anaheim-gazette 1934-04-19

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. ANAHEIM UNION HIGH SCHOOL AT CROSSROADS Much as we rebel against a tyrannical state law which condemns our undamaged Anaheim union high school administration building, we eventually come to the sobering realization that our secondary educational institution is at the crossroads. It either gets the proposed new $275,000 unit structure, or it starts down the long road of deterioration, with one district after another likely to withdraw and join another with more impressive and larger administrative quarters. The question of whether classroom efficiency in temporary buildings will hold up in comparison with efficiency in the new structure does not enter. People, especially fond parents whose children reach high school age, want their children to have the best, and too often the "best" is determined by exterior appearances. This fact cannot be dodged. It was painfully evident when the Centralia district voted to join Fullerton. Although this one defaction does not materially hamper our school, it threatens to become the vanguard of a general movement. In that case, the eventual damage to the prestige and real effectiveness of the school can only be imagined. Many of us have a feeling that the state's anti-earthquake building laws are the result of a selfish "racket" worked by architects and contractors during the hysteria following the March 10, 1933, tremor. The plain truth of the matter is that the Anaheim union high school district, like many another in the state of California, is the victim of tyrannical, unjust state regulations. Voters on May 15, however, face the question of choosing between the least of two evils. To refuse the bond issue virtually this one detraction does not matter threatens to become the vanguard of a general movement. In that case, the eventual damage to the prestige and real effectiveness of the school can only be imagined. Many of us have a feeling that the state's anti-earthquake building laws are the result of a selfish "racket" worked by architects and contractors during the hysteria following the March 10, 1933, tremor. The plain truth of the matter is that the Anaheim union high school district, like many another in the state of California, is the victim of tyrannical, unjust state regulations. Voters on May 15, however, face the question of choosing between the least of two evils. To refuse the bond issue virtually condemns our union high school to a third rate institution, a disgraceful verdict in an enlightened community like ours. The only other alternative is to vote the bonds and shoulder the monetary loss, secure in the knowledge that the welfare of our children is vastly more important than any financial set-back. THE MONEY — WHERE FROM? We, the people of the United States, owe about 45 thousand million dollars secured by the first lien on every square foot of real estate, every piece of tangible personal property, every public improvement, in the United States. Whether your property is mortgaged or not, you are liable for your share of this enormous debt. For that is not the debts of individuals to other individuals or banks; it is the debt of the whole people to the holders of public bonds. In other words, the public debt of the United States, including its subdivisions, runs to the staggering total of $391.71 for every man, woman and child in the country. To pay the interest, averaging 4 per cent, on this huge debt, local county, state and federal governments have to collect every year $1.566.863.000. That comes to $12.58 per capita, or a dollar a month from every one of us, including the babies. Of course, it is not apportioned out that way. The ones who have most have to pay most; but it is an axiom that, in the long run, taxes are paid by the ultimate consumers of goods. You may think that your landlord pays taxes and you do not, but if you pay your rent you are paying his taxes. Nearly 24 billion dollars of this debt is the national debt; not quite 20 billions is the aggregate of state and local debt. The national debt and the others were about equal up to last year; in the past year the national debt has increased by more than four billions. The great growth in state and local public indebtedness was in the decade from 1922 to 1932, when this total more than doubled. It is not to be wondered at that many states, counties, municipalities and school districts are unable to carry on, that school-teachers are going without pay and tax sales have multiplied. The tax burden upon the American people would be almost unbearable in normal times. Now, with incomes of all classes down to bare subsistence levels in the majority of cases, it is an impossible situation. States and local governments have brought it upon themselves and their people, by mad plunging into wild extravagances in the belief that money could always be found "somewhere." The interest payments alone on these debts will weigh heavily upon future generations, unless something is done about it. It seems to us that the first thing todo is to cut down expenses to the bone, dismiss most of the tax-eating, unproductive people on the public payrolls, and not run us into any