anaheim-gazette 1933-12-21

Orange County Is Losing $250,000 As Autos Escape Tax State Officials Estimate 2 Millions a Year to be Saved When New Law is Effective Millions of local tax dollars will be made available to cities and counties when the law requiring the payment of taxes on automobiles before license plates are issued becomes effective next year, state officials estimated. A survey made by various state and local agencies reveals that approximately 20 percent of the registered automobiles in the state are escaping local personal property taxes. On the basis of the 1932 assessed valuation of automobiles, this would mean generally that $35,921,599 worth of automobiles was escaping this taxation, including cars in Orange county with an assessed valuation of $1,248,274. In actual return to the local governments, it is estimated that more than $2,000,000 have been lost through inability to collect on every registered car. By requiring receipts showing that local taxes have been paid before the state will issue license plates, this additional money will be available to bring a corresponding relief in other levies, it is believed. In addition to this relief, it will be possible, officials believe, for assessors, who formerly spent considerable time in checking up automobiles, to pay more attention to other forms of personal property which has been escaping taxation. In such a manner it is hoped that a more equitable distribution of the tax burden will be possible. The new law does not go into effect until next year. This means the tax receipts will not be necessary in making application for 1934 automobile license plates. In addition to this relief, it will be possible, officials believe, for assessors, who formerly spent considerable time in checking up automobiles, to pay more attention to other forms of personal property which has been escaping taxation. In such a manner it is hoped that a more equitable distribution of the tax burden will be possible. The new law does not go into effect until next year. This means the tax receipts will not be necessary in making application for 1934 automobile license plates. A year from now, however, when application is made for 1935 plates, proof that local personal property assessments have been paid will be necessary. Walnut Institute On February 10th The annual Walnut Growers Institute, held under the auspices of the inter-county walnut departments and the agricultural extension service, will be held in Santa Ana on Saturday, February 10, according to decision made recently. The special committee appointed to complete details of the program and arrangements includes: J. A. Smiley, West Orange, chairman; Harold E. Wahlberg, farm advisor; and Lee Braucher, field department of California Walnut Growers association. The committee met with the walnut growers department of the Orange County Farm Bureau at Santa Ana, Friday. Among the subjects that will be discussed on the institute program will be the market situation—domestic and foreign; the importance of cooperation in solving marketing problems; the functions of the new walnut control board; recent results of walnut blight control; relation of rootstocks and over irrigation to decline of budded walnut trees, and other subjects. A large attendance of walnut growers is expected from all parts of Southern California, according to J. A. Smiley, chairman of the local Farm Bureau Walnut department. Arrangements are being made to hold the big gathering at the auditorium of the Willard Junior high school, Santa Ana. A. D. Smiley, chairman of the Inter-county Farm Bureau walnut departments, will preside at the morning session. D. S. Halliday, Santa Ana, having recently been elected secretary of the Southern California group, will be secretary of the meeting. Planned Agriculture Beginning Results, Although Results No Wallace Urges Restriction Secretary Denies In His Report to President Causes Surplus Problem, But Says Distribute Needs Adjustment; Warns Changes in Moneys Agricultural conditions have improved over the nation by no means uniformly, during the last six months, parity has been done to balance production with demand and payment action has improved the economic situation generally. Agriculture Henry A. Wallace in his annual report to the Gross farm income from 1933 production will be about $6,100,000,000, the report estimates on the basis of figures available in October as marketings and prices. Payments to farmers for restrictions in agricultural production will increase the total to about $6,400,-000,000 as compared with $5,143,000,000 received in 1932. Farm commodity prices from Mid-March to Mill-October rose 47 percent. There was not so great a gain, only 22 percent, in the exchange value of farm products, because prices paid by farmers advanced considerably. This improvement Secretary Wallace attributes mainly to national policy action. It cannot be maintained he says, unless farmers under federal guidance continue to plan their production. Agriculture entered the year with tremendous surpluses and with a curtailed market at home and abroad. The