anaheim-gazette 1932-10-27

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. YOU ARE ON THE JURY The American electorate is sitting as a jury to decide the issues of the presidential election on November 8. Just as in a big trial, the attorneys representing the weakest side are attempting to screen their client by raising technical issues, thus hoping to confuse the jury and win a verdict. Once the unadorned facts are placed before the American jury we need not worry about the right decision. The problem, however, is to get the facts straight. To arrive at a true basis of understanding let us recognize at the beginning that mere attacking of a person, of an administration or of a party is not of itself indicative of right or wrong, of fitness for office, of understanding or intellectual attainments. Attacking it easy. It often is used as a smoke screen to hide inferior ability. Unless the attacking is done in a constructive way, pointing out definite means of advancing the welfare of the public, then it should be jotted down as a point against and not for the attackers. The decision of electing a president ought to be made on the basis of merit, and not prejudice. On the basis of what the election means to Orange county and the country as a whole, let us consider the issues before the American people, and the stand of the two leading presidential candidates: First, the matter of government economy. This is a real issue that must be met by solid thinking, and not by glib promises. Roosevelt promises to cut expenses of the federal government 25 per cent — about one billion dollars—by eliminating overlapping functions. Let us see how he proposes to do it. In the first On the basis of what the election means to Orange county and the country as a whole, let us consider the issues before the American people, and the stand of the two leading presidential candidates: First, the matter of government economy. This is a real issue that must be met by solid thinking, and not by glib promises. Roosevelt promises to cut expenses of the federal government 25 per cent — about one billion dollars—by eliminating overlapping functions. Let us see how he proposes to do it. In the first place we have service on public debt of $1,017,000,000 which cannot be altered. No chance to cut down there. Then we have $721,000,000 on national defense, which admittedly is as low as we dare make it without endangering us to outside attack, unless by international agreement as Hoover has proposed the armaments of the world are slashed about one-third. There is no present chance to cut there. On veterans relief the government is spending $989,000,000 — almost one-fourth of its entire budget. Here is where certain economies were planned in the past, but were overthrown by a democratic house which added the bonus bill to pay $2,400,000,000 additional as its answer. This action was taken by the democrats themselves, which indicates that rather than economize in this department, they would increase expenditures. So much for that. Temporary increases in public works as emergency measures to aid in relief of unemployment make the expenditure in this department $815,000,000 this year. Roosevelt himself has advocated increase in such work to aid unemployment, indicating much greater increase. This is substantiated by the act of the democratic house in trying the push through a $1,200,000,000 Garner-Rainey pork-barrel bill. There wouldn't be a ghost of a chance to cut these expenses, under the program as laid out by Roosevelt himself. Lastly, we have all other governmental expenses—all of the "overlapping" bureaus of the government, all the courts, congress itself and the president's own salary and office expenditures, amounting to $950,000,-ooo. This is the only item on the list that can be cut through elimination of the "overlapping fuctions" Roosevelt proposes. Obviously, the entire expense of normal government cannot be eliminated. Hoover tried to get $300,000,000 slashed from this and other sources, but the democratic house cut down these proposed economies to $40,000,000 and a republican senate increased them $10,000,000, so the final saving on this measure was only one-sixth of what the President asked. How can Roosevelt save one billion dollars, as he promises? The answer is simple. His promise is votebait, and nothing more. Hoover, on the other hand, has cut the actual expenses of government to less than they were in 1927, the year selected by Roosevelt for comparison. By "actual expenses" we must bear in mind, the actual cost of government not included in emergency measures to fight the depression, which Roosevelt himself agreed were necessary. Does that look like extravagance? On the other