anaheim-gazette 1932-11-03

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. HERE ARE THE FACTS — MAKE YOUR CHOICE When we step inside the ballot box next Tuesday and come to stamping our choice between William (Bill) Schumacher and LeRoy Lyon, there is only one question that should guide us, namely: Which candidate will make the best supervisor? Most of us, naturally, will answer that question for ourselves long before we go to the polls. In arriving at this answer, we must consider not only the records of the two men, not only their promises, but the fundamental issues upon which they have based their campaign. We must look for the difference between promises and performance, between good intentions and fulfillment. Basically, we want to know which of the two candidates has the better grasp of public problems and through knowledge and ability will accomplish the most for the third district. After all, selection of the supervisor is a selfish interest for all of us. We want the man who will give us the best county government for the least money, who will watch and protect our interests most successfully. Personal likes and dislikes, human tendencies to be "agin" everybody in office simply because we have experienced difficult depression problems within the last few years, should play no part in our choice. Despite numerous charges hurled at the incumbent by his opponent, these facts stand unimpaired: Schumacher, through his intimate knowledge of county and state government and his ability to make state leaders see the necessity of local aid, has secured state help on county roads that will save county taxpayers during the next 10 years over one million dollars; Schumacher with other members of the board saved county Despite numerous charges hurled at the incumbent by his opponent, these facts stand unimpaired: Schumacher, through his intimate knowledge of county and state government and his ability to make state leaders see the necessity of local aid, has secured state help on county roads that will save county taxpayers during the next 10 years over one million dollars; Schumacher with other members of the board saved county taxpayers approximately half a million dollars through purchase of St. Ann's Inn at Santa Ana by the timely outlay of less than $200,000; Schumacher has successfully fought dismemberment of the rich third district; Schumacher's constructive stand on water conservation is well known by every citizen who has kept abreast of local events; Schumacher held his head during the depression, assisting in running the county on an even keel through turbulent depression and unemployment storms, and has succeeded in actually reducing taxes. His record of achievement is his promise. We cannot ask more than that. Consider Lyon. With the courage of a citizen successful in private business, he has assaulted the records of Schumacher, bringing up much disputed problems of state gas tax division, of patronism, of extravagance in county government, of building "dead end" roads, of the third district not getting its share of county road funds. Public records reveal that whenever and wherever cities in the third district have qualified under the state law for county funds, they have received all if not more than their share of state gas tax money; no proof has been brought (and it could be secured were it true) that Schumacher has used his office to force county employees to solicit votes for him; the Anaheim chamber of commerce urgently requested the "dead end" road so that in times of floods and heavy rains materials could be rushed to dykes along the Santa Ana river to save hundreds of acres from being inundated or destroyed; a survey of all the money spent for roads in the county reveals that the third district received every cent that was coming to it. Whether the funds come from the gas tax fund or the county roads fund makes no difference. Take the expenditures of the two funds, balance them, and you will find that Schumacher has secured for this district every copper penny to which it is entitled. Lyons brings up the cry of economy. The fact that Orange county is one of the most economical counties in the state speaks for it louder than words or charges of extravagance. Perhaps there are places in which certain economies might be made in the future. Schumacher's record shows that as soon as possible (and he must win with the aid of votes of supervisors from four other districts) he will accomplish this economy. In contrast, Lyon's record in the only public office he has held proves that economy is no watchword for him. As trustee in the Placentia school he has been the most extravagant member on the board, a fellow trustee testifies. At any rate, the cost per pupil for the Placentia school is fifty per cent higher than in any other major school in the district. These are the facts. Upon them we base our recommendation to vote for Schumacher for supervisor. TEAR THE MASK OFF PROPOSITION NO. 9 Out of 20 initiative and referendum propositions submitted for your approval on next Tuesday’s ballot, we want to call your particular attention to one. It is proposition No. 9, the measure to shift collection of school money from the counties to the state, and add two new taxes. Proponents of this measure claim it will relieve taxes on real property, that it does not increase school expenditures, that it will make schools in one part of the state as good as in any other part. The arguments sound good, indeed, until upon closer investigation we find that taxes on real property may not only be retained but actually increased, that the proposition would place the matter of school economies as directed under the present district school board beyond local control and behind the state constitution where it would become a progressive, fixed charge. Effects the proposed measure would have on our tax system are discussed more fully elsewhere in the Gazette this week. But to summarize us consider these facts: Proposition No. 9 is not designed to and consequently would