anaheim-gazette 1932-10-13

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Publisher ESTABLISHED 1870 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPT PER YEAR $2.00 SIX MONTHS $1.00 Entered at the Anaheim, California Postoffice as second-class matter. ELIMINATE DISHONESTY IN PROPOSITIONS Orange county's 62,340 registered voters have an almost impossible task to perform if they are to vote intelligently on all 20 initiative and referendum proposals and all candidates on the ballot this November. Very few men, even the best informed in public life, have sufficient knowledge of all factors involved to give an intelligent opinion on all of the 20 propositions which we are asked to vote upon. Knowledge is a few measures notably proposition No. 9 for transfer of school taxes from the county to the state, which in fact merely entrenches the school teachers still further behind the state constitution without bettering the schools in the least—prompts the suspicion that most of the propositions carry jokers. Because of attempts to "put across" measures strictly for the benefit of active minorities instead of for the benefit of the public at large, we feel that some plan should be followed to make the propositions submitted free of dishonest twists. There is no need to camouflage any issue; in fact, submission of propositions free from jokers would be a long step toward intelligent voting. Such instances as the save-the-beaches proposition overhelmingly adopted two years ago are cases in point. Here one had to vote "No" to mean "Yes", and vice versa. Attempts of major oil companies last spring to list the Sharkey bill as an oil conservation measure instead of an oil control bill were thwarted by carrying the case through the appellate court. The Sharkey bill suggests a procedure. If every proposition by law were taken before a court where all jokers would be simplified, honest government by the people would be aided to an unlimited degree. GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS Dealing with Governor Roosevelt’s utilities speech in Portland, Oregon, recently, the Middletown (Conn.) Press handled the subject sensibly in an editorial, when it said: “* * * His address may be said to be in a decidedly liberal direction, with a disposition to favor government operation, under certain conditions; yet always, as in his other addresses, a degree of reservation is offered to quiet possible eastern fears, even as there is a desire to impress the radicals of the West. “And it is one of the most significant things in this whole utilities question that where government interference has been more marked, as in most of the West the losses have been heaviest. * * * “Where the governor differs with a reasonable conservatism, which time and again has been tested as the wiser policy is in now demanding greater governmental power over utilities companies and in giving to communities fuller opportunity to enter into competition with private operation, especially when such operation is expensive and unsatisfactory. “In one way there can be no objection to going so far. On the other hand, with the experience the nation, the states and the minor communities have with government operations, there are millions of reasonable persons who hesitate to entrust additions to such operation and its attendant political manipulation. “There is the additional fact to remember one always ignored by those who favor public ownership, that is the loss of taxes under public operation, not only for the local government, but for the state and nation as well. “Governor Roosevelt’s general attitude on utilities may be classed as greater interference with private operation. It urges that all the states give their commissions more power in that direction. Here again hovers the threat of incompetence, politics and radicalism. One can understand how a commission with reasonable, disinterested, non-political officials upon it, would be helpful. On the other hand, positive harm would attend with a membership exactly opposite, as is not infrequently the case. “In general, the governor aims for greater regulation and more publicity. * * * Yet it has not been lost on all that this utilities industry has been one which has held up in these times better than almost any other.” It might be well to recall the burlesque government operation of railroads during the World War by the Democratic administration with McAdoo, one of the present leaders behind Governor Roosevelt at the throttle. During the experiment the railroad facilities of our nation were demoralized and operated at a distinct loss, the load falling on the taxpayers of the nation and the stockholders and owners of the railroads. This attempt at government operation and control of railroads crippled that industry to camouflage any issue; in fact, submission of propositions free from jokers would be a long step toward intelligent voting. Such instances as the save-the-beaches proposition overwhelmingly adopted two years ago are cases in point. Here one had to vote “No” to mean “Yes”, and vice versa. Attempts of major oil companies last spring to list the Sharkey bill as an oil conservation measure instead of an oil control bill were thwarted by carrying the case through the appellate court. The Sharkey bill suggests a procedure. If every