anaheim-gazette 1934-11-22

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. WHY NOT "MOTHER COLONY" PARK? A more propitious time to suggest calling our beautiful city park the "Mother Colony" park would have been a month or two ago, when the city was seeking a suitable slogan to place on the bottom of its letterheads as a means of calling attention to one of our greatest civic assets. We acknowledge the belatedness of this suggestion, offering as our sole excuse the simple truth that it did not occur to us sooner. Reasons for making the proposal at this time, however, are ample. In the first place, the name "Mother Colony" suggests a traditional romance and pioneering spirit of Anaheim. The name carries a lot more color, a great deal more significance, considerably more originality and implies untold more welcome than the stereotyped designation of "city park." Anaheim is known, and correctly as "The Mother Colony"; the Anaheim union high school students are designated as "Colonists"; Daughters of the American Revolution had the good foresight to name their local chapter the "Mother Colony." If Anaheim would name her city park the "Mother Colony" park, and in the future use an envelope slogan such as "The Home of The Mother Colony Park," it would lend an official approval of a traditional and romantic name. If the city should distinguish its park with the name of "Mother Colony," the official dedication could be held on the day the Anaheim Pioneers hold their annual picnic next June. Such a celebration could serve the dual purpose of naming the park and paying a tribute to the pioneers who nutured the Mother Colony to the full bloom of youth. "AND HE SHALL HAVE ABUNDANCE" If Anaheim would name her city park the "Mother Colony" park, and in the future use an envelope slogan such as "The Home of The Mother Colony Park," it would lend an official approval of a traditional and romantic name. If the city should distinguish its park with the name of "Mother Colony," the official dedication could be held on the day the Anaheim Pioneers hold their annual picnic next June. Such a celebration could serve the dual purpose of naming the park and paying a tribute to the pioneers who nutured the Mother Colony to the full bloom of youth. "AND HE SHALL HAVE ABUNDANCE" Newspaper headlines announce: "Stork to visit Dionne family again." LADY LUCK FLIRTS WITH ORANGE COUNTY Orange county combed his hair and put on his best looking necktie this week. Felt more like his old self. Not since 1930 has the old wooer of Dame Fortune been so flushed. Occasional smiles from the wiley lady brought such good things as the Newport Harbor development, and an occasional state highway allocation. But the fact remains that not since 1930 has Orange county, in the role of an ardent swain, had such a satisfactory date as 1934. Dame Fortune's winning smile bestowed something like $6,500,000 more returns from valencias than growers received last year. Her generosity didn't end there, either. She beckoned old Jupiter Pluvius. He accommodated local farmers with a total of over eight inches of rain, as compared with less than half an inch at this time last year, and about the same as the total rainfall for 1933. This increased valencia money, amounting to approximately $200 per man, woman and child in the county; increased rains and exceptionally good sizes for next year's valencias amount to a promise that Dame Fortune is giving the Orange county wooer a tumble. No wonder the ardent swain has a lot to be thankful for. He can take a nice slice of white turkey and a big helping of plum pudding next Thursday, with joy and confidence in his heart that Lady Luck will accept his attentions in 1935. TALK ABOUT RELIEF! One relief program which would be popular with millions of baseball fans would be to send all of last year's umpires to CCC camps next year. THE "ONE TOWN" NEWSPAPER We have heard a great deal in the newspapers during recent years about chain banks and chain stores, but comparatively little has been said about chain newspaper systems, which are becoming more and more in evidence all the time. Chase S. Osborne, former governor of Michigan, in an address at the twenty-fifth anniversary celebration of the Sigma Delta Chi, a fraternity of national journalists and active newspapermen, recently stated that the press is the greatest weapon in the world and that he did not believe that too much newspaper power in the hands of a few men was a good thing for the country. "When we return to the individual ownership of newspapers," he continued, "the weekly and daily journal will again be a real guardian of the people's rights. The protection of the public and the dignity of the press will be increased." has been said about chain newspaper systems, which are becoming more and more in evidence all the time. Chase S. Osborne, former governor of Michigan, in an address at the twenty-fifth anniversary celebration of the Sigma Delta Chi, a fraternity of national journalists and active newspapermen, recently stated that the press is the greatest weapon in the world and that he did not believe that too much newspaper power in the hands