anaheim-gazette 1933-09-07

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. LET'S LOOK SOUTH One of the most significant and satisfactory developments in American psychology since the London conference went up in smoke is the attention which is being paid by the press and public to South America. Every day we are hearing more and more that Uncle Sam ought to be paying more attention in a commercial and cultural way to the republics of Latin-America. That the national administration has not been heedless of this new development in public thought is indicated by the appointment of the noted diplomat, Hugh Gibson, to the post of American ambassador to Brazil. Although Mr. Gibson has been busy on diplomatic missions in Europe for many years this appointment to Brazil is not to be taken as a token that he has been "traded down the river." Quite the reverse, in our estimation. There are few more important diplomatic posts, so far as Uncle Sam is concerned than this ambassadorship to Brazil. The failure of the London conference to accomplish anything definite is indicative of the fact that we are not going to get very far in Europe unless we are willing to cancel the debts, open our markets to cheap European manufactured products, and give away a lot of things for nothing. With this now a proved fact, the best place to turn our attention is in the direction of South America. And why not? There ought to be a close bond, politically and commercially, between the United States and the countries to the south of us. All of us, above and below the equator, on this side of the Atlantic, have been subject at one time or another to European exploitation and domination. Then there are favorable bassadorship to Brazil. The failure of the London center accomplish anything definite is indicative of the fact that we are not going to get very far in Europe unless we are willing to cancel the debts, open our markets to cheap European manufactured products, and give away a lot of things for nothing. With this now a proved fact, the best place to turn our attention is in the direction of South America. And why not? There ought to be a close bond, politically and commercially, between the United States and the countries to the south of us. All of us, above and below the equator, on this side of the Atlantic, have been subject at one time or another to European exploitation and domination. Then there are favorable conditions for the exchange of goods. Uncle Sam’s principal needs now, in the way of imports, are the raw materials which we cannot produce for ourselves. And a great many of these raw materials are to be found in South America. They can be brought in, not to deprive our own farmers and workers of their living—because they are non-competitive—but to aid the American worker to make a living, because the raw materials will be used up in American factories to furnish jobs for American workers who will buy the products of the American farmer. There is no place quite so favorable as Brazil to start this move for closer cooperation between the United States and Latin America. Brazil is the largest country in South America and one of the most progressive. It is little affected by our tariff. Its greatest export commodity is coffee, and Uncle Sam buys more of this crop than any other nation in the world—a great deal more. There has always been more or less political sympathy between the United States and Brazil. The two nations are usually found on the same side of the fence in all Pan-American conferences. Ambassador Gibson therefore has a fruitful field for exercising his diplomatic gifts at Rio. And it is time we are beginning. Germany now has regular Zeppelin service to Rio and France is to have regular airplane service. While we were fiddling away at London talking about brotherly love and the reduction of trade barriers, British bankers and trade representatives were busy in Brazil trying to get the business away from us. They made some progress but we can still get our share because we are Brazil's biggest customer and they like us. Let us not overlook the opportunity now before us. It is now time to forget Geneva and to look to the South. The way some of these big industries are shying at the N. R. A. would lead one to believe that they want to sing the Blue Eagle Blues. THE SELF-RELIANT MAN We hear a great deal these days about the passing of the era of opportunity, in which every man had a fair chance to gain at least a living, regardless of what others might do. We are not at all sure that opportunity was ever quite so broad as that, and we are still less sure that it is true that the gates of opportunity have been closed upon men of ability. We are inclined to think that the present age has been producing fewer men of all-around ability. We have been living in an era of specialization, an era in which Send warships quieted down. Speeded up the steel code and way of oil and coal would personally adhere. Approved several for hog and dairy farmers for cotton. Speeded up the allocations of about Coordinated all aides. Announced a de save money. Completed the tic corps. Received recom himself, but studied. Expressed please ployment and paym Decided to exte winter. Arranged to op on reciprocal tariff. Not every pres Mr. Roosevelt, we every week. But hours and harder w House than anyone. Our hope, like of this amazing ex which his example recovery will com dering when pros it right in our ho The birth rate Maybe we had bet For the past few less and less inte This has been pa section of British of no entangling pean diplomats h States in any con THE SELF-RELIANT MAN We hear a great deal these days about the passing of the era of opportunity, in which every man had a fair chance to gain at least a living, regardless of what others might do. We are not at all sure that opportunity was ever quite so broad as that, and we are still less sure that it is true that the gates of opportunity have