anaheim-gazette 1934-07-26

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. ORATORICAL GUNS BEGIN BOOMING This is going to be a great year for oratory. Orange county has 197 candidates after public office; 493 candidates seek state jobs; every member of the house of representatives is up for re-election, two-thirds of the senate must go before the people, and the Brain Trusters and their opponents are opening up defensive and offensive speeches. Yes, the orators are going great guns. Republicans of this county gathered at Santa Ana last week and thundered long and loudly on issues of constitutional government. Democrats meet periodically to align their forces for coming elections, always with the haunting fear that Upton Sinclair will grab the democratic nomination for governor of California. This is one point they try to bury — like some poor family skeleton. But our speakers are noisier than ever. Rexie Tugwell, who one day wants to make us serfs and the next day modestly claims he is a conservative, made a "more or less" successful trip into the Middle West to defend New Deal AAA policies before embattled farmers. "Deadcat" Johnson tried to silence NRA critics by slinging mud in their eyes. Fiery verbal darts sting congress. If the democrats hoped for harmony within their ranks, they won't find it because their most irrepressible speaker, Senator Jim Reed, publicly proclaims the last congress the final thing when it comes to zeroes in statesmanship. Congress, he declares, stood "cowering at the feet of the president and surrendering to him the powers vested in it." He has as little use for Brain Trusters, who are "a horde of petty tyrants placed over the people as their masters and dictators." He is no friend of the spend- less” successful trip into the Middle West to defend New Deal AAA policies before embattled farmers. “Deadcat” Johnson tried to silence NRA critics by slinging mud in their eyes. Fiery verbal darts sting congress. If the democrats hoped for harmony within their ranks, they won’t find it because their most irrepressible speaker, Senator Jim Reed, publicly proclaims the last congress the final thing when it comes to zeroes in statesmanship. Congress, he declares, stood “cowering at the feet of the president and surrendering to him the powers vested in it.” He has as little use for Brain Trusters, who are “a horde of petty tyrants placed over the people as their masters and dictators.” He is no friend of the spend-thrift policy, either, declaring “never in the history of the world has there been presented such a spectacle of wanton waste and extravagance as that which now overwhelms the country and threatens the credit of the government.” The senate’s big gun unloosens. Opponents tremble and the country listens when Senator William E. Borah limbers up his oratorical cannon. He fired a trial shot last week which pierced the smoke screen of NRA and revealed protected monopolies squeezing the life out of little business men. The whole nation waits his speaking tour this fall and particularly his scheduled speech about mid-October when he will report on his observations of progress made by the New Deal. And thus the Great Opposer’s thunder is the loudest of all. ROSE COLORED GLASSES Remember the good old days when you were innocent enough to believe that the girls with the street carnival company were the most beautiful things on earth? PLAIN BUNK Upton Sinclair, whose campaign for the democratic nomination for governor of this state is a travesty on the American party system and an indictment against our present primary law, takes violent exception to Justus S. Wardell’s charge that the threatened usurper of his party’s nomination is a communist. Sinclair, shying from his association with “reds” now that they have been repudiated in the San Francisco general strike, fakes innocence, and in a 5,000-word reply declares himself for democratic government. This, in spite of his previous boast that he did not get his ideas from Russia but that Stalin stole his communistic thunder from him! Anyway, we do not need 5000 words to classify his reply. One will do, — “BUNK”. WATCH THEIR COLOR Our president recently said it is a good thing to have brains in the government at Washington. We heartily agree with him and would even go a little further and demand quality in the brains we hire. EXPERIENCED DRIVERS DANGEROUS Persons who have driven automobiles less than three months are five per cent, and persons who have driven between six months and a year are 10 per cent safer than more experienced, licensed automobile drivers. Insurance company data furnishes us with this interesting and authoritative survey. Experienced drivers have a fatal accident record only three per cent above the average; persons driving less than six months have a record eight per cent better, and persons driving less than a year but over six months, CHAIN GANGS EXPERIENCED DRIVERS DANGEROUS Persons who have driven automobiles less than three months are five per cent, and persons who have driven between six months and a year are 10 per cent safer than more experienced, licensed automobile drivers. Insurance company data furnishes us with this interesting and authoritative survey. Experienced drivers have a fatal accident record only three per cent above the average for all drivers; persons driving less than six months have a record eight per cent better, and persons driving less than a year but over six months, are 13 per cent better. Out-of-state motorists, partly because of their confusion in California traffic and partly because of lack of