anaheim-gazette 1932-09-29

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. LEGION AT THE CROSSROADS When the American Legion endorsed a resolution demanding immediate payment of the bonus it took a step which definitely places it at the crossroads of its existence. How effective the American Legion will be in promoting the welfare of ex-service men hereafter depends upon the moderation and good sense of its national commander and other officers this year and next. The question is not one of whether or not the country should do everything in its power for the benefit of those ex-service men whose disabilities are traceable to the service of their country during the World war. There is no disagreement on that question, and certainly the action of Uncle Sam in paying disabilities has been generous in the extreme. Since congress over the veto of President Coolidge passed the bonus legislation, payable in 1945, the nation has obligated itself of pay 13 years hence. But that isn't now. If Uncle Sam is called upon to pay the bonus immediately, he will be asked to pay nearly $2,000,000,000 more than he agreed to when the bonus bill was passed seven years ago, due entirely to the principle of compound interest on the annual allocation of $112,000,000. In other words, every man, woman and child in America will be forced to pay $17 apiece more than was agreed on in the original legislation. If the country was not harrassed by taxes now almost to the point of confiscation; if we were not suffering from three years of depression which has left millions of citizens in the same desperate financial straights as the bonusers; if payment of the demand would not threaten the national financial structure upon which our recovery from depression times depends, even then fairness of the demand could be questioned. $2,000,000,000 more than he agreed to when the bonus bill was passed seven years ago, due entirely to the principle of compound interest on the annual allocation of $112,000,000. In other words, every man, woman and child in America will be forced to pay $17 apiece more than was agreed on in the original legislation. If the country was not harrassed by taxes now almost to the point of confiscation; if we were not suffering from three years of depression which has left millions of citizens in the same desperate financial straights as the bonusers; if payment of the demand would not threaten the national financial structure upon which our recovery from depression times depends, even then fairness of the demand could be questioned. The question resolves itself to justice between the citizen-tax-payer and the ex-service man and his family. There must be a balance between the two, because the taxpayer must pay whatever is voted for the ex-service man, and overburdening the one to pay the other is just as poor business as to under tax the citizen and under pay the ex-soldier. Hence the importance of the bonus. The taxpayers recognize the right of the Legion to ask payment, but the taxpayers' judgment of this demand hinges upon the fairness American Legion officials display in demanding that congress pay the $2,400,000,000 that is not due until 1945. THE HOME LOAN LAW The objects of the new Home Loan Bank bill were tersely summed up recently in a speech by Senator James E. Watson, of Indiana, who said in part: "The object of the Home Loan Law is to save old homes and build new ones. When in full operation it will prevent foreclosure of mortgages on vast numbers of homes and permit the construction of new ones by those who are without sufficient money. "There are 12,000 building and loan associations in the United States with a membership of over 12,000,000 and assets of $9,-000,000,000. Of this sum $8,000,000,000 has been lent on small home mortgages. The aggregate of liens on homes in all organizations of this type totals $20,000,000,000. "I am asked every day to state just how the Home Loan Banks will work to benefit the man who has a mortgage on his home and who cannot pay the monthly installments. There is but one answer: "When this system is in operation, the association, of whatever type that holds the mortgage on the home can put it up as collateral in a Federal Home Loan Bank, and thus supply itself with cash that will enable it to carry along those mortgagors who cannot meet their installments." It can thus acquire means to make longer-term mortgages and at a lower rate of interest than the existing ones and in that way sustain a mortgagor until he again begins his installment payments." There is something of interest here for every American. Nothing so adds to the stability of American institutions and the perpetuation of American principles as widely diffused home ownership. The difference between such ownership and tenancy might well spell the difference between the republican form of