very interesting and Mr. Coolidge says further: "In the long run, if he has to sell more farm products to industry, the farmer must himself directly or indirectly purchase more manufactured goods, for in the end trade is an interchange of commodities." One hand washes the other. The more you read of that article in the Saturday Evening Post the more convincing it gets. Continuing Mr. Coolidge says: "But high taxes take so much of the farmer's production that he is unable to buy much from industry." That nicks the farmer's bank roll. Every man and woman in this country should read that article in the Saturday Evening Post. Further on Mr. Coolidge says: "At the same time industry has been increasing its own production in order to meet its own high taxes." It wants to get on the band wagon." And the writer says further: "But when the farmer and the manufacturer attempt to sell their goods, they find the tax collector has taken so much of the money of their customers that there is little left which to make purchases." The farmer and manufacturer are left holding the sack. Go buy a copy of the Post and read the article Mr. Coolidge wrote. BED-TIME STORY Mr. and Mrs. Pewee built their nest in a high alcove in a downtown apartment house, just over the main entrance, and there they raised their young. On the sidewalk below each day an indiscriminate allotment of feathers and what not appeared, and some tenants complained about it. Then one day, about the first of the month, the out of town landlord came to collect the rent, and seeing the condition of things, shaded his eyes and looking up saw what all the trouble was about. So he got a ladder and a long pole and poked out the nest, and then Mr. and Mrs. Pewee moved their abode over into another building and daily are seen catching flies and insects, and have started their home all over again away from the apartment house entrance, Mr. and Mrs. Peewee built their nest in a high alcove in a downtown apartment house, just over the main entrance, and there they raised their young. On the sidewalk below each day an indiscriminate allotment of feathers and what not appeared, and some tenants complained about it. Then one day, about the first of the month, the out of town landlord came to collect the rent, and seeing the condition of things, shaded his eyes and looking up saw what all the trouble was about. So he got a ladder and a long pole and poked out the nest, and then Mr. and Mrs. Peewee moved their abode over into another building and daily are seen catching flies and insects, and have started their home all over again away from the apartment house entrance, and the lodgers are at ease now. FARMERS RELIEF SURE A couple of local philanthropists are seriously considering going into the hot tamale business. It is figured that if everybody in Orange county would eat just one tamale a day the success of the enterprise would be assured. And should the demand extend throughout the state, money would roll in by the bucketfuls. Cornhusks are used as wrappers and if people would go in extensively for a tamale-diet farmers in the middle west would be sitting pretty, to say nothing of the beef raisers and producers of the tear-bomb chili sauce. UNIQUE DISCOVERY IN ANIMAL KINGDOM Just about the time spring arrived a newspaper editor drew the spotlight by designating insurgents in the big political parties under the euphonious appellation of jackass-rabbits. From a bio-geography viewpoint, it is important to learn of such a criss cross between two opposite and distinct creatures. It is presumed, however, that the new species will not become prolific, for a refractory animal with strong lung power and a weak physical disposition will no doubt exist only as a curiosity. GETTING THE ROUGH END OF THE RAWHIDE A congressman from out west introduced a bill calling for a 65 percent surtax on all "large" incomes. But, whiz bang, mister, what's the use for a guy to get all steamed up and corral that currency and then drop it in the Santa Claus hat. THE FORK IN THE ROAD It is said rent signs in Reno are disappearing and the apartments and dude ranches are taking on a new lease of life. This is on account of the new crop of celebrities who are assembling for the breaking of the nuptial knots that failed to knit. SOLD ON CALIFORNIA Said a man from Iowa: I love my native state. But I would rather live here on one meal a day than go back to good ole Ioway. DAWN OF A NEW DAY Things are on the mend. Great Britain has weathered the financial storm, and that fact will stabilize the economic affairs of Europe. America will come out of her troubles and be stronger than ever. Everything is going to be all right. Cheer up, folks. GET YOUR MONEY'S WORTH When people send men to congress they should be sure the representatives are all wool and a yard wide. Those with chips on their shoulders should be sent to the woodshed. DAWN OF A NEW DAY Things are on the mend. Great Britain has weathered the financial storm, and that fact will stabilize the economic affairs of Europe. America will come out of her troubles and be stronger than ever. Everything is going to be all right. Cheer up, folks. GET YOUR MONEY'S WORTH When people send men to congress they should be sure the representatives are all wool and a yard wide. Those with chips on their shoulders should be sent to the woodshed. PUT 'EM ON THE BENCH Those insurgents in high legislative halls who are continually striking out at something or other should be made to get off the firing line, and make way for those who can hit the ball. KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURNING FOR THOSE ON THE IN Sales taxes may come and tariffs may go, but the crude oil from Venezuela flows in forever; and lots of guys wonder why. BLOW OUT In every way it looked like the dems. held the whip in the house; but the sons of the wild prairie nightingales busting around like a bull in a china shop and that tax bill came out looking like a flat tire. HEY, EDDIE, FETCH THE CASTOR OIL The house doctor has given warning to the warring warriors to slow down in order to avoid a breakdown, or something. BUT LET'S HOPE THE SOLONS WILL CEASE FIRING A well-informed financial expert says an excess of expenditures over the revenues in this glorious U. S. A. is a novelty, and not really enough to get very much excited about. WENT OVER THEIR HEADS About 28 states in a straw vote went 2 to 1 wet; but the house knocked that beer bill for a row of empty steins. THE CAT CAME BACK That beer bill got knocked into a cocked hat; but they put a tax on the home brew ingredients. SIGN ON FORD DELIVERY WAGON Hit Me Easy — I'm full of pie, already,