of a few men was a good thing for the country. "When we return to the individual ownership of newspapers," he continued, "the weekly and daily journal will again be a real guardian of the people's rights. The protection of the public and the dignity of the press will be increased." Chain ownership, he said, encourages two forms of selfish purposes—one where editorial policy might bow to the business office, and the other a "tendency to enslave large blocs of the press to an individual's purely personal biases and to motives that may be questionable and dangerous." "The subordination of many newspapers to the desires of a single individual likely made for much of the suspicion that attaches to the press today," he said. "Too much newspaper power in a few hands is a menace to the country, breeds distrust of the press, reduces its influence, and curtails the honor of being a newspaper man." Governor Osborne has stated the case very succinctly for those who believe in sound, old fashioned journalism. There is one thing to be said for the weekly and small daily newspapers. Most of them have, up to this time, escaped the chain movement. They are individually owned and reflect the loyalty and goodwill of the editor and publisher toward the community in which he lives and in which his newspaper is printed. Few men work more diligently for the public good, and with less reward considering the amount of service rendered, than the country editor. He is usually in the forefront of every movement which has for its purpose the furthering of the best interests of the community. If there is a movement on foot for a new hospital, a new playground or any sort of business enterprise which will help the community, the local editor is always on hand to contribute his best efforts, his time and his newspaper space—which is worth money—to the good of the cause. The case with the so-called chain newspaper, owned by outside capital, directed by outside interests in different communities cannot be the same. There cannot be the same pride of ownership in the community in which the newspaper is published. One of the things which the average small community has to be thankful for is the home owned, home edited newspaper, which is always seeking to do its best to build up the community in which it is located and through which it circulates. ANAHEIM GAZETTE Another Movement for Disarmament by A. B. Chapin HUNTING SEASON DUCKS WILD GOose RAMPTY SQUIRRELS QUAIL GROUPS PHEASANTS WILD TURKEY CHAPIN AUTOCASTER ONLY ONE KIND OF NEWS At 10 o'clock every morning, Eastern Standard Time, and at 6:30 o'clock every evening, those who are tuned in on any one of the 118 broadcasting stations hear a five-minute review of the high-lights of the day's news. It comes to them without any advertising tagged to it. It is furnished, free of cost, by the newspapers of the United States, through the three great press news associations, the Associated Press, the United Press and the International News Service. And several times a day "flash" bulletins of important or sensational news developments are broadcast in the same manner. This news that you get from Press Radio Service is accurate, dependable and reliable news. Why? Because it is newspaper news. There is no other source of news that can be relied upon except the newspapers. A great many people have the foolish idea that newspapers do not give them all the news; that some mysterious forces operate to suppress news. It is often much more interesting to listen to unfounded and sensational rumor than to read the plain facts; and a great many persons are credulous enough to believe rumor in preference to facts. Many large advertisers have tried to hitch their advertising broadcasts to radio news. They cannot do so, unless they gather their own news. Newspaper news, such as is broadcast by Press Radio, is not for sale. Any other kind of news is subject to suspicion; for the gathering, editing and distribution of news on a national scale is a task which calls for a great staff of highly-trained, alert, competent newspaper men. Commenting on the news is another thing. Anyone is at liberty to express opinions on anything which is already public property. A few gentlemen are doing a very good job of news interpretation on the air. But when it comes to the news itself, nothing that you may hear is to be relied upon unless it is definitely the only genuine sort of news there is — newspaper news. HE CRIES FOR A NEW DEAL Somehow or other we have a hunch that the fellow who is going to need the most relief during the next few years and get the least of it is the taxpayer. THE BOOK the first line of which reads, "The Holy Bible," and which contains Four Great Treasures OTHERS TAKE UP THE PEN The Epistle to the Hebrews, which in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth... OTHERS TAKE UP THE PEN The Epistle to the Hebrews, which in our Bible is attributed to Paul, was almost certainly not written by him. The style is very different from his, and it does not seem likely that he would have addressed a letter particularly to Jews. The best Greek composition in the New Testament is in this