not better the educational facilities of our schools, it probably would force an ad valorem tax upon the state and shoulder greater taxes than at present upon real property; it takes control of the school out of the school board and places it in the state constitution where only an expensive vote of the people could force economies in our educational institutions. The proposition does protect the teachers’ salaries from further slashes, it does add two new taxes and possibly a third, it does encourage greater extravagance by placing expenditures beyond the control of the local school board, it does make our school tax system so inflexible that it could be altered only by changing the state constitution. Taxing is a legislative function. When systems of taxing are written into the state constitution they hinder the efforts of the state legislature to equalize taxation. The legislature, which meets again in 1933, has given much study to the tax problem; it has spent many thousands of dollars in studying tax data within the state, and now is ready to take up in earnest the avowed purpose of proposition No. 9—relief of real property "SHALL I WRITE YOUR NAME?" By Albert T. Reid We pledge to see it through: YOUR NAME THE PRESIDENT'S ORGANIZATION ON EMPLOYMENT RELIEF THAT NONE SHALL GO HUNGRY taxes — without taking away from local school districts the right to control their own schools. This is the sensible method. Passage of the proposed amendment would make difficult if not taxes — without taking away from local school districts the right to control their own schools. This is the sensible method. Passage of the proposed amendment would make difficult if not impossible plans of the legislature to reduce and equalize taxes. A “no” vote on proposition No. 9 is the only means by which we can hope for real tax reduction. ORANGE COUNTY’S OPPORTUNITY Orange county citizens have the privilege on November 8 of voting for three excellent Orange county men for state and national offices. Two of these men already have enviable records of achievement to recommend they be returned to their respective jobs. The third has shown promise in public office of meeting adequately the needs of the new nineteenth congressional district, carved out of Southern California in accordance with population growth revealed in the 1930 census. Nelson T. Edwards of Orange, long an Orange county warrior on the legislative battlefront at Sacramento, is up for re-election as state senator. All of us are familiar with his excellent record as state senator, of his fights for constructive legislation, of his untiring labor for this county. The county owes to itself the return of Edwards as state senator. Ted Craig of Brea, representing the seventy-fifth assembly district (approximately the second and third county supervisorial districts) made his greatest fight for the county when he successfully headed off the determination of Los Angeles to add Orange county to San Diego county for a congressional district, thus throwing the major voting strength to the southern county and preventing this county from having a congressman so long as that apportionment remained. Craig fought representa- 15 Million Dollars of employment creating municipal bonds financed by Bank of America this year! 15 Million Dollars of employment creating municipal bonds financed by Bank of America this year! Golden Gate Bridge $6,000,000 Kern County Acquisition & Improvement Dist. 117,946 Los Angeles County Flood Control 2,000,000 Los Angeles City High School District, 1933-56 1,056,000 Los Angeles City School District, 1933-56 480,000 Santa Monica Breakwater, 1933-60 690,000 City & County S. F. Jail, 1936-52 731,000 City & County S. F. Hospital, 1938-52 1,075,000 City & County S. F. Relief, 1936-47 2,160,000 Vallejo High School District 180,000 Sundry California communities 638,000 $15,127,946 Every day your dollars in Bank of America are putting men to work... Open a "job-producing" account in this or any other time-tested bank. This bank pays interest on savings accounts equal to the most favorable rate paid by any bank in this city doing a comparable savings business. BANK OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRUST & SAVINGS ASSOCIATION BRUCE BARTON writes of "THE MASTER EXECUTIVE" Supplying a week-to-week inspiration for the heavy-purposed who will find every human trial paralleled in the experiences of "The Man Nobody Knows." THE PHYSICAL JESUS One day, as Jesus walked in a crowd, a woman pushed forward and touched his garment; and by that single touch was cured. The witnesses acclaimed it a miracle and so it was; but we need some definition of that word. He himself was very reticent about his "miracles." It was perfectly clear that he did not interpret them in the same way that his followers did, nor attach the same importance to them. He was often reluctant to perform them, and frequently insisted that the individual who had been healed should "go and tell no man." And on one celebrated occasion—his visit to his home town, Nazareth—the narrative tells us clearly that the miraculous power was powerless, and for a very interesting and impressive reason. The people of Nazareth were his boyhood acquaintances and they were skeptical; they had heard with cynical scorn the stories of the wonders he had performed in other towns; they were determined not to be fooled; he might deceive the world, which knew him only as a teacher; but they knew him better—he was just Jesus, their old neighbor, the son of the local carpenter. So of that visit the gospel writers set down one of the most tragic sentences in literature. "He could do there no mighty work," they tell us, "because of their unbelief." Whatever the explanation of Jesus miraculous power may be, it is clear that something big was required of the recipient as well as the giver. Without a belief in health on the part of the sick man, no health was forthcoming. Men followed Jesus, and the leaders of men have very often been physically strong. But women worshipped him. This