anaheim-gazette 1934-09-20

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. EPIC—ENDLESS PROMISES IN CALIFORNIA California, the home of many worthy champions, now boasts another whose accomplishments, though of the flimsy flag-pole variety, transcend anything hitherto imagined. His name and accomplishment par excellence? Upton Sinclair, champion promoter of the universe! His margin of supremacy over ordinary human beings, when it comes to promising, is too great for us to measure. The reason is simple. He promises everything with a flurish of wanton abandon that leaves us trembling at the enormity of our gullibility. Yes, he promises anything under the sun, or over it, for that matter. His Epic plan—endless promises in California—runs the whole gauntlet of human problems. Everything which exists now or heretofore suddenly becomes wrong—the only right way is the Sinclair way, which is loaded with fairy-tale solutions. The magic promoter pulls a white rabbit from his hat with proposals to confiscate private property in the state and divide it up. He cuts the fair lady in half by another stroke of genius in announcing that he will eliminate taxes on all properties valued under $3,000. He pulls on the endless strings of colored yarns by promising to make our glorious state the mecca of socialists throughout the world who will flock here to enjoy our Utopia, forgetting that a large part of our present dilemma is the number of transient unemployed who succor in California. He pulls a wonderful juggling act by promising to make this such a land of milk and honey that incoming persons will trample each other in their haste to buy property; the same property, by the way, Deal. These Secretary of State and one which are the sheer principles. 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He pulls on the endless strings of colored yarns by promising to make our glorious state the mecca of socialists throughout the world who will flock here to enjoy our Utopia, forgetting that a large part of our present dilemma is the number of transient unemployed who succor in California. He pulls a wonderful jugging act by promising to make this such a land of milk and honey that incoming persons will trample each other in their haste to buy property; the same property, by the way, that he is going to connscate for state use. Finally, he stands Miss American Liberty up against the wall and shoots her squarely between the eyes by putting the government into business in direct competition with its citizens, a process which, under SEKA in Orange county at the present writing costs almost 25 cents to produce a loaf of bread in contrast to the eight cents with which it could purchase the same loaf from private industry. Promise us, oh Sin—, oh Sin—, oh Sin-clair, promise us that you'll promise to promise —— but what's the use? As a final goodwill gesture just before the sixth day of November, we expect Sinclair to reward the faithful for his election to the governorship with a promise for the second coming of Jesus Christ, who presumably would become a Second Lieutenant to the great Upton Sinclair in the dreamer's paradise. THE TURN IN THE ROAD — WHICH WAY Our forefathers left us this great Golden State which they worked and fought so hard to clear. We may not be able to do much clearing for our children and grandchildren, but are we going to leave them a destructive ash heap of fantastic Epic dreams? MOTHER NATURE, THE SUPREME DRAMATIST Mark Twain once remarked that everybody talked about the weather but nobody did anything about it. As a general term denoting man's most common experience with mother nature, the weather is an age-old means of manufacturing conversation. Unusual caprices, however, make it the sole topic on many occasions. Take the drought, which wiped out two-thirds of the crop in the bread basket of America. Or the storm which dropped 12 inches of rain in the Rosemead district and flooded Glendale on New Year's day, causing loss of 50 lives and millions of dollars in property. The heat wave early this week drew considerable attention from sweltering housewives bending over hot stoves preparing lunches for hungry school children and ravenous husbands. A cold snap or Santa Ana wind attracts similar comments from harrassed humans. The weather, however, is only one of mother nature's trump cards. When she really wants to give us something to think about she sends a shimmy up the side of this old world and man-made edifices topple like sand houses in a gale. Our major earthquake of March 10, 1933, is still fresh in the minds of most of us. Sometimes mother nature simply opens up a crevice in the world's surface, like the horseshoe bend at Point Fermin (San Pedro), and geologists study the cause, crawling over the surface like ants scampering hither and yon when a spade is turned near their mounds. Certainly reactionary to their word, Smith, John. If this program must be a mime. It is difficult rights above have been sprung this "elevation" to be forgotten property as one of the most would seek to by his own fire too ignorant is as big an error by one who asks a violation of the desi safety is on lower animal want a home right to hold personal and and been corrupted who complain or other selfish and saved to. Of course bors, but what are property it is wrong lest we be adorned the enjoyment accumulate a Marriage survey, but doomed if she Histo Officially Re Which a The weather, however, is only one of mother nature's trump cards. When she really wants