been closed upon men of ability. We are inclined to think that the present age has been producing fewer men of all-around ability. We have been living in an era of specialization, an era in which a boy learned how to do one thing, which too often was something which he had no share, and which he had no opportunity to practice under independent conditions. The man who has grown up knowing no other use for his head and his hands than how to fasten a hub-cap on an automobile is, in a sense, shut off from opportunity to exercise his ability, when the automobile factory shuts down. But that is the fault of a social system which did not give this man, when he was a boy, a chance to learn how to do the things which are necessary to independent self-support. In the old days on the farm, boys had to work at whatever there was to be done, from mending axles and shoeing horses to killing hogs and picking apples. The boy who grew up on a farm had to learn the rudiments of a dozen trades, from shoe-making to house-painting. He could turn his hand to anything, and that ability, resulting from his early training, opened the door of opportunity to him wherever he went. He could always get a living and often get ahead. We know a few men like that today, and they are not on the unemployment relief rolls. We think if there were more attention paid to teaching boys how to do everything and less to the effort to make them think they know everything, the next generation would find that the doors of opportunity are still open wide. An Oregon man has succeeded in developing a plum tree which grows nuts. We heard of a lot of fellows who became nuts trying to shake the official plum tree in Washington. A BUSY PRESIDENT Anyone who thinks that all a president of the United States has to do is to sit around and watch a lot of hired men work has a false impression of the activities in which any president has to take part. According to the Associated Press, one recent week's work of President Roosevelt included the following matters: For the past few less and less intents This has been part section of British of no entangling pean diplomats His States in any cone the icy plunge into no doubt John B cannot depend on lives to maintain chary about getting But another by France for a reason for France ting something o in Central Europe between Italy and Mussolini has been once more uniting real fascist blooms later be expected would be cut off Eastern Europe leading France Great Britain to Whether she be little doubt th John Bull is no other hand, the Bull should keep and devote his The government fast military age A great man try depends on colonies and then developed along th Such a theory in the United States avoid European money to looking closer relate The Perilous Climb Is On — By Albert T. Reid Send warships to Cuba. Withdrew them, as the situation quieted down. Speeded up the recovery campaign, obtaining an agreement OBSERVATIONS UND VAS MEHR WILLST DU HABEN Send warships to Cuba. Withdrew them, as the situation quieted down. Speeded up the recovery campaign, obtaining an agreement on the steel code and smoothing out some of the obstacles in the way of oil and coal. Signed the lumber code. Disclosed that he would personally administer the oil code. Approved several plans for aiding agriculture, including relief for hog and dairy industries and details of paying benefits to farmers for cotton-crop reduction. Speeded up the public works-job providing program in which allocations of about $70,000,000 were made. Coordinated all recovery activities in conferences with his aides. Announced a decision to abandon a number of army posts to save money. Completed the reorganization of his Latin-American diplomatic corps. Received recommendations for inflation, without committing himself, but studied price charts closely. Expressed pleasure at reports showing increased factory employment and payrolls. Decided to extend the civilian conservation corps through the winter. Arranged to open negotiations with Latin-American countries on reciprocal tariff agreements. Not every president has been as busy as that at any time, and Mr. Roosevelt, we hope, won't have so many things to attend to every week. But it must be admitted that he has put in longer hours and harder work in the six months he has been in the White House than anyone dreamed possible before his inauguration. Our hope, like that of everybody else we know of, is that out of this amazing expenditure of presidential energy and the energy which his example is inspiring others to expend, our economic recovery will come so speedily that before we get through wondering when prosperity is going to turn the corner we shall find it right in our home block. The birth rate in the United States is said to be falling behind. Maybe we had better supplement the blue eagle with a blue stork. WHAT WILL JOHN BULL DO? For the past few years Great Britain has been inclined to take less and less interest in the affairs of the continent of Europe. This has been partly due to the fact that an increasingly large section of British public opinion is inclined to adopt the theory of no entangling alliances, and in part to the fact that the European diplomats have so far been unable to entangle the United States in any continental commitments. Were Uncle Sam to take the jaw plunge into the whirlpool of continental European politics, OBSERVATIONS UND VAS MEHR WILLST DU HABEN Some people say the beer law is unconstitutional and some say it isn't. But yet again it was passed as an emergency measure to bring in revenue. It's a good deal like a feller who is pretty sick. While waiting for the doctor to come he takes some home remedies to fix himself up. Parabolically speaking, the repeal of the 18th amendment is likened as the man who is expected to call with the medicine chest. NICKED HIS BANKROLL One of the boys who got in on the ground floor when that stock was passed out at cost