government and a bolshevik autocracy. There is no calculating in mere figures the good that may be accomplished by his home loan bank bill, because a great deal of the good cannot be measured in dollars and cents. And by way of passing it may be added that the new home loan bank bill is another answer to the demagogic charges of President Hoover's politi- There is something of interest here for every American. Nothing so adds to the stability of American institutions and the perpetuation of American principles as widely diffused home ownership. The difference between such ownership and tenancy might well spell the difference between the republican form of government and a bolshevik autocracy. There is no calculating in mere figures the good that may be accomplished by his home loan bank bill, because a great deal of the good cannot be measured in dollars and cents. And by way of passing it may be added that the new home loan bank bill is another answer to the demagogic charges of President Hoover's political enemies that nothing has been done for the ordinary man. It is only one of the answers that might be given and it is an effective one. MR. COOLIDGE AND THE RAILROADS Former President Coolidge has been asked to head a non-partisan commission to study the problems of the railroads. There is no question that the railroads of the United States are in a bad way, and we cannot think of anybody better than Mr. Collidge to head up such a committee. Regardless of politics, there is probably nobody in whom so many Americans of all ranks have complete confidence as Mr. Coolidge. He is noted for his level-headed, common sense, and any report on the railroad situation which he might put his name to would be taken very seriously by the railroad people themselves, as well as by the general public. In accepting such a commission for public service, Mr. Collidge furnishes a good answer to the old question: "What shall we do with our ex-Presidents?" It is time to get at the roots of the railroad situation. It seems to us that they are either too much under government control or not enough; the present situation, in which they are not allowed to accumulate a surplus in good times to carry them through hard times, is fair not only to the railroads, but to the public which depends upon them for service. Moreover, the whole railroad situation is changing. The traveling public is relying less and less upon the railroads for passenger transportation for short distances, while the airplane is threatening their long distance passenger business. Package freight is moving more and more by trucks, and every new mile of hard, paved highway cuts into railroad earnings. On the face of things, it looks as if there would soon be little business left for the railroads except heavy hauling of bulk freight. We understand that the commission which Mr. Collidge is to head will look into the whole transportation problem, and we have hope that out of it will come a more intelligent and workable system of transportation control. WELL BOYS, RALPH KARNS OF ST. JOSEPH MO. WANTS TO KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THE TEBELDI TREE-PILE INTO THE ROCKET-PLANE AND WELL GO TO AFRICA TO SEE IT. THE TEBELDI TREE IS ONE OF THE MOST USEFUL IN THE WORLD. IT IS SOMETIMES CALLED THE "BAOBAB" OR MONKEY BREAD TREE & GROWS THRUOUT THE AFRICAN SUDAH. NATIVES OF THE BLUE NILE PROVINCE DEPEND ON THESE TREES FOR THEIR WATER SUPPLY AS WE DO OUR PUBLIC WATER WORKS. THE TEBELDI IS A LIFE SAVER FOR THOUSANDS IN THE SUDAN. WATER IS CONTAINED IN THE HOLLOW TRUNK WHERE IT IS STORED BY NATURE DURING RAINY SEASONS. SINCE THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE TRUNK IS USUALLY 30 OR 40 FEET, THE CAPACITY IS ABOUT 250 GALLONS OF WATER. THE NATIVES THINK WELL OF THESE TREES AND HAVE A PET NAME FOR EACH THE BARK OF THE TEBELDI YIELDS A STRONG FIBRE WHICH THEY USE FOR ROPE AND BASKET MAKING. GUESS WE BETTER BE GETTING BACK TO THE STATES 'CAUSE MOM WILL WONDER WHERE WEVE BEEN THIS HOUR. Sunday School Lesson by Rev. Charles E. Dunn. Deuteronomy 32:48-52; 34:5-8 Golden Text: Psalm 116:15 The lessons for the last quarter have dealt with the career of Moses. The narrative for this Sunday describes his death at Mount Nebo, and his burial in an unkown tomb. The curtain rises again and we find our hero brooding in the desert of Midian. Here an imperative divine call to leadership is sounded from a burning bush. Moses hesitates and objects. But he finally obeys, and the rest of his life is a revelation of the magnificence of his response. Booth says that things are getting better. I personally would place more reliance upon her report than on those of all the economists and statisticians in the world. The demands upon the Salvation Army for help are an accurate barometer of human necessities. EXILE ... there's Typhold Mary In a little