more debt. It will be hard enough to meet the interest on the present debts, heartbreaking to have to add the taxes necessary to keep the public History Officially Receiving Which Are Meeting of the Pres. R. W. Scott bers present. Me meeting read and Treasurer report Zanjero stated water. A com Messrs. Bittner appointed to finance gate will be most ditch at the head Anaheim extension. The following and ordered paid $9; zanjero's sal services, $10.50; & Stearn, $2; s General V. A. H Mr. Clark apper count of loss of was granted. Water gold, $1 business before adjourned. Kroeger Meeting of the Pres. R. W. Scott Bittner absent. ous meeting read uer reported $2 Committee on asked for one w Zanjero stated hours water by ditch. A bill fo dered paid. Resolved: To 25 cents per acr day of October quent, Nov. 20th structured to make imersion in the Mr. Maggard water for loss to bare subsistence levels in the majority of cases, it is an impossible situation. States and local governments have brought it upon themselves and their people, by mad plunging into wild extravagances in the belief that money could always be found "somewhere." The interest payments alone on these debts will weigh heavily upon future generations, unless something is done about it. It seems to us that the first thing todo is to cut down expenses to the bone, dismiss most of the tax-eating, unproductive people on the public payrolls, and not run us into any more debt. It will be hard enough to meet the interest on the present debts, heart-breaking to have to add the taxes necessary to keep the public institutions and governments running. Then we ought, as a people, to consider seriously whether there is any moral difference between public bankruptcy and private bankruptcy. We do not like the word "repudiation," but we do not see how anybody would be much worse off if the whole public debt were to be "refunded" at, say, 1 or 2 percent interest, with provisions that it is never to be paid off. That may be a wild idea, but that is what England did with her public debt after the Napoleonic wars. Of course, there is only one permanent cure. That is to cut down the costs of government. And that cure can only be applied through pressure at the polls upon the political wasters of our money. MORE FARMERS THAN EVER There are more people living on farms in the United States now than at any previous time in our history, according to the latest figures from the census office. On January 1, 1934, farm population in America had reached an all-time high of 32,509,000; and this in spite of the fact that during the year 1933 more people moved from the farms to the city than back from city to farm. The difference is accounted for by the fact that nearly half a million more babies were born on the farms than there were deaths among farm peeople last year. This increase in our farm population does not tally with the gloomy picture so often painted of the concentration of population in cities exclusively, leaving only enough people on the land to grow food for the cities, with the aid of improved farm machinery. That picture was based upon the notion that people prefer city life to country life. No doubt many do, but we still cling to the notion that the reason so many folks remain on the farms is because they find farm life more satisfying and secure than the life of the average person in the city. We hear a great deal about distressed farmers, and we know a good many who have hard sledding. But we haven’t yet heard of anyone starving to death on a farm. ANAHEIM GAZETTE SCHOOL DAYS By DWIG History of Anaheim Officially Recorded In Minutes of Anaheim Water Company, Which are Copyrighted, 1932, by Anaheim Gazette, and Printed In Weekly Installments Town Hall, Oct. 6, 1877. Meeting of the board of trustees. Pres. R. W. Scott in the chair, all members present. Minutes of the previous meeting read and approved. Treasurer reported $228.81 on hand. Zanjero stated a regular supply of water. A committee consisting of Messrs. Bittner and Strodthoff was appointed to find out what kind of gate will be most beneficial in the main ditch at the head of lots 1 and 4 in Anaheim extension. The following bills were presented and ordered paid, to wit: Bill for work, $9; zanjero's salary, $50; committee services, $10.50; lumber $2.80; Melrose & Stearn, $2; salary of officers, $70; General V. A. Howard, $100. Mr. Clark applied for water on account of loss of water sustained, which was granted. Water sold, $1. There being no more business before the board, the meeting adjourned. John Fischer, Secretary. Kroeger's Hall, Oct. 13, 1877. Meeting of the board of trustees. Pres. R. W. Scott in the chair. A. Bittner absent. Minutes of the previous meeting read and approved. Treasurer reported $29.11 on hand. Committee on gate in main ditch asked for one week's time, granted. Zanjero stated that he lost three hours water by a break in the main ditch. A bill for work of $16 was ordered paid. Resolved: To order an assessment of 25 cents per acre, payable on the 20th day of October, and becoming delinquent, Nov. 20th, the secretary was instructed to make the necessary advertisement in the Anaheim Review. Mr. Maggard allowed $2 worth of water for loss