letter, and so delicate and persuasive is it that there are those who think they detect a woman's hand. Some have conjectured that Priscilla (Acts 18:1) might have been the writer. In her home Paul had a lodging, and she and Aquila, her husband, were among his very best friends. The letter is general, but its definite purpose is to convince thoughtful Jews that they will lose nothing by embracing the new faith but, on the contrary, will gain. It says: "You can have all that you cherish most and even more in the Christian faith. Do you love your Law? Well you may, but here is the same law written more beautifully. Do you love your temple, your priesthood, your traditions? Everything you have cared for is here, and all the better." It is noble in its conception of the basic principle of all heroism—faith. Read this grand roll call in chapter eleven: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goat-skins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; . . . they wandered in deserts, in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. . . Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, let us run with patience the race that is set before us. Others of the apostles now began to write. James, the brother of Jesus, had never felt wholly satisfied with Paul's doctrine of faith; he wrote a letter, a strange one for a man of such devotion to the law, of which one might almost say that it was not religious at all, so little did it regard form or ceremony. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this. To visit the fatherless and wildows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. A younger brother of Jesus, named Jude, also wrote a short letter. It was rather an apology for not writing a longer one which lie had in mind to write on "our common Christianity." John, the son of Zebedee, also wrote, though later, three letters, one a remarkably sweet and beautiful letter addressed to no one in particular, and two short ones. Peter, also, wrote two letters and rather fine ones, as might have been expected of this blunt courageous man. But no one employed this method to the extent that Paul did. His letters were copied and lent and read and become a kind of unofficial manual for the administration of the churches. Copyright, Bobbs-Merrill Co. COM' ON. BABY, DO YOU STUFF? If the 10 point plan doesn't work perhaps they might make it come seben, lebln. Stand back thar, lh you're crowdd'in? SIDE STEPPING Some good folks wonder what all the country and yet the big shots in the dustrial sector don't step up to the captain's office when taxes are due as often as they use to. WOULDN'T HOLD WATER One wise columner said a man received eight hundred thousand votes for a high office because he had planned to offer for relief; but the remedies were full of blowholes. LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE A large number of people are puzzled as to what is the matter with the cooeyed world; but we let foreign oil come into this country almost free of duty and we shut down our oil wells in order to save our oil for future generations and make tramps out of the home workers, who wonder what it is about. PLAYING BOTH SIDES TO THE MIDDLE The way a man for high office can go on to the ticket from three political parties causes a fella to wonder which party he loves most. BARNYARD CANARY When the hen lays an egg the rooster crowds about it. That's thrift. But the rooster doesn't crow the hen good into the pot. That balances the budget. COME ON IN THE WATER'S FINER The president said he helped the bankers, and now he wants the bankers to help him coax prosperity to come out from around that corner. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: The campaign is over, ballots have been counted, and we must abide by the people. In some cases disappointment and in other cases success. I feel I would be neglecting my duty to the newspapers of this county if I failed to thank them for the generous manner in which my campaign literature was handled. The major part of my campaign expenses was spent through newspapers of the county for newspaper publicity, and I believe it had the desired effect in reaching the people of Orange county. I appreciate the honor of being returned to the sheriff's office, and will make every effort to merit the confidence the people have placed in me. Sincerely yours, LOGAN JACKSON, Sheriff. Dear Editor: As chairman of the campaign committee of the California State Employees' association responsible for the state civil service constitutional amendment which has just been so overwhelmingly approved by the voters of the state, I desire to extend to the press of California our sincere appreciation of the practically unanimous support accorded this meritorious measure, without which support the campaign would have failed. Out of over 700 daily and weekly papers we noted but five or six which recommended against the act, and are convinced that even this exceedingly limited opposition was due to a lack of a full appreciation of what was proposed and the necessity therefor rather than of any fundamental opposition to the principle of civil service. The