proposition by law were taken before a court where all jokers would be simplified, honest government by the people would be aided to an unlimited degree. CHURCHES Uu on the hilltop stands an old white tapering spire, in which vices have been held for years. When it was built gregationalists, the few Baptists in the village church of their own, by hundred years ago they sensible conclusion that need two churches, so tions merged. There have rominational differences corner of New England. In England the other branches of the Medi agreed to drop theirences and unite in one organization. The northern divisions of some of denominations which were Civil War age beginnng The Christian denomination Congregationalists have Contrary to the premembership in both this Catholic churches in creasing. DETERMINATION When the University announced that the concept farm products line for the payment of seventeen year old Elk West Feliciana Parish horse, rounded up nine and herded them over country road, to the ube she enrolled as a fresh To me there is some picturesque but refreshing demonstration that the spirit of America is no never met Elena Perce the spirit that overcome determination to get whatever cost in hardship My guess is that Mi develop into a much nzen than some of the y occasionally see riding tral Park or following at the fashionable coun FRANCE "In general, the governor aims for greater regulation and more publicity. * * Yet it has not been lost on all that this utilities industry has been one which has held up in these times better than almost any other." It might be well to recall the burlesque government operation of railroads during the World War by the Democratic administration with McAdoo, one of the present leaders behind Governor Roosevelt at the throttle. During the experiment the railroad facilities of our nation were demoralized and operated at a distinct loss, the load falling on the taxpayers of the nation and the stockholders and owners of the railroads. This attempt at government operation and control of railroads crippled that industry for years, and the more than two million railroad workers have been among those who have suffered most from the experiment. The thing that has gradually been and is wrecking the nation's industry, directly affecting farmers, labor and industry of all kinds, is the gradual but increased control of the nation's business by the government. What the people of the United States want is not more control over their personal business, but less government in business. If we are to have government operation of business in this country, why not bring the entire program out under its true colors of socialism and let the people vote on the question shorn of all the camouflage. Widening of Los Angeles street from La Palma to the junction of Palm and highway No. 101 meets a snag when the state requires parallel parking on Los Angeles street in order to facilitate movement of traffic. Like all community problems, this will have to be settled by compromise in the interests of the city's development. We've had unusual weather all summer. If this winter is unusually wet we'll look forward to an unusually successful year. The Farm Board is proposing to sell 15,000,000 more bushels of wheat to China and instead of cash we might take it out in service—get them to wash all the dirty linen of the 1932 campaign, for instance. Harvest days are about over in the United States but a lot of candidates are still wondering just what the harvest will be. What we need is not so much to make the people tax conscious as to give the tax assessors a tax conscience. In a great many cities they were busy turning back the clock one hour. Wouldn't it be nice if we could turn it back to 1929? BUD'N BUB! LETS CLIMB ABOARD THE ROCKET-PLANE AND VISIT THE LANDS WHERE SOME OF OUR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ORIGINATED. UKELELE DESIGNED BOUT 100 YEARS AGO. IT IS GENERALLY SUPPOSED THAT THE UKELELE IS OF HAWAIIAN ORIGIN BUT THE HAWAIIANS ADOPTED IT AFTER IT WAS DESIGNED BY A PORTUGUESE LIVING ON THE ISLAND. HAWAIIANS CALLED IT UKELELE, MEANING JUMPING FLEA. THE ACCORDIAN IS A COMPARATIVELY RECENT INSTRUMENT HAVING BEEN INVENTED IN 1820 BY DAMIEN IN VIENNA. THE FIRST GENUINE PIANO WAS BUILT HERE IN FLORENCE ITALY IN 1700. ABOUT THE 16TH CENTury, THE VIOLIN WE KNOW TODAY, WAS PERFECTED, THE MOST PERFECT BEING THOSE MADE BY ANTONIO STRADIVARI. WE BETTER HURRY BACK BUD BEFORE MOMSIE WONDERS WHERE WEVE BEEN THIS PAST HOUR. 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." A STRONG RIGHT ARM Stung by his taunt, Jesus' accusers hesitated when he told them by what they never feel the rich contagion of his laughter, nor remember how heartily 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" A STRONG RIGHT ARM Stung by his taunt, Jesus' accusers hesitated when he told them by what authority he had driven the money-changers from the Temple, and in their moment of hesitation were lost. The soldiers turned their backs; it was nothing that they cared about. But the crowd burst forth in a mighty cheer and rushing forward bore him out of the Temple, the priests and the money-changers scurrying before him. That night his action was the talk of the town. It is a very familiar story, much preached upon and pictured. But almost invariably the pictures