is significant. The names of women constitute a very large proportion of the list of his close friends. They were women from widely varying stations in life, headed by his mother. Perhaps she never fully appreciated his genius; certainly she was not without her periods of serious doubts as we shall discover later on; yet her loyalty to his best interests there were no less than gentle nailed in Jerusalem and in Lazarus, their brother, frequent hospitality; there was a rich woman, the wife of one of Heroes' stewards—these, and many others of the type which we are accustomed to designate as "good" women, followed him with a devotion. The important, and too often forgotten, fact in these relationships is this—that women are not drawn by weakness. Since the world began no power has fastened the affection of women upon a man like manliness. Next Week: Passing Judgment Copyright. Bobbs-Merrill Company Los Angeles and other powerful counties, and withstood on his loyalty to the county and Southern Californians to accomplish the right thing for Orange county. For his battle we would not now have Orange, San Bernardino Riverside counties linked up in the nineteenth district. Consequently, we would not have had the Orange county man representing us in the United States. Ted Craig deserves our everlasting appreciation and work. We should return him to the assembly. As a Fullerton youth who has shown extraordinary caring out the duties of district attorney, understates and needs of the nineteenth congressional district than any other man who has been proposed for has lived in two of the three counties, was reared within the district, and his initiative as district Orange county assures us a loyal and intelligent we elect him to congress. Note on all three of these candidates is a vote for me. When looking for Silverware Visit the AUTHORIZED DEALER of HOLMES & EDWARDS INLAID Something More Than Plate KENDRICK'S 155 West Center Anaheim The Pendulum swings to HOOVER The swing to President Hoover has gained overwhelming momentum with each succeeding public address since his Des Moines speech. Not only are LOYAL CALIFORNIANS by the thousands rallying to the support of her favorite son—HERBERT HOOVER—but reports from all sections of the nation indicate that the American people everywhere are dedicating themselves to the constructive leadership of THE PRESIDENT in this national crisis. PROTECTIVE TARIFF—“There never has been a time in the history of the United States when tariff protection was more essential to the welfare of the American people than at present. “I am against the proposal of a ‘competitive tariff for revenue’ as advocated by our opponents. That would place our farmers and our workers in competition with peasant and sweated labor products.” HERBERT HOOVER ECONOMIC SITUATION — “The past three years have been a time of unparalleled economic calamity. They have been years of PRESIDENT HOOVER RELIEF—“The very basis of safe American agriculture is the protective on farm products. We will even widen tariff further where necessary to protect nature. Ninety per cent of your market is free, and I propose to reserve this market to American farmer. The Democratic Party proposes to reduce farm tariffs. Aside from ruin to agricul-ture such an undertaking in the midst of this session will disturb every possibility of re- REIGN AFFAIRS—“We are part of world, the disturbance of whose remotest nations affects our financial system, our payment, our markets, and prices of our products. The countries of Europe proved unable to handle the stress of the depression. Order to prevent the total collapse of the nation people and its inevitable effect upon brought about the German moratorium by Europe was given a breathing spell to ease and stabilize its affairs.” HERBERT HOOVER. LEGISLATION—“We have provision for one billion five hundred millions of loans to self-supporting works so that may increase employment.” HERBERT HOOVER. CALORIA—The Hoover Dam and Metropolitan Aqueduct both supported by administration, have made $140,000,000.00 available for self sustaining works which offer payment for many thousands and render service to this state and entire Southwest. Southern California Republican Campaign Committee PROTECTIVE TARIFF—“There never has been a time in the history of the United States when tariff protection was more essen-tial to the welfare of the American people than at present. “I am against the proposal of a ‘competitive tariff for revenue’ as advocated by our opponents. That would place our farmers and our workers in competition with peasant and sweated labor products.” HERBERT HOOVER. ECONOMIC SITUATION—“The past three years have been a time of unparalleled economic calamity. They have been years of greater suffering and hardship than any which have come to the American people since the aftermath of the Civil War. “The Democratic Party is exploiting the suffering of our people to gain control of the government.” RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE—“Greatest instrument ever devised for the stabilization of any nation’s credit and financial structure is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. “Let no man tell you it could not be worse. It could be so much worse that these days now, distressing as they are, would look like veritable prosperity.” HERBERT HOOVER. PERFORMANCE vs. PROMISE—“You cannot fill empty stomachs with promises.” HERBERT HOOVER. Herbert Hoover, during the last three years, has planned, built, and set into motion the most effective machinery ever constructed to help our people withstand the shock of the worst series of calamities that ever befell this nation. “I have but one desire; that is to see my country again on the road to prosperity.” HERBERT HOOVER. Over the Air— COLUMBIA NETWORK SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5 JOSEPH KNOWLAND, Oakland 8 to 8:15 P.M. DR. RUFUS VON KLEINSMID President, U. S. C.—8:15 to 8:30 MARK REQUA Rep. National Committeeman KNX, 8:45 to 9 P.M. Speed Up Recovery — Vote for Hoover