to give us something to think about she sends a shimmy up the side of this old world and man-made edifices topple like sand houses in a gale. Our major earthquake of March 10, 1933, is still fresh in the minds of most of us. Sometimes mother nature simply opens up a crevice in the world's surface, like the horseshoe bend at Point Fermin (San Pedro), and geologists study the cause, crawling over the surface like ants scampering hither and yon when a spade is turned near their mounds. But, for variety, we sometimes have volcanic eruptions, or a strange tidal wave like the one which for the past two weeks has swept the West Newport beach. Occasionally she sends a meteor bounding earthward just to make us ponder the source of all power, or rends the air with crashes of thunder and lights up the heavens with flashes of lightning. These demonstrations put on by mother nature furnish us with the drama of life. They represent a lot more, of course. The fact that they take an awful toll of human life and that we are forever trying to outwit nature with flimsy self-made contraptions only adds to the evidence that we know not the secrets of this world, which is but a tiny spec in what we understand is the universe but which, in turn, may be but an atom in something far larger and more complicated. Don't let anybody tell you the world is a dreary place, that adventure and exploration are things of the past, that science is drawing aside the curtains of life to reveal nothing but a sordid materialism. Such an attitude bespeaks the closed mind, an out-of-date comprehension of what life offers. Why, we haven't even begun to understand ourselves, let alone the world or the universe, or many of the natural problems which we must face continuously. These problems are the despair of the weary and the challenge to an adventurous mind. Mother nature remains the supreme dramatist. FINANCIAL SKELETON REMAINS The trouble in these drouth times is that when the wind comes along and blows a fellow's farm out from under his feet it doesn't seem to take the mortgage along with it. THE LIBERTY LEAGUE AND PROPERTY RIGHTS No new movement in a long time has caused so much discussion in the launching as the American Liberty League. There are all sorts of reactions, the most interesting of which, of course, come from those statesmen more or less associated with the New Deal. These have greeted it with mixed emotions. For example, Secretary of the Interior Ickes hails it as a political movement, and one which will separate the sheep from the goats. Just who are the sheep and who are the goats depends on your economic principles. Mr. Ickles is quoted as saying that for many years he has hoped to see a conservative and a liberal party emerge from the old parties, which are not divided on liberal and conservative lines as at present formed and he looks upon the new Liberty League as the beginning of such a movement. Professor Tugwell, the most important Brain Truster of them all, says that he heartily subscribes to the ideals of the Liberty League, as he sees them, and thinks everybody might join. On the other hand, Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins is quoted as stating that the League is so far "over to the right" that nobody will ever find it. Mr. Hopkins evidently believes that cherishing the Constitution and protecting property rights is very much "to the right." One might well wonder what he would regard as a sane "leftiest" movement. Some newspaper observers profess to see political forces working in the Liberty League and to believe that it is an effort to split the democratic party and align the democratic conservatives with the republican conservatives for political effort. The president himself was tolerantly caustic, his remarks to newspapermen indicating that he was not fully in sympathy with the movement, quoting an unnamed friend as having said that the leaders of the Liberty League instead of "loving God and their neighbors prefer to love God but forget their neighbors," the inference being that their god, in this particular sense was property which they were inclined to make more important than human rights. In view of all these conflicting opinions it might be well to set forth what the leaders of the Liberty League themselves give as the objective of the organization. It follows: "To defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States, and to gather and disseminate information that (1) will teach the necessity of respect for the rights of persons and property as fundamental to every successful form of government, and (2) will teach the duty of government to encourage and protect individual and group initiative and enterprise, to foster the right to work, earn, save and acquire property, and to preserve the ownership and lawful use of property when acquired." Certainly there seems to be nothing ultra-conservative or reactionary in this document if we are to take the founders at their word, and we are used to taking the word of men like Al Smith, John W. Davis and "Jimmy" Wadsworth, at its full value. If this program is very far to the right then communism itself must be a middle course. It is difficult to see where there is any elevation of "property injunction served on us by the San Francisco Ana Valley Irrigation company due to the neglect of our lawyers appearing in court. He also stated that Mr. Glassell, torney of the S. A. V. I. Co., had given positive instructions to the S. A. V. Co., that they should not take more than half of the water of the Santa Ana River, but as it appears that they take considerably more than half, it resolved that Mr. Korn for us and Mr. Pierce in behalf of the Cajon company should act as a committee and come with the S. A. V. I. Co. and have exact measurement of the water main on places in the two ditches where same are constructed on high lands. On account that the stream of water coming to Anaheim at present be very small, the zanjero was instructed to deliver the water at the rate of one hour and one half for $1 during a day, and 2 hours for $1 during night. No water sold. 