show Jesus with a halo around his head, as though that was the explanation of his triumph. The truth is so much simpler and more impressive. There was, in his eyes, a flaming moral purpose; and greed and oppression have always shriveled before such fire. But with the majesty of Jesus' glance there was something else which counted powerfully in his favor. As his right arm rose and fell, striking its blows with that little whip, the sleeve dropped back to reveal muscles hard as iron. No one who watched him in action had any doubt that he was fully capable of taking care of himself. No flabby priest or money-changer cared to try conclusions with that arm. There are those to whom it will seem almost irreverent to suggest that Jesus was physically strong. They think of him as a voice, a presence, a spirit; Next Week: A. Career Opens Up. Copyright. Bobbs-Merrill Company THE FAMILY DOCTOR By JOHN JOSEPH GAINES, M. D. THE FAMILY DOCTOR School-bells ringing all over this broad land. What a rat-tat-tat, the shuffle of skurrying feet, to and from the "little red schoolhouse!" Making American citizens—future men and women, fathers-and-mothers-to-be, bless their hearts! Which is the more outstanding, the question of "vitamines," "calories" "hormones," or the problem that never sleeps. Good children are a nation's choicest treasure. If your children are not good, the chances are that the blame is yours—and how deep the blame! When your boy and girl are big enough to "do for themselves," do you consider them "raised" and your duty? Then you are mistaken. Your never met Elena Percy, but she has the spirit that overcomes obstacles, the determination to get an education at whatever cost in hardship and work. My guess is that Miss Percy will develop into a much more useful citizen than some of the young women I occasionally see riding horses in Central Park or following the fox hounds at the fashionable country clubs. FRANCE ... her dirt farmers The farmers of France have no such problems about the marketing of their wheat and other staple crops as confront the farmers of the United States. That is because they do not export anything to speak of and the importation of staples which might bring the French farmers prices down is strictly regulated by law. Every year the authorities in each department tell each French farmer how many acres of winter wheat and how many acres of spring wheat he may sow. There is no surplus production. Bakers are not allowed to use more than 3 per cent of imported wheat in their bread. That is one reason why the wheat growers of France are getting $1.40 a bushel for their product this year as against the 50 cents or less which the American farmer gets. Unfortunately, under our American system we cannot exercise any such control over individual farmers. Each farmer will grow what he pleases, regardless of the probable market. Nobody can help the farmers but the farmers themselves. They can only help themselves by cooperative effort for the control of crop production and marketing. Some day the dirt farmers will get together and throw out the political farmers who make their living by keeping the farmers and the nation in a state of unrest. SECURITY ... under foot One of my friends from back in the hills drove over to my farm the other day to talk about things in general. "I was born in the city," he told me, "and served eight years in the navy before I fell in love with a country girl and married her and came up to live on the farm. I am milking thirty cows, but although I am only getting two cents a quart at the milk station I am not complaining. Things are going to get better. "I've got five smart, healthy children, we always have plenty to eat and a roof over our heads, and when I hear from the fellows that I used to know in town that they have lost their jobs and don't know what to do for a living, I think I am lucky. I think he was more than lucky. I think my friend showed a great deal more intelligence in getting a piece of land under his feet than most men of his opportunities. DIMENSIONS ... new points We are just beginning to realize what a small part of the world we know anything about. For millions of years mankind lived in a thin layer of air, less than seven feet thick, between the surface of the earth and the tops of our heads. We dug a well, perhaps, or built a tower, but we were tied to the surface of the land and of the sea so far as our movements were concerned. Now the airplane and the dirigible take us, at will, three air four miles or more above the surface, and the submarine boat will carry us two or three hundred feet below the surface of the sea. Professor Piccard went up ten miles into the stratosphere not long ago. A little later William Beebe descended half a mile into the depths of the ocean, in his bathysphere. Where we formerly lived in a world of two dimensions, our grandchildren will move about freely in a three-dimensional world. DISCOVERY NEEDED At the rate transatlantic flying attempts are flourishing, some philanthropic geographical society might see what it can do about a few islands scattered at reasonable intervals—Indianapolis News. ROOM FOR ALL In prosperous days the man who owed everybody walked through the alleys. Depression has made the streets passable for him.