cottage on North Island in the East River, near New York, lives a woman in her sixties who is kept in seclusion because she is a merace to the public health. She herself is in perfect health, but she is a "typhoid carrier." Sunday School Lesson by Rev. Charles E. Dunn Deuteronomy 32:48-52; 34:5-8 Golden Text: Psalm 116:15 The lessons for the last quarter have dealt with the career of Moses. The narrative for this Sunday describes his death at Mount Nebo, and his burial in an unknown tomb. It affords a fit opportunity to pause and meditate upon the significance of this massive soul, the founder of the Hebrew religion. He it was who definitely made Jehovah the national God of the Israelites, and established the initial stages of their religious and political organization. Truly he was God's man of destiny. Let us glance at his spectacular biography. We note that he was fortunate as a child, to fall under the protection of Pharaoh's daughter, who nurtured him as her own son. Thus he was a highly favored lad, reared in an environment of luxury and learning. But happily these privileges did not blind him to the sad plight of his brethren. The curtain rises again and we find our hero brooding in the desert of Midian. Here an imperative divine call to leadership is sounded from a burning bush. Moses hesitates and objects. But he finally obeys, and the rest of his life is a revelation of the magnificence of his response. Some one has said that nothing is wasted in human life when once a great idea takes hold of it. The idea of liberty, with justice, under God, took possession of the conscience and will of Moses with compelling power, so that all he had done in his long days of preparation came to his aid, and he became one of the greatest organizing geniuses in history, exhibiting a practical and powerful executive ability. We see him stetfast and intrepid through the stormy vicissitudes of plague, passover, crossing of the sea, and wilderness wandering. He emerges as a world figure whose Ten Commandments are the Magna Charta of humanity. The great man, Carlyle reminds us, is "living light-fourdation." Such was Moses. But let us remember that the secret of his greatness lies in the directing providence of God Who always remains with the man He chooses to serve Him. Letters To The EDITOR Mr. Henry Kuchel, Editor, The Gazette, Anaheim, Calif. My Dear Mr. Kuchel: Acknowledging your great favor in sending me a copy of your newspaper with the best and most comprehensive of all editorials yet written in opposition to Proposition No. 9. I will have to make an overnight trip from Kern county to Santa Ana to be present at the meeting on Tuesday afternoon when it is hoped that the Orange County Bureau will take action. It would gratify me greatly to have some sympathetic ears listening to my argument as I understand their own tax expert, Mr. Von T. Ellsworth, will be there to advocate the amendment. Again thanking you, especially for the write-up given me by Mr. Jessen upon the occasion of my visit to Anaheim, I am. Yours most sincerely, GIL A. COWAN, Research Director. ACTORS ... broke but cheerful The most interesting dinner I had last week was at the Actors Dinner Club. Even in good times there are lots of actors out of work, and in these times the majority of them have no jobs. So somebody—I don't know who—had the bright idea of starting a restaurant where actors who have the price can get a good dinner for fifty cents, and the general public can dine for a dollar, the extra half dollar going to pay for the dinner of some actor who can't afford it. The waitresses are all actresses out of work, who serve at the tables for their meals and the bushes and other ter. I personally would place more reliance upon her report than on those of all the economists and statisticians in the world. The demands upon the Salvation Army for help are an accurate barometer of human necessities. EXILE ... there's Typhoid Mary In a little cottage on North Island in the East River, near New York, lives a woman in her sixties who is kept in seclusion because she is a merace to the public health. She herself is in perfect health, but she is a "typhoid carrier." "Typhoid Mary," as this woman is known was a cook. Wherever she worked, people who ate the food she handled came down with typhoid fever Fifty-seven cases, some of them fatal, were traced directly to her! Individualists who think nobody should be restrained for any cause sometimes protest against isolation of "Typhoid Mary." She objected, at first, but now is reconciled to living the rest of her days in comfort at public expense. Her case illustrates the fact that the good of the whole social organization is more important than n'the liberty of the individual. CREDIT ... the original idea When the five-day week and the "staggering" of hours of employment so that everybody will