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initiative and enterprise, to foster the right to work, earn, save and acquire property, and to preserve the ownership and lawful use of property when acquired." Certainly there seems to be nothing ultra-conservative or reactionary in this document if we are to take the founders at their word, and we are used to taking the word of men like Al Smith, John W. Davis and "Jimmy" Wadsworth, at its full value. If this program is very far to the right then communism itself must be a middle course. It is difficult to see where there is any elevation of "property rights above human rights." As a matter of fact a lot of bunk has been spread by the soap box orators and their brethren about this "elevation of property rights above human rights." It is not to be forgotten that the right to earn a living, to earn and hold property as a saving and a reward for industry and thrift, is one of the most precious human rights we possess. The man who would seek to take away the property of one man who has won it by his own fair efforts and give a part of it to one who has been too ignorant, too lazy or too thriftless to accumulate for himself, is as big an invasion of human rights as any which can be planned by one who accumulates property by fraud and tyranny. Both are a violation of human rights as well as property rights. The desire to acquire by honest effort and hold property in safety is one of the things which distinguishes man from the lower animals. Ever since man acquired enough civilization to want a home and a family his best interests have demanded the right to hold and use for himself and his family the property, personal and otherwise, which has come to him by his own labor and been conserved to him by his own thrift. Too often the man who complains about property rights is the one who, for political or other selfish purpose, would take from the man who has earned and saved to give to the lazy, the idle and the thriftless. Of course we must obey the old injunction to love our neighbors, but what good will it do if we ourselves and our neighbors are propertyless and in rags, made so by some socialistic idea that it is wrong to work and save and ask protection for our savings lest we be accused of placing the right of our property ahead of the enjoyment of the fellow who has been too busy joyriding to accumulate anything for himself? DOUBLY DOOMED Marriage is doomed if the wife is boss, according to a recent survey, but according to our own private survey marriage is doomed if she isn't. 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, June 14, 1879. The general meeting adjourned till June 21st for want of a two-third majority of stock issued. proposed amendment of the by-laws. The reading of the minutes of the previous general meeting was dispensed with. The proposed amendment in the Messrs. Korn and Pierce report that they consulted with the president of the S. A. V. I. Co., and agreed that a committee should go up from bo companies last Thursday to measure water supply. Last Wednesday a special meeting was held wherein a request was made that as there was only a small stream water in the Orange ditch, the secretary was therefore instructed not to the S. A. V. I. Co. that we would rather postpone the measurement of the water to a future day. The secretary stated having compiled with the order received an answer to the effect that we should send word a few days before the time, that our committee was ready to go, so that the S. A. V. I. Co., can appoint their committee to meet us at the appointed day. The secretary also stated that a request of the president he had made a demand on the Cajon Irrigation company for a larger share of the water supply and also invited the board trustees to hold a joint meeting with on next Monday, either in the secretary's office in Anahelm or at any other place they may select. The following bills were ordered pay Salary for the zanjero for the month of June; $46; balance on commission monthly account; $66.50; A. Guy Smith for lumber; $15.79; and Wells-Fargo Express $2.10 to be charged to Gilb Huntington, on account of charges money collected from him. Resolve To levy an assessment of $1 per shi to become delinquent Aug. 2, 1878 Water sold, $160.50. John Fischer, Secretary At a special meeting held July 7th commissioner was instructed to see Yorba's and try to make an agreement with them to let their water run through the Cajon ditch to be let out hereafter. A bill of $17 work of Chinamen referred to Cajon Irrigation company as we agreed to pay $6 as our portfolio and the balance had to be paid by them. A communication from the C. L. Co. was read, declining the demand ma for a larger supply of water. Communication ordered filed. Town Hall, July 12, 1878 Meeting of the board of directors of the Anaheim Water company. Pr Theo. Reiser in the chair; John Fischer absent. The reading of the minutes