hand, Roosevelt, who cries out for a one billion dollar saving in the federal government, has actually allowed the expenses of his own New York government to mount one-third since 1928? His promise and the fact do not jibe. Let us consider the soldiers' bonus. Hoover from the very first steadfastly opposed the measure on the grounds that it would unbalance the budget. Time and again he reiterated his opposition and his position never was in doubt. Contrast this with Roosevelt's stand. In April of this year he said in effect that he $800,000,000. Two failures dropped 9 months after turning point of the program saved the Maintenance of this sulted in foreign o $300,000,000 in the program of a normal man is succeeding out of his cards—prosperity. His a posal of the home works, and other On the vital question democratic candidate,"dickering" vex than a chance to below our own costs thousands more men age of 42 per cent of currency in five per cent. The rubber shoes and l tries, to flood our m in other countries in foreign exchange or do you want to There are the r course, comes first careful that the p afford to force mo false stars to the e Knowing the g confidence in the r Chameleon-like California's democracy said that form even to the dry, but moistened absolute repeal with form caused McAdow the chief reason for account of Al Smith But that is only his life. His party platform hints re frankly states that on a "most favored than a general scale McAdoo invaded revision of tariff He believes that Gr for American fruit ting California get ment has seen the a and so this beautiful nothing. in mind, the actual cost of government not included in emergency measures to fight the depression, which Roosevelt himself agreed were necessary. Does that look like extravagance? On the other hand, Roosevelt, who cries out for a one billion dollar saving in the federal government, has actually allowed the expenses of his own New York government to mount one-third since 1928? His promise and the fact do not jibe. Let us consider the soldiers' bonus. Hoover from the very first steadfastly opposed the measure on the grounds that it would unbalance the budget. Time and again he reiterated his opposition and his position never was in doubt. Contrast this with Roosevelt's stand. In April of this year he said in effect that he did not see how the bonus could be paid until the budget was balanced, but indicated that when the federal treasury had a surplus the bonus should be paid. This is a plain straddle and a bid for the soldier vote. He kept silent until mid-October, then repeated his April viewpoint. Actually, his silence as Coolidge said, contributed toward delaying business recovery. Hoover's position, in this case, is the strong one, and the admirable one. Roosevelt promises a "new deal" for the American people. In a letter which he wrote for quotation, he said: "I believe in the inherent right of every citizen to employment at a living wage and pledge my support to whatever measures I may deem necessary for inaugurating self-liquidating public works, such as utilization of our water resources, flood control and land reclamation, to provide employment for all surplus labor at all times." As Hoover pointed out Saturday night in Detroit, Roosevelt's plan would call for an annual expenditure of nine to 12 billion dollars a year for wages for the 10,000,000 unemployed—and the work he proposes would not afford jobs for more than a mear fraction of the unemployed. Worse, the plan would unbalance the budget more than ever and wreck the financial structure of the nation. Hoover's plan, on the other hand, is to loan at a self-sustaining interest rate (this protects the taxpayer because it is not money out of his pocket) to established financial institutions in order to revive credit, which revives jobs and protects the small man's bank savings. Hoover seeks to return the man to his normal job under normal conditions—he does not fish around for a hokus pocus arrangement that would throw the country out of balance and make conditions worse instead of better. The reconstruction finance corporation admittedly has stopped failures of banks, thus halting fear and decreasing hoarding of gold. The twelve-point reconstruction program (the democrats in the house advanced only plans to pay the soldiers' bonus with fiat money, and a pork barrel measure that held out false hopes) succeeded in breaking the backbone of the depression. During the two months from the time President Hoover asked for passage of the R.F.C. and the date of its passage, bank losses were over McAdoo invaded revision of tariff in He believes that Grief for American fruit ting California get ment has seen the act and so this