necessity of beginning farm recovery with production adjustments, the report declares, was overwhelming. Sections of the report devoted to various commodities tell what the Agricultural Adjustment Administration has accomplished. Secretary Wallace would supplement the emergency adjustment program with two additional supports: First, action calculated to expand foreign purchasing power in definite tangible ways, through tariff adjustments and otherwise; and second, through gradual reduction and control of the size of the farm plant as a whole. He recommends a long-time land utilization program, which would eliminate the lean rather rapidly or become natural prices on the continue to advance in farm production somer buying price. Secretary Wallace that the whole natural prices cannot intended and legally dustrial codes uncover Act. "The tendency for manness groups to place in consumers' pricies are selling higher than would the expense involve and shortening its part of the Ngram that consumes more than Agriculture will this fails to compaire a balance simultaneous gain consumer buying prices." After discussing long-time land emergency produce tary emphasizes progress in pre-progress in district balance produce to prevent useless gests to many far that agriculture science; for scientists' productivity Supervisors Will Name County Aide A successor to J. Fred Sidebottom who resigned his position as county sealer of weights and measures to become effective January 1 is expected to be named by the county board of supervisors next Tuesday. Sidebottom accepted a position with the state board of equalization. Peace On Earth At this, the Christmas season, we extend the heartiest Christmas Greetings to all our friends and customers, and wish you great happiness and health. R & B Cut Rate Drug 151 W. Center — Anaheim BRINGS THE OTHER By Albert T. Reid 29,911 Pounds of Pork Is Received By Orange County Distribution of Federal Foodstuffs Begins Monday; Quota Furnishes 4 Lbs. to Person Distribution of another quota of federal surplus foodstuffs to the unemployed and other needy persons in California was started Monday, the state emergency relief administration announced. While a portion of the 11,800 tons of foodstuffs has already arrived in California, much of it is enroute to the state at the present time. The food quota is sufficient to provide four pounds to each of the 6,000,000 more women and children in California, or 46 pounds to each of the estimated total of 500,000 persons in the state who come under federal or state aid. The first item of the quota includes 1,639,592 pounds of mild cured salt pork. With the distribution of this meat during the week Orange county will have received 29,911 pounds of pork officials said. The first distribution made early last month, amounted to 1,047,500 pounds. "Three carloads of dried apples are already here for distribution and the remainder of the quota in the form of butter, corned and roast beef, flour and smoked pork, will continue coming until well into March," the announcement stated. All of the involved traffic details in connection with the receipt and distribution of these surplus shipments are being handled by the state emergency relief administration. A portion of the surplus comes from the state's own supply of stored products. Butter I one of California's principal contributions. Los Angeles county led the state in the current distribution of salt pork with a quota of 1,118,000 pounds. Future Beginning to Show High Results Not Uniform Restriction Upon Crops Report to President That Science But Says Distribution of Income Changes in Money Not Sufficient Improved over the nation as a whole, though the last six months, partly because something action with demand and partly because government economic situation generally, says Secretary of his annual report to the president. Agricultural prices on the other hand should continue to advance with adjustments in farm production and increases in consumer buying power." Secretary Wallace declares, however, that the whole advance in non-agricultural prices cannot be attributed to the intended and legitimate influence of industrial codes under the National Recovery Act. "There has been some tendency for manufacturers and business groups to pyramid increased costs in consumers' prices. Many commodities are selling today at prices much higher than would be necessary to meet the expense involved in raising wages and shortening hours. It is an essential part of the National Recovery program that consumer buying power shall increase more than consumers' prices. Agriculture will suffer in proportion as this fails to come about. Recovery requires a balanced and approximately simultaneous gain in wage payments, consumer buying power, and farm prices." After discussing the necessity of a long-time land program to replace emergency production control the secretary emphasizes the need of matching progress in production-science with progress in distribution-science. Efforts to balance production with demand and to prevent useless farm expansion suggests to many farmers, the