last meeting was dispensed with The zanjero reported a light stream water in our ditch since Wednesd Officially Recorded In Minutes of Anaheim Water Company, Which are Copyrighted, 1932, by Anaheim Gazette, and Printed In Weekly Installments Town Hall, June 14, 1879. The general meeting adjourned till June 21st for want of a two-third majority of stock issued. John Fischer, Secretary. Town Hall, June 21, 1879. Meeting of the board of directors of the Anaheim Water company. Pres. Theo. Reiser in the chair; John Fischer absent. The committee on commissioners bills reported the same correct, except on overcharges on teams, 4 days and 2 days, for Burkley, amounting to $9. Resolved: To instruct the secretary to draw on the treasurer for the sum of $202.34, our portion of the bills, and hand the same to the commissioner. The following bills were ordered paid: A. Langenberger, $7.80; H. Knapke, for labors, $20 and $17.50, our part on division box. The president reported that the Cajon Irrigation company would prefer to run our waste water through Parker's land on account of the drying up of the flumes in the main ditch. The report was received and thereupon resolved: To send six Chinamen up for one day to help in making that ditch. Mr. Korn stated that Mr. des Granges had made a measurement of the water in the different ditches, but had not sent in his report. Adjourned. John Fischer, Secretary. Town Hall, June 21, 1879. Adjourned general meeting of the stockholders of the Anaheim Water company. There being 1297 shares represented, the president Theo. Reiser, called the meeting to order and stated th object of the meeting to consider the proposed amendment of the by-laws. The reading of the minutes of the previous general meeting was dispensed with. The proposed amendment in the following words was read to-wit: In Article 11, Sect. 7, add the words: "But no change of location of stock shall be made without the consent of the board of directors by a two-third vote of all members thereof." After a lengthy debate and after several stockholders had left it was resolved to lay the amendment on the table. No other business being in order, the meeting adjourned. Sec. Pro Tem. (No signature.). Town Hall, June 28, 1879. Meeting of the board of directors of the Anaheim Water company. Pres. Theo. Reiser in the chair, all members present. The treasurer reported $367.19 cash on hand. The zanjero stated that on last Monday the water had to be turned out on account of repair of our connection flume, and Wednesday the water was running again in our ditch; water delivered up to today, $56 during this week. The commissioner reported the repair of flume and advocated a decrease of employes. The president recommended a joint meeting with the officers of the Cajon Irrigation company to be held Wednesday at 3 o'clock p.m. at the secretary's office. A bill for work on ditches of $6, and one of $15.25 work on flume, were ordered paid. A communication from Mr. O. des Granges about measurement of water was read and placed on file. The president stated that the postponement of our spit pending about the A communication from the C. I. Co. was read, declining the demand made for a larger supply of water. Communication ordered filed. Town Hall, July 12, 1879. Meeting of the board of directors of the Anaheim Water company. Pres. Theo. Reiser in the chair; John Fischer absent. The reading of the minutes of the last meeting was dispensed with. The zanjero reported a light stream of water in our ditch since Wednesday morning. Treasurer stated $155.50 cash on hand. The secretary was instructed to draw up a warrant in favor of Commercial Bank of $375 interest due upon July 10, 1879. The commissioner reported that Yorbas took very little water out their upper ditch but had a good street for irrigation on account of seepage through the dam. The sale of delineated stock was postponed for one week. The secretary was instructed to write to Messrs Howard, Bousseau and Howard asking for their fee bill up to date. Resolved: That the president as a committee of one be appointed to go Los Angeles and engage another lawyer to take over our suit in hand. Water sold. Adjourned. Secretary pro tem. At a special meeting the 16th of July the secretary was instructed to go before the meeting of the C. I. Co., as see if a friendly arrangement could be made to let us have eight days' waiver against their six days, temporarily. John Fischer, Secretariat Town Hall, July 19, 1879. Meeting of the board of directors of the Anaheim Water company. Pres. Theo. Reiser in the chair; A. Langenberger absent. Minutes of the two preceding and special meetings were read and approved. The president reports having seen Mr. Theo. H. Smith who after consultation with Mr. R. W. Scott was willing to take our law suits in hand, and requested Mr. Reiser to come to Los Angeles again to make an agreement about his terms. Stand Fast—America! By Den Walters LISTEN—America—once more. To the closing words of Lincoln's speech at Gettysburg Standing on the bloodstained ground of that famous battlefield where Americans had sacrificed their lives for the preservation of human liberty—he said— "We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the Earth." That thrilling message still rings sharp and clear. Stand Fast—America! Take a look, my fellow countrymen, at the world today. Governments have fallen into the hands of despots who have set up bureaus that rule the people with an iron hand. Basic laws of nations have been set aside