familiarity with local roads and laws, are 31 per cent worse than the average. The most fatal driver of all, however, is the unlicensed. This class includes those persons who have not learned enough about driving to get a license, and those individuals who have lost their operating privileges because of bad records and are driving contrary to law. The survey shows the danger of carelessness. The reason experienced, licensed drivers have a record only three per cent better than the average for all motorists is that they consider themselves experienced and consequently become victims of this lackadaisical habit. To drive safely you must fight carelessness. MIGHT BE A DEAD CAT Webster's dictionary calls the troubleinch bug a "fetid hemipterous insect." If General Johnson were in charge of the insect regimenting division we'll bet he could think of something even worse than that. INTELLIGENT PARTISANSHIP Howard Irwin of Fullerton, chairman of the Orange county republican central committee, wrote us a letter this week complimenting us upon our contribution to good government by giving county republicans a hearing. It is your duty and ours, Howard, to help reinstill the priceless spirit of independence left us by our forefathers. We must encourage a renaissance of freedom, reassert our independence and throw off the shackles of liberty-clutching bureaucracy. At the risk of being called "old fogies" we must fight the present-day Brain Truster tendency when democrats, like radicals who fomented the general strike at San Francisco, shout down sane leadership and undermine American government with a system of tyrannical bureaus. SCHOOL DAYS By DWIG DON'T YOU THINK CHARLE KINNET'S RAWFUL NICE? OH I'M JUST CRAZY ABOUT HIM BUT I WOULD NOT LET HIM KNOW IT FOR THE WORLD! HUH! HE KNOWS IT! HE TOOK ME FOR A RIDE IN HIS NEW GOAT AN' WAGON. EVEN IF MY HAIR AINT CURLY—JUST THE SAMEY-AIMEY! DAY DREAMS POLITICAL STEW Served With a Dash of Local Flavor. Specially Prepared To the Recipe of the Orange County Weekly Newspaper Association. By PAUL E. TICKS MONEY FOR WELFARE The board of supervisors is planning to raise another $325,000 by tax to be expended in emergency welfare work during the coming fiscal year. A county ordinance covering the necessary legal procedure was published a short time ago to cover the county's borrowing from a state fund for the same purpose. The plan is that these borrowings will be paid back by a hold-out from the county's share of the road funds. The theory is that the money is being spent for road improvement work. Thus the legal devil is whipped around the stump. The money raised by direct taxation will come out of the pockets of Orange county taxpayers. It is not a situation that pleases anybody, but the welfare work has to go on and the state law puts the burden on the supervisors. POLICE COOPERATION A candidate for sheriff who could work out a practical plan of systematic cooperation between the sheriff's office and the various constables and city police departments would get a good hearing among present officials in these departments. The need seems to arise not so much from a lack of willingness on the part of different policing groups as from the failure to bring up to date the 19th century ideas of organization along these lines. Notions of local rights and powers and prestige still prevail in our minds, just as the doctrine of state's rights and counters' rights prevent proper cooperation between federal and state officers. While no sheriff could change the legal set-up he could overcome most of the difficulties it presents, providing local officials also were willing to cooperate. CHAIN GANGS In a good many places road work is there are three sides to the picture. On one is found the James Irvine interests, Mrs. Susannah Bixby Bryant, most of the independent pumpers, some city interests, and a few others. The second is composed of the two old-time well organized water companies—the Anaheim Union and the S.A.V.I. The third is Francis Cuttle of Riverside representing the interests of Riverside and San Bernardino counties. He also is in a position of representation of Orange county through his place as leader of the Tri-Counties Water Conservation group. Incidentally Cuttle is boss of the Riverside water concern which pays him a big salary. Cuttle is the personality around which much of the controversy rages. The two water companies are for him. The others can't believe that he can be trusted to look out for the interests of Orange county as a whole. The Irvine-Bryant, etc., group is pushing for the Elliott plan. The water companies are opposed to it because it would put a dam at the upper canyon site. They ask guarantees that their supply of water be not interfered with and that they have the sole right to pump water from lands above the proposed dam which would be purchased to furnish overflow ground. Not many people know that through Cuttle's influence the submission of the Elliott plan to the government has been held up and that a plan worked out for the two upper counties has been submitted. This plan would put a dam at Jurupa narrows, west of Arlington. Orange county interests claim this dam would be of great damage to them and that the entire set-up in the plan as now before the government would be in the sole interest of the two upper counties. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Editor, Anaheim Gazette: On behalf of the Orange County Republican Central Committee I wish thank you for your admirable reporting of our meeting in Sanita Ana. We feel that two dominant parties are vitally necessary at this particular period in our history. Tremendous issues are involved; effect even man, woman, and child in this country. Under such conditions it becomes necessary that each educational agency of which the newspaper profession is large part, should acquaint the people with those issues, to the end that we all may better understand the principle pals involved. In this work you have rendered service. We thank you. Sincerely yours, HOWARD IRWIN, Chairman. TODAY AND TOMORROW By FRANK PARKER STOCKBRIDGE TAXATION It is distributed. Since capital is merely the surplus product of labor above what labor received, the question whether that surplus belongs to the employer or to the labor which produced it is a vexed question that, in its turn, is the subject of continuous compromises, out of each of which labor gets a proportionate larger share. Since public capital is exactly like private capital—that is, the surplus or wealth above what is consumed in the course of its production—it follows that larger the share of capital acquired to labor, the larger-the share of taxation must be borne by labor. There is no such thing as taxing capital only. CHAIN GANGS months when six experienced, and accidental incidents; percent cent months, cause of black of one than This is about their long conreason over cent consider of this themip-insecting even county compligiving piceless must enrance and At the tent-day who form same system CHAIN GANGS In a good many places road work is done by county prisoners. It is a common system in the south, though not entirely successful. It is reported, however, that Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties all build highways with men sentenced to jail. Many of them would rather be up in the Orange county mountains building roads than loafing around the jail. But would this disturb the cement trust and the road contractors? Why should prisoners build highways when the taxpayer has plenty of money to put up for new highways? Or is this another thing the taxpayer is not supposed to know about, or discuss? AND COURTS The superior court judges are now enjoying their usual summer vacations. The fact that each of the three courts costs taxpayers of Orange county far in excess of $10,000 per year then maintain, seems to be of little interest. Many residents can remember when the county struggled along on one court, later with two, and it is entirely possible the legal affairs could be handled with one less court of justice than now exists. As none of the judges is running for election this summer little attention is paid to this item of public expense. WATER Active effort is being made in connection with the promotion of water interests in the Santa Ana basin. A drive is proceeding to get the Elliott plan before the federal authorities. Through Curtles influence the submission of the Elliott plan to the government has been held up and that a plan worked out for the two upper counties has been submitted. This plan would put a dam at Jurupa narrows, west of Arlington. Orange county interests claim this dam would be of great damage to them and that the entire set-up in the plan as now before the government would be in the sole interest of the two upper counties. To outsiders there does not appear to be anything insurmountable in the differences between the two Orange county groups, that is, the Irvine-Bryant group and the two water companies. However, progress has been slow, although support of the Elliott plan has been secured from many organizations. The latest endorsement came from the county farm bureau directors. Those areas in the county outside the Santa Ana basin have been too prone to regard it as a matter in which they had no interest. This is not correct. Damage by flood or by loss of water supply in the basin would quickly reflect itself in taxes on property outside the basin Furthermore, these areas need to do what they can to get the necessary job done by the government to insure against its having to be done by a tax on the whole county. LIEUTENANTS Few will be sure of just who is running for state office until the sample ballots are out. Who can name all the candidates for governor? And for lieutenant governor? The latter boys are now getting busy. One of them visited the county last week and others are threatening to. One of them is out with an offer to do a little advertising providing he gets plenty of publicity. Maybe he will. Drop a few lumps of sugar in the rinse water for dainty lingerie. It will take the place of the usual starching, making it beautiful after ironing. Since public capital is exactly like private capital—that is, the surplus of wealth above what is consumed in the course of its production—it follows that the larger share of capital accrued to labor, the larger share of taxation must be borne by labor. There is no such thing as taxing capital out of existence. Individual capitalists may be taxed into poverty, but that is merely the conversion of private capital into public capital. The only way capital is destroyed by wasting it. Private individual waste it by spending it on unproductive luxuries, great estates, yachts, other ways that serve no legitimate need but are merely ostentation. Government wastes it by giving it away in return for little or no productive labor and by letting political grafters steal it as it passes through their hands. MINISTERS—their job I was asked to address a luncheon club composed entirely of ministers not long ago. They wanted me to talk about the world's economic troubles and how to cure them. I told them that knew of no wholesale method of salvation, either in the spiritual world or the economic world. I am an individualist and believe that the world gets no better than the men and women in it. Know of no way of legislating honesty and morality into the human race. I suggested to the ministers that trouble with the world was that we had been worshiping the Golden Calf so long that we had forgotten the Golden Rule and that it might be more to the purpose if, instead of interesting them selves in social reforms in the mass they concentrated their attention upon the effort to persuade individuals, one by one, to live honorable, upright and moral lives. If every body did that there would be no need for most of our laws. 