have a job become the general practice in the United States—and I see signs which make me believe that they are coming—perhaps the credit will go to the man who started the project, perhaps not. The man is Isador Teitelbaum, who makes and sells fine furniture in New York. One day last fall Mr. Teitelbaum, who is a deep student of economic questions, outlined his idea of the short week and the wider distribution of jobs. "Come out of the national convention of the Furniture Association and tell them about it," his friend urged. Mr. Teitelbaum had never made a public speech in his life, but he talked that convention, representing employers of 400,000 men and women, into indorsing his plan. Since then the shorter week and the staggered hours system has been put forward by hundreds of others, and it was one of the big features of the President's industrial conference a couple of weeks ago. Somebody else may get the credit for starting it, which is why I want to put it in the record now that it was Isador Teitelbaum's original idea. HOARDERS ... still with us "Frightened" money is beginning to come out of the tin cans and mattresses. It takes a lot of presuasion, though, to get some of it back into the channels of trade again. Up in my country the largest store in southern Berkshire county went out of business, and closed out its stock at unheard of prices. On the opening have some sympathetic ears listening to my argument as I understand their own tax expert, Mr. Von T. Ellsworth, will be there to advocate the amendment. Again thanking you, especially for the write-up given me by Mr. Jessen upon the occasion of my visit to Anaheim, I am. Yours most sincerely, GIL A. COWAN, Research Director. Seventy-two per cent of New York families live in rented apartments. You can buy violins made out of aluminum in New York. Sixty thousand residents in New York are more than 75 years of age. Twenty-five thousand television sets are owned in New York. A shop in New York is selling motorcycles equipped with radio sets. Three hundred and ninety-one American Indians live in New York City. New Yorkers call the Hudson River the North River, although every one knows it lies directly west; and the body of water lying between New York and Brooklyn is called the East River, although it is not a river at all, but an arm of the sea. A man fed corn to pigeons at Broadway and 93rd Street. The pigeons failed to find the corn. Now corn is growing in the heart of Manhattan. Just a touch of Iowa in New York. Convention visitors to New York spend $60,000,000 a year here. The most interesting dinner I had last week was at the Actors Dinner Club. Even in good times there are lots of actors out of work, and in these times the majority of them have no jobs. So somebody—I don't know who—had the bright idea of starting a restaurant where actors who have the price can get a good dinner for fifty cents, and the general public can dine for a dollar, the extra half dollar going to pay for the dinner of some actor who can't afford it. The waitresses are all actresses out of work, who serve at the tables for their meals, and the bus-boys and other attendants are actors in the same situation. I was greeted at the door by a former screen star who was one of the most popular personages in the films a few years ago, and the young woman who brought me my soup had her name in electric lights on Broadway only two seasons ago. There were probably two hundred actors and actresses dining there, but I did not see a single doleful face. Everybody was cheerful in spite of adversity. And it was a good dinner too. WRINKLES - Neckwear and skirts The big industries of the future are coming out of the research laboratories every day. The latest is a process of treating cotton, rayon and silk fabrics so that they will not crease or retain permanent wrinkles. That should interest men as well as women, for one of the heretofore unsolved problems of civilization has been how to wear a necktie more than three times without getting it all wrinkled up! And every woman who rides in an automobile knows how difficult it is to keep her skirt from showing wrinkles. BAROMETER - human suffering Evangeline Booth says things are getting better. She ought to know. She is the head of the one organization in the world that is closest to human suffering. That is the Salvation Army. The Salvation Army reaches down to the lowest strata of humanity. It deals with human beings as individuals in trouble. Its officers know better than anyone else when times are hard and when they are easier. So when Miss may get the credit for starting it, which is why I want to put it in the record now that it was Isador Teitelbaum's original idea. HOARDERS - still with us "Frightened" money is beginning to come out of the tin cans and mattresses. It takes a lot of presuasion, though, to get