price, says he believed it was so good that he hung onto it too long, and then it flopped and be became flabbergasted. YOU ALL SHALL ARISE Everybody, in this country high or low, large or small, are required to stand up, and take their hats off, if, whenever it so happens a brass band or an orchestra anywhere, starts playing the "Star Spangled Banner." If any guy doesn't he's liable to get his block knocked off. Well, anyway, a manager of a wrestling gentleman, took this under advisement, when he put his man in a mat match. He hired a quartete of players of string instruments, and had them staked out in the hall when the rastlers mixed. And when his man was almost down on his back with the other feller sprawled all over him, he started his musicians playing that soul-stirring melody. Everybody got up, including the rastlers, and later the demons went at the bone cracking again, while some of the fans thought they ought to use a sledge hammer. GOT IN ON THE GROUND FLOOR When they let the cat out of that stock bag and printed the names of the favorite sons, it sort of rocked the boat quite a bit, and the dear public kinder found out who's who and how. Sometimes in cases like that when they lift the lid and let in the light those huddled there should take a snifter, walk out in the wide open spaces, hear the birds sing, smell the new mown hay and figure out how long it will take the people back home to forget it, and then call it a day, or go fishing. WHAT WILL JOHN BULL DO? For the past few years Great Britain has been inclined to take less and less interest in the affairs of the continent of Europe. This has been partly due to the fact that an increasingly large section of British public opinion is inclined to adopt the theory of no entangling alliances, and in part to the fact that the European diplomats have so far been unable to entangle the United States in any continental commitments. Were Uncle Sam to take the icy plunge into the whirlpool of continental European politics, no doubt John Bull would go along with him, but since the latter cannot depend on the support of Ameircan money and American lives to maintain any chosen policy in Europe he has been a little chary about getting his feet wet again. But another fervent plea is now being made to Great Britain by France for a revival of the old entente, and to promote political, and if necessary, military cooperation in Europe. The immediate reason for France’s frantic plea is the fear that Mussolini is putting something over on her, and may become the dominant figure in Central Europe. The plea grows out of the closer cooperation between Italy and the little republic of Austria. For some time Mussolini has been making overtures to Austria in the hope of once more uniting that country with Hungray and so forming a real fascist bloc in Central Europe. Germany would sooner or later be expected to get into such a combination and then France would be cut off from contact with her little allies in Central and Eastern Europe. It is the fear of such a condition which is now leading France to make frantic overtures to get the backing of Great Britain to block such a move. Whether she will be successful remains to be seen. There can be little doubt that France will offer all sorts of inducements, and John Bull is nothing if not a good business man. But, on the other hand, there is the growing opinion in England that John Bull should keep out of entangling commitments on the continent and devote his time to building a more compact British Empire. The government must face this feeling in making any hard and fast military agreement with France. A great many Britishers believe that the future of their country depends on closer relations between the mother nation and the colonies and they want the principal efforts of the government developed along this line. Such a theory is not incompatible with the majority opinion in the United States which is to the effect that Uncle Sam should avoid European and Asiatic adventures and devote his time and money to looking after the welfare of his own people and developing closer relations with the nations of Latin-America. GOT IN ON THE GROUND When they let the cat out of that stock bag and printed the names of the favorite sons, it sort of rocked the boat quite a bit, and the dear public kinder found out who's who and how. Sometimes in cases like that when they lift the lid and let in the light those huddled there should take a snifter, walk out in the wide open spaces, hear the birds sing, smell the new mown hay and figure out how long it will take the people back home to forget it, and then call it a day, or go fishing. SPILLED THE BEANS Bill—What is an investigation? Jim—Well, you know, sometimes it's as good as a circus and fills the galleries. Of course, if there is too much hocus-pocus the thing gets stale and all there's left of the hullabaloo is the echo. But yet again what the dear public wonders about is what did the favorites do to get the Christmas presents. And yet again if the big shots on the out felt peevied they might have started the fireworks to put the other fellows into a jack pot. VERY FREE WITH THE I. O. U.S. Just why this country loaned eleven billion dollars to those foreign nations without security, is about as mysterious as the identity of the guy who struck Billy Patterson. TALKING TURKEY When the delegates went abroad to try and straighten out the economic conditions of the world it was said they would be gone for eight weeks. In all probability they ought to cook the goose in that time. HEARD HIM THE FIRST TIME There is one thing certain, when the American voter decides to do something he does it plenty, and no foolin'. GETTING THE AIR Gosh, fellers, ain't it awful! Some of the "boys" in the senate, who also ran, had been on the job for nigh onto 30 years. Just when the political spell binders got going good they up and started the world series. THIS WEEK IN WASHINGTON