anaheim-gazette 1932-10-27

SEVENTEENTH INSTALLMENT SYNOPSIS: Johnny Breen, 16 years old, who has spent all his life aboard a Hudson river tugboat plying near New York City, is made motherless by an explosion which sinks the tug and tosses him into the river. He swims and crawls ashore where starts a new and strange life. He is ignorant, cannot read, and knows nothing of life in a great city. Beaten and chased by toughs he is rescued by a Jewish family living off the bowery in the rear of their second-hand clothing store. Here he is openly courted by the young daughter. Breen fights bullies in self-defense and soon is picked up by an unscrupulous manager who cheats him—until "Pug" Malone at the saloon-fight club, attracted to the boy, takes him under his wing. On the other side of the picture are the wealthy Van Horns of Fifth Avenue. There is a Gilbert Van Horn, last of the great family, a bachelor, in whose life is a hidden chapter with his mother's maid—who leaves the home—to be lost in the city life—when Gilbert is accused. It was reported the maid married an old captain of a river tug rather than return home—and was soon a mother. Under Malone's guardian-ship young Breen develops fast. "Pug" discovers the boy cannot read—starts him to right school and the St. James, swinging Rantoul with him at the head of a group of the more daring rever men, bought a fleet of lake steamers and founded the world trading corporation of Jason, Fillmore, and Jones, with pretentious offices on Broadway. This firm was named after three likable chaps in its office. The issue was listed on the Stock Exchange and skyrocketed from the start. The world was hungry for genius, it lapped up stocks and produced profits, and fought for the privilege of giving away its money. But St. James' greatest achievement was Safety Submarine, selling on the crub at ten, with few buyers, while jobbers washed the stock in petty larceny against a few lucky simpletons who bought before the upward trend of war. With the advent of St. James and Rantoul, and the influx of following money, came a classic upward dash. Safety—the name itself gave security—began to scar and touched a point where the stock could not be bought at any price. Five hundred dollars a share was offered but few were wise enough to sell. Rantoul's new place at Southampton, bought lock, stock, and cellar from a German dye märk, under suspicion and therefore subject to forced sale, appeared in pictures in the Sunday papers. It was a very elaborate place and be- On the other side of the picture are the wealthy Van Horns of Fifth Avenue. There is a Gilbert Van Horn, last of the great family, a bachelor, in whose life is a hidden chapter with his mother's maid—who leaves the home—to be lost in the city life—when Gilbert is accused. It was reported the maid married an old captain of a river tug rather than return home—and was soon a mother. Under Malone's guardianship young, Breen develops fast. "Pug" discovers the boy cannot read—starts him to right school and the world commences to open for Johnny Breen. Malone, an old-timer, is backed in a health-farm venture—taking Breen with him. There they meet and come to know Gilbert Van Horn. John attracts Van Horn, who learns of Breen's mother, named Harriet. Learning John's desire for an engineering course of Columbia University — he advances the money. John comes to know Josephine, Van Horn's ward, and during his school years falls in love with her. Graduating as a Civil Engineer he gets a job with a graft construction company, working in New York. Breen has a rival for the love of Josephine, a rich man of the world by the name of Rantoul. But John wins out. He proposes and Josephine accepts. Breen gives all his attention to his job which worries Van Horn—Firaly Josephine goes to Paris for her trousseau. And at the last moment Rantoul sails on the same boat. At sea the great ocean liner crashes into an iceberg and sinks—all passengers taking to the lifeboats. Van Horn perishes but Rantoul saves himself—with Josephine. Breen learns that Gilbert Van Horn was his father. Back home, Josephine returns Breen's ring and marries Rantoul. John stunned, buries himself in his work and rises rapidly. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Almon Strauss, cabling from Paris, urged John Breen to continue the work of Colfax: You have never met me, but I know and have confidence in you. We must not despair, no matter how dark the night. We must go forward wherever we see our way or where we feel our way. Planning must continue so that later on we will know what to do. John Breen didn't know what to do. The pay he was getting was necessary. If only the insatiable city would calm down. How it tossed and squeezed and misused its people. When the youth, Mitchel, was overwhelmed by the myth, Hylan, when the shaky city was being pounded hourly by rumors, in that time when shipping and men and dollars mingled in red carnival, Josephine Rantoul splurged in a splendid orgy of waste. Ace. Seventy-five percent of the money taken was clear profit, for Topillier. But Josephine, in very becoming frocks, things with the new military effect, drawn gray, and sky blue, carried on her flirtations with an ever widening effect. She felt no fidelity among admirers; she never made the fatal mistake of being bound up in any one man. Poor Rantoul, chanting his little private ditty, at times casting lecherous eyes at bold telephone trats, girls who looked upon him as a prospective sugar papa, etc employ ters terms of the time, nursed a