sustained. Water sold. A bill of $11 for work was ordered paid. Water sold, $28. No more business being before the board, the meeting adjourned. John Fischer, Secretary. Kroeger's Hall, Nov. 3, 1877. Meeting of the board of trustees of the Anaheim Water company. President R. W. Scott in the chair; all members present. Minutes of previous meeting read and approved. Treasurer reported $36.11 on hand. Zanjero stated all in good condition. Bill for man on the river of $9 was ordered paid, also bill of $50 salary for the zanjero. The town trustees made a proposition to the Anaheim Water company that after the water company had repaired and put in good order and condition all bridges and crossings of Anaheim, that then the board of the town trustees would then take charge of them in the name of the people of Anaheim, and keep them in good repair hereafter. Resolved to appoint a committee of investigation to confer with a committee of the board of the town trustees, and report at a future meeting. Messrs. F. A. Korn and John Fischer were appointed such committee. No further business, the meeting adjourned. John Fischer, Secretary. Kroeger's Hall, Nov. 17, 1877. Meeting of the board of trustees of the Anaheim Water Co. President R. W. Scott in the chair. D. Strodthoff absent. Minutes of previous meeting read and approved. Committee on streets and bridges made a partial report; the committee was continued to confer with the board of town trustees at their next session. Committee on leases given one week's time to report. Treasurer reported $50.56 on hand. Zanjero stated to have repaired the gates on main ditch, also bridges and crossings. The following bills were ordered paid: For man on river, $9; lumber bill, $2.80; bill of George C. Knox, $19. Water sold, $16. No more business being before the board, the meeting adjourned. John Fischer, Secretary. OBSERVATIONS YOU CAN LEAD A HORSE TO WATER, BUT YOU CANNOT MAKE HIM DRINK There are millions of dollars idle in this country—afraid to come out and go to work! Why that is so should concern the people at the helm of the Zanjero stated that he lost three hours water by a break in the main ditch. A bill for work of $16 was ordered paid. Resolved: To order an assessment of 25 cents per acre, payable on the 20th day of October, and becoming delinquent, Nov. 20th, the secretary was instructed to make the necessary advertisement in the Anaheim Review. Mr. Maggard allowed $2 worth of water for loss sustained. Water sold, $33. John Fischer, Secretary. There is no quorum present for a general meeting. The president instructed the secretary to call one on the 27th day of October, 1877, by advertisement. John Fischer, Secretary. Town Hall, Oct. 20, 1877. Meeting of the board of trustees. President R. W. Scott in the chair. D. Strodthoff absent. Committee on gate was not ready to report, further time was granted. Treasurer reported $46.11 on hand. Zanjero stated plenty of water. A bill for work of $17 ordered paid. Mr. Korn made complaint about the ditch between B & C7, laid over for one week. Water sold, $6. No further business, the meeting adjourned. John Fischer, Secretary. Kroeger's Hall, Oct. 27, 1877. Meeting of the board of trustees of the Anaheim Water company. President R. W. Scott in the chair; all members present. The minutes of the previous meeting read and approved. Committee on gate at the head of lot 1 and 4 in Anaheim extension recommended the making of the same. The report was received and recommendation adopted. Committee discharged, and the zanjero instructed to make the gate. Treasurer reported $29.11 in the treasury. Zanjero stated that the water bought last Saturday would all be delivered were appointed such committee. No further business, the meeting adjourned. John Fischer, Secretary. Kroeger's Hall, Nov. 3, 1877. General meeting of the Anaheim Water company. The president, R. W. Scott, called the meeting to order. Thirty shares of stock being represented. The president stated the object of the meeting to be to devise ways and means to secure in future a good supply of water for all the time. After a lengthy discussion it was resolved to appoint a committee of three to confer with the board of trustees of the Cajon Irrigation company, and try to come to a satisfactory arrangement concerning our irrigating facilities and report to the next general meeting to be held Saturday, Nov. 10. Messrs. Reiser, Langenberger and Cabill were appointed, and the president added to said committee. After a motion made by F. A. Korn, it was resolved to lease lot No. 33, for a term of two years, from the first day of Feb. 1878. Terms to be left to the discretion of the board of trustees. No further business being before the meeting, it adjourned until Nov. 10 at 3 p.m. John Fischer, Secretary. Kroeger's hall, Nov. 10, 1877. Meeting of the board of trustees of the Anaheim Water company. President R. W. Scott in the chair, all members present. Minutes of previous meeting were read and approved. Committee on bridges asked for one week longer time, granted. Treasurer reported a deficit in the treasury of $22.09. Zanjero stated all water sold was delivered. One bill of $7 for work and one of $11.90 cost in suit, ordered paid. The