report says, that agriculture has a quarrel with science; for science increases the farmers' productivity and thus tends to in- Timothy McCarthy Learns About Law When Timothy V. McCarthy of Long Beach gets through with justice court this week he may know a little more about the necessity of stopping to render aid after an accident. He crashed into a machine driven by Mrs. William Black of La Habra Sunday. Tuesday he pleaded guilty in Justice A. C. Early's court to reduced charges of reckless driving, posted $200 bail on condition that he appear Friday for sentencing. At Whittier, while going away from the La Habra accident, McCarthy is charged with failure to stop and render aid in the second accident. He is out on $100 bail posed with Justice J. P. Starkey. Federal Contract Signed Wednesday Mayor Charles Mann and members of the city council Wednesday morning gathered at the city hall at 8 o'clock to sign a contract between the City of Anaheim and the U.S. government for extension of the municipal electrical system under the CWA program. The federal government has authorized gift of $15,000 to the city for the work, the city agreeing to put up the balance of $36,000 for the $51,000 project. Work is being done on force account in order to speed up emergency jobs for unemployed men of the community. means human want in the midst of plenty. This is the most challenging paradox of modern times." The report recounts action taken, up to the middle of October, by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration to regulate the production of cotton, wheat, tobacco, and corn and hogs. It reports efforts made to regulate the dairy industry through marketing agreements, and to develop fruit and vegetable agreements. It condemns uncontrolled speculation, particularly in grain and cotton, as incompatible with efforts to control production. The report contains sections on farm income from 1933 production and on the relation between the Government's monetary policy and the... After discussing the necessity of a long-time land program to replace emergency production control the secretary emphasizes the need of matching progress in production-science with progress in distribution-science. Efforts to balance production with demand and to prevent useless farm expansion suggest to many farmers, the report says that agriculture has a quarrel with science; for science increases the farmers' productivity and thus tends to increase the burden of the surplus. Secretary Wallace declares on the contrary that the quarrel is not with science but only with the incompleteness of its victories so far. Galins in technical efficiency, if not supported by scientific economic adjustments, cause trouble. However, the remedy, Secretary Wallace declares, is not to put a brake on science but to open new channels into which economic energy may profitably flow. "It is essentially a problem of distribution," the report says. "We have surpluses, in industry as well as in agriculture, largely because the laws that govern the distribution of income cause a polarization of wealth and poverty, a pillow up of purchasing power at one end of the social scale. In consequence a majority of the people spend all their money they have satisfied their wants, while a minority satisfy their wants long before they have spent their money. There results an unemployed block of purchasing power which tends to be transformed into capital and to go back into production instead of entering the market for consumable goods. This makes the surplus situation worse." Potentially, the purchasing power existing at any time equals the supply of goods; but it does not necessarily enter the market for those goods. To make it do so, it must be joined to need or desire. When purchasing power gravitates away from need or desire, it lies idle or runs to waste in speculation and bad investment. How much more socially intelligent it would be to redistribute purchasing power in such a way as to put it effectively to work. Unemployed-purchasing power means unemployed labor and unemployed labor to the middle of October, by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration to regulate the production of cotton, wheat, tobacco, and corn and hogs. It reports the efforts made to regulate the dairy industry through marketing agreements, and to develop fruit and vegetable agreements. It condemns uncontrolled speculation, particularly in grain and cotton, as incompatible with efforts to control production. The report contains sections on farm income from 1933 production and on the relation between the Government's monetary policy and the agricultural situation. Secretary Wallace declares monetary policy is not in itself the complete answer to the farm problem. He endorses controlled inflation as a means of promoting social justice through a fairer distribution of national income, but reminds farmers that depreciation of the dollar acts unequally on different agricultural products and of it self does nothing to correct maladjustments in production. "Currency policies," the report says, "may stimulate our exports