There are more big business men and more big lawyers in Washington these days than ever before. The business men are here trying to find ways to get in under NIRA without changing their present business practices or adding to their costs, and the lawyers are here to find out whether the National Industrial Recovery Act and the other new laws really have teeth in them. The business men are not having much luck; they get cold comfort from General Johnson, who tells them they've got to play ball. And the lawyers are discovering that these new laws are much like the prehistoric shanks of the Gulf of Mexico, who had forty rows of teeth and a hundred teeth in each row! Out of their contracts here a good many of these big men—and that means BIG men—are getting some clearer ideas as to what it is all about. Around a dinner table in one of the big hotels a few nights ago several of them, lawyers and business men, foregathered with several of the men who are running the show. Out of the eager questioning across the table and back, came as clear a picture of the New Deal as has yet been put in words. It came down to about this: "Whatever the Government of the United States may have been in the beginning, it is now clearly a democracy, in which every man and every woman has an equal voice and every man and woman is entitled to an equal opportunity to make the most of his or her abilities. "This democracy is in trouble. A large part of its members are in debt, a still larger part unemployed, many are both. This is not due to any fault of their own, in most cases. It is due to the fact that the great business and industrial enterprises upon which most of our people depend for a livelihood have not been run on democratic lines—which is to say, in the interest of their employees and their customers—but as selfish, self-seeking means on the part of managing groups and controlling capital to enrich themselves. "And the plight of the farmer is due to similar failure to apply democratic principles of agriculture; since in a true corporate era has changed all that. Most of the business of the country is done by corporations which are steadily growing larger and larger. These corporations belong to their stockholders, and their stockholders are, potentially, all the people of the United States. Indeed, almost the only opportunity for the average man to share in the growth and increase in the nation's resources today is by investing his savings in the shares of these corporations. "That is a perfectly proper and highly desirable thing, but only if the corporations are so managed that the risk of loss through mismanagement, family judgment and destructive competition is first eliminated. "So the Administration is calling upon these business and industrial corporations to democratize their respective industries, first by eliminating unfair competition, so that there shall be a better chance for profits for those who invest in them; second, by opening the doors of opportunity for the worker wider, giving him higher basic wages, shorter working hours, employing more people in proportion to the total business done, and cutting off the high salaries, bonuses and other devices whereby those at the top have profited at the expense of those at the bottom. "That does not mean that management is not entitled to fair play, nor that capital shall earn no profits; but it does mean that profits shall be earned only by actual invested capital and not on watered securities, so that the man who invests in corporate shares hereafter will be on an equal footing with all other shareholders. "It is going to take time. A lot of people who have been getting more than their share are going to balk—are balking now—at the prospect of having to take less while the men lower down get more. But there are teeth in the Recovery Act, in the Securities Act, in the Banking Act, in the Agricultural Adjustment Act, and anyone who does not want his head bitten off had better come into camp and make the best of it. "This is not a one-man show. It is the voice of all of the people, or at least the great majority of them giving orders. So it is a proper and necessary..." TODAY AND TOMORROW By FRANK PARKER STOCKBRIDGE POWER ... Improving nature A movement has been started in France to preserve the picturesque but inefficient windmills in Brittany and Normandy. The windmills of Holland are rapidly being abandoned in favor of gasoline and Diesel engines, and not one of those which used to dot the shores of our own Cape Cod is performing useful work any longer. The windmill pumps that used to be familiar sights on every farm in the Middle West are vanishing in the same way. It seems strange to most people that it is not economical to use the forces of Nature, such as wind and falling water, instead of power generated by fuel, coal or oil. It is natural to deplore so much power going to waste. But there are very few spots left in the world where it pays to stick to primitive methods of power production, just as it does not pay to stick to ships and ox-teams for land hauling. Mankind's achievements consists largely in improving on Nature. RECORDS ... fast sea travel "It is going to take more people who have been getting more than their share are going to balk—are balking now—at the prospect of having to take less while the men lower down get more. But there are teeth in the Recovery Act, in the Securities Act, in the Banking Act, in the Agricultural Adjustment Act, and anyone who does not want his head bitten off had better come into camp and make the best of it." "This is not a one-man show. It is the voice of all of the people, or at least the great majority of them giving orders. So it is a proper and necessary part of the program to make provision whereby the debtor can obtain the money with which to pay his debts and have a hand dealt him in the New Deal, even if to do that means inflating the dollar, issuing bonds which posterity