anaheim-gazette 1932-10-20

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. REACH THE MAN ON THE FENCE After observing several meetings and rallys in Orange county so far in this political year, we should like to make a suggestion to republican central committeemen. Rallies and 50-cent dinners served their purposes in former years. Perhaps they help more than we realize in this third year of our depression. Good food and good talks are conducive to good fellowship. But we are interested in re-electing President Herbert Hoover. Most if not all of the people attending these pay-for-your-dinner rallies already are "sold" on Hoover. They will vote for him if they don't get another steak for a month. The person who is still on the fence, who has been confused by conflicting claims and mislead by demagogues, is the person who should be addressed by republican speakers. Getting together for a "rah rah" session with few if any prospective new republican votes in the audience bolsters up the spirits but fails to materially increase the republican count at the polls. We should like to see many mass meetings called. Advertise them well. Invite everybody. Do not charge a cent. Get a forceful speaker, say Joe Scott, or John McNabb, or C. C. Teague. Instruct the speaker to tell about the threat the proposed democratic tariff policy holds on valencia oranges, walnuts and lima beans. When local ranchers realize that the present 40 per cent levy placed by the Smoot-Hawley tariff on products raised here is offset by a 37 per cent depreciation of foreign currency, thus virtually wiping out the tariff as contrasted with our present session with few if any prospective new republican votes in the audience bolsters up the spirits but fails to materially increase the republican count at the polls. We should like to see many mass meetings called. Advertise them well. Invite everybody. Do not charge a cent. Get a forceful speaker, say Joe Scott, or John McNabb, or C. C. Teague. Instruct the speaker to tell about the threat the proposed democratic tariff policy holds on valencia oranges, walnuts and lima beans. When local ranchers realize that the present 40 per cent levy placed by the Smoot-Hawley tariff on products raised here is offset by a 37 per cent depreciation of foreign currency, thus virtually wiping out the tariff as contrasted with our present gold-standard dollar, then we'll hear no more about Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Roosevelt was afraid to discuss the tariff question in California. Why? Because the proposed democratic tariff policy is a direct jab at California farmers' pocketbooks. Let us thresh these issues out in the open. Let us forget the steaks and give the man on the fence some mental food. It'll stimulate him and protect Orange county farmers for another four years. A GOOD INVESTMENT When the supervisors of Orange county purchased St. Ann's Inn at Santa Ana for $140,000 they saved the tax-payers $500,000! Paradoxically, however, this act of business acumen by the supervisors is being used by opponents who, befuddling the issue, hope to cast aspersions on honest public officials. Most of us are familiar with the conditions which made possible the purchase of St. Ann's Inn, land and buildings for $140,000. For $25,000 the structure was remodeled, adequately meeting the needs of expansion for our county offices. The total sum of $165,000 represents merely the interest over a 12-year period on the $500,000 in bonds which would have been necessary to build a needed structure on property already owned by the county. Enlarged quarters were necessary. The supervisors had laid aside $140,000 toward such expansion. When the opportunity came to get lands worth the purchase price, with buildings that could be remodeled to meet the county's needs thrown in free, they acted quickly and saved the taxpayers $500,000. Yet certain elements in the county charge that because Supervisor Bill Schumacher helped save the taxpayers a half a million dollars he betrayed the taxpayer. Such nonsense will be repudiated at the polls on November 8. JOHNSON INSINCERE Hiram Johnson, replying to the request of 70 Southern California newspaper publishers that he aid the party that has conferred many honors on him by coming to the support of the state and national republican tickets, replies that "I cannot and will not support Mr. Hoover." This answer was the one expected. But noisy Hiram doesn't stop at the mere statement. He feels his stand must be justified, so he trumps up a lot of imagined terrors of ultra-conservatism. He recalls that two years after the depression set in that he discovered international bankers had sold foreign bonds, inferring that they had received the stamp of approval of the U.S. government. What happened was the state President Hoover's submitted, which was Johnson, the spokesman that he is pouting in the White House. He "cannot support Hoover," so he is sitting constructive or forceful. Because he felt that self when replying to ably foresaw that he hence. Definite uptrend in in the