burning jealousy. The sad part of his predicament was his real love for Josephine, based upon nothing but futility. The splurge she made, the bills she ran, the countless worthless followers who rode in his cars, drank his liquor, ate his food, began to tell on him. Men hung at her elbow, bent over her, pursued her with the intensity of wild infatuation. Then things began to get a little out of hand. St. James, in the process of squeezing bag holders, nipped Gerrit Rantoul for a million; it was a start. Josephine had jilted St. And they've pinned a feather him, the Croix de Guerre. That night Josephine drew her black, her blond hairstyle and cuffs of fine hair her the severe air of a very domestic; a simple gown and expensive. "Gerrit, I'm going across my duty." Then the armistice uprooted greater city, the floodgates deluged the avenues and with flying tickr tape and paper. The town was wild phine, in a becoming unified drab, with a shiny Sam eailed from the scene of leaving a trail of bills and domestic servants to the station of her aged spouse. Judge Marvin Kelly, as her private fortune, smiled plente and thorough manner this very capable and practiced had built up the resources tune of Van Horn. Mrs. Wentworth left for "Thank heaven, for a resurrection." Judge Kelly had certain arrangements as to "Dear Marvin, how loved think of him." She kissed Sachem, and was gone. Gerrit Rantoul, always man, to all outward appear her to the steamer and back to the city to survey That cur St. James, was Jason, Fillmore, and Jon company, was on the edge disintegration. Gerrit Rantoul liked like a Christian to stock on others before the crash. The Southampton place sacrifice. The luxurious When the youth, Mitchel, was overwhelmed by the myth, Hylan, when the shaky city was being pounded hourly by rumors, in that time when shipping and men and dollars mingled in red carnival, Josephine Rantoul splurged in a splendid orgy of waste. She even made money, and she demonstrated her ability to spend it. The war carried Gerrit Rantoul into financial whirlpools where he navigated with much skill. Munitions speculations sent his star to dizzy altitudes, shot him upward on a rise of values. Rantoul, at last, was many times a millionaire. Rantoul, at a dollar a year, also served his country while his New York office, in Pine Street, burned with activity. At the very beginning of the wild time, a Russian Commission, headed by a Grand Duke and carrying an unlimited credit, fell to the wiles of Josephine. A neoteric cult to which she subscribed included several Russians, who, in return for lavish entertainment, inducted the Grand Duke and his advisers to the genial atmosphere of St. Botolph and the tender mercies of the great St. James. Rantoul after this killing, in which Josephine felt she held a charter interest, fell into the expanding schemes of George St. James. Almost without trying, and because of Josephine. "Clever, you know," he found himself on the inside in Shell Case Consolidated a fifty million dollar combination of enterprises previously defunct. Tri-Nitro-Bullion also began the erection of vast explosive works in New Jersey, manufacturing an unstable compound with great rapidity as its chemists learned the business, in quantity production tests. Rantoul, who took on a strange fictious importance, was made Chairman of the Board. Tri-Nitro soared to dizzy heights with the booking of further Russian orders. Josephine did much to reconcile Gerrit Rantoul for her many annoying traits. Tri-Bull, as it was called on the curb, led Rantoul into the picnic acid pool, a sweet bit of business engineered by St. James. Judge Marvin Kelley, white, ruddy of face, still the solid substantial figure of urshakable integrity, read the lists of casualties in the club, the same club where he had so often sat with his friend, Gilbert Van Horn. The old Avenue had seen many stirring marches, and the day when the great Liberty Loan Parade swept up the Avenue he had marched. But his eyes looked down the columns of killings, down the lists of the lost, the lists of wounded, and then he found it. Gerrit Rantoul always man, to all outward appear her to the steamer and back to the city to survey That cur St. James, was Jason, Fillmore, and Jones company, was on the edge disintegration. Gerrit Rantoul gled like a Christian to stock on others before the crash. The Southampton place sacrificice. The luxurious ad the Du Barry followed. He hardly keep ten feet ahead wolves. "Old Rantoul's on the word was on the street evaporated. By the most fort he saved a few thousand there, and by moving back ternity club, a rather stuffy college trimmings, he man's his own in the city. One not do. He never cried for might be a coward, a quitter and all of the things people him, but he never shoutedance from his rich wife. "Damn her!" Gerrit Rantoul Josephine. Hated her so find words to express her Yet, when at last a letter her, he trembled, trembled it open, and cursed her. Dear G.