temporarily, but should not lead us to think that a world-wide demand exists for our surpluses, unless sufficient changes have been made in our tariffs to build up sufficiently increased foreign purchasing power." In sections of the report devoted to scientific investigations in the Department of Agriculture the Secretary draws attention to a method recently discovered of avoiding losses by the kidney worm, the most widespread and destructive swine pest in the South. He reports further progress in the eradication of bovine tuberculosis; recounts numerous achievements of the plant breeders; indicates dairy research results that fit in with the present crop reduction program; tells what is being accomplished at ten regional stations for the study of soil erosion; describes national forest policy as influenced by emergency conservation work and the allotment of more than $30,000,000 for land acquisition and national forest improvement; reports insect infestations of 1933; shows the bearing of home economics studies on family living problems; briefly analyzes the proposed new Food and Drugs Act; and reports progress in game conservation and Federal-aid road construction. Pounds of Is Received Orange County of Federal Foodstuffs Monday; Quota 4 Lbs. to Person of another quota of fed-foodstuffs to the unemher needy persons in Calistarted Monday, the state relief administration antion of the 11,800 tons of food already arrived in Caliof it is enroute to the present time. The food efficient to provide four each of the 6,000,000 men, children in California, or each of the estimated 3,000 persons in the state federal or state aid. Item of the quota includes bands of mild cured salt the distribution of this week Orange county received 29,911 pounds of pork. The first distribution, last month, amounted to loads of dried apples are for distribution and the quota in the form of and roast beef, flour and will continue coming in to March," the announceinvolved traffic details in with the receipt and disthese surplus shipments. dled by the state emergenministration. A portion of comes from the state's own ordered products. Butter is ornia's principal contribu县 led the state in distribution of salt pork of 1,118,000 pounds. Presuasion Instead of Force Applied freight trains, in "jungles," in wheezy automobiles passing through the agricul-tural quarantine stations, in cheap lodging houses, in parks. More than 100,000 were checked. One-fourth of them were women and girls. Sixty per cent had taken to the road against their will, driven there by various developments of the depression era. California, with its mild coastal climate, received far more than its share of the shifting population. The transients include every type of wanderer from the professional hobo to the adventurous college graduate and the unemployed school teacher. As rapidly as they may be persuaded, they are being placed in clean, warm work camps, where insofar as possible they are being given tasks to which they were accustomed in normal times. Various educational classes, conducted by translent teachers, are proposed. Beauty shops and dressmaking schools will be operated. Special provisions have been made for women in the camps. A special appropriation in the federal relief act made the camps possible. The amount of money available for the project was undetermined, since it naturally will vary with the demand. There will be enough, however, to take care of every transient who agrees to enter one of the camps, according to relief administration heads. Dr. Tedstrom Wins High Medical Honor Dr. Milo K. Tedstrom, formerly of this city but now having offices at Santa Ana, will go to Chicago in April where he will be conferred the honor of membership to the American College of Physicians, specialists in internal medicine. He was notified this week of his election, to receive the high medical honor. WILL RE-ROOF HOME Roy Mocks Tuesday secured a permit to re-roof a residence at 704 North Olive street. Estimated cost is $104. Dr. Tedstrom Wins High Medical Honor Dr. Milo K. Tedstrom, formerly of this city but now having offices at Santa Ana, will go to Chicago in April where he will be conferred the honor of membership to the American College of Physicians, specialists in internal medicine. He was notified this week of his election, to receive the high medical honor. "I'M NO ANGEL" with CARY GRANT Nightly 7 & 9—Admission 25c-35c LUCK TO YOU AT THIS Christmas season we wish you happiness, good cheer and good luck. CENTRAL CAFE Los Angeles at Center Streets GIVE Practical Gifts This Christmas Buy Gifts for Men From the Store He Would Choose FLANNEL ROBES he will be more than pleased he'll be thrilled with one of these. Plain colors or stripes, are wool flannel, warm and soft— $5.00 HOSIERY here will be no doubt about the appeal in these fine hose. Smart new patterns, in silk and wool— 50¢ - 75¢ - $1.00 SHIRTS endan and Palmdayl, in new textures, and new smart patterns. He is sure to like these— 50¢ - 65¢ - $1.00 PAJAMAS Pajamas are always a popular gift. 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