beautiful nothing. Then the ex-treat body here wants a for a $1 a barrel to tariff is 21 cents a $1 tariff, and McAdoo couldn't get a $1 tariff. He claims that of oil a month, thus dollars, and throwing fact, the largest im month within a year the tariff went into ports in the United taken from The Oil McAdoo claiming that imported by all companies. McAdoo is a char favorable impression in a new district, he We prefer men to the vital protection products. OPPLE As was to be ex with disadvantages to write into the st penditures for school collection of taxes to grows. Since the re intended by its origin in our public schools school boards, prop ovious on the Nove school efficiency or add two and possibl DO YOU KNOW BOYS, THAT THE TYRANNY OF FASHION WEIGHS HEAVILY ON ALL SAVAGES, EVEN AS IT DOES IN OUR OWN CIVILIZATION? HOP IN THE ROCKET-PLANE AND WE'LL VISIT A FEW PLACES THERE IS, IN AUSTRALIA, A TRIBE THAT SENDS QUITE REGULARLY ABOUT 75 OF ITS MEN 300 MILES THRU HOSTILE TERRITORY TO GET THE TRIBES SUPPLY OF RED OCHRE FOR PAINTING THEIR BODIES A LENGTHY AND PAINFUL OPERATION OF FILLING THEIR FRONT TEETH TO SHARP POINTS IS PRACTICED BY MANY CANNIBALS. THEY DO THIS TO MAKE THEM SELVES LOOK FIERCE AND RESEMBLE DOGS TIGERS & VARIOUS OTHER ANIMALS. SOME NATIVE TRY TO IMPROVE ON NATURE BY FILLING THE SLASHES THEY MAKE ON THEIR BODIES WITH SALT & ASHES THEREBY MAKING PERMANENT WELT. OTHERS BURY CHARMS AND ORNAMENTS UNDER THE SKIN... THE TOPS OF SUCH HEADS ARE USUALLY 1/4 TO 2 INCHES WIDE. SOME OF OUR NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS WERE NOT SATISFIED WITH THE NATURAL SHAPE OF MAN'S HEAD AND SO APPLIED PRESSURE WITH THE USE OF TWO BOARDS & STRING & FORMED THEIR BABIES SMALLS TO THE SHAPE OF FLAT HEADS $800,000,000. Two months after passage of the measure, bank failures dropped 92 per cent, to $29,000,000 loss. The following two months saw an increase of over $10,000,000. This was the turning point of the depression. The quick results of Hoover's program saved thousands upon thousands of men their jobs. Maintenance of the United States on the gold standard has resulted in foreign countries pouring into this country more than $300,000,000 in the next few months, indicating that Hoover's program of a normal job under normal conditions for the average man is succeeding. Hoover has not tried to pluck a "new deal" out of his cards—he has faced facts and battled for return of prosperity. His attack has been fundamentally sound. THIS WEEK IN WASHINGTON When President Hoover moved into the White House somebody started the report that there were no books in the $800,000,000. Two months after passage of the measure, bank failures dropped 92 per cent, to $29,000,000 loss. The following two months saw an increase of over $10,000,000. This was the turning point of the depression. The quick results of Hoover’s program saved thousands upon thousands of men their jobs. Maintenance of the United States on the gold standard has resulted in foreign countries pouring into this country more than $300,000,000 in the next few months, indicating that Hoover’s program of a normal job under normal conditions for the average man is succeeding. Hoover has not tried to pluck a “new deal” out of his cards—he has faced facts and battled for return of prosperity. His attack has been fundamentally sound. His proposal of the home loan banks, loans for self-sustaining public works, and other measures are helping the average man. On the vital question of tariff the democratic platform and the democratic candidate agree—lowering it to a competitive standard, “dickering” with foreign nations who want nothing more than a chance to flood our markets with products produced far below our own costs. This procedure would throw thousands upon thousands more men out of work. Already our tariff of an average of 42 per cent is offset by an average depreciation of 37 per cent of currency in foreign countries, leaving only an acutal tariff of five per cent. This low actual tariff wall now permits Japanese rubber shoes and light bulbs, and articles from many other countries, to flood our markets because of the low standards of living in other countries as contrasted with our own, and the difference in foreign exchange. Do you want what tariff we have eliminated, or do you want to protect American labor and capital? There are the real issues of the campaign. Unemployment of course, comes first, but in order to achieve that goal we must be careful that the propositions we follow are sound. We cannot afford to force more unemployment upon ourselves by following false stars to the end of the rainbow. Knowing the good sense of the American people, we have confidence in the result of their ballot on