some of it back into the channels of trade again. Up in my country, the largest store in southern Berkshire county went out of business, and closed out its stock at unheard of prices. On the opening day of the sale, which was widely advertised, the main street of Great Barrington was almost impassable, it was so crowded with farmers and village folk rushing to buy the bargains. And the money they brought was what they had carefully hoarded away, fearing to put it into the banks. "We took in more than ten thousand dollars in the old-fashioned large-sized currency on the first day of the sale," the manager told me. "Many of the bills were actually moldy, and almost all of them were creased and damp." There are still hundreds of millions of dollars of these old "big bills" unaccounted for, the Treasury reports. FUNDAMENTALS - for families I met an old friend the other day in a little New England village. The last time I had seen him he was earning $15,000 a year — and spending it — in Chicago. The slump broke him; he lost his job, his home, everything but what little he could raise as a loan on his life insurance. "I've bought a little farm up here," he told me. "I'm the luckiest man in the world, because my wife has sound common sense. It was her idea for us to get back to the soil and live on next to nothing until things get better. "We're raising a lot of our food, wearing out our old clothes working from sunup to dark—and the funny part of it is that we like it. The children think it's wonderful. Our health is better than ever, we don't owe a cent, and while we're not laying up anything yet, and haven't any luxuries, we've got all the fundamentals of comfortable existence. And what else does anybody need?" That man has the world by the tail. OBSERVATIONS HAY BURNERS COMING BACK Recently a breeder of horses in this county sold at auction several hundred head, for cash, too. Quite a number were saddle horses and the prices were good. THE BOOMERANG When the members in a high legislative hall put on a tax to "soak the rich" it created a complex, or something. For instance it caused a decided slump in stock transfers, and it seems the little buyer is the innocent victim, because the 4 per cent a share tax squeezes out all the profit. GONE TO HIS LAST RACE The famous race horse Phar Lap is dead. Sad. Let us all hope that no human could have been so heartless as to cause his death. The name Phar Lap, (Australian) translated means "Wink of the Skies." In another word "Lightning." PASS THIS ALONG A democratic candidate for president in an address called for a tariff policy that is based on economic sense, and not upon politics and hot air. BOUNCING BILLS When the United States coins money collateral security equal to 100 cents on the dollar is back of every dollar issued. The other day a member of one of the high legislative halls was heartily in favor of granting an additional two billion dollar soldier bonus. He advanced the highly interesting and educational suggestion that the government issue new money in that amount, and then dissolve the collateral security of 100 per cent and reduce it to 40 per cent. He would make the security elastic and believed the 40 per cent security back of all the money issued would be sufficient. The idea is unique—not to say ridiculous. If such a thing would come to pass the dollar SAILING, SAILING OVER THE BOUNDING MAIN Sometime ago when they were talking about a receivership up in another county, it leaked out that one of the swivel chair men gave a party out on a "yot." It seems the event was a sort of coming out affairs for some of the boys of the press. And the boat had been borrowed from a judge. And lo and behold besides a lot of good eats it was said there was something else aboard that just came in off another boat. Of course there were denials about this and that and the other thing, but from all accounts it looks like the headman threw a party, all right. SWEETENING THE KITTY There awhile back three former high up officials of a company that went haywire, were up for trial charged with embezzlement. When questioning prospective jurors their attorneys asked the following interesting and educational question: "If it can be shown that sums of money drawn from company funds, but if it also is shown that the amounts were not taken with "criminal" intent would you find the defendants not guilty. "Well, now, to a man up a tree, it looks as though from what you can hear, that money went kafoocy, just the same. WELL, LET'S PUNCH THE CLOCK AND CALL IT A DAY A beautiful young woman, who was said to be an apt medical student the other day in a northern city committed suicide. She shot herself with a pistol while lying in a bed in an apartment of a young man; who it is said was just her pal and a good friend. It seems she girl was of a melancholy turn of mind and killed