state employees responsible for the act had no unworthy motive. Their desire was to stabilize and improve be made one of the outstanding honors of the state. Men of the highest caliber should be urged to accept appointment. Having supported and insured the passage of this measure, we hope that the press of California, as a matter of public service, will continue to take an active interest in carrying the program to completion. We will be especially appreciative if the newspapers of the state, editorially and otherwise, will urge and support the appointment of able, conscientious men to serve as its administrators. Again thanking you for your most generous support, I remain Yours very truly, THOS. E. STANTON, JR. Chairman Special Civil Service Constitutional Amendment Committee. Dear Editor: Now that the election is over and the electorate of the 75th district have again so decisively proven their confidence in me I wish at this time to personally thank you for your very valuable help which I assure you I sincerely appreciate and will never forget. Yours very sincerely, TED CRAIG. Dear Editor: It is entirely impossible, in a letter, to express my deep appreciation of the generous support which you and your newspaper accorded my candidacy for lieutenant-governor, but I do want you to know that I am sincerely grateful, both to you and your associates. The almost unanimous support of California newspapers was undoubtedly the greatest single factor in the success of my candidacy and I feel that I owe a very real debt of gratitude to the California press. I am also mindful of the fact that COUNTRY EDITOR up state said he received a the State fair, but he had to get to the fair. Another hold of a lot of money from subscribers because when he things in his paper about rears he always printed up-side down. When they see about that he told them Another time an editor money and bought a new shoes. The night before the fire in his town was robbed, sizzled him to beat the band. on a time an editor sued tor for libel. He got for one dollar and the offendwas ordered to print an He printed the retraction but put it in only one paper the copy by special delivery received editor and they were ever after. Some editors is the dickens. ELECTION ECHO votes were counted at the democratic candidate or, among other things believed would keep the said: "We have the land, and the machines. Let's employed to work." Sounds have the land and the climwho, mister, owns those THE LIFT of this and that, about with car picks up the hitchhumbles his way up the road. BABY, DO YO STUFF! point plan doesn't work by might make it come— Stand back thar, bo, in'? DE STEPPING folks wonder what ails the yet the big shots in the interior don't step up to the ERVATIONS OUT OF 700 daily and weekly papers we noted but five or six which recommended against the act, and are convinced that even this exceedingly limited opposition was due to a lack of a full appreciation of what was proposed and the necessity therefor rather than of any fundamental opposition to the principle of civil service. The state employees responsible for the act had no unworthy motive. Their desire was to stabilize and improve state employment without setting up any conditions which would make it more difficult to get rid of the inefficient or disloyal employee. We have no illusions that the measure will automatically solve all of the problems of state employment but realize that on the contrary it carries with it many new problems of administration which must be handled intelligently and sympathetically if the best interests of the state are to be served. All appointees to the personal board should be of the highest type; men interested in the efficient conduct of state business and convinced that civil service presents the only practical means of developing an efficient personnel in public service. Service on the personnel board should History of Anaheim Officially Recorded In Minutes of Anaheim Water Company, Which are Copyrighted, 1932, by Anaheim Gazette, and Printed In Weekly Installments The above report and resolutions were adopted, and the committee was discharged. The zanjero presented a bill of $62, which was ordered paid. The president reported that he had obtained a loan of $1200 from Mr. Fred Hartung at one per cent per month interest, and that the amount, together with the receipts of this meeting, would be sufficient to pay the balance of the note due Mr. Shanklin. The receipts of this meeting were as follows: Water sold $46.50; T. Boege, $20.50; Padderatz Est. $10.50; F. Hartung, $225.00; Thos. Dunn, 3.25; L. Dravsen, $1.50; for wood, $14.00; for scraper .50, Total $321.25. The meeting then adjourned until Monday, March 8, at 3 o'clock p.m. Richard Melrose, Secretary. Town hall, March 8, 1880. The board of directors of the Anaheim to express my deep appreciation of the generous support which you and your newspaper accorded my candidacy for lieutenant-governor, but I do want you to know that I am sincerely grateful, both to you and your associates. The almost unanimous support of California newspapers was undoubtedly the greatest single factor in the