secretary delivered receipts of assessment to the treasurer, original stock to the amount of $235 and 56 receipts to the amount of $198.75. Resolved To allow the North Ana- OBSERVATIONS YOU CAN LEAD A HORSE TO WATER, BUT YOU CANNOT MAKE HIM DRINK There are millions of dollars idle in this country—afraid to come out and go to work! Why that is so should concern the people at the helm of the ship. It is suggested that devalued money should be issued to coax that good honest money in hiding to come out. Hope it works. AWARDS CHLORINE CONTRACT Anaheim's city council Tuesday evening awarded the contract for 40 tons of chlorine for use in maintenance of the outfall sewer. The cost will be $4.75 per hundred pounds, plus rental charges on the container for 90 days. BURGLARY COSTS DEARLY Burglaries entering the service station on South Lemon street Saturday night received only a few pennies and stamps for their trouble, and evidently paid dearly because bloodstains were found around the window broken for entrance according to a report filed with police. TALBERT HEADS BOOSTERS Mayor Tom Talbert of Huntington Beach was elected president of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Orange county Tuesday evening at Santa Ana. Publisher Jack Phillips of the Brea Progress was named vice-president and George Raymer of Santa Ana was re-elected secretary. SPRUNG A LEAK There awhile back down Brazilian way it appears oil and nuts did not mix. Some oil concerns may have too many nuts, and somebody might throw a monkey wrench into the mess. Some oil companies have been known to pitch forward and make a smear, and yet and still some nuts are olly. TODAY AND TOMORROW By FRANK PARKER STOCKBRIDGE LINDBERGH — his place All doubt as to whether Col. Lindbergh is still the great popular hero of the American people was dispelled when his appearance before the senate committee investigating the air mail drew the largest crowd that has ever attended such a gathering. The eagerness with which folk listened over the radio to his testimony, and the applause which greeted him everywhere in Washington, the columns which the newspapers printed about him and what he said, and the universal approval of his modest yet well-considered statements have, I believe, increased his popularity, if that were possible. After all, the underlying common sense of the American people has always discriminated between the mere notoriety-seeker who is always talking about something — usually himself—and the man of character and achievement who keeps his mouth shut when he has nothing important to say. LAWS — that we like The older I get, the more I am impressed with the fact that any law is only as good as the public sentiment behind it. If the people like it, is a good law; if they don't like it, they won't obey it. If every motorist who disobeys the local speed laws were arrested there wouldn't be jails enough to hold them. But no police force could be maintained large enough to enforce the speed laws strictly. The best laws are those which leave people freest to do whatever they like to do, restraining them only from infringing on others' rights and punishing them promptly and severely for doing anything which results in injury to another's person or property. SHAKESPEARE — and Bacon Northfield, Minn. John Linster has been running the same farm for 34 years. He is so far from being discouraged that he has bought another 160 acres, over in Wisconsin, for his son. The secret of this farmer's success is the secret of anybody else's success; he never spent any money until he had it, never borrowed money until he knew where it was going to earn something for him, never discarded anything old for something new merely for the sake of change, and kept a strict record of every cent received and spent. Those rules, coupled with knowing one's trade or business thoroughly, are all there is to success. Anybody can succeed who follows them. CLIMATE — crop control One result of the severest Winter known in the East since Valley Forge is that the ground has frozen to unprecedented depths in some parts of New England. Following a season of the most abundant rain for several years, with the soil well moistened, the frost-line has gone as deep as six feet in my own Berkshire county. We had two years of severe drought which lowered the watertable 10 to 15 feet. Then we had two years of rains and open winters. This spring the melting of the heaviest snowfall in a century has flooded all the valleys, washed out bridges and inundated low parts of many towns. My guess is that it will be mid-June before my river meadows are dry enough to till, and at least that late before the chill gets out of the upland soil. It won't take drastic action on the part of the federal government to reduce agricultural production in New England this year! SHAKESPEARE — and Bacon I was invited the other night to a dinner of the Bacon Society of America. It has nothing to do with consumption of the over-supply of pork products, but is composed of enthusiasts who are convinced that the plays and poems attributed to William Shakespeare were really written by Sir Francis Bacon. They base that not only upon the purported discovery of a secret cipher in