—Toledo Blade. OBSERVATIONS IRONY OF FATE For two years after the World war prices for commodities reached high levels. They were abnormal. Farmers, in the Middlewest and Northwest were in clover. They had plenty of money. They bought luxuries. They had the best of everything. They also bought more land—on the installment plan. Then the prices collapsed. It left the farmers high and dry, financially. The money they owed on the mortgaged land was more than they could sell the land for. Things never seemed to right themselves, from the agricultural viewpoint, since that time. This government had nothing, directly, to do with the fall in prices. It was world wide. Now, to try and remedy the farmers troubles with a free trade policy would be like jumping from the frying pan into the fire. WHICH WAY IS THE CAT GONNA JUMP There is a man down Texas way who seeks the office of vice president and also the job of congressman from his district, in the Lone Star state. Should he grab both positions which situation would he hold onto? He couldn't keep both. How happy he would be with either if 'tother dear charmer were away. Sometimes it's not good to have too many irons in the fire at once. And they say a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; but what a heck of a fix he would be in if he lost out on both prospects, and the market for pecans was not so good. LOOKS LIKE PEPSIN, SMELLS LIKE PEPSIN, BY GOSH, IT IS PEPSIN! A picture has been going the rounds about a famous film town, and its high lights had to do with the old officials stepping aside for a day and letting new, young blood run the city. Of course, that was just for the screen version. Among the new officials for the day was a man who filled the office of "Visiting Mayor." You all know the WE MUST PROTECT HOME INDUSTRIES The United States must have a protective tariff to home industries in order to endure. A free trade policy would bring Russia there, as well as fill up the broad lines, while the grain they raised rots out in the field. Let eggs come in free from China and the American poultrymen will get red ink and quit. Let foreign oil come in free and two million American oil wrokers are thrown out of employment. Have free wool and the American wool growers can't look a sheep in the face. This country must have a protective tariff. When anyone says anything to the contrary, he is just plain dumb or a knave. FOREVER BLOWING BUBBLES The democratic candidate is somewhat like the city girl who visited in the country. When they had dinner combed honey was served. She remarked to her hostess, "I see you keep a bee." The candidate gives the farmers all sorts of promises, but he doesn't know where they are coming from. HELLO SUCKER! Some of the big hip, hip, and hurrah boys in the financial game of hide and seek had an unpleasant half hour before the investigating committee there awhile back when they spilled the beans about that short selling Will-o-the-Wisp. Some of the big shots lost heavily when the crash came in '29. But they recovered somewhat when they back pedaled and sold short, and picked up some of the lost iron dollars. It must have been sad and surprising news to the old folks at home to learn that some of the members of the family had been pursuing the goddess of chance. Some of the folks wondered if the old man gave any dimes to ease things up; but those who dance must pay the fiddler. It's a sad tale, mates. LOOKS LIKE PEPSIN, SMELLS LIKE PEPSIN, BY GOSH, IT IS PEPSIN! A picture has been going the rounds about a famous film town, and its high lights had to do with the old officials stepping aside for a day and letting new, young blood run the city. Of course, that was just for the screen version. Among the new officials for the day was a man who filled the office of "Visiting Mayor." You all know the visiting mayor is none other than an affable cowboy humorist, who has a heart in him as big as a Texas steer. Well, anyway, in stepping aside for the new bourgemeister the humorist sent a letter telling him where to find the keys and things and also told him he would find his chewing gum on the bed post. ONLY A GESTURE A well known gentleman, who is at the head of a huge financial reconstruction program, knows his onions and tobacco. He says a famous street and its doings and goings on may be classed as a "peanut stand" compared to the financial heartbeats of this great nation. Yep, he said, peanut stand. For instance, would you judge the stability of a city by ways that are dark and tricks that are vain as used by a poker game layout in a flat just around the corner. SEEING IS BELIEVING It is reported that a charming young lady from a foreign country is here to go into the movies, and the only word in the English language that she can pronounce is "luffly." You know, if a feller doesn't hear very well it would not make much difference of she was dumb. But on the sideline it is given out by the press agent that this particular lady seeking fame has the "niftiest" shape of them all and also possesses an alluring personality. H-m-m-m! UNUSUAL WEATHER One day last April it hailed right out loud. As the folks assembled after the storm, and discussed the strange freak of nature, the frozen pellets increased in size from a pea to a peanut. LOOKING UNDER THE LID Speaking of this and the other thing and seeking a remedy to balance the budget instead