November 8. TALKS THROUGH HIS HAT Chameleon-like, William Gibbs McAdoo, soon after switching California’s democratic vote to Roosevelt in the Chicago convention, said that he whole-heartedly supported the party platform, even to the prohibition plank. McAdoo had been notoriously dry, but moistened just before the convention and went for absolute repeal with his party. The dampness of the 1928 platform caused McAdoo to “hold his horses”. Observers know that the chief reason for not supporting his party that year was on account of Al Smith. But that is only the start. He has been a low-tariff man all his life. His party wants a competitive tariff, and his party platform hints reduction of the tariff wall, while Roosevelt frankly states that he wants to negotiate with different countries on a “most favored trade” basis, which could mean nothing more than a general scaling down of the protection tariff affords. McAdoo invaded Orange county last week, speaking for a revision of tariff in order to permit greater sales of oranges. He believes that Great Britain would let down the bars in Canada for American fruit to compete with South African fruit, thus letting California get a $10,000,000 market. The British government has seen the advantages of tariff to protect its own markets, and so this beautiful “explanation” theory amounts to exactly nothing. When President Hoover moved into the White House somebody started the report that there were no books in the Presidential mansion. A committee of book publishers set about repairing this deficiency, and a library of about five hundred volumes, mainly of the English classics, was formally presented to the United States for the President’s use. It so happened that this effort was unnecessary, because the Library of Congress sees to it that a selection of the latest books, as well as any special books which the President may wish to consult, are always on the shelves of the White House Library. Whichever way the election goes next month, the next President will be a booklover. Mr. Hoover is not only a great reader but is also a writer of books. His writings have been on the subject of his life work, mining engineering. The best known of them is his translation, with the assistance of Mrs. Hoover, of the earliest known book on mining. It is called “De Re Metallica,” and was printed in Latin in the 16th century by a German named George Agricola. Mr. Hoover once figured out that the time he had spent on ships, in the course of his professional travels, would amount to a year and a quarter. On his voyages he has always taken a trunkful of books with him, and there are always books on the stand at the head of his bed. Governor Roosevelt grew up surrounded by books. He still lives in the house in which he was born, the old stone Roosevelt home in Hyde Park, New York, which stands on the brow of a hill high above the Hudson River. The south wing on the mansion is the library, a magnificent room nearly 75 feet long and two full stories high, and all of the walls are lined to the ceiling with bookcases filled with valuable volumes, many of which have been in the Roosevelt family since the 1700's. Governor Roosevelt could not fail to be influenced from boyhood by this easy access to the world’s great literature. It is a rare thing in America to find a man living for fifty years in one house; it is still rarer for a man to live to be fifty in the house in which he was born. There is a feeling in Washington that the more important international problems which have played such a vital part in our own economic affairs are on their way to early settlement. OPPOSITION TO NO. 9 GROWING As was to be expected, the more familiar the voters become with disadvantages of initiative proposition No. 9—the proposal to write into the state constitution a guarantee of enlarged expenditures for school purposes under the guise of shifting the collection of taxes to the state the more opposition to the measure grows. Since the real purpose of the measure—actual whether intended by its original sponsors or not—is to prevent economies in our public schools by taking control out of the hands of local school boards, proposition No. 9 simmers down to one of the most vicious on the November 8 ballot. It doesn’t propose to increase school efficiency or better our educational institutions, but it does add two and possibly three more means of collecting taxes. It is a rare thing in America to find a man living for fifty years in one house; it is still rarer for a man to live to be fifty in the house in which he was born. There is a feeling in Washington that the more important international problems which have played such a vital part in our own economic affairs are