the First Folio edition of Shakespeare, but upon the assumption that only a highly educated man of great erudition could have known as much as the author of these works, whereas Shakespeare was an unlettered country man. I asked some of the Baconians whether they had ever heard of such a thing as genius; whether they could name the college where Robert Burns was educated or tell where Mark Twain got his diploma. They didn't like that. So I went away and left them to their innocent amusement. FARMERS — Success rule My friend Charles F. Collisson, who knows more farmers than any other man I know, and who writes in the Minneapolis Tribune more horse-sense about farming than any other writer with whose work I am familiar, printed a piece the other day which bears out my contention that most of the trouble farmers find themselves in arises from the same source as most of the troubles the rest of us are in—ourselves. Charlie Collisson tells the story of John Linster of Elm Grove Farm near CHILDREN — place to begin The way to make the world better is to begin with the children. By the time a child is ten or twelve its character, so far as its social relations are concerned, is pretty well formed. Either it has been so spolled that it never will be any good or it has learned that there are certain lines of conduct which the world at large won't tolerate, and shapes its actions accordingly. In an ideal social organization every child would be taught from infancy that it has no rights that are superior to the rights of everybody else. That is what liberty and equality simmer down to. If everybody realized and acted upon that principle, nobody would infringe on any of the rights of anybody else and we wouldn't need any government at all. TEACHING—a new system Hiram College is trying out a new system of teaching, which sounds to me so rational that I wonder it has never been adopted before. Instead of skipping from one subject to another, students are given intensive study in a single subject for a long period, then another and so on. It seems to me that a thorough mastery of one subject can be got in this way better than by a series of scattered hours, interrupted by the need to prepare for work in other courses. And I don't see why it wouldn't work in schools far below college grade. I welcome every new educational experiment, because I believe none of the systems evolved so far is as good as it ought to be or could be. THE BOOK the first line of which reads, "The Holy Bible," and which contains Four Great Treasures by BRUCE BARTON ALWAYS A RIGHTEOUS MAN In every wicked reign there was a righteous man of God who could be neither briebed nor intimidated. He all night upon the earth. After Nathan came Elijah the Tish-bite, a hairy man, living alone in the ALWAYS A RIGHTEOUS MAN In every wicked reign there was a righteous man of God who could be neither bribed nor intimidated. He stood forth crying "Thus saith the Lord," and though the king writhed and fumed and sought to destroy, the prophet was the victor. The first of this exalted company was Nathan, who was court preacher in the reign of David. When that mighty monarch had stolen the wife of the brave soldier Uriah and compounded the crime by sending Uriah into the front line of the battle, Nathan appeared at the court and announced that he had come to tell the king a story. There were two men in a certain city, he said, the one rich, having many flocks and herds, and the other so poor that he possessed only one little ewe lamb. And the rich man, desiring a banquet, had spared all of his own big flocks and appropriated the poor man's one lamb. And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die. . . And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Picture to yourself the spectacle. The king on his golden throne surrounded by his lords and soldiers; the penniless preacher, clothed in rough skins, with no power but Truth, no protection but the flaming sword of moral courage. "Thou art the man." The effect was immediate. And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord, and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth. After Nathan came Elijah the Tish-bite, a hairy man, living alone in the woods, drinking the water of mountain streams, and fed by ravens. He it was who stood out against the four hundred prophets of the religion of Baal when the wicked Queen Jezebel had imported, and challenged them to a life and death contest. They were to build their altar and lay their sacrifice there; he would lay a similar sacrifice on the altar of the Lord. Whichever god sent down fire from Heaven was the one who deserved to be worshiped. From morning until noon the false prophets leaped upon their altar calling out to Baal, while Elijah taunted them. And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked. At evening when the four hundred had proved their inability to deliver the goods, Elijah laid up his own altar, placed the sacrifice on it, stacked up the wood, and poured water over it to make the test harder. Then he prayed. Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, The Lord, he is the God; the Lord, he is the God. Nextx Week: When prophets Spoke Copyright, Bobbs-Merrill Co.