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, Feb. 1, 1879. Special general meeting of the Anaheim Water company. Two-thirds of the capital stock issued was represented The president, Theo. Reiser, called the meeting to order, and stated the object of the meeting to be the consideration of the new by-laws of the company. The minutes of the previous special general meeting were read and approved. The secretary read the proposed new by-laws, which partly amended were then adopted as the by-laws of the company, to take effect and be in force from and after the fifth day of April. A. D., 1879, and read as follows: ART. I Name Sec. 1. This company shall be known as the Anaheim Water company. Sec. 2. The principle place shall be in the Town of Anaheim, County of Los Angeles, and the State of California. ART. II, Stock Sec. 1. The Capital stock of the company shall be ($90,000). Ninety thousand dollars, divided into (3000) three thousand shares at ($30) Thirty dollars each. Sec. 2. Each acre or fraction of an acre of land shall represent one share. Sec. 3. No more than (2000) two thousand shares shall be issued at present and no more until it is proven that a larger area of land can be irrigated with the existing water supply. Sec. 4. The certificates of stock shall be of such form and device as the board of directors may order and each certificate shall be signed by the president, countersigned by the secretary, and sealed with the seal of the company, and express upon its face its number, the date of its issue, and the issued is represented, but a minority present may adjourn from time to time. Sec. 5. Special meetings of the stockholders may be called by the president or in his absence by the vice president, when requested to do so by a majority of the directors, or by a number of stockholders who in the aggregate represent a majority of the stock issued. Sec. 6. Calls of meetings of stockholders shall be published in a newspaper in the Town of Anaheim or by three notices in the most conspicuous places for at least five days prior, exclusive of the day of such meeting. Sec. 7. Regular meetings of the board of directors shall be held weekly on Saturday at 3 o'clock p.m. in the Town hall of Anaheim. ART IV—Corporate Powers Sec. 1. The corporate powers shall be exercised by a board of five (5) directors. Sec. 2. Said board must immediately after their election meet and organize by electing a president, a vice president, a secretary and a treasurer. Sec. 3. No director shall be removed from his office unless by a vote of the majority of directors upon a written request signed by stockholders representing a majority of the whole capital stock issued. Art. V—Duties and Powers of Directors Sec. 1. It is the duty of the directors to bring as much water into the ditches of the company as it may be able and they are hereby authorized to charge the stockholders such sums for the water as may cover all the ordinary expenses of the company. Sec. 2. The board of directors shall have the power to create debts, subject to the approval of the stockholders at BETTERS TO THE EDITOR Heim Gazette: of the Orange County Central Committee I wish to for your admirable reporting in Sanita Ana. that two dominant parties necessary at this particular our history. Tremendous involved that effect every and child in this country, conditions it becomes at each educational agency, a newspaper profession is a should acquaint the people issues, to the end that we understand the principal work you have rendered a thank you. Sincerely yours, HOWARD IRWIN, Chairman. TODAY AND MORROW PARKER STOCKBRIDGE It is distributed total is merely the surplus labor above what labor request whether that surto the employer or to the produced it is a vexe t, in its turn, is the subject compromises, out of each or gets a proportionately Sec. 3. No more than (2000) two thousand shares shall be issued at present and no more until it is proven that a larger area of land can be irrigated with the existing water supply. Sec. 4. The certificates of stock shall be of such form and device as the board of directors may order and each certificate shall be signed by the president, countersigned by the secretary, and sealed with the seal of the company, and express upon its face its number, the date of its issue, and the name of the person to whom it is issued, the conditions of transfer and the location of the land to which the stock is to be applied. Sec. 5. Several certificates of stock may be issued to one person provided they do not, in the aggregate, exceed the number of shares belonging to such person. Sec. 6. No certificate of stock shall be issued until the assessments due thereon have been paid up in full. Sec. 7. Shares may be transferred by endorsement, by the signature of the proprietor, or his attorney, or legal representative, and delivery of the certificate to the secretary, but such transfer is not