herself because she was not making the progress in her profession she desired. Well, anyway, the pair occupied the same quarters. The man, in explaining, said they were just pals. Their friendship, he THE FAMILY DOCTOR By JOHN JOSEPH GAINES, M. D. WARNINGS AGAINST I heard a blithering chariatan the other night, hawking a well-known nostrum, and for every imaginable trumped-up reason, urging the simple listener to buy it. You have heard this ballyhoo many times, delivered in a solemn, almost ministerial voice. I imagine they sell millions of bottles of the stuff—nothing certain about it but pay for it. This nostrum, you are assured, is good for everything from snake bite to gangrene! It was being exploited as a cure for ivy poisoning, common at this season. Somebody in despair had "swabbed the infected area—it acted like magic." The exploiting dramatist said the victim had accidently touched "poison oak." The name is as ancient as the nostrum racket. Poison oak indeed! Absolute ignorance was shown in the reference to "the infected" area. Ivy poisoning is not an "infection." No more than a burn by fire is an infection. It is simply an intense acid irritation—no infection-germs involved in the process. I have an idea that ivy acid would destroy many infecting microorganisms. There is no "infected area" in rhus poisoning. Carbolic acid is one of the deadliest poisons on earth; it needs no "germs" to aid it in killing folks. The commercial huckster that tells you his stuff will make wholesale slaughter of "germs" in so many seconds—is good to be wary of; he probably never saw a germ in his life; he is simply out to do a million dollars worth of business, and you pay the freight, dear reader. Ask your family physician, who has been trained by the best methods known. BRUCE BARTON writes of "THE MASTER EXECUTIVE" Supplying a week-to-week inspiration for the heavy-burdened who will find every human trial paralleled in the experiences of "The Man Nobody Knows." THIRD SECRET OF SUCCESS Having gathered together his organization, there remained for Jesus the tremendous task of training it. And herein lay the third great element in his success—his vast unending patience. The Church has attached to each of the disciples the title of Saint and thereby done most to destroy the conviction of their reality. They were very far from sainthood when he picked them up. For three years he had them with him day and night, his whole energy and resources poured out in an effort to create an understanding in them. Yet through it all they never understood. In spite of all he could do or say, they were persuaded that he planned to overthrow the Roman power and set himself up as ruler in Jerusalem. Hence they never tired of wrangling as to how the offices should be divided. But faith out of men is to show that you have faith in them; and from that great principle of executive management he never wavered. Of all the disciples Simon was most noisy and aggressive. It was who was always volunteering advice, forever proclaiming the staunchness of his own courage and faith. One day Jesus said to him, "Before the cock crows tomorrow you will deny me thrice." Simon was indignant. Though they killed him, he cried, he would never deny! Jesus merely smiled—and that night it happened... A lesser leader would have dropped Simon. "You have had your chance," he would have said, "I am sorry but I must have men around me on whom I can depend." Jesus had the rare understanding that the same man will usually not make the same mistake twice. From that time on there was no faltering in Peter. The Bible presents an interesting collection of contrasts in this matter of executive ability. Samson had almost all the attributes of leadership. He was physically powerful and handsome; he had the great courage to which men always respond. Yet Samson failed miserably. Moses started out under the same handicap. He tried to be everything and do everything; and was almost on the verge of failure. Then Moses took the advice of his father-in-law and associated with himself a partner, Aaron, who was strong where he was weak. Together they achieved what neither could do alone. John, the Baptist, had the same lack. He could denounce, but he could not construct. He drew crowds who were willing to repent at his command, but he had no program for them after their repentance. The same thing might have happened to the work of Jesus. Yet because of the fire of his personal conviction, because of his marvelous instinct for discovering their latent powers, and because of his unwavering faith and patience, he molded them unto an organization which carried on victoriously. A few decades later the proud Emperor himself bowed his head to the teachings of this Nazareth carpenter, transmitted through common men. Next Week: The Outdoor Man Copyright, Boobs-Merrill Company