success of my candidacy and I feel that I owe a very real debt of gratitude to the California press. I am also mindful of the fact that many newspapers, in this campaign, disregarded every partisan consideration to serve the best interests of their state and country and I shall adhere strictly to this policy in my administration of the office of lieutenant-governor. The only real cure for radicalism in California is constructive, liberal and progressive government which will stamp out abuses, eliminate special privilege and remove the causes of dissatisfaction by serving the needs of our people, justly, equitably and effectively. I shall attempt to justify your confidence—and give practical evidence of my appreciation of your splendid support—by fighting for that type of government. Sincerely, GEORGE J. HATFIELD. BABY, DO YO STUFF! point plan doesn't work may make it come—Stand back thar, bo, lin? DE STEPPING folks wonder what ails the yet the big shots in the interior don't step up to the place when taxes are due, they use to. DNT HOLD WATER columner said a man re-hundred thousand votes office because he had plans or relief; but the remedies blowholes. INTO THE FUTURE member of people are puzzled on the matter with the cock-but we let foreign oil come into nearly free of duty, down our oil wells in order to for future generations camps out of the home oil to wonder what it is all BOTH SIDES TO THE MIDDLE man for high office can get ticket from three political as a fella to wonder which was the most. NYARD CANARY then lays an egg the rooster it. That's thrift. But if doesn't crow the hen goes at. That balances the IN THE WATER'S FINE sent said he helped the know he wants the bankers nox prosperity to come out that corner. The receipts of this meeting were as follows: Water sold $46.50; T. Boege, $20.50; Padderatz Est. $10.50; F. Hartung, $225.00; Thos. Dunn, 3.25; L. Dravsen, $1.50; for wood, $14.00; for scraper .50, Total $321.25. The meeting then adjourned until Monday, March 8, at 3 o'clock p.m. Richard Melrose, Secretary. Town hall, March 8, 1880. The board of directors of the Anaheim Water company met in persuant to adjournment. Present Messrs. Reiser, Langenberger, and Melrose. A note drawn in favor of Fred Hartung for $1200, money loaned to the company. Said note was dated March 4th, 1880 (the day on which the money was given to the company) payable one day after date, and bears interest at the rate of one per cent per month until paid. After the secretary had been instructed in regard to the proper manner of keeping the respective accounts, the board of directors adjourned. Richard Melrose, Secretary. Town Hall, March 13, 1880. The board of directors of the Anaheim Water company met in regular session. A full board present. The minutes of the regular meeting held on March 6th and of the special meeting held on March 9th were read and approved. The president reported that he had not yet seen McGuffey in relation to the purchase of strips of land. Commissioner Zeyn reported that the ditch needed cleaning. The board suggested to Mr. Zeyn that he confer with the commissioner of the Cajon Irrigation company in regard to the matter, and commence the work whenever he should deem it necessary. The petition of R. W. Scott, asking that the three shares surrendered by him to the company some time ago be given to S. H. Dyer, upon the payment for $198.69 for lumber furnished to the company, at the time the flume was built, was referred back to Mr. Olden, the board deeming the charge excessive. The treasurer asked that a note be given to H. Knapke for $100 being a balance due him on the bill presented and allowed at the meeting held on January 31st, 1879. It was so ordered, and a note for $100 bearing interest at the rate of one per cent per month, and dated February 1st, 1880, was given to said Knapke. The Bill of H. Knapke for $11.25 for labor done on ditches was ordered paid. The bill of F. Dalton for $2 for fitting up desk and dragyage was ordered paid. The following amendments to the bylaws were proposed by the board, and the secretary was instructed to give public notice by advertisement of the fact that certain amendments could be seen at his office during the ensuing twenty days. Any shareholder of this company who shall make application for a new certificate of stock shall pay for each and every certificate so issued the sum of fifty cents. Any shareholders in this company who may voluntarily surrender and give up to the company the shares held by them shall be allowed to redeem them at any time within one year from the date of all the surrender, upon the payment of all the assessments which were due at the time of the surrender of the shares, and of all assessments which may have been levied during the time the shares were in possession of the company, together with interest on the amounts of the several assessments from the time they became due, at the rate of one and one-half per cent per month; provided that less than 2000 shares of this company's stock shall have been sold at the time the shareholders make application for the stock previously surrendered by them. Continued Next Week