valid until the same is so entered upon the books of the company, so as to show the names of the parties, by and to whom transferred, the number of the shares and the date of the transfer. ART. III Meetings Sec. 1. The regular annual meeting of the stockholders of this company shall be held in the Town hall of Anaheim, on the first Saturday after the first Tuesday of April in each year. Sec. 2. At such annual meeting, the stockholders shall elect (5) five directors, and one commissioner, who must be stockholders of the company, by ballot, to act for the ensuing year and until their successors are elected and qualified, and shall transact such other business as may be legally brought before it. Sec. 3. Each stockholder either in person or by proxy in meeting shall have as many votes as he owns shares of stock. Sec. 4. No election shall be held, nor shall any other business be transacted, unless a majority of the stock Art. V—Duties and Powers of Directors Sec. 1. It is the duty of the directors to bring as much water into the ditches of the company as it may be able and they are hereby authorized to charge the stockholders such sums for the water as may cover all the ordinary expenses of the company. Sec. 2. The board of directors shall have the power to create debts, subject to the approval of the stockholders at any general meeting by a two-third vote of all shares of stock issued. Sec. 3. The board of directors must levy all assessments, legal notice must be given by publication in a newspaper in the Town of Anaheim, or by placing notices in three conspicuous places, for four successive weeks, at least once a week, if such assessments are not paid, according to the notice, they shall be dealt with according to sections 331-349, page 76 to 82 of the civil code. Sec. 4. At the regular meeting of the directors on the third Saturday in January of each year, a zanjero shall be elected for one year. Sec. 5. One month previous to such election, the board of directors shall define the duties and have the regulations open for inspection in the secretary's office; they shall also advertise for bids, which must be handed to the secretary before the day of election. The zanjero so elected, shall enter upon the duties of his office on the first day of February. Sec. 6. The directors shall enter with the zanjero into a written agreement in which his duties and salary are specified, and shall have power to remove him from his office at any time upon just cause, brought to their notice. No. 7. In case that the office should be vacated by death, resignation or otherwise, the board of directors shall appoint a fit person with the least delay, to fill said office. No. 8. It shall be one of the most important duties of the directors to inspect from time to time the main ditch, and to watch over the water rights and privileges of the company, and in case that it should come to their notice that an attempt is contemContinued Next Week BORN IN TROUBLED TIMES Jesus was much more tolerant toward heretical opinions than were any of His followers, either those of His immediate circle or those who have taken His name in later days. His attitude was set forth clearly on the day when one of His disciples came beasting that he had found a man doing good in His name and, since this man was an outsider and not of their own number, the disciple had forbidden him. He doubtless expected praise, but he met a rebuke. Jesus said, ... Forbid him not; for he that is not against us is for us. His was the broadest sort of invitation to fellowship, having no petty barriers of creed or formulae or ceremony. "He went about doing good." "Never man so spake." These—His good works and His good words—are the things for which He wished to be remembered; they constitute the story of His life. He was born in troubled times. In previous chapters we have traced the rise of the Jews from their beginning as nomadic shepherds to their glory as a nation under David and Solomon (about 1000 B.C.). We have seen the kingdom split into two parts, and the long sad years of bickerings, intrigues, foreign entanglements and decline, eventuating in the capture of Jerusalem and the exile of its leading families into Babylon. In this running survey we have no time to trace the various reestablishments of the sacred city—though this means the elimination of some fine figures, such as Nehemiah—nor its various phases of destruction. The successive conquerors of the ancient world reached their climax in Alexander, who overran more territory than any of them and, weeping because there were no more worlds to conquer, died of dissipation in his early thirties in 323 B.C. Immediately his vast kingdom was broken up. That part of it which included Palestine came under the control first of Egypt in the days of the Ptolemies, who built the great library at Alexandria, translated the Old Testament into Greek in the version known as the Septuagint (work of seventy scholars), and opened a home in Egypt for many thousands of Jews. Egyptian domination gave place to that of the sporadic Greecanized Syrian kingdom, in which King Antiachus is the most interesting figure to us, since his tyranny inspired the revolt of the Maccabees. The Maccabean family, a heroic Jewish priest and his seven brave sons, began a war with no higher hope than that of dying for the faith, and they achieved the impossible result of winning the freedom of their country. Again a race of Jewish kings ruled in Jerusalem, this in the middle of the second century before Christ (about 150 B.C., as a rough easy date). Copyright, Bobbs-Merrill Co.