on their way to early settlement. The President’s announcement that he would advocate any settlement of debts owing to us by the rations of Europe which would hold out promise of benefit to the American people by restoring our foreign markets is interpreted in some quarters as opening the door to consideration of a plan whereby payment might be accepted in silver at a fixed price per ounce, considerably above its present market value. The conviction is growing that the low price of silver, which is the only money available to half of the world’s population, is at the bottom of the low price of commodities generally. If silver were restored to its average price of 60 cents an ounce, it is pointed out, the low-exchange nations of the world which are on a silver basis, like China, would no longer be able to produce commodities at half the cost of producing them in America and England, and sell them in the world market in competition with goods produced on the gold standard of values. Likewise, the people of those countries, with the buying power of their silver money doubled, would be in a position to buy and pay for commodities produced in the gold standard countries, which they can not now do to any great extent. If the United States were to notify its European debtors that it would accept silver at, say fifty cents an ounce, in full payment of debts and interest, it would force those nations into th. silver market and the price of the old level. Not very much has beer said yet in public about this plan, but it is being urged from several quarters and there is a chance that something of the sort may come about. OBSERVATIONS BITTER GOES WITH THE SWEET You know, folks, if you didn't have a depression once in a while you would not have anything to get excited about. And then you would miss reading about al lthose phoney remedies. FOR THE GOOD OF THE ORDER involving two film roles, we goons good and dillious of the man were being aired beautifully, the high-dip mogul shouts, "lights out." The cameras ceased to click, and the dirty linen left a stain on the public clothes line. BURNING MIDNIGHT OIL When the people point with pride to the home-town political spell-binder and send him forth to legislative halls to make the laws, if he would do something instead of playing politics, everybody could then turn over and go to sleep, instead of fussing and fuming and wondering what the guy was going to spring next on a long suffering public. THINK IT OVAH, MR. CONGRESSMEN Much has been said about short selling. So long as anyone wanted to sell luxuries short let him go as far as he likes. But when a man sells short and uses necessaries of life to gamble with he should be stopped by competent legislation, and no foolin'. THE FORK IN THE ROAD A man and his wife in film land colony played important parts opposite each other in the divorce court the other day in a town up the boulevard. The man accused wifey of using his head as a target when she was throwing cocktail glasses around. She said he was a fat old man with an inferior complex. The man said she would prop herself up in bed and read naugh- HEY UNCLE HERE'S A SUGGESTION Somewhere in the story books you can see where it says the Indians did not know much about curing sores, but they had a dandy remedy to heal a burn. So when any one of them got a sore they just stitched. THAT GUY MUST BE A NEW COMER There have been many kinds of prades but the other day many cities had beer parades. In one big city in the midwest there was a beer parade—but only one man marched. CONTENTED CUSTOMERS In a big city on the Atlantic side when people were crying out loud for beer in a parade, it is said 100,000 men marched in the streets, while five times that many persons stood by peacefully on the sidewalks viewing the demonstration. HEY, FELLERS, LOOKIT, HERE'S A NIFTY NEW CHASER A man introduced a bill, calling for a beer with a voltage of 2:75 by volume, and carrying the further information that the ends are non-inferior in fact. A ROLLING STONE GATHERS NO MOSS Three former high officials of an oil company that went into the hands of a receiver, were tried, for grand theft, convicted and sentenced to prison. Their defense: "We took the money without criminal intent, to buy the company stock, in order to keep the price up, during that awful crash in 1929." Sounds rather fishy. That, besides being foolish, if it really happened, was like running water into a bathtub at one end an leaving the hole open at the other. THE FORK IN THE ROAD A man and his wife in film land colony played important parts opposite each other in the divorce court the other day in a town up the boulevard. The man accused wifey of using his head as a target when she