East, has shown merchants throughout but the combined inc sale districts. This v furniture factories in skeleton crews working months ago they had of October they were. This is more than a general uptrend. Other industries. Early this week the cent increase in their back Henry Ford adds the basic industries, manufacturers for size capacity and in many demand. Such big company notice substs Symptoms of incr The movement seems for three years. It h certainity that the persistence in various look for better times to come bounding into will return, but only foundation of economy. Oh well, oh well. ed by Saturday after Calvin Coolidge's demogogic bubble. Hiram Johnson, replying to the request of 70 Southern California newspaper publishers that he aid the party that has conferred many honors on him by coming to the support of the state and national republican tickets, replies that "I cannot and will not support Mr. Hoover." This answer was the one expected. But noisy Hiram doesn't stop at the mere statement. He feels his stand must be justified, so he trumps up a lot of imagined terrors of ultra-conservatism. He recalls that two years after the depression set in that he discovered international bankers had sold foreign bonds, inferring that they had received the stamp of approval of the U.S. government. What happened was the state department, before any bonds of foreign counties could be sold in the United States, had to pass on whether or not friendly relations existed between us and the country whose bonds were being sold here. Merit of the bonds themselves by law couldn't receive consideration of the government. Johnson was in Washington during the time that most of these bonds were being sold by private bankers. Not until obstreperous Hiram was looking for something about which to attack his fellow Californian, did he discover that evil. Johnson, hired by the people of this state to help look after the interests of this state and the nation, fails to realize that he should have discovered this unfairness years before he did—before Herbert Hoover was ever nominated for president of the United States! Now Johnson is trying to blame Hoover. But what about Franklin D. Roosevelt? He was president of a company which advertised and sold many millions of German marks in this country. Over Roosevelt's name the advertisements offered 1,000,000 German marks for $200 in United States gold. These marks are worthless. People who accepted Roosevelt's offer lost every penny they invested. These marks were run off in the same way that Democrat Patman's bill would have set government presses to printing bills for payment of the soldiers' bonus. Fiat money would have bankrupted our own government. Roosevelt, when asked about his German mark business, replied: "I have nothing to say." Hiram will not support Hoover. By inference he is supporting Roosevelt, who was directly responsible for one of the most flagrant violations of trust on record doing the very thing which Johnson blames Hoover for not stopping. Johnson hollers about subserviency to special interests, about the standpatter, about indifference and a lot of other platitudes. He likes to term himself a "progressive," claiming that his "views are those of a lifetime." Recalling Johnson's record, we know of no program advanced by him to aid in recovery from the depression. We do not remember of one single constructive measure he introduced in this period. But we do remember a great deal of criticism, most of which was largely personal and calculated to stir up nothing but hatreds. And we do remember that ANAHEIM GAZETTE THE THREE INTRUDERS VOTE NO ON NO.9 WE HAVE TAXES ENOUGH. WHEN DO WE EAT? GEE, IM HUNGRY! WE WANT IN STATE PROPERTY AS VALIDER TAX STATE PERSONAL INCOME TAX GAS TAX SCHMOLT TAXES CITY TAXES COUNTY TAXES STATE TAXES LICENSES OUR INCOME DISTRICT TAXES FEDERAL TAXES SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS FRANCHISE TAXES THE PUBLIC President Hoover's constructive program is the only one submitted, which was not tinged with pork-barrel legislation. Johnson, the spoiled political child, leaves us with the impression that he is pouting because Hoover and not Johnson is sitting in the White House. He prides himself on his original ideas. Yet he "cannot support Hoover" and is not actively supporting Roosevelt, so he is sitting on the fence. There is nothing original or constructive or forceful or progressive about that position. Because he felt the necessity of attempting to "square" himself when replying to the telegram of the editors, Johnson probably foresaw that he may face the wrath of his party two years hence. JOBS COMING BACK Definite uptrend in business, noticed for three or four months in the East, has shown itself in Southern California. Individual merchants throughout the area do not notice much of a change, but the combined increases of all the merchants is felt in wholesale districts. This was borne out last week with a report from furniture factories in Los Angeles. Three months ago they had skeleton crews working just a few hours a