-I have just seen dear boy looks so splendid form. He is so fit and bred completely recovered from He is in Paris with a core engineering expert. He says man, Almon Strauss, had for him—Think of it, Alm the man you once almost got in those Peruvian mines. hero, and he has the Croix and such lovely ribbons. Continued Next W Railway Committee Closes S. P. President Clyde L. Seavey way commission announced state group has authorized of the Southern Pacific rail at West Anaheim. Railway Commission Recommends All Carriers Be Placed Under Regulation Report Stresses Regulation and Limitation of Carriers to Stabilize Industry; Asks for Certificates, Coordination of State Offices, and Seizure of Equipment in Illegal Use Recommendations of a far-reaching character intended to stabilize present chaotic conditions in the transportation industry in California are contained in an unanimous report adopted by the state railroad commission, in which conclusions are summarized relative to the transportation investigation conducted by that body during the last several months. This investigation comprised the most exhaustive inquiry yet made in California into transportation conditions, and included an inquiry into the operations of all classes of carriers, including railroad, trucking, waterway and express companies. Major recommendations made by the commission in its report are as follows: 1. All transportation companies, whether on land or water, or whether operating as common carriers or contract haulers, should be required to obtain certificates of public convenience and necessity from the railroad commission. The only exception recommended is that where contract haulers confine their operations to within a radius of 30 miles beyond the corporate limits of any city or village or shipping point, and provided that the operation is not between cities, villages or shipping points. Distinguishing plates should be provided to show the character of the operation, whether that of a common carrier, contract carrier, or a shipper-owned truck. No plates should be issued before a certificate of public convenience and necessity has been granted. 2. Before issuing certificates of public convenience and necessity there should be a showing made of the necessity of the operation, the financial responsibility of the applicant, and that the rates charged in the case of contract haulers are not less than reasonable rates for the service rendered. 3. Means for the enforcement of the law to be provided within the railroad commission with its cost "defrayed by... And they've pinned a few medals on him, the Croix de Guerre," he added. That night Josephine dressed in scarlet black, her blond hair gleaming dollar and cuffs of fine white lace gave her the severe air of a very high class domestic; a simple gown, close fitting and expensive. "Gerrit, I'm going across. I feel it may duty." Then the armistice uproar swept the Greater city, the floodgates of relief eluded the avenues and cross streets with flying tickr tape and scraps of paper. The town was wild, crazy. Josephine, in a becoming uniform of olive rab, with a shiny Sam Browne belt, rallied from the scene of her triumphs having a trail of bills and an army of her her, pursued her with domestic servants to the tender disposition of her aged spouse. Judge Marvin Kelly, as trustee of her private fortune, smiled at the complete and thorough manner in which is very capable and practical woman had built up the resources of the fortune of Van Horn. Mrs. Wentworth left for Kentucky. Thank heaven, for a rest," she said. "When you see John, give him my regards." Judge Kelly had approved certain arrangements as to real estate. "Dear Marvin, how lovely of you to think of him." She kissed the solid old cheek, and was gone. Gerrit Rantoul, always the gentleman, to all outward appearances, took over to the steamer and then turned back to the city to survey the wreck that cur St. James, was a rotter Jason, Fillmore, and Jones, a paper company, was on the edge of complete disintegration. Gerrit Rantoul struggled like a Christian to unload his stock on others before the inevitable cash. The Southampton place went at a sacrifice. The luxurious apartment in a shipper-owned truck. No plates should be issued before a certificate of public convenience and necessity has been granted. 2. Before issuing certificates of public convenience and necessity there should be a showing made of the necessity of the operation, the financial responsibility of the applicant, and that the rates charged in the case of contract haulers are not less than reasonable rates for the service rendered. 3. Means for the enforcement of the law to be provided within the railroad commission with its cost "defrayed by a charge upon the industry rather than a tax upon the public." 4. There should be better coordination of the activities of state agencies dealing with transportation and particularly between the state railroad commission, the certificating body; the state board of equalization, the taxing body; the division of markets, dealing with the regulation of peddler trucks handling agricultural products. 5. The present law should be amended to permit (a) the seizure, confiscation and sale of equipment found to be in illegal use, and (b) making the revocation of license plates compulsory in cases where certificates of public convenience and necessity have been revoked. Th recommendation requiring certificates of public convenience and necessity in the case of contract haulers recognizes the fact that the constitutionality of such legislation has been questioned, and is now before the United States supreme court for decision, but calls attention to the fact that under the constitution of California all transportation instituted by the commission on its own motion. Senator M. B. Harris, member of the railroad commission, was in charge of the investigation. Hearings covered the entire state, and were participated in both companies and by representatives of the various industries of the state, cities, chambers of commerce, and other official and unofficial civic