by official mandates from these autocratic rulers, to serve their own visionary or selfish purposes. In our own country two groups are working separately but with a common end in view—to destroy American traditions, to upset our form of government, to take away from us our heritage of liberty. Both groups are radical. One group has forgotten and the other group never learned the thrilling history of our nation which Americans were taught. They scorn the sacred beauty of our Flag and all the sacred rights guaranteed to each of us by the Constitution. They seek to bestirch the memory of those thousands of brave Americans who sacrificed their very lives that "Government of the People. By THE HUMP IN THE ROAD If the state would rent farms and factories, now idle, all over the state to furnish labor to the unemployed, funds for that purpose would necessarily have to be raised though a bond issue. Since that procedure would be class legislation, how could the law be passed, and who by heck would buy the bonds if they got over the hurdles. THINK IT OVER If private capital cannot make idle farms pay and if it cannot make factories pay, how could the state do it? AINT IT THE TRUTH A young colored shiner says: "Look it here, mister, why is it that some men before they get into high office they promise the people all kinds of good things, and then after they get elected they forget all about them. Huh!" BRINGING HOME THE BACON Maine is not such a very large state, but judging from the financial aid she got from the war chest, she sure has great pulling powers. DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH A man, when asked why his hair was so long he said it was not on account of the election, but he further said all he needed was a fiddle. Town Hall, July 12, 1879. Of the board of directors of Water company. Pres. in the chair; John Fischer reading of the minutes of meeting was dispensed with. Reported a light stream of ditch since Wednesday treasurer stated $155.50 cash the secretary was instructed a warrant in favor of Comk of $375 interest due up to 19. Missioner reported that the very little water out in ditch but had a good stream on account of seepage dam. The sale of delinquency postponed for one week. Secretary was instructed to write Howard, Bousseau and Howorth their fee bill up to date. That the president as a comne be appointed to go to and engage another lawyer for our suit in hand. No Adjourned. Secretary pro tem. Al meeting the 16th of July was instructed to go beating of the C. I. Co. and tendly arrangement could get us eight days' wait near six days, temporarily. John Fischer, Secretary. Town Hall, July 19, 1879. Of the board of directors of Water company. Pres. in the chair; A. Langenet. Minutes of the two prespecial meetings were read. The president reported Mr. Theo. H. Smith whoation with Mr. R. W. Scott, to take our law suits in requested Mr. Reisler to come again to make an agree-his terms. The Jews of the first century were widely scattered. They had large families and a small country. There were colonies in almost every important city in the Mediterranean section, but they had times of home-coming at the several annual feasts in Jerusalem. The disciples took advantage of these occasions to preach to crowds that came from widely scattered places, and so quite early there began to be followers of Jesus, not only throughout Palestine but in Egypt and so far north as Antioch. It was in Antioch that need was first discovered for a name that should distinguish between ordinary Jews and the Jews that recognized the leadership of Jesus, and "the disciples were first called Christians at Antioch. Up to that time the followers of Jesus had simply spoken of themselves as of "the Way." The first name of Christianity was "The Road." In all these early movements Peter was the foremost figure. He developed a gift of speech that surprised his friends, and he never lacked courage. But presently there came on the stage a new figure of vast influence. One of the early preachers, Stephen, had given special attention to those Christians in Jerusalem who had not been born Jews but had come in as proselytes. He was arrested and condemned to death, and was executed by stoning. Doubtless the people who did the actual throwing of the stones were for the most part of the rabble, but "a young man named Saul," a zealous Pharisee, looked on with approval at a sentence which he as a member of the Sanhedrin, or high court, had helped to pass. Those who hrew the stones laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. This young man named Saul was an ardent persecutor. He heard that the Christian faith was spreading as far as Damascus and he obtained letters to the Jewish authorities there for the arrest of any who were of "the Way." He left Jerusalem very eager to carry out his errand, but with a growing inward uncasiness. He was mentally "kicking against the pricks" or goods of his own conscience. He remembered Stephen, whose face during his trial and execution had been "like the face of an angel." Riding along the road toward Damascus at midday, which is not a good time for a man to be riding there, he was stricken down by what may have been sunstroke: but with it came, as he believed, a voice saying, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?" Saul's companions saw the blinding light but did not hear the voice. Saul asked, "Who art thou, Lord?" And again the voice came, "I am Jesus whom thou persecutest." Copyright, Bobbs-Merrill Co.