day. Beginning two months ago they had to increase their output until by the first of October they were working full crews three shifts a day. This is more than just a seasonal turn of business. It reflects a general uptrend. The same condition prevails in a number of other industries. Early this week textile groups in the East reported a 23 percent increase in their payrolls over a month ago. Just a few weeks back Henry Ford added 45,000 men to his payroll. Steel, one of the basic industries, has shown a slight increase in orders. Shoe manufacturers for several months have been working at full capacity and in many instances have not been able to supply the demand. Such big concerns as the Southern California Edison company notice substantial orders suddenly appear. Symptoms of increased jobs is the first step in our recovery. The movement seems to be more general now than at any time for three years. It has not progressed far enough to say with certainty that the depression is over, but certainly by its very persistence in various parts of the nation indicates that we can look for better times soon. Of course, none of us expect prosperity to come bounding into our arms, much as we desire it. Prosperity will return, but only slowly and, we hope, based upon a firmer foundation of economic experience. Oh well, oh well. The heat of the political campaign is matched by Saturday afternoon football fever. Calvin Coolidge's cool thrusts pricked F. D. Roosevelt's hemogogic bubble. The Family Doctor By JOHN JOSEPH GAINES, M. D. A TALK TO TEACHERS It is long ago now—that I was a teacher in rural schools. I can look back and see my unfitness for such responsible position, but my standing than was "average" or above. My license was based on qualification. Standards are higher today. If I were a teacher today, I would spend much time in trying to bring about "health habits" in the children. It can be done without books. Habits of eating, drinking, posture, and study; the proper use of the eyes with regard to light; proper forms of exercise, with caution for the growing organism not to overtax in eagerness to break records. Children should be taught less of vitamins than of breakfast values—begin no day's work without a good breakfast. End no hard day's work with a heavy meal. A quart of wholesome water daily for second or third grades. Bad practice to wash down solid food with gulps of water; masticate the food better—never swallow coarse, hard fibers that have to be washed down. Sit and stand erect—do not "slouch" in the living room, at diningtable, or when walking. No hard exercise immediately after eating, nor with the stomach empty. Don't go to work hungry. Children should be able to sleep on either side; I should be suspicious of the little fellow who only sleeps on the back. Class pride in the school-room may be increased by "every pupil erect." Children love a degree of parade. An upright battalion may be organized, to overcome slouching. A better, sturdier array of bodies will be the reward. Breathing exercises pay wonderfully, and may be practiced in concert drills. Talk to the children about the lungs and their importance; start an "anti-cough" campaign, with more handkerchiefs and cough-dodging. God bless our teachers! PIGEON SEASON OPENS DEC. 1 The wild pigeon season throughout California is from December 1st to December 15th. Hunters should have certainly that the depression is over, but certainly by its very persistence in various parts of the nation indicates that we can look for better times soon. Of course, none of us expect prosperity to come bounding into our arms, much as we desire it. Prosperity will return, but only slowly and, we hope, based upon a firmer foundation of economic experience. Oh well, oh well. The heat of the political campaign is matched by Saturday afternoon football fever. Calvin Coolidge's cool thrusts pricked F. D. Roosevelt's demogogic bubble. Things could be worse. Jonah was down in the mouth too, but he came out all right. A LETTER FROM TOM AND JERRY JUNKIN OF CLEARFIELD PA. TELLING US HOW THAT TOWN GOT ITS NAME... LET'S GO! AS YOU KNOW, IT WAS NOT SO LONG AGO WHEN INDIANS AND BUFFALO ROAMED WHAT IS NOW THE STATES OF NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA. THE BUFFALO GATHERED IN GREAT HERDS ON THE BANKS OF THE SUSQUEHANNA AND PASTURED THERE. AT ONE PARTICULAR POINT, THE BUFFALO MADE A 'CLEAR FIELD' IN THE SOMEWHAT RUGGED COUNTRY... THIS CLEARING WAS STUMBLED UPON BY MIGRATING INDIAN TRIBES AND EARLY WHITE SETTLERS. HERE THEY SET UP A TOWN WHICH THEY APPROPRIATELY NAMED CLEARFIELD, SINCE THAT WAS IT IS TODAY THE GATEWAY TO PENNSYLVANias EXCELLENT HUNTING GROUNDS WHERE MORE GAME EXISTS THAN IN THE INDIAN DAYS CLEARFIELD IS IN THE HEART OF THE ALLEGHENIES AND IS OVER 1200 PIGEON SEASON OPENS DEC. 1 The wild pigeon season throughout California is from December 1st to December 15th. Hunters should have no difficulty in securing limits of these birds throughout the state. The limit is ten birds a day. MON FOLKS,LET BUD'N'BUB HAVE SOME INTERESTING OR UNUSUAL BITS OF INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR PART OF THE WORLD.PERHAPS YOU HAVE A 3-LEGGED CHICKEN OR 300 YEAR OLD MOTHER-IN-LAW IN YOUR TOWN-LET'S HAVE A SNAPSHOP OR STORY OF EM Ed Kressy OBSERVATIONS TWO AND TWO JUST MAKE FOUR If you should land in jail on a misdemeanor charge and were mugged and fingerprinted would you get sore? You betcher your life you would. And then again for instance, if you were a fugitive from justice, and were caught in the small fry net and were then detected by the keen eyed finger print man, how about it? Yes, or no, and who loses the hootinninny. BIRD IN HAND WORTH TWO IN BUSH Some members in congress have been flourishing their tomahawks and crying out loud. "Soak the Rich." Sounds good, but how are you going to make it work, if the wealthy guy hides out on you. ROCKING THE ECONOMIC BOAT Believe it or not but there were a lot of folks who bought luxuries on the installment plan when they didn't have any money in the war chest to buy the groceries. NOCH EINSE—GESUND HEIT A debonair executive of an eastern city has figured out that a tax on beer would bring in 500 million dollars annually. (Gee, that's a lotta jack.) A critic says the public, to get that amount of money, would have to drink 50 billion glasses of beer. (Suffering cats, that's a lotta suds.) The critic after further panning of the proposition, asks where would the folks get all that money to pay for the lager. (Perhaps that could be taken out of the bootleggers allowance). YES, WE HAVE NO BANANAS It begins to look to a man up a tree that, for a pleasure resort, a bunch of islands out there in the Pacific, from now on will be as attractive as a defeated referendum oil amendment. REACHING UP IN THE AIR AND THEY GO TO AFRICA FOR IVORY A member in one of the high halls of legislation proposed that wholesale prices of all commodities be elevated 50 per cent. The man believed that would straighten out the topsy-turvy condition. But the baneful result of that ridiculous proposition would be stupendous overproduction, which would be ruinous to say the least. That man has another guess coming. RUNNING AROUND IN CIRCLES Of just what benefit are the preferential primaries; if there are more than two candidates seeking the delegates in any one state, and only one candidate in any other state. GET DOWN TO BRASS TACKS There is good reason to believe that this country's expense account is top heavy. Uncle Sam's pruning knife should begin to do some slashing right now. THE BRUSH BEATERS The democrats got it into their heads that 1932 would be a good time to elect a president; but they sent out so many hunters for the prize that the noise they made and the fact that they used so many blank cartridges had a tendency to scare all the game away. It looks like another case of too many crooks spoil the broth, and the ole donkey is graying loud and long for his breakfast which looks like its been sidetracked. BURNING CANDLE AT BOTH ENDS One of the causes for the late unpleasantness is the feller who has been keeping up two families-on a one man salary. THAT'S WHAT MAKES HIM BOAR Members of the House are elected every second year. Some of the boys sail on serenely year after year; but YES, WE HAVE NO BANANAS It begins to look to a man up a tree that, for a pleasure resort, a bunch of islands out there in the Pacific, from now on will be as attractive as a defeated referendum oil amendment. REACHING UP IN THE AIR A couple of scientists have started an impatient and palpitating public by announcing that they have discovered a way to split the atom—Some guys will split the blanket with you while others will give you the shirt off their backs. In this latest discovery if you split the atom whatever will become of the molecule, if it goes wandering off in different directions. Now, the House is divided but you can locate the boys by the noise they make; but this splitting of the atom reminds you of the hombre who loaded up on wildcat stocks, leaving nothing but a headache. HO, HO, HUM, SLEEPY WEATHER, AINT IT Sharkybills may come and Sharkley-bills may go, but crude oil from South America comes in free just the same. GETTING HIS FEET UNDER THE TABLE "That man owes me $8.50 for some spring chickens and he has been standing me off long enough," said an irate lady the other day. "I'm a hard working honest widow woman and I want to put the law on that man. He got the chickens all right and he has been making his brags around the neighborhood how well he is getting along. He has been eating my chickens but he is mighty slow in coming across with the money, and I'm a telling you again I want to put the law on him." PUT YOUR SHOULDER TO THE WHEEL The government has passed some laws to help the country back on its feet. But people must have confidence. For instance, you were stalled at the foot of the hill in your old flivver. A friend comes along and gives you a boost. You make the grade, all right. Then of course you must have confidence and make the rest of the journey under your power. And, oh yes, stop hoarding your money when these are good