will be taxed for, or in any other way pledging the credit of the United States, of all the people. For if the New Deal succeeds it will put us in a position where these burdens will not be heavy ones; whereas if it fails the Government of the nited States is sunk and Fate will chalk up another failure against the record of the world's experiments in democracy." That is as clear an expression of the principles upon which the United States Government of United States is sunk day as your correspondent has yet heard. Some of the know-it-alls may tell you different; but if the reader will keep that simple explanation in mind he will understand what the day-to-day news out of Washington really means. TODAY AND TOMORROW By FRANK PARKER STOCKBRIDGE COMPETENCE ... Tony's family My friend Tony Baldasarri is the village barber. Except on Saturdays, when there is a rush at the barber shop, he can be hired to trim hedges, attend flower-gardens, build chimneys or mend fences. Tony is an all-around handy man. They have eight children, the Baldasarris, and every one of them does some work around their home on the hill, where they grow a lot of the family food and the youngsters learn to do TO THE BEANS What an investigation? I know, sometimes it's circus and fills the galley, if there is too much thing gets stale and the hullabaloo is the again what the dear about is what did the get the Christmas pres-again if the big shots received they might have works to put the other truck pot. WITH THE I. O. U.S. A country loaned eleven to those foreign nations, it is about as mysterious of the guy who struck ING TURKEY Migrants went abroad to enter out the economic world it was said they for eight weeks. In all they ought to cook the time. IN THE FIRST TIME Nothing certain, when the war decides to do some-nt plenty, and no foolin'. ING THE AIR Againn't it awful! Some of the senate, who also ran, the job for nigh onto 30 the political spell binders they up and started the It seems strange to most people that it is not economical to use the forces of Nature, such as wind and falling water, instead of power generated by fuel, coal or oil. It is natural to deplore so much power going to waste. But there are very few spots left in the world where it pays to stick to primitive methods of power production, just as it does not pay to stick to sails for ships and ox-teams for land hauling. Mankind's achievements consists largely in improving on Nature. RECORDS - fast sea travel I attended a dinner the other night on board the fastest merchant ship in the world, the Italian liner Rex. We gathered to congratulate Captain Francesco Tarabotto on having broken all ocean records on his latest west-bound crossing of the Atlantic. From land to land, that is from Gibraltar to Ambrose Lightship, a distance of 3,181 sea miles, the Rex averaged a speed of 28.92 knots, covering the distance in four days, thirteen hours and 58 minutes. A nautical mile is 6,085 feet, 805 feet longer than a land mile, and a knot is the number of sea miles travelled in one hour. So the speed of the Rex in land miles was almost exactly 33 1-3 miles per hour, all the way across the ocean. No other commercial craft has ever steamed so fast so far. Some naval craft and many small vessels of the yacht type can go faster than that, but few can carry fuel enough for a long voyage at top speed. I went to Italy on the Rex last year, and believed Captain Tarabotto when he told me then she would break all Atlantic records some day. And I came back on the other great Italian ship, the Conte di Savola, with a strong belief that when that ship is ready to try for it she can take the record away from the Rex. CRIME - the iron heel The inefficiency of the local police forces, usually entangled with local politics, in trying to suppress crime, has given great impetus to the movement for the extension of the powers of the Federal government in the field of crime suppression as well as of crime detection. I believe there is a stronger public justified. COMPETENCE - Tony's family My friend Tony Baldasarri is the village barber. Except on Saturdays, when there is a rush at the barber shop, he can be hired to trim hedges, attend to flower-gardens, build chimneys or mend fences. Tony is an all-around handy man. They have eight children, the Baldasarris, and every one of them does some work around their home on the hill, where they grow a lot of the family food and the youngsters learn to do everything. The oldest boy, John, has his career planned. He's going to be a lawyer, but in the meantime he does occasional work for me and other neighbors, competent at whatever he undertakes and never too tired to finish an eight-hour day. "A lawyer has to know everything," John said the other day. "That's why I'll work at anything I can get to do." That's why all the Baldasarris will get along; they are learning while children how to work at many things. THRIFT - few practice it How many men of fifty past would be glad to have a fixed annual income, for which they did not have to work, of a third of their average earnings during their working life? So fifty dollars a month for the mail who has averaged $150 a month since he first went to work? We all know that that, or something close to it is possible for the thrifty ones who put away ten per cent of their incomes religiously, investing them at compound interest for their old age. But most people are not thrifty, hence the distress among the unemployed and the aged poor, and the huge drains on the taxpayers and the purses of the charitable to take care of them. I believe that, when the new social order becomes firmly established, there will be some general scheme worked out whereby ten per cent of every worker's salary or wages will be withheld and invested for him, under Government supervision, in some sort of endowment insurance. I see no other way whereby the sacrifice of individual initiative can be compensated for or...