bodies. Over 13,000 questionnaires were sent out to shippers. The report gives the following picture of transportation conditions as they were found to exist in California today: "The hearings and the return to the questionnaire developed a very complete picture of the growth in California of each of the different classes of transportation, of the part that each now plays, of the changes that are now taking place in each; of their respective proper economic fields; of the general disastrous result that follows the invasion by a transportation agency of a field in which it does not economically belong; and of shifting trade centers and changing methods and conditions. Dominating all was the struggle, not for supremacy, but for existence of regulated carriers, both land and water, attacked upon all sides by the unregulated. SKILL ... still an asset Throughout the depression, a friend tells me, his industry, which is the largest of its kind, has kept all its skilled workers on full pay. "We can't afford to let them go," he said. "There are far too few men who can work accurately in terms of a thousandth of an inch, and modern industry needs more and more of them." Henry Ford has to train boys in his own great industrial school, to have a large supply of highly-skilled technicians, capable of building the automatic machines which enable the unskilled to produce accurately-machined automobile parts. For every really skilled hand-worker out of a job there are. I venture, a hundred college men looking for work. And when industry picks up again it will be the skilled mechanics who will be put to work first. Nine high school graduates out of ten, probably 95 out of every hundred, would be better off and have happier, more productive lives if they were apprenticed to one of the trades that require a combination of intelligence and manual skill, instead of going to college. PRICES ... on farm products There is only one way in which prices of farm products can be kept at levels which will enable the farmer to earn a surplus above his bare living. That is for farmers to combine and sell their produce only through their own marketing agencies, fixing the price themselves. Farmers are the only class of people who are permitted to combine to maintain prices under the anti-trust laws. The whole purpose of the Cooperative Marketing Act, under which the Farm Board was created, is to help farmers to do just that. If politicians would keep their hands off and not try to feather their own nests at the expense of the farmer the plan would work. Common sense and business methods are all the farmers of the United States need. FOOTBALL ... then and now At Rutgers University the other day Gerrit Rantoul, always the gentleman, to all outward appearances, took over to the steamer and then turned back to the city to survey the wreck. What cur St. James, was a rotter. Jason, Fillmore, and Jones, a paper company, was on the edge of complete disintegration. Gerrit Rantoul struggled like a Christian to unload his rock on others before the inevitable crash. The Southampton place went at a sacrifice. The luxurious apartment in the Du Barry followed. Rantoul could hardly keep ten feet ahead of the wolves. "Old Rantoul's on the run." The word was on the street. His credit evaporated. By the most desperate effort he saved a few thousands, here and there, and by moving back to his fraternity club, a rather stuffy place, with college trimmings, he managed to hold his own in the city. One thing he did not do. He never cried for help. He might be a coward, a quitter, a rotter, and all of the things people thought of him, but he never shouted for assistance from his rich wife. "Damn her!" Gerrit Rantoul hated Josephine. Hated her so he could not words to express his aversion. Yet, when at last a letter came from her, he trembled, trembled, as he tore open, and cursed her. Dear G., I have just seen John. The dear boy looks so splendid in his uniform. He is so fit and brown and has completely recovered from his wound. He is in Paris with a commission, an engineering expert. He says that great man, Almon Strauss, had them send him—Think of it, Almon Strauss, the man you once almost got interested in those Peruvian mines. John is a hero, and he has the Croix de Guerre and such lovely ribbons. Continued Next Week Railway Commission Closes S. P. Station President Clyde L. Seavey of the railway commission announces that the state group has authorized the closing of the Southern Pacific railroad station at West Anaheim. Carriers of all classes, regulated and unregulated, find it difficult and in some cases impossible to make both ends meet. While their difficulties are in part due to declining tonnage — the result of depressed business—there are other reasons to which their distress is due, which must be remedied before stability can return to the industry. Proof of this is to be found in statistics offered at the hearings which conclusively show that undermining influences were at work before the business depression began. Depression augmented and culminated conditions that bore in themselves the seeds of inevitable collapse. In general, it can be said that the same causes were found underlying the distressed conditions of all classes of transportation agencies. Disregarding general business conditions, these causes may be summarized as follows: (1) Carriers performing essentially the same transportation service, one class under strict state regulation and another class without regulation; one class supervised and controlled