and safe banks in which to keep your funds. BURNING CANDLE AT BOTH ENDS One of the causes for the late unpleasantness is the feller who has been keeping up two families on a one man salary. THAT'S WHAT MAKES HIM BOAR Members of the House are elected every second year. Some of the boys sail on serenely year after year; but yet again the problems intellectually it has a tendency to cause him to become flabbergasted, or something. PAPA SPANK Just about the time prosperity gave a signal to make a left hand turn around the corner, a chief executive gave the boys in a legislative hall an awful tongue lashing for trying to block financial traffic. It was so caustic that the boys got as red as the dickens in the face. Some of them got sore and talked back. It seems the boys passed some bills that were so full of blowholes that they would make a horse laugh, because it is said they are not tenable. After listening to their yell leaders the boys went nito a hit and miss huddle and then started to run with their heads down, and in their mad scramble they knocked over the pork barrel and several jars of jam in the pantry. It is said the reason why the boys passed those bills was to catch votes at home, and the measures resembled molasses spread out on paper to catch flies. After the good talking to that they got from the chief some of the boys were made to sit in the corner with the dunce caps on while some of the others were made to stay in after school to receive some more fatherly advise as to the difference between a true statesman and a pernicious politician. PICKING UP If you have had the flu you may know you have been pretty sick; and the recovery is slow, barring a relapse. Thats a good deal like the economic unpleasantness; it will take time to recover. SIX OF ONE, HALF DOZEN OF OTHER The keynote of one of the big parties says the candidate they nominate at Chicago will be the next president; and the keynote of the other big party says the man they pick at the convention will be elected. BRUCE BARTON writes of "THE MASTER EXECUTIVE" Supplying a week-to-week inspiration for the heavy-burdened who will find every human trial paralled in the experiences of "The Man Nobody Knows." A CAREER OPENS UP Is it not high time for a larger reverence to be given to that quiet unassuming Joseph the Father of Jesus? To Mary, his wife, the church has assigned a place of eternal glory; and no thoughtful man can fail to be thankful for it. But with the glorification of Mary, there has been an almost complete neglect of Joseph. This is partly because Mary lived to be known and remembered by the disciples, while nobody remembered Joseph. Was he just an untutored peasant, married to a superior woman, and baffled by the genius of a son whom he could never understand? Or was there, underneath his self-effacement, a vigor and faith that molded the boy's plastic years? Was he a happy companion to the youngsters? Did he carry the youngest, laughing ard crowing on his shoulders from the shop? To these questions the narrative gives no answer. And since this is so—we have a right to form our own conception of the character of this vastly significant and wholly unknown man, and to be guided by the one momentous fact which we do know. It is this. He must have been friendly and patient and fine; he must have seemed to his children to be an almost ideal parent—for when Jesus sought to give mankind a new conception of the character of God, he could find no more The keynote of one of the big parties says the candidate they nominate at Chicago will be the next president; and the keynote of the other big party says the man they pick at the convention will be elected. Thirty years went by. Jesus had discharged his duty; the younger children were big enough for self-support. The strange stirrings that had gone on inside him for years were crystallized by the reports of John's success. The hour of the great decision arrived; he hurg up his tools and walked out of town. What sort of looking man was he that day when he appeared on the bank of the Jordan and applied to John for baptism? Unfortunately the Gospel narratives supply no satisfying answer to these questions; and the only passage in ancient literature which purports to be a description of him has been proved a forgery. Nevertheless it requires only a little reading between the lines to be sure that almost all the painters have misled us. They have shown us a frail man, under-muscled, with a soft face—a woman's face covered by a beard—and a benign but baffled look, as though the problems of living were so grievous that death would be a welcome release. This is not the Jesus at whose word the disciples left their business to enlist in an unknown cause. And for proof of that assertion consider only four aspects of his experience: the health that flowed out of him to create health in others; the appeal of his personality to women—weakness does not appeal to them; his lifetime of outdoor living; and the steel-like hardness of his nerves. Next Week: A Strong Man Speaks Copyright, Bobba-Merrill Company