was throwing cocktail glasses around. She said he was a fat old man with an inferior complex. The man said she would prop herself up in bed and read naughty books until the milkwagons began rattling around. Among the hide-and-seek novels were: "You Can Lead a Horse to Water, But You Cannot Make Him Drink," "There Comes a Time When You Wantta Be Alone," "Birds of a Feather Scratch Together," and "Chickens Will Come Home to Roost." HELLO, HELLO DEARIE, ARE YOU THERE! When it comes to getting new ideas you have to hand it to some of the folks in movieland. A husband and wife out there say they have found connubial bliss by living in separate houses—and then visit each other once in a while. FLAT AS A PANCAKE And then the boys in the senate swing the bung-starter and knocked the 2:75 for a row of empties, with the steling all wrapped up and put away in the mothballs. BRUCE BARTON writes of "THE MASTER EXECUTIVE Supplying a week-to-week inspiration for the heavy-burdened who will lend every human trial paralleled in the experiences of "The Man Nobody Knows." A STRONG MAN SPEAKS First, in considering Jesus as healthy strong man, read of his power of healing. He was teaching one day in Capernaum, in a house crowded to the doors, when a commotion occurred in the doors, when a commotion occurred in the courtyard. A man sick in bed for years had heard reports of his marvelous power, and persuaded four friends to carry him to the house. Now at the very entrance their way was blocked. The eager listeners inside would not give way even to a sick man; they refused to sacrifice a single word. Sorrowfully the four friends started to carry the invalid back to his house again. But the poor fellow's will was strong even if his body was weak. Rising on his elbow he insisted that they take him up the stairway on the outside of the house and lower him through the roof. They protested, but he was inflexible. k It was his only chance for health and he would not give it up until everything had been tried. So at length they consented and in the midst of a Didn't this stranger use this same sort of art himself the laughing-stock A better protest rushed to his lips he started to speak and then laiting himself, he locked up—up to the assurance of those blue eyes, the supple strength o f those muscles, the ruddy skin that testified to the rich blood beneath—and the healing occurred! It was as though health poured out of that strong body into the weak one like electric current from a dynamo. The invalid felt the blood quicken in his palsied limbs; a faint flush crept into his thin drawn cheeks; almost involuntarily he tried to rise and found to his joy that he could! "Walk!" Do you suppose for one minute that a weakling, uttering that syllable, would have produced any result? If the Jesus who looked down on that pitiful wreck had been the Jesus of the painters, the sick man would have dropped back with a scorrful sneer and motioned his friends to carry him out. But the health of the THE FAMILY DOCTOR By JOHN JOSEPH GAINES, M. D. STAYING HEALTHY For a long time I have been thinking that there is more praise for the man or woman who prevents the invasion of disease, than for the people who claim the credit of curing diseased conditions. I believe most diseases are preventable; then, why not devote a good measure of our energy to keeping disease off, and, thereby, not becoming ill? Your family doctor will tell you that he would gladly seek some other means of making a living, if by so doing he could banish sickness from the land. He devotes much of his time to "preventive medicine," thus seemingly trying to work himself out of a job. No "cult" that I know of spends much of its time that way. When I tell you that leaf-vegetables, lettuce and such like, are the best "roughage" for your digestive tracts, I am trying to ward off the possible evils of commercialized products. When I advise a soft, and varied diet, of good nutritious, plain food, with temperate habit of eating, I am advising against disease. When I assure you against the awful six-o'clock dinner and the no-breakfast plan, I am giving advice that will bear fruit in length of days. I have spent many years in close observation. When I write you that excess of certain vitamins produces a condition much like hardening of the arteries, you may as well quit trying to select vitamins that you think you need—you may be doing the seller of that particular "vitamin" a favor, but yourself much harm. And, when I tell you that the food that you like—the sorts that "set well" on your stomach, eaten in moderate quantity, with plenty of saliva—are best for you, and will give you all the vitamins you really need—you may depend upon it without worry.