as to its service, schedules and rates and prevented by law from bidding freely in an open market for business; the other unlimited in all these respects; one class required to show financial responsibility before engaging in business and then bound to continuity of service; the other obligated to nothing. (2) A rapid development of auto truck transportation following highway construction, with a lack of recognition and knowledge both upon the part of the railroads and truck operators as to the field which this class of transportation can economically serve. (3) The failure to properly study the particular transportation needs of particular industries. (4) An excess of transportation due who are permitted to combine to maintain prices under the anti-trust laws. The whole purpose of the Cooperative Marketing Act, under which the Farm Board was created, is to help farmers to do just that. If politicians would keep their hands off and not try to feather their own nests at the expense of the farmer the plan would work. Common sense and business methods are all the farmers of the United States need. FOOTBALL ... then and now At Rutgers University the other day I saw a tablet in the gymnasium recording the fact that on that spot in 1869, was played: the first intercollegiate football game, between Rutgers and Princeton. There were 25 men in each team and the game, recently imported from England, was more like soccer than like the 'varsity game of today. It was a good many years after that before anybody thought of charging admission to college football games. As soon as that custom became established the game ceased to be a sport and became a commercial enterprise, which has no more proper place in educational affairs than horse racing has. But probably more young men go to a particular college because of its reputation in football than are attracted by the quality of its teaching staff. EXCHANGE ... how it works I met a friend wearing a new hat the other day, and admired the headpiece. "The New York store which handles this make of hats wanted $12 for one like this," he told me. "I sent to London and got it for $8, including the duty. With English money more than 30 percent lower than ours, they can sell their goods to us at a profit, but we can't sell to them, because we have to get our pay in money at the full gold value." Another friend told me that Japan has captured the rubber overshoe business of the United States. The Japanese yen is down to about half of its par value in gold. That makes no difference to the Japanese workman, whose pay will buy just as much food and clothing as before except for imported commodities. It also enables the Japanese manufacturer, paying his help in depreciated money, to sell his goods here below our cost of production. The problem of how to equalize money between the nations is more important than any amount of tariff discussion. There isn't enough gold available for the world's trade purposes. The proposal to restore silver to its former position as money is gaining adherents everywhere. SHIPS - their speed When we read that Gar Wood has run his Miss America speedboat at the rate of 120 miles an hour it is natural to wonder why it takes the fastest passenger ship afloat nearly five days to cover the 3500 miles between New York and Cherbourg, France. Doubtless a ship could be built which could cross the ocean at a speed around 100 miles an hour, provided nothing broke, but it wouldn't be worth while. To gain such speeds practically every available space inside the hull would have to be crowded with machi-ery. The new Italian liner Rex, largest ship to be built since the war, is about as fast as it pays to make ocean liners; she can keep up a continuous speed of 27 knots, or about 31 land miles per hour, and in her 880 feet of length can find room for more "pay load" in passengers and cargo than any other afloat, although two or three larger. When the time comes, as it will, when people can afford to do some more expensive experimenting with huge flying boats and dirigibles, the speed route across the Atlantic will be through the air, and passengers will be found who will pay enough for a quick passage to Europe to make such ventures profitable. Transfer Officials To Santa Ana Bank The transfer of C. K. Dodds, vice president, Bank of America, from the Los Angeles headquarters of the bank to become vice president and manager of the Santa Ana Branch, also the transfer of H. L. Jacobson from the Ojai Valley branch to the position of assistant manager at Santa Ana, were announced by Dr A. H. Ginnini, chairman of the bank's general executive committee. These changes in the official staff were made following the resignations of Roy L. Vincent and R. C. Raddant. THE DEMOCRATIC ECONOMISTS The black line shows the course of the tax budgets of New York state for the last 14 years. The budget was $81,000,000 in 1918, the last year of Gov. Whitman's administration. It jumped $63,000,000 under Gov. Smith's first two years. A Republican, Gov. Miller, brought it down $11,000,000. In the next six years, under Gov. Smith, it mounted almost $100,000,000. Under Gov. Roosevelt it mounted $95,000,000 in three years. In his Sioux City speech last week Gov. Roosevelt denounced the Hoover Administration as a "spending administration" and said: "I ask you to assign to me the task of reducing the annual operating expenses of the national government." NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE A.B.C. 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