of rubbing on so much salve they ought to perform an operation. FOOLS AND THEIR MONEY SOON PART If the old seasoned traders get hooked at the stock-game whatever chance has the pathetic and gullible amateur-would-be-speculator to chisel in on the deductive and elusive gray awhile back when they spilled the beans about that short selling Will-o-the-Wisp. Some of the big shots lost heavily when the crash came in '29. But they recovered somewhat when they back pedaled and sold short, and picked up some of the lost iron dollars. It must have been sad and surprising news to the old folks at home to learn that some of the members of the family had been pursuing the goddess of chance. Some of the folks wondered if the old man gave any dimes to ease things up; but those who dance must pay the fiddler. It's a sad tale, mates. PUTS 'EM ON THE SPOT When a man out of the financial canyons was being quizzed about this and that and the short enders, he halted long enough in his story to say that if he said any more he might get shot when he went back. Asked if they had any gangsters peeping around like they have in a big midway city, he ups and ejaculates that those boys are pikers compared to the heavies that run with the herd on a street that has a river on one end and a cemetery on the other. THE COLORED 'GEMMAN IN THE WOODPILE It really wouldn't make much difference if the guy was a bear and played the market short and lost, but what the committee wanted to know was, did the bears go into a pool in order to knock down prices, which in turn effected all securities, and caused your indigestion. THAT'S WHY THEY PUT RUBBERS ON LEAD PENCILS A charming and vivacious actress is said to have walked out on her producers because she didn't like the text of a picture in which she was starring. And, of course, she will be sued for breach of contract. The plot thickens. For instance, if she gained fame in her first picture, and then the next two were what you may call 'em—Er-Ze Flops—can you blame the girl for side-stepping another one which she believed might put her career in the ash can. And if the play happened to be a bloomer where would the producer head in. GOSH, FELLERS, YOU DIDN'T DO THAT, DID YOU? A senator before the investigating committee made the astounding statement that some of the reporters on certain Eastern papers, took money from speculators to print articles in their papers bolstering up certain stocks in order to mislead the public. Let us all hope that it is not true. ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY If they put the federal employees on a five-day-a-week plan in all probability the boys will find time to take in the football games. LOOKING UNDER THE LID Speaking of this and the other thing and seeking a remedy to balance the budget instead of rubbing on so much salve they ought to perform an operation. FOOLS AND THEIR MONEY SOON PART If the old seasoned traders get hooked at the stock game whatever chance has the pathetic and gullible amateur-would-be-speculator to chisel in on the seductive and elusive gravy. ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY If they put the federal employees on a five-day-a-week plan in all probability the boys will find time to take in the football games. Sunday School Lesson by Rev. Charles E. Dunn The Christian in the Family Luke 2:40-52 Golden Text: Psalm 101:2 The family is the most fundamental of all institutions. A true home, as Ruskin says, "is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division." Burns lovingly described it in "The Cotter's Saturday Night." Whittier immortalized its castle-like security in "Snow bound." Consider the integrity of the old-fashioned home. The Bible was in constant use. The Lord's Day was revered. Family affection was intense. Learning and arts were held in high esteem. The Master was born into such a home. Our lesson, the charming story of the boy Jesus in the temple, portrays a lad nurtured in an atmosphere of systematic spiritual culture, where plain living and high thinking were the rule. The sweet offices of prayer and meditation were as natural to Mary as breathing, and her Son absorbed to the full the fragrance of her winsome beauty and devotion. Strong forces are now at work to undermine the stability of the Christion family. It is surely no time for complacency. Only one child out of four receives today the benefits of religious teaching. Our spiritual illiteracy is alarming. We must insist that the home is not safe save when girded by Christian precepts. Our age craves freedom, but freedom uninspired by the discipline of Christ is valueless. The noble words of our Golden Text, "I will walk within my house with a perfect heart," could have been spoken by the Master Himself. They represent the completeness of His well-balanced personality, an ideal which all right-thinking folk, in a day of spiritual confusion and darkness, cherish for themselves. One of the finest expressions of the Christian ideal in family life are the words of Ruth to Naomi, "Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodges, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God." Cannot each one of us say the same only addressing ourselves to Christ? It is He Who glorifies ordinary family cares and joys. With His help the lost radiance of the home can be restored.